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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
IN WASHINGTON.

rion Harries, leader; Josephine Lincoln.
corporal. Two new members have Joined
the troop Much interest Is taken In the
the Girl Scouts to be shown at the par
ish hall of Trinity Episcopal Church
Tuesday evening.
Troop No. 6 of Petworth met at the
Petworth NJ. E. Church Friday night
The captain, Mrs. Moores. congratulated
the girls on their excellent work at the
lawn fete held Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings Troop No. SO of the Boy
Scouts Joined the Girl Scouts and helped
booths were decorated with Japanese
lanterns and flags. and each one was
presided over by Girl Scout in uniform.
The doll was won by Clifford Mooers.
He gracefully turned it over to a young
lady. Thursday morning the two troops
formed a cleanup committee. Miss
Neal. the national secretary, attended
the fete and expressed pleasure with the
fine spirit in which the girls obeyed Or
ders from the captain. The troop is in
training for a demonstration of the work
of the Girl Scouts July 4. 1t has been
given a prominent place on the program
at the all-day celebration at Libby's
Park. The regular meetings will be held
during the summer, but generally will be
outdoors.
On account Of the illness of the cap
tain of Troop No. 10. Mrs. Foster, the
patrol leader, took charge Of the latest
town soon, Martha Eldridge was ap-
pointed to take her place. and Marion
Duffy was made corporal. Millicent Bal
ley was appointed secretary. After the
meeting a game Of charades was en-
joyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
Bv Earl Goodwin.

