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New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
TFrorn the Tribune Bureau. ]


Washington Dec. S0-Mrs. l.. L. Letter gave a
hall tonight in honor of Miss Ethel Roosevelt, VINO
stood by her side receiving the guests There were
two hundred and fifty invitations issued 10 ihe
younger members OF society in Washington Ne"
York tBoston and Philadelphia In the company
were Representative and Mrs. Longworth, Countess
Alexandra BernstOrff, daughter of the German Am
bassador; Miss NabuCo, daughter of the Brazilian
Ambassador; Baroness Marguerite Moncheur,
daughter Of the Belgian Minister; the Misses de
Lagercrantz debutante daughters Of the Swedish
Minister: Miss Mercedes Godoy, the Misses Calvo,
Miss CaIGeron Miss Julia Meyer. Miss Alice Meyer,
Miss Christine Roosevelt Miss Margaret Roosevelt,
Miss Josephine Osborne, Miss Ellen H Rogers,
Miss Cornelia Landon, Miss Madeline Borland, Miss
Janetta Alexander. Miss Bradley, Miss Emily
Sloane Miss Nora Thayer Miss Eleanor Green. the
Misses Thomas of Boston; Miss Carrie Louise
Mum. Miss Martha Bacon. Miss Faith Simpktns,
Miss Fargo Miss Mathde Townsend. Miss Yvonns
Townsend, Miss Katherine Elkns. Baron and Bar
oness Preuschen Won und zu Iiebenstein Viscount
and ViscoUntess de Martel. Mr.. and Mrs. George
Young, Mr. and Mrs. George Howard, Mr.. and Mrs
Ned Mclean. Theodore Roosevelt, jr. Kermit
Roosevelt. Philip Roosevelt. John Kean I'd Elliott
Bacon, George Won L. Meyer, jr., Marquis Paoo di
Montagliari, Baron Ambrozy. Count Torok Baron
Richthofen and all of the bachelors of the
diplomatic corps, we'll the young married peo-
pie, the debutantes of society generally and the
Harvard students visiting here.
The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs Newberry
were the guests of honor at a dinner given at the
navy yard tonight by Rear Admiral and Mrs
Leutze. who invited to meet them Rear Admiral
and Mrs Glover, Representative and Mrs Weeks
and Mrs. Richard Harlow, Miss Leutze Lieutenant
Commander and Mrs. Sellers and Mr.. Bingham
Larz Anderson gave large dinner at the Coun-
try Club tonight for the Harvard students who are
spending the holidays here.
The Assistant Secretary OF the Treasury and Mrs
Beekman Winthrop are entertaining DR. LYMAN
who came to-day from Cambridge. Mass. to re-
main until Sunday.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
SLAVERY.

Mrs Charlotte Perkins Gilman has said "A
married woman is slave, not a wife" so many
times that we begin 10 suspect she takes it quite
seriously. The women do not seem 10 mind.
however: they keep entering into slavery just
as if Mrs. Gilman had never warned them about
it. and continue to feel sorry for all of their
who fail TO become slaves.
Perhaps it is because rhetoricians like Mrs
Gilman have worn the edges off the word slave"
Who is not called a slave? The suffragists
and suffragettes agree on nothing but that all
women without the ballot, including even Mrs
Gilmans higher married. are slaves. The So
cialists proclaim from every street corner that
all mankind except the rich capitalists are
slaves The moraIists say that the rich CAPT
talists are slaves slaves of wealth" The critics
declare that the preachers and moraIists are
slaves, slaves of CTeedS.
Who Is not the slave Of some convention
which he values more than his own soul, the
slave Of some habit which is an intellectual or
moral labor saving device essential to his peace
and comfort the slave of some institution. some
custom, some belief or some idea? Almost every
body in comfortable circumstances is q slave of
some kind or has been called one by some slave
of the hortatory temperament. You cannot use
a word like this and expect 1t to retain the
poignancy of its original signification Slave
viii soon come to mean any one too comfortably
cirCumstanced to be aroused by the clamorous
voice of agitation, and slavery" will be synony-
nous with plethoric Iethargy. Anybody might
be willing to exchange his slavery for the slavery
Of Mr.. Andrew Carnegie or Mr. John D. Rookie
feller, but to exchange the comforts of slavery
for the arduous abnegatiOn of freedom-hardly !!
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

stract Of activities in the held OF leglsla'loN
administration party politics and platforms anu
political development generally the almanac ol
1909 will be found TO meet the most exac'ins
demands and TO rise to the highest level OF
usefulness as a national handbook
Apart from politics. this years publication aiS"
offers ample religious and educational A'a'iS-
tics and an enlarged review OF the year sro. -
1t gives chapter to foreign afalrs anu Auli
summary OF changes in trade, commerce nnahe.e
end industry during the last twelve months. lts
subject matter is logically arranged and IN
dexed. No purchaser can fall to find it an ever
helm
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
AID FOR THE gTRTCREF.

