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EPWoRTH ORATORS
Interest in the Contest Which Will Take
Place Monday.
Those Chosen to Represent the Va.
Et0us Chapters I'm the Second An.
nual Oratorical Event.

The second annual contest Of the Epworth
League Oratorical Association of the Dis
trict Of Columbia will be held Monday
evening, in the Hamline NJ. E. Church. A
great deal of interest and enthusiasm are
being manifested in the event. Five con-
testants. two of whom are young ladies.
will represent their respective churches in
the contest.
The Oratorical Association was organized
| in May, 1893, Geo. +. Cahill of Foundry NJ.
e. Church being the leading spirit in the
enterprise. Various meetings were held in
order to hear from representatives of Ep-
worth League chapters in the District as to
the sentiment among the local chapters in
regard to the new departure. Great enthu-
siasm in several of the strongest chapters
was reported, and accordingly steps were
taken which speedily resulted in a perfected
organization. having for it's object, as eX-
pressed in the constitution of the associa-
ton, ito foster and promote the study and
practice of oratory, English composition
and literature" To this end the constitu-
ton provides that each chapter holding
membership In the association shall an
nually hold a local contest to determine
who shall represent that chapter in an
inter-chapter contest,
The churches represented by member
ship at present are Foundry, Metropolitan,
Hamline, Waugh, Douglas and Mckendree
Four orators entered the first annual con-
test in an excellent program rendered be-
itan NJ. E. Church February 2, 1894. E. w.
Williams of Hamline was the successful
orator. The six chapters, with the excep-
ton of McKendree, will be represented
this year: The officers Of the District as
ISOLATION at present are: President, Harry
o. Hine who is chairman of the department
of literary work in the District; vice pres
ident, Geo. F. Cahill of Foundry; secretary.
Mr.. E. w. Williams of Hamline, and treas
urer, Mr.. Hedding Leech of Douglas.
The judges for Monday night are: On
thought and composition, Bishop John F.
Hurst, Mrs. Mark w. Harrington, Maj.
]. E. Rankin of Howard University, Mrs. ].
Ellen Foster and Rev. F. ID. Power. DID.
Something about those who will take part
in the contest will be of interest.
Miss Amy L. May. who will represent
Douglas Memorial Chapter. was born N
Loudoun county. Va. She has resided in
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Just to put In the missing link In the little
story some one is telling, when you could
bite your tongue q minute later for saying
that which would have been SO much
kinder unsaid
Lent gives the time for the enjoyment Of
outdoor life. Nature rewards those who
love to watch her awakening and the first
TO lind a crocus peeping UP in the dull
brown earth experiences a thrill of excite
ment that the artificial joys of life cannot
give. Society Of late years has been max
ing fad Of muscle producing exercise: it
has gone In heels over head sometimes for
bicycling; and this Lent will give chance
to the devotees of the wheel. The fashion
of long walks set by Lady Pauncefote and
her daughters has many followers in the
smart set. 1t is not uncommon for the
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given by the college for the hlShest recoru
in physiology. She pursued course at the
National Normal kindergarten during 1881
~. and graduated the yaledictorian Of her
class.
She has been useful in various ways TO
the church of her adoption, having been
organist at the Douglas Memorial sunday
school fer several years. She is also
teacher in the school.
Since the organization of the Epworth
League Miss May has been one OF its most
active and enthusiastic workers. In recog-
milton of her efforts and abilities she has
been twice elected to the position of chair
man of the department of literary work in
the Douglas Chapter, which office she now
holds. A vigorous ChautauQua circle Is
under her leadership.
To Waugh will belong the distinction OF
having the youngest orator in the contest
In the person of Miss Duana T. Mitchell,
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his native city.
