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Evening star., 1923-03-23
THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON
BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM

1t has, in fading letters, his name
and the dates of his birth and death.
And beneath his name is the line:
Author of Home. Sweet Home"
Payne, like his song, went direct
ly to the hearts of those with wnom
he came in contact. His voice was
low and musical and strangely sweet.
When speaking on any subject in
which he was deeply interested, he
spoke with a degree of earnestness
| that enchained the attention and
touched the hearts of all who heard
him.
He was an actor. At seventeen he
| was called upon, through financial
misfortuneS of his father, to support
the family. He did SO; he had been
precocious from birth and at thirteen
edited newspaper; and in his nCw
responsibility he acquitted himself
nobly.
But like many another genius he
was a poor business man. He was
| one of the great actors OF his time,
but his financial water was always
| hot. In 1912 he came to Washington,
being then in the prime of life. to
ask President Tyler to appoint him
to a foreign consulate. Financial
| necessities are said to have prompted
| the move.
|
unpretending and modest, and with
| his charm of manner won the Presi-
| dent to his cause. Politically he had
| no claim whatever to the post, but
| his personal magnetism accomplished
what his political delinquincies SEEM
| ingiy debarred
He went to Tunis and remained
! there three years.
| In all the springtime and the sum
| mer of his life and well into the
autumn he was a wanderer over the
| face of the earth. The man who
wrote Home, Sweet Home,' i'm
| mortaliZed an institution of which
| lie knew almost nothing himself.
| Another Washingtonian wrote the
| national anthem, as almost every
! resident of the city knows. But com
| paratively few persons know that
| Francis Scott Key was a lawyer here
in Washington.
/ He was born in Maryland. prac-
ticed profession at Frederick. came
| district attorney. He filled the
office capably. though without mark ed
| distinction.
| lean song writer's. however. was
| Stpehen Collins Foster. Foster was
| born near Pittsburgh.
He composed more than IFS songs
usually both words and music.
My Old Kentucky Home" was one
| of his most popular.
Another popular song of his com
| position was "Massa's in the Cold
! Cold Ground" But the one by which he
| will be remembered when all others
are forgotten is THE Swanee River
For that oldtime, plaintive melody
! sung the world over, Foster is said
! to have received in royalties. about
$4,000.
Evening star., 1923-03-23
Cats.

/ That was fetching little news
story not long ago in The Star about
a. mother cat named Mike who, ban
ished to Alexandria. found the way
hack to her home in Washington.
The preference OF this cat for Wash
ington is not to be thought of as
reflection on Alexandria. In that an
cient city are cats descended from
| cats that caught mice for and other-
| wise served distinguished families.
There are in Alexandria many proud,
sociable and convivial cats who wear
fine fur in winter and summer, and
who practice the beautiful rites of
| hospitality toward other cats. But
| this Washington cat was homeslck
and she came back
| There are some things about cats
which men and their wives 90 nol
understand A cat will live In a long
row of houses which are all as near
alike as bricklayer. carpenter and
painter can make them. She WI! s.s
| il relatives and friends and attend
| revels on foreign doorsteps anu IN
threshold Of her own home. 1t might
be said that the cat Is skilled In arltn-
metic and can read the NUMBER on
| her house, but cats sometlmes COME
mt out and only the most extraordi-
psrv eve could make out the number
on the transom. In these long rows
of houses cat will pick out her own
many a man. under conditions not
needful to relate. has been known to
do II cannot be said that home
coming cat depends on the number OF
ing nver vacant lots and socializing
with acauaintances in far-off back
Yards she will come to the kitchen
door of her home and ask to be let In
| That a cat should find her way PACK
from Alexandria is quite rema.kap.e
unless there is q bureau of Informs
tion among cats and a system OF
i suida and trafho cats about Vhlon
Evening star., 1923-03-23
By THE MARauIsE DE FONTENoY.

