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IN THE FOURTH WARD
JF ANYTHING were needed to proc that
the police in some Important sections are
getting out of the control of the Administra
tion and into the hands of the political tongs,
which few Mnyors ever have been able to
cope with successfully, it was provided
yesterday at the beginning of the Civil
Service probe into the Department of Public
Safety.
Senator Salus appeared to believe that
he had made out a case against Mr. Moore's
Administration. What he really did was to
make out a case against ths school of politics
' in which lie himself is a past master.
The Fourth Ward appears to be in pretty
bad shape. It Is possible to blame the
Mayor for that only if you are innocent
enough to believe that any one underworld
political faction is any Ijetter. any more
enlightened, any more honest than the fac
tions opposed to it.
The corruption of police and police de
partments begins with underlings in the
wards and the men who rule them. It it
necessary to believe that these men have
actually been exerting powerful Influence in
City Ilall, as they often have done before,
to seize authority that belongs to the Mayor
by the simple expedient of converting some
cf his subordinates.
No one will believe that Mr. Moore has
consented to any compromise with the
panders. Why, then, was the crusade
-promised by Mr. Gordon not begun before?
Did police officers higher up know of what
was happening downtown?
The developments of yesterday promise
excitement at City Hall and in the Fourth
Ward. But more than excitement ought to
come out of the hearings. Men ought to be
named. And if the Mayor Is being sold out
the merchants ought to be publicly identified.
ARCHITECTURAL REPENTANCE
rpHB necessity of the City Hall annex
having passed the stage of argument,
It Is fitting to emphasize the possibilities of
atonement contained in thl project.
The,artlitlc offenses of the Public Build
ings are of such heroic proportions that de
spair has long been the portion of their
it most earnest critics. The City Hall, mon-
strons incubus, inept survival of the worst
i learures of f renen licnaissnnce garbled, with
xsorman anu itomancsquc improprieties, is
like the Websterinn Masrncbusctts in at least
one respect "there she stands."
Dreams of its removal, visions of its dem
olition, however glorious, are vain. Hut
an opportunity is at hand to conduct the
supplementary undertaking along the lines
of chastened reform and good taste.
The 'new building, which will house the
now crowded Department of Public Safety,
need not be excessively costly to conform to
the march of improvement in American
architecture. The structure at Broad and
4Hace streets can be made to serve both or
namental ns well as practical purposes.
Now is the time to be wary of bunglers.
The cornerstone of the annex should be laid
in a spirit of contrition. The message of
Jiow-not-to-do-it is to be read at what ought
to be. tbc junction of the city's two main
arteries.
NORMALCY OF ENGLISH
THOSE school teachers In this city who
Tiavc formulated a creed to be memorized
by pupils willing to speak nnd encourage
others to speak better English have done
something quite as worthy of attention as
the book of manners recently issued by som!
of their associates to turn the youthful mind
away from jazz and backward toward nor
mal tastes.
Americans are In s hurry They walk
quickly and quickly they talk. They clip
nnd" abbreviate words and tentencn and
often slide over a syllable as if it were
oreased. Listen any day to the conversa
tion of people wlio have high-school di
plomas or even college degrees and learn
for yourself what violence can bo done to
the common tongue by folk who have hud
every opportunity to cultivate respect for it.
There arc college girls who can ask with
out blushing for a cupn tea. Ther- arc ac
complished secretaries who say nitli a fine
inflection, "I'll tell him yn called." The
probably learned that trick of speech from
the highly educated boss.
WHAT KEEPS IT UP?
TT WAS in June of last year that living
costs in the Lnlted Slates reached the
peak, ..The prices of the necessities of life
were then approximately So degrees above
the normal general schedule of 1014.
In July of last year the reaction started.
Since then the total general cost of living
baa decreased 17.5 per cent. Clothing is
down 35 per cent. Food Is down 30 per
cent.
The Teccsrion continues and affects all the
essential commodities but one. That one is
coal, which never budged from the peak, but
kept on going skyward. Since the down-
i. ward movement of alt other prices began,
tie cost or coal nas increased JIJ per cent.
The statistics on which this summary is
based were provided by the National In
dustrial Conference Board.
CHINA SEES THE POINT
CHINA and Germany are at peace by rea
son of an agreement signed "between the
two nations" at Pekin on May 20.
