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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
4 T0UCH-THE-BUTT0N
BATHTUB

It would seem, says the New York
Press, that the Harlem fiat architect
has at last reached the limit of space
economy.
On their return from the country
two women of moderate means set out
in quest of an apartment which should
combine the maximum of respectable
ty with the minimum of rent. They
found this a discouraging business
They were frowned upon by ianitors
and snubbed by bellboys. They travel
ed up and down miles of stairway They
inspected six-roon- and-bath suites by
the dozen, but found nothing to suit
both their tastes and their pocketbook
All the apartments they saw were
either cheap and nasty or desira BILE
and dear.
But when finally they reached an
imposing yellow brick edifice with
plate glass doors and marble halls and
rent that made them raise their eye
brows in surprise, they seemed to have
found at last the ombination they
sought
You'll find there's a reason" said
the younger woman.
But there didn't seem to be. The
rooms were light and pleasant; there
was gas range and hot water sup
ply.
But where is the BATH" they ask
ed
For answer the janitor turned to a
panel in the back parlor and press
ed button. The panel slid back and
disclosed-a bathtub.
The women looked at each other.
Would your" asked one.
But a caller might inadvertent-
ly touch the button" said the other
This suggestion settled it, and they
are still fiat hunting.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
NEW WALK FOR WOMEN.

A new walk is coming in with the
new year, says the New York Sun. 1t
is already here, but it will take women
until the dawn of 1905 to become per-
feet in it.
1t is different from any other walk
that was ever seen, though in certain
ways it resembles the Grecfan bend,
which was the ambition of our mothers
and grandmothers in 1870. 1t requires
these things: wide shoulders and a lit
tie waist. high heeled shoes with wide
soles, big hips and a fiat back, and
the military carriage.
The girl who is getting the 1905 walk
would do well to visit some nearby
military station and study the soldiers.
II she can get a West Point cadet to
teach her. so much the better. The
new walk is the military walk with
certain improvements and changes.
To get ready to walk. stand erect
and throw back the shoulders. Now
expand the chest. Next square the ell
bows, holding them down to your sides,
not out. Now draw in the abdomen,
lift the feet high and walk.
The first time you try it you will feel
like trussed chicken. The second
time it will not be quite so bad. After
While you will get the hang of it;
just as you got the hang of the bicycle,
and you will be able to do it correctly.
Here are briefly the cardinal rules,
according to one who is teaching the
new Grecian bend:
Chest out. hips back, abdomen in,
chin up, back straight and feet we'll
lifted. The knees must have a de-
cided action and the arms must be held
in to the body.
The walk of 1905 is very graceful
thing after you have learned il. But
the first ATTEMPTS are not encouraging.
Few women can assume the Grecian
bend with any approach to grace or
beauty until they have practiced it and
failed upon it a few times.
There are objections to this walk,
but it has it's good points. 1t is fash
ionable and it forces one to expand
the chest and breathe deeply.
1T makes one carry the shoulders
straight and it compels one to draw
in the abdomen. The girl who learns
the walk of 1905 will walk we'll all the
rest of her life.
Learn to carry yourself we'll, is an
admonition for every girl. A good car
riage is a fine thing in a woman. Often
that which passes for style and beauty
and a good figure is nothing more nor
less than a good carriage.
1.-TWO sisters will go out to walk to-
gether. The one looks trim and styl-
ish. The other looks dowdy. Every
body recognizes the difference, but few
can tell just why.
Mine times out of ten it all lies in
the carriage. One sister walks well.
Her belt is low in the front and trim
in the back. Her shoulders are held
back, her chin is lifted, her skirt hangs
well and she walks with a sprightly
step.
1.-THE other one moves along slouchily
and gets there in any old way.
Suppleness is a great aid to the walk
er of 1905. The girl who would be sup
pie must practice a little every day.
Running on all tours is not usually
considered a graceful feat, yet this is
just what was advised for a woman
who complained of awkwardness.
Il feel" said she, "as though my
arms and legs were hinged. When 1
walk / step on my skirt, and when 1
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
WHAT WOMEN MOST LIKE.

