The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-22
When 1t Comes. to an Actual
Comparison, What Could
Be More Senseless, Use
less, and Utterly Inane
Than the Vocabulary Of
the Average Baseball
Fiend, AS Against the
.Wrongfully M aligne d
Gossip of Women?
Y yoMEN's gossip. or. as the more
M highly educated male animal

XN/ highly educated male animal
Wv often terms II. hen chatter.
has been traditlonaliy silly.
vain, useless. and Indicative OF the illogi-
cal scatter-brained character OF all
Z women.
Not because OF any preconcelved
hatred OF baseball. nor from a furious
adrniration for women. but moro because
OF certain sense OF fair play. the Con-
auctor wishes to call attention. to the
one whit more silly than some man
chatter. On the contrary. II more than
often Is constructive factor In public
We will take, as representative of
man talk. baseball, and OF woman tsik
either clothes. babies, or house-these
being the most general topics OF CONVEX
In one of tho morning papers. In the
baseball section, the world Of men, gasp
ing tG ne ase .t 81 te% ns e
Cleveland, Is informed that:
THE early arrivals lin Cleveland
taken me hus me ap MSy n %Iss t ssyo
At 2:05 o'clock, ffty-fve minutes
before the game started, the gem
eral OF the cornmssary department
reported TO Vice President McRoy,
that the available supply OF food for e
the fans-peanuts-was exhausted"
What world absorbing item!
To know that the fans at the game
did not have enough .eanuts'
II that statement, can. in any way,
DO construed to be any better than:
Aa,SnA
OF Women's Club meeting were made
out Of the most delicious chicken
and lettuce and lasted very we'll"
We would like to See how 1t Is done.
Or again. QUOTING from the sam.
morning bits OF news. what conld b
more childishly. silk and foolish than
the statement that:
While the Indians (pnd BY the
way finger on the names. Indians and
Giants and Elephantsl were stag
Ing their eighth-!uninE rally,
shower Of torn up score boards was
produced to give vent to the pent M
After reading that tho baseball fan
who can ever make any fun OF a WON.
not With the oe ssE wbics surely sy
regard as a mental attribute peculiar to
them alone.
These excerpts nro nm excellent type
Of the remarks which pass between men
anent the baseball situation. Coming
out OF the mouths NJ ho'nFs clothed IN
brave array, and intored by hass voices.
such statementa take on certain
amount of virility. Rnt deprive then,
OF their native environment md they
And they neither improve the men
tality of the speaker nor contribute in
any way toward the betterrnert OF the
human race: As ngainst the discussion
q clothing they do not stand up at all.
sideration Of its different aspects not
to make the com.n:rcs CT the world.
Even baby. ta'k. that How many
teeth7 Mine has two" stuff 80 at least
constructive Household chatter the
same. But baseball gossip! Imagine
Smith led of with double to
right center. and took third on Gam
dis safe hunt. Then came the
break. Howard hit q low liner 70
Mcbride: whose toss to Foster
doubled Smith. Gandil stole, but was
left when Wamby famed.
Is that less unintelligible than:
The bride wore cream white satin
trimmed with rare old lace. and
lace veil. family heirloom She
wore a wreath OF orange blossoms.
and carried white prayer book.
Mrs. was her attendant. She
wore a gray chiffon and Leghorn hat
to match. trimmed with a pink rose.
and carried a cluster of American
Beauty roses.
Give this thought. Remember we are
violently Opposed tn neith"r baseball
gossip nor hen chatter. This Is Just a
comparison. THE CONDUCTOR.