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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
A Typical" French Child.

From the London Mall.
Let me take Felce Boulanger (which isn't
her name) as a typical French child of my
experience, gained after nearly three years
residence in France.
She is one of five children ranging in age
from her brother of sixteen to the youngest
girl of six. Felice has skin like the sheen
of a pearl (Which is marvellous considering
the amount of indigestible food she bolts
five times a day.; big, deer-Iike eyes, long
dashed; daintily shaped but seldom clean
hands; thin, rasping and petulant voice
even in her merriest mood, and physique
like that of starved and homeless cat
narrow chested, spider-legged and stamina
less generally. Yet she seems full of vital
ity-nervous, irritable vitality-eats much
food as an English navy, and certainly has.
as my American lady friend says, heaps of
sense But to see the child eating is pain
full. though interesting in a way.
An English girl of eleven years of age.
like Felice, would be sent to bed at, say, 8
o'clock. Felice and her type and her young
er sisters sit down to dinner at $50 pm. and
stay up until IL or later, listening to the
conversation of their elders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
Training the Faculties.
From the Baltimore Herald.

krom the Baltimore Herald.
Nikola Tesla was talking about his stu
dent days at Prague
Il remember well at Prague he said.
IAN old professor of great originality and
acumen. This professor insisted on the
value of free use of the perceptive facul-
ties. and he was always pointing out the
need for this use in strange ways.
''One day, on arising to lecture he be-
gan:
Gentlemen, you do not use your facul-
ties OF observation as you should
He laid on the table before him a not
filled with some vile smelling chemical
compound-a thick, brown stuff.
When / was a student he went on. 4
did not fear to use my sense of taste
He dipped his finger deep into the pot,
and then stuck the finger in his mouth
Taste it, gentlemen. Taste it, he said.
smiling grimly.
THE evil pot passed around the class,
and one after another we dipped our fingers
in it and then sucked them clean The taste
of the thick brown compound was horrible
We made wry faces and spluttered. The
professor watched us with grim smile
When the pot was finally returned to him
his thin lips parted and lie gave a dry
chuckle.
90 must repeat. gentlemen he said, that
you do not your faculties of observa-
tion If you had looked more closely at me
you would have observed that the finger l
put in my mouth was not the one l dipped
into the pot
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
AZTEcs ARE A STRONG RACE.
Agave Plant Supplies Them With
Drink, Food and Clothing.

From the Southern Workman.
The AZtecs Of old were not only great
soldiers. but also diligent cultivators of
the soil, and had acquired considerable
proficiency in agriculture, although they
had no horses, oxen or other animals of
draft. To this day the men earn their liv-
ing chiefly as day laborers in the fields
now owned by the Mexicans.
The staple product now, as of yore, is
the maize and next to it the maguey or
agave, the sweet sap of which is the prin-
cipal material for the famous Mexican
pulque. Some species are cultivated as
vegetables, others for the sake of their
leaves, which yield a strong fiber that
can be woven into fabrics. Hence the
saying that the agave supplies the peo-
pie with drink, food and clothing. The
men have little ambition to excel in
handicraft. Farriery and carpentry are
about the only trades they care to take
up. In the cities they work as porters,
carriers or peddlers in small way.
Like all southern Indians their COM
plexion is of a rudy chocolate brown
and they are not particularly good look
ing. Most of the women now have large
hands and feet probably the Inheritance
of generations of hard workers. And they
are strong. In the warehouse of a wine
merchant an Aztec porter was seen to
take cask of claret on his back and
carry it quite a distance. The load GER
tainly weighed not less than 400 pounds
and no white man would have thought
of lifting it.
The law requires the people in the
cities to forSake the Indian breechclotb
and poncho and assume the regulation
garb OF the poor working class of Mex
lco-the wide, loose trousers of cotton
cloth or manta, with jacket to match
put the breechcloth is worn outside of
the trousers and thereby replaces the
civilized suspenders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
SECRET BENEFACTORs.
Persons Who Give Literally Without
Disclosing Names.
From Tit-Bfts


