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marching. whooping gangs Of young male
and female gangsters diked out in what
they are pleased to call masque dress.
Nobody can tell you just where this GUS
tom came from. 1t began to be no.
ticed here about six years ago. Now it
has assumed immense proportions. The
custom Is followed from the Battery to
the Bronx and even over the bridge in
staid Brooklyn.
Imagine q mean sort Of fancy dress
ball." participated In mainly by hoodlums.
and you get a mental picture Of the
streets of New York during all the hours
Of Thanksgiving day. The thing doesn't
attain the picturesque proportions of the
masque turnout in the streets Of Phila-
delphia New Year day. The folk
who figure in the Philadelphia annual
open-air masque are of decent. whole
somely happy sort. 1t is solely the rufiian
element Of both sexes that makes the
streets unpleasant. If not actually unsafe,
for circumspect pedestrians Thanksgiving
day here.
The male gangsters go in heavily for
the fancy" dress Of Indians. clowns, and
that sort Of thing; and q great many Of
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the far more brilliant Sirius, with the
Lesser Dog Star Procyon. Is just emery
Ing In the east. 1t is only at this exact
time that all of these five bright stars
can be seen In the evening sky together.
Each Of the two stars last mentioned
has a very faint companion revolving
around 1t, which was discovered mathe-
matically many decades before it was
ever seen in a telescope. The observer
should also notice how Cygnus. the
northern cross, now stands in an upright
position on the ground. making a beau
tiful figure, more favorably situated for
observation than at any other time Of
the year.
A most beautiful and unusual sight
may be witnessed on the afternoon of De-
cember H. when our satellite passes be-
tween us and the planet Saturn. Many
readers probably witnessed this same
occurrence several years ago. They saw
the moon slowly drawing nearer the
ringed planet, blotting out one of Sat
urn's moons after another as 1t moved
very steadily forward. Finally it began
to cover the ring, which soon looked eX-
actly as II part of it had been cut
away; then the ball became hidden, and
at last the smallest little protuberance
Of the eastern edge of the ring remained
apparently attached to the moons limb
and then this also disappeared. The
emergence of the planet at the western
edge Of the moon was no less interesting.
Perhaps the most striking feature of the
whole occultation was the remarkable
contrast in color of the two bodies. the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-27
I he Love and Hatred
of Many Wild Animals

LUX is no exception to the general rule
among the simians. but she seems to be
more expressive of her affection.
-
LUX is very jealous of the personal
safety of her favorite. To see a stranger
jostle or appear incensed at her friend
sends the little lady into spasms of
maniacal rage. She chatters ferociously,
her eyes CLEAN and snap like as many
emeralds and her entire body quivers
from the nervous tension. The instant
the guard is unhanded, Zuk becomes
quiet. but her bright eyes wander rest
lessly over any strangers within sight.
When she feels that her favorite's safety
Is In Jeopardy her baby is a secondary
consideration although she is very
attentive and solicitous mother, under Or
binary conditions, on such occasions the
love of a man prevails.
Frank Keller. the keeper. has been
employed at the National Zoo for years.
He says it is case Of love at first sight.
For some unknown reason LUX took
saw her." Keller said. .She never
seems to forget my face or voice. If
return to the monkey house after
long absence LUX always greets me A.
fectiCnately."
Another interesting study is the POM
pous peacock. All day long he struts
around the grounds. unfettered and a
privileged character. Ordinarily he looks
neither to the right nor to the left, but
let woman dressed in the colors of
which he is so justly proud-a rich YER
dant green, or any varicolOred costume
pass by, or stand and admire and Mr.
Peacock will take one look, voice an out
landish shrek and scurry away as fast
as his unrairiy limbs can carry him.
Three thousand years ago one Aesop
told in fable how a peacock. upon no
ticing his ungainly feet. drew in his
feathers in chagrin, and scolded at the
unkind fate that endowed him so I'M
happily in neither extremities. The pea
cock of the Washington Zoo is rather
like his tabled ancestor in this respect.
