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throngins the corridors and class rooms.
People are naturally attracted to such con-
crete specimens of hand work. the cooking.
sewing, drawing. bench work, machine and
forge, millinery, school gardens, kindergar-
ten, all of which, valuable in their true
place, are apt to hold the attention at the
expense of the reading, spelling, compost
tion history, geography and arithmetic
Only the visitor who sits down and looks
beyond the decorated cover finds the care
fully performer exercises within.
The casual visitor would fancy that draw
ing was the dominant work of the grades
but any one who spends any time ON the
piles of exercises In the three Rs will real
ize that the proportion is not to be judged
by the appearance.
The Armstrong and Mckinley exhibits
suffer much the academic schools
from the natural desire of the visitor to
see things made. rather than to examine
with care the volumes of exercises which
show the thought back of the work
Seats for Visitors.
In the Mckinley machine shop every one
is attracted to the letter seals which are
being made for those who register.
Three machines are required to turn the
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clear working methods. They are the work
of large number of individual pupils.
On the tables are sets representing the
work of every pupil in the school. They
are most varied in type and have some fea-
lures OF unusual interest. The card files,
records and indces, the banking forms and
the sets of Office papers attract especial at
tention, while the Office machinery inelud-
ing an adding machine and a billing ma
chine, -elaim their own particular following
The exhibit, as a whole consists princi-
pally CT routine work. and its excellent form
and careful penmanship and ruling give
a clear idea of the high standard in prac-
teal work obtained in the high school,
Tie department of commercial geography,
sharing room Is with drawing makes a
full display, with several hundred charts,
diagrams and compositions. Occupying the
space near the ceiling are six large charts,
about five feet square, representing in solid
bars and circles, with different colors, I'M
portant facts in physical geography, man.
ufaeturing, mining, agriculture and other
leading branches. On the desks underneath
are arranged other examples of the same
lines of thought giving the conceptions of
the pupil as to the best methods of graph
ically handling this information. In addi-
ton are numerous compositions, treating
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HOTELS.
Determination of Sex.

From the New York Globe.
In the course of a paper describing the re-
markabie effects which can be produced
upon butterflies by varying their surround
ings and food, Prof. Arnold Pictet comments
on the claims of several scientists that they
can determine sex by appropriate feeding;
that is. that male offspring can be pro-
duced by exclusive use of certain foods, and
females by other diets. He points out that
although certain changes of coloring and
variations in size can be obtained with con-
siderable certainty by regulated feeding,
this is obviously very different thing
from the actual control of sex In this con-
nection paper read by Prof. E. B. Wilson
at the recent meeting of the National Acad-
envy of Sciences at New Haven Is Of inter-
est He described his experiments with a
series OF bugs in which the growth and be-
hayfor of certain primitive bodies known
as chromosomes indicated, he thought that
the determination of sex occurred at the
time of fertilization.
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A Long Faced Cat.
From the Pail Mali Gazette.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
About five weeks ago there came to the
geological Gardens cat which was UNI
like any other cat previously exhibited
by the society. This animal, which occu-
pies a cage in the small mammals house,
has now been named felis badia, and its
home is believed to be in Borneo The
color of its short, smooth fur is hardly to
be described as hay--it is gray rather
than brown, and the inclination to chest
nut is very slight indeed The bay cat, as
We must call it. is pretty creature
short legged and long bodied. with a
thick. tapering tail of no great length.
For a cat the shape of its head is re-
narkable, and 1t has rather small ears.
Instead of the short, round face of the
typical cat, the face of this animal is
comparatively long. But in its move
ments this curious pussy" is true to the
Instincts of its race In the stealthy tread
In the manner OF opening the mouth.
stretching the limbs and pretruding the
claws, to say nothing of the method of
carrying the tail. there is no mistaking
the cat. This interesting inmate of tile
zoo" is fairly tame and apparently In the
best OF health.
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SCALE INSECTS.
The San Jose and Three Others That
Are Often Confused With It.

