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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31
WooD TURNING SHOP
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That such a valuable school in which
so much labor and money have been ex-
pended Is open for only a few hours each
day Is to many a matter of widespread
regret. II is one Of DIR. Myers cherished
schemes that the board OF education may
be prevailed upon TO open the building
for night school. where hundreds or
young men and women may perfect
themselves In certain branches OF study,
for which they are denied on account OF
the necessity OF employment during tine
daytime.
To fully demonstra the need and value
to the public Of such q departure the
teachers Of Tech are willing, IL is said.
to contribute their services for sixty
nights during the winter, provided the
school board will grant the use OF tie
building and the fuel necessary to supply
the light, heat. power and janAtor service
Mckinley owns and operates its own
plant, generating the electricity for heat
ing and lighting the building and running
the machinery.
Many requests for the night school priv
ilege have been made. 1t is said that
there are 1JO mechanics getting up a Pc
tition to present to the school board ure
ing the granting of this request. One or
the boys from the school was employed
in the repair shop OF an automooiie gar
age during the vacation months, ana ms
knowledge OF machinery and the quality
OF his work is the cause OF the mechanics
petition. There are quite a number OF
navy yard apprentices who are anxious
for the Mckinley to open az a night
school, desiring the instruction OF the ma
chine shop. Besides the tuition In the diff
ferent shops instruction would be given
in electricity. typographical. architectural
and freehand drawing, designing. art met
al work, cooking. sewing. dressnaking.
ladies' tailoring and millinery. All or this
would be free, save for a nominal charge
for the material used. The school IL
planning to have an lat home" some time
during the winter, when the public may
see the classes at work in the evening.
The recent purchase OF twenty-one lots
in the vicinity has been with a view 10
using the space TO still further enlarge
the school. Another OF DIR. Myers fond
hopes is that when the next new addition,
which is more than likely to be started
in the spring, since the one-hundTed-
thousand-dollar appropriation is now
available is completed II may include
gymnasium, a swimming pool and
lunchroom. With this increased amount
of room 10 students may be accommo-
dated within the walls OF the building
proper. which will be one OF the largest
and most thoroughly equipped of any
high school in this country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31

OW many readers
know that one Of
the largest machine
shops In the Dis
trict of Columbia.
is a part of the
equipment of the
Mckinley Manual
Training School or
the Technical High
School, located at
18th street and
Rhode Island ave-
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November it will be at B, Fig. 1, and
January | at ID.
During the present month il is still so
far away that IL will be visible only III
the largest telescopes. BY the end or
next January Ii will probably become
visible to the naked eye. remaining In the
evening sky In the west until March %
After this date il must be looked for In
the early morning sky. where IL remains
near the sun until May IS. when II again
enters the evening sky, and in the course
OF a few days passes entirely across the
heavens from the west to the east. Dur
ing these days 1t is nearest the earth and
will doubtless be a striking and magnin-
cent object. The earth will probab bly, pass
through the tail of this comet May Is.
No special effect will be produced by this
encounter.
The Eclipse Of the Moon.
The full moon Will pass into the earth
shadow i'm the early morning OF Novem-
Der "a 1t will reach the point A. Fig. 4.
and the eclipse begin at hours III min
utes am; IL will reach the point and
the eclipse become total at hours IA
minutes am. Its center Will be AT the
point c, and the total eclipse end at =
hours 30 minutes. and finally II VIII reacn
ID and the entire eclipse be over al
hours IS minutes am. eastern time). the
duration thus being hours "a minutes;
The appearance OF the partially ecmps0
moon at various times Is shown In FIG .
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31
By Prof. Eric Doolittle Of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
ECLIPSE of the Moon
IL Venus Now the Brightest
Object in the Sky-Halley's
Comet Approaching Rapidly.

