The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-07
Pa Tried the Shirtwaist

CFrom the Chicago Times-Herald.)
When paw came home a few days
ago all het up he sed:
AT last the men are Citing some
con nun sents. They are going TO
VAR shurt waists That's what they
OF o.; Done long ago. What's the use
Of Having on a vest n coat shat cost
twenty dollars When you mite be get
ting some Enjoyment out OF Life.
wairing a ninety cent shurt waIsI that
Let's you keep as Cool as a kewcum-
Der just offin the ice? They are lots
and lots OF Things happening every
little While to make a buddy think
wimmen would be Better OF If They
new more, but they have sents enun
to WAR shurt waists emmy way I'M
going 10 Get the habbut."
Goodness gracious. paw" NAV sd.
You surely amt in Ernurst. are you?
"Of course l am. paw to!u nVF-
Why shouldn't l be-?
Il cont believe Envy man that Has
emmy self respect would 10 such !
Thing
That shows where YOU havaa': Emmy
Logick." paw anserd. IF it's right :-N
Wimmen to WAR them / don; see why
the Men OF 10 ne Afsads. ok a the
Old Roamuns. They ust TO Go around
with a table Cloth slung over one
Shoulder and keep comfortable. ! be-
leeNG tnat : WHAT TlduE L ls.I 81 a
too. How can Ennybuddy have nobull
thots when They are neeriy roasten
becoz they Are such fools as TO Go
around with Four or five layers o.
heavy on that they don't need only for
looks? There's the Secret OF the down
fall OF the Hewmun race. Close are 10
Blame besoZ We haven't emmy more
Crate men. II we would get un In the
morning and rap a sheet around US in
sted OF having to Dress ham an our OF
so we would AVE that mulch more
Time TO Study and think and get to be
flosofers and poets and things. I'm
going 10 get a Shurt waist TO morrow"
After NAV thot about II a while she
told paw they wasn't emmy use spend
ing the mummy Before he new whether
he Would Like the shurt waist or not.
Our hired Curl is n Large CURL with
brod shoulders and no Corsuts worth
notusing, so NAV borrowed One of her
shurt waists that was just washed and
Got paw to Try ii on. 1t was a pr1ttY
good Fit, only Ii Wouldn't tuck into
the Top OF paws trousers very Far.
but He looked at Himself in the Glass
and sed:
"Of corse IL / was getting a new One
il would Fit a little better in Some
spots, but this looks prity We'll"
Uncle Wesley and Aunt Grace came
over while paw was keeping Cool and
Uncle Wesley sed he Bet paw dasssnt
wair it in The street.
Just to sho you" paw told him. "Tn
go Down to the drug store and Get
some Sugars if you'll furnish the quar-
ter. i s'pose they will be Fools around
to skoff, but What does a flosofer mead
to care for such people when he knows
posturrity is agoing to give him
Justice? Look at the nobull men that
Got their names handed down the
furthest. They all had to Get skoffed
at by people that nobuddy herd OF At
forwards. But what did they care?
They let them skof, That's my motto"
He was down neerly TO The church
at the orner when an Ice wagon came
along with three Men in 1t. And they
began to skoff Sand Thro chunks OF ice
at paw. Then some Boys came from a
Lot of different ways, skoffen as hard
as They could. and the wimmen got out
on the front porches. In a few minits
paw came home All out OF Breth with
three Dawgs and a Lot Of people after
him.
The shurt was mostly Slipped up IN
der His arms becoZ Uncle Wesley sed
il had the Rising infection.
When the mob went away paw came
Out of the closet where He hid while
The skoffen was Going on and NAV
sed:
Why didn't you Let them skoff?
What does a flosofer need to Care
when he knows Posterrity is going TO
Give him ~justice?"
Paw got to Looking kind Of Far away
and sed:
IF you wouldn't always be so blamed
Afraid I mite pay a few sents for Sum-
thing for myself some time, / wouldn't
of put that thing OF and mebby / mite
Of Got over the nochun before tomor-
row."