Evening Star Newspaper, October 18, 1925, Page 84

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, OCTOBER 18, 1925—PART Motor-Car Travelers Are Swept by the Fury of a Desert Wind Daring Driver, After Overcoming Obstacles in Desolate Asia Minor, Finds He Must Reckon With Another Enemy. Travels Through Panorama of Ancient Regions, Including Bagdad, Dead Baby- lon and Mysterious Persia—In Sight of the Cedars of Lebanon—Fearing a Water Sl’lortage—One of Companions Is Stricken by Fever—Along a Bandit- Infested Road. Last week Maj. vividly described the dangers and difficulties encountered by him and two companions in a part of their it started to blow hard and as luck would have it the sand started to move, and in a few minutes we were right in the thick of a severe sand- Forbes-Leith journey by automobile—the only |storm. I tried to run past it, but some one ever made—from England to |soft going reduced me to second gear, India. This concerned their slow |and in another 10 minutes it was passage through Asia Minor, |nearly as dark as London is in the where they forced their way |thick of a November fog, although the through mud and over seemingly |sun was still high in the heavens. | tmpassable roads and insurmount In spite of protective glasses we | able obstacles. In one instance |were soon semiblind, and our eves, | tnches were between them and a |ears, and nostrils were soon filled and | plunge over a precipice. | we were in a bad way. Several times | Accompanying Maj. Forbes. |1 n‘IIed toigst (hrnu:hhmfhl:‘l w{nlr:om} Leith iwere Montague Redknap, |&vall, and the strength of this follow- “Ci “RE ¢ ; 5 s e T e e o Ot aiined oyt faey | "CLAMBERED O THE FOOTROARD AND STARTED FINGERING of the trip, and Allan Wroe, who |that although my speedometer showed | SYRRERIRNG LOOSE 5 C/ acted as diarist heir car. called that I was moving 23 miles an hour, | | “Felix.” a small light one of |my flag was blowing directly away | 1eft food and water with the parched | and dates back to earlfer than 100 English make, seemed endowed | from me. * | and starving occupants and wirelessed | B.C. with human qualities. and never Forty-three miles out, after watering | 0 Bagdad, which sent out a plane | In Bagdad can still be traced a few failed them in an emergency | the radiator. once I gave ft up and| Which brought them to safety | relics of the days of Haround-al-Ras- = | stopped. Sulieman, the guide whom! A little farther on we passed a |chid, who was Caliph at the zenith of BY F. A.C. FORBES-LEITH we had engaged at Damascus, squat-| dead hyena, surrounded by a crowd | its prosperity, but the Arah makes ST s ted down and, wrapping his flowing | 0f Vuitures' an object lesson of the | little effort to preserve them. The URING the Summer large | robe around him, put his head between | dangers of getting stranded in the | Palace of the Great Haroun s now parties of Bedouin Arabs |his knees, and remained motionless, | de8ert. We stopped that night at 11| part of the Bazaar, and to the east pass from the deseris of | sheltered from that awful blast of hot | 9'clock. having made a record journey | #nd south some of the fortified gates Central Arabiz and Syria to | wind and sand. every grain of which [for & day of 281 miles. Two hours'|and battlements can still be seen. the more fertile plains and |stung and burnt. | running the next morning on a steady | The greatest interest, however, is hills of the West, where they sell| For an hour we waited thus, and it |descent brought us in sight of the the Bazaar, where Arab and Kurd, their cattle and grow corn, which |abated a little. but even- then our|date palms bordering the River|Briton and Parsee, Afghan and Mon- they take back with them to the |vision was limited to a range of 300 Euphrates. and soon we arrived at|Rol. American and Pathan, all rub desert in the Autumn. These tribes|yards. After filing up, I was horri- | Feluja, where we crossed the river |®houlders and do business under con are robbers by nature and tradition, | fied to find that we had used three gal-| 2N the bridge of hoats on our last | ditions that have not changed since and we had strict warning from the |lons of water in our efforts to pass |36 miles to Bagdad e Sime oS EnuIsE g e: A er selieq French authorities not to pitch camp. | through the storm, or nearly a quarter | Half way there we passed Khan | Carries his goatskin and rattles his except in the confines of a village. | of our total supply, and that with anly | Nuktahl. a desert for(, where the|brass cups to attract the attention of S to stay out at night waus extremely |a fourteenth part of our journey | famous political officer, Lieut. Col. the thirstv. | figaror covered. 