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The Washington times., 1903-06-14
A WC)NANS PRACTICAL TALK WITH WOMEN ON HONE SUBJECTS:

ME silent power of nature, the
tremendous force which it
manifests in creation. without
sound, should be an example to mankind
to labor without useless noise. The in
finite law continually presses on Great
ing new and ever beautiful things-defy-
ing man in his efforts-silent always in
It's work.
When nature destroys then IS there
sound. Man is the discord continually.
and there is nothing he does that is not
accompanied by disturbance and useless
noise. With all our Boosting of progress,
what have we gained? Do We derive
greater pleasure in travel; are we not
consumed with noise and cinders, does
haste give US repose and peace on our
journey? We fly over the country by rail,
but do We not lost that pleasure we used
10 have by carriage or coach, where in
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the olden days forty miles day was
counted as good speed? We recall trip
in the old-fashioned coach with four
horses, the driver seated on the top and
with horn announced our approach into
town. The passengers, full of life and
fond of nature, talked on subjects ia
miliar to each; we passed through shady
groves where the horses rested and we
drank pure spring water. from leaves
Shaped into cups, and we may have drunk
from our hands as we bent above the
spring and looked into it where the blue
sky and feecy clouds We're mirrored, and
our eyes looked the JOY that was in our
hearts. The fragrance of ferns and moss
was sweet perfume from God and We
trimmed the coach and horses with green
boughs and rode in royal state along the
smooth, old-fashioned turnpike.
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The gentlemen of the old days-God
bless them-had such gaIlantry that to
recall them in memory is good. There
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crosses the old bed of the Chesapeake
ana Ohio Canal.
The old lock house at this point ex-
tends into Seventeenth Street, and is
m interesting feature of the driveway
1t is nearly 100 years old. and typical
of the buildings of the early part of
the nineteenth century. The house is
of gray stone, which is now green with
age. It is one story and 6. half, and
has dormer windows. At each end is a
great chimney to accommodate the fire.
places in the house. The roof of the
house, the floors. and. in fact. all the
woodwork. decayed years ago. But the
walls OF solid masonry resisted the ele-
ments, and carpenters are now restor-
:pg the woodwork and will convert the
building into watchnan's house.
Van Ness Park, the site CT the old Van
Ness mansion, is west of this new road
way. The cottage OF Davy Burns, the
owner of the farm upon which much of
the lower part of the city now stands.
stood until few years ago in the cor
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were no cigarettes in those days, and 20
smoke in the presence of ladies was con-
sidered bad form. They could always find
place apart for that pleasure and no
one had the habit so strong who could
not control it, Each person was at her
or his best and no argument or decided
opinions expressed. married the days
converse.
Every nook of nature allured us into
higher fancies of mind and loftier appre-
citation of the good things of the world.
A day of that sort was so much that We
seemed to feel we had travelled far with
each others soul. We became acquaint-
ed with ones ideas and ideals; we were
pover strangers after that; it was like
a hospitality given on the roadway of
life, and that day we realized could
never be lived again, and We parted
with a belief that we had touched The
divine in each.
Then the halfway house or inn where
the horses were fed or perhaps four
fresh horses took the place of the tired
ones, and we had a dinner Of chicken
with gravy poured over cream biscuit.
and roast lamb with mint sauce. pota-
toes just from the garden. green peas,
and homemade preserves, strawberry
short cake, where the short cake was
baked from a rich biscuit crust and
split open, buttered, and Strawberries
heaped between the layers, and over all,
whipped cream; jelly that trem e"
its amber and ruby tints. Some wild
flowers IN vases bedecked the table.
Rosy-cheeked girls waited upon us and
their little frilled aprons airted about
them as they stepped over the white
ash floor. and with gentle manners
that would become the fairest women
of fashion, with white and little dainty
pink-tipped fingers, eyes that looked
little wonder at the strangers. and who
attended US as If we were hidden guests.
To have offered them the modern fee
that is expected of us by these walters
of today-would have been an insult.
