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is on the side of the big battaIions" was
Napoleon's dictum@that we hold that
small and properly organized mobile
armies viii beat the huge, unwfeldy
armies that the modern European
strategists contemplate putting into the
field Remember, your big battalion
must confront the little battalion. not
on the ground. Hence, if a body of
10000 men can be swiftly and suddenly
confronted with a body of 100000 the
big battaiionS rule is on the side of the
10000. The fact that the 10000 belong
to an organization which has a couple
of hundred thousand men behind it
does not matter Unless the 10000 men.
are available at the moment, they do
not cOurt-
An extremely mobile army, ready to
spring first in one direction and then
in another, is quite capable of beating
an army Of three or four times its size.
stantial majority of combatants in ev-
cry actual engagement. OF course, the
big army may be so splendidly organ
lied that it will be quite as mobile, if
not more mobile. than the small army.
In that case the small army win be
swallowed whole All we contend IS
chat the hugeness of the European ar
mics tends to make them ininobile. and
that, therefore, ii IS always possible
that some clever invention in the di
rection of intense mobility may give
victory to a small and apparently not
particularly we'll found army in other
reSHnctS
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to give any special information about
these people, say to publish reason
ably accurate estimate of their in
comes, would Immediately add thou
sands to its circulation, the single fact
about them which would be accounted
weariSome being the only one which
has reasonable Internationally, the
historic origin of their position in the
fore front of European society. The
readers who are delighted to see that
Count Itchy is running a horse, or that
the Countess Itchy prefers emeralds, do
not care to know that before his coun-
trymen quilted the shores of the Cas-
plan to conquer and be defeated in the
west and settle down on the. great
Hungarian plain they regarded the
Zichys as princes possibly from the
farthest cid.
1t is the funniest kind of curiosity, and
We confess that he usual explanation
of national snobbism does not strike us
as sufficiently explaining it's existence.
Why Should the English alone in
Europe be snobs in this particular way?
They are not expecting anything of
these personages; they do not reverence
them; they would be wild with anger
If they were in any way, however
trifiing, annoying or injurious. They
are not quite free of the feeling that
that they are as a. lot 'furriners," and
as such contemplate. and that in par
ticular, for all their showiness, they
have no money, fact which but for
their titles would take from them in
this country most of their claim for
respect. We can not but think that
their existence appeals to some latent
feeling, some desire to break the
monotony of life or to crafty an I'M
conscious liking for the sumptuousness
which has disappeared from the life of
.the middle classes. 1t is like the pleas
lure felt in the sight of brilliant uni
forms. The English people have ceased
TO wear characteristic clothes or bril-
liant clothes of any kind; but they will
go miles TO see a regiment in it's dress
uniform. or bevy of ladies going to
court, or a procession, such as that
which on June % turned the dingy
streets of London into roads in
"Cockaigne," or other fairyland. II is
the old taste for 'pageants" in an
other form.
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ing shoes. The boss of the factory in
sists upon the latter being made in the
regulation ballet manner, that is with
the soles reaching only to the ball Of
the foot, the upper being continued over
and under the toes.
Such a shoe develops the muscles of
the toes wonderfully. The grotesque
dancer. even the inferior article like
that which entertains the Coney island
audience. must have muscles like
springs and Joints like hinges, and the
most active springs and joints must be
in her toes
There is one thing about this kick
ing" said the boss. that most people
do not understand. and that is that to
kick gracefully one must be q good
dancer. A girl who doesn't dance
can't kick. She may be able TO get
her foot as high as any one. bat she
doesn't do it with the true grace If
one comes here TO learn the kicking I
ask her if she dances If she SAYS
I No. ] say Go learn the dance The
hip Joints and muscles of the leg are
not properly set for kicking in a girl
who does not dance. Such a, girl can
never kick straight. and her pose is
always awkward. But there are very
few ee them who come here who can
not lance
How do I teach them the kick? ?
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their dancing is Of the yellow variety.
Some Of them, however, while not fin
ished performers, give promise of de-
Yeloping into the high grade article
after they have had a year or two Of
experience.
