Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-10-18
NO TIMES E0R HONEST MEN.

| There are no times for honest men"
said the sad-eyed man mournfully, visit.
fully wiping the corners of his mouth
with the back of his hand. "When 1
was young, my friend, things was diff
ferent. We was a straightforward peo-
pie then. There wasn't none of this
modern deception and pulling of wool
over peoples eyes. 1t was my misfor-
tune to he born in those days. say
misfortune because, being by nature a
confiding person, my early training in
the straight path untitled me for the
present times. It's q sad thing, stranger,
to have to reproach yourself for being
honest. Sometimes / almost wish I
was like other men. A man don't get
no credit for his virtues I'm constant
victim of swindlers, owing to my trust
ing childlike nature.
Would you believe me, my friend: if
were to tell you that man gave me q
bad half-dollar little while ago. Think
of any one playing such mean trick on
trusting man like me. 1 only asked
him for ten cents to get something to
eat, for these times has conquered me.
He gave me half-dollar, stranger, and
began to have little faith in human
nature again, but when I went into a
sal-er- restaurant down here and
bought gil mean meal, I found
out the piece was bad. OF course they
would not believe me when explained
how had been treated. They kicked
me out aid threatened to have me az
rested. I could have stood being swim
died, but it hurt me, stranger, to he
accused of working a Skin game as
they call it. I tell you I'm getting so
that I'm suspicious Of everybody. There
don't seem to be no honest men left in
the world. You couldn't assist me?
Couldn't Ell? All right, my friend.
This is only one more disappointment
in an unnatural world"
DANGERS OF TIGHT CLOTHING.
Now that rational ideas as to dress
have acquired definite place in public
esteem, it may he imagined that the
practice of tight lacing and customs Of
like nature, if known at all, are not
what they used to be. A case Of sud-
den death lately reported from Birming-
ham, England, proves that it is still too
early to indulge in such illusory ideas.
The deceased, servant girl of excit-
able temperament, died suddenly in an
epileptoid fit, and the evidence given
before the Coroner respecting her death
attributed the fatal issue to asphyxia,
due in a great measure to the fact that
both neck and waist were unnaturally
CONSTRUCTED by her clothing. the former
by tight collar, the latter by belt
worn under the stays. There is no Or
gan of the body whose free movement is
at such times more important than the
heart. Yet on the one hand we find it's
movement is hampered by q tight
girdle so placed that it could with diff
Guilty be undone at q critical moment
and on the other contrlvance admir-
ably adapted to allow the passage to
the brain, while impeding its RETURN
This is no isolated case as regards It's
essential character, though, happily,
somewhat singular in its Termination:
Minor degrees of asphyxiation are still
submitted to by u good many OF the
self.torturing children Of vanity. The
tight corset and the high heel still work
mischief on the bodies of their devoted
wearers. Taste and reason combine to
deprecate their injurious and vulgar
bondage, and by no means unsuccess-
fully. Still, the evil maintains Itself 10
Q dangerous degree.