Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
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MENTALLY “WHITE.”
We use the word “white” in our
heading in a sense that it is often,
though erroneously, used—meaning
superiority.
A cultured white woman who is
really interested in colored people but
has little real knowledge of us, want
ed to know if superior training, with
existing prejudice, did not make the
colored woman unhappy. She said
she often wondered how we felt and
of what we were thinking, believing
that training made us expect too
much in life. We took delight in tell
ing her that we were no more con
stantly conscious of our complexion
than were the women of other races;
that the color of our skin did not af
fect our imaginations, or aims, or
hopes; that we dreamed and planned;
knew joy and sorrow, love and hate,
success and failure, even as they.
What individual does not expect
too much of life? Half the lives of
all men are lived in hopes, in dreams,
in fancy—if we did not perhaps we
could not live at all.
In his “Essay on History,” Emer
son says:
“It is remarkable that involuntarily
we always read as superior beings.
Universal history, the poets, the ro
mances do not in their stateliest pic
tures—in the imperial palaces, in the
triumphs of will and of genius—any
where lose our ear, an> where make us
feel that we intrude, that this is for
better men; but rather it is true that
in their grandest stroke we feel most
at home. All that Shakespeare says
of the king, yonder slip of a boy that
reads in the corner feels to be true of
himself.”
The illuminating truth of Emerson’s
words comes home with force to ev
ery reader. “We always read as su
perior beings.” In other words, there
is something in us all that is superior
lo our physical selves, superior to our
surroundings. Our intellectual selves,
by instinct, respond to the best and
highest—“in their grandest strokes
we feel most at home.”
Where is the boy, black or white,
rich or poor, who has not lived over
and over again the life of Robinson
Crusoe or been a Robin Hood or
some gallant knight or brave soldier?
What girl in her dreaming has not
clothed herself in the radiant dress
of a princess or fairy queen?
Fundamentally, “all men are creat
ed equal." If “white” may be termed
superiority—allow the expression—
the Negro dreams, reads, hopes and
lives “white” to the same degree as
do all men, measured only by intel
lectual attainment.
LITLLE LAMB.
Yo Rufus, cum in heah dis instep, 1
say;
Now, what I done tole yo ’bout run
nin’ away?
Yo’s makin’ mud pies, wuz yo, out in
de street?
Jes look at dem hans an’ yor face
and dose feet!
I bet yo’ll fin’ me dat strap bye an’
bye
An’ gib yo a sure-enough reason to
cry.
What’s dat? Yo is cryin’ cau"* yo
stubbed yor toe?
Yo poor li’l lam’, what yor mammy
lubs so.
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YOUR MOTHER.
But your mother’s life has not been
easy. Your father was a poor man.
and from the day she married him
; she stood by his side fighting the wolf
from the door with her naked hands,
'as a woman must fight.
She worked not the eight or ten
hour day of the union, but the twenty
four-hour day of the poor wife and
mother.
She cooked and cleaned and scrub
bed and patched and nursed from
dawn until bedtime, and in the night
was up and down getting drinks for
thirsty lips, covering restless little
sleepers, listening for croupy coughs.
She had time to listen to your stor
ies of boyish fun and frolic and tri
umph.
She had time to say the things that
spurred your ambition on.
She never forgot to cook the little
dishes you liked.
She did without the dress she need
ed that you might not be ashamed of
your clothes before your fellows.
Remember this now while there Is
yet time, while she is living, to pay
back to her in love and tenderness
some of the debt you owe her. You
can never pay it all, but pay down
something on account this very night.
—Exchange.
Those who know and love children
and try to understand them will ap
preciate the following:
I'm not a-scared o’ horses ner street
cars ner anyfing,
Ner automobiles ner th.’ cabs; an’
once, away last spring,
A grea’ big hook an’ ladder flng went
alspty bangin’ by
An’ I was purtnear in th’ way, an’
didn’t even cry;
’Cause when I’m down tome I go
’round wif papa—un’erstand,
An’ I’m not ’fraid o’ nuflin’ when my
papa holds my hand.
