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1 1 SERMONS
BY
SaMDH WPURVBM
THE IDOL OF FASHION.
Texts. “The daughters of Zion arc
haughty, walk with stretched necks, wan
ton eves, walking and mincing as they go,
chains bracelets, bonnets, headbands,
wimples and crimping pins.’’—lsa. iii, 16-2-1.
"W hose adorning let it not be outward.”
1 Pet. iii, 3-t.
The abridged first text is a Jerusalem
fashion plate. It takes us back 2,500
years and sets us down in an ancient
city. It is the height of the season on
their Fifth avenue. The procession of
men and women is moving tip and
down* the gay street. Sensible men
and women move along modestly and
attract no special attention. Hut here
come the fashionable daughters of
Jerusalem. See! That is a princess.
Look! That is a swordmaker’s wife
from Damascus. And that is the
daughter of a Syrian purple merchant.
The jingle of chains, flutter of ribbons.
glare of Jewels, catch the eye of the
prophet Isaiah. lie brings his camera
to bear and takes the picture for all
ages. But where is that scene? Van
ished! Where are those gay streets?
Where are the heads, necks, shoulders,
the feet that displayed all that magnif
icence? Ashes! But the problem of
2,500 years ago is with us today and
always will be. From the day,Eve
discovered she lacked covering to her
body till now dress has been one of
woman’s largest problems. Walk back
of two women. You will find them
talking about dress or men; two men
will be tnlking of money or women.
“The Age of Smut?”
There is a great hue and cry just
now as to the immodesty of woman's
dress. She is accused of dressing to
show’ as much of her person and as
suggestively as possible. Hut. after ail.
doesn’t custom determine largely what
Is proper and improper in such mat
ters? The Turkish woman outrages
decency if she exposes her face to the
public eye. We see nothing immodest
in that. Indeed, isn’t a street veil at
night- considered questionable? Our
grnndmofhers would have been quite
bold to show tip of slipper. Sensible
women now wear short skirts, and no
TO THE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL
MEN OF DOUGLAS AND
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COFFEE COUNTY
Progress means, according to Webster, a moving forward in growth;
advance in business of any kind; advance in knowledge.
We have Progressed to such an extent that we can supply you with Anything
you need that is made out of paper and printers ink, from a shipping tag to a catalog.
Try us and see.
THE COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS
MANUFACTURING STATIONERS
217 EAST WARD STREET DOUGLAS, GEORGIA.
j one perceives anything more vulgar
! than sight of hand or foot. In Switzer
land a krtee dress is modest. At bath-
I ing beach no one glances a second time
! at skirt two inches above the knee. In
j city street such abbreviated costume
j would require the traffic squad. Time
’.as when actress in tights was con-
I sidered truly shocking: now it is purr
of the spectacle not causing a second
thought. The African lady in her scant
attire i.s as modestly dressed as this
season’s debutante, each judged by the
standard of her set. The gray hawk
sees the chicken far off. Rrieux. Shaw
I and Gorky lectures on eugenics and
sex problems draw large audiences of
flushed faced women in dimly lighted
halls. The cure is fresh air. Let the
Parisian man dressmaker invent low
necked waists, tight split skirts and
cobwebby stockings for t'u> few. The
great mass of our American women
are the brainiest, prettiest and clean
est. minded women on earth. My lady
of the paint pot with her enameled
face is the exception and will probably
marry a young man who will have no
occasion to rebuke her for ever wear
ing a gingham apron and dust cap.
Living Up to Good Clothes.
Freaks of fashion break out sudden
ly and flash across continents like fire
in dried prairie grass and as suddenly
die out. There's nothing wrong in
dressing well. The feminine instinct
will ornament the plainest clothes. It
wouldn’t surprise me to learn that Eve
embroidered tig leaves. There's a
moral tonic in good clothes. Folks
grow in self respect as they dress well.
They feel approval of their fellows, in
turn try to measure up to that good
opinion, finally measuring nearer their
possibilities—not that clean collars and
cuffs mean clean morals, or we would
substitute laundries for lectures, soap
suds for salvation, but there's some
thing in living up to one's appearance.
