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of the British military and naval in
telligence service and then used his
position to receive valuable informa-
ton for the benefit of the German
Admiralty. Among other things he
had obtained, from Herr Gneist, the
German Consul General at Rotter-
dam, the keys to certain secret codes
used by German spies in transmit
ting intelligence. These he used as
bait to "hook" the British authori-
ties.
The next Sunday the revelations
continued, Lincoln telling in detail
how he trapped" certain officers Of
the British War Office and Adrni-
ralty. The story was written, like the
first installment, in an extremely
suggestive style, full of technical
terms, illusions to secret passwords,
high standing but usually unnamed
officials, secrets Of state of the Ut
most significance which 'for the
time being" however, could not be
revealed.
A characteristic phrase repeated
" employed by Lincoln would run
somewhat like this:
Il cannot, as yet, say what the
subject Of my discussion with Cap
tain x. was that day, but If Adni-
ral Z. strains his memory he will
have to admit that I am right"
He Learned Nothing
The truth of the matter, breaking
through the layers of stylistic mys-
tifcation, was that Lincoln, after
several weeks game of hide-and-s seek
in which he pretended to lead the
British authorities by the nose,
learned exactly nothing Of the
secrets he was after, and was, in
fact, himself led on by his supposed
victims. When in the end he found
things were growing too hot for him
ne boarded steamer and left for
New York. Indeed, to the unbiased
reader his escape from arrest seems
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An Unusual Feat

For a foreigner-a Hungarian
Jew at that-to break into Parlia-
ment was an unheard-of achieve
ment, and people began to ask who
Lincoln was. 1t appeared that he
had powerful protector in Mr.. See
bohm Rowntree, the we'll known
cocoa magnate and millionaire phi
lanthropiss. 1t also appeared that he
had been a Protestant clergyman,
and that he had dealings on the
Stock Exchange. A month after his
entry he made his maiden speech on
the floor of the Commons; but after
that his Parliamentary career at
tracted no attention.
When, at the years close, Parlia-
ment was dissolved he did not try
for reelection and was soon forgot
ten. A year later he had trouble
with his creditors, with whom he ar
ranged composition Of five shillings
in the pound.
His next appearance before the
bar of publicity was early in 1915,
when he suddenly emerged in the
lobby of Fifth Avenue hotel in New
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Prospective Mistesses of Big Homes
Decide Servants Should t lave
An Eight Hour Day

furniture Of the proper period. The
entire idea is one of efficient and
economic buying in proportion to
the amount Of money which can be
spent on the house.
This idea Of an economic using Of
the money which has been amassed
through the toll of thousands of
workers is most fully expressed in
the dressmaking and millinery
classes where the students are re-
quested to purchase inexpensive ma
terials. The result is that they
have learned how to make dainty
underwear at comparatively low
cost, how to make chic daytime
frocks from ginghams and simple
materials.
The millinery classes are unus-
ually popular. Attractive, well
made hats are turned out rapidly bv
d6butantes whose fingers have be-
come deft in handling buckram
frames, satin facings and silk lin
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to be his only really successful ex-
ploit.
These articles, revealing Lincoln
not so much as really dangerous
spy but rather as public nuisance
and vainglorious egotist, aroused
considerable interest in this country,
as well as in England, and two
weeks later "The London Daily
Maip' published what purported to
be Lincoln's record.
From this it appeared that he
was born in Paks, little Hungarian
town south of Budapest, in 1879, of
poor but honest Jewish parents. His
original name was Isaac Trebitsch.
In 1896, after having passed
through perfunctory schooling, he
disappeared from the country, much
to the sorrow-according to the
English newspaper-of the Hun
garian police.
In 1897 he was discovered in
Whitechapel, the famous slum quar-
ters Of East London, where he was
helped by missionary whom he re-
warded by stealing his wife's Jew
elry. He took the passport of an
other inmate, Neumann, Of the house
where he was staying, and fed to
the Continent, where he committed
fraud under the name Of Neumann.
Ordained i'm Canada
In 1890 he studied theology in
Germany, and in that year was mar
ried in Hamburg. In the following
year he turned up in Canada, and.
after some time spent at a Presby-
terian college, he was appointed
missionary. Later he Joined the
Anglican Church and was ordained.
In 1903 he returned to England
and became a curate at Appledore,
Kent. Two years later he was heard
Of as teaching at Quaker school in
York.
On August 4, 1915, Lincoln was
arrested by Federal agents in
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economics class

