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sympathy and comprehension. The au-
| thor, with equal skill and in even greater
usefulness, makes q rapid and graphic
tracery of the historic and spiritual, and
poetic afYinities existing among these
poets OF widely varying times and condi-
tons. another exemphfication Of the es-
sential oneness of mankind. An interest
i ing and informing study. fitted to the
hand OF the general reader.
SUGGESTION AND PsYCHOTHERAPY.
of the New York Academy OF Medi-
cine. consulting neurologist to the
Hospital for Nervous Diseases. etc.
New York: Charles Scribners Sons.
Washington: Brentano's.
The substantial marks Of this book are
that it comes in good time. that it is of
high authority, that it Is simple, liberal
and ample enough to make a practical
covering for the question in hand. This
question is the ONCE Of the mind in
causing and curing ailments of the body.
The purpose OF the study is to make
reputable recognition of a reality. to pre-
sent it's foundations in clear form, to
guide It's operations away from the in
norant enthusiast The author discusses
the subject of suggestion from the good,
solid foundation of plain and systematic
Psychologist discussion easy to read and
not difficult to grasp. Beyond an an
alysis of the mind in this relation he
examines suggestion as a force. as some-
thing with nature and form, scope and
possibilities. Upon this groundwork he
offers 1t as an agent OF medicine, one
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down the stream of time about $50
years. Then Isabella. good Cathoiic
queen. sent over royal governors 70
hold the restless islands in bond. and.
upon occasion. to treat both heather
and hereto, to the not-resistible per-
suasiveness OF the pious inquisition.
In such time and place this adventure
grows by the twin fefocities of love
and religion. Like the islands produc.
ing IL, this Is a story by itself. one OF
peculiar mold and flavor. The author
is on terms Of intimacy with this spot.
with its people. with it's history With
a fine story telling hand he builds this
material into a dramatic picture Of the
old island life under the fanatical
dominion OF Spain.
YET sPEAKETH HE. BY Gertrude
Capen Whitney. author OF I choose.
Boston: Sherman, French 4 Co.
Mrs. whitney likes to tell little
stories about big things. Very de-
|lightful and stimulating little stories
these are, too A simple. commonplace
action, in her hands. sets out the pat
tern of philosophy or pictures the
ouality of a religion. (which being
dead vet speaketh" is the full theme
that for this story telling purpose, mar
rows to the lasting influence of q sim
gle act of courage whereby the hero
lost his life. The high spirit of his
heroism. however, became the beacon
of another boys life, the one whose
eyentful career il here portrayed with
engaging simplicity and FEELING and
grace.
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ment, he bequeathed to the people of the
United States. The following Is quoted
from that old interview:
81 was born at Athelstoneford, Had
dingdonshire. Scotland, and as a young
man 1 worked in the Royal Gardens at
Kew. I came to the United States and
to Washington in 1853 and took the posi-
ton Of assistant superintendent of the
National Botanic Garden. 1 had been a
reader OF Burns from my school days.
and one day while looking through a
second-ha book store in the older
Washington 1 came across what seemed
to me a rare edition Of his poems. I
had little knowledge Of rare books. but
investigation showed that the book had
bought for trihe was the first Ameri-
can edition of Burns poems. published
by J. and A. Mclean at the Franklin
Head. II Hanover square, New York city
This edition Is now held to be rarer than
the Kilmarnock edition. Possession Of
this rare book inspired me to hunt for
and to acquire others. and thus, in the
course Of many years my collection Of
Burnsiana has been brought together"
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achieve. She has created one beautiful.
living breathing woman and three heroic
men Of distinctly separate mold. but all
equally real and human. The four are
people to remember. Moreover, Miss Roe
has made. or transcribed with poet s
vision a wonderfully impressive region, a
virgin place. cold and distant, but sur
passingly lovely. As fine bit Of primi-
tive romanticism this story is one out of
hundreds.
THE FIGHTING BLADE. BY Beulah
Marie Dix, author Of "Allison's Lad.
etc. Frontispiece by George Narian.
New York: Henry Holt q Co.
The fighting days Of King Charles and
Oliver Cromwell crowd this romance
with dashing adventure and heroic &C
ton. Love and not war, however, is the
chief business Of this story. The fringes
Of warfare-its gold lace and clanking
accouterments, it's swagger and swelling
front, its hand-to-hand encounters when
Greek meets Greek-these stand here as
accessories to the main issue, that of
loyemaking a royalist maid and one
of Cromwelrs men, the Fighting Blade,
are the principals in this adroitly involv-
ed game of hearts at hide-and-go-seek.
The turns of this astonishing courtship
are as sudden and sharp as those of a
Kaleidoscope, with combinations quite as
complex of pattern and brilliant Of hue
as are those of that ingenious toy. Miss
Dix has built wildly picturesque story.
whose finest feature is it's semblance OF
reality, as reality might have behaved 20
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
Picked Wrong Man.

