The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-07-30
PROTECT The MEN
Bill To Keep the Dear Creatures
From Harms Way
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
Southern State Would Enact Law
AGAINST Peek-a-BOO Waists and
All Such Things

Surely nothing so ungallant ever
! emanated from the South as the re-
marks credited to Maj. Culpepper, OF
Georgia, in connection with a bill
he is making an effort to have made
into law, ito protect men from the
wiles and Establishments of women
To think that should originate in
the land of charming men and more
charming women; surely the South
has been reconstructed with a ven-
geance.
Maj Culpepper protests against
rainbow stockings, peek-a-boo waists
and elbow sleeves, and so far every
rightminded woman is with him, but
when he goes on to say that many a
man is tricked into marrying a wo-
man with a wealth of golden hair
which has been made so with per-
oxide, or comes off when she is rest
ing, and a peach and cream complex
ion, with a lovely color which comes
and gOes-On saucer, then there
is where we part company with the
major.
The only way to stop the false hair
and complexion business is for men
to shun, ignore and pass by those
women whom they know are not as
eni, q
simple, natural maidens, who are the
real thing, according to the major.
Now, what are the facts? The girl
with the tresses which hang upon the
gas burner during the night, whose
complexion is as good as new every
morning, because freshly applied, is
usually surrounded, while the simple
little girls who know it is very naugh-
ty to color their hair sit up against
the wall-alOne.
Appeal to law to protect poor de-
fenseless men and women! Well
major, that is very good, indeed.
Some of the women are wondering
who is going to protect them from
men, with fair exteriors, who are
wandering around the world, mar
rying girls when they already have
wives in various sections of the cOun-
try; from men who deceive the girl
and her parents into thinking they
are fit husbands and who turn out to
be rascals and worse. Who is going
Where is the legislator who will have
law made to protect innocent girls
against the wolves in Sleeps cloth
ing that are so numerous?
The major seems to forget that
men always have the advantage, says
an exchange. When woman is once
married her title and the ring on the
third finger of the left hand tell ii.
But there is nothing in a mans name
or title, nothing in what he wears,
to show whether or not he is married
and the consequence is that he is
often deceiver. Let some one in
troduce bill into the Minnesota
legislature that will declare married
men shall be tagged.
And, then, major, when it comes
TO the complexion of women, there
is something to be said on that sub
ject, too. 1t is considered dread
full thing for a woman to have
anything put on her face, she must be
very naughty if she powders; but
what man is there who does not go
once or twice a week to a barber
who washes, messages and powders
his face, so he comes out looking
all pink and white, and not a word
from anybody!
To protect men from the wiles of
and Establishments of women! 1t is
hard to believe that Maj. Culpepper
is from the South.
When men cease swarming round
women whose compilations come in
boxes, when they seek the simple
and plain-girl who sits close to
mother, and whose waist measure is
thirty-four, then should the legisla-
ture be resorted to, to protect those
poor innocent masculines from the
other kind. What an awful expert
ence the major must have had!