The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 16

i Tv IDAHO DAILY STATESMAN SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 7 SoutHern in National Politics MODERN TABLES By GEORGE ADE The Modern Fable of the Troubles of the Unemployed and the Danger of Changing from Bill to Harold tives by plurality in the second half of the of each of those presidents but the RepubUcans were powerless except as an obstruction for the president and the senate was against them Moreover with the election of Lincoln in 1860 which probably would have taken place even if the Democratic party had remained united but which was rendered certain by the split in that party which the south made in the Charleston-convention of that year the Republicans would not have been supreme in the affairs of the government The anti-Republican elements Democrats' Breckinridge Democrats and Bell Constitutional would have been in the ma-pority in each branch of congress as a result of the elections of I860 if the south had remained in the Union And of course in that case with the well known tendency of the pendulum swings In the congressional elections helds in the middle of the presidential term the antl-Republican elements would probably have won a larger majority In 1862 and perhaps have carried both President and congress in 1864 in which case the south would have been again in the ascendant When the intelligent ambitious and courageous men of the south in ldfo contrast their section's dominance In the politics of the country during nearly all the time from 1801 to 1861 with its effacement since then they are justified in saying that the time has come for the removal of this ban and for the restoration of the equality of the sections In contending for politics' supreme Charles Harvey In St Louis Globe-Democrat of the fervor for Texas annexation This overlooks the national expansion sentiment which has been potent throughout the United States from the days of the Louisiana acquisition in which the exigencies of slavery did not figure down to the annexation of Hawaii in 1898 and that of the Philippines and Porto Rico by conquest a third of a century after slavery had disappeared Polk and Taylor the one a Democrat and the other a Whig were the last presidents which the south has had but anybody who knows the history of the Pierce and Buchanan administrations will see that the influened was dominant in both of them "For the first time in the history of our coun-1 said Governor John A Quitman I of Mississippi Immediately- after Call-1 fornla in 1850 entered the Union as a1 free state "the north is dominant in the federal In reality the north'd supremacy did not take place until more than 10 years afterward The party of which the south furnished the brains and the policy swept the country in 1852 when Pierce carried 27 of the 31 states leaving only four to Scott the Whig nominee The south was supreme in the executive branch of the government through Pierce's four years and four The republicans carried the house of representa Now that he was beyond the Range of the unlettered Rube he began to do a little Landscape Gardening on the Frontispiece laying out a very neat of Depews- He wore Gloves even a Night and worked for Hours trying to get a side hold on the Picadilly Accent The joyful Jimpsons cut a 14-foot Gash right through the center of the Continent They saw everything mentioned in the Red Book and finally struck Paris with a loud metallic Sound There they Settled down to remain forever in the Shade of the sheN tering Absinthe Frappe with the Gris-ettes singing in the Trees But Harold had inherited a few restless Microbes from the parental Hustler After he had seen all the Pictures from every Angle and had worn out two' or three Chairs sitting around Cafes he began to long for the Nasal Twang and something to do The whole Kit and Tribe moved back to the States He learned that the Proper Caper for one who is out of Work and all clogged up with Funds is to build a Cot cage overlooking the Sea and look up Features for the Sunday Papers Accor 1-ingly he threw up a Shack with Onyx Foundations and Florida Water piped Into every room It faced four different Ways The Excursionists rode in from as far away as Swanzey to look at it and wait for the Real Things to come Telephone Girl to Be Bride of a Millionaire THOSE who know the large role in the country's public affairs which the south played for two-thirds ceT a century will not be surprised at the protests which some of its prominent papers are making against the maintenance of the barrier which for the past 40 years has excluded it from the supreme prizes of politics Ever since the close of the war of secession the north and the west have been furnishing both the presidential and the Tice-presidential nominees of the great party to which the south belongs It was natural enough of course that in the canvass of 1864 just before the war ended the Democrats should take their presidential candidate from some other section than the south At that time 11 of the 15 slave states of 1860 were in insurrection against the government They were not represented in congress and not participating in elections to fill any national offices There were many southern sympathizers In the Democratic national convention of that year and they framed a platform which in its war a plank may have given some comfort to the south but obviously they were compelled to go outside for candidates They selected McClellan a