The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-10-28
WOMAN ABOUT TOWN

essary a hundred times. Yesterday We
went in. moved by a common impulse.
/ Gustavus was generous.
Have one on me. he said. Don
say a word / insist. ] know what you
want You always take beer. Sir. a glass
/ OF beer for my friend
" 'Two?' asked the sir
"Gustavus shook his head
Ny doctor says ] niustn drink beer.
I'll have a bottle of wine My, and he
| looked at me-loOked at me with that lit
tie dash Of suds before me, mind you-I
wish ! could drink beer like you.
The returned traveller expresses him
self as being glad to get back to Wash
ington.
Il went 10 several political meetings
while ! was in New York" he says,
"and one Of them was in Brooklyn. and
I'm mighty glad that being a Washing
tonian lets me out of having TO decide
who shall be governor of New York. The
talk I heard Ny, my. Il made me think
Of the little eolored boy who heard an
other colored boy cali him all sorts Of
names, When the other boy had finished,
the colored boy said; Is you froo? Well
all them names you done called me, you
is Them And then, again, 1 heard such
touching bursts of eloquence as brought
tears TO my eyes. / don't believe I ever
heard a more beautiful tribute than was
paid speaker al an Independence party
meeting in Brooklyn last Tuesday night
by the chairman of the occasion. The
chairman rose TO intrr duce the speaker.
England had her Charles Dickens and
Little Nell he said but America He
paused and ] began 10 bet with myself
as TO what he'd say next / couldn't de-
eide whether Mark Twain and Tom Saw
yer, or Mrs. Stanton and Little Eva
looked best for my money. l had even
an idea that Upton Sinclair and the jun
gle might be the wise thing TO play for
place.
England has her Charles Dickens and
Little Nell be repeated; but America
has Arthur Brisbane and his editorials "
The mention OF Upton Sinclair re-
minds me Of an erstwhile supporter Of
his colony idea who has repudiated him
utterly. She is the mother of a young
family. and when she heard Of the colony
she was all for joining it as soon as it
should be an accomplished fact.
And I should have joined, too" she
says, IF I hadn't read the ridiculous
ideas the colony people indorse about the
way TO bring up children. They want TO
have all the children together In one
building. I don't mind that ] doat
even object 10 the idea of the mothers in
the colony taking turns at looking after
the children, though / don't quite under
stand why, il a mother isn't the right
person 10 bring up her own child every
day in the week. she's a suitable person
TO bring UP other peoples one day Of the
seven. What / do object 10 is the plan
to have that communistic nursery a per-
fectly safe place. I understand it's 10
have no stairs child can fall down, no
unbarred windows II can fall out Of, no
jam jars II can dip into, no dangerous
open fires It's 10 be a place where A
child viii be as safe as if It were wrapped
in cotton wool There are lets of places
ike that for children now, but they're not
the prides OF socialistic colonies. I want
my children to learn TO go up and down
stairs without falling, and 10 keep away
from open windows and fires. What kind
OF training for after life do you think
this wrapping in cotton wool idea is2
DO these cOIOnists expect people 10 live
In world where there aren't any danger
Gus things? I'm glad / found out IN time.
Catch me taking my children into a place
Ike that. l guess I'll let them grow up
IN the silly, old-fashiOned way THEY'LL
have 20 find out some time that FIRE burns
and they may as Well find il out early. The
trouble with al these lovely schemes for
making the world over is that they have
every possible element in them except u
little common sense"