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Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21
Models and Beauty

1t is no longer enough for a model tc
have perfect lines to make herself ac-
ceptable to artists. Mere wooden-faCe
beauty does not give the artist sufficient
inspiration to conceive an idea and pro-
duce a satisfactory representation of it
1t is not merely an outline or color that
the artist must struggle to portray, but
that subtlety and charm, that elusive
something which creates the difference
between the work of an artist and that
of mere craftsman. OF course, the
original conception is absolutely essen
tial, but the right model can do much
in the creation of the artist. The
painter does his best work when the
model is in sympathy with him and is
capable of throwing herself into the
character she represents. The girl who
is a successful model will usually be Il
successful actress, for it is her ability
to represent various characters and
models that makes her successful in
both lines. A realization of these facts
and constant insistence upon them by
artists have doEe much to increase the
dignity of professional models. Indeed,
art students no longer object to pos
ing, and students, artists and models
are meeting nowadays on a plane of
equality. At least this tendency is de-
veloping In New York.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21
Denies Chorus Girl Story

Theatrical circles were stirred by a
report that Daniel G. Reid, organizer
of the tin plate trust, director in some
of the greatest corporations in the
country and said to be worth $4,000, 900
was engaged to marry Miss Mabel Car
rier, a pretty girl. who was member
of 1.-THE Chinese Honeymoon company
Coupled with the report was the ru-
NOR that Miss Carrier had withdrawn
from the stage and was in retirement.
purusuing a course of study in Ian
guages and music.
Mr. Reid, who resides in a handsome
brown stone mansion at S75 Fifth ave-
nue. denied the story. He could not
account for the widespread nature OF
the rumor that connected his name
with that of the pretty chorus girl. He
said.
1.-The story that 1 am engaged to Miss
Carrier has been told before. 1t is not
a new story, though l cannot under
stand why it should be revived now
The report is untrue. I am not en-
gagged to marry Miss Carrier or any
other woman. L met her once or twice
and, of course, spoke to her, but as
to marrying her, the question has not
even been discussed"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21
Poor Uncle RUSSELL!

POor OnCle HuSSell!
Something has happened to Russell
Sages lucky stars. Just as Uncle Rus
sell had got everything ready to save
n neat matter of $4,000 by having his
personal tax assessment wiped off the
city's books his horoscope goes to the
bad and all because he visited Wall
street recently to take advantage of
that 125 per cent rate on call money.
Everything was all arranged to permit
Uncle Russell to swear off his taxes
this year by proxy. sympathetic mem-
bers of the board had decided that it
was really too bad to tax him on 81, 900, .
600 personality merely because he was
too i'll to swear IL off. After this de-
cison was reached the commissioners
read I'm the papers that Uncle Russell
had hoped out of bed, trotted down to
Wall street and had put out $40. 600 900 or
so at high rates, so they resolved that
II Uncle Russell wants TO swear off his
taxes he will have to appear I'm person
Mourning at the Opera
Women who set the fashions have de-
creed that being In mourning does
not debar a woman from enjoying the
opera Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt sr,
Mrs. James A. Burden, ir., and Mrs
Clarence Mackay are few who have
set at defiance the old-fashioned laws
of a year mourning for parents, a half
year for brothers, sisters, etc. The
opera has always been untraVersed
ground by the fashionable Women in
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21
"BIack Cat" Nearly Wiped Out

Fire nearly wiped out the famous
Black Cat restaurant in West Broad
way today. This is the place made
famous by the patronage of Richard
Harding Davis, Stephen Crane, Vance
Thompson, Langdon Smith, Mickey
Finn and other famous bohemians. A
few years ago the Black Cat was the
center of bohemia in the lower end
of town. Every night it was crowded
with sightseerers. and it had one of
those all night licenses that made it
popular with Summing parties. Be-
fore this time it was the meeting place
of Frenchmen. They would congre-
gate there in large numbers every
night. Then the all-night Summers.
the bohemians and the crowd that
trails behind them forced the French
men out. Then the summers and
bohemians tired of the place. About
this time man was shot while Je-
rome detectives were in the place, and
the BLACK Cat" began to lose caste
so fast that it's very name was changed
and it became known as THE Hotel
Florence"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21
Lipsky Keeps All His Name