Young Lord Gage. fifth viscount of
his line, and who, having arrived in
the United States for a tour of the
country, is now in New York, at the
Plaza Hotel has a strain of Ameri-
can blood in his veins For one of
the forbears of this gallant young
soldier, who was badly wounded dur
ing the great war as a captain of
the Coldstream Guards just after he
had come of age, a shrapnel bullet
piercing his lungs, was that Gen.
Sir Thomas Gage who was COM
mande chief of King George Ills
forces in North America at the out
break of the war of independence and
governor of the then British colonies.
He married in 1857 the daughter %
Peter Kemble, president of the coun-
Gil of New Jersey. her mother hav-
ing been a daughter of stephen van
Cortlandt of New York.
Another ancestor, Sir William Gage,
seventh baronet of his line, who
iourished in the reign of King
George l, introduced into England
the plum known as the green gage,
so called from its characteristic color
and from it's introducer. The present
Lord Gage enjoys among his cronies
his former schoolhoy nickname OF
Green Gage" by which he was IKE,
wise known among his regimental
comrades. and has never been Of
Tended thereby, the honor or bring
ing into England this luscious 1rult
and making it familiar TO ana appre-
ciated by his countrymen being con-
h1-
worthy event in the history OF his
family. Sir William Gage brought
the plum in question from FRANCE,
where his brother, a Roman Catholic
divine. the Rev. John Gage of the
Order of Jesuits. obtained cuttings
and gratis of the trees which grew
in the gardens of the Chartreuse
monastery; The fruit fruit trees trees tbose trom
which furnish the plum known IN
France by the name of CROSSE Refine
Claude" which is Identical with the
English green gage OF today' ana
pered at the Gage ancestral nome
Eirle Place, near LeWes, in Sussex.
x 4 y
Eirle Place has been in the unin-
terrupted possession of LORD Gage
family for over 500 years, and is
sand acres The mansion is rich in
remarkable paintings-among the
masterpieces being portrait by
HoIbein of Sir John Gage, who was
favorite of Henry VIII, the king
himself ordering the painting of the
picture besides creating Sir John a
knight of the Garter and constable
of the Tower of London.
brother Of the first Niscount
Gage is reputed to have amassed a
fortune of more than S60.000,000 in
the notorious Mississippi bubble.
This colossal wealth seems to have
turned his head. For he tried to
make himself a king by endeavoring
to purchase, first of all, the crown of
Poland and then that of Sardinia. Nat
uraIly unsuccessful in these attempts.
he managed to secure the Spanish
grandezza, but, strange to say, this
was only after he had Squandered the
$50 600. 600 For, when his money
was all goner he made his way to
Evening star., 1923-03-23
This Freedom" as It Affects Tur
kew.

Eastward the course of feminisn
and triumphantly. For the doctrine
of physical. mental and political
freedom for women has penetrated
even into Turkey. And with the
movement to unveil the faces and
minds of Moslem women already in
a fair way to success, we find, stand
ing by and shouting encouragement
and support, the press of the country
which has drawn fewer sex lines than
any other, and which has enough
faith in that policy to believe that il
can be adopted with benefit even in
| Turkey.
Probably none of the other doc
trines and practices of the Young
Turk movement has been so wide a
departure from the old Ottoman
civilization as the movement TO re-
gard the feminine half of the popula-
tion as an integral part of the body
polite, a movement which Mustapha
Kemal is earnestly promoting. The
aim of the nationalist regime in Tur-
key to give the new freedom 10
Press thinks, "is manifeStly of the
most revolutionary character" Ac-
cording to information coming out
Of Turkey since the advent of the
new government. the old ideal OF
seclusion and subservience has been
repudiated, and, the Free Press goes
on to say, Turkish women are grad
ually being released from their do
mestic bondage. Tney now appear on
the street and in places of amusement
in Constantinople in considerable
numbers The old-time veil is disap-
pearing.
That this change is due largely tc
Mustapha Kemal and his very mod
ern, occidentalized young wife is the
opinion of American commentators
In a recent public address Kemal ad
vocated social. civil and educationa
equality for Turkish women, idea:
which. the Springfield Union thinks
must have appeared to Turks OF tint
older order as something Sacrllegious
and of so revolutionary a character
as to indicate that he was Succumbine
to the civilization of the hated fn'
fidel' of the western nations" But
since "the Angora dictator has showr
little inclination to subordinate his
own ideas to those of the old regime,
the Union predicts that his influence
may go far enough that we may ye
see the women of Turkey taking theil
place at the side of the men in poll
tics. science and industry"
In the opinion of the New YORK
Globe. this influence goes back o.
KemaI himself to the woman he mar.
ried as she. far more than her sol
dier husband, is the token of the new
Turkey" and she "signalizes the com.
plete emergence of her SEX" The AS
bury Park Press draws picture o.
Mrs. Kemal, as she styled herself II
an interview with foreign journalists
dressed in riding breeches jaunt3
short coat. high boots. spurs and out
Evening star., 1923-03-23
Would Place Ban
On Refuse Cans
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
see by Saturdays Star that the
Engineer Commissioner has issued an
edict that no more permits shall be
given to plant hedges or erect fences
unless all conform to his idea Of what
is artistic and beautiful.
If he would prohibit the placing of
unsightly garbage cans and dilapi-
dated ashcans on the sidewalks and
in area stairways (done to save the
paid collectors of such refuse) and
District control in perfect order he
would be doing far more to make
Washington "the city beautiful" than
he will by depriving the taxpayers of
the right to decorate their private
grounds according to their individual
faate ROBERT r. TENNEYs
Evening star., 1923-03-23

One hundred years ago, almost to
the day, there was sung in a London
music hall a song whose sweet anu
simple melody touched the hearts
Of all who heard it.
1t was an easy song to sing; sc
easy that those who never before
could carry tune could hum this
song with ease. 1t was a haunting
song; a song whose measured tune
fulness came back again and again
to run through the minds of the
little audience which had heard it
And like all other great music
it swept the heartstrings with a
touch of pathos.
Within the year that simple song
was sung throughout all England
It crossed the Atlantic and it's sweet
refrain, exquisite in tuneful melody
carried it to such vast favor here
that hardly a home in America failed
to take it for it's own.
That song, whose centenary comes
this year. was written by an Ameri-
can, John Howard Payne. And the
name of the song is Home, Sweet
Home"
1t has become. perhaps, the great
est of all songs in the English
tongue. Certainly it has the widest
appeal. Through all the hundred
years that have passed since Payne
first produced it, it's hold upon the
English speaking people has never
lessened
1t has been translated. or, rather
attempts have been made to trans
late it, into almost every civilized
tongue. But these attempts have
met with only scant success.
why? Perhaps the reason lies ir
something | was told years ago II
Is something j like to believe is true
bus have no way of knowing Nol
mas any other one man. so far as
can tell.
Briefly. IT is this: That the English
languase is the only one that has
such a word as home" No othe,
people, from what have been told
know home" in just the meaning
that we give ID. If such is the case
obviously. Home. Sweet Home" is
the exclusive possession Of those who
speak the language of our tribe.
! Payne wrote his song as part of q
light opera. Clari He liked it best
OF all the music in the opera, liked
too, the words. But he had no ink
ling of the future of his master
piece.
He took the music from an ole
Italian melody. Not the music OF
our song as we know il noW-oh
no. But the Italian melody gave hin
the idea for the tune: and he adopted
the music, changing it to his own ere.
alton.
His song has endured. though he
has been dust for upwards of seventy
years. His body lies in Washington
| In the shade of Oak Hill Cemetery
in Georgetown. one may find the
stone that marks his burial place
Evening star., 1923-03-23
Urges Fair Prices
When Shriners Come

To the Editor of The Star:
Let us have our latchstrings out
and extend the right hand of friend
ship, making welcome oyr Shriner
guests in June. Extra high prices
bespeak profiteering. Are we going
to stoop TO that? Shriners from cities
far and near, from all parts of our
United States, and even the entire
North American continent. are plan
ming to visit the Capital city in which
we are privileged to live.
Are we going to let them carry
home the news that Washington is
money mad. profiteering at every op-
portunity? This question needs the
Immediate attention of the citizens of
washington. 1t remains with us to
decide: Can we not be guided by our
honor to keep prices at a par or will
it be necessary to bring force into
play and point out those among us
who are not real American citizens?
GRACE E. STRAIT.
Evening star., 1923-03-23
Gallant Scion of Sir William Gage
Known to His CrOnies as 'Green Cage

