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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
BETTER LIGHT AT MISSION.
Central Union Improves Quality at
Less Expense

An entirely new lighting system has
just been installed in the auditorium
Of the Central Union Mission. 1t ia
estimated that the introduction OF the
new lamps will reduce the operating
expense so per cent. and furnish twice
as much light as heretofore.
The electric sign on the roof OF the
building, Jesus. the Light OF the
World is to have all of the old lamps
replaced with new lamps during the
coming week. the expense being borne
in large part by the bequest of the
late Mrs. Jennie Robinson
The increase in brilliance which will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
RHINE IS M|GHT|EST
of COMMERCIAL RIVERS
National Geographic Society Places
It at the Head Of Great
Waterways.

The Rhine in history and commerce
and its rivalry Of the American Hud-
son and Mississippi Is interestingly
described in the latest Of the series OF
articles on places that have an I'M
portant place in the war area, pre-
pared for The Star by the National
Geographic Society. This statement
credits the Rhine with being hrs'
among the commercial rivers OF civlil-
zation, the most important geographi-
cal feature OF central Europe. hotly
contested boundary for more than l'ooo
years, one of the richest among the
streams of the world in legend and
folklore. and Incompatible for the
beauties Of its course.
When one calls to mind the Rhine
Of Germany he thinks upon one Oh the
most important elements of the eul-
whether he be of its Latin or its leu
tonic branch. The Rhine and the Ger
mans came upon the stage Of history
together. and their fates have been m
His kindred with this mighty river,
Father Rhine, is one of the more con-
scfous elements OF each Germans llIe'
and to this his folklore. his literature.
offerings have testified. Few geographi :
cal features have affected the con-
scious life Of a race so deeply as has
the German Rhine.
$50 Miles Long.
Rising in the highest Alps III cen
trail Europe, the Rhine reaches the
North sea after journey of $50 miles
and the last part Of its course is
through a lowland whose surface is
below the tides crest. The river gath
ers its water at the base of melting
glaciers, plunges over great rock
masses toward its lower levels. cuts
through the widest mountain valleys
traverses a wonderful high, broad
Main and, then, entering its famous
gorge, wanders through exquisite
panoramas, through a lane everywhere
mantled with ruins of historic castles.
abbeys, churches and every foot of its
way celebrated by legend or history.
After emerging from Its gorge II
flows through q plain where powerful
steel, textile and chemical industries
center. Through Germany and Holland
the Rhine forms the principal water
avenue Of central and western Europe.
and an enormous commerce Is handled
through its ports.
The Rhine Is international. 1t is
divided between Switzerland. Germany
and Holland. That part of the river
which lies in Germany $50 miles in
length has been most disputed. The
Ffench have laid claim to its left bank
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
Plans Barge Hospitals.

THE Duchess of Sutherland motored
up to see me today, and was thrilled
by the barge. and is now consumed with
the ambition to have some barge hos
pitfalls. We see everybody who goes to
and from headquarters. and tomorrow
night Prince Alexander Of Teck. the
Duke Of Sutherland and Col. Bridges
(the uncrowned King of Belgium) are
all dining on the barge. We cook the
dinner, Of course, and never have any
thing but an oilcloth table cover and
paper napkins, but the food is good.
Our dining room and kitchen are both
in one, but they are spotless, and the
cleaning pots and pans make a charm
ing background"
As the correspondent left Miss Elliott
she was about to paddle down to the
railway station to collect 189 bundles
Of clothing which she had heard had
arrived for her relief work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21

be occasioned by the change Will, It 10
expected, be accompanied by q reduc
tion to one-third the former cost OF
running the sign.
In addition the heating plant OF the
entire building has been overhauled
and the auditorium is to be painted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
LIFE SENTENCES NOW LEGAL.
Arkansas Governor Also Signs Wom-
ems Minimum Wage Bill.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March eO-Gov.
Hays today signed bill permitting
juries to fix life Imprisonment as pun
ishment for crimes for which the death
penalty hitherto has been mandatory
The governor also signed a bill re-
curing that establishments which en-
ploy four or more women pay a mini
mum wage of 81 a day to inexperienced
workers and s1.25 a day to employees
who have had two months experience
Both bills were adopted at the recent
session of the legislature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
Father Schmitt Conyalescine.

