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every man ANA woman Ill one FORM oE an
other. Highly educated and independent
minded as the majority of German work
men are. il might eXcusably be supposed
that creative art would find expression in
that small minority of their number
whose work brings them into daily CON
tact with the more refined crafts. Owing
10 the inventive activity of the press
agent and a Giut of prodigy tenors. the
world has become little skeptical Il the
talent that blooms modest and alone until
its possessor is discovered by some
chance and stands revealed to publicity
as an accomplished although unframed
artist. This skepticism is disarmed, how
ever, in the case of exhibition of pic
lures which has attracted considerable
attention in the German capital. 1t Is
nothing less than a collection of paintings
and etchings by absolutely unframed Ger
man workngmen, got together from the
four quarters of the empire and hung In
gay disorder, the very good by the side
OF the very bad, the inspired cheek by
jowl with the tasteless and banal-
The collection, which is the first OF IT'S
kind, has been formed by DIR. Adolf Lev
enStein, 4 psychologist. who has made q
special study OF the mentality of the Ger
man workingman. The 655 pictures the
exhibition comprises are housed in the
upper rooms of a beer restaurant In the
busy Potsdamer strasse. in the heart OF
Berlin. The exhibitors include canal
workrnen, sloemakers, carpenters.
weavers. mechanics, compositors, sad
dIers. masons, photographers, locksmiths.
upholsterers. painters. miners, bricklaS :
erS gardeners. cigar workers. taiiorS ana
a score or more of trades with their in
finite subdivisions. All the artists are so
ciaI democrats for the collection was got
together under the auspices Of the red
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Levenstein spoke of how he came to
conceive the idea Of an exhibition of
workmens art, the first of its kind ever
to have been held.
"All my life." he said. Il have lived
with the working people, the social demo-
crats-I myself am one-andf / have tried
to learn their way of thinking, their out
look on life. / have gone among them
as lodger. lived with one family in the
most miserable quarters, shared their
meals, their pleasures and sorrows, heard
their conversations, observed their IN
terests in their surroundings. That was
how I discovered the germ of art In the
workingman, and l tended it.
Now look there and he pointed to-
ward his office. through the open door
of which was to be seen an immense
pile of pictures. roughly wrapped IN
paper some without Wrappings at all.
executed on every imaginable substance
from canvas down to cardboard Ihose
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out. discharges its load. goes in again,
and keeps up that process indefinitely.
When the stock or liquid is drained
off from the kettle the meat that is left
is packed I'm barrels and sold to farmers
for hog feed. With the right mixture It
is the best thing in the world to fatten
swine. The price that Is got for II, to-
gether with other by-products of the
in the soup to about 3la cents pound
And this is the choicest beef that the
market affords. not refuse or fag-ends.
Into the concentrated food value of the
beef is put the concentrated food value
OF about an equal weight of flour. By
adding the concentrated flour the essence
of the beef Is given body so that the
stomach has the necessary amount of
with a food that is largely fiber or other
waste. as in the case Of flesh. the COM
bination Of concentrated flour and con-
centrated meat is almost exclusively nu-
triton.
One of the beef soups has thirty In
gradients. These include nearly every
vegetable that is used for food in this
country.
The vegetables are selected with the
same care as the meats. The chofSest
celery in the market goes into the
soup pot-the best potatoes, the best
carrots, the best everything, purchased
in such quantities as to make them
cheap.
All these things are worked by labor
saving machines when they are con-
ducive to cleanliness and wholesome
ness. But a machine is never used
where human Intelligence is needed to
discriminate. The handling of clans
is an instance. In making clam bouil-
1ny1 hn ogN<Ic nS ole
could be opened by steam at a cost Of I
cents a thousand After being opened
they could be inspected with ordinary as
surance OF their condition. But because
the surest way is to have each one opened
by hand, the factory has 1t done by hand
and pays 81 thousand for the work.
The vegetables that are pared and cut
up by machinery are under the same
close scrutiny, expert operators watching
them for the slightest indication of in
ferior quality. 1t would be revelation
TO the most careful housekeeper to see
the barley passing along in a moving
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are some of the 800 pictures sent I'm by
workmen after I opened this present
collection, and there is large collection
of sculpture and plastic work awaiting
classification for exhibition purposes at
the Trades Unions House.
DO | think the idea might be applied
elsewhere? l must confess that. with
regard to the artistic endowments of
English and American workingmen. [
feel hardly qualified to speak, but I think
the main difficulty in the development OF
the artistic temperament of the working
classes would lie in the absence of this
system of mine to which l have devoted
my life. My own wish would be to take
this exhibition of pictures as it stands,
with cheap rough frames. with none
at all. to London. and then to New York
and other great American cities, to show
the Anglo Saxon race what social de
mocracy has done for the raising and
education of the working classes.
