The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-21

purpose of msligning the character of
the. young ladies of Pennington.
The article referred to is clipped from
the Kaysyille Eagle, and although short
IS couched with such language as to in
| cite the indignation of the respectable
citizens of this place: 1t sets forth that
| putting their cigars and exhibiting
themselves in very disreputable man
ner. Not content with this vile exag
geration, it further states, in a way to.
cast very unpleasant reflection upon
all the ledies here that this is not the
4 first caprice of the kind reported.
Had this scurrilous fabrication rested
| in the secluded columns of the Eagle,
| (Buzzard) it would have attracted very
| little comment because very few people
would have seen it; and if they had.
| they would have passed it by as the
| idle wlnd;'' but when your widely cir
culated paper picks it up from its OBJ
| security and publishes it to the world.
| then the mischief is augmented in pro-
portion to the vast difference in the
number of readers IN the two papers.
| The facts of the case are reported by
| the president of the Y. L. NJ. I. A. who
! took the trouble to investigate the mat
| ter with view to using her influence
| against such actions if they really had
| to see that such reports were justly an
| swered, are as follows: Two or three
young ladies' whose character is beyond
even suspicion, living two or three miles
out of town, and thinking that they were
| entirely alone not even their brothers
| being at home did dress in gentlemen's
attire but remained upon their own prem
ises with the exception of crossing the
road TO a neighbours house at a time
when no men folks were at home. This
was done in innocent pastime, with no
purpose whatever of exhibiting them
selves in any unladylike conduct. Ger
tainly no moral minded person would as
sumo anything evil or '.scurrilous' in
such guiltless sport The evil lay in the
sordid mind of the Eagles fastdious.
scribe or his informant. When man
| mind becomes so corrupted that he can
not witness, unbelknown to tAe par0cl-
pants, a simple girlish amusement that
nearly every woman some time in her
life has INDUCED in, he becomes a GAN
gerouS element IN society and should pc
Stunned by VirtuCuS minded ladies' until
the morbid inclinationS of his passions
have undergone q radical reformatlon. IN
further imitation of the ways or young
men the girls had some wrapping paper
rolled up and placed in their mouth II
even the aping of a practlce ailh9 9s utlt-
versal among men is so terribly disgust
ing to this clrcumspect writer OF the
Eagle l wonder how in the world he can
endure the real practice of the noNtous
habit, perhaps in his own of1ce. per-
son of such oVer-nice comprehension Oh
propriety would do less mischief as re-
former of social vices than in attempting
to run a country newspaper
Pennington has a class OF young laoles
of which it is justly proud, their repu-
pie worthy of emplation. If the Eagle
wishes to wake up with little Just
criticism or good advice we are reauy
to profit by it; but | would advise the
attack be made on some more Vulner-
able point that the social or moral con-
diti0h Oh our young -a''e@ CITIZEN.
Pennington, Utah, July 20, 1885,.