every newspaper man wanted to give him
a send-off when the proper time came
and look what happened. Charlie had a
fine speech, a classic Of trust bustery,
and he delivered it in the House on the
day that Col. Roosevelt and his excoria-
ton Of all the mapmakers in the world
arrived in Washington. You know how it
is-when Roosevelts around no one else
gets any show at all, and a really good
press agent never tries to compete with
him. He waits till Roosevelt gets of the
front page. Representative Floyd of Ar
kansas, another trust buster, who had his
shoulders to the wheel in the antitrust
bills. was accorded but meager space. for
some unknown reason, and Representa-
tive Adamson of Georgia, who engineered
much Of the Interstate trade commission
bill to a finish, scarcely received a
whisper.
All the newspapers did to Adamson was
to mention the fact that he wore pecu-
power behind the Covington bill for the
establishment Of an interstate trade COM
mission. This takes no glory from Rep
resentative Covington, either.
+ =
1t never occurred to me that senators
who enthrall % the world with their
eloquence have to try their speeches on
their own families before they dare
spring them on the Senate. but it seems
they do. At least, Victor Murdoch says
SO. because ne has his eye on the SEN
ate and guess he is brushing up In SEN
atorial manners and customs.
When q senator or q representative
writes q speech he is Just wild to see how
1t will take when delivered. and as he
can't get any one else to stand for 1t,
and as bedposts are stone deaf and can't
listen. then he just has to corral the
family and make it listen. That's one OF
the drawbacks Of being born In a politi-
clans family.
One day former Senator Alice Of Del
aware had a speech to try on his family.
apartment above him tripped lightly
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down the stairway and called on the
Murdocks, in an apartment still lower
down.
She told the Murdocks that the Alice
front door was open as she passed and
she could not resist the sight that greet
ed her. She saw the senator tearing
great gobs of the atmosphere from Its
place and hurting 1t madly through space
He was smashing his invisible enemies
pacing, stalking, painting about the room
He ruffied his hair he rolled his eyes, he
scared into the blue atmosphere above
him and played about the armament on
high. The words dripped from his lips
and logic ran in a cascade.
His wife sat knitting quietly before
him all the while. It looked like Jagged
word might cut her temple at any mo.
ment but, although they fell about hel
in a storm like hailstones she seemed
utterly devoid of fear.
Alice ragged. He snorted. He busted
the opposition wide open and trample6
on the remains. It was a stupendous
speech, equal in effort to Samson Staying
the Philistines or Hercules cleaning the
Augean stables or Atlas Juggling the
world.
And when he had concluded the CLAN,
collapsed into a mere husband.
How was that?" he asked his wife
with fear and trembling.
She took two stitches in her knitting.
'Tt was very sweet" she said.
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Troop No. 81.
Last Saturday We met at our hall at
o'clock and with our assistant scout
master. L. Gosorn. hiked to Chain
bridge, where we cooked supper over
our camp fire. After supper we hiked
! up to Glen Echo. then back to the
Chain bridge, where we camped for the
night.
when 1t started to rain we built a
early Sunday morning. The rest hiked
down the Virginia side to the AQue-
duct bridge and got home about
o'clock Sunday afternoon. We had q
great time and intend to take more
overnight hikes.
Thursday night we held special
meeting to complete the arrangements
for our lawn fete and moving picture
show the night Of June %. We also
arranged for our hike to Wildwood
will have with us Mr.. Reynolds Of the
forest service. who will give examina-
tions in pioneering. Supper will be
cooked oyer the camp fire and all who
night Our scoutmaster reported
about our camp, which will be held at
Gunston cove. We will leave here
July II and be taken to camp on
for the trip by the National Boat Club
through Commodore Burdette. We will
remain there about eight days and
hike home through Virginia, stopping
at old Pohick Church, Mount Vernon
and Alexandria We expect to have
la motor boat and two rowboats at the
camp. Strict discipline will be en-
forced and a regular program carried
out The cost will be divided among
the boys and will only be for food pur-
chased.
| I'VE are all invited to go with our
scoutmaster to Chez apeake Beach on
the railway employees excursion. June
%, where we will put on an exhibit
ton of scout activities.
Patrol Leader Lloyd Harrison leaves
US next week for a trip to Oregon.
He has passed his twenty-one merit
badge tests and is now our second
eagle scout. Arrangements are being
made for public farewell to Scout
Beverly Galloway and his father. the
la assistant secretary OF agriculture. and
lat the same meeting we hope to have
the presentation Of life-saving medals
to Scouts Den Eggleston and Robert
Cruit. the only ones that have been
awarded to District of Columbia scouts.
HOWARD L. HARRIES,
Scribe, Troop No. FL
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"oh, I'm no Eve. 1 can stand for a
fall or two. Come along, folks"
The woman who wasn't Eve" gave her
self a reassuring shake to show that her
bones were still in working order.
And the pewter-badged Waterman sat
down.
They had scurried out of the storm into
an office entrance And while the woman
watched the rain coming down-l1ke glass
rods-the young fellow. with excited ear
nestness and many free hand gestures
its beginning while the two were on the
street.
-. And before that chaps order
was served, he had carelessly sketched
customers, waiters-and everybody In
sight. And every face live image-gee!
Of course. I couldn't keep quiet at a
wonder like that, so I ripped out:
I'D give q million If I had it to be
able to draw like that!
THE fellow looked across the table at
me. jotted me down In about three
strokes. on the back Of the bill-of-fare,
and held it up with an off-hand laugh.
Its only little trick-nothing to It.
What are you talking about! Why.
man. don't you know you have got GIT
that means fame and fortune
''Oh, don't know so much about that
and, anyhow, what's the use bothering
Being a government clerk is good enough
for me: salary every other week and a
months leave with pay. What more
could a fellow want-except a raise?
The youngster in the doorway told this
incident with a voice so vibrant with en-
vfoqs resentment that the woman stop
ped watching the rain.
"And you are blaming nature because
she wasted genius on the man in the
cafe and passed you by? When you get
as old as I am. lad, it will sort Of come
tn YOU that nature is never unfair. 1t Is
lust that we cannot read her riddles.
In this case she threw away a splen-
did thing on a man who doesn't want
II, but she has given to you the appre,
citation Of that splendid thing. You got
Q thrill out of his gift. He gets-nothing. =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
H. A. CoBAUGH WINS DEGREE.
Graduates From Wisconsin Univer.
sity as Civil Engineer.

Harry A. Cobaugh, graduate Of Nc
Kinley Manual Training School, 1909. and
colonel of the cadet regiment that year,
was graduated from the University of
Wisconsin Wednesday as civil engineer.
The year following his graduation from
Mckinley he was on the Mississippi river
in the employ of the United States En-
gineer Corps and the La Crosse Dredging
Company.
class of 1910 he Joined the cadet corps
of that institution and was mustered out
upon graduation as senior major. The
day of his graduation he reported to the
J. o. Heyworth Company. engineers and
contractors of Chicago, ILL.,. and was as
signed work at Lebanon. Mo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
"FRu1TLANDsn Is REopENED.
Was Home of A. B. Alcott, and
Louisa n. Alcott. Novelist.

