Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1961-05-20
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BY PERCY GREENE
PARISH STREET SATURDAY

PARISH STREET SATURDAY
NIGHT . Although its pretty
nearly true that whenever Aunt
Haggars chillum get together to
chew the fat over a beer or two,
everybody has whole lot of fun,
and as is the case with all the
good brothers that gather with
US in our fayorite Ayenoo spot,
the subject don't usually cali for
no whole lot of Sociology. Psy-
chology, and stuff out of books.
However in the case of one Of the
brothers last Saturday night, we
had to agree that he talked the
kind of gospel that makes him
qualified to teach them subjects
whenever and wherever he gifts
ready. What make us come to
that conclusion was something the
good brother said about how
much Aunt Haggars Chilluns is
getting away from that ole time
family life that everybody used
to know and think so highly Of
few years ago. Now this bro
ther said that in them days the
man was the head of the house,
and he kept his place as the head
of the house mostly because he
did all the working and paid all
the bills, and brought all the
beans that was swallowed In
the house, and the women folks
was content to stay and cook the
beans and take care of the Chill
luns and the house that they liv-
ed in. But nowadays, said the good
brother, 1t cost so much to buy
beans and pay for the house,
and keep clothes on the chilluns,
most of the women have to get
out and help do all them things.
and since the women help do
them things, they don't feel like
the man is head no more, and
what's worse, there amt no body
to look after the chilluns and
things is in a mess. The good
brother concluded by saying that
he Figured that if beans would
come down and women went back
to raising up a family right,
things would be a whole lot bet
ter, but in the meantime IL you
got a woman that helping you
buy the beans and still recegn-
ICES you is the real head of the
house, then brother, She is a mi
ghty good woman, and YOU is
A MIGHTY LUCKY MAN
THE CHANGING LOCAL
SCENE: Workmen this week had
just about completed tearing down
the Old Pearl Street AME Church
at the Corner of Pearl and Cliff
ton Street, the New Pearl Street
AME Church, built at a cost of
close to 100000 is still on Pearl
Street out at the corner Of Pearl
and Rose.
SOMETHING THAT MADE ME-
LAFF: Two bills talking about the
affairs out at the Elks Club, with
one of them wondering why Broth
er Edward Lee is now so anxious
to get Brother Willie ]. Miller
back in the Lodge, when here a
while back they said me and him
is too old. Yeah, man, one of the
Bills said, you know who brung
in his OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ed
ward Lee.
ALONG THE OLE AVENUE:
Folks talking about the swankiest
cafe in town where you can't git
a slice of pie and a glass of milk
to go along with your bowl of soup.
BIG MAN: Attorney r. Jesse
Brown, with two two-bit Ell Pro-
ducto Cigars in his pocket and
one in his mouth and telling his
Old friend that He's on his way
to try to settle an insurance claim
and didn't want to look like He's
in hurry for anything -.
OVERHEARD IN PASSING:
Two good-looking young ladies
talking one wishing that the law
was so she could file one Of them
paternity suits against a fellow
like the mother did against Yves
Covington the baseball star.
WEEKLY QUOTATION: A joke
never gains an enemy, but often
loses q friend. Thomas Fuller.
Negro Property
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