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The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-16
JAPANESE WOMEN
AS SEAMSTRESSES.

They Are ChRtterbOxes and DOnt
Know Anything About Sewing
According TO Occidental Standards.
The Japanese as a people are de-
lightfully deft with their fingers. but
the women cannot do sewing for Amer
learned this to her sorrow. She was
TO prepare the costumes for a fancy
dress party, and one Of the men con-
nected with 1t conceived the bright
idea of employing Japanese women to
assist in the work The designs for
the costumes were made by a Iapa-
nese artist, and 1t would give more at
mosphere to the costumes, he thought,
IL native women made them. He knew
little Japanese natron who made her
own kimonas. and she would be glad
to sew for the Americans.
In due time she appeared at the
law, another little woman of the same
race. They We're ready to go to work
and there would be no preliminaries
but one. They must have their money
In advance. The modiste argued. She
never paid her workwomen in adj
vance: they must do the work and
then they would be paid. The little
brown-faced ladies' were gentle but
persistent. They must have their
money or they could not come. They
got their money and they came. That
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maturity in the cellars of Mr.. Bling
ham, an oenophilist of fame and
father-in-law of Lord Ashburton, once
British Minister to the United States.
1t was the intention of all hands to
drink the health of the Queen in a
glass of this superb vintage.
The steward failed to find the wine.
and the Commodore was much per-
p'exed.
Before he returned to America he
sold the schooner to Lord de Blaquire,
and it was not till his return that he
found out the trick his wife had played
on him. Then he wrote to Lord de
Blaquire, informing him of the secret
Granny where the wine was concealed
and making him a present of 1t. He
added that, had he known that the
Madeira was aboard he would have
made the purchaser pay ten thousand
rounds for craft and cargo instead Of
the paltry FIVE thousand pounds for
which he sacrificed her. And those
who knew the Commodore were con-
WINGED that what he wrote he meant.
Col. Hamilton. to whom the Com
modore confided the loss of the wine
in his private diary Of the doings OF
the America Cnow, alasi inaccessible
to Ghe curious and prying eyes of con-
temporary yachtsmen). hints that the
members of the crew of broaching cargo
and getting away" with this nectar
OF which a drop could not have been
| bought for a dollar. This, too, when
grog was served out every four hours
to each the crew Of thirteen Ohe
Commodore was not a wee bit SUPER
stitious), who liked to take a nip, or
rather tot. as it was called in those
brave old DAYS.
Crew Drank Priceless Wine.
During the Dauntless- Coronet ocean
race the water tank of the Dauntless
sprung aleak and the only mild bever-
age available for drinking was an ex-
tremely fine claret Of the celebrated
Chateau Margaux brand, the pride of
Commodore Colts cellars.
He was a man who had a proper dis
elimination about wines. He told the
writer of calling all hands aft and
talking to them like a Dutch uncle
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somewhat after this fashion:

somewhat a1Ier LnlS IaSnlOns
''1Jow, my boys, be of good cheer,
For the Irish land Is drawing near,
And in an hour Wen see Cape Clear,
And then for Jolly glass Of beer!
Meanwhile, my hearties, you must
drink this!"
"Rayther winegary, amt It, Com
mydore?" answered a hairy, old sea-
dog, but we would drink kerosene,
sir, II you was to be so good as to tell
us tot"
The story is authentic. Commodore
Bennett was really angry with his cor
respondent in Ireland who failed to
cable over the fact that the Dauntless
sailors had been compelled to assuage
their thirst on claret that Mr.. Ben
nett In spite of his wealth. couldn't
buy-for the simple reason that the
vintage was exhausted.
The famous schooner-yacht America
cost $4,000. The condition under
which she was contracted for was that
unless she proved faster than any
vessel I'm the United States brought to
compete with her." she might be re-
turned on her builders hands.
The designer of a modern racing
machine binds himself to nothing so
far as speed is concerned. He promises
in a general way to do his best, but
guarantees nothing. A yachtsman, or
syndicate of yachtsmen, is bound to
accept a racing craft even If she should
not be fast enough to get out of her
own way.
The first cost of the America was
$4,000 The expense incurred in sail
ing her across and racing her was $3-
$50. She was sold for $4,000 to Lord
de BlaGuire. AS she won $500 in
match race against the Utania, the
owners of the American actually made
profit of $1,750 in their venture.
