Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-21
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in the Kitchens of our American homes
as was bread ten years ago, and as for
cigarets, the only thing that hides
their stain upon the fingers of girls
who smoke them is the fashion calling
for the wearing of gloves. Young wom-
en-, too. are resorting to cocaine and
patent nostrums to relieve imaginary
Ills. But the base of 1t all can be
found in the poisoned buildings and
sauces served to the old and young"
Now, in the terse and coloquial
metaphor OF the streets, Wouldn't
this make you tired?" Here is q Sweet
faced old woman" who probably could
not in her own little home town find
cigaret smoking girl in q weeks search
or a tipsy child or house wife with
search warrant, boldly sweeping the
American kitchens into the bar room
class, the parlors into smoking dens
a dear white haired old lady who Is
very likely the pleasantest and most
lovable sort in her home, shouting an
imaginary iniquity from the house tops
because she rose to speak in public
She is an apt illustration OF the harm
good and earnest persons do to the
causes they espouse when they talk
about something they do not know and
advance what would be plain SANDER II
1t were not for their ignorance of con-
ditions and their evident good inten-
tions.
you know who make cakes that set the
whole family off in red eyed hilarious
hurrah? How many girls do you know
who hide the stains of cigarets under
the silk or suede of their gloves? How
many female hop flends are you ac-
quainted with? If you venknow a few
of these your circle Of acquaintance Is
considerably below the average and
you and your friends wouldn't be well
come at our house.
Some women drink. Not many
Some women smoke. Not many. And
these are not all vicious and depraved.
Occasionally woman falls victim to
the drug habit, but she does not usual
ly acquire 1t thru her own or her cooks
cooking. And when sweet faced old
ladies' or hard featured old men as
sert that a cigaret and a "tipsy cake"
jag are common in American house
holds, it is thru Ignorance or is Just
common every day lying.
Why, the American woman Is about
the cleanest, best looking, most viz
tuous on earth. She has the most cul-
the most hard sense, the most
self respect and more brains than any
other women alive. She can take a
family OF five with thousand dollars
insurance from her dead husband and
make every one a good citizen. She
is the best wife in the world, for she
Is a companion and a partner Amerf-
can women have made more careers
for their husbands than all the other
wives in the world; and If there is an
American OF high class and standing |
who doesn't give his mother most of
the credit for what there Is in him, he /
Is only the exception that proves the
rule. And they are not drunkards,
smokers and cocaineI fiends. Not by I
100000 to one.
1t is not for the American man to
American women. He would /
be mighty small potatoes and few in
the hill without them. 1t is not for the +
American woman to SANDER her sex: I
she ought and does know better; and I
t is the most egregious folly for those
Who hope for the reform of evils to
attack the very class and sex that Is
doing most to keep their children pure
and elevate social conditions from a
moral standpoint. In fact it is time
Sweet faced" and careless tongued
and men alike, told the truth
from the platform.