Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1929, Page 101

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. M More Men Than Women Go Crazy Over Love, Says Ed Howe BY ROY BUCKINGHAM. 4 HE first thing a stranger notices when he bids good-by to the passenger -train conductor who has spent most of his time on the run between Kansas City and Atchison telling about this glorified | country town is that Atchison folk | are reading the evening paper and | ehuckling. | At the newsstand, for instance, you don't see the shoe salesman glance at the paper and then say, “Gimme a Chi- i cago sheet.” He glues to the front page and then begins to laugh. ‘ A real estate man was laughing when | 1 entered his office. “Old Ed's back and feeling good said. “We always know. Read tha These two paragraphs in the Atchison | Glcbe local column had started the risibilities: “Having two love affairs at the same | | he | | time is as much trouble as twins. “Four Atchison sisters have worn the same dress to be married in. That is the right way to treat a father.” Kind, discerning, charitable and fear- less Ed Howe, the Sage of Potato Hill, although he has sold the Potato Hill farm, has spun the charm of a glowing personality throughout the town and countryside until he is the oracle. For more than 50 years the Globe has comme out every night with paragraphs so pungent and practical, so apropos and simple, so personal and devilish that they have set this town and its people apart. * ¥ ¥ ¥ HE man who learned to set type in | the old school that required him to | stick to the “take” until it was correct has delegated the responsibility of run- ning the newspaper which made him a _fortune to his sons. However, Old Ed's shadow is not exactly impotent. Atchi- | son feels better when it sees a light in Ed's house. It doesn't mind so much when he spends his Winters in Florida hobnobbing with John D. Rockefeller, ‘Thomas A. Edison and other Winter so- Jjourners who have coddled up to him, but when the Spring comes, the Kansas maples and cottonwoods, the dogwood and the box elders begin to green up and there is considerable garden excite- ment, they want Ed Howe back. The | country town won't give up Ed Howe and Ed Howe won't throw down the | town, although he probably could name | his own figure and run any column in American newspaperdom. What was it his half tentury and more with these folks taught him? Love, for one thing. “I have traveled far and haven't much farther to go,” he said, “but I have dis- covered nothing equal to love.” More fussbudgets have resoluted to send Howe to the bowwows than any other Kansan. Hundreds of the good Jadies who have been horrified when he told them they'd be better off if they stayed at home and reared families have “I HAVE OFTEN WONDERED JU SECOND HUSBAND. | | Gentle A be a fool and defy him. What remedy has a a foolish wife? The law and pi is a little girl of 10 or 12. in which she treats her menfo! grumble at the English. i men than Irishmen. | I have discovered nothing an hater, of making too light of women, sentiment, spiritually. The truth is, I| think too much of all of these,” he ex- plained. * k¥ % UT in the next breath he said: “All women go on the warpath arcund 14 and fight the men until they die. I long for an armistice, but do not expect one.” Howe is a “naturalist.” The average folk appeal to him. He likes a man because he has “horse sense.” A young married couple trying to live within their means, passing up the luxuries | they cannot afford, paying for a little home and setting hopes on having a family—this is the picture that interests Howe. This sage who says cussedness seems to be the rule isn’t blind to the fact that there are plenty of women accused him of being a woman hater, a foe of the family and a generally god- | less man. | “I have been accused of being a wom- who encourage it. “Horse sense” is the advice of Howe on matrimony. Howe's philosophy has long been an irritant to women. The nagging wives Famed Country-town Philosopher, a Public Wit for Half a Century, Is Quite Sure the Menfolk Take Their Love Affairs | More Seriously—Just Look How Casually Most Widows Up and Marry Again! T WHAT A WIDOW SAYS TO A DOES SHE INTIMATE THAT HER FIRST VENTURE WAS A MISTAKE AND HER SECOND ONE IDEAL?