The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-01-21
THE NEW WOMAN.
She Makes Some Very Pertinent Remarks
which Are Seasonab1e.

WHICH Are S6dSU0dU4Os
This is the season of the year when
so many people get religion. Win
ter weather apparently has tendency
to make some people realize just how
wicked they really are, and they forth
with Join some church. Summer
weather likewise causes these same
individuals to relax their vigilance on
Satan, and they can almost invariably
be found in the tents of the wicked the
first time circus comes to town. BULGE
Joining church is all right enough,
when the person who joins does so with
good intentions; but people who be-
come identified with church for " rev.
enue only" do more in one day toward
retarding the onward march of Chris
tianity than twenty Talmages can do in
lifetime, pulling on the other end of
the rope.
There are men and women in every
community, who-if opportunity afford
ed have joined some church regularly
every winter for the past twenty years.
They apparently have mania for
blowing a tin horn, and take this way
of making themselves conspicuous.
Such people are thorn in the flesh "
of any church organization.
The world is full of " theoretical
Christians people who profess Chris
tianity and never even dream of prac-
ticing what they preach. Going -
church Sunday morning with your face
drawn all out of shape, looking Ike
you had taken some bitter medicine
and couldn't get the taste out of YOUR
mouth. don't impress your neiehbors
very strongly with the belief that you
are really sincere in your religious de-
| vOtiOnS.
The man ana woman who Get into
ali argument at the breakfast table re-
garding Jonah being swallowed by the
whale, and wind up the discussion by
throwing dishes at each other, may
compromise matters and " ak to church
arm arm, but their neighbors are
bound to think there is great deal OF
mockery in such religion.
The "truly good man." who, when
kicked up against the barn yard fence
by a cow, picks up the milk-stool,
swings it several times over his head,
and then stops to look all round to
see if any of his neighbors are looking,
may preach a good sermon from the
text: =" The Merciful Man is Merciful to
His Beast" but give him chance and
he will pound his horse or cow good
and plenty"
The woman who spends six days of
the week exhibiting her neighbors,
may wear a seven dollar hat and walk
to church Sunday morning with a
prayer book in each hand, but she will
never succeed in making people believe
that she does not do so for affect. This
is also vanity.
The man or woman who looks down
his nose 800 times year and the
skin on his face looks as though it
would crack open if they attempted to
smile; may collect great deal of mon
ey every year for foreign missions. but
he would do more for the cause of
Christianity if he carried little sun
shine around with him occasionally.
Some people appear to think that
because they belong to the church, they
ought to look neither to the right nor
to the left when they meet a person
who don't happen to belong to their
set" People who go through life
looking as cold as an iceberg, in the
name of religion, do more than any
thing in the world towards making re-
cruits for the devils army.
Some people appear to think it is a
sin to laugh out loud. A sickly smile
may steal across their countenance on
rare occasions, but a good hearty laugh
is never INDUCED in. They walk to
church looking as though they were
going there to apologize to the preach
er for being alive.
The man who laughs right out in
meeting when anything tickles him,
will never drop button in the con-
tributiOn box, nor swear to himself if
compelled to shave with razor which
his wife has used to pare her corns.
The woman who rushes into the
house Of neighbOr and sets big, red
faced baby and a nursing bottle down
on the carpet, with the request that the
lady of the house tend baby while
she goes to church sociable, may be
doing great deal of good in the world,
and receive many encOmiumS; but the