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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-04

In political matters the census reveals
women's full voting strength as 800, O0O.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-04
Work for the Next Year.

The principal work of the union during
the next year will consist in gathering
complete data concerning the progress of
kindergarten work throughout the world
and in investigating the results of new
methods and principles. The kindergar TT en-
teachers believe that there should be a
great increase in the number of children
attending their schools, and will make
efforts to attain this result.
The delegates to the convention took "a
trip down the Potomac to Mount Vernon
yesterday. returning late yesterday after
noon. Luncheon was served on the boat
by the Baltimore kindergarten Club
Miss Mackinney and several other teach
got off the boat at Alexandria, and
spent the day in visiting schools and his
toric points there. The majority of the
delegates left the city last night
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-04
KINDERGARTEN WORKERS
PLAN YEARS. PROGRAM
Outgoing and Incoming Boards
Hold Conference Following
Convention.

Closing the International kindergarten
Union convention, which was in session
here last week. a joint meeting of the out
gong ana incoming executive boards
was heid last might at the Raleigh Hotel
10 lay' plans FOR the next years work
anu lor the next convention, which will
De held i'm Springfield. Mass. next April.
Miss Mabel A. Mackinney Of Brooklyn.
n y. the outgoing president. and Mrs.
Mary B. Page of Chicago, the new
president. both attended the meeting.
with the other old and new officers. It ia
expected that by holding the next can
vention in the Connecticut valley interest
in kindergarten work will be greatly en-
cOuraged in New England
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-04

Whe-e one decennial census will sho"
preponderance of women in the popula-
ton OF the United States the next may
show an excess of men. The relative
number of women in a community has
been found to have noticeable erect
upon the industries and conditions oil the
locality. For instance for NUMBER OF
decades the New England states were
reported as having a greater NUMBER Oh
women than men. So great was this us
crepancy that the term New Engla'fo
old maids" became provecbial, and 1t was
a generally accepted theory that there
We're not enough men in New England TO
supply husbands for the marriaSeapie
women. Now there are only six states IN
the country having an excess OF leh'aleS'
including the District of Columbia Only
two OF these. Massachusetts and Rhoue
Island, are New England states. me
others are southern-Maryiand, Nor'h
Carolina and South Carolina
The change in the sex of the population
is credited largely if not entirely. to I'M
migra ton. In the New England towns
the factories which used to be operated
largely by native-born women now IN
Guide among their operatives a large per
centage of foreign-born male labofers,
who have a greater strength ana enduf-
ance and can meet the demands of the
more strenuous modern industrial com
petition. The American-born females who
a generation ago found employment in
factories have advanced to commercial
or professional employment in Keeping
with the added demands in these callings-
While the number of women in industry
has increased throughout the country
between the censuses of 1900 and 1910 1t
did not increase in the locality in which
women were formerly so greatly in pre-
pOnderance.
The New England states now have a
population of 1913 males for each hun
bred females but in 1900 they had only
81, so i'm ten years a decided advance
of masculine population has been made
In Maine there are 1903 males to each
hundred females, against 102 in the cen
gus of 1900. In Vermont there are 100
and fraction and in Connecticut 1o2
and a fraction over q respective regis
tration in 1900 of even quantity IN
Connecticut and 1899 in Vermont.
In the District of Columbia there has
been a slight increase in the number OF
male inhabitants. no doubt due to the
increased number Of men being taken in
preference 10 women in many of the
government offices. There are now $3.50
men to each hundred women in the
District Ten years ago there We're
only 0S.4. This is small difference, but
1t is ma rked enough to call forth fear
and trembling from hundreds of woman
clerks. who are fearful that the new
administration may decide to substitute
men in their positions.
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Girls Exceed Boys boy.
In the High Schools. h en'


