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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02

to =. tea from to and supper from
TO 10. The meals are arranged for just
how and when the residents are most
conveniently able to come for them.
Sundays are the only exceptions to TINS
rule. Then large family party is
made up. and all residents meet at
breakfast, dinner, tea and supper Even
ing prayers are always at 10. at Whlch
ent, after which everybody is ready for
retiring. and by 1880 all lights are
out in the hostel.
All meals supplied are good. plenti-
full and cheap. I forgot to say that
the downstairs restaurant is open to
outsiders. and the girls from neighbor-
ing factories and workshops are ire
quent visitors. For breakfast it is pos
sible to get either a rasher of bacon.
a kipper or bloater some jam or
marmalade, bread and butter and d cup
of tea for 31ad or 4d. Dinner offers a
wide variety of choice. Roast mutton
or beef. Irish stew. potato pie, two and
often three vegetables. and good dln-
ner need not cost more than Cd Then
tea will cost about Sd. and supper about
the same, SO that for Is Al a day a
girl can live. not indeed luXuriousiy.
but cheaply and wholesomely. Baths
are provided at the hostel at Id each'
and residents can either do their own
laundry or pay to have it done.
During my weeks stay in the hostel
| met with a great variety OF women
and girls all engaged in earning their
own living. Some We're milliners. some
dressmakers. some typists. clerks and
teachers in elementary schools. Again,
some of the residents were employed
in large business houses. others in
small shops. and quite a number were
domestic servants in search of stu
alton Some were bright and lively.
some heavy and sad; some were very
young. some middle aged. and some
oilite elderly However. taking them
all together. they were nice group
of women and inclined to make the
most of their limited opportunities to
enjoy life, each in her own way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02

Little of the Spectacular in Streets
of Spain's Capital.

William Dean Howells. in the North American
Review.
In a strange country all the details Of
life are interesting. and We noticed with
peculiar interest that Spain was coun-
try where the prescriptions were written
in the vulgar tongue instead of the little
Latin i'm which prescriptions are ad-
dressed to the apothecaries OF other
lands. We were disposed to praise the
faculty II not the art for this. but our
doctor forbade. He said 1t was because
the Spanish apothecaries were so I'M
learned that they could not read even SO
little Latin as the shortest prescription
contained. Still / could not think the
custom a bad one. though founded on ig-
norance, and / do not see why 1t should
not have made for the greatest safety of
those who took the medicine II those who
put it I'D followed a formula in their ma
tive tongue I know that. at any rate.
we found the Spanish medicines benefi-
cial. and were presently suffered to go
out of doors. but with those severe In
functions against going out after night
fall or opening our lips when We went
out by day. 1t was rather bother but
1t was fine to feel oneself In the classic
Madrid tradition of danger from pneu-
monia, and to be of the dignified COM
pany Of Spanish gentlemen whom We met
with the border of their clOaks over their
mouths, like characters in capa y es-
pada drama.
There was almost as little acted as
spoken drama in the streets. have given
my impression of the songlessness Of
Spain In Madrid as elsewhere. but If
there was no street singing there was
often street playing by pathetic bands
of blind MINISTRIES with guitars and man
doiins The blind abound everywhere
in Spain in that profession of street beg
gary which 1 always encouraged, believ-
ing, as / do. that comfort in this unbal-
anced world cannot be too constantly
reminded of misery. AS the hunchbackS
are in Italy. or the wooden peg-legged In
England, so the blind are In Spain, for
number.
The Spanish street is rarely the theatre
cal spectacle that the Italian street near
ly always Is. Now and then there was a
bit in Madrid which one would be sorry
to have missed: such was the funeral of
a civil magistrate, otherwise unknown to
me. which / saw pass ny cafe window.
a. most architectural black hearSe. with
a black roof. drawn by eight black horses.
sable plumed. The hearse was open at
the sides, with coffin fully showing, and
a gold-laced chapeau- bras lying on it.
Behind came twenty or twenty-five gen.
tlemen on foot in the modern Ineffective
ness of frock coats and top hats. and
after them eight or ten closed carriages.
The procession passed without the least
notice from the crowd. which ] saw at
other times stirred to a futter of emula-
ton in its small boys by companies of in
fantry marching to the music of sharply
blown bugles. The men were handsomer
than Italian soldiers, but not SO hand
some as the English, and in figure they
were not quite the deplorable pygmies
rhythmical note which the tram cars
sound. and the guitars and mandolins of
the blind MINISTRIES. made the only street
| music / remember in Madrid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Writer'S Cramp.

