Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 19, 1909, Page 22

THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: DECEMBER 19, 1909 Chinese Women Are Taking Off Bandages and Wearing Loose Shoes (Copyright, 1900, by Frank G ANKING, spondence Carpenter.) relgning famlily of this empire, have neves bound their feet, and the great empress dowager and all the court Iadies of Peking have fect which are less,pinched than thoss of the average American belle, They wear shoes of silk and satin, beautifully em broldered, and when they go visiting, have gorgeous slippers with heels in the centor of the sole about two inches high. The av- erage Chinese woman has naturally a beau- tiful foot the 1s true of the Manchu, 1t is smaller than that of the Caucasian, and the instep is usually such tha could run under it ‘without touching tho skin. o far 1 have seer which corresponds with the old darkey sdug about his sweetheart And de hollow ob her foot makes a hole,ir de groun The .Chinese women were binding feet when the Manchus came In the men then long halr all over thel heads. The Manchus compelled them 1o shave their heads, excepting the pigtail, as a slgn of servitude, and before long the practice became popular that they adopted it themselves. It was different with the binding of the f The Tartars have always denounced it, and several of the em 4 of \he past have tried to abollsh it custom among the Chinese began, it {4 sald, more than a thousand vears ago, having been introduced by an empress, who had goat's feet covered with halr, and bandaged them, and thus set the fashion. She clothed them In yel- low satin and they came to be known den lilies, which i& the form for the ¢ lestial crippled (ootsle-wootsle of today. Of course, the people did not know of the de- formity. They thought the empress had natural feet, and they bound up thelr chil- dren to make them like her. At any rate, the custom of the binding of the feet came into vogue, and to this day it is common cnseaps ow a Bound Koot Look No one who has not seen a golden lily with the bandages off can appreciate how one of these deformed Chinese feet looks. In the satin skoe embroidered with gay silk or silver and gold 1. is more like a stuffed club than a foot. The big toe only rests on the ground, and the size of the foot ls measured by this rather than the 1909, of woman flg <pecial Corro The HBee)~The promises be in the hina. Today sh « siave In the | with few Hhe to fture 1s practicall ds of her hus: rights that men 1s & cripple, hob: It she is riek allowed to go poor she works | sorts of drudger | i# uneduca Le ather ars bound to respect bound feet she and biing about on and high-cla on the streets i o fields and does wil average Chinese glr woman 1o & hundred can read and The new China I8 to b wirls its girls' feet be aliowed their natural growth end Ity women are to their part in the work of the world. are aiready employed In the telephone of Hongkong and Shanghal. They teaching everywhere In tho kinder- gartens primary schools, and medical leges have been estabiisned to fit them trained nurses and The vice of Wuchang has a senool in which buys and girls study togeiher, and the is true of Tuan Fang, the viceroy of Nanking. There aro several large girly' schools In Peking, and one of the Munchu princesses, a member of the Inperidl tamily has estabiished a girls’' sohooi in Mongolia Al' the missionary esta now teaching giris and the demand tor educated women us wives ls far greater than the supply. and same 18 not ™ water a and one none write. full of #chools, are to take theh Girls office ar al and wore and for doctors. [ roy the some ments are who Anti-Footbinding Movement. o sentiment agm.nst b the is very rapidly growing. The great press dowager sent ediet betore her death denouncing the custom, und advising all the wirls and women ot the empire away with it. Chang Chi Tung has written article the subject, and before he died Li Hung Chang advised that the custom discontinued Many of the viceroys and governors have sent out proclamations favoring the aboll- of footbinding, and a number of so- have started In the different s In favor of the natural foot for In ail the girls' schools the government reguiations provide that the puplls must come with their feet unbound, fuli length of the foot. I' know of one and a system of gymnastic exercises has woman who has a foot so small that she uted which are lwipossible for & can stand on a