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The Washington times., 1909-05-14

ager has under mis- direction the super
intendents in each Of these departments
he oversees-he does not himself exc
cute.
The Washington times., 1909-05-14

Miss Winifred Davis entertained q
party of young people at bridge last
evening, followed by buffet supper n
the apartment Of her mother, in The
Highlands.
The Washington times., 1909-05-14
White House Garden Party.

Senator and Mrs EIkins entertained
q party informally at dinner last even
Ing IN their home on X street.
The Washington times., 1909-05-14

The Swiss Minister, DR.. Lee Vogel,
'ad as his guests informally at lunch
.On today Commander RetZmann, naval
OF the German embassy; Baron
'on RichthOfen, of the German en-
)assy, and Henri Martin Of the Legation
staff.
The Washington times., 1909-05-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Cleveland Per
kins, of Connecticut avenue. entertained
a party at dinner last evening.
The Washington times., 1909-05-14

The Saheh Club was entertained
Thursday evening by Miss Helene Stern
Of the CIinbourne apartment. The
members are Miss Fannye AItschu. Miss
Leona Hechinger, Misses Gussie and
Helen Hanlein, Miss Irene Einstein. and
Miss Rena Solomon
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-02
Gan PASS POSTAL
SAVINGS BILL
CARTER SAYS MEASURE WILL
CARRY ON A ROLL CALL
MANY SPEECHES TO COME.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 1--we
have the votes to pass the postal saw
ings bank bill if we can get roll
CALL" says Senator Carter of Monta-
ma, who has the measure in charge.
"A number of senators have given
notice, however, that they desire to
discuss the bin and will xequire some
days to prepare their speeches.
When congress assemblies after
the holiday recess two calendar
months, containing only fifty legisla-
tive days, will remain for the pres
ent session, during which time the
great appropriation bills must be
passed. | am not prepared to speak
for the other legislative body. / am
told that the house committee on
postoffices and postroads may want
to hold hearings before the bill is
taken up in the house for discussion"
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-02
ONE DEADBEAT DEPARTED.

A fellow who calls himself a doc
tor and answered to the name of ].
V. Lemon shook the dust Otis snow
at this time of year, from his feet
and departed for new fields, says the
Leavenworth Echo. He bought a
ticket for Wenatchee, from whence
he came. AS he left a bad odor he
will probably not tarry long there.
While there he victimiZed number
of people, the Echo among them
rooming house widows. sundry stores
and indeed all who would give him
credit. Just what system of thera
peutics he practiced was never made
clear to anyone so far as we car
learn. The largest part, If not al
his earnings he invested in poke
game conducted in certain celia
in the west end of town. He seemed
to have a perfect mania for this Sc
: ductive sport. No sooner would SOM
patron pay him two dollars when h
would hot foot it for the poker hole
He made enough to pay his homes
debts but preferred handing it owe
to those who toll not, neither do the
spin. Yes, they do spin. They spi
webs to catch suckers as the on
above mentioned.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-02
BUYS APPLE LAND.

another sale of tract of orchard
lands in the Wenatchee valley is re-
paI ted as having been made as tie
direct result of the National Apple
Show. ]. C. Severson, of Alton, ILL.,,
a large fruit grower In that section,
has purchased five separate tracts of
orchard lands in the East Wenatchee
valley, aggregating 10 acres, and
will set out the same in apples trees.
Mr.. Severson is already largely inter
ested in farming lands in Washing
ton, having within the past five years
invested largely in the Horse Heaven
and Big Bend countries.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-02
NEWSPAPER READINGS THAT
ARE LITERATURE.
THAT