to debutantes in order to take
more active part in the discussion
which follows the lecture hour.
So the class became more and
more popular, tfe lecture room more
crowded and the students more in
terested each week.
Social and economic problems is
by far the most important class in
the school now and one which has
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things which they discuss. Take
cooking, for instance. If one of the
heiresses should inherit hospital or
settlement house-one which her
father had supported and which she
must continue to support-it is
necessary that she know something
OA C.e oecnn.cai side of running such
al Institution if she is to be sue
cessful administrato This very
thing happened in the case of a
settlement house in New York this
last winter.
The student should be able to tell
if complaints against food in a hos
pltal, for instance, are justified. This
presupposes a knowledge of die
tctics. The course in cooking in
cludes such study and also such
practical work as learning how to
make delicious popovers, pancakes
and all sorts of dishes.
Cooking classes are held in the
blue kitchen and the yellow kitchen,
according to the preference of the
student. Both kitchens, in the base
ment of the house, are fully equipped
with individual kitchen cabinets
where each girl concocts simple
dishes.
Cooking for Brides
On Monday and Friday mornings
both kitchens are filled with white
capped and aproned debutantes, all
Of them working hard to master the
eccentricities Of pie crust, mullins,
cut Of beef or a caulihower.
There are reasons beyond civic
housekeeping and the future worry
Of a hospital diet which spur them
on to concentrated effort over a hot
gas stove, too. The majority of the
girls are engaged to be married In
fact, six of the students have been
married the last winter, among them
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Brooklyn and locked up in Ray
mond Street Jail.
Extradition proceedings took
their due course, Lincoln employ
ing lawyers to fight the demand. On
January IS, 1916, Lincoln was taken
from jail by deputy United States
marshal to the Office of the Fed
eral District Attorney in Brooklyn.
On the way back they entered
Fulton Street restaurant for lunch
con. Twenty minutes later Lincoln
disappeared without trace.
The game lasted for over
month. In the mean time Lincoln
mustered the audacity even to call.
in person, at the Office of New
York newspaper, handing in an
other statement challenging the po-
lice. At last, on February 19, three
Department Of Justice agents rec
ognized him on Broadway and, aid
ed by three husky police officers, ar
rested him at the point of a gur,
a feature which Lincoln denounced
as needless melodrama.
After this Lincoln made two more
attempts to flee from jail, one in
April. Both attempts were frus
crated, and at last the court ordered
his extradltion. He was tried in
London, and, on July 4, 1915, SEN
fenced to three years Imprisonment
for forgery.
That was the end Of Lincoln, tae
international spy. For ~lree years
the world heard nothing of him.
Last fall, however, Lincoln reap
peared. On September 21 he made
surprise visit at Amerongen, in
an apparent attempt to see the ex-
Kaiser, in exile there, in behalf of
his royalist friends back home.
1t is obvious that the former spy
was already at this time working
for the Prussian militarist CLIQUE
which two months ago attempted
the abortive Berlin coup. And tha
world may well wonder where Mr..
|. T. T. Lincoln will turn up next.
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en- Girls lake Courses in Citizenship and Housekeeping

