Show l i t Hoyt Fiction N Now Obsolete I 10 VER J OVER VER In Oregon Orgon beside the Columbia j J river Is a a. small town called t j which has attained some notoriety because I its new mayor mayoris is a woman who defeated her I j husband both being canOl cates for tor the 1 office Thus one of Charles H. H Hoyt's most popular popular popular pop pop- ular comedies a D. generation ago aSo wh when n equal suffrage e suggested to him exactly this same Bame po possibility for tor the main ain peg pcS of or a plot prolific prolific pro- pro of complications proves now to be a fiction rendered obsolete by fact tact In the Hoyt conceit a woman contented in her homo home life lite was as forced into a a. campaign for tor the tho ma mayoralty against her husband who was the choice of ot the party part in control she Bhe was the candidate of ot an alliance of or women before the election a colored butler was nominated by colored voters as their candidate candidate candi candi- date ate for tor mayor thus three ot or active candidates can can- didat s 8 in the tho field tiel were domiciled In the same household l and many ludicrous situations situa situa- tione which followed made mado A Contented Woman Yoman orie ope oe of or the best if it not the very best of ot aU all the Hoyt comedies The The Tho Oregon case se differs from the comedy h jj in this particular In th tim the comedy the woman L i L I candidate was dismayed when she found she had received the l largest vote ote and and her fear that she had thwarted her husbands husband's long IonS cherished ambitions which she also shared robbed her of jo joy In victory victory all all of ot which was set right b by a a. technicality that disqualified her from holding tho the office the Oregon woman is eligible Ible and will assume aume tho the official responsibilities to which she was elected Umatilla is not a large town In 1910 it had a population of It Is ls in the vicinity vicin vicin- ity of ot tho the Umatilla Indian reservation All members of at the municipal government go chosen at ot tho the lost last election are women The new administration pledges nothing more moro than rigid enforcement of the law and and n n. general curtailment of expense Millions have ha laughed in the past at the Hoyt fiction of or a IOn a contented woman in pOlItics polItics politics pol pol- and will vill Umatilla has the tho opportunity endeavor to e establish the fact that its municipal municipal mu mu- affairs can be bo so managed by women a to make niale it Jt a town of contented women and contented men Let no student attribute the present weather conditions to arrangement arrange arrange- meat ment between Mr lr en and the faculty for vacation |