Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31
Resolution Endorsing Wiley.

A resolution was presented yesterday
before the association indorsing DR.. II.
W. Wiley, chief chemist of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, and this was re-
ferred to the committee with power to
act
One of the resolutions that doubtless
will provoke wide discussion. and which
was favorably reported by committee
to the section on home economics yester-
day, provides for an ordinance that would
compel the proprietor of every pubic
eating house to maintain his Kitchen
thoroughly illuminated and with trans
parent glass screen between the Kitchen
and the dining room SO that all visitors
might see how their food was being pre-
pared. 1t is said by some of the speak
ers in favoring the resolution that IN sew
eral cities now there are eating houses
where the kitchen is placed in front or
| the dining room so that all patrons pass
through the kitchen on the way to tine
| table This has a marvellous effect IN
securing cleanliness, it was said.
| Next Meeting in Cleveland.
| There was q warm contest over the
r,ext meeting place of the association
This was decided finally in favor of
Cleveland, with Atlanta the following
! year.
| The session Of the Anthropolog6al So
ciety, the Psychological Society and the
| Folk Lore Society on the last afternoon
| was held Jointly at the New National
| Museum Miss Frances Densmore, who
| has been working up the subject of In
dian music for the bureau of ethnology.
| presented paper on the analysis or
Chippewa music. the speaker illustrating
a. number of the characteristic Indian
| songs on the piano.
| scientific terms the results of work she
had done in Indian camps and tepees
and other out of the way places, where the
conventional woman hardly would have
| yentured. Miss DenSmOre described the
! method she had used in getting the songs
first on a phonOgraph and then TRANSCRIPT
ing them and comparing rend1tions or the
same song in different localities ana 10y
different individuals There were $40 OF
the songs. Miss Densmore gave an analE-
sis of their tonology and the rhythm OF
the various classes of songs, saying the
ultimate object was to reach some con-
cusion as to the mental origin or music.
Indian Takes Part.
The paper was discussed by Prof Ham,
mer, leader Of the Washington Symphony
Orchestra; DR.. Frank Baker. superin-
tendent Of the zoo; Mr.. La Flesche, a
full-blood Omaha Indian attached to the
bureau of ethnology, and a number OF
| other members. Mr.. La Flesche pointed
| out the danger Of misinterpreting ma
| chine renditions of Indian music.
An address was delivered also by Prof
Alexander Chamberlain of Clark Univer-
sity on the linguistic classification of the
Algonquin tribes. and other talks were
made on American Indians and archeol-
ogy.
The session of the American Breeders
| Association was continued during the aft
ernoon at the New Masonic Temple. The
| heredity of cattle was discussed by Rob
ert Nabour Of Kansas State College. who
| told of experiences in Texas with thu
crosses between the native breed and the
Brahma cattle. tried there in the effor
to find resistant type proof agains
Texas fever. ]. L. Burgess of the Nortl
Carolina Department of Agriculture
spoke on the effect Of soil type in plan
| variation