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! like TO recall those days when we
felt an interest in friends and acquaint-
ances, when ones ambition was to be
honest and attain a reasonable degree
Of happiness. In this respect you may
count US old fashioned-today the think
ers are eager to go into nature, for
in nature alone we find content. We
are fast learning this lesson from the
struggle amid noise and traffic. These
are days when / would rather have a
Journey In an old-fashioned coach, than
go to California on the Sunset Limited. -
In those journeys we met often, Indians
from the Seneca tribe, young men with
buckskin clothing of short pants"
trimmed with beads and fringe. their
heads decorated with feathers from the
eagle, feet shod with moccasins. They
would run like the deer. with head
thrown back and hands raised on a
straight line with the elbow, for Indians
never swing their arms. lips closed. and
nostrils distended as II seeming an
enemy. Wild, free fellows who entered
ones home with a freedom born OF
nature, seated themselves in a circle,
and with ''grunt" of satisfaction asked
for food. Indian meal, milk, etc. You
served them; they were apPreciative, and
paid you full measure in baskets, bead
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:. :. WHEN PEAS ARE RIPE :: ::

the delightful possibilities OF the sea-
son.
Here are directions for an English
green pea salad: Boil quart OF peas.
measured after Smelling. in water 10
cover, we'll seasoned with mint, pepper
and salt Drain thoroughly, pour into
salad bowl. melt half an ounce of but
ter. and turn over the peas while still
hot. Set in the ice box to chill while
the dressing is being prepared Rub
smooth in a basin the yolks OF thrse
hard boiled eggs, add a half teaspoonful
of salt. the same quantity of white pep
per. and dessert spoonful OF made
mustard Blend carefully, then beat in
little by little four tablespoonfuls Of
olive oil. When thick add gradually
teaspoonful OF tarrag0n vinegar. and
tablespoonful and a half OF ordinary
vinegar and pour over the peas
Green Pea Salad No. Gut cupful
of cold veal or chicken into dice and
place in lettuce cups. Cover with
layer of cooked peas, we'll drained from
their liquor. and pour over all a French
dressing seasoned with mustard and
mint
Green Peas and Beer Salad-Mince
rare roast beef fine. sprinkle over \
bed of lettuce. add layer of diced boil
ed potatoes and cooked peas, season
well with salt and pepper. and dress
with a boiled or French DRESSING Serve
very cold. with a garnish of hard boiled
eggs sliced,
Greens peas served in carrot cups
make a pretty eutree; boil the carrots.
which must be short and plump, in salt
ed water until tender. Cut in two. cut
slice from the bottom, so Il will stand,
and scoop out the center, leaving lit
tie basin for the peas. Young turnips
may be used In .he same way.
AS a garnish and accompaniment fer
sweetbreads. lamb chops, shad and fiilet
of beef or chicken. peas stand approv-
ed
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an extension of the excellent drives
which cross the Mall. and is unsuited
to fast driving
The new roadway is too hard for fast
driving, and is so crooked that there
would be great danger in speeding over
it. The foundation for the road con-
sists of coarse granite, over which a
layer of smaller rock is placed, and
rolled thoroughly. The top dressing is
of pea granite, crushed and rolled
smooth.
From the Corcoran Art Gallery to B
Street the new roadway is completed
Excavation has been done for the road
from that point to Long Bridge. The
coarse granite has been laid over part
of the remainder CT the course. and the
sea wall between the roadway and the
tidal basin is nearly completed
The distance from the Corcoran Art
Gallery TO the bridge by the new road
way is about a mile. The course is one
that passes many historic places. At
Seventeenth and B Streets the roadway
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HERE is scarcely another vege-
table that loses so much of flavor
n in not being fresh as green peas
r. nossibIe they should be eaten the
same day as picked-at all events tney
should not be shelled until shortly be-
fore cooking. In buying. plump, green
pods should be selected. those that are
limp and yellow being old. 1t is
good idea to soak peas bought in the
market or from the huckster in cold
water for an hour before Smelling In
this case the peas themselves will need
no washing. Boil the pods ten minutes,
using only enough water to cover, skim
them out, put in the peas and boil until
tender. If young this will require but
fifteen minutes. If old, longer.