An application to cut off "sky''
from the name of Lipsky was denied
today by Judge Hascall of the city
court on the ground that not suf-
ficient reason for the change was stat
ed in the application. No reference to
the Russo-Japanese war was made i'm
the petition and nothing was said
about the jokes i'm the later musical
extravaganza which make "Kala
mazoosky n long way from honesty"
with other equally funny plays upon
the word. The decision was: "'rhe
name of I4ipsky is both well known
and illustrious, and among It's pos
SCISSORS can be enumerated leaders in
most of the polite literature of eastern
lands, while among musicians. artists,
instructors, etc. it is celebrated"
Rathskellers Frowned On
New York police and guardians OF
public morals generally are constantly
finding out the new tricks of evilly dis
posed persons to corrupt innocence,
The idea of the rathskeller, with stalls
shut off from the public view, is ons
Ct the many. The rathskeller was not
invented with "A view TO privacy, nor
for the purpose OF catering TO the non
gregarlous instincts of "A chosen few.
lis name is the only thing about il
that suggests conditions under the sur
face, and that would not be so popular
e the multitude knew its meaning. The
development of this particular kind on
food dispensary Is of recent years and
its largest field Is TILED late at night,
when the ,theaters are out and the
white electric glare of an illuminated
dining room appeals most strongly to
the appetite. Recently the police have
been called upon to order down partl-
tions i'm dining rooms and TO make GER
tain rules for the conduct of the Cosy
corners"
THE GOTHAMITE.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21
Big sanquets Improbable

Very few of the big public banquets
given at the Fifth avenue hotels here
net a profit to the management. A
banquet given by an organization of
"desirables' is much like a bargain in
department store. 1t serves to bring
people around and thus indirectly
money is brought to the hotel. Many
new places are perfectly willing to suf-
fer a loss in seating large parties for
this reason. 1t is worth money for any
hotel to be known as headquarters for
any desirable set of men or women.
Women's clubs always secure special
concessions. Automobilists, yachts
men, dog fanciers and horse owners are
always welcome to take a suite without
charge. At the Holland house road
coaching is the fad. The horse show is
said to bring 100000 each season to the
Fifth avenue hotels alone. The annual
contest for the big horses for the Wal
dorf-Astoria cup has been a torch, as
it were. to reveal a hotel that has a
sympathy for horse show folk. The
new Hotel Martinique came to the last
show with a similar cup. If torch Of
the sort is to be lighted on the compile
tiOn of all the hotels now building with
social aspirations the horse show prize
list will soon suggest hotel directory.
But that's opposite the question. The
Waldorf-Astoria is now the only hotel
TO have a dog show, but there may
soon be others.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21
Park Row Still GROWING

The men arc at work again on the
new addition Of the New York Tribune
building, and before spring this news
paper VIII have the largest and most
commodious home on Park row. It's
glory as the biggest and the best viii
last only year, for the New York
World Will begin its work Of increasing
the size of the present imposing struc-
ture at that time. Perhaps i'm a short
time after the New York Sun will wake
up and send a skyscraper aloft on its
100 foot square site, and after that
nothing will he left to be done. The
Potter building was considered a marvel
in its time. but now it Is dwarfed by its
newer neighbors. When 1t was re-
ported that the old New York Times
building was to ascend two stories
higher than the Potter building every
body whistled i'm amazement. Yet a
year after the feat was accomplished
the New York Times moved away to a
place uptown that was ten stories
higher than all OF them.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21

mourning This year II has been dic-
ferent ana on Monday night three vom-
ON who are i'm mourning listened to "I.l
Tosca' Mrs. Clarence Mactay. whose
father William a. Dcur died hast Oc-
tobcr sat I'm one Of the upper galleries
Surrounded by genuine music lovers
aud far away FROM her own set Mra
Mackay attended the opera for the sake
OF the music
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21
Won't Be a Poster Girl

Pretty little Rhea Lusby The clever
dancer has entered suit against a big
New York stocking manufactured VINO
has used her legs ON his street car
advertisements without permission Her
attorney here is Leon Dashew. 1t Is
probable that the suit win be pressed
as soon as the company returns to
New York after the Pittsburg and
Baltimore engagements.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
ORIGIN OF THE PEARL

