The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-03-17

AAS soSNbf ohNNCPo
standpoint. obtained ut the cost OF
honor as well as Godliness
1t would send cold chiIIs down your,
your back to even suspicion your Su-
sic OF willfuiiy keeping company with
n person whose character is not above
repFoach. Yet sheSfs allowed, in the
modern love story, to spend weeks
with crooks and fiends incarnate.
People live weeks In a single day In
book, !. O., they have the companion
ship of weeks in a'single days read
ing. These weeks are often spent with
girls who allow sweethearts 10 hold
their pretty hands and kiss their cher
ry lips. Many of these heroines faint
under the strain OF proposal OF mar
rlage and fall into the arms OF lucky
sultors. Then after all OF this, they
are happily married and life becomes
one long sweet song.
When in reality IL your girl acted.
In that style with her beaux they
would all turn their backs on her.
You would soon have heart-brok-
en- child; and 1t would not be out of
the ordinary IL you had another rela-
tive. younger and not quite SO close
ly related, that would be seriously
closely about the paternal ancestor.
or might embarrass you to find a
suitable place forDhim on the family
tree.
Our ideals are formed from our ell
vlronments. a girl used in Utah un-
der the old regime would unblushinGly
accept the position OF fifth wife while
the other four were sound and we'll.
OHe raised undec the Georgia law
would accept q husband whose wife
lives but is dirorcad. While a true
daughter OF the Palmetto state must
be sure that her stftor nag no living
wife in the wide world. Each of tn
girls would feel wotiiIded and serelv
shocked If one should intimate that
she were not true blue.
Just SO does girl absorb her ideas
from the heroines with whom she as
soctates in books.
The very atmosphere tends towards
that kind of growtb. "A good book ,is
ennobling Just as good food is strength
ening: butSas said above, "let evsfy
pursnS beware yT ,tiio worm IN ..;;,t,
cabbage ana s.Ass..!Eee5 .:Ass..!Ee5 the books her
children are reading.
L have absolutely no respect for
- ---s4-aree IT'D ali it2 dis
fipguislingly intimate, relations be-
tween the opposite sexes; but had I
20 cnoose between II and the average
Dook oil netton, wonid say. "gfve me
the dance for mIae because it does
timber up the muscles and make a.
certain grace Y OF ernoyenlsnk whtcl,
COMES from the phyaieaFs, exercise.
While the mah Ind wurnan love novel
of today doesn's even do that, and am
quite sure that the Inoral leffect Is
fully asSbad ff not wersc ..Id
Then there Is .aHotiier reason which,
even ndesah the harmless lina :. I
not only ask e the sprcferred food
will not make me lie, before eating
tt, 4 nust also Il: 10 make me-
% &. s; g Z Z :. - 81. s.
filled without regard to; nsitritiye yal-
ne, find water ard saWtiIist both con-
FVeEient and cheap Tins wa see IL is
our duty to ask not oniy 'is there any
harm, but is thare any good, In the
food ON which our minds Feast. We;
should go still further and ask Is there
nothing better? And uiiiess the ma
terial In Question. Is the best that can!
be had, even the REASONABLY yaIuabIe'
should be discarded
q y circumstances alter 5sSssasSa s.@ays
any harmless book is better than no
reading at all. My hearers well rse,
msnber the story of Greedy and his
men on their polar expedstioh. When
ali more desirable Ioild had given
out. they ate their raw hide boots.
One OF their number was eLeGuted for.
eating more thu :. his sht OF the DEL
icaey and thus threatenih the whole
party with death by starvation.
NcTI hos
civilization, they straightWays went:
out OF the raw hide buslrless. Now
with the great variety OF good litera-
|tufe at hand very chean too. there
is no excuse for much of the raw hide
brain food. There seems 20 be n tre-.
mendouH demand for what is cailati
light literature q,
like soup,1 am very fond OF goofi
soup too. It VIII never iriura me eth
er, unless undertake. to live on that
alone. Then twill promptly starve
me Co death. s,s' sss ~ -,
never did fancy the fleasos drink
Ing whole gallon of water In order
To- get Q cup OF soup aftl1 !. sif.. ~
Readiiig the porllaF sghk iftera-
ltlresS FOR help, mentai Growth, or the
taets that may be cleaned lhefa7orrn
. .lt fiales, Is Ike tfyiIi;s = live "a tI.a
: Mn spup diet. Such Is only at for
! ily. sssls sptlysicaf or mental as tho
csiHe may be- b ls. ts
~, ~ IssI me IS given us Ijy the groat
creator oi the universe, for tke ptiP.
1850 q improsinBr ourselves for f,,s
tnre usefulness or Of making the
WeEtq better by oef present useful.
ness. lt Is a crime h65cFe our Css,d
10 waate one! moment. - ~
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