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the end of his days by all self-respect-
ing Frenchmen.
With the successful issue, however
of the battle of the Marne public feel
ing began gradually, almost imper-
ceptibly. to swing back in the general
direction of it's normal state. Also
France was learning, as time went on
to take the existence of war more as
little. regained its mental balance.
Finally, late in the autumn of 1914, in
answer to limited but very well de-
fined demand. the French theater was
revived.
Just as three factors were RESPONSE
Bile for its relegation to temporary
oblivion. three other factors now acted
to reinstate it. First. though perhaps
not foremost. among these was the
crying need of the members of the
theatrical profession to get back to
work. The profession as a whole In
France is very far from being wealthy.
Most of its mediocre members even
in prosperous times receive 20 francs
($4) as nightly salary for what in
America would be considered excellent
work. Nor is frugality distinguishing
characteristic of French theatrical
IOlk. very lew, tHeTclOIS' "eAS siiS
French actors and actresses who,
when the war struck, could seek sal
walton in a comfortable bank balance
put by against the coming of rainy
day.
"rheir sufferings and embarrass-
ments were serious. 1t Is not a nice
thing to be thrown on the streets to
starve or beg. Many Of them faced
that alternative. Those among the
younger actors who had gone to brave
death in the trenches led an enviable
life by comparison with the miserable
hand -to-mouth existence of their pen
niless elders in Paris. And the women
of the stage were no better off than the
men.
"The result Of 1t all was that every
available theatrical manager and pro-
moter was besieged by a horde of i'm
pecunious men and women of the pro-
fession imploring them to reopen the
playhouses even at starvation wages
and ameliorate in some kind the fate
Of the players. Naturally this appeal
had Its effect. Managers are never quite
SO heartless as actors would make
them out, and no Parisfan manager
could disregard the misery that daily
met his eyes.
80 much for the influence Of the
theatrical profession in reviving the
theater. The second factor in the re-
vival was the return to the theatrical
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Roach Property-Prospect Hill.

