Arizona republican., 1899-01-02
FROM DAY TO DAY.

It is inspiring to think that the
 Rainy Day club of New York, which
 has the grand object of the abbrevia- l tion of women's skirts, will neither abandon it's principles nor die the
 death of the good. Whether to wear short skirts all the time or only at such times as nature decrees the streets wet and muddy is the only crumpled rose leaf beneath the mattress of the Rainy Daisies" Some declare they will re- sign if they cannot wear short skirts all the time, and some if they have to
 wear them all the time. The telling
 characterization Of long-skirted women
 as animated bu. unhygienic mobs'' is
 used by he radicals to browbeat the conservatives. One wise woman sug-
 gested that the matter bc left to each
 wOman's discretion. But that proposal
 aroused no enthusiasm, because, as a
 matter of fact, that is exactly what will
 be. done
 Man may plume himself on one point
 of superiority to woman. At least he
 isn't thrown out Of first class tailor
 shops because he is sneaki1g around
 and trying to find out fashions, ideas,
 creations or what not, in order to have
 them copied by his own second class
 tailor. New York women are said to
 do worse than that. They not only go hemselves-When there is no pOssibil-
 ity of their succunb ping to the attrac- tfOGs, and buying-but they carry along se2mstresses disguised as humble com paniOns, before whom, of course. there is no possibility of their succumbing Perhaps, however, in this respect mans superiority is net virtue so much as knowledge that his own tailor will bully him into taking what he can get, anyway.
 There is an observatory on Vesuvius; but observing things on Vesuvius is no- an occupation that would attract a re- turned volunteer who wanted quiet and ''coOlth," as Kipling says. Upon one occasion, when the volcano was vonit- ing forth lava, which poured down on both sides of the observatory, il be- came so warm that the professor stor- ped observing anything but the ther- mOmeter. With all the doors and win dowS shut the mercury rose 70 ITS de- grees. When it got back to 100 he had a chill.
 It is a sad shattering of idols, this thought that the earth is not a molten mass inside, but solid to the core. As trOnOmers say that if the earth were not solid i. would be squeezed into va riOus shapes, like an orange in the hands of an eager small boy, by the forces Of gravity-though why should astronomers, who do nothing but gaze off into infni,y, know so much about it? Of course, it would be too bad to have the world comforting itself in such a way hat you never could tell whether you would find your house on a hill or in valley, but one would be willing to bear a good deal to keep ones ideal about the bowels of the earth.
 And this state of affairs makes Vesu- vius and other volcanoes mys,eries-it adds one more problem to the many we are staggering under now. A vol cano as a boil upon the neck of the world comments itself to the reason and to the imagination of young and old. 4 volcano as an electro-chemical puzzle without an answer might have done very well in the first place, when people liked to gape and to find unex- plainable things; but today, when we want to understand everything-ex ceCt woman, the only time-hOnored is maddening to have an other problem sprung upon us. The flesh and the devil are enough to wres- tie with; it is Httle discOuraging if we must include the world, too.
 A Chicago newspaper correspondent in Manila finds the most hopeful sign of the possibility of civilizing the Phil ippines in the ready way in which they have taken to pie. There are other signs of advance, such as little new newspapers. English signs and beer; but none of these brought as much comfort to the correspondent as pie. This is not unnatural in a resi- dent of the city whose editors refrain from jokes on bakers lest they hurt the Of brother editor. The point of view of spondents. becomes viti- ated in time by that Of their editors and when the hurry-up lunch counters of town are owned by an editor the point of view not unnatur- ally becomes a little pied.