caused the name to be changed from
the Home Efficiency to the Common
wealth School. 1t is during the hour
between twelve and one o'clock on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
that the heiresses discuss industrial
history and economic problems.
Debate Eight.Hour Law
1t is not at all amazing to hear
Katherine Mackay, daughter OF
Clarence II. Mackay. president of
the Postal Telegraph Company, and
Alice Dawson, daughter of Henry
+. Dawson, president of the Ameri.
can Red Cross, prominent financie1
and member of j. p. Morgan Com
pany, arguing the relative merits of
an eight-hour day set by law or
won through trade union organiza-
ton. And they know the funda
mental principles involved in both
cases. They will not be convinced
easily.
Nor will the class be left out of
the discussion. Experience has
taught these debutantes that it is
not wise to accept luncheon engage
ments for Tuesday, Wednesday or
Thursday, as the discussion gen
orally lasts far beyond the luncheon
hour.
For instance, last week the pro
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Miss Elizabeth Darlington Frank,
who was recently married to Mr..
Seth Low, and Miss Jane Protheroe,
now Mrs. Paul T. Weeks.
The full course requires twenty
hours of work a week during the
entire school year, or from October
first to June first. However, many
girls come in for the cooking and
dressmaking classes without taking
the full course. With few excep-
tions, such students are expecting
to be married soon. They come
from ali parts Of the country, from
Dallas, Duluth, Detroit, Chicago, St..
Louis and San Francisco. Most of
them are spending the winter in
New York getting their trousseaux
and learning the rudiments of
housekeeping.
Cooking involves not only the
preparation of the meals but the
marketing as well. Field trips are
an essential part of this course
When meats are the topic of study
the class, properly chaperoned by
instructors, motors to nearby mar
ket where the head butcher explains
various cuts of meat to them, gen
orally carving a whole beef in
order that they may really learn
the cuts. In the same way the head
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
TGNATIUS T. T. LINCOLN, from photograph taken in
4 Germany since his release from English prison

newspaper published an article
signed by I. I. T. Lincoln, former
member Of Parliament. After a
brief sketch of his previous career
the author told how he, aroused by
the iniquitous attitude of the British
government toward subjects of en-
emy origin, had sought to betray his
adopted country to Germany The
gist Of the story was that Lincoln,
by aid Of series Of clever ruses, in
sinuated himself into the confidence
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tation of income will do away with
individual initiative, will cripple
economic development of the coun-
try, while the other camp holds that
the individual should be satisfied
with paltry income of $500,000,
that he should be willing to take
big risks for the thrill and thu
love of the game, that 100000
ought to be sufficient yearly income
for any man be he a builder of
South American railroads or mere
dealer in stocks and bonds.
Eight Hours for Servants
After wordy battles the class
stands quite unanimous against the
proposed soldiers bonus and in
favor of the enactment of the eight
hour day and the minimum wage
bills for women in New York
State. They believe in the eight
hour day for the domestic servant
and the right of the girl working in
the home to live her own individual
life, just as the office worker. As
employers of large numbers Of
women in this occupation, they have
yet to work out the details which
will solve the servant problem of the
day.
Social and economic problems in
volve field trips to the municipal
buildings, the State Industria. Com
mission, the city and state depart
ments of public health and such
state Offices. The class has studie /
the municipal and the state govern
ment and knows something of the
problems of running a city after
analyzing the city budget.
This civic housekeeping is not the
least Of the work which students at
the Commonwealth School have,
however. 1t IS quite as important
that they really know how to do the
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w 7HEN, a few weeks ago,
w the American and Brit
W ish correspondents in
Berlin foregathered at
Inc headquarters Of the kapp gov
eminent, to learn all about the
nonarchistic coup from the point
0f view Of the perpetrators, they
were confronted with q portly man
N a frock coat, adorned by a close
clipped black mustache, thick eye
glasses and speaking excellent Eng
lSh.
This man introduced himself as
supreme censor of the revolutionist
regime, and proceeded forthwith to
make himself distinctly Disagree
a0le to the journalists. He repri-
handed them, "butchered" dis
patches with a merciless blue pen
U| and even tore up copy that in
'arred his displeasure.
H. correspondents stood aghast
"0' the least astounded were those
MO recognized an old acquaintance
:" me man with the impossible man
.''s' They rubbed their eyes, re
Using to believe what they saw.
"sS 1t possible that Messrs. Kapp,
-'''witz and Bauer could not find
more suitable man to fill the all
s'pOrtant post of revolutionary
F'ess agent than Isaac Trebitsch,
Va r.'0 Known as Ignatius Timothy r.
~'''oin' self-confessed international
=. ana ex-convict, released only
W. ", summer from His Britannia
AaeS'ys prison after three years
s4ahement there for common for
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gerry in British court he has in
dulged himself in the role of an anti
English fanatic of the my -life-will-
be-spent-in-revenge" brand; yet it is
more than likely that he never did
take the pose seriously. Above all,
he is an actor and a sportsman---of
kind; and it is far from unlikely
that under more propitious circum,
stances, given a favorable early
start, he might have rendered useful
service to society instead Of waging
on it a ceaseless guerrilla warfare.
The world at large took notice of
I. T. T. Lincoln first when he, in
January, 1910, was elected Liberal
member of Parliament in the Darl
ington bye-election, defeating his
Conservative opponent by a substan-
fia} N, q ioritv
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posed law limiting individual in
comes to s5oO,o00 a year called forth
debate that was enlightening and
enlivening. Some very definite opin-
ions were expressed, opinions backed
by a technical knowledge of eco
nomics that was amazing to the cas-.
ual visitor.
And the question is not settled
yet. One camp maintains that limi.
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York, telling bitter stories to people
he met about the treatment he, and
with him all naturalized British sub
jects of German, Austria or Hun
garian birth, was subjected to by
the British authorities. Otherwise,
he behaved quietly. and nobody
either knew or cared what he was
up to. Then, on May 23, 1915, out
Of the proverbial clear sky came the
proverbial thunderbolt.
On that day New York Sunday
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ings. 1t is puzzling to know
whether the hat student wears has
been made by her own hands or
whether it has been purchased at a
shop which deals exclusively in i'm
ported models and prices.
The cost of living is being reduced
greatly in so far as the clothing
allowances of these girls go. Not
infrequently do they arrive in
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Rival of Bolo Pasha

