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The Washington herald., 1916-01-20

ideals. The people are unnatural and
the stories are impossible"
"ls that right?" and his companion
seemed quite eager to believe it. I'm
ashamed to admit | rather liked NOV
ing pictures, but | guess that is be-
cause | didn't know anything about
them," she continued. "Will you-"
Take this picture, for instance" he
interrupted, pausing to watch the
screen for few minutes. Here we
see this Mary Pickford VIC hear so
much about. Look at herl An affect
ed little girl with a wig of curls, try
ing to make us believe she is a real
hsherman's daughter! She looks the
part about as much as l do a piece
of bric-a-brac"
A Real Curio.
l peeked around to see how much
like he was to bric-a-brac and agreed
with him. He was small and shrivel-
cd, with thin, drawn lips and narrow
little ferret eyes, which never smiled
upon the wonderful. green things in
this world, and | pitied him.
81 hear she makes a lot of money"
he continued. Probably spends it all
III ldsl anu llOtOuS living. onC WON I
last long. She'll probably drink and
smoke herself to death. Those pretty
blond women are always weakminded
and they fade before the summer is
over. You can't tell me anything
about them-I know them all. ! can
read a woman the minute | lay my
eyes upon her. This Mary Pickford
couldn't fool mc-just look at that
picture now. Shows her face with the
tears rolling down it-just as If she
could cry! It's all false, / tell YOU
they put tears in with an cyc-drop-
per-anything to fool the public"
you don't say So" and his CONF
panion was audibly disappointed.
Then her infection arose. Look at
that sweet little baby she is holding
Oh-hw
Sweet little baby nothingw he
sneered. "It's just mechanical toy.
What did | tell you about these pic
turcs-cvcrything is false and faxed
acting. people, wigs, gestures, and
houses"
He was quite brcathless when he
finished and SO was |. II had never
met his type before, l would have
been almost antagonized. But we
meet them everywhere and we call
them moving picture pests.
/ ask my friends to be little kind
er to all of us screen stars, for we
need YOUR sympathy and your under
standing.
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HOROSCOPE.
The stars incline, but do not compel
Thursday, January 20, 1915.

The stars incline, but do not compel"
Thursday, January 20, 1915.
This is a changefuI day, for early in
the morning Jupiter Is friendly and late
at night the Sun is in benefic aspect
while In the hours between other stars
are adverse.
Success is probable for those who seek
work or ask favors from persons in high
place, II they wait until after sundown.
They may be unlucky earlier in the day.
The morning is a favorable time for
merchants. exporters and all who make
money in trade.
Lawyers should benefit greatly in the
next few weeks. The stars indicate
great increase of litigation. A legal case
Of worldwide Importance will make
fame for more than one man.
The evening should be a most fortu-
nate time for banquets in honor of dis
tinguished guests. Political and COM
mercial gain will be easily attained over
the dining table.
Women, especially those in high place,
are forewarned that the sway of the
stars may make them lacking in tact
and inclined to speak unwisely. There is
prophecy that a woman's tongue will
close many mouths" which is interpret
ed to mean a scandal that makes men
afraid.
lnCTedSe IN the NUMBER OF the unem-
ployed is indicated for the next month
and labor troubles may reach a critical
point in the West.
Political activities begun this month
are subject to sway of the stars which
is believed to indicate extreme campaign
methods and bitter personal feeling.
Throat troubles may be prevalent while
this configuration prevails and diseases
of children are likely to multiply
Next month may be a time when bank
ers and financiers have unexpected anxi-
eties from foreign credits
During the next two months dissen-
sons of every sort may be extraordlnar-
lily prevalent. There is a sign denoting
friction in families, church organizations
and political parties.
1t is fortold that the East and the West
may disagree owing to questions of ma
tionai import, especially regarding tax
alton for naval or military expenses.
Congress will be the center of extraor-
dinary debates ending in party tangles,
one of which will be of great sjgnifi-
canoe to a distinguished statesman.
Persons whose birthdate it is have the
augury of year Of possible anxiety con-
corning business. Those who are en-
ployed should be careful. ....
Children born on this day may have
many ups and downs, the downs being
exceedingly discouraging, but they
should attain success in the end
Copyright, 1861
The Washington herald., 1916-01-20
NOW IT'S COURTESY FIRST

