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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-17

tuR SALE SECURED THIS HOUSE IN
business deal, and oter 1t for very. much less
THAN $500 WILL Buy 1T on TERMS.
incaticn. Grant, west OF 18th St between
WV; never occupied; parior. reception hall.
lining room. pantry and kitchen on first floor;
hath with slower. parquetry flooring Of finest nest
sind: hot-water heat; laundry trays; servants
mare s lron, w ana Fss
y must and viii be sold quick Address Box
ala. star once.
FoR sALE-- NINE ROOM AND BATH BRICK
house on Irving 81. between 1ith and 18th SITS; ;
available TO the iith 81 and Mt. Pleasant car
mes: hot-water heat. Price. 1880. E. H.
TtGGART. 1ilo 81. NV.
roR sALE-A BARGAIN IN MT. PLEASANT,
S.I5o-REDUCED To $3.50.
1857 18th 50. NV, 10 rooms and bath 4
~ooms on first floor, sleeping rooms Sec
md floor, rear stairway; corner house; lightest
house In NJ. Pleasant: double back porches:
parquet flooring; electric light; hot water heat;
coal and gas ranges IN kitchen; house in per-
rect ooDSsgp Is aI ar ISd
Phone Main 2sI. No. I, Woodward Bldg.
FOR sALE-6o5 ROCK CREEK CHURCH RID.
BARGAIN-PRICE, $3.50.
100 rooms Ian and : bath; psrauss flooring; back
improvements; one block from car line. Can
arrange easy terms.
SoLpENBERG:M MORAN Co, INC.
TOR sALE-A BEAUTIFUL HOME IN CoLUM-
1854 KENYON ST. N.w-A BARGAIN.
IL rooms and baths: hrst-aoor kitchen:
honse in perfect condition; large lot 10 paved
alley. room for garage. On account OF owner
leaving city Will sacrifice az s. 900 and Will
arrange easy terms. This house cost the
owner $500 and viii sacrifice for immediate
sale.
GoLDESBERG MORAN Co. INC.
Phone Main 2eI. No. !. Woodward Bldg.
GOOD INVESTMENT.
spartuent house. is = rooms zach
tcor: INV. heat: select neighborhood: conyen-
cut TO Capitol Union station: three car lines.
Npartments rented. Price. s11 900 Address
Box PSI. Star office.
toR SALE-SEAR 18th AND PARK ROAD. \
etni-detached steam-heated. 11-roon dwelling,
suecialy constructed by owner for his home.
~ wen located lot, 33xlo5 Can be purchased
p. j. w1LsHE. 1886 New York ave
EoR SALE-l42i ST Ne. PRACTICALLY
Nv e-room brIck: tile bath: hot.water heat:
'rout and rear porches; price, sS,375; terms to
sI.t Address OWNER, 1916 It. ne. 80
or SALE-To CLOSE An ESTATE, NOW
three ear lines; only 81. 80: adjoining house.
tust like IL. held at $3.50; any reasonable
orice.
TOR sALE-SPIENDID DWELLING IN PET
worth; two-story. attic aud cellar colonial
5000. viii take $500 10 $500 cash and bal
eaee 70 sut. Address Box 2I3, Star oaice.
Tor SALE-I2I9-I22i $ ST NV; IS, 500 AND
$1,000. & r. BRADBURY, 1si3 Lamont ST.
NV. Phone Col. 2823. 1Ts
FOR sALE-SACRIFICE. MODERN 11R. AND
bath brick and stone house, ON 18th st. NV.
near Euclid, for 50, $50; trust. 5000. at 5tsGe;
tefms on equity owner going south; rare
chance TO secure cheap house in high-class resi-
dence section.
Groom and hath brick house on You ST. NV.
near lZth; sell to colored party: worth 81. 800.
quick sale. take s3.95o; easy payments.
oroom and bath colonial built brick house
So 800; snap at 81, $50; easy terms
NEW YORK REAL ESTATE BROKERS. 1923 r.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-17
FOR SALE-HOUSES.


EOP SlIF-CORTFR 11tb AND NV: A.
.,nrv hrick stnra and dwelling: fourteen thou.
sany JnIIars Are leaving Washington and
$40 on nner Mcpherson care Swift &
e. Wilmington n C.
