San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-03
HEARD ABOUT TOWN.

There is a right stout little
Jewish woman in the dress max
ing business in the 7th ward, who
tells a ludicrous story OF religious
persecution Of which she was the
victim in a place some where on
the Colorado river and known as
Austin. 1t seems that while a
resident Of that place, she took in
sewing and soon had her hands so
full of work that she was
forced to labor on all
seven days of the week. The stout
little woman and her assistants
had no particular scruples about
working on the first day of the
week, but her Christian neighbors
had and when the latter observed
the dressmakIng establishment in
full blast on Sundays their indig-
nation broke all restraint, and
they forthwith dispatched their
children to assemble before the
dressmaking shop and there sing
religious songs. 1t happened that
the dressmaker possessed a very
gifted and versatile parrot who
was not at all slow in picking up
fragments of the words and melody
of "Jesus Lover of my Soul, (which
he shrieked out most viciously,
everytime that the children start
ed to sing. The latter. would re-
turn the vocal fire, tell Polly to
shut up, call him an infidel and
the like. Polly on the other hand
would tlutter his wings and cry
out, "Howdy do Polly! Howdy do !!
Folly wants cracker! cracker
Jesus! Lover of my soul?"
Between the polly, the children
and them dignant neighbors, things
finally became so uncomfortable
for the Jewish dressmaker that in
order to pursue her vocationIon the
first day OF the week, (Sunday,) she
had to close the windows, pull to
the shutters, and in silence do her
sewing by the aid Of lighted
lamp.
That was, however, in a time
when the strict Sunday observers
wanted to shut up and off every
thing, except, perhaps, the dam.
Affairs have changed considerably
since then, however, and things are
now running on more liberal lines.
An eldrly woman while walking
on the north side of Military plaza,
suddenly fell to the sidewalk the
other afternoon. Immediately a
crowd gathered and doctor from
the neighboring drug store rushed
to her assistance. He readily found
the trouble to be a sprsining or
dislocating Of the hip. At that
moment a thin faced black be arded
young physician, whose very bear
ing showed that he was a man OF
some official capacity, ordered her
taken to the City hall. All this
while the woman was telling how
she and her children were on the
verge of starvation and very broad
ly intimated that now was
the time to contribute for their
relief. A sympathetic sporting
man went into his pocket for a
crisp So bill, but the physician
winked significantly and said
something like "yOu are fish,"
whereupon the kind hearted
sporting man hastily put his
money back into his purse and
continued on his way,
81 will tell you about this wo-
man." said the official young doc
tor. "She has peculiar knack of
purposely throwing her hip
out of joint. The consequence
is that she falls to the ground help
less. Then she gets off the starv-
ing children gag. This is the third
time in the past five weeks that
she has done this. 1t must be
profitable business else she would
not go through the performance so
frequently, for there is consider
able pain connected with it.
The ligaments that hold
her thigh ia place are
extremely lax, and she can thus,
by twisting her body in certain
way, disjoint the hip. Besides the
money that she begs by the opera
ton, she manages to get several
days Of good free living at the hos
pital. She is a hard case and
does not deserve either SYM
pathy or aid. / shall keep
her in the cellar of the City
hall for a few days, so that she
won't get into the notion of doing
such pranks for the sake of free
board and lodging at the hospital