Alliance Nebraska, DECKinKn 23, 1010.
Comment-and
Discomment
It's no crime to be mistaken, pro--trlded
one admits the error of his
"ys and makes prompt amends.
'Jt'B seldom that we step from the
paths of cautiousness and make a
ttatement unless we are dog-poned
nre that it Is correct. We hate to
cretract. It's unpleasant, besides be
ing undignified. Dut this time, In
U due humility, we admit error.
We'll hasten to explain what It's all
ftbout before our friends suppect the
jrorst. We are referring to the sub
ject of "drives."
It hasn't been so very long since
-We announced that the people of this
country were beginning to weary of
4rlves and of coughing up good
money to support the same in other
Words, we Intimated that our fellow
Citizens and neighbors can be driven
boqt so far. But here is a drire
(bat every bachelor in Dox Butte
county and half the married men,
. If they dared admit it publicly will
fieartlly approve of and be in dis
tinct sympathy with.
The object of this drive Is hold
your breath, now "to make the
American woman the loveliest In the
world." A lot of us hare been think
ing that she was all the time, and it
will come as a great shock when we
read the harsh criticism that Dr.
Kugene Lyman Flsk. the sponsor of
the drive, makes of her. The doc
tor, who Is probably a bachelor, has
evidently been looking at the statues
In the art galleries, for he unblush
Ingly admits that they are his
models. Read how he swats the
"unheeding generation" of American
Beauties:
"Unless the young women of this
generation stop 'guzzling' sweets,
paBtries and fatty foods; unless they
lop off their high heels and wear
foot-fitting shoes, and unless they
cease Inhaling cigarettes and paint
plastering their1 faces, the next gen
eration of babies is going to be af
flicted with unbeautlful mamaB."
There Is this about prophets: you
can't tell where the next one will
arise. Dr. Flsk, in private life, is a
sober-minded phyBicIan at the head
of the Life Extension Institute, and
about the last man on earth that
you'd expect to find worrying about
the pulchritude of the next genera
tion of mothers. If he is married.
It would be interesting to gate on a
photograph of his better half. A lot
Make Yourself
A'Gift
We have. a few good quarter sections
of land within four or five miles of
Alliance. Any one of these quarters
would make very good returns on the
money invested. Others have been
doing this very thing.
For information inquire of
E. T. KIBBLE & CO.
Phone 558 211 Box Butte
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He'a a wonderful mixture in "SQUARE DEAL SANDERSON."
Wild, wooly and inflexible in his fight for the rleht. but tender and
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of us publicly advocate theories that
we find ourselves unable to carry out
in private life.
At any rate, we're unqualifiedly
for the new drive. An especially In
teresting feature is that it doesn't
cost a cent to the average man save
Indirectly. Indirectly he'll have to
foot all the bills, per as usual.
Beauty, like other desirable things,
comes hig' , and somebody must pay
the conts of the campaign. You can't
educate American womankind unless
someone pays for preparing the pub
licityalthough newspaper men,
natural aesthetes, will be undoubt
edly willing to contribute all kinds
of space free. Probably they'll lose
some women readers, but think how
the men will flock to their banners.
The good Doctor Flsk is not the
first man to fret about the next gen
eration of mothers. It's been a habit
with some member of the sterner
sex since the days when Mother Eve
donned the first figleaf. No matter
how women dressed, or behaved,
some man was Bure to foretell the
doom of the human race unless they
repented and reformed. We got to
looking over some old magazines
that are on file in the office, and the
first article that strikes our eye in
the issue dated June, 1856, is one
that bears the caption, "Wanted A
Healthy Wife."
Somehow or other, we don't be
lieve that divorce was so very preva
lent in those days, but the physician
who discusses this serious subject be
gins by saying, in a solemn sort of
way, that "matrimony is no longer
an epoch in a man's life it is mere
ly an incident." The writer contin
ues: "A man can only be married in
this country by installments. He
must lead one two or perhaps
three brides to the altar before he
can realize what a marriage is de
fined to be a state of perpetual
union."