1 then decided to remain|leachman, was brutally murdered in| The barber walks around with a We continually saw bands of these | where we were until sunset, when the | the 1920 rising. Across the ancient ;""f'.‘ Diece ot e "",;' ':1”:"""? o ruffans crossing our path and camp- | wind would probably drop, 8o we set-[4nd now dry canals of a hygone AStTUmMENLS, AnG Wheb e Fads & Cus ing by the wells. Once, when we|tled down toa meal of tinned food. |Perlod of thix country’s greatness.|lomer they hoih saual against the stopped for water, we wWere sur.| s | pazsing many camps of Bedouins, we | Rearest wall, while he shaves or cute rounded by a crowd, who clambered | | soon sighted the golden domes of the hair of his client. The woo on the footboard and started fingering | QULIEMAN then gave us a good dem | Kad-imain, the shrine of the grand.|turner sits and works on (arismuds everything loose on the car. Our | onstration of the resourcefulnessof |son of the Prophet Mohammed. Ten | ldthe. using his toes to propel it. The mascot, the fizure of a cat on the the desert Arab. He wandered about | minutes later there appeared on the m";;“\ 'h;:nffl |’”<rm‘flx hanmlr}“ lr;' radiator cap, mystified them, and I|for a few minutes, collected about a|horizon the domes ‘and minarets of WAll With howls of coln whic! heard one man cry out that he was dozen small pieces of refuse, and put | Bagdad. {"“' il “'h‘.';f "’f.« (: l‘;"l- el Shaitan.” meaning the devil them into a small hole that he dug We passed through the fertile belt | g = A0 ’n"“'m*‘d»m-‘ ”;‘; aivatice We did not stop to argue with|Wwith a sharp stone. of agriculture that surrounds the | 5300 RS G 0 ;M S g 2 them, but pushed on as soon as| Sheltering the hole to the windward | city, now the capital of the Turkish Bagdad, my old Arab servant Hus:| possible. At dusk we came upon a|Side with his robe, he worked with|province of Mesopotamia. Past the | (ARGAT, WV 90 ArAD ServAnt GHs most picturesque Arab town. the | flint und steel: in 30 seconds he had a | old Berlin-Bagdad railway, we crossed | {50 G0 EC W SRC SRS B houses of iwhich were mud-built in blaze going., and in five minutes he [the new pontoon bridge and arrived. Yyl hoxes who. in 1015, save Taame the shape of sugar cones. and. as all | bolled water and gave me a most de- | four muddy, unwashed figures, at the | geon SOXET ERe B 050 BRER TIEES the buildings were joined together, | licious cup of coffee, the like of which | Hotel Zia. The proprietor, Zia, an : the whole village was actually under can only be associated with this part [old war-time friend of mine, gave us L one large roof. of the East. It was a demonstration [a great welcome, and the jovs of hot YAJHEN the time came for us to An hour’ m next day brought us of what can be done with apparentiy | baths and iced lager beer were be leave Bagdad, we .had no feeling to Hanu city of £.000 inhabitants. | Nothing in the desert i_\‘l»ml» description. We had covered | of regret, and the thought of the cool This was once the capital of a king.| Just then Wroe started to shiver,|the 348 miles of desert in 2413 run-| and bracing climate that exists in the fom, the extent of which Is not | and on taking his temperature I found | ning hours without a puncture or mountalws and plateaus of Persia Lnown to history. and which is re.