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Arizona republican., 1890-06-02
W. CoBLE. PERKINS. PERKINS < C0BLE, General Real Estate AND. LOAN AGENTS. Center Street, Phoenix, Arizona.
 UNDER OPERA HoUsEJ IMPROVED CITY, SUBURBAN AND FARM PROPERTIES. Improved 5 10, 20 and 40-Aere Tracts, With or Without Water CHOICE ALFALFA, VINEYARD AND
 ORCHARD TRACTS.
 Whole Half Sections
 All Parts of the City.
Improved 5, 10, 20 and 40-Acre Tracts,
 With or Without Water.
CHOICE ALFALFA, VINEYARD AND ORCHARD TRACTS.
Special Inducements Offered to Purchasers of
 Whole or Half Sections
Improved and Unimprovd Business and Residence Properties
 All Parts of the City.

ALSO UNIVERSITY ADDITION. ADDITION GREENHAw ADDITION. DENNIS ADDITION. MURPHY ADDITION. ADDITION, IN ADDITION. LINVILIE ADDITION ADDITION. CHURCHILL ADDITION. LOTS MONTGOMERY ADDITION. k0 Special desirable Colonies.
  Paid and special property
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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
ADVERTISING RATES.

cred at the postotfice as matter of the
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Arizona republican., 1890-06-02
GEO. w. COBLE.

treet, Phoenix,
 (UNDER THE OPERA IOUSE.)
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in the air for some one to fall over. or eise
sprawls her feet apart in easy nonchalance.
Long practice OF this attitude allows the
muscles to relax about the waist, settle down
fold on fold, and presently that woman realizes
that she cannot button her own shoes as she
used to or wear the dress she wore when she
was married. The modern rocking chair with
its luxurious cushions has made more prom
inent abdomens and curving spines than any
other agent OF destruction to womanly grace.
The old New England house wives and spinsters
sitting erect in their STRAIGHTFORWARD, splint-
bottomed chairs never had to worry over an
exuberance OF adipose abdominal tissue.
The awkward woman establishes herself in
street car as lazily as if arranging her atti-
tude for an afternoon siesta What ia the re-
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car in rainy weather. With one
indescribable, all comprehensive touch with
one hand she lifts her skirts Just enough
to escape the pavement and skins the puddles
like some light, swift-winged Mercury, calcu-
lates with nicely Of reckoning that wuold be
a fortune to an astronomer or a bank expert
just when to signal the car in order to have it
stop on the crossing instead of three steps be-
yond in pool of muddy water, trips daintily
up the steps, braces for the jar Of the start.
sails in as serene and spotess as white swan
on midsummer pool and sits down with
pretty tilt Of her skirts that throws them in
graceful folds and poises like a skylark, alert.
easy. erect ana symmetrical. 1t requires years
OF practice and sustained continuous effort 70
master these simple principles, but it is, after
all, the simple notes and half notes Of grace
that we learned in the old finger exercises
that constitute the symphonies of melodious
action.
There is just trace Of selfshness too, in
awkwardness-the selfshness that makes you
forget other peoples feet as you walk on them,
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ergy worthy a better cause and leaning for
ward falls into her dress skirt, tears the lace
of her petticoats. trips and tugs along with her
center Of gravity pulling in some absurd place
where it holds her body down in a half hori-
zontal position and makes her carry almost
more than her own weight up, besides cramp-
ing her lungs SO that she is all out Of breath
putting and perspiring when she reaches the
top. The easiest way to go up stairs is to hold
yourself erect. and lifting your weight con-
tinuaily with the chest step after step. lightly
mounting on the toes makes climbing the
dreaded stairs Of city houses one of the best
forms Of exercise yet invented, according to
famous physician. who claims that great ad-
vantage is derived from its development of the
muscles Of the heart Coming down stairs the
position should be the same and each step
made as lightly on the toes as though the stair
way was Of porcelain and the supports of spun
glass. There are some muscles in the calf of
the leg that ought to bear the strain of the
ascent and descent and will if not imposed
upon by throwing upon them a lazy load of
flesh that the muscles about the waist ought to
carry.
1t is kind Of Incidence that makes the awk-
ward woman rise from q sitting posture by
placing her hands upon the table or the arms
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The WESTERN WAY OF DOING IT.

