Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 202, 27 May 1891 — MAMMARY GLANDS. [ARTICLE]

MAMMARY GLANDS.

We have heard some very severe criticisms on our "passing allusion to semi-nude condition in whieh ladies go into polite society, • They say tbat Ka Leo is acquirmg a reputation for indecency, something we would greatly deplore if it were true. We usually try to eall things by their ordinary English names, and never pretend to ignore facts that are perfectly visible and tangib3e. We are not a branch of the eircumlocution office.

But it is generally conceded that certain orders of facts should be palliāted ; for that reason we have used an expression of Latin derivatiCn at tlve head ©f this eolumn more elegant than the terse English word. We regret having offende(lany fastidious mind by saying that ladies go into society with their teats hanging out. Still ladies do not seem to shrink from a]>pearing in that condition. It must be admitted that hanging out is not a delicate way of putting it, nor the exact truth. For the benefit of our many reāders who do not move in polite society we will explain. Those glands are usually laid out in the most tompting s3tyle on a kind of ihelf of silk and steel stays, magnetised to increase the attractioh, and garnished with laee and flowers most beauteously. One who has the mlre tathe "best society in Honolulu will find nothing concealed that is worth lo»king at and little left to the imagination. Of course such society is very select. It ought to be difficult to ®btain admittance to places where ladies so expose ehe mselves.

Considered-from a Bociat or scientific stand point these displays t ave their uses. The device. experience shows, does not add to the moral standard in soGiety, but on the contrary it is calculated to lower the rules whieh should guide us in our duties in life.

For the purpose of rescuing mankind every journalist, writer, preacher, ,and the 4ecture room, should not spare the modesty of any one who will tolerate such mdecent exposures, anu instead of people being offended at the application of plain honest English words againBt the misapplication of our persons, we hope f they will be appreciated. "

The niorals of the age is not what it was a century ago. The ancestors of some of our lady friends would be horrified to see the semi-nude state iu their descendants appeai at a bali room and other like places. We hope our readers will gather honey from what may appear noxious and bear with us, for our motive is U* iraprove the state of society aiul save our future from the insiduons encroachments ofour lower natures t nnd m usmg severe and unvanishfd tern»B we hope. 4i To point a moml, and adoru & t-alc."

Ifthe iunocent and rtfined ean do those thingB the mentio;i of thetrf in plain wt»rdB enn riiisr* tho hlush on no chssto eheek.