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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-25

Its taste is a sort Of a fading away.
and its prime seasoning is A pro-
nounced vanishing into the distance.
These are the chief attributes of the
mythical pie made for the Presidents
Thanksgiving dinner by the Pie Bak ers'
Union OF New York II is a great pie.
rivaling in fame the one from which
four-and-twenty blackbirds spranG when
it was set before. the king.
But where is it?
Echo answers. where?
For n week the daily press has been
gorged with long and luscious stories
about a flfty-pound pie which the pie
men Of New York were to give the
President. 4 list Of the ingredients Of
| the delicacy has been printed from
coast to coast, and some OF the most
enterprising journals i'm Europe and
| Mombasa have printed the same line
/ of gun. 1t was described as the one
pie above all others for succulence.
/ crispness, and general al fresco quail
/ tres. It was 10 make the Presidents
dinner a notable affair and tickle the
/ palate OF all who got a look at it.
/ According to the reports which reach
| ed Washington, Il was cooked yeSter-
4 day, the process consuming six hours
4 by the clock, and Il was to arrive yes
! terday, accompanied by a committee of
! the grandest bravest, most chivalrous
| pie bakers in all the great. round world
I But il has not shown It has faded
! away, and man knoweth not its where
/ abCutS.
/ When the President passed through
/ his offices this morning on his way to
| church. he was asked about the pie
| and he called out:
/ TT must be q fake.
/ If it is a fake. it is one Of the most
] artistic that ever was pulled off. 1t has
I gotten the bakers union tons Of free
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ABSENT TREATMENT
FOR PRESIDENTIAL PIE
Luscious FityPound Pastry Decides to Postpone 1t:
White House Call for While, and Leaves,
Without Waning, for Parts Unknown

advertising and it has done much TO
make the pie bakers a famous class OF
The population. But hope has not yet
heen given up by the White House
cooks. They want any information
possible about that bit OF pastry.
Anyone who sees "A ffty-pound pie
aeroplaning through the circumamblent
atmosphere, will please call up Main o
on the telephone. ask for the kitchen,
and deliver the Sladdeuing news Bits
Of mincemeat careening before the wind.
or sheets of fluffy white pastry should
be detained in their mad career and
asked from whence they come II any
one runs into a tempting OdOr Of fine
cooking, il should be investigated and
made to give an account of itself. No
chances should be overlooked.
Every clue must be followed out TO
the end. II necessary, handouts FOR tie
delinquent may be obtained from Major
Sylvester. II should be sought with
forks and plates, run after with table
cloth, and brutally subdued with a
knife. The chase should be made In a
spirit of grim determination, and yet
with a soupcou OF optimism a PreSi-
dents pic is SaliVanunS through the
cold world with none to tie az to its
moorins. 1t is sad, and il may be a
fake.
An inquiry sent 10 New York this az
ternoon brought the answer that the
pie bakers took The fadinG-away pic
out of the oven last night, and left inI-
mediately for Washington. Up to a
late hour however they had not re-
ported At the White House. The pic.
! i'm vanishing away, may have taken its
| escort along. This makes the situation
more serious, more alarming. a pie,
| with its bakers. has faded away, and IL
| is enough TO make black cat grow
exceedingly pale about the Eills.
! Where is that pie2
| a whole country is looking for it, and
I the President would like to have a bite
Of it, Fifty pounds Of pie gone by, the
kSuch an event assumes the Importance
Eof a national calamity
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marriage. and finally persuaded him
that what they said was the word of
God.
Il pleaded that he give up this ridicu-
lous belief and try TO awaken the old
love which had made our home so hap
Ply But he merely looked at me
tfSughtful;y and in a far-away manner
as if to say, Sometime you will reach
my mental level and you viii see that
you are wrong now.
ION July 2 he went away first to
Cuba aid then out to GAINESVILLE Three
times I have been TO Ohio, hoping 10
make him understand how childish he
was. But he seemed TO be undc- q
frightful mesmeric spell
Promises Disclosures"
But they win not go any further"
Mrs. Christy cried, clenching her hst
and striking angrily the arm Of che
mission chair in which she SAT-. They
dare not. II they continue 20 keep my
home broken, keep my daughter away
from me, viii tell things that L know
For a moment her black eyes blazed.
Then tears filed them. 1T is very hard
10 find your daughter whom you have
nursed and watched over snxlOusly for
ten years suddenly taken away from
you. I have wept night after night
wept till it seemed that my tears were
blood.
How il will end do not know. Eut
I am determined 20 have my child. Her
father wishes TO raise her out N his
upholstered bungalow i'm the hills near
GAINESVILLE.
Improperly Clothed.
when ] went out there I found the
child improperly clothed. She was run
ming wild, practically. That is all right
! in the summer, but some time must he
devoted TO giving a child culture and
/ education.
/ Natalie is not having any education
whatever. and she is nearly eleven
! She is not receiving any religious teach
l ing but the doctrines my husband
! learned from Mrs. Stetson. He Is teach
! ing her that all is illusion. all is I'M
/ real in life. AS I came back and passed
| through the Alleghanies, and saw the
/ wonderful heights clothed in a blue
/ haze. the beauties Of the ravines run
| ming down TO the Iowlands. the MAJESTIC
| stretches Of forest. 7 wondered how
l Howard. the artist. could believe all
| this was illusion-unreal There is too
/ much that is beautiful I'm the world 10
/ wish IL away.
yet" and she smiled wistfUlly,
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GIRL WHO TOOK IODINE
THANKFUL SHE LIVES
Mother Watches All Night at Bedside of Daughtei
Who Tried to End Life Because of
Failing Sight.

