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SELF-CONTEMPT and
SUICIDE,
Copyright. 1851
By DIR. FRANK CRANE.

some time ago the newspapers told a
story Of striking tragedy 1t occurred
In a western city.
A man and woman had bean mos,
ried with the usual festivities had f,r-
nished a home. and had lived toeetb.r
LOT TOUR days. The third day he
seemed depressed and remained .,,n.
IN his room. The fourth day he sbot
| "ihiseii IN the brain. His young wife
was almost deranged by the horror or
the calamity.
He left a note. In it he said: 81
cannot stand this turmoil within nv
sell any more. The fault is and has
been all my own. 7 have tried hard
ana earnestly to make a success of life
but everything points toward a failure
SO here goes. I'm the only one in
Diane. God has simply damned my
soul. All / deserve is hate and derision
from my love and friends Nv MOST
important wish is that this discoptip-
ues my existence here and hereafter
and that my torture ceases, not from
"ithout. but from within. My body de-
serves no more respect than to be
, placed on burning brush heap"
Ii is not hard to diagnose this case
1t is a frenzy of self-contempt. II ia
self-conuemnation and self-pity rising
to the point of mania.
II is not pleasant reading but il NAV
be profitable perhaps, if we realize that
the state of mind which drove this
man man 10 , rum his own life and bring
such poignant sorrow to those who
loved him is bad in any small degree.
And in small degree we are most Of
us guilty of it.
PI- r,,t,t
nature we make of self -dispraise
luxury.
We enjoy slandering our moral char
acter. crlticising our ability and adver-
using our weakness very much as We
take strange pleasure in working at
sore tooth.
How often we hear such exclama
tons as. Il am so wicked" 81 never do
the right thing" why was ever
stupid as I?''
We get a certain satisfaction from
seems to help us slip out of our re-
sponsibilities.
If you, have this abominable habit
example of this unfortunate victim is
fresh before you.
For it is despicable cowardice 1t Is
a wretched whimper in the face of mis-
fortunes that other people bear man.
fully.
1t is irritating to your acquaintance
and distressing to your friends.
And it is a way that grows on one.
1t rapidly becomes a diseased obses-
sion.
When it is full grown it prepares
you for any act of disgraceful weak.
ness.
It's the com1non lingo among degen-
crates and criminals The whole UNI
derworld is mired in this sort of dis
gushing self-pity.
It is the road to self-destruction.
There never was suicide that did not
get himself ready for his wicked end
by groveling in self-cursings.
Humility is the greatest of virtues
But humility gone wrong, soured.
spoiled and malodorous, is the most
contemplate of frailties.
Quit condemning yourself.
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| interesting details about the nature
and methods and habits of the disease
carrying mosquito. The bulk of the
history, however, has to do with the
practical work on the propagating
areas pre-empted by the mosquito and
with the other methods employed in
its destruction. Upon this basis of
general Information the writer's give
in special detail the work done in
Panama. work incidental to the build
ing of the canal. work upon whose ef
f1ciency the carrying out Of the canal
scheme in no slight degree depended.
Mr.. LIE Prince vas the chief sanitary in
spector of the isthmian canal commits
sion from 1904 to 1914. Mr.. Orenstein
was his assistant. This history is
therefore, a f1rSt-hand production. By
it's attention to detail, by its large use
of photographs and charts. it forms, in
addition to it's own special and per-
sona1 usefulness, an admirable supple
ment to the luminous exposition Of this
subject by Gen. Gorgas himself some
thing like year ago.
MADAME DE sTAEL AND THE
SPREAD OF GERMAN Literal
TURE. By Emma Gertrude Jaeck
Phi. D. New York: Oxford Univer-
sity Press.
DR.. Jaeckss Madame de Staer' forms
one in the series of monographs on
German literature and culture edited
by DR.. Goebel of the University of 1lli-
nois The monograph is very scholar
ly and conscientious analysis of the in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27

1.-THE attendance at the corcoran
Gallery of Art last week was I'M
usually large, owing no doubt to
the added attraction of the Society of
Washington Artists annual exhibition.
Last Sunday afternoon this exhibition
was visited by over fifteen hundred per-
sons. and Tuesday, also holiday, the
attendance was over one thousand.
