Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1909, Page 13

F HOLIDAY ~DINNER FAVORS 'Many Changes Are Rung on the Turkey and the Pumpkin. BPB Mach SPECIALLY Ingenuity Displaye vk and ples—Pretty HONORED for (he Christmas Decorn- tions Low in Price, Favors of some sort are an almost indis. pensable adjunct of the modern dinn party. Any one who doubts this statement need only drop In at any o establishments given things of this sort truth. One shop of this kind, probably the lars- est in New York, offers tens of thousands of varieties ranging in price from 5 cents to much more than $ each. Here pur- chasers of moderate means may supply the needs of a dinner party or other entertain ment where favors are distributed as com. paratively small cost with happy re sults provided they have a little imagina- tion and kuow how to choose. priced favors are not always the most ef- tective. There are now favors suitable for every - on of the year, for all sorts of oc sions and kinds of guests, ‘“But the choosing. There's the rub! sighed a woman new at dinner giving to a practiced dinner giver This difficulty has been met in part by the dealers, who put to the front at certain weasons favors especially appropriate. For example, with Thanksgiving approaching favors suggesting the season and appro- priate for dinners taking place within Thanksgiving week have a prominent place. There are painted turkey gobblers about two and a balf inches at the largest con- @ising no box and In themselves a pretty c’lmnum worth keeping, and colored paper turkeys somewhat larger containing a box intended to hold a favor more or less costly or simply bonbons. At a certaon Thanks- giving dinner of last year the favors for th men and women, hidden under the uitkey's breast, were gold foot ball cuff- buttons. This year new favors which are taking well are figures of Peary and Cook holding a roast turkey and similar figures chasing a turk Ingenious Decorations. There aro individual closed pumpkin: the top decoratsd with a leaf, for ice cream cases, one variely representing a candy box. Sheaves of wheat tled in the middle are used for almond holders and tiny double baskets of twin pumpkins are used for the same purpose. Small pump- kins topped with a turkey in which may be hidden a surprise favor and snapping mottoes containing a turkey picture are comparatively inexpensive favors aside from whatever filling the purchaser may decide to use. Thanksglving dinner cards ranging in price from 2 to 60 cents a dozen include ®ome pretty designs, for example a small e of several retafling convinced of its over to turkey In gold and brown, illuminated on | linotte board, a turkey and boy plate printed; a darky and turkey steel etching with tinted edge, and clowns chasing tur- keys. A huge paper pumpkin ple for a center decoration contalning as many favors as there are guests attached after the style of a Jack Horner ple to the ends of rib- bons, together with individual turkey boxes filled with bonbons and pumpkin ice cream cases, comprise the favors to be used by one hostess who will entertain sixteen dinner guests on Thanksgiving day. The favors In the ple will consist mostly of wood and ivory carved novelties in the shape of sporting articles, including air- ships and automobiles. For any but the most formal and dig- niffed of dinners huge favor balls su pended over the table are for the time being having a great vogue, the rose de- slgn preferred. This design, which is from twenty to thirty inches in dlameter, ac- tprding to the number of favors hidden {l‘y in it, 1s composed of about 10 ar- Wicial pink, red or yellow roses as pr terred, & dozen or more NArrow streamers of satin ribbon finishing the lower side of | o | the ball like a fringe. Near the end the dinner these are pulled simultaneously aa'in & Jack Horner ple. The very newest thing in ples, the use of which, by the way, Is not confined to young folks' dinners, are the snow man pie, Klistening white, trimmed with a dozen or more cotton men surrounding a dome-liko senterplece; the Japanese ple, decorated withl elghteen pretty little Japs encircling & taller Jap under an umbrella, and the star ple, which is to be hung from the cell- ing above the table and will be particularly wppropriate for Christmas dinners it ‘rhnmnd with holly By The highest | THE OMAH 1‘ Stll another new memgn ts shaped like | a flowerpot or jardiniere raised on a mid dle shank and filled with artificial roses | |in which the favors are concealed. There | are no strings to this ple, the roses being | distributed among the gu s. The chrysan themum ple is a beautiful table (l'(‘.