Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1928, Page 33

HE SUNDAY &TAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. JANUARY | Parent-Teacher Activities All notices for this column must be in the office by noon on Wednesday receding the Sunday on which pub- ired. Address D. C. Con- gress of P. T. A, Publicity Bureau, 800 Lighteenth street, apartment 31. schools was advocated in a resolution adopted by the association of Columbia Junior High School at a meeting Janu- and senior high schools for an expres- sion of opinion, and the Board of Edu- cation acquainted with the purpose sought. | Miss Espey. one of the toachers, gave an address on the value of the study of English, and a round-table discus sion was held on appropriate courses to be taken by junior high school stu- dents preliminary to their entrance into senior high schools and college. Mrs. W. I McIndoo. president of the asso- ciation, presided. Reports of the recent sessions of the Y and the publicity institute were given at the monthly meciing of the Disirict of Columbia Congress of Parent-Teacher Associa- tions last Tuesda i the Burlington Hotel Mrs, W. T. Banncrman, - Jative chairman, spoke on the status ©f the bills concerning the District of Columbia, now before Congress. Mrs, V. P. Roop reported on social hygiene, sand Mrs. E. R. Kalmbach. chairman in charge of scrap books and exhibits, showed the State honor roll and ex- plained the credit pomnts an associa- tion should have to be placed on this Tol! Mrs. H. E. Rossel, Bulletin the m he F s Alvin W. Millor, principal of C High Sc antral made an address before D. Cooke Home and School January meeting d lecture on “The Po- Its Source to Its Mouth m G . will be given at president’s | a cehool Jant y issue. Mrs. . pre-school chairman, re- | The Bancrof arc fourteen pre-school | High School T s now_in operation in the sl Teacher Associations | tr Pebry 2 rict of Columbia, Mrs. i all, State shoe and rubber announced a card party for ent will be held Frbruary 10, m the Burlington Hotel Mrs. Grace Latona. president of he Corcoran Parent-Teachers' Association read an original story. The chairman Court, Mrs. James the Parent-Teacher Bancroft Powell Junior t-Teacher Associa- 'y at 10 parlors of the Mount Congregational Church. A d kindergartner will be on hand e care of young children. Mrs 1 M. Manly. Mrs. William G. Stuart and Mrs. H. B. Armos are in charge The course offered is as follows: Feb- 3 The Influence of the Home Development of the Young Child.” Dr. Lois Meek: February 9. “In- and Activities of Young Chil- Dr. Lois Meek: February 16 o Problems of the Adolescent Boy." D : February 23. “The Adolescent Girl,” Te February nlev- Brler also Jannev Associ C S a_Child>" Dr ¢ E L. . “The Problem Child Lind: March 22. “Experiments in Edu- cation,” Dr. Stanwood Cobb: April 3, “Sex Education.” Dr. Valeria Parker: April 4. Education.” Dr. Parker. tion there will by Prof. Patty Hill. director of kinder- and_first grade education of College of Cojumbia Uni- The date will be announced . March Dr. John E. e show- the Child Welfare jons was explained Rauscher ways and means ch: B. Cast Magarine by Mrs. S The State man. Mrs. L. sociations by supporting > Parent-Teacher Assocla- January 16, Mrs. Kalmbach o0l educational department: r. Juvenile Court worker. and s iring little program of the Marvland Congr and teact s of pa est of honor. was won by the 4-B grade, Miss John- son, teacher n of the loal the Miss Ros L. Hardy, assistant intendent of schools, will speak at the meeting of the Grant Parent-Teacher Association next Wednesday at 1 pm at the school. There will be talks by four of the teachers. explaining . work of the grad super- A meeting of the Hubbard-Raymond | Home and School Association was held last Monday evening at Hubbard School. Maj. L. the meeting. The attendance banner were won by Grade 3A-B. Miss Taylor. of Hubbard, and grade 3A. Miss Brink- ley of Raymond. Miss Rose L. Hardy. as: ant super- intendent of public schools, spoke on “Types of Creative Work in the Ele- mentary Schools” at a meeting of the Jackson Parent-Teacher Association January 16 at 8 pm The meeting was followed by an - formal reception in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Draper. Mr Draper is the recently ap; ted supervising principal for the division including Georgetown Ludlow-Taylor and Stanton As- the near future, and a'sc 1tive board meetings of the Grant and the Jehn Eaton Associations. 