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The Washington herald., 1916-03-04
WEATHER CONDITIONS.

For the District Of Columbia and MARYLAND t,b
saturday and Sunday; not much change In tenn
perature; fresh TO strong northwest winds
fU virginia, fair Saturday and Sunday: con
timed cold; fresh northwest winds
The Atlantic coast storm Is now of thu sontbern
New Engiand coast and moving northesstward
high shifting winds have attended its course north
OF Delaware BreakWater. with snow along the eosst
second storm is moving inland from the Pacific
Rainy weather prevails in Pacific Coast states
and there have been light SHOWS in Atlantic Coast
districts between Virginia and New England
marked fall in temperature, approaching . cold
wave mas occurred In the South Atlantic States,
and Plateau regions.
There win be snow Sunday in New ENGLAND
with slightly lower Temperature; elsewhere eaSr
o. the mississippi River fair weather VIII con-
unne Low temperatures viii prevail in the East
and south Saturday and Sunday, with a Bchanre
70 higher temperature in the interior valleys on
The Washington herald., 1916-03-04
Ole Down Grier

'Untaxing Improvements- is the
title of an address to be delivered by
William n. McNair, of Pittsburgh, at
meeting Of the woman's Single Tax
Club at, Public Library Monday night
Rev. A. J. DonIon, president of
Georgetown University, will be the
principal speaker at smoker of the
alumni of the institution at the Ra-
leigh tonight. DIR. s. s., Adams will
be toastrnaster. 1t is expected about
400 will attend.
The former High School cadets will
meet at the Perpetual Building, Elev-
enth and E streets northwest, at 3
o'clock. tomorrow afternoon to dis
cuss plans for the recruiting" mass
meeting to be held at Business High
School on March 16.
Starting from the terminal of the
Congress Heights car line at z o'clock
tomorrow afternoon, the Wanderlust-
ers, led by.W. Palmer Ball, will hike
through Oxon Run Valley to Blue
Plains, and thence back by the Gies-
boro road.
Plans are being completed by the
Young Mems Hebrew Association for
the organization of a naturalization
committee to foster the good citizen
ship movement now being conducted
by chambers of commerce and other
throughout the country.
PHILOSOPHY Among the Chinese, is
the subject of an address to be deliv-
cred by e. T. Williams, chief of the
Division of Far-Eastern Affairs of the
State Department, at a meeting of the
Society for Philosophical Inquiry, to
be held at Public Library at 4:45
this afternoon. Mr.. Williams was
charge d'affaires at Pekin during the
Boxer uprising.
Representative ]. Hampton Moore,
OF Pennsylvania, and Philip P. Camp
bell, of Kansas, are scheduled to de-
liver addresses at the meeting of the
Board of Trade to be held at; the will
lard on the evening Of March 9.
Mrs. z. s. Lougee, formerly of Bel
GUM. will lecture on that country in
the lecture room of All Souls Church,
Fourteenth and L streets northwest,
at 1890 o'clock this morning. The
proceeds of the lecture will go into a
fund being COLLECTED by the Twentieth
Century Club for the homeless chill
dren of Belgium. =. .".sr w..
The annual novena in honor of ST.
Francis Xavier will begin with mass
In st. Aloysius' Church at o'clock
this morning. The novena will con-
tinue until March IL. with FIVE serv-
Ices each day. 4
The Improvement of Washington
street car service will be the topic of
discussion at meeting of the Fed
GRAFTON of Citizens Associations in the
rooms of the Chamber of Commerce.
tonight. ....
sold Panama; will be the subject of
lecture by DR.. &C. L G. Anderson on
The Washington herald., 1916-03-04
A NEW ANGLE ON GREAT WAR.
Lecturer Says Topography Caused
Violation of Neutrality,

The violation of Belgfum's neutrality
was due primarily to the topography Of
France contiguous to Paris, according
to DR.. Douglas W. johnson, professor Of
geography at Columbia University, In a
lecture before an audience in the Ma
ton Museum auditorium. DR.. Johnson's
lecture was the first OF a series to be
given under the auspices of the Wash
ington Academy OF Sciences on questions
pertaining to the European war.
DR.. johnson declared Paris was the
center Of concentric circles of cliffs, the
precipices Of which faced toward an in
vader Practically the only route avoid
ing these barriers was the route through
The Washington herald., 1916-03-04
Liberty Council Elects.