HARVARD, Mass, June 20 - Fruit
lands" for time the home of A. Bron-
son Alcott, the philosopher, and his
daughter. Louisa NJ Alcott. the novelist,
and one Of the meeting places of the Con-
cord School of Philosophy. was formally
recSbned today after being remodeled
and restored rs nearly as possible to It's
original condition. Members of the Con-
cord and Harvard Historical Societies
participated in the program. which in
cluded an address by Frank H. Sanborn,
the last survivor of the famous Concord
group of men of letters
The house was built early in the eight
zenith century. The apple orchards and
mulberry trees which gave it its name
are still furnishing. Many articles OF
historic interest have been grouped with
in the building.
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Girl Scouts.

Troop No. s OF Takoma greatly en-
joyed the Flag day exercises and prizes
the United States flag presented by
Sooutmaster Harries OF the Boy Scouts
Of Takoma Park. Also it appreciated
the complimentary things the scoutmas-
ter paid to the work Of the Girl Scouts.
At the business meeting Elreane Galley
was elected scribe and Mildred Ralph
treasurer. The officers of tho first pa
troll are Esther DuttoD leader; Margaret
Fry, corporal: Of the second patrol Ma
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

But. hang it, Miss Ann, l studied four
years here at the art gallery before l
went abroad for two more years. I'd
rather paint than eat. but to the last
to be identified by the sitters' clothes
and the way they fix their hair! Sure,
I'm abusing nature. or whatever 1t was.
for casting a good gift like that at
chap who doesn't even take it seriously
while =
Which shows what a whole lot you've
got to learn. Why. boy. you ought to
bump your forehead on the floor in graf
itude TO nature for her wise throwing
Of go many great gifts away. If every
body profited by all the genius she be-
slows the world would be SO full Of
Shakespeares and Beethovens and Mi
chelangelos that ordinary writer's and
musicians and artists would starve. AS
it is we have pay envelopes. and once in
a while we achieve checks.
Mature has long thoughts and far-see-
ing eyes and knows what is best for us
when she deals out our mental ra-
toms
Wish I'd been around when she passed
along the pate de foie brand of art
Sure you do. So would I rather be a
Blue Point of poesy, or a Little Neck of
prose-but I probably do more honest
work as reportorial red herring.
The two exchanged comradish chuckle
over their nonsense and then the woman
went up TO a room and pesged the talk
copy pad.
And the young man with the pate de
foie aspirations sprinted out into the wet
and took an uptown car for another
room TO resume work order for a
cover illustration for a Christmas maya
zine.
And both will get pay envelopes.
Which mightnt be the case if the world
was too plentifully inhabited by Shakes
speares and Beethovens and
Which seems to show. in a small way.
that nature is on her job.
Between the acts:
They were chewing gum at the matt
nee. Both wore fussy frocks, side buns
and beaded chains. Neither was ovel
sixteen.
"oh, Oracle. amt he grand"'
'Punectly grand
Wouldn't it be grand to get an inter
duction to him.
oh. Name, Just grand
Don't he kiss her grand"
Grand. But she's old enough to b,
his grandmother"
Say, Oracle. wouldn't this be a CRANE
way TO get acquainted? Let's me an
you"
Then the curtain went up 1t might b,
mentioned. incidentally. that 1t was no
grand opera.
buggy and an automobile were il
front of an office building. Hitched t,
the buggy was a brown mare with he
head poked dejectedly toward her horse
less neighbor.
jo1ly-lookfng man came out Of tn
building with another man. And as the.
parted at the curb he said. by way O
goodbye:
st bet my old mare is good and ma,
with me for making her wait all thi
time by this machine
How, good and mad?"
"Lud. IMAM! L. that all you know
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
PASSION FOR PASTIMES
WHICH LEAD TO OPEN AIR
Change in stLondon Season" Customs
,Ascribed to Advent Of the
Automobile.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON, June ia change has
come upon the London season of recent
years. 1t has, indeed, almost ceased to
exist as 1t was known a generation
ago. It is the automobile more than
anything else which has killed 1t. The
growth of the automobile habit has
been accompanied by a revival of the
passion for pastimes which take peo-
pie into the open air.
The fashionable f1aneur and flaneuse,
who are quite features of a Victorian
London season. have disappeared. The
West End clubs are now almost entire
ly deserted of members during the
week ends in the traditional season.
Effect on Picture Gallery.
Only recently a well known picture
gallery closed for the first time Satur-
day at o'clock, instead of remaining
open till the evening. The reason is be-
cause SO many more of the society peo-
DIE now motor down Fridays or Satur-
days to their favorite links in the coun-
try.
same thing as it was it still exercises
a potent attraction to the newcomer.
While North American invasion is per-
haps not so conspicuously notable this
year the South Americans are filing
the gap nobly. Some of the most hos
pitable hostesses of the present season
hail from the continent to the south Of
the Panama canal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
Vast Field Unexplored.
It Couldn't Be.
From Tit-Bits

