The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-03-11
WHAT SAMANTHA SAYS.

Josiah Aliens children have been
brought up to think that sin of any
kind is just as bad in man as in a
woman and any place of amusement
that was bad for woman to go to
was bad for man.
Now, when Thomas Jefferson was a
little Teller he was bewitched to go to
circuses, and Josiah said:
Better let him go, Samantha it
hain't no place for wimmen or girls,
but it won't hurt boy''
Says L: Josiah Allen, the Lord
made Thomas Jefferson with just as
pure heart as Tirzah Ann, and no
bigger ears and eyes and if Thomas
j. goes to the circus, Tirzah Ann goes
toOn
That stopped that. And then he
was bewitched to get with other bows
that smoked and chewed tobacco, and
that Josiah was just that easy turn
that he would have let him go with
'em. But, says | !:
"Josiah Allen, if Thomas Jefferson
goes with those boys, and gets to
chewin' and smokin'. tobacco, I shall
buy Tirzah Ann pipe"
And that stopped that.
And about drinkin' -, says | {:
Thomas Jefferson, if it should be the
will of Providence to change you into
a wild bear, | will chain you up and
do the best | can by you. But if you
ever do it yourself, turn yourself into
a wild beast by drinkin', l will run
away, for | never could stand it,
never And [ continued, "if | ever
see you hangin' round bar-room and
tavern doors, TirZah Ann shall hang
too
Josiah argued with me- Says he !:
at doesn't look as bad for boy as
it does for girl
Says | 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 brute of
anybody, it don't stop to ask about
the sex, and makes a wild beast and
idiot of a man or woman, and to look
down from heaven l guess man
looks as bad layin' dead drunk as a
woman does"
Says L: "Things 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 clear looks; | go on prin-
ciple. Will the Lord say to me in the
last day, Josiah Aliens wife, how is
it with the soul of Tirzah Ann -;
as for Thomas Jefferson's soul, he
bein' boy, it hain't of no account p
No! | shall have to give an account to
Him for my dealin's with both of these
souls, male and female. And l should
feel guilty if / brought him up to
think that what was impure for a
woman was pure for a man, If q man
has a greater desire to do wrong
which l won't dispute, says l, look
in keenly onto Josiah, she has greater
strength to resist temptation And
so" says |, in mild accents, but firm
as old Plymouth Rock, ''if Thomas
Jefferson hangs, Tirzah Ann shall
hang, too"
l have brought Thomas Jefferson
up to think that it was Just as bad for
him to listen to a 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 1
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 questionable
amusements, but in layin holt of every
duty that comes to him with brave
heart and 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, have brought
him up to think that purity and vir-
tue are both feminine and masculine,
and that Gods angels are not neces-
sarily all she ones.