The Washington times., 1911-07-10

gress and the legislatures to tell him
What Is soda water?
Local statistics show that there arc
quite a number of US recently who are
not clothed and in our right mind. This
can be halfway accounted for.
With $500 members of the Band OF
Mercy looking out daily for his COM
fort, the dumb animal ought to be able
to get along as we'll as the weather
permits.
The recple Of Georgetown this even
inc will know whether they are to have
cheaper gas. The directors were to
vote on the reduction this afternoon at
o'clock.
A site for the Lincoln memorial is to
be recommended by the Fine Arts Com
mission within two weeks. 1t will be
unfortunate if the commission gives un-
due weight to utilitarian considerations
in this case.
1t was a happy thought on the part Of
Superintendent Hudson to organize a
volunteer squad of high school boys to
supplement the life guards at the bath
ing beach, and the willingness on the
part of the boys cannot be too cordially
commended.
Hundreds of friends mourn the death
Of Sister Madeline O'Brien. for forty
years directress Of st. Joseph's Acad-
emy, Emmitsburg, Nd. Not only as an
educator was she known during the
A,,T Sh Of tho he
loved Sisters of Charity engaged in
field hospital work at Richmond, Va.
Friends of Miss Irene Gibson IL Wash
ington and hundreds of men anc women
service in the Public Library and the
Library Of Congress, without even
knowing her name. will feel sincere
regret at her death Sunday in Detroit.
Miss Gibson was connected with the
Public Library or Library Of Congress
for nearly fifteen years, and was one of
the most efficient members Of the STATS
of those institutions.
The beet argument that has yet been
advanced in behalf Of pure milk for
infant feeding is the mortality statis-
tlcS OF lNe DlSlIlCl I1Sdllll OSpdl lAhCAAI
for the week ending July 8. Seventeen
white babies and nine colored babies
under one year of age died in that
week. most of them from intestinal
troubles. Pure milk, which can now be
obtained by anybody in Washington
who wants it for infant feeding,
whether or not he has the money to pay
for it, is the surest remedy for sum-
mer sickness among babies.
knocking the Weather Bureau and
chiding the forecaster is quite a popular
indoor and outdoor sport, especially
since that memorable 4th Of March, 1909,
but the fact remains that the tips of
the skyscanners are usually pretty re-
liable. Chief Moore is entitled to espe-
cial credit for the line Of predictions of
the last ten days. One VINO watched
the forecasts and then noted the weather
would have discovered that the fore
casts have almost invariably been borne
out by subsequent climatic conditions.
Taken by and large" the country over.
weather forecasts are reasonably re-
liable.
Because 1t will be a memorial to a
man WHO Q6NOleO Ine D6SI years or his
life to the upbuilding of the Washing
ton school system, as well as because
1t will furnish adequate housing facili-
ties for young students of pedagogy. the
James Ormond Wilson Normal School
will be a welcome addition to the pub
lie educational establishment Of the
District. Washingtonians will be glad
to know the contract for the building
has been let and that work on 1t, in
the block bounded by Eleventh, Twelfth
Girard, and Harvard streets northwest,
will begin at once.
Poundmaster Samuel Einstein is dead
The man whose familiar face and pleas
ant smile greeted Washington dog own
ers In search of their missing pets for
thirty-eight years, has gone where the
yelp Of the canine and the protest Of
its master will nevermore be heard.
II is given to few men to serve their
community in one position for so long a
reriod, and it can be said of Mr.. Elm
stein that he served 1t well. In both
respects his experience was unusual
Not alone for his efforts to protect the
public from stray dogs is Mr.. Einstein's