A woman likes to be truly loved and
to be told so, says the Louisville Times.
She likes some noble. honorable man
to be thoughtful of her, kind and con-
siderate of her welfare.
When we'll and becomingly dressed,
a quiet notice of it is always appre-
ciate.
A word of praise for a nice dinner or
supper often more than compensates
her for the worry and work of prepa-
ration.
She wants her husband not to be her
supporter but her companion, remem-
bering that IL is the kind word that
often brings her greater happiness
than a new set of dishes. though pres
ents like the latter are always well
come.
She likes to be made to realize that
she is good for something besides a
mere household drudge.
She likes TO be petted occasionally,
but not in public. The little private
pet names are very dear to a woman's
heart.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
THE BRAVE OLD WAY.

I say risk all for one warm kiss:
l say 'twere better risk the fall.
Like Romeo, to venture all,
And boldly climb to deadly bliss.
l like that savage, Sabine way;
What mighty minstrels came of it!
Their songs are ringing to this day,
The braVest ever sung or writ.
Their loves the love of Juliet,
OF Portia, Desdemona, yea,
The old true loves are living yet:
And we. we love, we weep we sigh
In love with loves that will not die.
Then take her. lover, sword in hand,
t-blooded and red-handed clasp
Her sudden. stormy, tall and grand
And lift her in your iron grasp,
And kiss her, kiss her till she cries
From keen, sweet, happy. killing pain
Aye, kiss her till she seeming dies;
Ave, kiss her till she dies, and then,
Why, kiss her back to life again!
JOAQUIN Miller
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
SHE HAD A HEAD
FOR BUSINESS.

1.-THE up-to-date New York woman.
says the World of that city, may be
slowly acquiring some faint knowledge
of business matters" said Lawyer
Leon Shelp, last evening, but if I
may Judge them all by one fair client
Of mine their education on such SUBJ
jects - still very rudimentary.
This client, whom 1 will call Mrs.
M, was the widow of one of Nam
hattan's foremost bankers. So. when
the estate came into my hands as ex-
ecutor, l fancied I'd have to deal with
woman who had debentures. morris
cages and compound interest at her
myers ends. To my surprise, I found
that Mrs. M had mot the faintesf
notion of finance. Her husband had
Kept her lavishly supplied with money.
but had at the same time kept her in
the most delightful state Of Ignorance
as to the very simplest money trans
actions So l found myself expected
not only to handle the estate but to
teach its ADMINISTRATIVE how to draw
checks, to balance bankbooks and to
keep her accounts.
She came to my Office one day in
dire perplexity.
I've been so foolish.' she exclatrn-
ed, I made out a check for $500 this
morning to buy tickets for a. San
FRANCISCO trip. Since then I've found /
can't go West this month. So I've
simply wasted that $500 check
My dear Mrs. M 1 expIained-
The money isn't wasted. All you have
TO do is to tear up the check. That
keeps your bank account straight and
you lose nothing
The simplicity of this solution
struck her as something wonderful:
and when went on to show her why
1t cost nothing to make out a check
and then tear it up she declared that
the whole banking system was now
perfectly clear to her.
Last month she came again to my
office; this time with a radiantly sniff
ing face.
I should have been so discouraged
yesterday she began, If it hadn't
been for what you've taught me of
money matters. You see, I sent a
money-order for 500 to Alaska for some
furs. had made a mistake in the adj
dress of the man to whom / sent the
order, so l got it back from the
dead-letter office yesterday. Now, in
old times I'd have been afraid that
the 500 I had paid for that money!
order was lost. But, thanks to your
teaching, I knew exactly what to do.
SO just tore the money-order up and
threw II in the fire. Now you can never
say again that I'm not good business
Woman!'
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
CIGARETTES AT LUNCHEON.

"And Thomas" said the up-to-date
girl to the new footman, to whom.
says the New York Tribune, she had
been giving a few directions in regard
to a girls luncheon party which she
was giving that day, when the butler
passes the black coffee, you are to fol-
low with the tray of liquors and CT
earettes." Although Thomas had lived
with old fashioned people and had
never seen woman smoke a cigarette.
be was too good a servant even 20
think 20 comment, and followed direc-
lions, balieVtrg naturally that II was
the usual routine az luncheon parties
IN hos nev pidce So q few days after
ward, when 90 Mre g.. the giT's
grnndmother. gave an entertainment
TO few Of her oEqpies, he again, as
matter ~ scailHs4 passed bae oig-
axatiea- A fRla ssetthk Amusement OF
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
CRITICISM is EASY.

