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card said my companion. She is wait
ing for the wind to curve it or the dust
or rain TO spot II. II the side that has
her name is bent or spotted she hikes
home without delay. She resorts to this
when doubtful or uneasy. 1t is her sure
sign bad luck is lurking. Just drops any
thing she has on hand and waits TIL after
tea"
Thus she consults the elements on mere
suspicion. She will not stay in a room
with a red-bearded man, and has quit
dinner parties on pretext of i'll health
when there was one. Judas had a red
beard" she explains. Nor will she do
anything new or important the day she
has seen a man with arm in a sling
or a bandaged head. or heard an old
gray-haired man sing in the street or a
cat new in the house.
"She is Nine Paul B. one OF the
prettiest, most fashionable and ur-to-date
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cherished ones are so practical as those
of Prof. Holmes. He knows what he
wants-knows definitely just what tribes
are most typical Of a section of country
and knowing that Is a big step along
the way; but 1t Is the first one only. Life
masks and photographs of many mem
bers of the tribes in question must be
taken, individual pictures as well as fam
lily groups. and of the accessories Of the
group as it is to appear when finished.
Sometimes the photographs Of as many
as thirty or forty people are necessary
to get what is required for the composite
group-or rather as a working nucleus
for those who take up the work where
the photographer leaves off with his de-
veloped and printed picture.
will you tell me something of the
process of the making-the actual con-
struction of these groups?" the inter
viewer asked Prof Holmes.
That" he replied, you can best as
certain by visiting the workrooms DOWN
stairs. where Mr. Egberts puts the finish
ing touches on them. Or you could visit
the studio Of Mr.. Dunbar. where the fig
ures are cast"
Does Mr.. Dunbar work entirely from
drawings, Or"
Pro-. Holmes grasped the thought of
the question before the words were ut
tered, and he interrupted just where the
interviewer wished to be stopped
The figures are all posed for by living
models. They are exact as to detail of
eyes and expression. There Is nothing
left to guesswork when the figure is be-
ing made. and you will find the anthro-
polosieal laboratory on the ground floor, =
he added.
The interviewer found Mr. Egberts and
his assistant in the laboratory surrounded
by casts in all stages of nudity and in
all poses. There were the white plaster
casts just as they were received from
the sculptor, recumbent figures, men play
ing at ground games and boys in plaster,
who looked as ready for a ''frolic or a
fuss" as the bluejackets of the United
States navy.
Our principal work comes in the COL
oring Of the figures Mr.. Egberts ex-
planned, 'in painting the skins the cor
rect shade Of aboriginal flesh and in pre-
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pairing the figures for their clothes"
DO you coat the figures with wax"
was asked.
by no means Wax is not used in
these days. nor would it be possible to
use such medium in this climate. We
oil the figures after polishing off their
skins with a preparation, and after the
oil has dried In we are ready for the
paint brush; that is after all the ex-
tremities have been properly attended to-"
Scattered around the laboratory are
casts of arms, legs and other parts of
human anatomy, as well as innumerable
ent-day tribes. When the figures are
ready for their clothes and accessories
about two-thirds of the process of their
preparation is completed, but the other
third is most important, for the seem
ingly little things are a vital factor IN
the makeup of perfect picture.
No society belle getting ready for her
presentation at court has more time ana
infinite pains put upon her wardrobe than
do these lay figures. for every detail OF
dress and adornment must be correct as
to texture, color and arrangement of
drapery.
Come with me and we shall see how
a. group actually grows said Mr.. Eg-
berts. leading the way to the main floor
where the cases containing the chief an
thropological exhibit are located.
Lend hand here, Oscar, he said 10
the colored assistant VINO was working
behind one of the cases, and there when
the two men had showed the case 20 one
side, was a motley array Of parts and
accessories, implements of Indian war
fare and household goods of a simple
kind, bowls and the ever-present "plkl
stone upon which the meal is prepared.