There’s a relation between character
and costume. When a man commences
to slip his clothing frequently shows
it. To break a woman's spirit lock her
wardrobe. A shabby man or woman
loses self respect. It’s extravagance
that causes fraud, poverty and prosti
tution.
Easter Garments or Gospel?
I am sufficiently old fashioned to
draw the line at church display. When
thought of clothes takes place of
thought of God worship Is injured.
We are far enough from Easter to
sound a note in minor key. 1 read the
ads. “Easter Millinery," 'jGowns For
THE COFFEE COl NTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
Easter.” “Get Into the Easter Proces
sion." I protest. It's a sacrilege.
Fourth of July is a fireworks display
and beer picnic, Memorial day sports
and speeding, Christmas giving a trav
esty. Easter Sunday a desperation.
The resurrection is forgotten save for
operatic singing and a short sermon.
The audience is an Austerlitz of dress
makers' creations; the aisles are col
umns of colors; hundreds of broken
and contrite hearts crowned by rain
bow’s of impossible hats; followers of
the Naznrene are a-jingle and a-flash.
Ten cents for missions. $lO for a hat;
headgear more important than soul
garment. The poor are afraid to come
in plain clothes. Purse pride prevents
piety. Heaven is for the humble. If
tight shoes keep from the paths of
righteousness, better go back to san
dals. If silk sunshade shuts out sun of
righteousness, better go back to ging
ham sunbonnet of our grandmothers.
Easter millinery makes poor sails for
the harbor of heaven.
Napoleon’s Bible.
An Italian journalist has the copy of
the Bible which Napoleon used during
his compulsory sojourn in the isle of
Elba. It is a copy of a cheap popular
edition, illustrated with rough wood
cuts. with the initial "NT and the im
perial crown stamped upon its back
A number of texts are underlined, and
the inference Is that the exiled em
peror searched the Scriptures for pas
sages appropriate to his misfortune
and his hopes ”1 will smite the
shepherd, and the sheep shall be scat
tered." is perhaps the most signifi
cant of them. The Bible was discov
ered in the sanctuary of the Madonna
del Monte, lu Elba.
Classified.
One-third of the fools in this coun
try think they can heat the lawyer in
expounding the law. one-half think
they can beat the doctor at healing the
sick, two-thirds of them think they
can beat the minister in preaching
the gospel, and all of them know thut
they can heat the editor in running
the newspaper.—London Tit-Bits.
Perpetual Motion.
"Hello. Wcdmnnn! Anything going
on ?" "Yes—my expenses are.”—Boston
Transcript.
DOGS IN ALASKA.
Carry Greet Loads Over Snow That
Would Net Hoid a Man.
Dogs are surely the real thing for
"mushing" in the cold country. To my
mind they beat reindeer a mile. Most
of them weigh less than 100 pounds,
and they distribute their weight over
their four feet, so that they can trot
over a weak snow crust where a man
would sink out of sight by breaking
through the crust into the soft snow
below. On a good, level, smooth trail
ten dogs can trot along with a ton of
freight behind them; andTjOO or 000
pounds is a fair load on poor trails.
A peculiar thing is that a twelve foot
sled, twenty-two to twenty-four inches
wide, with runners two and one-quar
ter inches wide, bearing a load of 000
to 800 pounds, will not sink through
a snow crust that will not bear a man.
This occurs because two runners two
and one-quarter inches wide and
twelve feet long give a large area of
bearing ou the crust. This, coupled
with the motion that keeps the sled
passing over all the time, accounts for
the remarkable fact 1 am speaking of.
One of the greatest dangers in
“mushing” is encountering water un
der the snow on the river ice in very
cold weather or breaking through into
hollow places where the stream has
sunk away from under the ice. This is
the most dangerous of all, and often
when it happens a man is frozen to
death before he can get to shelter or
get up his tent and start a fire.—B. S.
Rodey in Albuquerque Herald.
Kindness of the Boss.
Little Tommy, who was about knee
high to a half pint, was employed by a
busy broker. One afternoon the bro
ker was sitting at his desk trying to
collect his thoughts as well as some
coin when he suddenly looked up and
signaled Tommy to draw near.