The quoted words are significant. Evi
ideaUy the Chinese, who refused to become
a party to the Treaty of Versailles at the
time of its framing in 1010, experience the
c reeling mat a one-aiaea peace jbcks some
' tthlBf of convincing values, 'Ihere seems to
1 t. naval nen in inn rcuuuuc uu UTcrwucumnr
k)(iaoJiUon t0 reconcile antipathy to treat-
m Independently wun uermany wita a ue
Im a nnd the state of war by resolution.
''' JThe naradoi which they have rejected la
tie' ne which perplexes the majority of
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ief- I,nvolvinf V?eparalc treaty with
Mcrmany,
orientals nrc sometimes nccuseu o rea
soning backward. In this caw they appear
to IiOtc realized the difficulty of pursuing
simultaneously two absolutely contradictory
lines of conduct.
WOMAN HAS ALWAYS BEEN
MAN'S CHIEF INCENTIVE
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Now That She la "Emancipated" It Re
mains to Be Sean Whether She
Will Be Hia Spurring Rival
A IniOUOK the University of Pcnnsyl
" vania Is about 175 years old, the first
Woman on wliom It ever conferred an hon
orary degree or a degree of any kind Sara
Torko Stevenson Is still nllvo and active.
Its admission that a woman could conduct
any researches of sufficient importance to
warrant recognition in such a way provoked
considerable discussion at the time.
The world hns moved so far in the mean
time that the award by the University
yesterday of an honorary degree to Madame
Curie is taken as n matter of course. In
deed, there are some persons who would say
that the University honored itself ns much
ns it honored the distinguished Franco
Polish discoverer of radium.
Sex distinctions hare disappeared in the
realm of knowledge nnd women are compet
ing with men in all Its provinces.
It must be admitted, however, that the
women have done comparatively little. Vir
tually all the great discoveries have been
made by men. They have made the revolu
tionary Inventions in mechanics. They have
painted the great pictures, written the great
books and composed the great music.
Thcrp were no notable women painters
before tho nineteenth century, when Rosa
Bonheur won recognition. Mary Cassatt
nnd Cecllin Beaux and others are carrying
on the tradition of women in art, but the
number of persons of their sex who have
wide reputations can be counted on the
fingers. Chnmlnnde is a distinguished com
poser, but she does not rank with Chopin
or Wagner or Verdi. It Is too enrly to say
whether Amy Lowell's verse will he read
when that of Whitman Is forgotten, but
Mrs. Browning, who had considerable vogue
In the Inst century, has sunk to the place to
which she belongs in the history of English
poetry, while the works of men who wrote
when she was mobt popular are still read
and treasured. A hundred or more women
were writing fiction in Greut Britain at the
time of Scott, but the name of not more than
one or two of them i popularly known
today.
In science the name of Caroline Ilcrschel
is unique for her time. Born in the last half
of the eighteenth century, bhe was the vic
tim of the prevailing prejudices against
learned women and her mother would not
allow her to receive more than a rudimentary
education. She joined her brother, Fred
erick William Ilcrschel, in England, in 1772.
when she was twenty-two years old, nnd
assisted him in teaching mvlslc at Bath. But
she interested herself in his nstronomlcal
avocations, and nftcr he became the private
astronomer for George III she discovered
three comets herself and in her old age
received the gold medal of the Koyal Geo
graphical Society. She was a woman who
overcame prejudices against her sex inter
esting itself in the pursuit of knowledge.
This prejudice may account for the small
number of women who hnvc won distinction.
It was a mon who invented thf sowing
machine, which women operate. It was a
man who invented the typewriter, used by
more women thnn any other implement un
less it be the frying pan, and if the truth
were known it was doubtless a man who
invented the frying pan itself.
Now that women have been emancipated
that is the word which they like to use. for
it seems to mean so much more thun
"freed" we may expect to have a dozen
Madame Curies where we now have only one.
But this is not likely to happen unless the
women devote themselves exclusively to their
scientific or literary or artistic pursuits.
The ordinary occupations of women are
absorbing, both of the time nnd the atten
tion. They leave little strength for other
activities. Tho man working in a machine
shop makes a great invention as a natural
by-product of bis daily work. Or he devotes
himself exclusively to invention or to
scientific investigation as a means of earn
ing a living. His wife devotes herself to
rearing bis children and taking care of his
home.