Passing around to an alcove formed by
other cases, the interviewer came to the
particular case for which many Of these
things were to be used There in the
corner was the typical chimney place of
the Hopi Indians the chimney formed of
discarded earthen cooking pots with the
bottoms broken away and the pots piled
one upon another. 1t is one of the most
primitive forms of chimney, but with a
distinctly modern favor, for the Hopi
housewife does not believe in having her
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Wallis i'm Washington

autumn has been picturesque with the
deep red and wine colors of foliage. The
Southside ivy was planted there for
quick results and little later true ivy
was planted. and this is gaining Roadway
and is supplanting the quicker-growtng.
but less hardy vine.
Around Dupont Circle, off the north
east section of the circle, ivy is being cul-
tivated on the Letter and the Patterson
houses. Off the southerly side Of the circle
ivy has been planted at the foundation
Of the Bradley house, and soon the brick
walls Of that structure will be hidden from
view.
You will find ivy growing on the light
colored house at the northeast corner OF
Rhode Island avenue and 18th street, and
also on the large house. 1908 Rhode Island
avenue.
In some, parts Of Washington, nearly
always on the shady side Of the
streets, you will see ivy lawns
that Is. q lawn has been built up
Of matted ivy because. on account OF
the shade and the rain drippings from
the trees. it has been difficult or impossible
to grow thick. bright grass. In front Of
1880 Massachusetts avenue there is a
semi-circular ivy plat between the side
walk and the curving driveway which
passes from the street to the doorway OF
the house. The front yard OF the fine
yellow brick house close to the corner OF
Massachusetts, avenue and 18th street Is
an Ivy plot. There is another semi-circu,
lar ivy lawn between the pavement ana
the circular driveway in front OF house
on X street, three doors east OF nth
street.
On 18th street may be seen several OF
these ivy lawns, and that in front OF 80
18th street has long been one OF the DO
tanical features Of that block
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centuries. They are very expensive.
Collecting them has become mania
THE good luck of the many little chill
dren who played with them clings to
those toys like an aura Mile. Lydia told
us. "The proof Is that it works
could tell you 80
Bad luck can attach to persons If a
person brings you bad luck. avoid that
person. Avoid those who suffer from bad
luck.
Like her friend Aurore she keeps tab
on new acquafntances.
II keep a little notebook" she admits,
land see no harm in jotting down the
date I make any new acquaintance. In
a parallel column I note the good and bad
things happening to me. with the dates.
When I find the dates getting to CORE
spond. why. I find it prudent to act in
consequence"
talked over these mysteries with the
man who knows all about Paris.
That's nothing to the case of the Greek
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r From the Netherlands DIPLOMAT and Good Hoqls@k@@p@r

eminent. If they usurp the mans place
what will he do? Nurse the children and
keep house / expect. That does not seem
to be fitting, and yet TO me il seems the
inevitable outcome.
Il believe that women are intelligent
but their minds work best along different
lines from those of men, In The Hague
We have few woman attorneys. They
are considered splendid ones. too. But |
think women's ambitions should lead TO
home and not to government. As for
the unmarried women who must work. /
think they can be happy and useful with
out the right to vote as well as with 1t.
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boy to whom Aurore gave the reputation
Of the evil eye" he said. ut drove him
from Paris. He was well in the swim
until he met Aurore. She refused his
acquaintance.
".He has the evil eyer she said, and
soon everybody got to rep eating it.
You know what the evil eye is? It's
a man who cannot help bringing bad
luck: and it's so contagious that single
glance from him, If delivered straight and
right, will start the trouble. Such men
are known by a peculiar look in their
eyes. From that hour the Greek boys
name was scratched off the book, and he
found himself alone in Paris"
They are not heartless- They would
suffer one piece of bad luck for a friend,
but they dread the series.
There you are-the series; or in other
words, the cherries. Originally it was a
Partisan theatrical superstition applying
particularly to new pieces.
From the first rehearsal to the final
ringing up of the curtain. every soul con-
nected with the new pieces was careful
to do nothing that might bring on the
subtle seeds of bad luck; that is to say
the guigne Guigne in the dictionary
<AASo
a kind of cherries.
