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and there is manifestly just much of
1t as there was when. Perdita she
used to let her long, knee-reaching tresses
fan in wild disarray as she danced the
dance of the Shepherdess. She sat close
to window while the undersigned was
with her the other day: and. naturally
enough. there was keen scrutiny as
poiiteness would permit. to see if there
We're any wrinkles. even the tinest. on
the wondrouSly smooth. veivety skin.
There wasn't-nCt one, Not even one
little Wrinkle running away from the bril-
liant. kind blue eyes-absolutely, ! he
heve quite as emphatically that NJ IS
Anderson Never has To apply even
much makeup as powder to her face: the
complexion is brilliantly clear. roses su-
perimposed upon lilies: a skin almost in
ffty-two; ard Miss Anderson never has
been within the portals of a ''neauty par
lor in all her life
y is amazing. persistent, unquenchable
health that enables her to keep her re-
markable beauty-a beauty just as great
now when SHE was posing for those
famous photographs as "Galatea." OF
coarse, back of all this is the knowledge
Of how to preserve health Miss Ander-
son Ives quietly the odd saying
goes. a. her beautiful English home; but
NerS IL no tlcISjtTe Gu ne
She is mainly IN the open air: she sleeps
n the open air: she walks many miles
Gerry day in the open air. and. therefore,
medicines and urguents are things that
are unknown to her. She Is bit stOuter
of course. than in the old days; certainly
none too stout, however, for a woman of
her ma jestic presence. And the old grace
is there: also the Old golden contralto
voice. low pitched and sweet as "a temple
bell In Nikko
black broadclotn tailored suit. with white
embroidered reVers. and wide black pic
ture hat. with one sweeping white plume
Her cheeks were glowing with the air and
exercise OF a brisk. long walk, alone. in
the park; and her lips were of the old
uncarmned carmine.
The more or less banai question of
course. was put to her TO whether she
had ever. or ever now, experienced any
desire TO return 10 the stage One could
not have blamed her had she exhibited a
certain impatience over this question: for
it is one that 1abitually is put to her by
all interviewers. everywhere; as Well in
England as here. But she was not impa-
tent. The question only evoked smile.
#*
From the hoUr in Washington when.
after Illness. | determined to give up
the stage. once and forever. | have never
experienced even symptom of the most
heeting desire to return TO the stage
was her reply. That is unusual | grant:
but il is the literal truth. | had become
weary of the stage before | left it, The
work was excessively hard: it undermined
my health, and | had never felt, to any
extent worth mentioning what is perpet-
uallY adNcrted to AS the fascination OF
the stage.
The so-termed glamour of the foot
tights had never seized upon me. When
J was a very young girl l never even was
sta2c-strlck, Us that odd state OF mind T.
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Santiago harbor. says that these things
are true. Mr.. Hobson says that the
United States-at least that portion OF the
country lying east of the MISSISSIPPI
river-couId not furnish much as a
single brigade of men who could qualify
merksmen with the rife lie leaves
out of the calculation the members OF the
National Guard all of whom have more
or less practice with the arm that has
been known peculiarly the American
arm. In letter written ny ME- fopsOI
in reply to communications asking for
the authority upon which ms statement
is ba sed he says:
II note YOUR question to my author
ity for stating that In case of war with
a first class power it would De lmpoSSi-
bic for the United States to recruit. in
the entire territory east OF the mississippi
river brigade OF men who could quarry
as marksmen--that is. aside from the
National Guard
II have my information from the chlel
of staff as follows: The total number OF
mon east of the Mississippi river who arc
of the proper age for enlistment is eStl-
mated "a IT, SS9.Gn Aside from the Ma
tionaI Guard. the National Board for the
Promotion of Rifle Practice has hItS:Iouf
civilian rifle clubs with a membership OF
oJ16 To these may be added twenty
five university and college clubs. with a
membership of about -GD. total OF '',oi"
who are known to have had pracuce "i'h
the military rifle oo>.
Yours very truly. r P. HORSON.
