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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
MAID AND MISTRESS.
Examples in Courtesy Should Be Given
Servants Of the Household.

Examples in Courtesy Should Be Given
Servants Of the Household.
From the Cooking Club.
1t should be plain enough that examples
are as much to servants as to children.
since in manners and social training serv-
ants are as children. II the mistress be
courteous to every member of her family,
and they in turn to her. the maid soon feels
the atmosphere of good breeding and I'M
consciously becomes amiable and respect
full. But let the mistress speak sharply to
her husband, or scold the children in pub
lie, or let the master constantly find fault
in the presence of the servant. and she will
shortly discover that courtesy Is not one of
the essentials of the establishment, and
will. most likely, add black looks and I'M
civil words to the general disharmony.
Servants being initiative. there is more
reason that the conduct of employers be
worthy of imitation. II the mistress of
house be careful of her Dress her speech,
her daily habits, her handmade WILL in all
probability. grow more careful Of her own.
But the woman who comes to her breakfast
table with disheveled and rumpled gown
has no right to find fault with the maid in
a dirty calico and slovenly shoes. Like
mistress, like maid, as well as like master,
like man. Unless a good example be set
there is cause to complain Of servants
for following bad one. They would rather
improve their condition than degrade it.
They would rather be ladies' than servants.
Their ignorance makes them mistake the
false for the true, the bad for the good If
every mistress would take pains to set
fair example to her maids, and aid them
now and then by timely and delicate hints,
she would soon have servants who would
be in fact the help they are in name.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15

Soudan the quail. now plump little balls Of
fat after their summer in the north. alight
weary with their long flight. and seek the
shade OF the little green houses standing
ready Tor their reception. In a single day
a dealer will thus take as many as twenty
thousand birds. and as the traffic is carried
on all along the shores Of the Mediterran-
can for the whole period Of migration, mil
lions OF quail are yearly captured alive.
In spite. however. of their astonishing
fecundity. this wholesale slaughter of the
birds began to produce an appreciable effect
and in France. as. indeed. in other countries
of central Europe, 1t was noticed that the
hocks Were rapidly decreasing in numbers
Unfortunately. too the demand-in London
more particularly-for the delicacy is as
great In the spring as in the autumn. al
though the bird is then thin and out Of
condition. In order to meet this demand
the minister of the interior in 1878 author
out the breeding season. This decision
farmers. who valued the birds highly on
account of the quantity Of weed seeds and
noxious insects consumed by them. and
from Sportsmen. who foresaw a still greater
diminution. IL not indeed the utter exter-
mination of the game. Their efforts were,
however. fruitless. and the immediate re-
suit was merely new development of the
trade. To prepare the spring birds for the
table number Of merchants in the neigh
borhood of Paris undertook to fatten them
artifcially, and, though the flesh after the
process lacked the delicate flavor OF the
autumn birds. they at once began to figure
largely in the menus of the fashionable
hotels and restaurants OF the capitals.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
Qualities Of an Entertainer.
From the Cooking Club.

From the Cooking Club.
A Hurried hostess or nervous host whose
countenance but badly conceals the worry
felt. can do more toward making the
guests uncomfortable than If the soup were
stone cold and the salad dressing was
ruined by too bountiful quantity of
vinegar
An imperturbable calm and a ready tact
are the two important factors In the MAX
ing of model hostess. Secure these and
you need never fear for the success Of any
of your entertainments
There Is no quality more to be desired
to make woman a social success than
that of tact. Its possessor knows the right
thing to do and the right time for doing
1t, and thus gains q reputation for clever
ness and for many HirSues which a tactless
woman would never win from her circle of
aeauaintanees, no matter how excellent her
qualities of both heart and head.
The tactful woman Il not only patient
listener. but she Is. q thoroughly good one.
She knows no WEAKNESS even when she has
heard the same story more than once from
the same person. and she smiles in the
right place, and appSArs to enjoy hearing
jokes much asD her companion enjoys
telling them. Tact Is weapon guided
with a multitude of precautions and femi-
nine wiles by the Mtge woman, and it Is
only the wise who possess it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15

