Proper Form for a Lady?

Delmonico · December 09, 2004, 11:39:25 PM

A squatter is someone who has no legal right to the land but is livin' on it and holdin' it.

A nester is ussually a homesteader who has a legal claim but that is what the catteman call them.

Wymore Wrangleg gave me a Pheasant tonight when he was in to work. He put it in the backseat of my car. When I got home I seen my wife had company, a friend of hers was here. I walked in and acted like I was mad, tolt them a customer had given me "The Bird" at work tonight. Pulled it out from behind my back. Marla 'bout jumped out the window, the neighbor lady was here also, she said she 'spected sometin' like that from me, course she's been my neighbor for almost 8 years.

Bird is now drawn and is restin' peacefully in my back seat where it is in the upper 30's. He will be dressed or rather undressed tommorow in the light. Did not think the ladies would like me to do it in the kithchen with them here.

Silver Creek Slim · December 10, 2004, 08:45:42 AM

Quote from: Delmonico on December 09, 2004, 11:39:25 PM
A squatter is someone who has no legal right to the land but is livin' on it and holdin' it.

A nester is ussually a homesteader who has a legal claim but that is what the catteman call them.

Wymore Wrangleg gave me a Pheasant tonight when he was in to work. He put it in the backseat of my car. When I got home I seen my wife had company, a friend of hers was here. I walked in and acted like I was mad, tolt them a customer had given me "The Bird" at work tonight. Pulled it out from behind my back. Marla 'bout jumped out the window, the neighbor lady was here also, she said she 'spected sometin' like that from me, course she's been my neighbor for almost 8 years.

Bird is now drawn and is restin' peacefully in my back seat where it is in the upper 30's. He will be dressed or rather undressed tommorow in the light. Did not think the ladies would like me to do it in the kithchen with them here.

That would have been a hoot to see.

Slim

Delmonico · December 10, 2004, 10:12:05 AM

My ex wifes cousin came over one afternoon when I had just got back with a limit of birds. Offered her to stay fer supper. (She had just came in the door when I offered) she came out to the kitche to see what I was cookin' . My hand puppet, (Pheasant skin and head) was 'splainin' it to her. She decided to go home. Bet she had Hamburger Helper, we had pheasant on a bed of wild rice.

Four-Eyed Buck · December 10, 2004, 11:01:44 AM

Yum! ;DHaven't had one of those in a lonnnnngg time................Buck

Joyce (AnnieLee) · December 10, 2004, 11:06:33 AM

Quote from: Silver Creek Slim on December 10, 2004, 08:45:42 AM
Quote from: Delmonico on December 09, 2004, 11:39:25 PM
A squatter is someone who has no legal right to the land but is livin' on it and holdin' it.

A nester is ussually a homesteader who has a legal claim but that is what the catteman call them.

Wymore Wrangleg gave me a Pheasant tonight when he was in to work. He put it in the backseat of my car. When I got home I seen my wife had company, a friend of hers was here. I walked in and acted like I was mad, tolt them a customer had given me "The Bird" at work tonight. Pulled it out from behind my back. Marla 'bout jumped out the window, the neighbor lady was here also, she said she 'spected sometin' like that from me, course she's been my neighbor for almost 8 years.

Bird is now drawn and is restin' peacefully in my back seat where it is in the upper 30's. He will be dressed or rather undressed tommorow in the light. Did not think the ladies would like me to do it in the kithchen with them here.

That would have been a hoot to see.

Slim

I don't think pheasants hoot. I don't know what kind of noise they do make, but I don't think it's a hoot.

AnnieLee

Silver Creek Slim · December 10, 2004, 11:18:24 AM

Owls hoot. Pheasants cackle and sometimes sound like a metal noise maker.

Slim

Delmonico · December 10, 2004, 11:21:16 AM

Slim, they sound like they are laughin' when they first take off, kinda chalangein' ya. Thats why I like my fast handlin' little popgun, I catch many of them mid laugh, kinda satisfyin'.

St. George · December 10, 2004, 10:26:04 PM

Returning this to the original question of etiquette - I'll recommend a small book.

"The Essential Handbook of Victorian Etiquette" - by Professor Thomas E. Hill
ISBN 0-912517-12-3
Bluewood Books
PO Box 460313
San Francisco, CA 94146

In it - you'll find the answers to a vast number of burning questions.

