Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-10-24 | Page 4 | And They Smoked Cigarettes

uu AND THEY SMOKED CIGARETTES. Yesterday a mannish woman entered en-tered the office and introduced herself as a suffragist. She had a face without with-out one line of sympathy, and eyes as cold as marble. She announced that 3he was out of the east and came to enlighten the women of the west. Later in the day, the writer dropped in at the Union Depot and there met one of the men in gray. "Where is the millionaire train?" we inquired. "Just loft," was the response. "Pew people here to meet IL Two women talked from the platform to an unsympathetic unsym-pathetic audience. The boys working about the train report that many of the women In the cars smoked cig-arettes." cig-arettes." This pretended superiority which comes out of the east is too often found to be based on false assuinp- - tion. These women were here to in : flict their opinion and dictum on the 5 women of the west. It would have been better for their cause had they remained at home. If the enfranchising of the women of ' the east means that the country, at each presidential election, Is to have a , swarm of hired workers, of the type i that came Into our offjeiyesterday, i let loose, to sprcadttieii'conceits, . then there are a umbei'' of,, misfortunes misfor-tunes in store for' thecuntry. The highest missio njA'man can perform is to be wamaiBRwdest, refined. re-fined. T&A There are westerpt .wowR' wno enter politics and retain thejr-spaciousness, but the Lord save us from some of Jhc spellbinders from the effete easL