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Evening star., 1925-07-05

Daniel was up again on his feet
almost as the others reached him
uazed, but unhurt, save for a. cut on
tne Iorehead. No one spoke. Thev
all raced forward. Daniel was the
hrst round the bend. He turned
holding up both his hands, and
shouted to Worton:
Don't let Miss Lancaster corne
Keep her back"
a mn easily evaded Worton,s out-
stretched arm. She was speech.
less, but determined. They ali saw
What had happened together. The
car, twisted, unrecognizable heap of
metal Windergate more terribly dealt
with-his clothing alone could nave
Identified him-a great hole in the
road, in which a dozen men could
have been buried, a twisted wire. q
faint unpleasant smell. Then. after
a glance, they all seemed to dismiss
the whole matter as unimportant.
With one accord they set their faces
toward the stone house. A fury was
in the blood of all Of them. Daniel.
with the habit of his varsity running
days back again in his limbs, headed
the line, and he carried in his hand,
without concealment, his very ugly
automatic pistol. There was no
doubt in his mind as to what he was
going to do. He was going to shoot
Londe on sight. They reach
ed the house. No need to ring.
Griggs had kept his word SO far that
the front door stood wide open.
There was a white stone, almost
circular, hall.
In the center of 1t a man lay fiat
on his back, his arms outstretched,
stone dead, with q small bullet hole
in his forehead.
Daniel, glancing nervously around,
threw a handkerchief over his face
"Griggs" he muttered. THAT must
have been quick work. Londe was
here, then, not many seconds ago.
Come on"
y X
THEY searched the silent house
from attic to basement AS the
moments passed, a dumb, despairing
fury seized them all. There were
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with calcium arsenate. The slightest
mishap means certain death to all
aboard the e~plane
The pictures taken have demon
strated the practicability of this
method of spraying the cotton plants
to control the boil weevil, and have
been shown all over the South The
result is the organization of several
commercial units which undertake to
spray cotton fields from aeroplanes at
stipulated fee. The job is done
quickly and at comparatively low cost
when the expense is shared by groups
OF farmers.
Perkins and Eugene Tucker, another
department camera man, together
have shot scenes of forest fires from
aeroplaneS where an accident to the
plane would have precipitated them
into the roaring furnace below. Maj
Lowell Smith, one of the round-the-
world flyers, was in command of the
air squadron making these pictures
They have climbed Mount Hood at a
height of some 10000 feet to take
cloud formations for the Weather
Bureau.
The Weather Bureau recently has
been making pictures in connection
with new meteorological experiments
- SS1oS me dPpSl oil CulIGAtS- eI-
klns was detailed to shoot" the
scenes at Scott Field, taking views
from both aeroplanes and dirigibles
The night after Perkins was relieved
from duty, Lieut.. Thomas H. Nealy
and G. Leroy Meisinger lost their
lives when the balloon in which they
were flying fell as the result of what
is known as static" discharge.
The Post Office Department wanted
some movies of the Air Mail Serv-
ice. They called on l.. w. Beeson
of the Bureau of Animal Industry to
do the job. Beeson flew the air
mail lane from Washington to Frisco
in making a pictorial record of the
| cross country route and secured val
| liable views enabling the air mail
flyers to minimize the danger of their
every day flights.
X X X X
THE Army and Navy photographers
occasionally do some movie work
such as the recent pictures taken of
the eclipse of the sun and in record
| ing land and water maneuyers, but
| most of their pictures as Stills" This
ialso is hazardous work, particularly
Evening star., 1925-07-05
THE AVENUE OF DEATH
BY E.. PHILLIPS OPPE.NEzELN

