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times the cold hues are varied by warm
streaks of brownish yellow. The ice is
very white and hard, and water obtained
from melting it is fresh and pure. Both
large fields and single bergs of large
size cause curious optical phenomena. On
clear nights. especially when the moon
rs high. the sky along the horizon in the
direction of the ice is apt to oe markedly
this effect may be noted before the ice
is sighted. 1t is called lice blink. ="
Often high bergs below the horizon are
seen in mirage. at times inverted and
a other times erect.
The observations of the American ice
patrol have served to demonstrate that
theories more or less current as to
means of determining the presence Of
ice are unreliable. Echoes are erratic.
Some beres- having perpendicular
or nearly perpendicular face have been
found to return echoes at a distance
of greater than 1000 yards: again,
however. under. cqpditions which ap-
parently should produce echoes. none
was obtained. 1t has been demon
strated also that there is no apprec-
able change of temperature of air or
water when approaching a berg. If a
fresh wind is blowing and one is a
hundred yards or SO to leeward of
large berg. he may experience a SEN
sation Of cold. but the thermometer
may not register tine change. ship
that close would be in serious danger.
The ice scouts have disposed of an
other theory by announcing the def
mite conclusion that birds do not in
dicate the presence of ice. They are
more numerous around vessels, where
food is more plentiful.
The largest iceberg yet reported was
about $50 feet long. 500 feet wide and
so feet out of the water. n great
block of ice weighing about 100000
tons. Though reports have been made
of berss 500 feet high. these are not
believed by those who have searched
for ice month in and month out. A
berg 500 feet high would draw at least
from 1000 to 1.500 feet of water. The
tallest iceberg sighted by Capt. John
son of the Seneca. one OF the patrol
boats. was $50 feet high and the tall
est by Capt. Quinan. was 10 feet
high.
Acknowledgment Of practical service
rendered by the ice patrol has been
repeatedly made by the captains of
the great ocean liners. May 20. 1914,
ship wirelessed New York as follows:
II wish to thank American ship Miami
for ice warning sent by wireless last
night. My boat Immediately went thirty
miles south. making her course a little
longer but safer" In normal times
it is the practice of vessels using the
Atlantic to acknowledge the ice mes
sages sent out by the patrol. During
the past war season, however, prac-
tically all vessels using the north At
lantic have refrained from sending
messages that might indicate their
presence.
The patrol has been continued and i
the ice reports have been sent out
regularly every night at 6 o'clock, and |
more often in times of a special dan
ger. though wireless responses have
been few. The customary thank YOU" |
has been dispensed with. but the au-
thorities of the coast guard know that |
the warnings have been received and |
used by hundreds of vessels
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ceeded him. chronological table. a
photography, a catalogue of the prin-
cipal works of Michelangelo in public
collections and note on the draw
ings of the artist that are found in
the great museums of Europe. com
plete this study of the man who cap
and poetry, all at once; who ''breathed
into them the frenzy of his vigor and
of his overwhelming idealism'; who
passed like. a whirlwind. and after
whose passing the brilliant and sensual
Florence of Lorenzo de Medci and
Botticelli. of verocchio- and LEONARDO,
was ended forever.
NOT BY, BREAD ALONE: The PrIn-
ciples Of Human Nutrition. BY Har
vey w. Wiley. NJ. D.. author of
and Toilet Accessories etc. New
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as miniature painter. is represented
by a single example. a portrait of a
young woman with charming coloring
seen against a background of very
light terra GOTTA yellow gray pink.
Elsie NJ. Lewden sends two minia-
lures which are larger than is custo-
mary and more pictorial in intent. one
a portrait Of DIR. Relesaro Porras, the
picture in miniature showing q young
woman in white gown seated in a
room. a portion of one wall of which
is visible. The composition instantly
recalls Whstler's famous painting of
his mother 1t is beautifully done. but
miniature pictures seem always lack
ing in quality. just as an enlarged
photograph fails to signify in the other
direction.
