The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-04-09
GLANDS OFF. "
By aPanseyl"

The .Hands Oil sign huhS upon
dainty fabrics or spotless materials,
which would be injured or stained
by the touching ola gloved hand
should be hung over the heads OF
our daughters.
People who admire the pure beau
ty of the article thus marked do not
resent the sign. They see the WIS
dom fit, and are willing to obey
the mandate, for an article once soil
ed never looks the same. All the
chemicals in the country cannot give
it the peculiar prestine freshness that
was once its chief beauty.
To those who appreciate the beau
ty of youth, its pure freshness, the
thought oft being touched by in
discriminate hands is abhorrent.
We have happily passed the Lydia
Languish age, the day in which a
young girl was a fragile creature, (
given to fainting and Mysteries, cloth
ed in an ignorant innocence, good be-
cause she was afraid to be naughty,
or because she was so hedged in by
conventionalities that she did not
have the opportunity to stray near
the outer edge of the pasture bars.
In her place we have a healthy, fear
less, elean-eyed person, looking life
and its possibilities square in the
face, good because she knows from
observation or hearsay what evil is,
and abhors it because it is evil. She
is sister, chum, a jolly compan-
ion to the boy or man with whom
she associates. She rides, walks,
COLTS or dances with him. She may
do, and does, all these things and
still keep his respect.
Thus far we go and creeps in a
question: Does she always do this?
The answer comes promptly: 1t Isl
her own fault il she does not.
Think girls-think! To those of
us who have outstepped girlhood,
who have begun to live deeply these
lives of ours that are so full of po-
tentialities for good or evil, there
comes keen insight, and with that
insight, our outer sight becomes
at young people we find our hearts
and almost our lips-crying out
| "Don't!p
We would not be, we are not
prudes-but the bloom on the peach
is beautiful, and once rubbed off ii
cannot be replaced. The snow-white
fabric is too fair to be carelessly
handled.
In nine hundred and ninety-nine
cases out of thousand a man will
not take liberty with girl unless
she allows it. wish girls would
bear this fact in mind. Men ar,
what they make them, what the
allow them to be.
Men may pay attention to girl
who ignore the conventionalities
that allow them doubtful liberties
but they like them because they al
what they term fun" Such CIR
are not the ones for whom men liv
for whom they sacrifice their ba
habits, for whom they look in see
ing a wife, and for whom tn,
would willingly give up life. T
true love of a good man is wor
winning. 1t is not won by the q
who lowers herself to a mans lev
to her might apply the time-wo
toast of man to "The New Woman
once our superior, now our equal.
A man must look up to that Will
he loves. And hard and fast RI
is the slangy one which declares tn
a man does not run after car VIII
he has already caught it,
when it stands at the corner wa
ing for him and ready to start
stand at his will And the girls &
whom men live-and, ifneed be, d
ARE those who are ideals as well
companions
Dear Girls be happy, be merr
have all the harmless fun that I'll
good God who wishes you to 4
happy, sends your way. But nth
sake of the man who may one dat
seek you and win you--for the SAX
of the womanhood which you woul
honor-let all men know that 70
are labeled: Hands Off" The
will love you better, respect an
honor you more for that knowledg