The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-06-04
REV. r.. n. WHITAKER

DIR. r.. H. whitaker.
and oxen hauling carts in South AZ
RIGA: dogs and sledges, with fur-cover-
ed drivers, above the Arctic Circle;
patient asses: iong-necked and super
ctlious camefs: smartiy stepping
Mamas for rough mountain passes;
and pack-horses, hard-headed porters
and a hundred other methods Of
transport, according to the region.
Thus the Bible is going int every
nook and corner OF the earth, and the
heather Will soon be given 70 the
church for an inheritance n the
uttermost parts of the earth for a
possession, Notwithstanding the way
some Of our fathers and grand-fathers
thought and felt and talked about
missionary operations, in the early
days of the ninteenth' century. So
mote It be.
Said a sad-eyed gentleman, the
other day: IF a woman would hold
her head still. when she goes to
church with her new hat. perched on
the top Of her head. with a parrot
or owl, or king-fisher, or a crown
pigeon, or a golden oriole perched
on the top Of that say if a woman
void hold her head still. the mascu-
line gender, who sits in the rear and.
at best can get but a one-eyed view of
tue preacner-tHe 0ner peihS IiVeteu
on a mass of millinery-would be
perfectly satisfied. But. that head
won't behave itself: on the contrary.
as far as in 1T the power lieth, it
Will SO manage as to keep the rear man
all the time lodging, this way and
that, to keep his eye and mind on
the preacher n sermon"
But, ] guess said he, "the head
is not to blame; it must shoW its hat,
and the feathers and trimmings
thereon: and how can that be done
unless it twists itself? OF course that
head cares not who may be annoyed,
or how great the annoyance, it is
just bound to twist. could wish
sometimes that it were otherwise
and that big hats were excluded from
churches and halls-by 1aw-but,
when l come to remember that, with
many omen hats are their chiefest
delights, and to show them is often
the main inducement to church go
ing, l try to be resigned and to be-
lieve, that, in its way, it is a good
providence: suggesting to the men,
who sit behind, the probability, hat
the women who do not care for
others rights and comforts, in nails
and churches, would hardly stay at
home and minister to the sick hus-
bands if they were invited to care
parties, or to other places Of, amuse-
ment."
Now, I trust that the big hatists
will not fall out with me-; as, what
I have written was suggested by an
other party-one who claims, as a
matter of fact. that he has not seer
a preacher in a month, at church,
save as he could get a glimpse now
n then, under, over, around or
through a hat. the size of an ordinary
brush, heap. l don't ARE to give his
name,h for If he tells the truth, he's
had trouble enough.
No. The rear seat does not care
so much about the big hat; but it
would be a blessing to thousands who
sit on it. if the big hat would take
a position and stick to It so thai
when the rear seat man does draw
a bead on the preacher, he may hold
But 1 rather think after all, the
men like to look at the pretty hats
and don't care half so much about
seeing the preacher as they make out
like. l heard a gentleman Dragging,
some Sundays go, on the fact that
his wife had the biggest and the
best looking hat at church that day,
and L don't suppose he cared at all
about how it annoyed other folks !
was so proud of his wife's hat; and
it added very much to his
pleasure during the service to think
all the women in the church, were
as miserable as they could be.
because they didn't have hats as i'm
mensive, extensive and expensive as
his wife's. l don't object to big hats
In churches-they make the sisters
ook so happy, one would think they
were pious.
What next? Many a young man
who has, perhaps, we'll employed his
school days, and has left his classes
well prepared, so far as his knowl-
edge of text books is concerned, to
enter successfully upon some of the
various pursuits of life, falls into the
that he needs a season Of
period, at least, in which to
upon what kind of business.
or what profession, he will choose for
life employment. There was a time
in the ante-bellum days when Young
men of the South a no need OF
hurry1ng. Their fathers were able to
support them in a year or two OF
i~dleness, and ven give them money
to have a good time; but. conditions
are different now; and the prudent
realizes that, to fall behind. in
beginning of the race. means
speed and harder work later
on.
1 notice that business colleges seek
positions for their graduates, and at
once n young men are profitably
employed as bookkeepers and young
women arc equally as profitably en-.
pioyed as stenographers and typeWrit-
ers.
But, while that is true of the grad
yates of business colleges, it is also
true that many who graduate from
universities and the higher colleges
receive their diplomas and go to their