But rearing children does not seem to bf
wholly incompatible with scientific discov
ery, else Madam Curie would not have two
fharralng daughters to exhibit to her admir
ers on this side of the ocean. She is a
standing refutation of the charge frequently
made against the extreme feminists that n
woman cannot devote herself to anything
outside of the home without doing violence
to the laws of nature.
It may be argued that one Instance does
not prove a rule, nnd it will be so argued
If the new woman Is to fill the place to
which she aspires she will have to demon
strate her ability to hold her own with men
while she continues to be n wife nnd a
mother. Perhnps it is their absorption in
this business that has prevented them from
doing the other things. But however this
may be. we know that it is the desire to
mnke life more tolerable for their wives and
children that has inspired men to the great
achievements for which they have won fame.
Fame itself is a most unsatisfying recom
pense. The poets, who acc more deeply than
the press agent", have called it a bubble.
The allegorical painters have represented
Fame ns a siren luring men to their destruc
tion. The enduring satisfactions for both
men and women arc won in a very dirtrent
sort of endeavor.
If any eager young girl hungering for
glory could get into the mind of the tired
little woman who received degrees from the
I'nivcrsity nnd from the Woman's Medical
'ollegc yesterday
she would doubtless dis
cover there an immense weariness with nil
the flubdubbery of honors and a great desire
to get back to the quiet of her laboratory,
for distinctions, which seem alluring when
one is not worthy of them, become pretty
empty things when they arc tardily be
stowed. MYSTERY OF THE BEES
EVERY little while there is a startling
disclosure of the varied intercuts of the
State Government. The latest comes Id mi
announcement from Harrisburg that the
Department of Agriculture is about to issue
a bulletin calling the nttention of the farm
ers to the necessity of feeding their heev.
The frosts which killed the fruit-tree
blossoms destroyed that on which the bees
feed when first they emerge from their sea
son of hibernation, and the succeeding cool
weather has delayed the opening of other
blossoms to Buch an extent that the bees
are in danger of starvation unless food is
provided for them.
Town dwellers, who see no humor in the
story of the man who resolved to keep a
bee in order to get his home supply of
honey, will wonder how the bees will be fed.
When blossoms are not available, will they
eat cornmeai? Or does the housewife have
to make sweet puddings for them? ,
Pure-food experts will be in no such haze
of ignorance, for they know that unscrupu
lous bee-keepers have heen In the habit of
dtlulin lioney with glucose W.fc tae bees,
which, poor simps that they are; do jaot
know the difference between the nectar of
tho bloisotnB tint) the product of the chem
ist's laboratory. Or else they believe In ,a
forty-four-hour week, but nre unable to cur
tail their work to that length when depend
ent on the provisions ot nature, but leap
to it with unanimity when man makes it
jwsslblo for them to decrease their hours
of labor by carrying ready-made sweets to
the hive.
SETTLING DOWN?
JAPAN is getting out of regions in Siberia
which her. militarists and jingoes1 vowed
to hold. Tokio hns ordered the evacuation
.of Shantung. The United States Govern
ment hns made it plain that it will recog
nize the new Mexican Government if Prcsl
dent Obregon can see bis way clear to accept
terms dictated in part at least by Secretary
Fall. British troops nre moving toward
Silesia to uphold the rule of renson. but It
nppcars that, after all, their assistance may
not bo needed in the settlement of this new
est row in Europe.
Thcso events nrc significant, even in the
swift current of contemporary nfCalrs. The
minds of governments nnd peoples Bccm to
be clearing.
This country should be on friendly terms
with Mexico because, so long as we stand
austerely and suspiciously aloof, we shall
continuo to help the people who, for their
own suke, seek to create hntred of the United
States south of the border. The terms of
recognition proposed by Washington nrc not
such, it rumor is to be credited, which n
bcnsitivc man or n sensitive people could
readily accept. The President of Mexico is
asked to sign a written agreement to do the
things which under ordinary circumstances
nre trusted to tho honor of Governments
nnd national executives.
Obregon may sign the "protocol." Doing
so he will, of course, provide some fresh
ammunition for the army of enemies that
surrounds him as it has surrounded every
Mexican who ever sought to direct nationnl
affairs in the interest of tho people. He
may sign, nevertheless, to gain the advan
tages that recognition would bring him.
Our own Government is in this Instance
not without justification for its caution.
