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The Washington herald., 1918-10-20
The City of Masks"

1T is of the high born'who dwell
in low places that this tale is told.
1t is OF aristocracy that serves and
smiles and seldom sneers behind
its mask" The tale is by George
Barr McCutcheon and il is called
The City OF Masks" the city being
New York and the masks mostly
imaginary though thoroughly effec-
tive. There was nothing to show
that Mrs. Sparfight. who ran the
modlste's shop known as Deborah's,
was really a narchioness and con-
Quoted a salon above stairs to
which the whole coterie focked
every Wednesday night. duchesses,
princesses. lords and all.
No one would have supposed that
the faultless man servants who
hovered about on these occasions
were merchants Of considerable
standing, CrickIewick, the butler.
being received on other nights
than Wednesday in more than one
wealthy home as an honored guest.
Buffers have the advantage Of
most of the nouveaux riches
through their early training TIL"
lovers Of the story are Lord Eric
Temple and Lady Jane Thorne
temporarily Tom Trotter chauffeur.
and Miss Elmsdsle, governess.
There are grave tangles. narrow
escapes in plenty and the inevita-
BILE wedding bells. The end OF
the story comes just before tho
war begins and after Lord and
Lady Temple have returned to Eng
land. So il doesn't end very happily
after all George Barr McCutcheon
delights in writing this sort of eX-
travaganza and a great many peo-
pie delight in anything that he
chooses TO offer, but il isn't up to
Graustark and Castle Craneycrov
and the books he used to write ten
years ago.
The City OF Masks" BY George
Barr McCutcheon. Dodd Mead 4
Co $3.50
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AMERICANS BUILDING
CITY FOR REFUGEES
Construction of Sanvic Started for
Belgian Sufferers.

The foundation of the future city
of Sanyic. built by the generosity Of
the American Red Cross to house
homeless Belgian refugees, have just
been laid, according to a report re
ceived yesterday by the Belgian Infor-
nation Service.
The site Of this new city. financed
and built by Americans under the di-
rection of an official assigned by the
Belgian minister Of the interior. Is
near the forts of Tourneville, France:
near Havre, on a hilIy spot which is
being leveled and made ready for the
construction OF 100 TO 80 houses imme-
diately.
Building material in large quan,i-
ties has been transported to the site
The houses will be built after a stand
ard pattern, TO he composed Of four
largo rooms. and will be surrounded
by grass plots and flower beds There
Will be two schools. a cooperative
store a maternity hospital and a large
entertainment hall. The latter is we'll
under construction.
A road has been built and prepara-
nons made for installing an electric
lighting plant. Plenty of drinking wa
ter and all the conveniences of a mod
crn city will be furnished. The new
city will administer its own affairs
under the direction OF a burgomastcr.
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Federal Legislation stiu Increasing.

Events OF recent years all DoIHt in
the direction Of further cUrtaiimcnt
OF State in favor OF federal powe-
in the opinion of Henry Litchfield
West whose authoritative study OF
the subject. under the title. Federal
Power: Its Growth and Necessity"
has just been published hy George
II. Doran Company. He gives some
striking examples Of federal cUu'rol
which have met with popular ap-
proval.
AS an evidence that We have not
reached the limit OF the application
Of federal power. shoals of measures
are introduced in each succeeding
session OF Congress pointing the way
to further extensions. For instance.
Maryland, Rhode Island, New York.
New jersey. and West Virginia, hsv-
ing adopted State laws to Climinat te
idleness. and these laws having heen
executed with some degree Of sue
cess. IT is now proposed. through fed
eral legislation, to apply The same
idea to the entire nation. there arc
also propositions to punish The false
advertisement of any security or
commodity which enters into inter-
state commerce; to establish uniform
prices for uniform commodities; to
attach a federal label to all fabrics
and leather goods; to provide for the
federal inspection and grading Of
grain: and to fix the size of fruit
baskets. The National Wage Com
mission bill has many advocates. 1t
provides that the President shall ap-
point wage commissioner for each
Congressional district in the United
states to investigate every complaint
Of alleged insufficient. inequitable or
unjust wage.
No one can examine the record
Of the laws already passed. nor scan
the list of measures awaiting action,
without realizing that popular ap-
proval is bestowed upon every effort
to invoke federal aid in the secure
ment Of beneficent results"
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.Thr NnniAhsd Hclgs.'