Miss Mary Helen Mccarthy was re
elected president OF Liberty Council
Catholic Women's Benevolent Legion, a
the annual meeting Of the council a
Gonzaga Hall. Those elected to sery,
with her were: Mrs. Horen, vice presi.
dent; Mrs. Annie Walsh, secretary: Mrs
sarah Gottrell, collector; Mrs. W. J
OLeary. treasurer. and Mrs. Annie Crow.
ley, orator.
The Washington herald., 1916-03-04
LOCAL MENTION.

Choice white potatoes, S0cy 8 Sweet
Wrinkle peas, Csc; Wisconsin peas
25c; sugar corn Csc; 4 Golden Egg
head rice. CSC; lbs. evap. peaches, csc:
lbs. starch, loo; 5 Oleine soap. IOc;
IL lbs. white meal 25c; 10 lbs buck
and 10c; pure pepper. Csc; 2 10-Ib. haas
salt, 15c; best hams, 16hc; small
shoulders, 1lhc; lima beans. n c: Semy
MINIS. 15c; walnuts, 15c; peanut butter.
Time flour, 75c. 4l2 Fourth st. s. E.
and all the J. T. D. Pyles stores.
Joyous Chaplin In sTsuShinx Cas-
Va Theater today. sunday, great war
drama, "A Traitor to His Country"
The Washington herald., 1916-03-04

An iron ship weighs n per cent less
than wooden one of the same diuen-
sions and. loaded to the same depth, viii
carry Is per cent more cargo.
The Washington herald., 1916-03-04
LOCAL TEMPERATURES.

Relative humiditys q. m, B; D. m, O.: 8
p. m, ~ Rainfall 70 D. m. to D. MI o2t
Hours Of sunshins. o. Per cent Of possible sun
shine o.
Tempetsture same date last year-Hirhest. a.;
lowest, 50.
The Washington herald., 1916-03-04

Belgium which Germany took at the
beginning Of the war, the lecturer de-
clared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
JayhdWker Jots

One of the Florence merchants ad-
vertises: Oar credit terms: Thirty
days If you want longer time, see
our competitors.
1t is no trick to sign your name so
people can't read it, says the Atchison
Globe, but it must take training or
natural gift to manipulate a type
writer so the output can't be read.
One of the momentous questions
before the public which requires con-
sideratfon and elaboration, says the
Americas Greeting is the selection of
proper ingredients to make the best
fish bait
War is not 80 bad after all, declares
the Wichita Beacon. The belligerent
governments are still strong enough
to control the price of sugar butter
and gasoline Ivy putting a maximum
price upon them.
A Lawrence man, states the Law
renee Journal World, claims that
Henry Ford mi ssed the opportunity of
his life when he lined up the pacifists.
Mr.. Ford, he says, could enlist the
greatest corps of rough riders the
world has ever known.
If these fellows who live in hall
bedrooms in some cities and write
funny jokes about the primitive
farmer will go out into the country,
suggests the Winfield Courier, perhaps
the aforesaid farmer will give them
a ride in his new six cylinder automo-
bile.
A farmer vert into a grocery store
in Madison, according to the Madison
News, and asked for some sweet po-
tato seed. After diligent search
among the bulk and packet seeds the
clerk had to admit that their supply
was exhausted. And this called to the
mind of a friend of the News another
little STORY along the same line. An
exceedingly smart young man obtained
a job in a grocery and was warned not
to fan for any of the Jokes that might
be sprung on a new clerk One day
la young lady came in and called for
some bird seed. law, go on replied
the clerk. You can't fool me- Birds
is hatehed from eggs, I know
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

