Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1923, Page 6

E EVENING STAR ith Sunday Morning Kditior city and its convention future are at stake. lotel mén are wise fellows, {and they have good business heads. s that Washington plans prof- ng should Le knocked out and | nailed down. | There is no doubt that hotel charges , seem high to raany men of middle age and greater age. Rents, carfare. pipe tobucco, shoes. hats and canned toma- WASHINGTON. D. C. = SATURDAY.......May 12. 1923/, ... THEODORE W. NOYES.. “Editor The Evening Star, with the Sund dition, i delivered rriers within the ity | be. Five.cent clgars are up to & cents, and some have gone to 10 cents, and St S ccnte per month; duily unly, 43 cents I | old men will tell You that they are not e Main \ as good as the five.centers of “before {the war.” A change has come over hotels. There are men in Washington wio can remember that when the bus came from the depot or the steamboat landing the proprietor came out on the sidewalk to shuke hands with the !incoming travelers and to say glad words to them. He greeted Col. Jones, Judge Smith and Maj. Brown by name. They got a room overlopking the Avenue and three meals a day for $2.25. At the meals they had terrapin, turkey. roast shoat and reedbirds. But that was some time ago, and things have changed. Hotels are luxurious, or some of themn may be, and their charges have { Bone up. as everything else has. Once {upon a time & man could give the head . 1o advertive Waaitiggton Tt | o) stancenc €D and Bota Sinie e QMeUT to o (i e g | 474 bOW for his silver. Now, it is like- She o | 1Y that the hiead watter owns a vow | A W, | OF brick houses and is laying plans to A S buy the hotel. People are used to the ngton is rat ed city. | ele o < ve th Nk Statag | MW style of rates. and we have the . DWIES word of the Shrine officlals and the must have read something about it inicheine pes pape; or they must have heard congressmen or some of their didates for Congress speak of it ow and then, and it is likely that in | 1e course of a presidential campaign they have heard the city mentioned. The President, members of his cab- inet, Congress, the government depart. and the Supreme Court are ac ve advertising agents for Washing- ton. The postage stamp cancellation mAchines at the city post office are working day and night in advertising | the city. The Associated Press is also engaged in work along that line. Tt must be that in all sche throughout the land, in the little red schoolhouse, if it is still standing, and in the dis- trict and big county schools, mention is sometimes made of Washington. | he Washington B ) morning cud of each month, Rate by Mail—Payable Maryland and Virginia. il Sy 11r. $8.40; 1 mo., only ;1 mo., only . slmo. Traily aily Sunday’ i | i ' ¥ and Sunday . nly. Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusivels entitled ‘o the use for republlcation of il mews dis patches credited to it or ot otherwise credited this paner and also tie loenl news pub | herein. Il rights of publication peeiul dispatehes herein are Al 1. Advertising Washington. The Advertising Club is making a prog n is used in a very s¢ wdy in some ways cr a well advert in the United must have heard that ther { persons their The Sugar Speculator: Despite the momentary setback ex- perienced by the government when the United States circuit court of appeals in New York dismissed the petition for a temporary injunction against | dealing in sugar futures on the sugar exchange, developments serve to show that the government is still on the trail of the sugar speculators and gam- blers in futures. In New York vesterday several cperators in raw sugar futures were served with subpoenas to bring their books before the federal grand jury. This action was taken to forecast a grand jury investigation, which will be the first grand jury action since the advance in prices set in. As soon as the news got abroad there was a drop in sugar futures of from 4 to 33 points. . The grand jury proceeding, it was explained, will be aimed at indisiduals and not at the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange. The object of the investigation is to determine from ex- amination of the brokers' books whether tie present price of sugar s warranted by supply and demand and whether a conspiracy exists to main- tain high levels in sugar prices. The plea for an injunction, which was dis- missed by the circuit court, was aimed at the coffee and sugar exchange as a unit, but the grand jury investigation | involves individuals. At the White House yesterday it was stated that | other steps to fight the sugar com bination than those hitherto taken by the government are being planned by the administration, although the de- | taits were not announced. | Pending the steps being taken and | contemplated by the government the premises, the woman crusaders are keeping up their efforts to help| { the sugar situation by a boycot ——————— Couples engaged in marathon danc- ing are united in marriage by & Wash-; ington judge to the accompaniment of | a syncopated “Lohengrin” wedding ! march. About the only thing now left | : : is to set the marriage service to siappy | sersons and helps Washington to be | joooere oy per scenes in big musical | e kind of a National Capital which 0 G o e past few years, 1 Americans want. { gl 47 iy Who says New York is not a senti- | mental town? The pistol with which ! i Edward W. Stokes killed Jim Fisk! | fifty years ago has been not only | | treasured for thirty years by its sub. | { sequent owner, but he has just been haled to court for using it to threaten one of his enemies. —_——————— The British ultimatum to Russia has been described