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is left-handed. or rather an1bidextrous.
and his teacher has to watch closely
to keep him from drawing with his
left hand.
His brother Rafael is in the third
grade and is nine years old. Both
boys are small for their age, and more
than ordinarily good looking. Rafael
is studious, and his teacher, Miss V:
reading from his primer. Rafael
brought a Mexican scarf and sombrero
to school from Mexico. In the paint
ing lessons Miss Offutt has one Of the
others to paint. and she is going to
sombrero some time. With the hat
shading his merry little face. and the
scarf over his shoulders, he is sure
Rafael can speak English just as well
as any Of the other children in school.
as can also his brother Lusito.
In addition to these little boys and
girls there are several other foreign
are rapidly learning the English Ian
guage, and are keeping up with the
others in their classes. 1t is not an
unusual thing at all to have a small
not speak a single word of English.
just as in the case Of the little Persian
princes. If they show any ability
whatever they soon become accustomed
to their surroundings ana are aDle 10
do good work.
It is a far cry from these boys and
girls who SO quickly learn English to
those other foreigners who flock to the
night schools three times a week. There
one sees grown men and women. some of
whom have been here a year. others but
a few days, who are struggling with the
first attempts at understanding our Ian
guage and who falter as they pronounce
dog or cat and to whom everything
is new and strange.
The foreign night schools of Washing
ton form an important feature of the
school system Of the city. Nearly three
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ion. He also sings in a choir. but usually
has a more mischievous look than his
picture, taken in his choir boys robes
would seem to imply.
Antonio has another brother and three
sisters going to school in Washington.
Elodia. who is eight years old. is in the
third grade at the Adams School. Albert
is in the second year at Western High
School. while his two sisters, Miss Le-
nora and Miss Graziela Kivero, attend a
usually attractive in appearance, and
the girls especially are endowed with all
the beauty accredited to the senoritas of
Latin countries.
WI Chez. who is thirteen, and WI
Shun, who is fifteen, are the sons Of one
of the secretaries at the Chinese legation.
and attend the Morgan School. both being
in the fourth grade. Although their
father. Mr.. WI Chang. cannot speak
English, the boys have little difficulty in
making themselves understood. WI Chez
is alert and full of fun; Both the boys
are fond of music. which seems to be
general characteristic among the for
eign children in the schools. They can
write especially well, and also do splen-
did work in the art lessons. 1t is not
surprising to learn also that they are
fond of physical culture.
At the Force School are two little
sons Of Minister Calvo, from Costa
Rico, Rafael and Lusito. LusitO, who
is only six years old. is one Of the
brightest pupils in the first grade. No
matter what question is asked, Lusito's
hand is the first to go up in the air. and
he waves it frantically until recog-
nized by his teacher. Miss F. C.
Henderson. In arithmetic. which the
class is just learning. he is particular
ly bright. and can tell in a couple Of
seconds just how many strips are on
the piece of cardboard Miss Hender-
son holds up. He can also speak
poetry we'll, and draws pictures on the
board which are recognizable. Lus1to
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terious and his smile is slow and warm.
He has also a downy mustache. His
composition was about the seasons of the
year. Part of it was as follows:
Il like spring and winter l like spring
because in spring the trees are green
cause in winter snow ard rain come
back. Snow is blanket for seeds. Rain
is mother for seeds. She gives milk
to the seeds an blossoms
AS the days pass the little princes are
becoming more and more like little Amer
lean boys. Their teacher Miss Rebecca
Compton, is teaching them English man
ners and customs. They no longer salaam
when leaving the room. nor do they rise
each time Miss Compton enters the room
or rises. Instead they have learned the
American equivalent for Difference, and
each time they murmur Il thank you"
or bow low their. prfncely manners are
still evident under their American COW
ering.
All the princes like the singing period.
and little Serf is happy when Miss Comp
ton allows him to name the song to be
sung next His favorite Is the Ball
Song" This he has some difficulty in pro-
nouncing, but he finally succeeds, and
sits in rapt attention while the rest of
the class go through the lively air. The
princes are studying English only, with
an occasional problem in arithmetic, of
which study they are very fond.