One report OF a publishers reader
on the manuscript of this book reads.
Il read the book with delight straight
through to the end. II has real dis
tinction Of style and novelty OF
theme. 1t is one OF the best things
! have had in my hands for long
sime" Another report says: "A
strong. unconventional story told with
balance and appeal" a third runs.
This author has a very high order
of intelligence: she has. further,
literary style which in its excellence
reminds one OF the style OF Henry
James. She has. in addition. the
ability TO make her characters of pro-
nounced human interest"
1t is the story OF a cosmopolitan
woman OF wealth whose heart had
never been touched-and Of its ro-
mantle momentary yielding. end at
length, after much had come 10 pass,
OF its final surrender. even against
her own determination
The Helga is a yacht. and the love
story Is presented against the back
ground of a picturesque cruise.
BY Elizabeth F. Corbett. published
by George II. Doran Co. Price $50
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of dollars were collected and the
autograph program was auctioned of
at ten and twenty thousand dollars
night. All this Miss Taylor wrote
down In her own whimsical way late
at night when she came or with
some humorous little epigram on each
town. and plenty of generous praise
for the nationwide response to this
unique effort. The record contains
bits of the favor of the stage life
and something of the humor of an
all-star performance. The cast was
made up of Miss Laurette Taylor,
Mrs. Fiske. Beryl Mercer. Eleanora
Cisneros. Helen Ware, Julia Arthur,
George NJ. Cohan, James Powers,
Chauncey Olcott, George Arliss. De
Wolf Hopper. and half dozen more.
Miss Taylor is. now playing sea
son in Happiness I'm New York.
THE Greatest OF These" by Lau-
rette Taylor. Published by George
II. Doran Company. Price $50.
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sundnr. octohcr en. 1aIN

sinister are tn srgrs for this dav-
according TO sstro3oEv Iranus. Mar
and Mercury are al ir ey1' DLars
i IS a time 70 keep quiet sroldInE
associations or movements OF any sort
since large Cist-esscs MAY gpr7DE
from small incidents under this sway
OF the stars.
There ts a forhiddinC ru'r 'o- lot
tiers or writings OF any sort Ua1E~r
is 20 ne feared from documents which
may be- put 10 wrong Usc
i appears from the rcadi1E q -1"
stars hat state Papers or rus"TU-
mCnt contracts. maps and plans may
be stolen.
During this month last week thr-e
may be attacks Oh public Tror and az
saUlts upon their records. The
should be very CirCUuspeCr
Under this cuD1Eurat ON GOOD news
OF our armies may hy delayed.
QUsrrels and husty actions arc 30
lievcd to BE- encouraged by tr-s
planetary government which is ui
good for oon-, site Dea0"
Humanity. which Is more resT'ns We
TO influences that ar destructive than
to opposite sways Of the stars. SHOULD
guard against cre6UHty which accepts
in reports o. hsrhors Uu'rarns @oWn
by enemies Of the nation
Uranus again warns a-a-us; aanEer
from explosions Men rU 7romincnt
l.os.tIons should he Cauuous
While this rule prevails docks ana
sr.0yards come under -u' leiii
thai is exceedingly th-ea-en.r- Ao-
cideuts or disasters are md ..ai.a
The ascendant seems fn Usage
weeks of extraordinary pub. 'N.tl'-
rlent over elections and o'l0 events.
November may be a month q. sensa-
tions
Persons whose hirthdsr' .' rs may
have a successful yea~ Il tnol sac
guard the health and T'a-. ~
changes. Promotions ar- probable Tor
those employed
Children born on this aa' may be
rash. high strung sna oosliIlAle
These wayward subjects OF Scorplo
should not try 10 conduct business AZ
fairs.
fC0~1rht lqs1
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Second in importance to Charles and.
Madeline are young Chicagoan.
Mike" Kelly, who is a student at
Oxford. and a unique and wonder
full English girl. Viola Mainwaring.
whose age for some years had veered
around twenty" The contrast be-
tween these four characters, two
American and two British, owing to
difference in training and tradition, is
worked out with diverting cleverness.
At Christ Church, Oxford. where. by
the way, the author himself received
part of his education. Charles gets a
place In one of the boats and goes
into training as an oarsman.
"The discipline did him a world OF
good. The accomplished coach has
the happy knack OF making the self
satisfied 'F'resher' realize that he is a
babe who, after a thousand years,
might be permitted to go in a rowboat
with a nurse"
Drums Afar." by John Murray
Gibbon
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20
ssTaIes from BirdIund.r

