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choose TO call il. True, they have legend to ac-
count for this three-fngered anatomy OF their
statues: but it is very easy to manufacture
legend ex facto The explanation tackled to TINS
custom is that the first Maori caryer-the man
who invented the art had but three myers ana
tbose who came after him, in loyal gratitude and
admiration, have cut always three-hngered hgures'
Family records are long kept among the Maors
irdoed q sort Of ancestor worship supplies them
rolioion Heirlooms, called tangiwais, are
handed down by them through generations; the
traditional history OF some OF these run back
four or five hundred years. One OF these tangi-
wais a curiously carved ornament about an inch
and one-half long by three quarters OF an inch
broad. in general outline much like tiny baby's
shoe sole or crude, thick figure eight, little end
DOWN a thing 20 be worn as a pendant, was SHOWN
20 me bv one Of the women whom they call Eileen,
though her native name, which pleases me much
better. is Rangirir Rangiriri is the chief govern
mont guide Of the famous Returra Thermal dis
trict This tangiwai she showed me has been
in her family for at least five hundred years.
Grade. fascinating thing it was, which laid a po
tent charm on you if you looked at 1t too long. |
was dangerously able to imagine myself stealing
t. once given fair chance. II was Of translucent
green stone, which the Maoris call THE Weeping
Water" stone with its clear pale color. She told
me the design tiki or good luck device; and
it was plain that she cherished it greatly.
The native costume, | understand the mat
ter was simply short skirt, fringe-like in ap-
pearance and made of whole faxed stems. The
men wore only this. but the women added TO it a
mat hung across the bosom by shoulder straps
Rangiriri showed me with great pride her native
costume, made by her own hands, just as any girl
Of an Ohio or California village might display
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7Trrninoes. I~ond Dead for Women's Hall Of Fame

up the Massachusetts colony by the exposition OF
her religious theories.
Nor is it necessary to say much about Dolly
Madison, the beautiful wife OF President Madison
who, as she was hurrying away from the Presl-
dents home at Washington just before the city
was captured and burned by the British in 1914
remembered to cut from its frame a portrait OF
Washington By Stuart and take II with her in her
carriage.
There is not space TO tell what Lucretia Mott
did, Born on the island Of Nantucket January B.
1893, she became more distinguished as preacher
than any other person in her order, that OF the
Hcksite Quakers She took up the cudgels for
the slaves and was the first person TO advocate
that women teachers should receive the same pay
"a men, She tried to raise the wages Of the
laboring class and was an active advocate of tenn
perance. Mrs. Mott one of the women who
signed the call for the first woman's rights con-
yention. which was held at Seneca Falls, " \, IN
July, 1913. She was singularly beautiful, and
Coombe, the phrenologst, pronounced her head the
finest he had ever seen on woman Great IN
many ways, she died November II, 1850, aged
nearly eighty-seven years.
Elizabeth Lucas Pnckney the wife Of
Charles Pinckney, Of South Carolina, living in the
middle Of the eighteenth century. She had marked
executive ability, managing her fathers farm near
Charleston. She introduced the cultivation OF
indigo into the colony and developed the culture of
skworms and the weaving Of silk She is de-
scribed as having been clever, energetic and well
educated.
Catherine Van Rensselaer, Schuyler was the VIE
Of General Philip Schuyler, Of Saratoga fame and
the mother-in-law of Alexander Hamilton.
Lucy Blackwell Stone has been described as a
reformer She certainly was an energetic radical
her conviction about the equality and rights OF
women being so strong that when she married
Henry B. Blackwell, in 1855, they had to send
thirty miles TO the Rev. T. W Higgnson, OF
Worcester in order to have clergyman VINO
would omit the word "obey" from the marriage
service She regarded the merging OF the wlie
name in that of the husband symbol OF iegal
subjUgation, and with the cordial approval OF her
husband retained her own name. In 1869, IN con-
necton with William Lloyd Garrison, Mrs Julis
Ward Howe, Colonel T. W. Higgnson and others
she took part in the organization Of the American
Woman Suffrage Association.
