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The St. Louis Republic., 1905-06-04
LONDON GETS A TASTE OF
REAL SWElTERiNG WEATHER.

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stew 81 tE" week ~. heat being :-it al
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denly after a LONG spell % cold weather
With ~. exception ~ Tuesday. when a
y..l.-, :hur t-Ysto-n br5t. over IN. city.
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The St. Louis Republic., 1905-06-04

t.autif.sI house. No. Carlton Terrace.
Was 'h" scene Of an at home" o; spc!ety
women journalists
The guests greatly admired the 'iiacni'i-
cent mansion. which IL now considered
ou.- ., tn. Finest !u LONDON. Its '!'o~s Mi
M often open now. for Mrs. NICksy in
tends ..DIng entertainment for IN. b"e'lt
"f hrr erant.iaugh'"r, the daughter NJ
Princess tplvnns.
The chief event of Thursday was tii-
DIch.sS ~ MdrlbOruurh'~ afternoon
party u is called q colonial party
Why - wa- difficult tn understand. h.-
cause the only person present Uho c"uth
com. under the designation was Lady
Macdonald 81 f,afrscIifYe. who's" TIL" .s n
Canadian one which sne holds in her Dan
right. The Duchess was looking radiant
in black and white. The Duchess "f Rcx-
t.lirgh. was also among tho guests
The St. Louis Republic., 1905-06-04
AMERICAN WOMEN DC PART
IN LONDON entertainment.

~Pf-'.'EI. ~ 'NI:!.F: To- TiII. RF.pI II.I''
I.puiTrI. June 3-t;DI.yTI.siit. i:-S.s ;
American women In london Eay" been
IIJ.vh =" th.. fore ENTERTAINERS during
the U-.k To begin with. Mr.. Ronald .
glEs'gEI afternoon Last sunday WAS very
crus,s,-i I!N sUar: world being. as usual.
uu,H iu evidence
Tl.r .Hl Tuesday the DIX. and pgrhess
-: I.rSl.gTEl-. EaE- h'C dinner patty az
Carlton Gardens and another night. along
Win fr. Buk. and Duchess rf NaTIboE-
"uE!t. Were IT," principal guests asked ~
Lord and Lazy F.UIEtIm t. meet TIA"
EirE al dinner az No. - Gresham place.
sr Tuesday niEr' aisp Nrs. NIckayS =
The St. Louis Republic., 1905-06-04
NEW PUBLIC BUILDINGS URGED
Blythe APRIL GRAND JURY

iT!g" Yesterday ENEIH>i';
Review "f The 'il' Penal and Eh-r''>ynarf
Iu,rru,inns-Four t"n,IIli,.i AMI
The St. Louis Republic., 1905-06-04
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Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

the close of the gymnastic work in the
spring all four classes compete for the
championship in the best gymnastlc
work. This contest was held this year
in the week beginning April 8.
Track athletics and out of door
sports are under the direction of Miss
Constance M. K. Applebe of England.
Practice for basketball began in March.
The interclass championship games are
played in May, beginning the first of
the month and lasting about two
weeks. The classes draw for first play;
the best two out of three games win.
The team numbers nine and the play is
according to Spalding's rules. A silver
lantern is the trophy passed on since
1897, and the champion class may also
display it's banner in the front of the
gymnasium until it is superseded.
Gymnasium suits show the class coll
ors-19O5 (the champion). red; 1905,
dark blue; 1907. green, and 1908, light
blue.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

