Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1870 — Beautiful Pinks. [ARTICLE]

Beautiful Pinks.

This item is written. Wednesday afternoon, while the thermometer on the side ot the wall in front of ns shows 98° of heat. A man who will write when the heat is that thick must want to write badly, and so we do. The subject is one which has to be written about when the weather or something forbids us to write about anything good. What we call “beautiful pinks” is the young man who lounges on the streets, m the stores, at the hotels and saloons while his father is away at work. There are several of them in this city. While their fathers and mothers work hard every day of their lives the “pinks” are never seen earning one cent.— What a disgrace! Let these young men be spurned. Let them be hissed until they will leave the city or go to work. A young man, in good health, too lazy to work is about the meanest thing that breathes. A kicking, balky mule, a dog covered with fleas and too lazy to scratch is not half as mean as a tobacco-chewing young man who sits on the corners all day while his father is hard at work.— Anderson Herald. Just so! You hit ’em square that time, Hardesty, but “pink” or no “pink” who wants to work with the thermometer at 98°? Your “beautiful, pinks” are also sensible pinks this hot weather whether they chew tobacco ©r not.