The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-02-22
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send our debating team mp TO Cornell
II We lose We win be ridiculed for "a.
lowing a woman 70 beat rs and II We
win we VIII be belittled for winning
from woman.
So deposeth the cynical and woman.
wise Mr.. woodbury., president Of the
Columbia University Debating Union,
as he spat refectIyely on the door
while airing his views of skirts" in
general and Miss Elizabeth "A. Cook
In particular.
Miss Cook, it will be remembered,
won place on the Cornell debating
team, which is to meet the Columbia
team at Ithaca next Friday. The IN.
gallant Columbians protested against
Miss Cooks debating on the ground
that the more chivairous judges might
be Influenced in their decision by her
presence on the Cornell team, re-
CARELESS.
AS there is no rule to prevent the
appearance of Miss Cook. the Colum.
bians have accepted the situation with
very bad grace and Will play the
game according to rule. The wind
tanners of DR.. Buffers institution of
learning would have saved themselves
great deal of ridcule II they had
reached this philosophical conclusion
some time ago, instead of making
public display of their hot heads and
cold very cold. neither extremities.
Pity Poor Ole Virginia.
There is an old proyerb as to the
proper origin of charity. (Which
refrain from repeating because it was
long since worn out, but which might
be made applicable to the charity
show" to be pulled of by Miss Wal
dorf Aston and other society leaders
at the Plaza Hotel next week. The
entertainment, which promises to be
scream. is for the benefit of the
poor whites of the Virginia noun
tnfns, to the utter neglect of the poor
whites of the East Side. New York.
Mrs. Astor spent her girlhood days
in the Old Dominion and an appreci-
alive public is informed that "her
sympathies go out" to the poverty
stricken mountainous of her native
State. When one considers that the
programme of the charity show In.
cludes nine living pictures. four dane
es and pantomime, in which Mrs. AS
tor will play Pierrette In lie Revellon
de Plerrette." and that the costumes
will cost many thousands of dollars
it is impossible to doubt or mIstrust
the reticent and unostentatious spirit
of philanthropy which animates the
leaders of the social Four Hundred.
New York, New Jersey.
Social divisions in the metropolis
are not based entirely on ratings in
Dunn and Bradstreet. The West Side
scorns the East Side, the Harlemlte
looks down upon the resident or the
Bronx and all Manhattan filings
shafts of satire at the citizen Of
Brooklyn. And the butt OF all jokes
is the lowly person, who commutes to
New Jersey.
There is story of westerner who
when asked where he was from, drew
a revolver and replied, Prom Arkan.
saw Now. laugh, darn you!" In the
past, some such forcible measures
would have been necessary to prevent
the Jerseyite from becoming the OBJ.
ject Of the plying smiles OF New York.
ers.
But every dog has his day. The
Jerseyite will have his next Tuesday,
when the new North river subway will
be opened with blare of trumpets
and a Hutter of flags and a burst of
subterranean oratory. President
Roosevelt will press a button inaugur.
ating the ceremonies and Governor
Hughes, of New York, and Governor
Fort, of New Jersey. Will start from
their respective States at the same
time, meeting on the State line under
the river.
The new tube, it is expected, is but
the predecessor Of many others, which
will bring the cities and towns OF
North Jersey in closer connection with
the business districts of the metropollc
than Is the, Bronx or Harlem.
With the solving Of the transporta.
ton problem, the time is probay
not far distant when North Jersey will
be the site of a single city greater far
than Brooklyn and when the home
address of millions Of New Workers
will be- not New York. N. Y. but New