THIS question of size in connection
with works of art is an interest
ing onA Meissonier painted little pic
lures which gave him great fame, but
his vogue has passed-and why? Part
ly because the value of his work lay in
it's wonder. the perfection of his skill,
and not in the effect created nor the
beauty of his theme. So to an extent
has passed the favor of Sir Alma Ia
dema's paintings. wrought with such
marvellous accuracy that they could be
inspected with magnifying glass. But
who wants to look at picture with a
magnifying glass. On the other hand
there are other painters who have used
much TOO large canvases. taking half
the side of a wall to tell that which
might better have been told in a space
Of much less dimensions. The exhibi-
tions have induced to the latter fault
especially the foreign exhibitions,
where unless picture We're largo it
would not be seen. But what is the
future of these great canvases" Tn
less they find homes in art museums
there is no place in which they can be
shown.
For an etching, lithograph or an
engraving to exceed the normal limit
of size is perhaps even worse. how
ever, than for a painting. Works in
these mediums are not inherently
decorative and are not meant to be
viewed AT distance-they are inti-
mate, personal. graphic and to fulfill
their requirements must SO remain. Yet
there is a tdendency today to make
Autographs and even etchings of very
considerable size, much larger than
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land. author of Jean Christophe.'
etc. Translated by Frederick Street
illustrated. New York: Dufield &

This sketch by the author of the
great novel. Jean Christophe. is one
of series of studies published in
France under the name of THE Mas
ters of Art" The subject is one with
which NJ. ROLAND is much at home,
since a few years ago he published a
voluminous history of the great artist.
The book in hand is in the nature of
an outline of the life of Michelanselo,
giving the salient facts Of his youth,
the achievements of his maturity and
the final facts of his life. Along with
these facts the writer sums the in
fuence of the artist upon his. own
time and upon the times that have sue
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yet paid the Is per cent due from her

yet paid the Is per cent due from her
for 1914.
Icebergs. which menace shipping,
break or. to use the technical term.
"calve.' off the mother glacier chiefly
during the summer preceding their ap-
pearance in the northern lane of trans
atlantic steamships. During the fall.
when the northwest gales begin to
blow, the Labrador and east Greenland
currents, which flow south from the
east and west coasts of Greenland, be-
come strong. AT St Johns, n. F., in
November. the inhabitants judge the
weather and predict the amount of ice
to be expected the following season
If it is a bitter fall and winter. with
numerous and heavy blows from the
north and northwest. the wind will add
strength and speed to the flow of the
Labrador and east Greenland currents
volume.
The first or "slob ice," usually ap-
pears Off st. Johns in January. This
consists of loose. broken ice, which
not dangerous. Heavy sheets of field
ice reach the vicinity of St. Johns in
early March and the Grand Bank about
March Is. This includes. as n rule. pan
ice. or low lying. heavy. thick sheets.
and the first of the large icebergs.
From March Is until June Is the bergs,
the pan ice and "growlers' tsmall
bergs) threaten the transatlantic
steamship lines.
Two stanch cutters are assigned by
the coast guard to ice patrol duty from
February to July. Each cutter patrols
the ice regions for a continuous period
of fifteen days. The cutters make their
base at Halifax, Nova Scotia. and 1t is
a three-day run from Halifax to the
tail of the Grand Bank. or the south
eastern fringe of the huge shoal in the
ocean which lies off Cape Race, where
their work begins. Each patrol boat.
therefore spends twenty-one days at
sea during the patrol period-three
days going out, three days returning
and fifteen days in the ice zone. The
ship lanes from Boston and New York
to all European ports pass just below
the tail of the Grand Bank. and on the
eastward voyage turn abruptly to the
northeast just a little southeast of the
tail of the Grand Bank. 1t is FOR dis
tance of approximately hundred
miles on either side of the point Of this
turn that the chief danger lies.
