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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-04
OVER THE TELEPHONE.
Notwithstanding Great Distance the
Voice is Easily Distinguished.


From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
1.-THE sound of the human voice, as rule.
is changed but slightly by being put on
the air. said man who uses the telephone
a great DEAL land by this l mean that tho
general character of the VOICE is not
changed. Distance. of course. has some
thing to do with whatever change takes
place in the voice. The closer you are to
the person speaking. the slighter the
change. Put great distance between per-
sons conversing over the wire, and the
change is more marked, but even at the
longest ranges the general character Of the
voice will not be changed If the wire and
the instrument are in first-class condition
for the transmission of sound. The wire,
more properly the electric currents, pre-
serve the general integrity of the voice,
and the voice in the main is reproduced by
the receiver at the other end of the line
very much as 1t is reproduced in the echo
when the walls of room, or a scoop In
the hills or a bank on the river, take the
place of a sounding board.
In this connection l have noticed one
rather striking fact, and one which is prob
ably explained by these PREDATORY remarks,
1t is that the difference between the white
mans voice and the negro's voice is easily
distinguishable over the telephone l do
not know but training may have much to
do with it. 1t is an easy matter for me to
tell the difference. and can tell from the
ear. Mark you, I am speaking of the more
intelligent kind Of negroes, negroes who
show but little sign of the African dialect
in their speech, intelligent negroes who are
employed as porters around offices in the
center of the city. attribute the fact
mainly to the accuracy of the telephone in
the reproduction of sound even In the finer
qualities Of difference"
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vEILINGs.
Some Modish Varieties That Are Com
mended for the Summer.

Some Modish Varieties That Are Com
mended for the Summer.
From the Millinery Trade Review.
In examining a comprehensive stock OF
veilings surprising variety in texture and
design Is to be discovered. The latest
penchant In what has been termed the
beauty veil' is for that Of silk tulle OF
wide-open meshes woven indicted; yet dot
ted veilings have their persistent advocates
and textures of tulle are laid out for in
spection thickly seeded, as 1t were. with
specks of velvet as minute as the tiniest
beads: and from this are tissues fecked
with dots Of all sizes up to that of silver
half-dime piece-the larger the dots the
scarcer on the surface of the texture. Con-
! trasting with the tulle of wide-open meshes
are shown tulles of very fine close texture
some of them revealing printed tracery de-
signs-as Of black on white grounding. for
example, or of white on black-hecked
sparsely with small chenille dots or with
velvet dots.
Black wells continue to be in the highest
favor; yet the women Of fashion have their
white, gray-mixed and pure gray beauty
wells. for changes; and tulle veilings of open
meshngs have come out in red, blues
brown, violet amethyst and all the fashion,
able cloth colors fiecked with chenille dots
Scarf wells in imitation Mechlin and other
of the delicate point laces are worn In
high dress by fashionable women: and bor-
dered lace wells, worn in the old flowing
fashion, contest selection with the simple
recent veilings. Chiffon veilings OF hem
stitched finish seen both plain and dotted
are those chiefly chosen for the purpose OF
protecting the complexion of wearers from
the air. the sun and the cold. The chiffon
veiings are in black. white, gray and all
the cOlors approved for wells.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-04
Human Nature and Street Cars.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat
1.-The street car is a good place to study
human nature said the observant man.
land there are many reasons why this is
SO. In the first place, If you want to study
human nature, you must get it hemmed up
for while, close in on It, as 1T were and
hold it long enough to bring out whatever
specialized line there may be in the parti2-
ular specimen. Short human nature studies
may be pursued in the streets, but they are
fashy, as a rule, and such conclusions as
one may reach are not as safe as they
might be. 1t is different In the street car.
In way men and women seem to
be at home in the street car. They
are off dress parade. There one may
find somewhat of the abandon of the home.
Men and women are themselves for a little
while. At least, some of them are. But
the chief advantage is in the fact that the
close observer has & chance to scrutinize
them; to study line and ligament; to watch
facial expressionsi to trace lip eccentricl-
ties; to see the peculiar gianc;nss Of the
eye; to listen to the chatter and to thus
der these circumstances the man who Is
close observer can easily develop the more
striking trait of the person thus watched.
And / may remark that special writer's.
men who do a here and there stunt on
newspapers, men who write of the odds and
ends of life incident. humor, tragedy, his
tory, poetry philosophy and other things,
men of this kind are in the habit OF spend
ing some time on street cars every day JUST
TO get line on old human nature, ana
they always get It,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-04
HER SHOES ARE LARGER.
The Athletic Girl Buys Bigger Gloves,
Too.

