The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-14
Old and the New

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Tho book has in It much that women.
young and old. will like to read. Pres
ent days arc contrasted with former
days. How is this. for Instance? In
the Good Old Days mother was not able
to play as skilful n game Of progress
sive euclre or bridge whiet as the up
to-date woman. but sho was powerfully
sitted In the sewing and Knitting line.
She may not have been able to delight
audiences like prinu donna, but she
could produce melodies with the frying
pan and skillet.
Mysteries pust Finding Out.
S IN me Good Old Days girls wore sun
pOnnets mat wore as sweet and simple
as ihey were inexpensive. can com
pute the return OF FIalley'ss comet and
explain the gymnastic stunts crformed
py Its cyancHccnt tail; can even com
pute With comparative accuracy what
q small boy Is most likely to do under
given conditions; but cannot tell why
4 n Houng woman. married or single or
Il even q woman whose age Is enshrouded
IN mystery, VIII Cad about the etreet.
take horseback or auto rides in all
sorts OF weather, with nothing on her
mead hut collection OF store hair
While that same maiden or matron will
attend church wearing hat so large
mat fun grown man has TO stand
on the back Of the bench to see the
preacher. Neither can I explain why
she viii appear on the street with her
Aleeves rolled above tho elbows as IL
she had Just been washing dishes ana
FORGOT to roll them down. while The
same day she will attend pink tea,
nobody present but women, with gloyss
on s long as parasol handle
Mother md wife. - aN e.
In tho Good Old Days mother MADE
cherry. peach, pear and guinea pre-
rerves. plum and nppie butter, peach
narnalade blackberry and raspberry
jam nine kinds Of Jelly, sweet picl;les
sour pickles and catsup. Nowadays a
. loving wife hurries home from the whist
club and sets before her hungry hus.
band layout that includes bakor's
bread. canned salmon, factory-made
PIE and some ellced bananas or dried
pruncH.
Visit the Old Homestead.
return with inc to the Good Old Daya
END pay visit to the old homestead
onder is tho pool where YOU used ia
iish and 20 In swimming. Hard BY is
thc woodland where in your boyhood
ohSe you hunted squirrels and possurs
Eaihcrod haws. wild grapes and paw
Paws and dug ginseng But what
changes have taten place The old log
Htapln where you used to hunt euus
nnd have cob lights with The ncighbor
BOYS on rainy days has been torn away
and replaced with modern barn.
Yhey arc All Gone.
The well, with It's quaint windlass.
nas been filled up, ana cistcrn dug in
It's stead. The mulberry tree, whose
luscious fruit you used TO dispute wits
X The 'iynller hammer" the robin and the
n!lajag; the old grape vines. whore you
swung Tar out over the blum: the cius
ter OF persimmon trees. that you
watched with longing eye. when the
frost was on the pumpkin and the fod-
der In the shock.' are ali gone.
TIC big fireplace. around which
7 father mother ana all the children
We're went 10 gather and eat apples.
nnts and popcorn. and sing songs and
inad evening devotions. has been closed
UP and an nir-tisht stove substituted
a Lad M Mothers Knee.
AS you view these changes e. food OF
thoughts comes over you, 1t seems
hut yesterday when YOU we're little
boy standing z, mothers knee. You
can never forget her sweet face. as she
Siis IN the old arm chair. reading the
family Bible and singing old songs.
AItTIFiCIALfTIES or MODERN LIFE.
Women nrc not wanting whose most
FERROUS object In life is to decry the
arthcialities of Inodernity. Theirs is
the line Of the noble simplicity arsu-
nent, and they discuss artihciality az
petty. with big, capital p.
4 They object To AL. H
AS all artflriaiities are patty In a
certain sense. what women wNc class
A themselves as directors really mean is
that they object TO all. Their DAYS are
hedgcd in. from the time they get up
In the morning. when they have TO
choose their jabots and sashes 10 match
the bows on their shoes and the clocks
on their stockings, to the shutting out
OF the arttAciaiities by closing their
eyes In slumber.
They might better be honest and
earnest. better say on coming down to
breakfast thai they have no time for
habhling,, that they are sick of CON
'Ventions and would rather eat quickly
and be off 10 something else Thts
would certainly not be artificial and
II such policy a this could be main
tanned throughout a whole day women
might feel that they were making a
beginning toward a simplined life
They would feel that at least twenty
four hours mad not been frittercd
away.
VIII tho Millennium Come 'QuicIser.
And yet. It is a question whether
tho putting of the nrtiiicialities out OF
commission could hasten the dawn or
the millennium Tor womenkind Wo-
men are human plants and even i'm 4
garden, plants are set in rows. ana tile
Wei being Of one Is rendered subordi-
natn'to the well being OF all Artii-
entity is employed as tie sole differ
entiation between a garden and the
wild wooda The arts poetry. music
and painting are all In their develop
ment, conventional. The development is
called form, and form in art CORE
sPonds TO artiicialiiy in life
i take form out of art and III Is as
devoid OF value and as unsatis factory
MS woman's life without convention.
Underlying convention is the basic
principle Of regard for the feelings OF
others and woman who does not have
his regard, had as well pack her trunk
4 hnd start for The desert OF Sahara at
4 once. She cannot bring all the free
dom OF the desert into society She
may try. but size can never succeed
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