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substitute at $3.50. The regular
teacher was to receive $500, for which
she was to give no service whatever.
Everyone will sympathize with the
public school teacher who has to give
up her work because of illness.
Teachers are poorly paid at best, and
when they are ill they undoubtedly
need money badly, but to permit a
teacher to sublet her position at less
salary than she receives and to pocket
the difference is nevertheless inde-
fensible.
1t is true that the Board of Educa-
tion enjoys something of an advant-
age if the regular teacher supplies
the substitute. The responsibility for
the presence of teacher in the school
room on every school day is thus put
largely upon the regular teacher. The
Board, however, cannot be successfully
defended on this ground. It's ad-.
vantage does not compensate for the
damage that must be certain to arise
from the farming out" system, which
is a violation of sound, economic
principle.
If the District pays $1,000 to a
teacher in one year, it is entitled to
81 200 worth of service, not $1,000
worth of service. If teacher at 81 ,0Vv
is employed, the other ST. 200 should
be saved by the District or used to
pay another teacher. The regular
teacher, no matter how deserving, how
or how efficient, is not en-
titled to a cent of it.
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SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS IN
PGBLIC SCHOOLS.

No fair minded person can object to
the ruling of the Comptroller of the
Treasury on the practice of Washing
ton public school teachers in farm
ing out" their work to substitutes at
salaries less than those provided for
the positions. The surprising feature
of the case, in fact, is the discovery
that the Board of Education has Der
mitted the practice.
The two incidents that brought the
substitute question to the attention
of the Comptroller reveal with par
ticular force the injustice and unde-
sirableness of the system which has
prevailed.
One regular teacher, drawing 50 200
year, was ill and employed. SUBJ
stitute to do her work at $1,000 a
year. The regular teacher was to
receive 81 200 for which she was to do
no work.
Another regular teacher, drawing
$3.50 year, was i'll and employed a
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BALTIMORE'S SUCCESS IN
RAISING THE DUST.

Marylanders, and particularly Balti-
moreans, may well be proud of the
success of the movement to raise a
million dollars to move Johns Hopkins
University from the heart of Balti.
more to Homewood, in the less densely
populated section of the city.
A donation of S25O,OoO toward the
removal of the university was made,
conditional on the raising of $75O,vJO
more by December 81, 1910. Baltimore
buckled down to the task, called upon
her own citizens and upon the people
of the State, and, before the last day
of the year arrived, produced the
money.
That's the sort of spirit that builds
cities. That's the sort of spirit that is
developing rapidly in Washington, and
that should be developing much more
rapidly.
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DISABILITY RETIREMENT IS
BADLY NEEDED.

Whether or not Congress goes the
length of increasing the pay of its
employees in the classified civil service
and of providing them with some sort
Of annuity when they become super
animated, it cannot much longer fail
to recognize the necessity of 1egisla-
tion making provision for their re-
tirement when disabled in the Govern
ment service.
A striking illustration of the need
of such legislation is Offered by a case
in the Treasury Department. A
woman employe of the Treasury has
recently been poisoned by handling to-
bacco revenue stamps. Her fingers
took up the poison from tinfoil and
her eyes became so badly infected that
she is now nearly blind.
Upon investigation her superior Of
icers discovered that all they could do
for her was to give her thirty DAYS
sick leave on pay. After that she
would have to be dropped from the
payroll. They are trying to find
loophole in the law by which she can
be retained, but there is slight chance
that they can succeed.
Every year there are numerous
cases of similar character. If the
employe, in the discharge of his duties
for the Government, contracts disease
or meets with accident, he gets thirty
days sick leave, and, if he has not
already taken it, thirty days annual
leave, and is then discharged. His re-
ward for faithful service cannot be
more than sixty days pay and dis.
missal.
For private corporation that dis
played such a noble appreciation of the
services of its employees we would have
nothing but supreme contempt. In
just what respect is the Government
different from a private employer?
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FUNERAL ARRANGED
FOR MRS. RA|NALS
Widow of Army Officer to
Be Buried To-
morrow.

