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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
LONDON POUTING;
NO SEASON ON
POOR AND DlSeUsTED BY P0-
LITICAL OVERTHROW
City Houses Go 5eeelns-Dandles Of
Pail Mall and Pieoadlly Have
Been Forced Into Vulgar Bus
mess to Get Along at All
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, June 2.-Despite optimistic
forecasts, an authoritative opinion has
bee given that the social season OF
1906 will be a lamentably poor one.
Judged from the STANDARD Of former
years.
For this falling off there are several
reasons, the principal one being the in
creased cost Of living and the empti-
ness of aristocratlc purses. The county
people" spent large sums last January
in running their candidates in the gem
eral election, and feel very much dis
gusted at the election of a Liberal and
Labor house of commons. They are
accordingly abstaining from the usual
three months Of London gayetes.
There are also those among the great
social leaders who now find that society
has so extended it's limits as to include
all sorts and conditions of outsiders"
Rather than mix with people whom
lone cannot possibly know" the most
exclusive families are closing their town
mansions,
No Demand for Town Houses
One ominous sign is the fact that no
one is taking furnished houses in Lon
don for the season, in spite of an all
round reduction of rents SO 1t hap
pens that the large class of minor aris-
tocracy, who let their houses furnished
for May, June and July at sum which
pays the rent and taxes for the whole
year, is lamenting the changing habits
of society.
The unbroken succession Of functions
which formerly made up London sea-
son is impossible under the new condi-
tions. Everybody spends week-endS in
the country, and three or four days in
the middle of the week are all they
devote to London. Thus the season is
broken up by the rushing in and out of
automobiles, a fashion of movement
that has become a mania with the ma
jority of wealthy people.
Again revolutionary change in the
habits and occupations of the younger
men deprives the season of one of it's
chief glorieS The imam about town."
who once decorated Pccadilly and Pail
Mall with his exquisitey groomed and
tailored presence, is nearly an extinct
animal
Where there were formerly hundreds
of idle clubmen there are now tens.
Financial motives have led many young
men into business who few years ago
would have thought themselves socially
damned IL they appeared least of Tenn
pie Bar"
What time they do not spend in a
city office or on change they devote to
motoring, golf or polo. Even the
"curled darlings' of the Guards have
to devote so much time to their duty
that their visits to Mayfair drawing
rooms are brief and hurried.
All this does not mean that there will
be no season at all. 1t will be a season
of sorts, without the tone Of former
years, and the people who make it will
be "new'-people with new money.
The wealthy middle classes are usurp-
ing the place of the old aristocracy, who
alone had the secret of making a Lon
don season brilliant.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
AGAIN URGE REFORM DRESS
Paris Faddists Make Plea for Unre-
stricted Feminine Curves and
Would AboIis Stays
Special Gable to The Herald.


