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size of their derbies would be about four
and three-eighths.
It's out of the question.
We must have been a victim. on all of
these occasions when we've seen 'em fix
ing up their hair-we must have been a
victim of Authorizations and such like.
And yet. and yet
Anyhow. have women nowadays any
hair of their own? That is. reallyand
truly, honest-Injun hair that belongs to
them-capillary covering that adheres to
their heads by roots. as woman's crown
ing glory used to in ancient times?
Put this question to any random SYM
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OJ know that hoary

IL know that hoary
L a q it ION, that
crumbling legend.
that moth eaten
myth, that bears
on and appertains
to British fair
play ?"
OF course YOU do.
You couldn't help
but know it. Brit
ish fair play" Is
one of those bro
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/ beauty type who can only dawdle in the
| water, and who shrek turibly when they
are overtaken by a wavelet nine inches
high. and these girls positively neglected
by the beach gallants. The idolized girl
| of the period is the girl who knows how
| to take care of herself in every situation.
Taking careful note of which. the girls
| over here are learning how to swim In
| hordes. 4 couple of years ago five New
York girls, all of them crack swimmers.
figured in a lot of swimming matches
| down BensonhGrst way. Candor COM
| pels the statement that every one OF these
| five girls was as homely as C-r-r-e N-t-n.
| or homelier. But before the end of that
year. every mothers daughter of these
five homely girls. but crack swimmers.
married wealthy husband. Thus. and
| for other reasons, the impetus to the
swimming thing for young women. This
4 summer we may expect to read dozens of
accounts of swimming young women pull
| ing drowning youths out of the surf by
| their spitlocks. after they'd gone down
for the third time and so on. Won't
| the youth thus yanked from the briny
! have to turn around and marry the girl
/ who rescues him? Well. won't he feel
obliged in common gratitude. to marry
| her whether he turns around or not? He
certainly will, Thered be nothing else for
| him to do, Perhaps these New York girls
don't know trick or two or three!
One of the New YORK aldermen. who
doesn't suffer from neurasthenia or any
thing like that, but who is simply tired.
| oh. so tired. has introduced one of the
| finest ina gina BILE resolutions. The reso-
| luton resolves that city ordinance shall
be framed providing that anybody who
| nlays musical instrument with the
windows open in this town after 9 o'clock
at night shall be pinched and fined SO
unon conviction for the first offense. 500
for the second conviction, and so on May
he it'll pass. but such contamination
seems too good to be true. The ordinance
is directed particularly at pianos that are
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H fan with the
stogie that smelt
like G i e S 70
Point on a sultry
day with a land
breeze was telling
us about 1t.
Maybe you re-
member said he,
''Stingaree Slap
penn. that used TO
play with the old
Chloride O. Lime
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Club of the Grip League? No? Well.
well. that's funny. Don't remem-
Der Stingaree. hey. that batted a clean
thousand for whole season a-running?
Certainly is queer | thought everybody
knew or had heard about Stingaree Slap
PEN.
Yes. / said that he'd batted LOCO for
the whole season. and l don't mean that
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Of the Taft bureau to the innermOst
sanctum where MIR. Hitchcock noiselessly
thinks.
Anyhow. Mr. Monk and Mr.. Hitchcock
were spending the day ont of town with
a party of friends. and Mr.. Monk. who
has done his share in touching up the
former first assistant postmaster general.
snuggled up 10 him overwhelmingly the
second morning out and remarked In a
am-and-champagne tone. II trust. Mr..
Hitchcock that you are having good
time.
Mr.. Hitchcock turned his head about
half point north northeast. glanced over
the newspaper man from crown to toe.
| turned his head half point back again
| and remarked coidly:
THANK you yes. I am having a good
time-ip my own quiet. carpet-slippered
way.
johnnie is s,ill v,ring
'Tother evening the Honorable Robert
Douganne of Oil City, Pa. who works a
lo-I mean works for local paper-was
sitting al his desk longing for chance to
turn loose an inspired intellect upon the
Denver convention and wondering whether
he'd have the chance or not. when his
boss. the top line boss. hailed him from
the next room. Bob answered the hail
"AIr. Douganne" said, he boss II wan,
you to leave for Chicago in the morning.
|! l. do not know that it is absolutely neces-
sary that we should have a special man
there ten days ahead of time. but --ould
feel safer if YOU We're on the ground and
had your eye on things. | have just
wired to the Auditorium Hotel to reserve
| two rooms and bath for you at $40 day.
Here is a mileage book and I think you
u
out l wouldn't care to have you un-
comfortable during the trip tired when
YOU arrived in Chicago. You will need
considerable expense money. Here Is an
