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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-24

A stunning waist was seen the other day.
It is made of the new basket cotton cloth.
This material is merceriZed and has the ap-
pearance of something very heavy and
handsome. This particular waist is of the
inevitable shirt style, than which nothing is
more convenient. 1t has three wide tucks
forming yoke which runs well out to the
shoulders giving the required broad effect,
and is black and white in a check pattern.
The center plat is trimmed with three large
smoke pearl buttons. The high collar, made
of the material, has a pointed turnover of
black taffeta silk and a tie of the same ma
terial. Both the collar and tie are stitched
around with two rows of stitching in white
spool silk. This is an awfully serviceable lit
tie waist
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-24

abdomen, with arms folded under the chin
and the tips of the toes touching the floor.
Supporting the body on the tips of the
toes and the arms and chest, raise the hips
off the floor as far as possible and the';
while holding this position. raise up first
one leg and then the other as high pos
sible. Be sure not to bend the legs in
raising.
This exercise is severely felt in the mid
die of the back, the hips, the legs and feet,
and fat is speedily reduced in these regions.
AS the movement gently affects the front
Of the body, fat is also burned away there.
Exercise V.-Stretch the legs comfortably
apart, bend the knees, assume a sitting
position as much as possible, then lean
from side to side in line with the knees.
This seesawing of muscles burns up fat
in the sides of the abdomen and strength
ems parts liable to rupture and prevents
irregularities of digestion and assmila ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-24
Facts and Fancies Helping to
Tide It Over.
FOR GROWING CHILDREN
FOL-DE-RoLS AND PARTY WEAR
FINERY USEFUL.
Practicability of Dresden and Plaid
Silk Gowns-Warm Even
ing Cloaks.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, January %, 1908.
With everything in dress tending to pro-
mote gracefulness, the curse has been taken
from the awkward age of childhood. The
all-legs-and-arms period must come. Of
course, but the modern mother Is learning
how to soften it's angles so that the hobble-
dehoy In either sex now seems a rare
species
The prime move toward ease Of manner
with awkward children is to get them &C
customed to the etiquette of the toilet; in
short, to being properly dressed for every
occasion. AS the nursery rhyme tells US,
fine clothes are prime moral agents.
when 1 am dressed up awful nice
l feel so awful good,
AS little boys and little girls
Just really always should"
awful nice" to all childhood means
something with gala air something which
always presupposes a function Of some
sort Juvenile or otherwise. So let us be-
gin with party clothes for both boys and
girls.
For chubby lads in their first trousers, a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-24

looping them with coral and gold thinks"
has come in again.
To Garry Along.
Teachers who include the training of
the body In their curriculum assert that
something to carry in the hand decreases
self-consiousness and helps to correct tile
clumsiness of changing childhood. So give
the winter girls muffs and the boys canes,
which all English boys carry. and see how
the trick works. The big muffs now fash
ionable might serve this useful purpose
with one sex, and for the other the English
matters show the smart little canes, with
dog-head knobs. which might take any
body's mind away from himself.
Gloves worn by these small gentlemen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-24
The Path That Leads From Care.
Written for The Evening Star by Chas II Doin:

written Tor The Evening Star by ChaS. II. Doll
long to find path some day,
A path that leads from care away
Whittier I should not heed;
A day when spring is in its prime,
And heart and foot with path keep time;
When breeze and trees with ease make rhyme;
That would be joy, indeed.
I'd love to hear the woodthrush song
Come echoing that path along,
To greet me on my way;
And that sweet minstrel of the hedge,
The catbird, too, would chant his pledge
That he'd be singing in the sedge,
Let skies be bright or gray.
I'd stop to hear the whole sweet band
OF feathered songsters. and would stand
Uncovered at their gIee;
Charmed with the color of their coats,
I'd watch the swelling Of their threats,
And drink the music of their notes,
Poured forth in ecstasy.
And when the path had reached the spring,
Where mint and fern grew clustering,
I'd linger in the shade;
Meath low-bent branches of the trees,
I'd breathe the wild-fower-scented breeze,
And watch the fight of birds and bees,
Through sun-fecked messy glade.
What restful peace to weary brainl
What solace to the stress and strain
OF long-enduring man!
I'd love to pass lifetime there,
breathing that health-inspiring air,
Beyond the reach Of that black care
Left where the path began.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-24
A New French Blouse.