1z to hold P. T A card parties for the State budger are fequested to communicate with Mrs. 1132 Sixth street T, State chairman. The Jefferson Junior High Parent- R 3 “Thrife.” publicity Mrs. C. H ittee 1o d constitution to be e next meeting. Re- served of Parent-Teacher Associations A resolution was passed, authorizing Mz Schaeffer to represent the associa- tion at the hearing before the congres- tonal committee on appropriations. A report of 1.000 questionnaires returned concerning the new Jefferson Junior High School. showed more than 99 per cent favored a new school on a new site. An appropriation was made (o the budget fund and one to the shoe and rubber fund rrl-mtrr oyster dinner was given, and plans were made for a «ard party be held in Pebruary e Miss Alne Harmel Welch rendered 4 piano selection and Miss Dorothy Zimmerman gave a reading The Hamaker. president of prepared a paper which she read g of the Mothers Ciub. Mrs. Ciifford E Kettler vocal svios. accompanied by rios A. Webb. rvan P. T. A. will meet next 2t 730 pm. Miss Elizadeth ummer, sunervising principal of h division. will be the speaker of the evening A card perty arranged by the Paren Teacher Association of the John Bur- . was held January 17 met Thursday night ker was Stephen E superintendent 6f al numbers were rs Refreshments Seven B-1. Mrs, Gi attendance banner ‘1;?1" Langdon Par clation. at the March meeting. whic| will be held in the evening. will non pictures and plans of the proposed new chool. and at the May meeting the A protest against the ocbnoxious h Bchool viill be fea- A and Slering \escrigions of and atrocities us printed in our dafly papers” was regis- the Carpery Parent-Teacher 2 met at the Carbery 12, a1 1:30 pm. Mrs Biggs ves ted a delegate o the ottt s e . M George Fox read the District presi- dent's mes I reported from the Distriet Walt 7 were gerved section. won the ~Teacher Asso- Several mu Tourders The Monroe Home and School Assn- ciation Wil meet at the sohonl Tuesday at 8 pm. The speaker will be Miss Catherine R. Watkins, supervisor of the kindergarten department. Her subjeet ter Training in the 4 Pollock will aing i i Parent-Teacher et at the school on Jany- The school orche selections before the meeting thropic hold srveral proceeds v end the ci 2 Backus introduced Dr »ho gave a taik o Mrs. Arms gave a detatied outline of a 18l hygiene course 1o be held 1n the ;:;mg{?gnl:’nn:)l Church. Fourteenth Street and Columbia Roa ‘i g Street and bia Road, beginning “Why we should fare Magazine” topie talk given by Mrs. Rauscher, Srare chairman of the Distriet Congress, at A meeting of the Stuart Home are Bchool Association held at the art Junior High Bchonl, January 1) » o'clock Mrs. Rafter, State president | #poke briefly of the recuits of the fum mer round-up and health of schoot t purents enrolled as members i aed 10 siart o Parent-Teacher| Miss Lucas teacher, read the Srare ol sy | president qancage Mrs John Dn ported additional new members W. L. Hagen gave a report of the sttt A1 reported on the dinner hietie 1, o Ballou ent-Tearher Assnc and other su v the school by usd for baskets for rm amendment o the % members and announced re of Monticello wouid be grid Reeve. AF carried on by and her reporting sns reported a Jer Comm ence Domdera, ano pre Nestler on 1) s given b panize n st vellure Gay il be giver B WiS WOR DY 1) Hope Boule, earner Centyal High Parent- #lion met st the sk B opn Mise Harrer Lae eouncilor 8« he need of having the bulding put into It was yoted 1 pur balle for the use of [ uing clasecs, aleo Lo serve 1efeshime o the February class #ILer Ve graduating exercises. The Ll rommitiee for entertaining these pupils Mrn Schmiat. Mrs, Divis and Miss s talk on Lanborn “The banner for witendane Dorte were giwn by M 2 B s won by Bection 8-A, Miss Dagnal) chasrmnar wng e