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The Washington herald., 1912-05-12
IN THE RELIGIOUS WORLD

ask what forg Let your Imagination
run riot. you cannot imagine anything
too had. I went into a house. the door
OF which was OF reeds and could see
right through the wall at the rear, COM
posed as II was OF reeds covered with
mud. and Il was showing and bitter
wind blowing. The father and mother
were eating soup made OF the seeds
OF broom corn-pdg food usually-and
in the corner two children under two
years of age covered with few rags. !
went Into another house and found an
old wizened, palsied woman and she was
preparing her meal OF soup made from
dried sweet potato leaves with a few
beans She was well supplied God help
her. and she had no husband or sons
either Here one will see a child with
rosy cheeks and naturally think. here
Is a case OF health among the sufferers.
But nut your hand on her face. II II
urning-why?-famine fever or typlus.
Is there need OF money and medicine
here? Is there poverty? In one section
a society OF the wealthy In good years
gave cofiins 10 bury the poor; this year
the give only mating and string. They
the sanitary conditions later on In such
places7
None Of this is magnlhed. and not
every person Is in need. But what
have said is true, and when thousands
will beg fer work to pay for food fit
only for pigs-raw beans with the oil
squeezed out and devour it eagerly, yes.
ravenousiy and uncooked at that, and
work all day after walking from three
to fifteen miles to get to the work and
be paid at the rate of four pounds of
this food per day to feed family aver
aging five mouths. IL is pretty nearly ar
gument enough to satisfy me that there
Is real. imperative life and death need.
How does Il strike your
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tance, and in the twenty minutes re-
quired for its execution he gave many
| valuable geographical and historical al
lusions. His sketch and talk on the
/ Parthenon was the most vivid lesson in
Greek history the school has had during
the year.
Cadet luncheons. held by all high schools
after the drill, have become the regula-
tion thing on the closing drill day.
Teachers OF the various schools give
this annual spread" for the soldier
boys. whether they bring back the pen
nant or not. The entire school comes
in for the speeches. songs, and merry
making held in assembly halls after the
banquet is over.
Medals, trophies, and prizes Of many
kinds have been offered the High School
boys for their rife tournament, which
takes place May 81, and June !.
Miss Sabbalov, general secretary Of
the National Association OF Camp Fire
Girls has aroused great interest in the
movement by speaking to the girls in
the high schools during the week. En-
thusiasm and interest is shown every
where by the schoolgirls and many new
camps will be added to those already
organized in the District.
Circulars are being sent out TO pros
pective patrons of the Coburn Players,
who give two performances at Western
High School next week. Already the ad-
vance sale is large, for the players are
well known, having filled successful en-
gagements in New York. Boston, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
The spring entertainment to be given
at Central, June 5. is unique in its con-
ception, combining the results Of work
in three departments OF the school, The
girls will twine the May pole. give
rhythmic dances and drills, and sing the
songs Of spring. Paintings, charcoal
sketches, and specimens Of modelling are
to be exhibited.
Many prominent women, among whom
were Mrs. Mussey, Of the School Board,
Mrs. Swain, several teachers from other
high schools and women guests inter
ested in girls welfare, listened to Dr.
Lillian Welch's forcible talk to girls last
Tuesday morning at Mckinley Manual
Training School
DR.. Lyman Kebler, chemist at the De-
partment Of Agriculture. gave an inter
esting lecture on Patent Medicine and
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under the direction Of Mime. Bimont. in
structor of French at Western High
School. About twenty-five students took
part and the purity OF their accent and
cIeverness of their acting called for the
plaudits of their listeners.
Kindergarten juniors are rehearsing
Yeats pleasing little play, The Land of
Hearts Desire" to be given next sstur-
day evening in Thomson Assembly Hall
for the entertainment Of teachers and
II is being studied under the supervision
of Miss Walker. of the school faculty,
which insures success.
DR.. Davidson gave a splendidly finished
talk on Browning, His Life, His Works,
and His Influence on Monkind'' at the
Tuesday evening meeting Of the Browning
Club. held at the Jewish Synagogue
Miss Edna Sheehy, of the Rubinstein
Club and Miss Brylawski furnished the
musical numbers.
Girls Of the Western High went on a
cross-country hike" last Thursday af-
ternoo1. This kind OF exercise is planned
for all the remaining Thursday after
moons Of the school year, as Miss
Thomas, the girls's physical director, is
an ardent advocate Of the physical value
Of walking.
Many entertainments have been given
for the benefit OF the playground fund.
and many more will be given in the
course of the next few weeks. Each
building retains one-half of the funds
raised for the apparatus Of its own
building, the other half going into the
general playground fund to aid in pay
ing for supervision and instruction OF
public Fairgrounds. From so to $40
are raised by each building, the amount
depending on the size OF the building
and its location.
Central High Schools lunch, held last
Wednesday. netted $3.50 up to date, with
some returns stin to be made. The
money goes into the general school fund.
Both the Balance Sheet of Business
High and Hand and Mind Of Tech, have
had new numbers come out during the
week.
DR.. James P. Haney, director OF draw
ing in the public schools of New York.
and one Of the cleverest men of the day.
gave a sketch talk at Eastern High
School Thursday morning. He made
two large drawings to illustrate the
process Of sketching. One an Italian
scene, showing Bount Eetna IN the dis
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BUSINESS HIGH SCHOOL
A POPULAR INSTITUTION
Was Established in 1890, and Has Been Developed
Rapidly.
Rapidly.

