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etc illustrations by Anton Otto
Fischer. Boston: Little, Brown &

Forty nine in California again. Here
this ubiquitous subject is narrowed to
the southern ranch of a grand Spaniard.
Don Andres Picardo, whose lovely daugh-
ter is the main source Of the many sided
trouble in which this adventure so
abounds. Two Texas cowboys and fiery
Don Jose are nightly impressed with
the charms of the beautiful senorita-
With first one and then another Of these
three in hand. and the remaining two In
the air. the adroit Teresita keeps about
three times seven devils out a-roaring
and a-ramping for much the larger part
of the time. Supplementing this par
ticular brand of excitement is that
aroused by the hatred Of the common
greasers for this pair of Texan gringos.
In scant and fleeing between whiles of
respite one catches very pleasing glimpses
of the spacious home life Of the Spanish
hacienda in southern California. Mr..
Bowers is a vivid narrator. The near
hanging Of Jack Allen-one Of the two
story, proves this. as does the contest
at riata work between Allen and Don
Jose at the fiesta Besides. he makes
believable characters. exercising so good
a restraint in doing this that one Is
able to follow and understand their par
ticular mode of communication-which
is much more than can be said for the
majority of novelists who have chosen
the vanished wild and woolly'' aspect OF
the great west as their theme. One ad-
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Pointed Paragraphs.
Fiction is falsehood in a gilt fra,

Fiction is falsehood in q gilt frame.
The science Of living consists in not
being a dead one.
A mother is seldom a heroine to her
sixteen-year-old daughter.
Blushing is likely to strain a grass
Widows complexion.
Vanity will continue to flourish as long
as it can feed on itself.
Why is it as easy to annoy grown
folks as It is difficult to amuse baby?
Many q man becomes weary from
trying to dodge people who make him
tired.
Love may come and love may go, but
the tnstallment collector is more per-
sistent-
Perhaps nothing disgusts a girl more
than to have a young man make blun
at kissing her
If beggars were choosers police magis-
trates would be men of very few words
and short sentences.
If a millionaire manufacturer works
harder than his employees. it is only in
accord with the eternal fitness OF things.
He gets more pay.
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These figures divide their time pretty
evenly between going through certain
trivial actions calculated to push the story

These figures divide their time pretty
evenly between going through certain
trivial actions calculated to push the story
to a tremendous conclusion, and violently
contradicting their authors claims for
them. The heroine. this matchless crea-
ture whom two men equally desire as the
one priceless jewel of life. is sullen,
dull, raw, inexpensive girl. absolutely
devoid of charm of either head or heart
stumbler to whom black is white. and
crooked things straight, to whom the
eArth-draggled look like the heaven-porn.
1shat Khan, Prince of Bholpure, Is
mock-heroic joke.
This novel Is 81. go prize story. passed
upon by Joseph Conrad and W. J. Locke
Its writer is very young, as both the
story itself and the photograph that comes
with it prove These are the two facts
that warrant any considerable attention
to The Lure of the Little Drum This
writer has two points Of promise. She
has a working grasp of the story struc-
ture. She can draw good pictures. make
attractive backgrounds. When she knows
more about real people. and is able to
plumb her plots to some show Of plausi-
bility, and has purged her imagination
then we may have some real stories from
this young prize winner. One wonders.
in this connection how many competitors
were in this contest, and what the I'M
mediate future of young England in f1c-
ton really looks like. and then he won
ders, too, about the point of view OF
these Judges of literary contests.
THE GRINGOS; A Story Of the Old
California Days In 1S49. By B. NJ
Bowers, author of Good Indian"
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Abnitional Gburfb Aems

