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A Sale of Perfect Cut Gls

n Dale OF i effect Gut 1IdSS.
LOSS Pieces-A Makers Sample Line just
Closed Out to Us at Tremendous Savings
The Entire Lot Goes Sale Tomorrow Morning.
In this sale Glass which have prepared the
principles of equality observed in regular stocname
that every piece is perfect and beautifully cut
The prices will average about third less throughout
pieces more less However it most unusual sale
and there no seconds inferior grades.
Salt and Pepper Shakers. Knife Rests
with sterling silver tops, Toothpick Holders
glass tops; in many sizes, Sugar and Cream Sets
shapes and cuttings. Individual Butter Dishes
Mustard Jars, Of Open Salt Cellars, m
designs and sizes. tensive variety.
Handled Bonbon Dishes. Oil and Vinegar Cruets.
Candesticks Etched Glass Vases
Cut Glass Bud Vases. Rock Crystal Pattern Vases
Prices 15c 25c &c. 5Oc 75c ST and 81 25 the piece.
Altogether the values far surpass those usually offered
in special sales
aosr G street
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Decoration Day Suggestions.
From the Fourth Floor.

comforts
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Fine Rag Rugs for Summer.

of Rag Rugs all former
OF especial desabiy complete line OF Pilgrim
Rugs the danes color combinations that
poducedavende and white pink green and
light dark blue and white and pink and green
and green These Rugs produce most artistic and
pleasing chambers living and other parts OF the
extremely effective wherever willow rattan and fiber
furniture is used Excellent for bathrooms
coloring in these Rugs fast, and they be washed
without of fading haming them
the least
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WHITE LINEN WITH PEARL BUT
TONS WORN WITH A BLUE AND
WHITE POLKA DOT BLOUSE.
crinaline days usually precipitated the
tragedy of the love story when she ap
peared in the clinging revealing lines
of the riding habit.
In season, therefore, of bouffant
silks and ruffled tulles. boyish little
suit of plain linen like the sketch
gives opportunity for a piauant con-
trast. The model suggests the Oliver
Twist suits that little boys are wear
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Summer-weight Bed
Coverinps.

There will be times during the
summer months when light
weight extra coverings are need
ed, and blankets and comforts in
the desired weights are very rea-
sonable in price.
Wool-filled Comforts, $500, ss.7s and
$500 each. ~
Cotton-nllsd Comforts, s2oo. sa.so and
600 each.
Blankets. in single-bed size; sS.7b,
$50, $500 and 1875 pair.
Blankets, in double-bed size; $3.50.
6seoad ncor, = street.
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and the body to be padded with cot
ton and then covered with crnkly
white silk or any similar fabric. The
wire for the beak and legs is COW
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FIRST SCHOOLHOUSE FLAG