|it to be 102.4. This was a problem. To | mechanical trouble of any kind. tempted us ferred to in the Book of Kings as|tirn round and make for Dimascus| P On_the morning of our departure it | Hamath and Amatha. Our next im- | Would e taken hours. us it would [rrnpiispys iq a great contrast hetween Was 110 degrees in the shade, and we portant stop was at Damascus, the|be impossible to drive for more| ] TLoRE 18 & great contrast between [ 100 ) 1 Git8 i the face of the shimal city of seven rivers, where the house ' than a few minutes time in the | the Bagdad of 1917 and that of | ;r gate-ripening wind, which was like of Ananias can be visited, as well as | face of the wind, so I decided to push | today. In 1913 the Turks cut a wide | the blast from a furnace door, and the tomb of the great conqueror,|on to Bagdad | street right through the city to| Which covered us with a fine cake of Saladin | 1 gave him a good strong dose of | : | dust until our faces were like maxks From here we moved on to the city | Quinine and aspirin, wrapped him up | nable theni to transport thelr heavy|yng our skin and lipse cracked and SEISRIELE o horMeRlte rEanasn Seacd and made him as comfortable in | KUn& from the north to Kut-el-Amara. | gove which is the biggest seaport in Syria. | the back of the car as the heavy load | When I entered Bagdad with the ™ gt what a run we had! Tr Its importance as a political and |3 amped conditions would permit | ©CCupying troops. this was a cut in|mipute to imagine a road absolut commercial center, its harmonious|and waited for the wind to drop. It|eVery sense of the word They had|fat, and as wide and long as the eve mingling of antlquity and modernity, | dropped gradually, and in the evening [Just taken a stralght line and Cut|can warry. Such was the going on is overshadowed by the surpassing it turned into a gentle following |through. mosque, bazaar and house in|the desert between Bagdad and the beanty of its surroundings. | breeze, and 1 moved on. | & relentless way , town Bakuba on the Diala River We could see the famous cedars of | The caravan track was barely per-| This street. now known as New | There was not a bump or snag of any Lebanon (the few remaining ones of | ceptible, and after an hour I iost it | Street, was then an unmetaled mud|kind, and vour speed need only be which are strictly preserved) from |completely. We circled round and|heap. Toduy the road is well metal-|jimited by the amount of respect you which Kingz Solomon obtained the |round in widening circles and after | led. the sidewalks are paved with have for your engine. timber for building the Temple, and | half an hour found it again and moved | hard brick and an efficient police force It is a very thrilling sensation golng only with an effort could we drag|on steadily | is necessary at every crossroad tolall,out over hard alluvial desert, and ourselves away from this perfect spot The next day we arrived at Rutba, |control the everincreasing motor [yoil get the peculiar feeling that vou We spent one day here in visiting | the only well en route, where a tribe | traffic. | Will presently come to the edge and the famous ruins of Baalbek, which |of Arab nomads was camped, and in| While at Bagdad we took occasion | go over it. There was a particularlv rank among the most wonderful exist. |2 minute we were surrounded by a ent. Baalbek is the ancient City of | filthy, howling mob of men, women Heliopolis, and was founded by the and children, all screaming for back- sun worshippers of Baal. Later the |sheesh. Our guidé kept them off with | Romans erected temples there to|no gentle hand while we filled our | Venus, Jupiter, and Bacchus, and after | tanks with filthy green water. I| cluding the rui: in- of Babylon. through | a never-ending series of earth mounds to visit nearby sites of interest, approached the palm groves that fringe the river, the distortion was extraordinary. They appeared as beautiful islands, in a smooth blue sea, which kept receding as we ap- proached it. We were nearly 800 feet abore the a level here, and although the days were trying. the nights were enough to wake us shivering after midnight. We were now In view of the mountains of Persia, and to see the sun rise over them in the dista was a beautiful sight, and almost be- and embankments, which represented the remains of a wonderful system of irrigation canals that were function- — EARS AND NOSTRILS WERE S00 “OUR EYES hed at the time that some of the overromantic 1inglish fappers who have been Arab and shelk struck (through xeeing misrepresented films w several centuries it was taken by the Moslems and destroyed. Itebnilt about the sevengh century, it was destroyed by earth fore it was up we were on our way to