Anonymous gifts to charities are COM
mon enough, but it may be news to readers
that there is section Of the community
VINO give largely and regularly and who
nave positive dread of anybody in tho
world knowing that they have so dis
posed of a penny
Mr. Dibdin the secretary of the Natton,,
L1eooat Institution. informed the writer
that ne was going into his outer office ono
oay "hen gentleman entered and in
quired, is Mr.. Dibdin in?" Yes" said
the ofhcial asked for; do you wish to seq
hlm? "Oh, no. the stranger replied: sit
VIII do just as well if you give this en-
velope into his own hands," and so saving
ne handed over the envelope and hurried
out OF the place. When it was onened n
was found to contain FL 600 banknote
another old gentleman entered the office
one evening some seventeen or eighteen
years ago, remarking, LAS l happened to be
passing, having noticed the name outside
thought L would look in and see IT, yoi,
We're in want Of any money" The secre
tary assured him that the institution was
constantly in need of money. Without pro-
uucins any at that moment, the caller
then proceeded 10 talk politics and asked
lot MT. Dlbdlns views on Mr.. Balfour and
other statesmen who were prominently be-
fore the public. The visitor appeared ia
agree heartily with all that the secretary
SAID, and presently, as if to show his ap-
probation of these views. he produced a
banknote and laid it on the desk
They still went talking politics and
IN little while the old gentleman brought
out another banknote and laid it on TOP
or the first one Presently he added a
third, fourth and fifth to the pile and Mr.
Dibdin, then coming TO the conclusion
that 1t was the politics that were doing it.
Kept on talking them as long as he could.
soon fZ,oOo worth of banknotes lay on the
table, and then the caller. who declined to
give his name, abruptly walked out of the
once and has never been seen or heard of
since by the officials of the institution
me London Biblewoman's Mission was
fortunate to enjoy a somewhat similar ex-
perlence once every year for several wears
An elderly gentleman walked into the
once once annually and inquired what was
the total amount of the missions deficit.
When he was informed of 1t he put down
the money and walked out From this
source the mission received 5000 in All
single donation on one occasion heinz
for much as $1,000 s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
CHEAP HOMEMADE FILTER.
Also How to Mend China and How to
Remove a Glass Stopper.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
In our business we come to acquire
knowledge of how to do many little things
that the housekeeper would gladly welcome
as additions to her store of information, but
generally we don't even know ourselves the
value of the miscellaneous knowledge until
something arises that puts 1t in practice"
a man who is in the housefurnishing trade
said to me-
LAS an instance of this, at my home last
week one of my wife's friends, who is visit
ing u.s. found that the glass stopper in her
cologne bottle was fast and she couldn't
remove it. This is an easy thing to over
come when one knows how I took a bit of
cloth, soaked it in some hot water and
wrapped it around the neck of the bottle.
In moment the glass had expanded suff1-
GENTLY to enable US to remove the stopper
with ease
There is another thing which occurs to
me which housekeepers might like to know
and that is how to mend china so that it
will not be marred and will stay mended.
Take some quickline and powder it. then
pour on this the white of an egg A whey
of vinegar and milk in equal parts must
then be made and added to the lime and
egg, after which the whole must be beaten
we'll and slightly warmed. The broken edges
of whatever is to be mended must then be
exposed to heat for a few seconds, after
which the cement may be applied in only
a very thin coat, the broken edges pressed
firmly together, and when the cement has
dried it will be more enduring than the
plate or cup itself I have seen broken
fnts so mended and after few days ham
mered with X. The stone broke of
course, under the hammering, but in other
places than where the break had formerly
been. That shows the enduring qualities
of it.
Here is another piece of informa ton that
may be valuable, and that is how to make
an inexpensive but entirely reliable filter.
For this purpose one had better take a
stone jar. though for that matter most any
receptacle will do. A hole sufficiently large
for the stream of water one desires to en-
ter the filter should be bored in the bottom,
and after this is accomplished the recep-
tacle must be filled with a layer of sand
several inches deep, then layer of bits of
sponge, and on this to a level even with
the top of the jar plenty of small gravel
or pebbles.
when the receptacle has been so filled a
piece of wire screen is to be fastened over
the top, made secure with bands of wire.
The homemade filter must then be inverted
over another receptacle into which the fill
tered water is to drop, the little orifice at
tached to the hydrant by means of small
hose, and it is ready for business-ready to
purify the water and render it clear
the proverbial crystal. Except for the orig
fnal cost of the jar and hose. which may be
used indefinitely, the entire cost of the
thing will not be more than couple Of
cents, and the filtering ingredients may be
cleaned each day with hot water without
very much trouble, or new sand and gravel
used frequently, just as one may elect"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
Milk Saloons of Warsaw.

