Perversity

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 January 1914, Page 4

Perversity

♦ (By Walt Mason.) Oh, the gowns the girls arc wearing! All the moralists are tearing out their ringlets by the bushel; maybe that's the reason why womankind is so persistent, \ why reform seems vague and dis- £■ tant, for we all are rather tickled -- when we hear the censors cry. J. Boys are smoking fierce old stogies just because they know we fogies hold that smoking s vile and harmful and they like to jar our souls; and ten thousand men are sneaking to saloons because we're shrieking always of the deep damnation that is born of flowingbowls. Is it really so surprising that folk tire of moralising, tire of seeing hands in horror raised whatever they may do? Maybe if we'd quit our preaching, cease to bust our moral breeching, they J would do their own reforming and all sinful things eschew. The experiment is easy; lei us can our j maxims wheezy when we see the I women wearing dresses of mosquito bar; they will doubtless cease to wear it when they see it lacks the merit of imparting to beholders any sort of iolt or iar.