The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-02-23
TOO
EASY, AYERS
PASTOR
Urges Reversion to Days of
Mild Manners When Men
Respected Women.
By CHESTER B. Balm,
International News Service.


SYRACUSE, N Y, Feb. 23.-The
cure for matrimonial unhappiness is
more difficult engagements, declares
the Rev. C. Bertram Runnalls,
rector Of Calvary Episcopal Church,
OF this city, a distinguished author.
1ty upon sociological problems.
The Rev. Runnalls believes a new
type Of womanhood is necessary.
"The young women Of today are
degenerate! Things today have
reached pass where 1t is excep.
tional to find a modest, refined, and
Quiet-speaking girl.
1.-THE hand-painted girl, the
Notwithstanding girl, the girl who
dresses in mans clothes, apes mans
habits, and exceeds mans i'll man.
ners is everywhere to be seen.
The brainleSs flapper, the high.
headed coed, the unbalanced society
debutante, in their various degrees
abound in every small village and
every large city in the country.
GO with me to the afternoon tea
shop or the rose rooms Of our fash.
ionable hotels. Table after table IL
nlled with girls ranging in age from
fifteen to the query.mark-each
with her cigarette case and her sill.
yer flask-forcing themselves to dc
things that have always been
drowned upon by men who are real
men.
1--WE see in our papers every day
the stories Of girls committing sui
eide to escape the reaction Of their
designations.
Can't, Find Bride.
"As a young Dartmouth graduate
laid to me just last week: Father,
want to get married, but declare
there isn't a girl know that I'd
care to live with. They are good as
!Oys, but useless as wives!'
I'VE all see it criticised in a way,
and we see our lecturers trying to
suggest reforms which seem not to
reform, but to merely advertise the
speakers.
The only reform can see is a
inversion to the daily teachings of
t0e old-fashioned laws and old-fash-
Toned customs prevailing when
WOmanhood was a thing that COM
manded mans respect.
Careful practice of the old.fash-
toned ways, by which daily life
found its sanction at the altar, and
where counting was a seriously
thought-over event in life and when
marriage became a sacrament, and
baptism and the churching of
women became the common rule of
all respectable married life-those
things are the only reforms neces-
Sary. ~
Teach Morals Early.
"A child should be reared from
infancy in a religious atmosphere.
where the laws of God in morals
and faith are taught.
Parents should take time to see
that boys and girls learn the rela.
tionship Of all life, all customs in
the habits Of life as conforming to
Gods great plan.
Becoming engaged today should
revert back to the time of the Jews
who took betrothal as the most
sacred and serious thing in life.
Parents should emphasize today
careful choice, worthy selection and
thoughtful companionship. They
should point out the wisdom Of God
as preventive before apd not as
balm after marriage.
What we need today is a def
mite education for the young in the
definite, divine purpose of life.
Life is not a mere carnival of
unbridled, self-choosing, self-ruling
pleasure.
lin brief, If we are going to ne
cure a return of the old type of
femininity, with it's grace and
charm, and its sweet attractiveness
and quiet sobriety, we must first
secure a return Of the old-time bond
between the church and her young"