nm ODAY the United States flag flies
over millions of schoolhouses. in
every city, town and hamlet,
throughout the United States, Porto
Rico. Hawaii and the Philippines. On
every day of patriotic observance ex-
ercises are held at which the flag is
saluted and the pupils standing give a
military salute and in chorus slowly
and distinctly repeat:
II pledge allegiance to my flag and
to the republic for which it stands.
one nation, indivisible. with liberty
and justice for ALL"
The distinction Of antedating all other
schoolhouses in raising the flag belongs
to little log schoolhouse on Cata-
mount hill, Colrain, Mass. in May, 1917
The second war with Great Britain
was threatening at that time, and the
people of the community raised the nag
in an outburst of patriotism and 10y
atty to the United States government
The man who felled the tree to make
the flagpole and three members OF the
committee in charge of the hosting OF
the flag were a short time later march-
ing away to the war.
After careful investigation or the
claim of this school being the first 10
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raise the Stars and Stripes, there was
set up, in May, 1903. on the place where
the old log schoolhouse had stood, a
neat stone tablet on which was carved:
The Fint United States Flag
raised over public school was
noated in May. 1872. from a log
schoolhouse which stood on this
place.
Less than a month after the flag on
Fort Sumter had been fired upon a flag
was raised over the Fifth Street Gram
mar School at New Bedford, Mass, Nav
IL, 1851. This was eight months afler
the dedication of the school buildinE-
story about a Red Cross chauffeur in
One of the earliest instances known
of flag being raised over a school
building or grounds was over Wash
ington School. Chicago, ILL.,, three days
after Fort Sumter had been fired upon.
The principal. Benjamin F. Cutter,
bought the bunting, and four of hia;
teachers made the flag. One of these
women was a native of Maine. one
from Massachusetts,. another was born
In New York state. and the fourth.
Mrs. Ca1ista Robinson Jones of Yer
mont. was afterward a past national
president of the Women's Relief Corps.
This flag has been an inspiration tor
the pupils of that school for more tina ";
a half century. being unfurled every
school day.
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scape architecture than any other city,
he said. Thanks to its early design
ers it's skeleton lines are right
Our main trouble is lack of means.
The lack of a practical realization by
those who govern expenditures that
landscape gardening on a scale COM
mensurate with the growth and i'm
portance of the Capital of the United
States requires adequate financial sup
port is a serious handicap to those
who wish Washington to make rapid
advancement as a modern and model
city. We are, however, working slow
ly along the best lines in landscape
architecture and have accomplished
some things that are gratifying"
rs there not an entire change in the
public grounds over which you have
charge? One notices a different ar
rangement and form of decoration in
front and rear of the Treasury. and
State. War and Navy Departments. for
instance" was asked.
Yes: those particular places illus
trate as well as any our work. The
landscape architect considers the de-
sign as whole. plant specimens being
used merely as one of the various
media at his disposal. Up to a decade
ago the landscape gardener thought of
a park in relation to the individual
plant You can hardly reiterate too
often this dictum: Design must take
precedence over planting. if Washing
ton is to be to the private citizen, or
to municipality or corporation, les
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the Briton, as though 10th to concede
this superiority in municipal beauty to
an American city.
If not already so. Washington is rap
idly becoming the fairest city in the
world, and its well laid design sets it
easily in line for the premier position
IT will soon hold without question. The
landscape gardening of a city has now
come to be regarded as one of the most
potent factors in its Identification.
The man in charge of the landscape
gardening of Washington is Col. Will
liam W. Harris, L. S. A.. whose mani
fold duties superintendent of public
buildings and grounds require him to
turn the details of his work over to
specialists. When, therefore, the writer
called upon him for information re-
garding the landscape gardening of the
city. Col. Harts referred his caller to
George Burnap, landscape architect.
Mr.. Burnap has held his position as ar
chitect-in chief of outdoor Washington
for about five years, and his influence
is easily discernible in the artistic
chararacter our parks, squares and
grounds about the public buildings are
taking.
To the late George Hay Brown, for
fifty years landscape gardener of
Washington. is largely due the splen-
did showing of trees which makes the
city without question the best shaded
in the world.
Mr.. Browns selection of trees could
not have been improved upon, said
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Birth Philadelphia
Wangtons
and Six Pointed Staenae Red and White Specified

Of the thirteen stripes being used upon
an American flag is upon the stand
ard presented to the Philadelphia
Troop of Light Horse in 1775 by it's
retiring captain, Abraham Markoe, and
it seems very probable that the stripes
in this standard prompted their use
in the flag which was first unfurled by
Gen. Washington over his headquarters
in Cambridge, January 2, 1916.
1t is believed that this standard was
carried by the troop June II, 1875.
when it acted as escort for Gen. Wash
ington from Philadelphia to New York
as he was going, accompanied by Gems.
Lee and Schuyler. to take command
Of the army at Cambridge AS it thus
would have been a new flag, it would
be likely that it arrested the attention
of Gen. Washington. AS Col Joseph
Reed. Washingtons military secre-
tary, was a resident of Philadelphia
and had seen the flag carried by the
Light Horse, there is good grounds for
the belief that he probably suggested
to Washington that these stripes be
copied in the colonial flag.
Col. Reed was secretary of the COM
mittee on conference sent by Congress
to arrange the organization of the
army with Washington. and himself
was personally in charge of considera-
tions relative to the flag.
This banner was carried by the Light
Horse troop on all important occasions
until 1880. when old age and danger
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son in municipal art, as I think it
should be. Incidentally. Washington
should be practically an experimental
field in planting. 1t is the meeting
place of north and south. and we can
grow here the plants of both sections
The design of park follows the same
principles of composition IS those gov
erning architectural plan. We must
always be willing, too. to consider de-
sign in relation to effect ten or twenty
years from now. We are at present
trying to work for immediate effect
without jeopardizing the bigger things
of the future.
Every flower bed should have a rea-
a part of a scheme and should rein
force the general design rather than
decorate it. Two instances which / re-
call at the moment are the borders of
irises in the little triangle near the
New York Avenue Presbyterian Church,
where the decorative bands echo the
general form of the park, and at Far
ragut Park, where the flower beds. es-
pecialy as planted in panels of purple
and white hyacinths last spring. fur
nished what are known as leading lines
in the general design.
What is your most important work
at present." was asked.
II think Potomac Park is our big
gest project just now. The design
there, commenced under Col. Cosby, is
of such extensive scope that only last
year ! was able to start on detail This
year we are putting in hedges and
flowers in their permanent position. 1
am glad to say the effect seems to be
winning popular approval. We employ
azaleas largely for color. and the hedge
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EMPHASIZE LINES or