* * * *
Sometimes rov papa holds on like I
maybe helped him, too,
And makes me feel most awful good
puttendin’ like I do.
An’ papa says—w’y papa says—w’y
somepin like ’at we
An’ God ’ist keep a holdin' hands the
same as him and me.
He says some uvver tings ’at I ’ist
partly un’erstand.
But I know this—I’m not afraid when
papa holds my hand.
Strickland W. Gillilan.
WHAT THEY CALL “LIBERTY.”
In our large cities girls in their
teens claim what they call their lib
erty as soon as they become wage
earners. They come home to supper,
dress, and go out night after night,
as regularly as their brothers do. They
have no interest in the home, no do
mestic tastes, no regard for their par
ents. The “gentleman friend” is the
engrossing thought—even though he
may be neither a gentleman nor a
friend. A real man does not take
young girls to djance halls and ques
tionable theater^ ^nor / will he per
suade them to jeopardize honor and
life in night rides and revels. The
man who is worth marrying will seek
for his future wife in her home. That
is the place for a girl to shine in.
Parents who teach their children the
value of a good home, as the dearest
place on earth, are safeguarding them
in the best and most practical way:
Their plans for the welfare of their
daughters do not include promiscuous
lodging round with school friends, of
fice associates, or even with relatives.
—Quarterly Reminder.
Thomas
Kilpatrick & Co.
sell
Good Dry Goods
and
Ready-to-wear Clothes
priced according
to quality
*
Courteous Service
Always
EMERSON LAUNDRY
F. S. MOREY, Proprietor
1303 05 North 24th Street
Phone Webster 820
CHAS. EDERER
florist
Plants, Cut Flowers, Designs,
Decorations
COMBS'
JEWELRY STORE
is just the
Right Kind
of a Jewelry Store for
Merchandise or Kepairs of
any kind
1520 Douglas Street
YES—ICE CREAM
any style, for any occasion
j. A. DALZELL
Quality First
1824 Cuming St. Td.Boug.61B
H. GROSS
Lumber and
Wrecking
21st and Paul Streets
j.A.Edholm E. W. Sherman
Standard Laundry
24th, Near Lake Street
Phone Webster 130
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FOR SALE OR RENT.
Possession Monday. Rent will be
applied on purchase price if you buy
later. Six-room house near Sherman
Ave. and Lake St. Another 6-room,
27th near Davenport. Both have city
water and electric light; first has gas
in kitchen, new paint and paper; $14
to $17. Also a 3-room and 4 lots for
trucking and poultry, $.7.50.
CHAS. E. WILLIAMSON CO.
Paxton Block, Omaha, Neb.
Douglas 2107.
FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT.
Clean, modern, furnished rooms,
with hot and cold water. On Dodge
and Twenty-fourth car lines, walk
ing distance business center. Mrs.
A. Banks, 912 North 20th Street. Doug
las 4379.
Mrs. L. M. Bentley-Webster, first
class modern furnished rooms, 1702 S.
26th St. Phone Webster 4769.
Nicely furnished rooms, $1.50 and
up per week. Mrs. Hayes, 1823 No.
23rd St. Webster 5639.
Six room house, $12.50; 1434 So.
16th St. H. A. Wolfe, 512 Ware Blk.
CORSETS made to measure, $3.50
and up. Mrs. Hayes, 1823 No. 23rd St.
HAIR GOODS, all kinds. Fine line
straightening combs. Mrs. Hayes, 1823
No. 23rd St.
SHOES made like new with our rapid
shoe repair methods, one-fifth the
cosk. Sold uncalled-for shoes. We
have a selection; all sizes, ail prices.
Men’s half soles..75c
Ladies’ half soles.50c
FRIEDMAN BROS.
211 South 14th St., Omaha.
No. 9 South Main St., Council Bluffs.
Your account is solicited in our
checking and savings department
Interest paid on savings
City National Bank
1 (itIi and Harney Streets
Pleatings Huttons Buttonholes
Braiding Stamping Hemstitching
PicotlDg Pinring Shirring Tucking
Patterns Drafted and Fitted
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FOR
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Telephone Douglas 3324
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