The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-29
Bah WRITES FROM THE COUNTRY
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any cows SO Matthew the younger
triumphed over Matthew the older.
This started the question, Are Child
rem Being Oyercultured" | believe they
are. and. like Matthew Arnold junior, L
can give my reason. Not long ago L
started out to get for small boy the
j real. original and dearly loved Mother
| Goose" A diligent search through all
the bookshops failed TO find it. 1herc
were descriptions of boys of and girls IN
every country in the world and out of
| it, there were full accounts of how little
women kept house and how little men
steered boats and baseball clubs, and
there were suggestions rs to artistic in
teriors that were supposed to be interest
ing to the youthful mind. but as to real.
downright nonsense yer es such as you
and | learned more years ago than we
care to tell there was n lamentable lack.
could not but wonder If all children
were like the young woman of IL who
asked me not so very long ago if | real
lied how often the word humanitarian
is incorrectly used or if all boys of 8
are on par with a small prig who was
very contemptuous of me because | was
! not informed as to the real meaning of
predestination. This gentleman of ten
der years had got up before an entire
congregation and read paper on what
he thought of the hereaf ter and the ad-
vantages of a veritable hell
The pretty girl had 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
ay, 1la ell rtc 1x~
a skirt decorated with it, would sug-
gest a brown broadcloth costume trim
med with natural leather and tortoise
shell buttons for the autumn" Leather
and women! Honestly, don't you think
that leather is better suited as dressing
for a horse than a woman? But some
women would gain by dressing of
leather. English law allows husband
TO use leather strap as thick as his lit
tie finger when it becomes necessary to
persuade his wife that she is not follow
ing the example set her by his moth
er. Haven't you known a number
of women whom you would like to beat
with one of those delicious little leather
whips that are so effective when used up
on fox terrier? 1t 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 GO
ing to break his legs or affect his brain or
do anything except take him through
what the darkies call "a course of
sprouts Would the women be as anne
nable afterward 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 GER
tainly do need quiet strapping. Who
are they?
The women who always tell you the
disagreeable 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
abominable pests, well behaved dogs
nuisances and men horrid bothers.
The women who wear bicycle costumes
that are a disgrace to all other women
because they belong to the same sex.
The women who chew gum, smoke ci-
garettes and gamble.
The women who read nasty books be-
va th't are WHO
on so-caled erotic subjects and then
wonder why men have no respect for
them.
The women who never keep an engage
ment, who never count time as of any
value and who borrow money and never
return it,
The women who are walking interroga-
ton 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 inn
prove, and / should be willing to assert
that every other honest hearted woman
agrees as to this with Bah.