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upon, and for years she has been
known as the most perfectly gowned
woman in Washington, both because
| she has exquisite taste and because
she has plenty of means to follow her
taste in dress. Her gowns have al
ways been chosen with rare care and
she bought much from the fashionable
costumers in Paris, where she was
frequent visitor before the war.
Those who are in position to know
say the bride spent several months in
the preparation of her trousseau, be-
ing aided in this important labor by
her mother, who also is woman OF
extraordinary discernment. It was all
complete, tbs whispered, two weeks
before the date of the wedding. Some
controversy arose as to the origin OF
the gowns and frocks and linens and
laces. There were stories to the eff
feet that French supply houses baked
at furnishing anything through the
medium of German-American middle
men. Most of the stories were base
less, be it said truthfully, for the
BRIDES wedding outfit was almost en-
tirely of American origin.
Orchids Her Favorite.
Dark green and orchid are the pre-
dominating hues in the trousseau
gowns, for orchids are the new Mrs.
Wilson's favorite flowers. There are
travelling gowns, street frocks and eve.
ming gowns of amazing loneliness
which will be seen much this winter,
for the White House is to be re-
opened for a series of old-time enter
tainments. The four great official re-
ceptions, which were omitted last win
ter, will be resumed, and there will be
matinee teas and frequent musicales.
Mr.. Wilson is the sixth president OF
the United States to marry a widow.
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Fill
more and BENJAMIN Harrison were his
predecessors in this sort of a union,
but in not more than one or two cases
was the widow the second wife-as in
this case. John Tyler and Theodore
Roosevelt married twice, but their
second wives had not been welded be-
fore.
It is scarcely necessary to recall
George Washington's marriage. The
world knows of his courtship, engage
ment and espousal. His love was the
widow Custis." Thomas Jefferson,
at the home of friend, John Wayles,
met Martha Shelton, Wayles' widowed
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Facts About Coast Defenses.

Washington.-The war department
bureau reports disclose the following
facts about the army of the United
States and it's coast defenses. The sys-
tenn of cast defenses is "the most
formidable in the world" but is short
$50 officers and 1O,828 men of the
regular establishment and 271 officers
and 1891 men of the National GuaTd
to man all forts and mine defenses
Congress has appropriated $175,OOO,-
900 to establish the present system,
but at present batteries which cost
$41 600 are without trained men.
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Congress Adjourns for Christmas.

Washing tOn.-COngress adjourned
for the Christmas holidays after the
senate had adopted the joint resolu-
ton which passed the house extend
ing the emergency revenue law one
year or until December 81, 1916. The
senate adopted the resolution after a
lively partisan debate by a voc Of As
to 20. Democrats supporting it solid
ly and Republicans unanimously op-
posing it. President Wilson signed
the measure. Both houses will re-
convene at noon Tuesday, January 4.
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Whenever two women begin to talk
things over they are sure to overtalk.
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The reckless chauffeur is a sort OF
autOmaniac
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-13
Woman Suffrage in Denver.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In behalf of the cause of fair play
and Justice to the woman suffrage cause l
wish to show the fallacy of Mr.. James B.
Nugent's assertion that "the City of Denver
cannot even sell its bonds, and it is all due
to the hysteria of women, exemplifed in their
voting at the polls"
As to this matter, q friend of mine, a
prominent and highly respected citizen in
Denver, writes me as follows: "The fact of
women voting in Denver has nothing to do
with the city's selling its bonds for water
works. The women's votes are not for any
such confscation, and the cause of the trou-
Bile is demagogic agitation, headed by news
paper editor who demanded $25OO00 to sup
port the franchise, and when refused has led
the movement in opposition to the water
company"
So much for this matter.
But there is a reason" says my informant,
"why women should not have the vote, at
least in cities like New York and Denver,
because the police are in the control OF the
bad element, male and female, without regard
70 politics, and this gives the party in power,
through the police, a great control in cleo
lions. Add the bad women vote 10 that of
the disreputable man vote, and l doubt if
such control could be overcome.
81 can see the injury already done by women
voting, and not by their merely going TO the
polls, but by the fact that it makes lot of
women the same sort of politicians that 1t
has heretofore made of certain number of
men, and that sort of cosrsenng process is
very Objectionable. And then, II puts an UNI
necessary burden on the women and is un-
fortunate for the economies of the state. All
this can be prevented only by the women
themselves realizing the true situation and
opposing the movement, for otherwise it will
proceed and become fact The only people
in our state Colorado who do not look at
this matter as do are those politicians, or
would-be politicians, who dare not state that
woman suffrage is failure for fear it will
be used against them to prejudice the female
vote. | hope you will do what you car to
stem the tide"
As this is a word in time from one Of Den
ver's citizens who understands conditions
thoroughly, trust il may be published.