Boss" Clarke, the night city edi-
tor of the New York Sun, Is said to
have had greater influence up Ameri-
can letters than any other man of
this time. In what way this has
been exercised is illustrated in an ar
ticle by Will Irwin, entitled 1.-The
New York Sum-" in the January Mag
azine. He writes:
by one sign, however, the Sun
man comes to know if he has written
a story which pleases the Boss. The
process is invariable Having read it
over and inserted those touches by
which he improves everything that
passes through his hands-and that
without impairing it's flavor-Clarke
takes his other pencil from over his
ear, lays aside his pipe. AMI puts on
it a head which is literature. In the
ironic, subtly humorous, condensed
expression Sun heads, the Sun reader
may recognize Boss Clarke. Some
of them have grown into Office tradi-
tiOns. There was the case of Horgan
and Slattery, contractors accused of
dallying with the city funds, and of
turning over their property to their
wives. We're Broke, Says Horgan'
Sure, Says Slattery, But Our Wives
are Doing Fine ran the head. Again,
Whale Rams a Whaler-Rams 1t
and Jams 1t and Dies a Free Whale.
He has the true burlesque touch
in his time he wrote for the New
York World some of our best journa-
listic satire. | remember this shy at
Swinburne in a recent head: eth
Tell the Papers," Says Zeltner, Says
He-"I Will Go Down to Them, l and
None Other. Tell 1t and Sell It
They'll Buy 1t Off Me-" He shines in
little heads for small and unconsii-
cred stories. Once when the Simple
Life was being hawked through the
streets at ten cents a copy, six boys
were arrested for stealing five copies
thereof. The story about it was a
formal thing only about paragraph
long, but it was headed, Tempted
Beyond Their Strength" In these
heads, | make no doubt Clarke shoots
the gulf between journalism and lit
erature; between the stringing to-
gether of careless words and the
making of phrases, clauses and SEN
fences. which are so welded with the
meaning that not word could be
changed | have noticed that Sun
men, telling of certain old stories.
mention them always by the title
which Boss Clarke put upon them.
This generation remembers that
beautiful tale of pathos.. A Little
Child in the Dark which appeared
in the Sun about three years ago.
As A Little Child in the Dark 1t will
always be remembered; Clarke gave
| 1t the only possible name
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-02

After a few days vacation the city
schools will reopen Monday for the
last half of the school year. There
is going to be large increase in the
attendance. 1t is expected that
there will be about twenty-five new
students in the high school. giving
the eight teachers about lao pupils
to handle. This will crowd the high
school rooms very much.
Supt. A. L. Brown and ]. H. Nc
Gohan were in Spokane this week In
attendance at the State Educational
Society, and report very fine meet
ing.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-02
IMPORTANT .
N0L0P CA,yl

case through Reeves G. Reeves ana
Thomas & Sorenson are requested to
leave with one or the other of these
firms all title papers deeds and con-
traets) and all abstracts of title they
have relative to their lots involved in
the case. Bring them early. Case
will be tried Monday, January 4,
1909. IL
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-02

Miss Lillian Smith entertained a
number of her young friends yester-
day at New Years dinner, at her
home, 261 Washington avenue. The
guest were Misses Mildred Hallen-
beck, Charlotte Groves. Lottie Wet
sci James Taylor and Stillman Mil
Ter.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-01-02

The place to get your ice skates
sharpened is at ]. ]. Eyer's, 81 Mis-
sion street. sss
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-04-03
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Day Laborers In Summer, Delicate Artists IN Wint<

gin. or of cent ON glass OF her
but 10 is only on Sundays the Workmeu
frequent them. They prefer tu stay at
home and make lace, the delightful and
easy trade tho nuns taught them iu
the village schools.
JOY OF WORKING
These Flemish men work at lace Tor
tlc Joy of working Theirs is am uu-
broken tradition fuom tho middle ages.
They are independents they need uo
more. Yet like kings and oouquar1rs,
they shine iu public, on ht occasion. Bon
AN the glorios of rich broeade and cloth
of gold. with trumpets sounding and
arms flashing 10 Dos when their VILLAGES
celebrate the feasts of their patron
saints with ancient pagaantry that the
occasions come. The small sums earn
ed boy lacc-maHug are turned to nc
count brlycly at such times Tho Wil-
t.rs savings also are drawn on when
the yearly fair comes round another
relic OF distant centuries. During IN.
fair an work is laid aside and joy is
sought Iu dancing saloons, Uu merry
g0-rounds. and n the side-shoas.
whore Quacks and maryels are to b.
seen.
The hmy threads of lace seem To
bind the worker Co his home. Few OF
the lace makers wander 90 lands so
distant that they cannot return home
when winter comes. During the win
ter months you viii find the kitchen
iu nearly every village house iu Flaud-
ers crowded by family. mon and
women, grandparents. parents and
children. AN occupied boz lace work
Many 1f these people send their sons
from the primary schools to special
lace schools Iu ono of these. tho
lace school at lngomuustor. there are
hundred boy pupils.
ALL ARE LACENAKERs
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snecIal correspondenee.

