A SERMON TO THE GIRLS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2373, 14 August 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

A SERMON TO THE GIRLS.

There is an -eccentric American weaohoi th» Rev. Sam Jones, whose Bennons invariably attract crowds of eager listened.. Mr Jones is an eccentric ... preacher, but underlying his ; ,ec.cllkricity is & thick layer of sound CTOOJon sense, : He concluded his labours in Chicago the other day with , a sermon' to girls only.' Two thons- ' ind five hundred girls were present. '!l[ Among other things; the Rev; .-Mr .'.Jones said,:— . jt,;'Girls, watch your company, .'An mangel from heaven cpnld.not keep some company that girls do in Chicago ■ and ■*'6bt be corrupt. Pure, noble girls alone on this earth for beauty 'lind glory. Boys go in bad company, 'but the hope of this laud is in its pure Rirls. Oh, be vigilant; guard your jSpiiir.' Beware with whom and how you go to entertainments. The best py.to go is not to go at all.' ■ Mr Jones then iudulgod in a long description and denunciation of the "perfumed young man, He also described a chase of young ladies after a apider-leggod dude,

'■' Tell me what your associates are, ,yo«ng lady,' he continued, : ' ahd I■ will iggft you a glimpse of your history. Is .hvan exquisite dancer ? Does he wear psffoot pants? Is his hair parted elegantly, in tho middle! Does. he clerk ■Ak a big establishment at sixty dollars -i-ft month and Rjiend forty dollars a j.month for board, thirty dollars a month Jot carriage hire, add twenty dollars a "fmontli for theatres f Does he convince '>U that he has not a stingy bone in •■bis body ? Do you thiuk he is just nice? j-Where does he gob his money! lam ••& love with those wool hat and jean ' pants boys. He starts at 30 dollars a month, sticks to business and the wool ■-hat-till he got! a thousand a year, then -he-gets to be junior partner, and finally owns the whole block where he does business. You stylish girls do not like him. Well, he likes you just abjjk as well, for when*.he wanted a WJFiie went back to his country homo and man ted plain Mary, and for a few years it was love in a cottage, and now i) bo has a residence on Michigan Avenue. (Ms, tie 1 to these wool had- boys, and they will take care of yon. ~,.. 'A beautiful girl of this city,' he '"'said,' arranged to attend a wine supper -last week, When tli9 night, came she sent word saying, "I can't go; toy heart baa been touched at the meetings," Now she has brought three of her associates here wHh her. what do "you want of wine Buppers! Oh mothers, matter what the devil may owe • -you, if be sends you about three drunken sons-in-law he will have paid all the debt, and you will get a receipt in full. Girls, watch your tempers. If a girl is ugly to her mother she will make it warm in her own home, if Bbeever has one,'

.All tbe girls • who talked ugly' or ' Jfcy' to their mothers were asked to aWnd up. There was no uprising; •; not one.'

*'■''■' Mothers, 1 he added,' overhaul your libraries. A young girl once said she [.'* as terribly bored by reading the ''bible, The poor,' silly, sapheadad «ing I "Some mothers fix their lighters to bo damned. They insist 6n having little parties for their children. Then oomes the big party, and then the hugging German waltz, I j,W.ant to have the grass growing on my •j.grave when my daughters are attending 'Girmanfl, After IheC 'Germans then what] I will nob go further, Take the words' of a profound; priest, who says, that at his confessional

nineteen out of every twenty youn;

women who have strayed, ascribe their ifall from purity and virtue to the influences of the ball room.'