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The Washington herald., 1910-04-24
Photo BY Edmonston.

TO the Misses Childs, who for twenty-five
years have taught in the Sunday school
One feature of the afternoon was a layer
cake, the top Of which contained three
gold bricks. In opening them the chill
dren discovered a white pigeon, a white
kitten and two little chickens. The lower
layer Of the cake contained two gold
bricks. in each Of which was a s. gold
piece. The evening entertainment. which
was a surprise 10 Santa Claus. was given
by different branches Of the church work.
among them the gymnasium, Sunday
school, Drum and Bugle Corps. and Fen
dali Cadet Bankers. At the close Of the
evening some wonderful mechanical toys
We're shown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Byrnes are in
New York, where they have spent the
past week
Mr.. James Orme is rapidly recovering
from an operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Thomas J. stanton has as her
house guest Miss Florence Rerwin. OF
New York City. and Montclair, n J.
The Washington herald., 1910-04-24
PUBLICITY is DISCUSSED.
Pen Women Would AbOl-
ish Certain Practices

Publicity was the subject at the meet
ing OF the League Of American Pen Wom-
en- Wednesday at their headquarters. 1347
l. street. Miss Elizabeth A Hyde was
I'm the chair.
Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes read paper on
The platform and the press. and Mrs.
Anna Sanborn Hamilton presented one on
Advertising" Much discussion followed
as 20 where news stops and advertising
begins in the press notices of public
speakers and entertainers.
The growing practice Of cutting out all
comment on the speaker and his subject.
while considerable space is devoted 10
gowns worn by persons in the audience,
was deplored. Mrs. J. o. Estabrook read
an original humorous story of country
life.
The Washington herald., 1910-04-24
Readings for the Blind.

The following is the programme fer vol
unteer readings and music in the reading
room for the blind at the Library of Con-
grcss-2.S9 TO $50 p. m. Tuesday. April
%. Miss Edith y Koon viii be heard In
dramatic recitation. Thursday, April y.
q recital by the Marine Band Quartet, as
sisted by Mr. Hoffman. violinists and Mrs.
J. Klein. accompanies. Saturday. April
80. Commander Henry Harris Ba-rCII Will
give brief resume Of effo,ts to introduce
an international language, with argu-
ments favoring Esperanto. followed by
reading some original charadeS.
The Washington herald., 1910-04-24
CONCERT TOMORROW.

Concert by Soldiers Home Band. 10
morrow afternoon az O'Clock. John s. NJ
Zimmerman. director. Programme:
l. March. Arcade Echoes" poo. Zimmerman
?. Overture. ''Nabuco- Verdi
;. Idyl. The Roses Honeymoon" Bratton
4. Selection II Troyatore" request Verdi
5. Descriptive. "A Night with the Bosics'
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ---------- l-augey
Synopsis: An evening at home; children
at play Lullaby-Children go to bed:
the bogies enter; the dance Of the
bogies
6. German 1'otpou7i. 'Liedersranz No. i"
---------------..-.... ........... TObanl
:. Characteristic. Passing the Cotton
Fields" .................-.........Pu cruer
6. valse Lcnte. Language Of the Flow
CTS" ..-....---..---......... Kretschmer
2. Finale, The Steel King"........st. Clair
The Washington herald., 1910-04-24
Miss Florence Brown to Speak.

Miss Florence NJ. Brown will speak on
the annual conference at Silver Bay,
n. Y. at St Pauls Lutheran Church
next Wednesday evening. The lecture is
TO be given under auspices of Silver Bay
Chapter, y w. c. a. and members OF
missionary societies and Sunday schools
who are 20 be represented at the annual
conference are invited TO attend
The Washington herald., 1910-04-24
Free Lecture on Christian Science

Christian Science, religion OF prog
ress." viii be the subject Of a lecture
this afternoon at the National Theater,
at $50 o'clock. The lecture will be given
by Mr. w d. McCracken, G. $. B.. a
member OF the board Of lectureship Of
the First Church Of Christ, in Boston.
Mass
The Washington herald., 1910-04-24
kensington Railway

Cars from 18th St and New York
ave every quarter hour. pass Rock
Creek Bridge. Main Entrance LOOlOEi-
cal Park, and Chevy Chase. Connect
at Lake with KensingtOn Line.
The Washington herald., 1910-04-24

From: the Chicago News
Visitor-And does the litty dolly call
Mamma" when squeezed?
Gladys-Oh. no, ma'am. She calls for
her goYerness. This is a society dolly.
The Washington herald., 1910-04-24
VIII Beautify Virginia Highlands.

