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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-05
Button-Bef0re Gown and
the Byronic Collar.
by DIR. FRANK CRANE.
Copyright. 1913. by Frank Crane.i

The mysteries OF feminine apparel I
in no wise pretend to understand nor
presume to criticise. With the psalmist
of Israel 1 exclaim: Such things are
too wonderful for me; they are high
/ cannot attain unto them"
The intolerant conservatism of male
attire with its SNUG unreason over
awes me likewise. Thoroughly as l
hate it, my hate is but snarling i'm
potence for to resist is to become
ridiculous, and one can enjoy martyr
dom but not ridicule; SO that il the
penalty were prison and stripes in
stead Of gibes and finger pointings, l
would gladly wear a nice white table
cloth and only that these hot days.
But as one whose office it is to an
imadvert upon the buds and sproutings
of the daily news 1 wish here to indi-
cate two minor happenings in the f1ux
of fashions that have moved joyfully
the molecules of my pineal gland,
otherwise known the epiprysfs or
conarium, which by certain ancient
and heather people was considered to
be the seat of the soul.
Firstly: One of the woman folks con-
nected with the household where
lodge, or. to be more explicit, friend
wife herself, went to the shops the
other day and bought a new dress. a
blue one, and one in the forefront of
the style, one OF those contraptions
where the waist line has dropped
toward the knees, and there is a gentle
alarm in the masculine beholder for
fear the whole garment will fall OF.
But IL was some gown, as slangy
friend observed, and the neighbor
women were duly envious and compli
mentary.
The point. however, 1 wish to make is
that when she proceeded to take 1T off
/ was astounded to discover that it
buttoned up before, after the manner Of
Old Grimes. his old gray coat.
What. exclaimed ]. Marry come up
and 'Sblood. Do you mean to say that
this is now the vogue and that there
are to be henceforth no more button
ings-up behind? If so, heaven be
praised that in the infinitude of styles
vagaries there must once in a while
be an approach to reason and comfort
Having her mouth full of pins and
her mind full of more important mat
tiers the lady paid me no heed. Besides,
she never argues about Clothes she
commands, prohibits, indicates and di-
reefs, but does not argue. which pro-
gram I recommend to all wife-persons.
/ have but small space left for my
second item, which pertains TO mans
clothing. 1t is the appearance Of the
soft shirt.
May God send thereto also the soft
collar
For why any animal, even homo
sapfens, should wear about his neck an
iron-hSrd circlet. which in summer
time becomes moist and viscOus inside
and irritates and poiSons the neck skin
and torments the soul, that / cannot
understand.
restore the Byronic collar. flowing
open and free. How would the JOY OF
the male half Of the human race be in
crea sed thereby.
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The Child's Imagination.
From the Chicago Journal.

l rom the Chicago Journal.
When you see washerwoman's little
girl making a doll out OF a ciothespin and
a rag, and naming it Cinderella, or
teamster's small son inproyising a lion
hunt out of a broken brick, which stands
for the king of beasts. and dozen splint-
ers stuck upright to serve as Jungle don't
worry. Save your Tity for the child whose
parents have nothing but money, and who
is 50 surfeited with mechanical toys that
he has no room to develop an ina gina
ton.
Imagina ton is the most precious CT hu-
man qualities 1t is TIE element which dis
tnsu,s es the poet and inventor from the
serf. the builder and. diScoverer from the
peasant notary. Like all other human
faculties, it grows by use. If everything
Is done for child. il he never has to
use his wits. and help out by vivid fancy
the defective stage scenery Of his little
dramas, his imagination dies for lack Of
exercise.
The child who is deprived OF his sacred
and inalienable right of make believe
is robbed indeed. He may get along with
poor clothes and little schcoling-auite
a number of his predecessors have done
So. But he never will be worth much to
the world unless his power of imagina-
tlon has been trained in the school of
childish play, and given room to grow,
unhampered by the ready made amuse-
ments of grown-ups
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SulgIave Manor as a Memorial.

