The National tribune., 1908-01-23

tend trial in Cleveland the other day
Of q divorce suit in high life that was
a disgrace to the court even. The trial
Judge looked round on the feminine
fashion there and then told them to
hike-get right out OF his court, as the
case was not fit for them to listen to.
Then he said:
"All women are cats. They will
turn suddenly on their best friends and
spit and claw and scratch them. Most
Of the women ordered from the room
came to hear the testimony against
Mrs. Mitchell.
''Woman is peculiar. There are few
cause they always are waiting for
chance to criticise their acquaint-
anceS."
1t may not be true that "all women
are cats" in fact 1t is not true of ''all
women" just "some women There
are women who will lie when the truth
would suit the purpose better. There
are women who really enjoy finding
that the friend whom they have trust
ed is not perfect. and the nasty catty
woman who goes about saying: "Oh,
yes, Mary is fine woman, and does
a great deal of good. but-then-" and
with significant look stops there, is a
woman to dread and hate worse than
pestilence and famine. She can do
more damage in a community than a
hundred good women can undo. With
her suggestive stories, her sneering
cackle of laugh and her half veiled
inuendoes, she is a power for evil that
any community may well dread. Every
community, every society, every organ
iZation has some such woman, and if
there are two or three of them 1t is
all day with the organization, for the
catty woman must be gotten rid of or
the society will get rid of itself to get
rid of her. In Washington, not long
ago. when the Brown trial was on, the
court room was daily crowded with
women of the purient minded class,
women who nourish on scandal. and
fatten on divorce naStineSS, and the
Judge finally issued an ultimatum. He
said that he could not control the
older women who reveled in cigarettes,
and fed on puriency, but he could
protect the young women and children
from the loathsome details, and SO he
gave orders that only the "old cats"
should be admitted to his court room.
There should be law that no woman
shall be admitted to listen to such
trials. After the damage is done,
women are shut from the Thaw case
rs Rev. Anna Howard Shaw loves to
say, all this tommy rot ought to be
cut out of the newspapers also. Surely
no cream IditlllN paper VIII print tne
doings of the fast set, because it would
then lose its title to being a family
organ.
A writer in Political Economy
styles the President .'flashy buffer"
Now wouldn't that jar your Stats! Of
all men ever in public life, President
Roosevelt is the last man to apply the
word 'hashy'' to. But buffer,
well, that's another story.
The Sheridan statue people have at
last accepted design. 1t was stated
q good while ago that Mrs. Sheridan
did not like the attempted portraiture
of Little Phil. in the statue. and see
ing the thing. it is no wonder. Gen.
Phil Sheridan might have been as
slim as that statue has him when he
was four or II, but not when he
was 40. and certainly not when he
died. The horse he is riding is sight
His tail is cropped to begin with,
which couldn't possibly have been cor
rect of any horse that Sheridan rode
during the war. Then the critter
stands with all four feet together, as
though he had the collie, or was buck
ing, or he was about to sit down on
his hanches, and his neck is bent in
an unlovely arch, his head drawn down
almost against his chest. and the mouth
wide open as though the nasty "break-
ing bit'' which he seems to wear was
cutting his tongue out. He looks like
a bucking broncho. and there is not
the remotest resemblance to Sheridan
as he is known in any picture of him
extant. 1t certainly is crazy looking
thing 1t is to be labelled Sheridan"
which is fortunate. 1t looks like any
body else.