Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1870-11-19
The Girl of the Period.
TFrom the Tecbnologist.] ]


"A conclusive proof of the utter fall
lacy of the Darwinian hypothesis Is
found in the character of that specimen
of the genus homo that is famlllarly
known to Us as the "girl of the PERIOD
five accept the universal testimony OF
the writers for the press, we must
arrive at the conclusion that the chill"
dren of the virtuous woman have disap
peared, and that no representative OF
the wise and diligent housekeeper, SO
faithfully pourtrayed in the thirty hrst
chapter of Proverbs, is now TO be found
And yet it is evident that the law OF
self preservation was obeyed in the
very highest degree by this same virtn>
.ous womah of Solomon. She girded
her loins with strength, and strengthea-
ed her aruas." aShe was not afraid OF
the snow for her household, for all her
household were clothed with scarlet
"She rose while it was yet night, and
she gave meat to her household and a
portion to her maidens.' z Ard yet, IN
spite of her strength, good food and
good clothing, her descendants have all
disappeared. That the children of her
who eyinced so much capacity 70 pro-
vide for herself and otheEsshould be ell
bowed off the stage and crowded out oil
existence by the progeny OF the strange
woman and the fool, shows not only
that the battle is net to the strong nor
the race to the swift, but also that the
ability to procure the means of subsis-
tence is no measure of the tenacity of
existence, possessed by any species. If,
therefore, we believe these scrlbblers,
we must conclude that natural selection
is delusion and snare, and that the
Darwinian hyp, thesis has no better
foundation than the :" airy fabric of a
vision y
As, however, the girl Of the period
has ], id every newspaper writer under
the deepest obligat, ms from the fact
that. during the times Of the greatest
.derth Of mater ais for articles, she has
FURNISHED an ever ready theme with
which TO fll column, and thus to earn
the usual penny line, we will endeavor
to discharge, in some small measure. the
debt that We owe to her by giving at
least a little earnest consideration to
the prominent circumstances OF her
case 4 he subject is noble and
worthy one; and therefore, abandoning
.badinage and nonsense, let US consider
1t in AL ser ousness an earRsstness.
The cry that earnest and noble
women are daily becoming more rare !;
that the pa ,es Of the brave hearted and
gentle are usurped by the frivolous and
sdissipated, is one that is by no means
new. Two hundred years ago, the wits
of EnglaDd indulged in the same can't,
and said the same smart things in re-
gard to the same matter and long be-
dore that time, the prophet had asked
the people Of his day why they said that
'ssthe. former days were better than
4hese,' and rebuked them roundly by
telling them that they did not con-
slider wisely concerning this matter. !"
We have heard many "reyerepd gran
nies,,' both with and without pefticoats,
dwelling at length upon the degeneracy
ofthe men and women Of the present
day; no days like the old days; no
such wise men now as those who laid
their sage hands on their young heads /;
no euch mothers as their mothers, and,
inferentially, no such young men and
women now as they were in their
prime. Away with such can't! The
skies are as bright to-day as they ever
we're since human history began to re-
cord the changes Of the years statistics
show that the men of to>day are larger,
stronger, loneer.lived and less vicious
than those that lived FIVE hundred years