The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-04-23

the edge of the bed, and lissnin to your
father and mothers knives and forks
rattlin on their plates. while they are
getting their niced suppers, is the pref
fist site you ever seed. When it's liver
and hunyens there a havin, you can
smell it all the way upstairs. 1t looks
very bright and nearly all white. Once
when they was a havin fried fish and
potaters l crept out of my bedroom to
the top of the stares all in the dark, just
so as to have a better lissen and
nearer smell. forgot weather there
was a moon that night. / don't think
as there was, cose got to the top of the
stares afore knew l was there, and
tumbled right down to the bottom OF the
stares. bursting open the door at the
bottom, and rolling into the room nearly
as far as the supper table. My father
thote Of giving me the stick for it. but
he let my mother give me bit Of
fish on some bread, and told me to
skittle off to bed again. am sure there
was no moon. else l would have seed
there wasn't top stare when put my
foot out slow. only skratted my left
eye and ear bit with that last bump at
the bottom, witch was hard one. Stares
are sleeper than girls think specially
where the corner is.
''Boys who say as the man in the moon
was sent there for pickin up sticks on
Sunday, are simpletuns. and don't no
nothing about the moon what its like.
| You should not call them names, but
just tell them that what they think is
the mans eyes and nose and mouth is
only vallys and holes witch you cant
say now as the Bible didn't tell you of
it. Then if they say to you as the moon
| is not all them thousands of miles oil,
else how could the COW jump over it. do
do not call these poor boys names, else
you wood be a COW herd; but just tell
them needy and gently as you never
did beleave about that there COW. Tell
them as not even race-hOrses could do
it, but only hangels, and they will be-
leave you. and thank you for making
them wiser every day. If these simple.
tuns say to you as they do not beleave
that the moon is round, cose what about
it's getting smaller and smaller and
shapin itself difrent; just tell them as it
is along of spinnin round like, that's all.
and they will beleaye you, and say
thank you for all that you have told
them.
Everything about the moon is true.
so mind and stick to it, witch you will
| be rewarded for, and not be fritened OF
| lying down on your deathbed."
The extract which follows is the latter
on Cleanliness:
Then do not 60 and say that you are
feared of making yourself clean, just
becose it is cold and it hurts to get the
dirt of, or becOse the suds get in your
eye. For when you are clean, people do
not edge away from you, never mind
about your clothes, but they say unto
you like our teacher that it is next to
godlyness. Be thankful unto him be-
cose your mothers can afford soap, and
becose they make you use it. Also when
your mother puts her finger down you
coat-neck afore breakfast, and peeps to
see if there's any black there, and then
sends you back to the sink again to
wash yourself better, say unto her, yes
mother. also smiling. On Saturday
nights say also unto her, mother don't
forget to get my bath-tub reddy for me,
and a new peace of soap. for l love to
wash myself count of cleanliness for it
is next to godlyness. Do not be same
as them there Blacks, and Amerikens,
and Ingoos, which just splashes their
faces with water and no soap. and never
gets inside of a tub, only paddlin about
| bits of rivers.
when you say to a dirty boy Dirty
Dick wants the stick only say it about
once, so he cant say as you are wicked.
Tell him to look at the necks of mas
tiers and superintendent and preachers,
and he will never find ring, which is
always sine as you have not gone far
down. Henry j. Barker, in Longman's
Magazine.