The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-05-25
''SOCIETY', sw.,
Shams, - Humbupe
''ROtten Snotss and
Where They ara :
Found

we don propose dealin,
popular Society Gossip vh;ss. Vi
has never meant any uo, na % .
Society SANDER N'O's To
|. Simply because we doD,,
to the sort to whom people WY, wy
tell either Islander or town s Soq
No gentleman has ever mist,lsea
for swill tub or sewer. 's0
2. TO rehash SANDER or eo.,;,
beneath our calling, and would uIi''
away from certain great n,;,.!'
advocated by US Tor yes,s '''l
Neither person, prejudice nor NM
should govern Offices or peopls"
ples,-sound, moral, social
business principles, whether We
said or will say, will be, and T.
been controlled by these prineiI
If any individuals have read
apparently stood in the way ths,
fault was not our own.
AhS'o 10 S'ea' louch.st0ne
right reforms ARE simply the putt
up of finger boards, pointing 10
touch.stone Of right, made dim N
by abuses
We deny the propositions 4
people or that society is worse III
than it used to be- pom the IN
the world is better than ever bal,
as we think. The two extrems
society are the places VII
''rotten spots are found. The
and bottom Of society.
This question was put to an emf,
student Of human kind: "Where
you find the most rotten?' The P,
placed vessel of fluid to boil; A
boiling, he allowed to cool, N
remarked: 'The impurities are t|
scum on the top and the sedimes,
the bottom; the best in the middAl
that is society. Avoid the top d
the bottom. If you desire to ID
swells, humbug-, and "rotten spcd
60 among tho upper tens from 4
small town to the city for sensels
flippant, empty set, whore me annes!
bred and born Go among these d
constituted aristocrats, cod fish
origin and as mean as the devil Vnl
them in practice "
More deeds of darkness are dal
more embryo lives destroyed, ua
frauds perpetrated, more men deui
less value is placed upon real nj
virtue or intelligence, more plsp(
are found for the devil, mo ~
minds for devils work palaces, M
titution, murders and thiefery !,
the habitation of idleness, toly
bottom.
This applies also to the of
extreme degradation, loss Of Vi
respect, caused by idleness, at \
bottom at society, plays the other \
Of the scene.
The longest, strongest, and n
step which any charitable dispas
person can provide for the NEEDY
something to do, and the best prev'I
i've of all crime in higher or lower,N
or bottom, is something to down
I'm my visit to the jackson ste
nursery, | asked Mrs. Mcdonald !
question: From the history Of Y
women whose babies you have he
what is the GREATEST evil produ'l
the results We see?'
The reply was; Girls raised
idleness, and when grown, found tA
did not know how to cook a biscuit
make a garment, and when childA
we're born, they soon became d
gusted and FELL"
Take a girl or boy, raise them
idleness, and the devil always ~
the idle in as a playmate. The III
keep their children from work llIs
wall around a tree, take the vi
down and the first breeze blows o'
the tree; it falls. In this partlcu'
the bottom and top are alike %
above work. and the other below VOL
either producing the same, d'1euI
only in euormity-Humbugs sven
and rotten spots.
We conclude then-tbat, the ps'
pie who by labor, work OF ~, ~.
kind-provide competency--,a Nv,
are the only safe, reliable ana n. !.
peaple, diving by work is the ~ ~
Safeguard" TO our citizenship -
great writer: There is wisoOI
our vagrancy laws and they sn0u, ~.
rigidly enforced" There was s ri
wisdom in the dying father VIM ., w
his sons, sin certain piece Of s sns 4
gold was hid" They diligently ous ID
the field, found no gold Plecs a,,, y.