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The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-18
The Congressional Club.

Contrary to all expectation, and despite the work
of its sponsors and promoters, the Congressional
Womens Club which was destined for first place
among the womens clubs of the world, still lacks
permanent organization, says the Washington Her
AID To Mrs James B. Perkins and Mrs. Herbert
Parsons of New York City belongs the credit of the
clubs foundation with Mrs John Sharp Williams,
wife of the Democratic leader from Mississippi, as
their great ally among the women of the southern
contingent.
The latest and much debated question is just what
shall constitute eligibility to membership. GER
tain number of women wish to include the wives
of Cabinet officers, of the justices of the Supreme
Court and all the assistant secretaries of the differ
ent departments Others assert that Congressional
club should and must be, limited to the wives
daughters of the House and Senate. They declare
that to open their doors to women from any other
branch of the national Government would in few
years make the roster of their club read like the
concluding pages of the Congressional directory and
make the Congressional contingent a matter of sec
ondray Importance in a home of its own building.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-18

Wherever prohibition or local option is an issue
in elections the women make their influence felt al
most as effectively if they had the voting privilege
themselves. A must have unusually strong con-
victions on the side of liquor be particularly
impervious to feminine sentiment if he resist the
silent appeal that somehow or another makes its
istence known.
Experience in many local option contests in the
last year or two has shown, however, that the
women have not to rely solely on their telepathlc
influence Public sentiment among men has been
undergoing a great change in regard to the liquor
traffic, and nobody realizes this more than those
who are engaged in the business. Their recognition
of the change has been shown in the efforts of liquor
dealers associations to bring about better conditions
in the conduct of saloons in order, if possible, to
ward off just such action was taken by the voters
in many parts of Illinois Tuesday Wholesale liquor
dealers and saloon keepers who trying to
their places with air of responsibility see the
wave that is rolling over sections of the
country and wondering where next it will strike
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-18
Through MOrn7OniSm and POPUISm.

In an address to the Gridron Club of New York.
according to The Tribune of that city, Mrs. Ros-
sitter Johnson discussed suffrage, saying that
woman suffrage and socialism were one, that they
had ALWAYS been allies, and that the bomb throwing
in Union Square the natural result OF the move
ment.
at is law of life" said Mrs. Johnson, that the
ultimate character of movement IS EMBODIED III It's
germ If you would know the final outcome, study
the beginnings. Woman suffrage is the child OF
socialism Ancient socialism swept away marriage
II provided institutions for the children. 1t gave
votes to women, and they served as soldiers: What
does it mean that our now filled with cries
of Socialism is the Bible, Socialism is religion
Let us have trial marriages, The individual home
must go and Votes for women. 1t means that
socialism is claiming its And what is social
ism? 1t is rebellion. It's ideal, formed back IN the
ages of what Emerson called The whole soul and
sodiery of dissent has become organized political
rebellion against God, against government, against
sex limitation.
'But surely American suffrage did not present this
the founders words Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton
advocated trial marriages Boomers and short hair
and no hats were the outward symbols Of the move
ment in its early days. Today the boomers have
been hidden by trains and the hair covered by fash
ionabe hats, but to those who watch closely the
suffrage conventions the spirit of these trappngs has
never been absent. The radical teachings of
the movement have been kept much in allegiance
as possible but it has been anything but the
same
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-18
To HdViSe a Mayor.

For the first time in the history of that city, and
probably for the first time in the history of New
England, woman has been appointed to the Mayors
advisory board of Salem Massachusetts, and will
do her best to suggest things for the citys good.
The woman so honored is Kate Tannat Woods, and
she is not an advocate of suffrage. ''What
want is principles, not politics" she says.
Mayors attention the thousand and small things
which escape the masculine mind. In accepting this
place Mrs. Woods wrote to Mayor Hurley: "You
have the honor of being of the few mayors of this
country to recognize the need of motherly love and
mother wisdom and experience in the worlds work"
Mrs. Woods is best known for club interests and
her writings but has always been advocate of the
vital interests of the home Once when Lucy Stone
wished her to come to Boston and read poem for
the Cause of Suffrage with Large C." she wrote
that she must stay at home, and the cause with
a small &C" which kept her there the need to
make pair of knickers for small voter.
In spite of her devotion to home, Mrs Woods
has brought out thirty books, and is a member of
twenty-five clubs. She believes that every woman
is better for interests outside the home but adds
that she had to wait for those interests until she had
brought up her five children.
While on the advisory board she will try to bring
pectoration, and an aesthetic crusade for good pic
lures and other objects of beauty in the school
room.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-18
The Governor Suspected.

