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New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
rn, Thousand Feet Down and More, the Dredges of
the Coquet and Other Trawlers Bring Up Quaint
Creatures Some of Which May Tickle
the Palate of the Human Kind.

fish are bind. while others. fitted with
large round or telescope eyes. go swim
ming about like burglars with dark
lanterns in their hands, fguratively
speaking Many Of them are equipped
with organs by means of which they can
illuminate the surrounding waters at
will.
Different fishes have their Illuminating
apparatus in different parts OF the body.
Some have them arranged in double rows
along their sides, like portfolios on
passenger steamship. When they pass
each other in the darkness with all their
lights ablaze they remind one Of ships
Iassing in the night. Doubtless, for rea-
sons which will appear shortly. if they
come up with lights going at full candle
power. they do not pass, or II they do
pass they do not have the current turned
on. Others have headlights. while
deep sea relative of the angler carries
a little light hung on the end of fish
pole. which he flOurishes around over
his head as an invitation to other fishes
20 illustrate in deep sea ways the par
able or the CanQle ana lne mOtl. AS
the fancy hues of an Easter hat would
not be noticed by them in the darkness,
Nature. who usually has a reason for
everything. has provided them all with
black coats. They all look alike in the
darkness. Moreover. no submarine
creature swimming above can see them
in the great. black abyss below.
1t is a cold world a world where the
waters border on the freezing line re-
gardless Of latitude. So far as tempera-
ture is concerned it is immaterial 10 the
fish whether he be in the tropics or In
the arctic regions. 1t is all one 70 him.
The chill Of room in Roman pension
in midwinter must be his the year
around. There are no mitigating cir
curnstances. unless he is young eel
bound upward TO the fresh water fields
where his ancestors browsed.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
l. Voice of Emancpaed Woman Says Miss Faar

girl ever need marry. Ny mother mas oeeH
everything in the world TO me. You see'
after all. l am very old-fashioned ID NY
IDEAS at least in many OF them. o' l4i
stance. | am continually asked II IN oruer
for an artist 10 express certain emotions II
Is not necessary for her 10 have lived theH''
Such a doctrine. let alone its danger i
ridiculous. ANY girl with brains am a Sooi
imagination can learn 20 express anything.
Debaucherv destroys the very sensitiVeness
of faelins that is SO necessary for an ar
list.
..r t,,,oyy there are certain people who be-
ljave that she should taste Of every sensa-
ton; yet this want Of balance destroys ,'e
var,. effect at which they am. Now. take
the French They are accused OF all sor'S
cf dcbaucheries; yet, do you know that the
F1enchmen who do things are really among
the cleanest lived men in the world Farls
nuts on her gewgaws and parades her
u.ickeduess. not for the French, but Tor
the foreigners. / know Paris, and yet
can say that. to me. New York Is FAR
faster city in most respects
1T IS not necessary TO have lived IN
order 10 express. No, y thousand times no!
How many wrecks have been caused by
this doctrine. | know of dozens OF cases
myself of young girls who have taken up
the artistic lie who have been blinded py
its glamour who have slipped and nave
gone tumbling down into oblivion. People
who preach this doctrine don know what
harm, they are doing. OF course, one must
not shut ones self up ir ones skin-one
must not 1--we as if the world did not exist.
not mean rolling in the mle.
Thank God, / am from New England
and have back Of me generations OF Puri-
tan ancestors. II has given me a VIII and
think. some sense II has allowed me 10
keen the respect OF people. and after ah'
tho respect Of cno's fellow men and women
H. worth more han anything else in the
world. What ~ artist needs Is character
character. above anything else. OF course
here again there haze been exceptions bu'
~ follow these exceptions 90 most OF Va
would mean ruin.
..yet don't think that 1 am narrow
For instance. / believe strongly in divorce
inst as Ariane believed in it. II is prepos-
terous that a man and woman who detest
each other should be linked together for
uf,.-.,lv,avs excepting. OF course. that they
have children A couple who have children
cannot separate from each other so lightly
So spoke Miss Farrar, psychologist, So
ciologist and philosopher, who l. TO sing
"Ariane ct Harbe-Bleue' fer the JOY that -
in IL and because II is an cplsue 10 the
Phuistines II Is unique among operas
IL bears a moral lesson. Surely this Is hap
p.ness indeed for child OF New England!
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
The Average Jest Has a Long
Career and Is a Great Traveller

