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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
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utes one may walk from the post office to
the park, and better place in which TO
idle away an afternoon would be diffcuit
to find. There is fishing in the basin.
where one so inclined may wet line
with the prospect almost any time. o.
catching several bass; or, If one wishes,
the fishing may be done anywhere along
the river side OF the park.
drinking fountain at the inlet bridge,
which spans the inlet from the Potomac
to the basin affords place where one
may quench the thirst that comes from
long hours in the open air. while the
firm green turf over the entire park al
fords any number OF spots where. be-
meath the shade of trees or huge shrubs
a picnic dinner may be enjoyed.
The backward, unreasonable spring this
year has kept many from enjoying the
beauties of Potomac Park, but in spite
of the cold, rainy season many others
have learned of this newest OF Washing
tons open spaces. and the throngs that
visit the park daily show the interest
that is being taken in IL. Washingto-
mans who have never visited Potomac
Park will do well to make the trip. as a
bright, sunny afternoon spent there will
prove not only thoroughly enjoyable. but
of an actual benefit that will far outweigh
the slight Inconvenience attached TO get
ting to the park.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

department of parks and parking, and
are now in good condition.
Along the drives and bride paths in the
new park large numbers of young trees
have been set out. These, while not yet
of sufficient size to make much shade.
are growing rapidly in the rich muck soil
Of the park, and within few years will
have attained growth enough to make the
park more beautiful than it is even now
In addition to these shade trees-mostly
maples-the Towering cherry trees given
by the Emperor of Japan to the United
States, have been planted in Potomac
Park. these trees having bloomed freely
this spring These trees are the second
lot sent from Japan to Washington the
first consignment. which arrived three
wears ago. having been condemned ana
destroyed because they were infected with
a tree disease that might have spread
causing much damage to trees IN otner
parts Of Washington and the surround
ing region.
Potomac Park and the waters that
lave 1t on two sides afford an ideal spot
for out of doors recreation, the only
drawback being the parks relative mac
feasibility by street cars. The only car
line that passes the park Is the line that
crosses the Potomac on the Highway
bridge. this being at the southern ex-
tremity of the park.
But Potomac Park is only short walk
from the heart Of the city; in fifteen min
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
His Way of HELPING.

WHEN he examines in civics the pet
w question Of certain teacher Is:
What would you do to cut down the
expenses of running the city?'
That question appeals to youthful pa
triots and embryo financiers. and civic
reformers evolve brilliant schemes for
looping several millions f-dollars on the
annual budget.
But at the last examination the problem
was tackled by an unimaginative youth
who seemed unable to save the city by
spectacular methods. Hard facts had a
grin on him. and he finally wrote:
Run errands for the mayor and not
charge anything for it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

drives that girdle the park are daily ire
auented by scores of motorists, whiie the
bride paths afford long stretches where
dozens of riders. men and women ENJOY
daily canters i'm the breezes that sweep IN
from the wide river stretches.
The making of Potomac Park has been
an engineering feat without parallel in
this part of the country. The entire area
of the park has been lifted. as 1t were.
from the oozy mud of the flats. the earth
has been held back within sea walls built
entirely around the tract. with the ex-
ception of the northern side. The tidal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Military Ignorance.

NTHE late Gen. F. D. Grant SAID
Washington official, was once
complaining In my hearing about an ig-
norant ofIicer. He likened this omcer 70
a certain Private Cheney.
Where is Cheney? What has become
Of Private Cheney?
$50, he declared. Cheney was sought
for one whole afternoon. but no tidings
of him turned up until comrade finally
said:
Cheney? Why. l saw Cheney about
two hours ago. He was talking about
going to get some guncotton to sew a
button on his pants with, and that's the
last been heard Of him, ! believe"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Not Like the West.