Another magnificent shot is Mr.. A. A.
Cohen, who uses a Massachusetts target Here
ts his carton. IL is full score of 72-the high
est ever made on that kind OF target, and the
bullets are well grouped Bird has also made
the better OF the two Mr.. j. T. b. Collins has
made u and Maj. PRYOR 10 on the same target
On the standard decimal target Maj. Pryor
leads with the full score-S0 points in 6 shots.
Banker T. Wasssrman, another famous marks
man, has also 20 and Theodore E. Beck of New
ARK, NJ. has So Amos: all the shooting is
done with the Smith a Wesson revolver al
though some use the Colt
One OF the best shots in town is Mr.. Henry
w. Wickham, q relative of ex-Mayor wickham
BY the bye. be u the original OF the character
irumortslized by Archibald Gunther i'm his
famous novel, Mr.. Barnes of New York The
old mayor was q crack with the pistol himself
In other days son Of Banker Eugene Kelly
n siso Q capital mArksman and has made fns
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40 woman, who, even With NO house TO keep
or children TO rear, h always more hurried and
busy thsn the prime minister Of nstion, never
has moment 10 practice; but the best and most
edectual Of them al she can attend to with q
little thought on her way to the matinee. in the
midst OF musicale or the rush Of sample ex-
pedition, and that is to hold her body perfectly
erect for half an hour esch day, touching
neither chair, carriage or car seat back. and
sitting we'll toward the edge Of the seat with
the right foet slightly in advance Of the left,
ready 10 rise quickly without help from the
hands o. an emergency. After time prolong
the half hour to whole hour, two. three
hours, and finally, so elastic sinewy and indie
pendent will those lazy muscles become that
she will cease to care for spinal supports and
hesd rests like psehdo invalid.
Dignity and grace Of carriage depend upon
simple things, yet graceful walk il enc of the
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a Nilsson. she may learn quite sufficient har-
mony to sing lullabies to her babies that til ey
will love if no one else appreciates.
The theory of graceful movement 10 founded
on a few fixed and unalterable principles, which,
taken in analysis. seem as unimportant and mo-
notonous as whole notes and half notes. but in
run the gamut of harmonious action with o
sure and expressive touch and bring out melo-
dies OF movement that are beautifully effective
And though no modern Phidias would seek out
any woman who had to learn to be graceful as
the model for his Venus, still the mos. awk ward
and unfortunate blunderer can learn not to
step on herself and other people, to fall over
chairs and into street cars and tumble through
life generally, discomfort to herself and an
annoyance to those around her.
The first and greatest impeachment to grace
is simple Incidence. The awkward woman is
the comfortable woman every time. She sits
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ways that are past finding out 1t would be a
good question for the Presbyterian dominies
to wrangle over when they have finished the
discussion of the confession. The same master
builder may fashion the yacht that skins the
waves like white winged gull and the heavy
barge with its clumsy prov and uncouth bilge,
and no drapings of bunting, futtering of PEN
nants or sails Of silk can transform the latter
to the semblance of the former. Still, because
a barge she is and must remain, there is no use
in her scraping her gunwale against the rocks
on the shore or banging her prov into all the
vessels in the channel and getting herself gen.
orally disliked and voted a stupid nuisance and
bore.
At rare intervals a musical genius Is born into
the world, to whom harmony is instinct and
melody an intuition, but the majority Of peo-
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"Better even than the western cracks and
the cowboys?"
''Now, that's . popular absurdity about those
cowboys. / have seen them shoot and there is
not one Of them who could beat any OF our
amateur experts, even of the second class.
hight here. among the bankers. merchants.
brokers. lawyers and other business men. we
have shots without an equal. whether it is off
hand practice, firing at the word or target
shooting Cowboys are very handy at blazing
away at close quarters OF in a rough-snd-tumble
scrape. but when it comes to really fine marks
manship they are nowhere"
The headquarters of the crack shots in New
York are at famous range on Thirty
first street, inst of Broa lwav Shooting
mattel hes are in progress there at all hours, and
mill naires of sporting proclvities may be
seen there cOntesting with busy professional
men, The best of good humor prevails. and.