D many Of the
bright winter stars
have now entered
the evening sky that
the eastern heav-
ems already present
a brilliant appear
ance. The striking
group Taurus is
nearly half way to
the zenith. while
below this Orion,
the most magnifi-
II, and Gemini. with
80 sEA nnfnrhn0
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peia. at f, nearly midway between the
stars l. and r, which contains stars Of
many magnitudes. including one red star.
At + is the wonderful double cluster Of
Perseus. perhaps the most satisfactory
OF all star clusters to observe with a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31

fading away of the wonderful Demon
Star, at X which, at a constant interval
of about days II hours, has three
fourths of it's light cut off by a large,
dark star, which is revolving around It,
The total time occupied in the stars
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31

path. 3.3O0OOU.00 miles long. it was then
more than :;6O,0D0.O0o miles from the
earth. and was. hence. excessively faint
and only TO be detected i'm the very
largest telescopes or by photography. AS
il draws rapidly nearer the earth its APP
parent motion among the stars Increases;
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Gdo boys to la, girls. Yet there is just as
much care and interest given TO the spe-
cial work for the girls, as one finds mani
tested i'm the results of the shops. The
whirr of sewing machines. the sayory
smell OF cooking and the commotion of
the laundry proclaim the progress OF the
household arIs. In the sewing roonL-,b be-
sides plain sewing, the girls are taught
ladies' tailoring, practical dressnlalsing
and in consequence OF the instruction. re
ceived during their term at school,. they
are expected TO make their own Sradua-
ton gowns. Another room. with long
table in the center. is devoted to MILL
merry. After drawing the design for the
hat frame the girls are taught TO con-
struct the frame from wire and buckram,
later to cover and trim the hat.
EQUAL attertion s paid to cooking and
laundry work. Preserving, picking and
canning are also fully demonstrated The
wives and mothers of the future, VINO are
now gaining their training at the Nc
Kinley School, will certainly be more than
mere ornaments to society. since every
girl enrolled upon the roster OF the schoo!
is obliged to take instruction in the home
arts. Mankind will be forced to abandon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31

small telescope, and at ii. nearly mid
way between the stars Il and V, there is
less condensed cluster. comprising sew
eral hundred stars lying i'm an area some
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31

One OF the smallest and most fascinat-
ing of all of the shops and workroOms is
the metal artroom. The class here is
quite exclusive. being limited to third and
fourth year pupils of both sexes who have
not only shown a decided talent for de-
signing. but who have passed an exam
nation in design work. Quite variety
OF dainty articles in silver. gold, copper
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31
Tragedy of the Stew.

A MONG the many Americans who spend
= the winter regularly at st. Moritz.
the luxurious snow-mantled Swiss village
popular than William ]. Orthwein, the
noted American curler.
Mr.. Orthwein. at the last meeting of
the st. Moritz Curling Club. told an
amusing story of an Irish stew.
I'VE were playing davos," said the
rudy and robust American. told the
men not to bother about lunches or
snacks; / would have a superb irish stew
sent down from the Kuhn Ire huiii'
Won know. is famous for its irish steWs.
well the stew arrived before the
match was finished. and to keep II warm
three or four topcoats were laid over IT.
Then play ended. and We all hastened
toward the great pot of fragrant stew
with ioyous hearts. But. alas, on lifting
the coats We found nothing beneath them
hut a round hole. The pot had melted
its way through the ice. and lay hidden
under two feet of cold water.
Character of Cold.
From the New York Press.
Cold more terrible than the white WOLF
andsbear seizes its victims unawares. in
simultaneously fatally. This cold purifies
the blood, sharpens appetite. favors diges-
ton and the stomach. II soothes to sleep
by bringing death i'm the midst Of beauti-
full dreams This intense cold. SO dry.
so pure, stops putrefaction. sweetens the
air by greatly increasing its density and
plrifies water. Cold takes the place or
cooking. for it makes raw meat, raw fish
and tallow eatable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31

what less than a quarter as large as
that occupied by the full moon.
During the month the observer will
have several opportunities to watch the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-31

