San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-03-14

lHc SeuuCllOu VI llle utNh IOIuS thC
business. 1t was love for Adam. She
was the new woman, but she was not
so new that she did not know the way
to a mans heart was through his
stomach, so she got the apple, and
Adam ate it. and both got bounced,
L%G he laid the blamA on her. Old
fashioned.
1t was not until after they lost their
job at gardening that Eve raised Cain.
and it was no wonder, for Adam play
ed a low down Irish trick on her
when he charged up that apple dicker
to a put up job between her and the
devil. But, Notwithstanding all that.
there were many things in that old
Eden life and in the years Immediate
ly following that leads one to serious
ly doubt whether any real advantage
has been gained in the operation.
Some of those old fashioned ways
would be n sovereign relief to the
habits and customs of today, and it
is an open question whether we have
gained most or lost in the transitions
that have taken place. 1t has not been
all for the best that so much of the
early simplicity and naturalness has
been left behind and in it's place has
come all the modern innovation. May
be it was better to have remained old
fashioned.
OF course it is the modern fashion
to charge all the discomfort and disa-
bility and ignorance of method, all
the roundabout way of doing bust
ness and the cOarseness and crude
ness of life to those Old-fashiOned
days, but it is not so certain that
those Old-fashiOned days were not
the best. If Eve could be taken out
of her easy, loose and comfortable
tig-leaf mOther-hubbard and put into
whalebOneS and steel, her short ribs
damned in against her spinal column,
and her whole breathing apparatus
CONSTRUCTED until long full reSpira-
ton was impossible. would she think
that her daughters were any improve
ment on their original mother? Then
if her free feet were showed into
French sandals. with a pivOt-peg for
a heel i'll the center. and every free
movement of her neither limbs pre-
vented, would she write herself down
an Old-fraShiOned fool, because she
was born in the morning of time ere
| humanity invented fashions.
! DO you suppose that Eve. if instead
of coming into IA cool bower, where a
simple repaSt of fruits and the native
! juice of berries and grapes was all
| that her light hospitality required. had
been uShered into modern kitchen
with all Of its Internal apparatuseS to
disorder the digestive functions in,
stead, would have rallied out at those
old-fashiOned habits as foolish. Or
Adam. coming in fresh from his ram
| bic among the shady groves of his
Iearly inheritance, would have preferred
the WEAKNESS Of his detected sons OF
today. upon whose burdened lives the
weight of commerce and government
and the provision for the fictitious
wants Of his house rest so heavily
Was there not positive luxury il
that simplicity. rightly considered
that all of the present fuss and feath
erS and artiticiality cannot begin t.
compensate for.
+! Old-faShiOned fools there have beeI
as we'll as new ones, but it is Il mis-
take to suppose we who live in this
latter day glory of inventive science
are much in advance of those who two
thousand years ago swarmed the
classic isles of Greece or enjoyed The
more than modern sumptuOuSneSS Ot
Alexandria and Rome. Those Old-fash
liunud fools in Greece. who
brought human physical form t
its greatest perfection and left u'
lessons in living marble for the exam
pie and admiration of all ages. would
have considered the wisdom of mod
eTn custom and dress and phySCa
culture the height of ahsurdity. Al
that we have wisely and well Learned
on that question we have Learned
from that Old-fasbioned fOOlishneS
Of the Greecian teachers. to whom ;
beautiful and sound human body wa
the divinieSt embodiment of beaut,
!, the world could offer.
When the laxity of Greecian ant
Roman manners and the soft vOluptu
business Of their life led to effeminacy
and the early spartanism Of thei