The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-25

ing mothers For instance. Il would be
something In the shape OF self-training
Tor mother TO learn TO stand by meekIy
while another woman was scolding her
boy az so much an hour.
A PROFESSIONAL scoid is a lady OF
~ common sense. business ability, a
sense OF Justice and a large vocabulary
VINO Is ready 10 rent the use Of these quail
ties for a moderate sum to prevent her
neighbors from being imposed upon. The
American people are as a rule only too
good-natured. We are not willing 10 insist
on our rights We would rather be done
out OF any moderate sum and sub
NIT to almost any Inconvenience
or hardship rather than TO make
kick the vernacular has II,
in order to get our rights. when the day
comes that professional seolds are as COM
mon as district messenger boys, all this
disgraceful rneekness will cease TO have
unpleasant consequences in the world. for
the man or woman who is frequently un-
willing to administer A deserved rebuks
in person. would be glad 10 pay dollar
TO have It done competentiy by proxy. I
am not sure that the time ought not to
come when they will be stationed about
our cities like policemen Evidently their
proper function Ia just step beyond police
duty In the same general direction.
A professional scold IN the present
state OF development OF the business
must know a little Of everything. Ac-
cording to the newspaper clipping
which introduces her she must be UP In
everything from leases and sanitary
plumbing TO the price OF meat and the
terms upon which accounts can be opened
in the big dry goods stores. To this she
must add calm. caution and nrmness
akin 70 obstinacy-and there you are. She
interviews the landlord and convinces him
that repairs are necessary by gently re-
nindng him that new plumbing can be
ordered by the board of health. She dis
putes bills when II IL necessary. tells the
butcher what Is the matter with the meat
and the dry goods man that his black taft
feta cracked in twenty-four hours. She
interviews the servants and persuades the
coachman that he must not drink and the
French maid that II Is inadvisahle TO
pawn her employers clothes, and the col
ored laundress that she must not wear
Mrs. Smiths hest laced and embroidered
white petticoats TO the African Assembly
ball before consigning them to the wash
tub.
CsTTrI. don't insist upon the use OF the
- professional scold In training children
somehow--well, somehow children are
SO very much ones own AFFAIR."
But there is the dlscipining of husbands
/ am perfectly sure IL Wouiu NC ueNtei iNi
the peace and happiness OF everybody con-
eerned II the chastisement OF husbands
could be done out OF the house. 1t would
be like having the washing put out In
that Il would remove a great deal OF suds
and steam from the domestic atmosphere
How much conjugai affection and rever-
ence" has been lost as the result OF very
necessary curtain lecturesl l never hap-
pened to know woman who didn't think
her husband needed little-well, just an
awfully iittle-training, though l have
known n number who administered II by
telling them that they were angels. This
method. however. can only be used with
success on an exceptionally intelligent
man--one clever enough TO know II isn't
true ana ambitious enough to try
to make II so. But FOR the
average man the professional scold
would certainly he great thing
For one thing--one very important thing
If he came home from his scodng look
ing especially crestfallen his wife could
always say. with appropriate punetua-
ton. "You poor. dear thing Was she so
horrid to you "a all thatY Won't give It
to her when get a chance, Why. only
paid her for a little. Just n TINY little
oue--not more than Is cents worth at the
outside. And here you come homo look