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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
MEN MAKE BEST SERVANTS.
So Several Philadelphia Housekeeper
Emphatically Said.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Preliminary steps toward establishing in
this city a training school for servants were
taken by the Housekeepers' Alliance, at
their monthly meeting Friday. This action
followed a long discussion of the servant
girl problem. which Mrs John H. Converse,
president of the alliance, characterized as
the greatest problem confronting American
housekeepers.
A committee consisting of Mrs. George NJ.
Ball and Mrs. ]. r. Fouike was appointed
to select suitable house. to be equipped
as the home of the school.
When the alliance convened, a program
with several different subjects for discus
sion had been mapped out. 1t was not fol-
loXed The inevitable problem bobbed up,
and little else was talked about. Some one
said that foreign immigrants cannot now
be induced to accept places as servants,
and women sighed in despair.
Every woman present had grievance.
which she voiced in language fOrceful and
unmistakable. One had had five servants
in as many weeks They We're incapable;
work properly, and talked back if re-
proved; in short. they were altogether i'm
possible and this particular woman was
in sore straits for household help.
Another had discharged all her girls, and
was training men for household work. She
thought this might be a partial solution of
the problem. She said men are more
cal BILE; that they sweep more clearly, dust
more thoroughly. and do all kinds of house,
work better than girls.
a chorus of approving acclamations
greeted this information, implying that
others had found in the manservant par
tial solution of their difficulties.
The term chambermen instead of cham
bermaids was freely used in the discussion
and in all seriousness One housekeeper
said that men make beds excellently well
and very tidy, that is, when properly
trained. She said that white men were
available for this purpose as well as ne
groes, and that they do not seem to con-
slider it any humiliation, as do girls of the
same class.
1t was pointed out that it is indeed very
desirable work, all being performed I'm a
nice warm house and with most comfort
able surroundings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
sUPFRsTITIoUs CLOCK.
Cuckoo Timepiece That Won't Work on
the Thirteenth Of the Month.
v Orleans Times Democrat.

From the New Orleans Times Denocrut
Speaking of the many curious things
connected with the number thirteen re-
minds me of a clock which has been in my
family now for some time" said an OBJ
servant man. "and the thing have in mind
has gone far toward making me believe
that there is something in the claim that
thirteen is an unlucky number. The clock
in question is of the cuckoo variety. Ordl-
narily il is one of the most reliable time
pieces / have ever seen. 1t keeps perfect
time. and never fails to cuckoo promptly
on the hour, except In the case / have in
mind If the thing had not happened in
such regular order l would have paid no
attention to 1t. But IL has been happening
every month regularly from the very time
we introduced he aforesaid clock into the
family circle. And 1t always happens on
the 18th OF the month. My clock lays off,
IL / may say IT, once every month, 1t re-
fuses to work on the day which Is assoc
ciated with unlucky things. Somehow 1t
seems to know that thirteen is an unlucky
number. And il seems To think that 1t ap-
plies as much to dates to other events
and things. / have never been able to I'M
derstand just why the clock should stop on
this day, and up to this hour l am unable
to give anything like a reasonable expla-
nation of it. | only know my cuckoo clock
will not work on the 18th day of the month
what the weather condition may be, when
simply stops. 1t Is a curious thing, isn't
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
Trolley Travel.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.