‘rn'ln' a huge blossom being surrounded with | many smatler ones and a drooping border leaves. For several weeks to come'there will be candy served other base A run on sporting favors—ice cream uts and other things being elephants, bears, tigers and trophies of the chase. Golf bags, balls, foot balls, rifles, | tigures of sportsmen, are mounted as candy | boxes and sometimes as very pretty bits of bric-a-brae. “Teddy in Africa” is one. orth pole favors are proving a very profitable idea to the manufacturers, Who have impartially turned out no end of them M honor of both Cook and Peary. Among the best of these is an upright figure of one of the explorers, perhaps seven Inches tall, in polar garb, with or without a dog, and colored to resemble old ivory. More popu- lar are the all white kind, ranging in size from not much more than an Inch to four or five inches In length, the explorer wear- |ing white hoods and traveling, on sklis, in slelghs. and on foot. and carrying in | some designs the American flag. A whose husband is off on shooting trip in the Adirondacks &nd who 1s preparing to give a iarge dinner on his return will distribute among the men miniature elaphant tusks about five tnches {long, mounted on which in one case is a hunter with a gun, in another case a hunter stabbing a boar. Other favors of the | saitea |in tiny aled a hostess and singly posed on a flat pedestal. Among the favors mre enough different devices In fishing designs alone to give character to a dinner where the guests in- clude men fond of the sport. Domestic | animals, fur and skin ard cloth covered, | ranging in size from six to twelve inches, often make a great hit, especlally the dogs, as dinner favors. At any rate, English bulls, Boston terriers, fox terriers, hunting dogs and others are supplied for this pur- pose, with and without a concealed candy box, and they cost from $1 to $5. Cats of many kinds, and horses, with and without a saddle, are shown in the same class. Similarly there are favors which can be used to hit off the particular hobby of »ne and another guest where a variety of fav- ors are used, things for the artist, for card enthusiasts, for amateur agriculturists, for motorists. Favors Varled in Number. A few years ago few persons used othor than holly and greens on the Christmas dinner table, with perhaps place cards seasonably ornamented. Now, on the contrary, in the holiday season fancy pa- per cases, diamond, round and oval shaped, mostly red and trimmed with holly berries, are used for serving ices, sorbets and bon bons; there are scarlet miniature pots hold- ing a Christmas tres decorated with can- dles to place at eacn plate, red hearts, holly trimmed which often hold e trinket, red coated Santa Clauses with tree and box, with reindeer and sleigh and In automobile; scarlet stockings containing metal favors and Christmas bells candy filled. Among the newest Christmas favors are a Santa Claus mask and head dress, a bisque jointed Santa Claus doll and snapping mottoes on each. There are new designs algo in large bells to be hung above the table. The favors for dinners and luncheons in honor of a bride or a bride-to-be have been multiplied by four in the last year. Some of the Prottiest of these comprise bexes used for fces and bonbons, the largest not exceeding six Inches at the widest point, and the paper varieties are the most popu- lar because as a general thing they are the most artistic. These are shown in diamond, oblong, square, cooing doves. An oblong pink box, the top a mass of puffy ruching, shows Cupld, his white and gold wings extended, bow In hand, and a dove which has been brought down by an arrow, A white, gold speckled example is adorned with a couple of coolng doves. A dove with a spray of orange blossoms in its mouth is polsed on the cover of a heart shaped white box and a round box flecked bells tied together. Cupld lying down, shooting with golden arrows at a bunch of hearts, is the device used to decorate another box There are silver bells and gold bells va- riously decorated slippers, hearts, cupids of every style and size, hearts of many kinds and degrees of cost, minfature brides, favor books and snapping mottoes suitably deco- ated, all designed expressly for the brid. dinner and to match many favors designed for the men of the party. representing a Company together with the same order show junfle animals in paics containing toys and jewels, a spray of holly | oval and heart shapes, | trimmed with ruching topped with a gilded | Cupid with bow and arrow of a couple of | with silver supports a couple of wedding/ (LUBS OF ST. PETERSBURC NO GRAND DUKES IN OLDEST CLUB Government Wateh on All Gather ~—Scandal of the Gambling Clubs —=Officers Not Subject to Civil Power. ST, club founded in its 10th anniversary. ‘This which does not now number an English man or any other forelgner among Iits members, was