The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-08-07

CANT or ride bicycle, but because the
young men are generally no account,
or dissipatcd or can t support wife.
Some of them will spree all night long
and 60 to dance the next night with
respectable girl.
How many young married women
have separated from their husbands
or been divorced or abandoned ?
About that bicycle craze, as it is
called. I confess that | cannot see
anything wrong or immodest about it
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 and get their
mail and mount again and ride away
and nobody thought it anything wrong
or immodest. I am sure it never oc-
cured to me, and I was obliged to
admire them and the grace of their
evolutions. I don't think that mar
ried women who are settled, as they
say, nor very large 200-pounders,
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-
judicc, and the costume of the coun-
| try we live in has much to do with
our prejudice. In Italy and Switzerland
and Audalusia the grown up maidens
all dress in short skirts that show the
ankle and a pretty cross-laced hose
above it, and it is all right over there.
I've seen the pictures of these pretty
maidens and like their costume: but
it would be shocking over here. l
will make another confession. l can
see no good reason-save custom
why ladies should not ride horse like
man if they ride at all. 1t is GER
tainly the safer way. [ can't see any
good reason why woman should not
practice medicine among her own sex.
In fact, I think they should have the
preference, and if some enterprising
woman should establish female med
ical college it would be literally pat
ronized. 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 con6ning women to
the Greside when there is no support
for them there. Paul spoke for his
own time and it's customs-not for
ours-whcn he said that long hair was
the glory of woman. 1t was worn
long, but now it is done up and secur-
ed with hairpins. Who ever saw
painting of Eve or of Mary Magdalene
or any Jewish woman Of that day with
her hair done up in wad on the back
of her head. How could Mary have
wiped the Savior's feet with her hair
if it had been switch or was done up
with pins. Paul no doubt was fasci-
mated with woman 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. @. G. Lamar wore theirs very
long and so does DR.. Hawthorne and
Roger A. Pryor, and I 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" appear
ance. 'He shakes his ambrosial locks
and gives the nod. !"
As to women talking in church, |
hope they will not make business of
it and we could 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 to be
our lawmaker for one session she
would wake up the nation on the
whiskey business, wouldn't she?
Then let her make progress in every
good work. We know very we'll that
it is her natural desire to marry and
be a mother, but if there is no pros
pect of that what must she do :? Go
to the missionary society or visit the
sick, you may say. That won't buy
bread nor clothing. Iheard preacher
say, "Would you make amazons OF
our women ?" There were no ANA
IONS 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 wo-
men astride of horses and armed with
spcars-but he says from his best in
formation these were a 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. This amazon story is all
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, I wouldent hang
her. 1t was an awful crime for wo-
man to Go, but wouldent hang any
woman. But look how many men
have killed their wives or sweethearts
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 are gone?
BILL ARP.