Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-13

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they are not disturbed until called for. We
pawn our clothes for the smallest sums pos
sible, In order that the interest charges
Will be limited, and as pawnbrokera only
charge actors / per cent q month interest,
the amount we pay for the storage Of our
clothes Is Of no consequence when their
safety and immunity from damage by in
sects or other causes Is considered When
! get back next year I'll take the buds Jim
is packing up now out Of hook and put in
my heavy apparel. There are a good many
actors, though. who pawn in the SPRING
time, gentle Annie. and leave their things
pawned. You can see lots Of 'em shiverin &
on the Rialto right now"
The passionate tenderness with which the
southern colored nurse regards the children
who are placed under her charge has been
the theme for unstinted admiration In prose
and rhyme for time unlimited. Indeed the
southern child never outgrows affection for
the old nanny" who soothed their little
sorrows in her great, fat arms, and muir
INJURED solace IN he soft patois of the quar-
tiers, that is now becoming rarer and rarer
as the school system extends, and embraces
the juvenile blacks as well as whites In it's
beneficence. There are a few colored nurses
OF the old school In Washington now
jewels, whose value Is appreciated to the
possess them, and one of these Is enjoy ed
by the family of a prominent local news
paper man, whose four sturdy boys have
been brought up by Sarah. She Is very
black. the African blood in her veins not
having been contaminated by admixture
with the Caucasian, but her heart and soul
are as white as any ones. Her mother died
when she was very young and her father
ran away, leaving the child a waif in the
great. cold world. When she became old
enough she went out into service" as the
saying is. and slowly graduated into a
nurse. She has been with her present en-
ployers many years, and the care and de-
votion with which she attends TO the chill
dren are equaled by her personal goodness
and piety. She Is a Catholic, and goes to
her duties regularly, and an illustration of
her beautiful faith was given unconsciously
by her not long ago. The children were all
out In front of the house. and Sarah. sit
with proper pride. Suddenly she looked up
with giorifed face.
Miss O. she said softly, de good
I,awd knowed l wuz po' an didn' hab
nuthin', an He gimme desc chillun-'
Was there ever anything finer, sweeter
or more perfect?
A German entered the clerks office at the
city hall one day last week. and after con-
siderable linguistic difiic lily succeeded in
informing Mr.. Young that he desired TO
become a naturalizeI citizen of the United
States. The official Immediately proceeded
to set the necessary mechanism working
which would transform the subject of the
kaiser into an adherent of Uncle Sans
republican principles when a serious hitch
occurred Mir. 1oungs knowledge of Ger
man is confined to the numerals and an
occasional ability to address Teutonic Wis
itors To the office as Herr" instead of
Mister" SO when he proceeded to read
the oath TO the candidate for citizenship,
and the latter couldn't comprehend what
the English meant the clerk was at loss
to know what to do. Two or three lawyers,
who had taken brief courses of public
,lNAl Do l..I.N A.
judiciary by trying to translate the oath
into that language, but they each and all
got stuck and caused the confusion to be-
come worse COMPOUNDED. At last Mr..
Young sent over the way for Mr.. Leon To-
briner. who is a regular polyglot when 1t
comes TO modern and ancient languages. and
the German was duly made acquainted
with the nature and meaning of the oath
German emperor and solemnly pledge sup
port to the United States. A lawyer who
had witnessed the ceremony and its at
tending confusion made a suggestion when
everything was concluded, that Mr.. Young
is considering the advisability of adopt
Ing.
You can easily prevent any more trou-
Bile of this SORT" said the attorney, by
getting some linguist to talk the oath in
various modern languages into the phono-
graph. There could be cylinder each for
German, French, Spanish and the other
tongues spoken by persons who apply for
citizenship, and when a foreigner came all
you would have to do would be to insert
the cylinder containing the oath in his ma
tive language into the machine and then
grind IL out TO him.
MIR. Young, as before stated is thinking
about adopting the i6ea and putting the
polyglot photograph into practice in his
office; SO long, at least. as the Law permits
man who cannot understand the Ian
guage used in the United States 10 become
a citizen by complying with the require
Ua r1i ra-
A colored man entered the Office Of the
clerk Of the court recently and complained
that the marriage license which had been
issued to permit the wedding of himself and
his hearts delight had contained an error
in stating where the bride was from.
Yer sees, boss" he remarked, "deys
lots er Liza JackSOns 'en dey ain tellin how
menny of EN- wild dat name lib out dar at
BenniD'S. Dat ma iige lcens' whut i git
ma i'll toe my Liza jackson say she fun
Benlin's wen she ain fun nowhar near
dar. De lady whut l maid cum fun MARI
10, en- 1 dess laik ter git dat fix on dis
hyar paper"
Mr.. Young took the well-thumbed and
generously sOile1 marriage license and COM
pared II with the Stub and both showed
that Eliza Jackson of Benning had been
one of the parties licensed to marry.
You ought TO have given your bride $
proper residence when you got this license, -
Sdld the clerk
Who me?" responded the darkey, some
what astcnished. why, boss. you ain ex-
peck dat / kim hyar fur or ma 'idSe licens'
fur myself. does yer? Nav. indeedy. boss
l would a sooner not git mated attali dan
come an git de licens' myself. DC bad luck
wouldn' nebber hab stop chasin' Liza en-
me eff l hadder dun dat. Nav, sir, boss.
sOnt anudder cullud gen-mun hyar ter git
de licens an he dun made de mistaik in
givin' Lizas dress"
Mr.. Young corrected the error and then
asked his caller IL all colored people be-
lieved IL unlucky to get marriage licenses
for themselves when they contemplated
matrimony.
"Yaas, indeedy. boss; OATS er fac fur
sut'n," was the earnest response. "Dey
ain nuthin' mo- onlucky dan gittin' er
ma idge licens' for yOsef. En- de black
foxes ain de On'y wuns whut knows hit.
DE wife foxes is dess es bad, en- l vow you
ain see To y'ung wife man whut goin' ter
ma'iy his gal cum down hyar hlsse'f ter git
de licens'. Nav, boss, he bOun ter SEN
sum yuther Teller arter hit. wy is hit
onlucky? l donno 'ceptin' hit sutny is, en-
OATS er fac"