The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-26
4 BEFORE BREAKFAST. S,

1t is suggested that Look out for
Pickpockets" will be a good sentiment
TO place on the bulletin boards now
a-days when people are too much alb
sorbed in the news of the hour TO
think of pickpockets.
Mrs. Cottrell and the Misses Cottrell
who have made such a pleasing inn
preston in a social way in this city by
reason of their wide culture and many
charms of personality, returned to
their home in Albany yesterday after
spending some time as guests Of Mrs.
A. de Orville Blackinton.
1t is hoped that Mr.. j. II. S. Lynde
has passed the crisis of his illness.
His very critical condition was the
occasion of much alarm on Sunday,
but although still delirious and very
weak he was somewhat better yester-
day.
Men need not entertain the hallucina-
tiOn that they are the only ones Compe-
tent or disposed to discuss the war
problem. The subject is analyzed as
thoroughly in the drawing room and
kitchen as in the office and workshop,
and as a rule with equal intelligence.
| The results of the discussions among
| the women do not vary materially
| from those of their masculine relatives
| and friends. Both do a deal of talking
| and say: II think" a vast number of
| times, without coming to a definite
| decision as to how long the war will
| last. Both hedge little just now when
| the question comes up regarding the
| certainty of an American walk over
| from the start.
| Generally speaking, the women of
| this community stand up for McKin-
| ley. Generally, too, they are out
| spoken in their dread of war. one lit
| tie body, whose hero awaits his call
to arms, remarked pathetically sun
| day morning: II haven't a nickel for
the church collection. I've spent every
cent l could get on extras The way
these newsboys have swindled me dur
| ing the last week is sinful. l believe
| they know me, for they're always
chasing me with startling yells of i'm
| pOrtant dispatches and they even
! come to our house and howl around
| in the night. All do nowadays is to
buy extras and try to get to the front
| of the mobs around the bulletin
| boards"
"Tve never had such good time in
| my life as for the last two weeks" de-
| Clared a young member of Company
| c, yesterday Father doesn't grow
when he secs me go off on my bicy-
Gle, that being his idea of the supreme
folly of the times. He puts his arm
around my shoulders sort of as if ht
liked me, and paid a rousing big bill
Of mine the other day without a kick
My sisters hug and kiss me until
wish l hadn't been such little deVi
and chased off all the fellows thai
| used to come to see 'em. Mother gets
| the things | like to eat every day
lately and doesn't say a word abou
cigarettes or mud tracks; and Otter
when she thinks I'm asleep she sneak!
into my room and cries by the side o
my bed. And the girls we'll now i
you wouldn't think I was a peach tC
see the row they make over me! TV'
got eighteen pincushions and sever
pairs of embroidered silk suspender
to take TO war. Talk about popu
| larity! Prize fighters and golf cham
pions aren't in it with me. and as TO
the ProdiGal Son, he never had sucl
a lay out in his whole blooming caree
as I've had this last week"
Thus il is that the gravity of tn
situation is continually bringing to tn
surface the devotion and tender con
sideratiOns which still are the strong
est guiding sentiments Of the feminin
heart, Notwithstanding the practiCa
! latter day philosophy supposed to b
an attribute of the up-tO-date woman
While she is frank TO confess that thi
year her summer vacation will b
, spent strictly in the interior Of our hi
country. She is thinking just nov
a deal more about the horrors an
perils of war than of spring gown
| and summer frivolties
In Scranton, as elsewhere, there ar
. | patriotic women who will endure tn
| separation, the fears and the anXiet
| which must ever dwell with one VIII
stays at home to wait the return c
> her soldier. There are others VIII
have not to suffer all this but who's
, hearts are heavy with pity and fore
bodings for those who do bear tl1
brunt of the burden, but no commuT
. ity contains wives, mothers an
A daughters more certain that the
K country has undertaken a righteou
v war