Not little by little. but with mighty
strides, the trolley is spreading it's meshes
over the country. The lines extending in
all directions from the cities meet local
lines and so reach further until in the
closing of the ever-shortening breaks, trunk
lines are suddenly established. Philadel-
phia is now to be joined to New York by
trolley; New York joins Boston, and the
trolleys of Boston run to the uttermost
parts of Cape Ann. Presto! The Philadel-
phian can journey by trolley to Gloucester
and to where cool breezes sweep over Nor
mans Woe.
The trolley with all its progressiveness,
means a reaction, and with all its up-to-
dateness is return to nature. 1t takes us
into the fields and among the flowers,
through narrow woody ways where the
trees meet overhead. The speed is not so
great that the scenery cannot be lesurely
enjoyed; the sweet fresh air blows cinder
less upon the face, and the right Of way
is not charred and blackened-as when
nature spreads bit of mourning along the
tracks for the birds that the screaming los
connective has frightened away, for the noble
trees that have been cut down, and the
railroads broad band of ugliness. The
clean, light trolley is taken to natures
heart. The wild flowers creep up to the
track, the grain mods friendly greeting to
the car it can almost touch, and when the
car has passed the birds light again on the
wire to talk the matter over and to discuss
the merits of that strange new singer, the
little trolley wheel, which fearlessly skins
along the wire above the car, singing as 1t
goes
But best of all, the trolley is democratic.
1t is for all the people. The roads live not
through the few travellers who take long
Journeys. but through the millions of trav-
elers who take little journeys The true
significance of the frightening lines is in
the increased number of centers which they
touch and the greater variety of trips, OF
various short lengths, that can be offered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
The Improved Potato.
From the New York World

From the New York World
If the public service of the man who
makes two blades of grass to grow where
one grew before is to be recognized, the
achievement of Luther Burbank in pro-
ducing a new potato must be entitled to the
worlds gratitude. Taking a very small
and unpalatable tuber which was native
to South America, ME-. Burbank by cross
ing and recrossing thei plants, cultivating
and improving them,i;is said to have de-
yeloped a potato which is' to the ordinary
article as a sweet potato to yam.
Genius thus applied has IT'S triumphs less
renowned but perhaps no less important
than those of greater fame. The florist who
introduced the Marechal Mel rose to this
country died in Brooklyn two weeks ago,
and a ten-line obituary notice sufficed for
him. Who recalls the maine of the patient
Massachusetts horticultural who from the
wild grape evolved the luscious Concord
which has been of such great value to his
country?
The inventor of new food makes civiliza-
ton indebted to him, 70 an extent it rarely
repays. There are great evolutionary pos
sibilities in American native products. The
difference between the tobacco which Sir
Walter Raleigh smoked and the Havana
perfecto, or between the queer bird the
Spaniards found in Central America and
the turkey of the Rhode Island farmyard
illustrates these possibilities. The investi-
gator who turns his attention to that end
should have his reward.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
LIGHT land Law IN LONDON.
Some Anomalies Which Hamper Large
Enterprises.

