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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
The Drink Motive.
IN the Chicago Tribune

FROM the chicago Tribune.
The desire for alcoholic drinks is in
creasing with the advance Of civilization.
in spite of the vigorous and often sue
cessful efforts to restrain it, asserts a
writer in the Popular Science Monthly.
and asks why. He dismisses as value
less the theory that men drink TO
drown sorrow" The desire for alcoholic
drinks. the writer asserts, is strong
among the classes living in luxury as
il is among the ploddine. underpad
laborers The drink motive. therefore,
must be more basic. more universal. he
says.
The writer Prof G. T. W Patrick,
finds this drink motive in the storm
and stress" of modern life on the one
hand and in the lack of proper relaxa-
ton afforded by modern society on the
other As civilization advances he says,
life becomes more and more intense.
Progress drives mankind on with re
lentless whip. 1t demands even great
err and greater specialization, application.
concentration and powers of conceptual
analysis" Against this .'ceaseless urg-
ing the tired brain rebels. 1t cries out
for rest and relaxation. 1t is at this
point that the alcohol motive springs
into being The kind of rest and relaXa-
ton which the overstralned brain de-
mands is best supplied by wholesome
outdoor sport and play. That kind OF
relaxation tends to put the higher brain
centers to sleep, says the writer, while
providing employment for the lower
ones" Hut the active. vigorous sport
aud play needed to restore ana re1resh
tho tired brain are not to be had IN our
large. congested cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21

States. extended until October 10. 1913
Second Lieutenant OF Engineers w. 9.
Maglathlin, granted fourteen days leave
OF absence
Second Lieutenant of Engineers ". G.
Weightman. granted thirty days leave
OF absence
Second Lieut. r. Il. Waesche granted
seven days extension of leave OF alb
sence.
Second Lieut.. W. +. Wishaar detached
from the Seneca and placed on waiting
orders
Capt II. II. Uberroth. directed TO pro-
coed 10 Louisville. Ky, for duty In CON
nection with the Perry victory centen-
NAL celebration.
Third Lieut.. H. NJ. Carr. directed 10
proceed to Louisville. Ky, and report 70
capt i. IA. Uberroth for duty In conneC-
ton with the Perry victory centennial
celebration.
Third Lieut. r. Dunotue granted hv.
DAYS leave OF absence.
First Lieut.. &. l.. Howell. granted thlr-
T. days leave OF absence
Capt j. IA. Brown. preparatory orders
To the Thetis
Capt. G $. Cochran. preparatory orders
to the Bear
First Lieut. T. g. Crapster. granted
twenty days leave of absence
Third Lieut.. T.. NJ Webster, granted
twenty DAYS leave OF absence.
Second Lieutenant of Engineers NJ \
DOYLE. granted thirty days leave Of ali
sence.
Second Lieutenant Of Engineers j I
Carr granted thirty DAYS leave OF alb
Sencc.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
Hoaxing a Premier.
From the London standard.

From the London standard
NJ. Barthou. the French prime minister.
is an excellent host and his dinners al
ways attract select gathering of Wit
and talent. This may have been the raj
son d'etre of "A practical joke of which
he has just been the victim. The other
day an otficial-looking parsonage visited
printer who does work for NJ. Barthou.
and ordered some invitation cards for
dinner to be given by the premier at his
private residence. The man had all the
appearance of an .attache de cabinet
and the printer executed the order with
out question. A few days afterward
fifty of NJ. Barthous friends received in
vitations. and thirty of them FASTENED TO
accept.
When the premier received the first ac-
ceptance he questioned his secretary. who
naturally knew nothing about IL. Then
other acCeptances poured In. and NJ.
Barthou reflected on what course TO take.
In the end he decided to hold the func-
ton which had been forced on him, and
the other evening his thirty friends ate
good dinner at his expense. Over the
coffee and cigars he told his story, after
every one had been wondering what happy
occasion the dinner party was to cele-
brate. After the first shock of the news
the diners, most of all NJ. Barthou,
laughed heartily at the humor of the
situation. even though the guests felt
somehow that an apology was due from
them What is not amusing is that the
practical joker was not satisfied with his
first success, but has again sent out
cards. This time NJ Barthou fails en-
tirely TO see the joke. and has placed
the matter in the hands of the police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
AN UNQUIET EARTH.
Long Earthquake Record Shows the
World Unstable.

