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Show TRUTH. 10 THINGS AS ALICE SEES THEM. B. ought to go on treasurers fight. Lake, Sept. 19, 1903. since her freedom. Always Now, I must tell you something else. Chapman and lowtoo, Our dear, delightful mayor went to she was kind and patient Who hell help in the Theres H., Salt he can make black white put him Ion; he can get the women to vote My Dear John So you ar6 going to stay in Wash- - every time. Surprisingly soon the expectlists are made up. Your good, sub-eington much longer than you to go stantial citizen is not in it the heel and you have an invitation over to Baltimore and visit Colonel ers control, and the convention You ceeds to nominate men of the same and his daughter. ask if you shall go. O, I have not old stripe. Men who look after about Agnes Lavanaugh, selves first and the city last; men who how you admired her and so on, but forbear to investigate the typhoid go, go by all means; you will have a fever scare because of the approach-delightftime. Ing election until public sentiment J compels them; men who are at en- When you went away you werelmity with perfect candor, completec curious to know how the board of honesty; men who never vote works-citengineer quarrel lout first seeing what they can get end. Well, they have kissed of it for themselves, their pockets or and made up. Actually! And after their relations. The g. s. citizens the verbal battles, too. I always had continue to pay taxes, and the poli-m-if ticians disburse the money seldom doubts about the city engineer he slouches too much in his walk, and ever for the best good of the people, We should that indicates indifferent backbone. What ano machine it is! an waste time outward of discussing As for Mr. Kegler, I cant think to our menace government there is anything but breakfast foods when I a cancer Its vitals now. look at him. Jit Jt Verily I believe a politician has no Why is it that when a man becomes- soul, Theres MacKnight, who wants to a city official he seems to lose someof salary thing? Is it the certainty over-felook it? does that They Some of them have to work so hard to the get an office you would expect disworried look to be two years in appearing, but no, it is gone at once. The Womans Republican club and i d, pro-Lavanau- them-forgotte- gh n ul I with-publiout-woul- y y . the races at Ogden yesterday, and coming home on the evening train he and his friends got to playing cards They in the Pullman for money. out the made a lot of noise throwing money and slapping down the cards, and presently the conductor and porter came along and stopped their playing. Fawncy! & J I have, not read much this week, I lost my appetite for books. It was like this: I went to the library after dinner one evening to get some reference books. The counter was crowded with people of all sizes, kinds and condi. tions, and they smelled to heaven. One girl chewed gum and her skirt band had disagreed with her shirt waist and separated.' Another was toiletted all save her shoes. One man stood a thin shadow of indifference, and I wondered what book he wanted. I stepped nearer and listened. Is The Fillagree Ball in? he asked in a far away voice. No, answered the demure miss back of the counter. d. Jit J Second Opening Women think they about politics and a lot such know conversation' that they show by their Once in a dont , know anything. while' the truth of that statement is grimly apparent especially at womens political clubs. Most women are their husbands mouthpieces; they think as they were taught to think. I never saw a woman going contrary to her husbands politics, but there was trouble in that household. So to return to what I began to say if you want to know Whos who, politically, attend the womens political clubs. You once said, Jt the Fall and Winter Season extending throughout the entire store. ... The Millinery A magnificent event for Opening will he a feature. and evening until 9 o'clock. Orchestra from hes just -- lovely! to to Monday 5 30. 9 00. Keith O'Brien. the elevator I went up In when women enter it. the Deseret News elevator the other day with seven men, and one took off his hat. Of the six three had cigars in their mouths and one a cigarette. The one that took off his hat was the only man that had brushed his clothes carefully, and the only one whose finger nails were not in mourning. What do you make of that? Generally speaking I admire your sex equally with my own. One of my own sex humiliated me the other day. I was coming down on the car when it stopped, and we were told to get off and change, to the next car. A wagon loaded with sacks of flour had broken down on the track ' and driver and horses were gone. A lady, large, florid, g stood just in front of me as I slopped down, and harangued the conductor for allowing such a thing as a flour wagon to stand on the track. It was absurd, shameful, etc. She spoke in a loud voice and the conductor looked wilted. The passengers parted in streams on either side of her and took their respective cars. When one car moved on she was still talking, and I heard a man say, smilingly, but with such an accent, You must always make allowance for the lady. lagree Ball. aj cl sc w m th ly st DC ev Dl. by re tn pa: cei &a a Sa h HE ik las 101 cili po ke na 5oi THE VISITING NEWSPAPER MEN. The visit of the Washington correspondents to Utah has been an event in the history of the state. Some of the very brightest writers of the It isnt in. and there are nine calls country were included among them. for it now. I