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Takes Permanent Quarters.

The French financial commission has
leased permanent quarters in the city.
having taken the two residences at
20o35 Columbia road A lease for the
nue. has been made by the Serbian Ie-
cation. which is to take possession i'm
mediateiy.
The Navy League has leased the resi-
dence at 1901 18th street formerly oc-
cupied by Assistant Secretary of State
Bacon.
All of the above leases were handled
through the office of story & Cobb.
Leases negotiated through Randall II.
Hagner & Co. recently include the fol-
lowing:
Warren II. Robbins of the State De-
partment has taken the suburban resi-
dence of William p. Meredith, 16 East
Melrose street, Chevy Chase. for the
summer months.
Wallace Irwin, war correspondent and
writer, now with the council for ma
tional defense, has leased the home of
Ormsby McCammon. Lenox street,
Chevy Chase. for the summer
Edward w. Scripps of California, in
Washington in connection with war ac-
tivity. has taken Airlee, the summer
residence of Rudolph Kaufman. in
Military road, upper Rock Creek Park.
for the summer, with the privilege of
extending the lease.
George F. Porter of the council for
national defense has taken Miss Mar
Sdfet fuIieftOn TeSlGence, $50 oall-
fornia avenue. for his summer resi-
dence.
NJ. Andre Tardieu of the French mis-
sion to the United States has leased
the Warren Robbins residence. 1890
Connecticut avenue, for occupancy dur
ing his stay in the capital
Robert L. Montgomery OF the council
for national defense is to occupy the
residence of Miss Mary Lawrence. 1921
kalorama road.
Louis Titus. attorney for important
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Not Morse Farm.

A notice appearing last week to the
effect that Valley View farm was to be
offered for sale led friends Of Mr. and
Mrs. Alexander p. Morse to believe that
the old homestead at Valley View had
been disposed of. This was not the
case. however, as the property adver-
tised for sale was an unimproved tract
living to the north of the Morse estate
The confusion evidently arose from
the fact that the property offered for
sale was a part of the original acreage
belonging to the Daniel b. Clark es-
tate.
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DECLARES SUBSCRIPTIONS
BEAT ESTIMATE BY HALF
P. o. Employees Liberty Loan Pur-
chases Will Reach $500, 900,
Says Report.

Postmaster General Burleson's original
estimate of 5000 900 in subscriptions to
the liberty loan by postal employees
will be exceeded by half. and perhaps
may be doubled I. is officially esti-
mated that tho subscriptions from this
source will reach sT.50o.0oo and may
reach s10,00o.O00.
Employees in thirty-one hrst-class and
ffty-nino second class Offices subscrib-
ed s1,75s,550. New York city led the
list. with $539.700: Philadelphia was
second. with $225,060: Boston third.
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Leases Suburban Home.

One of the handsomest residences in
E.dgemoor. the homeNof Frank Poe. has
been leased for the summer to e. r.
Hartman of the ordnance board of the
War Department.
J. F. Seager of the council for nation
al defense has leased for the summer
tho residence at 20 Kirk street Chevy
Chase. William Walter Phelps. also
of the council for national defense, is
to occupy the Samuel Ferguson resi-
dence 1S45 r street northwest, this
summer. William NJ. Lewis of the
same body, has taken the residence at
211S Leroy place. formerly occupied by
Charles G. Treat, for the summer II.
H. Bingham of the council is to &C.
cupy the property at 2349 street.
Gordon Auchincloss, assistant to
Counselor Polk of the State Depart
ment. has leased the Vaudeville Car
Isle house in Georgetown.
Lathrop Brown. assistant to Secretary
Lane of the Interior Department, has
taken the residence of John w Thomp-
son. 1923 New Hampshire avenue.
Joseph c. Grew. former councillor of
the American embassy at Berlin, re-
Gently returned to the United States, is
to occupy the Chandler Anderson resi-
dence. 1921 21st street northwest, dur
ing the summer. Knight Wade of the
Emergency Snip Corporation, of which
Gen. George G. Goethals is the head
has leased an apartment in the Men
dota.
Miss Helen Clarke OF Chicago has
leased FOR 4 year the residence at 1901
21st street. where she is to entertain
extensively
John White, S. NJ. Evans and Judge
Wells of the food commission have
taken two apartments at 1927 10th
street northwest for the summer. Next
winter Mr.. White is to occupy the resi-
dence at 1864 Wyoming avenue, a lease
for which has already been arranged.
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II s22s.soo. and St. Louis fourth.

