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m jJAILT CAPITAL JOUBNAL, SALEM,' OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1913. SUWES DF ISLANDERS Congressman Tavenner Says Investi gation Shows Hawaii Land of Oppression and Misery. MISERABLE WAGES ABE PAID BY THIS GEEAT CONCERN Immense Profits Are Secured and Con gress Is Asked to Continue Col lecting From. People. By Clyde H. Tavenner. Washington, June 21. A land of op pression, misery and sorrow that is the picture drawn of the Hawaiian su gar plantations by testimony brought out by the senate lobby investigation. The very crowd of men whose legis lative activities in Washington brought forth the recent lobby acusation from President Wilson, are the represents tives of rich planters whose cruel ex ploitation of thoir wage slaves has no counterpart under the Stars and Stripes, These sugar growers, earning profits of 0 to 90 per cent and asking for the continuance of a tax of over $100,000, 000 annually on the American people that they may continue to rca'p their golden rewards, are coming before con gress in the name of "protection against the pauper labor of Europe," all the while they maintain a labor stand ard that iB a blot on American civiliza tion. So terrible are working conditions in Hawaii that European and Asiatic la borers, deceived into coming to the is land, literally starve themselves in or der to save up passage money for San Francisco and oscap"o the trap into which they have been inveigled. A horde of these pauper laborers are be ginning to arrive in California, in their extremity willing to work for any price, thus depressing wages of Amer icans on the Pacific coast Incidentally, Senator Heed, of Mis souri, a member of the lobby comittee, showed that a report exposing this con dition was written by Daniel F. Kcefe, commissioner of immigration, who went to Hawaii at the request of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, to study the in dustrial conditions. The report, how ever, was never published. It was sup pressed by the Taft administration. The Inireau of labor sent a man to Hawaii to get out another report on labor con ditions. This report flattered the planters and was published. The government investigator who wrote the whitewashing report was shortly thereafter given a good job with the Hawaiian territorial government, while Secretary Nagel later busied him self preparing charges looking to the Tenioval of Kcefe. Miserable Existence. Senator Heed, however, resurrected the suppressed report and brought it before the lobby committee. The planters have been proudly proclaiming the fact that no peonage exists in Ha waii. After reading the report I am convinced it would be better for the wrotched plantation and sugar mill la "borers if they were peons or actual slaves. They would be better treatad y their owners. Wages run from $8 per month (for children) up to $28 (for white adult men). Hours are 10 and 12 a day. The -employes live in miserable shacks pro Tided by the companies. The men buy food from company stores where prices range, from 10 to 70 per cent higher than average food prices in New York, "Washington, Chicago and San Francis co. The food is sold to the plantation stores by Honolulu wholesale houses owned for the most part by the planta tion owners. Doctors employed by the companies "have gone to visit sick laborers 24 to 48 houTS after being called, some times only to find corpses instead of patients. Laborers are called insulting names and treated like dogs by field bosses. "In a desperate effort to keep down the wage rate of all employes," the plant ers are spending huge sums importing Thilipinos for laborers. These work men are the dregs 'of the Philippine population, gathered from jails and almshouses, the very young and the very old, weak and racked with dis ease. The imported laborer, arriving penni less, is held in actual subjugation, un ..able to escape from the island, except hardier individuals, who can endure starvation while saving passage money. But the rich owners have devised a crafty "homestead' system, whereby in exchange for an acre of land re ceived after bix years' occupancy the homesteader virtually binds himself to labor for life on the plantation. Silence the Knockers. Under the above caption the Orego nian Monday puts the knife deeply into the American habit of advertising her short comings and adding o them to their own hurt, the Oregonian says. The American people have acquired a habit of late years of searching the National conscience and making open confession of their sins before the whole world. This is a characteristic of the morbidly religious