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CHRISTMAS BOXES
FOR THE PHILIPPINES

NFFICERS in the quartermasters de-
partment of the United States Army
say that the number of Christmas boxes
forwarded to the Philippines has fallen
off very materially in recent years since
the islands have become sufficiently "civ-
ilized" that the local markets contain
practically everything that is required
to set forth the Christmas table. The
commissary department makes ample
provision for the needs of the officers and
men in the service. Almost everything to
be desired is sent forth in ample time for
the holidays. Early i'm November some
thing like 10000 pounds of dressed tur-
key was shipped in refrigerator cars
from Chicago to San Francisco. where
with ample quantities of all other in
gradients necessary for the traditional
Christmas table, it Is loaded aboard the
transports and taken to Manila. where
all of the perishable articles are placed
in cold storage until they can be dis
tributed in refrigerator ships to the vari-
Gus army posts. The Philippines are
supplied regularly with fresh butter from
Australia and partially evaporated
addition of little water, can scarcely
be told from the article fresh from the
dairy.
A person desiring to send Christmas
ticular to mark them as such SO that
agents handling them at transfer points
can expedite their shipment, as otherwise
they would take their chances with the
ordinary freight All charges should be
prepaid to San Francisco, and they
should be addressed in care of the gen.
eral superintendent of the transport serv-
ice at that point, who will see that they
are sent forward on the first transport
to sail after their arrival.
There was a time when the traffic in
Christmas boxes was very heavy, and
while it is hardly necessary to send
dainties to the boys in the tropics any
longer. inquiries still come in regarding
the kind of things that can be sent. The
re ply to this is that there is practically
no limit: out that hams. cakes. candles eanoIs
er with any kind Of goods in tin or
glass. can be sent If properly packed.
All perishable fruits should be in sepa.
ate packages and the nature Of the con-
ents plainly marked SO that the pack
lges can be placed in refrigeration.
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Clarence Cu11en's New York Letter


the young toughs array themselves in the
clothing Of women and daub their faces
and go through hideous gyrations as they
whoop along.
Tn girls accomp anyins them have a
Selves up in l0 mems clothing There is
law in this city against this sort of
incorporating, but 1t is not enforced on
this day; SO the toughs have the streets
virtually to themselves. Some OF the
themselves as Cleopatras and dance out
at the head Of the parade.
1t is we'll within the mark to state
that at least 2O.OOO of these riotous
toughs of both sexes hold clear posses
sion OF the streets Of New York
Thanksgiving days. They are not to be
found in any one section. and they by no
means stick to their own bailiwicks. They
march. bowling ribald songs, through
quiet residence streets Of the city: and
faces of persons living in the houses on
such streets to break out into still more
songs. Growing holder. they will often
march up the steps OF residence and
and terrorize the occupants of the house.
and some of them go so far as to kick
holes through the front windows OF such
houses when their rings and poundings
are not answered.
BY noon of Thanksgiving day these
masdueraders usually are recklessly
drunk They get their drink gratis. They
have merely to swoop upon a groggery in
force and menace the proprietor with the
threat OF broken windows or worse. and
he comes across" with rounds Of drinks
enough to get rid OF them. The police
look on. grinning.
Along toward the end Of the afternoon
it Is the usual thing for different gangs
Of these whooping masqueraders of
Thanksgiving to come into collision, and
then 1t is a case Of all hands among
peaceful pedestrians giving them the
streets for their own purposes. The only
agreeable feature In connection with
these meetings Is that they infallibly
pound the daylights out OF each other
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by whining that the boss" lis goin'
t slip 'em a lfl' somethin, hey?"
II the man thus addressed and hem
med around doesn't 'come through the
children take a menacing and impudent
tone
somethin'. tsee?" they demand, ana then
they make as II to tackle the victim
around the legs and throw him to the
pavement. BY this time nearly 'every
victim will. in order to drive them away.
especially il he be accompanied by a
nervous woman, disburse what change
heNhappens to have. If. however, he
ref0ses to be held up In broad sunlight
on the streets Of New York by packs Of
he often has his hands full. They will
stand on and curse him volubly and
with an unbelievable variety and malig-
nancy of epithet. Sometimes they actual
ly will grasp his legs in their wiry little
embrace. three or four of them at a
time. and I have seen angered men kick
out blindly and with all their force to
throw of these clinging, foul-mouthed
little parasites.
the same methods. without any interfer-
ence whatever on the part Of the police.
that that thoroughfare no longer is used
to any extent as parade on Thanks
giving day. Even the people who ride
on 9Th avenue on Thanksgiving day are
not safe from the whining or threaten
ing opportunities Of this riffraff When
ever there is a block in traffic they
swoop to the middle of the avenue and
yank open the carriage or automobile
doors and project their blackened faces
into the vehicles and demand money. and
they make such alarming apparitions in
doing this that their demands are ac-
coded to more often than not
Considering all of which, the wonder
il not great that 1t has come to be the
custom OF all New Workers. who can at
ford 1t to spend just as few of the holi-
days In New York as they possibly can.
