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The Washington herald., 1914-08-07
Doinss Of Society


who il now making her third attempt to
sail for England. and Lady Granard, who
arrived in New York on the same ship
for a visit to her family at Newport.
Unless notified to the contrary the
Olympic win sail from New York to-
morrow.
Mrs. Ben HELEN, Of this city. who is at
Bar Harbor. the guest of her aunt. Miss
Celeste Eustis. was the first-prize winner
at the bridge tournament given at the
Rebo Valley Club on Wednesday. Mrs.,
HelIen's score exceeded the next COM
petftor. Mrs Hall Mccormick. Of Chi
cago. by 100 points Mrs. Lawrence Lee,
also Of Washington, and Mrs Plat Hunt.
OF New York. were other players with
scores emitting them TO smaller prizes.
MIS- HELEN and her daughter, Miss
Louise HELEN, the latter one OF the pros
pectiye brides OF the autumn season, will
be Miss Eustises' guests through Au-
gust.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen G. Walker. who
are making an extensive motor trip
through New England. were at Prov
idence yesterday. where they registered
at the Narragansett.
Mrs. n. NJ Colby. OF Hulyer place,
and her daughter. Miss Lucille Colby.
left yesterday to visit friends near Bos-
ton for the month OF August
Mrs. Henry Krogstad left yesterday for
several weeks visit TO Oswego, y. Y.
Mrs. Jesse D. Brown. formerly Of this
city, but now living In Providence. R
l., where Mr.. Brown has recently en-
gagged in business is a much entertained
visitor in Pittsburgh at the present time
] n
Singer, a frequent visitor in Washing
ton at the home Of the former Secretary
| Of State and Mrs. Knox
Mr.. and Mrs William CIatterbuck are
entertaining a house party at their home
in Harrisonburg. Va, which include their
daughter Mrs Forrest D. Long. Mrs.
c. o. Buckingham. and Robert Bucking-
ham, all Of Washington.
Mr.. Benjamin Hotchkiss. who is pass
| ing several weeks in New York and
Canada. is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
Stewart Whittlesey at their home in
! Rochester. y. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs Roy $. Adams and Miss
Helen Adams have gone to HagerstOwn.
Nd. for several weeks.
Mr.. E. G. RippeI. Of Buffalo. y. Y.
with his wife and two daughters are
in Washington for a brief visit, having
motored through en- route TO Atlantic
City While here they are guests al the
Hotel Powhatan.
The announcement Of the engagement
OF Miss Freda Tillman to Nj Laurence
S. Frazer. Of Nashville, Tenn, made
yesterday by the parents OF the bride
tO-be. Commander E. II. TiIman. l. s
N. and Mrs. Tillman, is OF particular
interest in Washington. where Mrs TIL
man and her young daughter have re-
sided during Commander TilIman's sea
duty. Miss TiShnan who is just out Of
school had a short social experience at
Newport last season and is now one II
the bellies at jamestown. R. L. where she
is passing the season with her parents
The wedding will be an affair OF the
early winter and is TO take place In
Washington.
Mr.. Albert A. Miller and wife, and
Miss Florence Kugls motored to Wash
ington from Hagerstown yesterday. At
ter a few days visit they will return
by way OF Atlantic City During their
stay here they are guests at the Hotel
Powhatan.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

The recommendation of the Interstate Commerce
Commission that the Eastern railroads make their
passenger traffic yield larger sounds like a
cruel jbe when it is remembered that in Ohio, In
diana, and Illinois, the minimum legal fare is cents
a mile, and New York has given signs of fixing a
similar limit
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

their homes for Georgia and there re-
ceivinE the Impressions and finding the
opportunities which have been Of such
tremendous consequence to the United
States"
tcou.,sht, Isiz. b. Or. = J. Edwards. An ashts
rcseved-l
Tomorrow Dr.. Edwards will tell OF
"Two Kansas Senators a. Newspaper
Readers"
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Owing to the crowded condition of the Atlantic
Ocean and the prospect of stormy weather for the
next few weeks number of our millionaire yacht
owners beg to announce that protracted midsummer
and autumn cruises contemplated earlier in the sea-
son have been abandoned.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07
His Distinction.

