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wage to reach a bank after receiyinf
their pa. but a post office Is usual ~
available VIM the people fully
understand that their post office Offer
them modern banking facilities they
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own advantage and at no resi M
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yorT,dgexerk last Thursday evening
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~ ~. baef of good wishes will
go With him from many friends who
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ton of her brother Amos ifult last
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tsps4 Wi. saand hsr 8ummef aacation
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few dage last week OF Miss Alice John-
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-15

chant over his counter, the business
man in his office and the woman in
her home. shall show you how the
new woman has taken the place Of
the man, and I may even speak Of
why the stork is nesting in Germany
and how the Rachel of France is
mourning for her children because
they are not. shall not write war
stpn or politics. though If q king or
= president should tell me his hopes
a1d his woes'I may report them.
am not proph or IN. snn Of
q prophet, and I shall not predict.
Ny expedition is solely one of discov-
cry. I am but an humble explorer.
travelling over the European continent
from farm to farm, from workshop
to workshop. from town to town, and
from coantr, % o3:n-' ut IL. s~,.-
rotary at my elbw jotting down just
what see. may now and then take
a Zeppelin or an airplane to cover
long distances, but most of these
travels will be in automobiles, with
my. camera ready for any strange shot
that may offer.
Indeed. feel am the modern Co
lumbua In 1892 the great Genoese
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A Nd Just here let me say a word
"A about how America IS conquer
ing the ocean. We are apt TO
think of the British. the French and
the Germans as the fnanciers of the
sea. This was so before the world
war. It is not so today. Uncle Sam
has a big share In the traffic Of the
Atlantic, including many of the
steamers that fly foreign flags. Take
the International Mercantile Marine,
to which the Majestic belongs. The
American company has ships on al
most every ocean and 1t operates
some of the biggest liners that go
to Europe. Many of them fly foreign
flags, but the stock of the parent
corporation is owned by Americans
According to information given me
by it's officials, only per cent is
held outside the United States, which
means that out of every dollar in
vested in the Majestic. the Homeric
and the Olympic. not TO mention any
others. sc cents is American money.
The British officers. sailors and 9TH
ers who operate the vessels are really
our servants. and if the ships make
or lose, the loss or profit will come
to us. In addition to this there is
American money in Belgian and
Dutch steamship lines, and we have
over four thousand vessels under the
American flag. including those of the
Shipping Board, whose magnificent
fleet goes out to all the chief ports
of the world.
Copyright. 1922 by Frank G. Carpenter,
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MODERN COLUMBUS SAILS EASTWARD FROM To DISCOVER NEW WORLD EURO

tional. making her total investment
one-hundred and twenty-seven thou
sand, five hundred dollars. Added to
this. Columbus put in what was about
one-eighth of the whole; and eighty
thousand dollars was subscribed by
the citizens of Palos. the port from
which the fleet started forth on that
memorable voyage. The ships and
their outfits cost two hundred and
thirty-six thousand dollars. 1 take
these figures from Fiske's 1.-The Dis
covery of America" and he believes
them too large. They represent the
total expense Of that trip of dis
covery.
Now let me give you some items
Majestic. AS the modern Columbus.
shall not tell. what Individually
pay. Suffice it to say it is enough.
and the gold eagles squealed when
handed over the dollars. But the
Majestic. which was constructed by
the Germans at much lower wages
than those of today. would cost, If
built now. somewhere between
twenty and twenty-five million dol
lars. and in order to pay any kind
of profit on the Investment she must
earn for every round trip nearly
twice the cost Of the fleet which CO.
lumbus took across the Atlantic.
This ship can hardly last more than
twenty-five years. SO that in addition
to its ordinary profits it has to earn
a depreciation Of about one million
dollars a year.
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THAT the rose is the national flower
Of England and was accepted az
such at the conclusion of the war of
the roses, when the red rose Of Lam
caster and the white rose Of York
were united by the marriage of the
representatives of the two warning
houses, most readers of history know.
How this flower came to be the badge
of either house, not many people
even guess. The few students who
suppose they know it's history say
that the white rose came to the house
of York through the family Of Cliff
ford, whose device 1t had long been
and beyond whom it cannot be traced.
The red rose. it is supposed, dates
back to Eleanor Of Provence, queen
Of Henry III. and was her personal
device. assumed for love Of the beau-
tiful Provence roses of her native
duchy and transmitted to her descend
ants Of Lancaster.
But Of late years devoted students
of historic traditions have brought
I to light a new and picturesque origin
of the national flower of England.
The story was obtained in a chateau
of the little town Of Provins, France.
According to 1t. the red rose of Eng
land was never a Provence rose. but
instead was a rose Of Provins.