Nothing could be prettier than this new
French blouse. The material used in its
creation is mauve liberty silk. The neck is
cut out slightly and filled in with an en-
placement of guipure bordered with green
velvet A leaf application of lace mounted
over green mousseline forms bretellelike
pieces on the waist. The large, box-plaited
sleeves are met at the hand by deep cuffs
edged with velvet and further adorned with
mousseline embroidery. Mousseline also
makes the modish cravat. A beige skirt is
worn with this blouse.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-24

gos-hawking, when one uses birds trained
Tor the low flight, range of game may be
considered from wideawake hare and rab-
bits even to snarly wolves. Hawking is,
besides, the sport of all others likely to stir
chivalrous and gamey instincts in both the
seeker and the sought. The fight is made in
m,d-air, the participants being two repre-
sentatives of the feathered tribe. The birds
are not nmercifully taken advantage of by
a cunning invention of man that spits fire
at him and against which he has no wea-
pom of defense.
1t costs little to keep a hawk his appetite
being mere moderate than that Of a good
setter; moreover. he will take. and, if al
lowed, feed on his own prey. Indeed, there
seems to be every reason to think that be-
fore long hawking will have become quite
as popular in this country as any of the
other practiced ways of taking game.
More Homelike Pets.
Other women there are who care nothing
for stalking game, but who keep their pets
with them constantly. With these the timid
Japanese spaniel is the prime favorite, per-
haps because these dogs can stand more
fondling and adulation than almost any
other breed. The cachet of smartness turks
also in the ability to take about with one a
beautiful Jap, for plainly the little creature
indicates, along with its uniqueness. COM
mercial value. Some of these dogs cost
from $500 to $500, as even In Japan perfect
specimens of the breed are now becoming
scarce
Other women detest small breed Of
dogs, and argue that the Scotch collie Is the
most desirable pet upon which to shower
affection. Indeed. they are capable Of CIV
ing undoubted pleasure to their owners, an
attribute not lightly to be set aside.
The radiantly colored macaw is plumfng
himself about many of the gay country
houses. These birds, the most beautiful Of
the parrot tribe, are Of even dispositions
and give a tropical, luxuriant atmosphere
them is golden. for their voices are unus-
ually harsh, almost equalling that of the
peacock
Wants Black Sheep.
John D. Wing of Milbrook, N. Y, shakes
himself free from the conventfonality Of
kennels and squallers and pours out his
energy and admiration of a herd of black
sheep. With infinite care and the securing
of miles Of country, Mr.. Wing has sue
ceeded in getting together about seventy
baa baas, each as black as ink. There is
perhaps, no other collection of these freaks
Of nature in the world.
Faddists long for the autumn when they
hunt with the beagles. Over tract Of
rolling country, light snow whitening the
ground, and the hare out in search Of
breakfast the hunter, clad in fetching Co.'S
tune, remind ing the onlooker somewhat OF
that formerly used for tobogganing, will
then loose from the leash his beagles; and
not until he notes that their yelping, as they
follow the trail, has ceased, will he recall
them to his heels with his horn. Truly this
penchant for beagleS is CONNIE BILE, If for
no other reasons than the picturesqueness
and the musical quality of the sport
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are more than ever mannish in make and
material. Made of dogskin, in all the
shades affected by the grown-up world,
they likewise show "prix' seams and
single huge button. An excellant glove
can be had for 81 and the outfitters for
masculine wear keep the best examples
MARY DEAN,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-27
The Case Of the Nineteen Police
Captains.