rom the Dundee Advertiser.
Biological tests by scientists at the Lon
don Hospital show that writers cramp
and other similar states of apparent mus
cular paralysis are actually due. not to
the firing of the muscles. but to brain
fag 1t appears that the particular part
of the brain which controls special COM
binations of muscle action, such as the
movements of writing or the working of
telegraph key. tend to become more
quickly exhausted in some individuals
than others. Such exhaustion leads to
state in which the brain is actually un-
able to send out it's necessary messages
to the hands and fingers to write. tap
key. hold violin bow and SO lortn.
Furthermore once the nerve cells. the
batteries of the brain, get thoroughly
run down it is not easy to restore their
energy. Heretofore it has been supposed
that all troubles of the kind were due
simply to overtiring of the muscles con-
cerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Freight Rates 1860 Years Ago.
rom the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer
It is interesting to learn from a papy-
rus in the University Museum that the
high cost of living and excessive freight
rates were issues al least 1900 years ago.
and it is a peculiar coincidence that the
complaint arose in Theadelphia, a name
closely allied TO our own city, which is
now wrestling with the cost of food and
the rates on anthracite coal. 1t seems as
If there is nothing new under the sun.
the same issues prevail and the same
struggle is being waged.
However. it seems certain that We are
much better off than .the fellahin of
the small landed proprietors VINO had to
pay as much freight las the traffic would
bear for transportation on the Nile. We
get glimpse of life under the Ptolomies
in Egypt, when the country was drained
to furnish Rome with food. 1t is an amaz-
ing thing that in the Fayoum district.
which Is little pocket to the westward
of the Nile. fiimsy records on papyrus
should have been preserved to this day.
This is only possible in a land of per-
petual dryness. Egypt has thriven with
out rain through ten millenniums be-
cause the necessary water comes not
from the skies, but along the Nile from
the center of Africa.
Eighteen centuries may seem a long
time to us. but at the time the complaint
of freight rates was mentioned there had
been at least 5000 years of recorded his
tory in Egypt. and undoubtedly many
mllenniums which have left no record.
The poor fellahin. the actual cultivat tors
of the soil. comprised sort of patient
animal who had become Injured to oppres-
sion and greed and who never had the
slightest opportunity for self-develop-
ment until within thirty years. when the
British government set him on hts feet
and gave him not only freedom from
lashings by the courbash. from compul-
sorry labor on the bitches. from extra
taxation. but permitted him to accumu-
late a little something on his own ac-
count and to become more than tool
of the officials.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Two Empresses at Sultan's Palace.
rom the Pail Mall Gazette

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
The Empress Eugene. on her way To
the opening of the Suez canal i'm 1863,
had been the first Christian sovereign or
woman To lodge i'm one of the sultan :
palaces. but after that our Princess o.
Wales was entertained at Lolma Bagtche
on the occasion of her trip to the cas-.
with her husband. while in 1889 Abdul
Hamid seated himself in the same car
riage with the German empress, and thus
conducted her to Yildiz Kiosk. More than
that. the empress spent an evening with
the ladies of the narem.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Bank Of England and Beer.

FfOm me LOndOn ChrOnicIe.
The Bank of England among its
numerous privileges granted by royal
charter has the right Of selling beer
without license. The bank could if it
wished open a public house in Thread
needle street. and. like the modern
hostelry, turn its "parlour" into a
saloon bar. What a sale also would
Bank of England beer have, delivered
at customers houses with the sigma
ture of the chief cashier as a guaran-
tee on every cask or bottle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02

Il do not see that you are practicing
economy by buying fifteen-dollar hand
bag for your WIFE
Its interior is so complex that by the
time she finds money for street car fare
her companion will have paid for her.
Buffalo Express.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Never Had a Chance.
/ the Detroit Free Press.