J. c. PUMPELLY.
New York, July ., 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-13
The Golden Egg.

The goose that lays the golden egg is
subject to metamorphoses. She becomes
this or that according as the fashions and
signs of the times incline mems magma
tons. Once, no doubt, she was privateer
haunting the Spanish Main. Then she be-
came farm in the middle of Manhattan,
and still later, perhaps, coal mine in
ones back yard or a gold mine in Grass
Valley. Very recently she has strongly
resembled an oil gusher.
But the form she takes need not be a
material one. On occasion she has become
simply an idea, and it is as an idea that
she seems to be making her most engaging
appearance at the present moment. As
such she laid for Mr.. John Hays Ham
mond, jr., in his laboratory at South
Gloucester, Mass, a thermit incendiary
bomb. At least, Mr.. Hammond is himself
convinced she was the mother, now that a
German-American assistant of his has
stolen the plans and passed them over,
Mr.. Hammond declares, to the German
War Office.
at seems pretty tough" he remarks,
"for a fellow to work so hard on the most
deadly bomb ever invented and then to be
robbed Of it."
We can all sympathize with Mr.. Ham
mond, all of us who have ever dreamed
IN an indulgent moment of possessing that
goose more precious
Than all Bocaras Wanted gold,
Than all the gems of Samarcand.
But what bird of prey she has become
and what an egg
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-13
VASSAR'S RELATION TO SUI.
FRAGE
It's Founder an Advocate of Equal
Advantages for the Two Sexes.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: One of your anti-suffrage CORE
spondents is twtting women with the state
ment that "the first college for women-Vas-
sar-was planned by men," As a Vassar
graduate, I'm all for its courageous founder
Three cheers for Matthew Vassar, who staked
his fortune on the principle that men and
women were created equal and should there
fore have equal educational advantages! But
three times three and a tiger for his niece
Miss Lydia Booth, who for years conducted
ladies' seminary in Poughkeepsie and turned
her uncle's mind from his pet project of en-
dowing a spital to the idea of endowng
college for women.
Said Mr.. Vassar in an address to his board
Of trustees in February, 1864 ut is due
to truth to say that my great interest in the
subject Of female education was awakened
not less than twenty years ago by an init
mate female friend and relative, now de-
ceased, who conducted seminary of long
standing and character in this city. q.
1t was this fact, more than any other, and
more than all others, that awakened me early
to the possibility and necessity Of an insti-
tuition like the one we now propose
Mr.. Vassar was also Influenced by the sue
cess of the American Woman's Educational
Association, which in 1914 began to collect
money to endow institutions for the young of
their sex which should embrace the leading
features of colleges for young men. In 1861,
when the Vassar charter was granted, sew
eral successful institutions had been put in
operation by this organization Of women.
The vote, as your correspondent implies,
was not necessary to bring about the higher
education OF women, but it would have given
invaluable assistance President Raymond Of
Vassar in the prospectus Of 1873, after set
ting forth the pressing need for endowment,
concluded: "The great State OF New York,
which gave its hundreds of thousands to the
colleges for young men to help their strug
Cling infancy and enable them to educate
those who were too poor to educate them
selves, has not yet contributed anything to
cndow institutions for the similar culture Of
its daughters; no other state has done any
better"
The vote is a time saving device, handy
tool, as it were. Women can accomplish
much without it, though forced TO rely on
clumsy and wasteful methods But it is the
status in the community which the non-pos-
session of the vote represents that matters.
Matthew Nassar expressed himself as
shocked that women should be classed in this
particular with idiots and criminals 1t is
significant that the founder of the first
woman's college was believer in votes for
women. VASSAR, '08
New York, July 10, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-13
Ireland's Attitude.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: After reading the letter in your pa
per yesterday signed by the author "A
French Lady, decided to enlghten her a
little on the topics in her letter.
Ireland is not sore at England because she
was conquered 700 years ago. No-not at
all. It is for the Continued" injustices done
to her for the last seven centuries. The
French lady should not lose sight of the fact
that Irishmen are Trishmen, indomitable, and
if other countries have meekly submitted TO
the injustices heaped upon them by their OPP
pressors it is not necessary that the Irish
people should follow suit.
Irish statesmen, with the aid Of some
benevolent, liberal minded Engishmen, have
forced England to relnquish year by year
to some extent her uncalledfor tyranny
and this is one reason why thousands OF
Irishmen overlook Englands past and pres
ent ingratitude and always fight gallantly
the battles Of England. To-day at least $780,
600 Irishmen who advocate Home Rule are
lighting at the front for cause in which
they are not involved. This showing does
not look as il Ireland harbored a grudge
against England.
II under French or German rule Ireland
would, Just as she has done in the case OF
England, demand her rights and fight for
them if refused. Perhaps she would be bet
ter off to-day. Who knows?