Tales from Birdland." by T. Gil
bert Pearson. has been issued by
Doubleday, Page & Co. in both trade
and educational editions. Both are
illustrated by Charles Livingston
Bull, and the text is. of course, iden-
teal The difference is in the bind
ing and title for the edition which is
handled by Doubleday. Page q Co.'S
educational department was designed
purely for school use (fifth grade)
and already has been adopted by a
number Of schools. The title is The
Bird Study Book"
The trade edition for general use
under the title OF Tales from Bird
land" contains a colored frontispiece
like the educational edition and many
charming and striking Illustrations
The author. as secretary of the Audu-
bon Society, has made a lifelong study
OF birds and is a well-kuown author
ity upon them, while Mr.. Bull who
contributes the pictures is well Rncwn
for his nature work.
The stories have a peculiar charm
in that they teach nature lore from
the most scientifically exact under
standing of the subject, yet at the
same time clothe It with the charm
OF fiction.
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Amy LoweII's New Book Of Verse.

Fascinated. we hang upon the
stray particulars about Amy Lo-
wells forthcoming book Of poly
phonIc prose" Can Grande's Cas-
tie" The contents are now dis
closed TO be as follows: Sea Blue
and Blood Red" based on the story
OF Lord Nelson and Lady Hamil-
ton; Guns as Keys; And the Great
Gate Swings" dealing with Perry's
visit TO Japan; this has already ap-
peared in a periodical and in Mr..
Braithwaite's anthology Of msga-
zine verse for 1917 and its quality
is known; Hedge Island" "a retro
spect and a prophecy Of the old
world dissolvinE into a new, and
The Bronze Horses" having for its
subject the great equestrian group
that decked a triumphal arch in
Rome. that was removed TO Con
stsntinople by Constantine, that
was seized by the Venetians in the
Fourth Crusade and placed over
the portico Of the BasiliCa OF St
Mark. that was taken to Paris by
Napolcn. that was returned to Ven
ice in 1914 and that has remained
in Venice until recently when the
Austrian incursion made II neces-
sary to send the group for safety
to-Rome. Home after 1000 years.
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DEHYDRATING FOOD
GREAT WAR FACTOR
Millions of Pounds Ordered by
Food Officials

With an appropriation of $3.50. 900. the
government has begun food dehy-
dration program under Lou D. Sweet
Of the United States Food Adrinistra-
ton, whose appointment was an
LCunced yesterday.
Mr.. Sweet will represent the Depart
ment OF Agriculture. which mas set
aside quarter of a million dollars for
I"therance of food LreservatiUn by
driving.
The War Department, in the last
few weeks, has ordered rrU'n Cana
dlar and American dehydraLinS es:ab-
!shments more than 4J.jO0.gJ pour6s
Of dehydrated food, rel -n,,.ntm. an
expenditure of about 100000 The
orderes include chiefly potatoes, car
rots, onions and 4 small supply of
soup mixtures.
The Food Administrator cites the
fact that in New York CITY .tiCnc IasI
January approximately ) GLD, GOO pounds
"t i.Jtatoes "H.r thrown away be-
ca Ise they were fros.ri and royIed in
transit
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20
BOOK of Mary Jcmison

