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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17

eTHE Washington Society of the Fine
u Arts was organized more than ten
years ago, and it's membership has now
grown to upward of 500. The late
Charles NJ Ffoulke was it's first pres-
dent; Thomas Nelson Page followed
later and Glenn Brown now holds this
office. 1t has held one notable exhibit
ton, and has, year after year, assisted
local organizations in holding exhibit
lions. 1t has taken an active interest
in civic improvement and encouraged
every effort to make Washington
more beautiful city-in fact, the most
beautiful city.
Last winter, under its auspices,
series of notable free organ recitals
interests and its influence are far
reaching The office of the society is
in the Octagon. 18th street and New
York avenue.
1T is interesting to know that Daniel
u Chester French, who is to model the
statue of, Lincoln for the Lincoln Me-
mortal, which is being erected in this
city, has recently cola borated most
teresting work with Henry Bacon, the
architect of the memorial Together
they have designed the beautiful Spen-
Ger Trask Memorial at Saratoga
Springs n Y, one of the lovcliest me
MORALS in this country, which was un-
yelled last summer.
This memorial takes the form of
Fountain beautiful female figure
symbolizing 'the spirit of life" Both
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lows: January Z, The Psychology of
Color and Its Relation to Our Environ
ment"; January II. THE Principles of
Form and Their Application to the
Modern House; February 4. Classic
and Gothic Feeling-Their Meaning
and Reflection in Our Choice and Ar
rangement of Art Objects: February
Modern House; March 3, Selecting.
Framing and Hanging Pictures" !;
March II, Art and Its Relation to
Dress"
This course follows logically that on
The Decorative Arts" given last year
by Mr.. Parsons, which proved so ex-
ceedingly popular and valuable. Tick
cts will be ready for distribution after
November l., and if the registration far
exceeds the seating capacity Of the
hail. as it did last year, arrangements
have been made to have the lectures
given twice the same day-afternoon
and evening-and thus accommodate
all.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17

m OR several years the Washing
In ton Society of the Fine Arts has
conducted several notable lee
q ture courses for the benefit OF
it's members and others. These lectures
have become quite feature of the art
life of this city, and the announcement
of the present seasons course is mat
ter of very considerab BILE interest.
The so-called members course WILL
as usual, be on THE Fine Arts" but
by no means in a restricted sense. Ihe
first lecture in this course is to be
given on the evening of November II,
and will be on THE Province of the
Arts and Crafts
1t will be given by Charles r. Ash
bee, fellow of the Royal Institute OF
British Architects, who has been close
ly in touch with the arts and crafts
movement in England since its init1a-
ton by William Morris. and is well
known as a writer and lecturer.
On December Is the subject will be
versailles and Its Treasures" and
Carroll Beckwith. the painter, will be
the lecturer. Moreover. Mr.. Beckw1th
is to illustrate his lecture with very
beautiful colored slides-photograph
made in color by the Lumiere process
and specially secured for the occasion
The third lecture will mark de-
parture. 1t will be given on the even
ing of January 10, and Will be by AL
fred Noyes The subject will be Poet
ry," and will be followed by brief
reading from the poets own poems.
This will be Mr.. Noyes' first appear
ance in Washington.
The fourth lecture, to be given on
February is, will also manifest wild
ening of the definition the fine arts.
for it is to be on THE Art of the
Drama" and will be given by Gwendo-
lyn Logan, the accomplished English
actress, who is temporarily making her
home in this country.
The Washington Society of Fine Arts
has been so fortunate as to secure
Joseph Pennell, the distinguished il
illustrator and photographer. to give the
fifth lecture in this course, which
comes March IS. His subject will be
IAN Artists Adventures on the Trail
of His Authors" and the lecture VIII
include personal "reminiscences of Rob-
Maurice Hewlett, Marion Crawford and
others 1t will be illustrated by some
of Mr.. Pennelrs own drawings.
The sixth and last lecture will be
peculiarly appropriate to the season,
coming April IL. The subject is
Hedges and Other Features of Land
scape Art" and the lecturer will be
Mrs William A. Hutchinson of New
York. who by her maiden name, Martha
Brookes Brown, is well known as
landscape gardener and maker of many
beautiful places.
er HE popular course of lectures
u given under the auspices of the
Washington Society of the Fine Arts
will be given again by Frank Alvah
Parsons of New York and will be on
Practical Problems in Art and House
Furnishing" These lectures will be
given Friday evenings instead of Tues
day evenings this year, and, as Mr..
Parsons is lecturing on the Pacific
coast the early part of the season. they
will not begin until the first part of
January Then, however, one will be
given every two weeks.
The dates and subjects are as fol-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17
Fiction and Fact.