ner." because it has no stars save
white star in the forehead of the horse
head used as a crest; it also symbol
ICES the thirteen colonies by a golden
knot of thirteen divergent, wavy,
shield; and although this in itself is a
very beautiful type Of the united colo
nies, it never would have been selected
for the purpose by anybody after the
invention of the thirteen stars on blue,
equivalent to thirteen stars in the
heavens: as the latter, being a higher
and more significant symbol, would
instantly have swayed every heart In
its favor"
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towering trees. and they are purely
American.
"Our newest project is the fifteen
acre park now in progress at Meridian
Hill 1t will be an architecturally de-
signed park. Much of the planting in
1t will be evergreens. so that it will
be winter as we'll as a summer beauty
spot 1t is what is known a neigh
borhood park. but will. of course, be
for the use of the whole city. 1t will
express Italian influence in its dis
tinctly gardenesque character and will
feature cascades. fountains. statues
and other objects of interest. 1t will
be not only one of the most beautiful
parks in Washington. but something
unusual in park design in this coun-
try and should have its influence in
American park development
You will find an Interesting little
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Germany's Deal.

FUDGE VICTOR H. ROCKWELL said
~ at a banquet in Washington:
"Germany's defense of the Lusitania,
the declaration of her good right to
continue such deeds. reminds me of the
Tin Can bartender.
"A tenderfoot in Tin Can put down
his glass of beer excitedly and muir
INJURED to the bartender:
THAT red-mustached rascal IN the
pink shirt over there-he just deaiI
himself four aces from the bottom OF
the pack!
THE bartender looked at the tender
foot in mild establishment.
"'Well. what of IT.? he said warn
II his deal?'"
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plant l am using is new introduction
to Washington. 1t is the osmanthus, a
plant similar to holly. but which can
be transplanted and grown much more
easily. 1t has been known for some
time to grow we'll in this climate, but
has not been in commercial use before.
The present plants were imported from
Holland.
of I had done no more than intro
duce this plant for the year-around
beautifyine of Washington l should
feel that my stay here had been worth
while. | think the best showing of the
full-grown specimen of this plant to be
seen is a bout the new lodge in Judiciary
Park. 1t gives a beautiful evergreen
hedge, which Washington needs to
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Washington to New York, and after
wards fought honorably under this ia
nous standard of theirs at Trenton
and Princeton.
The flag was presented to the troop
by Capt Markoe in 1775, when he was
forced to resign the captaincy by an
edict of Christian VIII of Denmark k
forbidding his subjects to participate
Charles J. Lukens of Philadelphia in
1871, in a lecture on The Heraldry of
the American Flag" argues that the
Light Horse standard bears intrinsic
evidence of having existed before the
adoption of THE Star Spangled Ban
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Pleasant. at the end of Park road,
which seems to be appreciated by the
people there. Extensive planting is
the street was inconveniently wide.
the center of the avenue to us to be
developed as parking. 1t promises to
be very effective. Grant Circle. Pet
scape designing of the parks in the
suburbs. Montrose Park, Georgetown,
is going to be a fine place also as soon
as our design can be carried out. 1t
will be of the English pastoral type
and is already very beautiful.
The design of Fairgrounds also
come under our Office. and is a very
interesting feature of our work. There
are now three Fairgrounds in the city
that have been laid out according to
landscape plans prepared in this Office
One is in Garfield Park; another is
known as the Virginia avenue play
ground. and the third is the play
ground in Willow Tree alley, in which
Mrs. Wilson took especial interest. I
am firmly convinced that design and
orderly arrangement are bound to have
an effect on the minds of the children
and that there will be a psychological
result for the good of the children in
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take the place of the omnipresent
privet hedges. and ] hope it will be
much copied.
Also, do you realize that Washing
ton is a winter city, and that it's win
ter landscape should be enhanced by
planting evergreens? 1t should be the
city beautiful the year around. With
this end in view | am planting ever
greens wherever possible instead of
the plants that lose their leaves in
winter.
II believe, too in the use of Ameri
can plants wherever possible. In add-
tion to the we'll known Japanese
Towering cherries in Potomac Park we
have quietly included the double
Towering peach. Some specimens of
these, which are grouped about the
circular fountain just across the Inlet
bridge, bore the most exquisite bios
SONS in white and pale carmine ! have
almost ever seen, and they were highly
praised and admired. So you see that
they are as fine as any of the Japanese
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Mr. Burnap, "and We have only to fol-
low him. in that respect. making good
the ravages of time and the elements.
But within the past decade landscape
architecture has become an important
feature of municipal art. and the city
which does not make an effort for its
landscape Improvement along the most
advanced lines is behind the times
After Mr. Browns death, five years
ago, a civil service examination was
held for the post of landscape architect.
There we're over seventy applicants ex-
amined. George Burnap, then profess
sor of landscape design in Cornell Uni
versity. won the position He is an en-
thusiast in his profession and talks
of the possibility of Washington's be-
coming the city beautiful of the world
as a matter to be looked forward to
with certainty.
1T is a more promising field for land
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The Apple Cure.