mile along the road I shall turn to
the left. You will see a drive a few
yards along with the gates open,
most likely.
THE house is about 100 yards
back and he's in it. AS soon as you
get within sight push along for the
front door at top speed"
Don't you turn in there, too?"
Daniel asked.
Griggs looked up.
mo. / go on TO the back of the
house." Griggs exclaimed. There's
another drive leading to the kitchen
quarters. You go up to the front
and you can be in the house before
he hears a thing. The front doors
always open and I've hidden the
key"
He numbered off and Daniel re-
ported to Sir Francis. The two cars
followed the Ford at a reasonable
distance.
There's the house, all right" q"
Daniel muttered, pointing through
the trees. THE lodge gates must be
Just round the bend"
Ann leaned forward.
Look out" she warned him, eX-
tending her hand to the following
car, "the Ford has stopped"
Daniel jammed on his brakes. The
two cars crawled round the corner
and pulled up behind the Ford.
Griggs had descended and was lean
ing against a gate, his forehead wet,
his eyes bloodshot. his color ghastly
He was like q man facing some ugly
death and discovering himself to be
a coward.
'I can't do it, governor" he moaned
to Daniel. I'm no saint, but l can't
do it. I'm on the double cross. DO
you get me?"
Il understand" Daniel said. GO
on"
X x
"DoN'T you turn in at those
gates" the man urged, his
voice choked and barely coherent,
mot you or the other car. Leave
the cars here in the road and take
the footpath through the shrubbery.
And leave the young lady behind"
"Why do you want US to leave the
cars here?" Daniel demanded sus-
Evening star., 1925-07-05

York have formed an alumni group
there, with weekly meetings and a
monthly dinner that sometimes
reaches the 100 mark in attendance
to preserve the fair memories and
serene atmosphere of this most won
derful of schools.
The fine arts students share the
community club with those of the
conservatory. Twice during the Sum-
mer they unite for modern demon
strations-to celebrate the Fourth of
July and the Fourteenth of July,
which is the French Fourth"
All the rest is old world sweetness,
romance and beauty. Around Fon-
tainebleau Palace are peace, quiet
and dreamy meditation, fragrant with
a note of benignant melancholy.
Here was the old court, in lazy
Summer days.
Here were intrigue, love, laughter.
Today there is silence. A snatch of
music enlivens it-good music, the
coaching of a conservatory.
Students of architecture roam
through galleries and salons whose
walls are marvels of carved wood
work. whose ceilings and floors are
priceless marQuetry.
The palace is full Of precious old
furniture of kings-as if 1t were, still
today, the country home of royalty,
with family and court only gone to
town for the week end.
Is it not the very place of art and
inspiration?
For 100 years it has been a silent
show place. with personally conducted
parties of tourists penetrating, awe
struck and whispering, a few gal
leries.
Only for American students of these
splendidly privileged schools does Fon-
tainebleau Palace become again a
kind of Summer home, to work and
dream in!
Evening star., 1925-07-05

Gretry, etc, were produced for the
first time.
Only an American conservatory
could possibly be given such honor.
Not even French Summer conserva-
tory of music could be proposed in
| it-although so sweetly desirable.
But, for America, it is one of Frances
ways of saying, Thank you for saw
ing us m the war;"
And so, to music, they have added
architecture and fine arts for us.
Why, the palace itself is architecture
and fine arts!
Gen. Pershing started it.
People were saying that French
military bands were better than those
of the A. +. f. He wanted our bands
to equal any in Europe.
A military school of music was
founded near Chaumont. Until long
after armistice our bands and con-
ductors were trained and super
coached there. When the boys went
home the Chaumont School was
closed. But musical contact" had
been made between large groups in
America and France. 1t was too val
liable to lose.
! Among Americans Walter Dam
rOsch and Blair Fairchild were par
| ticularIy interested in continuing the
group-contact. So, an idea developed
! of a conservatory in France for
American artists and advanced stu.
i dents of music, the faculty to be of
| recognized French masters.
The French government met us
more than half way.
| 1t gave up the Palace of Fontaine-
/ bleau (no Iess) as superlative seat of
such American conservatory. 1t
| opened in June, 1921, and has re-
| l. IN
the Summer each year since.
| AT this moment only the American
woman students are actually sleeping
| in the palace. The men have tenn
porary quarters in the town. There
is only question of finding them de-
tached wing The bijou pavilion in
which the Car Peter the Great and
| his party got gloriously drunk every
might in 1717 is spoken of as socially
correct and artistically worthy.
1t is quite beautiful and has other
memories.
All students eat in a refectory in the
palace.
| All class work and all work with
professors is done in the, palace.
A fine new organ has just been in
stalled in the Trinity Chapel dating
from the Three Musketeers'O by the
New York committee. 1t is played foI
| the first time on July by Wldor, the
| noted organist-so many OF whose
American students have become them
selves great organists.
X X X
lTHESE American committees share
large authority with French gov
ernnent and French professors. Ap
plics tions for admission and examina
ton of students who apply from the
United States are dealt with by ar
American committee. On enrolment
| arrangements are made with the
French Line for reduced rates oi
transatlantic transportation.
The cost of the three-month course
is 5000 francs $3.50 at present eX
change) and includes tuition, board
and lodging and admission to all tbs
concerts given at the conservatory.
To live in royal palace for S2.7'
lper day is in itself not excessive,
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Ears Grow Tired, Too.

