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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Atlantic City.
Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.,

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.,
December %. 1912
1t was white Christmas down here by
the sea-five inches white! And the
whole island fairly radiated the Christ
mas spirit. Merry sleighbells jingled and
young America tried out his sled. Snow
ball parties, those infrequent social
events in this mild climate, were to the
fore. and many dignified citizen had oc-
casion to swallow his dignity with gulp
and half-ashamed smile as his silk top
went spinning. But it was glorious
day by the waves. The Boardwalk was
at it's wintry best, with not a trace of
snow or Ice to invefgle the unwary
promenader into a fall-the toilers OF the
walk had attended to that. Well knowing
the axiom that "a naughty spirit, etc.
But in order to fall one had to leave the
Boardwalk deck. Greens, green's. Christ
mas greens everywhere; rows upon rows
of them: festoon nterwined with festoon,
and gaudy, tempting little holly and holly
berry wreaths that fairly spoke to one OF
good cheer and happy wishes and merry
Christmas. 1t was one of the few white
Yuletides the resort has known in thirty
years, and Atlantic City was proud of 1t
and unashamed and happy.
Thousands of Boardwalk prOmenaders
had the thrill of their lives Christmas eve
watching the flounderings of the giant
freight steamer Turrialba as she was
pounded by mighty seas on the shoals of
Brigantine a short distance from the
inlet wharves. The fruit steamer from
southern waters had crew of thirty
and half hundred passengers. Sleep
ing guests in the beach-front hotels had
been awakened at midnight by the long.
dreary blasts from the ships siren, as
she beat her way up the coast, lost in the
midst of a binding snowstorm. With
daylight and marine glasses the struggles
of the giant ship in the heavy pillows
were plainly visible from the walk. and
the sympathy and pity of the happy
Boardwalk throng went out to the hap
less passengers and crew struggling for
their lives as Christmas gifts. No casu-
alties were reported, and all aboard were
saved.
Mrs n. E. Fealy of Washington is at
Hotel Dennis during her stay.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ferd II. David. Washing
ton visitors, are at the Traymore.
Miss Alice Hiskell of Washington Is a
guest at the Seaside House over the
week end.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Gordstone of Washington is
spending the holiday season here.
E. NJ. Foster is numbered among WASH
ingtOnians at the shore for the week end
Mr.. and Mrs. \. A. Latta of Washing
ton are midwinter visitors by the sea.
Thomas K. Moore of Washington is a
guest at Hotel Jackson during a brief
shore stay.
'. Mr. and Mrs. B. c. Clapp, Washington
folk. are domiciled at Hotel Morton dur
ing a short seashore sojourn.
Mrs. l.. NJ. Brady, Miss M. Kane and
Miss Mary Cahin of Washington are
guests at the Avoca during midwinter
visit to the sea.
James Costello, from Washington, is at
the shore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

| Gallery of Art. The man was of the
F.! self advertising type. and his analysis OF
| the picture was elaborate and loud. 1t
! was not, however. convincing enough to
satisfy entirely the young person with
| him, for she interrupted as If she hon.
| est.y desired to know things.
| Are you sure it's box office at the
race track? Seems to me there must be
| some other reason for building morse
| out of wood Besides. men don't go
| arounds dressed like that I'm going to
| ask this lady.
| The woman to whom she appealed dis
pensed knowledge:
! That's the Trojan horse. don't you re-
member
| The young person shook her head The
| young man looked haughtily glum.
.Oh, you've just forgotten it. The pic
| ture represents an incident In the cap
| ture of Troy after ten-year war on &C
count of Helen Of Troy.
| You must be mistaken, ma'am," the
| interruption came from the seif-adver-
Using young man. Il never heard OF
| that fight and / was born in Troy and
lived there all my life until two years
! ago. when left to go into business with
| a friend in Utica. Isn't that so Matter
The woman who had undertaken to ex-
| pain history acknowledged her defeat
| with a polite bow and passed on. And
| when she looked back at the two honey
| she said to herself, having no one to
/ say it to:
when 7 tell the girls about this thing
they are going to say l made it up"
/ Old time singing games have about van
ished from Wash:ngtons front pave
ment,'' but last night a batch of small
girls seesawed together with arched
arms, with song that went like this:
| Draw a pail of water
For the governors daughter.
| My fathers king, my mothers queen
My two little sisters dress in green,
Marigolds. daisies, green weeds and rush
Pray, fair maiden, come under my bush.
! /. Heads ducked under the arched arms
the children began to jog up and down
and every last one of them shouted:
"Buncher rags buncher rags
| Ever play that game?
There were enough wanuts to fill two
grape baskets. The woman who owned
the nuts put the baskets in sheltered
place out in the back yard and then
| forgot about them. When she wanted
! to make nut cake about two weeks after
ward she found that one basket had
I been cleaned out and the second was
nearly empty. Children play in the alley
and climb an old tree that overlooks her
yard, so she knew practically what had
happened.
But it wasn't the children. 1t was a
| squirrel that lives in the Capitol grounds
| In his skylark'ngs around the neighbour
hood he had shifted Out the walnuts. and
| the woman found them cached in a hol-
| low of the old tree. She let them re-
main.
This isn't what one could conscientious
| ly call an exciting incident, but it may re-
lieve kind-hearted people who feel sorry
for the dear little squirrels that scampeI
over the snow with no visible means OF
| support.
There is always good foraging il on.
knows how to go about it. And squirrels
know.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Standards of uliteracy.
From the Chicago Tribune