cent constellation of all, and Gemini. with
its two bright twin stars, are entering
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Times During the
Eclipse Of November 81.
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and spun all the linen which made up her
trousseau, and which was her first treas
ured household equipment. Sewing and
spinning and knitting were included when
a girl was trained for the duties of life.
To this was added all the mysteries OF
the kitchen and the pantry, and so we'll
did the good Georgia mother train Mrs.
Tillman that her methods are the pride
of her community and the subject OF
much imitation
The devotion of the entire Tillman fam
lily TO their illustrious head is one Of their
pronounced characteristics. Mrs Till
mans life is bound up in her husbands
interests to the extent that she can con-
ceive nothing apart from them She
dWellS with pathetic tenderness on all the
happenings of Senator Tillman's life be-
fore he took that memorable trip to Geor-
gia which terminated SO happily for him
and for her He had a long siege of ill
ness. The fever had caused the loss OF
his eye and he was so nervous and weak
that the worst was feared, as he could
not be taken to quiet, restful spot
where the war rumors Gid not penetrate
He was on mis- way to a place In eastern
Georgia specially recommended when his
aunts stopped at the Stark plantation.
The Misses Tillman will leave Wash
lnSton IN snort time for their home in
Soutn Carolina, but Mrs Tillman. whose
proud boast is that she has never been
Dut a Few days separated from the sena-
Tor during these years, will tarry on, even
II Congress lasts until December She
manages her beloved asparagus beds bv
mail during such stress as this and her
delight In getting good accounts from her
crop is manifest to all who know her.
Copyright, 1909. by Margaret B. Downing.l
Evening star., 1909-06-27

ington and have fallen into the habit Of
rushing through life with nay sisters.
said Mrs. Tillman. But l often say that
in the south women have learned the real
philosophy of life. We take the time to
enjoy ourselves and to rest. In my home
We are early risers. for the early hours
the best part of the day The birds,
the flowers. the cool, clear air and the
dew drenched grass are worth wrestling
ones head from the pillow even with the
dawn. But we take our siesta just as
faithfully as We take our dinner. Ihe
long afternoon hours are best spent be-
hind closed doors, and then comes an
other day of enjoyment when the sun
goes down. We truly enjoy every hour
of the day. for our nerves are not on edge
and nervous prostration, like many other
nialadies of the city. is unknown.
* x
Our lives are full of interesting events.
but we cling to the simple joys which
make up the cycle in rural communities.
Our flower shows are the pride of the
state. Every village and every city has
its exhibit, and keen is the rivalry. City
councils private individuals and public or
ganizations offer prizes at the flower
shows The crysanthemums are the ia
vorite bloom for exhibit | have some
times thought the mikado would be as
tonished indeed If he could realize with
what zeal South Carolina ladies aspire 10
surpass him in the size and coloring of his
national flower.
I'VE follow in our social life the rou-
tire which has held in the south since
the days of the proprietary governors.
Our homes are built for comfort and for
use. and their spaciousness makes for the
amenities. We love to have a large num-
Der of guests for dinner, and then the
larder is stripped for their delectatlon
We all boast of our fine pickles. of our
jellies or sauces and relishes. and We
guard a good receipt as jealousiy as the
old monks did their method of mixing
cordials. We delight to load our table
down with good things, and the methods
which prevail in the north of having
nothing but fine glass and silver on the
table and all the food handed round BY
a waiter find no favor at all.
THE South Carolina hostess likes TO
have six kinds of catsupS on her board
and many different varieties OF pickle
and preserves. We talk about our ways
of making bread. ard to make ii we'll is
still accounted with Us something to be
proud of. In the summer wncle neigh
borhoods get together and have picnics,
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the patriarchal kind and my parents in
sisted that they should spend the night
and stay indefinitely while travel was
so uncertain because of the hostile SOL
diers who We're everywhere abroad.
MY mother called me to entertain
the strangers while she gave orders about
airing rooms and preparing warm sup
per / remember how sorry | felt for
the young man He was SO shy ami
looked so pale and tired. He and MS
aunts remained with us for several days.
The youth they called Ben Tiiiman. and
he was then just past seventeen. When
he was twenty ard / was barely eighteen
we were married. So when any one
asks me about love at first sight / reply
that there is nothing in which ! believe
so firmly"
:
Said Senator Tiilman talking about his
commonwealth: 1--WE of South Carolina
We have temperance regulation which
has eliminated drunkenness from the
category of menaces and we have no
habit of South CaroliEians to marry the
woman they love and cling to her through
all time We do not put away our aged.
careworn helpmate to marry chorus
girl after the fortune is made. True
love and happy marriages are among the
assets of our state.
Senator and Mrs. Tillman in their cozy
apartment just off Dupont Circle furnish
one OF the most impressive object lessons
of marital happiness which official Wash
ington can show. Both are devoted To
their home in the Palmetto state but
their winter quarters are snug and trim
and suggestive of the calm and radiatine
happiness which comes after the worst OF
life's battles have been fought success
fully. Nothing interests Mrs. Tillman as
her early romance. her husbands inter
ests and her children and grandchildren
She Is an excellent politician and she
reads and keeps up with every detail
which might concern her husband. She
has for years devoted all her leisure time
to the daily papers, to political and eco
nomic magazines and publications o1
which the contents are of direct value in
political life. This has absorbed her time
so thoroughly that she has now no time
for other reading. though she is a keen
lover of good fiction and delights In the
essays of the philosophers and publcists
of the day. She reads frequently to heI
husband and she. keeps an excellent rec
ord for reference. all after her own plan.
Il find every minute occupied in Wash
Evening star., 1909-06-27

