The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-19
Bah IN WASHINGTON.
Continued Prom Ninth pooc.

rose as her typical flower will have n rn,,oh
easier time of It, because roses bloom ali a.
year round, vioets have short season. and
fforget-me-nots only last month or two
GOOD DRINK FOR SUMMER.
1t Is such an easy thing in this world to
some people to forget. 1t seems as If a great
sponge OF the present came and blotted out
everything OF the past except the disagreeable.
ana somehow that always lives with them.
My friend, II we want to get rid of that we
nave got to stop looking backward and Just
look forward. We don't want a glass of
champagne. What we want is plass of
hope, and after we have gotten absolutely fnll
OF nope We can get along marvelously well
hope is good medicine-it is a good drink
and IL is good stay for one always, whether
one be man or woman or ghost
"BAB" LIKES THE DARKIEs
But to return to Washington, which wish
could do. Don't you think that the Lord
was good when he created the darkiesp do.
1t is not question Of politics with me Il
isn't question of anything with me- but
pure like. l do like them because thew have
been good to me-they always remember me.
and would give more for smile and how
dye" from an honest dark face than 1 would
for the superficial greeting of French par
con, who is looking for his tips, from the
stolid Engiishman, who wonders how much
you are worth, or from the greasy Italian, who
is not quite certain whether he approves of
you or not like to come here and have
them smile at me, and remember what like
to eat, and know my name, and l feel like
saying: ~ am glad when the Lord made man,
and embraced woman by the man, that he
made colored people, because l was nursed
In the arm OF one, and they have ALWAYS been
friends to me; and whether the people in the
white House are Republicans or Democrats,
colored people can no more help being friendly
to anybody they like than looking glass can
help rejecting the cross or the pleasant face
that you put before It. You rise up in a very
dignified manner and say "Bab is preiudiced!,,
ferhaps am; then, again, perhaps you are
would
LIKE TO OWN CoLoRED BABY.
They look, no matter how young they are,
as IL they knew everything IN the world-as if
they could tell you the secret of the Sphinx,
which is so jealousy guarded, and as if Cleo
patra and Lille Langtry and all the wonder
fully beautiful women were as nothing to
them. They look as If they had seen every-
thlng IN life here. and as If they could give
you full account of heaven and the other
place; If they do not like you they put out
their hands toward you as If to saw ssGo away.
you are of no use" And If they do like YOU
they put out both arms; they show whatever
teeth they have got, and there is a wonderful
smile on the face that seems to say 'sI am ever
SO glad you have come, and 1 hope you will
stay" When can see even this much in
them, do you wonder that l want TO buy
colored baby? The colored baby is one of
the charms OF Washington; another is that
you go right over the streets and feel for once
In your life as If you were in a civilized town.
In new YORK we have lot of cobblestones,
on which are cats who have known all of life
and are more than dead; dirty pieces OF paper:
marketing that nobody wants, and whatever
may have happened to have flown out of the
dust carts; but in Washington you ride over
smooth, smooth pavement, kept clean, and
therefore you give special thanks.
THE PAvEMENTs OF WASHINGTON.
don't know exactly what the Government
at Washington is, whether it is the President
who runs it, or whether the people have the
care OF 1t, or whether the obligng darkey who
Sits up on the box or seat and tells you which
Is Mr.. Blaine's house, where the Chinese EN-
bassy Is, and which is the British Legation, and
where mighty beautiful lady used to live,
and where gentleman who owns newspaper
bought lovely playground and built a little
mouse, that his children might have good
lime IN Ill confess don't know who runs it;
put whoever manages those pavements ought
to write letter to Mayor Grant and all the
rest OF the Tammany Ring, and invite them to
come ON and see what pavements are like
Inat Is, pavements upon which gentlefolk are
supposed to drive. Somebody could give them
points don't know, but it seems to me tbey
might find out If they madea sufficient amount
of inquiry.
1t is mighty mean man who won't have
good pavement in the city, but then there are
lots OF mean men as there are mean women.
what is mean man
HER IDEA OF A MEAN MAN.
we'll, he is a mean man who does not give
the woman who bears his name quite half of
the money he earns.
He is mighty mean man who does not let
his women folk see some of the pleasures of
life; who does not let them know what fun at
the theatre is, and who does not feed them on
whatever they want, whether it is ice cream or
champagne.
He is mighty mean man who does not ap-
preciate woman when she is doing her best to
please him with all the odds against her, as
they generally are.
lie Is mighty mean man who cannot say
KIND word or two when he meets some other
man or woman who is friend of hers, because
KIND words do not cost him one cent.
lie is mighty mean man who don't like
your friends II he likes you.
10 be absolutely honest, / think he is a
mighty mean man all the way through who is
not just as good. and just as sweet, and just
as generous, and just as charming, and just as
loVely as can be. BAB.