A husband and Wife are the bosses in
this factory Years ago the man was an
assistant instructor in the ballet school
in Milan. and he really understands the
true art of TerDsichore. His wife 20
odd gears ago was a second principal
in the ballet of the old Academy Of
Music, when it was the home Of grand
opera It is 9, common belief that a
woman never becomes too old to dance
in the ballet, but this woman, IS years
old now has not appeared on the stage
for nearly two decades, and the last
several years Of her professional life
she had 10 content herself with an in
ferior position.
Both Of them regard the popular dan
Ger Of today, the gynIn2s1ic kicker, as
horrible example Of the retrogTession
of the times. The decline OF the ballet
they cannot understand But they teach
acrObatic dancing TO make 4 living.
I make a good acrobatic dancer in
six moaths," said the husband, and a
bad one in one month. A good ballet
dancer is not made in eight years. She
begins at 70, some times at years of
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ITO skill them in preserving the
equilibrium 1 teach them the front
bend and the back bend This also
gives them a graceful carriage and
fine pose. Some performers sacrifice
one-half of the effect of their work by
not being able to stand gracefully for
a minute or two when they are doing
nothing on the stage
Some of the kickers turned out by
the factory persevere in the work and
become clever dancers of the serpen-
tine, skirt and kicking kind, and a few
acquire enough knowledge of the real
art to get positions as coryphees when
the operate season is on.
There is another thing that most
people do not know" said the boss.
and that is that men are much clever
er dancers than women. They work
harder. have more strength, agility
and lIghtness, and lightne5s is grace.
But you cannot induce an audience to
tolerate a, man except as a trick dan
Ger. A man has to depend entirely on
his skill and cleverness. whereas a
pretty face or a good figure compen-
safes for a lot of inferior work by a
girl. But if 1T were a plain question
of ability. there would be 20 successful
men dancers to one woman. and now
it is about 1000 to one the other way"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-29
WEAKNESS OF MoDERN ARMIES.
The Opportunity of Some Future
Alexander.

Alexander.
London Spectator: We are by no
means sure that armies at the end of
the nineteenth century are not to some
extent in the condition of armies of the
last few years of the eighteenth CEN
fury. No doubt the modern generals
are. or shall re say seem, less sleepy
headed than the old bewigged Aus
TRANS and Prussians, though they, it
must be remembered, were in their day
reckOned men Of science, but at the
same time We expect that a good deal
OF our modern military organization
has become stiff and impractical. We
shall be told, no doubt. that the Prus-
sian army went like clock work in
1870, but we must be allowed TO doubt
whether the clock work is quite as good
now as il was then. in spite of appear
ances. Besides, Prussia had just the
very force opposed to her in 1870
against which good clock work would
be sure to prevail-a piece of bogus
military mechanism Whether PRUSSIA
would have had as easy a victory if
some Frenchman had arisen capable of
organizing and using a really mobile
force of $4,000 men is another question
tt is possible that such a spear head
stuck into the clock work might have
done q great deal of damage. That,
however. is speculation. What we do
knew is that the Prussian army was a
splendid fighting organism at the end
OF the seven years war, and that at
Jena. some 80 years after, it proved ut
terly unable to meet Napoleon's quick,
fierce assault
IN spite. then. OF the magnificent or
ganizatlon of the present European
armies. and of their vast size. we be-
iieye it quite possible that some new
Alexander NAV arise who viii organize
a new method OF fighting which. for a
time at any rate, may bring ali their
far stretched greatness 10 ruin. Of
course, such genius in the art of war
may never get to the front. bat that his
opportunity exists in the present bloated
armaments We have no sort Of doubt.
YET r wiil be said, how about the big
battaiions? All military authorities
agree that in the end. and considering
that the European nations are practi-
cally equal in courage and morale. the
way to win a battle is to confront Ave
naer of the enemy with eight, or If pcs
sfble. ten men of Your own. That proves
that big armies villa always beat the
smaIIc By no means. It is because we
absolutely and entirely acquiesce in
the biz battalions theory Providence
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is essentially an. artists work room.
Built Tor every convenience for light
and shadows to be regulated, many
easels and artists palettes are scatter
ed in different parts of this large room.
