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native into the place.
We're hungry" We announced, what
have you got?"
The native looked us over carefully and
spat. with comprehensive accuracy, at a
crack.
Well" he said. there is some sardines
and crackers" He paused and spat again.
And" he added, "all kinds of things.
liquid and powdered, for the shakes
Later we found that the shakes in the
vernacular meant all varieties Of ague.
chills and fever. malaria and the like.
After an apology for q breakfast we
hired boat and rowed more than two
weary, sweat-drenched miles out to the
Buzzard. We didn't, either OF us, know
anything about Langley: had never heard
OF his peculiarities. chief of which was
his extreme distaste to having newspaper
men within fourteen statute miles of him.
and We expected to be we'll received,
shown the aeroplane in course Of con-
struction and perhaps asked to stay to
dinner So 1t wasn't very pleasant.
although nightly astonishing, when a
rude-looking person with a gun profess
sionally held In the crook Of his arm
hailed us when we We're still a good hum
bred yards away from the Buzzard and
made motions.
"He wants us to beat it," suggested
Billy Couch, who was the unfortunate
with me.
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AN ELUSIVE PORTRAIT.
New York Art Commission Worried
Over Picture Of Hudson.

From the New York Telegram.
II there's any person present who can
remember how Henry Hudson looked and
what he wore on the day he landed here
and shook hands with half a dozen In
dams who were waiting to be discovered
they can gain the everlasting gratitude
of the municipal art commission. The
members have been accommodating q fine
crop OF gray hairs and kicking off the
coverlets nights in their efforts to prove
beyond the shadow of a doubt that the
dingy little canvas in the city hall labeled
"Hendrick Hudson is faithful repro
duction OF the features of the famous
explorer.
This likeness shows Henry with very
high forehead. the lower portion of his
face draped in molasses candy whiskers,
and wearing a high ruffled collar much
the style Of those affected nowadays by
young women with lean necks. This is
the picture which is generally shown OF
the explorer and it is believed that most
of those now In print in this part of the
country are copies OF the city hall cam
vas. Not even the Oldest of1cehOlders
in the city hall--and some of them have
been there since shortly after Columbus
arrfved-know where the picture came
from.
But it has always been accepted as
Hudson's portrait, and as none of the
immediate members of his family has de-
MED the charge it was only natural that
it should serve as the model for millions
of medals. postal cards and souvenirs OF
every kind prepared for distribution dur
ing the Hudson-Fulton celebration Men,
bers OF the municipal art commission
thought it would be just as we'll to have
a complete record Of the picture, and a
few weeks ago began an investigation to
find out just when and how the city ac-
quired it. Up to the present time they
have been unable to find shred Of evil
dence to prove that it really is the por-
trait of Hudson. There Is not record Of
any kind to show where the picture came
from Experts have figured out that the
canvas is about 300 years old. which
doesn't make the investigation any
easier
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it. How's thato You didn't know that
trained nurses told things? Oh, yes thes
do. occasionally. Quite occasionally.
Among other tid-bitty things that come
his way this Washington doctor Is the
official hotel physician for Washln8-
ton hotel Being physician for WASH
ington hotel will enable the physician 80
circumstanced to buy almost any OLD
thing that he wants to buy.
Out of his velvety rake-off as physician
fer Washington hotel this medical man
bought. some time ago. very large ana
splendiferous diamond ring.
Herein. perhaps, he exhibited certain
lack of magination. perhaps also a GER
tain lack of the thing called a sense OF
humor There is not, when you come to
think it over, any particular reason why
a medical man should wear any kind OF
a diamond ring, much less large and
splendiferous one. A diamond ring IS all
right for plenty of folks. But it doesn't
particularly belong on the digit OF doc
tor 1t is, In fact, a bit ostentatious on
the finger of a doctor. 1t sort o looks as
though such a doctor hasn't his mind on
his business. Now, if YOU were pretty
sick and the doctor you'd sent for was
to come into your sckroom flashing on
monds set in a heavy shiny band OF gold.
The doctor wore it on the appropriate
finger. and. honestly. he just couldn t
keep his eyes off of it. He loved to look
at it. 1t tickled him to look at 1t. There
you the myriad facets Of large, spfen-
dferous diamond set in ring, wouldn
yOll--
However. this is going to be story.
not a musefulness
- II
The doctor was keenly proud Of his new
diamond ring. being, as stated, doctor
probably deficient in the sense of humor.