Such woe as Italy's makes the whole world
kin II anything could relieve the horror and
gloom OF this unparalleled cstastrophe il would
ae The instant readiness with which differences
of race, speech and creed, diplomatic rivalries
and al things which hold nations apart are
forgotten in q generous zeal for rescue, aid and
comfoTL That zeal is to-day worldwide and
81 needs TO be. For, unlike most other disasters
this Siciiian horror grows worse as IL is more
fully known. The first day, thousands; the
second tens Of thousands. the third scores
1f not hundreds Of thousands, make the re-
ported death roll. The precise truth can never
be known, bat enough is now assured 10 place
Eais disaster among the very greatest in his
fory and 10 show that there is need for all the
suocor that the world is likely to give
Dispatches have already announced the
prompt sending 10 the scene Of available
British. French and other naval vessels in
Mediterranean waters, and that circumstance
suggests the possibility Of the rendering OF a
similar service by America. Our great war
5aeef which has now crossed the Pacific and
dudi2n oceans, passed Perrin at noon of Tues
sv airi is expected TO be at SueZ Sunday
zls~tr OF Monday mcrai8g- il will then, ac-
e, n. NJ % schedule, pass through the canal to
porl SAID and disperse its vario1s detach-
snerts o-oceeding 10 various Mediterranean
s.orfs Most II not all, the ships are, however,
fo visit siaIta which is only 162 miles from
AFessina II may be, therefore, that the feet,
xar q mart Of # could be sent 10 the strait with
sonlx a slight divergence from its ordained itin-
.ersry and 20 the great benefit Of the suffering
Italians Experience has shown that in case
xf q catastrophe Ia q seaboard city one of the
most uSeeui and efficient agencies Of relief is
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

The announcement that the tuoerculoslS
hibttion must close at once unless money -
nrov,de5 bv subscription to keep It open ought
70 result in a prompt provision of the necessary
amount In a sense the remarkable success Oh
the undertaking has made 1t necessary 10 aP-
peal for this additional support tnasmucn as
the interest It has created and the attendance
it has drawn seemed virtually to compei the
managers to keep it open longer than was
originally proposed. AS to the utility OF the eH-
hibition there can be doubt. The demanus
upon public spirited citizens of New YORK are
incessant but we feel justified in saying thH'
there are not many cases in which a sihaH III
yestment Is so sure of large return.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
WOULD ISSUE STAMPS TO AID ITALY.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Although not member OF the National
Red Cross. l am sincerely interested in its wo-A-
Nothing for instance. gave me greater COnscien-
tious satisfaction than the purchase OF the Christ
stamp booklets in support OF the efort 70 wipe
the plague OF tuberculosis
What, now would be humane than for ths
National Red Cross cor any nOn-partisan OrSsniza-
tIon similar character II in existence} 20 issue
Immediately New Years edition OF the same
kind Of stamps Offering TO Italy in her sreat
sorrow and distress?
should the sale OF stamps exceed the relief re-
ouired certainly no would object 10 the oal-
ance being applied to the great work which ths
society has undertaken. NEW YEAR
New York. Dec 80. 19oS
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
A sweErMEAT FROM BANANAS.
ou DaiIv Consular Reports

From Daily NONsuIaI
Consul Ralph }. Totten. of Puerto Plata, sends
the following description of a delicious sweetmeat
prepared n Santo Domingo by both natives and
foreigners:
The skins are removed and the fruit is cut into
slices about a quarter of inch in thickness.
These pieces are sprinkled with fine powdered
sugar and are placed in the sun, laid on boards
or shallow trays AS the fruit dries out n is
turned over several times. and each time is busted
with the sugar. In a few days it becomes suffi-
ciantv dry the result is a crystallized conserve
most delightful the taste Those who nave eaten
this sweetneat uniformly pleased with the deli
cate flavor holding II superior TO any the costly
Cryst allied fruits.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
TFrom The Tribune Bureau.