- --- =, : ,-,~--,
FOR SALE-BECAISE OF LEAVING CITY
owner will sacrince eight-room mouse. near
North Capitol ana SIS. LOT S9Nso Ieet a. a.
large rooms. Oner wanted. Auuress BOX ISo'
Star chce.
l0p SaIF
IE TIE FASHIONABLE NORTHWEST,
An aiaeant residence at A bargain price,
On 9ist st not FAR from Massac husetts ave-
Snt on old house but one OF the most recen,
mil, bonses in mat desirable section
w. andsoma fronf
rsr.aa s,artan and caI,ar under the ent.r~
horse '
~ roor,s. 4 hatbrooms bot-watar heat gas
and eiectric ,iybts. room, on the lot for a garaye
Ga soo w,Ii bny this nroperty if sold inside
,tha 49, s;r,v Az
,ne o ned' So dyTiica,sd unser sso ono
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-17

FOR SALE
A PROPOSITION
OF COMMANDING IMPORTANCE
BEAUTIFUL PARK ROAD RESIDENCE.
NO. POST. $3.50.
You can pay US $50 month-get a finer
home than you ordinarily get at that
figure, and by paying your rent TO us. $31 50
OF the $3.50 comes back to you as money
saved. It's easy TO buy, you will IL you
consult US.
NINE BEAUTIFUL ROOMS and two tiled
baths; hot-water heat; gas and electric lights;
servants toilet; well equipped laundry.
Overlooking Rock Creek Park at its most at
tractive part; adjoining Piney Branch
parkway, where the improvements 50
marked, and of such a high order.
The DECORATIONS are right up to the latest
1914 ideas-in soft ivory and attractive mahog-
any: double tongued and grooved oak flooring;
foundation of genuine Portland cement. assur-
ing dry cellars.
Two sleeping porches protected from the
rts latest model freess cooker in kitchen; ash
cugtes: open freplaces; stationary refrigerators;
ira kitchen and pantry facilities. and many
other special features.
'al and let Us take up the proposition.
SHANNON & LUCHS,
Ii3 14th st. NV.
Phone Main 2345.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-17

O-room and hath brick house on You st. NV.
near 18th; sell to colored party: worth 81. 500 !.
quick sale, take So $50: easy payments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-17
FOR SALE
HERE'S THE PICK.
COLI MBIA AND WASH. HEIGHTS.
EVERY ONE WAY BELOW TRUE VALUE.
POSITIVELY REAL BARGAINS.

81 T5O-9 rooms tiled bath; close to 18th and
lamont; beautiful location. Hot-wster heat.
Kitchen on first floor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-08
BY A. P. GRENFELL

to leave and enter the Baltic she
wished, and could attack in detail the
Russian and British fleets. Denmark
and Sweden here count most. Since the
war of 1854 In which Prussia and Aus
tria wrenched Schleswig- -Holstein from
the Danish monarchy, the Danes have
been bitterly hostile. Before the Franco
German war Denmark proposed 10
Napoleon II an offensive alliance with
the object of enforcing the fifth article
of the Peace of Prague under which
North Schleswig was to be restored to
Denmark. by plebiscite. In 1903 Kaiser
Wilhelm proposed an alliance to Den
mark, offering to guarantee her terri
tory If she undertook to close the sound
to British warships In time of war, and
to prevent the landing of British troops
in West Jutland. King Christian TX.
whose court was a center of anti-Ger-
man intrigues, rejected the offer.
In war time Denmark must be
counted rather with the triple entente.
Norway and Sweden II they take, part
at all would rather join the. triple AL
,liance. Both dread Russian aggression
DR.. Sven Hedin, two year sago,. started
a panic movement on this line He
published pamphlet which SO fncensed
Russia that Nicholas II ordered the ex-
plorer's name to be struck from the
list of honorary members of the I'M
-
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with the Balkan Slav states, with the
purpose of "encircling Austria
The triple entente has other aims. 1t
desired to win over Holland and Bel
GUM; and also the Scandinavian states
These aims have miscarried. Holland
was lost owing to the mistakes of the
French foreign minister Pichon and of
Sir Edward Grey. Holland set about
fortifying Flushing at the mouth of
the Schelde. The French and English
press made an outcry The closing of
the Schelde would prevent a British
expedition landing, seizing Antwerp
and making an attack upon the Ger
man flank. Pichon, backed by the Brit
ish government, made a statement in
the chamber of deputies which practi-
cally denied the right of Holland to
fortify; the Dutch got suspicious, and
since then they have resisted Anglo
French Establishments, and while pro-
Tossing a passion for neutrality, have
taken several military measures which
indicate agreement with Germany.
