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fs the topographic and geologic map
ping OF tens OF thousands OF square
miles OF all sorts OF country ranging
from the most forbidding swamps and
morasses to the loftiest of the glacier
covered mountains of the Rockies and
the high Sierra, and including the most
valuable mineral deposits of the ma
ton While these parties are thus
traversing untrodden fields the survey
engraving and printing plant through
out the summer. as In fact through all
the year, is turning out hundreds of
thousands OF copies OF the results of
the previous years field work
In single midsummer month this
year the survey plant printed 1925
topographic maps. 5,345 geologic TO-
los. each containing many maps, and
i11,l70 copies of other geologic mans
and charts. Besides 1t own maps a great
number of maps are also printed by
the survey engraving division for 9TH
or branches and departments of the
government Stephen J. Gubel, chief
enEraver, has run this extensive en-
craving and printing plant under the
director of the geological survey for
the past % years.
Most of the maps are printed in COL
ors. and for the total number of 2lS..
91s maps and charts printed during n
month the number of separate print
ings or impressions was 1.2s7.OOO The
geologic map of North America which
Is now being printed in four sheets
shows AZ different color and pattern
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-01
GOOD ROADS AND MORALITY.
A Churchman'S Sound Views on n Very Ii,
Subject

a thurchmnn's SOUND views on Very Live
Subject.
At the National Good Roads Congress
Bishop Failows said:
Good roaCs are closely allied to region
Good roads in the country districts would
not only increase the church attendance
but would improve the general moral tone
OF the community. II is work that 4,
worthy OF the assistance OF all the churches
in the country"
That is good gospel as IS also the bishops
argument that mans ideas and purpose.
are always bettered by fair surroundings
order, neatness, usefulness constitute a sort
OF high plane OF thinking Given the char
acter OF the material conditions OF a COM
rnunity and you can almost tell how II will
vote In what numbers 1t will go to
church A dirty gutter is an obscene story
deep mudhoie in country road is nest
OF prof'l,ity. A miserable oil broken down
hogpen nearby is a scandal In the neigh
borhood. a mans thoughts are largely what
his surroundings make ;hcm. II they are
ragged. filthy and disordeled. so Is his
thinking.
So. making good roads. parks sidewalks
cutters. the tone of public sentiment is eie-
waited. and 1t can then be counted upon to
support the true progress OF a community
bad outlook pulls man down like n bad
companionship.
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rled consultation neld with the out
come that Mr.. Leeds was smil.agiy admit
ted, while the 200 girl students in the de-
partment sent up chorus Of abs and
obs"
Mr.. Leeds is the first man ever entered in
years old, at Teachers College. He and his
scores OF girl classmates are to be taught
how TO care for babies. how clothes may be
Numbered after the most scientific and san,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-01

ltary methods, and how dressnaking and
cooking can be elevated from the grade OF
necessary evils TO the realm OF the nne arts
whether he aspirrs to be head master In
day nursery. or ladies' tailor. or has
discovered that the way TO be the true
master OF the house lies through the kitchen,
could not be learned at the college yester.
day. He duly mntriculated in the hitherto
strictly girls department and quickly de-
parted, with batteries of bright. inquisitiys
eyes turned IN him. ss''.
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distinctions. Each sheet requires 90
separate printings ami the 1900 CO.
pies of the southwest sheet of this map
printed during the month necessitated
214,000 printings. The total edition OF
1900 copies OF the complete map has
required 100000 printings.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-01
MAN TAKES UP COOKERY.

The New York Times tells US that regis
tration officers OF the Teachers College OF
Columbia University gasped the other day
when 1t became known that John B. Leeds
master OF arts and a candidate for the
doctor of philosophy degree at Columbia
was offering himself for course OF study
In the domestie arts department. A hur.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07
Children in the Slums.

From Harper's Weekly.