From the Chicago Tribune.
Only three persons out of 10000 in Ger
many are unable to read or write, while
the proportion of illiteracy in Great
Britain is 80 in 10000. as against 40 in
10000 In the United States.
These figures are based on a COMPARE
son of illiteracy among some of the lead
ing nations which has just been made and
issued by the United States bureau OF
education. The American figures include
the entire population over ten years Of
age. while the German figures cover
only the army recruits. and the British
statistics are based on data drawn wholly
from official marriage registers.
Hence the German and British statis-
tics deal only with adults and. generally
speaking, with physically and mentally
norma adults. while the United States
census includes without discrimination
every one above the ten-year-age limit,
even colored folk.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Milk and Bread From Beans.
the Christian Science Monitor.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
IT is interesting TO note i'm conjunction
with the awakening of China that a Chi
csc article of food, or at ay rate, a veg
etable product which grows most pro-
fusely in Manchuria, is attracting the Sc
rous attention of Europe and America
Authorities say the soya bean contains
more of the ingredients of a perfect food
than any other one known product. and
an important experiment is being tried
i'm France, where a wide assortment of
foods is being made from soya beans.
They include milk, cheese. casein, oil.
jellies, flour. bread, biscuits, cakes and
sauces.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Smokers Literature.
@ London Chronicle.

From the L0HuOn CnrUHIcIe.
Frederick Fairholt. whose rare collec-
ton of smokers literature was sold at
Sothebys recently, wrote what is prob
ably the best book on tobacco ever pub
lished Yet, curiously enough, he was a
on-smoker Fa;rholts father worked in a
tobacco warehouse and for fourteen
years he himself followed the same en-
ployment. His first membranes We're,
he tells us. ''of rolling In the tobacco leaf,
as country children roll in a bayfield,.
and playing at hide-and-seek in empty
tobacco barrels He never learned to
smoke with any enjoyment. but, he pro-
claims had mo narrow notions On a
pleasure in which l cannot participate.
but rather an honest detesta ton of that
want of Christian tolerance which has
induced some persons to denounce a
harmless indulgence as If it were a moral
evil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
.seyenueCutter Service

