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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
Installing ART IN INFANCY.
Exhibit to Train Sense Of Beauty in
Children Is Opened.
PARIS. June q, 191

PARIS, June y, 1913.
Art for the Child is the title of
an interesting little exhibition now
open in Paris The object is to
brighten the surroundings and to
train the sense of beauty Of the child.
and numbers of delightful toys designed
with this end in view are displayed. NJ.
Leo Claretie, one of the principal organ
izers Of the exhibition. says: If art is
to be instilled into the masses 1t must
be done in infancy. and surviving
tendency must be created before daily
labor begins to diminish leisure"
Many attractive and interesting things
are on view, but 1t is noticeable that no
dolls houses are displayed. Instead,
modern boys and girls are to have their
own little bungalows in the garden.
These tiny summer houses shut out all
intrudfng adults by their low roofs, the
caves of which are only three feet from
the ground, and they have their privacy
still further preserved by white fences
twenty inches high running all around
them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
THE ENvIED FLORIST.
The Office Window Man Wishes He
Were One, and No Wonder.

From the New York Mail.
II the office window man had not been
an office window man he WOULD have
wished to be florist. There is a profess
sion. now. that is worthy of a poet. You
have beautiful thoughts, and instead of
translating them into words. you trans
late them into plants and flowers. You
must be an artist in order to be a sue
cessful florist, for success in that line
consists of more than putting into pots
and setting them up on a bench and let
ting them grow. You must possess the
subtle knack of bringing them forward
ing them more beautiful than your
neighbours flowers. The florist must pos
sess brains. too, In order to be able to
forecast the seasons fashions in flowers
and to produce exactly the things which
the market will call for. He has to be an
artist first and business man afterward
But always the artist first, for. in this
age and place of keen competition the
shrewdest florist cannot dispose of his
stock profitably If it Is inferior
The office window man has known a
good many florists, and they have mostly
been philosophical men. His latest friend
ship among florists has been with a man
of Swiss birth and education, who spe-
cialized on violets. carnations and chrys-
anthemums. out in q suburban town. 1t
Is always pleasure to go in and chat
with this man. He knows not only about
the stock in trade Of the professional
florist. but understands the native wild
flora as we'll. Nothing that blossoms is
foreign to him. He will tell you about
the thousands of red cedars that grew
about his greenhouses forty years ago
when he first settled in the neighborhood,
and Will lament their disappearance He
is happy in the first dandelion that bios
SONS In the grass on the terrace in front
OF his house. and he will not extirpate the
dandelions from his lawn, though no one
understands better than he how it can
be done. He watches for the song SPAR
row and bluebirds in the f1rst week ~
March.
This norist Is happy PHILOSOPHER but
he has his griefs. His greatest sorrow is
the bad tree planting, the bad GARDEN
Ing. the melancholy efforts at flower gar
dening that people engage in about him.
He grieves that suburban Americans
snouid De SO slow to learn. A neglected
maple on the street. with suckers spring.
Ing up about IT. and bark gnawed away
by the horses that have been hitched to
1t. gives him real pain. He has gone to
a neighbor and asked permission to make
slit with his knife in the side Of a bar
bound maple. He has planted a tree
now and then for the town, without any
charge. because ne wanted to see the
And his heart swells with pride when
he points to the noble German iindens
which he set out here and there In the
village thirty or forty years ago. Those
lindens and a good many other fine trees
In the town will be the old florists monl
ments after ne Is gone. No doubt he will
be forgotten, but something OF his snirit
will descend upon the villagers for hun
dred years from the spreading branches
of those trees.
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''FA|RyLAND FOUNTAIN"
DEDICATED IN BERLIN
Success of Park Project for
Children Held Due to
kaiser's Interest.
Correspondence Of The Star

