The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-05-12

tie devils" will sit in a hotel dining
room and brag about a boy kissing
them the first time they met. The
barriers of sex have been torn down:
the tendency of the average Ameri-
can girl as to go just as close to the
fire as possible without getting burned.
Woman of today, in a general sense.
is unht to marry for three distinct
reasons. She despises restraint. many
a m goes with a secret hour of sin
locked in her bosom and the KEY
thrown away; she lives for a good
time, and she's a novel reader. Wo
man OF today doesn't want to bear the
or home life. She determens
before marrying that there's nothing
doing for her in a little three
rooms and BATH" but well live in a
boarding house instead Mr.. Jones
characterized the woman who puts
out the life of an unborn babe as an
internal murderess'' who commits
just as great a sin as if she had muir
dered her husband. Some women
marry knowing that there's a secret
little story about their lives long
ago. hat they can't tell their hus-
band. They have the key thrown
away, but still they are always afraid
that the key will be found and it
keeps them on a nervous tension.
Girls will be girls is a popular ex-
preston, and the average girl loves
the the theatre, card parties, and
dancing, while father pays the
bills" to cart her around all over the
country trying to trap some poor de-
luded fool into becoming her hus-
band. Mr.. Jones scored the popular
novels saying they were read almost
entirely by women, and that most of
the heroes that women think are 'per-
fectly adorable and wish they had
such a sweetheart" are nothing but
low down contemplate dirty adulter-
ers.' They paint the picture of sin
in a gilded palace, and you can't love
a crooked ideal and not have a crook
ed heart" Woman's love Of pleasure
evidences itself in a disposition to play
cards, attend the theatre and the
dance. Some women are so drunk
with card playing hat they see the
spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds
pass In review in their Dreams" They
gamble for prizes and still keep their
membership in the church. Mr.
Jones said in this connection. eff !
had my boy attending a Sunday school
class with a card playing teacher at
it's head, I'd take him out of 1t, and
why don't you applaud that" Cap
plause.) Women attend the theatre
81 go for the moral" Read
the Bible for the best morals YOU ever
says Bob Jones. Decent people
ought 20 draw the Inc this side the
whole internal stage" for any crock
with talent and pull can get on the
stage. They don't need any character.
Its wonderful how a woman can go to
the theatre and applaud a crooked
antics in an abbreviated cos
tune, and then walk home with their
escorts and say: "Oh, wasn't it
lovely"
Mr.. Jones says that if he had his
way about destroying evils he would
put out liquor first and the "hellish
lance" next. He said hat a wealthy
young convert confessed to him tina
he had led girls away from Maine
to California" and that the very first
thing he did was to teach his victim
to dance if she didn't already know
how. You may think you are play
ing safe" Mr.. Jones says, but nobody
on earth can tell what devils in the
human body are going to be awaken
ed in the whirl of the hellish dance.
Said Mr.. Jones, after he had told a
number of instances that he knew OF
personally, where the dance had ac-
complished the ruin, of which it is a
past master: mo girl that's a nice
girl will keep on dancing after she
has heard Of it's evil" Mr.. Jones says
that dancing is growing more and
more vulgar-fOrmerly they caught
hands to dance. then they Rugged
around the body and some Of the
new dances require a veritable wrap
ping each other of the two dancers.
Coming back to words of the text,
Mr.. Jones says that She who liveth
in pleasure is dead while she liveth'
dead in fine feelings. modesty, and
the mother instinct. At the cOnclu-
sion Of his sermon he extended the