u.
From the Garden Magazine
The southern gardener especially should
attend to spraying his fruit trees In jan
uary, and even in the north the practice
will be profitable. The San Jose scale is
the worst Of all the scales In the southern
states it Is particularly destructive because
efsits long breeding period. the young ap-
pearfng from May until the following jan
uary.
This scale chooses the valuable fruits for
It's Eictims-peach. plum, cherry. pear and
apple, in& the order named, and deyours
many ornamentals and the useful currant
besides 1t is circular, gray, and produces
reddish color on the bark which 1t in
FISTS. Its presence may be easily detect
ed by the yellow juice which exudes when
the blade of knife or even the thumb
nall is drawn firmly along the infested
shoot
There are three other scales often con-
fused with the San Jose, but no one Of
them SO deadly nor so hard to deal with.
They are:
The West Indian peach scaie which, ac-
eording to State Entomologist Smith Of
Georgia ranks next to the San Jose In
danger, and has shown itself capable OF
destroying entire peach orchards in the
south. The scale Is about one-twelfth of an
with q reddish yellow nipple. little to
ons side OF the center. The male scales
are snow white and linear This need
never be confused with the dark gray OF
black scales of the San Jose.
The oyster scale Is OF light brown, about
an eighth OF an inch long, slender and
pear shaped. usually slightly curved 1t
winters In the egg and sometimes fc/ms a
thick dirty white incrustation like that Of
the West Indian peach scale but not SO
yellow.
The scurfy scale. white or grayish-white,
Is about one-tenth of an inch long ex-
panding regularly from slender tip
The last two thrive upon young apple
trees, ash. willow. poplar and japanese
ounce. Both may be controlled by thor
ough spraying with either whale-oil soap
solution or kerosene emulsion applied
when the crawling young are most abun-
dant. -
But to fight the deadly San Jose and to
scale, quite different tactics are necessary.
A winter wash must be applied Prepa-
rations Of Grade petroleum have been found
useful applied in the winter. but we depend
almost entirely on 81 liTne-sulphur wash put
together In the following way:
Bring few pals of water nearly to
boil in a large iron kettle, add twenty
pounds of good stone lime following imme-
diately with fifteen pounds of flowers of
sulphur. Stir at once and keep boiling rap
move. strain through a wire screen such as
ordinary mosquito netting and dilute with
cold water to fifty gallons.
An unboiled wash may be made in bar
rel or tub. shaking the requisite amount
Of lime with warm water; add the sulphur
and then ten or twelve pounds of sal soda.
Stir till the shaking Is practically COM
pleted, cover with burlap and allow 1t to
stand about thirty minutes or more. Strain
and dilute as for other. washes,
Another self-boiled wash Is made by sub
stituting from four to six pounds of caustic
soda for the sal soda mentioned above
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gOUj7T H]IEIRN RAILWAY,

