The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-17
HERE'S IDEAL MANS CHANCE
WOMAN WEARY OF MOTH-EAT-
EN-, BARGAIN-COUNTER SORT.
Wife Says One Look at Husband
With Three-Day Whiskers Is
Enough For Amy Woman.

counter remnants masquerading
around I feel like the old farmer
who went to the circus, and while
waiting for the performance mean
dered around the animal quarters
and gazed admiringly at the lions,
zebras and snakes, until he finally
reached the camel's cage.
He sized up the two bumps, the
padded feet, the long neck, the whis-
kers and legs, and after rubbing his
eyes to convince himself there was
nothing wrong with his vision he
shifted his guild and calculated:
HI, there amt no such animal. ;"
Mrs. Sarah Hunter Christopher of
266O Kingsbridge terrace, the petite
woman who sold her fine residence
IN an exclusive neighborhood to ne
groes, because her neighbors objected
to the Growing of her rooster, had
Just finished escorting a delegation
of the colored brethren about the
premises when she expressed her
views concerning the kind Of a man
she liked. Her husband, William
P. Christopher, has departed for UNI
known regions after an alleged ro-
nance with another woman.
Interested in the Coop.
The first thing these new negro
tenants wanted to see was my chick
en- coop" Mrs. Christopher contin-
ued, her blue eyes twinkling merriIy.
About the middle of August there
is to be negro convention in the
city. l understand 1850 Kingsbridge
terrace will be filled with visiting
delegates, and that they're planning
to hold 'possum dinner and a wa
termelon festival on the lawn up
here. A big time in the old town
that night.
so you want to know about my
philosophy of life? Am l going to
get married again? What do I think
of the world in general and Kings
bridge in particular? Stop right
| there. Well speak about the men
first.
We hear much these days of the
disillusiOning effects of rats, switch
es, straight fronts and pads, and
poor woman gets all that's coming
/ to her in the way of abuse if she
dares to enhance her beauty with
artificial aid, while every man con-
siders himself an Apollo. His wife
may think so, too-at first. But
after her first glimpse of honey bug
in his B. V. DIS, with a three-day
whisker sprouting like the last rose
OF summer over his unwashed Wis
age-not to mention the odor of
stale tobacco and staler booze-she
shoves John Henry off his little pc
destal, looks at his feet of clay to
/ be sure she has made no mistake.
promptly reconstructs her ideal
which is the figure on his pay check
buys herself a new hat. and tells
all her friends what a fine husband
/ is hers.
She Wants Infinite Trust.
"You know, in love it's just about
! the same as in law, only those who
are convicted get punished. The
ideal married state to me is COM
radeship and infinite trust. I
wouldn't want a dog around that I
couldn't trust.
Il believe in the philosophy of
! laughs The world treats you as
we'll as you treat it. You know a
mummy is great thing, but it
doesn't get much fun out of life. l
| believe in being a student all the
time, always letting the mind feed
and grow on experience AS Dooley
said to Hennessey: 'Hennessey,' says
he, the Beers is a plain, peaceable
people-mindin' their own business
and raisin the divil with everybody
Il suppose it's the same with ev-
| cry married man as soon as the yoke
/ gals a bit Think of what | could
have married, he tells his wife. He
also points out other women as mod
els. Distance lends such an en-
chantment. Then, when he thinks
he can't stand it any longer he
shouts those words that have been
attributed to Patrick Henry: Give
me liberty or give me death!'
Don't you believe Henry said
that. 1t emanated from the world2
weary brain of poor old Brigham
Young. One of his wives recorded
/ it in her diary"