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MONDAY. JANUARY 15. 1»12.
A BIT ELEVATED
This is an “elevated” age. The
invention of each elevated some-
thing-or-othcr marks a step in the
progress of humanity. A mon g
American cities New York has
long maintained a lead in this re-
■ spect. It has elevated its street
railways its business buildings
its cost of living and a hundred
other things until it might well
bear the title “The Elevated
City.”
Now comes an elevated thought
from out staid old Boston which
goes New York one better in the
form of a suggestion for the con-
struction of elevated sidewalks.
double-decking the street with
moving escalators to relieve con-
gestion of traffic in shopping cen-
ters. AVhat hath modern “civil-
ization” wrought!
So seriously concerned became
one of the promoters of this in-
genious plan for the benefit of
shoppers that he installed an add-
ing machine on the corner of
Summer and Washington streets
and counted the pedestrians that
passed during the day. Accord-
ing to his figures nearly 1.500000
people passed that particular cor-
ner during business hours.
In Boston the shopping district
lies on less than a quarter-mile of
street. The height of the build-
ings for the sake of safety is re-
stricted. For narrow tortuous;
streets San Antonio throws no'
shade upon The Hub. There as ;
practically everywhere a street is !
given over to trolley cars and two'
lines of delivery wagons drays
carriages and automobiles. But J
the essential pedestrians arc so;
numerous that the entire thor-1
oughfare often becomes as one t
broad sidewalk.
Yet the waves of humanity that
flow through these narrow chan- i
nels of New England’s metropolis'
are small eddies when compared
with those that surge through the
shopping districts of Chicago and
New York at the flood-tide of the
day’s business. William street
New York becomes a turbulent
Hell Gate when each business
building in that vicinity turns
loose enough people to populate
an average Western town.
Chicago has no subway. In the
loop district the congestion beg-
gars description. And when the
skyscraper district reaches
Twelfth street in New York sev-
en decks of sidewalks will be re-
q u i r e d to receive the workers
from the buildings taking no ac-
count of other people who may
chance to be downtown when the
daily exodus takes place. It has
become a serious mathematical
problem. The elevated sidewalk
seems to be the only solution.
The idea has shot higher than
that expanding to include the ar-
cading of the entire street. An
underground “sidewalk” has been
suggested but evidently its orig-
inator took little cognizance of
the tunnel of which it would run
amuck.
Serious as it is the situation is
not without its humorous side as
is the case with all things hu-
man. Yes elevate the sidewalks;
build them like shelves in a pan-
try ; construct more elevated rail-
ways and subways; furrow the
air with aeroplane lines and cover
the earth with several layers of
humanity; arcade all the streets —
in fine make the world into a
Pullman palace car.
Then fie on the elements! Mi-
lady could go shopping regardless
of the state of the weather. Or if
madame did not wish to enlarge
the cute freckle that she had cul-
tivated under her left eye she
MONDAY
could keep out of the sun from
the time she was lifted into her
limousine until she alighted un-
der the umbrageous dome of the
arcade which in itself could be
made a valuable addition to the
art of the land.
Forsooth civilization is thus
becoming synonymous with ele-
vation. Elevated railroads were
curiosities in their time. Then
elevated eyebrows in the fash-
ion's line of march came into the
limelight and she who could not
embellish her facial pulchritude
with silken crescents as high as
the moon that didn't jump over
the cow was ostracized to the so-
cial peanut. Once upon a time
also elevated coiffures held sway.
Elevated this and elevated that
have been on the boards in their
season. The United States is an
i elevated country. Elevation of
j tastes and habits characterizes the
i life of its people. It has been ap-
propriately if not sagely remarked
by a soap-box philosopher that
the truest index to a nation’s char-
acter is a list of its favorite drinks.
What is more popular in this
country than highballs? Elevated?
No? Yes?
Every now and then some well
meaning individual who is suffer-
ing with an excess of enthusiasm
turns up with a proposition that
the remainder of the human race
shall abolish something or other
to which the one individual has
accumulated a dislike. Sometimes
individuals of this stamp urge the
extinguishment of the object in
the interests of public morality
and sometimes for the furtherance
of the public health. Their rea-
sons may differ but their assertion
is always the same—the object to
which they happen at that par-
ticular time to entertain an objec-
tion should be wiped off the face
of the earth.
