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The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
Progressive Persian Women.

w. Morgan Shuster, in one of the
interviews attributed to him on his
homeward journey from Asia, tells of
$50 women of Persia who tore off
their wells, abandoned all ideas of
caste, and with revolvers and knives
concealed in their robes, appeared in
the Persian Parliament and compelled
the statesmen of that body to resist
Russian aggression. The scene, as de-
scribed by the returning American, was
most dramatic and inspiring. 1t takes
its place with the leadership of Joan
of Arc, and is comparable TO the thrill
ing and glorious tales of woman's
courage and self-denial in the wars of
medieval Europe.
These women of Persia thought only
Of their nation, its entity, traditions.
and noble history. Centuries of seclu-
sion and the Iong-established custom
of yelling their faces were forgotten
in an instant before the greater thought
OF danger to their homes and native
land. Duty done, they went back to the
old seclusion and their wells, but for
the time they were the most potent
political force in Persia, just as they
are in any country and at any time
when aroused to action.
1t is probable that the conservatives
in Persia found much TO condemn in
the action of these women, but that
will not be the verdict of the world
or history when it is written. They
taught the men of their nation a whole
some lesson in patriotism.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
With the Players.

Is the mustached and matrimonial
lied" Norworth an evolution from our
college boy" and Honey Boy Nor
worth OF FIVE seasons ago into q higher
artistic stratum, or is II "devolution?' p
That is one Of the burning questions
with Washington theatergoers. While he
has been developing connubial bliss and
the Cohanesque faculty OF self-advertise-
ment, he has changed from the breezy,
whimsical monologist into a polished,
suave, and Eraceful-also ''admiring and
assisting'-husband to Nora Bayes- OF
the present vogue OF the Bayes-NOrworth
combination. every audience assembling
at Chase's this week is eloquent testi-
mony. They are neat in wit and inyen-
ton, clever in action, airy in the affected
naivete regarding their domestic arrange
ments, and. 10 their multitude Of admir-
ers. Just right"
Not content with the Winter Garden
and the Hippodrome. the Shuberts are to
open next September another colossal
variety theater. Curiously enough. this
Palace Music Hall and Roof Garden" &"
seating 200, will be built directly op-
posIte Winthrop Ames' diminutive Lit
tie Theater on West Forty-fourth street.
The entertainments at the Palace will
be like the gIorifed vaudeville of the
Alhambra in London.
The centenary of Charles Dickens is
likely to be celebrated unohicially by
a production in New York OF a version
of oliver Twist. Whether It is the old
play or a new dramatizatIon has not
yet been announced. At any rate. Nat
Goodwin is to play the part OF Fagin.
Constance Collier will be Nancy Sykes.
and Lyn Harding, an English actor
now with Grace George. is TO have the
part OF Bill Sykes, which he played in
Sir Herbert Trees English production.
There is a rumor that Marguerite Clark
will be cast for the part OF oliver. Re
hearsals will begin soon.
After a failure in New York, The
Only Son." winchen Smiths drama, is
to be tried in Chicago with Thomas W.
Roos in the leading part, and with GER
tain changes designed to make the
piece more sympathetic"
Lewis Waller. the English actor now
acting in THE Garden OF Allah" seems
bent on becoming an American manager.
He has Cancelled all contracts for Eng
land and Australia for next year and
will remain in New York.
No. 'Pomander Walk is not TO close
fits tour, despite rumors to that effect. 1t
is doing very well in Chicago, playing TO
receipts averaging $500 a week, accord
ing to George Tyler. 1t is too good a
drama TO be placed in the discard. and
there is a constantly growing public for
plays OF its delicate, subtle quality.
Sir Herbert Tree is soon to produce The
Prophet" by Franz Molnar, in a transla-
ton by James Bernard Pagan, author of
The Earth" He is also employing Som
erset Maugham to make an English YER
sion of Moliere's lie Bourgeois Gentil-
homme."
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
BABIES ROOM IN WALL STREET.
They May Play or sleep While
Their Mothers Watch Tape.