VIII Beautify Virginia Highlands.
Plans 20 make Virginia Highlands a
city beautiful will be formulated az
meeting Of the citizens Of that community
at Highland boulevard at 1 o'clock this
afternoon. Contemplated Improvements
and developments in the suburb will be
discussed and all Virginia Highlanders
are invited TO attend
The Washington herald., 1910-04-24
PONCE DE LEON

Va. ave. ard Beach. American plan. 500 per day
up 5000 weekly up; European plan $50 day up
ALFRED 2. GRINDROD.
The Democrat. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1910-1910, 1910-10-25

So Bob Shingle does not belong to
any God damned church, according to
Judge Stanley. Surely that fact alone
ought to elect him in Territory that
has the history and traditions of Ha-
waii.
The Appeal., 1910-05-21
She Was an Innocent Victim.

Everyone in that part of the car
smiled except the man who did it and
the girl who was under the hat. He
wouldn't let himself. and she did not
know anything about it. He was a
plain, quiet man, apparently of the
higher type of mechanic. She was
young and pretty and had one Of the
enormous new hats, with correspond
ingly enormous pins stuck in at vari-
Gus angles. She was in one of the
cross seats and he was standing be-
hind her. Without moving muscle
of his face he drew from his pocket a
folding footrule, carefully measured
the expanse of the brim and let every.
one around see that it was, full 35
inches. Then he laid the ruler along
the projecting end of hatpin and
beyond the crown The unconscious
gave proof that it reached 51a inches
owner of the creation looked up with
a puzzled little frown as her seatmate
suddenly doubled over in mirth
The Appeal., 1910-05-21
HE SHOWED HIM.

physician who acts as examiner for an ac-
cident insurance company said that he has to be
watchful in order to keep the company he repre-
sents from being "stung' on accident claims
"A man was in my Office" he said, .who said
that he had fallen from a street car. examined
his arm, and though there were few bruises on
1t it didn't appear to be badly hurt
How high can you raise it?' continued, and
he answered by raising his arm with apparent
difficulty until his hand was a few inches above
his head.
Pretty bad commented Now show me
how high you could raise it before this accident
happened
He lifted it easily then way up In the air,
and it wasn't until began to laugh that he real
lied that he had exposed himself He cleared
out in hurry then"
The Appeal., 1910-05-21
KNEW ALL ABOUT THE PUP
But Husband Of Missing Woman Had
Much Difficulty in Describing
Wife's Appearance.

A mans voice, husky with anxiety,
called up police headquarters the
other night at about 2:3O a. m. It
was distraught husband begging the
police to help him find his wife, who
had been missing since eight o'clock
in the evening.
whats her description" asked
the official at the phone. "Her height?
Weight"
"Er-er-about average, I guess"
stammered the husband
"Color of eyes?"
A confused burning sound came
back over the wire.
"Blue or brown" prompted the Of
ticial.
II don't know"
"How was she dressed?"
II guess she wore her coat and
hat-she took the dog with her."
what kind of dog?"
"Brindle bull terrier, weight 14%
pounds, four dark blotches on his
body, shading from gray into white;
a round, blackish spot over the left
eye; white stub of tail, three white
legs and the right front leg nicely
brindled all but the toes; small nick
in his left ear, gold filling in his up
per right molar, silver link collar
with"
"Thatll do," gasped the official.
We'll find the dog!"-Puck
The Appeal., 1910-05-21
TR|CKED BY WOMEN.
Mesmeric Power Exerted by
Some Feminine SWindIers.
Temptations That Beset a Poor Girl
Who Is Anxious to Shine in
a Class Above Her i
Station.

London.-"Five years penal servi-
Gude!"
In the dock stood an old woman,
somewhat shabbily dressed and coarse
featured, in such state Of collapse
that a couple of wardresses stood be-
side her to support her if necessary.
Beside her was tall, slim, attractive
looking young lady, with a pale, re-
fined face and large, dark eyes.
They were the Charlesworths. The
young woman was the heroine of the
romantic, motor car mystery-the girl
who was to have huge fortune come
to her, the girl who had deceived so
many and extracted thousands of
pounds from her victims pockets.
How" people asked one another as
they sat in court and heard the recital
OF the frauds, could any one have be-
lieved such absurd stories?"
According to Williamson, the one.
time chief of Scotland Yard, the wom-
ar swindler often seems to possess a
species of mesmeric influence which
renders her victims blind and deaf to
all that might warn them.
Coarse featured, squat in figure, vul
gar in speech and manner, Nine. Hum
The Appeal., 1910-05-21
Plant Societies.

