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hanging mn their stockings Pierre and Babette II they
are very small indeed believe that lie petit Jesus or e
natit Noel"-"the little Jesus" "the little Christmas-
have brought the gifts But the average French child
is as sophisticated young America, and Pierre has TO
he very little boy indeed, to believe In lie petit Jesus
No French or Italian child hears OF Santa Claus till
he comes America by which 1t may be gathered that
that good saint strictly German and when ne emil
grated, came to America IKE all tue rest Vi Tue uei'
The growth of typical American Christmas with its
universal Christmas and presengving Is curl
ous phenomenon. has roots in American history.
The original of New England never observed It,
The Dutch of Amsterdam scarcely noticed 1t, but
made New Years the great, Joyous popular festival
Within the memory of old people still living Christmas
passed unobserved in New York. while all holiday
rymaking in New Years day. Modern America
has built up Christmas festival of its and has
rejected definitely the religious feast in favor of the
cia and domestic In way however the Ameri-
can Christmas religious than any and all the Lat
in church easts put together One who has lived through
years changing round of saints days in Italy in all of
which work is done and the people take holiday will
that the thought of the people out to
those in need. The Astounding giving of an American
Christmas the uneasy uncomfortable feeling every
child at least must have, If possible good dinner and
present Christmas day. is quite unknown in the Lat
In countries.
The feeling that poor buns and hoboes even the
criminals in their prisons, the paupers in their
houses the beggars the unworthy-all ought to have
something good to eat that day. and little Christ
cheer in form-is part of the American Christ
The races that come to the melting pot of America
keep their home Christmas for only few years after
they arrive. Then they drift of into less
Americanized Christmas
For few years after they come also. they Fry to
their traditional dishes at Christmas time The Hun
garian housemother makes the Christmas which
long line of ancestral cooks made across seas
They are balls of dough- covered with honey and
also poppy seed cakes each in different style
The Sician housewife too has traditional Christmas
cake 1t is ring of dough with hole in the middle
the Italian doughput, in fact which g rrsa spraklra
with sugar srd est'n hot
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AS & \%CY zfERjcaH IolITo RSoRzE

