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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-24
BADGES SHOW RANK
Commercial Club Members En-
Joy Christmas Festival.
ALL REPRESENT ROYALTY
Insignia Furnished Those Present,
Designating Their Position.
GIFTS FROM A REAL TREE
Fun Begins Early and Continues I'm
til Midnight, With Refresh
ments at the Close.
GIFTS FROM A REAL TREE

Some of the most distinguished officials
any community has ever known assem-
bled last night at the Commercial Club
for the purpose of participating in the an
nual Christmas tree entertainment of the
club. which was followed by bestowal
of gifts, one being provided for every
member. At least. these officials appeared
to be distinguished because of the badges
they wore. Indications of rank on them
were so high that the club deemed it
necessary to provide two Kriss kringes
for the occasion.
District Commissioner Rudolph wore
an enormous badge which showed that
he had been made president of the Anti
Saloon League" Other members of the
club We're present in various official ca
pacities, such as international president
of the Florida Snow Shovelers' Union,
president of the International Order of
Bootblacks'' and delegate of the Pine
apple Growers Association of Labrador. "
Concludes With Buffet Lunch.
The fun began at 9 o'clock and last
ed until midnight, the entertainment con-
Guiding with a buffet lunch and other re-
freshments. Presiding over the tree and
it's load Of gifts were T. Lincoln Town
send and 7. P. Murphy, attired as twin
brothers Santa Claus. They presented a
comb and brush to a bald-headed MEM
Der of the club, bottle of hair restorer
to another member who looked like the
bearded pard,' work on the monasteries
Of Spain to a we'll known real estate
dealer of the capital and other Suitable
presents to other members.
The entertainment committee, composed
of Fred s. Lincoln, chairman; ID. S.
Porter. D. B. Atherton, +. II. Pitcher and
Otto Luebkert, had decorated the house
with Christmas greens and red lights
for the occasion. They also provided an
enormous Norway spruce which was il
lumined with hundreds of cOlored mean
descent lights.
Obliged to Wear Badges.
AS the members and their guests en-
tered the club they were met at the door
way by reception committee provided
with the various badges indicating rank
and position which they were obliged to
wear. Gently, but firmly, the reception
committee affixed to the coat lapels OF
the participants in the fun these bril-
liantly colored badges, reinforced with
huge rosettes and lettered in gold and
silver.
There were more kings and emperors
present than were ever gathered in the
Commercial Club before. one member
said as he donned a brilliantly colored
paper cap and began to blow the tin
horn with which every participant was
provided. Ragtime songs were sung in
the order Of the night. and at its con-
clusion the members voted the occasion
one of the most successful OF the kind
ever held at the club.
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Mylius Is Held to Be an Undesirabl
Alien.

NEW YORK, December 2+.-Edourd +.
Myths, the Englishman convicted in Lon.
don of libeling King George V and sem
fenced to serve year in prison, has been
ordered deported by the commissioner of
immigration at Ellis Island. Myths was
held to be an undesira BILE alien and prob
ably will return on the vessel which
brought him here.
Myths published sensational story
that the English sovereign had contracted
a morganatic marriage in Malta in 1880.
The story was diSprOved in an action for
libel brought against him by the solicitor
general of England. He was sentenced
to a years Imprisonment, his term ex.
piring December Z, 1911.
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Wife Deserted.

