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The Washington times., 1918-02-22
andMS.
Palmer Visit
In Annapolis

- AOA u AN" oNgs W
Rear Admiral Edward w. Eberle.
superintendent OF the Naval Academy.
and Mrs. Eberle,, at Annapolis. Ad-
mlral and Mrs. Eberle were to have
entertained at dinner tonight in cele-
bration OF Washington's Birthday, but
the~hospitality has been cancelled, as
have all festivities at the Naval
Academy, on account OF the death of
one OF the midshipmen. The hop,
which was to have followed the play
given by the midshlpmen's dramatic
organization, the MasQueraders, has
been postponed.
Pilgrim Society Guests.
The French Ambassador. NJ. Jusser-
and. and the British Ambassador,
Lord Reading. are expected in New
York on Tuesday, March o. to attend
the dinner which the Pilgoim Society
will give at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel in honor of the Most Rev.
Cosmo Gordon Lang. p. G d. D.,
archbishop OF York and Primate Of
England.
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Miss Elizabeth Stevenson, daughter
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Stevenson. who
is visiting in New York, will return
to Washington on Monday. Mr..
Stevenson has left town for a trip
in the West.
Miss Leta Livingston Sullivan, of
Philadelphia, who visits In Washing
ton frequently as the guest OF Mrs.
Ferdinand de Mohrenschildt and Miss
Gladys Hihckley. has gone to New
York, where she Is being extensively
entertained.
The Mayor of Buffalo and Mrs
George Sturgis Buck arrived in town
today to stay with Mr.. and Mrs. John
Lord O'Brian. Mr.. and Mrs. O'Brian
will give a reception in their honor on
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs Burwell Cutler had
guests dining with them last evening
in compliment to Mr.. Cutters sister.
Mrs. J. z. Chadwick, who is their
guest.
DR.. and Mrs. Lyman F. Kebler an
nounce the marriage OF their daugh-
ter, Miss Ruth wilhelmina KebIer, to
Charles Tilman Robinson on Tuesday,
January %, at Rockville, Nd. Mr..
and Mrs. Robinson will be at home
after March 4 in Norfolk, Va.
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Mrs. Joseph Byrns, wife OF Con-
gresham Byrns OF Tennessee, is at
Emergency Hospital as a result of
general breakdown from Red Cross
and war relief work.
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Mrs. John W. Thompson will leave
town on Monday to join Captain
Thompson, field artillery, L. S. A, at
Admission, Ala, where he is station
ed.
The private exhibition Of the Aim,
The Son Of Democracy" which was
shown yesterday at the Knickerbock-
er Theater, was witnessed by a large
audience OF interesting Washington
people. Among them were DR.. and
Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Prof. ]. Howard
Gore, Admiral Chester, Charles ]. Bell,
Mrs. Silas Casey. and Miss Sophie
Casey. and Adolph Zukor, president
Of the Paramount Film Company, Of
Brig. Gen. ". a. White, of the Brit
ish recruiting mission. has come to
from New York for a few
days.
The Washington times., 1918-02-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Sam C. Splitter. 11Os
Columbia road, are receiving con-
CALCULATIONS on the birth OF son on
Friday February s.
The Washington times., 1918-02-22
THE, CITYrS SOCIAL .SIDE(
Mrs. ,Dfn1ock
EnterainS For
Vice President

Mrs. Henry F. DImock entertained
at dinner last evening In honor of
the Vice President and Mrs. Marshall.
Among the thirty guests asked to
meet them were Senator and Mrs
Francis E. Warren. Senator and Mrs.
Frank B. Kellogg, Capt. Andre Tar
dieu. High Commissioner OF France,
and N. and Nine. de Laboulaye, Of the
French embassy stan.
The Secretary Of the Navy was the
guest Of honor at a dinner given last
evening by Maj. Gen. and Mrs. George
Barnett at the commandments house,
Marine Barracks. Mrs. Daniels was
unable to be present as she is i'll with
a cold. The guests included Senator
and Mrs. Key Pittman, Congressman
and Mrs. Ira c. Copiey, Brig. Gen. and
Mrs. John A. .LeJeune, Major and Mrs.
Henry Roosevelt, Mr.. and Mrs. Rea,
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Penneld. Pay
master General Samuel MCGOWAN, and
Mrs l. Freeman Rasin, OF Baltimore,
who is visiting General and Mrs. Bar
nett.
Brig. Gen. !. w. LitteIl, L. s. A,
who has recently been made a brig
adler in the regular establishment In
stead OF in the national army, will be
the honor guest tonight at a banquet
to be given at the Willard by the Of
ficers Of the cantonment division Of
the Quartermaster corps. The Sec
rotary Of War is expected to be among
the guests.
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Capt. Andre Tardieu, high commits
sioner OF France. will entertain a dis
tinguished company at dinner to-
night.
The Washington times., 1918-02-22
CzarkS Entertain !
At Luncheon for
COL George Harley

