Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1884-06-27

4 Strangers Impressions of the So.
rosis Annual Dinner.
" oman OF Courage AmOn= the
Ehili~t,n"s---Mrs Blaina.--
Hackey- Household Items
--Pungcnt Paragraphs

lie most brilliant things at the Soross
dinner, As always, We're those said in private
Here were women who could tell good story
ami knew some-wonien who followed up the
wageings of the wor and could flash back a
relartee with the best.
Spro>is prides herself on the large numb Il.
Of young ladies that he'ong TO the club.
Pretty, bright-facel girls read poems and
gave recitations. Among the speeches of the
older women one was struck with the air of
ruEgd ii conviction, the hedoad-in-earnest SINGER
i'y that characterized them. There was an
en-; ;husiasn about some of the speakers that
showed they were perneatei to the b ne
with conviction of the truth of what they
said. When women are as deal in earnest IL,
thcs'. something will come of it.
a few were inclined to run to the same
fault that is found with women in news
paiers namely, preaching. In newspaper
Offices it is sail. they have such cart loads of
opinions while they don't know facts enough
to he useful. Mrs. Oiphant, in her Big.
raphy Of Sheridan, would have lecture thi,
shlftlrss creature ont of life, if Ii. hadn't
hcel dead already. Woman runs naturallv
To >crnonizng, whereby it is cl. ar that
women ought to be the preachers instead of
me-
In running fiveminute address of genuine
eloqicnce one of the ladies remarked that
she believed in what was done rather than
what was talkel about | could have split
my gloves applauding that sentiment OF
all irritating bores the worst is tiresome
talkee-talkee. There are men and women
who have taken it on them to right the
wrongs of this world by Grating Through
far weather and foul they talk for their
"caws." If they would all stop their noise
and 90 to work, in tie course of years they
might bulge the car of progress an inch or
two 1t takes years to do anything we'll
Oar civilization is not much to boast of, bu,
such as it is it never reached its present
height by gable, but by work. Therefore
do we admire with enthusiasm the ladies who
go in for what is done rather than what is
talked about
IL has been the writer's privilege to peep
through the bars once or twice at the grand
dinners of men. There is a difference Mems
dinners are more hilarious than this was
There were traces of melancholy throus n the
speeches here and there. An enemy would
say this was due to the absence of wine,
which Soross frowns on. But that would be
mistake. The feminine sex are lacking in
the sense of humor to a great extent. They
are not SO jolly as men. When women once
do have their eyes opened, life is serious b,isi-
ness to them. So much the better Things
will come right by and by. But as it is, life
is intensely saddening to an intelligent,
earnest woman. Every such is in sense
Our Lady Of Sorrows. These are freightel
with sad experience. They are overcome
with the burden Of existence, which. outside
of the few butterflies Of the sex. falls far
more heavily on women than on men. There
II no doubt of that.
Therefore and all the more, women ought
to make it H duty to cultivate wit and
hunor, to look persistently on the sunny,
jolly side Of life 1t wouli lghten the world
up wonderfully.
Much has been said pro and con about
Sororis Old tabbies of both sexes who suf
fer not woman to speak or to have any
sort If good time, don't approve of it.
Neither do the dudes of both sexes who wor-
ship at the altar of what they call society"
Soros;s meantime goes on in its pleasant,
CHEEKY path, attracting to Itself some OF the
brightest, best minds among women.