A twentieth edition has inst heen
puollshed by the American Scenic and
historic Preservation Society Of thai
quaint and valuable old book. THE
LIE OF Mary Jemison," bv James
Everett Spear. The first edition was
punhshed @ at Canandaigua, N. Y. in
lo-4 the narrative having been given
10 br' spear by Mary herself. then a
woman or 81. A copy of the original
edltlon' with its pages the size OF
postcards, is now worth 800.
IN lts new form the book is the re-
SUIT or hve-year labor of love on the
part OF Charles Delamater Vail. emeri
Lus professor of English at Hobart
Sollege' II Is arranged in three parts
faT Is a reproduction of the Crst
eoitlon, including its typographical er-
rors. Part II includes former addi-
tions by Ebenezer Mix. Lewis Henry
Morgan, LII d, William Clement
Bryant, Mrs. Asher Wright and l,ill-
lam Pryor Letchworth, LII D.. with
new matter by DIR. Vail, William HoI-
Iand samson and Edward Hagaman
Han, L. H. D. Part III consists of
historical, biographical and archaeo-
logical notes. chiefly by DR.. Vail.
ABOUT third of the illustrations are
from photographs by DR.. Hall of
scenes and landmarks connected with
Mary Jemison's life.
Mary Jemison's history briefly is
TINS: She was born of Irish parents
at sea In 1I4S. In 175s she was cap
tured by the Indians near oettys-
burg, Pa; she was adopted by the
Senecas on the Ohio; moved to the
Genesee In New York; married Indian
husbands and had children; lived
among the Indians all her Me and
died at the age of 90 She Is buried
in Letchworth Park. beautiful tract
of 1000 acres, on the 0enesee River,
which the late william Pryor Letch-
R0gt0 @0N u TIA A9t1fe Her haoL
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20
War Gardens Mean More Beautiful
Cities.

Montague Free, author of War
Gardens" shows that war gardens are
not only going to be assets by means
of vegetable raising. but also by
beautifying the country. He sa rs:
America is not a gardening nation
Judged from European standards. but
this agitation for the production of
food by every one who has, or can
obtain, a plot of ground is going to
make US one. Those people who have
once cultivated the ground and raised
plants will have had their interest
stimulated, and when the food short
age is over their activities will find
an outlet in the production OF flowers.
which cannot but result in more bean,
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20
By Loniiac
BOOKDOM

young can read @Drums Aar" without wanting
Oxfordand wart that there little red
blood his This new by John Murray
Gibbon the cosmopoe who writes
ngy about with which he thoroughly
familiar whether he describing young Chicago law
Oxford esher matter whether characters
London, Oxford, Strasbug Chicago Newport Calgary.
His main theme affair Oxford Charles Fitz
norris and Chicago girl Madeline Raymond in Germany England
United States and Canada and then England under the
What of had their
be revealed in this particular Novelist
bbon without be rreveent running the Book Of
Reye
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PURELY PERSONAL.

Michael Ware, OF the ue3srtmeFrf
OF Ia Dor. has returned from a bust
ness trip 10 ridEeporJ. Conn.
Charles T. Simmons has returned 10
his desk IN the Treasury Department
after an absence OF three weeks.
caused by illness
Walter r. Tyler. OF the Coss. and
Geodeuc Suryey, has received q pro
motion
Benjamin \. Ouarles. cr the General
land OflC=. has resigned
Cornelius A Brown. os the General
Engineer Depot is c0ufn05 10 lis
LONE with ths Influenza
Archibald J.. MURRAY "a. ~eJur1vl
from visit 10 his home rr C--SSt!l.
Md
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Uncle Ichabod.

