Show Womans Rights and The Boosting Game Somewhat amusing but nevertheless serious enough in view of the underlying ing principle involved to merit more than passing con consideration Bider fion is s a R communication received by ly a local evening paper Edi EcU Editorial Edit tonal t rial comment explaining the nature of the unusual missive m was ras as follows i A Lady Booster writes a letter to the Stand Standard Standard ard arci but fails to sign her name She has a number of suggestions suggestion to make malre to the Ogden Booster n If Tf the lady will sign her name the communication will willbe willbe be he published m in n fulL The cause of her modesty modest is disclosed in her hc nom de plume which conveys s the thc thought that while the writers husband is out boosting she is at home cleaning the snow sno and slush from the sidewalks For the sake salce of her hus luis husband husband band she no doubt refrains from from disclosing her name The lady lad says she has hus rend read of the ct Ogden Booster and their platitudinous resolves but hut she shein shein shein in her lIeI city eity pride feels embarrassed when whon she re realizes realizes j al cs that there is no one lo to boost hoost the tho snow from i the walks walles in front of the homes of the boosters and andi i none to boost a lL little paint on to the fences barns and sheds ct When the boosting business keeps 01 he lie men of Ogden so busy bus that the ladies must wade through I slush writes the lady with the neglected husband why like charity boosting should begin at al hame Little wonder that the lady does docs not sign her name She is too considerate to sacrifice her bus hus husband hand band on the pillory of public opinion But she docs does not limit her reproach to her own careless com corn companion companion panion she includes all the boosters in her list of those who io with lofty aspirations and awl with wagons hitched to lo stars forget the things of earth haying having never neer a t thought of the tho little things which make life worth living Of course we boosters having been reminded of o our shortcomings at home promise to reform and hereafter before proceeding to the place of I banquet we shall be he more circumspect as to home environs So you ou see this boosting question has come to be le a matter for serious reflection It promises to divide the husbands into two I classes those who spend spend their evenings with feet before the thc family fireplace and those who devote a portion of one or more nights nigh ts a n week to working patriotically with sleeves rolled up that the family bank banic account may be increased ill and the community ity standing strengthened It would seem seem the fair sex s se x of Utah upon whom the sacred sacred of the ballot already have been bestowed would maintain broader brondel views s on this subject s one would think that the gentle help helpmate helpmate helpmate mate who vho had h d consented ns tp paddle lifes canoe with an active man as a companion be bc less ess selfish There arc are not words enough gh in in the English Ii language to defend the husband who willingly neglect a Joving cj ven n though one desired to offer a defense for such At the 6 same some time the man man who contributes liberally to the thc domestic income who showers deserved attention upon a wife but hut whose patriotism and business sense demand that he join in all mat matters matters matters of public endeavor is entitled to equal consideration and so long longas as JIB his hi boosting is confined to lo the promotion of progress and pros prosperity prosperity that will react renet to the th benefit of his home and will store a fund for posterity he is not open oen open to lo criticism Perhaps ff iT f the wife who wrote the letter criticising the action of her husband and of other ther boosters will search the store room of memory she will not have great difficulty in recalling the count countless countless countless less occasions when an uncomplaining spouse has partaken of a n cold lunch in ill a gloomy deserted home while the better half was WIS exercising her h Jr right of suffrage at a political meeting or attending a social gathering of the sewing society Perhaps fur further ther thier recollections will serve to 10 show that the score is ig pretty evenly balanced with the record slightly in favor of the husband At any an rate The Examiner believes that the of Og Ogden dens den 8 wives and mothers are arc willing to make molee this slight sacrifice in the name of patriotism and that complaints similar to the thc one above will not seriously retard the work of that thai sincere and faithful f army the Ogden boosters 0 |