Mr. Van W. Roberds, the newly elected
president of Douglas Chapter. Epworth
League and Miss Blanche Carroll Will
lead the service at Douglas Church to-
morrow evening. A social will be held
April II.
The other newly elected officers are:
Robert Burg. first vice president; Miss
Edna Stryker, second vice president: !:
Mrs. Laila Sloat. third vice president;
Mrs. c. c. Mullady. fourth vice presi-
dent; Miss Nellie Morris. secretary;
Chris c. Mullady. treasurer; Edward
Boss, financial secretary.
:. K x x
\ reception at Rauschers was held by
the Young Women's Christian Assoclatlon
last evening in honor Of Miss Mary l..
Thomas, general secretary of the Y. w.
C. A. in Buenos Aires. This association
is the only one fully established on the
South American continent.
DIR. Albert Hale of the Pan-Amerlcan
Union spoke on general conditions n
South America Mrs. William II. Sell
domridge sang four nu.nbers. accom-
panied by Mrs. William Hamilton Bayiy,
president Of the local Y. w. G. A.
Judge w. +. Norris of the Department
of Justice. will speak at the Easter yes
per service at 4:3O pm. at 1856 r street
northwest His subject will be Immortal
Hone" Mrs II. II. Seldomridge. wife OF
the representative from Colorado, will
sing.
The ladies' Guild of the Church of the
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after. There was just one thing to do
and that was to give Jumper such a
fright that he would forget all about
Buster Bear. So as soon as he was out
of sight of the other little people Reddy
had turned into the Green Forest and
run as fast as ever he could to head off
Jumper the Hare.
Now. Reddy couldn't have done this
had Jumper started in a great hurry to
look for Buster Bear. because fast as
Reddy can run Jumper can run faster.
But Jumper had not been in a hurry, and
so 1t happened that Reddy was nicely
hidden behind big pile of brush when
Jumper came hopping along. When
Reddy saw him coming he smiled. And
it was a wicked, hungry smile. He
had started out to scare Jumper Now
he meant to catch Jumper, if he could.
Jumper would make a very good dinner.
Yes. sir. dinner. Yes, indeed. he would
make splendid dinner Reddy's mouth
watered at the thought.
Now. it isn't for nothing that Old
Mother Nature gives things to her chill
dren, and so, of course, there is a rea-
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STA


their popularity he never allowed himself
to adopt a formula. He was indeed very
versatile.
In this exhibition are paintings Of
broad panoramas, and other paintings Of
single objects seen at close range-broad
views Of open country and closed-in
vistas such as one finds in the confines
Of the woods. In the second gallery are
shown the oil paintings, chief among
and Pines," shown in the Corcoran Gal
lery's biennial exhibition OF some sea-
sons ago-a beautiful painting worthy OF
place in some permanent public col
lection, rich in color, toneful and very
significant.
Some smaller canvases are shown
which possess much the same quality OF
tone and charm of color. One is an
autumn landscape rather closely painted,
hut yery true and suggestive-another is
a scene on a mountain lake. across the
face of which summer shower is pass
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THE MORNINGS WAR: 4 Romance.
BY c. E. Montague. New York:

