Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-11-09

We TOP Off one OF his bOn-mOts or
epigrams With a better one of our
own; We match his irony with our
satire, and in this good natured game
of humorous battledore and shuttle
cock We keep him interested and
guessing.
Religiously, We have been impros
ing for fifty years, and this woman of !
the New South reads the Bible moro
and what's better she does more pra2.
teal religious work than any crea
ture that ever lived. She builds more
hospitals, maintains more orphanages |
ministers to more sick. POUNDS more |
charities and missions than her /.
grandmother ever dreamed of.
As sweetheart, she is a girl Of
radiant charms, and ,hc presiding
genius of all loves Witchcries a
saint. siren. and paradox.
This young woman Of the New !
South. untrammelled by morbid
sense Of Gonventionaliiy. independent |
in thought and action while modest
as flower is bright and scintilant
as a star; and for tho first time in
history. a real Friendship is possible
between q man and a maid who, fifty
years ago could meet only on the
basis of a frivolous filtration.
| As TO her dress. she is a happy
medium between the moralist regula
| tors Of the old school on the one
hand, who decried all feminine adorn-
ment as vanity, and those decorative
| feminine pinheads on the Other hand
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on the way from the modistc TO a
tango dinner or the horse show.
She realizes that il is womans
right, privilege and duty to be
gowned as attractively as she can
and so, IN the oharm Of her voice, the
sweetness of her face the grace OF
her movements and the exquisite
daintiness of her garments, she is .
Contamination, devontly to be
wished"
| AS wife, she realizes. more than
any Of her predecessors that running
a home is as serious Job for a wom
an. as running a business is for a
man, and whether that home be a
modest cottage in the hills. or
stately mansion on the river, its mis-
tress is fully conscious that keeping
house" calls for all the knowledge
and education she Gan acquire. and
that as selector buyer, manager and
disburser, she is the most potent fac
tor in every economic problem that
exists.
AS a hostess, she continues TO
make the Southern home. a synonym
for hospitality.
1t is possible that she may, for
breakfast, regale you with some one
Of thirteen different kinds of scien-
|tifically prepared cereals, that look
ike shavings and taste like shncks,
but don't you imagine for a moment
that she has forgotten the corn meal
and hominey of her grandmother's
days.
!. No. inspite Of her salads and
Mayonaisses, and all her other curl
Gus culinary crinkles she is still ex.
pert in the art of serving friend
chicken and hot BISCUITS.
AS mother. with her knowledge
of the physiology of birth. of pre-
natal influences, of scientific nursing
and hygenic foods, she has started a
Better Babies" movement that will
! eventuate nobody knows where.
With her enlarged range of thought
she is more competent teacher for
her children than ever before, inspir
ing them with greater confidence
creating, within them, a sympathy
with loftiness of purpose, and purity
of soul, and arousing them to con-
seriousness of what is best in them
selves and best in others.
Furthermore, she performs her
!, great mothering function, not only
for her own family, but for the vii
lage, town or state in which she lives
Mothering humanity in the bulk reno
waiting cities, identifying schools. and
cleaning up this dirty old world and
: making it healthier and better place
for her children and her children's
. children.
As a friend-ah, here is the dis
tinguishing feature of the onward and
upward trend of this woman Of the
New South. She is that "friend in
. need who is friend indeed" and
!, with the touch Of her gentle hand
and the sympathies OF her femenie
heart, she reaches out to lift anf
4 beautify the earth.
Conservation, is her hobby, and
y she is doing a noble work in protect
+ ing and preserving our forests, GU,
t streams. our minerals and our bird
life-and in perpetuating, by monu
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