The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-06-03

matter OF complexion VIII me. w omen
who are unwomanly, who were deceitful,
who were liars, mischievous ones, and
who had no sense of honor whatever,
were usually women who We're either eX-
tremely dark or extremely light. Be-
tweens didn't seem 10 count. \ very
blond woman by her wicked tongue upset
my life for at least six months. very
bark woman by her lack of honor made
me lose belief in all womankind, except
mothers. Nowadays il have got a secret
that l must tell somebody l tell it TO a
man. If i am in bit of trouble where |
must have the sympathy Of a woman
tell ii to my mother, and if l need help in
anything l should ask one of these two"
Now these women were not anything
but agreeable women, considerate women
and polite women, yet the greatest hurts
they had ever had, had come from women,
30 had the greatest rudenesses aud the
greatest misunderstanding. 1t don't make
them disagreeable TO all women, it simply
made them beware of women. The
trouble has been here, that woman has
been put on a pedestal and her virtues
extoled until man seems very miserable
specimen beside her. Now il is Just
about time that she was knocked oil this
pedestal and little common sense beat
into her head. When l want to do any
wOrshiping l am going TO worship man;
he's bigger, stronger, more naturally bet
ter looking, has a greater respect for the
truth, and decidedly more charitable for
ones weaknesses. II l couldn't get a
man to worship, l think l would give my
affection 10 a dog, but certainly not to a
woman.
Take up the question that is in the En-
glish papers and think it over: "Who
fr.o Il
you most faithful. blondes or brunettes?"
and you will be surprised to find that it
isn't question usually OF complexion,
but that woman to her sister woman is
generally about as faithful as the original
serpent. ooh" saws somebody, you are
irritated about something" No, l am not.
l am sitting on the outside OF nineteenth
century garden of Eden, and watching
Lilith and Eve talk together while | am
giving thanks that at last l am sensible
enough not to be IN it. 'Well," says
somebody, you certainly must think
there are some good women" Some good
women Thank God, there are millions of
them. but they are not the women who 90
in for the ecstatic friendships; they are
the ones whose friendship has grown in
yeats with you; the friendship that
springs up like a weed in the night de-
the next morning.
Beware of the woman. my dear girl,
who tells you all about herself when you
first meet her. Beware of the woman
who announces to you that she never said
a disagreeable word about another woman.
Gracious, goodness the air will be green
when she does begin. The woman who
never says disagreeable word is like the
dog who never barks-he bites, and he
bites to poison. Beware of the woman
who is over-rich in her caresses to you;
by all the laws of nature, woman ought
TO kiss q man, and she is wasting the time
OF two women when she fools about this
sort of thing.
There are women We love, women we
love and trust and who love and trust us,
women who care for us through every
woe that may come, who are joyful with
us and who don't misunderstood us,
women who take elder down and wrap it
about the skeleton in our closets so that
we may never hear the horrible bones rat
tie. These women are more than friends,
they are mothers. Nobody else can do
that; no woman in the world is ever
enough your friend to be to you what
your mother is, and if you don't realize
that today you will tomorrow, or some
time soon, and if you haven't been to her
what you ought TO be you will 90 of, hide
your head and wonder what made you so
blind. You will shed many bitter tear
over this, and shed them in vain.
1t sounds q little bit like a sermon,
doesn't it? Well, we all have our times for
sermonizing and It's meant to be a kindly
little sermon; it's meant to be said to each
one of you, looking straight into your eyes
with heart full of kindness and thank
g.. l. e., -
BODY who wears the cap and bells draw
ing the crowd with the jangle and then
preaching. Hasn't the FOOLS sermon often
been a good one? And this sermon which
is told from the talk OF three women about
other women has ended up with a very
old text which reads, Honor thy father
and thy mother" but what the preacher
wants to emphasize is to "nOnor your
mother" She suffered for you, she loves
you and she knows you, her woman child,
as nobody else in the world does. Just
think over the text with me, and then
maybe you will pray as do that when
death walks into the house TO put his cool
and restful hands on the eyes that are so
tired be may choose you first. because you
would be friendless without your mother.
There are a good many things that de-
serve to be honOred that don't get it. III
lOu htupi etAANt oAt pOtiSO ~ Jul NAAAANtiC
they will give you honor and respect in
return.
III you honor and are polite TO those YOU
employ you will get honor and respect in
return.
If you honor and are polite to the trav-
eler you meet by land or sea you will get
respect and consideration for what you
have given.
IL YOU honor and respect the laws of a
state, or of corporation, you have right
TO proper treatment.
If you honor and respect every man,
woman, child, baby and dog that you meet
in your walks, if you give them the cour-
tesy due, then you can be very certain
that politeness aud respect will be shown
you by everything that passes you by.
The dog you kick is going to bite, the
woman you are rude to is going to snub
you, the child you don't consider worth
politeness is going TO be impertinent to
you, and right straight through life where
you give honor and respect you will get
them in return many times a leaven of
real liking will be added.
Honor and respect the preacher-her
intentions are honorable, and il her
sermon has fallen little short of the
conventional type, remember that the
seminary through which she has gone has
been that hard one called tho world,
where the Flesh stands on one side and
the devil on the other, and to keep the