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The Washington herald., 1914-11-23
Wealth in itself may be an education.

NedIII IN ISeII IIdy DC an tuUVdIIOH
1t proves all kinds of opportunities for reaching
out and securing the things that develop the mind
Buying beautiful things usually develops taste for
beautiful things
But, of course in the holding of wealth, there
must be the kind OF mind that is ready to receive
and to profit by the opportunities.
There plenty of rich people who show phe-
nomenal capacity for resisting their opportunities for
education. They keep their minds closed like
fortress at the approach of the enemy.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Mrs Thomas F. Walsh in employing aged and
needy women to knit articles for the comfort of the
soldiers in the field, has discovered an admirable
method OF comforting double and practical benefit
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

The Windy City is offering new inducement to
get patrons for its restaurants-pretty girls, with
chafng dishes to cook at the elbows of the guests
Chickens serving Holsters, eh!
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

An official White House statement refers to it as
not an" hostile act and we therefore defy those who
insist that it was "a" hostile shot at Smyrna.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

AAll that we can do is to voice sentiment against
the war"-President of the District of Columbia
Womans Suffrage Association. As far as we can
see mere men can do no more.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

A few months ago, heard stories about the effort
of influential club to arrange discussion of the
cruel treatment given by the Russian government
to the revolutionaries. Some member of the club
wanted to speaker that would present the
side of the Gar Others objected. 1t seemed to me
that those who wished to have both sides presented
showed the right attitude The others merely showed
that they were not open-minded
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

It's all up with the career of Bernard Shaw. The
English are beginning to take him seriously.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Here is OF the dangers of caring too much
about opinion or a 1t may be the means
of closing the mind. When we refuse to hear the
other side no matter how strong our feelings may
be or how righteous we are in a bad way The
instant find ourselves struggling to silence others
whose opinions differ from own we may be sure
that we ought to do some careful self-communing
We are harming, not merely the cause of the truth
but we also violating the spirt>o tolerance, and
are making ourselves the victims of own pre-
judice and fear.
The intellectually and morally tinid always keep
the doors of the mind closed
To keep the doors of the mind open is the habit
of the intellectually and morally free.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Now that impressed me as being both educat-
ed and cultivated In spite of devoting himself to
an occupation that tended to concentrate the mind
interest and to close it to most of the whole
some interests of the world, he had performed the
feat of keeping open-ninded
The money that he acquired by gambling enabled
him to develop his mind.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23
A Line O Cheer Each Day O
the Year.
LIGHT EVERLASTING.
By JOHN KENDRICR BANGS.

Copyright. l9l4l
In the dark of some despair
Let this notion ease your care:
Darkness is a shade unfurled
BY the action of the world:
Not at all the loss Of light
Naught but shadow Is the night,
Shadow that will speed away
With the dawn OF coming day.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Tomorrow Dr. Edwards will tell Of The
Professor Who Became an Alderman"
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Mrs. a. E. Bates, of Philadelphia, was
hostess at an informal luncheon on No
vember Il for Mrs. Scott, wife OF Cen
Scott. Chief Of STAN OF the army.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Mr.. Frank Crowninshield is organizing
a committee to cooperate with Mr.. Louis
Sherry. OF New = ork. who has offered
to throw his Fifth avenue establishment
open on December 2 for the benefit of
Committee of Mercy.
Mr.. Crowinshield is chairman Of the
entertainment committee Of the Commit
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Mr.. and Mrs. HartwelI Mccartney. Of
d. c.. have taken an apart-
ment in the Hendrick Hudson, in New
York, for the winter
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Mr.. John Temple Graves, jr.. a senior
at Princeton, will spend Thanksgiving
holidays with his parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
Graves, in this city
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Miss Laura Graves will make her de-
but at Christmas time. when her mother,
Mrs. John Temple Graves, will entertain
at a tea, followed by a dance, In her
honor.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Capt and Mrs. Clarence Northrup
Jones entertained at dinner Wednesday
night at their quarters at Fort Myer in
compliment to Mrs. Jones' father and
mother. Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Stephens
Norton, who will spend the winter with
them. The other guests were Countess
Dumas, Col. Wilder, and Col and Mrs.
Menoher
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Lieut. Col. Joseph Z Kuhn. U. s. A,
and Mrs. Kuhn soon will go to West
Point Military Academy for a stay with
their son. Mr.. Parker Kuhn. before re-
turning to New York to remain until De-
cember l, when Col Kuhn will start for
Europe.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Miss Ethel Noyes has returned from
New York Mrs. Frank p. Noyes and
Miss Frances y. Noyes are at Atlantic
City.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Sir George Paish. the celebrated Eng
lish fnancier, returned to the Plaza, In
New York City, on Friday, from Mon
treal. and left Immediately for the foot
ball game at New Haven. He returned
10 the Plaza last night and will remain
n town for several days.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Commander Carl T vogelgesang. U. S.
n. and Mrs. Vogelgesang. who have
been stopping at the Dring Cottage, in
Old Beach road. Newport. R. /, will
occupy their cottage at the training sta
ton for the winter next Tuesday.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Rear Admiral c. NJ. Chester, U. s. n.
retired. read a paper entitled The Vol
unteer Navy During the Revolutionary
War; on Wednesday night before the
District Of Columbia Society. Sons Of the
American Revolution, at meeting held
at Rauscher's.
The Washington herald., 1914-11-23

