The Archive · 1920

Western Civilization and

EASTERN CUSTOMS

To the Editor of the "Norra-Caisa Dairy News."

Sm,—An_ excess of science, freedom and rights is making everything all wrong.

Extremists have improved their dryness upon a young and tender continent, and there the vine is no more respected than a pumpkin.

Telephones make our homes as open fo a sound assault in peace, as our cites were to aerupial war; and the super-silent axtomobiles make the roads unsafe for a democracy that 5 both deaf and isolation and making life unbearanie; the i creasing efficiency of the Medical profession deprives one of the hope of an early death, and the clemency of the Laws of an untimely one.

But emancipated women are the worst curse of all; they have substituted athletics and typing for cooking and sewing and have forgotten what a nursery is for.

Their insatiable appetite for citement and admiration dragged men from their smiling farms to the overcrowded cities, where millions never see the sun or moon.

Our only solace for these trials lies in cur noble-bankers, who, dis-

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