From the Creamery Journal.
The town of Warsaw may be called the
milk producers Eden, although the milk
consumers Eden it certainly is not. There
is probably nowhere such a milk town"
as this. Restaurants are but little fire.
quented. On the other hand, the public fire.
quent the various dairies in great numbers
in order to chat with friends or read the
newspapers, to the accompaniment of
black white coffee a glass of cold
warm milk. To close bargain or to
talk business, the milk saloon is resorted
played in these recognized places of pub
lie resort. But, in spite of this enormous
consumption of milk, the supply is OF
the most wretched; in fact, 1t is inde-
scribably bad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
Birth Rate in Prussia.

Berlin Correspondence London Standard.
Statistical returns issued by the Prusslan
ministry of the interior shows that there
has been, during the last thirty years. a
remarkable decrease in the birth rate in
ali Prussian towns with populations ex-
ceeding 100000. From 1875 to 1880 the av-
erage birth rate per thousand of the pop
Ulation of Berlin was 45; from 1881 to 1885,
IS; from. 1886 to 1890. "a: from 1891 to 1898,
81. and from 1896 to 1900 1t was % The
bi- n rate at Breslau decreased from A3
in 1878 to 80 in 1890 and at Krefeld from
&C to 80 during the same period There
has been a similar diminution in the birth
rate of nineteen other Prussian towns
while no increase of birth rate in any Prus-
sian town is recorded. It is noteworthy.
however, that, while the birth rate has de-
creased, the marriage rate in all the Prus.
sian towns is still as high as II was thirty
years ago. and in some cases is higher than
1T any time since 1875.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06

determination of game, there has been
great falling off in the production of bead
ed buckskin work, moccasins. leggins, etc,
but in these localities this falling off has
usually been made up by corresponding
increase in the number of woven bead ar
ticles made. There is no way of exactly es-
timating the amounts realized by the In
dams from the sale of native products
these sales being made partly through In
dian traders, partly direct to eastern deal
ers and largely, especially in the south
west, by individual Indians to tourists
dealers and curio hunters. The president
Of the Santa Fe railroad made the state
ment that the sales of Indian goods at sta
lions along his lines have increased 1000
per cent in the last ten years and that
similar statements have been made by off,
GERS of the Southern Pacific road.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
Novels by Indians.
From the Chicago Journal.

T CN1CHRO JOUfha1.
OF late years the number of writers
among the Cherokees has greatly increased.
There are historians in the tribe whose
works are used as text books in the Indian
schools, and who are. cited as authorities
not to be disputed. There are also Indians
who have written codes of law which be-
fore being put In permanent form had been
handed down from generation to genera
ton. The Indians today obey these laws
with greater reverence than they do the
laws of the United States. There are In
dian novelists-novelists who devote their
time to entertaining the Indian mind with
romance with entangled plots and blood
curdling climaxes. These books are popu-
lar among the Indians. Edition after edition
of some works is published and they are
read by buck and squaw alike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
The Flag Of the Vatican.
london Pail Mall Gazette.

From the London PaI Mall Gazette.
The papal flag is comparatively unfamiliar
outside Of the Eternal city. The war flag of
the defunct temporal power of the pope
was white, and in it's center stood figures of
St. Peter and st. Paul, with the cross keys
and tiara above them. The flag of the mer-
chant ships owned ~ the subjects of the
states of the church va curious combina-
alton, half yellow and half white, with the
design Of the cross keys on the white. In
the banner used by the Crusader King of
Jerusalem, Godfrey, the only tinctures in
troduced were the two metals, gold and
silver, five golden crosses being placed upon
silver field. This Vas done with the in
tentiOn of making the device unique, as in
all other cases It is deemed false heraldry
to place metal on metal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
Getting Rich Slowly.
From the Troy Press.