From Tit-Bits.
The detective had congratulated the
housewife for bringing about the arrest
Of a noted sneakthief.
"Oh. knew he was a crook the minute
he opened his mouth" she replied, smil-
ingly.
How did you spot him so quickly?'
why, he told me the gas company had
sent him to examine our meter and see II
we were entitled to a rebate
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

The members of the judiciary commit
tee who went to Savannah in the Judge
Speer impeachment case brought back
several stories about the judge. This is
one Of them:
A seaman fell of ship or was knocked
off in Savannah harbor and shark bit
him in the leg. 1t must have been some
thing more than the mere scratch that
heroes all call their wounds, for the sea-
man had to have the leg Amputated.
Thereafter he began an almighty law
suit to get back the money value Of his
lost limb. which. from the size Of the
suit, must have been set with pearls and
diamonds, with platinum bones.
An oldtime southern lawyer was coun-
sci for the sailor. and he was engaged in
a prosy argument as to whether the sailor
could libel the vessel or whether he had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

merely the right to sue: the owners of
the vessel without any chance Of lien
on any property. ETC., ETC.. and lot
more legal ENHANCEMENT
Judge Speer leaned. over the bench and
remarked with a serious face:
1T may be you have no action except
against the shark"
"Ahem," said the old southern lawyer.
I'VE thought of that. your honor. but we
Concluded that among the things which
are in heaven above. or the earth be-
meath or the waters under the earth, the
fishes Of the sea are the only creatures
over which you do not claim jurisdic-
tion."
i \
One of the peculiar things about all the
publicity which has been given to the
antitrust program as it was carried out
in the House is that the men who bore
the burden Of it were scarcely mentioned
in the public prints. And it was not
the fault Of the men who write the news
particularly. but simply bare chance as
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
SCIENCE NOTES.

The Edward Longstreth medal of the
Franklin Institute has been awarded to
Prof. William J. Humphreys of the United
States weather bureau for his paper on
Volcanic Dust and Other Factors in
the Production of Climatic Changes
and Their Possible Relation to Ice
Ages"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