Mrs. Olaf C. Guidin who re-
joices in the tremendous title of
Chairman of the Home Economics
Committee of the Federation of
Women’s Clubs has just added
her name to the long list of “abol-
ishers.” Mrs. Guidin has entered
। upon £ war to the death against
1 the silk stocking and announces
■ that she has already made some
progress in killing it in a place no
less pretentious than Fort Wayne
Indiana.
In issuing her declaration of
war against silk stockings Mrs.
Guidin declares that “they are all
right in summer but foolish in
winter.” She also urges that they
are conducive to diseases of sun-
dry kinds.
Even granting that some por-
tion of the indictment may be
true in such forlorn climates as
that of Wayne Indiana it
by no means follows that people
who reside in sections of the
country where the sun shines now
and then should go without silk
stockings.
The logic of Mrs. Guidin is
fatally defective. She might make
[her crusade against the wearing
I of silk stockings in Fort Wayne
at the season of the year when
woolen stockings would be warm-
er than silk but to abolish them
means that they 1 w o u 1 d not be
available in summer time and
Mrs. Guidin admits that they are
“all right” at that time. She
should devote all her energies to
the education of the people of the
north in the proper use of the silk
stocking but for us of the south
we know what to do with silk
stockings and we know how and
when to do it. There is no dan-
ger in the south of an epidemic
of “cold feet” on this proposition
either actually or figuratively.
ADJUSTING BALANCES
Gradually the impression is
gaining ground in Europe that the
Turko-Italian war or whatever
one may term this fiasco will
have as its result a readjustment
of the balance of power in the
Old World. Germany has found
it extremely difficult to maintain
a logical position towards Italy
her ally in the Triple Alliance
and has fared no better in her ef-
forts to remain the friend of Tur-
key. That however would be
settled with the ccrcbision of the
war and by June 28 1914 when
the third renewal of ti e Triple
Alliance comes to an end things
between Italy and Turkey will
no doubt have resumed a normal
stale.
But it appea-s now that Aus-
tria is unwilling to remain Italy’s
ally much longer. The gh Bar m
Conrad von Hoetzenfeld former
chief of staff of the Austrian army
md a strong advocate of a mili-
tary policy against Italy has
been dismissed by the emperor
there is no doubt that the views
office heir-apparent to the throne
who is in accord with Baron von
SILK STOCKING
Hoetzenfeld will be taken into
consideration when Germany next
undertakes to align itself in Eu-
ropean politics. Even in Ger-
many the Triple Alliance as now
constituted is no longer in fa-
vor due mainly to the fact that
Italy has on several occasions
shown a tendency to listen to
France and England. Budapesth
stronger today than ever in the
councils of the Austro-Hungarian
government also is tired of its
obligations toward Italy and in
unison with -Berlin and Vienna
wants back the “Drei Kaiser
Bund” Bismarck’s triple alliance
of Germany Austria and Russia.
How the Run ho government
views this proposal is not known
but it is certain Russia cannot be
a member of the Triple Alliance
and the Triple Entente with Eng-
land and France at the same time.
Though the “Drei Kaiser
Bund” is at this time little more
than a probability it is interest-
ing to note what effect this re-
adjustment of power in Europe
would have. When this arrange-
ment was in force before interna-
tional conditions were decidedly
different from those now found.
France was still recuperating
from her war with the German
Union England was mistress of
the sea indeed and the problems
of the Far and Near East had not
yet assumed the proportion they
have today. Germany then had
no navy to speak of Austria was
in a similar position and Russia
was generally regarded as the
core of the alliance. Today how-
ever Germany would be the lead-
er of the new “three emperor al-
iance” and policies followed then
might hot suit in this era of ter-
ritorial expansion.
A new “Drei Kaiser Bund” is
something which should cause
British statesmen considerable
uneasjpess. The Triple Alliance
has served admirably to preserve
the statu quo in Europe; and the
new combination would hardly be
formed for that purpose. At any
rate Great Britain would have
to count on more resistance in her
part of the international game.
CUTTING ACROSS LOTS
Ella Flagg Young superintend-
ent of schools in Chicago is going
to reform the language. Having
reformed the stockyards Chicago
sighs for more worlds to conquer
and her next thought is naturally
the purification of the now slight-
ly polluted wells of English un-
defiled wiping up Augean stables
of course being her peculiar
province. When Mrs. Young’s
ideas have reached full fruition
they arc going to have some clean
streets and burglarless promen-
ades for a chapge. And so the
march toward perfection goes
steadily on.
