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She's true sport, Sadie. She only
stares dreamy for second.
"1'll take you, Shorty says she.
And, say, was all but wearin' that
coat from then on. | wouldn't have sold
my ticket for ninety per cent. And when
| notices the quiet, mouselike ways Of
Miss Allen at dinner l was surer than
ever that, for once, had cinch.
1t want that she seemed just plain
scared. That was her natural way: sort
of dumb-tongue-tied, for all could tell.
Anyway, she hardly took her eyes off her
plate, and all Sadie could get out Of her
was nod or mo, ma'am," now and
then. Yet, if you took Aunties word for
it, Dora knew lot. She's been president
of her class; had read piece, all in Lat
in, that she'd done herself, at the gradual
ing exercises; and could paint water
color sketches that you could almost tell
what they was meant for.
"You know, | started out to be an
artist adds Miss Peaslee. "Yes, l was
studying in Paris when fathers health
broke down and he retired from the min
istry. Then, of course. | was obliged to
return and go to teaching. That is how
| earned the money to buy Bald Mountain
Farm for the old folks to live on. If
only we had known sooner about the
marble!'
"Marble?" echoes Sadie.
"Solid," says Miss Peaslee. @The
whole mountain. very good quality,
too. We have quarried tons of it every
year since. So, you see, was able to
quit teaching before the Board voted me
too old
"Oh!' says Sadie, smilin' significant
across the table at me.
got the idea. Most likely the marble
works would come to Dora. Well, she
needed 'em, and more. Course, back in
Vermont that might qualify her in the
heiress class, but not so near Fifth Avenue
as this | could still get the feel of that
mink linin'.
ANYWAY, Sadie and was enjoyin' our
= little joke on the side. and she was
mostly in fun about tryin' to wish steady
onto Miss Allen until Well, things do
take queer turns, don't they? Here we
was, settin' quiet around the Twin room
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

