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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-11

and a pair of rubbers. Thank you,
ALICE COLLINS,
"861a Ferguson street"
Dear Santa:
Il would like to have a doll and a
carriage, some nuts and a box of
candy. 1 am 5 years and have two lit
tie sisters and two brothers. Thank
you. DOROTHY RUSSELL.
"a Gerard avenue. East Orange
Dear Santa:
please give me n pair of gloves and
a pair of rubbers. Send my brothers
and sisters what you think is good
for them. My ma goes out working.
"STEPHEN COUSIN.
"25 Magazine street,
Dear Santa Claus:
"Will you please send me a sled and
my sister a story book and a game.
You friends,
CHARLES STAUDT AND SISTER.
"115 Second street, Harrison"
Dear Santa Claus:
II would like to have a doll and a
carriage. We have nine children in the
family and it Is pretty hard to get
along. ELIZABETH GROSS.
AIS South Ninth street"
The STAR has a great many more
letters thar 1t can give space to.
Many names are being registered
daily on the list of Empty Stocking
Club members, but there are still a
great many more who have asked for
Santa Claus to help them than we have
names of those who will help. A money
aont n q n frOD, n ID Crahapa
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-11
ODD FELLOWS HOLD ANNIVERSARY.

Grand Master Charles A. Woodruff,
pendent Order of odd Fellows, and his
staff. will be the guests this evening
of North End Lodge at the twentieth
anniversary celebration in the castle
hall.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-11
REVISION OF TARIFF
is CULLOM'S PREDICTION.
Veteran Illinois Statesman Be-
Iieyes 1t Is Sure to Come.

CHICAGO, Dec. 11.-Senator Cullom,
veteran Illinois statesman who, as
chairman of the steering committee Of
the Senate. will WELD large influence
upon questions to be considered by the
present Congress, predicts that the
trust problem will be satisfactorily
settled, and that the policy of protec-
ton will be kept in mind in the revision
of the tariff, which he Is sure will eome.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-11
Tots Write STAR for Santa
Gifts Of Many Descriptions

YES, he'll be here. just two weeks from today Who? Why, u dear old
N friend, Santa Claus OF course, We don't hno whether lie is coming this
y yea in a sleigh with reindees or in a high-powered motorc r. If
there is n O now he may have to use an automobile, but don't III worry, he
in IAN aeronlane this wear
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-11

4 delayed advertisement hripss eplx the After
math Of trade. It IL the nrst call tkAk captures
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-11

A Merry Christmas for EVERYBODY this Year!
Empty Stocking Club, Care NEWARK EVENING STAR,
Newark, N. j.:
want to be a Volunteer Santa Claus. l will give
presents to ............ poor children, AND-OR l will
give food, clothing and other necessities to ............
families.
Name)
(Address)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-11

MEMBERS oF THE EMPTY STOCKING CLUB.
FIJI in this blank with he number o will take care of INT send
1t NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-08

~ member of the Hous
Ways and Means, began h
as a page boy in the Kent,
He made his first stump sp'
eighteen years old.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-08
NATIONAL TOPLINERS
BY JAMES HAY, JR.

