The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-15
(New York Americana

81 can always tell" remarked Nil
randy with conviction, when a man
is dat henpecked at home dat he says:
our britcheS' when he talks about his
pants. He's de man dat when he gifts
out whar his wife can't hear him is
always a-lambastin' women, an layin'
ev'ything dat goes wrong, from de
weather up an down, at DER door.
Yassum. de man Whut crows de loud
est abroad. 81 gs de smallest on his
own rooSt pole.
"Now. dere's Brer Jenkins dat
dasn't call his soul mis- own when Sis
Jenkins is around. but, sakes alive,
YOU ought to jest hear him when he
gifts uD in de pulpit whar nobody can't
dispute him. De way he wades into
women is jest plumb scandalous. an
last night he shorely was on Il high
horse case he been readin in de pa
per dat kinder backed him up. Cose,
de men in de congregation is a-feared
To hold up his hands, no matter what
dey thinks. fer dey's mostly married,
an is got 10 go home Wild DER wives.
But dis piece in de paper say one
of dem college Derfessers in Chicago
is done bust loose again, an dat he
saw DAT women is lots mo- OnCiViliZed
an heatheniSh dan men is an dat eff
he had a-been raised by his pa in
stead of his ma. he would a-been lots
mo- of a perfect lady dan whut he is.
when Br'er Jenkins tell about dat
he fetcheS a sigh and says: How true
dat is an he change hit to a kinder
groan Den Br'er Jenkins go on TO
tell how de perfesser say dat de pas
ought to fotch up de chillen so as to
give EN- de benefit of de elervatin'
masculine infiooence. an at dat | sing
out:
Bless Cord, let de good day
camel"
Fer 1 specs dat's one view dat de
women is gwine to chip in mighty
lively With. Yassum. hit sutuniy
would be hand to have a husband
an father around de house dat would
walk de collie. an scrub de chillen's
faces, an give EN- bread an molasses
evy time dey cried fer hit. an nuss
en- when dey was sick. an put EN- To
bed. an al de time you could set back
easy in 70 cheer a-knowin dat dey
was a imbibin' de nice gentle refined
ways of men stead of gittin to be
rough and rude lax women.
"Yassum. dat shorely would be a
millennium dat de Good Book tells
about whar de schilIen cease from
troublin' an de mothers are at rest,
an dey can't hurry hit up too much
fer me. Hit always looked to me dat
dere warn't enough partnership in de
chillen, noway. / don't see why ma
should be ten times as much a ma as
a pa is a pa. But OATS de way hit
wuks. Ike he never claims out chill
len, but two minutes a week. De bal
ance of de time dey's mine. When
little Teddy Roosterfelt is dirty, an
bad. an has broke de neighbor's win
Edow, he says: ~
woman, look dwhut ye' chile has
done and did but when dat angel
chile fetches home de prize from de
Sunday school, Ike he stands on de
street corner an swells out his chest
an brags about his SON.
''HoWsomever. dat amt neither here
/ nor ,dere. , Whut .stIsesSants 10 know. is
| how dat college beffesser found out
an dat fathers have mo refinin' in
| flOoence on chillen dan mothers has?
"COse, Use jest a po' ignorant ole
woman, an | amt gwine sEute wild Il
| learned professor in college. but all
de men whut | ever knoWed thought
| dat you raised q baby lax you did q
setter pun, an dat de best thing TO
| do when one got 10 erwin was to git
! so far away. an so interested in a
crap game dat you couldn't hear it
! CaterWauin
| Den hit seems lax to me dat
| kinder took notice dat hit is men, an
not onciVilized women, dat takes de-
! light in seem things git hurt. | dis
| remember ever seeill' women set two
dogs 10 chew each other up, an eff
any of de mothers clubs ever backed
prize fight, or any sister in good an
| regular Standin' in de chu'ch ever paid
| $25 for seat to see men batter each
| other to pieces, | never heard of nit.
| "Yit, when de perlice raided de barn
| Whar dey was havin' whut dev called
a glove contest, de mex maWnin' me
! IAN Sis Tempy an Sis Hannah, an all
de other deacons' wives had to hustle
around an pay our husbands out of
de calaboOSe
An as fer War-my land, but dey
| wouldn't be no mo- war eff deere was
! only women in de world. Cose dey'd
git mad, an sass each other over de
| back fence an maybe dere might be
little hair pullin', but de first time
any lady scratched so de blood come all
! de balance OF de women would throw
down DER weapons. an run an try
to bring her TO wild smellin' salts, an
den dey'd all set down together an
! have a good cry, an say that. deY
reckon dey didn't mean all dey said,
an den dey'd kiss an go home, an
| borrow somethin' fer supper jest to
| show dat dev was neighborly once mo-.
Maybe dat perfesser is right, an
| dat men is mo- civilized dan women.