Work at Camp Archibald Butt is be-
ing rushed and a large force Of men
is hard at work endeavoring to complete
the improvements by the time the camp
ing season begins. The new mess hall
Is nearly completed. The flooring prob
ably will be laid early this week. Scout
Commissioner Martin Is confident the
kitchen and camp directors office will
be completed several days before the
first party Of scouts goes to the camp.
The floor Of the kitchen near the big
cooking range is being constructed of
concrete. There will be a large space
under the mess hall which will be used
for storage purposes.
In a few days, it is believed, the new
water system will be in working order.
A one-thousand-two-hu gallon tank
has been erected. A gasoline engine
driven pump. which, 1t Is said. will fill
the tank in one hour. has been installed.
There will be running water on tho camp
street and also in the mess hall and
kitchen. A hose will be provided for
use in case Of fire.
The motor boat Boy Scout and the
scow which will be used as q diving
float are anchored in the bay, Just or
the camp site. Along the beach several
rowboats are awaiting the arrival Of the
scouts.
Scout Walter Jex of Troop q has Just
been awarded a bronze honor medal from
national headquarters for saving the life
of Assistant Scoutmaster Chauncey
Hackett.
Scouts Charles Thurtell of Troop o and
Lloyd Harrison Of Troop q have become
eagle scouts. Scout D. o. Woolf Of Troop
l is now a life scout and Scout Edward
Pardoe of Troop 81 is now a life and star
scout
The following merit badges have been
awarded during the past week: Charles
S. Thurtell, astronomy. gardening: Nor
ris Gaddess, bee farming; Graeme T..
meth Hairless masonry; w. Clinton AL
lard. carpentry: J. D. Eggleston. forestry;
Fred L. Harries. masonry. gardening /;
Ira L. Ewers. f1remanship, painting, ma
sonry: Charles Shoemaker, gardening: A.
s. Rippey. gardening, and Mark Shoe
maker. gardening.
Communications have been received
from troop scribes as follows:
Troop No. 80.
THE lawn party at Georgia avenue and
Rock Creek Church road, held by the Girl
and Boy Scouts Of Petworth Tuesday and
Wednesday evenings, was q great sue
cess.
James D. Cushman. assistant scout
master of Troop 49, and Mrs. Samuel
Morse, captain of No. Pansy Patrol
did much toward the success of the
party. The Boy Scouts. as well as the
Girl Scouts. all hustled together and with
the great help of the little mascot
Gladys cushman Of No. Pansy Patrol
were enabled to get more than s., 600 to-
gether. which will be more than enough
to complete the buying Of instruments
needed for the fife and drum corps. A
bass drum and four or five snare drums
have already been bought, and as the
services of a member Of the United states
Marine Band have been obtained. we will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
Ship Service Counts Residence.

Ship Service Counts Residence.
A change has recently been made in
the naturalization laws. SO that service
on United States vessel counts as time
Of residence in the country, - that an
alien, after his discharge from ie serv-
ice, has but to present his discharge
papers to the judge qualified to grant
him citizenship, and If he can meet other
requirements and his enlistments have
been long enough to meet the residence
requirements he can be made full
fledged citizen of the republic with all its
rights and privileges.
1t is stated that hundreds of men now
serving on government vessels, particu-
larry in the revenue cutter service. will
take advantage of the change in the
laws and take out naturalization pa
pers.
The change in the regulations had the
Endorsement of the officials Of the Treas
ury Department and OF the navy, and
Capt. Z. p Bertholf. captain command
ant, and Chief Engineer McAllister Of
the revenue cutter service were strong
advocates of the measure. which, 1t is
said will do much to improve the per-
sonnet of the naval and revenue cutter
service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

The seventh congress of the Inter-
national Association for Testing Materi-
ais will be held under the patronage of
the Car of Russia, in st. Petersburg.
August 1911, 1915.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

the Carnegie Institution of Washing
ton. will give the address on the oc-
casion of the dedication July 10 of the
new laboratory building of the marine
biological laboratory at Woods Hole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

T. w. Aleshire, a well known farmer
near Luray. Va. yesterday fell from his
binder and expired instantly. Heart dis
ease was the cause Of death. He was
about sixty-eight years Of age.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

A batch of tourists were padding along
the corridor of government building
when a shutter-door few open ana
knocked one of the party down. The
messenger who had bounced through the
door kept on bouncing down the hall, and
a pewter -badged Waterman arose from
his chair to explain:
She walked too near the door. Clerks
are always coming in and out, and visit
ors should keep to the middle of the
CORR"
The tourist man who interrupted was
good and mad:
Then why in blank don't you post a
warning? This lady has had a bad fall. >
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Point to Be Remembered,

From London Opinion.
Eyes. mum. I be the oldest 'un IN yon
village. but. mind ye. I amt always
been" ..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

The Royal Society of Edinburgh has
awarded the Neill prize to w. S. Bruce
in recognition of the scientific results
of his arctic and antarctic explorations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

DR.. W. H. r. Rivers has been ap-
pointed to represent the University Of
Cambridge at the nineteenth Inter
national Congress of Americanists, to
be held in Washington, d. c., In October.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

The tercentenary of the publication
of Napier's Discovery Of Logarithms
will be celebrated under, the auspices
of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
July "a to 81. Lord Moulton will de-
liver the presidential address.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21

It exists in newspaper offices. For in
stance. our trust buster friend from
across the Potomac, Representative Car
lin. did real mans work on the omnibus
antitrust bill which bears the name OF
Clayton, simply because former Repre-
sentative Clayton was chairman Of the
judiciary committee. Everybody around
the House admires Charlie Carlin, and