Arrived in the danger zone, the patrol
boat searches for the large bergs, ice
fields and GROWERS, locates their posi-
ton and rate of drift and notifies an
approaching steamships of these facts
in detail At 6 o'clock every evening
the ocean, SO to speak. is hushed for
Uncle Sans ice warnings; that is. the
use of the air for wireless Is reserved
by common consent to the ice scouts Al
this time for half an hour. . Messages
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measure forced development of meth
DDS of successfully protecting the com
mercial shipping of the Atlantic from
submarines, the Titanic disaster forced
ing these main arteries Of world trade
and travel from ice. The methods are
much Sl1ke-a matter of thorough and
constant scouting in the danger zones
Of the enemy" Scouting for subma-
rines is perlous and arluous dutv.
though not more perilous and arduous
than scouting for ice In the rips off
and Labrador current meet. and where
fog. wind. tide and conflicting currents
combine to produce the most dangerous
waters north of Hatteras.
Scouting for submarines is hellip
erent duty performed by the nations at
war. Scouting for ice is a task of
peace. performed in the interest of all
sea. airing humanity. by the United
scouts required the former is the
larger task. but it will cease when the
war is over Results thus far OBJ
tanned assure the permanence of the
ships ply day and night along the lanes
Of ocean travel between Europe and
North America.
Ice patrol in the north Atlantic is
one of the principal duties of the
United States coast guard as reorgnn-
lied, expanded and transformed Into q
military service under the present ad-
ministration. 1t is a task which was
formally assigned to the United States
by the international maritime confer
ence at London soon after the Titanic
disaster. This conference consisted of
delegations representing every mari
time nation of the world. Many things
were done to secure uniformity of mari
time laws and practice. looking to two
enLs: the one to the safety of passen-
gers after accidents occur. and the
% hn
The ice patrol comes within the latter
heading
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are dispatched to all vessels plying
these seas, giving the exact location of
the southernmost ice and of every dan :
gerous berg, pan or GROWERS sighted.
I ne hrSt message is sent at o'clock
precisely, and is repeated three times,
at intervals of two minutes. using a
wave length of GOO meters. At 6:l5 this
message is again sent broadcast using
wave length of 300 meters. Use of
two wave lengths is necessary in order
to suit the two principal adjustments
of receiving sets now used on ship
board
As February and March are two of
the coolest months of the year. when
the patrol cutters must advance direct
ly into the icefields to make their OBJ
servations, and as there are dense fogs
or stormy weather at least two thirds
of the time off the Grand Bank the
ice patrol boats have task of great
danger as well as of great RESPONSE
bility.
While it is the current which brings
the lice down, it is also current which
takes 1t north again and away from the
lanes of commerce in the middle of June
The hot sun of early summer would
not alone suffice to remove this peril of
navigation In stately procession the
berss move down with the Labrador and
East Greenland currents until these cur
rents meet the gulf stream This large
stream of warm water flowing from the
Gulf of Mexico in a general northeast
I'll SStiOi ID SlloHScT lnan the currents OF
cold water coming from the north 1t is
strong enough to turn them back north
ward. And with the current the ice
bergs. too, are turned and slowly swing
back into arctic waters
OF course, the heat of the sun and the
gradually increasing warmth of the water
melt the ice, and the smaller bergs and
ice fields may entirely dissolve. Occa-
sionally large bergs are weakened and
break up with rending noises. resembling
thunder. which may be heard for miles
Frequently, though, these mountains of
floating ice are large enough to make
the complete southern swing and re-
turn again into freezing temperatures
before they are apprecabl reduced in
size. 1t IS quite likely that many of the
latter. after crcling about in the arctic,
return south again the following year.
Occa sionally berg with one more
high pnnacles that catch the wind and
serve as sails is driven out of the usual
course of ice. Al times, though rarely.
these "sailers'' cross into the gulf stream
and appear in unexpected pla aces, even off
the coast of ireland or the Azores They
are very dangerous to naviga ton but as
all are high, they are easily seen and
are quickly reported.