started by Francis Gardner, merchant manufacturer and ship owner, a partner in the old Muscovy company, whose first charter was granted by Queen beth of England and Czar Ivan the Ter rible Throughout crop of mushroom clubs, which sprung up in a night and changed their names and the names of the games they played every other month or at shorter intervals if they failed to reach a working arrangement with the loeal chief of police. The old Angliskie | Klub has watched them come and go with sovereign indifference Tts membership has contributed to the annals of universal clubland. Boeuf Strog- anoff, which figures In the restaurant menu of mankind, is an invention of one of its members, Count Stroganoff, sauce Nesselrode Is another, named after Alex- arfder 1's wecretary of state, who dlrected Russia’s diplomacy in the days of Napoleon I. and signed the treaty of Vienna after the Corsican's downfall. Pushkin, poet and of- ficer of the Imperial Guard, ‘“Russia’s By- ron,” was a member, as was Bismarck's diplomatic rival, Prince Gortschakoff. No Grand Dukes Here. The membership today is drawn largely from the senior officers of the army and the nominated members of the Council of Empire. The absence of grand dukes is ascribed to a scene in the club card room long ago when one of them after a rua of bad luck threw his hand angrily on the floor. As ho refused to apologize to the other players the committee asked him to resign. The grand dukes thereafter transferred their club attendance to the Yacht club on the Bolstoya Morskala, an institution which has no more relation to yachting than the Angliskie Klub has to do with England. The social customs of the two are allke— dining, cards and plenty to drink, but no politics, although of course there must he no speck of doubt about the loyalty to the czar of any of the members. 1 The Yacht club is also the resort of the diplomats resident In St. Petersburg. The annual subscription is 400 rubles. The | dinner is served at one great table and each newcomer before he sits down must walk round and shake hands with the members who have already begun. Bridge and poker are the games. Vindt, the native Russian game, which is bridge of four dimensions, has been driven from |the fashionable haunts, but holds its own at domestic partles and in the provinces, where the unworked tchinovnik will play it daily from noon till 4 o'clock the next PETERSBURG the capital Nov. &=The oldest the Angliskie Klub, November, is celabrating in the ferment of a few Irg WAS never without its | A SUNDAY BE NOVEMBE o | | English elub, | TABO! s Colonial _ Des bourette, made of quarter sawed oak, claw feet, polished finish $8.00 Solid Mahogany Tabourette, colonial design in a deep, duli finish, very nandsome, price, now 10.00 Fumed Oak Tabourette of the Gustav Stickley manufacture, price .. 4 $3.78 Pedestal ' ‘Design Tabourette, very massive; top 1% inches thick, 20 inches squars, made of quarter sawed oak, hand rubbed and polished, now " | LADIES' Solid Mahogany Ladies' Desk: drop froat with two largs wo amall drawers, ge space for sta: soild & Chippendale design Desk; very finely fin- |:hp§, price’ ..........518.00 Quuarted Sawod and Polished Oak Desk; wood knobs, one large drawer, polished inside, price post sons o SI0BS Quarter ‘Sawed' Oak Desk; no drawers, Zinely polished $7.78 Ladies’ Desks Music Cabinets Shaving Stands—$20.00 to . Fancy Baskets—$8.00 to .. Hall Clocks—#$125.00 to .. Cellarettes— Brass Lamps and Electroliers— Brass Jardienieres—$4.00 to Br $4.00 to ... Ladies’ Desk Sets Ladies’ Work Tables—$: Wilton Rugs—$8.50 to Axminster Rugs Craftsman Rugs—$6.50 to . .. Bath Rugs—$4.00 to . Hassocks—$2.00 to . Jarpet Sweepers—$3.7 Sofa Pillows—$2.50 to . Table Covers— Pillow Tops (Craftsman) . Shirtwaist and Utility Box CedaY Chests—$16.50 to .... Sereens—$18.00 to .. Leather Portieres—$11.50 tc 413-15-17 South 16th Street Great Displa7 of Holiday Goods Do You Realize That Christmas is Almost Here? There are only TWENTY-THREE more shopping days, and it is time you were making your selectiont of CHRISTMAS GIFTS. We are read There are here hundreds of beau You are cordially invited to visit many with the largest tractive and practical nd best assorted stock we hav, tiful articles that, as gifts, will greatly brighten the pleasure of giving and greatly please the recipient our store and we will show you Useful Christmas Gifts $50.00 to .. 30.00 to .... s Smoking Sets, Trays, Tobac: $7.00 to . 7.00 to . 