The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-21

| about another dog. 1t appears that Lord
/ Hamilton said something about the cir
| cumstance 70 Mr.. Astor, but the latter
| passed 1t over indifferently. Ali of which
seems to denote that the matter in Mr..
Astor's magazine can hardly be consid-
| cred fresh.
! The fact is. and Mr. Astor's New York
friends assert it authoritatively, that the
millionaire's main idea is TO use the publ
cation of means of becoming a power in
English society. His selection of a lord
and knight, one of whom has already
| failed in literature, as editors, bears out
| the Impression, to say nothing about the
fact, that if you are not in the fashion or
! possessed of some kind of fashionable in
| fiuence, you cannot have the privilege of
| contributing to Astor'3 monthly affair.
! Very few people doubt that Astor is los
ing money by it., but he is undoubtedly
gaining socially.
CLEVELAND ON TOYS.
The toy merchants of New York have a
most discriminating customer in Presi-
| dent Cleveland. His purchases are mad e
regularly and consist, naturally, of such
| articles as would interest two young
| ladies who have done little more in the
! world than cut their teeth. Mr.. Cleve-
land has become good Judge Of toys, too,
and has been seen interesting himself in
baby's blocks and rattles. He can build
| a. 'OLS 6OO0 AOuoEs duu MS WIG ndS
taught him many things about kinder
! garten education.
Hearing about this, toy dealer re-
solved to secure the Presidents written
Endorsement of certain gewgaw as a
good advertisement. When the article
reached the white house the cunning
| messenger set about explaining its merits
! to the executive. That afternoon Mr.
| Cleveland spent hours in building block
houses with the little ones, and was so de-
lighted with 1t all that he cheerfully COM
| Piled with an urgent request from the
dealer TO give the toy written recon-
mendation. One of his encomiums reads:
my little daughter has already begun
an enjoyment of your building blocks
which will increase in years are added to
her life"
The testimonials was reproduced in fac
| smile by the delighted toy merchant, but
| when the fact was brought to the atten-
tion OF other toy sellers they began to be-
siege the President with circulars set
ting for the merits of all sorts of toys,
and requesting his written opinion. So
| Mr.. Cleveland ranks as our first Presi-
dent who has won recognition as an au-
thority on the merits of toys.
THOSE ooRsETs.
One Of the most prominent merchants
became convinced recently that the young
women in 0neof the departments Of his
| establishment were injuring themselves
| by their. constant wearing of tightly
laced corsets, and issued a notification
! that IN future no corsets should, be worn
| during working hours. Instantly there
| was Indignation, and the thirty five
| young women appointed committee of
three to wait upon their employer for
| redress Of grievances. The employer re-
| ceived the committee very affably and as
| QIlrpd no l. lie l., i
| been issued In their interest. He pointed
| out that their wearing of corsets did not
| improve their appearance in the eyes of
| any one but themselves, as they worked
| in basement, where no visitors were ad-
mitted. He further read them a little
| lecture on the evil of wearing corsets
| and, being by nature well disposed soul,
he gave dinner TO all the young women
| IN that department one evening at which
he had present well known physician,
| who told how injurious a thing a corset
is. The girls ate the dinner and listened
respectfully, but the next day the COM
mittee called again upon that employer
and assured him that they must ask to be
| allowed to wear eorsets, ~
But you will admit" said the mer-
chant, that the wearing of the corsets at
your work is injurious to you}p
| The committee admitted the fact, but
| declared that the experiment of going
without them all had made them look
| horried in their own eyes.
So that employer yielded the point as
gracefully as he could He is man
whose name is as prominent as that of any
retail merchant in New York.
INTERNATIoNAL LABOR.
The proposition to have an international
labor congress in New York has long
been mooted among the city's working
men, but only within a few weeks has the
! project taken definite shape. The idea
has particular reference to the working
men from England who have been ex-
pected to reach New York any time these
last six months But, somehow, the dele
CATION chemically fails to put in an APP
pearance. Now, however, John Burns
and his colleagues have sent word that
they are coming, and propose to give their
| Vlewsfon social questions to their toiling
brethren in America. Mr.. Burns explains
the delay by saying that he and his com
panions are waiting until their funds are
ample for the visit, as they wish to give
free lectures on this side and escape the
imputation of arriving on money making
expedition
The New Workers will then ask con-
corning the feasibility OF holding the in
ternational labor congress in New York.
| III Is New 4ork's turn for the conference,
but oddly enough, the foreigners declare
that the new world is the scene of Iabor,s
| greatest subsection, and that, therefore,
they do not care to come here 1t is GER
tainly true that in England workingmen
| may legally go to far greater lengths in
the matter of boycotts and strikes than
| the workingmen of New York. In Eng
/ land. for instance, as j. Kerr Hardie him
i self declared in parliament, no govern
meut would dare to prevent peaceable
j meetings of the unemployed o. to prevent
| gatherings of workingmen with avowedly
lawful intentions, as the police of New
] York have done. The Central Labor
! Union has gone to the extreme of declar-
| ing that it is almost afraid TO resolve that
| toilers are unfairly treated in the present
distribution of wealth, for fear of thereby
violating the conspiracy laws of the state
! OF New York. DAVID WEsoHLER,
| MUNOHAUSEN,S TALES