A PROPOS of fat life in New York.
"A Senator Smith said the other day in
Grand Rapids:
II have friend from the roomy west
who moved to the metropolis recently.
Meeting him on Broadway. / inquired:
"sWell, have you furnished your new
nat YETI
"'No,' he answered, no. not quite. BY
the way, senator. can you tell me where l
could buy a folding toothbrush"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

xTHE failure will always fall. no mat
ter what his environment. And,
in like manner. he will have ready
excuse for his downfall.
The speaker. Mayor Taylor OF Little
Rock, smiled and resumed:
Two failures, seated on a park bench,
were talking. The first, born poor, growl-
ed:
".It takes money to make money
ITO this the other failure. who had
been born rich. growled back:
And 1t takes money to lose money"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

in one week filled with the cream of
rioting Paris. the line of private
equipages waiting two blocks outside!
not? The Abbaye is filled with famous
professional beauties, actresses. society
women, captains Of industry, chevaliers
ditto. old French titles. British peers
and-ns. See the patrician, English en-,
Indo- China woman in native dress. the
dancing Spanish girls and the old
Chinese conjurer, who produces bricks
from a napkin till he builds wall
best trick ever seen in Paris.
The supper for six persons, $50. And
cheap. All the while you have been
lulled by love songs. You have had next
is dearer. Breaking crockery and setting
fire to celluloid knife handles. $40 extra.
Dinner was dearer. If you had melon,
lobster. flowers. primeur vegetables.
and liqueurs, count it $50 or $3.50 for
six persons. Habitues get 1t half price.
Chauffeur, to heaven. It's front is
UNANIMOUSLY pink and white. Husky male
angels. with blue chins and white robes,
act as ushers Blond angel girls In big
wings act as walters.
THE ambrosia of the gods, monsieur
and madame.. 1t IS peer.
All, the fabulous vision, We are
among the stars. We float on clouds
In golden light, fair faces smile. And
1.-THE forms float and fade. "High-class
projections, monsieur" mutters an old
peasant farmer on the spree with his
wife. Come, Nellie, we will go to sup
per-
The Americans, too. You cannot keep
them away from Lajeunie's. rackety.
razzly reproduction Of the Abbaye but
far easier going and less fashionable.
What matters?" they laugh happily.
I'VE are in Bohemia
For the Americans. it is all Bohemia
they have come just to see
STERLING HELLO.
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them up. in exactly the same costumes,
and whired them through complications.
II is a great covered, open Lair show
But the mere tourists and well-to-do
Parisians back of the first twelve rows
know their place. When the grand dukes
pass in they buzz respectfully When
Montpensiers party takes coffee they rYb-
Der with awe.
Midnight.
Man does not live by bread alone: that
is why we go to eat again After the
show. ii is not so much the supper as
the Unsuitable desire to see.
The high-necked aristocratS sup at La
rue's-and each other. 1t suffices.
The lively fashionables sup at the Cafe
de Paris, where the dancer Maurice has
made a fortune. In and out among the
tables, in Apache dances and valses cha
loupees- Maurice spins his girls like
top-until YOU fear they will swing away
by centrifugal force and dash into the
glass and crockery.
Gayety is on the bill of fare But al
WAYS within correct bounds. Even lone
parties OF rich Americans arrive at
semblance of rollickng cheer while look
ing on. Half dozen young men of high
family, half dozen pretty women vague
ly OF the theater, plav ladylike practical
jokes on each other. 10 keep things NOV
ing. They need not pay for Their supper.
That Is why your bill is higher
IL you want 10 see real crazy razzle
Dan Will take YOU 10 older attractions.
The Tabarin is the successor OF the
Moulin Rouge-though the latters red
windmill arms still turn. Both are pro-
miscuoas. The man beside you may be
a burglar, the lady an adventures
Clerks from the department stores get
themselves up like young noblemen.
When you meet real duke, you say. sur
prised: ITEMS. it's your There are
clerks who do this. too.
Just to see.
Chauffeur. the Tavern of Nothingness.
Outside the lights burn CHASTITY green.
Undertakers In crepe stand llvid at the
door. The tables arc collins. The wait
ers are grave d!sgers- Fierce, says an
unknown tourist. You say yes me-
lodeon PLAYS dirge. Amid play Of
lights q man Is seen changing IN his
coffin. -Skidoo for miper says the I'm
known tourist. as we all strike the front
door together Me for some Bohemian
resort. all song and thoughtless laugh
ter"
Chauffeur, the Red Moor. Or the Ca
riilon- Or the Quat'z Arts or the Larger
Pnt.
We are hacH IN III Saur htt'r t2's
I'LL .eSen,b.s aruss@ ~t1a!.r. az "a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