Henry James. az some Of them are do
ins-just because I dedicated one Of my
books to him. I suppose if I dedicate
my next book to William Dean How
ellis shall then be called a disciple of
Mr.. Howells. Why, there's not the
least likeness between me and Mr..
James. like him personally. I adj
mire his books immensely, but I have
never felt any impulse to follow in his
footsteps. must go my own way at
my own gait"
Mrs. Atherton, 1t appeared, has been
lunching that very day with Henry
James publisher. This suggested to
her the query:
How does Henry James books sell
In this country" I had to answer that
from my knowledge of the book world
should Judge that they met with only
a limited sale among the ultra refined
and intellectual classes.
80 I thought" resumed Mrs. Ather-
ton. isn't It an extraordinary condi-
tion of things? Here is a man who by
universal consent is the greatest of all
living American authors yet he is read
by only few of his countrymen, while
other American authors. without any,
thing like his reputation sell into the
hundreds of thousands. That is only
another evidence of the helplessness of
criticism. But what is criticism after
all? Nothing but more or less agree
able expression of personal opinion
about books. If I had ever thought 1t
was anything like an exact science I
should have had my mind disabused by
my own experience, which would have
disillusioned me. Take my latest book.
It Is a collection of ten short stories.
My publisher has just sent me a lot of
criticisms clipped from the weekly ard
daily press in England and America.
Glancing over them / find that many
critics single out some one story, pro-
nounce that excellent, and regret that
fallen below her own standard as set
by that story. Now, every single story
in the book has in this fashion been
singled out by some critic or critics as
the gem of the collection. What am
to think? That 1 have produced ten
masterpieces or ten failures? l was
rather surprised, also, to find that the
favorite story with the larger number
of my critics was the one 1 thought
least of-'The Story of a Snob.'
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
YsAYE's TWO CONCERTS

]. T. Fitzgerald has contracted with
Ysaye's eastern manager for two per-
formances in Los Angeles, one on the
evening of May 25 and the other on
the afternoon of May 27, at Simpson
auditorium. Prices of seats will be
SO to 81. Tickets will be placed on
sale at Fitzgerald's music store on
Monday, May %. Ysaye has played to
large audiences this season. In New
York, where he has appeared in twenty
recitals and concerts, crowds have
greeted the great artist with tremen-
dous enthusiasm. Although he comes
to Los Angeles late in the season
there are indications that he will draw
large houses as many persons from
suburban towns have engaged tickets.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
Let Fate Go Hang

Fate" said Bourke Ceckran, "is not
to be dreaded. 1t is an easy thing to
get the best of. We all conquer fate
when we submit to it gracefully. Vain
repinings only serve to aggravate 1t.
We say fate is down on us when hard
ships come, but even hardships we are
apt to misunderstood. as they are
usually self-imposed pleasures turned
into intolerable grievances when re-
auired for duty. AS, for instance:
What sportsman ever complained OF
fatigue?
What card player of sedentariness?
"What angler of solitude?
what bookworm of confinement?
'' What miser of poverty? -
"Or what lover of slavery?
"Then why not perform with an
equal good will the tasks enjoined BY
our station in life and let fate go
hang?"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

not the huge public affairs, challenging
the attention of the world at large and
recalling gray haired graduates from
every quarter of the United States to
the scenes of their student days, such
as take place in the mems colleges.
They are modest events witnessed by
the chosen few, and the honors gained
by the college girl along the line of
athletics are not more widely known
outside of the college itself than are
the honors of scholarship.
Thus, without extraneous support,
the college girl pursues the path Of ath-
letic endeavor. She takes her athletics
as she does her classics, because 1t is
a part of the course. That is, to a GER
tain extent. the situation. Neverthe'
less, now that basketball days have
come and all the greens are enlivened
by the recreation period with flying,
sturdy girlish figures, one can but
realize that quite a considerable
amount of sport for sports sake Is
after all creeping into the ideals of
physical culture which obtain at most
women's colleges.
Bryn Mawr, typical of all that is best
in college athletics for women, means
to give two full weeks in May to bas-
ketbail. Then will follow track ath-
letics, tennis, etc. If because one hears
so comparatively little of athletic af-
fairs of the women's colleges one is in
III. 10
as of minor Importance in the feminine
college career, one has only to become
familiar with life at Bryn Mawr to
realize how important place athletics
and the physical culture which is COIN
cident with these pursuits have in the
routine of our best women's colleges
Throughout the four years course at
Bryn Mawr college physical exercise
is required of all undergraduate stu
dents and is one of the regular require
ments for the bachelors degree. Four
periods of exercise are required each
week Thse four periods may be di-
vided between out of door and indoor
exercise, according to the season of the
year. The length of a period diners
with the kind of exercise taken; for
example, one hour and quarter Of
walking or forty minutes of playing
basketball are regarded as equivalent
TO one period of exercise. The student
may, II she prefers, take her period Of
out of door exercise in any of the fol-
lowing ways: walking, riding. cycling,
skating, swimming, tennis. golf, bas-
ketball, hockey or cricket.
Indoor exercise is carried on in the
gymnasium under the direction of Miss
Lunette M. Garlock, director Of the
gymnasium. For first year students
the Swedish system is used, the Ger
man for the three upper classes. At
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07

