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The Washington herald., 1911-11-19
A Scotch Music Lessen.

A Highland piper Fho had a pupil TO
teach originated a method by which he
succeeded in reducing the difficulties of
the task to a minimum and at the same
time fixed his lesson in the pupils mind.
Here. Donald" said he, TAX yer
pipes, lad, an gle US a blast.
80. Vera weel blawn indeed; but
what's a sound. Donald, wrout sense?
You may blaw forever wfout max
ing a tune OF, II I dinna tell ye how
the queer things on the paper maun
help We.
I'VE see that big fellow WI round
open face pointing to a semibreve) be-
tween two lines OF a bar? He moves
slowly from that line to this. while We
beat ane WI your fist an gle a long
blast.
IF We put leg to him ye max twa
o. him, an he'll move twice as fast
If, now, ye black his face, he'll run
four times faster than the fellow wi the
white face; and if. after backing his
face, ven bend his knee or tie his leg
he'll hop eight times faster than the
white-fared chap I showed ye first.
Now" concluded the piper senten-
tiousIy, "whene'er We blaw your pipes,
Donald. remember this-that the tighter
those fellows legs are tied the faster
they'll run and the quicker they're sure
to dance"
The Washington herald., 1911-11-19
COUSINS MARRIAGE
INVOLVES DANGER
Restrictive Laws Advocated
in England.

London, Nov. 1S.-Food for thought for
cousins who contemplate marrying one
another is to be found in a little bro
chure just published. entitled On the
Marriage of First Cousins" by Miss
Ethel Elderton, a co-worker with Prof.
Karl Pearson at the Cation Laboratory
for National Eugenics, London Uni
versity.
The guiding principle in forbdding mar
riages between near kin, such as uncle
and niece, aunt and nephew. or grand
parent and grandChild, is their resem-
blance.- Miss EIderton accordingly set
herself to determine whether cousins are
much alike as any of these pairs OF rela-
tives. From nearly six thousand pairs
of cousins she endeavored to measure
the degree of resemblance in health, in
tellect, success, temper. and tempera-
ment. The likenesses are found to be
greater in intelligence and health, and
least in temper.
Roughly speaking. the general resem-
blance between COUSINS is about half that
between brother and sister. and practi-
cally the same as that shown by statis-
tics of uncles and nieces and Of aunts
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HOMES SPRING Up
ON EXPO" GROUNDS
Old jamestown Buildings
Now Residences.

Where once an Inflated exposition
stood. doomed to public neglect because
Of Encouragement, there is now a bower
of beauty, a cluster or private homes.
making one OF the prettiest domestic
scenes to be found along the entire At
lantic seaboard.
The jamestown exposition has been
followed by the jamestown improvement
league, and many OF the buildings which
housed State exhibits are now private
residences. The War Path" with its
Midway sights, the great Inside Inn,
the cries Of fakers-are all gone to-day.
and In their place stands a charming
little colony of homes, once the proud
exhibits built by each State, now the
handsome mansions of citizens with suf-
ficient means, and certainly with taste,
to appreciate homes in such delightful
surroundings.
The situation of this domestic colony.
as everybody knows, is unsurpassed. 1t
was selected as a site for the jamestown
exposition because Of its scenic beauty.
A visit to the grounds last summer show
ed the hedges so marvelodsly grown and
blossoming that they seemed banks OF
sweetness; the rhododendron bushes had
taken kindly to the soil and were riotinS
in beauty, and great trees formed long,
silent lanes where one might wander
at will in solitary meditation or pleasant
converse.
The grounds are well protected, and
Waterman is paid to keep guard A
gatekeeper stands to halt all corners,
and to request an entrance fee Of 10
cents Residents and their visitors are
exempt from payment, and 1t is said
that II the gatekeeper depended on gate
receipts, his remuneration would be
meager, as many visitors name res
ident in passing the gate and afterward
forget to leave cards: but the require
ment keeps out Objectionable persons,
and is a scource Of comfort and security
to those living within the grounds.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-19

