Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-05-30
UNCLE GID'S LETTER.

ninety-uine in every hundred would
have written in large capital letters
the word, Love. Just at what age
boy begins to love a girl am unable
to tell you. and just at what age a girl
begins to love boy | can't tell, and
just how old both have to be before
they cease to love l am not old enough
to tell you, and l am SO, if you please.
Love is a disease that lets none es-
cape. It's bred and born in the hu-
man family, and there is no use of me
scolding folks on that score, and | just
aint a going to rare and charge on any
body about their love admiration. I've
often said if gate post had on wom-
an 8 dress that I'd bow to it, and if you
correspondents think you are gaining
favor by throwing up to the boys they
are robbing the cradle, you are mis-
taken
| Don't do so any more unless you can
refer back to the time when you as
boy or girl had no love and respect for
the opposite sex, Now, be honest in
the matter. As far back as | can rec
ollect had my little sweetheart and so
did you, yet | didn't marry until l
was "a years old What better Compa
ny can boy be in than that of nice
girl, be she young or old2 l have one
single boy and l am never uneasy
when know he is in the company of
nice girls. had rather he would go
and spend Sunday with lot of six,
eight and -yearold girls, If there
were no older ones, than to spend it
every time with boys. He gets moth
ing refining from boys, but from girls,
unless they are of the forward, fast
set, he is benefited. I've raised four
and have always tried to throw them
in the company of good girls in prefer
eno6 TO boys. What ever refinement
the male sex has they are indebted to
the pure female sex for it. No boy
ever degrades himself by keeping the
company of nice girls They are a
mutual help to each other and say
have very poor opinion of boys who
will get behind lot of girls going to
or from church and snigger and laugh
snd make fool remarks. 1t makes my
fQet- get heavy and want to give them
d DfE Where the crupper rests OF "a
horse.
Either ask the girls for the prisilegt
of escorting them or put respectful
distance between you and them. In
my young days, if had acted like
see some boys act my father would
have given me licking. Old as l an
r generally, when ladies are along, try
: to respect them and exercise the chiv
airy that our old South was famous
g for. Difference to ladies is a duty
I Man owes it to them. We talk of re
forms. The best way to begin thu
: work is to begin with the young anC
: teach them good manners at home ant
i abroad. | dare say there are hundred
of young people who don't know hov
S to hold their knife and fork when a
the table eating and some fathers ant
q mothers don't t either.
y y We are all hurrah for the publi
a school Wonder how many teacher
are taking the pains to teach thei
pupils table manners and the practica
things of every day life. We can lear
! much from books but there are man
# things to be learned not laid down j
e our school books. 1t embarrasses Iii
r to see, as have seen in life, some pre-
le fessed, wouldbe teachers, so devoid c
!, table etiquette and manners. Teach
,e ers need to have a plate, knife an
}. fork in the school room and drill tn
children in their use, and how TO han
die them. Train them. If a census c
the pupils was taken l wonder wha
per cent. of them would know. Thi
=, is not an attack on the teachers. Onl
: a hint that is of practical value to tn
10 students and would be a feather in tn
:. hat of the teacher Why graduate
y lot of boys and girls and turn them ou
.o incompetent to sit down at a gentle
!. mans table and eat meal.
D. Now, in conclusion, let me say t
l. the parents of boys: Throw them int
At the company of nice, modest girls,
'o possible, and you will not be trouble
y half so much about them. | do obieC
W to Charlie going with some boys, br
t. have my first time to say, Charlie
you go with the girls, I'll lick You.
u 10 / don't know of any girls in an
around Tracy that would lead him {
ce the bad, and he is now of an age ths
needs my attentiOn-just forming h
g. character and entering manhood Ye
he is the red-headed boy you've had
. much to say about Well, girls,
IS long as he goes with You will be sa
isfied that no evil will befall him.
h. want to keep him nicely dressed, so I
girl will feel embarrassed to keep h
company, or he himself will feel en-
s. harrassed. Keep your children neat
Ut ~ and nicely dressed. If you don't VI
IT will dwarf their ambition, and tn,
mr. viii 20 down and not up. | know
a, girl on this mountain that is as pret
as in form and feature as any girl ev
en- saw, but her father and mother a
slOvens in dress and manners, and sh
poor girl, has no chance 10 mount u