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fuence of such things.
Let me tell you something that a
young married woman frankly told me
during a discussion of this subject.
DO you know" she said, q think it
was an open fireplace that really mar
ried me off. The year before John and
/ were engaged a cousin of mine,
about my own age, was married. she
had an adorable little home with a
very attractive liying-room and beau
tiful big, open fireplace. All my life
had wanted a fireplace, and had never
come any nearer to having one than a
gas log. John and l were going abou;
together that winter, and we used &c
go to my cousins home a good deal
and l really think that it was because
l thought it would be so lovely &C
have a fireplace like theirs and sit
gefore it in a sort Of Hanging-of-the-
Crane style, as they did, that finally
consented to marry John"
OF course, / didn't voice the ques-
ton. but I am afraid it must have been
lin my eyes, for she went on most
.emphatically.
Not that I've ever been sorry Why
l am as thankful to that fireplace as
can be. Just think, I might not have
my two darling babies and my sweet
little home, and my dear good husband
if it hadn't been for its influence It
knew what l wanted better than !
did"
Oh, dear, I'm afraid I've punctured
my moral.
You see, I started with the firm in
tention of pointing out the folly Of
this kind of marriage, and giving you
Marcus Aurelius' sternly beautiful adj
vice: Love that only which the gods
send thee and which is spun with the
thread Of thy destiny"
And now I'm not quite certain thai
is the best advice for all of us after al
Perhaps it may be best for some O
the greater souls, but for most of VI
commonplace people, who knows bu
that other girls engagement rings anC
trousseaus and weddings and dear lit
tie new homes are wise, bats of fatt
to lure US into a happiness and {
usefulness we might otherwise have
missed. RUTH CAMERON.
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ASCENSION DAY SERVICES
OF UNUSUAL INTEREST
Rev. Wright, Of Albany, to
Preach Here

Ascension Day exercises at Calvary
church will be Of unusual interest
as is readily seen. from the careful
preparations that have been made for
that purpose. These services will
consist of morning prayer, Holy Com
munion and sermon at II o'clock in
the morning by the rector. Eveniua
prayer will be said at o'clock, At
which time the sermon will be preach
ed by Rev Charles T. Wright, of Al
bany, rector Of St Paul's church d
that city.
Mr. Wright, who is president of tho
Standing Committee of the Diocese
OF Gdorgia, will be welcomed tc
Americas on the occasion of this visit
by large number OF people Who have
heard him here on previous occasions
A cordial invitation is extended to all
to attend these exercises.
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OTHER GIRLS WEDDING TROUSSEAUS ARE
THE CAUSE OF MANY OTHER MARRIAGES

During the month that followed the
wedding OF one Of the girls in our
neighborhooi he engagement of two
other girls were announced, and a
third engagement, which is as yet
secret, was entered into.
The old French proverb, 'Quand on
ma pas ce qu.on Anne, if faut Amer Sc
qu'on a, +" says Agnes Repplier, has
married generations of women"
That is undoubtedly true.
And equally true it seems to me is
the fact that other girls engagement
rings, other girls weddings, other
girls dear little homes have wonder
fully helped this Droverb in marrying
off the feminine half of the race.
Who could dare say that the sight
OF Evangeline's delectable chest of
linen, and Of he dainty filmy lin
geries, smart new gowns and heart
satisfying complete accessories that
make up her rousseau did not have
some influence upon those friends VINO
announced their engagements so close
| ~ upon the heels of her wedding?
One of these girls I happen to know
has been lowering on the brink Of an
engagement, trying to decide if she
really cared enough for the man 10
marry him, for over year,
OF course, she may have suddenly
found out that she did care enough
But then again, it isn't impossible,
is it, that she was swayed the wee bit
necessary by the sight of Evangeline's
pretty things, the lure of her i'm
portant position as central figure in a
wedding, and the spell of her happi-
ness?
UnconsciousIy swayed, I mean, of
course.
Naturally, no girl is going to say to
herself: 4 want an engagement ring
and a trousseau and a wedding and a
little home Of my own, like the other
girls, and so I will marry this man
who has asked me to be his wife, even
though i do not love him"
Usually she mistakes the enticement
of these considerations plus her liking
for the man plus the eternal power Of
sex for a real love.
You think I am overrating the in
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Prizes:

ST CAPITAL PRIZE-Lady's Diamond Ring Two Stones.
OND CAPITAL PFIZE-Damond Brooch Five Stones Diamond Bracelet
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The best of men are sometime;
that's no idle yarn.
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A close student of human nature
seldom lends money to his friends.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-05-25

A prude is a girl who always knows
a let Of things she shouldn't know.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-05-25

A Milwaukee woman is so jealous
that she wont allow her husband to
gaze at the stars.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-05-25

Some men are born to be married
and some live in deadly fear that mar
riage will be thrust UPON them.
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Some of the most important iufor-
nation in a newspaper is to be found
in the advertising columns
The Washington times., 1911-10-03

said he believed he belonged to class
who have been corrupting business in
the United States for many years, and
that smuggling for profit must be
stopped. Lichtenstein, it appears, had
already made settlement with the
Government, following his arrest, for
$4,000. Judge Hough imposed fines
on other offenders who came before
him at the same time and drew a dis
tinction between the petty or occa-
sional smuggler and the one who made
smuggling a part of his mercantile
transactions.
The sentence is worth noticing be-
cause it points that the courts are ap-
parently not entirely oblivious to the
growing demand that offenses involv-
ing gross dishonesty in business, OF a
sort hurtful to the community, be
punished, not by fines, but by prison
sentences. The habit of imposing fines
llCOIUneHSuTdJe WITH IhO AhyuoNiSS
done the public is altogether too COM
mon. The big offender is generally let
off with fine that means little to him,
while the petty offender is sent to
Jail. Only a short time ago wide
spread criticism was caused by the fin
ing of a prominent New York offender
against the customs laws, while poor
Greek, who had smuggled in a few
currants, was thrown into Jail.
The Treasury officials are insisting
on adequate penalties, and SO is the De-
partment of Justice. The Lichtenstein
sentence will do more to reach to the
root of the smuggling differentiation
evil than the fning of score of Of
tenders.
The Washington times., 1911-10-03
AGREES WITH JUDGE
ON ROLLER SKATING
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
1t seems to me that Judge De Lacy
is entirely right in his view of the
roller-skating question. I cannot see
how any careful parent would allow his
Child to be on the streets alone, for
any purpose, after dark, and certainly
not for the purpose of engaging in
sport of such a dangerous character.
l do not deny that roller skating is a
good exercise for children, but that is
no reason why there should not be
proper restrictions in regard to 1t. The
schools close at o'clock; even the
'kept-ins" are home by 4. This gives
them two hours before dinner to in
dulge in skating, if they 80 desire, not
to mention all day Saturday and the
frequent holidays.
Two hours a day are sufficient for
anyone to engage in violent exercise,
and surely after dinner, wnen the dark
ness comes, it is better for the children
to be in their own homes than on the
streets. In summer, when the days are
longer, they would have plenty or
time for this exercise before darkness,
and l think that it would be good for
children and boon to pedestrians If
roller skating On the streets should be
prohibited after dark.
MRS. E. T. TERFLINGER.
Takoma Park, D. c.
The Washington times., 1911-10-03

object. but this is not the case. On
the other hand fully IS per cent of the
high school boys succeed in bluffing-
TO use the boys expression-the prin-
cipal with all sorts of excuses for every
ailment known to the human body.
Oh, yes, notes are required but that
is a small matter, the boys can get
over that point with ease. The point
is this, that the principals do not eX-
ercise with firmness the rules which
are written on the back of the enlist
ment blank that says: Enlistment in
the Washington High School Cadet
Regiment is compulsory" Some prin-
cipals think that when they enlist
enough boys to make one or two COM
panies the work Is finished. and al
low $50 to 900 boys in the school to
act as onlookers, when they should
be carrying guns and improvisg the
regiment why don't these principals
carry out the rules to the letter? If
enlistment was really and truly com
pulsory'' oh what sple lid regiment
we would have in Washing on! Let us
hope that the Washington High School
principals will be up and doing and see
to 1t that all the able-b bodied boys in
their school are enlisted in this health
full and invigorating branch of high
school life. Very truly yours,
CHAS. F. PARLIN.
The Washington times., 1911-10-03
THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR
THE AUSTIN DISASTER.

