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The Washington times., 1906-07-29

Before American Civic AS
ISOLATION in Milwaukee
Next Fall.
CIVIC PROBLEMS THE TOPIC
Commissioner Will Review Washing
toms Growth, Her Unique Position
and Her Program.

District Commissioner Henry =. F
Macfarland. representing the District OF
Columbia. will take an active part IN
the proceedings Of the annual conven-
ton OF the American Civic Association.
which is 10 be held some time IA Oc-
tober. at Milwaukee. Wis. This years
convention. the exact date Of which has
not yet been set. will last three days.
beginning with Wednesday morning
Not only Is great interest attached
20 the coming convention because Of the
importance Of the subjects 20 be dis
cussed. but the prominence OF the
speakers 10 be heard all OF whom are
high authorities on matters Of civic in
terest. viii undoubtedly mark IL as the
most notable gathering OF the kind held
in recent years.
The opening days session will be de-
voted TO ten-mlnute reports from each
Of the departments covering. such sub
Jects as '"women's Outdoor League"
Arts and Crafts" "Childreu's Car
dens." city Making" Libraries"
Outdoor Art" Public Recreation"
Press" Public Nusiances." Park and
Public Reservations Railroad I'm
prOvement." Rural Improvement
School Extension" and Social Settle
ments."
Macfarlaud's Theme.
The greatest general interest IN the
convention will doubtless center around
the Thursday evening session. with its
discussion Of national civic problems.
| Commissioners mcfarland will be the
principal speaker at this session. using
as his theme "Our National Capital
lie will review the history Of the Capt.
tai IN general. its unique position among
the municipalities Of the world. and the
progress II has made.
J. Horace Mcfarland, president Of the
association. will speak the same even
ing on THE Niagara Campaign" and
The Appalachian Reservations will
be the subject Of addresses by clifford
Pinchot, chief Of the Bureau Of For
estry. Of the Department Of Agricul-
tures Henry 4. Barker, and J. 7. Roth
rock.
At the Thursday session viii also be
heard papers on san Francisco's OPP
portunity and How She Is Using It. by
ex-Mayor James D. Phelan. vice presi-
dent OF the association, and Davis II.
Durham. the noted architect. who has
furnished plans for the rebuilding Of
the Golden Gate city.
Women VIII Speak.
The women's part in the convention
viii be under the direction Of Mrs Ed
ward L. Upton. chairman OF the Woo
mems Outdoor League who will speak
on What women are doing for civic
/ Improvement" Papers viii be present
ed by Mrs. William Christian. Of Texas.
Mrs II. F. Johnson. Of Indiana, and
| Mrs. c. D Crane. OF Michigan
There viii be a special discussion OF
The Civic Opportunity IN the South.
and papers Will be read as follows:
a Western View Of the Problem" by
Erastus Brainerd. Washington: What
One Man Did" by ". n Kinklenburg.
Minnesota. and What One Association
Did, by +. A Whiting, Massachus sets.
Gen. Frederick D. Grant, u, 5. a, viii
| conclude the session with d discussion
OF Mosquito determination.
The Washington times., 1906-07-29
NEW YORK POLICE
BEST ON EARTH
Deputy Commissioner Wal
do Back From Europe Says
They Are the Finest