q. .D'feolbie, but ssch was the case.
,ns as OF the most picturesque adven-
~. 20 shet to the surface and again
/. 'ioea by the maelstrom of war
~, e@ppeared. to crown-tempo-
.a.s a.~hat is, perhaps, next to
Az " the late Bolo Pasha, the
tss, varied career Of the interna~
chronique scandaleuse" of
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How to Furnish a House

Household furnishings mean
study of textiles and trips to ex-
elusive shops where the class learns
how to select textiles for hangings
and coverings and the principles in
volved in fitting adjacent rooms with
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SchooI, or start OH Tor tea, clad,
with the exception perhaps of top
coat and shoes, in clothes which they
have made for themselves. And the
game is quite worth the candle, they
say.
To Have a Dormitorv
Enthusiasm for their work has
led the director Of the school 70
make tentative plans for lengthen-
ing the course from one year to
two years. Requests from the girls
themselves for more extensive train
ing have called forth this plan. The
increasing number Of students com
ing from al parts OF TIE country to
the school viii soon make dormi-
tory necessary. A. the present time
girls from OFT OF town are housed in
homes under carefui chapc:onage.
The plan is to have, at some future
time. house or large a2ar5 5raent.
which viii be conducsaa by the school
and presided over by tie director,
where tn girls may live and have
an opportunity to see and hear
worthwhile thiHgs during the win
ter season, as well as attend the
school.
Stenography and typewriting will
be dropped from the course next
year, inasmuch as the board does
cot feel that the school should COM
pete in any way with commercial
schools, and since the war emer-
gency is over. However, the Red
Cross classes and the occupational
therapy work will be continued, as
knowledge of sickroom care Is
essential to the general plan Of
community citizenship.
Banking and investment, course
designed TO be Of assistance to the
woman who will manage her own
affairs, will be an important addi-
ton to the curriculum next year,
and social and economic problems
will be a requirement for graduation.
This decision of the administrative
GARD is result Of its belief that
IN understanding of the problems of
he day is essential to the intelligent
management Of the home and to full
citizenship.
Women must stay in the home"
Mrs. Pratt says. "Otherwise civili-
cation will break down. With the
increasing demands upon women,
resultant from their entering into a
larger and fuller life outside of the
home, however, they must learn eff
clent management of the home. BY
so doing they will be able to main
tain the home and be able to accent
their responsibilities in the commu-
nifty as we'll"
Seven girls will graduate from
the Commonwealth School full-time
course on May 26. They are Alice
Dawson, Priscilla Murdock, Henri
eta Murray, Grace Raymond and
Anita Grill, of New York; Josephine
Cotton, Duluth, and Dorothy Dono-
van, Toledo.
Miss Murdoch is president Of the
senior class, and Alice Dawson is
secretary.
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latter years, as boss Of the Kapp
committee Of public information.
A summary Of this career sounds
like a twentieth century fairy tale.
Here are its principal stages: poor
emigrant Hungarian Jewish boy.
converted to Christianity in Lon.
don slum; student of divinity in
Germany; Presbyterian preacher,
then Anglican clergyman in Can
ada; curate in Kent village; pri.
vate secretary and general facto.
tum to a British cocoa magnate !;
Liberal member of Parliament; !;
would-be volunteer in the British
secret service and simultaneously
German spy and agent provocateur;
"political refugee" in the United
States, fighting, from the Brooklyn
Federal Prison, extradition to Brit
ain on a charge of common forgery;
convict in an English penitentiary;
go-between of the Prussian mon
archist clique and the recluse Of
Amerongen.
dope" enough for q couple of de-
tective novels? And this is nothing
but the barest outline. Between any
two stages the transition is formed
by a number of sensational episodes,
themselves sufficient for moderate
sized movie serial And behind them
all the man Trebitsch, now suave
and smiling, now grimly defiant,
then again abject and fearful, relat-
ing in a tremolo voice the hardships
of his constrained youth.
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Loves Excitement

