The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-01-03

fashioned. The MODERN doWn-to-date,
age considers seriously not patriotism
but graft" and price" and doodle"
These are the modern forces by which
the nation is said to be governed; these
are the means by which the nation
strives to go ahead. To talk only OF
these things, to believe only in these
things, to live only these things, is to
be modern and down-low down-to-
date. To work for any motive but the
making of money is to be queerly be-
hind-the-times. To write a book or
paint picture or sing song, to
preach a sermon, to do anything for
anv reason under heaven but for cash
marks you a fanatic and fool. TO
believe, even, that any one does any
thing save for the money there IS i'll
it stamps you simple and unsophisti-
Gated, indeed. To profess such be-
lief, save you put your tongue in your
cheek, marks you peculiar.
Long, long, ago mankind put its best
strength, its best thought, its best life,
into its work, without regard for the
price simply because it was its work.
And the work so wrought in those
ouser old-fashioned days has most
curiously endured. There is little dan
ger that much of our modern down-to-
date work will endure for the very SIM
pie reason that we do not want it to
endure. The world wants something
new Down-to-date-ism does not
want its work to last longer than the
dollar it brings. Never fear, the world
is getting something new. But, though
we have grown so bravely away from
those queer, old-fashioned days we
have not succeeded yet in growing al
together away from the works that
those old-fashioned days produced.
But, patience, old world-patience-
down-to- date-ism may, in time, accom-
plish even this"
Then the story goes On to tell about
the good old days in the long ago
when men and women would mate in
love and build homes that were really
homes as the creator intended they
should be. "In those times, now so
sadly old and out-of-date, men plan
ned and labored for homes and chill
dren and women were home-makers
and mothers. But the world Is now
far from those ancient ways and out
of-date ideals. Marriage has little TO
do with home-making these modern
DAYS. 1t has almost nothing to do
with children. We have in our, down.
to-date-ism, come to be nation OF
childless wives and homeless husbands.
We are dwellers in fats, apartments,
hotels, where children would be in the
way, but dogs are welcome II only
they be useless dogs. We live I'm
houses that are always for safe, or
rent. 1t is our proud boast that we
possess nothing that is not on the
market for a price. The thought OF
selling a home is not painful for we
do not know the value of home. we
have, for convenience, to crafty our
modern, down-to-date, ever changing
tastes, popularized the divorce court
as though husband or wife of more
than three seasons is oid-fashioned
and should be discarded for one OF
newer pattern, more in harmony with
our modern ideals of marriage"
Almost it is as though God did not
know what he was about when he made
woman. To place a home above
club; nursery above the public plat
form; a freside above politics; the
prattle of children above newspaper
notoriety; the love of boys and girls
above the excitement of social con-
quest; the work of bearing strong men
and true women for the glory OF the
race above the near intellectual pur-
suits and the attainments of a shallow
thinking; all this is to be sadly old
fashioned. All this is so behlnd-the-
times that one must confess sucn
shocking taste with all humiliation"
You may not agree with this pic
ture. and so far as we are concerned