NEW YORK. July 28-Imbued with
the idea that the New York police are
the finest IN the world, and have some
thing on" the best that London and
Paris can show. Rhinelander Waldo.
first deputy police commissioner, re
turned this morning on the Cunarder
Etruria from his vacation spent in Eu-
rope He said he had a fine time. and
he looked H.
Il spent a week in Paris and a week
.n London" he said And / am con
WINGED that the New York police are the
best IN the world. The only way in
which any one has the best OF US is IN
traffic regulation. and that is easily eX-
planned Our system is as good as any
Of them-better than that in effect in
Paris But in London the policeman has
great advantage over the policeman
of New York, because the BOBBY Is uni
versaIly respected. He is considered a
public servant, who is working for the
best interests Of all concerned, and he
has but 10 raise his finger and all traf-
no IN the street stops.
In Scotland Yard.
They have the thumb print system of
Identification down TO a science in Scot
land Yard" Mr. Waldo continued They
have the thumb prints OF more Chan one
hundred thousand criminals. and they
can pick out the correct record Of a new
prisoner in two minutes and tell all
about him. Now the criminals are try
ing 20 beat the system
"One case I observed was that OF q
man under arrest who had scraped and
cut the Cuticle from his thumbs in such
a way that II was impossible 70 take o
print His case was therefore postponed
from day 10 day. and he was held IN
prison for five months until his thumbs
completely healed and he could be ideu-
tined
No drst-class crooks tools OF trade
are complete without a pair OF gloves
with gloves on their hands they have
no fear OF leaving telltale impressions on
damp paint or window glass, or in any
OF the half score Of other places where
the police look for clues.
while in paris I had long talk with
NJ Hammond. head OF the Paris police,
and found him a most alert and pro-
gressive police Official.
With Bertillon.
In Paris ! also had a long interview
with NJ. Bertillon, originator Of the BeT-
tillon system of measurements. He cells
me that he has a new method OF idenu
fication which will soon be ready for In
PRODUCTION IN all the police departments
Of the world. This system is IN the line
Of photography. and includes the indi-
vidual portraits of the eyes. nose, ears,
and any marks found on the body Of a
prisoner"
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Notes and Personals.

Dr. L. CrOwther has at his home on
Prince George street. a giant cactus over
seven feet high. II has a large number
Of blooms on A.
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In the Churches.

Tie Sunday school Of Centenary
Methodist Episcopal Church viii enjoy
an excursion 10 River View, on the 20
tomac, on next Friday, August 3.
The Ladies' Aid Society Of st. Philips
Protestant Episcopal Church. viii hold
a lawn fete on next Tuesday evening al
the residence Of John Williams. on
Washington avenue.
The Rev. Andrew Reid Bird, OF the
Presbyterian Church. IS delivering one
Of g course OF lectures on THE BOOK
OF Exodus" every Wednesday evening,
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Of blooms on A.
Company No. 8. Laurel Volunteer Fire
Department Will give a moonlight troll
ley ride to Luna Park on Tuesday even
ing, August T.
A special car will leave the electric
car station here at s a. m, and viii re-
turn about the same time IN the evening
Mrs. Ralph Hilles and children. OF
Washington, are spending several weeks
at FairvieW, near Laurel.
Mrs. Frederick Battle. Of Durham. y.
c. Is visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
B a Bentley. near Laurel,
Mrs Rawlings and children. OF Anna
polls, Nd, are the guests OF friends
here.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Phelps and chill
dren who have been spending some time
AT Atlantic CITY y. J., have returned
u their home here.
Miss Elsie Beall. OF Washington. Is
the guest of the Misses Hopkins.
Mrs. shipIey Brashears. OF Washing
ton. was the recent guest Of relatives
here.
Joseph Curley and Philip Castle, jr..
have returned from pleasure trip IN
Virginia.
The Washington times., 1906-07-29

Mrs. Ralph Hilles and children. OF
Washington, are spending several weeks
at FairVieW. near Laurel
The Washington times., 1906-07-29

Mrs. Frederick Battle. Of Durham. y.
c. Is visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
B a Bentley. near Laurel.
The Washington times., 1906-07-29

Mrs Rawlings and children. OF Anna
polls, Md, are the guests OF friends
The Washington times., 1906-07-29

Joseph Curley and Philip Castle, jr.
have returned from a pleasure trip IN
Virginia.
The Washington times., 1906-07-29

Miss Elsie BeaH. OF Washington. Is
the guest Of the Misses Hopkins.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-23
RESPECT DUE TO OLD AGE