“We are in need of a personal
pronoun third person singular
number that will indicate both
genders” said Mrs. Young at a
meeting of school principals.
“Now ynost of the personal pro-
nouns of the feminine gender end
; in ‘er’ and if we take a masculine
pronoun and put ‘er’ at the end
we have it.”
In this way “he'er” “his’er” and
“him’er” rise as new barriers be-
tween the center of culture and
the provinces. According to the
new plan “he'er” is to take the
place of “he or she” “his’er” is
to supplant “his or her” and
“him’er” is to stand for “him or
her.”
Maybe the rest of the world will
fall in with the idea. Maybe it
will end in leading Ella to a nice
quiet place where she can get per-
fect peace and rest with the very
best professional attention. If the
first alternative is thrust upon us
there is consolation in the thought
that we are prepared for the in-
novation by the expert use to
which even the meanest and low-
liest of us have been privileged
to put that powerful and orna-
mental crutch “his’n” with
“our’n” “your’n” and “her’n” as
auxiliary first aids to the suffer-
ing.
RECRUITING THE MEXICAN ARMY
From tho Mexican Herald.
The first drawing for recruit* for the
Mexican army will take place in al!
parts of the republic on January 15
next. Only unmarried men between
the ages of 18 and 22 are eligible. One
man will be taken from every thousand
of the inhabitants.
An officer of the general staff that
volunteers would never do- as there
would be no discipline tn a volunteer
army. However anyone who does not
Wish to serve can if he has the money
buy a substitute.
—
A NOVEL INVENTION.
An Indiana woman has Invented a
kitchen tafile which among many
conveniences has a mirror set in one
leaf which can be turned up against
a wall to convert the table into a side-
board.
THE SAX ANTONIO IJGHT
At the Show
GRAND OPERA HOU RE.
‘■Rebecca of miunjbrook Farm.”
Although the New England atmos-
phore of life Is something which the
Nouthwesterner only knows through
tho efforts of those who have dwelled
on It In books and In plays there is
no doubt that It is keenly apprecia-
ted by him neverthslesB. For this
reason '•Rebecca of Hunnyhrook
Farm" was hailed last night at the
Grund like a friend. Dealing with
the very simple story of child life
the play would hardly meet with a
great reception were it not that It
plcutres well the men and women of
the New Englund hills—their strong
prejudices and virtues and their quaint
view qf things. Even tho story It-
self. without plot and a vary sub-
dued climax is unpretentious and
one must look at ita details rather
than at its range. Rebecca member
of a family none too well blessed with
e4U-thly goods except that a heavy
mortgage on the farm bo taken as
such comes to live with her maiden
aunts In tho big rod brick house at
Rlverboro. Maine. Miranda Sawyer
one of the aunts Is a stern Puritan
who never having felt the influence
of a child is not in the mood to relish
the presence of Rebecca. But in the
end the latter succeeds in breaking
the Ice and with a struggle Miranda
unbends. Jane Sawyer the other
aunt is the antithesis of Miranda and
portrays the quiet loving and lovable
woman to whom childhood appeals as
the natural protector. It seems a pity
that in "Rebecca” this role is not
stronger than it is.
Ursula St. George makes Rebecca
a very real little person. Hardly more
than a child herself she succeeds in
making her character very convin-
cing. Miss St George is capable of
concentration. In the scenes of tho
first act this quality is well brought
out. as is also the fact that she has
good control of herself. Her dramatic
gifts arc well shown in the barn
scene and in the last act in her dia-
logue with “Prince Aladdin.” Tho
vis-a-vis on the doorstep may well be
regarded as one of the gems on the
American stage.
Miss Maud Ream Stover as Miran-
da is a happy choice. As the New
England spinster whose views of life
have been narrowed down to the
breadth of her big brick house Miss
Stover is certainly a success. Loyola
O'Connor did her possible best with
the rolo of Jane Sawyer and the same
can be said of Fannie D. MacCollin as
Mrs. Perkins; Virginia Chauvenet as
Mrs. Stimpson and Ruth Findlay
Claiborne Floater Lillian Ross and
Gladys Waddell in the children roles.
