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The San Antonio Light
FOUNDED JANUARY 20 IMI.
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BY THE SAN ANTONIO LIGHT PUB-
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A. G. MUNRS A... Manager
SHIRLEY W. JOHNS. .Managing Editor
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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE.
Subscribers to The Light are requested
to pay money to regular authorised col-
lectors only. Do not pay carriers as
errors are sure to result
Women's Work.
OW and again you hear an out-
Ncry against woman doing man’s
work. Woman is threatening
the balance of the industrial world
they say; woman should do woman's
work.
Um —yes.
But just a word here. Do you real-
ize that woman for ages has done the
hardest work of all? There is no
harder work than washing clothes.
Ask your wife; your mother.
A tubful of wet clothes weighs—-
well just test it once; it will shock
you. The labors of rubbing and hand-
ling an ordinary week’s washing of i
an average household is as unsuited
to the frail powers of woman as build-
ing the Panama canal.
Washing has broken down more fe-
male constitutions than any known ;
occupation of the sex.
Yet there is nothing disgraceful J
about washing dirty clothes. That
is not why women hate it. They
dread washing because it kills them.
There are more martyrs at thq wash- !
tub today heathen Rome ever .
baited in a century of arenas.
Washing is drudgery. Man ever the
stronger and more favored cordially
permitted this duty to devolve upon
his helpmeet. It began back in the
days when there wasn't much wash-
ing to do and things didn't get dirty !
so rapidly. Urged by the dictates of
love and her instinct of cleanliness
she undertook it with confidence. Now
it is bonAge.
As time went on the demands of
ever-developing civilization and —let
the truth be told —woman's own blind
ambition for adornment and display-
have fed the washday bogie until it
is a monster of such proportions that
it would destroy Today half the
women that live are physically inca-
pable of undertaking to keep the fam-
ily linen clean week in and week out.
Long hours in the shop and mill are
bliss compared with the washtub sla-
very.
And of peculiar irony is the fact
that so many women are expected to
cook and sweep and raise a house-
ful of children in addition to doing
the washing. Compared to such a
woman’s lot that of the professional
washerwoman is to be envied. The
professional washerwoman has only to
wash and not a thousand and one
other things to do besides. Of course
the professional washerwoman may
have a family of her own to cook
and mend and sweep for when she is
not washing for others. God pity that
t
Man is just waking up to the situa-
tion. Having at his leisure invented
labor-saving machines for everything
else he is at this late day toying
with devices to rob washing of its
medieval crudities and hellish oppres-
sion. Speed the day!
Anna Eva Fay says the Brones will
win the pennant this season. Pshaw'.
It doesn't take a seeress to tell that
Pardonable Pride.
A calm review of the situation af-
ter the departure of Brother
Charlie from this city for the
new Taft summer home on Corpus
bay leaves the conclusion that Brother
Charlie is nothing if not exceedingly
proud of the recent achievement of
Brother BUI.
It was when you come to think of
it something about which any fami-
ly might feel set up as it were. It
The Light’s Editorial and Daily Magazine Page
can be handed down from father to
son as a cherished tradition that
’’brother one time sat in the chair
Roosevelt occupied.” It can be used
to keep the newer generation In the
straight and narrow path; the admon-
ition “remember who you are; your
ancestor was a president of the Unit-
ed'States" ought to be sufficient to
keep any son with wayward tenden-
cies from disgracing the family name.
It is great to be the brother of a
president especially when you furnish
a large chunk of the campaign fund.
There is but one thing greater and
that is being president yourself.
That man who came all the way
from Seattle to hang himself in
Antonio was wise enough to hunt a
pleasant place to die.
THE OLD BLOCK ITSELF.
(Washington Post.)
The appointment of John S. Wise
as assistant district attorney for the
southern district of New York has
occasioned a great deal of comment at
the north all favorable. The event
recalls the stiring times and virile
personalities of the middle nineteenth
century epoch when the father of
this same John Wise hanged John
Brown.
And it all recalls the curious fact
that of all the men. north or south
then in pplltical life. Henry A. Wise
then governor of Virginia was the
only one who expressed a sympathy
and an admiration for the man he
hanged. It would have been far bet-
ter had he pardoned Brown on the
ground that he was an enthusiast and
a lunatic; but with public opinion
what it then was a pardon was out
of the question.
It was natural that the son of Hen-
ry A. Wise should agree with the Re-
publican party on economic questions.
Wise was a Whig or had been and
when he joined the Democratic party
he took his Whiggery with him. so
far as concerns the tariff. Doubtless
the most effective stump speech ever
made in America was that of Henry
A. Wise at Alexandria in 1855 that
turned back the wave of knownothihg-
ism that had swept over the north
and east and engulfed Maryland and 1
in that very speech could be discerned
the dogma of a protective tariff. It is
also notable that Henry A. Wise had
resolved to manumit his slaves and
was deterred from the act when he
saw how much more comfortable and
contented his slaves were than the
free negroes of Virginia. But when
the appeal was made to the sword
Wise cast his fortunes with the south
and having command of a division he
fought in battle like a trooper.
