Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-10-02
THEY COURT INSULT.
Amber's Opinion of HypersenSitive Fe-
males OF Modern Society.

Amber's Opinion of HypersenSitiye Fe-
| males OF Modern Society
Says Amber in the Chicago Herald
A man was once walking along a
country road. The morning was
blithe with dew and bird-SOng, and
the way wound by many musical
brook and flowing mead, until lost
at last within the emDraSure of q
eafy wood.
b The man was heavily burdened. Ii
Dne hand he carried an iron pot and
q live chicken by the legs, in the
other staif, and cord to which
| Vas attached gameSOme pup.
shortly before entering the forest
the man was oyertaken by a buxom
maid. For time they jOurneyed to-
yether in pleasant converse. The
maid was going forth to gather win.
| .ergreen berries, she said, and for
that purpose she carried a bright tin
pail. Hardly had they entered the
umbrageous shade of the forest be-
fore she dropped her pail and began
| 20 shrek with terror.
For heavens sake what is tn.
natter" exclaimed the man, while
the chicken squawked, the pup
frisked and the maid continued her
piercing cries.
II fear that you are going to kjs.
me here in these lonely woods" she
'obbed, ''and l cannot help myself"
"Nou talk nonsense" said the
man; "how do you suppose l could
kiss you if wanted to with my hands
| full?"
| Nothing easier" moaned tht
maid, "All you would have to dc
would be to stick your staff into the
ground and fasten the dog to it, then
| put your chicken down and turn the
iron pot over it to keep it from run.
ming awav. oh, what shall 1 do,
what shall do, with nobody nigh to
| linder?"
"Well thought out.r cried tn,
man, and handed the maid the rail
to hold while he secured the dog,
after which he imprisoned the
chicken and proceeded to kiss the
shrieking maid.
| The fable is eXcmplihed from day
to day by those people who are al
ways on the alert for insults. They
never ride in the car, nor 20 on a
| journey, nor walk through crowded
| paSsageway, nor sit in a restaurant,
nor travel in the streets but what
some one either looks suggests or
| does something to shock them. True
modesty is not always on the lookout
for offenSe, any more than a homing
dove turns aside to troop with vaga-
| bond crows. True mOdeSty is not
easily affronted and is slow to think
| will.
| If a girl is brought up right sh<
| needs no champcrOn to protect her.
| Her own dainty d scriminatiOn, her
| own sweet sense OF Savoir faire will
carry her the wide world over as the
| May morning carries bird through
Its azure air or as June carries rose
In its bright bosom. | do not mean
| to say that the pure women are not
sometimes moiested through no fault
of their own. But such cases are
rare. They form exceptions to the
broad and general rule. ii a woman
Is forced to he on the street late at
night she need fear little or no annoy.
ance if she goes quickly and quietly
On her way without side glances of
disJrust and fear Very few men
will speak to Il woman who seems un-
alarmed and thoroughly about her
| business. l read in the evening pa.
| per not long ago OF a woman who was
waiting on crowded thOroughfare
Tor delayed cable train. a stranger
who stood beside her remarked ca>u-
ally: "Tnis is pretty tough whiting
go long in the cold" The wuman ap.
| pealed to policeman for protection
| from insult That was fully as bad
As the cause OF the shricking maid in
| The fable. Any woman who would
De such fool as to deem herself in.
suited because fellow wayfarcI
fought to condole with her on mutual
nardships ought to be finally insulted
with a shotgun. Such halr-wit
would serve her day and generation
better dead than living. What are
ne, anyway that we should stand
iloof from one another? A company
,f raw recruits under marching
orders to the grave; flock of sheer
travelling together to common fold:
flight of birds winging their way
through mingled sun and shade from
the north to the south land. Why
should we hesitate then, TO give
greeting one to another as We Jour.
ney on? The world would be an in.
fnitely sweeter place to tarry if we
move IN touch with one another and
EAST ceremony to the winds where il
belongs. l have seen but few people
who could carry hauteur and unneces-
,ary reserve gracefully, and they wele
wax figures in the museum.