1t is easy to sit in the sunshine
And talk to the man in the shade.
1t is easy to float in the well-trimmed
boat.
And point out the places to wade.
1t is easy to sit in your carriage
And counsel the man on foot,
But get down and walk, and you'll
change your talk,
AS you feel the peg in your boot.
1t is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack;
But no one can rate a burdens weight
Until it has been on his back.
The up-curled mouth of pleasure
Can preach of sorrows worth,
But git it a slip. and a wryer lip
Was never made on earth.
Home Chat.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
THE AMERICAN WOMAN.

In her outlook on pleasure, as in
her face toward the more serious ele-
ments of life the American woman,
says H. +. NJ. Watson in the Nine
teenth Century, still betrays that
weakness of her nature. She has per-
fected the cult of pleasure as no liv-
ing being in all the history of the
world
certain common bond unites the
drab woman on her farm and the
belle of Fifth avenue. The one has
little part or lot in the distractions of
life, the other is swallowed up by
them; but in the bosom of each, as
Stevenson has finely said in another
connection, the same hands pluck and
pull them. The one in her vanities,
the other in her duties-both move to
the nervous strings of the racial spirit.
1t has been objected that criticism,
which is aimed of the voluptuary
woman in American can only be fairly
directed against single class, and
that small class. This is a mistake;
for 1t is the spirit abroad among
American women which the critic calls
in question, and that spirit is visible
in all classes of real Americanized
women, whether in the daughter of
1AAC AAiAAiO-tHAiO VI III Tue ldNlOII manu-.
1t is the spirit of independence which
finds its logical issue in cold selfish
ness. The factory girls refuse to be
married and take up the burdens of
maternity; they put their savings upon
their backs and have a good time"
The careful researches of Mrs. and
Miss Van Worst have demonstrated
this fact beyond question.
That rupture with the ancient and
traditional sphere of woman is to be
observed in all American classes.
Woman has arisen, insurgent, and de-
MES her proper sphere. Her constitu-
tional restlessness has driven her to
abdicate those functions which alone
excuse, or explain, her existence.
In this year of grace. 1904, at a wom-
ans congress in Berlin, the world has
been informed by an American woman
that 'the female element is the CEN
trail and older element, the male the
later and younger" and that with the
beginning of the woman's movement
an era Will be inaugurated which will
bring about the end of male rule 1t
is satisfactory to learn also that Mrs.
Perkins. the lady in question, stated
that it was not the intention of wom-
en-, when they came to their own, to
act toward the male sex as do the bees
toward their unhappy drones.
These are but extravagances sympto-
matte of the general disease. The ner-
vous equilibrium is gone and woman
has fallen from her throne. IT may
seem odd to make such a statement
when the American woman is enthron-
ed at the moment higher than her
more dependent sisters of Occidental
Europe. But the world is divided in
to three parasitic East, the West and
America: and the riddle of the last is
more difficult than that of the other
two. differentiation is the reward of
that race of women who fulfil the re-
quirements of nature. Do American
women?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

go through room I knock the bric-a-
brac down. How can I be graceful?''
The physical culture teacher said to
her:
Madam, learn TO walk on all fours.
There is nothing in the world that will
make you as graceful as this
The woman took his advice, got down
on all fours, and started off. It was
a slow walk at first, for the blood rush
ed to her head, her arms ached, her
knees gave out and she had to get up
and rest. But she practiced il Ave
minutes a day for six months and be-
came graceful.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02

the old ladies'. and the shocked sur
prise of Mrs. s., who was for turning
away the man at once for what she
called his impertinence, until she heard
his justification, which annoyed her
even more, as she had until then no
idea that her granddaughter had adopt
ed what in her opinion was the vulgar,
masculine and wholly perniciOus habit
of cigarette smoking.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-02
LEMON HOT DROPS
CURE ALL COUGHS AND
COLDS.

out his hand.
4 want to tell you something" she
said as they left the restaurant. That
lorgnette was only plated"
The Irish standard., 1904-03-05
Mr.. Cleveland for Tammany.

