Show A DRESS REFORM CRY Its a Good Thing if Not Quite a Novelty for Women MRS W C WHITNEYS APPROVAL Gothams Younz Newspaper MenTwo Useful Girls IVhat the exPrize Fighters Do Other Things NEW YORK Aug 20Spaclal correspondence cor-respondence of the SDNDAT HERALDI It looks to me very much as If the Chau tauqua and W C T U women who have taken up dress reform were cackling over f an old egg since the style of garments they recommend have been in the market for a number of years and have already been worn by a great many ladies of fashion Lady Harberton went much further In England with her divided skirt which L she was forced to give up wearing on thc street at least because as she naively said the boys made fun of me All the Delsartean exponents who have writhedan I and twisted for the last three years in New York drawing rooms have gone without corsets and hung their clothing from the shoulders Society women especially when young and shapely have to a considerable con-siderable extent followed tneir lead and the wearing of tights and combination suits to do away with injurious bands and 1 garters bus been very common it is a curious fact that American women are much ahead of their English sisters in this respect In spite of Lady Harberton I English actresses like Mrs Kendal Mrs Laugtry and Rosina Vokes ruin their ligures by tight Jacing though Miss Yokes manages to secure some freedom of movement I move-ment in her corsets by pulling the bones out Many American actresses on the other hand set a good example in this respect re-spect When the Forsyth Technical College for Gentlewomen in London wanted an instructor instruc-tor in physical culture Miss Faulkner the principal an earnest deepvoiced thought iul woman who has recently been in this country tells me they had to import ono from America the late Hilda Thomas When Mrs Edwin Russell visited London she created somewhat of a sensation I dont wonder at it She is a magnificent animal with the great muscles of her hips showing through her draped silk robes like a race horses under its soomth groomed skin They dont raise such fine women In England and never will till a little Yankee common sense is imported Ono would have to look far in Europe for a society so-ciety woman of Mrs W C Whitneys prominence publicly supporting moderate dress reform Its only the shop girls who go on cutting themselves in two with corsets and hanging twenty pounds of neealess garments about their hips The Chautauqua movement is a little late but that is better than never More power to its elbow 1 Its in any healthy womans power to become a fine animal and humanity gains by that in the long T run YOUNG NEWSPAPER MEN George Jones has been for sometime the oldest man at all prominent in the newspaper I news-paper business New York At present the most conspicuous feature of the paper world is the youth of tho leading lights Two veterans linger David Stone of tho Journal of Commc and Charles A Dana Both are enthusiastic horticulturists Mr Stone has the finest private garden in Brooklyn and Dana one of the finest in America on a pretty island in Long Island Sound where almost every variety of tree or flower known to botany grows with never an office cat to claw their bark The veteran editor of the Sun boards the train every morning Glen at Cove a stoutly 1 built but lively old gentleman with a long gray beard and the invariable glasses When he enters tho train the newsboy serves him first a copy of the SIIII and ho reads every page with utmost care When he reads ho requires two pairs of glasses and occasionally uses a little microscope on tine typo besides Ho dresses neatly but there is just a suggestion of Dr Greeloy his one time editor in the care less fit of his clothes It is not so easy to enumerate the young newspaper men Joe Pulitzer is still in middle life and Ballard Smith the editor of the WorM under forty Colonel Cock erill the brilliant editor of the Advertiser and the Worlds greatest light in days past is in the prime of life G W Turner the energetic Ziecortcr man is under forty and his editor and managing editor Messrs Keller and Lyman arc thirtyfour and twentyseven respectively Arthur Bris bane of tho evening Sun is one of the youngest men in New York though I dont know his precise years Foster Coates the managing editor of the Jlail ami Express Ex-press is a handsome man of thirtyfive Richard Burton the city editor of tho 3J < i0c and that is the most important place on the paperis twentynine The city editor of the World doesnt look over twentyfour The virtual editor of the Herald who is reputed to enjoy an income of 250 a week is alluded to as young Rieck being ekin fact thirty years old Paul Daua and Ches ter Lord Danas lieutenants on the Sun are about thirtyfive and forty Martyr HenncBsy or tne News looks too young to be such a hardened criminal Irving Bach eller find James W Johnson the leading syndicate men are closo neighbors of thirty