Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1894-08-09
Bullet Proof COrsets.
WORN EXTENSIVELY IN THE EAST
BY GIRLS VINO FEAR GRAN
kY LOVERS.
The Novel Manner in Wlici, Biue Fish
Are Taken From the Ocean
30 Thick They Color
the Water
EDITORIAL Correspondence of the Ledger.


SOUTHAMPTON, LONG ISLAND, New
YORK, July 30.-We leave to-day for
a short visit in Washington City and
then home to work. l have had &
splendid outing and feel more like
work than | ever did.
| There is a good deal in the papers
here about bullet-proof clothes, and
see New York girl reporter has
just been shot at and tells her expe-
rience. The bullet-proof corset saved
her life.
Bullet-proof corsets are in bloom
everywhere now. Only Il few months
ago We heard of the first. Now there
are half dozen of them before the
public and twice rs many more are
i'll process of construction. 1t is
strange that where q novelty of any
kind leaps into public notice imme-
diately an avalanche of variations of
it follows, and the thing soon comes
pretty near 10 being nuisance.
The bullet-proof coat, though, is
liable to become as dangerous an
inf uence as the Wild West Show
was when it first started out. With
the advent of Buffalo Bill as an en-
tertainer hundreds of boys began to
play at Indian killing and scalped
their small comrades with as much
gusto as if they were real red men.
The bullet-stopping coat caught the
small boys fancy quite early, too.
a Kansas youth invented one, put
it on, and his brother shot him to
death through it.
We would advise boys to bend
their inventive faculties to devising
slipper-proof trousers basement,
and let bullet-stopping coats alone.
They have more to fear from Slip
pers than bullets IN this age.
One ofthe most exciting experien-
ces of Il visit here is seining in the
ocean for blue fish, especially if the
surf is little high. You sight a
school of blue fish so thick that they
color the water. You then orally"
the boys and man the boat which
already contains the seine. You
wait until the breakers are small and
then YOU are ''off'' before the big
seas come on. You leave two men
on shore with rope at one end of
the seine and you then row the seine
around the school, bringing the 9TH
er end in, and then you draw both
ends in. Sometimes you only catch
from ten to one hundred and some
times six or eli ght tons of blue fish,
weighing from five to fifteen pounds
each. The sport is great if the fish
are plenty and the surf high. There
is no fish which compares to the
blue fish for flavor. No better fish
swim in the sea. Catching fish
with a hook and line is also indulg.
ed in for sport and it takes a pretty
good man to handle a large one.
You use no bait-simply trail a large
hook with some white metal just
back of it to attract the fish, which
takes hold promptly. The fish for
market are caught with seines and
thousands of pounds are sent to
New York from here daily. They
are sold from 3 to 6 cents pound.
The New Y ork people sell them at re-
tail for from 10 to 25 cents. In
st. Louis you pay Is cents pound
and often get cat fish. When you
are paying tor blues it is all right CD
of course, if you don't know the
difference.
If nothing happens | will be at
my desk again next Saturday.
Bob WHITE.