The Thomsen 10819 pm ‘ Hogi PT A met January A commitiee veporien o, ereary of the Commun LACT LETRRRTT 1 held a1 Centing Bl The Kindergarien entey of Columbia Con- | vained with songe and music furnished Yewcher Assoctation | by their own band The Kindergarten i stlend ure requesed | roceived the prize for having the larg @ notify Mr HBow &8 gon Be| e pumier of paients present A poneible delegione oumoer, Colum- | Lawcheon wae given by the P71, A e 802740 January 19 and 20 ¥ree f T funa of the @ of sthletic equipment for e L) be a lecture | pupils of the | nt for attendanee | the | E_Atkins addressed | E She also | exp'ained the purpose of the Congress | A report of t'x> De- | school orchestra played several num. | ra played | n “Our Bchool Laws.” | ‘ The Story (Continued from Third Page.) | Sun at Palmyra, the unspeakably beau- The ros vill be sent to | tiful pillars at Baalbek, in Syria, as fair | by the players. xv:.lwn]xC:;}-\::x\:x“‘m‘\z\- nx:d _|\u|\0r‘n< any in the world: the theaters at | farces that Italian and modern comedy Orange and Arles, the theater and! | Maison Caree and bridge over the Gard | !at happy Nimes. Let us be as hostile | to them as we will, we shall have to! {confess that, the Romans were the | greatest builders of all our race | Within these vast structures fabout them statues stand. Some {them are clever coples, perhaps madi | by Greek slaves from Hellenistic mas- terpieces: most of them are portraits of public men: some of them are adapta- {tions of Greek figures to Roman sub- | | teets, as when Apollo becomes Antinous, | {beloved of Hadrian. Very few of them {are of full length: already the Greek love of the body s gone and the head recaives an exclusive interest. And what heads thev are—rugged. knobby. | inost square. Here is not so much the | develoned intellect as the relentiess will: | {not mind but character. Nearly every one of these busts—Caesar, Pompey Cicero. Brutus, Augu: Caracalla, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius—frowns: these people eannot relax into the amenities of Jife: in their hearts they are still barbarians, happy only in action, great only in architecture, government and | war. and of | ok ok % At the Theater. Shall we listen for a while to a Ro- man play? Note how the theater dif- fers from those of the Greeks: there is no more chorus: the “orchestra™ once the chorus danced is filled with seats for the more fortunate s tors, and here a curtain ri falls upon the play to mark those divisions of act and scene which once were made by the choral song. Tie chorus has died a natural death by easy stages in the new comedy of Menander and the lat Greeks. All that is left of it here is the occasional singing of a part by a boy at the side while the actor makes the gestures in the fashion of Le Cogq d'or It is a simple thing. this Roman drama; it is nearly all comedy. for the | peopic deprecate unhappy endings. and are inclined to forbid them. if not law. like the Hindus, by taking the tra- gadians off the stage and pummeling them into a botter humor. The aristoc- racy of Rome does not care for the stage, and the populace has its way. At first the plays are mere saturai— where to the State monthly meetings of the D. C. Congress were entertained at tea by Mrs. Henry S. Rawdon Monday afternoon. Mrs. G. 8. Rafter and Mr< La Varre. State chairman for motion pictures, were among the invited guosts In the auditortum of the Jann School the Tenley-Janney Paren:- Teacher Association received the mem- ! bors of the Northwest Citizens' Associa- tion at its meeting Tucsday evening Mre. Richard Fletcher, president of the P-T. A. presided. Capt. Paul V. Col- lins discussed good citizenship. The children of the Tenley-Janney Schoo! presented the play. “Miles " with songs and a foik dance. ayton Loughran and Ralph Gray ga:e a report on the trip to Mount Vernon | given by the association to Mrs. Hutch- inson’'s room. the first to secure 100 per | |cent parent membership. President | Bowker and Vice President Stiles of {the citizens’ association made short ad- dresses. Refreshments were served. The Wallach-Towers P. T. A. met at {the Wallach School January 12. Mrs. P. | C. Riston. president. gave an account of |the meeting of the President’s Council {of the D. C. Congress of P.