| Show sapho and nor lier son the latest odd character to appear in hi the city is known in the down town saloons as sapho sapho is a black woman of unusual height and her powerful figure is that of an amazon queen she dresses rather fantastically and carries a banjo of the largest size on which she plays play with power end and no inconsiderable skill sill and she sings strange weird african rican songs song S in r some native tongue as she strums strum sout out the refrain upon the instrument sapho is always accompanied by a little colored boy of exceptional blackness and the most timid and nervous disposition ho clings to her skirts shirts all the while she is ia playing and when he passes his bis hat for money seems afraid he will be cuffed sapho will not be drawn into conversation but scowls at all who address her and altogether is a strange and unique character among the human oddities of the cites surface life phila delphia record |