To pronounce the word was found to be
particularly unlucky. Bizet laughed at
the superstition during the preparation
of Carmen" and at its last rehearsal he
walked to the center of the stage and
exclaimed: "Zut for the guigne"' Every
one knows the otherwise unaccountable
frost of the great opera during Its early
representauons-and how Bizet commit
ted suicide, imagining it would never be
a success.
The French have several names for
cherries. What we call OK hearts they
call bigarro: what We call pie cherries
they call cerises. Cerises is the general
name for the fruit, but big. black, juicy
variety is named the guigne. The word
is spelled and pronounced the same as
the word for bad luck. Therefore. instead
Of saying ''guigne," they always say
"cherries.''
There are specialists in luck.
The series Of bad luck can be broken
and the specialists know the best ways
to do 1t. Alexandrine comes to your
house every morning for six days and
beats a drum in a peculiar manner She
is expensive and requires appointments.
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the extreme I am reserving another
trip to New York until later
1t was impossible to leave madame
without putting the inevitable question
Has the feminist movement invaded Hol
land?
Il am sorry to say" answered madame.
that it has. The movement is beginning
to arouse women at home
Judging that madame was not in SYM
pathy, she was asked what were her OBJ
jections to woman suffrage.
u can't understand" she replied.
what women expect the men to do after
they assume their responsibilities in gov
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speaks with the animation of French
woman. A joyous smile continually il
lumines her countenance.
I'VE like Washington so much she
said. The large squares. the broad,
sweeping streets both remind me of Ber-
lin more than any city I have ever Wis
tied. New York can compare to nothing
l. have even seen before. We were there
only two days, but we were aghast. The
buildings the traffic, the elevators. the
street cars above and below. the rush
and hustle appalled, u.s. We had just
come from a quiet farm in Holland, and
it was a human impossibility to bridge
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northeast corner Of the building The
Tuckerman-Porter house at the south
west corner Of I and 18th streets is
green with ivy. and there also grows
hardy evergreen vine which the Ram
bier has been told Is the Evonemus radi-
cans, a rare vine in this country. Ivy
spreads its green mantle over the lower
part Of the John Hay house at the north
west corner of II and 18th streets. and
ivy is struggling for It's life on the foun-
dalton of and the garden walls at the
west side Of the Corcoran house at the
northeast corner Of H street and Con-
necticut avenue. English ivy has woven
itself over the walls of a handsome house
at Decatur place and Goth street
On the north front Of the Washington
Heights Presbyterian Church, on Kalo-
rama road just off Columbia road, true
ivy has laced itself over the pebble-dash
wall Of the church building. The low
rooted. broad. brick church at the north
west corner Of Connecticut avenue and
Bancroft place Is giving announcement
to Ivy, and on the new part Of that
church on Connecticut avenue northward
Of the older part of the building ivy
cuttings have recently been planted and
they are being trained. so that before long
the raw, cold red Of the new bricks will
be fvy-grown.
There Is big handsome red brick
house, It's Connecticut avenue, on which
grows a fno evergreen vine. which ap-
pears to be the same as that on the
Tuckerman-P Porter house.
The Thropp house. at the northeast
point Of the intersection Of Connecticut
avenue, Goth and R streets. is being laced
over with true ivy. For number Of years
this house has been covered with south
side ivy. and in summer has been yelled
with the dense green Of this vine and in
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A Lesson From History.

z IRVING FLETCHER, at one of the
Sphinx Clubs dinners in New York,
began historical review of advertising
with the words:
None understood the value of adyer-
Using better than Samson. Samson took
two solid columns. The result was that
he brought down the house"
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am glad, for now that am in America
I am prepared to do the new steps. I
love dancing The American girls are SO
graceful and they dress SO beautifully
that / think l am more enthusiastic about
your balls than anything else"
Both madame and mademoiselle are
learning to run motor car. They have
lately purchased a new machine. Riding
and driving are also favorite recreations
with them. They are fond of the vigorous
sports. and are clever llnguists, speaking
French. German and italian. Made
moiselle can follow conversation in Ara
bic, one of the most difficult Of languages
to learn, but can speak only little of 1t.