as “insolent.” This probably does not worry Russia much; she has been insulted by experts. rent: name “Washingt city™” op is to be found books which treat of and government, als of important kely that Wash. ded. is edt about which 1most Americans do not It has sometimes been id there are un-Americans, non-Americans or voteless Americans iving right here within a few squares # the White House who do not know Washington as well as they should, but that is not to the point. *“‘Adve: sing Washington” means the stirring up of the imagination of people so that they will feel an interest in Wash- ngton. ink Washington, read talk of Washing- on and come to Washington. When an American comes to Wash- ingto raiges his eyes to the big dome and the Monument, visits the White ilouse. goes around the Speadway and *hrough Rock Creek Park he is a Wash. ington convert forever. Nothing can shake his interest in the city. He be- comes proud that it is his capital, and is enthusiastic to make it a better capital. Advertising pays. and advertising ich will bring people to Washing- n or make them read the story of the city and its needs profits those a4 number American and in a list of ¢ countries it is q ington. D. C.. Rut there Washington deal kn that . wi “ i ———t——— | The Alley Situation. Tie alley-closing problem is not so discouraging or fraught with so grave menace to alley dwellers and the rest of the community as the Distric authorities belicved a few weeks ago. The change in the situation has been brought about by the opinion of the corporation counsel who, after an analysis of the alley-closing law of ongress, construes it as applying only to alleys which are not thirty feet wide or to alleys which have no water and sewer connections and which have neither gas nor electric lighting. A survey of the District shows that there re few alleys which do not meet one | - f these conditions, and that relatively The District Flower. w of the 10,000 or more alley dwell-| There may be a battle as to which .rs will be affected by the alley-house ! flower shall stand as the symbol of closing procecdings which the Com. | the District. Tt cannot be said that the, missioners will enter upon on June 1. flowers will go to war, but partisans; Even under this most satisfactory in. | Of certain flowers seem to be forming terpretation of the law, and with the | in battle line. Each army is marching esults of the survey at hand, it ap- | to the feld, and the newspaper office,; pears that a considerable number of | With a banner inscribed or embroid- poor people may be forced to leave|ered with the flower for which it he shelter they call home, and the|means to do or de. Many states have sblem is perplexing to that extent.|chosen flowers, but in most states an The date of the closure proceedings |@ctive minority has always denounced ls close to Shrine week, when the | the justice and wisdom of the choice. ity will be extraordinarly crowded,|Perheps in no state has the election when all the activities of city em-|Of a state flower been made unani- ploves will be directed to keeping|Mmous. But the defeated flowers keep Washington clean, safe and free from | On blooming just the same and main- | disorder and when probably every |tain their customary relations with | man and woman in the outlawed al- | the victors. teys will be able to find some kind of | While there are some points of dis- employment. The injunction suit|similarity between a state and the against the District brought by cer.| District it is likely that the selection tain owners of alley property is pend- | of @ District flower will cause some ing. and the District Supreme Court | controversy, and that in arguing the may render a decision at any time, | clalms of rival flowers there will be verbal friction and heat. This ought not to be. Advocates may appeal with eloquence and fervor for their candidates, but should not wilt and shrivel other candidates with violent language. There ought to be no mud- slinging in a contest between the flowers. It would seem that so far the nom- inations to represent the District have been of cultivated flowers. But there are those who have faith in wild flowers and in any convention or elec- tion they will push the claims of their friends of the meadows and the glens. They believe that there are wild flowers qualified to speak for the Di: trict in any congress or parllament convoked by Queen. Rose. If one leans toward good looks and love for its native heath and persist- ence in sticking to the soil of its an- cestors one might name the flower of the calico bush or Kalmfa, which many persons improperly call moun- tain laurel. For stubbornness and Are you letter perfect in all the dif- ferent rules for Shrine week H ' —_———— Berlin protests to France against the sentence of the six Krupp officials, and the copy of the protest is present- ed to Secretary Hughes. Mr. Hughes has an interesting scrap book. Hotel Rates. Almas Temple and the executive committee of the Shrine convention are having some trouble in combatting tales that seem to be circulating that ‘Washington hotel rates will be unfair during Shrine week. The committee is broadcasting a denial of this. The potentate of the temple says the stories are baseless, and that the rates for Shrine week are satisfactory. The chairman of the hotel and housing committee sends out word to the same effect. These men high in the Shrine say that Washington hotel men are doing all they can to make the con- vention a success. Fair rates and fair lay are dictated by ordinary business THE_EVENL azalea, which s also called pinxter flower and wild honeysuckle. Then, there is true huneysuckle, once a do- mestic flower, but