popular Union soldier redding in New Jersey for president and George Pendleton an able and accomplished man a citizen of Indiana for the second place on the ticket There were good reasons too why the south should be excluded from competition for the national prizes in 186S and 1872 for reconstruction was only fust begun in the earlier of these years and it had not been completed in the later one although all the states of the aid confederacy had by that time been technically restored to their old relations to the rest of the Union' The Democrats went to New Tork for their presidential standard bearer in both those years taking Seymour in 1868 and accepting Greeley in 1872 who had been put up by the Republican seceders or Liberal Republicans They adopted the Greeley platform as well as the Greeley ticket at that time The Democrats selected a Missouri man for vice-president in the first of those years Francis 'Blair and they adopted one from the the same state for the same office Benjamin Gratz Brown who was on the Greeley ticket in the second of those years but Missouri although a slave state during slavery days was a western and not a southern state But the action of 1S6S and 1872 in addition to recognizing a condition seems to have established a precedent For many years afterward except in 18S0 the Democratic presidential candidacy went to the same state which got it in the Seymour and Greeley campaigns Tilden was nominated in 1876 and Cleveland from the same state in 1884 1888 and 1892 a break in the sequence New Yorkers coming in 1880 when the candidacy went to General Hancock whose legal residence was in Pennsylvania After 1892 the one state in got the presidential candidacy in the canvasses to this time In all those years the south was excluded from the consolation prize of the na tional conventions In the days before the war of 1861-65 itwas the custom among the Democrats to divide the favors of the conventions between the north and the south This practice was observed even in 1860 when the party split on what was virtually the geographical line The ticket of the southern extremists headed by Breckinridge of Kentucky had Joseph Lane of Ore gon for vice-president and that of the northern section of the party headed by Douglas of Illinois selected Fitzpatrick of Alabama for the second place and on his refusal to accept it the national committee nominated Herschell Johnson of Georgia But in the years beginning with 1876 as in 1872 and 1868 the north got the vice-presidential nomination as weir as the presidential the prize going to Hendricks of Indiana in 1876 and 1884 to English of that state in 18S0 to Thurman of Ohio in 1888 to Stevenson of Illinois in 1892 and 1900 and to Sewall Maine in 1896 A strikingly different state of affairs prevailed in the earlier days of the government The south was the section then that carried off most of supreme prizes Before second term expired there were kud protests in New York and other states above Mason and Dixon's line about what was called the perpetuation of the Virginia power Jefferson soon after his second election following example let it be known to the country that he would not accept a third term under any circumstances and it became reasonably certain that Madison would be his successor Virginia had then filled the presidency for 16 of the 20 years of the life under the constitution and although of course Washington was not considered either a Virginian or a southerner but an American there was a disposition on the part of many northern Democrats to resent the practice which seeped to exclude every state except Virginia from the 'line of succession' There was a movement favored by John Randolph and the Quids to' give the presidency In 1808 to Monroe instead of to Madison but as this would also keep the post in one particular section- and one locality Jft it this diversion did not meet the demand for a free and fair division of prizes The friends George Clinton of New York were especially angry at the exclusion of their favorite He was vice-president in second term and thus In the precedent established in Adams and case stood in the line of succession to the higher office It was soon learned however that Jefferson favored Madison for his successor and this fact coupled with own claims through long and distinguished service In the government gained him the office After Monroe who succeeded Mad-fgon thus giving at his retirement from the- White House in 1825 32 years of the presidency to Virginia as compared with four years for all the rest of the country along to that time the Old Dominion never furnished another elects ed president although three subsequent inmates of the White Harrison Tyler and Taylor were born that state Tyler though was an ac-gsdentV going to the presidency on the death of his chief Harrison w'hile Harrison and Taylor elected Presidents had long been residents of other Ohio In case and Louisiana In at the time they -were chosen election' must be credited as a triumph of the south of course though the slave states of the Alle-ghanies sunset- side were generally classed as western states until the Mexican war when slavery prohibition proviso of 1846 was introduced that the separation began to take place between the states north of the Ohio and those south of that river the northern tier then beginning to show the spirit which ranged them on the side of New England and the rest of the free states when' on the repeal of the Missouri compromise in 