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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,
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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.