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book is intended for the information both
OF the casual reader to show what has
been done in aerial navigation up to date,
ana Tor the more technical student as
Wei, for IL contains plans of all Of the
notably successful machines. tables OF
weights and structural strength of ma
terlals and diagrams of construction for
the guidance Of those who want to cx-
pertinent themselves
There is appended to the volume a rec
ord of the important flights that have
been made UP to date. including the 144-
mile endurance record made by Farman
as late as last November. The book is
also illustrated with photoGra phs OF the
principal machines of the world
The author takes the attitude that aerial
travel is as safe as any other form. and
says that the human mind in short time
will get over the habit OF fear Of aero
planes. just as it has ceased to regard
railway or steamship travel as anything
out Of the ordinary. In this connection
he says:
las progress continues and as safety
becomes more and more assured under
conservative and reasonable conditions.
the tinlid will in increasing numbers WIN
ture first trips as passengers and he re-
assured by their experience till the time
will arrive when to be afraid to travel
by air will class one with the people to-
day who are afraid to risk rail and
water travel. A gradual overcoming of
the inertia Of the human mind appears
to be an essential process in reconciling
most people to innovations Even in the
case of institutions OF the longest standing
there are persistent Inconsistencies in the
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American Sentiment.
From the Westminster Gazette.


From what country do we get the
most sentimental novels nowadays. Not
from Germany; the days OF ..Schwar-
merei' and 'Sehnsucnt" are over. and
the modern novelist il concerned chiefly
with ventilating national abuses. making
powerfully realistic studies of the oha rk.r
sides OF human nature or analyzine the
delicate. intimate psychology nf childhood.
The French. in spite Of their persistent
preoceupation with 'L'Amour.' have al
ways been too intellectually alert for
sentiment: and English fiction OF the bet !.
ter. sort has been for some time past
more and more Influenced by the deter.
mination to represent things as they arc
in direct opposition To that convention az
things AS they ought 10 be. which is the
fountain head of sentiment
This growing tendenc, MAY have snm.
thing To do with the depression in the
book trade of which We hear so much
just now. for the writer whose work runs
into big editions Is the man who realizes
that all the great heart OF the nation
a SKIS for is sentiment in well recoc
nized form. We have our own two great
sentimentalists. secure in the commercial
prosperity that vindicates their eloquent
UNFOLDING of the great popular conven-
tions, hut they are stars who dwell apart
and cannot be taken as representative Of
the trend Of modern English fiction. II
we seek for new writer's with really
gigantic circulations We must GO to
America.
1t is in the country that has become a
byword for grin, business methods an,
general observation-disclosures that the senti-
mental novel fiourishes IN it's healthiest
forms today. for the Americans are the
most sentimental as well as the most
credulous OF modern peoples: have. they
not sent us Christian Science and Mrs.
Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch" And does
not the name Of Mary e.. wilkins mean
large editions of the most perfect and
charming examples or sentimental writing
that ever cheered a practical age?
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an artists true caliber is measured by
his play work-that done for the sheer
pleasure of thu doing.
QUITE number of the Washington
artists will be represented in the
Pennsylvania -Academys annual exhibit
ton which opens I'm Philadelphia today
with reception and private view. Among
them in Miss Meta Craig. who has this
winter delightful little studio in George
town. utilizing for this purpose a little
frame schoolhouse on street between
Goth and 2lst streets. Miss Craig has
made number of interesting studiesLn
her studio, using it as a setting for her
models. It's low, small-paned windows.
od-fashioned fireplace and we'll chosen
furniture suggesting many picturesque
compositions. OF the little colored boy
she has made an excellent portrait study,
and a picture of a young girl seated at
the piano she has now we'll under way.
THE exhibition Of jewelry by Walter
Gardner Hale at the Arts and Crafts
shop Monday and Tuesday was Of ex-
ceptional interest. So much Of the Jew
elry which parades under the banner Of
the arts and crafts is so clumsy in de-
sign and poor in. workmanship that one
is apt to look with distrust on all: but
Mr.. Haie's work is artistic and we'll exc
cuted. His designs are we'll considered,
nicely balanced and distinctly original
and as craftsman he unquestionably
excels. This is the kind OF work which
is eminently worth while
A VERY beautiful and characteristic
painting by Coret has been loaned
to the Corcoran Gallery by Mrs. Alexan-
der Graham Bell. 1t is painted on a
moderate-size canvas, and represents a
scene near a lake or broad stream. To
the right and left are tall trees with en-
velopins. mist-green foliage and i'm the
immediate foreground some figures and
some animals are introduced-a piper. 4
pilgrim and herdsman, perchance a dog
and a cow. These lend interest, but are
not intrusive. One may see them or not
at pleasure: they are a part of the mic
ture, a mere accessory 1t in a lyric.
