Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-05-11
ARM. IN ARM.
INTERESTING DISCUSSION OF a.
SOCIAL CUSTOM.
A Beautiful Courtesy Showing tho
Attitude of Man and Woman
The Lover aud the, Has
bands Way.

for some curious ana unknown
reason the questions embodied
seem to be agitatin9 the feminine
mind, it is given i'll full with the reply:
To the Editor of The Press
Dear Sir-Please say in Your paper what
YOU think about II gentleman taking u lady's
arm instead OF Offering his own.S A faithful
reader, PA. II.
There is only one man in the world
who can be pardoned for the atrocity
of taking u woman's arm, and he is the
policeman who arrests her for shop
lifting or tries to save her from cable
or trolley car or some other form of
sudden death. Any other man guilty
of such massacre of good taste and
good manners deserves-not to be shot,
but to be designated Ga gent.
Common sense and custom have es-
tnblished the rule that after dark
gentleman shall give his arm to tho
lady he is with. This not only signi-
tes to tire public that he is acting as
IN escort, and saves her from its COM
ments and jostling, but enables the
two to keep easily in step. There are
also occasions during the day when q
rude crowd, rough walking, standing
in the cars or lack of strength makes
manly arm doubly welcome to deli.
cate woman. In short, the courtesy is
beautiful in its significance of the at
titude of man and woman.
1t must be admitted, however, that
many men are SO ignorant or SO care
less in their manner of extending this
courtesy that q sensitive woman would
rather walk with both hands in her
muff or her pockets if she dared than
avail herself of it. Walking behind
couple arm in arm, one can easily
guess at til. mans breeding and his
relation to the woman. The anxious
lover is MS easily detected rs the indif-
ferent husband The former holds his
arm Mt IN angle acute with hope and
tenderness and admirably adapted to
the height of the angle who trips be-
side him. When she puts her little
hand under his coat-sleevc his heart
goes out with thump to meet it, and
it is with nm i'll concealed effort that
he refrains, if he does refrain, from
pressing it passionately to his side, as
he blesses himself that the cruel world
does .Hsiction this one sweet, unspoken
mode of communication. AS even the
noblest, strongest tree inclines toward
the sparkling and murmuring stream,
his whole being leans toward the ten
der creature Mt his side, and, with
courage that is delicious to contem-
plate, he protects her in her innocent
little alarms from even the shadow of
mouse on the sidewalk.
ofnh hA I'll
the ideal married man, but the aver
age husband of the average wife. Ho
stalks along as nearly like the red In
dian with the squaw i'll his tracks as
civilization permits. His strong arm,
crooked Mt the feeblest angle, hangs
Imply down, furnishing n sort of
sliding scale for the slender hand that
III vain seeks for resting place,
Sometimes, in crossing walk or
mounting step the slender hand slips
away altogether, and then, in accord
ance with his degree of natural bru-
tality, indifference or ill-breeding, he
asks why the something she can't hold
on, or what the thing-a-bob she's try
ing to do now. She signs and says
nothing.
better Is 1t to see II couple just i'll
the prime of life and who have climbed
its heights together SO we'll and SO
faithfully that they walk with one gait,
Just as they feel, with one accord ho
with shoulder well squared to tho
world and strong arm that holds
with tender tirmness the hand that
came to him with the truest heart in
all the world
Best of all to see is the venerable
couple, whose bent figures and SNOWY
locks are beatifed by the love of life
tlme' as arm in arm they descend the
NIL OF life into the shadows of tho
Peaceful Valley.
10 return, however, to the purely
practical aspect of arms-giving, it is
well to add that in certain parts of the
country 1T has peculiar Significance.
For instance, we are told that in Wis
consin for young lady to accept of a
gentleman arm in the daylight is nj
most equivalent to the sending out of
Wedding cards, and we know this to be
so III East Tennessee. Right ND in the
Treat Smoky Mountains, which Miss
Murfree SO lovingly depicts, the stall
Drawn and muscle becomes as SO much
pup VIII approach his divinity at n
camp meeting or picnic with the agi-
tating query, "Have wing?" This
is the crucial test. If from the depths
OF fascinating sun bonnet issues the
cruel words, II wouldn't give shucks
iof chicken" then the mountaineer
knows his doom. If, however, through
those glngham frills is breathed the
tender words, ~ don't care if Ido'-
then bring forth the magnolia bios
SONS and ring the bells.-New York
Press. :. :,
Frost Torches 10 Protect Vegetables.
The project adopted by the farmers
OF Saratoga County, New York. to pro-