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The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
Why Japan Changed Its Menu.

Sentimental arguments are against
the use of meat, because it Involves
the slaughter of animals. Economy
points strongly against animal food,
because the area necessary for feeding
beasts already makes the price of meat
high and will make it higher. Lab
oratory experiments almost always are
favorable to the vegetarian, who -four
ishes and lifts more than his meat-fed
colleague and walks farther and en-
joys better health.
And yet it happens, awkwardly
enough for the vegetarians, that the
nations OF active, aggressive, and ac-
complished men pretty generally have
been heavy meat eaters, and, asking
the pardon of Mr. Chain, who was
recently running for the Presidency
heavy drinkers also. Our own ances-
tors showed great strength and en-
durance, and they were not vegetarians
and were far from being total abstain
ers. The same is true of the people
of England and the Germans are
heavier feeders and drinkers than the
people of Southern Europe Further
more. in the industrial world there
have been experiments of labor fed
with and without meat, and the great
er energy of the meat eaters has
proved their more generous diet an
economy.
For years the vegetarian has been
able to fall back upon Japan as
conclusive argument There is no
doubt about the intellectual activity
of the Japanese; they have proved
their courage and their endurance, and
in recent years they have taken to
working with heavy materials They
can work with steel as well as with
bamboo and paper. But Japan has be-
trayed the vegetarian. Great as the
Japanese nation was on a diet of vege-
tables, with little fish, Japan is TAX
ing to meat diet in order to become
even greater. During the war with
Russia meat was being introduced into
the rations in the army and navy. The
enlisted men did not take kindly to it,
but it was being pressed upon them
by the government. Now it is related
by japanese official visiting in Cali.
fornia that the government is encour-
aging the importation of meat from
this country, because it is hoped that
the introduction of meat into the ma
tional menu will favor the physical i'm
provement of the people by increas-
ing their height"
The vegetarian cause is suffering a
heavy blow by the desertion of the
japanese nation.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
Hygiene and Useful longevity.

If the figures compiled by statisti-
clans are to be believed, the average
length of human life has been increas-
ing steadily for half century. At any
rate, the prolonged enjoyment OF health
and vigor has radically shifted the gen.
eral attitude of mankind toward youth
and age.
Shakespeare. in Richard H." speaks
of the Duke of Lancaster as old Gaunt
and depicts him as decrepit, staggering
under the burden of years Yet Gaunt
died at ffty-nine, an age at which men
nowadays consider themselves in their
npened prime. Shakespeare speaks of
Juliet as aged fourteen, but in making
Juliet sixteen in the modern versions
of that tragedy, stage directors con-
form to the poetical version of sweet
sixteen" as the marriageable age
But the world has grown wiser in
the last half-century. Juliet at sixteen
is schoolgirl, and two or three years
ilIol SIG - 10 20 10 COi-
lege or finish her high school course.
A generation or two ago it was said
of girl that she was no longer in her
first youth, having passed her nine
teenth year. Nowadays a woman
would have reached the age of thirty,
at least, before one would venture to
suggest that she had passed her first
youth.
In connection herewith, the Philadel-
phia Public Ledger quotes "Geoffry
Hamlyn," "a novel by Henry Kingsley,
published in 1859, wherein an amiable
character, Miss Thornton, superan-
nuated governess who emigrates to
Australia, on her arrival there is de-
scribed as "a poor nervous old maid,
thrown adrift in her old age" She
was forty-fye The description would
not now be considered applicable 70 a
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
FAIR BEGINS SECOND WEEK.
Women of InElesIde Have Arranged
for an Elaborate Entertainment.