00 to. ... co Jars, Candle Sticks, ete. Early wa now Early wa now Golden gla largq price, Quar Po Miller, Stewart @ Beaton e ever had—something at the order of the day in gift giving— there is nothing better appreciated than something for the home, useful, ornamental and serviceable which will carry long and pleasant remembrances of the giver. CELLARETTES English Cellaratte, and copper mixing with glass teay, g ice, with ~ glass rack, price. T diaso humidor, leaving mixing. ‘English Cellaratte re and revolving bottle Oak Cellarette with ssware, top turns back, opalescent glass for now MUSIC CABINETS ter Sawed and lished Music Cabinet, wnt ed Quarter round- top, price $20.00 Sawed Ouk Mus: 3 mo now Mahogaaised Musie pa shel Cabinet with tent adjustable ives, finely fin- ished, price $1L76 e fyrsenflmmsenl~ morning in his government bureau with his government colleagues. the center of the city. Like the two senior which is neither very German nor very mercantile. It is the synonym for good bourgeois comfort and is probably the most steadlly prosperous of all the clubs, aristocratic Institutions it refuses to admit |5 Constitutional that its title should define its membership, | years mgo, but its lease of life was about Its social complexion resembles the re- cently founded Octobrists club for moder- There is the German Merchants' club In {ate politiclans, founded by the party of that name. Thelr radical opponents founded Democratic club as short as if it had been a gamblers' |club; like the latter species, it has been resurrected under a new name, the Xjons- | kie club, or Women's club, and here again The slavery history of the struggle in the United States of the for | ending with the civil war to abolish is the his- the half-century tory republic Every political | act was affected, in greater or lesser de- gree; by this one great issue. But no im- portant political party espoused the cause | of abolition, and with but few exceptions, all political leaders were united in deter- | mined opposition to the consideration of [the question. James Bryce, British ambas- | sador to the United States, in his excellent work, “The American Commonwealth,” comments at length upon the curlous fact that in the United States issues in which the people are most vitally interested are not necessarily considered in the realm of national politics. At the present time the political lssus which holds the greatest interest for the American people, the question about which the hottest battle is raging, the supreme problem In the greator part of the coun- | try, 18 the fight for and against the pro- Assurance Society of the United States 120 Brodway New York e N——— Paul Morton, President H.D. Neely, Mgr. Omaha, Neb. second to none in general excel- lence, and by offering a policy em- bodying every desirable guaran- tee and privilege, agents of The Fxuitable Life Assurance Society of the United States are able to succeed where other agents, less fortunately situated, fail. Some agents never experi- ence the impetus which the backing of a large, ably managed company gives in the selling of life insurance. The impregnable strength of The KEquitable; its standard up-to-date policies; its liberality and fair dealing are ad- vantages which the most humble representative may enjoy and profit by. The KEquitable is the exempli- fication of all that is desir- able in a life insurance company. Its assets are safely and profit- ably invested; its affairs are con- ducted economicelly, solely in the interest of its policyholders; its policies are liberal ‘and compre- hensive; its great financial strength insures the fulfillment of every obligation promptly and in full. q The demand for insurance such as offered by the Equi- table is becoming greater each year. The return to Equitable representatives will be measured only by their industry, intelli- gence and zeal. | hibition of the sale of alcoholio liquors But as yet that question has barely touched the national political situation. Congress has passed a bill prohibiting the delivery of express shipments of liquors to any person except the bona fide consignee, but in no other fashion has it recognized the existence of & political fight which is | the all-absorbing topie in & majority of the | states. Congress has been asked to pass a bill prohibiting saloons in the District of | Columbta, but the bill has been pigeon- holed in a committes room. So it was with the slavery question. Congress for years declined to consider it. The first movement was the presentatic |in 1797 of a petttion from certain free blacks asking lmmunity from treatment as slaves. Congress recelved the petition under protest. Later came the petition to abolish slavery in the Distriet of Columbla. Congress then refused to receive such pet!