Daily Republican., 1879-11-07
JONES H. co.

guess pa and ma was very ricl. ONT
time, for when they came to California
it was on their wedding tour, and cos
lots they came by the way of New
York, and Washington, and Panama
City, in a steam boat, and ma brought
maid to wait on her and pa had black
fellow named "Jim," and when he got
to California; say we, Pm only IA
years old now, but | was born then,
though that don't matter, guess-pa
had lots of money! was born at the Lick
House, and you ought to see my baby
clothes. Jones & Co. haven't the kind Of
goods them was, because Maud had
the draggled them all to pieces. Maud is
baby, i years old Maud is,and it won't
be long before she is clerk in Jones
& Co.'s. First babies always have the
incest things. Ma says first babies are
like second wives.
But keep getting away from Jones
& Co. Well, am of the opinion that
after pa bought his home on Van NreS
avenue, he went into stocks, whatever
that is. Going into stocks must be very
serious bus iness andsUmetimes pa comes
home looking splendid, and wants to buy
everything, and laughed at ma for be-
ing so mean and for not getting better
clothes, and he always wanted her to
drive in the park, and to the thea
tre.
One day he came home with bran
new carriage and span OF long-tailed
horses, and negro coachman, and a
funny little darky for footman. 1t was
for ma, and we rode every day. Then
sometimes pa came home and looked
very blue and talked about stocks, and
| began to watch pa, and noticed that
sometimes when he laughed the loud
est he looked just as if he wanted to
cry, and then he sold the horses, and
then the house, and the furniture was
sent to auction, and ma felt very bad,
and pa wasn't himself any more, and
once. when baby Maud was asleep in
his arms, he kissed her and cried, and
then, when | told ma, she said she
guessed Ia did not feel very well, and
/ mustn't notice it, and then she cried.
After this we all went to boarding
house-a nasty, musty boarding house.
Everything was we'll enough, only a
boarding house is not much OF house.
Then the baby came, and it died, and
ma almost died, and heard pa say to
the man who kept the boarding house
that " he was pretty tight up, sut 1t
was all coming out right,' and the
next day pa didn't have no watch or
sleeve buttons.
didn't seem to notice it because
seen that maybe pa sold them TO pay
board and heard pa and ma talk away
in the night, and sometimes ma cried
and pa looked in the morning as II he
had not slept a wink, and | don't be-
lievs he had.
Once it was dreadful. Pa came
home tipsy, and never seen ma feel so
bad ever and then they talked it over,
and ma went home to grandfather's in
New York, with Maud, and | stayed
with pa to so to school. ,
Then pa kept getting worse and
worse, and he went to live in rooms
and eat at restaurants, and pa stayed
out late at night and l guess he drank
more than was good for him, and l
thought something had to be DONE 30
| said to pa one day:
"Pa, let's go into business and open
a store"
And he laughed and said:
"What kind of a store''
And said:
"Oh, a candy store, or stationery
store, or thread and needle store, us:
such as women keep and little girls
help in" .,,
And pa laughed and said he would
think Of it, and when he came home
that night asked him if he had thought
about it, and he said he hadn't, and
said he had better, and he said hewould,
and that morning he didn't 60 out, but
stayed at home and wrote ma a long
letter.
So next day went into store on
Polk, street kept by a nice lady VINO
had a bad husband, where they sofa
everything, and she said in France they
called it lingerie.
didn't know what that meant be-
cause il was French, and asked her II
she didn't want to sell her s'ore' ana
she said ,..,
"Do you want to buy a store little
girl?'
And said
"My pa does
And She smiled and said she guessed
tbe sheriff would have store TO sell III
a few DAYS, and said | would tell pa,
hscausa he knew Mr.. Nunan, the Shef-
if It was one of Mr.. humans men
thatsold pas horses and furniture OIL
for him.
And the next day told pa about the
store. and what nice one 1t was; lie
said he had been a dry goods man once,
and had a large store and sold silE
dr,ss goods and vslvets and furs and
Isc.s, worth ever so much yard, and
India shawls worth more thAn thou
sand dollars apiece. y,
| don't exactly know what "a did
but think something turned up few
days afterwards, for | heard him say he
nd made raise, and he showed me
mora than a thousand dollars in gold
notes and for day or two he carried
them in side pocket, and mostly kept
his hand over them for fear they would
lump out and fly away, and pa boagh. u ;a.
me- mes some shos and hat, and ,,i stun fop or
aprons, ard 1never saw pa 100 LOOK so so