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Show IllSMISnY FOR "HACK SUICIDE." "Social climbing, our patent-leather lifje, is a cause of race suicide. Society women care more for their social, position po-sition than for children, and sacrifice the latter to attain the former. The sq-callcd higher classes live a flapdoodle flap-doodle life of easp and indolence Avhich discourages the. rearing .of children." Professor Edward A. ! Rpss, in a recent lecture. ' Dear Ross, I mind me how youn startling slang Like pistol shots, through Stanford's classrooms rang In days of old, and how in half-af- fright Our young ideas learned to hit the white. Now, master mine, I trust you won't object, Should I shoot off my mouth to like effect. Or e'er ' this patent-leather life of ours Lose us for aye our pjace among the pow'rs; Before our social climbing prove our fall, Thife peopje passand pass beyond re-, call; - , , - . My Muse inspired suggests that every bride A ribbon take against race suicide; Moreover, to the selfsame-end, that no man, Unless she take the ribboj), .take the woman. " " The daughter of our day andr'gc1ir-f ation, - - ' .-,.-- Flapdoodling,. fails, in duty -.o-the nation. .! In childless arms she dangles . pug and poodle ' " 14" " Her darlings these who lfcatlie life flapdoodle . r She idolizes. Maetcrlijick and Mabiie, On Browning" dotes, but cannot bear a baby". If this keep up, I fear me, Q my brothers, . Our children's children will go short of mothers. What, then, I ask, becomes of life's brief span Flapdoodle, patent-leather or brogan? Harry Cowell, in Town Talk'. |