Durango semi-weekly herald., 1901-12-23
THE GUM
CHEWER
A Sermon on This Perplexine
Problem.

NO.
Well. you should take day off
and go the country to investigate the
operation
Why?
Because the girl who chews gum
and the cud-chewing bovine have not
little in common. In fact. the jaw
working process is very similar
The girl does not manipulate her
gum quite so gracefully as the COW
does her cud, because to her IT is an
acquired art.
Some girls. however are more ac-
complished chewers than others in
that they are skllful, when address
ed, in storing their cuds well back in
the check, and you think:
Poor girl she has the toothache.
and she responds to you proffered
sympathy with an embrassed smile,
and shifts her cud
She is respectable chewer who is
an expert at secreting her cud, (AlI
things are respectable by compari-
SOM in contrast with the damse who
thrusts her tongue out la bovine
Listen, girls!
You try to be beautiful. graceful
and charming in every particular. and
most of all, you wish to be refined
and cultured In manner, do you not
The gum-chewing habit is not one
belonging to the list of true lady's
accomplishments
Good for Indigestion. is It?
Then. let rusty. decrepit age in.
dulge the harmless fallacy undis-
turbed by criticism. but do not mar
your otherwise lovely selves by in
dulging a practice which Is odlous
and useless in all respects
The victim of the gum habit and
the COW are identical in facial express
sion, That constant distortion Of the
features robs the face of all intelli-
gence.
But the COW is pardonable and the
gum iiend without excuse.
On the street in the shop In the
house of worship. at the place of
amusement. the gum nuisance Is ON
nipresent
The habit becomes so fixed that t
is nothing less Than form of in
temperance.
A victim of the gum habit goes in
search of her wad as madly as a topper
goes after his bottle when the long
Ing for drink is upon him. and when
she finds 1t missing from the under
side of n chair the decreasing, the
neither side OF the dining board or
any other old place. she reproaches
the family for its disappearance as
the drunkard would resent the hid
ing of his bottle.
There are many forms of its In
temperance, and gum chewing is one
of them.
sweethearts to give up their cigar
cites or tobacco until you have be
come strong enough to renounce your
Notwithstanding wad
II is not intoxicating you say?
True, but 1t denotes weakness of
character. an Indulgence that might
easily. II humored. develop into more
Injurious habits.
Remember that 1t is a manifesto
ton of strong character to deny the
physical craving; and begin this de
nial in little things, and you will not
find it so great sacrifice to deny the
more alluring.
Real mean and should attend to my
own affairs?
Yes. but / met a lady on the street
one day this week who requested me
to say Don't" to those addicted TO
the COW habit. / promised her |
would.
And now word on my own ac-
count:
Don't hirt,
There is a class OF women and girls
who follow the reprehensible prac.
tice of flirting. by way OF little in
nocent diversion" as they style II
until they reach that state called
talked about" and for all the effort
they make to prevent this. one would
think that they as an English cele
brity expresses it. think there is only
about. and that is NOT being talked
about.
This amusement. polite name for sc
dangerous practice, should be
frowned upon more generally thar
1t is.
One who INDUCES the pleasure o
flirting can never lay claim to digni
| fed womanhood, and is in constan
danger OF meeting with somethini
that shall prove fatal TO her life
tranquility.
No woman who ftrts will eve
merit that best OF all names
MOTHER. and young girls shoul'
note that It is this class of feminin
ity that furnishes most impostors .
society.
Imagine. II YOU can, Florenc
Nightingale. Frances willard,
Harriet Beecher Stowe. in their cir
hood. smiling and smirking along tn
street and making eyes at stranger
They didn't do It!
And girls. In the name OF all thn
. is pure womanly and dlgnified-fc
= the sake of future generations. whic
Won must ancestor. DON'T FL1RT'
LILLIAN HARTMAN JOHNSON