Funeral services for Augusta Rim
ais, widow of Capt. Henry\E. Rainals,
U. S. A, who died yesterday in her
apartments at the Portner, will be
held from John r. Wright's chapel,
1887 Tenth street northwest, tomor-
row afternoon at o'clock.
Mrs. Rainals was born in Holstein,
Germany, and came to this country
when she was about sixteen years of
age. Her marriage to Capt. Henry E.
Rainals took place some years after
she had come here to live. For more
than forty years Mrs. Rainals had
been employed as translator in the
Patent Office having been thoroughly
proficient in, German. Danish, French.
and English. About eight months ago
Mrs. Rainals resigned from the Gov
ernment service on account of i'll
health.
No relatives survive Mrs. Raipals
in this country. On the death of her
sister with whom she had made her
home for, many years. she took apart
ments in te Portner.
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decided
Outside getting
revole then there slips through
the rebels killed loyal soldiers
Of 1S9 pounds each and the shooting is still
There frscas revolution in South
ing 1910 the killed.
soldier shot the accidental explosion
revolutions without
Locally, Will GUIDE held his
Mercury lights
the art gallery Police Court
held by the Society of Washington Artists
started
Cliff Cunningham
Teddy Africa
Frank hair that
thought Dayen-
ports trust
The heavyweight championship
Cliff Long and Charlie Eckstein still draw the
a president is due for the Poodle Duck Club
he Shrine has circus public
this year.
they will still be working
on the grounds when the Panama canal is opened
our parks most of
which should been placed in
At least four welkn disappeared from our midst
the old Pncules Oh eee and Dr.
Mary Walker
taking large the worst year we ever had
She scorched the steak Republican china and
left the the while comes me for
Recommendation will give to health"
Aren't going off this
Imogene - ~ 4
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though Italy, chagrined as it is, may
find little consolation in the fact that
tunes snatched from the musical set
ting of Belasco's best play are being
piped in the streets of Rome and Milan.
But what is that crumb of comfort
compared with these early American
performances Is it on this account
that Mascagni is troubled over his new
opera, "Ysobel," which also has been
scheduled for an American premiere?
No doubt there is considerable anx-
iety abroad over this sudden rush of
the famous composers to the Ameri-
can capital of the operatic world. But
this transit is inevitable. For years
past the finest operatic productions
have been given in the United States,
barring, possibly, the Wagnerian per-
formances at Bayreuth. There is no
company abroad that compares with
the companies established in New
York or Chicago or Boston.
Carolina White was given the princi-
pal part in the Chicago production of
"The Girl of the Golden West" That
was another handsome recognition o.
American progress in music. And still
another prima donna, the far-famed
Miss Farrar, captured the blue ribbon
at the worlds premiere of Humper-
dinck's "Koenigskinder" in New York
the other night.
This production, too, was a striking
example of American supremacy in the
operatic world, for "Koenigskinder,"
which was bid for by the German En-
peror himself, takes rank as the finest
opera written in Germany since Wag-
ner's day.
An extraordinary season, all around;
the beginning, we hope, of operas
greater era,
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PINCHOT ON THE CUNNING
HAM COAL CLAIMS.

The Cunningham claims are the
heart of the richest coal field in
Alaska. Control of them means con-
troll of that field. In a large way, it
will be the cornerstone on which to
establish control of the best Alaskan
resources.
Believing, from information which
had come to him from various sources,
official and unofficial, that the Gun
ningham claims were being railroaded
into the possession of the Guggenheim
Alaska Syndicate, Clifford Pinchot
started a fight against the Interior
Departments management. He and
his subordinates made some remark
able charges, and Mr.. Pinchot was dis
missed from the Government service,
on the general ground that he had
been guilty of displaying undue
zeal"
1t is difficult to believe that any
measure of zeal could be undue" # it
were directed to such a purpose, and
reasonably justified by the facts at
hand. The question is, then, whether
Mr.. Pinchot and his associates in this
fight were the victims of vain imagin-
ings, or whether there really was
conspiracy to get these immensely
valuable properties away from the
Government by illegal methods.
To this question, Mr.. Pinchot, in the
brief which he has today laid before
President Taft, gives the most com
plete, convincing, and sweeping answer
that has ever been made. He presents
a history of these claims and of the
operations of the claimants. Logical
and chronological, it makes the whole
proposition so simple and plain that,
whatever defense mere technicality
may interpose, common sense cannot
but be convinced.
The law which the Cunningham
claimants seem to have tried to vio-
late may be a senseless law; but it is
the law and the array of facts which
Mr.. Pinchot adduces makes it as clear
as day that the Cunningham people
did intend, in violation of the law, to
secure those claims in a common in
terest, to hold and consolidate them
in that interest, and to make the most |
out of them. The rights of the claim
ants were optioned, en- bloc, to the |
Alaska Syndicate, The whole trans |
action was financed and managed in
common. Every move showed that the |
thirty-three claimants considered |
themselves as owners, not of particu-
lar claims, but of undivided thirty
third interests in the entire group. |
This is a violation of the intent of the |
law.
1t is difficult to believe that any
final right to patents has yet vested
in these claimants, or that the Gov
can be compelled, on the
record that hast been made, to give
them the lands. Certainly it ought
not to do SO until every resource OF
law and department routine is ex-
lausted in the effort to prevent issu-
aRce of the patents.
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Andrew and Inogene
kf{ ELL 1910 is history hasn't it,"
wv sigh Its sorrows, births, marriages
haveh heenre dandt the kiscI
Copyright, Harrts-Ewing.
By Roe Fulkerson

