Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-14
Westerns bluff. +"

Conspicuously placed near the entrance,
where every one of the thousand or more
students of Central must see it twice a
day, is a large bulletin giving the standing
of the high schools. The last line reads:
western High School. one vote! Don't
let that fool YOU. It's only a clever bluff.
They are not loafng.
The recent victory of Western on the
foot ball field is said TO have convinced
Central and all the other high schools that
Western may look small but comes out
large.
Miss Brfnkhaus the director of the com
petition for The Star, visited the NJ Street
High School yesterday. She was conducted
through the building by Mrs. Anna j.
Cooper who arranged for meeting be
tween the director and the teachers Tor 2:l3
o'clock pm tomorrow.
Mrs Cooper pointed out with some pride
what had been done IN the past at NJ street
in the way of decorating the building
through the efforts of teachers and pupils
In her own office Mrs. Cooper has busts
of Beethoven and Mozart. The library dis
plays statues, busts and rellefs. Historical
and literary personages contend for space
there julius Caesar and Augustus dispute
with Homer, Virgil and Shakespeare. Just
as in the assembly hall Frederick Douglass
and Wendell Phillips are associated with
a Diana and a head of Jupiter y Minerva,
a Flying Mercury. an Apollo Belvedere and
many other pieces show how energetic has
been the past effort and how broad and va
ried has been the taste.
NJ Street. Mrs. Cooper believes, needs more
and better art work, and the school will
make a strong effort to obtain one Of The
Star collections.
Solving Domestic Difficulties.
The latest use of the competition comes
from home. Every conceivable use has
been credited to the contest as beneficent
school influence. but yesterday one teach
er reported that a mother of Two boys
confded to her that the contest is solving
domestic difficulties. 1T is a great thing"
she said II tell my boys that the one who
gets down stairs earliest in the morning
properly dressed without any assistance
from ME shall have the coupon. Why, it
works wonders / never before have been
able to get them to school on time
One of the most pleasing reliefs, so pop
ular as to have been chosen for three of
The Star collections, is the Saint Cecilia of
DonateW 1t is a plaque in rather low re-
lief, - by IA inches. The original in mar
BILE is in in the South Kensington Mu-
scum oLndon.
1t represents the Christian patroness of
music, who Is said to have suffered mar
tyrdom in $50 A. D. She IS regarded as the
inventor of the organ, and her festival day,
November -, is celebrated in Roman
churches with splendid music.
Her heather parents, we are told,
belonged to a noble Roman family, and
they betrothed their daughter to heather
youth named Valerian. He became con-
verted and suffered martyrdom. Cecilia be-
ing ordered to sacrifc TO idols refused and
was condemned to death. Whether she
was thrown into a boiling bath or be-
headed does not seem certain.
With sculptors, painters and poets ST.
Cecilia has always been a fayorite. Chau-
Ger, Dryden and Pope have celebrated her
but Dryden'S lode to Music is probably
her most celebrated tribute.