Opportunity No. "a deserted wife
whose husband disappeared before hel
youngest child, which is now nearly a
year old. was born, and has never been
heard of since. though the police are
looking for him. The woman's relatives
have rallied around her and are paying
her rent. Her church supplies the fuel
The mother herself takes in sewing, but
with the care of her family cannot do a
great deal. Three dollars a week or s15e
a year will be required to help this
wrOnged woman keep her children. Pre-
viously acknowledged, 5000; Philip Prince
Peysor, 81; Pinkham Bible class Oman
uel Baptist church,, 81: \. A, 80 cents
record division of the bureau of pensions,
81; anonymous. % cents; Mrs. E. c. R,
So; class 3, Grace Baptist Sunday school,
$40; B. B., $50: Mrs. J. Werner, 81;
cash Through The Starr, 81; Mrs. NJ. 1.
W., 81; G. B. p, $40; c. H., S.. Total,
$12S.75.
mother of this family are handicapped
by blindness. They have five normal
children, the eldest ten years of age.
There is a fine spirit in the home and
the mother is making a perfectly heroic
effort to train her children we'll and keep
the family intact. With his handicap the
father can not make a living wage. Five
dollars a week or 500 year is neces-
sary if this family is to be kept together
and maintain the proper standard of liv-
ing.
Previously acknowledged, $7O50; Philip
Prince Peysor, 81; Pinkham Bible Class
(Emanuel Baptist church,. 81; ]. l.. B.,
81; III. f. B., 81; Grace Baptist Sunday
school class No. }, $40; A. NJ. F., 81;
Mrs. NJ. S., 81; c. H., So; c. II. c., IS;
Mrs j. w. p, $50; r. A. X, 81; anony-
NOUS So. Total, $l43.5O.
Opportunity No. 5-An old-fashioned
colored couple devoted to each other.
Home scrupulously clean. The old uncle
is a cripple and not able to work. His
wife is only able to make a small income
by sewing. They have no children. A
former employer pays their rent. Two
dollars a week or $1O4 year will keep
this old couple together for another year.
Previously acknowledged, $40: Mrs. J.
Z. j.. 81; A. NJ. f., 81; well wisher, so
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.FLEES ASYLUM TO SPEND
CHRISTMAS WITH BABIES
Wife Locked Up Sixteen Years
Husband Finds Her Preparing
Supper and Sends Her Back.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. December "a
Mrs. Rose Burke. years ago adjudged
insane, escaped from the county asylum
at Smiths Landing early last night. When
her husband returned from work to his
home. III North Missouri avenue. he was
almost stunned to find the demented
woman placidly preparing supper. She
was babbling to herself when he ap-
preached her.
Youngest "Baby" Is Twenty-Five.
"Just wanted to spend Christmas with
you and the babies" she said. then be-
came violent. The youngest baby is
twenty-five years old. Mrs. Burke has
been confined in the asylum sixteen years
The institution is seven miles from this
city. How she escaped and got to At
lantic City is puZzling the attendants,
who first missed her at supper time. A
nurse was summoned by phone, and, with
the aid of two policemen, took Mrs
Burke back. She is fifty-one.
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Youngest "Baby" Is Twenty-Five
Run Over by Automobile.

Anton Depaly. fifteen years old, was run
over by an automobile delivery wagon be-
longing to the American Express Com
pany this morning while on Massachu-
sets avenue northwest between 4th and
9Th streets. The boy accidentally fell
from his bicycle. landed in front of the
wagon, and one wheel passed over his
right arm. He was taken to the Casualty
Hospital
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cents: S. F.. w. 81: Philip Prince Pey
SOr 81 Total $.A.O.
Father in Hospital.

Opportunity No. 6-The father of this
family has been a good. Woodworking
man, and took good care of his family
until he became sick with tuberculosis
He realizes the danger to his family,
and is taking treatment at a hospital
hoping to regain his health and
strength, so that he may work for
them again. His wife is not very
strong. but is always brave and smil-
ing. One little boy has his fathers
disease in another form. tuberculosis
Of the knee. Their church Is helping,
but cannot do all that is necessary.
will help this CHEEKY little woman keep
her loved ones. Previously acknowl-
edged, $3.50; L. C. R.. 81: A Teacher.
So; Philip Prince Peysor. 81; Pinkham
Bible class Emanuel Baptist Churchl,
81; L. B.: 81 a l. d. H. .s i t Glass g.
Grace Baptist Sunday school: $40: b. B.,
sI.5O: Mrs. J. Hess (Star). 81: Mr.. and
Mrs. J. w. H. (star). 81: C. NJ: NJ
(Star). 81; NJ F. W.. ST., (Star2. 81; A
$105.50.
Opportunity No Closed; amount
contributed. $1O9.25.
Opportunity No. S-Closed; amount
contributed, $6I75; Mrs. A. {. Harris
(Star). 81; total. $3.50. ...
motherly woman, who has four children,
the eldest seven. the youngest four
Every one SAYS Of her What a good
mother Her husband has had an opera
ton performed on him in the hospital
and will probably never be out. The As
ISOLATED Charities feels it would be a
dreadful social waste if this family
should have to be broken up. Five dol
lars a week. or $3.50 a year. will keep this
home together. Previously acknowledged,
s1O7. 10; Philip Prince Peysor, ST. ]. l.. B..
81: d. G. D.. $50; J. II. c., So; Grace
F. n. w. jr. CStar), 81; A. T. p. 81;
Mrs. NJ. ]. j., 81; l.. G. c., 81; total,
$131.75.
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Overcome BY Gas.

