The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-28
In Moman's Realm

When Lent began
She went each early morn
To say her prayers. She kept
Each fast and did adorn
Herself In palest gray that swept
Like mist the sea has worn;
When Lent began.
Through Lenten days,
To ball and theater no more
Hied she, but wrought instead
Weird garments for the poor and bore
Self sacrifice In all and read
The books which time forbade before.
Through Lenten days.
When Lent is Ger
Her summer frocks arc things TO dote
On. Nights of slumber have her
years
Turned back. What once she did de.
vote
To vioiets and sweets, as Easter
She's saved enough to buy silken
When Lent is DER.
SSu OW I DREAD Lent" exclaimed a
ii lady the other day. why"
asked her friend in wonder You
aren't a Catholic nor an Episcopnlian
and you don't keep It,"
les i 40, Tepllcu tIe UTSt speaker,
"And so does my cook. She positively
almost starves herself, and it does make
her cross, poor girl Then there are
the church services. I'm always glad
to have her attend them most faithfully.
Indeed I think u great deal more of Il
maid who Is conscientious In her religious
observances. but sometimes I am at my
wits end to know how to manage to
keep harmony In the household. My hus-
band Is just rs apt to ask company to
dinner on Wednesday or Friday evening
as at any other time, and then poor me-!
! l simply have to go out In the kitchen
and grovel In order to preserve peace.
| Whenever we are a little late for dinner
l feel that I have committed a sin, so if
I don't keep Lent don't know anybody
who does"
THIS IS the season when the fact is
] most apparent than ever that If
women were the primal cause of sin
| in the world they are taking upon them
! selves most of the renitence. Imagine
| a man in good health and corresponding
| sense fasting. OF course the clergymcn
| are expected to do that as part Of their
official duty but who really and truly
| expects man to do any extensive fast
ing in these days? IT would be a good
thing for some men II they would observe
| the fast DAYS for doubtless they eat too
| much every meal of their lives.
! 1t is chiefly a feminine prerogative to
! attend church services Why should men
| trouble to go when there are the dear
! women who will pray and fast and do
! penance not alone for themselves but
| for the fathers and husbands and broth
| ers and sweethearts. and who will not
| even cease their sweet intercessiOn at
death?
| TT TOOK a brave person to ask wo-
| l man Yesterday II she were going to
see "Sapho." Many women went to
! see 'The Turtle" 1.-The Telephone Girl"
! and other so-called plays no better than
the much talked Of production Of which
| so much has been said. but the free ad-
vertising given "Sapho'' in this town
| while ii no doubt added to the receipts
! of the house naturally made women n
| trifie coy about acknowledging an inten-
tion to be present. 1t is only fair to
| Scranton women to say that as class
! they are not anxious to see demOral!zng
plays It Is not simply the fear of being
criticised for giving the honor OF their
presence to such performances but they
, are really not desirous Of filling their
minds with pollution. 1t needs neither a
| censor nor Il committee to keep the wO-
men of this city from rushing to a the
I ater where vile plays are presented, and
! they are not wild to act ON committees
| organized for the purpose OF censorship.