NEW-YORK DATTT TRTRT XE, SUNDAY, APRTL 11, 1909. 5
WHY WILL WOMEN GET OFF A CAR THE WRONG WAY?
Chicago Blames Their Corsets a^nd Tries to Cure the Dangerous Ha.bit. TTesteni investigation of a problem that has con- young on?s who are agile in tight corsets, and with fßuadeJ r^yc^o'ogists and perplexed coroners' their young strength overcome the binding of the Juries «ver since the day when the 10-vcly mule stays to such a degree that they get off the cars b«pan dragging- the first bob-tailed passenger car properly. through a city's streets has brought forth one new "It Is the large, fat women, laced to the last answer to The question. Why dees woman Ignore point of durance, who have the most trouble. the latrs of nioticn and alieht the wrong: way from They are compressed as If in a steel case. They a. streetcar, with a consequent fall on her face !f cannot bend, and in consequence getting off a car the vehicle is not standing stiM? The reply is: Is a hard task for them. et ;tight lacing. Ccrf : "The strong scrubwoman, who does not wear cor- Having ai-q-jired this momentous information as sets, can Set off a car as easily as a man and to cause, the municipal frovernmer.t of Chicago and fare In the right direction while doing it." Chicago City Railway Company th« are undertak- i It was self-evident that the streetcar company ing to-day to nullify the effect. They have de- must find a remedy facing must habit, for woman's backward. crt-efl thst woman abandon her inherited Ifone existed. The riddle remained unsolved until of wearing corsets— althoush the new kind not the other day, when a bright idea was carried to that extend! down near the knees is said to irn- Mitten. The Idea was suggested by the p*rl!her ".!> where the style merely President discarded ren- word ""co-operation," and meant a new appeal to dered her jikely tr> puffer a broken nose— but the the public. In place of the 65 per cent placards, habit of emulating the forgetful Mrs. Ix>t when So. Mr. Mitten has ing works of the lithographer's rlie step? off a car platform. Through its public art in all his car?. These are pictures of the side eclsools the city is instructing the pirls to face of woman getting off Forma By means of mechanical appliances and a poy-as-you-e.nter car. with a falling burden of \u25a0warning posters the public service tramway cor- backward and down amid her bundles at end of the coach. .while at the other poration Is trying to reform woman herself. one there I? represented another woman alighting with As there ar^ two powers thus engaged •i this crusade, ss thai is a double motive behind it. upright -poise end smiling face. Th* chief purpose is to reduce to a minimum the THE REMEDY ANNOUNCED. number of traction casualties, to prevent suffer- In t-g. to preserve human "facts from scars incident Tacked on the side of the car the picture, pen '\u25a0- violent collisions with rough pavements of wood wherein the shown are sketched in brilliant orange blue, and stone, to avert the breaking of legs and arms hues of and black and there is a sign and to sa-ve gowns from being splotched with mud In big letters pf Jet. Half of the signs are In- or torn Into strings. But there Is a financial a? scribed: -K-eli as humanitarian object. By decreasing the trod. csj was his magic alembic. Before and for i «r.ter it calls attention to this notice: "The Right Way." c lorg tin:e after the advent cf this specific means Beiow there Is another hand pointing toward PLACARDS BY WHICH CHICAGO HOPES TO TEACH HER WOMEN HOW TO GET OFF STREETCARS PROPERLY. WHILE PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION IN THE SAME c* transportation, ir. CJilcago. woman was the conceded tumbling woman, with this sinlstei expression: ART IS BEING GIVEN TO GIRLS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. to have ot.b Inviolable characteristic of femininity, The gome of her sex might affect a more cr less mas- Wrong Way." The other half of the signs roan as folloivs: euUr? mod* of garments, seize and prove her right to occupy man's ofile© chair and- in other things pet away as far s.s possible from the proclivities CHARITY TOWARD SUICIDES SEEMS TO INCREASE o* their oid-fa^i^ortcd grandmothers, but every- where &.r.d always the newest of the new women — retair.ed the distinguishing trait of facln? backward of the Archbishop of that city. But since tion of the King It will, by an order of Coun- death as the only alternative to dishonor in hoppiTy? or «TriTigiii£ or siepplr:^ from a street- Church of England Tc\kes he and the six dioetsan bishops of his province cil, be added to the official liturgy of the there are many cases in which— a predicament car. And nvsr& man was willingthat she^ should. are obliged to be In London while Parliament Church of England. of this kind Is likely to arise his fellow citizens far aMi It enable him to play the pa'2ar:t and Steps Christian tend to their