A various times recently the Rambler
~ has been able to collect information
relating to the Roach property at Pros
pect Hill. on the Virginia highlands over
looking Washington. After the Rambler
had made a trip to the fine old house,
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street. Time has brought great changes
10 Dumfries. though along the road
which leads from the Potomac through
Dumfries to Brentsville and Manassas
and from Alexandria to Fredericksburg
there is a picturesque new village.
To reach Dumfries you may leave the
railroad at Quantico village and follow
the wagon road through the woods along
the south side of the creek, or YOU may
follow the old north and south highway
from the Aqueduct bridge, which would
carry YOU to Fredericksburg The last
time the Rambler visited Dumfries he left
the railroad at Barrow's Siding. on the
north side of the creek. and followed the
me OF I; narrow gauge railway which
leads to an old iron pyrites mine about
two miles above Dumfres
Dumfries was settled by Scotch Wer-
chants and traders in the seventeenth CEN
tury and the records show that white
men were settled there not very many
wears after the settlement of Jamestown
From the records one learns that
Scotchmen very early appreciated the ad-
Nantases of trade with the Indians in the
fotoinac valley, and so many of them
settled IN the Potomac country that the
population was strongly impregnated with
a Scotch element. A number of these ad-
Fenturous traders settled on Quantico
creek near the head of navigation and
one or perhaps more of them, in memory
of their European home, called the place
Dumfries. The town grew with the coun-
try until II came to be classed with Will
hamshurg as one of the important places
IN me colony of Virginia
1t was a busy town before the cities
OF GEORGETOWN, Alexandria and Fred
eri"ksh'i'g came into existence, though
II = kelly that white families had
sett'of on the sites of those cities at
about the time of the settlement of
Durlfries but the settlement on Guam
tico creek ripened into an important
town earlier tnan the settlements on
the Potomac at Rock creek and Hunt
ing creek and on the upper part of the
Rappahannock river.
II would be serious work to resurrect
the history of the beginnings of Dunn
fries. 1t was early in the nineteenth
century that Dumfres began to de-
cline. The creek was filling up in front
of the wharves of the town, the size of
ships was increasing, and
other places along the Potomac tPort
Tobacco, Pamunkey. Piscataway, Belle
Haven, Bladensburg and other places)
were reaching out for the trade of the
region.
A good many years ago the Rambler
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~ LUM misfortune hangs heavy
N round the neck OF the French
VI theater. IN Paris, the home
" and the hub Of theatrical life
in France, only a handful of play
houses of distinctly ma ior importance
are open today. And yet before the
war. there were no less than forty-six
OF these frst-rank houses running full
blast to meet the demands of one of
the most exactin@ and voracious play
going publics il the world. How many
more minor hundreds of small music
halls and tiny Caoarets catered to the
less refined tastes Of the 'little peo
pie" OF Paris during recent years of
fat and plenty only the unfortunate
professional booking agents, whom the
war has forced out OF business, could
tell with any degree Of certainty.
But these smaller theaters, TOO, have
fallen ON the hardest of times and in
most of them only darkness and the
smell OF musty canvas fill the bare
little auditoriums. where lately crowd
ed thousands Of Hcht-hearted French
working men and women. High drama
and low comedy alike have been
stricken, and, side by side with them,
have fallen opera and concert The
survivors are few and very far be
tween.
For, since the opening OF hostiIIties
last August, the French theater, which
IN normal times lived by the genius
Of commercial enterprise, has died and
been reborn to fulfill new mission
II Is no longer the cornmercialized ex-
preston of phase OF the purely ar
tistic and emotional life of great
nation living under regime of peace
and prosperity, but. stripped OF COM
mercialism. II has become a patriotic
institution. sprung into being almost
spontaneously to meet the needs and
sentiments Of nation struggling
tnrough the throes Of a devastating
war This newborn French theater
such httle of IL as exists is a theater
devoted, with few important excep-
tIons, TO the work OF patriotic charity.
Every noteworthy performance given
at the Trocadero, the Odeon the opera
Comique. the Theatre Antoine and the
three or four other equally famous
playhouses whose doors are open is a
benefit" performance
The benefit performance for the aid
of the French Red Cross work or for
the relief of the wives and families of
soldiers alive and dead, or for the
ameIoration or conditions In the
trenches. or for the expedition Of COM
forts to the French prisoners in tho
German concentration camps is the
one and only theatrical event which
calls forth the theater-going world OF
Paris and swells the box Office receipts
TO anywhere near respectable proper
tiona.
Certain very small and unimportant
playhouses of the .ten-twenty-thirty"
variety still hold a feeble appeal for q
diminutive public recruited for the
most part, fr7m the lower classes, but
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UMFRIES is a village TO which
" the Rambler has from time to
III time made reference. 1t is on
@ the old road from Washingto ton
to Fredericksburg. in Prince William
county, and Is on the upper side of
Quantico creek. five miles above where
that creek empties into the Potomac.
For two miles above its mouth Guam
tico creek is a stream of great beauty.
In places IL appears to be half a mile
wide and only in a few places is it
narrower than two or three hundred
yards, until about three miles inland
from the Potomac wide marshes bor-
der the creek and the stream becomes
quite narrow
Through these marshes the creek
merely oozes. The broad part of Guam
tico creek. which is sometimes called
Quantico river, shines between high
hills that are closely timbered with
hardWoods, though in late years these
woodlands have been considera bI Y
thinned by sawmills, and patches of
cleared land are beginning to appear
On the south side of the creek the
woods after crossing a range of hilly
country stretch away into the great
Chappawamsic swamp In many places
along the course of the creek the hills
drop bluttiy to the water and fine views
may he enjoyed.
pumirIe~ was a considerable city in
its day hut its day as city was Ions
ago. Tire old Dumfries is now d ruin
and a memory. 1t is one OF those places
of historic interest and ancient mem
ories so often 10 be encountered in walk
ing through Virginia. For the most
part even the ruins of the city have
been eftaced. but here and there ruin
or q decayinS building serves land
mark OF tn" Dumlries Of tie past In
walking across a field YOU will come
upon d mound of brick and mortar. and
some old dHeller in the ueigh5orhood.
whose father and crandfa ther also lived
there. may tell yoI that the Dumfries
theater stood there. and other shapelesS
mounds may he pointed out TO you as
The site of the bank OF Eumfries or
the Dumfries market house.
Through fields where cattle Craze you
may mark the outlines of street and
you may be told that a row of brick
business buildings stood along that
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Special correspondence Of Tie Sur.

