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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-29
THE LDEN Il SSON
By Frank Dempster Sherman

Learn happiness if you would know
The dearest gifts the gods beStow-
Peace and the hearts most precious prize
Contentment-whose soft glamour lies
Around one like the morning glow.
To have the best that life can show
thousand friends and not one foe
Health, which makes earth Paradise
Learn happiness.
Easy the lesson is, although
Doubt-a may not believe it So
He broods because of cloudy skies:
Seek you the rainbow and be wise.
Hold fast to JOY: let Sorrow go:
Learn happiness.
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ing their appetites. Lucullus one dinner with Cicero Pompey spent 6o.o00 drachmas' or sIooo.
 Pithylus who famed for the delicacy ana oFis- inality of his dinners wrapped his .ongue in linen when not using it. That he might better appreciate havors of the vands had it cleaned with hsh skin before dining.
 Business men accustomed nowadays to rush rom their offices to their apartments late in the day hastily changing their clothing and going to banquet would not have if they had acted thus In the time of the Pharaohs. A banquet at that time was an affair which extended from afternoon until late at night
 Wine was an important part of the feast. and no sooner did the arrive about the hour than wine was passed around. Chopped--p cabbage was given with it. as 1t believed that 1t effcacious in arousing an unsuitable thirst welt preventing intoxication.
 Upon arrival the palace of the hosts guests were escorted to an antcroom where slaves washed their hands and feet in scented water and anointed their heads with scented pomatum. Ttis the customary sign of welcome Crowned with lotus flowers. they were led to the reception room, where the host and hostess greeted them Vine was brought and the entertainment begun.
 As soon as the guests arrived. servants began pre- paring the meal Wild goats and oxen were slaugh- tered and roasted, Kids gazelles and geese boiled; small birds were killed picked and cooked; vegetables of all kinds and fancy cakes and sweetmeats were prepared. favorte piece or pastry was pun nlleo with caraway seeds
 entertained To the music of tine lustrum. pipes and nous veils moved about in marvellous maze of mo-
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[NEW DLkg INA [RENCH UNIVERSITY rosWOr1EN

ts,ls numerous stories hsr TO- odd servants sending the audience into convusons o1 laughter Then M Dauchain will cover two centuries nf French poetry; another speaker will tell anecdotes or yoliere.
 Mile sore. in a charming afternoon toietts. wfn recite by Ronsard and votaire From tears to laughter the carried as the lovely young woman recites painve of farewell or soma gem sparkling with cynicism and humor
 Ard this goes with serious study One h impressso bv the nup,s as they are called upon give denon- strations the instruction received
 It is customary for the pupils to tot down notes ssr the lectures instead doing during their progrssa At the end of year there to be an examination and diplomas will be awarded in the various courses as in sny other university.
 As the purpose of the university is to fit the woman for home life an sociological inquiry was conducted by one of the teachers at the university.
 To 100 grs between ages of IS and II. was sub- mitted the question. 'why do you wish to marryf $
 In the answers not said she desired = marry for love-
 The result of the inquiry was interesting is touches matter of to the French nation
 While Germany advancing steadily to a popuation of oooOoo France the last thirty-fvs years has been struggling lamentabiy toward 4o.ooo.ooo
 WHY HAS LOVE FLoWN1
 What is the Is 1t the absence of love In ths home7
 q, the answers received the university, nve youne yvomen said they desire to marry; i've declared they wished to marry they could walk alone on tne stree.s five they looked to a husband who wouid tske them travelling; regarded marriage as reisef from chaperons attendants seven said their pur- r,se in marriage to get apartments of which they could bo mistress. ~
 There were sixty various other replies or the love which tnsnred the herones of Bazac and Hugo, noue .noke The rnAjority looked marriage merely as gate freedom
 Convenonaiity undoubtedly has hedged In the young vonen of France and proved barrier to ther waosr aaveonment The of the girl from the convent was g,a ,ded until marriage 1t meant simply routfne ana useless study. , ..,. ..