The painter is in poetic mood and his
touch is both light and felicjtoux
Whether or not this he nature, ono may
quarrel if one wishes, but that il is de-
lightful art all must agree-art of a kind
that never Wearies
LEILA MECHLIN.
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last, for he does find wife in the incest
sort of an American girl. 1t Is a bright
story. Yet one feels that the diemmas
and dimculties are multiplied and drawn
out not only past the reasonable endur-
ance of the hero himself, but also past
the acute interest of the read.r-an eff
feet likely to be produced by creations
partaking of the nature Of an eNtrava-
ganza.
VEHICLES OF THE AIR, Popular
Exposition of Modern Aeronautics.
with Working Drawings. BY Victor
l.ougheed. Member Of the Aeronautic
Society. etc. Chicago: Reilly x
Brftton.
Mr.. Lougheed was one Of the founders
Of the Society. of Automobile Engineers.
fact which indicates that he was one
Of those who saw the possibilities of the
horseless vehicle when its practicability
was still a question. Now Ire has taken
to the field of the air. and writes about
the coming development of that art as
one might have written about the railway
or the auto in the first stages OF its de-
velopnent.
The volume covers what has been done
in the past. Many of the machines now
discredited and discarded are described.
as the author says, for the sake of show
ing the difficulties that had to be over
come and to make clear the reasons for
some of the present successes. Where he
ventures into prophecy in the matter-of-
fact way of an engineer he tells what is
likely to be the development of an only
partially perfected mechanical device. The
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about. II that isn't calculated to get a
mans angora then I'd like to know what
is. Only blooming day In the week
have chance to enjoy a little air and
sunshine, and here l get tagged this way
b jinks. it's discouraging. that's what it
is: discouraging. disheartening, depress-
ing and lot Of other things Irritating.
too. when 1t comes to that. DogRoned ir-
ritating. for that matter.
You can't see 1t. Of course, but I call
1t pretty decent for a man to invite his
wife to go out into the country with him
OF fine winter Sunday, and there are
not many fellows who'd be soft enough to
extend their wives that kind Of an in
vitation. Here 1 skate to the center with
a well meant invitation to you to spend
the day with me out under the blue sky
and this Is what get. It's enough to
take the sap and the tar out Of any fell
low. blamed II II isn't.
Cant you just shuck those 1oppy old
slippers that you're mooching around in
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Kaiser's Campaign to
Germanize Germany.
Special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star
BERLIN. January IA, 1910
TO the average mortal an allowance Of
100000 year would pass nncriticised
il the giver insisted ON describing it as
aims. tips or even shoe money"
That. however, is not the point Of view
of Kaiser Wilhelm II. who has an
nounced to Baron Rheinbaben, Prussian
minister Of finance, that his annual four
million-dollar allowance from the state is
no longer to be described as ''civil list
in German. "ziviliiste." Civil list" is a
foreign expression. for which there Is a
better German equivalent in 'koen.gliche
haushalt'-i English. the kings house
hold: and "koenigliche haushalt'' 1t is
henceforth to be. 1t will not add even
add an honest Teutonic phrase to the
German language: and that. says Wilhelm
IL, is worth a good many dollars.