The French method of cooking peas
is also to be commended. In this case
lettuce leaves, well washed, are laid
shelled peas laid over them. Water to
barely cover Is then added, as the juice
OF the lettuce Will suffice. When the
peas are tender remove the lettuce.
saving all the juice. and season with
cream, butter. salt and pepper.
The Alsatians make delicious pea
soup from the pods alone or with the
addition of little meat.
The pods are carefully washed. but
not allowed to soak, then put over the
fire in Just enough water to cover. Sim
mer until tender. If clear soup is
wished strain, season. and serve with
crutons, but If PURGE is desired press
through a sieve.
The English declare that mint should
always be cooked with peas, and epicures
affirm their opinion as to the affinity
between peas and mint Green pea
salads, made in various ways, are among
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f Attorney General Knox's high step
ping blacks can restrain their speed

T r Attorney General Knox's high step
ping blacks can restrain their speed
until next summer. Col. Thomas w.
symons viii probably provide them with
q speedway where they may hit 2:30
gait without danger of landing in Po-
lice Court
The proposed speedway will not ex-
empt Senator Clark's chauffeur from his
regular appearance before Judge Kim
ball. however. for the course along the
Potomac will not be open to the auto
mobile. Gasolene and steam-fed horses
will have no place on the driveway.
They will be compelled to stand at
safe distance and watch the old-fashion-
ed horse speed over a mile course where
he is to reign supreme.
Money Ali That Is Needed.
Money is all that is lacking for the
construction of the proposed speed
way along the Potomac from the inlet
OF the tidal basin to the old Naval OBJ
servatory grounds. Colonel Synons, the
officer in charge of public buildings and
grounds, is heartily in sympathy with the
efforts of lovers OF fast horses to have
the proposed speedway built. Plans for
the course have been drawn and Colonel
Symons is confident that the straight
away drive along the river Will be bet
ter than that of any other city in the
world.
"Washingtonians have never realized
the possibilities of the city's river
'front.' said Colonel Symons. in dis
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improve upon nature, and at last are
caught in our network of Ignorance
We are like hayward children, and run
about chasing deIusive things and
thinking we are becoming wise in the
chase. until disease overtakes US, and
then we stop to think.
We met mana thinker-last sum
mer, sunburned and weatherbeaten, seat
ed beside lake wherein danced few
skilfs and a sailboat fastened to a little
dock; on a rustic bench under broad
elm tree we rested with him and chat
ted. He said: Il don't worry about any
thing. 1 just feel contented / would
rather see the sunset over this water
than see the finest painting. I would
rather hear the wind among the leaves
over my head than hear Patti sing.
wouldn't cross this old sandy road to see
what any man had gained with his greed
For l do know that there is nothing like
the stiffness of nature, and the little
tapping waves talk in a sweeter lam
guage than man can utter. Then the
night when the moonlight glints along
the waves. why, it's like treading the
6plutu pathway 10 d new NOIlQ
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This is my day in the woods. I am
clothed in a last years blue bingham.
old tan shoes. hat left at home, UNI
brella on the grass. Under this old tree
/ find the June sun shaded and not too
warm. We have left the Capitol and
Library far behfnd-Pennsylvani Ave-
nue. faint memory. What is the Treas
ury building, with its stored and guard
ed wealth, compared TO this enchanted
spot. where the birds talk and gray
squirrel looks down from the branch and
inquiries II We have stored our supplies
and have a bit for him. We wouldn't
give this hours happiness for all the
speeches we have ever heard in the Sem
ate on hemp twine" or any other old
string of nonsense about tariff and
home products" and fostering home in
dustries" or the beet sugar question"
I don't care II we never-I say never
have President or governor or a bat
tleship. nor how much the national debt
Is or If 1t will ever be paid. nor the
price of stock; 1 don't care if dividends
are never declared. I am the richer by
thousands than the woman in a col
lapsed state of the nerves by too much
noise and civilization, tight shoes and
a fashionable girdle.
