The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-05
WHAT WE ARE ALL TALKING AsoUn

Copies of the Stanley Album. issued As memorial Of
the recent American testimonial banquet TO Stanley
| have reached this country. Tho album IA = pisut
volume heavily bound in leather and ornamentcd with
somewhat crude tooltng. II contains portraits OF
Stanley and his chief ofncsrs tho OF the ban.
ouet Alst OF toasts and tho names OF many persons
present The whole adair isintended to he very rna
but there ia choapneSs about tho material and work.
mAnshlp that would hardly have marked \ siml ar
production in this country.
within few days the Southern Society will vote on
the question OF raising the initiation for resident mem
bsrS and restricting such membership to zoo With
number has now boon nearly reached. IL this 10
adopted the society will soon have attained that i'm.
portAnt thing waiting list" REGARDED usually an
evidence of clubs prosperity. The society however.
Itil refuses 10 call itself club as TIA believed such
change OF designation would lose tho organization fully
| ioOmembera
| Any New Yorker who chooses could dine every nIphI
OF the week II not In different language spoak
at least in restaurant OF distinct national flavor The
French and Italian restaurant familiar enough to
all Of tho homeless kind rich aud poor, and per
sons know where to lind good German cooking bit
there arc also characterisic spanish Hung itAn and
Austrian CATS not to speak Of less savory Russian
eating houses Those that become known the general
public soon lose Of their distinctive character.
stcS and especially their peculiar patronage for
pays better 10 cater 10 Tie eXtravagance OF Amrri.
than to the modest tastes Of Europeans and the
latter sock places when their favorte are
| invaded by natives.
Riverside Park has become the resort Sundays and
holidays OF many thousands OF persons, chiefly women
and children but with aarge sprinkng Of tough young
and half grown boys whose ranks mako the place
unsafe for those who have astawar protector near
| by. Tho Park Department provides but ono or two
\ policemen for tho whole stretch of the Park proper
from Seventy second to l@th streets while dozen or
| moro sparrow cops" kept showing OF their
uniforms the drive where their services are scarcely
| ever needed
Miss Fay Templeton, who has now Joined the ranks
OF the resident burlesque and light opera divnities
| may DO depended upon to help tho season OF that
particular order of summer sensatIonalism at which
those widely photographed young women adept
Its when the SILLY season" settles the town that
| the plans wrangleR fads, and eccentricies of the
short skrtod prmA donnAs catch fancy OF the pub
lie. Life is too serious for this Of thing in tho
winter but IN tho dog days the comic opera queen
| reEns supreme. Miss Tonpletons appearance on
Broadway yesterday was followed BY universal stare
| of recognition she is plumper than she
when she left New York and a trlfe more
sedato in appearance. Her manner has not
however been In tho least affected BY her long resi-.
ence In Paris aud when the beautifully dressed gentle
men who occupy such picturesque positions along tho
western side OF upper Broadway Hooked around her
with all OF their stage manners Wow she received
them with entire American cordially. Doubtless Mss
Templeton's appearance would have been strange TO
the public II 1t had not been for her extraordinary
popularity with tho tobacco ard cigarette cCmpRneA
They have pAstered America with her Autographs
that she shares honors with Lillian Russell in all OF the
tobacconists shops. It 10 understood by the way that
cigar privileges" arc marketable nowadays. TheAt
rical recognize tho ra0rdinary value OF
this method of advertising, and contracts regu.
larry made with several of the cigarette and tobacco
manufacturers to exploit the photographs Of particular
actresses for money consideration.
Now that the swimming has begun there the
outburst OF expert and abored opinion concerning
the of marine navigation applied TO the person
man. Swimmers read with puzzled faces tho extraOr.
binary descriptions OF the various styles Of swimming
and beginners wade through columns of directions
without having tho fantest notion of the meaning tho
writer is attempting to convey Shallow ponds here
abouts plenty enough and so are little brooks and
swamp lands Tho swimmer. no matter whether he 10
expert a beginner, cannot improve upon tho
advice of his great grandfather, which is to 20
to brook swamp and study the manners
and methods Of the frog The expert
swimmers the world arc yros compared 10 the LATEST
OF bulfroRs An exchampon OF the New York Ath.
lec Club said the other day that he had learned
that way than through instruction or practice Tho
difficulty with all swimmers" he said, rs that they
spoil the effect of the stroke by the recovery Whena
frog starts on he draws his legs carefully and slowly
up under him until he is IN the position of man sitting
on his haunches Then he suddenly gives mighty
spring In the water kicking hts legs out, behind
him, but almost directly sidewse After tho kick
his legs arc slowly drawn together by his motion
through tho water until they hang out behind him In
perfectly rigid FORM Every OF his web feet hell
straight arrow ana then nothing retardB his
forward motion through tho water lie will lie in this
position until every bit OF tho momentum lost; that
H. until he has far tho force of tho kick will
send him through the water. Then again he slowly and
carefully draws his legs in ana repeats the perform
You will notice that in drawing tho legs up'o
his body for second kick the frog recedes little
This is owing TO the action Of the upper leg oil tho
water, and 1t corresponds exactly with the similar
movement on the part OF a man Tho first thinS
frog does Is to give his body a good start
such way that he gets the whole value
OF the stroke man starts out with Just such kick,
after he has two three feet no will begin to
Gwng his hands forward or draw up his legs In such
fashion that they Offset the whole value of hs work.
He stops his body half way before tho OF tho
stroke has spent itself"
This has been good season in California for cherries
but bad for Rprcots. fruit grower In Alameda
county who picked 800 tons OF apricos last doesn't
expect TO get moro than nifty tons this summer and
somewhat in this proportion will be the probable yield
in other orchards the Pacific slope. II is one thing
to eat tho California cherry out there anotherthns
this side tho Rocky Mountains Al the fruit
stands tho California cities and at the railroad sta
tons whore trains stop one may get all tho cherries
that ono may eat for five ten cents. They
have been picked only short time and lust ripe.
Cherries that 10 BE- found in the East noe
only more. hut they ware picked long before
they ripe, and elueny they do MOI tasto
all like the fruit when It Is its tree Af"r
has been IN California and gone through groat fruit
farm It IL with pleAyant feeling that ono
looks upon the displays of cherries AMI pums and
ricots ut tho Italian dealers stands in streets In
Alameda county there is one farm Of 300 acres AL
most entirely devoted TO fruit Ono afternoon recently
party OF New Workers rode through tho lanes running
through the several sections of tho farm. ono part
deT oed altogether to aprcots another TO cerrsA
another to plunB and Others TO peaches currants,
gooseberriea and ngs. There some 800 acres
OF cherry trees all bearing fruit TWAS quite expert.
enco to pluck from ovcrhangng branch n handful
tho big round dsrH rod fruit To know Just exactly
how It tasted 20 California and find out for
ones self What gs. hero from the Italians in
sIpd IN comparison.
From year year tho owners Of this particular Ala.
media county farm have paid for labor from $1,000 to
SSOOOl The work iS0ne chiefly by tho Portuguese and
Chinese. The Cinnamon are getting more Independent
OF their employers than they were few years ago
Frequently they indifferent and will tako work
except upon their own terms They not
as desirable the Portuguese Those people