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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-25
Oberlin they think I'm doing fine.
hadn't the heart to tell them thu

Oberlin they think I'm doing fine.
hadn't the heart to tell them the
truth"
That's what they think Of me back
in Wheeling said the other girl. quiet
ly. THE paper back home printed my
picture last Sunday showing me to be
a big actress"
They're having turkey and cranber-
ries at my house back home tonight.
said the first.
Same at my home" said the other.
The first put her face in her hands
and was silent. A moment later the
waiter approached them.
'What'n you have?" he asked.
AN egg sandwich and a cup of cof-
fee." came from the blonde.
Same for me- said the other.
The waiter smiled. turned on his heel
and departed in the direction of the
kitchen. Two heads went into two sets
Of hands and a silence fell over the
little party. Two girls were thinking.
and thinking hard.-New York Tele-
graph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-25

Have you a pet pelican In your
apartment? How questionable!
Miss Ethel Hopkins has, one, which
was discovered by her neighbors in
and by two health department agents
yesterday. Its name is Emman uel,
and it is going on the stage with Miss
Hopkins:
When agents tried to seize the bird
It pecked cuticle from the arm Of one
and the leg of the other. They fled,
threatening to return with a warrant.
New York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-25
Life in a Great City.

They sat in a cheap Broadway res
taurant-two chorus girls out Of work.
1t was Thanksgiving day..
when I came to New York a year
ago." said the blonde. II told the folks
at home that I'd probably return for
Thanksgiving in a private car. Back in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-25

"How did you come out Of that deal in
Wall Street?" II got several thousand
dollars worth OF experience. But the
price on experience has gone away on
with no chance that 1 can see of recover
Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-25

Try Illinois nut coal for cooking; it's
washed. Call 31SS ]. F. Spohn.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-12-25

The Silver Leaf quartet and Miss Jessie
Friday night. Five reels of special feat
ures have been imported for this occa-
sion. The proceeds will be used to pur-
chase q Victrola for Madison school. The
teachers and pupils OF the school will ap-
preciate the presence of their friends at
the matinee or evening program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
OBJECTS TO USE OF PARK
FOR PUBLIC BUILDING
West End Citizens Association Be-
1ieves Juvenile Court Should
Seek Home Elsewhere.

The proposition to erect a new build
Square was denounced as cheap" at a
meeting of the West End Citizens AS
ISOLATION at S22 10th street last night.
It was also the sense of the meeting
that. though new building for the
Juvenile Court is needed, such a building
should be erected elsewhere than in
Judiciary Square and should house no
other court.
The association approved in part the
District delegate bill. holding that per-
SONS who are property owners in the
District of Columbia or who have lived
here continuously for three years
should be permitted to vote for Presi-
dent and Vice President.
Favors Larger Fee for Hucksters.
A resolution to increase the license
fee for hucksters from $12 year to
500 was referred to a committee. The
election of officers held at last nights
meeting resulted as follows:
George w. Evans. president; H. Ran
dali Webb, first vice president; Hugh
T.. Harvey. second vice president: DIR.
II NJ Dixon, third vice president; Luz
ther w. Linkins, secretary; A. J..
Schwarz assistant secretary, Morris
Hahn, treasurer.
The following board of directors also
Rothrock. one year; DR.. w. B. Hudson
and F. w. kritchelt, two years, and ].
NJ Woodward and Edward NJ. Dulin,
three years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
YACHT TUNA IN PORT.
One of Largest Pleasure Craft Ever
Visiting the Capital.