SCIENCE always has maintained
that the human ear, unlike the
eye, cannot be fatigued, says Popular
Science. Now. though, as a result of
some interesting experiments with
radio apparatus, Prof. Albert Sidney
Langfeld, director of the laboratory
of experimental psychology at Prince
ton University, asserts that the ear
apparently does become physically
tired.
Prof. Langfeld led the sound from
oscillating vacuum tubes to head
phones that were adjusted until the
wearer declared the sounds reached
each ear with absolutely equal volume.
Then one phone was removed and the
hearer required to listen with one ear
for a minute. At the end of that
time both phones We're used again,
and invariably the subject reported
hearing the sounds more loudly for
time in the ear to which the phone
had just been added.
Evening star., 1925-07-05

| piciously. "a few minutes ago you
| urged us to rush for the house,
For heavens sake don't ask me
questions the man groaned. 'I was
on the double cross"
| He started off in the Ford.
Come on then, We'll try the foot
path Daniel decided. "It will only
take a moment or two longer. Miss
| Lancaster, you come last, please
Windergate, who had been driving
the police car, sprang back into his
place.
I'm taking no chances" he de.
clared grimly. II believe he wants
an opportunity to warn Londe. You
fellows come on through the shrub
berry. I'll make rush for it, We
can't both be wrong that way"
Daniel opened his lips to protest,
but closed them again. After all,
Windergate's point of view was rea.
sonable. 1t was clear that Griggs
was almost hysterical with fear. And
1t was quite plausible that his old
dread of Londe should have broken
out again. Besides. Windergate was
powerful man and a deadly shot
even alone more than a match for
Londe. So the car swept by them
and Daniel made for the shrubbery
footpath. A queer afternoon stiffness
iCISi ileu ever NHeTe-d anu
unwholesome silence.
Daniel-perhaps every one of them
seemed TO sense coming danger.
The car ahead had turned the last
bend, they themselves We're not far
behind, when ii was upon them.
A deafening roar seemed To split
and tear the air. The ground shook
beneath their feet. Daniel, who was
leading the way, threw up his hands
and staggered, felt the earth rise up
and hit his chin, and doubled over
like a shot rabbit. The others, who
were behind, saw things which he
missed-uprooted trees in the air, a
cloud Of dust, a shower of small
pebbles, which came down through
the trees like hailstones, and a
strange white light, come and gone
in moment, but which made the
sunny afternoon seem for a second
or two afterward as though it We're
wrapped in the mantle of twilight.
Evening star., 1925-07-05
BY VIsHNU r. KARANDIKAR.

n K ODERN women, even when
Nh they become ambitious and
WI dream of perfect equality
i 4 with men, rarely have imag-
ined a state of existence
where the whole structure of social
life would be turned tOpsy-turvy, with
women uppermost in every respect
when he wrote his famous princess"
thought only of a forest glade which
was made a preserve for women un-
der the benevolent eye of the king.
But never has there existed, imag-
inatiyely or otherwise, in the Western
World a country ruled by women for
women, where man was tolerated
merely as a necessary evil in society.
Such feminine Utopia has been
an established fact for thousands of
years in India.
The earliest tradition takes one to
the period of the great Mahabharata
war-said to have taken place in the
fourth or fifth millennium before
Christ. 1t was after this war that
the greatest soldier general of the
times went in TO the south to con
quer those regions for his brother
who was the emperor. IL was along
the southwest coast of the Indian
Peninsula that he crossed over the
mountain ranges and on to the back
waters of Malayalam, and was con-
fronted with an army of very fair
half f-dressed women.
He found it difficult to control his
followers, who We're willing to lay
down their bows and arrows and sur
render Internationally to the more
effective weapons of their adver-
saries. But this warrior was proof
against such adversaries and he con-
quered them-agreeing, however, 10
marry the queen at the end of the
years campaign, if she would follow
him to Delhi. the capital of India even
in those times.
Kingdom of Women" was the ap-
pellation the ruler gave to this coun-
try, and it is known TO this day by
that name. The women of this king
dom We're described as being fair
skinned, with long dark hair, fine
physique, lotus eyes on a full-moon
face, the eyelashes being long and
dark. and really making the orbs be-
meath them look like the blue lotuses
of Indian lakes.
Five hundred miles in length, and
varying from 40 to 200 miles in
breadth, Malayalam is the most ia
nous land in South India, equaling in
tradition and culture the wonderland
of Kashmir in the north. The people
are very mild race, following the
age-long manners and customs of the
Aryans, but guiding their life by a
different set of rules from those ap-
plying to Hindus generally.
Manu-, the great Aryan ,lawgiver,
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Men RiskLives

