East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-08-22
NEWS AND GOSSIP
FROM OLD new YORK

New York.-That former President
Roosevelt will throw his influence to
the insurgents in the coming congress
sional campaign Is now pretty we'll as
sured The distinguished editorial
contributor" is now preparing for his
speech-making trip through the west
which will begin this week. On Tues
day he will make an address before
a convention of Changers at Utica
and on Thursday will leave New York
on his great swing around the circle
His first stop win be at Cheyenne,
Wyo., where he speaks next Saturday
out no important political announce
ment is expected until he reaches st.
Paul early in September. His audi
his address on that occasion does not
gates to the conservation congress. If
his address on tina occasion does not
make the regulars sit up and take no.
tice, this correspondent may be set
down as a dunderhead. Beyond the
shadow of doubt the colonel is dis
pleased with his man Taft, and the
world will soon know ii, unless pres
ent plans are changed at the last mo-
ment
Strange that a bullet in man
should so much difference make,
ain't it. Mawruss? There was Mayor
Gaynor. the veriest scoundrel unhung,
according to the enlightened Hearst
editors-until he was shot The bul=
let made OF him a saint. 1t is un-
fortunate that Mr.. Hearst has never
been able to find editors able to diff
ferentiate between persons and prin-
ciples. The toast Of the underdone
graduate seems appropriate:
Then stand by your glasses steady
This world is a world full of lies.
Then here's to the dead already dead.
And here's to the next man who
dies.
Little Ethel Allen. aged a dozen
years, wanted to be a heroine and do
the dramatic things she had seen girls
doing on the canvas Of the moving pic
ture shows. So she set fire to a tene-
ment house and then extingulshed the
blaze, thus winning the unstinted
praise of the occupants who were thus
saved from a terrible death. So the
next day she repeated the operation
been exhausted as a source of excite
ment.. she tried blackmailing, with
her father in the role or a victim.
When he called in the police, little
Ethel confessed. She Is now under
parole until next Thursday, when. IL
she promises to be a good girl, she
will be released from observation
with n warning.
A National Household show has
been installed in Madison Square Gar
den and will be opened to the public
this evening. to run through all OF
next week The development of the
home from the aboriginal tepee to
the present palatial establishment will
be shown. with glimpses of barbaric,
savage and nomadic domesticlty. The
show Is expected to demonstrate
chow to be happy though married."
and on exhibit will be displayed the
types of men and women to be cho-
sen and avoided when entering the
matrimonial state All sorts of labor
saving devices are gathered together
in the garden. to the end that the
housewife may learn how to make
housekeeping an "indoor sport" in d
stead of drudgery.
A special steamer will carry large
party of the song-birds of Manhat-
tan to Mexico, sailing next week The
singers will take part in the grand
opera season which will be a feature
of the centennial celebration to be
held next month in the capital city
OF the southern republic. Count Gen.
tanini is in charge of the arrange
ments, and it is understood that he
is guaranteed against loss by a s50,-
600 fund deposited by the minister Of
public instruction and arts of the
Mexican republic. Among the sing
ers engaged are Ricardo Martin, Rita
Fornia, Pasquale Amato. NJ. de Sc
gurola, Jane Noria, Maria Claessons,
Rosa Olitzka
More than a score of New York
society women will pose in flmy
drapery at a series of tableaux to be
given at Newport next week for the
benefit of "A New York charity Prince
Troubotskoy the noted Russian artist
has undertaken the pleasing task of
draping and arranging the human
pictures
Former Mayor Mcclellan, who has
been sojourning in Europe, has, it Is
understood, engaged passage home on