The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-05


here and there on the temperance of deco
rative footwear. Il don't
The Cheerful know how other people
Tan Shoe. feel about it," remarked
a citizen who claims to
be glad every day because he was born
sentimentalist-"bu the revival of the tan
shoe has made this spring a more light
hearted festival to me than l have enjoyed
for several years. Without any enlightened
knowledge of color freely confess myself
the slave of color-my spirits go up and
with bright-hued objects coming and going
the flashing by of red and yellow-wheeled
wagons always lifts my mood into more
buoyant conditions. The more gay grocery
carts 1 see in days march the better L
feel at the end of the day
when the cheerful tan shoe went out,
it seemed to me that / had lost friend
With me, they never did go out, for my
wife can tell you that i have always
sneaked around in them at home, and have
reveled in the deed. Now that we can all
wear them boldly, we happy family.
Show me a prettier sight than these dozens
of little tan-legged girls, skipping about in
tan slippers; or a prouder object than a
small boy, beautiful in a brown suit and
new yellow shoes. Men and women in linen
clothes and tan shoes are among the most
refreshing sights the summer offers; and
nothing can be more diverting than the ex-
cruciatingly yellow shoes which some awk-
ward lads and lasses wore irrelevantly
with green clothes, say, or pink frOcks.
The tan shoe brightens the shopwindow.
enlivens the sidewalk. decorates the golf
or tennis ground and adorns the piazza.
No, haven't any relatives in the shoe or
leather business; L merely enjoy the tan
shoe, and sincerely hope it is here to stay.
Tan cloth CATERS were fashionable when
my. mother was young and l remember
w al xzyho NV
father would bring mother several pairs of
pretty French tan or cream -colored gait
erS.
"Jim's jest tn best man that ever lived
yes, he is; he's jest the best man that ever
lived. Lots O. men wouldn let their wives
take in washin'-no, they
The Best wouldn't; they'd make an awful
Man. fuss-that's what they would:
but Jim-he never makes no
fuss bout nothin' what do-no, he don't.
He jest lets me wash-Jim does-an' he
never says a word. Jim amt got no health
an he can't help that, pore feller; he lost
his job Jim did, seven years ago-an then
1 took in washin-an' then his health KEEP
on gittin bad-an' 1 bought him doctor
stuff an doctor-stuff-but it amt done his
health no good-that doctor-stuff amt.
Pore Jim-he amt ever got able t hunt
another job-an you can't blame him-no.
you can't, when he amt got no health.
AN Jim'S such quiet peaceable man
he don't go a-ramblin' off, like some other
men-ceptin' when he goes a-fshn', er a
huntin'. er blackberryin'. er somepin' like
smokes-an' in tn evenn's he leans over
tn gate. an smokes, an talks to people a
passin'. Jim jest stays roun' home an plays
with tn dog an tn parrot-t make me
lntrc xxyl1t CT afr afraf
Jim's awful full of fun-'f he amt got no
health.
''Ony fault Jims got-I jest know he's
tn best man that ever lived-is when mon
ey gifts skeerce, Jim threats L hang his
self Yes'm. he threats to hang hsself in
our woodshed-an it nearly drives me
I'd drive Jim to hang hisself. Our grocer
man acts up kind o mean, sometimes-an'
he come in one day, an he heard Jim threat
L hang hisself-an' he said: Go ahead an
hang yerself, Jim; I'll give y tn rope
wasn't that mean an low-down? An Jim
he's so good-he never said a word back
not word. Jim's tn best man a-livin'-
yes, he is.
About o'clock one cool evening recently
a suburban street car, at its terminal sta
ton, contained only one man who was
making the round trip.
A Fresh Air just to see the green
COmmOtiOn. fields along the route.
When the car stopped,
in came rather pitiful-looking ten-year-
old boy with a good, honest. obedient face,
however. After him climbed in a bright,
fat very gayly-dressed colored lady, with
two gayly decked little girls. All three had
on pink silk shirtwaists, much lace
trimmed. and large hats much be-fowered
and be-fruited. A whistle blew not far
| the car, saying:
..You people will have to sit close in here
now-theren be about forty factory men
in here directly" Numbers of men were
| then seen pouring out of factory gates
across field, and making for the street
car.
The gayIy-dressed colored Iady's nose
turned up, she began to fiutter her hands
and say things Goodness gracious" she
said: IF all dem workin' men liz a-comin'
O. desc winders open-I can't stan der
| close aih in dis cyah wild all dem workIn'
men in der greasy close-I can't stan it,"
Then the big black lady waved her hands
| at the obedient, depressed-looking little
white boy. who was ragged. and had big
| holes in the knees of his shabby stockings
Boy" she demanded-"you jes' hustle
roun', an open some o. desc yer cyah win
| ders-fo dem workin' gifts here-we
| all II be smuddered in heah wild all dem
| duhty workin' men. Use des boun' ter have
| some 1reSn ain IN OlSn yere cyan.
The obedient white boy jumped about
| briskly and let down four or five windows
| so the pink silk fowered black lady. and
| the pink silk howered little black girls rev.
| eled in fresh air when the factory men.
| with their baskets and pipes. crowded on
| the back platform, on the seats and in the
| aisle of the car.
| Even along the by-ways OF commerce. in
| the lanes and hedges of business life. as IL
| were. the all-pervading element OF the
unique will have its
! The Little Girls way
Grocery. Talk about odd
groceries," said man
who spends nearly all his time tramping
around the outskirts OF the town. Il know
where there is grocery kept by a little
girl-yes, sir-she is not out of her teens
| yet, and is not up To my shouldcr-a little
| bit of quiet. mouse-like looking brown
| eyed girl-little Sue.
Whenever 1 go out in her part of town
, / always drop in TO see how little Sue is