There are a number OF other children
belonging to the diplomatic corps in the
Cooke School. Louis and Manuel LaZo,
sons of Minister Lazo from Honduras,
are in the seventh grade. Louis is thir-
teen and Manuel twelve years old. Man
uel, although as dark as his brother is
less like native of Central America, so
far as appearances go, than any of the
others. Hector, who is eleven years DID,
is in the fifth grade; Clara, nine, is in the
fourth grade, and the littlest of all, Os-
car is in the first grade, all at the Nor
gan School.
They speak English like natives, and
are unusually bright pupils. Perhaps lit
tie Oscar is too anxious to keep moving
to be a model pupil. but it has not STOP
ped his learning. and he is very willing
to chatter away in good English-that is
If his listener does not object to his jump
ing around meanwhile. Clara is the only
girl and is quite studious. School to these
children seems TO be more of a pleasure
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and ability and also her knowledge of
precedents governing the relation of the
crown to ministerial matters Along this
line King George is said to be more than
usually lacking.
Queen Mary's affiliations are conserva-
tive and anti-iberal, but her advice to
her husband has always been strictly
constitutional and given with admirably
assumed Difference to the kings re-
SponSibility. She rules the king but
manages to let him think that he is
master of the job himself while doing
Queen Mary's firm will and sober sense
of what is right goes farther than the
advising of her husband on state mat
ters
In household matters her chief care is
economy She has carried into effect
several plans of retrenchment in the
private expenditures Of the royal family
that have won both the respect and admit
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Power Behind England's Throne

WHEN King George assembled the
w throne of Great Britain following
death of his father. King Ed.
ward VII, there was much doIeful shak.
ing of heads. George will never make
the king his father did. He will never
rule as did his firm. just grandmother
Victoria. He Is weak. He is not pre-
pared for the responsibility. These
statements and many others Of like nature
were made concerning the prince before
he was proclaimed head Of England s
destinies.
Since his accession to the throne there
has been a cessation of this criticism. The
wise decisions made by the new ruler
astounded and forced into silence all his
critics. His choice in naming diplomatic
officers or his judgment in settling diff
cult ministerial questions has thus far
been all that even the most exacting of
his subjects could desire.
Some one closely connected with court
circles whispered story the other day,
however, that takes much of the credit of
, King Georges administration away from
him. 1t was said confidentially to some
one and that said some one said it con-
fidentially to some one else. that Britain S
real ruler is the proud and beautiful wife
VI Tie hiHS' queen mary NO decision
of any kind is made by the king without
first consulting his wife, said the in
formant.
The news spread and now it is common
talk all over the kingdom.
II must ask Mary is becoming by
word. This is the answer that invaria-
bly, follows any question put to the king
these days. 1t makes no difference
whether the question be relative to in
structions concerning a shooting match
or the settlement of a political affair.
A striking instance of the kings de-
pendence on the judgment OF his spouse
was shown when King Edwards clothes
and uniforms were to be disposed of. 1t
was naturally supposed that he would
have some scheme or other in mind bur
he contented himself with the reply. II
must wait until / ask Mary" Queen Mary
settled the matter by allowing Queen
Alexandra to keep King Edwards mar
shal's uniform. sending few small soIve-
Mrs to persons she thought would appre-
ciate them. and sending the rest of the
ham palace. And King George did not
have a thing to do with the whole pro-
cedure.
Englands cabinet ministers have been
particularly quick to notice how the land
lies. They realize more and more day by
day to what extent their ruler leans on
the judgment of his wife, and are becon-
ing accustomed when discussing matters
OF state to deal chiefly with Queen Mary
oven though the king be present. They
have formed good idea of her foresight
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second grade was finally decided upon.
There they caused Il sensation with their
salaams and foreign tongue That was
several weeks ago. and now they are In
the third grade, writing compositions in
English, takint, part i'll some of the les
sons and are rapidly becoming accus
toned to the ways and habits of their
American classmates.
