The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1901-07-26
SEITZLER AND HIS COOK.

Editor SeltZler, VI the HattleSOurg
Progress, has been having a round
with his cook. .He lay in bed the
other morning after his Sunday of
pious reflection, until time to 60 into
breakfast before he learned that the
autocrat Of the kitchen was late. That
made the editor warm just under that
luxuriant growth OF whiskers, and he
vented his Indignation against the
cause of his woe in this wise:
This is Monday morning. and Of
course the colored cook did not show
up. She was out little late last
night trying to get religion and she
did not get up with the lark this
morning. But she will be around for
that balance directly.
The colored cook is the most inde.
pendent thing on earth unless it is the
razor back SOW. She comes when she
gets ready, cooks as much and as often
as she pleases and steals and totes
away in her tin bucket all she can
carry or all the bucket will hold. She
has seventeen other niggers at the
tips of her fingers to feed, and twenty
five children to wear clothes. She
never eats bite where size is employ
ed--that would appear like humbling
herself too much to the white folks
but loads her bucket to the guard rails
and goes out to do missionary work,
to feed the poor and starving-and
they are numerous. The boss may
growl and the nissus may whine, but
the stealing goes on ever lnore.
The colored cook never takes any
thing as gift. 1t is not her nature
, She does not know how. If ever,
night her bucket were filed by TIN
lady of the house and set on the tabl
this colored cook would not take i
there and then. She would wait un
: til the lady's back was turned wher
she would steal it. The white peopl
, are not only feeding some of tn
negroes some of the time, but the,
are feeding all of the negroes all til,
time.
: Then if you have company this col
| ored cook strikes, not for higher wages
, for wages are no object, but becaus
, she is not "gwine to cook for all thu
J pore white trash in the country.
Then she proceeds to fill her tin buckle,
full of grub, and after putting numer
Gus articles of wearing apparel belong
, ing to the white folks under her apror
she sails forth into the world and soor
finds herself in the midst of Il very
interesting cake walk,
The colored cook controls the bal
ance of power She works for So PEI
month, steals $50 worth of grub ant
old clothes, and cooks whenever sht
feels like it. 1t mus not be hintet
that she Is not doing her duty or sh'
will quit. If the hint is not given sh,
will quit anyway, just 20 show thd
she has that power. And she woul(
not sleep on the premises for ham. No
that would be humbling herself be
yond endurance. During all this sh
never loses her religion,
The colored cook is the greatest nu
isance with which the country has Il
, contend. She is the most worthless
high priced animal on earth. She will
steal her worth in grub in fifteen min
utes if the grub is on the place an
her fellow is standing on the outsid
Of the fence. Lying is one of he
trump cards and she plays nothin
but trumps, And yet some whit
women will hire her aud beg and pc
suade her to come and cook when it
, q we'll known fact that she will ste
everything she can get her hands
and not cook fit for a dog to eat.