Mrs. ]. Franklin Bell, who has been
spending several weeks with Gen. and
Mrs. Darlington, leaves Washington next
week to- make visits In Kentucky and
Chicago before returning to Texas City.
where Gen. Bell is stationed.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

WV LILLIAN WALDORF AsToR,
W owner of the biggest slice of New
w York real estate, has abandoned
his long campaign to win British title
and become social power in England.
He has decided to sell his London
Tory newspapers, which he ran simply to
advance his claims to a title from the
Tory party, and to withdraw from Eng
lish public life and society. He will
spend the rest Of his days at an OBJ
scure place on the Continent. He will
not go to America, for he became dis
gusted with his native country before
England rejected him.
This is the miserable end OF the most
costly attempt ever made by an Ameri-
can to win social honors and titles in
foreign country. To gain these things
William Waldorf Aston abandoned the
country of his birth that gave him his
vast wealth, and neglected all the pa
triotic and civic obligations which that
wealth entailed. And now he finds that
the foreign aristocrats whose boots he
has licked and whose debts he has paid
for twenty-five years have nothing but
contempt and ridicule for him.
Mr.. Astor's experience should be a
bitter lesson for the considerable mum
Der of American millionaires who are
seeking a social career abroad and for
others who may be tempted toward
similar course. Foreigners can have no
real respect for a rich American who
has abandoned his native country with
out reason or necessity, and no country
will confer honors worth having on such
n man.
An amusing and picturesque touch has
been given to the collapse of Mr.. Astor's
English career by the lively tongue of his
American daughter-in-law, Mrs. Waldorf
Aston She was Miss Mamie Langhorne,
one of the five noted Langhorne sisters
of Virginia, the most famous group of
beauties in society to-day.
Young Mrs. Astor's American sense
OF humor was constantly stirred by the
pathetic struggles of her father-in-law
for title, and she simply could not help
making funny little remarks about IT,
These remarks irritated Mr.. Aston very
much for be aimed to be an autocrat in
his own family. According to the society
gossip, somebody asked Mrs. Astor what
office her father-in-law would take under
the next Conservative government in
England, and she replied:
''He will be Lord High Opener of the
Barrel"
Still more recently, it is said, another
friend asked her what title Mr.. Aston
would assume when he obtained his long
coveted peerage, to which she answered:
81 think he will be Earl of Tighthurst."
This is supposed to have been deli
cate reference to Mr.. Astor's disinclina-
ton to refurnish Cliveden, the Aston pal
ACE on the Thames, at enormous expense.
These more or less humorous remarks
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