From the chicago News.
Flattery isn't necessarily generated
in a flat
The man who foots the bills always
has a kick coming.
Kisses are the real thing only when
backed up by the heart
Even a little miss may make big
hit when she grows up.
Don't borrow trouble; almost any
one will gladly give it to you.
joys of solitude have nothing in
common with a lone dollar bill.
It's easier for trouble to find your
address than it is for good luck.
A woman does her duty because she
wants to-a man because he has to-
There were female matchmakers
thousands of years before matches
were invented.
No man ever has as much sense as
the female he is engaged to thinks he
has
Some real estate dealers waste a lot
of time in trying to make big noun
tains out of molehills.
After a man gets about so full he
can make himself believe that other
men think he is perfectly sober.
If woman's watch stops every time
she looks at it her plight is hopeless
land she is foolish to waste money on
cosmetics.
When young man tells leap year
girl that he dreamed of her the night
| before it is up to her to propose or get
out of the game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
DIsCPLINE Is NEEDED,

It is because the organization of ma
tional life is so eminently important,
because its absence is one of the main
sources of our peril, writes George W.
Alger in the April Atlantic, that we
should be interested primarily in the
development of a national conscious
ness and discipline, which are good for
peace. and which can be forwarded
now by the peril of war if statesmen
OF vision can be found to give the
movement leadership. Any reaction
OF opinion which tends to retard or
.,fFusfrate that development is ma
tfonal peril. The lack of just that
kind OF leadership today is eonspicu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24

world He is known to hold that
there must not be, that there can
not b e tolerated, divided loyalty.
East and West, North and South must
stand together for the honor and pro-
lection of every man and woman of
American birth everywhere. In short,
there must be no lowering of stan
dards to meet expediency, exigency
or any other condition. The United
States must find it's real self once
more, and regain it's reputation and
prestige.
'tAll this resolves itself into a doc
trine, into an issue. if you please, that
we believe Colonel Roosevelt's friends
will think worth striving for. And we
believe also that Mr.. Roosevelt's COM
petitors or rivals will see in it some
thing to initiate"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
"A pREsscEss1oNAL..


Girl of the Future, feared of all,
Chasing the far-f1ung Fashion line,
What awful things may yet appal,
Hung on your human form divinei
Girl of Today, stay with us yet,
Lest we regreti Lest we regret.
The tunie and the peplum dies,
The plating and the flare depart;
Oh, what must we next sacrifice
To future of fearful art?
Girl of Today, stay with us all,
Lest worse befalli Lest worst befalli
The blouse and bodice melt away,
For ever fades the silhouette;
Loi all the mode of yesterday
Is one with puff and pantalette.
Girl of Today, stay with us. do!
Lest worse ensue! Lest worse ensuei
If drunk with mad designs we loose
Wild styles that hold no art in awe
Such clothing the Fijis use,
Or lesser breeds without the law
Girl of Today, stay here with we,
Lest worse may be! Lest worse may be
For foolish maid who puts her trust
In French tailleur or smart modiste,
In valiant men of mien august.
Without diScernment in the least
For frantic fads of Fashions whirl,
Have mercy on us, Future Girl!
Carolyn Wells in Harpers Magazine for
March.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24

that made all life fllumined through
the past months 2"
They had reached the gate. Some
children waited there for Esther, to
beg for some of the Easter flowers for
sick little sister. She promised
them, and they walked down the
street with the blue sea at the far
end
Doesn't the sunlight hurt at all ?"
she asked at last. Il hardly dare to
ask you all want to know"
Nothing hurts" he told her, Tex
eept that you're not the same. l new
er dared to ask you to be my wife,
Esther, when 1 might only have been
q burden"
DON'T" she begged.
but nov may. 1t was you who
taught me hope all through the
months of darkness. Why, I never
even cared to take the big chance of
the operation until you came, dear. 1t
was one in fifty. they told me, for sue
cess And 1 did it more for you than
myself. Do you know what I've been
calling you to myself as 1 lay in the
hospital waiting for them to lift the
bandages? My silver CLEAN in life's
darkness
He lifted her hand half uncon-
sciously and pressed it against his
face, as he had done often in the past,
and the little action stirred her more
than his words.
you know, Roy, I was afraid you
wouldn't need me now she said.
IT need you always" he declared
fervently.-( 1916, by the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
Things Worth knowing.