Foreign correspondence or The Star.
BERLIN, June 81. 1913.
The dedication of a "fairyland foun-
tain in public park of Berlin was
one of the municipality contributions
toward celebrating the quarto-centennia1
of the emperor's reign.
The original design for this fountain
was finished and shown at an art exhi-
bition twelve years ago. After having
been approved by the police authorities.
the design came back to the city hall with
the information that the emperor declined
to pass it. His criticism was that the
figures representing the famous cEaac-
ers in fairy stories were made mere de-
tails in the general architectural scheme
SO that the children, for whom the foun-
tain was intended, could scarcely recog-
nize their story book favoritieS. His
majesty recommended that this grown
up categorical design be rejected, the
fairy heroes and heroines be brought to-
gether in groups. and above all he ad-
vised the municipal officials to obtain
the services of some sculptor who had
shown his ability to do work in a way
that appealed to children.
Emperor's Interference Criticised.
The emperor's interference caused much
unfriendly criticism in the newspapers.
and the city fathers argued that he had
exceeded his authority. Nevertheless,
they appointed committee to consider
his suggestions. The services OF
Munich sculptor were obtained, and after
several years a new design was ap-
proved by both the emperor and the city.
The fountain has been erected, and now
Berlin children are reveling in the Won
derful playground where they may see
the heroes Of their story books. me
figures are placed in groups around two
basins, the larger Of which covers nearly
half an acre. Red Riding Hood is there
and so Is the Wolf. Here also is Jack
in-Luck and his Pig, Puss-in- Boots Gin
derella and her slipper, Sleeping Beauty
and all the rest of the old-time favorites
The whole conception is happy one
the poetry of child life Is fittingly EN-,
bodied in lasting stone amid beautlfui
surroundings. and 1t is agreed on all sides
that much credit for the final success OF
this beautiful idea is due Emperor Will
liam for his rejection of the first de-
signs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
TALYS ROYAL CHILDREN
SPEND HAPPY CHILDHOOD
Live in Shady Gardens and
Play in Plain Clothes
by the Sea.
ROME, June 23, 1913.

ROME, June %, 1913.
Whatever the future may hold OF sor-
row or joy for the royal children OF
Italy, the son and three small daughters
of King Victor Emmanuel and Queen He
lena will be able to look back upon an
exceptionally happy childhood.
The Quirinal Palace in Rome, where the
children live, has its own shaded gardens.
but lest these should not suffice the king
has bought a villa close TO the city 10
serve as an open playground Tor the
youngsters. This villa is or the ancient Va
Salaria. The children are often taken out
to it in motor cars. and spend long after
moons al play with their ponies and other
pets. exactly as though they were al the
real country.
When spring comes the little prince.
Cmberto, aged nine, and his sisters.
Yolanda Mafalda and Giovanni. re-
spectively twelve, eleven ana SIX years
old go down to their fathers hunting
lodge of Castle Porziano. about nn.eea
of pine trees borders the Mediterranean.
and where, dressed in simple and prac-
teal clothes, they live in the open air.
and climbing trees till they
become as brown as berries and as
hardy as the children of the peasants
around them Later on in the summer
they go to the seashore at San Rossore.
near Pisa. and later still to the flne
Castle of Racconigi. In Pied
mont, which has always been the sum-
mer residence the SdIlsudfiO
Of the house of Savoy.
Dressed in Sailor Suits"
1t used to be the fashion for Italian
children of the better class to dress
like miniature editions OF
their parents. but Queen Helena, realiZ-
ing how much happier is the life OF
boys and girls who have not to care for
their clothes. has set the fashion for
simplicity by always dressing her chill
dren in loose and comfortable sailor
SUITS Thus arrayed the royal young
sters enjoy without restraining the
Injuries OF digging, gardening and
padding in the sea.
Yolanda, is handsome girl. and al
ways looks well in her white serge
suits with broad collars. but she is
rather precocious. are many Italian
girls, and already shows truly
feminine interest in matters of dress.
Ii is a great joy to her to be allowed
to assist in selecting her mothers mill
linery and she chooses hats for the
queen on a most lavish scale. never al
lowing herself to be trammeled by con-
of expense. Yolanda admires
her beautiful mother intensely. and she
was present on a public occasion re-
Gently when some one remarked to her
that the queen was looking particularly
we'll. The little girl answered:
MY mother is the very handsomest
queen in Europe After a short pause
she added: And / am going to be ex-
actly like her"
The resemblance between mother and
laughter is most striking.
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LEGAL NOTICES.
Z. HI. THOMAS and JAS. FRANCIS
SMITH, Attorneys.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
of Columbia. holding District Court.-In re
the extension of Western avenue northwest. In
1Os4.-Notice and Order of Publica tion-Notice
fs hereby given that the Commissioners Of the
Of an act f Of Congress approved March is1s.
entitled can act TO extend and widen Western
have fled a petition in this court praying the
condemnation OF the land necessary for the ex-
present terminus at Beech street northesstward
along the northwestern boundary line of the Dis
trict OF C"iumnls win un pr Width OF one
shown a plat OF map fled with the said peti-
tion as part thereof: and PRAYING also that jury
Of five judicious. disinterested men, not related
10 any person interested in these proceedings and
not IN the service OF employment OF the District
moned by the United States marshal for the Dis
trict Of Columbia TO assess the damages each
of the extension and widening of Western ave-
nue. for which this proceeding has been instituted
the purposes thereof and to assess as benefits re-
sulting therefrom the entire amount of said dam
upon the land abutting said Western avenue to be
extended and upon any and all other pieces or par
flied by the said extension and widening Of the said
Western avenue as provided for in and by the
ioth day Of June. D. 1918. ordered that ali per.
sons having interest in these proceedings be-
srpear in this court on or before the 18TH day OF
July. u. 1913. at 10 O'Clock am, and continue
IN attendance until Inc court snail nave made its
final order ratifying and confirming the award Of
damages and the assessment of benefits Of the
Jury to he impaneied and sworn herein. and IL IL
further ordered that a copy OF this notice and
order he published once in the Washington Law
Reporter and twenty successive secular days
and intervening Sundays and holidays In Tho
Washington Evening Star. the Washington Times
and the Washington Post newspapers published
I'm rhe said District. Immediately preceding the
said 18th day OF July. AID 1913 1t is further
ordered that copy of this notice and order be
served by the United States marshal his dep
uties upon such of the owners of the fee OF the
land 10 be condemned herein may be found ny
The said marshal his deputies within the DIS
trct OF Columbia. and mon the tenants and occu-
pants Of the same. before the said 18th day Of
July. AID. 1913. ASHLEY NJ GOULD. Justice.
fSeal) A true cony-Test: ]. r. YOUNG. Clerk.
BY F. W. SMITH. Asst. Clerk.
fe90-d Sn6hnlfnix fine
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Envy.