Allan Forman of the Journalist couldnt be as young as ho looks if he were born since the war Richard Barding Davi of Harpers itecfj is thirty also That seems to be tho golden age in journal ism I suppose young men drift to tho front in newspaper work because or the tremendous physical energy required to keep the great machines moving Older men are more valuable in an advisory than an executive capacity There are plenty of veterans among the editorial writers TWO USEFUL GIRLS I know a couple of sisters who live in one of the great uptown flats and who have nt yet arrived at their field of usefulness in 4 life which is that of a beacon light warn ing others off the shoals of sloth and tel lishness Every talent ought to be utilized to the full Thnsn sisters live as before said in a Hat They do no work for there are servants ser-vants A carriage is at constant call and they never walk Tho older is threatened wIth heart trouble which might be averted by moderate exercise toning up the system sys-tem and preventing the accumulation of flesh In fact her physician has plainly warned her that exercise and a careful diet are absolutely necessary if she would con tinue to live but really she says she cannot can-not walk And really she cannot climb tho stairs which in moderation would bean be-an excellent thing for her and as for bicy cling or horseback riding really she cant learn So she is likely to die of sheer lazi nessTho 4 The other sister is not yet in quite as bad a way physically though she may be at tho same age but otherwise is equally available avail-able as a frightful example Her chief offense besides those possessed also by her eister is that she will squeeze a 30 inch waist into a 22inch corset a practice which her physician assures her is slow euicido for her But really she says she must wear corsets you know And they urcnt tight Here are some of the things these interesting inter-esting sisters wont do They wont go Into a room after dusk until a domestic has lighted a light Theyre afraid to do it They wont answer a door bell for the same reason or possibly laziness has something r to do with it They wont dust a room a They wont usually go to the theatre nose I cau no-se it is too much work Thats an unusual un-usual pecnliarity Eating candy is their favorite diversion Thats easy and if its hard on the health why really they dont like sour things and do like sweets sweet-s The doctor will try to keep this interest ing pair alive as long as he can because its good pay But otherwise it is hardly woof rth while unless some way can be found wo-of continuning to utilize them as warning sign posts on the wrong road with Turn back in big letters INTERVIEWING BY INTERVBSTER I am reminded by Major Handays trip abroad to boom the Worlds Fairits really Major Handys there are other people along but the newspaperman in an affair of that sort the main thing of perhaps the very strangest interviewing experience I have ever had in the half dozen countries where I have occasionally practiced the art I suppose Major Handy has called upon M Alphand in Paris who made such a splendid success of the exposition there in lbS9 and whose achievements as an engineer engi-neer and direetor of city works are more permanent if less brilliant and widely famed I called upon M Alphand to talker ov talk-er Chicago affairs not long after Congress Con-gress decided in favor of the lake city I could speak French enough for most practical practi-cal purposes but as technical terms might stick me I selected from among the interpreters in-terpreters in the court of the Grand L Hotel a lanternjawed Swiss and L it was very funny We found Alphand as courteous as only a Frenchman can be and my Swiss persisted in translating for me alt his polite phrases which I could I sufficiently understand without that trouble And so we got to Chicago What M Alphand said was extremely sensible that the Chicago directors should not scatter scat-ter their buildings too much that they Rbould pay especial attention to the art value of their buildings and exhibits and should by all means if American prejudice permitted open their gates on Sunday Then the interpreter would begin Zis gentleman he says indicating M Alphand with a wave of his hand zat ze Shikka go people mus be ver careful so on tie D th ti-e end M Alphand being kindness itself his thoughtful almost venerable facea students face in strange contrast to the American idea os a public works commissioner L com-missioner of the Hugh O Thompson or Gilroy type When wo reoched the street the Swiss wiped his perspiring forehead and remarked re-marked And now I sink dCItl fticrcs would go ver well yes A REPUBLICS DEFENDER Germanys perpetual trouble about Alsace and Lorrraine which after twenty years of persistent effort are still as far from being German as ever suggests the thought that perhaps people become sooner patriotic toward a republic than a monarchy mon-archy I once had