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Evening star., 1901-12-28
MARRIAGE LICENSES IN DEMAND
Ihfs Has been Busy Week at the
City HALL

The past week has been a busy perioa
for the assistant clerks of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia IN.
marked activity in the clerks office at tn.
city hall being due to a veritable rush
for marriage licenses. Just prior to Christ
mas day the demand for the necessary an
thority to wed was almost unprecedented
and from o'clock in the morning until
long after O'Clock in the afternoon the
usual hour for closing the office what
seemed to be an endless line of prospective
bridegrooms was arrayed I'm front of the
counter, and extended through the en-
trance doorway and out into the corridor.
In order to eliminate the possibility OF col
lapse from physical exhaustion the sev-
eral clerks put into operation a system Of
reliefs.
1t requires from three to five minutes TO
issue marriage license. The applicant is
asked II both parties are citizens of the
United States and IL the man has attained
the age of twenty-one years, and the wo-
man the age of eighteen years IL the
replies are in the affirmative, all is plain
sailing. In book kept for the purpose the
clerk records the names of the parties,
their respective ages. color, nationality and
former marriages, IL any. The applicant
must make oath that the answers he. or
she gives to the questions are true and
Is also required to sign the record. A du-
pllcate Is furnished the applicant who paws
one uOlldr IOf lne same, and 1t then
mains for a minister of the gospel or other
person duly authorized to celebrate mar
riages In the District of Columbia to do
the rest.
The big majority OF those who apply for
marriage licenses during the holiday sea-
sons are visitors from Virginia and Mary
land. By coming here to be married they
reap the benefit OF a low license fee and at
the same time are enabled to pass down to
posterlty the fact that they spent their
honeymoon at the capital of the nation
1t often happens that entire wedding par
ties, including bride and groom. best man
and maid of honor, the parents and other
relatives OF the contracting parties proceed
TO the city hall to participate In the pro-
curing OF the license. On such occasions
there is no end Of giggling and blushing
especially when the clerk inquiries whether
or not the young man or the young woman
had previously been married. The author
fty having been given, the gay crowd troops
Off to announce to minister a justice
OF the peace: It's the same old story, and
here's the license"
Somehow or other there is an air of
gayety accompanying those who apply for
marriage licenses holiday times that is not
to be noticed In August or March for ex-
ample. Although overworked, the issuing
clerks without fall enter into the spirit of
the affair on hand and good ma turedly sup
ply all possible information and assistance
to the happy strangers
Evening star., 1901-12-28
A Stable Railroad.

The fodder is carried about the
barns by a small railroad system run
ming through Ashburn barns to
carry the milk from the milking to
the dairy, etc.
The first milking takes place at the
unearthly hour of 4 am. About half
past 3 in the morning l was awak-
ened by hair-raising shrek from a
steam whistle. l thought the farm
was on fire, but they told me the next
morning that it was the signal for the
mixers to tackle the cows. | did not
see them tackle the COWS that morn
ing, but waited until q in the after
noon, and sturdy set Of young
farmers | found them, in white jack
cts, on proverbial three-legged
stools, with the milk pouring from
the udders in two strong streams,
making that milking noise that Kip
ling could describe, and the delicious
odor of warm milk rising upon the
pure air. They work on a succession
of cows, and their pals are emptied
into long cans and sent on a
small railroad to the dairy, which is
separate from the barns-a sacred
institution that is guarded from con-
tamlnation and elevates the milk to
the absolute purity of sanitary SCI
ar1ra
Evening star., 1901-12-28
A Sanitary System.

1t is strained through a wire sieve
and two thicknesses OF fine cloth.
Then in a room where the floors are
cement, and the walls are immacu-
late, and the air is filtered, and the
milkrnen are all in white, the milk
goes through the separator and the
cooler, and some of it through the
pasteurizer. Ashburn milk is either
pasteurized or not, as. the consumer
wishes. Its pasteurizer is of the
brand indorsed by the University of
Wisconsin, and the pasteurization is
SO carefully done that just the right
temperature, always within two or
three degrees of I55 Fahrenheit, is
maintained. This brings out the
milk with a better taste than it had
before and influences its sanitary
qualities, which is particularly i'm
portant in summer.
The separator is also very impor-
tant 1t is little machine that does
wonders. Discs revolve inside of it
fifty-six hundred times minute, and
the centrifugal force sends the dirt
in the milk to the bottom, the cream
to the top and the skinned milk half
way. The cream comes out of one
spout rich and pure, and the skim
med milk out of another spout. The
skinned milk and cream unite again
as thew 90 down a sterilized tOhoo-
gan slide to the cooler, when full
milk instead of cream is being pre-
pared, and leave behind the dirt that
was in them.
The senator said that | would be
surprised at the dirt-and I was.
Evening star., 1901-12-28
PURE MILK FOR WASHINGTON