Winter gales are giving the vessels OF
the revenue cutter service plenty of en-
oloyment in saving life and property in
distress on the Atlantic coast. and during
the week just past reports of aid given
have come from all the cruising cutters
from Cape Cod TO Savannah. In no in
stance were the cutters unsuccessful in
the tasks they undertook and the work
lone illustrates the value of the service
TO shipping.
Prominent in the work of the week is
the taking off of the passengers from the
steamship Turrialba ashore on Br.gen-
tine shoals. just north of Atlantic City, by
the derelict destroyer Seneca, Capt. John
son, and the towing into harbor at Cape
Lookout. n. c., by the cutter Seminole.
under the command Of First Lieut.. Leon
covell Washington boy. of the British
steamship Alcazar. which had been aban-
aoned by her crew, but which had. prev
lous to the arrival of the Seminole, been
picked up by the Merchants and Miners
steamship Dorchester, which had placed
4 prize crew aboard her. The Dorches-
ter. it is said would have been unSuc-
cessful in bringing the AlcaZar into har-
Dor, and the saving of the ship is due
Lieut.. Covell and his men.
With the wreck of the three masted
schooner Robert Mcfarland in tow the
cutter Yamacraw. on the Savannah sta
lion, arrived in Charleston. s. c., harbor
asst week. Capt. Joynes. commanding
The Yamacraw, had received word that
he vessel was in trouble and pushing
his steamer TO its full capacity of speed,
he went to the aid of the distressed ship.
1t was found anchored about ten miles
southeast OF Cape Roman lighthouse,
With masts gone and otherwise disabled
and damaged. The vessel had been
caught in a gale in which weather rig
ging parted and with nothing to hold the
nasts in position they broke off and went
overheard. liking the schooner a com
plete wreck. After taking the vessel
INTO harbor the Yamacraw returned to
he scene of the disaster and destroyed
the floating wreckage that might have
damaged a vessel striking il.
radio message sent the cutter Acush-
net. First Lieut.. w. y. Wiley command
ing, to the aid of the schooner Samuel
T.. Bowers, which was anchored about
three miles northwest of Vineyard Sound
ightship showing distress signals Ii
vas found that the currents had swung
the vessel around and fouled her anchor
chains and the master of the schooner re-
luested aid in clearing them. This was
done by towing the vessel In a circle and
untansling the snarl in the chain. The
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Greatest Milton Scholar a Woman.
from lions Herald.

From lions Herald.
One of the distinguished women of
Methodism is Prof. Laura Lockwood of
the chair of English, Wellesley College.
She is a native of Indiana and a former
student of Moores Hill College. gradu-
ated at the University of Kansas and Sc
cured her doctor of philosophy at Yale.
She Is the author of several literary
works. among them a lexicon of Millions
works that is widely used in both this
country and Europe. She is probably the
best Milton scholar living, and though
Milton is elective her classes number L,o-
She goes abroad for advanced study every
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Sleep That Refreshes.
From the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle
Sleep, like happiness, is purely relative
One hours deep and dreamless slumber
is worth three or four hours of that
sleep which falls to most of us-dream-
haunted. fragmentary. Such is the theory
of a friend of mine-a Woodworking
author-whO rarely takes more than four
hours for sleep out of the whole twenty
four. Sleep, he maintains is largely a
matter of habit and should be Wisely
restrained. But there is no poetry about
this method. no delicious drowsy reveries,
no sweet languors. You sleep like the
dead. and when you wake you rise sans
phrase. We have no doubt as to what
Charles Lamb would have thought of
1t. Who that ever read his essay on
early rising would forget?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Unnecessary Noises.
From the New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram.
Some one has evidently told London
about our Society for the Suppression of
Unnecessary Noises. judging from the
haling to the Highgate police court of a
milkman for crying his wares.
''Old London cries. were a recognized
institution and immortalized by publ!ca-
ton in book form. They started in the
morning with Milk o." followed by fish
peddlers, chimney sweeps chair members,
doOrmat venders fire stove ornament set
tiers, costermongers with flowers. fruit
and vegetables, and the muffin man, each
with a separate and distinct cry" some
times melodiOus but always loud.
1t was the plaintive-voiced woman
with Sweet lavender: buy sweet laven-
der that established the immunity of the
street cry from cavaliers, but the gutter
bowls crowded 1t until the MIX o.
call in court was referred to as "some-
thing between the scream of a hyena
and the falsetto Of a donkey and now
"Old London cries" are in danger.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
schooner was then able to hoist her an
chors and continue on her voyage.

