Subdeacon Joe Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 How times have changed: Tuscaloosa Independent Monitor, Saturday, Feb. 18, 1860, page 1, col. 5 -- GIRLS, DON’T DO IT – There is a practice, quite prevalent among young ladies of the present day, which we are old fashioned enough to consider improper. We allude to their giving daguerreotypes of themselves to young men who are merely acquaintances. We consider it indelicate in the highest degree. We are astonished that any young girl should hold herself as cheap as this. With an accepted lover it is of course all right. Even in this case the likeness should be returned if the engagement should by any misunderstanding cease. If this little paragraph should meet the eye of any young girl about to give her daguerreotype to a gentleman acquaintance, let her know that the remarks made by young men when together, concerning what is perhaps on her part but a piece of ignorance or imprudence, would if she heard them, cause her cheeks to crimson with shame and anger. “Were it a sister of ours,” we have often said, with a flashing eye – were it a sister of ours! But that not being the case, we give this advice to anybody’s sister who needs it, with our best bow, and most anxious desire that she should at all times preserve her dignity and self-respect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trigger Mike Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 It got worse instead of better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 we I figured it was some type of photo BUT , had to look it up CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlands Bob #61228 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 "We consider it indelicate in the highest degree. We are astonished that any young girl should hold herself as cheap as this." They haven't seen nothing yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 About young people in general: “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.” Socrates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Thank God writing this way is no longer in vogue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 21, 2022 Author Share Posted December 21, 2022 It's Not? When did that happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrus Cassidy #45437 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 There is nothing new under the sun... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 That "Socrates" quote has always had an air of unreliability about it; at least to me. To good to be true, so to speak. It probably was the product of Kenneth John Freeman, a classical scholar of a century or so back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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