The Speaker OF the House and Mrs.
Champ Clark entertained at luncheon
today in the Speakers dining room
at the Capitol in compliment to Col.
George Harvey. editor of the North
American Review, and Mrs. Harvey,
OF New York. who are in Washington
for the winter. The guests to meet
them were Senator and Mrs. Park
Trammel, of Florida; Mrs. Sanford.
Miss Lattenburg. Congressman and
Mrs. James l.. Slayden, Congressman
and Mrs. Benjamin c. Humphreys,
Congressman Sidney Mudd. Mr.. and
Mrs. William J. Black, and Arthur
Peter.
Mrs. Theodore Boynton will enter
tain at luncheon tomorrow in compli-
ment to Mrs, Bayard Van Rensselaer,,
of Albany, y. y.
Lieut.. and Mrs. Garrett h. Davis. Of
Washington, are at the Plaza Hotel,
New York, for a short stay.
The Washington times., 1918-02-22

Edward Beale Mclean and his small
son, Vincent Walsh Mclean, are at
the Traymore Hotel, in Atlantic City,
for a short stay.
The Washington times., 1918-02-22

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas +. Ryan have
gone to Hot Springs, Va, for an in
definite stay. They are negotiating
for the purchase OF the William Bar
ton French villa at Hot Springs.
The Washington times., 1918-02-22
Van Ness Bates Made Ensign.


From Boston comes word OF the
commissioning as ensign in the Unit
ed States Naval Reserve from Har-
ward Naval Training School of Van
Ness How Bates: eldest grandson of
the late J. Van Ness Huyck and
nephew of Capt. Thomas Is. Huyck,
who is taking an active part in the
organization of the new District of
Columbia National Guard. Ensign
Bates, a prominent athlete and foot
bah star at Harvard. was a member
OF the Harvard Naval Reserve unit.
which was one of the first called into
service twenty-four hours after war
was declared on April 6 last, and has
been in active service since. He re-
Gently passed with hOnOrs his eNami-
nations for ensign. On the side Of
his mother, who will be well rcmem-
bered here as Miss May Huyck, En-
sign Bates comes of q long and dis
tinguished line of naval ancestors.
notable among whom were COmmo-I
dore John Cassin of Revolutionary
times one OF the first officers OF the
American navy, and his son. CommO-
dOre Stephen Cassin, the hero of the
battle Of Lake Champlain in the War
of 1872.
Another nephew OF Captain Huyck,
Juan Sinclair Attwell. jr., has re
Gently begun his military career at
Buenos Aires. where he is now liv-
ing. Mr.. AttweIl spent most of his.
childhood in Washington, where his
father was stationed as naval attache
and later as charge d'affairs OF the
Argentine legation. His mother was
Miss Estelle Huyck, Oldest daughter
Of the late Mr.. and Mrs. J. Van Ness
Huyck.
The Washington times., 1918-02-22

Capt. Andre Tardieu, high commits,
sioner OF France. will entertain a dis
tinguished company at dinner to-
night.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
MANS WAY OF DOING THINGS
Mr.. Pickles Gives Demonstration q
Superiority Of His Methods Over
Those Used by Women.

Men who can turn their hands to
very useful as husbands. Mr.. Pickles
was one of these useful gentlemen.
His amiable wife once asked him to
hang picture she had purchased for
the parlor, and he said that he would
do 1t sin jiffy."
"You just get me the cord and a
picture hook" he said to his wife, land
tell the servant girl to run down into
the cellar and bring up the stepladder
and carry 1t into the parlor, and
where's those two little screw thing
ummys that 90 into the back of the
frame at the sides to put the cord
through? Look them up for me; and
/ shall require the gimlet to bore Il
little hole for the screws. Somebody
get the gimlet, or maybe can drive
them in with hammer. Johnny, you
run down into the cellar and get the
hammer Perhaps chair would be
better than the stcpladder. Some
body 90 out into the kitchen and get
me chair. l don't want to stand on
one of the parlor chairs. Got that
cord? Just measure off about the right
length. and fusten it to those little
things at the side. There, now; there's
your picture hung up, and no fuss
about 1t. The difference between us
men and you women is that when we
have anything to do we do 1t, and don't
talk all day about it."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
Luminous Paints,

