Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-27
CoNpocTED BIZ nRs INHIBITION.


in life is fixed and too often when they
life. >"
ut seems through some strange dis
pensation of Providence a mans cour-'
age and will can survive and he can
leave his past behind him. but when a
woman resigns her virtue willingly she
has lost her grip forever"
IF the necessary reformation of
society can be accomplished in no other
way than let us to educate boys. our
sons in the true principles of morality.
to see the hideousness of degrading the
highest and noblest functions of his
manhood to an infamous pastime, teach
him to see the horrible insufficiency OF
brothel life and to know that in degrad-
ing himself he is lowering himself phys
cally and morally, and becomes UNIT
to bring to the virtuous woman he loves
what he demands from her, namely a
white life of purity.
Can a man who sleeps himself in
such disbursement be a good husband or
a good father? We must set ourselves
against the tendency of some of the
common evils of everyday life"
These paragraphs were true in their
plainness and sincerity. 1 cannot urge
too strongly thorough acquaintance on
the part of boys with the laws governing
their own bodies, reverence for their
bodies, and thus establish a horror of
vice. The tendency of the stage is to
make this vice attractive, the ideal in
theatrical representation today is low,
but when a society woman undrapes her
very body and feeds her vanity by hav-
ing men crowd about her she is foster
ing an evil that would make her shudder
If she knew what she was really doing.
We know there are prurient novels and
pernicious literature which is flooding
the land, and l am told flood the large
schools in other sections.
Again, if a seducer or lust prohigate
could understand that decent homes
would be closed against him he would
find out his associates would be few.
So long as, he can whisper words of
love into the ears of young daughters or
instil the virus of his own nature into the
minds of boys. so long will virtue be at
discount and the land full of unfaithful
men to their wives
The upright men of this time should
rise up to check this evil which threatens
every home and happiness in America
Looking at it from selfish standpoint,
It concerns vitality every mother in the
land.
What concerns our boys concerns us,
what concerns the daughters of other
women concerns us, and we need not for
get that boys who are babies now are
growing up to be the husbands of the
baby daughters"
The breaking up of disorderly houses
seems to have small influence on the evil.
They go somewhere else and disgrace.
perhaps, what made them notable before.
The reform must come from the moral
training of young boys, they must be I'M
pressed with the necessity for a white
lle for two"
He must respect his own body. himself,
and then he will have such feelings of
reverence for womanhood as would pre-
vent him from violating his own honor
equally with her respect for her own
purity and inviolate virtue.
The semi-nude pictures of woman are
an insult to the clean minds of virtuous
peole. No man ever process to leave
of his clothes nearly to his waist to
spend the evening with young ladies, and
won1ankind should unite to put down dar-
ing speeches and daring looks by dressing
with a sufficiency of clothes.
remember once of hearing of great
society woman in washington city who
entertained very lavishly and wore very
decollete dresses and arms bare to the
shoulder.
A party of gentlemen discussed her
style DeIOTo an Ola ldQy VI my dCQddihl-
ance One of them said: Just let her
get enough champagne In her and any OF
us can pinch those nice fat arms" Not
long after a great official scandal over
took the family and they dropped away
with speedy haste and were known there
no more.
The vanity that makes such women
take off the covering from bust and
shoulders is at last a sinful vanity.
Carefully nurtured. refined women win
hesitate before they follow the fashions
set by stage actresses and the fast wom-
en- of Paris and elsewhere.
God gave us, men and women, our own
bodies to be our especial care. We must
respect them for many reasons, and es-
pecially because they must be pure with
In and clean without. God rejects the I'M
clean everywhere.
We need to feel reverence for this great
and individual gift, and resolution to
make it At dwelling place for the spirit
of the Almighty in dwelling with the
righteous.