And -this John S. Wise his son was
one of the cadets of the Virginia
Military Institute —boys of 16 to 18
who at New Market swept vetßrans
of the enemy off the field like chaff
before the breeze; and after the vic-
tory John C. Breckinridge the com-
mander of the Confederates rode over
the field and burst into tears as he
saw these youths the flower of the
south weltering in their blood.
Nor is that all. A colonel of the ;
Federal army whose regiment had
been cut to pieces by those boys !
then and there resolved that when |
peace came whatever the issue his ;
son should become a student of the ।
Virginia Military Institute a vow that
he redeemed soon after the war was
over.
John S. Wise Is a splendid man—-
and the son of his father; not a chip
of the old block but the old block It-
self.
San Antonio
21 Years Ago
(From The Light April 9. 1888.)
Mrs. M. Friedman returned last
night from Austin where she has been
visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs 9. B. Cook have gone
to Mesquite lowa to spend a few
weeks with relatives.
Aiderman Reimann visited friends
at New Braunfels yesterday.
San Antonio is a city of roses.
The city council held a meeting yea
terday afternoon and disposed of
much routine business.
Ice is being shipped from this city
to Eagle Pass.
Mrs. Katzenberger sang in the San
Fernando cathedral last evening. She
left today for Autsin where she will
sing for the benefit of the Episcopal
church.
The corner stone for the Joske
building was laid yesterday afternoon.
Sheriff Lewis wants two electric
lights in the county jail.
The Turner association will have a
meeting tonight.
Lieutenant Colonel F. H. Parker
U. S. A. is in the city from Boston
Mass. and is stopping at the Mav-
erick.
The San Antonio baseball team goes
to Galveston on April 19 to play three
games there. *
Worms
“Caacsrets are certainly fine. I gave a friend
one when the doctor was treating him for cancer
of the stomach. The next morning he passed
four pieces of a tape worm. He then got a box
and in three days he passed a tape-worm 48 feeL
long. It was Mr. Matt Freck of Millersburg
Dauphin Co.. Pa. lam quite a worker for Caeca-
rets. I use them myself and find them beneficial
for most any- disease caused by impure blood.”
Chas. E. Condon Lewiston Pa. (Mifflin Co.)
Pleasant. Palatable Potent. Taste Good.
Do Good Never Sicken. Weaken or Gripe.
10c 25c 50c. Never sold in bulk. The genu*
Ino tablet stamped C£ C. Guaranteed to
cure or your money back. 921
FRIDAY APRIL 9 1969.
This Good Friday plcturf Ie from the famous and priceless painting by Van Dycke.
And He bearing His cross went forth into a place call the place of a skull which Is called Golgotha where
they crucified Him. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother and His mother’s sister Mary the wife of
Cleophas and Mary Magdalene.—From the nineteenth chapter of St. John.
A Smile and a Laugh
MOST ANYTHING
Just Between Ourselves
A Word from Josh Wise.
“An oyster
ain't regarded
as sensitive be-
cause it can't
holler—but oh
how it would
holler ef it
could.”
They met after several years ab-
sence.
He: My how you’ve changed. I
hardly knew you.
She: I hope you don’t think I’ve
teriorated.
He. gallantly: Oh yes you have.
But for the better for the better.
Barber: Your hair is turning gray
sir.
The Grouch: Well I’ve been in here
long enough.
Isn’t it terrible for a nice young girl
like that to spend all her time playing
bridge?
I don’t know. She most always wins.
A Wisconsin town called "Roose-
velt" wants to he known as “Taft.”
They probably figure that Taft covers
more area.
Rah! Spring la here
With blooms and bud
Also bock beer
And rain and mud!
The "Keep Off the Grass” signs
which were on the job all winter are
saying “Hello” to the violets.
Things are about ripe for the forma-
tion of a Junior Brotherhood of Boys
Who Have Been Taken for Billy
Whitla.
German airship has sailed 150 miles
with 21 men aboard. That is some
airship as the Wright Bree. will doubt-
less admit.
Horrible thought: If there's an
anthracite strike milady may have to
feed the furnace with her jet garniture
next winter.
Pupil of a country school in Indiana
was killed by hazing. Blame this on
higher education and let It go at that.
TH® SAN ANTONIO LIGHT
The Crucifixion
A Confidential Letter
Dear Mr. Voter:
Do you eat food? If so you are interested in this new tariff tax
The Payne bill pute a tax—a new additional tax —on your break-
fast table.
Coffee will come in for a 4-cents-to-the-pound tax. (And that will
add a whole lot more than 4 cents to the retail price of coffee.) Tea
will be taxed 8 cents a pound." There is a new duty on milk—in case
you live near the Canadian border and buy from dairymen across the
line. But this is mostly aimed at Boston. When you shake the. salt
and pepper shaker you will be paying taxes if the new Payne bill
becomes a law. When you sweeten your tea or coffee you will be
paying taxes to the sugar trust. When you wipe your mouth it will
be on a napkin that costs more than it would before the Payne bill.