-T. A. Dr Jozeph Murphy. chief medical inspector, made an address Miss Day's fourth grade and M { McCauley’s third grad= tied in the num- bor of parents present. so both classes | wore treated to the following day. Harry R. Parkhuret of Balti- . Md.. president of the Maryland |State Parent-Teacher Association. gave | |an address at the monthly meeting of | the Wesley Heights Parent-Teacher As- {soctation "last Tuesday evening. J | Wallace Talley, assistant executive for | Washington of Boy Scouts of America | spoke about the organization of a club | for boys under 12 years. It was voted | |0 form such a club under the direction {of J H. Yates Mrs Joseph Saunders president of | {the John Eaton Parent-Teacher Asso- !ciation. presented a check for $25 in| | apprecia {Carey Brown, president of the Wesley ights Parent-Teacher Association, as airman of the ways and means com- ities of the John Eaton Parent- | Teacher Assocation | A mimeographing machine, to cost $81, and approved by the Board of Ed- {ucation, was voted. Mrs. Arthur Dowell | resigned as chairman of the Child Wel- {fare Magazine and Mrs s appointed in her place. Mrs Fisher was appointed chairman of the pre-school study group. Mrs Webb's Toom won the prize for the best attendance. m| 'ROUSING RECEPTION | STAGED FOR HERRICK American Ambassador Gets Great Ovation as He Returns to France, | PARIS. January 21.—The return to 18 of Myron T. Herrick American Ambassador, was like the homecoming of a favorite son after a long absence, The crowd that choked the station platform to greet the American Ambas- | sador. who had been on sick leave in { the United States, made nccess diMcult, {but one-armed, limping CGen. Gouraud, famous war figure and now governor of | Paris reached the Ambassador as soon . he alighted from the train and gave UM A most cordial greeting | The American colony French offieials were well |and gave the reception Mr. Herrick's arrival at | vas the occasion of an enthu: ome the American envoy cetved like . conquering hero as touched the sofl,of France at that port Miiltary bands were on hand o greet him, while all the craft in the harbor joined in shrieking & welcome with thelr steam whistles | Sheldon Whitehouse, who has been | acting ws charge d'affaires in Paris, met | tie Ambassador at Havre | | GUARDSMEN T0 HOLD ANNUAL BENEFIT SOON ‘The National Guard of the District | of Columbia will hold 1ts annual bene- Nt party at Keith’s Theater January 140, 10 is the big event of the Guard's soctal year and Lhrough the support of the Guard and 1ts friends the recren- { ton funde of the units are Increased, as | they collect 40 per cent of the price re- | ceived for ench teket sold by Guarc | member The proceeds of (his fund are used for e purchase of athlete cquipment | compuny smokers and meeting ofher {expenses which cannot be paid out o Guyvernment tunds | ol Peyton G Nevitt i chatrman o {wrcangements, Ma)o Halph B Childs | ehmtrman of fun snd favors, Capt. Byd ney Morgan Chalrman programs and printing eommittee, Capt Hobert Daly Batlery €, 26010 Const’ Aviiliery, decn ration commitiee and Lieut Thaddeis A Hiley, Company E, 121st Engineers ¥ the Ass as well as represented Ambassador n rousing Havre also The dcleguter from the West Behool publicity eommittee, | clever slave (later a servant) who, hav- | gant youth who wishes | chambermaid (always a princess in dis- | his later avatars, Puleinello, or Poli- | chinelle. | ence! mothers are requested to leave | they | Achilles here?” | handsome!