all busy erecting presepios in the homes of the
quality while the poorer folk constructing their
own As the mainland grows sophisticated the
Sicily people still make the presepio year as they
Christmas in New York All over the island
families busy from December to 15 putting their
old presepios in order making and there Is
much calling and fro results and admire
and elaborate specimens of the art The presepio
may little thing stand In corner, or 1t may
occupy the whole side of room.
rough flexible bark the cork tree Peaks crags ana
abound with winding trails houses and castles
of cardboard forests OF wgs and sometimes tiny
mines to furnish and lakes In the center is the
protto. with the holy family within sky OF blue pa
per is stretched above, with the Star of Bethlehem con-
spcous and the hills the shepherds bearing
the gifts to the babe.
Span like Sicily, has never lost the presepo, and In
both Spanish Scan cities there booths for the
sale of miniature shepherds mag and all the accessories
Of the art In France the creche is not made at hore
IN the southern countries but used to be part Sf the
Christmas decorations of French church. and rs still
so In the rural districts Many polished cosmopolite OF
Paris can remember working busiy for days before
Christmas in childhood help freshen and reju
yenate the of his parish church in some little vii
age of France the villages close by Paris oday chill
dren who go the streets singing Christmas carols
carry a little creche in box upon their shoulders.
The manger typihes the difference between the Latin
and the Teuton Christmas The Latin Christmas is
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day time he spent in the fields armed only with an opera
SASS s with which he studied the winter BIRDS always
Win an eye sharpened to the possibility of finding some
species that was rare
president Taft loves nature too in a way but he is
not much OF tramper excepting where the walk leads
over he golf links which he spends his holiday
noons christmas included, for in Washington because
ane comparative mildness of the climate, the game
goh is possible nearly every day in the year.
mere are several hundred officers OF the army
Wy stationed In Washington most of them being detailed
ior once work In the departments for four
years The naval officers perhaps enjoy their holiday
making in the capital than do their brothers of
the army for the sailors have been compelled spend
many Chr1stmases at away from their wives and
families while here they gather their families
them and not break regulations doing The
army officer whether he goes the Philippines or to
some distant frontier post ordinarily takes his family
with MIN and so Christmas day does him neces
sary bring with 1t the of loneliness homesc
ness that 1t brings to the man at
In the biological survey which is bureau of the de-
partmen Of agriculture, there many scientists
work. Most of these men have spent a large part of
their lives in the wds studying birds and mammals and
shells, plants and fishes say nothing reptiles The
office life is rkssme to these scientists. They belong
the free air the barren plains pine forests So
1t is that every hobby that brings it release
from Office cares they take to the open fields About
hills In places about Washington Christmas day
there to be the little camp of the scientists
who are cooking their midday Christmas dinners
the open sky.
Some time ago all the bird students in the United
States asked. If they could make trip
Christmas day and make list of the birds that they
found Thousands bird followed the suggestion
and are still following It, Each of the students
in report to central headquarters giving
the birds that Christmas day fell his obserya
ton AS result of this practice the Washington sci
ensts have valuable notes concerning of
son" birds For instance the report Washington
on Christmas two ago, that the holiday four
hooking birds and positively identified In the
fields near Boston, Mass. Other birds were reported
from other northern localities birds that the ordinary
course OF things ought to have been far south of the Ma
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study of them in order that their merits and dement's
may be determined In this means long and
continued study and is not all unusual thing to
find committee chairman giving the joys OF the
home life Christmas day consult precedents and to
formulate arguments to be used against pro-
posed legislation, and to find him doing this in the So
clusion of stufy Office Christmas day
good many Washington people. especially those who
came here from the south, into Virginia to hunt
on Christmas day In parts of the Old Dominion fox
hunting is still the order of the winter day, and If the
fox is not in evidence there always rabbits and quail
while the lower Potomac and in the marshes along
Chesapeake bay in winters the ducks and the
fairly abundant The outdoor life appeals strongly
to the souherner, and in many the northerners
who have to the Potomac country have formed the
hunting habit and join the Christmas day outing parties
of their southern cousins.
Christmas is the great holiday of Washington From
high to low the people make the OF it, There is good
cheer everywhere evident and charity is not forgotten
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AMERICAS CHRISTMAS
THE BEST OF ALL

An occasional Jersey commuter familiar with the
gious section of Barclay street. is commonly the only
sort CT American in New York who knows a presepo by
sight Yet the presepio is the sign of the Latin Christ
the fir is of the northern The Manager of
the Barclay street windows shows only the inside of the
stable with the figures and the cattle done in Italian
ra Gotta But the real presepio in its native land
show the whole countryside we'll and If the pilgrims
vending their way to the good Scian peas.
ants, bearing good Scllian wine and cheese their
donkeys, they are only the more interesting
st. Francis born In the quaint little town of Assist
among the brown Umbran hills, 1882 invented the
presepo to make the Christmas story plain the simple
iterate common people During the 500 years since it
has remained fayorite devotion in Latin Europe The
Italian and Spanish call it the presepio the manger the
French the creche the cradle; and the Hungarans and
Belgians, Beteim, Bethlehem
Only few years since not carpenter could be hired
In Rrm' Dr Naples For veeke before Christmas. They
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is tnaL q
Washington Christ.
mas day idea has
been made to serve
the ends of science.
1t has been said
that in years past a
great many of the
senators and repre-
sentatives In congress
went home to spend
the holidays, but that
now the practice
largely has passed.
An exception should
be made for the past,
and the present, as
well. in the cases OF
those senators and
members who have in
charge lie 81 s a t ion
which has been pro-
posed in bill form at
the opening of the
session of congress.
When bills are intro
duced they are at
once referred to COM
mittees and II the
measures are of i'm.
portance the chair.
men of the commit.
tees to which they
have been sent, make
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the festivities OF
the day were ov-
er and the chill
dren had 2 chance
to take account
of their presents,
and hen he left
for the log cabin
in Virginia where
he could sit In
front of a huge
open fire with a
6 e n u in e old
Christmas" back
log. On these
Christmas out.
ings Mr.. Roose.
welt did a little
rabbit shooting
and tried to do
s o m 9 turke "
shooting. but the
major part of the
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purely religious festival, as much SO
as any other feast of the church. 1t
has no particularly domestic or So
cial quality italian children never
get presents on Christmas day. That
is done on All Souls day, in October.
when they believe-if they are very
small-that the spirits of their de-
parted relatives have come back In
the night and left presents for them:
undoubtedly very ancient relic OF
ancestor worship. 1t is the great
Teuton family of nations that give
presents to children on Christmas
day And the Christmas tree came
out of the vast forests where dwelt
the beathen German and Scandina-
Wan tribes. It is. in fact, pagan
relic. passed down from primitive
forest dwellers and worshippers.
Where Celt, Slav or Latin use It.
they have borrowed 1t.
France, half Latin and half Ceit.
dashed with Gaul and Viking. Ia q
family by herself in this, as In every
thing. She builds the manger In the
churches, but at home, though she
seldom dresses Christmas tree. lit
tie Babette and Pierre set their
shoes by the fireplace instead OF
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The South American people make much of Christmas
It is the great feast day in all LanAmerican countries
and the ambassadors and attaches and their families do
not forget the customs of their native lands simply be
few they have been transplanted to
The open house" is the order of the day in
nearly every official residence in Washington after the
family has bad its intimate celebration of the holi
day Large families the rule rather than the excep-
ton among the ambassadors and ministers from the
European from the Central and South Amer
The children have gala time of 1t at
home then the visiting begins The presents that
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- ~ WI. SNTLfRJ0N

