Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1949-12-31
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F R is H
S T r Z Z T
By PERCY GREENE

Parish STPEET SATURDAY
NIGHT: | was sitting in amongst
crowd of Far1sh Streeters and
with Christmas already here
thoughts were turning to New
Years Day and all at once one
fellow ups and says, well, | reckon
by this time next Saturday Night
/ I'll be done gone to the Watch
Meeting, and on my way back,
just before / step into the front
door I'll cast my eyes up TO Heaven
and make my New Years Resolu-
ton, and then the next day I'll
latch onto me some black eyed peas
to get my luck Strengthened out for
the next year. By this time a fell
low who looked like a friend of
the speaker says, Well, Bub, when
you make your News Years Reso-
luton, it would be a whole lot bet
ter to tell the Lord when you cast
your eyes up to the skies when
you return from the Watch Meet
ing Well, Lord, | amt gonna do
nothing just like | done it last
year, cause the Lord done learned
along time ago that most of them
Watch Meeting Resolution follows
through from Christmas doings,
especially them that starts off
with, if | live and nothing happens,
and the Lord is willing Use sho
gonna have me some money when
Christmas comes next year, and
what's more I'm gonna start right
now and that means next pay day.
Keep on talking the fellow who
looked like a friend said, What's
more, the Lord amt gonna believe
nothing you say in your resolution
that you gonna do because he's
been hearing you make resolution
and the Lord can't believe you be-
cause you don't believe it yourself.
But, now come to the black eyed
peas and pork back, he says, the
Lord knows you believe in luck,
but trouble the Lord he don't be-
lieve in luck. He deals orly in hard
work and sense. And, the reason
you'se in the shape your in every
Christmas is because every new
year you throws up a resolution,
eats you a mess of blacl; eyed peas
and pork back, and then waits all
the year for you some luck. Bub,
just you watch it. Eat all the black
eyed peas that your belly can stand,
and keep on wishing for luck, but
when Christmas comes the next
year the folks with the money will
be them that forgot about luck but
got them some money in their
hands and kept it by using sense
and hardwork.
OVER IN MERIDIAN = That
Old Bird that carries in his Bill
that little Old Heart Warming and
family cementing bundle is sche-
duled this week to leave one of
his little old bundles at the home
of Rev. and Mrs. j r. Crump. She
is better known as JENNIE RUTH
SCOTT, efficient and energetic
principal of Wechsler High School.
Here's for many happy returns of
the day.
1T AMT WHERE YOU FROM
ITS WHERE YOU'RE GOING -
Look at that article on the front
page about archaeology, anthropo-
logy PROVING WE AMT
GOT NO CULTURAL LAG FOR
NOBODY :. knowledge, informa-
ton, and understanding out of the
head of Leo Hansberry :. he used
to, run barefooted upon Dreyfus
Hill and up and down Church
Street here.
AFTER THE CHRISTMAS
BALL is OVER -. Folks talking
about that certain Parish Street
Matron, old enough to know better,
dress in one of those seductive
split front dresses, getting just full
enough to make sure that every
body sees her pretty" legs :.
and the Big Business man who
looks long enough in old John
Barleycorn's eye, to find out that
he should LAY right down in the
middle Of the ballroom floor SO he
could be made a confetti snow
man and that "lady" who af-
ter so many and so many started
thinking that it was time for her
to do the Rhumba but wound up
sprawling on the floor !. Honest,
folks show is laffin at yuall.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: ring
out the old, ring in the new, Ring
happy bells, across the snow; The
year is going, let him go; Ring
out the false, ring in the true
Tennyson.
-O-
|l0caI Veteran
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