the land of the Hildalgos. and not
bit daunted or disheartened by pre-
vIouS turns of fortune, set himself
diligently to work in developing the
mineral wealth of the kingdom, with
so much success that he amassed
died as commander-in- chief of the
Spanish army in Lombardy.
x X
Lord Cages great t-grandmother,
Lady Elizabeth Peel. was one of the
greatest beauties of her day. and had
many suitors, One of these was the
Earl of Dysart, who is generally
supposed to have been the male
prototype of Miss Havishman in
Charles Dickens story, Great Ex-
pectations." When Lady Elizabeth
Peel rejected his suit, he shut him
self up in a small house off the
Strand in London. from which he
never emerged during the remaining
one to have access to his room, the
servants having received orders 10
pass his food TO him through a hole
in the door of his apartment.
In strong contrast with this beha-
Yior, was the cheerful manney in
WnlCn dDOtneT unsuccessful Su1tOr or
Lady EliZabeth-namely. Prince Es-
terhazy-accepted his rejection. Far
from bearing Lady Elizabeth any
malice, he is said to have gracefully
handed her into her carriage as she
started on her honeymoon, and what
is still more remarkable. is that he
reappeared when the young couple
arrived at their destination. Offering
his assistance TO the bride, as she
alighted from the vehicle. He had
found out the locality where the hon
eymoen was to be spent, and by hir-
ing relays of fast horses, had out
stripped the happy pair. | do not re
member having heard or read any
where how the bridegroom acted on
this last occasion. which is some
thing of a pity, since it may probably
have been extremely piquant.
i: = y \
Lord Gage has lodged with the
crown an application for the termina
tion in his favor of the ancient bar
onies of Fitzwarren, of Martin and Of
Dyraunt. His family claims descent
from a sire de Gaugi, whose name is
on the roll of Battle Abbey, among
those who fought under the banner of
William the Conqueror at the battle
of Hastings. lie seems TO have de-
rived his name from the Seigniory OF
Gaugi, near Rouen, in Normandy.
One OF his lineal descendants was
celebrated for his infatuation with
Mary, Queen Of Scots, for whose sake
he lost his head on the scaffold, while
another Gage, Sir Henry by name.
was one of the most devoted cavaliers
of Charles /; was governor of oxford
during the civil war. and after twice
relieving the siege of Basing House
was killed by the Roundheads at
Cullum Bridge.
may add in conclusion that young
Lord Gage is very we'll TO do and in
no sense a fortune hunter. although
unmarried. He has several sisters,
but no brothers. and the next heir to
his vdscounty and to his baronetcy is
his cousin. the near sexuagenarian,
William st. Quentin Gage, grandson
of the fourth Viscovnk
Evening star., 1923-03-23
A Nursery Song.

Cheer up, honey, don't you cry;
Sunshine comm by an by.
Dandelion's gwinter smile
In de parkin' after while;
An de skies so bright an blue
VIII be smilin' jes' foh you.
Grown folks, dey don count, at all
Long side of de folks dat's small.
Dey's jes' workin' day by day
Clearin' thorns from out yoh way.
Dishere world, tells you true,
;NaS invented. jes, ,foh-yous .n.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

men know little. 1t would seem that
such trip would be perilous for an
unattended cat, because along the
midnight roads must be footpad cats,
brigand cats and cats whose chief de-
light is to pick fight. But perhaps
Mrs. Mike was equal to all emergen-
cies. Thoughts of home were in her
head. Dragon cats to overcome, dark
forests to pass through and rivers to
cross were nothing 10 han
Evening star., 1923-03-23

Secretary Hughes says truly that
Russia's salvation cannot be projected
on the outside and then injected, and
that suggested treatment along these
lines must therefore be rejected. But
the ladies of the women's committee
for recognition of Russia decline to
be detected. They were not elected.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

Lenin proposes to solve the Russian
monetary problem by striking off
some ciphers from the 1000, ,oOo, ,0OO,-
OOO,00 rubles now in circulation.
Probably on the theory that after all
even 600 900, 600, 100000 is nothing
among friends.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

1t is a safe gamble that the New
Jersey town treasurer who turned so
per cent of his salary back into the
town treasury because he believed he
was paid too much could get job
with Cen Dawes
Evening star., 1923-03-23
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Evening star., 1923-03-23