Ordinarily great fortune is built up like
a stone wall-a stone at time. The young
man who declines to lay the first stone, be-
cause it comes SO far short of a wall, will
never make progress In financial masonry.
An immense proportion of the people of
this country live up to their incomes lay
ing aside nothing for the traditional rainy
day. Because they cannot save 81 900 in a
bunch they save nothing The greatest
financial kings of the world have not been
above taking care of the pennies even. The
great financial institutions look after even
the fractions Of pennies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
Is Leprosy Curablep
From the London Globe.

The organizing secretary of the mission
to lepers in India and the east informs us
that treatment with leprolin, the new
serum prepared by Capt Rost, 1. M. s., is
being tried in several of the Indian asylums
of the mission to .lepers. At Purulia, in
Bengal (where the society supports 900
lepers), three cases are declared by the
deputy sanitary commissioner of the dis
trict to be ito all intent and purpose COM
pletely cured" Others show less favorable
results. If found to be of lasting benefit
the society viii adopt the treatment In
others Of its forty-two asylums in India
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
Easy.
he Houston Post.

From the Houston Post
II should think you would have had a
hard time choosing between Harold and
Leslie: both handsome, well bred and
wealthy"
No trouble at ALL assure you"
Then tell me how you decided to marry
Harold instead of Leslie"
Because Harold proposed and Leslie did
not"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
Supreme.
From Life.

Don't you think she knows a great deal
for girl who has never had any advan-
tages?'
But she has had advantages. She has
been kept out of school most of her life.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
Penalty Of Repose,

From the New York Sun.
1t was evident that the Winged Mercury
was having hard work to maintain hh
classic attitude.
my foots asleep" he walled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06

and the east. Meanwhile DR.. Wilson Of
Miraj Bombay presidency, has expressed
the opinion that Capt. Rost has made
very great discovery and again opened the
door of hope to the lepers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06
Demand Very Large.

The demand for native Indian work has
very largely increased during the past five
years. The production has also increased,
but not uniformly For instance, in many
parts Of the country, owing to the practical
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-06

Pitt was prime m.nIster At twenty four:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28
Tnos. ]. OWEN & soy. AUcTIoNEERs-

EXECuTRIX's SALE OF VALUABLE BUILDING
SITES BEING VACANT lot AT THF
NGRTHWEST CORNER OF BOTH AND o
SIS. NV, Fronting AZ FEET 6 INCHES
On 9 ST. BY 1875 FEET ON 30TH ST.
by virtue OF order OF the Supreme Court OF
the District OF Columbia. holding Probate Court
passed In re estate OF Laura 5. II. Cooke deceased
No, ls9nJ. administration the undersigned exec
n ntrx VIII ofer for sale at public auction to the
highest bidder In froat of the premises on SAT-
uRDAi. THE FOURTH DAY OF FEBRUARY
1905, AT FOUR O'CLOCK PM. all that pIcre or
parcel OF real estate situate In the city of WASH
ingteh. ia the District of Columbia. known and
DISTINGUISHED as aud being part OF square num-
bered twelve hundred and eighty five U2sol H.
the city Of Washington In the District az Coiun,
bia, said square heing formerly known as saua re-
numbered one hundred aud twelve Oi2) of George
town beginning for the sane at the infersect,o,
OF the aofth iineref z Stoddert street with the
west line OF Goth Washinvfoa street and RUNNING
thence with the said north line OF said q street in
westerly direction forty three (43) feet and sly
t6) inches. thence at right angles with the said
ton one hundred and thirty-Hve d35j feet thence
eastwardiy and parallel 10 the said north line of
said street forty three t4:D feet and siY fS)
inches TO the ives, line OF 30th street and thence
with the said west line OF Both street In a south
ery direction to the place of beginning"
Terms of sale: One-thfrd OF the purchase money
In cash aud the balance in two equal instalLuents
at aud two years fron, day OF sale. With inter-
est at the rate OF per centum per aBnuni, Sc
cured iy deed of trust the property sold. or all
cash. Mt the option Of the purchaser. A deposit
of two hundred t$20oi dollars to BIZ required at
the tine of sale and all conveyapcfug at cost OF
purchaser. II the terms Of sale are not complied
with within ten days from date OF sale the said
property at the risk and cost OF the defaultins
purchaser. KATE NJ. @. MAGRUDER,
JAMES n. TAYLOR. Solicitor. Executrix.
jsSd&ds e1a 18th q. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28
JAMES W. RADCLIFFE, AUCrIoNEER.
TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
real. ESTATE. TWo-STORY FRAME HOUSE,

TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED
real. ESTATE. TWO STORY FRAME HOUSE
No 4l4 18TH ST Sc
By virtue OF two certain deeds of trust duly re-
corded in Iibers Nos 2ti and 2T6l, folios 49, and
26l ct seq. OF the land records of the District of
Columbia and At the request of the party secured
thereby. We tie undersigned trustees will sell Mt
public auction. in front If the premises on MON
DAY, THE SIXTH DAY or FEBRUARY, A. d.
1905, AT HALFPAST FOUR O'CLOCK PM the
following described laud and premises. situate in
the city OF Washington. in the District of Column
bia, and designated as and being original lot
eleven I'D, in squire numbered ten hundred and
twenty-five QO7oJ together with the improve
ments etc.
Terms OF sale: One third OF the purchase money to
be paid In cash and the balance in two equal INSTALL
nents payable In and two years with interest
six per ccntum per annum, payable semI-annually
from day n sale, secured by deed of trust upon
the property sold. or all cash, at the option OF
the purchaser \ deposit Of 500 will be required
OF the purchaser at the time of sale. All convey
ancing recording and notaral fees at the cost OF
The purchaser. Terms of sale 70 be complied with
within fifteen days from day Of sale otherwise the
trustees reserve the right resell the property Mt
Ihe risk and cost NJ the defauting purchaser after
hve days advertisement of such resale In The
Evening star. newspaper published In the CITY
of Washington. d. C. VIC ''
HENRY IT. BERGMAN
GEORGE NJ. E1iNfERICH
Jn-p-nSNhS Trustees
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28
Topics About. Town.
rom the New York sdr

From the New IONA qua.
The daughter Of "a most excellent family,
which had great ambitions for her socially,
felt called" a month or so ago to be a
nurse. Soon af2eryard she was searching
through the big jewelry stores for watch.
She had watches. but not of the kind nurses
carry. She had been told that she must
have a watch with a second hand with
which to compare pulse beats. In q store
asked sweetly for a secondhand watch
The clerk stared in amusement
YES" she insisted, 7 want second
hand watch.
I'VE do not deal i, them. Miss--'' said
the manager, who had known her when she
was very little girl and her mother before
her.
II beg your pardon snapped the young
woman. II have been mistaken in the Inn
preston that this was a first-class estab-
lishment. Good-day,
This scene was repeated at several other
reputable jeweiry houses before q young
clerk OWNED what kind of a second
hand watch the young woman was seek
Ing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-01-28
THos. ]. OWEN & son, AUCTIoNEERs.


TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLE BRICK RESI-
EENCE NO. 1872 KENESAW ST. NV.
BY virtue OF certain deed of trust duly recorded
In ber 2651. follos "a ct seq of the land records
OF the District of Columbia. and at the request
OF the party secured thereby. we. the under
signed trustees will sell at public auction. in front
or the premises, en- THU RSDAY, THE SECOND
DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1905, AT FOUR O'CLOCK
T. NJ, the following described land and premises,
situate and lying In the county of Washington,
District of Columbia to-wlt All of lot numbered
twenty nine 20, in Maurice Laupheimers subdi-
VISION OF part Of block numbered thirty-f (35),
Columbia Heights" as per plat recorded in liber,
County No 8, folio 1871 OF The records of The
office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia,
subject to right of way the four az feet
Of said lot for alley purposes. together with the
improvements thereon. Sold subject TO prior
deei of trust for $4,000, due. April 2, 1905.
Terms; All over and above said prior incum-
braEcc TO be paid in cash A deposit of 500 re-
qrired at time Of sale. Conyeyancing at cost of
purchaser. Terms to be complied with within ff
teen days, otherwise the trustees will resell the
property at risk and of defaulting purchaser.
CHARLES ID. LIEBERMANN,
HARRY B. WILSON,
132l-d&ds Trustees.