ANY old thing to get away from New
York on holiday has come to be one
OF the bromidioms of this town. And
any provincial who has been unlucky
enough to spend Just one Thanksgiving
day and one New Year day In New York
will say Amen to that bromidiom.
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The Worst of Equality.

DHILIP SNOWDEN, the socialist mem.
Der Of the British parliament. whom
the Rev. Charles F. Aked entertained in
New York. has q keen intelligence-an
intelligence so keen, indeed. that Mr..
Snowden can even see the flaws in his
own party.
Thus. at dinner In New York. he said.
replying to a toast ON equality:
1.-THE worst of equality Is that we only
wish to share it with our superiors."
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full moon, which will be found near the
ground, almost due east, about six hours
east Of the meridian. Looking along its
eastern arc the planet will be seen shin
ing at some little distance from the rough
edge. The disappearance will begin at a
considerable distance east of the edge,
as the moon is four days from full.
AS seen from Washington. Saturn will
disappear at A, figure 3. at three hours
two minutes in the evening, eastern stand
ard time. and reappear at B at three
hours f1fty-six minutes. the occultation
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To see them to the best advantage the
observer should be careful that he Is
away from all artificial light: q single
electric light or even street lamp will in
stantly render the fainter consultations
and the beautiful contelexity Of the
milky way hopelessly invisible. But when
he has found position where the only
light which shines upon him is that
which has been speeding on its journey
for many years from the far distant
suns above him. he will see magnificent
spectacle. The whole heavens are filled
with the brilliant winter stars: only to-
ward the southwest do the last of the
faint summer consultations still Hnger,
and these when one is so placed as to
see them clearly are no less interesting
than the more striking groups.
The faint groups near the ground are
all watery constellations-the Whale, the
Fishes and the Water Bearer-to the
earliest astronomers this part of the sky
was called the sea. Readers of Greek
mythology will remember how, because
Cassiopoea boasted too greatly of her
daughters beauty. Neptune sent Cetus
to ravage Lbya, and how to avert this
calamity. Cepheus, the king, chained the
daughter. Andromeda to a rock. Perseus,
who slew the Gorgcn. from whose blood :
Pegasus sprang, rescued Andromeda, and
afterward made her his wife. All who
are mentioned in this account have their
celestial representatives close together
in this part of the sky.
In the southeast are the very bright
Orion. the Bull and the Twins, 80 often
mentioned In these papers. while abovethese
there shines out the Charioteer. principal
ly noticed for its very brilliant yeilowish
star Capella But several other stars Of
the group are even more interesting. The
yellow star at Is a very close double,
the two stars which compose 1t being
only seven millions of miles apart. These
swing round one another In q period OF
only four days, their velocity in their
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pa-apers opens up life to me an gives me
a speakin' acquaintance with tn whole
wurruld. I know how tn Car Nv Rooshya
is gettin' on with his wife AS though we
were next dure neighbors. If tn King
" England happens to take dhrop too
much an fall an skin his elbow have
It as quick as / wud tn news Nv a bad
break be tn head iv tn Hinnissy dynasty.
/ know more about tn Impror iv Chiny
thin me father knew about tn people in
tn next parish.
And IL there's wan thing / want 70
write to tn iditor iv tn pa-aper an
thank him about an sign tn letter Pro
Bono Publico' 1t is tn peek he gives US
ivry wanst in awhile into tn homes iv
tn arrystocracy iv our own neighbor-
hoods Ye go by wan iv these magnifi-
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And still the police look on and grin.
Curious as to why this should be. you
ask policeman who stands watching
such a scene Of riot II that sort Of thing
Is viewed as the regular thing, and II the
police have no instructions to stop It and
to keep the streets at least decently safe
for ordinary folk.
law, we've got 'structions t. let 'em
go s far s they like the COD replies.
