The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1912-09-21
WOMEN nMoDEsT, SAYS DIVINE.
Extreme Dress Encourages Washers,
Asserts the Rev. Norman B. Barr.

Ono woman who dresses modestly
and carries herself in a modest man
ner need fear being annoyed by mash
ers' on the Streets" was the statement
made by the Rev. Norman B. Barr, pas
tor of the Olivet Memorial church,
Penn and Vedder streets, in an ad-
dress at the weekly meeting of the
Presbyterian Minister'S association in
the Ohio Building Monday.
"The average 'masher' viii not ap-
proaeh a woman on the street unless
he receives some encouragement, either
from her extreme manner of dressing
or from her actions, such as loud talk
ing or laughing or the bold manner in
which she looks at persons on the
Streets" continued the pastor. "In
the cases which have come under my
observation, such has invariably been
the cause of the woman being ap-
preached.
eff women could be induced to
abandon the present-day fashions be-
lieve the 'mashers' would become a
thing of the past. Twenty-Five years
age a woman being aceosted on the
streets was an unheard of occurrence.
Nowadays women are becoming ae-
tive in every line of endeavor and are
becoming less modest than formerly.
No woman who wears a dress which
exhibits every line of her figure can
be called a modest woman"
Rev. Barr has boldly stated, the alb
solute truth, in relation, to the bold
ness of women in all things. In our
boyhood days, the lady in old Vir-
ginia who was highly cultured in every
respect, and represented the highest
type, of Anglo-Saxon womanhood, who
had charge of our early training
taught Us, to look upon women, as puri-
fed Angels, and that idea was so
thoroughly instilled in our mind at an
early age, that it was horrifying to
US, after coming North, to see women,
or ladies if you please, conducting
themselves, in a manner entirely un-
becoming to those who claim to be de-
cent and respectable.
1t is needless to say, that it caused
our eyes to open wide in wonderment
when we first landed in Philadelphia,
Pa. and in other large Northern cities,
and finally in Chicago, to see women
both White and Colored, who move
in the upper society, rushing IN and
out, Of the front doors of saloons and
some, of them standing up to the bar
drinking as boldly as the men, smok-
ing cigars, cigarettes, using vile or
bad language, and staggering up and
down the streets, just like drunken
men.
Women who conducted themselves in
this manner, only a few years ago,
were eternally and forever disgraced.
Now they are highly honored and con-
sidered to be real smart, if they can
drink 20 or 30 highbaIls or Manhattan
Cocktails at one sitting and otherwise
debauch themselves in general.
Not 50 many years ago, the ladies
would retire to their bedrooms, when
they desired to powder their faces and
arrange or re-arrange their toilets.
Now it is no uncommon thing or sight
to observe them painting or powder
ing up their faces while stroIling and
flirting on the downtown streets Of
Chicago.
The present modern woman and her
style Of dress is frightful to behold.
She win persist, in stufRng herself into
dresses which are about four times too
small, and If she would walk On AL
fours like our former ancestors, she
would resemble some Of the fat or stout
cows and other animals.
Men with their eyes and ears wide
open possessing one ounce Of brains
cannot entertain the highest respect
for the staggering and staggering
modern woman