The cabinet form of state government should be given a fair trial and then either continued or abandoned on its merits. Conditions the past four years have been most unusual, due to the war and its after effects, and have mounted alarming. The election returns tax, in all parts of the country, no matter what the form of state government may have been. It is a question whether the form of government has had very much to do with the tax question. Conditions should be more nearly normal during the next two years, and at the end of that time the people may feel more kindly toward the cabinet government, or may be determined to abandon it. In Idaho, it has the endorsement of the dominant party for another two years, and two years from now it may be the dominant issue, on which that party will either win again or go down to defeat. An efficient and economical form of government is what the people demand, and the present form of state government in Idaho will be more nearly on trial the next two years than it has the past three and a half. It is now said that fashion has decreed that the petticoat, with its ruffles and furbelows coming back. If the women can stand it, the rest of us will have to, so it is not a matter to worry over, although we know of no good reason why fair women, after enjoying the freedom of short skirts, and really sensible dress, should go back to a multiplicity of ruffles, and the unsanitary train. 