''Stop the white man from dancing
and we will consider following suit" is
the reply of the Yakima Indian tribe
10 the order forbidding tribal dances.
''Poor Lo" still shoots barbed and
well directed,arrow.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

According to the weather bureau
American efforts to make rain are no
less futile than European efforts to
make peace.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

The dean of Windsor says Ameri-
cans are kind, but further comment
leads to the conclusion that he means
kind OF funny.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

1t was an unhappy choice of Sen
ator Borah to give his advice against
"gumshoeing" at Akron, Ohio, the
center of the rubber industry.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

Germany's ship of state may be rud-
derless, but reports from Hamburg in
dictate that her commercial navy is
very much on the job.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

Mr. Bryan is listed as one Of twelve
men regarded as democratic presiden.
tial timber. That is a little better
chance than 16 to 1.
Evening star., 1923-03-23
In a Few Words

1t is only by a constant stream Of
amusements that the hardships of a
trip through life can be allayed, and
1 think even jazz has its proper place.
HERBERT HOOVER.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

Time for President Harding to call
another conferences! The British,
alarmed by Frances strength in the
air, talk of race for supremacy.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

What I reproach your former Presi-
dent Wilson for most is that he saw
the world through rose-colored
glasses.
PRINCESS HERMINE (wife Of the
ex-kaiser).
Evening star., 1923-03-23

The day of the "inglorious Milton"
and undiscovered literary genius has
passed. New talent cannot escape
the eager search of the modern
editor.
-THYRA SAMTER wINSLOw.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

H. G. Wells is not running true to
form. He gives list of the worlds
ten greatest books, and there is not a
Wells book among them.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

Germany is willing to accept league
of nations intervention, or any other
escape from French pressure in the
Ruhr.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

/ have no patience with that type
of woman who can't find train in a
time table without male assistance.
-JACINTO BENAVENTE.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

The failure of the Lausanne con-
ference regarding the near east and
of the premiers' conference on repa-
rations is ominous-ominous that the
allies Of yesterday may become the
enemies of tomorrow.
OSCAR STRAUS.
Evening star., 1923-03-23

For my part I cannot see anything
in cubism and it's correlated ''isms'
but a cloak to hide the lack of Gre
ative genius among the artists Of
Europe.
GEORGE JULIAN ZOLNAY.
Evening star., 1923-03-23
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New Britain herald., 1923-01-11
OPEN SEASON FOR GENUS

The head of the psychology depart ment at Stanford University declares that tiny cell, invisible to the naked eye, from which man springs, deter mines what sort of an intellect he will have. Grant this. He then says statis- tics prove that intellectually superior people are slower in reproducing even than the socially incompetent. Grant this, also. He then deduces that there will be fewer of these tiny cells pro- duced by the intellectually superior in the future. The result will be, of course, that there will be fewer in tellectually superior persons born into the world. There will be fewer germ cells containing seed of unusual suc- cess. Therefore the average inteili- gence of the population is decreasing and there will be fewer persons of genius in the world.
 All people should take notice of this important situation. All people should be on the watch for young persons who may have sprung from one of those germ cells which did contain the seed of genius. The young person
New Britain herald., 1923-01-11
DR. REEKS PRESIDENT
 STATE HEALTH ASSN.
tcontinued from First Page)

be paid by the state. The state would be divided into zones. the laboratories already in operation talk ing care of all cases in their respec- tive zones.
 There were 1i0 health workers present at the association meeting, these including the majority of health officers, as well as many workers.
 Dr. Reeks expects to have tie spring meeting held at. the New Brit ain General hospital. If he Is suc- cessful 1t will be a feather in the cap of the Hardware City" He will dis cuss the plan with those who might be interested fin the subject and antici- pates a favorable response.
 The Connecticut Public Health as- sociation was organized eight years ago by Prof. Irving Fisher and Prof. c. F. A. Winslow of Yale. It embraces nearly all the health department workers in the state and acts as al clearing house for ideas. It has justi- fled its existence by disseminating valuable information connected with health work and is now in a flourish ing condition, being recognized as an important point of contact be- tween its members and modern prac- tices in the field of health work.