The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-01-30
BOHEMIAN GIRL
Com menss on n Few Matters
and Things


To the Editor of the NEw poNSfoS.
Perhaps YOU will not like what ]
am going to write this week. You
needn't publish it if don't want to,
but | am going TO tell the trath.
| want to defend Morgantown.
1t seems to be the popular thing
just iiow to say that it's the wors;
town in the world. A few bilious
people who must needs have some.
thing to croak about are crying
from the housetops that Morgan
town has more drunkenness, more
obscene language, more hcenscious-
ness, more dishonest merchants and
lawyers, more dens of iniquity, more
profligate young men, more free and
easy young women than any other
town of its size within the whole
sweep of the compass. ] don't be-
lieve a word of it. True have not
seen very many towns myself, but
my friends have, and | want to re
peat that / don't believe one word of
it. The cry has been raised that
young men come to the University
and after a few years they 60 away
from the town debauched and wreck
ed. This may be so in few in
stances. Some boys would become
debauched and profligate in the Gar
- 4 al
are capable of becoming. Others
would stand firm and true though
the tempter's wilcs were thousand
times more winning. More depends
upon the stuff that's in the young
man than the character of the town
or community in which he lives.
Morgantown is an exceptionally
peaceable, quiet and dignified town.
OF course there are very many
ways, in which the town could be
bcttered. but you can't reform an
evil by growing at it. If Miss
Jennie Smith had commenced her
work here by soundly abusing us do
You think she would have succeeded
as she has done?
Do you want to know how we
came to have the reputation we have
as a town? A few people long ago
who had no business of their own to
attend to, began to start lies on their
neighbors. They were dyspeptic and
were looking about for something to
growl at. Then some students came
to the University who hadn't as
much manhood as mouse, and
when they became bloated drunk
ards they went to their homes in
various parts of this and other
States and sought to justify their
conduct by calling Morgantown
hard names, and by saying that they
were led astray. Some young men
are lied astray just as easily as a
sled slides down hill on ice. 1t is
not true that Morgantown has more
drunkenness than the average town
of its size. believe it has less. 1t
is not true that we are in any way
worse than our neighbors.
Here are few more PROPOSE
tions:
1st. The man or women who is
constantly complaining about his or
her town is not profitable eiti-
zen.
End. There is room for reform
and improvement in many things,
and we of the w. c. +. L. are trying
to do our part. Who will help us?
We don't want croakers; we want
workers.
3rd. The devil is not always as
black as he is painted
4th. If we don't stand up for our
own town will our neighbors do it
for us?
9TH. The young ladies of Morgan
town as class are strongly in favor
of right and truth and the purity of
society. A stronger influence
could not be found Crackers should
remember this.
9th. The meetings now in progress
are doing much toward bringing
about the right kind of reform in
our midst.
It'll. have observed that the Uni
versity student who rushes into
Morgantown society the next day
after his arrival here is not always
the one who stays the longest after
he gets in.
Sth. Notwithstanding assertions to
the contrary, we have more weighty
and important subjects of converse
ton than that of the style of the
coming spring bonnet.
OF course what | may say about
the celebration of the coming of the
railroad will not amount to much.
You men, | suppose, will attend to
everything all right, but l think a
real swell banquet would be just
the thing. Understand me; ! don't
mean banquet which nobody but
horrid men are allowed to attend,
but one in which the refining in
huence of woman may be felt. 1t
would be much better and more APP
propriate than wading through the
streets and having the whole popu-
lation hollow itself hoarse This
isn't hint that ! would like to at
tend banquet on that occasion.
Remember that you asked me to
discuss these subjects from a won
an standpoint.
BOHEMIAN GIRL.
Granville.