The war which Wilhelm III has now be-
gun upon the Angiicisms which defile the
tongue OF Luther and Goethe Is in logical
sequence with his majesty's triumphant
campaign against the corruptions from
unfriendly Gaul. For nearly twenty years
this war has been waged with unwaver-
ing success: and now from the Vosges to
the Vistula you will not hear a word of
French. The triumph is entirely due to
the kaiser's strategy. Remembering the
cynical remark that the path TO heart
and brain lies through the imperious
stomach, the kaiser raided his Gallicised
kitchens in the year of his accession to
the throne. Wnen he had found Teutonic
TRANSACTIONS for all the finicky French on
the menu ne bounced upon menu itself
and renamed it "speisekarte.' which
means "eating card
Next the palace authorities. with their
rocco French traditions from the days
OF Friedrich the Great. were discovered
to he calling the imperial kitchen a ''cui-
sine Thenceforth it was German
''kuche." Apparently the association of
ideas led from cuisine" to ''kusine," a
barbarOus Gallicism used by degenerate
Germans to denote their cousins. The
word appeared even in the court circu-
lars. In 1880 there burst upon an aston
ished world the mysterious appellation
''muhme." 1t drove "kusine out of the
court list. Unschoiarly individuals asked
themselves what was the meaning of
''muhne": and learned men from Heidel-
berg and Goettingen when posed with the
puzzler tried to look their wisest.. But
the mysterious ''Vluhme" had nothing to
do with mummy" except that it was a
mummified. antediluvian. immemorial. OBJ
solete. but honest. German word which
Wilhelm ii had disnterred from the dead
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Beauty Of Lincoln" which goes to show
the intimate study of character that
went into the work. Lincoln. according
to tradition. was homely and awkward,
but Mr.. Borglum.s contention both in
words and in chiseled marble are that. as
another we'll known art writer has said.
THE only Kind of beauty that is a joy
forever is moral beauty. The beauty
of righteousness. of loving kindness. of
hopeful service, OF self-sacrifice and gem
eroslty. Such was Lincoln's bea uty.
High tribute was paid to MIR. Borglum's
portrait the other day by one Of the en-
Of the lately unveiled statue Of Gen.
Wallace referred to the Lincoln. "When
first saw it, he said, II did not like
it at all, but the more I saw it the bet
ter it seemed. and now I think it's great
it gets such a hold on you More than
one has been affected by this scuIptured
likeness in this same way
THE Library Of Congress has recently
: acquired five color etchings by
George senseney, formerly of this city.
All arc landscapes and one is a winter
picture. THE First Snow it is called,
representing the ground covered with A
fight mantel of white while yet some of
the leaves are on the trees. summer not
having completely withdrawn. a pine
tree Is pictured in the foreground. and
the whole has somewhat a Japaneseue
suggestion. Mr.. Senseney is probably the
foremost color etcher in America. and his
work has marked distinction. Freer in
manner than the majority, he uses APP
parently heavier color and therefore OBJ
tains richer effects. The charm of color
etching lies in it's spoptanety, and to re-
tain this and yet secure breadth of eff
feet is by no means simple. Mr.. Sem
seney resides now in Connecticut. and
these etchings were made in the neigh
borhood of his home, but his first expert
Inents were tried when occupying stu
do in the Octagon in this city. Mr.. Sen
seney studied at the Corcoran School and
under Howard Helmick, to whom he ac-
knowledges much Indebtedness.
AT the Y. G. Fischer Galleries this
y week Gerard Barry has been exhib-
itins three of his recent portraits and a
group OF summer sketches. The portraits
are Of Mrs. Spencer. Gen. O'Reilly and
Miss PERRIN and aside from subjective
interest have a certain charm derived
partly through pictorial motive and partly
through manner Of expression. The
sketches are especially interesting-fraR-
ments Of landscape and views of the
ocean being interpreted with much sub
tiety and feeling. It has been said that
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miil!on-dollar civil list he has declared
that address is no longer to be used in
the sense of petition or congratulation,
and that the Anglicism meeting" is TO
which are daily drawn up by his civil
chaieellory. In the domain of sport.
however the kaiser is helpless, and it is
here that the ali-conouerns Anslicisms
is not an all-round sportsman. He is.
therefore, making use Of the crown
prince, who is. The future Friedrich
ii cares as much about philoiogy as he
does about metaphysics. But that does
not prevent him standing up as his i'm
perial fathers champion in the lists of
Germanism. During his last years visit
to Oberhof in the ThuriDgian forest the
crown prince made himself beloved by the
natives by the enthusiasm with which
he entered into their winter sports. The
natives. preparing for his return visit.
started a 'bobsleigh club and asked him
to become president.
with pleasure" answered the crown
prince. But in letter from his hof-
narschal he suggests that "verein" is
better word than club" and that it is
,ss to md Pnrer Teutonlc word
the Germanizing of lawn tennis terms
as a worthy example. Lawn tennis is
now officially 'netzballspiei' or met ball
game" and II that does not help the
perspiring Teuton to get the ball over
the net he consoles himself with the
thought1that 1t Is better to fail in German
than in English.