After finishing his
course in both the
public and high
schools, he entered
Ripon College, Wis
.sonsin. A few years
later Mr.. Tracy mov-
ed to this city and
was employed in one
of the government
offices. He entered
the Columbian Uni
versity Law School.
from which institu-
ton he graduated In
1894. lie is row
taking a post-gradu-
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The wisest philosophers on the theories
OF life, who were not churchInen, either,
have always insisted that great intellects
and enormous appetites are not usually
found in the same person. The desires of
the body must be subordinated to those of
the mind-if the latter is to shine. Another
set of wise heads declare eating Is but
habit, and that ordinarily nature could be
sustained, and. indeed, life prolonged, if
one-third of the food consumed each day
was left alone. So, fasting and abstinence
are not such bad things after all. Any one
who has stopped to think of the nervous
tendencies of the age also appreciates the
benefit of the fast and rest cure. Now.
Lent is pre-eminently the season for this,
and 1t is by no means as uncommon as may
be thought at first Busy people look for
ward to a day in bed on the plainest diet as
a luxury worth striving for. and one almost
hardest Of all to secure. The little details
of everyday life are so absorbing that no
one fe.ls how chained down he is by them
till he tries to shake them off tempo
rarily. So, now, whether you had thought
of it or not, take day off for the rest cure.
II you want to have any real part IN the
Easter revival, commence now the process
of throwing off the old man." This is a
scriptural expression, it may he said, in
passing, and it's application is plain enough
to the spiritually minded, and does not re-
fer, as the giddily inclined may suggest, to
the breaking up of home ties in the inter-
est of mental spring cleaning.
A rest cure is not necessarily sojourn
in Blanket street. That would do for some,
but for others would be misery. But rest
ing from the things which have taken all
the leisure before, withdrawing from the
world and it's amusements," as the Lenten
regulations read, refreshing the memory
by rereading all ones good books, gen.
erous almsg1ving, Inspired by personal
sacrifice, all these coupled with church at
tendance, will make Lent a joy.
Sewing societies are venerable institu-
ticns, and should, therefore inspire the
respect which is their due. Adam and Eve,
it will be remembered, composed the first
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A Dream and It's Fulillment.

From II Sccolo
A young man living in Florence dreamed
that he had been bitten and mortally
wounded by the marble lion which stood
with open jaws in front Of a certain church,
Walking past the church with few friends
on the following day he told them of his
dream, and placed his hand in the lions
mouth, with the words, Now bite me-" AT
that very instant he felt a violent pain, for
a scorpion that lay concealed in the lion q
jaws had stung him SO severely that he
died In few hours.
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settling the accounts. and then began the
study of law. Wishing to attend a law
school he took the civil service exanina-
ton means to that end, and received
an appointment in the Var Department
in December. 1891. In January following
he entered the Columbian Law School. and
after graduation he was admitted to the
bar of the District Of Columbia. Mr.. Wat
son has been actively engaged in league
work for several years. having been presf-
dent of the league in Los Angeles. and
now has the honor Of holding that Office in
the Hamline League.
He won the first prize in the Los Angeles
county oratorical contest, besides partici-
ti,,sx in, n, minor contaStS
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ASAS go ~ SA~ASo ~ AAALAAN
ems to do five miles
every morning be-
fore luncheon, or
breakfast" as the
MONDAY meal Is
called.
A large part of So
ciety is fond of
brushing up 1t 8
knowledge of foreign
tongues and customs
during Lent. There
fore the much-trav-
eled gentlemen of the
diplomatic corps are
ten times as fasci-
mating anil nepaSSa nv
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Perhaps a more
dangerous dancer,
and one who re-
quires a lot Of
watching, Is the sem
timental dancer.
He holds his part
ner off at a respect
full distance, so that
he can gaze into her
We IS. Occasionally
he glances over his
shoulder to see II
the aggressive or
languid man is COM
ing, but usually he
is too wrapt up in
his partner to watch
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childhood. and re-
ceived her prelimi-
nary education In the
public schools Of this
city. After passing
with success through
the various grades up
to the second year in
the High School, she
entered New Wind
sor College, at New
Windsor, Nd, from
which institution she
graduated in 1881
with second honors.
