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the manual Immediately useful and sug-
geStive.

the manual Immediately useful and sug-
gestive.
THE MEMOIRS OF MIMOsA, ny Her
self. Edited by Anne Elliot. New
York: Moffat. Yard & Co.
An overwhelming majority of people
act under the conviction that their
thoughts. as well as their bodies. need
dressing a bit before emerging into the
full light of open day. These believe
that the emotions. like the body. have
reticencies and exclusive self-possession.
Mimosa is not one Of this large class. In
the making of these Memoirs one sees
Mimosa busting out upon paper the COIL
tents of her mind and heart with thor
oughness that calls up the neat and
thrifty housewives weekly rug-beating.
Not an atom is left to the safety Of an
undiscovered corner. Here is a perfect
exhaustion of self-avowal. And this is
what is called a human document" One
gathers from it that Mimosa is in the
fullest possible accord with the poets
notion that the proper study Of mankind
is man. And so, men philander through
these pages with Mimosa in ways that
may be very diverting to her and these
successive partners. The average reader
however. fails to draw from this motley
Of Mimosa and the men either good en-
tertainment or good admonition. Not
more than handful Of the so-called con.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

LESSONS Of all literature have been res
cued from sheer banality by the grace of
a most perfect counterfeit of sincerity.
by q life OF sufficient substance to con-
tain a confession" and by the highest
art of dramatic expression. THE Memoirs
of Mimosa" are not of this rank. With
out doubt, everybody in the world has
within himself material with which he
might astonish the natives if that were
his object.
ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS. BY
Joseph Knowles. Boston: Small.
Maynard & Co.
A delightful record Of a novel expert
ence. Last August Mr.. Knowles, Bos-
ton artist, took to the Maine woods,
penetrating into the wilderness itself. He
went as the first man-naked, weaponless,
without matches even. There he lived for
two months, relying wholly on his own
resources. This book is the detailed &C
count Of how he lived, how he made
fires. what he ate and how he got it. how
he sheltered and clothed himself. 1t de-
scribes his wanderings and adventures
It dwells upon his sensations, physica.
and mental. 1t enlarges upon the value
of the primitive life. 1t exp aims, also
why he did this thing. and what plans
for the future have grown from the ex
pertinent. These plans read slightly like
Brook farm community, but with {
distinction that to the author, no doubt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
Conserving Childhood.