now growing wild in parts of the District gnd Uving without help from man as well as the most savage and untutored flower. If voters want beauty and modesty the District can show bluets, violets, red columbine, purple sage, spring beau- ties, Virginia cowslip or bluesells and cream-colored Dutchmen's breeche: Theré are tangles of wild rose and patches of red lobela, pink lady slip- pers, meadow beauties, meadow sweet j&nd hundreds of other wild flowers. ———t————— —— The British Golf Match. Francls Oulmet, American golfer, bas failed to “lift the cup” in the championahip match in England. Play- ing masterly golf through the earl stages of the contest, defeating man {after man with skill and precision of stroke, he advanced to the semi-finals, only to be beaten by a Britisher in a contest that was not settled until vir- tually the finul stage. To be accurate, in golfing terms, Ouimet lost by “two down with one to play.” Ilad he not been “In trouble” on a hole that had given him his worst experiences throughout the matches he would have at least scored a tie in cighteen, and would perhaps have won. But it was not to be. He went off his game after a serics of brilliant perform. | ances. In the defeat of the Americans at Deul the weather, it ig belicved. had much inflyence. During the greater part of the time the air was chilly and wet. and frequentiy rain fell and even hail. While Ouimet and his opponent were playing yesterday the conditions ‘were, from an American golfer's point of view, abominable, but it is stated that the British players regarded them as fine. They are accustomed to play- ing in the high winds that prevail on the coast of England, and the gusty currents did not bother them as much as they did the visitors. Considering that golf is an adopted game in America, and that it came here from the British Isles. it is fair to expect that the championship will occasionally be won by representa- tives of its homeland. But American goifers have often enough demonstrat- ed their superiority to assuage any disappointment that may be felt over & defeat now and then. And whenever n American sportsman loses abroad it is always to be remembered that the America’s cup is still here, despite the repeated efforts of that prince of sport: men, Sir Thomas Lipton, to rescue it. —_— When the head of the National Lum. bermen Manufacturers’ Association recommends to the federal govern- ment the creation of great national forests of at least 1,000,000 ucres each in Michigan, Minnesota and Wiscon- sin, conservation enthusiasts may take it as an indication that the American people have at last begun to see a light. ————— Expert bookbinders of the govern- ment printing office are going to bind for display the five separate sheets on which the original draft of our Con- stitution was written. The trouble with too many subsequent statesmen has been that they regarded the docu- ment as a sort of loose-leaf affair. —————— Only members of the execution de- partment of the cheka which disposed | of Mgr. Butchkavitch know what he- The | came of the prelats remains. soviet government. however. is likely to find that his memory and example will not be so much of a secret. —————————— The referee in the accounting pro- ceedings in connection with the Jay Gould 5,000,000 estate will receive 265 an hour. There are plenty of men who would act as referee between the Irish Free State and the Irish repub- lic for that salary. ——————————— The squabble over fishing rights be- tween Japan and the soviet govern- ment has been amicably settled. There is something about fishing that makes it dificult even for those who follow it commercially to be anything but buddies.’ ——————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Superfluous. underneath the sk: summer air. Didn't get a nibble. and T somehow didn’t care. Satisfled to get my share of weather that's so fine: Didn’t want to bother to be haulin’ up a line. Saw the sunbeams playin’ on the wa- ter by the boat. Teard the waves a-splashin’ with a soft and lazy note, Sort o' felt contented like I'd had my every wish, ‘Cause when you go a-fishin'—why you don’t need any fish. Sittin . out in the Dozin' while yov're driftin’ and dream- in’ through the day, Listenin’ to the callin’ of the birds so far away: Waitin’ fur the shadows to grow longer by the shore. Givin® notice that there isn't time to fish much more. Jes' a little hungry—a veminder now an’ then 4 That when the blessing's asked you'll be all ready for “Amen.” ‘What I bring home won't feed us. But that ain’t my favorite dish. It's great to go a-fishin'—but you don’t need any fish. A Simile. This world is like & golf ball That's swift and hard to stop. T wonder how ’twas started: I wonder when 'twill drop? Reward. Toll on, ambition. Do your best. Keep knocking at Fame's portal. The Fates may answer your request And mark you an immortal. Your name will be’ extolled in song, Historfans will announce it. Posterity will spell it wrong And also mispronounce it. ————————— That doctor who says one shouldn’t eat while worried should start a drive to take the priceg off the menu card.