Business High School was established
to satisfy the demand for a thorough
practical education for business career
It came into existence as q separate In
stitution in 1890. TO grant facilities for
training in commercial and business
methods to pupils who had completed the
eighth grade work. Although this was
the formal opening of the school, book
keeping was taught as early as 1871, and
an independent commercial course was a
part Of the Central High School system
when the school was housed in the Q
Street building.
Allan Davis, principal Of the splendid
Business High School of the present day
was the only teacher needed for the busi-
e ness course in those early days. To-day
its enrolment numbers lilo earnest. hard
working boys and girls. under the in
struction of IS teachers, selected with
regard TO their especial qualifications for
teaching business in all OF its phases
sketch of Principal Davis.
Mr.. Davis has always been greatly in
terested in the practical problems Of
workaday life. His education has been
complete and his experience broad. He
believes that II boy can be trained TO
think for himself he is already educated.
Individual responsibility, fearlessness in
attempting the subject in hand. and abso-
lutte self-reiiance, are thoroughly instilled
in every student at Business High School
The aim OF the school is the produc-
tion Of capable men of affairs. not mere
clerks. For this reason other things
than stenography. typewriting, book
keeping, and simple accounting have
been added to the course of study. OF
these branches the sciences are regard
ed as Of greatest Importance. hence
commercial geography. biology, chem
istry, and physics are given important
places in the curriculum of the school.
Biology is the science required OF all
pupils taking the four-year course.
Laboratory study Of selected types of
plants and animals. lectures, and vari-
Gus methods Of scientific investigation
for frst-hand knowledge are pursued
in this course. knowledge of bacteria,
public sanitation, and personal hy-
giene are developed and discussed. The
general principles of agriculture, for
estry, and a fundamental, usable ac-
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Big Circulation Of Bibles.

