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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-25
PEACE CONGRESS CLOSES.
Resolutions Adopted at the Final
aa Session.

The final session of the International peace
congress at Lucerne. Switzerland, Satur-
day adopted proposition of the British
delegates for the formation of international
clubs In various countries for the purpose
of furthering the peace movement. Reso-
buttons were also passed requiring The
Hague conference to discuss the questions
OF limitation of ornaments the creation of
an International assembly for the discus
sion OF questions OF general interest and
the codification of international laws The
congress expressed the opinion that neu-
trail powers should interdict the public is
sue OF war loans in their territories.
1t was decided that the conference should
meet next year at Milan. The president,
Ellie Ducommun. delivered the closing ad-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-25

as to their reasons for coming to America,
and especially to swear that they had as
yet no employment In this country. 1t is
also said that the men were furnished with
the address of one of the accused and
J ordered to report to him.
Two weeks after the men were imported,
the lockout being success 1t Is alleged. the
accused caused the English workmen to be
discharged. on the ground that they were
not familiar with American tools or the
methods of working in this country, and
were therefore useless.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-25
Awarded the Hunt Prize.

Capt Edward H Schulz. Corps of Engi-
ners, has been awarded the Hunt prize for
1905 by the Military Service Institution OF
the United States for bis essay on Land
Defense of Seacoast Fortifcations.' The
prize is $50 and certificate OF award.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-25
KimOna FlOrentine
Silks, soc.

81 inches wide. All the new
Persian color combinations. Val
ue, 7sc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-25

New fall stock of crisp, new
All-silk Taffeta. There is serv-
ice in every yard. All the
wanted shades, including blacks,
cream and whites.
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to a certainty the number Of days the
child has gone to school during his
life. %""
After she attends to few little
things Of this kind the teacher is ready
to begin actual instruction work at 8
O'Clock, the time the public thinks her
labor begins. She has already done
more than most business men Of the
city, and is yet only well started. She
+ now ready to begin the close study
of forty or fifty different characters
and to instruct the owners in the things
most beneficial to them. She must be
a character student or her work will
not prosper. All pupils will not respond
to the same methods of teaching, and
she must find out just how to get close
to each. She keeps every one Of these
in mind constantly, and by SO doing
makes the daily stride Of each pupil
longer. ~
Headaches and touchy nerves must
be conquered after 8 O'Clock or they
will be transmitted as tho by magic
to the pupils themselves. "a blue
teacher, blue school, is the rule,
and tho there may be pain and sad
ness III Inc nedFI OF tne UGdCuGf, Snc
must not show it. She must smile thru
it all, and sometimes she wonders her
self how the children could have been
SO good all day. ...-
The most intricate and difficult
studies for the children are planned
for the morning, when they are the
most active, and here is where the OBJ
server can tell whether teacher has
| to specialize. The ever-ready "why9'
Of the s-inquisitive youngsters
would make one think the teacher was
| a specialist in all lines. The pupil may
know his multiplication table perfectly,
yet he has to be shown just why the
results are what they are, or he can
never apply what he has learned. Math-
ematics is considered the greatest
brainracker Of all branches, and the
rudiments are the most difficult for
the young mind to acquire.
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There are usually two grades to the
rooms and for nearly an hour the
teacher works out problems and ex-
plains them to sons and daughters of
many men who couldn't do them if they
were offered the Bank of England. At
the close Of this class each little stu
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At the recent annual meeting Of the
British Medical association DR.. Theo-
dore B. Hyslop, superintendent of
Bethlehem Royal hospital, a specialist
in neurology and in the treatment of
mental disease, said: g AS an alienist
and one whose whole life has been con-
cerned with the sufferings Of the mind,
4 would state that, of all hygienic meas
sures to counterfeit disturbed sleep, de-
pressed spirits and all the miserable
sequels Of a distressed mind, ] would
undoubtedly give the first place to the
simple habit of prayer. y
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reasonable time she will probably erase
the blackboard and fill it again with
new lessons.
Up to noon the teacher has done
little beside routine work and has had
no call to show her versatility. In
the afternoon, however, there is a gen.
eral change of work. It generally runs
to the kind that is easy for pupil and
hard for instructor, for then come the
nature, object and industrial lessons,
which require many hours of prepare
tion by teacher in order that the time
may be spent to the best advantage.
For this it is absolutely necessary to
have an encyclopedia; not printed
one, but one that has been carefully
prepared and stored up for ready ref
erence in her head. It is dangerous
thing for young woman to attempt
teaching if she is not so prepared, be-
cause some obstreperous youngster will
be sure to ask puzzler and then tell
his father about it if she cannot
answer.
The nature work includes all
branches of animal and plant study
and is taught in practical manner
This, of course, necessitates personal
visit to geological gardens, circuses and
greenhouses, to say nothing of the mu-
seums and the reference to books on
the subject.
For the industrial work the teacher
must be an artist and artisan, critic
and demonstration. She shows how the
fingers can be made to obey the mind
Basket-weaving, rug, blanket and mat
making tend to make the young fingers
nimble. Personal instruction is giver
to each pupil, and it often require:
many days. practice before the teacher
can make and show how to make one
of these articles. To teach a class OF
| fifty is still more difficult, yet eaci
one must turn out finished and well
made article before he can take W
other work. For originality and clev
erness of design the Minneapolis sam
Piles Of industrial work received higl
praise at the worlds fair at st. Louis
and all Of the articles on exhibition
were taken from the everyday class
work. a.
Following the industrial classes come
music, grammar and reading classes
Music is ofttimes the making of a fam
lily Of children, and if there is must
in pupils head the teacher mus
find and develop it.
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By Mile. Merri

