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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-19

NAUTICAL or the astronomical, appeals
more strongly to your taste?"
Il love astronomy, but l love mathe-
mates more, and / love all branches of
mathematics. 1 had rare treat a few
years ago when l went to Paris for
one fall and winter in the interest of
my daughters education. | took a
special course at the Sorbonne under
CASTOR Darboux, one of the greatest,
if not the greatest. living mathema-
ticians. He is dear old man. now
over seventy, but as hale and keen as
ever In his work"
Mrs Davis finds her greatest relaxa-
ton and her favorite recreation in diff
ferent branches of mathematics. She
keeps in touch with the latest current
mathematical literature and is ever
seeking new problems on which to try
her strength. Several years ago a
friend of a scientific publication Offer
ed a prize for the best paper explain
ing the fourth dimension in a manner
sufficiently popular in style to be easily
understood by the layman.
The prize was won by a United States
Army officer-Col. Fitch. a brother
of the playwright. Clyde Fitch. But
out of several hundred papers submit
ted Prof. Manning of Brown University
selected and published in book form
about twenty OF the papers which he
regarded as the most calculating. Mrs.
Davis was the only paper written by
a woman chosen for this book.
Attendance upon the meetings of the
American Mathematical Society, of
which she is a member. is another ia
vorite form: of diversion with this
clever scientist. This is an organiza-
ton of about 100 members. who are al
most all professors of mathematics in
universities and colleges. There are
Pr laps forty other women in the or
der She reads the reports of the So
ciety when she cannot attend. but finds
that she gets so much more out of the
papers when she hears them read and
discussed that she rarely misses a
meeting. The headquarters of the So
ciety are in New York city.
Mrs. Davis had just returned from a
summer holiday spent I'm old Nantucket.
While there she made a pilgrimage to
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value are hidden. awaiting the eye of
science and the hand of industry to
discover and develop them. Many of
the citizens of the place from time to
time have supposed that they had
found them and no small excitement
has been aroused on this account by
sanguine explorers. Specimens of diff
ferent kinds of valuable ore or what
was supposed to be such were sent to
Boston and subjected to chemical anal
ysis and very favorable reports were
returned by the most eminent chemists
and biologists of the Athens of Amer
lea No wonder was felt therefore at
the appearance of the party, and their
expeditions ever the tortuous and diff
ficult paths of the mountains excited
no suspicion"
After their STAY at Sandy Hook dur
ing which Isaac Smith and his confed-
crates had gained all the information
concerning the arsenal at Harpers
Ferry which they believed would be
valuable to them, the old man and his
sons rented farm about six miles
north of Harpers Ferry, on the west
side of Elk Ridge, mountain about
ten miles long and the south end of
which, near the junction of the Po-
tomac ard the Shenandoah, is known
as Maryland Heights. bit of wild
scenery familiar to Westinghouse.
On this farm. during the remainder
OF the summer ana part OF the duluiilIi
of 1859 John Brown collected arms and
ammunition and gathered about him
some of the earnest or desperate men
who were to act with him in his mad
adventure venture which cost a,
number of lives by bullet, bayonet and
scaffolu. which created profound SEN
sation throughout the north and south,
famed and fueled the fires of Seces-
sion and abolition and portendcd the
coming storm. 1t was such sensation
in the parts of Maryland and Virginia
which were the scenes of the raid and
it's epilogue that old people who were
children at the time still talk about 1t
and seem to consider it more engag-
ing and thrilling theme than the civil
war fights around Harpers Ferry, and
the battles of South Mountain anu An
tietam. the sound of which battles
rolled over the field and the roof of the
rude house where Brown and his men
schemed and plotted.
The farm which Brown rented had been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-19
MRS. ELIZABETH BROWN DAVIS.

