The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-05-26
SOCIETY," SWELIs
Shams, - Humbuoo
Rotten Spotss ;, and
Where They are :
Found,

P'opoSe oeallDy n..,
popular Society Gossip which y, viii u
has never meant any mo, sa 'oa
Society SANDER ' 'ar
|. Simply because We don,h,
to the sort" to whom peonls v S
tell either Islander or town would
No gentleman has ever mis,.kss's ''i
for swill tub or sewer. y
2 To rehash slaoder or 0os.;
beneath our calling, and would
away from certain great prip,; ~.
advocated by us Tor years y
! Neither person, prejudice nor no,; .s
should govern Offices or peop]sr '"sl
principles ,-sound, moral. social !.
business principles, whether we b y,
said or will say, will be. and h.'
been controlled by these priuc;oI.
If any individuals have read
apparently stood 10 the way, then a
fault was not our own.
There is great touch s,ous
right reforms "are simply the putin,
up Of finger boards, pointing to n
touch.stone Of right, made dim oi,.'
by abuses
We deny the propositions IA,
people or that society is worse toi,l
than it used to be- Upon the vb,
the eos!d is better than ever be,v
as we think. The two extremes
society are the places vhs
"rotten spots" are found, The h
and bottom Of society
This question was put to an emu.
student of human kind: ''Where
you find the most rotten?' The P,d
placed q vessel of fluid to boil; N.
boiling, he allowed to cool, I'D
remarked: The impurities are ID
scum on the top and the sedimsp.u|
the bottom; the best in the middle
that is society. Avoid the top al
the bottom. If you desire to i'll
swells, humbug-, and ''rotteu spoa'|
go among tn" upper tens from I'd
small town to the city for a seuses
hippant, empty set, where me .nnsm
bred and born Go among these s.H|
constituted aristocrats, cod fish n
origin and as mean as the devil vuy|
them 10 practice "
More deeds of darkness are dss |
more embryo lives destroyed, nn
frauds perpetrated, more men deia |
less value is placed upon real us
virtue or intelligence, more pl.yn
are found for the devil, mo,&s
minds for devils work palacesi HMl'
titution, murders and thievsry "
the habitation of idleness, top \
bottom.
This applies also to the otiI
extreme degradation, loss Of sell
respect, caused by idleness, at "
bottom Of society, plays the other hl
of the scene.
The longest, strongest, and ba
step which any charitable dispose
person can provide for the needy
something to do, and the best prevsa
i've of all crime in higher or lower, TO
or bottom, is something to do-vol
I'm my visit to the jackson stree
nursery. asked Mrs. Mcdonald Il
question: From the history Of ii
women whose babies you have her
what is the GREATEST evil produsi1
the results we see?'
The reply was: Girls raised
idleness, and when grown, found th'
did not know how to cook biscuit
make a garment, and when childes
were born, they soon became dl
| gusted and fell"
, Take a girl or boy, raise them
idleness, and the devil always tx
the idle in as q playmate. The IN
keep their children from work like
wall around a tree, take the vi
down and the first breeze blows ov
the tree; it falls. In this particul'
l the bottom and top are alike, OF
r above work. and the other below wof
, either producing the same, d'fferiII
only in euormity-Humbugs sven
and rotten spots.
: We conclude then-that, the ps'
. pie who by labor,-work OF sou
, kind-provide competency-s Lvla
are the only safe, reliable and napI
e peaple, "living by work" is the GU su
l "safeguard" to our citizenship .;
a great writer: "There is wlsooI
our vagrancy laws and they shoula
rigidly enforced. There was g II
wisdom in the dying father VINO ~. w
his sons, sin certain piece OF gIuSn
gold was hid" They diligently aug +
J., the field, found no gold pieces y, =.
made an abundant crop, oy ear