From the Chicago Post.
Twenty-Five per cent OF the deaths oc-
curing in Chicago for the week ended
December We're OF children under ten
years of age. That is not an abnormal
proportion. II is a proportion far too
high, however. More than one-sixth, Were
of children under one year-a tragic in
FAINT mortality. Preventable diseases
were responsible for by far the larger
number.
Not long ago the American Association
for the Study and Prevention of Infant
Mortality held its fourth annual meeting
i'm Washington. About three hundred peo-
pie attended. When the Fifth National
Conservation Congress was in session II
attracted from three TO four times as
many interested auditors. 1t was discuss
ing the saving of trees and SOIL
Both were conservation congresses, but
that directly concerned with conserving
human life weighed least in human in
terest. We have yet To develop the vision
that will lift the baby to like impor-
lance with forests. minerals and water
courses. The nation that wastes Its hu-
man raw material, If the child may be SO
called. is guilty of a criminal indifference
to its ow. welfare, both social and eco
nomic.
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been jolted by one Of the actual facts
of life, and it hurt. She had longed to
open her purse, yet she dare not NO,
she must find some other way to help
them. And she wanted to help them
more than she had ever wanted any
| thing before. She must help them. but
how? She must think OF something.
Perhaps Rex could help her.
When she opened her own door she
snelled a cigarette and there was Rex
in the chair by the window.
II decided to knock off work this after
noon and give you outing, seing II $
your birthday he explained.
Phyllis took off her hat and coat and
gloves deliberately. Then she went to
him--behind him, where he could not see
her face-and took his head between her
hands. Rex she said. quietly. sup
pose we go house hunting this after
| noon"
House hunting?' he jumped.
Wouldn't you like a homer"
"Wouldn't-I Ikea home? Phyllis.
don't tease me-"
| teasing. l mean Il. Listen, I'm thirty
years old today and I know something I
never knew before. I know I'm tired OF
/ existing not living And I'm tired of ex-
listing. l want to do something, be some
thing worth while"
"Phyllis." he cried. whats changed
| you?"
Then she knew she was changed. She
| told MIN about Mary Glow and BOBBY
and the rose Somehow they started me
thinking, and guess. Rex, when wom-
an e me gets to thinking there's no
| end to it. You've been patient darling
with the most selfish wife that ever lived,
| but now I'm going to do something for
YOU and for the CLOVIS and others like
| them"
| Rex twisted in his chair and got his
arms around her. And for yourself,
| he added.
well. I'm going to stop thinking about
myself" said Phyl is. firmly.
(THE ENID
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methods AMI ideal of the older school.
Paintings by these men of today show
what changes have come in ideals and
in technical methods. Instead OF at
tempting to record facts, they have
represented big truths, have inter-
preted impressions and feelings.
There will be found great variety in the
subjects treated. William Ritschel has
painted the sea off the rocky coast of
California with great strength and vir-
ility. Albert Grol has painted both the
Arizona desert, with it's spacious sandy
levels and open sky. and also Lake Louise
with its high handicapped mountains.
His painting of Lake Louise, by the way,
won the George Inness gold medal when
shown at the National Academy OF De-
signs exhibition last winter. Irving
Couse shows not only western scenery.
but the Indians with marked feeling and
simplicity. William Wendt contributes
two large paintings of snow-covered
mountains which give an excellent idea
of the yaStnesS of western scenery. Ben
Foster pictures the sandy hills of Cali
fornia. Elliott Daingerfield and Ballard
Williams in their paintings strike a more
romantic note. finding certain classical
beauty in the magnificence of their
themes and interpreting it in harmonies
of color.
This exhibition will continue for two
weeks and should attract wide attention.
A y exhibition Of portraits by Dana
"A Pond will open in the Moore Gallery.
18th street. Monday and continue for a
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HE exhibition of paintings py
the men who paint the Tar
west, which opens IN the
hemicycle hall of the Corco-
ran Gallery of Art Monday.
will be uncommonly interesting ana
important. 1t comprises about twenty
or twenty-five paintings by ten or
eleven artists. All the paintings are
recent works Complaint has been
made that American painting is not
tvpicallv American. that the pictures
painted by American artists might
quite as well have been painted by
artists Of other nationalities, but here
will be found works essentially Ameri-
can.
Bierstadt, +. Z. Church and Moran
were the first to turn to western
themes in the belief that they. more
than others, were typical of this coun-
try. The mistake they made, however,
was to imagine that the whole sig
nificance lay in the theme, whereas the
fact is after all that the manner OF
TRANSCRIPTION is much more important
Grandeur of scenery literally tram
scribed does not always produce gran
deur of effect. For example, the
photograph, or the picture post card.
gives merely suggestion of the real
magnificence of the Canadian Rockies
or of the Alps. Bierstadts painting
of Mount Corcoran. in the permanent
collection of the Corcoran Gallery OF
Art. is an excellent example of the
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e London Chronicle

From the london ChronicIe.
Boys. like things, are not always what
they seem. school inspector having
been told that a certain class was very
dull, decided to test them himself. Ask
ing the lads to give him a number. and
one of them calling out ';Seventy-two."
he wrote on the blackboard '27." No
remark coming from the class. he asked
for another number and was given
Forty eight This he wrote on T. y
board So and turned to observe sily
signs OF intelligence. None was apparent
Certainly a very dull iot," he thought.
and once more asked one of them to give
him a number. Then came a raucous
young voice, ''1'hirty-three Nah let's see
il yer can muck abaht with that,'
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peculiarly charming about a color etching
which combines the ordinary etching 5
simplicity of treatment with painting s
richness of color, and Mr.. Senseney is
master of the art.
THERE is also on view I'm the Moore
galleries an exceedingly interesting
painting by Max Weyl, a work produced
many years ago, but comparable to the
paintings by the masters Of the French
school of landscape painting. It Is a SIM
pie little farmhouse on a green hillside
over which some bright-feathered chick
ems are straying. The subject itself
scarcely suggests beauty and yet there is
much beauty in it's simple LONELINESS.
The sky, the landscape, a suggestion of
human life and interest all beautifully
colored go to make a picture which will
hold it's own with the best that have been
produced.
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NEWS AND NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS

lists and the Washington Water Color
Club, and he exhibited with both societies
regularly. He grew up in this city as a
boy and studied in the Art Students
League. Until comparatively recently
that is. until the last four or five years
he held a position in the geological sur
vey, and did his painting out of office
hours. Finally he resigned his position,
went to New York. opened a studio and
gave his entire time to his art, with very
gratifying success.
THE Walters gallery in Baltimore will
be open as usual every Saturday and
Wednesday of January, February. March
and April, on Washington's birthday and
Easter Monday. 1t is understood that
during the past year Mr.. Walters has
made some important additions to his
collection of ceramics.
A NEW window, designed by Joseph
4 LAUDER who for several years work
ed in this city with the late Francis ID.
Millet has been recently placed in the
Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
of Brooklyn. Mr.. LAUDER is now head of
the department of design and mural dec
Grafton OF the Maryland Institute, Bal
timore.
LEILA MECILIN.
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eral years. Mr.. Williams has had the
distinction of painting the members of
the royal family of England and also OF
some of the foremost perSonageS in Amer
lean society.
The honor is well deserved, for his work
IS excellent. He manages to preserve the
quality of the ivory and yet to get into
his miniature paintings strength and per-
sonality. His paintings have daintiness
and yet character. They are deservedly
highly esteemed.
: Mr.. Williams has been in this country
since the early autumn executing orders
in Chicago. New York and Baltimore.
About half OF his year is spent in London,
the other half in the United States.
THE painting by Hobart Nichols. which
! constituted Mrs Wilson's Christmas
gift to the President, was shown in the
hemicycle hall of the Corcoran Gallery of
Art last spring, when Mr.. Nichols and
Mr.. Cornoyer jointly held an exhibition.
The President admired it much at the
time. and it is understood that Mrs. Will
son determined then to purchase it when
opportunity offered later. 1t represents
some lumbermen in the woods in winter,
where a fire is smoldering, the atmos-
phere is crisp and cold.
Mr. Nichols was long associated with
the Washington artists, being a member
| Of both the Society of Washington Art
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while she was breakfasting. She had
gone down to the table with Rex. They
had not talked much. There was really
nothing to talk about; they had been
married nine years. Then Rex caught
his car and went down town to his office
and she was at liberty to do as she
pleased until he returned at to take
her down to dinner.
Yes, she had actually been married
for nine years and for six years now
she had lived in this house, which was
the fashionable home for a good many
couples like Rex and herself-couples
without normal homes OF their own. In
reality it was a boarding house, though
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
THE EVENING STORY.
HER EXISTENCE.
Copyright. 1913. by W. werner9

The weather was doing very well for
August 1t was bright and yet cool.
Lingerie waists kept fresh all day and
compilations did not suffer. For Phyllis
Stevens these two things were vastly i'm
portant.
There was Il balcony outside her win
dow, yet she sat inside the window. The
balcony was too close to the street. Pas
sersby, especially men, had a way OF
staring up at her. She had been stared
at so much all her life that there was no
lon er novelty in L. So she keot within
her window on this gay. gentle August
morning and wondered what she should
do all day.
Her rooms had been put to rights
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
MUSIC AND ART AMONG THE
NEW BOOKS.