Trains leave from Pennsylvania Station.
7:s5 am. Daily. Local for Harrisonburs, War
1851 am. Daily. Washington and Florida Lin.
tied. Through coaches and sleeper to Columbia,
Savannah and Jacksonville. Parlor car to Pine.
hlrst: y. c., week days Dining car service.
First-class coaches and sleeper to New Orleans.
Dining car service.
4:Oi pm. Week Days. Local for Harrisonbura
aud way stations Manassas branch.
4:55 pm Daily Local for Warrenton and Char.
lottesyille.
7:so pm daily. New York and Atlanta EXPRESS
First-elass coach to Atlanta, sleeper to Columbus
Ga; Sunset tourist sleeper Wash ington to San
$50 pm. Daily. New York and Florida Exuress
Through coaches and sleepers to Columbia Savan.
sab and jacksonville. Sleeper to Augusta ana
Port Tampa. Dining car service la carte.
tied (via Lynchburg). Firstelass coach and seene,
10 Roanoke Knoxville, Chattanooga and Memphis.
sleeper to Birmingham and New Orleans. Dining
service.
Limited. All Pullman train; observation car Ia
Atlanta and Macon: club to Atlanta: sleepers
to Nashville. Atlanta, Macon, Birmingham. Mem.
phis and New oTlean n, Dining car service.
Leave Washington S:l0 am, 30 4:45 b.os
pm week days, for Bluemont: 6:2S pm wees
days for Leesburg only. On Sunday leave Wash.
ington e;io am, 500 Pm for Bluemont;
ton e;42 6:52, $40. $3.50 an. 500, $3.50 and 9:5o
pm daily. Local trains from Harrisonburg II IS
q. IN. week days and e:20 pm. daily. From Char.
lottesyIile, $40 an; from Lynchburg $50 pm.
Information can be had at ticket Offices 705 18th
st.. 511 Pa. and Pennsylvania station Bag
gage checked through from hotels and residences.
Phone Main I7Ie spE + Il Gag ses ser Mss
Dec. If. 5. II. HARDwIcK, Pass. Traf Mgr
1905. W. II. TAYLoE. Gen. Pass Agent.
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LAST DAY OF EXHIBIT
School Centennial Celebration
Ends Tonight.
GOOD SHOWING MADE
EXAMPLES OF HOW PRACTICAL
EDUCATION Is APPLIED.
Business Men Pleased With Results
Normal School Teacher Averts
Panic by Careful Management.

Centennial exercises of the local public
schools, which have occupied the minds of
teachers and pupils for year, and which
have attracted the attention of the public
throughout the week, will end tonight when
the doors of the four high school buildings
are closed at 10 o'clock.
Superintendent Van Sickle of the Balti-
more public schools examined the work yes
terday and expressed himself as well
pleased with the manner and scope Of the
system.
Regret is expressed by educators in gem
eral that the true value OF the exhibit
cannot be appreciated by the crowds
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plain brass rods into convenient and nicely
turned seals. First the blanks are turned
out from the bar, then the engraver works
upon the face, finally the buffing prepares
for the visitor nicely polished piece which
has been in the process of making for less
than minute and half. The Idea OF
illustrating the mechanism of the ma
chine work by making seals and buttons
was due to the popular instructor, Mr.. q.
w. Hicox.
In the cooking, nursing first aid to In
jured exhibit Miss Jacobs, the director,
claims that the teaching of "Right-nving"
is the fourth r. and certainly the eager
ness of the crowds to attend the lessons
given during the day and evening indicate
that the course Is popular.
Probably the most interesting exhibit to
the business man is that of the schools
which are to occupy the new Business High
School with the opening OF the session In
january,
The arrangement of the business work is
such that the close relationship of the vari-
Gus departments Is Immediately apparent.
The commercial laws and geography,
stenography and English business arith-
metic and bookkeeping are, at glance,
seen to hang together. Examination shows
the work to be good in form and accurate.
Its combination of the requirements of the
business college with the culture elements
admiration of employers who want their
clerks to know something more than the
mechanism Of the typewriter.
Exhibit Of Business Practice.
The exhibit OF the department Of busi-
ness practice Is in itself an example of
business order and system. While cover
ing wide range of work in business arith-
metic. applied arithmetic. elementary and
higher bookkeeping, business forms and
card records, all branches are SO ar
ranged and co-ordinated as to make the ex-
hibit unit. A series of charts line the
walls and illustrate the main courses OF
study. These show model forms and make
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Chesapeake & Ohio nv.
Schedule effective November %. 1908;