1910 into history it,? said
Wv sigh Its joys and sorrows its births marriages,
deaths been recorded S
Andrew, al
pictures a old gentleman
small dressed only with
ing other sigh, sentimental especially
who Christmas charged. ..
and Republicans in general. '.E.
cloud passed the
white
advertising divorce
Washington baseball showed
generally
outhed
Walter Johnson might get the division
I'm literature the drama, getting things
Miller produced play with
the author of Three Weeks out book under the title
I'm the business world had prosperity everywhere because
banks hopes having obligations
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Major William E. Horton Is Host at Luncheon
To Military Naval and Civilian Gathering Today
Chevy Chase Club to Be
Scene of Major Horton S
Reception.

Major william z. Horton, U. 8. A..
was host at a large luncheon TODAY at
the Chevy Chase Club, The table, in
the shape of hollow oblong, the center
filled in withN small pine trees studded
With vari-colored electric lights, was
beautifully decorated with Richmond
roses, poinsettia blossoms, holly and
mistletoe.
The guests were General and Mrs.
Wood, U. S. A, General and Mrs. Ale
shire, U. s. A. Colonel and Mrs. Burr,
U. S. A, Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert wads-
worth, Mr. and Mrs. Harlow, Mrs. Sum-
merlin, Captain and Mrs.. F. w. Sladen,
U. S. A, Lieutenant and Mrs. q. s.
Grant, Sd, U. s. A, Mrs. Briggs, Miss
Katherine Aver, Miss Alma Ruggles,
Miss Josephine Conrad. Miss Dorothy
Williams, Miss Cromwell, Miss Talbot,
Miss Dorothy Gardner Williams. Miss
Nagel, Miss Jennings, Miss Clover,
Miss Vandergrift, Miss Britton, Miss
Maud Conrad, Miss Marion Oliver, Miss
Hinckley. Miss Hunt, Miss Krogstad.
Miss Mary Switzerland. Miss Gertrude
Williams, Miss Marthena Harrison,
Miss Aleshire, Miss Weeks. Miss South
erland, Miss Minnie Conrad. Miss Ham
mond. Miss May Hammond, Miss Mary
Hoyle, Major Squier, Captain Williams,
Captain Craigie, Mr.. Spencer, Baron
aHardenbrock. Charles Wilson, Lieut..
Byron A. Long. u. s.. N; Leuten-
ant Commander Crank, U. s. N: Dr. c.
T. Grayson, u. S. N; Chauncey Hackett,
Franklin Ellis, Capt. i. A. Cheney. U.
S. A; John w. Davidge, William Mar
row, Col ]. A.IMoss, U. S. A.; Lieuter-
ant Commander Butler, u. s. NJ; WI
liam Bowie Clark, Capt. G. L. john
son, l.. g. A: Mr.. bristol, Captain
Davis, U. 6. N; Basil Miles. Frederick
Faust. George Totten, Capt. w. D. New
bill, u. S. A; Lieutenant Pratt, U. S.
": Major De Larey, u, S. A; Captain
Gulick, u. s. NJ. c.; Capt. f. E Callan,
u. s. A; Captain Lindsey, u. S. A.
The Military Attache OF the French
Embassy and Countess de Chambrrn
entertained a small luncheon party to-
day in compliment to Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles p. Taft. of Cincinnati, who are
the guests of the President and Mrs.
Taft at the White House.
The British Ambassador and Mrs
James Bryce, who have been for several
in South America and England,
are due to arrive in New York today,
and will come directly to Washington
TO attend the New Year reception at the
White House tomorrow.
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AMERICAN SUPREMACY IN
THE OPERATIC WORLD.

