Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-05-07
BISHOP HAS
SOMETHING
TO LEARN
THINKS WESTERN GIRLS CHEAP
All He Needs Is just an Average Cor
SET Full of Experience

to entertain than eastern youni
women" said Bishop Charles Scad
ding Of the diocese of Oregon, in tn,
Episcopal church, when he spoke be
fore the Mems club of Trinity Parish
church in Seattle some ten days ago
Eastern girls have what are call
ed double appetites--in winter time
the young man spends his money
buying them oysters, which are eV'
pensive. In the summer time they
demand to be filled with ice cream
on every occasion"
IL is experience with young women
OF the east, the bishop said that
makes him competent to speak on
the subject. He said that "in Seat
tie girls can be fed on all kinds OF
sea food I'm winter months at COM
paratively small cost. But they have
too much good sea food that they
care for little of it. In summer girls
who pine for something cool can gaze
at the mountains"
The horse editor does not pretend
10 any extended experience along the
lines OF the good bishops sugges-
tions. IL has been so many years
since he left the effete east that he
has no knowledge of the style of the
eastern girl, nor her capacity for
shell fish. ice cream and such other
commodities as are generally used
as dressing for the goose" at after
thoater functions, plcnics and other
OF the Wild whlrllglgs of the necessity
concomitant of having one or more
best girls. Concerning the western
girls. however, the horse editor is
forced To the belief that someone has
been "stringing" the bishop. West
ern girls are. In n sense, cheap-thatI
Is they are so dear that they are
cheap at ony old price. Why, II the
good bishop could come here To So.
lem and along about II y. m, when
the theater was over, and the street
'dIh huu N'dh'u Ah'll hiah iumpllhSt
shove his patent feathers under
snowy covered little table just big
enough for two. and have opposite
him a dainty little Salem girl with
eyes as bright, and deep, and blue
as a pellucid mountain pool, n com
pleXion like apple blossoms and hair
like sunshine tangled In the spray
of a waterfall, a voice like the minor
tones OF an Eolian harp--well, II
would be all on with the bishop.
why, In two minutes he would for
get the price OF anything, and ceaSo
Co remember that there was such a
thing as money. Western girls
cheap? why bless his dear heart,
money cannot he mentioned In the
same breath with them, why a fell
low who can sldle up 10 within three
feet OF one of the dimitier angels.
would 30 down In his jeans aud
dump out his dollars as though they
were pebbles from the beach. and he
wouldn't stop 10 think of anything
else. but love of truth compels the
horse editor 20 dispute the statemen.
that the western girls can look az
the mountains FOR something cool.
No sir. the average western girl
while she looks like an angel Is
really thing OF flesh and blood,
with supple muscles ana pulsing ar
teries. whose health Is good and ap
petite becoming to that condition.
She requires food. and she has a
carrying capacity In that line that
would make the coy literary. four
eyed damsels of Boston look like 80
cents worth OF beans, The bishop
may be, as he claims, an authority
on eastern girls, hut, when he gets
up against one of our western dlvini-
ties, with smile like the sun kissed
peaks of the Cascades at dawn, and
an appetite the creature OF our noun
tain ozone, it's dollars 20 doughnuts
the good bishop would soon be ask
ing for raise of salary.