The Washington herald., 1911-05-09
GOSSIP OF THE.
HOTEL LOBBIES
Japane.e SHE Binding..

HOTEL LOBBIES|
Japanese SILK Bindings.
In the preservation of its rare manu-
scrirts and books the government has
found an additional safeguard in Jap
anese silk. according to Herman ]. Ham,
mer. of New York. who was seen at the
New Willard
Its use has removed a fear that long
existed in the minds of Librarians that
the rare old manuscripts would dry UP
and return to their original elements.
Fortunately. however. the employment of
silk of extreme thinness and trans
parency has settled the question of the
life of these manuscripts for the next
two or three hundred years, at least.
BY that time. perhaps, some other
method may be discovered
This silk said Mr.. Hammer, who is
an expert bookbirder. rs thinner than
the thinnest tissue paper the threads
being finer than spider webs. It is
pasted over the manuscript so firmly
that 1t wards of all dust and air. and
yet is so transparent that it does not
interfere any more with the appearance
OF the manuscript than would an ordi-
nary pane of glass. 1t strengthens the
manuscript so that the danger of hand
ling Is reduced to a minimum.
For some time past the Library of
Congress has had in hand the examina-
ton and protection OF all it's old manu- J
scripts. employing for the purpose the
silk mentioned. Unless one be an expert
In old manuscripts he is unable to
recognize the fact that the silk has been
used.
Would Bar wenklings.
Thomas A. Clark, dean of the Univer-
sity of Illinois, who was recently seen
at the Arlington. said that college is no
place for the morally or physically
weak
The morally weak are too free in q
college," said DR.. Clark, "and the ply
sically weak should be in the open air
developing their bodies instead of being
penned up in study rooms and CLASS
rooms developing their brains.
There are many good bricklayers and
carpenters spoiled in our higher insti-
tutions of learning who never become
successful at anything else. Not every
man and woman, by any manner Of
means, should be given a college educa-
ton.
1T is also a mistake to believe. as do
many persons, that only the boy ges
any good out OF college who has to
work his way through, and who is with
out good clothes and spending money |
That is the kind OF talk the minister
usually gives the mother and son be-
fore the boy sets out for school. At
least half of those. who have to be !
dropped from colleges are those who |
have to work their way through. many
of whom would otherwise succeed and
be benefited. There are too many Ioafers
in college. The higher institution of
learning is no place for men who have
not intensity of purpose and an intel
lectual outlook"
Live Beyond Means.
"A change appears to be taking place
In the attitude of the government toward
corporations" recently said George NJ. |
Reynolds. president OF the Continental
and Commercial National Bank of Chi |
cago. at the Shoreham. "and what this |
change may resolve itself into has not |
been analyzed. Important decisions OF |
the Supreme Court in the Standard Oil |
and tobacco trust cases which soon will
be made are of exceptional interest to
and financial concerns. The
pendency of these cases has served to /
check business. The time is coming, ana
Il may not be far of, when there will |
be a marked change in affairs.
The country has been growing wealthy |
through the natural growth of its land |
and property values. Wealth has increas-
ed out of all proportion to other coun-
tries. We have been growing wealthy
through the increase in value Of our
resources, rather than through the sweat
Of our brows. The time will come when
values will not continue everlastingly
to soar.
Physical conditions are ideal and tn,
production of the soil has been and is
4 redeeming feature in times of depres-
sion. 1 am not pessimist myself re-
garding the prospect for the immediate
future. for 1 have confidence m the peo-
pie and in their sense of justice. The |
future of the trusts and corporations will |
not be what the past has been. The
people will demand supervision, but will
the right of every one and
1NciS buSihSsS W lar Qedl.
LondOners Foreigners in Scotland.
Charles s. Barrett, of London, who Is
At the New Ebbitt. said this about a re-
cent trip TO Scotland: 1T came as
great shock to me to find that in Scot
and the Londoner is regarded as a for
eigner. I argued the point with friends In
Aberdeen, but all to no purpose. Nor
vas this the only shock received. The
people do not dress like Harry Lauder
md the corkscrew stick he affects is
quite wrong. I experienced great difficulty
n providing myself with a stick of the
Lauder pattern, and then found that the
pest people do not carry them.
Also, they speak strange language
lown there-one that does not resemble
n the least the anemic Scottish tongue
We heard in What Every Woman
Knows" This other is broader, strong
IT, more formidable language altogether,
rain sat beside me and talked for twenty
niles and I understood not a word"
The Cadet Who Lies.
Col E. o. Joyner. of Minneapolis,
Mimi. formerly of the army. who Is at
he Arlington, said that the dismissal
If a cadet from West Point for lying
8 rare. Lying is condemned not only
,y the officials, but by the cadets them
selves. From the .plebe's' first appear
,nce be js taught more hy imnlfcation