York At first New York receives IT du-
tiously. on the principle that anything
worth happening az all would naturally
have happened in New York in the first
place But after due thought. hlaw &
Erlanger or the Shuberts decide that II is
susceptible OF a Broadway and 42d street
setting and would therefore make a good
musical comedy No sooner said than done.
in fact. sometimes even sooner than that.
They hire Harry B. Smith 10 write a book
around it., which he does some morning
right after breakfast. The Words x Music
Brothers 90 the songs. and ii runs FOR nine
months in one theatre and then goes on the
road for two seasons. paying in royalties
$4,000 which is exactly Sl7,999 . more than
the fellow out in Denver got.
But the end is not yet. In the mean
while it has crossed the seas 10 the Mother
country. where after being carefully ster-
ilizcd. deodorzed. searched FOR concealed
oeadly points. disinfecteJ and furnished
with footnotes. chart a glossary and
set of plans and specifications. II becomes
regular English joke and appears IN
Punch. It is then copied back on this
side by The Evening Post Nine years
later The Boston Transcript prints it. with
q credit 10 'Harpers Weekly. And then
some hoary headed old doodle bug of an
antiquarian crawls out from under log in
the woods and produces the proof 10 show
that il was stolen from Charles Lamb who
got II from Aristophanes, who copied Il
II ON one OF the Pyramids, but that its real
origin is lost in the mists OF prehistoric
times
For, when all Is said and done real hu-
NOR IS even a. bread east upon TIE waters
it returns TO YOU after many days with
somebody else's name signed TO II"
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

exterior Of their tender frames, they eX-
plode. Their eyes pop out. Their
tongues ore forced out Of their mouths
and the stomachs follow.
Their queer shapes would almost lit
orally drive man to drink Dr..
Townsend. the director Of the New York
Aquarium. on one occasion was con-
nected with an expedition in search Of
deep sea forms ot life. He had permit
ted the men on the boat a day off. on
the day following their return from
shore leave some deep sea dredging was
done. one Of the men who had enjoyed
a run on shore was stationed outboard To
assist in getting the trawl with its catch
on board. When it came up it contained
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

This under water world is a hard
world The fishes that live at depth
OF three and half miles have to resist
a pressure of between four and five tons
70 the square inch. A human being
feels uncomfortable when exposed to a
pressure of forty Or fifty pounds to the
square inch. and is in danger. The
pressure in the water will break a corked
bottle Of considerable thickness Of glass
ct a depth OF 200 feet. For every thou
sand feet the pressure increases 800
pounds to the square inch. These deer
sea fishes, however, are equipped by
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
A Really Funny Idea Lives
and Grows in Countless
Forms.

"A really funny idea" says lrvih >
Cobb in "Everybcdy's Magazine mas
long. long life and a merry one. I've
known funny ideas that had grown sixteen
-attles and a button ald were still wagslnS
along steadily. The joke lasts; it's the
poor fellow who tirst thought 1t up tnat
wears out. A humorist working by the day
n Denver. We will say. has funny idea.
It's a bully funny idea. Il comes TO him
Ike bolt from the blue. He's incoming
along without a cloud in the sky or a leaf
stirring. and all OF a sudden-bang. there
is the idea sloshing around IN his BRAIN
making trouble FOR the old settler ideas
that have been there all along II j.
noble and precious and priceless tElnS'
and he figures ne ought 20 get as much as
u cents for IL. So he clutches the new
born treasure to his bosom and runs 10 the
Office and commits II 10 paper while It's
still pink ana palpitatns. An editor lances
il in vital spot with "A pencil and drains a
little OF the lifebood out of il. y printer
intersperses a typographical error here and
there where IL will do the most harm. y
proofreader has his little fling al II. ana
finally. in a crippled but still attractive
state, il sees the garish light of day and
takes its foot in It's hand and starts on its
travels
"A paragrapher In Houston packs II down
into a line. \ verstier in Duluth stretches
It into a jingle and sells II TO a comic week
ly with large tonsorial parlor ana day
coach circulation. The man who writes the
syndicate theatrical letter fog the Sunday
rapers turns II into "A bit of repartce and
SAYS Willie Collier said II AT The Lambs Ia
Wilton l.ackaye IN the presence of John
Drew. William Gillette and Al H. Wood. all
of whom laughed heartily by turns IL is
AN anccdote, bon mot, an after-dinner
speech. an end man means of visible sup
port, a popular song, an apt retort d eaten
line. a space tllei. a set OF Vel. ~, a slos An
and parody.
Thus, IN easy stages. II reaches New
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
Singer Who Will Appear Blue Boards Favorite but
Indomitable Wife in Dukass Opera This Week
Finds Both Music and Story Beautiful