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This little brook that sings at my feet
over the pebbles, makes me glad that
cannot hear the garbage wagons and
the travelling hucksters yell; what is MI
the landscape gardening compared to
these trees planted by the Infinite law
and what are all the curves of flower
bed compared to the abandon of form
that is displayed before me. What do
we care for box trees perched upon a
roof, with the tops looking like sugar
loaf on silt, and driveways covered
with tar and sand and nothouse,
when this shaded path and natural
growth gives Us pure Joy. Why is man
forever fussing with Gods work and IN
creasing his egotism. that dominant
Virtue" IN the human? AT this par
ticular moment and forever after
wouldn't exchange this place for the
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cussing the improvement Of the Govern
ment ground west of the Monument.
1.-THE banks of the river have always
been associated with unsightly wharves
and warehouses. The land near the riv-
er has been considered a swamp.
People have avoided the part of the
city which should be more beautiful
than any other. No park is complete
without water, and along the river front
landscape gardening can work better re-
suits than in any other part of the
city.
The Seventeenth Street Driveway.
In the last ten years many improve
ments have been made in the Govern
ment land adjoining the river. and the
tidal basin. Workmen are now complet-
ing a park road down Seventeenth Street,
from the Corcoran Art Gallery to the
tidal basin, and around the east side
of the basin to the end of Long Bridge
This roadway has been enormously re-
ferred to as speedway. 1t is merely
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work and moccasins The pipe was
lighted and the Oldest pulled a cloud
Of smoke into the air and passing from
one to the other at last to the host, and
should he attempt to wipe the stem be-
fore placing between his lips there
would have come look in the eyes OF
his guests that betokened their resent
mcnt-
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This tribe, the Senecas, were the first
ones TO discover the oil that has en-
riched the oil magnates. The indians
would see the oil floating on the Al
leghany River and spreading and dipping
their blankets in the water would wiring
X from the blankets and "a its crule
state sell it for the cure of rheum tism
and colds. Seneca oii' was used fifty
years ago by the white people as the
best remedy known. This was found
near Tidioute. a town on the Allegheny
River in Warren county, Pa; along its
banks grew the laurel blossom and honey
suckle, wintergreens, trailing arbutus,
rattlesnakes. and huckleberries. where
in the time of ripe huckieberries the
snake loses his skin and Is blind for the
time. and as he warns you by his rattle,
which sounds much like katydid' 5
clatter, you have only time to make a
quick move. and usually in the wrong
direction. How nature provides for one
Is now the secret. for an Indian will.
after being bitten, Immediately search
fer five kinds of leaves growing on five
different bushes, crush them between
stones and wrap them about the wound.
All poison such as ivy and other plants
they cure in the same way. 1t is lett
for the white man in his superior wis
dom" to solve whether one out of the
FIVE is an antidote. or the five are needed.
However. one can always find five parts
of leaves within a radius of ten yards
if in the woods
That nature in its silence gives all
living things a sense of self-protection
Is witnessed in that animals as well as
the humans have a sense developed and
an instinct higher and beyond any civil
lied being
What at last is our boosted medical
a council of physicians. and the patient
Is gwen up TO die, Wnen an IpIuSion
made of green ozier" bark-a specie
of willow-used as a gargle, has cured
the worst form of the disease. as the
growth in the throat is Immediately
checked
The bark is a poison and should not
be swallowed. The Indians know the
virtue of this. and years ago taught US
its use.
Get into nature and learn from Its
secrets how to live; learn repose and
content; learn that haste Is an enemy
to our best instincts: that desire for
gain is a dark curtain between us and
the light that should be ours. One day
in the woods is of more real benefit
than hundred in a palace. When one
gets near to nature he gets near to
God, and what is God but the Aii-know-
ing and Allgiving. If We have but the
attitude of mind TO receive.
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thousand things grow for our bene-
mt and we pass them by, not knowing
they are for our use We attempt to
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E. :. WOMAN IN MANY LANDS :. :.

IA n ISIS ANNA BING, of Kansas City.
NE was sent as a missionary to ia
pan some years ago, to see
whether it was possible TO introduce music
in the missions schools with success.
