Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-11-06


furniture was a little shabby, bat the
hostile chairs and sofa Of the ''rarlor''
always looked new. For all the wear
and tear they got they should have
lasted a thousand years.
Upstairs were the bedrooms emoth-
er and fathers room" the largest; a
smaller room for one or two sons,
another for one or two daughters
each of these rooms continuing
double bed, a ''washstand," a bureau"
wardrobe, a little table, q rocking
chair, and often chair or two that
had been slightly damaged down
stairs, but not enough to justify either
the expense Of repair or decisive
abandonment in the attic. And there
was always a "spare ROOM" for visi-
tors (where the sewing machine usu-
ally was kept, and during the seven
ties there developed an appreciation
Of the necessity for a bathroom.
At the rear Of the house, upstairs,
was a bleak little chamber, called "the
girls room," and In the stable there
was another bedroom. adjoining the
hayloft, and called "the hirea mans
room" House and stable cost seven
or eight thousand dollars to build, and
people with that much money to- invest
in such comforts were classifie5a as the
Rich. They paid the inhabitant Of
''the girls room" two dollars ii week,
and, in the latter part of this period,
two dollars and a half, and finally
three dollars week. She was Irish
ordinarily, or German, or 1t might be
Scandinavian, but never native; to the
land unless she happened to ke per-
son of color. The man or y0ath who
lived in the stable had like wages, and
sometimes, too, was lately a steerage
voyager, but much oftener he was col
Ored.
After sunrise on pleasant mornings
the alleys behind the stables were gay;
laughter and shouting went up and
down their dusty lengths, with D lively
accompaniment Of currycombs knock
ing against back fences anal stable
walls, for the darEies loved TO curry
their horses in the alleys. ;Darkies
always prefer to gossip in shouts in
stead of whispers, and they feel that
profanity, unless it be vocifHrous, Is
almost worthless. Horrible phrases
we're caught by early rising ehildren
and carried to older people fur dehni-
ton, sometimes at inopportune mo-
ments; while less investigatlve chill
dren would often merely repeat the
phrases in some subsequent tIalrry Of
agitation, and yet bring aboat conse-
quences so emphatic as to be- recailed
with ease In middle life. III
They have passed, those darby hired
men of the Midland ; tow2. The
stables have been transforT5ed into
other lilzenesses, or swept away, like
the woodsheds where were kept the
stovewood and kindling that the "girl"
and the SHRED man" always quarreIed
over: who should fetch it. II.
So with other vanishings! There
were the little bunty street cars On the
long, single track that went it's
trc ybled way among the cobEIestones.
At the rear door of the car there was
no platform, but a step where passen-
gers chung in wet clumps when the
weather was bad and the car Crowded
The patrons-if not too absegs-minded
put their fares into a slotS and no
conductor paced the heaving floor, but
the driver would rap remindiI ely with
his elbow upon the glass Of sthe door
to his little open platform if line nick
els and the passengers did not appear
to coincide in number. A lime mule
drew the car, and sometimes drew it
off the track, when the passengers
would get out and push it 81 again.
They really owed it courte,Sies like
this, for the car was genial'g accom-
modating: a lady could whistle to it
from an upstairs window, ana the car
would halt at once and wan for her
while she shut the window, Eut on her
hat and cloak, went downstairs, found
an umbrella. told the 'girl" what to
have for dinner, and came forth from
the house.
They even had time ta dance
square Dances" quadrilles and Tan
cers:" they also danced the 'rac-
Quette" and schottisches and polkas.