Ever since the people of America began
TO hive in the big cities there has been
an appalling increase in the proportion OF
the population in prisons. hospitals, asy-
lums and other eleemosynary institutions
Humanity thrust into the artificial and
cramped environment OF congested dis
trlcts has deteriorated mentally, morally
and physically SO rapidly and In such in
creasing numbers that II is SIMPLY appai-
Ing to think what the conditions will be
in two more generations if scme radical
and Widespread Improvement Is not made
Great Britain had a few years aso a fore
taste of the result when trying to fight
the Beers with homegrown English, sol
diers, First 1t was necessary to reduc,
the standards OF height weight and o.
strength required In recruits, and ever
then only small proportion CT those who
offered themselves could be accepted a.
soldiers. And these Eapless city dwel.ers
would have been able to accompiis'i little
or nothing against the hardy, vigorous
country-brew Beers but for tine help OF
the sturdy colonials, so terribly had the
strength and vitality Of the once mighty
English race been depleted by u few gen.
eratiOns OF swa:ming In cites.
Similar conditions have been producing
like RESULTS in America. ere still produc-
ing them and will lead to dire decay of
the race unless the children are safe
guarded 1t does little or no good to try
to help the adult who has been dWarfec
and distorted by infancy and childhood
passed in the Sums. His suferi9E can be
ameliorated. but he cannot be made good
and eTt Give cltl@tn. INC TINS to Du la
up worth while ctizcns is from babyhood
onward. The city child must have pure
air, enough pure food and water, proper
housing. warm clothing. attractive and
decent play, or al his starveling majority
he will be burden OF a detriment TO So
ciety
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07

full Of face or stature: no. their charm
is that of the professional of wearing
new styles. easy, supple, where the great
lady is stiff. tight. not quite sure, get
ting used to- the novelties created for
her.
The three girls hefewith are of a
gre Euc Ecyae house. y ung madame.
who is pretticr than airy nannequ.n. eX-
planned them to me. They are the latest,
really.
l. tIead Of procession.) Waist, as in
all. very short. Half the skirt from
above knees to the Observation-Disclosures
voile-Pekinei is a net or mesh or resiiie
Of Turkish pearls OF all tender colors;
and as the side panneau hung loose, like
a jib-sail. 1t looked at first glance like
Observation-Disclosures is dead ana
buried.
= (MiddleD Girl trimmed with black
patent leather. 1t is a sheath in Peking
satin with back and empiecement in
white China silk.
.3 CRear guard.) Costume of two ef-
fects front shows black and white, back
shows black and black. This effect is
obtained by making the back Of black
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07

Special Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS, April 81. 1911.
D ARTS mannequin gfrls-of what sweet
and bitter contrasts are their lives
made up. They are true Cinderellas-with
the wretched difference that they are al
ways recommending. Cinderella won
out. Mannequin girls must forever flee
when the hour strikes.
Queens for an afternoon-sen out by
their employers in victorias and auto-lim-
cuisines. with pocket money for their en-
trance race cards, iced orangead de beneath
the sacred awning. and tips. to the
prinking-up rooms-they play the lansuid
great lady at Auteuil or Longchamps
covertly matching the real ladies rather
than the horses.
In turn. the real ladies watch them
with mixed envy and contempt they are
but poor girls wearing clothes to earn
their .Hving-but how perfectly they wear
them. 1t is not that they are SO beauti-
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to foster this branch of Irish industry
But, failing in this. size made no further
a'temr. to dictate the mode and would
have been the very last person in the
wo. id to wish that any of her fair sub
iectS should have modelled their attire on
hers.
In fact. Il is a question whether she
would not have interpreted any such eX-
ag,eratiun OF loyalty as impertinence,
partaking of the nature of caricature.
For while toward the close of her life
her kind and motherly face. bearing the
trace of the cares and anxieties of reign
OF :nore than three scor. years and a owe
all, the extraordinary dignity and majes-
tv of the stout and short little old lady,
impaired so much distinction to her dress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-07

a city by and Of itself. and the millions of
people who live in and around Harlem
and the Bronx would not suffer in the
least for any sort of fun or endowment II
the downtown New York. including its
Great White Way. were eradicated from
Manhattan Island.
There are as fine eating institutions uH
there as there are downtown, hrst-rat'
theaters. at which all of the best attrac
tons make their stated appearances Witr
just as much financial success as if thel
were appearing for the first time in cit.