™ Lthem he writes comedies of tion of the work done bv Mis.' Rol of Civilization medleys of primitive farce; then they are nimes and “fables,” in which the conversation is left to b2 improvised It is from these old will rise, and from these crude figures the stock characters of comedy will} take form—the glutton always edging toward a meal, the obstructive father who has more wealth than brains, the ing more brains than wealth, concocts and untangles the intrigue; the extrava- o marry a guise), and the rollicking clown with the gayly colored patches, long and bag- gy trousers, doublet of mighty sleeves and shaven head. The Romans called him Sannio (“zany™): we call him, in The audience is of a plece with the play. rough and simple and dull; comic lines and situations must be repeated frequently to reach their comprehen- jon Terence tries to be subtle, and the audience walks out, calling for more violent humor. A rich Roman arranges | for them A program of music: they stop the performance and call upon the musicians to lay down their instru- ments and give a boxing match. The prologues reveal the nature of the audi- their bables at home hereafter: wives are asked not to disturb the play with their chatter: children are warned what | will happen to them if they make noise. and slaves are reminded not to occupy the seats, since these are only for free ! men. ok ox ¥ The actors are called histriones, ie., | thoy are tellers of a story (historia) They ars nearly all siaves and nearly all Greeks: any citizen who acts on the | stages loses his eivie rights (Not till | the davs of Voltaire will this indignity | be withdrawn: even the grsat Moliere will suffer trom it.) If the play is un- successful, the slave may b> soundly beaten: if he does especially well, he may win his freedom. Roscius, great- est of Roman actors, began as a slave: Plautus and Terence, greatest of Roman playwrights, rose from slavery. | Plautus was at first a scene shifter, like Will Shakespeare, then a merchant learning the - world, then a (nclnr_\" hand. interstit ally. a dramatist. His style, his plots and his humor reveal his life: he uses the speech of. the peo- | ple. indulges them in that obscenity which is the poor man's solace against monogamy, makes his wit simple and | wastes no time in polishing his lines: | Horace will suggest that he writes in such haste in erder to be sooper patd His scenes. his characters, his stories ' are Greek: it is unwise to satirize the Romans. Naevius tried it and was jailed. There is the old story of the mistaken identity of twins (the Men-| acchmi). which® Plautus steals from Menander. and Shakespeare from Plautus; there is the Aulularia, or pot of gold. which Moliere will appropri- ate as the miser. transeribing entire cenes without acknowledgment: there | is the captive. which tells again the tale of the slave who is really the heir to a groat fortune. you know, and there is the bragzart captain. who boasts of his success with ladies in every quarter of the globe. His servant. | !.nmns( in with his humor, feeds him | lies “Servant—You see those girls that stopped me yesterday? “Captain—What did they say? "Servant—Why, when you passed, osked me. ‘What. is the great 1 answered. ‘No, it is is brother’ “Then says t'other one, ‘Troth, he is handsome! What a noble man! What splendid hair!® “Captain-Now, did they really say 50 “Servant—They did indeed. and beg- ged me. both of them. to make you take a walk again todav. that they might get a better sight of you ¢ .. Capiain (sighing complacently)-- Tis a great nuisence being so very Terence I8 a little loftier, having N more fortunate in his slavery ' Captured at Carthage, he is brought up as a slave teacher in the cultured home of Terentius, whose name he takes, and wins the friendship of the learned Laelius and Seciplo. To please some re- venturing such m; humani nthil ‘l am a man; I finement and subtlety, noble lines as Homo su a me alienum puto (* think that nothing human ix alien to me”). His plays are praised by the Aristocracy, but they fail with the masses: and Terence, disgusted. leaves me in a4 huff and dies in shipwreck while still a youth Shall we listen “Phormio” and “The Eunuch,” and that” one of the monstrous title, “Heautontimoroumenos™ (“The Self- Tormentor”;? No: there is no genjus here; we must pass on. The Romans did not deserve to have finer drama | than this; their hearts were in the | Colosseum rather than in the theater; | they wished to see starving lons tear | o pleces living and quivering human flesh. They were barbarians, and | their masters, in feeding them with the scenes of slaughter which they furnished