| order for $500 Wire for more when you
need il. | do not care to have YOU spend
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only man who had anything in any way
resembling human voice was Ike Gregg.
and his was a plantve. searching. second
story tenor. hat sounded as if It had
been rajned on and then rough dried He
was hest when he sang in q sharp. but
every now and then he wandered off on
The fats and got stuck in vocal mud. But.
at that, he was the only redeeming
feature of an awful noise. The other
voices sounded like flock Of overcharged
steam radiators moaning things about the
new janitor.
Here's TO Ike. If the directors of the
Metropolitan Opera Company ever hear of
him he'll he kidnapped as sure as shoot
ing And later an indignant music low
ing populace will do things to the direc-
tors
4 couple of days after the adjournment
of Congress I went up to the Capitol and
found Ed Miller who clerks for The
Rodanbar2 of Illinois. up to his ears in
work He was writing with fountain
pen. eating ham sandwich. debating to a
stenosrapher and showing large color
ed porter how TO strap a trunk-all at one
and the same time.
''Oh yes. he said calmly in reply to
an impertinsnt question, 1.-The Rodenberg
throws the from; while do the work
All the time?" l inquired
Sure. replied the modest Mr.. Miller
'but it is particularly true of anything
that requires thought
| don't want to he rude. but this news
comes sort of in the way of confirmation.
Anybody who thinks that Jim TaWney
cha irman of the House committee on an
preparations. is not on to his job wants to
change his medicine. Just a couple of
days before adjournment there was
thrill of JOY that swept through the ranks
of the Keen commissioners and the Keen
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- -
s L Err ID y Y, to
gain enlightenment
with respect to
these s h e a I h
gowns that are be-
ing so widely harp
ed upon. and to
gather illumination
on other topics
more or less re-
lated to this sub
ject. l hunted up a
male Dire Snaker of
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J, it can't be true.
II cannot be true
that if " o m e n
were required to
cut their hair short
like mems hair.
their heads would
bear a general re-
semblance to the
conformation of
gOurds. and that.
If they wore der
bies. the average
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| whanged in apartment houses until 1 OIL
, o'clock in the morning and at canned
music flowing from the cylinder ma.
chimes that are placed at open windows
Did YOU ever live across the street
from or next door TO one of these canned
music" machines that bleat I'm Afraid
| to Come Home in che Dark" and 1.-The
Grand March From Tannhaeuser" and
school Days. Fool Days" and things out
of wida-open window until the mlkman
is about ready to begin his Gathering
rounds?
Did you ever live over or beneath in
an apartment house, a young woman
! VINO. to her own piano wnacking. shrieked
Love Muh and the World is Milne"
and "Al-wayza" and "Dee-ar-ieee" until
the street cars began to run on their
early morning schedule?
If so Won will appreEend the profound
sense of wrong which melted the New
York alderman TO introduce his fine little
old resolution.
The hurdy- gurdies. street pianos and
what not have become most depress-
ing abominaton in this town. too. but
every attempt that is made to choke them
off by municipal action is slaughtered by
the politicians. You see. the Italian vote
is a mighty powerful thing in New York
That's why the municipal ordinance
which requires organ grinders TO beat
it at . O'Clock at night and cease tortur-
ing the weary is completely disregarded.
The thing is fixed up with the police.
most obviously, for the street pianists
keep pounding away at their hideous
contraptions until all hours OF the night
often as late as NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. mo-
lest alton. This is a source of great profit
to the crafty vendors OF what is called
street music" They pull up in front OF
the nlace where YOU live along about the
time You're tousling up your hair prepar-
o;,;no ,be;r Relzebubbian sounds. and
they wont go away until you notice EN-,
and then you've got to notice 'em by toss
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y. the Associated
Press. story. detail
.lg TIE incidents of
tae closing hours Of
Congress-. which
vas sent ont Satur-
lay night for pub
ilcation Sunday
morning. appeared
t.le following brace
u sentences:
II he last hours
,f tine secession wprp
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Johnnie Mork of a Washington news
bureau had the hooks thrown into him
recently and by no less parsonage than
Frank Hitchcock. eastern manager of the
Taft presidential bureau. which has Of
fees in the White House and the Union
Trust Company building. Johns home
paper has been having some fun with Mr..
Hitchcock of late describing how he has
gone George r. Cortelyou one better in
the employment of pussy-footed methods
and how i: takes four days for business
caller 10 penetrate from the outer office
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decide in sweet and merry unison tina,
It's better So"