with s225soo. and st. Louis fourth
! with SI25.s00
Treasury officials have reached q
tentative conclusion 10 deliver their
full quota of bonds to all who have
subscribed from $50 up to $4,000. Nee
essary reductions because OF oversub-
scriptions will come by allotment
among tho larger subscribers.
Secretary McAdoo has received a re-
port from DR.. Rupert Blue. surgeon
general of the public health service of
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the Treasury Department. that on the
basis of Information to date the en-
ployes OF this service, in Washington
and at the field stations. subscribed to
liberty bonds totaling ssl.15o This
total IS expected to be increased by
Information yet to hse received from a
few stations.
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Profits OF six principal meat COM
panies of Argentina in 1915 reported
at s9,000,000 United States currency
their capital is approximately S21.-
600 ono
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Takes Lippitt Residence.

c. c. Bolton, connected with the
council for national defense. has leas-
ed the residence of former Senator
Lippitt of Rhode Island, 1888 n street
The property was recently sold through
the office of Story & Cobb to an out-of-
town investor. the consideration being
$4,000.
Herbert c. Hoover. prospective food
controller of the nation, has taken in
lease the residence of f. G. Stevens,
1928 10th street northwest, and is to
occupy il at once.
The old Wallach property. 1901 ]
street. has been leased for the use of
the War Department. and the food
commission has just closed a lease for
the old Department of Justice building
and the adjacent buildings in each
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The substitute for absfnthe in>oreecs.
is a liquor known as mastica-
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F STREET BECOMING
AVENUE Of MOVIES
Two New Film Houses Under Way
Making Three Big Theaters
Within Four Blocks.

For years known as the thoroughfare
OF exclusive shops and the parade ground
OF the best groomed women and girls in
the National Capital, street is soon to
be enveloped in different atmosphere,
when the two big motion picture thea
ters now under way are completed and
their crowds of patrons are added to
these of the Columbia, at present the
streets only theater of any kind.
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Film Palace at 10th Street.