That the Spokane Washington Spokesman Re
view "has trotted Governor Gooding out for a re-
nomination in this state" is evidence to the Couer
d'Alene Press that the governor wants nomination
to third term. The Press puts it this way
1t is claimed by some that the governor has a
longing to be elected for third term vindica-
ton of his policy in the Western Federation prose-
cutions and that he would not hesitate to go into
the convention if given some encouragement as the
opponent of his ld-time friend Brady. The Spokes-
and when it comes out editoriay in favor of
third term it must speak by authority from
liable source.
There may be unsupported ambition under the
roof of the state house, but if so, there is some
thing wrong with the machinery of the organiza-
ton The shouters have shouted for Brady, which
usually means that it is all over except the voting.
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-18
WOmdH'S PAGE
Prefer Factory Work.

One of the chief reasons why the average work
ing girl prefers a factory to domestic service IS
that in the latter she is pestered too much by un
skilled interference" At least, that the conclu-
sion reached by Miss Elizabeth McCraken, who
gives her views the subject in The Outlook,
after interviewing a large number of factory girls
and of domestic servants, too
81 gave it up" one girl who had done general
homework told Miss McCracken, because I got
tired being bossed by people who didn't know how
to do the job themselves"
"The foreman forewoman tells us what to do,
said one factory girl, "but they know"
Many of the girls who had tried domestic service
admitted that they had encountered employers who
had some knowledge of domestic science and art
"They knew about it in a way" one qualified
"But you see they all knew it dif'rent, and knew
it dfrent too. In the factory everybody knows the
job the same"
Asked whether she would prefer household SER
vice to factory work if she could do the house
work the way she knew it, she said promptly,
eyes, but | never saw lady would let me-"
One woman to whom this story repeated,
woman who had been housekeeper for many years
and employed servants said stifdy that that girl ex-
pected too much Servants paid to do as they
are told in our houses" she observed.
But are they? Or, if they are, should they be!
Miss McCracken demands People do not stand
over the plumber and tell him how to mend the
pipes They do not select the carpenters nails when
he comes to put up a shelf and insist on his driving
them some particular way. To be sure, these work
men are not continuous employees, but If the cont1n-
uous employees the domestic servans were treated
little more as these workmen are treated let alone
to plan their work and do it their own way-the
work to be judged by the results-woud not that
90 a long way toward solving the domestic prob
lem?
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-18

Spokane Spokesman Review: The telepathic in
huence which the women of Illinois announced they
would throw over the male voters election day
appears to have accomplished results that should
give them lively satisfaction Twenty counties, nine
cities and scores of towns reported in the dry
column in the returns of Tuesdays elections. This
outcome may not be due altogether to the mind
waves" circulated in the atmosphere of the polling
booths by the women but it is highly probable that
these waves contributed very materially to the result
The Idaho scimitar. [volume] (Boise, Idaho) 1907-1908, 1908-04-18
THE IDAHO SCIMITAR.

Mrs Johnson is not at all gloomy about the out
come of events, however. She summed it all up
by saying:
GAS a political issue woman suffrage is merely
an academic not a real question The only foot
hold has attained in this country has been secured
through Mormonsm and populism, tyranny OF
church and state on the one hand and socialism on
the other. The present socialistic attempt to in
troduce it into the state is temporary absurdity'
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
FLYING Fish.

