Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-08-10
THROUGH A BOYS BY YEs.
The Way Some Folks Look to
Little People.
RAMS Horn,

Ine way SOLhes COlkS LoOh W
Little People.
M Xa9AELL, slr;; I don'tsee Why
gVAWH it is that my ma is all
Xxx the time wanting me and
Hetty to go to meetings SO much
when according to what she says
herself there amt hardly anybody
goes any more but bad folks. Last
Thursday old Miss Tigg come
to our house, and her and ma
seowed all day and talked about
the folks. Hetty and me didn't
quite hear all they had to say,
because sometimes ma would see
usand drive US out.
Old Miss Tigg said she didn't
believe Brother Stormer had any
business in trying to preach. For
one thing, she didn't like him
because he hollored SO loud, and
for another, she believed that all
he breaches for is the pay he gets
She said she couldn't see how aman
who is all the time telling stories
like he does, could have enough
religion to amount to much. And
then besides that he was so proud.
Anybody with half an eye could
see that from the way he reaches
his hair up. / don't see how. any
body with just half an eye could
see at all unless they had dredful
good specks, but that's what Miss
Tigg said. She said she never saw
a preacher SO proud of his hair in
all the days of her life. And then
he was so pompous and put on SO
4 a. n
many airs that it never done. her
a bit of good to hear him preach.
She couldn't bear to see a preacher
a raising up on his tip toes SO
much, and it made her nervous
for him to pound the Bible SO
hard as he does. I can't remember
near all the things about Brother
Stormer that Miss Tigg didn't like,
but she was so put out, she said,
that he couldn't go to a store and
ask for a bar of soap without
doing it in such solumn voice,
and then whgt sense was there in
his scaling his dog in a way just
as though he was tryingto preach?
AS soon as ma could get a
chance, she said that everything
that Mise Tigg had said was just
as true as true could be, but she
said she liked Brother Stormer a
good deal better than she liked his
wife. She said she thought Sister
Stormerwas altogether too stuck
up for q preachers wife, and then
INA didn't like ita bit the way she
tried to boss. She eould e bear
to see d preach her's ESQ fond Of
dress that when she went mt to
church che looked nicer than
nearly everybody else, and then
ma thought it was a shame that
she should make things look SO
nice in her house. Anybody could
see that she wasn't pious much
from the fancy tomfooleries and
things she had scattered all over
her house. According to the
way ma looked at it a preachers g
folks ought TO be plain and prim,
and not do "a thing that would
give anybody chance to say they
were extravagant or stuck up.
Extravaganza was as bad as steal
ling, ma said, in a preachers
house.
Miss Tigg, sal dto be sure it was,
the first time ma stopped to catch
her breath, but she could look over
that if the preachers wife didn't
all the time try so hard to have
her way over everybody else.
When they cleaned up the church
no other way but hers would do
about how then should fix the pull
pit, and at the sunfower supper
she wouldn't listen to any way
but hers how tho tables should be-
.
set. In the Sunday school she
made the superintendent do just
as she wanted him to do in
naming the classes, and in the
missionary society everybody had
to knuckle down to her when they
sent away a box, and it was Miss
Tigg's idea that she even bossed
Brother stormer in what he should
preach and made him ask her
how she liked itwhenever he picked
out a text. Miss Tigg said she
thought a preachers wife ought to