The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-11-07
From the Goshen Democrat
EVENING LECTURES OF HETTY
JONES.
CONCERNING NEWSPAPERS

JONES.
CONCERNING NEWSPAPERS.
Well, Jones, you are pretty fellow-here
you've come home again as drunk as billed
owl, and you don't know yourself from four
dollars and half. The children is crying
for bread their clothes are worn out, and
here have to slave-save-save the whole
blessed day, ill have not a rag TO my back,
and what there is sticks as tight TO me as
the skin does 10 the Model Artists old Mrs
Smith tells about.
We must retrench! Reirench indeed
I'd like TO see what you'd retrench about
this house, except vities and clothes, and
I'm sue we've none to spare in them res
poets. You wouldn't wan, your flesh and
blood TO 60 naked and hungry, would you?
You're to much Of man, if you be an old
brute, Jones, for that. II you'd keep TO your
work and mind your own business, be steady
and stop your drinking all day and spreeing
il all night, times would be heap better for
us-you amt the man, Jones, you was when
gave you my virgin affeclions-you DOM
come into The house modestly, and say, good
evening, Miss Helty, and draw your chair
hand, and kind blush, and hitch up little
closter, and
Don't make fool of yourself
| amt goin TO, Jones, but i, sort of does
my old heart good 10 call up these remnis
cences, and wish il had always been so.
But you're as tender hearted as turtle dove
and just as sensible, when you have any
sense, as any body-set down Jones and eat
your supper, and tell me all the news a fly
ing
You've stopped the paper!-You lie. Jones
You know you lie you'd stopped your wind
frst-you'd stopped The chlldren's bread
you'd "a
You couldn't afford IL! Amt you got
conscience, Jones, TO lie, on SO? The paper
costs you four cents a week, and the prnlet
takes all kind truck for pay, and here IL.
Saturday night, and I'D like 10 know how
much money you've thrown away this week
before ] get through. Ii amt often ketc b
you al home, and when do you'll take II
Ter better or for worse, as the saying is
There's gallon OF whiskey on Mnnday morn
ing, cost 37i cents; there's half gallon OF
beer on Tuesday, cost. eighteen pence
there's shilling TO treat that old fummx
with, that come along and said he knowed
on when you was boy-and the Lord on
knows how much you've spent to day--ii
must have took a heap &c change, for you
amt an old sponger, JOnes-you don't ge;
drunk on any body's money bat your OWN
and reckon il mus, a took al leasta quar-
ter 10 make a man drunk enough To go and
stop his paper--well, now III GO aud count
il all up three shillings and eighteen pence
and one shilling, and a quarter makes jus
fifty cents, TO my opinion, as good rs thai
very sum thrown into the fire, aud better ,o,',
md that would paid for the Goshen Dem
ocra,. or any other interesting newspaper. for
three months, and expect the printer needs
the money as bad as most folks. There's a
power of ECONOMY in such d"ings: why, what
would a body knew il il wasn't Tor The papeI
and now too, when there's great cleo ion
coming, and every body wants to know how
10 vote.
Wimin don't rofe. Well know il, and
us great pity they don't. They'd revolu-
ton re the world, aud have a provisionary
government, everywhere, as they call it, aud
they 'd-ihey would'n, kill off all The men,
not quite, because they're useful in their
places, but they'd make them keep their
places, mind tell you, Jones. But as was
saying about The prinIers, We must have new.
and visey versey we must have printers.
and il they can live without nothing 10 eat
then they're the critters that's in advance oi
the age, for the people of thus generaIion
make god Of their bellies, according TO The
best of their knowledge aud belief-anoIher
thing, shouldn't wonder it you siopped the
paper and never paid for ir-and then you'll
get published on the black ks,, and yolr poor
wfe's reputation be ruifed and your chill
dren 60 10 the Plenipo'eniary-il won't do
and here she broke off, for Jones was
asleep!-
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