when making pictures in places mac
cessible other than by plane or dirig-
ible. Considerable pictorial work of
this character is done for the Coast
and Geodetic Survey in yielding
photographs of shore lines and noun
famous regions.
a promising field for camera work
is in photoSraphing large crop areas
in assisting the Federal crop report
ing board in making acreage and
crop estimates. Preliminary expert
ments of the Army Air Service with
automatic cameras indicate the prac-
ucability of this method of estimat-
ing crop areas, particularly in the
cotton and rice growing regions.
The aeroplane photographs are
made at height of from 1000 TO
10000 feet, each picture representing
an area of approximately one square
mile. The pictures are later Joined
together in a huge mosaic map and
give representative sample of eXten-
sive crop. areas. The chief value of the
work is its mechanical accuracy and
the ability to cover a large area in
a few hours fight.
The Government camera men whose
headquarters are here at Washing
ton spend most of their time on the
road. They have photographed in
uraI wonders in valleys and noun
tain tops throughout the width and
breadth of the land. There are lit
orally millions of negatives ana
prints in the Government files on
all conceivable subjects from agri-
culture to war. The motion pictures
are shown all over the world, many
Of them carrying legends and titles
translated into a dozen languages,
The still" photogra phs prov!ss ea
unending source of picture material
for newspapers and magazines, in
addition to preserving Photographic
records of Uncle Sans multitudinous
scientific studies. The Bureau of
Standards, for example, has a com
plete pictorial record Of practically
every piece of experimental work
done at the bureau. The Forest
Service picture library contains over
5000 prints, made in practically all
the forest lands in the United States.
Thrilling scenes are depicted in
both the still" and motion pictures
but the more thrilling the scene the
greater the risk of the Government
camera man, unmindfuI of DANCE,
in the Iine Of public duty.
Evening star., 1925-07-05
Where Women Are Rulers
And Men Serve in Home

laid down the dharna, or the
duty Of men. Shankara, the lawgiver
of strirajya, or woman rule, laid down
the law for the women. The law of
Shankara, called in modern India the
mara -mukatayam law, is the reCog-
nized civil code for Hindus in Malabar.
BY this law property descends, not
from father 10 son, but from mother
10 daughter. The son is nobody in the
family, the husband is but the creature
Of his wife, the post Of kariakar, or
manager of the estate, belonging to
the lady Of the household. The WON
an lives in her own house, on her
property, and when she likes she can
take a husband for so long as it suits
her and as long as he behaves him
self
Divorce is a simple matter She in-
forms her husband that he is no
longer wanted and that he may leave
Immediately. and then she announces
to her social circle her divorce. Her
children always remain with her, the
husband having no claim at all over
them. She maintains them, brings
them up, educates them and sees that
they are well started in life.
She is the real ruler of the house
hold. Every evening she assemblies
all the family together, reads out ex-
tracts from the Old Scriptures and
mythology. and explains them to the
people. Naturally the education of the
girls comes foremost in the arrange
mentS made, and the literacy among
women in Malayalam even today is
very high.
This country is ruled also in a
typical fashion. The Maharaja, or
ruler, is recognized nominally by the
British, but he merely acts as a man
lager. His sons and daughters have no
power, nor any claim TO the throne.
His wife is not called the maharanee,
nor are the honors of the consort
given to her. His sisters are the
ranees, and the son of his eldest sis
ter becomes the future manager and
Maharaja.
Under stress of modern conditions a
good deal OF the administrative ma
chinery at present is in the hands of
the men, but formerly it was not so.
The mere man was put in his proper
place as a Chattel a servant, to be
used when wanted and set aside when
his days of usefulness were over.
= x X
THERE is naturally a spirit of re-
volt by some of the younger men
who come in contact with the modern
life of the world outside; and so in
British India a new law was finally
enacted which allowed a ATaiayalam
man to register his marriage and as
sumo the responsibilities of his chill
dren and family himself instead of
leaving everything to his wife. But
even though the law has been passed.
1t Is more or less dead letter,
Evening star., 1925-07-05

