The Winchester home journal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-30
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On our table for February we have
HARpER's MAGAZINE. Every gentle
man and lady ought to take it. We
did not get the January number, and
as we file it, will be very much oblig-
ed to publishers if they will send it.
GRAHAM is also on hand. We have
also failed to get the January number
of this, and must ask Watson & Co.
to send it for our file. Terms So 90.
GopEy-the love of ladies--is also
on hand, looking as bright as the sun
almost. Terms $3 90.
AUTHORS HOME MAGAZINE is filled
with matter for the fair sex. Terms
SO 90.
PETERSON is as good as cver--it can't
be any better. Wish we had a --,
that she might enjoy the nice things
in it. Terms 50 90.
Any of the above named So 90
magazines and the Home Journal one
year for 81 90. The 50 90 ones and
the Home Journal, 50 90.
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at is a custom in many country
churches for the ladies to sit on one
side of the house, and the gentlemen
on the othcr."-
And n mean custom il is. We have
thought about the subject often, and
have never yet been able to sec why
Il lady and gentleman, husband and
wife, brother and sister, mother and
son-in short, male and female friends
and relatives. should separate at the
church door, and one go to one side
and one to the other. Why do they
not 90 and sit side by side! What
harm would there be in the act? Do
they not 60 there together--and often
times arm in arm! If that be not
wrong. how cam it be wrong for them
to sit together. Why should "a wife
be compelled to separate from her
husband, and when church services
close be compelled to hunt ever so
long before she can find him? Would
it not look much better, and be of
more benefit. for families to remain
together! Would it rot serve as Il
check to the wantoness Of the little
children, for them to be under the
eyes OF their parents! And when
church was ovrr, would they uot all
be together. amid tho confusion Inci-
deut upon all such occasions. And
how much better and gcntcci would
it be for the young men to sit side by
side with the young ladies with whom
they go, than to sneak oft to another
side, and after bcncdiction is pro-
nounced. form in n line and wait for
the ladies to pass!
And when young man, or an OLD
one, is seated by the side Of ladies, II
he has any manners at all, he will for
bear to squirt his filthy tobacco juice
in puddles upon the floor for ladies to
trail their dresses in. Neither will so
much sleeping and inattention be OBJ
served while the pastor is preaching
Then why, in the name OF common
sense, and polite etiquette, should such
british custom be followed among
gcntccl people! In civilized con-
gregation, men and women are not
like hogs and dogs. Yet we follow a
custom which would seem to indicate
that they are! OF course we do not
mean to advocate that a stranger, Ol
person unattended by lady, should
stalk in and seat himself anywhere
else than in an Of-side seat. Sucl
persons it may be expected, will takt
seat among themselves, but all WHIT
20 with ladies should sit with them
Oh it is ridiculous to see y lady ant
gentleman enter church, and then. a
if ashamed to be seen together, picl
seats rs far apart as space will allow
Then, we say, Danish the custom en-
tirely, and if there be those who arr
ashamed to sit together in church, the,