The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-09-02
elicit an emotional response from his

elicit an emotional response from his
audience.
The sanest utterances heard on this
subject at this or any other chautau-
qua-or through any other medium
in this city. or any place at any time
were those of DR.. Ross who delivered
series of addresses which did and
do appeal to the observer of modern
social conditions
Ross said, in effect, that divorce was
not a sign of moral degeneracy but
was the result of a certain economic
condition which enables women to
them an opportunity to break away
from an anomalous social state.
Or, in other words, which enables
the mistreated wife to assert her in
dependence and maintain her integrity
as an individual rather than to force
her to submit to remain a thing of
mere sex.
That there were not more unhappy
marriages than formerly.
But that industrial and economic
conditions had so evolved that a wo-
man did not have to submit to emo
tional degradation because she had no
way to support physical life.
That the prevalence of divorce did
not argue loosening social standards
but was a sort of nostrum which
cleansed the social body.
These seemed the sanest remarks
that could possibly be made on this
subject.
Time has past for the insistence of
the absolute inviolability of the mar
riage tie.
And also past for the wigwagging
change OF social base.
Governor Glenn's remarks on the
subject of women's clothes were also
in somewhat doubtful taste.
So far as men are concerned they
always have and always will stare at
women and make remarks about their
clothes and general sartorical and
physical getup.
AS to the present styles conducting
to immortality, that is more or less
amusing.
We have it from the days of hoop
skirts that nothing exceeded these
huge and deforming messes of drap-
cry in degeneracy.
That people were never more i'm
moral that when the hoopskirts pre-
vailed
The truth of the matter is that if
mems dress was to be analysed moth
ing more ridiculous or homogeneous in
the history of the human race could
be conceived of than the Amodern
style of masculine attire
Think for moment or two what a
trousers.
They are aesthetically hideous.
And bear no relation to anything in
heaven above or earth beneath.
While woman's present day garb is
exaggerated, it is the most healthful
form of feminine dress that has pre-
vailed for many a day.
For it reduces the weight of cloth
ing on the body to a minimum.
1t throws the weight on the Shout
ders instead of at the waistline-which
oil puySlOiOSlStS say is the desired
end in women's attire-leaves the low
er arm and the neck unhampered and
enlarges the breathing space in it's
insistence on straight lines and con-
sequence disappearance of the small
waist.
Governor Glenn said, after caricatur-
ing the present day feminine figure
and dangling it before his delighted
audience, that he did not do this to
make his hearers laugh.
Oh no! Of course not! His pur-
pose was serious and beneficient.
Now the fact is that this is just
where the excellent governor fabricat-
ed generously.
The whole diatribe was designed
with the express intent to get a
laugh" as the vaudevillains say, and
for nothing else.
A thing which chautauqua perform
ers are as given to as those who ap-
pear for less alleged altrurian reasons
in the entertainment retreats of the
-brows.