p. 11 | F. T. ELKIN by F. T. Elkin

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 28, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 35.

F. T. ELKIN

By F. T. Elkin

THERE is something woefully wrong with the structure of our civilization that demands sobriety and sedateness of its young womanhood, while it overlooks or condones the flagrant license and misdemeanors of its young manhood. How a girl would be shunned and despised if she sowed “wild oats” half as lavishly as brother John. Yet John is a “good fellow—a trifle sporty, perhaps!” and has entrance to a hundred Christian homes.