Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-06-15
ONE STANDARD FOR BOTH
SEXES.
JOSIAH ALIENS children have been
SAMANTHA ALLEN.

KIND is just as bad IN a man as IN
woman, and any place of amuse-
ment that was bad for a woman to
90 to was bad for a man.
Now, when Thomas Jefferson was
a little fellow, he was bewitched
to 60 to circuses and Josiah said
"Better let him go, Samantha it
halnt no place for women and girls,
but it won't hurt boy
"Says /, "JOSiah Allen, the Lord
made Thomas jefferson with just
as pure a heart as Tirzah Ann, and
no bigger eyes and ears, and if
Thomas Jefferson goes to the circus,
Tirzah Ann goes too"
That stopped that. And then
he was bewitched to get with 9th
er boys that smoked and chewed
tobacco, and Josiah was OF Just
that easy turn that he would have
let him 90 with 'em. But says |
"JOslah Allen, if Thomas Jeffer-
son goes with those boys and gets
to chewin' and smOkin' tobacco, |
shall buy Tirzah Ann apipe."
And that stopped that.
"And about drlnkin" if it should
be the will of Providence to change
you into a wild bear, will chain
you up and do the best l can by
you. But if you ever do it your
self, turn Yourself into a wild beast
by drinkin' | will run away; for |
never could stand it, never" And
/ continued, "if ever see Thomas
Jefferson hangin' round bar-roOms
and tavern doors, Tirzah Ann shall
hang too"
Josiah argues with me. Says
he:
at dOsen't look so bad for a boy
as it does for a girl"
Says l: "Custom makes the
diflerere; we are more used to see
ing men. But. says /; when liz
uor goes to make fool and a brute
of anybody, it don't stop to ask
about sex, it makes a wild beast
and idiot of a man or a woman,
and to look down from heaven, |
guess a man looks as bad lyin'
dead drunk as a woman does.n
Says 1: "Thlngs look differently
from up there than what they do
to us-it is a more slightly place.
And you talk about looks, Josiah
Allen. | don't go on looks; | 90
on principle. viii the Lord say
20 me in the last day, Josiah Al
lens wife, how is it with the soul
of Tirzah Ann-as for Thomas JET
fersOn's soul, he bein' a boy, it haint
Of no accOuntp No! | shall have
to give an account to him for my
dealin's with both of these souls,
male and female. And | should
feel guilty if brought him up to
think that what was impure for
woman was pure for man. If a
man has a greater desire to do
wrong, which l won't dispute"
says |, loOkin' keenly onto Josiah,
che has greater strength to resist
temptation. And So" says 1, in
mild accents, but firm as old Ply
moth Rock, eff Thomas Jefferson
hangs, TIrzah Ann shall hang
tOO.n
have brought Thomas Jefferson
up think that it was just as bad for
him to listen to a bad story or a
song as for a girl, or worse, for he
had more strength to run away,
and that it was a disgrace for him
10 talk or listen to any stuff that
he would be ashamed to have Tlr-
zah Ann or mebear. | have brought
him up to think that manliness
didn't consist in having a cigar in
his mouth, and his hat on one side,
and swearin' and slang phrases,
and a knowledge of question anus
ments, but in layin' holt of every
duty that comes to him, with a
brave heart and cheerful face ;
in helpin' to right the wrong, and
protect the weak, and maxim the |
most and the best of the mind that !
God has given MIN. In short, /
have brought him up to think !
that purity and virtue are both
feminine and masculine, and that
Gods angels are not necessarily |
all she ones.