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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-09
BRooxLTN WOMEN ATHLETES.
Pratt Institute ~GymnRsIum Overrun with
Applicants for Admission.

Pratt Institute Gymnasium Overrun with
Applicants for Admission.
The man who wants the earth Is to be found
everywhere; a woman who wants the ocean
has turned up in Brooklyn. She called at the
Pratt Institute gymnasium lately to arrange
for q course OF swimming lessons. Everything
was satisfactory to her until she saw the swim
ming tank.
That's rather small. isn't It ?" said she.
why no. we do not consider it small" said
the instructor. AT what school have you been
accustomed to a larger one ?"
"Oh-I-that is, l never was In a tank adj
mitted the prospective pupil. i've only been
in the ocean,"
The Pratt Institute swimming pool is quite
large enough for any one who does not demand
the ocean with a roof over 1t: but In the early
summer the days are hardly long enough to
accommodate all the people who wish to take
advantage Of its cool plunge and ofIMiss McMar-
tins instruction in the art OF swimming. So
those who like to choose the day and hour
OF their lesson will do well to take the course
The regular gymnasium classes on the other
hand are best Batronized during the fall and
winter, 70 The = Offices onss o, tt the DD TGmen's ,6 dSsp%3Ir t.
Garside and Miss Fisher, are working had to
get every one registered and measured by
Nov. l. the date set for beginning work with
the outside" classes. as those open to the
public are called to distinguish them from
those restricted to members OF the various de-
partments OF the institute.
One hundred apnlifatto1s have already beer,
which are chiefly self-supporting women.
Women OF leisure prefer the morning classes.
the exercises TO women neither so young nor
SO slender as they once were. In fact. she is
quite enthusiastic over this side Of her work,
and Brooklyn women are finding out that gym
1aStic exercise Is something more than pretty
compilations fresh and their figures shapely.
Several grandmothers, were regular attend
ants last year. ANA with the careful supervision
pupils, one sees no reason why Kreat-Rrand-
mothers should not come and be the better
for II.
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CASTS OF THE SUMMER BoARDERs.
Physical Ailments That Women on the Hotel
Piazza Seemed Proud OF.

Physical Ailments That Women on the Hotel
Piazza Seemed Proud OF.
It takes the summer hotel to display certain
aspects Of human nature. and a woman who
has lately returned from a sojourn in one of
them thinks that some characteristics are
shown much more noticeably than others.
when we gathered on the piazzas after
breakfast. which we were compelled to do be-
cause there was no alternative but sharing
ones room with the chambermaid," she said.
THE first personal pronoun singular used to
reverberate along from group to group like the
buzz of a trolley wire. 1t usually marked the
appropriation by the woman who used IL of
qualities that are common to her sex, although
from her tone and manner one would have
supposed that they were strictly personal at
tributes. If it was damp there was always the
woman in every group who said: L suffer
SO from this dampness, with both feet on the
pronoun with an emphasis that shut out every
body else, II it was hot there was always one
that anybody suffers from the warm weather
as much as / do with the same exclusive en-;
joyment of the privilege, Sometimes It would
take such an authoritative form as this. Ny
happened that any. OF. the women announced
qualities that they had any reason, to be proud
Of, rheumatism, neuralgia and govt were
OF them said they had weak lungs with
the same positiveness. 1neyer heard a woman
give this same manner to q boast about her
fSGif' and PSft esiRHiRIdArnssnr. None Of !" the SsS Women pef Who Who
talked In that way about their personal feelings
and ailments would have thought Of Boosting
about more important things. That would
of asserting absolute predominanc0 In the
matter OF physical disabilities"
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ONE WAY TO COLLECT BILLS.
How n Good-LOOkinG Young Woman May
Be Utilized to Advantage.