At one time it was widely credited
that flying fish possessed the power TO
accelerate thei, passage through the
mir by Tapping their wings" as their
enormously elong.ue pectoral Tins are
sometimes called. Had this been prov
ed these fish would have actually shar-
ed with bats. birds aid insects pow
er which has been denied to all other
living creatures. But men Of science
are now agreed that the motion OF the
fins sometimes seen when the nsh
leaves the water is merely Il continual
tion OF It's swi mining movement ana In
no way aids the passage OF the hsh
through the air. The method OF the
fish's flight is this: 1t ruslss through
the water at high speed. hurls itself
into the atmosphere and. spreading It's
huge winGlilxe fins. glides rapidly 1or'
ward until its momentum is exhausted.
Then it drops back again into the wa
rer. SO great Is the impetus gained
that these fish under favorable condi-
rions will "Gy" for distance Of 800
feet. But when once the impetus is
exhausted the fish is quite unable 70
sustain itself in The air by muscular
alfort.-Scientifc American.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
A Mer cenary Boy.

"When was IL boy" said the maj
who insisted that men were more mer
cenary than women. IL bad a little
friend named Willie. Willie appeared
one day with II line apple.
"'I'll give you this apple he said t
a little girl. for twenty kisses
"The little girl was amazed. Tha
was not at an like Willie. Nevertbe
less she consented.
"'Shut your eyes said Willie. 81
down here and shut your eyes. And
mind you, If you open them the bar
gain is Off
"rhe little girl obeyed, and slowly
very slowly. the kisses began to fal
upon her lips. One, two. three. four z
long pause), five, six (another loni
pause), seven pause), eight, nine, tel
Qntolerable pause).
"Oh. Willie. hurryv
"T'm not Willie
"The little girl opened her eyes II
astOnishment and drew back her prett,
mouth from the advancing lips OF
strange boy, very common, shabb,
sort Of boy, whom she had never seel
before.
"'Why. where's Wlllier she cried.
"He's down the street. was the re
ply. 'sellin' yer kisses for two apple
apiece. Better shut yer eyes again
The next three boys is terrible ugly.
st. Louis Republic.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
The COncertina.

The accordion. which was develop
ment OF a previously existing aeollna,
was invented In 1929 10y q Vlennese
named Damian ana consists. as every
one knows. OF small pair Of bellows
and range OF keys which regulate the
admission OF wind 10 metal reeds. The
accordion sounds notes In one key only.
The concertina proper was Invented on
the same date hy Charles Wheatstone,
who later became a famous man OF
science. II seems curious that man
whose reputation rests chiefly on his
electrical work and discoveries, who
was one Of the earliest men OF science
TO make experiments in connection
with submarine cables and who, more
over, was an extraordinarily skillful
decipherer OF cryptographic writings.
should also have dabbled in musical
inventions. But, as a matter OF fact,
WheatstOne's musical work preceded
his scientific discoveries. He went
straight from school to the business Of
manufacturing musical instruments,
and 1t was IN 1929, at the age of TWEEN
ty-seven, that he took out his patent
for the concertina. But he was more
interested in the scientific principles
on which musical instruments are con-
structed than In music itself. and his
acoustical and musical experiments
soon drew him into the path which led
to his many electrical discoveries
London Globe.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
a Calm Witness.

A lawyer was cross examining wilt
ness with a view to getting him mud
died In his testimony. The following
questions and answers occurred:
"Did you see the plaintiff faint
short time ago"
Eyes. sir"
People turn pale when they faint
don't they"
"No, sir; not always"
"Whatl Do you mean to tell me tha'
a person can faint and not turn pale
Did you ever hear Of such caseT
"Yes. sir"
"DId you ever see such caseT
II did, sir"
"WhenT 4
about year ago, sir" j
"Who was it?'
"'Twas q negro, SIR"
The lawyer excused the witness
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
The Moabite Stone.

The 80 called Moabite stone was DIS
covered by the Rev. +. Klein In 1850
among the ruins of Dhiban, the ancient
Dibon. The stone was OF black ba
salt. rounded at the top and bottom
two feet broad. three feet ten inches
high and fourteen inches in thickness
but was unfortunately broken hy the
Arabs, whose cupIdity had been arous
ed by the interest that was taken In II
by the explorers. The fragments were
afterward collected and labcrtously
fitted together, ana the stone now
stands In the Louvre Gt Paris. The
inscription Of thirty-four lines Is IL
Hebrew -PhOenician characters and ap
pears to be record Of Mesha. king OF
Moab. mentioned In III Kings III. refer
ring 10 his successful revolt against
the king Of Israel-New York Ameri
can
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
To His Benefit.