pondered. Was The Hosford, Dunn, Jermane, Lindsay, Snyder, Breckons and their companioFillagree Ball a work of an astron- ns-are a hard, bunch to beat. Alomer telling in matchless English the though they were not given much wonders of some burnt out world? time for recreation, tle boys took Or, it might be a treatise on metalgood naturedly and enlurgy. It could be a love story. Im everything dured the hardships of being hauled patiently I whispered: Who wrote i around from one place to another, and what is this wonderful Ball for with which so great a demand is made? with scarcely time for their meals equanimity. The high jinks Anna Catherine Green wrote It, anc affair great at the Commercial club brought it is a detective story, answered Miss one into close touch. Fisher every Black Eyes. I hung on to the counHarris met his match there. Harris ter grimly, and presently revived is a roaster and a josher and one seenough to take interest in others who cret of his success in that dual capacwere choosing books. I waited while is his that appearance at the time fifty people filed past me, men, wo- ity he bears speaks every indication that men, children, who thumbed, inspecthe is sincere in what he says. Harris ed, chose and disappeared, and of aL did the to a turn. But when visitors that number not once were any of the manner In which he gave it to the pe following authors mentioned: StevenFrank Hosford got the. floor the son, Victor Hugo, Dickens, Thackery, of this people state, the Commercial . Howells, James, Meredith, Kipling, .club especially, and to Harris in parScott. Think of it! Not one of those ticular, made Harris remarks look authors mentioned; no history; reference. I was finally compelled like a small heating stove alongside to go, for' the air was so bad it made a blast furnace. Not only did Hosford look the part, but he acted it to me ill, but truly, there was something perfection. awful in that scene. Indeed, there were many who present believe still that the . jit jt man was in dead earnest Washington I have thought so much about Miss when he said: After looking over the . commissioner. He is the man who wanted the council to appropriate $1,000 to clean Parleys canyon. That would buy a lot of votes for Knight, and it is safe to conclude that no man would earn a dollar of that money who was not a MacKnight man. His fitness wouldnt count his votes the thing! But you will think I rave, Mac-Anoth- er Now, Davelers mouth would give him away, but aside from that, its neck and neck. Both of them are unfit, neither have ever voted well on anything. Davis ran away to keep from voting at a time when a sane vote meant much, and Daveler has talked the council into unconsciousness too often for his own good. In the meantime the good citi- zens prepare various primary tickets and then try to get them successfully respect for the man who takes off his hat in This is a shockingly long letter. I suspect if you find Agnes Lavanaugh as interesting as she used to be you will only read it in part. Single women fade early they say so dont be disappointed. I wish she were in Egypt instead of Baltimore, or you were here. Dearest, do write a longer letter. Im homesick for you, and every speck as cranky as usual.. Your unfailing ALICE. P. S. I believe Ill read The Fil- -- dont you want to die? I heard those very words, just the other day. Shake Daveler and Davis up in a sack and nobody could tell them apart so far as ability goes. jK I I jH The other night in an aristocratic . . . .. . . .. a ceran - ay an' swered her door bell. She was look-ing for a package from Davis, and she thought the messenger boy that stood there with his armful of parcels had her shoes. This is the conversation: cy Is this 9999? No, but what have you? Shoes? Nome, I want 9999. I think thats next door, but arent you from Davis? Nome, Im from the Zang. The what? The Zang saloon, you know. The lady gasped. "O, of course, its next door you . voted. Of course, they fail. Why? Because the tickets that go through are cut and dried affairs that have been arranged weeks before. In the! club, saloon, the races, on the curb they had been pieced out like this: , hes good for fifty Theres J.. votes from the brewery put him on want! . in his district- S. can pull the I Can you guess who it' was that had church crowd make him. next And I a special delivery from The Zang? - 3 80 7 30 ... Jit must do. One says, That horrid Mr. Daveler must never be returned to the council lets send men to the pri- maries who will vote for Mr. Davis. Mr. Davis is so nice and pleasant. cries, O, yes; we must have Mr. Davis, jit Jt Jt Accept this announcement as an One of the features of a political campaign is the periodical agitation of the good substantial citizens over the primaries. (Deliver me from the citizen, anyway!) too, too solid Usually they begin about a week before the primaries are held to discuss whom to elect. Now, we must send good men to the primaries this year, they say to each others which is all very well, only they dont do it. The women flutter to each others cotes and murmur about what they I have a j lot of fine-lookin- OUR the Womans Democratic club are flourishing like alfalfa in the spring. could he voiced and thorough. if she did not more? I often wonder sometimes despair over the literary ;aste she tried so hard to shape. When there was such romance in memoir, in biography, such adventure n history, how it must have pained ler to see mep. women and children choosing these subjects in artificial dress. and made-ove- r : . 9a 1 |