siiver dollar and the sole ed-1oot pupll. In (alking lst night will not come outside of the edges. The with one of the high officials of Nanking, wife of one of the viceroys has feet an 1 wis told that Lootbinaing would nch and @ quarter long, and the favorite digappear, and that the senument against corcubine of another has feet an inch long {t 13 rapidly growing. The man I reier to ahd halt an inch wide, while the average was cducated in the United States. Said he: bound foot fs not over two Inches in diam- I have two daughters, nd one is 19 eter where it rests on the ground. years old. Nelther have bound feet. The Taking off the bandages, one sees that same 1s true Of many well-to-do girls In the part of the foot which touches the my city, and especially s0 with the chil- ground is never more than the toe and the dren of high officlals all over the empire. heel, and often only the toe. The binding The edict of the empress dowager had a is done So that the foot is crushed out of wonderful effect. It has made the big foot shape. The Instep Is thrown up and the respectable, and the ordinary Chinese par- toe and the heel tied together, while the ent will give up the cusiom s soon as ne other four toes are bent under the foot in finds his daughters can get husbands with- the crack between them. It Is very diff- out it s cult to see a Chinese girl's foot unbound, I talked last night with a Chinese offi- but I once had the opportunity to examine cial, who s worth $10,00000 or more. He one. It was in a hospital, and I posed as teils me that none of his women are bind- a consulting physician. The patient was & ing their feet, and beileves that the prac- high-class girl of 16 who had sprained her tice' will gradually disappear. arkle, and she had taken off the bandages As It Is now, footbinding is confined to to allow the doctor to dress M. Her leg the Chinese. The Manchus, who are the was not swollen, but the foot to me was teet em- an on be tion cleties been provine al' women soon a horrible sight almost grown Into the sole and there was & erack about three inch the heel and big toe came together. have slipped a silver dollar into that crack and the flesh would have hidden it skin over the Instep wi it had been chafed with was crackled and sore. bare halt way to the knee. & plpestem, or rather a base ball club, had no calf, and the small feet throw part of the leg into disuse, leg below the knee Is straight to the ankle. The sight of the bare foot is so disgusting that the women and girls are chary about showing their feet to the men of the family. Indeed, sees his wife's feet, although when husband and wife sleep in the same bed thelr heads rest at opposite ends of the cover. CARFT, R AR MANCHU PRINCESS—-MANCHU WOMEN DO NOT BIND THEIR FEET. The four small toes had deep where 1 couid The a8 rough as though the cold, and it The girl's leg was It looked like It the doctor told me that the muscles of that and that the I am told that & husband rarely The binding of the feet begins at differ- ent ages in different parts of China. In this part of the Yangtse valley it is started at the age of 4 and § years. The littie girl s taken on the lap of her mother, and a professional footbinder wraps one foot and then the other round and round with a long plece of tape about half an Inch wide. Before she begins she presses tho four small toes down under the sole, and then takes a turn of the tape ‘about the big toe at the joint. Fastening this, she stretches the tape back around the heol pressing it downward so that the instep ls thrown slightly up. The tape Is next car- ried to the front of the foot, and the small toes bound so tightly that they are sunk into the flesh. The child cries during the operation, and, in fact, she keeps crying a great part of the time thereafter. Next a plece of stiff cloth is wrapped about the foot and fastencd on with strong thread, %0 tightly that the foot cannot Erow. Tight-fitting ‘shoes slippers mre thon added, and over these more binding 18 put, %0 that the foot finally looks like a club As the child grows the bandages have to be made tighter and tighter, and the chil- dren must be punished to keep them from tearing them off. It fs a common saying that every small foot has filled & hogs head with tears. I have heard of cruel mothers who eep a club beside them at night in case they ory from the pain in their feet, but T doubt f this is the case except with the mother-in-law, who have @ bad reputation in China. Sometimes oplum is given to quiet the paln, and sometimes the girl hangs her legs over the edge of the wooden bedstead, so as to stop the circulation and thus ease it. If the binding is too tight the foot is llable to break in two at the instep, and the bones come through the flesh. Sometimes morti- tication sets in, and the toes drop off. 1 have known of women losing their feet by having them frosen, the lack of oir- culation preventing them from resisting the cold. At a Canton hospital which I visited some time ago & woman who had lost her feet in this way walked in on the stumps to be treated e Can the Cripples Be Curedt One of the live questions which is now before the women of China Is whether thelr feet can be cured If they take off the vandages. In the case of the older women t s impossible, although even they can be relieved of pain. Thelr deformed feet however, cannot be made over again, and they must walk with canes or hobble to the end of thelr days. The feet of the younger women largely resume thelr nat- ural shupe, although they have none of the beauty of those which have not been bound.. The unbinding has to be carefully done, and the feet must be rubbed and massaged to Increase the clrculation. It Is difficult to persuade the women Who have been binding their feet to stop, but the young girls are wild for the change, and that especially as it is now becoming possible to get a husband if one's foot Is large. Indeed, the big foot, or rather the unbound foot, Is llable to be a beau- catcher. As a Chinese official said to me, the men of the new reglme are anxious to have thelr wives go about with them, and those who have a chance to travel abroad would like their company. This is not possible with the small-footed woman who has offen to walk with a cane or to have servants support her when she goes out from home. e Anti-Footbinding Socleties, This movement against foot-binding Is belng pushed by associations of native men and women in different parts of China. There Is an organization In Can. ton, known as the No Foot-Binding soclety to which 10,000 fathers belong. They have pledged themaelves not to bind the feet of their daughters and not to object to their sons marrying girls with bound feet. Many of the wives of the members have taken off the bandages, and literature denouncing the custom Is being distributed. There I« a similar organization in fa western China on the border bot, and for some years a propaganda against the evil has b ried on at Shanghal. There is an Englishwoman of Shanghal who has done more perhaps for the female cripples of this nation than any native man or woman. I refer to Mrs. Archibald Little Who has written several excellent books upon China. It was she who originated the Tan Tsu Hul soclety, which advocates natural feet for the women of China. This was started about fifteen years ago, with branches all over the empire. It was sup ported by the missionary women and other forelgners, and it has distributed tracts, ploturing the evils of the practice, ev where. It memorialized the throne, and was largely Instrumental in getting the empress dowager to send out the big foot edict, Among other plctures made hy this soclety was the photograph of a bound foot by the x-ray process. This shows how horribly the foot |s deformed, the bones be- ing crushed out of shape. —— Small Fe Tight Waists. T have talked with many Chinese about the natural foot woman. The best of them deprecate the custom of foot binding, and all say that it Is bound to go. At the same time they get even with me by denouncing the practice of lacing, 0 common among the women of the United States, saying that It is worse to compress the vital organs than the feet. They consider tho small waist ugly, rather than beautitul, nd say both customs have thelr foundation in depraved ideas of the beautiful. One Chinese remarked: “Our men have been accustomed sider small feet beautiful. The think the men like it, and that the girl who has a golden llly foot will have a better chance for marriage. Therefore they urdergo the pain of binding. Your think the wasp-like walst is beautiful therefore your women squeeze thelr by tying one end of the corset rope bedpost and pulling on the other in 10 lace it tighter, You may call our people @ nation of cripples because the better class of women have to hobble around on bound feet. From tight lacing your people are a race of invallds. Three-fourths of your women are unaer the care of the doctors half the time, and that from the bad prac- tice of lacing. 