1t was one of those big three-stoners-
1T was. a huge three-stoner. all Cutlery
and glisteny. you know, and it
''Oh. by the way. the ring was just a
teenchy bit too large for the appropriate
finger on which the doctor wore it. and
sometimes, when he took off his glove, for
instance, he found that the band had sort
of twisted around on the finger, SO that
the three diamonds. being turned side
ways or perhaps underneath, didn't show
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My hostess told me the Syrian name for
the dish. but, of course, l can't remem-
Der that Only thing I remember in
Syrian-and it's fifteen to one that l
haven't got that rights 'Behebek.' Be
hebek' means 4 love you. 1t sounds like
'Behebek,' anyhow. / wouldn't know. how
to write, it, But | can't remember the
names Of those Syrian dishes. The names
were mostly made of consonants. I think.
Well, about that cabbage thing. The
cabbage thing. believe me, was awful.
1t was the awfullest ever. l wouldn't go
up against that Syrian cabbage again for
any conceivable amount OF money, l
really believe.
THE Syrian cabbage thing was leaves
of cabbage tightly rolled around minced
lamb and nuts and things. think thyme
was used in the seasoning. Yes, and
think there must have been lot Of tall
low mingled with the minced lamb.
''The cabbage thing was dreadful. 1t
was the piece de resistance Of the Syrian
my Syrian hostess eyes sparkled when
the servant brought it in on the huge
platter.
1.-The hostess fairly heaped my plate
ding the minced lamb, tallow, thyme,
nuts and things
"'You are such a big man. she said,
archly, and you will need lot of it, and
l know you'll 60 wild over it,
We'll, / went wild over it. all right.
That's where I showed my ability as a
natural actor, my Machiavellian powers,
so to speak. in tight pinches. Yes, 1 went
quite wild over 1t. I said that the cab
bage thing was im-mense, marvellous, a
sheer delight Well, I couldn't say such
things and then refrain from eating my
huge portion Of the cabbage thing, could
1? Certainly not. And so ] ate it. But
gentlemen! Not any more!
During the past couple Of months my
stomach has crawled a bit when I've
been reading about the food partaken of
by those arctic explorers. But, really.
after eating that Syrian cabbage thing, L
now believe that l wouldn't have the
least difficulty in getting away with those
messy things arctic travellers had TO eat
-pemmtcan. tallow, blubber, raw waIrus
meat and such like. Now, perhaps, YOU
will have a better understanding Of just
how terrible that Syrian cabbage thing,
was. OF course. 1 am an occidental and
all that, but, honestly. it seemed queer
and inexplicable to me, how this bright
lovely lady. my Syrian hostess, could
partake OF her portion-and a Sehelpihg.
too-of the cabbage thing with Alch per-
satisfaction. not to say delight.
"'My mother cooked it with hAr own
hands, she explained TO me. That is
why It is SO delicious
Il speared another roll of the cabbage
thing and said. No doubt, no doubt.'A A
man never knows how brave he ian
be. nor what mighty falsifier he can be-
until he is put smack-dab to the test. dies
he?
THE cabbage thing came SO near mak
ing me downright i'll at ease as to the
stomach part Of me that there wasn't any
fun in it. can taste the tallowness of 1T
yet. 1t was woolly, and unsheared wooliy
at that. When. at last I had harpoof
my final roll of the cabbage thing, an
resisted, with the air of one practicing
self-denial. my hostess imploration that
I should have another helping, I sought
to drown the taste of the cabbage thing
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uuenchorium, where, after hlllng thelr
glasses to the proper and permissible
point. they say, sort Of In union. well.
here's to old Langley, he was right after
all
OF course, everybody knows now that
Langley was right-Prof. Langley, the
f1ying machine pioneer. But that out
rageously hot summer. SIX or seven years
ago when the members Of the South
Potomac squadron sweltered at Wide
water on the African coast OF Virginia.
il didn't seem so sure. Early In the
spring Langley had the "Buzzard the
big Observation-Disclosures affair on
which his aeroplane was under construc-
ton. moved down the river to Whitewater.
where the Potomac stretches full I'VE
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THE PHYSICIAN AND THE DIAMOND.