The war strength of a brigade is three
regiments of loco men and officers, or
1000 men. with the necessary ofhcerS'
from brigadicr general. coioneiS majors
down to second heutenants. So that, II
M Hobson's information is correct. as
furnished to him by the chief of staff of
the United States Army as above. only
something like one man in 46S knows
how to hardle a ri1e-could shoot rifle
with sufficient accuracy to rank as
marksman, And this of a nation that
forty years ago was nation of dead
shots a nation of sharpshoOters. with
reputation as rifiemen that was the won
der of the world,
But the chief of staff takes into cOnSid-
Grafton only men who are known to
have had practice with the military rifle;
How about others who have not used the
military rifie-tIe improved Springfield
but who have had practice with the
various rifles that are used in large and
small game shooting? Are there none
who can claim a marksman's proficiency
with these other styles of rifles?
Every one who walks along the streets
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or Washington. those OF any city.
large or small. in the United States. has
noticed the numerous shooting galleries.
rifle ranges and arcades that are scatter
ed throughout the business sections, and
has heard the fusillades of shots that
crack pretty steadily from morning till
late at night The ring of the bell that
indicates the hitting of a bull -eye is a
frequent incident in the shooting
y x
Now, the theory of rifle practice is the
same, whether the rifle used is the small
gallery arm. the big game rifle or the
Springfield in use in the army and the
National Guard. Differences exist in the
manner of shooting the styles of holding
and sighting, etc. but the fact remains
that in any sort -of rifle practice the
requisites are steady nerves. a keen eye
and the ability TO preSS-not to puil-the
trigger when the sights are on the target.
In rifle gallery practice the ammunition
is reduced that is, it is so manufac-
tured that the usual gallery range of
forty to fifty feet corresponds. approx
mately. with a range of 30 yards to 30
yards with heavy rife on the open-air
ranges. The targets that are used are
also reduced. so that the one-inct
mates the nine-inch bull s-eye CT the :. o.
yard open-air range. Gallery targets
which are printed by the manufacturers
of rifles and ammunition and which are
accurately calculated are made with
bulls eye small as a half inch in
diameter: some sperial targets have the
center ring as small as one-quarter of an
inch across. y nine-inch ulls-eye on an
Open-ranee target, at 80 yards, Won d
approximate. in gallery practice, I; Bulls
eye of one-quarter inch diameter. shot at
from a distance of eighteen feet eight
inches. There are scores OF men in and
about Washington who can put five to
ten consecutive shots in q quarter-inch
bulls-eye, in gallery practice. ct a dis
lance of approximately fifty feet. In
range practice this would be about equal
to shooting at a nine-inch bulls-eye co,
yards aWay-and coo yards tCtals up to
$500 feet, or about six long city blocks.
= rifle gallery on 9th street has as a
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much the decline in the art itself in
the manner OF its expression. The stage
has. to my mind. become sort of dena:ur-
allied. There are no longer many of the
big. impassoned moments i'm modern
plays. Emotonalsm the stage has
gone out of fashion; the quiet situation,
the intense scene expressed i'm few words,
and those pitched in a very low key. now
is the thing: and it is a sort of thing that
cannot. in the nature of things. give full
play. of old, to tine powers of actors
and actresses perfectly competent to play
impass toned parts.
THE somewhat commonplace tore of
the modern stage is not. in my opinion.
the fault of the present generation Of
plays On the American as we'll as
the English stage there are many men
and women who, in another generation.
playing the sort Of plays that appeared
to that other generation, would have
scored immensely: would have gone to
the front rank, Now they are repressed
by the repressed tone of the modern
plays.
81 always find it bit mela ncholy to
come back TO the United States. 1t makes
me feel so old, This was because ] be-
gan my stage life so very early. My
contemporaries who reached renown
were all much older than ], and it was
in the nature of things that they should
have passed from the scene. But 1t
seems so excessively odd. and, one must
and. depressing to find that hardly
myself still am a woman with quite
young children: Booth. Mccullough, Law
renee Barrett Wilson Barrett, Louis
James and ModJeska-I could not begin
to enunlerate the famous ones who. win
ming their triumphs at the time was
on the stage. now have forever disappear
cd from view. Imagine! Mansfield was
but beginner a the time ] gave up
eliminating in his all too premature
death. was made after l had left the
stage.