THE secretary to a southern senator
was walking down Pennsylvania
avenue a few days ago when he
came upon what he took to be q beloved
constituent from down home. Now one
of the duties of a senator's secretary Is
to do 1.-The handsome to visiting CON-
stituents.
So the secretary rushed up to the visi.
tor with a winning smile OF welcome and
slapped him Familiarity on the back. why.
howdy do. doctor. / am glad to see you"
The visitor turned with q smile OF an
ticipatory pleasure at meeting a friend or
acquaintance, but the smile quickly
turned to a frown OF Indignation and
wrath.
Now, look here, young man. you can't
work that game on me. l am dear
doctor all right, but you can't pull any
stuff on me. I am too old and expert
enced for a game like that. I have been
about some | may look fresh, but am noe
as fresh as you may imagine You look
like a very decent sort of a fellow ar L
would call policeman and have YOU
taken in. You may trot along now and
be careful who you strike next time"
Il beg your pardon, sir i was simply
mistaken" began the poor secretary, hut
he was interrupted by the indignant citi-
zen.
'Of course you were mistaken. You
picked the wrong man for your game.
Now say no more and move on or | will
have you pulled Yet"
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Little Stories for Bedtime.


death those who are smaller than he.
Still, he is so handsome!"
Drummer the Woodpecker cooked his
head on one side and looked over at
Reddy Fox. who was laughing as he
watched Bowser the Hound working so
hard to untangle his trail. "Yes, sir!
Reddy Fox certainly is handsome. said
Drummer once more. Then he looked
down to the root Of the old tree trunk on
which he was sitting. and what he saw
there caused Drummer to make up his
mind.
II surely would miss seeing. that hand
some red coat OF Reddy Fox. l surely
would. If he doesn't hear ME now and
take heed 1t won't be my fault" said
Drummer. and then began such a furious
drumming on the old tree trunk that 1t
rang through the Green Forest and out
over the Green Meadows. almost to the
Purple Hills.
Down at the foot OF the old tree trunk
q freckled-faced boy looked up and
scowled.
What ails that pesky woodpecker? If
he don't keep still he'll scare that fox
muttered the freckled-faced boy, and
shook fist at Drummer the Woodpecker
II was Farmer Browns boy.
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BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.

or Mistah Buzzard, looking down from
the blue, blue sky, where he was sailing
round and round, could see Reddy Fox
running away from Bowser the Hound.
He could see, too, that Reddy Fox was
growing more and more careless. Instead
Of minding where he was going he kept
turning around to laugh at Bowser the
Hound.
or Mistah Buzzard had shaken his bald
head and said to himself that Reddy
Fox surely would get in trouble right
smart soon. You see or Mistah Buzzard
could look right down and see that
trouble waiting for Reddy Fox. 1t was
waiting behind an old tree trunk. and it
looked to or Mistah Buzzard very like a
gun.
But Reddy Fox didn't know anything
about this. Once upon a time, before he
had grown to think himself SO very. very
smart, Reddy would have been watching
out, and would have been very suspicious
Of that old tree trunk. But now all Reddy
could think of was what splendid
chance he had to show all the little
meadow and forest people how very bold
and smart he was.
So Reddy sat down and waited until
Bowser the Hound was almost to him.
Just then Drummer the Woodpecker be-
gan to make q tremendous noise-rat-a-
t-tat-a -tat-tat, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Now every one who heard that knew
that 1t was a danger signal. Drummer
the Woodpecker doesn't drum that way
for fun. But Reddy Fox didn't pay any
attention. His foolish little head was SO
full of his own smartness that it had no
room for anything else
Stupid thing" grumbled Drummer the
Woodpecker to himself. II don't know
what I am trying to warn him for any
way. The Green Meadows and the Green
Forest would be better OF without Reddy
Fox anyway. Nobody likes him. He Is
all the time trying to catch or scare to
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40 New York Sun