which it is not well for us to carry to an extreme in public discussion of our affairs. We ean find the weak spots in our public and busines affairs and can strengthen 'them without continually harping upon the subject aud creat ing the impression among other na tions that our whole political aud business system is rotten to tho core, When we look back to tho opening of the Twentieth century and make comparison, we can perceive abund ant evidence that we are cutting out the rottenness and building in new and healthy tissue in the National body. We have made great progress in placing party organization and the government undor direct control of the people without intervention of bosses and are continuing progress along the same line. We have estab lished a much higher standard of pub lic service than formerly prevailed. "We have brought the railroads under public control, which they now wel come as a buffer between them and their patrons. We have made great progress in breaking up monopoly, so great that many illegal combinations are no sooner attacked in the courts than they voluntarily comply with the government's demands. We are con tinuing this work of restoring ' com petition and have compelled big busi ness to 'assume a very different atti tude towards government. It no longer controls, dictates and threatens. The tie between it and the governing power has been weakened, if not broken, and it is on the defensive. We have not yet actually put some of our trust magnates in jail, but Borne of them are under sentence and few can feel assured that, if after a few more years of law enforcement, any remain blind to the signs of the times, impris onment of a recalcitrant monopolist will become as much a matter of course as that of a bank wrecker. But many of our people have harped so continually on the sins of our po) ticians and big business men that'thcy have created the impression in the world at large that almost all cur pub lie men are corrupt and that all our big busines men are rascals. Those muck- rakers and callers-down of woe upon the Nation have blackened our reputa tion In the eyes of the world. The ef fect has been that all American in vestments are tcoming to be looked on with suspicion and the price of all our securities iB depreciated because some are much watered. The good are made to suffer for the bad because of our own neglect to discriminate. Our disposition to foul our own nest has become so confirmed that, when Great Britain accuses us of violating the Panama canal treaty, certain sel fish interests which are injured by the canal law find ready support among the people of sensitive conscience when they take up the plea. Tt is calmly assumed by Americans that our own government, deliberately or negligent ly passed a law in violation of a treaty and that no honorable course is open to us except to confess our Bin and repeal the law. There is the same disposition to accept as true the charge of Japanese jingoes that the California land law violates treaties. There is a general disposition among tho agita tors against toll exemption and the war alarmists to take it for granted that in any foreign controversy their own nation is always wrong and the othor nation is always right. Other nations do not act thus. There has beon no greater financial Bcandal in recent times than the French Pana ma canal swindle, but tho French cut out the rotten spot and stopped there. They did not by a general, long-continued and indiscriminate campaign give the world to understand that all French securities were equally bad. Nor did the English when Argentine specula tion wrecked tho Baring Bros.' bank or when rubber speeujation caused many to lose millions. Theytold the facts, repaired the wrong, loft the rep utation of securties in general unim paired and continued business, saying no more about the scandal. Wnen their government is engaged in foroign con troversy, they stand by it as a man stands by his own family. It is about time Americans changed their tune. The "knockers" should be silenced. By all means let us expose and punish the rascals; but do not let us confound the honest with them, nor meekly admit our government to have been in the wrong whenever arotlfr nation calls its acts in question, Worse Than the Lobby. The investigation of the lobby at Washington has revealed something worse than a lobby. It has shown that there are members of the United States senate who are financially interested in the pending tariff bill. It has shown that they intend to Bpeak and vote upon the subject. Whatever else may be said against a lobbyist, he cannot be accused of be traying a public trust. He docs not promote the greed of individuals who profess to servo the people". He is pre cisely what he appears to be, an Bgcnt of self-seekers, and those whom ho ad dresses secretly or openly may accept his arguments of reject them, as they please. A senator who has a pecuniary stake !n the legislation that he is forwarding is like a judge who should try a case involving his own fame or fortune. He is like a juror who should assume to pans upon the guilt or innocence of a relative cr partner. He is like an ar biter or a referee who should undertake the adjustment of a controversy to whch he W8, , partT, THE MARRIED BY DOBOTHY DLt, A young girl writes me that she is very much ill love with a mar.