Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-21
LATEST FADS AND FANCIES
IN DEAR OLD NEW YORK;

hipless fat woman is bound to be a rave.
considered from any angle. Just as much
so as fat woman In a princess gown.
And they all know II. Hence the grief
But the Lord tempers the wind etc. etc.
Likewise ITS an III wind" etc. The
svelte" woman-'svelte' Is here used for
skinny-is in for another lons inning.
The hipless scheme means that the shape
less girls. constructed on the shinsle plan.
are going 10 be in the limelight for many
garth curves and the really-ard truly beau-
tiful 'hgger" takes back sea-. unless she
can bant herself TO the point OF emaciaton
Keeping 1t Of.
And that, by the way Is what some tens
OF thousands of the women are doing-bant-
Ing their health, and many of them their
lives. away. The papers TEEN with obesity
cures. accompanied by those amiable Be-
fore and After cuts-the BEFORE person
being a female individual Weighing at
least 1 437 pounds and with no less than
nine chius. and the After lady-oh. ye-eh.
the same one-can't you see the pictures =
the After lady being a slim-w listed, girl
ish-looking creature, thinner than one OF
Du Mauriers old conventional type OF Eng
fish girls. and with no chin 81 all worth
mentioning. It's in the air that fat women
are no longer to he tolerated and that, II
seems. is all there's going to be about IT.
No provision has yet been made for Jail
sentences for fat women who will persist
in clinging to their fat, but maybe that's
a manifestation still In reserve.
Lillian Russell, who starts. oh, ever so
many things. has got a new Introducing
scheme, she says. LILLIAN Russell; Ia! la!
how they do hate to let goe is just roll
ing. Rolling around on the floor. that's all.
The fat woman crawls out of bed and
rolls around on the floor for an hour or
SO before breakfast. Sounds easy, Ell?
But the airy. but certainly not fairy
Lillian says that it's sure-enough work.
She ought to know She's been waging bat
tie against fat for a good many years now.
Waging II with the medicine ball, the diet
ing scheme. the weightpulling apparatus.
the tennis-playing method. the Turkish
bath way. the Notwithstanding plan. the
medicine method-all Of them. over and
over again. And still she has the same
old ample waist line However. she ought
to know and she says that this rolling
method only sounds easy. but isn't.
And. too, she is ever the gay posturer!
TT Is not pretty, either, this rolling meth
3D." she explains. No fa-no stout woman
can possibly look engaging. rolling around
the floor Of her bedroom before breakfast.
with her hair yet undone. and all like that.
Really, | should not recommend fat wom-
en- to perm. their husbands to them
while engaged at the exercise The
thoughtful Lillian.
A unique sort OF a thieves assistant was
grabbed here the other day He's a uni
versity man, groomed to the mines. smooth
talker, conversant with several languages.
eaginous all-around male person. He
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summer resort He became acquainted with
all the folks at the summer resort who live
in New York. got all necessary information
out of them as to where they lived.
whether they'd closed their houses fats
altogether or lert caretakers In charge of
them, and on. Then he'd simply mall
these informations with all necessary de-
tails, to his pals the thieves operating In
New York. The thieves would do the rest.
looting the closed houses or flats leisurely
and In detail. Nobody could possibly sus-
pect the engaging young university chap
with knowing anything about these loot
ings for he never left the summer resort.
and he was the bonbon boy with all hands.
anyway. 1t seems, though. that some OF
his thief pals were backward In divvying
I'D the booty with him when he got Dack
from the summer resort recently. and he
knocked a couple of them down on the
street.
Game in Court.
The knocked-down thieves We're recog-
nized as well-known thieves at headquar-
tiers. and one of them. on promise of I'M
munIty.. peached. telling the story OF how
the university youngster had been stalling
for them. A whole parcel of pretty young
matrons, with whom the thieves staller
had danced at the summer resort, were on
ba M when he was arraigned the other
day and how dreadfully shocked they all
seemed BSt he only smiled coolly at them.
acknowledged the corn to the court and
took his medhrine with gameness that
sort Of made those looking on wish that
he'd done a bit better by himself.
The rumor will mot down that Gov.
Hughes is going to put the New York race
tracks altogether out OF business carry next
year A man of my acquaintance, VINO Is
very close to the affairs of the Jockey CLUB,
told me yesterday that 1t looks to those on
the inside as If the game were lettering on
It's final legs over this way. Hughes is q
determined man, and 1t is we'll known that
he Is dead against the race tracks. 1t Is
afraty ,nd frnp Il
ing steps against them up to now because
he wants to be absolutely sure of winning
the fight against them. and that he Is now
thoroughly confident Of being able to stop
betting entirely on the New York tracks
Signs are not lacking that the big racing
moguls over here are preparing to bend 10
the storm of next year. OF course. they'll
put up a tremendous fight in the way of at
tempting to jolly the agricultural legisla-
tors along with state fair money and with
loaned stations for 1.-The improvement In
the breed of horses" and SO on. but the
knowing gamblers who have watched GOV
even money that the race tracks around
New York will be out Of business long be-
fore the windup Of next years racing sea-
son hereahout.
I rode up from quarantine on the Lusi-
tania when she got In on Friday last. The
only thing I missed aboard of her was
golf links The Lustanias base ball park
Is not yet completed, the second mate told
me- Now that the Long Island folks won't
have It any more, they are thinking or rae
ing for the Vanderbilt cup next year on
board the Lusitania.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.