By EDMUND VANCE COOKE
Most everyhin you git these DAYS" said Uncle Ichabod
Whether tote it home yourself, em send it COP
1t simply cuts the heart of your spindn dwindn wad
Just everythin is gon up, from kites emberelers;
don't know nothn goin down. unless diggin' cellars
The influenza up and womens skirts are higher
And u S. mail is risin it's carried fer
But lsyn Of all jokes aside and that amt no harm in
The priee OF eyeytn from foolishness farmin
But sr the price of is the most alarming
Why, last week / feein just leetle mite askew
And went to the DOCTOR thinkin might dodge the flu
And last eyenin discovered, when fggered up my bills
He had charged thirteen dollars dozen sugar dill
Copyright, 1913
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20
NEWSY NOTES.
Seimn LsserIof and Japanese.

Already the works of Selma Lager
lof have been translated into most OF
the foreign languages. including many
of the more obscure ones. The ap-
plication just received by Doubleday.
Page and Company, her publishers in
America, for the right to translate
Jerusalem" into japanese makes the
second or third book of hers to be
reproduced m that language. The ap-
plication comes from Mr.. Minoru
Matsushima- of Kyoto. who is pub
Usher of a large paper there
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20
STOMACH TROUBLE OR
TAPEWORM BANlSHED

NAM r~rsans who suffer from stnma1h Ucsi-
h. T~,rry hsvp A taDssorn and don't know n
A za1utred rr-ns5y which has proven 70 D
,cr'.rt.hIy rfe-tire IN eEpsIlinE ta1swo-ns and
siyipg ouieE relief 10 al forms q siSnlAoh tou
BE Is being sent on fire. trhl b ne scho~hheT
-. d, q, r.-,0ye fu Ie7ss than one hour any
tsr.suo-rn with its head. No pain, no ole7ns,
no danger; also 70 rSIisTe Eny form ot stomach
,-,.Itle ~ its ensts nothinE- THke sduutsp
Of their free tziL ode. NrHs tA.n tosAsS-
AT
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20
Army Saves Thousands
By Conserving of Tin

Saving s. on every kettle, by elm
mating the tin plate from 10000 cook
ing kettles for army rolling kitchens,
the Quartermaster Corps, it was an
nounced yesterday. has effected an
economy of approximately s25O, 900 and
has conserved tin needed for other
war purposes.
1t was found by tests that the tin
plate in the kettles, after preparing
thirty-five meals, had disappeared
from most OF the kettles. and 10000
of them now have been made without
the plating.
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A LINE O. CHEER
EACH DAY o. THE YEAR.
By John Kendrick BanEs.
PATRIOTIC AUTUMN.

The gorgeous red upon the tree,
Tho depths OF blue on sky and sea,
The silvery white of frosty rime
These mornings crisp OF Autumn
time.
The starry splendor OF the night.
Give me a thrill OF glad delight
AS in their union fair see
The emblem blest of Liberty
The stars, the Blue, the White, the
Red,
By God's own hand about us spread.
cOoyn1ht. fNAy
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20

uful cities and happier citizens"
Montague Free was trained at the
famous Kew Gardens. London, and is
now head gardener of the Brooklyn
Botanical Gardens. In War Gar
dens," published by Harper and
Brothers. he states simply and clearly
the ways and means necessary to OBJ
tain the largest returns from small
plots of land.
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strange Fate of ~Riders of the
Purple Sage

Zane Grey, in a recent letter 10 Hsr-
per & Brothers, his publishers. gives
an unusual piece OF news concerning
copy of one Of his books, Riders Of
the Purple Sage" He says: Il in
close the best and sadoest news l
ever had In connection with my books.
cousin OF mine in the S07th Infantry
at the front writes me that one OF his
comrades was found dead on the field:
and the bullet that killed him passed
clear through a copy OF Riders Of the
Purple Sage which he carried under
his coat. and then through his heart
The book was buried with him" The
tale the unfortunate fellow must have
been reading shortly before his death
is an American romance OF the South
west In the days OF gun fighting. Sew
eral horses are heroic figures. and the
tale differs widely from Zane Grey's
latest novel. The L. ?. Trail" which
tells OF the dramatic building OF the
Union Pacific railroad.
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Hyphenated Citizens in Eng land.
The Greatest of These,