Competition is going on for the al
lance of the three Scandinavian states.
None of the three counts much on land,
but between them they control the en-
trance to the Baltic, which is of first
rate Importance in a naval war. If Ger
many. already with the Kiel canal, got
control of the sound she would be able
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perial academy. The Swedes are furi-
Gus at Russian misgovernment In Fin
land. In Norway strong movement
works for junction to the triple ALL
ance. 1t justified itself by declaring that
Russia aims at selling the Norwegian
ice-free port on the Atlantic.
Turkey and Roumania count with the
triple alliance. The Austro- Roumanlan
convention guarantees Roumania's in
dependence and Roumania promises to
assist Austria with 300,0 900 men. This
is only two-thirds of her war strength.
Turkey, once reformed, will be more
powerful without her European pro
vices than she has been with them. The
Turk is essential to restore the Euro
pean equilibrium which has been up
set by the Balkan Slav triumph.
Only one state in Europe is genuinely
neutral, and proof against bribes and
threats. That is Switzerland Europe's S
publicists who proclaim that ''the day
of small states has passed. still dis
cuss whether the Swiss can vindicate
their neutrality in time of war, but no
power cherishes the hope of winning
equipped to prevent a violation of ter
ritory than either Holland or Belgium
The Swiss national passion for neutral l.
1ty is also strong. and most diplomatic
experts agree that even in an universal
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ana belgium Their neutrality would
not materially weaken the military
iorees OF the triple alliance but the
stfategical position of the side which
holds the Netherlands would be i'm
ihenseiy strengthened. Hence everything
possible Is being done to win their
IaVor. Brides are used In the form of
promises of territory; threats in the
sayings; the day of small states has
passed.; we shall violate their nell
trality only in order to forestall the
violation by the other side;" and so on.
Russla's former foreign minister
lzvolsky had the ingenious dream of a
Small Nations league. The league was
the only way for the small nations to
keep their independence. 1t would st,,nd
under French protection In reality this
design aimed at gaining the support of
the small nations for the dual alliance.
Present developments are only
strengthening such tendencies. Ger
many's press is preaching that the dis
turbance of equilibrium" caused bv the
revelation Of Balkan military strength
can only be counterbalanced by the ac-
cession of both Netherland states to
the triple alliance; and once this aim
Is realized Europe will be almost all
organized in one or the other OF Bis
marck's rival camps.
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many; the triple alliance due to the
accession of Italy in 1885, the Franco
Russian alliance a decade later; the
Austro- -Roumanian military convention,
as result of the policy of Joan Bra
tianu, Rounmania's great liberal min
lister; next in 1904-6 the British treaties
with France and Russia which led to
the dual alliance becoming the pres
ent triple entente.
This process of taking on and of
hunting for allies is today in full force.
The late King Edward VI of England
advertised it by his tours through
Europe. Germans believe that Edward,
not content with seeking allies among
the minor disengaged states. also aimed
at breaking up opposing alliances; and
tried to argue Kaiser Franz Josef, dur
ing a Karlsbad cure, into abandoning
the alliance with Germany. The de-
pendence of Portugal from England is
permanent historical fact. When the
British fleet visited Lisbon in 1900 King
Carlos made a speech which admitted
this fact; and the first thing done by
the republican government of Theophile
lance with England stood intact.
Englands entente" friend, Russia,
has also been successfully at work She
has got in her pocket four of the six
Balkan states. Why Bulgaria, Servia,
Montenegro and Greece have no for
NAL alliance with Russia is a mystery;
the likely explanation is that Russia
feels too weak to undertake to defend
the provocative Serbs in case their
monthly quarrels with Austria lead to
war. In Bulgaria a formal alliance
with Russia has grown popular only
since Bulgaria in domestic affairs
emancipated herself from st. Peters
burg. That was finally accomplished
about 1906 when Russia's own internal
economy was tested and found want
ing. At that time Colonel Nikephoroff
the Bulgarian attache at st. Peters,
burg, published a pamphlet on "Slav
Confederation and the Expulsion of
Turkey" and advised that the Balkan
Slavs should undertake to join Russia
during war. Nikephoroff is now Bull
garia's minister of war; is urgently
demanding the realization of his plan;
and it is Ratko Dmitrieyeff. his inti-
mate friend, who is trying to carry
it out.
