Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-02-09

THE following is taken from a
New York special to the st. Louis
Star, dated Feb. 4: "Mme. Rejane,
the noted French actress, danced a
can-can on the top of a table at the
Hyde ball at Sherry's on Tuesday
night. Ever since the night of
james Hazen- Hyde's 500, 600 fam
cy dress ball at Sherry's, with
Nine. Gabrielle Rejane as the
guest of honor, there has been a
story to effect rife in the clubs, at
the restaurants and over the 5
o'clock tea tables. In fact the
story of the actress escapade
comes from so many quarters that
there is no longer any doubt of its
truth. The stories differ as to how
the episode came about, but are
agreed upon one point and that is
that Nine. Rejane did climb on top
of a table and dance a can-can
that could not have been beaten
by a professional dancer at the
Moulin Rouge. In fact, she danced
it with SO much abandon and
grace that she successfully effaced
all recollection of Little Egypt,
who until then held the record for
this sort of speciality at Sherry's.
To say that his dance of Nine.
Reiane created a sensation is put
ting it mildly; but as usually hap
pens in i%mpromptu spontaneous
episodes of this kind, the can-can
did not make nearly as great a
stir at the moment as it did on the
following day, when the spectators
had time to think it over in cold
blood. The can-can has been
generally tabooed at Sherry's fol
several seasons-ever since the
famous Seeley dinner, in fact-and
as far as n car judge from the
passing remarks of those who wit
messed Nine. Rejane's terpsichor-
can speciality, it is likely to be put
away in lavender again at Sherry's
for some time The foregoing
is beyond my belief. If true.
however, it is such a glimpse Of
the inner social life of the 400 that
the outside world has cause fol
congratulation in it's exclusion.
Admitting the truth of the story, ]
hope that every respectable person
in attendance at the ball had retir-
ed before the occurrence of the toe
piquant episode concluding the
nights entertainment. Or, is great
wealth a gloze to the finer sensi-
b%ilities, rendering its possessors in
nocuous to evils that would damn
the poorer classes forever and a
day?
The most unblus hing graft con-
Germ in Missouri is the State Uni
versity at Columbia. A million is
all it asKsffo this trip.-Scott Coun-
ty Kicker.
The Kicker is right. The Uni
versity has an endowment fund
which yields it, yearly, over four
hundred thousand dollars. That
is, about $500 a day, counting five
days in the scholastic week; S15C
per hour, counting ten hours pei
day. How many people stop to
think of the vastness of this ex-
penditure for the "education" OF
the children Of parents in comfort
able circumstances, taking no note
of the wealthy? The very poor
need not and cannot apply. The
marble halls and elegant parlors
are not for them. OF all the hum
bugs extant, the greatest is prac-
ticed in the name of education
And now comes the University
asking that the amount due and
about to be paid by the United
States to the State of Missouri
the University people have great
noses for smelling these douceurs
from afar-be used in erecting a
Memorial Hall, to be located, Of