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The Washington herald., 1916-01-24

a book. by the way. that I wish every
member OF our Mothers Club would
read, for II would clear up our think
ing on this point as well as on many
others. You will learn from what he
says there that true culture is that
part of our education which becomes
part of the very fibre Of our being BY
its very nature it sinks deep into our
minds to be reproduced in words and
acts that relate us to all the life
around US.
Understood in this way. we shall
not fear that making the accomplish
ments of our children utilitarian will
in any way cheaper them or make
them less desirable to strive for. On
the contrary, for their very value in
enabling US to be of service to man
kind. we shall try to give them all the
training and in as many different lines
as we can. and. above all. we shall be
careful to have them thoroughly in
stead of showily taught
l know of nothing more pitiful
than a little child who has been en-
couraged to show off" until he is
never contented without the applause
and the compliments Of the people
around him. l saw one of that kind
at a little afternoon tea not long
ago. He had been taught to speak
some pieces and he had been produced
by his foolish mother on all occasions
until he was a small nuisance. At
this tea his nurse brought him into
the room and he was lifted to a table
and told to say his piece. After the
first one he himself insisted upon say
ing another and then another until
we were all bored by the performance
and even his fond mother perceived
that we had had enough. Then he was
borne from the room screaming, and
kicking his long suffering nurse. l
could not help but think of the mother
who wrote that she did not believe in
giving her children useful accom-
plishments.
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One of our members has invited dis
cussion of something 1 said in our talk
about training children in accomplish
ments that can be made useful. She
feels that once an accomplishment
becomes utilitarian it loses its true
cultural value. Perhaps 1 can best
give you her point of view by quoting
part of her letter. She writes:
Dear Aunt Chatty: In your talk
about teaching girls to play the piano
you said something about having chill
dren learn everything with the view
of making 1t useful some day. 1
think we ought not to lose sight Of
the distinction between the things by
which we earn our bread and the
things which give us culture. We
Americans are looked down upon by
some nations because we link every
thing we think or do to our pocket
books, and while we know this is
not true l think we ought to avoid
every tendency which leads in that
direction. While l agree with you
about the need of training every girl
to earn her living. I still hold to the
idea that accomplishments should be
something that mean culture. Won't
you ask other members to write what
they think about 1t for our column?
We can understand what we ought to
do If we really discuss different phases
of the questions you take up in your
good talks
l am giving you this letter in the
hope that some of you will be inter
ested enough to write and tell us
what you think about the subject. For
myself, still believe that the end of
all education-for plishments,'
so-called, are part and parcel with our
general education-is to mold the mind
and character of the individual. The
difference between true education and
accomplishments for show only is the
difference between the pure gold that
is always of service to humanity and
the thin veneer that wears off as
soon as It is put to any real use.
1 know that what 1 am saying is
true because l have seen so many dear
girls forced by loss of fortune or the
death of the protector who stood be-
tween them and want to try to sup
port themselves and perhaps others
dependent upon them, and who found
their small Accomplishments in mu-
sic or painting or expression pitifully
inadequate to their needs. In a heart
to-heart talk l had with one of these
girls not long ago she spoke sadly OF
her lack of real preparation for life.
81 cannot understand" she said.
how any one can be so shortsighted
as mamma and papa were. They
spent lots of money on my education.
but it seems to me now that 1t was
all for show I had plenty of glitter
I could show off splendidly, but I
haven't a thing for real use"
You see, dear mothers, that is the
mistake in our thinking about "ac-
complishments;" the superficial ability
to play showily, to paint the pictures
that we frame and hang on our walls
to testify to the talents of our of
spring, are to just glitter; it is no.
culture, to say nothing of the real con-
tention that it is not utilitarian! What
culture is we may learn from Matthew
Arnold's Culture versus Education"
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FAMOUS WOMAN, HER
BIRTHDAY AND YOURS
January 24-Mary Virginia EIlet
Cabell.
By MARY MARSHALL