Old stocking legs make excellent
dust. cloths by, opening at seam and
sewing together until one has the size
desired for dust cloth, and then soak
ing in kerosene, thus making them
dustless. They also make excellent
holders for hot kettles by folding over
to the desired thickness and stitch
ing through a few times. Finish by
using a small piece of stocking for
hanger and sew at corner.
Handsome Bedspread-At a small
cost you can possess a beautiful bed
spread. Purchase a ninety eight
cent bedspread and cut this to just fit
the top of your bed. Across the foot
and two sides crochet a pattern of
lace about sixteen inches deep, out of
carpet warp. Splice corners.
Old sweaters make good floor mops.
Inexpensive Rugs of Mating
First bind cut edges. Make thick
paste of wheat flour, fill mating,
wipe off smooth, let dry several days
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
Globe Sights
81 THN ATCHIsoN GLoBE.

You boost and let Opportunity do
the knocking.
A really frenzied financier is one
who goes broke at it.
1t is probable that when you fall
people will only laugh.
Some mems beaten track keeps
them going round and round.
A smile, some one has said, is like
putting money out ct interest
Honey's specially, if Honey has been
spoiled, is in contradicting her mother.
Too many people ork their brain
as they do their gardens scratch
the surface.
A lot of man go forward after the
manner of Goliath and come back like
a turtle dove.
Every time a mans feelings get hurt
he is inclined to tell how many years
he has lived in the community.
Although men claim not to be vain.
it is noticeable that there are plenty
of mirrors in the barber shops.
A man who can smile and smirk,
while somebody else does the work,
isn't necessarily a man worth while
A conceited man usually starts a
conversation in this manner: Now,
I'm not conceited, but in justice to
myself I must say that"
Most men who claim they work like
a dog probably never stopped to think
that the average dog doesn't do much,
and the men probably are still right
n
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
SSDeda||'lnle IalesH
- )&clarahSranJsdson, - sE,
MARY's FoUR-PosTER.

If there was one thing more than
another that little six-year-old Mary
wanted it was four-poster bed.
"Of course I like my dolls" she
said, when her mother tried to tell of
all the nice things that filled her nur-
sery land I'm happy about my can
airy and my pretty books, and every
thing. But, mother, 1 truly do wish
1 had four-poster bed to sleep in
one that / could climb up little lad
der to get into. like they do in stories
l wish l could be little girl in
story"
BLESS the child" laughed great
grandmother. who was sitting in the
corner of the room. Il doubt if she
has ever seen a four-poster,"
That's just the trouble" exclaimed
Mary eagerly, for she was sure her
grandmother would understand. i've
never seen one, but I've seen lots of
pictures. And 1 know I'd like them.
Oh. dear, but 1 do want to sleep in a
four-posteri"
Mother laughed, and suggested that
Mary run out of doors, and then she
went on about her work and thought
no more about four-posters.
But Mary didn't forget-no. indeed
A few days after that talk Mary's
mother took her downtown to buy a
spring coat and a pair of shoes. Mary
was very happy with her new things.
as you can easily guess, and wanted
to stay down in the pretty shops as
long as possible.
Aren't you tired ?" laughed mother,
as she looked down into Mary's srnil-
ing face.
mot a bit, mother" replied Mary.
| "Mayn't We look at some more
things?''
Yes" said mother; IF you like we
! can go up into the furniture section.
You may look around while 1 do an
Grand"
Mary skipped to the elevator
MAYBE Wen see a four-poster." she
thought, and just then the elevator
came, so she didn't say anything TO
her mother
Up in the big furniture department
Mary wandered around while mother
! tended to her errand. There were not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
On the Spur
of the Moment

BY ROY K. MOULTON.