Cost of Cup Yacht.
In contrast with these figures take
the case of the Boston 90-foot indie
pendence, built by Thomas w. Law
son. as a candidate for cup defense
Mr.. Lawson made public an itemized
account of the cost of the Independ-
ence AS she was built regardless of
expense the cost of other cup defend
ers may be estimated from the figures
given.
Stories of the fabulous expense at
tached to the building and running Of
a 9G-foot yacht have been published,
and erroneous conclusions reached as
a result
1t is interesting to note that the
total amount incurred by Mr.. Lawson
for building and racing the Independ-
ence was $205 034.0S This includes
every item, even the expense Of break
ing up the vessel after her brief career
Of three months.
The cost to the syndicate OF the
New York Yacht Club of Vigllant, De-
fender and Constitution has been va
rlously estimated at amounts ranging
from $500, 900 to 81 600 900. Judging from
the experience Of Mr.. Lawson, who
used his money lavishly, extravagant
Ideas prevail concerning the cost OF
defending the Americas cup. At any
rate the syndicate Of great capitalists
organized 70 build the Reliance can
AFFORD easily 10 appOrtion the cost
among them. Never before were so
many opulent men banded together for
a sporting event.
Formerly the yachtsmen of New
York and Boston bore all the cost Of
defending the Americas cup. In this
year the moneysd interests Of the whole
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the Erin, or on one Of his Shamrocks.
Another day you are informed about
his corner in Western pork Next, you
are surprised to hear of his looping
the loop at Coney Island.
His visitors book on the Erin is
filled with the illustrious and dis
tinguished names of men and women
who have enjoyed his hospitality
King Edward of England, with his
more than once. Sir Thomas tried his
sweetest to persuade his royal friend
to go a-sailing with him on Shamrock
Ill, but the King remembered an eX-
citing period aboard Shamrock II.
when she was dismasted and the top
hamper came whining backward in
dangerous proximity to his royal and
imperial ears. For that reason His
Majesty found that affairs of state
prevented him from enjoying a sail IN
the new challenger.
Upton went aboard Shamrock H.
when she was anchored in COwes
Roads, and was greeted at the gang
way by a young shaver of a boy of
seven.
do you know who l amp" asked
the Scotch-Irish knight (the blood
red hand of baronetage came later.
"Of course l do" was the young
ster's answer. you're the man who
sails as a passengc, w:th my father
on his yacht"
Eth, but you're Il fanny, bonny
BARN. Here's sixpence for YOU" was
Lipton's reply.
The youngster was Skipper Syca-
more's little son.
Sycamore is no longer on the LIP
ton payroll. He was at the tiller Of
the shamrock" when she was dis
masted with the King aboard.
The schooner-yacht America the
day after she won the cup in 1851
also had a royal visitor in the shape
Of Queen Victoria.
Looked for the Propeller.
The great speed Of the America sur
prised the old seadogs Of the Isle OF
Wight. so much that 1t became a gen
erai belief that the Yankee yacht had
a propeller worked by machinery art
fully concealed.
The OLD Marquis Of Anglesey. the
father OF English yachting went out
Tor sail IN his cutter Pearl twnlt %
although built IA 1870 Was one OF the
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/. GREAT GLACIER ENTERING THE SEA

the earth around the sun, it describes
a circle. That the world knows since
Kopernikus But the finer calculation
of Keppler ascertalned that the path
is more of the shape of the outlines
of an egg. 1t Is an ellipse.
In an ellipse the sun does not stand
exactly In the center of the course.
The planet sweeps alternately a little
nearer to, alternately a little farther
away from her.
Still closer and nicer calculation
brought the proof that this ellipse it.
self was susceptible to still further
oscillations. In the course Of thou
sands and still thousands of years il
approaches the true circle at times,
and at times eXaggerates it's elliptical
form.
Our Tame EIIipse.
In our days the ellipse is tame. The
difference between aphelion or sun
distance, and perihelion or sun-near-
mes ~%s slight In the course of a year.
What the layman feels as the differ
ence between summer and winter to-
day is Influenced only insignificantly
by that oscillation. 1t is caused by an
other thing, the position of the earth's
axis.
