The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-06-21

moro to drive wiskey out of the country
and to make young men sober than any
prohibitory Law. It is In the power Of
the young women to do 1t. II they'd
only let 1t be understood, and then act up
to their resolution, that they would not
notice any young man who drinks whis.
key, plays cards, and whose reputation
for good morals is not good, what pow
erful effect it would have in lifting up
young men to pure young woman's
own high plane of character. There is
no other class Of people hardly that can
do as much good in the world, and have
such influence for good over young men
as young women, and therefore it is so
highly important for them to be educa-
ted and to be Christians. But, alas the
young women of our country are not
what they ought to be. # they were
better, young men would be better.
Women are like cotton-they rule the
moral market. When women 60 up they
carry the men up with them, and when
they come down from what they ought
to be and are expected to be, they always
bring men down with them. Said gen.
tleman to me not long age, and one who
Is gentleman, and travels all over the
State, into every town in the State,
"why don't you write about she women
and try to make them do better. As 1
go about over the State on tho railroads,
I see some very ugly conduct, and things
to be greatly lamented, in women" It
is hard thing to say, but I believe it is
nevertheless true, that mems standard OF
morality for women is higher than wo-
mems standard Of morality for men. No
man of any pretension to manhood will
marry q woman that is not pure and
above reproach, and yet great many
women will marry men and associate
with them whom they know, or could
know, are drunken and immoral. Oh !
for educated Christian women to make
the women better, acting upon their sis.
ters like leayen, and so make the men,
and especially the ysung men, better.
This is need No. 4.
Yes, repeat, in conclusion, that one
of the greatest needs of our time is edu.
Gated Christian women. We need them
in our homes, in our schools and in our
Churches. We need them to be wives, to
be mothers, to be sisters. We thank God
that there are many such women in
South Carolina; and that their number
may be increased, let us labor and pray
earnestly that our daughters, as we'll as
our sons, may be early converted, and
then let Us see to it that they have the
same opportunities for thorough mental
equipment as their brothers have. We
have now entered upon the woman peri.
cd of the world--that is, greater oppor-
tuuities for women, better education and
larger sphere Of influence and service
But while We seek to provide the higher
education for our girls, don't let us fall
into the mistake of neglecting their lower
education, that is in training them, on
their side of life, for its practical and
every day duties, which may almost be
summed up in the one thiug-to be good
housewives. There can be no happy,
model homes without woman so edu-
Gated, as its pesiding genius. A woman
that can run the circle of the sciences,
and yet don't know how to make good
bread and to prepare toothsome meal,
is like "a cake not turned" educated
only on one side. It is true that "man
cannot live by bread alone," but 1t is
equally true that he cannot live without
bread, and therefore to know how to
make good bread is very important
part of female education. In short, a
woman ought to be so educated that what
Solomon saps of his model housewife, in
the thirty. first chapter of Proverbs, will
be realized in her. "Her children rise
up and call her blessed, her husband,
also, and he praiaeth her."
JOHN G. WILLIAMS.
.Allendale, S. c.