Now. the chateau Of Provins be-
longed centuries ago to the counts
of Champagne, and In the time Of the
fourth crusade one Of these counts
called Thibaut the Troubadour. be-
came q crusader and visited the Holy
Land.
On his return he brought to his
wife a rose bush with splendid
bright crimson hower-the rose OF
Sharon-and this was planted In the
castle garden, where it grew and
fourished.
Soon it spread to the neighborins
gardens and the town became famous
for roses. wreathsl for the great
church festivals were made from
these roses from the Holy Land: they
were used to grace all gala occasions
and the good French housewives even
turned them to moro practical &C
count. They made such an appetite.
ing delicacy from rose leaves put ur
with sugar or strip that its fame
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was done by Robin Hood and his band
in Sherwood forest before the days
of Columbus, and there are great steel
kettles for soup. each of which holds
as much as a bathtub and breathey
out steam like a factory.
The spirit Of Columbus would see q
hundred lamb chops on the stove at q
time. and in the bakeshops biscuits
and rolls shoveled out Of ovens into
baskets, each holding four bushels.
The Majestic cooks 5000 pounds of
meat every day. It bakes its own
bread, mixing q barrel Of -four at 4
kneading, and it cuts the bread by
machinery SO fast that one loaf Of
seyenty-two slices was chopped mp in
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Humphrey Davey. Let me give you
some concrete comparisons. Take the
Woo!worrh building. in lower New
York. Let the genii who moved Alad-
din's palace in the wink of an eye lift
it up and lay 1t lengthwise beside us
out here in midocean. The Majestic
is almost 200 feet longer, and its cubic
contents, I venture. are greater.
When the Central Park obelisk was
brought from Egypt to New York 1t
filled the steamer upon which 1t was
carried. You could put the Washing
ton Monument the greatest of all
obelisks, on the deck of the Majestic,
and there would still be 200 feet be-
tween its aluminium tip and the prov,
and like distance from its base to
the stern.
y X X X
NIOAHS ark, estimating the cubit
" at eighteen inches. was four
hundred and fifty feet long. seventy
FIVE feet wide. and the Bible says 1t
had only three stories. This flagship
Of mine has nine decks, and If ten
story apartment house could be built
on Its keel the roof would not reach
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feet wide, and it's displacement was
about thirty-five tons. NJ ship is the
Majestic. the biggest boat that has
fioated the seas since God divided the
waters. 1t is more than double the
length of the ark of old Noah, and
thrice its depth from the hurricane
deck to the keel 1t Is just about
seventeen hundred times the size of
the flagship of Columbus. To be ex-
act. 1t has $4,000 gross tonnage. is s5s
feet long, 100 feet wide, and little
more than 100 feet deep.
But figures mean nothing except to
an Einstein, an Isaac Newton or an
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HOW GLIDERS
GLIDE ANDWHY

fan horizontally against their front,
they will creep forward and rise. This
involves the curious and interesting
theory Of vortex action.
When wing with a blunt front
II in a horizontal wind the air
stacks up in front of the blunt edge
"a mass OF comparatively still air
under pressure. which forms a taper
ing entering wedge. The current
striking this wedge of air is detected
in such a manner that it does not
exactly follow the contour of the
wing. 1t sweeps over the upper
curve of the wing and shoots back.
leaving an area of rarefaction be-
tween itself and the surface of the
wing. The entire upper surface is
therefore subjected to a suction.
while the under surface, through the
design Of the wing. is under a pres
sure thrust upward. 1t is estimated
that two-thirds Of the lift of a wing
is due to the suction on the upper
surface. A pretty evidence of this
area of rarefaction over the wing top
is observed when flying in rain. The
machine may be rushing through the
air at a terrific speed. but the water
on the top of the wing forms little
globules, which remain undisturbed.
when with any sweep of wind at all
they would be blown away
This thick-winE principle is util-
lied more and more in the gliders.
The birdlike sailplane is a striking
example. The record making YAM
pire, too. is a thick-wing type. In
my opinion, the best results will be
obtained with this design.
Incidentally, the great value of the
gliding experiments does not lie in
the direction of motorless flight
Speed and weight-carrying demand
power. The sailplane. though, is
bringing a great increase of refine
ment Of aeroplane design and add
ing to our knowledge of the laws
of aerodynamics-laws which it is
difficult to sense delicately in the
high-speed aeroplane of today. Con-
siderable progress, nevertheless. 10
being made in this direction"
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one end Is the palm court. filled with
real palms, whose fronds kiss the
ceiling. They are set In tubs as big
as hogsheads, and are bedded in flow
srs growing out Of the earth round
their roots. Indeed. Columbus might
sit here among these tropical trees
and imagine himself in the West
Indies.
