The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1911-02-09
Chats with the Girls.

Don't misunderstood me, girls, and
conclude that I do not like to see
well-dressed women, for 1 do; es-
pecially when the gown is cut on cor
rect lines. 1t is only when you go
to extremes that dress is harmful.
God gave us things to use, not abuse.
On festive occasions the dress may
very appropriately be little gay,
but at church it is not suitable. How
can we worship God in the midst of
Vanity Fair! Our thoughts are dis
tracted from the services when the
eye is continually beholding vanity.
The rich should think of this; they
either drive the poor from church,
or cause them to live above their
means. The church is the only place
the poor are allowed to mingle with
the higher-class. When you drive
them out, you drive the Holy Spirit
out, and your service is purely an
tomato. Only God can breath upon
it the breath of life. Solomon says:
There is a time for all things"
Let your dress suit the occasion, and
remember the richest dress is worn
on the soul. It is a beautiful indy
ing thing, and it is wicked to waste
it in frivolity. Compare a taste for
dress with a taste for knowledge.
culture, virtue, and piety, which is
preferable?
Is girl to be regarded as doll
to be dressed, plaything to be pet
ted, house ornament to exhibit, a
thing to be used and kept from cry
ing with a sugar-plum show? Keep
this truth in your minds: woman
was made for a higher purpose, a
nobler use, a grander Destiny than
merely to exhibit finery. You can
achieve victories in the fields of
thought and make yourself in very
truth mans co-worker-his comrade.
You are now being prepared to meet
the duties later on; if you are wise,
you will tryt improve the timewhile
it is yours. Margaret Fuller says:
'No woman can give her heart with
loyalty or her hand with dignity un-
til she has learned to stand alone. .
Will you paron a personal allu-
sion? 1t will at least show you
what one man thought of girls; how
he encouraged his daughter in every
possible way to rival her brothers
and to outstrip them if she could.
Being his frst-born and only daugh-
ter, he naturally gave her his best
attention. While not apparently
very religious, he respected and rev.
cred his Creator, as all creatures
should, and he recognized the fact
that life is worth living only when
we obey certain rules. He taught
his children both by precept and ex-
ample to reverence truth, to be hon
est, and, last but not least, to be
pure in thought, word, and deed.
These truths are the foundation on
which every character should be
built, if it is to stand the storms of
life.
Looking at it in business way,
his sons regarded his life as a fail
ure, but not so his daughter. She
regarded the good name and the
wholesome instructions as a legacy
of priceless value-worth more than
millions of dollars. It is a beauti-
full thought, that there are none too
poor to leave such an inheritance.
He did not hesitate to declare his
preference for girls, on the principle
that "Your son is your son till he
gets him a wife, but your daughter is
your daughter all the days of her
life
Right here let us stop and give
three cheers for Jerry Moore and
Hannah Plowden, champion boy and
girl corn growers. Jerry is plucky
youth, and not afraid of work. He
hauled 800 loads of rich dirt on his
worn out, sandy land and so loads
of stable manure, and made 22S
bushels and three pecks of corn on
one acre. Hannah possibly did not
have as fair showing as the lad, but
anyway she succeeded in making l2O
bushels on one acre. Only four