The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-06-07
BERRY BAKER.

NV son, be content with what
vol have, that is if you have
enough. If you havn't, hussel
around and get it up. / always adj
yised You not to take anything that
belonged to other folks, but after
long soiourn here, with a limited
experience aud means more limited,
/ have about come to the conclusion
it is Just as good luck as any for
every man to take ibis own head
long course, provided, however, that
his course causes no friction in the
machinery. But boys still need a
little looking after and will for
some time yet, and as l feel it my
duty TO look after your moral, ply
steal, financia. and spiritual enter
prises, / deem it not out OF place
to give you a good send off, there
being nothing like a good start
There are three things l would ad-
wise you take while you are young.
The mumps, measles and whooping
cough; and there is. also another
thing / would advise you to take
and that is to take your fathers ad-
wise and not take them all at once.
There is such thing as boy get
ting more than he can tote. l have
even seen men who had better gone
twice after it. Ones progress is so
slow when he is overloaded you
need not have any fears of exhaust
ing the supply, for my observation
is it always exceeds the demand.
Some people have so much timldlty
/ don't believe they would ever take
them all if it vast just an oversight
or happen so. Human nature is
strange, and the more human the
more strangeness. If you'll take
such things while you are young you
will not be hankering after them
if you get old. I've implicit conf
dence in your mother ever since L
was boy, but ] am forced to say
as one of old, "Man is trickey and
uncertain" and "woman's ways past
finding out" Little did think at
ter living with her so long, doing so
much for her and was SO cheerful
about it, that she would ever have
taken anything. But in an IN
guarded moment, and that too
among her friends, she transcends
the bounds of safety and takes
secondhand pair of the mumps,
and to make q bad matter worse,
she brought them home with her
andlt was a week or ten days be
fore she would let anybody know
it. There has got to DE so many
rings and clicks and so many for
eigners coming over here we need
not be surprised at any thing. AS
she has got started, no telling where
it will stop. She may take the
measles and have whooping cough
again, but hope she will use dis
erection and not take but one at a
time and never let it be known that
she has ever taken them at all.
She is now doing her best to con
ceal .tbe mumps. She goes with
both jaws tied up all the time. ! had
the whooping cough away back
wonder when ma dressed me like
she did the other little girls. / al
ways thought heap OF Sally, in
fact / rarely ever had anything
that | wouldn't divide with her.
/ remember going to her pas when
we were little fellows Cine and herr
and gave her q first-class case of
measles, which she and the balance
of the family used until they were
exhausted { | mean the measles. |
never twas to say singy in such
things, not only liberal in giving to
my special friends, but would fire.
uuently make donations to other
folks. She has often spoken of that
present since her pa gave her to me.
She says she had humps in one side
when she was a little girl. | don't
know where she had the whooping
cough. She had the measles at her
pas. Well the mumps are not dan
gerous nohow if you don't let
them get the under hold on you.
That is the only thing you've got TO
see after. They have bad name
all they want is good treatment;
nothing wrong about that. There
is one consolation in having meas
les, mumps and whooping cough,
especially if you have them all at
once, your pleasures and enjoy
ments are not envied by your neigh
bors. Hoping to hear from you Of
ten and to see you occasionally,
remain as every Sally's husband.
BERRY BAKER.