In the work of converting the mud
flats into Potomac Park the mag
nifcent old willows that lined the
river side of the park were left, as
we'll as number of the other trees
originally growing there. These giant
willows are among the parks attrac-
tions, the trees being Of huge size
items of decay. Such as have begun
to deteriorate have been given treat
ment by government specialists Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

tremity of the now completed port on.
where, near the Highway bridge across
the Potomac. is the bandstand, and
where the park is ornamented with a
fountain and with huge beds OF flowers
and blooming plants.
Work on the northerly parts Of the
park was continued and the filling
was completed in 1908. although the
tract was not graded or grassed that
year. Grading of this portion was
completed the following year, when all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

that part of the tract between the sea
wall along the tidal basin and the
speedway was leveled. including the
into a covered sewer and leveled over
and the old swimming basin. which
was filled in and made part Of the
park. The retaining wall along the
the Monument lot, had been COM
pleted as early as 1903, as was the
driveway along that side of the BASIN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

carried i'm the siphons to designated loca-
tons behind the stone walls. There the
pumps deposited the fluid, the water
drained back into the river or the marsh
and the mud remaining formed piles that
gradually spread until when the dredging
work was completed, they formed the
rough surface of the new park.
The sea WALL was completed around
the tidal basin in 1906, and the first
grading of the park was finished in 1907.
This was the part at the southern ex-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
LITTLE BLUE CLERKS.

with apologies to Eugene Ffeld.)
THE clerks covered with
But sturdy stanch they stand,
with
And mold in their hands.
clerks
their chances seemed passing fair,
nd that vast he line their Uncle Sam
them there
wrinked and gray he said
md noise!
no a salary raise
rom foolish girls and boys
h food and wool,
And, Ia with that.
Gave a cent increase
Blu pay roll stands pat.
to Uncle they toll.
Each old place.
Awaiting their uncles hand,
he sml 0 unces face;
And they wonder. waiting these long through
So weary perplexd.
whether failing to get reward in this world.
They may hope a raise in the next
GOVERNMENT CLERKS WIFE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
The Gentle Cynic.

Sometimes an argument is promulgated
to convince the other fellow that he is
wrong, but more often to convince our
selves that we are right.
There is fable about the ass disguis-
ing himself as lion, but the colleges
do it nowadays with a sheepsldn.
he is Of his ancestors.
A woman can seldom hit what she aims
at. even when she throws herself at a
man.
Nothing less pointed than bent pin
would cause some men to rise to the
occasion.
Never tell man what you would do
If you were in his place. He might tell
you what he would do IL he were in
yours, and then there would be two liars
instead of one.
Kisses and poems are not always re-
turned with thanks.
An air of distinction is really something
to blow about.
There isn't enough marble in the world
to supply tombstones for all our buried
hopes.
Few people are really as fond Of class
ical music as they are fond Of being
thought fond of 1t.
Some people are so gullible as to be-
lieve a woman's age from the number OF
candles on her birthday cake.
Every man likes a commonsense wife.
but unfortunately he seldom falls in love
with that sort of girl.
II a man who fails could have another
chance he probably wouldn't disappoint
so many friends In fact, he wouldn't
have so many friends to disappoint.
1t is better to do good thing than to
be one,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

