The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-10-18
TIE ROANOKE TIMES, FRIDAY, OCTOBER Is. 1895
be dispensed with for weeks at a time

be dispensed with for weeks at a time
without making man effeminate.
Some men believe that to abstain en-
tircly from profanity will unsex them,
but statistics show that this is an ex-
plodcd theory. Since the churches have
been thrown open to women many have
been surprised to SEQ what good has been
done, and thousands of church debts con-
tractcd by men have been paid by wom-
ell III clrcuitous way by cooking up the
husbands groceries and selling them to
him at u tremendous advance. One oys-
ter i'll IL pan of milk under willing
hands will do wonders.
Man thinks he has genius, but what
man among you would ever think that
he might make Il beautiful patchwork
quilt of his wife's dress and realize
SOU. 30 10y voting it to tho most Dopu-
lar colored child i'll the state?
During the summer discussions have
been going OH upon two great questions
viz, CD Which is the more beautiful,
man or woman? and (2) Is woman hon
orable?
One would think that there could DO
no discussion OH these points, and yet
there has been good deal, and it has
been interesting without being abusive
Every one remembers old Mrs. Scraggs,
who stood for an hour looking at tho
Apollo Belvidere, and then, after asking
for the ninth time if it were really
Apollo, said, with sigh that raised the
dust of antiquity i'll clouds, "Wcll, if
that's the Apollo Belvidere, give mo
Scraggs!'
Beauty, especially i'll the opposite sex,
IS local issue. Love is said to be blind,
but the beauty he sees ill some people
does my heart good There's nothing
that so clearly proves tho existence of an
all wise, thoughtful God more than this.
Where would be today if love had not
surrounded me with glamour for which
l would not take Il good sized farm,
with so head of stock OH it?
Sandow, to tho importer of Percheron
draft horses and Rosa Bonheur Norman
dray stations, is beautiful To me he is
as beautiful as a locomotive that can
make 90 miles an hour, but what we'll
informed man would prefer him as a
fellow tourist toward better land to
the scores of thousands of the angelic
host which graduates every June III our
own country alone?
When it comes to one sex criticisinr
the other, it is like one blind asylum
criticising the beauty of Il rival asylum.
My own Judgment. which OH general
topics is sought for every day by those
who arc strangers to me. would he ell
tirely at fault i'll matter of this kind,
and yet venture to give it with char
acterlstic buoyancy and courage.
Man should lay no claim TO beauty,
for when he enters the contest and is
conscious of it he becomes merely tho
silent partner of hi. clothes He should
be the trunk of the tree, not the foliage.
He should be tho energy that moves the
panorama, but he should not be the
panorama.
So far as honor is concerned in busi-
ness, woman often saves man from dis
honor. IN her own dealings she may be
more timid about the fulfillment of her
contracts than man, but that is the fault
of her education and environment to a
certain degree. She may ask for margins
and advantages in commercial transac-
lions which man would hesitate to ask
for, but that is because she has learned
that she can do so. Women educated to
business methods do not take advantage
of this.
So far rs honor between the two may
be concerned in affairs of tho heart,
statistics do not aid us, but our own sex
Will do just us we'll to avoid an inyeSti-
CATION.
After all, however, anything that
savors OF savage and hcartlesS discussion
with the two arrayed against each 9TH
er Is wrong and dangerous. Man is the
oak and woman the vine, and if the oak
should prove to be dccaycd, and the vine
turn out to be poison ivy, humanity
suffers and the divorce machine has to
work a night shift.
Let rs be friends
Let us have peace.
Girls, Twill punish tho first man who
says you cannot ''holler down our rain
barrel. " Do all your hollcring there if
you wish, and when you need IL new
barrel drop IL postal card III tho office for
rs. 1t will he attended to-
a kind friend sends this week poem
of tho narrative kind. 1t reminds one of
"Childc Harold" but still does not re-
semblc it enough to rob it of its origi-
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