There is greater value in the in
junction Courtesy First" than there
IS in Safety First"
Such at least is the implication Of
a recent code of instruction issued by
the National Automobile Chamber Of
Commerce, for instead of the usual
refrain of safety first" this code
uses the watchword: "Be courteous"
AS matter of fact the idea Of cour-
tesy as a guide for conduct of pedes-
trians and drivers is rather older
than that of Safety first" OF late
years, it seems, that this good, old
fashioned idea of the value of polite
ness, at least so far as traffic was
concerned, had been regarded as
somewhat out of date. But like lot
of old things that we grow tired of
for while and then take back in ia
vor-like the grandfsther's clock that
had remained slowed away in the at
tic for century and is then brought
down to grace the drawing-room-
courtesy has returned to its own.
The best thing about courtesy as
watchword for traffic is that the man
or woman who is thoroughly cour-
teous needs no special set of rules or
regulations. The street car conduc-
tor who is courteous does not refrain
from ringing the starting bell till the
feeble old woman has alighted be-
cause there is sentence in his code
of instruction that prevents him from
so doing, but because he feels that
this would be discourteous. The
chauffeur does not refrain from run
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FAMOUS WOMAN, HER
BIRTHDAY AND YOURS
January 20-Anne Jemima Clough,
Susanna Wesley.
By MARY MARSHALL

Susanna Wesley. mother of John
WESLEY, founder Of MethOdlsm, who
taught her famous son and really laid
the foundation for his mental and spirit
ual growth. and Anne Jemima CleuGh.
sister of the poet Arthur and founder
Of Newnham College, Cambridge, were
born on January ..
Anne CIough was born in Liverpool
In iSaD and when she was two years old
her father brought her to Charleston,
South Carolina, where they remained un-
I'll Anne was sixteen. She then went
back to Liverpool, where she lived for
the next sixteen years.
Miss CIoUEh was well educated, and it
was her ambition to be a writer. But
she turned to teaching as a means of
livelihood, and in various schools, one
founded by her father. one of her own
establishment, she taught for many years
Sta. always found time to study and
imBFo-ed every opportunity Of broaden
ing her education. Her brother, the
famous poet. had the greatest respects
for her sttainments; not only her in
teIlectual lttamments, but her ability to
keep house and earn money to help with
household expenses while at the same
time she taught and studied.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward was one Of Miss
CIOT-h's pupils, by the way. From them
sH she gained experience of the greatest
value in her later life. In 1862, when
she was a little past forty, she gave
up teaching for. the time. to help her
brothers widow care for her children.
In the meantime. she kept up her in
tersst in all subjects touching on educa-
ton and was one OF the active workers
in establishing a council for the propoga-
ton of higher education among women.
1t is difficult to remember that only
fifty years ago many opportunities for
the education of women were unknown
that today are taken as a matter of
course. 1t is partly due to Miss Clough.
Of course, that they are a matter OF
course today. There was no woman's
college at Cambridge at the time and II
was a difficult matter, indeed, for
woman to gain a college education. She
was put in charge of a residence where
young women were to stay to take
course Of lectures that would fit them to
pass certain higher examinations, and IL
vas out of this that she established
Newman college.
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The Washington herald., 1916-01-20
AS SEEN BY A WASHINGTON WOMAN