New York, Nov. 1S.-Accompanying is
an epitome of the farewell address TO
American women of Diomede FalconiO,
apostolic delegate at Washington, and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, dictated just before
his departure for Rome in the drawing
room Of the residence of Archbishop
Farley.
Acknowledgements Falconio, small and
energetic. paced nervously up and down
the room, his brilliant black eyes spark
ling with enthusiasm as he talked of a
topic in which he is passionately inter-
eSted.
Il have nothing but sentiments Of high
est esteem for American ladies'" he be-
gan. American women are extremely
well educated. They are full of energy,
and it is impossible to overestimate the
great results to be obtained when they
exert their influence for the real welfare
of society.
i earnestly hope they will continue to
exercise their power for good as they
have in the past, but"
Here he paused for several moments
before beginning his denunciation:
Il do not think it proper for any wom-
an to go outside of the sphere which is
assigned to her sex. good woman
should have in mind above all, the proper
care of her family-she is first OF all a
citizen of the home. and if she fulfills
adequately the duties of that citizenship,
she will have no leisure for outside af-
fairs. In the home should be her heart
and soul There is no higher or holier
mission than hers-the care and educa-
tion of children. Men revere, love, and
honor the home woman.
4 earnestly hope that American wom-
en-, while they inherit the stateliness of
the Roman matrons and the courage of
Spartan mothers, will cherish at the same
time the noble mission assigned to them,
that Of wifehood and motherhood.
1T should be the duty of women to
exert their powerful influence to combat
the divorce evil, the greatest evil of our
day, which is undermining the life of
families and of society,"
The Washington herald., 1911-11-19
Moorish wedding Banquet.

A wedding at Tetuan has united the
two most powerful families in the town.
The son Of the celebrated Moor Lebady,
lately the Basha Tetuan, has been Joined
in matrimony with the daughter Of the
Moor Alcayna. Nearly all the Christian
residents of Tetuan attended the cere-
mony, as well as others who Journeyed
from Cueta.
The Moors who were invited to the
feasting and revelry. which lasted two
days, had such enormous appetites that
for the purposes OF different bsnquets
they slaughtered 1900 hens, 1000 chickens
900 sheep, 40 oxen, and 500 pigeons. Honey
and cheese were consumed by the hum
dredweight, and bottles OF lemonade
disappeared by the thousand. For coffee
and tea $500 pounds of sugar were re-
quired, and Lebady spent e12o on bis
cults, pastry. and confectionery.
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scrupulous Machine in the Nation, and
Reform Comes at Last.

Eight years ago. a young Yale grad
uate stood on Cincinnati's public landing
on election day, and watched colored man
after Colored man come up to a stout, re-
faced man, who upon being assured they
had voted, passed out to each a dollar
bill. Henry T. Hunt might well have
said, like Lincoln, When I saw that
thing going on, determined that, when
1 got a chance, 1 would hit it hard"
Two years later his first chance came
A weak gang ticket had been nomi-
mated at a period of overconfidence; an
anti-bOss campaign was gathering
strength in the State. and President
Taft, then Secretary of War, contributed
his denunCiatiOn of the Cox machine
Among other triumphs effected in con-
sequence, Mr.. Hunt was elected to the
State legislature. Although only a
first-termer, ne soon became marked.
His name will go down in Ohios annals
by reason of his law prohibiting corpo-
ration campaign contributions. Two
other measures in which he was great-
ly interested have so far failed to pass
the Massachusetts, ballot in State cleo
tions, with nonpartisanship in munich
pal voting, and the nonpartisan city
primary, such as now obtains in COM
mission governed cities.
Began Fight in 1905.
Some idea of his caliber is shown by
his position on the 2-cent railroad fare
law. Hunt was the only member in
either house with courage enough to
vote against It, not because OF over
friendship to the railroads, but because,
like Gov. Hughes, he did not believe in
regulating rates that way.
In 1908, he was transferred to a new
field OF activity. The refusal of Cox's
prosecuting attorney to pursue the dis
closures of corruption that two legisla-
tive Investigations of the city had
made, convinced the reformers that
they must get control of that Office
John w. Peck, the young Harvard man,
who, as chairman of the county execu-
tive committee, has, by his disinterest-
ed leadership, pulled the local Demo-
cratic organization out of the hopeless
condition which has been it's lot for
years, could have had the position for
the asking. He said: Name Hunt" and
Hunt was named. Then Cincinnati got
its first taste Of the remarkable style of
campaigning that has revolutionized
the city.
Like Jerome, Hunt makes the most d.
rect and appalling charges against both
ringleaders and ring tools, but unlike
Jerome, he does so in a restrained, al
most Indifferent manner, that, by It's
contrast with the viyidness of its state
ments, lends them credibility. Thus, in
The Washington herald., 1911-11-19

