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about 100000, being made up Of
almost every nationality in the world.
1t is the residences Of the Sultan
Mohammed v. who succeeded his elder
brother, Sultan Abdul Hamid H., who
was deposed In 1909. The Sultan Is
the thirty-ffth in male descent Of the
House Of otham, the founder of the
Turkish Empire. and the twenty-ninth
Sultan since the conquest of Constant
tine. He is man about seventy years
of age, and of a retiring disposition
and is rarely seen in public except on
Friday when he goes to prayer at one
of the mosques. This ceremony is
known as the Salamlik. and Is attended
with great ceremony. Vast crowds as
semble to see him pass, and 1t is adj
visablD for foreigners to obtain cards
of admission to the palace grounds
from their embassies several days be-
fore. This gives one an opportunity to
view the pageant from pavilion OPP
posite the Hamidieh Mosque. Besides
being a point of vantage 1t saves one
the disagreeableness. of mingling with
the rabble. The Sultan is usually at
tended by a large number Of troops
in full dress uniform who line the
square in front of the mosque as. his
carriage drives up followed by num-
Der of queer little coaches containing
the ladies Of the harem CASUALLY about
4 dozen go to the mosquc). They are
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One OF the fayorite pieces tor these
stands Is beside walls of the old came
terry where thousands Of people are
buried, some Of the graves dating back
three hnn draa Svenys. me elend az the
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nave IN ADDITION q nat (toinpstone. Inc
tombs Of the weaithier class tell the
rank and condition of the deceased
by the sizc OF the turban or fez ON the
ton of the Stone. The .fez indicates the
gray a of 4. man; ana when the fez leans
10 one side. it shows that the deceased
ws,s beh led nv order of the sultan.
ana 4 erect It shows that he died q
nat urai death. THE tornbs OF the wo1n-
an have s Sconven tionail leaf or shell
IN ryea n a tha ION Of the stone. The
~ vea AZ y am 4 "a { win cypress trees
and. bnndreda of turtle doves make
thar bonsssI anon tho branches 81
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Peddlerg selling az sorts OF curious
things so about the streets onerans
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as a Christian Church. It has
gone many changes but the
|buf1dtnr dates. back to the


building dates back to the
Justinian, $50. It is two hundres ! ri
fifty feet square. exclusive OF the mar
thex and apse.
The walls are covered with golden
mosaics, and everywhere there is rare
marble and gems Of untold value. In
one place there is q column of costly
green stone brought from the Temple
of Diana at Ephesus, and at another
are a number of pillars OF red por-
phyry taken from the Temple of the
Sun at Baalbek. All manner of relics
are shown to the visitor. who with feet
Incased In felt, slippers Is shown about
the place by guide. the most inn
portant being the prayer carpets Of
the Prophet and the sweating column,
which emits damp that Is said to
effect marvellous cures.
/ In 1853 the city was captured by the
Turks, and the cross of st. Sophia was
ttAmpled under foot Mahomet, the
Sultan, made his entrance into the
city on horseback and stopped in front
of st. Sophia and at once stopped Its
destruction by his soldiers and dedi-
Gated the church to the Moha1nmedan
worship. :. 81 AZ
In one corner, high up on the mo-
saics, there Is the imprint ola bloody
hand. This is said to indicate the
height to which the Turkish conquerer
reached as he rode over the Christian
corpses In the church. The mosque Is
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when, they order It. soifor years this
has been the greatest trouble in secur-
ing management, Of the Senate lunch
room. One year. the Committee on
Rules OF the Senate, unable to find a
man who was willing to take the risk.
ran the lunchroom itselt-an did so
at a loss.
The senator likes to have his own
particular seat in the lunchroom every
day, and he also wants the same
waiter, who has usually learned to an
ticipate his wants and thus give him
moro leisure for His thoughts or for
the conversation with friends. There
Is no doubt that the senator likes a
certain amount OF ezciusiveness. and
It naturally rather puts him out to
md his particular table taken by out
lsiders. perhaps by members from the
House Of Representatives side OF the
Capitol, who quite frequently come
over for lunch but In the private din
Ing room he need not have fear Of
this. si.l,
Senator's Light Eaters &:
Senators are nptorlousiy light eat
ers et moon. and unless congress does
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senger. Almost every hour saw an
other package Of fried chicken for the
senator, and every package was sent
;by some housewife who knew her
fried chiclsen was the best obtainahle.