BY the middle of the week two pictures
had found purchasers landscape by
De Lancey Gill and a picture of the Po-
tomac marshes by W. Triplett Davis.
This at least was a good beginning.
The little catalogue of the exhibition
is a model of its kind. The pictures are
numbered consecutively and not. as so
often is the case. alphabetically or arbi-
trarily before hanging. Thus the visitor
is enabled. with the little catalogue in
hand, to view the exhibition from first to
last, ascertaining the titles of the pic
lures and the names Of the painters with
out waste of time turning the pages to
and fro seeking a desired number.
Furthermore, the prices are given
clearly and frankly and would-be pur-
coveted picture is within reach without
consulting those in charge and arous-
ing hopes which are but too often vain.
The highest-priced picture in this ex-
hibition is listed at s1.25o: the lowest
at s12: the majority. however. range
between $50 and $500. and are moder-
ate. indeed, as such things go. In New
York last week $4,000 was paid at
public auction for painting by Albert
Blakelock for which, at the time it was
painted, the artist could not get $500.
The foremost American painters, whose
regulations are established, secure to-
day from two to ten thousand dollars
for their paintings. The wise buyer
and the real patron Of art is he who
recognizes a good picture when he sees
1t, regardless of the signature 1t bears.
and purchases while the artist is young
and his reputation still in the making.
This is the best kind of encouragement
for the young painter and often brings
real reward to the patron. In this way
William T. Evans of New York has
done much to advance American art,
found and given much pleasure. 1t is
pleasant to be discoverss in any
field.
Another practice that the frank pub
LEGATION of prices helps to discourage
is that of offering less for a painting
than II is supposed to sell fora sys-
tenn of haggling and bargaining for
works of art which is most unfortu-
nate. 1t has become almost universally
customary now in the best shops to
have all goods that are for sale mark
ed in plain figures and to permit no
reduction upon these markings. If
this same custom could be established
in the picture mart 1t would be well.
@4 hot ort-
lists talent and his years of training
are invested capital. and that it Is
these which constitute value in a work
of art. William NJ. Chase painted the
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Russian Caviare Industry.

| THE largest sturgeon fisheries in
the world are those on the lower
part of the Ural river in Russia. There
are such fisheries on the Don and
| Volga. but by far the greater celeb
ance. is attained by those of the Ural.
They increase greatly the wealth of
the Cossacks of the district. for the
fisheries belong to them exclusively.
The Ural sturgeon is cartila ginous
of the fish. is from five to six feet. but
sometimes a huso or bielaga OF the
| same family is captured that measures
more than twenty feet: The method
are used. but the hooks on the sturgeon
line have no barbs. The Cossacks
stretch across the river or from the
shore outward long line floated with
Is fastened to the shore and the other
to boat anchored in the stream From
this line depend shorter lines, often
more than thousand in number. car
rying each at its extremity an I'M
barbed hook. The hook is about four
inches long and hangs in the water
about seven feet from the surface No
bait is used.
The sturgeon seeks spawning
ground in the fresh water. and at
the approach of the proper season they
swim up the river mouth. away from
the salt and brackish water, toward
the ground they have selected for
breeding purposes. 1t is in this journey
that the lines are set for them, and
as the fish blindly make their way up
the river they strike against the hook
ed line and are 'gaffed." first. perhaps
by a single hook: Upon being struck.
they splash their powerful tails in
their pain and anger SO fiercely and
wildly that other hooks are embedded
In the infuriated fish, until, hopeless
ly hooked, the sturgeon Is firmly held
until the line Is drawn in 1t often
happens that nearly every one of the
thousand hooks is found embedded in
some part of a fish.
In every commune the fishing is car
ried on upon co-orepative basis The
fish caught are divided equally among
the Cossacks of the districts Some-
times the division of the spoils at
fects the direct welfare of forty or
nifty communes.
When the season opens the great gun
OF the town of Uralsk Is DISCHARGED as
signal for the beginning Of the fish
Ing. No one dares to fish for sturgeon
before this signal is given. Word is
then passed from commune to COM
mune: communal guns are DISCHARGED
IN all the villages, and all the male
Cossacks repair to the river. The fish.
cry Is continued about three weeks.
Another gun announces its termination
and after this sturgeon catching is an
offense that is punished severely.