except now and then when a marksman objur-
gates at bis III luck in making a particularly
poor shot, the scoring goes on as quietly as a
state dinner. The targets used are the Con-
cOrs natlOna', n Ere nch carton. which counts
10 for the bulIs-eye; the standard decimal,
which also counts 10. and the Massachusetts,
target. which is graduated TO One-eighth of an
Inch and which counts y. The French target
has only lately been introduced here and il a
fsyorlte. because each ring on the carton is
graduated so as to admit IA ii-callber bullet be-
tween the lines.
lit Is quite true" said the proprietor. .'that
revolver shooting has become exceedingly popu-
lar among New Workers: indeed It nay lie said
tn amount to n passion with hundreds OF men
no md II not only pleasant exercise but
capital thing for steadying the Irves A man
must be in good condition if he expects TO make
showing at the graduated targets. We have
made great progress during the las, Few years
owing 10 the improvement in the weapons. and
Ia shn "a 81 A.
indispensable accomplishments of q gentleman.
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QuttH1y pOID6 20 bI6SoIy IHuIeU.
In her youth woman should be . Hebe-
her motions light 90 . xephyr's wing, her ges-
tures full Of glad, unstudied abandon, her step
a. swift and light and free a that Of the wild
woodland fawn; a. she approaches the meridian
Of life she must be Diana, with every action
tender and subdued, with the chaste dignity
and intelligsnce Of perfect womanliness; the
meridian once passed, she becomes Juno, q
Minerva, the combined power Of beauty and
wisdom pervsding every act and motion with
the dignity and serenity Of contaminated
womanhood.
II one were 10 define gracefulness in Q single
womanlinsss, for woIhanliness means CAREFUL
mess, thoughtfulnsss, consideration, earnest
sndsssor, progression and self-dependencs
and wonnans grace II the idsalisation Of each
and all these attributes.
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A-GeorCe Bird. g straight bull's-eyes; B-Alfred
bulI's-eyes: D-GeoJge Bird, o straight buls-eyer;
Etrank Lords target with looking glass. II yards
band shot, II yards H-"The Teaser swinging tarTet
''Some of our marksmen have fancy shots of
their own which few others care to attempt"
said the speaker. Il have seen Frank Lord
take rifle and Creedmoor 200-yar target at
the l2-yard range there, and make good shoot
ing with a mirror. His back is to the target,
and he takes aim in the glass and delivers tho
hre over his shoulder. Here is target he
made IN that kind of practice not long ago;
SIX straight bulls eyes. you see. The teaser'
Is rather unique target and it bothers them a
good deal. 1t is in the form of a cross with the
four arms marked out on the same principle as
a regular target and the center blocked off in
squares. This is set swinging and it is hard
mark to hit.
''One would think, naturally. that drinking
men would make poor shooting, a rule. and
they probably do, but I've seen a great many
exceptions.
Il have known a man to stand up to target
where he could hardly steady himself and
make bull's-eye after bull's-eye The bod,
swayed. bat the point of the gun didn't. Smok-
ing doesn't seem to affect a marksman as much
as one might imagine. Almost all our marks
men smoke and their nerves don't seem to suf-
fer, unless, of course, they go to excess but
the men who keep temperate in these things
VIII do the best work. One of the cleverest
shots at the French target is Eugene Higgins.
the son of the millionaire who recently died
leaving him fortune of about 5l0,000,O0O.
THE BEST LIGHT.
What is the best plan for lighting an indoor
target so as to give the least strain to the
eyes?" l asked.
well, i have experimental with almost
everything, and have reached the conclusion
that gas Is best-s we'll protected, steady fame
Inc electric light Is too bright and hurts the
eyes, besides being unsteady on the target.
kerosene Is better. Many of our crack slots
wear spectacles. j. b. Collins a real estate
lawyer and one OF the best men in town with a
revolver, never shoots without glasses Some
OF the Boston marksmen. too who come here
when they are in town, shoot through glasses. "
Target practice has taken the place Of
billiards with hundreds of business men in New
York and in several other large cities notably
Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia In the me-
tropolls there are many excellent shots among
the ladies of wealth and fashion, but their prac.
tlce with revolver and pistol is principally in
the summer. when they are in the woods or
among the hills safe from inauisitiye mascu-
line eyes. With improvements in weapons and
new methods of practice the old style Of fancy
shooting with telescopes. shoulder rests and
straps has disappeared. Practical shooting ia
now the rule, and even military methods have
begun to conform 10 the style OF the sporting
rite In any international tourney with either
revolver rifle Uncle Sans sharpshooters are
pretty certain to hold their own against the
world. q. II. SANpIsoS.
