  We investigate the use of long distance regularization in SU(3) baryon chiral
perturbation theory with decuplet fields. The one-loop decuplet contributions
to the octet baryon masses, axial couplings, S-wave nonleptonic hyperon decays
and magnetic moments are evaluated in a chirally consistent fashion by
employing a cutoff to implement long distance regularization. The convergence
of the chiral expansions of these quantities is improved compared to the
dimensionally regularized version which indicates that the propagation of
Goldstone bosons over distances smaller than a typical hadronic size, which is
beyond the regime of chiral perturbation theory but included by dimensional
regularization, is removed by use of a cutoff.