For some entirely subjective reason
Lnt tdINI Hldlluc OphQuG III llS tOuTHts
and owing to this Its northern pole and
its southern pole alternately turn away
obstlnately from the sun for months.
and thus receive either none or only
weak, slanting rays.
but the elllpse does not appear TO
have been so tame always. IT had ex-
tremes Of oscilla ton. At times the va
carries must have interfered decisively
with the course of the seasons on
earth.
The hemisphere of earth that hap
pened at such times to have winter,
owing to the obliquity of the axis,
must have received so little sun that
finally there came a winter so fierce.
so long that the summer that followed
was powerless to combat II.
Under the conditions of to-day II
would be the Southern Hemisphere
that would suffer, for we in the North
ern Hemisphere always have summer
when we are in sun-distance.
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fastest English yachts anxious to
have a speed trial with the America
Mr.. Steers, one of the Americas crew,
a brother of her designer, went with
him.
The America, with only her jib and
mainsail set, passed the Pearl with
out difficulty. The master of the Pearl
said to the Marquis: Your lordship
knows that no vessel with sails alone
could do that"
When the America went slowly he
said: "Now it is stopped" When she
went on, IT'S going again"
Steers said nothing; he was enjoy
ing the joke. When the yachts an
chored the Marquis went aboard the
America and, going aft, leaned so far
over the counter that Commodore
Stevens took hold of his wooden leg
Che had lost his leg at the Battle of
WATERLOO to keep him from falling
overheard. The old gentleman was
looking most eagerly for that pro-
peller.
The illusion was dispelled a few days
later when the America was dry dock
ed at Portsmouth and close scrutiny
failed to find the propeller.
Mrs. stevens Expensive Joke.
Commodore John c. Stevens. found
or of the New York Yacht Club, and
Cnlet owner anu QlTGClOT VI lAlc GGSNi-
MES of the schooner America, was
partial to a glass Of fine old Madeira.
He happened TO have in his cellar a
couple of dozen bottles of rare vintage
more than half century old. These
he slowed away in his own private
locker in his stateroom on the
l&merica.
Before the vessel sailed his wife went
aboard the America to straighten out
the Commodore's cabin. as was the
custom of the wives and sweethearts
of sailormen the wide world over in
those primitive days. She happened to
come across the wine and just for
fun ordered the carpenter TO nail the
bottles up in a part of the yacht where
they could not be detected easily.
on the DAY when the America won
the cup. Commodore Stevens sang out
to the steward to open a certain locker
and bring out bottle of the priceless
MADEIRA which had come to precious
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By CAPT. A. j. KENEALY.

The Americas Cup, an old tarn-
ished flagon of silver not unmixed
with pewter, If experts are to be be-
heved, is neither useful nor ornamen-
tai
In the first place 1t has no bottom,
being hollow cylinder incapable of
holding liquid. This is disqualify-
ing feature as every seaman must adj
NIT. The winner OF the Americans
Cup cannot take a drink out of it. So
Tar as it's beauty is concerned, why,
has none. In fact it is an inartiatic
honor.
But there never was an old metal
pot in the worlds history that has ex-
cited such eager competition or
caused the expenditure of so many
millions as this furnished fagon. In
ctdentally II is responsible for a fabric
fragile and cranky such as never n
tered into the most fanciful imagina-
lions of yachtmen of twenty years
ago.
The racing machine OF to-day IS a
trille light as air, her rig is gossaner
ana spidery Her hull is a shell so far
as thickness is concerned, but II IS
nevertheless strong enough to support
solid bulb of lead weighing in the
neighborhcod of one hundred tons.
NO metal IS too expensive to find its
pace in the building of tint Cup chat
lensers and Cup defenders. II gold
were of use there Is no doubt that
oeiore this we should have had
golden boat 10 compete with US for
the old ta-rished jug.
LfptOn's Visitors book.
OF all tho yachtsmen who have
yynallenged for the cup. Sir Thomas
iiapton Is easily the most popular with
ne masses. Some self-made men in
.ueir mature years develop pomposity,
Ina That Of a peculiarly objectionable
anq SID Thomas is just az joyiai.
Sehlal and unassunhng as he was on
sne day he landed in this country with
Hsht heart and a thin pair OF
eehes as his sole capital.
