Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-05-28
CONTRIBUTED.
ANOTH Ek SOCIAL STUDY.

! Ed. TELLER
Having seen an article, "a Social
Study" in the TELLER of last week
| over the signature of "WOrking Girl )"
and feeling its injustice to Lewiston's
young mon, am constrained to II
reply.
My dear "Working Girl" have you
ever paused to consider how much of
this worlds contention and diScord is
caused by our inability, or unwilling
ness, to look at both sides of mooted
question"
You have risen up IN your much
perturbed spirit and said some very
disagreeable things concerning the
young men of our fair village, and to
cOntrOvert, and cXhonorate them from
the unwarrantcd, unjust accusations,
l have rallied to their defense. Before
you passed Judgment had you stepped
around and viewed the matter from
their standpoint so far as possible: !
am afraid not. 1t no doubt would
as.onish you to discover that "faults
of omission and commission" lie at the
door of our "natiye daughters aS well
as with our native sons. And yet it is
so. Having been born and reared in
this community, | feel as if knew
| something of its native youth both
male and female, and am sure short
comings are not confined to one sex
alone. From 10y nowise cursory ac-
| qualntance with LewistOn's "native
daughters" am compelled to believe
that they are too much addicted to
reading fairy tales TAT least that is the
only explanation which can find for
| their cOnduct) for the average native
daughter seems to he waiting for some
delightful Prince Charming who is to
drift in over the surrounding noun
| tains when the fame of this great
Clearwater Valley shall have gone
properly abroad, and him, with his
| polished manner, Savior-faire, etc, she
will secure for her OWnest own, to the
utter CONSERVATION of the crude and
unpoli"hed native son.
To this end, when now the aforesaid
"native som presents himself before
her with a feeling of true affection in
his heart, and words # declaration on
his lips, he is, so to speak, patroniziug-
| ~ pate on the back, told that he il "A
dear delightful boy indeed, but not con-
genial to her temperament, and then
| sent on his way rejoicing ("l while he
| being really enainored thinks that this
must indeed be true--the queen could
do no wrong YOU know-and goes
forth to lift himself by his boot--trn,s
to a higher plane, SO that, if SO he it.,
| he should again in am unguarded
moment place his affections upon
another of Lewis;on's fair native ones,
he may be the more worthy to
respire the same atmosphere with her,
and should 1t happen that IA ter Il lapse
of time his "unguarded moment
again arrives. he will find upon pre-
| senting his case to the new object of
| his alteration that she too has for him
| the old reply; and so it will 20 IN until
| he at last learns to read rightly the
subtcrfuge and then betakcs himself of
tn PLACES where there will be no 'un-
| undoing. This in Lewiston Of ncres-
| sity means the saloon or billiard bail
| but what would you? present safety il
ever more influential than future dan
| ger where later the "native daughter
| finds him and then, unhcsitatingly,
points at him the finger Of scorn and
| upbraiding, Sweetly ignoring her ow
great place in the sum of causes.
! Our native daughters are intellectual
| enough, | grant you; aud beautiful
enough, truly, and bewitching enough
woe Is me-but with all these they
| serve only to encompass our enthrall-
| ment and then east us adrift while
| they wait with faith unfaltering for
the coming Of that immaculate Prince
Charming, who is always coming but
| never arrives.
l suppose you will assert skcpticisn