The Athletic Girl Buys Bigger Gloves,
Too.
Written for The Evening Star.
The athletic girl Of today is surprise to
people who have not been noting her devel-
opment She has grown beyond all recog-
nized standards to classical dimensions.
The bootmaker still calls a shoe his
model exhibits 1t in his window and 1t is a
pretty little thing to see. But the athletic
girl, who has been brought up in a family
where she has had an opportunity to live
healthfuI, natural life. with plenty of out
door exercise laughs at such tiny things.
The athletic girl has brought about an
entire change in the hosiery departments
of the shops. There was never time
when there were prettier or more extrava-
CANT things for women in the cObweb varie-
ties of fine Isle thread and silk. Women
wear these expensive things for outdoor
sports as well as for dress occasions. but
the sizes have developed with the women
who wear them. Where 8. 81 and were
worn five years ago, the girl of today wears
9h. 10. 10Y, and she would often wear IL,
II she could get 1t.
In the shoe shops there is the same notice
able change. The boots are made to go
over the 10 and 10Y silk stockings.
In the misses department" of the fash
ionable shoe store spring heel shoes range
from children's sizes up to boots SO big that
they might belong to young gianteses They
are for athletic girls who are kept children
as long as possible and wear the spring
heel boots until they are ready to make
their bow to society.
Gloves have changed with other accesso-
ries of the feminine wardrobe, and the we'll
built girl wears 6ih. and III in place of the
51s OK and that have been worn. For one
thing her hands are not only large, but she
no longer stops the circulation by squeezing
her hands into glove a size too small for
automobile with hands in a wise, SO she
wears something that is an easy mt.
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For the Soldier Boys.
IN, corresnondepce of The Evening Star.

SDQcial Correspondence OF 1ue Dwelling St"i.
SEA GRIT, N. j., July 3, 1903.
The annual encampment Of the New Jer-
sew troopers will open tomorrow, when the
9th Regiment and Battery will march
mast 1.-The little White House"-the unpre-
tentious little cottage where the governor
puts I'D during the encampment-and into
the tented field for fortnight Of hard
work In honor Of the governor the en-
ca mpment is named Camp Murphy, and
the troops are in the immediate command
of Brigadier General Quincy O. M. Gilmore,
who the last two years has made reputa-
ton for giving the soldiers much work and
little play. How much guard running and
merrymaking o nights over at Manasquan
and at the nearby coast resorts remains to
be seen. but the summer girls. always smit-
ten by the blue and the gold. will be out in
force to wave welcome to the boys, who,
1t is safe to say will, either by regular CT
French leave of absence, manage to enliven
the dress hops hereabouts for the next two
weeks.
Never In the history Of the Sea Girt rifle
range has there been SO much target prac-
tice early in the season as there has been
this year Since the all-Amer1can team
was chosen a few weeks ago to go to Eng
land and bring back the great Palma
trophy, which the Canadians by a narrow
margin, captured from America and Eng
land at Ottawa last September, rifiemen
from all over the country have been prac-
ticing In preparation for the big rifle shoot
which will take place here from September
2 to r. under the auspices of the National
Rifle Association, the New Jersey Rifle AS
sociation and the United States Revolver
Association
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IMPRESSIONS IN VENICE.
A City Which is Yet Beautiful, but
Suggests Decay.