The most valuable products of the
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work of the bureau affects more than a
million miners with all the souls depend
ent on them. The deaths for 1915 were
decreased by 46S from the 1914 mark
First aid courses were taken by more
than 10000 miners, all of whom are
now qualified to act as members of any
hospital corps-another preparedness
asset
The Department of Labor, besides the
exhibit of the chldren's bureau, was
represented by models of various safe
ty appliances used in the Industries
the iron and steel trades. and the man
ufacture of heavy machinery for the
most part. 1t also showed the good
effect of safety appliances. in other
fields. such as among the cotton oper-
atives.
The bureau of lighthouses gave an
idea of it's immense and complex sys-
TEN of buoys. bells. lightships and
lighthouses. The reclamation service
showed how the reclamation of swamp
areas results in the eradication of
many diseases. The children of fam
lilies moved on to the reclaimed land
from congested centers of population
grow up strong and healthy instead OF
Stunted and weak.
At times the reclamation service en-
ploys as many as $4,000 men. 1t ap-
plies the safety principles to its own
employees first, and as result has kept
the deaf rate down to a minimum. At
Wilmington. ~ D.. the service has
been running a coal mine for five
years, to furnish fuel for pumping
station. There has never been a life
lost in that mine.
Under an autocracy the welfare of
the people is a direct responsibility on
the ruling class. In a democracy the
function Of government is limited to
showing the people how they can best
work out their own salvation. In the
great safety campaign Uncle Sam is
doing his share. 1t is only for the
people of the country to do theirs. and
we will establish new record In
avoiding needless loss of life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The rolling stone never makes an up
hill fight.
The matrimonial tie often turns out
to be moose.
Preaching and practice are twins that
are very soon separated.
If you want to know the truth about
a man, ask his wifes mother.
The leap year girl who has a young
widow for a rival has poor show.
The spinster who celebrates her
birthday anniversaries usually does SO
in silence.
It's impossible for man to say any
thing complimentary to . woman that
will surprise her.
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depreciation is intensified. Her best
portrait. perhaps. is one of herself
| which displays fine nervous handling
in spite of its manifest strength rms
is admirably descriptice. But why
eliminate light? And, after all, is the
nervous stress of the present day
pleasant thing when it gets into pic
ture?
The water colors are for the most
part landscapes and are done some
what in the same manner, at high ten
sion, with brilliant skill and no regard
for the gradations of light and shade
They are impressive and attractive
they catch ones eye. give the gist OF
the thing at a single fling and then
are done for, like the scare lines IN
newspapers of the yellow sort whlcn
make ordinary type pale ana unlnteI-
esting in comparison. Both are prod
ucts of extreme modernism: The ques-
ton is: Will they survive!
Miss Goldthwaites etchings are less
this field elimination is the essence OF
art Her dancers are all life and mo-
ton. Her line is sensitive, yet sum-
GENTLY firm.
slipped bare, as it were, severed from
the past, trying to create a new future.
AS Royal Cortissoz said after viewing
a similar collection: I'VE must rehect
little wistfully on what siisnt IN
fusion of academic ideas might do to
strengthen the powers of this indu.
bitabiy serious and effective painter
q SIMULTANEOUSLY at the Handicraft
- School there is set forth collection
of paintings and drawings of dancers by
Ellen Graham Anderson and Anne Mer-
riman Pecke Fite. There are small, lively
and in the spirit of the new art which has
made of dancing something more than a
pastime Some of Mrs. Fite's drawings
are rhythmical and graceful. Poses Of the
human body when literally flung into
space are skillfully rendered-there is a
sense of motion and balance. They are
not great they are not really beautiful.
but they are interesting and essentially
Of the day.
Mrs. Fite is pupil of Robert Henris.
Miss Anderson studied in Paris at the
Academic Moderne.
1T is reported in the New York papers
that a portrait of Lincoln by George
H. Story of that city has been purchased
from a we'll known dealer and is to be
given to the National Gallery of Art. The
nameless donor has not. however, as yet
officially made known his intentions nor
offered the gift. Mr.. Story made sketches
for this portrait in the White House very
| shortly before Lncolns death. These
sketches were laid aside for years. and
only recently. from them and through the
aid Of vivid memory, was the portrait
painted. Mr.. Story has long held distnc-
ton as a painter of portraits. SO that 1t
would seem reasonable to believe that
such portrait as this of Lincoln would
prove very acceptable and appropriate
gift to the National Gallery.
x
EARoLD MACDONALD has recently
cellent portrait studies in pencil During
the past week he made in this medium a
most excellent likeness Of Miss Mulhofer
of this city. LEILA MECHLiN.