From cruise on the James and York
rivers, during which she visited Brandon,
Shirley. Bermuda Hundreds, Yorktown
and other points of interest the handsome
steam yacht TUNA. Capt. =. p. Netland.
arrived in port yesterday afternoon and
berthed at the 9th street wharf. The
vessel is owned by w. B. Dinslnore of
New York, and flies the pennaHt of the
New York Yacht Club. Fer the cruise
she was under charter to DIR. Roderick
Terry of Newport, X. J., and DIR. Terry,
with his wife and Capt. Harrington,
L. S. ~, retired, and, Mrs. Harrington,
We're aboard.
On arriving here the members of the
party left the yacht and will return to
their homes in the north The Ituna
will remain here until tonight or pos
sibly tomorrow, taking OH coal and other
stores, and will so from here to her home
pot t. She is one of the largest pleasure
craft that has been in port here this
season, being 100 feet long, 20 feet beam
and II feet deep. She will make a
speed of about ten miles an hour. The
TUNA was in port here about four years
ago. under the command of Capt
Netland.
The power yacht Everglades. belonging
to Col. Robert Thompson, which left here
last week. for Il cruise on the Kappa
hammock, returned to po [ yesterday
afternoon and docked at Is street. Later
in the season she will leave here for
Florida to remain throughout the winter
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
REPAIRS NEARLY COMPLETED.
The Tug James 0. Carter to Be
Ready for Service This Week.

Work is being completed on the installa-
ton of new boiler and overhauling of
the tug James o. Carter of the Taylor
fleet of this city, and it is expected that
the tug will be ready to return to this
city this week. AS soon as she arrives
here she will go into commission. The
Carter left here more than month ago
to have her old boiler taken out and the
new one, which was built and waiting for
her, placed III position. 1t is stated that
she will be ready this afternoon for in-
spection and boiler tests by the steamboat
inspection service officials and but little
work will have to be done. after she is
through her inspection, before she is
ready to come home.
The new boiler will give the tug all the
steam her engine can use, and it is ex-
pected she will be found better towing
boat. and more available for heavy work,
than she has been for several years past.
Capt. Henry Davis, master Of the Garter,
and John Corners, her engineer. are at
Baltimore with her, and will bring her
to this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
WILL PLACE NEW BEACONS.
Tender Maple Leaves Baltimore for
Chesapeake Bay Points.

To place in position two new beacons
recently authorized for Chesapeake bay
points, the tender Maple left Baltimore
yesterday. She will first visit Tolleys
point at the entrance to Annapolis har-
Dor, and will there locate a gas buoy.
From there she is scheduled to go to
Black Walnut point. entrance to the
Choptank river on the eastern shore of
the Chesapeake, and will place a new
lantern i'm a beacon already erected. This
new lantern will be lighted by acetylene
gas and will be more powerful than the
old beacon.
The last bulletin regarding aids to navi-
CATION, issued by the lighthouse author
tiles, contained notices regarding buoyage
I'm this vicinity and in Chesapeake bay,
as follows:
District of Columbia-Potamac river
Georgetown channel-rock buoy. nine,
second class spar, moved, October 16.
about seventy yards .northwesterly, into
about three and a half fathoms of water,
to mark a rock with only eleven feet of
water over IT,
Virginia-Chesapeake bay-Tail of the
Horseshoe relief light Vessel No. 49,
Change in characteristic of fog signal to
be made, about November I, 1918. the
characteristic of the air chime whistle
on this vessel will be changed to blast
Of three seconds every sixty seconds
thus: blast j sec; silent 81 sec.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
Our Modern Dead Level.

