Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-29
From The Battle-Ground of Tbouah.

Selling Gowns "There was sudden
To Americans aud evident connection
In Gay Paris. among the employees
The Princessl The prin-
cess She has arrived they cried.
American eyes began to bulge.
"Out from u magnificent eduipage
stepped n regally gowned grand lady,
attended by footmen and maid, and re-
ceived by the whole bowling establish
ment. 90 the neglect of an other GUS
toners. She was in gracious mood
this day and easy TO be pleased. prais-
ing their past efforts aud selecting
several Of their new creations witho, [
regard To cost After she had made
her departure amid like ceremonies,
there was no need of the saleswoman
bothering her head over suggestions.
Every American woman present want
ed from the one the princess had
bought and she got 1t after much
pleading and at price far beyond the
limit she had set.
And the point of this fable is
this: The Princess was no Princess,
but an employee of the house.
Every French gown has two prices
an American price and "A French price
1t is needless to say which is the
greater price
Along about April the cry goes up
The Americans are coming!' and then
the prices go up, too.
Along about November, when TIE
Americans have left, you might almost
say they are giving away gowns, only
the Frenchman never does give ava y
anything. Then it is that the French
woman in general and the French ac-
tress in particular selects her ward
robe--Grace Margaret Gould in Wo-
mans Home Companion for Septem-
Der.
When Tramps A. No. 1. the we'll
HSpnotiZed known tramp, states
Meet Death. that riding upon the
truck beams, between
wheels of n flying passenger train, or
even OF a slower going freight train
is extremely difficult. The flying Gin
ders deluge the eyes and at times make
breathing almost impossible. More
man THIS, he says that unless one
strictly watches himself one is in dan
ger of becoming hypnotized The
rhythmically pounding wheels. jolting
over the joints of the rails, have a
way or insistently commanding atten-
ton that is extremely dangerous. This
noise, sharp and repeated with deYilish
persistence, can hypnotic the unwary,
he says Often he has had to use every
resource of will power which he had
endless and mind-compelling click,
click. click" He believes that many a
tramp who has fallen to his death from
the trucks has been first hypnotized in
this way. This Is perfectly sound
psychology and the probability of such
hypnotism will be endorsed by any good
specialist in this science.--From "The
Cleverest Tramp in America" In the
Bohemian Magazine for September.
Remarkable When n political party
Growth of has won the support Of
Socialism. twenty millions of ueo-
pie throughout the civ
ilized world, ii is time that its point
of view, Its aims and it's methods be
studied. The Socialist parties of
Europe are now minority powers. At
present they have 32 men in the
British House of Commons. 3D. in the
french Chamber of Deputies, and 40
in the German Reichstag: in the other
national bodies: Austria. 81; italy
%; Norway, II; Sweden rs. Finland,
50; Denmark, "a: Belgium. 80; and
to the Russian Second Duma they
sent over 90 men. Their actual vote
III all countries is already ten millions.
is the same growth to take place I'm
America? Snail we see Socialist rem
resentatives in Congress as i'm the
iouSe OF commons! Their recent
growth seems pointing that way. In
] SSS they cast only about 1000 votes:
by 1900 II had swelled to over 100, 900;
In 1902 it rose to 229,762 in 1904 it
reached nearly 45O 600; in the last
four years the number of dues-paying
members has more than doubled
again, and it seems not improbable
that their vote will be close to a mil
lion this fall.-Ernest Poole in the
American Magazine for September.
How Russia The future historian.
was lured who will have access
Into war. 10 all documents, may
be able. from study
Of them, to determine why the will OF
the Russian Monarch TO avoid war
with Japan was not carried into effect
by his principal co-workers. At pres
ent, it is only possible to say. uncon-
titionally, that although neither the
Emperor nor Russia desired war, we
lid not succeed in escaping it, The
'eason for the failure of the nego-
iatlons IS Violently to be found in our
ignorance OF Japan's readiness for
var, and her determination to sup
,ort her contentious with armed force
We, ourselves, were not ready to fight.
md resolved that II should not come
o fighting. We made demands but
We had no intention of using weapons
o enforce them--and, IL may be add
"a, they were not worth going to war
bout. We always thought, moreover,
hat the question whether there should
,e war or peace depended upon us,
md we wholly overlooked Japan's
tubborn determination to enforce de-
hands that had for her such vital I'M