The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-18
VIEWS AND GOSSIP OF NEW
YORK.
{ BY Glenn Guernsey

/! IONA. will kindly go away back and
sit down. Let US hear no more of it's
lamented citizen who died and went
elsewhere and sent back for his over
coat. The much maligned metropolis
Of southwestern Arizona is no longer
entitled to the palm-leaf fan as the
hottest spot this side of Tophet. The
hot wave which swept over New
York the first of this month, ceasing
temporarily to gain fresh breath for
another sirrocco, entities the Ameri-
can metropolis to pre-eminence as
the hottest town on the map. Abas,
Yuma.
Records of the weather sharps
may not serve to prove this conten-
ton. Heat, however, is not thing
to be registered by figures on a dial.
Humidity and congestion add terrors
to a New York summer that even
Yuma knows not of. The narrow
streets, lined with their sky-piercing
buildings, become swelteriug can
yons through which the choking air
waves swirl sluggishly on their mis-
sion of death. Under the suns rays
semble rivers 81 New Orleans sorg
hum, boiling and sizzling In mighty
jvat.
Worse even than the downtown
streets is the East Side, it's squalid
|tenements filled with huddled, hope
less millions, breathing despair and
death with every gasp of fetid, filthy
atmosphere. Here Dante might set
the scene OF smother inferno more
terrible far than any that existed in
the realms Of his exuberant imagin-
alton. Here the evangelist, preaching
of fire and birthstone. might Well
stand silent and aghast and cease his
feeble, futile prophesies.
| Tragedy and pathos become COM
. east side. Mothers fall to their
knees on the blistering pavements
and lift their hands to sky of brass
praying for a cooling zephyr that
does not come. Little, naked babes,
too weak to cry out their misery, fit
fully gasp their lives away. Scantily
clad children, from whom all the Joy
Of youth has departed, wallow weari-
ly on the stoops of tenements or
wander listlessly through the walled
lanes of this city of dreadful Tight,
And the aged, the Ill and the infirm
shut in by the four walls of dun
geon of New York's inquisitfon--
/ surely no haunting thought of 'tsome
thing after death" can brighten such
as these
New York on winter night, with
| It's homeless and friendless v1inly
, seeking shelter from a billiards. icy
blast, is a thing to wrench the heart
strings; but the New York of a sum-
mer day is too frightful and fearsome
to be encompassed by mere human
pity.
Into this maelstrom of misery en-
ciety writer's declare that everybody
is out of town" for the summer
Which means, of course, everybody
but few sweltering millions, who
in the language of the moralists
suffer and grow strong"
The 6alome Dance.
Id ut WV To orr a
thing cooling and refreshing. Moth
ing, ! conceive, could better fill the
bill than q description of the cos
tune worn by Gertrude Hoffman in
a.. performance Of "A Vision of Sa-
lone" and other dances. introduced
this week at local roof garden,
Miss Hoffman, we are assured by heE
enterprising press agent, weans NO
tights or similar membranes. and
her entire costume is composed OF
two pieces. There is corselet OF
lnear- 5swels, built on the picket fence
style Of architecture, for the upper
part OF the body. The skirt-if it he
legal to call It a skirts made Of
material resembling window glass,
50 far as its transparency is concern
ed. As for the rest-may the good
Saint Anthony Cornstalk help us
there is nothing. No slippers! No
hosiery! Nothing!
But, do not blush. The perform
ance, we are assured, is entirely re-
spectacle. 1t is an exact Initiation, for
American delectation, of the dancing
of Miss Maud Allen, an American
girl, who has created sensation In
England and on the continent. Miss
Allen has appeared before King Ed
ward and most OF England's nobility
and they have concurred in calling
her 1.-The goods" With this precedent
New York is trying not to be shock