From 1891 to 1895 Mr.. Cochran serv-
ed in the house of representatives. No
New Yorker since the advent of Ros-
coe Conkling rose so rapidly and so
high in the estimation of his col
leagues. His power as an orator and
debater was at once recognized. He
lowered up in the New York delegation
as he towers to-day. And perhaps the
most famous thing he said was said in
1883 in defense of President Cleveland,
who was attacked by Mr.. Hit on the
floor of the house in connection with
the Canadian Retaliation bill:
'"rhe administration of Grover Cleve-
land, the motives which prompt his Of
fetal acts, need no explanation to this
country" he said, ''The gentlemen
from Illinois, as a man of sense knows
that it needs no explanation to cause
the people to believe them to be
prompted by patriotism and inspired
by loyalty. st
"Do not be mistaken about the effect
of these assaults. The sneer which
you level at the president the country
knows is but thin disguise of the re-
spect you feel for him. Do not mis-
apprehend for a moment the view of
| the electors of these United States.
They know full well that if you say
] he has reached his present degree of
success merely by luck, you will not
insinuate it was compassed by dishon.
or. You may cavil at his qualifications
for the presidency; the senator's of
your faith at the other end of this
building will tell you that never dur:
ing his incumbency have they been
able to invade his privileges or limit
his prerogatives. You may sneer and
say he is not great man; there is
not one of you that will deny that he is
an honest man. And he is a great mar
in the eyes of this country, not because
he is possessor Of qualities which lift
him away beyond the mass of his fel
lows, but because he is a type of the
common citizenship of this land; anC
his success, the success of his admin
istra ton, proves that there is in this
country, throughout the common ranl
Of all it's citizens, ample talent, hon
esty and integrity to carry on this gov
ernment, even if the race of so-calleG
statesmen should have passed away
How like his opinion of Mr.. Cleve
land to-day!
The Irish standard., 1904-03-05
"THE DARK AGES"
Protestant Testimony in Reference to
Monastic Orders.

In his book entitled "Ihe Dark
Ages" DR.. Maitland, a Protestant
clergyman and scholar of repute, said:
ut is quite impossible to touch the
subject of Monasticism without rub
bing off some of the dirt which has
been heaped upon it. 1t is impossible
to get even superficial knowledge of
the medieval history Of Europe with
out seeing how greatly the world of
that period was indebted to the mon
astic orders: and feeling that, whether
they were good or bad in other mat
ters, monasteries were beyond all
price in those days Of misrule and
turbulence as places where Gt may be
imperfectly, but better than else
where) God was worshiped-as a
quiet and religious refuge for helpless
infancy and old age, a shelter OF re-
spectful sympathy for the orphan
maiden and the desOlate widow-as
central points when agriculture was
to spread over bleak hills, and bar
rem downs, and marshy plains, and
deal bread to millions perishing with
hunger and it's pestilential trlin-as
repositories of the learning which
then was, and well-springs of the
learning which was to be-as nur-
series Of art and science, giving the
|'stimulus, the means and the reward
to invention, and aggrcgating around
them every head that could devise and
every hand that could execute-as the
nuculeus of the city which in after
days of pride should crown it's palaces
and bulwarks with the towering cross
of it's cathedral. This, | think, no
man can deny. l believe 1t is true,
and I love to think Of it. But if it is
only dream, however grateful, Il
shall be glad to be awakened from it,;
not indeed by the yelling of illiternte
agitators, but by quiet and sober
proof that I have misunderstood the
matter. In the meantime let me thank
fully believe that thousands Of the per-
sons at whom Robertson, and Fortin,
and other such very miserable second
hand writer's have sneered, were men
of enlarged minds, purified affections
and holy lives-that they were justly
reverenced by men, and, above all,
favorably accepted by God, and dis
tinguished by the highest honor
which He vouchsafes to those whom
He has called into existence, that Of
being the channels Of His love and
msrcy to his fellow-creatures
The Irish standard., 1904-03-05
The Weddiuu Chest.