rom the New York Tribune
Americans will regard with grateful in
terest the progress of the movement in
England to purchase Sulgrave Manor as
a national memorial of Washington.
There could scarcely be more appro-
pirate achievement in connection with the
celebration o. the centenary of peace
There are many places I'm England
which are more or less intimately asso-
ciated with the history of the WASHINGTON
family, but no other of them rivals in
interest the old Northamptonshire manor
which was the home of the paternal
grandparents of George Washington. In
the little parish church the bodies of
those ancestors were buried. and above
their grave was erected 4 memoris. brass
tablet bearing those arms of the family
which bear a certain resemblance to the
escutcheon of the United States and
from which some have enormously and
unthinkingiy supposed the Stars and
Stripes to have been copied. A similar
Washington memorial in Little St Mary
Church. Cambridge. presents a still more
marked resemblance TO the American
eScutcheon.
The manor house and church at Sui
grave have long been the goal of many
patriotic pilgrims. The purchase. of the
former and its perpetual preservation
ing and would make of it one of the most
noteworthy of international shrines 1t
would also esta blish an additional bond
of sympathy and sentiment between the
two countries through their mutual re-
gard for the man who was at once the
greatest American and one of the great
est Eng,shmen of his time.
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Churches and Free Lunch.

rom TIE MILWAUKEE, Journal.
The churches of Kalamazoo, Mich. VIII
serve free lunch Sunday afternoons for
persons who want to STAY after tn.
Christian Endeavor societies for the even
ing service This is bound TO have inter
esting results: probably it will stimulate
the attendance at both afternoon and
evening services. And so far as il offers
more social life in connection with the
church il will be a good thing For
undoubtedly the church enters less into
the life OF church people today than
formerly. A church ought to mean some
thing more than mere meeting place
for two or three formal services week:
the most useful churches do mean more.
and the most active church members al
ways seek to make their church meet
ing place for people of common interest
and common problems.
But free lunch, free entertainments
even free recreation, does not touch TIL.
real heart of the work of the church
The church is designed 10 minister to a
need as real as any physical need FOR
shelter and nourishinent- In the depths
of every mans heart is the need of some,
thing more than food and raiment: ii is
the need to which religion ministers
which was reached most really and sure
ly by Christ when he walked among the
common men and entered into their lives
and told them that sacrificing love was
the great principle of happiness. On
that teaching the Christian church has
revoluton!zed the world. Its justification
such service Whatever means are used
to reach the souls of men, il is still the
souls of men that the church must
reach and serve.
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women folk in my family would have
been ashamed to mention such thing.
Nervous! That's a pretty excuse for
splitting quart Of good tea"
II can't help II. Silas. lin tired out !"
Tired! What's tired you? What alls
you. Araminta. IS the hypoes. You're as
hypoey as sin. ] hate to have my sister
julie find you like this. And no teapot
in the house"
Araminta made no reply. She slipped
away to the kitchen and set fresh tea
to brewing. Then she slipped back timid-
ly to clean up the wreckage. Silas ate in
that gloomy silence. which was the high.
est expression OF his displeasure. And
when he had finished eating he left the
house. still I'm silence.
AS soon as he had gone Araminta had
good cry, after which her exhausted
nerves ceased some Of their jangling and
she felt better. over her. however. still
hung the heavy pail of the approaching
company. She dreaded her sister-in-law
and nieceS with that dread which Is en-
gendered of long and bitter experience. 1t
was like them to drop in upon her sud
denly and still expect ample welcome.
They were certain to arrive before sup
per and. teapot or none, she must be
ready to receive them.
Araminta had much to do. Not once all
that charming spring afternoon when all
outdoors invited to rest and gladness did
she pause or ponder. And when O'Clock
came and Otis Skinner drew UP before
the door pale. but rigidly smiling. she
went to receive her guests.
julie alighted first She gave Araminta
a hard hand and looked over her head
at the house. .Silas has had the porch
painted She exclaimed.
Il painted it, said Araminta, family.
Huh, | thought it looked like WON
ans work. It's dreadfully streaked.' .
julie seemed to forget sometimes that she
was woman.
Her two daughters kissed Araminta
hastily, and ran past her into the house,
leaving their mother and her to carry in
the valise.
you've been baking caker' cried Pearl.
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THE EVENING STORY.
A Nervous Woman.
Copyright, 1913, by W. werner.)