The origin of the pearl in the shell of
the oyster or other bivalve or mollusk,
has been the object of a considerable
amount of investigation and specula-
tion Among the more recent studies of
the subject may be noted those of NJ.
Seurat, recorded In the Complies Rem
rus. This naturalist finds that in pearl
oysters from the Gambia lagoons, in
the South Pacific, the pearls are due
to small worm-a sort of .tapewor1n.
In cysts on the body and mantle of the
oyster he has found true pearls sur
rounding a nucleus which he has shown
to be one of these worms. Like other
tapeworns, this one, concerned in the
production of pearls. requires second
most in which to complete its develop
ment. And NJ, Seurat considers that
the ray is the second host in this case,
for he has found in the spiral intestines
of this fish small tapeworms which he
regards as the adult form of the larVal
worm of the pearl oyster. The author
has named this new species of tape-
worm Tylicephalum margaritifelne.
The view has been held that the pearl
Is secretion formed. as 1t were, in
self-defense for the surrounding and
Isolation of an injurious foreign body
London Globe.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
MEMS VANITY CASES

Women's vanity cases have been in
vogue for some years, but it is only
very recently that mems vanity cases
have become fad among some Of our
best known sportSmen.
They are supposed to be carried in
the coat pockets when one Is out shoot
ing, fishing, walking and even automo-
bling.
They are made of pigskin or Russian
leather, and are about as big as good
sized wallet.
They contain a small mirror, a comb.
tooth brush. a nail cleaner, a button
hook, some pins and a razor.
If one is travelling and Is stranded for
the night EN- route, this vanity case
proves most useful. Some of the i'm
ported vanity cases are very handsome
and are made of the finest leather and
fitted out with silver and ivory toilet
articles.
For general use they can be bought
for from So to $40, according to the
amount one wants to spend on the fit
tings. The name vanity case" is very
Objectionable to some men, so that they
are sometimes called "sportsmen's wal
let's" but in London they are still
known under the name of vanity
cases."
They are, in fact, a very small edi1
ton OF the dressing case, the contents
boiled down to absolute necessities.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
GIRLS GROWING FAT

A person who is close observer, and
who spent large part of the summer
az Atlantic City, where women from all
over the country meet, declares that
the American girl is growing stout.
Nine out Of every ten young women
she saw there, she declares, were rather
too plump for beauty. They were SUBJ
stantial and strong, not willowy. Such
girth of bust and hips she says she
never saw before, except in middle
aged women
Of course, the athletic girl was some-
what in evidence, but she was so
greatly outnumbered that her 1.-the
figure and hard muscles were over
looked in the crowd of soft, roly-poly
girls, who were in the majority
The American girl, as drawn by Mr..
Gibson and various other artists, is so
tall as to be almost a giantess and her
form is just nicely padded with flesh,
so that while she has no angles, neither
is she too heavy for beauty and youth
full appearance. But this type has
passed, according to the authority
quoted above, and it is the plump girl
who is most in evidence.-Baltimore
News,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
WAITING FOR THE PRINCE

Happy maiden in whose eyes
Beams the sunny light of youth,
In whose soul a glory lies
Tremulous with love and truth;
Musing of the days to come,
Full of visionary glints,
Through her mind sweet fancies run
She is waiting for the prince.
o. how olden is the theme
Which she finds so strangely fair;
In her heart there is one dream,
On her lips one silent prayer;
All the joys of life we know,
And the wealth of earthly mints
Fades into passing show
She is waiting for the prince.
In life's pathway. stretching wide
Through vale of fragrant flowers,
And thousand charms beside,
Nav she pose her morning hours;
And may all her skies above
Shine with hopes bright rainbow
tints;
Thus we sing of one we love
She is waiting for the prince.
London Mail.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
LUMBER TRUSTS WARNING

