'The Boston "Evening Trans~' sevipt" believes- that President ilgover shoal' have a mountain after him, There are several sined mountains which might iproprinte. Int. Lassen, that paper advises, should be renamed. President Roosevelt is their candidate, and they plead that the name of} Int, Lassen. means very little or nothing to most people. The Boston "Evening Transcript" further states that "Int, Lassen," as a name is neither historically nor otherwise important, Boston is a long: diss tance from California and the: fact that it knows not whereof it speaks! may be excused for that reason. The name of Peter Lassen, for whom the mountain anda county were named, is not only historically important but a beloved legend in the heart. of every, native Californian {In California hemis as much a martyred hero as was the Donzor party, [the oldest member of which died few days ago. Peter Lassen estab hed a small area of civilization at the base of the mountain which ears his name in the days when {the forests about that mountain were packed with wild Indians, stealing from tree to tree and armed with bows and arrows, The taming and settling of any portion of wilderness, no matter how small, is no unimportant task. President Roosevelt, and President Hoover, may be the better known heroes, but a great many Californians, at least, would [deeply resent the deposing of their helpless, honoured dead, A Woman's Fury Henry Ansi Paso "Herald" out that it does not pay to trifle }with a woman's scorn, In an unguarded moment he wrote in his! column that he was. willing to bet that no woman could xo ten hours: }without saying a word, and that four women could play bridge together for two hours without speaking. More than a score of women took up the first bet and fourteen [tables of bridge took up the second, with the result that Mr. Ansley has quite a few debts to pay. Moreover 112 women thave ordered the Paper stopped as a result of his Us Temarks, Mr. Ansley admits that he was himself talking too much, }when he should have been listening. Henceforth, he will remain in hi proper place as far as the women are concerned—a.8, a
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