die devices, and made very little mention
OF the German peasants from whom the
Astors were undoubtedly descended.
One of Mr.. Astors peculiarities since
he settled in England has been to have
everything about him very feudal, so that
he might be properly qualified for place
in the House of Lords. He bought Hever
Castle in Kent, one of the most perfect
Tudor castles in England. 1t had be-
longed to Queen Anne Boleyn, to marry
whom King Henry VIII. divorced Kath-
arine OF Aragon. Within few years, as
every schoolboy knows, he beheaded poor
Anne Boleyn.
After that the ghost of this beautiful,
graceful, unhappy young queen used to
haunt her ancient home. 1t was this
reputation of possessing a first-class his
toric ghost that induced Mr.. Astor to buy
HeVer Castle. But after he moved in the
ghost absolutely refused to walk A sar-
castle Englishman remarked that
queens ghost would naturally refuse to
walk for an American parvenu. This
remark, like so many others, annoyed
Mr.. Aston very much.
Mr. Astor has spent his money freely
buying Tory newspapers and contributing
to Tory campaign funds in England. with
the object OF getting a dukedom. In the
last two hundred years dukedoms have
only been given to men already having
nigh rank in the peerage, and even that
way only four have been created since
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

1t has now been suggested, however,
that the Milky Way is entitled to that
designation for a much better reason
than is afforded by its appearance. It
is pointed out that, in all probability, the
heavenly region occupied by the Milky
Way is the birthplace of all stars, and
that they remain there in their infancy.
When they are old enough and large
enough to be weaned, SO t4 speak, they
leave the region of the Milky Way and
become visible to us as individual new
stars.
Just how many millions of years 1t
may take before the immature worlds
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

composing the Milky Way grow big
enough to branch out for themselves is
more or less problematical, but, OF
course, in considering the birth of new
stars one must bear in mind that mill
ions of years are usually required for
such phenomena.
It is believed that the younger stars
have not yet had sufficient time to stray
far from the plane of the Milky Way.
As they grow older, however, they in
crease in velocity and soon they leave
the Milky Way altogether and assume an
individuality of their own. AS they
come within closer proximity 10 the
earth, their presence sooner or later
cOpyrIght. 1914. by the Sta
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09
Why the Milky Way Really the Nursing Place for Baby Stars

becomes known to our astronomers.
Not more than dozen new stars have
been identified by astronomers within
the past three hundred years, but 1t is
quite probable, of course, that many more
have escaped observation.
That the velocity of stars grows with
their age is explained by the fact that
the mutual attraction which stars have
for each other grows, and this mutual
attraction accounts for the increased
velocity.
The theory is an interesting one and
has claimed the attention of a number
of well known astronomers here and
abroad.
Company. Great Britain Rights Reserved:
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

VVYY HAT is known as the Milky
NJ Way, the peculiar girdle Of stars
w which completely encircles the
heavens, has from time immemorial been
so designated merely because of its re-
lsemblance to a milky streak.
The combined light of the myriads of
tiny and distant stars which go to make
up this cluster comes to us in so subdued
form that instead OF shining brightly
like that of other stars it sheds but
milky glow on the heavens, which is
visible to the naked eye only on the
clearest nights.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09
Provo LALLIe cHAaLEs LoNoe~
Pretty Waldorf Astor Whose Nmble Tongue Made
Fatherin Law Furious and Put the Finishing Touch
on His Social Collapse in England

Another reported remark of Mrs.
Astor made fun of the Astor an
cestry. The Duchess of Marlborough
was explaining to some English
people that the Vanderbilt family
was not as new as the English
think an American family must be.
But the Astors had stopped skin
ming skunks years before the Wander
bilts stopped collecting tolls on their
ferry" interrupted Mrs. Waldorf
Astor.
This remark was quite annoying
to cd Mr.. Aston. because he had with
great trouble and expense published
genealogical report, showing that he W
descended from an ancient Spanish mol
family named Astorga. This was acco
panied by copicus illustrations and her
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09
Another British Cartoon Making Fun
of Astor's Ambition to Win q Peerage.