I'll, lls enterprise. Is displayed IN re-
49, hii Die ways. One day you read
-''sl aim entertaining royalty aboard
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man, who, later, in the next ice period,
continued the progress of the unlifting
power of heat bY devising the max
ing of fire and the making of cloth
ing.
Ever since man has had the picture
of an ice period or of many ice periods
before his eyes he has been seeking
for the causes of them.
First there was simple theory:
that the earth, once red-hot through
out, then with cooling crust like
vast cinder. was heated for q long
period By the hidden heat of it's in
terror This heat decreased gradually,
until the first signs of the cooling Of
the old planet became visible with the
beginning of the first glacial epoch.
The Heat from Inside.
But this theory has been driven into
it's last lair 1t has been ascertained
that we living things on the earths
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farther back still.
But the evidence is that even then
the glacial periods were anything else
rather than annihilating catastrophes,
In the particular time when such aan
early period of ice occurred, at the
lend of the coal period, according to
the belief of prominent students,
prodigious, crucial advance was going
on in the life of animals Out of cold
blooded, lizard-like reptiles, the warm
blooded birds and mammals were pc
ginning to develop-animals that car
ried an equable, lasting supply of heat
in their own bodies and in whose skin
the lizard scales were changing to
warm feathers, warm furs.
And it was directly through this
gift of warmth that the mental power
of animals was increased immeasura-
bly,. Without it the development Of
man would not have been possible;
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was the beginning of series of trib-
ulations for the modiste.
The hours Of the little ladies suited
themselves. They came at $3.50, 8. 10.
any timee' In the morning theyl
pleased. Then they must remove their
small shoes, get out their bonbons
to nibble as they worked, and make
themselves comfortable. AS they
sewed they chartered necessarily. At
noon they made tea. They brought
their own tea service, and 1t took them
a good hour TO heat the water aud
make the drink the light-colored
liquid they called tea. At they left.
This was too much for the modiste.
She really could not have 1t. All OF
her workwomen were expected to sew
until 6. and the little Japanese ladies'
must do the same. But they did not.
I'VE must go at s." they reiter-
ated gently to everything she said,
and as soon as their toilets were made
they left.
The toilets, however. required con-
siderable time. Never were there
such prinkers Each little lady rouged
her cheeks. touched her lips with car
mine and darkened her eyes. Then,
when they were at last ready to de-
part, every small boy in the neighbour
UOOu RdlHeTcu AROUND TO see Lneul OIL.
1t was altogether too much, even if
the Japanese women had been good
seamstresses which they were not
They were able TO make womenss
costumes, but about those for the men
they had no idea. The modiste had
prepared herself for the work and her
IDEAS were clear and well defined, and
she knew how to get work out of the
way in a hurry. She could give the
Japanese women points as to the de-
signs and cut out dozen garments
to their one. Their cutting was slow
process of measuring and marking.
One American workwoman could do
three times as much sewing as the two
Japanese, and do 1t better. AT
mosphere at that price was too ex-
pensive, and the little Japanese
women, their bcnbons, paint, boxes
and tea things. departed. The mo-
diste is not looking for other Oriental
needlewomen.
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There are two brothers that cannot
survive separation: Water and Life.
Water is a chemical composition
Ike a thousand others. 1t has it's fixed
limits of temperature, within which
Il remains true water" the LIQUID
thing that is so indispensable to life
that no plan can drive its sap, no heart
pump it sblood without 1t.
Zero-and the water freezes, be-
comes hard stone. All water on the
globe frozen, and the whole wonderful
machinery of life would stop.
Let us imagine the process develop
ing slowly. The temperature sinks
steadily. All clouds change iHto
snow Snow piles itself up, not only
on high mountain peaks, but every
where. From all the nights slide ice
rivers, glaciers With tremendous
violence the veins of ice burst within
the rocks, fragmenting them. So il
proceeds until everything is one fat
field of ice, one single boundless
Greenland. And in the ice lies life,
lies humanity, buried like the Siberian
manRnoths.
Those mammoths themselves play
ed a role in the production of this
mental picture of a new ice period.
A bit of the nineteenth century must
be recalled.
The First Discovery.