Special Correspondence.
Y OBJ, Poland, March 22-To get
married 70 four girls within the
space of twice as many years
Is not so rare a thing, but TO
1--we with each peaceably, TO leave them
On the best OF terms and then to in-
vlte them an TO tea In prison and in
t-oduce them 10 one another az col
leagues IS at least am original idea.
Yet that IS exactly what "a young car
penter named Charles Szymansh' who
left Warsaw years ago 20 seek work IN
the provinces, has done
Al the beginning OF his wanderIngs he
visited the town Of zgierz' and made
tables and cupboards 80 well that he
was soon in demand as workman.
Dark. slight, and good-looking. De
pleased AN the artisans daughters and
wives immensely The belle OF the
town was a l7-yoar-old daughter of
painter. stephania by name who turned
ON the young mems heads before
Charles arrived on the scene Then
she left them IN the mrch and fell see
r.ously IN love with szymanski who re-
turned her affections and proposed mar
r.aTo Al first stephania's father OBJ
iected. ct know nothing about tine
boy" was his protest. But stephania
grew pale and thin, refused 20 eat her
meals and cried her pretty eyes red
and swollen The charming Charles
earned a great deal of money because
ne was quick ana clever ana the old
father. going 10 Warsaw for "a holiday
could hnd out nothing against hia
daughters lover. So. finally DE gave
his consent and they were married Ia
manner that is remembered In LodE
10 this day
For three years they were the hap
niest pair In the world A child was
born ana they were thc envy of the
town. One day, however. Charles aid
not come back 20 dinner and "a neigbhor
said she saw him got into the Warsaw
train. stephania ana not believe her
Of course, and declared ho must have
SOC shut up In tho fortress, where he
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Special Correspondence

Special correspondents
RUssELs. March 25.--Six months
ago 10000 rough-handed harvest
ers from the fields Of France
returned for the winter to their
homes in Flanders TO undergo a meta
porphogis almost as striking as the
change Of an ugly caterpillar into a
gorgeous butterfly. These laborers. TO
whom no tidy American housewife
would intrust so much as a butter dish
lest Il should be cumsily dropped and
broken. spend their winters In making
brussels laoet Their coarse, hard
hands weave patterns almost as deli
cate as cobwebs. and. furthermore.
many Of the men can lay claim 70 be-
ing artists OF high rank, making their
own designs with a taste and feeling
that would be noteworthy in graduates
or art schools Their delicate tasks
completed. this army OF lace-making
laborers are preparing TO go back to
the fields.
Wages IN the agricultural districts
Of Flanders are so small and families
go large that in summer the women are
forced 70 DO the field work at home,
while the men go forth i'm thousands to
earn higher pay as harvestors in
France or bricklayers i'm Brussels.
Love of their native villages draws
them back In the autumn, but about
these villages there is no work TO be
had in the winter time. IL is then
the men turn 10 lacemaking. q trade
they have learned from their mothers
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Hut NYH6AIZM2Z dUMNTM#zH HAuHan4l72Q5

ished quaEIy low priced and easily
sold. Most of the workers ARE cone
tent o. muE. narrow lace such as tur-
ohpu for which there is am unlimited
demand In E...'um where the women
nf th. middle and working classes de-
iieht 'n the luEuF of lace trimmings.
NUNS TEACH CHILDREN.
Tho children OF the Flemish llhorers
are taught lace making Boy the nuns
u the village schools. iu hours which
otherwise would Dee given up to play,
iu order that while they stn are at
sohoo. they may earn something iu-
stead of having to go untaught 20 work
I'm the fields. After "a few weeks in
struction the school children make lace
of 70 quality sufficiently good for sale.
and the nuns SCH IL for them 90 the
agents of the great shops. who travel
through the lace-making district.
The lace makers cougregate most
deuseIy about Bruges. but they are
found in every part of Flanders. In
ZecVeroto. O. tiny village near the Bel
gi3u frontier ten or eleven miles from
Osteud. there is a primary school,
taught by nuns in which a class of %
boys are taught lace making The
boys in this class whose ages vary from
S TO l5 years. make lace for three hours
a. day, and each Of them already earns
by his lace work from 2j 60 80 francs
n month. When these boys leave
school n they give thcir whole time
To lace-makinE, and make only the
simplest kinds OF lace. they can earn
about 30 cents a day miserable wage.
DO may appear but one not far below
the average pay of "a laboring man iu
Flanders which. according TO the off
cIal returns. is "a cents q day. without
food
BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS
II is fp such men ass my friend the
read meudcr of ZCcvgcote-Wh as
he strolls along the roads ON his Off
cIIl rounds stores in his mind the
designs and Tageries be discovers iu
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and at the village schools.
PILLOW LACE MAKING.