II don't know why Il should surprise
you to md that love you said the ED
erly gallant
But, really, Mr.. Oldbeau," replied the
fair girl. II always thought you were
an old woman-hater."
quite so; but I'm not young woman
hater. Tit Bits.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

With the announcement from Paris
yesterday that all American refugees in
France would be able TO leave for home
by August Is, hundreds Of Americans al
home are greatly relieved, as Il il be-
lieved tho detention In Germany VIII
| come to an end as soon as there are
ships available for the homevard- bound
travellers. While cable communication Is
no longer possible from Berlin or Vienna,
II Is believed the distress in both capI-
tails for Americans has been greatly re-
lieved. In Vienna. as In Berlin, the
American Ambassador and his wife hav,
been unceasing in their efforts to relieve
their fellow-countrymen.
The Ambassador and Mrs. Penheld.
who were about to leave the capital for
Carlsbad when the war broke. are both
well known in Washington, here Mrs
Penfeld. as Mrs. John r. Walker. of
Pennsylvania, passed many seasons. Mrs
Penheld Is the only daughter and the
principal heir Of the late William
Welghtman. Of Philadelphia, making her
one OF the richest women in America.
Mrs. Robert Hinckley and Miss Hinck-
ley. Of this city. mother and sister OF
Mr.. Thomas Hinckley. the secretary Of
the American Embassy in Vienna, were
last heard from at Carlsbad. where they
proposed passing the month OF August
Mrs. Philip II. Sheridan, widow Of Gen.
Sheridan. was at WeIsbaden ten days
ago. Miss Jane Riggs was another we'll
known resident of Washington at Weis-
baden for August.
The Misses Charlotte and Bessie Gull
len. Of 1909 K street, supposed to be at
Carlsbad. are Washington travellers not
heretofore mentioned in the published
lists Of absentees.
In addition to the long and still incom-
plete list Of Washington travellers in the
war zone, there are many well-known
Washinstonians living abroad for whose
comfort. II not their actual safety. there
are many inquiries. Mrs. John Croppar
Of " street. one Of the best known
hostesses of ten or twelve years ago,
is now living in a villa at Orleans;
Madame Won BrueEing. formerly Mrs.
Gordon Mckay, has a house in Pans:
Mrs and Mrs Laurence V. Benet. lead
ers OF the American set in Paris. are
both former Westinghouse. Mr..
Benet's boyhood home having been al
III / street while his wife was former
ly Miss Margaret Cox. also well-known
socially.
Mrs George C4bit Lodge. formerly
Miss Bessie Davis. a daughter Of Mrs
Charles L. McCawicy, has been living
in France for several years for the
education Of her children. while another
Young woman now in Paris OF interest
to Washington society is Mrs Walter
FarveI. OF Chicago, formerly Miss
Mildred Williams, Of this city.
Mrs Anne Wilson Howe. a sister OF
President Wilson. with her daughter
Mrs. Perrin Cothron, Of North Carolina,
is said 10 be in Paris, awaiting passage
home. Mrs Howe, Mrs Thomas :.
RYAN and Oscar Underwood, jr.. were
among the waiting throng at the Amer
lean Embassy in Paris Wednesday when
all refugees had TO secure Identification
cards, according TO recent cable dis
patches.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Two steel coal barges, launched at the Charleston
Navy Yard christened with bottles of ginger ale.
Can it be that there is conflict between the State
and Navy departments on the question of what is the
national beverage?
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07
Morning Smiles.
Presumptive Evidence.

rs he completely under his wifs's do
uninion?"
IT guess 90. He wears a bathing suit
that she made for him. Puck
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Senator John Sharp Williams had perfect right
10 quit the Foreign Relations Committee if he wanted
to- but there really wasn't any need for him to slam
the door as he went out.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Of what use is diplomacy, anyhow? 1t doesn't
avert war.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Thousands of school teachers from all over the
United States are Europe unable to get home, and
whole lot of schoolboys are convinced that there is
a bright side even to
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

And the railroads are going to get higher rates
for moving that bumper wheat crop. Think of it!
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Some of the candidates say the newspapers never
tell the truth but all of them depend on the
papers for the news
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

We are not sure about the spelling of all those
Russian and Austrian Names to say nothing of the
pronunciation.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