have the doorbell ring violently and the
maid will bring in a telegram to the
hostess, who asks permission to open
and read it, whereupon she will read
aloud the announcement Of the engage
ment, then congratulations follow.
Another way is to prepare English
walnuts with pretty quotations written
and concealed inside the shells, which
are glued together; on one write the
news, --
One hostess in announcing the engage
ment had very small envelops at each
place, the outside bearing the guest IS
name, while inside the card bore the
names Of the couple. The envelop was
sealed with a gilt heart. -,
Still another hostess had her table
decorated with a miniature bridal pro-
cession, dolls exquisitely dressed, rib
bons radiated to each plate and were at
tached to heart-shaped baskets contain
ing bonbons, and the bride 3 held her
diamond ring, which she, of course, put
on. Her chair was ornamented by
huge bow Of tulle and the souvenirs
were tiny white slippers filled with
candied rice.
The flowers were bridesmaid roses,
the candles and shades pink, with glass
caEdlesticks.
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This describes the prettiest kind Of
a party for the little tots ranging in
age from 3 to 6. The mother had a
kindergarten table seating ten, with red
chairs and the regular dining groom table
was pushed aside for these. The room
was decorated with quantities Of gay
Chinese lanterns, which delighted the
children.
Under each plate there was white
lace paper dolly, paper napkin, place
card and the name spelled out with
alphabet crackers. Six tiny red candles
with shades made from red Christmas
tree candleholders, were on the table,
besides a huge angel food cake, which
held three red candles, and was sur
rounded by a hoop containing red
candles put in as close as they would
stand; the hoop was concealed by ferns
Cocoa was served in small g Buster
Brown I" mugs, with a sandwich Of whole
wheat bread, then plain vanilla ice
cream in ramekins. After this a st Jack
Horner pie was placed on the table
and each child took hold Of q red rib.
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By Margaret E. Sangster