alize that she. too has sphere in THIS
world that she IS not a mere bauole for
mans amusement Ibsen gave voice 10
this feeling in his Nora in A Dolls House.
and now Maeterlincl has added his test-
mony To the question. You know take
the part f Bluebeards sixth wife, who
darcs to open the forbidden door with the
golden KEY and who fines the other hVe
wives alive. but in darkness. They need
not have remained SO, because there was
nv Of light in their dungeon that would
have led them % freedom. Het they stayed
where they he'd been placed 10y their lord
and master simply because they had not
the initiative nor the courage to fight their
yvav toward TIE light and freedom.
Even when they are released they
choose 20 STAY with their cruel husband.
Ariane alone leaves him. not in anger but
i'm infinite pity AT his own blindness. Blue
bear1 in the end loves amt respects oniy
the one who had dared to defy him aH1
leave HIN. Maeternck may be dreamer,
bu, he surely knows the souls Of men ana
women.
so the play is symbolic. Buebeard IS
the old-fashiored man who regards women
As his slaves, and the hve wives are the
old-fashioned woman who is happy in belns
regarded as such. Ariane IS the emdnci-
pa,ed woman. the woman who has learned
to think for herself, who has come 10 re-
spect herself The golden key is the key
of her knowle'g 'ge the knowledge that Is To
admit woman into her kingdom Of the Tut
,ra So do YOU wonder that have grown
90 love this work. for it is not only a
heautiC,l opera that / am singing, but IL
is "a lesson that | am imparting 10 those
and there are unfortunately still many
who need it.
90 Hiss Geraldine Farrar stands forth
az q champion Of .er sex. The blood OF the
Vow England atolitionists flows in her
veins too.
..vo, zee" she continued, II believe tnnt
-, marriage a man and woman should
,i,e and receive in equal proportion. Each
ras a share, not the same, but each equal
49, tho other. Women are realizing TINS
nd II is because OF this realization that
they are not willing 10 marry the hrst
.o,,er as. was the Oh fashioned woman
~, believe that women should marry
oot,, that men should be taught that there
- ,y,o sexcs. each Of which has its rights
wi I myself never expect 10 marry-2t
eor . long while. This H. because /
not think an artist has any right TO
aer art II src H. 10 succeed, must
80 al 10 her. and this would not te iair
80 her husband Her interests cannot oe
di,id.d Art makes person seli-centred.
I, cannot help doing so. And marriage
,oeans a community diversity, Oh inter
go OF course. there are exceptions. We
.u know Of great artists who have mar
,ied and have had children and have been
-. INIT these are the rare exceptions.
"Ye, believe that motherhood IL the
s,,nes, glory # woman. And what
,aotner / have! With good mother no
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

-ut, other day a gray hulled vessel
10 feet long. with decks as bar
rem Of non-utilitarian gear as
,orredo boat destroyer at the end OF a
eo.r hours speed trial. swung into New
vo-t Barbor and turned her high bow
into me slip at the foot Of Fulton street
ed bv the fishing boats. She was the
scotch steam trawler CoQuet. In one
eo,ee alone did the name mt the busi-
.ss,il,a craft. II was the first visit 10
,bie mort Of 4 steam traWler flying the
pritish flag. and Of the type which drew
,be fire of the Russian naval fleet When
lrcseirc the North Sea on its way 10
,rs-sbima strait and iCs own destruc-
,.or She If one may continue to apply
60 feminine 10 such a roughly-featured
craft had come here 10 COQuet with the
esb market In the holds We're tons OF
f.b taken up from the depths of the sea.
There are fishes and fishes. There are
.r.se which are caught near the surface.
There are others that come up from the
Isr,hs The Coquet. with her powerful
wiDches operated by steam and her
srrewd. observant. resourceful Scotch
commander. can get the deep sea fishes.
The fact that this vessel could take up
er.h fishes and was in the habit OF
lredring along the bottom. sometimes a
thousand feet below the surface. for
edtble fishes added to the interest in the
visit Of the grimy and powerful fishing
boat 10 this port.
In truth. one thousand feet is not
ero8t depth from which TO bring up
fishes. although. doubtless. there are few
from a greater depth which are edible
,r4r are lust discovering what a wonder
M and interesting life is lived away
down In the valleys and on the great
Mains three or four miles below the
ctoppv surface of the water over which
the Transatlantic liners glide.
Il is a dark world. II is known that
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

structure 10 meet these conditions Ihey
are of open work construction, so that
they can absorb water after the manner
Of sponges. They have soft, caVernous
skeletons. fabby muscles and tender
skins. Thus is the pressure equaAzed
within and without.
This condition makes their world
weird sort Of place. for things happen
there in such a downside up way some
times. For instance, it may happen that
the fishes fall up instead Of down WheA
they become the victims OF mishaps'
such as attempting 20 swallow too large
a fish The decomposing gases lit them
up, UP. up to the surface, and then tle
pressure of the depths removed from the
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
Man Just Getting Acquainted Fy Denen Of Deepest Deep
But Wav Down in the Constant Cold and Dark where
the Chances of Their Capture Are Slim, Owe"
Other Animate Things, Often Grotesque or Mon
strous Which Seldom Reach she Surface.

