El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-12

after they hive crowded and built up
the streets In solid blocks, and when
the expense of clearing out park spaces
/ ia much greater toan II the city had
b I'D the wisdom to fore-ee the newt
| able need. Mr.. Louis Windmueller' 8
article is practical one.
"Uncle Sans Legacy OF Slaves"
contains an interesting account OF the
Moslem attitude toward slavery and OF
the Sulu slaves condition.
The approaching national campaign,
as viewed by Henry L. West, may not
| particularly please republicans, dem
ocrats or populi-ts. 1t has Its reason
ableness, and should be read by all
three. 1t is short article and does
dot set itself up to be an infaillbie
| prophecy. but Is an outlook merely,
through calm eyes, upon the conditions
that now prevail.
Some recent plays and players, is q
rather mono ,m initial account of the
PLAYS of the year Most people who
think of them at all will think 1t over
ly lenient but it is readable and con-
trssts plays and brings them up In an
unusual way.
All of the rest of the articles are ex-
cellept. One cannot too often COM
mend such a magazine that takes topics
of i'm % ediate interest and gets expert
opinion in short papers. ANY one OF
the papers can be read easily In less
than b >lf an hour and yet any one
will add materially to ones fund of In
form alton. Forum Publishing COM
pauy, Ill Fifth avenue, New York.
Price 35 cents.
Outdoor Lie for May continues to
present wonderfully interesting pic
lures of the outdoor world. For any
one v ho has no particular interest In
hunting, fishing, cam paign and outdoor
photography the pages a-e still inter-
esti ug to turn because OF the pictures
of startled deer, of angry buffalo, OF
ORD curiosity and of q wild cat in
tree. Hunting the Prairie Prong
Horn is one of the best of the May ar
ticles. A pen sketch of Ernest Seton
Thompson is Interesting as Mr.. Thomp-
son, though an expert on Manitoba,
student 10 London, an artist In Paris,
and a writer of books In New York
city, ts also q camp resident OF Colo
RADIO and one who knows New Mexico
veil and IL 40 expert on her wolves.
Inde ed because Of HE studies of New
Mexican wolves be is named wolf
Thompson. A poem on the Rio
Grande, it's leapinR ~a'ers, it's willow
lined banks, it's Industrious turning OF
wheels will interest Ell Pas. ans who
somehow rarely see the RIO Grande
wet and often see it dusty.
The Cosmopolitan for May has q
story by Thorn KS Hardy entitled, "The
Changed Man" In which Hardy en-
thusiasts will find none of his marvellous
word pal hitting of landscapes but which
has something of his powerful ability
to work out human motives to their
L.. ali ia Ia
IL the Philippines, an article by Eda
Blankart Funston, the bride of the
brilliant Kansas colonel Ut volunteers,
has interest because it is SO feminine
and because of her husbands glory.
also because the illustrations are new
AND give one q little of an idea OF Un-
Gle Sam's-aew islands. OF the other
stories, one with q Jewish heroine. The
Daughter of Reb AKRON Lsib, isl he best.
It Ia not Zangwill nor half SO good
as that writer of tie Jews but it tells of
hume and church ceremonies and the
peculiar conscience of the devOut
Hebrew and that cannot help but in
terest an outsider.
In the editorial department is an &C.
count of dreamers and their dreams
which classifes r 'ckefeller. Hunting
ton, Colonel Pope, Plant aud Westing-
house as dreamer, and 1dealists whose
but from which they have materiHIized
not only immense fortunes for t1em-
selves but also have greatly increased
the material comfort of the country.
that for folks who liked spinach, spin- |
acn was exactly what they liked. This |
Dne gem ia all that we have Of Mrs. |
philosophy but is is one |
shst we could nos get along without
and the world is deeply grateful to her
capitalization of al idea. In saying |
anything about The Smart Set"
Is the newest of the new maga-
zines one can do little more than quote
people who like thatsOrt of thing 1.-THE |
Smart Set" ia what they like and |
people who like that sort
If thing are not going to be turned |
rom 1t. The fact Ia the magazine |
;ries to be fascinatingly wicked by in
j. Oducing stockings In every story and
poem. 1t only succeeds in being in
Zoe. The women are rarely, it eve-,
aides, the men are rarely if ever
gentlemen. The characters have not
ordinarily good manners, they are
pack biting lot, they never hesitate to
,riticise their hosts, the men do not
nave chivalry enough to be
Above discussing the best
If the women at the clubs. the women
drink, smoke aud monger insinuations
about their own mothers, daughters,
husbands, cousins, and aunts, and all
scq uaintances. II it be indeed true
picture of New York fashionable life,
and possibly it may be for that means
only the idle moneyed class aud not
The true aristocracy, then it should be
widely read, for 1t will perform
splendid mission OF inducing content,
for no one who thinks twice but will
be pl ad he Ia out of the Ii fe 1t describes, |