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fashion of raiment for mankind can
not be "a matter of little moment
Clothes have much to do with good
looks. and good looks have much 10
do with good luck.
In two very important matters OF
life good appearance has great az
vantages over untidiness. The one is
in getting employment and the otnef
in getting a wife or a husband
Dress is, indeed, important, but do
not mean extravaganza in 1t or any
thing that savors of vain ostentat1on
Not the kind that Cooper's lines speak
Of
Dress drains cellar dry
,, And keeps our larder clean; puts out our hres
And Introduces hunger. frost and woe
Where peace and hospitality might reign.
Not the love of dress for dress sake.
but the dress of cleanliness, tfdlness
and fitness to circumstances and te
time. place and station is a commend
able ambition in every one.
| OF like Importance is address
The most BETTING dress, fashioned
with exquisite taste, however pleasing
to the eye, will not overcome rudeness
of speech and boorishness of manner IT
its wearer. Good behavior opens many
doors of opportunity for advancement
1t does not consist entirely in ones
being sober. honest. truthful and re-
liable; it includes good manners as well.
There may not be even i'll manners
and yet lack of good address An elderly
man said to me once: Il have missed
it all through life. When 1 was 9
young man and applied for work
was told that a man of years and ex-
perience was needed, and now thai
/ am old. when / apply for a place
| am told that they do not want old mer
and only employ young and active men,
What was his trouble?
/ knew him well. He was not un-
tidy in dress, nor Ill hammered. He was
| a well intentioned man, but he haG
some cranky ways.
That is the handicap of a great many
really excellent men. Crankiness ir
any degree stands in the way of gool
address Can a man help being cranky
| IL he is born SO? Can a man of a VIC
lent temper overcome its outbursts
Surely there are many who have sue
/ ceeded in bringing their natural In
| clinations to unreasonable anger int
reasonable subsection and control.
| The really insane are, OF course, hope
| less. but crankiness of manner. as tn,
| term is usually understood, Is not in
sanity nor are the i'll tempered in
| sane. The remedy is In making thu
discovery that they are taking them
| selves too seriously and that there ar,
ether people quite as important. and
| often much more so. than themselves
| That discovery will lead them to cul
tiyate politeness and consideration fol
| others.
and obligation to other people and
! correct estimate OF our own importanc,
is the stimulus to politeness. Ever!
one may cultivate this grace, ant
| through it's exercise be led to appreci
ate and practice the art of dress ant
| address. and learn by experience tina
personal appearance and tactful be
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dra. and you can also pick out the poles
and wires along the steam railroad.
You look down on a long village built
by the side of the Columbia pike and
extending from the cross-road near the
church eastward until the view of these
little houses is smothered in the smoke OF
the brick kilns. You see yellow fields
where the clay has been dug out to q
depth Of twenty feet by steam shovels,
and you see also long lines OF yellow
clay bank. marking the bounds Of these
excavations.
In the middle distance arc the river and
its bridges 1t is hazy day and In the
blush purple background dimly rise the
tall landmarks of Washington. Perhaps
also you can trace the outline of the
| crest to the north and east OF Washing
ton and can follow the outline OF the
ridge eastward of the Anacostia river.
The church which stands on Fort Al
bany was organized by ex-slaves soon
after their emancipation. During the
civil war many colored people from
Maryland and Virginia sought shelter be-
hind the Union lines and settled In this
neighborhood. There was a village called
Freedmen's village which stood close by
on land subsequently taken by the gov
eminent as an addition to Arlington Gem
etery when that cemetery was extended
southwark. There are now several VII
lagos of colored people in that vicinity.
one of which bears the rather ambitious
| name of Queen City
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bavior are great factors in the bust
meas and social life of the world.
In a still higher sense, dress and al
araas have significance when applied
to the souls adornment. Inc ress ana fnr
manner of speech are prescribed LOT
all who enter the golden gate OF
heaven. Those who nave not ,rh on nne
white rainment, the robe OF righteous
ness and who do not speak the IAN
guage of meekness ana "isooh may
not, enter there.
wou,d Won wish q mansion in the city "a soiu
Prenarei Inv the Master with granoeu. . aaao re-
Wonld We vest meath the shade Q. iie e'
fiothed in the robes Of immortality!
Then while here put on the ga, tha
Of salvation and speak ony VINE ine
language of the pure and good. W." da
this dress and address all tnlnss
sira HE are attained and all opposihs
ohstacles overcome. 1t is wrltleh. =,
"He that overcometh, the same .na :
be clothed in white ralmen., ~ :
win not blot out his name out It. OF =. .ne E
hook Of life. but I will confess MS ,I nalne
before my Father and before MS al
gels"
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, likely that the birds would rather II pc
called lake than duck ponn. because
other birds than ducks SWIM there. lou
should not confuse this lake with that on
the north or upper side of the Quarry
bridge. where flock of ibis and Bill. the
seaguI with the clipped wings ana the
doleful notes, dwell.
You should visit the lower lake at meal
time. which occurs regularly twice
day-a fact which seems TO meet with
the appreciation of the birds. There are
some leaf-sheltered benches by the iahe-
side. and YOU can be comfortable there.
In that pond are swans. They are PROUD
fellows with arching necks. Ihey are
birds with a greater length Of neck than
seems to be needed for pracucal pur-
poses. And the thought occurs that any
thing which to these birds tastes Soou
going down must be many times pleas sing
to the swans. There are also geese IN
that pond. Perhaps they are descended
from the old gray goose about which the
familiar lullaby was written. Pernaps
among themselves they trace their de-
scent not to geese that came over In the
Mayfiower: not to geese that came INTO
England with William the Conqueror. but
to the geese that saved Rome. Anyhow,
they must be geese of some distinction or
some class, else why are they in the Zoo!
There is also young white goose in
the pond He has a yellow bill and fiat
feet and he walks like sailor He is a
very ordinary goose of unknown descent.
He does not know who his parents We're,
or at least he has never told the Zoo
authorities anything about them. but in
quacking with the other geese The seems
utterly unconscious of any inferiority to
them. His life history is mystery.
!:
On a cold and rainy morning early in
the spring of this year he f1uttered or
waddled up to the back door of a home
in Mount Pleasant near the Zoo. He was
tiny fellow with yellow down. He was
bedra ggled and forlorn. The evidence in
Dictated that he needed breakfast. The
only word he seemed able to utter was
Peep. Peep! Peep But he insisted on
repeating this word times without num-
Der and in voice that was animated
and penetrating. A reasonable transla-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17