The final outcome OF, It was that Sem
ntor TiIlman was forced to take back
his challenge: he now admits that
there are women living north OF the
Mason and Dixon line who can fry
. chicken. 4: 4:
Senator Warren IS one ot the hard
est working members Of the Senate,
and the lunchroom never closes in the
evening until u Isl known whether he
VIII want anyth hing to eat. * 3
ccngressmen Fond or Pie.
II has been found that conkress
men ARE very FOND 81 pit and down Ii
the bassmeht of the Capitol IN ono q
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Always illuminated on the seven holy
nights OF Islam. as the Turks believe
that the Koran was sent down from
|! Heaven at that time.
Ancient Columns.
The lover OF and lent columns will
tind Joy in constantinopie. for there
one finds the serpent column on which
1T Is said the Oracle Of Delphi once
rested. The Column OF Thecdcsius,
erected to commemorate victories oyer
the Goths in $50 A.. D., still stands
in the Seragiio Garden. The Column
of Constantine the Great, the Hoped
Column. the Burnt Column srrrnount-
ed by a statue Of Apollo, said to have
q nail used on the Cross during the
crucifixion of Christ to form one of the
rays which encircle the statues brow,
Inre all to be found there,
The Old Galata Tower. called In the
tlddle Ages the Tower of Christ or
the Cross, was, built In 134s on the
foundation of a Byzantine tower Of
years before. It Is massfyely built
and the top Is reached by one hum
dred and forty-one steps. It AFFORDS
an excellent view OF; the city. It Ii
used as watchtower for the fireman
who is continually on the lookout.
Famous Bazars.
The bazars of constantinople are
famous the world over. and there Is a
Vaccination about shopping In this vast
labyrinth sof stores. They are always
crowded and one is sure to be cheated
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Speaker Clark s Private
Dining Room Troubles
of Catering To the Vari-
Gus Tastes.

building. Only the simpler things are
served, but many senator's md It very
convenient to secure q meal when
they are working In their Offices.
The House Dining Room.
At the other end OF the Capitol d /;
the House dining room, with d seat
Ing capacity OF nearly two hundred
and fifty. and the three rooms Tor the
Ienpioyees. representatives and the
public respectively Besides these. there
IFS q private dining room for the use
I'of the Speaker. q room which was once
q clerks document room, but has now
been transformed into q cczy, cheer
full little Apartment. It is there that
Speaker Clark gives informal lunch
cons every Saturday noon, at which
either his wife or daughter, Genevieye.
preside The guests range from for
| eign visitors ofshiSh rank TO the con-
| stitusnts. X They assemble In the
| Speakers room upstairs and are then
lconducted down to the dining room by
| the veteran colpred door-keeper, who
has done the honors for every Speaker
during the past general lon. Speaker
iCiark's usual lunch; consists of coffee
or milk ana pumpkin pie. but on these
occasions the menu Is stretched, al
though It always includes the pie,
When Speaker Clark frst started his
custom OF informal iuncheops on Sat-
l.urdays, Mrs. Clark gave an order for
gnmbo soup, OF which she Is especially
fond. Since that time sgumho soup
l-fias always been on the luncheon
menu; although Mrs. Clark really had
no intention Of establishing q prece-
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interesting Bits Of History, and Life AS
it's To-day In This Great Moslem
City The Gateway To the East.

ment extending for several miles. Ris-
ing above them in picturesque confu-
sion are the terraced roofs. domes and
minarets of stambHl. In the centre
Is the opening to the Bosphorus re-
vealing a vista Of matches beauty.
Rounding Seraglio Point the steamer
enters the Golden Horn-ti1at vast
amphitheatre or water where twelve
hundred ships may ride atsanchor.
Hero the view is even grander, for
the seven hills on which the city Is
built come into full view crowned
with fantastic houses The Old Gaiata
Tower appears on the heights of Pera
with the residences Of the European
Ambassadors, while all about are evil
dences of the Far East, Nor Is the
water. scene less interesting, for there
Is an animated picture. Huge iron
clads flying the flag bearing the Star
and Crescent, passenger steamers from
many lands, corn ships from Odessa,
Greek fe1uccas and Turkish coasters.
Hundreds OF kaiks tsmail native
boats) fit over the blue waters like
SO many dragon flies. There is no
scene in the world like that about the
Golden Horn.
