Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-01-23

,ors They HNtN 49, -. g.;
t [,rm and his letters were an event III
l",'.' lives. You ought to be ashamed
lL', ,'onrsejf to treat your relatives Ike
o. .,s,fd a lady 10 him. well, | know
t'''" at least | suppose ought Out.
ou7 .1o rs ike this: I've been here in
w. ,bree wears. | work as hard as
ami watch every opportunity TO
hotter myself honestly ana l really
.,,fnl, I'm getting on. / need something
,haorfuI ard tightening to my lie out
,,.orl, bours. But, if you will believe
wa in all the three years i've been
,n, rye never once had letter from
hor,a which did not contain bad news
aI,l.fuI and depressing thoughts that
,d. me blue for days. It's got SO
droad to open a letter with the nome
nos,mark upon it. Every item OF dls
a,sa that atIiicts any of the family,
o..., m II tuothache, is poured into me.
Every letter is full of moaning about
,overty or the failure of crops. rIe
,,,,.rstspmcnpss Of this or that neigh
tar the dread of mortgage on the
EARN, fine creeping of age and helpless
,o.s on my mother and father the
+hra,tcurd blindness of old Great-un-
clio .Ieloshaphat the fear that Brother
Nod is taking TO drink or that Sister
Mary is going to marry that no account
Tom Bradley. If there's nothing else
there's gathering up of all the scandal
garbage in the county, and it's unload
cd ON me. | can't stand it any longer.
Nothers letters are so doleful and mis-
erable and full of anxious, graveyard
forebodings that they almost make me
longh sometimes in spite of myself.
That's the kind of stuff ones family in
Aicts on its members who are away
from home. Never once anything cheer
full or hopeful or encouraging from any
of them That's why l stopped writing
home
The British house of lords has finally
barred women lawyers from the prac-
tice of their profession in the United
Kingdom. Because of their sex women
are forbidden to enter the legal profess
sion, says this house of musty old OBJ
structionists The house of lords is the
chief obstacle to the progress OF both
the new man and the new woman III
England today. And yet silly. irration-
al young American women are fairly
tumbling over one another to marry
these arrogant, narrow minded. old
fogy peers. It's strange world.
npo D,itiSb hoe roooptIy-
visited the United States who may well
be patterned after by American women
in the matter of Observation-Disclosures in
dress. She is Lady Rodney of the
bluest Of British blood, yet so gentle
hammered, so sweet voiced and so plain
ly dressed that except for her refine
ment and evident high breeding sbp
might just be taken for anybody, y.
the opera in New York, where she was
the guest of one of the richest womCI
in America, refined Lady Rodney wore
plain, simple white silk gown, per
fectly tasteful, but with almost no or
namentation, and she appeared without
jewels. The contrast between her anG
the Overdressed, eXtravaGantly orua
mented American women in the boxes
about her was something remarkable
People remembered Lady Rodney her
self not what she had on
thoroughly capable woman is she
who can successfully manage children
dogs and hired people.
e@
Didy0u observe what a row was raised
IN certain quarters when some time
since young lady refused to be mar
red by ritual which makes the bride
take a pledge to obey her husband?
splendid, high spirited girl that, and
she Will make noble wife, too. for her
action shows she has conscience in
Inc matter of taking pledges and would
not make any vow she did not expect TO
Keep. Now let us have plenty more
girls to follow her example.
~
Oh. if men, especially preachers. could
only see and understand that the com
pete freeing of woman and her conse-
qucnt mental and physical DEVELOPMENT
would result in bringing the whole race
TO godlike stature,
Poets have the true vision. 1t was n
HVlhg truth Tnnyson uttered when he
wrote: The woman's cause is mans
iney rise or sink together. bond or
free"
HE sillicst ambition a woman can
CHERISH is that of trying to outstrip
sone other woman in the splendor of
nef dress, house and furniture, Heaven
nave mercy on all such.
what does gorgeousness in dress.
house or furnishments count in com.
t parse with the splendid physical
peduly and strength, the undreamed of
mental and spiritual development, now
possible to the race and in a measure TO
every individual woman?
l'etllehber this always: The inferior |.