burn milk has developed, until at
I4o6 Pennsylvania avenue, where its
city depot is, orders are coming in so
fast for both milk and cream that it
will not be long before applicants
will have to go on the waiting list,
for, big as Ashburn farm is, it would
take at least dozen such to supply
pure milk to the whole of Washing
ton.
If all the people of Washington
went down to Ashburn farm, as l
did, and also visited the dairies that
supply most of the milk of Washing
ton, the demand for Ashburn milk
would Immediately be many times
greater than the supply.
THE INVESTIGATOR.
Evening star., 1901-12-28

In all the leading cities the milk
question is being agitated. The New
York newspapers have taken up the
subject as vigorously as the reform
movement that elected Mayor Low.
The Washington Star has pub
lished many articles upon the ques-
ton during the past few years Con-
gress has taken the matter up. The
physicians OF Washington have
urged immediate action that will
compel dealers to sell pure milk.
Impure milk is the source of dis
ease and deatl-typhoid fever, diph-
liberia. scarlet fever and consump-
ton, says the District Health Officer.
1t is clearly proven that most milk
comes from unsanitary cattle, is sold
in unsanitary cans, frequently diluted
with water containing germs OF dis
ease. and preserved with dangerous
drugs. 1t is also demonstrated that
no milk can be guaranteed pure TN
less it comes from clean COWS, fed
with clean food and drinking clean
water, MIXED by clean men in clean
barns, into clean milk pals, then
cleansed by separator OF the dirt
that gets into milk even under the
most sanitary conditions; then sent
to market in sealed cans and deliv-
cred to the consumer in sealed bot
ties while still pure and fresh. Legis-
lation cannot compel dairymen to do
all this, even if each dairyman had
$4,000 with which to equip such a
plant.
Evening star., 1901-12-28
A Thousand Families to Be Sup=
piled With AShburn Milk.
'.0@@=AGRE milk FARM I'm WDR@9NDA

them, and there is no law that can
compel him to put them in.
Driving over to the farm in the
Senator's carriage the Virginian who
held the reins said that Ashburn
farm was really two big farms, one
of 600 and one of 1900 acres, that
used to be big dairy farm years
ago, but got run down and neglected,
until the Ashburn Company bought
it, and put in a fine herd of 800 high
bred mich COWS, built sanitary barns
and put in pumps and machinery,
and hired lot of people, and made
it the finest milk farm in the state.
In one end of the big, old-fashion-
ed farm house the Senator has his
library and office, with books on all
branches of farming, from horseshoe
ing to ensilage, and a shelf dedicated
to Dumas and Bulwer Lytton, his
favorite authors, while over the man
tel a Savage rifle fitted in with the
Senator's stories of early days on the
Pacific slope, which will make a
book that will ruin into the hundred
thousand edition, if he ever finds time
to write them ont
Evening star., 1901-12-28
Enough for a
Thousand Families