For. In the eyes of n large part of Europe,
we nru held pnrtly responsible for n great
deal that goes on in Mexico. The .Monroe
Doctrine acts both ways. The "protocol" is
not for the protection of American lives and
American Interests alone.
.Inpnn in evacuating Siberia is merely ac
cepting the inevitable. On Itussinn terri
tory the Japanese were n challenge not only
to Russia, but to the whole world of Allied
nnd American opinion. The withdrawal
from Shantung, so suddenly announced, sug
gests various possible meanings.
The Japanese still arc determined to es
tablish and administer n Monroe Doctrine
of the East. Presumably they have been
doing with money and political agreements
in 8hautung what they found they could not
do by force or the threat of force.
The Japanese adventure in imperial ex
pansion has been enormously costly. It
may be that the burden beenmc too heavy
to be carried safely. At any rate, this sud
den conformation of the Tokio Government
with a policy which only n year ago tho
Japanese war leaders sternly and proudly
rejected is more Interesting nnd significant
than nny news that has come recently from
any foreign cnpitnl.
A HOMECOMING
TT MUST not happen again I" said I'rcsi-
-I- dent Harding on n pier in New York
yesterday nt the last pitiful homecoming of
soldiers who were among the first to die
under the American flag in Europe.
Who will dispute that sentiment or ques
tion the need ot the resolve expressed in this
instance with genuine feeling by a man who
controls the greatest political forces In the
world?
Of course it must not happen again. But
it will happen so long ns politicians con
tinue to sneer nnd swagger and sny, like
Mrs. Bergdoll, that "wars must always be."
It will continue to happen so long as
statesmen refuse to put the structure of nil
their plans on moral and intellectual grounds
rather than on foundations of purely ma
terial interest. It will happen ngain, per
haps. But wnrs will not always be. If men of
the type now in command of national and
international affairs cannot find wnys to
prevent them forever tho plain people of
tht world will make other experiments. They
will risk changes that may be disastrous.
But they want peace. Their patience is
almost exhausted.
Bloodhounds ued in
Ellu Always Ahead West Virginia to trace
incendiaries responsi
ble for the loss of mine buildings "failed to
pick up a trail." This is quite In accord
ance with past performance. The blood
hounds never get nnywhere, but the faith
of West Virginians continues pathcticnlly
unimpaired.
Either sublime faith
Squaring the Circle in human ability or
carelessness of the
facts is nil that is needed to enable a mon
confidently to declare that some day a wise
statesman will devise n tariff that will do
all that it is intended to do nnd no more.
"We were afraid not to fight,"' said
Colonel Harvey. In attempting to interpret
politics and trade our Arohnssudor to Eng
land does not beem to rcalire that he hus
slandered every American soldier who fought
nnd died in the big war.
Since ull the parties to the I ppei Silesin
ontroversy are agreed that the Versailles
Treaty must be upheld, a showdown will
undoubtedly develop the fact that everything
said to the contrary was said in u Pick
wickian sense.
When the President sajs he ouid wish
n nation bo powerful In righteousness that
none will dure to provoke its wrath, of
course he means uh and probably means
thot we ought to carry a sufficiently big
stick "
It is nt lenst comforting to know that
the alleged inaccuracy of Baly's curve can
have absolutely no effect one way or tho
other ou "Babe" Ruth's batting average.
Those who have always believed that
the safety of a child is more Important than
the acquisition of n dollar rcjo!ec that the
fact has now received oflicinl recognition.
The New York Herald speaks of Colonel
Harvey's cleanly chiseled phrases. Friends
of the League of Nations are convinced ho
tifed an ice ?uk .
There is tiong testimony to the tough
nes1! of his hide in the fact that the naked
truth has f.ntind llrlnilell unnhnmed.
The pong of the rcsoit press ngenth
begins to be henid in the land. Wihhvood,
N. J., lias a baby whnle
Europe needs clothe America needs
trade. Why Ik less cotton being gmun this
year thun Inst?
Madnmc Curie is the JatcM evidence
that Uncle Sam is prone to kill his 'friends
with kindness.
VlewH on Upper Silesia continue to bo
as opposite as the Poles.
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It Requires Ten People, Some of Them
Experts, to Handle Hla Business.
Tho Rev. William Under-
Wood's Job Death of E.
J. Gibson i
" By GEORGE NOX McOAIN
SENATOR BOIEtf PENROSE employs
an office staff of ten persons in Wash'
ington,
He has a private secretary, an executive
secretary, several stenographers nnd a
squad of specialists.
