Show COLORED CLUBS ons one of f their objects is to OIT give a good funeral and a shiny coffin colan indiana indianapolis polis journal what tho the colored woman of indianapolis di binl 0 is most mos desires besires is membership m in a society that insures care caro i in n sickness and respectable b burial unal when death comes her chief object c 1 in life is apparently to have her I 1 r mortal remains disposed of in good style tho the great majority of negro women as well as men in this city pay weekly dues into some come lodge treasury and sleep sweet dreams of peace in in consequence thrift in its best development they may way not have but a failing in this direction is not to be held to td their blame sinco since for so many genera eions they were not permitted to depend le end upon up on themselves nor r re quinea to take thought for tho the mor row thou though ghi in n many cases case their forethought ex extends tends to the limits named and no further it is a step in tho the right direction and an augury of better things in future just what dp the societies do for you was asked of an old aulty aunty one of those relics so fast passing away of the time before the war ef ff we done get sick waa was the reply a committee comes come to look after us ef et we is jes borely an fibble they end the ef we git right down eick sick in baid they send somebody to take care of ff us effo ef we up audie an die they give us a funeral what kind of wha kind A good ones one a mighty good funeral nice black shiny coffin coflin ages all tho the mem mern bahs babs of the lodge who can anyhow be and a lawlyes laws Law yes got 0 t to have a and a good f funeral eral shaffor you reckon we gwine pay 25 cents a week duea dues an not have some style when wo we laid away If your husband or children are able to take care of you themselves docs does the lodge do anything jes lies the bame same rich cr er pore the lodge is boun to percide for every who keepe her dues paid I much trouble about payments moat most is mighty dues ia is only 25 cents a week and anybody kin git that though women with b big ig camly 0 chillen finds it right smart hard to spar I 1 knows a heap 0 lay gala gals who will wok to get 25 cents fob foll lodge an then go barfoot an maggid ress otho 0 tha week an mobee hungry any men allowed in your lodges men go faint got no uso use fob foll men folks in ounh lodges they dono done stay wha they b bjong I 1 ong in their own scie societies ties and the scorn of the mile male sex and its financial nid aid expressed in the tone of tho the ample matrons matrona mat rons lip and tha the toss ten of her head could not have been exceeded by any member of the cum what arc are tho the names of your lodges theys a it lot en rn im mighty might apt ant to dis recollect some but t they 1 ey s temple deboro debore probably deborah tern temple I 1 C of tha the rising sun kungis bis tabs of st ilary hary of st deretha Derc tha of chahidy Chah ity tho the Jub aniles juveniles doves of protection im a dove honey household ruth Si stalls of sa ma mazitans mah itans bitans states Sista hs hg independent Daugh taha of honah and queen estabr cout daugh tabs of honah tire a branch of tho the sons of honah and queen ealah E stall is a branch of odd fellows mighty fine they think themselves theys they elyes selves kayin back in ca biages at funeral funerals with ribbons on they hata hats an purple velvet collais col lahs labs mighty fine an big gity the lillias 0 the valley an tho the Daugh tabs 0 the had bad lodge lodges in Indi but they done got broke up down in louisville the culled ell 11 11 d ladies have lodges an mis brown who ia is the gues 0 friens ariens an resides in tn wha benl habison is says they done got ot some what wo we aint got young homo 1 0 love of tho the golden Chai ot eving loving of paradise Paha Pah diso adise and a tabs of tho the lods lovs delight deligh i fici ety mis brown tolo tole us bout culled ladica done cah call fob full to have no tri flin foolish names doves is good enough fob foh us what do you do at your lodge meetings nuntz we wo wo look a beah chile ilon don yin aly foh foil get got mo me tell secrets dorce dor 0 protection is a secret society mo me toll tell what wo we do 10 in ill lodgy fo no no no ask that laws no ancel an cf 1 ef cf I 1 don ion ba be gwine on with these her cloce cloes wont bo be no dono done bia this day and al away she trudged singing softly in a minor key as sho she went what would presently be beard heard in louder song in i I 1 her ier own little home fix yot cotef ef fas as well yo kin kill pick U up vartue chop clipp donn sin in te tho cohnin in in tho the Ino linin rase need it alayo all yo got efros ef yos rich cr er poor er not in the cohnin in the cohnin |