New York. Jan. Sin what Wall street
does, even IL It be a new venture, there
is method, and when any OF its expert
ments fail there must be something radi-
callv wrong. Some time ago an expert
ment failed-that of furnishing women
with offices in which to speculate. Women
would not use the offices. A rev Gays ago
a Consolidated stock Exchange 1rm found
out the reason. and IT has remedied the
trouble nv adding to its various depart
Even women who speculate may have
babies. IT remained for the members of
this particular firm to reeoEnize the fact.
So. IN reopening its customers room for
women tbis week II adopted the motto:
Bring your babies and your sewing"
Every day, several youngsters, ranging
in age from six months to six years, are
Sec, ,,IsI,in0 near the stock ticker. around
which their mothers are observing the
market price movements. II has been sug-
gested that the firm provide cribs next, SO
that the Youngest generation may sleep
while speculation goes on.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26

guard. The duke was IN the White
House Just fifty minutes.
Compliments MAI. FOIts.
When the duke STEPPED from the ma
chine at the British Embassy he. stood
on the steps with bare head beside Am
oassador Bryce and sent for MAJ. Fred
erick Foltz. commander of the calvary
squadron, whom he conplimented and
thanked for directing the escort OF
troops. About half an hour after the
duke returned to the embassy, President
Taft arrived in the White House auto
mobile, accompanied only by Maj. Butt.
two Secret Service men, and two police
men mounted on motorcycles.
The President remained within the em-
bassy twenty minutes. 1t was the nrst
time he had called there since the death
OF King Edward, when the Chief EKecu-
tive personally extended his sympathy
through the British Ambassador.
President Taft dismissed his machine
and returned to the White House on
foot, walking through Connecticut ave-
nue., accompanied by Mai. Butt and fol-
lowed by Secret Service operatives and
two newspaper men. When the President
left the embassy the official visit Of the
duke was terminated. The cavalry es-
cort had been dismissed Immediately
after the duke returned from the White
House
In the evening the duke was the guest
Of honor at a dinner given at the en-
bassy.
Guests Rt Embassy.
Among the forty-two guests OF Am
bassador and Mrs. Bryce invited to meet
his royal highness were the Secretary
OF State and Mrs. Knox, the Secretary
OF the Treasury and Mrs. MacYeagh,
the Attorney General and Mrs. Wicker
sham, the Secretary OF the Navy and
Mrs. Meyer, the Austrian Ambassador,
the French Ambassador and Nine. Jus
serand. the German Ambassador and
Countess Won Bernstorff, the Italian Am
bassador and Marchese Cusani, the Rus
sian Ambassador and Nine. Bakhmeteff,
the Secretary OF Commerce and Labor
and Mrs. Nagel Senator Lodge and
daughter Mrs. A. p. Gardner.
Senator Du Pont, Maj. Gen. and Mrs.
Leonard Wood: Miss Alys Meyer. daugh-
ter of the Secretary OF the Navy; Mrs
Letter, Mrs. Townsend, Miss Boardman,
Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, and the fol-
Col and Mrs. McLachlan, Capt. Sower-
by, and Mr.. Inness. Among the guests
at the reception following the dinner were
the members OF the Supreme Court circle.
including Mr.. Justice and Mrs. McKenna,
Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Holmes, and Mr..
Justice and Mrs Hughes.
Mr.. Justice and Mrs. Lurton, Mr.. JUS
tice and Mrs. Lamar. Mr.. Justice and
Mrs. Yandeventer. the Brazilian Ambas-
sador, the Secretary OF War, Mr.. Sum-
son: the Secretary OF the Interior and
Mrs Fisher, the Danish Minister. Count
Moltke: the Belgian Minister and Nine
Havenith, the Minister from the Neither
lands, Mr.. LoudOn; the Speaker and Mrs.
Champ Clark, the Spanish Minister and
Nine. de Riano, the Assistant Secretary
Of State and Mrs. Huntington Wilson,
Mr. and Mrs. Chandler Apderson, Mrs.
John Hays Hammond, thsi Greek charge
d'araires, Mr.. Adee, Mr.. Justice Cretired)
and Mrs. Brown. Mrs. IsidoA Rayner, and
Miss Janet Fisher.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
Voodooism.