Some truly epoch-making enterprise
has been shown by the operatic> man
ayers this season on our side of the
Atlantic. Thus New York, Chicago,
and Boston will all have heard ''The
Girl of the Golden West" by the FORE
most italian composer, Puceini, before
it is heard anywhere in Europe, al
The Washington times., 1911-01-01

Persons returning to the city may
obtain prompt and satisfactory de-
livery of The Washington Times to
their homes or Offices by notifying this
office. The Times will be delivered
at the rate of 80 cents a month or 2
cents a week. Send postal or telephone
Circulation Department, Main 526o.
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It's no anomaly to note that the
death record goes up as the aeroplane
comes down.
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The married men ought 10 be thank
full that the proposal that they wear
rings on their thumbs as marks Of iden-
tification is no worse. 1t might be sub
gested that they wear them in the
nose.
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Mrs. Walter Mclean, wife Of Captain
Mclean, L. S. N, will be at home to-
morrow afternoon from to o'clock,
at her residence, 2109 o street. assisted
by her daughter, Mrs. Paul c. Patter-
son.
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New Year callers who venture out to-
day are in danger Of having more than
their spirits dampened.
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A day like today put that swearing off
pledge under a terrible strain awfully
early in the game.
The Washington times., 1911-01-01

The Street Cleaning Department, how
ever, doesn't share the general depres-
sion caused by the downpour.
The Washington times., 1911-01-01

Maybe the Senate committee thinks
whitewash wouldn't be becoming to q
blonde boss"
The Washington times., 1911-01-01

A lot of people probably feel like get
ting on the water wagon today, anyway.
The Washington times., 1911-01-01

The net total circulation of The Washington
Times Sunday during the month OF
December was las, 332, all copies left over and
returned by agents being eliminated. This
number, when divided by T. the number of
Sundays during December, shows the net
Sunday average for December to have been
S7.OS3
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There at least can be no doubt of the
sincerity of Washington's welcome to
1911.
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Fate surely did its part to make 1910
a record breaker for aeronautic fatali-
ties.
The Washington times., 1911-01-01

Mrs. Van Orsdel, wife Of Justice Van
Orsdel, will not be at home tomorrow
afternoon.
The Washington times., 1911-01-01

The net total circulation of The Washington
Times daily during the month Of December
was 1,OS6,376, all copies left over and returned
being eliminated. This number, when divided
by q, the number OF days of publication,
shows the net daily average for December
TO have been 40, 236
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The old year can hardly be said to
have gone out like a lamb.
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New Year Receptions
In Capital Circles.

The Chief Justice and Mrs. Edward
D. White will receive tomorrow after
noon, assisted by the wives of the
justices of the Supreme Court, and
Mrs. John McIlhenny, Miss Gladys
Hinckley, Miss Nancy Neff, and Miss
Montgomery.
Former Justice and Mrs. Henry B..
Brown will receive tomorrow after
residence, 1920 sixteenth street.
Assisting Mrs. Brown will be her
house guest, Miss McKibbin, of De-
troit, Mrs. P. NJ. Rixey, and Mrs. p.
Lee Phillips.
The Rev. and Mrs. Edwin c. Dinwid-
die, 1902 Lamont street northwest, as
sisted by the International Order of
Good Templars of the District Of Golum-
bia will receive Monday from to 9
o'clock.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union will receive Monday afternoon
from to o'clock at their club house,
so Sixth street northwest. -
Receiving will be Mrs. Emma s. Shell
ton, president; Mrs. Jennie w. Robin
son, vice president; Mrs. Clayton E.
Emig, corresponding secretary; Mrs. G.
T. Shinnick, recording secretary; Mrs.
b. A. Lineback, assistant recording
secretary, MIS-. ClaTleS r. GTdnQuelQ,
treasurer, and the members of local
unions.
Mrs. F. NJ. Page will receive Monday
from to 10 o'clock assisted by Mrs. ].
L. McCreery, Miss McCreery, and their
guests, Mrs. A. B. Sperry and Miss JeS-
sic A. Heathman, of Pittsburg.
d
The ladies of the Excelsior Literary
Club will receive Monday afternoon
from to 10 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
F. NJ. Page, 81 D street southeast.
Mrs. Addie w. Foster will receive
January 2 from to 10 o'clock with the
Excelsior Literary Club at the home of,
Mrs. F. NJ. Page, 81 d street southeast.
=
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont have
left the city to attend the Inauguration
of Governor Dix, at Albany, n. Y.
Nine Loudon, wife of the minister of
the Netherlands, will entertain a few
friends informally at tea this afternoon
at o'clock at the legation.
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Mrs Francois b. Moran will enter
tain at an informal musicale tea this
afternoon at her residence on Sheridan
circle. Miss Gillett Hill and MacFar-
land Brockett will be the artists of the
occasion.
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In each issue of The Times the circulation
hgures for the previous day are plainly
printed at the head Of the first page at the
left Of the date line.
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Sunday,

The number OF complete and perfect copies
Of The Washington Times printed Sundays
during the month OF December was as
follows:
December 4.....IO,365 December IS A., ,S37
December L....4,7 724 December 25... 40 S91
Total f6r the month .l65. .sl7
Sunday average for the month. Il, ,329
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Entered at the Postoffice at Washington,
ID. C., as second class matter.
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Dinner Cotillon
At Chevy Chase Club.

