Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1894 — Society Jealousies. [ARTICLE]

Society Jealousies.

Texas Siftings. “You needn’t put on no airs, you yaller-faced piece. We keeps a cow, and has got a pew in de Blue Light Tabernacle, besides,” were the words of Miss Matilda Snowball, who is as black as night, to a saddle-colored friend. “I don’t keer if we habn’t got a cow. We keeps a goat, and my in udder is gwine to hab a carbuncle on de back ob her neck," was the crushing reply. A career of extravagance does not necessarily bring a man sack cloth, but it is more than likely to bring him to hashes.