u rom tue lineage journal.
The recent experience of M.ssina lend.
no support to the comfortable theory that
the carth's crust is becoming stable
tmmovable thing. which man may play
with as he lists. That unlucky town has
been shaken by earthquakes four or five
times within as many years. and two
shocks recently occurred within the same
week. These auakcs do not seem 10 bs
connected with disturbances at Mount
on the slopes of that volcano. but not TO
any one else.
Nor does the case of Messina stand
alone. IL is doubtful III any equal period
In history has seen more disturbances or
the earth's surface than the last thirty
years. This period begins with the erup-
ton of krakatoa in 1883 the most. ter
rifle explosion of the kind ever recorded.
The next two years saw number or
earthquakes In Spain. one of which was
quite destructive. In 1856 came the shock
at Charleston, :. C.: in 1857 all south
ern Europe was shaken: 1923 saw the
earthquake of Zante and the eruption OF
Stromboli and in 1902 the frghtfui erup
ton of Mont Pelec.
The earthquake of San Francisco came
in \ pril. 1906; the much more destructive
shock at Valparaiso followed in August,
Jamaica was shaken and Kingston almost
destroyed in 1917. and the great disaster
in southern Italy and Sicily occurred ia
the closing DAYS of 1auS. All this time.
Japan has been keeping up the record OF
LOCO shocks per year. some Of them de-
structive ones, and Mexico. Alaska Cen
trail America and Turkey have been visit
ed by earthquakes and volcanic crupt.ors.
Moth Earth may be- getting old and
feeble. but she doesnt show IT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
THE VIOLIN.
Succeeded Viol When More Dramatic
Expression Was Needed.

From the London Globe.
In the good old days from Queen Bess
to the commonwealth, the favorite in
struments for "consort of music" were
v;ols of various sizes from treble to
bass, one Of which. in a modified form,
is still in use under the name of double
bass. The VOL was played with a bow
like the violin, but it differed consider
ably in shape had far weaker tone,
and its fingerboard was provided with
'frets" as in the guitar, mandolin,
banjo either and some other instru-
ments. Hence its range was limited and
it had not the same power of pure in
donation as the violin. When there arose
demand for more expression, more
dramatic effect, the "scoulding vioiins,"
as Thomas Mace called them. ousted the
gentle viols, all of which, with the one
exception named above, quickly became
obsolete. famous institution of Louis
XIII was band called Les vingtquatre
violonS." 1t played at court balls, dances
and dinners Charles III gave the death
blow to vios in England when, in imita-
ton of the French court, he formed
band of twenty-four violins. as being
more arie and brisk than viols"; these
were the -four and twenty folders all n
a row. that we heard of in our c.iild-
hood.
Since the rise of orchestral music,
whether for tie church. the opera. the
symphony or the dance, it has been
customary to divide the body of vioins
into two masses, called, respectively.
the first and second violins. The
first violins take the leading part, and
are accompanied by the seconds. which
are of equal importance to the harmony.
The familiar expression of playing sec
ond fiddle in the ordinary affairs of
life suggests that there is something
derogatory in following lead. but the
position of second violin in the orches
ira is as important as that of first,
though in the nature of things 1t is not
SO prominently before the public. To be
a good second" demands certain valu-'
able qualifications not possessed by all
musicians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
The Way We Live.
rom the London Chronicle.

From the London Chronicle.
Mrs. Hannah Greensides. who on her
ninety-ninth birthday calculated q al she
had slept 365.ooo hours of he l;fe away.
INDUCED in higher proportion of sleep
than was allowed by sydney Smith when
he made a similar calculation. His SON
in-,aw. Sir Henry Holland, notes IN lbs
Recollections that Sydney Smitl, adj
dressing Il young lady, said: do you ~ ar
reflect how you pass your life? If YOU
live to seventy-two, which | hope Nou
may, your life is passed in the following
manner. An hour day : three years.
This makes twenty-seNen years sleeping.
nine wears dressing. nine years At table.
six years playing with children, nine
years walking. drawing and visiting, SIX
years shopping and three years quarrel
ing. | ave heard him similarly estimate
for himself the portion OF life he had
spent in shaving, always long occupa-
ton with HIM.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
Twelfth Century Foot Ball.