Copyright in the United States and Great Britain
by Curtis Brown. All rights strictly reservedD
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Steel Kegs.
From the Chicago Journal.

From the Chicago Journal.
The substitution OF steel for wood goes
steadily on. Beginning with January l or
thereabout the National Lead Company
will pack its white lead in steel kegs.
having decided to abandon the use OF
wooden kegs. This innovation is made
because the company has concluded that
steel kegs will have many advantages
over the wooden kegs. In the first place
the steel package does not absorb the
oil from the lead, porous wooden
packages do, and there is therefore no
drying and caking of the lead around
the edges. making it possible to remove
every particle of white lead easily from
the steel keg. The new steel kegs also
will be much lighter. as well as being
stronger, than the wooden ones, and this
will effect a saving in freight charges.
Taking up less room than the wooden
kegs, the new steel package also Will
save storage space.
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pays t. and 12la cents for the same grade
through the $50 pounds and
How much has it been reduced to?'
You are asking
IT hasn't been reduced. IT has been In
creased. Right above the Cancelled $50
pounds is written in red ink $50
pounds
This has been made possible by savings
through improved machinery and the in
crease in the quantities Of materials
bought at one time
But the single item of chickens alone
explains why this great communal kitch-
en- can make soup cheaper and better
than 1t can he made in a family kitchen.
What purchasers in the retail market
could get chickens at the rate that these
buyers of 800. 00O-pound lots get them
And what chickens they are. They are
specially raised and fattened for this
trade.
Crates of them may be seen I'm the
kitchens of this great soup plant, clean
as a dinner plate, not a pin feather left
on them.
Two hundred and fifty pounds to a ket-
tie they arc boiled to make chicken SOUP.
not the bones nor the neck, nor the parts
that are too tough to eat but the best
meat on the chicken BY scientific proc
esses the nutritve and stimulating quail
tiles are obtained and the worthless fibers
are screened off.
Every one of the twenty-four ingredi-
ents that so into the soup is selected with
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CHE Is a Type of the
- Old South, Handsome,
Gracious and the Ideal Off
cial Hostess-Mrs. Overman
Is the Daughter of the
Late Augustus S. Merrimon,
United States Senator and
Afterward Chief Justice of
North Carolina-She Is One
of the Leaders of the South
ern Contingent and One of
the Most Prominent Women
in Washington.
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religion or of very primitive artistic in
spiration: badly drawn allegorical groups,
included in the exhibition perhaps only
for the sake OF the artistically lofty
thought they convey. For instance, an
allegory of the social democratic teaching
that religion is mockery, wretched fig
ureS fitting through the darkness find
no consolation in the group Of the Cruel
fixion in the foreground of the picture,
while to the rear other figures are has
tening toward the light on the horizon,
the dawn of socialism, presumably. In
these categorical groups can be traced
the struggle between natural talent and
the influence of debasing surroundings,
by which is meant the influence of hid
eouS barrack tenement houses and gim-
crack modern furniture. Whether it has
any significance it is impossible to say,
but as a curious circumstance it may be
mentioned that there are not more than
half a dozen nudes in the whole collec-
ton.
What humor there is in the exhibition
is mostly of socialist character. There
is little dra awning of the Prussan police
man, whose back is made to serve as a
pin cushion. An appropriate verse is ap-
pended with punning reference to the
Prussian authorities alleged policy of
pin-pricks against the workngman.
Standing there in the midst of these
revelations of the workmanS soul DR.
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kerosene at a lower cost than the con-
sumner could if he bought crude oil by the
gallon and tried to refine it for his own
use.
The head of the soup manufacturing
company recently visited has been in the
business for about thirty years. His
chief pride is in making good soup. His
first lieutenant is a young man of mar
Vicious enterprise. business acunen and
high intellectual attachments. He is
graduate of one of the famous universe
ties of Europe, an expert chemist and a
man who loves his work. The business
is not sudden growth 1t has been de-
Neloped through years of painstaking eff
forts When it was young. meats and
vegetables We're low priced, hardly more
than half what they are now
Every increase in the price of meats
and other ingredients has been onset by
some Improvement in machinery. reduc-
ing the amount of labor needed or in
creasing the output with the same force
of workmen.