From the London st. James Gazette.
The ancient light difficulty is again
cropping up in an acute form in connec-
ton with the erection of handsome
block of new buildings in London city.
Within the last few weeks four great
building enterprises have been seriously
hampered by the operation of the light
law-the Savoy Hotel, the Walsingham
House Hotel, Warnings new premises In
Oxford street, and. the new city buildings
already referred to. With regard to the
Savoy Hotel it is understood that the
difficulty has been settled by the payment
of good round sum, and the other mat
tiers are in allegiance. So far as the
fourth case is concerned the DIRECTORS
are standing out for the payment of a
practically prohibitive amount as COM
pensation.
The architect of the building in ques-
ton, in an interview. strongly en-
phasized the need for an alteration IN
the law. "A little while ago" he said
"the erection of factory in the London
give permanent employment. to 700
workpeop1e, and in certain contingencies
perhaps double that number, had to be
abandoned because the owner of a lodg
ing house chose to adopt an obstinate and
obstructive attitude. The end of the matter
was that the factory was built twenty
miles outside London and the original site
sold at considerable loss"
The architect added that nine-tenths of
the trouble grew out of the British system
of building houses with windows no larger
than prison grate-a survival, no doubt,
of the days of the light tax.
IF existing buildings were decently pro-
vided with Windows he said, I'VE should
hear less of their tale of damage by OBJ
struction, and large enterprises CT wide ben
eft to the people at large, ana particularly
to working people in large cities, would
grow up with greater frequency
bill to reform the law on this subject.
1t will be remembered was introduced in
the house of commons last session by Mr..
Moulton, K. c.. Mr.. Haldane, K. c., and
others, and will be reintroduced in the
coming session. This mea sure, however, is
to be opposed by the Society of Architects
on the ground that, instead of abolishing
anomalies, it simply takes the question of
compensation out of the lawyers hands
and puts it into those of the surveyors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
RICE STRAW PAPER.
Beginning of an Industry in Louisiana
Northern Capital.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
1t is announced that one of the largest pa
per mills I'm the south will be established at
an early day in the rice district of Louis
lana, either at Crowley or Jennings. for the
purpose of manufacturing paper from rice
straw. The enterprise will be backed by
northern capital and the mill it is esti-
mated, will cost $4,000.
Every new factory is, of course, well
coined in the south but this paper mill
means a great deal more than single new
industrial enterprise. If it proves the sue
cess hoped for, it will bring about a revo
luton in the paper world, and will give
new wealth and prosperity to a section
which has been wonderfully favored of late
years In the develop of it's resources
southwest Louisiana. AS Is well known,
the paper manufacturers of the country
have been looking for years for new ma
terial convertible into wood pulp the chief
stock of the paper manufactured today.
The supply of spruce, which so far has
been found the best material is nearly eX
hausted and il is hoped to secure some
thing equally or nearly as good. The coun-
try has been searched lar and wide for
materials and half a dozen have been dis
covered that will do fairly well. The hope
still exists that something better may yet
be found and the manufacturers of late
have turned their eyes toward the south as
IL section rich in timber and other possible
sufficiently examined.
The Times-Democrat has kept track of
this movement during the last two years in
which ii has been in progress. There have
been a dozen different experiments all
more or less successful Two of these have
received and are entitled to great consider
alton, because their success means so much
to our leading agricultural industries-the
manufacture of paper from bagasse, or the
crushed stalk of the sugar cane, and from
rice straw. There are two bagasse paper
mills. one in Texas and one in Louisiana,
and they are doing so well that we may
look for others to follow at an early day.
That rice straw will make good paper has
been we'll established. The experiment now
proposed will show how good and what
profit il will yield. There is enough ba-
gasse and rice straw produced in louisiana
and thrown away today as waste product,
not only of no possible value, but frequent
" a great nuisance and difficult to get rid
of, to furnish the paper demands OF the
entire country. The next few years VIII
settle the question whether these materials
are destined to play the leading part IN the
paper industry. II they prove thor
oughly satisfactory it will not only transfer
TO the south a new and profitable industry,
but will materially increase the profit OF
the cane and rice growers and strengthen
the industries in which they are engaged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
ANCIENT INDIAN JAR.
Rare Specimen Recently Discovered in
New York, State.

From the Amsterdam Sentinel.
r. Horraeks of Fonda,IM Y, while stalk
ing deer during the last bunting season at
the Little Falls of the upper waters of the
Sacondaga, near Lake Piseco, caught In a
heavy downpour of rain was obliged to
seek shelter from theI storm under the
lodges of the Little Falls While sitting
there his attention was attracted to what
seemed to be a round brown bowlder part
ly covered with moss. Carelessly striking
it, 1t gave forth hollow sound. His Curl
osity being excited, he dug away the earth
with his hunting knife and soon laid bare "a
symmetrically formed earthen jar.
The jar stands ten INCHES high. At it's
largest circumference IT measures thirty
inches, and at It's smallest twenty inches.
The circumference of. the top or mouth OF
the jar measures twenty-four inches.
The vessel on the inside bears signs of
use, but the outside shows no trace of fire,
Dis is usual in Indian Jars. The bottom Is
rounded. The ornamentation around the
top is of the usual style of the Mohawk
pottery-that is, a series of straight and
diagonal lines. The jar still bears the moss
that had gathered on the rounded bottom
that was exposed above the earth.
The Jar is a well-preserved specimen or
the shape of the top, which is cut in three
curves, forming three points, which give 1t
triangular appearance.
It is singular fact that the three largest
specimens of Indian pottery now in the val
ley were found in the lake region of the
foothills of the Adirondacks-the Richmond
jar, the Hanson jar and the Horracks jar.
The Horracks jar is in the possession or
w. Max Reid for the present, and is an in
teresting study. 1t is not as large as the
Hanson jar, but to those interested in the
life and affairs of the Original Americans"
is of equal value.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
EMERALD STONE OF FASHION.
In Noted jewelers. Lifetime Gem
Worth $40 Has Gone Up to So, 1000.