From the Detroit Free Press.
why have You never run for Office"
asked the reporter.
Well" said the wealthy citizen. when
l was younger / was too poor to make
a campaign; now that l am rich 1 don't
dare to-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
LOVERS IN SPAIN WEARING AMULETS
Doctrine of Doubles and
Symbolism.
SUPERSTITION AND TOKENS
Belief General That Inanimate
Things Exercise Potent Infu-
ence on Destiny. HI
From the London standai 3.

From the London S;andais.
Prof. Flinders-P etrif lectuIlng at TINT
Versity College LondDg. declared that the
wearing OF amulets Genoted the lowest
stage OF human intellect. All the same
he remarked. the itsea that inanimate
things exercise an influence on the course
of events is too strong in the human mind
to be conquered by the rise of knowledge.
Ii extends from the aborgines OF Aus
tralia to the modern Englishman. and a
woman doctor has recently stated that
one-third OF the children brought TO her
care from the elementary schools wear
charms of some kind. In ancient times
there was confusion between natural and
magical causes. and SO IL came about THAI
the distinction between ami,lets and medi-
cines had been very fid.stinct. and many
of the latter had been as useless the
former.
/ beginning contained scme rhyme and rea-
son. ana had followed a general plan.
Given belief i'm the power of amulets.
their wearers would Eain power to steer
! through difficulties. aa1 by concentration
OF attention on the .ne object disease
might he obViated \ common practice
had been TO wear "A token in the likeness
OF some organ of the body. such as the
heart. i'm the hope that the evil spirit
would attack the amulet 10y mistake.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Sign of Brok en- Heart.

Sign OF Broken Heart.
This was the doctrine Of doubles" and
It also worked in an opposite way. To
wear the sign of a broken heart WAS To
obviate evil since il signified that the
damage had been already done and that
il would be useless TO make second at
tack.
1t was also easy Ia see why large
white shell had been 1orn on the head
il was pu. there to attract the attention
of the evil eye. a. il did of the human
eye from the wearer himself. y piece
of vicarious magic was shown in the Gus
tom of catching a frog, splitting ON II. ahd
then releasing IL in the hope ii would
carry away the cough "f the expectorator.
Among the amulcts of various nations
Prof Flinders Petrie alluded to those used
by the Eskimos, who would give the skin
of "A hawk and the bead of "A fox to a
hunter i'm order that he should acquire
cunning. In Italy they had thunder stones
and serpentine stones guards agansi
lightning and snakes. and a transflNed
/ frog was to insbre fidelity or the inabil-
! ity to get away.
Vigilance might be secured by the eyes
| of a crab placed in the skin of a nghtin-
gale wrapped in piece of deers,Sin. In
Egypt the original custom of burNlnS
slaves and food with tine dead was super
seeded by the use of amulets made as
| images and i'm the same way models or
grave. so that the dead should in after
| lie lack none of their organs.
] Symbolism was also shown in several
cases Amulets i'm thu shape OF a frog
were common in the iombs. and as the
frog was the emblem nf multiplication, IL
insured numerous progeny in the future
world Certain powers" Were also in
dicated by these tokens. notably by the
square and plummet, which slgnifed rec
titude and a well balanced mind.
1
Names for the Dead.
Among the Egyptians the fear that the
dead would be lost 10y forgetting their
| names was very great and in conse-
uuence men and women were put in the
tombs wearing large bead with in
scription not unlike that of a modern
| luggage label. Models of writing tablets
and toilet requisites We're among the
other trifies i'm well furnished grave.
Deplorable as it may seem. there IL
| less of conference i'm the modern idea %.
| amulets. The LECTURER pointed out that
when some persons miss a train or pick
| think the bad or good luck the result OF
| something they may on that occasion be
carrying with them. and So hundreds OF
| individual superstitions arise.
individuals with such beliefs are usually
| those whose living depends on chance
and the professor mentioned actors.
avators and motorists. Incidentally IA
spoke of a prime minister wearing a
swastika for luck and talking heartily
chances of good luck We're seized, though
the face OF all reason was against IL Men
We're like white ants digging blindly ir
search of food.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Effect OF War ON Greece.

From publication Of the Greek general
staff it would seem that Greece has made
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Demand of the Roumanians.