IFrom The Tribune Bureau
Washington, Dec. 90.-Mrs. Bryce, "ife OF the
British Ambassador entertained at luncheon TO-
dav in commitment TO her house guest, Mrs Lowell,
of Boston. In the party were Mrs. Thomas r
Bayard Mrs Gibbons Mrs. Kennard and the Hon
Maud Pauncefote, daughter of the late BRUSH AM
Dassador.
The Danish Minister and Countess Moltke, who
have been visiting in Boston. have returned TO
Washington.
Baron Stael de Hostein Russian second secre-
tary, entertained a number OF young people. IN
Guiding some of this seasons debutantes, at dinner
tonight
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Mrs Joseph s. Auerbach gave a dance at the
Colony Club last night for her daughter Miss
Kathryn H. Auerhach, one Of the debutantes of
the season. TS~ cotilion took place before supper
and was led by Alexander d. r. Pratt who had
Miss Auerbach for his partner. Supper was served
about midnight and general dancing followed
Among those present Miss Beatrice and Miss
Constance Pratt Miss Katharine McCook Miss
Carol Hartman, Miss Blanche Oelrichs Miss Vera
Onativia Miss Cecily Sheldon, Miss Margaret Wins
low. Miss Dorothy Tuckerman Miss Helen Alex
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
About People and Socfof incidents

andre Miss Eleanor and Miss Joan Wnitr!6gs Miss
Sarah Robbins Miss Anne B. and Miss Grace B.
Tracy, Miss Dorothy Toler. Miss Dorothy Bigelows
Miss Lucy Brown. Miss Helen Coster Miss Char
lotte DeIaheId Miss Frances Dckey, Miss Doris
w BisseH Miss Lucy Brown. Miss Charlotte X
Harding Gordon Aucbincioss. Lanisr Wlnslow.
Percy r. Pyne. 3D. Charles Lan;er. Frsdericx
Townsend Martin. Charles A Dana. Roger Poor,
Moses Taylor Pyne z Coster Wimsrdins and
Buell. Holster.
Mrs Winthrop Burr gave theatre party last
night for her daughter Miss Kossmond Burr. and
after the play brought her guests back 70 her
home. in 18th street for supper In the party
were Miss Angelica S. Brown. Miss Laura Emmett.
Miss Jean Delano Miss Anzonella Kane. Miss
Eleanor Alexander. Miss Julia Coolidsa and Miss
Ellen Farnsworth OF Boston: Miss Beatrice Claim.
Miss Carol Hartman Miss Katharirs McCook.
Miss Eleanor H. Rodenwald. Miss Sarah Robbins.
Miss Anne B. Tracy Lanier Winslow, George =
Roosevelt Linzee Biagden. T Chesley Ricnardson'
jr. Gibson Fahnestock. Duncan Harris. Wilitsrn
BayIls. jr.. George W. Martin. Henry @. Enlrnet.
Ir Beeknan Hoppin Richard Morton. Richard
Lounsbery, George Dixon and Peter l. Kent Soras
Of Mrs. Burr's guests afterward went on 70 MA
Auerbachs dance at the Colony Club
Mrs Russell s Carter also gave a thsstrs party
last night. followed by a supper at sherTyS
Mr. and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark sailed for gu
rope yesterday and will remain abroad for tne rest
of the winter.
Mrs Vanderbilt will give dinner dance on jan
ary 18 at her house. in West 5Ith street
Mrs August Heckscher viii give theatre party
on January q.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest WHtsee VIII give I4i 50
dinner this evening the Tuxedo Club
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Gray Griswold who spent
the fall at their country place. az Roslyn' Long
Island sailed for Europe yesterday
Mr. ard Mrs Pierre Lorillard Ronalds. VINO spent
Christmas and the weekend at Tuxedo. have re-
turned town
NJ. yyoodburv Kane. who sailed for Europe
earI,, in the week will remain abroad until neAl
spring and will spend the greater Part OF the tine
on tie Continent
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
COLUMBIA TO HONOR TANG sHAo VI
Will Confer Degree on Chinese Special Com
missioner Early Next Month

Washington, Dec. 3o--TaHg SEao Vi. the special
Chinese commissioner now in Washington viii
make trip TO New York. Boston and Springfield
Mass, early next month to visit the haunts OF his
boyhood days and 20 renew acquaintances MADE
when he was attending school. He will be accom-
panied by several members Of his suite
Columbia University Is confer honorary
degree the distinguished Oriental AT Boston
the envoy is To look through Harvard University
and at Springfield he is visit friend OF former
days. He will be absent from Washington ten
days two weeks.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

The suggestion that criticisms Of the Gatun
dam and its flights of locks are made in the
interest of the Nicaragua route must be re-
garded as extravagant. 1t IS doubtful II any
rational person now cherishes the slightest nope
Of an abandonment of Panama and a return TO
the Nicaragua route. Moreover, some OF the
most earnest critics of the Gatun project are
and have always been among the strongest ad-
vocates of Panama in preference to Nicaragua.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
aen9)oris DaiIr 0ibn,ts
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 81. 1905.