Sam Reed fills the part of Jeremiah
Cobb ideally well. His work is very
convincing so much in fact that ev-
ery time he appears one expects to
see his stage coach somewhere on the
scene. His acting in the second scene
of the first act is remarkably good
and is well sustained throughout the
play. As Adam Ladd Alfred Hud-
son Jr. does not get much opportuni-
ty but that he is a good player is well
demonstrated in the last act. Sidney
S. Blair as Adam Simpson and Henry
Carlin as Abijah Flagg are also able
members of the company.
The scenic arrangements of the play
are much above the average. Every-
thing is typically New England and
nothing could be more realistic than
the thunderstorm in the first act.
“Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"
will be given again at the Grand to-
night and tomorrow night and should
be seen by all who appreciate the dra-
matic in Ilves that do not venture be-
yond the conventional level.
Pinza Theater.
Titis week's bill at the Plaza is de-
cidedly masculine. Only three mem-
bers of the fair sex take part in the
program; for the rest man is respon-
sible. Gus Sun's minstrels head the
entertainment in a "first part” show
well put together with good songs
clever comedy and novel dress effects.
T. B. Grimmer is one of the able so-
loists of the company and Tom Powell
is well known as a clever comedian.
Yesterday’s audiences received the
number well.
La Veen Cross and company pre-
senting "Roman Sports and Pastimes”
entertain with a number of tableaux
vivants showing their fige muscular
development and give active to their
work with remarkable feats of
strength. One of the members of the
troupe adds to the amusement value
of the act with clever burlesque work.
Miss Dorothy De Schelle and com-
pany present a good comedy playlet
entitled “The Getaway” showing the
trouble people have trying to make a
living on the stage and “beating"
one's boarding house lady. The Vic-
toria Singing Five are singers of abil-
ity and the Musical Brittons please
with a very good musical act. Miss
Ida Barr an English comedienne al-
so was well received.
Roynl Theater.
Those who love operatic music
should not fail to see the bill at the
Royal this week. Incidents from five
operas are treated by the Rennee
1’amily in a very able manner. The
singing is exceptionally good and the
scenic effects are of the best as Is
also the costuming. A better act has
not been seen at the Royal in a long
while.
Duffy and Dyso keep the audience
interested with knockabout comedy
and clever dialogue and Gaynell Ev-
erett a comedienne of qtiallty enter-
tains with good singing and dancing.
Whitfield Diggs and Matteen in a
bright bellhop and newsboy act com-
plete the bill.
-** *.
Sounds Like the Grippe.
Claus Esau and Peter Slemann two
heavily-bearded Russians each 6 feet
5 Inches in height sailed yesterday
for Bremen on the Kronprlzessin Ce-
cile after spending seven weeks in the
United States to find a suitable set-
tlement for 60 families from the vil-
lage of Sneezakarltchnekoff in the
government of Tobolsk Siberia. After
traveling through the northwest and
the southwest their choice they ex-
plained through an interpreter was
divided between Southern Oklahoma
and Central Texas.—New York Tri-
bune
Observant Citizen
"Whers do the robins come from?”
asked th* mun In aearch of informa-
tion.
"Search me." Mid hl* companion in-
elegantly. "I haven't kept track of
them.”
"It's a strange thing” continued ths
first. "Just as soon ss a cold snap
strike* Han Antonio thsre are thou-
sanda of tho red-broa*t* in the trees
around San Antonio; a* soon aa the
cold Is over the birds disappear.”
The second man studied for a mo-
ment. Then he agreed that it was
true and that only during cold weath-
er —and very cold weather at that—-
any robins sre visible.
"Give It up" ho said.
"Now take during the recent freez-
ing weather" went on No. 1. "The
hackberry traps In my yard were liter-
ally covered with robins chattering
and snipping at the berries. They
remained there all day and at night
flew away. Next morning they came
back and spent the day with me and
now they have gone for good. I was
just wondering where they keep them-
selves during the warm weather.”
"Search me." said No. 2 again.
And so neither of them could an-
swer the question. It's In the same
class with that one about "Where do
the files go In winter?"
FIGHT LOCUSTS WITH BACTERIA.
From Harper's.
In South Africa.locusts or grasshop-
per* have been destroying crops and
grass to a greater extent than usual
during the last few years. The inter-
national bureau maintained by the
French the English and the Portu-
guese tfint ha* been collecting Infor-
mation concerning the extermination
of Insect pests has been unable to of-
fer the farmers anything better than
the standard arsenic and sugar spray.