From The London Chronicle
In the twelfth century foot ball VAS a
game for the streets The chronicler OF
that period tells hosv after dinner the city
youths addressed themselves To foot
ball" and how the scholars Of each
school and the apprentices of particular
trades would each have their peculiar
ball There Mere spectators. too. IN those
da,s-,apfbusiasti t. SPECTATORS Fathers
would come to watch their sons ana ne
come as youthful AS the youngest. their
natural heat seeming To be revived al ire
sight Of much ability
In later wears one recalls famous ball
game played in Hyde Park. In 1851. then.
there was a hurting OF great bail by
fifty Cornish gentlemen of one side and
fifty on the other: one party PLAYED IN
red caps. the other in white. And-nere
the historical value OF the contest -trom-
we'll was "A spectator. and appiauded tho
great agility Of body displayed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
Quite So.

From the Boston Transcript.
Who his cold cash to US will lend
We rightly call him a warm friend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
Views From World Front Door

Got out at station-a string of saloons
and some shacks that look like red
brown chips against the d-brown hills.
One saloon has a slice of grass i'm front
of il. with a crowd of men all around
1t is the size of hearth rug and there
are two dandelions growing in its green
One cowboy heard they We're i'm bloom
and came thirty miles 10 see IL II was
true
More stations with more saloons and
shacks. but no more grass rugs.
Get my first good look AT the chain
that begins the Rockies Can't say any
thing about them nobody could. You
can't even put the foothills in words
that mean Nthug-groNing taller and
more architecturally magnificent; some
the living green of Christmas trees and
some like the ash heaps of hades--
There goes skyscraper that would
put every apartment house and hotel In
Washington piled on top of each other
In the ten-cent-toy class. \ gigantic
stairway that breaks off Goo feet in the
gerated scale. There goes another big
fellow the color of an elephant. They
swallow every inch of ground except the
thread of track.
Outracing the Rockies and across Salt
Lake on string of track that rides the
water for twelve miles TO the opposite
shore: over the bridge and passing the
Great Salt Lake deserts, forty miles of
whitley gray soil sheets the earth from
track to sky line. with no living creature
brave enough TO touch its treacherous
quickSands except the sea gulls that fol-
low the car for food. And they don't
walk.
Nevada begins with a desert covered
with alkali and sckly green sage; with
mountains SO old and dead that they
make you afraid. as child is afraid of
the dark. 1t is natures Calvary, in which
each gaunt starved cliff calls out with
Him. My God. why hast Thou forsaken
me- and the desert cries, Il thirst
Soul-daZed with the awful majesty of
nature i'm her most terrible mood. and
juhilant because she gives YOU, in SPLEEN
did recompensc. days that are gold and
nights that are silver and air spar
Killing as water from the spring. YOU
travel and travcl-over the Great Divide,
around lodges of the Sierras that show
no foothold between the train and
chasms so deep that the Washington
Monument down there would look Ike
a match; through the Caiaveras country.
that belonged to dear Bret Harte for the
propagating of his pliocene SKULL into
the mining regions that made California
a beacon light in the days of 40. when
every pick dug up gold and history and
tragedy and romance; over the sinister
grasses of the Sieu Some into Oakland
across the bay, with its prison rising
from the waves, and then:
San Francisco and goodbye. y. l..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
WANTED-HOUSES.
TO Bl \.

TO Buy.
WOULD LINE TO Buy FOR INVESTMENT
house in good location, give full particulars
Address BOX ~ Star Office.
WI WANT St0ON HOUSES IN CHEVY
Chase, Iskoa4a Park. Petworth and l4th -.
A.; ~ ofer s-roou4 bones aud add cash In
ratn-e WASH. SUB REALTY co. I'D OK
ford bldg 14tu aud y Y. Ph. Main 40.
w HAVE CLIENTS WHO WILL PAY ALI.
,ssh Tor proncFty Onernl 81 sacrifice. WIS
you Orcs2 AFFIECk REALTY CON
PANY. Floor :. ITO I4th 81. NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21

