title: Earline's Pink Party: The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman
author: Elizabeth Findley Shores
description: <DIV>&ldquo;Shores&rsquo;s smooth and at times lyrical prose, use of abundant descriptive details, rich variety of source materials, and well-paced narrative create a coherent and moving exploration of female identity, race, and southern culture in the first half of the twentieth century.&rdquo;<BR /> &mdash;Jennifer Horne, author of <I>Tell the World You&#39;re a Wildflower</I> and coeditor of <I>All Out of Faith: Southern Women on Spirituality</I></DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&ldquo;The concept is original, and it fits into a framework of recent scholarly interest in racial formation, whiteness, and the relationship of individual people to material culture and the built environment. <I>Earline&rsquo;s Pink Party</I> will be of interest to scholars exploring these areas as well as a general audience interested in the local history of the region.&rdquo;<BR /> &mdash;Marilyn Motz, coeditor of <I>Eye on the Future: Popular Culture Scholarship into the Twenty-First Century in Honor of Ray B. Browne</I></DIV>
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  # FOR BRAVERY ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  
  
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  ## "FOR BRAVERY ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  The recruiting-office at Rivermouth was in a small, unpainted,
  
  
  weather- stained building on Anchor Street, not far from the
  
  
  custom-house. The tumble-down shell had long remained tenantless, and
  
  
  now, with its mouse- colored exterior, easily lent itself to its
  
  
  present requirements as a little military mouse-trap. In former years
  
  
  it had been occupied as a thread-and-needle and candy shop by one Dame
  
  
  Trippew. All such petty shops in the town were always kept by old
  
  
  women, and these old women were always styled dames. It is to be
  
  
  lamented that they and their innocent traffic have vanished into the
  
  
  unknown.
  
  
    
  The interior of the building, consisting of one room and an attic
  
  
  covered by a lean-to r