The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-01

TO be decent because of it, I can't be
decent because of it. Come and see it,
Billy tried to stop me, but Isadore, with that
keen ability to read human nature that ex-
lists in children and dogs, whispered, "Let
her go; Cora won't hurt her." So Cora led
me back of the scenes. Dirt, noise and bad
language pervaded the entire place. We
went into dirty hole, called by courtesy a
dressing room and there Cora introduced me
to Miss Maude Buckingham. " Miss Maude
was decidedly tough looking. Shehed a very
shabby get-up on, but 1t had originally been
some young chaps best suit On one Of the
chairs was crush hat, and it dawned on me
she was evidently as described on the poster,
the well-known male impersonator. said
she looked tough; SO she did at first, but
there came a smile over her face as she
looked at me and said, just as your wife
or sister might have: Have you come to
see Cora's babym Cora's baby9 There,
with shabby old shawl wrapped around it,
was Coras baby, in an old armchair, with
another chair in front of it to keep it from
tumbling out. IL cooed and laughed Just AS
your baby does, and it was poor Coral
treasure. She said; "There amt nothin'
wrong about my baby; l was mar
ried to Its father, though be has gone away
and left me. Ii was born up at Sister
lrene's, and at first I thought ! could
leave it there, but couldn't. bly, heart got
sick for 1t, and had to have 10 with me-
The manager he amt quite so bad as you'd
think, and he let's me bring 1t behind the
scenes as long as 6 don't cry, and Maude or
Ida or some Of them always stays with it
when ! an on the stage. You see miss
have got TO make the most Of it while it is a
little. innocent thing, because / took a
solemn oath that my baby should be decent,
and have got to put it away from me
soon If [ want TO keep this OATH"
ROUGH AND TUMBLE FUN.
We three were very quiet when We left
that hall Billy. lsa1ore and me, and Billy
said: "You see, miss, didn't want you
TO come here, and yet these are the places
that we boys on the other side have to go to
find amusement. Soon as something nice
is started, something that is funny and
good they so and NIX religion In it, and
then there is kicking time. If these people
would only work out what we are. what
sort OF lives we have been born to. they
wouldn't try to yell at US to love Gawd.
they'd show us how considerate and
how friendly Gawd had them, and
then we would want to get acquainted
with him on account OF his frens.
Now. once Maggie and Chimmie got all us
boys to go and see magic lantern; / car
ried Charlie. and Isadore was along with
us. Well, they had pictures OF very in
terestln' things, and we were all Of us
thinkin' how nice it was when the fool that
was running it begins to jerk in some story
that was hurtful to 1sadores feelings, and
that made two women cry, because their
babies had died without being baptized.
You see il was fraud He said,
come an have a good time and see
the show, and then insults his
visitors. II he had said come an
hear sermon, that would have been a
different thing. Well, he never give another
show down there again, for Tom O'Conner
the husband Of one Of the women be made
cry, give him black eye that wasn't cured
by faith. The people," continued Billy.
who want to do something for the other
side have got to be polite to them, and they'll
never do anything fur them 'till they find
this. When they can give us fun without
mixin' preachtn' with it, we'll not only pre-
ciate the fun, but we will take the trouble
to look after the religion that's back Of it. 4"
FEAsTING IN THE sLuMs.
IL was IL O'Clock and we were to have
supper with lsadore's grandmother. They
lived down In that part Of New York known
20 all the east-slders as New Jerusalem.
The house We went into was dirty, but the
rooms we entered were a surprise to me.
and Thought had seen ali of the other
side, and could not be surprised. The table
was spread with clean, white linen cloth,
the room was Immediately clean, but
the dishes brought over from Russia fifty
years ago, and the silver candlesticks
lighted IN my honor would have