ARLINGTON not only has United States
Christmas celebration but 1t has the fes-
tivities that mark the Christmas season in
all the civilized nations of the world At
the Russian embassy there is Christmas
fete after the manner of the people in the
land of the car; there are French doings
at the great European republics official
residence, and there is the genuine old
English Christmas at the home of the Brit
ish ambassador and so one may go on
through the entire list of foreign repre-.
sentatives, not even barring the embassies
of China and Japan. where in honor Of
the day, as Christian nations view 1t, the
oriental officials have holiday dinners
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green and so are
the wild honey
suckle and the lau-
rel, trees and
plants that are
abundant along the
Potomac.
President Roose-
welt was, as every
one knows, a nat
ure lover. He took
every opportunity
that offered to get
away from the
city. His daily
walks and rides
took him far into
the country, and on
Christmas day dur
ing the last four
years of his term
of Office he went
to Pine Knot. a
wooded, mountain
country place that
belonged to his
wife. Mr.. Roose-
welt stayed in
Washington until
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
CHARGES
NOT CONVINCING
Little Credence Given Them
by the National Geo
graphical Society.

That the National Geographical So
ciety's committee appointed to investi-
gate the claims Of reaching the North
Pole prior to 1909 places little credence
I'm the unsupported statements of Capt.
August w Loose who SAYS he was
hired to prepare records for DR.. Cook,
or In George II. Dunkle. who says Re
negotiated the deal, was made PLAN
this morning by Prof J. II. Gore. chair
man Of the committee. who has Just re-
turned from New York. where he in
spected the documents prepared by these
men.
It was also intimatcd that DR.. Cook
would be given every opportunity to
prove his claim, AID thai tie commit
tee would take all the ,ilne z needed TO
satisfy itself before H!s, sn4 a report.
ANY other course would be Ulnscienti-
flc. hasty and decidedly unfair"
In sDeaking Of the documents which
the opponents of DR.. Cooks claim were
about to forward to Copenhagen - that
they might be examined simultaneously
with the Cook records, Prof. Gore said:
''They are of such a nature as 10
make them of little value on ttelr face
as far as settling the CUntro' ersy. OF
course. they are evidence, that was why
I wanted to see them be ere they were
sent abroad They rest, ike Dr. Cooks
claim. on the veracity - their compilers
81 that they do not deter.nine anything.
Would Dr. Cooks records be salts
factory evidence to your committee oi
DR.. Cooks discovery o. failure 20 reach
the Pole?" Prof. Gore was asked.
That would depend entirely on the
character of the records" was the re-
ply
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
FAULTY SANITATION
BLAMED FOR DEATHS
Colored People of Anacostia
Suffer From Improper
Conditions.

