The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1882-12-16

ally leans over his books or his desk
is likely, let alone, to become round
shoulderod. Wake up by the alarm,
clock for a week at five in the morn.
ing, and when the need has ceased
you will awake for morning or
two at the hour without any alarm
clock. So you may give your body
the habit of craving for stimulants
or narcotics until it asserts its mas
terry over the mind and you may
even from foregoing the use of rea'
son at length lose the faculty itself.
But long way on this side of such
a calamity, one may lose self-re-
speet, mental quiet, the confidence
of others, health and means and
then at length life, not to speak of
certain indiscribable losses on the
other side of the curtain that d.
vides the visible and transient from
the invisible and permanent.
There are milder forms in which
reason is allowed to abdieate. Some
indefinite power decrees that women
shall DO perched upon boot-heels
two or three inches in height-an
easy way OF elevating the sex or
compressed around the middle until
the figure, If not the temper, of a
wasp has been attained; or robed
in attenuated skirt, like = marble
iaun or hampered with long and
sweeping train, until one wonders
if the woman is for the train or the
train for the woman or deeked as
to the head With mere band of
ribbon, complicatfy little behind /;
or the face se.one inlet against tho
ample margin of a'elFainsborough
hat; or-but the list would fill up
the rest of this column. The right
of private judgment is abandoned.
Charming creatures that are :
ded enough elsewhere, whose XIII
dred know that tt y haYe minds of
their own, who {. en- assert their
freedom to the men of their choice,
submit in silence, They do moro /:
they rival one another in the depth
and intensity of their submission.
They say: 10, NJ, $saolsellc
O'Shaughnessy can't you It
Just little more in the fast ."
But we are shocked at our own au-
dacity in writing this down. What
business have we with it? If the
ladies choose to be fashionable, sir,
can not they do as they please We
take it back. We shall put the t
emphasis in future on the historic
words Gail men are free and
equal"
1t may be said that in such $
reason does not abdicate, but is u.s.
ed, and it decides that it is bett r
for the head to be out of the hat
than out of the fashion. Very well;
we only limited that private judg.
mont is given up, and that the lady
with tho French name is installed in
absolute power.
Are the men free! To say moth
ing ola certain varying form in
hats, boots, fluctuations between Ul-
sters that sweep the street and
short coats that ape she sailors
jacket, is not reason relieved of
duty in the greatest affairs of life /?
Pray who is Mr.. Primary Meeting
whom 80 many obey3 And Mr..
Caucus Who is he7 For GER
tainly one may meet men who do
not even claim TO use their own rea-
son, and who find the justification
Of their shouts, their drinks, their
votes (and occasionally their
blows,) in the aforesaid indefinite
powers. And, curiously enough,
these same gentlemen will some
times snub one who would fain per-
suado them to try the effects Of a
little religion by protest against
any wrong to their reason.
For the allegation; more or less
sincere, is often Caade that religio n
and reason are opposites, and that
If man has the one, IL is because
he foregoes the use of the other. Is
this sol
Let US imagine, inquiring reader,
that you are unfortunate enough
partially to lose the sight of your
right eye. You hardly mind it at
first but it gets worse, and you do
eide at length that you must "get
advice" From whomH You in
quire for a good oculist, compare
recommendations and experiences
of your friends, and at last make mp
your mind. You will 60 to Dr..
Ycu have used your reason in de-