The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-07-18
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iona, will kindly go away back and sill
down. Let US hear no more of it's la
mented citizen who died and went
elsewhere and. sent back for his over
coat. The much maligned metropolis
| or 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 tenn
| porarily to gain fresh breath for an
other stlrrocco, entities the American
| metropolis to pre- eminence as the hot
test town on the map of Abas. Yuma.
Records Of the weather sharps may
not serve to prove this contention.
Heat, however, is not a thing to be
registered by figures on dial. HUI
Nudity and congestion add terrors to
knows not of. The narrow streets,
lined with their sky piercing build
ings. become sweltering canyons
through which the choking air waves
swirl sluggishly on their mission of
death. Under the suns rays the asphalt
pavementS come to resemble rivers of
New Orleans sorghum, boiling and
sizzling in a mighty vat.
Worse even than the downtown
streets is the east side, its squalid ten
ements filled with huddled, hopeless
millions, breathing despair and death
with every gasp of fetid, filthy atmo-
sphere. Here Dante might set the scene
of another inferno more terrible far
than any that existed in /ne realms
of his exuberant Imagination. Here the
evangelist preaching of fire and brim-
stone might we'll stand silent and
aghast and cease mis- feeble, futile
Tragedy and pathos become COM
monplace OF a summer day in the
east side Mothers fall to their knees
on blistering pavements and lift their
hands to sky of brass, praying for d
cooling zephyr that does not come.
Little, naked babes, too weak to cry
out their misery, fitfully gasp their
lives away. Scantily-cl clad children, from
whom all the joy of youth has departed
wallow YEARLY Oh the stoops of tene-
ments or wander listlessly through
the walled lanes of this city of dread
full light And the aged, the i'll and the
infirm-surely no haunting thought of
something after death" can Tighten
such as these.
New York on a winter night, with
its homeless and friendless vainIy
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 enters
one solacing assurance. The society
writers declare that Everybody is out
of town for the summer Which
means, of course, everybody but a
few sweltering millions, who, in the
language of the moralists, suffer ami
grow strong"
The SaIome Dance.
Let us turn for relief to something
cooling and refreshing. Nothing, l con-
ceive, could better fill the bill than a
description of the costume worn byl
Gertrude Hoffman in a performance of
"A Vision of Salome" and other dances,
introduced this week at a local roof
garden. Miss Hoffman we arc assured
by Ter enterprising press agent. wears
nc tights or SIMILAR membranes, and
hr entire costume is composed of two
Pieces. There is a, sOrse:ce of near
jewels, butt CT the picket f"nce style
Of archit actUe, for the upper part of
the body. The skirt-if 1t be legal to
all it a .sk;-t-is made of material
resembling y. ir dow glass, So far as it's
t~ei sparency 5 concerned AS for the
rest-may the good ST. Anth-ry Corn
stalk help uc- there is nothing. mol
No nc siery! Nothing:
hut do lot tlush The performance, |
We are assuitd is entirely respe .tlh;.
II is an exact imitation, for Ameri- |
can delectatitn of the danci3 e Miss |
Maud Allai /, ar American girl, who
has crea:a;. } sensation in Eny;an
{ nd on The ointment. Miss Allan has |
appeared be:cre King Elwarl AMI
most Of Fns'and's nobility anL they
have concucred in calling her 1.-THE |
goods" With this precedent. New
York is trying not to be shocked at
Miss Allan's imitator. Otherwise. we
shall be called provincial and prudish
and become the laughing stock of the
wise and witty journalists of Europe.