The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-04-11
A PARTI-coLoRgD ROMANCE.
4 Colored Girps Love for White Boy
Marriage md Desertion.

lTISSING-THOMAS JONES, THE HUSBAND
vi OF Mrs. Jones' 1870 wabash-ave.; short, thick
derby hat, chinchilla coat vest India ink stamp
on left wrist brown hair, light mustaohe, dark gray
eyes scar over right eye last seen Sunday morning
9o'elock.
Mrs. Sarah Jones borrowed the money
to pay for this advertisement in Chicago
paper and went home with an aching
heart to cry her eyes out in the little back
room of the big clearinghouse at 1910
Wabash-ave Mrs. Jones is not pretty.
She is black woman-only a shade
lighter than the pure negro. She is tall
and thin and her spare figure has little
grace; her cheeks are hollow and the
creases and burrows OF her bony hand tell
story of hard work that needs no corrobor-
alton from the stopped shoulders and the
slow, dragging gait. But there was moro
pathos in the story this simple, over
worked, hard-driven woman told-and not
so much i'm that as in the way she told 1t !;
more trusting love and heartache and
heartbreak could be expressed in a
dozen columns of cold type.
The woman's husband is white man,
and there is the key to her troubles. He
has lived with her year. Sunday morn
ing he put on his coat, told her he was
going TO work and went away. lie has
never come back. He probably never will.
pm afraid never see him again, sir,
Mrs. Jones said "But il he knowed how
my heart has been abreakin' for him he
would acOme back fore this. ] was born
free. an my parents was pore an they
gave me 10 Il German family to raise. Be
fore was nine or ten vars old / couldn't
speak no English, only German. We
was livin' i'm Minneapolis. an | was sent
10 Mr.. Lc Dukes school-Mr lie
Duke was the tacher, YOU know, sir
and Tom he was at the school,
for twas free school. Well ! dunno, it
was funny, perhaps, scein' that I'm black,
but he liked me an loved him, and we
said we'd Kit marri'd when we growod up.
OF course, that was a--only child's talk
we didn' know nothin' bout love, and
after left school ! marn'd n man name
% Russell and We went out west Well,
sir. when he done died cume TO Chicago
and went 10 work here, an | uscty think
% Tom and wonder what'd become o him,
cause | hadn't seen him, sir, in fo'tccn
var One day | seed him I'm dc street an
/ went up 90 him. and ! could ahardly
speak count the tours In my eyes, an ho
WIS mighty glad ascein' me, too.
So, mir, ho made loy0 90 me, he did,
aud thought 80 much him.-pcople like
| was they do overlook little hindrances
like that that | forgot ! wnu black, and
marf'd him Just like We done talked
about when We was achillen together.
That was var ago and we've been real
happy. lie done have bad luck IN gcttin'
aomethin 20 do, but always make 'nuii
out o work a. keep us both Yes, sir, he
drink some hc was great man Tor his
hecT--b | forget that cause lac WINS $50
kind 20 me. And lid work these fin
gers on for him, | would sir lie done got
q lob a.runnib' nm elevator. but he give
that up after he'd run IL four days 90 a
frend'0' his ihat'd lost his money and had
wife dcpendin' on him, Tom was no
kind that way. ] sposo he's gone "a some
other city, like those men folks does, and
I'm loft 'thout no one la this world"
Tho people around the house say the
woman has worked very hard o. the wash
tub aud supported herself and her bus
band. The story Of their romantic early
love and their marriage when he was
thirty.iour and she thiry'three, WIZ
known 90 few OF the bonrders. but a.
most Of them 10 was only good-loolSinp
and lazy white man married 10 plain,
simple negrcss, who loved him as dog
might It's muster, md kept him VA clothes
by patiently, ceaslcssly working like u
pack.horse, and they took little Interest IN
Jones and his ''nigRer wife lie was re-
notwithstanding and intelligent. She h
also intelligent, and her one other aitrao
ton l. her voice, which Is soft and plant.
! iyely sweet. She N absolutely penniless.