FhEs ne,cspaper IS o5Crod Ond pHbItshed op
yhe Tribune association, a NeIc YORK corpora
sien: office Gnd principal place oJ business
Tribune Building, No. I54 Nassau Srcet' AeW
Tork; ogden Mills, president; James H. Bar.
Ferf sec7efaYr ard treasurer The address OF
.be officers Is the office Of this newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
sgougsr TO MUSEUM OF ART.

The will OF the Rev James ChrystaL who dled IN
Jersey CITY en- November II, made twenty-'hi1 .
,asrs 400 and admitted To probate yesterday in the
Hudson County Court leaves TO the Astor Library,
Manhattan all the books and manuscripts anu AZ
the personal property OF the testator. except =
small amount OF money in savings BANKS w.
Is 10 go 10 the American Bible Society for the as
trfhutIon of copies OF the New Testament 10 u.
heathens of the world, especially the MahoHsssis-
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

Discussing the check to the socialist move
ment in the election of 1908, The philadelphia
Press" says that the Debs ticket received last
month. Alabama and Vermont excluded 44''-
651 votes. This total was probably ootalneu
from a premature tabulation sent out Two
weeks or more ago by The Associated Press
The socialist total was only 42O464 Excluolhs
the returns from Oklahoma, admitted as state
in 1907 Debs's vote was smaller in 1908 than II
was in I904.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31
NEW EXTENSION OF THE MERIT SYSTEM
From The Utica Press.

Governor Hughes is to be commended for the
course has taken in this matter in apExoVing
the resolutions and REIMBURSEMENT made by the
State civil Service Commission. Some OF the poll
tcians may be- less disappointed. but there
is good ground for believing that the public ser
vice viii be materially improved
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

It is welcome news that Commissioner Blng-
ham will not tolerate the use Of slapsucKs ana
tickIers 10 emphasize good feeling on New year
Eve To-night's hilarity ought not TO be spoiled
by foolish rowdyism.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

The Hon Richard Croker in the poultry ousl-
ness will no doubt find useful the little nest
egg that he picked up while leader OF TammanS
Hall
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

Mr.. and Mrs Frank Gray Griswold. who spent
the fall at their country place. az fsoslJH' -'-s
Island sailed for Europe yesterday
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

Mr. and Mrs Ernest Wiltsee viii give large
dinner this evening at the Tuxedo Club
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

Mr. ard Mrs. Pierre Lorillard Ronalds. VINO spent
Christmas and the weekend at Tuxedo. have re-
turned TO town
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

,,-s Woodbury. Kane, who sal ed for Europe
earIv in the week will remain abroad until next
spring and will spend the greater part Of the tine
on TIE Continent.
New-York tribune., 1908-12-31

Mrs Vanderbilt will give dinner dance on jan
arv 10 at her house. in West 57th street
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THE REVERE


Some occult power drove away the
reverie that gripped him. He awoke
with start and discovered that he
was FIVE stations beyond his destina-
ton. He also discovered a pair OF
most interesting brown eyes staring at
him and quizzical smile dimpling the
features Of an exceedingly pretty young
woman
He quickly crossed the car and seat
ed himself by her side.
II have come five stations too far"
he said, as he took her hand.
II thought you were going too far"
she said, laughing quietly. "And your
face! Why, you seemed to be in a
trance"
II guess 1 was 1 was thinking Of
something, and even now 1 am not
collected enough to know whether had
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TESTING Els TONGUE.
The Unhappy Experience Of . Young
Married Woman.

The Unhappy Experience Of . YOUNG
Married Woman.
A young married woman In Brooklyn
suspected that her husband was indulg
ing In wine. She determined, however
to say nothing till she had confirmed
her suspicious. In conversation with
her bosom friend she said she would
give anything to discover the truth
The friend mentioned that man even
slightly intoxicated cannot pronounce
words Of length. This gave the young
wife an idea; which she proceeded to
put into execution.
When the young women met again,
the suspicious wife announced that the
worst had been ascertained. She burst
into tears and took from her hand bag
a paper, which she handed to her
friend
x gave him this" she sobbed.
The friend read from the list the fol.
lowinga words: "Philiprogenitiveness,
Observation-Disclosures pseudaesthesia,
phthisis. pafachronism, hypochondris
sis photochrohy. syncategorematic"
and added the unhappy wife, with
a fresh sob, sthe wretch missed nearly
all Of them New York Tribune.
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so1DuRs OF ToRTUH1.