She received during
1880 a gold medal,
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with delight. Upper-tendom, because it
represents leisure, goes in for them nat
effect with the minimum of effort. 1t is the
long pull and the strong pull all together
that does the work
Among the Catholics the Tabernacle So
ciety is perhaps the only real sewing cir
Gle. Its rooms are open nine months in the
year and its members spend a great deal
of their time sewing on church vestnents
and altar linens for poor churches all over
the country. Mrs. White, wife Of Associ-
ate Justice White of the Supreme Court, is
the president
The sewing guilds in the Episcopal
churches come to mind at once, because
their membership is made up of ladies
prominent in society. They are earnest
and Industrious workers Outside Of the
general aim, which is to make clothing for
the poor, they are now undertaking a more
advanced step, in teaching the poor how to
do their own sewing. 1t would be a much
more powerful sermon than could be
preached by the greatest orator If frivolous
society forks could peep into these sewing
guilds held in the poorest neighborhoods
and watch some of the queens of the social
world teaching child how to sew. There
Is no gossping at this sort of sewing So
ciety. and precious little that Is attractive.
except to those who can understand the
promptings of real charity.
Society is devoted to church going, there
Is no doubt about that. The services at all
the Catholic and Epicopal churches on
Ash Wednesday were as crowded as on
Sunday. To particularize the bells of St.
matthew's and st. Johns churches are not
falling on unwilling ears Morning deyo-
ton at st. Matthews necessitates early
rising.
The masses at and are well attended
but at o the largest congregations are
seen. At st. Johns the first service at 3
Is not as well attended as the afternoon
meeting at T. So it is in other churches
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/ was interested In
watching how the
men took hold Of
their partners and
what they did with
them after they had
got them on the
floor.
1 came to the con-
clusion that there
were six different
kinds of dancers now
let loose on the floor
of the up-to-date ball
room.
1 hurriedly sepa-
rated these types
"Tha ggresSiye."
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Family HeirlOOms.

From Good News.
Little Miss Brickrow-"With all your airs.
I don't b'lieve your folks has any family
herlooms."
Little Miss D'Avnoo-"We haven't, chr
My mamma has a breastpin that my grand
mother bought at the Paris exposition and
smuggled in herself
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aggressive

Il n e aggressive
dancer clutches his
lady's right arm in
his mighty left and
saws about the air
as II it was a fan or
an Indian club. 9th
er dancers watch
him and dose him.
but occasionally he
strikes some poor
woman on the nose
or ear and She suf-
.fers horribly.
A much more
agreeable but less in
teresting subject is
the langlid dancer.
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who are dancing the german, but who
eventually get back to the ball room and
are enticed into the maelstrom OF the
waltz.
The booty dancer, when in good form and
not too far gone, has been known to save
a stupid ball, while, on the other hand he
has often ruined very pretty little dance.
The booty fellow is great frequenter of
the big subscription balls, like patriarchs
and assemblies. He smells of tobacco
smoke and other nerve tonics when he
comes into the ball room, and it takes a
brave woman to submit to his dancing en-
brace.
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After church duty
Is accomplished a
walk down town is
just as natural. For
the one society dame
seen on F and G.
streets a week ago
there were twenty
today. The shops be-
gin to be attractive
with spring novelties,
and it would be ask
ing too much to deny
ones self the looking
at them. When a fine
market day inter-
venes society goes to
market and makes
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who has not yet at
tanned her eighteenth
birthday.
Miss Mitchell halls
from the far west,
claiming Carson City,
New, as her home.
She was educated in
the public h | g h
school of Carson City,
graduating with the
highest honors at the
age Of fifteen. Hav-
ing removed to this
city early in 1888, she
was at once admitted
to one of the ad-
yanced classes of the
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one, Wnen tne WOrk
consisted of fashion
ing iig-leaf tunics for
the Oldest inhabit-
ants. Sewing clubs
nave had their ups
and downs in society,
but this seems to be
their golden age.
Originally L e II t e II
foundations, they now
form all-year steady
going institutions.
