Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-04-21
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8 UNCLE TOMS LETTER.
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Ny Dear Neices;
I've been wanting to write You for
quite a while, but tother things have
engaged my attention so that 1 reckon
you've concluded that I've forgotten
You.
No, my dears, that is not it, but
now I'll make amends for my negli-
gence. Ma, she has some very pretty
flowers already. and prospects are good
for more. Charlie, your red-headed
cousin, has some pretty bantam chick
ems My little brown hen has return
ed to her former home and has begun
to clean up her house. She don't like
strangers very much and gets mad
when my neices come around.
Well, girls, dropped in among some
older people than l am the other day,
and they got to talking about seeing
Halley's Comet 20 years ago, and
learned that they regarded its appear
ance again as an omen of i'll, for said
they, many people died on Collins Riv-
er, and they couldn't hardly make
coffins fast enough in Jasper for the
dead in that section. My dear neice,
we hope death will not visit us this
time like they said it did 20 years ago.
History may repeat itself, dears, we
don't know. Many things we old
folks have seen and heard you young
people know nothing about and old
folks are not quite as communicative
as they were when was a boy. But
we young people didn't jump up like
some do now and say, why uncle or
aunt, it's not that way, and proceed
to relate things as though we knew all
about them. / don't charge any of
you neices with any such conduct, for
you have been better raised and so far
when your Uncle Tom has told you
stories of the long ago, you We not
butted in but have acted like ladies.
So | am going to tell you lot of |
things from time to time, but before |
begin, want to ask you why you We
quit wearing hats and bonnets and
have got to running around bare head
ed. Have you lost all interest in your
and prefer the garb of the
untutored savages. / don't want my
neices to be sunburned and their hair
look like it had been scorched. real
ly and truly had rather look at pref
ty, sweet faced girl than to hear fox
race and that is saying good deal.
Maybe pa and ma have become in
different about the beauty of the fem
mime flowers that decorate their home,
but your uncle hasn't Another thing,
some of you smaller neices, | think,
ire wearing dresses from four to six
inches too short. I believe in all of
my neices wearing civilized clothing
ind not that of savages l like little
adde's just as well as do grown la
lies, and l think christian methods
ire just as applicable to my little neic-
IS as to my grownup ones.
You see jay bird legs and pipe stem {
tilts are not very attractive to me,
ind the fact is, I'm sorter partial to
ull dress costume anyway. Bare neck
nd shoulders and over half the arm I
nd half naked legs l don't fancy and :
FEVER did. l like for my neices to
AXE care of their hair, faces and q
ands, and cover the rest of their body !
rom prying eyes. Many do and some
o not. r.
Well, l notice nearly all of my neic- c
5 around me have undertaken to have c
overs in their yards this spring, So
Tncle compliments you on that.
Well, I'm going to write my neices
OCCASIONALLY, and tell them some jokes :
n their grandmothers and aunts.
hey think they are so dignified now
nat they never looked through young
yes. Oh, no, they never danced all
light on puncheon floor to the tune
"Sallie, Get Your Hoe Cake Done"
UNCLE TOM.
racv Citv Tenn