= ffNIsH, -NdE %, I5IJ.
LtM misfortune hangs heavy
round the neck OF the French
theater. IN Paris. the home
and The hub Of theatrical life
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
IDA S1MONTON, EXPLORER,
SPEAKS FOR SUFFRAGE
Tells Audience That Even
Wives of African Savages
Can Vote.
PARADE PLANS ARE MADE

Miss Ida v. simonton. who is well
known as an African explorer. having
penetrated further alone into the jungle
than many explorers of the supposedly
sterner sex, spoke last night In the
Church of the Messiah, Park avenue and
Thirty-fourth street. for woman suffrage.
Miss Simonton said that New York Is
far behind the savases OF Africa, where
every woman. with her babe on her
shoulder. is permitted to vote in the
tribal councils. Civilization took suf-
frage from woman. she said.
Mrs. James Lees L.aidlaw and former
Congressman J. A. Faulkner were to
have spoken. but did not appear, and
the pastor. the Rev. John Haynes
Holmes. filled in the gap with a talk in
favor Of suffrage until Miss Simonton
arrived.
Further arrangements have been
made for the suffrage parade to he held
on October 80, headed by Mrs. Leonard
Thomas. h suffragists have decided
that the official hat shall be n plain,
white soft felt. with a narrow brim and
S'h'i 'ToNn, winch VIII serve as well
Tor tennis as campaigning.
Mrs. Norman de II. Whitehouse. who
Is chairman of the parade committee,
Aas arranged that this year the suf-
fragists Will march regardless of party
Affiliations. although some of the groups
Will be divided according to their oc-
equations. Mrs. John W. Alexander
has worked out the arrangement for
the international group az chairman Of
The decorations committee. Every one
OF The twcnty-siX nations affiliated with
the international Suffrage Alliance will
be represented by thirteen women, 23s
In all.
Among the women who will he in the
flag squad. az this group liz called. are
Mrs. Willard ID. Straight, Marjorie BEN
son Cooke, Mrs. Bourke Cochran. Mrs.
Sumner Gerard. Mrs. ogden Mills Reid
and Mrs. Seymour Cromwell.
The National American Woman Suf-
frage Association has issued n call 10
It's members to attend the forty-seventh
annual convention to be held in Wash
ington December u to ~. 1t Is signed
by DIR. Anna Howard shaw. president
Mrs. Stanley Mccormick. v'ce-president
Mrs. Nellie ". Somerville OF MISSISSIPPI
pi, second vice-president; Dr. Katharine
Bement Davis. third vice-president
Mrs. Henry Wade RogerS, treasurer
Mrs. Orton II. Clark OF Michigan, cor.
responding secretary Mrs. Richard Y,
Fitzgerald of Massachusetts. recordine
secretary Mrs. Walter McNab Miller OF
Missouri. first auditor. and Mrs. Medil
Mccormick of Illinois, second auditor.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
DIR. HAIG MAKES TAX REPORT.
Mayors Committee to Act ON
Opinions submitted.

Alfred Il. Marling. chairman of the
Mayors committee on taxation, made
public last evening two reports, pre-
pared by DR.. Robert Murray Haig of
Columbia University, OF the question Of
relieving improvements from taxation.
The .'rst report deals with exemptions
of improvements from taxation III
Canada and the United states" II IL
the result of an Investigation made per-
sonally by pr. lIaig. In that report he
does not show that exemption of im-
provements has worked in such a man
ner as to give promise of being salts
factory under all conditions.
In his second report Dr. Haig dis
cusses som probable effects OF the
exemption of improvements from taxa
ton in the city OF New York"
Mr.. Marling said that tho reports
simply gave the facts and opinions of
DIR. IIaig, not those of the committee.
He said that the committee will hold
public hearings. have moro discussion
and make a report later on.
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producing some of those complications
which become political.
THE Turkish women are attractive.
and they are finding the German OIL
GERS attractive even beyond the charm
of their own men. The German in
Turkey Is being regarded as quite the
latest thing in love affairs.
The marriage rite of the Socialist
Church, by openly recognizing divorce,
is n safeguard against divorce. Mar
riagc is a joyful event. avs our ritual.
! shall tell the young man and young
woman whom I marry tomorrow:
"'You' IA come to me as the leader
of this church, that ? may unite you
In matrlmony. 1t Is incumbent on me.
however, In all candor to inform you
that no word I may speak or rite that
| personally may celebrate is of power
to bring that state of affairs to pass.
Marriage Is an interior uniting, or It Is
not a marriage. A Joining of spirit to
spirit alone can make you husband and
wife. Because Of forgetfulness of this
fact more than one marriage has come
to disastrous termination. The divorce
curtis testify that u marriage conse-
Grated only by exterior celebration Is no
marriage but a mockery and n sorrow.
Where love is not, marriage Is not.
"'No% clergyman has the right to bind
a man and "a woman together so long
as life shall last. Neither wedding day
solemnities nor Offices of earnest friends,
nor all the power of Heaven itself shall
be of potency to keep together two souls
that are not themselves resolved TO be
one. Therefore, IL The marriage here be-
ginning il to he permanent, you your
selves must make 1t permanent"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
LANSING'S SISTER IS AN ANTI.
Working Against Woman suffrage
In jefferson County.