But, as a matter of fact, we seem to be getting
along very well without any Federal Reserve Board
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Booked to sail on the White Star liner
Olympic on what is expected to be her
last east-bound passage until the close Of
the present war. are Sir Alan tombstone,
British Minister at Copenhagen. and
Lady tombstone, who have been visiting
the latter's mother. Mrs James W.
Pinchot; the Duchess Of Marlborough.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

And we were in hopes that some of the Ameri-
FANS over there would never be able to get back.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

And, thank goodness, we had not invested in En-
ropean securities.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07
A Line o Cheer Each Day O
tn Year.
Cwattsn expressly for The HealdJ
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.

Cwrittsn expressly for The HsaldJ
By JOHN KENDRICK BANGS.
POSSESSIONS.
Copyright, lsHI
The air and sky are mine.
The birds that fly
The heavens high are mine.
The bounding seas are mine.
The summer breeze
And vistas through the trees are mine
The songs OF singing, rills are mine.
The wondrous thrills
OF distant hills are mine:
And when / grope
The joys Of hope are mine
And stores OF love,
AS from above, divine.
To have and hold are mine
So why should repine
Because no stores OF gold are mine?
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

We didn't have to go to the mountains for cool
weather. 1t was brought to US
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

War is terrible. 1t has put an end to the talk OF
the early adjournment of Congress.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

We suppose the Peace Conference scheduled fol
next summer will be postponed.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

We are expecting to hear any moment that the
Dutch have captured Holland.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Some of the war correspondents have brilliant
inaginations.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Italy prefers to furnish spaghetti to the armies
of the world
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

The baseball war has probably been postponed to
a more propitious time.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

All the steamship lines want to nestle under tn
wings of the American eagle.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

All of US ought to be glad now that didn't have
to 60 to war with Mexico.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

The contest in Europe is big league affair, all
right.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

The European war has Made-in-Germany look
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Capt. and Mrs. lie V. Coleman have ar
rived from Fortress Monroe, where the
former is stationed. TO pass several days
Al the Hotel Powhatan. They are en-
route TO New York
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Cotton may be king, but he got great fall
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Tomorrow, High tide At Andcr-
.sonvillo .
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Mr. and Mrs. William CIatterbuck are
entertaining a house party at their home
in Harrisonburg Va, which include their
daughter Mrs. Forrest .. Long. Mrs.
c. o. Buckingham. and Robert Bucking-
ham, all Of Washington.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Mr.. Benjamin Hotchkiss. who is pass
ing several weeks in New York and
Canada. is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs
Stewart Whittlesey at their home in
Rochester. y. Y.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Roy S. Adams and Miss
Helen Adams have gone to HagerstOwn.
Nd. for several weeks.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Mr.. E. G. Rippel. Of Buffalo Y. Y,
with his wife and two daughters. are
in Washington for a brief visit, having
motored through en- route to Atlantic
City. While here they are guests al the
Hotel Powhatan.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

.sonvillo
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Allen G. Walker. who
are making an extensive motor trip
through New England. were at Prov
idence yesterday. where they registered
at the Narragansett.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

War dogs subsist on human flesh.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Mrs. Jesse D. Brown. formerly Of this
city. but now living In Providence. R
l., where Mr.. Brown has recently en-
gagged in business. is a much entertained
visitor in Pittsburgh at the present time
Mrs. Brown was formerly Miss Hester
Singer, a frequent visitor in Washing
ton at the home Of the former Secretary
Of State and Mrs. Knox.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Mrs. n. NJ. Colby. OF HiIlyer place,
and her daughter. Miss Lucille Colby.
left yesterday to visit friends near Bos-
ton for the month OF August
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Mr.. Albert A. Miller and wife, and
Miss Florence Kugls motored to Wash
ington from Hagerstown yesterday. Az
ter a few days visit they will return
by way OF Atlantic City. During their
stay here they are guests at the Hotel
Powhatan-
The Washington herald., 1914-08-07