the home of Maria Mitchell, the Ameri-
can astronomer, who accomplished SO
long and noble a work at Vassar Col
lege. The Maria Mitchell Association,
composed Of former pupils and friends.
purchased her old home in Nantucket,
also the telescope she used for many
years at Vassar. The latter is set up
IN her garden, and a caretaker shows
this to the visitor. as well as the house
In which the greatly beloved astrono-
mer and educator spent her youth.
Every summer a college woman, who
Is specializing in astronomy. is invited
10 spend the season at Miss MitchelPs
home. There she pursues her studies.
inspired and aided by the use of the
telescope and library of their great for
mer owner. This year a Miss Raymond
OF Smith College Is the privileged occu-
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in 1918. Miss Mitchell. who computed
the ephemeris of Venus for several
years, was the only woman to precede
Mrs. Davis in astronomical computat-
ton for the Nautical Almanac so that
there was over a generations lapse be-
tween the work of the two women.
Miss Mitchell loved her telescope work
as Hrs. Davis loves her mathematics,
and once she wrote poem set after
the measures of Home, Sweet Home"
whose refrain began. Dome, dome,
sweet, sweet domer
Mrs. Davis accomplished a remark
able piece of work some five years ago
when she made an astronomical chart
of the heavens as they were in the
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big and important chapter IN
American history and much of
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~ washington 'hat IL shouio oe ii'ei
eSting in a local as well as a national
sense The Rambler has gathered the
ipnression from, following the foot
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country tia' very many pei suns ot'i
wen ie"u anu i''
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brown, that- TOT hs'it century mas
been subject of discussion. always
ending in disagreement or no agree
wont an,o,,e~ mon familiar with the
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neWed ana Will never be chded. out
with the controversial phase of John
Browns career in this region the Ram
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m preparation LOT ms attack VI. .Ie
nited states arsenal at farpers reIi!
Sonh Brown ana sinall party ol nus
ioho"ers' lhcluuihs three OF ms sohs'
1ndue reconnaissance, VI the arsenal
the town OF Hafpers ferry ana the sur
Iouhoins country. II was IN me carry
part OF the summer or 1929 that TINS
me fotomac river IRON ftarpers feLry
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make in a year may thus be realized in
a general way.
French tables made in the early part
of the nineteenth century were for
Nautical Almanac; but in the latter
part of that century Prof Newcomb,
having access to better observations
and his own ideas in regard to them,
made better tables, and from his work
all computations have since been made
for this governments Nautical Alma
mac, well as for most of those
abroad.
Mrs. Davis did much valuable work
In assisting Prof. NeWcomb in the
preparation of those tables of the sun
and planets. During the first twenty
tive years of her work the American
scientists made their own computa-
tons of the sun. moon and every star.
A few years ago. at an astronomical
congress held in Paris. an international
agreement was entered into by which
work which had been done in duplicate
in the various countries-the United
States, England, France, Germany and
Spain-should be divided 1t was agreed
that each of the countries should make
certain portion of the computations
and divide them. AZ Mrs Davis had
the United States for a quarter of a
century when this agreement was en-
tered into. the last ephemeris of the
sun she computed was for 1916, and
puUISneu d year ago. II is note
worthy fact that while the computa-
lions of the sun and planets are now
made abroad. Prof. NewcoTnbs tables
are used for the purpose.
The division of the work apportioned
to this country included. with other
things. the computation of the occulta-
tions of the stars by the moon. and a
portion of these occultations have been
assigned to Mrs. Davis. In addition to
this work for the past four years. she
has been devoting portion of her
time to research work at the observa-
tory. assisting in Investigations of tho
orbit of Mars and the movements of
the satellites of Saturn. great part
of her computation work is done ut
home, but occasionally, when unpub-
lished manuscripts are to be consulted.
they cannot be taken from the observa-
tory and the various scientists must
work from them at the observatory
which side Of the work, the mathe-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-19
Birds of a Feather.

