The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-05
Dolly Hears Mrs. Caudle, Jr., Deliver
Some Very Pointed Curtain Lectures
(LENDING MONEY!
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.
RIVE never seen such a man as you
are, Mr.. Caudle; here it is time to

| HH97'VE never seen such man as you
are, Mr.. Caudle; here it is time to
X buy winter clothes for Susie and
Mary and Jenny and Jane, John and
Henry, Tom and Name; we haven't a
piece of coal in the cellar, and soon 1t
will be time to start the furnace; you
Haven't a suit of clothes to your cack;
the only one left from last winter was
that hideous brown thing that made you
| look like lozenga, so l sold it to the ice
man for $3.50 (and he has never PAID a
penny on it but the half. I'm stark
naked for winter clothes, and yet You
walk in casually and tell me that you've
gone on note for that good-for-nothing'
dishonest, outrageous, old reprobate-John
Jiggins!
Wont you ever learn any sense, Mr..
Caudle? Can't you live long enough 10
gather a few sane ideas, as the years go
by? Don't you know you'll never see
cent of that 500 you've lent that old bum
as long as you live? Don't care II you
don't? L wish you wouldn't say things
like that to me, Mr.. Caudle; it doesn't
make me like you any better; in fact, /
-
head! Have you no feeling for your wife
and children? Have you no consideration
for your own flesh and blood? Don't you
care whether we are comfortable, ana
happy? No; certainly not; you'd rather
put UP 500 for some old no account stray
gler Just because he's in hard luck, than
to make your wife and children easy.
Who'd lend you 500, I'd like to know,
if you needed it? Not John Jigglns, M
sure, because he never saw hundred
dollars in cash until you lent it to him.
Your banker? Indeed not; your credit
there has been stretched to the bursting
point now; yes, l repeat, who'd lend you
500?
There's the water rent due; but how's
a person to pay water rent when the head
of the house throws money away IKE plru
seed? Perhaps you don't know that Tom
broke one of the windows in the library
yesterday; who's going" to pay for that
Also-did you happen to know that the
doctor told me last week that baby john
had to have his adenoids taken out!
Then, there's taxes soon to be pald
and how's it to be done when $l0o goes
out to old John Jiggins who has never
been known to return an umbrella mucn
less a dollar! I heard you say the other
day that one of your biggest life insur-
here, Mr. Caudle, that's one thing you've
got to pay; excuse me from being lett
poor widow with eight children on my
hands; who'd marry me-pray? You
wouldn't, I'm sure, if it was up to YOU
Then, there's the fire insurance; the pol
lev came in the other day-that three
year policy where you get one year free
If YOU pay for two-now, hows that to be
done? I suppose you don't care II the
house catches on fire and burns up your
wife and children and the cats and the
dogs and the parrot alive in their beds
And after we've been insured, too, for
SO many years?"
1.-TWO of the children have to go to the
dentist tomorrow, and l must, too, and
YOU know what dentists bills are. What
ever do you mean, Mr.. Caudle, coming
home telling me that you'd done a kind
noble, generous act by lending that old
whisky sot 500? Don't you talk to me;
what could he put up as security? His
old red nose or his big bay window
that's all! I'm a crushed and broken
hearted woman, and all have to say is
that 1 have precious little respect for
any man who would rather have the
windows in his house broken, his life in
surance dropped, his boys teeth decayed,
going forward at the fastest pace con-
sistent with safety. The overwhelming
majority of native men now and for a
half century leaders and liberal states
men were trained by the missionaries.
= The New Asia is, under God, the Gre
alton of Christ filled men and women