Thankful '7day because she is still
alive and viii recover. Miss Pansy
Dement, received her mother and friends
at the Emergency Hospital, where she
lies IN from the effects of swallowing
a bottle OF iodine. with which she
sought TO avoid life darkened by fail
ing sight.
the young woman is eighteen years Of
ase and her impending illness made her
desperate. She has been employed in
one of the local department stores and
noticed some weeks ago that her sight
was failing. She submitted herself 70
treatment. and her eyes showed such
improvement that she returned to work
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some time before her physicians thought
best.
She did not finish her first day AZ the
store, however. her eyes ching in such
a condition that she could not distin-
guish colOrs.
She went 20 her room about l O'CLOCK
in the afternoon, and an hour or two
afterwaTd her mother heard her grOan-
ing, and hurried to her room. The young
women was able to gasp that she had
taken poison. She was hurried 20 the
Emergency Hospital, where she fought
with the physicians to prevent their do
ing anything FOR her.
Mrs. Dement, remained at her daugh-
ter's bedside throughout the night. The
young woman win be able to leave the
hospital in a day or two for her home,
Sz26 G street northwest.
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"Wickedness Of Marriage.

Affairs rapidly began to get worse
some Of Mrs. StetsOn s practitioners eX-
planned TO Howard tho 'wickedness' OF
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CHARLES JOHNSON
LOSES HIS TURKEY

Charles Johnson. Of 1854 Y street
northwest. was compelled to go out
late last night and purchase a turkey
for his Thanksgiving dinner because
some dishonest person had raided his
larder and carried off the fat ten
pound gobbler he had purchased
earlier in the day.
Mr.. Johnson reported his loss to the
Tenth police precinct late last night,
but the police could not locate the
thief or the stolen property.
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COMMISSION ORDERS
TESTS FOR CHEMISTS

The Civil Service Commission will hold
an examination January and for
junior ceramic chemist ir the Geological
Survey and kindred posilions
The salaries are from $50 to 81 300
Examinations may be taken in various
cities Of the United States. An exam
nation will be- held December 27, 1902
for plant psychologist (msleJ. The sal
airy is from 81 200 to S2.GOo
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JERSEY GIRL BRIDE
OF FRANK GOODWIN

Frank Goodwin. a cartoonist and artist
of this city, and Miss Grace Congleton,
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Osborn Con-
gleton, Of Hackensack. y. J., were
married yesterday at the brides home.
Rev. DR.. William W. Holley. Of Christs
Episcopal Church, of Hackensack, per-
formed the ceremony.
Tire bride was attended by her sister,
Miss Ethel Congleton, and Kenneth
va Blacorn was best man. Mr.. and
Mrs. Goodwin will live IN this city.
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there is some hope for Howard; he
stin paints these beauties, so he must
see them.
'One morning. before Howard left
was In desperate pain. 1t seemed to
streak through me like a knife. How
ard sat on the edge Of the bed and
shook his head
" WHY do YOU maxi any fussT he
asked, You are not suffering; there is
no such thing as pain. You should
know that
And there 1 was, only wanting 10
be taken in his arms and sOothed.
once he was much different
His mind is apparently not his own. -
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KILLED BY NEPHEW.