Though encountering many difficulties,
Miss Bling has finally succeeded in Great
ing much interest among the Japanese in
music as she teaches it. One Japanese
girl, as a result of her efforts. is now
in the New England Conservatory of
Music.
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ner OF Van Ness Park. but it was torn
away end the Van Ness mansion with
its dilapidated yellow walls is the only
building which now stands in that part
of the city TO show that it was once the
home of prominent Washingtonians-
The site of the Continental Memorial
Hall which the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution will erect in Washing
ton, lies west of the Seventeenth Street
roadway and it is predicted that The
Government will at some time erect
buildings along the west side of this
road which is now undergoing improve
ment.
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whatever about this book, and to express
her regret that her American readers
should be so misled in the matter. The
book is announced as "EIizabeth's Chill
dren" ''Why not James Children or any
one else's?" writes Mrs. Glyn. Why
not. indeed? Mrs. Glyn Will visit friends
in America this summer.
viii N Harlan. while gathering ma
teriaI in the Georgia mountains for his
novel, 1.-The Substitute" one day ran
across little congregation on the banks
OF a creek. A country parson, without
his coat. stood in a group of candidates
for baptism by immersion, while all
about on the ground sat the spectators.
The preacher began with the usual de-
Tense of his particular mode of baptism,
and was making long-winded talk
when a Methodist parson rose in the
crowd and began a rather sharp argu-
ment against the remarks Of the first
speaker. Among the candidates for i'm
mersion was a tall, gaunt woman. whose
hair was tightly twisted in a little knot
behind her head. 1t was plain from the
way she kept rolling and unrolling her
poke bonnet in her hands, and the flash
ing OF her eyes, that she was growing
impatient. Presently she spoke out.
Look here. Brother Quagmire.' she
said, frowning darkly, "ef you are
a-goin' to baptize me you'd better set
about 1t; the suns goin' down an / got
three miles to walk. l don't care a red
cent how that thar man was baptized I
say eff you're a-goin' to put me under
water today you'd better do il. I amt
a-goin' TO stand here with these thin
things on an catch my death O. cold
listenin' to what any Methodist has to
say She was Immediately baptized.
After two years of litigation the high
est court in Mexico has decided that the
Rancho Lame de Orc. worth millions OF
dollars, belongs TO an American girl,
Miss Mona Clair Erskane, of Illinois
Miss Erskane inherited a claim to the
lands in Mexico from her father, with
the advice TO study law and Spanish and
to fight for the claim in the courts. She
did as directed, making her own brief
and arguing the case before the court,
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Mrs. Elfnor Glyn. author of ''The Re
hections of Ambrosine." has written to
her publishers, the Harpers, TO express
a very just indignation at the way in
which her name is constantly associated
with books about elizabeth" which she
did not write and never means to write
Ever since Mrs. Glyn wrote THE Visits
of Elizabeth her fame has been used
rs capital for other persons, and her
characters have been more or less
plagiarized despite her earnest protests.
The most recent and one of the most
fragrant cases OF the sort occurs in an
announcement OF new Elizabeth"
book, so expressed as to leave with the
reader the impression that Mrs. Glyn
wrote it. without actually stating the
fact Mrs. Glyn now writes from Eng
land TO say that she knows nothing
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The Proposed Speedway.

Colonel Symons' proposed speedway
may be approached from the new drive
way along the east side of the tidal
basin and will also be accessible from
New York Avenue, which will touch the
west end of the proposed speedway. It
will also connect with the extension Of
the Rock Creek drives which are to
bring the Zoo into direct connection by
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The twenty-ffth anniversary of the
day when certain Russian women doc
tors took their degree was recently cele-
brated in St. Petersburg by a gathering
OF men and women prominent in social
and literary circles. Among the speak
ers of the occasion were two ministers
of the crown, who pointed out the sig
nifcance of the movement for women
physicians.
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Through the efforts OF the trained
nurses five States have during the past
winter passed laws fixing regulations for
licensing nurses and comforting the title
of registered nurse upon those who have
passed certain educational standards.
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A thousand things grow for our bene-
mt and we pass them by, not knowing
they are for our use. We attempt to