stefan. The wealthy old lady was from
Boston. and on account of her condition
she was very. VARY peevish. She stopped
In Washington with her maid on her way
to the south. and she fell i'll at the Wash
inSton hotel from a kind Of nervous
breakdown. being quite old, and too rich
altogether. and things. So the doctor
with the luff1y diamond ring was called to
attend her AS soon as the doctor entered
TIE peevish old lady's bedroom (she had
fine suite Of rooms at the hoteD he re-
moved his gloves, naturally. And the frst
thing he did after removing the glove
from his left hand was TO give that won
derful three-stoner the right kind OF
twist SOS to make the stones look up
ward, instead of sideways or downward.
In fact. he did this before he bestowed
any real careful look at his patient.
The old lady noticed 1t At once. She
didn't like it. It looked foolish to her
She wanted to be the center OF attention.
She had right to be. when II comes to
that. And she disliked to see the medical
man who had been summoned to her bed
side display such all but childish inter
est in diamond ring before settling him
self down TO the imminent business OF
asking her what allied her. anyhow.
Anyhow, the doctor wasn't a hit with
the peevish old wealthy lady from BOs-
ton from that minute when she first no.
ticed how deeply in love he was with his
diamond ring. The doctor prescribed for
her, got a trained nurse for her and did
the usual things But several times dur
ing that first visit he twisted his diamond
ring around so that 1t would be right side
up, and just as often as he did this the
old Boston lady squirmed irritatedly in
her bed.
The doctor had been calling upon her a
couple of times day for about a week.
Every time he called he did that ring
twisting thing first. after pulling or his
left-hand glove. and second and severally
after he'd sat down beside the sick bed.
Each and every time he did it the old lady
wriggled eXasperatedly in bed and scowled
through her friZzes, while the trained
nurse who tells about 1t felt like litter
ing: she confesses that she would love
to have Uttered.
One morning. about a week after he
had first been summoned to attend the
old lady, the doctor hustled. into. her bed
room, yanked off his gloves. twisted his
ring SOS 1t would be right side UP. and
then started to draw chair up to the bed.
The old lady in the bed gave an unusu-
ally prolonged squirm.
Irene" she called out in q cracked but
determined voice to her maid, who hap
pened to be in the room, pull up the
window curtains. Pull them away to the
top. All Of them. I want all Of the cur
tains pulled away to the top, so that the
sunlight will blaze right in here
1t was queer request, but the male
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oil. YOU know. ! won't say that the oil
tasted rancid, like butter inadvertently
left out on the fire escape all through a
sizzling summer night. I won't say that.
But what taste that oil-soaked okra
did have! And the garlic in it! Here was
little lady who loved Arabic poetry and
Persian poetry-she could and did trans
late Hafiz for me in the most wonderful
way-here she was land she with such
perfect eyes and such a gorgeous olive
skin and all that just fairly dreag-
we'll. was going to say dredging. but
won't-here she was encircling and en-
comprising and absorbing that hideous
okra mess as IL it really was meant to
be eaten!
did l eat mine? Well, I'll tell you L
er1-started quite a heated grafton about
the reconsideration with which certain
orientals are treated In this country by
persons who don't understand them. per-
sons who aren't up to understanding the
benevolent subtlety of the oriental ma
ture. and my hostess was SO thoroughly
en- rapport with me. whatever that means,
that she didn't notice 1t when the serv-
ant came along presently and removed
my allotment Of okra from In front OF
me. wanted to hand that servant a
f1ve-dollar note. l should have handed her
ge-dollar note IL I'd had half chance,
l should've. really.
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complied with it. The doctor might have
made some objection to it, only he hap
pened to be pretty busy just at that mo-
ment looking at his three-stone diamond
ring.
Now said the old lady after the cur
tains had been pulled away to the top and
the autumn sunshine was streaming in.
Irene, want you to switch on the cleo
trolier lights
But. madam" the maid began to ex-
postulate.