Schedule effective November rs 1903,
Grains leave Pennsylvania Statfon)
9 30 pm Dsily-cHICAGo AND ST. LOUIS SpE-
C1AL. Solid yestibule, eiectric-lighted Dining
Car train to Cincinnati. Reaches Cincinnati
500 am, Louisville II 90 am. st. Louis $50
pm, Chicago, $50 pm. Pullman service to
Louisville. Cincinnati, Indianaroits Chicago and
st. Louis. Connection for Virginia Hot Springs
Dining Car from Washington; meals la carrie
II:i0 pm. Daily-F. r. v. Limited. Solid yesfi.
bule. electric lighted Dining Car train to Gin.
cinnati. Pullman Eleepers to Cincinnati ley
iDgton and Louisville without change Com
partment sleeper TO Virginia Hot Springs daily
except sunday. Sleepers Cincinnati 10 Chfrs 20
and s.. Louis. Dining serving meals : Ia
carte.
Reservation and tickets at Chesapeake and Ohio
office, 5i3 Pennsylvania avenue; 6l9 Fourteenth
street +. and at the station. Telephone call
$3.50 for Pennsylvania II. r. Cab Service
Telephons Main 1885, General Passenger AGENT.
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different phases Of geographical study both
in language and in Illustration, the whole
done by the students without any help
from the teacher. Not only Is the course at
present displayed for both first and second
year classes, but there are many specimens
from previous years. The whole work is
shown to the visitor as completely as can
be done without his actually hearing the
recitations day by day In class.
stenography and Typewriting.
In room "a charts are displayed illustrat-
Ing the work Of the different students in
the departments of stenography and type
writing, showing their progress step by step
until they complete the course at the close
of their second year. The charts also show
how these subjects are taught from the
simple exercises for the beginner to the
more difficult ones preparatory to gradual
ton.
The table work. neatly and carefully
bound and labeled. arranged alphabetically,
represents the work Of each section IN the
school at the different stages Of the work.
One Of the most interesting charts repre-
sents the method adopted by the Business
High School in labelling the votes which
were sent to The Star for the art contest.
The process Of hektographing and mimeo-
graphing are also explained by some very
efficient pupils.
In room 90 are displayed simple exercises
in shorthand blackboard work. representing
the work of a member from each of the four
teen first-year sections, and a more advanced
exercise written by members of the second
year class. The similarity of the work is
quite pronounced, although written by so
many different students. A demonstration
is given in this room daily of the work ac-
complished during the first year and also
during the second year, first quarter of ex-
ercises in correct lingering and memorized
typewriting.
Drawing, law and English. penmanship
and formal letter writing also form impor-
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Novel Punishment.
rom the New York Press.


The officers on Governors Island are
telling an excellent story on Gen. Fred
Grant. 1t seems that two soldiers had been
in the habit of getting into a scrap every
day, and were constantly up before their
colonel for discipline. Every sort OF nild
punishment was tried without avail, till
at last the commander of the Department
of the East was appealed to. After taking
horizontal view OF 1t the general sent for
the sergeant major and said, '.Just see that
those two men. Crowley and Hitohins. clean
outside while Hitchins attends to tbs In
side; and. recollect, neither man Il TO Ieave
any window siu the other has ilnishe6"
enemies scowled thunderousiy. even murs
derously, at each other tor i've windowns
but flesh end blood could hold out no
longer. At the sixth they burst out laughs
ing. and have been the best Of friends ever
sinca
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Prize Picture Contest
Amateur Photographers,

The Sunday Stars Photographs
contests for the succeeding sun
days, each contest closing on the
preceding Monday. will be for pic
lures on the following subjects:
Sunday, Dec. 31.-POrtraits.
Sunday, Jan. Humorous Pictures.
Sunday, Jan. 14.--Historic Places.
Sunday, Jan. 21.-Babies.
Sunday, Jan. 2S.-Scenes IN Zoolori.
cal Park.
Sunday, Feb. 4.-Street Scenes,
:-unday, Feb. u.-Odd and Unusual
Views.
sunday, Feb. 1e-Scenes in Rocvx
Greek Park.
Sunday. Feb. T.--Landscapes.
There will be three prizes offered
IN each contest, as follows:
FIRST PRIZE $500.
SECOND PRIzE, SEQ.
THIRD PRIZE, $2.00
Any amateur photographer resId-
lnr Ii the District OF Columbia mav
compete for these prizes. Thoaa
who wish their photographs re-
turned should enclse q Stamped
ana addressed enveIope. Each pis-
ture must have name OF photoar3-
pher on tta back
aand portraits this week is
SUNDAY W0EE0n DHA0
V1etinGt0n, -. g.
rhotoerapAio co1Eolls
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tant parts of the Business High School dis
play.
Miss Sipe Prevents Panic.