The second week of the fair and lunch
con for the benefit of Sacred Heart
CHURCH, which is being held at National
Rifles Armory. was attended by large
crowds yesterday.
To-day and tomorrow will be Ingleside
days. and the women of this section have
prepared on an elaborate scale for the
entertainment Of guests. The following
ladies will be in charge of the luncheon
to-day and also preside at the Ingleside
section in the evening: Mrs. NJ. V.
Sturgis. Mrs. Charles w. Downing, Mrs.
w. F. Heron, Mrs. NJ. J. Falvey, Mrs.
Frank Devereux, Mrs. J. p. Sheehan.
Mrs. w. A. Proctor, Mrs. c. Gallen, Miss
Dell, the Misses Rafferty,, the Misses
Hart, Miss Mullin. Mrs. Walter D. Nolan,
Mrs. J. A. Phillips, Mrs. Joseph O'Hare,
Mrs. William ]. MCGEE. Mrs. Z. T.
Kilkoff, Mrs. NJ A. EdmOnstOn, Mrs.
Rosa Downing. Miss Burns. the Misses
MCGEE, Miss Mcdonald.
The fair is in the interest Of a greater
Sacred Heart Church on the Heights.
Rev. Joseph F. MCGEE, the pastor of the
church. is one of the best known clergy
men Of his denomination and presides
over Catholic Parish, bounded by Gi-
rard and Decatur Streets on the north
and south and the Soldiers Home and
Geological Park on the east and west.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
WILL URGE HOUSE
TO ADOPT REPORT
Representative George, Jr., Thinks
There Will Be Little OPP
position to Plan.

That the House will be strongly urged
to adopt the report of the George investi-
gazing committee on taxation and as
sessment in the District and the legisla-
tive recommendations contained in the re-
port was indicated yesterday by its au-
thor, Representative Henry George, jr.,
OF New York. who has been in Washing
ton for the past few days.
Mr.. George refused to talk for publica-
tion beyond saying that the report speaks
for itself, and that while he will read
Assessor Richards report with interest
when it comes out he does not believe he
will feel called upon to qualify any of
the broad statements contained in the re-
port.
Unless Mr.. George insists upon the leg
isiative recommendation which abolishes
fixed rate of taxation, leaving the rate
to be fixed by the requirements OF the
annual budget. there does not promise to
lie great deal of opposition offered to
the legislative changes he proposes with
regard to the assessment and taxation
system here.
From present indications, however. the
probability of protracted fight over any
piece OF District legislation would be suf-
fcient to prevent its consideration at the
next session.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER L. 1872.
British Enthusiastically.

To Herald readers, Hon. James
Bryce, the Nestor of Connecticut Ave
nue., is no stranger. We all know and
admire the venerable diplomat, at once
the representative of the worlds great
est dy1astic power and a plain, every
day democrat. He has been with us
since 1907, and, though seventy-four
years of age, is hale and hearty. This
was his first diplomatic post, his selec-
ton being intended as compliment to
this country after he had published his
book, The American Commonwealth .
a standard work and used as textbook
in universities here and abroad. Mr..
Bryce is a man of profound learning
and holds honorary degrees from a
number of educational institutions. He
was born in Belfast on May 10, 1888;
was graduated from Oxford in 1862
as an honor man, and for fifteen years
practiced law in London. In 1880 he
took his seat in the House of Com
mons. Since 1882 he has pursued the
career of a publicist and litterateur. In
twenty-Six years of parliamentary life
he had served as Under Secretary Of
State for Foreign Affairs (IS86), as
chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster
1886, and as president Of the British
Board of Trade in the Rosebery gov
ernment of 1884. He resigned the
chief secretaryship for ireland, which
he had held thirteen months in the
Campbell Zimmerman ministry, to be-
cotnea Ambassador to the United States,
Mr.. Bryce's successor will be Sir
Cecil Spring-Rice, who, as plain MI"
Spring-Rice, served here as a secre-
tary to the British delegate to the In
ternational Maritime Conference in
1880. Since 1908 he was British Min
lister to Sweden He is ffty-three
years of age and began his diplomatic
career as a clerk in the British Foreign
Office Later he was secretary at
Brussels, Tokyo, Washington, Berlin,
and COnstantinople, charge d'affaires
at Teheran, and first secretary at the
British Embassy in St. Petersburg.
Great Britain was the first nation to
send an ambassador" to this country
as soon as our Congress had created
such a post for American cnvoys
abroad, That was in 1898, when Lord
Pauncefotc of Preston was elected to
that rank. Until his death here, in
1908, he also was the dean of the
Washington diplomatic circle, whose
dean now is Baron Hengelmueller Won
Hengervar, the Austrian Plenipoten-
tiary.- As the latter's retirement has
been gazetted, he will be succeeded as
dean by Mr.. Jusserand, the French
Ambassador.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
KNOX ONLY VISITOR
AT WHITE HOUSE
President Taft Works on Routine
Matters Because of Gouty Con-
dition of Foot.

