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Marrying in Europe.
-om the Boston Transcript.


Where in Europe has woman the pest
chance of securing a husband? Sir j. n.
Baines had much to say on this suoJect
recently when he gave his inaugural ad-
dress before the Royal Statistical Society.
4 generation ago. he said, the marriage
rate was held to be a good barometer Of
prosperity, but new factors had entered
into the case. The main thesis was still,
no doubt. generally true. that wherever
there was room for two to i've together
up to the conventional standard of COM
fort a marriage took place.
Statistics indicated, on the whole.
slight falling off in the general rate dur
among the already low rates Of Scandina-
via than elsewhere 1t was in the south
that a woman seemed to have the best
chance of a husband. through from Den
mark southwark, central Europe was ap
parently on the up grade in this line.
OF all the progressive countries. Finland
presented the greatest falling eff. In Ire
land there was a decline of nearly ~ per
cent. and in the last decade less than a
third of the women were married. The
increased avoidance of matrimOny was
most marked throughout the United
Kingdom and north Scandinavia: and
this, in the northern aggregate, almost
neutral zed the growing connubiality OF
Germany and most of it's neishborS, and
even Of the already much-married Italy.
People get married a little more than
they did generation ago, and in most
countries they married earlier. but the
growth Of the relative number OF the mar
ried has been accompanied by a mateial
decline in the birth rate The community
was therefore almost everywhere becom-
ing an older one.
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Cherries Homes.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.


The young man OF today" is SO often
viewed with alarm and regarded with
solicitude that moral homilies about him
have lost their force. Somebody is al
ways saving him in a new way until he
grows rather tired Of being saved.
Here, however, Is a bit of true gospel
that will appeal to him-and it may like
wise appeal to his parents. The home
less home, says q Cleveland minister.
lis the greatest danger to the young
man OF today. An unsympathetic home
has more peril in it than the saloon. the
gambling den OF the street. The home
should be home in the truest sense of
the word, and not mere place to eat
and Sleep
The danger is negative. of course. but
1t drives the young man to positive evils.
he wants comfort and sympathy, and ii
he doesn't get them where he lives he
will go elsewhere. The home is a place
to live in. Comfortable chairs and
couches. nreplaceS that are used and fur
naceS that work, plenty OF lights wher-
ever lights are needed. warm rugs and
walls tastefuly tinted and hung with
pictures. good meals and ADEQUATE pro-
vision Tor casual lunches. music and sun
light and a general atmosphere of cheer
fulness. sympathy and tolerance: these
are the things that make a home req
to the much discussed young man What
though he does muss things up and leave
footprints on the floor. and an odor OF
tobacco in the parlor? There are things
more desirable than perfect order ana
model housekeeping.
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career as story writer she opened up
a rich new field. She did a remarka BILE
missionary work in presenting to her con-
stantly increasing public the possibilities
grant class Of the metropolis. With a sin
certify rarely equaled in modern fiction she
offered types of little citizens" who could
be readily understood by all. These nine
stories have mostly been printed before
in magazines. but every enc Of them will
bear rereading. Their titles are: Every
Goose a Swan Games in Gardens" "A
Brand from the Burning" Friends"
The Magic Cape" "Bailey's Babies"
of Yetta" and "a Bent Twig.''
THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF LUTHER
TRANT. BY Edwin Balmer and Will
liam MacHarg. illustrated by Will
liam Overhardt. Boston: Small
Maynard & Co.
Certain recent scientific discoveries have
had an important effect upon the litera-
ture Of crime and crime detection other
wise known generically as the detective
story" Detectives-that is to say. story
detectives-of the Poe school, the Gabo-
riau school and the Doyle school have
passed from the scene Of favor. Nova
days the up-to-date story detective must
be scientist. psychologist. Luther
Trant is of the new order Of crime de-
tectors. Finger prints. disturbed dust.
charred envelopes, foot marks in the mud
and all that sort of thing are wholly SUI
perf1uous in his economy. He works
upon the mind and through the mind of
the subject. In these nine tales the Trant
method which is the French method
Americanized. is exploited in as many
different ways. Briefly. the Trant method
is to subject the suspected person to tests
for susceptibility to suggestion. for sup
pressed emotion. for unconscious declara-
tons of guilt. the moistening Of the palm
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of the hand. the infinitesimal Quickening
of the breath or slackening of the pulse
these are the telltales by means OF which
Luther Trant unerringly pursueS his vic
tim and forces him to confess. If what
Luther Trant accOmplishes can be done
by attaches Of the police headquarters
and there is no apparent reason why this
method cannot be applied-the con-
sested calendars Of our criminal courts
might easily be cleared in short order.