To-day we have journeyed far,
My heart and L;
Came home at dusk meath star
Hung keen and high.
The morn was a blade of steel
'Scabbard of white
Bonnie and brave to feel
In FURNISHED light.
As we footed the open road
We sang the sun:
Love was the debt we owed
4 The day begun.
The hills were abrupt and blue
Castles of kings,
To be won and wandered through
For precious things.
Noon and the long afternoon
Gladness and hope
And a shadow that walked too soon
The westward slope.
So is the wild world won
= By them who roam;
But best of the day that is done
The door of home.
Potte, in Success Magazine.
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JANE ADDAMs.

proper assimilation into the citizenship
OF this country. In particular, she de
scribes the lack Of native American
art to our failure to absorb our immt
grants thoroughly into our body po'r
tic.
Twenty-Five years of personal con-
tact with our foreign colonies and Of
granting to them the proper facilities
to make of them American citizens as
we are American citizens would bring
results to amaze and surprise u.s." she
says. Are we not indeed foolish in re-
fusing to realize it?'
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dozed away and was dreaming or
whether I was-what shall I say?-
dopy!'
And the dreamer dope as you
call it?r
Its too long to relate now. 1t might
interest you, though. If
Surely. Some other time. Say to-
morrow EVENING"
II shall be delighted"
"Come in time for dinner"
He left the train at the next station.
The next evening they sat in cozy
parlor in an uptown apartment house.
A pause followed a half hours CONVEX
sation on commonplace matters
"And now," she said, suggestively,
"now will we have the recital of your
wanderings in the subway train?"
He laughed lightly.
II was just thinking of that" he
said. 81 was wondering how to start
my story. 1 guess had better begin
where l boarded the train. Will you
stop me when begin to bore?'
"You won't be tiresome you never
were"
He smiled at the naive compliment.
II boarded the train at Brooklyn
bridge" he began. There was a jam
OF people, but managed to find seat
by the window. / remember mentally
commenting on the terrible roar In the
subway and its probable effect upon the
hearing organs of New Workers.. l
don't know how far had gone before
there was silence that seemed to reach
out and ont, over great distance Of
land. And when i was out OF the sub
way fields and hills stretched before me
and the longer saw them the more
familiar they became. A long, dusty
road climbed knobby hill, and, some
how, was driving over this road, as
real and lifelike as / am sitting here.
MY mind was Transformed. Bust
ness cares were brushed away as dust
is brushed from picture frame. or
mantelpiece. The tinkle OF cowbells in
the distance lost their metallic clank
and sounded sweet and musical-the
vespers of the farm land.
"As drove up the hill / knew that
in the hollow on the other side ia find
q great, rambling white house. On the
summit / drew rein, searched with nv
eyes the long veranda and saw girl
In a white dress. She waved at me. /
was to drive her to dance about six
smiles across country. Doesn't this
strike you as being most unreasonably
rambling?"
The young woman, who was listening
intently, started, dropped 4 fan with
which she had been toying. recovered
herself and smiled.
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Her Blunder.

HimAnd I'm the only man you
ever loved?
Her-Yes, dearest.
Hlm-May | speak to your father?
Her suppose you'd better.
HIM wonder how he'll take it.
Her Oh, never can tell about dad.
He treats some Of the boys very nice
", and at others he gets fearfully an
CRY and why what's the matter,
George Cleveland Leader.
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= HA11x DRyj1rl6rn


He Wea he ADD1aass Of Il. :.
Trio HASA Ven nulo-
Hans yon Bu1pw, the famou. !,
and composer, was one Of the mos.
centric members Of q profession ~ y
IN eccentricify n common. It !. .s
lated that one day, while walk,ns =
streets Of Vienna, Bulow came nm y
regimental band on It's way to tha
tie. Immediately he ran to the m,s ,ss
Of the street and Joined the small W.
about the drummer. FollowIny wv
band, he kept bowling to the surn,,.
drummer, applauding him at a1m' a
every beat.
That II rhythm! Excellent. Thu,
the way ! like to hear it! he CONT.
ued to calculate, to the surprise Of -
and to the great delight Of the sr,sn
boys.
Persons In the street began to roo,.
nize the famous pianist and joined y.
procession, 20 that the band han o.' N.Y.
Of the largest audiences to which II h.s ~,
ever played.
Bulow listened attentively to tho ON,
Of the last piece and then made ds.a
bow before the drummer and bis IN
strument.
Thank you" he said. "That was =.
freshing!" That puts my nerves in pooa
condition again."
It is said that when the drumm..
learned who his strange admirer wa,
he was the proudest man in the red.
ment.-St. Louis Republic.