The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-02-27
MANDY's FEARFUL TEMPER
A Woman's Infrmity That Worked
Wonders In Her Church.
1.-THE END
in Baptist Courier.

lr, u. Z. Brown in Baptist Courier.
"Too much temper amt a good thing
to have" said Uncle Dan'l, "an' yit,
now an then, We run up with it TEST
where 1t seems to belong, an it pears ae
ef God makes q mans wrath to praise
him, an specially a womnn's."
This was said one day after a church
meeting, at which the deacons had been
trying to settle a difficulty between two
Of the members, which arose from over
heated tongues.
Some o. you ricolleck Mandy Moore.
head" said Uncle Dan'l. "She wal the
tieriest woman l ever knowcd She use
to boast that she said what she thought
This wouldn't a been 30 bad Of she
hadn't a thought In sech a hurtin' way
She fell out, about onst g yer, with ever
nabor she had, an one half her time was
spent in ondoing at her leisure what she
had done In her haste. But In spite OF
all her quarrels an wranglin's, people
was never driv so fur fun her that they
wouldn't come back. When che was
quiet and peaceable she drawed folks to
her an made 'em like her. an Jest about
the time some fren' thought she had
turned to an angel, she'd turn u an
give EN- d whop with her tongue, an
SEN EN- of like a dog with a kittle o.
Ns "esoA PoaASu vi lie DhCh. uaG
was Mandy. She run old man Spencer
Jinkins out'n her yard Jest because he
como to borry a wagin, an then the mex
night an fur three nights folio vim, she
sot up with his son Lisha that was down
with fever'n ague. When Spencer seen
how she nussed the boy, an hilt up his
head to give him coolin' water an hyeard
her ak low an sof' to him in the dead
O. night when isha couldn't sleep, he
wondered Of Mandy didn't have two
tongues in her head. When Lisha had
got up an walkin' roun' Mandy sont him
nice things to eat about twice a day, an
spencer said to me, says he, Mandy is
the bes' woman In Sweetwater church,
an | don't care eff she did run me out'n
her yard
"1n the war time, whom women use
to meet and pick lint for the soldiers
woun's as had been made in battle.
Mandy was Almost always Their. One
day, she up and 'cused the women OF
bringing dirty scraps to pick, an said,
~ don't know what you all mean.
These scraps amt fttin' to mako lint fur
a dog" At that, some O. the women
busted out cryin', some lef' the room,
an tho res didn't know what TO do
Mics Jim Wheeler thought ahe'd take a
shot back at Mandy. 30 she ups an
says, EFF you don't like the way we
does, Miss Moorehead, you'd better pick
your lint at home Mandy riz up, an,
without sayin' a word, she lef' the house
Her skyrts was a poppin' like a whip
lash as she switched out o. the do. The
very frock she had on looked like It was
mad too. That night, when the com
mittee met to pack up the lint an sem
1t away to the war, Mandy sont in a
nil1Rr naQa mInhfu ntoI ell GLz -
went home an picked mo- lint than all
the other women put together, an Their
was 'leven Of 'em.
When we had the dinner an barbe.
cue at S~weetwater church to raise money
to buy Dashes an blines, Mandy sot an
listened as long as she could at Parson
Brooks q readin' out committees, an
sayin' what each committee was to do
Turnin' to Miss Spencer, she said, "Tell
Preacher Brooks to pint one mo- com
mittee to white tooth picks an with
that she fetched q whurl an went a
stormin' thoo the do, out into the yard,
On my way home, 1 seen her settin' on
the front steps to her house, an I
she was mad but l dasn't name
II. Uncle Dan'I,' che called out, kin
you tell me who's a goin' to buy the
dinner after Preacher Brooks has put
the whole church On committees? Don't
he know the people who fixes the table
never pays fur nothingP Is he a plum
l jest want him to come by here
so / kin speak my mine to him. I seen
1t wouldn't do to have an argument with
her, 80 / driv on. On Wednesday FOL.
tho day Of the dinner, Mandy was
there. She had on a poke bonnit an a
apun that retched to the
She had fetched a barbecued
pig, q turkey, rice, potatoes, pies, tarts,
broad, an o three gallon Jug o. milk.
She jest tuck charge O. things herself.
fast as some young woman would
come up an set her baskit down, Mandy
would tell her what to do, without hav.
ing no regards for her being on some
special committee. In this way, she
;un about two thirds o. tie women awav
'um the table, n kep sich ae she wanted
holp her. The table wal sot under
he trees, an sech q spi cad you never
When all was ready an the com.
nittee women come q s.alkin' roun' the
able, she says to 'em pint blank, tsech
II you as wants dinner kin ait It fur
wenty. five cents It was curious to sec
he gals as had como to eat without
,ayin' goin' roun' gittin' money fum
her fathers and brothers an wherever
hoy could borry 1t. Susan. Carson rid
aok homo to git hor money, an Il was
full mile AM mo-, But Mandy had her {
Eur about Q month, the whole
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