The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-03
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.
A bishop sneered.
But what of it?

A D1SnOp Sneereu.
But what of it?
So say the New York suffragists
who hiked to Albany to present peti
ton to the Governor asking for ar
amendment to the state constitution
which would grant universal suffrage
in that more or less elegant common
wealth.
1T was a silly performance" said
the bishop. What good will it do?'
One of the mixers smiled.
She said she was an Episcopalean
and would continue to be SO.
Despite the bishop.
whats a bishop or two in the off
ing?" she asks in effect. I'VE all know
what we've done"
The truth is that this is as good a
way to attract attention to a cause or
matter-as any Feature" that could
be played up for conspicuosity.
For some strange reason people
are "astonied"-as the anthem sing
ers have ito see or hear of people
walking.
The progress of Weston, who walk
ed across the continent a year or sc
ago was chronicled daily in large, fat
juicy headlines on the front pages OF
the metropolitan and the rural press
The optics of the whole country
were trained upon the veteran and
every crook of his finger recorded
with mathematical accuracy.
"Only think Of it! He's walking!
exclaims the U. S. A. in unison.
All you have to do is to walk.
You are at once in the bright and
refulgent lime-light.
The New York suffragists recogniz
ed this
And cannily took advantage.
So they struck the trail to Albany
they started.
The fact of their walking was the
amazement.
Ha! Look-looky! Run to the win
dow-teeter on the curbstone-oh, my
goodness-did you oversee the wo
men walking!
Whater they doing it for? naturally
follows.
So it's not a half bad way of adver.
Using.
And when it comes down to brass
tacks, it isn't half as silly as some OF
the things that bishops do.
Both in and out of the sanctuary
To irly oil II
and training your gray matter on the
real reason for being of bishops
whether Methodist, Episcopal, Catho-
lie, or any other of the fifty-seven va,
rieties, there is nothing more perfect
ly silly than bishop.
bishop is a religious official who
draws a large and meaty salary, lives
in an elegant abode, presides at
church jamborees, looks wise. makes
decisions and is entertained at din
ner.
Bishops never have board bills.
They are entertained.
It is always nice to entertain a
bishop.
People look up to you afterward.
lucS W Gil, lltN must NC SoliiC
pumpkins or they couldn't entertain a
bishop-send them an invite to our
next near-reception. Of course we
mustn't encourage EN- by asking them
into our exclusive eats and drinks
but let EN- sqeeze into our general
melees.
Such is the world
' I'D Int
crat, spearing the salad.
I'm not a cynic," said the other
person. Besides if l am it's your
fault"
Il test'-interpolated the Pluto
crat. We'll how can person be any
thing else on five cents a week."
replied the other person. IF you'd
would be changed. l pine to be one of
those sweet and trusting ones. rs
up to you
Il refuse the responsibility said
the plutocrat taking bond out of his
pocket, cutting off coupon and light
ing his cigarette.
"Brute," cried the other person.
It's hard world, isn't it," grinned
the plutocrat, when you have to
pawn your brass bracelet to pay for
your Christmas gifts"
"Ah-but consider the Christmas
spirit" exclaimed the other person.
1t is the truth, however, that the
natural means of locomotion is be-
coming well nigh atrophied.
The only fact the writer marooned
at college was the thriftiness of ma
ture.
That when a member of the body
was neglected and discussed nature
threw it into the discard.