™ men Do Ngt Tell! CAPABLE husband may exercise some control over a good wife, but he is powerless if his wife chooses to worthy husband if married to ublic sentiment favor her. The world has decided that a gentleman cannot tell his side of a controversy with a lady. The nearest approach to that beautiful thing, an angel, I estimzte every woman I meet largely by the manner 1ks. The women grumble at the men generally as the Irish And there are more great English- equal to love. —Observations of Ed Howe. ] in Atchison have felt his darts. The pouter-pigeon dowagers who tried to sell their daughters to wealth have learned | there is a biting sting in his droll para- | graph. He has pricked the sham of the i small town into infinitesimal bits, for | if there is anything that will bring a | barb to his words it is pretense. | In 1923 Mr. Howe was invited to at- | tend the annual mayor's picnic in Kan- | sas City. The Jackson County Demo- cartic Women's Club was in charge. It| was 50 hot there were several prostra- | tions. Later Mr. Hcwe wrote an account of | this affair for a magazine. When those Democratic women of Jackson County read this paragraph Howe was in for it: | “Committees went about collecting | money and bothering those willing to work if left alone. Everybody appar- | ently indorsed this effort to amuse and | entertain the kiddies and no one did ex- | cept the leaders of the movement, who | were professional politicians of one grade | ED HOWE, “THE qA(r‘-FA’OF__P'OTATO HILL.” or another. The picnic was a disgrace. ‘ “Howe” to certain woman political There were 160 heat prostrations and | feaders has an unpleasant ring. The T o O cbaner, . Du. | chiet Tesentment against Mr. Howe was ing the day 1500 lost children reported. with frantic mothers lo for them: and some of the ost chil- dren spent the night at the polics | For his own amusement and “to keep vild cnimals stirred up,” Mr. Howe iblishes Howe's Monthiy. Howe writes Shtion almost every Line. This blanket-like PEEE | p*rind:oal;lu is ?rmtnd on news print— i | is his medium for saying boldly what THE pack went in full cry after the| he thinks should be e country-town philosopher who had | spoken manner of enunciating homely besmirched the name of Kansas.City. | truths is winning a mounting circula- The irate women laid him out by tele- | tion phone. _Certain groups adopted Teso The hardest blow love ever received tions. The mayor was appealed to. Of s the fact the widows marry again,” he course, the Democratic political leaders | said in a recent issue. “Here is the stuck their tongues in their cheeks and | case: A weman marries a man after looked wise, It was a woman afair, ng him he is her soul mate, her anyway. ideal, and othervpretty talk of the kind. “You don't dare to come to our meet- | She says she hopes she will die first that ing,” was a parting shot from ome high | she may not suffer the great grief of in_command. | his loss, for his death will render the Howe called the women's bluff. He | world en dreary; that she cannot talked pleasantly to them and in good | get along without him; that he is the temper. At the conclusion of his talk | most noble man in the world. they tried to mob him. Howe eluded | “They all say it: every man knows they the “mop-up” squad and returnad to|do. But if the husband has the mis- Atchison, where the fighting was more | fortune to die, his widow, after a really familiar. But to this day the word ! quite beautiful period of mourning. be- L THE WOMEN GO ON THE WAR PATH AROUND 14 AND JHT THE MEN UNTIL THEY I ED HOWE'S TOWN HOLU DIE. 1 LONG FOR AN ARMISTI SE IN ATCHISON, KANS. | gins to take notice again. By degrees | she forgets the noble fellow who was her | husband and, in case of proper provo- | cation, marries again and tells the same | beautiful story to another man. “I have often wondered just what a widow says to a second husband. Does she intimate that her first venture was a mistake and her second ideal? * ok ok % A MAN marrying a widow must ex- i pect something of the kind to be , satisfled. Al girls have had old love | affairs and all men know they explain | them away—that they were not serious, | that parents made the match, that they | were mere children when engaging in | them, etc. | “What do, widows say about previous | marriages? ‘They are more serlous af- | fairs than engagements. What is the tale told to the second husbands? I have never been able to find out, having been married but once and it is a subject that | widows and widowers do not discuss. “It is not generally admitted, but men take love affairs more seriously than women. When women talk the love lan- | guage, the men believe it; more men | | than women go crazy over love. | ‘It is beastly to Tefer to 50 delicate ‘ | & subject. Women cannot be blamed, in common sense or reason, for marrying | again, but men do blame them. I here | confess we men have a lot of notions that will not bear close analysis. “How about the men? How about the lowers? ‘Well, that question stumps me, as it | has stumped many other men.” More than one Atchison husband says the reason woman readers of what | | Ed Howe writes wish for a rolling pin or a handy skillet and Ed in a tight corner , is that Howe has an uncanny knowl- | edge of women. Although Howe’s matrimonial experi- | ence concluded with a divorce which he | says his friends term “successful.” he | never refers to that- experience without ' a gallant deference to the former Mrs. | Howe. Neither has it made a misogynist |of him. There is no more charming ! singer of the song of youth than Bd Howe. The years have been kind to him. ‘The genial philosophy which has per- meated his newspaper and found wider courses through his books and maga- zine articles is just as active in his daily life. Young people in Atchison like Ed Howe. He is not in the old-crony background, by any means. The young- sters find a sharp mind, apt to the modern lingo and in repartee falty the equal of the drug-store comedians. ‘While they do not presume to kid with the town's most eminent philosopher, they find the sage has a comeback in & language they understand. Howe disavows any part as a sign- board on the road of life. especially to those contemplating matrimony. How- | ever, he is somewhat chary of too much | romance and idealism. | _“I am a materialist,” he said, “because | T can see that materialism is the only philosophy on this earth that will work. | Idealism has never worked and never will. Idealism, through sentiment and misdirected energy, encourages poverty iand crime and war. Materialism, be- cause it is serviceable, works against , poverty and crime and promotes peace. | Idealism, becaus2 of its false sentiment, sounds kind but is in reality cruel, since it is futile and disappointing: material- ism, because it will work, is not cruel.” * % % * JHEN Mateel Howe Farnham, Howe's writing daughter, won a $10,000 novel contest, the Kansas sage was §0 clated he reacted as any father would and praised that daughter. In a fore- word to this novel Mr. Howe let & father's heart speak the sentiment which for the moment clouded his ma- terialism. “And no wife ever loved a husband as a girl of 12 does,” he said in refer- ring to Mateel, who was his companion on hikes and tours at that age. “There is a trustfulness and admiration no erown woman has for a man. A girl of 12 has not found the men out; a wom- an of 16 is beginning to, and I blush when I think of what women of 20 and beyond think of us—most of it true. “The nearest approach to that beauti- ful thing. an angel. is a little girl of 10 or 12. Women of 16 or 20 and into the shadowy regions beyond are, of course, adorable. If they have not been ad- mired sufficiently, certainly they have Leen admired a long time. “We men were very harsh with wom- en in the old days. and I rejoice they have achieved victory over us; but somehow I long for the trust, the love this bright woman had for me when she was 12. I did not deserve it, but it was the most agreeable thing in my life.” Howe tralls along with contemporary thought as to matrimony with this ex- ception: “Don’t expect too much.” His . rather close association with life and a power of observation that plerced the illusion of romantic love have made him a realist. However, he thinks the young folks who get over their illusion as quickly as possible and use common sense will come out satisfactorily. They have and are doing it. They are the peogle who are making life worth while. “Like most men, I have received proper training from women,” he said. “For at least 60 years I have been ashamed of my sex. If a woman should come in right now and say, ‘Ed. ain't you ashamed of yourself>’ I would say, ‘Yes, I am.’"” Before the train took the visitor from the Ed Howe sphere of influence he found a lawyer who kept a file of Howe 5 yings. “Explain Ed Howe?” he asked. “Do you explain the sunrise or the dew? Man. you don't try to explain fellows like Ed Howe. We just thank Provi- dence that one like him is born every four or five decades. It takes a fellow like Ed Howe to keep. our, thinkin straight (Copyright by Public Ledger.) Finding of Josephine’s Gowns and American’s Gift to BY FRANCIS DICKIE. HEN the coranation dress of the Empress Josephine and s few other garments from her once enormous wardrobe were unexpectedly discovered the other day in Paris they appeared once more in the light of day after 125 years in so amazing a state of freshness that it might have been yesterday they were worn by one of Europe's proudest and most extravagant rulers. Behind the coming to light of these 80 historic garments lies an interesting tale of how they were kept in so per- fect a