the last elections, when his opponents said
they would beat him, he mounted the stump,
gazed contemptuouSly at everybody in gen.
eral and remarked, IL don't care whether
you send me back to Congress or not can
make more money by staying at home. Suit
yourselves"
Whereupon, just to get even with him,
they reelected him and hurled him into the
acidiferous job of going the aspidorhyncus
one better.
Washington's leading wits and an au-
thority on gastronomy, took former Rep
resentative James Tawney and Robert
DOugan to dinner at downtown hotel one
evening, and proceeded to show his skill in
ordering fine and sumptuous meal.
In the midst of his palaver with the waiter,
he looked up and asked briskly, "How about
corn fritters? You fellows like corn frit-
ters?"
"Yes," said Tawney.
"Very much-very, very much" ex-
claimed Dougan, edging his chair closer to
the table.
In due time the waiter brought in the corn
fritters, which Dougan refused to taste.
"But l thought you liked them!" ex-
claimed Norwood, his epicurean soul cast
down by Dougan's refusal.
u do" explained Dougan; "but l am in
formed by the best authorities that corn
gives you pellagra."
well I'll tell you what you are!" said the
host holly. "You're the hookworm of hos
pitality."
p REPRESENTATIVE HENRY D. CLAY
~ TON of Alabama was discussing Demo-
cratic leadership. "A leader of Democracy"
he said, seems to be man who finds out
what his party wants and then jumps out
with the cry, Get behind me, and III lead
you to it."
NORMAN MERRITT, who looks after
the national Capitals mail, is the
youngest first-class postmaster in the coun-
try. He is thirty-three years old, and
bushes easily.
SPEAKER CLARK and Representative
~ John Dwight of New York walked side
by side into the banquet room of the Ma
tional Geographic Society not long ago
Clark being a person who is credited with
presidential ambitions and Dwight having
been man of great influence when his party
was in power in the House.
Say, Dwight" remarked Clark; "these
Geographers seem to be pretty keen on num-
bers."
@How's that?' asked Dwight.
Il see by this diagram" explained the
Speaker, @that they have pushed me into
seat No. 13; and, by the great Missouri
you re planted in No. %! Do you believe
in signs?"
OLLIE MERLE JAMES, Democratic
~ member of the House Committee on
Ways and Means, began his political career
as page boy in the Kentucky Legislature
He made his first stump speech when he was
eighteen years old.
A SOUTHERN Senator was alone in his
Office one morning not long ago when
middle-aged woman entered, bringing with
her wild CLEAN in her eye.
"Can you lend me twenty dollars?" she
asked, calling the Senator by name.
@I'm sorry replied the lawmaker, "but
I'm afraid l can't this morning. I'm pretty
hard up" -
The visitor fidgeted in the chair which she
had taken without invitation. II need
twenty dollars very badly" she continued.
"In fact, I've just escaped from a lunatic
asylum The CLEAN in her eye got wilder,
and she began to wave her handbag in long
The Washington herald., 1911-02-05

..Ths Piper" by Josephine Prsston
Peabody. which had III hrst performance
1t the New Theater. Nsv York thts
Kate pouslas Wiegin. ~ - ~ issusd
n sezss6-Isstsr saisicn6 a. tAssss oe ~
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PiRs NICHOLAS 1orewoRrSH -

trait Of some rather unfortunately fea-
tured parsonage, he preserves all the
essentials Of outline and coloring that
go to make a telling likeness. but treats
the whole with q tender kindness. en-
deavoring always to bring out the hap
pier side Of his subjects features and to
submerge the ugiier physiological ele-
ments.
Use MaGnifyinE Glass.
Miniatures" said Mr. Williams. ARE
now nearly always painted on thin sheets
Of selected ivory with q small sable
brush. They are done in water colors
and finished under a magnifying glass
Richard Cossway. one Of the worlds
greatest miniature painters, was the first
artist to demonstrate that ivory Is the
most suitable material for the painting Of
miniatures. These little portraits are
jewels and must be highly finished. I
simply teaches how TO paint a small
water color on ivory. We cannot do bet
ter than study the works of such old
masters Of miniature Painting as Samuel
Cooper and John Smart. Their work had
all the breadth and life Of q Rembrandt
or Sargent, and possessed. because Of
their high finish. the refinement and deli
cacy that makes beautiful miniature a
sonnet of portraiture.
"Of course a revival Of any art brings
many evils. At the present time there
are many incompetent: miniaturists who
simply slavishly copy into color pho
tograph with all its lifelessness. Others,
again. produce works even more abom-
Unable. for they have only the meretri-
cious prettiness of a Christmas card,
The Royal Society and the American So
cieties have done much to correct this
evil. Their exhibitions are both educa-
tional and artistic"
Mr.. Williams believes this country
should adopt the method Of having mini
atures painted of all national celebrities
to be preserved in a national gallery. He
says the English preserve their miniatures
with their family jewels and other heir
looms and value them as highly.
Mr.. Williams Is one Of the few minfa-
turists to paint full-length figures, and
for this. and also because of his tech
nical methods he is known in England as
the Miniature GainSbOrough."
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81 w HTArr