Mrs. Henry Krogstad left yesterday for
several weeks visit 10 Oswego, y. Y.
Evening star., 1914-11-22
The Sunday Stars Special Correspondent Re-
ports Distinct Feeling of Optimism in Lon
don at Present-Says War Is Most Demo-
cratic England Has Ever Engaged In-Amer-
lean Newspaper Man Refuses to Be a Hero.
A Joke on the Press Censors-Rumor Fac
tory Still at Work.

in need of officers. he will accept none
who have not had some military train
ing and who promise to be efficient,
and the young men of the upper and
middle classes, knowing this, are join
ing the ranks without a murmur. At
the same time great numbers of non
commissioned officers are being pro-
NOTED to commissioned rank. Hardly
a day passes that the London news
papers do not contain the names OF
anywhere from a dozen to a hundred of
these promotions An amusing in
stance of this change of social values
came about the other day. A friend
who belongs to an influential family
and is fairly we1l-to-do has just en-
listed as private in the corps en-
rolled to work the anti-aircraft guns
which are guarding London against
raids by Zeppelins and Taubes. He was
telling all about his work. and then he
said:
The funniest thing about it is to
come after the war. My parlor maid
sweetheart is in the Royal Field Artfl-
lery. He went out to the war a cor
poral and he has been doing az
of gallant things. He has bee.
NOTED a half dozen times, and Inns
morning the girl came to my wife with
the Gazette, and there was her young
man made a captain for gallantry in
the field. When he comes to call on
Evening star., 1914-11-22
MYSTERIOUS DEATHS I'm WARS OF HISTORY

Stories of this kind cause the men,
cries of some men to drift back or to
suddenly turn back to the beautiful
fairy tales of the old Greeks-those
fairy tales which have been the ma
terial of which immortal literature has
been made-fairy tales which nave IN
fluenced the human race perhaps more
deeply and more finely than any others.
though, of course. that statement might
be opposed by friends of the, fabulae
and the sagas.
The modern stories of men stricken
so suddenly by death and so wondrous-
ly that their life posture is maintained
force one to think of the influence OF
the head of that dread Gorgon Medusa.
a glance upon which turned men into
stone.
When Perseus made his VOW to Poly.
decteS and his mobiles that he Woulo
bring back the Gorgon's head. Paiias
Athene, whom he called to MS aid.
warned him that the Gorgon was the
mother of monstrous beasts. ana thousn n
once beautiful, she had committed
sin which caused the sun TO moe Its
face and that then her hair was turned
to vipers, her hands to eagles claws;
her heart was filled with rage ana
shame. and her lips with venom any
that her eyes were so terripie ehae
whosoever looked upon them would be
turned to stone. She was the sister OF
the horrid Stheino and abhorred Euryte'
the mother of the winged horse and the
giant of the golden sword and the
granddame of Echidna. the witch-ao
der, and Gerydon the triple-headeo
tyrant.
Athene gave to Perseus her shield OF
polished brass with the admonition
that when he should come near the
dread Medusa he should not look a.
her, but only at her image IN the oui
nished shield When Perseus started
on his errand and met the nymphs OF
enhancing beauty who were the Mes
Evening star., 1914-11-22

"ROOPS of men mysteriously slain
and their corpses remaining in
the attitude of life or remaining
in the precise posture that was
theirs at the instant death claimed
them Is one of the marvellous tales from
battle Europe. It is tale
that has come a number of times and
from different and widely separate sec
tions of the theater of war. 1t has been
written that dead soldiers have been
found standing upright with uplifted
rifles, as in the act of firing. Others.
SO run the narratives. have been found
dead around a game of cards, the spot
ted boards in their hands and their
CLASSY eyes upon them. Officers, it has
been said, have been seen dead at the
mess table, and soldiers transfixed with
their mess tins in the very act of eat
ing. 1t has all been very mysterious
and gruesome.
The only attempt at explanation has
come from an expert in explosives at
tached to one of the great ordnance
and ammunition plants of France. He
has said that most modern explosives
are based on picric acid, and that the
combination arrived at by the French
chemists has shown itself under the
test of war conditions more reliable
in it's action and more powerful in re-
suits. He said:
II have heard that whole companies
of men have been stricken dead in the
act Of playing cards or eating, and 1
know as a fact that many men have
been found dead in strange attitudes
without a scratch. The explosion of the
shell causes a sudden and terrific air
pressure within a certain radius. This
pressure is as suddenly withdrawn. the
effect being to stop the whole human
organism It Is IS II a diver were pre-
cipitated to q great depth and instant
ly brought to the surface again."
Evening star., 1914-11-22