state of preservation. From cer- tain papers in the possession of their last owner it now seems that shortly | after the death of the Empress Jose- phine her daughter, Hortense, probably for certain sentimental reasons, selected a few garments from the wardrobe. which numbered tens of thousands of articles. Among the things selected were the coronation dress and another evening dress, a scarf, & bonnet and a pair of satin slippers. The so precious » Telics of & woman who even today com- ! mands the interest of a vast reading public were carefully wrapped in black tissue paper and then placed in an air- proof box. Time and changing for- tunes brought the box into the posses- sion of Mme. Salvage de Faverolles, & direct descendant of Hortense. Yet, | though relics of Napoleon's first wife would have commanded vast sums from private collectors, the owner, for rea- fons that can now never be known, kept the fact of her valuable posses- sions secret. She never even unpacked them. It was only when she died in Paris and her estate had to be divided that the garments of one of the most noted women in history were brought to light. THE making public of the news was hailed with tremendous interest by private collectors, because, due to the estate being divided among numerous Theirs, it was announced the coronation cdress and other articles of Josephine's apparel would be sold at public auction. * x % % ‘The day set for the historic sale was | eagerly waited. and vast prices were assured, for many were the wealthy men and women who longed to possess these remnants of the magnificent Pirst Empire, these symbols of the once power and glory of Napoleon, who came nearer than any other man in all history to | ruling the whole of Europe. M. Jean Bourguignon, a noted anti- quarian and authority on the First Em- pire, whom the government had ap- pointed curator of the National Palace 2t Malmaison as a mark of recognition, ‘was among the most enthusiastic view- ers of the discovery. The relics were valuable beyond words because, though curfously enough Josephine had left an enormous wardrobe, only a few gar- | ments have come down to us today, and these, in the Carnavalet Museum. were shabby and falling to pieces. While the slow legal processes of closing ont the estate were proceeding M. Bourguignon secured a loan of the garments, mount- ed them in special glass cases and car- ried them off to the Palace of Malmai- son, & strangely ironical thing, because they had originated 125 vears before in this same palace. And it was .n the first days of the garments' public exhi- bition that your correspondent ceceived the permission to make the first photo- graphs ever taken. The remarkable siate of preservation of the garments can be readily grasped, for though the photographs had to be taken in the unsatisfactory light of a low-ceilinged room, every detail of the fabric tnd the wonderful gold filigree work stands out clearly. The preservation of the beau- tiful metal work in an untariished condition is due to the drosses being packed in black tissue paper. % % ONCE the garments were mounted in - the Palace of Malmaison, M. Bour- e eyed them more longingl every day. With all his heart he de- sired to keep them here always, for Malmaison (under his direction since 1916) has become the home of the finest collection of Napoleonic relics in the world, a collection which was_started by the Empress Eugenie in 1867. But Edward Tuck, Who Was Given First National Tuseum Medal and Gran Cross of the Legion of Honor, Makes Valuable Donation for Main- M. Bourguignon had no hope of retain- ing these garments, which he knew | would bring a fabulous sum at auction. | And he, as curator of the museum, knew the government's small allowance with which he could make purchases was far too little to permit bidding, and France had so much debt it was hopeless to sk _for a larger grant. So | M. Bourguignon resigned 1f to the thought that thete dresses. which had | come so strangely home after more than 100 years, must again depart. Only a few days before the time set for the sale remained. But in this last hour M. Bourguignon succeeded in in- | | teresting a wealthy South American in the matter. This gentleman, M. J.