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maitre-d hotel: and. returning, found
that Mabel had invited the dancing girls
to their table. It's a surprise. Charlie.
she said guilty; but he scolded. You
know you should not do it, he said
What possessed you?"
oh" she answered, ut Is just 10
make a study"
After all, she had him, because a whole
series of very smart resorts base their
existence on a previous Partisan desire TO
make a study" TO see something diff
ferent'' and exclusive.
All the genesis of the little jewel-box
theaters cote, ION the side" so popular
alike with rich Americans and Parisians.
is here.
Ii began when some one discovered
Alexandra Bruants little cabaret Cor
laborers and masons. to whom rude
but powerful song writers warbled
their ballads OF the people" Friday
evenings the fashionables began ar
irving. in dress clothes and string
OF elegant equipages. to pay the beer
- and be good-naturediy insulted by
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dim porte cochere. into an ordinary
apartment building courtyard, where
1t is surrounded and topped by bust
ness offices and flats. There Is scarcely
sign. Inside. a bijou hall, with
fourteen rows of seats. six boxes. a
tiny low balcony as dear as the rest.
a jewel box stage, beaux-arts scenery,
worthy to frame Regina Badet, and
$3.50 cheapest entrance.
Here the young King Of Portugal met
Gaby Deslys, as star of reviewette. Here
Regina Badet. one-time ballet queen of
the Opera Comique, plays. sings and
dances in ''Sappho and Phaon,' whose
dialogue, however witty and refined,
would never be permitted on the stage
of a large theater. The same may be
said of the costumes. There are half
dozen of these tiny theaters of the first
class, the Michel, the Arts, the Madame,
the Mondain, the Fursy and so on The
Grand Guignol makes a speciality OF short
pieces Of horror and terror, many of
which have been adapted in America.
At 7:80 pm In the late Paris spring It
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poolrooms of the saloons has fallen to
nothing. There are about dozen such in
Culebra, and l could not find more than
a couple of employees in any of them.
Among other popular amusements here
are base ball and bowling. Every club
house has it's bowling room, and there
are bowling clubs, which contest with
one another. There are bowling tourna-
ments, in which the most expert tenpin
men of the different canal settlements
come together and compete, and there are
duckpin tournaments as we'll. There are
also weekly meetings at the various
towns. where the best duckpin men and
the best tenpin men compete, and 1t is
to such matters.
Every settlement has its base ball
clubs and there is also an isthmian
basket ball league. The base ball clubs
of Culebra and Empire play each other
several times every season, and 1t is the
same with the other towns along the line.
Every place has its own team and its
regular days of practice, and there are
athletic meets, which are attended by the
expert gymnasts from all parts, of the
isthmus. At these meets the program
includes the hundred-yard dash, the mile
run, the relay races, the shotput and the
pole vault. The prizes are medals OF
gold, silver and bronze, and the competl-
tors are not only from the employees on
the canal, but from the infantry and
Marine Corps stationed here on the zone.
But there is a show going on now in
the hall overhead. Let us go up We find
IL
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reading and chatting. They are in their
shirt sleeves, and look very comfortable
At one end of this room are two men
playing chess, and at the opposite side
several are writing.
The scenes are for all the world like
those of a big city club in the United
States. The tables are covered with mag
aznes. Seventy-five of the best periodi-
Gals and journals are taken, and one can
find everything here from science to fic-
ton. AS to the writing tables, LOCO let
month and from the seven clubhouses
5000 or 10000 are mailed home in that
time.
But let us go to the other side of the
hall and enter the billiard room. Every
one of these clubhouses has billiard ia
bles and cues. TIE game keeps the men
out of the poolrooins of the saloon, which
were nightly filled with employees before
the clubhouses were started.
X X
The members pay 80 cents an hour for
the use of the club tables. They. are
good players, too and they have billiard
tournaments Saturday nights, when the
men come in crowds to look on. If you
would know just how popular this form
of amusement is 1 would say that 1000
pool games were played here at Culebra
last month, and that similar proper
ton was played at the other clubhouses.
The canal commission and the Y. Nj. c.
A. believe that pool and billiards are
good exercise, and they encourage them.
In the meantime the patronage of the
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y American society
woman was sailing
hQme from Paris.
Charlie" = b c
said 70 a Partisan
fFiead OF the
family. rheumatic,
k n o b by-handed,
with q bald spot.
but atiil in circula-
ton. Charlie. l
am quitting this
Modern Babylon,
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ness and gambling are quite as disgrace
full, and the men who engage in them
are regarded just the same as at home.
The clubhouse has done much to elevate
the moral standing of the canal COM
munity. It is the chief meeting place
and the men go there to loaf rather than
to the saloons. You must remember that
our canal employees are far above the
average of mankind as to their habits
and ambitions. They are picked men who
are earning high wages. They are now
they will do when they leave. They find
that the clubhouse costs them practically
nothing, and that it takes the place of
the more expensive and wicked amuse-
mentS found in the saloons. Without
these clubs they would have nothing to
do except stay at home or go to the
saloons Their work is strenuous and
they need recreation. This need has been
supplied by the clubs. Indeed, may say
that the clubs are an absolute necessity
to efficient labor on the canal They have
aided in making the employees contented
and have also done much for the high
munity."
* x
Connected with these clubs are uplift
