The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-08
Editorial
of the Day
CONTROVERSIAL.

estate Press" in Dallas News
A lady who says she rises at 4:SO,
cooks breakfast for four children,
cleans house, powders her nose ana
goes down town for her days WORK
at 1880 is indignant at the presto
ing elder of this column for having
advised everybody to forego all
manner of fun and kindness OF
feeling in order TO join howl
chorus and be natural. The only
defense state press has for giving
such advice is the general disposi-
ton of a majority of the people TO
be sour, sullen and embittered
against something or other When
dog gets in bad with the world, when
he has no congenial companionship,
when he realizes that he is dog, and
therefore must be treated like
dog, he howls. Howling seems to give
him easement. Then why shouldn't
all of us who are disgruntled, dls'
gusted and disagreeabloe for one rea-
son or another unite in crescendos
of bowling? 1t wouldn't get us any.
thing, of course; it wouldn't alter
anything; it wouldn't change the face
of the country, revolutionize the map
or quash the well-known eighteenth
amendment. But our bowling might re-
fleet soporifically upon US and en-
able all hands to indulge ourselves
in few winks of tired natures
sweet resnorer. What's wrong with
the advise if it might be trusted to
work out the desired effect? Certainly
S. p. doesn't advocate bowling as q
regular vocation. A certain amount
of work has to be done, no matter
how much each of us may hate 10
do any of it. Howling is recommended
only as an occasional relief measure
and even in that case 1t is urged
only for those whose tempers threa-
ten to explode and blow their hats
off. 1T must be that you are love-
lorn," writes our lady critic. Hoop
skirts seem to be the trouble, hoop
skirts or petticoats,' she concludes
But she is wrong. All the information
S. p. has concerning hoopskirts I,
what he has read about them, and
his interest in hoopslirts is about
the same as his interest in the tab!e
furniture of the Tibetans. 1t is some
what different with petticoats, un-
doubtedly, but the lady critics indict-
ment Of S. p. appears rather un
kind. She insinuates that he is dis
turbed by them. AS matter of fac.
whatever notice he takes of petu'
coats is professional, not personal. He
deems il his duty to keep himself
informed in contemporary develop
ment, general tendencies, popular psy.
chology. However, in speaking of pet
ticoats in this connection the reference
is not TO garmentry at all, not 10
petticoats as objects or articles, but
rather as symbols of femininis,n. Pet
ticcat government is not government
by merchantable textiles cut to fit per.
sens of the feminine gender; petit
cat government is government by
the fair sex-government by lovely
women, no. by lovely dry goods. Ana
So S. Ps interest in petticoats, OF
which some people say there are none
but in the figurative expression. Petti.
coats may or may not stu be items
U dress. Some say they are and some
say they are not. State Press doesn't
know. But he does know that the
petticoat as political symbolism /
virile reality, and the time will
soon come IN this country when the
most digTifie1 and choleric gentleman
of the oid-schcol win have to rally
'o1ad tkn ce:ticoat or occonc a po
litical suicide Is not such a prospec,
full justification for S. P.'s having
called fer howl cho.us? Be fair.
lady. lie just before unmerciful.