France, don't think, would take Alsace-
Lorraine if Germany presented those prov
inces to her. No, she has forgotten the
humiIating thrashing she received at Ger
many's hands in 1870. No, France is not
sore over the loss of Alsace Lorraine. She
Franco for forty years has been schemine
and preparing to retake them. That's all.
Irshmen always desire 10 avoid being
drawn into controversy about their suffering.
and struggles, but it becomes necessary al
times to answer those fosters who are for,
ever trying to unjustly justify England's un-
grateful attitude toward the Irish.
p. j. BRADLEY.
New York, July s, 1918.
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battles. But she has finished with nothing.
II her masses now go west the Rus
slams will presently come back into Galicia,
The eastern battlefront is too long to per-
NIT either side to hold a continuous line
of trenches. To make the great drive cor
RESPONDENTS with the German army in the
west have told us that the line in the west
had TO be held thinly. The menace of the
French operations in Artois was graph
cally narrated to our correspondent by the
German commander himself The risk was
run in the hope of getting decision in
the east. and there has been no decision.
Meantime the Anglo-Frcnch armies in
the west have failed completely to take
advantage of German concentration in the
east. They have been content to break
German lines in France. Germany has
proven that she can stand off the Anglo
French effort while assailing Russia. She
NAV now demonstrate similar ability to
hold in the east while attacking in the
west.
But eventually Germany must lose II
she cannot completely rid herself OF the
enemy on one front. And while she has
been failing TO do this on the east, Italy
has been coming up in the south, a new
foe on a fresh front, and must presently
be dealt with, will soon claim new Ger
man regiments and corps.
Actually, then, the Galician drive, like
the dash to the Marine, has failed to &C
complish its chief, its essential purpose.
All the accumulated store of ammunition,
all the new troops from the winter train
ing camps have not availed to dispose Of
Russia. This victory has not even pre-
vented a new foe from coming in. Once
more the parallel is with 1913, but 1913 so
far without Leipsic and without any imme-
date promise of such disaster.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-13
A laxative Peacemaker.

As preachers of universal peace are
often interchangeable and devoted takers, so
for them a state of war is doubly
calamitous as opposing their pacific in
clinations and at the same time com
polling them to suppress their convictions
or their speech. In some of the coun-
tries now engaged in conflict the govern
ment gives them some assistance to this
end, but in England, where the people
suffer takers gladly, a few Of the more
incorrigible sort have been trying very
earnestly to adapt their views without
unduly sacrificing their convictions to the
spirit of the times.
Mr.. Ramsay Macdonalds efforts in this
direction are curious to contemplate, but
so far they have not been very success
full. As the professional champion Of
the workingman he has a difficult part to
play, and unfortunately he has committed
himself SO plainly that his struggles re-
semble nothing so much as those Of a
worm on a hook. Just after the war be-
gan he explained its origin clearly and
concisely by saying that "the only reason
from beginning to end in it is that our
Foreign Office is anti-German and that the
Admiralty was anxious to seize any oppor-
tunity of using the navy in battle prac-
tice," and he added, quite as definitely,
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that the people of his country had never
been invited "to give up their lives Tor
less good cause than this"
Mr.. Macdonald and his associates have
been applauded abroad as opponents OF
British sentiment, but Mr.. Macdonald
wants TO be an internationalist and
good Briton. too, and above ALL champion
of the masses. But he made mistake
when he entered into furious controversy
on his sentiments and then tried to cut the
discussion short by observing that TO
discuss the origin Of the war was at the
present trying moment distasteful." lie
would have done wisely to follow the
example of some more prudent peace
makers among his countrymen and keep
his mouth shut. He may possibly have
some chance of regainng his popularity
when peace comes. For the present his
voice is super1uous.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-13
Suffrage as an Educator.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter in to-day's Tribune Of
Annie Riley Hale accuses women Of "igno-
rance, weakness and incompetence" in their
own business of mothering and training the
race. The anti-sufrrage bias of mind APP
parently cannot permit her to see that the
progress Of the race will be fastened by the
knowledge and efficiency that women will
gain by their participation in affairs outside
the home. Mothers having no conception OF
the duties and responsibilities of citizenship
cannot be expected to build into the charac-
ters Of their children an understanding Of
the problems which men have to deal with
in the external world The woman Of mar
row interests, entirely devoted to the per-
sonal duties of housekeeping, is seldom an
efficient mother in the sense that she is ca
pable of fostering in the child broad
minded sympathy for community welfare.
Since very few fathers take the response
bility at present of educating the children
in this spirit, it is the unequivocal duty Of
every mother to take the lead in the discus
sion at home of political, social, national
and international questions. Her prepare
ton for this must be a share in community
life, participation in government to the ex-
tent of voting, at least, and the stimulus Of
having an occasional opportunity 70 come
into contact with the minds and hearts work
ing for the good Of humanity.