1854 the Whig party was driven off the stage and the Republican party arose If we class the states below the Ohio as southern states the south held the presidency through election 16 years in addition to the 32 in which that office was filled by the Virginia dynasty of the first third of a century of the republic This covers Jackson's eight years four and four It Is well to keep In mind however that Jackson was considered to be a western and not a southern man although he was born in a southern state Nortb Carolina The state of his residence at the time of his election Tennessee while I holding slaves was until several years after Jackson's retirment commonly classed with the western commonwealths Until the slavery issue came up in Its menacing phase- Just at the beginning of the Mexican war when it was necessary to define the status as between slavery or no slavery which should prevail in the territory soon to be acquired from Mexico and states were held to be as distinctively western as were William Henry Douglas' or Jack-son was a typical western man in his disregard for conventionality and especially in his robust nationalism even when this brought him into conflict with a -powerful element of his party as it did in the 'South Carolina nullification fight of 1832 One of soubriquets was of course "Harry of the and he held this until near his death which took place several years after the time when the coming annexations of territory from Mexico brought up the slavery issue in a shapfe that forced that dislocation between the states of the western side of the Alle-ghanies that made the Ohio an extension of Mason and line Of course Jackson was a leader of the party which was dominant in most of the south even when the Whig party was at its strongest and for this reason the south had a right to claim a little of the glory of his election Moreover it was considered at the time that Jack-son was the real power in the White House at the time that Van Buren occupied that mansion Van Buren was Jackson's political protege' When the fight of 1830-32 was precipitated between Jackson and Calhoun the South Carolinian was dropped out of the line of succession and the New Yorker was made the heir apparent Jackson got the vice-presidential candidacy for Van -Buren in 1832 at a time when personal popularity would have given that nomination to anybody he would name and have carried him to triumphant election It was asserted indeed that Jackson at one time in his second term wanted to resign in order that his friend Van Buren would be sure of getting the presidency without submitting himself to the hazard of a contest at the polls with the Whigs and the Calhoun Democrats It was well known that throughout Van four years (1837-41) in the presidency the influence of Jackson was powerful in the affairs of the executive branch of the government In his inaugural Van Buren paid a very high compliment to his "illustrious predecessor" and he said he based some of his claims to the public confidence on the intimacy of his personal and political relations with that Statesman Southern influence couldbe said to have been dominant in the executive branch of the government as it was most of the time also in the legislative branch during Van Buren's presidency Moreover when Vah Buren then out of office was seeking the nomination of 1844 the south's influence then turned against him defeated him for the candidacy notwithstanding the appeals made by Jackson in his fa von Van Buren in a letter made public just before the convention of that year ranged himself against the sentiment' of the south in the dominant issue of Texas annexation and although Jackson who was an ardent annexationist favored Van candidacy the south turned against him prevented him from getting the two-thirds vote (he got a majority) bn the first ballot which he would otherwise have obtained and in the deadlock which ensued Polk an avowed annexationist was brought forward and won the nomination In the Baltimore convention of 1844 for the first time in the national gatherings of the Democratic party the sectional line was brought up and a break was caused in the solidarity of the Democratic party which was renewed with fateful consequences to the Democracy and the country In Charleston 16 years later It was southern Influence chiefly which secured Texas annexation and which thereby brought on the war with Mexico through the dispute as to western boundary the United States having to assume claims in that respect when Texas entered the Union Ir'the end the results of the Mexican war hampered instead of helped the south as a section for California the first state carved out of any of the Mexican territory excluded slavery and gave to the free states the preponderance In the senate which the southern leaders had averted until that time Slavery of course was not the only reason why the south wanted to annex Texas which was In the slavery latitude and held slaves at the time Land hunger which is active among all young and Vigorous 'peoples was strong on both sides of Mason and Dixon's line but the slavery issue which re-enforced that aspiration in the south weakened it in the north With nearly-all northern writers and orators at the time however and with most of those since slavery was held up as the sole cause (Copyright 1902 by Robert Howard Russell) In a certain Western Town that started up with the Expectation -of hurting Chicago there was an Early Settler who tried to build a