500 miles from New York, and even tn
greatest of New York's department stores
recognizing the spirit of Harlemltes wh'
don't care to pass through the .;uldron il
order to get downtown for their shop
ping, are establishing enormous branch
stores uptown some Of these stores bein
even larger and finer than The main es
adjustments.
The Great White Way is well enough il
its way-a sort OF raree or baliyhoo show
a cut, perhaps, above the Coney Islam :,
thing. but nevertheless only worth @eeing
just about once for those VINO care for
thai sort of thing. But the Great Whit
Way, when you come to think of 1t, really
is almost ridiculously the littlest part o.
New York imaginable.
CLARENCE. L. CULLEN.
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chiffon striped !iith black satin and the
front of white chiffon striped with black
SATIN The trimming is English embroid-
cry.
Queens for afternoon! Mere num-
bers, 1. >. .. fer the rest of the time, In
the ficwered paddock with the rich and
fashionabl,, more elegant than the ele-
gantes. admired. self-posss ssed, perfect
hammered, the poor mannequin girls live
their delightful! dream.
Hell s. rnev awake i'm hated tussore
sheaths. wail.ng-a string of disconnected
Gnlss "a an obscure back room. When
called they must hasten to the splendid
parlors, to slip over their sheath the cos
tune which the client wants to see eX-
hbited-a walking clothes form, never
spoken to or speaking.
Poor girls, they have picked I'D every
grace and deicacy OF the great world
with which they are thrown into daily
contact; yet cruel fate says: Hands
off everything you could adorn"
Their enc solace is to dream again
tomorrow afternoon. The dream is faith.
full. 1t becomes their real life.
STERLING HELLO.
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QUEEN MARGARITA or ITALY.

the royal family. has frequently mad oc-
casion to take exception to the Sans-Sene
OF her countryw omen. and Is resolved 10
affect a reform in this matter. beginning
with a revival of the American curtsey
in lieu Of the modern English charity
bob" And since the American ,curtsey
cannot he made with the jupe collante,
WHY. the later is barred henceforth from
court or at any entertainment AT Witch
the king and his consort may be present
The progress of the war In which lQuent
Mary now finds herself engaged against
Dame Fashion will be watched with IN
terest, not alone by women, but even DE
men, who are wholly indifferent, as q
rule. to chiffons. If she is victorious sine
will add to the reputation which she al
ready enjoys, of being very remarkaoie
woman: whereas. If she fails. she Will,
after all. be merely sharing the rate 81
every other feminine occupant or u
throne, excepting the two non-royal en-
presses of the French.
4 Il
For the STYLES of dress devised by the
creole. Empress Josephine. survive to
this day, in the form of so-called empire
gowns. AS for Eugene. throughout tn,
seventeen years reign of her husband,
Napoleon III, this great-granddaught
of a Belfast grocery trader. who was un-
paid United States consul at Malaga,
may be said to have dictated the feminine
fashions not only of France, but also of
the civilized and uncivilized world. For
when Eugene visited the seraglio of the
Sultan at Constantinopie and the hare1n
of the Khedive of Egypt, on the occasion
OF her trip to the orient, in connection
with the opening of the Suez cona, sh"
found to her amaZement that the inmates,
instead of being arrayed either in the
fantastic costume of the Turkish women
of the Partisan Opera Comique. or in the
Sarb Of nature, as one might be tempted
to believe from the paintings of JerOm :
and other artists who have prOtrayed
the interior of Mohammedan harems,
latest creations Of the great couturieres OF
Paris, their toilets conforming in every
respect to the DEGREES which She Eugene
herself. had issued.
Whether this supremacy of NAPOLEON
IT'S cOnsOrt in sumptuary matters was
exercised wisely is a question concerning
which there Is much difference of opin-
ion. and 1t is difficult for q mere man
to write with approval or cOmmenda ton
of her nineteenth century revival of the
crinoline. which she inaugurated a few
months before the birth of the prince i'm
perial. and which was retained as an
Indispensable article of feminine attire
until the overt brow of the empire in 1870
In fact, the name of Eugene has always
been indissolubly associated in the eyes
of the feminine world with the crinoline,
and long after the part which she pIaye d
in bringing about the discre,itab'e war
with Mexico and the still NOR, disas-
trOuS conflict with GERMANY lad been
forgotten. the memory of the stea: and
whalebone abomination which she .cin-
vented will be treasured up against ner
by the fair sex.