| ‘Unzue, was a great lover of Prance. He | entered into private negotiations with | the heirs. They on their part, appre- | ciating something of the historic asso- | clations connected with the garments, | and upon receiving assurance that M. Unzue was purchasing them only with the motive of giving them as a gift to the museum, consented to a private sale. | | While the purchaser made it a stipula- | | tion of the gift that the price must | not be made public, your correspondent | learned the amount in confidence and, | vhile unable to give the exact figure, | can safely say that it was the highest | price ever paid in the history of the world for “second-hand” garments. Even the proud Josephine, who spent a for- | tune yearly for clothes, would not need to be ashamed of the price her clothes brought after a hundred years. Un-| | doubtedly, however, had the clothes gone to public auction and the various wealthy collectors who were interested been permitted to bid the amount re- ceived for them would have been still greater. * ¥ % ABOUT the time Josephine's gar- ments made their surprising ap- | pearance in the modern world, the | French Government presented to Ed- | ward Tuck, an 88-vear-old American | residing in Paris, the grand cross of the Legion of Honor. In the entire his- tory of the United States, and though the ties between France and these United States have been the closest, ! only eight other Americans ever Te- ceived this honor, the highest the order | (founded by Napoleon) awards. Other Americans, living and dead, to receive it are: Admiral W. S. Benson, Gen. ‘Tasker H. Bliss, Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, Gen. John J. Pershing, Horace Porter, William Graves Sharp, Robert MacCormick and Ambassador Hugh Wallace. But France's evidence of es- teem did mot stop there. A few weeks later Mr. Tuck was presented with still | another honor. He was given the first | National Museums Medal ever issued as a token of French aporeciation for | ‘hat he had done in helping what may | be fairly called France’s ‘“newest museum.” Now just what connection there could ! possibly be between the finding of Josephine's coronation dress and othef | garments and the heaping of many honors upon an aged American citizen by the Frech government, would not at | first be apparent. Yet, in a way, these two interesting happenings are curious- 1y linked, for it was through the bene- | factions of Mr. Tuck and his wife that the Malmaison Museum (once the home , of Napoleon and Josephine, and from | which the dresses came a hundred years ago and to which they recently re- turned) was immensely helped in its task of becoming the holder of th:: largest and finest collection of objects | relating to Napoleon and his period. Before dealing more fully with this American benefactor’s particular aid to the Malmaison Museum, the interest- ing story of which will be set forth in following paragraphs. som> of his other outstanding benefactions may be noted: | A large endowment to Dartmouth Col- building and endowment of New Hamp- tenance of Napoleonic Museum When Empress’ Gowns Are Found. Jof the mistress of the historic spot have | come back and have been installed in their ancient setting, it seems particu- | l‘l:]ge fitting ,to tell the story of I.hei Pl e Some 8 miles from Paris the gray, | square-fronted Malmaison lies at the | top of a little rise. - A magnificent ave- nue of trees gives it an added air of | ! France glorious past. Yet he seemed still further bent on torturing himseif, for he had opened the chamber where Josephine died. And here he remained many hours alone. From M: to his exile. The world is divided into two camps as far as Napoleon is concerned. Men either admire him greatly or detest him grandeur. Here among glorious oaks. | with vigor. In any case they come by clms, horse chestnut and maple trees | the hundreds of thousands to this an- now tawers high the famous cedar of | cient home of his which has been Marengo. - This great tree was a Sap- | turned into the largest museum of his ! ling on the day Napoleon won the bat- | tle, and in honor of it Josephine, wlth] her own hands, planted the tree in its commanding position. The rose gar-| | dens and the spacious lawns surround- | ing the castle have once more been re- arranged exactly as in Napoleon's time. ! Josephine was noted as a lover of roses. | She had 250 species, which was remark- ! able in that day. A modern expert has succeeded in reassembling 197 of these ancient varieties. Here upon the grounds of Malmaison Napoleon and the great of the land played ‘“prisoner’s base” and “blind | man's buff.” Within the building Na poleon created his. own theater an himself designed the scenery. tin the library of this building that the ) Legiont of Honor, to which an American | today has ‘been granted the. highest award, was planned by Napoleon. And | now this American has helped restore the ancient grounds to their orginal pro- | portions. At Malmaison it is said Na- poleon spent some of his happiest days. He left it as a refuge for Josephine in | the darkening