Araminta was pattering back and
forth. Fastening to get dinner upon
the table before Silas should have fin
ished the article he was reading in the
daily paper. He read standing, although
there was a chair near, but he had
never saved himself in any way. and
his spare, strongly made frame gave
no evidence either of hardship or labor.
At fifty-one he looked and felt as if he
might live to be 100.
Araminta was slightly and delicately
made. She had been a frail, pretty girl,
and she was Trailer as a woman with
out being pretty at all. She had striven
valiantly ever since her wedding day
to keep up the pace Silas had set for
her-to fulfill his familiar gospel that
work made woman rugged There
was much to do on the farm, and she
never complained. AS long as her nerves
had lasted she had lived nerve"
but now her nerves were giving out
Her nervousness showed in every twitch
OF her muscles, in every step she took,
In the strained look in her wide, blue
Pathetic eyes, and in the pallor of her
lips. Back and forth she went palpi-
tatfng at each premonitory rustic of
the paper as Sflas' eyes neared the bot
tom of the column.
"Silas." she said at last .'if Won are
ready I'll fetch in the tea
I'm ready" Silas replied as he hung
the paper over the wire stretched to re-
ceive 1t, took off his glasses, placed
them in their worn metal case and sat
down at the table
Araminta showed the mashed potatoes,
fried pork and milk gravy little closer
to him before she ran to get the tea She
was bringing in the brown earthenware
pot with all due care when SiIas OBJ
served: My sister julie and her two
girls sent word down by Otis Skinner
Mis- morning that they're coming to
make us visit. They're up to Otis now
been there a couple Of days. They're
coming tonight
Tonight" Araminta gasped. Her grasp
upon the teapot unfolded weakly and it |
crashed to the floor, SCATTERING the front !
Of her dress.
Silas lifted himself out OF his chair and /
glared over the table at the wreckage |
Broke the pot" he said. The only one |
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Nothing. julie, | guess everything
ready" Araminta stammered, knowing
of old that while her sister-in-law al
ways proffered her aid. she never really
gave any.
When. after the guests had retired,
after Silas was snoring restfully, after
she had laid the fire and stirred up the
breakfast cakes and put out the cat and
locked the doors. Araminta retired. she
could not sleep. She lay there in an
agony of unrest-so tired that her very
soul ached, every nerve vibrating like a
taut wire. Dawn found her still wide
eyed. but she fell asleep presently, and
slept until Silas, getting out OF bed.
awole her. Another day had begun.
At breakfast Pearl remarked that Ara
minta looked frightfully pale. Il guess
our coming has tired you out she
laughed, but she did not offer to wash
the dishes or to do any of the thousand
things she might have done.
Araminta bore up with desperate hero
ism all that day Il will must endure
till they're gone" she said. over and
over.
They stayed three DAYS They would
had not left victuals cooked up for men
folks to last that length of time. I'm
come again when 1 can stay longer" she
promised.
Silas hitched up the colts to the best
wagon to take them home. Araminta
kissed them bravely goodbye. She
stood at the gate and watched them
go and waved her hand when they
looked back. Then she went into the
house and tainted.
Mrs. Nicholas. neighbour found her
Mrs. Nicholas was calm, self-reliant
end unafraid She had. moreover. a
wonderful kindness of heart in her
big. placid body. She lifted Araminta
up and helped her to bed. When Silas
comes back I'll send him for the doc
tor she said.
"Oh, don't-don't!' pleaded Araminta
"Araminta Race, you shut up, I'm in
charge now. You've got to listen to
me. If you don't want to leave Silas
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FORESTRY NOTES.

