h the filth of a shameful life is the only one ayoung girl cares to be caressed by?
That is the teaching that is bawled out day by day from between thoseyellow covers. Do they ever pause to think, I wonder, those devil'sladyhelps, what mischief they are doing crawling about God's garden,and telling childish Eves and silly Adams that sin is sweet and thatdecency is ridiculous and vulgar? How Canada Goose Menn Norge Salg many an innocent girl do theynot degrade into an evil-minded woman? To how many a weak lad do theynot point out the dirty by-path Buty Nike Foamposite Pro as the shortest cut to a maiden'sheart? It is not as Dame Moncler Epine if they wrote of life as it really is. Speaktruth, and right will take care of itself. But their pictures arecoarse daubs painted from the sickly fancies of their own diseasedimagination.
We want to think of women not--as their own sex would show them--asLorleis luring us to destruction, but as good angels beckoning usupward. They have more power for good or evil than they dream of. Itis just at the very age when a man's character is forming that hetumbles into love, and then the lass he loves has the making ormarring of him. Unconsciously he molds himself to what she would Ralph Lauren Pony Polos havehim, good or bad. I am sorry to have to be ungallant Kvinnor Vaxade jackor enough to saythat I do not think they always use their influence for the best. Toooften the female world is bounded hard and fast within the limits ofthe commonplace. Their ideal hero is a prince of littleness, and tobecome that many a powerful mind, enchanted by love, is "lost to lifeand use and name and fame."And yet, women, you could make us so much better if you only would.
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You must be worthy of knightly worship.
You must be higher than ourselves. It was for Una that the Red CrossKnight did war. For no painted, mincing court dame could the dragonhave been slain. Oh, ladies fair, be fair in mind and soul as well asface, so that brave knights may win glory in your service! Oh, woman,throw off your disguising cloaks of selfishness, effrontery, andaffectation! Stand forth once more a queen in your royal robe ofsimple purity. A thousand swords, now rusting in ignoble sloth, shallleap from their scabbards to do battle for your honor against wrong.
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What noble deeds were we not ripe for in the days when we loved? Whatnoble lives could we not have lived for her sake? Our love was areligion we could have died for. It was no mere human creature likeourselves that we adored. It was a queen that we paid homage to, agoddess that we worshiped.
And how madly we did worship! And how sweet it was to worship! Ah,lad, cherish love's young dream while it lasts! You will know toosoon how truly little Tom Moore sang when he said that there wasnothing half so sweet in life. Even when it brings m |
