The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1902-08-09
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announcer occurrence rev weeks /
ago has driven it In on my mind with |
a spike and sledge hammer One |
should<never 60 off in his mind prema-
turely, so l have been for months con-
sidering whether | ought to call the at
tention of the women Of this republic
to the dangerous and scandalous go
ings on in the United States senate
Now l have decided that as a duty
incumbent on me and one which can
not be shirked l must speak out sol
emn warning against trusting the mas
culine sex with the ballot and the law
making power.
To the United States senate are cho-
sen men presumably of the ripest in
tellects and most seasoned passions, ,
yet last winter in a solemn session of
that body one elderly member leaped
over the seats like a kangaroo and
grabbed a brother senator from his own
state by the hair, and this one ''he
pitched into him and him pitched into
he," and the two had gorgeous dog
fight In the eyes Of all the world, so to
speak. OF the more recent occurrence
the scare head lines of the newspapers
by the Throat on Floor of the Cham
berw 'Why l Did tt Was Mad and
Lost Ny Head"'
'Now | ask the women of the land
whether creatures like these swayed
wholly by their emotions, driven hither
and thither by the excitement Of the
; moment, like the animals in a mule
corral during q stampede, are fit to be
trusted with political responsibility.
Do not these repeated outbreaks in the
gravest and highest legislative body in
the republic show a hopeless lack Of
that cool Judgment and solid brain
power which alone can keep the human
head level in critical moments? Yea,
verify, plainly man is creature too
2 emotional to be trusted with the gov
erning power.
Mrs. Alice Moore McComas last yea
dropped the quill and ink horn Of thu
:; Journalist to tour her daughters on tn
musical stage. Both are very young
= but so admirably trained and laugh
by their mother in new woman way
that they could take care of themselve
pianiste of a travelling entertainment
company. The younger is Carroll tn
whistler" now only seventeen. Mrs
D. McComas herself is Carrolps bushes
manager, making all her engagement
and travelling with her always. TIL
p year for both sisters has been uncom
monty successful. Mrs. McComas ha
proved herself an excellent manager.
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n Did it ever occur to you that absent
mindedness and forgetfulness In small
matters are a sin! Either may easil.
be overcome but if allowed to grow o.
one develops into real addlepatednes
and brain disease.
Many women waste enough tim
leaning upon their elbows and gain
out Of windows to become adopts Il
any branch Of knowledge, art or indus
try that they might take up. In tn
day Of judgment when each Is ASKED
What did you do in your earth life
save your soul and earn continued e1
istence for it &" will she say: Il was
sill presser. 1 leaned on my elbow
10 and looked out the window"
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Miss Emma Wiltmore for twent.
w five years has been station agent, tel
graph operator and baggage master ,
Wantagh, n. Y In each of these CT
pacities she Is an admirable servant {
nd the road. She is one of the best tel
graph operators on the line.
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Don't believe what you are taugl
lust because one who is supposed to
- an authority teaches it to you. u
your own judgment. Don't be sheer
In Chicago the members Of the Cox
County Bar association select the Y
rious candidates for judges in set
. primary meetings. The association
cludes considerable number Of wol
en- lawyers, and at the last primari
err these ladies exercised with good "
their right to vote.
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One Of the most learned and schols
IL individuals of either sex in II
country is Doctor of Laws M. Car
Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr C
ans lege. Miss Thomas believes won
should have the ballot.
any Never slump over little breakdown
'rre- physical or otherwise. Pick up and
and on again.
nder y
ions ~ .,,.o norn,..
- Blake, and her aids of the New 70
City Legislative league have und
taken to procure the appointment
women physicians for the FEM
wards Of the state insane asylums.
win be necessary to have the legis
ture enact a law to that effect before
can be done. Or. Phoebe Wait a NJ
aho York physician. was the nrst to reco
- mend that the proposition be
ava preached BY way Of the state legia
ture, eipce thu palitte3Ane Who Anpo