Charles Bades, fifty-eight years old. a
janitor at the navy yard. was found un-
conscious in his room, at TO 9Th street
southeast this morning. He had inhaled
illuminating gas that had escaped from
an open gas jet in his room It IS
thought he left the gas turned on acct.
dentally. He may recover.
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Widow and Children.

Opportunity No. PA hard working, in
dustrious colored widow with five chill
dren. Her relatives who are all hard
working people, are doing all they can for
her. but are not able to do all that is nee
essary. Two dollars a week, or $104 a
year, is what will be required to bring
joy of Christmas to this family all the
year round.
Previously acknowledged, $17.25; Mrs J.
%c. j., $3.50; S. f. W.. 81; A. G. c.. So;
Philip Prince Peysor, 81; III. E., IS; Grace
Baptist Sunday School class, So; w. r.
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Daily Average Of ITS.

In the thirteen sets of buildings, ex-
sive OF the jail. there was. as stated
1911 daily average Of 1856. OF these
were colored and 67 white. In the
Rr 1912 the daily average of 175 con
ted of a like proportion of colored and
lite. except the maternity cases. and
Ey have been classified In the officia
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w, rs cents; Mrs. II. A. T., 81; William

ii. b., 81. lOldl, $OcIV
Opportunity No. ia deserted wife
who, when she found that her husband
had left her, was almost distracted, and
threatened to throw herself into the
river because she thought she would have
to be separated from her children. AS
she is a devoted mother and good
housekeeper, the Associated Charities is
trying to prevent this separation and is
asking for 81 a week. or 1854 a year. to
enable this wronged woman to keep her
children.
Previously acknowledged, $3.50; J. 8.
NJ. s.: Philip Prince Peysor. 81: Pink
ham Bible Glass Emanuel Baptist
church,. 81: Mr. and Mrs. r. T. E.. s.;
Z. F., 50: Glass 3. Grace Baptist Sunday
School. $15; P. NJ. B., ST. two classes.
Friends Sunday School (orthodox D
pledge SO: Kellar NJ. e. Sunday School.
$3.50; Mrs. D. w. D., 81; NJ. b. s., -;
total. $1O3SO.
Opportunity No. IA Closed: $3.50 IS:
Philip Prince Peysor 81: w. f. X. %;
F. n. W., ST.. (Star). 81; Mrs. j. II. 8.
(Star), 81; total. $164.75.
Observation-Disclosures acknowledged.
$1O9.24: l.. NJ. NJ. STAR. -; G. II. Le-
fetra STAR. So; total. $11424; total TO
date, 81, SS1. go.
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Additional Contributions.

In addition to the foregoing the follow
ing contributions were received this after
noon by The Star: L. l.. A., any one, 81;
N. NJ. Brooks, No. IA. So; r. V. B., No. .,
50: III. Bradley Davidson any one. 50; NJ.
W., ir., any one, So: F. p D.. white, any
one, 81 c. W.. No. 6, 81: cash. any one.
So; A. J. c., No. ). 81; A. ]. C., No. IL,
81; a. ]. c., No. T.. 81; l.. A. p, No. ..
ST. l.. A. p, No. IL, 81; L. A. p, No. l2.$2;
Evelyn L. White deserted young woman.
81: S. J. B.. No II. % cents; S. J. b.
(childless colored coupled. % cents: J. s.
Carter. No. ). 80 cents; j. s. Carter, No.
II, 80 cents; ]. s. Carter. No. u. 90 cents;
J. T. b., No. 4. 81: c. B. p, No. 8. 81:
s. J. b., No. ID, s.: NJ. E. M, No. II, %
cents: M. T. G., No. @. 81; E. d. T. (No.
8, if closed to No. %. 50; cash. No. !, 81;
in memory of Gladys Frailey, No. ID, 50;
Mrs. G. A. S., No. q, 81: Mrs. G. A. S..
No. 4, 81: cash. Nos. 10 and IL. So; r. Il.
No. 1, SIS; r. X, No. 9. So; interstate
commerce commission employees, 5000;
cash (for the most needy, So.
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Hope to Remain Together.

