The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-07-31
Eta JANE ETCHINGS.
A Message to Housewives and
a Lesson for Preachers.

ETA JANE, JULY 27.-The
weather is still dry and crops are
needing rain. Some farms have
plowing to do yet. They will finish
it this week.
Thursday next is set apart for
Children's Day at Salem and doubt
less large crowd will attend. The
protracted meeting begins there
Thursday night. Rev. w. II. White
will be assisted by Rov. Mr.. Boozer,
of Gaffoey, as it is expected that
Rev. w. G. Neville, of Yorkville,
will preach Monday or Monday
Light.
A large force of hands is still at
work rescuing cotton from Pacolct
river. They are drying and repack
ing it at Skull Shoals and hauling it
to Kelly's for shipment. A sand
bar is forming at Howelrs ferry and
it is thought that the flat will be un-
able to run in few days.
There is small crop of fruit this
year, especially apples, and they are
of faulty kind. generally. The
peach crop is not failure, alto.
gether, but is light.
DR.. l.. r. Black has no serious
cases of sickness on hand. lie has,
80 lar, been quite successful in his
| practice.
The telephone posts have been put
up to Sarratts, and the wire will soon
be put on and the line at work.
MIR. Jack Kendirck will have a
phone at his house.
The season for visiting is at hand
and the poor housewives dread the
time that they will not be able to en-
tertain their friends as they would
like to. The scarc'ty of vegetables
and other things necessary to make
the table like they want it gives
them no little concern. This is all
fashionable weakness and ought to
be stopped. The dread we put our
hosts under robs us of the pleasure
our visit gives u.s. Old granny
Mitchell, (who always has plenty to
eat in her home, and that of the very
best kind used to visit her neigh
bors. But when she saw them
putting themselves to any extra
work for her entertainment she
would tell them that if her company
wasn't worth as much or more than
a good dinner she would 20 home.
On one occasion We heard her tell
LADY not to do anything in the way
of getting dinner more than she did
for her own folks. She had come
to have days enjoyment in talkiog,
and if the lady couldn't sit down and
talk she could 60 home, for she would
as soon be lonesome at home as any
where else. If We had more people
like old Mrs. Mitchell, we would not
have so many poor run t. death
women in our land. We heard a
minister say that he did't rccollect
one hour afterwards what he had for
dinner, something, the preparation
of which had cost his hostess hours
and perhaps days of mental anxiety.
He wanted his people to know one
thing--that when he was in discharge
of his official duty he was not think
ing of what he had or had not had
for dinner-it never came into his
head. This is the way with all
ministers who are properly in their
work and doing their duty. The
fact is, the big meetings do not do
half the good they would if the dear
women didn't convert their time into
the most slavish servitude by spend.
ing their time over the hot stove in
order to have nice dinners prepared
f,r the preacher. Give your minis.
ter and visitors bowl of butter milk
and if you have it corn dodger for
their supper. 1t will act as brain
tonic. He will preach you better
sermon that night than if you crowd
him with rich pies and other nick
nacks that he will soon forget about
except for the headache or sour
belch they have been instrumental in
bringing about. And with your Wis.,
itors it is the same way. The man
who breaches the gospel in its power
is not the epicurean imbecile whose
greatest attainmcnts lie in the deglu-
| .orial capabilities of his go,mandiz.