The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-06-30
THE GRAPH
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Official Paper Of the CITY and County
The Huronite has switched off from

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to advantage. A hundred good
domestics could find good homes,
and good wages in Huron alone.
Land a hundred colored domestics
from the south in Huron and they
would last about thirty ~days-though
1T is doubtful about even that long.
The Huron housewives would never
put up with their ways and the color
ed girls would never stand for the
Huron way. 1t takes a southern
woman to understand the negro, male
OF female, something that nc northern
woman could acquire in a generation.
And dispite all that may be said of
the race prejudice in the south the
southern woman to the manner born
has four times the feeling and consid-
eration for her colored domestics than
has the northern woman for the best
white domestic ever in her house.
The subject reminds the GRAPHIC
of an amusing instance that happened
in connection with the Huronite edi-
tors effort to put his theories into
practice, with reference to grating
the southern colored girls onto the
Huron households. The incident &C.
Icured about fifteen years ago at the
time a Pullman load of representa-
tlyes of the South Dakota Press asso-
citation made a fortnight's tour of
Florida on a special train. AT ST..
Augustine John met a likely looking
molatto girl on the street and engag-
ed her IN conversation. The result of
it was: the girl agreed to return with
US to the north and become a domestic
In the household of the Huronite
man. John was in high glee: he could
scarcely be induced to talk about any
thing else except the faithfulness and
all around virtues of the colored race
when serving kind masters and mis-
tresses. The fluctuations that John
enjoyed and comforted himself with
in anticipating the joys of sitting
down to his breakfast and having his
sawdust and cream brought in by a
colored maid fresh from the air of the
aristocratic south was something beau
tiful. And when John pictured her in
after years as a dear Old nanny in
bandanas cuddling to her ample breast
his three little boys and looking after
them as only n of her kind a do,
there wasn't a dry eye in the smoking
compartment of the Pullman.
But the porters on the Pullmans
least a sly wink at one another and
looked wise. "If dat man gifts dat
culled gal past Chicago he'll be a good
one,' said one of them, "I's seed 'em
befo, l has" But John knew better;
the girl "a going right through to
Huron-because she said she would.
When our train pulled into Chicago
John gave the porter OF our car a
couple of dollars and told him to take
the girl home with him (he was a
family man) and take care Of her
until the following day, when he was
to bring her to the Northwestern
train and deliver her to her new
master and mistress. The porter said
he would do it-but alas and alack
and a day-that was the last of Johns
two dollars, the porter or the girl-he
never saw either or any of them
again. The girl got a free ride to
Chicago and John left for Huron a
sadder but wiser man. The funniest
part of it was, John thought that the
GRAPH1c man had kidnapped the girl
and taken her to Kimball, and it re-
CURED some strong attidavits to show
him his error and restore the former
pleasant relations. fS
According to the P%oseyville (lnd)
News, a dog chased the office cat and
to escape the cat jumped on the bed
Of the press while it was running. 1t