Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-07-07
THE 81 Feet OF THOUGHT
IN ADDRESS DELIVERED
BY REV. j. N. BOOTH
.:aU the Closing Exercises of the
Batesburg High School on
"Wednesday, June 15.

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We are oil folks. Now I am
glad, indeed that / am folks. In
fact would rather be com-
s = mon folks than uncommon folks,
or no folks at all. Folks are di-
viided into several different classes,
as to sex, age, condition, and
eircumstaees, indeed the names OF
these classes are like the demons
8 of the demoniac at Gadera, their
name islegion for they are many.
As tosex, there are male folks
and female folks, men folks
and women folks, boy folks and
girl folks. AS to age, there are
baby folks, young folks, grown
folks, midd die aged folks, and old
4 folks. As to conditions there are
many kinds OF folks as there are
many conditic conditions ply
sical, mental, and moral.
There are well folks, sick folks,
weak, atrong, fat, lean, plump, big
little, large, small, tail, short,
stou, slender, and other folks.
There are smart, dull, stupid, quick,
slow,preco ousand wise and other
wise folks. And there are good,
bad, and Indifferent folks. There
are honest and dishonest folks;
truthful and false folks; patriotic
and demagogic folks; and there
are selgsh and benevolent folks,
/ As to circumstances there are
many kinds of folks. There are
barbaric, civilized, andenlightened
( folks. There arc poor, well-to-do,
and rich folks. There are Northern.
Southern, Western. and Oriental
folks. There are home folks,
strange folks, andskin folks. The
Lord only knows how many kinds
of folks there are.
Now tits interesting to look at
folks. I am glad I am not blind
fef Ido: enjoy loo king at folks.
{ There iazYerg much TO be learned II
SIMPLY loo king at fol Iks: You need
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much That they do and much that
they are simply for: show and
there would be vast deal OF
disappoin ntment and vexation if
every body should refuse to look
atsfolks. Fashion in dress and
much that is graceful in carriage
would fall into absolute neglect
if there were no eyes to see folks
with. ] happened in once upon q
time at a.place where blind
young nan was calling Oh q
young lady, and 1 could see that
she had not spent as much time
with her bangs and paints and
other ornamentations as doubtless
she would have spent had he1
caller been able to see. He could
hear, and how sweetly she did
speak and sing! / don't think it is
wrong to be looked at nor to look
at folks. 1t is like a good rule, it
works both ways. To look at
folks gives pleasure, and to be
looked at gives caution to the one
looked at. Now that we may have
and give the greatest possible
amount of this kind of pleasure, il
is every ones bounden duty to be
just as pretty as it is possible fol
him to be. And, the way to have
this necessary beauty is to be
good. Let there be a good heart
in you, and there will be on your
face smile of sweetness, and in
your behavior tender regard for
others, and a noble self-forgetful.
ness which will stamp you 8
beauty however angular you,
figure or lily blended your features
tits we'll that there are so many
kinds. of folks. Wouldn't this cid
world be a tame affair though il
we were all alike? For the per
fection of his plans the Create:
made things to differ Beauty
would be lost IN dull monotonJ
if things were alike. The variety
of difference, the emphasis o.
contrast, the prominence ot
antithesis, and the utility o.
diverseness would not be known il
the world was one continua
sameneas. Music is often rendered
more imprassively the introduction
of harmonic dissonance.
We find this variety in the
world of inanimate nature and il
is well for us that we do. There
would not be any sweetness in s