Fence around the Corporation He cabbaged all the Corner Lots and Nailed the Main Street Frontage and then held on like a Summer Cold He was a grizzly old Badger who wore one Suit the Year round with a Pair of box-toed Boots a woolen Hat and a Moss Agate Collar Button While he was doing business at 2 per cent a Month and holding out on the Assessor and bilking the Grangers for Railway Franchises he was regarded as a Wolf After he changed his address to Over There the Heirs erected something that looked like the Bunker Hill Monument and then they had him done in Oil by a Celebrated Artist The Artist fixed his Hair for him and gave him a neat Stand Up Collar such as no one could have put on to the old man with a Block and Tackle They named a School after him and every one in Town who was related to him could butt into Sussiety without a Ticket The large end of all the Scads mentioned in the last Will and Testament went to a son named William Jimp-son On the way back from the Cemetery he took out a Pencil and figured to see what he was worth and then he changed his -Name to Harold Jimp-son Harold had been compelled to fly fairly dose to the Ground the Governor was on Deck but when there was no one to keep Tab on him he began to find 3100 Bills in his Clothes when he wa3 looking for a Card and it seemed to Vex him a good deal A few years before Harold became surrounded by Currency he had taken a Wife without very much of a struggle Leonora was of a very Nice Family that owed something on the House and kept a Girl part of the Time After she began to have a Governoress for Stuy-vesant Jimpson and an Imported Nurse for the little Evelyn Jimpson her memory began to blur in spots and she have done up the Dishes to save her life When she was out in her Brougham it kept her busy not seeing her Childhood Friends who used to go tq Kissing Parties and Taffy Pulls with Her That was why she wanted to Travel She fairly ached to get to Paris where True Social worth is recognized right on the Jump Her husband too was getting sore on hi3 Birthplace His Acquaintances would not stand for the Harofd Gag They called him Then on top of it all the two Cases of Offspring needed the French language Leonora was already feeding their Legs to the Mosquitos because some one had told her that the real Cream Cheese always left the partly uncovered a la Parisienne Harold closed out all his Interests and when he got through he had his Bank Roll in one neat Stack of All he had to do for the remainder of his Natural life was to clip the Coupons every Six Months Between Times he could enjoy himself It looked Soft Harold and Bunch including a Retinue of Private Secretaries Hair Dressers and Maids as well as a Keeper sometimes known as a valet set out for Yurrup As Harold sized up the Caravansary he swelled with Satisfaction and said: "Little would "any one Suspect we have been out of the Hazel Brush less than Three Months" and her guests away to strange fairylands? And on the other hand had the sibyl walked Into that gay company and foretold a reversal of the wheel xof that a girl of the people who stood outside in the shadow of the avenue and watched the fairy scene was to some day become their hostess the successor of the proud chatelaine and queen of her well the whole thing was too absurd to even dream of And yet that is exactly whati did happen And so it is small wonder that Bogardus head may be turned and that she has become the envy of every girl in Poughkeepsie In the neighborhood of the Bogardus home at No 41 Smith street where and her sisters were born and where they have lived all their lives there is no end of heartburning jealousies Since the engagement of their lucky sister has been announced and her resignation sent to the telephone company both Grace and Sophie Bogardus have ceased to be working girls Both have resigned their positions also one having been employed in the telephone office and the other Was a stenographer and typewriter They did so it is explained at the request of their fiance Such hours now as their old time schoolmates and office associates are drudging away through the weary hours of their workaday lives Miss Sophie and Miss Grace are automobiling in their future vehicle or driving behind the Tower livery Life has in a few short weeks been transformed from drudgery to an unending whirl of pleasure There are picnics and excursions and parties on the Erl King and every day brings a new delight It seems even yet to the sisters like a fairy tale only better because there is no malignant witch to wave her wand when the clock strikes 12 no danger of waking up some morning and finding that sister Cinderella's carriage is but a scooped out pumpkin As a matter of course nothing else Is talked about by the girls in the telephone office where "Mollie" Bogardus worked until the announcement of her engagement to Mr' Tower some few weeks ago Her old companions would not be human if they did not envy her and it could not be expected that one should find otherwise than paint praise of the lucky girl there Speaking of telephone flirtations one of her old companions and co-workers delivered herself of some rather remarkable legendary lore in which there 1 i Astonished the Fashionable People of Her Marvelous Voice was "Mollie" Bogardus who tripped down the steps and smiled back happily to the two sisters and Grace as they stood on the stoop and waved goodby to the family Cinderella As to the millionaire his grief seemed to have turned his