who attend school after they four
teen is 64.3l6 greater then the number
Of boys who remain in school. In other
words there are over 10000 more girls
than boys Who go to high school. the
number who go to college is not so
great, although 1t is most creditable, for,
while it is comparatively within the past
generation that colleges have been avail
able for Srs, there are now 1iOl3
women over tWenty-one years OF age in
colleges special schools. while the num-
Der of young men thus engaged is only
1927. Under these conditions /; is quite
possible that within another decade the
college bred women will considerably out
number their brothers.
Attention should also he given to the
fact that the educated negro women az
ready outnumber the educated negro
men In fact, the negro girls have the
advantage from the time they enter
school. as there are almost 10000 more
girls than boys in school even at the
ages between six and nine This DIFF
ference continues prOportionately through
out the college age The number OF
negroes who We're attending educational
institutions after the a:e OF tWenty-one
as recorded by the last census. and made
public only last month. was 232.Dl. Or
these, 1lIS7 We're women and 1o.c0i
men.
The census man. VINO n one case out
of ten is woman. finds many amusing
incidents in his rounds and not few
of them occur in securing the iniorrna
ton from women who are loath to take
the government into their confidence re-
gardns their priv ate affairs. Women
are charged with habitually concealin2
their age and 4 takes no small amount
of ingenuity upon the part of the emu
merator al times to elicit the information
required by his blanks. Women frequently
will deduct from ten to twenty years
from their ages and then in giving the
ages Of the other members of their
family be.ray themselves. \ Kansas
enumeration tells the story Of comeiy
matron who gave her age as rorty-ive
In the midst of the conyersatio j buXom
young woman came in carry ng child
about a year old. 1t developed that the
young woman was a granddaughter and
the child the third sreat-grandchi. Of
the stately old dame whose looks hardly
indicated the twenty years which had
passed since her forty-fifth birthday.
Another woman received the enumer-
ator courteously and answered all of
his questions without hesitation. As
he was taking his leave she said.
Now, | have answered all your ques-
tons and treated you all right haven't
II The enumerator told her that il
other women We're like her his task
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28
The Sweet and Succuen Spheres Which Furnish Various Celebrated
Beverages Of Greater or Less Strength Are the Basis
of Huge Industry the Chief Processes Of
Which Are Here Recomted.

Dayton and even Indianapolis, but the.
response is seldom hear,y enough.
From the time the picking on the Con-
cord crop starts. at the end Of September,
on into mid-November. there is pleasant
livelihood for any jaded or jobless city
dweller who takes the trouble 70 come out
for it, Farmers board the grape pickers,
paying them 81 20 or 81 a day. A $40 fare
from New York City will bring the pros
pective picker up TO the heart Of the vine
yard belt. in the neishborhood Of Dun
kirk. Fredonia and Westiield.
Some of the pickers come from far
afeId. Many make an annual trip from
along the shores Of the Canadian lakes.
Last year a picker came all the way from
County Cork, Ireland. He had heard
through a cousin in Cleveland of the op-
portunity offered by the harvest Though
unwilling TO emigrate for good and all, he
reckoncd he could manage TO come over
for the autumn work in the Chautauqua
vineyards and earn enough TO pay his
fares both ways and yet leave himself
something in pocket at the end Of the
time
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28
THE pELAGO GRAPE.

Great local interest attaches TO their
test Just now OF the Delago grape, an
artifciaIly induced species. which, # is
hoped. may solve the problem OF a late
grape that will keep we'll for marketing
in the new year. The Concord, which
forms the bulk OF the New York grape
crop. fruits late. but II is not good
keeper.
Though bad weather plays no small
part in determining the size OF the an
nual grape harvest, pests and unscientihc
fertilization and cultivation are a serious
menace TO the grape belt. The professors
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28
\ REALLY NOVEL, PL ACE FOR NEW WORKERS TO CO.

