Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-03-08
UNCLE GID'S LETTER.

Well girls, your Uncle Gid does like
you although he scolds and gets tight
ing mad sometimes at your fool ways.
Now, was never much mannerly In
my life and dom t know thing about
how to put on but you girls, If all OF
you were as sweet when at home as
you are out in company, many homes
would be paradise. Now, girls, why
don't you keep your company voice
and manners in your home among your
brothers and little sisters. Answer me,
why do you affect to be in company
what you really are not. 7 Why do you
storm at your mother, and brothers
and little sistersI Do you think no one
hears your Do you think no one knows
it2 So thought Nora, but alas her
young lover, noble young man, came
one day unsupported and heard Nora
storming and scolding her mother. He
turned and left without anyone seeing
him and poor Nora lost her sweetheart,
whom she dearly loved. SO, girls,
keep your company voice and manners
in your fathers home. 1t sounds so
nice and sweet to your father, so ele-
CANT to your mother, so comforting to
your brother
All, girls, you have no idea how
charming and elegant it makes you. If
you did you certainly would improve
that most precious gift and treasure it
far above rubies.
The old men, as a general rule, boast
of the fair daughters of this beautiful
southland, are proud of them and con-
slider nothing too good for them and
are deeply concerned for their future
welfare, and when one leaves the pa
rental home to erect one of her own,
the father soon comes around and find
ing it neat, nice and tidy, the old fell
low is proud beyond language to ex-
press. Girls, no man has ever lived
that can make a home. He may build
the house and furnish it but it takes
woman to make the home He may
claim to be king of it, but, after all,
the queen is the one that gives it tone
and influence. No man is smart
enough to give home the magnificent
splendor a woman can give it. Though
the building may be a log cabin, it
can be home of joy and gladness.
Some fine houses are almost a hell
while yonder hut is a paradise.
Happiness, girls is not found always
in palaces, nor in fine clothes, nor liv-
cried servants, neither in the ballroom
among the giddy gay, but it is in the
heart, heart free from sin and guile.
A good man shall satisfy himself
from himself Then, girls, look into
the heart and extract from within that
sweet and lovely disposition, so well
calculated to make your home para
dice. A place where your husband can
flee from the tolls and strife of life and
find balm for his aching heart.
Home, sweet home Oh how love
my home and it's queen, the grand
mother, queen that all the children
love, but how many homes that are
no homes, where there is no love above
that of an animal, where the children
get their education on the streets and
in the back alleys, only place to stay
at night, get whipped and scolded.
Such home who can admire? Nc
wonder drunkenness and theivery exist.
No wonder our courts are overflow
ing with men and women charged with
crime! Such homes produce Just sucf
lawless creatures, their mothers are
unfit to preside as queens.
Fathers, let s train our girls to bt
queens in the homes of the future. AL
great men attribute their greatness t.
their mother My mother! What {
pleasure it is to say mother We al
love the name Then let us all make
the name greater and more blessed tC
the human family by carefully train
ing our daughters for the destiny whicl
is theirs to fill. On them hangs th'
destiny of mankind. Whatever il
grand, noble and refined must COM
from them. AS we increase their cap
acity to fill the destiny God designed
them to fill the sooner we will get a
way from our savage brutality. Now
sum the whole matter, folks, and SO
if the home is not where improvement
must begin. UNCLE GID.