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ireal artistic feeling, that it charms
simply as a work of art.
X X
| LEW have come into their own, as 1t
were, with such swiftness as Miss
Felicie Waldo Howell, who is repre-
scented in this exhibition by two very
diverse paintings. a still life Wild
Azalias" - and portrait study of an
ago that Miss Howell was a pupil at
the Corcoran School: indeed. she is
still studying. though now in Phila-
delphia, yet during the past year she
has been represented in several of the
| leading exhibitions and her works have
not only been admitted but well hung
and most favorably received in more
marked of all the exhibits. Up to this
time her style has been rather radical
| ly individual and her success has been
interpretations of town scenes done in
| a manner quite her own. a manner
very engaging. The pictures in the
exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery now
go step further and show a sure ad-
| vance, even over the cleverness of her
past work. These are strong and
simple and in a measure mastery. and
| they are done as by one who has not
yet reached full growth. This is we'll
for it is SO easy and dangerous to
be content with success and to fall
|
oneself.
A N exhibition of paintings in oil and
3A water color and etchings by Anne
Goldthwaite, now in progress at the
Arts and Crafts Shop on 18th street. will
give those who are curious to see and
| measure for themselves the interest
and value of modernist's art excep-
tional opportunity; Miss Goldthwaite
| is very talented: she is in her way of
| working Intellectual. but she is fol-
lower of Cezanne and an exponent of
| the school which has little in common
with tradition. Her portraits in oils, of
| which four or five are shown are
unique and interesting. To the every
day observer they suggest the begin
| nings of great painters woodwork
| in the first stages. They are bold and
strong and impressive, but when so
! much is attained, it is then time to
| stop? Are we really ready to cast
| away the amenities of beauty, the re-
| ffnement of line. the creation of beau
tiful surface. which once and always
were and are dear?
Some one has said that Miss Gold
! thwaite's paintings represent the mini
! mum of means for maximum of re-
| Suits" and SO it would seem-but are
the results entirely satisfactory. and is
| the economy in effort really worth
| while? If one must choose between
character without f1nish-a rough
| hewed thing and a polished lfeless
| inanity-no doubt the choice would or
| should fall to the former. but why
! pause at the outset unless strength is
lacking to make the whole journey?
| Commenting upon these same paintings
short time ago. a New York critic
said: Especially in her portraits does
| Miss Goldthwaite identify herself with
| the school which scorns light. Her
| faces are modelled in tints instead of
| in light and shade. The effect is strong
| and startling. Instead of gradations of
tone. there are arbitrary gradations of
color. The tendency to character in
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Government and Politics.

Government and Politics.
Barnett, J. d. The Operation of the Initiative.
Referendum and Recall in Oregon. JL-R2s1o.
,, Bryce I.mer Promoting Good Citizenship.
District Of oeiumbi. Joint citis.n.' Committee.
the 9s ns h. If
st nsss as New York History Of tn.
Hichbcrn. Franklin. The system,'' a. unee--
eE.d ,, by 1 the San Francisco Graft Persecution.
Hiil; Mabel; and DAYS.. Philip. civies for New
In Service. JussTI2se.
International Politics.
Rarker J z. Modern Germany. Revised en-
Conduct and Legal Results. -Rs.sw
,,I nslaisi. Francis The Inevitable War. Juss-
Guilland. Antoine. Modern Germany and Her
Historians. JU47- Gs45m.
HSbso IN ast a Towards International Govern
Mcdonald J. A. Democracy and the Nations.
Nexbisin. NJ. I. Geographical Aspect. o, Bal
kan Problems; Juss -N4s4s. @~'' VI '''-
SHIRLEY Ls The Vital Issues in the War Of
xessIit.tIi. Gabriel Russi. and Democracy.
