Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1900-09-01

appearance in public places we surren.
der In so much our boosted liberties.
We are no longer free agents, but crea-
lures of convention. hopelessly enslaved
10y the tailor, the halter and the haber-
cashier. The shirt waist man should
be encouraged rather than ridiculed In
his tight for his rights. He Is a modern
Arnold Winkelried, who is making way
for liberty.
The American athletes carried off
most Of the honors in the international
championships at Paris in connection
with the exposition. Out of twenty.
one open championship events, they
won seventeen. They won in the hur.
dle.races..!n the various kinds of jumps,
and in throwing the hammer and put.
ting the shot. They beat the worlds
record in the standing high jump. and
in the one hundred meters race. In the
iong.distance runs the English athletes
led: and in the twenty-iive-mile Mara.
thon race Il frcncbnan came in ahead.
and was horne about on the shoulders
of his enthusiastic countrymen in rec.
ognition of his prowess. This was the
first time that many of the European
spectators had seen American college
boys at play; and the college yells with
which the American contestants were
stimulated TO do their best. or reward.
ed for doing II. occasioned great amaze.
ment being mistaken, apparently, for
some kind of Indian whoops. The
American contestants introduced nm.
other innovation of more Importance.
They stood out strongly against having
any of the contests take place on Sun.
day. and when the agreement which
was supposed TO have been reached on
this point with the French managers
was broken. most of the Americans re.
fused to enter for any Sunday contest.
| IT must have been an inspiration that
brought about the newest fashion,
namely. for girls and women to go
bareheaded out of doors or anywhere
they please where IL has been custom.
airy to wear head covering. One or
two women could not set such fash.
ion. hence there must have been some
subtle influence that brought IL about.
IT a woman's crown of glory Is her
hair. he must he bear who objects
TO seeing her bareheaded. Only one
male protest has been recorded. and
that was on theological grounds. a
concensus of masculine opinion will
doubtless uphold the new fashion. TO
the husband or brother or lover In q
hurry the ban against hats or bonnets
will he a boon. 1t takes exactly TWEEN.
~ minutes ana thirty seconds for the
quickest woman TO put on her hat.
Hence picnics and other parties will
no longer bc delayed. How much time
will be saved to the human race by
this innovation 1t Is impossible 10 cal.
culate. The custom. II continued. may
also prevent women from becoming
bah. II has been necessary TO pin all
feminine hcadwear TO the hair. How
many men have been thrilled with fear
lest a woman thrust the long hatpin
into her head while she made frantic
attempts to pin on Der hat? The re.
lief To mems nerves on this score alone
makes the new fashion welcome.
Murder Is murder. Flnespun so.
Geological theories cannot affect the
/. fact. The man who. being sane. DELHI.
crately kills another man IL u murder.
cr. Miss Irene Ashby came out Of Eng.
land TO enlighten us respecting social
conditions and the best way to improve
| la, l,. ta1
justification for Brescl. the man who
assassina,ed King Humbert. I'VE can
not" she says. but divorce the terri.
BILE idea Of blood and assassination from
|. his underlying purpose of trying TO help
his fellow men," And again: I'VE can.
, not help but feel some pity for the man
and express our utter detestation for
sociological condition that made the
tragedy possible" This Is in part an
affirmation. more or less explicit, OF the
doctrine that the end justltes the
means. and IL necessarily assumes that
the killing Of Humbert was desirable.
Otherwise sympathy could not he ask
ed for Bresci because he tried to help
, his fellow man." II Is substantially
'hN sunny NSN"SV 'hbt mas bVVh
10y anarchists everywhere. including
. those Of Haymarket Square. Chicago.
1t assumes, first. the unfitness to live
OF certain persons, and, second, the
right of certain other persons sum.
, marlly to infict capital punishment.
Both assumptions are, Of course, mon.
strors. The moment either proposition
Is admitted we rclinluish all idea OF
the orderly operation Of law and make
each man the sole judge of his neigh
boris right TO live. We revert to the
, stone age. might instead Of right con-
, siitutlng the sole argument. Miss Irene
Ashby might be In better business than
A., that Of promulgatlns such dangerous
, nonsense.
; ~
Assisted by some Of the daily papers,
/ medical journals have recently been
, debating the relative incomes gained
! in the so-called learned professions.
, In Chicago, IL appears, one or two ply.
. sicians make fifty thousand dollars a
! year, bur the average income OF physi.
clans Is less than two thousand dol
lars. Two or three New York physl-
clans are said 10 make more than one
3 hundred thousand dollars q year, but
D tho average income Inns nnf prpntl