Quite sensible idea for engaged
girls is the wedding chest, and even
girls who are not engaged are the Sc
cret possessors of this sentimental and
at the same time sensible article. The
wedding chest may be fine new
trunk Of the latest style or it may be
a plain wooden affair, prettily covered
and lined with flowered chintz.
The idea is to fill the chest with
pretty things to wear or for the fur
nishing and decoration of home.
One girl is filling hers with dainty
clothing which she is making herself.
Another is buying ornaments and
knfckknacks from time to time and
flung her chest with them. Not only
things to wear, such as gloves, lingerie
and dainty hosiery but pieces Of lace,
tapestry squares for covering sofa pill
The Irish standard., 1904-03-05

lars and handsome table covers, are
receiving the attention of bonny
Scotch maiden.
Another is making a fine collection
of table linen-napkins, mats, center
pieces, and so OH. Pretty bits Of china
and bric-a-brac go in the chest of an
other maiden.
Thus the girls are slowly collecting
pretty things and saving them for use
in their homes. AS Il rule, their
friends know of the chests and take
pleasure in helping to fill them, al
though some of the girls like to feel
that everything was bought with their
own money.
The Irish standard., 1904-03-05

ell for pair of good stockings. The
government takes a bushel out of the
farmers pocket and gives it to the
hosiery manufacturer. That is not
protection; it is plunder.
'The government cannot give to one
man unless it takes from another. The
government produces nothing. The
government does not labor. If it
makes me rich it can only do it by
making you poor. 1t has nothing Of
it's own to give. 1t plumbers the one to
give prosperity to the other.
"The trouble is that the national
conscience has been corrupted. The
people who benefit by the policy Of
plunder have come to regard it as a
legitimate use of governmental power.
Conscious dishonesty is never very
formidable. You have only to expose
it to end it. But unconscious dishon-
esty will persist and will defend itself.
Men in the republican party who
would not think of doing a dishonest
act in their private transactions warm
ly defend the plundering system Of pro-
lection, having come by usage to con-
dition of moral blindness.
Mr.. Cochran is SO years old, mas
sive man, in perfect health. He was
born in Sligo, that most Irish part of
Ireland, fertile agricultural and cat
tie country. His father was of the
small-farmer class and his mother a
Limerick woman of English ancestry
and superior education. Mr.. Cochran
is not college-bred man. He was
educated partly in France and partly
in Ireland. When still youth he was
sent to st. Jarlath's college, at Tuam,
in the County Galway, and there he
net and served John McHale, the great
archbishop of Tuam, him who was
called by O'Connell ''the lion of the
fold Of Judah" Young Cochran al.
ways served at the mass in the arch
bishops private chapel. 1t was prob.
ably his boyish association with this
greatest churchman of Ireland that
produced in Mr.. Cochran such a pas.
sionate and sentimental feeling for the
Catholic Church in his after life.
When II years old he came to New
York, having completed his education
by the aid of private tutors. He was
first teacher Of French and Latin in
st. Thomas's academy, in Rutgers
street. Then he was principal Of q
public school in Tuckahoe, Westches.
ter county. He studied law and was
admitted to the bar in 1876, five years
after his arrival in America. He prac.
tised law in Westchester county until
the winter of 1S9O-1SS1. Then he came
to New York, and soon made good
reputation in the criminal courts.
In 1881 he became member Of the
Irving Hall democracy. In the follow.
ing year he made himself famous by a
speech in the democratic state conven.
ton pleading for the admission Of the
Irving Hall delegates. In 1884 he
Joined Tammany Hall at the request
of John Kelly, and in that year he
made memorable speech against Mr..
Cleveland in the Chicago convention.
In 1892 he made another speech
against Mr.. Cleveland in the demo
cratic national convention which
stamped him as an orator Of the high
oat rank Roth times he spoke against
The Irish standard., 1904-03-05

GA
O. n the Ge t Fla
The daily Alaskan., 1904-04-07
BIG TIME
Sitka Indians Coming To
 Haines Soon.

The four big chiefs of the Sitka Indians including the great chief of all the Thlingits, Klukwanton, are ex- pected 10 arrive at Haines Monday on their way to Klukwsn, where a big feast has been arranged by George Shortridge and others.
 This feast will be attended only by chiefs and their relatives, which con- stitute the high class Indians.
 Besides the four chiefs, who will come from Sitka, there will be four other high class Indians, and all will bring their wives, making l6 all told who will come in a large canoe.
 These Sitks Indians will spend several months at Klukwan, and when they return, Chief George ShOrtridge and others of the big Chilkats will go with them.
 The party will call at HOonah and and Killisnoo, from where they will take the chiefs and high class Indians of those places with them to Sitka, All these chiefs and high class Indians will spend the winter at Sitka.