Luminous paints for varied uses
have been brought into increased de-
mand by the war, and the best results
have been obtained from those con-
sisting essentially of prepared zinc
sulphide with small percentage of
radioactive material. To determine
the brightness and life of different
mixtures, elaborate tests have been
made at the British National Physical
Laboratory. 1t is found that increas-
ing the -radlum adds to the brightness,
but also increases the cost and the rate
of decay, the differences in brightness
and decay becoming much less after
u few months. Keeping cost in mind,
1t is concluded that the most salts
factory paint has one part of radium
to about 5000 of zinc sulphide.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
WHERE RATS ARE PROTECTED
In Copper Mines Of Michigan Rodents
Are Regarded as Preventors, Not
Carriers, Of Disease.

There are few places In the world
where rats are well thought of, but in
the copper mines Of Michigan there ro-
dents, so universally despised, and
causing so much danger to health and
damage to property everywhere else,
are regarded differently. In the shafts
of the copper mines hundreds of feet
below the surface dwells a species of
rat that never sees the light of day
and is held In high appreciation by
the miners. 1t is because these UNDER
ground rodents are valuable to SANTA
ton, preventers rather than carriers
Of disease. They indulge in no depre-
datlons for the reason they exist with
in rockbound walls inclosing nothing
possible for animals such as they de-
stroy.
The rats are the scavengers of the
mines. They keep the workings clear
of refuse. They are protected by the
men; are often fed from dinner pals
and have become so accustomed to
the miners that they frisk about the
workers wholly unafraid, secure in the
apparent realization that, while else
where they are hunted and slain as
enemies Of mankind, underground they
are treated as allies and are immune
from harm.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
The BUDGET System.

The budget system is not a system or
form of government, but a mode of pro-
cedure in certain matters. Primarily
a budget is bag or sack with its con-
tents, which may be anything from gar
den truck or cooked food to official
documents. In England, where the
word acquired its political or govern
ment term, 1t means the annual finan-
cial statement or the facts and figures
which the chancellor of the exchequer
makes in the house of commons, sitting
as a committee of ways and means
The term has never been much used in
this country, but 1t is sometimes ap-
piled to the estimate of government
receipts and expenditures submitted
In the annual report Of the secretary
of the treasury as basis for appropri-
ations to be made by the congress-
Briefly, the budget system or ma
tional budget may be defined as the
financial statement of the government
for the next fiscal year, showing In
detail the services and expected
amount of revenue, and an itemized
estimate Of expenditures In the differ
ent departments of government to be
covered by appropriations not to be
overrun.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
METHODS USED 81 DIPS VARY
Pickpockets of the Higher Grade Work
In Groups In Places Frequented
by Prosperous People.

AS usual thing pickpockets vary
their methods to suit circumstances.
Only the low-grade dips work in pairs
These are the men who operate on
street cars, elevated stations, plat
forms, and similar places where they
will find crowds Of pushed people and
have opportunity to escape If detected
One of the pair shoulders victim
roughly while the other does the work
and makes getaway, says the Bo-
hemian. Arrests are frequent, but con-
victiOns rare, because the man cap
tured seldom has the loot.
The higher grade dips also work In
such places. The difference is that
they work In groups and choose times
when prosperous passengers will be in
the majority. During the fashionable
shopping hours and after the theater
at night are considered harvest times.
Last winter three dips worked a clever
method In Chicago. Garbing them
selves in evening clothes, they mingled
in fashionable crowds In big cafes,
theater exits, and railway stations.
One of the party was always hopeless
ly drunk and the others, apparently
acting the part of Samaritans. were
hard-put trying TO keep him on his
feet. With all their care, however, he
would stumble occasionally and fall
into groups of ladies and gentlemen.
Invariably the sober companions had
apologized and taken the charge away
before anyone discovered the loss of
yaluables,
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
Final Clean Up Sale In
Summer Goods.