You feel the atmosphere of the sever
ity Of her art. the truth. the earnest
ness of fact. To achieve one. must work.
Mrs. Sears has done both. Her constant
anplicasion TO hard serious work, n
the many advantages of wealth TO
study with great masters. to travel eX-
tensively. to see and be surrounded by
all THAT is beautiful and rare, gives to
her painting great earnestnes5
MANY prizes have been awarded to
her for exhibition of her paintings in
her own CITY. Boston. and at the recent
exhibition of the academy in New York,
The $500 prize was awarded her for a
portrait. To this she generously added
another amount. and sister artist was
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sent abroad to continue her studies.
Mrs. Sears ambition is not achieved
Like all true artists. she has her ideal,
and only a few realize her aims.
One OF a family whose Intellect ard
brain force gives them a prominent DO
sition in New ENGLAND and in our coun-
try, Mrs. Sears gentle. refined, quiet
manner and firrnness OF character sug-
gest that it is woman of reserve
power. The few only know the anna
bility of her character. In Professor
Henry Drummond,s great work. Nat
Ural Laws in the Physical World" he
SAYS: True greatness dwells in the
simplicity of nature" So does This tai
efTted woman who delights to welcome
to her beautiful city home her fellow
artists in music and art. and encourage
them 10 work. by the simplicity of her
character help others to help them
selves
Painting. is Thought conveyed 20
canvas
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Finally the great artists kind heart
did not say no" Miss Beckett speaks
with intense. feeling and appreciation
of her beautiful summer in France,
working at the side of her master, in
his studio at his country place, Auyer-
sur-Dise, or going out with him on that
beautiful river and painting ON the
messy banks or in the fields
Small and slight in stature, with fine
piercing eyes, quick and earnest in her
manners, she is called magnetic. She
speaks French and Italian tluently and
is very versatile in conversation. Her
time is devoted to her work. Yet her
friends are always impressed with her
high purpose in life in her many chart
table efforts
While the Bungalow" Is open 10 all
who seek to enter, it is only the special
few who see the studios in the cottage
life, as these women of fashion and So
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age. and does not SO on until-she is Is.
The American girl could dance, but she
cannot be taught. The law would not
let me open a school to teach the little
girls and keep teaching them for many
years. The law. is a fool. So l teach
the split and such nonsense. And to
think that some of these kickers get
$1G0 a week, while a. tutored ballet dan
Ger is lucky if she gets SO for a few
months in the year. Art is surely dead,
and so / VIII be in q few years, and [
will not mind it,
The parlor floor is the work room Of
the factory 1t has no furniture what
ever. A rail runs around the walls
three feet and six inches from the floor.
Upstairs is the dressing room, where
the kickers change their street ap-
parel for any kind of a costume that
gives freedom of movement. Usually
it is composed OF a shirt, waist and a
pair of boomers, stockings and dane
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-29
WHERE DANCERS AND K|CKERS COME FROM.

New York, Aug. 2S.-when one has
toured all of the concert halls and the
vaudeville houses in the city and the
near by resorts and has seen score af-
ter score of high kicking and grotesque
dancing girls it becomes a subject Of
wonder when he stops to think where
they all come from. 1t is to the I'M
initiated, any way, but to those in the
know it is a simple matter
A dipgy red brick house in Twenty
ninth street, between Sixth and Seventh
avenues, is the professional starting
point Of the myriads Of kickers. In re-
ality it is but little short of a veritable
Factory where dancers are turned out
With machine like rapidity. Not all Of
them are clever; in fact, many Of them
are very KIondi5e, TO use the Vernacu-
lar of the Coney Island critic, that is,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-29
BRITISH LOVE OF PRINCES.
An English Paper Philosophers
About Its Reason.