Icebergs are rich in color AT a dis
tance they appear white, but close by
rich blues and beautiful shades Of green
appear in the crevices and cracks. AT
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The duty of providing the patrol de-
wolves solely upon the United States,
though the expense is prorated among
the nations using the north Atlantic in
the proportion of passenger travel by
hatlonahties. The cost during the
nscal year 1sl4 amounted to $s5,799, of
which, under the proportionate basis
CHOSEN. France. Germany and the
United states are obligated to pay l5
per cent. or sl2,s69.SS each: Great
Britain. 80 per cent. or s25.7397s, and
Austria Hungary. Belgium. Canada,
Denmark. Italy, the Netherlands. Nor
way. Russia and Sweden. from to
per cent each. This years annual re-
port of the coast guard shows that lit
tie Belgium, though almost annihilated
as a nation. has paid her per cent toll
Of S3,4sl.s7 for 1914; Germany has not
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can be conveniently handled, framed or
displayed
n SPECIALLY Interesting section of
q the Washington Water Color
Clubs exhibition is a group of etch-
inss by. cotemporary American etchers
Roth, Webster. Keller, Antonio Ba-
rome and Childe> Hassam =. possibly
others. Childe Hassam's form group
by themselves. and are very instructive
and entertaining. =
There is probably no more keenly ar
tistic perception among all our Amer
ican artists today than that of ChiIde
Hassam He is in almost every way
quite different from Whistler. Yet in
this particular there is kinship. What
ever Mr.. Hassam sees is seen in the
way of the artist, and as he interprets
it becomes significant and ceases to be
commonplace. 1t does not make much
difference %hst it is, he transforms it.
Mr.. Hassam is the chief exponent in
America of impressionism--the impress
sionism of Monet and the past. And
how different this impressionism is
from that of the present these etch-
post impressionism does not want to
draw nor in any way be "restricted'
by rules The impressionist of the past
was a most skillful craftsman and
spared no pains to master his material.
This is shown in these exquisite etch-
ings of Mr. Hassam ms. The man who
made them knew how to draw: he was
learned as we'll as skillful: he knew
what to say, and. more STILL what to
leave unsaid: his touch was light and
at the same time sure; his perception
was keen; his feeling sensitive. Here
is the result of scholarly art and not
of accident.
THE etchings by keeler. Webster and
u Roth are almost all of architec-
tural themes found abroad. and go to
emphasize the enormous debt we owe
Europe and the real wealth of that
sadly stricken land The buildings that
these etchers have pictured were works
of art in themselves enduring monu-
ments to the taste and talent of by
gone generations. How unavoida bly,
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THt. PILLAR OF
BaecAlaureate.


Baecaiaureate. BY Seymour Dem
ing. author OF "A Message to the
Middle Class" Boston: Small, May
uard & Co.
This sermon is "profane only by
virtue Of the meaning that custom has
given to the institution of the bac-
calAureate sermon. Taken out of this
setting II is finely vigorous summary
OF what the world is doing in business
In politics, In the ways of the people
and the government toward the needy
IN the thousand and one real activities
upon which the college man is facing
and about which he never hears d
word in the sounding phrases of the
regulation oaccalaureate sermon. AS
one reads this splendid sermon-splen-
did in scholarship. in truth, in plain
sense and high courage. ne makes a
drama of the fire il would kindle if it
only could be given TO group of
college men and women in place of
the soothing periods that the rule.
However. II this were to be done it
should be done at the very beginning
of college course, for in spirit this
sermon requires the making over of
the whole college aim and attitude and
training. A fine and invigorating view
OF what the college should be doing
for folks that have the business of
worth while living to look after.
DUKE JONES. BY Ethel sidgwick,
author of "A Lady of Leisure" etc.
