The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-02
THE TEnnY BEAR.


Give heed unto the little song sing &c
You noticed in your Tribune. that mos'
estimable journal
And guardian of the family, the Duioel
of my lay: ,,+.
How you should turn your little Thoughts
to medftations bridal -r,44
And on the future fix your minus "4eA
heart and purpose stout
For country and for race discaruins ny
For the Teddy bear will git yer IL yer
don't watch out
Now. each and every one of you remen-
The tragedy related of Elisha and his
hairs;
Since when there has been nothing more
distinctly prejudicial .,,.
/ To happiness OF little folk tnah ihis
Indeed, I've heard it said, though in a
manner deferential,
For Teddy, like Elisha, always KNOWS
Eternal ennlity to bears is gospel presi-
And the Teddy bear will git yer if yer
don't watch out.
strenuous,
Too precious to be thrown away on rude
And also that our hold on this same SOL
emn life is tenuous,
So little girls. are best employed in og-
How sweet to note little maid rejecting
quite judicially
On problems which the Elsie books neg
Not looking at race suicide and such things
specifically
While airing of a Teddy bear in little
coach of state.
Pray do not for, moment think I wish to
In pointing out the peril of Joy in lit
tie bears;
For what / have to say is on authority
that's clerical,
And has TO do with proper and discreet
maternal cares
So Peggy, aged T. run and put away. not
fretfully,
The sinful toy that comes to give a fright
That twenty years from now YOU NAV not
sadly and regretfully
Think of the way your little mind was
turned from natures laws.
And Dorothy, remember that the country
looks appealingly
10 little girls of serious thought their
plastic minds to mold.
Fer maps H. might 1l; have been induced to
Were /: a Teddy bear myself, not left
out in the cold.
trust that have made it plain that
present ways ruinous,
Ihough thoughtless little girls may pos
sibly rebel and pout;
SO save your wretched country from be-
coming wholly bruinous-
For the Teddy bear will git yer If yer
don't watch out.
Roswell Field in Chicago Tribune.
Little COlored Boys Famous Speech.
me stories about negroes which
Ray Stannard Baker tells in the An
gust American Magazine are interest
ing as well as Illuminating For ex-
ample:
II was at Macon while the first
state fatr ever held by negroes in
georgia was in progress. In spite of
the fact that racial relationships. ow-
ing to the recent riot at Atlanta. were
acute, the fair was largely attended,
and not only by negroes, but by many
white visitors. The brunt of the work
OF organization fell upon r. r.
Wright, president Of the Georgia State
Industrial college (colored) of Sa-
vannah. President Wright is of full
blooded African descent, his grand
who reared him, being an
African negro of the Mandingo tribe.
Just at the close OF the war he was a
boy in a freedman's school at Atlanta.
One Sunday General o. o. Howard
came to address the pupils When he
to take message back to the people
Of the north
What shall tell them for you p
he asked.
"a little black boy in front stood
up quickly, and said:
Tell 'em Massa, we is rising
Upon this incident John Green
leaf Whittier wrote a famous poem:
and at the negro fair, crowning the
charts which had been prepared to
show the progress of the negroes of
Georgia, I saw this motto:
WE ARE RISING
1.-THE little black boy grew UP. was
graduated at Atlanta university. stud
ed at Harvard. travelled in Europe. |
served in the Spanish american war.
and is now seeking to help his race
to get an industrial training in the
college which he organized in 1891"
r. S. VP.
Although Johnnie's and Willie's
mothers are warm friends, those bows
are always fighting each other.
After recent battle the victorious
1ohnnie was urged by his mother to go |
and make friends with his fallen foe.
She even offered to give him a party
Il he would go over and invite Willie
10 come to that festivity.
After much urging Johnnie prom
sed to do as his mother wished So
the party came off at the appointed
time and was violently enjoyed by all
present. But Willie did not come.
Now. Johnnie, you did invite him ?"
asked Johnnies mother.
Yes, I did! Yes. maam, 1 invited
nim!" answered Johnnie. "I invited
him." he added, ref1ectively, land I |
Jared him to come."-Harper's Week |