While Eugenie's DEGREES on the subject
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running their digcstions and their nerves.
you'll find just as much quietude. just
as much of the tooly rooral as you'll
find in Bel Air. the county seat Of Har-
ford county, Maryland; and l CHALLENGE
any human being to put the matter more
toorally roo.ally or quietudinously than
that!
Passing through the uptown streets at
night-yea, on week-day nights-you'I
hear the drone of little church dreams in
little churches. hear the hymning, see
the simple folk, New Workers. all. emer;-
ing from. the kinks and chapels and
standing on the sidewalk to have a little
chat, Just as you'll see these things In
any other regular little town. is
The lights in the fiat houses and i'm the
little houses that are not fats CLEAN
rosily until 8 or 10 O'Clock at night and
then they begin to flicker out, just as
they do in towns far removed from New
York
playing a little game of euchre or five
hundred after dinner-or supper or read
ing books or magazines, with the Riddles
tucked in bed, and the old folks yawning
heir heads off and waiting for the hay
hour to arrive-why, your fancy isn't In
the least playing you false. That's what
they're doing.
The Great White Way, with it's foolish
clatter and roar and buzz and babble. is
working overtime all of this time. but
the regular people of the town don't know
anything about it,. They're too intent
upon living the life that the;-. like to live;
upon conserving their energies to hold
own the job.
When these people read in the New
York papers about some giddy figurante
f musical comedy being put atop Of a
able to make spooch By a bunch of
rer blithe companions of the Johnny pc :
suasion at one of the all-night reEtau-
rants, they bless their souls and say the
same kind of amazed things that folks
ii Muscatine say when they read the
anne things. They don't know that
,,ame, don't want to know it, and are
never even accidentally thrust into such
a game.
AS simple matter OF fact. the Great
White Way is very largely made and sup
ported and kept up to its feversh stand
ard by the money Of outsiders, just as
the Paris that Americans know all too
we'll Is maintained by the money of Amer
leans.
The really finished New Yorker gradu-
ally is learning the lesson that the Great
White Way game isn't one that can be
pursued steady thing, even if 1t is
practiced once in a great while as flyer
The real rOysterers of the Illuminated
Path are, almost In the main, folks from
other towns. who drop into New York
knowing just exactly what they want and
set out with the greatest deliberation to
get it.
The White Way is becoming more terra
incognita to the bulk of regular New York
ers all the time, and will become more so
of the city Of New York. with all of the
activities and amusements- minus the
Way. Of the downtown section.
Harlem, for example, now is virtually
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line, and tie great majority of them
work downtown below the line In the
morning they get into the subway or
elevated trains and are shot downtown
to their jobs. and when they call it a
days work they re-entcr those trains and
are hauled back to their homes. So the
pulse" of the town. IS the new reporters
call the secti. n where all Of the purely
hypothetical ba-adness of the town is to
be found. never sees them at all. Only
a small percentage of them are even
theatergoers. You've got to be there with
a bank roll to be a theatergoer and the
average New Yorker is certainly any
thing but well-to-do.
In the uptown districts of New York,
where the New Workers live land surely
they are as distinctively New Workers as
the bunch who spend most Of their time
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the fashions. and never made any attempt
to lead them although she used to dress
wonderfully well. Indeed. she was so
apprehensive OF being regarded as a lead
sr of fashion and of having anythlns she
wore copied. that her hats and bonnets
used to be made every day almost on the
spur of the moment by an extremely
clever Partisan modiste, in her perman-
ent employ as a member OF her house
hold. and were mere affairs OF lace and
feathers. held together by jeweied pins.
and which We're taken to pieces the mo-
ment that Margarita returned home. In
this way she was never seen twice in the
same style of hat.