"Never mind madaming me-" cut in the
old lady, peevishly. You do what tell
all Of the other lights in the room Then
light all OF the gas. Do as say
But this time the doctor looked puzzled.
as well he might have. But he wasn't
ordering wealthy patients not to do things
that they appeared to want to do or have
done
The maid switched on all Of the electric
lights and lit all Of the gas.
VERY WE'LL" said the old lady, then.
impaling the doctor with her shrevd
gray eyes. Now, doctor, we have plenty
of light in this room-both natural and arti-
fetal only regret that We haven't CAL
cium light and a searchlight. Now, I'll tell
you what my idea is. ! want you to take
good. long, lingering. comprehensive.
careful intense look at that ring of yours
Concentrate your entire mind upon look
ing at it. Look at il as you've never look
ed at il before. Look at IT from all ansles
upside down. sideways, straight up. on
the bias, oblique. every way Go over
to the window and look at 1t with the sum
light on it. Then pull down the shades
and look at it, keenly and intensely.
under the artificial light Of electricity and
gas. Look at your diamond ring until
you feel that you've surfeit of looking
at it. Then, if you please, kindly put it
in your pocket for the remainder of your
visit here and forget 1t and address your
self to the state OF my aihnent, will
you?"
The doctor, before the old lady had
finished, was In state of high dudReon,
of course. But what could he do about
it? He couldn't sit there and sass" q
wealthy old female patient. could he?
He could not.
So. flushing a heap, he pulled the ring
off his digit and stuck il into his
vest pocket. endeavoring to convey the
impression that he did SO merely to humor
the whimsicality of sick old woman; and
the old woman's maid and the trained
nurse felt like tittering.
And when the doctor paid the old lady
his next visit he didn't wear the ring
at all, which shows that after ALL maybe
he does possess little latent imagina-
ton. and at least the embryonic symptoms
Of sense of humor.
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up as they ought to've showed up: didn't
catch the eye, that is to say $50 the doc
tor must have considered) of the specta-
tor sufficiently So the doctor fell into
sort of habit of twisting that diamond
ring around on his finger so that each
and every jewel would be face up and
show properly. Not only did he give the
right -side-up twist as soon as he removed
his glove, but involuntarly he fell into
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any kind Of lentil soup before. In fact.
I've always had merely a misty idea as to
what lentils really were. Now know that
they're beans OF some kind or other. This
Syrian lentil soup was black as your hat.
thick, gluey and tepid, not hot. l think
] heard my hostess say that Syrians don't
care for food that is piping hot. Perhaps
that is why most Syrians have such SPLEEN
did teeth. But / didn't like this Syrian
lentil soup, / am perfectly sure Of that
1t had a soapy taste to me. 1t wasn't
quite so sticky as mucilage, but pretty
nearly as sticky. Right here at the soup
my dormant abilities as a make-belever
were put to the test. 1 went to the bot
tom OF my plate Of lentil soup. and smiled
what I really must suppose to have been
a satisfied even an engaging smile.
hope you will not think i'll of me for con-
Tossing this, but / did say to my hostess
that | considered that lentil soup some
thing fine AS a matter of fact, think
l murmured something TO the general es-
sence that I'd certainly ask for another
plate of 1t only / was too keen for the
Syrian dishes yet to come. I trust you
will not take it that l am any worse
white liar than my neighbors.
Next came the cabbage thing. That's
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right through the winter.

right through the winter
It's nothing but self-coddilns iof
fellow to quit his fine, invigorat'ns co'o
baths of mornings just as soon rs >he
weather becomes a mite chilly, ne saio
to Mrs Jobson ITS sign OF "eak
ness. It's a symptom of shrink1uihess>
None a. that for mine Me for my colo
swim every morning, right along, no
matter if there's ice on the window paheS
an inch thick
Mrs Jobson may have considered that
very creditable intention; but II she
did. she didn't say anything ABOUT X
She went right along with her Irish lace
work.
"rve Just been reading here In the
Star-pape," went on Mr.. Jobson, apout
what a swell thing the cold morning tuo
is to keep folks from catching coids oui
ing the cold weather. There's heap III
that theory too. Y'see, the cold water
taken right after You get out or oeu.
makes you immune to the attackS W
cold. It bulwarks you against the emily
thing 1t hardens you against the polaric
blasts of Boreas. 1t makes 1t impossloie
for you to promptly get the snifhes as
soon as a little Whit of raw air strikes
YOU. ,,,
all from her.