effort in raising it is most satisfying. 1
have given all my friends in Washing
ton some OF my asparagus, and their en-
comiums have raised my spirits SO much
that / Immediately made preparations to
enlarge my farm. There is no occupation
more absorbing than the scientific raising
of vegetables | read over reports and
make experiments on soil and watch re-
suits of a certain amount of moisture
!.
Flowers are more esthetic occupa-
ton, admit but the pleasure of bringing
such an ancient and honorable vegetable
as asparagus to perfection is unbounded.
But the South Carolina woman who goes
into farming is satisfied with nothing
short OF perfection in anything that grows
behind her fences. For that reason l
think We have fewer problems, no social
unrest and more genuine contentment
There are few opulent citizens in the Pal
metto state and fewer still Of the in
digent. The summers slip by While we
are breathlessly awaiting the. outcome of
our agricultural ventures, and In the
winter we have the pleasures which en-
gross womankind the world over. Card
clubs and literary societies flourish in the
small towns and rural communities. Es-
pecially do the organizations maintained by
the different churches promote sociabllity
After my home and ny garden, ! find
my greatest pleasure in travel l have
gone all over Europe and the experience
is one which can be cherished as a
treasure. During the last visit which
Mr.. Tiilman and I took abroad we made
pilgrimages to the shrines of all the great
men whom we reverence for their deeds
for humanity. Especially did we enjoy
all that brought back memories of those
who fought battles for civil freedom and
whose coGe is followed in the civilized
world. In Great Britain, it seemed our
entire trip was a pilgrimage and we
went from one shire TO another paying
homage to the poets, publicists and phi
losophers. We went through the Glad
stone country very reverently Mr.. Till
man has a fad of collecting canes and
we got a memento from the neighborhood
in which ali our pet heroes We're born or
where they were buried.
But when genuine enjoyment i'm ac-
tual conditions apart from historic inter-
est or reyerential association is consid-
cred. all my family concur in naming the
Indian country of the southwest. We
made tour of the vast desert land call
ed nationally the arid regions. and when
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way of traffic between the states peioW
and those higher up. The time was just
before the peace Of Appamattox and
while the devastating armies OF the north
were overrunning the southland. While
i was nodding over my book and almost
wishing with the thoughtlessness OF youth
some sort OF excitement. even the Yam
kee army a carriage rolled by on the
road. 1t passed the house and then re-
turned and drew up at my fathers doors.
Two elderly ladies and a pale, emaciated
boy were in IT, and after short con-
versation with one of the servants, they
all alighted.
My mother went in to see them. and
the ladies told her that they were taking
their sick nephew from South Carolina
to retired part OF Georgia, and that
the tourney had been YER! wearisome
and they crated a little rest Hospi-
tality in the south in those days was If
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is noble monument. on which is In
scrbed:
Thermopyae had its messenger Of defeat.
The Alamo had none.
The massacre set all Texas afiame.