schooner was then able to hoist her an
chors and continue on her voyage.
Leaking badly the result of the
pOundinSs she received from heavy seas
as she lay at anchor OH Stone Horse
shoal, Nantucket sound. in heavy
northeast gale. Tuesday last. the schooner
j. Frank Seavey was tOwed into Vine
ward Haven by the Acushnet for repairs.
The vessel was bound from Bangor to
New York when she was forced to ar
Choir off MOnomoy point to ride out a
blizzard To accept the aid offered by
the Acusnnet she was forced to slip one
of her anchors.
Living in harbor at Boston is the
schooner Donna r. Briggs, which was
picked up off Cape Cod in distress Christ
mas day and was taken into port. The
schooner had lost both anchors and was
somewhat damaged by a heavy gale
Tuesday. The schooner was bound from
Promised Land. Long Island, for Boston.
The cutter Seminole put in twenty-one
hours of actual pulling in order to float
the Clyde Line steamship Carib OF New
York, which had gone ashore in the cape
Fear river. The steamship had gone on
the mudbank on good high water and
was stuck hard and fast. Four different
times. at the highest of the tides, did the
cutter pull on the vessel for several
hours. Three big hawsers were broken;
Dul tic StCdhSihP "oo iIiOAAS
into deep water and was able to continue
her voyage to New York.
The report of Capt Carmine. COM
manding the cutter Apache, on the Chesa-
peake station. shows that the condition
of the bay schooner ROxanna Francis.
which in the past week was picked up In
distress by the Apache and taken into
harbor, was much more serious than
early reports indicated. The vessel was
found with water in her hold up to her
forecastle floor and leaking badly. Her
cargo of coal had shifted and choked her
pumps and she was in danger OF sink
ing At the request OF the master OF the
Francis she was taken into harbor in
Buckwheat cove, Nd. where the Apache
| left her, the master of the schooner stata-
ing that he thought his crew could take
care Of the vessel.
Capt. de Otre, commanding the cutter
| Onondaga. at Norfolk. in a report re-
garding the destruction of the wreck OF
| the four-masted schooner Helen Thomas,
| which was lost last spring on one of the
| shoals at the entrance. to Chesapeake
| bay, shows that the wreck was totally
| destroyed, and that the water over the
! spot where the Thomas lay is as deep
! as that on any other part of the shoal
| The Thomas was loaded with phosphate
! rock, and was on her way from Port
| Tampa TO Baltimore when she was lost
/ She was an old trader to Washington
| bringing ice here and taking coal from
/ Georgetown to New England ports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
A Misft Name.
From Judges Library.

From Judges Library.
Little Florence climbed upon her ia
theirs lap on her birthday. and put her
arms around his neck. Father always
called her "Toodles." and until now she
had answered to the name. But now she
looked at him in surprise. why, I'm
three now! I should think you'd call me
'Threedles,' - she said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

From the Chicago News.
Little Wallie-Where do they catch the
fhinoceros?
Pa-On the Rhine, sonny; on the Rhine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
Comfort.

Comfort has come into its own again.
The spindle-legged and the spidery have
ceased to attract. The table which top
pied over at the slightest provocation, the
chair with deficiency OF back and the
couch which completely swallowed one
up have been ousted by furniture which
is at once seductive and sensible Even
solid bedsteadS with Overhanging can
opies and curtains are affected by Sleep
erS who prefer coZnesS to all the new
tangled notions of scientists and hygien-
lists. Our fOrebears slept in such beds,
say they, and were they penny the
worse for it? On the contrary, they
were, generally speaking, more healthy
than we are today.
This love of real comfort and convent
ence is probably responsible for the grow
ing interest in Chinese furniture. The
multiplicity of drawers is aluring. A
Chinese cabinet combines the ornamental
and useful in quite an unusual degree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29
CHAIRS AS INDEX
Mans Character Revealed by
Furniture He Buys.
CHOICE OF BACHELORS
Virtues and Vices, Strength and
Weakness Shown in Sideboards,
Sofas and Household Articles.