The American Bible Society. In fts.year
Just ended, issued Bibles to the number
Of s.ss1. .sol No other book ever began
to reach such circulation. This number
was an Increase Of sens volumes over
the previous year. and the total issues
Of 1911 were almost twice the issues OF
a year so recent as 1905. OF the vast
issue last year more than half. or 1,sSa-
SIS volumes, were issued from mission
and other presses in Turkey, Syria, China
and Japan. so as to be near the places
where they are used. and In languages
which the people understand. The total
issues Of the society since its founding
ninety-six years ago are A.Hs. 100. ;
Year before last the society had most
unusual receipts from legacies. Their
total amounted to SsO4 900. Last year this
source OF revenue brought in only SZ24,-
co., Other receipts last year helped out.
however, and the society's income
amounted to ss91,34 Its expenditures
reached the total OF S734. .294. and the man
ayers have this year authorized a bud
get of SSl5,0o0 Marked growth has fol-
lowed this policy OF advance, bending
every effort to secure larger sums each
year. and so 1t is continued. The reason
for its continuance. however, Is said by
IFS managers 10 be the impossibility OF
pursuing any other plan, so overwhelm-
ing are the demands.
The society reports that new mission
airy interest, and new educational plans
in China and elsewhere. AFFECT vitality its
own work, and put greater burdens upon
IT, II also reports better and more sue
cessful home agencies. These agencies
not only helped in securing funds but
increased Bible circulation within the
year to the extent OF $4,000 volumes.
Troublous times were had in Mexico.
but in Central America, with the Pan
anna Canal and Secretary Knox's visits.
new Bible interest has been aroused. In
all no fewer than 100 persons are en-
gagged in Bible distribution under society
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made by school officials and prominent
business and professional men who have
been Miss Browns former pupils. DR..
Davidson will speak on the Influence Of
the Teacher on Society" A. T. Stuart.
who knew her from girihood, will follow
her career in the schools, and Supervis-
ing Principals Patterson and Eddy will
tell OF her efficiency as a principal and
teacher.
The High School Teachers Association
held a meeting Thursday afternoon for
the election OF oficers for the ensuing
year. The election was a very active and
closely contested one, resulting in the
selection of c. w. Rippey, drawing
teacher at Mckinley. as president. and
Miss r. (. Stanley, Of Business, as vice
president Miss Stanley has acceptably
and capably filled the off1ce of president
during the past year, working on the side
of the teachers in their efforts to obtain
satisfactory Congressional legislation re-
garding longevity pay. Mr.. McKernan.
OF Tech was chosen secretary, and
A. A. Doolittie, Of Central treasurer.
Peace day" viii be generally celebrated
in the schools on Friday OF this week.
The manner Of celebration Is left to the
discretion Of principals of schools and
buildings In some schools, speeches are
to be made by prominent men; in others
essays will be read, patriotic songs will
be sung, and the heroes Of peace lauded.
Mrs. DayelI Taylor welch. well known
for her beautiful soprano voice and her
praiseworthy work with several musical
organizations during the winter, will sing
at the peace day exercises at Mckinley
Manual Training School Friday afternoon
at l O'Clock.
A section Of the Marine Band has been
engaged to furnish the music at the en-
tertainment TO be given by the Daniel
Webster Club on the evening OF May II.
Richard T. wycte. president Of the
National Story Tellers' League, which
has offices in New York City, spent the
week in Washington visiting schools.
Last evening four delightful little
French plays were given at Western
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Good Manager.

From Judss's Library.
A clever newspaper woman whose IN
come is never less than 1900 a year,
went into a department store to pur-
chase a pair Of stockings.
The silk-and-jeweled salesgirl con-
temptuously threw down the asked-for
lisle threads, and then, in the madden
ingly condescending manner OF her kind,
opened a box OF the 50 silk variety.
These she said loftily. are quite
nice for the price. I've worn them for
several years and find them very salts
factory."
Good gracious, what a manager you
must be-" cried the customer admiring-
ly. IF 1 could make my salary go as
far proportionately as you do yours, I
could have yacht, French car, and 4
country estate!"
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Superintendents Of nine Junior G. z.
societies in a conference Monday even
Ing discussed plans for Junior socials.
New onicers OF Washington Heights
Presbyterian intermediate Society have
Jeanette Hough; vice president. George
Sergeant; secretary. Miss Mary William
son; treasurer, Paul Woodward.
Letters from a former onicer Of the
society. A. J. Perrone, who is now in
San Salvador, were read at the social
OF Emmanuel Baptist Young Peoples So
eiety Wednesday evening.
The business meeting Of North Carolina
Avenue Methodist Protestant c. E. soci-
ETY. WILL be held Tuesday evening at the
church.
A reception and reunion in honor OF the
twenty-fifth birthday of The society will
be held next Friday evening, May Il. by
the Gunton-Temple Presbyterian En-
deavorers. The first president. Robert
]. Boyd. will probably be one OF the
speakers. The following Sunday even
ing at o'clock At a sDeciaI service In
the church. District Union President
Horace NJ. Gilman has been invited to
speak and Rev. c. Z. Granger will give
a special talk TO the young people.
A birthday conservation" was held by
Luther Place Memorial Lutheran En-
deavorers last Sunday evening when the
members responded as their birth-month
was called. At the May business meet
ing this society elected as oficers from
July 1: r. g. Hale, president; Miss r.
NJ. Bright and Stacy ]. Myers, vice pres
idents; R. NJ. Weaver, treasurer: Miss
Dorothy Graham. recording secretary;
Miss Evelyn johnson, corresponding sec
retary; Miss Jessie Shepard. missionary
treasurer; Miss Mary Koogle. pianist:
Miss R. NJ. Bright. assistant; Miss Eva
Bright, chorister. and Miss Ruth Schloss-
er, assistant.
The May business meeting and social
of Fifteenth Street Christian Junior So
ciety was held at the home OF William,
May and Pauline Burns.
Mrs. West. matron Of the Ohio Home
for Missionaries Children. spoke last
Sunday to the Endeavorers Of Brook
land Baptist Church.
Mount Rainier Christian Church has
n new Junior society with twenty-seven
members; Miss BromweH is superin-
tendent.
Last Saturday the philanthropic COM
mittee OF the Mount Pleasant Congrega-
tlonal Christian Endeavor Society enter
tained a group OF seventeen children,
and the mother of one Of the children,
at a May walk" The party left the
church at about noon and spent the
afternoon in the woods near the Bureau
OF Standards. A bountiful luncheon was
served. and the children played games.
picked flowers and were given an auto
mobile ride. Seven members of the COM
mittee went out with this party. Mr.
J. H. Dellinger Is chairman OF the COM
mittee.
First Baptist Society sent q delegation
to Central Union Mission last Tuesday
to assist in the evening service The So
ciety went in a body last Sunday even
ing to hear the sermon OF their pastor.
Rev. W. W. McMaster. on How the
c. z. Society can be OF Service to the
Pastor"
Emmanuel Baptist intermediate Society
will be addressed tomorrow evening by
District Union Vice President D. c.
Davis.
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BAPTIST.