ANY things other than moving
w day and millinery come with the
AEA springtime. "A livelier iris
changes on the FURNISHED dove" may
hap; "a young mans fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of love-" no doubt
and young girls fancy, If she be OF
that truly typical American class, the
college girl. turns none the less surely,
but ever so much more seriously, to
air sports of the year.
"If you're waking call me early
says the college girl athlete. She
means to be a queen of the May---not
the old sort, in a tarletan gown and a
wreath, but the new sort, in a short
skirt and a blouse, with her hair done
up in the neatest and tightest of fash
ions, so that exertions far more stren-
uous than the most blithesome of gal
lops a-horseback will be powerless to
bring 1t down.
For May is the month of basketball,
and basketball seems, of all sports,
the particular sport of the college girl
It is far too lively for ladies at a lawn
party. 1t is not strong enough for the
masculine colleges. 1t is sport be-
loved of all college girls and of many
that be only of high school growth.
The only pity is that 1t is not made
an intercollegiate sport for the wom-
ans colleges, as football is for the
mems colleges.
The American college girl is to be
congratulated on her honest regard for
athletics under existing conditions.
Her brother, the college man, goes In
for athletics with an ardor that ever
wakes and never wanes. but something
other than the pursuit of health, de-
sire for self-improvement or even a
wish to uphold the honor OF his college
in the athletic field helps to furnish a
motive for the continuance of his exer-
tions in the line of sports. He may
look forward to shining before all man
kind and all womankind on day of
intercollegiate sports. He may acquire
worldwide reputation as a college
athlete. which will do much to help
him on in the higher world of affairs
when college days are over.
Back of all this and furnishing the
real reason for his athletic devotion
is the love of sport for sports sake,
which seems to have been from time
Observation-Disclosures through tradi-
ton or otherwise, who can say?-an
Overwhelming masculine heritage.
To the college girl none of these aids
10 athletics are vouchsafed by natural
conditions. intercollegiate sports are
not favored by women's colleges, and
the competitive element is thus reduced
to contests between the classes of the
same college. Even these events are
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
THE MAY FESTIVAL

The May Music Festival, which takes
place at Temple auditorium the week
of May is. with concert every evening
and matinee every afternoon excepting
Monday. is attracting much attention
from Southern California music lovers.
The season ticket coupon books are now
on sale and the demand assures a nice
addition to the charity funds for which
this series of entertainments is given.
The tickets are 81, $3.50 and 81 and all
the music houses have them on SALE
while they may also be obtained at the
Union Pacific ticket office, festival head
quarters. The seat prices have been
fixed at 81, rs cents and so cents. chill
dren 25 cents, and the demand has in
dicated that Temple auditorium will be
crowded. Innes with his band, the
main attraction, is now on the way to
the coast. The soloists include Mrs.
Partridge, soprano; Fritz N. Huffman,
tenor; F. Archambault, baritone; Bo-
humir Kryl, cornetist, and H. j. Will
liams, harpist. They will be assisted
Oy luG LUIS Au6tlCo Mcby ECobiNdA
chorus, under the direction of Julius
Albert jain; the Children's Festival
chorus, Miss Katherine e. Stone, direc-
tor, and the High School chorus, Mrs.
Parsons, director.
The program is as follows: Monday
night, May Is, inaugural night; Tues
day afternoon, professional matinee;
Tuesday night, oratorio night and pro-
duction of Mendelssohn's great choral
work, 1.-THE Hymn of Praise;" Wednes-
day afternoon, szt-Rubinstein mat
inee; wednesday night, "Parsifal;"
Thursday afternoon, French Russian
matinee; Thursday night, military
night: Friday afternoon, symphonic
program; Friday night, Wagnerfest;
Saturday afternoon, children's festival;
Saturday night, grand opera and fare
we'll night.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
NEW CALIFORNIA TALE