decide in sweet and merry unison that
it's better So
I didn't know until recently that so
many people were aware that l was the.
author of the limercks under Cliff Ber
ryman's picture gallery cartoons which
appeared daily in The Star during the
sessions of Congress. But lately I've got
a, lot of lovely letters on the subject.
i've read some good poetry and some
rotten wrote one citizen who signed
himself "Old Subscriber but I must
say that yours is in A class by itself"
That sounded real complimentary at
first, but 1 discovered later. after show
ing the letter proudly to couple Of
friends that there were two possible
interpret ions. There is only one TO the
following anonymous communications
which came yesterday:
You must he very happy now that
Congress has ended and YOU do not have
to write any more limericks. l take it
for granted you are happy, as that is the
state of mind of every Star reader with
whom l have talked.
I have a number Of other samples, but
+ don't believe l will quote from any
more They sort of branch out from that
last and get rough. All me. This = a
dreary ~ Grid.
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correspondence Of Tho Star.

NEW YORK, June ). 1908.
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OFFICIAL AND OTHERWISE

very taciturn and unresponsive. but this
impression came from the fact that he
was "A man of few words and never opened
his mouth to speak unless he had some
thing 10 say. His nature was. however.
warmly sympathetic, and he possessed the
tact that is characteristic of the kind
hearted OF making people feel at their
ease. AZ the first reception he gave after
becoming President. Mr.. Arthur was pres
ent and received with him. An ardent
admirer Of the retiring President. whose
husband had held an Office under him,
when she entered the Blue Room. clasped
M Arthur's hand in both OF hers and
said almost tearfully:
"Oh, Mr. President how are we ever
going TO do without you?" Then realizing
that she had made mistake said Il
mean Mr. Arthur: | didn't mean TO say
Mr. President You'll forgive me, Mr
President for my stupidity. won't your
and she turned n blushing and embar-
rassed face toward Mr.. Cleveland
"Once a President, always a President.
said the President good-humoredly. "Mr.
Arthur is quite as much entitled TO the
title as l am. and he can bear II better
because he is more used 10 H."
At this pleasant way of dissipating her
embarrassment. the little woman broke
The Washington herald., 1908-06-28
DEVOTION TO HIS FAMILY
ONE OF CLEVELAND'S TRAITS

Of her presence while ! am at my desk.
so at these dinners l have ordered the
decorations of the table made very low.
that, If cannot hear her. can at least
look at her
Indeed Mr.. Cleveland never tired Of
watching his charming wife, and nothing
gave him equal pleasure. In his admins
tration the custom of weekly public recep-
tions of a Saturday still obtained. and
late in the afternoon the President in
variably wandered down from his office to
station behind the line in the Blue
Room. where he could note everything his
wife did. for at these functions he took no
official part. One afternoon a lady, who
stood near him watching the long stream
OF callers, said 20 the President: "'Do you
know II gives me more pleasurertO stand
here and watch Mrs. Cleveland than TO
move about and chat with my friends ?
Her cordialty is so genuine and charm
ing
Yes said her husband. eagerly.
doesn't she do It beautifully? 1t is amaz-
ing how she has taken hold OF her social
duties here just as though she had been
bred for them like royal princess. Yes.
love TO watch her, too"
BY those who knew him superfcialIy.
Mr.. Cleveland was often thought to be
The Washington herald., 1908-06-28
THE STAGE DOOR,"