movements of various kinds and among
others that of the Boy Scouts. We have
now seven companies of these scouts on
the zone. Each company has piece of
land for a clubhouse which has been
given by the canal commission, and the
boys have erected their own clubhouses
the lumber being given by the canal au-
thorities. The most Of them have eight
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Next 1T was the Cabaret Of Janitors.
the Quat'z-Arts, the Tavern of Assas-
sins. Fursy's Shanty-to which the
smart world still goes-and many an
other. all copied on the same model
1t was seen that the fashionables were
glad to enter n little hall. where every
body could not go because there was
not room. because it was dear and
different AS soon as the middle class
and the tourist public caught on the
fashionab les quit and tried another
Grasping this taste of the rich, the
managers and those that remained
smart kept their prices very dear.
Thus you pay $3.50 for the poorest
seat at the .Capucinss. and dearer for
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LAUNTS, Methods and
= J. Customs OF Tourists in
the Gay French Capitalize
Smart ard Exclusive Modern
Northumberland for Labor
ers Turned Into Fashionable
Dining Place-Bohemian Re-
sorts Frequented by Ameri-
can Tourists.
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restaurant is the summer cafe-concert of
the Ambassadors. There l saw Gaby
Deslys for the first time. some five years
ago, as a STRIPPING beginner, very cute
and daring. supported throughout out
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find at a mining camp or on the frontier,
has put them to work at high wages,
and at the same time has kept them free
from gambling and the other wees
which have heretofore been always as
sociated with such organizations. When
the French started this canal they bap-
tized 1t in champagne. Their officials
locked hands with Lucifer and Bacchus.
Graft and extravacance danced besids
them over the Canal Zone on the road to
bankruptcy and financial destruction
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TIA V II lledu6Q IllS
letter u n C l Q
Sans Fight with
the Devil" The
title is sensational.
but ii fits the story.
1t is the fight of
Uncle Sam for the
souls of his canal
employees. 1t tells
how he has taken
five or ten thousand
men such as you
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this Cavern of Folly"
Pardon. Mabel. but you get about with
CELEBRITY replied the equity one. NO
Parisienne OF my acquaintance can begin
to touch Your record
''Ch. but. Charlie. il was not for pleas
ure'' she repro2ched him gently. often
! was quite tired. but I kept up-just 10
see
Such were her last words. His We're:
Mabel, you're a fraudI' But he was
mistaken. All the rich Americans who
come 10 Paris get about the resorts with
energy, fearful of missing something.
Parisians do not understand. They just
want to see.
The husbands Of Mabel and two others
trusted Charlie to take the ladies to sup
per at the Abbaye after the theater
Amid gypsy music. lights. toilets, pop
ping champagne, laughter, practical
jokes. and calls from table to table, they
noticed pair of Spanish dancing girls.
weaving a fandango in the aisles- Charlie
stepped aside a moment. to speak to the
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locked hands with Lucifer and Bacchus.
Graft and extravacance danced beside
them over the Canal Zone on the road to
bankruptcy and financial destruction
y y
So far, our canal has been built without
graft We have spent hundreds of mil
lions and no one has charged that a cent
or a dollar has gone into anything but
the actual construction of the canal or
the legitimate expenses connected there
with More than that, the work has been
done in d Christian way by a body of
Christian men, whose conduct Is morally
as good that of any social community
I'm the United States or the world. This.
il seems to ire, is quite wonderful as
the building of the canal itself.
How has il been accomplished?
1T has been done by the marrying OF
business to Christianity: by bringing to
the front the forces which make for
coed and as far as possible eliminating
those which make for the bad; by throw
ing the y. NJ. G. a. clubhouse and It's
attractions as open as the devil throws
omen the saloon, and by feeding the
minds and souls OF the men with the
good rather than the bad.
The result has been q social uplift
rather than social downfall, and scores
of the employees who have come to Pan
anna will leave here in better state
morally than when they arrived. This
fight with the devil is still going on. 1t
may he seen along every part of the Ca
nal Zone today, and as far as / can see
in every one of the canal towns the devil
is getting the worst of the battle.
One Of the most important features OF
the fight is the clubhouses which have
been built for the canal employees These
have been constructed by the govern
ment. and the experienced secretaries OF
the Y. NJ C. A. have been called in to
run them. They are so managed that
they are largely self-supporting, and the
Y. II. C. A and the government unite
in paying the deficit. I don't know how
much they run short, but their opera
ton last year cost more than S130.O00.
\ great part of this was made up of
dues and other receipts. Each of the two
thousand and odd members pays $40 an
nually. and the restaurants and billiard
rooms bring in considerable sum.
There are clubhouses Of this kind at
every station of importance along the
Canal Zone. There is one at Porto Bello,
on the Caribbean sea, where there are
hundreds of men engaged in crushing
rock for the Gatun locks. There is an
other at Cristobal, adjoining Colon, the
American port on the Atlantic. and
third at Gatun, where they are making
the dam. And then we have clubhouse
at Gorgona patroniZed by the men at
work in the shops: another at Empire, at
the beginning of the Culebra cut, and
one here at Culebra. about midway OF
the cut. There is also clubhouse on
the Pacific division of the canal, at CO.
rozal.
/ wish 1 could take you into these
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Special Correspondence of The star.
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UNCLE. SANS FIGHT !! az
~ WITH THE DEVIL NIX