According to Dr. Peschl, who was re-
ceKed lately by the kaiser in connection
with scheme for popular universities.
Wilhelm IL spoke with dsa pprova1 of
American and English technical terms
used In German text books. Here there
are dozens of undesirabes of the nature
Of horsepower. elevator" and COM
pound masculine For the last the
kaiser suggested "verbund-maschine.''
'rhe genius OF the German language
and the Elasticity with which 1t lends it
self to the creation of compound words
are such that there is no possible Eng
lish word for which AN equivalent may
not be found" he says.
Had the first William been as dead
against foreign words as is his grand
son." comments comic paper. ''he
would never have become German en-
peror. He would have preferred TO re-
main Prussian 'koenig,' which is good
German for king rather than German
Kaiser which is merely the corrupted
Latin. Caesar
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past. Nowadays all really smart Ger
mans talk about their ''muhmes." and
the only sham-smart Germans, who live
in small flats at suburban Lichtenberg
and think they know French. talk about
Their cuisines" They say to their rich
relations: My knsinn is in the cuisine .
And their rich relations look at them
stonily and say. in the manner of Kaiser
Wilhelm: Your nuhme. YOU mean Is in
the kuche."
Having expelled French from the
''knchc." Wilhelm II cleansed less I'M
portant institution. the army. Twenty
yeare ago, most ranks, and all techni-
cal. above all. all fort if1cation terms were
French. In 1850 Wilhelm ii issued de-
cree ordering them to be translated into
German. The cacophonous Te,ltonicisms
nobody understood at first. and had war
broken out two DECADES ago the beating
of the French might have been sadly
hampered by the lack OF French words.
1t took at least ten years before the Ger
man military language was purified.
Finally, in 1900. French had Its coup de
grace. I'm order to purify our speech, :"
ran decree issued by Wilhelm II all
the remaining French army ranks were
to be turned into German.
Of1zier- aspirant became fahnenjunker.
Porte-epee Faehnrtch became Faehn-
Second lieutenant became leutrant
Premier lieutenant became oberleutnant
Nothing. unhappily. was added to the
Objects pay, ana a 1uII-OlOOd60 German
"faehnrich' was required, like a mere
ordinary Gallo ''porte-epee faehnrich,"
to look smart and support wife and
four haxenhaired infants on $40 a
month.
Now the time has come for the invad-
ing Anglicism. Here the war of emanci-
patton is a hundred-fold harder or late
English words have poured into German
ten at time \ century ago there were
twelve words Of English origin In the
German dictionary. Thirty years ago
there were 40; today there are some TOO.
and there are dozens more OF English
words in German dress or English words
translated into German. There are
''dogge' and Track and ''punsch," and
''scheck. and ''buchmaker.' and
..wolkenkratzer" for "siyscraper." and
even .'nervenshoc." A learned etymolo-
gist. Herr Duenger. has just written
book about them ana sent 1t to Kaiser
Wilhelm. And Kaiser Wilhelm, in thank
ing him. declares that he lis more inter-
ested than ever in the publication of
German from neologisins and foreign
words. And not without reason. Even
classics like Sudermann use such bar
barisns as ''struggle-for-iif eertunl'-
which is enough to give less sensitive
men than the. kaiser a genuine Saxon
'nervenshoc.
Apparently Wilhelm II has chosen to
begin with Anglcsms in politics, be-
cause i'll addition To sneeriug at his four
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American Federation of Art to it's chap
tiers throughout the country, asking them
to urge immediate action through their
senators and representatives. it is stated
that several months ago the government
of Great Britain made a large prelimi-
nary appropriation. and the permanent
secretary OF expositions began immed1-
ately to secure promises of contributions
from the artists of the kingdom. whereas
up to the present date the United States
has taken no action. The limit OF time
for securing space will not be prolonged
after February Is. And in comnuni-
cation to the secretary of the American
Institute OF Architects. Prof. Hamlin Of
Columbia College. New York. says:
1t seems to ME matter of the great
est importance hat we should be worth,
lily and adequately represented at Rome
in 1911. The Italians are becoming deep
~ interested in American art and archl-
lecture. and are extremely anxious 10
know it better. Unfortunately they have
seen little Of the actual work of our men.
The exhibit We sent to Venice last sum-
mer was singularly disappointing. 1t Is
a great opportunity for us. and the
greatness of the opportunity will measure
the disgrace and humiliation OF failure
on our part to avail ourselves of it,. 1t
is earnestly to be hoped that some action
will be taken.