now n SOOu-IbOOklnB 1OunK woman HRv
Be Utilized to Advantage.
From ne Warrington Times.
Speaking OF collecting bills" said the man
from the West. I'VE have q most effective
method In Chicago. There, instead Of young
men, they employ young women. I tried 1t
myself. and It worked like magic. A fellow by
the name of Green owed me a small bill. q
matter. I think. OF SIT or 3d. 1t seemed I'm
possible to make him pay 1t. so I engaged the
services of q pretty and stylish girl. sent her
around to his office. He was out. She called
again. He was still out. but. nothing daunted.
she made the third and the fourth call. The
fourth TINE he was In. but he firmly refused to
'1 'iYIoeoR here. Mr., Green said the girl, Il
f Eitl o @nts . = d Rr9e on shis b e Wv Z viii ds S9u e w5El 6 9sy
and collect that o until you have paid 1t
fus9 spt s GFff 81 ys sir 4 Rl sfs t RsFt Gflss =: sp sSa1n ff1
GSFrs ere ashas hu The a. ne Gt de dHy she Id diq bd not call Hat At
door was opened b., the servant
Is Mr.. Green in askedt the young woman.
duly TH 1sp grit III ths se esl i Of se tRe p ssss t and I styIlsS
young woman WHO was so anxious TO see Mr..
young woman again called the wife hung over
her own account. The young woman asked II
"No, mS'am. auswered the servant. 'buthIs
wife Is The wife had told her to say this. Of
His wife r stsmmered the girl. why. has
THE wife. hanging over the banlsters. heard
the girl. seemingly very much confused 9nd
distressed at her discovery went on down tho
say Just what happened At that house that
night. whether. pokers and curling tongs were
hurled, or the furniture, torn from It's foundA-
ekyward: but one thing I do knoW-.he next
day Green promptly paid the ST.; And the girl
didn't call at his office for 1t either. he came
around and handed me the money himself. and
he seemed !tto think he vas getting of pretty
easy at that"
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Born with a Needle In His Leg.
From tLe LOuisrillc Eptnin0 POSt.

Mrs, Oscar Stanley Of Anderson. Ind, gave
birth 70 q BABY a6 boy gin he days age; When i :
rather peculiar pimple on the inside OF its
thigh. She thought nothing Of IL at first. but
large. Yesterday when she was bathing the
child her hand came in. contact with a sharp
IRo5aGnedf that there was a need" IN The child. "
was finally extracted and proved to DE two
inches In length, II was In the child when 1t
probably many years ago., The child is sound
A. q dollar to-day and will never he bothered
EeedIe In him,
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Little sI,.s reary Likes Gold weather.
rom ne Wash n0ton Pos

Mrs, Josephine .Peary, wife Of the celebrated
daughter. 5 years old, paid a visit in company
with Mrs. Hamilton Davis. to the old John
brown farm. owned by DR.. Y, ~. llelchard and
cru part Of Washington county. They drove
over from Shepherdstowr, ". Va. where Mrs,
PeSry was staying IN the summer. Her daugh-
ter was born ln Greenland. 77ks north latl-
Jude, and is the only white girl In the world
MI. Peary was with her husband on his Arctic
expedition. The daughter cannot endure
warm weather. whiting whenever the tempera-
ture gets above 7O'. bhe enjoys best health
10 extremely cold weather,
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Married His First Love After sixty-thrss
Years.
From Do Louisvills EysnfnO Pot.

19 ~Rd1esgr Ky. eoail IT, tS oct l4 atE{Sstsh y Rs1oE Es 2:
IKIIss %t iso 1 xGndd not E eHig d Il 10 f iSsS 't66s% lame x
OF Affection alive through these many. many
Ing through the reign Of tive. sPousss. and, at
the same time, he was compelled to behold his
sweetheart Of the long 9 married three
Eddins. whom he married Sunday. is 10.
When Joseph, was q strapping young man OF
some twenty- three years, and Martha was .
little country lass Just passing from childhood.
they went to school together and fell in love.
But though they continued Y, care for each
they had tried respectively several wives and
husbands. '.
through the Mexican war. and says that II II
had been necessary he could have, served Just
kpown al through Henry county as Aunt
Martha"
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her Chnllenae Promr,Ir Accepleh.

Fr1" ne Philadelphia Record.
inc ppGHd f. \. j., Oct A bull that was be-
csngJh!, NIunR the street by two men yesterday
yoassmr' riRht of a very red waist worn by a
cy@esN M.rn,Ilin as she sped past him on her BIZ
-, ,I'r bull started on the rampage. scat
lie ,'">'r'ans right and left. He owned
Lub,,. '"r u time un'H he was lBssoed and
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-09
The Golden Rule In . Tennessee Mule Trade.
FrOHt ne Polk County Meas.

Roger Crox snapped a mule to John Samples
a short time ago. The mule took. sick and
died. and Samples came to. CroI and told him
about II; also told him of the circumstances
he was In. Orox became sorry for him, and
gave him his horse back. This shows g good
trait in Rog.
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Promises to BE Good IL She Gets ais Dis
charge.
JnOl as 6GuSEA. TsAa.. NsSs.

