The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-22
THE SHERMAN is COMING
BY y. ID. Cochran

The sherman is coming along faster than ex
pected The girls are moving up into the front
pretty fast but hardly expected to see the boys of
the rising generation slipping back 30 rapidly.
Here comes a news story from Sacramento in the
glorious State of California that ought to make He
man feel like biting his initials in an iron trolley pole
The story brings the sad news that he sewing
club is fourshng in the State of big raisins moving
picture actorines and sunkist oranges that the
boy needle experts going compete with the girls
of that county for the right attend the State sewing
meet
We used to make fun of the mlliners and
tenor opera singers but sewing clubs darned near
reach the limit If this degeneration keeps up the next
thing we know human beings supposed to be Of the
masculine gender will be sewing, tatting embroid-
ering their way into Congress.
Biologist tell us that all bi-sexual We can
understand that Being born of woman and sired by
man every mothers son daughter Of us has in his
makeup some of the characteristics of both.
The gland sharks say that the trouble with Oscar
Wilde grew out Of the mixup of paternal characteris
tics His father Sir William Wilde was celebrated
surgeon and a big herman physically; and his mother
was big woman. Before oscar was born his mother
hoped for girl, and much disappointed when the
doctor who ocated at the natal ceremonies told her,
Its a boy"
But Mrs Wilde was so anxious for girl that she
dressed Oscar in girls clothes until he was a good
sized youth. The result that she encouraged the
feminine part Of his makeup and put damper on the
~ O9Sci
mai with terrific battle going inside of him be-
tween the he and she instincts.
In the light of what scientists know now of human
nature biological chemists say that instead of being
sent to Reading gaol Oscar should have gone to a
hospital
Now we can begin to understand why men rave
over Jack Dempsey Gene Tunney Babe Ruth Alexander
the Great Ernie Nevers and other he-men when thew
get out in public and play mems parts It must be a
sort OF feminine worship of what shemen would like
to be but are~not
Most men would like to fight and bust somebody
in the nose, but they haven't got the nerve-or as
Senator Wheeler of Montana calls 1.-THE intestinal
stamina Crossword puzzle experts will find a syno-
nym in a shorter and more vulgar word of four let
tiers beginning with and ending with s.
Probably the reason why woman are becoming
more masculine and men feminine is that re-
formers have succeeded too well in making bows be
good-in the way that reformers understand being
good That is, they making sssies of the bows and
can't boss the girls enough to keep them in long
skirts, high-necked dresses and whalebone corsets
What the finish will be one knows But IL the
boys going to take to sewing tatng and embroid
erng, it's cnch the girls will start In the other drec
ton and take to baseball football and prize fighting
as they have already taken to swimming the English
channel
What effect on opera will be isn't so easy to guess
but probably there will be falling off of basso pro-
fundos and growing crop of male sopranos.
Next-A Lemon Day Keeps the Voter Away.