It's tissues. such accidents evidently
hapren very often The chances were
few. nevertheless. that waifs OF this KIN"
should cail into the hands Of natura!ists'
Vet within forty years chiasmodon mas
been found on the surface hVe times
On the other hand, a chiasmodon' al
though so abundant has been taken only
once by the deep cea nets.
Another ocean dwell@ which explor-
ing ships have not yet discovered IS
Eegalecus (king Of the herrins)' or the
car fish. serpent shaped, rapidly SWIM
ming form. usually from eighteen 70
twenty-four feet long. which is occa-
siorallv stranded on the snore in the
stormy season. Within the last lJo
years individuals have visited the shores
IF Norway Finmark. the Farce Islands
Scotland, Ireland England. the Mediter-
ranean. France. Bermuda. the cape or
Good Hope Hindustan and New Zea-
land Forty-four have been reported by
naturalists. It's worldwide distribution
and the number OF waits give evidence
that it is abundant in midocean. yet the
exploring ships in all the years OF COM
bined searching have found no vestiges
of il. old or young.
Fully one-half of the deep sea forms
are now 1880 represented only by single
specimens. and many anatomical ques-
tions cannot he solved because these
nniques may not be sacrificed TO dissec-
ton. Besides this. the imperfection OF
the existing specimens is great draw
back. owing 70 soft. cavernous skel-
etons. the habby muscles. tender skins,
deciduous scales and fragile appendages
which are characteristic Of many OF
them, they are liable to injury II
has often been found necessary to ex'
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

VOW its Miss Geraldine Farrar as
NJ psychologist. sociolOgist and phiioS-
= opher. Let not the great American
public cry out ia horror at the desecration
OF their operate idol by such long winded
epithets. Such words are the inventions Of
long haired fanatics or NASTY bookworms'
and what 30 they know Of "Our Gerry
the rose Of Melrose, the pride OF New Eng
land, Yet 10 has been spoken from the lips
Of none other than Miss Farrar herself
not. perhaps. IN so many words, hut I'D an
hours conversation with Tribune repre-
sentative who mad gone 70 her % ma out
what she had TO say on Dukas S opera
"Ariarc et Barbe-Bleu." which is 20 receive
Us first American production at the Metro
polran opera House on Wednesday night
o. tl.s week
Mss Farrar is young woman Of decided
IMAGINATION. Of "a will and opinion Of her
owu No one who has ever seen her IN
one Of her parts viii doubt this ana the
Tribune representative came away from
his interview more than ever impressed
with this fact.
When the reporter began on the SUBJECT
Of the new opera the singer showed no
hesitaner in her enthusiasm. Ter eyes her
voice. her gestures the very poise OF her
BODY raalated IT, Butterfly. Nanon' MIMI
even tre Goose-Girl were forgotten-it was
Mae,erirck and Dukas Dukas and Mae
terlnck md as We shall see. there was
nora 20 t au Truly Miss Farrar is a
DAUGHTER of the Plrltans'
The music and the story are beautiful
woulerc ." said Miss Farrar speaking 0i
"Auanc" 81 am Immersed in II, lost ID IT,
J now feel sure that il VIII be a success
though ] was not so sure when ] began 10
study it The story Is 50 human. IT VIII
touch the heart of each one Of us even
though The story is laid in the dim past
and our chudhood's BlGebcard ana his
wives arc the pIotagcrlsts But theh il u
such a C.Gerent Eiuebeard. and one VIE
the ono F. sm To interpret. is such a di1er-
cut wifa
''rlc music too. is very beautiful II -
true that IL is Influenced by De Busy
whose wonderful atmospheric orchestra
ton We know so well in his setting oi
Aseferl.nck's other play 'Pclleas et Nell
saude bat there is a mclcdic line III
Dukas that Debussy lacks. II has al OF
tAe elder composers mysticism, bis quaiily
o. things seen as through a veil, with a."
added virility and. when needed, dehni-
tion Of outline. The paolic. am sure VIII
feel this. anG il viii 20 far 10 make the
music popular
But perhaps the greatest appeal TO the
opera IS in its story. for il IS story tAaI
touches tho lives OF nearly an Of US alike
Icor or rich. humble og exalted In fact
i is The voice OF the cmancipated
wOnsn"--
THE suffragette?" interjected The inter
viewer
"Aoi at al. was the quick reply
s..l.ply tie woman who las come TO re-
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