During a conversation / had with the
former Roumanian secretary of war, Gen.
Argentojano. at present il Vienna this
gentleman made several statements
which show the Roumanian demand for
"compensations in somewhat new
light. The rectihcation OF the Dobrudja
frontier. he said. asked for by Roumania,
dates from the Berlin congress of 1878,
and is therefore by no means a recent in
Vention.
THAT these demands are just and equi-
table" he stated. was then and Is now
admitted by ali the powers. These de-
mands are reiterated at this time and
Will be. il need be, enforced. because Bull
saria is on the point of acquiring a con-
siderable enlargement Of her territory.
But the claim itself is an old one Our
line OF demarcation at Silistria must be
strengthened. We are prepared for every
thing. Within twenty-fOur hours we can
send 1000 men TO the Bulgarian from
Tier. and within five days more another
100000. And that we can fight was shown
I'm 1917.
Little reliable news percolates through
tin lines at Tchatalja- A leading Austrian
manufacturer just returned from there
reports that the Bulgarians have lost
tnere since the siege began some 10000
men through cholera. typhoid and dysen-
terry. Thirty-five per cent of the patients
sGccumb.
Arizona republican., 1913-08-06
CLEANLINESS NEXT TO
 COOL MESS

Owing to the fact that there a1s been several cases of typhoid fever in and around Mesa tEis summer it has been suggested that people he a little more careful "bout the Hsc of water that is not known to be pure It is known that the ditch "a- ter at this time of the wear is more or less impregnatcd with typhoid germs and parties bathinY in the ditches can be innoccRlated with the germs very easily. Wells that are not known to be pure should not he used. as il is a very easy nattcr fer well water To be filled with typhoid germs and the users never be tne wiser until they have been taken down with the disease. Clean ur vour premises. d. not allow water to stand around and hcccme offet- sive and above all do not allow leaves or trash to accumulate in vour wells MIX cows that are forced to drink impure water are continual source of menace to the public health N milk should be used from such cattle and GairNncn should see that their milk stock have a plenty of fresh pure water at all times. \ little effort on thc part of every citizen right now Wiu stop the spread of this disease and probably save the life of those dear to them.
Arizona republican., 1913-08-06
Hooray! Baby. To
 Rule the House
No Longer Do Women Fear The Great
 est of All Human Blessings.

It is a joy and comfort to know tbat those much talked of pains and other dis trcsscs that are said to precede child bear. ing may easily be avoided. No woman need fear the slightest discomfort If she will fortify herself with the well-known and time honOred remedy Mothers Friend"
 This is a most grateful, penetrating ex- tc-naI application that at once softens and makes pliant the abdominal muscles and Pigments. They naturally expand without thc slightest strain. and thus not only ban!sh all tendency to nervous, twitchlng spells but there is an entire freedom from nausea, discomfort, sIcepIessness and dread ttat so often leave their impress upon the babe
 The occasion Is therefore one of un- bounded, joyful anticipa tion, and too much stress can not be laid upon the remarkable influence which a mothers happy, prenatal disposition has upon the health and for tunes of the generation to come.
 Mothers Friend is recommended only for the relief and comfort of expectant mothers, thousands of whom have used and recom- mend it Q You will find 1t on sale at all drug stores al Sl.O0 bottle. Write to-day to the Rradicld Regulator Co, 130 Lamar Bldg, Atlanta, Ga, for most instructive book on this greatest of all subjects, motherhood.
Arizona republican., 1913-08-06
D. G. BUCK AND FAMILY GOING

After permanent residence in Tempe for seventeen years. Mir and Mrs D Ci. Buck and son. Leo. leave one week from tomorrow for Po- mona, California, where they will To- cate for the next year and possibly for good. The Bucks hate to leave Tempe but after several years fgur- ing on the matter they have come to Pomona az their decision, mainly at present because of Mir Bucks desire for q oEange of climate for the bene- fit of his health. The Tempe livery stable. managed for the last eight years by Mir Buck. will be in posses sion 0f Fred and Andy Patterson who have years lease on the premises and equipment after next Monday morning. Upon their removal to Cal ifornia. the Bucks will take up their temporary residence with Mrs Bucks mother, Mrs NJ. E. White. for many years resident of Tempe Leo will attend the Pomona high school Mir Buck is undecided as to what he will do in California. There is a possi- bility that he will return to Tempe late this fall. again he may return year hence, and finally he may decide upon California as his permanent home
Arizona republican., 1913-08-06
ANOTHER RUNAWAY