From the New York Mail and Express
Under every mood in which I saw the
city there was deeper mood which was
hard to define to myself, but which seemed
curiously compounded out OF its pathos and
its squalor. Venice Is beautiful and yet
80 pitiful. city where the peoples of the
world have hustled and trafficked that has
been great mart and cosmopolis and now
Is neither, is more pathetic in its decay
than any other; 1t is like the lonely and
desolate old age OF a woman In whose
salon the wits and beaux Of a vanished
time had paid their court
1t Is uDreasonab BILE that any sentiment of
disrespect at it's plight should arise and
yet sometimes felt IT. To vary the figure
little, the spectacle OF the fallen bride
had in 1t something tragic yet squalid, like
the tate OF a beautiful and high born wo-
man whom passion or mischance had
dragged down to the life of the streets I
can understand the wish which Howells
had expressed somewhere that the dead
cities of Italy might all be walled up and
left slowly to fall into ruins by themselves:
their present estate is not digniied and the
quest that brings the tourist to them comes
near illustrating the indecency of curiosity.
The worst of it all, far as Venice il
concerned Is the feeling that the cup of its
humiliation is not yet full Those leaning
church towers, those walls that totter out
of plumb. promise other chapters in the
story that began with the fall of the Cam
panile. The sea which Graded Venice may
some time be its grave. Little by little,
you cannot but feel, these monuments will
crumble and disappear as the rotten piles
sag and snap under them; you shrink from
presaging the calamitous and bitter day
when every edifice shall have melted away
into moldering heap, and the tides of
the Adratic, as they sweep back and FORTH
will roll across the slime that was Venice
Something of this thought came to me
on my last morning there. when / climbed
a tower only second in height to that of
st. Marks, and looked down on the city
and the lagoons that encircled 1t. 1t lay
there in the sunlight beautiful yet ruin
Gus. smaller than had lima gined-in deed
about the size and shape of Manhattan Is-
land below Canal street. From other tow
ers the chimes were ringing, and the bells
seemed to proclaim how completely the
past was gone; how far removed the city
from the track Of modern commerce: how
useless now the vantage that had made II
great.
am ashamed to say it, but The same
sensation came to me that / remember
when / spent an hour In Coney Island af-
ter the summer was gone and the concert
halls were boarded up and the Bowery
lights had been darkened-a desolate feel
ing quite divorced from dignity. 1t was
depressing, and, believe me, was glad to
leave Venice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-04
The Question Of Bonnets.
Trade Review.

From the Millinery Trade Review.
Probably the fact that the princess bon
net and other forms Of a similar descr1p-
ton have been taken up seriously by the
best people in England may have an In
fluence on fashions here. Many orders for
bonnets have lately been executed by the
Paris milliners for court ladies in London.
At the official afternoon reception held by
the king and queen at HolyrocA Castle last
week all the ladies wore bonnets or ca
potes. The greater number Of these are
made entirely Of gossamer fabrics trimmed
for the most part with ostrich tips, lace
and sequins. Some. however. are built UP
Of a combination Of gossamer and straw
trimming. In some few cases strings were
added-the princess bonnet II not really
complete without this addition. As Q rule,
fashions from over the channel, still. it 10
an historical fact that this has happened
more th4n once.
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AMONG THE RED MEN
A Woman Who Travels Fear
lessly and Alone.
HAS NO FEAR OF THEM
TRIES TO SHOW KINDNESS AND
TO TEACH HONESTY.
The Ways on Trial to Make Young
Braves Good Citi-
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
One of the bravest and best workers for
the civilizing of the Indians on the reser-
vations is a white woman. Her name is
Estelle Reel, she halls from Wyoming and
she holds the important position of super
intendent of Indian schools for the United
States.
Miss Reel is a young woman of at
tractive personality and great courage.
She travels alone among the Indians in
the remotest and widest parts of the coun-
try The fiercest-looking brave has no
power to brighten her, and her dauntless
pluck has naturally won the Indians re-
spect and esteem as nothing else would
have done.
The young superintendent is perform
ing her work in manner which reflects
credit on womanhood AS result A
marked Improvement Is noticeable in the
education of the Indian all over the coun-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-04
CorrectStyles for the Athletic
Followers.
OLD buds ARE BEST
TRIG COSTUMES AND ACCESSoR-
les DESCRIBED.
The Latest Materials and Fads Enum-
Grated for Each
Sport.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

