The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-07
DYNAMITE DAISY,s DIDOES.

As each man endeavOrS to accustOm
and fit himself, by contemplation and
inward resolves, to prove equal TO the
new sphere which is so rapidly ap-
preaching, with all its divine respon-
| sibilities, we fear many phazes of his
| life, that is to be. as also its duties.
are not comprehended. In forgetting
that there can be no such thing as alb
solute equality, the fact that we must
| fill the spheres heretofore filed by
women is lost sight of. The coming
woman" as some one puts it, neceS-
states the ''gone man. No doubt
! the average man has already accus-
toned himself to mental pictures of
| the new woman as street corner
loafer, in short hair and her cigar
elevated at an angle Of thirty-fve or
so, can see her as q tramp, with short
pipe and frayed-out pantalOOns, see
her even as a bold, bad burglar with
dark lantern and pistol secreted be-
meath his bed, but we all, probably,
forget the hired girl and resultant di-
lemma. The she-bum, ward heeler
and the Union boss will naturally fall
into their places. but when it comes
TO falling into the hired girls places
there must be provided some male con-
tingent. or otherwise the hired-girl
idea will have to be eliminated. Its
all we'll enough, in imagination, to re-
solve that we will wrestle the pots
and tumble the pudding, ourselves, but
the actual thing itself may prove more
than an imaginative job. But all these
phases and problems aside, the things
which should concern us most is the
responsibility Of the father TO his grow
ing daughter. The only chance that
we shall have, as male prOgenitors, TO
save ourselves and sons from disgace
and sorrow, from headaches and pre-
mature gray hairs, all brought about
by fast and reckless daughters in
their wild oats periods; by diSting
uished wives going wrong as bank
cashiers, as corporation defaulterS. as
absconderS and the like; by political
Stateswomen ignoring the claims of
their constituents and wrecking the
hopes of the people, is through the in
fuence we may be able to exert over
our budding daughters while yet under
the care and gentle tutelage Of the
patient father in the home life. The
older girls viii doubtless, many times
and Oft, indulge in their round-ups of
races and riotOuS living and the like,
returning home only TO abuse and beat
their old fathers and long suffering
the hope found in the chance of avert
ing much of the evil through a proper
training OF the girls before they have
reached the age of short hair and
boomers. They must be sheltered
from the influence Of the tough gangs
of night-brawling sisters and beer guz- |
Zling women, and as far as possible |
kept under the sweet influence of the |
softer and gentler lives Of their broth |
ers at home, and of young men gen |
orally. What, however, seems to us
the greatest danger, the blastingist in |
fiuence of all threatened calamitieS, is
the cheap literature with which the |
country will be flooded. Highly excit-
ing tales of Sleeveless Sallie's |
Scapes,' Dynamite Daisy's Didoes," |
Bessie Boomers Boomerang and |
like blood-curdling works. OF course
the coarse example of the older fe-
males will be ferocious, but if the
little worthless can but be
from the flood of naturally eX-
citing and trashy literature which is
sure to come, a fair average of COM
fort and decency may be maintained.
1t is not too early therefore, for every
father and for every boy who hopes
that he may be one, to early and earn
esty ponder the new responsibilities
which must, and mayhap all too soon,
be theirs.