My Lady's Hat.
A little bunch of bent and battered felt !;
A quarters worth of lace that's hardly
seen:
Two rooster feathers stuck up on the top !;
A bunch of artificial grapes between.
A paper rose or two pinned on the side :;
A silver buckle, value 80 cents;
A velvet ribbon hanging down behind
The whole thing made regardless of ex-
pense."
down:
1t hangs around her head, before and
aft;
Looks dropping like and wilted, from the
rain;
The whole effects enough to drive one
daft.
A man should beat a sewing basket up
Until it looks like nothing on this earth,
And trim it up and make his wife a hat,
For then he'd surely get his money 8
worth. =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
Tortoise-SheI Ordinations.

The Importance of this practice in
the eyes of the Japanese may be in
ferred from the fact that the fields in
which the sacred rice for the corona
ton ceremony was grown, were Sc
lected through Tortoise-shel Divina-
ton. The art is very popular
throughout the Island Kingdom, be-
ing used upon many occasions to as
certain the timelines or possibility OF
various projects.
The divination is effected by first
worshipping a god called Uravano-
kami. Then a tortoise-shen is taken,
and scraped inside until quite thin and
the outside surface polished. In the
shell are several hollow squares in
each of which there is a certain sign
marked in black ink. The whole is
then baked under great heat, causing
cracks to appear in the surface. These
cracks are then studied in accordance
with the formulate in the divination
book, the result being a sort of code
message from the gods
This is not the earliest form of div
ination known in Japan Previously
there was a kind called Futomani in
which the shoulder blade of a stag
was used in place of a tortoise shell.
The tortoise shell method, which
probably came from China, was con-
Sidered an improvement, and was
probably adopted because it was
something new, for at that time the
Japanese were Selling upon all things
foreign.-Japanese Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24

Considering the climatic conditions
that have prevailed since it was plant
ed. the status of the Kansas wheat
crop which the reports gathered by
Secretary Mohler, of the state depart
ment of agriculture. place at the aver
age Of 1916 of a full crop, is a mighty
good showing. This forecasts yield
of 126,0O0.OO0 bushels or 10000, 600
more than the yield of last year. But,
of course, there is many a slip, or
chances for them, between the wheat
prospects at this season of the year
and the harvest Still there is little
doubt bat Kansas will be in the wheat
ring again this year and delivering
the goods with both feet. Kansas, in
deed, has little reason to worry. at
least. about her material welfare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24
QUAKER MEDITATToNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Some men would try to lie out of
anything, even a bed.
The world doesn't always look rosy
to the man who sees red.
A man is indeed lucky who can fall
from grace and strike a. soft thing.
Tell a girl she is a vision of lowell
ness, but never say she is a sight to
behold.
Enough is as good as feast to the
man who knows when he has enough.
wigg-"Those two girls are ter
ribly stuck up" Wagg-"I notice they
never stick for each other"
A girl shouldn't have too many
strings to her bow, but she may have
a string to her beau.
In judging human nature a man
sometimes has to be pretty sharp to
cut out an undesirable acquaintance.
The insane are proverbially cum
ming, which proved that you can't al
ways see through a man jujst because
he is cracked
We never look up to some people
until they are dead, and then we
aren't absolutely certain we are look
ing in the right direction
girl who wears her heart on her sleeve
isn't the one most apt to wear dia-
mond on her finger.
Nell-"Their engagement is broken
off, and he used to say she reigned in
his heart" Belle-'.Maybe he has one
of those rainproof hearts
Madam" whined the weary way
fsrer, ''I am starving. 1 haven't tasted
food in three days" Poor mani
exclaimed the sympathetic housewife.
Just go out in the woodshed. You'll
find it's full of chops"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-24

In the aggregate, the gum chewers
OF this country spend a neat little sum.
The chicle, from which this gum is
lnade. imported in the past ten years
shas cost the United States nearly $685.
100000. And as the little chicle goes
1quite ways in the manufacture of
gum. it is apparent that the gum bill
of the nation is of no small proper
lions still, the money is not spent in
pain. as gnn-chewing has tendency
20 cut down on the volume of rag
rchewing."