much greater facility than his father did; he
recognizes his powers, and he glories in them.
But 1t was the men who lived before him,
and the men who now growing old, who
made 1t possible that he should be a power
that he should accomplish great things They
invented machines; he uses them, becomes rich,
and proceeds to characterize as "old fogies" the
men who made his wealth possible.
For instance the "old fogies" opened his ewes
to some of the things that electricity could
do. He sat up and took notice, made Use of their
discoveries and proceeded to make himself both
famous and rich. Then he promptly forgot how
he had come by his fame and his riches.
He does not take into consideration that "the
old man. was young once that he has been
knocking around this world for quite some time
now, and that, therefore, he naturally knows
more about it than any young man not half his
age.
But the young mans complete Independence
and the sight OF the continual struggle going
around him, have bred in him a contempt
for all that not in the fight. Perhaps il
would he more correct to say that he does not
take the trouble to despise but merely over
looks them. He is busy man. and so he brushes
them aside as he would an annoying Ay.
1t is a condition of affairs that we ought to be
ashamed OF. Every young man thinks that he
could do better than his father if he were only
given the chance, and that he could build ND
his fathers business in less than no time if only
his father were not such old fogy that he
refuses to listen to reason,
Things have gotten to such stage that we are
filled with wonder and admiration for the young
man who waits upon his mother as if she were
queen, who escorts his aged grandmother about
if she were his sweetheart, and who listens
to his fathers opinions with the Difference one
would show to oracle.
That such young men the exception and
not the rule is state of things for which they
should not be held responsible for. The bacilli
of the disease floating about in the atmos-
phere of this twentieth century, and if they in
hale them it is not their fault
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these terms. He thinks they are funny; the
other fellows use them, so why shouldn't hel
But they are an indication OF the real disrespecl
below the surface. If he had real feeling oi
respect for his fathers ideas and opinions DC
would never refer to him as "the old man. Such
an expression would affect him exactly as an
insult to his father would
There are some young fellows who, while they
could refer to their fathers MS the old man,
would be incxpressibly shocked to hear another
young man call his mother "the old lady" More
often, however, such term would arouse mirth
PATERNAL DIsREsPEoT,
I once overheard conversation between two
young men that went something like this;
"Say, Sam, felt like thirty cents yesterday
"Did you? How was that?
"Well. / asked Brown, fellow I just met
last week, if his mother would like TO be patron
ess of that dance we arc getting up for charity,
He said he thought she would be pleased to,
provided we had asbestos programs. l didn't
know his mother was dead,"
And both those young men laughed heartily.
The fact that they could laugh at such thing
showed that they had no real, innate respect
for old age, They were not at all shocked by it,
but laughed just as they would at anything else
that struck them funny. II they had been shock
ed there would have been some hope for them.
They were caught in the tolls OF a materialistic,
selfish, money getting age where everything Is
weighed in its value of dollars and cents. Ii
you can't make money you might just as well
be dead. In fact, you dead as far as any
consideration that will be shown you goes,
The age is also progressive. No one knows
what wonders the next ten or twenty years
will bring forth, nor what marvellous things will
have been done. And who is going to accom-
plish these wonders? Certainly not tho men who
are now old.
The young American is full of all sorts OF un-
powers, and he knows it. He knows
that he can attain to wealth and fame with
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y as she pleased all her life long, and now that
she is married she does not propose to take q
back scat. She has become SO enterprising OF
late that she has cut the word "obcy" out OF
the marriage service.
She ruled it in her fathers house before she
was married, and, naturally now that she has
her own house, she contrives TO make every
body step around pretty lively.
THE MATTER OF CLOTHES.
She likes pretty clothes, and consequently it
is her husbands duty to slave away from early
morning until late at night in order to get them
for her. She spends more money than he can
afford upon her wardrobe but it would be an
unhcard of thing for an American husband TO
complain about a little thing like that He
catches the spirit of the game himself, and
knowing how imperative it is that no other
mans wife shall excel his in the matter of
clothes, he works harder and more assiduousy
than any laborer in the street.
Ii she makes up her mind that she must en-
ter the select circle of the -Four Hundred he
very obgingly puts all the facilities in her way
He gives her all the cash she needs land often
more than he actually possesscs) for the pur-
pose of entertaining upon n large scale; he pro-
vides her with an automobile and yacht and