One member of his staff is an expert on
pensions and takes charge of all matters
pertaining to that department.
Another is an authority on the tariff. Ho
nlso attends to the general correspondence
of the office that is not assigned to some
one else.
It requires the services of one man alone
to properly file the correspondence.
Each specialist has his 'own library, in
which nrc arranged nil documents relating
to his particular department.
The Senator's correspondence, extending
back through tho period of his successive
terras in tho United States Senate, is stored
nway, but ready for instant reference, in
two separate storerooms.
There is nlso a vault in charge of a' cus
todian In which his more valuable papers
nnd correspondence repose.
AN AVERAGE of COO letters a day are
received by him.
It. requires one man nn even hour every
morning to open the mail.
It is then separated nnd sent to the vari
ous experts, to Private Secretary Lcighton
C. Taylor or directly to the Senator himself.
Every letter is answered, if possible, the
same day that it is received.
It would be a physical impossibility for
any one man to answer this number of com
munications, owing to their widely varying
chnrncter. Several dictaphones nre cm
ployed from which the stenographers work.
If any ono fnncies that Senator Penrose
sees every letter, reads it nnd personally
answers it, he is what the English would
call a "natural."
Nor does the Senator, save in tbc smallest
number of Instances, sign letters even of'
personal moment.
His secretary signs his personal mall.
On other correspondence It takes one man
two full hours, from 4 to 0. every evening
to sign the letters and seal them for delivery
to thp mall.
And the signature Is a facsimile of the
original.
It is remarkable that the returned mall,
due to faulty addressing nr other cause, is
less, on an average, than two a day.
THE Rev. William Underwood is the par
ticular star In the Pcnrosian galaxy of
stars.
William is a gentleman of color and an
expert on scarce bills nnd rare documents.
Ho has had a quietly spectacular career
for a citizen nf his age and color. He is
approaching fifty.
His first employment was as factotum and
(pccinl gendarme for the lute Senator
Spooncr.
After the Senator's departure for New
York the Rev. William was attached to the
entourage of Senator Nelson Aldrich.
It was in this connection that he became
saturated with tariff lore and all matters
thereunto appertaining.
He knows every tariff bill from McKinley
down : and ,tbcn a few.
With the disappearance of the New Eur
land statesman .William was taken on by
Senator Philander Chase Knox. '
From Kuox to Penrose was an easy and
natural transition.
SO WELL recognized is the Ucv. William
as an authority on bills and documents
that other Senators frequently utilize his
ability in that direction.
Lcighton C. Taylor, Senator Pcnrosc'ir
private secretary, makes the statement that.
Underwood is the most reliable specialist in
this respect around the Capitol.
lie possesses a rcmnrkablc memory and
a natural aptitude for the work.
And tho Rev. William knows IiIh vulue.
He is not to be joshed or jollied by nny
one into confessing that he enn lay his
fingers instantly on any wanted document.
"It's very rare, sir; very rare. I'll do
my best to obtain It for you," is William's
invariable reply to those who seek his as
sistance in n search for n certain document,
bill or paper.
Even If it is nothing more thnn n clip
ping from a last week's newspaper, the
same answer goes.
THE Rev. Mr. Underwood is ii standing
supply for colored Bnptist and Metho
dist churches in the District.
He is n self-styled "vacationist." He
supplies pulpits during the vacation of the
regular pastors.
Those who have heard him suy that his
vocabulary is not only extensive but pic
turesque nnd polysyllabic.
In nddltlon to his other accomplishments
lie has a knowledge of French nnd Spanish
nnd is often called upon to make free trans
lations in those languages.
Private Secretary Taylor avers that tho
translations arc nil right except that they
are on occasions juBt a trifle too free.
As compensation for this talent nnd
natural ability the Rev. Underwood signs
the payroll about opposite the'flgurcs $1500.
He should have more.
EDGAR J. GIBSON died not long ago in
Washington.
Three or four Hues in the local papers
of the capital were the extent of his obitu
ary notice.
His friends among the older correspond
ents were not nwnre of bis demise until too
late to ntlend the funeral or make arrange
ments to be represented at the obsequies.
And yet the name of E. J. Gibson nt the
bottom "of Washington specials in the Phila
delphia Press was for years a familiar one
to Phlladelphians.