President Taft remained at the White
House yesterday on account Of the gouty
condition OF his foot. and did not go
to the Executive Offices. He worked in
the library on an accumulation Of mail
and routine business. Secretary Of State
Knox was the only visitor The Presi-
dent will attend a reception tonight of
the Daughters of the Confederacy in Con-
tinental Hall.
Mr.. Taft has accepted an invitation to
attend a moving picture exhibition on
Thanksgiving Day afternoon. under the
auspices OF the American Red Cross, for
the Balkan Relief Fund. Views of the
Panama Canal will be shown and Rear
Admiral c. NJ Chester. L. 5. N, retired.
will give an informal talk upon the canal
work.
The President has begun gathering data
for use in his coming message 10 Con-
gress, which he will soon begin to write.
He will send a general message on the
usual topics and will also submit a spe-
cial message on governmental finances
transmitting the regular estimates for
appropriations in the so-called budget
form.
The heads Of the executive departments
have, in accordance with instructions
from the President. prepared the esti-
mates in budget form as recommended
by the Presidents efficiency and economy
commission and the President will sub
nit the estimates in the budget, as we'll
as In the regular form. asian example Of
the superiority of the budget form OF
handling governmental finances.
Harry Daugherty, chairman Of the Re
publican State Committee OF Ohio, is in
Washington to confer with Mr.. Taft over
plans for reviving the party in Ohio
He will confer with Mr.. Taft to-day.
The Republican party In Ohio" Mr.
Daugherty said. rs still full of pepper
II is by no means dead. The Progressives
will come back to the Republican party at
milking time"
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
BRITISH CABINET
NOT TO RESIGN
Government Decides to Make An
other Attempt to Get Asquith
Bill Passed.

London. Nov. u.-Following its defeat
on an amendment to the home rule bill
in the House of Commons to-day, the
government tonight decided that il
would set aside precedent and not re-
sign. The government will, therefore.
move, at an early day. for the recon-
initial of the bill, and expects to be
victorious, inasmuch as to-day's ballot
was a snap vote and was taken on
Monday when many OF the supporters
of the government had not returned to
town from the weekend The course
of the government finds many support
ers tonight, the opinion being almost
unanimous that the cabinet was not ac-
tUated in its declining to resign solely
by the defeat Of to-day. but on account
of the situation in the Balkan states.
The jeopardizing Of Ireland's chances
OF winning self-government came during
the afternoon, when an amendment hos
tile to the measure was put through
by a vote OF 22S to 206 The question
on which the vote was taken was an
amendment TO the home rule bill. Of
fered by Sir Frederick Banberry, a Con-
servative. providing that in case Ireland
proved unable to support herself by local
taxation and had TO call the i'm
perial government for assistance. the
amount be limited to $l2,5JO.Ooo. Premier
AsQuith then said that this amount was
too small, and that 100000 might be
needed.
Herbert Samuel said that it would
mean that the total sum payable to Ire
land would be limited to Sl25OO,000 a
year. The revenue from Irish taxation.
he continued. would be $47OOOOpU, esti-
mated on the present basis Of Irish rsve-
nue.. and the amendment would mean
that the sum handed back TO Ireland
would be S12,500OC0 for services which
cost S5O.OOooO0 a year.
When the vote was announced there
was wild excitement. the Conservatives
shouting, Resign, resign" The sitting
was adjourned and the cabinet hastily
called, the results of its deliberations
being announced tonight
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
SEEK BIG CONVENTIONS.
Callahan and Grant Going TO New
York to Make Capitals Bid,

D. J. Callahan and Thomas Grant, of
the Chamber of Commerce, will leave
tonight for New York. and tomorrow
morning will appear before the conven-
tion committees of the Railway Supply
Manufacturers Association. the Master
Mechanics Association and the Master
Carbuilders' Association at the Hotel Bel
mont and present Washingtons bid for
the 1913 annual convention of these bodies,
which meet in the same city the same
month and more or less in connection
with one another.
At a meeting yesterday between mem
bers Of the Chamber and the hotel men
of the city. arrangements were made for
the balance Of the fund required to pro-
vide for the housing of these conven-
tions, the hotel men pledging a large
share of the required money. Messrs
Grant and Callahan have all the data
required to make a good showing for
the Capital and both feel hopeful of
landing this big convention for WASH
ingtOn.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
WANT STREET OPENED.
RandIe Highlands Citizens Want
ThorOuEhfare Extended.