duties in the House Of course there are some who may argue win always (Seal more gently with his memory minister to her dej^ndency. with his strength? But, to Provide ' of Lords, and rarely at>ie to put in concession of burial to sui- Ifhe selects suicide. c .a* Ths Chicago schools and the pay-as-you- are therefore that the Christian an appearance at the convocation, it »nter ran divesting vrozran of the one niark that BuriaJ for Them. northern cides Is calculated to Increase their number a that save where purely local matters by the a to ' THE OLD METHOD OF BURIAL. fcarks back to chivalry. Below this sign, also, removal of deterrent the crime. But — two hands direct wo- 1 \u25a0 For this reason that is to say, th# TVlth. the !nstaJl3.tiou of this car the Chicago black i d the real business of th.* Church it may be questioned whether the refusal of because men to observe the Illustrated 1 City Railway Cornpar;y, operating under a new "Right"and "Wrong* [Copyright. 1809, by t^e Brenfwood Compaj&y.] Is transacted by the convocation in London, the religious rites the self-elaln has accom- . world is disposed to look. less harshly than It ways. Thus Js the many million tramway , to frsrchlse. set out to give lte long suffering strap- dollar crime in the •d engage our attention. plished sur- ;did a hundred years asr> upon those was hay* corporation trying to overcome the 111 effects of Whiie self-destruction remains a anything beyond embittering' the tfcr.ger jja.trons, ts President Thomas 71. Mitten -• I been by one circumstance or another t«"> tight lacing on reet car travel. sight of civilized man. many persons are now- invocation meets '.n response to viving relatives and friends of the suicide driven •msouncec. "the best service !r. the world." Pur- ? - own — actlcn of the The city governments campaign is being carried adays disposed to view this act with a greater -. erelgn. Issued through the against a unforgiving- take tbetr lives the Church to the intention Mr. Mitten hung up at the Church that carried Its r-&r.t on through the of charity times. A : Can erbury, holds its ses- beyoi Certainly of England in making provision for the Chris- {rest er.d of every car a placard inviting the co- Board Education's physics] cul- amount of than in former and ness •i deal:. it cannot be said ture department in the high who tter's palace tian burial of those guiltyof felo d© se may be Bpera-tlor. of th* public and closing with a state- schools. All of the tendency to deal gently with those when ancient of Lambeth. to have served as a deterrent, for the number gymnasium exercises d«*itjr.*d. only to concurrent!} described In keeping with the spirit of the ment nlznosi as l:.spirlng as ••Remember the are not confronted by trouble or disgrace have soupht with those of Parliament at West- of suicides is greater than ever. Self-destruc- an assist In the physical development girls Melse!" the exact phrase being: "The city g^ts 5S of the and refuge in death is indeed one of the features r, on the opposite bank of the River tion seems indeed to march hand In hand with times and In sympathy with the present state* "' to make them strong end agile, but also to make - hap- j,er c«r.*- By that n-ean« bia constantly reminded of the first this twentieth century. Thami Itis l.'.id^d into an ui>per and a civilization, the people advance of popular sentiment. The days are now them selr-relialnt regards their safety. decade of lower and more In cltlzerj return its new franchise as own house, pily past when the mode of burial of the suicide tie that In for Bpedal •' Ever growing enlightenment has brought with r consisting .if the Primate of of progress enlightenment the putting every attention is given lo the danger street- the realms and prayer, ise cc— par.y was 55 i-er cent of It an understanding- of misery All Enplano and the twenty-four to was to thrust him at midnight, without paid car travel. increase in the diocesan greater is the tendency •which they show r^ckei Lack into the pockr-ts of tliose who suffering only nat- • • Into a hole dug at the centre of the crossing of Emll Groer.ei. physical instiuctor, is credited and In sympathy for It is while the other ia com- take their own lives. It was only the other fares, granting, cf course, that it would meander . high roads, with stone upon the face so;ue with estabJishir.g in th« Chicago ncr.' the nrst ural that this disposition to kindlier Judgments .