Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-02-01
Mr.. JAMES O'SHAUGHNESSY,
The Popular Political Editor Of earsts Chicago American

II Hearst's Chicago American.
itation. All that has been changed. For
eleven years the November deaths In
Havana have averaged 0O2. In Noyem.
Der. 1901. the deaths from all causes.
aggregated 443, and the annual rate
was II fraction over 10 per thousand In
habitants. Uncle Sam has few acts to
his credit that are finer than the war
on dirt. ignorance and disease In Cuba's.
first city.
A correspondent raises the question
as to the present attitude of the artis-
tic public toward long hair. A decline
In hirsute luxuriance Is Motel In art
circles, and the correspondent Is curl.
Gus to know II 1t Is a fact that the
public has ceased to associate long hair
with the artistic temperament. Are
shaggy locks no longer a sign Of gen.
ius! Ii Is true that some of the great
artists. particularly on the concert
PLATFORM, have recently excited the.
wonderment of their former admirers
by appearing In public shorn of the
locks of crlmpy hirsute that We're once
their pride ana glory. On his last visit
to this country Paderekskl had his
hair clipped away In front so as to re-
veal his eyes and u portion of his IA
cial lincamcnts. While the lmpressario
was creating a furore among the fe-
male musicians and endeavoring to Gre
ate q stampede for front seats Ii was
necessary to grow SamsOnian locks
and to look utterly unlike all other hu.
man animals. Now that he has become
the FAD" In the smart set. however,
1t IL no longer necessary to swell the-y
gate receipts by having his hair cut
crcscenao. But there Is u noticeable,
shrlnkage of shnggincss In all DEPART
mcnts Of artistic endeavOr. Tine was
when the poets. painters. musicians,
medicine men ana preachers all wore
long hair. The man who daIlied long
with the barber could not hope to be.
come u genius. But there are indica.
tlons that we are approaching the
shOrt-halrcd age, the age OF strenuous
strife. where the race Is to the man
who has no bushy lunches on his face
or on his head for the winds TO whistle
through aud impede his progress.
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An expert declares that 1t would he
less costly to cut out n garment from
tcn'dOllar bills than to cut 1t from some
furs. One silver fox skin not more than
two ana half feet long recently sold
IN London for three thousand dollars;
black fox skin at the Paris EXPOSE
tion brought twenty-scven hundred
dollars; u man who has corncred the
chlnchilla market values his present
holdings at nearly five hundred thou.
sand dOllars;. the price of ermine
thanks to the coming coronation In
England, Is almost fabulous. No fewer
than u hundred ana twenty ermlne
skins are required by each peer for
his coronation cape ana collar, ana It
Is questioned II at any price the sup
ply viii equal the demand.
y scientist has discovered the bacil-
lus of gray hair Its activity Is not lin
tied as to age ana climate ana Is in
nOcuOus except In the vain. who are
subject to another mlcrobe. the illu-
sion that artificial temporary agents
will repair the ravage of the gray bacil.
lus, either In fact or In aspect my
dear, don't you know you're n lady!"
as the character In the novel asks. con
tains more wisdom on the gray bacl-
lns question than any document sci
ence can issue.
Almost every night sees aisles full of
seats In Chicago theaters In defiance of
the law.
How much do the Chicago theatcrs
give up over at the City Hall, that
they are permitted to violate the laws
with impunity?
Human life Is very cheap In Chicago.
Chicago theaters imperil hundreds OF
lives every night.
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The building department does not en-
force the ordinances governing thea
tiers.
Daniel j. McNlahOn's nomination for
the bench by the Democratic County
Convention Is assured.
The City Civil Service Commission
didn't perpetrate any blunder last week
because 1t didn't do any business at
all.
The Democrats OF Cook County could
nominate no better man for the bench
than John X. Prindiville
Spencer Ward would make an admir-.
able Judge.