Lack of proper sanitation IS respon-
si5le for the high rate of mortality
among the colored population OF Ana
costa, Good Hope, Garfield, and a por-
ton Of Hillsdale, according to a report
submitted by Inspector John L. Norris
OF the Health Department, to the Com
missioners today.
The Health Department recently estab-
lished a house to house inspection ir
those sections of the city showing tie
highest mortality In the localt y
bounded 10y Good Hope road on the
north, Howard, Sheridan, and Stanton
avenue on the south, the District line on
the east. and the Eastern Branch on the
west, the mortality reports show q death
rate Of 967 among the white and 55.2S
among the cOlored population. More
than one-half the deaths among the col
ored population, IL Is said, are from
diseases considered preventable by prop
er sanitation.
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NOW SHE'S MAD.

Wife-A tree, you know, gets new
clothes every spring-hat, parasol, ev-
erythingi
Husband-Yes. darling. and makes
them all Fliegende Blaetter.
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Stomach Gas, Indigestion,
Heartburn and Headache Go

case OF Pape's Diapepsin and take n
little just as soon as you can. There
will be no sour risings. no belching OF
undigested food mixed with acid, no
stomach gas or heartburn. fullness or
heavy feeling In the stomach, Nausea.
Debilitating Headaches. Dizziness or in
testinal gripping This will all go, and,
besides. there Will he no sour food left
over In the stomach 70 poison your
breath with naugeOus odOTg.
Pape's Diapepsin is 2 certain cure for
CUt-Of-OrdeT stOmachs, because IL pre-
vents fermentation and takes hold OF
your food and digests IL just the same
as n your stomach wasn't there
Relief fl Eve minutes from all stomach
for you
These large 5o-cent cases contain more
than sufficient 10 cure almost any
chronic case Of Dyspepsia. Indigestion.
or any other Stomach trouble.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
PRESIDENT STARTS
ON TWO-DAy TRIP
Will Address MethodiStS in
New York and Attend
Yale Meeting.

With two days OF rapid fire visiting
and speechmaking IN prospect, Presi-
dent Taft left Washington today for
New York and New Haven. The Presi-
dent was accompanied by Mrs Taft
Capt. Archie Butt. his military aide. and
W. w. Mischief, his assistant secretary
President and Mrs. Taft will spend the
day in New York with the President
brother. Henry W. Taf- This evening
the President will make an address in
Carnegie Hall at the Diamond Jubilee
celebration Of the African Missions OF
the Methodist church.
He will leave for New Haven to
morrow morning to attend a meeting OF
the Yale corporation, and Tuesday even.
ing will be the guest Of the New Haver
Commercial Club at a banquet
The party will return TO Washington
on Wednesday.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
GRAND JURY HOLDS
DOMINGO FALASCO
Track Walker Charged With
Attempt to Wreck Train
In Tunnel.

The grand jury today returned an
indictment against Dominica Falasco
the italian track walker. who Is accused
Of having placed distractions on the
tracks in the Union Station tunnel with
intent 10 wreck a Southern aIl-Pullman
train.
FalascO was arrested about a month
ago by railroad detectives, and is said
to have confessed TO fixing a piece Of
iron 10 the tracks some time in Sep
TENDER. He denies, however. that he
is guilty OF having wired the iron
brake-shoe to the track about NOvem-
Der II, at which time he was arrested
other indictments returned today are
Robert Ford, assault with a dangerous
weapon: Charles c. Pleasant. larceny
James Callahan, robbery, and Wilson
Mitchell. hoUsebreaking and larceny.
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A little Diapepsin regulates
bad StOmachs in five
minutes

