The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-25
SOCIETY CONFESSES.
The Annual Examination Of a
Society Woman's Conscience.
Tries TO CHEAT HER coNFEssoR
- Prefers to Tell Her siss - m Ola
Bachelor Rather Thaa . MARRIED
Prisst-AbseIutioa BY CajsIery.


science is more of trial for the priest than
1t lie Tor the fair penitent. It is task re-
suiri ng much tact and delicacy. Beng
% old soft-hearted bachelor it Is nv lot to
hear more Of feminine fraiities than those
Of the cloth who are married. I much
prefer to hear mans confession, partly
because they are 50 rare, bat chiefly be-
cause Of his frank sincereity, A woman IL
% evasiye. 80 ambiguous, 80 artfuI. that
unless i keep close watch over my SYM
pathies she will cheat me and secure NV
sbsolution under false pretenses. She viii,
make great fuss over some small matter.
ike that of having snubbed poorer
acquaintance or stolen another girls
sweetheart out of pure mischief, but make
light OF having maligned an unfortunate
sister or broken lovers heart or INDUCED
in perilous Irritation. A young girl. as
rule. makes good confession, for. IL she il
little shy. kind assurance of forgive
ness quickens her tender conscience and
she tells all her faults, magnifying them
INTO sins. Her older sister, who has
hsd several seasons experience in society
and is thorough coquette. is much
harder to deal with. She brings all her
tricks TO the confessional, and tries to
new dress from her father during hard
times. She uses her eyes to bewiIder me
and divert my attention from the serious
things she Is talking about Then again
she becomes very contrite, takes me APP
parently into the fullest confidence, and
tells me a string of nothings.
Experience has taught me some things
about women. As the emotion which Ellis
.n,s Il. k.t n a a.
est expression, SO the sin she says least
about or makes the least OF to me is that
. which lies heaviest on her conscience.
But If the sore spot is touched with tact
she will open her heart, and In the flood of
emotion which follows she secures forgive
ness without much reprimand. The girl
who is passe is also hard to deal with. She
has been indiscreet, and her regret is APP
parent. but / can see that part of her
humility Is in acknowledging her
failure after having staken such
desperate chances. She also works
upon my sympathy. pleads that inno-
cence does not charm men and seeks for
justification rather than reproof. So also
does the young matron who is 10th to re-
linquish the attentions of her former
sweetbearts. She confesses her husbands
faults as much as she does her own, and a.
abe promises to mend her ways, after
have made q long but gentle argument to
show that she cannot eat her cake and
keep IL. can see that she does 20 with q
large If In her mind.
But the one who tries my patience most
is the older matron, who no longer has
any soft weaknesses, or, if she has, knows
how to conceal them, even from me. She
has opinions, too, which she ventiiates I'm
the confessional. She makes other peoples
affairs her business, and rather usurps my
function of fergiving or condemning. The
faults she acknowledges are rather those
OF Judgment than of heart, and when l
gently touch upon some hard prejudices
or unlovely traits she confesses the
Creators fault by saying that one
cannot change her nature at her
time of life. However, / must
deal gently with her. Her husband is
wealthy, aud she is very liberal toward
the church. She evidently has the no.
ton that by this means she pays for her
ofenses as she goes along, aud merely
comes to me IN Lent as she goes periodi-
eally 10 her banker, to have her book
balanced
"And thus when Easter rolls around,
nay pupils states are freshly sponged and
naaght remains OF the ugly pictures upon
them except the scratches left by the grit
concealed within the smooth pencil OF
temptation"
Public school Literary Societies.
The Longtellow Literary Society of the
South school on Friday afternoon rem
dered the following programmes: Song.
Tramp. Tramp. Tramp" the school:
gems. ION Washington, the school;
song. ''Star Spsngled Banner" the school;
recitation. Friday Night After Examina-
tion.'' Mabel Van Brockiin; essay. "ole
Built" Willie Steiner: recitation. Only
Sixteen" Lizzie Hannah: essay, 'Shingle
Industry" Ernest Sanders; recitation.
"frenehman and the Flea Powder"
Joseph Jatle; song, The Red, White and
Blue, the school debate on the question
Whether women should hold the bal
lott" by Gertie Levy aud Gilbert Panison
Ia the negative. aud Ella Steiner and Don
Nance in the affirmative. IL was decided
IN favor Of the affirmative.
The Omega aud Friendly societies held
combination exercises on the birthday OF
Washington. The following programme
vas rendered; Roll cali. Omega Society;
roll cali, Friendly Society; song, Amer
lea, by the societies: salntahon, -. Elmo
Rising History of Washington" Antoi-
bette Farrow: recitation. Ethel Wright:
Instrumental duet, Olive Hall. Lulu Ham
nond; quotations from Lowell's Under
the Elm" by ten pupils; recitation, Ger
he Minsor: song, Mount Vernon Bells, :"
by the societies: recitation. Leon blaine;
dast Myrtle Wright. Sena Msngan. essay.
Adgar Trengove: either solo. Emma
asekSr: recitation. lode for Washington,
Aaoel Seagrave. Lixxle Prior: instrument
Ia music. Mabel Tharlo@. recitation,
> eeorgie Foster; violin duet, Winnie Fan
hshg. Adolph MeydenhaUer. recitation.
nellie Wallace: instrumental music Clara
Rose, recitation. Willie hillen; instFa-
Rental music Editn Twiss; violin solo,
August Conradsen; song. Washington,
sy The societies; remarks, by Prof. q. >
laasS.
The George Washington Literary So
s'siy, of lAtona school, rendered the ioi-
.essag programme on Friday afternoon;
.'eeiama5loa. Barbara FFietchie, Percy
saae.as; ESSAY, Lie Of Washington,
lala Moore: reading. "Boyhood Of Wash
Msion," Charlotte Bsanton; reading
ehayaCteF Of Washington" Jesnlsa
AA'ssll; essay. school Lie Of Washing
Ca Bertha Heck song, America,
sSheol
The High school Literary Society held
Us regular meeting on Friday evening. a
sew constitution was adopted. and the
.esoNics offceFS were sleete3' President
ME IT, +, Boogh; vice president, Mss Ada
aaaon. secretary. NJ. G. T. AcsfoFd
assistant SECRETARY NJ T. A. Friend /,