Article Title |
Dr. Holmes on Dragging Skirts |
Type |
article |
Date |
1892-04-21 |
Paper |
Provo Daily Enquirer |
Language |
eng |
City |
Provo |
County |
Utah |
Page |
3 |
Creator |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, 1809-1894 |
Contributors |
Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859) |
OCR Text |
Show ir holmes oa skirts the little gentleman began our land ladys daughter is a young lady of some pretensions to gentility she wears her trains very long s the grest ladies do in europe to ahi ure their dresses are so made auly to sweep the of chateaus and palaces as those odious aristocrats of the other side do not go dragging through the mud in ailes and gatins satins but forsooth must ride in coaches when the are in full dress it ia true that considering various habits of the american people also the little accidents which the best kept sidewalks are liable to a lady who has swept a mile of them is not exactly ia such a condition that one would care tu be her neighbor why there a beast or a bird that bodd drag its tail through the dirt in the way these creatures do their dresses because a queen or a duchess wears lon robes on great occasions a maid of sll work or a factory girl thinks she must make herself a nuisance by trailing through the street picking up and carrying about with her pah what 1 call getting into bones and marrow if any man can walk behind one of these women and see what she rakes up as she goes and not feel squeamish he has got a tough etoi I 1 would not let one of em into my room without serving em as david served saul at the cave in the wilderness cut off his skirts sir cut off his I 1 suggested that I 1 had seen some pretty stylish ladies who offended in the way he condemned stylish women 1 dont doubt said alie little gentleman dont tell me that a true lady ever sacrifices the duty of keeping all about her sweet and clean to the making a vulgar show there are some things that no fashion has any right to touch and cleanliness is one of those things professor at the breakfast table |
Reference URL |
https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kp95bn/1455668 |