Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1882 — Honor Women. [ARTICLE]

Honor Women.

There is nothing manly in making light of women. Never use a lady’s name in an improper place, or at an improper time, or in mixed company. Never make assertions about her that may be untrne, allusions that she herself would blush to hear. Shun men who do not scruple to make use of a woman’s name in a reckless and unprincipled manner. They are the very worst members of the community—lost to every sense of honor, every feeling of humanity. Many a good and worthy woman’s character has been forever ruined and her heart broken by a lie concocted by an unprincipled villian, but believed by people of good principles who are too ready to believe slander or condemn imprudence and crime. The smallest thing derogatory to a woman’s character will fly on the wings of the wind, and magnify as it circulates, until its weight crushes the poor unconscious victim. Remember this if you are tempted to repeat or listen to a scandalous lie.— Alice Hodges. Gun chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend.