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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
Diplomatic Honors,

Diplomatic agents are in three
classes: First, ambassadors, iegates
and nuncios; second, ENJOYS and
ministers; third, charges d'affaires.
An ambassador is thus the highest
diplomatic official sent from one coun-
try to another, and a minister is an
agent of the next lowest rank. The
ambassador represents not only the
state from which he is sent, but the
person of his sovereign, and is enti-
tied to ask an audience at any time,
to ran next the blood royal, and to
be held exempt, with his household,
from local jurisdiction. Envoy ex.
traordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary" is the full title of the diplomat
ic agent of the second class, who rep-
resents only the state, and not the
person of the ruler. Charges d'affaires
are lesser representatives, and must
deal with the ministers of foreign af.
fairs of the country t which they are
sent. The embassy is the h~eadquar-
tiers of the ambassador, the legation
tLat of the minister.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16

William F. Blades of the Eugenics
Record office, Cold Spring Harbor, L.
L. rs making a special study of hare
lip and cleft palate, In which he is
carrying on breeding experiments with
several harelip strains of Boston ter.
riers. He finds that both hare Lin
and cleft palate r highly hereditary
In both man and animal, but he has
been unable to determine in what way
they are inherited. Mr.. Blades finds
great difficulty in getting reliable sta
t%istics, owing to the fact that many
persons do their best to conceal slight
cases of hare lip and cleft palate, espe.
cially If these have been partially or
completely remedied by operation.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
Animal Actors.

The impression is created by an &C.
casional moving picture of wild animal
life that the beasts, in order to force
them into poses for the camera, are
cruelty treated. Nothing, however, it
Is said, is farther from the truth.
Careful investigation has shown that
force is seldom employed and wher-
ever it has been used the film result
ing has been unsatisfactory. Ernest
A. Dench, a London naturalist, who
has made an extensive investigation
of this phase of the movie industry,
declares that the dumb actors are
given every consideration. The thrills
experienced by the spectator are the
result, in a majority of instances, of
the very innocent expedient of placing
a piece of meat at a strategic point.
The animal leaps for it and the cinema
tcgraph records every motion of the
leap. The spectator, of course, sees
nothing of the meat and concludes
that cruelty alone could produce the
picture thrown on the screen. THE
animals" he concludes, really have
a much easier time than those that ap-
pear in trick acts on the stage"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
Wild Animals in CAPTIVITY.

After they are captured, wild ami
mails nearly all suffer from melan.
cholia, and, strangely enough, the
gorilla is more sensitive than most
One of these animals proved so SO.
ciable when caught that he played
with the native boys. Directly he was
shipped for Stellingen, however, he
began to pine. Civilization frightened
him. When he found that people stared
at him, he would shut his y e and
his head with a blanket. He was
turned loose with two natives in the
woods where there was nobody 10
worry him, but he refused to eat and
drink and became almost a skeleton.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16

mesh. The colored foundations are
presumably to be chosen to match the
gown, and for summer wear this is
a novelty that may flourish. The COM
Dlnation of black and white, worn with
oxfords or slippers, ought to look es-
pecially well with white dresses.
Another attractive color introduce
tlon is managed by weaving the foot
and lower part of the leg in black silk,
and the upper part beginning at the
middle of the calf in a color. Stock
lngs showing black combined with all
the light colors make an appeal on
the strength of pretty color combina.
tlons. All the visible portion of this
hosiery, with either low or high shoes,
Is black.
SILK hose in black and all coIors.
embroidered with small flower designs
IN s~elf-color are not new but are
always in favor. Occasionally small
blossoms in contrasting colors are to
be found on black stockings. Among
he finest hosiery smart white clock
ing appears as a finish on black silk
But the strongest tendency of the
fashion is away from contrasts in the
matter of decorations.
JULIA 8oTToMLEY.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
PROTECTING Wild Beasts.

Protected refugees where the deni-
zen of the wild may dwell and multi
ply are rapidly increasing in number
The Rockefeller Foundation has pur.
chased a tract of $4,000 acres in Louisi.
ana and placed 1t under the direction
of state authorities. The state already
controls a refuge with an area of 10,
600 acres, and Mrs. Russell Sage
bought and donated Marsh island for
the same purpose. In Michigan, it is
planned to set aside zoe, 900 acres as a
refuge, while Ohio expects to dedi.
cate $4,000 acres to the service. Hi,
nois is preparing to extend it's pro.
tected area by new purchases, and in
other states of the middle West and
the South similar projects are on foot.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
Durable Snow.

1t was in the smoker of the limited,
and the Yankee was talking of Joe
Knowles, Boston artist, who took to
the woods without food or clothing
and lived there for some weeks, by
way of proving that nature is an ade.
quate provider. The man from the
500 was skeptical. WELL" said he,
maybe he might do that in Maine,
but out here, where we have weather,
he could never have done it. Why,
man, I've seen good shedding out here
in August" The Pine Tree man new.
er blinked, but replied: Nothing won
derful about that! Why, up Farming
ton, Maine, way, where Joe and l
come from, they never think of using
the snow until it's two years old"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
Now Live Fifteen Years Lono.r.

The average length of life in the
United States is Is years greater O
than 1t was So years ago, according to
a statement made by DR.. Victor c.
Vaughn of the University of Michigan,
president of the American Medical as
ISOLATION, in an address before the City
club at st. Louis.
Crime he characterized as a disease,
due to heredity and environment, and
the way to eradicate crime was to
treat 1t as a disease and to disinfect its
breeding places.
Doctor Vaughn said the death rate
from tuberculosis had decreased 81
per cent since 1880.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
sss%@8s8a@eS s@s8s@s@e@se
BEAUTY AND BELLE
BY MARY EVANS eALsRAlrH.

copyright. 1914, by w. G.. Chapman)
"A mighty slick young fellow"
was what most people said of Joel
Quinby.
"A st~eady-going plodder," was the
way Ned Travers was designated.
Both were in love with Constance
Farrar. beauty and belle. Naturally
Joel attracted her with his brilliant,
dashing ways. When Constance Sc
riously reflected, however, her
thoughts mostly favored Ned.
Both young men had a future to
make. and both started in with the
big wholesale house of Brown & Co.
on an equal footing and with even
chances.
Joel was in the buying. and Ned in
the selling department. The house
had a large clientele. With Ned the
effort was to buy as cheaply as posi-
bic, with Joel to sell at the best profit
he could get. The latter had the in
stincts Of a natural trader and forged
ahead rapidly. He began to sport
loud clothes. diamonds, and assumed
on "uSpShuSht, SMdBSeTlHB manner
that did not win friends among his
associates.
One day Ned had an insight into
the character of Joel that affected him
graVely. Joel invited him to visit
mis- club. It was all new to Ned. who
noticed that Joel made himself con-
spicuous. Some men were playing
cards at a table, when Joel sauntered
towards them.
7 cay" he observed in his bold, OBJ.
trusiVe way, speaking of cards, I've
run across a queer thing. Friend of
mine developed sort of occult power.
Told me any time, any place, he would
be able to tell what any selected card
In the deck would be, even if he was
ten miles away"
Whats the trick, Quinby?" ques-
toned n of the men.
mo trick at all-straight clairvoy.
ance," insisted Joel. i've enough
faith in it to bet $500 to $50 that you
can select a card, show it only to the
five of us here, then send a friend to
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16

According to the United States CEN
sus, the population in California
cities. Of v n hundred thousand
people has increased, in the decade
from 1900 to 1910, from 80 to 1913 per
cent. The population in districts out
side of cities of ten thousand and over
has decreased from 56.9 per cent, in
1900, to 46.7 per cent, in 1910. Most
Of this decrease of the percentage of
population of agricultural districts has
gone to the big cities of over one
hundred thousand.
This clearly shows the prevailing
tendency. 1t also shows the grave
necessity for building cities that are
fit places for the permanent housing
of the larger part of the population.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
For Deaf and Dumb in India.

Fourteen year ago a school vas
opened in P~alamcottah, South India,
for deaf and dumb children, the only
missionary effort among the 100000
deaf of India. About 800 children of
every race and creed, from all parts
of India, and sent by every mission
airy society, have passed through the
school, and over a hundred are study
ing there now. The Hindus are be-
ginning to realize the good of edu-
eating the deaf, and last year asked
government help to enable them to
open a school in Madras. Last Janu-
airy a small school was opened in
Madras; already 1t is full with is
children.-Missionary Review.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
An Oriental Meal,

There was nothing in the meal that
looked or even tasted like an Ameri-
can dish. The meat, folded up into
small squares, vas cooked in oriental
ways, unknown to American cookery.
While the little rice concoctions, rolled
up in grapevine leaves, were as deli
cious as spinach, and the tiny sum-
mer squash, filled with an appetizing
stufting, made a pleasing dish. Pastry.
cheese and sweets were also different
from the customary American delica.
cies, and, lastly, the great Turkish
pipe, with its long smoke-cooling tube
filled with Persian tobacco, replaced
the American cigar. The bill of fare,
written in Arabic, backward, as is the
custom with that language, looked
like a stenographer's notebook.-Na-
tional Magazine.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
TRIBUTE PAID TO SOCIETIES
Cooperative Work Acknowledged to
Be Best Method of Advancing
City's interests.

In looking over an old work of Pc
ter Henderson, written about forty
years ago, we find this beautiful
slam" on New York city: In New
York and it's suburbs the taste is
much lower than it is in either Bos-
ton or Philadelphia. In those places,
no doubt their excellent horticultural
societies have done much to refine
the tastes of the people, and it is to
be regretted that neither New York
nor its adjacent cities, with prob
ably over two million people, have
a single horticultural or Horticultural
society" At the present day, this
distinction is none the less clear,
and where these societies best -four
ish the highest appreciation of plant
life is shown. There are better gar
dens, better gardeners, more varied
plant life and more rare and cost
ly plants in Pasadena than in any 9TH
err city on the Pacific coast; also less
crime and a higher standard of citi-
zenship.-Los Angeles Times.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
ON THE LINE OF DEATH
WHAT THE FIGHTERS IN EUROPE
ARE SUFFERING.
Correspondent at the Front Tells Of
Conditions That Prevail In the
Observation-Disclosures Marks
Path Of War.

At the end of the village the road
climbed again from the ravine and
emerged on open fields. A wall OF
timber, dark and impenetrable as the
woods round an old chateau, rose al
the farther end of these fields-the
road cutting through it like a tunnel
and on the brow of the ravine, com.
handing the road and the little plain,
was a line of trenches. Here evident.
ly they had fought.
We walked on down the road. Below
the northern horizon, where they were
hghting now along the line of the
Aisne, rolled the sullen thunder of
artillery, as it had been rolling since
daylight, writes Arthur Ruhl in Col.
liers Weekly. And the autumn wind,
cold with the week of e%quinoctial rain,
pulling out Of thickets and across re-
vines, brought, every now and then,
the horrible odor of death.
Ahead, to the right, one caught the
CLINT of French infantry's red trousers.
A man was lying there, face down
ward, on the field. Then across the
open space appeared another-and an
other-they were scattered all over
that field, bright as the red poppies
which were growing in the stubble and
as still.
They were in various positions. One
lay on his back, with one knee raised
like a man ~day-dreaming and looking
up at the sky. Another was stretched
stih with both hands clenched over his
chest. One lay in the ditch close be.
l d us, his head damned into the
muddy bank just as he had dived there
IN falling; another gripped a cup in
one hand and a spoon in the other, as
II, perhaps, he might have tried to
feed himself in the long hours after
the battle rolled on and left them
there.
All these were French, but Just at
the edge of the thick timber was a
heap-one could scarcely say of Ger
mans, SO utterly did the gray sodden
faces and sodden gray uniforms merge
into anonymity. A squad of French
soldiers appeared at a turn in the
road, Two officers rode beside them,
and they were just moving off across
the fields carrying shovels instead of
rifles. Looking after them, beyond the
belt of timber, one could see other par.
ties Il theirs on the distant slopes
to the left, and here and there smoke.
Two more French soldiers appeared
pushing a wheelbarrow filed with cast
on arms. With the boyish good nature
which never seems to desert these lit
tie men in red and blue, they stopped
and offered us a few clips of German
cartridges. They were burying their
own men, they said, burning the Ger.
mans. The dead had been lying here
Tor nearly a fortnight now while the
battle line rolled northward, clear
across France. . Through the
coquettish little towns along the
Marine, through the champagne coun-
try and the country just west of it.
where we now were-everywhere were
deserted, perhaps demolished, viii
lagos; the silent countryside with
dead horses, bits of broken shell.
mashed bicycles or artillery wagons
along the road; and the tainted au-
tumn wind.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
TIMES CHANGES IN ATcHlsoN
clty's Parlor Walls Form a Complete.
Comprehensive History Of Art,
Fully illustrated.

In a town the size of Atchison IL Is
not necessary to join an art study
class to learn the history of art; IL is
written on the walls of the houses in
the town. When an engraving OF
washington Crossing the Delaware
hangs on the wall, and a chrome OF
a woman with a shawl over her head
stares over her left shoulder as though
she were making a wish on the new
moon, the house is ruled from kitchen
to parlor by mother" and she is be-
tween sixty and seventy years of age,
and believes in the "old masters"
When Madonnas holding fat babies
are on the parlor walls, and highly
thin women in red robes footing bright
yellow horns which they hold to their
mouths with wooden fingers, the lady
Of the house adores sacred art and
knows how to pronounce Fra Angelica,
Bondenhousen, Raphael and the rest.
When there is a picture on the wall
of a weak-looking boy hanging on the
neck of a motherly looking m
while father and children look on, WIS.,
itors at the house recognize the art
that was born during the Chicago
worlds fair, and when Breaking
Home Ties" became the rage.
A little later period in the art his
tory of the town is represented by pic
lures on the parlor walls of a fine,
healthy looking young man wearing a
monks habit, with the cowl slipping
off from his thick hair. People posted
in art" know that is a picture of
Hosea.
When there are pen-and-ink sketches
of square-jawedy men and tall, bony
young women in very low-neck eve
ming dresses the rage of Gibson pic
lures (now about extinct is repre-
sented.
When there are water-color pictures
of girls with pink cheeks, lips puck
cred up as though ready to be kissed,
and colored pictures of a chubby little
girl, under which is written limo
cence," with a scattering of funny pic
lures of gayly colored English ladies'
and gentlemen climbing in and out of
buses, modern art" is displayed and
the presiding genius of the house is a
bride, and those pictures we're wedding
gifts.-Atchison Globe.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16

MOT many novelties in hosiery are
~ in evidence, fashion inclining still
TO favor the plain, firmly woven stock
ing of silk. But for those who like
a little eccentricity occasionally some
new features have been brought out
in the weaving of hose, and for dressy
wear there is something to report of
hosiery woven in lace patterns and In
two-color combinations.
Plain hose of black or colored silk
with heel, foot and toe REINFORCED, and
hose similarly woven in Isle thread or
cotton, of finely twisted thread, are
the only varieties that prove interest
ing to the great majority of women.
1t is likely, however, that the new
silk hose woven in a lace pattern over
the instep and ankle will come in for
much favorable consideration with the
advent of spring, Stockings of this
kind show a panel of openwork, usu-
ally in striped effects, at the front,
that is very pretty.
The catchiest Of the novelties in
silk hose is a double stocking. The
underhose is of plain silk in a color.
White, light blue, flesh, lavender, and
pink or even light green, supplies the
color background. Over this is a
stocking of very open-meshed net in
black. When flesh or pink is used
for the foundation it is hardly no
tceable when the stocking is on,
and the effect is that of an open
meshed net stocking with the pink
flesh of the leg showing through each
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16

00AAO
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GARDEN PLOTS FOR THE POOR
Suggestion Made at Washington That
Anaeostia Flats Be Leased at
Nominal Rentals.

Vegetable garden plots on the Ana
costa river flats for the use of poor
families of Washington is the propo-
sttion which has recently been made
to the commissioners by Charles Royle
of Washington. The proposed use of
the lands reclaimed by the Anacostia
Improvement project has been re-
ceived with much interest by the COM
missioners and other district officials,
and may be the subject Of a request
for appropriations when the next es-
Inmates are prepared.
The suggested plan calls for the &C
quirement by the district government
of the river front, the subdivision of
the lands into quarter-acre garden
plots, and their lease at nominal rent
ais to such families as the board of
charities may recommend. 1t is sug-
gested that the cultivation of the plots
shall be under the supervision of the
weights, measures and markets de-
partment of the municipality.
Superintendent Sherman of that de-
partment said that he considers that
the plan has great possibilities for
good.
Under proper direction" he added,
the gardens not only could be made
attractive in appearance, but they
could be developed to the point where
they would support many poor fam
lilies without furnishing extensive com
petition for Maryland and Virginia
growers"
An act of congress would be neces-
sary to place the title to the land in
the district.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16

a slight blousing Of the front of the
Jacket at the waist line and the merest
mint of a slope inward at the sides.
one could not ask a better or more
graceful management of the fashion
able silhouette. But the fabric-furs
really look best when used with
smooth-faced cloths in making up a
costume. With skirt or tunic bordered
with Pomoire, and a short coat of it
a fine combination results.
One of the smartest of cloth gowns
shows a plain skirt with long narrow
t%riangles of the f%abric-fur let in, one
at each side of the front, one at each
side of the back and one at the center
back. The short coat of cloth is
heightened by a skirt sewed to it and
cut to ripple about the bottom. 1t ex,
tends to the knees, but not across the
front of the figure, as it hangs from
the sides and back of the short jacket.
There is a band of Pomoire, which
forms a border about the skirt of the
coat. Cuffs and long revers are also
made of it. -.
For wear in mild climates the cos
tune trimmed with fur-cloth or using
fur-cloth with plain cloth in it's com
position, is the most pleasing of the
seasons new productions.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
To Prevent saw Edges on Collars.

1t is well known that the modern
mechanical laundry methods are very
hard on linen. and collars or cuffs
soon have a rough edge which irri.
tates the skin, even though the rough.
ness is scarcely visible to the eye.
This can be avoided by running over
the edge a small rod having a suitable
groove near one end, SO as to fatten
down the rough edge. A neat Paris
device embodies this idea and also an
other useful one, for the pointed end
OF the rod serves as a buttonhole
opener.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-16
substItute for Iemnns

Some years ago my uncle, a physi-
clan in a small town. received a call
to the country and asked me to &C
company him. writes a correspondent.
The patient was the wife of a very
miserly man who lived in the back
woods. My uncle advised the hus-
band to give his wife good, wholesome
food and to purchase some lemons for
her, The husband said: Wont
pickles do just as well? | have pickles
as sour as any lemon"