Il do not go very often to the theater
My home in England is in the country.
you know and it is a task to get to and
from the theater l only go to attend
some quite extraordinary opening of a
new production. ! have never seen a
vaudeville show in my lfe-I believe that
is record for an actress or an eX-ac-
tress. No. it is not that l am in the
least prejudiced against vaudeville-that
would be a priSGish view indeed. 1t is
simply that ! never have cared for per-
formances of that sort; and when | went
to live in the copatry i'm England the
vaudeville show still was in it's infancy:
it was then the variety show and was
meant for men exclusively, or nearly SO.
1t was not reputable then for women to
attend the variety show. What a Won
derful advance there has been in attrac-
tons of that kind since the old day of
the variety show
Sometimes. at little affairs for charity
in the neighbOrhood of my English home.
! sing a song or two. After left the
stage and went to live in England. with
my husband | studied singing. not with
any purpose of ever using my voice in
public. but because | had been told that
| possessed a good voice for contraltO
singing. And so ] studied for an occupa-
ton. so as not to rust Sometimes
have thought that It was bit unfortu-
nate that instead of going in for acting,
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once occupied? Is it possible that the
DaVY CTocketts. the Daniel Boones. the
men whose rifles were as deadly the
lightning holt. have left no descendants
among Americans % today? Can il be
genera tion-thc men who could bring
down a squirrel from the topmost bough
Of the tallest shellhark hickory tree in
the forest. with a shot directly through
The animals eye. ard who diSdained to
Kill squirrels in any other manner-So
few are left to make the expert shot
with the rife an exceptional man. one to
be noted as beyond the ordinary?
Representative - formerly lieutenant,
then commander-Richmond Pearson Hob
son. the man who sunk the Merrimac in
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vt takes two to knock.
This idea, which is not so cryptic
as it may at first sight look. oc
II Cured to me the other day when
would be insinuating cuss whom
I've known for d good many years.
without ever being seduced into trust
ing him in any way. began to uncoil
upon me some things that. he said,
another man. known to both of us. had
said about me.
They were just rappy little things, Of
40 particular consequence, and what
they We're doesn't figure in this little
preachmeHt. anyhow.
1t was then that | la boriously evolved
the little think that begins this
papyruS: 1t takes two to knock.
After evolving it l told the would be
insinuating one about it. Told him
quite crisply and brusquely, in fact.
While this other fellow was I'M
spooling those more or less piffierino
observations" l said to him, what were
You doing.
He moistened his slightly parched
lips and looked hangdog and began
to grope and tumble and dodge and
squirm and wriggle.
Well" he began. "I-er-I-he-
"Uh-huh.' l helped him out. You've
told me what he said But you We
kept scientifically under cover about
what you said. Just ease me few
samples of the kind of south breeze of
the same kind that you emitted in re-
ply to his observations.
oh well, what could feller--
:: <
Il don't know what Teller of your
type could have done | cut in. but
i do know what regular Teller would
have done if he'd heard man he pro-
fesses to be friendly with getting
knocked in such a way. He'd have
shut the knocker up quicker than
kindergarten child could say The Swiss
Family Robinson. That's what a regu-
lar Teller would have done. But that
is just what YOU didn't do; wherefore
the inference and the deduction are
equally obvious: wherefore, also. you
are a living exemplfication of the die
tum that it absolutely requires two TO
knock
After l had added that a dog thatll
fetch u bonell carry one, he went
anyway. quite miffed. so he was. say
ing that he'd on'y told me what the
Teller had said out o friendliness, and
SO on-which was IL lie.
Which is the whereforeness, as 1T
shall be the text, of few random
observations on this little knocking
topic.
1t is a dictum among especially keen.
ShreWd ObSerVant women that men are
as addicted to the gossipinS habit as
women.
The undersigned used to resent this
dictum and strive to fight against 1t.