Rev. Valentine F. schmitt, pastor of
st. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church.
I'd and c streets northeast. who has
been seriously i'll for the past several
days. was reported last night to be
improving. He Is still very weak. It
was announced. 80 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
RED CROSS UNIT GOES
TO WORK IN RUSSIA
Surgeon and Eleven Nurses Sail To.
morrow-Help Sent
ri to Serbia. ISL

In provision for the greater need of
field hospital service IN Russia the
American Red Cross Is sending DR..
Harry Hamilton Snively OF Columbus.
Ohio. OF wide military experience. to
take charge Of the American Red
Cross work behind the Russian battle
lines. Tho hospital unies at Kief are
already established under two Wash
ington surgeons. Drs p. H. and A. M
Zinkhan.
DR.. Snively. accompanied by eleven
enrolled American Red Cross trained
nurses, Is to sail from New York to-
morrow on the Norwegian American
timer BergensfJord for his distant post.
DR.. Snively has been q surgeon IN
the Ohio National Guard for twelve
years and was in charge Of the second
field hospital of that organization. He
has been q medical instructor In the
Ohio University Medical School and
had much surgical practice.
The nurses who take the places Of
other American nurses are Misses Cora
V. Johnson, Aurel Baker, Sara Hilbert.
Katherine Bartlett. Eleanor soukup Of
Chicago; Misses Marion Echternach.
Anna Roumaane Smith, Clara Barn
dollar of Philadelphia: Miss Sara A.
Lee Of Lakewood, n. j.: Miss Mabel
Burnham Rich Of Providence. r. l.. and
Miss Hettie Reinhardt of Stanley, N. C.
Aid for Serbia.
Besides the 10000 anti-cholera treat
ments taken to Serbia last week by the
leaders Of the American Red Cross
sanitation commission that has gone to
fight the typhus fever and cholera
plague that has already claimed 10000
victims and threatens to spread to all
Europe. other heavy" shipments OF
medical and surgical relief. supplies
have been forwarded. These include
2s6 cases tc the Serbian Rcd Cross and
AZ cases to DIR. Ethan Flagg Butler of
the American Red Cross at .4evgelia.
$50 cases and boxes to the Austro-
Hungarian Red Cross at Vienna. and
tomorrow will send 236 cases to the
British Red Cross In London and 81
cases to Dr., Howard w. Beal Of the
land. sns
Writing of visit to the big; war
relief hospital ct Patgnton. where
american Red Cross surgeons and
Vail, member of the New York chap
ter of the Red Cross. who Is stopping
in London. says:
Il had a most interesting. and pleas
ant Two Gays NJ faiEHtoH, " nero every
wheel seemed to be running in the
smoothest possible manner. and. judg-
ing from the atmosphere in the wards.
both the patients and nurses seemed
equally cheerful. .'' ID =
Wonderful Sick Men.
Tommy makes a wonderful sick,
man. and a group around the stove In
Lunsey. ward. all MANNED or blinded.
what grit and pluck can achieve. The
more serious tho Wounds, the, more
lightly they carry themselves and their
hurts The nurses admiration of them
is apparently quite boundless
Every one have met has praised
the American Red Cross In the heart
lest Of ways and. I md on every hand
much appreciation and gratitude for
the generous help that comes from
y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
Officers Glad to See Them. :

Near Adinkerque. gunboat of Eng
fish officers from Admiral Ayres' squad
ron steamed down to meet US. They
were overjoyed to see u.s. It was nice
to be greeted so enthusiastically. though
we couldn't f1atter ourselves there was
anything personal in it. II was only
because they hadn't spoken to q WON
an Tor three months, and they. were
longing for news from home. There
We're several men 1 knew.
Inc biggest gunboat Of the SQUAD
ron was lifted clean out of the water
, las. week by a shell bursting under
neatn IT, The warship fopped back
again with an awful smash but no
damage was done except the hreaL.
ing Of everything breakabie.
previously when we passed one ~
the sunboats in the canal. one OF the
girls shouted to ask II II was an
armored tug You can imagine what
JOKE that is in the squadron now, for
the boat she addressed was none other
tnan. the Admirars flagship, and we
snail never hear the end Of il.
All the generals admit tina, 1t is
magnificent work that we are doing.
but naturally war operations take no
account OF the suffering civilian popu-
lace. They are bundled away from the
hshting line as quickly as possible,
but countless thousands are left with
the wrecks Of their homes, and no re-
lief funds get to their unhappy cor
ner. and you can imagine what this
help, OF ours means to them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
Wonderful Sick Men.