According to figures and estimates fur
nished by John Ball Osborne chief of
the Bureau Of Trade Relations, De-
partment of State, about go. OOC
Americans went abroad during the last
fiscal year and spent fully S2OO, 1000, 900 on
passage across the Atlantic, hotel bills
railway transportation, amusements, and
miscellaneous purposes" Mr. Osborne
thinks that probably another 500, 900. OOr
is dropped in Paris by American tourists
for jewelry and gowns alone.
The See American First convention.
which is to be held in Baltimore next
May, is primarily to be educational in
the line of it's suggestive title, but one
very important result of such move
ment will be that millions Of dollars that
otherwise would be spent abroad will
find their way into the various avenues
Of American trade.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-19
Washington Had Theater Almost from the
Day of the Founding of the City.

There is probably no other city in the
United States whose playhouses can boast
Of such a wealth of historic interest as
the theater OF Washington. The city
has theater sites which have been the
homes of leading and great men OF this
Countrywide homes of Seward and Blaine,
the playhouse where President Lincoln
was assassinated. The first theater in
Washington was known as the United
States Theater, situated where the old
Post-ofice Department building now
stands, and was opened in June, 1900.
by Messrs wignell and Reinagle, Of
Philadelphia. II was open from June,
Blodgett's Hotel, which was built in 1913,
and which afterward was the general
post-ofice Performances were given ev-
cry Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. A
chronfcher of those days said Of this
theater that the company played with
great reputation, but no proportionate
profit"
First Stock Company.
Later, in 1903, he states, certain progress
i've citizens, many of whom had doubt
hess visited the European capitals and
had had some Of the stifr-necked and rus
tic Americanism knocked out Of them,
met at Tunniclifrs Hotel, secured a dona-
ton Of ground on the northeast corner OF
Eleventh and C streets northwest, and,
forming a stock company, built the
Washington Theater, which was complet-
ed November, 1904 The shares were
placed at $50 each, and placed In the
hands of Maj. J. r. Van Ness, chairman
of the building committee. number Of
persons subscribed acknowledging, car
pentering plastering, &c. The initial per-
Torrance consisted Of a grand medley
entertainment by the celebrated Mr.. Ma
ginnis from London, who has performed
in most Of the capital -e4ties Of Europe
and America"
sheridan's School for Scandal was
presented for the first time in Washington
on September 26, 1905, Mr.. Clarke. Mr..
Claude, Mrs. wilmot, Mrs. Claude, and
Mrs. Bignall playing the parts of Sir
Oliver Surface, Sir Benjamin Backbite,
Lady Teazle, Lady Sneerwell, and Mrs.
Candor, respectively. On September z,
1908, Neutrality-suspicious. witnessed the first
performance Of THE Rivals" given in
this city, in which play Mr.. Joseph JEFF
ferson, grandfather Of the present actor
Of that name took the part of Bob Acres.
The length Of the theaterical run in those
days was nine nights. AS the war of 1S12
drew nigh plays of the kind above men,
toned gave place to blood and thunder
productions, in which the British were
most thoroughly ridiculed, walloped. lam
pooned. and held up to scorn, but the
English had their inning later. when Gen.
Ross entered the city and drove out the
player folk, although he kindly left the
playhouse standing.
On March %, 1919. President Monroe and
family attended a benefit given to Mr..
and Mrs. Russell. on which occasion The
School of Reform was presented. This
appears to have been the first mention of
a President OF the United States attend
ing the theater in Washington Doubtless
many of his constituents were shocked.
while others felt no doubt that, like the
Romans, we were on the down grade to
ruin, for surely the heavens would not
The Washington herald., 1911-11-19