In Russia the leader of the campaign
for a "Vseslavianskoe Gosudarstvo"-
all All-Slav state-is the notorious
chief of the Duma reactionaries known
as "Markoff the Second" Markoff,
backed by Count Bobrinsky, and some
other Pan -Slavists, demands that Rus
sia should Immediately seize Constan-
tinople; and next arrange an alliance
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Copyright, 1918, by Curtis Brown)
~ ERLIN June 7.-(Special. In
X the next few weeks may be re-
- vealed the fact that France has
secured one of the greatest wishes OF
her heart-either an open alliance or
an entente, with all kinds of secret
agreements, with her southern neigh
Dor. Spain. For many months past the
French embassy here has been conduct
ing an active and almost open press
campaign in favor of Spain's formal
junction with the triple entente. The
greatest enemy of such course has
been King Alfonso himself, who be-
lieved that no policy except one OF
splendid isolation would be tolerated
by his people. But at last the French
schemers got Alfonso to Paris on an
official visit, wined him and dined him
and put him in the hands of their best
diplomats Now Paris is talking rap
turously of 'the new alliance" and the
whole of Europe is waiting anxiously
for the result.
Europe is organizing itself into two
inimical camps, each of which is re-
solved to thwart, menace and war on
the other. That is the net result of the
diplomatic developments since 1904
when Great Britain abandoned her
isolation; and tackled herself on to
France. The old Europe of 20 states,
all with tangled and multifarious ann
bitions is passing away, and a new Eu-
rope with clear-cut political aspira-
tions, all under one heading or an
other, is taking its place. This pro-
cess is not yet complete, but it is de-
veloping; the Balkan league is an
other stage nearer to its completion
and the day is not far off when Bis
marck's prophecy will be fulfilled: BE
fore Europe is federated in single
group, there will come a stage of or
ganization in two rival groups, ano
probably an interlude of war"
Gen. Ratko Dmitreyeff, hero of KIRK
Kilisse. is at this moment in ST. Peters
burg negotiating with Foreign Minister
Sazonoff for the inclusion of the Balkan
Slav states in the dual alliance. Thi:
is not an accidental circumstance Al
Europes diplomacy is immersed in such
problems. What will become of Holland
in time of war? Will Belgium join
Germany or France? Can Switzerland
stand neutral? What of Roumania and
Turkey? These are the questions which
the next few years will decide. ''The
minor states are collectively great
states" said Bismarck. How PRESIDENT
ly' Bismarck foresaw the real trend OF
things Is shown by the fact that in
1875, when he so spoke, none of the
present alliances was dreamed of. Since
then have been formed, in 1879, the
dual alliance between Austria and Ger
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tees. Their eyes are beautiful They
are large, dark and liquid, and frank and
honest withal They are not at all bold,
and a modest demeanor is rather the
fashion. The women are well formed
and graceful, and are all good dancers.
Dress
7 have spoken of the dress worn in the
churches. 1t is different on the band
playing evenings, when out riding or at
the opera. Then the richer girls of the
capital wear costumes from Paris and
they are as we'll clad as the women of
any part of the world. Mexico has many
French dressmalers and milliners, and
there is a profusion of laces, embroidery
and ornaments of gold and precious
stores. The street costumes on the
Alamanda are fine, and the girls come
there to show them. 1t is only among
the old families. back in the country,
that the mantillas are used upon such
occasions, and the Spanish costume is
passing away.
How to Become Acquainted
The social costumes here are far diff
ferent from ours. In some respects the
Mexican way is a relic of the dark ages,
and in others it is more free than that
of the United States. Take the matter
of meeting the girl you admire when you
may not have the means of good intro
duction. If you first see her on the
evening parade it will not be improper
for your eyes to court hers. You may
even follow her home and then send a
present asking her to accept it from
one who has had the pleasure of seeing
and admiring her charms. This gift
may be bouquet of pot flowers or some
pretty trinAet. With it you must send
your name and address, and at the same
time fix an hour at which you will stroll
past her window. If the present ac-
cepted. a reply of thanks may be returned
to which will be added a wish for the
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lady fought this custom to finish After
he had become engaged he went for the
first time to see his betrothed. and the
whole family came in to make things
agreeable. He sat and sat, hoping tina.
they would leave. but they sat him out
to the end. 1t was so for the second
visit and at the third also he found every
one present. He then crooked his finger
at the old man., and when the two had
gone outside into the hail. the American
said that it was the custom in the Uni
ted States for engaged lovers to be al
lowed to be by themselves. He thought
that if he was to be trusted with the
girl after marriage he ought to be trusted
with her before marriage, and said that
if he could not see her alone he would
stay away for good The old gentleman
was surprised, but he consulted with
the rest of the family, and then it was
concluded to allow the counting to go
on in the American way. After that,
when the man came, the rest of the fam
lily got up and marched out in single
file, and when he got ready to leave, the
old gentleman and the rest of them came
in and bade him good night.