the frontier, seven miles away. In- spector Mirza Ali of the police had been advised of our coming and ac. companied us to the Persian border, « mile farther on. The next 20 miles to Kash-i-shirin was about the most dangerous road we struck on the whole of our journey, and happenings of late have likened it to the northwest frontfer of India. It is no man's land, and is alternately raided by Arab, Persian and Kurd, who, after raiding, fight each other for the spoils. Only the week previous to our passing there had been four ralds. A fortnight before a car driven by an Arab and with five passengers was held up by the most notorious of these bandits—a Kurd of the name of Khan Fathl Beg. The driver, who was the only armed man, tried to make a fight of if, and, using his revolver, hit Khan Fathi Beg above the eyes, whereupon the rest of the band killed and muti lated the whole party If unopposed, they do not kill strip the unfortunate traveler everything he possesses. including every stitch of clothing, and leave him in the burning sun, which to a Euro- pean, however, means certain death. Both the Iraq inspector and the com- mander of the Persian post insisted on escorting us through the troubled land to safety. With revolvers on our kneex, I made up my mind that if but FILLED.” We, as peace lovers, would make every effort to ginger up Felix. * oo ox w zur und Ham- bylonta. was reported to huve once exceeded the pre ing when Nebuchadne urabl were kings of 1 S arrived at the city shah before sunset, hvlon n L that in time to are : - e ]qr:mtl?ee, &!'ffil,".\i.'“".f\‘-'.',?_ could not rob | of those characters) could have been |day London and Paris combined, and |meet the sad procession of cars bring it of all ite beauty and glory. with us, for they would have had|for miles around are tend of thou-|ing the body of Maj. Imbrie (the mur- We visited the quarries nearby,|a quick disillusionment. sands of huge earth mounds, every |dered American Consul General) to the where the stone was$ hewn for the| Romance could not be even asfo-|one of which represents an ancient | ¥ail heud at Khanikin, en route fo building of Baalbek, and there can be | ciated with the real desert sheik, and { buflding, but which are now covered | America. The cortege was accom- in a country where water is too pre- cious to warrant a wash more than once a month filth rather than ro- mance predominates. The sheik at this place gave us the impression of not having been washed since birth, and I think he was still wearing the clothes of his childhood, into which numerous gussets had been sewn from time to time. * ¥ X X A MONTH before this the matl cars were attacked 20 miles from here, after which the French sent out a punitive expedition which captured all the raiders. A little later we passed the remains of a car which attempted to cross about two months ago and which was driven by Arabs from Bag- dad. They ran out of water, had to stop, and, leaving a woman and child in the car, they tried to find water. One was never seen again and the other was found some weeks later eaten by jackals. Luckily, a British malil airplane which was passing spot- ted the stranded car. They landed, seen a c13 stone, oblong in shape, which welwhs over 1,500 tons, which had actually been moved bodily toward the temples, when presumably its progress was stopped by the destruc- tion of the city. o then returned to Damascus to prepare Kelix for one of his su- preme tests, the crossing of nearly 600 miles of waterless desert to Bagdad. over a waste, on which there was meither a tree nor a blade of gra: and where breakdown or failure meant something unthinkably serious. Leaving Damascus, we retraced our | steps for 15 miles along the Alleppo road, through the luxuriant fruit gar- dens and waiving olive groves, and then turned northeast on to the open desert. The breeze, the direction of whieh had hot been noticeable up to the present, commenced to blow be. hind ue, but for 30 miles I had no dificulty in moving faster than the wind. - After going @r an hour and a hala | panied by a number of senior Persian officers and the whole garrison of the city turned out to pay tribute to the dead. Kermanshah, known as the city of seven gates, is a flourishing town of 