Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-10-25
UNCLE GID'S LETTER.

A fellow asked your Uncle Gid to
say something ON human nature. L
hardly know what the fellow meant.
To be human is to be manly and wo-
manly. suppose he had the idea that
all men were beastly in their natures.
If he has he is sadly mistaken. The
beastly passion is acquired by cultiva-
tion and is propagated by the same
method 1t is said man is known by
the company he keeps, or birds of
feather will flock together. Environ
ment sometimes causes men and wom-
en- to err Coarse and vulgar company
is not good for young people. Visiting
homes where there is no refinement is
detrimental to any boy or girl Igno-
rance begets ignorance. Parents can
not be too careful about the company
their children keep. The children are
innocent and will remain so if they are
kept out Of bad company. Ill-manner-
led persons are nuisance to any COM
munity and many of them get it from
their own homes.
Let me watch young girls at church
or gatherings and l can very near tell
you the kind and quality their mothers
are, and you can too. If the mother
is coarse and vulgar so will be the
daughter. A careless and indifferent
mother never makes any Improvement
on her offspring A brawling mother
will raise brawling family nine times
in ten, inhuman and brutal,
Humanity means humane, gentle,
kind and refined. The woes of human
ity are attributable to inhumanity and
to humanity nature, as may be suppos-
ed, and it is not human to be despotic,
cruel or avaricious. Such characters
have acquired that disposition by de-
stroying the better loving and kindly
disposition first implanted in the hu-
man heart. The child is proof of this
assertion. 1t is loving, gentle and
sometimes excessively kind but alas
too often it is allowed to associate
with beings who are the reverse and
imbibe the poison Of the vulgar
have lived long enough to know. the
lowest and dirtiest element delights to
drag down the son and daughter of
some good man and woman to their
own low level. I've heard them say,
''she thinks herself too good to keeI
company with us, or she thinks
o herself above us, etc. Well, any
nice, well-behaved girl is too good tc
! associate or keep company with the ILL
hammered set and ought not to do it.
A girl that will misbehave in com
+ pany is very bad specimen of human
q ity and l don't blame nice girls fol
avoiding her. What can refined gir
promise herself by associating with
h such class? Nothing. Better asso
ciate with oneself than do it. Thes'
: little, jealous, narrow-c contracted spec
4 linens that take delight in throwing
off on nice girls are not my kind t.
v laud. 1t is not human, if you please
|, and no nice, refined person will dea
o in any such stuff. l am close observ
i er and I can tell by ones talk or ever
their letters, their qualities and at
: tainments in the social status. Som
are high, some are medium and som
q are very low, but there is room highe
up and if you imagine some are abov
:, Won don't try to null them back bu
climb up to them and leave off tn
is odious and despicable and be mani
and womanly. Now in conclusion le
Il me say that the News has been exceed
ingly kind to its correspondents
RI much so that hardly see how it coul
l. stand our silly twaddle, but it doe
and / think we should not impose o
it with impunity. UNCLE GID.