Wreckers have almost completed the
demohtion and removal of the buildings
adjacent to the southeast corner Of 10th
and T. streets. where H. c. Crandall Is to
build half million dollar film palace
The theater is to have an entrance on +
street and another around the corner OF
| 10Th street. the lobbies and the main
auditorium to form Il sort of J.. The new
iheater Is /" seat, in the auditorium and
balconies. approximately 1000 persons.
Il IS stated. and the building is to be
equipped with every feature that has been
found to add to the pleasure, comfort and
convenience o! patrons. 1t IL to be
known as Crandall's Metropolitan
InIAtcr
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that they denied themselves wine ex-
cept in wet weather.
But" the learned jurist is said to have
added. what l say about wine. sir. gives
you our rule, bu. 1t does sometimes hap
pen that the Chief Justice will say to
me when the cloth is removed. Brother
Story, step to the window and see If 1t
does not look like rain If tell him the
sun Is shining. Judge Marshall will reply:
All the better, for our Jurisdiction ex-
tends over so large a territory that the
doctrine Of chances makes it certain that
1t must be raining somewhere. and 1t will
be safe to take something
Ben: Perley Poore. author of ''Reminis-
cences of Sixty Years in the National
Capital" wrote as follows:
"Old Madeira wine has always been
very popular in Washington. especially on
the tables of their honors, the justices of
the Supreme Court. For many years
supplies were obtained from the old
mercantile houses in Alexandria, which
had made direct importations prior to the
revolution. During the Fillmore admin
istration many Washington cellars were
replenished at the sale of the private
stock Of wines and liquors Of the late
Josiah Lee of Baltimore Fifty demijohns
Of various brands of Madeira were sold
at prices ranging from $24 to $40 per
gallon. and one lot of twenty-five bottles
commanded the extreme price Of $3.50
per bottle. which. at five bottles to the
gallon, is at the rate OF $77.50 per gallon"
In another place the same writer, re-
viewing White House functions during
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hard cider campaign" which elected
him to the presidency in 1870 is yet
favorite theme with historians.
Cider barrels. as useful as they were
ornamental, were displayed prominent
ly in the inaugural parade March l.,
1841. and that night Henry Clay pre-
sided at the punch bowl. where every
body drank to the success of the new
administration.
Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, who entered
the White House in 1877 was probably
the first woman to insist on absolute
temperance banquets being served in that
historic ediflce. procedure which was
bitterly opposed by Secretary of State
Evarts. Evidently the Secretary found
some way to influence the White House
chef. for 1t was not long before the guests
there learned to partake eagerly Of
oranges every time that luscious fruit
was passed. This was accounted for by
the fact that each orange contained a
portion Of delicious frozen punch, in
which Santa Croix rum formed no small
ingredient. Later it is said that Roman
punch was served about the middle Of
state dinners without the knowledge of
Mrs. Hayes, and that care was taken to
give the glasses containing the strong
stimulants.
An anonymous writer. telling Of
Washington In 1875. says that he once
went to DR.. Chfchester's church, on
Capitol Hill, to report the proceedings
of the Congressional Temperance As
ISOLATION" where he found about zoo
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in 200 to 400 per cent more work than
had ever been done in one year before.
and the enrolment jumped to four
times its normal size.
Some 100000 boys and girls were list
ed. providing labor force which hereto
fore has never been fully utilized. Their
work in food conservation consisted Of
canning and drying fruits. vegetables
fast food as one substitute for wheat.
preparing potato starch out Of paringS,
culls and small potatoes to be used as
substitute for wheat in the making of
custards. pies and cakes and for 20 per
cent of -four in bread baking.
In addition to this vital work. the
children's clubs were taught many
kinds of cooking with a view of en-
grown products raised in the food saw
ing campaign. the killing. picking and
canning of cockerels. and the working
out of an economic balanced ration for
school luncheons-
Such a curriculum called for a care
The Department of Agriculture ex-
ecuted this work through it's Office Of
extension and by means Of the cooper
alton of state agricultural colleges
State leaders and corps Of assistants
trained district and county leaders. who
in turn trained the local volunteer lead
ers to work with the local groups
Great interest was aroused among the
chlIdren DS employing tne contest lea
ture. as in the case of intercollegiate
games. For instance. each group of
children trained for the demonstration
team. which was expert in all the club
activities. These teams competed for
county honors and the winner was given
a free trip to the state fair. At one of
these fairs ten states competed for hon
ors in food demonstration through their
boys and girls.
Kindred to this work. though not in
the very same line, has been the cam
paign of the boys pig clubs to stimu-