The science of botany has been
greatly advanced by the development
of what may be called the sociology
of plants-that is, the study of their
relations to one another. as well as
their adjustments to surroundings.
Botanists recognize that plants are
not scattered. haphazard over the
globe, but are organized into definite
communities. A plain has its plant so
ciety, all the members of which fall
into their proper places. A swamp
forest consists of trees possessing a
certain social relationship and differ.
ing from those that form forest on
dry land. There is progression from
one social organization of plants to
another. A lily pond may give place
to swamp shrubs, and this again to
swamp forest Of tamarack, pines and
hemlock. So. societies of plants on
dry land succeed one another as the
conditions change.
D. ~ y
The Appeal., 1910-05-21
HEDGING ABOUT YOUNG FOLKS
Freedom of the Library Not Good
Thing to Allow the Rising
Generation.

"A recent writer, in referring to the
traditionally divergent attitudes of
the English-speaking and the CONT
mental worlds toward literary reti.
cence, has said that in England and
America it has been the custom to tie
up literature in order to give young
people the freedom of the library,
while elsewhere it has been custom
ary to turn literature loose and to tie
up the young. The result, he adds,
is that we have developed precocious
young people and an insipid literature
and they a pgeceeious, literature and.
insipid young people: Which IS Wit
ty summing up of a tangled situation.
Unhappily, like the man and wife who
respectively preferred cotton and
linen sheets and who, after much acri-
cotton, we in America seem to- be by
! the way of granting a certain liberty
to literature without placing CORE
spending restraint upon the browsing
of the immature. And we are thus
creating a problem with which every
conscientious commentator upon cur
rent literature finds himself constant
ly faced, namely, upon whom-the
writer, the critic, or the parent-rests
the responsibility of safeguarding the
reading of the young? Personally, it
seems to me that there is but one
answer: That the responsibility for
the physical diet of childhood and for
the intellectual diet of adolescence
| rests, upon the same shoulders; that
there is no more reason for turning
girl of Is loose in public library
than for giving boy Of seven the
run of the jam and medicine chest;
no more excuse, in family with
half-grown members, for leaving adult
literature on the sitting-room table
than for leaving adult razors on the
nursery floor at an earlier stage of
the same family's Development
From an article in Everybody's Maya
zine.
The Appeal., 1910-05-21

away, and in the great hollow Of the crater
crowds of hundreds can be lost and not murmur
but the echo of ones voice from across the era
ter, nearly mile away, is heard.
The calm restfuness Of crater lake is unlike
anything else in the world. One finds lakes and
solitary pools in forests or mountain fastnesses
and the calm there is akin to witchery, but they
are stirred sometimes by passing breezes and
the trees will wave above in the wind But in a
crater lake there is not breath that will stir it
and even a stone cast into its bosom creates rip
pies that. seem as though they would be swal.
lowed ere they are born. Peace is. word without
meaning until one lies silent on the slope of
such a crater with such lake at his feet
The Appeal., 1910-05-21
Il MOZZ7yZ<zZ7T @GEz>E az TIT
E24ZYcSANDZ7YE RAZZTHF I'm

the native will be the fuflment of the dream
long cherished by engineers of piercing the An
des which accomplished on the morning of
November 27, 1909, when the workmen of the
Transandine railway approaching from opposite
sides of the tunnel, faced the last thin line of
rock which, in the heart of the Andes, separated
Chile from the Argentine Republic.
1t was an Italian workman, operating under
British engineer in the employ of an Anglo-Amer-
1can firm, and carrying to frution the project of
two Chilean brothers, who placed the fuse for
the demolition of the rocky barrier and opened
up a line of communication which, in the opinion
OF leading journal of the United States ''s like
ly to change political relations in South America
and commercial conditions throughout the world"
The first man to traverse the tunnel from end to
end was the chief of the Argentine section of
workmen followed by 80 of his operatives (most-
ly Chileans), who returned to their native land
with banners flying and cries Of victory.
From the capitals of Chile and the Argentine
Republic functionaries and private individuals
ourneyed to be present at this last act in an un-
dertaking which has engaged the talents of a
succession of engineers and financiers since 1860
and which, upon completion will take rank with
the great Alpine tunnels.
Fifty years ago the North American captain of
industry, William Wheelwright, prepared ten
a1ve plan for crossing the continent from Rosario
in the Argentine Republic to the Chilean port of
Caldera, over the Pass of San Francisco. Thir-
Mateo Clark, to whom the credit for the project
of the line as completed must be awarded, took
the first practical steps in the matter through
concession obtained from the Argentine govern.
ment for railroad from Buenos Aires to the
Chilean frontier
In 1880 the first section from Villa Mercedes to
Mendoza was built by the Argentine government,
connecting with the Clark line from Buenos Aires
to Villa Mercedes, in all $50 miles. A subsequent
concession to British company secured the con-
struction of the road from Mendoza to the Chilean
frontier and thence to the Chilean town of Los
Andes (160 miles), where connection would be
made with the existing line to Valparaiso, 7S
miles in extent, making transcontinental line
1888 miles in length.
1t was the trans-Andean section between Men
doza and Los Andes which presented the great
est difficulties, for here lay the old pack route
over Cumbre Pass, 1905 feet above sea level,
which modern engineering had decided to elm
mate by tunneling the mountain $500 feet lower
down.
At Caracoles. on the Chilean SLOPE and at Las
Cuevas. on the Argentine side, men and machin-
cry entered the mountain for final conquest of
nature followed out Of solid rock, the gallery as
opened is 10,460 feet above sealevel 3,165 meters
IN length. 5h meters In height. and meters wide.
The Appeal., 1910-05-21
Druoued THROUGH the Kevhole.

