Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-22
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AST RnNM From the Spitz dog with
| MSSHtiS tag 2OO93, to the fellow
| NCGfS ~ who wears the circle Of
| @TH gold with an enamel K,
| w ~ everything is "badged."
| You notice three tiny
gold links on the lapel Of Charleys vest, and you
may know that he is an Odd Fellow. II to this
he adds square and compass he is Mason.
On his watch chain a tiny lantern may mean
that he is a railroad man, little gold saw that
he is a carpenter a gold trotter that he a
| jockey, or his scarf pin may be a "stick or
rule" showing that he is 'printer;" small
gold safe shows that he belongs to the order Of
| the Iron Hall" Then there are the g. A. r.
| buttons and locomotive engineer pins, Loyal
Legion buttons. bicycle league buttons. base bail
buttons, Y. Nj. O. A. buttons and two or three
| bushels of other buttons, all of which mean
| something to the wearer and his coterie of club
frieNls, but are Greek letters to the outside
| world.
| There was time in the history of human af-
| fairs when badges we're signs of serfdom and
| insignia of servitude but the old order changes
| and the proper caper now is to proclaim by
way of watch charms, scarf pins, badges and
buttons ones allegiance to the A. o. o. H.. A.
y. U. W., l. o. o. F., G.. A. r., G.. o. p, s. X.
NJ. and the rest of the alphabetical order of
hyphenates.
| THE WOMEN DO 1T NOW.
As long as this taste for decorative emblems
was confined to men not much attention was
paid to it, except to wonder what might be the
name Of the inventive genius who designed all
| the curious and ofttimes quaint insignia. But
| like suspenders and four-in-h hands, the mania
has spread to women, and they have gone into
| the development of the fad with the energy
| which charaoterizes all of their proceedings.
| "What they all for?' asked STAR re-
porter the other day OF breezy young lady
| who wore a bit of white ribbon in one button
hole, dash of blue the color OF her eyes in
another small silver cross on her watch
chain and a tiny tin star as a bangle on her
bracelet.
"Oh, they are for lots of things" she re-
piled with CHEEKY laugh. 1.-THE white ribbon
is the emplem of our Social Purity Club the
blue ribbon is for temperance and the silver
cross for the Kings Daughters.'"
| Are there any tender passages or love Sc
crets done up in that battered tin starr" per-
sisted the reporter. as the b. V. |. paused.
Indeed, no.' she returned energetically.
THAT tin star would intimate to a man with
average intelligence that the star of the tin
plate industry is rising rapidly. In other
words, that is the badge of my republicanism."
| $50 you are female politician!''
| well, like that, the b. v. |. responded, in
dignantly. is every man who holds decided
views on political questions dubbed a politician?
| No: / am not female anything. | am a
woman who has looked into this question thor
| oughly, and after thoughtful study has arrived
| at the conclusion that this glorious country, SO
prosperous under high protective tariff, should
| not be given over to free trade, which would
| ultimately degrade laboring classes by
| bringing them into competition with the pauper
| labor Of other lands"
| The STAR reporter gasped little. but feebly
murmured that she possibly correct in her
| views.
Possibly" she echoed scornfully. 81 know
| l IN six nf III cir IL. and h,.-
| formed a club and adopted the Gin star as a
badge. We did have ten members, but one of the
| girls wrote letter to Mrs. Cleveland and that
| lady wrote back dainty little note and four of
the hateful things went off and organizeda Ruth
| club and have the baby picture for stick
| pin badge. 1t is SO silly of them, don't you
know-and the idea of baby for a badger"
| "Of course, IHE STAR reporter still had
| strength to utter, "but-the K-the Cleveland
baby never had its picture taken. / thought
| 'Of course not, stupid. but that doesn't
make any difference. 1t is only year old and
| all babies look alike up to that age. They
found pretty baby face, had it Photographed
and fixed in pin and called it Ruth. 1t looks
pretty, but can't help but think it is silly.
| Here my car. L IN on my way to read paper
at our club on the tin plate industry Want
| to use extracts from it?'' called the b. " l. as
| the car bore her up the avenue out of sound of
the reporters voice, who wa earnestly protest
ing that that was outside his assignment.
| WOMEN IN POLITICS.
1t is an incontrovertble fact that women are
taking quiet bu. effective hand in politics
They get around in such an insinuating apollo
getic manner that they have man pledged to
their views before he knows IT, and no matter
how vigorously he kicks and AYERS that he
| didn't understand the drift she looks at him
with big, earnest eyes that have hurt express
sion and he wits and promises the same thing
| over again.
There are very few mugwumps among women.
| III they take enough interest in politics to form
opinions at all they are decided ones, and there
| Is no hating between two opinions or roosting
| on a barbed wire fence. They get right down
on one side or the other and Immediately turn
| all their batteries loose on the enemy. A woman
| never does do anything by halves
IN FAVOR OF FREE SILVER.
The democratic womens clubs are not as
numerous as those on the republican side, be-
cause the democratic party does not favor suf-
| frage or the entrance of women into the domain
of politics. There are few of these clubs,
however, and some brainy women belong to
| them. The badge is a tiny shield button with
| reform" written across it. Another is a small
| stick pin with Mrs. Clevelands picture on it,
and still another is the counterfeit Ruth pin.
| The girls who wear these pins talk tariff reform
| and free trade i'll a perfectly appalling way.
Mr.. Springer is their god and Mr. CIeyclands
| speeches their bible. Mrs. Cleveland is god
dess and Baby Ruth cherub. They mostly
favor free silver" because, YOU know" ex-
planned Ruth League girl the other day, .sil-
yer ls quite the thing now. What with bangles
and bon-bon boxes, toilet articles, gar
buckles and souvenir spoons, it does take a
lot of money, and if we just had free silver,
don't you know. everybody could have all the
pretty silver things they want ted. and it would
all be SO comfortable, and she smiled SO en-
| trancingly that The STAR man wondered how
in the world anybody could be in favor OF any
thing but free silver
The Harrison girl, as a rule, is much more
enthusiastic than her brotheS- The republican
badges are legion and she generally sports two
or three Of them, probably to show that she is
dyed-in-the-wool republican. One of the odd
and not particularly pretty fads Is a tin-plate
breastpin. The tin plate measures about two
inches across. Around the edge. in raised
letters, is the inscription: Harrison, Reid and
Protection, 1922 in the center is stamped:
| Projections banner guards our land
| From England's greed and pauper pay.
| And when play Great B-itafn's hand
| Please take me for blooming jay"
| THE SIXTEEN CLUB.
club Of young ladies, aged sixteen, has
just sixteen members and calls itself the "Six-