Of those included among the authors the one
least known Is Constance Fenlmore Woolson, VINO
was grandniece OF James Fenmore Cooper and
wrote several books, including East Angels
Anne" and "Rodman the Keeper" She lived part
OF her life in England
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''"'' t..'...;,, br. che js probably not
'"'-' .s,. tor tho fact that John
"'.'E''".' - thu eocond Presi-
ADAMS "'I "U'D','', por, - Wc,,oor,b
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Mass No''"0'. - i... 90 tho Conorcca-
Nov ".'''""' -l.,. bo u,os considered
'''""' . tobr Adams the Young
S'0'"''f' ~ ''F' .i, ,.r-,or tbot bor nc
lawyer ana 80" W ..;o, Oh
qua'"'"hco' al" ''' lie ,nas oo,sid.
leclcd 10 ms "'''"'.o"' IL go
'L'o 'eN'"'" ''' aL;o..;or.s from, tho mil
o. ''''0'' .lo ,o,, oror Jobp came
F'' ~ -. 80 nor drinking wine. and We
5;ip
say JUG '''' u-,.f-
Mai%af'' y"D"" "'''.'''F ,,I.,....a D.,
OF inc "iS' "''''''0'
colony
Many viii be unable TO answer 'he question:
Who was Isabella Graham.
She was born in Lanarkshre, Scotland, July %,
1742. her maiden name being Marshall. After the
death of DIR. John Graham, her husband, who was
surgeon in the British army, she took up teaching
as means Of supporting her family OF three
daughters, all Of whom were under elght years
of age Finally settling IN New York, she esiab-
lshcd several philanthropic organizations for the
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the exposition. At each Of these gatcways there
a pair Of carved posts surmourted by one
figure in green. This figure is the great totara
lizard, his mouth wide open, and from those huse
jaws brdman is escaping. The escaping oird-
mans countenance, while human, is made to sug-
gest the bird race by an exaggeration OF the nose
into definite beak. The great totara lizard IS
the only lizard living that also existed IN pre-
historic times. To the contemplatye and inqulring
mind there is something very interesting mere
Imagine the birds birds first appeared as the age
Of reptiles giving way that this totara IIzard
must have seized or tried 20 seize But the olrd
escapes; the higher form Of life had come had
come on wings-to persist, as the Maori win
sound feeling, shows in this carved figure that ne
sets up for garden posts. Another curious stia"u
that ] braided in with this one Of the totara mara
and the birdman is the fact that all the human
figures in the carvings show only three hngers 10
the hand three fingers and thumb. There you
have the birds foo; or his hand, whichever you
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Arabia through India. down the Malay and
Strait settlements 70 the island Of Poly
nesia. Here they divided One group went
70 the Cook Islands and the other TO New
Zealand The fact that these two widely
severed islands speak still a language so
similar that they can understand each other
is at least one item of evidence in favor OF
this theory. But to refer again TO the
books" we are told that the Maoris are Poly
nesians who came originally from Samoa
And many OF their own legends would
certainly seem 10 confirm this belief
It seems strange to find people OF so much
native grace and personal dignity still prac-
Using tattooing, and tattooing OF very
hideous sort This was formerly almost uni
versal among them, but it is now fast disap-
nearing. The faces rather than bodies are
thus disfgured, and there is distinctive style
shall l say? of tatooing for ladies and one
for gentlemen The men have the iull face
1altoo-the entire countenance, except the
nose and the skin close around the eyes being
fairly we'll covered. The women affect only
the liz and chin tattoo. Four OF these
tattooed women are among those at the Maori
Village in the exposition
Strong marks all dropping downward are
drawn about the lips and chin, giving them
literally very down-n-the-mouth express
sion, upon which lady visitor, who looked at
me like militant sufragette, commented
bitterly. That's the expression Of subsection
that man likes to see on womans face
and when he is a frank enough savage ne
puts it there so it will stay" Sometimes the
tattoo lines, ! noticed, are carved into the
flesh. sometimes merely drawn in. They are
oolored dark red and blue.
T,e+ &C this barbarous tattooing is out OF
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A French Somalland Woman and Her Child.

,y,olve grandmothers at twenty-five shrunken,
the burnt-out shards of women. They are as i'm
naculately clean a people as the Dutch. Theirs
is a eeyser country; it has its hot water laid on.