/ give you my word that have seen
specimens of every age, from early
Phoenician and Greek art to the most
popular New York studio, huddled to-
gether in the room Of single college
student. Poor child. How could she
ever get her ideas in order with so con-
fusing a tumble about her wherever she
turned7
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As to photographs, so far as the fam
lily is concerned I advise limiting the
number to the dearest dear. One 8
mother is ones patron saint. A girl
away from home always wants to say
good morning to her mothers picture
when she begins the day, and to bid
that dear mother good night before she
lays her head on the pillow. On the
wall I would have one Madonna, not
more, and that should be the one among
Madonnas that I loved best. All the
other pictures after those of the i'm.
mediate family circle I would keep in a
drawer or box, taking them out and
looking at them from time to time, but
not allowing them either to distract my
attention or to ask from me the care
that is needed if they are to be kept
from the all-pertading dust.
A desk is necessity for girl if she
has many letters to write or much work
to do in preparing essays and theses OF
other written work.
If she be orderly and systematic she
keeps her desk with neat precision and
can put her hand in the dark on any.
thing she wants. If You happen to be g
girl whose desk is usually at SKIES and
sevens you will tell me that you find oc
casional clearings up much easier and
simpler than continual tidiness, and also
that you never have any trouble in find
ing a paper unless some one else takes
upon her the task Of arranging youl
desk for you. know that you are
right. The one individual possession
which no one should invade or modest
without authority from the owner is
desk.
Polly may keep hers in exquisite neat
ness. May, on the contrary, will fire.
quently leave hers in what looks to al
outsider fearful mess. But it is the
privilege Of both girls to close the lie
and to answer no questions. AS mat
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Novel Ways of Entertaining
Copyright. 1905.