— Baltimore Sun, NG _STAR, WASHINGTO —_—-eee e e e e e e "sense. In a way the reputation of the’xood looks some may vote for the wild | D. C., SATURDAY, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE A taclt warning ia sald to be go-|Gov. Folk fn charge at Philudelphia | ing the rounds of republican United States senators against the advisabil- ity of alrplane trips. The G. O. P. majority in the upper house of the Sixth-elghth Congress is so narrow that unnecessary risks of lite and limb are regarded undesirable. Sena tors Nicholson and Nelson have p ed away since March 4 and further untoward events are contemplated with real alarm. Senator Phipps of Colorado. vecalls that when the re- publicans coutrolled the Sixty-sixth Congress four years ago by the slim margin of one vote, he was specifi- cally admonished agalnst courting possible danger in an airplane. Dur- ing the recerit nuval maneuvers around the Canal Zone, Senator Od- die of Nevada, flew repeatedly, as did Senutor Kendrick of Wyoming. % 5t Admiral Robert E. Coontz, who shortly will become commander-in-| chief df the United States fleet, is| passionutely addicted to dancing, an Inheritance of Annapolls days. Dur-! Ing the fleat’s Spring battle practice in southern waters, Coontz was the most tireless “stepper” afloat. when- ever his ship cleared the quarterdeck | for dancing or put in at a port where Jazz prevailed. One duy the admiral appeared in immuculatc naval “whites” except for his shoes, which were black. His aide, wondering whether the chief had succumbed to an unusual moment of absent-mind- ednens, called attention to the sar- torial ' inconsistency. “Well,” said Coontz, “It's like this. My canvas| shoes hurt my feet like the deuce. These don't, and I want to dance.” * ¥ ¥ K Three “unofficial observers’ of the United States government have just salled for FEurope to attend the league of nations’ oplum conference at Geneva on May 24. They are Rep- resentative Stephen G. Porter, chair- mari of the House committee on for- eign affairs; Bishop Charles H. Brent and Edwin I. Neville of the State Department. At Paris the delegation Wil be joined by its fourth member, Dr. Rupert Blue, former surgeon gen- eral of the United States health serv- ice. A fifth Amerfcan. Mrs. Hamilton Wright. salled with the delegation She 'is an “assessor” of the league of natio opium committee and s re- turning for the forthcoming meeting. ‘The United States’ position ig that | the opium evil will never be effactu- | ally combated until throttled at its source, viz. the regions where the popDpy is intensively cultivated. These Are main in Indla, Turkey and| | Pers 1 1 Joseph W. Fola former Gove l'& i of Missouri. who had a serious nerv- Inu~ breakdown in 1922, suffered a set. back recently, which is giving his ffrienas ome cause for worr, Foik | experienced remarkable 3 r.\erb" and returned to h big international ! law practice at Washingtor. but he is again under treatment. Dr. Fra els avier Dercuni, the celebra Philadelphia neurologist. who sionally visits Woodrow Wilson has THE WAYS OF 1 softl today, | 1 There are angels treading the strects of Washington {though we see them not. To leves and to mine they are but and women like ourselves. sour men the as For only eves from whic scales have fallen may see them they are, in the warm light of their glory. And only the poor of Wash- ington have such eyes. Our eyes look every hour on «rea- !ture comforts and luxurics wkich to | us have become commonplace. Such eves are dim when angels pass bLy. But the eye of the mother with a | hungering brood. the eye of the man | who fights dally the wolf at his {door, the eye of the toiling child such eyes are quick to catch the form of the halo which we may never see. We who see the rainbow of verial happiness and contentment nind | it difficult to envision the form of an angel in just an ordinary man or | woman | | | m * Dorothy. aged nine, has secn of those angels She was lying on her litide bed when the angel came and knelt be- side her. And though Dorothy didn't know at the time. she was hovering between this world and the next| ! when the angel came. | i Tt was such a bed, too—a wretched | !mattress of hay and straw propped | four wooden hoxes with rouxh! timbers to support the ends and {sides. Milady's dog fares better But didn’t matter much to Dorothy at the time, for Dorothy was unmind- ful of all surroundings. Nor could she see the box that served as a table, or the other two boxes that! {served as chairs nearby. The miss- | {ing window pane disturbed her none | at all, though it was late December. ! Nor did the unswept floor or the patch in the wall where the plaster ! was gone. Dorothy was fighting pneumonia. Her little sister who slept with her in_her illness because there was no other place to sleep, was in a fair way to join in the fight when the ministering angel came. i But_the angel—whom you and Ij would never know for an angel be- cause she appears for all the world %o be just a sweet-faced woman like | thousands of others in our city— changed all this. j She brought fresh clothing, fresh !linen for the bed, a doctor, medicine land a trip to the hospital, where Dor- othy got*well in time. ! And then the angel went back again to the wretched home and found work for Dorothy's mother. It you think it was merely a wom- an who did all this, and not an angel at all—well, ask Dorothy. *x % % % Then there is Dad-without-a-job. He, too, saw an angel last February. Dad was one of those poor fellows who are wonderfully blessed with youngsters, but woefully shy of money. One of his troup of eleven boys and girls who knew where the angel lived ummoned the angel to their miser- le home. “Come over, please,” she said, “ma- ma's sick.” The angel—or, another one of those sweet-faced cne | " maybe, it was just} Points Out Error To the Editor of The Star: , In The Star for Wednesday there| appears a dispatch in which it is] stated that the landing of the pil- grims at Jamestown will be observed at Willlamsburg, Va., with fitting ceremonies, etc. This is obviously in error and in- vestigation will doubtless show that the celebration will commemorate the 303d anniversary of the storm which blew the Mayflower off the Virginia coasty C. G, LEE, JR, | to the | at i the {both i tin | threat at present. * ok ok % Attorney General Daugherty ex pects to spend most of the summer on native heath, near his home town and birthplace of Washington Court House, Ohfo. By leading the strict- ly simple life, he is confident he can return to the Department of Justice in the autumn like & glant refreshed. Since his recent arrival from a re- ) cuperative hollday in the south, Daugherty has been putting in six hours a day at his desk—too strenu- ous « grind for a man in his condi- tion—his friends think. This writer, by the way, is being bombarded for information as to the authorship of the pamphlet of vindication recently issued on the Attorney General's behalf and allyded to In this column. Daugherty's office avers and afirins it is completely In the dark on the subject. “Anonymous admirers” is their official guess as to the book- let's origin. * % * John T. Adams, chairman of the republican national committee, has a sure cure for depression that over- takes some public men when assailed in the newspapers. He. simply doesn’t read ‘em. Temper and nerves, Adams asserts, are bound to rema ble under such conditions. The 0. who guidea the orgunization G. O. P, claims 1o tlesson from Bal- Adurus i firmly planted in the national nittee leadership, rumors contrary notwithstunding. His Status at the White House {4 particu- larly solid. He “sat intimately the recent conferences, when the xn:!lv;:xr features of President Hard- ing's forthcoming transcontinental swing were settled, particularly the points where keynote speeches aure to be delivered. P Almost every day Prohibition Com- missioner Haynes hears from foreign country that the dry ment the march there . some nove- is on Japan is the latest to report progress in that i direction. There are at present 236 different associations in Nippon wor ing for temperance, emb. membership of 117,982, of Tokio, in is =ituated. h. hibition advo & vear, it is esti spent Gn tempe social burcau the interior cing a total The prefecture which the capital itself 569,000 orgunized pre es. A suin of $80.000 nated, is now being ce propaganda. ' of the department of beginning to dignify crusade with attention. The churches are studying the develop- ent of American prohibition care. ully. Saki. Japan's equivalent for red liquor. is said to be doomed is Dr. Nicholas de Columbia sailed for Great serics of the in Murray Butler. presi University, Britain lectures entitled American Londen has “Building ation.” Universities Cambridge. Edinburgh Caraiff, Manchester, Glasgow. St An- drews and Leeds wiil hear him usl Adams, Benjamin George Washington flto nes Madisor am Franklin Alexander Har Thomas Jeffe Marshall, Danfe! Webster, Jackson and Abraham I be interpreted to the B noin the order named o, 1 Johr WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. omen who posi least all 2y tes vely d e angels—ar d the the the n't look wered absolut there a soap, fres mother was twelfth Child was of "lifc. He quickly i pital in hing and food. ite ill. for 1 the ‘threshold bundled away ulance to a hos mailer children went there also, Dad-without-a-job was given a job the next day. The job and the twelfth child came along about the same time. Then there arose the stion_of Providing clothing for the The youngster hud been born without so much as a rag to call its own. And the angel attended to that. too, Now it may not have been an angel that did this. But if it wasn't an as gel. it was an uncommonly fine h man being Where would that fam its great extremity angel, or human Leir heip? n an » of the of fever, Iy have heen had not this &, been there to e % ese cas happened within right the past not imagin here in six months who must kno names. dates a Pl can drink their fill of such krowledge in a way that wiil be cloged to them shortly Here is another case: A Young woman came up 1o house of the ministering angel late one winter night and cailed to her from the street. When the minister- ing angel came to the door the woman sobbed out her story Her husband had thrown her out of the house and locked the door against her. There was no other place to o Maybe. she timidly suggested. if the ministering argel went back with her to the house her hushand wou re- pent and relent The ministering angel and one two more of her tribe went back wi the outcast the h There followed a stren- uous hour, starting with the man's to “knock the block off" of anybody who came in. The women talked with him. not unkindly, but for his own salvation. He listened for a time. Then they induced his little boy, whom he idol- ized, to join them. irls.” You are all right.” he said after a tim “Your religion ain't half bad. Pray for me.” The door opened and wife went in. the outcast Co Who are these angels? you ask. You will know them when you see them not only by their deeds. but by their livery of blue. And if you want to find them, go down to the Salvation Army home, at 607 E street northwest. Down there th will tell you all you want to know of the three cases I have cited above. And many, many more such instances, too, if you really want to hear of them. Did you ever help an angel? you have a chance to do so no The Salvation Army has just made up its budget for the vear. It needs funds to keep its good work going. It is pot_coming to you to ask vou for your®aid, but believes that you will come to it with what you can af- ford to give. The money will be spent in just such ways as I have mentioned in this ar- ticle. If you want to help, you may send your check to the Salvation Well, V Army at the above address. In a Few Words. Only 4 to 7 per cent are profes- sional criminals, enherently anti-so- cial. The rest we