proved themselves barbarians too, unworthy of the empire which Caesar and Augustus had placed in their hands. When the church put o stop o these brutal spectacles and closed the Roman theaters as dens of obseenity, it was Just as well; men must be civilized before they ean create comedy, i to his dramas— | ks The Poets of Rome, Let us go, then, inta the s | the ristocracy: we shall fare m i | better there. “Here at Sirmione. on n | bit of land that reaches out Into Lake | Garda, is the Summer cottage of | Catullus, “tenderest of Roman poets His father is a pich rentleman of Verona, a friend #nd often the host of Caesar: therefore Catllus recetyes the | best education, and falls in love with | the loftiest lassies One of them Lesbia, though she tx 32 when he s 26, proves the most charming of all | becatne the most unwilling: and per- | baps the poet deseribes his wishes | rather than history when he sings his | little epic of osculation | flevting Night nal g [ But Lesbia does not care for matics. she sends Catullus of knowing that thix 15 the only way ta iapire AMOLOUS poetry. We find him - self. exted 1o Bithviie, I distant Asia Minor. visiting the grave of his brother and addressiig to him the most re- nowned of all valedictories: Aye. fraer, atque vale!” (“Hall, brother and farewell') Mis poetry becomes | ws despondent ws Byron's. he antici pates W line of Keals, and nays that the promises of & woman should be wrllen In wind and flowing witer But when he returna to his home tn northern Ttaly nature heals him d he sings with quiel good cheer again O what more Athe. sweel than when, foom Lhe [ e Brden dow ent. 1 we w4 home And LU His brother 1 the south is Ovid, also A lover, sl rich, and also dying in despair, as If wealth were of no count 1o happiness st all, 1 Heins, Ovid 1 destined for the | W, 09 1928 -PART 2. and takes to poetry. He teaches the “Art of Love” in verses whose joy suffers no stint from morality: and then he sings the great tales of the “Metamorphoses” (or Changing Shapes), and brings to Italy the fairest legends of the Grecks: here, for example, is the noble story of Daedalus and Icarus, and man’s first attempt to fly. But the greatest of these Roman poets are those whom Augustus gainers about him to grace his table and fm- mortalize his reign. One of them is the modest and rhythmic Virgil; the other is Horace, subtlest and profoundest of them all. Virgil has sung simple Georgics. of the rural life as he has lived it near Mantua. at the foot of the Al why should not one tell in placid verse of the growing corn and the ripening olives and vines, of oxen grazing lelsurely in the grass, and riv- ers gliding quietly through slecping towns on the Italian hills? Augustus listens and 1s pleased, for. being an ur- ban soul, he relishes rural poetry: he rescues Virgil from misfortune. gives him a small estate, and encourages him | Latin tongue are sought out and ex- to write his best for Rome. And so | plolled by the new poet to the full; Virgil, grateful, composes his friendly | every phrase of novel tang and rich and flowing cpic. the “Aencid”: tells of | significance leaps out upon the page: the flight of Aeneas from fallen Troy. | every meter ever used in Ttaly or his pleasant dalliance with Dido, the Greece is tried and molded into com- Carthaginian queen. and his descrtion ' pact loveliness. Here again is classic of her to come up North and help es- | art: polished and subtle, leisurely and tablish the Eternal City. Here is a | restrained: no rhetoric; and no ratsing trange feminine perfection of meter | of the voice; everything is moderate in and language and style. many centu- | Horace, even the Epicurean jole de ries away from the boisterous and m: vivre: culine narrative of Homer; and besides, Virgll is an Italian, not & Roman soul, as tender as the Petrarch who loved | him 80, and no fit herald or symbol of ruthless warriors. Therefore the Chris- | tlans will venerate him as anima na- | turaliter Christiana—"a soul by nature | Christian"—and Dante will seek his | guidance through hell apd purgatory, even to the portals of Paradise. LR Horace is different: he 15 a man