Nevada County picayune., 1889-02-20

"HOic uulNeISe. IiIeTF IS LOO ilucu seeing the dark side of things. The fact is. the world needs a little pat ting on the back and encouragement, and less denunciatiOn What could a boy do if called such names every day as these fellows apply to the whole race: We have too much of the spare the rod and spoil the child. Hands off, say. Let the dear, good world have bit of praise. Good world! dear world, go on as you have. It's wonderful what prog ress you have made. We are proud of our dear island in the sky. We believe our wives are fifty thousand times as wise as those Solomon had !, and our mothers are q thousand thousand times as fine as those wo- men who ate clans, and cracked marrowbones, and wore fig leaves in primitive days. Then patted John on the back and said: And you, too, John, you are making progress" for sometimes John is not so tlatterng. Exactly" said he, "Now it is just as we'll for folks 1 to talk sense as nonsense. We wouldn't swap President Cleveland for even King David, to say nothing of Solomon; nor Gen. Fisk for that old prohibitionist Daniel; nor Belva Lockwood for the Queen of Sheba. What women of antiquity had the moral power or the digniiied grace of the higher type of American woman hood! Zenobia ruled grandly; Cleo patra was a superb queen, but if alive to-day in this land they would be occupants of the palaces of the demi-monde. No, indeed, the grand fact is, woman is infinitely more womanly than of old; and man, whether he will or not, has got to go ahead with her. Run over the list of the sweet and lovable names of the women of antiquity. Ruth, as pretty character as there is among them. Would you swap d bunch of Vassar girls for all the Greek wome n you ever heard off"
 John sometimes is truly eloquent, but l was never hettor pleased with his wise words than on this occasion. Yes, indeed, there is too much one. sidedness. We ought to get at both sides of question. If l can not see the other side of the moon-which do not quite give up, mind you'll can at least see how my neighbors look at matters when we disagree. l am resolved to try to see other peoples side of matters and be more torhearing. l dld not say this to John, for he would s,think he had taught me lesson; it was purely my own suggestion. Woman's wis dom is intuitive. l was once talking with old Sojourner Truth, the famous and eloquent negress, and learned lesson about the other side of things shall not easily forget. Laws sakes, Honey" said she; you white ones don't know anything what 'tls to be religious. You only sees your side of things. You lives tolble happy and have things pretty much as you likos. You carries things with a high hand; but we black folks, we gets along jest the best way we can. But it's 'nigger' all the time, shuar. But when we dies you 'uns don't change much leastwise you can't be much bigger than you are here. But we 'uns, you see, will be changed all oyer, in- side 'noutside. And when we come out with white skins, and all the folks admire us, don't you think, honey, we'll feel our oats some! It won't be nigger any more after that. And when the angels tacks on the wings they'll say, Now, you just go and have decent time for awhile. Ii there's anything to do we'll make the white folks do it. That's the way it must be, cause don't you know the first is goingto to be last, and the last first 7" And 1 said, "So- journer! may l be there to see. " That was her side of the great as- size.-- Exchange.
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