 Tn the new university the education is purposeU oe- s,sned to give the broader view or Ire ana encourage their economic independence
 If Madame Brsson succeeds in tearing down the oso and freeing the in making them paao t,ca in the home more than ornamental tnen v likely they will to look to marriage not so mncn . freedom from girlhood restraint the consummaaon of love- ....., =
 Resides the courses housekeeping and social ds- ortent at the institution there are visits to rr,seums and exhibitions Madame Brisson mas sno"n her easerness for suggestions; every enort IS maae hroaae the scope instruction to maksn more uss1as rora instructive and interesting.
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One could not imagine more attractive place of instruction grand old salon where lectures given. done in natural wood and hung with yellow silk. All the furnished to resemble apartments a comfortable home.
 Each day two courses of instruction. From until 430 o'clock afternoon lessons given in dressmaking handsewing, millinery. hairdressng and cooking. and there Is also simple course in trained nursing.
 Not only are the young women taught how to cook. but dishes clean glass plates and silver; how to preserve and polish furniture. wash and iron table linen and clothing clean carpets and take stains from fabrics.
 They taught principles of house decoration, of harmony and color There courses in sanitation and hygiene.
 From until o'clock there lectures history. jects.
 Social usages constitute important part of the curriculum. The young women are taught conversation, how to acquire meodous voice.
 They how to enter and leave room properly, how to seat luncbeon tables and enter carriage automobile with grace. The depart department in charge. of number of Partisan society
 Among the noted who have delivered lectures are Ienotre Lavadin Jules Carety and Dauchain Lit erary dramatic selections rccited by such emil nent persons Madame Bartet, Mile Sore. M. Mouuet- Sully others During the music songs are rendered by Of the best singers of Paris
 Madame Rejane is cooperating with Madame Brisson and has begun series Thursday afternoon perform Paleron. the first of the series. The lead ing parts taken by Mesdames Reane, Judic, Tou- tain. Rosa Bruck and Avrl.
 A visitor the university finds that remarkable atmosphere pervades the place. There is manifest certain freedom from restraint; the girls laugh and chat
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HAD JuGGLERs AND AcRoBATs

There were jugglers who executed wonderful seight hand tricks made things appear and disap- pear in their hands, and juggled with swords Aero bats twisted themselves into knots and dangled from suspended hoops
 When the time to eat approached the guests passed into the banqueting hall and assembled about long tahIes ors small accomincdattn Tour persons each they ate. wine was poured from huge Jars teSecked with flowers. the guests cup Was empty 1t was filled Kings cnd priests were for hidden to intoxicated. but the other guests Snund no limit placed to their libations.
 Among the feutonic races banquet1 were given in honor of various deities Horses usually sacri- aced Ihe flesh relished by TO ancient Germans
 As with other nations, intoxicants were the chief rarf of the feasts It a custom anong the Morse Ro drink beer mead from tankards made Of the skuIs of fallen enemies which had been cleaned and polished. .., ...,,.o,,, yvh.a .ho guests became innamed with liquor there would be 9ghting bouts Two men-usually the Lest or friends would grasp handkerchief. and with their free hands fight with knives untl one rel ih ms ueam aSomy
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4 WOMAN'S aniversity vhere the art 7 of housekeeping is an important bas''
 of instruction--this is the lateh achievement of Payis.
 But more. The curriculnm includes efi- qastte and cooking, millinery and music, hand- sening and history, science, sanitation and so- cial nsagesl
 And that is not al. Everything schich voald tend to make young sOoman useful as soeH as cultured, and as good soife as q social entertainer, is taaght.
 Established during the last sUinter by Madame Adolphe Brisson, leader in social and literary circles of France, and q spoman of the highest intelleet and culture, ths nni- versity spas an instantaneous snccess. Shortly after # opened more than 1900 young scomen enrolled, and the classes are steadily increas- ing in number.
 IL rcas something aeso in Paris, and was hailed as an inshtntion long needed. # French girls hereafter are not better equipped for life, it sciu not be the fault of Madame Brisson and her unique nniversity
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tives That my only thought for many months. She had reached the to leave school and, though sought earnestly beneficial polishing of process invariably confronted by the only seeming possi- bity and that to have her devote herself regular university study such young men usually follow. not preparing my daughter to be teacher. how ever. but useful and accomplished domestic woman
 'I decided to course of practical lessons for her by which she would become useful s we'll charming. The idea the outgrowth of a want My
 idea invite some girl friends to participate in study-then the idea of school developed.