Mary Virginia Ellet Cabel. born In
Lynchburg, Vac in 1879 gained fame as
an educator.
Her father built the first suspension
bridge in the United States and invented
the steam ram. He also built the first
bridge across the Niagara River below
the falls. and his daughter was the first
woman to cross it before 1t was COM
pleted.
In spite of the fact that her father
was very talented and very busy man,
he took the keenest interest in his
daughters bringing up, and himself edu-
Gated her. She was an apt pupil, and
by the time she was 10 she read French
and German fluently. As for English,
she had read many of the best works of
English literature.
Her parents took her with them to
Cuba and to Europe for two years,
where she studied. Then her parents,
who had been so thoughtful for her hap
piness and education. died within a week
OF each other, and the care of two
younger children and her grandmother
fell on her.
So she went to teaching to support
them. But all the time she found time
to increase and enlarge her own educa-
tion.
After her marriage TO Mr.. Cabell she
and her husband opened a successful
school for girls at Washington, D. c.,
called the Norwood Institute.
Copyright 1851
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LAUGH AND LIVE LONG.

Laugh every time you find some
thing to- laugh at" This is one of
the rules given by the latest cente-
marian to gain newspaper distinction
by giving his advice to those Who
would live as long as he has.
The other rules are much like the
usual rules for attaining old age. He
advises others not to indulge in alco-
hol or tobacco, not to get in debt, not
to quarrel, to work in the open and
to go to bed early-in short to lead
a life which in some of its details
would be impossible for the average
man or woman who must take a place
in the world of things as they are.
But this little rule about laughing
every time you find something to
laugh at strikes US as being a de-
cidedly good one. If it does not make
you live to a hundred it surely would
give you added youth while you do
live.
Necessity, besides being the mother
of invention, is surely the mother of
a good many changes of opinion. At
least the present war in Europe has
led to a decided change of attitude
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HOUSEWIVES DAILY
ECONOMY CALENDAR
USES FOR OLD LACE.
By FRANCES MARSHALL.

There are almost always odds and ends
OF lace on hand, and there are almost
always uses to which they may be very
effectively put.
II you have any bits OF lace on hand.
get them out, clean and press them, and
plan ways to use them.
To clean lace, have ready soapsuds
in which there is a little borax. and a few
drops OF ammonia. Fasten the lace, IL
it Is in the shape of medallions, to
stout pieces of cloth and then wash.
rinse, blue, II 1t is dead white, and iron
on the wrong side of the cloth. Rip OF
and the lace is ready to use. II 1t is
not pure white, don't blue, and IL it is
ecru dip in a little weak tea or coffee
after rinsIng.
II the lace is in the form of insertion,
wrap it around a flannel covered bottle.
pinning the ends securely. Then immerse
the bottle In the soapsuds, and agitate
gently until the lace Is clean. Rinse
and dry on the bottle.
A lace collar or other lace shaped IN
any particular form should be sewed
securely to a piece Of cloth, washed.
and dried and ironed like the medallion.
All-oHer laces should be carefully
washed like any fine muslin, and ironed
on the wrong side. Wide lace edgings
can be washed in the same way and mar
row ones can be washed on a bottle like
insertion.
Now as to the uses for old laces. Wide
lace of any sort can be used for founces
for petticoats. Petticoats of tarreta or
crepe de chine or thin silk made with
one or several flounces of lace or of the
same material edged with narrow lace
are useful to wear in the evening, with
light frocks, or for negligee wear. Very
often the material for the body of the
petticcats can be from some old frock.
A small piece of wide or all-over lace
can be made, with the aid of few rib
bon bows, into boudoir cap.
Underbodlces can be made from lace,
alone or combined with strips of crepe
de chine or ribbon or fine muslin.
Blouses can be made of chiffon or net
over a foundation Of all-over lace. or, II
the lace is in good condition, It can be
made up over a foundation Of inexpen-
siye net and ribbon.
Copyright. lss)
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There's a legal size for eggs.
They must weigh "a ounces a dozen.
1 don't believe the hens know that.
Or my grocer.
II he does
He's kept ii a dark secret.
And fed me on Illicit eggs.
The man from Missouri
Is going to reform hens
So they'll all lay big eggs.
Why don't he go still farther
And make them lay square ones?
They would pack better.
Everything is getting reformed
And nature improved on.
Luther Burbank reforms berries
So they're seedless.
Health experts
Have reformed coffee
Till there's no coffee left in It.
Short-haired women
And long haired men
Are trying to reform the human race
BY eugenics
So that every baby is a work of art.
But / notice they never have any them
selves.
II this man from Missouri
Wants to be a public benefactor
Let him reform roosters
So they won't crow at 3 a m.
And wake you up
Just as you have got to sleep.
The reformers have done so many
things
Seemingly impossible
Like making the San Francisco fair
pay.
Eliminating Chauncey Depew as a
humorist
And making an actress out of Gaby
Delys,
That nothing is too hard for them.
So l wish
They would breed a new kind Of cigars
That didn't have bands,
Or at least reform them
So the bands didn't stick to the wrap
pers
And you could get them off
Without tearing the wrapper to pieces
And have to lick 1t together with your
tongue.
I Just hate a cigar with a torn wrap
per,
The kind a man gives you
Who has carried II in his vest pocket
Along with a rough-coated fountain
pen.
You can now eat horses in New York
II you are that kind of a person,
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Answers to CORRESPONDENTS.