Potomac River Landings
AND BALTIMORE.
Steamers leave eth ST. wharf for Baltimore and
river points Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
pm: arrive Baltimore second morning out. LeavS
Baltimore. Pier 3. Light ST. Monday, "wednesday
and Saturday. pm; arrive Washington second
service frsf-class Freight received until 3:t5
pm. on sailing days.
JOS. =. STEPHENSON. Agent.
Maryland. Delaware and Virginia Rwy. CO..
Telephone Main 745. 7th ST. Wharf.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21

Wyoming desert A queer new world
of barren hills and plains. all OF it
Whitley gray soil and wild sage. No liv-
ing creature except skittish prairie dogs
that look like the soil come to life. And
oh. those poor daffy little blue blossoms
trying to bloom near tbs track line. This
deserts somber immensely reminds me
of the barren, loveless lives OF some
human deserts | have known.
Way off. there is wonderful picture
high up in the sky; looks like castle
with towers and minarets; man tells
ME IL is a mountain covered with snow:
Boulders of stone and vast distances OF
alkali without vegetaton-hours anu
hours more of il. The boulders have
grown into mountains that take curious
shapes more imposing than the Capltol
building at home. more inspiring IN thelr
hdeous lifelessness than the Library II
self 1t is the difference between Coo
work and mans.
There goes a wagon track through Inc
alkali and telegraph poles that march by
like soldiers on parade. IL shows that
the desert is harnessed. though there IS
no sign of the men who made Their
marks along the way.
There goes a thread of water. Real,
wet water, blessed be.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
STEAMSHIPS.

Clark Orient Cruise i ERs AN onS
: Rotterdam n i1o tons Ga DAYS st0, M
MOSS :. :. AGENCY. 5l1 Nth ST. NV Wash
X. NJ. HICKS. 1:;0G 81
DEC. AND JAN. ROUND TIE WORLD TOURS
FRANK q CLARK Times bldg. New York
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
TO RENT.
GOA SALE-BUSINEsS PROPERTY

sos 18th ST. N.W.-STOEE AND TWO FLATS:
small amount of cash required: can he t"hsht
from owner. who wishes Ia leave the cry
mean business and only parties 50 dlsposeu
need apply. 63S East Capitol 81.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21

NEW SUBURBAN HOME: FOlR LARGE BED
rooms fine bath. hot water heat, Gas aud COOK
range: large lot. fare. located west OF
Chevy Chase Circle. For real bargain ap
ply Or address OWNER. 1864 Wisconsin ave
NV Would exchange
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21

ADAM A. wESCHLER AUCrIONEER.
] Will sell nj public auction. III front OF the
premises. on WEDNESDAl. SEPTEMBER
1WENTf-FOJETH. 1915. at FIVE PM, lot G.
square 1852 tNewton ST., Brookland j.. G.
500 deposit required. selI-St
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-11
A HIGHBROW THEORIZING ON GIRLS MORALS
FROM A CHICAGO UNIVERSITYVIEWPOINT

.VEKSll I ,VlEWFOlNl
them starvation wages, would jump
at Sophonisba's plan.
Surprising, for instance, the State
street department store girls were
organized. Supposing they called a
strike on Marshall Field & Co. to
force that greatest commercial in
stitution in Chicago" to pay it's girls
with something else than the 'honor"
of working for Marshall Field & Co.
Wouldn't it be nice if that weasel
souled millionaire, John G. Shedd,
and the Dapper Jimmie Simpson
could call up the Department of De-
inquent Girls and Women at Spring
field, and say:
"Our girls have gone out ON strike.
Send us a few thousand trained de-
inquent saleswomen to take their
places"
Of course, there might be a come
back for the male sex if Sophonisba's
plan were put into operation and the
women got the ballot.
The women might get law passed
that would provide for every delin-
quent MAN, delinquent in this case
being understood to mean any man
who patronized delinquent woman.
The women might have all these
delinquent men sent out to respect
able families while being trained to
proficiency in some industrial line"
Don't know that this would be such
a bad idea 1t wouldn't be half bad
to see some of the sons of our "best
families" being boarded out by the
state and being taught proficiency in
some industrial line"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-11