RECORDS OF THE COLUMBIA HIS
TORICAI. SOCIETY, Washington d.
Publication and the Recording Sec
rotary. Volume IS. Washington:
Columbia Historical Society.
The latest volume of the Columbia His
torical Society's records is unusually in
teresting. contributing biographical and
historical matters which add richly to the
local annals. The contents of the volume
are as follows: "A Biographical Sketch
of James Maccubbin Lingan. One of the
Original Proprietors,' by Miss Ella Lo-
raine Dorsey: Biographical Sketch of
John Frederick May. NJ. D. by William
Henry Dennis; The Mark OF the Seal
"Reminiscences of the Hon. Edwin NJ.
Stanton. Secretary of War;" by Albert
E. II. Johnson; THE Story of kalorama.'
by Mrs. Cora Bacon-Foster: THE Re
interment of Maj, Pierre Charles Len
FAINT" by James Dudley Morgan. NJ. D.:
THE Public Career of Montgomery
Blair. Particularly With Reference to His
Services as Postmaster General OF the
United States.' by Madison Davis; Re
marks of Vice President Job Barnard.
Remarks of Ex-President John a. Kas-
son. presentation of Gavel to the Co
lumbia Historical Society by James Dud-
ley Morgan, President: Acceptance of
Gavel on Behalf of the Columbia His
torical Society by Job Barnard, Vice
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President Remarks by Glenn Brown:
Historical Sketch Of the Unitarian
Church of Washington. d. c." by Mrs.
Jennie W. Scudder. Added to these papers
and reports are the usual appendices
giving information regarding the activi-
ties Of the society, its membership. etc.
AS WE SEE 1T. BY Robert L. Warning.
Washington: c. F. Sudwarth.
Books on the negro question have been
written in such number that it would
seem to be superffuous to add another.
but there may be something OF value in
the solution of this question in Mr.. War
ing's contribution, which is a novelized
analysis OF the problem from the view
point of the negro himself. He pic
lures the progressive negroes. who have,
as he says. in fifty years accumulated
more than $2jO.OO0.0O0 worth of property.
with the unprCgressive poor whites Of the
south, or Crackers The story only
serves as a medium for an argument
based upon this contrast. The author
believes that the popularity of the doe
trine of rope and torch for the negro is
on the wane. and that new ideas more
progressive have taken hold Of the popu
lar mind. Mr.. Waring is a resident of
Washington.
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en-, grooming in her heart meanwhile ten
der little songs of her own make about
two peOple-always twO-one a beautiful
lady and the other man with face like
Lance!Ot. was fOredOOmed from the be-
ginning. The elements of her undoing
are all here. A little girl. nobody's care.
Outside a pOverty-eaten drudge; inside, all
Irish fire, little Celtic poet made for
love and beauty and life. That is what
the story is about. Homeless. wandering
about this uncanny, inhuman land. starv-
ing. rescued by mans idle hand, trained
by the same hand. still idle, simply in the
way Of diversion. to health and beauty
and mind Seduction Of impossible cir
MUS. loneliness and on. and SO on and
so on. land they lived happy ever after"
The writer has taste for plots. A big
one encompasses Poppy. and little ones.
continuously. One gathers here fervld
story. brilliantly told, set true in fas-
cinating zone. but about whose human
element the reader desires to compromise
with the writer in the interest of a better
consistency
GLORIA. BY Frederick Turner. NJ.
A. Illustrated in color by c. NJ.
Relyea. New York: Dodd, Mead &
Co. Washington: Brentano's.
