The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1895-08-13

/ 6irts IN THIS tOWn Oh EOou ionhSS W."
would make good wives, but where arc
the young men to whom the fathers
would entrust them? There are not ten
are there Eve? Marriage Is at dis
| sotint-fiot because these girls are fast
or extravagant or ride bicycle, but
because the young men are generally
no account, or dissipated or can't sup
port q wife Some of them will spree
all night long and 60 to dance the
next night with a respectable girl.
How many young married women
have separated from their husbands or
been divorced or abandonment
About that bicycle craze, as 1t Is call
cd. i confess that I cannot see any"
thing wrong or immodeet about 1t when
the dress is modest. 1t all depends
upon that. / saw two young girls in
Tampa ride up the street and alight at
the postofice aud get theip mail and
mount again and ride away snd nobody
thought it any ching wrong or iminod'
est. / am sure it never occu sred to me,
and was obliged to admire them and
| the grace of their evolutio1s. don't
think that married women who are set
tied, as they sey, nor very large zoo
Founders, 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
prejudice, and the costume Of the coun-
| try we live in has much to do with our
prejudice. In Italy and Switzerland
and Andalusia the grown up maidens
| all dress in sdort skirts that show the
ankle and a pretty crosS-laced hose
above it, and it is all righs over there.
| I've seen the pictures OF these pretty
naidens and like their costume, but it
would be shocking over here. / will
make another confession. / can see no
good reason-save custom why ladies
should not ride horse like a man if
they ride at all. 1t is certainly the sa-
fer way. can't see any good reason
why a woman should not practice med
icine among her own sex. In fact,
have wiped the Savior's feet with her
hair if it had been a switch or was done
up with pins. Paul no doubt was fas-
cinated with woman's tresses as we all
are. Even some of our notable men
admired long hair SO much that they
wore their own hair down upon their
shoulders. Joseph Henry Lumpkin
and L. Q. c. Lamar wore theirs very
long and 50 does DR.. Hawthorne and
Roger A. Pryor, and l don't suppose
there is any harm in it, even though
they were not Nazarenes. A great
man can afford to do it, for it does give
him a Jupiter tonans" appearance.
He shakes his ambrosial locks and
gives the nod"
As to women talking in church, /
think they should have the preference
and if some enterprising woman should
establish a female medical college it
would be literally patronized. The
time is near at hand when the women
will have to run the machine or it will
not be done, The time is past for con.
fning women to the freside when there
is no support for them there. Paul
spoke for his own time and it's customs
not for ours-when he said that long
hair was the glory of woman. 1t was
worn long, but now it is done up and
secured with hairpins. Who ever saw
a painting of Eve or of Mary Magda.
lene or any Jewish woman of that day
with her hair done up in a wad on the
back of her head. How could Mary
hope they will not make a business of
it and we could say the same of some
men we know. But if she talks well
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 a woman was allowed to be
l., 81, - el,o
wake up the nation on the whisky bust
ness, wouldn't she? Then let her
make progress in every good work.
We know very well that it is her
natural desire to marry and be a moth
err, but if there is no prospect of that,
what must she do? Go to the mission
airy society or visit the sick, you may
say. That won't buy bread nor cloth.
ing. l heard a preacher say. Would
you make amazons of our women?
There were no Amazons and AmaZonia
has been stricken from the modern
maps, for neither the country nor the
women could be found. Humboldt
says he searched diligently and found
an old man over there who said his
grandfather told him he saw four one
time-four women astride of horses
| and armed with spears-but he says
from his best information these were
few dusky slave women who escaped
from their captors and fed far into .the
interior and built fort to protect
themselves, and there, in course of
time, they all died. The amazon story
| is all a myth, but if it was not, it does
not follow that our men will ever get
SO low as to let the women do the fight
ing. And now there is big contro-
versy about the old woman who killed
her husband. No, l wouldn't hang
her. 1t was an awful crime for
woman to do, but wouldn't hang any
woman. But look how many men have
killed their wives or sweethearts in the
last six months. 1t is getting as COM
mon as suicides. What is the matter
| with the country and who will protect
the girls when we are gone
| BILL Arr.
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