, 1906-05-07

-NNo E'N
politan airs, and the streets should be
kept clear of DRINKS, so ladies may
pass along the sidewalks without fear
of being confronted and, in many in
stances iusulted by men who have so
far lost ell self-respect as to fill up to
the rim with booze.-Cody Enterprise.
Bill Roasts Gorky-
New York has long been recognized
as the habitat of the a~ristrocrastic
toady and socially ambitious boot-licker
notably along the lines of cringing
obeisance to anything savoring of no
bility. With money and leisure in plen-
ty has come TO these se~lf-appointed
mentors of who's-who, also, a hint that
there are other standards by which
men are sometimes measured-a con
clusion, however, which is sorter hazy
and uncertain, and as summed up in
their own minds amounts to little more
than that there's everything in a name.
1t was this desire to show to the bal
ance of the world, | presume, that she
understood and was in touch with Eu-
~ropeon political economies as well as
literature, which inspired her latest
had break.
Maxim Gorky, a Russian writer and
lreyoIutionist-the which means social.
list. and the which when again run
through the wringer of boss sense
means anarchist-landed at Castle
Garden the other day Here was OPP
n,rtunTtv indeed for aSinine alteration
and Manhattan and Hoboken high
priests and Incense acolytes whose
chief ambition is to pimp for bass
wood idols, got busy. Here was a he
ro, come to this country with a big
nit and n contribution box, but the
representative of a forlorn hope and
an oppressed and down trodden peo-
ple-brave and fearless, ready to die
to do, ta-ra-rum!-but wise enough to
keep out of trouble in a country where
they give you ten years in Siberia for
a bad dream. The tommyrot boys and
girls of New York fell owe themselves
immejet. Maxim got the front page
of every newspaper in both baillwicks
for a week.-mrs. wined and dtned at
swell society clubs and in upper crust
cloisters-was taken out to see the
tomb OF the immortal Grant, who stood
for everything, bless God, saw that
defiance of constituted authority
which this interloper alone represents
WAS feted and toasted and petted
for fair. His wife, n charming n &C
complished lady, accompanied the
great Gorky, and she came in for a
generous share OF the honors shower.
ed upon her distinguished husband. 1t
was a big day for New York-betcher
tfe!-until some careless cuss over
in Russia cabled hat the beautiful wo-
man who was sharing Maxim's bed
and board was an actress Nine,
Andreiva, who as a matter of fact is
the wife of a Moscow engineer with
the usual unpronounceable name;
that the real Mrs. Gorky was at home
with her babies, and that the actress
also has a right smart grown up family
of her own. From a purely social
standpoint this information resulted
in a shock to the New York social So
lar plexus which skinned the Pacific
coast ~catyclism a mile. The old girl
is no prude-she is naughty enough,
and goes through as early and as of
ten as anybody-but there's always a
ladylike limit. She is rather proud
OF her lack of reputation-but good
ness me! there must be a blanket! A
multiplicity OF wives isn't so worse,
so long as the others are not advertis-
eds permissible, of course, up to
-FOUR or hVe hats-but the convention
Antics. 10 travel about without even
the pretense OF an alias-the wretch
indignation and righteous wrath and