Pretty much every
church of every creed
encourages their for
nation and views
their DEVELOPMENT
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Business High School OF this city, and be-
came the salutatorian of the class of 1904
Miss Mitchell is an active worker in
league circles and in the Sunday school,
in which she is a teacher. She presides at
the organ in the Sunday school orchestra
is the secretary of the Chautauqua circle
Seth E. Tracy, who will represent Foun-
dry Chapter, was born in Houston, Texas,
and was educated In the nlIhiic schools of
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AA@<AAsp 40 80 ~
OF age the family
moved to Los Ange-
les, Cal, so that Mr..
Watson claims the
name of Californian.
His education was
begun in the public
schools of Los Ange-
les, which he left in
the third year in the
high school to accept
a position on the Los
Angeles Tri b u n e.
When that paper
failed in 1890 he was
employed by the at
torneys for the cred
ftors to aid tLem-in
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completed his college course at the Ohio
Wesleyan University. graduating in 1887.
Mr.. Sites is an active worker in the Ep-
worth League, was president of the Dis
trict League during the year just closed,
fourth general conference, District Ep-
worth League, which is to hold its annual
convention the latter part of May In Phil
adelphia. A
The successful orator will be awarded .
prize. which is a handsome Bible, given to
the association by Woodward & Lothrop.
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To a certain and
very limited extent
the girls have taught
their brothers how
to dance, but they
have never yet sue
ceeded in breaking
up the six different
types which l speak
of.
Take them up In
order; first. the ag-
gressive. l was much
struck by the man.
ner in which the ag-
gressive young man
attacked his partner.
He acted as if she
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Silver Shipped From This Country
to All Parts of the World.
LONDON Is TIE GREAT MARKET
The Demand for This Metal in
Various Countries.
D E A LIE RS IN COL D
Written for The Evening Star.

wv Thai NILE
Sam has ceased to
purchase silver for
coming, that metal is
being shipped out of
this country as mer-
cbandise In enor-
m US quantities.
During 1894 we ex-
port e d $47,OO0,W go
worth of 1t, and in
the previous year
SAG, OOO.O 900. Nearly all
of it goes direct to
london. which Is the
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C. NJ. Lacey Sites,
who represents Met
ropolitan Chapter, Is
the principal Of the
Eastern High School
in this city. He has
spent most of the
years of his life so
far in this city. pass
ing through the pub
lie schools from the
fifth grade up and
graduating from the
Washington H / g h
School in the class of
'S3. He attended the
Columbian Univer-
sity for O year and
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was playing opposite to him in foot ball
game-he tackled her
When tackled" the girl. unless brought
up in feot bali family. is practically
squeezed OUT of existence. She submits
at first and then mildly explains with a
Mr.. Snapback?"
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ate course In the same INSTITUTION.
Mr. Tracy is very active in church work.
being on the board of stewards In Foundry
NJ E. Church, and president Of the Foun-
dry Chapter Of the Epworth League.
Mark A. Watson, who will represent
Hamline League, was born in Lawrence,
Kan, March 16, 1870. When but six years
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for Interference.
AS for the cautious men, their name is
legion. They are generally old fellows, who
know what the uncertainties and dangers
of a New York ball room are.
They don't dance often, but when they
do they expect to save themselves and
their mariners from any possible harm.
They hold their ladies carefully and rath
or firmly. They look about for possible
charges from any direction. They rarely
stop for germans, but do good deal of
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1.-The Languid," 1.-The Reckless" The Sen
zie.''
AS a matter of fact, none of the hand
some young fellows who were constantly
leading out ladies' to the dance had ever
had much training. 1t is the girls who
get all the advantages, if there are any,
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things, q u ~ AAVD00y
coming in to distract
attention b ut t b Q
dearies in ones own
particular set. Only
t h Q 8 9 and nothing
m ore. Each circle
around each teapot
forms itself in t o a
society for t h e dis
semination of t h Q
very latest thing in
gossip. H o W many
good re s o | u lions
evaporate like t h 9
steam from the tea
cups at these gather
iUpsi TT ia IN aaSv
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Finished with her first slide. he closes
his eyes and let's her go. He often does to
the extent of serious injury to himself, his
partner and others.