their ugly mugs" Some are serpent
like, with sharp snouts. Some have
needlelike Jaws. Some have jaws VITA
bags under them. that remind one OF inc
suspensorium Of the pelican. Some look
as If they had taken the Boston bull
terriers face as a model and come very
near equalling it in uginess. As for
teeth. the fishes are very dragons in this
respect. r. they could answer Little Red
Riding Noods comments they would re-
spond to the spoken wonderment regard
ing the big teeth in just tn words tn
hear used. Tho better To eat you with.
my dear" only they would not have
said my dear for all the fishes are
supposed. down in that chill. dark world
of the sea, 10 be enemies. They would
try TO eobble each other up without fur
ther ado
There is believed 10 be no vegetable
life below what might be termed the
timber line in the valleys of the sea
All Of the fishes are supposed to he car
nivorous and dependent upon one an
other for their supplies Of sustenance.
Life with them is a battle, and the bot
tom OF the ocean A duellng ground. The
fishes apparently think nothing Of at
tacking others of their own size, nor d.
they stop when they find that they have
attempted t. swallow one little too
large for TN stomach. Fishes from the
great depths nine inches long have been
found with eleven-inch neighbors in
their stom.chs These denizens Of the
deep swanow their food after the man
ne- of ire snake. They suck 1t into their
biz stOnachs.
After all. little is known definitely
abou. the life of this underworld. a few
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

lot OF long-tailed macrurids. deep
water fish. about thirty inches long. His
eye caught the long tails whipping back
and forth in large numbers through the
meshes Good God" he shouted, let
me out of this They look too much
like snakes 10 suit me
\ great many of them are eel-like IN
shape. Some OF them have bulbous
stomachs. II is the head that is most
weird. however. Regarding the features
OF their heads one could properly COM
ment. as Little Red Riding Hood on the
bear: What great big eyes you've got
What great big mouth you've got"
and What great big teeth you've got
Those are noticeable characteristics OF
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

light penetrates in all the colors Of the
solar spectrum 10 a depth Of not more
than three hundred feet, and the ultra
violet rays. undistinguishable 70 the hu-
man eye. have been detected by the use
Of Photographic plates at depth Of
three thousand feet. Beyond this, the
presence of light derived from the suns
ravs has not been discovered after
Photographic exposures hours in dura-
ton. Therefore, in this world which
never sees the light Of day. which IS
darker than any night the human eye
Nver attempted TO pierce, some Of the
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26
AN ENciNEER OF RECIPROCITY.

\ quondam Office boy Is negotiating with
us ca,ada's end Il all this vcNed reci-
procity business. THIS self-made person
" :. FIeld.n2. Finance Minister "f the
u, minion. after beginning his career IN
the aforementioned calling at the age of
sixteen. btc,me an editorial writer when
tv enty. head editor of IA big HALIFAX daily
when tXenty-seven. and Prime Minister
Of Nova Scotia wher thirty-siA.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

After having been married to him for
twenty-threc years. the vile OF Maurice
Hewlett. the novelist. now takes VI the
perilous vocation OF giving nyirg lessons.
While her husband Is performing lights
Of rhetoric indoors. this plucky woman
performs outdoor lights with an aero
plane,
New-York tribune., 1911-03-26

Developed your gold mine any as YETI
sue started with desk room and
now | have a suite. kansas City Jour-
nal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-29

sufficiently to cast whitening glance
in his direction.
Maybe she will forget it." she ac-
cepted the Iady's comfort" but ANYHOW
IN never give anyone advice about
love affairs again. think people just
ask it so they can have the pleasure
of not taking it. I won't express an
honest opinion of any man to a girl
even if he's only called on her once,
because it's Just my luck that If / do
the next thing know she'll be marry
ing him and hating me because / said
he was a pill.
Hereafter when anyone insists on
my telling them what think I'll al
ways say, He seems like very nice
man, but I don't really feel that 1
know him well enough to judge
Ruth" said the want-to-be-cynic,
"telI Molly you have discovered a ten
der feeling in your heart for me and
you'd like to know her honest opinion
of me-
Ruth" said the little stenographer
lady, you wouldn't force mo to break
my good resolutions so soon?''