The case Of the nineteen police captains
in this city, which has just been decided
by the Court of Appeals, was an attack
upon the validity of the promotion of
EDWARD A. GAUs and eighteen other
sergeants OF the New York police force
to the rank Of captain. The suit was
brought by MIR. j. WARREN GREENE, a
well-known Brooklyn OWL service re-
former, as a taxpayer, and in his COM
plant he demanded Judgment that the
promotion and appointment of Sergeant
GAUs and the others should be declared
null and void. that the Civil Service
Commissioners should be enjoned from
certifying any payrolls bearing their
names, and that the Comptroller should
be forbidden to pay them their salaries
as captains.
The gist of the cause OF action attempted
to be set out in the complaint was the
charge that the Board Of Police in No
vember, 1900, transmitted to the Civil
Service Commission false certificates
in regard to the sergeants who we're
eligible for promotion. which advanced
the defendants upon the eligible list to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-27
A Birthday Present.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrS-!Sir: Will
You open your columns to brief account
OF recent experience in philanthropy, in
which l was q participant and OF which l
would be witness to the larger world for the
influence and benefit involved?
Two years ago a father asked his fourteen
year-old daughter what she would like best
for birthday present. And her reply came
promptly and spontaneously: -To give a
party to poor children in Central Park. Z"
Herewith a custom was started. in that
family and for some intimate friends, which
for the past two years has been as charm
ingly kept up as it was delcately conceived.
An arrangement is made with the New York
Kindergarten Association to invite all the
children from one Of the poorest districts Of
the lower East Side. Some fifty or sixty are
selected. and during the first week Of June
these. together with their teachers and an
occasional little mother" drive to the Park
in hired Fifth avenue stages. now happily
discarded from other public use. Their goal
Is first the Mall. where the whole company
is aocommodated in the goat carriages. to
though considerable difficulty. is usually
experienced In collecting them from the fas-
Of the fountains the
similar to those the Yellowstone affords the
there they Ho drive e's to the whers
probably the odds are even. and they appear
as strange to the animals as the animals
to them. But we get some curious emotions
and expressions. as. before the ostrich, Dol
at de big toikey.'
Luncheon is now provided. consisting OF a
schooner" of milk and a great cut Of bread.
with the inevitable paper napkin; and then.
past the donkeys to the carrousel and the
CroQuet field, where ignorance and awkward
ness at play combine with enterprise to give
q happy time And about o'clock. sobered
but rejoicing. tattered band returns to the res
taurant Tor place OF bully thinGs) for Ice
fdcihs descensus-although along Fifth ave-
nue!-homs.
This year we we're ia vored with the presence
for moment OF Park Commissioner Wilcox,
and the secretary Of the Park Commission,
through whose courtesy permits were given
pressed emphatic compensation Of what can
now no longer be considered an experiment.
very simple plan and common pleasure,
you may think, this that ! have Indicated
rather than described: but whom you reflect
how novel the experience was to all these
children. and how profitable not only TO them.
but to their, fathers and mothers, and older
formed that this was the only present that
our lady host received for her birthday In
lieu OF all the money would have bought,
you may find in 1t that impulse to do likewise.
or to make such other fAtes possible. which
Is ever one Of the best results OF helpful dis
position. good example Az all events. that
space. these readers time.
MERLE ST, CBo11 WRIGHT.
Pastor LenoX Avenue Unitarian Church.
NEW YORK. June IS.
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no HAVE INCREASED PAY.
Chief Petty OAlcesp in the Navy win Receive
$40 Month After July 4.

WARRINGTON, June 20.-President Roose-
welt signed an order to-day increasing the
pay OF chief petty officers OF the navy to
so per month and establishing new rat
ing, that OF chief water tender, who Is to
receive the same pay. The order issued
by the Secretary Of the Navy says:
.On and after July 1. 1903. permanent
appointments will be issued by the Bureau
Of Navigation to chief petty officers in the
service only after the fitness Of the man
for promotion shall have been shown before
a board consisting Of three officers. detailed
from ship or ships other than the one
on board OF which the candidate ID serving
The examination shall show that the apPli-
cant is in all respects fitted to fill the rating
in which he seeks permanent appoint
ment. Such appointments will entitle the
holder to draw pay at the rate OF so per
month All persons holding permanent
appointments az chief petty officers issued
prior to July 1. 1868. may qualify by passing
examination az above. In the event OF
their qualifying new permanent appoint
ments will be given them by the Bureau
of Navigation from the date they pas their
examination"
1t Ia estimated that the yearly increase
in the pay OF the navy by reason OF the
change will be. for some years to come.
from $50 900 to $40 900, but later from $il0 900
to $4,000 year.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-27
REVOLT IN THE OPEN CAR.
Why should Not tho seated Passenger Re.
fuse to Let Man Stand Before Him:

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sfr; II occurs to
me that no one being passenger In an open car Is
obliged TO permit another passenger TO stand imme-
diatey In front Of him. For one thing. the cars in
question not built for the purpose of carrying
ISLANDERS in front OF stters. For another thing the
passenger. being lawfully on the car, would seem
entitled place for hts feet and the place for them
Is naturally In front OF him. Why must he draw
his feet In beneath him.
Would 1t not be . FOOD idea 10 get the int elects
proposition that one sitting In an open may law
fully object TO stander between seats " the stander
Is In front OF him or hert
An expression Of the general public opinion can
do more than a little toward remcdyine abuses in
matters OF this sort, and doubtless here and there
some persistent sitter would claim his nights and II
necessary, oany the thing 10 Issue In the courts
NEW YORK, June Is C.WR
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Tinker ForaYari

To rHR EDITION OF THE SuH-Ar: hsvs rad
your occasional trfences Of ~ modem type a
yacht with much satisfaction, There U n Aspect
Of the matter that deserves special attention.
The tinkev. the "putterer. : 10 % much repfoosted
nowadays that In our Eealous JOY over mathe-
NAUTICAL principles We forga that HeHeahon V
tinker. a "putterer" He 10 the sublime tinker.
Like the poet who makes . few lines and then puts
them away till he can tinker them. this HerreshoY
builds a boat tines Il. thinks It over, waits few
months OF years thinkers the plan little here and
there. and then builds another boat Just little
better. It's genius.
/ am Giad that there are . few people able To pay
the bills for just this expensive but gonous damon
straton of the value of the Art Of tnkehne. All
the artists are thinkers; one artist paints picture
on canvas. paints out, paints 1t in. deepens and
Ightens II; another thinkers an essay: another q
boat that cannot capslze. but can sail How these
boats can sail when tuned upT What . victory
for ,nk ers W. E G
BLOOMFIELD. N. j., June ~.
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own activities that We fail to give due
consideration to the activities OF our
competitors. Canada has doubled her
wheat crop in the last six years, and her
vast uncultivated area, which will not
long remain uncultivated, makes 1T
fair possibility that her total wheat out
put will yet rival our own. The Argen-
tine, another rival Of almost unlimited
potentially, Is forging quietly, steadily
and rapidly ahead with her trade in cattle
and cereals. Cotton manufacturing in
the Far East, from native-grown cotton,
and cotton raising in Africa and else
where are an ever-increasing menace
to our control OF the cotton market. The
trade of the world in these important
branches is not ours for the mere
asking.
Two courses are open to us. One Is in
creased activity in the cheap production
of food stufrs 30 that we may compete
for the trade OF the world in that depart
ment. But this is a precarious enter
prise, depending upon the indefinite con-
tinuance OF" fat years. The other is to
disabuse our minds Of conviction that
we are primarily and fundamentally an
agricultural people, and substitute for it
a realization OF the fact that we are
manufacturing nation, with endless re-
sources In raw materials, and that our
agricultural resources are in reality only
a contributing agent in our manufacture
ing processes and progress.
In their observation of our lack OF
foresight in our systems Of forestry and
agriculture, our German visitors and
friendly critics notice only detail in
much broader question of national COM
mercial policy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-27
Goodwin Smith and Napoleon's Second
MARRIAGE.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Mr..
Goodwin Smith. In the June number Of tho
Atlantic Monthly, speaking Of Plus VII. blsmes
him for not protesting against the marriage
Of Napoleon to Maria Louisa. These are MIR.
Smiths words: "Napoleon's marriage with
Josephine having at the Popes instance been
repeated with religious forms before their
coronation, it was necessary TO have recourse
TO a most wretched bubble for the purpose
OF invalidating the marriage and opening the
way for a divorce. The Pope was at the time
under duress. yet his conduct in falling to
protest against this evasion Of the laws OF
the Church. like his conduct in coming imme-
dately after the murder Of the Duo d'EnRhien,
to crown the murderer was hardly Hide
brandio or highly credltable to the pontihcatc
Of morals"
When Mr.. Smith wrote this he must have
forgotten the following facts:
L. The Pope had already excommunicated
Napoleon on June II. 1909; Napoleon mar
ried Maria Louisa on April 2. 1910. and vas
already under the ban when he attem pied to
2 Al. the. time that Napoleon attempted to
M:s nd Of the Ct
intercourse with the outside world. Even hi:
correspondence was intercepted by order OF
8. SO far from Plus VII. lacking courage,
he sho wed it In resisting both Napoleon and
Joseph Bonsparte. who tried 70 force him to
sdg Of nea M M smt
had been keeping In the current OF recent
historical Investigation he would have read
during the past year in the Cirftd Cdholico,
the best Italian periodical, good account
OF the brutal attempts OF BonapaIte TO bully
pa weak A Pdn soys ad
l. Moreover. the Pope wa. not obliged to
take cosnizance Of every offence committed
ecclesiastical tribunal prom pied BY him, and
manipulated by his equally nnprinctpled
uncle, Cardinal Fesch. divorced Josephine,
she. as the aggrieved party. had the right to
appeal to the Pope. the only competent Judge
Princes Had she. appealed to Rome. as
with all It's spiritual 20 wer. that no one has
ever yet been able to coerce. would have come
to her rescue.
Lastly. although this is secondary and Of
less Importance Mr.. Smith begs the question
in the case Of the death Of the Duo d Enghien.
II 1t was a murder at all. It was political and
legal one. The Duke was tried by court
ss snd pon Eu IL .s To 9n Bone a..
divided on this question.
When Napoleon had become in fact and "a
Law Emperor Of the French. and had done q.
good act at least, for he had restored e.
Pope to come to Paris and crown him. Hns.
prompted BY the good Of reli gion and fsire
to save souls. accepted the invitation: ~ no
just critic would twist this aoceptanoSne4
S snni,o1.c Nth, Nth or 0'ndonston "'
Pta. ~ HIiae srandlo. in hi. PA and IN
his cour age; and It u pleas ant and a3st anas
Rector Of st. AEnA'S Cnucn-
NEW YORK. June ~.
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Acting Inspector Wilhelm H.. U. 8. N.