Dl1k Miles OF thIs place, who enlisted To the
Fret Regiment. has written TO his wife, here
urging her to appeal to President Mckinley TO
ground that he is her only dependsncs for sup
port. Dick does not IKE the idea OF. going
cross the water" and his letter tells his wife
FOR God's cake git me out OF this trouble an
I'll be good Mrs, Miles 10 endeayorlnE to
have him discharged.
Evening star., 1898-08-27
Mexico and the PhiIippines,

From the Contemporary Review.
From the foundation of Manila in 1871
Up to the year 1919 the colony of the Phil
ippine Islands was a dependency of Mex
ico During that long period there was
absolutely no direct intercourse between
the mother country and her far eastern
colony. Everybody and everything des-
tined for the Philippines passed through
Mexico until the American colony threw
off the Spanish yoke. Thenceforth, for
ffty-one years. ce mmunication with Spain
was via the Cape Of Good Hope The
commercial history of the Philippines
would be too long to relate here i'll extenso;
suffice it to say that it is a series of strug-
giles between the colonists, who sought
liberty to trade freely with Mexico and
China, and the Spanish king and his
councillors and the trading community in
Spain, who persstently determined to cur
tail that freedom much as possible
The policy of the Spanish merchant class
vas to hold Mexico their exclusive
market. They opposed Philippine traffic
with China because this necessitated sill
yer dollars, which they knew must come
from Mexico surreptitiously, if the island
ers We're not openly permitted to give
goods in exchange. The famous galleons
Which were SO frequently interrupted and
seized by British privateers from the days
of our Queen Elizabeth onward formed
the only connection between Mexico CAca.
pulco) and Manila.
Evening star., 1898-08-27

actual difficulty in getting himself run in
just now IN New York, even suDposing he
wanted TO be run in couple of nights
ago an old fatfoOt, with the Texas cap rib
bon and the rating badge of a quarter
master on his starboard arm, stood lean
ing against a pillar at the New York en-
trance of the Brooklyn bridge. sound
asleep His chamois money bag well filled
hung from his neck by its porpoise hide
ing shirt The great world stormed and
RACED around him, but he moved not He
was a leaf out of the book of the old navy
of the days of the old Tuscarora''-and
with thousands of rushing men and women
surgfng all around him, ne sluunbered on
beatific grins now and again crossing mis-
weather-beaten countenance.
Leaning against a pillar ten feet away a
huge bridge cop regarded the sleeping tar
The passing throng of men and women
glanced tndulgently at the old fiatfoot and
went their ways. The cop swung his club
complaisantly, and continued to watch the
sleeping deep water man of the fighting
service. A bunch OF newsboys caught sight
or the slumbering. old. heavy-weather man
and began to dance around him.
Hey they yelled at him. '.w'y dor. I
yer sit on de coib-stone. Jack? Sit down
an give dose knockout drops a chanst y
settle
Cared for by the Cop.
Tbs watchful cop crept up behind them
and gave each of them a lightning-swift
touch-up with his night-stick
Chase yerselves,'' said the cop. Let de
old sea-geezer snooze, can't yep
Then the cop resumed his place against
the pillar and watched the still peacefully
Evening star., 1898-08-27
Coney's Quiet Village Life.

Likewise ths bluejackets have owned
Coney Island in fee simple ever since the
first gang of them came ashore on SatUr-
day afternoon last. Not that they have
been the recipients, at the hands Of the
nny-poppy-show runners and fnnumer-
able srafters of the awful Coney phantas-
magoria of any favors; the possession of
Ccney has been given to the bluejackets,
not by the cheerful workers and joint run
ners thereof but by the visitors thereto
from Greater New York On any afternoon
down at Coney, His Island this week, you
might have seen bubbling-spirited men of
New York who are really known-even
celebrities, some of them-convoying their
half dozen SO of broadly grinning blue
jackets. The tars no sooner hop off the
trains at C0ley than they are seized upon
by inocula1teS of the patriotic hysteria,
dragged off to the scenes of the simple
village life that prevalent at Coney' and
submerged in tempestuous tide of TOM
fcolery- The tars stand for it, because they
haven't been on liberty, some of them, for
eight or ten months. and because It's their
nature to want 70 see what is coming to
them to see when they hit the beach. So
the New York man, well-dreSsed ana con-
sidered as classy parsonage in the COM
munity towing his string of five ur six
man-of- wars men, has been one of the
amusing sights of the week down at the
isle where the sobful sea makes Intellectual
efforts to drown the frantic shrieking
fun down there. Yet there are even things
down at Corey that the tars won't s.and
for. Bluejackets Of the navy of Uncle
Sam are humane, even a tender-hearted
lot. bunch of them. towed about at
Coney a couple of afternoons ago by
prosperous young jeweler of Maiden Lane
who, by the way, seemed to be a heap
less dignifed man than any of the tars
woozy as some of them were-arrived at
that booth where a negro man pokes his
head through a piece of canvas and per-
mits visitors to throw passe eggs at him
at the rate of three throws for 10 cents
low-browed white man runs that game
Lets have a hack at this" said the
conductor of the bluejackets, picking I'D
a handful of the eggs.
The tars stood still and gradually the
meaning of the game soaked into their
minds. The jeweer, their conductor hurI-
ed one of the eggs. and it struck the negro
fair on the forehead. bronzed bo'sun's
mate-comfortably drunken too-stepped
from the bunch and laid his heavy hand
upon the arm of the young man just as he
was about TO throw another egg
Matey, said the bo'sun's mate 81 may
have this here thing wrong. and then again
maybe / haven't; but IL kind o. strikes me
that this here amt no right kind of game
Tor square men to git mixed Up in 1t
looks to me like It's playin' ii pretty low
down on the COON He may be up agin' 1t
ought t be able to git some other kind of a
job o work outside o. doin' this No
offense to you, sir''-addressing the low
browed white man who runs the passe egg
game-"but We'll just suppose this here
basket o eggs t have met with G bit O.
foul weather and L have sort o. turned
turtle an gone down with all hands'-and
Evening star., 1898-08-27