The charm that the theater and theatre
cal life. off the stage as we'll as on.
always possesses will bring a large audi
ence TO Charles Belmont Davis new
book, The Stage Door" There are ten
stories in the book. all dealing more or
less with the stage or with the people Of
the theater, but their interest lies first
of all In the fact that they are stories OF
living. human people, and remarkably
well told Such tales as Beauty Kerri-
gan" and "Everyman Riddle" do not
depend on the theater for their interest.
They are simply remarkably vivid. inter
esting. powerful stories well and effec-
lively told THE Flawless Emerald is
a curious and ingenious tale full of sur
prises, and related with Il lightness Of
touch aud fantastic turn of plot very re-
freshlng; "CoccarO the Clown full Of
the atmosphere Of the business OF the
theater as it is, touches deeper note
through all its quick and picturesque ac-
ton: "Sedgwick" d" "A Modern Cleopatra.
The Cross Roads, New York The
Kidnappers." and the others give glimpses
Of out-Of-the-way points of view. not only
OF theatrical but Of other kinds Of life.
They are short. clear. and striking stories
and they will give much pleasure to many
people (New York: Charles Scribner's s
SOns)
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one Of Mr. Clevelands most attractive
traits. his most attractive trait, in fact
and one that was never observed by those
who knew him only as a public character,
a great statesman. was his devotion to
his family. to Mrs. Cleveland especially
Generally reticent about his private af-
fairs. with the fine reserve that distin-
guishes those OF a deep and refined char
acter, he was most frank and open in ex-
pressing his admiration OF his beautiful
wife. Shortly after their marriage a lady
from out OF town dined with the President
and his bride. and was so fascinated by
Mrs. Clevelands fresh beauty, her un-
spoiled and unaffected manners, that she
hardly removed her eyes from her face
during the early part Of the dinner
Finally, TO excuse her apparent rudeness.
she turned 20 the President, at whose
side she sat. and made some compu-
mentary remark regarding her loveliness.
Yes, she Is lovely" the President quickly
replied. but as much as her beauty is
admired Il is nothing to me In compari-
son with her loveliness Of character. In
all my life ] have never met a sweeter OF
more amiable woman. I see so little OF
her that begrudge the hours wasted out
The Washington herald., 1908-06-28
"The Snnnish Lnde.v

\ romance rich with color and warm
with the sunshine of Spain, Mr.. Hewlett
has written in this latest product Of his
pen. The Spanish Trade" That magic Of
vividness by which he makes his charac-
tiers, no matter out Of what nation or
what age he has taken them, seem throb-
bing with life. is here in high degree. 4
well-intentioned young Englishman tray
cling on horseback among the mountains
of Spain rescues a Spanish girl from a
dangerous situation and carries her away
on his own horse. Her lover. as gay
hearted and handsome and lovable = cut
throat as every murdered his way to his
desires I'm any romlnce, comes riding that
way, too, presently. And then there fol-
low in swift succession complications ana
dramatic scenes and terrible deeds. and
all are wound through and through with
Mr.. Hewletts charm Of style and vivid
ness Of portrayal. AS a background there
is constantly the Spain that has inspired
poets and artists of all time. The reader
realizes the Spanish scenery and the
Spanish character and the spirit of Spain
behind it all Mr. Hewlett has always a
story to tell, and in this novel 1t moves
swiftly to an unexpected climax The
book is remarkable for its imaginative
power and the sheer beauty of its mar
rative. CNew York: The Macmillan Com
DaDy)
The Washington herald., 1908-06-28
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF RELIGIOUS
KNOWLEDGE.