A robbery Of the most ingenious
kind has just been perpetrated at
jewelers. shop in the Rue Neuve, Brus-
sells, which is much frequented both
by day and night. Thieves entered an
empty house next door, climbed along
the roof, broke through the skylight
Of the jewelers. premises, and went
downstairs. -
They evidently knew that the jewel
er's brother, the only person in the
house, slept in room on the second
floor. Working silently they pumped
soporific fumes through the keyhole
Of the locked door. The jewelers.
brother awoke next day with a bad
headache and found the room still full
of the fume. On going down to the
shop he found that jewels valued at
$4,000 had been stolen.
The Appeal., 1910-05-21
So. 40 PER YEAR,
LOVE SAVED Town
lnfatuation for Girl Changed Brit
ish Officers Mind.
Home Of Mary Sparhawk, Whose
Beauty Kept Portsmouth From
Being Destroyed in 1775, Still
Stands in Maine.

Portland, Me.-There is an interest
ing tradition in connection with the
historic Sparhawk house at Kittery
Point, Me. This handsome specimen
of colonial architecture was built by
William Pepperell, the first American
baronet, and was presented in 174S
to his daughter at the time of her
marriage to Nathaniel Sparhawk.
The house is now owned by Horace
Mitchell and stands as originally
planned, the most striking feature be-
ing the large hallway staircase. This
was planned by Sir William, who
drew every spindle
we'll preserved and is in far better
condition than the average colonial
mansion of that period.
The wife of Nathaniel Sparhawk was
noted belle and her daughter, Mary
Sparhawk, inherited her mothers
beauty and brilliancy and many sto-
ries are told of her wit and fascina-
tion
The tradition is to the effect that
Captain Mowatt of the Canceaux, a
British ship of 16 guns, cruising with
large armed ship, a schooner and
sloop, were off Portsmouth harbor in
October, Its, with the intention Of
destroying Portsmouth. Captain
Mowatt went privately on shore at
Kittery point and was received at the
loyal house of Nathaniel Sparhawk.
Here he became so much fascinated
with Mary that the intent of his voy-
age to destroy Portsmouth was by her
influence changed and he made sail
The Appeal., 1910-05-21

and west coasts Of South America and in the
transport of lighter manufactured goods from
Europe and America the rail route will prove
formidable rival. - -S......- r.
Though Brazil and the Argentine Republic are
washed by the Atlantic, vast tracts of rubber
growing districts of the one and of the agricul-
tural and cattle sections of the other lie far
nearer to the Pacific. With facilities of trans
port it is reasonable to suppose that products
which have hitherto found their sole ports of
shipment on the Atlantic seaboard will ultimately
turn to the Pacific, and vice versa.
AS medium of ocean traffic the Importance OK
the route can not be overestimated At present
South America is to great extent a commercial
appanage of Europe. On the east coast the trade
Of the United States with the countries of the At
lantic has been handicapped by inadequate ship
ping and also by the fact that the east coast
to the south of the turn of the continent Is really
much nearer to Europe than to the United States
with the added advantage of more favorable sail
ing conditions, and the west coast is as remote
by sea from New York as it is from Liverpool or
Hamburg. When the Panama canal is completed
different condition will prevail Then the United
States especially in its manufacturing sections,
will enjoy tremendous advantage in respect to
all that portion of South America situated on or
commercially tributary to the Pacific. Already the
opening of the Tehuantepec line across Mexico and
y of the interoceanic route in Guatemala has aug
mented the volume of trade between the Atlantic
and Pacific.
With the Buenos Airesvalparaiso route open to
easy transport, Chile and Peru will not longer be
cut OH from the great streams of the worlds COM
merce. They will be in direct and constant in
tercourse with the countries to the east and will
be brought proportionately closer to Europe, and
long step will be taken toward South American
solidarity by bringing the capitals of the west
coast under the same Influences as those of the
east. ...
The Appeal., 1910-05-21
CRATER LAKES OF MEXICO

