The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-15

the penitentiary. Our so-called liberty
is grossly interpreted by large pro-
portion Of the present population.
JAPAN.
| Los Angeles Express: The eager quest
of modern Japan for knowledge is one
OF the marvels of the world. They are
constantly sending students, officials
and experts scurrying around the dill
ferent nations picking up information
of the latest developments in science,
art, methods Of government, and en-
! deavoring to give their country the
benefit of the best thought in the world.
| There is something almost pathetic III
| the feverish national spirit that is
aroused from it's sleep of centuries, and
! is putting forth gigantic efforts to cast
| off Oriental narrowness and achieve the
highest civilization.
WOMANLY BEAUTY.
| Alameda Encinal: English authori-
| ties appear to have agreed that Lady
Helen Vincent is the most beautiful
woman in England. Persons tastes
differ so radically about beauty, one
mans meat being another mans poison
in the choice of charmers, that this
|
would seem to indicate that now and
then women do transcend all tastes and
special preferences with supreme gift
of personal charm Lady Helen is
| blonde, with blue eyes that have baf-
| fled description, and figure which
neither the photographers nor the pic
torial writer's have been quite able to
| do justice to. Even the women, VINO
might be supposed to preserve a certain
| GOODNESS of temperament in describing
| her, have, for the most part, lost their
| heads and let their rhetoric gallop away
with them. But this is an old story.
| Every age has had some woman ca
pable of doing this. Emerson tells us
| that Pauline de Viguiere so fired the
enthusiasm of her contemporaries by
her enchanting form that the citizens
of her native city Of Toulouse obtained
the aid of the civil authorities to COM
pei her to appear publicly at least
| twice week on a balcony, and as often
as she showed herself the crowd was
dangerous to life. Walpole says that
when the Duchess of Hamilton was
| presented at court, even the noble
crowd in the drawing-room clambered
on chairs and tables to look at her.
! Seven hundred people sat up all night
about an inn in Yorkshire to see her
get into her postchaise next morning.
To this Emerson adds his own remark.
that beautiful woman among the
| Greeks was thought to show some Sc
| cret favor of the gods, and we can
pardon pride when woman possesses
such a figure that wherever she stands
| 1nox a G
wall she confers a favor on the world.
! In spite of all this, however, no one has
been able to tabulate or particularize
such beauty as this, or indeed an!
beauty at all, unless it be the Boston
/ Journal" which has recently fur
nished the world with some expert in
| formation as to what constitutes real
| beauty. And this is so important that
| we must not let it slip. The journal
says that the girl with thin arms and
hectic flush or cheek of sepulchral
| pallor is the real thing of beauty, much
| to be preferred to the robust creature
that a silly world calls voluptuous. The
ideal summer girl, says this connols-
seur, is a tall, thin, cool brunette. And
so much stress does he put upon the
"cool'" that he quotes Sir Richard Bur-
ton in evidence to the effect that an
Abyssian brunette brings EGO more in
the market than a blonde, because she
is so "cool'
SHOULD TAKE PART.
Los Angeles Express: Never before
was so much attention being given as
at present to the study of tropical dis
eases and their causes. All countries
that have colonies in the equatorial re-
gions are beginning to pay much atten-
ton to tropical hygiene, and the United
States Government should lose no time
in setting on foot a similar movement.
Even before we acquired our interests
in Porto Rico, Cuba, the Hawaiian and
Philippine Islands, the study of trop-
ical diseases was a matter of vital I'M
portance to this country, if for nothing
else on account rof the yellow fever IN
the South But now it is practically
imperative that the Government should
establish a school for the purpose, on
similar lines to that of the School OF
Tropical Medicine recently organized in
London and which is just about to
start out it's first expedition to Sierra
Laone to study malaria fever in the
rainy season, when it is most prev
alent and it's effects are more deadly.
The establishment of the London school
was brought about by the general
sentiment in favor of it among the
physicians of the country Many
Britons return from hot countries in
poor health and the doctors say that
in dealing with maladies of obscure
origin and with symptoms lying out
side the range of ordinary practice
they have been at a great disadvan-
tage. They need at home the results
of expert experience in the study of
these diseases, both in order to treat
patients from tropical countries and
also to send out to tropical countries
and garrisons medical men equipped
with the knowledge required to cope
with these diseases in their native
haunts Every argument used in re-
gard to England applies with equal
force to the United States. Our soldiers
are constantly returning from service
abroad, many of them suffering from
ailments peculiar to tropical countries,
and of which our physicians have abb
solutely no practical knowledge, besides