Counts and princes are much addicted to
the languid style Of dancing-languid in
appearance only.
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are L U & o I [ e II.
But We are right in
the beginning of it
now, when the weak
est endeavor has not
had a chance to see
how dreadfully frail
IT Is, and there Is
plenty on hand in the
way of mental diver
sion, healthful relax
alton and generous
helping to make the
chLrchgoing spirit,
which suggests all
the good works. the
browning triumph of
~
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preliminary canterlHS
A vast array OF
gentlemen young and
old, can be arrayed
under this head-the
most dangerous Of
all who ever get on
the floor, because
t h e y combine t h e
faults of all.
They are the fell
lows who pretend to
hate dancing; who
sit in the supper
room until they see
themselves in fifteen
diff ere mt mirrors;
who are waiting for
uivos and daughters
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his own way. His hold on his partner is
weak and limpid. He turns her thrice and
then turns her back again without moving
five PAGES. He sinks exhausted into a
chair after his performance. His collar
shows signs Of disintegration. He looks
terribly bored and says. Thanks, aw-
f,,ll
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MEN WHO DANCE.
The Variety as Seen ON the Floor Mt a
Fashionable Ball.

FHshiOnHbIe BAII.
From the New York Herald
I was asked to the Assembly ball at
Sherry's on Thursday night. 1t is a great
privilege to get an invitation, because
every one says that these balls are better
than the Patriarchs'.
To be better than a Patriarch a ball has
got to get up-or close-very early in the
morning.
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Majestic Steel Range, improvement every
io'! save S1-oO during exhibit 3. T. Guy & Co.,
!llc Ia. ave-
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1 ne TeChicSS udilCeL
Is perhaps the most
dangerous of all. He
Is either a foreigner
or copies the foreign
style of dancing.
Unlike the agrees;
sor. he does not hold
his partner loosely,
but hardly touches
her with his finger
tips. His first move
ment is a loose slide
down the 90 m
straight ahead. This
is French and En-
glish-almcst the on
ly thing in which the
l. O.,
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SUES OF udncIhg Shippers 20 pdpef-Iike colI-
sistency now goes in for very much church.
going, Dorcas societies, canton flannel
meets and long equestrian and pedestrian
outings Experience has also proved that
the sewing societies are really practical
organizations, where great deal Of work
Is accompiished-if not at the meeting; at
least in anticipation of it. The first feryor
OF the average sewing guilder is calculated
to take the breath away from disinterest-
cd observer; but ah when the fine
days come, when the suspicious Of spring
become realities. when "aZaria'' weak
ems the strongest resolutions, Lent be-
comes period of preparation for the
joys of Easter, and needles and threads
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poses many softly lighted lamps, a daintily
set table and the hostess behind the tea
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The Gait in Society is Not Quite so
Rapid.
ATTENTION PAID TO CHURCH GOING
The Sewing Circle and Other Mild
Forms of Amusement.
WALKING AND DRIVING

" - IL = - ~ ~
mighty resolutions-on
Tits hands for Lentep
diversions and every
d a y occupations.
There Is no use try
ing to upset the ac-
cepted theory of how
society spends the
leisure hours of these
seven weeks. Every
body knows that all
the surplus energy
which hitherto spent
itself in reducing the
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Power and Wealth.

Industrial education is the colored mans
opportunity; since 1t promises him wealth,
material prosperity of every kind. With
this all opposition to his advancement
must gradually disappear. The power OF
knowledge and wealth cannot be success
fully resisted. Let us consider another
phase of the question, the pertinency of
the discussion on the Business High School,
Those Senators taking part in the debate
cannot be counted as hostile to the Bust
ness High School, per Be. From CONVEX
sations with some Of them on the subject
their attitude assumes a different light
They were not willing to vote 100000 to
the Business High School, If it were true
that thousands of children were unprovided
with seats in the lower grades.
Certainly no one will seriously contend