At the Northern Baptist convention. TO
be held at Des Moines. May . to .,
| the American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety will celebrate its eighteth ami
yersary. and its veteran corresponding
secretary. the Rev. DIR. Henry l. More
house. will preach the anniversary ser
mon. The combined debts Of the home
and foreign societies. forming part of
the convention. amount to $l5l,0 and
some preliminary work is being done TO
see If this cannot be raised, wholly or
in part, during the convention or before.
Baptists are making tremendous strides
OF late in business methods the saving OF
missionary money and the increasing OF
efficiency. Under old methods each soci-
ETY. sent out its agents to present its
cause. Two or more salaries were paid,
additional car fares run up. Under new
plans Baptists have now five joint secre-
taryships. and three additional ones are
soon TO be named. The existing ones
are located at Chicago for the West and
Southwest in West Virginia, Ohio, Wis
consin, and the Yellowstone country. In
one of the new secretaryships the Ameri-
can Baptist Publication Society Will Join.
Joint secretaries combine all BAPTIST
causes, and save salaries and car fare,
while presenting unity to the churches
and securing abler representatives..
Mothers Day will be observed by Shi-
loh Baptist Church c'strangers' Home'D
tomorrow. Each member has been re-
uuested to wear white caTnation and
the young women will go to homes
where there are sick members or young
children and care for them while the
mothers go to church. The pastor, Rev.
DIR. waldron, will preach at IL O'Clock
on The Value of Cody Mothers to the
Home, the Church and the State" At
night DR.. waldron will, preach by re-
quest upon THE Titanic Disaster" cali
ing attention to a number Of lessons
which may be learned from this ter
rible calamity.
The services at Emmanuel Baptist
Church, Sixteenth Street and Columbia
Road. tomorrow will be given over wholly
to the observation OF Mothers Day"
Special songs will be sung and talks
made to the children In the Sunday School
IN the morning. and in the evening at s
o'clock the pastor, Rev. Hermon Spencer
Pinkham, will preach from the subject,
Our Mothers" Special music will also
be had at the evening service. A chorus
OF 100 women from the Mizpah Class of
the Bible school, conducted by Mr.. Percy
S. Foster, will sing. Every one is ex-
pected to wear a white carnation, as
urged by the Mothers Day International
Association. and II is hoped this will be
q day long TO be remembered by all,
bringing, as Il does, thought Of home
and mother to those who have been away
narhans for years
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Health" Thursday evening. at the Grant
School Association meeting. Mrs. Edith
Kingman Kern is president OF this asso-
ciation. which is one Of the most thriv-
ing and helpful OF all the parent asso-
Citations Of the District.
Some time after the drill Central High
School will give a polite vaudeville show
for the beneft OF Fairgrounds. There
will be good music. sleight-of-hand
performance, character sketches, and
shadow pantomime.
Mr.. Embrey has once more taken
charge OF the Boy Scout troops at Emery
School, much TO the delight of the boys.
The Camp Fire Girls OF the school gave
an old-time May party at Great Falls
last Saturday. The outing was well at
tended lis girls and teachers making
the trip. They crowned a Queen of
the May" danced the Maypole dance,
read Tennyson's "Faerie Queen" and sat
about the FIRE and told stories Miss
Adelaide Davis is the organizer of this
large body Of girls.
At the meeting OF the Anacostia As
ISOLATION the following officers were
elected: President Mrs. H. G. Cornish;
vice president, Mrs. c. F. Roberts;
treasurer. Mrs. S. W. Graslin. and sec
retary, Mrs. A. B. Suit.
The children from the Industrial School
gave a benefit entertainment at West
ern High School Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Bentley directed the songs and
dances. About $50 was realized for the
Industrial School interests.
Children's Council met at the residence
OF Mrs. Crane, wife Of Senator Crane,
on Thursday. and the welfare of the
children Of the District was discussed.
Amendments to the child labor law were
considered, and a conference with the
District Commissioners was proposed.
which will be reported at the meeting
next week. Many prominent men and
school oficials were in attendance.
DR.. and Mrs. Davidson and Mr.. A. T.
Stuart will be the guests of honor at
the May meeting of the Child Study
Club. May "a.
Between forty and fifty prominent
colored citizens form a committee of
arrangements for testimonial to Capt.
Oyster, President of the Board of Edu-
cation, to show their appreciation of
his services to the District. particularly
to the colored schools. 1t will be held
on May %, at the Nineteenth Street
Baptist Church
The fresh air schooI' at the Blake
has recently been attractively fitted up
with new adjustable furniture for pupils,
and a desk and chair for the teacher,
Miss Gardner.
The drill of colored cadets will be held
at the baseball park, May "a at 2 d. m.
This is the first time in many years that
Il has been open to the public The
tickets will be distributed by the cadets.
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Rescue Mission Workers.