-ied man, who tells her that he is devotud to her, but that he does not intend to divorce his wife in order to marry her. She says that she has lost all interest in her young companions and is very un happy and she doesn't know what to do, and that she will take my advice as to whether to give her married sweetheart up or not. I am afraid that it is too good to be true that this poor, silly child will be guided by my counsel in this mat ter, but in case it should be possible that any word of mine could influence her or any other girl in such a dilem ma, I urge her with all the earnestness that I can possibly command to break with the man before another hour rolls over her head. Time and again have I written on this subject,- trying to make girls real ize not only how wrong, but how fool- ish they were to waste their youth, their sweetness, their chance in life in love affairs with married men. Again and again have I pointed out to them what a Borry bargain it is when a girl gives all and gets nothing in return. I ask this girl who writes me to sit down and to calmly figure out her case. On one side of the page let her write down Morality, A Clear Con science, A Good Name, Self ffierpect, The Respect of Friends and Neighbors, Duty to One's Family, Husband, Home Children. These are things that she forfeits if she continues her affair with the married man She may not think much of Morality but a gnawing Conscience is a bad companion to have with you night and day, and what about Self Respect, and tho Respect of One's Circle of Ac quaintances, and the black mortifica tion of knowing that one has brought uishonor on one s name! Do you believe that the love of any man on earth evor pays a girl for knowing that her family is ashamed of her, or that any dagger could pierce soul with such agony as seeing other women draw their skirts away from nen Ana ao you tninK that any worthy young man, the sort of a young man you would like to marry, would care to marry a girl whose name had been bandied about as the former sweetheart of some married man! Morality, A Clear Conscience, A Good Name, Self Respect, The Respect of Friends and Neighbors, . Duty to One's Family, Husband, Home, Chil dren these are pretty good things for a woman to have, little sister. You throw them over the windmill if you continue your love affair with a mar ried man. What are you going to writo on the other side of the .ledgerf Scandal! Oh, yes you are. Don't think you can keep it hidden and se cret. Such things always come out. Don't think people won't talk about you. Gossip has a thousand tongues, and not one of them will Bparo you. The first time a girl goes to dinner in a cafe with a married man, she leaves her good name behind her. That's the price you will pay for your married sweetheart s attention. That's the price every woman navs, and she pays it in tears and sorrow. Have nothing to do with any married man who makes love to you. Such romances are the toboggan slide to per dition. Beware of them. BONDS GLUT MABKET AC CORDING TO FIGURES. Present condition of the general bond market is discussed by the New York Sun. Figures are given proving that the market is saturated with no hope for hotter prices until conditions improve by absorption of present is sues. Various causes contribute to low bond prices but chief among them is the fact that cities, railroads, indus trial concerns and governments have flooded the market with issues that find no buyers. The Sun says that available sup plies of capital are insufficient to pro vide for all the financing and borrow ing. As a result financial centers are suffering from a credit strain of world wide application. Railroads, unable to sell bonds upon a satisfactory in come basis, have rosorted to short-term loans, constituting obligations which must be rcfeunded or paid later on, and these short-term loans may become due before capital has emerged from the flood of securities now drowning it. State, county