The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-10-30
YOURS TRULY GETS A LETTER.

Yours Truly had just got settled snugly /
at the governors, and was busy drying
apples and pears, making beds and but
ter, securing floors and spoons, and |
up the accumulated rubbish |
deposited about the rooms by Dick and
Phil, which her dear, patient mother
had become accustomed to, and which
the governor never did fret about, when
her nerves were suddenly unstrung and
her temper ruffled by the receipt of the
following touching epistle:
SALE,l, OREGON, Oct. q, ISL
DEAR --: l have just learned that Mrs.
Addie L. Ballou is mortalIy offended with your
humble servant for publishing your ''eritiquer
npon her "benefitp She accuses me OF being
Yours Truly" Says she has made the dis
covery elairvoyantIy Think of itm
thought your criticism was little too plain
in one place, where you spoke of the historic
part OF her essay and her manner Of reading It,
but otherwise I did not object 10 II. Please
write something for next weeks paper that Will
mollify her. do not want her feelings hurt.
shall look for you TO do the d" handsome by
her in the next NoRTHw EST, and don't forget TO
diselaim any intention of casting a slur at her
by speaking of "McDonald's organ" l learn
that she says the naughty men are making
mockery OF the matter. Have had no conver-
saiion with her upon the subject, for she is as
chilly as an Iceberg. Ever your friend and
Adde'S. A. j. DUNIwAY.
Yours Truly's first impulse after read
ing the above effusion was to throw it
aside and never deiga to notice it. She
had not said one word in her critique
against which any sensible person could
take reasonable offense. Indeed she
felt particularly favorable to the little
''pioneer," so gloriously lauded by the
handsome Captain, but couldn't alto
gether resist the temptation to poke a
little fun at the "Triple Thunderer" in
his maudlin ecstasies over a very fair,
but certainly not extraordinary little
specimen of womanhood, to whose tai
ents and energy no one bows-or would
but for McDonald-with more respectful
homage than Yours Truly.
For days this mood of silent, high
tempered contempt held carnival over
Yours Truly's pen and paper; but ia
change came DER the spirit of her."
disposition when last Sundays States
man came to hand, bearing upon its
editorial page the most disgustingly ex-
travagant laudations Of the little wom-
an, in themselves sufficient-when the
source whence they came is considered
TO bury the literary aspirations of any
pure woman forever beneath the resur.
recting energies of decent men.
Mrs. D., Yours Truly is astonished al
you With your well-known proclivity
for standing by womanhood in all hon.
est endeavors to better the conditions o.
both sexes, how can you ask girl of the
period to do the handsome" by 6
woman who is lauded to the skies by {
man who, in the same paper in which
he thus extols her, unconsciously ex
hibits the basis of his admiration fo
literary women in the following libe
upon Susan b. Anthony:
Touch OF NATURE.-Susan B. Anthony ad
mits that she did sit on Theodore Tilton's knee
and explains why. She says: "All the mel
said that was so sour and ugly that couldn'
get husband, and thought that Iwould shoy
them that could sit on a young mans LAP
just like any other foolish girl.p Poor dear ol,
plain Susan II she amt pretty to look 1t, sh
has got what is far better, a great, warm, lovin
soul. That one pathetic touch Of nature, make
Us Susan's friend, forevenmore.
As you have at other times GRACEFUL,
permitted Yours Truly to scold you t
her hearts content, allow her now t
say, Mrs. D., that for sensible woman
you are far too verdant to be fully ap
preciated by wide awake girl of th
period. And when Addie J.. Ballo
/, proves herself the true woman that W
all want her to be, she will discard tn
fulsome adulations of low-minded lib
/, ertine, who unblushingly acknowledge
, that he bases his "friendship forever
! MORE" for the sex upon the idea that
woman could be induced "to sit upo
the lap of man." No, no, Mrs.
. Don't ask Yours Truly ''to do the hant
somer by a woman whose dearest frienC
are of the Mcdonald stamp. She ma
be good Woman Suffragist, but IL
II Woman Suffragists of Oregon can
- afford to countenance her i'm that kin
. of company. The Suffragists which "
N can afford to sustain are those wi
II stand by the women and the women
IL paper as Susan B. Anthony does.
As to the naughty men makif
mookery" of what Yours Truly inn
Gently said about McDonald's organ
the query is, how did Addie find it out
a = Mrs. d., when you can answer th
question satisfactorily, and also salts
: the public that you can afford to stai
by woman whom Mcdonald praise
you may get further light upon inpol
y ant subjects from Yours TRULY.