 ''The girls enrolled all in their early twenties Our age limit is from is until marriage"
 Fees of the university moderate and within of women of limited means. They arranged on sliding according the curriculum by the individual.
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gaily with other; silence enforced only when politeness instructors requires it. One is reminded Of a holiday at American boarding school.
 My purpose to make the courses interesting and amusing we'll instructive" Madame Brisson
 There is doubt in the minds of those who have visited the school that she has succeeded
 Many distinguished people attend the lectures It. and the drama The girls take turns acting as ushers In leading them to seats in the great salon.
 Perhaps a speaker during afternoon will be the serious M Lenotre author many stirring books deal ing with the Revolution. He tells the time of Marie
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syrup. Before use they were strained and mixed with water
 While the guests ate leisurely acrobats and dancers performed. The banquetng halls the most elaborate parts of the villa house. In the ceiling the dining in Nero's Golden House., on the. Palatlne Fill compartments inlaid with ivory which revolved showering perfumes and flowers on the guests Flowers presented to the guests by slaves; they crowned with wreaths.
 Usually, after course the tab1 were removed and others placed before the Throughout the meal drinking continued until the Oanqueters fell under the table stupehed.
 In those days men lived eat great generals spent fortunes accumulated in years of waxfaEa
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HEOPLE gasp with surprise, even dismay H when they read of $1O;0O0 banquets; they
 marvel at the extravagant tastes of the
 rich at the weird delicacies with which they satisfy their appetites.
 Yet modern banquets comparatively cheap and ordinary affairs compared to the dinners given in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. There mad ness of appetite ran riot; fortunes were squan- dered single meal
 Whether they enjoyed the Lucula- repasts md bacchanalian frolics more than the guests at a modern, wcll-behaved banqueting board is a question; but it is certain that people nowadays
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from sS to s1oo plate. some of course. cost uaore but. compared with the banquets of the old Romans the cost. general thing. is modest Guests may number from five to 500.
 Usually long tables from a central table. where sit the toastmaster and honored guests The tables glow with sparkling glassware nowers ana terns are the spotless linen: per-aps an electric fountain will spurt the centre, there may be stage setting behind the head table.
 Then the dinner is served in courses. The experi- banqueter knows what he Is to got almost before begins To relieve the monotony of the usual dinner, A we'll known New Yorker recently gave one which served backward The guests began with cordias cofee salad and cheese and ended with somme.
 LATTER-DAY DINNERS
 Dinners nowadays instead of being tho dissipatsd orgies of the anciens usually delightful social events friends together and. warmed by the spirit of bon comradere discuss matters of general and personal interest
 In recent years the dinner has developed into an event national importance. Prominent get to- gether and make important announcements.
 And what do eatF Do satiate our appetites with the freak connections of the ancients?
 Modern gastronomsts begin dinner with a purse or consomme. Then the entree: 1t be hiets Of soie les of beef ragout of beef ducklngs and peas or frlcasseed chicken Of course, there winesnot the spced wines of the ancients but sizzng champagnes sauternes burgundes or rare ciaretm 1t .s not the modern custom to drink until one falls from his chair and rolls under the table.
 There may roast beef. roast lamb and mint saucs or roast turkey venison. Of vegetables there potatoes peas asparagus spinach and corn. The din- ner ends salads desserts and coffee Often dim served in English. German 1r French style national dishes Of course, novel or unusual dish is welcomed and the chef who can devise such is regarded treasure; but there are no such treme attempts the serving of huInming bird tongues the brains of pheasants.
 Within the last few years there ave been many bizarre dinners, however. Several years ago c K Billings of New York. gave a. banquet to friends where the men sat on horseback and ate from little tables strapped to the horses necka An Easter dn- ner given in @ New York hotel. wal partaken in great egg formed of flowers The Kettle Club. of the
 The desire to secure notorIety by the magnincenca of banQuets is undoubtedly spreading It is quite cas tomary among organizations and 'ceties to have tables laid out representing design At dinner o1ven by equestrian association recently great mass of flowers arranged in the shape Of head at the end of the table.