ming you down in the street because
he is aware that such an act would
land him behind the cold, uncompro-
missing iron bars, but because such an
act would be in violation of his ideas
of courtesy.
And courtesy works both ways.
There is just as much necessity for it
among pedestrians as there is among
those who drive automobiles and
horses. 1t is just as much an act of
discourtesy, or lack of consideration,
if you will, for the pedestrian to dart
out in the middle of the block to the
annoyance of the street traffic as it is
for the chauffeur to disregard the
rights of pedestrians on safety zones.
The essence of courtesy applied to
traffic, as to all things else, is moth
ing more nor less than the Golden
Rule, and in nearly two. thousand
years this old world of ours has found
no better guide than that.
We heard the statement made the
other day that in the development of
the woman's dressing gown might be
found textbook of American his
tory. OF course, this was something
of an exaggeration, but it surely is
true that at any given period of his
tory the negligee in style does show
a good deal about the social and in
tellectual conditions of that period.
Our colonial foremothers would prob
ably have held up their hands in
something like holy horror at the idea
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of going in negligee attire at all. Even
in the South there was decided puri-
tanism in the air that would have
found sin lurking in such luxury and
Incidence as the negligee gown of to-
day indicates.
The first informal house frock for
women, we are told, was the Mother
Hubbard. 1t. is not hard for many of
us to remember when the informal
gowns that women wore in the morn
ing were closely lined affairs, high at
the neck and long at the sleeves. That
was in the days when the old-fash-
ioned "tea gown" was in vogue. Then
only a few years ago, relatively
speaking, came the vogue for the XII
mono, which, we are told, was intro
duced through the influence of the
popularity of the opera Madam But
terfly." There have been many ten
denotes and many changes since the
kimono first came into vogue, but al
most in every negligec we see the ef-
feet of the kimono sleeves and the
loose straight lines of the kimono
skirt.
Now, we are told, an entirely new
influence is going to be felt in the mat
ter of women's negligee gowns, and
this influence is going to come from
ancient Greece. Again the opera is
to be the mode of introduction, and in
this case it is to be the famous Bakst
settings and costumes that will be the
keynote of the new boudoir gowns.
MARY MARSHALL.
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NEw-oRK>pA1-B1-DAn: t
O.O.Ms::

Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald.
New York, Jan. 19.-Rev. DR.. Charles H
Parkhurst is in the limelight again as
the result of his connection with a candy
concern that is involved liz some Iitiga-
ton where it is alleged that the stock
holders held the bag. DR., Parkhurst
seems to be able to hold his own against
all comers and somehow he usually comes
out with flying colors.
He is a fighter of the old school when
his reputation Is attacked and he hits
straight from the shoulder. Probably no
minister in New York has the follow
ing that he has. 1t Is said that MIR.
Hearst pays him a salary in the five
figures for writing two or three sign
ed editorials each week.
DR.. Parkhurst lives at the Ansonia
Hotel in the winter and in the sum-
mer he goes to his cottage at Lake
Placid. When the recent story broke
group of reporters hot-footed to his
hotel He met them, talked to them
awhile and when they left one said:
You might say 1t was case of in
reviewers being interviewed. He got
more out of us than we did out of
him. He asked me so many questions
was afraid he was going to uncover
my past life"
Nat Goodwin has deserted boxing
for wrestling. He is in nightly at
tendance at the wrestling tournament
at the Manhattan Theater Nat is quite
curious to know the identity of the
Masked Marvel" He has been called
everything from Harry Thaw to
Charlie Ross and thus far has eluded
discovery.
1t may be a cheap press agent stunt
Maybe it is, but the fact remains that
the Masked Marvel is the best wrest-
Ter in the United States. Some have
said it was Francis X. Bushman, the
cinema Apollo. and the other night
about a. m. some one called up Bush
man in his apartment.
Take 'em off Bush, we know you"
said the voice and then rang of. 1t is
apparent that Bushman is not adj
verse to having the public believe 1t
is none other than he-but the real
dope seems to point to Mort Hender-
son.
The New York thester box office
The Washington herald., 1916-01-20
HOUSEWIVES DAILY
ECONOMY CALENDAR
BY FRANCES MARSHALL.
Cheap Beef Dishes.

