The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1900-10-06

guilty.
Authore'ses abound not only in parts
bot in regions hitherto held alooi iron
the track Of man. 10 the pine forests o
Georgia, in the Wild untrod wildernesse
within the city limits Of Chicago, an,
westward, where "rolls the Oregon, ant
knows 10 sound save his own dashings, p
auihoresses are springinE up week aitei
week, and inscribing on the dial Of tim,
I printed sobs Of passionate joy ,typograph.
ieal sirivings after the unutterable, and
practical novels "reeking'' with human
interest. Nothing within the whole
range Of literature is left undone, from
life giving cooking receipts to the ESQ.
teric vibrations Of the higher soul. This
| is the golden age Of Helen Chipmunk
lcecream Smith, whose Hemlock Heart
Beats has fired the mind and pen Of ey.
cry book reviewer in twenty-seven
States. This is the harvest time Of Sadie
Rasberry Cbittendon Jones, whose his
torical novels are ieverishly devoured by
two generations-one rising and the 9th
er risen. This, indeed, is the heyday Of
Eleanor Davis Davis Huckleberry, whose
book on Civilization has been clamorous-
~ adopted as an entire course in itself
by the unanimous action OF the direc.
tories Of fourteen seminanes. The word
female lie no longer heard. 1t has been
stricken from the records. A girl is
either one Of two things-she is married
or becomes an suthoress.
And after she is married. il she dis
covers that she has made mistake and
ought TO have chosen the other road,
does she repent Of her desire in the si.
lent watches Of the nigbt7 Does she
hide her light under a bushel aud
quench the bright fire Of genius with
the wet blanket Of domestic duty? Not
she. She says: Here, John, you take
the baby. Go out and wash the dishes,
WELD ths useful broom and do the mark.
citing. have had ball to be an auth
oress | am going to join the great
writing majority. Henceforth you are
but an echo. Yesterday was mere
wife. but tomorrow you shall be known
as my husband. Let this glory suffice
you, and do not disturb me, for even
now thoughts sureharged with moment
ous consequence TO the human race are
speeding through my brain.
And John takes up his burden with.
ont a murmur, knowing his time
has come, but seeing, even in his dull,
hopeless way, that rebellion would only
make things worse; for it would mean
notoriety and henceiorth his liiew work
is 10 avoid being seen, henceiorih he
moves alone-his greatest joy when he
has not been mentioned as the husband
Of the gifted being whose hall.t por-
traits are darkening the magazine hori-
zon.
This is, indeed, the Augustan age Of
the authoress, and dwinaline man may
we'll contemplate the future with de.
spair Even now he is rapidly drifting
toward the shore Of a hopeless obscur-
ity.
II is not without shudder that we
look back hundred years and note how
the authoress has multiplied in the land,
At this rate Of increase, what will the
end be? Fortunately, in the process of
evolution, a check is bound to come. In
the course of time, as every woman be-
comes an lauthOress, there will be no
readers left. Man will probably lack
the intelligence--even now he shows
signs in this direction-to appreciate the
wonderful subtlety, the transcendent
culture Of what is being published, and,
As every woman will be absorbed in her
own creations, there will be no audience
10 echo the critics praise, and the heart
of beautiful sybel Apricot
Plum will be lost upon an in.
different and interpretive community. |
At last accounts that fish ladder at tie
alls OF the Willamette had not been
repaired. AS YOU ride up the river you
AN see at low water the natural channel
or the fish ladder In fact nature has
provided place for the salmon TO climb
ip about two-thirds of the way over tine
alls, II man would do the rest. But
'olitioal man will not. That is not
What politics is for. Pennoyer aud Milt
Miller did make a few holes in the rock
Or that ten thousand dollars the
legislature appropriated for fish
adder, and II they had kept right ON
he whole Willamette aud all it's
would be one vast .snawnir o.