Milford chronicle., 1936-01-10
SEX, SEX, SEx-I'M SICK
OF 1T
BY STEPHEN LEAcock

- - HHA~AN A@AfN1O2M
IMAGINE that II all the w0rl
went crazy-just a little bl
crazy, all In the same Way-no
body would know it.
think that is what Is happenin;
now. All the generations of tOda,
are golng-no, they've gone-"ses
crazy"
ln the old Victorian days, now
passing ont Of memory. women had
quite o different place from what
they have now. The men did every.
thing and ran everything, and wom-
en- represented Just the ornamental
side Of life and the household side
The only serious job given over
10 women was that Of the care OF
sick They didn't really know any
thing about it--had never seen q
clinical thermometer but they filled
the sickroom with flowers (carbonic
acid gasJ and sat and did needle
work beside the bed. It.wasnt bad.
People often got wei.
Then things began TO change.
Women began to get educated, to
break Into the colleges, to vote, to
carry on professions. Everybody
knows all that II wouldn't have
mattered so much If the ornamental
stun had dropped on with Ii; WON
en- dressed like ash barrels would
have sat on committees with men
10 Oreralls.
Bot instead OF that there arose
all the new ,'sex-stuff" that has
transformed the world since the
days Of the early nineties that SOME
Of US still remember as the days OF
our youth.
From the magazines the girls
face, as the emblem OF the present
sex enslavement. spread everywhere. |
A grocery firm wants to order q
Christmas calendar for their Gus.
tomers:-What design do they put
on it7--a ham? a cheese? Boloe. I
ma saHsage7 That's what they used
to do. 10 the early ninetles. and i
skilled artist Of those days could
combine those three things with q
charm that made your mouth water.
But now, oh nol--just a great
girls face-oF at most q girls face
eating a Bologna sausage and say
Ing, @How do you like my Bologna3p
They put girls faces now on cal.
endars. on book jackets, on posters
and placards; next year they are
going on bills. Invoices and govern.
nent blue books.
The worst If Il IS that presentls
leOple began lnventing q new set Of
words to 90 along with the new sex.
itun.
The biggest and most successful 7
vas "sex-appeal" No one heard OF :
nythlng Of that sort IN the early /
But all the Miss AmerI. +
as are supposed to have IL; aud
he men and all the women 10 I
ound looking for It. 4
This ssex-appsal.1 whatever the 4
ling Isis now supposed 10 Be 4
ute a qualification. Men who have
would feel nattered to be told /
pont Il. IN my time back IN the n
ifly nineties Il would sound ike !,
Hing man that be had a skunk 1,
ed 10 him.
Now It Is quite different I im.
line that people now-a-days would X
1 . Job on the strength 0f lt or u
ould lose q job for want of IT. y
think that one thing thar helped y y
lne all this "sex.apnealp stua was N
e fact Of women getting into y v
mes. Lawn tennis came irst. ~ ~
lev were ID that from The start. u u
ck 10 the nlnelles we didn't look =. ~
lawn tennis as a game n the ~
i sense. Il was just Sissy ~ ~
slness on 9 lawn-played with 81
q as part Of an afternoon party. n.
J could ail play Il Of course but -,
real games were football and ~
Ieball and cricket. Nobody PLAYED II. ~
MS weli Or wanted TO- Those of hs.
who we're siz and half feet