Commercial Law.
lee. z. T. Standard Legal Forms. 1918. Kr-
1s sRens sa,, Kns,,s Manual of Commercial
Women.
seand dd0ay M A s%9'm in Germany and
kM Mrrr,mmnn. A. L. The Woman Movement.
,s Menr %wx 4 s Making Business Woman.
ohNAr Nr~ r
Tarbeli G'1 I. M. The Way. of Women XIV.
Evolution.
Ga Gates; ; r; R. The Mutation Factor in Evolu-
Evolution. 1918. Mv-H4i7f. '"''p'e' OF
Hygiene.
nI Rirse. W. Sc My Lady's Handbook On.
Hair and Nails oX.rs4ss sn'e .n' 'afe or me
Our n. Hand. d oH .pd Buck. M NJ. The Work Of
Moor, Moore. H. H. Keeping in Condition. Oh
Wiley Wiley. H. W. Not by Bread Alone. Oh.
Care of Children.
Ashby. H. T. Infant Mortality. opR. A.a,I
Comstock Sarah; Motherraft QPRt'7s7m.
inr Ghi,5 Lonis The Heath-care of the Grow
Horspool. Florence. Mothercraft OPP H7s,m
keriey; c. g. What Every Mother Shou,i
nnow Aoout Her Infants and Young Children
os Smith, R. N. The Baby's First Two Years,
Games and Sports.
NJ Brokaw, Irving. The Art Of Skating W.
cen u Root M TNGa,a E. The Complete Hallo~-
r,I Heilister. H. e. ParIpr Games 1913. w.
tHough. Emerson. Out Of Doors. vD-Hs13o
Hngnes. r. p. and J. W, comps Young Pe.-
pies Entertainments. 1912 VN-Hs76v
WiIding. A. F. On the Court and On 1919
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vention of suicide. return of lost chill
dren to their parents. emergency pilot
ing, fre-fighting and the arrest OF
thieves and 1awbreakers.
In the way Of recent history the
coast guard records showed that on $50
days In the last year one or more OF
its branches was seeing active service.
Fifteen hundred people were rescued
from immediate danger. and the YES
was given carried more than 10000
souls. In many cases this assistance
prevented serious accidents. The serv-
ice restored to life six people dragged
from the ocean after having been I'M
der water ten or fifteen minutes.
The coast guard service includes both
the nfe-saving and the revenue cutter
branches. 1t is under the Treasury De-
partment.
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fish picture in the Corcoran gallery's
permanent collection in five or six
hours and he received for this picture
two or three thousand dollars Reck-
oned as ordinary labor by the hour,
this was a pretty high rate of COM
pensation. but years of study went into
the painting of that canvas, and years
which were almost entirely unlucrative.
Unluckily. the long years of appren-
ticeship. the uproads to fame. are al
most always unlucrative, hence artists
cannot always afford to reject an Of
fer which is less than the asking price
and much less than the picture is
worth The acceptance of such an of
fer under the stress of circumstances
invariably creates a bad Impression,
and the successful purchaser. fancying
that the asking price was not genuine
and was too high, is never willing to
give first price again. 1t is not al
ways ungenerosity or meanness on the
part of such persons, but actual lack
Of understanding of the true inward
ness of the situation.
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The Conservation Of Life.
By Frederic ]. Haskin.

The federal government has just shown
what 1t is doing in the national safety
first campaign. II you allow yourself
to get sick or killed or injured, 1t is
not the fault of your Uncle Samuel
The first national safety exposition.
including exhibits and demonstrations
from twenty-five government bureaus.
was held in Washington last week
There has been a general impression
abroad to the effect hiatt Uncle Sam is a
safety crank. but the scope and variety
Of the exposition was a surprise to all
but the closest followers of the move
ment
There was the bureau Of navigation,
for instance. One of the duties of this
bureau Is the enforcement of a law
providing that every vessel carrying
more than fifty passengers, either on
the ocean or the great lakes. must be
equipped with a wireless appa ratus. eff
fective up to a hundred miles at least
The radio inspectors reported twenty
six vessels which left our ports in 191 5
fre, they ran ashore, they got damned
in the ice. they collided with one an
other. their cargoes shifted; but they
summoned assistance by wireless In
twenty-five cases the wireless call
brought such prompt help that only
two lives were lost altogether The
twenty sixth case was the Lusitania