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CAB EASILY. and that both lntelli-
gence and the moral faculties have their effect
upon all movements and gestures, however
slight And in women who have lost the un-
conscious sweet grace Of girlhood in the seri-
BUSINESS Of womanhood, the quick, intuitive.
beautiful serenity. thoughtful consideration,
unfailing aud ready judgment, and, above all,
dignified moderation Of perfect grace of mo-
ton under any and all circumstances, in sud-
den emergencies and unexpected situations, is
q never-failing test Of character.
Another consideration which must be enter
tanned by the would-be graceful woman Is her
age, and the style of her physique must also be
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UNE WAY OF CROSSING quite as m uch as TOT tnelr
MUDDY STREET. dark flashing eyes and
dusky hair. The women Of lower Italy have such
elasticity of gait and superiority Of conforma-
ton that they are said to pose unintentionally,
and French women proverbially make up in
grace what they lack in beauty. A French girl
can express with her shoulders more than
some girls can ever say with lips or eyes.
Occasionally this enviabie gift of grace mani
tests itself in some little child whose melodious
movements, harmony Of action and poetry Of
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10y ssA AAaOA "a
gesture while engaged in
simple childish games
unconsciously eliminate
the most abstruce mys-
teries in the science Of
grace. But it is only in
rare moments OF insplra-
ton that the Creator thus
endows some fortunate
being with the attributes
Of faultless beauty and
His handiworks on the
average woman gives lit
tie evidence of His divin-
my. Just why He chooses
to create one woman a
goddess and another a
caricafura ia ono of Hia
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OF her chair and stand
with the weight OF the
body thrown on one foot
and leaning against door
ways or chairs, that
causes her to stumble
over rugs and draperies
by not lifting her feet,
and do the half a hun
bred other stupid things
that cause her to suffer
80 by comparison with
the alert, erect. ener-
getic woman poised like
a bird ready for flight
and never loosening her
hold on the reins Of her
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This poetical plea, however ingenious AZ IL
unquestionably was. was not regarded suffi-
ciensy SOUND 10 hold water. and so the CUSTOM
AIRY fine was imposed. II has lately become
customary to apply tests in such cases, but this
does not appear to have been done in the pres
ent instance. When the licensing act OF 1872
came into operation publican in this neigbor-
the limits Of supply by the ability of his Gus.
toner to utter, without stumbling. the words
truly rural" and some time ago ii Jared badly
with poor fellow in London who vas so far
gone as to be unable 70 spell ''constitutionsI''
or statistical" The law, however takes no
cognizance either Of 'shibboleths" OF spelling
bees IN such matters
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wet days with her skirts
grasped in both hands
and yet trailing and
dipping here and
there to wipe up filth,
wipe of car steps and
sweep crosswalks, while
her inevitable bundles
drop unheeded from be-
meath her arms as she
signals the car to stop,
and gets into 1t literally
head first with the lurch
OF its sudden starting.
1t is a picture and a poem
to see the graceful
woman accomplish tho
EAaA - S..- -
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more or less often, TO get up her momentum.
There is no attitude at which woman il
more graceful than devotional one. Indeed
one old cynic has said women ought to do ali
the praying in the world, since the kneeling
position is SO beautifully adapted to the lines
of their slender figures. But zee the awkward
woman at her prayers. Slowly the muscles
relax and she sinks lower and lower down in a
little huddled heap, bobbing her head about
for a comfortable place on the edge OF the pew
in front Of her. ali 80 lazily that one wonders
if her prayers are earnest enough to be an
swered.
To sit well may be quite a. great an art a. To
write poem, and to accomplish either require %
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WHEN Is A MAN DRUNK?
Tests That Are Applied I'm England With
Indifferent Results.
From the Newcastle CEngJ Chronicle.

From the Newcastle (Eng) Chronicle.
