The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-25
Tbe Professional Sc,
BY PRUDENCE wINTERGREEN.

HERE is a new profession for
sharp-tongned women. Don't let
us all apply at once.
| read about X in a newspaper.
~ ~ course and the chances are
.,ue Other woman made II up, but .f
,.r,, a real profession Z ought to be.
M The trolley car and porcelain bath
-. Il is one OF the things we ought
ser 10 have been without. Indeed.
80 see how the world has been run SO
- as Il has up TO the present without the
~, ~ representatives OF the profession,
-s,ob e. II you please. that OF Professional
ecoh- -. -, .o,. .oo,
behind the-tirnes man uplifted to re-
Ia me that there are enough unprofes-
I.,sl ones TO keep the country supplied
~ FRAT 20 systematic the business and
~ the number OF persons practicing
:. wo,,ls probably be the cause OF large
..r,grstion to our new colonies. l know
~ mind and the method of that Kind OF
-, He is the gentleman who asks his
10 "a lend him one Of her biscuits for
..ster when he goes fishing; he pretends
ra.a n wig after the departure OF his
Hs,s.,.,n-law, and when a woman loses
-. rcekst book, he chuckles cheerfuny
"a .ys 'There's some hope Of finding
!. - long ss II isn't in your pocket" L
80, Exactly understand the mental make
~ u,ch people. Why should human
st,,~ who "a up-to-date in every other re-
-. an adhereni OF progress, perhaps
- an apostie Of reform, be satisfied to
.,s-,re endessly such stale and moldy
sss,ender in the way OF Jokes? However.
!s., ,sn,t what started TO talk about.
q q
...uprN YOU come to think of II, the
es,as that the professional scold
nigh, occupy are almost boundless.
- ~. foregoing suggestions for her en-
~ sr, ara material and practical but
pa,e surely other lines OF expostua-
ms.' ~ which she could be OF service.
"a vou ever read East Lynne. when
~, ware young7 The one fact still cling
~ 10 my memory about that once popu-
-. ta,s "a that Barbara twas that her
.sr d,d not believe in seeing very
n.nsh ~ her children. because she wished
~. "a nrsserve their affection ana
s..srenec'' for her. RI some one else re-
,,oved them for their bad table manners,
r,ss,, a,rty faces. their rudeness and
.s,nshness. Il woul: leave her own inter-
s.rence for higher and more important
matters such as their intellectual ana
,noral salvation--at all events. that was
n. theory. Now Il IL well known that In
sh,ired 10 overlook little deficiencies OF
ira Kind for the simple reason that they
Al not wish TO get themselves heartily
hsfsd BY their offspring for "eternally
naseine" Offspring are most unreason-
sbs, / can distinctly remember the time
vhen thought my parents reproved me,
not because | needed II. but because they
liked 10 do r. wasn't a bad child, either,
mi somehow the idea that I could really
need admontion never penetrated my con-
yriousness II didn't mean anything to
ne
Wei. anybody can see what an advant-
Ara II would be II a mother. instead OF
saving on an average OF fifteen times n
week. John. go hang up your hat and
wash your hands before you come to the
table You are not Mt to be seen. ] don't
understand how a boy can be willing to
look like pig" should simply look hard
Al the offending youngster, take out a
note book make memorandum. and
then every other day or 30 send for the
professional scold to deliver lecture to
John upon the Nervousness OF dirty hands
and black eyes and lots of other things
John might pay some attention 10 the lee
tnrs especially II she were good at the
business and had the knack OF putting
things impressively OF course. under this
method the mother would lose all tho dis
ripiine that comes from training her chill
aren herself-~and really the mothern get
more benefit from II than the children
but there are other methods OF disclplin-