One might say that this partly accounts for their
exquisite cleanliness; but there IS some instinct
there. too, something in the nature that leads
them to keep their homes and persons sweet ana
spotless Everything about Rangirr was SHIN
ing. her underlinen like snow and ntatness ana
o. oood clean odor that is the best of all doors
normeated the small room that IS her Exposition
home
Their dances are Of two kinds Pos dances, his
toricaI dramas. symbolical of their past life and
danced by women only; the dances only BY
the men. Among the Poi dances the canoe dance
is one Of the most charming. II was given hero
bv group Of young women, who showed in
graceful pantomime the whole process Of build
ing the canoe The slim, brown, delicately
rounded bodies bent and swayed, turned and
stooped and hexed, passing materials, going
through all the processes from the Telling OF
the tree up to the finishing OF the little vessel.
Through all this they sang, in perfect time and
rhythm Finally the canoe was finished in this
case II consisted of the brown bodies Of four OF
the girls lying curved in a flowing line on the
platform Above them stood four others ready
to launch the craft. A heave, strain, a long,
drawing note, hingng movement splash! and
they are off. The song breaks into more lyrical
note as the canoe, seized BY the swift water,
shoots downstream, the four rowers bending 10
their paddles. /, would seem incredible mat
without orchestra without comprehensive Ian
guage. a group OF six or eight half-savsge girls
could, with only grooming song, some simple
postures and gesticulation. put before ones mind
so yividly a section Of the drama OF their lives
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WOMEN WHOSE ACHIEVEMENTS HAVE LED
TO NOMINATION FOR HONOR.

The list is as follows: Educators and Mission
ARES Isabella Graham. Barbara Heck, Elizabeth
Seton Sarah Boardman Judson, Alice Freeman
fslner, Melinda Rankin, Fideha Fiske' Eliza
Agnew
Home or Social Workers and Philanthropists -
Eleanor Dare Dorothea Lynde Dix, Mary Dyer
Anna Hutchinson. Dorothy Payne TODD Madison
aaeretis Mott. Eliza Lucas Pinckney. Catherine
'n Rensselaer, Schuyler Lucy Blackwell stone
Martha Washington, Mary Washington, Margaret
lyrdan Winthrop.
Authors Abigail Smith Adams, Louisa May
a'eo'' Alice and Phpbe Cary, Sarah Margaret
ruler (OssolO Helen Hunt Jackson, Lydia i.
"gourney, Constance Fenmore Woolson.
There are some names in the list that would
,O' nave been included n they had not been re-
,'"o by marriage or otherwise 10 certain OF
nuenea's great men; for instance. those Of Mary
Washington, the mother Of George Washington,
"e Martha, his wife
ABIGAIL Smith Adam was letter writer Of
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harmony with their native physical grace, so
is there an incongruity in their living. These
people are natural artists, poets and orators.
Yet in their native state they were cannibals,
too. They ate, however, only their enemies.
No such hideous scenes as described by
Robert Louis Stevenson, South Sea Islanders
in the horrible long pig regions, devouring
friends and relatives ndscriminately ever
took place among the Maoris. The practice
among them wore somewhat the tncture Of
ceremonial-a triumphant demonstration,
wherein they ate their slaughtered foe to in
corporate his valor in their own persons.
They had developed considerable strategic
ability in warfare. Indeed, their proud record
is that they were never conquered, even by
the English. The British government made
treaties with them, and to-day Maori repre-
sentatves are seated in the Australian Parlia-
ment,
THEY ARE HAPPY. THOUGH COR BECAUSEO
UNClVILlZED.
Ethnologists class the Naors the strongest
mentally. morally and physically of any of the
native races, so called. Their domestic life, though
.or shall / say because3 not modelled along our
lines is clean. happy harmonious. They love their
children greatly, and the women live such natural
lives that no twilight sleep is needed to ease for
them the great function of hfe-g.ving.