Made up OF Three cities.
constantinople is made up Of three
cities. each Of which diner in many
respects. Stambul, the old city. lies
on a tongue of land with the Sea of
Marmora on the south and the Golden
Horn on the north. the site of the
capital of the Greek Empire. on the
land side there IL a wall four miles
long. On the hills on the northern
side of the Golden Horn are Galata,
Pera and Topkhaneh, while on the
eastern side. Of the Bosphorus about q
mile from Stambul Is SlSutari, the Ash
attic quarter Of the Ottoman capital.
The population of contantinople is
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FOR fifteen centuries the, City OF
Gonstantinople on the Bosphor-
us has occupied a prominent
place in the history OF Eu-
ropeen nations. Its location makes It
Important both to the East and to the
Yves, and II It had remained Chris
tinn and continued In sympathy with
European rations It would today be q
much greater city and exert much
larger influence in the trade and COM
merce OF the world.
Gonstantinople has q romantic his
tory which dates back several hundred
years before the Christian Era, all
though It was known at that time as
Iygps. As early as 65S b. G. 1t was
called Byzantium, q name which It
bore for eight hundred years. Then
Septimus Serverus noted that like
Rome the city was built upon seven
hills 80 he rechristened It Nova Roma.
But again the name was changed when
ConHtAntine the Great bestowed his
own name upon 1t, and ever since
that time II has been known as Com
stAntinople to the Western world
This name, however, Is ignored by the
0riehtals. who have called It Istanibul
and eStambul since Its capture by the
] Turks in 1853. Constantinople has
one Of the beautiful locations of the
world.
A Beautiful Picture.
Built at the junction Of the Bos-
phorus and Sea of Marmora, the en-
trance to the city by sea presents a
View which has drawn artists from all
parts OF the world. Nowhere else is
there q picture so varied in outline,
50 gorgeous IN architecture and so
rich in color. To the right. on the
Akiatic shores. are the white mansions
and cypress groves Of skutari, while
cnthe left are the quaint old battle
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Where Senators andre
resentati Eat James
and Penroset the Gigantic
Eaters.

Known in the basement in the
north end OF the Capitol uild-
ting In Washington IS the lunch
room where. when Congress Is
In session, the senators snatch little
time from the weighty business OF the
nation TO consume q frugal meal, or,
when Affairs are not SO pressing, they
Iinger to dfscuss all manner OF things,
political and otherwise, and probably
many important matters of state have
departments which remind the casual
visitor of Dante's increasingly select
md exclusive heavenly circles or,
more simply, I. of the comparison of the
adjective Good. better. best" In
the first department any one may eat.
public Included: In the second. the
senator's may take their friends: in
the third. senators only are allowed.
whore Tho Public Is Served.
But while the senators are naturally
theregular patrons Of the lunchroom.
the public is served as well, and the
dtHerence between their room and the
private room at the end OF the three
shows itself more in the table decora-
tons OF flowers and q greater profusion
Of silver and cut glass in the latter
than In any, distinction in the quality
ot the food, which Is uniformly the
very best. The knowledge that the
public fs allowed 70 dine there at all
i not widespread. and when q senator
takes o constituent or friend into the
restaurant the guest Is usually much
impressed by this privilege. which he
considers due to his patrons exalted
position.
There is no getting around the fact
that senators are not the easiest peo-
pie IN the world to feed. This Is true
for several reasons. the most obvious
ones being their uncertain hours and
the haste they are usually in TO return
70 the door IL anything important Is
going ON. And so everything is care
fully planned to give them the quickest
service
Tho Managers Difficulties.
This without a doubt is what causes
the greatest difficulty In running the
senate lunchroom with any sort OF se-
cufdty. Ono day there is SO much
business going on up in the Senate
oii1mber that the members can hardly
get away even for few minutes. AS
result the supply Of food on hand is
entirely too large. The next day the
nionfser may think that the same
stnte % affairs has lasted over. and
he prepares only for q lean day. And
then, more often than not. business
on the Senate door y slack and the
hungry hordes descend In body.
When they hnd their food is not as
abundant a. they could wish wen,
rcnetofs are human, and although
tAsk sst 1.-THE. they, want that little
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whole number. and when all the other
guests had reached the fngcr.bowl
stage he was still many laps behind
and doing Justice to the rolls
Senator Tillman's Chicken. Z,
Senator Tillman recently made the
remark In the Senate innchroom that
no one north of the Mason and Dixon
line knew how to Try a chicken. This
was said after the bird that had been
served him did not come up; to his
expectations and Senator TiIlinan
made his remark within iearshot of
several newspaper men: HIS challenge
was hurled broadcast by the news
papers, and the result Of It was GER
tainly wonderful. Senator Tfiiuan
was MOI ded with fried chicken II
came hy parcel post. by special de-
livery. by express and ~ special meg.
