Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-11-28
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EDWARD G. DANA.
EDWARD G. DANA.

word, will ue surrounded by every
safeguard. There will be two rooms
one for girls and one for boys. Each
will be presided over by a competent
instructor, and one or more attendants
will always be in the pool while les
son is being given.
While the identity of the philan-
thropists back of the plan-for it is
philanthropic plan-is kept carefully
concealed for the present, enough is
known to make it certain that the
project will be carried out within y
reasonable time. This statement is
vouched for by Mr.. Wilson, who is to
be one Of the instructors at the New
York school. In speaking OF the mat
ter he said:-
"Our first school will be opened in
New York. A fee for tuition will be
charged, but 30 small as not to shut
out the poor. II child wishes to be-
come pupil and is prevented from so
doing by financial reasons We shall
find way to make attendance possi-
BILE. II our New York school proves
q success others will be opened in
some of the larger cities, like Chicago,
Philadelphia, Boston and st. Louis.
Our methods of instruction will
be very simple, but as careful
and methodicsl as if our pupils
were learning from books in.
stead OF from padding in the water
We shall have regular classes and
each class will have certain formula
to 60 through with completely each
day, ending with the life.saving in
structiou. The children will be
taught perfect confidence. They will
be shown how to swim with one hand
while the other holds garments. They
must exercise care in keeping the sue
cored ones at arms length.
An English contemporary is cred
tied by cable with assertion that New
York society women chew tobacco, and
the writer draws painful imaginative
pictures of some of the eminent classic
girls, Tenus, Juno, Diana and other
leaders of the Olympian "Four Hun
dred"-as they would appear with
quids of "navy plug" or "nigger.heer'
in their cheeks. The conclusion
reached is that to obacco- chewing tends
to blemish feminine beauty and that
the New York women who are leaders
OF society should, by example and pre-
cept, vigorously discountenanoe the
practice.
There is this to be said about the
women of New York who are con-
spicuous in society, and that is if they
do chew they are not ostentatious
about it. No better opportunity to
see the society leaders Of New York
together could be afforded than the
Horse Show, and careful observation
OF the occupants of the boxes in
Madison Square Garden failed to
reveal a single one of the many women
of fashion present either with guilds
in their cheeks, borrowing each 9TH
er's plugs or fine cut, or exchanging
any of the chewing courtesies newt
able among gents who use the weed.
Yet the new vice is charged TO the
American woman. who is burdened
with enough already. This sounds
startling at first, but as it is really a
fact, it is we'll to account for it, which
may be done in various ways. In the
first place this altogether shocking
habit may be due to the influence OF
the bicycle, which is already respon-
sible for SO much else. Everybody
knows that the bicyclist chews, and
chews furiously. That is perhaps ex.
cusable, though uulovely, as every
athletic exercise seems to demand IL
vigorous jaw movement as an accom-
paniment. Or as least it would be ex-
cusable if the woman who chews gum
while she is riding, put aside the gum
when she dismounts from her wheel.
But she protests that she cannot do
this, and 80 we see her chewing gum
while travelling, while visiting, while
receiving. And the evil does not end
here, for chewing gum doubtless soon
becomes insipid, and it is possibly the
simplest of transitions from gum to
tobacco. This may explain the whole
matter.
The first free circulating library for
the blind in the world was opened re-
Gently in st. Agnes's church house,
No. 121 West Ninety-frst street. II
is the idea of Richard Randall Ferry,
who is the president Of the associa.
ton controlling the institution. Mr..
Ferry is blind, aud has been SO fol
three years. He had led an active
life up to bis sixtieth year, when fail.
ing eyesight compelled him to give NJ
business. He could not sit idle IN
darkness, dependent on conversation
for all of his information concerning
the world about him. He learned IL
read books printed on what is callei
the New York point system. The let
ters seem to have been picked out
with pins from the other side of the
paper, and are read through contact
of the readers fingers with the paper.
In six months he was able to read Al
easily with his fingers as he had for.
merly read with his eyes.
The list of contributors includes
William Rockefeller and the actress
Lolita Crabtree. The list is not long
but the promoters hope that it will be
Mrs. Clara Porter has given forty vol
umes as memorable to her mother, Mrs
Post and the Society for Providing
Evangelical literature for the blind o
Philadelphia, has given thirty tive
volumes. The total number of book
now on the shelves is 1874, and rs thu
least cost SO, and many much more
this is considerd good start.
KNICKERBOCKER.
A Swedish woman has found an in
fallible cure for obesity, she declares