Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-27
"A OTHERS SEE THEM.
Fort Dodge Chronicle. |

Il mere are DOZENS OIL young MoiItSb
about the city who would be Mortified
at the thought of sitting on the lap
/ of a gentleman escort at Il pubic
| meeting or in parlor company, yet
I these same young women traverse the
| public streets of the city sitting on
| the laps of young men during almost
! every pleasant evening. 1t is mora
| than common sight to see two young
men each with a young lady on his
lap, riding about the streets in the
evenings in one single-seated buggy.
That is habit that is growing on
the young people of For. Dodge. In
fact it was never so prevalent as it is
this summer. The custom came in two
| or three years ago openly, and since
that time it has grown until dozens of
young people ride piled up in the seats
of a very insufficient number of rigs
every night.
The custom is probably INDUCED in
innocently on the part of the young
women, who have seen others do the
same thing, and the fact that they
are not alone in it takes off the edge
of their conscientious scruples and
dulls the sense of the proprieties.
II Is Il ldGl lIljt young WuIileli w no
consider themselves of the best pos
sible character are compromising
themselves in the eyes of the public.
They probably do not realize the man
ner in which the public generally looks
at this practice; they do not hear the
passing remarks of those who view
them with mild form of sea sickness
verging on disgust; nor do they act as
tho they appreciated the danger Of
being misjudged on account of their
unladylilSe conduct.
AS to the general demoralizing in
fluence of the custom there is no room
for doubt. The young man who holds
a young woman on his lap in public
Cor any other place for that matte)
loses that Unborn respect fer the gentle
sex. or this particular member of the
sex at least: the young woman who
submits to this familiarity loses for
ever with this particular young man
and all others who witness the act,
that repellant power that saves her
the humility of insult from the unprin-
cipled: loses that indescribable touch
of womanhood that excites reverence;
deliberately. tho perhaps unconscious
~, pueS iioii iiSi tIittl ICsPSSl LUZ tIlC
sex that has in the past armored her
effectively against the wrongs of the
world
A Veteran Commoner.
The retirement of Henry Labouchere
from British politics will make the
smoking room of the house of commons
duller. He delighted in his many Curl
Gus and interesting adventures. Of his
running for Windsor in 1866 he tells as
follows: "On the day of the election
everything turned on about half doz-
en- votes. ! remember one Tory went
out to fish in a punt. and the boatman
who accompanied him was induced to
keep him we'll out in the middle of the
river until the polling hour had passed.
aged and decrepit Tory was
kept in his house by having cabs run
at him whenever he tried ito issue from
his door Finally the liberals won tl--
day. On this the Tories petitioned. The |
decided that there had been
no bribery, but unseated my colleague
and myself because they thought that |
we had hired an excessive number of |
committee rooms"