The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-10-09

right nice white woman, Uncle Jo<
always said. except that she really
did NOT like colored folks no,
even after she come out West tc
California. She couldn't never &c,
over certain little Southern ways
she had. and long as she knowed
my Uncle Joe. who hauled her
ashes for her, she never would call
him Mister--nor any other colored
man Mister neither for that matter,
not even the minister of the Bap-
list church who was q graduate OF
San Jose State college. Miss Lucy
Cannon just wouldn't call colored
folks Mister nor Mixsus. no matter
who they was, neither in Alabama
nor in California.
She was always ailing around.
too, sick with hrst one thing and
then another. And ever so often
abe would have a fainting spell,
like all good Southern white ladies
And look like the older she got
the more she would be sick and
couldn't hardly get around-that Is.
until she went to a practitioner
and got cured.
And that Is one OF the funniest
stories Uncle Joe ever told me,
how old Miss Cannon got cured Of
her heart and hip in just one cure
at the practitioners.
IN A BAD SHAPE
Seems like for three years or
more she could scarcely walk
even with a cane-had q terrible
bad pain in her right leg from
her knee up. And on her left side
her heart was always Just about
20 give out. She was in a bad shape
that old Southern lady. 10 be so
spry IS she was. always giving
teas and dinners and working her
eolored help to death.
Well. Uncle Joe says, one New
Years day in Pasadena q friend
OF hers. a Northern lady who was
kinder old and retired also. and
had come out 10 California 10 spend
her last days too, and get rid OF
some parts OF her big bank full
OF money-this old lady told Miss
Cannon. Darling. you just seem
20 suffer so all the time. and you
say you've tried all the doctors.
and all kinds OF baths ard ned.
cnes? Why don. you try my way
OF overcoming Error: Why don't
you try FAITH"
Faith. honey" says old Miss
Lucy Cannon. slipping her jasmine
tea.
Yes. my dear" says the Northern
white lady. Faith! have one
OF the. best practitioners in the
world"
"who II he," asked Miss Lucy
Cannon.
shes woman dear. said old
Miss Northern White Lady. "And
she heals by power. She lives in
Hollywood"
Give me her address" said Miss
Lucy. land I'll 60 10 see her How
much do her treatments cost"
Miss Lucy warn't so rich as some
folks thought she was.
only ten dollars dearest" said
The other lady. Ten dollar,
treatment Go. and you'll come
away cured"
Il have never believed in such
things" said Miss Lucy, nor dis
believed. either. Blu. will 20 and
see" And before she could learn
any more about the practitioner.
some other friends came in and
Interrupted the conversation.
SAW PRACTITIONER
A few days later. however. Miss
Lucy took herself all the way from
Pasadena TO Hollywood. put up for
the week end with a friend OF
hers. and thought she would 60 10
see the prac,itioncr-which she did
come Monday morning early.
Using her customary cane and
hoobling on her left leg. feeling
q bit bad around the heart and
suffering terribly in her mind. she
managed 10 walk slowly but with
dignity through the sunshine . half
dozen blocks 10 the rather humble
street IN which was located the
Office and home Of the practitioner
In spite o' the brigh, morning air
and the good breakfast she had
Rad, Mss Lucy according 10 her.
felb felt pretty bad. racked with
pains and cripped TO the use O,
o cane.
When she got 70 the house she
was seeking. large frame dwell.
Ing. newly painted. she saw sign
thereon MISS PAULINE JONES'"
so that's her name" though,
Miss Lucy. Pauline Jones. Miss
Jones"
RING and ENTER said a little
card above the bell. So Mss Lucy
entered. But the first thing that
set her back a bit was that nobody
received her. so she just sat down
90 await Miss Jones. the practitioner
who had. she had heard. an enor-
nous following in Hollywood. In
fact, that's why she had come
carly so she wouldn't have to wait
long Now Il was only nine o'clock