Jared lobby. where brokers sit in dull sum-
mer days and float their latest stock OF
anecdotes.
That shaded court Is suggestive OF deeper
differences between the New York Stock
Exchange and the Berlin institution. In
New York the number of members Is fixed
and is small in proportion to the Immense
volume of business done; in Berlin there Is
a great horde of small dealers. and the
amount Of trading is much less than In
New York. Owing to the easy terms OF ad-
mission. the boerse becomes a mere place
where traders meet to effect their transac-
TONS There Is no sale of seats In fact.
no membership fee exists, but only small
yearly tax Is collected, which varies from
time to time as the expenses of the organ1-
cation require. Contrary to New York
practice. membership Is largely held by
companies and firms Nearly all the banks
of the city, for example. are members, and
the more important ones keep above q
score of their employees on the floor.
Thus the Individual New York broker. as
a rule, counts for vastly more than MEM
Der Of the boerse. New York is concentrat-
ed, is intense; Berlin disperses Its energy,
and is comparatively dull. 1t knows moth
ing Of those great days Of triumph or dis
aster that render the annals Of Wall street
picturesque and 1t lacks our large daring
operators who startle the country with their
bold schemes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
Baltimore and Ohio X. X.
General Passenger Agent.

Leave Washington, New Jersey ave. and st.
Chicago and Northwest I'll 100 a In. s6:2O pm.
Cincinnati, st. Louis and Louisville. 'l0:05 am,
s4:l5 pm, '1:10 night.
Pittsburg and Cleveland '11:OO am, 'S:45 pm
and 90 night.
Columbus and Wheeling, 1920 pm.
Winchester, 1885 am, t4:l5, 1880, f6:20 pm.
Annapolis, II 20. $3.50. 1920 noon $500 pm.
Frederick. 1885. s9:15 t11:00 Am. s1:15, "A 80
Hagerstown t1O:05 am. and 1890 pm.
BOYD and way points, 1875, 1918 am, &l:Ia
t4:30 1880, sl0:15, tl1:30 pm.
Gafthersburg and way points. 1885, 1918 am,
t12 so, s1:l5, 1880, t4:3o. $500, 1890. t7:0a
81 20, s10:15 t11:30 pm.
Washington Junction and way points. 1885, 80: IL
a m, S1:I5. t4:3o 1870 pm.
Baltimore, week days. x3:O0. 500, $50, x7:Oo.
x7:2O, xS:OO. xS:30, S:35, x9:00, 1890, x1O:0A
xii 100 an, xl2:00 noon, 1905. xl :O0 x2:ONl
x3:oO x4:0O "A 80, 4:40 X5:00, Ks: 20. x6:OO ESQ
x7:OO, xS:OO, x1O:OO, x11:30. 1875 pm. Sundays
1900, x7:OO, 100, $780, x9:O0 am, x1:OO. lis,
1900, 1890. $500. 500, $3.50. xs:00, 11O:OO
ROYAL BLUE LINE
All trains illuminated with Pintsch light
Baltimore Philadelphia, New York Boston and
the East, 1900. 100 DINER, 1880 (Bufet) 5000
(Dlnef). t1o:0o Dinerl am. 100 DINER 1904
open at 1000 o'clock.)
Atlantic City. 1900, t1o:0o am, t1:00. $500
pm.
Express trains.
Baggage called for and checked from hotels and
residences by Union Transfer Co. orders left at
ticket offices, 619 Pennsylvania ave. NV, New
York ave. and 18th ST., and at station.
s. B. HEGE, District Passenger Agent,
D. B. MARTIN. Manager Passenger Traffic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
LIFE A LOTTERY,
Chance Of Being Born With Health and
Good Temper.

