Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-01-04
CHRISTMAS EXAMINER
GOOD WORK BY THE GREAT
NEWSPAPER.
How Beauty. Intelligence and
Capital Were Made 10 Subserve n
Worthy Object-HOw Well the
work Was Accomplished.

more than passing notice in thes
columns. 1t was indeed an uniIu
instance OF journalistic enterprise +
serve philanthopic object. The pro
ceeds OF that edition-about So 900
went to the Incurable Ward of tn
Children Hospital. in San Francisco
and the bonanza it proved to he wa
owing to the happily-conceived projec
OF placing that days issue solely il
charge OF women who were willing I,
devote their time, and all the talen
they possessed, to that worthy object.
The editor-iu-chief was, as note,
last week, Mrs. Frank NJ. Pixley, q.
sisted by Mrs. Sarah Hamlin, an,
each department of the paper wa
placed under the absolute manage
ment OF ladies whose education ant
predictions gave promise of fitness
for the duties assumed. Besides tn,
departmental staff, there were 9!
buds of beauty and innocence assigned
to reportorial work, Is to the tele
graphic service, 10 to art comment ant
ii were employed in the business of
flee.
The leading article in the editorial
columns, after the Christmas greeting
is entitled Our City," and a genuin.
"roast" is given the retiring Board o
Supervisors for the filthy condition o.
public buildings and the streets. The
hope is expressed of radical reform
in this matter. 1t likewise calls at
tention to reckless driving on the pub
lie thoroughfares, as a menace to life
and limbs of pedestrians as we'll as 9
cruelty to the animals that are com
PEELED to gallop over the rough pave
ments. The attention of the Society
for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
is called to this evil, and the incom.
ing Mayor and Board of Supervisors
are admonished to ponder these mat.
tiers. 1t seems meet and proper that
the first utterances of these noble wo
men should be in consonance with the
cardinal traits of feminine nature
cleanliness and mercy.
The second article treats of Mu-
nicipal Sociology" and expresses the
hope that Gov. Budd "will disappoint
the political sleuth-hounds that are on
the scent for Office, and make appoint.
ments for fitness rather than favor"
The Board of Health they want COM
posed of physicians of high standing
and public spirit enough to carry their
honors into the interests of taxpayers.
They hold that it is OF essential i'm
portance that the jails, prisons, houses
OF correction, the city and county hos.
pitfalls and the almshouse, abe made
the vantage ground for careful study
OF diseases. criminalogy and pauper-
ism, with their long pedigree of social
evils"
"The Race War" in the South is
another topic on which the special
editorial corps has decided opinions.
1t deprecates the seeming unequal
sense of responsibility which exists in
regard to the crimes committed by the
whites and the blacks in the South,
and the prevalence of mob violence,
whenever negro oversteps the bounds
that white man may pass with i'm
punity. The ladies suggest interior
ence by the General Government in
the maintenance of domestic tranquil
ity in these States, which indicates
another bent of the feminine mind
to adopt the most direct measures for
relief of an evil which is tried and
condemned by the infallible precision
Of intuitive judgment. In this arti.
Gle, the writer, doubtless in the excess
of her feelings. occasionally drops tho
plural form of the pronoun "we," in
expressing the convictions of individ.
uality. and relapses into the ordinary
form of at"
equal Rights to Equal Men" is q
homily which seemingly sets at
nought the boldly-declared and gener-
ally-conceded scope of the Declaration
Of Independence. The Christmas-day
Examiner editorial staff maintain that
it is cultivated intellect. the improved
talents, that count in making up an
estimate of worth Of individuality. II
cites the fact that Patti can make az
much in one night, by her voice, as
the plodding workman can earn by
i several years of toll; that the lawyer
or doctor receives for few minutes
consultation, fee that equals the pay
of many hours of the wage.earner.
These and other citations are used to
show that upon mentality is passed
the test by which the fair scribes &C.
cord precedence TO their fellow Great.
ures. How it would be with jury Sc.
lected from without the circle oil
brain-workers we can only surmise.
Probably it would be more in conson.
ance with the rights recognized by
law and common justice.
As might be expected. there is an
article on women's sphere, entitled
"Why Not Women?" in which q very
conservative stand is taken regarding
what is considered modern progress in
the enlargement of the field for wo.
men. The staff considers woman the
! home-keeper and man the home sup.
porter, and closes the door to argu.
ment by asserting, " This was ordained
by nature" The assertion that the
development of the talents entrusted
to humanity by an Advise Creator,
seems to have been forgotten, how.
ever, in the assertion of what is evi.
IDENTIFY regarded as an axiom. That
the genius of Patti should be sacri-
feed when it is demonstrated to be