bunch OF prving idiots-and they're right
and besides, | don't like the crowds and
the smells. Does anybody else here?'
mo" exclaimed everybody.
Reggie exhaled a large cloud OF smoke,
lazily, and yawned.
Mrs. Van Suydam looked at her pretty
feet and yawned.
Van Suydam yawned.
Miss Inness yawned.
AIKEN yawned.
The Man from Out Of Town almost
yawned All was silence.
Suddenly Mrs. AIKEN. who had listened
quietly to the suggestions but said moth
ing, gave a little chirrup Of JOY. Her
tired eyes beamed brightly.
"Oh people" she cried, jumping to her
feet 81 have the loveliest. newest idea
"a real sensation"
"Wen." conceded Van Suydam for the
crowd, what Is it?'
.You see, it's this way" Mrs. AIKEN
rippled on, her excitement causing her 10
talk very fast none of you want to go
n shows, or cabarets, or restaurants. or
Conev. or to turkey trotteries, and you re
simplv bored to death for a new and
strange place to GO Well. I've got II. 1t 5
lust wonderful suggestion. even If 90
make il myself Hardly anybody IN Ne"
York ever goes there, it's the last place III
the world you'd ever think Of and II VIII
ne such a delightful. such a wonderful
rovelty-a place you haven't been prop
atIv for wears, and it's right here III
town, too"
"What is this wonderful. novel spot
,,ou.re so excited about?" demanded Mr.
Aken. with a real show OF interest
"Oh. you'd never think OF IT, you "
never dream of going there II dioh
Toll Won. but l know you'll just dote OH
it-and it'll be such change
..yes YES" chorused the others, where
:, ,nis strange, unfamiliar haven you
want to take us?'
"Homew cried Mrs. Aken.
"IIome." echoed the others iatuouS'y'
.,homep, They repeated the name uh-
oomnrehendingly few times, and theh
suddenly great light broke over the''
faces. "HOMEw they shouted. n.y.
of course! Delightful! Amazing! won
derfuIl Why hadn't we thought OF 1t oe-
fore? A new place to go. You're genius
Mrs. AIKEN, a positive genius. n wonder
ful suggestion, and so novel; Home! YES
we'll all go home"
And having fallen upon Mrs. AIKEN and
embraced her fervently the little gather-
ing. radiant, all its boredom gone. broke
up and went home. the quest OF a new
sensation having been thus happily ended
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28

many miles.
The minds OF us laymen are hazy on
the extent OF the grapes ramifications.
Most Of us would hazard ] suppose, that
there were eight or ten, perhaps Dozen
kinds of grapes grown in America. AS a
matter of fact, there are in New York
State alone five or six purely wild vines
that bear good eating grapes: in Texas
there are twenty-one, and every state in
the Union has its several indigenous
species. AS 10 the edibllity Of the fruit
Of these wild vines. 1t depends far less
on the species OF wild vine than on the
fertility and suitability Of the soil In
which it happens 10 be growing. The late
Professor Munson, whose researches have
done much for the American grape IN
dustry, used 10 ride through the wilds OF
Texas collecting the most fruitful wild
vines he encountered. and from these he
evolved many fine fructiverous CRAFTS. II
the wild vine is numerous in its species.
what shall be said OF the cultivated form?
on their farm at Fredon!a Professors
Gladwin and Hartzell have no less than
two hundred species growing, constantly
testing them 10 arrive a the best methods
OF cultivation. fertilization and protection
from insect pests. TO produce the maxi
mum yield.
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28
A "sMlLING" COUNTRYSIDE.

The grape region is prosperous. A GER
tain area Of land suitable for grape grow
ing with a certain expenditure Of labor
and money, gives quite good deal more
profit than could be made by a corn
grower equally favorably circumstanced
There is plenty of pleasant work. and
most OF the workers own vineyards OF
their own. Toll in a vineyard IS not as
laborious as many forms OF agriculture
and IL ever tranquil. well-to-do country
side warranted the term smiling" this
does Yet there is, and has been for some
years past. a scarcity OF labor. especially
in the fall and winter. when picking ana
trimming must be done. The region is the
home OF upwards Of 1900 men who own
and maintain vineyards of their own OF
from two or three TO 800 and GOO acres.
Their best crops grow on gravelly loan,
but pretty fair Weld can be raised on
hight clay. a good crop will yield three
or four tons TO the acre. and man and
his team can practically run a thirty-acre
vineyard getting in extra help, Of course.
for tying and trimming and picking.
American labor is used In the main
though hundreds Of Italians, mostly
owners Of small vineyards. are aVallabie
for hire Part OF the year they tend crops
OF peas and corn and fruits and work In
the canneries disposing Of these crops
Many Swedes. too. work for the growers
The harvesting Of this gigantic crop
thousands Of carloads Of grapes, is be
ginning this week. and the grape juice
plants are buckling down 10 a two
tI.cI in,
thirsts Of next summer. Concords, fine
black grapes. are the staple grapeJuice
crop Ninety per cent Of the Erie anu
Chautauqua vineyards are OF this kinu'
Tilted out Of the baskets and boxes IN
which they are brought I'm from the vine
yards. the grapes are carried up wash-
ing elevator and then stemmed ana
crushed.
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28
A WORKER FROM CORK.