II do not care for golf" she said. 1T
is so tedious to walk about as one must
do In golf. I like something more ex-
citing Do we have any new games
abroad that Americans have possibly not
heard Of? No. On the other hand, new
games are more liable to originate here
than abroad. Over there We are con-
stantly hearing about the new things
people are doing in America. and we
learn them so that you will not get ahead
of Us.
I'VE like the theater. The American
theaters are wonderful. Your actresses
are all so pretty. Why. in Berlin one
sees old, ugly women in the operas. Here
all Of the singers are young and beau
tiful.''
Nine van Rappard is a native of Hol-
land She lived in the country as child
on her fathers farm.
II am most interested in my home. I
have reared my daughter also to put that
above everything. Dutch women are
housewives above all else. I personally
supervise every undertaking In my house.
hold. I was brought up with the idea
that my linen closet was the most i'm
portant thing in life. 1t must be in per-
feet order-with my sheets, towels, nap
kins and tablecloths arranged Just SO.
in even piles. with the hens on the same
side-or I should be disgraced. This idea
was bred in me. I was saying to Ernes-
tine only this morning that we must be-
gin to look after the linen closet here at
the legations and arrange it as I have
always been taught to do
Nine van Rappard Is of medium height.
She has gray hair and dark eyes. She Is
cultured and intelligent. Her English die
ton is wonderfully well chosen and ex-
pressive. Her enunciation is clear and
correct. She is one of the most gracious
Of women.
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A STROLLER through the streets OF
"A Washington would not now call
the capital vine city, though here anu
there patches Of uncovered wall aid
the privet hedges. not all leafless. and
tho lawns, some of which have green
mingled with their gray. in cheering the
April prospect. The Rambler wrote
last autumn that washington city is
being overrun with vines. This bit OF
information will be received by many
persons with sense Of wonder, but 1t is
a simple statement OF fact. II the vines
that grow In the National Capital could
be untangled and spun in one green
thread, that thread could be looped
around the world. The remarkable in
crease in the vine growth Of Washington
is SO conspicuous that it has not es-
caped the notice of the crudest amateur
in botany and has attracted the atten-
ton Of many persons who do not know
pine tree from an oak. II the present
rate of vine culture is maintained there
will be, a quarter Of century hence
scarcely a bare wall in the city,
Much of the vine growth Is pare OF
foliage, and the brown twigs and branches
make q mournful, though, OF course, no.
a hopeless, lacework net over acres OF
brick wall.
During the winter the advantage of true
ivy above the "southside' ivy, the Ampe-
lopsis veitchii, and those other so-caiied
iyies which are really members OF the
grape family, is manifest. The real ivy
Is green and refreshing to the eye IN
season when verdure is rare.
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does her health good. And she gains
time to read her dream book.
Nine Paul says she wouldn't take
million dollars for the things she knows.
When she meets funeral she first says
a short prayer. then retraces her steps
half a block and makes for her destina-
ton by another route explained the
man. "If she meets a cross-eyed child
under fourteen she does the same with
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to breaking camp and moving to other
Sparts.
The collection Is not yet complete and
it is the hope of the curator that at no
far distant date the museum will be able
to perpetuate the races of other countries
than America by collections representing
the family and the home environment Of
the various peoples of the earth.
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She Loves to Dig in
the Garden and Keep
Her House in Order
What She Thinks of
America and Americans
is Opposed to Wom-
an Suffrage.
- HE colors that mark the COM
plexions of the groups of
representative of American
Indian tribes in the glass
HAT interests me

HAT interests me
especially q b o u t
Americans" said
Mime. van Rap
pard, wife of the
new minister from
Netherlands. {" / s
I h cir wonderful
activity. Such a
vigorous nation I
have never seen
before! And with
1t ALL the young
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door closed and locked and the scene is
ready for your admiration.
The family group, the men, women and
children, in their homes at their every
day occupations, has been chosen as the
best method of showing to this and fu-
ture generations something of the lives
of the people who were Americans before
America existed as such. One of the
most attractive groups In the collection
is that of Chilkat Indians. These people
live on the Lynn canal in southeastern
Alaska, and were selected by Prof.
