The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-28
Modern Woman
Why Must Women Repeat Scan
dals, When the Infinite One Never
Tells Either the Faults or the
Secrets of His Children !? :: ::

Even the most devoted lover of WON
ankind cannot help now and then feel
ing temporarily disgruntled at their
lack of intellectual and moral develop
ment A huge scandal has rent a Ger
tain town, a club has been split, six
lawyers have been employed. and there
has been nerve rack enough to age
twenty years the woman who began
the scandal A woman who wanted
to pose for somebody said she wasn't
going to reception given by another
woman who was somebody. because
that woman was said to have 'fiirted'
with a young man student, she having
husband. There was not even an in
situation that anything beyond mere
friendly acquaintance existed between
the two, but the scandal monger evil
IDENTITY felt that her own moral reputa
ton might be shaky, so had to
strengthen it by pretending virtuous
Indignation at the woman who had de
parted from the ordinary goose and
gander married folk style and dared to
indulge in pleasant social acQuaint
ance with person of the masculine
sex. There was absolutely no founda-
ton for even an insinuatiOn, as the
woman that started the scandal was
obliged to confess when confronted
with a lawyer who demanded a full
written retraction Of her poisoned tale.
but she told it with malicious delight
at the thought of finding out some
thing wrong about a sister woman.
She had to take it all back in a letter
which was shown far and wide, she
was made so ashamed that she hardly
dared open her mouth even to gossip
for some time, and she made several
bitter enemies for life. That Is the
sum of consequences of her high. vir-
tuous posing. and she was served
right. The woman who repeats scan
dial pollutes and makes unclean her
own mind. VIII the woman sex learn
after awhile to keep their mouths shut.
to look in the strictest way after theiI
own manners and morals and let those
Of other people alone?
How tired one gets of seeing the
statement that this or that person Is
the "only woman who has achieved
a particular aim demanding brains and
grit! There isn't any "only woman"
any more. All the sex-that is, nearly
all-are doing things worth while.
Father" said Adolphus, very young
young man, Il called on Miss Blank
yesterday evening and had such good
time" "Um"' remarked his father,
who understands very young gentle.
men. And what kind of time did she
have?" The youth had not thought OF
that part.
Willie Hoppe, the billiard champion
owes his skill largely to his mother
Her husband, himself a billiard expert
taught her to play his favorite game
and began to train his sons in it when
they were scarcely more than infants
Mrs. Hoppe practiced constantly with
the boys. She says of Willie, His IA
Their created his lessons, and l saw that
they were executed" On the night of
Willie's famous victory over SlossoD
the first thing he did after the enter,
tainment was to carry home his $500
prize and his share of the gate money
and lay them in his proud mothers lap
A wife's testimony in court: "My
husband broke my nose, knocked me
down and blackened my eyes, and yet
l love him STILL That wife ought to
have the same thing done to her all
over again.
The determined will to live long and |
be web goes far toward keeping us in i
health.
DIR. OSler has been guyed so unmerci. |
fully about his alleged advocacy of !
chloroforming people gently out of the
world after the age of sixty that he has
hidden his identity under an assumed
name when registering at hotels in
travelling. Serves him right! And vet :
in one way his dictum, whether he ever
really pronounced it or not. will dc
much good. 1t will make men and wo
men of sixty who were settling down
into useless old hunkses shake them
selves up and pull themselves together
to prove that they at least have not
reached the chloroforming stage. The
Creator gave us perfect bodies to start
with. 1t is only our own lack of will
power and intelligence that makes us
slump and let these beautiful bodies
fall into disease and decay. In Brook
Ign a vigorous and fourishing anti
Osler club has been formed by men
who intend to prove that boys will be
boys even at sixty. Naturally no WON
en- can be mem bers, because no women
past sixty can be found.
Every woman ought to be handsome,
and no woman ought ever to be old.