an address at the University of Cincin-
natl, he said: Now, always thought
that, while the gang, of course, protected
political crime, it at least frowned on
burglary and murder. But I have found
out dozen cases where the prosecuting
attorney had evidence that would send a
man to Columbus TOR twenty years or
to the electric chair, and he put it in
his pocket and kept il there. Why? Why,
don't you know? That man was useful;
he could beat up a challenger on election
day or send a trOublemaker to the hos
pital" Then, as his audience gasped, he
added: When the gang asks me to pro-
duce the proof for that statement, I
VIII" He was never asked.
He proved his physical courage when
he went into Cincinnatrs most dangerous
quarter, the Eighteenth ward, and in a
hall full of opponents, warned Ike Valen-
tine, the burly precinct captain. who sat
directly in front of him, that II he ever
again tried to run in the vote Of a color
ed fioater he would send him to the peni-
Tertiary. Even a Cox-named grand jury
had been compelled to indict Valentine
for this offense, but Cox's prosecuting at
torney had tried the case in so blunder-
ing a fashion as to force an acquittal.
Valentine has since kept on the safe side
of the law. Out of this campaign came
tue uGAedl VI the dlOI CALClblOuCA pLOSC-
cutting attorney by a Democratic candi-
date for Common Pleas judge, Frank
NJ. German, and Hunts own election
to succeed this man over his own chief
deputy.
Fighting the Courts.
The three years ensuing have been one
long battle between the prosecutor and
the Common Pleas Court, in which Judge
German was his only friend-a battle in
which Hunt had finally to acknowledge
that, in a city where the judges allowed
the grand juries TO be selected from
CoX's personal organization, the Blaine
Club, and promptly ruled out of court all
indictments that by one miracle or an
other slipped through these bodies, a
prosecutor whose sole right was that of
protest, who was not even permitted to
supervise the grand jury in its delibera-
tons, a ruling not only directly contrary
10 that in effect in every other one Of
the lightweight counties of the State
but also absolutely unheard Of in Gin
cinnati itself until Hunt assumed Office,
could avail but little until new juddes
were elected in 1872
So Hunt ran for mayor, and besides
making the vital promise TO rid the city,
so far as the vastly increased powers OF
his new position permitted, of the blight
OF Coxism, presented a constructive pro-
gramme of considerable attractiyeness.
TO pledges Of cooperation with the park
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and nephews. III the undesirability Of
marriage between certain degrees Is
founded on the closeness of resemblance
between Individuals says Miss Elder
ton, the law which forbids the marriage
OF uncle and aunt with niece and nephew
should also restrict the marriag OF first
cousins
The offspring of cousin marriages ap-
pear to be particularly liable to be deaf
mutes. There seems little doubt that
II there is any deaf mutism in a stock. a
cousin marriage. even when both parties
are free from disease, is most danger
Gus to the offspring
The Washington herald., 1911-11-19
TAX ON CELIBATEs PASSED.
and Spinsters PcnaIiZed
in German PrincipaIIty.

Berlin. Nov. ia resolution imposing
a surtax on the income of unmarried
men and women more than thirty years
OF age has been passed by the Diet OF
the little principality of Reuss in Thur
ingia. Himself 4 taxable bachelor, the
father of the measure wanted to apply
the law to childless couples, widowers.
and Widows but so fierce was the oppo-
sition that he had to abandon this part
of the scheme.
One member threatened a general exc
dus of well-to-do bachelors from Reuss,
there being seventy-six of these desira-
bles in Greiz, the capital. Another MEM
Der pleaded the cause of taxable spin
sters, who could not be expected to take
the initiative in the business of getting
a husband. The surtaX is 5 per cent on
the income tax on incomes up to s., 500
and 10 per cent on larger income taxes.
The population OF Reuss is between $4,000
and $1,000.
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BOSS COX'S FOE A FIGHTER:
H.T.HUNT WINS LONG FIGHT