Neither can the German empress be
said to lead the fashion in her husband $
dominionS. For. on the one hand. her
dresses are of far too costly character
To he copied by women of modest for
lures. while ON the other. those who are
rich enough to get their COWS from Pa"i
lave their teeth set on edge by the lack
of harmony that characterZes the Ser in
built toilets of her majesty. whose own
tastes in dress are of the most quiet and
simple character, ard who only dons gor-
SeouS apparel to please her husband. and
in Difference to sense of the requ re-
ments Of her position as an occupant of
the throne.
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rants and variety shows, and participated
IN the week or SO of swirliness that he
deliberately came here to hunt for, lie
goes off home with the idea firmly i'm
planted in his mind that New York il
the Whizz- What-Is and that New Workers.
don't know any other kind of life than
the WhiZZ life
l know lot of Brooklyn men who get
all kinds of enj yment out of life without
knowing anything whatever Of Broadway.
At least two of them, men above forty
years of age, have never been on Broad
way above Leonard street-whch is way
downtown-in all their lives. There's no
great white way in Brooklyn, but some
how they contrive to get through en-
tirely agreeable lives without it.
The great bulk of the population OF
Manhattan Island have their homes away
uptown-far above the Grea. White Way
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count, Queen Alexandra, so immeasurab bly,
more popular in every respect, could
never succeed no matter how much she
tried. in putting stop to the wearing of
the plumage of wild birds. and especially
of aigretS. She frequently expressed
her views about the matter, but never
ventured to go to the length of prohibit
ing this form of adjournment in her pres
ence, as Queen Mary has done in the
case of the hobbe skirt.
Perhaps ii was her failure to bring
Dame Fashion over to her views in the
matter that put her thoroughly out of
sympathy with the jade. For, having
been unsuccessful in her endeavor to lead
the latter. she declined to have anything
more TO do with her, and having ascer-
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NEW YORK. May 6. 1911.
~ OES New York consist solely OF
its Great White Way?
The answer. very much Gre
Scendo, is: NO, 1t does not.'
On the contrary. the Great
White Way is virtually terra incognito
to all except about ) per cent. say, OF
the people who live in New York.
An overwhelming majority of New
Workers. go TO bed O nights and sleep
right through until morning, when they
get MP and have their breakfast and go
to work.
And the Blithe Life of the Great White
Way is as much of sealed book to
them as the method of the living OF the
Nizam of Don't giveacuss.
Why does one start a New York let
ter with this sort of cryptic dogmatism?
Because such a large percentage OF
Americans. including the Great White
Wayers OF New York, one and all. appear
TO be thoroughly possessed by 4he belief
that New York Is all Great White Way
and nothing else. Therefore, l repeat, 1t
is not
Take. for example. this recent Robbery
in connection with the alleged ineffective
ness of the New York police. the So
termed dIlRHfntilt vi tllt We" poiSc
with the powers that prey. and SO on,
with all the accompanying obligato OF
raids gambling houses by means OF
hydraulic jacks raids on pretentious
but doubtful restaurants, and all that
sort of thing
The average New Yorker who reads
about these things in the newspapers
knows of his own personal knowledge
just as much about these things as
somebody living in Benares or Rangoon.
He sees the cop on his own beat, or
the one humping his post on the down.
town beat where he works The cop
looks effective and Is effective. and that's
about as much as the average New
Yorker ever learns, or wants to learn.
about the New York police. The New
York newspapers tell him all the rest
the yarns Of graft in high-cop places.
the politics of Mulberry street. the resig-
nation of this or that top cop because he
is "hemmed in by graft the huge sums
the proprietors of plants have to cough
and all that dreary sort Of thing. But
the everyday. workaday New Yorker is
just as much puzzled by this sort Of
thing as any uitlander who reads it,
1t Is on a plane with the usual concep-
ton of France and the French by folks
who have never been in France. Tut, tut
Te-riically naughty folks, the French.
Must have q crack at Paris before we
die. eh, fellers?
That's the conception of France held
almost universally by people who know
IL not Yet. despite the axiom. Paris is
not France: and even ii il were the ire
mendous majority Of Parisians, men and