manufacture our- selves. —ED MORRELL. ‘What the railroads need most is to rid the industry of the Reds on one hand and the Bourbons on the other. —W. H. DOAK. If women are to get anywhere in politics they must stop injecting per- sonalities into political campaigns which affect the good of the com- ty. m%‘ STEESE RICHARDSON, to deliver a | he | MAY 12, 1923. —_— CAPITAL KEYNOTES The Library Table : BY THE BOOKLOVER A most unusual example of a high degree of education in a person with- out formal education—a person more- over belonging to the servant cla is given in “The Adventure of Liv- g, by John St. Loe Strachey, edi- tor of the London Spectator. Mrs. Leaker had first been & nurse, then cook, then housekeeper, before she became the autocrat of the household of Mr. Strachey's father, us general manager and head nurse. She was a unique character. Mr. Strachey says of her: “Mrs. Leaker was brought up in a poor household, in an age when illit- eracy, alas! seemed the natural fate of the poor. But you could no more have kept education from Ther than you could have kept food from a hun- §ry lioness. She was determined to get it somehow, and get it she did She taught herself to read before she had reached womanhood, and taught her- self by pure force of her will, adapt- ing, curiously enough, what would now be described as the Montessori method. She opened hooks and read them somehow or other till she un- derstood the meaning of the words.” * * “This wonderful woman had learned to read did not stop &t the elementar or the second-rate in literature. She was a great lover of | Milton, and knew Shakespeake so thoroughly that when any member of the family wished to find a particular passage he would go to Leaker rather than to a Shakespeare concordance. She read tae Strachey children to sleep with scenes from “Othello” and “Macbeth.” She was familiar with the longer poeins of Wadsworth, as well as his lyrics, and appreciated his philosophy of life. Coleridge, Southey, Crabbe, Gray, Dr. Johnson, Byron Tennyson and Browning were among her favorites. Swinburne she did not care for, as he reminded her, she said, of “an overheated conserva- tory, too full of highly-scented flow- ers to be pleasant.” In commenting on her influence over him, Mr. Strachey savs If wy friends find me, as 1 fear they sometimes do, too fond of making quotations, they must blame Mrs. Leaker, for when at her best she threw quotations from the English | elassies around her in a kind of hall- storm once she | i love high and low, “Vie- | K Hamsun's latest novel be tra ed, very different from the prose epics, “Hunger” and “The Growth of the Soil” It is an old tale retold, the love of a high- born girl for a low-born boy., with an {ending of the delicate pathos Victoria. the lovely spoiled child of { the castle, ix only ten when she first | nmeets Johannes, iller's son, who is fourteen. They meet again later, ) as tall, exquisite oung lady and sue- | A toria, d most i cessful voung poet. but there is another suitor for Victoria and the social gulf is too to cross. Fate settles the matter—{ as a tragedy. The style of this story is so simple and delicate that it seems to have little relation to the style of Hamsun's more rugged novels * % * of vid potitical and in the 1830s Party Battles | i pic social Jife of Wa will be found of the Jackson Period by Claude G. Bowers. The extraordizary of that period, says’the author, are “usually presented to us as steel en- gravings, hung high on the wall in a dim Yight. That they lived in houses, danced. gambled and dravk. flattered and fiirted. gossiped and lied in a Washington of unpaved streets blacl nud, made thelr way conferences through dark, i treacherous thorougnfares and pla brilliant parts in a bedraggied, vil- lagelike capital. i1s not apt to oocur to one.’” The author strives in this i book to make the reader realize that “they were flesh and blood, and mere men their cotemporaries. not ways heroic or even admirable. through the visualization of the daily life they lived in a capital peculiarly | je and flilel with grotesque ongruities.” Perhaps the chapters {that will be found most intereating | 1o Washingtonians are those on "The ashington of the Thirties,” “Mrs, Eaton (Peggy ('Neal) Demolishes the Cabinet” and “Kitchen Cabinet Por- | traits.” particularly the parts on Ajios Kenda who later became Pos i General and the founder of (Giallaude! College, at Kendall Green men n:ght t i i | 1018, a was Eng the ut- statese war book ng Spear.” single-minded man. ok very seriously térances of newspapers and men regarding a ried to put what he read into actual ipractice. Like his seventeenth cen- | tury prototype. this modern Don Quixote got into numerous insuper- able difficulties. An American edi- tion of this hook has just been pub- lished with John Galsworthy's name on the title page. An called anos “Th. 3 of 1 satire who i war and peace and i i * i The is also a trees and flowers. Lately he incensed at the sight of automobiles loaded with branches of dogwood. He | also recently saw people breaking oft blossom-laden branches the Japanese cherry trees in Potomac ark-—the vandals! He would like to suggest that there be put up on the roads around Washington some such signs as the late Enos Mills, the father of the Rocky Mountain Park, had planted along the splendid roads of Coiorado. They bore such legends as i these: “What do you want with an armful of wild flowers?" “You can help keep this reglon a beautiful wild garden— spare the wild flowers.” “Thoughtless people are destroying the flowers by pulling them up by the roots or pick- ing too many of them. Neither the roots nor_the leafy stalks should be ! taken, and