PILLOW LACE MAKING
The lace most made by these FIem-
ish workers is pillow lace made with
bobbins. To an observer uusSued n
the craft the making of pillow lace
seems complicated beyond compr,hcn-
sion but it's complication is more app
parent than real The simplest forms
OF bobhin-worll can be- taught To- Ga
child in a few lessons II is true. years
Of patient labor are necessary to make
one "a master of the craft. but IN fits
increa sing difficulty there lies half the
charm Of lace making, for an artistic
people. The learner of lace-work who
would be "a master. at each advance
gains knowledge which reveals UNI
thought realms of beauty. and i'm the
end he finds himself no mere mechanic.
but un artist who knowingly. creates
things beautiful and loves his labor
with an artists love.
II il We're not that the lace worker
IS anonymous always, the fame of the
skilled men workers Of Belgium would
be far spread The mems work is said
20 be- better than that Of women i'm the
simpler kinds of lace IL equals WO-
mans work in the most difficult kinds
In the Jesuits church al Lierro there
IS "a magnificent altar cloth Of lace.
made by an inhabitant of Liorre. AMI
offered by him 20 the church. The dom
or's WIFE, when dying. asked him to
work "a piece Of lace for the church,
and he, that the wish might be FULFILLED
most worthily, spent 10 years in manu-
featuring his Offering This lace was
exhibited at Brussels. where IL gained
a first prize, and was valued az $4,000
francs.
make the finest lace, but they are gem
orally men Of easy circumstance. who
do not sell their work. Those who
work for gain make lace which is fin
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timat. of the amount or the value OF
the lace made by men iu Belgium am
uuaIly or of tho number of men OC-
cupiad iu It's manufacture. official
statistics are unreliable $50 far as lace
makers are concerned Flemish labor
ers make no boast of the fact that
they manufacture lace. and when the
official collector OF statistics approach
es them they describe themselves as
anything rather than lacemakcrs.
There are not more than "a few humid
red men iu the country who allow
Themselves Co Doe registered as giving
their whole time 10 lace making. Bee
sides these there are hundreds of
thousands of lahorcTs, probably the
majority of the million agricultural Lac
hHrers iu the country, who know how
Co make lace. and IL is certain that tho
majority of the wOrkmen who can do
500 actually make lace lu the winter
time, either regularly throughout the
dead season or during the periods
when their funds arc low and no bet
tar paid work is to Dee had
Tho value or the lace made by these
t.role-s workers must bee very great.
Dr. rs admitted that lace to the value
of moro than O. million francs is exc
ported annually from Belgium, and II
is known thar this estimate is far be-
low the truth The value OF the lace
made and not exported never has been
calculated Whatever the value of the
work of the Flemish lacemakers NAV
be- the total amount of their earnings
hy 10 must be- inhnitesimal ln compar-
ison with the total amount paid for
the lace hy those who wear it.
THE contrast between the summer
and winter occupations of thes, Fem-
i=h workers between their horny
hands and the delicate lace work they
eco. is dramatic. but 10 As contrast
DO. D.. lad
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girls he soon got the reputation of
being 10 good dancer and 90 thoroughly
charming fellow. He looked about
for wife and set his cap for "a ma-
sons daughter plain but well off
Everybody looked ON them a- ougDreU
when ana unfortunate thing happened.
The young carpenter was arrested as
a suspicious person and pat into the
town prison. The fact of the matter
was that uIs passport showed signs
of having been famper.d with ANA lua
owners name looked very worn out
and scratched.
Even when boo prison the lively
Charles merry, did not f1rsakD HUN
Having won over the IallDr uN uuaua
of cigarette and anecdotes hc begged
Tor paper, Iuk and % pen. and wrote
five long letters which. by another
bride. he managed 90 get posted Then
De- sat DOB hiH cell and waited. After
some time four good looking women
arrived 600 the prison office. Each.
with toms Zoo hor eyes asked to see a
prisoner, our said she had come tUNIsIt
AlT SlyWau-hI. the second Mn Szep-
ausld. tho third Mr. Miller and the
fourth. Mr. BwikIeWiCz. The clerk
scratched hl- head and. aftor.a care
ui study of hIa list declared that mo-
body u The prison bore amy OF the
names. Tho women looked M each
