The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-04-19

A Silly Pad Punctured.
The nineteenth century has been ~ re-
markable for silly 'sfads'' - any Of ito
predecessors. When anything Of the sort
is 30 overdone - to make sensible people
eick 1t Is then pleasure to witness the
bursting of its bubble. On this line the
Cincinnati Lancet-C Clinic has the fol-
lowing to say which will be appreciated
by the reader:
Some eight or ten years ago London
sent to America = creature In human
form who clothed himself in queer
raimeut, aud posed, for the delectatioo
of the luxurious idlers Of both sexes, as
the apostle of esthetics. Sun-howers,
knee-breeches, banged hair and soft
twaddle were his capital aud sole stock
in trade. To his credit 1t may be said
that he made the most of his opportu-
mites, gathering up barrel or more of
ducats and capturing one Of Americas
shrewdest women.
Much of the twaddle of the self-styled
apostle of ssthetics squinted with stra-
bismic eyes at the nude in human form.
Filmy gauze, bullying calves and busts
through questionable costumes and sug-
gestlve posing became subjects of carica-
ture and drawing-room conversations.
Critics and shrinkers from these detest-
able devices were den0minated prudes,
puritans, grandmothers and what not in
ridicule, and reminded of the utterance
ITO the pure all things are pure"
The sower of this seed of estheticiem
was for the time the Royal Prince of
the Ango-Saxon four huadred. Great
was the Prince. Dudes parted their
hair in the middle and wore q senti-
mental book, in token Of allegiance to
their autOcrat. Harvard students en-
masse wore the sunfiower token, and
silly maids and their more silly mamas,
in crushing decolletes, crowded and
craved for the autograph of this posing.
leering sower of seed. The
American woman who became the wife
Of the apostle soon realized the mistake
she had made and sought legal sepa-
ration, which was granted by the courts.
This lecherOus Prince held his adj
mirers with social hooks that were
stronger than crucible steel. Purient
plays were written for the
of those who wear purple
and fine linen, but whose instincts are
London theatrical managers
over each other in their efforts
to obtain the right to place these vile
productions upon their stages. The
four hundred of both sexes went and
applauded the suggestive nastiness.
The lane is long that has no turn.
A Marquis, who was not over sensitive
ia his moral attributes, shrewdly
observed the demoralizing influence the
apostle was exercising in bis
family, and proceeded to expose the vile
practices of the sun-aower nOndescript.
The courts of law were sought and
social ulcer was unmarked which for
stencil, stink and rottenness could only
have been possible in the great Anglo
Saxon clearinghouse city.
What has all this to do with medicine.
hat our mental observations on this |
stuff should be aired in a medical |
ournal? Everything. Doctors are an
and influential factor in the
worlds body polite. They recognize
he conditions which powerfully affect
he minds influence over the body; how
his influence is insidious and seductive:
low it may be elevating or lowering, re-
ining or defiling, general or local,
formal or abnormal.
Upward tendencies of the good are
continuously in antagonism with the
forces of the bad. Reputable
md regular medicine is ever at war
With quackery. which is synonymous
With fraud. All alike a:e sowing seed.
Fares come up with pure grain; the one
must be weeded out lest the other be
hOked.
The love of money is the root of all
vii. For this cause some of the daily
ress is fed and fattened on the yilest
God that ever went into the Golfers of
corporation stomach. The officers of
bank may loot the savings of its