Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-01-03

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u nas9ry Place nunters.

Hssgry Place nsnters.
Some csndidates for Legislative
clerkshipa, and their friends, : few
weeks ago attempted To awaken op.
position TO the filing Of those posi-.
tions BY young l.diss. A very lev
Newspapers were Induced to echo
their opposition and few alleged
reaA'ns wers given why the girl.
should be shut out, but those ressons
are ton weak in the knres to stand
aIone. Ono is that tho penmanship
Of the girls does not come up to the
masculine ideal stand ard Of excel.
l-ncr, and that they cannot correctly
pnnctuate. This is all rot. The
girls who have heretofore served as
clerks were almost p~rfs,tion in p4n-
mansh:p- in fact, n attempt to find
men who could do the work Of En-
rolling and EnRrossing clerk. as
neatly - tho girls have would he 4
hopeless undertaking. They wouli
he ~ hard 10 find as African dis.
'nonds on Snake river. As to pnnctu-
stion-well, they wonld not prove a.
great successes in punctuatiHg with
jingling lucre such sentences rs
:" "Come, boys, all take something" ~
would their male opponents, and this
is ono serious objection TO their candi.
dacy. for Why should anyone aspire
70 position in the Legislature who
would swindls those liquid institu-
tons Of joyous necessity out Of their
rightful heritage? The girls would
not punctuate their perambulations
with "full stops" ~ the bar. For
the girl Of the period to omit such
stops = not right, and il all would
follow their example the liquid dis
pensaries would soon be in q com
'na-tose condition, therefore positions
in the Legislature must he filed hy
those who use the style of punctua-
ton that makes the barkeep smile.
They should also be able to punctu-
ate the feeting moments with the
music of the collision of billiard
balls aud with the melliauous wee
small voices of the red, white and
blue poker chips as they are agita'ed
by the eager player aud fall one by
one from his restless hand. The
girls do not punctaate the clear, am-
bient air of the capital with sky blue
wreaths OF the smoke Of the frngra II,
Havana, neither do they use the
semi-cnlon as it sh h,ul be used, for
doth not the rule say: ' Stop aud
count tn ee--jnst long eaough To
drain CLASP All this sort Of
punctuation costs money, but does
not rhe worthy, curley- headed, hand
some aud accommodating bar-kerp
rake il in? What are attaches of a
Legislature for if not to contribute
to the support of those necessary
home industries? The girls can
punctuat- according 20 the rules that
are taught in the schools, but they're
lacking in efficiency, and show sad
deficiency in the way of insufiiciency
in the money bringing rules of the
happy har-room schools. This is a
deplorab'e deficiency, we must adj
mt, and loses them much support
and exercise uf influence in their be-
half that thew would otherwise have
Another objection that has been
urged with much seriousness, and
has fallen. on their worthy
ambitions with dull and sickening
thud, IS that the girls are giddy
This is serious enough, but not the
most serious part OF it, As depicted
by a Boise paper, it is the infectious
results that are to be deplored. They
are giddy and the staid and dignifie'
manufacturers of law breathe the at
mosphere surrounding and they be-
come g,ddy also. Such reasoning il
sufficient to move heart of stone
The giddinsss and vain babbling thu
Legislative Solomons and male ut
taches stow in and accumulate wher'
the ruddy fluid freely flows, is not re
ferrel to. We presume this to be OF
sort not sufficiently objectionable 4
call for comment. That the girls ar
sometimes giddy and sometime
giygle without being able to produc'
a liquid cause therefor, is yer.
serious charge, hut their competenc,
otherwise will help to Offset such de
plorabla and incurabIe defects. Th'
above are some of the arguments use'