- fins, elxty-one arch- were describing two a to taxpayers In way through The • day that the cable dispatches rack the t.!.i»p a sharp through body to oj classes in the art mounting expression in those Churches proctorj, or rep- wealth, and stake driven the -'.ty treasury. Into which per cent of th« com- science and of «nd should find its chief elected how a young man, possessed of great dismounting from a streetcar platform. ll© con- which by their Founder that the ih<> — prevent his ghost from walking. pmsy'a groi« receipts was to t>e poured. were taught cathedral chapters, and great talents, warm friends in fact, of every- structed a small car. whose platform wat the forty-six A man of the name of Williams, a murderer Fr-Fi^e-t Mitten, who learned in Buffalo hoiv to greatest and most Indispensable of all virtues proctors for rise benefited or parish that could contribute to height that ordinary trolley had thing render exist- * great city traction eystem. placed Ir:- of of an car arid ie charity. Under the circumstances the an- brains, who had cheated the gallons by killing-himself. opente step »-e!*a ence delightful—blew out his toward to whether the^pub- a at the side. Several girls would a • was disposed of In this fashion on January 12, fpectors m the cars ascertain nouncement need very wa-- incidental. What were ' ' Roman civilization may be said with, l leaci; •• King who, namely, in June, IS2U. a burial similar in- was an I^ca to change, the habi:? of tho b. few \u25a0"<=' s ;/ractlce. durii | I such a mariner as to provide Christian burial if he approves of them, highest point, patricians, after ex- a:>e:- - \u25a0 " reached its body received a them how *»v> the self-slain. a order dignities to the dead took place at the tner. for Pre^dent Mitten had thousand - for of the Privy hausting every pleasure satisfaction within always c girls - and Eaton street one coanplamUi that his cars were full . -.is wil]In the matter. ken, Invite and Junction of and Grosvenor Place. tad \u25a0 - their would their families and that the second man who v oan can It Is difficult to conceive anything more bar- of "seat hogs." as well to ci friends to srreat feast?, at which the feature of occupy part of seat, unless he were tx- RECOMMENDS SPECIAL SERVICE. barous. The thrusting ofa. body into a grave in triodl to a : \u25a0 hang way over in Buck, principal of the Lake View the entertainment was the suicide of the host. cepttaozJly narrorr. had to half Professor F. C. • - v!pws unconsecrated ground without any religlcua the School, the pre- ng the of To such an extent was this an established cus- tt« centri ai-le. which naturally obstructed High where Professor roener set ceremony whatsoever is but one remove better, remedy for the cedent, over \u25a0.\u25a0 results. "A two archbl f the i'hurch of that there is still existence the formula lr.gress «-pr*-bS of others. No was enthusiastic • - tom In and the Established Church of KnglanJ by Woman alone figured in the limb, he said, "is better than five minutes of time sit in at Lambeth ha to banquets, as --ear hog" wis found. of invitation these farewell relegating past and .-, • : thl3 cruel fashion t<> the has inspectors' reports, mads to a modest individual. any day. It Is better to take a littie tinia 9, but iv . iiia-.n .'rimace, to the King as permit of departure to another world superintendent. „ <•** well the Itself to be not only eniightened but al«-.> the humble offlce of bam think In 6*i*ln a car than to lose an arm or a I • ci y one posses F any i for his apj what !s d granted by emperor to the applicant; for shown -rTI-o held late. the trulyChristian. Fred Baer by naive. Mr. Baer announced the leg or a foot, even !f a person hae to be luty and days on as a EX-ATTACHE. C. law gravi- streetcars, in those suicide was looked that renks with that of the of There is much danger for women In the \u25a0 however, C:scoverv pay-as- :the Inten- licensed luxury,restricted, to the patri- t£t!c~ •specially so since the ir.sralla.tion Of these • the < si self-slaln. Where and great dignitaries of the state. LATIN-AMERICAN TOPICS. you-enter kind, which have, a dearth ol handle? to - cians IF ON A PIVOT \u25a0 like RN AS graep when getting on or off ItIs always diffi- LEADS IN SUICIDE. \u25a0 SAXONY - \u25a0 is In more mod- cult for women to get off a car. The great trouble . other, always permitted To-day, for some curious rea-son or. the \u25a0 \u25a0 ern times .- peenis to be tiiat ahe doesn't learn from observa- s ed by the ordinary burial - girls kingdom of Saxony leads the world In Its num- how It ... We are teaching the the v] , ases where the tion suicides, annual proportion averaging how to get along in Chicago wltihout being in struction been est . dellb- ber of the 469 a million, as compared with 24 to the ] i danger of getting under car wheels." and their bishops. •> existing: liturgies in - Schneider, of the Board of In Portugal, misery ous anai Cnto C. president Bui 'the nave isly inappropriate and ou: million In Ireland. where of the teach- relai Education, expressed his indorsement of p!a and destitution are immeasurably greater than ' many girls entering an a been omitted and \u25a0 • f the Ing "So cf our are Ireland, only as follows: \u25a0 in proportion i!