days just before his downfall. Back to Malmaison for one tortured visit came Napoleon, the vanguished. Shorn of his power, by all whom he had raised to high places, a prisoner, he was permitted to spend from the 25th to the 29th of June at Malmaison. Once again he walked the | paths where he had strode in the days of his might. The corridors of the castle echoed hollowly where once they | had resounded to the laughter of many | distinguished guests. | * % | WHAT thoughts, what regrets. what | | despair must have overwhelmed | him amid all these associations of the * x | cessor, Louis XVI. relics in the world. This newest of France's museums, oddly enough, has been most greatly helped by dohations of money from people from the two Americas. The largest individual gifts bave been from Mr. and Mrs. Edward ‘Tuck, who, besides donating the prop- erty of Bois-Preau and 500,000 francs to keep up the museum, gave the death bed of Napoleon and a picture from his room in St. Helena, a bedsheet of white kid leather embroidered with J ine’s initials, used by her.on her field bed when accompanying Napoleon on his campaigns; several bonnets of lace and a parasol and two cushions, once the property of the Empress. Most recently M. Unzue, from South America, restores the newly found coro- nation dress and other garments of Josephine. Just prior to this another person from the United States, Mrs. Fahnestock Campbell, paid the sum o: 450,000 francs for a very fine Gobelin floor rug bearing Napoleon's initials, - ‘This rug is particularly valuable, as it is the only one in existence bearing the initials of Napoleon. for his suc- , a really petty mon- arch, had all the s and tapestries bearing Napoleon's symbols he could find changed, replacing them with those of the Bourbons. Malmaison was a house of family relics long before the thought of any museum came. Here First and Second Empires met. Josephine, Hortense, Na- poleon III—to them Malmaison was home. And now, through the labors and do- nations of Frenchmen and foreigners, Malmaison has become an enduring monument to one of the greatest fig- ures in the world’s history. (Copyright. 1920.) Character Building _(Continued From First Page.) | pupil's work and play to which the | character-building principles are ap- teacher recognizing this situation may | ;)0 by the teacher. The parent, by a A PAINTER'S REPRODUCTION OF THICVIAT¥]|("RF S JOSEPHINE’S CORONATION ROBE. DAVID, THE ARTIST, WAS PRESENT AT THE CORO- AND THE PAINTING NOW HANGS IN THE LOUVRE. war the maintaininj pital with 75 beds. He and his wife | also gave a hospital to the town of | Ruell ‘and five million francs for its | maintenance. /Last year Mr. Tuck shouldered half of the $35000 deficit of the American Library in Paris.| Gifts, such as an art collection to the Petit Palace and others too numerous | to mention, have endeared him to many both in France and America. * ok ok ok BUT it is his presenting to the French National Museums his magnificent estate “at_Bois-Preau, and the sum of 500,000 francs for the upkeep of the National Napoleonic Museum, _that so aueerly links his name with the find- ing of the garments of the Empress Josephine, which are now forever housed in_Malmalson, How significant is his gift of Bois- Preau can only be understood by re- lating briefly the history of the prop- erty. In April. 1799, Josephine bought the property and castle of Malmaison lege in the United States: erection of | shire Historical Society. during the (about 18 acres of land). Napoleon at Six months later he returned to be |has had such a fascination for royalty made First Consul and the Tuilieries |and people of wealth. A briet but very v : official residence. But he disliked the sad grandeur of the | :,f:}fl?“fi,:}}f;flrtymfi nu:‘e‘ :eccceo':.!,,:.‘,':;f place. So he spent most+of his time at | | the Castle of Malmaison. However, true | 1aga " o :’,{,,‘;";‘:fi‘y‘,’,'n?;“};”;;‘;}.‘: e to his nature, Napoleon waated to |ty th o r e enlarge the grounds, and tried to buy | 1n 1630 1t ‘was purchased be M. Hager: the adjoining estate of Bois-Preau, a | mann, a Swedish financier. In 1842 cmall castle and 48 acres. He was balked | Queen’ Marle Christine of Spain suc- for years by a subborn maiden lady who s owried it. Only after her death did ! co oamer " TheL by Nasloon . Yer Napoleon acquire the property, and In 1867 Empres i o t press Eugenie displayed the he uhus not long to enjoy its possession. | first, small collection of Nnmlw{aic rel- In the v 1829 the property was di- | jcs which was the beginning of the vided. And then, just a few months | present “France's Nefesc Museum,” short of a hundred years