buses and trans are so handy and the
hansoms, especially, are so much cheap
or than they are here. / spent four
years in England, chiefly in London.
The last two years I have been in
Munich, which I prefer because It Is so
/ quiet. But wasn't In Munich all the
| time Last summer I went to Spain
to get the local color for a story which
will appear in the Smart Set. My
principal characters are American and
English people and I travelled exactly
as make them travel, and for about
the same length OF .time-a couple W
months.
"They go third classy in a party. Be
cause I wanted to get into closer and
more intimate touch with the people
went third class. OF course a woman
cannot travel alone. even first class, in
Spain without misconstructlon, so I,
too, Joined q party. The train de luxe,
or first class carriage, is not very
luxurious arrangement, and the second
class Is too deadly respectable. The
third class carriages are generally big
and open. with wooden seats, and In
summer the windows are usually un-
fastened. There you see all sorts of
picturesque people, redolent of the soil
peasants playing guitars. washerwo-
men in blue cotton frocks and with
handkerchiefs tied around their heads.
and nuns and priests and small trades
men. 1t was like reading Washington
Irvings Spanish books over again just
to glance around you. And those were
the books that fascinated me in my
girlhood-the Alhambra' and The Con-
quest of Granada"
Insensibly the conversation drifted
back to California.
"T love California" said Mrs. Ather-
That's the real thing. There you see
the most magnificent landscapes, with
real Indians in the background, and an
ever present possibility of rattlesnakes.
And there is the place for riding and
driving! 1t was only a few weeks ago
that my daughter Muriel and 1 were
whirled around a mountain height at
the rate of three thousand feet an hour.
At one place the horses lost their foot
ing and actually hung over the sheer
precipice before they recovered them
selves. All that afternoon Muriel and
1 seemed to be in sort of mental haze,
as IL we were moving and speaking in
a dim but not unpleasant dream.
"And were you frightened?"
''Not at all. I am never afraid of
horses in California. My husband was
one of the best amateur whips in the
state and he used to spend a certain
part of each day in driving me around,
choosing the most difficult and danger
Gus places. But will tell You where
am afraid of horses. Right here in New
York, and in front of the Metropolitan
opera house, when a performance Is un-
der way and just after it is over. What
with the congestion Of carriages, the
or irritated animals and their beer
drinking or whisky drinking drivers,
there always seem to me to be here the
potentialities of disaster. declare I'll
never go to the opera again with a rich
man, or IL do, I'll sneak out of the side
door as soon as the performance is over
and take a trolley home.
The critics have begun to treat me
better than they used to. But I wish
they wouldn't call me a disciple of
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
MRS. BISHOP AT VENICE

