Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1854-09-19

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But somebody else does. Everybody ought to
care. Everybody don't, and so you don't care,
and that is what makes you so careless. In our
short walk coming down Broadway the other night
we heard that little sentence-''I don't care if l
do"-three times; and every time we felt that if
the speaker did not care, somebody that we should
care for, did care. There is harm in the words,
it is only in the tone, manner and meaning, and
in the way they are applied. They had mean
ing each time we heard them, and each time
meant different thing, and each time advanced
the speaker one step nearer the point-the point
of-'1I don't care if l do"
| Two gentlcmen-of course they were, their
tailors had both pronounced them so-we pro-
nOunced one Of them black-legged gentleman,
the other we knew to be what everybody calls a
gentleman. He is gentleman merchants clerk
| in dry good stOre-a retailer of tape and Calico;
but it is gentcel business, and he is Il gentle
man of business. The other is gentleman of
leisure. Arm in arm they walked down Broad
way, and when opposite house with cut glass
and colOred poison, Leisure says to Business
''Lct's go in and take drink" Business re-
Piled don't care if do"
There was young wife sitting alone in her ILL
furnished, comfortless room at Monochrome! No!
At cheap, can't-afIord- any better boarding
house. She does not care. For in that house,
where her don't-care husband went, there is a bar
and facilities for spending ga social evening"
not with his wife, but with gentlemen of LEISURE
| in place that common parlance calls "hell.'
If it is not there, don't if do find it lit
tie beyond, and in few years his gentleman Of
leisure friends will not care how soon he goes
there, because they will say of him then, che is
completely cleaned out" Yes, cleaned out OF
money, credit, business, home-his poor young
wife has answered an invitation from sympa-
thizing friend to come to stay with her, 81 don't
| care if do.o
| l don't care if | dO-go to ruin-shOuld be
hung up as sign for every young man that is in
vited by gentleman of leisure to enter one of
these don't care if do houses, where the only
care for him is to get his own honest earnings,
and all that he can be induced to obtain from his
employer, by saying don't care if l do--take it,
nobody will know it.
Two young girls were on the walk before u.s.
They were talking busily, as girls always are,
but what did that concern US? We cared moth
ing, listened for nothing, yet in spite Of all at
tempts to hear or heed nothing, in spite of the
eternal tumbng of a thousand wheels, those
same words came again to our ears out of the
chaos of omnibus thunder and roar of human
voices-I don't care if do; and this time, with
a sadder meaning than before, for they told of
years of woe, sorrows, and repentance when it
will be too late for one of those young girls-as
yet innocent and pure, but alas, how long can
she remain SO after speaking such fatal words.
ooh, Lizzy, don't do it--come home with me
you will break mothers heart, If she ever
knows it.'
81 don't care if do. am not going to work
SO all the time, and then be scolded cause want
to go out evenings and have little fun once in a
while. George don't like to come to our house,
cause he says mother looks so suspicious at him
always, and so | mean to 60 where he is not
afraid to come. am sure don't see what moth
err sees in George to be so set against him.
ssWhy, Lizzy, she sees that he don't work any,
has no business, no income, and he drinks"
81 don't care if he docs-so does everybody ex-
cept few old sober-sides; and if he don't work,
he always has money and good cothes.''
ssThat is what mother says and she is afraid
you don't know how he gets them.'
81 don't care if l don't know. What's the
odds? He says he knovs how to make more
money than those that work, and can always give
me plenty.''
ooh, Lizzy, do come home; pray do, and
mother will forgive YOU"
"Forgive me! l should think she had better
wait till do something that need her forgive
ness. What have done, pray 2"
SYou have set mother almost crazy by going
away from home and am afraid if you remain
away that you will 20 to ruin.''
s'l don't care if do; am not going to be
snubbed up and not allowed to have any company.
| and ~
| Here came half dozen omnibusses in drove.
and in spite of sharp ears wide open we lost the
rest Of the dialogue; but the words, q don't care
if l do have been ringing every now and then
in our ears since We heard them from that girPs
| lips, and we have now wrung them out ring in
yours, till you will say, don't care if they do
| since can draw a moral lesson from them.-N
| Y Tribune.