Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-07-14

honey IF it had been used to develop
the country instead of buying more
slaves or niggers on the other side of
Japan or China.
But our people were "spilin for a
fight" They wanted to fight somebody.
especially somebody that was well-nigh
helpless and easy to whip. And. after
all the rot that was printed and the
gush and glory of the Cuban war, we
are gravely told by one of our own mill
tary that nobody blew up the Maine from
the outside.
Whatever may have caused the explo-
sion. it is certain that it grew out of
trouble on the inside.
PARADTNG THE PUgLIc STREETS
We had fine sermon from Dr. Aims
worth. president of Wesleyan Female
college, on last Sunday.
Discussing the future of our womanhood
he said it was not education, but the
habits or inclinations of young girls that
turned the scale as to their future useful
ness and happiness.
BY way of illustration he said: Doubt
less 1t is not the case in Gainesville, but
In the other towns where l am familiar, a
certain state of things happens. About 4
" SAONh III AliC o1ACAllOOAs uiiGSS the ram
is pouring down, you see the young
women and girls emerge from their
homes. dressed to the limit, in the very
best they can get in clothes shoes, etc.
etc. They go down the main street on
that side and they come up the street on
the other side. They have no business,
they are after nothing but to see or be
seen. They perform in this way as much
as six times, never less, maybe more
/.
unless they go into every little drug
store ard suck something out of a tumbler
through long yellow straw. They spend
their time until shutdown or dusk in this
performance. Then they disappear until
the next afternoon when the parade
again opens and they are on duty as be-
fore.
Now " said the preacher, what is
there in this parade to build upon? What
sort of preparation is this for the serious
things of life? What soE of wives or
mothers can you hope to find in a class
of well dressed and often well sehooled
young women who devote so much time
to these public parades, with nothing at
the end of it except to show themselves
in the clothes that they are so fond OFF,
If he had gone further and said, they
occasionally get in quiet retreat, or
behind some of the taller ones, to put on
a little more face powder, or rearange
the head fixtures. he would have given
little more pith and point to the subject.
These public parades are become an es-
tablshed institution. The little misses
are on to it. They dress up and they pa
rade just to be seen and to show off the
latest new frock that patient, toiling
mother has nearly exhausted herself to
fashion and adorn They primp. use face
powder and decline to wear hats because
their hair ribbons are so expensive and
so profuse They certainly come up in
the way they will go.
| can remember myself in the long ago
when | was allowed two school dresses
a week and a clean linen apron every
other day. and when / got home from
school had to do things so that my moth
er could rest or pay visit in the cool
afternoons. or l had to prepare my les
sons before dark, or practice that music
lesson, andI think my m9ther was sensl-
bic in keeping me engaded at something
useful, no matter how much | might
have been inclined to gadding or david
ling about But we are living in an age
that the prophet wrote about when lie
said: VANITY, vanity, all is vanity!
Pray. where is this sort of thing TO
stop?