From the New York Sun. 80:
A partnership between Russia and Eng
land, as well as France, for the con-
struction of a railroad link joining tbp
Russian railway system to that OF India
was twenty years ago an unthinkable
scheme. The prose and poetry OF Mr..
Kipling alike reveal the common appre-
hension in England of that day that at
no distant time innumerable Russian
troops would pour down across the noun
tains and through khyber pass, and Eng
land watched the frontier of the Hindu
Kush as does France that of the Vosges.
Yet today the Transpersian railway is
not only an accepted detail of British
policy, but finds ardent support in the
editorial columns OF the London Times.
The Transpersian railway project
itself Is one OF those grandiose schemes
which are natural consequences OF the
Transsiberian and the Cape to Cairo.
through the center of Persia a railroad
which shall connect the Russian lines
that now pass the Caucasus country with
those OF British India and detaching from
this road a branch which will connect
with the Bagdad railway.
BY this system, when IL is completed,
through trains will go from the Straits
of Dover to all the larger cities OF Hin
dustan and later traverse Burma and
reach southern China. In fact, this will
be the southern rival OF the TRANSIT
berian and give Europe two trunk lines
to the far east. To India. too. IL will DO
possible to travel by Vienna and C0nstan.
tinople or by Berlin and Moscow. -
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the public reservations in Washing
ton is confessedly desirable, but 1t is a
problem fraught with many difficulties.
Metal labels rust and the letters be-
come effaced. The. botanic name is
needed for students and the common
name for laymen. Nearly every Ameri-
can tree and bush has several common
names. being known by one in one To-
cality and by another name in a diff
ferent locality. Something Of the habit
and general story of the tree should
also go on label.
Every label thus far devised will dis
appear. They are highly regarded by
strangers as souvenirs. Down in the
National Botanic Garden the officials
are kept busy renewing labels. though
only the botanic name Of the plant Is
used down here. Many tourists will
break shrub which for any reason
strikes them favorably and then will
take along the label that they may not
forget the name OF the thing. 1t is
said that a surprisingly large number
fof strangers are interested in botany
to the extent of taking home botanical
labels.
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At a recent gathering Of laundry pro-
prietors some one made the statement
that the progress of a nation was DEM
onstrated more clearly by its laundry
methods than in any other way. The
more progressive the nation. the more
fully equipped are its laundry plants.
Since America is the leading nation of
the world II naturally follows, according
TO this theory. that its laundries should
be the finest in the world. and 1t Is gen.
orally acknowledged that the United
states does set a pace which other ma
tons must follow. The best American
laundries not only set an example for
other nations to initiate, but also place
the means Of following within reach by
supplying first-class laundry machinery.
All OF the best laundry machinery in the
world is exported from the United States.
England stands next to the United
States In the equipment OF it's laundries,
many OF which have all American ma
chinery and are almost. II not quite, on
a par with the best American establish
ments. The English iaundrymen have
paid special attention to the chemical de-
partment Of laundry work, and In this
Many OF the best formulas used in Amer
,can laundries regarding the effect of GER
tain chemicals upon fabrics have been
imported from England. as have also the
methods now In vogue for washing
woolenS-
In Germany the steam laundry meth
DDS have not as yet found popular favor.
They are used In public institutions, such
as hospitals and barracks. but as a pub
lie convenience they are not in great de-
mand Many Germans are opposing the
use of machines and the development Of
public laundries on the ground that 1t
takes away a valuable industry from
women who need the income. To this
end a special effort Is being made to
teach girls modern laundry methods as
n part of their education. The continue.
ton schools. which are so great a feature
OF Germany's educational system, now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
years ago in England in the parlous en-
counters Of Roundhead and Cavalier.