countenance to stone and even yet he rarely ever smiles He Is a handsome well' built man of something less than 40 with the savoir faire that belongs to the cultured cosmopolitan His Is the manner the air that belongs to the gentleman partly by inheritance partly by mingling with the polished company of fashionable drawing rooms and the fellowship of exclusive clubs for the man who has been carried into captivity by the subtle charm of poor obscure little Bogardus Is no vulgar man of millions He is a graduate of Columbia university and a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity He is also a member of the Ardsley club and of the New York Yacht club and his yacht the Erl King built in England for him is one of the most palatial craft in the world In the world strictly defined as society Mr ToWer's position is unquestioned He did not even earn his millions His blast furnaces and immense iron and coal interests are his by Inheritance from his father the late Albert Tower His wife was the beautiful Nina Carpenter daughter of Mr Platt Carpenter former governor of Montana and during the 15 years of their married life the great residence on North avenue was the very center of the social life of Poughkeepsie Both Mr and Mrs Tower were active members the former a vestryman of the fashionable Christ Episcopal church the handsomest in Poughkeepsie and which was built by Mr Tower as a memorial to his father Never until shortly before the tragedy had there been a breath of scandal never an inkling of any discord between the handsome and popular couple So much for the hero of the strange romance Now for the heroine with her magic a voice which strange to say has to other ears no particular quality of distinction It is soft and well modulated to be sure but it is not an unusual voice but when heard over the telephone there are more witnesses than her fiance to declare that Bogardus voice is a marvel of rippling liquid sound And one thing is absolutely certain as admitted by Miss Bogardus and her family and that is that Mr Tower did first become attracted to her long before he ever saw her The very first day she went to work in the central office as a substitute for a girl who had fallen ill the ironmaster recognized a new voice at the other end of the wire The new was alert and prompt in answering the calls of the Tower Iron1 works which number up in the hundreds every day It was quite a time before the alert quick eared telephone apprentice knew that the polite voice from the Tower works was" that of the great millionaire himself Probably nobody in all Poughkeepsie would have been more incredulous than "Mollie" Bogardus had some sibyl interpreted the reading of the cards which the telephone girl even then held in her slender little hands Marry Mr Tower! The proud aristocratic wealthy Mr Tower? Why she did not even know him except to catch a glimpse of him as he whizzed past in his automobile with his beautiful son oc rolled along In his carriage by the side of his proud stately wife Yes indeed Bogardus knew all about the aristocratic family on' North avenue and their unending round of pleasures and amusements: Indeed what middle class young girl in Poughkeepsie did not read with envy of the balls and receptions and dinners at the Tower mansion What young girl had not of a summer evening after the closing of the office or store or factory strolled along the avenue and caught through the long vista of trees tantalizing glimpses of the brilliantly lighted drawing rooms where beautiful women and gallant men moved about with the well-bred ease that is patent to New York and Tuxedo and Newport? What struggling wageearning girl in Poughkeepsie has not wandered down and looked longingly at the splendid Erl King as it lay at its private dock awaiting the command and pleasure of its capricious always in commission and ready at a moment's notice to bear her Remarkable Freak of 'Cupid that Has Poughkeepsie Won Him by EAD all the story books through and through and there is not to be-found in any of them a more remarkable romance a more fascinating tale than that of the humble Bough-keepsie working girl who by the exercise of love's magic holds a great millionaire of that city a willing captive and a slave to her every whim and caprice The wooing and winning of Bogardus telephone operator by Mr Albert Edward Tower millionaire man of society and yachtsman and the formal announcement of their matrimonial engagement while startling and unusual are however not altogether unique And herein lies the very pith and marrow of a love story that has its analogies in Dante and scarlet skirted Beatrice in Goethe and his Hausfrau Christiana in Haydn and the Barber daughter Not less easily analyzed was the famous infatuation of anv of these men of genius for their strange affinities than is ttfet of this man of wealth culture and high social position for a practically penniless girl of the people "But perhaps she is beautiful" some one suggests "perhaps she has rare accomplishments or talent or maybe what is more potent than all these she has that indefiniable something called charm?" But none of these words or phrases offers an adequate solution of the problem that puzzles Poughkeepsie folk not less than it does the fashionable men and women friends of Mr Tower in Newport and Tuxedo An honest opinion could scarcely hold that "Mollie" Bogardus is pretty Talents or accomplishments she has not shown beyond the average and no more charm than