ami city bonds are backed by the taxing power. That backing makes them gilt-edged invest ments, and yet in March municipal bond Issues which failed of sale ex ceeded by $.1,000,000 the amount of is sues sold. Many municipal bonds fail ed to sell in April and May. Many is sues were withdrawn entirely ami re advertised at higher interest rates to tempt buyers. Many of the unsalable bonds were among the best In " the United States. The aggregnte of un sold municipal bonds for the last three months is said to approximate $100,- noo.ooo. Sew York 4 per cent state bonds, always regarded as gilt edged, have not found a ready market. Today New York is negotating $27,000,000 short term notes paying 5 per cent Interest. The 4 per cent bonds are unsalable ex uc uwivy uiscouui, ana rew xorx is adopting the short-term note device of railroads rather than rob the future by selling long-time bonds at a sacri fice. New York City was fortunate in selling $45,000,000 4i per cent bonds, in spite of the fact that the in terest rate was the highest aud the price the lowest in many years. In 1901 the great majority of Ameri can municipal bonds ion ml a ready market, and the interest rate rau from 3 to 3Vi per cent. Sixty per cent of the aggregate sold in 1912 bore 4K pr cent or higher interest. To tempt buyers rates must be 'made attractive and these high rates react on outstanding issues which are forced down in price. The financial world is feeling a credit strain that must be removed before prices and rates im prove for the borrowers. President's Duty in Legislation. (Springfield Republican.) The charge by the Michigan senator that tho president of the United States comes nearer being a lobbyist than any one he knows is likely to be quickly forgotten. It is a charge that cannot be sustained without indicting the Am- rican pe0p'8 ,0' eloctin P8' the party system for making the presi dent the leader of his party in congress and even the constitution of the United States for giving the' president the power to write messages, address con gress in person and veto legislation. For all these things combine to force the president toi be "a person whose business it is to promote or prevent leg islation" which is Senator Town- send 'b very broad and vague definition of a lobbyist. A president of the Uni ted States who didn't promote or pre vent legislation would be a fit subject for a glass case. Those Shocking Frincetonians. (Chicago Record Herald.) "Of the 300 young men who will be graduated from Princeton next month, nearly one-half smoke tobacco and more than one-half correspond with girls and admit they have kissed girls other than their sisters. One student corresponds with 16 young ladies, and most of them correspond with two or three. They need Billy Sunday at Princeton." Whoeling Register. What a shocking revelation of moral depravity and general eussedness! The muckrakers have muckraked the col leges, but thoir job has not been thor oughly done, it appears. No Boanerges having risen in the pulpit to fulminate against the excesses of these abandoned youths, it was the plain duty of the Wheeling editor to do so. SEABCH BEING MADE FOB BOLD SPANGLE MISCREANTS rONlTKD PRISS LIASIfc Will. Spokane, Wash., June 21. Search is "being made in the territory around Spangle today for an unidentified In dian and white man who last night bound Emil Frasse hand and foot in liia ranch house, over powered his 80-year- old mother and then took Frosse'a young sister into an adjoining room, evidently intending to do her harm. Only by the chance visit of a neighbor, John Neilsen, was the progra mdistuV ed. The two men fired at Nielson, who jumped through a window and escaped giving the alarm. The intruders then fled, taking a rifle and little money. The girl was unhurt. The Indian and white man, on their representation that thoy were traveling through the country, had been guests at Frasse 's table a short time before the attack. Need of Jewish University. OlfiTiD mass taiasD wirs. Cincinnati, O., June 21. Tho need of a Jewish university in Ialestine was the most important questiou which came up today before tho opening ses sion of the sixteenth annual conven tion of the Federation of Zionists which opened this morning. This year's convention is considered the most im portant ever held by the Zionists be cause of the number of vital topics to be considered. Among thesj is the matter of dmanding that the United States compel a more lenient atti tude by Russian government officials toward the persecuted Jews of that country. It was argued today that the establishment of a Jewish university at Palestine will give to the young lews of