 Sometimes host will siye handsome souyenirs to souvenirs beautiful gold and jeweed affairs said to have cost many thousands of dollars. The women t was reported, received ropes of pearls valued d s1OCo each The cost of the entertainment was ests mated at SS00
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r ' EREToFoRE young French woman out of H school confined herself to finishing her to learning the art of entertaining, of talking
 gracefully, walking artsticaly, smiling politely.
 She learned dancing skating and the countless little nothngs which go to mako an accomplished person of her sex but
 When married she couldn't a stitch broil steak
 That all her education amounted to.
 When Madame Brisson explained her plan of making girls education practicalof teaching her how to of approval.
 The Annales Litteraires. a magazine prom thence the literary world, offered to sponsor the scheme Half the members of the Academy and of the Institute of France agreed to act as patrons.
 That is why finds among the lecturers M Gabriel Faure director Conservatory Music Nt Mounet Sully, the Theatre Francais, and M Paul Doumer. former president of the Chamber of Deputies
 TALENTED AND WEALTHY
 Madame nrisson is a daughter the late Francisaue Sarcey, eminent dramatic critic. Her husband Adolphe Brisson. of the most celebrated literary critics France. Madame Brisson herself writer is well She is wealthy. accomplished an ac- cepted leader in social sociological movements in France.
 When she entered with zest into the founding of the Universte Annales persons asked why she should give energy and time in establishing school the purpose different from orthodox ideas
 Then, the scope far reachfng-it was not to be tho experiment of day. Madame Brisson laid her plans permanent instituton--a place where dpio- should be given to the graduate in cooking as we'll as the graduate in literature and art
 Why Madame Brisson found the university Be- cause she a mother.
 She realized the inadequate facilities for women. and determined educate her daughter with She realized too that hundreds of other young suffering by popular mis- conception regarding woman's education and she de- cded only to give her own child practical educa- tion, but enable other mothers to do likewise.
 What was I to with my daughter?-that was question: said Madame Brisson in discussing her mo
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QUEER DAINTIES OF OLD

Perhaps course would consist of fattened rats. Then would boiled caoti and hstles sharks hesh cuttIehsh and nettIes.
 As dish became well known, others were sought The world ransacked for strange and un- usual things to eat Oysters were secured along the of Britain Apicius, notorious epicure. voyaged Africa larger crawsh than he could find at home in Campania.
 Human ingenuity exhausted itselc in the concoc- tion of dishes. Vitelus brewed a strange dish of charhsh flyers. brains of pheasants and peacocks. hamngo tongues and the entrais lampreys It called "the shield of Minerva" and relished by the gourmands of Rome.
 As the dinner progressed various wines drunk. Marvellous cups were used Among the most expensive of murrhne. opalescent stone which shmmered with wonderful tints. For one of these cups Nero pald million sesterces about $5oO00. Plny mentions two of which sold for $15000 and for &3500
 Along the wall stood amphoras wonderfully carved and decorated. containing strange wines. These would hardly appeal modern taste trained to champagne. burgundies and white wines. The ancient wines mixed with salt water, resin and pitch. Aromatic herbs infused and the drinks exposed after fer mentation in smoky garrets until reduced to thick
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{6hciept Eeasae and Modern Bapque2o
would hardly find the favorite dishes of the clients palatabe. For they contained many novel; ties that would tend to appall the modern palate.

Y INSTEAD of entertaining hundred or more friends \ the host of ancient Rome Greece entertained \ only three or nine at a fashionable function, for
 1t was, the custom that not more than the Muses than the Graces should sit at the table, How ever at the feasts of Emperors and great men hum dreds came both and women. to eat and drink until the eastern sky paled with the Using
 Imagine feast of vitellius noted glutton.