"A thousand families with quart
day. If many families take more
than quart, we could not supply
over eight hundred homes
rs all milk now supplied to Wash
ington impure?'
No, not all of it. There are some
two or three dairies that are run as
they should be. A dairy to be run
as it should be must do more than
deliver milk to the consumer Just as
it comes from the COW. Even under
the most careful conditions dirt gets
into milk and must be taken out of
the milk before the milk can be said
to be pure. At Ashburn farm we
put our milk through a separator,
which drives the dirt out of the milk.
When you see the dirt which accu-
mulates at the bottom of the separa-
tor you will probably be astonished,
and if this dirt gets into the milk at
Ashburn farm, where everything is
just as sanitary as it can be, you can
judge how much dirt will get in un-
der the conditions usually prevailing
in dairies. You can take the solid
dirt out of milk by using a separator,
but you cannot take out the intangi-
bic dirt. For instance, the odor of
an unclean stable once in the milk,
II is there to stay, and, therefore, at
Ashburn farm we see that there are
no odors to get into the milk"
Does it cost great deal of money
tC equip such farm?"
1t has cost the Ashburn Company
many thousands, and probably very
few dairymen would care to dupli-
cate the expense"
The Senator told me to come
down to Ashburn farm and see for
myself. | went down one Saturday
night. 1t is an hours ride on the
Southern. A long milk car on the
train put off milk cans all along the
road, and | compared the immacu-
late cleanliness of the cans put off at
Ashburn with the condition of the
cans put off at other places. OF
course, everybody knows that to
keep a milk can clean it must be
sterilized in boiling water or steam.
There is no other way the dirt can
be removed, or the germs of disease
that breed in the milk left in the
cans can be killed. Very few of the
cans on that train bore evidence of
having been sterilized, or kept scrup-
ulously clean by any other method,
nor were they the kind of cans that
are sealed when the. milk is in them.
Evening star., 1901-12-28
AShburn House.

Ashburn farm house is a modern
lied and immaculate farm residence.
1t has more bath rooms in it than
most city mansions.
Ihe house, however, is only Incl
dental compared with the big barns,
where the cattle live. Here the COWS
are in Immaculate stalls-hfty in a
row, in two long barns that have
cement floors, with little canal a
loot wide and six inches deep run
ming through the barns behind the
rows of cattle to take away the liquid
refuse, which is flushed out by a
deluge of water that carries it
through an elevated canal to reser-
voir far away from the barns, whence
tank wagons spread it as rich fer
tlllzer over the fields where grow the
corn and grain and grass with which
the cows are fed. The solid refuse is
removed with equally scrupulous
care, and also fertilize the field. The
clean-swept barn floors are sprinkled
white with land lime, which eats up
the last vestige of dirt and absorbs
every impurity, SO that you can walk
through the barns with your eyes
closed and you can only tell that you
are in a barn, instead of dwelling
house, by the fragrance of the fodder.
Evening star., 1901-12-28

cloth and planed boards. We fill
them in the season with green fod-
der, and it is fed to the stock in the
winter 2
In every direction from the great
barns are fields. In some of them
the COWS take the air daily. Others
are devoted to pasturage and to rails
ing different kinds Of fodder. The
senator's theory is that something
should be kept growing all the time,
and the ground kept well fertilized.
For instance, wheat and rye are rails
ed and piowed IN to enrich the soil
on which the corn is grown for the
cattle.
Evening star., 1901-12-28
The President's Rice Dinner.

President Roosevelt has a splendid mem
ory." said caller at the White House to a
Star reporter recently. He remembers
every small detail of even the most ex-
citing times. Some time ago General
Wheeler visited the President and the visit
Immediately recalled incidents of the San
tiago campaign and the fight OF San Juan
Hill. DO you remember, general said the
President. that when we reached the top
Of the hill we found a lot of splendidly
cooked rice steaming hot in the pots?' Gen
eral Wheeler remembered, and the Presi-
dent continued: L thought that was the
best rice ever ate or ever saw. We were
hungry, worn out and tired and had eaten
nothing but canned meats for days. The
cooked rice was a great blessing. 1t had
been prepared for dinner for the Span
iards. but they had been run out of their
intrenchments before they expected. and
We captured the rice. I sat down 10 the
pots and divided the rice out among the
officers and men, giving an equal portion
to each. 1t is needless to say that the feast
was the most enjoyable one we had in
Cuba"
Evening star., 1901-12-28
Mushrooms.
From the New York Sun.

from the New York Sun.
MIR. MacAlpine has printed a research on
luminous mushrooms, of which he enum-
crates twenty-one different species Eleven
of these belong to the genus Pleurotus and
five of them are found only in Australia.
The luminosity Is not due to the presence
of phosphorescent bacteria, but is due to a
process Of combustion. which depends on
the presence OF oxygen and on high tenn
peFafure. 1t IL not affected by humidity 1t
Is probably useful In attracting the in
sects that disseminate the spores.
Evening star., 1901-12-28
An Interview With
Senator Stewart