- tions. The first great contest came when | Missouri sought admission to the union as a slave state Henry Tlay postponed the evil day by devising the Missouri compromise. The main purpose of congress was to keep the slavery question out of tederal politics. With the clearest of working agreements the leaders of both whig and democratic parties, In both north and south, conspired |to keep the question down. When new states were 1o be admitted, congress care- fully balanced things by admitting (wo at a time; one slave and one free. John Quincy Adams and a few abolitionists bat- tled mightily In congress, but they were opposed by the power of both political parties. The most notable example of collusion be- tween the two leading parties was the agreement between Clay and Van Buren Just before the campaign of 1544 The Whigs, furious with Tyler whom fate had placed in the White House, had resolved 1o nominate their great leader, Henry Clay. Van Buren was absolutely certain that he would be the democratic choice. The two men met at Clay's home in Ken- tucky and reached an agreement by which both pledged themselves to oppose the an- nexation of Texas, another effort to sup- press the very question as an issue. The fact that statements professing ex- tly similar views were issued by both Clay and Van Buren at the same time im- Clay, Calhoun and Webster had no sucees- sors in the senate; Jackson was followed by no great man in the White House. Willlam H. Seward and Willlam Pitt F mediately led to the public charge of col- lusion. Van Buren was from New York, a free state, at the head of a party which had its chlef strength in the south. Clay lived in Kentucky, a slave state, and was leading & party which had its chief strength in the morth. Both were afraid to face the slavery fssue, and therefore both opposed annexing Texas which they knew would precipitate the struggle. The south witnessed the increasing growth of the western territories and saw that the even balance in the senate could not be maintained unless Texas could be added to the slave territory of the states. Decided opposition to Van Buren developed in the south, covertly encouraged by An- drew Jackson, then living In the retire- ment of old age at The Hermitage. Van Buren had a majority of the delegates in the democratic convention, but he could not muster the two-thirds vote required by the laws of that party. James K. Polk was nominated and elected. From the time Polk defeated Clay until the clvll war began, the slavery question became the chief topic of debate in con- gress. But still there was no party de- claring for abolition. The south was de- termined to extend slavery into new terri- tory, the north was opposed to extension. The Whig party won one more national victory in 1848, Henry Clay came to the front once more with a compromise meas ure, and once more men belleved that the slavery question was eliminated from na- tional politics. Clay, Calhoun and Web- ster died and the old order changed. Cali fornia had been admitted to the union in 180, and no slave state had come | to offsel it. The south had lost its equal division of power In the senate. Then It began to fight for Kansas. From that hou: the fate of the' question was sealed, but even the wisest could not foresee the end The whig party dled of an overdose of compromises—never having the courage to take up as & national issue the principle in which the majority of its members had the most interest. There was a period of political disintegration. The demo- cratic party seemed to have absolute power, but crystallizing sentiment in the north at last forced division even In the ranks of that most compact and well dis- ciplined political organization The new epublican party was born. In its first campalign it developed enormous strength, all at the north, and although the democrats elected the president, they were terrified. The question of party pol- ley concerning sl ery extension was hotly debated and in 1560 the democrats split hopelessly and nominated two candidates for president. In the same y the repub. party nominated Lincoln. But still the real question at lssue was suppressed. Even Lincoln avowed that he was not an advocate of abolition. The abolitionists still could not find a political party brave enough openly to champion their cause. Then came the war, ending slavery and the doctrine of the right of secession at one It will be many generations before the history of that great congressional and po- litical struggle will be written with abso- lute tmpartiality. It was a conflict of a moral docrine against = legal right, and such conflicts are always bitter, sbecause honest men may conscientiously support either side of the controversy. