Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-06-24


who knows how to operate the invention,
sits at keyboard, from which he con-
trcls every figure and every motion. He
can cause any one figure to play, or il
he wishes he can make them play in uni.
son. Thus every pulseless player, even
to the base drummer, becomes soloist.
| The eleven ladies in white satin who
compose this wonderful orchestra stand,
make their bows and sit before their
instruments, and when they have finished
their selections" are turned with their
faces to the wall, locked up and left
alone-a fate of course more terrible than
anything else in the world, if they could
sure enough talk and feel Certain it is
that the 'frst-nighters" and gay young
dudes who call on the soubrette and cho-
rus girl after the play is over will in this
particular lady orchestra" have chance
to save their money.
The peculiar avidity with which people
wish to see and hear spiritualist and
trance mediums only illustrates morbid
curiosity on the part of Catholics among
them, who already know from the Church
of the existence of a life beyond the
grave. Our faith is a sure anchor that
will keep us secure when the pillows of
distrust and inidelity will have engulfed
our less fortunate brethren. With St.
Peter we should pray, Lord, give us
faith, that we may not, like the scien-
fists of England, of Harvard, Princeton
and Cambridge, be inst awakening to the
realization of immortality. The church
i'll every age has been directly opposed to
materialism. Cast aside these teachings
and where are we2 Tossed on every wave
of doubt or doctrine, or-worse still-sunk
in an abyssmal chaos worse than death.
Here in this enlightened century almost
in its death hour we find men of PSYCHE
cal research and vast erudition total dis
believers in anything outside of material
ism, taking a wonderful interest in the
trance medium, Mrs. Piper, through
whom they are receiving assurances of
the existence of friends in the spirit
world. Good can sometimes be drawn
from evil, but to those who already pos
sess the essence of goodness, it is foolish
and hazardous to stoop to foolishness for
the sake of experimenting.
Jeffries, the new heavyweight cham
pion, by actual measurement is said to be
the finest exponent living of physical
strength. To be sure "there are Others"
but they have not come to the front.
Jeffries is the man who best typifes the
end-of-the-century gladiator. The an
cient Greek athlete, the Roman soldier of
the Caesars and the barbarous Gaul would
have stood before Jeffries in amazement
and admiration. There is not a suit of
ancient armor in all Europe, it is said
that Jeffries could buckle himself into.
The average height of the ancient Greek
athlete was five feet, eight inches. That
of Jeffries is six feet, one and half
inches.
The battle of comfort versus vanity is
over and-vanity won. Dame Fashion
has decreed that high heels again be
worn. 1t is not long since the dress
exulted in the fact that the age
of French heels had passed, that common
sense shoes were to be worn forever and
aye, and that skirts were never-no,
never-again to be seen taking the place
of street sweepers. But all this is passing
away and with the end of a decade or
two both hideous styles are creeping
slowly but surely, like a malana, upon
the feminine world. The dainty short
skirt is gone and the comfortable, broad
soled shoe is no longer visible, but in
stead that parent of headaches, backaches
and countless other ills has taken its
place. Verify, the discomforts arising
from the frills and feathers of fashion are
as acutely pointed as is the French heel.
Even the men-those models (2) of
taking to the shirt waist-for
themselves. The recent Delineators have
many new styles for masculine attire, and
they are, to say the least, becoming
rucks and puffs, collar and tie, are ex-
actly similar to those worn by women
Or rather ours are just like those worn by
men.
OF all New Works charities none is
more deserving than that which furnishes
pure milk free to the children of the poor.
Nothing of the kind on a similar scale |
Exists here, though it should find fol-
owing in all cities, small and large. The
Milk Laboratory was started in
1891 by Mrs. Adler, resident of New
York, and the good it has done and con-
jnues to do can not be estimated. Sus-
aimed by charity, it has progressed be-
'ond belief. The saving of child life
appeals to all. The way to accomplish it
S known to but few, though the means
re within the keeping of many. The
ives of scores of little ones are preserved
nd existence made endurable by this
philanthropic woman, who
With good will set about the work of
harity which is now in such a fourish-
ng condition. The milk is brought there
irect from the COW, placed in bottles
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