Copyright. 1905.
I~HE 9th Of January is "Twelfth
Night,' or "old Christmas
I and offers opportunities for a
party out of the usual order. In Eng
land and many places on the continent
Twelfth Night was the time to hold the
most elaborate masque balls. =
/ An immense cake was always served,
containing ring, and the "king" or
"queen' for the evening was the guest
fortunate enough to obtain it. In his
tory we read how Mary Queen Of Scots,
honored her maid, Mary seaton, by rob-
4 ing her in her own royal apparel to be
] the "queen of Twelfth Night"
Tradition says that on this night ev-
lery vestige Of Christmas green must be
4 taken down and burned. This peace Of
fering to witches and evil spirits as
i sures "good luck'' to the household
turnout the year. r.. s4 .-.-
Invitations for Sixth Of January
party afford chance for the pen and
:! ink artist to show her skill; witches,
4 bonfires with holly wreaths and Christ
4 mas trees for fuel are appropriate sub
fjects for the cards. If there is no open
fireplace for the burning of the green's,
there may be backyard even to the
city apartment, where they may be
burned with due ceremony. NJ.
A chafng dish supper or oyster
roast, with coffee and cider, not forget
ting the cake, are most suitable for
4 Twelfth Night parties. Half the fun
Is to permit the guests to take down the
greens from pictures and windows, even
to stripping the Christmas tree Of it's
branches. The cracking fire caused by
( che pine tree boughs gives fine blaze
Tor roasting marshmallows. Request
each guest to tell story or give a
toast while his or her special armful is
burning.
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The request comes for an engagement
Z; announcer party. This can be done
in several pretty ways. Such an an.
1 snouncement is usually made at lunch.
con to which the intimate friends Of the
bride-elect are asked Hearts, true low
ers knots, cupids, bows and arrows are
all appropriate for decorations. Pink is
the best color to use, as all the world
i generally assumes lie Colour de rose
when girl is i'm this blissful state.
Before the dessert course is served
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dent hands the teacher paper on
which ten problems are worked out
in his own original style, and each Of
before the next day. With fifty chill
dren in room there are 500 problems
to be examined.
A spelling class follows, and another
set of papers is handed in to be COR
rected while the toiler is resting.
By this time the girls and boys are
restless, and few minutes are devoted
to physical culture, which serves the
double purpose Of relieving and re-
freshing the little minds and making
the little bodies graceful.
Geography, with it's puzzling names
and lines, takes up more time, and then
comes the hour for the children to play.
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bon which. had little metal tag on the
end OF it and at signal all pulled and
peppermint patties came out. Two were
tied together with red ribbon. and there
was one for each child. Then there
were swapping cracker caps containing
surprises and on leaving the dining
room each child was given. bag Of con-
fetti to throw after getting outside the
house.
The hours for this party were from 8
to 5, and the children came promptly
and went home promptly, so they were
not tired out.
When the invitations were sent out
the birthday was not mentioned
After all have assembled, pass pro-
grams ornamented with cats and tell the
guests that the questions are to be an.
swered by one word, the first syllable
Of which is cat
A waterfall and a diseases (Catar-
An instrument of torture and an ami
male (Cat).
A deluge7 (Cataclysm.)
A burial place9 (Cataeombs)
sometimes used at funeralsg (Cata-
falque.)
An unconscious state9 (Catalepsv.
A list Of names or things9 (Catalog.)
An animal found in the mountains
| (Catamount.)
A great calamity9 Catastrophe
A disease that afflicts many. (Ca-
tarrh.) 80
A boat rarely seen9 (Catamaran.}
A class or order Of ideas9 (Cate
gory.)
One who provides for the inner manl
| (Caterer.) d.
pillar.)
A cry oft heard in the nights Goat.
erwaul.)
A religious edifce9 (Cathedral.)
A beam at a ship g bows (Cathead.)
| An instrument Of tortured Goat O
| Nine Tails.)
Domestic quadrupeds9 (Cattle.)
4 An article used in illnessY Gaia
| plasm.
"A book Of questions and answers
1 (Catechism.)
For prizes copy of the Black Ca
magazine and penwiper ornamentet
by stuffed kitten may be given. Fo
refreshments, spread the table with J;
red cloth, use black cat candy boxes 70
favors, red candles in black wrough
iron holders, and the effect will b
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Copyright, 1905. by Joseph B. Bowles.
MT OF long ago I had the pleasure
M Of visiting several schools for
a girls, schools in which the stu
dents represented Iearly all the states
in the union. They were veritable rose
bud gardens Of girls. Seldom have I
seen so many pretty maids together as
in these institutions where young wo-
men in the sweet flush Of the dawn, just
the place where the brook and river
meet, were gathered to be educated. Be-
fore the number of subjects with which
they were familiar bowed my head in
humility, for girls are far more learned
now than they used to be. Yet, learned
or not, in every successive year a girl is
as like the girls who went before her as
the daisies Of one season are like the
daisies of another. A number of girls
invited me into their rooms and enter
tanned me there.
Now, whether you believe it or not,
wher girl let's one look at her room
she reveals a good deal Of her char
acter. A man IS room hardly reflects his
preferences and tastes as girls does
hers. All the rooms visited left on
my mind a general impression of ban
ners, photographs and bric-a-brac. There
were cushions as a matter of course,
and most rooms had little tables with
tea service and book shelves on the
walls in which were the favorites Of
their owners.
If a girl s brother is in Princeton,
orange is the predominating color of
her room. If in Yale she is probably
| devotee Of the blue, and SO on. The
college colors Of brother and cousin are
Loyalty adopted by schoolgirls.
i. i.
AS rule, girls have too many small
objects in their rooms which have to
be taken care Of and which, on the
whole, leave the effect Of a crazy-quilt
on memory. Fancy being i'll in a room
where photographs are pinned on every
available space on the wall, and fancy
waking up at night with the moonbeams
streaming thru the window and lighting
the faces Of all the kith and kin, the
girls one went to school with last year
the cousins in California and the ideal
maids and matrons Of Shakspere or
Petrarch or the earlier mythology.
ri
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sions of the question "why9" occupy
her time until noon.
& A warm dinner and plenty of time
to eat it puts new life into the bodies,
and more questions into the mouths of
the children, but not so with the teach
er. She may arrange for the warm
meal, but if she is like most Mime
apolis teachers she is too ambitious to
enjoy it. Instead she is more likely
to read some more of those papers
while at luncheon. @ -As
r., + + \
Sometimes a pupil may live so far
from the school that he may have to
eat his noon meal at the schoolhouse,
and if he does he is sure to ask ques-
tions, which must be answered between
bites. If her meal is finished within
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Girls Rooms Reveal Character