ture painters do. He expresses his de-
testation of this form Of alleged portrait
painting In no uncertain terms.
Mr.. Williams began the painting Of
miniatures without making any partic-
ular study of this branch Of art He had
spent several years in the art schools
Of Paris and London studying portrait
painting but when he turned his atten-
ton to the infinitely more difficult tech
nique. in which he has become such
master. he made Of experience and hard
work his only tutors.
To be sure he had examples Of the
finest miniature painting the world has
known spread before him in profusion
to study, for in this branch Of the arts
England has ever led tho way. Since
the time Of Samuel Cooper. down through
a succession of such famous painters Of
miniatures as Richard Cosway. George
Englehart, John Smart, and Sir William
Ross. in the present century, England
has been the mother Of the greatest ex-
ponents of this fascinating art After
Sir William Ross achievements Of fame
as a miniature painter the Introduction
OF photography practically killed the art
The clever portrait work Of the better
photographers and the immense differ
ence in cost, led the miniature painters
prospective clients to the camera shops.
and for a number Of years the practice
Of the art was limited to the work Of
a little handful Of the devoted, who were
so fortunately situated az to be able
to paint these little jewels for the love
of the craft and for the old families who
wished to continue their family collec-
tions Of miniature portraits.
Starts q Revival
About fifteen years ago Mr.. williams
gathered a little band Of fellow-crafts-
men and organized the Royal Society.
Through their beautiful products and
earnest efforts a new interest in the art
gradually has been aroused until to-day
it is once more ''the thing to have ones
portrait done in miniature by some cele-
brated artist. The costliness OF these
little portraits. however, limits the field
to those upon whom the gods Of fortune
have smiled their broadest.
As q hobby Mr.. Williams has taken up
The Washington herald., 1911-02-05

new scale-a scale Of billions and hum
dreds Of billions of miles. By means of
the telescope and celestial photography
We are enabled to "look outward into
mighty vistas Of space and in imagina-
ton look backward over enormous Wis
tas Of time" On all sides the astrono-
Ter deals with the infinite and the eter-
tronomy, which consists in the gradual
extension of our knowledge Of the uni
verse, may truly be termed the grandest
of all the sciences
Step by step the author shows how
man has learned his true place in the
great scheme Of the universe, from the
time when the ancients thought the
earth was central. fixed. and immov-
! able. the end and aifh of the entire Gre
alton. until modern astronomy has re-
vealed to us universe infinitely vaster
than was known to our forefathers."
1ln Various Moods.o
Little of the verse written nowadays
has the direct familiar appeal Of the
poems by Irving Bacheller contained In
the volume called I'm Various Moods IS
Here are stanzas that sing themselves
gether of words and sense and meter ID
oo opS Ihdl, oItcE Oue Tc8QluB, IL - AI0>
possible to imagine them disjoined. Bal
lads such as Mr.. Bachelier writes are
joyful discoveries. like good songs. They
do not raise the half-suppressed objec-
tons In our minds that frequently make
US cold even toward carefully finished
and artistic verse. We accept the thing
heartily and are glad that 1t has been
done. The cheerful philosophy Of Eben
Holden finds spontaneous expression In
thA
titled Faith:
Nov. doa't expect too much O. God. it wouldn't
Be quite fair
II fer anything ~ wanted - could only suap .
pay0;
I'd pay fot yoz. an 70. fer ni... an D.na
He vOuIdn't have thing To Do hut ~ aAsd AZ
proPR.
II an thinc oDme % a~. BIN. tAsyd hw but
little worth.
An eoDe ns vtth IN . pras~ r'd nasss sss
the earth,
IT'S The ton J. DIV. to .. sAi.s, the ss,as en-
We r.e.on by-sn' szy tesxn n.ls II veins
double.
The simplicity and sloqosnc. Of th.s.
lines, With their picturesque and homely
phrasing. sufficiently mark them ~ post
ic; yet It would be unfair not to ct In
contrast q more imaginative and lyrical
Tho Viewers Dye" Is almost perfsct:
nass nauy hus en- suos knsw b u 49,
a weaver Old
Al thes 4 ths vhits o ~ NJ lsnaD ~ -
k10w O the my Oa3di
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o Nh st ths vsnAsfsl ~ = ~ - - g -
rs vOsw'1 dye. 1st !. - s
s 1hsre arc many rousiae waz eaunAa.
Esuch - the ''0absr, Creeh ~ r -
~ famous s'Whlapsrim' IN Many
No ~ not oaro for oolf f-ooGoe6uo 1T =
uQeezy wip - n Noeog 14e91fss
The Washington herald., 1911-02-05

