The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-12-03

: NAN TALKS OF HIS
1pohESTIC DUTIES
|flFORMS ALL THE cHORtS
,..D,e Of a Cook He Is general
por"-Newspaper Arti-
Gle Anglers His

/, would I we're g boy again.
- =. nost. That's what I am
!, no other boy about THESE
We have had no cook Tor Tor
a psntbs-no man servant nor MAID a
nsn' nDlv q boy. Irise before the
W. the fire, take up the ashes
~ room, then fire up the stove
Z ' Ei}c iN fill up the kettle put
~ i hominy, grind the , cottee o aGa
ring the bell for my fen l:n. > a ouI
nm nno who appear in due time ana
ny b;.cnit and broil the steak and
vi D tha breakfast. I bring IN
= ao " AMI and coal, split the pine go
y ss' bntcher's and bakers and the
laee. IT the male boy ana 'no
Y. WV week was hard on me, for had
= ,.no %' the greenhouse plants ana
y. 'EVt the soil and move them into
y . MD water them and yesterday
r. Ism ale folks took notion they
nd some of the prettiest chrysan,,
n ,1T S'' taken up and potted and
robt into the hall, SO I made little
E 5rt Of nail kegs by saving them
n and putting rope handles to
y and then I carefully upheaved
Giants with spade and got t1 4 n
4 right. And then the boy had tf
!, them in the house and arrang'
n, and now they are beautiful t. t
oId-all gorgeous in their :, lover Lover;
rs Of white and yellow and brow
pink and gold. I am pr proud II .
n for I am the boy that did it.
heavy work and hard work and
1rter rheumatic and broke dow
hs lines, but my folks wanted
i and I'm the boy, 1t isn't ever
lilly that's got a boy
What luxury it is to rest when yc
Il finished your job and are tire TIRE.
Sst luxury is sleep when bedtln
mes! What a wholesome, foot
NJ appetite does labor give al
lies a boy like me relish the bv
led steak or smothered chicken al
,Ese and biscuits and gravy and I
lniny and eggs fried on both SID
dloose in the middle. That's t
/. to say grace over and be thank !,
abor is good medine-a tonic II
.nlates digestion. Labor is an al
IN for the little frets and troubles
N daily life. When I get clean
nOney and the little duns co
Dick and fast in love letters l ny
Gsvoodpile and chop stoveWood'
pto the garden and fork up m
/, pound and transplant more straw
les from the scattering runners
hvs now 800 plants and they are i, ,
nd all came from home and all L
sep mulched with stable manure
aHon seed and covered with
nav, and 1 am the boy that did II
IN the horny-handed son OF toll
Iou read about.
Ny wife has got sixty-hve
bushes that I planted for her and
Red and nourished and pruned
. Hatched my hands with the the
ind she luxuriates among their [
ful flowers and cuts bouquets TO-
laghbors and visitors. Sonnet
Then I peruse the papers and
Antiments make me mad or ia
=! Indignation I go forth among
lowers and study them and pc
: qOn their innocence and beaut.
81 calm and serene. Only yest'
Tread an article in The New
Rpss, the leading Republican P
nd it said the white southerner
apidly degenerating and the
sN coming to the front; tina
White man could not grow cot
4ants q pound, but the negro
md that their race would IN tim
~ the lands and the whites be
J lsnants; that we have degenera
@tesmanship and intellect an
NOtgota white man in all the SOU
NIL compare with Booker WASH
bat the ante-belIum types are
10 times that produced Calhot
ioubs and Stephens and Da7
Seniamin and Lamar are toreve
I'D that our so-called statesmen
pBailey and Butler and TilInr
Nta fair sample Of our oegeI
nd that this degeneracy all
nom our inhuman treatment
asgo and is a negation OF Goa
lsthreatens us and says the
very busy now with importa!i
} serhs growing out of the SPAN
J out will attend to us in due u
zee to it that we shall have II
antation in congress from
where the negro ballot was init
Impressed.
Well, of course, l had to q
paper and fly to the woodplIe'
aIstroke I made with the a
. imagine that that malicious
lgnsnt editor was under it.
% be done with such people
Vewere boasting that at last
last, the sectional lines were