try?" Numbered the British orator. Then
if you wish to avert that tragedy vote
for my upright, patriotic friend, Mr..
Waldorf Astor"
Young Waldorf Aston realizing fully
that he had nothing but dirty American
dollars" felt greatly embarrassed, but
thought that he ought to back up his
friends remarks as strongly as possible.
Il boil with indignation at the picture
my noble friend has drawn OF the base
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

aud her frequent references to his
money bags" are said to have finally
aggravated Mr.. Astor beyond endurance
and proved the final thrust that decided
him to withdraw from English social and
public life. He had already failed in
every object on which he had set his
heart and to make his daughter-in-aw's
testing remarks an excuse for getting out
of a hopeless situation was not sur
prising action in a broken-spfrited man.
1t is even suggested that Mr.. Astor's
pique against his daughter-in-law has led
to serious arrangement from his son and
the distressful word "disinheritance"
has been mentioned, but upon this point
there is no reliable information.
On several occasions MIR. Astor's Amer
lean dollars have placed him in ridicu-
lous light in England, although he has
spent them SO freely there. During the
last general election, for instance, the
English Tories made a great fuss about
the American dollars they said were be-
ing sent over by Irish-Americans to win
Home Rule for Ireland. At this election
young Waldorf Aston was a Tory candi-
date for Parliament for the town of
Plymouth. An English speaker gifted
with traditional English alowness of COM
prehension, who went down to speak in
support OF Aston, laid great stress on the
dirty American dollars" cry.
Fellow countrymen, will you allow
yourselves to be ruled by dirty American
dollars sent over here to bride our honest
British electors into selling their coun-
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

1914. When the Tory party was last In
power 1t is said they offered Astor a
baronetcy, an honor given to various
makers of pills and soap. He spurned
1t. 1t is explained that Astor is SO I'M
popular that the Tory party did not have
the audacity to give him a peerage no
matter how large his contributions might
be.
Since he left New York in 1892 and
settled in London, his life has consisted
Of making large expenditures to gain the
coveted title and getting into difficulties
that made 1t impossible to give It to him.
IN 1900 occurred the memorable Sir Ber-
kelley Milne affair, which astounded Eng
l1sh society as nothing before or since
has done. This consisted in ordering out
Of his house Captain Milne because that
gentleman, the captain of the Queens
yacht happened to be present as a caller
without an invitation at a musicale. Astor
caused an insulting item about Milne to
be printed in his newspaper. King ed.
ward VII, then Prince of Wales, was
greatly enraged by this brutal treatment
of a friend of his
Astor, by this act, became the most
disliked man In English society. as he
had become in America a year before
by renouncing allegiance to his native
land.
Before he incurred royal displeasura
by the Milne affair, he invited the then
Prince OF Wales to Cliveden. ignoring the
court etiquette of asking the royal visit
or what diversion would suit his pleasure
Astor bluntly said they would take a ride
IN the launch, which was exactly what
the Prince did not want to do. This
gained him the name of being the worst
authority on court etiquette In England.
He made himself ridiculous by Bringing
hoel suit against a London newspaper
Tor printing story that he had mada
bet tnat he could seat twenty-seven
persons around table made from a see.
ZION or redwood tree brought from Cali.
tornia. He really had such a table. but
the dinner story was a hoax, perhaps
designed to poke fun at Astor. The
court laughed at him and dismissed tha
case after having more or less fun with
the senseless litigant.
After buying Cliveden from the Y,,kn
OF Westminster, the latter rememhareS
a visitors book, or autograph album
wnlch he asked Mr. Astor to kindly re.
turn TO him on account OF its family as.
soclatlons. Mr.. Astor CURLY refused to
90 th1s-and became a bitter enemy of
oe Duke of Westminster ever after
even refusing to print a notice of the
DUKES death in his newspaper, although
ne ne was one OF the richest peers OF Eng
Astor's act Of shutting out The Daor,.
from the grounds of Clipeden. which
nao always been a semi-public park To-
mented feeling against him,
IT every step of Mr.. Astor's career. in
fact, he seems to have done lust tha
things to defeat his own ends and am.
bition.
Hever Castle, Bought by Mr.. Aston
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

American dollars.
81 say, old top" called out vulgar
Briton in the audience, won't yer please
tell us wot you're living orf?"
Young Mrs. Aston related this amusing
episode and many other details of the
campaign in very entertaining manner
at London social gatherings. Everything
she said added to the irritability of the
elder Astor, and helped on the anal ex-
plosion.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

attempts to seduce our
dear old country with for
eign gold" cried Mr..
Astor, when his turn to
speak came. I'VE will
jolly well show them that
they can't buy up dear old
England with their dirty
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-09

Hever Castle, Bought by Mr.. Aston
Because Queen Anne Boleyn Once
Lived in It, and Her Ghost Is
Said to Haunt It.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-11-17
BIG NEW INDUSTRY
FOR WISCONSIN.
Westinghouse Lamp Company Estab-
fishes Incandescent Lamp Factory
at Milwaukee.