This is the diary kept by Miss
Laurette Taylor of the all-star cast
which did one-night stands across the
country for. the benefit of the Red
Cross in j. Hartley Manners play
'toNA ThaSA" - AAch Nity thouoands
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20

L. w. Benner and his son Edward,
of Rockland, Me, have dug more than
nine bushels of potatoes produced
from peck they planted. They think
the1 have aaas DxsttS veil sas har-
berS
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20

10 one OF the great original sources
of knowledge Of the old American In
dian life.
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WILSON'S FOURTEEN
TERMS FOR PEACE (
NOW MORE SEVERE
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

ASS cH'A--
peace hereby addresses itself to
his lordship the President OF the
United States OF America and Of
fers to conclude with him and his
allies an armistIce on every front
on land, at sea and in the air.
and to enter Immediately upon
negotiations for a peace for which
the fourteen points In the message
of President Wilson to Congress
of January s, 1918. and the four
points contained In President VIII
sons address of February II, 1913,
should serve as a foundation and
in which the viewpoints declared
by President Wilson in his address
of September 81, 1918. will also be
taken into account
Be pleased to accept, etc.
(Signed) w. A. +. EKENkNEN,
His Excellency,
Mr.. Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State OF the United
States, Washington.
Reply of the United States.
The following reply was sent b!
Secretary Lansing:
From the Secretary of State to the
Minister of 81. eden.
Department of State.
October is. 1918.
Sir:
l have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your note of the 7th
instant in which you transmit
communi ca ton of the imperial and
royal government OF Austria
Hungary to the President. I am
~ hA
request YOU to be good enough.
through your government. to con-
vey to the imperial and royal
government the following reply:
The President deems II his duty
10 say to the Austro-Hungarian
government that he cannot enter
tain the present suggestions OF
that government because of GER
tain events of Utmost importance
which, occurring since the delivery
of his address of the Sth OF jan
Uary last. have necessarily altered
the attitude and responsibility of
the government of the United
States. Among the fourteen terms
Of peace which the President form
ulated at that time occurred the
following:
X. The peoples of Austria Hun
gary, whose place among the ma
tions we wish to see safeguarded
and assured. should be accorded
the freest opportunity of autono-
nous development
Since that sentence was written
and uttered to the Congress Of the
United States the government Of
the United States has recognized
that a state Of belligerency exists
between the Czecho-Slovaks and
the German and Austro- Hungarian
empires, and that the Czecho- -SIo-
wax National Council is a DC facto
belligerent government clothed
with proper authority to direct the
military and political affairs OF
the Czscho-Slovaks. It has also
recognized IN the fullest mauner the
justice OF tho nationalistic aspira-
tions Of the JuEo-Slavs for free
dom.
The President is. therefore, NJ
longer at liberty TO accept the
mere autonomy of these peoples
as basis of peace. but is obliged
10 insist that they, and not he,
shall be the judges OF what action
on the part of the Austro- -Hungar-
ian Government will satisfy their
aspirations and their conception OF
their rights and destiny as mem
bers of the family of nations"
Accept, Sir. the renewed assur-
ances OF my highest consideration.
(SignedD ROBERT LANSING.
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20

Prompt compliance with President insstence that Hun
be removed from allied indicated the
grade movement the Western
The Washington herald., 1918-10-20

When the Kases lieutenant told him there were 1000 oo
asked brought them over Tb
"Lusitania' question
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That mixed commission the
be mixed before the Hun officers got through with it
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That mysterious stranger with handkerchief tied acro,
not highway robber-merey good citizen in his "f,