Dispatches from Louisiana speak dis
mally concerning the ability of the po-
lice of New Orleans and the constab-
ulary of some of the parishes to trace
any OF the twenty-six murders ascribed
to voodooism. The seal put upon the
lips of negroes who may know some
thing of the crimes is as effectual as
the silence imposed by death. Detec-
tives are baffled, and it is likely that
the murderers will go unpunished, be-
cause it is impossible to break through
the veil of superstition which seems to
cloud the minds of the believers in GER
tain ghastly and mystic rites still prac-
ticed in Louisiana.
Fortunately, voodooism has little or
no hold upon the younger generation of
negroes. 1t will expire with those who
lived in antebellum times or in the
period just after the war, before some
light of education broke in upon the
negro consciousness. While these
tragedies now may spasmodically oc-
cur, they must cease with the slowly
disappearing generation which holds to
the fanaticism of such beliefs.
1t reads strange that such horrors
as voodooism should find harbor any
where in the civilized world, especially
in the United States, but it appears to
be a fact, unless the authorities of
Louisiana are entirely at fault in their
conclusions concerning the crimes re-
Gently committed in that State.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
AUTO OWNERS GUILTY.

Every One in Connecticut Liable tO
Arrest on February %.
South NorwaIk, Conn. Jan. 2S.-If the
Connecticut authorities are inclined to
take advantage Of an oversight. they
may arrest every automobile owner in
the State for not having license on
February %. All licenses in Connect-
cut expire February 2S, leap year having
been overlooked when the law was en-
acted. As there are several thousand
automobiles in Connecticut, 1t will take
more time, money, and men than the
State is disposed to spend in the cause.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26

at GuayaquiI, where it appears the most
ordinary precautions toward proper
sanitation are ignored.
The costly lesson to be learned from
the death of Commander Bertolette is
plainly that the United States, with
other powers, in Latin America and
out of it, should insist upon the sani-
tation of the old Spanish towns, and.
at least, relieve the navies of the world
from such unnecessary dangers as yel-
low fever.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26

that he had carved himself, and he
wished to present II to the Representa-
tive with his compliments. And he laid
the pipe on Nye's desk. There didn't
seem to be anything so remarkable about
the pipe. 1t looked like the pipes cigar
stores offer for 5 cents. but the stranger
told about how long it took him to make
it, and Nye did not argue the point
The conversation began to drag after
time, but still the stranger hung on
! At last he coughed twice and mentioned
In low, almost inaudible, tone that he
was little short Of money and wished
the Representative could let him have a
couple Of dollars to tide him over until
the next day-just as his old friend.
Bill Nye, would have been only too glad
70 do.
The Representative said he would be
very glad to accommodate him, except
for the fact that he couldn't see his way
clear. or something like that, and the
stranger went away.
Nye also left his office. When he re-
turned an hour or two later, he happened
to think of the gift pipe, and asked his
secretary where II was
That fellow came back and got II just
after you went out" the secretary re-
piled.
Senator Burton. Of Ohio, never had
false report that went forth a year or
two ago, stamping him as woman
hster. He was falsely quoted as saying
in reply to a question: mo, there is no
Mrs. Burton, never has been. and I hope
never will be-
While he has never married. Burton is
not a woman hater. and is invited out to
dinner as often as any Senator we have.
His reason for remaining a bachelor all
his life is that he has never felt that he
could take the time 10 do any courting
II he could have met a young woman
years ago that would have inspired him
to propose while riding along on the car
on his way to a political meeting, and
who would have agreed 10 meet him at
his office the next day at noon, accom-
panied by a minister and a license. and
who, further. would have been willing
TO forego wedding trip with its lack OF
studious atmospheric such a woman
had crossed his horizon, the senior Ohio
Senator's life might have been different.
mo matter what sort Of a petition you
circulate you can get LOO or more peo-
pie to sign It." remarked Senator Clar-
ence Watson, of West Virginia Not
long ago there was a man down our
way who got sore at a prohibition crowd
who had got out a petition for a local
option election He got Up q petition OF
his own and circulated it In a short
time he had loo signatures. Then he
let II be known what his petition was
about, and his signers learned for the
first time what they had put their names
to. II was a petition to have the court
house moved over into the next county"
Copyright. TgI By Fred c. Kelly. Al nshtI re-
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
STATESMEN, REAL AND NEAR.
By FRED c. KELLY.

