The Jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 18??-1907, 1906-04-28

May 8, at $3.50 p. M.
SOCIAL 1MPUR1TY.
The circulation of tongue currency |
is the cause of many of the evils that
are making this old world hard place
to live in. Now how does tattling, talk
ing, gossip, whatever you are minded
to call it-canse social impurity? Two
or three, perhaps more women, get to-
gether. use the word women in pref
erence to ladies. because God made
woman, and men made ladies. These
women gather in room; perhaps there
are several girls sitting round-just get
ting into their teens, or almost out of
their 'teens-still they are young too
young to know ought Of evil, One of the
women, often two or more has some-
thing to tell, it may not be very bad;
again it may be very, very bad; still it
is told. The young girls hear these tales;
they are not deaf. it would bea blessed
thing if they could close up their ears
sometimes, The tales are heard and
the impression that is made is just as
the nature of the girl is. Some laugh
over such things and tell them again
again, as good jokes. Others are puz-
zled; they wonder and study oveI such
things. Others, still, are shocked
made nervous and wish they had not
heard such things.
Remember Oh, Sisters, that evil
thoughts breed evil deeds, and your
tale is evil tell it not, when the young
are near.
| Again. in room where the gossips
sit, there may be several email children
boys and girls togeter, still the tale goes
on. "Pshaw!' says one, if the children
are mentioned, "they are full of their
play, and pay no attention to u.s."
Don't you believe it; word is caught
here sentence there, and they are held
pieced together, as the schooling goes
on month after month. In a year or 30
the dullest boy and girl know it all and
can tell it too. Then with Mortified
faces and uplifted hands the cry goes
up: "Ar'ent children bad? How do they
learn 30 much?" "Poor things, 30 as
tonished! Wish one could photograph.
enlarged, all the dirty, black seed you
have thrown on the memories of the
innocent little ones. 1t would be an
object lesson indeed.
There is so much good to talk of, why
should we repeat bad ugly tales. Why
will we keep on Gaping at gnats and
and swallowing cames? Let's quit it.
Let us love one another, and ask the
dear Lord to keep the door of our mouth
then only good words will come forth
and the world will grow better.
You men are doubtless slapping your
backs in great glee while you say, "that
is right-give it to them. They need
it," You need few thumps, too. You
are worse than the women; you
take pride in telling before boys great,
big, whopping stories of your exploits
in youth-not a grain of truth in the
whole tale. Pshaw! there never was a
woman weak enough to tell bad tale
on herself. Then you stand around in
crowds and make remarks about this
girl, or that girl, say something dispar.
aging about this woman or that woman
before boys from six to seventeen. Boys
who ought to reverence womanhood
and the boy who has nothing to rever.
ence as he is coming up will never
4 amount to more than pewter nickel
r no matter how many noughts he may
! have behind his hundreds, but YOU
tales are giving the boys anything but
a reverential feeling for woman, The
boy is struck by your sayings. just hii
nature is. One says, didn't he have &
jolly old time? Pm going to be just like
him." See? Your work. Noble-tc
. 9 blacken soul. Another will turn away
: Disguised with you, sick of your tales
d if your are church member, digustec
a with your church, thinking of religion
q as farce-tinally an infdel;'your work
;. An eternal soul damned by silly, sill,
tales.
We believe that church members ar,
: today doing more against the the caus
a of Christ than Bob Ingersol, or an,
g other infidel ever did. Purity, purity il
o the the teaching of Christ. In tn
Book find, "To the pure all things ar
pure" Let us change our glasses, wssl