He was one of the best-known correspond
ents in Washington twenty -five years ago,
In fact duriug the Harrison, Cleveland, Mc
Kinlcy nnd Roosevelt administrations.
Some years ngo, owing to defective hear
ing. .Mr. Gibson was compelled to relin
quish his profession.
Thiough the influence of friends lie se
cured nn appointment iu the Department of
Commerce nnd Labor, which he retained
until his death.
DESPITE his handicap of partial deaf
ness, Gibson wns nn indefatigable uews
gatherer. , , , , ,
Martin Knne. wire chief of the Postnl
Company in the Senate press gnllery, tells an
Interesting story of how Gibson once
"scooped" the entire body of correspond
ents nnd gave the Press a story of pceullnr
interest to Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
At the time in question Mr. Kime wns
operator on the direct wire out of the Wash
ington office of the Press.
A certain woman correspondent attached
to the Press staff reported to Gibson con
cerning social events iu officlnl and diplo
matic circles.
One evening she incidentally remarked
that nn elaborate dinner arranged for that
night by Nelson Dlnglcy. of Maine, the great
tariff ntithorlty, had to be called off because.
Mr. Dingley bod been summoned to the
White House for nn important conference
with President McKinle
The next instant Gilwiu ,ts hendid for
tlie White House grounds lie got In some,
how nnd stood for hours in the chndow of
a tree until Representative Dingle) ap
peared. From Dlnglcy's lips Gibson got the facts
nf the conference and the greatest story of
the day. for he was one of Dlnglcy's par
ticular friend.
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Daily Talks Willi Thinking Philadclpliiuns on Subjects They
Know Best
MISS ALICE A. JOHNSON
On Home Economics
HOUSEHOLD mechanics such ns paint
ing nnd the ability to overhaul washing
machines when they become faulty should be
introduced ns pait of the roster of nil girls
in the second term of the third yenr of
junior high school, according to Miss Alico
A. Johnson, assistant on economics nnd
domestic science in the public schools.
'"And when I sny painting I do not refer
to some girls who nre adept nt the use of
rouge," Miss Johnson said.
"In connection with the introduction of
household mechanics for girls, 1 believe ulso
that camp cookery would be of great use
if presented to boys In un interesting man
ner. "In the latter case it would be impossible
to coll it by any other name thnn enmp
cookery, since the study has to be Inken
from n psychological standpoint.
"If you tell boys thut jou lire going to
tench them the values of food products they
will become grouchy nnd .say they have fin
ished their course in the study of physiology,
nnd for that very reason it is necessary to
teach the subject iu an interesting way.
Health Is Important
"On the other bond, we must not forget
the importance of health instruction entirely
In the pursuit of domestic science.
"In the making of menus, which we tench
in the second yenr, there nre many who sny
that they have younger In others or sisters
who ore not nblc to drink milk. In order
to get around this wo tench them the Im
portance of milk In the diet nnd tell them
the ways in which milk can be taken in
oilier forms, such ns custard and rice pud
ding. "Because of eccentricities in the diet
many of the students arc under weight.
This can be easily overcome by finding a
nutritious food substance which will supply
the Hjstcm with the lacking chemicals. I
think that each girl should be closely ob
served for any fulling off in weight.
"Cooking on u Inrgc basis should be given
in the second term of the third jear ns well
ns the making of a family budget
"Tho teaching ot the latter subject has
been taken up in college, but ninny of the
boys nnd girls in high school do not enter
the universities; therefoic 1 believe thnl n
matter like the budget would not come amiss
if taught to both boys nnd girls alike
"Men, when they grow up. fail to realize
the amounts that arc expended for household
usage nnd merely pnss the matter over lightlj
by suying that they have allowed so much
money for the purchasing of foodstuffs and
utensils.
Urges Course In Sthools
"The establishing of a model apnamcni
in the public schools would be of great ad
vantage to girls studying domestic science
nnd homo economics, because in this way
they would be able to receive advice without
suffering for their mistakes ns they perhnps
i Where the Bees Get Stung
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IF YOU happen to keep n bee, in jour bon
net or otherwise, jou will be interested
in a coming bulletin of the State Department
of Agriculture setting forjh that early blos
soms and Inte frosts, blooms destroyed and
flowers delayed, are going to mnke this n
haul summer for the industrious hone) -maker.
As the poet says:
How doth. the little busy bee
Get stung by Nature sour
Who lets Jack Frost nttnek the tree
And kill the opening flowci.
