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Show In mtlch 01 her writing, }Irs. Gates emphasil$d seual sin by inserting rather frank, though siGns of problems.1 Urging sex sateguard again$t modesty unohastitYJ,sh. the et1onnl. ty of not sensational d..iscus in all things as the greatest wrote: We can refuse, to buy or to make clothing tor o'tl!re$lv'$s and our daugbters ",l1iQn. exposes the body and is indecentJ.r immodest if " llon tt wcrey OV$:r that <iJld. gag about the $tern ;parent driv •• ing away the wild son or dAUghter' Dr h.\U>slmeas... Ninety children .gt: wrong from. over.-ebJ.1genc$ ,and weakness wher$ ten go wrong from barshn.ss and. sevel'ity. This;1$ tbe age of obedient . parents.! !I_r personal outlook tilg edt.torlal f comes out more specifically in the follow . Tbere seems t.o be a conc'erted movement. on the part ot WOnlen everywhere to red:uce clothing to th. elementary term$ whieh lYe employed when she pinned a few fig leaves together with a few thorns. WOlD.M meander art'n.md. in that inner garden of Eden, until death • • transports them \.0 some plaee where some ons, it is 1101'$4, will give them enough taste of the torbidd$n fruit .. to Sft their t.e.th on edge. • Then what shall we begin with as to remedy tor this in d.cent-elothes evU? ltnowledge J Knowledge for the pure, chival-rolls boY'S conurning l:h! n!t!l Ym0ceBe & iporano$ " • " • • ... .... lSee Cba.pte.rs II and. III for some instanoes of Mr$. Gates <)n $·ex. sexual tin $tan4$ nxt to murder as· the greatest It ia, of oourse .. impossible to determine error or which man is capable. no'w much the ta.il.ure of her first marriage, traceable in part to her phy.... siologieal ignorance J moved her to write so £re<tUently upon the subject. To A$T, as to other 2"The MQrmon$ ReHer Society in its Attitudes to ])rase and Social Custom, n (Feb., 1917) IV, 102 -03. 1\_11_£ S()cbt;r ,aae .. |