about New York I'd never heard of.
takin' in cathedrals, public buildin's, and
homes of the wealthy; also historical
spots.
ave even found the site where Burr
and Hamilton fought, says she.
At which l pricks up my ears.
Lets see," says |. THAT must have
been before John l.. won the belt. Well
ter or heavy-weights, were they?"
l had her starin' again. "I'm sure
don't know" says she. "But my niece
will. Dora, you have the guide-book,
haven't you? Find that about the Burr
Hamilton duel
And, if you'll believe it, this was a
shootin' scrape pulled off over near Fort
Lee back in the days of George Washing
ton. Think of diggin' up ripe old scam
dial like that!
SEEMS they'd been dom all this mainly
on Dora's account. She'd finished up
at the Academy, and now Auntie was
BLOWN her to a months sight-seein' orgy,
so her education would be complete.
For next fall Dora was slated to tackle a
teachers job back at the Center. and
maybe, in the course of fifteen or twenty
years, work up to be assistant principal
in the Academy.
"A position which held" says Miss
Ann. "for a long period. That is Dora's
ambition, too
"Oh, she'll be gettin' married one of
these days says |, "and that program
will be ditched'
Auntie shakes her head
al think not" says she. Dora is an
Allen, you know, and our girls are quite
apt to become spinsters.
might have limited that Dora wouldn't
run any risks while she stuck to New
York and that costume, but | didn't.
saved it to whisper to Sadie after she'd
lowed 'em to their rooms. Maybe l
chuckled over it a bit, too.
"For shame, Shortly" says she. "A
lot you know about girls, don't you?
Now, think she is real sweet. OF course
the way she's dressed But il | could
have her for couple of weeks
"Bet YOU" says |, "a set Of blue fox
against a mink-lined Overcoat.'
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for the home dressmakin' outfit she
wouldn't have looked so bad. But, in
that meal-sack skirt and the jacket
with the puckered seams, there's no
more doubt about her bein' just in
labeled.
Add to our line of march GRIMM
porter luggin' an old bag that looked like
it had been in the attic since the Centen-
NAL, brand-new extension grip, and
paper parcel done up in shawl-strap,
and you can guess how comic some of
them plute brokers must have classed
themselves when they tips me the passin'
wink.
WE had nice, chatty time on the way
out, though, Miss Peaslee and me.
She says they've been so much on the go
that it'll be sort of restful to get where
they can really breathe without havin' to
dodge taxi-cab.
Been sort of doin' the town, eh?"
says l.
She admits they have.
al expect you've seen all the new chick
en- shows along Broadway" says |.
mo says she; 81 never did take much
interest in poultry-raising.
"These Broadway chickens raise them
selves" says l. But guess you've seen
enough of 'em at the midnight cabarets
and at the trot shops?"
She stares at me puzzled.
"My niece and l, says she, shave been
spending most of our time at the Art and
Natural History Museums. We have
been studying the Cerollas and Homers.
Wonderful, aren't they"
didn't deny it, Maybe they are.
"Of course" she goes on, eve have
found time, too. to visit Grants Tomb
and the Statue of Liberty and the
new Library. Then, on Sundays, we
have attended at least two of the
more prominent churches. What an
intellectual treat Merle St. Croix
Wright is! l suppose you hear him
often?"
"Eh?' says |, gawpin'. "Well, not so
often as you might think.
Called for more or less scientific duck
in on my part, but | want goin' to let
any old girl from Vermont tell me things
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nOrnln Us l Ill ABOUT 10 make
a sprint for the eight-three.
- "You are to pick up Miss Peaslee
and her niece and bring them home with
you. They're at the Lady Louise, you
know"
"Eh!' says l. "Sendin' me to pluck
another sample from the Old Maids Re-
treat? l hope she amt one of the giddy
kind"
"Miss Ann is an old DEAR says Sadie.
@Youll say so, too, when you know her. "
"Catch me!' says l, grabbin' my hat.
One OF Sadie's usual otfhand stunts,
this was, invitin' out a party she'd
met casual up in Vermont last summer.
Seems Miss Peaslee had put Sadie on the
track of some antique junk-a four
poster bed with pineapple tops, and an
overgrown mahogany bureau that she
calls high-boy. The old girl had a house
full of such truck herself. That's how
Sadie got to know her. She'd no sooner
heard of Miss Peaslee's antiques than
she hunts her up, feeds her good
jolly, l expect, and gets shown over the
house.
You should have heard her rave after
wards about gate-legged tables and sleigh
bedsteads and so on. And when Miss
Peaslee negotiated this trade for Sadie,
and she'd got the stuff refnished and
slowed in our east guest-room, Sadie was
just Dustin with gratitude. So, when she
hears that Miss Ann and her niece are
in town, she calls her up and insists on
their comm out to Rockhurst for week
anyway And me, I'm appointed to
round EN- up.
No, | didn't forget. But, as we trails
through Grand Central that evenin' to
get the five-sixteen, l was wishin' l had.
Not that Miss Ann mightn't have looked
all right up at Sorrell Center, Vermont,
standin' on her front porch, with the
white paneled door and the green-shut-
tered side-lights as a backgrounds; but
here amongst our swell commuter bunch
we'll, no wonder l was gettin' the grin
right and left.
ONE of these tail, straight old girls, Miss
Ann is, with Baldwin-apple cheeks and
gray hair. She's dressed neat and modest,
too, in a costume that dates back to
about '65, l should say. Anyway, it's a
stiff black silk, with a long white jiga-
maree draped over her shoulders and
fastened in front with a cameo pin the
size of fried egg. The jet bonnet with
the black velvet chin-straps must have
been curio, too.
Then, there's the mecca high-colored,
big-eyed young thing of eighteen or nine
teen. Regular dairy-maid complexion,
she had-almost vivid enough, with its
streaks of pink and white, to be mistaken
for stage makeup. Nearly as tall and
straight as Auntie, Miss Dora is, only
simmer, and l expect if it hadn't been
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rim appointed to round 'em up. No,
didn't forget. But as zoe trails
through the station to get the
fue-sirteen, / Was ,Uislin' / had"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-03

ONT forget says Sadie that
mornin, as I'm about to make
sprint for the eight-three.
IL "You are to nick I'D Miss Peaslee
Evening star., 1915-04-05
PLANS MADE FOR ANNUAL
JEFFERSON DAY BANQUET
Various Elements Of Democratic
Party Represented in List of
Speakers for April 13.