The Aunt of One" who wrote ask
ing a question about the secretary Of
the navy. probably disappointed not to
receive reply the next day, as she
requested. I am sorry, but questions
for immediate reply should be sent as
personal mail. BY the time the i'm
personal request can be transmitted
and the answer sentt back for publica-
ton several weeks may elapse, and
then, as in this case. the occasion has
entirely passed.
Mrs. G. c. NJ. writes: MY daughter
sixteen years old, has made choice of
girl friend of whom 1 do not ap-
prove. She is silly creature and my
child actually copies all the foolish
things she does, even the untidy way
she wears her hair. have talked and
scolded. but 1t does no good. What
shall I do to break up this friend
ship?"
Talking and scolding will never do
it. 1t will only make your girl more
loyal to the undesirable friend. In
vite her to your house among a bet
ter class of girls as often as you can
and your girl will soon see the con-
trast between them.
Copyright, 1861
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When a week had passed, we all be-
g-I to fear he was never coming back.
AS | had known him ever since ] was
little girl, | los. no time going
down to the Home for Actors where
he lived, to see if there was some
thing l could do for him. Alas, had
come too late. From the little chapel
| could hear the low, sonorous tones
of the organ and the high, faltering
voices of all the old folk joining in
requiem.
He had just stolen away silently,
and they found him one morning
smiling in his sleep. He had gone on
the long, long journey from which
there is no return. There had been
no struggle. Only four days had he
not been able to come down to the
dining-room and join in the chatter OF
al. the other old folk, his friends and
his stage companions.
They pointed out a large tree in the
garden, his favoritc tree. For years
he had spent his Sunday mornings
sitting in big, red rocker under it,
reading his papers and writing a few
letters to those belonging to him
who were still alive.
When the spring came, the birds
always neSted in the branches, and
never day did he forget to bring
out crumbs for them, so they would
find such a haven in their summer
home they would return the following
year.
When the wind blew a hurricane,
the old man would stand at the win
dow and watch fearfully lest the tree
be broken and destroyed. when the
time comes l am no longer here"
he would say, 81 do not want to go
very far away. just want to find my
resting place out under that big
I .aple. l feel that l can sleep there
in peace until the call of Gabriel"
Blessed old people! They are just
little children after all.
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AS SEEN BY A WASHINGTON WOMAN

