Monday, April 23, 2018

Our Past Is Present April 23, 2018


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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