The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-08-08

to the kind OF education that will Iii
minish crime? Who shall the goud
and virtuous girls marry nowadays
Where are the young men who are
worthy of them ? There arc at least
forty young marriagcublc girls in this
town Of good families who would mako
good wives, but where arc the young
men to whom the fathers would cntrust
thcm? There arc .lot trn--urc there
live: Marriage is ut Il discount
because those girls arc fast or cXtr;lva-
giant or ride bicycle, but because the
young men arc generally no account,
or disSiphtcd or can't support Il wife.
Some OF them will spree all night long
and go to dance the next night with
II respectable girl.
HOW uany young married women
have been separated from their hus-
bands or been divorced or abandoned ?
About that bicycle craze. as il is
called. | confess that | cannot sec
anything wrong or immolcst about it
when the dress is modest. IL all de-
pcndS upon that. saw two Young
girls miTampa ride up the street and
alight at the postollcc and get their
mail and mount again anu ride away
and nobody thought it anything wrong
or immOdUSt. | am sure it never Oc-
CURED to me, and was obliged to adj
mirc them and the grace OF their cvo-
lutiOns. | don't think That married
women who are settled, as they say,
nor very large 20O-poundcrs, should
ride them. There are many things
that young girls may do that their
mothers should not. AS To the dress
we are all the creatures OF pre- juuicc,
and the costume of the country we live
in has much TO do with our pre- judicc.
N t.ll n,t1 S,trit 4 ,l,,I,
sia the grown up maidcnS all dress in
short skirts that show the ankle and Il
pretty cross laced hose above it, and it
Is all right over there. I've seen the
pictures OF these pretty maidcnS and
like their costume, but ID would be
shocking over here. will make an
other confession. | can sec no good
reason save custom why ladies
should not ride IL horse like IL man il
they rido at all. It is certainly the
safer way. can't sec any good rr;l
son why Al woman should not practice
medicine among her own sex. In fact,
| think they should have the prefer
encc and II some cntcrprising woman
should cStu blish Il female medical col
lcsse it would be lib2rally patronizcd.
The time is near at hand when the
women will have TO run the machine
or 1T will not be done. The time is
past Tor conlining women to thu
ilrcsidc when thcr, is no support for
thcm there. Paul spoke for his own
time and It's customs for ours
when he said that long hair wis the
glory OF woman. 1t was worn long.
but nov 1t Is done up and secured with
| hairpins. Who ever saw Il painting OF
Eve or OF Mary Mugdaicnc or any jew
ish woman OF that day with her hail
done up in a wad on the back Of hcl
head. How could Mary have wipct
the SaElOrS icct with her hair if il
had been Il switch or was done up with
pins. Paul no doubt was fascinated
with wOmanS trcSSeS uS we all arc.
] Even some OF our notable men admired
long hair SO much that they wore their
their hair down upon thcir shoulders.
Joseph Henry Lumpiin and l.. 9. &.
Lamar wore theirs very long anu so
does DR.. Hawthorne and Roger a. .
Pryor, and don suppose thero is any
harm in it, even though they were not
NaZarcneS. ~ great man can AFFORD to
TO 40 1t, Tor 1T does give him II ".iupi
ter tonans appearances "Hc shakes
his hmhrosial locks and gives the nod"
As to women talking in church, |
hope they will not make IL business Of
1T and we conld say the same Of some
men we know. But if she talks we'll
and makes the wOrld better, let her
talk. She teaches our children in the
public schools and Sabbath schools and
why not in the church? The fact is.
if woman WAS allowed IL he our law
maker for one session she would wake
up the nation ON tho whiskey business,
wouldn't she? Thcn let hcr make
progress in every good work. We
know very well that it is her natura,
desire to marry and be IL mother, bat
II thcro Is no prospect OF that what
must She do? Go to the missionary So
ciety or visit the sick, you may say.
That won't bny bread nor clothing.
heard Il preacher say, Would you
mako nmaHOns Of our women ~ There
were no Amaz0nS and Amazonia has
been stricken from the modern maps,
for neither the country nor the women
could be found, Humboldt su;s he
searched diligently and found ;tn Old
man over there who said his grandfa-
thcr told him he saw four one time
four won yn astridc Of horses and arm
cd with spcars--but nc says from h,
best information these were IL few
Cusky slave women who escaped from
their captors and fled far into the in
terror and built a. fort to protect them
selves, and there, in course Of time,
they all died. This amazon story is
all Il myth, but if it was not, it does
not follow that our men will ever get
SO low rs to let the women do the fl hi =
ing. And now there is Il big conJro-
vcrsy about the old woman VINO killed
hel husband. No, wouldn't hang her.
1t was an awful crime for Il woman to
do, but | wouldn't hang any woman
But look how many mon have killed
their wives or swccthcnrts in the last
six months. 1t is getting as common
as suicides. What is the matter with
the country and who will protect the
girls when we arc gone?
BILL. ARP.