Holmes because they are the only type
that still retains in a measure the aborig-
inal costume. They have commercial re-
lations with their neighbors over the
mountains, the Athapascan family, and
obtain from them horns and the wool of
the arctic goat.
The famous Chilkat blankets are not
woven upon a loom, but the foundation
strands are suspended from a bar Of
wood and fall free at the ends Strange
as II may seem, there is process SINH
lar to that used in making gobelin tapes
try in the construction Of genuine Chill
kat blanket, the figures being woven and
inserted separately. The man in the
group who is being offered food from a
quaint, wooden, hand-carved dish is wear
ing one of these artistically valuable
blankets and the head of the family,
seated while carving a mask, has another
less elaborate one about his shoulders.
The Hupa group of northwestern Cali
fornia represent the mixed tribes of Cali
fornia and Oregon. and stand physically
between the large-bodied Sioux and the
understood Pueblo. They are represented
in the act of preparing the evening meal,
the man in the act of lighting a fire by
the "twirling drill and the women of his
household pulverizing the freshly gath
cred acorns, which form a major portion
Of their food.
From an artistic, as well as an instruc-
tive point of view, the Patagonian group
Of Tehuelche Indians stand out prom-
nently in the collection. Here the head
Of the family, clad in skunk skin robe.
is ready to mount his horse; his wife has
already mounted and the child is putting
the halter on her pet ostrich preparatory
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~HE colors that mark the COM
plexions of the groups of
representatives of American
Indian tribes in the glass
cases at the National Mu-
scum seem as indelible as the memory
of an unkind word from the lips of
a friend
One wanders up and down the spa
cious corridors in the chronological
section of the museum and pauses
for moment here and for longer
time there, admiring the people rep
resented. If one is woman she
wishes she had some of the exquisite
bead work that adorns the clothing
of the figures. Or if one belongs to
the stronger but equally humanity
covetous sex, he is apt to wish his
figure were as perfect and his muscles
as finely developed.
Few stop to think of the labor, re-
search and skill that must be brought
are ready for exhibition. All these
human elements must have the ripen-
ing influence of Father Time before
the thing as a whole is in shape, but
SO skillful have been the minds and
hands that had a part i'll the making
of these groups that the highest at
tainment in art has been accomplish
ed, the art that conceals art"
While many people are engaged in
making a group a perfect unit as a
finished product, the original idea of
what shall be shown must necessarily
come from one brain, one directing
power. In the case of the anthro-
biological exhibit that power is Will
liam H Holmes, head curator of the
National Museum. Under his direc-
rion seventeen groups have been made
illustrative of the tribes from the
most northern point of land on the
western hemisphere, down across the
plains through Mexico and Guatemala
and on to Brazil and the far-off pen
insula of Patagonia.
Ideas come to all, but not all the most
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"Guigne' Feared on
Account of the Microbe
of Bad Luck-Consult-
ing the Elements on
Mere Suspicio n
French Specialists in
Luck-Dol1s Made of
Dough Carried in Jew
eled Powder Boxes and
Handbags.
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HERE goes the
most superstitious
woman in Paris
he said. We were
walking in the
Bots de Boulogne
in Paris. The wom-
an. imagining her
elf unobserved,
stood and held
something white up
in the air.
at is her visiting
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women a

women are as fresh and beautiful as
flowers,
my daughter goes to dances and balls
in the evening. comes home late and re-
mains in bed until late the next day to
get slept OUT as we say in Dutch. I
go out shopping in the early morning
and see the young American ladies who
have been dancing the evening before
equally as much as my daughter look
ing 80 wide awake and active that I
marvel at them. Our women at home
could never do this. They seem to re-
quire more rest than the Americans"
Perhaps" suggested Mile. Ernestine,
the charming young daughter of the
minister, who happened to be in the
drawing room at the time her mother
was speaking. 'the difference is due to
the climate. American air seems to be
SO much more stimulating than that of
Europe I myself have felt the difference
though We have been here but a short
time"
Both madame and her daughter are
two of the most interesting acquisitions
that diplomatic society in Washington
could ever hope to meet In the first
place, they speak charming and fluent