The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-12
Modern Woman
Why Must Women Repeat Scan
das, When the Infinite One Never
Tell. Either the Faults or the
Secrets Of His Children =. ::

Even the most devoted lover of wom
ankind cannot help now and then feel
Ing temporarily disgruntled at theii
lack of intellectual and moral develop
ment. A huge scandal has rent GER
tain town, 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 a reception given by another
woman who was somebody, because
that woman was said to have "firted"
with 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
IDENTIFY felt that her own moral reputa.
ton might be shak,, 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 a pleasant social acquaint
ance with a person of the masculine
sex. There was absolutely no founda.
ton for even an insinuatiOn, as the
woman that started the scandal was
with a lawyer who demanded a full
written retractiOn Df her poisoned tale,
but she told it with malicious delight
at the thought OF finding out some
thing wrong about 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 o. consequences Of her high, vir-
tuous posing. and she was served
right. The woman who repeats scan
dial pvllutes and makes unclean her
OWL mind VIII the woman sex learr
after awhile to keep their mouths shut
to look in the strictest way after their
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, II called on Miss Blank
yesterday evening and had such good
time" "Um- remarked his father,
who understands very Soung gentle
men. And what kind OF time did she
haveT' The youth had not thought OF
that part.
Willie Hoppe, the billiard champion,
owes his skill largely to his mother.
Her husband, himself billiard expert,
taught her to play his favorite game
and began to train his sons in 1t 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 saw that
they were executed" On the night OF
Willie's famous victory over Slosson
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 well goes far toward keeping us In
health.
Dr. 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 yei
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 M
slump and let these beautiful bodief
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 bt
boys even at sixty. Naturally no wom-
en- can be members, because no womer
past sixty can be found.
Every woman ought to be handsome,
md no woman ought ever to be old.
Every woman ought to be young and
handsome no matter what her years