The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-15

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thought OF.
What curse indigestion is. 1t af-
fects the temper, it corrupts the brain,
it forces the eyes to look through green
| glasses. and il makes that which is
sweet seem sour; but since there is
pIentv Of fresh air and il one is alive one
can walk. then why should indigestion
come?
! MAKINK A GREAT NATION.
Did YOU ever think what a great peo-
ple we are? Such a little while ago and
we did not exist. Then there came the
Spaniard and the Englishman, the
| Frenchman and the Italian, the German
| and the Dutchman and to-day the gen
| eral mixture has resulted in the Ameri-
| can, who, being new, has the buoyancy
of boy, but is given, too often, to count
| ing the past as Of no worth. | believe
in the present, but the past is a great
book to read 1t tells so plainly OF the
mistakes Of others, and ii says so clearly,
'Beware!' But who ever learned by the
mistakes OF others? You and | and ev-
erybody else longs to find out for our
selves. Sometimes we draw back when
our finger tips are burned. Sometimes
we don't. And when we are not warned
in time of the folly of many things, when
the scorch finger tips are not enough,
what wonderful 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 cheeks
were so rosy as her granddaughter's She
is far more beautiful than the younger
woman, and she represents the old age
which is still animated by hope. 1t is "a
wonderful state of affairs when one is
seventy-fve and opens ones eyes each
morning with delightful expectancy-and
yet there are men and women who
achieve just such an old age Tt is got
ten by living a healthy life; by living a
life that is health-mentally 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 ex-
pected of the body? Don't you think it
is an insult, not only to yourself but to
your Maker, to disregard the laws of
cleanliness? 1t often seems to me that,
instead of being 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 pop
ularity Of the bath tub. | never had any
belief in those old saints who sat up on
pillars and never washed themselves ]
can't believe that thanksgivings or pray
ers Of any kind are welcome in the sight
of God when they are uttered by lips that
might be clean, 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 respect--due to Him
in keeping that image clean.
An unclean body is an Insult to it's
Maker. 1t may be taken ms truth that
nation VIGOROUSLY dirty is one where
vice is rampant, virtue unknown, truth
not valued, honestly not appreciated, and
4 anarchy prevalent. If it is dreadful to
think Of a man as not approaching the
/ value Of water, how much worse is it to
| think Of a woman Of whom you cannot
| say, ''She is sweet She is equisitel She
| is dainty She is delightfulr / can ina
CINE that a man may become so democrat
i lied 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
quick death.
AN EXAMPLE IN REAL LIFE.
I am not interested in the business OF
any plumber, but this apotheosis of the
bath tub was caused by seeing an Italian
woman. She sings, am told like lark.
She conyerses, am told, with the ability
OF cultured woman, but she would be
more attractive to me IL she were less
well acquainted with music and more in
timately with soap. Even now, when she
Is young, her skin looks like parchment
! Ft4sk fr14.r l. -, 4 .
only points moral and adorns a tale
she will not have lived in vain.
The moral she must point to is this:
BE clean, be clean be always and ever
clean" And the tale which she adorns?
Well, it is this poor story. tits true it
doesn't amount to much, but il it win only
suggest TO somebody who is in doubt how
much may be gained by the use Of water
pnd soap, then, indeed, i win not have
lived in vain
All the denominations OF desolations 90
together anarchy and dirt. Vice and dirt.
Ugliness and dirt. While nothing beautiful
can exist without perfect neatness. Clean
/ Illness beauties that which. before it was
clean; lacked beauty. Cleanliness and
health 20 hand-in-hand, and personally.
l don't believe goodness can exist without
cleanliness. 1t is much easier to be godly
when you are clean than when your are
dirty. And il we reach point in the his
tory Of the world when we fall down and
worship craven images let one OF the
images be bath tub, topped by cake
Of soap, and draped in Turkish towel.
You are inclined to scott at the religion
OF cleanliness! Try it, Then you will
scof no longer, but will give to it the
reverence it claims, and say as your creed.
Eternal cleanliness is the price of liberty
OF conscience and OF soul" And so agree
with Bah.
ELECTION BETS AMONG CHURCH
MEMBERS.
| Another instance OF the folly Of rnix