Every family here ought TO keep some
Dlapepsin In the house. as any one OF
you NAV have an attack Of Indigestion
or stomach trouble at any time. day or
right.
This harmless preparation will digest
anything YOU eat and overcome a dis
tressed. Out-of-order stomach FIVE min
utes afterward.
II your meals don't tempt you, or
what little you do eat seems to M YOU.
or lays like a lump OF lead IN your
stomach, or II you have heartburn, that
IS a sign OF Indigestion.
Ask your pharmacist for a JO-cent
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13

patton. In my opinion constipation
is responsible for most ailments. There
are tSirty-two feet Of human bowels,
which is really a sewer pipe. When this
pipe becomes clogged, the whole system
becomes poisoned, causing biliousness, in
digestion and impure blood. which often
produces rheumatism and kidney all
ments. No woman who suffers with con-
stipation or any liver complaint can ex-
pect to have clear complexion, or enjoy
good health.
Munyon's Paw-Paw Pills are a tonic
to the stomach, liver and nerves. They
invigorate instead of weakening; they
enrich the blood instead Of impoverish-
ing it; they enable the stomach TO get
all the nourishment from food that Is
put into II.
These pills contain no calomel, no dope
thew are soothing, healing and stimu
latinp. They school the bowels to act
without physic- Price % cents.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
STATE ASSOCIATION MEETS.

The New Hampshire state Assocla ton
Of The District Of Columbia will meet
tonight ut g. Sixth street northwest.
TViliiam T. Andrews, auditor or the
Treasur-y Department, viii address the
association on THE BeqUest Of New
England 10 the West
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
Scott S Emulsion

is the original-has been the
standard for thirty-hve years.
There are thousands of So
called "just as good" Emul-
sicns, but they are not-they
are simply limitations which
are never as good as the
original. They are like thin
milk-SCOTT'Si is thicklike
a heavy cream.
If you want it thin, do it
yourself - with water but
don't buy it thin.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
Send lOc.. name Of paper and tkiE I'D fer our
beautiful Savings Bank and Child's Sketch Book
Zach bank contains Good Lcek Penny.
SCOTT & BOVINE. 4oe Pearl St., New w.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
ROBERT BACON BETTER.

WESTBURY. I. l., Dec. 13-Robert
Bacon, former Secretary Of State. who
is slated TO be the next ambassador to
France. will not sail Cor Paris until
December p, having postponed his de-
parture until he has recO' cred from U.rs
Injuries he received ca Thanksgiving
Dav. when his horse fell on him. An
X-rly examination showed his injuries
improved.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
DEPARTMENT WANTS
AN EARLIER DATE
Would Have Supreme Court
Change Hearing Of Internal
Revenue Case.
Revenue Case.

Solicitor General Bowers. on behalf
q the Department OF Justice. today
moved IN the Supreme Court 90 advance
the date FOR the hearing I'm the case
Of Collector Of Internal Revenue Henry
J.. Hertz against O. o. WoOdman and
others.
II involves the question whether.
when q testator died iwthin a year be-
fore the inheritance tax was repealed,
a tax was imposed upon any legacy
he might have made prior 70 July ].
1902, when the repeating act went into
eject.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
GO NSTIPATION
MUNYON'S
PAW-PkWP PILLS

Munyon's Paw
Paw Pills are un.
ike all other Iaxa-
tives or cathartics
They coax the liver
into activity By
gentle methods
They do not scour
they do not grippe
they do not weak
en-; but thew dc
start all the secre
tions OF the livel
and stomach in
way that soon puti
these organs In
healthy condition
and cOrrects consti
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
PREDICTED HER DEATH.

BETHLEHEM, Pa, Dec. 12.-"You
may not see me again." said Mrs Mary
Sandt 70 her husband. as she left home
TO go TO a neighbOrs house. Before
reaching the home OF her friend she was
seized with an attack Of acute indi-
gestiOn, from which she died before
help could be summoned.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
T. c. KENGLA SUES.

Thomes {. Kengla today filed suit for
personal injuries and damages to his
team growing ont OF a collision which
occurred on the Bladensburg road OctO-
Der "A last. when Mr.. KenEla's team
was struck by an automobile owned by
Rose Z. May Attorneys Gordon and
Gordon represent him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-12-13
ALL FOR A NAME.

Some of T. RS African lion-killine
stories have been identified as twelve
years old Dear stuff at a dollar a
word.-BaitimOre sun.