Meat is always high priced, nowadays.
1t isn't like eggs. which are bad enough.
For We can pack eggs away in water
glass when they are lowest, to use when
they are high in price again. But beef
stays high throughout the year, and the
only thing to do is to learn to cook it
economically by using the less expensive
cuts and cooking them well.
Here are some suggestive recipes:
Steak DumplinRs.
Divide into rounds for as many dump
lIngs as required. Have ready some
stewed round steak almost cooked, and
seasoned with pepper and salt Put a
portion of the meat on each round of
paste, keeping the bulk Of the gravy
to serve with the dumplings. Form the
paste and meat into balls, place on a
creased tin, and bake for half an hour.
Serve with mashed potatoes
Pot Roast of Beef.
Wipe two pounds Of brlsket with damp
cheesecloth. Put a small piece of suet
in an iron pot; add the meat and scar
a nice brown; keep turning constantly.
After the beef Is brown add two table
spoons cut onion, one tablespoon salt,
one-eighth teaspoon white pepper, two
cups boiling water; reduce the heat and
boil slowly two and half hours; then
add twelve medium-sized white potatoes,
which have been washed and pared. Be
sure you keep enough water in the pot,
as 1t boils away; add one cup at time,
After adding the potatoes boil until
tender. Remove meat to platter, put the
potatoes around the edge. Mix one table
spoon flour with little cold water, add
to the gravy; II not brown enough, add
one tablespoon caramel: pour over the
meat and potatoes; sprinkle with finely
chopped parsley.
Spanish Roast.
Scar medium-sized round steak in a
tablespoonful of butter. Roll In flour
and put in a roaster and cover with
thick slices of potatoes, three or four
large onions. sliced. and three green
sweet peppers, cut in slices Sprinkle
all with flour and dot with pieces of
butter. Add a pint of water and bake
one hour in a covered roaster. Thicken
the gravy and serve it with the roast
Beers Heart with Dressing.
Wash beers heart well and salt and
pepper the inside, according to taste
Take three medium-slzed boiled potatoes
and three onions and chop fine and mash
together with a little salt, pepper and
butter. Press all you can into the heart
and place rest on top. Put into roa ster
with a little water and beef drippings
and roast one and one-haK hours Reg
ular bread dressing may be made II pre-
ferfed.
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TopAY's BEAUTY TALK

You can make a delightful sham-
poo with very little effort and for a
very trifling cost If you get from your
druggist a package of canthrox and
dissolve a teaspoonful in cup of hot
water. Your shampoo is now ready.
just pour a little at time on the
scalp and rub briskiy. This creates an
abundance of thick. white lather that
thoroughly dissolves and removes all
dandruff, excess oil and dirt. After
rinsing. the hair dries quickly, with a
fluffiness that makes it seem heavier
than ii is. and takes on a rich luster
and soitness that make arranging it a
pleasure
The Washington herald., 1916-01-20
TOMORROW'S MENU.

And saImon-perhaps salmon Is
next to the Observation-Disclosures
BREAKFAST.
slicrd Banana,
Cereal and Cream
Codhsh Balls
LUNCHEON OR SUPPER.
Fish Flakes and Bacon
Green PsVpeT salad
DINNER.
Cream Pea Soup
Boiled Salmon
Creamed Potatoes
CaulifOwer
Spinach Salad
Charlotte Russe
Goldfish balls-Mix thoroughly a cup
full of cooked Goldfish with two well
beaten eggs. a cupful of mashed po-
tatoes and half a cupful of bread
crumbs. Form into small balls, dip in
beaten egg and crumbs, and fry in
deep fat
Fish flakes with bacon-To one can
of fish fakes add two cupfuls of mash
ed potatoes and a well beaten egg
Season with salt and pepper. Drop in
spoonfuls into deep fat and serve with
slice of crisp broiled bacon on top
of each.
Spinach salad-Chop two oupfuls o.
cold boiled spinach and mix with
French dressing. Let II stand for two
hours. and then press into small cups
Turn out on white lettuce leaves and
servo with French dressing. r
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14 %sxfe&

men are notoriously the surliest and
crabbiest of statesmen who are sup
posed to meet the public. They are
overbearing-somet positively in
sulting to not only men but women.
A gentleman from the country
walked into a Broadway lobby the
other afternoon. He knew nothing
about the attraction and in his simple
minded manner said: ANY wild anil
mails in this opera?'
do you want to see wild animals -
snapped the ticket man.
"Well-er-yes-tha is"
The treasurer called to the door
man: "Oh Mike. run inside and tell
them to use the wild animals today.
This hick wants to see them"
The manager of the theater hap
pened to be standing in the offing. He
rushed up. grabbed the ticketselIer by
the necktie, pulled his head out the
window and gave the face a resound-
ing smack. Then he fired him.
He turned to the countryman, per-
sonally escorted him to a private box
and sat with him throughout the en-
tire performance. He had been a
"hick" himself.
Anna Pavlowa is dancing again in
New York. There seems to be re-
vival coming of the Russian dancers
who were on the top wave of popular
ity a few years ago when Mordkin,
Genee. Maud Allen. Louis II. Chalif.
and 1sador Duncan were being greeted
by cheers nightly.
The fact that they got out of the
limelight temporarily was due to their
refusal to sanction the fox-trottine
craze. They felt that 1t would die ou,
in a few years and the real artistic
daucing would reign supreme. They
seem to have been correct in their
surmise.
There may be cold comfort in the
fact that at Broadway vaudeville
house this week Alice Els is represent
ing the spirit of the North Pole.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-20