THE MORNINGS WAR: 4 Romance.
BY c. E. Montague. New York:
Henry Holt & Co.
Any seasons procession of novels is to
every seeming interminable. as it is, un-
happily but certainly, for the most part,
unimpressive. Now and then. however.
there appears in the long line a point of
life and light, of individuality, purpose,
appeal The Mornings War" is such a
point-a romance Of vivid personality. of
admirably painstaking workmanship.
in other part by the famine-stricken
Irish peasantry of Cusheen, the story ad-
vances in full accord with the strenuous
circumstances and influences of these
surroundings. A consistent and subStan-
tial web of events makes constant urge
upon the curiosity and absorbed interest
nf the reader. But the chief strength.
the best charm of this novel, lies in the
authors complete seizure and portrayal
of the rounded sum of qualities needed
for the making Of each Of the characters
of this romance. Each character is a
personality in his own right, a striking
and unusual personality. The hero of
this novel in particular is developed with
something of the flashing insight Of
George Meredith. The book as a whole
has something of Merediths manner. too,
a manner that exacts some degree Of
mental equipment on the readers part, q
manner that pays royalty for the reader 9
readiness of mind, for his alertness Of at
tention. Two early chapters here make
an incomparably fine adventure in noun
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referred more than once with great en-
thustasm. It IS, he declared, one OF the
most princely and valuable gifts ever
made to a nation, and the people of
Washington in particular, are, he said,
most fortunate in the assurance of Its
future possession.
Among the numerous slides shown
were several Of the peacock rocm which
is to be rebuilt in the Freer gallery here
as it was originally in England and is
now in Detroit Mr.. Churchill indicated.
in a way not only to be understood, but
remembered Whistler's S characteristics as
apart and have given him distinction.
His influence, Mr.. Churchill claimed.
has been and still is, one of the strong
est which has been exerted on modern
art-the art OF our day.
THE art talk given by Richard n.
Brooke at the Corcoran School last
Monday afternoon took the form of a
reminiscence of sketching trip taken in
his student days in France on the shores
of the River Somme. 1t was delightful
experience. full Of incident and adven-
ture, and was very pleasantly recounted.
When one is young and an artist and
summer is at hand, physical discomforts
count for little and life is all one great
adventure. And the advantage that
artists have over others is that in spirit
they seem never to grow old. Mr..
Brooke's talk was a charming chapter
in an artists biography.
*
NEXT Monday afternoon, at AIS, at the
~ Corcoran School of Art, Mr. Messer
will give talk on James Henry Moser,
which will take the form of an apprecia-
ton. Mr.. Moser was for a number of years
an instructor in the school; he was also
for even longer a close friend and as
sociate Of Mr.. Messer. The talk is tc
be given as a personal tribute. and al
| this time. rather than earlier. on ac-
| count of the concurrence of the memorial
exhibition. which not only tends in the
same direction, but affords adequate
| illustration 6f Mr. Moser's work. This
talk is specially purposed for the stu
dents Of the school. but all who are in
I terested, and particularly Mr.. Moser s
friends, will be freely granted admission.
NEXT Wednesday evening a lecture or
/ Y the architecture Of Japan will be
given by Prof. Warren P. Laird Of the
| University Of Pennsylvania, in the audi
torium of the National Museum. This
| lecture. which will be elaborately Illus
trated by stereopttcon slides, will be the
| last in the members course of the Wash
| ington Society of tho Fine Arts for the
present season.
THE exhibition of small bronzes by
Prince Paul Troubetskoy, which was
! to have opened in the Moore galleries
Monday, has been somewhat delayed
| but will be on view all of next week. II
| is a unique and interesting collection. In
writing critically of this sculptor's work
| A. E. Gallatin has said:
'"rroubetsl<oy is an impressionist in
plaster. His spontaneity, his sense OF
realism. the plein air quality in his
| work and its vibration link his art very
closely with that Of Monet and the great
school of impressfonism. What Arthur
Symons once wrote of Rodin might with
equal truth be said Of Troubetskoy, Other
sculptors turn life into sculpture; he turns
sculpture into life"
LEILA MECaLIN.
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\ {The Searchli6ht
An Instrument for Measuring Paper
Glaze.

Glaze.
Paper glare, even more than small type
and crowded lines is q continual harass-
ment to the reader. Paper whose sur
face gloss reflects strong light glare is
harmful for the eyes and discourages all
EFFORT toward careful reading. Publish
ers and paper makers, therefore, OF late
have devoted much study to the suo1ect
Of proper paper glazes in order to arrive
at a standardized paper gloss which viii
not strain the eyes. An instrument for
the exact determination of the amount
Of glare from various calendered papers
has been invented by Prof. L. r. 1nger-
soil. By aid of this so-called glarimeter,
It Is believed, a most desirable paper sur
face will be determined.
The glarimeter is designed for measur-
ing the brilliancy Of glare spot on the
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paper to be tested. The paper sheet is
placed within an inclosed cabinet and re-
ceives from one end. through a glass
window. light from an electric bulb which
strikes it at an approximate angle of
575 degrees This light is reflected from
the paper at the Same angle into an
eye-piece for the measurement of its in
tensity. The invention Is based upon the
principle that paper. in common with
most other substances, polarizes that por-
ton of the light which is specularly re-
fiected from it.
Results obtained by Prof Ingersoll
show that astonishing variations in the
amount of glare are produced by varying
the paper texture. Colored papers re-
fleet almost as much light as plain ones.
Much is to be done in determining the
glare of papers made by all the various
processes.
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dunn he handled with amazing skill and
the Joy Of producing was never dulled by
a sense of toll. The making OF pictures
was the business of his life. but it was
also his high calling and pleasure-the
thing of all others that he chose to do
and he found his best reward in the do
ing. All this to great extent Is reflected
in his pictures-they are intimate inter-
pretations. full not only of the love of ma
ture, but of the personality of the inter
prefer. 1t is as though he said to the OBJ
server: Come see with me this thing
which I find entrancingly lovely" He
was not in each instance equally success
ful-no artist is if he is human and has
temperament-but he never failed to
strive to make beauty manifest and in
this he seldom failed. His cloud and
mountain pictures were perhaps his most
Individual works. but they were no more
distinguished than some Of his other
themes and it is well to note that despite
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which Reddy was hiding when his long
ears caugh just the ,teeniest. weeniest
sound. Perhaps in his eagerness Reddy
rustled tiny dead leaf. Anyway, Jump
er stopped short and looked very hard
at the pile of brush. Reddy held his
breath and his yellow eyes looked very
fierce and hungry. Still Jumper sat there
looking and looking and looking. 1t
seemed to Reddy as if he never would
move.
Just as Reddy had about made up his
mind to rush out and try to catch
Jumper where he sat a heavy step sound
ed behind him Reddy turned his head
hastily. There was the big black stranger
who had come to live in the Green
that it was Buster Bear He gave one
hasty look at the great claws on Busters
feet and then with yelp Of fright he
| tucked his tail between his legs and
started for home as fast as he could
run, the most frightened Fox who ever
| ran through the Green Forest.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