Russia, who are barred from universities there because of their re ligion and nationality, a place to edu- ate themselves. Tho recent Wait of Nahiim Sokalan in Ihis country was leclared to have greatly strengthened the Zionist movement in America. Noted Men at Picnic. umtcd ruins UAICD WIRI.) Chicago, 111., Juno 21, With More lith Nicholson, famous writer, heading the parade as drum-major, the Indiunn Sococty of Chicago, held a picnic, bar becue and parade today at Ceilnr Lake, ind, A "movie man" was tiiere to preserve the antics and costumes of In diana's famous literary men I nd art Ists, including John T. Mcl'utcheon. Wilbur D, Nesbit, Alexander ll.mks, E, J. Buffington and Joseph II. I'lefrecs. A Chance. Atchison Olidie. The society fur the prevention ol useless noises might make a start by reducing the number of cheers from three to one. We don't hear so much about tramps as we did a few years ago. Are they disappearing! - MM M H i The Manicure Lady ! MM IIIIIH "George," said tho Manicure Lady, "I ain't felt so romantic as I have this forenoon for a ldbg time. I don 't suppose barbers ever feels very tender like and pensive except when some Joe with a hard beard gots shaved twice over aud gives them no tip. But it is different with me, George. You wouldn't believe it, would you, if I told you I can hear robbins whistling for rain and doves cooing for their mates even if I am sitting at a manicure tahln right down here in the heart of the Tenderloin. The way I feel this morn ing there is a golden haze around the sun and purple edges to all them clouds that floats fleecy-like overhead." What's all this about!" the head barber wanted to know. "It must be romance or hop. I never heard you get gushy before. You look kinda pale, too, Riddo. You had better try going to bed early and gitting up early for a week, and eat plenty of celory to keep your nerves good." Well, George, I might as well tell you that I do feel kinder romantic this forenoon, the first time Binee that fel low over in Flatbush proposed to me and shattered love's dream by copping one of sister Maine's rings off from the dresser and never returning to our humble abode. That was years ago, George, and just as the Bear was heal ing over, here I go and get sentimental again." "Wha is it this timet" asked the Head Barber. "It ain't no fellow," answered the Manicure Lady "It's a book that I was reading last night. Brother Wilfrod was reading it down at the public library and whon nobody was looking he Btuck it under his coat and mooched home with it. It was worth tic risk.! George. It 's one of the grandest books I have ever saw. The name of it is 'Famous Loves of History.' It tells all about Napoleon and Josephine and about a young fellow named Paris that fell in love with a girl named Holen that used to live in Troy, N. Y., and it tells about Mr. Anthony and Cleo patra and how Mr. Anthony lost the Roman Umpire by staying in Egypt so long that his wife had to go to Reno or some place like that to get a di - vorce." I minding mother of how they used to "I never was much on those ro-j walk Blong them lilac bordered lanes, mances," said the Hoad Barber. "Tho plighting their troth over and over way butter and eggs is selling now, it again. Nobody plights no troth now takes all the mental 'rlthmetic to keep adays, George, until the young girl's Mary and the children. When you got folks has got a report on the young to live four flights up without no ele- gont from Dun's and Bradstreet 's. vator and git most of your eatables at , "Tho more I think about them a delicatessen store, love's young dream gits kinda frazzled around the edge." "But just tho same," insisted the Manicure Lady, "I think that a girl or a gent can forgit their surroundings when they set down with the book like that 'Famous Loves' book. Gee, Instead of now, just bo I didn't have George, when I was reading about that to live then, too, and be in the same brave young Paris stealing a king's, Bhop with "you. Hore comes the norv wifo away and taking her up state to , oub customer that never likes to hear Troy, it made mo wish that some follow. would come down from the Adiron- 4t The Head By HANS. 'I'm suro gettin to be some pop ular with all the advertising you're giving me," Baid tho Head Waitress to the Steady Customer in the Cafo d 'En fant. 'Yes," he replied, "a nowsapcr man, Louise, is a good friend to have. I am glad you appreciate that fact." "I don't know whether I do or not," replied the Head Waitress. "I'd like to know what your object is. There ain't nobody nowadays that does any thing without an objoct. Every kindly word has its sting in these parlor tlmoB." 