counters Of Roundhead and Cavalier.
THE ADVENTURE OF LIFE, the Will
liam Belden Noble Lectures for 1911.
BY Wilfred Thomson Grenfell,
NJ. D.. c. NJ. G., author of "Adrift ON
an Ice Pam" etc. Boston: Houghton
Miffiin Company.
"As an everyday matter Of fact. Christ
walks in our streets today. and can again
prove His divinity to us beyond question
il We will permit Him. by living in our
human lives" This is the practical sub
stance Of these inspired talks about the
human Christ. Into this message OF
faith one reads the rich fiitrate OF DR..
Grenfelrs experiences along the coast of
Labrador and otherwhere. One feels the
stir of a man behind It, a vigorous, FULL
blooded man. One catches, too, the spirit
Of the crusading adventurer. one whose
holy grail is plain human help to such
as are zoned beyond the common borders
of health and comfort and hope. These
are broad views of working Christian
ity. They are sermons of the right sort,
free and fearless, unpulpited, resolute
sermons.
THE KNIGHTLY YEARS BY W. NJ
Ardagh. author of The Magada."
New York: John Lane Company.
To come to touch with this ad-
venture we must needs sail east across
the Atlantic. to the Canaries. and back
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Capitol. People are too busy climbing
up or down the long series OF marble
steps. Yet 1t is an interesting place. A
semi-circular stone bench is provided as
rest, but the west sun burns in there
in summer and people looking for comfort
prefer to climb to the top Of the terrace
or to rest under the shade of the trees
in the outer grounds. The little place Is
back of the John Marshall statue. In
the center there is a fountain whose
water flows softly. There is a small top
basin of creamy marble and the over
flow from this falls into a big, round
marble basin. This is supported by eight
short stout marble columns and these
rest on a granite pedestal. In the top
basin grows parrot feathers. a fountain
plant coming into wide popularity with
the government gardeners in Washington,
and in the main basin swim goldfish and
bloom water lilies.
The wall Of this amphitheater is draped
with moon vine, grape and Japan ivy and
at the foot of the fall is a winter garden
of evergreens. On top Of the wall are
eight bronze tubs filled with palms and
bright flowers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-24
The Law Of the Road.
From Case and Comment.

1t Is stated that the French are pro-
posing to adopt the English law OF the
road for automobiles: that is. to turn to
the left. 1t is singular that We In
America should have changed from the
English habit established from time i'm
memorial
The driver Of a buggy or a horse
vehicle of any kind sits to the right
and can see both his own wheel and the
approaching one, and thus gauge his dis
lance from ii. This he cannot do well
when driving to the right.
The law OF the road,
II you'll listen a while.
will give in the words Of a song.
For when you go left,
1t Is then you go right,
And when you go right you go wrong.
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] find no place that does not breathe
Some gracious memory Of my friend.
"'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise,
Yet how much wisdom sleeps with thee
Which not alone had guided me,
But served the seasons that may rise.
And doubtless unto thee is given
A life that hears immortal fruit
In such great Offices as suit
The full grown energies Of heaven.
And love will last pure and whole
AS when he found here in time
And at the spiritual prime
Re-awaken with the dawning SOUL
The east face of the memorial is
taken up with another poem.
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Steeplechase Courses.

THE jumps of Potomac Park are one
! of the joys Of that big playground
not appreciated and perhaps not generally
observed by the thousands OF auto riders
who travel there. Foot passengers Of the
park do not often stray that way. and
ones attention is not apt to be caught by
the jumps unless some horseman or
horsewoman be seen taking them.
The first. or the easternmOst of the
jumps. is a quarter OF a mile west OF the
John Paul Jones statue and to the right
and a little further to the west of the
point where the main drive turns south
to skirt the west side of the tidal basin.
The first jump Is a ditch about two feet
deep and two feet wide. 1t is marked
and guarded by wings. in each pair of
which are six panels Of white-washed
board fencing about three feet high. Sew
enty-hve yards on, and this Is getting
farther away from the park drive. is an
earth hurdle grown with grass except in
the center, where many horses hoofs
have hit 1t.
Still farther on at intervals of seventy
five yards are brush jump and a low
set Of bars. The western jump approaches
the west drive, or the riverside drive.
The jumps are to the north Of the polo
field, with which thousands OF Washing
tonians, because Of the practice and
matches OF polo players. have become
acquainted.
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THE WEEKLY WASH.
LAUNDRY METHODS OF THE WORLD.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

