Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-04-21


ed and really compelled 10 do. Then
doubts may arise.
The first serious thing is the house. i
When the ambasGador reaches his (
field of work he begins to realize that 4
his country will be judged by what /
he does; that he is no longer an in !
dividual American who may act as he
pleases about most things, but that his /!
country will be misjudged unless ne !
conforms, to some extern al least, TO I
the ways in which other ambassadors /
do things. Therefore he determines
that he should occupy a house, and not
live in a fat. If he cannot anoru
house in the center of the exclusive
section. it must a. least be on the
fringe of this quarter. The house
which has been occupied in Paris by
several American ambassadors is
neither large nor particularly impos-
ing. yet the rent is $4,000 a year I'M
furnished The residence is about
one-quarter as large as the British,
the Russian or the German embassies.
If the new ambassador should decide
10 take over the house of his prede-
cessors. two-thirds of his salary will
90 in rent. He may, by searching.
find a smaller house. or he may engage
a furnished apartment The latter
would save him an expense of about
$4,000, the cost of moving his house
hold goods from the United States to
Paris and back again. But even a
furnished apartment on the borders of
the desirable districts would cost him
a third Of his salary.
The ambassador and his wife. up
on their arrival and continuously
thereafter. are invited @ other embas-
sizes, to the entertainments of the high
officials of government, and to the
homes Of the important people Of the
capital. Everywhere the ambassador
and the members Of his family find e.
quisite dinners, flowers, numerous ser
wants. beautiful costumes. He does
not choose his associates. They are
made for him by his position as am
bassador of the United States.
He is not invited on personal
grounds, but because he is the ambas
sador of one OF the great governments.
If he were not invited. the govern
/ ment OF the United States might have
; Just cause of complaint. If he did
not go freely among his colleagues and
people of equal rank il might have
! further cause of complaint, and his
work as an ambassador would be the
more difficult. The social life of an
ambassador is interviewer with his
official position that TO fill the one
serviceably he must give time,
thought and money to the other. Be-
ing entertained, he must entertain.
Proper feeling compels him to do so
and strive as he may he is drawn
into expenses on which he never
reckoned. He is Inundated in his
own opinion, if he endeavors to avoid
them
One American ambassador to a con-
year. once said TO a friend:
II read in the American papers thai
am saving money out of my sal.
AIRY. You know live al a hotel: that
! have a hired carriage; that I do ev.
erything about as simply as | can
Well, l have just gone over my books
and l find that during the pas. l.
months / have spent $4,000"
. The congress of experimental psy
chology devoted a field day recently
. 10 investigating the claims of the
manipulatcrs of the divining rod The
!, results obtained were interesting, but
the psychologists were obliged TO ad
nit that they could offer no satisfac
tory explanation of the strange gift.
of the operators.
Some twenty "rhabdonancists" &C
cepted the invitation of the congress.
and met Professor Wire of the Nat
! ural History Musuem, who was t
direct the experiments at the Boi
: de Nincennes. Professor Wire had sc
lected the ground for the experiment.
and special map had been prepared
by the Prefecture of the Seine. FRS
Of all NJ Wire called upon all oper
ators who thought themselves able Il
, locate underground caves, to step for
ward. -Four men responded. Messrs
: Pelatrat. Lebrum, Courranges an
!. FROST. They were led 20 distant point
:. of the terrain and tod to begin
Armed with rods of cane. whale
. bone or metal the four men advanced
slowly and deliberately posing thei
instruments, which oscillated unde
tn action OF the faculty of divins
ItiOn. Their statements were careful
" checked by the map. First n
3 Pelatrat announced dry cavity at
Z depth of IS yards; a glance at tn
map showed this to be absolutely CO..
rect. Next NJ FROST announced tn
presence of a subterranean quarry. d.
scribing the outline and giving va
ious details, all OF which were foun
to be more or less correct. The r,
suits obtained by the other two wer
no less extraordinary. They foun
dry caves at will. NJ. Pelatrat eve
discovered a seam OF coal al a dept
which he estimated a: 40 yords. TIL
Official map did not mention this Goa
but as all the other statements mad
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