later, Edward | which contains bencath its roof the Tuck, the owner of the divided portion | most complete assembling of articles re- and t! e lr ateau, and a library founded | jating to Naj n in existence. In 1870 by Josephine in 1810, gave all back to | the property was acquired by the state. the Prench government, so that Malmal- | In 1871 it was pillaged by the Germans. on ight De Jnc mMore exucily a5 % |In 1877 » Frenchman of wealih, Faul S ohing Gwait theren Napoleon and | Gauthier, bought the property from the Josephine dwe e. | state and broke it up into parcels. In In the eyes of men Napoleon is one|1896 another Frenchman, M. Osiris, of the outstanding figures of all times. moved by patriotic emotion and g love % of a private hos- | the time was winning battles in Syria. | That is why the Palace of Malmaison | of the historic, acquired the property. | After holding it until 1904 and making many alterations, this gentleman gave | it back to the state as a gift. In 1906, following the lead of the Empress | Eugenie, the state began a Napoleonic Museum. This, however, was not made | available to the public until 1916, when M. Jean Bourguignon was made curator. * Ok ok % OME idea of the tremendous inter- | est the life of Napoleon still ex- | ercises may be grasped when it is noted | that 100,000 Americans visited Malmai- | son last year and three times that num- | ber of people from other lands, com- | prising _almost every nation in the world Though the last great war made | Napoleon's campaigns but puny af- fairs, this man suffers no shrouding of his glamour. And this Palace of Mal- | maison, where he spent some of his | happiest days, naturally has a particu- lar fascination. At this time, when Mal- maison and Bois-Preau have been re- train & pupil in & way of self-reliance | that will be an aid all his or her life. Industry. Certain study periods may be set aside for work to be done in school. Suppose a student sits and dreams; lays his head on the desk. He will surely be checked up as lazy and a lesson in industry will be in order. At the same time a mark will be pl against the subject “industry” on the child's report card, indicating the fault {to_the parent. Promptness. That's a matter of im- portance in any walk of life. Early and constant training in the trait will {prove of lifelong benefit, educators be- {lieve. ‘Then, courtesy. It is not un- usual to hear teachers say to a pupil, “Now, that is mot courteous.” Neat- ness, of course, includes care of the desk and books, the manner of doing school work and keeping papers clean. Fairness in work and fairness in play. !This is a big fundamental principle which teachers are constantly inculcat- ing in the minds of the youth intrusted i to them. Much of this character build- ing is done in combination with school lessons. Suppose a pupil looks over his shoulder to another paper for an an- swer. He is immediately checked up for unfairness. Some sort of a skirmish may take place among the boys out playing at recess time. Teacher, in de- lciding the matter, will point out the fairness or unfairness in the situation. As explained, it is the “life situations” laced careful reading of the report card, may know in just what traits his or her child excels or needs training to adjust. It is sometimes and not infrequently | the experience of a teacher to have an | interested parent call to know why Jack | was marked discourteous, lacking in | self-reliance or unfair in his play. It is a plan that has met with favor among ! both parents and teachers, school offi- cials believe. Does such a method take much time? The actual time allotted for character building has been worked into a sched- ule by school authorities, showing the amount in a week: Pirst grade, 240 min- utes: second grade, 185 minutes: third grade, 125 minutes: fourth grade, 125 minutes; fifth grade, 80 minutes; sixth grade, 75 minutes; seventh grade, 75 minutes; eighth grade, 75 minutes. ‘The program was Introduced in the ‘Washington schools in 1926. when Dr. Ballou appointed a committee to revise report cards. After a careful study, new cards were submitted, introducing new subjects especially along this line. Since then Washington school teachers have had much experience in this new char- acter-building process, until today it has become an- outstanding feature of th educational system. The committee that worked out this pi am consisted 'of Miss Janet McWilliam, supervising principal of the second, fourth and eighth divisions, as chairman: J. C. Bruce, H. F. Lowe, Miss M. E. Gibbs Joined; at this time, when the garments as they come up in connection with the and Miss J. A. Kupper.