The Ottawa free trader., 1890-06-21

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After the lecture refreshments We're
served in the large dining-room, after
which. at about IL o'clock the guests
disburSed for their homes delighted
with the evening" 5 entertainment.
Social Lepers.
SOCIAL LETTERS. BY Wenona Gilman.
American News Co., New York.
1t IS not necessary in speaking of
this book to put ones self in the
ranks of what Charles Reede calls the
"prurient prudes,' whob Microscopic
strainings detect dirt, dirt is all over
it and through it. If not so grossly
indelicate as Daude's "Sappho" or Bal
zac's Cousin Bette" il has none of
art or power of either, and still less of
their potent moral that sexual sir
blights and curses and ends in moral
and physical infamy. The book is
simply one Of those sloppy, wretched
limitations of Tolstoi'S Anna kare-
Nina" Zola, Baizac, the Spanish Ora
CONS Teeth" &c, which purport TO
be written 10y women, with sexual sin
As the mOtU. Bad as are they and the
weaker English 'As in a Looking
Glass" and "A Modern Circe," also
written by women. Social Lepers" is
still worse and tit only for the wantons
of the writer's own sex, and the
thieves, pimps and crackSmen of the
other
Yet it is amazing how such books
sell. Published in cheap editions, the
news stands are crowded with them,
English works, pirated and tlashy:
French novels, translated, being found
everywhere, even to the exclusion OF
I'cleaner and wholesome American lit
erature which the presses grind out
without limit. They are seen much
too often in the parlOr and the attic:
the drawing room and the billiard
hall. They belong only in the brothel,
where their poison can no longer do
its work. 1t is not surprising that
with this flood of suggestive and sala-
cious literature flowing into American
homes there should come an apparent
importation also into American homes
of European lOoSenesS Of morals and
the disposition to treat immortality of
this kind with indifference.
While it may be true that men can
not longer keep their wives and chill
dren in glass cases, and while it may
,Uor,d" ti"o oc41s1 c4 ' iifo ohSarb tho t
mond ,nd rnnal tbo bod oe ,ss"n
fi.l to moral rdhuctnoss novartbnioSs
the painting of revolving pictures of
possible life and the perpetuation of
instances Of morbid passion and the
idealization of SenSuality have no part
in righteous ordecent living, and no oc-
cupatlon can De Daser than such man
uidclure ana no Indulgence more per-
lllGlouS Inan llS consumption
no LOUIS OipdGh, III ms great novel,
ne oueel lidflnler' suggests Ihe
IiouSu1 Vi Ihe a"luliless or lnat nour
"heh ILe parent dlScoNerS Ihat the
son or Ille daughter mas learned IL mas
rlght TO crItlclse the morals OF the
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