PARIS, June 2.-"Unrestricted femin-
inc curves is again the cry of the fad
ulsts, who are making a strong cam
paiGn to induce society women to aban-
don the corset and take to reform dress.
Floods of circulars are being sent
to the fashionables, pointing out thai
Bulgaria is far ahead of France in this
all important matter, for the minister
of instruction in that country has is
sued an order forbidding all girls in
the public schools and colleges to wear
corsets on pain of instant expulsion.
The French women have ever been de-
votees of the glove fitting gown. The
present rage for the princess model
which has swept across the continent
of Europe and crossed the sea to Amer
lea is ample testimony to that fact.
Paris decreed the princess and with it
the most scrupulous lacing for artistic
effect. The small waist has again be-
come de rigeur, the long hip indispens-
able and if madame have not corsiere
of the most approved variety how is
she to conceal or decrease spreading
lines when the sylphlike is the popular
demand?
1t is prophesied that should any
French minister attempt any liberty
with the Parisiennes corset he would
find himself in far tighter place than
the wearer herself. For the far famed
Parisienne line is not to be trifled with.
There have been prosecutors of the
corset before the tax was imposed in
France, from the time of'Napoleon back
to the time of Charles X, and all have
failed ANONYMOUSLY.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
READS BY LIGHT OF SAUSAGE
Microbes in 1t Give Forth Sufficient
illumination for an Ordinary
Printed Pace
snecial Gable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald
LONDON. June 2.-Professor Hans
Molisch of Prague has been able to read
newspaper by the microbic glow
emanating from a sausage.
All meat-beef as often as in fifty-two
cases out of 100 and veal in fifty out of
1O0-contains the microbe, which pro-
jects greenish-white light. With
sausages it is not SO frequent but is
when present much stronger. When
the fat on the luminous sausage was
scraped away it Immediately ceased to
give forth light, but as soon as the sur
face had again been covered by the fat
oozing from the interior the light re-
appeared.
Professor Moisch asserts that the
presence of these microbes in meat is
no sign of decay, but rather the con-
trary, as in no case have they been
found in meat unfit for human con-
sumption.
In his book entitled Luminous
Plants" further explains the light
which is often seen radiating from
of old trees. 1t is due to micro
scopic animals fungoids, which on n
scale have the exact form of
These parasites live only
so long as sap and strength remain in
the wood. Similarly the phosphorus
light on the surface of the sea
comes from the animals which live on
the seaWeed.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
BERLIN ALMOST
A YANKEE CITY
GREAT MUNICIPALITY FAST BE-
COMING AMERICANIZED
Foreigners Lead in Trade-Star
Spangled Banner Floats Over
Many Buildings and Tour
lists Are Legion
pecial Cable TO The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
BERLIN. June 2.-Berlin is rapidly
losing it's German character, to judge
from the number of American estab-
lishments for the sale of all sorts of
articles, from boots, machinery and
typewriters down to candy, which
abound in the fashionable thorough
fares.
American flags are proudly floating
from some of the principal buildings,
and thousands of Americans are pass
ing hurriedly along the streets doing
the sights. The hotels are full of
American tourists and English is heard
on all sides. The casual visitor might
almost imagine himself in one of the
cities of the far west instead of the
capital of Prussia.
The number of Americans visiting
Berlin this year exceeds everything
hitherto known. The American colony
is highly elated at the prospect of
visit from Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas
LongWorth, who are expected about
the middle of June.
Professor Churchill of Amherst col
lege was a guest at a 'kommers' or
ganized by a well known Shakespear-
can scholar Professor AlVic Brandt of
the University of Berlin.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
PROTEST AGAINST HIS STATUE
French Middle Class Declare Alfred
de Musset Set Bad Example
to the YOUNG

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS, June 3.-The plain French
middle class do not approve of the
erection Of a statue to Alfred de Mus
set. Musset, the good people contend
ed, was bad man, who led a vicious
life, put evil thoughts into the heads
of the young and made the whole ma
tion self-conscious.
The poet drank and absinthe at that;
he might be seen almost any and every
day of his life on the terrace of the
Cafe de ia Regence pouring the green
liquid down his lyrical throat before all
Paris. Then he was, it seems, disso-
lutte in other ways, and many an un-
happy home owed its ruin to De Mus
sets lack of scruples. Thus it is not
wise, some think, to build of Carrara
marble pillar to the memory of this
man.
The statue is about to be unveiled.
1t shows the poet sitting in a medita-
tive attitude, with his fine head bowed
in melancholy musing, while smiling,
CHEEKY, graceful marble girl, who rep
resents the muse, extends to him in q
half-supplcative attitude branch of
laurel. The girls original is a little
flower girl of Paris, who begged to be
allowed to pose by the figure of her
"beloved poet" and whose identity has
been, from a sense or delicacy, kept q
secret.
George Sand, in reply to question
as to what kind of a man Musset was,
said: 1.-THE most charming and eX-
quisite, the rarest soul, when he was
sober Unfortunately, he was always
drunk"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
ABDUCTION BY AUTOMOBILE
Rich French DistilIer's Daughter Is
Stolen on Way to Mass by
Fathers Former EmpIoye
special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS, June 2.-Abduction by auto
retains its popularity. 1t gives a flavor
to romance which cannot fail to please
the participants, and furnishes a fund
of fact interviewer with fiction for fer
tile reporters.
The latest case is reported from the
village of Persan, about fifteen miles
from Paris. An automobile on Sunday
last drew up near a church. Three
men. whose faces were masked by
enormous goggles, alighted from the
vehicle and waited till Mile. Marie
Guissier, daughter of wealthy dis
tiller, passed on her way to morning
service, when they seized and gagged
her and carried her off in the automo-
bile
The sole spectator of the kidnapping
recognized the chief of the abductors
as Andre Martin, a former cashier for
Mile. Guissier's father.
Luckily for the interest of the story
a neighbor's auto happened to be
ready. Thus chase was given, but nat
urally the abductors' auto was faster.
SO pursuit proved futile.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
MAKING A BALLOON RAILWAY
Austrian Engineer Is Conducting In
teresting Experiments Along the
Line of Aerial Transit