A dinner cotiilon was held at Chevy
Chase Club last night, with sixty cou-
pies dancing. A number Of dinner par
ties were held at the club prior to the
cotillon. Guests were received by Mrs.
Herbert Wadsworth and the cotillon
was led by Major w. E. Horton, U. 8.
A. The club was tastefully decorated
with greens and Christmas trimmings,
with here and there an American flag
prettily draped. Music was furnished
by section of the Marine Band. Five
complete sets of favors were used, in
cludIng sashes. fancy hats. pin cushions,
serpentine, poinsettas, wands, pinks,
rosettes, and toys. At midnight ships
bell tolled the hour of Il, and the horns,
bells, etc, which had been distributed
among the dancers were brought into
effective use. Supper was served inlme-
diately after midnight.
The committee in charge consisted of
Major William E. Horton, chairman;
Capt. Fred w. Sladen. U. s. A; Jerome
Bonaparte, Lieutenant Commander L.
e. Palmer, U. s. N; Frederick De e.
Faust, Lieut.. Byron A. Long. U. S. N:
Capt. L. Mason Gulick. L. S. NJ. c., and
William T. Bingham, secretary.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Belmont have
of Governor Dix, at Albany, n. Y.
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Total for the month. 2S7, ,5O1
Daily average for the month. h..... I5S33
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DECEMBER CIRCULATION,
nafIwy

The numbers OF complete and perfect copies
OF The Washington Times printed daily dur
ing the month Of December was as follows:
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Mr.. and Mrs. de Bruneville Randolph
Keim and Miss Keim. of Reading. Pa,
have taken the house at 1913 T street for
the winter.
Mrs. Keim and Miss keim will be at
home to their friends Friday after 3
O'Clock January 10 and q, and February
10 and "a.
Mrs. Keim is honorary vice president
general for Pennsylvania Of the d.
A r.
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Mrs. Addie W. Foster will receive
January 2 from to 10 o'clock with the
Excelsior Literary Club at the home of
Mrs. F. NJ. Page, 81 D street southeast.
The Washington times., 1911-01-01

Nine Loudon, wife of the minister of
the Netherlands, will entertain a few
friends informally at tea this afternoon
at o'clock at the legation.
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Mrs. F. NJ. Page will receive Monday
from to 10 o'clock assisted by Mrs. ].
guests. q Ms. A. B. sperrv and Miss Jes-
sic A. Heathman, of Pittsburg.
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The ladies of the Excelsior Literary
Club will receive Monday afternoon
from to 10 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
f. NJ. Page, 81 D street southeast.
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Baroness Preuschen
Returns From Wilmington.

obIaChO OE luC cfL-
bassy, returned to Washington from
Wilmington, Del. where she has been a
member of the house party Senator du
Pont has been entertaining over the
holidays.
Mrs. Anderson, wife of Justice Thomas
H. Anderson, will be at home January
is, when she will have with her Mrs.
Lilley, wife of the late Governor Lilley
of Connecticut.
Mrs. Stanton J. Peelle, wife of Chief
Justice Peelle, of the Court of Claims,
is spending several weeks in Atlantic
City.
The Secretary of Commerce and Labor
and Mrs. Nagel entertained a small COM
pany informally at luncheon today at
the Chevy Chase Club.
Glenn Morse, student at the Clark
son School of Technology, Is spending
the holidays with his parents.
=
Mrs. Ellis Logan, 1853 Irving street
northwest, will be at home the second
and fourth Mondays in January and
February.
The counselor OF the Austro-Hunga-
rian embassy and Nine LoewenthaI
Linau were hosts at a small New Year
eve dinner last night, having among
their guests the counselor of the
French embassy and Nine Lefevre
Pontalis; Prince Koudacheff, of the
Russian embassy, and the naval at
tache of the Austrian embassy and
Baroness Preuschen.
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die, 1902 Lamont street northwest, as
sisted by the International Order of
Good Templars of the District Of Golum-
bia will receive Monday from to 9
o'clock