Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-09
THE EVENING STORY.
Making Allowances.
Copyright. 1918. by W. werner.)
Dry days am de men folks daytime.
We days am dc chillun's playtime.
Come down. raint Keen on a-fallin',


Come down. rain, Keep on a-falln'.
fat feet in accompaniment to her song
in such good will that dust flew from the
floor and the slim. goden-haired child
OF ten, sitting ct the end OF the porch,
laughed until the tears ran down her
two white cheeks.
A fat, black face surmounted by a red
head rag stuck itself outside the
kitchen door "Wet days is chilluns
wuck days, too" it's wide mouth grinned
"Teck desc roastin' years out da. niggah.
and shuck 'em fun dinnuh. foah l mash
yoah hade"
The impudent twirl OF Mandy's thumb
to her fiat nose, behind her mothers
broad back, brought a fresh burst of
laughter from little Aleen "Oh, you
Mandy she cried, you dear, funny
Mandyr'
With a swift rush Mandy cast herself
on the floor and lifted the white shod
feet and set them on her woolly head
Il likes to hear YOU laugh, sweetness,
she declared. I'D die jest to keep you
a-smiln'i
The white chld's mobile face changed,
her lips trembled. II love you, Mandy"
she whispered: Il don't want you ever to
leave me"'
Mandy raised herself. "Da hain't
nothin' kin meek me do dat" she de-
clared, solemnly-"no chilluns, ner wom-
ems. ner mems ner fire. ner water. ner
yearth, ner air. is gwine stay wild you
and wait on YOU onte de jedgent day,
and den ahftuh. eff day let's us stay in
the same part of heaben"
There was a derisve laugh from the
steps and boy of fourteen with a rogu-
ish dmple in his left cheek, pounced
upon the occupant of the chair.
Aliens a white girl but she loves a
pickaninny-an ugly, black pickaninny"
he jeered.
Il think you better go back north.
where YOU belong, Lew Hayden the
child flashed "Mandy's blood is just as
red as yours, if her skin Is a different
color. and nothin you could do or say
would keep us from lovin' each other or
make us mad al each other so there"
The boy ran into the house. where his
mother, who was visiting her southern
friend. sat with her hostess.
Wait and SECT ne called back. Wait
and see"
When Mandy was twenty and cooks
assistant in the Roe household, Daniel
Cumby black and slim. gentle of tongue
and of hand, veritable genius with the
stables. Mandy became the object OF
Daniels alteration and she threw her
whole soul into loving him in return
When the daughter OF the house was
married on her twenty-frst birthday. TO
Llewellyn Hayden, Mandy married Daniel.
.'Hup. hain't hit somepin' to be proud
o.. fun me and you to be goin nawth
wild my darlin' Miss Allie as huh cook
and heritage driver," Mandy murmured
i'm Daniels ear that evening as the train
whrled them northward.
IFS goin cause / has to to git to be
wild YOU" Daniel answered her; :" faint
cause / wants to. De white uns in de
nawth doan' know me, and rs afeerd
all frrr
like dey does down heah. Somepin' bad's
gwine happen US. Mandy. Me and you
ought to a stayed wha' folks makes al
lowances fun niggah ways"
Mandy's lip quivered. You wouldn't
want to separate me fun Miss Allie,
would you. Danl? We hain't nuvvah
live FUN onder he same roof, and loved
huh afoah 1 ever heerd tell O. you"
Hits mighty hard dat my wife loves
white woman over me-" Daniel muir
INJURED, wistfully.
faint so. faint so!'' Mandy sobbed
Il loves you better'n anybody in de