''Drunk, or not drunk?' That was the ques-
ton which presented itself for settlement the
other day at Ripon. On behalf of the luckless
man, who was accused of having imbibed too
freely, it was submitted that he was only
fresh" The legal gentleman whose services
had been retained further maintained that q
person who could talk, as his client had been
able to do, was not drunk" within the mean
OF the act, and he reminded the bench that it
had been written that
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fiS ho'C W ICdt II uVc-
finger exercises before
they can render SYM
phonies. Now, though
a lifetime Of practice
will not make of the or.
binary ungifted mortal a
List or a Rubinstein,
there is no reason why
the most commonplace
little woman may not
learn by study just
enough melody to play
an accompaniment to
Johns flute of an even
ing, and, though no
amount of vocal culture
cap m 20 her paffi mr.
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other peoples gowns as
you tear over them.
other peoples elbows as
you sit with yours
akimbo, other peoples
needs when you forget
the pretty courtesies of
behavior that make them
more comfortable in the
street, at the table, in
the shop or church, and
it Is your thought for
them that avoids encoun-
tiers, catastrophes and
all manner Of awkward
accidents. Ruskin claims
that grace of action de-
ponds on gentleness and
1an,oson - s,,a< Tool.
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down in a chair in such
a way that the back shall
support her and touch
her spinal column all the
way up and down. in
stead Of making a little
effort to hold herself
erect and teach ell those
intricate, shiftless little
muscles around her body
to support her. What Is
the result? She hollows
her chest, throws her
abdomen out. ten chances
out of a dozen crosses
her knees with her toe
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adapted to that peculiar
kind OF grace which best
becomes it. The slen-
der, willowy woman, with
the bending delicate
curve Of swaying lilies,
may have q buoyant,
swift, vivacious style OF
Of motion, but the large
and stately girl or wo-
man must accustom her
self TO the equally inn
pressivs grace Of digni-
fed moderation. The
unassuming, flexible, un-
dulating, gracious air
belongs to the slender
beauty; the majestic,
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one has given . pretty
formula for walking cor
rectly as follows: Fancy
a slender cord about your
chest, just beneath the
arms, the ends Of which
an angel bears aloft flut-
tering just above your
head, and walk so gently
and smoothly and erectly
that the trail cord shall
remain taut. yet not be
permitted to break. Re-
member, too, to hold
yourfelf firmly at the
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whenever she stands or
moves. or leaves a shadow
on the wall, she confers
a favor on the world"
for whom the chrism of
grace has glorified the
crown of beauty, who
could no more make an
awkward motion than q
nightingale could utter a
discordant note. The
women Of Andalusia pos
sess the gift of grace,
perhaps, more uni
versally than those of
any other race. Spanish
women are noted for
their majestic carriage
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From the N. Y. Sun.

vYHAT constitutes womsnly grace
n that 'swete attractive kinde Of
wv grace" Of which the ancient poet,
wrote, that "dumb music Of the
body, that wondrous melody Of
femininity" Of which Heine sang, which We in
this latter-dsy renaissance Of physical sstheti-
cism hear discussed 20 universally? Il it, in
deed, only the outward and visible sign Of some
secret favor Of the immortal gods, Is the
Greeks argued, or is it not rather the expression
Of energy and sincerity Of character, nicely OF
judgment, thoughtfulness. unselfshness. ga
gacious calculation and consummate delibera-
ton? There is occasionally q woman so d.
vinely fashioned that, a. Emerson says,
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shake, plants her heels
firmly in the mud of the
crosswalks, splashing it
over boots and skirts as
well, settles down into
her clothes 80 comfort
ably that her abdomen
protrudes and her bent
back allows her skirts to
sweep up the dust and
ashes and garbage on our
beautifully kept pave
ments. When she mounts
the stairs she reverses
her position with an en-.
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= q
ness Of the trunk and tho
graceful disposition OF
the lower limbs are
clearly emphasized in
our drawing Of 9 type Of
woman with which ha-
bitues OF the opera are
familiar. Now, this par
ticularly graceful, alert,
birdlike pose which even
in repose suggests some
thing Of action and
energy, 10 only attaina-
BILE by strengthening the
muscles about the waist
and hips. There are var
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more than the jocky slackens his lines on the
home stretch. She learns to do this with no
mental effort after time, though it requires
constant thought and eternal vigilance at first.
The awkward woman, too, is usually a care
less, thoughtess creature and always in q
hurry She plougbs along through the mud on