special Correspondence OF Inc Evening c'sf'
NEW YORK, July 2, 1908
The many outdoor pleasures INDUCED In
by the sturdy summer girl render athletic
costumes a necessity for the stylish ward
robe. All the world, or the best part OF IT,
plays golf, and the tiny fraction which does
not Yields the tennis racquet or rides or
boats. So where even the fashionable world
once went summering in its Oldest duds 1t
is now suitably dressed for every outdoor
occasion.
The many details embraced by the atm
letic field may be bought at the shops
which devote themselves to sporting attire,
and here and there in the big department
stores such placards as Running and
jumping sweaters, boating Jerseys, goif
boomers are encountered. All of this goes
to show that the development of the fem
mime muscles is a matter as fashionable as
il is important for health. No matter how
much health may demand it. the verdict OF
Fashion is awaited before any sport Is &C
cepted.
Fashion as represented by Consuelo
Duchess of Marlborough is said to be re-
sponsible for the awakening of American
interest in the delights of archery. Archery,
as the American mind has considered 1t up
to now, seemed a milk and water amuse-
ment confined to the rural English maiden
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costumes in the ready-made market, care
full inspection of which will sometimes re-
suit In a lucky find" One costume of the
luck kind is of blue and white spotted linen
with plain bands. A hip yoke of uncom-
man novelty embellishes the skirt of the
suit upon the blouse of which the band
trimming takes the form of an adjusted tie.
For Golf.
The wooden textures presented for golf
are innumerable. Pretty tweeds in Scotch
and English patterns are seen. and when
the neutral colors are made up line of
vivid scarlet edging bands. belts and col
lars and cuffs will often give them the gay
touch needed. Some of the thicker cloths
are double faced with scarlet, and when
hat. shoes and belt match, the effect is
dashng.
During the hotter days Of the summer
the golf girl TO whom white is becoming
turns her back all established rules
Coarse-mesh Irish linen is a favorite tex
ture. The costumes. however, show no sign
of the rich embroideres which deck such
materials elsewhere. For golf such dresses
and others fh<wash textures are made with
severe tailor plainness, though frivolous
lawn sunbonnets. gay belts and wildly col
ored shoes will give them a fixy air.
Gloves are not usually worn for this
game, but golf gloves are to be had at all
of the good sporting shops. The best are OF
white French thread. with perforations at
the double palms. They keep the hands
cool, and II Is said. prevent the redness
which results from unventilated gloves.
To spend a week in the country haunts
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THE LATEST WRINKLE.
It is in Birthday Gifts This
Time
MARY DEAN.

Written for The Evening Star.
Many girl is busy nowadays decorating
her room, her personal belongings and her.
self with the flowers, gems and colors which
have reference to her birth month, and in
making presents to her friends she gives
them also the same significance.
For the last few years there has been an
increasing attempt to make gifts which
recognize in some way the recipients pet
fads. AS this is an athletic age. all sorts
and kinds of things have been made hav-
ing reference to golf tennis, bicycling, rid
ing and driving. Now the fad is to utilize
the symbols of the birth month
For herself the girl uses chiefly the flow
ers for the month in which she was born.
These she cultivates, If she has a garden,
and wears. She decorates her room with
them In draperies, bed covers, upholstery
for reed or willow furniture and hangings
for her windows. There are many pretty
things in floral designs that every purse
finds something desirable within reach. The
girl even embroiders her handkerchiefs and
| lingerie with her flower, though it must be
said that she does not put much work into
the latter unless 1t Is for a trouSSeau In
this outdoor age she cares more for sports
than for neediework. and she can buy her
underwear for less than she can make it.
Here are the three chief erablems for the
several months-gems. flowers and astral
colors:
January-White onyx. snowdrop, brown,
silver-gray and black.
February-Amethyst. primrose, pink blue
and Nile green.
observation-disclosures, violets, white, pink,
emerald and black.
April-Diamond. daisy white and rose
May-Emerald, hawthorn, red and lemon
| yellow
June-Pearl. honeysuckle, red. blue and
white.
July-Ruby, water lily, green and russell
brown.
August-Moonstone. poppy. red and green.
acknowledgements morning glory, gold
| and black with blue dots.
October-Opal, hops, black, crimson and
| light blue.
November-Topaz, chrysanthemum. golden
brown and black.
Observation-Disclosures, holly, gold and
brown.
There are gorgeous things in the way Of
birthday pillows ready made 0y ready
! stamped at q low price 70 make Up II
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Babies and Tachygenesis.
From the Athenaum.