They amt doin' nuthin' 'cept KILN each
other. TIL more O. each other they kill
tn better it's goin' T. be. amt it? Well,
that's tn answer, DO. Let 'em cash each
other In. We're told T. keep hans. off'n
them. an I'm glad We are, at that I
d q n want ant none 1 o. that game. Wouldn't
into gang like that an try t. make 'em
behave? Can you see me bein' Jumped
into tn ambulance. chopped down T.
kindlin' wood? Well. can. None o. that
Not none!" -
AS to the beggars' holiday, which has
been made Of Thanksgiving day in New
iork Tor years past. the police appear
to make not the slightest effort to put
a stop to that. either. The beggars are
nearly always children. boys rugged out
IN old skirts and waists belonging to
the ragged female members Of their
families. They are without exception
children OF foreign birth or parentage,
and they have all OF the wheedling and
1mpudent and menacing tricks of for
eign beggars Of the adult class.
These youngsters dressed as women,
with blackened and horribly grimacing
faces. do not work the side streets.
They take. by the thousands. boldly to
Broadway and 9Th avenue. They work,
as rule. in groups Of four or I'VE.
Their scheme is to form close:
strident Gordon around their victim or
victims. They are fond Of picking out
as victim a man accompanied by q
woman. First they ask beseechingiy
for some change. boss" varying this
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FIGURE 2.-APPEARANCE OF SAT-
URN AS VIEWED IN A LARGE, IN
VERTING TELESCOPE At THE BE-
GINNING OF THE OCCUPATION
DECEMBER II.
planet appearing of a deep green color;
when in contact with the silvery white
limb Of our satellite.
Very unfortunately. the occultation of
this month will occur before the sun has
set to observers in the United States.
and it must, therefore, be observed in
daylight. The pcssessor of small tele-
scope will, however, have no difficulty in
witnessing it. He should first direct his
telescope on the family shining, nearly
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TIL jocks nobility was older but Bill
hooley's was longer an more aisily nee
gotyable at tn meat market.
We'll. sir, tn inthercoorse iv these two
gr-reat noblemen was charmin'. parfectly
aisy an simple. like a reunion in Boz
haymian fanny out at tn. yards. I'll
give We an exthract firm tn s'ciety news
about thin: 'Whin they set down to tn
ia BILE wan night f'r supper. tn duchess
happened to pass tn reemark that tn
jock was overthrained in tn matther "
dhrink. His grace was nachrally indig-
nant an slammed her in tn eye. This
aggytated Misther Billhooley to such an
extint that he uppercut thu jock to tn
pint Nv jaw. sendin' him through a bank
iv PAINS. TIL Jock hurled a small jooled
clock at tn proud old man an tn en-
gagement became gin'ral. TIL jock was
holdin' his own well in tn family coun-
Gil. havin' ARMED himsilf with small
marble statue called Prayer" whin an
old retainer Nv tn family. Sam Johnson
be name, who had been with tn Bill
hoo eys firm his arfiest childhood except
whin he was with tn Pullman Comply
took q hand in tn discussion.
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day
has come TO be a
sort Of Vagabonds'
and Begsars' day
In New York.
The vagabonds'
end of it does not
make a pretty carni-
val. All Of the resi-
dence streets of
n e W ork on
Thanksgiving day
are cluttered with
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1t was in this constellation, too, that
the new star of 1892 appeared, remained
visible for about four months and then
faded away into q greenish planetary
nebula. Whatever great cataclysm caused
this new sun suddenly to blaze out from
the depths Of space, 1t is certain that
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thryin' to pick a fight with tn BARTENDER.
Ye feel sorry fr tn rich in their re-
sthricted lives.
But ye're wrong, Hinnissy. yerc
wrong Tn life Nv tn rich is far more
home-like thin we think. There's much
more family feelin' thin ye imagine.
Takin' thin all in all an 1 don't think
We need to pity thin. A longshoreman
kick at his son-in-law, but thin look at
TIL amount iv furniture millionaire has
to throw at amy mimber Nv tn family
that don't agree with him.