sleeping old-tiuer for another five minutes
Then he went UP TO the cid man and gave
him a gentle dig in the ribs with his ex-
tended fingers.
Hey, there. grampa," said the cop, "all
hands on deck"
The old quartermaster came to, rubbed
his eyes and looked around him. He was
apparently puzzled. He gave a fore-and-aft
tug at his bell-bottoms, and said he to the
COP:
Mate. I'm adrift as to me port. What
dye make out this to be-Montevideo or
Tangier? By the standin' lights, 1 should
call it" here lucid interval took hold of
him-"oh, me eye, it's tn old town.
That's wot, Jack said the cop. "An
ye've got too much gilt in that bag T. be
snoozn' in tn sight o. so many grafters.
Better steer a course for a shore hammock
an turn in. Can ye navigator
The old-tiner held up his horny hands
Evening star., 1898-08-27
FAIR STREET CAR CONDUCTORS.
They Have Suddenly Made an Ohio
Town Famous.

From Harper's BaZar.
The town Of Chillicothe, Ohio-albeit only
a rural city, to speak, of 1900 inha BIZ
tents-has suddenly become famous, and
all because seven young women have en-
tered upon the duties of street car con-
ductors. From the Atlantic to the Pacific
the news has been flashed, labor leaders
have held up their hands and lifted up
their voices in horror, long editorials have
been written gravely discussing the eco-
nomic side of the matter, womens journals
have hailed with delight this entrance of
women into new field of usefulness the
mana cement of the Chilicotho electric
street railway has called down upon its
defenseless head a flood of blessings and
maledictions, and the young girls them
selves have been called everything between
the two superlatives best and worst.
And yet nobody has seemed to consider it
worth while to inquire why they were en-
ployed. The answer is simple enough. The
management of the road found that
great many people were riding on heir
cars without dropping the requisite nickel
in the slot, so they decided that conductors
We're needed. The management of the road
also found that the earnings would rot
justify employing men at the salaries in
vogue. In this dilemma scme genius Sug-
gested that young women be employed An
advertisement was inserted in a local pa
per, offering four dollars d week. There
were over hundred applicants, one even
writing from far-off Denver. Seven were
selected were put to work June -, are Civ
ing the best of satisfaction, and have in
creased the earnings of the company 80
per cent.
The young women themselves are more
than pleased with their positions. They are
on duty only about nine hours a day, and
have one days vacation every week. They
have found the work heal.hful ana pleas
ant, with nothing about it to offend any
ones sense of modesty or proprlety. They
Rave adopted neat uniform, and mean to
hold on to their positions as long as they
can.
Perhaps the most important feature of
the innovation is the interest with which it
has been watched by the managers of
street car lines in small cities all over the
&C untry. Now that the success of the ex-
pertinent is assured, a number Of them are
preparing TO do likewise and it is predicted
that within year women conductors will
be employed upon practically all the lines
of the smaller cities of the country.
Evening star., 1898-08-27

