Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-06
MRS. MARY MOoRE's FEAT,
Her Three-stcry Fall With . Baby and Q
Lighted Lamp.

Lighted Lamp.
In these days Of skirt dancing and other un-
mentionable diversions of the fin de steele
woman II is as refreshing as an April shower to
learn Of grace and agility turned to some bet
ter account than post-Lenten festivities, says
the New York World. This pessimistic philos-
ophy is prompted by fitting item among the
fashion notes or so-called Butterfly Brevities'
the center OF the lands of steady habit
Doubtless ii would not be inaccurate to desig-
nate New Haven as the geographical center OF
the inner circle Of sobrietv This little spring
bouquet Of vigor and verify shows that the new
gymnasium at Yale was opened none too soon
if the youths OF this country are to mainta
their proves in athletics.
Here are the facts as narrated by our es-
teemed contemporary:
"Mrs. Mary E. Moore of No. $50 Orchard
street had bad fall down three flights Of
stairs at her home on Monday night As she
fell she had q tnree-year-old babe on one arm
and lighted lamp in the other hand She
fel. =" the item adds, tersely, with great We
loci:y."
Her friends rushed 10 ner aid. hearing her
fail. and naturally expected to find her lifeless
body. But no; Mrs. Moore has not attended
the ladies' days at the Yale gymnasium for
naught. The flying rings the human PIN
Wheel and the '.gian: torpedo" once seen make
an indelible strawberry mark on a womau's
receptive mind. and on more than one occasion
1t has been strongly limited that the sisters and
sweethearts OF the Yale youths have (privately,
of course) practiced these feats.
But to return to our muttons-or rather to
Mrs. Moore-wnom We LETT at the bottom of
the third fight OF stairs of No. 43O Orchard
street. There she was. as the New Haven
Journal man pnts it. in simple unadorned
Angio-saxon. 1.-THE baby in one hand and the
lamp In the other, none the worse for her peril.
GUS shute, save some hat shaken up."
He thus continues: Recovering herself she
climbed back TO her apartments unassisted.
She had" he respectfully admits. lone or two
slight bruises" due no doubt to lack of prac-
tlce In carrying life dumDDeii in one hand in
stead OF TWO lamps. as Is, perhaps, the usual
practice in doing his feat.
Other details we re not deemed worthy of rec
ord, but to those unacquainted with the triple
fall as done In Connecticut it is disappointing
not to learn whether the lamp was smoking
when Mrs. Moore climbed back to her apart
ments unassisted. The tale appears defective
In one or two other minor points One would
like to know whether Mrs. Moores three-year.
old baby is Injured to this sort of thing or
whether 1t also had lone two slight bruises"
Perhaps 1t ID customary to Use q borrowed il.
fan: in learning the act
Again, an anxious world would like to know
something about the costume best suited to
tins after-dlnner exercise. Did Mrs. Moore
wear an accordion pleated skirt the Chicago
Dress Reform Leagues approved morning
Wrappers or did she use the new voluminous
full skirt? Probably carpet slippers covered
her feet, though one would not be surprised to
know that really expert summersaulters wear
high French heels.
Now that her skill is fully known, Mrs. Moore
is likely to be pestered most to death by man
ufacturers OF patent incombustible and non
preakaDie lamp chlmneys, and purveyurs of in