The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1913-06-12

fined women were willing to take
the risk of being so nearly classed
as indecent, as will be found daily
in our citieS-large and small.
And that brings again the ques-
ton: where are the men Of our coun-
try? The men who have clear, clean
ideals of the women who were moth
ers and sisters to them in a-day not
SO long passed?
What of the father of a sixteen
year-old daughter who will permit
her to go on the street in a costume
which is SO suggestive in it's every
line as to make her the source of in
decent criticism and remark to every
corner loafer and window-lounger?
What of the husband Of the wo-
man who goes out arrayed like 8
caricature of her true self, with lips
and cheeks roughed after the man
ner Of the women OF the stage, and
in no whit differing in dress from
the girl Of sixteen?
What OF the men who will permit
wife and daughter to take part in
the public dances which have be-
come nothing less than orgies, and
which are being taught in the dane
ing academies as part Of the social
training Of young women who are
to be the future mothers-if moth
ering doesn't go out of fashion
altogether.
GA chain is as strong as it's weak
est link" and the answer to the
question of what ails our women"
is found in the query what Of our
menu"
Sometimes a father gives his son
the opportunity of seeing the
world" and the youth sleeps him
self in filth and vice, under the par
entail approval, which is labelled
sowing wild oats Our women,
evidently, have taken course in the
same school. Mothers are permit
ting their daughters the same ding,
and the results are shown every day
one picks up daily paper.
Now that we have permitted both
to "have their fling" and the men
of the Nation have had ample proof
Of where it is leading US, isn't it
good time to call halt, and have
the men of families take up their
duties where they dropped them
when the sheath skirt, the bunny
hug and turkey trot, the carabet
show and the cigarette habit became
POPULAR"
Women have howIed long and
loud for rights" They have had
'em now for quite a spell, and it has
shown most of them as aching more
for wrongs than for anything that
may be classed for the uplift Of any
section. They have resoluted and
conventional, and met in divers and
sundry ways to show what they were
going to do, but the abuses which
have been SO glaringly apparent and
which are having so disastrous an
effect on the whole Nation, have not
even come under discussion.
When the men - the fathers,
brothers, husbands and sweet-hearts
will frown down the mode Of dress
ing, the indecent dances, the skating
along the thin edge Of the demi-
monde which seems to have pos
sessed the women Of today, they
will accomplish more for the revo-
luton which is needed, than even
the suffragettes of all the countries
combined will accomplish in their
efforts at ''vOtes for women"
And women are proving in the
way they are misgoverning them
selves, how absolutely unfit a. they
are for the voice which should be
theirs by right in the matters Of
government.
It's up to the men of these great
and glorious United States, to get
back the old regime, when the wo-
manly woman full of wico cOuOcoI