The record-union., 1895-08-14

striving for the strength and athletic
health OF our men, the men will adopt
some OF the grace, reserve and gentlenes
of the woman, we may be improved all
around. But Mr.. New York and Mr..
America cannot be disguised by the sick
paninent of the new school Of
French doctrinalres. JPtLe Nelo York
does not go because there is no
Mile New York The metropolis
is tending toward greater refinement, ele-
gance, polish and chaste taste in all
things. The drift is distinctly toward
beauty and art, but it is not surface
| race is healthy and the delicacy aud gen
tility coming so fast is the result Of the
maturing ripeness of the core.
1t can be proved by these young men.
| They are sound at heart, in mind, in
spirit. Their brains are full of gray
matter, not yellow and black and white.
When they eat French dinners their
| fed. They do not commit the sins they
advocate; the desire is lacking. M'Ue
Mem York misrepresents them as it does
their city, and there IS no echo in their
own minds to their appeal for encourage
ment any more than there is in their
subscription list. When they find out,
as this business experience will teach
luSDl, t1dt LEST0 Is no uoiu III lulS country
for the doctrine of vice, they are apt to
discover that there is an unlimited de-
maud for chastity in art and in manners.
Then they will realize what their friends
see with amusement, that they can write
just as cleverly, just as charmingly of
their own red cheeks as their French
masters can of their boils and sore
places Only the inject matter OF n'Ae
! NetU York is wrong. The crusade against
! v-I,l a,-Jfx = n isr oil vic
| Let them go West as Theodore Roose-
welt did and learn, rs he did, the force of
straightaway honesty, blunt truthfulness,
uncompromising sincerity and courage.
! Having the femininity of the dying
| East, of Europe, they can then come
| back here with the masculinity of the
living West and have the success of the
President of the Board of Police. His
success is Sign of the times as much as
their failure is. You have heard of the
rumpus Roosevelt has kicked up here.
Perhaps you have wondered why IL was
New Y ork has wondered at itself. 1t was
in Paris | learned things that explain
this young school of writer's. California
taught me things which explain Mr..
Roosevelt. He is New Yorker, 200
years old, the son of pioneers. He
| went a-ranching in an environment
like that which made his first Ameri-
can forefathers. Punching COWS. hitting
his enemy. plugging bears, revived the
early pioneer virtues. Honesty came out
straight. truthfuiness simple, courage
clear. With these things seen as only q
clear eye can see them, trusted as only q
tried hand can trust them, he got around
by Washington back to New York. He
got hard place TO iii, but he dealt out of
fresh deck without any lingering OF the
cardS-the ace OF sQuareness, the king OF
courage the queen of fairness, and New
York saw he held the trumps-hearts;
and clu bs. no longer winning cards. were
thrown down. Some people are still try
ing to manipulate the deck. MIR. Roose-
velt has in his hip-pocKet something he
found useful in the West. | think he
viii win every hand. He is the man of
the future IS far as weather predictions
can be counted upon. So sure as that is
sure, 80 sure are the dining. dancing
chaps Of M'Ue NelC York sure of failing.
Herr, monsieur, Mir. New York and
Mrs. New Y ork like the West when they
have it well before them, the best OF the
West. They prefer II to the West of the
East anyway. Europe has something to
teach Us young men. But the sort Of stuff
to win with comes from out your way.
Sometimes [ think, just the same, the
gentle tenderfoot gets more of the gold
pure than the W esterner himself. sSome-
how at homo we don't treasure it 80
highly. We use lit is so common-tor
coin there. Here we put it in vaults, and
are ready to cry when it Is taken away.
WHATS the matter?
The East can understand the West, ana
| likes it every time. 1t cannot understand
Europo-Paris, London. etc.-or, if il
does, it hates the sight. [ wish l could
make the East-New York-understood
in the West You shoot at the tender
foot's boots. but you find him a pretty
good sort of fellow after his dance.
L.