:. -. TO Cure . Geld In one Day -
Take LAXATIVE BRoAQ QU1NnSE Tablsfs.
nral,sts refund naoney III ssi!s to eyre. u.
.isement. s. -. -:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
Three Women in Party.

I'VE had on board $4,000 worth of
food and a dozen enormous bales of
clothing when our homely barge. the
Julia, left Calais" said Miss Elliott.
Besides herself there were only three
members of the party. with the excep-
ton of three Belgian soldiers. who
looked after the barge. Two of the
party, besides Miss Elliott, were wOm-
en-. intimate friends of the actress.
I'VE set out from Calais February A.
she said, after overcoming innumer-
able petty annoyanceS that one cannot
foresee because in peace time there is
no precedent for them. For instance. it
was impossible for us to buy mat
tress in Calais. We had to beg four of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21

on the grounds that the Rhine formed
the boundary line of Roman Gaul.
Though the Roman empire reached out
beyond the broad Rhine the river
formed, nevertheless. it's effective bar
rfer against the north barbarians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
BELG|ANS ARE FED
BY MISS ELLIOTT
American Actress Carries
Food Right Up to the
Line of Battle.
DOES HER OWN COOKING
ABOARD A CANAL BARGE
Also Scrubs Decks and Does Other
Labor. Regardless Of
Her Hands.

Correspondence Of the Associated Press
CALAIS, March maxine Elliott has
met with remarkable success in getting
provisions to starving Belgians in the
fighting zones of Flanders. Personally
conducting her expedition by barge
towed through the canals of France
and Flanders, she penetrated that little
corner where the Belgian standard still
flies between the guns of the allied and
German armies.
1T is a miracle to have got here,
said Miss Elliott to an Associated Press
correspondent who recently met her
and two woman companions IN the
midst of their work. II is against every
rule for woman to he at the actual
front, and Miss Elliott succeeded in her
project only after weeks of "Machla-
vellian scheming and slavery.
The American actress enlisted her eX-
petition as part of the services of the
American commission for relief in Bel
GUM, but financed it largely herself.
and personally conducted il in the hope
of reaching the destitute in the coun-
try where the fighting still RACES, for
these receive little or no help from the
big funds administered through Brus-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21

been thrillingly interesting country
through which we have passed We
have seen Taubes flying overhead, and
heard the boom of cannon. AS far as
the eye could see. trenches. trenches,
trenches. There were funny little OBJ
less poles. barbed wire entanelements
and swarms of soldiers living like half
drowned rats. poor things. in a sea Of
mud. They saluted our flag as we
at the spectacle of women in these for
hidden n1acee
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
Just Complaint.

The feelings of the coal HEAVIER of
the following story. as given in Tit,
Bits, had sufficient cause to be ruff.
fled:
Liza" he expostulated, don't / al.
ways tell you | won't ave the kids
bringin' in the Goals from the shed
in my best at?"
.'Oh, just ave sense replied his
wife. You've spoiled the shape of
that at already, and what can little
hextra coal dust do to arm yer 'at?"
You don't see the point" protested
the husband, with dignity Il only
wears that at in the hevenin's; and if,
while I'm bout, l take it orr my cad,
it leaves bloomin' black band round
my forehead. Wot's the consequence
Why, | gifts accused of washin' my
face with my at on. and it amt nice,
Liza! 1t amt NIGEL"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
RICH MEN AND THEIR MONEY
Most Of Them Are Exceedingly Care
full In Limiting Their Personal
Expenditures.

