And I told Josiah so.
And he sez, "You won't catch me with a mantilly on." He is dretful fraid to wear wimmen's clothes.

I can't git a apron or a sun-bunnet on him in churnin' time or berryin' in dog-days--he is sot.
But I sez, "Josiah, I spoke in metafor." And he sez, "I would ruther you would use pantaloons and vests, if you are a-goin' to allegore about me." But to resoom.

France, England, Germany, all have wonderful exhibits, and as for our own country, there wuz no end seemin'ly to the marvellous sight.
Why, to give you a idee of the size and splendor of 'em, one electrical company alone spent 350,000 dollars on its exhibit.
Among the German exhibits wuz a wonderful search-light--jest as searchin' as any light ever could be--it wuz sunthin' like the day of judgment in lightin' up and showin' forth.
One of the strange things long to be remembered wuz to set down alone beside of a big horn in Chicago and hear a melodious orkestry in New York, hundreds and hundreds of miles away, a-discoursin' the sweetest melody.
Wall, what took up Josiah's mind most of anything wuz a house all fitted up from basement to attic with electricity.
You come home (say you come in the evenin' and bring company with you); you press a button at the door, the door opens; touch another button, and the hall will be all lighted up, and so with every other room in the house.

Some of these lights will be rosettes of light let into the wall, and some on 'em lamps behind white, and rose-tinted, and amber porcelain.
When you go upstairs to put on another coat, you touch a button, the electric elevator takes you to your room; and when you open the closet door, that lights the lamp in the closet; when you have found your coat and vest, shuttin' the door puts the light out.
In the mean time, your visitors down below are entertained by a selection from operatic or sacred music or comic songs from a phonograph on the parlor table.

Or if they want to hear Gladstone debate, or Chauncey Depew joke, or Ingersoll lecture, or no matter what their tastes are, they can be gratified.