The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-07-16

| immoral sheath skirts of the most I'M
moral period of the worlds history
not the kind that have slit up the
side, but the hideouS tightfitting Things
which outline the body from ankle TO
! waistline, and any woman VINO likes no
toriety may don them and wear them.
but a man may not go about comfort
! ably in his shirt sleeves lest some
| dainty bit of femininity be offended.
Here in Washington. last week, Ietter
carrier who wore the uniform OF the
Government, gray trousers and piue-
| gray shirt waist with neat black tle
| tried to get into five-cent show place
| and was ordered out by the manager
| Cause? Shirt waist Said manager
said that the letter carrier could go ana
get coat and then come into his place
| of amusement. and not before. That
| same manager at a restaurant table,
1 few hours later, came saunterlnS down
to the place where his wife sat opposite
the writer of this, and without remov-
ing his hat conversed with her at least
| five minutes. Now who lacked the
ethics of gentleman?
| A Young lady who writes pieces Tor
the paper says that she saw both Alice
acknowledgements and Ruth Bryan
| Leayitt get off the train at Denver. she
/ describes Mrs. Longworth as not very
tall, and plump" Mrs. Leayitt, accord
! ing to this writer of pieces for the
newspapers. is very tall, very dark, and
very diplomatic. Now, Mrs. Longworth
is a little above medium hight, and is
thin to "leanness.' She probably
never was plump in her life. Mrs.
| Leavitt is not so very tall, and is stout
er than Mrs Longworth by two inches
in the belt. So much for people who
have to give impressions" of promi-
nent people.
Out at Denver they were introducing
Senator Owen as the only indian
United States Senator. Which is not
true nor was he the first one. Senator
Charles Curtis, of Kansas was the first
United States Senator who had Indian
blood in his veins. and he has not
enough to hurt. There have been those
who tried to make it come true that
Logan and Senator Quay were of In
dian extraction. but they neither or
them had one drop of Indian blood in
their veins.
1 Secretary Loeb proposes to go into
business for himself after the fourth OF
next March-at least it is SO announced.
1t is quite remarkable how conserva-
tive we all grow right after We begin
to cultivate indigestion and gray hair.
! Just now the Commissioners OF the DIS
| trict of Columbia are grayely consider
ing what they can do to make next
| Fourth of July .'noiseless" fourth.
Now, wouldn't that jar you? The Com
nissioneFs- were none of them boys,
ever, it would seem. They neve- knew
the Joy of the stolen firecracker firing.
| the seductive stick candy, the soft gin
| gerbread, the pink lemonade, all OF
watch belong to circus day and the
| T,,Ix- vn ind l.
ways liked to sit in the broiling sun.
and with wide eyes and closed mouths
listen 10 long speeches on the C0nSti-
tuition. the Revolutionary War. the Dec
| laration of Independence. Their poor
little legs never got tired on the edges
of the long boards that were used for
seats. and they never once thot OF get
ting out and yelling themselves hoarse,
| eating all sorts of indigeStible things.
/ and drinking all kinds of stomach ach-
i ing Liquids. No, NEEDY! They were
models of little Americans, they were.
1 who never thunk think that was not
\ starched and ironed smooth before they
/ tempered with it.
i A noiseIess Fourth Of July would be
an anomaly. An abnormality. per-
| fectIy un-American thing. 1t is true
| that children are manned and many
killed on the Fourth of July with fire.
/ crackers and toy guns II the parents
of those kids had any control OF them.
or any thot for them, they would see
that the youngsters had care and at
tention while they were handling dam
gerous things. If those same young
ones were not risking life and limb in
getting fun out of fireworks they would
be chasing wagons in the street, hang
ing to the trailer of street cars in de-
licious stolen ride, or gleefully daring
automobiles by chasing out in front of
i them as they speed along. The chill
dren hurt by fireworks on July Fourth
do not by any means outnumber the
children hurt in the same foolish man.
ner on any other days Of the year.
Every day there is a long list of chill
dren hurt in the streets, in homes
where careless mothers leave gasoline
and matches, poison in bottles. poison
fly paper and all that sort Of thing
around, and little children die of these
1t is all very well to talk of quiet
: fourth" but what about quiet every
other day? A boy has got to have ex-
, ercise he has got to get rid of his SUI
perfiuous energy in some way. A good
way to bring on tuberculosis, fiabby
flesh, a no account condition generally,
is to moIlycoddle your boy.
Baroness Takahira, wife of the Jap
|, anese ambassador. has reached Wash
lnbtOn at iaSt Livery udys dtthtu Al
the very handsomest of Partisan cos
tunes. and looking like doll, the Bar
, oness rides around the suburbs OF
: Washington, just about as happy wo.
. man as you will ever see. She is &C
companied in all her drives by heI
youngest daughter. Princess Kiyo, "a
dainty a little Yum Pitti-Sing'
: as you ever laid your eyes on. Shs
. wears the bright silk robes of the
4 young girl of wealth and fashion of heI
country and has never yet essayed thu
dress of fashion. Her richly embroi
j, dered silks. bright as the rainbow fol
. color and soft as cobwebS for texture
are the despair of her American cir
!, friends Her abundant blue-black hail
is worn rolled back from her face il
:, satin smooth folds, and she has neyel
worn a hat. She Is just Is years OLE
and will enter school In Washington
next year. All, but she is dainty littl'
: maiden, a small edition OF her tin,
mother, who will just measure up t.
! five feet. Baroness Takahira lief
u Washington very suddenly when tn
. Russo-Japanese war broke out, and en-
|, tered the Red Cross work in Japan
where she won high praise for the un
: firing devotion TO her countrymen. Sh
!. has been given the highest decoration
!, in his gift by the Emperor of Japan
J. Princess Kiyo speaks no English at all
% but is very anxious to learn IL. Baron
ess Takahira speaks and understand
English well, owing to her former loni
:, residence in Washington. She is tn
" first of the Oriental women who hav
made their temporary homes in Wash
| ington to adopt the American woman
c clothes and for some years she was