One thing must be said for him:
According to available evidence, he
is no common criminal of the get
rich-ouick- ost-what-it-may-type. His
objective is excitement and notoriety
rather than money; he despises
smugness, plays with danger, is will
ing to risk his person for a good
joke--as Will be seen, his love OF
kidding" proved his undoing right
here in New York.
Ever since his conviction for for
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
COMMONWEALTH means ac-

| cording to Webster. the
I 4 whole body Of people in
state. That is why the word
s., been Incorporated into the name
ia girls school in New York.
A. the Commonwealth School
,sughters of rnillionaires, multi and
,.ssrwise. learn of the economic
md industrial problems which face
j. community in which they live
md the state They learn of the
-ssponsihlities which they must face
:, the present day world as guard
;,,s Of the worlds wealth. Through
Indy and discussion they are try
,re to understand how to improve
onditions which have resulted from
he aecruine Of that wealth.
The Commonwealth School is very
young-just three years old. 1t is
housed in an old brownstone front
IN the upper Fifties, between Lex
i,gton ard Third avenues, rather
cosmopolitan section O. the city. AS
bef.s its name, il is decorated and
furnished throughout in the simplest
sind OF manner.
Started by Women
The idea Of the school originated
with group Of women, members of
the Parents League, who have
harmed through experience as men,
bers of hospital, settlement house
and various welfare boards the ne
cessity Of an intelligent under
sanding Of civic and community
problems. Mrs. Harold Irving Pratt
is the chairman; Mrs. John Henry
Hammond he vice-chairman; Mrs.
John E RousnaN ere secretary. and
Mrs. Carl a De Gersdorff chairman
Of the finance committee. The ad-
ministrative board includes women
Of prominence, such as Mrs. Henry
P Dawson, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchin-
closs, Mrs. ], Rowland Auchincloss,
Mrs. Dom Barber, Mrs. Harry
Hardness Flagler, Mrs. Walker D.
Hines, Mrs Gordon Glass, Mrs.
William Pierson Hamilton, Mrs.
Elon H. Hooker, Mrs. Hamilton
Rogers and Mrs. Junius 5. Morgan jr.
When the school was founde4
:hree years ago it was known as the
Home Efficiency School. But the
name did not fit. To be sure, the
Students learned how to cook, how
to market, how to furnish a home,
how to buy textiles, how to make
heir own clothes and their own
hats. During war time they learned
stenography and typing in order 10
do work for draft boards and other
government bureaus. But the idea
Of the school IS bigger than that.
As Mrs. Pratt says:
We soon began to realize that it
was necessary to make the girls bet
ter citizens, to teach them how to
keep the entire community clean and
healthy, not just how to take care
Of their own homes"
Girls Learn About Strikes
Then came the class in social and
economic problems. and along with
IL whole new set Of problems for
the helresses Of American fortunes,
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grocer explains how to select the
best vegetables and fruits.
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school. Or start off for tea, clad,
with the exception perhaps Of top
coat and shoes, in clothes which they
have made for themselves. And the
game is quite worth the candle, they
say.
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Girls Learn About Strikes

Then cane the class in social and
economic problems. and along with
IL whole new set Of problems for
the heiresses Of American fortunes,