Evening star., 1919-04-20

rents In a given number of years are
to defray the cost of the dwellings,
which will then become their own
property The rents thus imposed are
not to exceed those now paid for
houses of a like size and character-
In the prosecution of their plans TIC
directors have secured, upon advaA-
tageous terms, on a lease of ninety
nine years, an estate of some twenty
four acres belonging to the ecclesi-
astical commissioners. situated at the
southeastern extremity of what is
called Loughborough Park. BriNton.
in close proximity to four district rail
way stations, to and from which work
mems trains run daily. The estate
has been laid out with considerable
care, and from the surveyors estimate
1t is anticipated that A large annual
return will be realized by the working
Of IT, giving good dividends upon rhe
capital employed. The village pfp-
posed to be erected will contain go
houses (each having garden). ar
ranged with view to domestic com
fort and sanitary requirements: pro
vision will also be made for schools.
a lecture hall and reading room.
About 800 houses on the estate have
already been chosen or applied for by
clerks and artisans. who are prepared
to purchase them upon the company's
terms and to inhabit them as soon as
ready. Estimates have been accepted
for the erection of the first batch OF
dwellings," .-
Washington was passing through
an experience nifty years ago some
what similar TO
sswor workersy that Of today in
the reduction OF
UlSQlSScQ. the wartime cier-
ical forces of the departments. ano
particularly the dismissal of women
engaged to do the work Of men In
The Star of April II. 1859. is repro
duced in part a letter written by an
ex-woman clerk to friend abroad
.~rhe details of our dull. prosaic liie
will touch the responsive choros ~
your heart and even in Paris you WI.
gladly read a few pages OF our gooo
own mother tongue and turn from
Vanity Fair to commune Win Ut.
poor pilgrims still in the Slough OF
through the Valley of Humiliation
with a long train of weakened sisters
behind her. Or. to speak more pfalnls;
$50 ladies were yesterday ois1niSSe"
from the rolls OF the Treasury DE
partment and among them your cor
respondent My advice to you IS TO
remain in La Belle France, under the
despotfc rule of an emperor. hepuo-
lies are ungrateful. Being unfortu,
natelv a woman, 1 could not fight and
die for nv country, but could all the
soldiers under my care in the mill
tary hospital during the war form a
brigade believe they would march To
NV rescue and restore my place al the
uofnt of a bayonet All my patri-
otic poetry-'Sister Carrie. Loulst-
ana. The Two Kings and Fort sum
ter'-are forgotten by an ungrateru,
government now that its hour OF neea
is past Seriously speaking: were "
mot for my invalid sister and her two
children. left in destitute circun-
stances, I should feel resigned to my
loss. There are many cases OF eN
treme distress among the removals OF
Widows with children who nave no
other earthly home Greeley thinks
that department life is an admiraple
training for farming. Congress miRht
give a tract OF land to be settled pF
these ladies. I should like to run
moving machine or, like Ruth. CLEAN
in the wheat fields and perhaps meet
a Boaz there. He certainly does not
belong to the fossil life indigenous 70
washington and this department hre
the lowest rung in the ladder for
man-is all that the women can as
pire to. When we vote we will have
three ladies in the cabinet and turn
one-half of the men from the depart
ments, and inquire into the character
of the others. Washington will be
like the New Jerusalem then. with
streets of gold, and the desert and
SOLITARY place will blossom as the
rose. May we be there to see.