Good Temper.
From the Mexican Herald.
A far northern contemporary objects to
the phrase. Life is lottery" and goes on
to repeat the time-worn platitudes. that
Life is an opportunity struggle" etc.
But life may be both an opportunity and
battle, and yet have some of the features of
a lottery. In the first place, men and wo-
men are not responsible for their tempera-
ment which makes or mars fortunes, and
renders life happy or the reverse. We think
as our temperament inclines us, and here
does fate lay heavy hand upon us at the
very outset of existence. Then there is the
bare chance of being born into a well-to-do
family with civilized instincts and SO hav-
ing the benefit Of soiicitous care bestowed
on ones health and education. The child
born into cross grained, unhappy, perhaps
struggling family lisa surrounded by unfor-
tunate influences. r5&
There is the lottery chance of drawing
health prize. To be born with strong con-,
Stitution in addition to a genial and care
free temperament is an immense advantage.
To be born nervous. Idckety, subject to fits
of depression from childhood is nothing less
than calamity. Many a man who has
won fame. though handicapped by an fri
table disposition, has confessed how hard
was his struggle. To make enemies more
easily than friends is the lot of many men
and women. -s - "a
No human being can select his time for
entering the world; he may arrive Just
when .Ae lean years begin, when parents
are forced to deny themselves and their
children not merely luxuries, but comforts.
The child born of a care-wern or anxious
mother is marked for moodiness during Hfe
The child whose mother is a superstitious.
tfmorous person is handicapped in world
where courage and cheerfuness are the
great success-compelling qualities.
All through life the lottery feature of
human conditions is made manifest. Luck
may easily go past the careful honest and
Industrious and throw it's prize into the
laps of fools. Life Is very much lottery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
T1cKErs-oF-LEAvE IN ENGLAND.
Ex-Convicts Who Can Afford Smart
Vehicles.
From the London Mail.

The stratford England magistrate says
he knows ticket-of-leave men who drive up
to the police station in carriages to report
themselves, leaving the offices with smiling
faces. The police. who should know, say
they would like to see them.
Most Of these ex-convicts reporting their
whereabouts to us come to the station
wearing odd boots" said a city police off,
Ger yesterday. "They scarcely have the
money to pay for drink. much less a cab,
while a carriage is out of the question"
While such cases may be uncommon how
ever the fact remains that there are men
who. leaving penal establishment. return
to enjoy ill-gotten wealth and to partake OF
the pleasures of idleneSS. Three years ago
a business man who had suffered tmprfson-
ment for serious charges of fraud drove up
to a police station to report himself, leaV-
ing in a smart brOugham outside his two
well-dressed daughters. and wearing the
tall hat and frock coat Of responsibility.
He asked for the superintendent In the
ARREST of manners, saying he had to see him
on "a matter of private business. Only
the severe and gruff manner Of the station
sergeant who recognized him, brought him
to realize his position
The man whom the Stratford magistrate
sent to Jail for his failure to report him
self every month said that he had been
turned away from his work and lodgings on
two occasions when it was discovered that
he had to call at the police station period
ically He could scarcely have known that
with the home secretary's permission ex-
convicts are allowed to report themselves
by letter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
woMEN's WORK.
Some Who Made Their Own Oppor-
tunities and Are Successful.

Some Who Made Their Own Oppor-
tunities and Are Successful.
From the New York Sum-
Women make their own opportunities
nowadays without waiting for opportuni-
ties to come to them.
One of the most successful Of the dress
manufacturing firms in this city is COM
posed Of two young women who, while en-
gagged in teaching. began in a very modest
way to put out some original work in dress
making. First with the design for collar
cites. then for waists and finally for whole
suits. these women have gradually en-
larged their field until they supply some
of the largest retail stores here and in other
cities. Forty machines are run by electric
ity, and two floors on a prominent thor
oughfare are given up to their work.
A flower shop has this month been started
in a western town-by two New York girls.
THE well appointed flower shop" says
the announcement, lis necessarily an i'm
portant' factor in the social and artistic
success of the smart functions of the pres
cons. dinners cotillons and weddings are
to be undertaken, besides the regular sale
of cut flowers and plants.
woman who goes out by the day for
this season. Her field is not limited. how
ever. to the covering and mending Of
chairs and SOFAS She takes up every de-
tail in the house in the line OF furnish
ings that need sewing or mending-slip
covers, door hangings, curtains, seat cush-
ions, cushion covers and bed spreads.
This woman keeps up with all the latest
and best materials for such use and advices
upon them without buying. She Is sup
piled with samples of many of the small
items that sometimes take hours Of shop
ping to find just where they can be bought.
With economical customers she skillfully
turns curtains and pillow covers. changing
even the gimp in such a way as to hide
the faded portions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
KEEP WINDOWS OPEN.
Fresh Air in Sleeping Rooms Will Save
Doctors Bills.