flowers, if taken, should be | cut, not pulled.” “Those who pull flowers up by the roots or gather them by handfuls will be condemned ! by all worthy peopl i ok ok % | The most recent of the many stu of Edgar Allan Poe is by a physi- clan—Dr, entitled “Edgar A. Poe; a Psychopath- | ic Study.” Dr. Robertson's thesis is| that Poe was the victim of a heredi-‘ tary neurosis which rendered him at! times entirely irresponsible for his conduct. This neurosis also caused him to possess a dual personality, so that he was a sort of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It was the undesirable part of his personality which used opium and_succumbed at frequent intervals to the desire for alcohol. Dr. Robert-. son says: 3 - “Only those who are experienced in the study of patients thus afflicted, and who have had personal associa- tion with them, can fully understand and appreciate the nature ot the neu- rosis from which Poe suffered and the difficulty in overcoming such obses- sions.” % ® A recent writer on John Burroughs claims that his chief pride was not in his writing, but in the fact that he could make almost everything he ! necded with his own hands. From} bookiover | i * & | | | Edwin Wildman's sketch of Bur- roughs in his mew book, “Famous Leaders of Character,” we learn that the great naturalist could fashion ax handles, candles, toys, Inkwells, Siate pencils. even trout lines, and that when he set to bullding his own study at Riverby he was able to make not only the ‘shingles, window frames and nails, but even the furni- ture, e for Johannes | & { the Mohican {BY {ing boys. BY PAUL } ¥ood in Washington is only 49 per cent higher than it was ten years 2go, and last month it dropped half of 1 per cent At that whizz it will get back to normal in 19471; A. D. In the meanwhile it is fashionable to malintain stmple living and high thinking. Some days all we should eat i strawberry shortcake with whipped cream, and the tall think- ing done will bring a resigned fecl- ing of sadness and lorging that is not akin to pain ‘and resembles gor- row only a8 the mist resembles rain It would be sunnier if more normal. P Shriners are advised #ick until they arrive ton, for treatment will ing Shrine week. Why be sick else- where? Shriners ought to see our Instiuctive Visiting nurses at work not to get in Washing- be free It it be true, as recently bulletined in Washington, that “the careless driver {8 a criminal.” then what sen- tence was passed on seventeen eriminals who killed seventen people upon our streets last month”? The fact that the number 15 reduced from twenty-six during the corresponding month of 1921 inpicates that the ac- cldents ars preventuble. The same increase of care that has reduced the fatalities can be extended until the act of killing a pedestrian will be as rare as of other forms of homicide “Stop! Look! Liste the The Associated Press appears a | groggy in announcing that “the 316th annlversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Jamestown, Va. will be celebrated, Saturday, May 12, at the William and Mary College.” Now, if the Willlam and Mary College is teaching its students that its front doorstep is the original Plymouth Rock, it is worse than Muzzey's his- tory and the Naval War College com- bined. Something ought to be dona about it, or we shall soon hear that Ponce de Leon wandered up into Vir ginia and located the fountain of p petual youth Lura: 8. wonder that Henry Ford thinks his- *“than all his of the transcontinental MacReady is out. He at the other end, waiting to marry him as soon as he arrived. Not a bit wonder that he jumped right over Mississippi river. the great American desert and the Rocky mountains to get to her. Who wouldn't? Probably she was right up in the clouds waiting for too. That 18 the way to ach top flights—bait ‘e + * had & pretts e humane folks. intentions imaginable. but who know boys, are protesting nst permitting a wild west Indian to be put near the U station. They fear it is wrong rob the little boys of the vacant lot all through ¥ permitting it to be wild Injune, their ponies Pappooses ‘neverything. ittie Washington bovs w where else to play that w they may_get into be hurt be interested in wild Injuns war- whooping and shooting fleeing buffalo. They have never read “The Last They have not he of Sitting Bull. and so will not care for eceing members of his Sioux tribe who are now suing the United States for pin money—$700.000,000 with don't on N o use of the Shrine week pied by ie poor 1 have no- ek the streets and dur- | and so | Of course the boys will not | of | "..COLLINS | of the little boys might want to p marbles or pussy w | Come on, fellows, 1¢ * | The Department of Agri | sues a warning note to caut ture fx. n fart ers against trusting to presgnt pros perity of the cities Buide t- farm operations. It analyzes the s uation, the high wages in ull fudu tries except farming, tie tivity in all lines o farming, th and strong prod ¢ of factorie but it points s fuct th be eight months vet pefor ucts of the much may The cirenla part of the onditions sound and insure in for the Thi a pre ministratior serve others tinued agitatior | may bring reaction pected, and t come in “a bu a8 a very great excoy a pern: re sed With the 1er of tin, in whic liant outlouk present ued W e sages are a readics is w price lambs and certain vegetn “The outlonk for r ter s considercd to dey continuance of the p boom in cities from the fary . The pinch time_should tinue. * Prices of how a continued upws general level of live reported stationary downw 1 Lator 0 = s exg vest s stoch ities 1 President Ha said fine pe it wi than ever will be an tic t sentiments be more There with Mothers 1o every over age ous well as gler. and 1o eac toward purity tions and courag uplified by the 1 ence of her who us? Al T am I owe £aid Presidant I pie words 1 and It as toward Who of never squaws and possible for yo to be. If th to comme {ing. t artificial mothe send 1 Jocal florists ~ the stitute or a white liv flowe 1 s still H - 4 telegray write a real letter— real son or daughter you can do (Copyright. 