Rescue workers have q national fed
Grafton. These workers reach down TO
whatever depths men fall, present the
Gospel and lift some men and women
up when nobody believes they can do so.
Five years ago this federation first at
tempted a convention. and last year they
held here in Washington what their lead
ers regarded as the organization's most
successful convention. Now another ma
tional meeting Is on. II will be held in
Boston May 13 TO Is. Among those who
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why Money Is Cheap.

Frum Judges Library.
'I want you to tell me what this pa
per means when IL says in its market
report that money is cheap" said Mrs
McFee to her husband. who, like all
husbands, is supposed to be encyclo-
pedic.
McFee laid down the sporting sheet,
It's simply putting in a briefer form
the statement that money talks" he re-
piled. .''and that talk Is cheap"
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NOTES OF THE SCHOOLS.

At the memorial meeting to be held at
the Gales School Tuesday evening at 8
o'clock, for Miss Katherine Brown. late
1-5neinal Of the school. addresses viii be
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Not the Only one.

Frum Judges Library
You know he was saying. II
couldn't see a woman stand up while
was sitting"
$50 you gave her your seat7'
mo; I closed my eyes and pretended
to be asleen-"
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Oneioromancy.

From Judges Library.
Ever notice how actual happenings
sometimes fit into dreams?'
Had experience. I dreamed I was
in my auto on a country road and recall
hearing an explosion. An incandescent
light globe in the room had burst. and
when woke up was under the bed
tinkering the springs with my wife's
manicure set"
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Plain Facts About Psychotherapy
Also Varieties of Mental Healing
. B., u. D., PhlladeIphia.

~ !" n A7OH'' a 87 n D. FhIIHdePhia-
contbut.a By II. M-aii so, Of u. District q clusl. n
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OptImism Brings Peril.

pecially those physicians) who express
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Letters from q former oficer Of the
society, A. J. Perrone, who is now in
San Salvador. were read at the social
OF Emmanuel Baptist Young Peoples So
ciety Wednesday evening.
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The business meeting Of North CarolIns
Avenue Methodist Protestant c. E. Soci
ETY. WILL be held Tuesday evening at the
church.
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CHRISTIAN ENDEAVoR.

Superintendents Of nine Junior C. z.
societies in a conference Monday even
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DR.. Lyman Kebler, chemist at the De-
partment Of Agriculture. gave an inter
esting lecture on Patent Medicine and