The lumber combine will reap the
deserved fruits of greed very soon. The
marking up of lumber prices to figures
near the prohibitive point lis leading to
inevitable results. Substitutes for luIn-
ber in great measure, are being intro
duced in Los Angeles, and Indications
point to extensive expansion in that
line of industry. Sundays Herald gave
graphic description of possibilities
in the use of one class of substitute for
lumber in the building trade of Los
Angeles.
Following the unquestionable success
of reinforced concrete for business
buildings and other large structures,
it has been demonstrated in this city
that dwelling houses may be erected
largely of imperishable materials at a
cost but little in excess of lumber at
present prices. Bricks. building blocks
and tiles, of any desired shape and
color, may be made of cement and sand
combinations, the latter being the chief
constituent. The sand costs nothing
beyond the cost of hauling, and cheap
cement is promised as a result of ex-
tensive cement rock discoveries on the
line of the Owens river aqueduct, re-
ported by the city's engineers.
The attempt Of the lumber trust 10
hold up the Los Angeles building ill.,
dustry for the purpose of eXtorting out
rageous. prices for it's product will Ger.
tainly fail. There always is a limit
beyond which it is not safe for mo-
nopolists to CO. In these days Of bound
less resources and inventive genius re-
sponsive to every public want. even a
gigantic trust is apt to be confronted
by the warning Thus far shalt thou
60 and no farther"
Nature has favored Los Angeles with
abundant supplies. within easy reach,
of the raw materials necessary for con-
crete structures and the class in which
combinations Of sand and cement are
chiefly used. There are three or four
manufactures Of such wares now in
the city, and more are sure to be In
stalled unless the lumber trust drops
Its prices with heavy thud.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
LIE ncoN CIFNrlous vorE.

One Of the most prominent Los An
geles mercf nts, who has always been
n stalwart Republican, typifies the
sentiments OF a largo class Of busl-
ness men thus:
The number of business men who
are Bell supporters is astonishing.
They are men who have never wan
dered away from their party before,
But they are men Of conscience and
that is what Bell will draw-tho con-
scientious vote I find many in the
Union League club They will be
found in the other clubs and in the
stores and factories"
The class of business men alluded
to are the kind who say little but do
n great deal of thinking. But they
are keenly alive to the interests of
their own community and of the state.
These interests take precedence, in
their Judgment. over all partisan con-
siderations. Even a deep-rooted 10y
atty to their political party is not
sufficient to hold their allegiance in
face Of the glaring dominance of that
party by corporate interests and cor
rupt bt ises.
Hence thoughtful business men are
viewing the present political situation
as the merchant above quot d sees It:
1T seems to me it has got past
the point where man will be thought
a radical If he deserts his old party
when it has become what it is now
in California. And to further empha-
size the cause which has led him, and
is leading thousands of his fellow
business .nen to turn from Gilett to
Bell, he says:
81 have no doubt that every delegate
who voted for GilIett at the Santa Cruz
convention was directly or Indirectly
inspired by the Southern Pacific COM
pnny."
1t is enough to alarm the business
interests of every county in California
when the infamous methods adopted
at that convention are considered.
Even the spectacle of the judicial er-
mine dragging in the slime of politics
was conspicuous there. "A this Los
Angeles merchant further, 1.-THE
most serious feature, to my mind, was
the corrupting of the judiciary; when
judges openly work in the conventions
for candidates there is something vi
tally wrong
Neither subterfuge nor plair lying
by the leaders of the unholy alliance
of railway monopoly and machine poll
itics can deceive the discerning busi-
ness men of California, nor any other
class of intelligent voters.
The silent, conscientious vote" of
the state will be cast November for
Theodore A. Bell and the matchless
non partisan platform formulated by
the Sacramento convention.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
AMERICAN IpEALIsM

1T has frequently struck me in listen
ing to Impressions received in America
by foreign travellers that the American
in his deepest nature is realist who
strives for power and wealth and outer
comfort; that the object of his life IS
to pile up the mighty dollar. People
who speak thus seem to me blind to
everything which lies below the sur
face. They seem to have studied the
mills and factories of the industria
centers and to have neglected to read
or understand the character of the
American man or woman.
Since my first arrival in America l
have held that the real spirit is ideal
istic, and that the average individual
American is controlled by idealistic inn
pulses. Those who may contradict me
cannot have sounded the depths OF the
philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson
or studied the life and read the speeches
OF Abraham Lincoln and considered
their far-reaching effect ON the Ameri-
can people
In Lincoln's great character nothing
can be more striking than the way in
fhich' he combined reality and the
loftiest ideal with thoroughly prac-
tical capacity to achieve that ideal by
practical methods.--Ba Speck Won
Sternburg, In the Forum.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
Mr.. BELL ON LABOR