1 venture that onithe aver- age the Chinese woman is heaithler than the American woman. . Why do you not stay at home and advocate an anti-walst- binding society, instead of coming over here to write about foot binding foislyr iy Abolition of the Queae. Connected with the antl-foot-binding movement 1s another relating to the men This s for the abolition of the queue. Ihe high class officials and the better element of the people are seriously discussing ing away with the pigtail, This was not favored by the old empress dowager. It was proposed to her in 18, but she replisd that no edict favoring it should be lssued while she lived. Now that she is dead the question is again agitated and the queus will eventually go. Some of the schoolboys are already cutting off thelr halr, and there is a strong sentiment that this should be enforced in the army. The soldiers ‘ind thelr pigtails very Inconvenient in warfare, of " en ¢ ry= to con- women men and bones to & order They must be for going shaving and 1 them in wrapped about the head s 4 order " b A to dur cate of & hand » wears the he can be §o The Chi r queues like They Attemy t an s enemy serlously ana th rid of t the of the leadi tatesn the former ady sanio Sald of roys,*to me: *1 for all officinls I can tell you that n the first day it and t millions of other Chinese who will Le glad to get it. We only keep them becauve it Is according to the fashion und the la we shall be glad to see them go. The queue came Into China as a of servitude to the Manchus, and | compulsory. In some of the secre which have been recently organi=e away with the Tartar governme candidates for membership cut off their times do so. T as it might be bellfon. Ma America a their while queues when they #old In every ( hung fair pigtall for of the Chinese a few reinforce their thread. howe halr faise b things ure trom 0 wear false hal | And all this brings me to Ytion that is agitating the men of tI pire. This is, will the Chinese wear ers? T answer The women hav them from time immemorial, and the v ingmen of the classes are wearlis them now. It | the gentlemen “} ves, lower only long velv aro always clad in gowns silks, satins and but have on trougers thely by the the latter and come anese or ourselves Already the soldiers have unifc coats and pantaloons of wadded and the press of the achoolboys Is mu. the same. These new trousers are far dif ferent from those of the old Ch They are sewed up In the back and gradually approaching the shape western unmentionables. if you they dressex oty and ts inder new . movement out clad like t they slish of our 1 wonder have ever seen a pair of Chinese gent's pants. The regulation cut is a cross between wadded drawers and bloomers, with a slice out at the back They make one think of little Dickie Dout, “with his shirttail out” They bhag at the knees and wrinkle down the leg, minding one of the farmer's remarks about the elephant. This farmer had gone to the circus, and upon his return asked what he thought of the animals. He replied that.they all suited him well with the exception of the eclephant. Ana it too, was all right, but it had too much slack in its pants. Well, that is the trouble with the old Chinese trousers, and it is 80 also With the now styles now coming in FRANK Q. CARPENTER. was Quaint Features of Everyday Life Deur Menry as a Cook. Ben. Ben's natural enemies are the spar- EVER let the Gold Dust Twins rows. When he can creép up on one of fry your potatoes,” says a them and make its feathers fly he is de- Chadron, O., man who thought lighted. he would spring a pleasant sur- Some time ago a lot of the little chat- prise on his wife the other day. terers settled on the llmb of a tree in Ben's The men came home and back yard. Ben saw them and crept, foot found no supper ready. His wife had gone by foot, (o the tree. Up the trunx he cau- to @ sewing beo or a ladles' aid meeting tously climbed and finally reached the or something of that sort, and festivities Mmb. At this point the sparrows saw him spparently had lasted jonger than she ex- and flew to the ground, where they chat- pected. But that didn’t raise a grouch in tered vigorously, Een, In the mean time, this husband's mind He remembered the Wwatching them from the limb with hatred many times he had been out late at lodge In his yellow eyes. and he went right to work to