Mexico, with all her romance, has never given
abroad any description of her crater lakes. Vale
de Santiago, a little town of the state Of Guiana
juato boasts four of the most perfect and beauti-
full of such lakes
old days the, town, which is an ancient one, was
called the Town of the Seven Candles, for the
seven craters which surround it. The II craters
mentioned by scientists are not well defined,
some having come up within the others at later
periods resulting in but seven well-defned hills.
The four craters which contain the lakes
all within few miles of the city, but two. La
Alberca and Zntora, are within easy walking dis
tance, says the Mexican Herald La Alberca is
one Of the lowest of the craters and on one side
portion OF the crater wall has fallen away so
that the approach is very easy.
Half a. mile across Is the low line Of the crater
wall and down below it is the greenest of lakes,
calm as a plate Of glass The tiny boat which
plies the lake is on the opposite side, close below
the walls Of sbasalt which rim 1t. These walls,
which rise nearly q hundred feet above the sur
face of the lake, are part Of the native rock which
was blown of like the cork Of bottle when the
crater was formed. It rises sheer and erect above
the lake on every side. !,
The otherscEater lake which one can visit con-
veniently is the Zintora, which is approached
after a long climb up its high sides; the lake
glistens deep at the bottom with sloping sides
covered with green leading down to it. A tiny
beach OF sand is seen on one side and on this a
ruined mountain hut brings another Swiss touch
to the scene. "A background of towering peak,
one OF the Seven Candles rises short distance
The Appeal., 1910-05-21

bert twiddled scores Of the keenest
men in Paris around her fat, jeweled
fingers and made them believe in mil
lions lying locked up in safe in her
rooms.
New York financiers were, in their
turn, victimized by lady who was a
rival of Nine. Humbert For years
she passed herself off as a niece of
Andrew Carnegie and defrauded
scores of the "cutest" financial lights
of New York on the strength of a
bogus million pounds worth of securi-
ties placed in sealed envelope. None
ever questioned the representations Of
Mrs. Cassie Chadwick. A letter to
Mr. Carnegie would have shattered
the bubble at once, but no one ever
dreamed of writing to him.
The first temptation to become a
swindler arises when the girl of hum
BILE origin appears to be above her
class. 1t occurs to her that she can
weave little romance about it, and
she proceeds to do so. Perhaps it
is innocent enough at first-just lit
tie story that she has gained the af-
fectiOns of some gentleman of high
position and wealth. She assures her
friends that they by no means know
all about her. If these stories work
satisfactorily, and she is of dishonest
disposition, she later on proceeds to
turn the stories to account !,
The daughter of joiner, a short
tina cirno 1fD ~ lc
committed in the character of count
ess. The daughter of a cathedral
cleaner created quite a sensation as
a German princess. Another famous
bogus peeress was the widow of a
shirtmaker and another was a soul
lery maid. g
One of the most notorious woman
swindlers, when the judge in senten-
cling her remarked that men had, no
doubt. fallen easy victims to her
Establishments and articles, inter-
rupted him with the remark that she
had only swindled men because they
happened to be generally better off
than women. She could make a WON.
an believe anything, but she scorned
W Idho advantage VI pSOplS WIZ Wei =
handicapped in making money.
Mrs. Chadwick-already referred to
one day raising loan of several
thousand pounds, handed to banker
a sealed packet, which she represented
contained securities for much more
than the money she needed, but it was
not to be opened
The banker suddenly made a ges-
ture as If he disbelieved her state
ment and was about to tear the packet
open. If he did so he would discover
the fraud at once and give her into
custody. His eyes were on her. She
never changed color or showed the
slightest embarrassment or uneasi.
ness. Raising one Of her gloved fin
gers, she shook it at him playfully.
DO it," she said. "open 1t and Will
never speak to you again." And he
laid the packet down unopened.