People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — A Study in Black and White. [ARTICLE]

A Study in Black and White.

Why was Dame Nature so unkind to met It's just my late. Instead of curly, as it ought to be, My hair is straight! Each night a row of papers held with pins My head environs, My life's one endless drudgery of tins And curling irons! A thousand ways to curl it I've devised, I’ve used the many curlines advertised; But still my brain with hopelessness la whirled— It won't stay curled. Why did de Lawd dun made dis wool ob mine Sofullob kinks? He’d jus’ as well ub made it long an' fine An’ straight, I tinks. Ise oil'd an’ oil’d dis wool, an’ breshed it back A heap, I klahr! An' tried a pow’ful sight to mek it Lak De white folks’ hahr. Ise used dem drug pursklpshuns from de sto’— Indeed I has. but ’taint no use no mo’. It am no use to bresh dem kinks an’ fuss; Dey jus’ gets wus. —Kourt Chalys in Youth's Companion.