« to the mill- thing at West 5 beei refused by the clergy. the 16 \u25a0 business life that Itis a good to tea them minstei Esqulmaus, curiously ion, while among the i rkmea \u25a0 parliam< at new alternative commitment service. how to take care of themselves." enough, self-destruction Is entirely unknown. . • drawn up by the Archbishop and bishops and of Bar: Here, \u25a0 in the United States, it would appear from which occurred at ] and of dog clergy of the convocation of Lambeth, ani ir;- •-*- HE my \u25a0 WHAT DiD MEAN? the the figures within reach that suicide Is moro four shot*. « • Pairs that ttention ol as a matter of form by convocation .* beiieve that every Intelligent woman prevalent In New England and shows a greater men. eome- i legislature. - are two of York, is for use at the burial of intentional - of tendency to there in any B, may j Increase than other • - you tr.p<=e d so that their relatives have the "But. Senator, 1 understood that we;* op- { part country- This is to explain, The President of the State of San. Pablo, or 9b* as I : have of the difficult j "* 6uftrage? of which . ther aion of feeline that they received 1, forwarded, to the Rio \u25a0-'•'• \u25a0 posed to women's that Paul' has aceoriilrs: da »• - - • burial; receiving save by the fact there is probably a greater j - posed to i t at 1 -.an and after the sane- r re are soxm "I am."—Judge. is sui amount of general culture and Intellectuality in j Janeiro papers, to th© Braii'.laa Ambassador Seflho- dispatch New England than elsewhere, and that, as in j to the United States. Na'ouco. a relative to the tariff, discussion at Washir.gton. Europe, the disposition to suicide Is always most ; The State of Sao Paulo is the largest producer ot Ipronounced among most highly the educated. the Brazilian coffee crop, which famishes nior* FOR A SLEEPING SICKNESS ANTITOXIN Ithas always been thus, ever since the reign j than three-fourths of the article consumed in North HUNTING Trajan, dispatch, of the Roman Emperor to which Ihave ! America. The sent In the name cf th« ! Paolo, asks the Brazilian diplomat four;'': alluded above. Suicide has ever been more people of Sao I by Dr. Aldo Castellan!, who prevent any unveiled in 1302 UGANDA TSE- IN THE PINAL STAGE OF SLEEPING prevalent among the rich than among the poor, I vigorously to Intercede m order to flyTha^t Gives the DiseaLse ja bacterium called trypanosome in cerobro-spinal THE caange the American tariff concerning coffee) FLY. SICKNESS. all more common among the Intellectual than in jRaid taken from patients whom he had under ob TSE ! from . r_z: '.. Thick in Uganda. Where ! Eervatlon at Entebbe. Sir David Bruce then demon- among the Ignorant and more frequent among fly conveyed the germ the people among masses. Daring j strated that the to of rank than the of Santiago, which I» system. to be eight "Las Ultlmos Notidas." Mr. Roosevelt Goes. Ihuman There are now known !the late war in Manchuria the Japanese sol- j the evening edition of the seml-otQcta] paper, "b^l ! sj'eci^s of flies, all of them blood puckinp. tsetse dlers recruited from the merchant class, from ; said recently about the intende'l vovag* jday flying inserts resembling the common flies Mercurio." the artisans and from the peasantry were con- j to the provinces of Tacna and Arioa. of th«» <.TtWHm jof northern zon«»s. They infest thickets, fords, A^*^Tc:ng to an »"\u25a0 y\ umfiiin-u i»-i»jiu. nacu- tent to prisoners war when President: "The idea of th» President to tmd#r- marshes and lake regions, attacking wild and dr>- become of further j braiding vp !iop*-8 of combating the d*adly i trip to th'>s* provinces, on the northern tlsta ere ani:uals and men with equal sect. The resistance to the Russian foe had become lm- | take a Africa with the co-operation of | ..... limit of the country, under present circumstances. r'.eepins: sickness of Boers lost thousands of oxen by the agency of the possible. But In almost every Instance where j * »s.pr*.Fj(s«u Boosevelt. The distinguished hunter. when the international Question has assumed flies 6om«? years ago. "On the approach of either the warrior, no matter whether officer or pri- j Itla rumored, will contribute a sample- of Ms blood j special character, has peculiar importance In ta* j animal or man at a river crossing or in the densest vate, happened to be of noble blood, to to be used as «n antitoxin in the treatment of sh«i and ejes of the country ami of th« foreign nation* Iforest." Fay? a Congo observer, "the victim is soon Samurai Mood his veins, lary d!?«-aju% 3it if confidently predicted that the have Daimi."> or in he which are watcting th«? problem which haa been a:.< j soented o'lt by tho fly. if there be one in the viein- virile fluid.which bo much commotion amonK would kill himself rather than surrender. In pending since isxi between Chiil and Peru." It caused ity,arid then. either silently or with a peevish buzz. last f=e\ci! years -a ill put the Afri- j China princes, great mandarins that slno« thar dat<» hs» A.rr.eri