tors from such "a gentleman There is
uo knowing how long they would have
remained lu ibis state on uncertainty
had not "a young woman arrived from
the town and asked for Mr.. PURCHASED.
The Wander went for Charles and
when bee arrived an tho young women
gave shr.rk4 Uf joy, ANA rushed to
throw themselves upog Dis neck But
Charles. who had told them am 20 como
900 tho same day did not lose his press
once UI mind. Turning to the aston
l-hel clerk boz introduced the ladies
90 him with the smile that had charm
ed and held 500 many hearts
TEA PARTY M JAIL
"Tais H my mst wife. stophauia."
hr said IuIs Is my second. Mary.
ths Dr. mE fard. leoladla. thls is mY
fourth SHI.uH who bias grown $50
thin chat HHu Dr. most graceful And
tns.' H. concluded. pointing tU tlp
E'H from INu -uHu and bowling t1 the
others. |. Sophia. who. hut Tor uu-
looked f1r UIruumHtaucn. would have
been mE nfIh D asked Euu 40 tu tea
This afternoon because. H. 4 love SOU
al and you au loND me. you ought to
love one another for my saFe."
10 would bD hard to describe thr inn
precision made upon thc five women
Hut whom Oboe nri burst of luuIrua-
zion 1ud surprise had passed. sahlna.
who had practical way of looking
at tniuss only voiced thClr private
opinion when ahe said chat they could
really slT nothing against him because
ho had loved and cherished each ono
as wen as most good husbands end
much better uaan some. SO after
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hedge rows and trees. to reproduce
them later in his wOrk-that Flemish
lace owed It's early popularity The
Flemish workers from the beginning
avoided slavish reproductions of the
Gothic designs of italian point. They
borrowed largely from the flora Of
their own country and produced de-
signs of surprising beauty Their tra-
diti0n has been handed down uubrok-
On. and the best lace made today is as
beautiful as that of centuries ago
when lace making was iu its most
glorious period
The wife of the Zeevecotr road
member works with him The lace he
generally makes is Bruges lace, "a
SNOWY article quickly made and easily
sold because of lts low price This
man also makes Bruges duChesse lace,
lace which closely resembles tho
finer and more costly Brussels Ouch
esse lace, as which IL most probably
is offered for sale In the shops.
MIDDLE MEMS PROFITS.
The earnings of the lace makers
never are large. There are too many
Intermediates between them and the
ultimate purchasers of their work.
The ZecVccote road member was glad
to receive 800 I'm payment for lace
gown on the making OF which he
spent many months. This Is from the
road member TO "a Brussels shop, ana
the Brussels shop sold DO at "a great
profit Co Princess Albert Of Belgium.
wife of the heir to the Belgian throne
Intermediates always have reaped
the profits of the lace trade For
centuries after it's invention. al the
end OF the Crusades. immense sums
were paid for lace work, bat from
the day 10 was first made down 20 the
present time mo- record shows that "a
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thc hue and cry for her husband. GER
tain spheres in the little town of Kutno
were aroused srOm their usual to.plr
by tho arrival of am elegant youth who
called himself Charles Miller. He al-
mlttel Doc was "a carpenter but took no
orders and sought mo- work His aunt
bad left him neat little sum, ho said.
ana AN Die wanted To- DO was To- settle
down with nice girl and open shop.
Needless % say the wives OF AN the
small tl1desmeu in the town ran after
him for their daughters Though he
had money of his own, ho found I'D girl.
Loocadia Dnftaut with more. ana mar
riod her. She was just l9 ana not Dad
looking. But though he had money
ANA "a wife hC ala not sottIe down or
open shop in spite of his fathcr-iu-
laws reWoustrluce5.
LEAVES WITH THE MONEY.
This union. though it gave no cause
iur gossip, appears 90 have bored tho
yUuu2 man considerably. for when ha
had been married about "a year he left
kutuu ono evening without telling his
wife where Dee was going She. too.
mpuruel hlm and bought six masses
for hIs aJul She declared no had been
arrested and hanged Zoo mistake for
somebody else Seeking ISOLATION iu
work sho said She would open the shop
her husband had talked so much about
Her father went to tho bank for h.r
ANA e1me back raging. Charlie had
Withdrawn every cent of the money
the morning before he disappeared.
1ho little town OF WroCllw ON tho
following day received uu addition to
Iis population iu the shape of a young
u.1u who said his name was Braukle-
NIUE Iia wanted. hr said 90 UuN Cd.