Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
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Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun,; Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882
Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
American wit and humor
You want to pick out a thoroughbred, that is, all wool, a yard
wide--that is, understand me, I don't want the girl to be a yard wide,
but just right. Your Committee don't want to get “mashed” on some
ethereal creature whose belt is not big enough for a dog collar. This
premium girl wants to be able to do a day's work, if necessary, and one
there is no danger of breaking in two if her intended should hug her.
After your Committee have got their eyes on a few girls that they think
will fill the bill, then they want to find out what kind of girls
they are around their home. Find if they honor their fathers and their
mothers, and are helpful, and care as much for the happiness of those
around them as they do for their own. If you find one who is handsome as
Venus--I don't know Venus, but I have heard that she takes the cake--I
say, if you find one that is perfect in everything, but shirks her
duties at home, and plays, “I Want to Be an Angel,” on the piano, while
her mother is mending her stockings, or ironing her “picnic skirts,” then
let her go ahead and be an angel as quick as she wants to, but don't
give her the machine.. You catch the idea?
Find a girl who has the elements of a noble woman; one whose heart is so
large that she has to wear a little larger corset than some, but one who
will make her home happy, and who is a friend to all; one who would
walk further to do a good deed, and relieve suffering, than she would to
patronize an ice cream saloon; one who would keep her mouth shut a month
before she would say an unkind word, or cause a pang to another. Let
your Committee settle on such a girl, and she is as welcome to that
machine as possible.
Now, Van, you ought to have a Committee appointed at once, and no one
should know who the Committee is. They should keep their eyes out from
now till the time of the Fair, and they should compare notes once in a
while. You have got some splendid judges of girls there in Janesville,
but you better appoint married men. They are usually more unbiased. They
should not let any girl know that she is suspected of being the premium
girl, until the judgment is rendered, so no one will be embarrassed by
feeling that she is competing tor a prize.
Now, Boss, I leave the constitution and the girls in your hands; and if
this premium is the means of creating any additional interest in your
Fair, and making people feel good natured and jolly, I shall be amply
repaid.
Your friend,
Geo. W. Peck.
DON'T APPRECIATE KINDNESS.
One of the members of the Humane Society, who lives in an aristocratic
ward, had been annoyed at hearing sounds from a stable near his
residence, which indicated that a boy who had charge of a horse was
in the habit of pounding the animal vigorously every morning, while
cleaning off the dirt. It seemed to the humane man that the boy must use
a barrel stave or fence board to curry off the horse, and the way the
animal danced around the barn was terrible.
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