The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-09-12
A CHAPTER OF ..DON"Ts"
a Lay Sermon for Young Ladies', with
Hints for Those Of Older Growth.


intercourse SO her character. Every We
man ) character is formed ON the model of
those with whom she associates. VIC
man will just as sure take vice and mper-
lection from bad company as disease from
impure air. The young ladies who enter
tain young men who come to their parlors
with smoking cigars full of whisky, oaths
and slang upon their lips, and who are
/ known to them tn frequent the lowest
| haunts of vice, cannot expect TO I'VE Ill
estimation of the great and good. You
| cannot afford to associate with the empty
/ headed immoral young man, even ii he
belongs to what is called high society =
hirh society runs low. Don't associate
with your interiors: associate with men of
! Judgment, intelligence and goodness.
| Don't read impure literature. Thou
sands of girls are growing into worthless
womanhood because of bad reading. The
most powerful foe of true womanhood is
corrupt literature-hooks that are cram
med full of second hand remarks, and old
| diseased putrid thought, with itself, with
nature with truth at war. If you would
be wise for yourself and wise for eternity,
don read any Of the blood and thunder
! literature Many OF these profess to teach
moral They teach just the opposite.
/ We have no need to go tn brothel or to
pertlition n learn morality. Virtue is
flower which never grows in such soil.
/ Yuu can never expect amy good from
source So vile There she gees lounging
/ around the house. with novel on her arm,
/ her hair disheycled, her checks pale, lips
quivering. slippers run down at heel. biting
I her finger nails to the quick. bewailing the
/ sad fate Of her unfortunate lover. She is
all untitled for the duties of a wife. mother
+ sister. daughter. Gather up Your bad lit
eraturc and pitch it into the kitchen CRATE,
/ lest it blast YOU. your prospective husband
and your children after you.
Don't gossip. When God made man, it
f is said he gave him ten measures of speech
/ and woman ran away it'll nine. A gossip
/ ing woman is the devils bellows to blow
/ up tie fires of strife 1t must be bless
+ ing To the public when such a woman is
+ hoarse and il is a pity that she has not as
many blsters on her tongue as she has
T teeth in her Jaws
Don't tell everything you hear As
SNOWFALL grows by rolling it. so does
/ story by telling ii. They who talk much
/ lie much
/ Don't poke Your nose into yourneighbor
/ house to smell ont his faults. Business is
i business. but the best kind Of business is
/ to mind your own business.
/ Don't put on masnifying glasses To dis
cover your neighbors flaws. You live i'll
glass house; don't throw any stones.
/ Think of your own faults ere other peo-
+ pies faults you tell Faults are always
/ thick where love is thin.
! Don't cultivate a bad temper \ man
/ once said to his wife. Double up your
/ whip. He meant. keep your tongue quiet.
+ 1t must he a terrible thing to be living
with whip that is always flashing you.
/ 4 good temper filings showers of sunshine
over the darkness Of the world. Don't use
( hard words They are as hail stones.
/ beating down and destroying what they
would nourish if they were melted into
/ drops Little drops of rain brighten the
/ meadows. little acts of kindness brighten
/ the world. \ sweet disposition is so ex-
| cellent that it ought TO he emblazoned
/ upon every thought and act of life. Don't
/ fret Don't grmnble. Don't whine.
1 Don't look At the world through blue
/ goggles. Don't neglect to learn how to
/ manage the affairs ola home. Don't think
of getting married before you know how
/ 10 get mp a good square meal--the secret of
/ domestic happiness. Strive to be help
meet for some good man, and not simply
/ helpeat
Don't make slave of your mother.
! Don't lie III bed until o'clock in the morn
ing and make her do all the work Help
! her whenever you can. Don't call her the
old woman: odd lady is bad enough, but
old woman is still worse. Respect the
1 white head. Love that form tottering on
/ the brink of the grave.
4 Don't talk slang. You have no idea
/ how il sounds To ears unused to it. Don't
/ be wild. Beware of little things. They
may be nothing. They may be all Be
1 lady Carry yourself SO that men will look
! up to you.
/ Don't marry man to mend or reform
/ him. such attempts are generally as vain
and powerless as attempts to turn back the
/ flowing tide with a wisp of straw, or out
roar a hurricane with tin whistle. 4
/ Young man asked for the hand of beauti-
I lu girl As She hcstated about replying.
+ the young man said Il await Your answer
with hated breath. The young lady
( answered: We'll. my dear sir, you will
I have Ia bait your breath with something
/ besides high wines and Limburger cheese
/ to catch me- Her head was level. A
/ young man who will not cease drinking to
/ please his sweetheart. will not do so to
/ please his wife Don't marry man who
chewS tobacco. The use of tobacco is a
/ dirty and filthy habit. injurious to the
/ health and expensive. Only the passage in
/ the Bible can be quoted in his favor: Let
/ him that is filthy he filthy still "