W~ATrRTowN. y. Y, Oct. 10.--In view
of the support which has been given by
President Wilson, Secretary McAdoo and
Secretary Garrison to the woman suf-
f.age movement comment has been
caused here by the activity of Miss
Emma Lansing, sister OF the Secretary
of State. il the local anti-sufrage cam
paign.
So far as Is known here Secretary
Lansing has rot publicly stated his posi-.
ton OH the question of woman suffrage.
but his sister is one OF the prominent
embers Of the local organization which
is making the fight against suffrage In
Watertown ard is a membe of the
speakers committee,
The organization is arranging a mass
meeting for October - at which proml.
nent speakers will he asked 10 ak and
has announced that 1t will conduct a
vigorous campaign from now until cleo
tion day in an effort to defeat the
amendment in jefferson county.
Mrs. Emma Flower Taylor, daughter
of ex-Gov. Flower. is n member of the
anti-sulfrage organization.
WAsHISGToS, Oct. lo-Secretary
Lansing refuses 10 make a statement
regarding his attitude on woman suf-
frage.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
E.. p, WHEELER'S VIEWS.
Answers Garrison aud Says suf-
fraee Movement L. Harmful.

Everett T.. Wheeler, chairman of the
Man Suffrage Association Opposed to
poli,iral Suffrag. for Women. Yesterday
issued a statement in reply to the one
RECENTLY made by Secretary of War Gar
,isou supporting woman suffrage. In
II he cortradicts the main point made bv
Mr. Garrison. which was that no harm
can come by extending the suffrage. II,
charges thai I'm States where women
have won the right to yo,. they Ia We
used /, 10 mass LEGISLATION that has
moved ma, only foolish. I'm, destructive
a,bon mn, In otto,
N think NM tho r,su,t in Colorado
4, ,,obnhlv I'm. tnirc.t t,st" mo .x-
,i,ins "Won,,n b,vs had tho .rtr,ga
,h,r. sinco INo2 N,rv az ,be,n he
,nt,n an ,c,Iv. pa,t IN n%nr,tics. ono
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
SUFFRAGE PRIZE FOR GIRLS.
High school student Who Draw
Hest Poster Gets $40.

To interest high chool girls In the
Votes for Women" campaign and at
the same time to secure posters for
the PRONUNCIATION of the idea "A drawing
contest will he held next Thursday
afternoon at the Washington Irving
High School by Mrs. Laurent Open
helm. chairman OF the Suffrage Day"
committee at the Fine Arts Building.
Fifty girls, II is expected, will com
pete for a prize of so which Mrs.
Oppenheim has offered for the best
poster. The contest will begin at 4
O'Clock. The girls will work under the
eyes of all who care to watch them.
for the contest is to be pen 10 the pub
lie, Sixty minutes will be allowed for
the work.
Tho poster which best represents the
suffrage cause will be selected by a jury
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
TWO WILL WE'D WITH
LOVE AS SOLE CHAIN
Pastor BOuck White An
nOunces Union With AZ
lection as Only Basis.
HE BELIEVES IN DIVORCE

Bouck White. pastor Of the Church Of
the Social Revolution, told his congre-
cation yesterday that he would offlciatc
at a Socialist marriage tomorrow in
which a Jersey City couple would be
united as husband and wife only as
no longer. II love ended then it would
be a matter for the divorce courts.
Speaking of Miss Daisy l.. Johnson
OF l79 Winfield avenue and Victor A.
Kilian, Of 1862 Griffith street, Jersey
city, the two who are going to be
married, Mr.. White said
81 express gratitude to a couple who
have the idealism to see the need for
a new freedom In marriage and the
courage to carry II out"
No Divorce for Adam and Eve.
But before Pastor White began to
speak of the Socialist marriage he
said that the Catholic Church's atti-
tude toward divorce was "a sign that
its people merely account marriage IL
breeding nstitution--a union only OF
the body and not OF the soul. Adam
and Eve had no divorce problem be-
cause they were united only on the
plane OF breeders
Then he painted a picture OF Turkey,
from which country he has just re-
turned, as suffering from an invasion
of Germans who are stealing the love
OF the Turkish women. those women
who nave been so closely guarded by
the Turks for ages. who have been
forbidden to speak 10 a man Upon the
street and who have worn over their
faces wells of mystery and secrecy.
He limited at the complications that
his might bring.
feel the feminist sweep" he said. "In
C~onstantinople the veil Is becoming
thinner about her face. and the coming
of the German into Turkey IL already
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composed Of Mrs. John w. Alexander,
Rose Cecil O'Neill. Ethel rlummer,
George W Bellows and Leon Dabo.
Among those who will assist In man
aging the contest will be Mrs. John
Winters Brannan, Miss Katherine Dever-
eaux Blake. Mrs. Joseph Griswold Deane,
Mrs. Charles T.. knoblauch. Mrs. How
ard Mansfield. Jr.. Mrs. Marcus VI.
Marks. Miss Florence Newcomb. Miss
Ida Proper. Mrs. Henry Willard and
Mrs. Norman lie X. Whitehouse.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-11
ENJOYS TO WILSON
FOR WOMEN VOTERS
Miss Alice Paul Tells of the
Suffrage Campaign to
Influence Congress.
NAMES THE LOBBYISTS