To the Editor OF The Star:
One of our new women in recent in
terview has taken the attitude that wom-
an should follow the style set by her
male associates by dressing severely plain
during business hours, stiff collar and tie,
and tailored waist and skirt. And some
of the woman suffragists are affecting
similar attire in order to demonstrate
equality with men.
1t is not the purpose here. however. to
discuss ''wo4nans rights either in bust
ness or politics: the purpose is rather
to call attention to a phase of wOmanS
opportunity in the field of organized in
dustry that is more vital than some Of
the issues that are being talked to death.
The tendency of our ultra-modern civil
ization is toward one dead level of uni
formity. a wearisome duplication of the
commonplace. So If woman is to be of
real value In the domain of organized
industry. or to the state, she should
take her place there as a woman if
she initiates. she is superfuous
In the outside world of industry, her mis-
sion is, above all else. to hunaniZe it,
to rescue it from the paralyzi ng influence
of monotony and sameness. and contrib
ute variety and diversity. The tendency
To initiate is u reyersion toward our
Simian ancestry. only in our individuality
is there evolution real progress; in
all highly developed creatures the diff
ferences multiply, only protoplasms look
alike. Therefore this tendency toward
uniformity is the real menace to the life
and heart of our civilization, the red
blood of it. The phrase dead level" has
been used here literally. If ever the uni
formists and conformists do succeed In
reducing humanity to an exact level.
tape-measured, and regulated by stop
watch. society will then be in the fix Of
the economical mans horse. His master
decided to train him to get along on less
fodder by gradually reducing the amount
day by day: the plan worked well until
finally he got him down to one straw
day-then the horse died.
So let woman IL she must enter the
workaday world, resist the elimination
process; let her retain the trappings Of
her fenininity. and thus do some part
toward rescuing modern society from the
obsession for uniformity that Is para
lying individual expression. For clothes
is one form of expression. and If our
ultra-modern man wore few "frllls"
himself to break up his cofiin-like
austerity Of outline, he and the world
would be better off. The greatest need
of our times is a rescue from the pre-
vailing smugness of straight lines. angles.
and plane surfaces. A noted French
writer has described a certain locality
thus: Everywhere parallel rows of trees.
and the gloomy sadness of right angles.
There was not a diversity Of ground.
nor single architectural whim, the en-
semble was freezing, regular. hideous.
Nothing contracts the heart like uni
formity. for uniformity is ennui, and
ennui is yawning despair"
These few sentences express volumes
on the depressing aspect of our modern
civilization, wherein the eye wanders vain
ly seeking an oasis. Yet. all created
nature teaches the lesson of variety and
diversity; uniformity is a human foible.
HINDA BURKE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
SHOT In THE BACK FATAL.
John Bonifant Is Victim of Acct
dent on Hunting Trip.

John Bonifant, contractor, living at
Silver Spring, Md, who Saturday after
noon was shot in the back while return
ing from a cunning trip died at Gar
field Hospital last night about II o'clock
Bonifant and Joseph Nulty, neighboT.
were returning from trip to the woods
where they had hunted squirrels, and, it
is stated. they stopped on the road to
compare their guns.
The deceased is survived by his widow
and two small children. Today the body
was taken to his late home, from where
the funeral will take place. Interment will
be in the cemetery at Woodside.
Sheriff Howard and States Attorney
Spates made an investigation of the
shooting and concluded it was accidental.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
VULCANIZER EXPLODES.
Young Man Injured and Young
Woman Caints From Fright.

The explosion of vulcanizing machine
in one of the rooms of DIR. Robert j.
Rothste:n, in the Le-Droit building, yes
terday afternoon. slightly injured Percy
Walker. seventeen years old
Miss Gertrude Davis, stenographer, was
in the front Office when the explosion oc-
CURED. and was frightened by the report.
Believing Walker had been seriously hurt,
tainted.
DR. Benjamin Newhouse responded to the
call. He attended Walker and Miss Davis
and took them to their homes, Miss Davis
to lbs 18th street and Walker to 222S n
street northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
G. A. r. MEMBERS PROTEST.
Object to Recent Order of Pension
Commissioner.

Private ]. NJ. Dalzell is organizing
a protest on the part of the G. A. r,
against a recent order of the commits
s.oaer of pensions which affects soldiers
of the civil war. The order is that SOL
d.ers of the civil war must give proof
of their family name. their employment
from 1850 to 1850. and q Bible record Of
their families
Members of the G. a. r. will contend
that the order annuls the Sherwood act
of May, II. 1912 which provides that
pensions from ST. to $50 month be
paid each soldier without proof OF age
or family history. Colored soldiers, it
is said who: were slaves, cannot OBJ
tain such proof.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
MRS. CHAMP CLARK IN PLEA.
Funds Are Desired for Monument
to Heroic Jane McAfee.

Mrs. Champ Clark. wife Of the Speaker
of the House of Representatives, has is
sued call for all descendants of Jane
McAfee to come forward and contribute
for a monument to be raised in Harrods-
burg. Ky, to the memory of the heroic
revolutionary woman.
Mrs. Clark is honorary chairman of the
committee of the Jane McAfee Chapter
d. A. r.. of Harrodsburg. Ky. and, in
addition to erecting u memorial to the
woman for whom the chapter is named,
it is desired to restore an ancient bury
ing ground in the kentucky town.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
SIGMA CHI TO CELEBRATE.
Active and Alumni Chapters to OBJ
serve Fiftieth Anniversary.