The Groom Buys the Bridal Outfit
In a Mexican marriage the groom has
many expenses which in the United
States are paid by the bride. He is ex-
pected to furnish the trousseau. but he
sometimes fixes the price. informing the
mother how much she may spend. This
being done, his mother-in- law o-be does
the shopping, picking out for the bride
the gowns and lingerie needed. including
even the Shoes stockings and small toilet
articles. She then sends the bill to the
groom The groom also gives the bride
jewelry and other presents, and among
them an ivory-covered prayer book. He
supplies the home and the furniture and
often pays the civil and religious mar
riage expenses.
1t Is not uncommon among the rich for
the bride to have a marriage settlement.
and there are stories told of beautiful and
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Left-Dancing La Coca FL Jarabe.
This is typical native dance in which
the girl pats her foot on the hat and
dances around the rim.
Middle-Typica Mexican beauty.
Right-The windows are barred and
the dear little "chickens" are kept in
iron cages.
back and forth over the wire. This is the
latest innovation and as yet it is not yer, !,
common.
The old method of playing the bear may
be seen on any residence street at cer-
tair hours of the Cay or evening. The
man Is not allowed to call upon the girl
and he cannot meet her alone He mas
the right however. to walk up and down
the street in front of her house and to
ogle her at a distance. He may even
chat with her if she will as she sits on the
balcony or behind the bars of the first
story windows. All of the Mexican res
iGerce windows are barred, and these dear
little chickens are kept, as it were, in
iron cages.
The regulation procedure is rs follows.
We win take the lover who as yet IS
comparatively unknown. He may have
sent his. present and have intir.ated that
he greatly admires the girl. She Knows
Wnen ne VIII come 10 walk III 'front.' OF nef
window, but she may not appear. How
ever if he comes again and again at the
same hour and she likes him she will
finally come FORTH and after that the
visits may be continued from day to day.
If she likes him rot she may not appear
at ALL and after a week or so ne may give
up in despair.
Even when the rams suit is favorable
his courtship goes slowly. The first re-
ward may be only a smile, the next a few
words from the maiden and later on a
burch of flowers or some little present of
her own needlework may he dropped
The man may sercnade her and later on
she may beckon him to come closer under
her window, and if she is well up to date
may drop down the hand telephone and
thus let him hear the sound of her voice
This playing the bear is expected to
continue at the pleasure of the lady. and
the bear Is supposed to be on hand every
day, rain or shine. for the purpose. If he
comes only when the sun shines he is con-
sidered fair weather lover and Is apt
to find the blinds closed after the first
heavy rain.
Rave heard of cases where such court
ship has gone on FOL years, the bear frol-
licking about for months before the fcsle
maid would exchange a single word With
Him In one instance here young man
has kept 1t up for three years and he
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Table d'Hote

from the Youths Magazine.
A young Buffalo bookkeeper on a re
cent visit to New York thought to i'm
press his New York friends by putting
up at fashionable hotel. or course
he couldn't afford 1t and had to econo-
mize in various ways to make both ends
meet
He happened on one occasion to be
the park when young man and his sis
ter, friends of his. passed in an automo-
bile.
The Buffalo youth bent his head over
his sandwich, but the New Yorker saw
him and shouted:
Hello. George! Dining out again,
you gay dog, eh?'
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Subtraction

From the New York Evening Post
The teacher was hearing the youthful
class in mathematics.
Now" he said. 'in order to subtract.
things have to be in the same denom-
inatlon. For instance, we couldn't take
three pears from four peaches. nor eight
horses from 10 cats. Do you under
stand?"
There was assent from the majority
of pupils. One littlt boy in the rear
raised timid hand!
Wei. Bobby. what istit?" asked the
teacher.
Please, teacher" : said Robbv
couldn't you take three quarts OF milk
from two cowsY'