"Tommy," said the boss, digging
down into his jeans, “here's a fifty
cent chunk of silver. Take it and hus
tle off to some vaudeville show.”
“Thank you very much, sir.” grate
fully responded Tommy, fi-eezing fast
to the coin. “That’s what I call being
some good to a poor kid.”
“Don’t think that I’m being good to
you,” was the quick rejoinder of the
boss. "I want you to learn a new
tune. I can’t stand the one you’ve
been whistling for two months any
longer.”—Exchange.
THE STUDY OF WORDS.
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It’s a Helpful Scheme to Use Your Dic
tionary Every Day.
Writing an article, “Treasure In
Books,” in the Wohian’s Home Com
panion, Laura Spencer I’ortor gives
the following excellent advice about
the advantages to be gained from the
study of words;
"The study of words—it may sound
to you a dry thing, yet 1 prbmi.se you
it is not; very far from it.
“And this brings me to suggest that
the habit of one of the great writers of
studying carefully from a good diction
ary five words each day is one from
which we might all of us get a good
deal of profit. Or take a good book of
synonyms, for instance, and learn from
it each day five words somewhat simi
lar, comparing and weighing carefully
the meanings and values of them.
“Notice the degrees of force in the
following: To dislike, to hate, to loathe,
to detest, to abhor. Each note struck
is a little stronger, higher, we might
say, like an ascending crescendo scale.
So to instruct, to teach, to educate, are
each quite different in meaning, with
a great nicety of difference. So, re
buke, reprimand, censure, blame, are
all of one color, but of how different
shades of meaning. So, too. ruisfor
tune, calamity, disaster; so, weak,
feeble, decrepit, and what delicate dif
ference between fame and renown or
feminine and womanly and woman
ish.”
Medicine and Mortgages.
Certainly no patient could receive a
dose of medicine like that prescribed
to Brown and have the patience to
take it. Yet Brown’s doctor was a
laud speculator. When not making
out prescriptions he was making out
mortgages. It was when in a duat
state of mind that? he gave Brown the
following instructions along with the
prescription:
“One half down and the balance
every six months for' four yearn.”—
New York Tribune.
Advertising.
The reason a merchant is a merchant
Is because he isn’t satisfied with his
business if he doesn’t do any advertis
ing and isn’t satisfied with his adver
rising if he doesn’t do any business.—
Dallas News.
DUCKING A SCOLD.
Punishment a Long Tongue Used to
Win In Cld England.
It is interesting in tiiese days of
woman's rights and woman's progress
to conjure up a picture of a “dusking”
as practiced in England at the end of
the eighteenth century.
When the "scold" had been properly
tried and convicted she was escorted
by a crowd of her neighbors—iu fact,
by the whole village—to the nearest
pond, and the greener and slimier the
pond the better. A long plank was
produced, at one end of which was the
ducking stool, and in this the scream
ing. struggling victim was securely
pinioned.
The chair end of the plank was then
pushed far over the edge of the pond,
and at a signal it was tilted deep into
the green ooze until the scold was com
pletely immersed.
When the dripping, half drowned
woman was raised to the surface
again to the jeers and laughter of the
onlookers it can be imagined that her
tongue wagged to some purpose. After
a second (lose she emerged more sub
dued. and after a third or fourth she
w-as ns penitent a woman as the vil
lage contained and was allowed to pro
ceed home, a sadder and wiser woman
until the next time.—London Tit-Bits.
Suffering Humanity.
”Mrs. Sourmug, who thought she had
* mission to look after suffering hu
manity, is married, isn’t she?"
“Yep."
"1 was surprised to learn that she
bad given up her mission in life.”
“She hasn't. Her husband is’going
to be suffering humanity hereafter.”—
Houston Host
FELICITY.
The world produces for every
pint of honey a gallon of .ggll, for
every, dram of pleasure a pound of
pain, for every inch of mirth an ell
ol moan, and as the ivy twines
around the oak so do misery and
misfortune encompass the happy
man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed
felicity, is not a plant of earthly
growth. Her gardens are the skies.
—Burton.