Col. Arthur E. RandIe. George V. Blak-
eney, J. r. Cornell. and S. E. Snyder, act
Ing as committee of the Randle High
lands Citizens Association, presented a
request to the Commissioners YESTERDAY
that Twenty-hfth Street Southeast h,
opened from Q Street to Pennsylvania
Avenue.
Col. Randle submitted the further re-
quest that a boardwalk be installed from
the intersection Of Thirtieth Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast 10 the
Randle Highlands School, and offered. to
pay the cost of construction II provision
fol his recompense is included in the
Commissioners estimates to Congress
He said that the health of the children is
endangered in bad weather by being
compelled to walk through a wet and
muddy street.
The Commissioners promised the COM
m!ttee to give their attention to the asso-
ctation's requests.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
Amounted to Cuban Cabinet.

The State Department yesterday was
notified Of the appointment Of Juan Men,
Gle as Secretary of the Interior of Cuba,
succeeding Secretary of State Sanguilly.
who has been holding both Offices for
several weeks. Mencia has been collec-
tor of customs of the port Of Havana.
His predecessor was removed as a result
of the assault upon Hugh S. Gibson,
last summer.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
ARLINGTON.

Within grand Arlington to-day
A great foundation stone we lay
To monument the gallant Gray
Whose TaloE shall forever stay.
Encircled by the loyal Blue.
All brave and honest, dnd and true
Americans in grave review,
Beneath the morning sun and dew.
And here q monument shall rise
To greet all gazing human eyes.
While Time. tomb builder ever flies,
The cause Of truth that never hiea
The North and South and East and West
OF this great Republic. great and best,
Revere the patriot with Eest
For bravery In bloody test.
Age after age shall pass along
With web and woof of right and wrong
While this immortal deathless thronR
Shall echo like 4 heavenly song
The glorious dead are calm and free
In every land and every sea,
Infused with spirit liberty
Within the vast eternity
The Union Is secure to-day
With Stars and Stripes in lofty sway,
And waving over mount and bag,
Supported b. the Blue and Gray.
JOHN A. JOYCE.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12

woman in like circumstances under
sixty-fve.
Men and women of sixty and sixty
FIVE to-day are hale and hearty and
well preserved. Better attention to per-
sonal hygiene and improved sanitation
in the cities and the progress of pre-
ventive medicine are to be credited
with the change, but more important
still is the optimistic mental buoyancy
resulting therefrom which defers old
age and continues the period of useful
ness.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
COMMONERsPEAks
At DEDICATION
William Jennings Bryan Addresses
1900 Persons at Corner
Stone Laying.
REFUSES TO TALK POLITICS


William Jennings Bryan addressed 400
persons yesterday afternoon at the lay
ing Of the corner stone Of Robinson Hall,
the new annex to sibley Memorial Hos
pitaL at North Capitol and Pierce Streets.
The laying Of the stone was done by
Mrs. George o. Robinson, of Detroit,
president Of Woman's Home Mission
ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church OF America, and In whose honor
the building Is named.
Those who attended the ceremony in
the hope Of catching some gems Of po-
htical wit from the lips OF the peerless
leader" were disappointed. however, for
he eschewed politics in his address, and
afterward refused to discuss any connec-
tlon he might have with the new order
Of things that arose November s.
his address was religious in trend.
dealing with the practical Christianity
OF to-day as exemplified by the erection
OF the new hospital, and he explained his
silence on matters political by saying
that whenever he. thought OF politics
he had to laugh" ..s
Crowd Surrounds COmmoner.
Following the ceremony Of laying the
corner stone the crowd surged around the
Nebraskan, and one and all, from dirty
faced youngsters. old men. and women.
to the nurses OF the hospital, wrung his
hands until they must have ached.
A band led the singing Of sacred and
national airs. The exercises were opened
by the invocation by Rev. Henry 8.
France, d. d. The speaker OF honor
was lauded and then introduced by
Bishop Earl CranstOn, Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
Whenever l think OF politics I have
to laugh" said Col Bryan, "and then
too. ] have prophesied correctly once
and only once, SO ! will turn my at
tention this afternoon from matters polit-
ical and speak of my convictions in reli-
gion. Subjects that divide US in politics
are not as important as those that unite
US in a common citizenship. / don't
know how many came here to hear me
speak but to them. II there are any, 1
will say that their coming places on
me the responsibility Of saying some
thing worth while"
Sticks to Religion.
Mr.. Rryan hung the rest Of his address
or tn. lesson taught in the twenty
fifth chapter Of the Book OF Matthew
in which 1t is said that the care of the
sick shall be one Of the tests by which
the sheep shall be separated from the
goats
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert LongwelI, doners
OF the children's ward, were presented
b. Benjamin S. Haywood. Mrs. George
o. Robinson. after being presented with
the trowel for the corner stone. laying by
Mrs. J. L. Gilbert. president OF the
Woman's Home Missionary Society for
the Washington District delivered a short
address and proceeded with the ceremo-
ny. The benediction was pronounced by
Rev. DR.. John w. r. Sumwalt.
The new annex is a six story fireproot
building that will accommodate between
$50 and 200 patients. On the roof there
will be a sun parlor. The building will
be appointed in the most modern fash
ion and its equipment will allow of the
most advanced methods in treatment
and surgery.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
stimson Going to Panama.

