Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 8 | Virginia Mammy's Trouble

Virginia Mammy's Trouble. A big, fat, colored woman, evident ly ly n Virginian mammy encountered what was tu her serious trouble a few days ago She was, to Judg--: from apnea ap-nea ram-fa a native of --nine rural 'II? trlct, and the chances are, came to town to pell produce outside the Center Market. The woman from the old dominion do-minion 1 certainly not familiar with r-ity ways, and beyond doubt Is an ,- D -solute stranger to newfangled contrivances, contri-vances, even those In every day use she had occasion to go to the city postofflce and there her difficulties were met. One of the revolving doors of the Pennsylvania avenue entrance to the big granite structure caused her to halt. It struck her fanes as being in the nature of a contrivance to bring about the death of human beings by the slow process Only after .1 dozen or more Individuals had passed through the doorway safely did the visitor from Virginia dare enter one of the four compartments of the door. Of course, she pushed in the wrong direction, and naturally the door became jammed. It required the efforts of two postofflce department watchmen and three citizens citi-zens for several minutes to release the woman. She hastened In the direction of the market muttering. "I don't want no mo' of dem squirrel rages for mine, nohow, I don't "Washington "Wash-ington Star.