Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-03-18

nit their spiritual advisers to substitute slang for originality
and coarseness fer candor.
Even slangy preacher however may say very peril
things and the Rev. Billy" is exception to the
rule. In recent sermon TO young giris-a by
the way which was vastly to the point than one
casting aspersions the character OF any particular class
Of girls Sunday gives this advice to the girl who is
being asked to marry
If he asks you to marry him to reform him tell him you
are not running Kelley institute Many good, pure
girl for the pedigree Of the she marries
than his principles. Girls, when young comes in
to propose you, tell him you want to ask him three
questions:
Frst-Do you believe am Of good moral character?
(Of course he does that's why he chooses you.)
Second-Have you lived you require to live?
Third If l. GIRL had lived as you young man, have
lived would you walk in here and ask me to be your
wife?
These are searching questions and happy we'll as
rare is the young man who answer the second IN the
affirmative Il may be taken Tor granted that the
man does live according the instructive standard
which he sets up for the whom he would make
his wife, But for all that the Rev. Blk" is setting up
ideal standard rather than which practicable.
There is great deal OF cant about the so-caed double
standard Of morality The truth that the double STAN
dard the highest tribute that be paid to womanhood
The day may possibly come thousand years hence,
when will be the knightly Of the poets
dreams and when the world will regain its arcadian years
Of nobility and purity. But in the reantime this humanity
OF ours must work out its own salvation.
One OF the prooundes truths OF evolution is that in
fusion OF better blood improves the lower breed rather
than degrading the higher. May there be moral
analogy this truth and may men, by setting tor their
higher moral requirement than their own be work
ing steadily toward the betermen OF the along the
higher lines? For untold has been the
homemaker OF the world she is born into the world with
keener ntuions toward the good and noble than has,
as rule Man has been the fighter the haer the con-
querer the custodian and the victim Of all the 6ercer
passions Of the 1t is therefore unevoutonary for
women to expect as high standard Of men as men de-
mand in women just it evolutionary for to strive
toward Improvement the attainment Of all those ideals
which the heoogan means when he speaks Of regenera-
on The race was never better than to-day but for
want of better term we talk of lost Arcadas" and the
Edenic days"
These reflections may be far cry from the questions of
Rev. Billy" Sunday but they do lessen the value Of
his advice that girls should give greater heed principles
than to pedigree That is what Tennyson meant when he
wrote:
Proud hearts are m Y than corones
And simple faith than Norman blood"
1t is OF stock compliments to the Qenter sex
that good woman better than he best Of men," MAY
be the truth say tha there is really no sex
goodness but that if special credit is due to either It IS
due the man. whose ideas are = everyday principles
Of good women; who lower The scale Of evolution
airy morals and therefore rises hg9r by comparison? But
without worrying speculative ahcs Of the situation it
would be well tor all to realize the Importance of
demanding high standard Of morey in their future hus
bands and for prospective husbands seek to approach
nearly possible to the sanda they require so in
exorably for their future wives