30,000 inhabitants, on the river IKerk- hah, and 1s the center of the converg- ing trade routes from Bagdad, Tehe- ran and Ispahan. Nearby is Tak-I- bustan, noted for some wonderful rock carvings made by the Emperor Darius to commemorate some of his victories, with the dust of centuries. The part of Babylon which can be seen was excavated by the Germans shortly before the war, and is only a tiny part of the city. It includes, however, the famous Ishtar gate, the palace of Nebuchadnezzar, the sacred way of the priests, and the famous banging gardens. Jn spite of the great heat, interest was intense, and left no doubt in the mind as to the wonderful state of civilization that must have existed here 3,000 years ago when Babylonia was a plain, (and is also the reputed tomb of covered with forests and rich cultl’ | Croesie, 5 R vation. In England most people imagine On another day, we left Bagdad at dawn, and drove south to the ruins of Cesiphon, the Summer Palace of the Parthian Kings. The great Arch of Croesus, over 170 feet high, with a span of 110 feet, was buflt of brick and without a wooden molding, and is regarded by engineers as one of the | th seven wonders of the world. It was | Western ideas and puts her house in one of the great centers that rose on |order the possibilities of the land are the Tigris after the fall of Pby]on, limitless. | Persia to be a barren desert. Such | thought is a fallacy, and it was a glori- ous country that we were now trav- ersing, with green mountains, clear streams and fertile plains stetching as far as the eye could see. When Persia throws off ‘the cloak of prejudice to fine mirage that morning, and as we | cool | of | speed would help us not to use them. | of Kerman- | Minerals abound, cattle flourish, and anything will grow here in a climate | which fs second to none. Rut, sad to |relate, as a nation, the Persians are going backward and not forward. is extremely hard to helieve they were It | a great and civilized race at the time that our ancestors were running about in a coat of blue paint. * ok % * We left on our final run of 90| miles to Teheran, the capital, on a| straight road, also full of tender mem- ories. The place where my old charger was trained for the races in the capi tal, the place where my staff sergeant shot & running hare with a service rifle, also where we whiled away many an hour gazelle hunting in the weary Ume following the armistice—all ten- | der memories of a happy time that | will never recur. On and on we purred | on the last plece of real road we should | run on for the mnext 2100 infles, | through the ramparts and over the | moat Into the fine, wide, tree-lined ave- | nues of Teheran. We were afforded every facility an allowed to visit the royal palace, th musenm of which contains the won- | derful peacock throne which was taken by the Perstans in the sack of Delhi som nturies ago. It contains priceless collection of old carpets and rings, but mixed in this are some | trumpery pleces of bric-a-brac. | Near the peacock throne, which is | atudded with preclous stones, sald to | be worth about $7,000,000, can be seen a $2 alarm clock. On the wall is a | painting by a world-famous artist, and | underneath it a tawdry piece of china of the “present from Margate" vari- ety. But, nevertheless, it contain some priceless treasures that are a joy to the eye. How corrupt governments | have been in office for years and vear | without looting such a treasure house | in hard to fmagine. The sight of the | peacock throne even gingered up our own latent criminal instincts, and even | Redknap remarked that he would love | 10 be left thera alone for half an hour with a hammer and chisel. We alil agreed with him. * x *x x TEHERAN is & very beautiful eity, and is situated at the foot of the Elbury Range, of which the highest | | peak,” Mount Demavend, an extinct | volcano, rises to a height of 19,000 | feet, and its permanent snow-covered peak can be seen from most parts of the city. Here our bad luck began, and as we | were preparing to leave Redknap went down with & temperature of 103 de grees, which was soon dlagnoxed malarfal fever. le was so bad that for everal davs I had grave doubts as to his ability to proceed. His strong will and robust