The increase in the volume of business
has permitted the company 10 buy sup
plies in larger and larger amounts, thus
getting the advantage of the quantity
price.
otwitlSta nding the increase in the
price of meats, the firm has constantly
: Increased the amount of meats used IN
making a batch of soup. The writer Or
this article saw the book of formulas IN
the factory. 1t was secured with tor
midable paddock. but not because inc
firm has any business secrets 1t is will
ing that every consumer shall know just
exactly what is ili every soup purchased.
Turning to the page where the re-
ceipt'' for chicken soup was written
the writer counted twentyfour tngredl-
ents 1t would be utterly impossible for
the average housewife to use that num-
Der in making soup. Perhaps the ordl-
nary chicken soup of homemaking does
not contain more than one-fourth as
manv ingredients Yet every one of the
twenty-four used in the factory added
something to the flavor or the nutritlve
value of the soup.
At the top of the formula was written
"Chickens LOO pounds That was the
quantity of chicken in one batch-the
quantity that once was used The firm
once bought chickens in 5OO, 1000 pound
lots at and 61a cents a pound. Now it
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Gals as during the last administration.
They are among the exclusive leaders OF
the resident set.
II hear much discussion among Wash
fngton women as to whether social life
is worth while,'' remarked Mrs. Overman.
Now ] have always been accustomed to
social Intercourse and to the pleasures
which result from meeting interesting and
congenial people. I delight in my social
duties and ] should not neglect them for
anything. One reason why / have not
joined the Congressional Club is that ac-
cording to the members the club Is de-
signed to curtail or to eliminate the
obligation OF calling. Everybody is to
is to he no more. Now I love to call
and to meet people and get among them,
and I ask no deliverance from any sort
of accepted tradition about what the
wives of senators must do. / find the
interchange of ideas resulting from q
full and conscientious performance Of the
routine of calling far repays for the
fatigue and time involved. Washington
here as a girl. Social life is more bril-
liant and more extensive. but the general
scheme of calling, receiving and going to
dinner parties is about as before. and
what it was in my mothers young days
according to her statements. But now it
Is impossible to know all divisions Of
society and to meet In one brief season
all the interesting people who come to
Washington. Some eight or ten ENJOYS
made up the diplomatic corps thirty years
ago Now they number forty. Then few
people came to Washington to reside ex-
cept those whom officfal position caused
to locate
Now the leisure class of America,
the people who have accomplished great
things and earned their rest, the artists,
scientists. all the men and women with
whose names one has been familiar for
years, come to Washington. Recently
I note that so many public men retired
from the cares Of active life seek a home
here to end their careers In the spot
hallowed by old associations. All these
changes have combined to make Washing
ton an important cosmopolitan capital
instead of the provincial and rather quiet
city of my girlhOod."
Mrs. Overman shares with Mrs. Eugene
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party and. indeed, it is not hard to recog-
niZe from the tendency Of nearly all the
pictures the class hatred and discon-
tent preached by the world reformers
There is no catalogue of the exhibition,
but by the side of every exhibit or group
of exhibits is a printed slip giving the
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but geographical and political alignments
are becoming each season less apparent.
Washington hostesses appreciate getting
congenial and accomplished guests, and
no class of the feminine social contingent
reaches the requirements more gracefully
than the southern woman Mrs. Overman
may be placed in the upper strata when
these considerations have been weighed.
AS the daughter of Senator Augustus S.
Merrimon. she made her debut in Wash
ington. She has always been identified
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No one would be so foolish as to sug-
geat that the nation restrict its menu 10
soups as method Of reducing the cost of
living But it is certain that there VIII
he a general increase in the use OF soups
not only because they are cheap. but be-
cause they are of high food values and
are absolutely wholesome. This refers,
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BY Margaret B. Downing.

ONE twenty years
ago a line Of de-
m ar X a tion was
drawn between the
women of the
southern congress
sional set and their
northern sisters. At
present Washington
society is divided
into wings and Sec
tions and upper
and under strata,
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men employed in the great steel and
electricity works. showing accidents; u
little group Of horror stricken work
men about huge, swiftly revolving
machine, waiting in thrilled silence for
the Behemoth to render up the victim
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torted visions of the toilers in the bow
els of the earth.
r
= X
Not the least interesting contributions
are those which show the workings OF
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III Berlin, This picture taken in the exhi-
hition.
workman-artist's name and details of his
condition of life. 1t is wonderful how a
few bare facts about the personality of
the artist illuminate the work of one of
these proletariat painters Here is the
slip of the author of some charming col
ored illustrations. in picture poster style.