play.
Miss Sipe Prevents Panic.
Last night while the building was crowd
ed the electric lights were suddenly shut
off. In the many class rooms where groups
OF small children were being given special
lessons there was a moment when the
slightest excitement would have produced
panic. Mr.. Allan Davis principal said
after the twenty minutes during which the
building was in total darkness that the ex-
hlbifion of self-eontrol the part of the
tiny first and second grade children was
remarkable.
Miss Susan B. Sipe, wkose wonderful work
In school gardening is transforming the APP
pearanee of the buildings throughout the
city and IS attracting attention in the north
ana west, prevented a panic among the first
grade children by beginning to tell Christ
mas stories. The idea was taken up from
room to room where normal girls were In
charge of kindergarten classes and with
stories and singing the awful moments were
passed. Absolutely no disorder occurred
and no one, was injured. Mr.. DAVIS said
the thropg of visitors deserved to be con-
graduated on their GOODNESS and their viii
linsness 10 obey the requests and instruc-
tons of those in charge.
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Another Mystery of Paris.
rom the London Globe


There was on Saturday sprung upon
Paris by the Matin a sensation more ex-
traordinary than any that has hitherto
been known in modern times. In any
paper of less standing the facts alleged
would seem ridiculous; even in the Matin
they are hardly credible. although the
editor declares himself TO have absolute
knowledge that they are true. The ALE
CATION Is that in the very heart of Paris
there are seventy men entombed alive In
noisome dens, deprived of light and air.
where they are slowly dying under ter
rible conditions. They are said to be thus
confined by force, of which the nature
and identity arc not revealed, even IL
they are known. The exact locality of
this "black hole" of Paris the journal adj
mits that 1t has not yet been able to as
certain. although In the strongest man
ner affirming its existence within quad
rHateral formed by Reamur, sRicheiieu
and RiuoH streets and the Sebastopol
boulevard The public are invited to join
the journal In tracking IT down ,~u-r.s
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Seaboard Air Line Railway

TICKET OFFICE, 1921 PESNA. AVE.
For Petersburg. Raleigh. Wilmington. Columbia.
Savannah. Jacksonville, Tampa, Atlanta, Birming-
ham. Mobile. Pensacola and New Orleans.
1880 An. DAILY = Seaboard Mall - Through
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Cafe dining car Washington to Hamlet. N. @.
6.25 PM. DAILY-Staboard Express-Soiid train
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Through sleeper to Atlanta and Birmingham. Cafe
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Couldn't See the Point.

From the Yonkers Statesman.
wright-"You say he wrote Jokes to keep
the wolf from the door?"
Penman-tYes, but / guess the wolf did
not recognize them as jokes"
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RAILROADS.
Baltimore and Ohio R.R,

Baltimore and Ohio R.R.
LEAVE STATION, New Jersey ave. and ss.
ROYAL BLUE LINE
TRAINS a EVERY I OTHER OTHER! HOUR
nr pHTADEEgHIA as ASp NEW ynw xo g9ax
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Atlantic CITY. 100. fo.oo f11.oo am, &c.,
Wv EVERY HOUR ON THE HOUR
TO BALTiMo e WITH on az PUId oo !. SERVICE
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Thousands ef Rituatiens have besn OBJ
tanned through ths rant oo1nenne ot Thl