JOHN DREW, at luncheon in Bar
~ Harbor. was condemning war.
Man is but little different from the
lower animals he said. 1T isn't only
in fighting and scrapping that man
shows his resemblance to the beasts
IF the field.
IT know, for instance. a fool bull
that chased a red parasol all over a
cornfield one hot afternoon.
+: And I also know a fool man who
chased another red parasol all over
New York one hot morning."
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Woman i'm Government Service Makes C0mputati

year 1000. This was made to accompany
the gift to Trinity College of a transla-
ton of an old saga containing the his
tory of the discovery of America by the
Norsemen. The idea of making the
chart, showing the position of the
stars, which had much to do with the
sailing Of the expedition under Lief
Ericsson. was happy one. Mrs. Davis
it to the college, at the same time
making a copy of it to be sent to DIR.
Maurice Francis Egan. United States
minister at Copenhaged. who presented
it to the King of Denmark.
Although devoted to her own scientific
work, Mrs. Davis takes the keenest in
terest in that of her husband, Mr.. Arthur
Powell Davis. director Of the United
States reclamation service.
do you know that the reclamation
service covers just about half of the
United States?" she said, enthusiastical-
ly. 'It benefits sixteen states. and there
are more than one project in each state
and when you realize that there are
single projects which are larger in area
than the Panama canal you gain some
idea of the magnitude of the service"
Despite her many-sided scientific in
terests Mrs. Davis has found time to
give the upbuilding and education of
her four daughters the utmost care and
personal direction, and her well kept
and attractive home has her supervision
IN every detail Her caller admired some
handsome bronzes and an array of ex-
quisite cloisonne vases.
Mr.. Davis brought those from China
last year when he went, at the request
of the American Red Cross, to examine
the flood problem of that country and
to recommend a course of action for its
relief. Some of our interesting rugs he
picked up in Turkestan when he visited
that country a few years ago at the re-
quest OF the Russian government to ad-
wise regarding irrigation measures. He
had many varied and interesting expert
ences in that country. travelling across
the barren wastes on camelback, ex-
periencing all the hardships of the wild
In one section and all the luxuries a
monarch could bestow in another.
X
HE came across ruined forts and
other erections built by Alexander the
Great. At Bairam Ali Kali there is a
splendid palace where the representative
of the car resides on the enormous es-
tate on which the emperor raises the
cotton which supplies the larger part
Of his income. Here the engineering
party Of which my husband was a mem
Der was entertained right royalty. Each
man had large suite of apartments for
his own use, with a staff of servants to
wait upon him.
hoy
across country they had special trains.
which stopped where there were sights
to see as well as land to be irrigated:
but again the desert and the ship Of the
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ged details and features Of the ridge.
Rills trickle down the rocks, and by
ters and masses of powders and rocks
that have fallen from their perch.
*
Directly on the left is the canal, the
old Chesapeake and Ohio canal, which
all Washingtonians know between
Georgetown and Great Falls. 1t looks
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for Nautical Almanac

With husband whose work is of high
scientific value, family and home which
satisfy every domestic wish and her
own scientific work as a stimula ting in
tellectual resource, Mrs. Davis lot would
appear to be that of a woman with an
almost perfectly rounded life.
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desert brought the stern realities Of life
under Russian rule before them.
81 travel as much as possible with my
husband but did not take the oriental
trips He went with party of men
and penetrated regions impracticable for
a woman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-19

Mrs Elizabeth Brown Davis Astronomical Mathematician
and Aids in Getting Out the Almanac Published by the United
States Naval Observatory Studied Under Prof. Simon New
comb-Wok Requires Minute and Complicated Calculations.
Her Achevements-She Is the Wife of Arthur Powell Davis,
Director of the United States Reclamation Service.
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Wood Pulp Made Into Bread

