Says Ernest Thompson Seton, who is described as a naturalist:
“Sex morality has no relation to clothing, as is proved by the
naked tribes of East Africa, who are the most moral people
in the world in their natural state, but who always take a
downward step morally when compelled by missionaries to wear
clothing. The shorter the dress of the female and the lower the
neck of her bodice, the greater her moral influence and the
greater her tendency to health.”
Oh, Adam, why did you ever wear that fig leaf?
_Smokehouse Poetry_
_When the world was in babyhood, woman was the slave for man’s
satisfaction. Today man is the slave to serve woman. William
Ernest Henley’s poem, “Or Ever the Knightly Years Were Gone,”
inspired the book from which the picture drama, “Male and
Female,” was written. Going back to biblical days, the throwing
of the beautiful woman to the lions for her refusal to satisfy
the lust of the King of Babylon, is compared with woman’s
present punishment upon man for Babylon’s offense. This poem
will be given a leading place in Smokehouse Poetry in the May
issue, and it goes something like this:_
_I saw, I took, I cast you by,_
_I bent and broke your pride;_
_You loved me well, or I heard them lie,_
_But your longing was denied;_
_Surely I knew that by and by_
_You cursed your gods and died._
_The Whiz Bang also will publish for the first time in any
national magazine “Toledo Slim,” a parallel to “The Blue Velvet
Band,” and it winds up with this:_
_One foggy day on Market Street, I met him sure as fate,_
_He tried to get the drop on me, but was a moment late;_
_I sent a bullet crashing into the traitor’s brain,_
_And then I made my getaway, and glommed an eastbound train._
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