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building. Only the simpler things are
served; but many senators md 1t very
convenient to secure meal when
they are working In their oflices.
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always illuminated ON the seven holy
nights of Islam. a. the Turks believe
that the Koran was sent down. from
Heaven at that time.
New-York tribune., 1915-09-25
THE GOLDEN SCARECROW.

THE GOLDEN SCARECROw By Hugh Walpole.
Emo ~. geN TIE George II. Dotan Company.
Imaginative, tenderly understanding,
teeming with touches that must bring
to every reader of this book some
wistful reminiscence of his own child
hood, these chapters are grouped
about that invisible presence, felt by
all infancy, which once we used to call
the guardian angel, but which Mr..
Walpole simply calls Him" Some chill
dren tell elaborate tales Of their ad-
ventures with this presence: 1t is very
real to them. To others it is never
more than a reassuring consciousness
in loneliness, in the dark. Still others
recognize in it their mentor, for, in it's
beginnings, conscience seems TO come
from without rather than from with
in. And to yet other children it is a
power to be defed and denied. or
these is Mr.. Walpole's little girl who
was born wicked and hard; and, IN a
more direct way, the English boy who
is not a rotten kid" who had fol-
lowed his father in the rejection OF all
sentiment as un-English." but who also
from the first had hinted, in sur
prising, furtive, agitating moments. az
poetry, Imagination. hidden, romantic
secrets" Sometimes "He" leaves chill
dren soon after he has accompanied
them into this world TO soften ITS
strangeness. He may surrender his
place TO "A mother seeing that he IS
not needed. But always he drifts
away. gradually, TO reappear only, con
soling or reproving, warning or pro-
tecting. at moments of childish crisis.
There are twelve children in this
book. one for each of the first twelve
years of life. There are only chill
dren. and children set apart in large
families the sensitive plants among
hardy growths. There are children OF
the poor and Of the rich, with their
parents and their aunts in the real
world that lies adjacent to but rarel y
overlaps the mysterious world OF child
life. Not always will Mr.. Walpole
carry each of his readers with him,
but. as we began by saying, somewhere
in this book each of them will
New-York tribune., 1915-09-25
LITTLE MISS CROUCH.

LITTLE MISS CROUCH \ Narrative Based upon
ihe Private Log ot Alexander FORSYTH smith =
Maiden Transatlantic yYase B{ samuel II6p-
u mo. W. 2o7. IIoush,on Nnflin Company.
A Transatlantic voyage has become
a grim business. It's holiday mood
will, one hopes, return some day, and
then, no doubt, yoyagers will read
with tense interest the stories We arc
sure 20 have Of young love crossing
amid the dangers of floating mines
and submarines. Meanwhile, here is
Mr.. Adams with comedy of mid
ocean in days of peace that offers
delightful light entertainment. Lit
tie Miss Crouch runs away from an
unwelcome match arranged for her by
a high father-and meets her
fate in her fellow passenger, the mys-
terious Smith. He helps her TO es-
cape the detectives who come on
board with the pilot boat, but vol
rnteer chaperon looms up, and the
commander of the ship receives his
instructions by wireless. What are
his legal rights in the case? There is
the great retired lawyer who has brow
beaten witnesses, juries and judges; he
takes modest retainer of five dollars
to serve the cause of Cupid. II
is all very topsy-turvy and whimsical
and irresponsible and gay and high
spirited, and Little Miss Crouch is as
captivating and imperious and mis-
chievous as a young American heiress
ought to be in the comedy whose
heroine she is. The book is good fun,
with just the right note of sunny sem
timent confident of happy future.
New-York tribune., 1915-09-25
A BUSY AMERICANS
BOOK OF MEMORIES
Traveller, Teacher, Painter, Au-
thor, Editor and Diplomat.

TliT LIFE AND ADVENT RES OF FRTE-
LANCE. Being the Observations of : G. W
BENJAMIN $40 pp. $50 burlington. VI. Free
Pfcss Company.
Samuel Green Wheeler Benjamin,
the author of this unassuming. cheer
full autobiography, died in July of last
year. He was born IN 1887 in Greece,
the son Of an American missionary,
grew up there and in Smyrna, and in
1859 graduated at Williams College.
