The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-07-25

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nyson! A Methodist minister in
the south!
In the afternoon We took "ium
N.Y. street-car and went to the
outskirts OF the city, e pr tty
park SIX miles out. Thousands Of
people were enjoy ing the cool brerz
es under the trees in very quiet
Wy We saw no drunken people
al day. When we returned we
took another dummy" line to see
West Nashville and the suburbs in
smother direction. The train this
time had two cars, one for whites
and the other for blacks.
SEVERAL CoLoRED GIRLS,
well-dressed and quiet, got into the
car we were in while we were watt
ing for the time to start. The Con.
ductor told them they must go in
the next car. They lett train NTH
indignant faces, and did not 90 at
all. 1 discussed this incident with
a southern woman who sat next to
me IN the car, "Those girls ought
not to have been allowed TO enter
the car" she said. | asket her il
the colorej people often demanded
equal rights of this sort. "Oh no, y
she said, las rule The negroes are
right obedient. They know they
have to be-" she added. So you
see the color line is drawn sharply
and Is sometimes resented. We
will see more of this no doubt as
the meetings 60 on. The race
question is the question of our
time believe. The blacks are in
creasing faster than the whites. II
is only question of time wht Il
they will out-number the whites
two to one. They strong and stu'-
dys Play ~ BENG educated and
haV5 the ballot. What is to hinder
them from having the power 10 thelr
hands some day. May ] then be
IN some convenient corner ID the
sky to look down on the spectacle
of
BLACK HEELS ON WHITE NECKs.
"Cur sed be Canaan" viii do now,
| but it won't last forever.
Well, our trips To the parks
showed US the people of middle
South, or rather the people of
southern city, taking a holiday:
Tonight after supper Mr. Garfield
and | walked to the state house and
walked through the grounds by
moonlight. We passed many SOL
idly elegant houses. There is much
wealth hers. The capitol is on a
hill overlooking the city. 1t seemed
very massive and imposing 10 me
tonight. Seen by daylight, j have
no doubt it would rot look so fine but
would appear dlngy and uncared
for, as everything elsein the south
dOos. | had call from Two south
ern women to-day, wives of menu
bers of the loca CON mittee.
THE DIALECFs
as given In novels, are not at all
exaggerated. rather like the soft
voices, the invariable drawl and The
absence of Is. am inficting
this long letter on you tonight be-
cause my husband is ate in coming
in and | am waiting Tor him. |
hope you will he able to wade
through it ali. | bsve a Pickering
light and q scratchy pen, both
drawbacks to good letter-wrlting.
| am in a depressed siate Of mind
because | have just finished a dread
full book, novel by florence Erich
Kelly, whom my husband is inter
ested in as al ex-etuuent of Kansas
University, and one lac though
promising
l have read the hook because Of
this interest in heI. "Frances is
the name OF it. 1t is weak and vIle,
No other words will do. am
ashamed and Disguised that Kan
| sas woman should do tbs thing
| What is the matter of women nov
elists nowadays? IL is "a if they
bad discoy ered that indecency was
III demand and nothing else IN the
| lit rary market would sell.
| hope t. see Craddock's noun
taineers and the Mammoth Cave
before | 90 home.
Yours afectIJnalely,
FLAVIA CANFIELD.
; The two ladies to whom Mrs. Cam
field refers were the wives of two of
the most pro;LinenL educators of
Nashville women OF education, re.
finement and the hig hest social
standing, who called to offer any
courtesies that might all In max
ing pleasant that ladys stay 10
Nashville.