A Balkan country rent by civil strife.
a girl-queen exile. a desperate young
ment in his own land-these are the in
gradients of brisk. interesting romance
of adventure and intrigue which affords
entertainment at every turn of the plot.
Mr.. Turner is not entirely happy at all
times in his phraseology. his style being
subject now and then to faults due to
haste Of composition. But he unquestion-
ably supplies entertainment in generous
measure in telling a Graustarkian story
with some decidedly novel features. The
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k1& REALM% IlTEN4TURf[E oPalA Arr

Sayler. illustrated by s; II. Riesen-
berg. Chicago: The Reilly & Brit
ton Company.
ington Hines. illustrated from spe-
cial portraits and rare programs
New York: Broadway Publishing
Company.
LETTERS TO HIS HOLINESS POPE
Plus Y. BY A Modernist. Chicago:
The Open Court Publishing Com
pany.
PICTURESQUE RIVER SERIES-THE
P!CTT,REsaTEE ,ss ST. , hAMaESG h.
author New York: The Macmillan
Company.
JUST HORSES. BY Sewell Ford IL
Illustrated. New York: Mitchell Ken
nerly.
THE ANGEL OF LONESOME HILL: 4
story of a President. BY Frederick
lands. author OF The G.oIy OF M,s
ner's Sons. Washington: Brentano's.
THYSTA: An Elegy. BY NJ. II. New
York: Mitchell kennerley.
ROsAMOND THE SECOND: Being the
Romance of One Claudius Fuller.
BY Mary Mears. author OF The
Breath Of the Runners" New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
GLIMPSES AROUND THE WORLD
THROUGH THE EYES OF YOUNG
AMERICAN. BY Grace Maxine Stein.
Illustrated. Philadelphia: The John
c. Winston Company.
KILMENY OF THE ORCHARD. BY l..
NJ. Montgomery. author of Anne Of
Green Gables" etc. illustrated in
color by George Gibbs. Boston: l. {.
Page & Co. Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop.
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A Persistent Caller.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.

FROM iie Philadelphia Bulletin
Il lunched with Winston Churchill in
London said a journalist. during his
remarkable campaign. This brilliant
young cabinet minister. with his Amer
lean blood through his mother and his
ducal blood through his father, praised
American journalists.
He gave me an example of our perse-
verance Not less than fOrty-seven
American correspondents called on him at
the board Of trade offices Tor an interview
ono week on the American tariff, and as
none OF them had sufficiently good Gre
dentials he refused to see them.
..Finally a correspondent came with a
letter from M. LlOyd-George, and him
Mr.. Churchill saw gladly.
"'Do you know he said to the young
man. that / have refused to see forty
seven of your compatriots on this very
subject?'
ent answered, for I'm the whole forty
SEVEN
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Your own empire: when you paid me
your grave difference they told me it
was used to lull fretful child until he
could be removed. When you spoke OF
the day you would yield the sovereignty
to me they laughed. You guessed some
of this? All of it you could not con-
ceive. their incredible ingenuity of false
hood and false witness. And hate them
as l would. a little of the venom chung.
When the beginning of the third year
arrived 1 stood alone and surveyed it
all: older at sixteen. cousin. than you
will ever be. On one side lay the reek-
ing swamp they made of life. on the
other the firm white road and you. And
1 realized then that If you failed me it
would not be an empire would lose.
but a universe and belief In God. Ask
Allard some day how 1 spent last New
Year eve.
Allard caught his breath; clearly it
stood out in his memOry-that night
when Adrian had sent for him near mid
night. Sleep. read. do what you like.
but stay where L can see YOU, had been
the curt command. And when dawn had
opened grayly across the city Adrian
was still pacing restlesely up and down
the firelit room, his sOrely puzzled COM
paniOn still watching by the hearth.
For many months 1 had held one hope
of a definite answer. FeOdor. limit to
know told myself. If he lays down
the scepter. they have lied And Dali
morrow took from me even that.
"'He will crown you.' he said. because
so he can keep the faith of the people
and yet rule the country through your
weakness and love for him..