OTOMAC P A r K,
only a few years
ago a dismal, reedy
stretch of tidal
mud fats where
Washington gun
ners resorted each
fall in pursuit of
reedbirds. is rapid
ly becoming one of
the most beautiful
stretches of park
in the east. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

basin takes the place of the noisome
marshes that used to lie to the west of
the Monument lot. and the high. dry.
level grassland of the park itself extends
for almost mile between the basin and
the river.
And all of this park, practically, has
been pumped up from the rivers edges
and the slime of the swamps, by means
of huge dredging machines and suction
pumps, and converted into dry land,
which has been leveled. grassed and land
scaped with trees. shrubs and beds of
Towering plants.
The manner in which this dry earth
has been made from the ooze of the old
mud fats-breeding places of fevers, ma
laria and mosquitoes. in the old days-is
interesting and instructive. The retain
ing walls of stone. built on the lines
which were to mark the limits of the new
park, were first constructed. Then the
giant suction pumps. with their long lines
of sphons. were put to work out in the
waters Of the marsh. The mud and water
were pumped up from the swamp and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

elegant diction. Some Americans delight
in 1t.
Others call it 1ub-dub
Three am. Why are they uneasy? The
motors are heated, and the water-circu-
lation steams. Now. see them dispute
where they go next! Quiet good taste
lays down simple routine. Half the
Almanach de Gotha Of Rio and Santa Fe
de Bogota will be there.
Down the steep Montmartre hill, stop
pang, mayhap, at a bijou bar or two
these bars are parlors, full of femininity
in plumes-through sleeping Paris, the
Champs Elysees and round the Arc de
Triomphe, dash the autos on a free track
The verdure of the Avenue du Bots SPAR
kles with dew. The morning sky is rosy.
Birds sing in the forest round the Pre-
Catalan.
Another sylvan restaurant, Ike the
Pavilion d'Armenonville, dear and fash
ionable. Between the two. later on. a
little before noon, will dawdle the most
elegant women of Paris. on Their morning
walk. At lunch and dinner the places are
gayly correct. Just now. at am, the
Pre-Catalan is WOODY.
Yet so beautiful and romantic. A thou
sand years ago. handsome young Cata-
Ian page at the court of Louis the Big
was beloved by a great ]ady-and muir
dered here by her brothers. They put up
a stone cross for him-which remains.
Sentimental lovers still put bouquets
around it.
ed shirt fronts and denied silk hats, melt
in poetic tenderness. They have come
to drink refreshing milk from the Pre-
Catalan dairy, the first rays OF the
sun slant through the verdure, to the
song of the nightingale and fauvette.
Dark rings under the ladies' eyes, trans
formations and undulations un-frizzed,
rice powder darkened by tobacco smoke.
and melancholy in every heart. preceding
pain In the hair" and need of oblivion.
Just to see.
Our Americans of the United States are
fresher in the morning. BY evening they
are fit to dine, severely. at Voisin's, and
take in Paul Bourgeois new problem play
at the Porte St. Martin. II the penance
seems strong. they can cut the last act
and take furtive look in at the Tabarin
ball.
=. Up-to-date as we are. they cannot keep
us away from the Abbaye de Theleme-
reference to old Rabelais tipsy Utopia.
with it's motto. do as you please" "
To whet your appetite. he will tell you
it's story-how the discredited Mont
martre night restaurant, with cobwebs
on it's walls. was taken in hand by the
Cafe de Paris and Armenonville, and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

Sometimes an argument is promulgated
to convince the other fellow that he is
wrong, but more often to convince our
selves that we are right.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

Some people are so gullible as to be-
lieve a woman's age from the number or
candles on her birthday cake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

Few people are really as fond Of class
ical music as they are fond Of being
thought fond of 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

There is fable about the ass disguis-
ing himself as q lion, but the colleges
do it nowadays with a sheepskin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

Every man likes commonsense VIE,
but unfortunately he seldom falls in love
with that sort of girl.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
Their Excuses.