on the part of English politicians and
statesmen with regard to woman's in
dustrial and educational position.
Says Lord Airedale to thes Leeds
English High School girls. "The
training of girls becomes every day a
question of greater and greater inn
portance." He tabooes the old ideal
that woman's place is the home
and her position chiefly ornamental.
Women had to take the place of men
and were now doing work, which it
had been considered impossible for
them to do, and they were doing it
very well. There were few employ
ments in which women could not be
trusted now to fulfill the functions
of male workers. - The world
would never be the same again. :
Cherished ideals must go and new sit
uations arise, hence the importance
of proper training for girls"
We are all inclined to attach a good
deal of importance to this change of
attitude on the part of English men.
Like Mrs. Pankhurst we are inclined
to think that woman's position will
be better after the war. That the men
who were most active in opposing
woman suffrage will have a change
of heart since women have shown
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And also ostriches
They are IN the market,
But even a growing boy
Would find an ostrich drumstick
bigger and tougher proposition
Than licking the Kaiser.
Germs
As a topic Of conversation
Have supplanted the Germans.
For it's against the law in New York
To spit
They arrested three hundred
For doing it
In one day
And fined them from one TO five dollars
each.
It's tempting Providence
To carry plug or fine cut
Two hundred special policemen
Watching TO catch germ spresders.
1t seems silly
When germs are spread in so many
other ways.
Without hindrance.
saw II done
In front of a fashionable restaurant
They were unloading groceries from a
truck
A half-bushel bag of beans burst
And they spilled the beans
Right in the gutter
In the mud and dirt and slime and
everything
ana the trOckman was scared stiff.
He thought he would have to pay for
the beans
But the manager came out
And said to scoop them UP.
And they did with shovel
Mud and beans and all into a can.
Every last one
After they had taken the can in
The manager stood around
Looking at the place
And ! suppose he had counted the
beans
And found one short
And was looking for IL.
OF course. they will wash the beans
But they couldn't have been worth
more than a dollar.
1t is one Of the most expensive res
taurants in town
Where a single portion of those beans
would cost forty cents
So I wasn't very sorry
When he didn't find that bean.
But he was all broke up about IL
And scowled at the gutter
Anyhow the next time / eat in that
restaurant
l shall not order beans.
I'll order boiled eggs
Or cocoanuts
Or something that's germ proof
When soaked in a gutter.
Isn't that just like New York?
Start a germ crusade
And let things like this bean episode
Go along as a matter Of course
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their ability to bear so great share
of the burdens of carrying on that
war.
Still, wars have caused change. of
opinion before. While men taught
at the front women have done the
mems work at home before. And in
doing it have called forth the aston
ishment and>gratitude of the men who
did not know the women were so we'll
endowed. And, no doubt, individual
women in other days have felt that
their status would be changed "after
the war" But with peace come back
the conditions of peace with amazing
promptness. One day nation is at
war, the next day peace is signed, and
hostilities cease; and except for the
devastation and tie poverty and the
mourning the old world gets back in
its rut. And women, no longer being
needed in mans sphere, slip back in
the old conventional placcevhere war
found them.
Probably Mrs. Pankhurst realizes
this and realizes that if the women of
England are to gain any permanent
economic and industrial advantage by
the war, it must be the result from
their own unwillingness to be pushed
back into the old rut when the war is
over. MAPY MARSHALL.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24

The moving-picturc studios have
been veritablc refuge for many old
and broken-down character actors
and actresses who could not endure
the strenuous night life of the stage.
The time is past when the young men
who fill the stock companies of NOV
ing picture studios were picked out to
play a grandfather by putting on
some Santa Claus whiskcrs, wig and
a pair of goggles.
Now the directors look for types
when they are to portray old folk,
and such dear, snowy-haired, kindly
old ladies and gentlemen one sees
about the studio! In summer the
heat does not deal gently with them.
When the winter comes, unless it is
in some of the California studios, my
heart aches as l see the old people
stumbling through the snowdrifts.
Because of our love for our own
sweet grandmother, Lottie, Jack and
have always had a reverence for old
people, which endears every one of
them 10 us.
1t is surprising how many letters
get in old-fashioned Spencerian hand
writing, which show that the pen
trcmbled in some old, wrinkled hand.
One grandfather, who said he was
over hundred years, wrote me quite
a long, interesting letter, with such
an amusing criticism at the end of it
that shall always remember it. 1t
read: THE only fault l can find with
your acting, Miss Mary Pickford, is
that you do not act as much with
your left hand as you do with your
right"
There are many letters telling me
that l am like some little child who
passed away, and of the pleasure l
give the writers because they see in
me that beloved likeness.
The Passing of An Old Friend.
There was a character actor at our
studio who, / think, must have been
in his seventies. In his prime he was
one of the greatest comedians and ac-
tors in this country, one whom you
all knew, but when he came to work
IN pictures he was stopped, feeble,
and it was with an effort he could
find his way around the stage. His
eyes were almost unseeing.
One rainy day he did not come and
we asked all his old cronies if he
were i'll No one seemed to know.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-24
Aunt Chatty's Mothers Club
Conducted by Mrs. Charity Brush
Accomplishments Made Utilitarian.