E1HE uses of wood have been very
much extended through the in
q genuity and the genius of Ger
man scientists, according to Reports
that have come from across the seas
These reports have to deal with "ooo
pulp as a substitute for cotton nper III
the manufacture of high explosive am
munition for gun charges and shell
filler, and as a nutritious ingredient IN
bread or a healthful and useful adul-
terant of wheat flour
In view of the conditions surround
ing the dispatch or dissemination OF
news from Germany there is serious
difficulty in apprasing these bits of in
formation concerning the adaptation of
wood to food and ammunition at their
correct value.
One theory might be that Germany.
with the remarkable forehandedness
which has characterized her in the past.
and with her close-knit industrial or
ganizati has turned to the utiliza-
ton of wood for the purpose indicated
to forestall a possible shortage III
bread and powder.
Another theory, and one which
would appear as the more plausible to
the average non-German, is that re-
course to these expedients is taken be-
cause a shortage of grain and cotton
is imminent or that the pinch OF a
wheat and cotton famine has already
been felt.
The use of wood as food is not a
novelty. Men have kept themselves
alive on it before. Ground wood bark,
sawdust and especially sawdust Oh the
green and comparatively juicy sap
wood of such soft woods and fast.
growing trees as lindens. pines and
birches have been used before by the
fio,r could be had, and to be used with
out flour when necessity compelled 1t.
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1t is significant, and it may be taken
as a sinister observation, that recourse
to wood as human food has heretofore
been made only in times of famine. In
the famine years of 1916 and 1917 II
has been reported that the chancellor
of a German university made series
of experiments and published a report
on wood as food, and as an adulterant,
containing some nutritive properties.
for those foods to which mankind is
accustomed.
The war had not been raging many
months when these wood-bread stories
began to come out of Europe and ap-
parently originating from German
sources. And stories of this nature
continue to come. One of the latest
10 that this bread, to which wood has
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6No know Mrs. Elizabeth Brown
Davis and her work should be
proof sufficient TO dissolve the
x last shred of doubt concerning
tie ability of Il brilliantly intellectual
" oman TO advance year after year in
the course of her chosen profession,
and at the same time to carry, with
obvious success. the full responsibilities
o. marriage, which in her case COM
~ Sc oyer twenty-five years of Wife
hood, motherhood and homemaking.
Mrs. Davis is said TO be the greatest
oman authority upon astronomical
II athematics in this country, probably
IN the world, and has been making
computations for the Nautical Almanac,
Published annually by the United States
Naval Observatory at Washington, for
tie past twenty-nine years.
Ars. Davis began this work soon
Washington University. under Prof.
Simon Newcomb. the distinguished as
tronomer, who had charge of the Nauti-
cal Almanac for many years. During
the early years of assisting Prof New
comb she took "a post graduate course
In astronomy and mathematics at Johns
Hopkins University, whose doors open
ed to her before they were regularly
opened to women, upon the recon-
incubation of Prof. Newcomb. From
that time to this Mrs. Davis has made
the computations for the Nautical
Almanac.
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The Nautical Almanac, for use in
ma visation. is published several years
ahead, yet it gives the phases OF the
sun, moon and stars for every day Of
the year. and in some cases for every
hour of the day. Today from the
Almanac of 1916 and 1917 one may read
the heavens for the next two years
As consequence of this advance pub
IlicAtfon the phases cannot be taken
from observations, but must be com
|puted from tables which are based upon
former observations. The immense
amount of infinitely minute and COM
plicated calculations Mrs. Davis must
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Mrs. Davis had just returned from
summer holiday spent in old Nantucke
While there she made a pilgrimage I
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-21
Amusements
POLES

Lovers of vaudeville and motion pictures who haven't seen the excel lent program at Polls the last half of this week, should avail themselves of the final opportunity tonight. It is an excellent bill of stellar features that affords untold entertainment -. In the vaudeville program are fea- tured: "On a Summers Day. rol- licking musical comedy with many pretty girls; Captain Kidder.'' an operatic novelty requiring a cast of five talented artists.
 Wolf and Haney, two musical com edy stars, in songs and dances; liar ry Haywood and company. in a. com edy sketch, ttThe Ffref1y''; Baby Bess- on, a child prodigy in songs. and the Wartamos, comedy jugglers
 The feature photoplay is ttDr. Ra- meau,'' a fve-part drama, featuring Frederick Perry. star Of "On Trial and Dorothy Bernard, former stock favorite here.
 In addition, there are other photo plays of a comedy nature.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-21
PLAZA

