The Washington times., 1911-06-20

Entered at the PostofTice at washington
D. c., second class matter.
And. sure enough. Aunt Della held a
little reception all her own.
The COOKERS on in Vienna" were twice
as numerous as the guests.
1t looked like all the younger genera
tion of Alexandria graduated yesterday.
dying by inches is bad enough, but
the naval coast stations are doomed to
die by yards
Justice Stafford is authority for the
statement that the nation lacks poets.
1t isn't poets we lack. Judge, it's poetry.
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In the calendar of the Washington
public school child, today. and not
tomorrow, is the longest day of the
year.
Agustus o. Stanley, jr, who arrived In
Kentucky yesterday from Storkland.
did what able counsel has been unable
to do-halt the steel committee.
A Philadelphia cartoonist whose draw
ing is reproduced on the sporting
page today, rather accurately sizes up
the Washington baseball situation.
The Times exposure of the Virginia
divorce evil among Washingtonians
has caused CONSERVATION among the
washerwomen of the western shore.
The contest between the Department
of Agriculture and the English sparrow
will be watched with deep interest. Our
own prophecy is that 1t will be draw.
The Street Cleaning Department, If
protests and suits against the erection
of stables in Southeast coatinue. will
have to trade the horses for automo-
biles or turn the eQuines out to pasture.
The Postmaster Generals report
makes it evident that the postal saw
ings bank has more than justified IT.
self, and that deposits will total a mill
ZION dollars by July l. The people who
love to say Il told you so" are in this
instance fully justified in their pride of
opinion.
Society here is much interested in the
wedding in Paris Of the viva
cious Countess Marguerite Cassini,
whose pranks in Washington when she
was here with the Count Cassini, then
ambassador from Russia, caused many
tangles in diplomatic circles. She made
her stage debut in Paris on January Il.
1910. Her husband is Alexander Lo
Jewsky, a Russian diplomatic attache.
Washington had n representative in
the parade and demonstration of the
suffragettes in London Saturday in the
person Of Mrs. Clara Colby. Mrs. Colby
is we'll known here as the wife of Cen
cral Colby, of Nebraska. and as one of
the most active workers for womans s
suffrage II the country She has at
tanned considerable note in the literary
world. and was for time editor of the
Woman's Tribune here.
The sympathy of every man and wom-
an who reads the distressing story is
stretching out today to Senator Luke
Lea and his beautiful young wife, who
lie in adjoining rooms at the George
town University Hospital, the one how
ering between life and death, and the
other prostrated by grief and by loss
of blood taken from his body and trans
fused into hers in the hope of saving
her.
any one who attended the commence
ment exercises for Western and Busi-
ness High Schools yesterday to have
found basis for criticism of the edict of
the Board of Education for simplicity
in graduation gowns. The innovation is
wholesome and should establish a prece-
dent for the guidance of Washington
high schools for all time. The example
offered the rest of the country ShouId
also bring good results. Not the least
remarkable feature of the ceremonies
was the fact that the sweet girl gradu-
ate" was just as sweet as ever, If not
sweeter
The Safe and Sane Fourth Committee
is right up against it. The 5000 desired
for the celebration has not been forth
coming, so the program is to be short
ened. Even the funds at hand are in
sufficient for the curtailed entertain
ment, and $500 more must be raised at
once IL the ceremonies are to amount
to anything at ALL Furthermore, the
money must be subscribed at once. II
you have not already made a contribH-
ton, do so today.
No more forceful evidence of the
spirit of progress that dominates the
- South could be had than is found in
the visit to Washington Of the dele
gates from the Georgia Chamber of
Commerce. All interests of Dixieland
have Joined the aggressive, concerted
movement for commercial industrial,
and agricultural development. As
tonishine results have already been