It is better to do a good thing than to
he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

II a man who fails could have another
chance he probably wouldn't disappoint
so many friends In fact. he wouldn't
have so many friends to disappoint.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

The less a man amounts to, the prouder
he is Of his ancestors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26

There isn't enough marble in the world
to supply tombstones for all our buried
hopes
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-01-19
SAGE Tea For the Hair,

For sage tea take two ounces of
the newest dried garden sage and
two ounces of green tea. Put in an
iron pot (be sure that you use an
iron one) AID add three quarts of
boiling water. Let simmer slowly
until only two quarts are left. Re-
move and let stand for tventy-four
hours. Then strain and put into
bottles. Apply to the scalp every
morning and night, massaging gen
tly for five minutes. This is a splen-
did tonic for the hair as we'll as dis
tinctly a stain for restoring iron
gray hair.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-01-19
Washing Embroideries.

Bran water baths are good for
worsted and cotton embroideries.
They should be made by adding q
quart of fresh bran to three quarts
Of water. Boil this for half an hour,
strain and then pour into a couple
of bowls, add cold water until it is
lukewarm, put in the embroidery
and rub till clean, rinse in clean
water and then place in the second
basin of bran water, drying the ar.
ticle as quickly as possible. Always
iron on the wrong side.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1912-01-19
II ONLY WAY.

To conduct successfully any business enter
prise is to have adequate telephone facilities
furnished by the Cumberland Telephone &
Telegraph Company. Service unexcelled; long
distance connections to every important city
and town in the United States, prompt, %courte-
GUS, efficient service. Call our manager for
information, ect.
Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Co.
incorporated.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-03
ROCKFORD GIVES CHARACTER
Second Oldest Girls School in U. 8.
Offers Students Varied Training,

Second Oldest Girls School in U. 8.
Offers Students Varied Training.
Rockford College at Rockford, ILL.,,
is the second oldest woman's college
in the United States. and was the
first to be placed on a par in scholar
ship with the leading universities.
1t ranks now in scholarship and So
cial atmosphere with Vassar, Welles-
ley and Smith.
Unlike most women's colleges, It
offers a secretarial course including
all the training necessary to fit q
young woman for business. How
ever, it does not slight literature and
music, and the young woman who 10
developed along all of these lines
will find great opportunities open to
her. Authors send in urgent calls
for such young women to work for
them. business men ask for trained
college women who know how to ap-
pear we'll wherever they are, and
busy pastors of large churches have
work for trained young women with
social ease and grace. Rockford
College girls last year received de-
grees in June and in September were
principals of high schools.
For the girl who likes to cock and
do things around the house" q
thorough course in domestic science
is offered, where the girls are taught
to cook. sew and make their homes
beautiful.
And then. who cares to live with
out friends? And what is it in .
woman that attracts and holds
others? 1t is not money. nor even
intellect. but strength and depth Of
character. Rockford COLLEGE in ath-
letics. in aesthetic dancing, elocution
courses and dramatic achievements.
as well as in psychology and ethics
courses, opens the channels
and teaches its girls how to let the
real woman in them be known. Its
fine democratic social atmosphere y
a constant daily practice" for things
learned at the lectures.
ITO swim and row. be strong and
active. but of the gentle graces lose
not sight. to dance without q craze
for dancing" to play as freely a. an
autumn leaf. then work and master
French and Logic and Latin; in
short. to possess life. red blood.
and laughter" sweetness
which can carry one through failure
and hard knocks and wipe out all
grudges-this is the pot of gold .
real girl will find at Rockford Col
lege.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-03
CARLETON SHARES So, 900 GIFT
Half Of Money to BE Used to Com.
plete Science Hall.

Half of Money to Be Used to Com.
plete Science Hall.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars is to
be divided equally between Carleton
College and Marionville College soon.
George Warren Brown, a Methodist
layman of st. Louis. gave $4,000 to
the two colleges and $50, 900 was
subscribed by those attending the St.
Louis Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church recently. Garlic
ton College at Pennington, Mo-, will
use its part of the fund in complet-
ing and furnishing Science Hail.
At the St. Louis Conference a COM
mission was appointed to confer
with the officials of the other educa-
tional institutions of the state under
the control of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church with a view Of uniting
the colleges In a great forward cam
paign to raise several hundred thous-
and dollars endowment.