1t is a positive fact, which to futurel
historians viii seem incredible, that
readers by the half million are pleased
to know the movements of ladies and
gentlemen whose names they can not
pronounce and of whose comparative
rank among each other they are en-
tirely ignorant. judging it. usually, as
they do, by the fallacious index of the
title, which 10 them signifies that
duke say, of Tetuan, is a greater per-
son than count who happens, like the
Compile d'Eu, to be a Bourbon, and
married to the heiress OF a throne only
yesterday imperial. says the London
Spectator. The Almanach de Gotha is
translated for the newspapers and de-
Voured not by caste or even by a
section of the community, but. so far
as appears, by the entire division of the
people which buys newspapers in the
street. We can not doubt on the evil
dence that any journal which was able
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First L make them take hold of the
rail with one hand and place one foot
on the rail. with the heel resting ON 1T
and the toe pointed as nearly as pos
sible in a straight line with the bar
They must stand poised on the great
toe, supported by the second and third.
lat arst they al make a failure of
it. After a few days the toes begin
to harden and the Joints become more
timber. [ change them from one foot
tc the other. and when they nave mas
tered the rail 7 start them doing the
split. You know that high kicking is,
anatonicalIy speaking, identical with
the split though the one is done in the
air and the other on the floor.
"a girl who knows how to dance and
can perform the split is almost ready
fer her diploma as d high kicker. Only
a little practice is needed for the
strengthening of the instep, the ankle
Joint and the toes.
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Whv she Remained Avav.

B.gton Traveller: The president OF the
Woman's Advancement society was visit
bly, agatated. So was the secretary.
Mrs. Nimbletung, who was TO deliver
the address al today's meeting. cannot be
present" said The former.
why ros?" asked the latter.
Her husband has been seriously i'll for
three CT four days.
But a woman OF her strength of prin-
c:Dles won't neglect her work in the
great cause to ATTEND to the pa4try needs
th@t?'
Certainly not. but ne writes her
speeches.
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American farmers are wont to look
upon burdock as a useless weed and a
general nuisance. but it appears that
the Japanese regard it as valuable
food, boiling the tender shoots with
beans. using the roots for soup and the
young leaves for greens. The annual
value OF the burdock crop in Japan, is
100000 IAsre & pointer for The
American farme1
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from Chicago-for it was IS suddenly
Withdrawn as it was put up. The evidence
of foul play was too apparent, and hence
Z was consigned to iss ;csnh and fac
smile put up for public Worship
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Call For Democratic City Convention
and Primaries.

Following is the official call for the
Democratic city and ward conventions
and precinct primaries:
CITY CONVENTION OF DEMOCRATS
A convention of Democrats Of Salt Lake
CITY VIII be held In the Salt Lake theatre,
Monday. Sept q, 1897, at 10 a. m. for thu
purpose of nominating the following off,
Gers 70 be voted for at the municipal cleo
ton, Nov , 1897; and to elect a city cen
trail committee. and to transact such
Other business as may properly come De-
fo-e tSle convention:
Recorder, -. ~
Treasurer, s-i
Justice of the Peace, gss3s
Attorney,
TIE convention viii consist of go dele
gates to be elected af the precinet prima-
RES in accordance with the apportionmene
Nn;ch appears befow. and divided among
tna municipal wards at follows
E.rsI municipal ward. -. Sc delegates
Second municipal ward. .......1 C5 delegates
Third municipal ward - q delegates
Fourth municipal ward % de.eS1-e5
F4ftl municipal ward ------ IS delegates
Total. ....... ........... $50 delegates
WARD CONVENTIONS
A convention of Democrats IN each of
the five MUNICIPAL wards OF Sa4- Laka
CITY viii be held Thursday evening, Sept
20, at 5 O'Clock. for tsrs purpose Of nom,
mating three members Of the city council
for each municipal ward, and 20 elect
ward commircees- ald 10 tIas1SdCt any
other business Which may properly come
before the convention
THE ward conventions are apportloned
membership as follows:
First municipal ward. ......10I delegates
Second municipal ward -. ....ls2 dsl+ g=ir=s
Third mtsn9ciral ward. q. 81 delegates
Fourth municipal WaTd.... Is delegates
Fifth municipal ward. a Delegates
C,hairmen of the ward committees are
requested to arrange places of meeting
for the ward C-uVcnti1-ls and TO publish
the araouncernent at ale earliest posi-
Bile day They are also authorized to
eg1ans>e date of ward conventions where
such acton becomes necessary Ter the
convenience of electors; but are requested
70 see that conventions are hsld as near
10 above date as possible.
