White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-10-14

up az tIC lolJI VI ~ SOWlI u uISSS.
whichever term IS proper and chic,
it must not. it cannot be permitted to
go further. Forbid that this dis
cussion proceed, as it, like the modes
under said discussion. might get be-
yond control-now. But that does
less hazardous to predict now that
the modes put down here as beyond
the pale would be impossible then
than it would have been four years
ago 10 have prophesied that the
present ones would be worn with i'm
punity or at all now. SO look ont,
play safe, don't take chances of max
ing yourself n bum prophet, when
the past is here for your ready ref
erenca.
In the sadness of the thoughts OF
such things coming to pass the eco
nomic n looms in the mind of the
writer above al else. If some ex-
pert statistician, or an army of them,
could properly and exhaustively
dissect the subject, he or they would
be able to demonstrate to the world
that the wheels of industry were
thereby suffering a form of friction.
amounting to more in loss CT tine
each and every day than was lost
when Joshua of old commanded the
sun to stand still. Aye, not even 100
or 1000 Joshuas acting in unison
could wreak the havoc N loss OF pro-
duction that would be caused by Inc
pausing of Notwithstanding the
male kind-to rubber at the passing
throng. And, too, it would be TAX
ing these noble statisticians from
Cher fields of useful labor to merely
compile information about some
thing If itself not vital to existence,
thereby making their new occupation
Of questionable utility. Looking at
it in beth ways the loss would be ir-
reparable
But the1a is no great loss without
some small gain 1 well remember
III the unlamented year of 1885 when
l was hobblinG about on n pair OF
crutchs as & sequel to a bicycle ex-
:ursion-the then acme Of a JOY
riders delight would meet femi
line acquaintance on the street CT
my then home burg of Seattle, they
would ST. me and ask what WAS IN.
u after.
Il hav, broken my limb" ! woull
tell Them with modesty.
"Oh, have you broken you-ah-I
l-Elimb?"
II would be said with bushes Of
what fashion journals would cal!
conservatism" and they would feel
pangs of regret for having been so
indiscreCt as to have asked a ques.
ton compelling such unseemly die
tion in reply.
Their l would get letters of SYM
pathy, nice perfumed little billet
doux, expressing coincidence for my
injury or my accident" without
one daring to say or ask if I had suf-
fered a fracture and of what?
What a sensational picture it
would be if only a Horgh or Cohan
could depict a movie summer scene,
w iFSyAb6 tHO WOIISp thOuEutS anu
mannerisms Of 1896 and the next
instant those of 1923, and have only
a bevy Of the least conservative"
Of the former year as its audience!
They simply would not look at it.
About that time the Seattle Pea
Eye printed a little verse Of dog
gerel about what the wind did one
day, the last line saying it revealed
something Just like this:
! showed the epic to a bunch of
women at a hotel where / was can
wasting for the paper, and oh how
they screamed: The eldest of them
said:
THAT editor of yours must be a
bad one."
The same family journal one day
ran a story about the first two young
women in Seattle to wear b%ifurcated
skirts--it did not dare use the word
divided" The girls worked in the