Jackson advocate., 1956-08-11
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PARISH STREET SATURDA
NIGHT: l used to hear the VI
Folks, My Grandma. Mrs. Emma
| II used to call her Old Lady En-
| ma, cept fig gathering time,l AM
"Old Lady Pap Jones'" Mrs. Reyes
and Miss Alice, and "Old Fessol
Lanier," my school teachers whose
impressions on me with the half
inch-thick rule) becomes more al
fectionate as gets older taking
about teaching children by "Precep'
and Example" A kind OF RUE
which included not only "Honol
thv Father and thy Mother" but
included also honoring all grown
folks anywhere in the nelghbor,
hood which included any OF them
living within a radius of eighteen
square miles, which was about all
YOU walked in them days on a
"plum hunting trip" Over my tish
and beer | got to thinking about
how folks these days are worrying
about their offspring, including
Aunt Haggar's Chilluns' offspring
as we'll as the offsprings Of those
other folks who didn't need no
coloration in their skin because
thew got started after things start
ed slowing down in Africa. In them
DAYS what Pm talking about chill
dren started off talking with the
words Eyes, sir" Eyes, ma'am,
"please" and thank you," which
the Old Folks fixed up bearing
down a whole lot heavier on the
example" than on the "precept,
which went like this. Let kid
run up to the old folks, ask for
and grab a piece of bread without
doing it they'd rap him On the
.nuckle and say "Put that b.
down, and say pleas" Let EN-
say "please" and start running
off, they'd call 'em back, smack
'em upside the head and say, Now
say "thank you." Let a kid say
NAV" and "Yea" to his mother
or father, or any other older per-
son, and it would be all over the
neighborhood that the child was
going crazy Especially amongst US
kids,) that is, after he had sur
vived what the Old Folks put on
the back side in them days with
anything from a rattan to a wet
rope. l remember my Mama
making me walk by an Old Lady's
house and speak to her and tip my
cap every evening after school for
80 days, who lived mile away,
because she (the Old Lady, had
told Mama | walked by her house
with my head up-in-the-air, with
her sitting on the gallery and did
not speak to her. The days, I'm
talking about the days when folks
raised George Washington, Abra-
ham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Rich
ard Allen, George Washington Car
yer, and Booker T. Washington.
What's wrong with the children
today is that they're getting what
NV Grandma and MRS. Emma"
and them would call the wrong
kind of "precept" and no Eek
ample" at all.
OLD FOLKS HOME NOTE:
Last week the following donations
were received for the Old Folks
Home: Mrs. Bessie Johnson $1.0O,
Mr.. Clarence Winter $1.00, Mr..
and Mrs. Luther Berry $1,000, Mr..
J. w. Tucker $100, Jackson Ready
Mix STAT, Mr.. Green BRIGGS who
is heading the work for the Old
Folks home is urging everybody
who haven't already given to do
nate at least $1.00, and this goes
to everybody in the state. If you
want to send something send it to
the Colored Old Folks Home Fund,
Deposit Guaranty Bank, Jackson,
Miss.
NOTE OF SADNESS: From
what we hear, Kid Lewis, the
plumber, one of the really old TYNE
Parish Streeters, and best known
when a twenty dollar gold piece
was the sign of glamour and an
invitation to a good time, has been
confined to the State Hospital at
Whitfield.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: When
a man fights it means that a
fool has lost his argument. =
Chinese Proverb.