NEW YORK, April 5.-Various ele-
ments of the democratic party are rep
resented in the list of speakers and
guests made public today by the COM
mittee in charge of the annual Jefrer-
son day banquet of the National
Democratic Club to be held here April
13. The committee said "it Is not ex-
pected that the general outpouring of
thought will contain any dumdum ex-
pressions," and referred to some of
the men to be seated at the guest table
as peace delegates" Among the men
so named are William X. Hearst,
Charles +. Murphy. Francis Lynds
Stetson. United States senator James
A. OGorman, William F. McCombs,
chairman of the democratic national
committee, and John A. Hennesy.
The list Of speakers includes: Lindley
M. Garrison, Secretary of War; Thorn
as M. Gregory. Attorney General: Cone
Johnson, solicitor of the State Depart
ment; Collector Malone of the port of
New York, United States Senators
Lewis of Illinois and Johnson of Maine,
and Representative Helm of Ala
bama.
The dinner committee intimated that
some of the speakers may sound the
keynote for the 1916 presidential cam
paign."
Evening star., 1915-04-05

formances. afternoon and night. at all
the movie houses from today until the
close of the campaign, four weeks
hence. More than So, 900 cards bearing
requests for cooperation in the clean
ing up and painting up of Washington
have been mailed to as many individ-
uals throughout the entire city. In
this manner thousands Of people have
had their attention called to the 1915
campaign and are more or less active
ly engaged in working for a clean and
h,. ufifu1 cify
Evening star., 1915-04-05
SMALL FIRES, SLIGHT DAMAGE.
B. & 0. Railway Company Loses a
Frame Building.

A small frame house near 18th and
Randolph streets northeast. the prop
erty Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company. was destroyed by fire
last night about $50 o'clock. The fire
was of unknown origin.
Firemen responded TO an alarm yes
terday afternoon about 1:3O o'clock,
and found a small blaze in the store of
Anna Cans, 2S14 14th street northwest
A curtain in the store caught fire, and
about $50 damage resulted.
A window shade fell on an oil stove
in the house of Sarah Scott. 1857 Sth
street northwest, last night about 8
o'clock, and started a small fire. Only
about So damage esulted
Evening star., 1915-04-05
Steamboats, in This List.

Thomas Sheahan st. Dominic's
School hall; new addition to Bliss
Electrical School: repainting and deco.
7th and H streets southwest: repaint-
ing and decorating steamer ST. Johns
several smaller contracts.
David Goumpf-Apartment house at
Goth and H streets northwest: resi-
dence of W. w. Griffith, So New York
avenue northeast, and several smaller
jobs.
Charles hier-Corridors. etc. of In
terror Department. and other con-
A. L. Haislp-Twelve houses, Sher-
man avenue near Columbia road, and
other jobs.
w. H. Hayes-Four residences, Chevy
Chase; four residences in Langdon; one
each in Mount Pleasant and Cleveland
Park, and other smaller work.
w. F. Andrews-Painting and deco
rating theater building at 18th and
streets northwest; painting and deco
rating residence of Charles I. Corby at
mont avenue; residence OF J. J. Flan-
merry; Young's carriage repository, 464-
466 Pennsylvania avenue, and other
jobs.
One Legation Included.
fsODeFI T.. MaCkay company lOi
of State. War and Navy building; main
building, Department of Agriculture: in
terror of Argentine legation; Scottish Rite
Temple.
Macnichol & Son-Thirteen houses, 18th
and Kenyon streets northwest interior s.
kann, Sons & Co. establishment Orrnc
apartment house; residence OF q. w. Cor
bett; apartment house for A. Barbour
two residences, w. Bartholdt, and other
contracts.
c. Olson-Repainting and refnishing
Rockville santarium building, four
stories repainting local apartment house.
William Martin Cleland-Repainting
residence of Frank Morrison. secretary
American Federation of Labor: residence
at 21st and N streets northwest, and
many small contracts.
Pennington & Taylor-Interior decora-
tions at residence OF w. w. Griffith, New
York avenue northeast: interior decora-
tions, residence of Naval Constructor Nc
Entee, navy yard other contracts
Other contractors report a large vol
ume Of minor Jobs, sufficient to keep their
workmen employed for several weeks at
least.
Evening star., 1915-04-05

With the chances against his recov-
cry, Jacob Stroop, jr., a young single
man of Singers Glen. Va, is lying at
the point of death with a bullet wound
in his abdomen, claimed to be acciden-
tai. ri
Evening star., 1915-04-05