Though we think the intelligence of this
animal has been much overruled, we. admit
(hat 11)21 has provided him with solnc
handicap.
Who docs not worlf must luck the "ent" ;
Jt is1 it law Imperial.
And how can bees distill their sweets
Without tho raw material?
It simply can't be done. The houe. in
dustry needs protection: p.ip If jou wish
to cull It so. You've simpl) got lo feed
your bee or bees if you don't want it or
them to starve of deteriorate.
With laws of nature time defied
Now wouldn't It be funn),
If. lawless bumble brew deride
To turn out bootleg honey?
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might suffer when they were no longer under
n guiding hand.
"To be able to market properly nnd buy
the foodstuffs that have the most value is
indeed a study Hint loo much stress cannot
be laid upon, and with tills comes the ubillty
to vary the diet.
"The study of domestic science In the sec
ond term of; the third yenr fails to provide
for canning in large quantities. I feel that
canning should be taken up on n larger
scale, because of Its great value in house
keeping. To be sure, It is taught on tt
small basis in the seventh nnd eighth grades,
but when It conies- to doing it on n large
scale many difficulties will be encountered
that could have been ordinarily overcome
bad the student been given n course before
leuving school."
HUMANISMS
By WILLTAM ATHKRTON DU PUY
THE reporters nt the State Department
have established for themselves u very
accurate nnd rcllnblu barometer of the inter
national situation.
That barometer is the part down the
chin of Secretary Hughes, which diverts
one portion of his carefully trimmed
whiskers sharply to the right and the other
portion no less sharply to the left.
When international matters are serene
that pnrt divides the two areas as mnthe
mnticnlly ns does n spite fence the yards
nf uncongenial neighbors. And the nltcvnu
ting brown nnd white strands of his benrd
take off In opposite directions like spray
from the bow of n bont. They arc uniform,
balanced, symmetrical.
But if there is dissension among the na
tions. If programs nre going awry, if some
obstreperous one bus thrown n monkey
wrench, the pnrt in the secretary's whiskers
is likely to lead off to the southeast or
southwest, to wnvcr, to lose itself in the
jungle. Then, on iln.s of uncertainty, the
part may remain centered but indistinct,
like a trail through tangled grass. And
when some American -born idea is affronted
every whisker on tho Hughes chin Ktnnds
forth n on individual bent on giving an
oculnr demonstration of the perpendicularity
of the Hughes backbone.
Thus does, the Secretary of Slate at 11
o'clock each morning display a relief jnap
of ihe nffnirs of the world.
When William B. .McKinley. brand-new
senator from Illinois, though long n member
of the House of Itepiesentntlves, first enmc
to Congress he regarded bin service ns nn
experiment nnd did not know whether he
wns going to wunt to stay or not. He was
an interuibnn railway bnron out hi way. hod
nn nwful lot of money, nnd wos of uncertain
political ambitions,
He got an experienced secretary who
guided him skillfully, but despite this the
life was somewhat confusing and he didn't
seem to get the hung nf It. After six months
he was- protesting mildly nt hl.s own ama
teurishness nnd his secretary asked him just
what it was that seemed to stnnd most In
tho way of his mljustmcnt to congressional
life.
"Well," said the new member. "1 siav
up every night until 2 o'clock and 1 con
tribute liberally, but I just can't seem to
Icurn the relative value of tho cards."
Back In the panic of IST.'I, snjs Senator
Frnncls E. Worren. of Wyoming, the little
bnnk in Cheyenne in which he uiis inter
ested iust had to have some renilv inonev
It dickered with nn individual in Chicago
nnd found Hint he hod 10,000 that might
be secured. The bank's promise to repav
was not. however, snliicient mid urinus
individuals were asked to sign the papers
The rate of interest was ! per cent a month'
The inonev wns reloaned at -S per cent ii
month. Itenienilierlng such strenuous I linos
ns these. Senator Warren is not greatly
perturbed b present cnudltloiiv
t
Colonel .loniithnn Mnhew Wnltmrlghi.
nsslslonl secretory nf war, used to attend
Columbia Law School in New York buck
nbout IfiSo. At Hint time theie was a cer
tain jnung Inwjcr In New York who ec.
lured nt Columbia on contractu In help bent
buck Ihe wolf while he wns getting started
in prnetlci. The peculiar thing nbout tilm
was thnt he wore n full benrd des-nlfe U
youth. Ili mime wns Charles Evims
Hughes. His office is no on (he Mime
floor with thai of Colonel WninwrMit in
the Stnic, War and Navy Rulldlng In
nrhliigton
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. What son of an American President be
came commander of armies hostile to
tho United States?
