The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-13
WEEKLY BAZOO.
SEDALIA, MO.
TUESDAY, JUFE Ii, 1892.
THE OTHER SIDE.


preached in this city, which have
created quite a flutter among those
who heard them, and especially among
the young ladies of the city, for whom
they were specially designed.
These sermons were striking for the
amplitude of their advice; the wide
range of argument they contained;
the felicity of the illustrations used;
the plainness of speech and the brave
attacking of the follies, sins and
shams which characterize social life,
and the relations Of the sexes, in this
day.
The preacher did not spare the
young man in his portraiture of him
and his appeal to the young ladies to
shun the society and companionship
of him, if he be of base and degrading
habits, was powerful, strong and ten
der.
This is all well enough, and the
young lady should remember the adj
Vice and warning given. But there
is another side to this subject. We
make bold to say that if the fascina-
ting winning, handsomely dressed,
vivacious, bright-eyed, powdered and
painted, art-assisted in contour and
ravishment of form, young lady of
society was faithfully pictured
out, that she would not be found the
guileless, sweet, angelic, creature that
poets dream of, and painters place on
the glowing canvass.
Our knightly natures revolt at the
thought that these queens of the love
and reverence of our hearts should be
aught else than the embodiment of
all purity, modesty and divine nobil-
ity of character.
But it is just as we'll to tell the
truth about the average society young
lady as it is to point out the true chal-
aeter Of the society young man. 1t
will be benefit to both.
That there is larger liberty allow
ed in speech and act toward them by
these young ladies than marks the
acme of refinement and modesty with
womanly dignity and reserve, none
can gainsay.
They themselves are responsible for
large share of that lack of Knightly
gallantry which bows in humble obei-
sance at the throne whereon sits
queenly woman, crowned and hailed
as the royal potentate whose scepter
waves with magic power and mystic
lious influence.
Too often is it that social intercourse
with these bellies fails to ennoble and
purify. They use slang, many of
them, at least. with the abandon
and freedom of the street gamin, hop
ing thereby to give spice to the insi-
pidity of their talk. How frequently
is heard the expression, 'you bet"
and others equally refined, coming
from lips which should never be thus
polluted. And these expressions are
used on the street, in the stores and
in the parlors. What wonder is it if
woman thus scanti6es the language of
the fshmarket, and the purlieus
of the city, that it gives sanction
TO broader stretch of vulgari-
ty and bhsphemy in the young
man?
Many of these young ladies drink.
Many fashionable society danes in
dulge in wine and eggnog at their
gatherings from which the gentlemen
are excluded. Do not charge us
with falsehood. We do not believe
in euphemism. A spade is a spade;
eggnog will intoxieate, and there is no
moral difference between drinking 1t
at a s'coffee" and drinking beer in a
saloon.
Stripped of its fashionable garment,
the delight of round dancing is purely