late production of food products by
teaching youthful farmers to become
stock raisers. The price of pork prod
ucts scared skyward during the past
season, and the Department of Agri-
culture thought that 1t was the psyche
logical time for arousing the boys to
see the opportunities afforded by pig
raising. The result was that 10000 boys
and girls of an average age of thirteen
years in the states of Alabama. Arkan-
sas, California, Georgia. Indiana, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ne
braska, North Carolina. Oklahoma. Ore
gon and Texas have become active hog
owning members.
The usual work of instructing the
boys in the club to understand swine
production and the growing of forage
crops was intensified. The additional
patriotic motive of giving the boys a
means of adding to the meat production
OF the country and providing a substi-
tute for expensive beef served to excite
duced to lend money to the children for
a lengthy period on their own promis-
sorry note. a departure from ordinary
financial methods, to be used for the
purchase of hogs, and the state pig
club agents were Instructed to give all
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President Van Buren's administration,
says:
champagne with ice was sparingly
supplied in long slender glasses. but
there was no lack of sound claret. and
with the dessert several bottles Of old
Madeira were generally produced by the
host. who -succinctly gave the age and
history Of each. The best Madeira
was labeled The Supreme Court as
their honors. the justices. used to make
direct importation every year and
sip 1t as they consulted over the cases
before them every day after dinner
when the cloth had been removed"
John Tyler, as President. was prob
ably more liberal and less ceremonious
than Van Buren,, and all visitors.
whether strangers or old acquatnt-
ances. were cordially invited to take
something" He kept the sideboard
we'll stocked with domestic and i'm
ported wines and liquors, while mint
juleps in summer and eggnogs in win
ter were as certain as sun and snow.
It was his lavish entertainment that
absorbed most Of his salary and he
used to regret he could not care for
his friends on a more elaborate scale.
There surely was no reason for
Gen. Henry Harrison to look with IA
vor on prohibition propaganda. for the
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11 q HEN President Wilson said
MAN. in his April proclamation:
W\V THE supreme test of the
" " nation has come: we must
all speak, act and serve together. ne
did not realize perhaps how great a
response his words would call forth
from the children of the country. Boys
and girls of America have proved
themselves worthy to be included IN
his word we" The children have
taken advantage of every possibility
for service.
The war. in its biggest significance.
IN being fought by the United states
and the allies for the benefit OF the
boys and girls of these countries An
English writer, In a book recently pub
Hshed on this idea and addressed to
the children. said: TN all your study
of the war make this your first and
foremost thought, that the war Is for
you. 1t is you who will enjoy the new
order Of things when the war Is done
Your countrymen are giving their lives
for their country: it Is your country
and in it you will pass your life. Our
dead have died for you. 1t is you who
will find this world better than they
cause they died in war; you Will go
safe and free because they went under
discipline and into danger up to the
moment of their death. You will have
good time because they suffered. To
you. who gain by their loss and whose
life is made comfortable by their lives
laid down. comes the question from
countless little wooden crosses over
graves in France and Belgium and
from all the unmarked graves Of the
sea. Is ii nothing to you?
why. the war is your war. You will
enter into all that 1t achieves and in
herit ell that It earns. and all the mis-
cries OF it will be the making of your
happiness. There are many good rea-
sons why a man should fight for his
country. but they come to this one rea-
son. that he is fighting for the future
Of his country. And you are the fu-
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send you, through the Red Cross bull
letins. the thrilling stories Of relief and
rescue. And, best Of all. more per-
fectly than through any Of our other
school lessons. you will learn by doing
those kind things under your teachers
direction to be the future good citi-
zens of this great country. which we
all love"
Membership for this new division will
be gained through the schools; in fact. 1t
will be gained through the state boards
of education. Whenever there has been
placed in the local school fund an
amount equal to rs cents for every pupil
the school becomes an auxiliary to the
Red Cross. At the same time each pupil
becomes a Junior member and is entitled
to wear the junior button.
The fund will be expended upon ma
terials which the children will make up
into Red Cross supplies. and for other
uses in which the children will
have a personal share. The extent of
the possibilities for training the child
mind and hand. and at the same time
giving him definite object for which
to enthusiastically continue such train
ing are limitless. In the sewing classes.
Evening star., 1917-11-11