Every artist appreciates criticism,
for the critics are mirrors of the pub
lie and through them we see our
selves as others see us. Just criticism
is part of our schooling, but we can
not help but be discouraged when we
are tortured upon the rack unjustly
and without mercy.
1t is the story of the one bad apple
in the box-a bruise destroys the har-
vest.
One evening, | went to the theater
where dear little girl friend of mine
was starring. Although he was not
aware of it, | heard wcll-known
critic remark, always did hate a
woman's hair worn in that fashion
no doubt she affects it." Unfortu-
nately for this star, she had struck
a false note with him. and he watched
her with hypercritieal eye. He was
prejudiced, and as we cannot go be-
yond ourselves when we judge others.
the next mornings paper held no
kindly account of her acting; she was
"posey," had bad mannerisms and no
individuality, according to this critic.
You can imagine Mrs. Jones read
ing this aloud TO her family at the
breakfast table, saying, as she lays
the paper aside: well, that's one
actress | won't go to see. Mr.. So
and-So's criticism of her isn't favor
able one"
The Venom Spreads.
That afternoon Mrs. Jones meets
Mrs. Smith and is told that Mrs.
Smith is contemplating buying matt
nee tickets to hear my little actress
friend. "Oh, she's perfectly dread
full" quotes Mrs. Jones; "manncrismS
and all that sort of thing. You
wouldn't like her a bit"
And so the stone is started rolling
down a steep hill, picking up speed as
it bounds from one to the other, strik-
ing and destroying pitilesSly.,
There are some people who take it
upon themselves to find flaws in
everything. They are the present-day
bugbears, and we poor professionals
are the victims, especially the screen
stars. | often think it is because they
see us at such close range that we
have been chosen the target for their
most flagrant criticisms. They do not
consider, as they sit in the comfort
able theater, the hardships we must
endure, really for their pleasure. If
they thought of the weeks we work
in uncertain weather, of the priva-
tions we endure and the dangers we
face, they might be more charitable
after all, is it not all for them?
The other evening, "Tess of the
Storm Country" was billed for the
theater near our apartment, and the
manager, who is friend of ours,
urged his invitation to mother and
me to take in one of the perform
anccs. We skipped in unobservcd, and
had the misfortune to sit in front of
Mr.. Know-It-All and Miss Eager-to-
Know-It-All, who kept up disquiet-
ing chatter from the first reel to the
fifth.
Mr.. Know-It-All began his dis
course by saying: Moving pictures
are a public nuisance and should be
done away with. They are not edu-
cational because they teach you false
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Austrian Aeros Attack Ancona,

Rome, Jan. 1s.-Seven Austrian aero
planes flew over Ancona yesterday. drop
lhs oomos. NO great property damage
was caused. but one man wa, killed and
several injured.
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You can't let your advertising mes
sage stand unchanged day after day
and expect results any more than you
can wear the same collar every day
and expect to look like q gentleman
Dan $ayles.
The Washington herald., 1916-01-20

The Secretary OF the Smithsonian In
stitution and Mrs. Charles ID. walcott
have gone to New York City for a few
days.
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Mrs George T.. Mclean, wife Of Seua-
tor Mclean will be at home this after
noon from ; to at he residence, lS2O
New Hampshire avenue.
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Sadie G., T, -: Yes, Mary
Maurice, known as the mother of the
movies" was we'll known as an ac-
tress before she entered the moving
picture field. | do not know Of any
photoplay in which she has acted
anything other than mother part.
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former Secretary of the Navy was
hostess at a small dinner party at the
Shoreham Hotel oil the same evening.
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Answers to Correspondents.

the play Nine. Butterfly commits hiri-
kiri, but as the photoplay was taken
from the book by John Luther Long
and not from the play, Nine. Butter
fly browns herself, as she does in the
original story.
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Advertising informs folks that you
are on the highway of success and
DING STRONG-Dan sayles.