Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1920 — “Millions of American Women Seem to Be Simply Fashion Mad Today.” [ARTICLE]

“Millions of American Women Seem to Be Simply Fashion Mad Today.”

By REV. DR. J. R. STRATTON,

in “Menace of Immorality.”

We cannot escape the unpleasant fact that millions of American women today seem to be simply fashion mad. They are nothing else but slaves to “style.” Women are complaining today of the “double standard of morals, and they do right to complain; but in heaven's name let them be consistent, and not by their mode of dressing, their dances, and other follies unconsciously foster the very double standard of morals which they so righteously denounce. A fossilized octogenarian or a self-complacent mollycoddle with ice water in his veins may be able to look at the sights which any man can see in modern society today, and in the dance hold in his arms a throbbing, beautiful young woman with almost half her body exposed and the other half clothed largely with good intentions—such a man. I say, under these circumstances may maintain a philosophical calm, but any young fellow with red blood in his veins and the elemental forces of nature operating in him cannot easily do so.