Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1915-02-12
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lpi.Aeu hun up and passed him
lover to ma" on the couch near
by. PA" looked quickly around,
| to see that the maneuver was ac-
Icomplished in safety, and seized
my chance to insert a question.
you don't think much of So
ciety women?" l asked.
THE mere society-the mere
society women" repeated Sum
day with emphasis is the most
useless being on the face of the
earth. She has no occasion to
use brains. Ali she thinks her
body is for is to be a fashion
frame on which to hang fashion
able garments and a digestive
Apparatus with which to gor-
mandize upon all the viands that
a rich husband gives. Her
daughter runs to dancing and
embroidery and painting her face.
If you kissed her, you'd die of
painter s collie.
"About won n of the smart get,
who are merely that, little can be
said ia justification. They arc silly
frivolous, extravagant. They have
thrown to the winds all modesty,
prudence, religion aud the virtues
that are 80 attractive in women,
and have allowed Themselves 20 he
lattered. C joled and bamboozled by
p lot of Tilted jays with cracked
Oh racters. They turn their homes
into third-ra gamb ing dens and
booz joins.
IL me mt what | sid in the tab
ern 4elc the 9th day: There are
women there who, If they should die
tonight W uld not need a funeral
rmon. Get them to their homes.
put them 10 c"ffi ,s, put their Jewels
and clothes on the Collins. That is
all they live for
Were always hearing about
poor girls who go wrong and sell
themselves to the devil and tempt
men into sin. IF you believe what
some folks say. you'd think it was
only the Sc a-week factory girl
that filed the joints and wrecked
the HON ard lured away moth
ers' darlings AS a matter of fact,
some of the most dangerous wo-
men, some of the most unprlncipled
sirens, are to be found amor the
daughter OF the rich, men who
prefer cards to cradles, who will lie
for money. steal tor money, wear
the scarlet letter Tor money, murder
for money"
And, of course. you don't ap-
pro OF modern fashions and mod
ern dances?" ! suggested.
"The steel-olue eyes opened
widely, a wrathful spark glinting
IN each.
THE way in which a lot of wo-
men are permitted TO dress today
throws the spotlight squarely on
orr degeneracy" he exclaimed.
"What with slit skirts and slit
waists and transparencies and the
rest, women act like they are try
ing to initiate the daughter of that
old souse Herod, who didn't wear
Clothes enough to make leggins
for humming bird. The dance
craze is another thing I'd like to
rip from hell to breakfast and back
again. All dancing comea from the
devil, and it's responsible for at
least tn rec fourths of the immor-
atty of women
Then there's another class of
daffy women chasing after all sorts
of fool religions that will lead no.
where except to hell. They are
culture mad. They accept overy
ism and 'ology' that will get them
away from God. A woman of this
sort would yell at man il he SHE'D
a boojack at night prowling cat
that was making All unholy racket,
because she would fear that the
Esprit of daughter who once took
masic lessons was bodied in that
cat.
l Trying to peep into the future
lis the silly fad OF other women
The foret ,llers of the end OF the
world are a lot of false alarms.
four-foushers and common liars
not that their dupes are bothered
by few tall ones. You know the
story of the man who asked the
little boy how old he WIS six at
school, Ave at hon. and four on
the cars, was the reply. Who
taught the kid to lie ? That old liar
The calls his mother"