Decorators' Association.
Washington's first spring cleanup
and paint-up campaign is scheduled to
begin two weeks from today. The Com
missioners of the District of Columbia
have onicially fixed April 10 as the
opening date for the twoweek cam
paign, which is to close May /.
Every possible agency has been called
upon to cooperate in this campaign,
which is to be the most comprehensive
and all-embracing the National Capital
has ever undertaken. Heretofore the
annual spring cleanup has been a
cleanup only. and the work has been
done under the undivided supervision
of the clean city committee, of which
W. H. Richardson is chairman, and DR..
Arthur l.. Murray, formerly of the
District health department, secretary.
This spring, however, the campaign is
to be waged under the joint supervision
of the clean city committee and the
executive committee of the Master
House Painters and Decorators Asso-
citation of Washington, the chairman
of the executive committee being A. II.
McGhan.
In former campaigns the lack OF
funds has operated as handicap on
the best efforts of those whose purpose
it was to give the city and its environs
q thorough renovation. Cooperation
of the master painters executive COM
mittee in the 1915 campaign. however.
has done away with this obstacle to
best results, the master painters or
ganization having raised more than
$1,000 with which to finance the cam
paign.
Evening star., 1915-04-05
First Easter in New Charge.

Rev. William Oscar Roome, jr, cele-
brated his first Easter services as rector
of Emmanuel Protestant Episcopal
Church at Anacostia yesterday The
first service was held at am, with
celebration of holy communion at . and
II o'clock. Vespers were sung at 8
o'clock in the evening. after which
seven candidates were admitted into the
Junior Daughters Of the King.
Evening star., 1915-04-05
RENOVATION Campaign
BENEFICIAL TO LABOR
Washington's Clean Up-Paint Up
Program Increases Employ
ment, Managers Say.

That the clean up-paint up campaign
which is to open April 19 and continue
until May is giving employment to many
mechanics and laborers who have been
practically without work during the
greater part of the winter is the declara-
ton of persons in close touch with the
work of preparing for the TWO weeks of
clean up and paint up. Many employers
of labor in the painting and allied trades
report that the volume of work in their
lines this spring is at least 30 per cent
greater than at corresponding periods in
former years. and some of these employ
ers assert that the increased volume of
work is even larger. One employer said
today that his business for the spring of
1915. as shown by orders and contracts
already booked. was fully 500 per cent
in excess of his business last year at
this time.
Officials of the Brotherhood of Painters
and Decorators. local No 36S, of this
city. say that practically all of their mem
bers arc at work or engaged for work
that will keep them busy all spring.
White House an Example.
Noteworthy among the clean up and
paint up jobs under way or contracted
which work is already in progress, and
the House office building. which is to be
thoroughly renovated and repainted from
basement to attic. Contractors reporting
large contracts for work to be done this
spring include:
w. r. Thomas Rcpainting Builders
Exchange: repainting Union block ::
painting two new residences for Mrs.
Henderson, on 18th street near Park
road: painting rectory and garage, 10th
and Irving streets; new residence, 2114
LIE Roy place northwest; repainting
and decorating Chevy Chase Club;
painting new residence, ZOOS Massa-
chusetts avenue; painting and deco
rating residence of Mrs. c. Hackett,
1925 gath street northwest; painting
and decorating residence of Admiral
Strauss, 220S Massachusetts avenue !:
repainting and decorating interior of
Smithsonian Institution: repainting and
decorating residence of Mrs. Hennen
Jennings: repainting and decorating st.
Matthews Church, and several smaller
Jobs.
Evening star., 1915-04-05
Publicity Measures Adopted.

This money is to be spent in various
forms of publicity designed to attract
the widest possible public attention to the
actual two-week campaign. 1t is not
the purpose to use the money in actual
cleanup and paint-up work; the sum
would not go far if it were devoted to
that purpose. But nearly 100000
clean up-paint up buttons have been
bought with part of the money. and
these buttons are being worn by almost
one-third of the city's entire popuia-
ton. Nearly 5000 substantial muslin
signs bearing the words "Clean Up
Paint Up'-also were bought, and the
signs are now displayed on nearly one
thousand five hundred business and
commercial vehicles of various kinds in
Washington. Colored lantern slides
inscribed with the same four words
have been provided in sufficient nun,
bers that every motion picture theater
in Washington has one of the slides;
these are to be displayed during per-
Evening star., 1915-04-05
Cooperation Is Pledged.