PRECINCT PRIMARIES.
The Democrats Of salt Lake CITY will
hold precinct primaries n each OF c1e 81
election precincts Monday evening, Sept.
90 1897 al O'Clock, fes the purpose Of
eleCang delegates to the municipal ward
convantaanS and the CITY cOnvSnisfcn re-
fepred 10 in The foregoing ann0uncements
and to elect precinct committees and
transact such Urrher business as may prop
tyrIy come before rEae meetings
The precincts VIII be entitled to repre-
se1taIsfos, in said conventions as tollows.
Ess7~S,+ M111Ici1paI Ward
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YOU 60

For your summer outing, como
in and let US fit you out with
Fishing Tackle, etc. We've got
the right kind, "sure CATCH
the boys call it. We have
everything you need for COM
plete outft-and we'll see that
it won't cost you too much. Get
few Bicycles left and can give
you some good bargains.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-26
,y,rcrBaTJON DAY ARRANGEMENTS.
THE EXERCISES WILL BE HELD IN NEW PLACE
THIS YEAR

Washington Feb. 25.-The Inaugural cere'non''S
this wear will take place on stahd dHec'N III
front of the Capitol building between INC eh''""'
"a tho Senate and the main entrance 10 '"c '"9'
fran, Of the Capitol This change Is not que 10 "'
frictlon between the two houses OF congress VII
,he contrary 1t meets with the entire appro'al Oh
-, ,,o,so Committee of Rules which has been con-
,I,ed and the action is taken under the authority
~ Joint resolution that gives 10 the senate 'om-
~,i,,oe Of Arrangements consisting OF Senators
nharman Flkins and Mitchell, of Wisconsin, aDso-
Lutte control , -
Iast inauguration. when the ceremonies were
h.Id AT the main entrance the procession had 10
arcb for over seven hundred feet through dense
ro,vd of people In the rotunda. and those VINO
s,,cceeded In reaching the seats assigned 10 mem
SuH 81 through an complication OF the doctrine
ns tho survival Of the fttest. Women had thelr
y, ruined and men had almost 10 hght Tor
seats that should nave been reserved lot t mem,
,rh,s year those entitled to the stand VIII mnrch
5trrnc,iv from the Senate chamber TO the PLATFORM
Immediately adjoining the chamber, ana tyeiy
rnvts,on has been made for the comfort or those
Untitled 10 seats and for the protection or dlstlh
or,ished guests from the rudeness or the crown
tnvortabJy present such occasions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-26
4 ROMANCE or THE BICYCLE.

IT ELIMINATES IN THE WEDDING OF MRS Abhi'l'
AND WILLIAM b. DUKE.
Baltimore Feb % (SpeciaD-A courtshp begun
on the wheel eliminated to-day in the marriage OF
Mrs Jennie r Abel. widow of George w ADe''
one of the nroprietors of THE Baltimore sun 10
William Bernard Duke. a bicycle dealer. Inc p''ue
Is twenty years older than the bridegroom. one -
past forty but does look TO be over thirty Inc
ceremony was private. At o'clock TINS fhorh"s
the bridal party assembled In the 'atho"c "'s'''
chapel at Towson. close by the country estate Oh
the bride. The chapel was prettily decorated MISS
Jennie Abel daughter of the bride. was the only
member of the Abel family present Several women
friends also witnessed the ceremony, when VIZ
performed by the Rcy. Father Okeefe, IL app'dls
that Mrs Abel first met Mr.. Duke ABOUT yeaa
ago at A BICYCLE riding academy where ne Was az
Instructor He taught her how to ride the WheeI.
Romantic rides through the country toSetheI aS9
summer and fall ripened friendship into love. MI.
Duke went into business last winter ana now mas
large bicycle establishment. He comes from an oid
family OF Southern Maryland lis father was IN
Abel belongs principally TO his children, but ms
wife has large income for life from IT, and Il also
wealthy i'm her own right THE Baltimore sun
announced this morning that no member oil the
Abel family would attend the wedding