Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1920-04-22

UNCLE TOMS LETTER
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

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Editor News:
Ihave been asked how | could
find so much to say in my chats
in the newspapers. Why, bless
your life / don't know, unless |
get inspiration from what other
correspondents say, | read their
articles and get a thought from
what they say. Even the nom
de-plume of some writer gives
me a text. For instance, Blue
Eyes" Can you see anything
in that? Why, yes, the rose
is red, the violet's blue; sugar is
sweet and so are you.
blue Eyes" may have red
and rosy cheeks and eyes of blue.
sugar is sweet and so am l."
Now, that is my text and car
ries me back to my boyhood days
when /, in common with other
lads and lasses used to write our
little love missives to our little
sweethearts. | wouldn't give a
penny for boy who didn't have
some little, rosy-cheeked girl for
a sweetheart and boys, girls are
the best company you can keep,
provided they don't chew tobac-
co and smoke cigarettes, but If
she chews and smokes, let her
alone. We men will chew and
smoke, but we want our wives to
be pure and clean, and not ad-
dicted to any filthy habit. We
want them the very pink of per-
lection.
Somehow, girls, we old fogies
don't take very kindly to modern
ways and methods. | can re-
member very we'll in what es-
timation we boys held a girl who
used tobacco. You ask some old
| coger like myself and they will
tell you she was considered no
account.
We had such a high ideal of our
| girls that even now just lots of
| old men and women despise the
| suffrage idea. We want to
shield and protect her from the
corrupting influence of politics.
| further say that women should
| not be preachers of the gospel.
We are causing her to lose her in
fiuence for good. | like to hear
| some of them sing and talk, but
to have charge of a church does
mt suit. According to Paul
they must keep silence. Then,
again, they are not capable of or
| dination. Tertulian of the third
century declared as much.
We are all willing to recognize
their finer qualities, and as such
would shield them from the
coarser habits of men, and thus
preserve their womanly modesty.
We don't want them to become
the daughters of Jezebel. but
rather they would remain the
daughters of Sarah and Rebecca.
The devil has made war on her
| from her creation and If he can
get her to adopt politics he'll
| do it.
blue Eyes," if you are a lady
shun all the masculine habits at
any cost. Don't be drawn into
| any errors and nets prepared by
the devil and his agents.
In the third century a reproach
| was hurled at the women for not
obeying the command of Paul
and were accused of being wan
ton, bold enough to teach, to dis
pute, to enact exorcisms, to un-
| dertake cures" and maybe to
baptize. The charge was made
early in the christian era, and
the same things are being enact
in our day, only in a larger scale,
as was charged in the third cen
fury. Man loves the woman who
| God gave him to such an extent
that he does not have the cour.
age to deny her anything. II
she was to ask the head off his
body he would give it to her if he
could. He is out Heroding Her
cd. The good women will pre-
serve the church, while the poll
teal woman will cause it to hide
its head in shame. as Jezebel did
Elijah. UNCLE TOM.
Tracy CITY. Tenn.