The quadrupedal method of progression
noticed by Mr.. Lumboltz in the case of
young Huichol children may sometimes be
observed among our own infants. One OF
my children adopted this gait in its first
efforts at locomotion, and would run about
the place like a young bear, for it was a
true plantigrade action.
According to the doctrine of evolution and
the law of tachygenesis. we may infer that
at some time in the past history of the an
cestors of the human race the quadrupedaI
method of progression was the normal at
titude, and the bipedal was only an occa-
sional position, maintained for short
periods with much difficulty Such is the
stage in which we find the anthropoid apes
now. Later the quadrupedal would have
been the normal gait for youth, and the
bipedal attitude attained to only by the
strong adult. so that there would have been
the spectacle of youths of sixteen to TWEEN
ty just learning to walk I'm the bpedaI
senses and only attaining perfection an
they reached the full strength of maturity.
This may be conjectured to have been the
stage of Pithecanthropus erectus, or OF
Pre-homo of the early Pliocene. The on
ward development of the race has been the
acquisition of the bipedal gait constantly
earlier in life, until now We see it attained
within the first two or three years of child
hood.
This phenomenon of the earlier acquisi-
ton of character, which is found among
all living things, is known the law OF
tachygenesis. Easy as IT seems to us now
to maintain the bipedal position, yet We
may infer that our childhood struggles
In regard to its attainment are but a con-
densed epitome of the great labor and diff
culties encountered by the race for many
generations while trying to change a quad
rupedal to bipedal gait, especially when
we consider the great alterations In bodily
structure which were necessarily involved.
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Blue and White Shower-Proof Silk and
Coat of Ecru Pongee.
and her curate admirer. But it seems even
Britain's queen speeds the arrow from the
bow on occasions, and, all the court fol-
lowing suit our own duchess gives US dell
cately to understand that archery Is the
thing
Becoming Usually.
Everything else considered. there is no
doubt that this game, which is fascinating
in the extreme when you come to know 1t.
is a fine medium for showing off pretty
toggery. AS success at the game depends
largely on the garments which do not con-
fine the figure the lines of a well-built per-
son are also shown off to the best advan-
tage.
A costume just designed by a well-known
faseuse for archery is coquettish In the eX-
treme. Red and white dotted delaine Is the
texture of this fnery, which takes lines al
most childshly simple. very short skirt
and blouse bodice trimmed with bands Of
plain red composes the model The high
boots which will be worn with 1t will be Of
white canvas with red trimmings and
strings, and red leather belt and culver
will complete the costume. Incidentally,
the huge bow will also be red, and the
Slender arrows tipped with feathers of the
same vivid shade.
For golfng purposes there are many trig
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U q
MORE BEAUTY D0N'TS.
Dress and the Mirror Must Not Be
Ignored. IS
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star
Don't tell girl that beauty is of no
value. dress Of no use. Beauty is Of value,
girls whole happiness in life may de-
pend upon a new gown or becoming hat
Don't wear expensive clothes. but let
them be stylish and tasteful and show that
they have been carefully chosen and that
you have made the most OF yourself,
Don't have any loose ends or staring
pins. Let your clothes be carefully put on.
Have an air Of good grooming. Look as
though you had used somebody's soap.
Don't be conscious Of your dress and
gloves ana wells and jewels, and expect
every one else to admire them.
Don't walk up to mirror to gaze at
yourself Immediately you go into a ROOM
Study your mirror good deal, but only
Ia the seclusion of your room.
Don't Save way to nerves, emotions or
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that their country toilets are extremely
simple. They are to be seen coaching IN
muslin frocks which a housemaad could al
ford. The horsewomen likewise choose In
expensive textures for their equestrian toll
let's Kahki. trimmed only with stitchings.
composes the usual riding dress, with which
go tan top boots and a plain straw sailor
hat The At of the longtatled jacket 10 not
the best in the world. but then 1t must be