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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-03

die of the front, or two pieces can be used
tying In bows in the center of each end or
the lacing can begin at one corner and fin
ish in a bow. with similar bows added at the
other three corners.
The ribbon and lining of such pin
cushion should match the prevailing tint of
a bed room. They are also very dainty and
fresh looking made over white and laced
with white ribbon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-03
BUREAU DRAWERS.

IHVI III you ItiIU me q HdHuktTCNI61G
NJ Why, certainly. 1t is annoying
to lose them-I am always do
ing it,
do you really admire my bureau draw
err? Well. if my drawers do look neat it is
because of a resolution I made last year. I
think 1 have kept it pretty well. too
you see everything ever owned used to
be simply dumped into my bureau drawers
helter-skelter. was sure of finding every
thing there from penknffe to yeil, but
never knew just where any Of them were!
When wanted anything, or when anything
was missing. l. had to turn the whole. draw
er inside out to find it.
Finally. in despair vowed that would
permanently reform. That day collected
seven plain pasteboard boxes of various
sizes and labeled them clearly. In the first
i put neckties and ribbons in the next my
good belts and girdles. In the next my
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-03

The difference between the artist and
as in the consciousness thereof-Puck.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
Washington Day by Day
News Gathered Here and There
at the National Capital

sertation on why he is going there.
It's simply necessary that he should
see.
Having performed his duties there
the secretary is at liberty to return to
his home and take his flying (tigura-
tive, of course) trip to the north and
west to make those speeches to the
collegians.
Then he will be off on a trip to the
Philippines, those far-Off, dark, chOcO-
late-colored islands where he left his
heart. If there is one thing above all
others that Taft desires it is to see
those islands formed into strong
autonomous government. September
Is will be celebrated in the islands.
That will be Tafts birthday. To the
islanders it will be about the same as
February p is to continental Ameri-
ans. Taft will be there to advise and
comfort the little brown brothers that
appear to be getting a degree of civil
ization that is not injected with a
Krag.
Taft, therefore, for one who is said
to have presidential aspirations, will
have about as much opportunity for
looking after his political prospects as
a Patagonian has of plating the next
transit of Venus-if the lady has a
transit
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
NIGHT COLLEGE MAY BE
ESTABLISHED in CITY

one of the three which requires no tut
ton fees, is crowded to it's capacity
and is turning away hundreds of
worthy students simply because of lack
of accommodations.
Then there are those who want
college education, but cannot get it
because they have to work during the
day. This is shown by the fact that in
the city college, of 500 or more stu
dents who enter only about one-quar.
ter, or 200, remain in the college and
are graduated. There are many rea-
sons for three-fourths of these stu
dents dropping from the course, but
the greatest is the necessity of going
to work to maintain themselves ard
others dependent upon them
The necessity of providing a college
education for the sons of those who
were not in position to pay tuition
and other fees was responsible for
the establishment of the city college,
and that necessity has increased until
there is an insistent demand for
night college. The city must meet
this need, say the advocates of the
night college.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05

IT HAS been suggested to the trus-
i tees of the College of the City of
New York that it would be advisable
to establish a night college in connec-
ton with the present institution, pri-
marily for the benefit of worthy stu
dents, who, principally for financial
reasons, are prevented from attending
colleges in the daytime. The sugges-
ton has met with a favorable recep-
ton from the trustees, who probably
will investigate the matter, and if the
plan seems feasible recommend to the
city that it should undertake the estab-
lishment and maintenance of such an
institution. I
That there is a demand for a night
college is the opinion expressed by
many who have given the educational
situation in this city careful study. In
the first place, the opportunities for in
struction at night are limited OF the
three institutions engaged in the work,
not one offers complete college
course. Cooper Union has scientific
courses, and Columbia and New York
universities have special or profess
sional courses. Cooper Union, the only
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05

