The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-08-13


the way of physical, mental, or soclal
culture. outside there is big ball
field, which in Winter is flooded and
converted into skating pond, and an
immense swimming pool in the open
air bordered with white sand, with an
other for the women and children. In
short, Sherman Park lacks nothing to
make it a perfect playground, and the
people of Chicago are to be earnestly
thanked for setting so fine an example
to the rest of the country
An interesting event in literary cir
cles is the talked of revival of that fine
old magazine, The Southern Literary
Messenger, which once held much the
same place among the cultivated. dis
eliminating readers of the country &C.
cupied now and for so many years by
the Atlantic Monthly. Probably no
other magazines ever published IN
America could, or can, show such a dis
tinguished lineage. The brightest, most
particular stars of our literary firma-
ment have Illuminated their pages.
With the Atlantic will always be as
sociated the names of Hawthorne, Low
ell, Holmes, ETC., names whose very
mention fire the heart with justified
pride and which the years will only
serve to make more valuable literary
asset. The Messenger has had hardly
less glorious history. Edgar Allen
Poe was, if not its original, among its
earliest editors. The work of his Won
derful genius first appeared in its
pages John Reuben Thompson edit
ed it for g. number of years, afterward
being associated with Blackwoods. that
fine old English periodical, and later
with the New York Evening Post.
Matthew Fontaine Maury and DIR.
George w. Bagby were two other men
of fine literary taste and ability who
filed the editorial chair at different
10 nc n
decided power for number of years
and played a great part in the early
literary development of the South. The
men who are principally interested in
reviving this old magazine are DR..
Warren w. Pheelan, of the University
| of Tennessee, and Lawson S. Smith, of
Port Royal who have received assur-
ances of sympathy and encouragement
from such prominent authors and edu-
Gators as Thomas Nelson Page. Mrs.
| Ellen Glasgow, Brander Matthews, and
| E. Stage White, of Columbia Univer-
| sity; C. e. Monroe, of George Washing
ton; P. P Clanton, of the University of
Tennessee, and many others. Attic
of making many books and magazines
there is no end. like everything else in
| the world, there is always room and a
welcome for unquestioned merit.
Those people who believe that ba-
| bies should be handled as little as pos
sible, even when they get into their
| short clothes, who pronounce severely
upon any playing with the baby as too
| exciting and disturbing to its little
nerves, may possibly have their con-
victions somewhat shattered by the
| case of little Helen Graft, aged one
year and eight months. Little Helen's
! father, and it is to be presumed her
mother also. has the old-fashioned
| idea that "a healthy baby is sent into
i ic world to he inv and Measure TO
| be tossed in the arms, trotted On the
! leg encouraged to use its little arms,
and played with. generally. Helen's
| father, a boss mason, is great ath-
| lete, and has always been firm be-
| lever in the value of physical exercises
/ for children, starting this bodily de-
| velopment in his own offspring almost
| as soon as they were born. When ut
tie Helen was only about week old
| her education was commenced by her
father allowing her TO hang for a hall
minute suspended from his fqrefEger,
around which her baby hands were
| tigtly twined. This exercise was con-
| tinued. the baby'S strength and agility
rapidly increasing, until able to hang
thus suspended for perceptible length
of time. The other day the little girl
| who is of lively and adventuresome dis
| position, got out upon a fifth-story fire.
escape, where her mother was hang
| ing out some washing, and before she
was observed had fallen thru the OPEN
| ing. In her flight the baby seized the
bar at the foot of the iron fence of the
| third-story escape, and, thanks to the
training she had received from her
| father, held on until rescued. Beyond
| a scratch caused by her head striking
| the escape of the fourth story the baby
was absolutely unhurt. and in very
short time afterward had forgotten al
about her adventure which had been
Ion h no N
According 20 report, Mrs. Russell
/ Sage has q great deal of family pride
and believes firmly that blood will tell
1t has been pet scheme of hers fol
some time to have family history o.
the Sages written, both her side and tina
of Mr.. Sage and with this end in view
she has sent the well-known artist, Mis-
Mary Tillinghast, to Europe to trace
back as far as possible the ancestr,
of both herself and husband. Mrs
} Sage herself is a direct descendant o
|, Miles Standish on her fathers side
! and she believes that it will be shown
that in Mr.. Sage's veins flowed bloot
lust as blue, if not bluer. 1t Is SAT-
that she has dreams of tracing boil
his and her descent back to some nobl
ancestor, to perhaps some comrade o
William the Conqueror, but such al
aspiration does not seem to exactl
coincide with the generally accepts
opinion of Mrs. Sage's character. Mos
+ of us in hunting up our geneology ar
more than content il we are luck
enough to find eminent America
{ Judges, ministers, or statesmen perche
2 on the family tree, those who have take
: an active part in the making of thi
e country's history, without caring muc
: about the Englishman or other foreig
, person from whom we originally sprane
Y We do not, as a general thing, care I
. 90 back of the landing of the May
flower. II is said that Mrs. Sage ha
not limited Miss Tillinghast as I
means "a the carrying out of this com
!, mission, but has told her to spend
fortune If necessary. Miss Tillfnghas
q is also to write or prepare book, S
: it is said, after her return, which wi
be a very beautiful and costly affair
I copies of which will be given to tn
Z intimate friends of Mrs. Sage and he
/. dead husband and few copies Place
Q on the shelves of the New York libra
[ ries and other institutions in which tn
); old financier was interested, and
= whom he occasionally, very OCCASIONAL,
e opened his heart and pocket book.
a Fashionable Newport is no longer tn
g Newport of a few years ago. 1t
i full of beautiful residences an
S wealthy people, but It's relentlessly e,
!. elusive character is rapidly disappear
/ ing, if 1t has rot entirely departed. Tt
II great leaders of fashion, hrs Stuyve
n ant Fish. Mrs. Oliver Belmont, an
e Mrs Herman Oelrichs, known as II
: social strategy board, are not there tn
l. Summer and all life seems to hay