This weeks list OF recent accessionS
to the Public Library includes the fol-
lowing books on music. art. photogra-
ply, needlework and other subjects. r
Music.
ls ii0f vYofsGsss Original Comic Operas. ~
s Kns Hsnr ls Sede 7MT and IL
Lyon: James: Practical Guide TO the Modern
remberg. vvio.Wiasm. Eb. -'''se'' y ~
Wagner Richard. The Rhine-eold. 1907.
Wagner Richard. The Ring OF the Nibciuns.
vyIo-w12Gn. Ef.
Wagner. Richard The Story of Bayrcuth.
Music, Study and Teaching.
Harmony in Its Theory and Practice. 1906.
I.oeweneard. N. J. Harmony Modcruized. 1910.
and choru. Book. a' vzy,Ts.s 0e''o' MUSIC "e''er
Lussy. Mathis, 4 Short Treatise Musical
Child's Musical Education. 1910. yXPA-MiGs.
Myer. +. J. The Vocal Instructor. WV.
Pfenerkorn. 0. W. G. Pianistic Hints. 1911
RiI. T. r. Voice Training for School Children.
1910 vXy-R52sy
Rosiey. p. v. Nine Hundred Model Lesson.
..
Smith Eleanor. Music Course. 1909. VIVA
Sm35m.
winn. E. I. How to Prepare for Kreutzer.
winn. E. L. How 10 Study Fiorillo. 1910.
VIM, f. L. How TO Study Kreutzer 1910.
Art.
Poore. Ii. r. The New Tendency in Art. w
v rHIIss E. D. The Psychology Of Beauty i'''
Lives Of Artists.
Fletcher. Beaumont. Richard Wilson. r. A.
Ford. ], Z. Simeon Solomon 1909. w1o
Gaiiatin. A. f. wais,ier's Pastels and Other
Modern ProAles w1o-w57se. Reference.
Martin. W. Gerard Dou. w1o-n7isma.
Saint-Gaudens. Aueus.1s. "reminiscences; ed
by Homer Saint-Gaudens. 2v. W10-Sa26.
Art Galleries.
Howe. W. T. : History ., Of the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art Wd ss,;is ss,oo, wc.,,osa
Pour yoir yite ct Ben. Deuy Heures a.
Musee du Louvre 1910. wC39-Ps6t.
Photography.
American School OF corresnondence. Chicago.
Motovrsphy. 1911. WRN-Am3Imo
Anderson. +. L. Amateur Portraiture. VIZ
Bergmann. C. A. Puttin~ Backgrounds Into
Portrait Negatives wR-B456
Brown C. E. All About Color Photography.
Pocket-camera Photography. wR-P75s.
ans aams PORTRAY, Hens 1911
House Plans.
Adams. c. s. Modern Homes. wrMAdllm.
Even, Jean & Comnany. Modern Western
Hmm Mmmelwri~ht 4. L. i. Mode, FircDroof
Farmhouse or Country Home wrM-Hs75m. Z
aowe ,d Now a am Tnysns eT HOUSES
weston r. ID. Apartment Houses and Flats.
Drawing and Modelling.
Camnana. n; NJ. The Teacher of Drawing
Frederick. f. F. Plaster Casts and How They
Are Made. 1911. wJL~Fs75.
KELLOGG. A: " Forty lessons in Clay Model
M Mathewson. +. +. Perspective Stretching From
Working Drawings. zoos. w"B-M421p.
Church Architecture.
Rumrns. T. =. Tue cathedrals Of Central Italy.
Gade. ]. 4. Cathedrals OF Spain. 1911. wGK-
Moore. c. IT. Tho Medisevai Church Archi-
lecture OF England. wG-M7s3.
Thompson. A. II. English Monasteries' "on
Oriental Rugs.
Butler, W. NJ Rugs OF the Orient WV
ClaAin. The H. B. Company. New York: Rres
and Carpets From the Orient. 1907 w''v-CSi4
Antoine Oriental Rugs. 1911. wUv-G,ss.
Nahi~ian Bros. Oriental Rugs in the Home
wUN-Nl3
Needlework and Crochetilg.
Brainerd & Armstrong Company. Embroider.
Book for 1a14 wIA-B734.
Csndee IL G The naSasiry s"ok ~ r. cor 1c.,
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

THE POWER OF ADVERTISING. By
" Richardson. New York: The
Lambert Publishing Company
ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE,
Including the Magazines and the.
Poets. For 1919. BY William Stanley
Braithwaite. author of THE House ,
OF Falling Leaves" etc. Cambridge
Mass: Published by the author.
GLORIA GRAY. LOVE PIRATE. BY
Pearl Doles BELL. Illustrated By
John a. Hagstrom Chicago: Roberts
g. Co.
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LEILA MECHLIN.

remember I'll be glad to do anything
you want done in the cleaning line.
can bring you a reference. My name is
Mary Glow, and I live at Derby road,
seven flights up and the first room TO the
left"
Phyllis walked back home in maze
of thought For the first time she had
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

WTEDNES afternoon at the resi-
dence Of Mrs Turner, 1911 New
Hampshire avenue, collection Of minia-
lures by Allyn Williams was informally
exhibited. Mr.. Williams is president of
the British Society of Miniature Painters
and is well known in this city, having
spent a part of each season here for sew
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

fortnight. Mr. Pond has lived and work
ed chiefly abroad and therefore is not
well known in this country. He will show
about q dozen canvases, three OF which
are very large one showing three young
women at full length. His style, to a
great extent, is fashioned on that of the
famous English portraiturists and his
works have pictorial quality. Perhaps
the most satisfactory are, however. those
that are least picturesque. There is a
strong, virile portrait of diplomat seated
out-of-doors in the full light of the sun,
with his morning paper in his hand.
There is another of a little girl in terra
Gotta gown which is strong and con-
vincing. A third begun and yet not I'M
ished, a portrait of a man, shows eA-
treme cleverness on the part of the artist,
as does vivaclous study OF a dark-eyed
young girl.
There is in some of Mr.. Ponds pictures
a suggestion of medium that Is not alto
gether pleasant and in others daintiness
which does not conform with their size.
The work, however, is well above the
average and Will be found of interest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
Autograph Letters Bought and Sold

