San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-21
SOME DAY."
amber" Enumerates the Good Things She
Is Going to Do in the Dim Future.


Some day he is going to take a new deal
and be a right good fellow. He is going to
Join the church and get ready to pass in his
checks when the grim old conductor, death,
calls them in for the last station He is 60
ing to be amiable to his wife and family,
commencing Monday morning and keeping it
right up until the next Sunday after mid
night.
Oh, yes, indeed, there is no doubt about it
the 'some days" hang for all of us like
ripening plums on the tree of life, and we
mean to pick the branches clean before we
die. AS for me, behold a few of my own fast
mellOwing ''some days"
Some day am going to earn $40 over and
above grocer bills, and shoe bills and coal
bills and am going to join the Humane so
ciety and make things lively. | shall take
my stand on u street corner and arrest every
brute who overlOadS a horse and every created
being who abets him in doing So The able
bodied people who crowd into street cars and
expect two half dead rats of horses to drag
them up a slippery grade; all men who leave
nose bags on their horses above reasonable
length of time, shall be whisked away to-
gether to Joliet, and made to put up and take
down stove pipes for a solid year.
Some day the cab driver shall find himself
without a whip, the dude shall be forced &c
drive his nag without high check rein, and
the half grown boy who yankS his horses bit
50 constantly as he drives through town shall
find himself directly in front of strong mans
boot.
Some day the woman who knows no more
about bringing up children than a cat knows
about Beethoven shall find herself cnildleSs
and back in school to learn the rudimentS OF
hygiene, physiology and common sense. She
who feeds baby strong tea and coffee, she
who allows a growing child to sit up till mid
night, she who takes 2-year-old to the mat
inee and slaps it because it is afraid, she who
puts French heels or laced corsetS on her
Young daughters and provides wine and high
seasoned food for her sons, shall 90 back and
start from a protOplasm to see if she car
sprout a soul if God gives her another chance
Some day tardy justice shall overtake the
''maSher' and I'll be there to seel His sou!,
like a filthy rag, shall be cast into refuse, and
all the bats and crows and CarriOn birds that
inhabit his brain shall be let loose and fly
away like a screaming brood of night before
the dawnng of the day. What will be left
of him then? Just as much as is left of a
chicken when a cyclone strikes it, or of a
dandelon when the prairie fires Overtake it.
Some day | shall attain unto sutlici ent
moral courage to refuse to be pumped by
willy enemies.
Some day shall cut my last wisdom tooth
and sit with the wise on pedeStals of peace.
from which my own folly shall overthrow me
no more forever.
Some day shall understand why hated
DIR. Fell"
Some day shall not only know enough t.
60 in, but to stay i'll when it rains
Some day shall decide that it is not worth
while to SOW wheat on rock or try to draw
water from dry wells In other words, | shall
give up trying to cultivate uninteresting peo-
pie merely to keep up Il social farce.
Some day shall learn that honesty is vast
ly better than policy, and shall cut loose from
ConventiOnalitieS and formalities that fetteI
the soul.
Some day shall find that one tried and
true and faithful friend, who tells the truth
and does not tlatter, is better than a whole
palace car full Of sycophants and honey
tongued praiSarS who ride at your expense
and make your vanity their treasurer and
purse carrier.
Some day shall sing at the funeral of a
woman who chews a toothpicll on the public
street.
Some day | shall dance on the grave of the
car driver who is always dreamingof his best
girl while | hopeleSsly signal him from the
upper crossing of an intersecting street OF
from the middle Of long block"
Some day l shall find a comrade brave
enough to join me in a veritable dress reform
and wear ''legletS,' though unlocking mer
60 mad with glee
Some day | shall meet the female gum
Chewer alone upon a windy sea, and there'll
be only one of us left to buy tolu stick at
two for cent, while the sad and subsequent
years of time roll by.
Some shall go to the theatre and find that
my press tickets call for u seat where car
both see and hear, and when the fiend enters
who always arrives late a special band of
imps shall meet him and bear him straight
to tophet.
Some day | shall have an answer ready
for my adversary and not wake up in the
night to regretfully remember what | might
have said to cOnfOund him.
Some day shall forget the word miCrObe
and remember no more the bishop bacteria,
whose advent among the sons of men has
wrought disaster to my mucuOuS membrane
Some day | shall know why more honor
was awarded Nellie Bly, than is awarded the
every day heroes and herOines who struggle
against odds and more than CirCumnavigate
the globe in their weary round Of hopeless
care.
Some day | shall be little child again, il
purity, and candOr, and truth, and find my
self, perhaps, in heaven. Amber in Chicago
Herald
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