The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-03-02
Woman's EnIarging Sphere.
ONE STANDARD FOR BOTH SEXES

Josiah Aliens children have beer
brought up to think that SIN of any
kind is just as bad in a man as in {
woman . and any place of amusemen
that was bad for woman to 60 to wa!
bad for man.
Now, when Thomas Jefferson was s
little feller he was bewitched to go tc
circuses, and Josiah said:
"Better let him go, Samantha il
hain't no place for wimmen or girls
but it won't hurt boy"
Says I: "Josiah Allen, the Lore
made Thomas Jefferson with Just az
pure a heart as Tirzah Ann, and ne
bigger ears and eyes and il Tboma:
j. goes to the circus, Tirzah Ann goes
too.n
That stopped that. And then he
was bewitched to get with other boys
that smoked and chewed tobacco, ant
that Josiah was just that easy turned
that he would have let him go with
'em. But, says I:
"Josiah Allen, if Thomas Jefferson
goes with those boys, and gets tc
chewin' and smokin' tobacco, L shall
i
And that stopped that.
"And about drinkin'," says l.
"ThomasJefferson if it should he the
will OF Providence to change you into
q wild bear, I will chain you up and
do the best I can by you. But if you
ever do it yourself, turn yourself into 8
wild beast by drinkin', I will run
away, for I never could stand it, new
err! And" 1 continued, ''if 1 ever see
you hangin' round bar-rooms and
tavern doors, Tirzah Ann shall hang
too"
Josiah argued with me. Says he
"It doesn't look as bad for q boy as il
does for girl"
Says I ;: "Custom makes the differ
ence we are more used to seeing
men. But" says I, "when liquor
goes to work to make a fool and 6
brute of anybody it don't stop to ask
about the sex, and makes wild
beast and idiot Of man or woman
and to look down from heaven ]
guess a man looks as bad layin' deaC
drunk as O woman does.n
SaysI. "Things looks differently
from up there than what they do tx
us-it is q more slightly place. AnC
you talk about looks, Josiah Allen. ]
don't 60 on clear looks 1 60 on prln'
ciple. Will the Lord say to me in
the last day, Josiah Aliens wife how
is it with the soul of Tirzah AMI
az for Thomas Jefferson's soul. he
bein' a boy, it hain't of no acount'
No! I 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 a
woman was pure for man. If man
has a greater desire to do wrong
which I won't dispute" says +, look
in keenly onto Josiah, "he has great
erstrenght to resist temptation. AnG
So" says I, in mild accents. but firm
as old Plymouth Rock, "if Thomas
Jefferson hangs, Tirzah Ann shall
hang, too"
/ have brought Thomas Jefferson up
to think that it was just as bad fol
him to listen to bad story or song as
for a girl, or worse, for he had more
strength to run away, and that it was
a disgrace to him to talk or listen to
any stuff that he would be ashamed to
have Tirzah Ann or me to hear.
have brought him up to. think that
manliness didn't consist in having
cigar in his mouth, and his hat on one
side, and swearin' and slang phrases,
and q knowledge of questionable
amusements, but in layin' holt of ev.
cry duty that comes to him with a
brave heart and a cheerful face; and
helpin' to right the wrong and protect
the weak, and maxim the most and
best of the mind and the soul God had
given him. In short, I have brought
him up to think that purity and vir-
tue are both feminine and masculine,
and that Gods angels are not necessa-
rily all she ones.-Samantha AL.
len.