From the Chicago Herald.
Treasure Island" is still a good book
to read, but Rock Island" seems to
have been the best place to 60 to get
the money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-17

srHE third course of lectures given
under the auspices of the Washing
ton Society of the Fine arts is on mu-
sic. 1t will be on THE Development of
Song as an Expression of Art" and will
be given by Nicholas Douty of Phila-
delphia All of these three courses of
lectures are gwen in the auditorium of
the National Museum, 10th and B
streets northwest.
The music lectures will be Monday
evenings, the members course on The
Fine Arts will be Wednesday evenings
and the Popular Course" as previously
stated. Friday evenings.
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coupled with a critical appraisal of the
technic that the poet has drawn from
the theme itself. A sketch of Brown
ing's life accompanies this study
Springing from it, too, is summary
of the qualities and powers that lift
his work to the measure of greatness.
The study is eminently calculated to
do just what it set out to do-that is,
to introduce Robert Browning in such
a manner that the reader catches first
the simple greatness of his work and
pas then to it's profounder reaches.
Al STRALIAN BYWAYS; the Narrative
of a Sentimental Traveller. By Nor
man Duncan. author of Going
Down From Jersualem," etc. Illus
trated by George Harding. New
York: Harper & Brothers.
Here is a traveller who has caught on
to the inspired fact that the stop-overs
between terminals should not be, as is
commonly supposed. by way of places,
but by way of persons instead. So
loafing along through the skirts and
outskirts of Australian civilization,
Norman Duncan presents the manifold
features of this region to US, chiefly
the personality of this or that
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are memorials to Rear Admiral Dickns,
its pulpit to Miss Sophie Louise Little,
one of st. Margaret's charter members.
and other altar pieces. including finely
wrought hanging lamp in the form of a
cross have been given at intervals.
The pew which Mrs. Gait has selected
is directly off the center aisle in the midi
die of the church. This is not the first
time her name has been officially associ
ated with St. Margarets Sterling Gait
her brother-in-law. was the vestryman
there for a number of years and sang in
the choir.
st. Margaret's is comparatively young,
having been erected as recently as 1896.
1t had its. inception in the billiard room of
Mr.. Laurence Sands, charter member,
where $50 persons met and held services
until the original structure was erected
Prominent among it's founders were Col
George Truesdell. formerly a Commission
er of the District of Columbia Leroy Tut
tie, who owned much of the adjacent ter
ritory Beverly Randolph Mason, whose
forebear, George Mason. was the owner of
Gunston Hall in Virginia and friend of
George Washington, and the Little family,
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17HE President. as is well known. is

~HE President, as is well known. IS
Presbyterian, and his fancee.
q Mrs Norman Gait, is an Episco-
palian; yet they are kindred in both
religious interest and church support.
The public has long taken cognizance
of the regularity of Mr.. Wilson's at
tendance at the various Presbyterian
churches of the capital. Mrs. Gait, it
will learn, is no less an ardent church.
goer than her distinguished husband
to-be.
This most interesting bride-elect, to
whom reports say the President gives
the choice OF the officiating clergyman
at their coming nuptials, has always
been a vigorous participant of the &C
tivities of the Episcopal Church. In
fact. her friends say that she prefers TO
make use of church charities as the
medium for her social work. and to
identify herself with such quiet-moving
efforts to help along the good of hu-
manity. rather than ally herself with
the modern ropagandas.
Perhaps her closest association with
Washington interests has been her at
filiation with st. Thomas Church. and
IatterIy with st. Margaret's. In these
two churches has she been interested
during her entire residence in this city.
st Thomas. the elegant "hlte stone
Gothic church on 18th street, which
forms the western border mark of
Church street, has, until three weeks
ago, been Mrs. Cats church home.
Here her late husband. Norman Gait.
was yestryman, and here her name
has been one of the most prominent on
the membership list.
She has been personally active in it's
societies and charities. being MEM
F., Der bf the Rector's Aid Society and. until
| lately, of the board of lady managers
| of the Episcopal Ear. Eye and Throat
Hospital. The personnel of this board
! Is formed Of delegates from each Epis-
copal shurch, and the fact that Mrs.
! Gait was chosen to represent st. Thorn
as is a testimonial Of the esteem in
| which she Is held by her church asso-
cfates.
| But during her connection with 81.
Thomas Church she had the inclination
now and then to attend services at the
charming, rambling. old English church
| farther uptown on Connecticut avenue
St Margaret's. Her attachment to this
church has grown steadily, and three
weeks ago she withdrew her church letter
from st. Thomas. presented it to st. Mar
garets rector, Rev. Herbert Scott Smith !;
selected her pew and announced her de-
Termination to attend the services regu-
larry. although her mother and sisters
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BOOK REVIEWS.

THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT. By
H. G. Wells. author of THE Wife of
Sir Isaac Hartman" etc. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
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N OR several years the Washing
III ton Society of the Fine Arts has
conducted several notable lee
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BROWNING: How to Know Him. BY
William Lyon Phelps. NJ. A, PHI. d.
Lampson Professor of English Lit
aerature at Yale. Indianapolis: The
Bobbs- Merrill Company.
II is not the obscurity of this poet.
according to William Lyon Phelps. that
shuts the commonly intelligent reader
out from the dramatic beauty and noble
optimism of Robert Browning's poetry.
The barrier, such as IT is, liz made up
rather of the readers own inertia. He,
having intrenched himself behind the
traditional notion that poetry. like
music, is first and foremost o matter
of sensuous appeal, matter primarily
OF golden cadences of sound, refuses
to come out from behind this barri-
cade for the entertainment of a con-
trary view. DR.. Phelps shows here how
the theory and method of Browning's
poetry cut straight across this estab
Hshed rule, through an insiStence that
the poetic medium shall fit the charac-
ter of the theme, that the form Of
poetry shall conform TO the nature of its
content. Under the urge of the thought
poetry may stand something rough,
rugged. elliptical. involved even mar
tioulate. just as IL may under the same
impulse flow in smooth, transparent,
rhythmic stream. This is the dramatic
point of view applied to poetry. and
Browning is of all poets the most dra-
matte in his appeal. DIR. Phelps sub
in concrete illustration of Browning $
superb dramatic power turned to the
poetic Interpretation of life and char
acter. Each of these poems the writer
introduces by a sympathetic and ex-
oert Interpretation of its significance
The Washington herald., 1915-08-14
PEACE SEEKERS WILL
GATHER IN FRISCO
Noted Speakers Will Address Interna.
tional Congress Under Auspices
of American Society.

The Fifth American Peace Conference
and International Peace Congress will be
held under the auspices Of the American
Peace Society at San Francisco October
10. II and Il.
Among those to speak are Senator
Henri La Fontaine. of Belgium. prcsIi, Mt
Of the council of the International Feace
Bureau at Berne. Switzerland; MIRA Ali
Kuli Khan. Persian Minister to the
United States; Theodore Marburg. OF Bal
timore. formerly United States Minister
to Belgium; DR.. David Starr jordan,
chancellor of Leland Stanford Gr.) Uni.
versity; DR.. Benjamin Ide Wheeler.
president Of the University Of California;
DR.. John Mez, of Freiburg, Germany.
president of the International Federation
OF Students, and A. d. Call. executive
director and acting secretary of the
American Peace Society.
The sessions of the congress will be
devoted to consideration Of a league Of
peace. world court. the church. schools
and colleges in the peace movement, ar
maments and labor in its relation to
world peace.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-14
u. s ANSWERS BRITISH
BLOCKADE CONVENTIONS
State Department Officials Will Con-
fer With Spring-Rice Before
Cabling Reply.

