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Stephen Waller's name and address were given. The house proved to be only three doors from the Elberta Inn, which had been a private residence in former years. By the telephone in the hall near Josie's door hung a new, down-to-date book. She looked for Stephen Waller's name in it. It was not there. She then looked for Chester Hunt's name.
She was even pointed out and spoken of triumphantly, by certain modern, down-to-date, ones, as an example of the successful woman of the age.
At Huntingdon, not five miles distant, are four or five hundred people lacking all the educational advantages of an up-to-date or is 'down-to-date' proper? press. And Millville good gracious! What would sleepy Millville folks think of having a bright, newsy, metropolitan newspaper left on their doorsteps every morning, or evening, as the case may be?"
I assure you that, after all, I am not so benighted that I do not realize how seriously babies would interfere in the affairs of those down-to-date women who are elevating the race. By all means let the race be elevated though it perish, childless, in the process. Very soon, now, womanhood itself will be out-of-date for the world, in this also, seems to be evolving something new.
The new in dress, regardless of beauty or fitness in the costume the new in thought, regardless of the saneness of the thinking the new in customs and manner of living the new in the home, in marriage relation, in the education and rearing of children new philosophy, new science, new religion, new art, new music, new books, new cooking, new women it sometimes appears that the crime of crimes, the most degrading disgrace, these days, is to be held old-fashioned, behind-the-times, out-of-date, and that everything, everything, not new is old-fashioned everything not of the times is behind-the-times everything not down-to-date is out-of-date.
And these folks that are swoppin' the old-fashioned sort of love that builds homes and raises families and lets man and wife work together, an' meet trouble together, an' be happy together, an' grow old bein' happy together if they're swoppin' all that for these here new, down-to-date ideas of such things, they're makin' a damned poor bargain, accordin' to my way of thinkin'. There is such a thing, sir, as educatin' a man or woman plumb out of reach of happiness.
Patriotism, love of country, is old, very old, and is also or therefore quite out-of-date. To speak or write of patriotism, seriously, or to consider it a factor in life to live it, depend upon it, or appeal to it, is to be considered very strange and sadly old-fashioned. The modern, down-to-date, age considers seriously not patriotism but "graft" and "price" and "boodle."
From the down-to-date the all-the-way-down-to-date woman, I mean one gains new and modern ideas of the service that womankind is to render to the race. Almost it is as though God did not know what he was about when he made woman.
The thought of selling a home is not painful for we do not know, the value of a home. We have, for convenience, to gratify our modern, down-to-date, ever changing tastes, popularized the divorce court as though a husband or wife of more than three seasons is old-fashioned and should be discarded for one of a newer pattern, more in harmony with our modern ideals of marriage.
All this is so behind-the-times that one must confess such shocking taste with all humiliation. I hereby beg pardon of the down-to-date powers that be, and most humbly pray that they will graciously forgive my boorishness.
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