for childrens fairy books:
Name Observation-Disclosures. Heinrich Schultz
age
MARRIED I'm ied
Trade Observation-Disclosures ............ Printer
fduratlon .--.----...-.=.--.-- NAtiohai SCHOOLS
The work Of this humble printer is full
of energy and. as exception. reveals
an eye susceptible to the beauties OF ma
ture, the blue sky and the green fields.
little of which he must see earning his 81
a week I'm the noisy composing room. Near
ly all the talent seems to lie in the printing
and lithographing trades. although a
chainmaker. bakers apprentice. chair
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Mrs. Lee S. Ovema Wife Of the Senator From North Carolina

Hale and Mrs Stephen B. Ekins the
honor Of being the daughter as well as
the wife of senator. Both Mrs. Hale
and Mrs. Elkins married during their
fathers term of office and both married
men in the lower House. afterwards ele-
voted to the toga. Senator Merriman had
left the Senate before his daughters mar
rage but the family kept up their Wash
ington affiliations. Mrs Overman has been
identified with the high official set during
the years of her husbands service She
came to Washington In her present lofty
position in 1903 and as the senator has
been reelected for the term ending in
1913 she has a delightful vista unfolding.
The Overmans reside at the Cochran
Hotel.
We have no servant question, as you
have, to solve here Mrs. Overman said.
I'VE stlIl have a race of old mammies.'
I believe that Salisbury is their last
point of vantage. Nowhere do they exist
so numerously and in the primeval type.
at least, so it seems to me. Some OF
my friends ask, Why don't you bring your
old servants here? Then you could keep
house Now, I would just as readily
think of bringing my magnolia trees or
my giant rose bushes. Old mammfes
would not thrive in Washington. So I
keep 10 motel life. and really l nave
such a strenuous life here as 1t is that
1 should not like to take on the cares
Of home keeping
According to Mrs. Overman, the old
mammies are still the same magnificent
cooks as in the ante-bellum days, and
they still bring the children up by the
old rules and as they should go. The
women of the south can attend to some
OF the graces and pretty details. because
the great responsibilities are taken by
these faithful, kind old servants, who
are more careful of their interests than
they could possibly be themselves
The two young daughters of Senator and
Mrs. Overman are attending local schools
and are among the popular members
OF the small and early set They get
occasional peeps at society during their
mothers receptions, and they take full
share of the amenities which are be-
slowed on all ages when the daughters
of senators are concerned.
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North Carolina first met his wife. He
soon carried her off withstanding the
serious rivalry of some Washington
youths She was then in her teens and
Senator Overman in his early twenties.
The union has proved ideally happy and
successful. North Carolnans always
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Ne. would hardly
imagine that the
conditions of life of
the modern work
ingman, even in a
country where So
cial legislation is
so advanced az in
Germany, would be
calculated to bring
out that leaning
toward the artistic
which is within
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4 MEXICAN People Will
"A Soon Regard Soup as
Standard Article of Diet
Large Firm Manufactures
Soup by Hundreds of Gallons
Methods of Making the
Product Are Explained
Chickens Are Purchased by
Hundreds = Twenty : three
Other Ingredients Go To-
ward Making Up the Chicken
Soup.
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DR LEVENS STEM
- Method of Getting at the
Inner Consciousness of the
Workingman Has Convinced
Him That There Is an Arts
tic Spark in Almost Every
One Which Only Needs to
be Awakened.
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OF course, to such soups as are made of
high-class, selected materials, and are
packed without any artificial preserva
tives.
The average American housekeeper re
CARDS soup nlakeshift or as a condi-
ment 1t is something merely to garnisll
the dinner. a sort of appetizer or relish.
or a convenient thing bought in cans
when she doesn't want to go to much
trouble in serving luncheon.
Any housewife who will visit the plant
of big soup-makins concern which was
recently inspected by the writer Of this
article will have new idea of the value
and desirability of serving soup as A
staple article of food. She will also learn
that she can buy the soup already made
better and cheaper than she can hope to
make it herself.
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HE American peo-
pie are not as yet
a nation of soup
eaters. But as soon
as they come to
know its value and
its palatableness
and to appreciate
the care with which
it Is made they
will regard soup
as a standard ar
ticic of diet.
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refer TO Mrs. Overman as the balance
wheel of her husband and they regard
her as one of the prime reasons for his
political success.
Mrs. Overman admits being one of the
proudest women in Christendom not only
of her husband. but of her children. In the
SOUTH she explained, they still adore
beautiful woman. The eldest daughter of
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Hi

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
BERLIN January L. 1911
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Standing there in the midst of these
revelations Of the workman's soul, DIR.
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Why? For exactly the same reason
that the Standard Oil Company can make