Canada's forest area is about 500. 900 900
acres.
Mills in British Columbia are shipping
considerable paper pulp to Japan.
The Canadian Forestry Association
holds forestry convention in Winnipeg,
July to o.
On the best German forests the an
nual expense is s13 an acre, but the
gross returns as much as S24 thus
they yield net return of $11 an acre
each year.
Four launches are used in patrol and
transportation work on national forests
I'm Alaska which include many small
islands and inlets.
Motion picture companies are making
films of all of the activities of the federal
forest service, including planting, cut
ting timber. patrol and lookout work.
.lready at least two fre-fghting
movies are being exhibited.
Application has been received by the
government for summer home colony
on the Shoshone national forest Wyom-
ing. The plan is TO have central as
sembly hall for community gatherings
and separate cottages for the several
families OF the communal recreation cen
ter.
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RULES ARE DRAWN
FOR AEROFuGHT
WaterpIanes to Be Used in
Contest for Big Prize in
Great Britain.
OWNERS OF NEWSPAPER
OFFER S25, 900 PURSE
Time Limit of Seventy-Two Hours
Set, But Two Weeks Is Given
in Which to Make It.
Foreign Correspondence Of The star.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star
LONDON, June ~ 1913
Rules have been drawn by by the Royal
Aero Club for the waterplane flight round
Great Britain for a prize OF $4,000 Of
fered by the proprietors Of the Daily
Mail. The prize is to be awarded Cor the
aircraft which first completes The pre-
scribed circuit within a period not exceed
ing seventy-two hours. Southampton Is
appointed as the starting place. although
the home office has made the whole of
the Solent a prohibited area, while Do
yer and Falmouth. named as controls. are
also not at present approved.
The competition will open Saturday,
August 10. at a m, and will finish at
latest Saturday, August 30 at d pm.
Should no aircraft have completed the
course within the stipulated time the pro-
prietors of the Daily Mail reserve to
themselves the right to extend the period
or to put off the competition till the fol-
lowing year.
Both the entrant and pilot or pilots
must be English subjects and duly en-
tered on the competitors register OF the
Royal Aero Club. Pilots must hold an
aviators certificate issued by the ROYAL
Aero Club or other club afiilited with the
international Aeronautical Federation. A
passenger must be carried throughout the
nights, and the combined weight of the
pilot and passenger must be not less than
264 pounds. any deficiency in weight be-
ing made UP by means of ballast. Pilots
or passengers may be changed during the
contest. The complete aircraft and all its
parts. including the motor must have
been entirely constructed within the con-
fines of the British empire. but this pro-
vision shall not be held 10 apply to raw
material
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you've got too. / shant get another one
for a while. You can use a tin dish from
now on
I'm sorry" One of Aramintas feet
felt uncomfortably warm. but she ignored
it as she knelt to pick up the pieces. She
was trembling.
Silas sank back into his chair with an
exasperated sign. Il don't see what ails
ye." he snarled. throwing dishes around
and smashing them that way.
It's because I'm nervous Silas.
Nervous. You're the only woman l
ever heard say that Araminta. The
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triumph we celebrate. The words Of
Perry, We have met the enemy and
they are ours have ever since been a
proverb among the American people.
God be praised for a century OF peace
on these inland oceans. which has made
possible this record 81 progress .or both
peoples, and which insures safety In the
future at any point on lake or adjoining
land, for any person Of either people en-
gagged in the pursuit of peace"
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enthusiastically. "Oh, hope it's whipped
cream cake, aunty.
"Its-it's chocolate. faltered Araminta.
Pearl doesn't like chocolate-but never
mind" said Pearls mother, with sign
intended to carry reprOach straight to
the destination it was intended for
Silas entered presently and was greeted
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Supernatural.

From Harper's Weekly.
Mother entered the room just in time
to see four year-old Nerna knock her
older brother down.
'Verna, how could you do such n
thing"
The Lord gave me the strength"
Verna proudly replied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-05
A Sign.

From the Dallas News
Tillie Ginger says that the only rea-
son she has for suspecting her new land
lady is a suffragette Is because she arsons
the biscuit about half the time
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-05
A Busy World.
From the Galveston News.

