The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-08-11
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Eyes, mann, Cintilda, Cintilda
Johnson is my name, but some of the
folks calls me Tidy fer short. I'd
rather be called Cintilda, think it
sounds so much finer than jist plain
common, Tidy
Thus It was that called the good
natured ebony girl that had come to
take charge of my kitchen, Cintilda.
"Plain common Tidy" would have
been much more convenient, and
certainly more appropriate for the
short, fat little figure that re-
sponded 50 promptly and willingly
to the many calls made on her during
the day.
She had an exuberance OF spirit
and loquacity of tongue that was
sometimes very amusing. When it
developed that she had love affair,
"a love affair, too, with the minister
of the church she attended, and that
there was a good-leoking widow of
uncertain years in the background
who also had great attractions for
Brother Simmons--I changed from
a careless to an attentive listener,
for what woman can turn a deaf ear
to an affair of the heart, whether the
lovers are black or whitel
Sister Ann Eliza ones, relic of the
late lamented Ebenezer Jones, was
thorn in the flesh to Cintilda.
Sister Ann Eliza owned a mule, two
pigs fattening in the pen, and FIVE
acres of good land on which hercabin
was built But it was not the
worldly goods with which Ann Eliza
was endowed that distressed Cintilda
so much as it was that "she is one
of them designing yaller niggers with
long hair that she can comb back
right slick, an do up like you do
yourn, Mis- Carroll an then she is a
mighty forward han in all of the
big meetings.. 1t amt my place to
Judge anybody, but she never gives
any of the rest a chance to lead out,
an she says that she has the sperit
an the understandin' at all times.
| don't hardly know what that is,
but it seems to make her kinder
'tractive-like to Bro Simmons. II
shoutin louder an prayin longer
gives her sperit an understandin
she's sure got it Mis- Carol.
Brother Simmons was getting
ready to go to the association which
was held in the adjoining county,
and prior to every journey that he
took away from his charge he would
preach farewell sermon Whenever
it was announced that Bro Simmons
was to preach a farewell sermon, it
was signal for all thecongregation
men, and women and children-to
be there and indulge in much crying
and handshaking, Forgetting the
many previous farewell sermons in
which he had hidden them tender
adieus.
Noticing that Cintilda seemed
unusually depressed, told her that
she must not feel so badly about
Brother Simmons going away, that
he had not tailed to return heretofore
and would very likely come back this
time. x
1T amt that, Mis-; Carroll" she
said, 1T amt that so mn~h as it is
that Ann Eliza Jones has already
said that she was agoin' to rassle in
prayer harder an shout longer chan
she ever had at any farewell sermor;
she felt it comm, an she never re-
sisted the sperit. An'la night when
we was all settin' up with Sary
lane Perkins baby that : about I IL.
die, she got to teikin about her nair
bein' so heavy IN so long that it
give her the headache, an that
Doctor Cole lowed that she better
have it cve off. An Bro Simmons
ssrl he, that her hair was so lubly
to'u pstn't have it cut off if she
sne m W It; that he admired long
ne set up an talked to
mar NO" s1aht afore me, when
her that way sNg>uy with me a wear
he had kept compa ones eyer d;.d.
before ole Ebenezer JoyA.t m ,;.,,
an his hair is jist as shor e,,bit a.,
as mine, Mis- Carol ever
grain. ~
Pm suspicionin' about that ha
| don believe it's all hern, an 'withy
a vigorous nod of her head as il she
had been struck with a happy idea,
this ere nigger's agoin' to fin out"
Selling the rolling pin, she made a
violentattack on the mass of dough