Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-22

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great body of virile, careless-living
men.
The vast army of self-supporting wo-
men are more concerned with person
al comfort and occasional amusement
than with abstraction of any sort; and
that ever augmented army of young
women of higher class, nonmaternal,
passionately independent, exulting N
modern conditions that permit their
sex at least to live unyoked and unreg-
ulated without loss of prestige, and
with fair chance of success in what
ever active field they elect to ente:,
are far too individualistic to merge
themselves into the general idea OF
reform. 1t is in the last two classes
that womans morals will tend to be-
come one with mans.
Man, having firmly established his
code, with the help of both law and
society. has never had the least hes
itation in violating it himself; openly,
ii he is a loose liver, Indifferent to
the pleasures of social groups COM
posed of stricter or more circumspect-
men and women, or if he is young
enough to be forgiven for his wild
oats" If he is none of these things he
discovers himself to the world acct
dentally. A large number of men are
too Indifferent to women to venture in
to the zone of danger, and there is still
another class, men of stern, unyielding
morality who are the backbone of the
creed All varieties, however, unite as
one man upon the question of the con-
! duct OF the sex that gives them birth
! She must be good, or she must emf
CRATE to the garish and definite district
beyond the pale and stay there. SO far
not even as result of the modern rap
| i'd expansion of the civilized con-
science, has anything been said about
the girls sowing their wild oats.
Now, how far have women been con-
troled by this law invented by man
and upheld by society?
At what period of the worlds his
tory have women-sheltered women
been invariably chaste; what period
has been without its scandals?
| can recall none, in the Occidenr,
save ancient Greece, where the moth
ers, present and potential, were segre-
gated, the heterae a triumphant class
by themselves, and the admiration OF
men was reserved for their own phys
ical PROJECTIONS; or perhaps in those
long periods when all the world was
at warm other words, all able-bod-
led men on the battlefield and all wo-
men absorbed in keeping themselv IS
and their children alive. Otherwise, if
history Is to be believed, the irregular
relations of men and women have e.
er diverted society, inspired poets and
romancers, and been the handspring
ll6 WI u dStultoi II cot anu
small. There is no reason to believe
that women are not innately as i'm
moral or as immoral as men, but
they have held their propensities in
leash-when they have-through
pride, fastidiousness, fear, custom, or
at the command OF two forces more
restraining still-maternity and re-
ligion.
The code in this country is still the
highest in the world, but it would be
Interesting. nevertheless, to sit down
and recall how many weeks We could
segregate in our lives in which we
had not heard bit of scandal in one
set OF another; how many days in fact,
when we have dwelt in cities at the
height OF the season. The hope for us
10 or has been that we loudly upheld