Although Henry Phipps, the Pitts
burgh magnate, delights in giving mil
lions of dollars to hospitals and chart.
ties, he will get out of his motor car
and go back to his study to turn out
the electric lights before starting on
the ride. Andrew Carnegie has gone
downtown with only couple of dol
lars In his pockets. He is quite in
contrast in this respect with the late
Charles G. Gates, who has been seen
to pull a roll of thousand dollars bills
from his pocket when paying hotel
bill.
August Belmont is careful spender
in most every particular. He carries a
pocketful of dimes for use in dispen-
sing tips to walters and other SER
wants, but when it comes to the ques-
ton of shoes there is no limit to his
outlay, as he INDUCES in many new
pairs each week.
The list might be indefinitely ex-
tended, for there is perhaps no other
characteristic which more widely diff
ferentiates millionaires. Probably no
two of them spend their money in just
the same day. The subject is of peren
NAL interest, however, as everyone
knows. Witness the widespread dis
cussion recently aroused by the action
OF Justice Asphalt of the New York
court in allowing $4,000 a year ali
mony to the fair applicant for a di.
vorce, after publicly reprimanding her
for having applied for $4,000 on
which TO make ends meet"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
NEW VOGUE IN NECKWEAH
More Severe and Unornamentai o'y'
Seems Likely to Replace
Dainty Collars.

Becoming as the dainty lingerie COZ
lar doubtless is, it is just about time
that we had a change in neckWear'
The change may be of a kind regret
ted by many. for it will possibly pe
toward a much more severe ana uhoi
namental neck line. Many OF the ne"
evening frocks have line singularls
hard, and so have afternoon irochs
And not long ago Madame Cherul'
wore a gown of gabardine. with ~
tie vest of chiffon of the same cc!or
The bodice OF the frock was cut away
at the back OF the neck and on the
shoulders two or three inches from
the lower line of the throat ana me
chiffon vest extended around the Dach
filling in this space left bare by inc
bodice with a perfectly straight piece
of the chiffon Some faces and hguTts
can stand this fet, straight line at ne
neck, but most look far better IN the
high. rolling collar that has been 6
popular.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
ralph" she said. what is troubling

Ralph, she said, what Is troubling
you this evening? Something. know.
Won't you tell me what it is?'
He could not resist the wistful ap-
peal. He told Eunice of the loss of
his cuffs. She realized how sincerely
he deplored the loss of her first gift
to him.
Il have offered liberal reward at
the billiard hall for their recovery"
said Ralph. Il cannot forgive my for
getfulness in leaving them. Some one
has appropriated them"
Never mind, Ralph" Eunice said,
sweetly. They were of little intrinsic
value, and l will give you another
pair"
Ralph did not leave the trustful girl
in an altogether easy frame of mind.
He did not tell her Of the safe comb
nation which he had scrubbed on one
of the cuffs. For the life of him he
could not recall those numerals.
This put him in a state of anxiety,
and to some decided inconvenience.
Fortunately no business came in that
required reference to the contents of
the safe, but large amounts were paid
and important documents received,
and these Ralph locked up in strong
tin box and slept with it under his
pillow each night.
Mr.. Martin returned at the end of
ten days. He looked surprised when
Ralph made his report. He opened
% Cafn Than hn INV
bookkeeper with a darl, suspicious
face.
Il left a package containing twelve
hundred in cash in this safe when
went away, and 1t is gone," he said,
sat down grimly, wrote out check for
a months salary and added: Ter
hume, you are discharged"
Ralph was given no opportunity to
explain. Mr.. Martin secuted his story
about losing the combination and not
opening the safe as ridiculous. Ralph
was not even allowed to see Eunice.
Disgraced, branded as a thief, he was
sent away from that cherished para
disc of business and love.
Two days later Beale borrowed
thousand dollars on a note from a
banker. Two days still later Martin
learned that the note was a forgery.
He began an investigation. At its
termination he was satisfied that his
fugitive relative was constituencies
swindler.
Obdurate and selfwilled, he refused
to consider that Ralph might be
/ guiltless Just after the flight OF
Beale, however, Eunice came to him
with flaming eyes.
Papa" she said, II want you to
send for Mr.. Terhune at once and
make some atonement for misjudging
him so cruelty"
what do you mean" began her
father.
This: can prove who opened that
safe" and Eunice placed before him
a pair Of cuffs and card covered
with figures.
"The maid found these in the waste
basket in cleaning the room that Mr..
Beale occupied said Eunice. "The
cuffs he stole from Ralph, the card
shows how he distributed that missing
twelve hundred dollars"
Within the hour Ralph Terhune was
restored to his old position-and new
one-as prospective son;in-law of John
Martin, banker.
, Copyright 1913, by w. G. Chapman)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
DECOLLETAoE IS LESS
MORE COVERING GIVEN THE UP.
PER PART OF THE FIGURE.
That Change, and the style Of the
Skirt, Are the Principal Differ
ences in the Prevailing FASH
ions--Blouse Styles.

