Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1916 — Modesty. [ARTICLE]

Modesty.

When every pool in Eden was a mirror, That unto Eve her dainty charms proclaimed, She went undraped without a single fear or Thought that she had need to be ashamed. ’Twas only when she’d eaten of the apple That she became inclined to be a prude, And found that evermore she’d have to grapple With the much-debated problem of the nude. Thereafter sho devoted her attention,. > - Her time hnd all her money to her clothes. And that was the beginning of Convention, And Modesty, as well, I suppose. Reaction’s come about in fashions, recent. Now girls conceal so little from the men, it would seem, in the name of all that’s decent, Some one ought to pass the apples round again. —Frank Simpson, Huntington, W. Va.