Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-15
South Side.

I happen to have some news this
week, and it probably would be of
some interest to some of The Our
LOOK readers, especially the pretty
girl readers, and while somebody
is making up his mind to represent
this locality during my vacation
I'll chronicle a few squibs occa-
sionally, simply to keep in practice.
l have had my funeral preached
several times for making the asser-
ton that / would have to stop for
some time. j. b. Wright, T. j.
Hovermale West End" j. W.
Classify and John Henry, of Side
View, and numerous others have
told us that it is sguabble at
their houses to get hold of The
OUTLOOK first to read South Side
items. They say it is real mean
for me to quit since they became
subscribers. Our VIII o lie oul e d
friend Billie Darnell, of Flat Greek,
says that is plague-taked mean
trick now to quit since he became
SO interested in reading South Side
items.
The correspondents seem to spat
ME on ali sides. Us poor widow
women" have u hard time. Flat
Greek" seems to think that 1t is
mortal laziness in me TO quit writ
ing, and assures US that if we had
continued we would have got an
introduction TO some bachelors.
That is quite IN inducement. West
End" and my own pretty self will
be down in the near future riding a
bobtailed mule. Oh, my wouldn't
we loom up!
1t is passing strange how far
some men will allow their prejudic-
es to carry them in business ard
every day action. They may be, and
often are, all that could be wished,
but touch them upon politics or
religion and the fur will fly. We
once knew very influential gentle
man of good business qualifications,
who is a school director, to ask an
applicant for his school: "Of what
church are your" Pray God, what
has a persons religious belief to do
with teaching school? Our country
school commissioners certificate is
responsible for their morality, and
further we have no right to 60. One
need not expect success in school
where the prejudices of the board
forbid them employing unless the
applicant is of their political OF
religious belief.
One of the great social problems
of the day is to explain why there
are so many manageable women
who never get married. Some say
that it is owing to an excess in
numbers of women over men, in
consequence of which there are not
enough to go round. This, howev-
err, is disproved by statistics. Take
the world through and the figures
show that there are as many men
in it as there are women. Others
attribute it to the expensiveness of
modern life. Men do not marry,
because, it is said, they can not af-
ford to. But the fact is that no
man who truly loved a woman ever
hesitated to become engaged to her
and eventually marry her, because
of poverty. There are old-blooded
men with no idea of any feeling for
a woman stronger than a passing
admiration who may be deferred
from assuming what they regard as
a burden in the shape of wife I'M
less assured of liberal income,
but most are not so calculating.
Others again attribute the evils to
women's fastidiousness. They ex-
pect too much in a husband, and
while awaiting for an impossible
shadow let the possible substance
slip through their fingers. This is
a libel on the sex. As rule they
are no more fastidious than men
are, and are just as susceptible as
man to that enchantment of love
which invests it's object with every |
perfection and covers every fault.
So far as men and women them
selves are concerned they are as
prone to marriage now as at any
period Of the worlds history. New
,rtheless there are women who are
for husbands and not get
ing them. They are pretty, they
ire accomplished, they are sensible,
md under proper training they
would make excellent wives and
Mothers, but they never get a
,hance. What seems to be needed
8 a more thorough method of
bringing men and women into So
ial contact with each other.