The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-11-26
AT THE HOTELS.

function with mission from The Prus-
sian minister OF commerce to collect data
on banking.
The baron Is an active. alert tyne Of
German. and says that he hopes to 90
back with new and better ideas OF finance
after his seven weeks stay in this coun-
try His time will be spent for the most
part In New York, Pittsburg. Chicago
and this city.
Although this is my honeymoon trip"
continued Barren fon Reibnitz. 'ft will
perhaps be the busiest one a man ever
took. for ] expect daily 10 visit the i'm
portant banks and have interviews with
the leading bankers. ] am taking copl-
Gus notes. and the data I gather viii be
important, | hope. 10 my government"
The baron recently married Miss Freda
Won Schenck, the daughter OF his ex-
cellency Adjt. Gen Won Schenek, who is
now accompanying the German crown
prince on his yoyge to East Asia.
Baroness yon Heibnitz Is greatly i'm
pressed with the beautiful figure of the
American woman. They are surely the
most perfectly deFelOped women In tha
world she said. zone can tell them by
their graceful figues and perfect car
riage IN any part e the world"
do You know mich OF the suffragette
movement here am in England?" she
was asked.
Yes; but We girls of Germany are not
interested in voting We are Of a DIFF
ferent opinion In tina respect Our girls
marry young. and ter thoughts are IN
the direction Of the prospective mar
ried life
Sometimes I am iclined 10 think Il
would be better for IS to wait. as the
American girls do. util we are older:
but, you see, have pt carried out my
theory, have ~ Th' baroness is not
yet out OF her teens, bt has spent most
OF her Ire In schools. md is an expert
piano player, Wagner hing her favorite
composer.
Mrs. ]. J. Pershing. 0 Manila. 7
wife Of Gen. Pershlng. 3 al the New
Willard
! Western optimism is disappointment
in its failure adequately toneasure what
IS going to take place very apidly now In
Western Canada, according 0 ". P. Hin
ton, general passenger aent Of the
Grand Trunk Pacific. who as seen at
the New Willard.
Prophets there have been y the past
whose predictions we're seornet as IDLE
/ speculation, but. withal. the devopment
has been far beyond the expeditions Of
the most sanguine
The West is getting the creanof all
| immigration this year." Mr.. Hinto went
on 20 say, land while some 800, Coz rae
teal agrieulturists have been swaBwed
kup by the West so that there Is no~Iew
Ito their whereabouts. we can sec the
! results accomplished week by week bng
the lines Of our railway in Saskatchewan
and Alberta, for thousands of acre OF.
the rich soils. hitherto wild lands, r.
rowed only by buffalo trails, have b,n
turned over ready for next years CIR.
and this will constitute an unbToken fl
from Winnipeg into the Rocky MOu,
| tains. The country west OF Edmonton
filling up very fast, and I doubt il an
finer agricultural land is 20 be fouAd il
Canada. Then. again, over in British
Columbia, for a distance OF 100 miles
there is country fully equal in all con
ditions 10 the best Of the prairie land
why, Western Canada has not beer
| discovered yet. Day by day new posi-
bilities are shown. and when enough
prospectively wealthy farmers locate il
/ Western Canada We shall have a crop IL
! Saskatchewan alone to exceed in valu'
Of its wheat marketed more than all IN,
/ United States has ever produced in a sin
/ gle year. That is why l state that IN
most optimistic Westerner / have so IA
seen is the most modest of men; nor do
expect 10 find any one in the near future
who can adequately convey any impress
sion Of what can and will happen IN tn
next score Of years
The women OF Japan are making tn
country what il is. according to L
Inouye OF Tokyo. who was seen at tn
Raleigh.
The women OF Japan have the love o
country so deeply imbedded in thei
hearts that they are willing 10 take tn
places OF our men while the latter stud,
and fit themselves for better things. Tn
men Of Japan are going IN for the pro
fessions, for more complicated labor
They are studying electrical engineerin.
and shipbuilding; they are becoming
chemists. doctors. dentists, and mathe
maticians. They are going into the iroi
industry, and are making II a scientif
study. Engineering engages their atten
ton.
THE men OF Japan are no longer sat
isfed TO dump coal and 20 dig In th'
mines. II is their duty 10 take up TN
higher lines of work To-day you vii
find our young men studying in the col
leges Of the United States. Germany
! England, and France. and YOU will find
them working in the shipyards Of tbs
United States. You will find them in tn,
steel mills. They are preparing 20 MAKE
Japan great-fit TO take her place com
mereialIy with other nations"
Speaking of rurales and cowboys ani
other wild and wooIly Wsterners, John
H. Lyman. of San Antonio who IS at the
Riggs. said yesterday: Tie days Of the
picturesque American cowboys are over
but their memory will live forever Their
chief qualifications were courage. physi-
cal aleTtness. ability to endure exposure
ana fatigue. horsemanship, and skill IN
the use of the lariat and the Eun.
THE original cowboy Of tbs country, -
continued Mr.. Lyman, was essentially
A creature of circumstances and was
mainly product of Western md South
western Texas. Armed 10 he teeth
booted and spurred. long-hairec and COW
, cred with broad-brimmed somrero, the
| distinctive badge OF his calling his per
sonal appearance proclaimed IN, sort OF
: man he was.
1.-THE Texas cowboys were frontersmen
accustomed from their earliest childhood
To the alarms and struggles ineient &c
forays of Indians of the most feOcious
and warlike nature. The section " the
state in which they lived was aio FOR
many years exposed to incursios OF
Mexican bandits who descended upo the
r herds and the homes of the peops OF
Texas. The carrying OF firearms and
other deadly weapons was consequently
a prevalent custom among them, and,b
ing scattered over vast areas. and beypd