The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-04-19
PENSACOLA AND
PENSACCLIANS
Miss Burnham's Excellent Work.

each Sundays issue of The Pensacola
Journal is the special article by Miss
Bonnie Burnham, who has been well
classified by an East Coast paper as
the Dorothy Dix Of our Florida jour-
nalism. She writes on themes of vi
tai interest, business, moral, ethical
and social, to both sexes, married, un-
married and mismarried, and her
strong indiviualized literary style,
breezy and snappy, full of shrewd and
vigorous thinking, robust and SEN
tentious, seems to almost make the
types talk in audible tones and take
the emphasis of the writer's voice.
In last Sundays Journal Miss Burn
ham tackled the large and always
interesting question, why Should
Women Marry?" and then at once
proceeded to prove that they
shouldn't. Her picture of the modern
business, bachelor girl, quite free Of
the sweet pains of love and the fever.
ish ambitions and heavy cares of mat
rimony; her blood thrilling with the
glorious sense of complete emancipa-
ton from the traditional thralldom of
her sex: earning her own money to
spend as she pleased, ana free of all
the many irkSOme restraints that fret
the lovely herd of faultless FLIES
from model training stables, on the
market for mates, was fascinating,
and she put the final touch upon it in
this characteristic way:
do you think, really, that she's en-
thusiastic over the project of taking
a chance shot at periodic and posi-
bly, fieeting love IN cottage with
an occasional thunderous query con-
corning a certain five-cent piece that
he gave her three weeks ago."
But, happily for the tyrant Man,
that is an extreme, not a typical case,
for otherwise, all our young women
would rush in droves for the heavenly
estate of the bachelor maid, and there
would be none left to marry. But,
reversing the shield, Miss Burnham
comedies that matrimony may be
good thing sometimes, and she makes
the concession very neatly in the case
of her hypothetical young married
woman, as follows:
Then, too, she gains panfon-
ship-if she succeeds in making home
a sufficiently interesting and cOmpeil-
| ing and not too exciting place-and
she ought to gain level-headed, con-
servative sort of confidant and advis-
| DRY board of one to steer her clear
! of the little fool moves and rash i'm
| pulses to which women are most GER
| tainly heir. Her nature ought to be
| rounded and sweetened, the rough
| edges of selffishness hewn by forget
| fulness of self and a thought and
care always for others. She ought to
| be a success here, as she has been
in business-and she probably is
| Suwannee Democrat.
"StiII in the Fighting Mood"
Referring to the men who are pro-
| testing against the Lee statue in
| Washington city. The Pensacola Jour.
nal says that there are yet few peo-
| pie in remote corners of the repub-
lie who are still in a fighting mood"
Still in a fighting mood" implies
that they were in that mood while
| the fighting was going On and took
| part in it. To our mind, it is incon-
| ceivable that man who sood up
| bravely as a Union soldier on the fir
| ing line, fully exposed to the bullets
| Of his enemy, and stuck to duty in
| the deadly give-and-take of battle,
and now has sufficient information to
| know the plain facts of the character
| and career Of Lee, and his motive in
| going with Virginia at the sacrifice
| of his dearest ambition-to our mind
| it is inconceivable that surh a man
! should now protest against Lees
statue in Statuary Hall.-Suawenee
! Demourat.
| Mr.. Beard in Virginia.
1t is reported that John S. Beard
| has bought fine old Virginia estate
! in the suburbs of Staunton, and that
| he paid the nice sum of $4,000 for
| it. That's a whole lot better, John
| than the political game. We will hate
| to lose you from Florida, but you
| could fill the role of an "old time
| Southern gentleman" to the queens
taste and we'd just like to pay you
visit on your Virginia estate-Madf-
| son nterprise-RecOrder.
Herbert and Beard.
| Hon. Hilary H. Herbert, of Ala
| bama, ex-secretary of the navy, op-
poses the passage of a law disfran-
chising negroes in MARYLAND or else
where, and his reasons for such op-
position are that it would revive sec
| tional anfmosities and that the SUI
preme court of the United States
would be forced to pass on the va
| lidity of the amendment and would
! sustain it. This, Mr.. Herbert says,
would open the floodgates. for the
South hates to turn on this section
/ and revive the question of negro suf-
| frage. Better let this question of the
amendment alone, as several of the
| amendments to the constitutions Of I
/ number of the Southern states have
! already been upheld by. the supreme
! court and the situation now in the
| South. so far as the negro vote is
| concerned, is not intolerable. The
/ illiterate< and puTchasable negro vote
| is practically eliminated by the state
laws. particularly in Florida, but not
| by force AS the same laws have to
| be complied with by the white voters
| We regret two such eminent states
men as John S. Beard, of Pensacola,
| and Mr. Herbert differ so materially.
| The Florida statesman has been agi-
| tating the question Of repudiating the
| amendment for years. and while many
| in sentiment may agree with him,
think the agitation impOlitic.-Jack-
sonYille Metropolis,