1t didn't seem to be on the level. 1t
seemed merely to be sort of catch
phrase among women somewhat en-
FILTERED like that other dictum among
some women to the essence that the way
to mans heart lies through his stom-
ach. THAT is not true, And it never Will
or can be trueo
Now hoWeyer-for some years, In
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A True Foot Ball Yarn.
Drank GOTCH, the champion wrestle

Drank GO1tH the champion wrestler.
said the other day in Chicago. arfopos
of his recent victory over Hackenschmidt:
They claim that my toe holds are
rough. Why talk of roughness. though.
with the foot ball season in full SWING?
The young man laughed.
"Wrestling is chld's play beside foot
ball" he said. "A professor. after a col
lege game saw one of the halfbackS
walking up and down and TO and fro on
the trampled field.
= Fighting the battle over again, are
you. my boy?' said the professor.
NO said the halfback. 'Lookin' for
my car >"
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new superintendent said that he intends
to work in conjunction with other school
officials to bring these things about. and
TO make rifle practice on the range h
regular and permanent school interest
That such work is good for the boys.
good for the schools and good for the rs-
ton, DR.. Davidson stated. is his firm be
lief: and he added that educa tors I'm other
PARTS of the country held the same bciict
and were working toward the same ends
In some cities membership in the cadet
corps depends upon scholarship: no b"F
can belorg to the corps who does not 4
tam and maintain certain standing H.
his studies. In this the requirements Tor
cadet corus membership are the same a.
for membership in any of the athletic
teams Of the schools. That this plan Is
good one and that il works toward tire
establishment OF a higher standard OF
scholarship is Dr. DaVidsons BELIEF
though a number Of the men discussing
the subject-seNeral Of whom are forme
the belief that memberships in the corps
should he compulsory on all high school,
boys who are physically qualified.
TIE National Rife Association Is TAX
ing an active interest in these schoolhor
rife tournaments: all over the country
the meets are now held once year. ana
the number of schoolboys-stll i'm their
middle teens-who have qualified as rifle
mon. Junior marksmen." expert rife
men. sha pshcotcrs and all the grades i'm
life shooting now runs far into the
thousands.
With our Schoolhoy TiHemen. oar civil
ian sharpshootcrs- professional men. mo
chanics, merchants. clerks and lsborers-
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in about as irregular fashion-a bsolutely
impossible to calculate-as could be inn
agined: Gallery cartridges were used
.co-caliber short. with bullets: not the
long shot cartridges that are invariably
used by the fancy shots of the wild
west shows-and eleven hits were made
out of fourteen shots. AS the young man
turned to leave the gallery the writer
asked:
What Buffalo Bill SHOW do you belong
tor
He smiled as he replied:
None-none at all.
Perhaps you re a soldier. then, or
national Suardsman?
No; merely Il civilian-a Tanker. that's
all"
!: <
And the man who runs the gallery told
the writer. after the young man had
gone, that he shoots that way every
day
Working in one of the big department
stores of Washington is man w1o
thinks nothing at all OF placing five con-
secutve shots inside a one-inch bull's-eye
at fifty feet \ score CT forty-nine out
of possible fifty. same target and same
range, is ridiculousiy easy feat with
this man. Another Washingtonian.
printer by trade. shoots almost as well.
A young man who a short time ago was
removed from cur midst for the good
of the community. and who will not re-
turn for q term of years. left behind
him, on the walls Of a we'll known rifle
gallery. samples of his skill with the
rifle in the shape of targets on which he
scored five to ten straight. clean bull s.
eyes. At still another range the visitor
sees a framed card half-inch bull s-eye.
range forty feet with the ragged hole
made by five bullets, all of them within
the little black circle. This target was
shot by an. eighteen-year- lad and
he regularly shoots targets just about as
good.
Two sample targets. from different
ranges and shot by different men. are
shown here. Both were shot at forty
feet. Off-hand. One is a ten-shot target,
the other five shots, and in each of item
every shot was placed in the black. And,
if the managers of the various ranges
about the city are TO be believed. there
are scores of men-young lads, boys
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DISTRICT.
ellis adysin.

