The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1911-06-09

a good idea to have arbitration, even
among the conflicting religious denomin-
ations, and a whole lot of people agree
with him.
If he is a great man who makes two
blades Of grass grow where one grew
before what shall be said of Captain
oyster, who establishes four milk sta
tions in the place of the one Straus
depot closed for lack of support?
Assistant District Attorney Proctor Is
authority for the statement that Sum
mer is the time for trouble with most
married people" Flies and hot weather
do stir up ones temper You may not
reduce the temperature, but you can
swat the flies.
With the passing of Aunt" Peggy
Dean, who died at rinety-eight, there
goes to a just reward one of the fam
Gus figures of Alexandria, a nanny of
the old kind, who through a long life
never did anything to alleviate or less
On the love Of the white folks" who
knew her
Superintendent Lanham, who for
shade trees that adorn Washington, said
in a lecture last night that there was
now a total of 5000 trees on the public
highways of the city. This record can
not be approached by any similarly sized
city in the world !
The courts provide a crier, but, as DR.
Johnson remarked they are not required
fsI, -
The juror whose failure to understand
halted the proceedings in Justice
Wright's court Will perhaps try to prove
that the cricr once called stations on
Western train.
The President has an interesting
souvenir In the cane cut from the
memorial elm which marked the sptt
In which Major L'Enfant was buried on
the Green Hill estate. 1t will serve to
recall the memory of the great engineer,
and at the same time testify how much
he needed a real memorial such as that
recently unveiled
Those who advocate the placing Of |
'portrait painting Of Virginia Dare, the
FIRST white child born on American soil, |
In the rotunda of the Capitol. are trust
ing that an appropriation may be Sc
cured for that purpose so that the work
may be started on August IS, which will
be the S24th anniversary of the child's
birth on Roanoke Island, off the coast
Of North Carolina. There is no picture
of Virginia in existence. and the paint
ing would have to be purely imaginary.
Members of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union and especially those
delegates who, according to semi-an-
nual custom of the association, brought
flowers. ice cream. cake, magazines, and
their CHEEKY personal greetings TO the
500 inmates Of the Home for Aged and
Inhrm, are experiencing the real 10y
Of service" in making happy those to
whom such attentions mean most. For
four hours the visitors entertained the
inmates with vocal and instrumental
4 program of their old-time favorites.
Hundreds of congratulatory messages
are sent from Washington today to the
home of former Senator Eugene Hale
in Ellsworth, Ne, felicitating the vet
eran OF thirty years in the upper branch
of Congress upon his seventy-fifth
birthday Mr. Hale is classed with the
late James G. Blaine and Thomas B. |
Reed as the great Republican trium-
virate Of national politics. He intends
to continue his winter residence in the
Capital, though he retired from active
public life last March.
At the quarterly convention of the
Women's Christian Temperance Union |
today, the Rev. Zed H. Coop is to
sneak on The Juvenile Delioouent in |
Washington" and Mr. Copp will speak
from actual experience with the de-
linqUent, zeal for his reclamation, and
faith that the better nature Of the de- |
linquent will assert itself If given proper |