April 23, 2018
This is “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County Historical Society.
A warning
was issued to the girls in Junction City in the Union newspaper in April of
1887. The story line was “Girls
Beware!!!” The article stated that “a young girl choked to death while chewing
gum. Every day in the “Happenings”
column of newspapers, there was news of accidents caused from chewing gum,
roller skating, stories about elopements and star gazing. Yet the average girl of today”, the author
wrote, will walk the streets with a large hunk of gum in her mouth, while her
molars keep up a back and forth motion that reminds the observer of a cow
chewing her cud. It is also very disheartening to see a young lady chewing gum,
who was attractive if she had not been chewing the gum.” The paper proclaimed “if you must chew gum,
never chew it on the street or in the parlor.
The writer knows of cases where young men have been forced to cut off a
lady’s acquaintance after spoiling his best pants – after sitting on a hunk of
gum, which had been deposited on a chair by his sweetheart.”
Well ladies
– something for you to think about if you are a gum chewer. Your host makes no judgements in this area,
but thanks you for reading to “Our Past Is Present” from the Geary County
Historical Society.
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