The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-04-08
she catches her daughter in a whop-
ping lie Woe to the husband when
he catches his wife in a lie. Speak
the truth until you are saturated with
it, and then you wont want to tell a

"You can come into contact with a
lying woman until you become a liar
yourself. Live the truth, act the
truth, speak the truth.
"You know why truth is called the
naked truth? Truth and error went
in bathing once and left their clothes
on the side of the stream. When
they came out error took truth s
clothes and put them on and skipped.
Truth looked down and saw errors
garments lying there and said: Il
won't have EN-; I'll go naked first.
And ever since, truth has been going
naked through the world. Error needs
frills and founces and bangs, but
truth can go in it's own n~akedness
round and round the world.
"Haven't you deceived others? I
saw a set of false teeth the other day,
and one of them had a plug in it. I
asked the dentist what he put the
plug in there for. TO make them
look natural he said. Telling lies
with the truth, and going about with
bought bangs. I like to see a woman
as transparent as a window pane. If
you women loved truth as you ought,
the church would be in better shape.
Women make solemn vows, but be-
fore three months they are breaking
them.
"a lady not long ago said to me. i
want to tell you something. What
do you think about ten women being
confirmed one night and dancing the
next night?' Why I said, Il like
that. If anybody is going to do wrong
do it right away. I have more re-
spect for those ten'women than / have
for one who has been in the church
for twenty years. and will dance.
Some of you old sisters have been in
the church forty years and are still
going to the dance. And when you
get so old you can't dance for rheuma-
tism and govt, then you chaperon the
other crowd.
"You are fixing to get your husband
into trouble. l hate to see a woman
hold her husbands nose to the grind
ing stone and hold it there until he
has no more nose than Brother'Stuart.
And the girls, most Of them, are try
ing to be pretty, until the millinery
bills and the shoe bills and the man
tua makers bills are piled up 80 high,
their fathers can never pay EN-. You
ought to be helping your father in
stead of piling debt on him. If your
father is worth $40, 900 you think he
is the richest man in town.
"Many working girls are here and
some Of these are helping to support
the family, ard I wouldn't give such
a girl for a dozen of these little dud-
ines. Her mother has called n Of
these little frizzled things down to a
late breakfast, and when it gets down
| she quarrels with the cook.and kicks
the cat out of the door and then fuses
because the wafhes are not hot. l
wouldn't give the cat for her.
IT like the girl who gets up soon
and says: Mother, you look tired.
I'll help you, to-day But instead Of
that mother is waiting on you. and
you are not worth killing-at least
with a big bullet.
Gan honest girl! After all there
IS no use in all this inery. An hon
est girl won't put all she's got on her
back like a terrapin. | took up a col
lection in Atlanta once for the Or
phan's home. I found in the hat a
check for 500. The good man who
put it there spoke to me- the next day
and said: I want to tell you about
that check in order to tell you some
thing else. When I came out Of the
church my wife said: Didn't | ask
you to buy me a sealskin cloak last
week." EYES," I said, "but I
thought these little orphans needed
help so bad that you could wait for
the cloak" "Well, I just wanted to
tell you" she said, "that I had rath-
er see you give that check to those
orphans than to own the finest cloak
in this country Now hat was a
woman. But you little Whitehall
and Peachtree dudines, when it comes
to helping somebody, you are not in it.
Some of you 60 down to the mission
meeting in a fine carriage and carry
your little 10 cents dues, and say:
"Take this, 0 Lord, and convert the
heather for thine inheritance and the
uttermost parts Of the earth for Thy
possession / can support every or
phan in Atlanta for what it takes to
support the Capital City Club.
"Wbatsoever things are pure.
There are two pillars in woman's char
acter that hold her up when the world
is on fre-purity and modesty-and
these are twin sisters. Purity in con-
versation. l can sorter see how men
are smutty in their talk, but deliver
me from a woman that is not pure in
her conversation. A young man ask
ed a young lady who had hold of his
arm going out: How do you feel?'
She said: I feel like my dress was
most TOO low down..
eff a boy has a fine horse and bug
gy and good clothes he can ride out
with almost any girl. We need some
daddies in this country that will meet
him at the door and kick him over the
front fence.
"Pure in conversation. I don't
know that you ever knew a woman
that was smutty in her talk. OF
course, there are none here. I am
talking about women in North Carroll
ma.
"Some husbands are unfair to their
wives. They pay the cook s., and
when the wife says give me So, they
say what do you want with it.
| Sister, your misfortune is, you mar
ried a hog. He may not have bristles
but he is a hog all the same. When
you have to beg or borrow money
from your husband you haven't got a
husband-just a pair of old breeches
hung up at home.
"Whatsoever things are lovely. A
sweet, pure, industrious amaiable wo:
man is the loveliest thing this side
the stars. But some Of you, if you
ever get lovely, will have to lift your
sights. We don't want pretty butter
flies; they have dissected o butterhy's
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