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@ 20. Hon. Theodore A. Bell. Demo. {
@ cratic nominee for governor, ad- Z
@ dressed the union labor organ (
@ izatiOns of this city. who had
@ given him a great reception. In
@ the course of his speech MIR. Bell (
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q chief executive of the state should {
@ not and cannot be the representa- {
@ tive OF any special class. {
g $50 for that reason will not (
@ say If ! am elected will be the {
@ special representative of labor. for {
@ If ! did you would NOT believe me, (
@ and II ] did I would De unworthy (
@ to hold TINT Office. {
g ~ have taken this nomination Z
@ from the labor party as n great {
@ compliment to me. have not {
g been an agitatOr or demagOgue {
@ with them. have simply told I
{. them my Views of labor conditions {
@ and what I mean to do. {
@ "Thcy have exacted no pledge (
9 from me. They have simply asked {
. me to give labor n square deal (
Q would have done that even had (
q they not asked me. For had (
9 felt otherwise toward labor, or Z
@ any other class. I would have felt (
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
be rejected II you find It offered in good
faith.--Wm. II. Taft

De feJecteu II YOU ma IL Oficred IN BOOu
/ faith.-Wm. II. Taft.
Parties then, as the great poet and
prophet OF Democracy says, have been
useful, ana to certain extent remain
so, but only in national affairs, and
there because they still depend in a
way on elementary principles and fun
damental differences, more or less hazv
and doubtful, to be sure; but chiefly
because our conception of nationa lity
Is yet too weak to grasp the full sig
niflcance of democracy, in which men
struggle together toward one far goal
and pursue unfaiteringly one high ideal.
But In the states, and more yes, en-
tirely in the cities, parties have lost
their meaning and use. That this is
true is already shown by the increas-
ing Independence the people are dis
playing in their own affairs They are
learning that a citizen's relation to his
fellow citizens his attitude toward the
issues In his town, are not determined
by his views on tariff, or expansion.
or immigration, or coinage. The old
ideal Of party loyalty is soon to be
superseded by the newer, purer ideal
of civic loyalty. No more is the suc-
cess of the party to be the one thing
aimed at; now 1t Is to be the success,
the triumph OF the city Not much
longer will man run for local office
on platforms dealing with national is
sues, real or artificial: they will run
on platforms dealing with city issues, or
they will run on no platforms at all,
FOR platforms are dead things, after ali,
and receive only now and then a tenn
porary galvanization from some great
personality. In practical politics late
ly discovered to be the most impracti-
cal kind. the campaign promise has
come to be almost as cheap as the cam
paign cigar.
This Is, after all, q representative
government; but only the trusts. the
railroads, the street car companies, the
breweries and other privileges have
been represented In 1t. Now the peo-
pie shall be represented; all the people
mot any certain kind of people, the
good, the bad, the rich, the poor, the
better element" or any other class
but just the people. q boss, big or
little. And they will secure this rep
resentation by doing away with the
fetichism of craftsmanship and all its
nonsense and extrava agance-primaries
central committees, conventions and
typewriter programs-they will NOM
mate men by free petition and then vote
for them. that is all. To the crystal
lied mind of the stupefied PARTISAN all
this is heresy, of course, or idle dream
ing; but all progress has it's inception
IN heresy and all realities are but
dreams come true.--Brand Whitlock.
mayor of Toledo
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-24
MonEsrY

A modest young maiden. a martyr,
Lest people should think her a Tartar,
Never talks about dress,
And will blush with distress
II her friends ever mention bonnet.
Still one OF this maiden's delights
Is the play, though IL often eXeites
In her breast much dismay,
Lest the chorus girls gay
Should split open their beautiful what
d'ye-call-ems.
In a chair she is never seen rocking,
A hammock she thinks Is quite shocking.
81 am sure / should die"
Says this maiden so shy,
"lf ] showed just an inch OF my hand
kerchief."
Her pet was o poodle from France.
Who could sit up, play dead dog. and
But she had the dog shot
When the weather got hot,
She was shocked by the poodle's short
tail
But this maiden so coy and demure.
In bathing suit feels quite secure.
Though her charms overflow;
But IL Just goes to show,
To the pure almost an things are other
wise.
Puck.