constitution a | e | | voit and | ing diaphragm however, pulled him through, and in five days he had recovered sufficiently to enabls us to plan our start in a couple of days. The day befors this contemplated move Wroe went down with a far worse bump and with a fever that did not respond to treatment. e walted and waited and hoped for the best, but on the elghth day it de oped into a severe form of typhoid, The British resident doctor ordered his any immediate removal to the Amerlcan hospital. So all chances of his abllity to proceed were extingufshed It was extremely lucky for him that it had happened here, for south of Teheran our hardshipe were so great that had he been with us when his malady developed I fear his chances nf ecovery would have been small. It as hard Juck for him not to be abls to finish, but « severe abdominal oper- ation earlier in life had weakened his constitution. This weakness devel- oped and rendered him entirel: suitable for the rigors und hardships of such a trip as this. Our route had been originally planned via Meshed, but the day be- fore we moved we received the news that the Turcoman tribes were in re. in possession of the road, looting all caravans. Also we heard that we should have to cross rivers and streams whera the flood water wag un- 10 feet deep in many places. The onlv alternative route was by way of Tapa- han, Shiraz, Kerman and Bam- a route that fncluded several hundred miles of salt desert. Nevertheless, t would give an opportunity of sesing =outh Persia for the first time, and tha change of justified b (Copyright. 1975 Car Stethoscope. HEN the motorist wiches to get “right dewn to business" W on his | motor at times when ha t like its sound and vet can't q dlagnose the trouble, he can use # homemada stethoscope. This can i of an ordinary telephone recefver. It is attached to a long iron rod. The rod can be soldered to the diaphrag the telephone recelver, a rod should be long enough to touch motor at the other end. The diagnos- tielan can accomplish his k easily with this stethoscope, as he can detect the vibratlons passing through the receiver as they proceed through motor up along the rod to the rece Oxford Bags and Divided Skirts Lead | - In Progress Toward Garb of Future | BY STERLING HETLIG. PARIS 8. HE vyoung Englishman of today not only wears strange Oxford trousers which would provide his sister with four skirts, but | he cultivates a wasplike waist. He | seems to ha lost all sense of occa sion." | So speaks the London Observer. 1 “Oxford bags are already 30 inches | wide at the knee, where 18 inches w October (13 | considered proper,” sivs the laris | Liberte. *“In the cam of advanced dressers 30 inches is exceeded. With 'a little more they will approximate | the divided skirt—which is probably | what the masculinists are after Yet American college boys, who {touk wide pants home on the boat | heard nothing of masculinism ut the | tallor's. They supposed that they | were buying simply wide pants. Mas | culinism, which s not what it sounds like, results from feminism in after war hardships of men in Kurope | “Feminism." savs Henry V. ( de | Boyde, “i= the social revindication of | women, who claim the right do | everything that men have been doing | There are woman doctors, lawyer astronomers, mayors and policemen. Observe the hen,” save Henry. “Men |have been dressing and hustling like | hens, and women loafing and dress ing up like roosters. Waomen's good | sense wants to transpose thifks back. | That's feminism." | The advanced dressers of Paris and | London have invented masculinism. They are not all young men. Bald | heads. like the followers of Hogue- | Lampenio. rally in number. “Let us do’ something while we can!" says Ferdinand, whose whiskers are turn. ing white. “Masculinism,” he =sa right of men to wear pants as wide | as women's skirts, and wider, if they want to, and of any color! It is the {right to be wide and gorgeous, like the other males of creation. The { rooster and the lion are gorgeous, and | they take life easy. We can't take | lite” eary without dressing up. always dressed up until recent times. is Women appreciate why they =0 They want the fact—that discontented no % 1o resume our gorgeous- All women are hobbing