Four days before the fall of the Alamo
March 2, at Washington on the Brazos-
Texas formally had declared itself free
and independent. BY a strange whim
of fate, Texas declared its independence
on the anniversary of the birth of Hous-
orator.
From the Alamo Santa Annals forces
swept down upon Fannin at Goliad. He,
foolish man, had sent 100 men TO defend
Refugio, and then 100 more to rescue the
first force. Both bands were lost. The
country swarmed with Mexicans, and
when Fannin decided at last to obey
Houston's order and fall back it was too
late. Eight miles from Goliad he was
henmed in. and after fighting valiantly
March Is he surrendered March II. The
Mexicans massacred $50 prisoners.
If ever commander had a desperate
task Houston surely had one then How
ever brave the men he had under him,
they were undisciplined. unruly and mu
tinous: Strangely armed and lily clad,
made UP of separate and Independent
commands, they chafed under any SEM
blance Of restraint military order.
They We're more adapted for the frontier
style of guerrilla slxir1nishlng than for
regular warfare. To Houston. success
seemed possible only through weaken
ing Santa Anna by drawing him farther
and farther away from his base. TO
retreat. retreat and still retreat was his
plan of campaign.
AS Santa Anna. flushed with the vic
tory of Gcliad hurried eastward Hous-
ton began to retreat from Gonzales.
Across river after river Houston led the
way. Part of his force was panic
stricken, part of it openly insubordinate.
Mara auding parties of Mexicans robbed
and murdered all the defenseless inha BIZ
tants Of the district through which they
passed. Farmhouses and villages Were
destroyed and the country laid waste.
Still Houston retreated. How man OF
his imperious spirit Withstood the cover!
charges of coMardice that some OF his
subordinates made is hard to under
stand, but as day followed day and his
force lessened through desertion the
Mexican force lessened far more through
spreading out over a wider and wider
field and through the dropping off 1T
straggiers. and at this time UP in
Washington a soldier of many campaigns,
who had map of Texas before him, put
a finger a SPOT near the San Jacinto
est. Hyacinth) river, and said: II
where he will make his stand" Such
was the opinion of Andrew Jackson.
Queer prophecy, but il was true. On
the banks of the San Jacinto Sam Hous-
ton did make his stand. What did it
matter TO him if Santa Anna, diverging
to the north. burned Harrisburg. where
the Texan government, on the jump
since the war began, had made Its head
quarters for a time only TO seek a safer
haven in Galveston? He had chosen his
battle-ground and there Santa Anna must
engage him.
*
If ever a general deliberately planned
slaughter, Sam Houston did at San ia
cinto. Into a cul-de-sac he led his own
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On the Herrinq Pond.

CAPT. III. p. MUSE of the Celtic was
- regaling a little group OF ladies with
sea stories.
"One trip he said, there was q
woman who bothered the officers and me
to death about whales. Her one desire
was to see a whale. A dozen times a
day she besought us to have her called
If a whale hove in sight.
Il said rather impatiently to her one
afternoon:
But madam, why are you so anxious
about this whale question:?
:" Captain she answered, 'T want to
see a whale blubber. 1t must be very
impressive to see such an enormous crea-
ture cry"