A Tennessee congressman enjoys
telling a story Of darky in his dis
trict who in a way is something OK n
philosopher.
Some one was saying to Nose one
day: You're always in trouble, Nose
Why can't you try TO do better? You're
a likely sort Of darky. and you could
get along very we'll If only you'd behave
yourself-keep n steady job instead OF
drinking bad whisky and getting your
self behind the bars half the time"
Excuse me, boss" said Nose, with a
grin. "but It looks to me like makes
more money this way. When | works
hard | gets 81 a month and my board.
When | gets arrested the jedge he says
10 me that it will be $40 or thirty days.
How kin | afford to work for - a
month when I'm worth SO more IN de
lockupT-St. Paul Pioneer-PreSs.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
WhnrA the Joke Lay.

he was an Englishman, taking trip
Oh n Welsh excursion steamboat. and
ne uas watching Il group Of Welsh col
Hers larking with one another, when
they suddenly seized one OF their com
Daniuns and swung him to and fro.
The victim shrieked in terror as the
ringleader shouted:
Now, boys. overheard with I'm"
So real syas the horror OF the collier
that the Englishman Jumped up and
Tntnrfered successfully. The collier
viclhed himself up and backed to safe
seut next the TngliShman, who sternly
n,epreyed him for uttering such nerve
sshatt7ing cries.
1T uas only n soke. and you must
have known It." he said.
The .celiier wiped his forehead.
"Tss, knowed famous it wass
a6Se." he Ietorted. AN that's why did
Rcreech hlue murrdurr. EE don't know
the boys. s1rr The joke with them
wass 10 chuck me overheard. Thank
ga kindly forr stoppin' 'em~-Pear
sons Weekly.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
Gaze For q Queen Bee.

When n queen bee becomes unpro
ductiye through old age. It Is necessary
for the bee keeper TO supply the colony
Of bees with q new queen. This he
does IN the following manner: The old
queen is removed from the hive and
the bees are left alone for about twelve
hours or longer. during which time
they find out that they are queenless.
The new queen is then put into a cage
made of wood and wire cloth. with an
opening through one end. This OPEN
ing is filled tight with q mixture OF
honey and sugar The cage thus pre-
pared is laid upon the tops Of the
frames in the hive. The bees soon dis
cover the new queen in the cage and
set to work upon the honey and sugar.
Tn the hive bees recognize friends and
strangers by their sense Of smell, and
q strange queen entering hive would
be very quickly killed by the bees. By
the time the queen is liberated from
the cage she has acquired the scent Of
the hive and is therefore no longer a
stranger. London Globe.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
Old Maps of Louisiana.

An interesting exhibit in the Lou
isiana State museum Is collection Of
old maps that show the state OF Lou
isiana extending from Canada. which
was then called New France, on the
north to the gulf Of Mexico on the
south and from Virginia and Carolina
on the east to the Pacific on the west.
These maps were printed In Italy and
Holland and France and were evident
ly largely works of fancy and imagina-
ton on the part of the geographers, as
they depict mountain ranges where
none exists and lakes and rivers dis
tributed around I'm places where they
are not found today. One Of the most
charming OF these maps represents the
Mississippi river as making a graceful
turn along what is now the roadbed OF
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
and emptying into the gulf In Florida.
Along a strip Of this country about
where English Lookout and peaceful
Bay st. Louis are located Is fear
some spot marked as the land OF the
man eaters.-New Orleans Picayune.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
Didn't Want to Tell.

The late Professor Greene. author OF
Grecne's Analysis and the English
Grammar with which so many have
wresii.d i'm their school days. was one
of the most genial and f,,therly OF men.
During the later rears OF lis lie he
was professor Of mathcl .ndcs ana as
tronomy In II New England college.
There was ia ono 90 his class'a. 4 Fo.nr-
what SLOW >5ittcd though stu ioaS
young man whom wc vii c;;i! IeieS.
On Il ccrtai. OCCASION ~ - Joiifs hdd
rc,e tcSI car, my the tex took stale
mcnts about p CfcctS Of .ie m"b'i's
Of the earth IN q was trying 0 reme9i~
Der what came next in the BOOK the
professor inter- 1scd with:
Were you ever IN the shadow or the
earth, Mr. JonesE
Jones (slowly)-No. sir.
Professor-Where do you spend your
nights. sir?
Jones didn't want TO teiI.-UnNer-
salst Leader.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
Diaonosed the Case.