This method is very dangerous as well
as very expensive.' Still it has been
used in spite of many drawbacks and
it has been calculated that for every
dollar spent last year in applying this
spray there was a saving of flOO in
crops.
One method of fighting insects that
has developed in recent years has been
that of finding some enemy of the in-
sect and encouraging it to destroy the
pest. It was on this principle that the
lady bug was encouraged for the pro-
tection of trees against plant lice.
SILK HAT HARRY RUMMY AND THE GANG
=— By TAD —
Harry’s Wedding
Is
Balked Again
P
♦
F— 99 9 99 _
Up“to~Date Verte
TUB AUCTION Ml IK.
It st any Ums you should hsvs s ssls.
Just notify ms throush ths mull;
And ss I wa* shout to r*lala
1 will gladly arrang* for you a dais.
Now don't be sup*rstltloua—
Just deal with ms fair—
For I will do your work aallataetory.
And du It un tho aquara.
gp*da! attention I give to this bualneea
As you oil well know.
And now with your aaolotanco
I cso tertslnlr msko tt so.
I rsn sell boss snd esttla.
I rsn sell a horse or a eow.
I ran cell anythin* you have
Juat breause 1 know how.
I will ask thaNubile to remsmbar ma
Aa I don't want to bo forgot
Aa I'm alwaya thora with the goods
Johnny on tho spot.
—t'ol. Krlrkson In Inwood (la.) Harald.
Where a disease producing parasites
can be found the chances for sxter-
minating tho pest are Increased.
Such a parasite for. the locust has
been found by Mr. d'Herelle in Yuca-
tan. In the intestines of dead locusts
hs found certain bacteria of the coccus
group which produces a fatal disease
among the locusts and which spreads
rapidly among them. These bacteria
have no effect whatever upon poultry
rabbit* or guinea pig*. Yucatan has
suffered very little from the locust
this year.
A PSYI
From tho Chicago Roeord Harald.
“Well the days will soon be grow-
ing longer." he said just before the
clock began to strike 12.
"Yes” she replied aftef trying
with Indifferent success to smother a
yawn; "but the nights will probably
continue to seem awfully long just
the name-”
He looked at her curiously for a
moment and. then decided that he
would go.
ms OPINION.
From Sketch.
She—Anyhow you must admit he
la a well-read man. Did you notice
his knowledge of Aristotle?
He —I did. and If you want my can-
did opinion I don’t believe he's ever
been there.
Does If He’s in a Pullman.
And Mr. Taft doesn’t feel at home
in Ohio.—Atlanta Constitution.
JAN. 15 1012.
DiMate and lt»
granulateTTeyklids. t
There are many affections of the
eye which give rise to tho little yel-
lowish grains that form on the edges
of the eyelids. Ths more serlouf ot
these maledies ars rare and the dis-
ease that the doctors call granulated
eyelids Is not so common as most peo-
ple suppose.
" Many people are bothered by the
formation of little yellowish grains
at the roots of the eyelashes and tn
common language this condition re-
ceives the name of granulated eyelids.
The 'condition is due usually to ex-
posure to the Irritation of duet or
emoke; It may come from eye-strain:
or It may be the result 1 of habitual
ovsr-lndulgence in alcohol or tobacco.
This commonly-seen affection may
be prevented from appearing by ap-
plying a light coat of vaseline to the
edges of ths eyelids at the roots ot
the lashee 'before retiring.
However this treatment while It
prevents the formation of tho crusty
grains does not prevsnt tho condition
which causes their formation. As a
rule the condition Is negligible and
needs but little attention.
If however the formation of the
grains Increases perceptibly tho prop-
er man to see is not the eye doctor
but the family physician. *
BINT.
In a country police court a man
was brought up by a farmer accused
of stealing some ducka
"How do you know they are your
ducks?” asked the defendant's coun-
sel.
“Oh I should know them any-
where” replied tho farmer and ho
went on to describe their different
peculiarities.
"Why” said the prisoner’s counsel
"these ducks can’t be such a rare
breed. I have some like them in my
own yard.”
"That's not unlikely sir” replied
the farmer; "they are not the only
ducks I have had stolen lately.”
"Call the next said coun-
sel.—Ideas.
Has Nothing on the Country.
LaFol lotto's boom already shows
signs of suffering from excessive con-
versation. —Detroit Free Press.
(By Eddy Wolff.)
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