Your plate Is sitting on a taxed (this is a new one) tableeleth. Your
wife’s tea table is spread with newly taxed doilies. All table linen and
drawn work goes up about 30 per cent. If it is supper time and you
light the lamp. It will be a tribute to the oil trust. (The Payne bill
has what is called a countervailing duty which does the business.)
And we have not mentioned the subject of clothing or the added
cost of the lumber in your house—if you’ own a house —or the rent
if you are paying rent.
Dou you like this bill to increase the cost of living? It is being
crowded through by your congressmen and by the trusts and cor-
porations who own them.
Will you please send them a postal card and tell them what you
think about it?
The Little Boy's Complaint.
(April Lippincott’s)
A little boy in Trenton who has but
recently mastered his Catechism con-
fessed his disappointment therein in
the following terms:
“Say dad I obey the fifth command-
ment and honor my father and moth-
er yet my days are not a bit longer
in the land for I'm put to bed every
night at 7 o'clock just the same.”
C C C NATURE’S
0.Q.0. TONIC
The very great majority of persons need a tonic in the Spring or early
Summer. The system undergoes a change at this season and the entire
physical machinery is disturbed. The general bodily weakness a tired
worn-out feeling fickle appetite poor digestion a half sick feeling and a
general run-down condition of tho system show that the blood is weak or
nnaemic and a blood purifying tonic is needed to build up the deranged
system and. enrich the blood. The use of 8. S. S. at this time may save
you from a long spell of sickness and it will certainly prepare you for tho
long hot Summer. Many people have put off using a tonic until the system
became so weakened and depleted it could not Successfully throw off disease
germs and have paid for the neglect with a spell of fever malaria or some
other debilitating sickness. S. S. S. is Nature’s ideal tonic. It is a
composition of the extracts and juices of roots herbs and barks which
science and experience have proven are best fitted for a tonic to the human
system. It contains no minerals of any kind and is therefore perfectly safo
for persons of any ago. S. S. S. tones up tho stomach and digestion rids
the system of that tired worn-out feeling and imparts vigor and strength
to every part of the body. It purifies and enriches the blood stimulates
tho secreting and excreting members to better action quiets the over-
mW .ad ATLABTA GA
FRIDAY APRIL 9 1901.
Her Hope.
(Chicago Record-Herald)
‘The women of this country” said
the man who thought a woman had
no business to think of anything but
raising children "will be much older
than they are now when they vote.”
“But” replied the lady “we hope
to have it arranged so that it will on-
ly be necessary for a lady to affirm
that she is past 21.”
/Price’s
I Cream
\ Baking
VpoWdeiy
I Makes the lightest
' most delicious and tasty
hot biscuit. Makes the
hot-bread rolls and muf-
fins sweet and wholesome
Protects the food from alum.
What Alice Needed.
In a small town outside of Chicago
there lives an eight-year-old boy. One
ady he came running to his mother
rather excited and exclaimed "Ma
ma little Alice next door has just
THE LIGHT'S DAILY PUZZLE
We again have reached the season
When the man who has to work
Feels the pressure of temptation
To give up and play the shirk.
Every spell of balmy weather
Seems to weaken and confound
And suggests still more excuses
To get out and loaf around.
Find hie dog and a man who has to work.
ANBWF.II TO VKSTKBDAY’iI PVXZLB.
Vpalde down noae ng-ainat shoulder.
F. GROSS &CO. Bankers
(UNINCORPORATED.)
t COHSERVATIVE BANKING BUSINESS TRBNS4BTED
Corner Commerce and Navarro
JAMES BURCH Preslder.L IRA C. RINEHART Cashier.
GERMANIA BUNK & TOST CO.
(UNINCORPORATED)
109 East Houston St. San Antonio Texas
Transacts a General Banking and Trust Business along tne most
Liberal ’ 'nes Consistent with Sound Banking Principles
Your Account Is Respectfully Solicited
Banking hours 9a.m.t06 p. m. Saturday 9 a. m. to 8 p. m.
5% Paid on Time Deposits 2% Paid on Average Daily Balances
THE STATE BANK & TRUST CO.
321 E. Houston Street San Antonio. Texas
Will Handle All Your Business
Promptly and Cheerfully
W T. McCampbell. Pres. J. H. Haile. Cashiar
" restaarants g
the world over. ■
swallowed a button!’’
“She did?” said the mother. "And
what good will that do her?”
“Don’t s'pose it will do any good”
returned the boy “unless she swal-
lows a buttonhole too.” —The- April
Delineator.
SPRING FEVER.
It's a mighty trying season
On the man who has to work.
And it’s not a cause for wonder
That he feels desire to shirk.
It is not exactly sickness
That we’re called upon to blame.
But is what men call spring fever
And it gets there just the same.
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