Because it is one of the most i'm
portant questions before the public
| have seen many of the dairies that
supply milk to Washington, and
their unsanitary condition calls for
immediate action. We do not ex-
pect to make money at Ashburn
farm. IT we come out even we shall
be satisfied; but we propose to give
d portion of the population pure milk
"a the price that they are now paying
for impure milk, although there is a
great difference between the first cost
of pure milk and impure milk. Pure
milk is comparatively expensive, and
selling it at the same price people
pay for ordinary milk does not leave
much OF margin for profit"
why don't you charge more for
it,"
I'VE have never even thought of
doing so"
How much milk can you sup
ply?"
Evening star., 1901-12-28
The Raw Food Habit.
From Lon1on Good Health.

i$ou1ou OOoO
Just now the raw-food diet threatens to
become fad. Certainly many people are
experimenting with this new dietetic idea 1t
would be far better for the average man or
woman to adopt an absolutely raw diet. and
eat everything which he could possibly eat
or relish in a perfectly raw state, than TO
swallow into his stomach the horrible
messes which are concocted by the average
cook. II is safer on the whole for man to
take his food as he finds II in its natural
state than to take II as he finds Ii on the
table of the average boarding house or
hotel. In other WORDS. 1t Is far safer for
man to receive his food straight from the
of French cook.
Evening star., 1901-12-28
Clean milk from clean COWS,
fed on clean food, drinking
clean water, milked by
clean men in clean barns,
sent to Washington in
clean cans and delivered to
families in sealed bottles.

DOCTORS DECLARE I'M
PURE MILK CAUSES
CONSUMPTION, DIPH=
THERIA, TYPH Old
FEVER AND CHOLERA
AN INT ER V e w
WIT III S e n A t D r
S 7 E w A r T AN ID A
VISIT TO ASHBURN
FARM.
Evening star., 1901-12-28
The Feed and
Water Question.

What the COWS are fed has much
to do with the richness of the milk,
and the water the COWS drink has
much to do with the milk's purity.
You cannot have good milk with
out good food for the COW. You
cannot have clean milk unless the
COW drinks clean water. There is
only one time when water can be
added to milk with safety, and that is
when it is given the COW to drink.
Water that is added to the milk after
it comes from the COW is not only
dishonest, but dangerous to public
health, for water carries germs of
disease into milk. Water that is not
clean when drank by the COW may
carry impurity with it, and there
fore at Ashburn farm the water that
the COWS drink is an important con-
sideration.
We have two wells over 200 feet
Deep" said the senator. Engines
pump this pure water into tanks,
from which it flows into troughs in
the barn, where the cattle drink it,
and they will not drink any other.
They will not drink the water in the
fields. This water is pure and not
too cold. To give cows ice water in
troughs out of doors or in streams or
springs is cruelty; it endangers the
health of the COW and the quality of
the milk. Most dairy herds are per-
mitted to drink from the frog ponds
and streams in the pastures. Such
water is filled with impurities, and
when stirred up by herd of cows
drinking out of it is bound to be
muddy and filthy"
The troughs the Ashburn COWS
drink out of-two to every three
cows-are clean iron basins, kept fill
ed automatically. When the COW
drinks trough empty it fills again
to certain level.
The food Ashburn COWS have
would require scientific discussion
to do it justice 1t influences impor-
tantly the quality of the milk.
10 get just what is required to
feed the cows properly all manner of
cereals raised at Ashburn farm and
large quantities of food is bought
from other sources, carloads of bran,
meal, gluten, etc.
Silos and Ensilage.
There are two silos that stand
higher than three-story house and
look like gigantic standpipes. One
of them holds 500 tons OF ensilage.
Ensilage is green fodder preserved
by shutting it out from the air, "a
process" the senator says, known
Evening star., 1901-12-28

Stops the Cough
And works o6 the cosf.
laxative Bromo- -Quinine TahAets cure Q cold IN
eoe day. No Cure. No Psy. Psies. IS centa
Evening star., 1901-12-28

herding of a drove of fifteen hun
dred cattle from Ohio to Philadel-
phia.
asked the Senator, interviewing
him at the office of the Ashburn
Company, just why he took up milk.
Evening star., 1901-12-28
SilOs and Ensilaqe.

There are two silos that stand
higher than three-story house and
look like gigantic standpipes. One
OF them holds 500 tons Of ensilage.
Ensilage is green fodder preserved
by shutting it out from the air, ga
process" the senator says, known
to the ancients, who preserved ensi-
lage in silos upon the desert for feed
ing caravan camels. Our silos are
built of two-inch planks, bound with
iron hoops, lined with heavy felt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
Expenses of an Am bassa dor.

