Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-07
The Country Home
BY MRS. W. III. FELTON,


Foa years 1 have tried to be silent
on the ways and doings of other
people when writing for the Country
the most satisfactory way for my
self, but there has come time In
the history of our own country when
sane and experienced women should
speak out in regard to unmodest
dressing and too much freedom in
the association of unmarried girls
and boys, and 1 will also say unmar-
ried men and women. There have
been some cases put in print, OF
court trials and suicide, poison tab
lets and the like, which have made
parents entirely wretched, and put
lifelong faint on the reputation of
girls and young women in our own
section of the country, without death
by suicide. 1t does not affect US
seriously to rea dabout such things in
ours among people that we know
about, perhaps are acquainted with.
it is a thing of a different color. To
withhold counsel and keep silence,
as if there was nothing to complain
about, is not only unwise, but I'M
patriotic. To stand aloof is not CIV
ing proper service to our day and
people to give warning in times of
danger and destruction and If there
is anything in our social or religious
life that can make grief and unhap-
piness, beyond all sorts, more than
such unhappy girls who have thrown
season of passion and folly, l am
not aware of it. When I am in
formed of the great sorrow of n
happy mothers. who have tried to
raise their daughters to decent and
virtuous habits, and have failed, I
recur with thankfulness to the 60
ing away to the better land of my
only little girl in early childhood.
These girls who throw away their
most precious life-jewel, self re-
spect and virtuous reputation, are
like silly moths that fiutter about
the burning candle, until the moths
wings are fatally scorched and maybe
life itself is thrown away.
l know of no better comparison
to illustrate what l am here writ
ing, with my aged heart in deep
sympathy with the suffering moth
Until a young woman is really mar
ried there is no sense. and I will
go further and say, much danger
in permitting familiarities from
take it that real affection is
based on respect; and girl who
makes herself common, with even
her fiance, before the license is
bought and the ceremony is perform
ed, takes enormous risk, and when
reason there is obliged to be more
or less of painful embarrassment
afterward in further acquaintance.
A gentleman who really loves the
her to remember that he loves her
too well to expect familiarities I'M
til she is his wife in fact, and
will go further and say that a real
gentleman will not desire to marry
a girl or young woman who has
been hitherto kissed and fondled by
other men.
OF all the really beautiful things
on earth today. it is the lovely young
girl who is pure in thought and ac-
first first Water vat - and If if She! She is clean in
life, pure in thought, a lady at
heart, and gentlewoman in society,
she will make happy home if she
marries man who really loves her
She will be happier mother if she
can tell her own little girls that
she obeyed her mothers wishes. and
| was careful in association with men
who courted her. Oh. What shall
ter around the blazing candle, with
not enough clothes on her body to
conceal the lines and dimples on her
bare arms, shoulders and bosom.
When such a girl is willing to
wihrl about in the giddy dance, with
mans arms encircling her, and al
| lows him to kiss her bare neck and
arms, she is too close to the blaze
| to be safe!
The crown of young womanhood is
modesty.
The charm of married life is a
| "VirtOOnS woman
| The glory of motherhood lies in
absolute loyalty to the marriage
vows, and then her husband and her
children can rise up and call her
blessed"
We have in the United States too
many fashions, copied from the
Partisan demimonde. Those vain-sil-
ly "soiled doves" have nothing to
| lose by fast living" They are at
zero depth, as to morals, If not to
manners. We are not protecting
American womanhood by adopting
| the half-naked styles that are now
| prevailing in dress. We are not COM
| PEELED to wear the suggestive CO.'S
tunes that make people uneasy I'M
| less they will be forced to see things
that only rightfully belong to the
nursing babies-in any public place
Oh, silly mothers!
Winter time is upon US. Cold
| weather is here. Coal is high. Try
| to remember that you are risking
| your health with nude costumes, and
| it is only a lustful man who will
call you beautiful in such dangerous
attire.