he keeps up several different establishments in
order that she may fit lightly from place TO
place and get in with as many OF the -Four Hun
dred possible.
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His main object in life is to make money, and
il anything interieres with the carrying out of
that object it is merely an obstacle, and as such
must be overcome.
Persons older than himself are often obstacles,
for they object To his plans and try TO interfere
with him. They attempt to convince him that
their way OF doing things is better than his, but
the young man, being wiser than he will
ever be again, rides rough shod their scruples
and prcjudices, and does just as exactly as he
plcases,
NO TIME FOR SUGGESTIONS.
You waste your breath when you tell him
that his father, being an older man. has had more
experience in life than he has had, and that,
therefore, his opinions should be heard, at least
with Difference. He will shake you of impa-
tcnty, telling you that his father is an old fogy,
else that he is getting childish. Besides, he
will add what might have been all right forty
or fifty years ago is all wrong now; conditions
and ways Of looking at things have changed
enormously since his father was young.
There is absolutely no use in trying to convince
him that his fathers opinions should be treated
with respect. His bringing up has taught him
the outward signs OF respect that should be shown
10 old age, but everything in his environment
has gone to impress him with a belief in his
own superiority. II is lamentable, but such is
the fact.
When he remembers and has the time he will
treat an older person with all becoming evidences
of respect and Difference, but down In his heart
unconsclously to himself, perhaps, the lack of
real respect is there.
That this is true is indicated by the way in
which he refers to his parents. His father is
always ''the old man." or "the governor" Even
his mother is mentioned in way not at all re-
spectfu and more often than not is dubbed "the
old lady"
He does not consciously intend disrespect by
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IN Germany should dare to leave her house any
time between Monday morning and Saturday
night without her husbands protection, he would
get divorce but if she should develop sufficient
hardihood 10 go away on trip without him,
he would be too much overcome to take the
necessary steps
No other husband in the world waits on his
wife ms the American waits on his. He travels
upstairs, he travels downstairs; he gets her this
he gets her that; he does her shopping for her
IN order that she may not tire herself out: he
even gets up in the middle of the night to get
her something she happens to have taken de-
sire to; and all with expression which says
plainly, "a pleasure, my dear, | assure you"
Under such circumstances of course, it is very
easy for her to wrap him around her little fin
ger She has the tact to manage him without
his cleaning the remotest hint that he is being
managed, for OF course, If he thought that he
was being managed, he would become as obsti-
nate as mule. II is one of the beauties OF her
system that she contrives tr make him imagine
that he is Just crazy to do anything she happens
to suggest.
STORMED BY HER TEARS
She has many ways of bringing this about,
One method is that OF studied Indifference, For
instance, if he calls her up around supper time
and tells her that as he is detained at the OF
fce he will be unable TO take her TO the theatre,
and fearfuly asks ii she minds, she replies cheer
fully and carelessly, "Oh no, dear not at all"
The chances then ten to one that he will
turn up in time to take her.
Another method is that of tears, Happy is the
woman who can cry at will, for the universe Is
hers if she but cry hnrd enough just let her
weep few times, and after bit she will have
him so trained that all che has to do in order to
gain her point is to threaten to cry, In fear OF
the deuge, he will then rush of as quickly as
he can TO execute her commands.
II he stays at his club too many nights IN sue"
cession to suit her, she can decide upon a visit
home to mother. When she comes back she
will discover that somehow other the club
has lost its attractions.
She is in all probability very fond of her NUS
band, but she gets so in the habit of using him
for her own purposes that she forgets about him.
She likes him we'll enough but it is nevertheless,
true that to her he represents the means to an
She is liable TO keep him Shaving for her night
and day, while she is off somewhere having a
good time, until finally the doors OF some mer"
ciful sanatorium open TO receive him. She does
not mean TO be selfish; she Just doesn't think.
The American woman, after all, is nothing but
a spoiled child.
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Queens remains.
A TREASURED DIARY,
When Sir John Miais lay stricken with his
last illness his voice often failed him, though his
intellectual fires burned undimmed, What he
had to say he wrote upon slate. 1t occurred to
a loving disciple that to wipe out the last say
ngs of so rare being was lamentable. Prin-
cess Christian heard Of it. Her admiration for
the great artist was unbounded. She chose a
diary, wrote in it message and her signature,
and it was carried at once to the chamber of
the sick man. And that, instead of the slate,
served him as medium for communication with