'Parlous times," corrected the Steady Customer. 'If you knew what I meant you didn't , havo to correct me," snapped the Head Waitress. "You newspaper guys are always showing off, And let me toll you something. Mario, the cashier, is gettin' sore at you. You had her in the paper saying 'bloke' the other day. She don't call no guy a bloke. She comes from Indiana, where thoy don't use them kind of ex pressions." "What does she cnll them!" asked the Steady Customer. "Fellers," said the Head Waitress, and that's proper, too. You wouldn't WILLIE RITCHIE PEEVED BY EX MANAGER'S REMARKS lUNlTIO MISS IJUlStt WIRI.J San Francisco, June 21, "Just one more word from Nolan, and I 'II tell the renl cause of onr trouble," snid Willie Ritchie here, in ifiscimsing his break with his former manager, and Nolan's alleged reference to him since tliut time as an "ingrate." i nitchie is good and hot under the collnr, following the rending of a state ment attributed to Nolan after their final pairing nt Graner's place yester day afternoon, whon Nolan refused to shake hand) with the fighter. I H dacks and kidnap me away from my father's roof. Of course it would hurt the old gent a lot, because with my earning capacity, I am tho only pillar up homo on which thoy lean on. The old gent wouldn 't care if somebody came along and kidnaped brother Wil fred, because the poor boy is as far from a job as he has ever been in all his bright young career. It was only last night he nicked father's bank roll for a case note, the last one he will get for some time, as the old gent has sworn off getting mellow." "I don't see anything very roman tic about stealing the king's wife or any other man'B wife," said the Head Barber. "Don't you!" said the Manicure Lady. "Gee, I think it must have been simply grand to have lived in them days and to have been stole by some guy with a little nerve like that Paris fellow. And the book told about Romeo and Juliet. I was thinking, George, that if I could have a handsome young fellow like Romeo prt a (adder up against our front porch and whisper words of love to me I would accept his proposal of marriage and beat it down the lad der with him quick before the porch broke. "Napoleon and Josephine had an awful sweet love, bo the book says. The story tolls how much that great general loved his queen and how much she loved him until things commenced breaking bad for him and he lost out in that awful retreat from Waterloo and the battle of Bunker Hill, or what ever was the. name of that fight he lost to Duke Wellington and his Ger man soldiers. There ain't no love like that no more, George. When a young '. follow wants to got married nowadays" he starts saving up until he has money enough to buy a house and lot up in the Bronx, and when he proposes and gets turned down he takes the money and loses it playing roulette. There ain't even such love as our fathers and mothers used to have. "Every once in a while whon the old gont comes home from lodge with j his foot well apart and a klnda balmy 1 look on hij map I can hear him re- beautiful old romances which can never be no more, the more I wisht I had lived then Instead of now." "If you're going to keop on harping the way you started out this morning," said the Head Barber, "it wouldn't hurt my feelings if you had lived then women talk, him." Humor him, kid humor Waitress say, I'm going out with my best bloke tonight,' would yout No, you'd Bay 'my best feller.' " "I am duly crushed and chastised," replied tho Steady Customer. "Any thing else!" "Yes, me and Marie would like to know where you and your dark friend go every day after lunch," said the Head Waitress. "You don't go right back to your office, because me and her Been you walk tho othor way every day." "Why, we go to a moving picture show," explained the Steady Cus'omer. "We find that gazing at stirring West ern scones or reckless deodB of daring takes onr minds off the violent ef forts of our stomachs that are protest ing against the sinners that you hand iib in here." "Kiii-in," sniffod the Head Waitress. " I can't see how you can go to such places. ' ' "Woll, to bo truthful," said the steady ciiMtomer. "I liko to go there because It's all dark and I can close my eyes and think of your sweet faces. ' ' "Some time you'll close your eyes in tho dnrk,'' snid thn Head Waitress, "and when you wnko up you won't ho able to see your watch any more, you poor simp." Guaranteed Eczema Bemody. The constant itching, burning, red ness, rash and disagrooable effocts of eczema, tetter, salt rheum, itch, piles and irritating akin eruptions can be readily cured aud the skin tnado clear nnd smooth with Dr. Hobson's Eczema