Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-10-29

Yankees got their nick name, and got
ii in the soldiers paper printed over
In Paris, France. In the south, during
the Civil war, there was prefix gen
orally used. 1t read this way, them
Gam-Yankees." After the Civil war
good many of DiXie's citizens went
north and married Yankee girls. Oc-
casiOnally. not so often, girl in the
south married one of them dam
Yankees"
The prominent editorial in Stars and
Stripes has the following paragraph:
In the army an engineer is an engi-
neer, an artilleryman is an artilleryman.
a cavalryman is cavalryman, but an
infantTyman is a dOughboy.'
Another paragraph tells of the cap
ture on the battlefield of 5000 gold
tipped first-class Turkish cigarettes.
There was eXultatiOn over that prize.
In another place the uOughboys cap
tured Singer Sewing machine and
Remington typewriter. Like Coca-Cola,
they cover the world.
The world is not so Zig after all. The
Stars and Stripes is wonderful news
paper, fun OF French ads and all print
ed in English.
A Text and an Exhsrtation'
\ young woman, and reader of the
Country Home Column, sends me re-
quest, and provides text for my dis
course, if i attempt to preach ser
mon as desired.
The text is found in Deuteronomy,
twenty-secOnd chapter and fifth verse:
pertaineth unto a man, neither shall
man put on a wOman'S garment, for all
that do so Cwear the forbidden clotheS)
are an abOminatiOn unto the Lord thy
Cod My correspondent is much eXer-
ciSed over the sort of women who wear
Overalls, and wants me to eXhOrt my
congregation from the Bible text above
quoted.
| am not half so badly troubled about
the overalls as / am about the lack of
clothes on the female body, when our
fashionables go TO big functions, with
the most of their backs and shoulders
naked as a bird and the front of them
hardly covering the bust except with a
good wide Sirdle around the waist L
get uneasy sometimes and tremble lest
the pins may give way and there Will
be nothing left as a secure BODY Govt
ering. What the preacher In Deuter-
OnOmy would say OF these suggestive
waists, I am not able to report. but the
fashion is growing, and as the skirts
get narrower and shorter, the body to
the dresses continues to drop lower and
lower until | wonder what womenklnd
are thinking about to patrOnize Such
fashions. Men are ScrupulOus about
covering over their bodies, wear col
lars on the neck and keep things IN
shane with SiZeable neckteS, or hand-
kerchiefs, but the women, heaven help
them, are crazy to bare their threats
and arms to the rude winds OF Boreas,
in the dead of winter time, and some
of the neckS are so red they are blulSh-
purple but they go it, regardless OF
common sense and protection to health.
If the Deuteronomy preacher could see
these half-frOZen neckS and then look
down at thin silk stockings in January
weather, he would say something pun
gent and striking, without a doubt
The heels get higher, the arms get
barer. and the necks and bodies get
nakeder every year, and pray why DO
they pursue such fashions? Can any
body say?
But / was born a long time ago, when
young women kept their feet under
their full flowing skirts in good com
pany and when naked arms and shout
ders were confined to the little girls,
Or maybe to the baby in arms. | am
an old fogy. to be sure, and the Deuter-
Dnomy preacher was several hundreo
years older than l am. We are out Oh
date!