19: Krupp President Jailed by French: Has American MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Gustave Krupp von Halbach Boh- len, who has just been sentenced Ly a French tribunal in to a heavy fine and to a term of imprisonment which he car not pe he is already Gallic custody, for his sh responsibility for the sang which took place rece nis workmen at E: the French troops ipying works. has a s the re in the ry en- and huge sen the cestors the Hones and the Oswalds of New York Philip and Catherine Hone of { York had a daughter. who. in the last| the decade of the eighteenth century. married Manhattan Island, Philip Oswald of New York. and their daughter Caroline married a certain Henry Bohlen of Philadelphia. who on {attained the rank of general in the!thr Tnited States Army. Their daughter, Sophie Bohlen, married. Philadel- phia. Arnold Halbach, a native chant of that city, who became Unit- States minister to Baden. This to their children being brought up in Baden. wWhere the eldest them, Gustave, entered the of the Baden government the Baden envoy at The Hague He had tacked his mother's name of Bohlen onto his patronymic of Halbach. One of his ten children fol- Jowed him into the German diplomatic service, and was secretary of the Ger- than legation at Peking during the Boxer rebelion and the rebel stege of the legations in the Chinese capital just twenty-three years ago. Before that he had been secretarv of the then German legation &f Washington for about a couple of years, and. as was to be expecied. spent much of his time with his relati in Philadelphia and New York. From China he was trans ferred to the German embassy at in ed led t dies | Rome. where he had the opportunity | of acting as the guide and escort of Bertha Krupp &nd her younger John W. Robertson—and 18| gister on the occasion of their first.| third in the second and Eternal cit: sojourns * ok ok X Krupp's widowed mother. Bertha { herself born of the old baronial house of Von Ende, for 200 years closely jdentified with the court of Berlin, was anxious that her daughter. espe- clally her eldest daughter, should wed some duke or prince of ancient line- age and high degree. But the execu- tors of the late Alfred Krupp's will and last testament pointed out to her | that he specially wished that his fa-| [ vorite daughter and heiress should be | free to choose her mate, irrespective of rank, and, therefore, although Young Gustave von Halbach Bohlen's Tobility only dated from 1871, when it was conferred upon his father, while acting as Baden minister plen- ipotentiary at The Hague, the mar- riage came to pass and Was cele- brated at Essen in great pomp, in the | presence of the emperor. They have several children. includ- The elder alone will bear the name of his mother, by virtue of an imperial decree shortly after his birth, in which it was provided that the eldest son should always bear the name of Krupp in order of primo- geniture, as a sort of title of nobil- jty, while all the other sons and daughters should be restricted to mer- | and became maiden | Blood in His Veins their fathe ien Halbach. It may be added that the repeatedly. but vair Ty titles of nobiiity and upon intly the of the e ex-Kaise pressed ord upen hoth Be her hushar nagen Essen wor { With vounge has no cor Wilkowsk of Prussi FHlalb; and espe ard Mon for ‘]{4 Kr Bertha gr arriag. t stress ¢ he Krupp. at iron works i the late Irince {oring to prevent ! most {ortng to prevent Essen | sho: Iy hostile to ¥r relentless {becau e Le ins fron through debarred cession moth Halbach i Count Leopo the had t pi of Philade 1 von W | Quaker | hourzenise in the pri iisqual The courts was and s of ‘the late not only by the the empire at Leipsig, congress of the rulers of the we odd independent states con The confederation known a< (e {man empire. and who has bee { sembled to consider the case cen then the ex-emporer to accord o Trince Frnest lors due to the sovercien | pendent Ger | Spport AR him. bach hlood from his moth strain of 1ce's veins himself frov Eed greatly the ex Prince Halbach in decided nger Kaiser rnest reme oo but also i of ie | | Hon, Ge bee Cotonel Douglas. ing several weeks at where he and his many friends. Viscount Chilston, w eral cabinet offices in tory adminis trations, among them that of secre tary of the interior and ministar of publié works in Downing street. L Chilston’s eldest and , heir. Hon. Aretas Akers-Douglas, is Bri ish envoy and minister plenipotes tiary at Vienna, after havin several vears at the foreign private secretary to Lord Lord_Chilston is a_classmate Lord Balfour and of TLord Roscher |at Eton and of Lord Glastone at Ox | ford, and owns a beautiful place i Kent near Maidstone on the banks of the River Stour, which flows throug it on past Canterbury and Sandw ic finding its way into the =ea at Peg 1 bay. The older part of from the XV century, and is of st while the newer portion dates frou the_éarly Georgian era—namely. fro 1727. The mansion is famous for it magnificent old panuecling hundreds « ears old, as well as for its woo carvings and its old mastees, whi the great park is full of mujestic trees which were already ancient in the days of Queen Elizabeth. has Hot wife who £pen Va mad ¢ { have the vounger o has hieid sev son | | the house d, i