The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-24
They'll Never. Miss Me. -
uuciudy Jane, aged thirty-fve.

They'll Never. Miss Me-
Iuciudy Jane, aged thirty-five
Was the most unselfish girl alive.
Mother was sick, and father was pore -
But she managed to keep the wolf from
the door"
Her brothers and sisters. real gifted y
Had to be schooled and clothed and fed ,,
So she did the washing, and scrubbed the
floors,
And mended the clothes-did all the
chores,
When the boys forgot the Sundays wood.
She split II herself as well as she could.
II they asked her to go to huskin. or bee
She said: I'm too busy; they'll never miss
me-
Old Deacon CalSins, fervent and thin,
Took every occasion to "jist drop in
To talk with Lueindy," her soul to win.
Cause workin' on Sundays a dredful
sin;
It's brealSin' the law of God" he said;
And.h bring down Judgment on your
head,
When the last trumpet's thunders roll.
And all the sky is a written scroll
You've got to face the Almighty then.
And render account, with the sons of
men"
Lucindy heard with her quiet smile,
Mending the last weeks wash the while.
L b'leve, my soul, Deacon Caikins, -
said she,
That the Lord knows all about Sunday
and me.
Don't talk about none Of your glories To
be-
And 'trumpets and scrolls and judg-
ments' to me.
III ever I'm laid in a long, cool grave
A poor old, tired, and worn-out slave
They may blow all the trumpets from Dan
to Bershee;
I'll just keep as shady as shady can be.
And lie there and rest; they'll never miss
me-"
Virginia Morgan, In the Century.
Il do not like" remarked woman of
the old school, TO the New York Tribune
the way people have now of speaking of
their personal pecuniary affairs without
any reticence. While I deplore pretense
of any sort, and consider false appearances
vulgar. do think there Is self-respect-
ing reticense that should be observed. In
fact, II seems to me there is a good deal
of blatant egotism in thrusting ones pov.
erty to the fore, as it appears to be the
fashion nowadays.
There is that young cousin OF mine
Nelly NJ, for instance, who has married
a man whom she and all the rest of the
family have dubbed the pauper' Why
she actually faunts her poverty before
the world She Is continually talking of
her one maid, of her various makeshlfts
and how she tucks her skirts and goes 20
smart dinners In bus. les all amusing
and as she Is young and pretty, and both
she and her husband are popular younc
people. 1t does not much matter but when
women OF my. age go into such detail |
call il undignihed and rather grewsonne
II Is not that should mind doing any.
thing that had 20 be done.
II would do homework II II were nee
essary. or cook or make my own clothes
should call my needful work TO keen IN
the standards OF living, seif-respectine
and proper; but ] should not do II public.
~ ! should, hgurauvely speaking pun
down the blinds and shut the doors
In the village near which my father
had his country place there Iyed, when
WAS girl. couple Of maiden women. The
Misses Van T, who belonged 10 one Of
che Oldest families In the state Their
house WIS a me old specimen % the bet
colonial architecture. They were poor. ana
We al knew that they 0bisn0t keep 4 serv-
ans, except an Old scrub that came In 10 %
chores. but they never acknowledged the