Secretary of War stimson will leave
Washington to-day for New York, whence
be will sail for Panama. where he will
make an inspection of the canal work.
On the voyage down there and back the
Secretary will write his annual report to
the President. Mrs. Stimson will accom-
pany him.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
ALITTLE NONSENSE.
STYLES CHANGE.

Where is the erstwhile beefy blonde
The gated chorus girl,
OF whom our grandpapas were fond
In youths ecstatic whirl?
Where Is the obese Amazon
Who lugged q tinsel spear
And would FURNISHED buckler don
With little other gear?
The makeup CT n modern cast
To tiny damsels runs.
Where Is the chorus OF the past
That weighed eleven tonsf
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
OFF ON SPEAKING TOUR.
Miss Julia LathrOp VIII Outline
Work of ChiIdrcn's Bureau.

Miss Julia Lathrop. chief of the chill
dren's bureau of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, will leave Wash
ington to-day for Aurora, Ill. where she
Will address the National Federation Of
Women's Clubs on November IS.
From there she will go to Ann Arbor,
Mich, to speak before the National AS
sociation Of Collegiate Alumni; thence to
Detroit to address the Twentieth Century
Club on the 18th; thence to Nash
willie, Tenn, to speak before the Centen-
NAL Club on the 17th. Her speeches
VIII be on the work Of the Children's
Bureau.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
PERTINENT AND IMPERTINENT.

From the Omaha Bee.
Young Mr.. Mccormick is generous; he
has not yet put the blame for the Balkan
war upon President Taft.
Prom the Baltimore Sun.
The New York Evening Mail advises
its readers to start a pearl farm. Why
certainly; then the next season try dia-
monds.
From the New York Pres.
A girl catches a man by making him
think he is catching her.
From the New York Tribune.
The country will have to run four years
on a single track basis.
From the New York Evening Sun
It is better for a candidate to get
bumped in an automobile than at the
polls.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The Rev. John Haynes Holmes made
the last campaign speech and the Presi-
dent was in his congregation.
From the ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
: How disappointed the Republicans viii
be when that panic does not comet
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
DR.. DAVIDSON RETURNS.

school Superintendent Back from
Kansas State Convention.
DR.. William NJ. Davidson, superintend-
end of schools, returned to the city last
night after a weeks visit in the West.
During his stay he attended the Kan
sas State convention and delivered two
lectures on educational subjects. He also
continued his investigation of business
methods pursued by school boards Of
other large cities.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
Seaman Save. ship Mates.

Honolulu. Nov. 11.-While attempting
to force its way out of Hilo Bay in the
teeth of a gale. the barkentine Klikitsk,
Capt Nelson. went on the rocks opposite
Honoh gulf and is a total wreck to-day.
The bravery of Sam Johnson, a seaman.
who swan with line about his waist
through the terrific surf saved the lives
Of the ships officers and crew.
The Washington herald., 1912-11-12
THE OFFICE SEEKER
BY GEORGE FITCH.
Author of cat Good Old siwash."

the ash pile and show him his indorse-
ments for the post OF substitute door,
keeper at the Panama Canal Once
seekers worried William Henry Harri-
son to death. and after he had died
many of them led better lives in the
hope of meeting him later and pressing
their claims in a better land