students are ALREADY enroll
Y ed for the nth annual sum,
" mer session Of the American
Conservatory of Music of
Fontainebleau.
1t sounds ordinary. 1t is com
pletely extraordinary. Before the
war it would have been impossible
and unthinkable. Today no other
country than America could, imag
inably, have a conservatory of music
in Fontainebleau Palace.
Exactly. "Fontainebleau" means the
grand old royal chateau itself Amer
lean students live, sleep, eat and work
in the historical old homestead of
French royalty!
1t is the most famous royal cha
teau of France. 1t is full of precious
furniture, just as royalty left it. Yet
the American woman students, living
in a section of the Louis XIV wing,
have just had their accommodations
enlarged for thirty additional, with
shining porcelain bathtubs and mod
ern brass bedsteads which royalty
itself might have been glad to use.
Go back $50 years. King Louis
XIV, at the height of French royalty,
forced his court and family to make
| invariable annual sojourns at Fon-
tainebleau every Summer in honor of
the family-this despite that he him
self had built Versailles to supersede
the Louvre, in Paris, even, as royal
seat!
Have you read Dumas historical
novels? All their personages, from
Chicot the Jester to the Three Muske-
| teers, pass through Fontainebleau
Palace.
1t is the home of beauty and
romance.
It's memories begin with st. Louis,
! King of France, about A. d. 1850.
From him an old wing, "the Pavilion
| st. LOUIS still exists. The whole
place was rebuilt for Francis I about
A. d. 1882. Nothing dates later than
| A. d. 1900 in the great additions of
Henri ". except the Trinity Chapel,
due to his son, Louis XIII, and the
| beautiful Louis XIV wing-where the
American girls sleep in their brand
| new brass bedsteads!
X X X
| A N American conservatory in Fon-
tainebleau Palace! 1t is the very
| cradle of grand opera-because in it
| the worlds first operas, Of Lulli,
Evening star., 1925-07-05
From New York is cabled as fol

From New York is cabled as fol
lows:
Award of the Fontainebleau prizes
in architecture by the BeauX-Arts In
stitute of Design of this city to j. II.
Rafferty, of the Massachusetts 1nsti-
tute of Technology and Luther S.
Lashmit of the Carnegie Institute of
Technology. Pittsburgh, has been an
nounced. The awards followed sub
mission Of 1913 drawings by architec-
tural students of all parts of the coun-
try.
The prizes provide for a summer
course of study at the American
School of Fine Arts. in Fontainebleau
Palace, near Paris, from June 25 to
September 25, including transporta-
ton and living expenses.
THE problem of this years COM
petition was a center for the exhibit
ton of building materials Sketches
were submitted by the contestants on
March 81, the plans allowing until
May for the completed work"
Such cable shows the wide spread
of the American work in Fontaine-
bleau Palace.
To the conservatory the French
government and foremost American
organizations have added this Fon-
tainebleau School of Fine Arts.
the spread, that its director, NJ
Jacques Carlu, who has been a mem
ber of the department of architecture
| at Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology this year, has just returned
from the United States, bringing with
him 10 students of the institute who
will take the summer course at Fon-
tainebleau.
| The Massachusetts, "Tech" is, in
deed, one Of the high patrons of the
school.
Two such high patrons stand behind
| it's reputation in America. The Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology
and the Carnegie Institute of Tech.
nology are donors of the money prizes
for distinguished work done which
are to be awarded, henceforth. each
Summer.
7 IKE the Conservatory, the School
of Fine Arts is an outgrowth of
the war. After armistice, our Gov
ernment established, as part of its
Army educational system, an art
] training school for architects, sculp-
tors and painters, in the Pavilion de
Bellevue, at Meudon, down the river
| from Paris.
When the A. E. F.'s Bellevue
School was discontinued there was
such demand for something similar
and permanent for American prac-
titioners and advanced students that
the French government itself lent a
hand.
Through its ministry of beaux-arts
the school at Fontainebleau was es.
tablished.
1t is open to 100 American students,
the selection of whom Is placed in the
hands of an American committee in
charge of Whitney Warren, represent
ing the department of architects, and
Ernest Peixotto, representing the de
Ipartments of painting and sculpture
You can easily imagine that stu
dents, having taken one Summer
course in Fontainebleau Palace, make
the greatest effort of their lives to re.
turn for the second and third time!
| Former students who ara In New