From the London News.
Nowadays if you wish to know mans
character do not look at his face, look
at his furniture. In his household goods
you will find true index to his virtues
and vices, his strength and his weakness
His sins are solidified in his sideboarda
and his virtues in his vases. Humor
or the lack of it. may permeate his hang
ings, while wisdom may linger in his
wall paper.
Even Early Victorian.
No longer do furniture buyers adhere
enaciohsly to one particular mode SIM
ply because it happens to be the fashion. .
individuality is allowed free pay. Many
moderns do not feel attuned to the cen-
tuiy in which they find themselves, and
in their furniture they endeavor to APP
proximate closely as possible to the
age with which they feel most in SYM
pathy. Thus, II a man feels William
and-Maryish land it is surprising how
many men do) he will fill! his home with
those delightful deep touches appertain-
ing to that age. If his ideals are
EliZabethan he stimulates them by
surrounding himself with furniture of
that spacious epoch. There are even
people courageous enough to confess
and they will ransack furniture shop
after furniture shop in the quest for
horsehair chairs and marble topped
! monstrosities. To the ridicule of the
esthetic these heroes and heroines
turn a deaf ear. They obey an inner
law, and If woody antimacassars are
necessary to their complete develop
ment woody antimacaSSarS they will
have. All honor to such single mind
ed sincerity, even though the fulfil
ment of it's purpose may add to the
qualification Of life.
The "Old Oak" Temperament.
Especially in the choice of woods is
character manifested. The lover of satin
wood is an entirely different type from
the lover of old oak. The "old oak
temperament is the temperament of the
moment for those who can afford it,
panelings of oak round the walls, with
JacODean furniture to match. is chic.
There is also a passion for pine among
people to whom oak seems rather Sohd
and gloomy. Those who find their tenn
pera mental needs satisfied by mahogany
are rather rare nowadays.
Empire furniture, with its graceful!
curves and coquettiSh complexities has
simply lost its hold on the modern
bachelor. who is showing a bias toward
the severely, solid and straight. He is
also losing his prediction for iiliing his
rooms with pictures and photographs.
Dark, subdued colOrS attract him-black
curtains beStrewn with roses; lampshades
OH the dusky background OF which bar
barrie flowers glow with d radiant Splen-
dor.
Comfort has come into its own again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-29

Two honeymoonish tourists were stand
ng before a painting in the Corcoran
Montpelier examiner., 1912-11-29

Let it be borne in mind, re-
marks the Nampa Leader
Herald that but for Theodore
Roosevelt there might have
been a republican elected
president and a progressive
at that. The regular repub-
licans, at the Chicago conven-
tion let it not be forgotten
offered to withdraw the name
of Taft in favor of Governor
Hadley of Missouri and such
compromise would undoubt-
edly have been made but for
the absolute refusal of Roose-
welt to consider any plan that
did not include himself.
Montpelier examiner., 1912-11-29
Montpelier, Idaho, Nov. 30, 1912

If Governor-elect Haines
carries out the policies as set
forth in his statement, which
is published elsewhere in this
issue, he will give the state
an administration such as the
people are demanding and
one which will result in un-
told benefit to the people.
Economy and efficiency are
two things which the gov
ernor-elect says he will in
sist upon. These are the two
things which all large busi-
ness institutions demand OF
their employees, and there is
no reason why the business
of a state should not be con-
Quoted along the same lines.
Montpelier examiner., 1912-11-29
PROPERTY OF THE WORLD
Political Status Of spitzbersen Fixed
by Conference of the Powers
Interested.

Spitzbergen has always been mo
Mans Land" Its political status has
at length been fixed in the most gen.
eral terms, for hereafter 1t is to be
the land of every nation that is sufi-
ciently interested to contribute a
small assessment for the maint enance
Of some semblance of law and order
there.
This Is the outcome of the series Of
conferences between Russia, Sweden
and Norway that has dragged along
for several years. The three nations
based their claims to the archipelago
upon the exploratory work they had
done. Nothing came OF all their talk.
Having fully agreed to disagree, they
have met again at Christiania and
evolved a remarkable compromise.
They have signed a convention under
which Spitzbergen Is to be neutral ter
ritory open to all nations, with a gov
eminent administered by joint board
composed of one representative Of
each Of the contracting powers The
board will levy such taxes as are per-
mitted by the interested governments.
Nobody seemed to want these
islands until 1905, when 1t began to
look as though the British flag would
ny above the glaciers. Fifty Britons
landed, began TO mine coal, and have
kept the industry thriving ever since.
Then Russia and Scandinavia began to
feel paternal and delved in their ar
chives for the records OF their own
pioneer explorers.