The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-16

| II the world was gold. and II each
Star was pearl, IL the moon was a
diamond. Il the sun was a ruby, and
all that was yours, II could net save
your soul nor restore virtue that's
| been destroyed. II cannot replace a
dishonored name. Neither can 1t
Inn, .sar s SIS s.f 4 81. yofis -
| Behold, he hath hid himself among
the stuff"
And this world needs fathers who
love their homes better than they
love any place on earth. mothers who
guide and guard their children. hus-
bands who cherish and love and pro-
tect their wives, wives who honor and
respect their husbands, sons who obey
their parents and not only that. but
daughters who love their mothers,
and men who dare not lie and women
who hate deceit and hate flattery and
hate trcachery.
| We need more manhood in Amer.
lea and less money. We need more
virtue and less vanity W. need
more friendship and less falsehood.
We need more love and less loathing.
We need more smiles and les sneers
Oh, don't allow the stuff to hide you.
Let me help you dig out
| Behold. be hath nd himself among
the stun"
And We want Young men who
will be courageous, who win be
chivalrous. who will be manly.
who win be thoughtful. who can
say: mol" 20 loud they will stag
ger he'll. when tempted to do wrong.
Yes" 30 loud that the angels viii
lean over the hatlements and cheer
them, when they are asked to stand
pat for Jesus Christ and virtue and
truth; who respect wcmanhood and
hate vice In any form; who love 4
fixed purpose and they will not do a
mean. contemplate thing: who think
more Of their mother than they do of
their money: who think more OF
their fathers than OF folly; who
they do Of themselves; who will
think more Of heaven than they do
OF hell; who love to work more than
they love wine; who love character
moro than they love cigarettes; who
love the Bible more than they love
billiards: who love virtue more than
they love vice. Oh. don't hide; let
me help you dig out
Behold. he hath hid himself
among the stuff"
LOFTY Ideals OF wornanhood.
Don't you do 1t. Come On out And
we want girls who will form lofty
ideals Of womanhood in this world
and who are willing 20 accept and fol-
low the advice OF a good mother or
friend: who think more OF decency
than they do of dress: who think more
OF gentieness than they do OF GROSS
ness; who think more OF firmnees thas.
they do of folly; VIII think more of
cradles than they do Of cards; who
Will grow up to be good women, loyal
wives and fond mothers In this world ::
who do not despise the kitchen; who
can wash dishes Just az we'll as they
can play the piano: who can make
bread As well as they can make fudge
we want girls like that In this
world.
Girls who ran cut out s. dress A.
sktllfuliy as they car cut figure on
ballroom floor: who can smile Jus.
as s~eetiy At home as they do On the
street OF down. my friends, in com =
pany, Girls that have that power of
discrimination so they car tell a gem
ternan from a~ coundrel In the world
Girls tina. prefer a working man with
calloused hands and a pure heart for
a husband In preference to some Cod
forsaFen. whiskey-soake ed hbertine OF
a cigarette sss oking dude. On. don't
get lost In the stuff. Let me dig you
out girls. Come on,
Behold. he hath hid himself
among the stuff"
Ana the world wants mothers who
know where their sons and daughters
are OF nights: who prefer the simple
life 10 social distinction: who have
more love for babies than they have
for ballroom, and who can MAKE
their homes a heaven OF reace Cor
those thai they love; where the demon
OF distrust and jealousy and hate
never wriggles its shiny carcass across
the lintel OF the door. Mo- No,
Don't set lost in the stun: let me help
YOU dig out, Come on.
"Rehoid. he hath hid himself
J among the stuff"
A serious purpose may he los, In a
search for pleasure. oh, you may
become a toy of social life. a play
thing attracted by anything under
heaven that ticklee your fancy or
that viii give YOU n new sensation.
You may become a f'irt. you may
become dude. you may become the
atre struck. Won may be glutton
you may 10 drunkard. you may be
a ltoertire oh. a every railroad
crossing there lis "a sign, stop. Look,
/ Listen" and man got $4,000 from
the American Railroad association
by suggesting the most compact at
trTlctive sign, and a clerk In the store
dug that out of his brain in two min
utes. So they put that up at the
crossing Of the railroads and the red
lights 10 warn you.
Attract Fools Only.
I Oh, there are red lights down In
front of the siumc, too--women who
attract fools only. Wise men, avoid
them like you would a pestilcnce, and
behind the glowing reflections the
pandemonium 81 hell and dannation
reign. All that is alluring 10 men
with passions poisoned in their blood
ia found within the gates of her whose
Il feet take hold upon hell.
! The silks and the satins and the
diamonds she wears. all the price oi
shame tn al bedeck, the riren, whose
crimson lights down there attract the
/, fool and the wayward. the painted
cheeks to which the blush OF rnodesty
has for years been an absolute stran-
ger: eyes from which the CLEAN OF
Innocence has long since vanished
hearts that are heavy with regret
memories that are sad: lips that
have tasted the bitter dregs in lfe's
cup, which they are trying to drain
tdry; bodies that are saturated with
drink and with dope. and they are
reeking with virus and venereal dis
ease. Oh, don't hide in the stuff!
Let me help you dig out
"Behold. he hath hid himself