work in the District. He believes that
regular monthly rifle practice on the
range is rot only a desirable thing 20 be
established but that il is feature that
is absolutely required in the school life
of tie growing generation. DIR. Davidson
said that lie agreed with a Rife Associa-
ton member present who advocated an
annual camp during the Easter holidays;
this season of the year being named be-
cause of the impossibility of holding to-
gether the members of the cadet corps
after the close of school in Jure. The
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK. October Il, 1911.
~HERE are several reasons. l..
think why Mary Anderson
Mime. Antonio de navarro
can properly be regarded as
sort OF modern miracle.
In the first place, when she was less
than twenty years of age she ranked
ar7ono thf. great actresses of her time,
and this at an epoch when the theatrical
constellation held many renpWhe'
actress. Secondly. she gave mp the stage
at the age of thrty-it was n Washing
ton. bv the way. that she made her last
accommodation she was Al the pinnacle
81 her beauty. fame and ability EH.rdiS,
she has never experienced the NaSuest
desire 10 return to the scene or her re-
markabie triumphs as an actress. Final
Iy. she looks today, at the age of fifty
Two. Ike a woman o. certainly no more
:han th!Tty-6ve
Nary Anderson-it seems difficult TO
advert to her by her married name, al
though she is one of the most happily
married women perhaps n all the world
granted me an exceedingly agreeable in
tefviav. the Other dey-it Was three days
= fter her arrival in New York, from her
beautiful English home. I" watch the re-
which. with NJ. H.-heIs in co!laoo:a tion,
she made MO- play.
=
! word by way OF prologue: The pres
ent WTitcr first saw Mary Anderson In
the autumn Of 1871. He was then boy
- seven YEAR. and the place was the
railroad station ~ eavenworth. Kan
Mss Anderson. already A famous actress
a. the aGc o. eighteen. was arriving in
IcaVsETorth - give enc performance of
Julia tie Ii.rchI3chT ut the op'rey
haouSe- : s'e aligntsd from the train,
I'll her stelfather. Hamilton Griffin
no always Travelled with her during her
youthful days on the stage. Miss Ander-
son. espXing the aforesaid urchin stand
ing on the station platform. reached out
a Gainty nand ard patted him OH the
tousied ta :. l. was a pat that ne mas
always remembered. He was there with
i.ells IN tire gallery that night 10 see the
Julia the Hunchb4ck performance:
LaVing rUStied enough old iron Gnclud-
ing the stove lids off The kitchen stove
al home to annex ting pr.ce of the quar-
ter seat in he gallery. The writer hereoi
also was present at the last performa nee
when Miss Anderson ever gave on the
stage This vas at Washington
,heattr. in 1852 Miss Anderson whilt
rla wing PeiG Ia in The Winters Tale
tainted on the stage on that occasion
ant. she never stoOd scipfe IIS lOCtnSnts
after that. Again, the present chroniclei
happei!cd to he present al Miss Ander
.,p.S urarriase with Mr.. de Navarro
when Mary Anderson arrived in New
yors. ,l,e other day, ole OF the ship new:
reporters. in describing he" appearance
on the steamer, vote that she had
fsw graz hairs. There Must nave beer
snow In that ship E-ws reporters eyes
7 do-'t believe one solitary gray hai
cord Ii found in ;er hair With l"ci
telescope Her hair sun IS of me l'cL'
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il does no: seem as if rifle shooting has
become quite a lost art among Americans
of the present day and generation. Per
haps Representative Hobson. in spite OF
the information given him by the CHEZ
of staff. is wrong in his calculations.
Perhaps il would be possible to recruit.
among nearly fourteen millions of men
of proper age east of the MISSISSIPPI
river. as many two or three brigade
of Iifiemep who could make things
mighty unhealthy for hostile foreign
force
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s it true that the
United States has
ceased to be "a ma
ton Of shaTpshoot-
ers, as il was up
to and during the
war between the
states?
Is it true that
rifle p T Il c ii c @
among men in civil
life has fallen from
the high place it