A LII About the Govern
"A ment and Y. M. G. A.
Up1ift Work at Parrana-The
Clubhouses and What They
Are Doing-A Look at the
Billiard Rooms and Bowling
Alleys-Amateurs, Ministries
and Club Concerts-A Talk
With the Superintendent
Among the Boy Scouts and
a Word About the Salvation
Army.
Copyright. 1912. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
CULEBRA, Canal Zone. Panama
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But there is a show going on now in
the hall overhead. Let us go up. We find
the room filled, and on the stage at the
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PARIS. May rs. 1917
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Twilight and fairy lamps.
Low, sentimental music from small
orchestra.
They hate to quit tho woodland scene.
The night air ID balmy. Just behind tho
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the chorus of habitues as they de-
parted.
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this Cavern of Follv."
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10

MANATI-Anoche hizo gran Gre
ciente ell rio NIanati, caasando los 81
gllentes danos: Dos puentes de madeira
de la Hacienda Monserrate sobre los
cuales el'an tendidas Was para La con
duci6n de caila, fueron arrastrados. Co
mo cuerdas de caina fueron destruldas
Y no sc sabe todavia cuanto ganado ha
perecido. Vaios caballos mulas pro
llrllluviar6v- -dedecua-dedhqr bzzl1qj f
piedad de particrllares fueron ahogados; !;
pero no hay informes de desgracias per
somales
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10

