The Post-Signal (Pilot Point, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Joe Sap Denounces Wash-women.
By Joe bappington.
Copyrighted 1909 by W. H. Whitley.
Rattier than sacrifice a principle Joe
does a two-weeks washing. The die is
cast, tlie chasm gapes and Joe falls from
grace. All brought about by the “nig
ger wash woman.''
No one looking upon my peace-
ful face when in repose, or just
after it had been fed, would be-
lieve that it was the face of a
man of the stoutest heart, who
would yield up his life in defense ! that washing last week to
of a principle.
Let me feel and know that I am
in the right, and I can
wash-man. Even my own wife
says that I am no more fit to
wash clothes than a cow; but
just as long as the negro wash-
women of my town combine to
force me to their terms, just that
long will the male head of the
Sappington family oontinue to
wash the family clothes.
I went in person and offered
every
negro wash-woman in my town
before deciding to do it myself,
no more | and even offered to pay them
be Bwerved from my purpose 1 twice as much as they asked but
than the terrible cyclone can be just because I wouldn’t pay
turned aside by a feather duster them in advance they refused to
in the hands of a child. do it. Some of them said that if
Those who passed to the rear- 1 would place the money in my
ward of my palatial home last
Friday between the hours of 8 a-
m. and 6 p. m., and saw my
manly form bent over the wash
tub, perhaps thought that dire
necessity had driven me to such
menial labor. But had they ap-
proached near enough to study
my face they would have ob-
served the firm compressed lips
the broad determined chin, the
pale proud brow, and the steel
gray eye of a man who was put-
ting up the fight of his life for a
principle.
wife’s hands for her to hold till
the work was done, that they
would take the job; but that
would have been compromising
a principle and all of the grasp-
ing “nigger” wash-women in
North America could not swerve
me from a principle. If a fellow
first begins to give this prin-
cipal and compromise on that, it
won’t be long till he will have no
more principles than a rabbit and
will finally be forced to crack
down “four-bits” in advance
or have his wife to hold stakes
town will
Dear reader, I was not doing! before any nigger in
that two weeks washing because tackle his washing.
I like the work, for I had rather j My wife doesn’t cling to a
do any kind of honorable labor principle like I do, says that if
than that, from livery stable; some people whom she knows
flunky down to clerking in a dry would pay their wash bills more
goods store. A man with a glass ; promply, there would be fewer
eye and a wooden leg could look demands for advance payments,
at me by moonlight and tell at a
glance that nature never intend-
ed me for a wash-woman or a
less talk about “principles” and
no respectable men doing the
family washing.
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miles southeast of Pilot Point, 95 in
cultivation, balance pasture; 4-room
house, bam, crib and other outbuild-
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is a good black land farm and can be
bought on easy terms at $45 per acre.
No. 129—The Jackson (or Butcher)
fruit farm one and a half mile north
of Pilot Point, 108 acres. Forty acres
in peaches and apples, 20 acres in
Kelfer pesrs 4 and 5 years old, just
coming into bearing, 30 acres in cul-
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No. 135—100 acres land 8 miles N.
W.of Pilot Point, 50 acres In cultiva-
tion, balance woods and pasture. Five
room house, 2 good wells and a tank,
small barn, smoke bouse, cotton seed
house, storm cellar with house over it.
No. 123—120 acre black and red
sandy land farm, 3 miles northeast of
Pilot Point All under 3 and 4 wire
fence, 100 acres in cultivation, bal-
ance in timber, 2 sets houses. Price
$25.00 per acre, on easy terms.
No. 188—100 acres land l** miles
n. e. of Aubrey, 75 in cultivation, bal-
ance in timber Four-room house,
good well, crib and shed atd good
well anil tank.
No. 134 —70 acres land 3 miles south
east of Aubrey, 40 in cultivation, bal-
ance in pasture and timber. New 8-
room box house, good well, log crib
and shed.
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She also adheres to the idea
that if a fellow does a job to car-
ry out a principle, that he ought
not to slight the job, and when
I began washing last Friday she
began to dump a lot of derned
! old quilts and blankets on me.
I called her hand when she be-
gan to unload these things into
my washing and pitched them
over the fence. She got mad
and said it was an awful sorry
man who couldn’t raise fifty
cents to pay a negro woman to
do his wife’s washing.
There is a deep dark chasm
that separates me from every
nigger that has washed our
clothes for the last twenty years.
This chasm began to gage open
between me and the first negro
woman that washed our clothes
after my wife and I went to keep-
ing house. She not only stole
the most of our clothes but al-
lowed her husband to wear the
few of mine that she did return.
I suspected all along that he
was wearing my shirts by the
nigger scent that clung to them,
and my suspicions were finally
confirmed by finding a knot tied
in the left leg of my trousers one
day when the washing was brot
home. He was a one-legged
coon and it was his left leg that
was off at that.
Just a while after we took the
washing from the one-legged
niggers wife, we got hold of a
nigger woman whose long suit
was stealing hosiery. I dressed
for church one Sunday, and
when I called for my hosiery my
wife couldn’t find but one lone
sook on the place. The be6t I
could do was to splice my odd
sock, which was black, with a
baby blue odd stocking that be-
longed to my wife.
A man who has never experi-
enced the sensation of falling
out of a second story win-
dow or being run over by a
freight wagon, can sympathize
with me on that Sabbath morn-
ing when I felt that baby blue
stocking settling down over my
shoe top. On our arrival at
church we went at once to the
choir, and before we had gotten
fairly started on the first song
my garter gave way on my
stocking leg. No one will know
the agony I suffered while facing
that audience when that stocking
began to crawl down my classi-
cal limb. Cold chills waltzed
up and down my spine in rapid
succession, and it seemed that
the song would never end,
so I could have the opportunity
of sitting down and cramming
the darned thing back up my
“pant” leg. I imagined I could
viewed that hear the audience
tittering as they stocking
leg that had fallen over my foot.
The moment the song ended I
made a quick movement to reach
a seat, but before I reached it
someone stepped on my stocking
and I fell with a crash on the
floor.
Who can wonder at the awful
chasm that yawns between me
and all the negro wash-women
in this country and who can
blame me for my cold, haughty
bearing while in their presence
and refusal to pay them in ad-
vance to do the family washing?
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