Word of such a disaster as that OF
Saturday in northern Pennsylvania
leaves one appalled, and filled with a
sense of outrage. The loss of life and
property the breaking of that dam
entailed. may be as nothing compared
with years total of suffering due to
carelessness or easily preventable
causes. But whether we compare il
with the loss from grade-crossing ac-
cidents or tuberculosis or fire, the fact
stands out that in this case the disas.
ter was the result of mistaken judg-
ment of some one man.
1t is yet too early to comment judi
cially on the direct cause. The early
evidence is that since being strength
ened last year the dam had never been
submitted to full tests of its strength
and that when this test finally came
it gave way at several places simulta-
neously, the structure crumbling away
as sif disintegrated. Whether this was due
to insufficient endorsements of the
concrete, to poor cement, to mistakes
in the mathematical calculations of the
engineers, or to strain caused by a
slipping of the dam on its slate foun-
dation, or of the slate itself, one can
not now say. The rumor that the
dam had been pronounced weak by
engineers is such as inevitably float
about after a disaster like this, and
for the time being it may be taken
with a grain of salt. But the fact re-
mains that the dam did break.
1t was a private structure, and
therefore its owners are primarily re-
sponsible. 1t may, indeed, be shown
that they scrimped to such an extent
in the expense of its construction as
to render themselves liable for Grim
inal negligence. But in a broader
sense the State and Government are
answerable. In a perfectly organized
system the supervision of the work by
the public authorities would have been
stringent enough to prevent the erec-
tion of faulty structure.
The Washington times., 1911-10-03

name of Democracy, than by an hon.
est regime using different label. The
primary is going to COMPEL Mary
lands Democracy to get honest. Is
not that we'll worth while?
With all it's difficulties, the primary
system is certainly vastly better than
the old method of boss rule. 1t is
coming, despite the misrepresentation
of the ancient bosses who would keep
it out of the East as long as possible,
1t will not be perfect; early expert
ments will require to be followed up
with amendments and notifications as
experience shall prove them necessary
But the system is coming because the
people believe in it, and the people
are right about it.
The Washington times., 1911-10-03

birds. The children rush in and catch
the birds in their hands, and a moment
later they discover that they have only
caught the dream birds that live in the
garden. and they hold up their hands
sobbing out that the birds are dead.
But Mother Night shows that she can
be kind after all, for with her host Of
stars she bends over the still moon
birds and brings them back to life.
Next the audience sees the little
travellers outside the silent graveyard,
where those lie that have been dead
so long that nobody can remember that
they ever We're alive. The children
were frightened. for the shadows were
dim, and there were strange, eerte
noises. Even the dog was scared, but
he stayed by the gate and whined. and
would not desert the children. The
church clock struck the hour, and the
graves began to open slowly. slowly,
and just as everybody in the audi
ence looked for the dead to arise
from their graves; strange music that
can only be iikened to the music of
the spheres was heard; the flowers
unfolded their petals. the graveyard
was transformed into a glittering, beau
tiful garden of lilies, and glory fell
upon the earth. Here in this beautiful
place Tyltyl found out that grand and
glorious truth-there are no dead!
Next the children were found in King
dom of the Future, that beautiful land
where II is always June, where the un-
: born children await the boat that will
take them to the arms of the waiting
mothers. Each child is busy preparing
its future life, for it is the rule that not
one of them shall go empty honded.
though each is permitted to choose
what the little box of their life shall
contain. While Tyltyl and Myltyl are
there, Father Time comes with his
beautiful golden boat and carries away
all the children that are to be born
that day.
The little travellers discover that no
Blue Bird inhabits that kingdom, SO
these little hunters after happiness start
away without the bird after ali.
Back to the home of Father and
The Washington times., 1911-10-03
ARMY.