Special Gable to The Herald
GENEVA. June 2.-An Austrian en-
gineer. Herr Balderauer, of Salzburg,
has been experimenting with much sue
cess in the mountains near Salzburg
with a novel balloon railway.
1t consists of a large captive balloon
attached to a single steel rail. which,
in turn. is fixed firmly to the side Of
steep mountain, whose precipitous
slopes no ether form of railway could
climb without making a series of SER
pentine detours and passing through
tunnels.
The balloon remains balanced in the
air about ten yards above the rail to
which it is attached by stout wire
cable, and 1t is moyed up and down the
side of the mountain at the VIII of the
engineer,
For an ascent the balloon itself fur
nishes the lifting force by means OF
hydrogen; for the descent large reser-
voir attached to the balloon is filed
with water at the highest station and
serves as ballast"
Under the balloon is a circular car,
seating ten persons. The wire cable
from the balloon passes through the
floor of the car to a speed regulator un-
derneath, which Is controlled by the
engineer
Herr Balderaurer has made dozens OF
ascents both alone and with the car
filled with people and has never had an
accident.
The inventor claims that the balloon
railway will replace funicular railway
i'm the future, II Is cheap to construct
and the sensation while travelling is de-
lightful.
I The passengers are whirled up thou
sands OF feet In a few seconds without
the slightest jar The balloon can be
Instantly released in case II becomes
unmanageable and an automatic brake
keeps the car under control.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
THEY HAVE GREAT
FUN BEING TWINS
THE MISSES OGDEN-MILLS
HAVE EVERYTHING ALIKE
While Most Girls Prefer Having
Things Exclusive and for Their
Very Own, These Twins Are
lnseparable and Happy
Special Gable to The Herald.


LONDON. June 2.-From MANY
points of view the most interesting
American girls just now in London
are the Ogden-Mills twins who are
so closely related to the American am
bassadors wife. Though they cannot
be called beautiful, they are decidedly
good looking and having mastered the
secrets of chic dressing they thus ac-
centuate their charms.
Separately these two girls would not
attract any particular attention, but
together and invariably dressed alike.
from the tips of their toes to their
very Partisan hats, everyone stares at
them and everyone asks who they are
Ever since they were born Mrs. Og-
den Mills has insisted that they shall be
dressed alike to the minutest detail
Each of these girls has the same set
of friends and no one ever thinks of
giving present to one without also
presenting the same to the other. They
had birthday recently and their
friends had some trouble in duplicating
presents for these fair twins.
Mrs. Ogden Mills wished to procure
two necklets of the new stone, ultra
marine, for her daughters and had no
difficulty in finding one perfect gift
of the kind but in all London her jew
eler could not get it duplicated. The
important date was approaching and
the jeweler was at his wits end.
At last he explained to Mrs. Mills that
the only thing to be done was for him
to go straight to Paris and see what
he could find there. She accepted his
suggestion, paid all his expenses and
after a great search his eXertions We're
rewarded by acquiring the desired
necklet which, however, with the va
rious expenses, cost Mrs. Mills about
twice its real value.
The twins say that when they marry
their respective husbands will have to
live in the same establishment, as no
power will ever induce them to sepa-
rate from each other. Their maids
are also twin sisters and exceedingly
alike and they, too, are dressed exactly
the same
The Misses Ogden Mills are both ex-
perts in the art of motor driving and
among their recent birthday gifts were
two exquisitely appointed automobiles
painted and upholstered in white. Their
pets are always of the same family, for
instance, their special favorites, two
fox terriers, are brothers, while their
little Japanese spaniels are sisters.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
Turning Somersaults His Disease
Special Cable 10 The Herald.