WITH a view of preventing the pro-
w pagation of the mollycoddle in the
postal service, baseball mines are to be
organized in the post Offices of all the
larger cities in the country and New
York post Office empl0ye is to be en-
gagged as coach and instructor. The
idea is the most novel ever suggested
in connection with any branch of the
federal service and. If it did not orig
mate with President Roosevelt, it, at
least, has his sanction, for without it
Postmaster Wilcox would not have
made the offer he did recently to Will
liam J. Speck, clerk in the money
order department and the only profess
sional ball player in the post Office.
The plan has not fully crystallized,
but when it is and if Speck accepts
the offer, he will 60 to Washington as
soon as the baseball season opens and
make that city the base of operations
for the organization of ball teams COM
posed exclusively Of employees in the
post Office department.
The assignment of a government en-
ploye to organize form of outdoor
athletic sport and to be paid therefor
out of the appropriation of the de-
partment by which he is employed is
without precedent There have been
baseball clubs and bicycle clubs formed
BY clerks in the different branches Of
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
Preventing Suicide.

We commend to the Salvation Army
a method successfully used on would
be suicides for some years in Boston
oy citizen who has won reputation
as confidant of unfortunates, weak
lings and genteel paupers, says Boston
Herald. When it is announced that a
case" is ready to tie the moose, or
jerk the trigger, or take the plunge,
or sip the dose, this mans face lights
up with curious interest. When are
you going to do it ?" he asks. IF you
really mean to keep faith, / want to
be there. desire to see you do the
hrst sensible act of your life" The
intended suicide, who expected to be
pleaded with and saved" is hurt in
his pride and decides not to tie, jerk,
take or sip, but to live on and prove
that there are those who love him,
her, it. Nothing so palsies the hand
OF self-destruction as sudden and
unforeseen collapse of opposition, OBJ.
stacle and grief Suicide is the apex
OF conceit The victim has a vast pity
for himself. Get his dander up, and
he's "saved.' 1t may be he will con-
t1nue to be proud pauper, but at
least he has obviated a muss and a
funeral. Approach all Nanki Poos in
the spirit of Koko and there will be
no call for the snickersnee or the
clOthes-line
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05

enough.
Sherwood was twice secretary oil
state in Ohio, having been elected in
1868 and 1870; twice probate judge OF
Lucas county, once mayor of Bryan
O., and once prosecuting attorney for
Williams county, and twice a represen
tative in congress.
TO get back to congress this time
he had to overcome a Republican ma.
jority of 1860. To do that he had to
carry Wood county, the home of his
Republican rival, by more than 900
majority. The year before the county
had given Republican majority OF
1900.
Sherwood is sport He is the
owner and editor of horse racing pa.
per published at Cleveland. He has
been running that paper for II years.
Before he bought it he owned the Can
ton NewsDemocrat. It was discour-
aging work to run Democratic paper
in McKinley's home, so he sold out and
returned to Toledo, only to get back
into the business again via the sport.
ing sheet route.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
OF; y
\% ~

IL OW may an ambassador keep the
H wolf mot to mention the social
sheep) from his official door when his
miserly government grants only mig
gardly pittance of, say, $4,000 a year
in our coin? Anybody who knows
Washington knows that the task of
keeping the expenditures of diplomatic
households inside the diplomatic limit
requires more fine figuring than would
be needed to repair dozen shortages
in treasury branches.
There is James Bryce, for instance.
He had the forethought to suggest
that $4,000 be added to the annual
stipend of the British ambassador
(himsel), because of the constantly
increasing cost of living at the Ameri-
can capital. The German ambassador
cried for help year ago. The envoy
from Vienna spent almost six months
.wheedling the equivalent of 10000 a
year from the imperial budget of
Austro-Hungary. When the pitiful
tales which emanate from the diplo-
matte corps become public it seems a
miracle that the men are able to wear
boiled shirts, even on Sundays.
1t has been said that soon only mil
lionaires will be able to accept diplo-
matte missions, since only that class
can afford to accept a first-class post
on the present salary.
, 1t looks as if this condition were
fast overtaking the cabinet set The
pace ordained for the counselors of the
president is one which would deplete
"a fat pocketbook. Recent additions to
the cabinet are men Of large means,
but the majority of the members are
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
THREE BOYS HAD ECZEMA.
Were Treated at .Dispensary-Did Not
unprecedented Five Months
Perfect Cure by Cuticura.