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the whole struggle was that it produced such W com- paratively small number of great leaders, lican Some Things You Want to Know The American Congress—The Great Slavery Battle senden were strong men, but even they did not live up to the full measurs of their opportunity. Jefferson Davis and Judah P. Benjamin were intellectual glants, but their conception of relative values was hopelessly Inaccurate. Stephen A, Douglas was the greatest man in the sen- ate in the closing era of the slavery fight, but he devoted his talents and energy to the hopeless task of resisting the Irre- sistible. In the house, as the crisls approached, there were a great many men whb after- ward achieved fame—Thaddeus Stevens, Schuyler Colfax, John Sherman and others, but they were there then not as great lead- ers, but rather because there wers no great leaders. Horace Greeley, out of po- litical life, was then perhaps the most pow- erful man in all the country untll the de- bate with Douglas brought Lincoln inta the foreground. But even Lincoln was nominated for president on the ground of expediency rather than because of his transcendant greatness. Hinton Rowan Helper, a North Carolina “'poor white,” -wrote a book entitled “The Impending Crisis of the South—How to Moot Tt which apeared In 1888, It was an attack on slavery based upon economic, rather than moral, grounds; and it polnted out that the “pecullar inetitution” was more harmful to the white people of the south than to anybody else. It had a more profound effect than ‘“Uncle Tom's Cabip," or than all the agitation of the abolition- ists. It was the last straw. Because John Eherman had given the book his endorse- ment he was defeated for speaker of the house. Helper's book, by defeating Sher- wan, had the effect of solidifying sectional sentiment and thus precipitated the crisis which it predicted. Helper died by his own hand in Washington less than a year ago, forgotten by the natlon In whose history he had played such an important part It is Interesting to remember that all through this great fight the congress op- erated under rules In no wise changed from those obtaining before the struggle was precipitated. The speaker often used the power of appointing committees to further party Interests, but debate was practically unlimited and there was no attempt by a speaker, of whatever party, to Increase the power of his office. The debates upon the “Gag Rule” fill many volumes. That rule, by which the house declined to re- ceive abolition petitions, was not supple- mented by gag rules to cut off debate, such as subsequently came to be employed. The speaker had not concelved the notion of controlling the house by the simple de- vice of withholding recognition. The strug- Kle was walways one of votes. That it lasted long in congress that c®ngre did take any action cone that the of the country was divided by geographical lines lnto two sec- tions—northern and southern—while politics of the country was divided hy party lines crossing the geographical lincs at right angles. lssues the same and decisive s never ing it sentiment the phenomenon now presents itself In the Sixty-first congress. There is the sentimental division line between on- servatives and progressives, crossed at right angles by the party line dividing the organizations of the republican and demn- cratic parties. Those who expect congress 00n to take positive action concerning cer- tain mooted questions would do well to study the story of the struggle over slav ery and prepare for a long, long wait By FREDERIC J. HASKIN, Fommorrow—The American Congress— The War Congresses. three was due to the fact | Concerning far different | the membership is not made up predomi- | nantiy of women. It crosses the border-| land into the region of the political so- clety with club premises and indulges in| Sunday lectures on democratic topies, | which the police attend and occaslonally put a stop to. The problem that the gregarious in- stincts of Russians in their long dark evenings has set before the governor of the city springs mostly from the smaller | clubs. In a tentative way the chiets of the government are trying to steer them | into what are officially looked on as safe| and wholesome courses. Prime Minister Stolypin has just sent good wishes to the | newly former Academic club of senior stu- | |aents and graduates whose bond of union | |18 Interest in wscholarship and university studies. | But none of thess Institutions fs allowed | to see the light of day until its articles of | assoctation have been passed through a | minuts and suspicious examination by the |offlcials of the ministry of justice. 