The carved fronts to the Maori houses and the
carved posts in their gardens at once set them in
n different class from any primitive peoples. Con-
ventional scroll designs, vigorous in line, which
after carving are strongly colored red blue black
and white are used for most Of these house
fronts Human figures appear frequently and al
ways very frankly nude. The faces Of these carved
statues are invariably Grotesque, wearing the ex-
pressions assumed by the Maors In some of their
.vmbolic dances. The carving is done on totara,
very hard native wood. II is extremely dense also;
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q missionary i'm India. where she endured with
marked heroism almost Undesirable hardships,
she died at sea September 3, 18l5, while on her
way home with her husband and children, and
was buried on The island Of St. Helena.
Alice Freeman Palmer, who died at Wellesley
January 90, 1894, was one Of Americas brilliant
women She was the second president Of
Wellesley and did a marvellous piece Of work IN
raising the standard Of its scholarship, increasing
the number Of students and erecting buildings
She was the wife of Professor George Herbert
Palmer. Of Harvard, whose account Of her life is
one of the fine pieces of American biography.
Fidelia Fiskc who born in Shelburne
Mass, May /. 1916 was a missionary to the Nes-
tarians in Persia. She helped introduce education
20 the women Of that country. Broken In health
she returned 70 this country in 1853, and died
al Shelburne August Q, 1854.
CRUSADE OF DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX IN AID
OF THE INSANE.
When one becomes acquainted with the record
Of Dorothca Lynde Dix who was born at Hampton,
Ne. April f. 1902, one does not wonder that her
name is included among the nominations. She
PLAYED a large part in the care of the insane. She
visited the institutions in twenty states, starting
movements for rcmcdy.ug conditions and estab-
fishing institutions. In the course OF four years
she travelled more than 10000 miles, visiting
eighteen penitentiaucs, three hundred county
jails and houses Of correction and more than
five hundred almhouses. besides hospitals and
houses Of refuge. She carried her crusade into
Halifax and Toronto and successfully attacked
the inhuman lunacy laws Of Scotland. She re-
formed the system on the Channel Islands and
rcmodcllcd the methods practsed ia the hospitals
and asylums in Norway, Holland Italy Russia
and Greece. Il was she who warned the president
Of the Philadelphia Baltimore Railroad of the
danger which threatened Lincoln on the way to
his Inauguration She died on July Il. 1887, and
It was said Of her that the founder OF vast and
enduring institutions of mercy in America and
Europe she had simply peer in Professionalism.
Mary Dyer colonist in Massachusetts, and
a conspicuous disciple Of Anne Hutchinson. She
was Quaker. Being moved by the spirit to
return again to the bloody town OF Boston, she
was executed there because Of her religious views.
She was a woman Of spice, indicated BY her
reply to an elder Of the Church, who asked her, as
she was about to be executed If she wished one OF
the elders 10 pray for her. Nay, said she, "hrst
child; then young man; then strong man
before an elder Of Jesus Christ
Anne Hutchinson, who murdered by the
Indians near the Connccticut-New York line in
September 1913, few need to oe told, almost broke
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"a small carven post which picked up swung in my
hand like iron.
There are three gateways in the stockade that
runs in a concave curve before the row of huts at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-03
G. w. U. DEBATING SEASON
OPENS EARLY NEXT MONTH
First Contest to Be With University
of North Carolina-Try-outs
Already Held.

= George Washington University will
open its debating season early next
month, according to announcement
made by the debating council at the
institution. The first contest will be
with the University of North Carolina,
the subject for discussion being that
the government should own and operate
all telegraph lines; constitutionally
conceded" George Washington will de-
fend the affirmative side. The debate
will be held at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, N. C.
Try-outs for the selection of a team
to represent George Washington al
ready have been held and the personnel
of the team will be announced within
a few days. An extensive schedule of
debates is being arranged and will
Prof Ernst Otto Schneider, jr, of the
law school faculty is president of the
debating council, which has general su-
pervfsion of debating activities. Prof.
Leslie Cleveland McNemar Of the de-
partment of political science has re-
signed from the council in order to de-
vote his full attention to other forms
of student activities with which he is
connected. Rear Admiral Charles Her
bert Stockton. U. S. N, retired, presi-
dent of the university, has appointed
Prof James Lewis Parks, jr., of the
law school faculty to take Prof. Nc
Nemar's place.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-03
MAN ESSENTIALLY DIVINE,
is VIEW OF THEOSOPHIST
L. w. Rogers Delivers Lecture Be-
fore Large Audience With Gre
incarnation" as Theme.

