The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-02-24

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8 HER POINT OF VIEW s:
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IVvYOMEN, as a rule. like to shirk
Nh/ responsibility. men may feel
" the same way. but they en-
w deavor to conceal the weak
ness. General Grant was one
of the few who admitted such a re-
luctance. 1t was when for the first
| time he was TO conduct a regiment into
| an engagement. He would not have
been afraid to fight under another's
| direction, but confessed that he was
afraid to command others in such an
| important affair. Afterward he found
out that Colonel Harris, against whom
| he had expected to do battle, had been
equally i'm fear of meeting him, and had
evaded Il conflict, and ever after Gem
! cral Grant declared that he lost that
dread which had burdcned him on this
occasion. as he realized that the enemy
| was just as vulnerable as himself and
experienced the same fears.
| Women often wouldn't min !
| iiiuhiiS dltdChS IL IL were IOl lOI tHt
fear that they might get hit back. They
are more imDulsive than men and
therefore more swift to wish to visit
sudden retribution on the person or the
measure. or the object which excitcs
their ire. Generally speaking they run
off to enlist somebody else to do some-
thing about it. If the milk is poor, IL
their neighbor keeps chickens and Il
pig, IL the cross walks are filthy
! they've grown SO used to that condi-
tion in this town that it fails to excite
commenD if the minister breaches too
| long, if drivers overload their teams
| and If their favorite candidate. Che is
a man who always goes to church, isn't
| elected. they want somebody to make
, somebody else do something about it.
1t Is only when they form club that
they get courage to make personal at
tacks on obnoxious customs or meas
uies. Then they regard the RESPONSE
| biity as divided.
Here is where the newspaper comes
in. and here is where mon and women
are just alike in their theories. They
both feel that the newspap per should
take up their grievances. Women,
however. are superior in one respect.
they do not always write letters to the
paper and sign them Constant Read
er' or "Subscriber," and demand tha: I:
they shall he printed the next morn
ing. but they do think that the paper
should say something on their side.
The man who misses his car, who slips
on the pavement, who sees a tramp or
notices an automobile or a beer wagon
being driven through the streets at a
higher rate of speed than he believes
should be allowed. naturally feels that
| the newspaper should take up the mat
| ter.
If he believes that 1t is going to be
! harder work to watch six school con-
| trollers than twenty-one, or that the
viaduct is too expensive a luxury for
the city to own. or that some of the
officials of the municipality require a
private detective agency attached, he
naturally desires the paper to make
Il commotion about it,
Women are just the same. would
| be myself, only the editor prefers 20
| nave everybody connected with the
paper to take personal fights to
some other Office. but women in gen.
eral think paper is too mean for any
thing if it refuses to be the medium
for airing their grievances. If Il man
is rude and disaSreeable to his wife
they think he should be held up to
| scorn in the paper of course anony-
| mously, and so their identity could
never be disclosed as conveying the
Information, but just SO that he would
realize who is meant If a woman
i'irts with her friends husband she
should be written up in the same
| vague and careful manner. If they
have suffered an alleged slight at the
hands of some society leader. certain
details in the family history of that per-
son should be recalled to her memory
through the columns of the press. In
cidents in the career of some physician
of another school than that favored by
themselves, should be told the public
in print and family sketches belonging
| to certain politicians should be
| tangled from scare head on the first
| page.
Now, it is only occasionally that You
find "a paper looking for trouble, and
| II is reasonably sure to be gratified in
its search. Considera BILE fault is often
found with the reputable newspapers
because they publish SO much abou;
daily brought 10 the editors desk and
which never are printed. are the things
! which would make the sensations. Ev-
cry paper has a daily opportunity to
disrupt homes, business firms, churches,
| and official life, to end important
negotiations. to ruin finance and wreck
individual faith and confidence in hui
manity. The golden rule is probably
! applied more in NEWSPAPER office Than
anywhere else on the face of the earth,
not excepting even the ministr's study.
Don't you feel so bad then when your
favorite paper fails to print disser-
tation to the effect that mothers in
~Scranton neglect their children to an
extreme degree and in high society as
well as that of the middle class, are
not looking after their daughters
health or amusements as they should;
that physicians often carry disease to
| their patients and that some women
talk too much.
| Said little lady the other day: "Do
write something about the horrid per-
son in the boarding house who is con-
tinualy making trouble when other
| wise everybody would be at peace. Sha
| always produces discord--never sharp,
| Just tlat--and although she makes her.
self so generally disasreeable that she
is universally disliked, still she is able
to WELD a disturbing influence which
induces other people to find fault with
| the surroundings. 10 give her a good
| scolding."
| Now, this Is delightful task. am
to make a sort Of boarding house lady
1 tot tnn % nd tell