An opportunity to save. The remaining
portion of our strictly summer wear will
be sold at great saving. These goods
were contracted for at about old prices.
and were priced accordingly, but to clean
up and make room we will offer further
reductions on the following goods:
Ladies' white canvas pumps and oxfords.
Misses white canvas pumps and oxfords.
Children's white canvas sandals.
Mems white canvas oxfordS.
Ladies tan pumps, regular SIS value,
at So.
Ladies bronze pumps, regular SIS value,
at So.
Mems and boys oxford in patent, gun
metal and tan calf, 10 per cent off price.
Ladies white shirtwaists regular 79c
value at Soc.
Ladies colored stripe skirts, regular ST so
value, at 75c.
Ladies plain white skirts. regular SIPS
TO $3.50, at &c.
Ladies colored silk waists, regular $3.50
value, at 81,
Ladies wash silk waists in stripes, regu-
lar So value. at $3.50.
32-inch wool serge. regular &c quality,
at Soc.
S6-inch all-wool serge. regular S5c quail
ity, at Use.
Clean up in figured voiles and batistes.
Lot figured voiles, regular 15c and 18c
quality. at IL 1-2c.
Lot of figured voiles, regular 15c quality,
at 12c.
Lot of figured voiles, regular Csc quality,
at 10c.
Screen doors will be sold at great re-
auctions.
Washing machine, worth $3.50, for $40.
W. HICKS,
aug 24-tf Rockville, Md.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
Wives as Wage Farmers.

More than one-tenth of the married
women of the United States were en-
gagged in gainful occupations in 1910,
according to figures recently given out
by the bureau of the census, and over
rs per cent Of all women sixteen
years old or over were wage earners,
business women, etc. Since 1910 the
per centages undoubtedly have IN
creased rather than diminished, for
the tendency of women In this coun-
try has been toward greater economic
freedom for many years. In 1900 the
number of married women In gainful
occupations was only 100000, while in
1910 it was 100000, says Popular Me-
chanics. The statistics referred to
show that the proportion of women
married, single and widowed-who are
earning their living Is greater than
ever before, but 1t is particularly in
terestlng to find that of all the groups
cited, the proportionate increase in
the number of married women is the
greatest.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
WHALER'S GLORY HAS GONE
Industry Which Was Once the Great
est In America Has Been Declin-
Ing for Fifty Years.

At the outbreak of the American
Revolution and for a period of 10
years following, whaling was the most
important branch of American fisher
les. From 500 to 700 vessels sought
whales in all the oceans and seas Of
the world, and in one year New Bed
ford alone sent out 300 vessels whose
cargoes of bone and oil were the
basis of the Industrial life of the city.
The pursuit of sperm whales reached
Its climax In 1887, when oil valued at
nearly $4,500,000 was brought in,
mostly from the south Pacific, says the
National Geographic Magazine. The
height Of the industry was in 1916,
when 10000 persons derived their sup
port from whales, and 720 vessels,
valued at $21, 100000, were engaged.
For more than 80 years the fishery
has been declining, and in numerous
ports that once derived most of their
wealth from the industry there have
for long time existed only memories
of former greatness. The present i'm
portance of the whale fishery amounts
to less than per cent Of the American
fisheries.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
First Pension Fund.

In this country the first pension
fund was established by the city OF
New York for policemen. Since then
many states and cities have enacted
retirement legislation, the number OF
retirement funds has increased to
over 400, and many thousands of pub
lie employees have been covered by
retirement provisions. Although the
expansion of the movement has been
rapid. 1t has by no means reached its
limit. AS yet number of states and
cities have not adopted any retirement
legislation; the 800 pension funds for
police and firemen do not include all
employees of these two groups; the
100 teachers pension funds cover only
about half Of the teachers, and the re-
naming funds, approximately 40.
cover only small fraction of all other
classes of federal, state and municipal
employees.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
AIR UP 10000 FEET COLD
Even in Hottest Weather Aviator May
Be In Arctic Regions After Flight
of Ten Minutes.

Aviators experience many different
degrees of temperature In their flights.
On the hottest day in summer q flylng
man may be In the arctic regions In
ten minutes by mounting to a height
of 10000 feet, just as the climber may
pass through all the shades Of temper.
allure by climbing Killma-Njaro, that
giant peak which rises above the snow
line from the equator. He commence
with the tropical jungle and ends
amid eternal snow.
The fact is that the temperature Is
invariably low at 10000 feet and over
whether at the tropics or the poles,
and 1t is quite likely to be lowered al
the equator. Airmen well know the in
tense cold of those upper regions and
they need the rlg-out Of a Shacklet0n
If they would mount to 10000 feet
above the earth's surface. In fact,
there Is little variation of temperature
In these upper reaches of the at
mosphere. 1t Is much the same In sum
mer as winter, except for the differ
ence which high wind makes.
Even in the depth of hot summer
the airmen will encounter 40 degrees
Of frost at 10000 feet, and at twice
that altitude 100 degrees of frost-the
temperature of the South pole-is not
unusual.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
Negroes Famous as Composers.