II am fully aware, Of course" went on
Mr.. Jobson. that folks constituted ike
iellyfish can't or won't take cold Datns
They're afraid of cold water. 1t takes,
I am willing to admit. little nerve
more than most people possess-to mop
right out of a warm bed and into tup
of excessively cold water right In the
dead of winter. But folks ought to con-
slider the compensating advantages. It's
hvgienic stunt, and that's what makes
II worth while. 1t comes easy after a
while. At first you look at the tubful OF
cold water as people who don't like fried
snaiIs might look at EN- But once in the
cold tub-and out again-and rubbing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-30

WALTER,
the playwright who
wrote Paid in
Full and 1.-The
Ea. siest Way dab
bled with some for
eign food recently.
He told me about
it yesterday.
While l never
entertained t h e
idea that heaven
designed me for an
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MR.. JOBSON TAKES A CHILLY BATH.

snuffling and shifting and sneezing your
head off with colds all through the fall
and winter. l mention a simple little
recipe to you whereby you can forever
eliminate colds. or the possibility of get
ting colds. and you sit there and intimate
that I'm candidate for the BOBBY hatch.
But never mind. I'll be taking my little
old cold tub every morning right along
when the sleigh bells are jingling in the
streets. and I'll get some good out of
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ERE'S a little story
about g. Washing
ton doctor and his
diamond ring.
He doesn't tell 1t
on himself. He's
kind Of a pornpous
doctor man, and he
wouldn't tell any
thing on himself
for a lot. The
trained nurse who
was present tells
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The Penny Citrate.

From the Church Family Newspaper.
Many Of the clergy grid against copper
in the collection bags. and of course peo-
Pile who can afford silver ought not to
give pennies only, but there is nothing
to be said against pence if there is
plenty of it, In a certain parish not
long ago the vicar announced that an ad-
ditional clergyman or second curate was
needed. He said the cost of his mainte-
nance was to be provided by penny
fund. to which every parishioner was
wanted to subscribe. The fund was
started and was SO successful that the
income of the new curate was assured
thereby. The new assistant is to this day
called the penny curate."
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7 WAS during the
warmish spell early
in October that
Mr.. 10 b SO an
nounced that he
was going to keep
up his morning cold
baths, W n ic h In
former years he
h a d abandoned
with the appear
ance of the first
signs Of autumn
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New York's Food Supply.
From Leslie's Weekly.

From Lesle's Weekly.
Down along the crowded shore Of ,b.
North river. between the docks and Hud-
son street, is a region of busy commerce.
or big food supply establishments. and
sidewalks piled high with packages and
crates and cases Of all kinds. This is the
realm or the produce men. Block after
block, every spot is devoted to the one
business and stranger would imagine
that this was some world emporium that
sent food to every corner of the earth. IT
Is shipping, but purely local, for the con-
slgnments are chiefly to the MANY sec
lions or the country'S metropolis-New
YORK Here are handled the nations most
precious products-the perishable dairy
and poultry produce In wear there
passes through the hands of the mer-
chants Of this section 500, 00O. OOJ worth of
these products-S5, O00.0GO worth of cheese
$4,OOO,COo worth of butter, S2JOO.UO
worth of eggs and $31,0oO,OOO worth of
poultry. New York consumes 10000
cases of eggs alone. each case containing
thirty dozen. The average price Of these
eggs is 23 cents a dozen. OF this number
there may be from co., 900 to 900 600 of re-
frigerator eggs. which are stored for dis
tribution TO the retailers and sold to the
consumers through the regular channels
At the height of the season the receipts
may soar as high as 10000 cases or more
in a day, the prices fluctuating from 40
cents to II cents a dozen at wholesale.
The high prices occur during the late fall
and winter, when the production is or
February and early March, according to
weather conditions, the supply jumps and
prices relax. and a greater number OF eggs
is consumed IN Manhattan and the
boroughs.
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OwADAYS, when,

owADAYs. when
ever two or more
members of the
disbanded and al
M ost forgotten
South tom a. C
squadron meet any,
where, and have
the time to go
through the for
malities, they lock
elbows and repair
to the nearest