The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-03-14
DON'T BE A SKIRT HANGER

son, don't become skirt hang
er. The world has a large sup
ply of skirt hangers and quar-
ters at large cities are crowded
with them.
What are they? Pestiferous
nuisances, human burrs that
ah.ling to skirts because trousers,
very rightly, toss them off.
They are men who, being too
weak to stand alone, and too
contempitible to receive a help
ing hand from their own sex,
cling to the skirts of women.
The able-bodied man whose
wife supports him is a skirt |
hanger. She sees the burr at
taching itself to her skirt. She
tries to pry it off, but it clings
to the hem of her gown as a
barnacle to the hold of ship,
and at last through sheer pity
or despair or mental laziness,
she allows it to remain in it's
ignoble place and carries it
through life.
The man who borrows money
from women is a skirt hanger
of the worst sort. He borrows
from women because men won't
lend it to him. He is of the
same mind and soul as the beg
gar on the street who whines
his way into a woman's pity
while he turns from the cold
eyes of men who look him
through. Perhaps he borrows
from his mother, his sister, his
aunt. A skirt hanger | knew
borrowed a dime from his little
daughter to buy a drink of
whiskey. Or he may borrow
from women friends, or women
to whom he makes love.
A skirt hanger not only gets
money from women, but he de-
rives influence from them. He
unblushingly asks them to get
him job. Or he asks them to
speak to Mr.. Brown, who knows
Mr.. Smith, who can help him to
something. He asks their in
fluence and sometimes he gets
it.
The man who asks woman
to bestow her love upon him,
and to marry him, saying:
you will make a man of me-"
ought to be shown the door. If
he hasn't enough manstuff in
him to measure large against
the world, no woman can add
cubit to his stature. The man
whom a woman can make" is
not worth the effort. Women
may encourage men, may make
their path of life brighter and
more beautiful, out they can no
more make a m, ) career than
they can polish an agate into a
diamond.
The skirt hanger is a poor
creature who blames a woman
for his misdeeds. Adam was
the first skirt hanger, and he
has had multitude of descen-
dants.
The skirt hanger is a male
who finds the society of his own
kind too bracing. Il like wo-
men better than men. They
are kinder" whimpers the man
who has been too weak to stand
against the worlds buffeting
and who hides behind the near
est skirt.
The man whose existence is a
long wailing for some female
relative to die and leave him her
fortune is a brilliant example
of the skirt hanger. The man
who, when he is on trial, fills the
court room with the women and
children of his family, placed
where the eyes of the jury are
sure to fall upon them, is a skirt
hanger at his most glaring
height.
The man who gets his normal
support and his opinions from
his wife is merely another va
riety of the species.
The skirt hanger will get
into heaven, if he gets there at
ALL through woman's inAu-
ence. Clinging pitiably in death
as in life, he may slip through
the gates and past st. Peter on
her robes. Or so he hopes, for
it is only in the face of death
he sees his own pitiableness.-