The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-26
Examinations
of Uncle Henry


,loteing in my brane this mornin tina
| will have to write an eXtry Ions
letter or not say all that | want to
There was two things | have beer
lirtendin TO write about for a. Iona
time. and | will speek OF them any
how, only | see other folks has got
Iahead OF me on them. One was q
womins club for the purpose of ad-
yancin the Interests OF the city.
Womin is crate on runnin things and
Ii like to see them have a chanel.
There is a good NANNY smart womln
| in this town which has got little
time 10 spare to advancin the publick
welfare and why not let them d.
so? Why make these womin spend
there time on fancy work or nOvils
when there is work ready to be done
in the larger fields of humen endever:
There amt church which could run
very long without wOmin to run 1t.
and | know of church where the
wOmin does all the BUSINESS Of runnin
the church and they are dOin we'll.
After the ladys has made the money
for a church, they had ought to have
the chanel to spend it. beleave in
being fare. II a man hollers about
womin doin things in the BUSINESS
world, that Is alters small man
which knows that If real smart
woman was to take hankerin to
his Job she could likely get 1t and do
it better than he has been doin. Pc
pie amt apt to boiler unless they have
reesen or think they have, and 1t
is alters a reel personnel reeson. No
body ever says, ouch, a man has
stepped on Mr.. Browns foot No,
he laffs and says, Brown had ought
to keep his feet clOster to home.
When he hollers reel loud and mad,
it is his own feet that has been
stepped on. Now, Teller sitizens, let
us HELM the ladies along all we can.
If they fale in any of there noble cf-
fcrts let it not be sayed that they
wasn't allowed a chanel. And, If they
are going to do more than ! had
planned for them to do, that is all
right, to- Only, have had notion
all a,ong that they could do things
to help this town and that is what !
am after.
The other matter was thinkin OF
is the subjcck of publick literary,
and if the ladys undertakes this they
had ought to be helped gratcly by
he men OF this town. 1t has been
awful hard for literary persen like
ME to get along without literary.
have been used to Twin where | could
get book on any subjeck under the
sun and that is why have filled my
mind with such interrestin store Of
facts and fancys. You wouldn't eve:
think to talk to me or read my writ
ms that | haint been to school much.
And the publick literary has bcei
the soursc of most of my cddicatiOr.
If We want smart peplr to come to
this town. and if we want them that
is here to larn little more and YOU
know, il wouldn't hurt some OF them
TO larn let We had ought to have Il
uhlirk literary. We could begin or
i small scale If necessary, hut we had
ar"ht to have a lihcrary and whcH
Wc have Get one, every man tliai
laint dcnr nothing to help the lady,
get enc had ought to feel smalle'
than new peltaters.
| viii now mention the gas ques
ton which has been causin some "a
STATION in the minds of nanny.
When we elected our city fathers W.
sayed by that ackt that we beleavel
they had good business sense. and 50
the question of how to get gas may
be left in there hands, but we
had ought to have gas. Back where
come from every home as is 4 |
home has gas, and had hard time
keepin Marthy from movin to Tampa
when she found out there want no
gas here. That was why we moved |
of the farm up home, was SO we
could have gas and other comforts of
life. Some peple is afrade havin gas
will hurt the eleckric light business.
This is foOlishness. Havin the house
lii with gas insted of elecktris lights is
old fashioned back where |
come from. Gas lights is very heatin
to the atmusfere and they use up the
air in the room worse than kere-
sene lamp, besides bein more trouble
to light, and therefor not SO useful
in case of burgerlers being in the
house 1t is harder to get peple to