There is no doubt that James Bland.
negro musician. wrote Garry Me
Back to Old Virginia" During the
days of slavery there were In New Or
leans quite number of well educated
negroes, and among them number
who gained distinction as musical com
posers. Five of these were Edmund
Dede, Basil Bares, Lucien Lambert,
Sidney Lambert and Samuel Snaer.
Much of the music that these men
wrote Is of permanent worth. One of
the earliest American negro musical
authors was james Hemmenway. His
home was in Philadelphia, and during
the second and third decades of the
nineteenth century he wrote much
music which by musicians of authorlt,
is set down as excellent.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
Scarinu Them AWAY.

Frank A. Vanderlip, chairman of q
Liberty Loan committee, said in New
York:
"The loan machinery was made easy,
simple and informal, so that all could
come In. We didn't want to scare the
plain people away, you know.
"Some Of our past loans did scare
the plain people. They were like the
swagger seashore hotel.
'"This hotel was so very swagger
that the guests all felt like inmates
or prisoners.
There was little man who arrived
there one night and rang his bell for
some ice water. No answer. He rang
again. Still no answer Then he put
his finger on the button and held 1t
there till he heard footsteps.
"A knock, and a majestic maid en-
tered. She looked at the little man
scornfully.
did you ringT she asked.
"'Yes,' said'he.
'Humph,' said the maid. who lift
ed you up to the bellT"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
70 r S Al {.
AUTO BUYERS, ATTENTION.

If you are thinking of buying an auto
in the next six months, this is your op.
portunity.
have on hand a brand-new REQ six
cylinder, seven passenger, latest model
touring car, which wish to sell quickly
and in order to do this will save the buyer
the tidy sum Of $165.
This car sells for $146O at every REQ
agency Gan advance in price expected
soon). My price of $1295 is a pick up.
There Is no better car made in its class.
and from personal experience | can say
no car of its size and capacity so econom-
ical in operation and upkeep.
Pleasure cars are going to be higher and
hard to get next season from present out
look, so you had better consider this op-
portunity before passing it by, as it is un-
usual to buy standard goods below their
market value.
Offer also two 34x4 chain-tread tires,
1913 each.
For information and further particulars.
phone or address
F. H. H0UGH,
3036 Dent Place, N. W.,
nov 3O-2t Washington, d. C.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
Hunters Moon.

The hunters moon is waning, but
there has been very little service for
1t during the month, except for lovers,
says the Columbus (O.) State Journal.
The game question is pretty near
solved. 1t Is so different from the old
days, when man could take his shot
gun and go out to the woods and bring
in a bag Of squirrels and birds in few
hours-enOugh for the family and u
nelghbor or two. Then he asked no
favors of the moon. The game was
plenty and the days were long In the
good old time. In those days we had
pigeon pie and squirrel pie and we
didn't want the moon to put itself out
of the way on our account. In these
days the hunters moon is beautiful
sentiment, but 1t makes no pie. How
shy she was last week, when coquet-
ing with Jupiter for an evening or two,
and then slipped off to the east and re-
fused to return.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1918-01-11
HAS MEMENTO OF LAFAYETTE
Spokane Woman Possesses Pitcher
Made Nearly Century Ago When
French Visited This Country.

memento of the second visit of
Lafayette to America after the close
of the Revolutionary war is the pos
session of Mrs. Alfred T. Anderson,
wife of County Auditor Anderson Of
Spokane, and a descendant of a CO.
lonial family In whose home General
Washington was guest many times
during the war, according to the Spo;
kane Chronicle.
1t Is a blue and white water pitch
er, bearing picture of Lafayette and
decorated with American eagles and
other patriotic emblems.
During the revolution, General
Washington and his staff were enter
tanned at the home of Mrs. Anderson's
great-grandfather near Trenton, N. j.,
several times" said Mr.. Anderson.
ION one of these occasions 1t is relat-
ed that the general was presented with
two pigs, which he placed in one of
his wagons and took to camp.
'The visit of Lafayette to America,
Of which the pitcher is relic, was
made in 1924, on invitation Of Presl-
dent Monroe, when the French mar
shall laid the cornerstone of the Bun
ker Hill monument. He had paid an
earlier visit to America In 1884.
Between his two visits he had par
ticipated in the French revolution, had
been made commander of the National
Guard and had been made a prisoner
by Austria when he fled the country.
Napoleon had secured his release in
1893 and wanted to make him a peer
of France, but this he refused and ac-
cepted instead seat in the chamber
of deputies.
ut was as a hero of two continents
that he was hailed upon his second
visit to America. and Mrs. Anderson
prizes very highly the quaint blue
pitcher which has come down to her
from that time"