OOCLOrS, Bills.
From the Cooking Club.
You would not think Of drinking stale or
poisoned water, would your You know
that II you were to be shut in an alright
compartment death would result. OF all
the necessities of life. you can live longer
without any Of them than air. Impure air
and darkened apartments are the cause of
an untold number Of deaths annually. You
know that on sunless day. with a close
atmosphere. you are ont of sorts at the
best, If you are lucky enough to escape
physical ailments. while you are mentally
depressed. But once let the sun shine
brightly and clear the atmosphere. how diff
ferent how much better you feel In every
way.
Cold weather Is coming, and when you
are tempted to close up the house as tight
as 1t can be made. remember these things
and don't do 1t. especially at night Keep
open enough to at least give you sufficient
fresh air. cold room does not indicate
that 1t Is healthy, far from 1t. A sleeper
will soon breathe up all the fresh air in q
room, and II there is not constant supply
of fresh air he simply breathes over and
lungs. And the breathing of this vitiated
air only tends to lower the temperature
and vitality of the system so that 1t Is not
as capable of withstanding the rigors Of
winter. Fresh air Is heating to the body;
In fact. upon 1t depends the combustion Of
the fuel In the body. and by which we are
kept alive. which we should always bear In
mind.
Even with open Window during the night,
bed chambers and bed clothing should be
thoroughly aired each morning, and al
lowed all the sunlight possible. During
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
Wageworker and Capitalist.

From the Waterbury American.
There is something novel and startling In
one sentence of the prospectus of John
Mitchells new book. He says: THE aver
age wageworker has made up his mind
that he must remain a wageworker. He
has given up the hope of kingdom to
come, where he himself may be a capital
ist" Is this true? The confident belief
that every wage-earner might become an
independent worker and wage-payer has
been one of the most inspiring principals
under which we live. Equality of oppor-
tunity has been our boast. and 1t has been
justified In our experience. 1t is true that
the opportunity Is becoming less common.
and the effort to rise harder. and that the
result is discouragment and acceptance Of
the depressing fatalism revealed in this
sentence of Mr.. Mitchell? We don't be-
lieve it. and it Is a bad doctrine to teach.
Hope is all that keeps any of us going,
and every one Of US can see examples right
by his side which show that the hope is
justified. even today. BY far the great
majority of the capitalists of today have
risen from the ranks. BY capitalist we do
not mean. and we suppose Mr.. Mitchell did
not mean. the many-millionaire. but the
man who is so INDEPENDENT financially that
he Is not simply "wageworker."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Schedule effective October 4, 1903.


Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station
1:3O am. Daily. Local for Harrisonburs War
repton, Danville and way stations.
1O:51 a. Daily. Washington and Florida Lin
tted. Flrst-class coaches and drawing sleeper
to Jacksonville. Fla Dining car service
1l:15 am Daily. United States Fast Mail
First-class coaches and drawing room sleeper to
New Orleans. Dining car service
4:O1 pm. Week Days. Local for HarrisonburR
and way stations on Manassas branch.
$500 pm. Daily. New York and Atlanta Ex.
press First-class coach, sleeper to Columbus via
Atlanta to Atlanta. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
to San Francisco. Pullman buffet service.
$50 pm Daily. New York and Memphis Linn
tied (via Lynchburg) First-class coach and sleep
ing car to Roanoke. Knoxville. Chattanooga and
Memphis; sleeper to New Orleans. Dining car
service.
Limited All Pullman train. club and observa On
cars 10 Atlanta and Macon; sleepers to Augusta,
Nashville. Atlanta. Macon. Memphis. New Orleans.
DINING TRANS gss on BLUEMoNr BRANCH.
Leave Washington $40 am, 100 pm, 40
n m 800 pm week days for Bluemont 4:35
nm and CPS pm week days for Leeshurg only
Sunday trains for Bluemont. 9:10 an, 6:25 pm
Through trains for the South arrive Washington
e:42 am. 1852 an, 1925 am. $3.50 pm. $3.50
nm. and $3.50 pm. daily. Local trains from Har-
risOnburg IL :55 am. week days and 9:10 pun.
daily From Charlottesville. s:25 am. and 9:1O
pm. daily.
street 51l Pennsylvania avenue and Pennsy lvania
Station. Baggage checked through from hotels and
Phone 1s4o P. R. r. Cab Service.
C. H. ACKERT, General Manager.
H. HARDwICK. General Passr Agent.
I, g. BROWN General Agent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
QUAIL IN FRANCE,
Effort to Prevent determination Of
Valuable Game Birds.