VIII talk about the races and the music
halls and the cake-walks until the psyche
logical moment arrives for him to be
patriotic. Then lacking toeweights - he
will go right up into the air. No shouter
at an Iowa fag-raisiug and barbecue could
be more patriotic than the New Yorker
when the microbe of patriotic hysteria gets
a SOLID, If ephemeral grip upon this town
Ths Darbecue-s hOuter though is a year-in-
and-year-Out man in his patriotism, where
as the New Yorker is simply a patriotic
spree-er And the arrival of the bluejacE-
cts who manned the guns of the American
nghting packets down in Santiago harbor
was the signal for the smbarkation of
Greater New York upon one of it's per-
iodieal patriotic jags; wherefore, the lads
in the blue mus tering shirts and the spot
less knife lanyards have prof1ted prodig-
iously, if a shore whirl that is Iiable to
make many man of them, lying upon a
cot in his ships sick bay, after it is all
over, perceive pink zebras crossing purple
tridges, may truthfully be said TO accrue
to their profit.
There can be no doubt that New York
has given, and is still giving. the sailors
good time according to the New York
estimate of what a good time stands for
&c wan. said a 9th avenue saloon keep
er, anectiOnately. to a bunch of the blue
jackets, when they attempted to pass their
money over to him for liquids they had alb
sorbed- G'wan- Yer dust amt no better
dan Brazilian bonds in dis teepee. Yer
moneys counterfeit, see? Anything dat ye
SSCs SNlPC H. All uOH CHUCK no DluH WIZ
me about payin fer it. Yez cans pay fer
nottin here, un' stan?''
Thereby the 9Th avenue saloon keeper
illustrated the spirit of the big town just
now with reference to the boys who fought
aboard Uncle Sans line of boats down in
Santiago harbOr- Literally, everything in
sight in this neck of the woods belongs to
the 'hatfeet-" The bluejackets are not
taking violent advantage of the situation
About 1.OOO of them, of their ships diff
1erent watches, have been ashore all the
week and yet not one of them has vet
knuckled his forehead before a police court
magistrate OF course. this is not an en-
tirely convincing sign of complete Iecorum
on their part 1t is a pretty convincing
sign, though, that the cops of the town
have become as much imbued with the
patriotic hySteria as the ordinary citizens
In other years the writer has seen many
a United states man-o'-War's man stand
mute, with an accusative cop by his side
before New York police judges and the
biueJackets of those other years didn't get
Kid glove handling by the magistrates
either But that was all before the Maine
and before Manila and Santiago. A man
wearing the bluejacket uniform would have
Evening star., 1898-08-27

and looked at the red and blue compasses
tattooed on the backs of them.
Not unless l can git me bearinS from
these" said he.
Then the cop escorted the old man across
the street and had him put to bed in a
Park Row hotel
A few nights ago a pair of the sailors-a
gunrer's mate end an Ciler-were walking
up Broadway, arm-in-arm. Their caps were
very much over their ears, and. the side
walk seemed to be a deck in a squall for
them, circuitous and eccentric seemed
their navigation. The proprietor of one of
the SWEETEST hotels in New York happened
to be coming from the other direction. The
b0niface looked if he might have dined
pretty well himself.
''Avast there, shipmateSr' called out the
proprietor of the hotel, as he got alongside
the pair of tars.
OF course no man in the United States
navy, or in any other navy, ever heard any
such expression as that-Captain Marryatt
and Fenimore Cooper to thu contrary not
withstanding-and they kept on their
circutous way.
Hey. there. Jackr called out the hotel
man, and the Jacks, still arm-in-arm,
wheeled as one man.
We'll ride said thu hotel man, out Of
hand, and he sigraled to a cabman
MI as well RI as walk" assented the
two tars. and they stepped into the cab,
the hote! man following and sitting be-
tween them on their laps. The hotel man
directed the cabman to drive to his hotel.
hotel man got out and conducted the two
tars to one of the private dining rooms and
began to open wine for them. Then he or
dered big feed for them. Men about town
began to drop in. and the hotel man invited
them into the private dining room to meet
his man-o'-war's men. 1t was a very tu-
multuous couple of hours for all hands.
When the tars had arrived at that stage
that is called out over here, the hotel
man had them put to bed in the suite of
rooms in his hotel that is reserved for dis
tinguished visitors from abroad and for the
great men of this land visiting New York.
There were six rooms to the suite, an olive
satin room, white and gilt room, and so
on. The hotel man awakened the two tars
at 10 o'clock the next morning himself
The bluejaCkets of course, didn't know the
hotel man from Adam, and their remarks
upon their surroundings were funny. They
figured il that somehow another they
mad fallen asleep on the night before in the
admirars cabin of the flagship to which
they were attached. The hotel man told
them all about it, and spread for them
breakfast such as very few men in New
York or anywhere else could have had on
that morning. When the two tars left the