~
AS is only natural, there is considerable
rivalry between the three boys as to
which one will learn English the quick
est This. it must be understood, is only
of the most friendly sort, and if one fails
to grasp the meaning of a word or SEN
tence the other two have succeeded In
mastering they both fly to his aid and
quickly make him understand with few
words spoken in their native tongue.
There is not much difference In the work
done by the three little princes, despite
the difference in their ages, for little Serf
is up and doing. and if anything escapes
him it must happen pretty rapidly.
Little Serf has written a composition on
hunting. He handed it to Star reporter
with bow truly princely and an almost
inaudible You a-are welcome in falter-
ing but nevertheless plain English. Here
it IS:
Are the mountains very beautiful in
Persia? Yes, are the mountains very
in tent the side Of a mountain with
other boys? Yes. lived in a tent on the
side of mountain. Is that where vow
live when you hunt? No. live in fleldS
What have you shot? Yes, 1 have two
starlings shot. Do you hunt on horse
back? Yes, 1 can hunt horseback.
Have you ever shot squirrel as it ran
up tree? No. l have never shot a
squirrel as it ran up tree
Serf's teacher only found eight mis-
takes in that composition, and although
some little American boys and girls
might laugh at it, they could probably
not do nearly so we'll if they had been
in a Persian school only a few weeks.
Mohamed Ameen, too, can write COM
positions. He writes little better than
his younger cousin, but then he is the
oldest of the three. He also wrote a
composition something like Serfs. His
was about birds and their nests An
other thing he did was to write about
Wellman and his attempted flight to Eu
rope. This is what he wrote:
Five days ago one brave man with
eight men and women and a nice cat
started in a balloon from New York for
London. They were in the air seventy
two hours. In those days they sent to
New York many kilograms
Mozaffer must not be left out. He is
the tallest of the three. Serf is the small
est. with an alert little face and twink
ling eyes. Mohamed is more sober.
While these two boys show plainly that
they are foreigners, it is MoZaffer who
has all the poetry and rOmanticiSm Of
Persia in his face. His hair is jet black
and wavy, his eyes are large and mys-
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ishness. She doesn't have to furtively
bite her lips to bring color to EN- when
her escorts head is turned away for an
instant Nor, indeed does she even have
to furtively powder her nose. for the
French pallor is piled on so thickly that
it, too. sticks throughout the length of
any session, no matter how protracted.
The whole idea of women nowadays in
New York, when 1t comes 10 that seems
to be to make it just as patent as posi-
BILE that they are made up. They seem
to desire to placard the fact that they're
made up. Now, the almost peculiarly
non-smug writer of these few lines has
not the least objection in the world to
feminine makeup. On the contrary
he adheres to the quite Outre. not to say
ultra, notion that skillfully made-up
woman can be and nearly always is just
as pretty and enormously improved by
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ROYS and Girls From
South America Under
Same Roof With Little
Princes of Distant Persia
Secretary of Chinese Lega-
ton Has Five Children in
Local Schools-Nearly Three
Hundred Foreigners Learn
ing to Speak Our Tongue
in Night Schools-Various
Methods Employed in Teach
ing Many Children of Many
Climates.
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they most come in contact. sFron this
ii gradually broadens in scope until in
the highest class they are taught gram
mar.
the pupils a school education, but Sim
ply to teach them the English language
and to show them how best to become
good American citizens. AS AN aid in
this last step the bureau of emigration,
Department of Commerce and Labor, has
issued set of pamphlets on citizenship
and the benefits to be reaped by becom-
ing an American citizen. This pamphlet
is printed in Swedish, Greek. Bohemian n,
Croatian, Lithuanian, German. Polish.
Yiddish, Danish. Norwegian and Slavon-
ian.
In addition to this the. Federation of
Jewish Women gives several entertain
ments annually to which the entire school
is invited. The speaker is sometimes a
Jew, but others very often make ad-
dresses in simple English and on subjects
likely to be appreciated by those whom
they are addressing. With the approach
of a holiday, whether national or inter
national, the pupils are told the various
customs connected with il, its history and
everything of interest concerning it.