are beginning to introduce some OF the
simpler American laundry machines and
teach the girls how to use them.
The weekly wash day is not the insti-
tuition In Germany that it is in England
and America.
Germany Has No The German
Weekly Wash Day. herself unon
having SUFFICIENT clothing and linen for
her family to make 1t unnecessary for
her to have the washing done every
week, and in many families 1t is only
done three or four times q year. 1t
thus becomes q mighty task. calling for
several days work and usually the en-
ployment OF extra labor. The sanitary
disadvantages Of keeping 80 large an &C
emulation Of soihed clothing In tho
home has not yet become apparent to
the German public.
In France the laundry methods for the
bulk Of the population are still primitive.
The French hand laundresses. like the
German, are exceedingly loath to see
American machinery introduced, al
though 1t is being done in increasing
quantities each year. The first American
laundry equipment introduced In France
was attached to the county building At
Nanteere, where 1t was highly recon-
mended by those who inspected II. Ac-
cording to the Official report. the aver
age amount OF linen washed during the
first year Of it's operation averaged In
cost about 76 cents for every $50 pounds
avoirdupois, which was almost 90 per
cent Of the cost OF hand labor. In addi-
ton. the officials estimated further saw
ing In the wear and tear Of material
handled equivalent to 12h per cent over
the old method. While the French laun-
dry methods were at one time considered
the best In the world. It has been the
fad for several years among fashionable
people to send their clothing to London
TO be Numbered When the French learn
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THE Agricultural Department is trying
out tree label which will tell
something about the tree to which it is
tackled. Along the main north-south
avenue of the department grounds from
the iron fencing on B street to the north
garden-a continuation of the line of 18th
street-there is a double row of foreign
trees. This double row has come to be
called the Ginkgo arcade. In the arcade
are sixty-two Of these trees, and where
the central avenue branches into two
drivewayS a single row Of the trees con-
tinues part way along each fork of the
drive. The Gnkgo arcade Is a pleasant
resting place, five green Slated benches
being placed along the east side at inter-
walls Of sixty feet.
The Secretary of Agriculture has caus-
ed the first two trees in each row at the
north end to be labeled or tagged
piece of heavy and stiff linen. the size
Of postal card, printed with heavy black
letters. is affixed to the tree trunk by
means of four copper staples at height
Of five feet from the ground. These linen
labels are inscribed:
"Ginkgo or maidenhair tree tGinkgo
biloba). native Of Japan and China. re-
lated to the yew tree, bearing a single
seeded fruit. the kernel of which Is
much priced by the Chinese for food.
The tree grows to a height Of eighty
feet, living to be several centuries old.
AS a street tree 1t is especially at
tractive in autumn, when its leaves
turn a beautiful golden color. 1t is the
sole survivor of the great genus of
trees which inhabited the earth during
the time of the prehistoric monsters.
The reference on the label to the fact
that the tree bears a single seeded
fruit. the kernel Of which Is much
used by the Chinese for food" recalls
that when this tree bears the Chinese
residents of Washington invade the
Agricultural grounds in large crowds
picking the fruit that has fallen from
these Ginkgos. The seed Of the fruit
of the Ginkgo is an acquired taste and
1T is said that the Chinese were several
centuries acquiring It,
The labelling of trees and shrubs in
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The Test Today.

From the Pittsburgh Post.
Shall we give this Teller an Offices
Nav :.
Maybe we'd better. He's a pretty
big man. -
big enough to start a new party?'
"Oh, no.
Big enough to start a magaziner"
NO *.a
Then no Office for him. He amt very
big"