sion of that point of view is communi-
Gated from the cartoons to the text.
For instance, Mr.. McCutcheon solemn
ly relates what he declares is the story
told by his head man, Abdi, a Somal, Of
what befell certain lions at the hands of
his (Abdi's) favorite uncle:
Once upon a time tthe story rmS my uncle. Who
lions sitting in the road. He took his spear and
tried to kill them. but they divided, three On each
side of the road. So he took to his heeaA To the
next town it twelve hours march, but he ran
it in ten hourz the lions in hot pursuit every
minute Of the time. When he reached the town he
jumped the thornbush zareba. and the hona. dose
behind him, jumped orer after him and were killed
by his spear. one after the Other.
Appended Is veracious pen-and-ink
sketch showing the uncle of Abdi in the
act of spearing the lions zen brochette," "
as it were. Another of Adds stories re-
lates to a lion that a resourceful Somali
held by the ears for three days till Sec
ond Somali came along and relieved him,
only to be abandoned with loud laughter
to hang on for his life in his turn for
seven days more. At the end Of that
time, said Abdi, he found opportunity,
by AIlah's grace. to pass the job on to a
third Somali, who (the lion being by that
time pretty ured) was able, after day
or two. to choke him to death. This en-
Gaging tale also Is illustrated with car
toon.
Hardly less pleasantly reflected in
words and pictures is an adventure which
Mr.. McCutcheon boldly credits to him.
self and one Of his companions, Mr.. Ste
phenson. Driving one day across the
Athi plain in q carriage drawn by mules
and sweeping the landscape with their
binoculars in search of gazelles. they de-
scried> afar OF two extra large lions in
10 ssexnu
lop" the lions in the carriage-that il to
say. ride them down and shoot them.
They "galloped" with might and main
and several times got within few hum
dred yards of the quarry. which hed
with becoming dignity. Always the lions
managed to slip away. One Of the pic
lures shows the triumphal entry into
Nairobi that might have been, with two
huge lions hanging from the tail Of the
carriage.
In another place Mr.. MeCutcheon de-
scribes gallant attempt to round up
giant giraffe, which included hurting
over q line Of fre. which was sweeping
the field of operations. He failed to sur
round the giraffe, but insists that the
race was the best he had In AL his stay
In Africa.
You need not imagine. however. that
al the adventures related are Of this
arabesque nature. The cartopnist seems
to have managed to shoot quite his share
OF Hons md to face q charging elephant
With at least the regulation degree Of
coolnegs. He relates the slaughter Of ..
bull elephant which y photographed
s'bows-on" - Il lies. and would DO credit
to almost any btg-eame hunter. His OBJ
serva&icus of TIE habtts of these isroe
creatures have led him - tie 6rm boaief
that TIE elaphent eharsee viii tn ~
IN, tnD -, ule1t1n = 1lly esir
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attempt to escape. The distinction Of
motive is not, perhaps. very important
to the man in the way Of the onrushfng
brute, but the comment may be regard
ed as interesting at this distance.
Though the chief purpose Of the expe-
dition was to collect elephants for the
American Museum sof Natural History,
the author is not above recording the
virtues and the appealing ways Of q
small stray dog that popped out Of a
swamp which the porters were beating
for lions: or even Of setting down in the
artists own words the recipe for "poulet
archduc'' as served by M. Henry in
Paris, and that Of a successful pudding
as served in Nairobi. to say nothing Of
an authentic list Of the components Of
rice tafel, which is described as "a IA
nous dish served in Java" Mr.. Nc
Cutcheon, who went to Mombasa by way
of the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal.
and the Red Sea, returned by way Of
India, Singapore, Manila, Hongkong.
and the Pacific.
MARAp1ck AT FORTY. By Hugh w.lpo,e.
Duffield 4 10.
One Of the current English novelists
recently declared that fifty is the real
romantic or dangerous, period in mems
lives, the pronouncement being not near
ly so original as 1t appears at first sight.
since there is in existence q much older
dictum to the effect that "fifty is the
youth Of old age" Assuming all this to
be true, forty must be mans real awk-
ward age. Maradick, as Mr.. Walpole's
title infoIms US, was forty, and in affairs
Of the emotions he certainly was awk-
ward when. after nearly twenty years Of
meaningless marriage. neither happy nor
unhappy, he woke up from his numbing
round in the daily treadmill and became
a male '.napper.'' His pretty. shallow
wife took him for granted; she never
considered him at all, not even as the
successful bread-winner. He was there
as the furniture was. as useful, rs un-
romantic. and far less ornamental. Then.
one year. on the drst evening Of 1heir
annual outing. Maradick's numbed tenn
permanent awoke-the man was on the
verge of a breakdown from overwork-
and he told his wife that he wondered
why he did not turn her out OF the house.
with Q few forceful remarks by way Of
justification Of such q course. Where
upon Mrs. Aarsdick. womanlike. at
once became interested In him for the
first time IN fifteen years. He spoiled
the impression thus made by apologising
afterward. but that was IN the beginning
Of the story.
Aaradick. half awake at last. involves
himself head. over heels In the secret
courtship enl runaway marriage Of q
young man whom be meets in the quiet
Engiish seaside res6rt Then arrives the
noveIist'e vito, Whose rivals in her ahuD-
band's Affections axe NJ boota and who
pAilAndess fFem tue - time to hiring
him back 70 III alleg1ance - 6oT thfough
3sa1onsy. Marpdiek tnnae her sogoeuoly;
tn eoonanoo & j61th whaoA ~ - fur-
therod - ygeDqe ~ tor tAlR Many
The Washington herald., 1911-02-05