Congressman Charles Matthews. Of
Pennsylvania. has an Irish friend in his
district who Is a loyal follower. This
Irishman walked into the voting booth
in his precinct on election day, asked for
a ballot, hastily put a cross in front Of
Matthews name, and handed the ballot
to the clerk.
I've Just voted for Charlie Matthews"
he said, because like the fellow, but
I'm in a hurry. You boys can fix up
yourselves"
They were holding an afternoon recep-
ton at the White House recently.
Senator Norris Brown. of Nebraska, was
there, but he did not appear 10 be en-
joyinE himself In fact. he seemed as
nervous and i'll at ease as a bridal cou-
pie waiting for a train.
Mice affair," remarked Senator Page
OF Vermont
Yes" replied Brown. but don't ike
these afternoon parties. I don't mind
them at night. but in the afternoon one
has to wear a frock coat"
What's q frock coat got to do with
it?' inquired Page. Yours seem to nj
you all right"
"Oh, 'tisn't a question OF Mt" said
Brown. II just can't enjoy myself In
frock coat 1 can't shake of feeling
OF uneasiness that was implanted in me
when was a small lad.
You know, We took up homestead
in Iowa, and mother taught the little
school we boys went to. One fall mother
had to 20 TO town 10 attend the teachers
institute for two weeks, and was Sc
lected to go along to keep her company.
Father wanted me to look as up-to-date
as the city boys. and so he bought me
a new frock coat and long pants was
only twelve years old. but father thought
a frock coat would be the thing, and he
bought It.
well, you can imagine what happened.
As soon as the city urchins saw me
walking along the street in that long
coat they literally mobbed me. They
tore the thing from me in shreds, and
felt lucky TO escape with any clothes
at all.
Ever since then I have been unable
to feel entirely at home in a frock coat.
Even now 1 find myself looking about
furtiveIy for fear Archie Butt or Taft
should start to pick on me-
A tall stranger. slightly stopped, wear
ing a brown overcoat and q limp, anemic
mustache, entered the office of Repre-
sentative Frank Nye, OF Minnesota, and
began to converse with him in low, con-
fidential tones.
He said he had been a youthful chum
Of the Representatives brother. the IA
nous Bill Nye, out West years ago. and
that he had come to Washington partly
for the privilege OF shaking hands with
a brother OF his old comrade.
He added that he had brought with him
as a token of esteem a genuine briar pipe
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
Justice for the District.

The insidious attempt of Representa-
tive Johnson, OF Kentucky, chairman OF
the House District Committee, to at
tack the half-and-half principle which
has obtained for more than thirty years
between the District of Columbia and
the Federal government, has happily
come to naught. The result could not
have been otherwise, but none the less
there will be a feeling of sincere salts
faction over the outcome.
Mr.. Johnson endeavored, through the
agency of a point of order, to strike
from the District appropriation bill the
provision which made the District and
the Federal government equally liable
for the payment of the principal of and
interest upon the Districts funded debt
In ovcrruling this point OF order both
law and precedent have been followed
AS Mr. Burleson clearly explained in
the debate upon the question, the law
of 1879 absolutely settled beyond con-
tention the fact that the government
should pay one-half of the principal, as
well as one-half of the interest. More
than this, when the organic act itself
was under consideration, the late Sen
ator Hale, then a member of the House,
stated frankly that the assumption by
the government of its equal liability
was for the express purpose OF serving
notice upon the bondholders that the
government would not be responsible
for the entire debt The late Senator
Blackburn, in 1879, when a Representa-
tive. was equally emphatic in asserting
that the provisions of the statute re-
lating 10 the District finances enacted
in that year binds this government in
its own capacity to the payment of half
the debt"
To add to this conclusive evidence
as to the intent of the lawmakers, it
may be recalled that Representative
De Almond, OF Missouri, who, like Mr..
Johnson, was alert TO lay additional
burdens upon the District, endeavored
by an amendment to the District ap-
preparation bill to compel the District
to pay the funded debt, both princi-
pal and interest, out of its own reve-
nues. The amendment was ruled out
upon the point of order that it changed
existing law These facts, and many
others exhaustively presented by Rep
resentatives Saunders, of Virginia, and
Taylor, OF Ohio-for which service the
people of the District are deeply CRATE
ful-completely answered Mr.. john
sons arguments and offered substantial
foundation for the ruling which again,
and it is TO be hoped finally, settles
the question of the half-and-half prin-
ciple in the important matter of the
District debt.
The people OF Washington must, un-
fortunately, expect spasmodic efforts
to cripple and injure the development
OF the National Capital The defsat
which has overtakcn this latest en-
deavor is, however. an assurance that
ignorance and hostility will not prevail
against truth. equity, and law. Wash
ington, the scat of the government, be-
longs to the nation. Its progress is a
matter of pride to every American citi-
zen. 1t will continue in the future, as
in the past, to keep pace with the great
republic of which it is the Capital, be-
cause the patriotism and common sense
of the American Congress will protect
it against unjust assault.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
Uncle Walt Says To-day:

Old Jmpson's wfskers jolt the He tries dye the
blamed things brown, but often gets brnded green that has
hard metallic sheen. Cap Brick is spawned,
MANS VANITY old and fat, and yet he rah-rah hat
and noisy necktes and his clothes outshne
the hoyhock and Judge Boggs bald but has hedge
of sor hair around the edge he combs that auburn hair
try and hide the total loss These great and faithful
friends and often, when the days toll ends they sit and talk and
they're agreed that what this counts need judgment
masculine and anethe girls absurdy van They paint
and pad fifty ways and bind themselves in iron stays and put
fool hobbies their feet and the horses the street, They
not that they're ered and mocd that mpson Brick and
Boggs shocked WALT MASON
y George
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26

Republican party for President this year,
William E. Chandler, former United
States Senator and Cabinet member.
thinks the one issue would be that Of a
third term and thereafter an imitation OF
the Porfirio Diaz method OF administer
ing a republic, so called"
In an open letter to the Republican
voters OF New Hampshire, made public
tonight. Mr.. Chandler calls for an un-
pledged and uninsructed delegation to
the Republican national convention which
will find the party, he thinks, in more
danger than II has often-some say than
it has ever been-Of defeat" He ac-
knowledges that It is the privilege and
probably the duty" OF President Taft to
seek denomination. but asks that consid-
Grafton be given the chances for victory
in case OF nomination OF La Toilette.
Hughes, Cummins or Fairbanks.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
ASKS HEAVIER ARMAMENT.
French Cabinet VIII Make Recon-
rRe

meudation in Naval Programme.
Paris, Jan 25.-A heavy increase OF
armament will be the chief recommen-
dation in the French naval programme
which the cabinet has decided to lay
before the chamber OF deputies at an
early date. The construction Of sew
eral new battle ships was first advo-
Gated before the deputies by Minister
of Marine de Casse on November IL,
and the same policy was given favor-
able mention in the ministerla dec-
IaratIon OF the new cabinet on jan
uary 16.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
OF INTEREST IN WASHINGTON

From the Atlanta Constitution
Latest Carnegie proposition is a home
in Washington for American Indians
where they may easily scalp Congress
for not giving them their rights.
From the Cleveland Leader.
Washington has started crusade
against cocaine. But, after all, chIoro-
form may be just as good to use on
the tariff.
From the Birmingham Ledger.
Baltimore has to be tolerably good
about the hotel rates, because Washing
ton and Philadelphia are quite near.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
PANAMA EXPOSITION STAMPS
Postmaster General Hitchcock In.
tends to Make Issue Noteyvorthx

tends to Make Issue Noteyorthx
Postmaster General Hitchcock yestsr.
day authorized the preparation OF De.
signs and plates for She printing ana
issuance OF suitable commemorative most.
age stamps for the Panama-Pacir,e In.
ternational Exposition of 1876
The opening of the canal, as well a,
a historical event OF California. win he
commemorated and some general Amer,-
can scene probably will be REPRESENTED
II Is the Postmaster Generals intention
to have these stamps ready in annie
time and to spare no pains TO make them
the most beautiful in arustic design and
finish that have yet been issued by the
Post-ofice Department.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
A LITTLE NONSENSE.
on A sLIPPERY pAY.

Uncertainty my steps trace,
And now and then 1 swerve or bank,
Until 1 chance to strike q place
With sawdust sprinkled on the walk
Praise other heroes II you can;
OF only one care to talk
There is no hero like the man
Who sprinkles sawdust on his walk
He IS our leading citizen:
Above them all his name I'd chalk.
I celebrate that best Of men
Who sprinkles sawdust on his Walk.
The Washington herald., 1912-01-26
In south America.

Stand to your guns" yelled the
American who was watching the light.
You fellows don't night very hard for
your native land"
Pardon. senor." explained combat
ant but we are doing this for a NOV
ing picture concern"