and health boards, which Cox has
thought it prudent to let escape from his
grasp, and whose efficiency is now Gin
cinnati's pride, Hunt added the announce
ment that II elected he would call into
constant consultation a cabinet of Gin
cinnati's civic leaders to assist in the
undertaking and direction of the City's
most needed reforms. This plan has al
ready been found highly beneficial in
Kansas City.
Two episodes combined to make this
campaign notable in Cincinnati's expert
ence. The first, ominous for the gang,
was the first break in years in the all
but solid newspaper phalanx that has
hitherto guarded Cox's interests John
r. Mclean, nettled, II is said, by news
paper criticism which his erstwhile CO.
! worker in the cause of the gang, Charles
P. Taft. had levied against a drinking
fountain set up by Mclean in memory
of his father. swung his Enquirer into
the reform ranks. This gave them such
publicity as they have not had for years
On the other hand, three days before
election, good citizens were overwhelmed
by President Taft's announcement that
relying on assurances from a Cox ex-
mayor, he would support the ring he had
so long denounced.
Never before, probably, has so cor
rupt a machine had so open an indorse-
ment from a President of the United
States: but Mr.. Taft declined to change
his stand. despite the public letter of
protest signed by a dozen independent
Republicans instrumental in carrying the
county for Taft IN 1908 when the gang
in resentment for his defeat of them in
1906 determined to let him face by him
self the anti-Republican wave that gave
the county to Harmon by 1900. The
voters patience, as the result showed.
had been taxed too long, and the Presi-
dent only added himself to the list of
the discredited at the election. While
Hunts majority was but 1900, it carried
in the whole ticket, including for coun-
cil-at-large John w. Peck, named above,
and Jerome B. Howard, the independent
Republican foreman of the grand jury
that indicted Cox for perjury, and even
won a majority in the gangs hitherto
impregnable stronghold, the city council.
Further HonOrs in Store.
What Of Hunts future? So far his
career has been one of unbroken electo-
raj success. Only thirty-three, and gain
ing new laurels in every fresh position.
he may well hope for further. honors
While it is likely that, with Mayor Gay
nor, he will conceive his duty to lie
rather toward his city than to a party
seeking a candidate for governor yet the
State has long been looking for as indie
pendent and plain-spoken a leader. The
qualities the voters have approved in
Gov. Harmon are manifesting themselves
In Hunt. When he first came IN office,
his friends said he injured himself by
talking indiscreetly; but, taught by ex-
perience, he is bravely over that now.
And 1t is safe to say that, in these days
of civic self-respect the outside world
will hear again from the man who came
within an ace Of putting Cox in the
,penitentiary, and has four times beaten
him In q stand-up fight
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smile on a sinful nation whose Chief Ex-
ecutive freuuented a public playhouse.
Doubtless the President excused himself
on the ground that The School of Re
form was a moral play
On April TO- 1920. the theater'' caught
fire and burned down, and it is amusing
TO read that Representative Culpepper,
of North Carolina, stood on the roof of
the building and extinguished the flames
as they caught. What a yappy
and backwoods set we must have been
in those days, when prominent citizens
took a hand in putting out fires. as they
still do in country villages where there
is no fire department worthy of the
name.
The Washington Theater.
The old theater was, however, rebuilt
in 1921, and the same year another play
house, known as the Washington Thea
ter was erected in Louisiana avenue, be-
tween Four-and-a-half and Sixth streets,
and opened the same year, August s, 1921,
under the management OF Messrs. War
rem & Wood. On August l, the year
following, the elder Booth, from the The
alter Royal and Covent Garden. London.
made his first appearance in Washing
ton In Richard I'LL"
Gen. Lafayette visited the older play
house on the night of December 4. 1924.
The theater was handsomely decorated
for the occasion, and the distinguished
French officer was received with great
enthusiasm.
Mr.. Haekett made his first appearance
in Washington September o, 1926, and
Edwin Forrest on October 2, the same
year. A serious row broke out in one
of the theaters, which a number of Con-
gTessmen took a hand in suppressing.
The Representatives Of the dear peo-
pie seemed in those days to have been
as useful in putting out fires and stop
ping fights as they were at securing
appropriations for their several "dees-
tricks"
The Washington Theater was formally
opened January 5, 1885, by W. Stewart,
of New York. with Dion Boucicault as
director. and it continued until August II,
1871, when 1t became Kernan's Lyceum
Theater and this marked the opening
night In Pennsylvania avenue. for pre-
vious to that time II was in Eleventh
street. The second theater to be estab-
lished in Washington was opened on
Theater in Louisiana avenue, between
Four-and-a-half and Sixth streets. and
was under the management of F. c.
Wemyss. However, II only lasted about
one year, after which II was opened sew
eral times for few nights, but did not
meet with much success. and WIS con-
verted into two assembly rooms, which
were opened on March 4. 1s41. for the
Inauguration ball Of President William
Henry Harrison. In 1861 II was leased
by Leonard Grover ana William Sim.
who opened II as Canterbury Hall, and
this famous wartime music hall was Wis
tied by people of all classes and from
all parts of the country. With the closing
Of the war It lost its patronage. and sue
A. a.. q 1T A.
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AMERICAN WOMEN
GET HIGH PRAISE
Cardinal-Designate Gives
Views Before Sailing.
WOMAN AND HER DUTY
BY MGR. FALC0NI0

A good woman is, first of all, a
citizen of the home.
She should have in mind, above
all. the care of her family.
If she fulfills her duties she
will have no time for outside af-
fairs.
1t should be her duty to combat
the divorce evil.
Men revere, love, and honor the
home woman.
There is no higher mission than
hers.
The Washington herald., 1911-11-19
Modern Playhouses.

The Columbia, Gayety. Chase's. Casino,
and Imperial are modern theaters, but
lack historical interest. except that
Chase's was built by the Washington
Light Infantry, and originally known as