| Show OUR pun between the eras of swaddling bands and arid C diseta and crinoline ej there used d to be a period of a new few yearb years when arras arms and limbs could climb tres trees and scale heights like ilke their progenitors mentioned by darwin and atla muscle sinew and blood bade fair to boid bold their own the little bareheaded tanned girl of ten years astride a bridle bridie lets lees and horse or paddling down the stream m on a rafton raft of hr ber her r own constructing had a season of pure animal enjoy it was thought enough if she grew plump and rolv was early to tor bed and early to rise riste and could sing the nives fives to thee the tune of yankee doodle she must have been far in her teens or out of them before she caught a glimpse of the model young lady with tapering waist pinched feet fastidious fa appetite and a general air of languor pervading every movement and utterance she bhe looked upon the lay isy figure with admiration and forthwith commenced remodeling with indifferent success As the twig is bent the tree is inclined nature had bad a good start and she would not yield to art without a hard struggle the th a fe few w robust women pf af fifty today to day are the ones whose young aives lives were free and careless as the birds whose cloth cioth clothing lil irl 9 never fettered limbs nor pressed lungs whose impulses and instincts were never checked nor billed outright by mrs Grun dyb dys strictures where are the girls now who can where are the clothes in which they can enjoy play without fear and trembling think of af trying to wade through a brook and to enjay the delicious sensation of water running over bare feet and around bare ankles w lien hen at every step one must ask sue do the lower bounces touch the gatei will the overa overskirt kirt kint get splashed la Is the panier too low and are the ends of the sash tucked up think of trying to climb a cherry tree and enjoying me the feat teat abathe abol the tro fro when ever limb threatens your chignon and ano frIZZ frizzled or from froin a gi besa beha beao beam into a feay haymow pauw wiep your jour nether nethen limbs are area laced in high gaiera galera and bound in tight bandal one would drop down as straight 9 ht and inelastic as a mummy itis it is unwise generosity in amerlean American 1 children to 16 give up these sports toc toe the irish and german youth outa reserving for themselves croquet and picnics at which elaborate toilets can be displayed and nod studied etiquette observed these Amdee amusements ments will do for grown people but a child if left to act out its childhood will nomore no more choose a play that is le bound by limits and rules than would a amb jamb or a squirrel louis journal of commerce JAMES rask it is one of the tho anomalies in american civilization that such a man aa as james fisk junior bat baa been able to command BO so large a share of public attention in other countries where the orders of society are more compact he would never have been heard of at a f ter his bis first attempt to climb into position A stronger force than law would there have remanded him to his proper status and all the long catalogue of startling legal and moral atrocities with which his name is connected could never have disgraced their all ati annals annais nals the english shareholders of the erie road were despoiled of their property and the new neyl york legislature and courts bought as sheep shee in the shambles to secure gould ani ang and fisk from legal liability for their theft it is ig no exaggeration to tai say arty that the operation of fisk fiak and gould with the property oz the english shareholders of the erie railroad shielded as they chev have been by the corrupt legislature and judiciary of new york have cost coat the coun mill mili ibris of doll arsby impairing our financial credit and standing abroad probably yno no man has done ao so much to debauch de and demoralize demoralise dem oralise public morals the eneal of his hia business aca acts hid bid been lidh supplemented aud sud by b at dehas deneto deg degrado degrade ud t the tue 6 fyrl lyric i and dramatic s tago tage la the importation fro froni sroni athe the jardin habile mobile of paris and the london nude nudo gracis graces of the demi diml fi have hafe imade t nade nado those tho the world over aver the erle erie princes rocele phosphorescent phosphoresce rit 1 putridity was not ilot kept within new york brit hnit but hilt a part bartas par tas tay was way put p ut on oh wheels an ned d carted through the country under the title of the twelve temptations disk fisk paying the expenses of the caravansary of le gsand appropriating its profits if therum thero there were bre ere auy to paying 1 ng for the life lift 1 af pf of h of bin sin hit hir private life if hemm he may mm bensaid be said baid to li have a vii voi llad had an y w was waa as as corrupt as his public A married man mad his I 1 awful lawful wife resided in jn boston while be he carried on anipen an open and notorious concubinage go in new york his death being the result of his hib last limon it would not be fair to conclude this notice of flaks life ilfe without an tin allusion to some of the nobler traits of bw bia char chir acter he was benevolent and generous to the last degree ft if he atol stole ellke elike like ilke a prince princ he aiso aleo squandered like libo a prince kanya many a poor family haa has been relieved by his bis hand while not a few struggling men of business have been k kept e t a above 0 0 the waves of bandru bankruptcy atcy b by y th the e potency of hig bia endorsement hial CO conduct at the time of the chicago dla dia aster nater had a touch of the heroic he started a lightning express train for mhd the doomed city with orders to go through in t twenty wen ty four hours he jumped into one of the transfer wagons belonging to the erie company and drove over the city of new york gathering supplies from the stores and houses with which to load the cars and when the erie brie relief train went on its thundering svia leva way y to the city of the lake it was followed by the buzzas buzzes and prayers of the whole nation natio nl n diana polio journal |
