The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-15
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Aunt Trudy Delivers Lecture About
Beliefs of People.

Button Rose Cottage, Sept Is, 1900.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
It's funny to me how the CRATE COM
men run Of people git '-impresyuns." an
beleey in 'em so. Jes' as if they had
been cIapt in a mold an printed. like
pat O. butter, by some supernatural
hand They jes' settle down an talk
about there fate" like it was sum-
thing. An then they jes' wilt into
the shape O. things they don't like, an
some elaine to be marters- Now, I'd
JeS' like to see once what Fate is like.
Is it some lank OF ghost, or is il a
sort o. han'kuf sech as the Sheruf has?
Why its jeS' come to pass that neerly
all the yong peple under 40 thinks they
got to be 1eS as some fOrrin ilHoonc
makes emf When the old ire of Wich-
kraft was chopped down, a whole lot
of sprouts come up-an' that idee of
fate" was the bigges' one It's SO silly
that pepIe will be TUX in by the devel
that way. / think If I believed I Wuz
born to be tide up by them chanes O.
fate, an toSt about like football that
way, I'd jess cut all them chaneS. at ono,
an see what would happeni Couldn't
cut EN-? Don't tel me that, fer I'd like
to no what's agin the human will, when
ono it Is risen upI This belief about
fate is a lazy snare, that is ALL o yes,
did one have a tinid dred of fate an
Slnes. an the moon, an impreSyunS.
but nOW-why 1eSs walk all over en-
as Bernece sez- Why Jes' on purpus, I
I
the moon over my Ief' shoulder, Jes' to
spite fate.
An lots OF folks brood an lament over
the OF times. an the OF fashens, an
the OF manner o life, jes' as If the OF
stiles was clean gone an past out for
everl an the new ways wasn't anything
to compare with EN- an we couldn't
help our selyeSi Ders, o deret Why
don't they 60 back to the OF ways?
Kent do it2 oh. yes you ken If you
RELY want to you ken jes' cross a
ways in to MissuFy, an get a Ii aker
pach OF woods. an bid a log house with
a good OF fastened stick an morter
fire place in one end, an a wooden ZACH
on the door, an q little 2-pained wiuder
(they didn't hev windows thenD Then
you dig well an put up a forked
post over it, with d pole for sweep
an a oil oxen buket on it. A genooine
OF oxen buket! What's to hinder2-
not a govnor from Porto Rico to
Manflyi eve ust to say from Name
to Californy,' didn't we2) Then you
clere a little paeh. an fence it fur po-
tatoS mex yere-but youth hev to call
'eTn '.taters-" Then you get gees an
sheep an you ken rae fether beds an
blankets, jes' like our granmothers had.
You ken il your as smart as your gran
mother. There's no use a pinin' an
weepin' over the good OF days You kin
hev all rite over agin if you want to.
You think Fate sent you to Topeka.
O no, she didn't Your wise old father
cast out his eye over the face O the
erth, an takin' in the lay O. the lam,
an the genrel avrige, he jes' cot a Wis
yen of facts (Which mebby you'll keteh
some day, when your oIder) an hedded
his prerrie skooner to this pint, that's
ALL Fate never dropped US all down
labeled so an So" You kin be OF
fastened yet If you want to-
An whole Lot of folks say Fate was
agin me, an 1 couldn't get no ejica-
shun." An that's another one of them
fool inpresyuns- what's the matter
deep all around you. If you care a pic
ayune you kent help a lernin'i Even
the daily papers viii tech you spellin'
an jografy these days Yet I want to
an besides, it's plane truth, two I
met a preacher, a vfsitin' here, who had
hadn't ever herd Of G. NJ Sheldon But
it mite be he chosen to be OF fash
end. an not to hev his min pernishi-
ated by worldly newspapers. If he was
to poor to get them his peple mus be |
hethens, or els nifty slack
Then here peple often excusin' meme
born So faith is another one o. them /
sprouts of wich-kraft- A man is a I
man, now, same as OF old, an not q bit /
more hampered than Adam was He I
ken be about what he wants to be. if /
he goes at il. o yes. / no prenatal |
infloonce'' is high sounden an sfntific, |
but it's mostly sentimentle an hnnicky 4
peple who talk 1t. Most folks havin'
you'll motifs An they don't ever seem
to get up to there family rate don't Il
meme to say family caracter don't tell in
family offspring, but the offspring hes
power to raze or lower the family car
acters hisseIf. Meny a poor mother is
blamed for the menenes5 of her child
an she innocent as God of the vice.
In this partieIar sprout Of wfeh-kraft,
how will you expIane the goodness, bad
ness an indifference Of twins7
Another sprout o wich-kraft IS the /
supposed power o. inherited evel. My
father was a murderer or a convict. an
can't expect to be anything" they I
say o that's a cruel OF lieI An it's
the burden o. lots of harts in the world
[ wish they would remember that E1Och
was the oldest son of Cain, the muir
1ereri Enoch, the blessed. who walked
with God 800 yeres. an was so good he
was taken to heven without dyfn'. All,
t's all bosh about havin' a s.spelr' |
thrown over you by a wiked OF ances-
ter A good neny viii say here: Aunt |
rrudy forgets about the sins Of the
father befn' visited on the children. to
he 3rd and 4th generashuns' No, but
Aunt Trudy has read the 18th chapter
Dr. Ezekial. where God took back that
law. Children are likely to follow the
sins of there parents but they don't
nave to folio them
You see we ken be OF fastened IL we
want to, or enything els, almost: but
oeple usually don't no II until they hev
led themselves all up in habsxs-
Yours, 5es' the same as ever,