The manufacture of incandsecent
lamps has been added to the list of
Wisconsin's large industries.
The plant of the Kissel Kar COM
pany at Milwaukee, consisting of five
large buildings occupying about five
acres, has just been purchased by the
Westinghouse Lamp company with
factories at New York and Bloomfield,
New Jersey, to be used as a western
lamp factory. The plant will manu-
facture six hundred thousand Mazda
lamps every month and provide en-
ployment for over six hundred people.
The growth of the incandescent
lamp industry during recent years has
been remarkable. In 1913 over 100,
States. The, important developments
and Improvements in incandescent
lamps have been responsible for
steady decrease in the cost of lighting,
one of the few necessities which cost
less today than years ago. The latest
development in the industry recently
announced is an improved typeo of gas
filled lamp. This lamp is the most
efficient lighting unit ever made and
it is understood that a large number
will be manufactured in the Milwau-
kee plant.
One of the greastest factors in the
manufacture of lamps is the skill of
the operatives. One of the reasons
given for locating the Westinghouse
Lamb company in Milwaukee is that
social and economic conditions there
will provide an unusually high grade
of skilled labor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-11-17

on the reforesterization Of various
parts of Marathon county. This was
an excellent communication and it
was referred to the committee on ag-
ficuiture and report will be made
at the January meeting.
On Friday the tax levy assubmitted
by the finance committee, a. total of
1920, ,425.90 was adopted.
A memorial to the legislature was
adopted, asking for a repeal Of the
law creating the County Board of
Education on the grounds that the
board was unnecessary Committees
to settle with the county officers were
appointed as follows: with the county
treasurer, clerk of court and district
attorney, W. f. GoetZ, G. T. Paff and
E. G. Kretlow; with the county clerk
and highway commissioner, G. a.
Runkel, A. L. BrekEe and j. FL.
Voigt.
$1,000 was appropriated from the
monies received from automobiles to
maintain macadam roads.
There was dispositi on to do away
with the board of equalization and
have the work done by the assessors
of the county; but the matter was
left for the next county board to
tackle.
The board adjourned until Jan.
18th, 1915.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-11-17
TUESDAY. JULY s. 1880.

The Fourth in Wausau lin 1880
was as usual, a celebration worthy
of the day. There was a parade at
ten O'Clock consisting of the National
Guards, both city bands, Turner
Society, Fire Department, Wausau
Schuetzenverein :and citizens marched
to the fair grounds. Addresses by G.
F. Eldred and M. a. Barnum. Dane
ing Il eyening at Music hall.
Geo. Young drives q nobby outfit.
Yin Collins is dressing up his prem
ises in good style. What's the mean
ing of all this Will?
A new street lamp furnishes light
to pilgrims out late nights in the
region of the Stewart mansion.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
company now run regular trains over
their new route from Tomah to Jenny.
That sounds big, don't it?
Yesterday, after the workmen had
"cleaned up'' at tbs ~ausau Lumber
Co.'s mill, a green hand seized the
lever to run the carriage back to posi-
tion. Not being used to the work he
put on full motion and as a result
the carriage went through the end of
the mill into the river.
Squire Bean of Mosinee was descend
ing the stairs in Young s. Kelly's
block last Thursday, lost his balance
and fell to the bottom, bruising his
mead and face in a shocking manner.
On Monday of last week there ar
rived in Wausau a train of thirty cars
of merchandise and eight 'empties,
pulled by Chas. Clark, engineer and
Scott Jenkins, conductor.
The census returns for this city are
now complete and the total footing
shows that 1926 people make their
home in this fair town. We are now
liza behind the famous city of Stevens
Point.
NJ III. Barnum is able TO be about
again. He has lately haC quite a
tussle with grim death and his sickle.
Andrew Warren, Jr., e Chicago is
again in the city looking after his
vast real estate interests.
Judge Brands departed for Amigo
Friday to wrestle with the proud
bird of freedom on the 4th at that
place.
Miss Ida Wright, who for some
time past has been teaching the rudi-