His was a busy, a useful and, on the
whole, a pleasant life, for, in addition
10 mis- intense activities in many fields,
he always found time TO loaf and in
vite his soul, for delicious stretches of
convalescence spent in travel at sea
after his breakdowns from overwork.
lie wrote these "reminiscences from
memory, and remarkable memory it
was, as he boasted-it is his only boast
but one nevertheless regrets that he
never took notes. As IL is, ne rarely
/ dweils long on any topic; his observa
tions on great men and events are brief
and fragmentary, but, on the other
hand, the book gains thereby in light
ness and vividness Of touch. IL reads
as II one were listening to an interest
ing companion chatting easily Of his
many experiences.
There is so much that Is quotable in
these pages that a brief review must
needs be confined TO only one or two
aspects Of the authors career. Stu
dents Of the history Of American art
may be referred TO the chapters deal
| ing with his connection with il, both
as painter and as writer on art topics
"a reminiscent glimpse Of the period
OF the Tenth Street studio. He met
both ingalls, and Garfield at college. re-
membering the latter as the stronger
man; he had dealings with Grover
Cleveland before he entered politics.
met Emerson and Bryant and SAKE.
Richard Henry Stodderd, Stedman and
Oliver Bell Bunce; he draws delight
ful picture Of the idyllic life in the
Azores in the day Of their vanished iso-
lation. but, for the moment, we must
restrict ourselves TO his views on the
Near East. He liked and respected the
Turk; he despised the Levantines. He
had an inside view Of missionary work
New-York tribune., 1915-09-25
THE STORY OF JULIA PAGE.

THE STORY OF JULIA PAGE.
THE STORY oF u-rIA PAGE Ry Kathleen Nor
ris Fronii,piece hy G Allan Gilbert. l2mo. I'D.
i-l Doubleday. Page 90.
Mrs. Norris deals in this new novel
Of hers with n subject dear to Mr..
Wells that Of sexual jealousy. She
docs not theorize about IL; she ac-
cepts it as it is. an instinct that drives
man to claim the past as we'll as the
present and the future Of the woman
he marries. And the great merit of the
way in which she handles this lett
motif of her story lies in her ret-
ccnce. She docs not take the reader
into her confidence beforehand. She
keeps her heroine's secret until the
girl. driven by her great love, tells
it to the man who would marry her
For the moment he rises TO the
heights; they are happy for a while;
then he begins to brood. The spectre Of
that one mistake made by an ignorant
girl in the early days of her neglect
by parents and environment obscures
in his eyes all that she has since
gained by self-discipiine and high en-
deavor. For Julia Page has risen from
the depths, from slipshod, dis
courageG. uncouth poverty, tolerant Of
the looseness amid which it dwells,
to a perception of the graces of life.
and thence to eagerness for its dig
nifty. She has left it all behind her,
immeasurably below her. and yet that
one secret burden, that one offence of
ignorance, looms ever larger with her
int lactual and moral riS
There is grim realism in the au-
thors pictures of the squalor of pow
yty, Of its callousing. deadenng effects
IN the mass. Here is the influence of
environment put frankly before us. She
does not pOstulate material wellbeing
as the indispensable price of dignitied
living, but she recognizes how easy 1t
makes the road. Julia Page comes to
know the shares, the obstacles, of rich
es; she sees their limitations all about
her-a weakening of fibre where effort
has never been required; but the fail
ure is on a higher plane. These be
, truths sufficiently we'll known, perhaps.
But Mrs Norris succeeds in bringing
them still nearer home TO us.
And all this is good work. The book
is extremely we'll thought out and
ably written. The awakening of the
husbands retrospective jealousy, the
spectre's first appearance between him
and his wife conjured up by a chance
word, the ever darker looming of its
shadow, all this is excellently handled;
and through it all the woman is con-
sistently drawn. To the very last Julia
Page remains the better self. ever
growing, of the girl of fifteen who
lived above a saloon in San Francisco,
who associated with the fotsam and
jetsam of a theatrical boarding house,
and ran the streets without control
of her comings and gOings.
There is a fine quality in this story.
and yet, as in all Mrs. Norrs's books,
its keynote is a sober common sense.
an unhnching recognition of life as 1t
is. Separation, the passage Of the
years, this is the cure for the poison
that threatened Julia Pages life of
high endeayor with ultimate failure
and that, too, may be true. 1t Ger
tainly is sufficiently true to Justify
the happy ending of this intensely
readable novel.