PHILLIPS. Me, Nov. 25.-Dr. +. j.
Holt a dentist. was shot and killed by
| his nephew. who mistoOk him for a
| deer. This is the second fatality OF this
kind mean Phillips within three weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-10
cry 1|z I PAINT ]. 10 Thu f1EE RICH
e3&ELTHE FlOTFL CLEK5

special artist on the spot only ten hours
after it ended 1t must have been a de-
lightful little affair by all accounts. The
table decorations were hundred-dollar
bills smothered in orchids and the favor 5
were shares of Standard Oil stock with
deckel edges, hand fooled by Mr.. Archbod
personally. The gentlemen wore nighties
ladies wore hand painted pajamas. Every
recognized correspondence school OF dTa-
matte art in town was represented by one
or more of its fair alumnuses. Stage IA
vorttes who have been prominent in all
the large musical comedies and divorces
OF the last two seasons might have been
seen upon every side. An admitted ia
vorte was a young lady who'd just been
promoted from the second to the
front row, and given the place on the
end nearest the college boys box on ac-
count OF having been horscWhipped in the
lobby by another lady. in the presence Of
the press agent. who was thereby enabled
to get not less than half column. with
pictures, on every front page in town the
next morning. The fair young debu-
tante of the chorus who only six months
ago was having her mail, mostly seed cir
culars, sent via r. f. d. route No. 4.
out of Lone Oak, Ark, sat right along
side of her sister beauty, who within a
year was living at No. 1889 East Dirty
fist street, sixth floor, back, ring Finni-
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after SPEEDING weeks and months in max
ing formal calls according to established
rules that we have really made but little
progress. We find that we do not even
know the names of those VINO are on tae
visiting list, still less their personality,
and this after We have diligently made
from ten to thirty calls a day. The idea
of having common meeting place was
favorably received by the twenty-five
women who met to discuss the question.
One hundred and fifty women who re-
sponded to the next invitation to talk the
matter over decided unanimously tHat
much pleasure and perhaps some profit
would result if We started club with the
main object of facilitating social inter-
course among the women VINO belong TO
the congressional families.
The Congressional Club Is intended
only for social purposes and to promote
a more cordial feeling between women
from all sections of the country. We be-
gan the club very modestly. Our. consti-
tuition is short and plain. and we are in
may be added as the necessity for them
arises. The term of office is limited by
the life of Congress For instance, all
the officers elected last spring go out
March T. and we will hold another cleo
ton the first "Wednesday in February
I'm point of membership the club has
been phenomenally successful. More than
tWo-thirds of the women who make up
the families of the present members of the
Senate and House have joined the club.
Some of our members come from former
representatives families. We have now
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They are. in the order of their
rank as first. second third, etc, Vice
Presidents Mrs. John Sharp W!i-
liams of Mississippi. Mrs. Hnry Ca
bot Lodge of Massachusetts, Mrs.
Champ Clark of Missouri. Mrs. Joseph NJ.
Dixon of Montana and Ms. julius Kahn
OF California. Mrs. J. Soat Fassett OF
New York is recording secretary. Mrs.
William NJ. Howard of Georgia is CORE
spending secretary and Miss Wood sister
of Representative Wood of New Jersey.
is treasurer Besides the board there is
advisory committee. composed of one
member chosen from each state represent
ed in the membership of the club, and a
membership committee OF eighteen. There
are no unnecessary committees, and the
business!ike way in which the club has
been organized argues much for its sue
cess and usefulness.
The membership is practically a list OF
sonal society. Those who have joined
are not Only the women who reside in no.
tells or boarding houses and who welcome
the homelike atmosphere of the club, but
women who have elegant establishments
ard belong to all the most exclusive social
organizations in this city. The universal
spirit of comradeship which has been
manifested is encouraging to Mrs. Per-
kinS. Not only have some of the famous
social leaders in the congressional set
Joined the club. but they have shown
the most cordial interest in its success.
Copyright. 1905. 10y Margaret B. Downing
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Of the older world. Mrs. Perkins spent
TWO wears in Washington during her
childhood when her father, Gen Martin
dale of Rochester, y. Y. was military
governor of the city during the civil war
Her education was received principally at
private schools of her home city, but she
pursued her studies along different lines
when she resided III Paris after her mar
riage Representative and Mrs. Perkins
reside in New Hampshire avenue, and they
have dispensed a quiet but constant nos
pitality.
Mrs. Perkins, chosen, in compliment 10
her idea in founding the Congressional
Club, as its first pres ident. IS devotng
much OF her leisure time to the successful
management of its affairs.
She has been happy in the selection OF
her committees. The choice of suitable
clubhouse ang! of Its ei3 pinent tested the
Skill of the committee appointed for that
purpose. It has attained the very best
result for tie least expenditure OF money.
and lis wo X ilaS been universally praised
and indorsed by the society. The house
an.euteutalrment committees have shown
ability in marked degree, and the many
y,e-t.; ~tp Ea"e partaken of the club 8
HOSPITALITY predict that lie organization
is destined to become a virile force in
- ..-ss'..aI AFFAIRS .cf tbs capital. In
addition TO it's president there are five
national vice presidents elected to repre-
sent the entire area Of the country.
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somebody shooting an oil well, even
though he had dark curling hair and
winning ways. But in accordance with
the kindly customs of their kind, they
managed to conceal their true feelings