With so sour a beginning as this,
we can imagine how the reformers
of that day must have pricked up
their ears and read eagerly onward.
And they found what they were look
lng for a diatribe against the friv
olous sex, and an arraignment of
their habits. A medical writer is
quoted as saying that "our own dear
women of America are the most un
healthy women in the world." And
this was In 1856. Think what the
present day writers who are contin
ually bewailing for the good old days
when women were strong as oxen
would say when confronted with this
evidence. But let's see what else
was wrong with our great grand-
dames.
"If women would study themselves
more, and listen less to the small
talkers, whether in books or society
they would learn that they have i
nature, which can only be though
ly perfected by vigorous develop
ment. It is essential that they
should know that they
have Umba for motion and brains for
thought."
The real trouble, our ancient
friend observer Is that women are
too fashionable. They lead purpose
less lives. They "toll not, neither
do they spin, and though they may
be as beautiful as the lilies of the
field, they are no less delicate and
fragile." Women lacked sufficient
exercise, as witness: "Most of the
ladies of our acquaintance don't
take exercise enough to digest a pea.
It is, however, reasonable to suppose
that those women who have legs
and such they all undoubtedly have,
though it may not be common to
mention by name the possession of
these indispensable instruments of
locomotion know the uses of
them."
Dancing was vigorous enough, but
"about as favorable to health as the
convulsive throes of the stifled crowd
of a slave Bhlp, or the dying agonies
of the nrisoner8 in the Black Hole
of Calcutta." Here the writer has
some bitter words to say about the
fashionable dance. He Is no enemy
of the dance, not he but the real
dance must be in the open air, or
where there is "proper ventilation
and a moderate temperature." My,
but this would-be reformer was a
hard man to suit.
And this discussion of the evil ef
fects of the corset might have been
written yesterday, bo familiar does
It sound: "Corsets we had Bupposed
obsolete; but it is said that the
ladles still constrict themselves with
these ingenious devices or, rather,
vices for self-torture. When ap
plied early, in the malleable state of
youth, the corset deadens, by its
pressure, the action of the muscles,
chokes respiration, bends the bones,
caves in the chest and gives that
twisted, hour-glass form to the fig
ure which is as ugly as it is un
natural."
Us favored ihe practice of women
wearing boots, by which waa meant
masculine shoes, and thinks it a step
In the right direction. But he has
no use for those who promenade with
their hands "manacled In a muff, or
held In a constrained position In
frort, which givea our fashionable
ladltj tUd look of trussed fowls." All
this is mil l compared with his ex
coriation ci i he horrible habit of
whitening the camplexlon. Just lis
ten to this:
"Whether to wear one or a dozon
skirts, to be lean today or fat
tomorrow, our beauties leave
to the decision of fashion; but their
complexions they take under their
own special charge, and the result
we may say is not very creditable to
their taste and skill. We confess our
preference, for the complexion of a
sunburnt daughter of labor' to the
chalky face of fashion. The com
plexion of many of our women Is as
pallid as their white petticoats, and
they seem proud of It, if we may
Judge by the care they take In
blanching their faces by wearing
veils, drawing the curtains, shading
themselves with 'flats' and parasols,
and other contrivances for excluding
the light."
You'll note that no mention is
made of powder or paint. Wouldn't
this reformed of the vintage of 56
been sarcastic if he could have fore
told what the future years would
bring forth in the way of complexion
beautlflers? There is a lot more of
this stuff, but we have quoted
enough to show that Doctor Flsk Is
about the millionth man to worry
about future generations and their
mamas, and we onlv wish that hp
could reflect a trifle and cease his
fretting. Somehow or other, we are
fond enough of lovely women lust as
she is, and we are willing to let pos
terity suffer. Not that there's any
danger of it. There have been hun
dreds of women who have been
chumps, and thousands of men
and the race seems to have survived,
despite all the croaks to the con
trary. If the new drive can really
better feminine looks, more power to
It, but we don't fancy that Doctor
I'isK will have any better luck than
his predecessors at reforming all
womankind.
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