The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1870-11-02
From tho Hearth and Home.
WilkerSOn'S Journal.

1 amt much OF hand to report
| what other folks say, and to make
cloan job Of it; if L was I'd set
down what Parson Bolles euid
; t'othcr day in cvcnin', moctin'
about tho women, and their TAX :
ing hold Of almost everything,
and turning old notions about wo-
men havin' Mcir place, md men
folks havin' their place, topsy-
turvy. And that's true. Thoro
was pieco SAW in tho papors
tho other day-tho' IN gcuorl
way | don't put much confidence
in what | 500 in the papors-.
about u woman somowhoro in tho
West getting upp'intcd sboriff OF
! jail-kccper, and goin' in amongst
tho rips they had shot up, and
! giving ono or two OF 'om an awful
wailin'. Teu chances TO one, I
s'posc, if any woman over really
| did it ; but .hore's CROWN to bo 4
considerable lot Of 'cm that would
not object to doiu' it, and with
their hand we'll in, | don'L imag-
/ inc they'd mako much Of dis
| tinction between folks shot up in
Jail, and a good many newspaper
pcoplo.
l don't know if tho Parson had
ever read that pioco in tho papers
l was speaking of-for ho don't
read much, without it's tho Con-
grcgationalist and tho Weekly
Currant-but ho hit Off some
things pretty well in his dis
course.
Miss Pitlsin thought he was
sarsy-so Jcrushy says-and said
sho had q great mind to tako hor
umbril and go out O. mcotiu' ; aud
believe sho would if she'd ha'
had her Sunday bonuet on; but,
in my opinion, womon have to DO
considerable rilcd to faco a con-
gregation with their old duds on.
don't much believe in ovonin'
meetings myself; but Jorushy
wanted to 20, and that boss. mason
is off on job up to tho railroad
works, SO | went.
Iva no idea what tho toxt was,
and don't imagine tho Parson
made much account Of it, though
if Jerushy can tell, III mako ~
note Of it aforo [ get through.
Texts don't amount to much
anyhow nowadays. Parsons get
kinks in their hoads like other
folks, and then hunt up n text to
splice 'em to. It's pretty much
like little sprinkling O. sago in
sausage meat, after it's all chopp-
ed, and peppored, and saIted. 1t
gives u lttlo twang that makes it
taste like last years sausage and
every body olso's sausage meat
but | don't know as it makes it
keep any better.
Old Uncle 'Liphalet, whom he
was woodiA' along in tho winter,
used to save out quite little lot
O. white oak crooks-some of one
shape and some another, and bore
holos in 'em, and get 'om we'll sea-
soncd, SOS no could tack 'em up
against the sides O. his shop to
hang tools or old harness on; and
it's pretty much so, to my notion,
that yonr parsons, in wadin' along
through scriptur', save out little
bits with a good turn to 'cm, and
keep by 'em to hang discourscs
on; and I've known 'om, that, for
the sake O. a little change, would
take down an old discourse, pretty
cobwcbby, and dust it up a little,
and hang it on new peg.
However, Parson Bollcs never
preached that discourse afore, not
that I've heard on. He said that
he thought that if God had inten.
dcd mon and women to do the
samo things, IIo would have made
'om just alike; but IIo didn't, and
ho thanked God for that; and
there was n little Methodist wo-
man in the next pow to ourn who |
said "Amon" so you might have |
heard her half down tho aisle.
And, says the Porson-says he
its because thoy AFRO so different
lHaI CucS ihc cacn Oluci bo Hlucn,
and respect each other so much ;
and, says he, tho more you SEQ n
man take to womanish ways, the |
less tho woman folks incline to-
ward him and the moro woman
becomes manish, tho less likoly |
tho men arc to run after and TO |
admire her. You may turn it al! !
ways you've mind to, says he,
but tho more you break down tho !
difference, tho less love thoro is
between 'cm.
There's some women, says he,
that has got mans ways Of talk
in and blustcrin' round, and talk
in hold O. politics, and general
out-o'-door things, in n way to
make q mans hair stand on ond
and they arc mighty smart wo-
men, too, says he and ! amt no
kind O. objection to their using all
the talonts, and just tho sort O.
talents, that tho Lord has givon
to 'cm but thank tho Lord that
all women aint mado up in that
way; for if they was, says he, I
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