making. all such kindred activities
which assist the work of food conser-
walton. food production and aid for the
soldiers. show a record for activity
which surpasses our fondest hopes for
juvenile cooperation. And now comes
another means for enlisting their aid. a
means which because of its timeliness
and far-reaching influence will carry
the field of patriotic service right into
the heart of the schoolroom. thereby
making il possible for children to at
tend to their education and fulfill their
obligation to their country at the same
time throughout the coming winter
The Junior Red Cross is a new Or
ganization of the parent body. which
hopes to become a channel for patri-
otic service and interest to the 22.-
OOo0Oo boys and girls of school age
in the United States. In discussing the
launching of this Junior movement. DR..
Henry n. MacCracken. who has been
president of Nassar College since 1915,
and who. because of his qualifications
as an educator. was chosen for the po-
sition of director of the Junior Red
Cross. exhibited a rumpled letter. writ
ten in pencil. which. he says is re-
sponsible for the new work. Here Is
the letter:
Dear Sir: was very gald to see your letter
towels We hans red ero.. 0u meens hepe
it its is every ~ . Friday & ard go But now u am am
os at ae ho sn saRe tine Ike * e
wrk it work on it when come home
from school and my teachers is Miss
wade Own and I save all the letters get and
sometime l read them over when have time
so will tryed to get all to there
pennies and buy some towels and send them.
! like TO get letters and read them and then
answer back to them. / think this is all for
this time.
Your. friend truely. From Milas Dolecet.
Answer back.
The meat of this letter. expressed in
the few words, but now I am going
to school. then I cannot go to the
meeting" set the Red Cross officials
to thinking. and from this little mis-
spelled outburst a presidential proc
lamation was born. In the words of
President Wilson, who, as president of
the Red Cross. made the official an
nouncement. the activities and influence
of the junior membership are best de-
scribed. He said:
"The American Red Cross has just
prepared a Junior membership. with
school activities in which every pupil
in the United States can find a chance
to serve our country. Our Junior Red
Cross will bring you opportunities for
communities all over the world and
guide your service with high and re-
ligious ideals 1t will teach you how
to save In order that suffering children
elsewhere may have the chance to live.
1t will teach you how to prepare some
of the supplies which wounded soldiers
and homeless families lack. 1t will
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10 0HEN the last saloon door was
NAW locked in Washington the
TW night of October 81, and the
" last of the bartenders hgura-
tively fired the last of the bungstarters
through the window into the alley.
reand vivid chapter of the history OF
the National Capital was closed.
Washington was never any more
bibulous than any other city OF its
time. and perhaps because of the un-
usoa} way IN which the city was found
ed IT escaped some of the rowdyism
that fell to the part of less fortunate
cities of more than century ago.
But in its taverns and around It's
punch bowls and decanters were wont
70 gather the great personalities that
founded and for so long directed the
fortunes of this nation. and more than
one page of American history bears the
autograph of John Barleycorn-
Indeed. one toast, proposed by a
fore the grape-juice era. has been carv-
ed in granite, and, at the time it was
first uttered. was epochal in its signin-
ttHtt- II was s1OItiS dIteF zen. JACK
sons Inauguration that he attended a
Jefferson birthday dinner. where his
policy toward southern democrats in
general and Senator John c. Calhoun in
particular was expected to be an
nounced. Calhoun, ardent states
rights advocate. confidently expected
the olive branch, but the stern old
President who Is reported to have left
at home an elaborately worded toast,
gave this one instead:
''Our Federal Union. 1t must be pre-
served
The "nul1ihers'' were for moment
disconnected. but Calhoun Immediately
recovered his poise and replied. with
another toast:
'"The Union. next to our liberty most
can only be preserved by respecting
the rights OF the states and distribut-
ing equally the benefits and burdens of
the Union"
= Gen. Jackson's toast has been carved
on the base OF his statue in front of
the White House.
John Suter kept the first tavern in
the District of Columbia, and "Suter's
Tavern" long. low wooden building,
was for many years a landmark In
Georgetown.
The Union Tavern. also in George
town. was another place where num-
ber of the famous men of history lifted
their glasses in their time. These In
ciuded Washington Irving, Talleyrand,
John Randolph, Francis Key, Louis
Philippe, Lorenzo Dow and Robert
Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.
In the region of the Capitol no tav-
ern was ever more popular than the
Indian Queen" which stood on Penn
sylvania avenue where the Metropoli-
tan Hotel is today. This also was
known as Browns Hotel" having been
run by father and son of that name.
The rates at the Indian Queen" were
80 cents q meal for transient guests. or
13f = month for permanent boarders.
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for instance, the little girls will be
more interested In learning to sew fine
seam If later they can apply their
knowledge to the making of articles for
soldiers comfort kit. and the boys
will be more eager to learn to construct
uninteresting square boxes II they know
these boxes will be used for carrying
supplies to the battlefelds. Such
spirit. 1t is evident, will be
the means of benefiting the children
by supplying them with an impetus
for action in the right direction.
DR.. MacCracken has worked out all
the details OF organization which have
been made known to the schools and
is at present perfecting the co-ordina-
tton Of school activities with Red
Cross activities so that every channel
for service may be utilized. The voca-
tional classes throughout the country
will undoubtedly render an meal
culable service. for their ability can
be turned at once to the making of
Red Cross articles.
The movement has met with uni
versal praise. Philander Claxton, COM
missioner Of education. says that he is
willing to indorse 1t because 1t does