1t is a strange sight to see grown men
and women, who for the most part are
engaged i'm business, trying to learn Eng
lish. Some of the women are i'm domestic
service, while the men are occasionally
likewise employed, but are more often
hucksters or the like. A characteristic
which seems to be general with all those
who attend the night classes is their real
desire to learn. 1t is not the unpleasant
task it is with so many children In the
case of many in their native land they
were given no education whatever. and
the mere fact of having school books is a.
joy to them Others are we'll educated
but are anxious to learn our language. A
good many of the men and women are
married, and one man, who is now in the
highest class, told the teacher that his
son, who had just been in the kindergar-
ten a short time, "can speak re Englaish
as well as l."
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her makeup Chorus of od-fashioned
folk: What a scandalous thing te say!)
But the sort of feminine makeup here ad-
verted to is not the screeching. obvious
makeup. 1t is skillful as expressly
stated. 1t is the sort OF makeup OF
which you are just vaguely conscious as
you look at ii. You are aware of it. but
1t doesn't knock you off the bench. There
is just the proper proportion of powder
ing and penciling and rougihg, but no
bedaubing. The French pallor and the
famingo-hued lips that go with the same
furnish too defiant an impression. That
sort of makeup seems TO say, and
does say, Yes. l am makeup: ] am
makeup PLUS and several; ! am screech-
ing, gyrating, bowling. dancing -dervishy
makeup, and what are you going to do
about it?'
The hereof writer notes another thing in
connection with this weird French pallor:
The women who go in for it very often,
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y the public schools

y the public schools
of Washin gton at
least two or three
children of the dip
lomatic corps are
always to be found.
At present dark
eyed boys and girls
from South Amer
lea are under the
same roof with
those from far
away China, while
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than task. and they are all interested in
their studies.
The secretary of the Chinese legation,
Mr.. Yung Kwai, has five children in the
public schools, as we'll as little Kuan Pas
Chun, whose guardian he is. Bunham,
aged fourteen. and Elizabeth, aged
twelve, are in the seventh and sixth
grades. respectively, at the Cooke School.
Little Gertrude Yung Kwai is in the fifth
grade at the Morgan School. She is ten
years old. Her brother Addison, who is
eight, is in the second grade at Morgan,
while Dana is in the kindergarten at, the
Cooke School. Little Kuan Pas Chun is
in the fifth grade at the Force School.
1t is not surprising that these little
Chinese boys and girls should speak
English as well they do Chinese, be-
cause their mother. Mrs. Yung Kwai, is
American.
Although all the children bear evidences
of their Chinese descent. they also have
American characteristics. Perhaps little
Gertrude looks most like an American.
She has large brown eyes and an olive
complexion and a shy winning smile and
manner. When visited at her school she
was taking lesson in sewing and from
the way she handled her needle and
thread it was evident that she not only
liked sewing. but was clever at it.
In little kuan Pas Chun who is twelve
years old. it is easy to guess his nation
ality from his work in water color paint
ing. The class was painting marigolds
when the reporter saw little Kuan, and
out of the entire class his painting was
one of the two or three best" He has
a decided sense Of humor and is ever
ready to join in any fun that is going
on. or to help his teacher, Mrs. c. Will
Jams.
.
In this same class is little Antonio
Rivero the ten-year-oId son of the Cuban
minister to Holland. Antonio is, first of
all, on the lookout for a good time, and
usually succeeds in finding it, In the
painting class he found fun In painting
his face instead of the picture This did
not end as disastrously as might be ex-
pected, for a few minutes without his
paint box made him decide to do what
Mrs Williams thought the proper thing
While neither Antonio nor Kuan are as
large as some of the boys in this class.
they are bright and keep abreast of
their classmates. Antonio plainly shows
his Latin-American blood, for he has
big, black eyes, dark hair and complex
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ration of her subjects. She sets an ex-
ample by her own simplicity as regards
the royal household that it would be well
for officials of the court to follow.