From the Houston Post.
1T is vulgar to dress SO as to attract
attention on the street"
Isn't it.'
Il saw Miss Knobby going down the
street yesterday in a gown which caused
every man she passed TO turn and look
at her"
"Sure enough, l wonder who is her
dressmaker?"
Il asked her. but she wouldn't tell me-"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
An Evil Tongue.

FHkeB FOIItB.
''She has an evil tongue, the baroness.
She's always saying you couldn't get on
with your servants'
1--WE heard before that she had once
been a servant, but I didn't remember
having her here myself"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06

From London Opinion.
old chap"
"Why?"
Well. you say she has brains enough
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06

can gold to retrieve the volume, the
then ambassador informed the State
Department that Its code was no longer
secret. The man who owned the key
may have sold copies to every foreign
office in Europe. To buy one copy
would be no guarantee that the secret
was retrieved.
SO 1t was discarded and the new one
adopted The code now used is made
up of arbitrary combinations of five
letters each. Each of these arbitrary
words, which are prOnounceable be-
cause Of the alienation of consonants
and novels. denotes another word or
phrase. There Is just one way Of dis
covering what the code word means
and that is to look in the key the code
dictionary
These dictionaries are not intrusted
to the mails in delivering them to the
embassies and legations abroad. With
out casting aspersions at any one. the
canny state Department gentlemen
know that there are ways in which
even inviOlate mail matter is sometimes
lost. Consequently the code keys are
intrusted to the personal care of the
visit Washington. AS some representa-
tive of practically every American lega-
ton in distant lands visits Washington
once a year, the distribution of a. new
code does not require a very long time,
even when delivered in this extra spe-
cial manner.
Every department Of the government
and even several of the bureaus in
various departments have their own
secret language. Codes are used for
two purposes. secrecy and economy.
The code is regulated primarily by the
requirements of telegraph companies.
BY international agreement telegraph
companies send for the same rate as
is charged for a single word, any pro-
nounceable combination, in any one of
eight languages. Of five letters by tele-
graph or ten letters by cable. If the
combination is unprOnOunceable a
charge Is made for the transmission
of each letter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
Easy Method.

