Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1918 — SOME OBSERVATIONS [ARTICLE]

SOME OBSERVATIONS

The western lie is brutally a lie; It has no decoratidn, no artistry, no craftsmanship. Next to the German, your westernized Oriental is as big a scoundrel as the world produces. It needs an unscrupulous as well as a clever man to make an intelligent woman waste her capital upon him. The best and most healthy moments in life are when we forget civilization and cities and become human animals. It is possible that some disciplined rAection may take place while a woman Is dressing her hair or \ man is looking for his studs. When a woman gets into trim for letter-writing she is in the condition of a species of moral intoxication; she wtll go on and on whipping herself with her own verbosity—From Sir Willianv Richmond’s “The Silver dafifli” % "