In using her personal influence to ad-
vantage Queen Mary is but following an
example set by the late Queen Victoria
Therein lay the secret of that wise ruler
power. The example of Queen Victoria
nodded the life of her people
Queen Mary cannot be said to have a
direct connection with the politics of her
country. She will never be called upon
to rule. But she has made up her mind
to rule with her husband and it is GER
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Clarence Cul1en's Weekly New York Letter



ridicu!ously often, forget altogether that
tney are provided with the useful ana
lomlcal parts known as necks. That is
to say, they forget, great many of
them, to French palloriZe their necks as
well as their lovely faces. The result is
something depressing. There they CLEAN
In the strong, searching sunlight with
their faces and chins all Whtewasiled I'D
something terrific, while their forgotten
and therefore natural necks. utterly de-
void OF French pallor, afford you yal-
iery, SaffrOniSh contrast to their pallor
that causes you to become almost low
spirited for the remainder of the day. A
dazzling white facial pelt and an ochre-
hued neck never were meant by heaven
TO he little playmates together. OF course
II would be Il source of d lot of additional
bother for the woman who goes in for the
Dutch-neck effect at the northern part OF
her gown to smear up her neck with the
palioriZing dope, too, but really, it is
more than worth the additional pains to
make the face and the neck match. When
feminine face and neck afford TO the
stunned view of the behoider two colOrs
that are utterly and rampantly different
the beholder simply can't help but feel
down in the mouth about it, and that's
why we suggest, etc, etc.
THE other night. dining real cut-up-
. bishly before theater time in a New
York restaurant, these eyes beheld a sin
guar spectacle
1t was that of a lovely young creature.
dressed within about a quarter of an inch
of her life, being carried out of the res
taurant in the arms of her fat and puffy
presuma5le husband, carried right across
the sidewalk after the restaurant was left
behind, apd tenderly deposited in the
bosom of Il waiting automobile.
Twas a curious sight for several rea-
sons. That Sappho number. you sec, is
not often pulled even in New York restau-
rants, where many things go that go
not elsewhere. Moreover, the Scrump-
tuCusly dressed young creature did not
look i'll. On the contrary, she wore q
distinctly sheepish expression of face
as, in the clutch of the fat, presumable
spouse, she was carried out through the
lanes of tables.
of the restaurant in the arms of the adj
pose male?
The question was answered when the
head waiter, wearing an ear-to-ear grin,
trudged behind the carrier and the car
ried bearing a foolish-looking pair of
teenchy-weenchy evening slippers in his
hand The head waiter accompanied car
rier and carried to the automobile and
handed in the foolish little slippers.
Thus was the question answered The
pore little thing, you understand, had.
after seating herself at table, eased off
those dolly looking slippers to give her
tcotsies Just minutes surcease Of mis-
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involuntary crumbling of an automobile
tire.
The French pallor, presumably. then.
is a sufficiently thick coating OF liquid
powder. upon which is superimposed
coat upon coat OF regular powdered pow
der
The result is CHASTITY to the verge of
mpty-Dumptyishness 1t is the more
the Humpty Dumpty analogy-because,
with the French pallor invariably goes
the extreme reddening of the lips.
1t Is not, believe us, mere touching
up of the lips with a title dab from the
paste rouge-pOt. Nothing so simple 1t
is literal crimsoning. incarnadining,
vermilionina. scarIeting of the lips The
lips that go with the French pallor are
not to be merely suffused with a little
fictitious color. They are to be, they
must be. brilliantly. dazzlingly red-red.
They must be redder than jockey $
tunic of scarlet. And they must be red
dened that way so that the red VII
stick throughout the entire days appear
ance of the Wearer of such crimson lips
1t is liquid stuff that they use for this
purpose, applied by means of a little
brush.
The cumulative lady applying the red To
her lips sees to ii, i'm addition that she
creates out of the red bottle perfect
Cupid's bow mouth for herself. 1t mat
tiers not il her mouth never was intended
by benign Providence for any such an
effect; it mattereth not straw if her
mouth be as wide as a sailors lanyard
knife-a Cupids bow ii must and shall
be- and is made to be. The effect of an
artifcially Cupid bowed mouth when the
facial oritice is of the type that would
enable the lady owner thereof to insert
quart of hickory nuts in her mouth all
at the same time and then whistle Sally
i'm Our Alley without missing "A note
the effect is, 7 am bound TO say some
thing grfsiy, something inhuman