HE first detailed description of the
, iii proposed nave of the Cathedral
~ of st. John the Divine in New
York is set forth by Mr.. Ralph Adams
Cram of Boston. the consulting archi-
tect of the cathedral. in the current is
sue of the Great Commission, the organ
Of the cathedral. In this Mr.. Cram de-
scribes what he calls "a distinctively
American cathedral"
In order to hasten the starting of the
nave Mr.. Cram has himself subscribed
s., GOO toward the building fund. He
says:
1.-THE future nave is something like
this: Here we have already. in q way,
a new idea of a cathedraEthat is. 1t Is
not the normal crhciform plan with its
congested crossing and central tower.
and its forest of columns dividing the
whole space into nave transepts and
choir. with it's subsidiary and multiplied
aisles. 1t is rather, SO far as 1T has gone
and so far as it promises for the ru-
ture. a. series of great squares OF vary
ing sizes.
..It is a. peoples cathedral, not mon
astic church: it is not primarily con-
long and splendid processions-though
there is a perfectly good reason for this
sort of thing in every cathedral-but 1t
is for the people in their common wor-
ship. with great open spaces from which
all can see and in which all can hear.
This general idea. already well fixed.
must be carried out here in the con-
tinuation Of the work. 1 mean We could
not retain what we have, then stop
where we are, and then add narrow
300-foot nave, like that or Canterbury
or Amiens or Wells. Instead. st. John's
must be in principle a continuation Of
the type already laid down.
1--WE must get our great square spaces.
our solid piers of supporting masonry
and our simple combinations of masses
and of light and shade. That Is an in
spring thought-the working out Of an
entirely new plan that shall do NO vio-
lence to the principles Of Gothic art And,
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Perhaps il is that birds. like some men,
will overlook the differences and dis
tinction of feather when they consider
il profitable to themselves to do so.
Or il may be that birds are more dem
ocratic less clannish and less insistent
on kindred of feather than men have
given them credit for. However it is a
fact that birds of various family, birds
black brown. gray and red. tame birds.
wild birds. birds that have their living
made for them and birds that have to
grub and hustle for themselves and
their families. government birds and
non-government birds. will flock to-
gether.
More than this they will eat together.
but whether among birds the breaking
of bread symboliZes equality or not. the
Rambler does not know DIR. Wells
Cooke Ewing Summers. John Boyle.
Titus like or other Washingtonians
deeply versed in bird lore and bird
habits-men whom the Rambler has en-
countered in the woods and fields
around Washington may know the
truth about this matter. 1t may be
that among the birds food makes as
strange companionships as politics
does among men.
a pleasant place to observe this con-
VITALITY and camaraderie among birds
of different feather is in the Geological
grounds On the west side of Rock creek
and below the Quarry bridge there is a
lake. Perhaps it might be called duck
pond, but lake" is a better sounding
and a better looking word. 1t is very
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Saving Soldiers Home Grounds.