Stanief would have spoken. deeply
moved. but Adrian checked him while
himself coioring with no less emotion.
wait still a little. l ask you to re-
member that never have l taken one step
at the suggestion of your enemies or at
the wish of this Dalmorov whom you be-
lieved my friend. Whichever of us sue
ceeded to empire, ] had the consolation
of knowing he would fall. No one has
stood between us; alone I decided upon
my test and made it, because had come
to the point where l must choose be-
tween your world and theirs. ] have
called this a game-it was the trial of q
faith Need / say the rest? The tax
dispute gave the excuse. I feigned a
break with you. My cousin, now can you
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No Place for Celestials.
~ PHILADELPHIA Bulletin.

From the philadelphia Bulletin.
George Richmond Hayes. the San Fran.
cisco ethnologist. said at a recent dinner:
1.-The yellow races. are held in better
esteem than used to be the case in the
west.
II once visited a rough boom town IN
Oregon, near Cottage Grove. In the lead
ing saloon a man in a red shirt said to
me:
I've wanter carry yerself almighty
straight in these parts. stranger. 90
wrong the least mite and, by crinus.
Well lynch We as quick as look at ye.''
81 smiled.
would you lynch me- I asked. IL I
killed a dog?'
Would We? he snorted Why,
stranger. we've lynched fellers here for
killin' Chinamen."
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concept of shutting king in a torture
machine in order to save his life is alone
worthy of consideration. 1t is somewhat
embeilished by a decidedly attractive
feminine portrait. with a pronounced
straw hat. and to read throughout the
tale Of deep SHOWS and heavy frosts. In
deed. the whole narrative is dependent
upon snow and ice for its action to such
an extent that the headgear of the hero
inc on the cover is decidedly out Of har-
mOny.
GIRLS. BY Myrta Margaret Higgins.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
This little book Is based upon the per-
sonal experience of the author. 1t Is de-
signed for the great number of boys and
girls who have neither greenhouses nor
old, established gardens. and is inspired
by the hope that it may become guide
to those who are trying to help the
youngsters in their cultivation OF the
soil. 1t deals with the most elementary
factors of garden making and Oners en-
cOuragement at every turn to convince
the young people that they require only
a small space to produce results. Pract-
cal designs and diagrams. together with
reproductions from photographs, add
value to the instructions.
LITTLE ALIENS. BY Myra Kelly. au-
thor of Little Citizens" etc. Illus
trated New York: CHARLES Scrib-
ner's Sons. Washington: Brentanos s.
1t is with graf sadness that those who
have learned to appreciate the wonderfully
human quality of Myra Kelly's work to
take up this volume, probably the last to
appear from her pen, for Myra Kelly
CIrs. MacNaughton) died a few weeks
ago at Torbay, England. In her brief
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Sally James Farnham, which illustrates
some OF the early struggles and decisive
events In the history of the new world,
such as the landing of Christopher Co.
lumbus, Balboa taking possession of the
Pacific ocean in the name of Spain,
Bolivar leading his dismounted cavalry
over mountain pass. These are all
works OF permanent interest.
4 i
THE Carnegie Institutes fourteenth
annual exhibition. which was open
ed by President Taft Monday. is of
great interest because Of the uncommon
ly high standard it maintains. This Is
the only exhibition held in this country
wherein paintings by foreign artists are
given inclusion. Over three hundred
paintings by contemporary artists are set
forth in the present exhibition at Pitts
burg or these about one-third are by
foreign painters. From Great Britain
have come 81; from France. -; Ger
many ~; Russia and Belgium. 5 each;
Holland. Italy, Austria and Spain. l.
And it is the leading painters in al! OF
these countries who have made contr1bu-
lions. The pictures are hung in seven
only one are they in a double line.
At the end of the first large gallery, IN
the place of honor is the portrait OF
President Taft. painted by Sorolla in this
city last year. which is owned by Mr.