my three children had eczema for
five months. A little sore would ap-
pear on the head and seemed very
itchy, increasing day after day. The
baby had had it about week when
the second boy took the disease and
a few sores developed, then the third
boy took it. For the first three months
l took them to the N Dispensary,
but they did not seem to improve.
Then I used Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
cura Ointment and in a few weeks
they had improved, and when their
heads were we'll you could see nothing
OF the sores. Mrs. Kate Keim, 513
West goth St., New York, N. Y, Nov.
!, 5 and Z, 1902
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
WASHINGTON DIPLOMATS
STRUGGLE WITH EXPENSES

considered poor men or only moderate.
ly well-to-do.
There are those in Washington who
assert that they cannot comprehend
how the president can afford to enter
tain as he does. They believe he is
living up to every cent of his salary,
and may go beyond it. If the British
with $42,500 year, and another 10000
added for emergencies, what can the
president accomplish with less? The
British ambassador can curtail his ex-
penses at will. Sir Mortimer Durand
was thrifty individual, and he must
have put by a goodly amount for a
rainy day. He never gave but one
large ball in his three years service
here, and his dinner parties could be
counted on the fingers of one hand.
The British embassy is furnished in
sumptuous style, having finer silver,
china and general possessions than
the White House. The linen of every
description is sent yearly by the gov.
eminent, and large amount is sent
to repair and renovate the interior
every season. All this and no ques.
tions asked.
Now, the president of the United
States receives $4,000 year, the use
of the White House, the furnishing,
heating, lighting and decorating the
same on festive occasions. The 80
servants are paid by the public money,
except, of course, the maids, Wallets:
nurses, etc., that the presidential fam.
lily might need. The only dignified
procedure in Washington at present
is for those who cannot keep up the
pace, to retire gracefully
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
FEDERAL BALL LEAGUE
NEW ROOSEVELT IDEA

the federal service, but they have been
the result of individual and collective
effort with which the government has
had nothing to do. The baseball league
of the post Offices of the United States
will be the first organization of it's
kind in this country. It will be the
carrying out of President Roosevelt's
expressed opinion that the develop.
ment of Drawn is as essential as the
development of brain. '.''
It is possible that after the New
York team is organized and then the
Capital team" Speck will begin with
Philadelphia and go to Baltimore. The,
post Offices of these cities have excel
lent ball players in the clerical depart,
ments. Cleveland will come next. It
is said to have men in the post Office
who would not make a, bad showing
with the old professionals if proper
time were allowed for coaching and
practice. Cincinnati, Chicago, Indian
apolis, Louisville, st. Louis, Denver
and probably San Francisco will come
next. '.| = = ~:4>A e..
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
RETURNS TO CONGRESS
AFTER LONG ABSENCE

lust 81 years ago Gen. l. N. Sher-
u wood was elected to the house by
the Toledo CO., district. On Monday,
March I, he emulated the cat that
came back. AS the owner of a hiatus
in public life Sherwood is the premier
The late Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsyl-
vania, came back after he had been
out for 81 years. j. Warren Keifer,
also an Ohioan, was out for "a years,
but Sherwood has the pas over them
all.
The general is not such terribly
old man at that. He is only 72-ten
years younger than Senators Whyte
and Morgan and IL years the junior of
Senator Pettus Although Democrat,
Sherwood bears the unique record of
never having been defeated for any
office for which he was candidate.
There are number of statesmen in
the Toledo district who hope he will
get as tired of Washington during the
two years for which he was elected
last fall as he got 80 odd years ago,
when, after two years of life in con-
gress. he decided that he had had
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
Round About New York
Gossip of People and Things
in the Great Metropolis

