The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-08
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the past is a great book to read 1t
tells so plainly of the mistakes of others,
and it says so clearly, 'Bewarer' But
who ever learned by the mistakes of
others? You and l and everybody else
longs to find out for ourselves Some
times we draw back when our finger tips
are burned. Sometimes we don't. Ana
when we are not warned in time of the
folly of many things when the scorcned
finger tips are not enough, what a Won
derful old age of repentance is before us.
An old age of repentance is not beautiful.
Have you ever seen an old lady with
white hair, whose checks were as rosy as
her granddaughter's? She is far moro
beautiful than the younger woman, ana
she represents the old age which is still
animated by hope. 1t is a wonderful state
or affairs when one is 70 and opens ones
eyes each morning with delightful ex-
pectancy-and yet, there are men and wo.
men who achieve just such an old age
1t is gotten by living a healthy life; by
living a life that is healthy-mentalIy
morally and physically.
The dirtiest nations in the world are the
most immoral. They tend to the meanest
vices and they have the narrowest ideas,
When ones skin is allowed to dry up,
when only ones face is acquainted with
publication by water, what can be expect
ed of the body? Don't you think it is an
insult, not only to yourself but to your
Maker, to disregard the laws of cleanl-
ness? 1t often seems to me that, instead
of being so uppish about our privilege to
vote about the fact that all men are equal
and they are not-that we should get up
and hurrah for the popularity of the bath
tub. never had any belief in those old
saints who sat up on pillars and never
washed themselves. l can't believe that
thanksgiving or prayers of any kind are
welcome in the sight of God when they
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but are not. 1t seems to me that Gods
idea in making man in His own image
was to inculcate in man the necessity-no,
the respecr-duv to Him in keeping that
image clean.
An unclean body Is an insult to it's
Maker. 1t may be taken as a truth that
a nation VIGOROUSLY dirty is one where
vice is rampant, virtue unknown, truth
not valued, honesty not appreciated, and
anarchy prevalent. If it is dreadful to
think OF a man as not appreciating the
value of water, how much worse is it to
think of a woman of whom you cannot
say She Is sweet She is is exquisite She
is dainty! She is delightfulg' l can inn
ag1ne that man may become so demor-
allied that he would forget the duty he
owed his body; but woman-well, when
woman has reached that condition
death should be the sentence pronounced
upon her. And not only death but n
quick death. l am not interested In the
business of any plumber but this apothe-
sis OF the bath tub was caused by seeing
an Italian woman. She sings, 1 am told,
like lark. She converses, am told, with
the ability of a cultured woman but she
would be more attractive to me if she
Were less well acquainted with music and
more intimately with soap. Even now
when she is young, her skin looks like
parchment. What will she be when she
Is ola? IL she only points a moral and
adorns tale she will not have lived in
vain, but the moral she must point to is
TINS: BE clean, be clean, be always and
ever Clean" And the tale which she
adorns? Well, it is this poor story. 1t is
true 1t doesn't amount to much but if it
Will only suggest to somebody who is in
DOUBT how much may be gained by the
use OF water and soap, then, indeed, l will
not have lived in vain.
All the denominations of desolations 90
together-anarchy and dirt Vice and dirt
OgAness and dirt. While nothing beautiful
can exist without perfect neatness. Clean
Ilness beauties that which, before it was
clean, lacked beauty. Cleanliness and
health go hand-in-hand, and personally. l
don't believe goodness can exist without
cleanliness. 1t is much easier to be cody
When you are clean than when you are dir
~. And If we reach point in the history
of the world when we fall down end wor-
ship craven images, let one of the images
be bath tub, topped by a cake of soap,
and draped in a Turkish towel You are
inclined to scon at the religion of clesnli
nessl Try it. Then you will scott no longer,
but will give to it the reverence 1t claims,
and say as your creed, Eternal cleanli-
ness is the price of liberty of conscience
and OF soul" And so agree with Bah.