BUDAPEST, June 2.-An extraor-
dinary case, entirely unknown in medi-
cal experience here, has engaged the
attention Of Budapest surgeons. A rail-
way conductor manner Ladislaus Macy,
while at work was suddenly seized with
violent cramps which took most pc
culiar form. Macy turned continuous
somersaults which nothing seemed able
to stop. The ambulance corps was sent
for, but could not stop the contortions,
and he was taken to the Rochus hospi-
tai. On the way the patient continued
to turn somersaultS in the ambulance
wagon and kept it up for two hours
after reaching the hospital Then he
fell into unconsciOusness from which
the doctors had the greatest difficulty
in restoring him. He still remains in
the hospital
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
HE KNOWS ABOUT BABIES
An English Town Has RooseveItan
Mayor Who Gives Advice
to Mothers
Special Cable to The Herald.

u
LONDON, June 2-The mayor of
benD is now regarded by the mothers
of the town as nurse in-c chief to all
their babies.
In his mayoral capacity he has shown
a marvellous intuitive knowledge of
babies-how they should be clothed,
when they should be put to sleep. when
they should wake up and how much
milk they should consume, and he has
probably done more to prevent infant
mortality in the town than all the doc
tors and nurses put together.
His advice to mothers mas always
been common sense and evidently
based on experience. When he accept
ed office in November, 1904, he an
nounced his intention of awarding $5
to the parents of children born during
his mayoralty in Longwood, his native
place, and in accordance with the con-
ditions. this sum was paid when the
children attained the age of twelve
months
This scheme, which was associated
with simple rules for the guidance of
mothers, was remarkably successful
and Alderman .Broadbent received a
SYMPATHETIC letter from the prince of
Wales and another from President
Roosevelt.
And now the mayor has taken further
measures to safeguard the lives of
babies. He has Just issued an open let
ter to the mothers of Huddersfeld. in
the course of which he gives direction
about the feeding of babies. He con-
tinues
Baby should be weighed every fort
night. baby weighing machine is
kept at the mayoral office for that
purpose and may be taken to any
dwelling.
Babies should not be continually
nursed; that is, kept in the mothers
arms. Babies are a little like kittens.
They can be spoiled with much nursing
and handling.
my own unskilled recommendation
is to nurse the baby as little as possi-
BILE.
Put the baby on sofa or on a
table on a pillow or cushion. making
it certain that there will be no fall,
and let the baby sleep or amuse itself"
His worship recommends fresh air
and sunshine, just taking care to avoid
direct exposure to sun and wind,
He SAYS it Is not necessary to have
q perambulator.
Put the baby out of doors in a
clothes basket, nicely covered and shell
tered" is his advice.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
A PIG FAMINE IN IRELAND
of Pork in the Emerald Isle
for Awhile
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
DUBLIN, June 2.-The comparative
scarcity of bacon pigs in the fairs and
markets of Ireland for some time past
has naturally given rise to the state
ment that grocers and provision deal
ers anticipate very shortly a rise in the
price of home bacon.
Asked how he accounted for the fall
ing off in the rearing of pigs in the
country, considering that the last po-
tato harvest had been a tolerably good
one, one of the leading dealers replied
that he believed it was owing to the
large imports of American -four,
which, in contradistinction to Irish
milled flour, left no offal for pig feed
ing. The price of Irish bacon at pres
ent was 2 shillings per cwt. less than
twelve months ago, and it had stood
almost stationary at that figure since
September last. In the previous July
it WIS 6 shilings per cwt. higher, and
in March, 1905, it was shillings above
the present rates. This authority sold
a good deal of Canadian bacon, which
he said he bought at the same price as
Dublin cured and that he preferred to
cut up the former as there was less
Shoulder" in it.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
Special Gable to The Herald.

Special Gable to The Herald.
LONDON, June 2.-English girls have
long euvied the American Summer
girl her power of looking cool and
dainty in the hottest weather. But the
mystery of her fascinating GOODNESS is
now to be revealed
Miss Frances Rockefeller King, a
niece of John d. Rockefeller and well
known American author and actress. is
coming to England to deliver, at Cla-
ridges hotel, a series of seven lectures,
illustrated by her own sketches, on
What to Wear and How to Wear It."
Lady Kaye and the Countess of War
wick have promised their support.
"I will teach the maidenhood of Great
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03

Britain how to look as smart and sweet
as the American summer girl" said
Miss King In an interview. 1T have
been over to England twice before, and
each time | saw how far short the
English girls in summer fell of our own
spick-and-span standard.
They have delightful compilations.
perfect figures, and spend any amount
on their clothes, hut on a warm day
they look like a wilted lamp shade.
They lean too much toward lowered
hats and lace, ruches, rufflngs and all
that sort of easily mussed-up thing
IF / have time / mean to run over
to Paris and buy my poor Uncle John
a new wig The fun the newspapers
make of his bald head makes my heart
bleed for him"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
I DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH

Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, June "A New York
duchess, born Vanderbilt, outshone
the new queen of Spain even when the
latter gave herself in marriage to King
Alfonso. The duchess of Marlborough
expended a fortune in preparations for
the royal wedding i'm Madrid. Her
jewels and her gowns are Incompatible.
Beside her Princess Ena looked almost
dowdy.
one of the duchess very beautiful
dresses is of the finest silver tissue.
The skirt is embroidered with golden
lilies and leaves. On the bodice, too,
golden lilies are worked and the stem
of the largest one is prolonged to twine
around the waist so as to form grace
full band. The embroideries and ma
terials for this :own were made espe-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
NO MORE PANTS FOR MEN:
KNEE BREECHES THE STYLE

tremities. According to him stiff col
lars and cuffs are not only uncom-
Portable but ugly. Frills at the wrist
and soft turnover collar would be
much more graceful.
Coats with spreading tails, some
thing like the modern frock coat, but
much more ample. would be an ideal
garment for men, and this should be-
II not entirely made of silk, at least
lined throughout with IT, Fancy
Maistcoats should be worn at all times.
Ihey HVen up mans appearance.
Top hats should be replaced by soft
telt with wide brims, the broader the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
GOOD THEATER SEAT IA CENTS
German Town That Invests Money
VIII Protect Patrons Purses
Through Its Own Playhouse
leelaI cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
BERLIN, June 2,--As an experiment
in municipal ownership, the town of
Schoenberg, near here, is establishing
a municipal theater.
The town corporation will advance
100000 for building the theater to
company which has been formed to run
it with a capital of 100000, and the
municipality has imposed certain rules
as to the prices of admission.
While the prices OF the boxes and
half the parterre are left to the discre-
tion of the management, the corpora
tion stipuates that the rest of the par
terre seats must not exceed 80 cents
each. For the first balcony the seats
must be sold. according to position, at
prices not more than S6, "a and "A centa,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
NO LONGER SUPERsTITIoUS
Women Are Gradually Getting Away
From Queer Fances That
Held Them for Years

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS, June 2.-There are signs
that certain long established supersti-
lions are losing their hold on women.
The dainty but unlucky May blossom
is to be found on most of the spring
millinery Peacock feathers, which speit
wave above the smart French sailor
hat.
"Opals are becoming more popular
every year" jeweler remarked this
week. Some of my customers who
would have turned pale two seasons
ago at the idea of wearing the unlucky
Jewel are investing in sets of this beau
titul stone, which tones are admirably
with any costume.
"A young lady chose her engage
ment ring at this counter last week
because it was set with thirteen dia-
monds."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
ELBOW SLEEVES AND GLOVES
Price of Gloves Sent sky-High
Through the Increased Demand
by Elbow Sleeves
Snecial Cahle to INC HeraId.

special CabIe 10 IHV IIVT"IU'
LONDON, June 2.-The fashionable
elbow sleeves have sent up the price
OF gloves to an extraordinary figure;
Three times the amount of skin used
for ordinary gloves is required to make
a pair of long gloves, and the natural
effect has been to stlffen prices. Many
Americans are in London making nasty
large purehases for long gloves before
the prices are still further advanced.
AT Leipzig fair this year the price or
kid was I'm some cases 80 per cent higher
than last year. There were also indi-
cations that high class gloves VIII be
more elaborate than now, being orna-
mented with embroidery and other dec
orations In imitation of seventeenth
century style.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-03
NO CRIME TO sMITE WIFE
In Fact Rules English Court, It's
Quite the Husbands Privilege
TO Box Her
Special Cable TO The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, June 2.--The divorce court
mas decided that a husband is entitled
to correct his wife by slappine her faoe
and that she cannot plead such correc,
uon against him as cruelty. In case
In which a Northamptonshire farmer
sought the dissolution of his marriage
because of his wife's infidelity. she
brought counter charges against him
for cruelty.
The husbands answer TO this charge
was that the slap was given as pun
ishment for drunkenness. The hu,,
agreed that II was Just and awarded
the farmer his decree.