get supper Then, without warning, the sparrows sud- himself, denly flew up and began a concerted on- It looked ke the real thing when he got slaught on Monsieur Ben. They pecked 1t done, and just us his wife reached the him without mercy, until he drooped his house he had It ready to set on the table. *head and beat a demorallzed retreat—ery- The fried potatoes were especially brown ing meanwhile With pain and rage. and crisp looking. But they tasted brown Bven as he descended the trunk of the That was the trouble. One bite for Mr. tree three of the birds followed him with Amateur Cook and one bite for Mrs. was viclous bill as far at they got. When he reached the ground he ran to “What did you fry them his mistress on' the porch and sprang into dea sald the anxious her arms—the triumphant birds withdraw- smothered a grimace. fog their fighting line in good order. “In that basin of grease that was ke, i the stove,”" sald Henry. Oldest Shop Girl s 84, o= establishment at Worcester, Mass, pound which she had dissolved ready for thet e b U oladat. iskon i e state, and probably In the United States. Mrs. Morsc is nearly 8 years old, but s one of the most competent seame stresses in the factory Sho works every day, leaving her home at 6:3 o'elock in the morning, and does not roturn until dark, and enjoys the best of heaith. Her work In the factory s sewing lace to high priced corsets, and she is an expert at that branch of the Industry. It s hard, confining work, but she has done it for years Mrs. Morse helps to support her aged husband, who was an expert machinest em- ployed in & loom works, but had to give up work on account of poor health. The couple have an attractive home. Mrs. Morse Is & native of Fitchburg, born In 182, and was married in Brattleboro, V' in 1849 She has lived in Worcester sin 1560, in, wite Henry, as she on when ol corset clatms in the Hardware § An autopsy performed on a patient who dled at the Philadeipifia hospital after euf- fering for a long time with a malady the phy could not define, disclosed one of the most remarkable cases on record, In his stomach was found a collection of hardware trt ranged from a pin to,a can opener. The the subject of a report made to the Pathologleal soclety of Phila- olphia at Its meeting the College of Physiclans’ hall, Thirteenth and Locust streets. The case was reported by Dr, E. A who performed the autopsy, and Dr. W, W. Hawke nt physician of the insane department at the Philadelphia hospital According to thelr report, the man with the ostrich stomach was an electrician, and was committed to thelr care because of erratic behavior. While in the Insane ward he suffered from a distended abdo- men, and he was taken to the surgical ward, where an operation was performed. Because of the man's condition ft was im- possible to explore the stomach. He dled soun afterward. At the autopsy these articles were found In the stomach and intestines One large satety pin, one hairpin, darnin lans case was —- An 01d Game That Faited. Discarding the wearing of two pairs of trousers or the padding on the seat of his pants as a futlle and obsolete device for minimizing the pain caused by whipping at school, Joe Mitchell of Asheville, N. C., appeared at a public school with & novel scheme for outwitting the principal. The 12-year-old boy had repeatedly played needie, small pencil stub, ten wire nails, truant and been caught by the truant of- alx small safety pins, one can opener, one ficer. The policeman told him he would be trunk key, links of an iron chain, some Whipped. When the appointed hour came small wire pins and a collection of small he was ready and all the school eagerly pebbles and buttons. awaited the outcome. i The boy wore a long coat which was Prayer Meeting Broken Up. tightly closed at the lower part by chain “Oh, You Kid!" as & sacred lyric. and padiock, so that it was not possible to Introduced and broke up a prayer meeting '®4ch Joe at the place where the whipping being conducted by one of the churches, Would do the most good. Joe grinned at The pastor and deacons are searching for the principal's prediciment and told him the facetious momber of the choir who an- he had left the key at home nexed the aphorism to the hymn that was _The resourceful teacher called for help rendered, with such a disastrous effect ang "4 the coat was skinned over Joe's head, Which disrupted the entire congregation. Jock and all, and then the boy got full The slang phrase