 On the table, steaming and bedecked with flowers great hog. side roasted the other side boiled. Cleaned by expert, 1t looked though 1t had been cooked alive: there was no mark to show where a knife had entered the body. When cut, from poured delicious filling of oli6 of thrushes mlnoe meat slices of the matrices of a the yolks of eggs and spices
 accommodated three persons, and whiI arranged in sernicrcle the table, wonderful dishes brought animals and vegetables whose names only found in books of natural history
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retired, were worse than Kisses.
they were the fictitious encourage
ments OF disappointed and compassion
ating friends.
Next day the newspapers teemed
with irony and contempt. On the af-
ternoon of this day he entered the IA
miliar apartments where Ethel Har-
rowe had. so often welcomed him.
~ wanted to write you," she said,
giving him her hand, "but thought
you might come" then tears made
tender those blue eyes that could be
SO naughty when they willed. lin
very sorry! You have suffered terri
bly,; 1 can see 1t in your face"
II have been terribly shocked" he
answered, and something In his tones
gave her a start of surprise. 1.-The
awakening had to come. and better 1t
should come swift and sharp. like
this"
THE awakening?"
mot SO much to the knowledge that
I am only q parlor tenor, only a
spoiled young musical coxcomb-"
mo, no! You must not say that. 1t
isn't true, and can't bear to hear It,"
But there's been another awaken
Ing" he went on. II mean to the
realization of my horrid selfishness.
There are my mother and my father
and my two sisters-how have be-
haved to them for five or six years
past? Like an egotistic simpleton
Worse-like an ungrateful wretch!
They would all four have died for me;
kept living on with an Indifference
to their devotion that was dastardly!'
And So" Ethel said. after little
pause. ut has all affected you in this
fashion,"
Not wholly" he paused, then add
ed with precipitation: For ! wanted
fame as great singer. wanted 1t
chiefly because l love you, and knew
that If l asked you to be my wife
when l had grown renowned, there
might be a far stronger chance of your
saying 'yes'!"
In the silence that ensued Ethel
first dropped her eyes. then raised
them. Her cheeks burned with an un
wonted rose as she said:
There would have been no chance
at all II you had won fame as great
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singer'i Not that would have refuseu
from any silly reasons of caste, snob-
berry, prejudice against the stage as a
profession and all that There's
enough of the Independent new wo-
man in me to render such objections
null. But your very celebrity would
have been my bane-my Jealous bane
Il confess It. No, l prefer you as
you areas an artistic failure, If you
please to admit yourself one, as a
plain. uncrowned, undecorated, un-
medaled Individual like myself" and
here she stopped dead short, Grim
soning.
ETHEL" he cried, hurrying up to
her. you don't-you can't even
hint"
But in another minute he was GER
tain of Just what she indeed had more
than limited"
Their wedding was an entirely con-
ventional one and very handsome and
festal likewise. And though Ethel's
parents grumbled and growled not
little at the engagement, her brother
Stuyvesant proved vivian's loyal
friend, and oyerruled every shadow of
family opposition-which by the way,
Ethel herself would have. coolly over
ruled like true tyrannical American
daughter. without her brothers gen
erous and genial aid.
And the Firths-heaven bless them!
were in transports Of happiness. For
joys, like troubles, In battalions come,
and soon after the announcement of
vivian's betrothal, Messrs. cambridge
Brothers perceived that John Firth's
long and valued services were worthy
of more substantial reward, and actu-
ally offered him partnership in their
respected firm at low yet apprecia-
BILE profit.
STILL" said Firth to his wife and
daughters. "Vivian's just told me that
he soon intends to take that clerkship
II they'll give 1t to him.
Ann tossed her head. HE must
have been dreaming"
He couldn't have meant it," ex-
claimed Jane.
why, of course not!" bristled their
mother.
But Vivian had meant it.
Let US see If I'm not made OF bet.
ter stuff" he said, one day at home,
than to play idle pensioner on my fu-
ture wife's income. In sense not
lyric or dramatic or romantic-in a
sense prosaic and rather commonplace.
perhaps-but always. hope, In
sense high-minded and honorable and
ungrasping. should like to make my
'voice'-your Vivian's voice, that you
have 30 foolishly, SO fondly, SO I'M
deseryedly belauded-heard hereaf
teri"
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