l.
captain STANLEY s. ROSS, Coast Az
tillery Corps, detailed in the Pay
Department, to take effect Nover1-
Der q, will proceed to Philippines
Division for assignment to duty.
Major WILLIAM B. ROCHESTER,,
paymaster, from duty at Chicago,
Ill, and will proceed to New York
City. take station at the latter place
and report 10 the commanding gen.
eral, Eastern Division, for duty.
The r.tirenIenL of Prof. SAMUEL
E. T1LLMAN, United States Mill
tary Academy, from active service
on October q 1911, is announced.
Professor TILLMAN will proceed to
his home
Each of the following officers is re-
l1eved from duty at tie Army Serv-
Ice Schools, Fort LeaVenworth, Kan,
to take effect on the date specified
after his name, and will then pro-
coed to join his proper station:
Captain HARRY A. SMITH, infantry.
unassigned, March /, 1912.
Captain LIE ROY ELTINGE, Fifteenth
Cavalry, January l, 1872
First Lieutenant WALTER KRUGER,
infantry, unassigned. April 1, 1912.
First Lieutenant JOHN ]. BURLEIGH,
Twenty-secon1 Infantry, is detailed
for general recruiting service at
Albany, N. Y. and enters upon re-
cruitiag duty at that place, reliev-
The Washington times., 1911-10-03
GASTRONOMY AND THE THE
ATER HERE AND ABROAD.

Gastronomy and the theater have
not apparently the same popular ac-
cord in this country as abroad. New
York, the representative American city,
is not yet Paris. Such, at least, is
the impression derived from the fail
ure of the elaborate establishment in
New York known as the Folies Ber-
gere, which opened with such eclat
about six months ago, and has now
ingloriously closed, with a serious loss
to the proprietors.
The idea here was that splendid din
ners and suppers, lasting through the
night and drawing the smartest. and
wealthiest people, should be served
with the vaudeville entertainment, and
Americans who had Travelled and were
familiar with the sources of pleasure
in the foreign capitals should find the
same sort of advanced and luxurious
amusement at home. And for a while
it was wonderful to see the fashionable
crowds at the New York FOlies Ber-
gere, splendidly dressed, sitting at the
tables, eating and drinking and enjoy
ing the clever turns on the stage. The
lights, the music, the conversation, the
tinkle of crystal and silver, the odor
of delicate cooking-all this was real
Paris, real Vienna, or real Berlin, and
New York had been carried forward a
long step.
Alas! it was a feeting success of
curiosity, and now the Folies has
closed, the lights are extinguished, the
walters have vanished, and ast-
some alterations the establishment will
be the conventional vaudeville play
house.
The conclusion seems imperative
that New York, notwithstanding its
many people who come and go across
the great ocean, can never be Paris.
The American mind is naturally Sc
rious, and the men at the Folies Ber-
gere, sitting there over their costly
dinners and watching the show, were
evidently preoccupied; they were not
really making merry; they were
thinking of their affairs, of the mar
ket, the tape, the many other inter
ests.
The leisure class is absent here, and
life is an experience of pressure. 1t
was noted that the whole scene of
the audience at the Folies was one
that suggested believe, and the
people in front in pretending to enjoy
themselves after the fashion of Paris
were acting as much as were the
actors on the stage.
So the prediction that the Folies
Bergere would bring about great
revolution in American amusement is
not likely to be realized. The restau-
rant and the play may come togeth-
er after the performance, but do not
seem likely, for good many years,
to travel side by side.
The Washington times., 1911-10-03

out of the window, their companions fol-
lowing them. Straight into a cloud they
go. Then an emerald light shines upon
them, a light that comes from the
Fairy Berylune's palace, palace like
the inside curve OF a wave of the sea.
Here in this palace the larry gives the
children the directions for the jour
ney, sending them first 10 the misty
land of memory. Among the spectral
trees they see mystical creatures who
spin mists as they dance, just for the
especial purpose of Jogging the MEM
ories of those who are trying to follow
its path. The brother and SISTER try to
hard to remember that they finally see
the faces Of old CATER and Granny Iyl,
their grandparents, long since dead,
the dear little cottage where they visited
when they were very tiny children, even
the black bird that sang such a poor,
weak little song, and the smell Of the cab
bage soup and the plum tartS THAI
Granny Tyl used to make for them
came waited back to them on the wings
of memory.
All the little brothers and sisters
came, too; the dear little dead children
who had been their playmates. They
were all very gay and noisy, but Tyltyl
and Myltyl could not lingCr longer. for
the mists gathered about them and shu.
out the Land of Memory, and the three
children again took up their journey
until they came to the land of night.
Under the starry dome they came upon
Mother Night herself. who sat on the
steps of her palace between two dread
full sphinxlike cats. Behind the closed
, door lurked all the terrors-war, sick
ness, and the other evils which are 50
black that they are afraid to show their
faces in the daytime. In that palace the
children have been told that the Blue
Bird is to be found, but Night, aided
by the treacherous cat, plots to keep the
Blue Bird in her own kingdom. The
children open vault after vault and let
out all sorts of little troubles.
Tyltyl chokes down his terror and
opens the great, dark doors which swing
apart to disclose a marvellous fairy
garden, filled with hundreds of blue
The Washington times., 1911-10-03
ONE SMUGGLER GETS A
PRISON SENTENCE.