their hair. It is a general movement—an exam- ple and invitation for men to let their hair grow long, says Henry de Boyd while women go under the clipper: We men ought to have frizettes and little tortoise-shell combs with incrus- tation Such of us who are bald,” say Ferdinand. “will wear wigs of fanc shades, and lady valets will curl them for us. Sack suits will no longer hide our forms. _“What's the matter with little satin jackets flaring in basques at the hips?” . Masculinism has got it all laid out. | Mén will wear colors. They will uge silks, sating and fancy kasha— all men who want to do so. “Times change.” says de Boyde, “and women are showing us the way. Did not 324 voung women of Long Beach, Calif., parade the satreets in one-piece bathing shorts? In Paris | alone there ‘are 465 baldheads and sray-whiskered men of fashion ready to come out in the silk brocade ma- terials which they already use at | home in Persian robes! | It seems that they wre manly robes, | and not mere dressing gowns or pa: Jjama Jackets. Chosen flowered pat- terns cost dearer than any woman's aress. Thelr rich colors and soft | texture tempt any man with whis- | kers to stay in them all day. | I shall not hesitate to ride out in a purple-andgold coat,” 1logue-Lam- perie is credited with saving. Henry smiled indulgently “They are game, he sald, “but there is more. There is a scheme, a plan. The most advanced dressers are all in it. Common men will be led by easy stages. DId you ever think of Solomon in all his glory? Solomon dld not wear pants! “No pants?” I exclaimed, aghast. Why pants?’ replied de Boyde. “They have been the bane of men. We have been at a disadvantage ever since we put them on. Did Caesar wear pants? Did Charlemagne wear pants? Men will never get their proper place hack in the world so long as they wear pants! Pants, at this moment, are good for just one | thing—to lead -to something " better. | Wide pants will do it!" “Everybody has heard of them,” I | muttered. | “They are called Oxford bags,” he said, “but they don't bag at the knee! When the man in the street discovers the fact and plunges for wide pants we advanced dressers will be ready for him. We shall crease our Oxford bags down the sides!™ 4 “is the | Men | “WE “But that will make them bag at the knee, again!” I exclaimed. “Exactly. So it would seem. So | we tempt the rich to be exclusive. | But. in reality, it cannot be done.” | “Why not? No man can walk wide enough to away with it! When the common | man perceives this, he will have a great laugh—and wear wide pants still wider yvet. For the firat time, {men will be brothers. Think of fit, Bill, no front crease, no aide crease, no more knee-bagging! Do women's skirts bag at the knee? And there You are. The secret is out. | By Oxford bags, men are to be led to approximate divided skirts—all men who want to do so! “Men have wu ants only 1800," says Henry, “but men not worn skirts since the vear four centuries of oppression! since have 1640 in Rome and the Middle Ags when men were men, the dignity and ease of skirts w theirs. Women re- vered them, and weat alow!" “SKIRTS HAVE DIGNITY. IT IS side-crease very wide pants and get | the truly masculine periods of Greece, | ".- St e SHALL WEAR WIGS OF FANCY SHADES, AND LADY VALETS WILL CURL THEM FOR US, T | Al starts. vou perceive. from Ox-! |ford bags. Their lnok is subtly simi lar to that of the divided skirt | JFMerly men of fashion. it seeme, can hardly bear to wait; and Hogue Lamperie urges an immediate ap proach by way of black or purple velvet. At a dinner with one's aunts, for example, he recommends and pur- poses to wear a kind of dress coat | of ‘black or purple velvet, flaring | largely and gracefullv at the hips, to display the hang of a divided skirt which subtly resembies Oxford bags. His aunts, Hogue-Lamperie assures us, will be all mixed up, and won't | know what they are or what it is! | Such an experience gives confldence i \ | { Then, gaining practice in more worldly society. he says, some day, when concerted actlon is agreed ¢ he will just drop the “divide” of his | divided skirt! What, ho, for skirts' | Henry laughs. “\What complications!” he says | “llere’s how it will happen. When | common men get used to Oxford