The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-21
adults would become business as
much as the murder of infants.
A POLITICAL ENTRACTE.

Nobody is in a hurry to take politics
off it's back seat. The huge and extra
hungry army of office seekers is watch
ing the tents of the leaders; but moth
ing will be done about appointments for
a month yet" is the word passed along
the line. There is a general inCiliring
as to whether Colonel Waring will be
retained at the head of the street clean
ing department, but the probabilities
point the other way.
Senator PIatt's letter mailing the
blame of defeat upon the Citizen
Unions blackboard has nothing par
ticularly new or true in t. Tom Plat
and Seth Low may call each other
names till 1902 but it won't take a
brick off Tammany Hall. Richard Gro
ker has come back to town, and May
or-elect Van Wyck will be here soon,
both loaded for bear"
The Tammany tiger has been using
a file on his teeth, for he is to break
his long fast on Jan. l, and he wishes
to lose no time. He is a wiser beast
than his enemies give him credit for.
He is not going to eat the city. He is
after few fat Offices. Mr.. Plat will
see what he can Go at Albany to chain
him up a, bit, but the CHEEKY tiger SIM
ply swishes his tail into a true-lover's
knot and blinl1s his knowing eyes.
OUR SNEEZING ESKIMOS.
When we think of an Eskimo in his
Arctic snowhut, we never picture him
Sneezing, much less coughing. They
don't do either up there. Strange to
relate, they take colds as soon as they
reach milder ATTITUDES. If they stay
among civilized people in the temper
ate zone, they are most apt to die Of
consumption. The six Eskimos whom
hi
last trip to the frozen north, after a
few weeks in the basement Of the mu
scum of natural history here began
sneeZing and barking, and cases Of
acute bronchitis and pneumonia set ill.,
They were hauled off to Bellevue hos
pital the most surprised set of north
ernerS that ever came to New York,
and are getting better there very slow
ly. Why is it, The doctors give va
rieus reasons, almost any of which
would suffice. One is that we catch
heat instead Of catch cold" Another
is that they never dress thinly in the
Arctic and hence their bodies are not
subject to wide variations of tempera-
ture as they are when they live among
US. In proof of this, it is shown that
while they never cool their skins by
washing themselves, they never use
fire except for cooking their food. An
strongly. It is this. These people and
their ancestors have lived in the pure,
open air. freed of deadly microbes by
the cold winds blowing over thousands
of miles of snow-covered earth or
ocean. Their systems for generation
on generation have hence been free of
disease germs. We, on the other hand,
have had every imag inable disease, and
have either been naturally inoculated
To
number of them. They are virgin soil
to all bacillic diseases, and every mi
crobe goes with them. It ought if
this is true, to make us somewhat
proud of our old case hardened bodies.
IN THE THEATRES.
In the theatres we have nothing new
of consequence. The successes of the
opening of the season remain with us
prospecting Maud Adams in 'The Lit
tie Minister is delighting the town
with her fairy charm of manner Ju-
liza Arthur, in her splendid brunette
beauty and her refined art is drawing
crowded houses to see her as ClorinGa
in "a Lady of Quality made from
Mrs. Burnett's strong but obviously
moral novel. Miss Arthur plays Clo-
rinda with skill enough to make Mrs
Burnett'S strange creation plausible for
has finished another book, THE Duke
Of Osmond," in which she fills out the
early life of one of the characters in
her former novel. The Duke is an at
tempt to make a King Arthur out of a
Queen Anne aristocrat and the result
is rather tiresOme unreality. He
stands in a shrill way for all nobleness
and goodness and he does some heroic
Things IN manner that is calculated
shock n n crpf
Why does Mrs. Burnett give US unsav-
DRY things now? THE First Gentleman
OF Europe" for instance after having
given us in her younger days so much
that was honestly charming? Men
usually begin the other way, and grow
sedater as they grow older John
Drew is giving US q version of an
elder Dumas play in GA Marriage of
Convenience" and is as always pleas
ing. Edward H. Sothern is going on
the road with repertoir, his venture
In Change Alley" proving q losing
one. Everybody likes Ned Sothern.
an occasional bad play cannot weaken.
He is to bring out a new Anthony
Hope play in Philadelphia. and later
TO produce Henry Esmond' in Chi
caSo. The American Dramatists club
are giving him supper tonight, and q
merry time it will be. We are to have
B Il
Independent theatre with Ibsen's John
| Gabriel Borckman." This is an earn
est experiment worth watching for
this project has neither the amateur
ishness of the defunct theatre of arts
and letters nor the defiance of the
decencies which has marked the
theatre Libre OF Paris
THE BACCHANTE AT HOME.
What q stimulant prudery Isl Twen-
ty-five statues as bare as the palm OF
the hand could be added to the collec-
ton of the Museum of Art without
making any undue stir in Gotham, so
long as the prudes let them alone. Be
cause they had driven the poor little
Bacchante that MacMonnies made out
Of Boston, the army of the .rigidlv
righteous" thought to do the same il
New York and SO force her on to Chi
cago. But the grave and reverend
trustee of the museum were, as you
know, not to be frightened into an
improperly to are by the fanatical
shouts Of ooh, how improperr' from a
chorus of Well-meaninr but unin-
formed old ladies. I wondered the
other day when the rain was pelting
down, why so many old ladies of all
kinds of grimnesS and wearing every
variety of spectacles We're heading for
the Museum of Art. I followed them
| in and heard at once GREATNESS in
quiries: Where is the Bacchante
statue?" Many Of them had to b.
called back to deposit their dripping
+. umbrellas, so great was their haste tc
view the denomination" I don't know
what would have happened if the way