"All men are destined ultimately to
develop into superhuman beings. and
their method of evolution is by hun
dreds of lives in a succession of physi-
cal bodies, followed each time by life
in the more subtle worlds" was the
declaration of L. W. Rogers OF Los
Angeles, national lecturer of the
Theosophical Society, last night in the
Philosophical Hall, where a large audi
ence assembled to hear him lecture on
''Reincarnation."
The hypothesis as stated by the lee
turer is that man is a soul or center Of
consciousness that comes from the Su-
preme Being ae spark is thrown off
from the fire: that as the spark is at
first feeble and almost overcome by the
outer darkness and yet has the essen
tial nature of the fire and, by virtue
of that fact, can draw strength from
its environment and grow until 1t be-
comes a fame itself, so man is essen
TALLY divine and his inherent powers
are developed by the experiences of
life.
In each incarnation he develops
something of intellect and sympathy,
the lecturer said. until In the distant
future he passes out of human evolu-
ton to return no more to physical
body.
Mr.. Rogers will speak tonight on
The Laws of Destiny"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-03
BUST OF GEN. WASHINGTON
IS IN NEED OF REPAIRS
Requisition Calls for Services Of Elk
pert to Put the Nose In
Condition.

'Requisition for services of a medi-
cal, surgical, sculptural or other kind
OF expert. to repair and rehabilttate
the nose, eye and ear of a bust Of the
father Of his country, situate and To-
Gated In the office of the solicitor of
the Treasury. The said bust was rest
ing on a pedestal of honor when a sud
den gust of wind dethroned said bust
from it's PEDESTAL and it fell from its
empyrean height to the floor"
This requisition, signed by Lawrence
Becker, solicitor for the Treasury,
means that George Washington had
his nose scratched and that the white
stone shows through the bronze effect,
as result of fall Of the heavy bust,
and that repairs are needed.
This is rather a mysterious bust of
Washington. 1t was rescued by a
former solicitor of the Treasury from
the storeroom. A companion piece Is
bust of Benjamin Franklin, under
which the artist engraved the name
'Franchlin, Indicative of foreign
hand guiding the scuptors chisel. Both
busts are of heavy stone, apparently
granite. and have been painted over
to represent bronze. Strangely, there
is no name under the Washington bust,
which resembles exactly no known
likeness of the first President, but
which is supposed to be Washington
because OF a general mblance to
his treatments. Both statuettes are,
however, excellent sculptures.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-03
EPWORTH LEAGUE PLANS
WORK FOR COMING YEAR
Departmental Conferences Held in
Foundry Church-Board of Con-
troll to Meet Tonight

Plans for the work of the coming
year were considered in the depart
mental conferences of the Epworth
League of Washington last night. held
in Foundry NJ. E. Church, 18th and
Church streets. A second session of
the conference will be held tonight,
when the board of control will hold a
regular meeting.
A general assembly in the auditorium
began the activities of the conference.
There was song service presided over
by Robert D. Burbank. president. In
vocation was delivered by Clark Main.
recently chosen president of the Lin
coin Road chapter. The assembly then
adjourned to permit those present to
participate in one of the six depart
mental conferences which followed
Presidents of Conferences.
Ashby Jump. first vice president, pre-
sided over the conference of the de-
partment of spiritual work; the de-
partment of world evangelism, home
and foreign missions, was presided over
by Andrew Cross, second vice presi-
dent; the department of social service
was presided over by Miss Florence c.
Day. third vice president: W. Ralph
Williamson was in the chair for the
discussions of the department of rec
reation and culture. Miss Ida l. Jury,
superintendent presided over the con-
ference of the Junior League. The
conference of secretaries and treas
urer was attended by w. l. Oren. jr..
recording secretary; c. Wendell Shoe
maker, corresponding secretary, and
Robert NJ Ryce, treasurer.
After the meeting this evening of
he board of control, Rev. W. r. We'd
teaspoon will make an address.