Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-21
GLIMPSlNG THE NEWS
IN AN0THER'S PAPER
llas Your Curiosity Never Been Tor
uiented by Headline Rend Just Be-
fore Page Was Turnrdt
by n. II. bABCOCK

The far from modest type in which
! modern newspaper headlines are set
! makes. IL rossibie--ln fact almost inn
( The chief events OF the day. oy .
! covert glance at the page your neigh.
Dor In the street car is holding be-
| Very likely. however. l am not alone
| in having experienced an enjoying
disappointment whom. on a morning
as 1 ain halfway down some com
prehensivc heading In n fcllow-pass-
Gngers paper, he turns the page
with Just what result. do moi learn
or scorcsr-are dead through u hotel
lire in SOME locality that / am unable
to ascertain.
that ii my fellow passenger had
fingered moment or two longer over
the page devoted TO amnsements, /
heralded new play had proved sue
cess or u failure.
But by FAR The most assravatins
the other dag, when IN bold type
across two columns of my neighbor's
newspaper there appeared before my
eyes-just long, enough to note then,
Waste Baskets"
What would have been the foc,s
fS ;nI bora Of this startling head
otScured them? Can you guess? l
have been trying ever since to i'm
Did the announcement refer to some
particular group of female contor
sionStS. or to the gentler sex as
whole? Had it a literal or f.ura-
During the now almost forgotten
period when women were accustomed
t" stick in between their scalps and
Of wads ana rolls OF cotton waste
that went by the name OF rats" it
need perhaps have accustomed no sur
a.Se waste thf nsads Is'e ~, srosea
time. however, it seems most likely
the newspa per headline NE arc dis
cuss!ns was dealing with less tan.
rusty hairpinS: that the term waste
basket" stood meta phorically for L
head or brain whose owner was con-
significant triv!alities.
But the question now arises did this
newspaper new Pronunciamento, Women
Use Heads AS Waste Baskets refer 20
their own heads or to the heads O..
others?
The ability OF woman 10 turn the
nead o. man has long been recognized.
Has she now decided TO turn 1t into
a mere scrap basket? Has she re-
solved 10 keep 10 herself all her best
thoughts and highest aspirations, and
the male only such scraps OF he, pre-
cious possessions as she has no fur
ther use for:
have not infreuuently talked with
Il woman and on leaving her at tho
end Of an hour have had the impress
sion OF having been treated rathe,
like waste BASKET nothing of the
least intellectual consequent beins
d!Scovcrahle IL al her ou;poucinSs.
Am ] no Longer to regard such an
experience merely as an evidence OF
individual dizziness? Are woman. now
that they have obtained all the
rights that X is possible for man
20 gave them. determined TO ill his
head with all the silly propensiteS ana
notions wh!ch thcy III larlr proud en-
franch!Scu state. desire 20 be rid of?
II is a i.GTnieting thought.
My chic! consolation Is The thought
that this aIGuZin. headline. women
Use Heads - Waste baskets may
have hecn fine text FOR one OF those
:tdnionttor! articles by which women
newspaper writers seek 10 uplift their
more thoughtless sisters Ii my fell
.Ow passenger in the street car had
l.il MS paper beniud when he depart.
ed ,hS many passrEg.rS Iol, pcrhap,
! Wou.y have LEARNED that The article
was an cNco giuJiJu " women VINO al
low thtir heads - become filled up
Win the remembrance vi such tr;f:nc
affairs a. iOlga ties and domest;c
duties. 20 nc exclusion .: political and
psychological problems.
~ al events think you will agree
With NO that in this particular in
S;anc glimpse of the news in an
others paper, was not what you might
call soui tiSfying.