from the New YORK Herald.
MIR. Streeter, the well-known Bond street
tLondon) jeweler who is retiring from BUSH
ness owing to failing eyesight, has been
giving interviewers some chatty reminis-
cences of his experiences, which begun in
1916. Streeter, by the way, was in bust
ness as jeweler in the reign of Queen
Anne.
1t was the present Mr. Streeter who prac-
tically satisfied the world that diamonds
were to be found in South Africa. He was
nearly ruined by the flooding of the mar
ket with Cape diamonds, hut nowadays,
as he said the other day, diamonds are as
dear as ever and they will be dearer still,
for owing to labor disputes it is not prob
ably that many diamonds will be cut this
Brazilian diamonds.
There are very few now either from Bra
I'll or India. The mines do not pay to
work
rs the diamond still the most fashionable
stone?" Mr.. Streeter was asked.
No, the emerald, but the cOlored stone
must have a few diamonds to throw it up
Emeralds, when L was a youngst..r. were
worth f4OO $4,000. A twenty grain pearl
l used to sell at $50 (S4OO). Today it would
be worth GOO $4,000. Rubies and sap
phires have gone up Also b.. not so much
in proportion"
During your long experience some stones
must have come in and gone out of favor?"
Yes. the catseye, for example. brought
them in twenty years agc. Then there was
the alexandria. 1 named it after the then
Emperor of Russia. 1t is stone which is
green in daylight and red at night
What about the settings!'
"They are lighter than they used to be-
The fashion is to set precious stones in
platinum, as platinum never furnishes.
don't think with platinum we get much
brilliancy out of the stone as with silver
but silver in foggy weather goes black
Never buy a diamond set in gold. If you
see one in a gold mount you may be sus-
picious A yellow stone painted with black
looks white and it is then set in gold. That
is the way in which many pawnbrokers in
the north have been taken in. Yellow dia-
monds, except they are very fine, do not
sell In India and Burmah they all want
white
Recalling the loss of a diamond worth
$4,000 (S25,0O0), Mr.. StIeeter described how
il had been stolen by means of a muff which
it's owner held over the case where the
goods We're displayed. 1t opened and snap
ped up a brooch. Later woman was ar
rested, but she had sent the big diamond
to America, and though it was traced it was
never recovered Mr. Streeter said the
largest diamond he had ever seen weighed
about one thousand csrats and is owned by
q syndicate of dealers. It's value complete
would be about 95,0O0,0O0 C$25, 600, 600, but
it is now being cut up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
JAPAN's NAVAL OFFICERS.
The Rigorous Training to Which They
Are Subjected.
From the London Graphic.

From the London Graphic.
Lieutenant Commander X. Sato of the i'm
perial japanese navy, in lecture before
the Royal United Service Institution, said
I'm the education of naval cadets, we may
note that besides mathematics. physics and
chemistry and drawing, the language
which the cadets learn in addition to their
own. is English. During their three years
course they give twenty-eight hours week
to study, of which in the earlier years eight
are given to gunnery and seamanship, and
in the later ones an increasing number of
hours to gunnery, Soamanship, torpedo
navigation and engineering work. They
learn wrestling, too, and the art of self
defense.
when the cadet becomes midshipman
Re undergoeS education in special training
ships and it is rather curious that the three
ships set apart for these studies were the
heaviest cruisers (4,2O0 tons) which Japan
had in the China-Japanose Wharf.-The Mat
sushima, the ItsukuShima and the HaShi-
dote. When this course is completed, the
midshipman continues his education in the
ships of the standing fleet. When a mid
shipman rises to the rank of sublieutenant
and lieutenant his education is far from
finished Captains have to superintend the
instruction of officers under them, to en-
courage them and to make every effort to
educate them in the duties of their profess
sion.' That is the practical side.
There is a theoretical side of their edu-
cation. and this constitutes the formation
OF every officer so far as possible into an in
telligence officer, the main idea of the es-
says they are invited 10 write and the lee
lures they must attend being the cultivation
of what Is very properly called shop and
as such, justly admired in Japanese naval
circles. There follow the courses of instruc-
ton in the Higher Naval College at Tokyo
and there are four different courses-(a) for
selected lieutenantS to be educated in higher
military matters SO as to enable them to
fulfill important positions. This is analo-
gous to naval staff college education, and
includes subjects strategy, tactics, naval
history, fertilization, legal, military admin
istration, gunnery, torpedo. navigation, en-
cheering and shipbuildng courses. An
other course OBJ gives higher education in
gunnery. torpedo or navigation duties. The
course tc) is provided for captains, COM
manders and senior lieutenants, who may
take up the further study of any specialized
branch of their profession, and, lastly,
there is the course Id. which is broadly
defined as higher course of naval strategy
or tactics"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
TT CANNOT BE SPARED.
Young America Will Resent Discon-
tinuance Of Circus Parade.

