Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-03


a single harbor for their souls in your
whole town. You women bring this
condition about If you demanded
that the man you keep company with
should be as pure as you are, these
conditions would not exist. If every
girl should say, I will not keep com
pany with any man who smokes.
drinks. chews or keeps bad company
with immoral women, these conditions
would soon be changed. The reasons
our brothers are going to hell, is be-
cause we allow them to go - these
places and them come home tc US
They do not come home 10 me, you
bet.
Known by the Company You Keep. /
you are known by the company |
you keep. II you demand that the
men come up to your standard, then |
we can soon close out the houses of !
i'll fame. Half the time your husbands |
tell you they are going to the club, !
they are going to one kind of club.
/ wish / could illstill this principle |
into the mind OF every girl, Be as
particular about the character of the
man you are going with. as he is
about you,' then the world would soon
be pure. If these things were con
sidered before marriage, you would
save yourselves many and many an
hour of sorrow, waiting for the steps
of your husband after the midnight
hour has passed.
Now. girls don't you let it in to
your silly heads that you know more
than your mothers. When your moth
er comes to YOU puts her arms around
you, and pleads with the tears run
ming down her cheeks that you have
nothing to do with certain man you
just follow your mothers advice. She
knows more of the world than you
dream she does. She is a married
woman and knows more than you
You girls think you know more than
your mothers. Your dresses have
been heightened, and your hair is up
in knot, and you think you know
more than mother or father either.
You don't.
Listen to Your Mother.
"Once girl has lost her virtue, she
has lost all that is on this earth any
use to her. Better girl fall dead by
the wayside than be the victim Of
libertine. Wear calico and get it
honestly, rather than wear silk and
satin and have some libertine buy it
for you. II the man who comes to
marry you is the least bit shady pass
him up. Don't you marry him to re-
form him. Don't get it into your
silly head that because he tells you
how much he loves you that he does.
Send your brother out to look him up,
and If he is the least bit shady, let
him go. You will not reform him. but
rather your own life will be transform
ed from a happy girlhOod to a broken
hearted womanhood. Listen to your
mother, girls. and you won't go far
astray. And mother, how I hate that
I told you So business. Don't you
ever say that to your girl who goes
wrong. If she comes back to you,
take her in your arms and make her
know that no matter what the world
thinks or does, her mothers heart is
still true to her"
In speaking Of society. she said,
"You know that the society bunch is
rotten to the CORE
She next told the story of her con.
version. In her work as a detective,
she had followed thief into the Pa
cific Garden mission, 100 East Van
Buren, street, Chicago. She watched
him a few minutes, and then her eyes
caught the words, "How long since
you wrote to mother?' Then hymn
made its impress upon her, and
through the efforts Of Mrs. Clark, the
same woman who led Mr.. Sunday to
the Christian forces, she was con
verified. She dwelt at length upon the
efficacy of prayer and said. IF you
have faith enough in God to save your
boy or girl, God will do It,"