The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-06-30
HOTHERs AND GIRLS.
Rev. B. F. Boiler Gave q Thirty
Minutes Talk About the Good
And The Bad.

A better audience than usual was
out last night to hear the last but one
of the series of sermons that Mr..
Boiler is giving at his church.
The church clock still tarries.
It don't want to break the record.
The preacher talked about the
women from the commencement Of
time until last Saturday.
He thought they were getting bet
ter instead of worse.
That is very charitable and we are
glad Of it.
He read First Kings, 21st chapter
and 9Th verse to prove that it Vas .
very sad commentary on an appetite
when one could not eat bread.
If nothing but bread Was offered
no butter or gravy with it, We don't
blame 'em much for casting it aside
and going for the cake, If there was
any in sight.
The pulpit orator then said moth
ers were awful good. More
good men get the foundation
Of their good character at their moth.
ere knee than anywhere else. The
old man might be . heather by ma
ture, practice and education. but even
then If the mother was al gold the boy
got the right sort Of . start.
This was truth that mothers could
we'll make . note of.
Mr.. Washington was the mother of
George and he was a great man
mainly because his mother was good
instructor in the elements that pro-
duce enoblipg manhood.
Not a word Of praise came for
old man Washington.
The reason George hacked the
cherry tree was because he inherited
the hacking business from the cd
man, but the assertion, 81 can't tell a
lie" can be traced to his mother.
We know men in Sedalia well I'd.
vanced in years who will make the
truth look sick when they come to
trade horses or sell a corner lot, but
you 90 hunt the wife, the mothers of
their boys and ask them about the
horses and the same corner lots and
they would tell the truth and the
trade would be "off."
Mrs. Washington was . mother-in-
law. When she was well advanced
In years, her son-in-law wanted to
come and take care Of her property
and be Q source of comfort to her in
her declining years.
Mrs. Washington was not unlike
some other mother-in-laws-she had
no confidence in him.
He was raised when she fell heir to
him, hence she said /: "No, son-in-
law, I'll 60 alone and handle my own
property
Mrs. Washington was about right.
Then Mr.. Boiler gave parents q
good lecture on making their children
obey. In these latter days, he said
with considerable emphasis, the
children instructed parents.
This is precociousness Mr.. Boiler,
and it is on every street in Sedalia.
Then he got after the girls who
wear dead birds on their hats and
dress with low corsage and abbreviated
sleeves to such an extent that the
young men talked about them and
saw them with their masculine eyes
too much.
That is the way for Brother
Boiler to give it to them until mothers
have their daughters pass in
review before they 60 to the picnic or
come down town to sip soda water.
Then dancing got dose of straight
talk. 1t is . poor education to cult
vate the motion Of the feet instead of
the head and heart, was his idea of
the matter.
To mothers If you have daughters
who walk pigeon-toed, let 'em 60. If
they walk on their heels because the