The skirt and the decolletage are
the principal points Of divergence from
the styles of the last 10 years, and 1t
will be interesting to watch the fur.
Their development Of this fashion. Ey-
erywhere one sees strong evidence
that bodices are growing less trans
parent and the fashion for covering
the upper part OF the figure with
Opaque material is progressing. Prob
ably by the springtime the use of lVlle
and chiffon will be greatly reduced.
The Paris designers forestalled this
when they showed in their wartime
openings the bodices of cloth or velvet
for day wear that extended from line
below the waist to the neck, leaving
only a splash Of white below the
ears.
This movement may be in keeping
with the gloritied Moyen.age which Wa
adopted in wholesale way in July;
1t may be the period of the long body
line, the girdle at the hips. the wrist.
length, tight sleeves and the univer
sal use of eolored velvets in deep,
rich tones, frightened by lavish han.
ding of colored jets to initiate jewels.
Whatever the reason, it is the strict.
ly new note to watch develop. That
employment of the fabric straight up
to the collarbone without the inter.
vention of thin material is sure to
win out. Already the separate blouse
of colorod chiffon to go with a skirt
of cloth looks out of ture with the
newest fashions. II one wears a suit
instead Of one.picce froc' the blouse
chosen for it mus Give the superficial
appearance of a continuation of the
skirt
1t is this fashion that has suggested
to women to give the preference in
their winter clothes 10 The street fgock
of cloth worn urter 4 fur caat or dol.
man or lons cloth care. It has lie.
come more and more difficult to man.
age a separate blouse with a cloth
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
DICTATES OF FASHION

Some of the new jackets are made
with belts showing in frcnt, but hid
den at the back.
Buttons generally sew on from be
hind They are large and fiat, convex
or ball-shaped.
Trimmings are sparingly used
Braiding is reserved for the ornamen'
tation Of the belt and straps.
Wine-colored velvet suits are
trimmed with cords OF the velvet and
buttons embroidered with steel beads.
Most evening coiffures show the
hair dressed so closely to the head
as to give a certain severity Of out.
line.
Long-haired, cream-colored plush is
used for evening wraps and is lined
with brocaded crepe in vivid colors.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
Formation of California Coast.

The biologists tell US a strange
story of the California coast. Ages ago
its mountain peaks, mere reefs in a
great expanse of sea, rose to such a
height that Santa Barbara channel was
a vast valley over which roamed the
elephant, camel, lion. saber-toothed
tiger and other animals whose fossil
remains are scattered over the coun-
try and some of which are found on
the islands.
Then the land again salk beneath
the sea and again rose. and marine fos'
sis are found in abundance along the
shores and on the mountain tops many
miles from the sea. Numerous gold
hunters have been surprised to find
the skeletons OF whales at an eleva.
ton of 1000 feet and two miles inland.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
Why Indians Are Red.

A German doctor has evolved a
queer theory about the coloring of the
human race-that the tint of the skin
is determined by the food eaten.
Originally, he declares. the human
species was black, because our PRINT
tive forefathers subsisted on fruits and
roots containing manganese. The
American redskins owe their color to
the consumption Of raw flesh. The
Mongols are yellow because of their
descent from a tribe which consumed
great quantities of herbs rich in
chloride, and the Caucasians have to
thank the salt, for which they have so
great liking, for their dainty pink and
white or delicate brunette complex.
ions.-Philadelph Record.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
SeIvaoes in Fashion,

Selvages are more fashionable
than ever, it seems. The French
couturers and their American imita-
tors delight in using breadths of rich
silk and handsome cloth with I'M
hemmed edges, End the selvages
make very graceful finish as rule,
blending more softly with the lines
Of the costume. A Partisan dinner
frock has a width Of superb lace
which covers the bodice and forms
the tunic, applied to the black tule
yoke merely by its selyages, the fiat
line of white outlining the curved
shane Of the yoke in very effective
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
Seasonable Joke.
paw.

VEL. GEORGE"
20 ,ays nave winter IN summer IN
the arctic re ioEs?"
Yes son"
And do they have summer in win
ter In the tropics!"
Exactly"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-01-16
Both Ways.

THE performer who fell from the
trapeze accomplished also an aero
batic paradox.
What was it?'
AT the same moment be landed or
his head he fell down on his feat"