The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-04-09

speak few words in reference to spoiled
women. | do not believe there are as
many spoiled men as spoiled women.
Men, as a rule, have not as great
chance to be spoiled down at the store
as some women have to be spoiled in the
home They would become just as spoiled
If they had the chance But the women!
oh, how many of them are spoiled in the
homei Did you ever stop to think that
a great deal of the so-called nervous
troubles OF this world among women are
simply due to fits of temper? The young
girl grows up as a spoiled child in her
fathers house. Then she marries she
boasts that no one has ever been able
to govern her. She is right. She Will
not even govern herself. Then, when
something goes wrong in the home. as
married woman she scolds and sulkS and
refuses to eat and to sleep. She cries and
goes on until she works up few spasms
of hystera and physically becomes as
rigid as board | have been in many
homes as pastor and friend. ! have seen
there many women said to be nervous
wrecks who were not nervous as you or
/ might become nervous from overworl.
They were simply nervous because they
let their tempers as spoiled children get
the better of them. Many nervous wo-
men could be cured of their hystera ~
some one could give them good, whole
some rebuke and put them to bed. as
mothers punish their children and then
put them to bed IL they did wrong. The
symbol of the camel as applied to the
rich man In reference to his meanesses
toward his fellow men might also be
applied to many so-cal,ed nervous women
who let their tempers get the better of
them merely because they are spoiled
children OF course in making this sweep
ing statement / am not saying that all
nervous people are evil tempered but
some of them and many of them certainly
are.
But as I see these richly laden camels
coming over the hillsides toward the shut
gates of the Jerusalem walls I see slSulk-
ing In the distance other forms They
are the robbers and the thieves and the
highwaymen. They are the murderers
who for one roll of cloth would be will
ing to cut a mans throat They are the
same kind Of bloodthirsty human demons
as were those pirates who were supposed
to have captured the sailing vessels in
which the beautiful Theodosia, wife of
Governor Aston of South Carolina and
daughter of the famous Aaron Burr,
sailed to meet her father In New York
Rumor tells us that this beautiful wo-
man, with her hands tied behind her
back was compelled to walk the plank
that her captors might possess her ward
bers lying In wait for their prey. If these
merchantmen hesitate one hour In UNI
loading their camels and in making them
go through the eve of the needle. down
these miscreants will swoop. They viii
slay the owners and carry away the
goods as rich spoils.
A Dangerous Road.
If these two merchants had been only
humble peasants, IL they had been going
afoot or astride a cheap four-footed beast
of burden, such as Mary, the mother of
Jesus, rode when Joseph, the carpenter.
was taking her down TO Bethlehem the
night before the most memorable Of all
Christmas days. no attention would have
been paid them, but there they are this
evening, riding camels. Each camel Is
worth a large sum of money. Each one
of these camels was heavily laden with
the richest Of merchandise. DO you won
der that those robbers skulking upon
the hilsides are on the alert? And do
you also wonder that rich men always
have the robbers lowering around them
ready to steal their morals, their good
names, their souls as well as their gold?
The weather. a man becomes the higher
| up the ladder of fame he Climbs the more
| awful are the destroying monsters who