The National tribune., 1910-02-10

Hon. Brand Whltlock. autnOr, re-
former and Mayor of Toledo, O., ap-
peared in Washington the other day in
an entirely new role. He was admitted
TO practice before the United States Su-
preme Court just because he happened
to be in the Capital
Senator Burton, of Ohio, introduced
him, and vOuched for his being in good
/ standing in the highest court in the
State of Ohio "and otherwise qualified
under the rules of the court"
Ancient history tells us that Nero
ffddled while Rome burned, and now
we learn that while Paris was drown
ing the American ambassador and his
wife entertained. The Bacons had is
sued invitations to a large tea when
the foods began to take possession of
the city, and the section where the
Embassy is located had been for several
days more or less under water, and in
the Bacon home the waters mounted to
within a few inches of the salon.
Notwithstanding the menacing stage
of the water on Wednesday, the host
and hostess decided not to cancel the
invitations and to receive all who came.
The result was a merry and delightful
social gathering, in which some of the
most notable people in Paris shared.
The next morning the ambassador and
his family were forced by the rising of
tne water TO abandon their home.
Jackson Smith, formerly a member
of the Panama Canal Commission. died
in Portland, Ore, last week. He had
been engaged in the construction of an
Oregon railroad since his resignation
few weeks ago.
The Notifications bill and the clause
which advises the fOrtifying of the
Philippines received q long and serious
debate in the United States Senate.
Finally the bill was passed with
measure appropriating a very large
sum of money for fortifications in the
Canal Zone. the Hawaiian Islands and
the Philippines.
At the Supreme Court dinner last
week the state dining-room was very
beautifully decorated with roses and
maiden-hair fern. There were only
few out-of-town guests, most of those
invited to the White House being resi-
dents in Washington and consisting of
the members of the Supreme Court of
the United States and their wives, the
Attorney-General and some five or six
Senators and their wives and a few
Representatives anG their wives. Among
the out-of-town guests was Judge Noah
II. Swane, OF Toledo, o., personal
friend of President Taft, who came to
Washington expressly to attend the din
ner.
oh, dear; we have got to endure a
new fad in walking We had the kan
garoo stride until everybody was dis
gusted, and now, after a hundred or so
years training TO turn our toes out we
are told that Mrs. Payne Whitney is a
firm advocate of the straight walk.
Mrs. Payne Whitney is the daughter of
the late Secretary of State Hay, and is
remembered in Washington as a roll
licking, jolly girl, who walked very nat
uraliy and, naturally, prettily, and was
thoroiy charming in every way. Since
her marriage Mrs. Whitney has taken
up with good many fads, having plen-1
ty of time and money for this, but pos
sibly this latest fad is something more
than a desire for something for the
moment. 1t is certainly true that the
average woman does not know how to
walk. She ambles, she slouches, she
strides or she tips along with none of
the movements being at all natural, but
- simply the fad of the hour. The
straight walk embodies one of the
work-a-day principles of the new school
of dancing. Where the old dancing
masters taught first position, toes
turned out" the new school says the
only natural and proper gait for human
beings-incidentally monkeys are ad-
mirable eXponents of it-conssts in
setting the foot down in straight line
with Jne line OK marcn, turning the
toes neither in nor out.
By stepping in this way, it is ex-
planned, all the natural resiliency of
the foot is brought into play. The
pressure is better distributed on the
ball of the foot and the stride is not
only longer and freer. but less tiring
A careful inspection of the women who
promenade our avenues every after
noon is all that is needed to convince
anyone the ranks of the straight walk
ers' are growing steadily. and physi-
clans say the new fad has the extra
advantage of discouraging the use of
nigh heels and the inevitable, tho
slight, 5arring Of the spine they cause
at every step.
Embassador Whitelaw Reid, who
came to the United States to attend the
funeral of his father-in-law, the late
ID. o. Mills. has returned to London,
accompanied by Mrs Reid and Mrs D.
D. Mills, her sister-in-law. Mrs Reid
was devotedly attached to her father.
who was one of the best of men and
good fathers, and will, of course, live
much in retirement during her period
Of mourning.
President Taft has saved Capt Frank
D. Wickham, 18th L. S. from dismissal
from the Army. The officer was recent
Philippines Of the charge of drunken
ness on duty, and sentenced to be dis
missed.
On the recommendation Of Secretary
Dickinson the President has commuted
the sentence to a reduction of so files
in rank on the lineal list of Captains
Of Infantry. Capt. Wickham is from
Missouri, and rose from the ranks.
More than 200 Kansans who have
taken up their residences in Washing
ton gathered one night last week ar
George Washington University and
formed an organization to be known
as the Kansas State Association The
object is TO bring together in social
way natives of the State who are in
the Government service or private en-
terprise in this city The organization
is patterned after the Constitution and
bylaws of the Maine State Association
of this city
A. p. Myers, secretary to Represen-
tatiVe Miller, of Kansas, and clerk TO
the House Committee on Elections. No
,, was unanimously elected President
OF the new organization. Carl l.. Coon
er, secretary to Representative Victor
Murdock. was elected Secretary and
George Reicherd, clerk of the House
Committee on Agriculture, was chosen
Treasurer
Representative Calderhead. of KAN
sas, was the principal speaker of the
evening. Others included Col w. w.
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