WAsWNGroN. oct. 10.--"Wc are de-
lighted tina the President II such
prominent Democrats as Secretary NC
Tumulty, secretary to the President, arc
Tumulty, Secretary to the President. are
going TO vote for suffrage said MISS
Alice Paul. chairman or the congress
siona, Union. upon her return from can
fornia. where she took part Ill the
woman voters convention.
"But we hope they Will not stop at
casting their individual votes Tor woman
suffrage In their respective states they
should Join the campaign here III WASH
ington to help put through the fcutrai
amendment removing from the pailo's
the qualification OF sex. That IL the
liberal Trims to do II they are sincere.
Mrs. sara Bard Field and Miss Fran
ces Jolllffe OF California, acting as en-
VOWS from the woman voters conNrl-
ton. are on their way from San Fran
cisco to Washington to present TO Inc
President and Congress petitions from
the women voters OF the West asking
for their support for our amendment.
Immediately upon fheir arrival in
Washington In December Mrs, Field and
Miss Jolliffc, accompanied by a large
depu.ation of Congressional Union work
ers, will cal, mt the White House and
present to the President thousands of
petitions and resolutions and the in
dorsements from Governors OF equal sur
fragc States
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the outlook for the Susan II. Anthony
amendment, which provided that tine
rights OF citizens nj the United states
to vote shall not he denied or abridged
b. the United Sta or by any state or
account OF sex." She has organized
bra nches in fifteen states In the Union.
and has "A dozen or more organizers
at work in other States.
eve have already organized branches
in the States Of California, Colorado,
idaho, Nevada, Minnesota. Maryland,
Connecticut. oregon, Utah. Michigan,
Delaware. Virginia. Ohio. Maine and the
District OF Columbia" said Miss Paul.
each OF these States has n branch of
the Congressional Union which Is send
ing delegations to congressman urging
them to support the Federal amend
ment.
among the congressman already
seen are Representative Hayes. E1lston.
Nolan aud Kahn. and Senators Phelan
and Works of California. Senator
Works. who was doubtful of the wis
dom of the national suffrage amend
ment during the last Congress, is for II
nov.
ShHfroth BiII Opposed.
ssenator Shafroth of Colorado. was
visited by a deputation Of his own con-
stituents who are members of the Con-
gressional Union. and was told tina,
the Shafroth bill. which provides 70.
a national Initiative and referendum on
the suffrage question, IL Objectionable
10 the Congressional Union and other
suffragists, who desire the original Fed
eral amendment, known as the Anthony
amendment.
Mr.. Shafroth said that he is in favor
of the Anthony amendment and would
take under consideration the objections
to the Shafroth amendment which he
sponsored in the last Congress.
Occupations OF Congressional Cnior
members have seen Representative Tim
berlake of Colorado, Senators Sutherland
and Smoot OF Utah. Senators Brad,
and Borah of Idaho. Representatives
Smith and McCracken of Idaho. Senator.
Chamberlain ard Lane OF oregon, Rep,
Tesen,atives Hill. Glinn. Oakley and TIL
son and senator Mclean OF Connecticut
Representatives Lathrup, Brown ant
Hustea and Senator O'Gorman of New
York. Representatives Hayden o
Arizona. Carlin, Holland, Moutagu,
n Flood of Virginia, Linthlcum
Talbot. Cody and Lewis OF Mary.
land, Britt OF North Carolina, Mile
of Delaware, sells of Tennessee. Peters
OF Maine and senators and Representa-
tives In Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota
"Organizcrs are now at work In al
sections where branch organization,
have not Vet been perfected"
Miss Paul was asked 10 name he
lobbyists for the coming session of Con
gress.
Miss Maude Younger. a well Known
uplift worker OF California" aid Miss
Paul, us coming here for the wintel
and will devote her time and talent tC
urging favorable action on the Susar