About the most interesting sentence
imposed by a court recently is the
prison penalty visited by Judge Hough,
of New York, on Abraham Lichten-
stein, head of a big Fifth avenue mil
linery house. Having pleaded guilty
to conspiracy to undervalue imported
goods, Lichtenstein was sentenced to
four months in the penitentiary and
q fine of 81.
In sentencing the man, Judge Hough
The Washington times., 1911-10-03
SAYS BOYS EVADE
DUTY AS CADETS
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
l hope you will grant me a small
space In your popular peoples paper
to say a few words in regard to the
Washington High School Cadet Regi-
ment, which is now being organized.
I have followed with deep interest
the development of our cadet regi-
ment for man. years and always hope
that the next year will see it grow
still larger and efficient. but the
whole matter rests largely, If not en-
trely. upon the principals of the sew
eral high schools in the form of en-
listment. Some people seem to think
that the reason why so many boys
do not enlist is because their parents
The Washington times., 1911-10-03
SEEKS AN EXPLANATION
FROM MR.. SWEARINGEN
q the Editor Of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TINES:
AS an interested but puzzled reader OF
your Mail Bag column, l should like to
ask II. H. Swearingen to explain his
cryptic communication, which was
doubtless read by many with the same
feelings of awe and bewilderment which
I experienced. What does 1t mean? To
whom is it addressed? What is its
purpose?
AS to the first. it seems to be a sort
of protest against our present ciVlliza-
ton, urging rather vaguely, that II is
rot in accord with the laws of evolu-
ton: and the second, the writer makes
an appeal to your religious Caucau-
sian readers" Is that sarcasm? AMI
lastly, as to its purpose The appeal is
said to be in behalf of the race. Era
bracing, rs it does, economies, soci-
ology, morality and natural law, l fear
The Washington times., 1911-10-03
Concert Today
By the Fifteenth Cavalry Band, st
Fort Myer, Va, at 1890 p. N.
GEORGE F. TYRRELL. Director.

GEORGE F. TYRRELL, Director.
PROGRAM.
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Arr. Tyrrell
Overture, "Tannhauser". Wagner
Reverie, La voix des Cloches,''
Luigini
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Ellenberg
Fantasia, My Maryland. Short
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Fantasia, IAN Evening in Gang"
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The Washington times., 1911-10-03

1t has lost some of its force through
lack of concentration.
l earnestly hope that this gifted phi
losopher will come to his readers res
cue and that before he takes up the
unities of evolution. Come, Mr.. Swear
ingen, elucidate. c. F. L.
The Washington times., 1911-10-03
NAVY.

Capt. N. r. USHER. detached command
Michigan; to Navy Department.
Capt. L. E. CAPEHART, detached
Bureau Of Ordnance. Washington,
D. c.; to command Michigan.
Comdr. w. w. GILMER, detached COM
Eand Paducah; to command Han
nibal
Comdr. D. w. BLAMER, TO command
Paducah.
Comdr. c. T. voGELEsANG, orders of
September %, revoked
Lieut.. c. BEAN, detached Recruiting
Station, Cincinnati, Ohio; to Wash
ington as senior engineer officer
Chap. S. K. EVANS, detached Min
nesota, to Training" Station, San
Francisco, Cal
Btsn. ]. L. THOMAS, detached Wash
fngtcn. and will wait orders
The Washington times., 1911-10-03

Col. o. G. Staples, for so many years
proprietor of the old Riggs House win
build a handsome nine-story hotel on
F street.