The answer of the United States to the
notes of Great Britain, in which she ar
gued a justification of her treatment of
the commerce of neutrals. will be sent to
Sir Edward Grey on Wednesday.
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. the British Am
bassador. who is now at Beverly, Mass.
IS expected at the State Department on
Tuesday morning. 1t is understood that
he has been sent for by the State Depart
lnent. 1t has been arranged by the De-
partment that an agent of the Secret
Service shall accompany him from
Beverly to Washington.
The American reply has been consider
ably changed and greatly condensed since
the receipt by the State Department of
the supplementary notes of Great Britain
in which she maintained the legality of
the blockade and set forth substantially
that the United States was actually the
beneficiary of that blockade.
The principal note dealt. among other
things. with a suggestion of arbitration
This, however, was to be available only
after the United States had submitted
to Great Britain's positive claim that all
seizures and definitions should be re-
garded first and essentially as questions
for the British prize courts.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-14
purely persoaal

District Commissioner Louis Brownlov
yesterday returned to his desk at TIL
District Building from a vacation Of
several weeks at Atlantic City. N. ]. HI
brought back with him a seaside tan ant
several pounds of extra flesh.
District Commissioner Oliver P. New.
man will leave the city today for q
months vacation in the Catskills.
District Engineer Commissioner Charles
W. Kutz, who is spending his vacation
with his family in Maine. is expected to
return to the city about August %.
LIE Want Dodge, of Kentucky. professor
emeritus at Berca College, has an
nounced himself as a candidate for the
of the Grand Army of the Republic. The
election of officers will occur here next
month during the annual encampment
of the organization.
Lieut.. Col. E. H. Neumeyer chief of
the quartermaster corps of the District
National Guard, who has fed the Dis
trict's citizen-soldiers on more than a
score of encampments. retired yesterday
on the eve of another encampment. Col
Neumeyer has been a member of the
DlstrlCt guard Ior tniIty-uSc years.
Thomas Dougherty is expected to re-
turn to his former position at the Gov
Printing Once after an absence
of five months.
Comptroller of the Treasury George E.
Downey has acceded to the request that
he remain in that position until his sue
cessor is appointed. President Wilson
named Mr.. Downey for the
Court Of Claims bench
The Washington herald., 1915-08-14
u. S. SAYS NEUTRALITY
CAN'T BE CHALLENGED
State Department Replies to Austria S
Protest Against Shipment of

In its reply to Austria's protest that
the shipment of arms to the allies I'M
der present circumstances is PRACTICAL
ly an unneutral act. this government,
in note sent Thursday night, main
tains that in order to prove that prop
osition the protest should demonstrate
that the United States has an interior
purpose in continuing such commerce
The answer deals principally with
two subjects-the contention of Aus
tria that the effect of the present COM
merce is clearly to the advantage of
the allies, and is to that extent I'M
neutral, and an argument on the in
disputable right of American citizens
to ship contraband anywhere in the
world, subject to seizure and capture
by belligerent.
An official of the State Department
said yesterday that the United States
was obliged to hold that it was the
accident of circumstances" which pre-
vented Austria-Hungary and Germany
from getting munitions of war from
America. He said that the neutrality
of the United States could not be chal
lenged.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-14
CITY PLANS TO
| REDIVIDE WARDS
Alexandra Wants Same Num-
Der of Persons in Each
=. District.
WILL USE NEW CENSUS
Bazaar Planned for Anne Lee Home.
School Board Seeks Over
flow Quarters.
WILL USE NEW CENSUS