his loved ones in his last hours, and in it are
preserved the thoughts and sayings to the end
OF the man who so enriched the art OF Britain.
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Y~1HE American husband is different from
III any other representative of the spe-
- cles In the world, He is totally I'M
| t@kgGs4I like the German spouse, who would
| a., be hopelessly scandali2ed if his wife
oia anything but stay Mt home playing the part
o. OF household drudge; he ~ also unlike the
rrench husband, who, in light minded cynicism.
contracts his marriage de CONVEYANCE with a
young girl fresh from convent neither does
ne resemble the romantic, passionate Spaniard
whose heart is big enough to hold two or three
loves; and he has nothing in common with the
nhgnsh husband, whose affections as cold
una as befogged the climate he lives in and
VINO VINO looks upon his wife with the same interest
that he bestows upon his horses, his dogs, or
ANYTHING else that he possesses.
Every husband in the world is the head of his
house except the American husband. That
gentleman fondly imagincs that he is, but it is
really his wife who is mistress of the situation
and him.
Anybody with the fceblest powers of obserya.
uon can see the truth of this statement. Just
watch his behavior when out with his wife, and
You will be convinced
When they 60 to the theatre, she walks first
down the aisle, and he meekly follows her
When they reach their Seats she decides which
one affords the best view OF the stage and
calmly settles herself in it, He, as a matter of
course, takes the other one You may be sure
il one of the seats is behind a post that that
the seats, but nevertheless, his wife will be the
one to see the show.
THE LADY ALWAYS IN THE LEAD,
They get into street car, and the WIFE sail
ing in with her head in the air picks out the
place where she would like to sit, and hubby,
with the expression OF lamb, places himself be.
side her,
The English husband on the other hand, would
conduct matters very differently. He would en-
ter the theatre first, and selecting the better
OF the two seats for himself, would sign to his
meek little wife to take the other Whenever
they get into public conveyance of any kind,
he either indicates TO her where he wishes to sit,
or else she humbly asks his pleasure.
just imagine an American woman acting in |
such way! Why, it's sacrege, almost even |
TO think OF it. II she ever were 10 conduct her |
self in such a way, it would be so against all |
tradition that everybody would bit up and begin |
% take notice much as if the world had come to
IN end.
The American woman does not have TO wait
or marriage, the little French girl does be-
ore she be free. She has always done exact
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Il
who has been well brought up knows
- what respect he should show to per-
lAsaESNg son older than himself, but very lew oil
our emancipated American youth sec
ft to put their theories into practice lney
know, for instance, that they should get UP anu
offer their seat to an old lady or an old gentle-
man, but how many of them disturb Their lordly
case in order to do so?
1t is no uncommon sight to see some little old
woman clnging TO a strap in a CROWDED cur
while healthy looking specimens OF young man
hood are lolling at their case behind Their news
papers Each one OF them knows that ne ought
to get up and offer her This seat but he mag
unanimously decides to allow one OF the other
fellows have the credit for dong IT, lhe result
is that she continues to stand
OF course, there are times when these same
Young fellows are extremely anxious to show
how well they have been brought up, II Their
mother or the fathcr OF the girl whom they are
mastering up courage TO propose to comes into
the room, they jump up at once and are quite
solcitous about offering their chair. 1t doesn't
matter how many other chairs there are in the
room; no scli-respectng fellow could let chance
like that slip by when he was anxious to show
how well he had been brought up.
On other occasions he doesn't particularly care
whether people think be has been well brought
up or not He hasn't time, The young Amer
can is husthng business man VINO believes most
deyoutly in the Darwinian principle of the
vival OF the fttest. II you can't go on you must
drop out of the race, and you needn't hope for
any quarter.
Doubtless, If you put it to him this way he
would be shocked, and would proceed to deny
the accusation most vehcmently, Yet if he would
indulge in little self analysis without fear of
mjuring his magnificent belief in his own per.
fection he would find that the matter is as
stated it.
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An ideal love is shown by Heart line'
long Gig. ~ and narrow, and ending high up
on the Mount OF Jupiter (al with the Mount
OF Venus fairly developed (b)'
Love Not Ending in Marriage Fig. 2),-Lane
from the Mount of Moon, cutting the Fate line
(a) lines ascending from the Fate line TO 'he
Heart line (b),
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Great Devotion in Love Gig. "a double
Heart line (a) indicating capacity for love that
may bring much sorrow; thumb that is large with
the hand fairly firm,
Maternal Love Zig. 4).-Thc Mount of Venus
very large (a), the Heart line ending under the
Mount of Saturn (b)
Love for One Only Gig. 5).-The Heart line
evenly forked on the Mount Of Jupiter (a). a