THE. total attendance Of visitors at the
Corcoran Gallery OF Art during the
past year was 142, 435 persons, it is learn
ed from the Annual report of the director.
or this number A .O96 were admitted Sun
days--an average Of 1919 for each Sun
day. This is considerable increase over
previous years, and is especially encour-
aging, as the gallery was closed for sew
eral weeks during the winter on account
of the removal of the pictures shown in
the exhibition of contemporary American
paintings and the reinstailation of the
permanent collection. In addition to the
large exhibition to which reference has
Just been made several small special ex-
hibitions have been held in the Corcoran
gallery during the past year. among
which may be mentioned paintings and
etcninzs by Augustus Keepman, etchings
and wood-block prints by Baroness He'd
wig Won Lekow and paintings by Alfred
East. Three paintings have been pur-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. I'm the Cornwall
Hills" by James Henry Moser; woman
and Dog" by Mary Cassatt. and Group
Of Friends" by Robert MscCameron-the
last two from tho cotsnporary exhibition,
but after It's close.
u OBERT MaeCAMERCN. whose pic
N ture in the Corcoran gallery secured
for its permanent collection last spring.
10 As~aA ri 90 D.
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ELI. just look at
this flooding sun
shine. and not so
much as a cloudlet
In the sky" chirped
Mr.. Grump on Sun
day forenoon last.
Haven't seen a
winter Sunday like
this In a dogs age.
Huh! Nature is not
only smiling, she's
g l & g ] I n 6. shes
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at present visiting this country. In the
annual exhibition OF the International
Society. held rece4<ly in the Georges Pc
tit Gallery, at the French capital. paint
ton. IT was entitled Jour de Fete. and
represented father, mother and daugn-
ter. all victims Of absinthe. seated at A
small round table in a drinking shop.
Fearful in its realism-in fact almost
loathsome-this picture is described
as pow erfully Impressive. The question
has often been asked whether or not Mr..
MacCameron meant that his picture in
the Corcoran gallery, which is of a some-
what similar subject, was intended to
picture would, it might seem, supply the
answer
TWO more statues are soon to be
erected in this city-one of Pulaski.
the other of Steuben, both foreign patri-
OTIS who gave their lives to this country
in the revolutionary war. The former Is
by Polish sculptor named Chedzinski,
and the other German-American,
Albert Jaegers OF New York. The Pu-
laski-to stand on Pennsylvania avenue
between 18th and 18th streets-is cast and
the pedestal is In course Of construction.
The Steuben, single figure with sub
the north corners Of Lafayette Square.
probably opposite the Arlington Hotel
and the Cosmos Club. 1t also has been
and bill has. 1t is under
stood, been introduced into Congress APP
sufficient sum for the pur-
chase of replica to be presented by the
United States to Germany
THERE has been such an influx recent
/ ~ of statues at the Capitol that
the National Hall of Fame threatens to
become overcrowded, and the states which
have not awaited themselves OF the
privilege may not he able to even find
standing room for their heroes soon.
Iowa is to be represented by statues OF
Senator Harlan and Gov. kirkwood the
former by Miss Nellie Walker of Chi
cago and the latter by Mrs. Winnie Ream
Hoxie of this city. The former is com
pleted. the latter very nearly. and IN all
probability both will be presented at the
same time.
= CTZON BORGLCh'S colossal head of
- Lincoln. which has been given per-
lnanent place In the rotnnda of the Cap
itol. is. reproduced in the current issue
of Everybody's Magazine in conjunction
with an article by the sculptor on 1.-The
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and see II you can't pull on some kind
of a pair Of shoes? Just to sort o show
YOUR word for it that you've got hallous,
ballous. walIous-oh, yes. callous is the
word-callous feet. That's what I'm here
for. I'm the dandiest little wordtaker in
myself. But. anyhow. just to please me,
won't you at least give an imitation OF
somebody trying to slip on a pair of
shoes?
"Oh. you just can't do it. eh? Oh, OF
course you can't. Don't suppose you can
even get on pair Of slippers, Ell? We
could take a little shorter walk in the
country-three or four miles only-and
you could wear a pair Of slippers for a
oh, well. what's the use? I'm just
wasting my time and breath urging you
to do anything that'd please me. / might
{ well ask for the Chinese wall.
Just what is this callous feet gag,