Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-15

who nursed the old south. And
she was standing by q tree-a
big tree. with wide branching arms
and a mighty trunk. girdled by what
looked to be sash of varnish-when
another woman came along. She must
have trusted the newcomers looks.
for she stopped her with the confabby
friendliness characteristic OF her time
and class:
I'm steddyin' these here cattah-
pills, lady. Here they 10. all sqummed
up t'gether unner this here glue. but
amt nair one Of em tempin' to crawl
on to 1t. becawse why? They know
they gwine git stuck up an kilt. You
don't see nair stuck-up wum to go
by. but them cattahpills knows 'thout
:. no patron that IL they tempter put
foot on dat patch er glue. the glue
gwine git 'em. So. they stops Their
jimmy right this side. Huccom they
10 act lik-er that onless they got
sense. Cose they got sense. amt they.
lady"
ordinary remarks when there is metal
more attractive!
"Yessum. That's zactiy what l says.
too. An oughter know. b'cawse l
cum fun down yander in the coun-
try. whar We has all sorts of evythin'
t-chill an fevah wums, an anglers an
tapes an medjurin' wums Law.
honey. when l was a chile you couldn't
tickle me MORN to have oner them
little green medjurin' wums medger
me for a new frock. Yessum. these
Cattahpills got as much sense as p'tater
bugs. an you can't say moren that
why. you can't pick out nuthin sensi-
bier n p'tater bugs. Them bugs takes
care Of dessevs like they was pleece-
mems They kin dodge. an skeat. an
Jump an hide, with evy hand on de
fahm chasin after em. An even when
you kill 'em. they don't pear to know
they's daid. de way dey keeps on
chawin' Ever steddy ovah them
teency- tinecy gnats-them green ones
you sees on rose leabes? Them gnats
is so small you can't hardly see 'em
even wiz young eyes. but if they
Gwine one way an you was to set yo'
dngah in front of em. they would
switch aroun' an skeedaddle tother
way. Don't that show dem gnats got
sense? Suttinly dey got sense! Evah
cit on a daid log in de woods an
steddy them black ants that runs
outer de rotten bark? Why. honey,
you'd be 'stonished to see de way
them ants act-though o'cose they's
Arl~ t0y loh1o olnnOoiAo tnNo1av
bugs. Evan watch pair of tumley
bugs rollin' up a hill?'
There was a wealth Of detail that
ended at last with two car nickels
and cone dime, but this is enough
to prove to you, Horatio, my boy, that
all naturalists do not roam the fields
Of literature. One OF them lives down
s'yander" in the country. and what she
knows about "wums, snake walters,
wood ants and tumley bugs" would
give pointers even to that eminent
authority who writes books and books
to prove that only man has sense.
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This town is populous with tender
~ young mothers who are rearing
babies with a knowledge that would
be miraculous except that it is In
stinct-which, for all We know. may
be the same thing-but there are al
ways others. And it is the exception
that makes copy:
A young woman was lettering along
IN the shopping section. She had In
tow a tiny boy. who limped a bit,
and the boy carried a paper bag. As
they reached crossing the child
Stumbled, the bag fell ana the candy
scattered over the asphalt The boy
began to cry and the mother gave
him . fretfuI jerk and ordered him
to come on.
The boy didn't want to come on.
He wanted to pick up his candy. The
woman gave him another jerk and
prophesied what she would do to
him IL he didn't stop crying. But the
child risked 1t.
II want my candy. mamma. l want
ny"
shut up this minute, or Til spank
you the minute I get you home!''
She looked like a woman Of her
word and the child started to vhim-
per along as near in step as he could
keep, when another woman, gray and
tat, but with a chin that could lead
Arvn}Aa he pDAA int hn sik~atg~n.