Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-03-13
SOCIE,.T Y


ROAD on a marvellous spring day and |
so" all tho trees and Towers com
ing into bloom it gives you much |
iood for serious thought. Nobody
calls the delicate, dead white OF the |
poar-tree bloom ''ghostly." because Il
mas not borrowed pink tor it's com
ticHion from It's ncighbor. the peach |
isn't II strange that when you talk
l" women and girls about painting
inc!r faces and doing all the thousand
ana one things in the way Of make
I'd that they do do TO what Is left |
OF ace. they Viii toll you with
tHe sweetest smile: Why would |
simply Took like ghost.'' Each
'lo"er is beautiful after It's own FASH
ION. some arc yellow. come are blue.
many are white as the driven snow.
ana others hang the hcarle, OF their
"loom upon foliage that is almost
HFeE IN It's delicate shade OF green
mus II is with womcn's faces
\ number of organizations through
CUT the country are actually taking
"'tion' passing rules ana regulations
80 Tar as such ina alters may bc govern
th In that way, and the men f,vhom
the girls assure US would not think
Of rushing" hem IL they were not
Sott'h UP IN IN" latest compl"Nlon)
ar" bored to death with IT, ono ray
young i.othario last week .on a be,
on the number OF girls who passed
MS corner without any makeup on
"" says he think IL Is the slIliest
hing that girls have done vet IIc
oueat 10 Know. because tho girl of his
creams that he thought was tho most
wonderful person in the world 4, be-
-hininE 10 look Hike n wi,har.d old
o. pus ,,t,
turned twenty-five. You see there is
price FOR everything in life. Even
tor color "a. a dance.
Tn" whole reatlcss spirjt tha,
brood" over the country today and
tndS EXPRESSION ia criticism of Tho
ways and manners of It's young poo.
pie Us due 10 :. rather guilty feeling
more or less among older people who
n.y." an unpleasant Dricking in their
"lHds that they have not aiwavs
zone ih"'r duty They nave really
snlrHed their respons Utilities /, doe.
no good to wave your hands in n
Helpless fnshiOn and say f.ebly: II
hav" tried 10 be good mother 20 my
children"
THIS is n queer old world. after all.
" marches on 10 the fulnllmen. NJ
purposes with human beings bursting
OUT ""'" and there in frantic protest
against what liz right AMI wrong
IN" has only 10 look ~ the history
OF clNiiization and read tho history
OF our own times. Tho civilization
OF ancient Rome reached It's climax
ana declined when It's peopic aban-
6oncd their ideals and brought ruin
and ecorn To the homo. Niniveh ami
Eaby!on arc so mich duet and hcaps
OF stone because % tho oxccsstA OF
pleasure aud indulgence Of their peo-
PIE surely tho world can EXPECT no
no'er for !teeif today il Il con:inue.
the Wild extremes, which arc Tho
GAUGE Of so much serious thought ana
anxiety. The mills 81 the gods grind
slowly bat they sT!nd exceedingly
INC Slowly slowly, out OF tn. CEN
turtles. some OF tho ancient civiliza-
lions destroyed for their wickcdnees
i nave crept back up from oblivion. bu,
never 70 attain again their Mace II,
INC sun. The dus, Of the centuries
drifts over tho places that once were
III" great giidcd cities or The East.
Us painted. beautiful women have
long sine" mingled their ashes With
the desert sands. There Is a quota
n.
What do y,e want, quoth God take
II and pay for H." There Is price
for everything in life. \ nation pays.
its people pay. the youth OF its land.
the mothers OF tomorrow, the men
who must bear alott. not the shifting
standard Of this way for inc and that
path for YOU" but the high banners o II
honor and purity and truth. all must
1, f,,t,
price Of all they have and are. in tho
Kind ot life they give back to the
world
i, is strange, isn't It? that is. you
turn the pages Of social history you
VIII find the era where it's women
used the most cosmetics to he the
period Of tho greatest decadcncc in
morals. Somehow Il chcapcns--that
is all. This is decahcnt age of ours
No one in the world can doubt IT, but
tomorrow may bc built into a better
day II those who see and look and
love viii only guide the ptiful, be-
wiidcred and foolish ones back into
the sane. practical way OF a higher
ou;look upon life. II only life were
just today, II wouldn't matter so
much. But tomorrow and Yesterday
tread close upon i.s heels and re-
spon"iblity for both may not he light
~ cast aside.
great singer swcp, his hand
across his harp and sounded the note.
Gods in His heaven: airs right with
the worldH' The waste and droes
Will lac destroyed and tho ;ruth Will
ever prevail.
Painting your face is probabl. a
very simple sign OF the times But i,
is sign. nevertheless. Beauty is
Of so many different varieties and the
pcopl" vino do IL, however innoccntlv
bear that sign upon their coun,cnancc
that they are part OF the decadenco
Of the age, 1T least In thought. il not
in decd. Think YOU not the women
OF Babylon were all such as those vino
wrecked the civilization Of their
times? Tho world marches on to
many things. The knoll IS already
sounding for tho use of makeup for
women Didn't you know ii? And
isn't IL a dreadful thing 10 he out
OF fashion? TRENT WITT.