The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-02-14


the kind Of q woman who goes In for
everything that the other women pro-
pose. whether It be q new card club. a
bali Of pink tea. There il no motive
In It except a motive Of self pleasing
These are women who really live
pitiablo lives because there u % httle
In them.
THIS Life h not only false In its aims.
but 1t II sitting Of the best feminine
virtues. and destructive Of health The
fashion Of dress among our grand
mothers In ante-bellum society has led
to generation Of weak backs. thin
chestA and oongested lungs. The sins
Of the parents are visited upon the
children to the third generation.
Doubtful Entertainments.
Today there are even more doubtful
entertainments and debasing worldly
amusements than then. What may We
expect from the hours kept from the
rounds Of unwholesome pleasures and
designations Of our women. but repo-
tition of their sins in their children?
There are growing signs Of . more
sensible regime Of amusements In gym
nasium and field sports for women.
The Y. w. c. A. Is one Of them. Any
thing that will make . woman
healthier. saner. a better mother and
member Of society may be for the
glory Of God, but the air OF the ball
room and other places Of society bore
dom are feted with foul diseases Of
body and mind, filed with moral nats-
mas.
This life also breeds a certain reck-
lessness. ''Vice 10 q monster OF such
hideous mein, etc" It results In q
lowering Of the tone Of the whole
being. This means a loss OF self-re-
spect- This recklessness shows IN
many iu-made marriage. In the com
pany Of unscrupulous men often, WHIST
else could be expected? IN a small
town in Georgia where had an early
passionate, one Of the best and
wealthiest girls was engaged to a SUB
stantial merchant. a steward in his
church. and worth $4,000. He was a
self-made man. A glib drummer made
her acquaintance. He would come
Saturdays and attend church with her
Sunday. He was a drunkard and gam
bier and had lost position after posi-
ton because Of his habits. He would
sober up enough to spend Sunday
with her. She finally threw over the
merchant and married the hashy
drumemr. What could she promise
herself? Another, a minister's daugh-
ter In another town in Georgia. was
seen on the car by a man with q title.
He was man with a past, but he
made her acquaintance and because Of
his SNOWY appearance and his MOCK
title. she married him.
He soon deserted her and she re-
turned in disgrace. shortly Afterwards
was the correspondent In a divorce
case in which both parties committed
suicide before the trial
There are human orangoutangs who
are on the hunt for our girls, and
what Of the mothers who raise them
up with seeds Of fr1volity sown in
their minds, a. easy victims for such
monsters?
In the same town as the first was
girl, pianist Of our church, who
heard my sermon on this same line.
She came to me the next day at the
parsonage and told me she was en-
gagged at that time to a certain boy
in town who knew to be a patched
up nbertine, and that after hearing the
sermon she saw herself in a different
light and wished my advice as to
what she ought to do. I was taken by
surprise hut decided to do my duty. I
told her II she threw him over to tell
him why. She said: Il am afraid 1t
will wreck his SOUL" told her she
need not feel that way because his
soul was already wrecked. ard nothing
she did could make 1t any worse. She
left. The marriage did not occur. The
RI off h1Jf
looked sobered and sad. A year went
him one day: Robert, IL 1t not about
time you were making change in
your life. Do you not want to be-
come Christian"
Without knowledge that I was into
his secret he readily admitted that hs
was tired Of sin. and that If we would
take him he would come. He united
with US, and made q satisfactory
statement, and lived very devout life,
and a year later. I married them and
left them happy in their own home.
How much better to do the reforming
first! It is enough of risk to marry
a man with different religion. It is
far too great risk to marry one with
no religion at all. It seems to me
that a mother ought to know where
her daughter il, and with whom. Old
fashions have changed in this way.
,Frivolity not only leads to reckless
marriages and causes broken hearts
and feeds the divorce courts, but It
| leads to worse.
Gives Up in Despair.
I have been told by one boy whom
tried to help, that the influences were
so different from those in which he
had been reared that he despaired OF
| living Christian life here. asked
him what he meant. He said that he
had never been used to see girls
| smoke cigarettes, and participate In
the kind of frolic which he found now.
supposed he had fallen into bad
company indeed, and 20 reminded him,
| when he said they were held as re-
spectacle girls. I give you the story
as it was told me and you can take it
| for what 1t is worth. know little
about the conditions here at first hand.
but know something Of them in other
places In Atlanta fifteen years ago,
| when / was coming up, I knew that
society women were sometimes carried
home in a cab from balls where
| mothers sent their young daughter.
/ know that one case has been an