The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-01

what is your own opinion as to a desir-
able direction for reform!"
81 think that women should adopt street
costume what might be called an out-of-
door or business costume, without under
taking to modify indoor or reception gowns.
Let US have freedom and comfort 10 the
street and in our outdoor exercises, but let
US hold on to drapery for all occasions when
it is feasible for US to think of beauty alone.
Let our reformed gowns confess as little as
possiole-not because modesty forbids any
honest display of the form but because
charity, the democracy of social habit for
bids it. When you hear anybody accusing
women of false modesty when they are eau
tious about dress changes, you may be Ger
tain they do not understand women. Ask
men to wear knee breeches. Your Apollos
will consent at once, Who will hesitate?
who will influence the decision of the ma
iorityl The men who would nolonger profit
by that benefit of the doubt conferred by
non-committal trousers"
THE RAPID TRANSIT FURoRE.
Since the rapid transit commission pre-
sented its report New York has delighted
in speculations upon the possible realization
of long cherished dream.
When the elevated railroads began whisk-
Ing people up and down town with rapid
ity so much greater than that attained
by the spirited steeds in front of the surface
cars people thought the problem Of rapid
transit had been solved for years to come.
But almost before these railroads in the air
had their axles we'll creased their insuffic-
iency began to appear. In two years they
excited wide complaint To-day the fever
ish New Yorker looks on them as an anti
quated agency of human transportation.
The promise of rapid underground ex-
press train smites the heated New Yorker
like a breath Of cool air. 1t has in it the
sound of rush essential to the New Y ork-
er's happiness. In this express, he says to
himself, l snail be shot up town in start
ling style. No more stoppages at every
fifth street. With four tracks and both
way and express trains can have complete
mastery of this attenuated island. With
loops at both ends Of the route, no grade
crossings, electricity for a motive power,
and the cutting SO near the surface that
there will be little distance to climb, the
scheme as now presented gives me as much
hope as ever had right to entertain.
Certainly there is a fascination in the
Commissions manifesto. The glamour of
feasibility has been cast over it by figures
and tables and sections and elevations and
estimates. Can be done in eighteen months,
without interfering for day with surface
travel, says the ardent engineer of the
board.
Probably New York will in due time have
its underground express trains. They will
constitute beautiful device. But that
New Workers will ever get up town and
down again as quickly as they wish is
beautiful illusion. The scrambling Up
towner-snd the Uptowner is getting to be
in the maiority-madly pursues the tanta
lizing phantom Of fast train. A train that
would skim the whole thirteen miles of
Manhattan Island in eight minutes would
still leave the restless New Yorker q prey
to morbid despair.
HORSE TALK.
SunoI's feat On the California kite shaped
track has made good deal of talk here.
The plucky little mare having deposed that
popular queen Of the turf, Maud S., every
body naturally waited to see what Mr.. Bon
ner who owns both horses, would have to
say.
MIR. Bonner bought Sunol from Senator
Stanford in November 1889. Senator
Stan ford thinks she will trot in 2:06. On
the day of the kite track experiment, Mr..
Bonner sat up late awaiting telegraphic in
formation of the result. When the word
came that Sunol had beaten Maud SIS re-
cord by half second, making the mile in
2:0S1l, Mr.. Bonner was delighted. He is
still loyal to Maud S. This is what he said:
''Maud S. is now breeding, but | believe
that when she is in perfect condition and in
believe, also, that Suuol can equal Maud S.
on the regulation track. Nancy Hanks has
trotted over private track, which is fast,
the soil being elastic, in 2:09."
II wouldn't have bought Sunol," says
Mr.. Bonner, ''if l hadn't thought her the
finest piece of horse flesh in the world"
Horsemen are inclined to agree with Bon
ner that Sunol is the most wonderful trot-
ter ever foaled. Most of them consider her
likely to turn out at least second faster
than Maud S. Bonner does not ever ex-
pect to see horse trot in 2:06. There are
hard headed horsemen who debut per-
haps they are younger than Robert Bonner.
THE BARNARD QUESTION.
The next man who askes What shall we
do with our girls?" may hear some one say,
"Make barmaids of them"
The latest formal attempt to introduce
barmaids into New York life has been in
operation for scarcely more than ten days,
but during that short time 1t has became
apparent that the BARNARD question is not
simple one by any means.
One evidence of a complexlty In the stu
alton was indicated by the resignation of
the distinguished bartender who did not
feel that he could consistently and with
dignity preside at a bar behind which
young women were admitted. This gentle
man, who is the author or inventor of that
liquid subtlety known as the WIDOWS
Kiss"-a decoction that consistently eX
ercises very potent Acknowledgements
professional and more or less expert opin-
ion to the effect that barmaids are not in
digenous to our soil, that they are essen
italy 5oreign to our institutions and that
they cannot possibly "go'' here.
Other people have expressed views of the
same kind. In England where. bRrnlaids
freely flourish, women brush mems shoes
and perform other Offices which men are
unwilling to see them perform in this coun-
try. The American is supposed to have,
and probably does have a superior and
modifying sensitiveness about the status
of women.
''You can never induce Americans to toll
crate the presence of women behind the sa-
loon bars" So speaks man of the world
who is also a New Yorker.
Of course the particular saloon where the
experiment is being worked out is doing q
great business. Dudes flock in to drink
soda and ogle the girls. The girls are sup
posed to be English, but three out of four.
am panied to say, come from the Boston
direction, and are distinctively q factory
brand. The one who is actually English