From the Birmingham Age-Herald.
'rm tired OF life"
THAT being the case. go out to Cali
fornia and shout 'Banzaf!'"
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Charlotte Hail School.

Charlotte Hail. ST. Mays county Nd. Founded
17T4. Ample buildings and extensive grounds
Healthful location the historic Cool Springs :"
Thorough instruction in business and classical
csuxses Military discipline. Moderate terms
G. n. THOMAS. A. NJ. Principal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
Mrs. Malaprop.

From the Christian Register.
'.All my linen," said Mrs. Twickembury.
lis marked with illegible ink"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06
AUCTION SALES.
TOMORRO
THoS ]. OWEN & son. AUOTIONEERs.
PUBLIC SALE OF VALUABLE SUBURBAN
PROPERTY IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

PROPERTY IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
MARYLAND.
BY virtue OF the power contained in q deed
OF trust. to the UNDERSIGNED as trustees. dated
among the land records OF Montgomery county
Maryland in Liber No 2l5. at folios IS, etc.,
they win on MONDAY. THE SEVENTH DAY
OF JULY. AID. 1918. AT THE HOUR OF
THREE O'CLOCK PM, offer public SALE to
the highest bidder. the premises, all of the
several tracts of land described In said deed of
trust containing 40 ACRES OF LAND. more
or less.
This land IS situated on the turnpike road running
from Washington II. c., to Rockville. Nd, about
g miles from the former place and miles from
the latter, and adjoins the lands OF the Bethes-
da Presbyterian Church and Mrs. Layton Green
on the north. bounds Cedar lane on the
s0uth. and the lands of the Alta Vista sub
division tie west. Ii has large frontage
On the turnpike aforesaid known the George
by a large. modern FRAME DWELLING HOUSE
containing IA rooms. with bath. gas and hot
air furnace. There also two bored wells. q
fine detached greenhouse. excellent tenant
hOuse and bank harm. with stablng for four
horses and four cows, two carriage rooms. q
is also icehouse. chicken houses and other
buildings.
Terms OF sale: Cash, Of which a deposit OF $500
will be required the day of sale. and the
balance upon the ratification of the sale by the
court In about thirty days Conveyancing at the
cost of the purchaser.
A plat of the property may be seen In the
Office Of the American Security and Trust
ALBERT c. MURDAUGH,
JAMES f. HOOD
Washington. D. O..
J. ABBY HENDERSON. Solicitor.
je26-d&dhs RockviIle. Mo
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06