is appreciable In the average American working girl of equal education and similar environment "Mollie" Bogardus is just an average Poughkeepsie girl of medium height and slender build She has blue eyes dark hair and a-smooth fair skin and is 24 years old She Is essentially commonplace in manner face and form In all her personality there is not one single marvellous or even distinguishing attribute And so It is that where the superficial reader shall see in the unfolding of the tale only another of the so-called whimsicalities of Cupid the thoughtful man or woman with a taste for speculation in the field of the mind and the emotions stands face to face with a problem as baffling as impenetrable as the mystery of life the riddle of the Greek philosophers: "What is this madness which the gods visit upon mortals and that we mortals call love?" In this romance there Is no element lacking ''From first to last it would appear to be a consummate expression of fate To begin there Is the awful tragedy which must always and ever shadow the memory of the telephone girl' who is soon to become mistress of the Tower millions and chatelaine of the great house on North ayenue with its terraces Its conservatories and Its splendid park In this stately house where the ironmaster will take his bride an awful thing happened less than six months ago Here on April 11 the unhappy wife of the millionaire killed their only child 'Albert Tower Jr and then with the same cruel weapon sent a bullet crashing into her own brain In the same breath with the news of the terrible slaughter there came also an equally terrible hypothesis as to the motive which prompted it A loving mother to kill the beautiful son whom she idolized not less than did his doting fkther! Later it was said that Albert Tower had become Infatuated with a poor working girl It developed that she was employed in the offices of the Hudson River Telephone company and that the ironmaster and man of millions had become hopelessly in not so much with the girl herself as with her marvellous voice The rumor was frowned down by the grief-stricken friends and they had been almost persuaded to ridicule the report when suddenly came convincing4 evidence Within a short time after the tragedy it became a frequent occurrence for one of the Tower equipages to draw 'before the home of Eliphalet Bogardus Sometimes it was the open victoria with the liveried men on the box but oftener it was the automobile with Mr Tower himself at the lever In each and every case however It out and pile into the Blue Assassin and go out hunting Baby Carriages After the Keen Pleasure of being pointed out had somewhat dulled and the homicide Wagon had palled on them and Polo was a Bore and Ping Pong a Misdemeanor and Golf a Crime poor Harold and Leonora found themselves up against it strong and plenty She gave a few dog parties and one for a Prince but even these Gaitles Petered out apter a time Sometimes Leonora was afraid that in ordero kill Time she would either have to mirSr gle with her Children or else take Reading but she hated to cause Talk She and Harold found themselves in the great army of the Unemployed And yet all the Factories were running double Shifts and Harvest Hands get-' ting $3 a day At last they became so Desperate and Lonely that they fell in Ixve with each other out of yearning Sympathy anl this gave rise to so much Scandal that they had to go back to the Other Side to live it down Moral: Beware of Government Bonds may be more than a him of scientific truth "If you have a declares the pretty young investigator "whose affections you want to make sure of retaining make a point of talking to him as much as possible over the telephone A man is won by a soft voice quicker than by anything else and transmission over 'a telephone has a softening effect upon any voice I know how to explain it but' it is so "Why Bogardus for instance Her voice was no better than the average in a central office but when she talked over the it had something in it that really was peculiarly beautiful There were evidently certain good tones which by transmission over the electric wire were accentuated and embellished The telephone has the same relation to the human voice one might say that the wind has to an aelian harp which emits strains of equal sweetness whether its strings are stirred by a soft wind or a harsh current of air "So even commonplace voices some times even rough voices when brought to play over a highly charged wire develop hitherto silent chords of varying degrees of sweetness and harmony" This however though it may be possible offers little explanation to Mr astonished friends It throws little light upon the Middle is the madness which the gods visit upon mortals and "which we mortals call love?" Truly a riddle-a riddle which Socrates and Plato and Swedenborg and Fourier and Compte and Emerson and Herbert Spencer have tried to answer a riddle which philosophers and mystics and poets and scientists have juggled with since time immemorial and the correct answer of which alone can explain the romance of little "Mollie" Bogardus and the millionaire ironmaster New York Herald '1 "What did mamma spanK you for just spanked me for nothin' Did you think I pay her for doing Chicago Daily News It seems to be in the nature of things that some should be hewers of wood and some should be drawers of Puck One of the worst things that can be -said about woman is that she is almost as unreasonable as a Baltimore News.