ter of choice, I think the neat girls
methods are the better, but, as we all
know, there is such thing as wor-
Shipping system to an extent that it de-
feats its own end.
Keep your desk and your bureau
drawers, your closet shelves and every
thing in your room in perfect order If
you can, but do not forget that to get
the days work done well and thoroly
one must sometimes sacrifice little
order.
When I think of an ideal girls room,
my first dream is Of purity. Therefore I
like white room with pale gray paper
on the walls, small bed whitley COW
cred and curtained with perhaps few
roses sprinkled here and there, sparsely,
on the coverlet, snowy curtains at the
windows, looped back with delicate
pink, and If possible tall mirror, in
which my little maid may see herself
from the top of her. dainty head to the
toes of her well-shot feet.
I would have this mirror set in q
door 30 that it should not take up any
space. A single good picture would
mean more than many small photo
graphs, and I would all the year round
have something growing, English ivy in
vases in winter, pot of forget-me-nots
or fern in summer. A girls room
should always have few flowers in it.
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As for her toilet table its belongings
should be simple and immaculate, with
very little in the way Of essences or
cosmetics which young girl does not
need Everything should strike the note
of an exquisite refinement. A banjo or
violin, if she be musical, gives an
added touch, and by all means let the
young girl have few good books, well
bound, books that she may read over
and over, and which shall become her
daily friends
Such a room will be eloquent of a
girl IS personality. It will be her refuge
when she is tired, and in it she may
have many confidential chat with the
girls for whom she most cares.
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The recess, which Is never dispensed
with in a well-regulated school, allows
the pupils to give vent to their sur
plus energy and affords an opportunity
for a little more work ON the part of
the teacher. w.. ~.
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She stands in the cold hall or in the
doorway of the building while the lines
are passing out to see that the bad
boys don't put bumps on the heads of
the good ones, and when they are once
OUT in the open she hurries back and
gets busy with some Of those papers
that were handed in earlier in the day.
Tt seems that she is hardly seated
before the belr clangs again and the
seats are filed. More classes, more ex-
plantations and more diplomatic eva
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unique. Shades may be made from red
paper with black cats pasted on.
Serve deviled crabs, sandwiches, cof
fee, olives and a mulled cider if no one
objects. IL
A Mother Goose party for grown-ups
is a very amusing affair, and it's sue
cess depends upon every one entering
into the spirit Of the occasion. The
hostess is the cold Woman Who Lived
in the Shoe,' and the guests are her
many children.
The host may be cold King Cole
If desirable, masks may be worn for the
first part Of the evening The charac-
ters are so many in "Mother Goose =
that there should be no duplicates.
For refreshments serve g tarts,' and
a great big pie decorated with black
birds, also smaller pie containing the
historic plums,' which in this case
will be bonbons.
For room decorations make posters
illustrating Mother Goose subjects; they
will be very effective Of course the
Little Boy Blue will come with his
white "woolly sheep and his horn
The FOWL" and the stpussy cat who
went to sea in the "pea green boat''
can be done by wearing animal masks
It is not necessary to describe the cos
tunes, for a Mother Goose book with
colored pictures will be the only guide
necessary.
A prize may be given for the best
costume, and may consist Of Father
Goose book.
After the grand march cards may be
played if the hostess desires.
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Questions on any subject pertaining
to this department. will cheerfully be an
swered. A reply will be sent by mail il
stamped and addressed envelop is in
/ closed, otherwise answers will appear in
] this column. Address Mile. Merri, The
Minneapolis Journal.
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Jaggles do you know you
talked sensibly to your wife?
Waggles-She woui1a:.' t listen to me.
Judge.