The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-03-03
N 9TH ERlY VA VERIFY
SHOCKED

III Atter kittY had LETT Tor home
asked Aunt Mary and Mother WAY.
eriy to Eo with me TO one OF the
new feminine clubs that had lately
Joined. was a little Interested in
seeing Just how tho radical utter.
ances they would hear there would
affect them.
Mother wHverly Ia really quite
content In her new quarters. al.
though she keeps Molllc at home
with her evenings more than IL
good for the child.
take her out whenever I can,
and she has become much inter.
ested In a card club In the hotel.
where eight women OF about her
age play cards every week.
"Of course ! cannot play cards
outside the house. being ia mourn
lng. she confided TO me. explaining
the difference between twecdledum
and tweedledee.
The club that ! attend IL made
up OF few brilliant women % the
Mrs. Hayelock Ellis feminist school.
n number OF clever women who arc
Interested In all kinds OF new fads
and some women who. like myself.
desire TO know what every class OF
their sex IL thinking and talking
about. Aunt Mary looked about at
the queer dressing OF some OF the
women with placid enjoyment. but
! could see that Mother Waverly
did not approve OF anything. espe-
ciailv when one Of the women
lighted a cigaret.
'MarFie. there IL woman over
there smoking" she said. In horri.
fled accents.
Il see her" answered.
do you think We had better
stay"
why mott" asked. ~ YOU
were at the theatre and saw
woman In the play light a cigaret.
YOU would not leave. and you don't
think Dick is taboo Just because he
smokes"
but Margie. on the stage the
woman who lights cigaret IN usu-
lally the actress who Is imperson-
ating woman OF doubtful reputa-
ton
Il happen to know that he wom-
an smoking Is one OF the Russian
mobility woman Of splendid at
Itainments. In her country almost
all the women smoke. She Is an
ardent prohlbitIonlst and In only
waiting for the car 10 proclaim
I prohibition in her country.
She believes that smoking quiets
I'D IL "a L. al
right las Mollie would say woman.
| admire her very much. Smoking.
dear mother. Is. in my opinion.
merely n question OF taste--not a
question OF morals. either in men
or women"
Mother W'averly looked nj me in
horror. "Margie." sho whispered.
you don't smoke. do your
Il laughed. mo. my dear mother.
i I do not. but I heard Dick tell Harry
| Symone the other night that his
great. grandmother smoked "A pipe.
She did. have seen her" said
Aunt Mary. 1T was Johns and
Richards grandmother You re-
menu or. Sallle. n wonderful woman
tho kind that helped 10 pioneer
the country"
a few minutes later my Russian
friend got up and made such an
'impaBsioned plea for the abolition
Iof alcohol and told so elodueutlv of
the havoc that II had made in the
world that Mother Waverly was
almost persuaded she might DO n
women OF character and worth
after all.
on little book. how much more
terrible do the most OF us hold
those sins against convention than
We do those sins against the moral
code. Even with all the sorrow that
Mother Waverly has had from
liquor, know that today she would
not be as shocked 10 see Mollie
drink cocktail as TO light q
\ cigaret
However. her visit 10 this club
Of ultraemancipated women was
doing for her Just what / intended.
II was taking her out OF herself.
and she was destined to have a
greater shock before The left.
u Ito Be Continued Tomorrow