NSV4 "A NJ 14NfANO SAN
Our conviction that there is some
thing seriously the matter with the
University of Chicago has been duly
strengthened by Sophonisba P.
Breckenridge.
?Sophonisba is dean of Rockefel-
ler's educational joint, and she spoke
last night before the Social Service
Institute at Milwaukee.
Her subject was delinquent girls
and how to deal with them. Here is
part of what she said:
"GirIs who 60 wrong cannot be
good if they try. They cannot help
themselves going wrong. They are
high grade imbeciIes. 1t does no good
to put them on probation and send
them back to degraded homes. For
they cannot be good"
This is a truly Christian viewpoint,
as anyone may perceive. According
to it, if a girl falls once she is ire
trievable damned.
Or, possibly, Sophonisba's theory is
still more subtle and is linked up with
the Calvinistic theory of fore-ordina-
ton, which declares that the destinies
of all men and women are settled by
a. cold and Interchangeable God long
before their birth.
I Still, Sophonisba has remedy for
this lamentable state of affairs. Or,
if not a remedy, at least a mustard
plaster.
SIT is the duty of the state" she
continued, TO pay such girls board
in some respectable home, while she
is being trained to proficiency in
some industrial line"
Granting the correctness of So
phonisba's theory that all girls who
go wrong are fore-ordained to dam
nation, one, can conceive that the
respectable families" she mentions
might strenuously object to having
such creatures quartered on them by
a fofn =.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-04-11
"OH, YES, SHE KNEW!

''OH, YES, SHE KNEW!
Old Salt-Yes, mum; them's men,
o'-war
Sweet Young Thing-HoW inter
esting! And what are the little ones
just in front?
Old Salt-Oh, them's just tugs,
mum.
Sweet Young Thing-Oh, yes, of
course; -tugs-of-war. I've heard Of
them. ~ ri.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-09-17
Normal School Notes

The registration for this term now
reaches 81 students. This is larger
number than has been present at the
school for several years.
James Miller of Waterville has entered
the Normal. Though the school is CO.
educational, it has had no young men
among its students for four years.
The teachers and students of the Nor
NAL school were pleasantly entertained
at the Congregational church parlors last
Friday evening. The Methodist church
is to entertain the Normal teachers and
students Friday of this week.
The faculty during the coming year
will be as follows:-A. G. Peaks, Pd. d.,
Principal; II. A. Burnham, Science, Ma
ture and Agriculture; Alice P. Fay, His
tory and English; Emma G: Elliott, Mus
ic,.Physical Training and Domestic Art;
Rosalind L. Houghton, Drawing and
Manual Arts; Eleanor S. Chaplin, Princi-
pal of Training School and Methods;
Sadie R. Whitney, Critic Teacher Gram
mar Grades; Edith B. Leslie, Critic
Teacher Primary Grades; Rob't S. Warn
er, Supt. of Grounds.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-09-17
Johnson Grange

laRegular meeting, an interesting pro-
gram in which every member took part.
Miss Elsie Stearns filled the lecturers
chair. Her program was entertaining
and spicy. Mrs. w. r. Waters has the
Literary program for the next meeting,
which will be as follows:-Song, choir;
Roll call; Ladies answer by giving some
favorite recipe on canning fruit or putting
up pickles. This calls for a tested recipe,
Gentlemen respond to roll call by giving
some good point on farming; Question
Have farm women no leisure? discussion,
lead by Mrs. S. j. Davis, followed by
paper or talk on what help may the hus-
band be in this? by Norman Perry; How
to put children to work around the home,
Alma Davis; Song Frank Ward; Is it
necessary to have all the year around an
early breakfast ? Perley Hodgkins; Paper
The need of system in Women's work,
Jessie Hopkins; suggestions from other
members, following papers; Song Ralph
Brewster; The need of conveniences and
on the farm, Mrs. Nellie Wilson,; Selec-
ton, choir; History shows that nearly all
of our great men were raised in the
country. Tell why this is true, o. H. Will
son; Is the average person better off
financially in the city or in the country?
Mr.. Derby and Halle Stearns; Reading
or recitation, Miss Edith Derby; Paper
the health of the home, Mrs. P. j. Hodg-
kins; Closing song, choir and members.
Members are requested to remember
the next Pomona meeting Wedne sday,
October list, at Duxbury.
Ray barrows has the Local Grange
meeting Oct 2 A good attendance desired.
Preparations are being made for the
Grange fair. Save the best of the different
products to bring. exhibit your fancy
work, rugs, embroidery, look up the old
relics, each member do all they can to
make good exhibit.