The morning news., 1897-08-22
Copyright 1897.

ed to find it. There were descriptions of
boys and girls in every country in the
world and out of it, there were fun ac-
counts of how little women kept house and
now little men steered boats and base bali
clubs, and there were suggestions as to
artistic interiors that We're supposed to be
interesting to the youthful mind, but as
to real, downright nonsense verses such as
YOU and l learned more years ago than
we care to tell there was a lamentable
lack. L could not but wonder if all chill
dren were like the young woman OF II who
asked me not so very long ago if | realized
how often the word humanitarian is in
correctly used or if all boys of 8 are on a
par with a small prig who was very con-
temptGous of me because / was not in
formed as to the real meaning of predesti-
nation. This gentleman of tender years
had got up before n entire congregation
and read a paper Oh what he thought of
the hereafter and the advantages of a
veritable he'll.
The pretty cir, had a line from her
dressmaker. She said: THE newest
thing in trimmings Is leather. 1t is cut
very thin and used in the form of straps
on cloth skirts. You really must have a
skirt decorated with it, I would suggest
brown broadcloth costume trimmed with
natural leather and tortoise she'll buttons
for the autumn" Leather and women!
better suited as dressing for horse than
a woman? But some women would gain
by a dressing of leather. English law
allows a husband to use a leather strap as
thick as his little finger when it becomes
necessary to persuade his wife that she is
not following the example set her by his
mother Haven't you known number
of women whom you would like to beat
with one of those delicious little leather
whips that are so effective when used upon
a fox terrier? II makes the fox terrier
smart and dance around but he under
stands perfectly well what he is getting it
for, and he also knows that it is not going
to break his legs or affect his brain or do
anything except take him Though what
the darkies call "a course of sprouts
Wuold the women be as amenable after
ward as is the fox terrier? Would they
realize that they had been whipped only
because they had done what was wrong?
/ don't know.
But there are a few women who certainly
do need quiet strapping. Who are they?
The women who always tell you the dis
agreeable rather than the agreeable words
spoken about you
The women who have so little consider
alton that they never hesitate to speak of
the defects that exist in the people you
like.
The women who think little children
eAOOilA4Aifiblt pests, wen DtidNeQ uOSS NUS
ances and men horrid bothers.
The women who wear bicycle costumes
that are disgrace to all other women be-
cause they be.ong to the same sex.
The women who chew gum, smoke cigar
cites and gamble
The women who read nasty books be-
cause they are nasty, who enjoy talking on
so-caHed erotic subjects and then wonder
why men have no respect for them.
The women who never keen an pppa oA
ment, who never count time as of any
value and who borrow money and never
return it.
The women who are walking interorga-
tion marks, asking you the most imperti-
nent questions and wondering that you
dislike to answer them
The women WHO are not womanly not
being gentlewomen either by instinct or
breeding
These are the women who deserve to
have touch of the leather strap a touch
that would sting but which would i'm
prove, and ! should be willing to assert
that every other honest hearted woman
agrees as to this with Bah.