MAYAGUEZ.- Anoche, por ferroca-
rril, salieron para San Juan ell Alealde
Sr- Perea Fajardo Mateo Fajardo.
Captain William Hylan, nombrado
inspector de policia INFERNO, neg6 esta
mafama de la Capital.
Aquilino Torres, profugo de la Es-
cuela Correctional, fue capturado por
la policia de Sabana Grande condu-
edo esta tarde a su prisi6n.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10
DE LA ISLA

AIBONITO-Debido a las fuertes
luvias que ham azotado a este pueblo,
q autom6vil de pasajeroS que pasa por
&qui diariamente, lleg6 tarde de Pom
&c. Wisando haber tenido bastante di-
tcultad en- atravesar los rios, los cuales
cstaban muy crecidos
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10

PONCE. Aunque las lluvias torren-
ciales catlsaron n0tables crecientes Ell
todos los rios que cruzan esta Jurisdic-
ci0n. ningi1n dano personal nj material
ma sido reportado.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10

MAUN'ABO-Anoche cayeron recios
aguaceros acompanados de fuertes rata
gas de viento Ell pluvidmetro de Sues.
de Jose Maria Ortiz, aclIs6 Ga pulgadas
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10

Nppov0 ~ 1 900 1a =
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d. v;a+,r;ano p;asoonoh0a
III ,l..''+. - p.,t,e r,4.,..,- ,,m
.r.'I.a,. .,.+,,,., a,.,,f -, ,.,,rt,- ,a.;oI,s
causaron grandes avenidas en- el rio Nj
qua, pero no cause grandeS desperfec-
tos.
Dom Jorge Verges. de este pueblo. em-
oarcara para los Estados fnidos, con
"a una planta electrical Que piensa esta-
blecer aQui
FL Secretario Municipal joaquin Ven
drell saIio para San Juan para exami-
larse como abogado
BARROS. Entire una dos de la
| nadrugada. q rio Crocobis tuvo fuer-
tes avenidaS inundando la parte baia de
a poblaci6m La policia estuvo al fren-
! le del pellgrO llaSta las SelS Gle la mama
la que baj0 la corriente No hubo des-
gracias que lamentar La poblaci6n
Qued6 a obscuras debido a algunas ave
rias Que sufli6 Ia plama electrical
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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10

de aqua. Ell daiio causado por el wien
to fue de poca importancia
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10

dor del ayuntamiento salieron para San
juan en- aslntoS ofciales
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10
Aoentes Generates

De los Vapores trasatantcos epanoes de Pnos zquerdO
& Co., de Cadiz
Del famoso Vermouth "CINZANO" de Torino
Dc los renombrados Vinos Riojanos bancos rojos de
las "BODECAS RIOJANAS". de Madrid
De IA Cerveza inglesa T" roja, marca TENNENT
De los superiorcs Acetes de Olivia marca .TENA. de
Sevia
7 dc otros productos de Europa de gran consume en-
esta Isa
inroductores escaia dnicos receptores de
excslente ACEITUNAS SEVILLANAS que vendeoee prec.
hmeados envaada poes autom<dccs especalss COO
ssho eaampsdo ." nussua 4EoQUIERDo..
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10

JTNCOS.-El rio Valenciano, debi-
do las fuertes lluuias crecio tanto que
fue interunpido el trafco hasta medic
dia.
FL Alcalde interino y secretario-conta-
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10

GALES Una lluvia torrencial
azoto esta comarca durante la paSada
noche determinando gran avenida Ell el
rio Manat pereciendo ahogados varios
animales que pastaban a stts orillas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1912-10-10

FAJARDO-C -Cayeron fuertes aqua
ceros aver y hoy en- toda la jurisdiction
causando algunos pequenos desperfec-
tos en- la carretera, pero siendo la yez
bene6cioso los agricultores.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-29
Good
form
Afternoon Tea Etiquette.