Scouts Out!

Delmonico · December 10, 2004, 10:39:21 PM

Someone brought that book in and showed it to me a while back. It is a good resource for mannerisms of that time. One note here. My grandmother who passed on in 1991 at the age of 89 would never go to town wearin' pants, even though see wore them most of the time around the farm and in the yard when she moved to town. Whe would never even walk the 3 blocks to the store when she lived in town with out changin' to a dress.

Joyce (AnnieLee) · December 11, 2004, 04:37:22 AM

Thank you, St. George!

It's a funny thing, how we now regard etiquette as an outmoded and quaint method of behaviour and we seem to date it back to the time of the old west and Victorian age, however...

It wasn't until 1970 that girls were allowed to wear pants to public school in southern Florida. The only exception was if the temperatures dipped below 40 degrees, then the girls could wear pants under their dresses for warmth. Even then, they usually wore tights, not pants.

AnnieLee, who remembers.

Terry · December 29, 2004, 07:31:33 PM

Like Coulots <sp>. Skirts at the knee when I was in Jr.High. By the time I finished HS (1972) they were allowed to wear halter tops and short shorts and that was in Oklahoma.....I did not mind one bit

Forty Rod · December 29, 2004, 09:30:20 PM

When I was still in high school, girls wore dresses or skirts, except when the weather was bad. Then they could wear pants under their skirts, but had to take them off and leave them in their locker while in school.

Boys had to wear slacks, shirts that buttoned all the way up in front and had collars and a breast pocket, and 'oxford' shoes. ROTC cadets wore class A uniforms on Monday and Thursday.

I never saw a woman teacher in any grade above second in anything but a skirt or dress, and the only men teachers who didn't wear ties were coaches and shop teachers.

Teachers were all addressed as 'Miss', 'Mrs.' or 'Mr'. When in doubt, 'sir' or 'ma'am' would suffice.

Quite a few teachers referred to their students ad 'Miss' or 'Mister", too.

Four-Eyed Buck · December 29, 2004, 09:57:00 PM

When I was there, the girls had skirts to the knee. still remember them complaining about having to kneel at the counselors office to make sure the skirt touched the floor. Boys wore button front shirts and slacks or jeans. Leather shoes, not athletics type. Same dress code for teachers that Forty stated. Only time the girls wore slacks was at football or basketball games.........Buck

Old Top · December 30, 2004, 01:29:30 AM

Same a Forty-Rod except the shop teachers wore ties also.

Old Old Top

Forty Rod · December 30, 2004, 11:01:22 AM

All of our shop teachers wors shop aprons. Mr. Dial said neckties were dangerous around machinery.

Those were the only classes where we had to take off our ties if we were in ROTC.

Standpat Steve · December 30, 2004, 08:10:32 PM

Forty Rod,

I worked in a spring shop where the Manager had to wear a tie. He always wore a "clip-on" tie, because ties that go around your neck are dangerous around machinery, and he was active in the shop. I think Mr. Dial steered you right on that one . . .

Forty Rod · December 30, 2004, 08:55:00 PM

He had to do something for me after he steered me away from his daughter.

Willie Wheelgun · January 18, 2005, 10:15:51 PM

During Tolo week, the girls could wear pants.

I do not recall ever seeing some girls bloomers or under britches when I was in school. I think their mama's taught them better.

I think the young lady in this example should just wait and ask wome gentleman to hand her the purse (reticule). If there are none around, look twice, kneel down and pick it up. What in the world were you thinking to drop it in the first place? Trolling for a fella?

Willie

Joyce (AnnieLee) · January 19, 2005, 06:43:54 AM

Good grief, Willie!!

She didn't do it intentionally, it is possible that the strings for the reticule came undone and it fell off her wrist, or she was rearranging some packages in her arms and dropped it.

Trolling for fellas. HA!

AnnieLee

Curley Cole · January 19, 2005, 09:25:49 PM

Well, ain't that what guys do for girls? Except ifn we dropped our books and waited for some lady to pick em up for us we would be waiting a dang long time. (but, actually I have bumped heads with ladies getting down to pick up some dropped item.....then I promptly asked them out..)

Curley,(oops, was that my new red hanky I just dropped on the floor.....)