The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-06-21

1--WE do not agre with the remark
of New York surgeon, called in
to reduce a fractured tibia, result
ing from a fall downstairs caused
by high heel. When informe-
of the occasion of the accident, the
surgeon assured his patient he was
sorry the fracture was not of her
neck instead of her leg.
But it is easy to understand how
deeply ones patience can be triel
by this nonsensical suppliance be-
fore the shrine of fashion. Just now
hideous earrings of every color and
hue are worn by women as alleged
adornments. Many of them impart
to the face of the wearer a decided
ly equine appearance, but heaven
help the unfortunate husband who
gives vent to such an expression,
for earrings are the style. AS many
of our women are reverting to rings
and mayhap they will, like certain
dweiers in the Pacific Islands, paint
their teeth black and find room in
the lobes of their ears for an assort
ment of household utensils. The
savages carry variety OF articles
and our women would be able to
make place for few hairpins,
tooth brush, powder puff eyebrow
pencil, and other things 50 dear to
some feminine hearts. But the
odrnment of the person with gew-
gaws. and the wearing of false hair
in the form of wigs. fronts, toupees,
switches ,curls. puffs, etc, are not
distinctively inimical to health Most
of the frailties de femme merely
demonstrate that all the styles are
not originated in Paris. Some come
from Timbuctoo, Polynesia, and the
Solomon Islands. For example, no
tice the pom-pom, a waving plume
worn in the hair, like the feathers
effected by barbarians. This rever-
sion to savagery is not as harmful
as it is pitiful. Many a city woman
in her desire to beautify herself in
the end becomes ridiculous. Put
ting behind her the God given moth
erly instinct, she contents her soul
by prostrating her'distorted form be-
fore the fashion shrines of Paris
Picking and the Fiji Islands and
showers her stunted maternal love
upon a fuzzy pup. How inspiring 1t
is to walk on one OF New York 5
fashionable thoroughfares and Sc the
number OF tashionably attired wo-
men, who are carefully guarding a
dog at the end OF a leash! They
watch their little dejectory wants
with the same keen interest that
most women display in the care o.
actual children, and we have often
felt, in observing the woman and
the dog. that it is difficult to dis
cover which face shows the greater
intelligence.
"A real woman, through whose
veins course the red blod Of the
hardy people who built up this ma
ton. has higher and more ennob-
ling Ideals. Her life does not center
around rats and false hair, tight
corsets and rouge. high heels and
poodle dogs.
1T would be a SANDER upon the
sex to say that all women or even
a majority. have the atavistic ten
denotes we have portrayed. But
there are in every city in the countr
great many women, OF the type
We have accurately described. who
are burden TO the community. Al
ter violating every rule for the pro-
per preservation OF health, the ex-
pect the physician to keep them in
good physical condition. and the
example they set before the growing
generation of girls is distinctively
menacing.
I'VE are not referring to morality
in any way. Many OF these women
who are the most pronounced wor-
shippers of the barbaric type are
entirely moral and above reproach.
This class is harmful to the peo-
pie. for II their luxurious habits