From the Woman's Home Companion.
Unlike other governments ours makes
no extra allowance for the living expenses
of it's representatives. Thus 1t Is that
| many times an important foreign mission
has been declined, for financial reasons, By
the able statesman to whom 1t was proffereG.
If one accepts such a post he naturally
feels in duty bound to live up to the stand
ard set by his predecessors. and this usually
means that he must have large privatv
fortune to draw upon. There have been a
few instances where such positions have
been held by men unable to maintain great
establishments. but who have unwisely at
tempted 1t by mourning obligations which
they could not meet, thus bringing them
selves and their government to humiliation.
Diplomatic agents are without the pale Of
the common law of the countries where
they are stationed, and If bills are left un-
paid creditors have absolutely no recourse.
There is large financial advantage to a
diplomat if he is a bachelor, for il is then
understood that he has no special obiga-
tons in a social way. If he be personally
popular he viii be overwhelmed with invi-
tations but need never use any in return
except to such small parties of friends as
he may care to entertain in his chambers
or at a restaurant. The most of the diplo-
matte corps, however, are married men,
for their governments know that upon the
social administration by the mistress of the
household depends in no small part the sue
cess of the official side of the residence.
A diplomatic residence in any of the
larger European capitals may easily mean
an annual expenditure of from $4,000 to
$50, 900. Only rich men are therefore eligi
bic for these posts. and thus false stand
ard of wealth is being raised as a test for
diplomatic preferment. 1t is likely that be-
fore long our government will lease and
furnish permanent houses for its ambassa-
doris and ministers in the principal foreign
countries, and this will go a long way to-
ward correcting a grave fault in the pres
ent system. Our ambassador to st. Peters
burg had to do house hunting for six
months, and was almost in despair of find
ing a suitable residence. AS ii is he pays
more in rates than even the ambassador in
London, and it is said the rental is more
than 81 900 month
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
Gas Stove Waste.
From the Minneapolis Journal.


friend devised a successful plan tor
preventing waste in a gas stove. Her
house was lighted by electricity. but she
had it piped one spring for gas cooking.
The meter man assured her that with
washing, ironing and all the cooking re-
quired by family OF six her bill ought
never to exceed 81. The first month brought
her a bill for $6.25. She discovered that 1t
was caused by carelessness in the kitchen;
by such event as her cooks going to bed
and forgetting till morning that she had
left both burners going all night. The cook
was a good servant, but careless, SO the
mistress had heart-to-heart talk with
her. The gas man gave the cook demon
stration lesson running the stove eco
nomically. The mistress made the PROPOSE
ton that she would allow 81 a month for
gas, no more no less. If the bill amounted
to more than 81 the difference would be de-
Quoted from the cooks wages: IL less she
would receive the difference The next bill
amounted to $3.50. and yet 1t included
weeks when considerable preserving OF
fruit has been done and more gas honestly
burned than the month before. AS the girl
became familiar with the art of baking by
one burner and cooking slowly over the
simmerer the bills dropped still lower, till
now there is scarcely a month when dol
lar of the gas money does not go into the
cooks purse She has never had dime de.
Quoted from her wages.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
Tea Gowns,

A pretty tea gown is composed of black
voile of fine make, the front tucked to
correspond with the vatican plat at the
back 1t is arranged as an empire gown,
with semi-fitting sides. The deep-shaped
fiounce and sleeves are entirely Of black
satin ribbon and cream cluny insertions,
the lace yoke displaying a mauve lining,
finished off with black satin rosettes. This
opens in V-form at the neck. The little
silk tea jacket is in white, trimmed with
waved cluny insertions The fichu collar is
of finely tucked muslin, as we'll as the
cuffs. and the little chemisette also dis
plays fine tuckings. There are any number
of tempting jackets and gowns in the swell
shops. A sack-shaped one was made in
French muslin. with transparent bell
sleeves. caught up and tied at the back of
the elbow with wash silk ribbons, while a
delightful breakfast gown. simple and
fresh. was made in white wash silk with
sleeves of the flowing bell order and an
added shaped frill. The deep sailor collar
was tied with a blue knot. while an empire
effect was produced by means of a broad
blue sash tied across the bast the skirt
having a shaped frill.