Charles T. Taft OF Cincinnati. Opposite
this painting. at the extreme END OF the
same gallery. is John w; Aiexander
portrait Of himself. entitled 1.-The Tenth
Muse"-his lay figure being represented
with wings peeping from behind the
canvas upon which Mr.. Alexander Is
painting On the side walls of this GAL
lery are to be seen portraits by sargent
Sir James Gutherie. the distinguished
Scotch painter. John da Costa and
Thomas Eakins. Herein also are recent
paintings by Abbott II. Thayei.a
winged Figure: Cecilia Beaux-"The
Banner Bearers portrait study OF
young girl of classical type. and by
William Sergeant Kendall! a fam1iy
group. The prize pictures are here also'
but aside from their awards not especl-
ally notable.
The first prize. carrying with it medal
ana 81, 500. was given by jury or DIS
tinguished artists to painting by WI
liam Orpen, an Englishman. picturlng
himself and statue Of the Venus De
Milo reflected in a mirror; a wonderfully
clever technical performance, but a WORK
devoid of pictorial charm; the second
prize. a medal and $1,000: went 10 ha II
Anderson, a young American painter or
much promise. for a large canvas, repre-
senting two young women ldl1ng on the
bank Of a stream midsummer day. a
painting impressionistic in style. in co.or
violent. yet by no means unskillful. TO
Edward +. Rock the third prize. medal
and 500 was awarded for landscape IN
which clump Of Towering laurel was
given chief prominence. To the following
honorable mention was accorded: Joseph
Oppenheimer for painting or Chihese
porcelain Charles Morris Young for a
snow picture, farmhouse in Winter 4;
Daniel CARRIER for landscape with goats
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Berlin English.
: London Globe

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enters Immediately a spacious patio,
around which the building is constructed
The central feature in this patio IS
fountain. designed and modelled by Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney. who was, 1t Will
be remembered. before her marriage Ger
ally clever work of aria work OF en-
during merit In the bulletin Of the Blu
reau of American Republics it is thus
admirably described:
ed by three figures. each representing
period in the aboriginal; civilization of the
country south of the Rio Grande The
first is an archaic figure symbolizing the
Mayan period; the second the Aztec, and
the third the Zapotecan period. The ba-
sins are decorated with strange hero
glyphics of the three periods. and as it
was we'll known that the serpent was
America. heads Of feathered serpents
are used in the lower basin gargOyles
for the falling water. The bottom of the
fountain is of tesselated marble, pink and
white with Mexican star in the center,
on which the superstructure rests
In other words. the fountain is. in gen.
eral aspect. architectural. yet in detail
sculptural. and. with all. simple. novel
and pleasing. 1t Is SO arranged that at
night ii is illuminated by electricity and
many coIors play through its water
sprays. The pavement is of terra Gotta
tile, with archaic figures inlaid in semi
barbarous design For once the signs OF
the zodiac were avoided.
The patio Is surrounded by open STAIR
ways and corridors and. opening into it.
ON the second floor. is the hall Of heroes
where. on red marble pedesals are white
marble busts Of the leaders in the early
days OF the southern republics. These
are the works of well known sculptors--
Herbert Adams. Chester Beach Robert
Aitken. Rudolph Evans and others. To
Herbert Adams was given the commits
sion for the bust OF San Martin-to
Rudolph Evans that for the bust of Boil
main entrance to the great assembly hail.
facing the replica of HoudOns bust az
Washington. which Is given the place Of
chief prominence.
Rudolph Evans is a Washingtonian.
though for q number OF years he has re-
sided in or near New York. He began
his studies in this city, and one OF his
Harlan. now in the library of the George
Washington University. After studying
in Paris he returned to Washington and
produced here the model for his first
large commissioner memorial to ].
Sterling Morton erected in his native city
"a commission won in competition. For
his statue Of Mr.. Morton he received
medal OF honor at the Paris salon. He
has since made a specially of portraits.
executing recently likenesses of Maud
Adams. Charlotte Vanderbilt the little
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wander
lip. the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Stillman and the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Milton Allies.
In addition to all the works Of sculpture
already mentioned as a coherent part oc
the new building for the International
Bureau of American Republics. there is
in the room set aside for the governing
board. a frieze in gilt bronze by Mrs.