e ECRETARY BRYAN, congratulated
~ on his success as a temperance re-
former. said:
well. I never despair l never de-
"'You believe in this cure, do you?'
spair even in the most desperate case.
Why. the Hannibal town drunkard
wouldn't have caused me to despair.
I'm the Hannibal House the town
XIV toddy on the virtues Of the apple
cure for drunkenness.
the bartender said.
"'Believe in 1t? How can I help be-
levin In 1t? the town drunkard said.
excitedly. Amt 1t cured me nine
timesr"
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GEORGE wAsHINGToNs SHOWING THE STARS
Stars STRIPES

ers and the rights for which Holland so
long contended during the rise of the
Dutch republic are identical with those
which the thirteen colonies successfully
maintained.
Second. more commonplace origin
is suggested from the fact that the
continental army Of 1775 was without
uniforms Strips Of ribbon we're used
to distinguish the grades 1t is thought
that seeing these stripes each day as
distinguishing marks of rank might
representing the colonies in the flag.
Third. the stripes on his own escutch-
con are by many authorities believed to
have suggested them to the mind of
Washington as an easy expedient for
converting the red flag of the mother
country. by an economical process. into
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George Washington. and that they en-
gagged her to make the flag.
AS recorded In these papers, when
Col. George Ross and Cen George
Washington asked her to make the
flag from rough draft drawing, Dame
Ross replied Il don't know whether 1
can, but I'll try and promptly took
matters in her own hands, calling at
tention to the fact that the design was
wrong in several particulars, one of
which was that the stars were six
pointed instead of ive-pointed. las
they should be-" That her arguments
were convincing is shown by the fact
that Gen. Washington himself redrew
the design with pencil.
The alternate red and white stripes
in the flag were specified by Congress.
The first legislative action of which
there is any record for the establish
ment of national flag is that Satur-
day, June IA, 1777, when the American
Congress resolved: That the flag Of
the thirteen United States be thirteen
stripes alternate red and white; that
blue field. representing new con-
stellation."
There are four explanations Of the
origin Of the stripes that are particu-
larly interesting and weighty:
First. II is argued that the stripes as
a symbol of union were derived from
the national nag of the Netherlands.
which consisted Of three equal horizontal
stripes, symbolic of the rise of the
Dutch republic from the union at Ut
recht
Hendrick Hudson, the first to display
a European flag in New York. carried
this ensign up the river that now bears
his name in 1909. The flag waved over
New York, known as New Amsterdam
until 1874
Those crediting this origin claim that
from Holland more than any other land
came the idea OF federal union which
binds together tho American states
from Holland came the Pilgrim faith
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through exposure threatened the val
liable relic. 1t was often displayed
thereafter at anniversary dinners. 1I
1872 the troop had a handsome case
made for it, and when the new armory
was built in 1874 a f1reproof vault was
provided for the flag and the original
bills for designing and painting 1t
This flag was the center of attraction
at the centennial anniversary of the
troop. celebrated in Philadelphia No
vember II, 1874
William Camac. a great-grandson Of
the Capt. Markoe who presented this
standard to the Light Horse troop,
found the original bills from James
Claypool for eight pounds for painting
the flag and from John Folwell for one
pound, fifteen shillings for designing
it among the papers Of his ancestor.
This James Claypool was a painter in
Philadelphia early as 1749. He died
in Philadelphia in 1884.
It was in September, 1874, that the