HON TO BE Beautiful. Hs Marie
Nontaigne and others. Illustrated.
New York: Harper Il Eros
THE LEGEND OF JERRY bADD. Rv
Roy Rolfe ellison. author of "Ember
Light. etc. New York: Doubleda1
Page 4 Co. Washington: Woodwa rd
& Lothrop.
OUR COMMON ROAD. BY Agnes Ed
wards. Boston: Houghton Mimia
Company.
A MODERN EVE. BY May Edgingtoa
New York; Frederick \. Stokes
Company.
SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE. b. F. J.
Randall New York John Lane
Company.
OUT OF EGYPT. BY Al Elizabeth
Grouse. illustrated by photographs
Boston: Richard G. Badger.
THE AMERICAN YEAR HOOK: 4
Record OF Eveata and Progress
1913. Edited by Francis O. Wick
ware. r. A, B. Sc. under direction
of a supervisory board representing
national learned societies New
York: D. Appleton & Co.
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SOME wORLD-CIRCUIT SAJNTER-
INGS. BY William Ford Nichols
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Co.

ever.
SOME wORLD-CIRCUIT SAINTER-
INGS. BY William Ford Nichols
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Co.
After all. most things depend upon ones
point Of view The volume in hand,
apart from its substantial intrinsic value,
is another proof Of this. Here are jour
neys to Egypt, Turkey and the Holy
Land. to Paris and London and st. Pet
ersburg, to China and Japan-and all as
different from the average viewpoints OF
travel as can well be imagined The
great religious shrines and characters
and scenes stand in the forefront OF this
travellers mind. These are the CHIEF
subjects of his observations. these the
sources of his reflections. Assist and st
Francis, Athens and st. Paul, tho Popes
in Punishment at Avignon. Damascus.
Capernaum. and the River Jordan. mis-
sions and mosques. private devotions and
public benefactfons are the media through
which this saunterer looks out upon
character and its supreme ofhce in the
business Of life. It stands as rich
special view OF some Of the great places
of the world. some Of the great points OF
human history. AS a book. II Is hnely
Illustrated, beautifully made Paul Elder
volume.
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Consultation.

From Judge.
Did the doctor pronounce you sound
as dollar?"
Yes; and sent me a bill for i've
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son for the long ears of Jumper the
Hare. 1t is that he may be able to hear
the slightest noise so that he can run
away from danger, for you know he can
not fight. So as he came through the
Green Forest he kept stopping every
few jmups to look and listen. He had
almost reached the pile of brush behind
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and stolen while he was away from
home by an artful dodger from Pitts
burgh, who wanted much to get in on
this instrument of industrial revolution.
This truly is a moving tale-all boy.
fresh. ingenious, natural-such a story
as any real boy will call one of the best
ever.
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tivating book, summarizing the great day
in which We live
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BOOK REVIEWS.