So over he came on the Baltic last Au-
gust. A few days ne passed In New
York sightseeing. Then he came on TO the
grape belt and signed W with grower
near Fredonia. Re worked until late IN
November, when he found himself at the
close Of the season with return ticket
TO ireland and $40 spending money. lie
announced his intention Of returning this
year. and they are looking out for him At
the vineyard.
New Yorks vineyards cover an area
Of more than 5000 acres The pioneers
ir the field were the old German growers
who came 10 the Lake Keuka region
near Hammondsport. some sixty years
ago. Old farmers still remember the COM
ing Of these odd foreigners. Their queer
bundles Of sticks caused amusement at
the time. No one guessed how the sur
face Of scores of miles Of landscape would
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28

<ID LESS Mr.. Bryan, and father. and
mother, and Pete, and Emily
~ and make me a good boy.
Amen" That may not be JOhnny's prayer
in Mexico just now, but it certainly IS IN
the grape belt upstate. No gale from the
raging watery wastes of Lake Erie viii
ever blow the halo from the Secretary Of
States revered head. The vineyard
farmers are all buying automobiles and
the folks who already had autos are hiI-
ing brass-butttoned chauffeurs.
In brief. it has been a bumper year for
grape juice, and the vineyard folk at
tribute the fact mainly TO the publicity
given TO Mr. Bryan's favored beverage.
The demand has never yet been so large;
the juice bottlers are calling for more
grapes than the farmers can supply
There is an influx of new growers and
prospects are Of the rosiest. Before Mr.
Bryan is allowed to drift out of the
story. blushing with shame and chagrin
al seeing his name in print let passing
reference be made TO the wild struggle
recently Of growers from Buffalo TO Toledo
for the honor of supplying him. A Ripley
man won. The grapes for the Secretary
Of States brew will be gathered this fall
] am assured. by high school graduates
Of established repute, wearing lavender
gloves, and a strip Of red carpet Will be
laid from the vineyard TO the brewery
Few New Workers realize the proper
tons which the grape-growing industry
Of our state has attained. The Chau-
tauqua and Erie belt alone produced 1923
carloads Of this fruit last year, sold by
the growers for s2.3l5.O36 This belt with
the Ohio belt. a direct continuation
stretches sheer along the brink Of Lake
Erie, from Buffalos suburbs 10 Erie.
Penn. from Erie 10 Cleveland. Ohio,
from Cleveland TO Sandusky. at the end
of the lake, but few miles from the
borders Of Indiana and Miehigan-a solid
strip Of vineyard longer than any in Italy
France or Germany. And fifty miles
south lies the rich Lake Keuka grape re-
gion. where champagne and many light
wines are produced.
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28
HEATING PROCESS.

A heating process follows, after when
the pulp is pressed and the juice sterilized
to prevent fermentation. The mixture
does not assume its rich coloration until
the heating process. which liberates the
dark red pigment from the grape skins.
The grape juice is then stored IN five
gallon jars. which are drawn upon for the
bottling during the winter.
our haryests are beginning 20 prove a
source OF worry 10 us In these days of
huge crops that must be garnered in a
hurry. Grapes are no exception. Prac-
ucally every person in the belt who can
stand-from four-year-old Billie 10 his
fnPer haired ersnddad-gOes out into the
VINEYARDS Help calls are sent TO all
heighboring towns and cities. 10 BufaI1
ana Cleveland. sandusky and Toledo.
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28
Rr Rertnn Rraley.