Highest price paid for Autograph Letters Of Fa-
nous People, rare books and books with Autograph
Inscriptions. r. r. Msdigan. sol 9Th ave-. \. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
Needlework and Crocheting

Brainerd & Armstrong Company. Embroider'
Book for 1914. WTA-B134.
Csndee III. c. The Tapestry Book WtE-s LOST
Dorothy Bradford Series No. 4. on Corons
ton Braid Crochet. WIrA-DI36.
Flessher s. b. and r. w. inc. Philade'phia
Knitting and Crochetin~ Manual. WrAF64
Kohlsaat. A. NJ. Old Lace Manual 1910.
Robinson. Belle. The Priscilla Filet Crochet
Book 1911. WUA-R566p.
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TN this same gallery there is at present
group of colored etchings by George
Senseney on view. Mr.. Senseney was
Washington boy, a student here at the
Corcoran School, and also under Mr.. Hell
mick. His color etchings, however, have
for long been well known and much
priced by collectors. There is something
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

PHEN is cocoa? What is
chocolate? How much water
belongs in an oyster? Who
put too much water in a
fornafn can and what can
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
BOOK REVIEWS.

the LIFE OF EDWARD BULwER;
First Lord Lytton. BY his grand
son, the Earl Of Lytton- London:
Macmillan & Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

A y exhibition Of portraits by Dana
"A Pond will open in the Moore Gallery,
18th street, Monday and continue for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

Butler, W. NJ. Rugs OF the Orient. WV
Ba7r
Clafin. The H. B. Company. New York. Rrss
and Carpets From the Orient. 1907. W''V-CJl4
Gardiner. f. ID. The Gardiner Collection OF
NahI-ian Eros Oriental Rugs in the Home.
WILMA
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THE BROKEN HALO. Ely Florence

Barclay. author OF 1.-The Rosary,
etc New York: G. p. Putnam's
Sons.
Every little boy has hero. some man
who stands as the pattern OF what he
himself is soing 10 be. Seven-year-old
Dick Cameron's hero was the young
curate. whose powers in Dicks eyes ay
auite outside his clerical Office. These
conferred, instead, about an almost magic
mastery OF his bicycle and about the way
ne could swell one up, well-nigh to burst
ing, with the need TO march and make
music and fight, when, at the village
concerts, he sang so loud and clear
Here they Come, Fife and Drum." The
young curate was by no means unmind-
pleased with il. He accepted the halo
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-25
SEEKS PROPERTY HE GAVE WIFE
lie Was Drinking when lie Made
Transfer, G.. q. MoIlcr says.

| Charles 6. Mollcr. now 6S years Old
VINO inherited n fortune from his father
/ pr.cr Mollcr. sugar r"6ner. testified be-
fore Justlc. Cohalau or III" supreme CuLi;
yesterday IN his suit {" roc1vcr Personal
property worth more than 100000 AMI
real estate in Madison av"uu" which b,
gave to Mrs Jane Somw"r MCilrc after
t.r'- marriage .,uglst 20. 1910
MIR. Moll,r contti.ds that his brlI. wa
q Ell the common .nw wife OF Symberi
Sommer VITA whom she had been living
IN Missouri he also bases HIS suit on
allegations that sn. obtained his property
through uudu" influence.
Mr.. Mole- told ~ deciding MS home
Stead at $50 MADISON avenue shortly ate.
.r married and then a.. trying ~ get 4,
back when hc LETT A!s VT" three weeks
later. The plaintiff said his VII" induced
him to return 10 her and promised to give
ms house back. Sh" failed to keep her
promise, he said, asking slOo,0 600 for the
, property
SIR Mollcr said that JOHN =. Cowan.
the d.f.ndarts H.tornC", AID his vie
Joined him and the drf-.laat "a a visit; 10
Atlantic city aad while walking on tive
, boardwalk Mrs Mp,'p- agreed 70 tax"
$1,000 for t." house. Mr.. Iuw.u drew
M IN agrec'ncu; ard Mr. Nol!cr paid
uEr- The aIo1cy. Mr.. Mn.l"r sad his NJ.
tacn induced him - ~ 20 his O;,!cc a',
give her u number q. securities. lie was
drinking "A large quantity O. burgundy a..
tho t!;U". he said,