The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-05-10
CLEANLINESS AND FILTHINEsS.

CLEANLINESS AND FILTHlNEss.
The Lord does not expect US
all to be godly, but He does eS-
pect Us to be clean-clean not
only in person, but in our sur
roundings..
Now just pause a moment and
let's consider this town-not
from the standpoint Of the KICK
er, but from that Of, the we'll
wisher, the builder
You, reader, are scrupulously
clean with your person. You
take your baths regularly you
cleanse your hands and face be-
fore each meal. you keep your
hair neatly brushed, your nails
trimmed, and yourself generally
both attractive and sanitary.
If you see a person occasion
ally who is dirty, and slovenly,
and filthy, you have little but
secret contempt for that person.
The laborcr in the street even
removes the evidence of his toll
when his days work is over.
He emerges a man, intelligent,
clean, and sanitary.
So much for the person OF no-
manlty.
In the homes of our commun-
ity you will find the same evil
dence of scrupulous care and at
tention to the smallest of details.
Spotless cleanliness is the word
in a majority of homes, while at
least adequate cleanliness IS al
most the universal rule. You
expect nothing else, and you
find nothing else.
No criticism, therefore. can
be made of our homes.
But let US step outside the
homes and survey the situation.
Many of the same people who
are so Immaculate in their per-
sons and so spotless in their
homes are little short of slovenly
in their outer surroundings. A
few are dangerously near to be-
ing filthy. and yet appear to
have practically no realization
of the fact.
Back yards are strewn with
rubbish that should have been
burned. Garbage is thrown out
in the yard er over the fence, to
stink and tester and breed flies
and disease. Grass and weeds
grow and multiply and become
unsightly to the eye. CleanH'
ness is buried under the evi.
dence of forgetfulness and neg
lect.
What is said of the back yard
may often be repeated OF the
front yard or lawn, with a few
reservations. It, too, is lacking
in that scrupulous care given to
the person and the home.
The barn? We hardly know
how to describe the conditions
that sometimes prevail in these
places. You have witnessed
them, you have seen the millions
of flies buzzing around and breed
inc other millions to spread filth
and disease and death, Your
nostrils have been offended by
the sickening stencil. You have
turned your head and hurried
by in disgust.
Retiring places for the public
are often equally filthy, SO much
so as to be an actual menace to
the health of the community.
You can look around town and
find rubbish in every direction.
Vacant lots, alley ways, streets,
cutters, everywhere an evidence
of neglect-because 1t is the 9TH
er fellows lot, and the streets
and alleys and cutters belong to
the public, and what's the public
business IS too often nOOOoy
business at all.
But why is it so: Why can we
not be as clean and neat IN our
surroundings as we are in our
persons and in our homes? Why
can we not observe cleanliness
in all ways instead of in only a
few.
These things are worth your
serious consideration, brother.
for they have powerful in
fuence on the future Of our
town and on the general health
of tho Yoaor1o