*
"A family man down on tn drainage
canal that is thryin' to discipline his
relations is limited in ammunition
Afther he's used four chairs, tn plates, q
vinegar bottle, tn baby an q glass case
" artyficyal flowers, he has to RETREAT
to tn kitchen an deflnd 1t again &;
younger an more injanyous man. But
tn aged MILLIONAIRE has a thousand little
objeks Nv art that he can hurl, an if he
misses with tn Venus de Midicy. he can
f1atten TIL jock out with ginooyine
No, sir. We needn't pity tn
rich. They have their own nachral in
jyemints Nv life an they ought to be
happy.
II was readin' about it in tn pa-aper
an it made me long f'r little loose
change more thin anything I've seen
n nanny a day. 1t seems that wan Nv
'ur most prominent capitalists, Mulligan
J. Bfllhooley. had give his daughter in
to a Fr-rinch jock. This sign
v foreign arrystocracy came to America
o live with his wife's parents, an prop.
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years before any such a rule can be en-
forced in this town. If it can ever be
enforced. It is all very we'll to say that
men are not allowed in any first-rate
they are in evening clothes But there is
huge leisure class in London, and It is
mainly from this class that the diners
out come. Moreover, the business hours
hours OF New York. and the theatrical
performances in London begin later than
they do in New York.
The sort of men who dine at the Ritz
or at the Savoy or any other hotel cafe
or leading restaurant in London, II they
are business men, usually are quite
through their business activities for the
day by or O'Clock. and they have
ample time to drop in at their clubs for
an hour SO and then to go home to
shift into evening clothes for dinner.
1t is entirely different here The men
who get through with their business here
at Or in the afternoon are in the i'm
mense minority. Most business men keep
their noses glued right down to the grind
here in New York until 6 o'clock in the
evening. At that hour it is simply out
Of the question for a business man to
get uptown to his home in the subway
jam and shift into evening toys and then
get downtown for a protracted restaurant
dinner in time to make the theater, where
the performances begin. as a rule, at S:15
O'Clock. 1t is this fact alone which keeps
the New Workers. out of evening clothes.
1t Is no unwillingness to don the cere-
montous buds. They are all pretty keen
for that sort OF display; but they simply
are unable to make 1t within the hours
they have to spare. Therefore they re-
serve the right to go to any sort Of an
eating establishment in their business
clothes. II SO be as how they want to do
that same and have the wherewithal to
pay their scores; and it is the oldest
sort OF thing that the people back OF
the bankrupt cafe didn't catch on to that
fact in time. They are going to know
all about 1t. the new restaurateurs, how
ever. as Is evident from their insistence
upon the point, in the cases of the new
ones about to open: that the evening toys
shall not be required. 1t Is pitiful 20
think that the foreign folks bacls of the
cafe should have dropped one million nice
metallic plunks over so small and yet 10
important Q matter
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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gentleman patrons shall wear evening
dress"
The proprietor Of this new restaurant,
it is plain to read between the lines. has
taken q leaf from the book of experience
which leads other cafes to bankruptcy.
can remember what instant resent
nient was caused among habitual diners
out here when the people back Of an enor-
mOusly expensive and ornate cafe gave
out the announcement that only men in
evening clothes would be admitted to
those sacred eating precincts. If that
foolish exaction had not been made and
enforced the hackers of this ne-million-
dollar enterprise might easily have saved
their million, instead of absolutely losing
it, as they did.
such a stipulation on the part of re-
this town who are just pig-headedly in
dependent enough not to wear evening
dress at any place where such a thing is
required Of them-that is to say, they'll
don their evening clothes when they don't
have to, but they fatty refuse to be re-
qufred to. They are not going to be
made to do anything Of that sort. And
so. when the cafe people made their
regulation as to evening dress, the word
was passed around among an enormous
class of folks here capable of making
or breaking any new restaurant that
they wouldn't stand for the rule. They
didn't stand for" it. They stayed away
from the cafe and they kept their friends
away. and in q few brief months that
gigantic food emporium was backed into
bankruptcy. amid the long and loud
laugh of the bunch
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ar-re a gr- e q {
blessing said Mr..
Dooley. Il don't
know what I'd do
without thin. II 1t
wasn't fr thin I'd
have no society At to
ASSOCIATE with-on'y
people like ye'ersilf
an Hogan. But tn