The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-09
We chilblains In Deem

Il expect to have chilblains In Decem-
I Der. an shakes of de ager in April.
II expect dat sartin per cent of dis
worlds populashun will lie to me. steal
and hit ME wild brickbat as l go home
/ from de lodge.
''On de odder hand when come to
! strike de average. ] kin put my hand on
men who will lend me money. go my
| bond, speak we'll of me, an sot up all
| night to protect me.
NO man am perfect. He may strike
| You at first sight as VERY good or VERY
bad. but doan' decide until You average
him. He may beat a street kyar COM
pany an yit be honest wild n butcher.
He may crawl under de canvas to see a
circus, an yit pay his pew rent in adj
vance. He may lie to YOU as TO how he
voted. an yit tell de truf about spav
ined boss. He may cuSS dc street.
and yit he n tender father at home. He
may Encourage a dog fight. an yit walk
4 mile TO restore a los chile to its par
entS.
Accept no man fur his fine talk-re
ject no man for his old clothes: stand
him out in de sunlight an average him.
You will be certain to find sunthin bad
about him. but you will he sartin to find
sunthin' good.
When a man axes me who Ibis mex
doah. l answer him Brown. or Jones or
White. or whatever de name may be.
but when he goes beyond dat an axes
what salary de man airns-how often his
wife changes bonnets an how dey make
seben dollars a week go furder dan
kin fo'teen. 7 become a clam. ! has no
business to know, an when | do know I
won't tell. 7 used to have some curiosity
In dis direcshum. hut ! has got ober II
of late vars. Wben ! know dat a sar-
tin man. receivih a salary of ST. per
week. kin give parties. hire carriages an
slum. Dat is. it used to. I used to won-
der why l couldn't do de same thing on
dc same money but I nebber could.
When de ole woman used to tell me dat
new close an new shoes once month
de var round. an We having to lib
clus on dc same money. 1t made me mad.
Dat is. it used to. When I saw men who
like lords. while l had to work seben
days a week an pay my debts, ] felt
MSe smashin' frew de sidewalk. But 1
has got ober all dis.
When l meet woman who kin dress
like a bankers wife on de SO or III per
week paid her husband. ] doan' low my
self to chen fink about it. When I see
a man buyin' twenty-cent cigars, sport
in a cane an talking champagne. while
his chillen at home am barfut. / try to
believe dat II am all right. When a lady
wild $500 WORT of cloze axes me to do
Job Of white washin' In parlor whar
an de bes' char am under chattel mort
gage I doan' stop to wonder who she
thinks she am foolin.' Nayburs OBJ mine
who owe all de butchers wIdin a circle
of a mile kin pay TO- dollahs cash fur a
libery rig on Sunday, but I shan't criti-
else Wives may go shopping cherry day
in de week an gin parties cherry night.
an my ole woman will keep de cabin
list de same. Since We quit wondern'
an speculatin' ober desc things We feel
much better. We know fur fact jist
how fur We kin make money 60. II
odder folks kin lib like lords on a salary
of $40 a var it's a streak of good luck
an none of our bizness. Ny advice Is to
aim to let SIGH fings pass. Dey are mys-
teries wild which we have no bizness. an
de mo- you ponder ober dem de less YOU
will injoy what YOU have honestly ARMED
by hard work and saved by good econ
omy."
viii desc few infiexshuns on de incon-
tesstancy of earthly greatness. We VIII
now disband ourselves to bizness."