Alexandria. Va. Aug. 13.-In order
that the four wards may be evenly d.
vided in population. the city council
soon will redistrict them. The matter
is in the hands Of the committee on
general laws. which will make a re-
port to the council at its next meet
ing, August "a. The dividing of the
/ wards will be based on the census
Just taken by E. ]. Fleming.
Plans are being formulated for a
bazaar to be given early in November
for the benefit of Anne Lee Memorial
Home for the Aged. The bazaar will
represent a Dutch market village. 1t
will be staged at Armory Hall. Capt.
W. NJ. King has donated the hall for
| the use of the committee in charge.
Mrs. L. E. Ufler has been chosen chair
man: Mrs. William Campbell. secre-
tary. and Arthur Herbert, jr.. treasurer
The committee on school houses and
furniture of the city school board to-
day looked over sites for temporary
quarters for the overflow pupils to be
accommodated pending the completion
Of the new high school building. Among
the places considered Is the hall over
the Richmond Theater and the rear END
Miss Lizzie Price, daughter OF the
late Capt Ellis Price, died at o'clock
this evening at her home, lis North
Alfred street. after a long illness. She
is survived by a sister. Mrs. John II.
Zimmerman, and two brothers. Capt.
Mark L Price and City AUDITOR Z.
Fleming Price. Miss Price had been IN
i'll health for several years. and her
condition became serious about three
weeks ago Funeral arrangements have
not been completed.
The majority Of the delegates who
have been attending the annual meet
ing of the Potomac Baptist Association.
which adjourned early this afternoon. re-
turned to their homes tonight. Among
the topics discussed at today's session
were Sunday school work. woman's mis-
sionary unions. and religious literature.
Faith Taylor Duncan. II years old.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. B. Dun
can died early this morning at her par
ent's home, s24 Queen street. She had
been i'll two weeks with rheuma tfsm.
Her funeral will take place at o'clock
Sunday afternoon.
The meeting Of Potomac Lodge Of Odd
Fellows tonight was largely attended.
The second degree of the order was con-
ferred on a class Of eight candidates.
Mr.. and Mrs. George D. Hopkins and
family returned today Irvnl - rotor trip
to Oc0~, City, Nd.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-14
MILITIAMEN WILL GET 4.
COMMISSIONS TONIGHT
Sixty Officers of District Guard Will
Be Sworn in at L
Street Armory.

About sixty commissions for officers of
the Third Infantry. District National
Guard, will be distributed tonight at L
street armory by Brig. Gen William E.
Harvey. in commando Of the militia. The
commissions yesterday were signed by
President Wilson and sent to the War
Department for the affixing Of the seal.
A notary public will be present tonight
so the officers can be sworn IN upon re-
ceiving commissions.
Tents and other equipment yesterday
were sent aboard the steamer st. Johns
to Colonial Beach. Va, where the an
nual encampment Is to be held. The
equipment was received by Capt. E. NJ.
Nevils, Of the Quartermaster Corps and
distributed about the camp grounds. The
tents will be erected on Monday, when
the encampment commences.
Lieut.. Homer NJ. Groninger, Of the
Fifth Cavalry at Fort Myer. has been de-
tailed to instruct the militia's new ma
chine gun company. The company's ma
chine guns have been received and ship
ped to camp.
The Washington herald., 1915-08-14
CHEESE AND FLY PAPER
MAKE NEW MOUSE TRAP
Business High School Student Tells Of
Novel Way to Catch the
House Pest,

Some illustrious soul once said that
he who invents a successful mouse
trap surprising anything on the mar
ket is greater than he who taketh a
city.
II it be so. then a modest young
graduate Of Business High School,
who prays that his name be kept
secret, is entitled to place In the
hall Of fame.
He has a mouse trap that sur
passes all other mouse traps ever
conceived. It is simplicity raised to
the nth power. It is surprisingly in
expensive. It Is constructed from one
piece Of fly paper and one piece Of
smoked cheese.
Directions: Place fly paper, sticky
side up, on floor near mouse hole.
Place cheese in mathematical center of
paper.
Modus operandi: Mouse smells
smoked cheese and energies from
hole. leaping upon fly paper. Feet
sticking, mouse rolls on side to free
self. Back sticks to fly paper ana
mouse is held firm. Owner Of trap
upon discovering helpless mouse,
picks up rodent and throws it into
bucket Of water
The Washington herald., 1915-08-14
NAVAL ADVISORY BOARD
IS NEAR COMPLETION
Secretary Daniels Expects 1t Will Be
Ready for Work About Middle
of September.

Secretary of the Navy Daniels an
nounced yesterday that the Naval Nd
visory Board. of which Thomas A. Edison
lis to be chairman, will probably be fully
organized and be ready to begin its work
about the middle Of September. All the
twenty scientific societies which were in
vfted to name members for service on the
board have signified purpose to respond.
Ten of the societies already have made
their nominations. Secretary Daniels de-
clined to mention the names of any of
the scientists who have been chosen by
the societies to serve on the board with
Mr.. Edison.
Secretary Daniels took occasion to say
yesterday that in his opinion there is q
live public sentiment for a greater navy.
He said that the correspondence Of the
department shows that the country Is
taking a deeper interest in naval affairs
than ever before.