Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-09-13
UNCLE GID'S LETTER.

Some how don't exactly subscribe
to the saying that we are retrograding
in manners ard that our young women
are over-bold and slangy and that our
young men are lacking in Difference
and social grace. In every age of this
old world people have talked about
the good old times when they were
young and even some go so far as to
say that hardly any got drunk.
Well If memory serves your Uncle
Gid right there was good many over
bold young women when was young
and some just as slangy for we had
slang words we used and some of our
young men were just as lacking in def
erence as Hottentot.
don't think we are retrograding
but do think with the opportunities
and privileges the young people have
now that they have not advanced as
rapidly as they might have done.
One thing / do know, our girls are be-
ing better educated than ever before
and if they fail to compare favorable
with their grandmothers in domestic
life then / shall say their education
has spoiled them.
The. happiness of this life is centered
in the home and if the queen Is alive
to her responsibilities / see no chance
of retrogression though admit, yes l
know Of a few women that are so lazy
that they will live in filth rather than
clean up And the cooking l
wouldn't eat it but just such trifiing
things have always been. never
could see what sort of stomach a
man had that would tolerate such a
woman. Well its ditto the other way.
Some women don't appear any more
fastidious about their husbands so /
just place the whole of su ch on the ra-
kish list Now, if / was young man
would. never take wife out of a
home where filth predominated. If the
| girl did not clean up the concern and
make it look clean if it was rail pen
wouldn't splice with her and if she
was over forward she could paddle her
canoe alone SO far as Twas concerned.
| Some girls look very nice at church,
| but go to their homes and you'll see
soap and water is badly needed.
| You can't reach such people for they
don't take and read any periodical that
treats on such subject and they are
| just as ignorant of what real life is as
the negross are in the iungles of Afri-
ca. a
i. People who read newspapers general
ly find something to stir up their am
bition and create desire to be some
thing and somebody. Some people curse
newspaper. not having sense enough
to know that the press is the Creates
reformer known and comes direct in
to the home with its council and ad
vice. Its greater than the pulpit. Ii
fact, it allies itself with everything
calculated to build up the home an(
country 1t is freighted with message
of instruction written and taken from
actual1ife. 1t don't teach the famil,
, theories but things practical It's al
exchange of thought and ideas betweel
man and man, home and home.
1t is also judge and gives its com
plimentary edicts as well as its con
demnation. 1t plays neutral and does
mt take sides in family broils, bu
states the facts. 1t a builder and
cleanser and not tearer down. 1t il
: open to investigation and has no con
cealment, yet there are people VIII
abuse the newspapers. What for? Be
cause their own deeds are evil ant
they fear publicity. All rag tags ant
} bob tails in every walk of life woul'
destroy the newspaper influence. Oh
I'm not paid by any newspaper t.
write this-just like to tell the truth
That s all UNCLE GID.