Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-03-28

them that to ignore the priest and cleaye
unto men is wrong Nor do tAey ever
believe it TO be anything but wrong until
the hour OF their death, when they are
usually cOmatose. Men. on the contrary
being equally the victims Of tradition,
feel privileged to love oft and we'll, their
self-respect is too unviolated. the March
violet hourishes apaee So strong is the
power Of tradition, Ia fact, that even a
virtuOus woman has no respect for 4,
virtuous man. And when women plaster
mans self respect upon him unril i,
sticketh closer than a brother tor a Wife.
is 1t for a man to cast ii otTg
The same traditional restraint exercises
a curious effect sometimes upon women Of
unassailable social position and reputa-
ton. They get so tired Of being respected
by men that they bare their torsos TO the
waist at a ball in order to capture an in
suIting look. And on this look, or on a
few words whispered behind a fan suitable
for an erotic novel, they will dream and
glOat for nights to come Ii is-mark
here again the delight in sexual power
sweeter hattery than to be stared at across
the auditorium or quoted IN the papers
And they get so tired Of being convention
al that they are often assailed with wild
desire to be- thought fast. In Paris one
has to be most particular in going to the
Bots. Ii Is improper to 90 alone in the
first place. in the second, the Younger
women must always sit behind the driver
as an indication that she is too much of
a gentlewoman to wish 10 be stared at
Furthermore, she must wear the painest
gowns she possesses, as gay attire Is livery
of the cocotte. There was in Paris when
was there very handsome, fashionable
and wealthy young Californian, who made
a practice, until she was InsuIted out of
it, of going to the Bots in an open car
riagp, alone seated on the "coc0tte side, "
and dressed in the hghtest and gayest of
gowns and hats, her paraso covered with
flowers And she looked more radiant
and triumphant TIA IA a belle at her first
ball.
Why was Sappho the most lcentious poet
that ever lived? But the questions
arising from analyses of the subject are
endless.
When eminently proper girls have
gone through four seasons they frequently
startle their world with some unconven-
tional act partly because the claims of the
sex are beginning to chafe, partly to be the
sensation Of the moment. And yet if man
suddenly loosed the reins and gave them
permission to do the town they would
probably run home, lock their doors, jump
into bed and pull the clothes above their
imaginative little heads don + see that
anything is to be done but for men to LA
themselves on to the stage. That would
disgust other men so that they would
never 60 10 the theater again and then
there would be no more female las The
men would not give their wives and
daugeter any money to 90 to the theaters
with, and then the theaters would close,
far the las wouldn't take the trouble to
leer at their own Then there woudu'
be any actresses, and all the men would
insist upon their wives going in for anna
teur theatricals, and then the world
collapse in one gigantic yawn--but leave
this elaborate analysis for soLle one else
to finish