The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-08-04
Modern Standards.

I This year Casey Jones" which wa
favored in the winter, has been crowds
g out by Steamboat Bill. " This nnusica
effort twice a week in Court Square ex
: cites more applause than anything els
the conductor offers.
At the parks the latest popular SOM
is story Of Mrs. Casey Jones' SECOND
marriage and her divorce.
Last year the laugh-compelling SOM
at summer theaters was parody OF
My Country, IT'S Of Thee, /" being !
story Of the rejoicing OF man who's,
wife had gone away from home for the
summer.
In the theaters the stories and jokes
that have the greatest vogue are those
holding up the husband as hero of an
affair in fooling his wife, or the wife as
successfully foolng her husband, and il
these stories do not bring the desired
applause, few smutty illusions to af-
finitfes are generally used by the actor
to get hand. The morning-after jokes
are too commonplace to command at
tention
In picture shows where there is no
censorship the offerings are descriptions
OF criminal or underworld life In the
higher class theaters Problem Plays"
are offered. These productions are gem
orally the composition of some sharp
rascal who covers salacious story under
veneer of so-called philosophy, and
then insists the play points a great
moral.
Our best magazines, not daring to go
too far in dealing with libertinesm, seek
to tell the stories that crafty that in
stinct that is in many of us for getting
something for nothing. The weekly
paper of the largest circulation in the
world RECALLED its readers with the Con
fessions Of Con Man. When this
series was worn out, bunco-steerer was
made the hero of story.
Another magazine has exploited gold
brick seller, a good-natured, fat thief,
into hero OF one hundred and one
tales. These pictures ofrascaldom took
so well that they have been dramatized.
Certain newspapers feel that the edi-
ton is incomplete unless there is an
Illustrated account OF woman being
sued for divorce or young girl running
away with a chauffeur.
Never in the history of modern civili-
zation is there in music, in art, in litera-
ture, in the activities Of life so much OF
vulgarity and obscenity.
Young boys are worn out by the ex-
cesses in youth and are derelicts before
they reach the age of manhood Young
girls too often are out in society, re-
ceiving company and attending dances
at an age when they should be kept in
the seclusion of the home or where their
circle of acquaintance should be limited
10 relatives or the intimate friends of
their family.
If you have examined the society col
lmns of the average newspaper during
The past year, you will be surprised at
he number of children parties. Many
children have not time during the week
o look over the Sunday school lesson.
Their time is taken up by picture shows,
winning parties and automobile rides.
Men themselves do not have much
ime any more to go to church on Sun
ay, and what is almost as unfortunate,
hey do not have much time to look
fter their families The demands Cf
MODERN life are such that the man in Y
yerage station must be supremacy busy e
very moment in the day in order to z
leet the expenses incident to the COM y
lex mode of living. His hours for rec J.
,ation being limited, he seeks to strike z
j average by erowding lot of things a
them. The hour or two hours that =
3 once devoted to talking to his wife y.
I'd children, in reading Dickens and q
hackeray, is now given to tearing over =
e country in an automobile. y
When the auto is in the shop and he y
ends an evening at home, his mental g
achinery is speeded up at such gait n
at nothing will interest him short Of a ).
-ench novel, or story of how man y
AIDE million in minute, or young y
an who met, wooed, won and married -
daughter in one day. "
Everybody, from the laborer earning a
100 per day to the buyer and seller Of =
ilroads, is speeding up his life And -
erybody must pay the toll, and that y
4 is often the insane asylum, or q