Boston: Small. Maynard & Co.
Naturally. one expects by way of this
novel to achieve an acquaintance with
Duke Jones. And. after reading the
book, one is OF opinion still that the
authors chief inten; is to bring one
into something like intimacy with a
very shy. and unworldly. and chivalric
person, whom she designates as Mar
maduke Jones. There seem TO be two
causes for the fact that Jones, at the
end OF the story, remains a vague and
unse!zsble figure one of these causes
is that ne is in too large q press of
people. the book is too crowded with
characters. all of about equal import
ance. The other is that in an excess of
Suhtlety the writer has diluted Jones
10 the mere semblsnce of a man. whose
doings-sll on the quixotic plan-lack k
color and conclusiveness. Rather does
the interest OF the story center chiefly
upon the welded life of pair in
whom the shadowy actions of Jones
nave their source. This is serious
work and much of il is strong work
Perhaps it's seriousness of purpose is
one of its chief annoyances: that is
method of development used by the
writer. Too many people. all talking
100 much, with none of them overtop-
ping the others. would produce the
tonfusion OF impression that one gets
out of this novel.
AMT JANE. BY Jennette Lee, author
OF "l ncie William" etc. New York
charles Scribners Sons. Washing
ton: Brentanos
This is hospital story But. owing
to the great good sense of Aunt Jane
and TO thu benevolent despotism tina,
she exercises over the place from roof
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"OuLu beb On y WuiE.
when 1 arrived IN Kansas City
my next point, / was still celebrAf-
log. For Eve weeks 1 kept 1T up
until my roll Of expense money was
all gone. Then took my watch, q
present from Bishop John p. New
man, and that went into soak. Then
1 took the coat of my back, and it
went into soak with the watch.
With my money gone, watch and
coat In soak, I was wandering the
streets Of Kansas City, without .
cent, begging ten cents from the
passerby on the street to get .
drink.
Broken In pocketbook, credit and
spirit, 1 was met by . Cherokee
Indian, . Mason brother, q drink
ing man whom 1 had sold goods to
in the Indian Territory. He took
my watch and coat out Of soak, had
me shaved and procured me clean
linen, as I had not had . clean shirt
or . shave In the whole FIVE weeks.
Icould not give my money to Q
barber or q laundry With every nerve
In me calling for rum.
This Mason friend took me to the
train and bought me q ticket to Folt
Smith, Ark, where I lived, put me
in charge 0f q Pullman car conduct
or, with $40 in my pocket. So when
1 arrived in Fort Smith I was still
celebrating because 1 had drunk
whiskey on the car all the way
down from Kansas City; For Eve
days and nights : Kept up this cele.
h;ation In Fort Smith, with my boy
trying to get me home.
TemplerS to Rescue
"The boy finally grew discouraged
and went out and got two Knight
Templsrs, members of my command
cry. They came into the saloon and
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H. report of the British pat.
ent cffice considerable space Is
given to descriptions of various
games which have been invented
since the beginning of the war,
and almost all of them have a
war tiuge.
There is the "trench game" a
war ship which sinks when hit
by a torpedo shot from a torpedo
boat which is sold with the ship,
crossDow aeroplaue, many diff
ferent varieties of soldiers and
sailors, with ships, submarines,
war balloons, guns and other in
plements of war 10 profusion.
With all these war games and
toys being sold for the amusement
OF the young, it Is suggested that
the younger generation may bet
ter know the meaning of prepai-
edness than did their elders.
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A special feature of "B inging
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adaptation OF G orge McMlnus's
world renowned newspaper car
toons of that name, which will
be at the Temple Theatre next
Tuesday, Feb. 20, is a song in
which the female members of the
company will be seen in costumes
and dances of all the periods
through which this country has
passed since the discovery of
America. 1t is said that wher-
ever thus far presented the spec.
ialtY has never failed to arouse
wild enthusiasm.
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