\ team belonging tO J. s. TuIcy who lives two miles east of Gilbert came near causing considerable dam age on tn" streets of Mesa yesterday The team was hitched to lumber wagon. which Mir. Tuley was loading with lumber in the Drew Lumber C0mpany's warehouse. when they Lc- came scared and started up Main street on the run
 Fred Moore and Elijah Pome:oy started after them and as MT. More was horseback he overlook them first and succeeded in turning them into the alley behind Bishop Horns 1iv- cry barn where they were stopped There was no damage done but soy eral parties narrowly escaped being run into
Arizona republican., 1913-08-06
WILL VISIT ON THE COAST

James A. Blakley, member of the class of 1913 of the Tempe high school. leaves this evening for vari- ous California points where a month or more will be spent. He goes direct to Long Beach from here. thence to Los Angeles and San Diego Other coast towns will be included in his visit Blakley will be badly missed by the local ball team and enthusi- asts in that he has been the officia scorer of all games played at Tempe this season. Also for three seasons he has acted in the capacity of official scorer for the Salt River Valley league While he may return to as sume control once more of the later duty his absence at the present time will be keenly felt when it comes to game at home without an uptodate scorer in his place at the grand stand.
Arizona republican., 1913-08-06
AUTOMOBILE TRIP ID
 YELLOWSTONE PARK
Joe Akard and Earl Brown Accom- panied By Their Wives Left
 Tempe Yesterday.

Bound on an automobile tour talk ing in practically all the scenic points on the Pacific coast and terminating at the Yellowstone National park. Nlr. and Mrs. Joe Akard of Tempe and Mir and Mrs Earl V. Brown of Phoenix left here yesterday at noon to be gone d larger part of the next five mOnthG MT. AkaTd, since ths purchase of new Studebakcr tWen- ty-five horsepower five passenger machine few weeks ago has had this trip in view but being unfamil- jar with all the intricate workings of an auto it was necessary to take a third party along And as a result Mir. and Mrs. Brown concluded the party. MT. Brown being a member of Inc of Phoenix.
 The party upon leaving Tempe goes direct to san Diego Their trip will be made via the southern route taking them through Yuma and the they pick up a son of MT and Mrs Akard and then the long journey is begun in earnest
 The route from southern California will follow close to the Pacific coast extending probably as far north as Portland. Oregon. Eventually the party will reach the Yellowstone Ma tional Park in Wyoming, their initial destination. Here a larger share of their time will be spent, aside from that occupied on the trip. and thorough inspection made of the numerous scenic wonders found there The entire journey will be made at easy stages, camp being made where night overtakes them.
 Mr. and Mrs Akard have made Tempe their home for the past few months coming to this part of the valley from Peoples valley. Mir Akard. until his removal here was a prominent cattleman of northern AI1- zona.
Arizona republican., 1913-08-06
MESES CONTRIBUTION ID
 THE NEWS OF HE DAY
EXPERIMENT FARM FOR MESA

Prof. MCOmie of the state uniVCr- sity was in Mesa yesterday looking for d site for the new experimental farm. At d meeting of the Mesa COmmmeTcial club Monday night the following gentlemen were appointed to accompany Prof McOmie over the surrounding country and see just where the farm can be located: J. J. Frazer, W. NJ. Beach, F. r. POme- roy, w. $. Dorman and l.. NJ Le- Baron. At the recent session of the legislature bill was passed Ip- propriating funds for the purchase of lands to be used for experimental purposes, and il has been understood all along that Mesa was to have one of the farms. Mesa has for seVc, al years been trying to get such an institution and it is to be hoped that suitable location can be found somewhere in this section. The lands near Mesa are considered among inc best in the state and it is almost ar assured fact that the farm vlIl be established, and that it will be of tremendous advantage to the farmers of this valley as well as the farmers of the state.