WHEN the grade Of Michigan avenue
w from North Capitol street eastward
and northward was established Few
years ago it was cut deep under the leVel
Of the woods covering the south GROUNDS
of the Soldiers Home tract. On your
left as you travel east from the head
Of North Capitol street you Will see
high and steep bank. Fresh. raw, yellow
earth shows. except where in spots the
clay has become thinly yelled with a
feeble growth of blackberry bushes, sas-
safras shrubs and weeds. Where Mich
igan avenue. following the general course
of the Bunker Hill road. bends north
wardly opposite Trinity College, and be-
fore coming to the intersection OF the
Hardwood road with Michigan avenue.
this deep cut below the wooded grounds
Of the Soldiers Home is particularly
conspicuous. A tall iron fence bounds
the road along the bottom of the high
bank on the left.
Going over that road, without doubt
many times. you have noticed that moth
ing worth mention grows on that bank:
that it is always washing down and slip
ping till a ridge of earth has formed
against the inside of the strong iron
fence. No way of controlling the slides
was hit upon. MANY times were vines
and grasses planted there, but the bank
slipped and they with it. However, i'm
provement in this condition is promised.
If you pass that way now you will see
that this yellow bank is latticed with
lips Of new board pegged into place.
the strips are two or three inches wide.
held vertical by strong wood pegs. They
are set longitudinally the length of the
embankment and at distance from each
other OF about a foot. These little holders
are set to keep the bank from slipping
and to allow honeysuckle vines, soon to be
planted. to gain a roothoid. When the
bank is matted over that part of l1ichigan
avenue will be fairer to the eye and per-
haps many Soldiers Home oaks will be
saved.
When the Rambler passed that way a
gardener OF the Soldiers Home was sur
yeying the work. He was looking thought
fully at the narrow wooden terraces OF
revetments.
when they put this road through" he
said, they cut this bank SO steep that We
were never able to keep it from washing
down into the road. We could get nothing
to grow on it. We believe that We have
hit on the right plan now. and at the
proper time we will set out thousands of
honeysuckle cuttings. We will turn this
clay bank green and protect 1t from
slides
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youth looks squarely to the front. the
eyes gazing downward slightly and the
lips conveying the impression that they
are about TO smile. as though bidding
welcome TO somebody climbing those
eight steps and about To pound ON the
door with the big bronze knocker fas-
tened there.
The keystone on which the head is
carved Is red-brown sandstone. The face
has been looking down from the top NJ
that arch for many years. but II may be
that comparatively few persons of the
multitude passing up and down l7th
street have noticed IL.
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Face Over q Doorway.
~ 18th street between H and I

