Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-04-12

From the Froch.

From the Froch
Have We lost the faculty Of establishment; Have
we arrived at that stage OF our development when
We take wonders as matters OF course?
What are the seven wonders OF the ancient world
to the seventy and seven miracles OF this golden
age? Ii 10 really not fair 10 mention them In the
same sentence. Photography, for Instance. and
us latest development, the instantaneous process
Oniy score OF years ago one had 10 sit perfectly
picture, and now you may not only wink but run.
Jump or ny and the camera focuses you just the
same 1t catches sunbeam, the nghtning's
four feet In the air and the base ball as it curves
It's way toward the hatsman. IL IL wonderful,
niracuious, and although IL Is not Ten years OLD,
not even child is surprised 10 have his picture
taken between winks
The other day, while gazing idly In the window
another OF Rameses n-think OF III Flesh and
blood 1000 years ago, forty centuries, 120 gen.
erations and their faces looking out at me from a
imagery but the very lineaments as if they lay
before you In the sarcophagus-what a stupel-
uous miracle, and yet noticed that or the twenty
persons VINO paused TO look not one stayed 10
wonder.
The telegraph dates back to the birthday OF q
CARDS It with indifference. ave held communi.
cation by wire, says the Pal Mall Gazette, "with
our special commissioner at Vancouver, a distanoe
hours. Questions and answers were exchanged In
four minutes, over $1,000 miles OF wire. This
merits a newspaper paragraph only, without au
lealic letter or an exc .amation point"
The telephone Is thing OF yesterday, and boy
In knee-breeches picks up the phone and say ;
''Giye me l00," and talks TO the other boy. nve,
ten fifIy, or more miles away with as little aston.
ishment as II he were riding a bicycle.
With the aid OF microphone IL is possible 70
near ny walk. ana an invention Is being per.
fected that will project the image OF a distant
object on q mirror at your elbow. The time Is
Fastening on when the telephone will be In every
house ike water and Gas, and when you may not
only SIT In your easy chair at home and converse
with your friend In China, but look In his face and
note every movement OF mis- lips. Time has been
annihilated, and space Is being rapidly conquered.
The phonograph was not even a nine days won-
der. We nave seen cable cars and electric motors,
and IL IS green countryman who gives them a
second look. Within the last decade cities have
been heated til steam, and no one wondered.
Natural gas burst from the bowels or the earth,
and no one Journeyed TO see IL except capitalists
eager 10 invest No astonlshment was mixed with
love or gain, and had IL been ice-cream or Tokay,
The result would have been the same.
We wer. not always so. We shouted in wonder
at the Atlantic cable and locked 10 see the Great
Eastern Now we might lay cable 10 the moon
or SIa wo sa' s es.Srn ns lgns snd sne Sny
thing that could or would astonish US? Ten ye rs
from date, when we shoot the malls TO Queens
town through pneumatic tube ia nve nIlnutes,
will any ony one pause TO WONDER? Would q flying
machine aStonish Us?
Consider how desultory has been the nature OF
the experiments In aeronaulcs- For one hundred
years men have expended time and money aud
made Spectacles OF themselves 10 no purpose. The
TeSull gas Gag Al the mercy OF Tue eltfnents
and score OF men classed Missionaries. Not a
single capitalist has felt II worth his while TO take
hold OF this gas bag as an investment Tor his sur
Plus millions. But money Is going begging at J
per cent, and the time VIII come when the mum.
drum ciLzen will buy his ticket, kiss his wife, and
say: ii am going 10 Chicago and II am not back
at you needn't wait dinner for me. may have
to run over 10 Salt Lake City, but II jones' calls
tell him viii be at the ONCE tomorrow morning
at TO-" He will not be astonlshed, neither will hi,
wife nor his tenyear-old boy playing with his top
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Great Danger In the ktsss
From the Philsdelphia Press
The girls are making more trouble for the boys
The boys are pretty generally expecting some
thing OF the kind, ana have been ever since thai
historical episode IN the Garden OF Eden and yet
1t cannot be fairly assumed that the girls intend
to make trouble. Designing as they may be In
some particulars, II would be unjust TO say thai
they calmly seek TO make life utterly undesirable
TO large aid unprotected part or the human race
But The new trouble Is one which cannot be Aghlly
treated, since IL Is having dsasi effects IN
some places II Is one which Is going TO make The
kissing or some young women deadly peril, and
possibly in consequence destroy one OF the sweet
est luxuries OF life.
several Instances have recently come TO public
attention In which the paint or cosmetics or pow.
der. or ali, which are used by some young women
have proved 10 be poisons which have had moi
anywhere near such disastrous effects upon the
girl who uses them as upon the boy who has led
his love with her Kisses. case OF this Kind oc-
CURED not long since at Reading. The youn.
man was very II and the physician treated him
for lead poisoning, with wnicn ne was pretty
badly afflicted. An examination into the cause
for IL revealed The TACT that his best girl had
gulary rosy checks, which She made by the Use Of
rouge, and the difnculty was at once explained
similar case al hough less severe In It's results
has been brought out IN ST. Louis and the phy 81.
Clans are now quite free In tracing instances OF
lead poisoning IN young men To the artincal color
on the cheeks OF young women.
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