IN AFRICA: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game
Country. By John T. MoCutcheon. Photographs
and ortoons by the author. Bobbs Merritt Com
pany.
So many books about big-game hunt
ing in Africa have been pressed upon
the public since Col Roosevelt lent the
advertisement of his name and fame to
the region OF which Mombasa is the sea-
ward gate that the first impulse toward
any new book dealing with that subject
is to leave it alone and, merely on sus-
picion, advise others to do likewise. OF
course, the rash person who yields to
such an impulse toward any particular
book does 1t at his peril and in the case
ct the present large, fat volume, written
and illustrated by Mr.. McCutcheon, the
cartoonist. the impulse should be sternly
restrained.
Mr.. McCutcheon's story Of his expedi-
rest Of the prizes Of the jungle and the
veldt is different. 1t is written with so
little of the sportsman's complacency,
and the quaint drawings with which it is
embellished are done in such a cheerful
spirit, that even when the author de-
scrfbes the shooting of a lion by himself
or the stalking Of herd Of elephants,
you are prepared to forgive him. More
than that. you find your mood still in
dUlgent though he encounters Col.
Roosevelt In the wilderness and reports
with infinite discretion chat before the
ex-Presidential tent beneath the fiutter-
ing shadow Of the Stars and Stripes, and
even retails the discussion of the col
oners famous pigskin library Of classics.
Cur author, by the way. has the honor
of being guided by young Mr. Kermit
Roosevelt to a spot where the leader of
the Smithsonian expedition has the day
before shot an elephant From the side
Of the carcass protrudes the head Of
Ecrged hyena who has eaten his way in
from the other side. There is a cartoon
to prove it. The cartoodist asserts that
there is also a photograph. but he does
not reproduce the latter
BY the way, one Of the first adven-
tureS Of Mr.. McCutcb3on Is q balloon
ascension Mrs. Akeley, no mean lion-
slayer, whose husband was the head of
the party to which the cartoonist vas
attached, also went up In the thing Ito
the admiration Of all NairobD for Q last
look at the edge Of civilization. Then,
boys porters, and the rest Of the black
bearers Of the white mans complex bur-
den Of acquired needs, the party struck
out into the hunting country and. appar-
entity, did the usual thingD-shot the
usual specimens in the usual manner
and visited the usual portions Of Brikish
East Africa That the actual adventures
vere not In any way different from the
adventures Of al the other African hunt
efD tAo photographs (Which are excellent
ap4 exactly like al the other hunterr
pbotographs) make suf3ciently evident
y = ~ author's point q view Witch
{ sy4os111D ~ 1t&egend4 ana The sxpess.