From Inc Galveston News.
Anybody can see that this is a busy,
humming, hustling world by the num-
Der of humming hustlers who stand
around and watch a skyscraper being
built.
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Competitors may start at q am. Au-
gust ID, or at any subsequent time and
date, provided the complete circuit is &C
complished by pm. August 30, within
the seventy-two hours. A starts must be
made under the supervision OF the official
of the Royal Aero Club and of the official
timekeeper
There Is no restriction as to the number
OF starts made by a competitor, but in
every case the start must be made from
the official starting place. Stoppages be-
tween the controls are not prohibited
put all altghtngs must be effected on the
sea. an inlet of the sea, an estuary or a
harbor. Towing is not prohibited, but tn.
finishing line must be crossed in flight
Individual requirements and repairs Ia
the aircraft and motor may be made en-
route, but neither may be changed as a
whole. The aircraft may be taken ashore
Tor such repairs and requirements. Any
time thus spent will count in the seventy
two hours.
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Entrance Fee of $500.

The entrance fee is 500 per aircraft,
and entries will be received up 10 II
o'clock noon. July 16. The entrance fee
of $500 Is payable either i'm one sum or as
follows: Two hundred and fifty dollars
by noon July 10 and $50 by noon August
L. Late entries will be received Up to
noon August 1, in which case the en-
trance fee will be $3.50. No part OF the
entrance fee is to be received BY the
Daily Mail, but all amounts received viii
be applied toward payment OF the eA-
penses of the Royal Aero club in con-
quoting the competition
The course will be circuit staring
from southampton water and procecdin
via Dover, Yarmouth. Scarborough Abet-
deem, Inverness, Oban. Dublin and Eal-
mouth and in that order, and returning /.
southampton Water. The controls will D.
at or near each of the above places an
competitors must alight at each of these
controls for purposes of identihca,s On
Tne aircraft must remain thirty minutes
in each control, during which time il viii
be examined by the officials This IN.
VIII not count in the seyenty-two hours. .
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- Il DON'T SEE WHAT Ais YE.
warmly While he was entering his
nieces Araminta scurried to and fro
about her supper getting.
julie came out into the kitchen. Now,
what'n you have me dor she inquired.
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THOUSANDS GATHER
TODD PERRY HONOR
Addresses by Watterson and
Whitehead at Celebration of
Lake Erie Victory.

PCT-IN-BAY, Ohio. July 5--Sweltering
in temperature measured at 100 degrees
in the shade thousands of persons yes
terday witnessed the opening Of the Perry
centennial and the laying of the corner
stone of the Perry victory monument
which will be erected on this island by
the half dozen or more states taking part
In the centennial.
procession measuring more than a
mile in length marched to the site and
listened to addresses by Col. Henry Wat
terson of Louisville. Ky, and former
Senator Whitehead
MIR. Watterson's Address.
Henry Watterson. vice president general
of the interstate Perry centenary COM
mission announced that this was the last
public address he intended to make. In
the course of his remarks he took occa-
sion to dwell upon what he declared to be
"a peril menacing the future of the re-
public He said, in part:
I'VE are told. and most of US believe,
that those are best governed who are
least governed. Yet We have one big Con-
gress in the nations capital and forty
eight little congresses in the several state
capitals, constantly in session, to make
and unmake laws to yex the people and
confuse the courts. Inevitably respect for
law is lowered, and here, as elsewhere,
familiarity breeds contempt.
The danger is admitted Clearly seeing
the evils of too much legislation, We call
for more Through chance majorities,
stable in nothing. we would regulate the
tastes, morals and habits of the people by
act of assembly. Perennially reproaching
Congress. we would, nevertheless, aug
ment the powers Of Congress. We are
creating a system of centralized bu-
reaucracy and experimenting the civil
service with multifarious commissions.
We have a standing army of officials.
Collectivism. robbing man of his individ-
uality. trusts nothing to the force of ma
ture. the genius of our institutions and
the providence of God.
Yet we disdain alike experience and
forecast. We are threatened with gov
eminent by hysteria, displaying it's excess
on the one hand by the vainglorious as
sertion of our grandeur and puissance, on
the other hand expressing its humanity
through the exploitation of visionary
schemes of impossible relief
do / overpaint the picture? Is it but
the hooking eff1gy of an old mans pes
simism? Let not be too sure of our
selves If We preserve that which Wash
mgton and Franklin and Jefferson con-
tempiated: that which Jones and Perry.
Harrison and Shelby fought for; that
which each side in the war of sections
Claims it aimed at-intelligent freedom
We shall have done we'll.