made fts fatal entrance MeAsure of chastisement. Quring & solo rendered by & soprano, who & 1ead the music exactly as it had been re- Jrags R ABSeS vised with & pencil by & practical jokor. Friends of John G. Hoffman, “I love my God” the singer repeateq, Manufacturer, who lived alone in a snug ot o, you ST Uttle home on Walton avenue, Norwalk The cholr and congregation went Into ©OuNty, received a summons from him that hysterics, and St was necessary to dismise he would like to see them. the parishioners before order couid be re- Then went to the house and found the stored. old man awaiung them. They observed that he had swept the walks, tidied up the rooms, dusted the furniture and had everything as neat as on Sunda; “You're all dressed up, John; was & retired K@i by the Birda, This is & true story with ail the neces- sary vouchers, says the Cleveland Plaln Dealer. that for? was asked An East End family has & cat. & bix “Yes, I'm going on & journey,” the cld gtay Tom, who answers to the name of man replied. “I want to leave the home what s in good condltion and look well too.” myself, Then he told them he had a premonition he was going to die. Ho sald he was not i, never bad been seriously fll in his lite, but that he suddenly had become cosni- zant of the facts that his end was ap- proaching swiftly. Well-Intended cajolery was tried in the belfet that Hoffman was depressed, but his smile of quiet resignation had more of courage than meluncholy in . His friends became much impresscd as he took & chair and settled himself in a comf able position, meantime bidding eich of those present farewell. They observed that he closed his eyes, and took it for granted he was wearled by the exertions of pre- paring tne house for their reception After ten minutes a lifelong friend stepped forward and laid his hand on the 0ld man’s shoulders. |There was no re- sponse. The old man was dead. Physi- clans who were summoned sald apoplexy was the cause of death. Hoffman was 68 years of age. B Lk empted. The legal value of a kiss stolen by a boy from a school girl has never before felt the touch of masculine lips was fixed at .75 by Judge Boyles In the city court oi Auanta, Ga. The ruling was made in the case{brought by pretty lé-year-old Ethel Scoggins, who wanted Is-year-old Lon Ledford punished for forcibly kissing her He met night “threw his d me and kissed me squarely on the lips. It was the first time a boy ever kissed me and it nearly scared me to death.” me 1 sald the girl arms arou st “Are you scared now?' asked the judge. " sald the girl, blushingly. have been sweet," think $5.75 enough for He was sorely tempted.” o, sir, “The kiss must the judge, “but I Ledford to pay. JOSEPH REDMOND, HIS YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, MRS, CLARE! AND HIS GRANDSON, RULAND REDMOND. Gossip When Peffer Scored. NUMBER of Kansas were discussing Senator one night recently, Kansas City iwreed that he was not greatest orator in the world, bus wat ue couid and did say & good many go00d things. They told a story of the time that a cer tain anti-option biil was before,the United States senate when Peffer was a member of that body. The leg:slatures of a number of states had Instructed all their represen tatives to vote In favor of the measure It was &t roll call. The senator of u o tain state, who was a big trader in “fu- tures,” and interested in a certain board of trade, was called on to vote. His state legisiature, too, had instructed him to vote for the measure. He recited in mourntul tones how he had been Instructed to vote yea, and with & great deal of oratorical effect, for he was a fine speaker, began to dilate on the subject. “Mr. President,”” he cried out, I my oath and my duty under it as a sena- tor. I regard this measure as one perni- clous in its purpose; it would be unconsti- tutlonal should It become a law. I am, therefore, bound by my oath to vote against it. The leglslature of my state cannot instruct me to commit perjury. I will acept defeat, but I will not violate my oath. 1 say agin, no legislature shall in- struct me to eommit perjury, and I vote ‘No' against this bill” The speaker sat dow the great air of grandeur of & man Wt done his whole duty. It was very dramatic. But the effect was to be rudely disturbed Senator Peffer's name was next he roll. Peffer arose quietly and sald, In that tense, plain volce of his: “Mr. President the legislature of my state has instructed me to vote ‘Yea” for