The Kearsarge is reported shipshape
by the German Emperor in an official
despatch to the Commander-in-Chie Of
the Army and Navy of the United States
Not only merely shipshape in the ordi-
nary holiday sense, but magnifcently
and exceptionally efficient as a war
machine. The crew were also critically
inspected by the reporting officer; he
pronounces them gallant.
We note this incident because it ia
probably the first OF it's kind in the his
tory OF international maritime relations.
When did the ruler Of one great naval
Power ever before take the trouble to
cable to the Chief Magistrate of another
his expert opinion Of the value and con-
dition Of vessel belonging to the other g
fleet; that is to say, in anything more
than the meaningless phrases Of purely
conventional compliment?
For whom but Mr.. ROOSEVELT would
the German Emperor have consented
thus to acI
Unprecedented as was the service thus
rendered in spirit Of brotherly good
will by our Imperial Acting Inspector at
kiel, the reward was immediate, and
perhaps adequate.
When he had finished his thorough in
speotion of the vessel and her officers
and crew, the Kaiser was conducted at
once to the Admiral's cabin and allowed
to sit on that throne Of physical comfort
known and admired throughout Ger
many as the American rocking chair
He was rocking away in the most con-
tented and amcable manner at the very
time when his report was being read at
the White House.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-27
Tho Old Dock Board Exposures.

The revelations made in the District
Attorneys investigation into the con-
duct Of the last Tammany Dock Com
mission, regarding the leasing Of piers
to relative of one OF the Commissioners
constitute the first legal confirmation
that has been had of the numerous
charges made during the last seventeen
months against CHARLES F. MURPHY
and his associates. From the beginning
OF the Low administration announce
ment has been made frequently that the
Dock Commissioner and the Commits
sioners Of Accounts had evidence of Of
fetal misdoings on the part Of MURPHY;
but signs of proof have not been pro-
duced until now.
In the specific case which Assistant
District Attorney CLARKE has made
public the records of the Dock Depart
ment furnish evidence that on July 10,
1901, the New York Contracting and
Trucking Company wrote to the Dock
Commissioners, asking for lease of tho
pier at the foot Of West seventy-ninth
street. On the same day the Dock Com
missioners granted lease Of the pier to
the company, at the same time revoking
permit for the pier previously issued to
WILLIAM KIDNEY, who is alleged to be
a mythical person. From the wording
Of the Contracting and Trucking COM
pany's letter it appears that this cor
poration regarded the pier as its prop
erty, and had been using it as dump.
Mr.. CLARKE is authority for the state
ment that no dumping permit had been
issued for the pier, or has since been is
sued; and yet be declares that the COM