from him all the time that they were
undermining his sub-cclar and slipping
the ground-up lamp chimney into his
-four barrel and disconnecting the burglar
system on his pantry window. Then one
sunny afternoon when everything was
ready they backed him up against the
palings and took all his marbles away
from him and along about the same time
the federal grand jury dubbed in and
made him a present of quite a batch of
indictments
II won't deny that Mr.. Heinze was de-
pressed for awhile. This wasn't like the
vaunted eastern hospitality of which he'd
heard out in his primitive Montana cot
or when he was down deep in his mine
sinking his sturdy pick into the virgin
copper and Senator Clark. Nobody ever
exactly caught him in the act of hating
himself, but, even so, he was quite put
out for awhile. But here the other day he
noticed that the clouds of depression
the horizon, with a golden smile on her
face, as If she'd been eating a custard
pie and forgot to wipe her mouth. So
saws F. Augustus to himself, WOt Tell.
Bill, Wot Tell, or words to that effect;
after all. he reflected. the only thing they
can do with an Indictment is to try you
on it: an Indictment is not like Oh Of
those combination jack knives that pulls
cork and opens a can of cove oysters
and trims corn all at once; its uses arc
limited to just the one thing. So let us
be heart free and gay and blithesome,
says Heinze; let us sing, with a fol-de-
rol-day or a hey-niddy noddy or whatever
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on our roster 30 names Everybody in
the spirit OF friendly warning advised us
against 100 great al expenditure during
the first two years. This was wise
suggestion which We were glad TO follow.
Those who have visited the club home
will note that all the equipment is simple
and quiet. The air is suggestive of a
home where comfort rather than luxury
reigns. As our membership increases and
our funds accumulate. we Will be glad to
enlarge our scope. We shall add fine
rugs. handsome furniture and hanginSS.
and perhaps even attempt restaurant
But the important aim in lifting up TINS
home is to impress on every member
that we are sure of our ground and that
no financial trouble is ahead.
We are endeavoring TO have as few
regulations and restrictions will ne
compatible with the privacy of the club.
Every member is AT liberty TO bring in
friends at any time for afternoon tea. We
have tea jam and toast or bread and but
ter every afternoon There Is mere
nominal charge Tor this. But for fear of
overcrowding on" quarters We have limited
the ordinary guests If the member to
two. If a member wishes 20 invite a
larger company she must make arrange
nlents be forehand
The pleasure Of having 4 permanent
home where one belongs is something
which will he greatly appreciated by the
women in the congress onal set. Aready
they drop in in the morning 10 read or
chat with each other. and as the season
gets on this sQciable habit will undoubt-
eddy grow There are many applications
before the house codmmittee from women
who wish TO give receptions or tea or card
parties.
Just now we are making q hercuean
effort to live up To the second article of
our constitution. which says tina: TIM OBJ
ject of the club is to promote acuuant-
anceship among its members. 10 caoiIi-
tate their social intercourse and Ia pre-
vide a place of meeting which MAJ help
TO secure for them the advantages of life
in the Nationa capital 1t was III pursu-
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and Mrs. Taft. This was a delightful
which we may have erfdured in the early
days of the clubs establishment.
"Slnce the Congressional Club was
founded some notable entertainments have
been given for its members Mrs. Her
bert Parsons invited the entire congress
sional body to tat delightful reception
given to meet Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
Mrs. Fairbanks and Mrs. John e. Hen
derson and Mrs. Murray Crane ali gave
pleasant functions fer the club. On one of
the Fridays in January an evening recep-
ton will be given in place OF the usual
Friday afternoon tea. and it may prove
the forerunner Of similar evening enter
tainments. The smooth floors and lofty
ceilings OF the large rooms on the first
floor Of the club home are suggestive of
dancing. OF musicals and lectures. and
other delightful ways Of passing an even
ing Tie second floor has a spacious
library. q coy rea ding room, ana every
tiing which appeals So far the club has
Cucceeded beyond our mos. e8nsu.ne eX
pectations. Tn" ndeir oeri do not fellow
each others leLd Ho1intiiy liko sheep. They
are women OF varied training, cd1 cation
and experience in I;fe. ard 1rhon VIE meet
or tie common grc;,ad there j. i.eai-lesS
and 1es3 in the in,e; e. ne Ths-E n:s feS
;he pleasure great md TIE ia',or ligh
mir. s'sr>-.:N5. @5r1-f, re con-
spieuci:s .,t1g: With sac now fills with
such Gts.,itJ AID s.ica. IS an exceedingly
we'll equipped worrgn fer any position.
FepsreSr7lt stire Perkins IS q sl,aa OF letters
and O lnen,ne. o. the Eai.s1?aI s-itate of
Art and Letters. He has written some of
he staaCaTd woiks On TI'a1c.l irstocs- and
spent several years in Paris willie ems .ed
on these BOOKS Mrs. Perkins accom-
panied the rSDre. ertative G.-.1~ his
foreign sojouTns. AMI Sic became nor
on an excellent i.1sust ard 8. ulierst of
International Affairs. Qua also gained an
insight into social manners and customs
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spring some pessimism was manifest. The
women who inaugurated the movement
qualed before gloomy representations.
The idea was excellent, but Washing ton
has been sort of graveyard of clubs,
especially OF feminine ones Still the
handful of original promoters were not
disheartened They believed the club had
a mission, and although. less than SIX
months of existence can be credited to it's
existence their confidence was we'll found
ed.
Il have been frequently asked" said
Mrs. James Breck Perkins. the president.
what led 10 the establishment OF the
Congressional Club. 1t seems TO be the
natural outcome OF existing conditions.
Many Of us who come to Washington
with the idea OF doing whatever is ex
oected from the social standpoint find
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BEHIND