1t has taken a galling club, whose quarters are |at the mouth of the Neva over a year to {Incorporate itself. The prefect of the aity decided that he must first satisfy himself of the good intentlons of the promoters |and fmpose on them a set of regulations which aimed at preventing the membership | ever getting tainted by persons who might | use their liberty of assembly for any kind of agitation, This ingrained fear of meetings influences every application of the regime of re- enforced protection. In the private rooms of restaurants where dinner parties are glven there must be no key or bolt to the doors, nor may the restaurant keeper sup- ply his guests with writing materials. It a party of more than ten are to meet in any hired room they must give forty-eight hours' notice to the police, stating the pur- pose of their gathering, even If it be oniy a dance or a wedding feast. Excess of Males. St. Petersburg has an excess of male population due (o the great number of men ‘Ir(‘m the provinces in the junior branches |of the imperial administration and to the aggregation of young army officers, More youngsters lose great sums at cards than |in any other capital in Europe, and the | cheating is notorious. The gambling clubs |that get closed and reappear in other prem- |ises are usually marked down on the com plaint of a family whose son has gone |bankrupt at their tables. At nearly all of |them men and women play side by side, and, of course, take one another's money with equal remorselessness. Periodieally there i# a crims. Somebody cuts the light | newcomers than | ton lions of Europeans, not 1 per ¢ would been veally assimilated in Europe by the English, the Germans or the French,” sald eLopold Rauch of Basel, Switzerland at Washington. Herr Rauch is touring this country and has made close observations of the question. “Millions of Germans become nt of whom in the |course of a few months rabld Yankees, ald Mr. Rauch, ‘“‘without any Americans as much as asking them to do so, while all the wisdom and power of the Prussian government has, thess 100 years, been un- able to assimilate, say, 100,000 Poles. “But when the German peasant arrives at New York he has not been there an hour before a halt dozen people have dons him what Is to his mind an exquisite and most flattering honor. They have ‘sir-ed" him; they have sald, ‘Yes, sir ,' ‘No, sir.! Tn Europe the honor of being addressed as ‘sir’ has never been done to him, although he was always expected to ‘sii’ every bete ter dressed person speaking to him “For years that has rankled in his heavy soul,” added Mr. Rauch. “When, then the tirst American meecting him says, ‘Yes, sirj ‘No, sir,’ he distinctly feels himself raised n_his own esteem. A flood of new sensa- tions shoot to his heart and brains, and in ‘that very moment he is & new man. The Americans are quite unaware that the meaningless word ‘sii’ has done more for the assimilation of milllons of European have all the paragraphs of the Amerlean constitution,”—Washing- Post BABY SCRATCHED FOR THAEE YEARS Until Ye Would tisea — Eczema Covered His Whole Body and Head — Suffered Keenly from ltching and Burning—Hundreds of Dollars Spent on Fruitless Treatments. CUTICURA CURED HIM — NEVER TROUBLED SINCE off while his confederate scoops the stakes on the tables. A few revolver shots fol- low, there Is & rush for the street and the | police are brought in. But .the scamps in the gambling clubs are 80 numerous and know so much about | each other that nothing can be done to get up evidence for a prosecution. The police | have no authority to arrest officers of the army ard navy. If they are mixed up in & club scandal the officer of the brigade on guard duty must be sent for to discipline them. This absolute authority of the senlor offi- cer over all military and naval men at all times overrides club committees or any other social ithority. And it is exercised without compunetion In the main saloon of a leading restau rant here some years ago the late Grand Duke Viadimir after copious refreshment left his table, went taward the wife of a civilian, patted her on ths shoulder and | told her she was beautiful. The husband sprang up and pushed him sharply back some yards. Diners and the waiters looked for a scene, but a very old man In general's uniform—all military officers whether the active or reserve list the grand duke with the order in one sen- tence to report himself at once to the mili- tary commandant's quarte Viadimir went without a word. Bee Want Boosters. UPLIFTS OF THE IMMIGRANT An Explanation of the Phenomena of Forelgners Becoming Rabld Yankees. Ads Are the Best “Few Americans are aware of one of the secret causes of the fact that they assim- llate, without even thinking of it, mil- wear their uni- | forms at all times—got up and crossed to | Business “My littie granason when a year old had eczemna all over his whole body and head. It lasted nearly three years. He had big sores on his head and the mate ter would run {rom them. He suffered from the itching and burning and would serateh until he would blesd. 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