innx» with all their flowing euse, they'll feel that the ‘divide’ is the one | ONLY A MATTER OF GETTING THE HANG OF THEM.” “Helping Europe.” MORE than $300,000,000 annually is sent by Immigrants In the United States to countries abroad. When it s considered that many other millions are left in Europe by American tourists, it is evident that i these countries derive a rather large income from America over and above what they receive for the goods they export or from loans. Italy receives by far the most of these remittances, or about $10,000,000. About $80,000,- 000, it is estimated, ;%n to Germany, some $30,000,000 to Poland, and $28, 000,000 to Russia. “The Aviator’s Eye.” THE mechanical eve of the avia- tor's camera is adding materially | to our knowledge of prehistoric man. | Primitive disturbances of the soil may | have disappeared so completely as to lleave no trace whatever on the sur- tace, and yet are plainly visible from Rirship. The so-called “Avenue, leading from the famous monuments of Stonehenge, near Salisbu Eng- land, has now been traced as far as the River Avon by means of aerial photographs and later verifications made by puéutrh.nl | strains thing that irks ther At our o ample. they will gladly drop common men who recognize they'd look well in skirts Meade Memorial. (Continued from First Page.) thelr lines moving through the ex. posed valley with the precision of men on parade, with colors flving, to tha of martial musie, It was a glorfous effort; under a rain of shot and shell, that cut down the gallant men by the thousands (less than one- third of their numbers reached their lines again), their ranks re-formed, closed “up, and moved on in the jesty of invincible courage. Gen. Armistead succeeded in leading ubou a hundred of them to the crest of the ridge, where they and held the « little wh only to be finally forced down siope, the battie Jost., and bearing its loss the ruin of the Confederacy. But Pickett's men had glimpsed the eternities, for In that charge they wers made aware that “one glorious hour of crowded life is more than an age unknown."” Thelr n chless courage has no paraliels sdve those of Bal; Klava and thi Spartans in the mountatn pass of Thermopylae After the repulse of Pickett's men, | Meade, accompanied by his staff, rode | down in front of his lines in full view {of the enemy, who fired not a singla | shot while the Union forces gave their | commander such an ovation as few | chiefs ever win from their man On the following day, July 4, both | armies were occupied with their ‘“f\undnd and with the burial of theis | dead. That night, in a heavy rain, | Lee began his retreat toward Virginia soil. organized, disciplined, not discourage. and Meade followed cautionsly, no daring to risk his dearly bought vie tory with a possible defeat. When Lincoln learned that the Con federate forces had escaped he sal in his distress: “\We had them in ou grasp: we had only to stretch fort} our hands and they were ours! I that cry was the sound of tears thal must yet be shed hefors the work o Meade could be rounded out at App | matox. Given his opportunity, Mead: | had wrested victory from ft, making it possible for Grant to save the Unfon but the hour for that achievemeni was ot yet. Meade’s victory took unto itself ada) ed Juster from the success of Gran at Vicksburg, both victorfes falling o the day of the Nation's birth. It wa for the Union, as Sherman wrote td Grant, the best 4th of July since 1776 And in the West, as Lincoin sald, “Th Father of Waters again goes unvex to the sea,” cutting off all supplies o food and arms that had been comin; into the Confederacy from forelgd countries When Grant was given command of {the Armies of the United States h |left Meade in charge of the Army of ‘!he Potomac, for he admired the man’: ability. » Meade and Grant, throug! | Gettysburg and Vicksburg and on) I'through tha Wilderness campalgns to | Appomattox, were comrades in arms {10 victory, and are comrades still fi the eternal security of commemorating, bronze and marble, sheltered so nobly by the Capitol of that Government they kept from perishing from tha earth. It is a worthy companionin & brotherhood of service, which the nas tion acknowledges in gratitude, inted their ¢ the in i