The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-04-21
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10, I don't parade the streets in q
kssion for FIVE dollars a week." said
girl in calico; "though some folks
chat is all we have to do after joining
salvation Army. I don't ever march
Sarks except on extra occasions,
We muster in full force, Slum
de and all. I belong to the Slum
kde, you know, and my work lies in
softown where, just as like as not,
light of a girl in the Salvation Army
brm would draw a crowd that po-
han would have to disperse. I am
ne street, good deal, going from
b TO house, but dressed as am now,
3dy would take me for a Salvationist,
eos I am no more noticed than any
plain, quiet body would be. I
n,t even wear the army bonnet, be-
/ want the folks around where I
to think I am just one Of themselves.
rough sort of neighborhood, and in
eyenings there's 8 let of drinking and
ring, and sometimes fighting, going
b the tenement-house where I have
room, but I amt afraid of roughs
rowdies; if I was, I shouldn't be fit
Tie work I have undertaken. I
n't any education to speak of, and
buld hate the worst in the world to
TO stand up on platform and make
: Hddress, but can 80 into poor wo-
. room, if she is ailing, and do her
for her-see how big and strong my
are-and then I can sit down and
: to her in a friendly sort of way about
untry where there won't be no more
ness or suffering, where children
f go wrong, and babies won't die just
bon as they begin to take notice.
s,lks say tina. the best thing teue-
Et house baby can do for itself is to
hut it would be hard to make its
cher believe that, no matter whether
was a sober woman who looks after
+ children, or drunkard who spent
: ter time on the Island. And I am
hHfnl that I know what to do for q
spy baby, or thrushy baby, or one
6se teeth ara. going hard with it. 1
! tbe eldest of the family at home, and
lstomsd to taking care of the children
Ibn my mother was out at her work,
since I have belonged to the Slum
ade I've come across 10. of mothers
$ willjusf hand over their babies to
4 when they get sick, and watch me
#lsI try to make the poor little thing
lfostable. When baby is all right
in, and before the mother gets over
4hking there isn't nobody like me, then
&ha time to ask her to 60 down on her
6es NTH me and thank God.
PSI don't want no preaching said a
4 woman to me when went to see
one morning; 4 amt much of a
31f to PREACH said I, 'but I can make
kup Of tea With anybody;' and with
b 4 crossed over to the stove, started
! FIRE, and made her one. Then / put
some oat meal for her three little
BIdren's breakfast {her husband had to
loft early to his work, and couldn't at
8dto things), and while it was cooking
kdied 'em up so nicely that they didn't
1bw themselves. Not one word did I
\ 10 that woman about her soul, but
h she comes to our meetings regular,
hlour captain says she was converted,
sby my theology, but my scrubology.
|m better at cleaning up than at ex-
binding Scripture-that's a fact. I
BIT good even at repeating texts from
Eipture. I disgraced myself once in a
letting where we were all called on for
Ets by rising up and saying out loud,
|eanliness is next to godliness.' Some
KS back of me began to snicker snd the
laext to me whispered that wasn't in
Bible. Then I felt so ashamed I
fn's know which way to look, and it
|s not any comfort to have a great fell
i on the side of me say, Never mind,
ag lady Z; if it isn't in the Bible, it
ght to be-
E.Mind telling me what pay is? Not a
!. I have my room rent paid, and am
pplied with food and coal, and once in
while receive a bundle of cast-off
)thes. If I was to come out in new
}thes, the folks in my tenement.house
Euld think 1 was growing proud. So
b see I didn't go into the work to make
pney, or even to make show. As I
'ye said, I amt no good at preaching,
d Tsnppose my prayers amt much to
ten to, and I haven't any voice for
bging, except in chorus, where all
ats wanted is noise, but I have health
d strength and good will, and I am