ELMA CHASE GRAY.
New York, July 9, 1915.
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Suffrage and the Home.
) The Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: In a letter published in your paper
on July 7, and signed Rose II. Phelps, ex-
ception is made to an argument regarded as
automatic by suffragists, namely, that women
should have the vote in order to cooperate
more effectively with community agencies
which affect the home and the children in
the home. Mrs. Phelps attempts to refute
the argument by the ex cathedra statement
that the welfare of children is controlled by
their parents. Why then is her inferred
conclusion, since the parent is all powerful
and since community agencies as they affect
children, are more or less negligible, why
give women the vote and permit them TO add
their energies 70 enterprises whose present
and potential values are largely overesti-
mated?
Il is difficult TO meet Mrs. Phelps on the
ground of pure reason, since in this matter
she argues from an unsubstantiated premise
20 an equally unsubstantiated conclusion.
However, should like to call her attention
to few municipal activities of the City Of
New York which vitality affect the welfare of
the child in the home. Even the well-to-do
mother would unhesitatingly acknowledge the
dependence Of her children's welfare upon
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properly cleaned streets, proper policing OF
the community and upon a well maintained
system of public parks. Then there are milk
inspection, control of contagious diseases,
physical examination Of school children, in
FAINT milk depots, instruction Of mothers IN
homes, children's Fairgrounds, school gar
dens, housing control and fire control.
The above is an incomplete list, familiar TO
any one with even the most meagre knowl-
edge of city conditions. Has any woman
right to refrain from active participation in
shaping the activities of governments social
agencies? And is not n vote the most practl-
cal instrument yet discovered?
JANE BRUERE.
New York, July Q, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-13
THE DUTY OF THE HOUR
It Is to Defend Neutral Rights and
Civilization.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In all the fifty-fve years I have been
reader of The Tribune have never found
its leader page more instructive, patriotic
and up to date in its news than is It's issue
of to-day.
This oldtime teacher and friend is as usual
stalwart in its patriotism and in standing By
our great President in his demand that Ser
many cease numbering American citizens and
that she make PREPARATION for previous Kill
ing" | hold that the question 10 now is not
the prevention of war so much as the proven
ton of further international injustice and
the maintenance of the liberties Of our cit
zens, and more still the protection Of world
civilization against war crazcd Emperor
who declares in the words of Shelley 81 an
God and King and Law"
The Bishop of London says this is holy
war" the Allies are wagng, and declares;
1T was the will of God that England should
choose a righteous war instead OF an IN
righteous peace
England had her crisis and we shall have
ours if Germany insists upon disregardlns
of this, a neutral nation, and in fact hold
ing, as The Tribune puts it, that British &C.
ton has supplied German warrant for muir
dering American citizens" What a tragic
crazy quilt of false diplomatic declaration IS
this? As your correspondent Rees asserts;
German thought, as that OF the sDsul'
Schopenhauer, assumes what it wants "
prove, and this is the foundation OF baros''
ism"
With such facts before us, and believing
that all kings and rulers are below and 10,
above the law, that the state is not the az
in all and the individual nothing, and tha'
a worlds civilization and peace are being a.
tackled as never before in the worlds MS
tory. | believe The Tribune is right when i
advocates the recall of our Ambassador no"
Berlin, since further negotiations seem IN.
possible" ! stood by The Tribune IN l'o1
and l stand by it now and wish Il godspsea
J. c. PUMPELLY.
New York, July II, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-13
Traitors.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In looking through Socialist pap''
to-day I came upon the highly interesting
coupon which was to be cut out and sent !"
the paper mentioned. It was an anti-enLl''
ment pledge for those over eighteen. In'
praiseworthy document provided tnat o-'
signing this pledge should not engage IN ~
ternational war or countenance any one e'''
enlsting for said war.
Traitors!
That's what they should be BRANDED
challenge any man who denies tha' w
are traitors TO expose his reasons ua'
may know how far socialism has mace -,
men women. Don't they love their e0uH-s
enough 70 fight for her? THIS one - -
alone ought to settle the Socialist parry -
America. II this is one Of It's metnoa'
pray to God socialism dies. ..,.
All the Socialists | have met az nrs' 20.
1--WE don't care who wins the war; u o0e.
make any difference TO US" Then you
them warmed up and the fireworks oees5
ITS all England's fault. England s'1' -.
the war and Germany ought 20 win ah1
hope she does" There's neutrality lot Ia
Why should they favor -enlistmsnss
German victory. all in the same moutnl.ii,
Do they think Germany is pure ana -
nation, fighting because 1t was iorcs1 y
her? ian
God grant that America may be Tree "a 4,
such so-called Socialists for 10000 ye,iSs
core! AN AAbNiO
Stockbridge, Mass, July 9, 1915.