IN 18th street between H and I-house
~ No. S20-you may see an ornament
not commonly used in domestic architec-
ture. 1t is a big red-brick house, next
to the house on the southwest corner of
18th and l. The blinds of the lower
story have been closed all summer. A
flight of eight steps leads to a small un-
covered porch before the front door
Look upward to the brick arch above
that doorway. You will see that the
keystone is carved in high relief with the
life-size head of Greek youth. The
features are bold and regular. The
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Fort Albany have lately been leveled.
You can see the raw earth left by the
graders as you pass along the electric
railroad to or from Alexandra IL you
know where to look. 1t is better, though.
to visit the site and remains of Fort
Albany.
Cross the Highway bridge and continue
south to the intersection of the Alex
andria- Washington dirt road and the Co
lumbia turnpike and then turn west You
will pass beneath short iron bridge
over which the electric cars run, and
you will find yourself on a hard and
rough road in the midst of the settlement
of Brickhaven. Scores of shanties are
strung along the way or slightly back
from the road
1t is a neighbOrhood where the hand of
the village beautitier has not been felt.
The villagers are for the most part brick
yard workers and their dependents. and
many of the homes are unesthetic and
brick sheds, all of them warped and
rickety and a number of them ruinous.
At this point the road is passing through
the site of Fort Runyon, the civil war
fort of greatest size among the capital S
defenses. Its construction was begun d-
rectly after the crossing of the Long
bridge by federal troops on the night of
May - 1861. Runyon was a bridge
head fort, designed TO hold the Long
bridge, until a system of defenses could
II
which Washington was commanded The
site of the old fort was low hill. which
has been cut away and scooped out and
its clay baked into brick. Within walls
built of this brick thousands Of Wash
ington people dwell.
After passing under the bridge OF the
electric line your road is gently upgrade
and it is gray with broken stone and
dust Beyond you on the right is the
five-story brick, stone and glass struc-
ture used as an oil refinery. Farther on
the road dips and through fold in the
land runs the electric line to Arlington,
to Falls Church, Vienna. Fairfax and
scores of other Virginia stations. West OF
this dip the road turns yellow. the color
of the native. clay. and climbs that long
ridge generally called the Arlington hills.
which extends from the Potomac to Four
Mile run. Where the road seems to
reach the crest of the ridge there IS a
cluster of buildings. From where you
stand measure a handbreadth south of
this group of buildings and you Will see
a church. 1t is conspicuous object IN
the landscape and has become land
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4astor Giheiv
Reception bp Glass

THE Beall Bible Glass of Temple Baptist
Church Friday evening rendered q
reception and musical to Rev. H. p.
Hurt and Mrs. Hurt Of Memphis. Tenn.
A well arranged program Of excellent
talent contributed, after which refresh
ments were served and a most enjoy
able time had.
DR.. Hurt is officiating at Temple Bap-
fist Church during the absence Of the
pastor, Rev. j. J. Muir, who is on his
vacation.
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CHAUTAUQUA, n. Y, August 1B. 18I3.
o, l most certainly do not be-
28 lieve in church unity" said
W Bishop John H. Vincent today
1--WE don't want churches all united into
one denomination any more than we want
all the families in this country to live in
one house.
..It is right for the different commun-
ions all to work together for the uplift
ne humanity-in trying to make this earth
a heaven. But let each stay separate. 1t
10 better for the world. Every different
communion is separate scientific expert
ment in molding the characters of men
and women. Each denomination has its
GOOD noints. Each has some good quail
ties which others lack
IAN my long life I have stood fol
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But view only relatively compared with the
importance OF spiritual adornment. The DIVINE
Teacher who laid such the souls adornmen knew that lie
who cared for the would neglect the lesser
evidence of piety Cntidlness OF
puts with all of Gods OF
God dressed the world beauty lie who
clothed fields verue the flowers sweetness and
his bow and beauty the skies and has
OF the orders
of the universe.
taking thought beauty the works OF His
right for Christians give thought to their
appearance The garb which arrayed beau
and
character should the dress of
appropriate time place and circumstances
alke tina of the
in
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BriQ. Csfott Here.

