The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-08-06


bands or been divorced or abandoned /
About that bicycle craze, as 1t IL
called. / confess that | cannot see
anything wrong or i'm modest about Il
when the dress is modest. It,all de-
| pehdS upon that. / saw two young
girls in,Tampa ride up the street and
alight at the postoffice and get their
mail and mount again and ride away
and nobody thought it anything wrong
or immodest. l am sure it never oc-
Cured to me, and was obliged to adj
mire them and the grace of their evo-
lutions. | don't think that married
women who are settled, as they say,
nor very large 200-pounders, should
ride them. There are mahy 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 country wo live
in has much to do with our prejudice.
In Italy and Switzerland and Andaln-
sia the grown up maidens all dress in
short skirts that show the ankle and q
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. / will mako an
other confession. | can see no good
reason--save custom why ladies
should not ride horse like man if
they ride at all. 1t is certainly tie
safer way. | can't see any good rea-
son why u woman should not practice
medicine among her own sex. In fact
| think they should have the prefer
enco and if some enterprising woman
should establish female medical col
legc it would be liberally patronzed.
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 confining women to the
fireside 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 1T is done up and secured with
hairpins. Who ever saw u painting of
Eve or of Mary Magdalene or any Jew
ish woman of that day with her hair
done up in wad on the back of her
head. How could Mary have wiped
the Saviors feet with her hair il it
had been switch or was done up with
pins. Paul no doubt was fascinated
with woman's tresses as we all are.
Even some Of our notable men admired
long hair so much that they wore their
their hair down upon their shoulders
Joseph Henry Lumpkin and l.. O. g.
Lamar wore theirs very long and so
does DR.. Hawthorne and Roger A.
Pryor, and don't suppose there is any
harm In it, even though they were not
Nazarenes. A great man can afford to |
to do it, for it does give him a "Jupi-
ter tOnans" appearance. HE shakes |
his am6rosial locks and gives the nod"
AS to women talking in church, |
nope they will not make 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 |
why not in the church? The fact is,
If woman was allowed to be our law
maker for one session she would wake |
up the nation on the whiskey business,
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, bat
if there is no prospect OF that what
must she do? Go to the missionary So
cioty or visit the sick, you may say.
That won't buy bread nor clothing.
heard preacher say, would you
make amazons of our women 2" There
were no Amazons and Amazonia has
been stricken from the modern maps,
conld be found, Humboldt says he
searched diligently and found an old
man over there who said his GRANDPA
ther told him he saw four one time
four won IN astride of horses and arm
ed with spears---but he says from his
best information these were Il few
5usky slave women who escaped from
their captors and fled far into the in
terror and built fort to protect them
selves, and there, in course of time, |
they all died. This 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
.ag. Ana now there is big contro-
versy about the old woman who killed
hel husband. No, wouldn't hang her.
1t was an awful crime for a 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 common
as suicides. What is the matter with |
the country and who will protect the |
girls when we are gone?
BILL ARP.