Preparations are being made by the
Washington -Afunni Chapter of the Sig
hi Chi Fraternity and the active chap
ter of tue George Washington univcr-
sity TIC give an Informal dinner at the
University Club November L.
The occasion will mark the tiftieth an
niversary of the foundation of the chap
ter ut George Washington University.
The committee having the dinner in
charge cons SITS of William w. Bride.
Irving Saum, Robert l.. Farnham and
T.. Burst Handy of the alumni. and
William IL. Woodman, Carl A. Mapes.
II. B. McCawley and Chauncey Landon
of the active chapter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED.
Frank 1. Hewitt Is Grand Knight,
Potomac Council. X, of. C..

Frank L. Hewitt, elected grand knight
of Potomac Council X. OF c., at the
election held recently, was installed last
night. Other officers installed We're:
Edward L. Thacker, deputy grand
knight; Benjamin +. Myers, financial
secretary; p. L. O'Brfen. recording sec
rotary; William +. Columbus, treasurer;
John r. Dillon. chancellor; Michael L.
Schaeffer, advocate.
Twenty candidates for degrees in Po-
tomac Council were instructed in their
duties at last nights meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
A Holiday for Postmen.
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor OF The Star:
l noticed an article in The Star of
October 81 in regard to mail carriers
having a full-day holiday OH Thanksg.v-
ne. l am sure it is a small thing for all
of us to do without mail on Thanksgiv-
ing when it means so much to our faith
full mail carriers who never fail in their
dut es in all kinds of weather, and I
sincerely hope every person in Wash
ington will agree to do without mail
ON Thanksgiving day and give our mail
carriers chance to be thankful Count
me as one, and l speak for all my fam
ily MRS. A. BOYD.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
To Address Gaelic Society.

Prof. Sidney Gum of St Johns Col
lege, Annapolis, Md, is scheduled to ad-
dress the Gaelic Society at a meeting to
be held in the blue room of the New
willard tomorrow evening at s o'clock.
Welsh and Scotch songs also will be q
part Of the entertainment
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
Special Services for the Young.

Special services for young people are
10 be held 1t the Salvation Army, $50
Pennsylvania avenue. tonight. The serv-
ices will be conducted by Col. j. f.. Mar
gets and Capt. j. Harvey. Col. Margetts
and Capt. Harvey are travelling from the
New England states TO the southern
states, conducting services for young
people in the cities where they stop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.
Arrivals.

Schooner Oakland. cord wood from Nam
iemoy creek. at 18th street wharf for J.
III. Carter & Co.; schooner Charles L.
Rohde, lumber from a North Carolina
point, at 9th street wharf for Johnson &
Wimsatt; schooner Clara Howeth, in
James Creek canal from st. Marys river
with cord wood for Robert Murphy; power
yacht Everglades. at X street wharf from
cruise ON the Chesapeake: schooner
Eleanor Russell, light, from this city to
load merchandise; steam yacht TUNA of
New York. w. b. Dinsmore. owner, from
a cruise on Chesapeake bay and tribu-
taries.
Departures.
Schooner Elizabeth Garter. light. for
Nomini creek, To load lumber or cord
wood back to this city; schooner Cris
tight. for Ragged point. Virginia, after
oysters to load back to this city: schooner
Ethel Vale, light, for river point to
load back to this city; schooner Fannie
light. for a lower river point, via Alex
andriae to load cord wood and return !;
schooner j. r. Dixon, light, for lower
river landing to load for local Dealers
power boat Jewell, light for a Chesapeake
Washington market; schooner Eleanor
Russell, light. for Chicamuxen creek
from Alexandria with merchandise.
Tugs and Tows.
Tug Capt. Toby arrived from Indian
Head, light for stores. and returned to
Indian Head to pull on stranded govern
ment lighter: tug Kenmore is reported
due at this city with d tow of coal-laden
barges; tug Nj. NJ. Davis delivered schoon-
CT at Newport News from Baltimore and
is at the capes seeking; schooner d. NJ.
Key delivered lighter in Broad creek and
returned with light one for the Eastern
branch: tug Rosalic arrived at 14th street
wharf with sand and gravel laden lighters
and sailed with Esht scows for digging
machines; tug Minerva arrived at George
town with sand and gravel carrying
lighters in tow: tug Eugeuia sailed with
lighters for down-riyer digging machines.
Memoranda.
Schooner Lewis Worreu is in the Rap
pahanuock river loading pine lumber for
the market here; barge Tetuskcy is char
tered To load pulp wood in Nanjemoy
creek for Philadelphia: schooner Cheru-
bin has sailed from Norfolk for this city
or Baltimore with pine lumber; schooner
Rio Grande is at Baltimore with lumber
from a Rappahannock river point; schoon-
er Martin Wagner has arrived at Colonial
Beach en- route to 4 Potomac point to
load oysters for the market here; schoon-
or Earl B;scoe will return to "a Potomac
point after pine lumber for the dealers
here; schooner I-ancelott is due at this
city with cord wood from Maryland point
schooner Josephine Smith is at Potomac
point 10 load lumber for the local market
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
Alleged Slayer Still at Large.