Beyond the palm room is a restau-
rant, where one can dine a la carte
at q dollar a bite IL he Is not satisfied
with the table d'hote in the dining
hall, three decks below. Opposite,
across wide lobby, is the lounge.
which Is almost as long as was the
deck of the Santa Maria. The lounge
has at one end a stage large enough
to accommodate a dozen musicians.
and there the orchestra plays for the
dances that we. have every evening.
1t Is for all the world like the supper
room of a New York hotel, with a
large dancing space in the center. At
night 400 or 400 people sit In the up
holstered chairs on the red velvet
carpet that surrounds the dance ficor
and men in evening dress and richly.
clad women move over the floor. That
is one of the scenes should like to
show to Columbus. The gowns worn
by the dancers are as a rule of silk
or filmy chiffon. The stufYs are so
sheer that a full dress weighs less
than a pound. But that dress Is
worth more than its weight in gold.
If any one should doubt this. here are
the figures: An ounce OF gold Is
worth $50, and a pound Of avoirdu-
pois would be sixteen times that, or
$500. There Is many a gown on the
floor every night that costs above
that, and that Notwithstanding, one
might squeeze it up in one hand or
ram it into a tumbler. Nevertheless,
some of the girls on this ship don a
new dress every evening.
- of King David, Yea, it Is lighter
than vanity" Psalms, 62.9). Carts
TOPPER Columbus, with the odor of
the salt junk and slumgullion OF FOUR
centuries ago In his nostrils, would
be more interested in. the housekeep-
ing arrangements Of this mighty
ocean hotel. shall take his spirit
with me down a half-dozen stories
and show him the kitchens, the
butchers and bakers. and the store
rooms filled with supplies enough to
feed fat these 5000 souls who have
brought their greedy stomachs aboard.
have not space to tell how Colum-
bus cooked for his men, but the
ranges for preparing the chops and
steaks on this vessel are as big as a
dining table seating a dozen, and are
kept redhot by electricity. In addi-
ton, there are the open fires for. cook
ing roasts and game upon spits, as
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under his eyes. You remember his
trials and disappointments in per-
suading Queen Isabella of Spain to
finance bis adventure. The queen kept
him waiting for years, and he had
left the court on his mule for France
in despair when he was brought back
with the word that she would furnish
the money. And do you know how
much she put up? All told, the cash
was only sixty-seten thousand five
hundred dollars little more than
small. change for the millionaire
financier Of todey. She took this
amount from her own treasury and
borrowed sixty thousand dollars addi-
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superdreadnaught; and it Is the need
Of such oil that is causing the strug-
gle between Uncle Sam and John Bull
for the control Of the petroleum beds
of the world.
I should like to see the ghost OF
Columbus looking at the magic lights
on this steamer. We have fifteen
thousand incandescent bulbs that
shine every night. and there are great
golden globes set into the ceilings of
the ualm court. the ballroom and
the dining room. A city Of forty
thousand people could be supplied
with lights by our dynamos, and al
most every one Of these golden golf
balls or electric bulbs gives out more
light rays than all the grease pots or
lamps Of fish oil which tried vainly
to conquer the darkness of the Santa
Maria.
Electricity is the Slave Of the Lamp
on the Majestic. 1t makes the sun
shine at midnight. It does also the
cooking and heating. It runs the ele-
vators from deck to deck. and it will
drop the lifeboats down to the sea in
case we strike an iceberg or collide
with another ship. 1t will close In
an instant the many water-tight doors
of the vessel. This electricity even
penetrates the waters of the SWIM
ming tank. turning their emerald
green into the richest Of gold and
making the pretty girl bathers look
like so many ivory mermaids as they
play about in its rays.
Indeed, there is hardly thing
aboard this vessel, excepting the life
boats, that suggests the ships of CO.
lumbus. The huge monster is made
Of steel. and its armor is a steel shell
about as thick as your thumb that
keeps out the water. At the level of
the sea and below this shell is double.
with an air space between so large
that big dog could crawl through
1t. But higher up there 10 only the
single steel skin inclosirg the vast
nishings.
There is nothing on the steamer
that recalls the bluff old skipper and
sailors Of the days Of John and Sebas-
tian Cabot and Americas vespucius
The captain Of this ship is retired
commodore of the British navy who
has been knighted by his king. His
title Is Sir Bertram Hayes. X. c. NJ. c..
d. 8. O., r. D., and that notwithstand-
ing he Is more simple and unpreten-
ttous than John Acker, the steward
who takes care OF my room. I have
chatted with Sir Bertram on the
bridge and in the chartroom, and he
has no more fuss and feathers than
any Of the other efficient captains l
have met in a lifetime of travel.