The duties Of hostess should be
added to the modern curriculum of edu-
cation.
Have simple entertainments gone out
of fashion, submerged in the tidal
wave OF extravaganza?
There have been of late many refer
ences made to the king and queen of
England having expressed their wish
that afternoon tea, as fashionable
function, should be abolished as being
an unnecessary and unhealthful Gus
tom. Whether the king and queen
really did make such statement and
issue a royal command to that effect
has not as yet been authoritatively
made public, and in the meantime 70
O'Clock teas flourish apace both in
England and in this country.
1t is possible to give to this enter
tainment such distinctive originality
to make Of the simple repast suita bic
function to which invitations are
eagerly sought, SO that small wonder
is it that women and men alike fall
victims to its charm.
Every good housekeeper has some
recipe that she guards with jealous
care, and to be known as having the
most delicious of cakes, biscuits or
sandwiches at afternoon tea is every
whit as desirable as In the olden days
when every woman was taught the art
of making cake. In all well appointed
households the tea table is made ready
at o'clock, even though for the mo-
ment the hostess may not have return
ed from her afternoon drive. The tea
service is set forth on low tea table
in winter near the fire. in summer
on the pleasantest corner of the We
randa. Only the tea service is for the
tea table. If there is lower shelf
the cups and saucers may be placed
on 1t. A pile Of small tea plates, each
with its dainty tea napkin. occupies
one shelf of the 'curate's assistant"
a three tier stand. On the remaining
shelves are hot biscuits of diminutive
size and small tea cakes and one large
cake. All kinds Of sandwiches. from
the wafer thin bread and butter to the
endless variety of tomato. lettuce.
cream cheese and nut sandwiches. are
included. Only there must not be too
great a variety served the same time.
= The hostess makes the tea. If the
head of the house be mt home it is her
dntv hut IL she be not present then the
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eldest daughter takes her place at the
tea table. The kettle must be boiling.
then the teapot be warmed. 4 spon-
full Of tea for each guest and one for
the teapot Is the rule. A small guam.
tity OF the boiling water is then poured
on the tea and stands for three min
utes, and then the teapot Is filed with
boiling water. Or the tea table must
be cream. sugar. saccharin and sliced
lemon In winter a small decanter of
rum Is also added. The camomile tea.
so fashionable now, must not be for
gotten. for it is said to have the most
marvellous effect upon tired nerves and
sleeplessness. 1t is brewed in the same
should be without 1t.
The older woman or the young girl
Of today who makes of the afternoon
tea hour an entertainment Gn the best
sense of the world for her friends finds
nothing pays so well for the time and
thought given it. while for the woman
who from forced economy cannot give
dinners and luncheons as she would
there is nothing to take its place. And
there is no time nor place where a wo-
man is seen to such advantage. At
tired in becoming gown in front of a
fire with the tea table and tea service
artistically arranged. she must shine
as hostess. And, May l bring an en-
tertaining friend in for tea?" often in
PRODUCES a stranger of note into the
charm of the American home life in a
way he could never have found through
a formal dinner or dance.
All young girls should be instructed
how to play hostess at the afternoon
tea, should know how to make tea and,
If not, how to make the cakes and sand
wiches and to tell how they should be
made; to take interest in having the
silver tea service kept in perfect con-
dition and, above all, be taught how to
make the guest feel he or she is well
come to the home life and not regarded
as an outsider. And afternoon tea Is
possible even with the smallest Of in
comes, for it can be most delightfully."-
served in the house where but one
maid or no maid at all is kept.