A successful oculist recently put In
a day or two with his new shotgun In
the marshes. He soon noticed that
when using the left hand barrel he
generally brought down the game. but
when using the other barrel he inya-
riably missed. He finally tackled u
small target to a bush near the rivers
bank and fired at II several times with
each barrel In order to bring the mat
ter TO n test. The result confirmed his
suspicious. One barrel was all right.
ar nearly so. and the other was all
wrong.
We'll" said the oculist to friend
who was with him. las nearly as
can make out this gun has severe
case of strabismus. with strong symp-
toms Of astignatlsm. - Modern So
ciety.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
In the Drinkinn pays.

A once we'll known Individual who
had lived every day of his life and
gained from it great experience left
the following adyice-and little elsc-
TO his sons: Drink sl0w; do not nix
your liquor; never sit with your backs
70 the fire." II was an excellent pre-
cept for the era In which 1t was given
the times when the dining room door
was kept locked that there might be
no Sinking le cluret and when the
only chance 1T the circuit mess Of es-
Gaping mtOy.CatiOn vas to drop under
the table like tie rest" as Lord Cock.
burn tells us hr did. and lie quiet
nay. even when OGr Judges resented
that discre IL should be brought on
drinking by misconduct. Everybody
drank. 0nd much too much. In those
days. but especially tie upper classes.
\ weiI known politician discharged his
cOachmal for Over;urning him in bic
carriage II had certainly drunk too
much. sir" urged the poor man. "but
I was Iot very drunk. and gentlemen,
you know. sometimes get drunk" Il
don't say you were very drunk for O
gentleman" returned his master, "but
you were exceedingly drunk for o
coachman"- London illustrated News,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
A Sinners Avarice.

We hear great deal about the enor'
nous salaries paid to famous priml
donnas nowadays. and we also hear
great deal about their charity and good
nature. In the reign Of Queen Anne
one OF the most celebrated singers was
Mrs. Tofts, who had yeritable craze
for money making as well as great
deal OF personal conceit. Pope, who
never spared any persons or objects
that he satirize6 wrote an epigran
that must have greatly annoyed the
ayaricious singer:
SO bright h thy beauty. 80 charming thy
song.
Az had drawn both the beasts and their
Orpheus along.
But such Is thy avarice and such Is thy
pride
That the beasts must have starved ant
tho poet have died
London Standard.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
Hin Eselinna Were tiurt.

1t Is strange how unreasonable som'
people are In buSineSs-how unreason
able and how incousderate of the feel
iags Of others. rs an example. there i
tie case OF Il fidelity company In New
York which suddenly and arbitraril,
cancelled the bond Il had issued for ;
man attached in a fducinry capacity {
an important concern. II WAS the IN
natural thing In tie world for the ma
TO display sOnc feeling ana 10 dPma;
10 know the reason for such actiO.
Aud the incoue;!rr;'ic heat Of &.
bonding company wrote BIN 10 th
eject:
Because yuu were convicted Of f.
:rry under another mare ~ the ye
- AMI served term In the STA
1"iSOn at -"
The recipient of toe note f,ii
rirt thai hc onnidnt reply. lie still
".nt Nrw Y""'; C'"'''
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1908-06-12
An Emended Sian.

Many q householder at the mercy OF
the painter will find q bond Of sympa-
thy with the students of Stanford uni
versity In the incident taken from the
San Francisco Chronicle. The score of
fraternity houses on the campus were
in the process of being cleaned up In
preparation for the receptions and
luncheons to be given TO visitors on
the day of the big football game. \
man got the contract TO paint one OF
the houses white with the understand
ing that the job must be done and dry
BIZ a certain day. After making rush
start the painter asked permission TO
hang out his sign. His request was
granted. and he put up conspicuous
announcement over the front porch,
"These Premises Being Painted by
Blank Blank"
Then the work dragged. He would
come one day and stay away two. Sc
the impatient collegians added to The
sign until the announcement read:
These Premises Being Painted by
Blank Blank. Now and Then"