In it's first half the world began to
learn strange facts. Far away from
the mountains of granite, geology
found vast blocks of granite lying in
the fiat lands. Incredible distances
away from the glacier districts of
to-day, the hard rocks showed the
characteristic bruises and grooves
made by the sliding sole of the gla-
cier. Even the limestone and sea-
she'll layers of the limestone hills near
Berlin, in the fiat North German
plains, showed that a gigantic glacier
once cFept over them.
In the heart, of Germany France
and England lay the bones of animals
some of which still live in the iciest
Polar regions, like the musk OK, others
of which have been preserved as
corpses in the ice of the North like
the mammoth elephants in northern-
most Siberia.
Old Alpine guides In Switzerland
first uttered the belief that the earth
once must have known a period of
cold vastly greater than that of mod
ern days.
Goethe arrives at the same idea. At
last Agassiz knots together the loose
speculations and rounds out a pic
ture-the picture of the glacial
period 81 .;
But AgassiZ himself still Iabors un-
der the spell of Cuvier's teachings of
great world catastrophes. He tells
US that the last great catastrophe be-
fore the appearance of man was not
caused by red not lava in the interior
Of earth. but by fierce cold, nunbing
ice. The mammoths were not boiled
in scalding waves, but were hurled liv-
.ng into ice and snow and there froze
misera bly, into mummies. e.
And since this was the last act be- 1
fore our time 1t gave the world hint
as to what will happen to It, When
the inner heat of the earth shah suffice
no longer to seize us with fiery arms
and devour us, the ice giant will come
The winter of the Christ Child with
the icicles on the pine trees. becomes
the Angel of Death for humanity
Agassiz has been dead for many
years. And the teaching of the glacial
period has undergone many altera-
lions.
No World Catastrophe.
In the first place. painful research,
which heaped pebble on pebble slowly,
proved at last that the glacial epoch
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constituted no general world catastro-
phe. At no time had the entire
earth been buried under universal ice.
The ice did occasionally spread itself
out much farther from the Poles than
1t does to-day, so that certain great
areas of Northern Aasia, Northern
Europe and Northern America expert
enced a local glacial period, to a GER
tain degree But it cannot be decided
whether or not the ice swept simulta-
neously from both the North and
South Poles: the glacial traces on the
Southern Hemisphere of the earth
need not necessarily indicate the same
hour in world history as do those of
the Northern Hemisphere.
Under any circumstances there re-
mained room enough for organic life
The mammoth of Europe became eX-
tinot not because the ice killed it, but
because 1t wandered away and died
out owing to the increased warmth of
the earth. which it could not bear.
And another creature that lived SIM
UNANIMOUSLY with the mammoth on the
edge of the ice remained in the land,
accommodated itself to new condi-
tions, and survived through. the new
time after the ice period as bravely as
it had survived the ice period itself
and, probably, certain period before
that. This creature was Man.
The First ''Christmas" Gift.
In the glacial debris of the ice period
lie his first known remains. And we
can perceive dtmly that this mighty
winter, instead of being able to ami
hilate the splendid child of old Nature,
had played a most decisive part in
the most important beginnings of It's
mental development. Perhaps 1t was
that tremendous Christmas4that gave
man the gift of making fire by arti-
fetal means. And with the red fire
Pickering on the hearth, the genius to
whom the mastery of earth was des-
tined, parted forever from the beast.
The latest research permits US to go
a little further.
1t is possible that this great glacial
period in the time of mammoth and
cave man was not the first such phe-
nomenon on the earth. 1t is possible
that similar ice formations extended
mysteriously in earlier epochs into
warm lands. This would take us
back into the time of those high
trunked fern forests whose remains
furnish us with our coal to-day, and
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surface receive no heat from its In
terror The most simple proof is in
the Polar regions.
In the long months when they are
cut oft from the sun the surface sinks
hopelessly into the grasp of killing
cold. And If there should be no sun
at all those regions would be frozen
hopelessly. Nothing reaches them
from below to save them. And what Is
true there" Is true here"
And yet we in America, in Germany,
in Asia have no Polar1 cold, no ice
period at present, and this present"
dates back for many thousands Of
years. 1t is the sun that regulates our
temperature. She does it to-day, and
she did IL when the glaciers crept over
our level plains.
In the sun we must seek for the
cause of periodical ice times.
Looking roughly at the course of