X X X
\ ND now let US look at the enter
"A tainment part Of this ship. When
one walks up the gankway of the
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The Rose of England

spread far beyond the immediate
neighborhood, and it commanded a
ready sale throughout the entire re-
gion under the name of conserves de
roses de Provins.
A generation later the prosperity OF
the town received sad shock and the
preserving industry no doubt suffered
with the other industries of the citi-
Gems.
pressive views on the labor question
that he ventured to ring the great
curfew bell. which ended the working
day, an hour later than had been Gus
tomary.
This tho work people would not en-
dure. They mohbed the unpopular
magistrate and killed him in his own
house. They did not stop to con-
slider the possible consequences OF
such an act. The line of the counts
Of Champagne had become extinct.
but Blanche. the widow of the last
one. had married Edmund Crouch
back. first Earl Of Lancaster, who
promptly undertook to punish the
unruly Inhabitants.
He made such a havoc that the town
never recovered from it, and had even
to submit to having a new bell made
and named Guillonette. in honor or
the murdered mayor, Guillaume. This
bell, after six centuries. still rings
the curfew in Provins every night.
When Edmund went back to England,
leaving misery, poverty and terrified
quiet behind him, he carried home two
relics. One was the yard measure,
which for many years was in France
peculiar to Provins; the other was the
crimson rose, which through him be-
came the rose of Lancaster.
The heraldic rose Of England is still
Of blended red and white. significant
Of the union Of the two great houses:
but as Lancaster was victorious in
battle. SO also is the red rose the
victor in popular favor, and it is OF
that, not of the stiff parti-colored
rosette of the British coat-of-arms.
that one thinks as the emblem and
flower Of that nation.
The old French crusaders holy
rose-the rose Of Sharon, the rose OF
Pro3us-became the rose Of England.
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just thirty seconds by the ticks Of my
watch.
despair of describing the store
rooms. One of them has 5000 wild
birds hung up in a temperature
twelve degrees below freezing. AS 1
shivered among them, the steward
told me he had on haud 1000 quail,
1000 pheasants and 500 snipe. His
cartridges number $50, and this to
say nothing Of 500 wild ducks. ptar-
migan and grouse and veritable
Of the same family as those which fed
the Israelites in their Sinai wander
ings. had one of these quail for
breakfast this morning. 1t made me
think Of a reedbird 1t was about as
big as the hand Of a baby.
] do not know the favorite drink of
Columbus. but any of our American
passengers whose throat has been
corked since the passage of the prohi-
bition amendment can have his favorite
drink on this steamer. We have on
board $4,000 bottles of ale. 1000 bottles
Of brandy. whisky and gin and 1900
bottles Of champagne. Some of us
drink. but l am surprised to see that
the Yankee at sea is quite as temperate
today al he was before the advent Of
the Volstead law and the opulent but
criminal bootlegger.
X + + X
DUT let us leave the kitchens and
- give the ghost of Columbus a look at
the linen rooms. The weekly wash of a
ship like this would cover the Santa
Maria 30 that it would be only a needle
in a haystack Of linen above. If it
were spread out on the fields Of your
lbrm 1t would cover every inch of fifty
York 1t would make white hundreds
yes. thousands-of houses. If hung
upon clothes lines there would float in
the breeze 5000 bedspreads. 10000
blankets and 1900 towels. There would
be also 10000 tablecloths, $4,000 nap
kins and more than 5000 aprons re-
quired for the cooks and stewards, as
one kind and another. The blankets
stretched on one line would reach If
teen miles, the sheets sixteen miles and
the tablecloths and napkins just about
as far as from Washington to Balti-
motk. No washing is done on the ship,
yet none Of the table linen is used
more than once. We have new
damaak cloth every meal and napkin
rings are unknown.
I don't know what the weekly wash
costs. but it Is at one with the other
expenses Of great modern steamship.
The liner de luxe floats upon dollars
and the thousands Of US who cross the
Atlantic must pay the bills.
Speaking Of motley. how the heart
Of Columbus would swell If he could
see the fortunes seemingly squandered
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modern liner he comes into floating
hotel. with elevators that glide noise
lessly up and down, with walls of
ivory whiteness. and with frescoed
and decorated ceilings upheld by
great columns like marble. We have
on B deck. eight stories above the
steel keel. three great rooms the
width Of the steamer that cover the
length Of short city block. They
are walled with plate-glass windows
looking out on the ocean, or, rather.
upon the wide promenades that run
along high over the sea- These rooms
are from twenty-six to thirty, feet
high, and they are fitted out with fur
niture worth . kings ransom. At