of | the world, though he comes to’ Rome | from a farm, and is the son of a | slave who has worked his way to free- | dom. His father has stinted to give [ him an education in the capital; and | there we find him, after many adven- | tures In Italy and Greece. He falls in love with Virgil, and says of Rim that “Nature never made a fairer soul”; | hearing which, Virgil introduces him to his rich friend Maecenas, minister and adviser of Augustus: suddenly the im- poverished poet is affuent. and owns a pretty farm out in the Sabine hills. And now all the resources of the Ask not tomorrow's see secret Treat As £ain each day that dawns for yey; Nor_grudge. boy. to dalliance awest Nor 1o the dance the season due, While crabhed age keeps far away. v prime st manly s 3 And"Whispers Tow when Tating iy ht hour. of tryst rencws. For silvery laughter at corner st That hiding girl hetraga. nor seo To_win the pieden of love from what Or coyly ciinging finger torn. " | Carpe dlem, he tells us—"snatch th, day,” and pine not for the morro soon the night will come, will be no more: Alan, how swiftly, Postumus tumus, The seara siip by Koepa wrinkles Or che; 0 Pos nor all_eur plety back indomitabls death! *x ok ox | 800d: and yet in the chaos of it o | thing | man, standing his grou | perii and every doubt. No noise of crowds eommanding to base | Platn, thy ~ hizh re come. rashing " strike. they cannat make him | would be, to lose ail We pass reluctantly from these poet they are the very the rest when delight oF stops reientiess It is a fluent world, he thinks, in | which nothing is quite certain or quite shines forth as everywhere beau- tiful and strong and that is the Just ind against every | Some of 1 they grew. After the turbulence of civil war, after the chans of political victory and defeat, after the shouts of brutal masses watching gladiators be- Ing gored to death, these men, seeking in the comradeship of mellowed minds some refuge from the barbarism of the times, and carving as if in white mar- ble their tenderly polished verse, carry down to us, along with Lucretis and the living temples of dead gods, all that itiful in ancient Rome. It does not matter much that the onee great empire bassed away; it does rot mat- ter much that its’ garland of cities faded back into the undistinguished hinterland; Plutarch and Tacitus pre- served the memory of Roman genius, and Virgil and Horace engraved im- mortally the fairer elements of Roman life. If we have them we have Rome. “Precious minims!" Walt Whitman | Calls these winnowed treasures of tne | past: “Arrived safely, as from voyages over wide eentury-stretching seas * * * | 81l the best experience of humanity. | folded, sated. freighted to us her hese tiny ships we call and New Testaments, Homer, Zschylu: Juvenal, ete. ' Precious minims ere foreed to chonse, you. and the likes of belongs to and has s | 8TOWN out of you. biotted and gone, we could better afford. appalling as that actual ships, this wharf. or fleating on wave, and see them. with all their ear- | day fastened b flower of Rome and | goes, scuttled and sent to the is merely the soil in which | o NEW SEASONABLE MERCHANDISE AT CLEAN-{TP PRICES Special Purchase 3,000 Pairs X Fine Silk Hose Fine Sheer Chiffon or Service Weight Silk From Top to Toe A Few With 4-in. 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AUTHENTIC MODE new shades. stres in- Excep- in every de- CHILDREN COATS AND DRESSES DRESSES Valve, $o.78 Wool and Velvet 33 '3 'S S Dresses tn cute styles. Exquisite selections in many pretiy shades. Suzes 2w COATS s to Al CA GREAT STORE in the CAPITAL CITY St. NW. et . e e —— ——— e — Colors: Flesh Honey- Dew Peach Orchid Nile Rose White 94 In tailored models or trimmed with fine laces. Silk ribbon straps. Many finished with touches in con. trasting colors. THE FAIR, MAIN FLOOR. Ladies’ Novelty PURSES Pouch or under-the-arm s 1 :‘!t: in patent and novel. ¥ leathers. They are regu- larly $2.50. MAIN FLOOR L] dacks and v with 24 Women's Coats For 24 Lucky Ladies Many Fur Trimmed .69 IND FLOOR L Ladies’ Rayon Underwear Chemises Step-ins Rloomers Tattored Models Pastel Nhades n 5154\ RASEMENY