Ointment. Mr. J. C. Evolnnd, of Hath, 111., says: "I had eczema twonty five and had tried everything. AH failed. When I found Dr. Hobson's Eozoma Ointment I found a cure." This oint ment is the formula of a physician and has been In uso for years not an ex periment. Tlint is why we can guar antee I. All druggists, or by mail. I'rlco BOo. Pfolffer Chemical Co., Phil adelphia, and St. Louis." J. C. Perry. Margaret Mason Describes What Con stitutes Seal Swell Garments v'or Summer at Shore. BLACK SUIT CONTINUES TO BE FAVOEITE WITH MANY. Bathing Turbans This Season Butt Gamut of Vivid Brilliancy and Will Set off Ocean Well. By Margaret Mason. When the chic bathing girl, With a waterproof curl and a costume that's strictly marine ; Trips in for a lave, With her hair in a wave She goes out to sea and be seen. ohitrd rasas iuau was. New York, June 21. If you want to be an ocean swell, a bathing uit that is nautical but nice is moet appropri ately built of sea blue moire. This watered silk lends itself with charm ing aptitude to a dip in the briny. With a sailor collar of white moire, a slightly bloused waist and short sleeves cuffed in the white the distinctive feature of this little bathing suit is its pleated skirt. For a too slender figure, whose angularity is often over exposed at the shore, this pleated skirt model is an ample disguise. An other Bmart moire bath frock is of cool,' slate gray, its monotone being re lieved by a wide sash and collar of old blue silk polka dotted in cerise. The bathing cap to match is sharjed like a Quaker coif with a tuin back cuff of the polka dotted trimimng framing the face. Satin bathing san dals and hose of gray complete an out fit to lure old Neptune from the depths. For a buxum bather a blue and green striped taffeta butoning with jade disks stright from the V-shaped throat to the knee-length hem gives a good long lino. A little collar of filet lace outlines the neck and the sleeves are ong, proclaiming the triumph of "style" over comfort. Satin, meesaline, poplin, taffeta, mo hair, sateen and moire silk are all pop ular materials for the bathing suit a la mode. Now the craze for si'.s: crepe has even broken into the watei., Per fectly stunning costumes for the surf are constructed of this clinging fabric Ono of a soft raising shade ia made with a Russian blouse and a collar, cuffs and wide belt of glowing Bul garian embroidery. The black bathing suit is a peren nial favorite. Livened with touches of white it is always smart. A model that turns its wearor into a veritable silhouotte is of black tussor with a tiny vest and Byronio collar of white bengnline. An original black poplin is cut with a bolero with tho front of black and white plaid taffeta and the collar, cuffs and girdle chocked up tho same. Though the bathing suits refrain from a too pronounced riot of color, the bathing turbans this season run the gamut of vivid brilliancy. Cunning all rubbor caps come in every bright hue and thape and the silk covered ones are polka dotted and treated vdth cu bist dyes and designs. Old ocean's hoaving boson will Boem to be Bport ing a bouquet of hot-houso blooms when these giddy, bright caps top the white caps. While most of the cap modes conform to the regulation Dutch cap, tan ami turban shapes, thore is for the modern mermaid a new small brimmod hat of waterproof Bilk stitch ed like the little silk and linen hat for dry land sports. It is banded in a scarf of Futurist tendency. 'Betsy tho bells of the bathers" in lieu of going in for her trophy belt of scalps this season sports buttons on hor bathing suit instead. Her divers- tins are railed upon for a pearl button each dngravod with the respec tive monogram of the donor. Thus nho is enabled to keep her affections and her bathing suit woll buttoned all at the same time. What a record of shattered hearts to find thoir way eventually Into tho button bag of dis card. It seems inded a pity that the French custom of oathing sans skirt should bo taboo over here. Thn supple jersey and trunks of the Parisian nier- maidens aro much more chic tad sen sible for disporting in the waves than all tho excess of fashion the American water nymph piles on. Rather the American bather robes herself for a sand and sun bath than an n-matie one. Too often her fetching attire will bear no closer proximity to tho wet than a Hindi along tho sand. Tis a sad tact that most of the smartest bathing suits will not bear bathing at all. A dip in the brine Is all very fine In a bathing suit built for immersion. But ono's more 'a peach All dry on the beach If ono's togs shrink from waves with aversion. Matchmakers never act the world on fire.