RRIG. WILLIAM ESCOTT. who mas
- oversight of the Salvation Army
work in the District of COLUMBIA. VII
g1nia and Maryland. is IN Masninstt Si.
evening at the army tent, 14th ana u
streets northeast.
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ion itself is very old Clothes came in vogue
before man was expelled from the garden OF
Eden. They are the constant reminder II LOST
innocency They were originally designed to
cover shame and their mission will remain in
force as long human defects exist.
Some would have us believe that indifference
TO dress is virtue ans .hat we should take no
thought concerning the raiment the body should
put on or wherewth it should be clothed.
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A Wise Parson.

r rom FuCk
Mrs Wesley Crosscut-fou re surely
not going to be away Wednesday
night. Don't you remember that Is the
date Deacon Bunce has set for our
pound party?
Rev Wesley Crosscut 0irmly)-I do.
my dear: but 1 prefer the ounce OF
prevention.
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SUNDAY @orning Talk.
Dress ano Annress.
Bp barbep s.. 9rmitl.

"Ie that shall clothed in white rament Rev
Let him show good conversation his works with
meekness OF wisdom James, 3:I3
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Il may be true tina [
birds of n feather
( | o c X together.
but TO a man not
a trained ornithol-
ogist it does not
seem TO be the
whole truth, for
there is a place in
Was hington where
many birds OF diff
fert 1T feather Will
floc X together.
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Any golden appropriate dress and ADDRESS,
wv Good often good luck Apparel and con-
much do with line of les work
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mark. The front is yellow and the south
east side partly showing from your po-
sition. is red There is a small belfry at
the southeast corner. Around the church
church are the mounds and ridges and
bitches which mark the site of Fort Al
bany, the goal of this ramble.
Entering the dip in the road, where the
electric line crosses, you come upon a
small passenger shelter with .'Reiee''
painted on it. In the westerly angle
formed by the crossing of the iron and
the dirt roads small village has been
lately built.
Climbing the ridge and coming to the
junction of the Columbia pike and the
darlington Alexandria road you
note two large stores. One was three
story brick. but when the Rambler pass
ed that way THE tin roof and what had
been the third story were tumbled and
jumbled in the road, having been thrown
there by the great storm. In the south
west angle of the cross-road is fire
ruin. Brick chimneys and foundation
walls are prominent. Here stood a store
that was destroyed by fire about year
ago.
Turning south from the road junction,
the grade continuing upward. you come
soon to a point opposite the church. TIN
corner stone tells that it is Mount Z 4
Church. and that the building was put up
in 1884. All around the church are the
ruins of Fort Albany. But rods of the
ramparts have been leveled and rods Of
the bitches filled. The view to the east
ward is nearly as broad as that from the
fiagmast at Fort Myer or from Arlington
mansion. To the west the view com
mands Green valley. a vale through
which stream. long branch, flows from
the Arlington highlands to Four Mile run
Below you from this point lies broad
apd interesting prospect. 1t has strong
industrial tone. In the foreground are
spread green fields. over which float clouds
OF white smoke and pals of black smoke
from the brick kilns. One can count q
score of high stacks and many low, thick
chimneys that rise above the roofs of the
brick making plants.
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SCULPTURE on Common.

MANY persons stop to examine
4V4 more or less closely or more or
less carelessly the handsome gray
green bronze trophy guns at the foot
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There is clutter of wire-struns poles.
Two lines of the grayish black poles, each
with five or six crossarms and thickiy
webbed with wires extend along the Co
lumbia pike. Two lines of poles and
wires run along the Aqueduct Arlington
Alexandria road. One sees the lines of
poles along the electric railway from the
Highway bridge to Arlington Junction
and beyond in the direction of Alexan-
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Leyeling Old Forts.

livery year the remains OF the civil
II war defenses of Washington grow
less Part of the parapet and ditch Of