San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-12


and women in "knickcr," ON hunting or
walking trips. mountain climbing aud
overland tours. are seen often enough
, tu tai" AWAY the Scardalizcd sense of
e difference that was in the TAT automo-
bil'Sts smiles. stu il was different to
d sec these voting things attircd in lust
that manner upon the street. II was
d change. Something out o line.
! \ reaction similar 10 that OF the men
in 1.-THE automobiles may be observed
! any day anywhere. In a hotel lobby.
not long ago. a Young girl SGT talking
10 a YOUNG man. He took ont bis cr2r-
cites and before helping himself To one.
handed them to his companion. The
same match LIGHTED both their cigar
cites and the girl. with sort oi imp;Sh
flourish. looked about to see il She We
creating the imDrcSsion she had hoped.
She had al right enough. Down the
lobby came a Dudgy gentl- an. putting
clouds OF smoke from "whac,;ing big
cheroot." He stopped. his head went
ont suddenly like a turtles. as his eyes
lighted upon the cigarette smoking pair
and ao;in that fatuous grin. only more
50. There was diSaDDroval aud Ger
tain glee in having, himself, come upon
such Wicl;cdneSs. He pointed ont the SIGHT
to the elevator boy. and as he assembled
in the car. shaking his head and talking.
one could imagine him at home telling
mamma and the girl" what an awful
thing he had seen and how the country
was going to the dogs. at the same time !
hunting for his own pipe.
Another such instance was th"t OF an
old boatman at Medina Lake. He had !
been Mortified to see women smoking
in the hunting lodge. and aired his
opinions OF such "goings on" to the
party he steered about in a motor boat
Il think it is awful he expatiated.
Il can stand most anything. but ! can't
stand to see women smoke. 1t Just
amt etiquette" With that he spit might
lily. splitting tobacco Juice brown liquid
that spread in widening circles oyer the
clean blue-green water OF the lake.
But the men are not the only ones
from whom such reactions come. An
old woman in the mountains last sum
mer sat before log fire in her cabin.
She was smoking a cob pine and chew
ing tobacco at the same time and talk
ing her subject being Mortified amaze
ment at sight she had seen the day d;
before. Some young girls from the city
on visit to the mountains had smoked i
cigarettes, And then lust the other dav
a woman from the Northwest. whose t
husband is never without pipe or cigar
eXpati; ted long and forceiuly upon men
smoking cigarettes. Such an idea that
girls would smoke had never entered
her head. but to her mind. the habit in
this part Of the country OF mems smok-
ing cigarettes was somehow "effeminate
and wrong |,
Which points. all OF it. to the fact
that in forming judgments we do not
take ourselves and our own actions
into consideration, ever. as they are in
variably sacred and right: nor do VIC
realize that our judgments with rare
eXce>-~-,s. are founded upon the things
to which we have been accustomed and
little more. We resent the unaccus-
toned oppose it on general principles.
emit righteous condemnations. and form
snap judgments. little rocking that these
are not judgments. They are nothing
more than prejudices thrown out like
sort OF smoke screen about us to befog
the atmosphere and keep us from being
lust OF going to the trouble of using our
minds.
II we are bound to pass judgments.
even upon such non-eSsentials as smok-
ing and skirts vs.. trousers. let us see.
first whether or not we are condemning
something we do ourselves with great
and second. whether our
judgments are not merely our lazy ef-
forts to keep conditions just as they are.
When we have satisfied ourselves on
these scores, honestly. then we may pass
Judgment &C.,. upon ourselves.
ID