Continental Congress assembled in
Philadelphia. 1t was on the 18th of
the next month that twenty-eight Of
Philadelphias representative men of
fortune organized the Philadelphia
Troop of Light Horse. They equipped
themselves at their own expense in
natty uniforms and escorted Gen.
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00 0HY are the stars on the Unit
MAN. ed States flag five-pointed.
T\v while those the United
" " States coins have, for the
most part. been six pointed. and what
II the origin of the stripes on the flag?
These are questions that have caused
much interesting research during the
1913 years of the Stars and Stripes ex-
istence
Preponderance Of opinion seems TO be
that the thirteen stripes on the national
emblem originated in Philadelphia be-
ing taken from the standard of the
Philadelphia Light Horse Troop. 1875.
although there many who con-
tend that the idea Of stars and stripes
for the American flag came from the
eoat-of-arms of George Washington
The generally accepted answer to the
hrst query is that the designers of our
early coins followed the English GUS
tom and heraldry. while the designers
Of the nag followed the European Gus
tom and heraldry. The star in the
heraldrtc language of England is six
pointed, while in the heraldry OF HoI-
land. France and Germany il is fye-
pointed.
Whether the stars on the flag should
be fve-pointed or six-pointed seems to
have been settled by Dame Re,sy
Ross. who is credited with actually
making and partially designing the
first flag in her little upholstery shop
on Arch street, Philadelphia. His
torical records and testimony were ac
cumulated nearly half century ago
by William J. Candy and presented to
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania,
showing that his maternal grand
mother. Mrs. EIizabe Ross. was visit
ed in June. f77s. by committee of the
Continental Congress. accompanied by
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nelscape Design for Public Parks of Wasf1ingto1

color. but We should copy only the
spirit of their designs. The English
city parks are twenty-five years be-
hind those of European cities. Eng
land eNcels. however. in landscape de-
signs of the broad pastoral sort and
in house gardens. The country seats
OF the British are u1equaled in their
private grounds. and they surpass
other countries in the charmingly In
innate character of their house gar
dens But their city parks seem shabby
and slipshod.
ITALY excels in private gardens. and
all her parks partake of garden
character. Indeed. many of the parks
OF her cities are converted private gar
dens acquired by the municipalities.
1t seems strange. but the parks in
Rome today are passing through the
same sort of transition as our own.
When l was in Europe last year study
ing the parks of the larger cities 7
found that the director of parks in
Rome had almost similar views IN
landscape architecture TO those We
have In Washington. II seemed strange
to find an old. complete city commenc
Ing new projects In design.
The director of parks in Rome
makes il a part of his years duty 20
visit all the chief parks of some coun
try every summer. He made th4
unique proposition that he and ! eN-
change posts for a year for the pos
aihle benefit that each might influence
upon the others domain
With all his work in the parks Of
Washington. Mr.. Burnap finds time to
fulfill his duties as professor Of land
scape design in the University OF
Pennsylvania. which requires a visit
to Philadelphia once a week He has
also. in course of publication book
on park design.
1t has been pioneer work to alter
the scheme of landscape gardening in
Washington-to change the character
of work from the old haphazard plant
ing to make ii conform with the new
est and best modern ideals. The men
who are laborins TO make the capital
the most beautiful city in the world
should have the announcement as well
as the support of the people. not only
in the city but OF the nation.