Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-02-22
UNCLE GlD'S LETTER.

am rather sad today and would If
| could, remove all bitterness and
strife from our industrial life, but |
can't. 1t gives me pain to hear OF the
mistakes our union people make every
now and then. The Flat Branch wran-
gle was uncalled for and unnecessary
and is very annoying to the officers of
the union Well, let us change the
subject little. picked up paper
the other day and my eye fell on the
society column and l began to read of
the nervous prostration of certain lead
ers of the tribe. Mrs. SO and so has
gone to certain watering place to
recuperate her nerves, and Miss SO
and so has broken down and must
needs take an ocean voyage across the
| high seas to regain her health. Then
thought of my poor old rheumatic
self and how needful it was that go
| to Hot Springs or somewhere else to
| get free from pain. Then | thought
of the poor old washerwoman, my
neighbor who never complained of ev-
en- a slight pain. Thinks I she is the
best off of the whole push and Gosh !!
/ am glad to know there is somebody
not a hypocrite and possessed with
nerves and muscle and not afraid to do
something.
What hard time our society bellies
have to maintain their nerves. Oh,
how I like the mothers and daughters
that are not afraid of the wash tub,
picking geese, churning hoeing in the
garden and doing a thousand other
things They are my kind of society
| 11oo,,, b,,t tlo 1op,nboo1 hox-c wi II Ant
ter around the other good for nothing
set day in and day out. What mess
of funkies they are Then again just
look at your society girls complexion
worse than an old saddle skirt. You
boys are tarnal fools. Don't you see
the red and rosy cheeks of the working
girls and lips as sweet as candy? All,
she's the girl for me. She's the real
thing with muscles like iron, good,
strong nerves, none of your fabby wax
fingers or painted butterflies. She's at
home doing something, helping moth
er, while the other-oh where lis she?
On the CAD at something they call a
club or league, surrounded by lot of
pie-faced being who think the world re-
wolves around them. A lot of burned
fools that haven't sense enough to
know the food they eat and the clothes
they wear came into existence by
working men and women. Society la
dies and gentlemen are the drones of
the world The true men and women
of the world are those who do and
mean something. Yet | am sorry tC
say some of our noble hearted young
men and ladies are inclined very much
towards following suit after the fash.
ionable set, and I fear, are allowing
their nerves to become distressed with
the society craze.
Give me the plain domestic girl
with her sparkling eye and rosy cheek:
and [ don't care if she runs and Jumps
hops and skips, whistles and pats he1
foot She's jewel all the same Ye'
I don't care if she rides in the fo1
chase or takes her gun and kills game
all health giving sports in field or for
est. 1t doesn' detract from her WON
anly qualities in the least. Such sport
and pastime will keep off lung troub
les
They are much better than those ir
on clad rules and regulations that soci
ETY. imposes. Hundreds die and go t.
j. an early grave ON account of the bond
y society imposes. There are nearly on
Q million and half more men in the U
S. than women, and the reason of thi
: is because the restrictions of society
killing them by the thousands. Girls
9 run and wrestle, take out door exercis
and let God paint your cheeks wit
d rich and healthy blood. Don't say you
3 Uncle Gid is an old fool and 1 al
not going to be tom boy to pleas
= him. I'm going to follow fashion an
I society, dip snuff and sit in the parlC
and read novels in spite of him.
Il Well, all right, girls. Some are no
in their graves used to nurse whe
y they were healthy children, but whe
'S they became women society lured thel
into its folds and they speedily 10
u their health and are gone Do as yo
T. please. I've given you plain Chi
. all the same and aim to tell you NOR
u God bless our lovely girls.
, UNCLE GID.