this bill, and sinve my private interests do not make it per jury for me to do so I desire to be thus recorded.” The silence was painful. Everyone looked for & retort from the senator who had spread-eagled so much. They looked for him to “jump all Peffer. But he dian't. He hung stolidly to his chair Pefter had scored a knock-out ot auo Vadist? Inspiration fo! Henry Slenklewicz, the Polish novelist fs sojourning of “Quo Vadis? fame, Vienna. Although 63 years old, he is still hale and florld and his eyes sparkle with boylike vivaeity from beneath his black bound spectacies when he is absorbed In conversation. He abhors smart soclety, though he fre. Quently lunches and dines with his high spirited young daughter on the spacious terrace of the big bathing pier, reports the New York American, Most of his hours are spent at the VHlino Flena, which he has rented, where he loves to gaze out over the Adriatic and to live a simple, quiet, patriarchal life among his books and papers Stenklewica recently tried his hand at a book on ‘“The Venice of the Doges,’' but he has laid it aside because he feels him- It unequal to grappling with tiie pecullar strangeness and complexity of Venetian history. Sienklewicz reads Itallan easily, does mot hesitate to laud d'Annunzio as the finest literary Kenius modern Italy ha produced, and “Citta Morta” as the great- est of his writings, Speaking of his own masterplece, Slenkiewics sald: “My inspirations for ‘Quo Vadis' that early and most popular of all my produec- tions, had their source in my study of three famous masterpieces. First of all, i the works of Tacitus, with whom of all the Latin classics T am best scquainted. Then 1 was deeply influenced by Chateau- briand's ‘Gene du Christianisme,' pspe- clally by whit he has written about the early Christian martyrs. But I owe most of all to the English Cardinal Wiseman ‘Fablola: The Chu of politicians Petfer relates the Journal. They the have solemnly and, with over” in an able and picturesque story, which exer- clsed over me a powerful fascination from dawning boyhood. Harriman's mm-(r Friend. In the light of the last great fight of the late ¥. H. Harriman, which ended in the ousting of Stuyvesant Fish from control of the Illinols Central railroad svstem, says the Hartford Times, one laconic lne 1ife insurance policy taken out by the rall- road king thirty years i* a sad and significant commentary when Har- riman was worth many dollars than $149,000,000—quite before either fame or fortune had come his way the lure ot power caught and held him in its clutche In the application for this particul poliey, which was issued by a large com- pan not a thousand miles from Hartford, among other questions was asked the fol- lowinz “Who fs your most Intimate friend?” In Harriman's own hand is wriften “Stuyvesant Fish." S Our Hook and Eye. “The late Mayo W. Hagzeltine,” sald & New York editor, “was a literary critic of the old school. That Is to say, he be- lieved in learning, he belleved in pure Eng- lish, he never wrote slang. We have no such critics now. ““His literary learning was incredible. He knew the characters of history as I knew Smith or Robinson. Once, at & din- ner, a Welsh historlan sald to Hazcltine bitterly: ‘You wouldn't have condemned my book if you haud ever heard of Hook and Eye. Aha, you frown. You don't know who Hook and Eye was, do you?' ‘Hook and Eye was Lord Vivian, lord lieutenant of Cornwall’ sald Mr. Hazel- tine. His nose was an enormous hook and the always wore an eyeglass—hence his nickname of Hook and 1 “Then Mr. Hazeltine told a story about Hook and Eye that the dazed Welshman had never heard. He said the lord leu- tenant, visiting a Cornwall lunatic asy- lum, asked an inmate ‘What fs your occupation, my man?' “The lunatic, as though suddenly wound up, answered ‘’'m @ cherry plcker, oherry plcker, pick, pick, cherry picker. But your lord- ship could earn twice as much as I could cherry picking. *‘How 807 ng “Ob,' said the lunatie, ‘I have to hold on with one hand and pick cherries with the other, but you could hang on by your nose and pick with both hands. I'm a cherry- ploker, cherry pleker, plck, plck cherries.’ " in a 1t wa many inquired Lord Vivian smil- att's Weight Caused Strike. No wonder President Taft s trying to traln down his flesh. Frederick Poole, the orlental traveler telling a story that should make the president bend all his efforts toward disgulsing himself as & :hin man, “Parts of Hongkong are very hilly," says Mr. Poole; “the European can find plenty of exerciss there, but he usually prefers to ride in & sedan chair and give the hard- est part of the exercise to the chalr car- riers. Life in the far east promotes indo- lence. “A story is told In the legations of Hong- kong that when the sedun carriers laid eyes on Mr. Taft, who was then secretary of war, they went on & strike. Nothing ©could persuade them to carry the big Amer- foan. So Becretary Taft was compelled to walk up the hill to the governor's resi- dence.” Hetty Green's Son. Baward H. R Green, son of Hetty Green, lives in Texas, where to use his own language he “has a finger in every thing that i going on” Regardless of sny and Stories About Noted People interest he may have in his mother's af- fairs, say the Bookkeeper, he owns and manages an extensive rallroad system, is president of one bank and director of three others and owns and conducts cattle ranches and cotton plantations. He even ralses flowers and has the best sreenhouse with one exception In Amer.ca. This fs not conducted for his personal pleasure, but us an investment which has become very profitable. Las he $160.00 woth of Amirican wholesale selling price When he went ago it was to luok terests. Now his attention is de most exclusively to his own., At lived on a ranch, the headquarters raflroad, but he got ti 8ud moved to Dallas Close View of Curdinal Gibbo Cardinal Gibbons~the ,only cardinal America and head of the Catholic In this country—is the subjec esting sketch by H, L. December American Mencken says: “Baltimore is one of the few Ame cltles still old-fashioned enough to huve & fashionable promenade. It runs over the steep hills of ancient Charles street, from the Dblg shops at Lexington stroet, past old St. Paul's, the Walters art gallery and the Washington monument to the northery reglon of apartment houses and clubs There the smart folks of the town show themselves every afternoon—pretty 1iile debutantes with taleum In thelr no-cs, stout old ladies with dogs, dashing voung bucks with rolling eyes, and men of inoney from South street on thelr way to the Maryland club. And there, too, bLetween four and five, raln or shihe, winter or summer, you will see a spare, tall old gentieman in & straight-rimmed silk hat, With & touch of scarlet under its brim— to wit, James, Cardinal Gibbons, the rank- Ing churchman of the United States, and peer, by the law of the Holy Roman Em- pire, of princes of the blood. “To Cardinal Gibbons that dally wulk fs the most welcome, If not the most impor- tant, act of his life. It fs not a lelsurely stroll, but a vigorous, swinging walk. It takes him some days far out Charles street to Mt. Royal avenue, with Its string of monuments, and even to Druld Ml park. The appalling grades of Charles street—it hasn't & foot of level ground in two miles—do not worry him. He takes them at & long, easy stride, brushing through the crowd of shoppers, idlers and dandies, and holding his pace steadily ur til his four or five miles have been aceor plished. Now and then you will see visiting bishop at his side, panting breat lessly up the hills, but more often he alone. Publicans and sinners pass him t time of day; policemen salute; & frie drops into a step for a block or two, T greater the crowd the better he scems like it The cardinal was 75 last July, but there is still many & hard day's work in him “Dinner time at the cardinal's comes shortly after noon, There Is u good ©ook downstairs, and the chance guest en Joys the meal as well as the company, b the head of the house himself is no epl cure. The delicacies of which Baltimoro boasts—the terrapin, the wild duck, the soft crabs, and so on—are seldom on hi piate. Simple roasts content him, with baked apple to follow as dessert. In the matter of driniables, his cholce Is buute milk. He drinks it dally, and he ugree with Prof. Metchnikoff that it makes the old feel young. But the cardinal fs v rigld teetotaler. On occaslon he is 1 averse to & glass of white wine. Walking is bis tonjo. Let him have his dafly tramp and he is content, When he faces & city trip beyond walking distanc he telephones to & livery stable for & public hackney coach. He i3 the only arch bishop 1n the world who has no carriage of his own ™ old Iy reses, into Texa after twenty fathe vears n voted al- first he of a *d of country life where he now lives, in churct t of an Intere Mencken In the Magazine, Mr, rican house