WHEN the United States next goes
w to war her armed forces and her
more subtle forces of diplomacy
will speak a common language for the
first time, for there has recently been
completed a secret code for common use
between the State War and Navy depart
ments.
Heretofore the three departments. which
include all the forces that would come In
contact with an enemy in war time,
have used secret codes peculiar to each.
The State Department has employed sew
eral codes. the War Department several
others. although chiefly one, the Breeley
code, and the Navy Department others
They have points in common. but they
are nevertheless distinct codes. The key
to one would not afford a translation OF
message written in another code.
The new interdepartmental code is de-
signed not only for use In war but In
such emergencies as would require quick
secret communication between represent
atives of the various divisions.
~
Code keys have habit of getting lost
1t is to the interest of foreign powers
to know the secret language a possible
antagonist may speak. Any multiplication
of codes increases the opportunities for
valuable information of this character to
get lost or stolen.
For instance. the code now chiefly used
by the State Department is about four
years old and was adopted chiefly be-
cause the old code had become the COM
mon property of several nations across
the water. When George Won Lengerke
Meyer. former ambassador to Russia
and more recently Secretary of the Navy
was In st. Petersburg diplomat visited
MIN one day to offer to him a little book
The book had mysteriously found its way
10 bucharest and had fallen, as such
DOCKS have a habit of falling into the
hands of foreign Office. When Mr.
Meyer saw the book he at once recog-
nized the State Department code key.
Some time later letter came to the
american embassy in Berlin stating
that the writer possessed a similar key
He offered to sell it, suggesting that
possibly the United States foreign office
would not care to have it's secrets the
common property of all Europe The
embassy asked the writer to submit
a specimen page of the book to prove
his assertion. The specimen was
mailed to the embassy and compared.
There was no question of it's genuine
ness.
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In the interests Of economy a special
committee was appointed by the Presi-
dents efficiency and economy commits
sion to study the hodge-podge of depart
mental codes with the purpose OF form
ulating uniform code for the use Of all.
The material gathered for this code has
not been sorted out and unless special
appropriation is made by Congress for it's
arrangement the whole project may come
to nothing.
1t was proposed that the verbal require
ments of each department be studied for
the purpose of building up a code that
would answer the peculiar needs of the
government. Ordinary commercial codes
are open to objection because they con-
tain much unnecessary material, are
cumbersome and frequently possess very
little to commend them as means Of
economy.
Such a code would be only semi-secret.
So many volumes of the key would be
distributed that absolute secrecy would
be impossible to maintain. But it would
be economical. The men who have made
the investigation assert that such q code
would effect a saving of IS per cent as
against plain English and more than 80
per cent as compared with many Of the
unscienttfic codes now used in several de-
partments.
Secret writing is one Of the oldest play
things OF kings and princes. Where armed
forces have been used in conquest or de-
tense, where intrigues have been ad-
vanced at court, wherever the political en-
nifty Of man has dealt with those high
in power. means of secret communica-
ton have been q part Of their weapons.
But the art Of secret writing, cryptog-
raphy, steganography. to choose only few
OF Its lengthy names, has declined since
the invention OF the telegraph.
curious characters have given way to
curious words and messages of cryptic
symbols and tortured signs have been
replaced by ciphers Of words disarranged
and transposed.
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The United States government con-
verses secretly In one Of two ways-by
arbitrary words or by plain English
words transposed SO that their connected
meaning Is not apparent. The so-called
route" cipher Is a common type of the
latter. The form of route" cipher en-
ployed by the Post Office Department ap-
peared in a recent public document. A
cipher telegram was presented this way:
Developments Clerks them these transfer proc
Clerk Room Omaha No and formation cases
and touch will promptly they in inspectors clerk
meeting Secret none were well with report
any postal keep assigned yet in organisation
Rodman supposed bar requested ut.
This is so unintelligible that 1t is next
/ to impossible to read. The translation Is
this:
Inspectors detailed at Omaha wire clerk who
requested poll OF room to bar outsiders at Omaha
meeting supposed to be G. T: Rodman. They re
In process of formation as yet. Transfer clerks
were assigned these inspectors and viii keep
them In touch with postal clerks. They Will re-
port any developments promptly.
The present War Department code IL
open to objections on the ground Of
economy. The code word comprises six
letters, alternating consOnant and vowel
1t was adopted many years after the
telegraph companies had laid down theil
iron rule that five letters would be
charged as one word. Consequently the
six-letter code word is computed as two
ordinary words. Why this peculiarly IN
economical system was chosen ID the sub
feet Of some interesting criticisms.
At any rate. the telegraph companies
received pay for two whole words when
they sent only one and One-fifth words
of code.
Another code In use until recently was
one composed Of numbers. A code mes
sage might appear thus:
"15a7s 345s2 1921 $500 eIss4 22z2S.''
For each number the telegraph and
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COLONIAL WALL PAPERS AGAIN

No. 2 Regent street
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RAILROADS.
CHESAPEAKE BEACH RY.

SCHEDULE OF EXCURSION TRAINS TO AND
FROM CHESAPEAKB BEACH.
EFFECTIVE JULY 6. 1915.
SUBJECT To CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.
WEEK DAYS.
GOING-Leave District line. 1000. IL 80 am,
o::;0. $40 and 4 40 pm
RETURNING-Ieave the Beach. 6:35 an.
12:U6 900. 600. $50 and 1870 pm.
SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS
G0ING-Leave District line. $50. 1890 and
II 80 am. 200. $40. 400 and s:45 pm.
RETURNING-Leave the Beach. 700 am.
1890. 2:10. 500. $50. 1000 and IL 90 pm.