Paris Correspondence New York Tribune
Quails are deservedly among the most
valued of the annual visitors Of France
Natives of the southern shores Of the Medi-
terranean. they have their hot. sandy des-
erts to breed in a temperate climate, and
reach this country in large focks about the
middle of April or the beginning of May.
All through the spring the woods resound
with their quaint little cry. in which the
French peasant hears the words. "Paye tes
dettes C'Pay your debts'O. and the Eng
fish wet my feet" Laying from niae to
fifteen eggs. they rear their families as far
north as Britain. and then in the middle of
August prepare to return once more, reach
ing France the second time at the opening
of the shooting season. They travel now in
immense f1Ocks. the sky being darkened by
clouds composed of tens of thousands Of
these little birds.
And these two regular yearly movements
of the quail have given rise to an impor-
tant industry in Europe. Every year, in the
Grecian archipelago. In Egypt and Morocco
fabulous numbers of the unfortunate little
creatures are either knocked down with a
stick and killed. or are taken alive and
sent to the European markets. where their
flesh Is considered a great delicacy. The
dead birds are plucked. steamed and sailed.
and then packed in cases for export. The
living birds are closely packed in curious
fiat cages made to exclude the light in or
der to prevent the birds from fighting. and
are then shipped in cargoes of from $1,000
upward to the capitals of the continent
The smell from these cages is incredible,
and 1t is not surprising that the mortality
among the birds on the journey Is enor-
mously high.
It is in the land OF the Pharaohs that
these massacres assume the largest pro-
portions. AS the season Of the first MI
grafton of the quail approaches-that is,
In the end of March--the Egyptian govern
ment puts up at auction and sells to the
highest bidders different positions on the
route to be trayersed by the birds. Here,
before the return of the quail. little hutches
are erected OF about one foot in height,
which are covered with the leaves OF the
date palms and contain each two entrances.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
London Street Nomenclature.
m the Philadelphia Ledger

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
One of the London journals plays upon
the street nomenclature Of the metropolis
In this entertaining fashion: There is
Pump Pail street in which once lived one
Peter Pottle." The newspaper observes
that the most daring of farce writer's would
have almost hesitated to invent such an
improbable address as that Of Mr.. Peter
Pottle Of Pump Pail" The same journal
goes on to say: 1.-The tendency in the mod
ern naming Of London has been to drop all
allusion to the kitchen, the scullery and
the dust bin At one time London boosted
no fewer than eighteen Frying Pan alleys,
put today but one remains. 1t might still
be possible to make a meal off London
street nomenclature, taking Bread street
Fish street, Bull and Mutton yard as the
basis, with either Beer street or Water
lane as beverage, followed by Pudding
lane This was prompted by the letter of
a correspondent making some correction in
his history Of old Picked Egg Walk"
Pickle Herring street is to be found in the
London directory.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-15
The Small Southern Colleges.
From the New Orleans Picayune.

From the New Orleans Pfcayune.
Mrs Elizabeth NJ. Howe, writing in the
Popular Science Monthly for October on the
poverty from a money point of view OF
educational institutions in the southern
states. sets forth that out of $157. 900. 900
of productive funds held by colleges In the
United States. southern colleges hold but
$15OOO,00O. Nevertheless. money Is not
erything. even in a college There Is
absolutely nothing that cannot be taught
just as well in a financially poor colleges as
in those that are endowed with millions.
save and except the physical sciences The
small colleges can teach ancient languages,
mathematics, history. literature and bellies
letters perfectly we'll The small colleges
are turning out at moderate costs that the
well-to-do young men, or even those less
well off, can meet, graduates who are fair
ly well informed In the principal branches
OF knowledge, and who are able to take
and maintain their places in life as credita-
bly, as can those who come out of the
millionaires schools. Southern men from
southern colleges have stood among the
foremost in this broad land In every de-
partment of life. and they can afford to
treat with contempt any allusion to the
paucity of the income of the schools where
gentlemen were bred and scholars were
made.