. Wit, humor and pathos . LETTER FROM ANT CHARITY. Aunt Charitys letter from the Perkins Farm inLitchfield county! I give it just as written, for I love my maiden aunt,who stays on the old farm, runs the Episcopal church,boards all the school-marms, and keeps splendid pre-serves and sweetmeats for all her nephews when theyvisit the old homestead. E. P. Perkins Farm, Litchfield Co., Ct., May Perkins: My dear Nevy—Yours received/ While your UncleConsider was in Afriky your maden Aunt Ruth and Ithot wed get up an expedishunto New York to do sum Springtradin. We spent 4 weeks at the 5 thHea
. Wit, humor and pathos . LETTER FROM ANT CHARITY. Aunt Charitys letter from the Perkins Farm inLitchfield county! I give it just as written, for I love my maiden aunt,who stays on the old farm, runs the Episcopal church,boards all the school-marms, and keeps splendid pre-serves and sweetmeats for all her nephews when theyvisit the old homestead. E. P. Perkins Farm, Litchfield Co., Ct., May Perkins: My dear Nevy—Yours received/ While your UncleConsider was in Afriky your maden Aunt Ruth and Ithot wed get up an expedishunto New York to do sum Springtradin. We spent 4 weeks at the 5 thHeavenue. We are glad to get back toLitchfield County whare thereis not so much-commerce andgood clothes, but whare intel-leck is highly prized, and wharevirtue and piety shines on theforehead of society—so to speak. We are glad to c;et. ANT CHARITY. 46 back whare it dont take ioo yards to make a dress,whare fair women dont paint their faces, and wharedark women dont ware golden hair. While many are ambishus to worship at the shrineof the godess of Fashion, I am willin to stay awayfrom the old girl forever. I dont want to ware whitelips in the mornin and cherry-colored lips in the after-noon. I dont think it is right to ware strate dresseswith no busts in the mornin and stun the innocentmen with full busts like the Venus Medechy in theevenin. I dont think it is Christian for young fellers tohold your hands, and put their arms around your waste,and hug you tite in the evenin round dances, when it iskonsidered hily onproper for a young lady even to smileat a feller out of a third-story winder in the mornin. No! no! ! Eli, such fashuns is not founded ontothe gospel. Search the good book thru an you cantfind a passage which justifies heels over two inches the pen-ta-took from Generations to Revolu-tions an you
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