perides, and asked them the way to the
Gorgon, they also told him she would
freeze him into stone.
When he found the giant Atlas kneel-
ing and holding the heavens and the
earth apart, that masterful man said
that he could see the Gorgons lying on
an island far away, and asked Perseus
that when he should come back with
the monsters head, he should let him.
Atlas, look upon the beautiful horror.
that I may lose my feeling and my
breathing and become stone forever,
for it is weary labor for me to hold
the heavens and the earth apart"
After Perseus had dispatched Me-
dusa and had tucked her head under
the goatskin which he carried along
for that purpose he returned to Atlas
that he might glance upon it. and at
that instant Atlas rested from his toll
and became a crag of stone, sleeping
forever above the clouds.
After his journeyings and his ro-
mantle deliverance of the matchless
Andromeda, the daughter Of Cepheus
and Cassaopoe,a. IL is reported by the
olden classic poets that Phineus. the
uncle of Andromeda, sought to take
her awa from her rescuer. and that
he ord. his men-at-arms to draw
their s. Ids upon Perseus. and that
the young man, already a hero"
showed the Gorgons head to the
threatening soldiers and transfixed
the whole battalion into stone.
When Perseus returned to his homo
dectes' banquet hall, and with the ter
ror-head of Medusa changed the evil
king and all his festal-board courtiers
into images OF stone. And those stone
men sat with their wine cups in their
hands until the walls OF Polydsctes'
palace crumbled about them and grass
grew over the circles of gray stone
men.
Evening star., 1914-11-22
and French wounded.


that every piece of information which
they had cut out was obtained from the
standard German naval text book.
"Nauticus."
The censor didn't apologize and he
wasn't a bit grateful. Neither did he
release the article.
X X
The rumor factory has been as busy
as usual this week. A couple Of days
after the loss Of the Hawke the whole
country was humming with the news
that the Germans had torpedoed the
Terrible. the Invincible. and couple OF
other battleships in the North sea, and
SO persistent did the rumorS become
that the admiralty felt called on to Is
sue an official denial. 1t also instituted
an investigation into the source Of the
rumors and obtained the following in
formation:
A man at Harwich was telephoning
on business to a customer in an inland
town At the end of his business con-
versation, he remarked, referring. of
course, to the Hawke: I'VE have just
lost another warship. It's terrible" Z"
The man at the other end of the line
jumped to the conclusion that the Ter
rible had been sunk and spread the
news abroad. Others added other ships
of the same class and by the time the
news reached London, passing from
mouth to mouth. 1t had become fuil
fiedged naval disaster.
From France comes the collapse OF
another "stumour,' as such fakes are
called here. That was the alleged
shooting of Gen. Percin, in the early
days of the war. for the abandonment
of fact Gen. Percin. who is one of the
most efficient artllcrists in the French
Evening star., 1914-11-22

spondent for the London Express on
the continent. He was one of the last
correspondents to leave Antwerp, and
he sent some of the best news received
from the besieged city. One of his COL
Kearton, the famous nature photog-
rapher. Kearton came back before
Cleary, and in an interview he said:
"Cleary is the bravest man l ever
saw He stood about the streets where
the shells were dropping every min
ute, as unconcerned as if he were in
the American bar at London hotel"
When Cleary got back his friends
congratulated him on his gallantry.
and he was genuinely puzzled.
What did I do?" he asked. They
showed him Kearton's statement
"kearton is a fool he said. after he
had read it. IF a man stands still
he only occupies so much space. If
he hops about he occupies three or
four times the space and is ten times
as likely to be hit | had it all fig
ured out That's all the heroism there
is about me-"
You in America must be getting tired
of the stories of the censorship, but
really it is always doing something
new and funny.
A few days ago writer on naval
subjects submitted an article of a
somewhat technical nature 1t came
Back from the press bureau with al
leted. and written across the proof was
the comment:
This information is likely to be of
use to the enemy"
A newspaper man went down to the
press bureau and showed the officials