out of the west in a private car, with
his feet up on the cushions, smoking a
yellow cigar that looked like a pasteboard
mailing tube, his purpose being to intro
duce a few desirable innovations into
our financial system. There was nothing
revolutionary or spectacular about his
way of introducing himself to Wall street.
He merely appeared there very quietly one
morning about the time the boys in the
stock exchange were mixing the mint
sauce for the spring lambs that would be
along in little while. He came riding
on a steam calliope, with his pants
tucked into a pair OF hip boots like the
villain wears at the beginning of the
second act. waving Il self-cocking copper
combine in one hand and an automatic
ra pid-tire national bank in the other,
followed by a full brass band of forty
pieces. mainly tubas and bass drums. In
a low, soft, purrng tone that sounded a
good deal like Wallace the Untamable,
when they rub the raw meat across the
bars OF his cage, he stated his name and
intentions, and then opened up for busi-
ness.
:; :.
We'll, for awhile all went we'll But
there were a lot of gentlemen of serious
demeanor and settled habits down there
that didn't seem to care greatly for Mr..
Heinze's boisterous Butte ways They
thought he was too much to the Mary
McI4ane and they'd always leaned rather
toward Henry James They were accus-
toned to wear goloshes during business
OIL "a rf
ment of Justice so long that side-stepping
was their natural gait. 1t was only to be
expected that they'd feel natural dis
trust for young man who opened up for
business of a morning with a noise like