The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-04-03
Blushing Modesty Carrie
To an Extreme.


The editor of the Tallahassee True
Democrat has been running amuck
since the first of February and The
Journal feels a little anxious about
that good gentIeman's health. This
anxiety is rendered stronger by the
fact that Brother Smiths advent to
Florida from the wiIds Of Alabama
has been of comparatively recent date
and all good FIoridians would join in
deploring any misfortune which might
overtake the wanderer while in our
land Of sunshine, flowers and JOY.
One would scarcely look for such an
extreme show of constituencies from
one who erstwhile owed allegiance TO
a newspaper at Admission, Alabama,
called THE Hot Blast" Yes, Editor
Smith ought 20 be hot stuff" but he
seems wondrous tame. He has been
dealing in loud lamentations because
of the style of pictures used to adver-
| tise PensacoIa'S Mardi Gras celebTa-
| ton. He seems to have forgotten, if
he ever knew, the gorgeous circus
| posters OF his youth with the gay
young demoiselles in diaphanOuS gauze
| Ieaping through paper balloons which,
| if experienced, surely awakened
naught save admiration in his ingenU
| Gus breast. And can he not recall the
days when he stood. eager with hopes
of witnessing the original, before the
! fascinating picture of dazzling Column
bine tapping her twinkling feet to-
! gether as she cut q fantastic pigeon
| wing
Is it possible that in this land where
the fountain of eternal youth flows
into a sea of perpetual gIadness, our
Tallahassee brother feels so old that
he can mo longer experience delight
when beholding the trim figure of a
| lissome senOrita? And would he con-
sign to the depths of everlasting gloom
those who feel themselves more
blessed? We cannot believe it. The
/ brother i6 grouchy. He needs fresh
air, fresh meat or something OF the
! sort. He is too good man, too
brainy a pencil pusher to continue in
/ this unhappy rut,
! What can we think OF d critic who
! refers to Mardi Gras, the great Chris
/ tian ante-ienten festival, only as "a
/ relic of paganism" having mo place
in the customs and pleasures Of an
enlightened Christian people, What
can we say of one so benighted as to
! speak Of PensacoIa's beautiful, order
/ " and most decent annual celebration
OF the event as "a blot upon her fair
escutcheon which should be now and
forever removed
| Here is 4 case which TeyerSes the
poets declaration, Where ignorance
is bliss It's folly to be wise" II
Brother Smith will pick up enough
| courage to visit a carnival celebration,
enter into its harmless jollity, view
its beautiful parades, hearken to its
innocent mirth-yes, actually paTtiCi-
pate in every one OF them-we war
rant lie will no longer cast reflection
upon the most civilized cities in the
world by the absurd assertion that
the people Of this refined age Will no
longer countenance such exhibitions.
"Honi soft qui nal y pense,' dear
frater- \ terse, true maxim even
though it did originate in the brain OF
royalty. Think of the verdant fig
leaves of Eden and weigh well the
implied denmciation of evil imagining
in a we'll known question prOpounded
to guilty Adam by his angry Maker.
Think, too, OF the sweet line of the
poet
a cowsIip on the rivers brim
4 simple cOwslip was to him.
and try TO initiate that single mind
ed fellow even should you encounter
such a frightful object as a ballet
dancer, either in pTOpTia persona or
depicted with graceful outline upon
Inc pages OF a newspaper or in
natural colors on an imposing poster.
Really, the Associated Press should
lnot go SO tar in playing upon human
lcrcduity as to send out a wire tell