Opportunity No. 1O-A widow with three
children, the eldest twelve. The mother
and children have already been more or
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make time for your Corner, and get much
good out of it. feel acquainted with the
members and should like dearly to lend
hand If I could toward making somebody
happy.
So I venture to send recipe some one
may like to use. You may not think that
because it is so plain. You know poor peo-
pie have poor ways.
my FRUIT CAKE-One cup of sugar,
three cups of -four, one and a half cups Of
raisns one cup of any other kind Of fruit,
half a cup of butter, one teaspoonful Of
soda, one teaspoenful of cinnamon, one
quarter teaspoonful of ground ginger, and
the same of nutmeg and aNspice, mixed.
This makes cheap but a good cake.
Ell N"
The plea for worn out feathers is modest
in the extreme. 1t will be a genuine kind
ness. worthy of our Corner, If some one
who has willow plume that has outlived
it's youth will bestow 1t upon our petitioner.
Send to me for her address and mail the
bit of finery she Graves to the donor Of the
cake recipe.
Now, may ask if there is not an omission
in the formula, as It comes into my hands?
Read 1t over carefully and ask-as do
what is to moisten three cups Of flour into
the consistency OF cake batter? Did you
not leave out cup of milk? Write again
and remedy the omission.
Apropos of the probable oversight, let me
say that IN each Of two recipes criticised
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American Boy of Different STUFF.

