The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-18

and 'lo-I-am-holy' eyes when mis-
guided youth threatened to waste sub
stance in a little riotous living? Ye
gods! How are the mighty fallen!
The house Of Rimmon has been looted
with a vengeance, and its gauds nave
enthralled us. Dreamy strains OF
Strauss waItzes bring no lure to our
faded appetites nowadays, n the
snappy Sousa music has been relegat-
ed to the nethermost pit to make way
for the weird strophes Of an epileptic
tendency which move to moro and Jar
ones brains into a horrid, scrambled
mess.
When the C~armagnole drove the al
ready quite mad french reyolutionists
to greater madness, and the population
danced deep In the blood Of the aristo-
! Gratis. it was q madness wholly mad,
while our madness is merely cerebral
anaemia or even hysteria. Dancing
knee deep, or breast deep, in m
body's garage for a worthy cause
seems quite justiiable when calmly
considered, out hysteria is a futile and
unConVincing horror"
Getting down to instances, Nine.
Human finds some married folks in
st. Louis tending to ca~relessness
Touching this and the mother who de-
ponds on the nurse to ear her kiddies,
she says:
Gracious! Is This Being Done?
Fancy seeing Mr.. ks wife dining
at Cafferata's with Mrs. US husband
five years ago and picture what a ire
mendous amount Of business Mrs.
G%rundy's little hammer would have
doled out to the graceless pair twenty
four hours later.
And how long do o think Mrs. Il.
would nave been tolerated amongst the
elite had she tethered her Riddles to
the more or less sympathetic apron
| string of a hired person while h tan
coed with an affinity at the Jefferson,
and while Mr.. z. having left the Office
carly, cheered the fascinating Widow
S.!
IF a guide book is needed by us non
residents when once the familiar land
marks are left behind believe me, an
unabridged volume on psychological
research would not come amiss when
seeking for the reason for these
changes-a reason which seems elu-
sive. if not entirely absent.
Nobody wants to be prosy any
more than he wants to be naked, but
there is rather more difference be-
tween prudery and license than be-
4 tween n~akedness and the. 1918 style
It's a, bit of g. wrench to one's sense OF
\ the eternal fitness Of things to have to
adapt casually to slender debutante
shoulders the sparse creations design
4 ed for the demimonde. Hair shirts
and stripes are VIGOROUSLY unbecom-
4 ing and uncomfortable. but are said to
be salutary-hence their unpopular
ity."
Says Society Is Drinking.
And Mime. Human intimates that
society in st. Louis has taken to drink
4 This dreadful change she handles IN
this way;
"a few nights ago two young mar
81 ried women were discussing moral de-
n cadence in general and women's even
= ing gowns in particular. One held thu
= daring immodesty Of our clothes to bt
an effect, while the other argued 1t tt
be a cause. Whether cause or effect
or ever a paradoxical both, the fac
remains that bathrooms are no place
for st. Anthony! Wine may be {
mocker, and strong drink raging, new
ertheless alcoholidays are quite thu
most popular stunt going.
II. do not by any e hold tina
81 st. Louis is walloWing in a unique
trough Of iniquity, or that Sodom ant
Gomorrah and Babylon were as Spo
e kane, Ind, when compared to us; bu
81 the pendulum has swung over just
bit too far for perfect rhythm an
nicely adjusted mechanism, and tn
"a st. Louis of five years ago, tina
q snoozed and snored peaceably, ha
NJ awakened with a blare Of brass t
! that most calamitous sensation Q
having lain abed too long. Humbl
81 pie and the apples Of Sodom and tn
waters Of Lethe have each a place 1
the Mosaic cosmogony, but as a stead
IS diet I fancy a mortal tnd1gestio
81 might ensue! And granting that re
c%uperation is possible. think Of tina
appalling morning after which ma
mean only acute nausea and whic
81 may mean insignificant consideration
such as the coming generation" 7
Appendicitis Merely A Habit.
Nor does Nine. Human pare til
habit of an operation for more or les
imaginary internal ills, or the dyins
out evening at home" Here b says
I'D SANITY seems quite passe, Just {
having all ones own individual inside
NJ or as spending q quiet evening ut hon