STUDIES IN STNGECRAFT. BY Clay
ton Hamilton. member of the Ma
tional Institute of Arts and Letters,
author of The Theory of the The
ater." etc. New York: Henry Holt
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Harper and Brothers.
This wonder book is offered as tri-
aunlphant evidence that the days OF
miracles not only are not past but that.
far from this, the twentieth century is
she golden age of these marvels. Here
0. dozen stories, more or less. amphfy
ahis statement in absorbing accounts of
come of the most remarkable of the
achievements of modern science. The
snagicians of this new age are the sci
entists-the physicists and chemists, the
biologists, and astronomers. and their
kind Descriptions that discount Jules
Verne in both form and substance set
out these tested and proved prodigies.
The miracle of modern medicine Is here
medicine, in its right-about-face as TO
the sources OF disease. in its new 'front.'
ing upon hygiene and prevention as
against treatment and cure, in its full
panoply of antiseptics and antitoxins, all
bent to the struggle with the nlicrobe and
the final banishment of one and another
of the plaques of mankind. Here, too, is
the marvel of modern mechanical inven-
tions-of wireless telegraphy, the tele-
phone. the aeroplane, each an element of
revolution in the old economy of things.
all together calculated to render the
whole round earth of today no more in
point of mere communicabilty, than was
a parish IN the past Another story tells
that the precise stock from which the
backbone species sprang. that is our
own species. has been discovered without
peradVenture-a discovery calculated 10
make look in kinly wise upon the old
gray spider. Another one pictures the
miracle of life with only one parent 10
produce it. and shows to what extent and
under what conditions this has already
been achieved. This last is an event fitted
10 cause a great looking up among the
females, since, TO be sure, if there is TO
be but one parent it must. forsooth. be
the mother. Perhaps the greatest sur
prise. as it is the greatest pleasure, in
this book of general astonishnent is
the quality OF immediate appeal with
! which the author invests each of these
miraculous disclosures. An abstract and
technical consideration is here entirely
slIpplsnted by the picturesque view and
the practical workings OF each of these
Inodern marvels. IT is "A book for the
g%ner'+i reader very useful and cap
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The following books, treating OF trayel
in various lands, Of economics, business
and various social questions. are among
the recent additions to the Public L.
brary
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The ladies Guild of the Church of the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-31
HAYES CHOSEN HEAD OF
ZACH CHANDLER SOCIETY

LANSING. Mich. Jan. 81 (Speciai)
More than SIX hundred Republicans,
the largest gathering In the history
OF the Zach Chandler club. attended
the annual banquet last night. Cong.
Miller OF Minnesota spoke on our
insular possessions, Cong. Willis,
OF Ohio gave "gettogether' talk,
and Senator Weeks OF Massachu
sets discussed the currency bill. Con
gressman-at-large PATRICK ". Kelley
acted as POSTMASTER and his candidacy
for CONGRESSMAN IN the sixth district
against Sam Smith or Pontiac was an.
nounced There was sprinkling or
Republicans who would Ike TO grab
state honors presen: including F. C..
Martindale OF Detroit and John Carton
OF Flint, candidates for the nomina.
ton for governor; Speaker Currie or
Midland. congressional aspirant; Sen
ator c. Vaughan OF St Johns, out FOR
secretary OF state: D. II. Mills OF Hills
dale, candidate for the same job.
Representative Weedenfelder OF Van
Buren, county, candidate for speaker.
and large number OF others who
would like 10 be candidates for the
legislature.
The club elected Gurd NJ. Hayes.
the welEknown newspaper man, az
president
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-01-31
SCHOOL BOARD MAY
ORDER OUT ALL PHONES

Considering its budget Friday af-
ternoon, the school board cut out
he item for telephone service, decid-
ing TO fight the S72 rate announced by
the telephone company. The present
rate Is SIS per phone. 1t was at first
proposed 10 leave an item OF $4,000 in
tho budget 10 cover telephones in the
high schools and the Office building.
but even this was eliminated on In
spector MumforuS motion. IL an
agreement can be made with the com.
pany for low rate. a supplement es.
innate will be asked for
The board decided to ask 1925. 900
for a 20-room school at Seneca-aye.
and Sylvester-st. Ii Will ask $4,000
for the purchase OF two auto buses to
transport crippled children to school.
This service now costs SPA day.
During school hours. 1t was suggest
ed. the autos could be used for other
purposes. such as taking classes on
tours OF observation OF manufacturing
plants
II the item of $275,000 for a combi.
nation high and elementary school In
the Eighteenth ward IL allowed. Supt.
Chadsey plans TO abandon the McMil-
Ian and Higgins high schools. The
Mcmillan school will be used for ele-
mentary studies, and the Higgins will
be put out OF commission. DR. Chad.
sey is planning a six-year elementary
and six-year high school course for
the new building.