The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-03-09
Ohio home. March 4.
HAVE WOMEN ANY FAuLTse

tnok tho Fair Sex.
II. L. G. FRIENDs-Many months have
swung into space since last visited the
page, and for fear that you may forget me
entirely | concluded tocalI again to renew
acquaintance after my protracted silence.
When l last visited the page l prom
ised to call soon again and reply to "Mazy
Mascot's" letter, which appeared in the
April %. 1891, issue of THE SENTINEL.
Many OF YOU may have forgotten the let
ter. l will, however. reply to it.
May Mascot" said 'the sole cause" of
his visit to the page was ito settle that
Imagination question asked by Hamlet"
viz: "How many faults in young women
can we excuse?" And the sole cause OF
my visit is-not to point out the faults the
gentle sweet ones possess, but reply to
Mays" letter. 1t is rather difficult to
answer his letter as | would like TO answer
in quite a number OF different ways l
will however answer it the easiest way pos
sible as my time for writing is very
limited.
May" instead of settling the question
that young women are so pure and per-
feet that they cannot have any faults.
you no doubt settled it in the minds
OF all sensible readers of the page that
instead of "Hamlet's" inquiry being so,
your letter was the senseiess one. l see
throughout your whole letter from alpha
to Omega" YOU aver giving the girls
"taffy' and aver fishing" for compli-
ments, which is all right, but l
think they would relish your
sweets more il you were to administer
them in smaller doses. ANY one with
good common sense, let it be ever so in
4. IL
is not a woman living-young or old
who is without fault. 1t is an insult TO
the name of fair woman to assert that she
is without fault and she should resent
the indignity by passing her judgment OF
condemnation upon you. You are igno-
rant as regards women's faults, or were
insincere in what YOU said concerning
her.
do not think you will plead ignorance,
but YOU never WAS sincerer, and YOU held
up their faults with scorn TO the public
gaze, and at the same time was Laughing
in your sleeve"
III there is one woman in the world who
is without fault, and you can find her.
yours as well as her fortune is made as
museum curiosities. You are curiosity"
or "ireak" as being "the first and only
person in the world TO assert that the
and she if YOU can find herr is the only
woman in the world without fault"
Ha! Ha! Hal What an excitement
you would cause. Why people would 90
thousands of miles-more or less-tO see
you. Just think of the excitement it
would cause 10 have your picture on a
canvas at q side show with the words
this is the first man who found a woman
without fault, and opposite your picture
would be that OF ''the only woman in the
world without a fault"
May Mascot" Pm no ''crus,v old
bachelor" and instead of it being necessary
To employ the best detective talents the
II. l.. G. affords to find out if there really
is such thing as fault in the queens OF
the universe"
You can employ the best detectives in
the world and if they can find a woman
in the world without fault III send you
my "chromo." will. however, admit that
some are so cute as TO hide great many
OF their faults that it sometimes Will re-
quire a smart man to discover them.
Why. M. NJ, if were woman and
were so perfect as you trying to have
Us believe they are, / would put my
hands OH my shoulder-bades every few
minutes TO feel if my wings we're growing,
for when woman once is so perfect and
angelic as to DO without fault she has 10
business here on earth-heaven is her
homeland all she will need TO get there
is pair of wings. | claim there is not
woman, or man either, who is without
fault land l don't care who knows it,,
and the superstitions of the dark
ages do not cloud my brain either
but it will require brighter ''illumina-
ton" than you can supply TO dispel such
''ancient and mythical views" as to change
my views on this subject.
IN. NJ. / cannot say that | possess a
very vivid imagination" but my sense of
judgment and discernmentis keen enough
to distinguish 'the girl of the period" from
the other girls. "The girl of the period"
is faulty. very, very faulty; yes. May"
she is scarcely anything else but faults.
May" you will do me great favor by
describing that angelic creature known as
''tbe girl OF the period"
would say more of her but will wait I'M
til some other time. an. NJ" said he had
been close observer of the fair ones for
several days-remember he saws for
several days" And he says he's NEAR
sighted" Now how in the world can anv-
one expect a person who is ''near-sighted"
to see a woman's faults? / do not know
how it affects person to be near-sighted,
but judging from your letter it must be
like looking IN the wrong end of tele-
scope. You can only see woman, the OBJ
ject OF your admiration, but not her faults.
Like yourself, | once heard of a man
who was so 'nearsighted" that he put his
hand into another mans pocket and was
arrested for pick-pocket. When be was
brought before the judge for trial his plea
was he was nearsighted and reached in
his pocket for his handkerchief, but by
mistake got his hand in the wrong pocket.
Was he excused2 Not much neither
7 does your nearsightedness excuse you for
not being able to see woman's faults
/ heard of but one person who deserves pity
/ for being nearsighted, and she was girl.
Oh, excuse me; she was "cross-eyed :"
/ they said her eyes were so "cross"
that when she cried the tears would
run down the back of her neck.
/ But l am DEPRESSING. Az l said before il
/ you are so nearsighted that you cannot
see woman's faults l would advise you to
/ wear pair OF green goggles the next time
/ you 90 on an expedition to investigate the
/ faults of the 'fair sex"
/ Why "Mazy" blind man can discover
fault in woman, and you surprise me
I when you gay you have been close OBJ
/ server of the fair ones but could dis
| cover none. You ought to
get married; then. perhaps. you