No responses have been received from
the several thousand descriptive circulars
mailed by the police department in an
effort TO bring about the arrest of Nelson.
alias Edward Long. colored, alleged
slayer of Mrs Nellie Williams. also
coiored Saturday night. An inquest win
be held at the morgue to determine the
question of responsibility for the woman's
death.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
Made Deputy Supreme Court Clerk.

Harry c. McKenny of this city has been
appointed to be deputy clerk of 1.-THE Su-
preme Court of the United States, in
place of James ID. Maher, promoted to
the clerkship last week to succeed the
former clerk. James IL. McIkenny. who
died recently. Mr.. Mckenny has long
been employed in the office Of the clerk
Of the Supreme Court
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
COST OF DRAINAGE
IS SHARED JOINTLY
U. S. and District to Care for
Reclaimed Area Near
Hospital for Insane.

Gen. kingman, chief of engineers Of
the army. has made an arrangement
with the Commissioners of the District
by which the expense Of draining that
section of the reclaimed area Of the
Anacostia river adjacent to the Govern
ment Hospital for the Insane will be
shared equally by the United States and
District governments. The plan for joint
action in this matter was suggested by
Col. Langfittt the army engineer in
charge of the improvement of the Ana
costa river, and was approved by the
District Commissioners as being to the
best interests of all parties concerned.
The present project for the improve
ment Of the river below the Anacostia
bridge provides for the deposit of the
dredged material on the flats on the left
bank OF the river by hydraulic process,
surrounding the area by an embankment
fourteen feet in height above low tide,
and providing suitable drainage for the
filled area
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
Household Needs.

People want to know just where to so
to have satisfactory Wort. done about
the home.
Sometimes it is about awnings and
curtains or paperins-agaiu it's Il ear
penter, painter or plumber needed, or
electric wiring done.
A convenient list of reliable people to
do these, and many other things, is on
page 16 of today's Star.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
Hands Burn in Auto Truck Blaze.

No II engine company this morning
went To New Hampshire avenue and Otis
place northwest in response to an alarm.
and found an explosion OF gasoline had
set fire to an automobile truck. Joseph
Iagner. chauffeur, burned his hands
while trying to prevent the spreading of
the fire. The truck was not damaged
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
Problems Of Peru Lecture Topic.

Anthropological problems of Peru will
be told in an address by DR.. Ales
Hrdlicka at a special meeting OF the
Anthropological Society to be. held at
the National Museum this afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock. The address will be Illus
trated with lantern Slides
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-28
Father Surprised at Action.

The young mans father hurried to the
hospital from his home at 50 r street
northwest as soon as he heard of the
affair He was surprised at his sons
conduct, and was unable to offer any
explanation. The father was shown a
civil service examination paper for a
position as pressmen in the government
printing Office his son had filled out, and
he said the young man knew nothing Of
such work.
Hospital attendants and the policemen
on duty at the hospital made efforts to
ascertain from the patient why he had
taken the acid, but he positively refused
to divulge the secret.
"All 1 will tell you" he is said to
have told the policeman, SIS that when
l get out I'll take it again"
Furhershaw declared he had no love af-
fair to trouble him, his health was good
and he had a good home.