Corporal punishment was q matter OF
course. as no one can read stories of Eng
lish school life. from, " Tom Brown " on,
without knowing The American schooIboy
IL made OF different stuff. Perhaps he is
not question the former and it may be true
in measure of the latter, but whether this
be so or not, my English friend will find 1t
difficult to conduct British methods in her
houseful of young Americans without pre-
pairing for herself the possibility of trouble.
The boy or girl of Is who knows that no
other child of the same age is punished by
a " Swapping" either with the switch or
the hair brush, is likely to hold a burning
sense OF injustice after discipline so rad
icalfy different from that received by others
for the same offense-
Permit me to go a step further. Has this
method of punishment produced the right
condition Of confidence between parent and
child when a girl Of Is would stay at the
house of a friend over night without per-
mission? When this kind of thing is pos
sible, wouldn't it be well for the mother to
reconsider her system and see IL there Is
not some other way of keeping her child
near her than by painful scene " after
her return?
At the same time adhere to the benefits
Of the switch in the early stages. We for
get, when we oppose it too strenuously. that
q little child is hardly a reasoning being
All its impressions, it's perceptions of right
and wrong, of the fit and the unfit, it gets
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small daughter goes regularly to public
school; studies her lessons for next day at
home in afternoons and evenings; takes
music lesson once week and practices
regularly every day; has one dancing les
son week; goes every week to a, moving
picture show, and always once to a vaude-
vile.
Are not these too many activities for a.
child of 10? Will she not be blase at 49,?
"A B. c.
In the face of the fact that tens of
thousands of children of her age and even
younger are going through the same rou-
tine of toll and pleasure, 1 answer decided
ly that the child stands a chance of being
undermined in health and dispirited in feel
ing before She has reached early woman
hood. The curriculum of our public schools
of all ages. I write it down fearlessly!
If the line of study q had nearly written
" torture!') decreed by the powers that be
were in all respects what the growing boy
and girl is almost certain to need in after
life, there would be shadow of justice in
works five days in a week, and makes
obligatory preparation during Saturday
and Sunday for the renewal Of the ordeal
on Monday.
Your damsel OF 10, If she keep up with her
classes and pays due attention to her
music, has labor and excitement enough to
exercise every bit of nervous tissue in her
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trained child should never require a whip
ping after the age of 10 or r. If whipping
has not cured it of its faults by that time
1t strikes me as pretty strong evidence
that thrashings are not what 1t needs to
regulate it.
My correspondent says: "A few light
pats when the child is young will do more
for him than a hundred when he is older"
I agree with her, and go further. If he
has the few taps applied with judgment
when he is young he will not need the hun
bred or even the few when he is older.
On this point I feel myself qualified to
speak with authority. for I come of a
family where discipline has been stand
by for generations. My father and moth
er. reared in the theory and practice of
prompt obedience and swift penalty.
brought up their children in the same
way, and these children handed on the
plan in which they had been reared to
their own descendants. One or two ex-
ceptions there were, and with no desire
to bolster my position I may say that the
result in the lightly disciplined branches
were not such as to discourage the disci-
plinarians with their methods. For four
generations I have seen implicit obedience
demanded, derelictions from it punished
by the rod and the switch used as occa-
sion demanded, and If products count for
anything have every reason for strong
faith in the lash as well as the law.
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ishment boy who is publicly beaten
frequently becomes a sort of hero-martyr
in his own mind and the minds of his COM
rades. Nothing really Furnishes unless 1t
is felt to be a disgrace. I think the appeal
should be made through the mind"
Let me take up the second extract first
and begin by saying that fully disap-
prove of whipping in schools. I would not
put the power of corporal punishment OF
my child into the hands of any master and
proof Of the wisdom of my attitude may be
gained from the conception of such pun
ishment evidently held by the educator
who speaks. He refers to 1t as a brutal
attempt at domination
If that is what whipping a boy means
to him he is certainly the last person In
the world who should have the right to
lay a hand switch upon child.
More than this. do not think the end and
aim of a whipping is punishment Some
times punishment may be the object of
switching, but my own conception of it is
rather correction.
Consider for a moment what the writer
of the letter quoted says Of the whippings
in her parents establishment and in her
own. She refers especially to lying. What
is the use in whipping child for telling
a lie except to teach it to refrain from
lying in future? All penalties, no matter
what their nature. should have this in view.
So, also, in the case OF the girl who re-
manned away all night without permission.
The switching the mother administered
was to have a deterrent effect-in other
words, to make the girl more afraid of the
rod than eager for the pleasure!
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~ HE following letter will be read by all
parents with the same interest it has
aroused in me.
Your answer to the mother of a
boy has led me to think that perhaps
there may be occasions for a good strap
ping now and then, even if the child has
been well trained from the start. am
English and come from a country where
children are better trained and better be-
haved than many children meet here, and
where respect for parents is universal, and
do not hesitate to say that we were all
well whipped for our misdeeds-especially
for lying. There were nine children in our
family and we are all living and well. Our
dear parents are still living, although the
say that the fact we were punished in that
way has ever Iessened our respect for either
Of them.
I have hve children and am using the
same plan. Ny eldest daughter is 10 years
OF age and my youngest 10 months. Two
months ago the eldest daughter remained
all night at a friends house without per-
unheard of folly in my home
and I switched her soundly on her return.
think she deserved it. OF course, such
am doing my duty.
$50 here's to the switch and the hair
brush! When applied properly and in the
right place nothing can beat them for keep
ing the young ON the right path. Begin at
the beginning and do not let the child grow
up before discipline begins. A few light
pats when he is young will do more for him
than hundred when he Is older"
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MARION HARLANDS HELPING HAND

land JUSTLY by correspondents recently the
mistake has been proved to be in the orig
inal copy as delivered to me.
third and a more elaborate formula
clipped-as the correspondent imagined
from the Corner was utter stranger to
all Of the staff who are responsible for de
Hnquencies IN copy" II it appeared in
the Corner it slipped in through other
agencies than ours. offer this explanatory
paragraph that members may comprehend
how constant is our endeavor to put before
them correct recipes and such as will in
crease their store of trustworthy kitchen
lore.
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Insist on absolute Obedience.

How have you been so successful with
your childrem?' heard a conn ection asked
one day by another mother, who had not
been a success, II one might judge from the
i'll regulated infants of her family.
The answer came with a briskness and
crispness which suggested that the sight of
these infants had enabled the successful
mother to formulate her beliefs succinctly
'' I insisted upon absolute obedience from
the first. I punished them severely when
they were naughty. 1 tried always to be
perfectly just her voice softened little
as If in remembrance of some points which
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country. That it achieved happy results in
England is no indication that it should do
the same here. In the first place. foggings
have always been more or less taken for
granted there, both at home and school
Most of US recall the story of the master at
Elton who, returning to his study one day
and finding a knot of boys gathered there,
fell upon them and birched most of them
well before one of them summoned up the
courage to falter out: " II you please, SIR,
we didn't come to be hogged-we're your
confirmation Glass;