elusive homes. They were confident
that the block from Forty-seventh to
Elghty-first street would be held under
close residential restrictions, because
the property was owned almost entire
ly by the trustees of Columbia college.
But the business boom along Fifth
avenue could not be held in check. So
many business houses during the re-
cent years of the country's great pros
perity wanted the prestige of a Fifth
avenue location that land values con.
tlnued to rise under their concentrated
demand. Trade broke through the
gateway at Forty-seventh street. The
Columbia trustees saw land values
rising all around them under business
occupation. When their long lease.
holds ran out they tried to raise the
basis OF valuation in making out new
leases Their residential tenants pro.
tested vigorously. 1t was declared that
the tenants could not afford to pay
such high land rents for homes.
Land was worth the higher prices
in the market. Columbia could not af-
ford to lose the money, so the trustees
decided to remove the restrictions
against business. They closed leases
aggregating 100000 recently on the
new trade basis of business occupa.
ton.
That gave the business hordes a
clear field to the doors of the Wander.
hi1t n,anciOnc Of Eiftv frc+ ctroot Al
though the mansion holders between
Fifty-tirst and Fifty-ninth streets are
standing together with much determi.
nation, it is evident that the trade oc'
cupation at their doors will soon fill
the avenue with an unWelcome throng
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05

AIRS. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH may
wi we'll be called "a chip of the old
block" for she certainly inherits her
fathers taste for outdoor life in all
sorts and conditions of weather. Let
the day be ever so stormy, neither
wind nor rain can defer the president
from a tramp over the country ways
and byways. In fact, the more beast
~ the weather is the more he seems
to enjoy being out in it, battling
against the elements. The same de-
sire and will to face a storm is in
herited by his strenuous daughter. =
A soft but heavy snow falling
through night and all day has covered
Washington with a mantle of white
beautiful to look at, but decidedly
sloppy under foot.
- Through slush and drizzling sleet
and rain, Mrs. Longworth, accom-
panied by Miss Isabelle May, walked
briskly up Connecticut avenue the
other afternoon. The young women
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
BUSINESS HOUSES TO
INVADE SOCIETY CENTER
NJ EW YORK.-Business expansion is

NJ EW YORk.-BuSineSS expansion is
~ threatening more OF Fifth avenue
millionaire families between Forty.
seventh and Fifty-ninth streets fear
that they will be driven from their
grand mansions by the new rush of
trade. Their most formidable bull
warks against the expressing horde
from the south were swept away last
week.
When shopkeepers and the mass of
small tradesmen first began to crowd
into Fifth avenue north of Forty-sec-
ond street few years ago Commodore
Elbrldge T. Gerry built the ornate
Windsor Arcade on the site of the old
Windsor hotel, from Forty-sixth to
forty-seventh street. 1t was believed
that the structure would stand as the
gateway between the exclusive do
main OF mansions on the north and the
gathering masses of trade on the
south. For a year or two the Arcade
held back the houses of trade The
center of society's residential district,
as averaged in the social directories,
moved north to the Vanderbilt man
sion group at Fifth avenue and Fifty
second street.
At the same time the Vanderbilt
families united to protect that neigh
borhood. They and their associates
spent $10,000,O00 to $12,0O0,000 in the
purchase of property which came on
the market. They built many splendid
dwellings on the blocks within a short
radius of their mansions.
Fifth avenues millionaires rested
in peace for two or three years. They
believed they had protected their ex-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
ALICE BRAVES ELEMENTS
FOR OUTDOOR EXERCISE

evidently were out for a good tramp,
and walked with the air and determi.
nation of those who walk for the pleas.
ure of it.
In short skirts and with no umbrellas
they were quite free to get the full
benefit of their exercise, and the fact
that they had the street almost to
themselves only lent additional zest to
the sport.
Mrs. Longworth wore the Short skirt
affected by the Boston girl, who dares
to shorten it little more than the
girl of any other town this side of the
Rockies. Her light brown skirt was
fully four or five inches from the
ground. Above this sensible skirt was
little jacket to match, with which
she wore turban to correspond and
brown furs.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
Secret Of Japan's Success,

Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton OF the British
army wrote the evening after one Of
the great battles which he had wit
messed between Russians and Japa-
nese in the recent war in Manchuria:
ITO bed! Although it is with re-
luctance that prepare to lose my grip
Of the exciting consciousness that
have today seen the most stupendous
spectacle that it is possible for mortal
brain to :conceive-Asia advancing,
Europe falling back; the wall OF mist
and the writing thereon" Then as to the
meaning of this retreat of Europe be-
fore advancing Asia: 1.-THE moro I
think the more certain I am that it
was not strategy or tactics, or arma-
ment or information, which won the
battle Of Liaoyang for Oyama, but that
it was rather the souls of the Japanese
troops which triumphed over the less
developed, less awakened, less stimu-
lated qualities Of the Russians"
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05

ahead more attractive than death.
Next came woman of 40 with a
French accent, who stated that she
had been swindled in a business part
nership and left alone in New York
without friends or money. Then came
a waiter and bartender, who had three
times attempted suicide by various
means, and, driven to desperation by
losses in race-track gambling, had
tried to shoot a friend. Another man
confessed being a criminal, who had
been indicted 40 times for larceny and
was harassed by fear of life SEN
tence. The last was youth of 20, a
victim of drugs, who stated that he
had run through 100000 within a
month, had forged his fathers name,
and was ready to die unless the army
could think of something better
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
Cost of Improving Railroad.

Cost Of Improving Railroad.
To duplicate the track OF a large
American road would involve an ex-
penditure whose resulting yearly
charges would be very far from being
met by the added revenue for a long
time to come. AS a matter OF fact,
most of the railroads are. therefore,
duplicating their tracks slowly, says
Wolcott Drew in Moody's Magazine.
1t Is, however, not a question whether
enough is spent each year to keep a
road, already in good condition, up to
The previous normal standard, but
whether enough additional has been
expended to keep the road in the up
to-date state demanded by the contin-
ually higher standard of living and ex-
penditure in the whole country. A
striking example is seen in the South
age house, interested in this stock,
estimated with an expenditure of $4O,-
100000 this road would be in first
class physical condition and enabled
easily to pay dividends \ forty-mil-
llon-dollar issue Of preferred stock
was actually made But it has been
found necessary in the last four years,
III addition to this sum, to expend
nearly S90,000000 before the road has
been brought up to a tirst-class con-
dition. 1t has now the rather large
bond capitalization of $4,000 per
mile.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05
BUSY SESSION COMING
FOR SECRETARY TAFT
.ASH1NGTON.-I is a busy season

WV ~AAAA>N Wv. IL - d UuSy season
W that Secretary Taft will have from
this time on. TO discharge what may
be termed his political duties the Sec
rotary will make two graduating day
addresses, one to the graduating class
OF the University of Iowa and the
other to the students who will go forth
from the University OF Minnesota to
Srapple with, throw and hog-tie the
various problems of our complex civil
lzatlon. These he will give off some
time in June-if he gets back from
trip to the canal, to Cuba, Porto Rico
and Santo Domingo.
Why he is going to the isthmus
everybody ought to know. No matter
whether the work hereafter is to be
done by contract or by the government
without the intervention of such an
agency Taft will need to be on the
job.
The troubles of Cuba in themselves
speak the excuse of the secretary for
going to that island Porto Rico would
like to see the secretary just for the
sake OF having look at him. Santo
Domingo, by the time Taft is rolling
over the deep blue Caribbean, will be
under the control of this government
and Taft is the minister for the col
onies, so there is no need Of a long dis.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1907-04-05

During the year 1906 property in the
United States to the value of more
than half billion dollars was de-
stroyed by fire. Of course this enor-
nous total, which is said never to
have been equaled in any country, at
any time, was due in large part to the
San Francisco disaster Nevertheless,
the executive officer OF the Interna-
tional Society of Building Inspectors
has declared that nine-tenths of the
national fire loss is preventable.