rGGIE yawned as he smoked his
IN "Ho. hum" he sighed. "lifes
beastlv bore. What new excitement mas
any one to Offer"
"I'u tell you" said Mrs. Van suydain
languidly, Tets go TO the Astorbht LOT
dinner and listen TO their new orchestra.
I'm told they also have very fne chei'
.T wouldn't go TO the Astorbilt ior
800" impatiently exclaimed Van Suy-
dam. "They give you nothing but frehc"
cooked food. which all tastes the same
and the music-say, they haven't had
change Of programme for eight years.
"ob very well" Mrs. Van Suydah
agreed. Eve won't go there then'
90 know a little place up on Ssth street
,,olurteered AIKEN. where you get the
iolliest kind Of table d'hote for half
doIIar-real wine. too-and after that we
could go to-
NO more table d'hotes in mine" pro-
teeted Reggie. "You can't tell me there
is any difference in any of them. the
wine all comes out Of the same tank
train the chicken out of the same cold
storage warehouse, the spaghetti out OF
the same box. And / can recite the menu
both ways and sideways. Try again.
..WeU." smiled Miss lnness, my propo-
sitiou is that we go TO a nice tea room for
dinner. then to a vaudeville sketch and
finish up at trottery. ! just love to
tango"
''Tbe only trouble with that suggestion.
declared Van Suydam. 'is that It's all
wrong. You can't get real mans meal
AT a tea room. I've seen every vaudeville
act in New York, and s'elp me! I'll see
no more: and as for trotteries, I'm so
weary of tangoing and turkey trotting
that | couldn't look AN honest turkey In
the face again"
The Man from out of Town made th's
offering:
81 suggest a run up to Riverside, dinner
there. then a good drama, and after that
a lively cabaret place. know new one
vo,, neople. being New Workers may not
have found yet. Its'--
"Iyow, WOW! Vow yowlcd Aken'
.T kn,w that Riverside JOINT Ihey
,haroe Won 81 for a chocolate eclair' ana
the waiter doesn't know you're presc"'
uptil YOU tip him eight bones
and there isn't play In town reg
e,o asserted. that isn't about crook OF
. noor little girl whose folks neglected
nor so they did. and I've seen 'em all
anyhow .a
'Yes." added Mrs Van Suydah'' anu
as for the cabaret aiter"ard' III i""''
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28

the growers awakened 70 realization OF
the danger Of the leading industry OF
that section Of the state becoming eN-
tlnct So they sent a deputation to Al
bany. with the result that the Legislature
OF 1909 passed an act providing FOR scien-
tdc investigation OF the conditions OF
grape production up there. and the New
York Agricultural Experiment station at
Geneva. opened station near F'redonia.
assigning 70 Il Professor L. y. GIadwen.
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28

and an agricultural entomologist, Profes-
sOr +. 4. Harizcll.
II is am interesting task, that OF these
men Their work Is the collection. not
the dissemination. Of facts about grapes
and their culture. but they readily help
the growers with their findings. Their
base is a thrty-acre experimental vine
yard between Fredoua and Brocton'
though they spend much Of their time In
the vineyards up and down the belt for
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28

be changed in a few decades by the
planting and shoot grating Of those
dusty, gnarled roots. 10 which the new
comers attached so much Importance.
Though careful attention was given 70
the selection and grating Of vines in the
early years Of the industry not much
care was given TO the scientific prevention
of pest and decay. Toward the end Of
the SOs the crops began 10 fall OFF and
for ten years steadily diminished. Then
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28

"rTcv about Chinatown and a Summing
expedition" queried Reggie.
Not on your life" almost shouted Van
Suydam. 'I've eaten all the cured birds
eyes and fricasseed angle worms I'm 60
ing TO, and / refuse to go running through
those dirty. crowded streets any more.
First place. the people who live there
don't like II, they think summers are a
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28

motor 10 Coney"-
mol" came a loud roar from every
body.
.Too noisy" said Mrs. Van Suydam-
.Too dirty" said Mr.. Van Suydam.
"smells Of fish," said Resgie.
"Too far and too common" said AIKEN.
Nothing decent to eat when you get
there" said the Man from out OF Town.
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28
feel that a glance at this table is stimu-

Annual yields differ by 5000 carloads. and
a carload is worth $50 This fuctuauon
has to be fought with the weapons they
are evolving.
Young Professor Hartzell is backing the
bugs up against a wall and giving them
the fight of their lives He has already
published important studies of the grape
berry moth. blotch and serpentine miners.
tho eight-spotted forester, hte yellow bears
the diverse-lined moth, the hog sphinx
the checkered grape vine sphinx, the PAN
dora's sphinx, the grape plume moth, the
tree cricket, the argus beetle, the red
headed systena, the vine chafer, the grape
vine colaspis and the grape blossom
mtIge
New-York tribune., 1913-09-28

deaf already from the songs they bawl
in YOUR ears. and I'm just sick OF Apache
dances and Bornese 'tangoes and all the
other acrobatIc stunts they do
II withdraw my suggestion the man
from out Of Town said gaiiantiy' ana
rest-awaitlng other and more popular
offerings"
Here's mine." said Miss Inness' let's