2. What wns the first fitnte lo ratify tlis
thirteenth constitutional amendment
forbidding: slavery In tho United
Stntcs?
!. Who wrote the novel, "Rhode. Fleming"?
4. Who Is President of Cuba?
6. Is'ame throe hinds of palm troes.
fi. For what was Lady Bancroft notod?
7. In what part of Ireland ts tho County
Qalway.
5. What Is meant by jettisoning a cargo'
P. What Is a motet In music?
10. When did Dlsmarcli die?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Uelgrado, on tho Danube, s the capital
of tho Kingdom of tho Serbs Croats
nnd Slovenes.
2. Jose Kchcgaray was n celebrated Spanish
dramatist, ci pcelaily noted for his
powerful piny, "HI Qran CJaleoto,"
ndnpted In English under tho title.
"Tho World nnd Ills Wife." He was
born in 1SS3 and died t few years ago.
3. Jonathan Swift In "Polite Conversation,"
Dialogue 2, wrote, "I thought you and
ho were hnnd-ln-slovc."
4.. The Julian calendnr in 4ft It. O. reformed
the Itoman calendar by oiderlng that
every year whose date number is ex
actly divisible by four contain SOS
days, and nil the others "K3 days. Ths
avernge length of the Julian : ear Is.
therefore, 3GB H dnjs. which is too
lonsr by eleven minutes- nnd fourteen
sccondB, nnd this would accumulate tn
400 years to nbout three days. Ths
discrepancy wns repaired by the Gre
gorian calendar in 1S82. The differ
dee between the. two cnlendars is now
thirteen dayr. Tho Gregorian calendar
W now used throughout the Christian
world except In ISulgnrla, Serbia,
tircccc nnd the Greek Church, which
still use the Julian.
5. Wealthy persons are called plutocrats
In nllusion to- Plutus. tho classical gou
of riches, nnd not In reference to Pluto,
tho god of tho infernal region. "Plou
tos" Is Oreelt and means wealtli,
0. Tho orlglnnl Templars were members of a
religious order organized to protect
pilgrims to tho Holy Land iu ths Mid
dlo Ages.
7. A diapason Is a combination of notes or
parts In a. harmonious whole. Techni
cally it is nn octave or the compass of
nil tho strlngH of a lyro ; tho foun
dation stop of an organ or principal,
whether open or stopped: In Franca
the word describes a tuning fork or
tho pitch registered by It.
S The first names of tho two Cabots, die
eovcrers of North America, were, re
spectively, John and Sebastian.
3. Idaho is Indian for "Gem of the Moun
tains." 10. Tho llower zinnia Is named aftor J "
Zlnn, tho German botanist
Theie are some "straight tnlkers" imio,
when thev seek to hit the nail on tho head
fail to differentiate between n hammer and
yammer.
John Bnilcycorn and Old Kin? Coal nre
companions in misfortune In England. Til's
cool shortage bus brought ubout a beer
fciiorlnge.
The old saying that r. com-h aim four
could be driven through the law has been
revised to read "n motortruck of hooch.
The fact that six million families tn
the United States own their owi. homes "
calculated to discourage tnc Bolshevists
Well, anyhow, the world Iioj rni.ion tn
be thankful that the Upper Sllesian affair
is being threshed out 'n tun open.
Germany's desire for peace in Utpr
Silesin Is tempered by the knowledge of the
benefits disturbance may bring her.
The note to Mexico seems to afford
excellent opportunity for counter proposali
The eavtngB account which n-'-n.s to
have cumulative Interest It daylight vifij:.
Vp hold to the opinion frequently ei
proved that Father's Day Is Pay DJ
Mrs. Arabella Mixing opines that the
"coal barrens" refer to empty bios
Despite Srnnte niiis the Gowni'iienl
in the White House sllll liU'H
.Self-determiiintlo is no happirr "
t pper Silesin thnn vleivlu're.
Forest Protection Week Is 'iWiiin'd 1
make forest protection Minnx
What good i.sii woi Id court thnt doesn't
carry big stick?
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