Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-04-01


NEW YORK, March 31.-The latest
Gotham fad is the lung bath" 1t is
one of the innovations of the ultra-par-
ticular since the completion of the sub
way. New York imagines the death
rate is bound to increase enormously
because of the polluted air beneath
ground, and experts have been at
work for months finding just what is
wrong from a sanitary pont of view.
The worst evils, so far as determined,
are metallic dust from grinding brakes,
and slightly perceptible odors eman-
ating from the rock ballast. The long
est possible subway ride from Battery
to Kings Bridge is fifty minutes
yet New York must have its lung
bath. The bath consists in taking
brisk walk along Riverside drive,
where the head is thrown back and
pure, fresh air is inhaled through the
nostrils until the lungs are distended
to the utmost limit. About twenty-five
of the deepest possible lungfuls of pure
air are slowly inhaled and eXhaled.
This, according to an eminent physl-
clan who advocates it, forces pure air
to rush like a torrent through all the
dusty crannies and hidden, grimy cor
ners of the lungs, carrying out with
It every impurity."
Can Spot Hand-Me-D
Those Pittsburgers who hope to be
in the swim this spring should hold
confidential converse with their tailors
at once. 1t is now declared that the
rulers of fashion on Fifth avenue who
build clothes for the "Willies" have
decreed sack coats must have two Sits
in the rear instead of one. That is, a
slit at each side seam instead of one
in the middle of the back. This is an
important decree and should take its
place in history with Washington's
Farewell Address and the Declaration
of Independence. For If it is disobeyed
the wearer of coat with a single slit
in the back will be heralded as a buyer
of "ready-to-wear' coats and will
be banished from attend
ing society. The decree says nothing
whatever about buttons, pockets or
lapels, or whether such coats must be
paid for in cash. The Fifth avenue
tailors hope by their eleventh-hour
edict to catch the ready wear"
makers with a full stock on hand.
The Shuberts Sue a Star
Suit was entered today by the Shu-
berts against Miss Grace Van Studdi-
ford for breach of contract. In the
papers which were served upon the
singer damages to the extent of $4,000
are demanded. According to the com
plant of the Shuberts, Miss Van Stud
withdrawal from the cast of
Lady Teazle" compelled them to close
the seaso of that opera and to cancel
all bookings.
Beautiful Face at Window
At the drawing room window of a
Fifth avenue dwelling not far from
the Waldorf is often to be seen the
face of young woman whose rare
beauty has not failed to attract the
attention of the Pittsburg colony and
win from them extravagant express !
sions of praise. Who she Is no one
appears to have had the temerity to
discover. But she is there day by day,
and Pittsburgers at the big hosiery |
seem happy when talking of her.
The Craze for Furs
How in the world can a woman keep |
warm with the mere accessory of an
ermine muff? Walk along Fifth ave-
nue. near the Holland any day, whether |
it be stormy, windy or merely snappy |
cold. and you will see fair femininity |
clad only in light walking suit, low cut
shoes, hosiery of the open work sort |
and a hat that would attract the sun,
with a boa, but it is flying to
the breeze, while like as not the ermine
muff is swinging from a slender gloved |
hand by string. They say woman Is
never happy unless she can display an
assortment of ermine, but the demure
danes in Gotham's shopping district |
make little use of it. And they do say |
that because spring is approaching |
there is sadness in the feminine world |
and that milliners are distracted trying |
to devise garments that will suit the
summer and still have dash of ermine |
in them.
"Huck Fin" and "Tom Sawyer" Barred
Literary circles were greatly sur
prised today to learn that the Brook
Ign public libraries had placed Mark
Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" and tom
Sawyer" on the restricted list, on the
ground that these two books were unfit
for children under age of discretion.
When the author learned that his two
books had been declared mot good for
small boys and girls" he sat down and
wrote a letter concerning the Danish
ment of grownup readers of his two
healthy, normal, fun-loving boys, in
which he made comments in his crisp,
direct style that permits no misunder-
standing.
The letter was received by the one to
whom it was addressed, said to be a
librarian in charge of the williamsburg
branch. The comments it contained
were of a general nature and there is
great demand to have it made public.
The library officers have not yet seen