The times., 1897-04-25
BROTHER GARDENERS s LECTURE.
He Says No Colored Man Ought to
Sleep with His Feet Out of Bed.


Sleep With His, Feet Out of Bed.
my frens,' said Brother Gardner, as
he arose in his place at the last meet
ing of the Lime Kiln Club, Il had sun
thin to say to you a few weeks ago on
sanitary matters. find dat most of de
members didn't know W hat was talk
in about, an shall Hdarfore try to ex-
plain myself mo- crarly. De word san
itary' refers TO health. 1t refers to de
food you eat, de water you drink, de
house YOU lib In an de sort of bed you
hev got TO sleep on. Waydown Bebee
got de idea dat 1t was some sort o
smoked fish, an he inquired for 1t at
six different groceries. Giveadam Jones
thought 1t related to religion, an Shin
dig watkins has got Jonah an de whale
an sanitary all mixed up. WhatI wanted
to tell you, an what tried to make plain,
was dat dc time had come when de Guild
man must pay some attenshun to de laws
of health.
Fur instance, it has bin diskivered
widin de last two vars dat de breath
of three dawgs sleepin' under de family
bed in cius room am pizen to de hu-
man system Ebery Guild man has a
soft spot in his heart fur a dawg, but
de time has arrove when either de
FANNY or de da VIZ should sleep on an ole
piece of carpet in de woodshed.
up to var ago uuthin was thought
of gwine to bed in a room wild a barI
o. soap grease, but 1t has bin shown, be-
wand a doubt. dat mo- dan a Inillyun
Guild people hev died off on dat ac-
count Seems like gwinc TO good deal
O. trubble TO remove dem things out
doahs at night an bring 'em back in de
nlawnin', but we can't afford TO take no
chances.
ITS a great savin' o. bedclothes fur
de hull family to jump into one bed, an
you am dar all in bunch in case u
burglar breaks in or dc stOvepipe sets
de house on fire, but medical science has
,iiskibered dat it's powerful bad on de
health an should be stopped. 1t may
come hard to Samuel Shin, who has only
got one bed and 'leben chill EN-, but he'll
hev to hustle around an git some straw
an spread on de floor.
1T has bin de habit Of de Guild man
fur de last 200 Vars to sleep wild his feet
outer bed He probably got de habit
from dreamin' about coOns an 'possums,
an he wanted to be all ready 10 jump
outer bed an run em down, an nobody
found fault wild 1t till a few months
ago. Den medical science stepped in
and diskibered dat sIeepin wild de feet
hangin out interfered wild de circula-
shun OF de blood, an brung on catarth
an lots o. other ailments, an shortened
a pussor's life by vars an vars. De
rest o. you kin do as yo' ike about It,
,tan .1.,,f IT, "a
tied under the bedclothes. an 1 believe
de change has dun Tnc good.
we rnust look out for de sanitary
bizness in de food we eat an de way we
elt 1t De baby may like raw turnlps
an bananas, but he shouldn't be filled
up to de chin on 'em Jest befo' goin' to
bed It's heap easier to gulp down a
billed egg widout fOolin' around, but If
dat egg am gwine to shatter our system
all to smash. we had better stop To cut it in
two an butter de halves
par am likewise another matter which
I wish to refer to dis eavenin' an dat am
de weakness Of secun'd people in ginerai
fur uuttin' on styie, as it is called. We
aev examples of essahses ebery night in de
week. Way hack In becember de wife OF
Elder PenstGck .giY san at home De
elder owns his .ioHse-an am purity well
fixed. an he kin afford[such things. was
dar' rs on OF de gJsestsyan' while thought
de elder was a leetle extravagantln de way
dcy served up fried eggs at fo'ty cents
a dozen | had no criticism to make. What
pains me am what folIeTed dat party.
"A week later Jedge Cabiff's wife had
de same kind OF circus. De jedge. as e
all Ennw has de hardest kind o work to
git 'taters an meat fur his nine chill en-,
an half OF 'em hev to go b'arfHt all winre
His wife didn t want to be outduu, ho wever,
an so she had crush She had three
kinds O. cake. two sorts y cheese IN 70
kinds o cold III eat, an de dress she had on
nelher cost less'n thirty cents a yaId-
Dar' wasa heap people dar,an everybody
had n good time, but de last guest vas
hardly outer de house when de iedge was
around tryin to borry S5 to make up his
months rent Since dat time de family
has lbe0 mostly on bread an water. an de
parlur clock has gone to de pawnsho 10
buy fuel
II doau' speak of desc things in com
plainin way, but it pains me TO see what
Ieptle sense sum folks hev, Putin on
style an swelln' around am all right fur
de folks dat hev got de cash down in Teir
pockets. but all wrong fur de folks Who
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