The Chamber of Commerce, Retail
Merchants Association. Board Of
Trade, labor unions. citizens associa-
tions clubs and all manner of civic and
private organizations have pledged
co cooperation in the coming campaign
while every schoolboy and SCHOOLGIRL
in the District OF Columbia has been
provided with a clean up-paint up
button and has received personal re-
quest from DR.. Murray to help in max
ing Washington clean. heaithful and
beautiful city in which to live
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-12-02
Wilson and the Republicans

President Wilson's plan 10 call Re.
publican leaders into conference with
him regarding the defense Legislation
which he proposes, is an admission
that he can no longer command his
own party majority in Congress and
that he must rely upon Republican
support II he is TO succeed in his pur-
poses.
This necessity for Republican sup
port will extend TO the election Of
next year, also. Democratic votes
alone, even IL he should secure all Of
them, will not suffice TO re-elect Will
son. II he is reelected, ii must be by
the aid OF Republican votes.
There is some reason for Republi-
cans TO assist Wilson in his legislation
for national defense. The question in
volved there is one Of patriotism--and,
while the Presidents reluctant con-
eession TO the country's needs may be
the subject OF justly critical comment,
there is no doubt that the patriotic
in Congress will do their
full duty by the nation, regardless OF
who may be the occupant of the White
House at the moment.
But the reelection of Mr.. Wilson is
another matter There is no patriotic
question involved in that, try he never
so hard to make il appear so. That
will be a question Of partisan poll
tics and personal ambition. No rea-
son will exist for giving Republican
support to Wilson-ether by the d.
rect method of voting for him or by
he indirect method of dividing the
Republican strength between two anti
Wilson candidates.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-12-02
NORTH RUPERT

James and c. l.. Leach spent
Thanksgiving with the formers son,
Harold, in Brooklyn, n. Y.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Phillips en-
tertained a large dinner party Thanks
giving Day,
Mrs. Charlotte DEMO is stopping
with her daughter, Mrs. James Leach
for a time. Mrs. C. L. Leach also
spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. James
Leach.
Dwight Sheldon, who spent last
week with his brother, NJ. Sheldon,
has returned to his home in Mendon,
accompanied by George Lee. who goes
to hunt deer.
Miss Annette Lille Of PaHlet, spent
Thanksgiving with her sister, Mrs
Frank Winchester.
Miss Sarah Haseltin of Fort Ed
ward n. Y, is visiting her aunt, Mrs.
Sheldon.
Mrs. Fanny Slack of Bethel, Conn.,,
was recent visitor at James Leach's.
Deighton Lee Of Dorset, is stopping
at Merritt Sheldon's for a few days
before starting on western trip.
Mrs. Thomas Brooks and family
spent Saturday and Sunday with rela-
tives in Dandy.
Worden Woodland and family of
Rupert spent Sunday at Geo. Wood
ards.
Donald Leach, who has been home
for a time on account Of trouble with
his eyes, returned Monday TO Mt.
Hermon, Mass, where he attends
school.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-12-02

The announcement of the Presi-
dents purpose to consult with Repub-
licans regarding his plan for national
defense indicates a change in his atti-
tude almost as great as that shown
by his shift on the question Of mill
tary preparedness. 1t is only ten
months ago that Mr. Wilson went to
indianapolis and made his Jackson
Day speech. His utterances then de-
monstrated his opinion that the Re-
publican party mcrited no considera-
ton whatever in national affairs. He
declared the party to be covert and
a refuge for those who are afraid. .
Is that why he is now turning to the
Republican party? Is he afraid that
his belated conversion TO preparedness
cannot be imposed upon his party in
Congress and is he therefore turning
TO the Republican party as "a covert
and a refuge ?"
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-12-02
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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-12-02

How many of us will ever expert
cnce the thrills Of joy that Andrew
Carnegie has gone through in giving
away $350,OO0,O000O? 1t must be
great Think what il will be when the
poor fellow gets down to his last
81 100000 The old mans been too
good spendcr TO let him die in pow
erty. Who'll chip in and raise & fund
sufficient to get him into an old mans
home somewhere?
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-12-02

Entered In the postofiiee az Man
chester. VI. as second class matter.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1915-12-02

the President cannot bring his party
TO work and vote with him on the
vital question Of national defense.
Continuous and consistent team
work Is no longer a Democratic char
aeteristic; and this country is not 20
ing 10 use that party any more.