Today is the last opportunity local theatregoers will have to see Gus Ed wards "Kid Kabaret,'' on of the class jest miniature musical comedfettas of the season. It is another of those delightful treats of song and dance, bearing the name of Gus Edwards and there is enough comedy inter spersed to keep any audience in roars of laughter from the beginning to the end of the act. There are nine clev- CT kfddies in the act and each one does a speciality that brings rounds of applause at every performance, the Charley Chaplin iTnpersonatton and the violin solos being probably the most pleasing.
 Dotson and Gordon, a pair of color ed comedians in positively the funn- jest singing and dancing skit that has been seen in Bridgeport this season, are another prominent feature of the bill.
 Fun in a Vaudeville Ohice,s' an odd and screamingly funny offering in the hands of The Five Bragdons and White & Hill in a neat and refined sinfiing and dancing fantasy compose the vaudeville.
 The Power of the Press,,' a four part dramatic story with a punch in every scene; MabePs Strange Predica- ment' and Hobbies Goat. are shown on the photoplay program.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-21
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTEBOOK
By Leo Pape

Me and my sistir G1addis was set- ting avn our frunt steps last mite and Gladdis sed, Is that MT. Parkins com ing up the street.
 Yes, and that's MT. Rockitts com ing down the uthir way, sed.
 Q help, that pill will be the deth of me, sed GIaddis. MT. Rockitts beeing my Sundey skooI teeteher and kind of a sissey the way he tawks.
 And MT. Parkins and MT. Rockitts kepp avn coming and they got to the frunt steps about the saim time, both tipping tEare hats to G1addis and shaking eetch uthirs hands as if they wat they proberly was.
 jest happened to be passing, sed MT. Parkins.
 That's the way with me, sed MT
 I'm ony going to stay a mint or so, avn the step, and so did Mir. Rockitts saying, I ony have a mint to stay, also.
 My goodniss wats yure, hurry, sed Gladd1s.
 was jest passing, sed5 MT. Parkins.
 was jest going by, sed MT. Rock its. And they sat thare a Iitte1 vile not saying nutch, and then MT. Par lxins got up, saying, Well, cant I take you as far as the cornir, MT. Rockits.
 Wy, don't nos yes, serteny. serteny. shall be glad of yure company. sed MT. RocEitts. And they both started to wawk up the street, Gladdis saying, Sorry you cant stay. And wen they got to the cornir MT. Parkins went wun way. and in a cuppil of minits who calm erround the cornir down the street but MT. Parkins agin.
 Good eevning, he sed tipping his hat
 Good eevning, sed GIaddis.
 jest happeEed to be returning rum a wa.Ek erround the b1cck and thawt Id drop in for a few hours if you had no obAecqshin, sed Mir Parkins.
 Hee hee, sed 5Gladdfs. And MT. Par kinss sat down avn the steps agen and he was still tEare wen had togo to bed
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-21
IF THE GIRL MINDS MOTHER

Dear Miss Libbey:4- am a girl of 1s. Counted pretty as few are here in the country. Youths want to take me me about But moth CT says I am too young to go out with boys. All girls my age have company. It seems very hard for me not to. have blue eyes, rosy cheeks. dimpled chin; girls are Jealous of me. I am modest, Had I best mind mother or not fear to go?
 MR Dear young girl, you are too young to give boys a, thought. Your mother has only the best and truest heart in- terest for you. Mind mother and you will never live to regret this earnest advice. Beauty, like the flower, often fades away. Do not give your looKs many of your. thoughts. In it's place cherish sweetness and your greatest love for your mother. You will not always have her with you. Obey and love her while you may.