From the Baltimore American
There are not few things which have
proved themselves absolutely essential to
the happiness, comfort and health of the
human race. Food is one Of these, drink
is another, a reasonable amount of CLOTH
ing is still another. though in the warmest
climates of the world the people are con-
WINGED that they can peg along with very
few of the articles which have been in such
great demand in Baltimore this long, cold
winter. To these might be added long
list of what are commonly accounted the
standard necessaries of life. The young
man is convinced that he could not be
happy did he not have young lady who
seemed to think lot of him-far more than
she thought of all the other chaps who
come around to see her Saturday night.
Then when he gets older he will conclude
that he cannot be happy unless she con-
sents to be his wife, and when he gets her
Is convinced that he has won a grea ter vic
tory than any of which Napoleon ever
dreamed.
Now, If there is one thing which the small
boy and his little friend the small girl think
is more necessary forrtheir happiness than
anything else in the world, except a moth
er's love and Santa Claus, it is a circus
parade. What cry of protest will come
from their threats when the news reaches
and has issued an edict that the great
street pageant must go. This will never
do. The trusts have been allowed to have
their own way far too long, anu when they
dare go to this extreme. when they say
that all the wild animals in and out of
cages, all the pebald and multi-colored
horses. all the elephants, all the long
haired ponies. all the beautiful Cfrcassian
maids from New York, Boston and other
great cities; all the men with funny masks
and dirty hands. all the gilt and glitter of
great display, will never be seen on the
street again, the time has come to call a
halt rl-s.-.t
What, we magnates, of this circus trust
would the visit of your show to a town
amount to without the steam calliope that
,an make an article Of music of which
Schubert never dreamed or even Wagner
thought! Hamlet, with the melancholy
Dane a thousand miles away, would be a
dramatic triumph compared with the hope
less failure of circus with no calliope. AS
well take the sun out of the sky, the stars
from the heavens and the peaches and
politics from the Eastern Shore as to put
the calliope out of business. Away with
the idea! The circus parade is a great in
stitution, and must be kept up as long as
there is boy and girl left in the world to
eniOy it
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-03-29
A Common Crime.
From American Medicine.

From American Medicine.
The criminal use of physicians names is
becoming more and more common. Koch
has been compelled to warn even the medi-
cal profession of America that the use of
his name by firms of charletans in many of
our larger cities was of course unauthoriz-
ed. and In spite of all the attempts of him
self and friends to prevent it legally. Re
Gently a well-known physician found that
n chemical manufacturing firm was using
his name for the wide exploitation of a
method of cure advertised as II backed by
the scientific ability and reputation of the
physician. Even If the legal Injunction will
be at last successful. there is the delay. the
harm to the reputation, and the expense, for
which there is no reparation. A similar
wrong Is the unauthorized republication of
the papers. clinical reports, etc, of physi-
clans by manufacturers of drugs, makers of
instruments, etc. all in a manner to deceive
the incautious reader and make him think
the original writer has permitted the use of
his name in this way. To such proportions
have these abuses grown that the profess
sion must be on the alert to meet the crimi-
nails with the law. One would suppose that
the terms Of the statutes already enacted
against such plain intent to deceive would
be sufficient; but IL not we should secure the
passage of such specific laws as will pre-
vent repetitions of the offense.