Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1920-07-03
THE PASSING THRONG

If there be any difference between the av.
erage intelligence of an audience made up of
colored women in the Northwest and one
made up of white women, then the late con-
ventiOn Of the Federation of Colored Wo-
men s Clubs of Washington and jurisdiction
gave evidence of such fact. | sat
through one OF It's sessions and | heard col
Ored women speak, sing and perform on
musical instruments and from an educational
as well as artistical stand point. if only the
sounds from that hall could have reached the
most critical critic, it would have been i'm
possible for said critic to have told from
such sounds whether said audience was made
up of white or colOred persons. The annual
address of Mrs. Maps was dramatically.
rhetorically and classically magnificent and
| seriously doubt if it could be discounted
by any white woman in this state, even
though she be connected with some of the
higher schools Of learning AS a piano per-
former | doubt if the renditions of Mrs n.
j. Asberry could be surpassed by any white
performer in the Northwest and as in these
two instances so also with every one that |
heard in that session. | am trying to get on.
OF all this the fact that the coored women
OF this country will favorably compare with
their white sisters their color handicap to
the contrary Notwithstanding. Women could
have been selected from that convention who
would creditably represent the women of the
State of Washington irrespective of color or
creed in any national or even international
gathering assembled for the bctterment of
WOmanhOOd
''Not Guilty!' said B. F.. Tut last Satur-
day morning, when the editor hereof charged
INN with Bookkeeping and offered as evidence
a long-legged Missouri-loolzing mountaineer.
who was at that moment staggering by Tut s
shop door so drunk that he thought he was
in Heaven and had gotten in by mistake and
was wandering about the room hoping to find
some place of egress through which he could
make his getaway. Drunken men are so sell
dom seen on the streets that every barber in
TUFTS shop had deserted his customer and
stood watching the preambuIations of old
John Barleycorn, and observing the interest
they were taking in him it occurred to me
that could charge the proprietor wit, the
otfense even though one OF his men may
have been the guilty one lis the prorrieto, is
always responsible for the actS Of his en-
,,loyees: and one of the employees must have
been guilty, | reasoned thusly, because there
the prima facie evidence refore my eyes.
None Ct the above is true save the drunken
man. but | thought it was good joke at
Tut s expense.
Talk about telling a Joke at TUFTS cx-
pcnse reminds me of one that | got off on
Tut some time ago. | happened to be going
by his shop and observed that he was sitting
in the barber chair of George r. HAYES, wh>
was engaged in cutting his hair. Tut did
not see me enter the shop, but | walked up
to George and in loud AM offensive tone
Of voice said 'Since when, George did you
begin to cut niggers hair in this shop?' It
was like clap of thunder FROM Il clear sky
and Tut almost jumped out of the chair.
He looked up at me in a bewildered state of
mind and then let loose sicEly smile to
feel me out, and not being able to longer