The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-15
GOOD IDEAS WANTED.
Opening Of an Idea Originating b.
ICau Suggested.

Points On Truth-Telling- Ministers
Who Ride On Wheels-Religion as a
Luxury in This Vale of Tears-our
Individual Comforts.
Hillsdale, Md, July 14.-There is a de-
mand for them. WHAT Good ideas. Why
doesn't somebody start a bureau selling
ideas at reasonable pricesl You who 90
out to dinner parties are counted some
thing of wit, are invariably spoken of
as that clever fellow" you would gladly
nav s., or $40, or SIS for an original idea
about which to talk, and so keep up your
reputation for versatility. You who have
passed the pink-and-white, sugar land
cream age of girlhood have reached
the time when your brains
rather than your beauty is referred to,
what wouldn't you give for a frst-class
idea warranted to impress a statesman
with your knowledge of politics, and so
gaining for you the position you desire7
Think of the politicians who would rush
for ideas! Think of the boys and girls
who write those abstruse commencement
essays; how eagerly they would save up
their pennies that they might have the
brightest idea of the day! I think the
shop would do very well; but who among
US has got an idea to spare2
am sure if you go down to Washington
and listen to the clap-trap there, and real
ize that nobody in the cabinet knew suf-
fcient of diplomatic life to pay proper
courtesy to France when trouble came
upon it, you would think ideas We're
needed there. If you looked at the great
fat men, scarcely able to sit in the ordi-
nary chairs, gross looking, with watery
eyes and swollen lids, who occupy some
Of the chief positions in the nation, you
would conclude that fat had superseded
ideas. Then. If you sat on the veranda
at a summer watering-place and heard
the women talk of my Clothes" and
my dressmaker," and my Jewels" and
"our set, " and our entertainments, - you
certainly would think that ideas were
lacking there.
We are a little bit inclined to think
that the people who talk a great deal
know great deal. Don't believe that,
my friend. l can fully understand why
the eagle is the political bird of the
United States; he has hoarse scream ;
he does nothing of any value, and he is
only attractive when he is stuffed. Even
then he is not as decorative as
THAT BIRD OF WISDOM, THE OWL.
once knew a coored lady who had a
desire to improve her mind, and, looking
at silver piece, she said: Honey, why
does they-Jms have an eagle on it2'
was the national bird
And she answered, with an air of sur
prise: "Lawd, honey, you don't say so
now, this yers mighty big country, and
they's some mighty fine birds in it; they's
them little thrushes which wobbles like
the angels they's the oriole, who's
mighty like to Solomon in its splendid
ness; theys the nightingale and the
mocking birds which they can be teached
to sing tunes in praise of de land, ard
dere's the love birds which always sug-
gest that in union there's strength and
dey goes and chooses a ugly old eagle, q
thief of a bird what steals de chickens,
and whose only use, even when he's dead,
is to take his wings for fans of a warm
evening Lawd, surely whoever selected
the eagle didn't know much about the
habits of birds. Still you says he am a
political bird, and my Jim he went in for
politics and got into state prison; so
perhaps, Missy, it was a good choice, for
de eagle am a thief; he am shrieker, an
he haln't got no more duty den most of
the politics men who cum aroun' here
talkin about de day when Jim's Angelina
would wear pink satin. I allow he a
big bird but so is tn e politics gentlemen.
l s'pose both of 'em done got fat on what
dey stole" Here my friend
WENT OFF IN A SERIES OF cHUcKLEs,
and gazed at her with admiration. Aunt
Lena is a person who has an opinion,
usually good one, on most every subject
She invited me to come to camp meeting
this summer, and so l asked her what she
thought about religion: She said: well,
honey, religion is a mighty heap of
luxury to them as has a hard
4 time in this yere vale of tears.
amt so very much myself for that kind
n OF religion dat takes itself out in wild
hollerin' and great 'cusin' oof you uns.
Use not on particularly good terms with
|
TO get up an say dat am de worse sinner
dat ever lived. l amt Tro de grace o.
Gawd, Angelina has led very spectful
lie an she amt going to get up in no
meetin' an say she am de lowest of de
low. Oh, none o. de church members
prove of me ies' now. When my Jim
4 was took to the penitentiary, l says Jim,
u done served you right: you was always
bad boy, an may be this ill be a lesson
TO you You never was satisfied till you
done got in politics; then there was a
nght an you fit till you serusly hurt
fellow creature, an now you've got to
pay. for It, But I'll come up to see you
an bring you some tobacco Well, Miss,
de entire church thought as how ought
TO have said prayer to move his soul.
And he wife, lazy, worthless thing,
she do
ALoT o. PRAYIN' AND HoLLERIN',
and yet she amt never been to see him,
auu from WnaC L mar Sne Is golu' 10 lake
another husband mighty soon. But,
about religion; amt never seed why,
cause felt de glory of Gawd, need hug
de deacon an pull over de stow and break
de benches like some of them fool girls do
10 my way of thinkin'. real religion sug-
gests that you keep you hands of the
deacon, and go home an mind your own
business. But different folks have differ
EFT ways of lookin at things, an my idea
OF religion am different from Sister
Cooks. Sister Cook fathers them young
,uns o. hers until the pore
little creturs nearly bleed, sends them
to bald without a airy bit of sup
4 per an then goes to church an talks
about the mercy of Gawd. My way of
thinkin' is THAI the mercy of mother
n would come in right good there. Religion
is mighty mysterious; sometimes missy,
they's need for it to be like mustard
plaster, burniu' your soul till its fully
wakened; sometimes it needs to be as
soothin' as cream, comm down in that
gentle way, an maxim everything seem
smoother. 1t am peculiar; but we've got
TO have IL to live by, w-uns and we's GER
tainly got to have it to die by, Missy"