THIS real Mothers Club the benefit of mothers everywhere
who struggling with questions Of discipline training. educa
don clothing. for the children Write Aunt Chaty problems
which exng you and she will advise and help solution of
them Write to her, too of discoveries Of methods have
found successful smoothing the rough paths of life for the tender
childish feet that through the Mothers Club be of
benefit other mothers who still tangled the web of pey
have so happily unraveled.
Cooperation the of business
the business of motherhood that highest and ho calling which
has been and always will be woman of glory what
other usefulness be opened he2 Address Mrs Charity
Brush. of this paper.
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Monday, January "a, 1915.
Astrologers read this as an unsatisfac-
tory day so far as planetary direction is
concerned. Jupiter changes from good
to evil aspect, while Neptune and the
Sun are adverse.
This is read as most unlucky rule for
all speculation. Heavy losses are fore
shadowed, especially in certain stocks
that are usually stable.
There is sign indicating arrogance
on the part of men In power, whether
they rule in the financial. political or re-
ligious world. Appeals to persons in au-
thority should be delayed until more
propitious stars rule.
Trouble in regard to the United States
navy is strongly forecast. While Con-
gress argues over appropriations, q man
in high place will suffer from severe
criticism, astrologers predict.
Among the new men whose rise to
prominence has been prognosticated one
will win fame by means Of a new inven-
ton. which means much in military af-
fairs
Before the new year Is half spent the
seers predict that two women prominent
In public affairs will die.
Canada has planetary government
read as presaging a remarkable future.
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gether in a movement of universal peace
that will be perpetual Also the forma-
ton of Tribunal-Parliament for peace,
for the settlement OF the disputes Of the
belligerent nations, for an immediate
peace.
Condemnin5 miiitarism. Nine. Thou
maian declared II is a mistake to think
that militarism can be cured by mill
tarism, any more than ink spots can be
cleaned by more ink spots, She urged.
In the name of the organization, that for
their own sake, IL not for the worlds,
the belligerent nations agree to make
mutual concessions to the end OF an i'm
mediate peace.
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which will be the realization of supreme
ambition now merely smoldering.

which will be the realization OF supreme
ambition now merely smoldering.
California has the prophecy of a year
that may bring severe tests in business
affairs, but the State will add many to
its population after this winter.
In the South the race question may be-
come a serious problem in connection
with some national event.
Farmers, gardeners and stock-raisers
are again warned that inclement weather
until late in the spring may cause heavy
losses in the East as well as the West
Persons whose birthdate It is have the
forecast Of rather an anxious year where
money Is concerned. They should be
especially careful in all business affairs
Children born on this day may be ex-
ceedingly generous and inclined to spend
money foolishly. These subjects of
Aquarius are often endowed with artis-
tic talents.
Copyright, lsls.)
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Na.imova to BE Manager.

Nine. Nazimova is the latest star to
develop managerial ambitions. She will
produce in New York shortly a new
play in which she will take the lead
ing role. For the last forty weeks the
Russian actress has been appearing In
vaudeville in Marion Craig Went
worth's one-act tragedy. war Brides"
Her salary is said to have been around
the 5000 a week mark. 1t Ia the money
saved from her vaudeville season that
is financing her latest plan.
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PEACE THAT
WILL BE PERPETUAL
Nine. Thoumaian Pleads for Women
to Join Movement of Every
Woman fJr Peace"

A plea for the women of Washington to
join the international movement OF
Every Woman for Peace" was voiced
yesterday by Mime. Lucy Thoumaian,
president foundress, wife Of a member
of the Turkish Parliament, In an ad-
dress at the Young Women's Christian
Association.
The mission of the movement is the
urging of the neutral ne tions to join to-
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GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDFATHER PEOPLE.


ITS II trsnxIat alton. PubH-
E who'll In is expressly
by The Mcclure
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New York, Jan. 23-Another reform
has started.
This time it's hens.
A man from Missouri
Is trying to show people.
That eggs can be all the same size.
And weigh D ounces a dozen.
He says
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Read Dan sayles' Want Advertising
Talk next Thursday.