The first volume Of a most important
work The New Schaff-Herzog EncycIo-
pedia of Religious Knowledge" has just
been issued. 1t is to be followed by eleven
more volumes. which will make this
monumental work complete 1t represents
in a condensed and modified form that
great body of Protestant learning called
the Realencyklopadie fur protestantische
Theologie und Kirche, edited by Prof
Albert Hauck. Ph. D.. the famous church
historian Of Germany. The late Prof
Philip schaff was requested by his inti-
mate friend DR. Herzog. u adopt the en-
cyclopeda 10 American uses. and this is
the result.
The work has been known TO the re-
ligious public on both sides Of the ocean
for over twenty-five years. and in it's pres
ent form it is an old work reconstructed.
It's lists OF titles is generally the same
and its general plan does not differ ma
terially from the old The points of dis
similarity are that it contains much mat
ter furnished directly by those German
contributors who have condensed their
articles and brought them within pre-
scribed limits. These limits have often
been narrow. but in no other way was
II possible to utilize the German ma
teridl. Il contains hundreds Of sketches
Of living persons and the matter Of the
whole volume in proof has been sent 10
persons especially noted FOR their emil
nence in their respective departments.
Besides reading these proofs these gen
tlemen made such additions as would not
only bring the matter up TO date. but
would represent the distinctive results OF
British and American scholarship
As it stands this massive encyclopedia
Of religious knowledge embraces biblical
historical doCtrinal. and practical theol-
Ogy and biography as well as ecclesiasti-
cal biography from the earliest time down
TO the present day. IL is the ripe work
Of more than six hundred scholars and
specialists under the supervision OF
Samuel Macauley Jackson. ID. D.. LII D.
with the assistance Of Charles Colebrook
Sherman and George William Gilmore. NJ
A.. associate editors. and the following
department editors: Clarence Augustine
BeCkwith. ID. D.. department Of systematic
theology, Henry King Carroll. LII D.. de
partment Of minor denominations: John
Thomas Creagh. d. D.. James Francis
DrisCOll. ID. D.. department OF liturgiCs
and religious orders; James Frederic Nc
Curdy, Pm. d., department Of ;he Old
Testament; Henry Sylvester Nash. d. D.
department Of the New Testament; Albert
Henry Newman. d. D.. Ii. D.. depart
ment Of church history, and Frank
Horace Vizetelly, f. 5. A.. department OF
pronunciation and typography.
The list Of contributors 10 this volume
which runs from Aachen 10 Basilians. is
"a notable one and includes the names OF
the best-known writer's OF theology in the
world The book is very thorough. and
viii prove, undoubtedly. Indispensable tc
all students and theologians. IL is a hand
some. wcll-madc volume New York anC
London, Funk & WagralIs Coz
The Washington herald., 1908-06-28
ROSE MCLEOD"

In Rose Mcleod" by Alice Brown. the
author has created a very delightful old
lady. who refuses 10 grow cid I'm spirit or
10 acquire conscience. At seventy she
Is as curious about life. as impatient Of
moralizing, as she could have been at
seventeen. She writes a book Of memoirs.
with many letters from famous Abolition
lists. all out of her own head and wins
fame, fortune. and a delicious sense of
guilt. Also she enters into a love affair
with "a gentleman of her own age and
threatens 10 marry him. The foil to the
old lady is her granddaughter. Electra.
a superior person. poised, admirable. cor
rect-a woman turned into a New Eng
land conscience by looking inward as
Lots wife was turned into a pillar OF
salt by looking backward. Electra is "A
clubwOman, and her guide Is ethics Sew
eral other characters are borrowed from
melodrama. They include an impossible
social reformer, a young painter. rugged
fellow with a hunchback and a godlke
simplicity and Rose. daughter of the So
cial reformer, who is very sweet lady
with very unpleasant past which has
not so much as smirched the hem of her
garments of girlshness and innocence.
She is conceived. one guesses. as a flower
of that humility which is true pride Her
gowns are Partisan. however, Boston: /:
Houghton. Mifflin Company
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into smiles. and Mr.. Cleveland became
her hero from that moment
When President Cleveland was first in
Quoted into Office, the White House was
presided over by his sister Rose Eliza
beth Cleveland, who is pleasantly re-
membered here. She was a woman of
intellect and learning, already known as
an author and person Of original views
when she assumed the direction o. the
White House society; therefore. was not
unprepared for the innovations she set
about making as soon as she took the
reins of government. The reforms she
contemplated were ideal in themselves;
they made FOR simplicity, for real
democracy. and incidentally adjustment
OF the little court behind the line In
the Blue Room which is surely most
unrepublicaa institution. But society does
not take kindly TO reform. and IN the
year OF her stewardship Miss Cleveland
accomplished very little in this direction.
but she did make many warm and last
friends, who admired her wit and clever
ness. her bright mobile face. and her
great loving heart Since she resigned
her post 10 her husbands bride, Miss
Cleveland has lived much in Europe. but
she makes her permanent home at Dark
Harbor, Me, where she finds inspiration
for her pen.