occasion to hear General Gen-eral Daniel Butterfield make a speech to a company of butchers who were so German that Coroner Ferdinand Levy had to I translate it word for word into that language One of the Germans who could command a little halting English made a reply in which he said that if there was ever war with Germany all the butchers would fol low General Buttsrfield to fight for their adopted country I thought that this sug gestion of bloody warfare with friends and relatives in the fatherland would be considered i con-sidered in bad taste Not a bit of itl As many as could understand the words ap plauded them heartily and said Thats so soAnd And Tet the merchants yet of Strasburg sell fruit by the livre instead of the pfuuu and jake their pay in centimes instead of pfen nigsA igsA A republic is the safest and most stable government because every citizen feels that he is a part of itT it-T E EXPRIZn FIGHTERS What becomeof all the prize fighters Tho peculiar business they follow presupposes pre-supposes youth The time must coma for everyone of them when he IB no longer able to stand up in the ring against younger men New prize fighters come up at tho rate of a thousand or RO a year The old make way for them Of course a largo proportion of them die young It is a hard life and the alternation alterna-tion between rigid training and absolute riot leads to rapid dissolution of their unusual un-usual powers Once in a while a man who has held himself together rather better than the rest gets an engagement as teacher of boxing like Prof Mike Donovan Dono-van or bouncer like Billy Edwards of ti Lie Hoffman house who is in manner a perfect gentleman but a hard man to tackle Two or three of the newspapers employ minor pugilists to keep order among the news boys in the press rooms But for the most part as prize fighters never save any of their money they set up in business as bartenders and pool room keepers and become thorns in the flesh of the police They come originally from workshops mills and foundries where heavy muscle is made but precious few of them eyer go back to productive toil if they can help it Behind their bars they love to recall their old triumphs so often asa as-a sympathizing listener can be found THE CURE FOR NERVES Dr Savage the gymnasium orion who has certainly a right to speak up or-ion the subject tells me that it is uncomfortably uncomfort-ably true that women in New York f re quently allow themselves to become ner nervous at ar vous wrecks through the use of drugs Phys clans often send to him for special treatment women who havent for yet irs let themselves be what nature intended They have usea drugs to dilate their eyes to keep them awake to make them sleepy to tint their cheaks to make their skins white to make them fat or thin or not seldomto prevent maternity So they come to bb wrecks But is it possible I asked the doctor to cure such a person in a gymnasium I Certainly it is a very gradual process The health and strength are gradually brought back Hunger which needs no stimulant creates a taste for pure wholesome whole-some food and so the system is built up again CONEY ISLAND DOOMED Tho doleful sound that was heard from tho Tombs isnt a circumstance to the continuous con-tinuous wail of the Coney Island hotel keepers during the cool month of July There were days at a time when the great beach was deserted and the thousands of clerks waiters beer sellers concert hall I singers and side show men had nothing better to do than quarrel with each other A few hot days this month have however put these unnatural creatures who gloat on others misfortunes to a happier frame nf mln nn Inh h c 00 u oouu ur LU re I sort people everywhere But the beach at Coney Island is doomed At the best part of it the line has been pushed back a quarter of n mile within five years Those who have money invested there may as well be anxious for hot weather to make hay in AMMONIA POWER In the old days hartshorn or ammonia was never supposed to be of any particular use except to revive fussy ladies whose nerves had gone back on them but now a New Yorker has found out that ammonia can be used to drive an engine by its expansive ex-pansive power and that ft is cheaper than steam an not so hot You save 50 per cent of the fuel he says At this rate we may soon have a railroad race across the continent between steam engines electric engines ammonia engines en-gines and Kellys etheric force And may woall bo there to see r WOMEN IN POLITICS Mr Timothy E Byrnes the national organizer or-ganizer of the Republican league is an en thusiastic believer in the enwo influence of women wo-men upon politics even in their present ballotless condition If his influence basin weight the Republican clubs will try to I bas-in terest women in their meetings as much as possible Mr Byrnes is a cheery man of middle height and age with a pleasant rosy face and a world of energy OWEN LANGDON r > ibIJ 0 |