FURNITURE for the summer house
r. is this season offered at the shops
L in the greatest possible variety OF
styles, colorings and materials. Ones
summer home, no matter how large
| and magnificent it may be, can now
adays be appropriately fitted out from
top to bottom with materials suited to
! tropical climes, but which have been
so elaborated upon by American manu-
taste for the ornate can perfectly well
be gratified in them.
Among the very newest of the new
summer furniture is a bedroom suit of
cane. 1t is shown made up with Flem-
ish oak or green stained pine for the
uprights, which cannot of course be
made of the cane But almost every
other part of the furniture is made of
firm, close patterned cane, and every
article usually seen in bedroom suit
is shown. The bed has wooden posts
and legs, but the sides, head and foot
boards are of cane. All of the bureau
with the exception of corner uprights
is of cane, the material even being used
for the drawers. There are a desk of
cane and a high, narrow cupboard of
the material, which contains many
shelves and is useful apparently for
toilet articles. bottles, etc
Furniture made of mating and bam-
boo is shown in great variety of new
designs. 1t is exceedingly pretty, cool
looking, and so light in weight that it
would add much to the ease of summer
housekeeping. It's smooth surface also
renders it far easier to keep free OF
dust than the wicker or wood and cane
articles. 1t is also most reasonable in
price when one considers how much
more is asked for upholstered furni-
ture, which is neither so attractive nor
so clean as are the summer varieties.
inexpensive Mating Furniture
Among the articles in mating and
bamboo which will be found most USE
full in every summer house, one which
Is especially needed in much used
veranda or garden pavilion is a maga-
zine stand having four shelves gradu-
ated in size so that all manner of sum-
mer literature may be slowed neatly
away. The laundry hampers made of
mating and bamboo also seem to be
especially desirable. because of their
extreme cleanliness and attractive
appearance.
The bedroom furniture made of the
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
Music and ReIjoior

"Those who have a spirit Of harmony
in their nature will exhibit it in every
other direction as well as in that oi
music" said Miss Edyth walker
while music is a sensual pleasure
IL will also produce moral results. with
musical harmony there is sure to be
moral conscientiousness The sound Of
music enables the soldier to keep ster
over rough ground. and the moral har-
mony Of his nature, responding to the
unheard music of the spheres, EN-
powers him to pursue the right way
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-07
. ERTRUDE kTHBRToN (she pre-.

fers to drop the courtesy title oi
- Mrs. in print) speaks epigrams
as well as writes them. When I asked
her the other day. as she sat in her
temporary New York quarters. just
prior to her return journey to Europe
what she deemed the chief difference
between English and American society
| life she promptly answered:
zone is genuine play, without fri
frivollty."
The Englishman. she went on to ex-
plain. took social life as a recreation,
but did not cease to retain his dignity
and his interest in what was going on
in the world. lie was glad to meet
statesmen. artists, authors and other
celebrities in his hours of leisure. He
discusses serious matters with them,
but preferably in a vein of banter.
Politics especially occupies the atten-
tion of the upper strata of society to
an extent that is absolutely unknown
here. The women are as fervent and
enthusiastic as the men.
Mrs. Atherton ct Is impossible to
drop the courtesy title in this briefer
form of nomenclature. has been away
from the United States some half a
dozen years. She has been visiting
her friends in California and New York.
Hence a question naturally followed as
to the differences observable between
the eastern and western life.
"The chief difference" she replied,
"in the social life of the eastern and
western states is the lavish and reck-
less expenditure of the westerners. In
New York, even among the millionaires,
of whose prodigality the world hears so
much, some thrift is exercised, some
thought is given to the reasonable re-
striction of expense. They don't abb
solutely waste their wealth. But the
Californians pour out their money with
out any thought about 1t. A million
aire will send you a box of flowers as
big as a hearse and never think of the
cost
"At the Sequoya club in San Francis
co I was given a dinner by a wealthy
bachelor, Mr.. James D. Phelan, where
everything was on a scale Of splendcr
that almost staggered belief. The din
ner and the decorations We'd with each
other in magnificence. The wines were
of the choicest vintages that money
could buy. Not satisfied with giving
me this dinner, Mr.. Phelan sent round
to my apartments an oil painting en-
titled After the Gringo Came which
had cost him $2500. You know one of
my earliest collection OF stories is
called Before the Grngo Came This
picture is not the only work of art
identified with the occasion. A funny
caricature Of me sitting on top of
sequoia tree and pounding ON a type
writer was furnished by one of the
members"
(Which suggests the query" I put
in, ''as to your favorite period for ex-
ercise on the typewriter"
Always the early morning. I rise
at and am always through with my
days stint by lunch time. The after
Moons devote to outdoor exercise Or to
social duties. love walking. That's
one thing 1 miss in London. It's al
most impossible to walk there. Very
few people do SO unless they are OBJ
liged to by poverty. The hansoms,