Evening star., 1946-11-10
Fifty Years Ago
James Matthew Barrie, announced
The Star on October 81. 1895. .'is spend

ing few days in
Peter Pon's Wa hington, accom-
s,onsor Here panied by Mrs. Barrie
and Robertson Nicoll,
his private secretary" The party was
registered at the Arlington, but the
visiting author declined to see repre-
sentatives of the press. In this" it
was indicated, 'he but follows in the
footsteps of Stanley. Kipling and other
newspapermen who have achieved fame
outside of the profession" Mr.. Barrie,
however, was seen by reporters when
passing through local streets. He was
rather a small man, and although well
dressed" looked the part of scribe
from head to foot His wife was "a
handsome young woman of the English
type, whose nationality would never be
questioned by any one who saw her
The inventor of Peter Pan at that time
had published his Aud LIGHT Idylls,"
/. THE Little Minister" and the beautiful
tribute to his mother, Margaret Ogilvy"
but The Little White Bird in which
he created the fantastic world of his
best known character was yet to be
produced. So, too, were THE Twelve
Pound Look" "A Kiss for Cinderella"
Dear Brutus" and many other successes.
Fifty years back Washington was ia
nous for its good meals in many restau-
rants at prices which today seem in
credible. In The Star OF October 81,
1896, a contributor re-
Bio Meals for ported having been
Little Money attracted by sign
reading: TRY Our
Fifteen-Cent Lunch" For the sum men,
toned, he declared: Il had a we'll
favored soup. in a rather thick bowl
to be sure, but china breaks easily and
profits at such places are small Then
came my choice of roast mutton or
stewed beef, two vegetables and tea,
coffee or milk. I took the mutton,
which proved to be excellent and tender,
and with this were served sliced raw
tomatoes and potato salad. looked
askance at the potato salad, suspecting
cotton seed oil. but it was made with
olive oil. and the onions were present
in exactly the right quantity. The
coffee was fair and the apple pie with
which I finished my repast proved
pleasant surprise. 1t not only was good
but tasted as my grandmother's apple
pie did on the old farm in Southern New
the coffee, incidentally, was real cream.
A second pitcher brought the price OF
my substantial meal up to 20 cents and
I gave the hard-worked waiter tip in
keeping and came away happy in the
discovery of a new pursuit-that of
hunting substantial lunches at small
prices"
zone of the most interesting and valu-
able collections that has reached the
National Museum in a long time"
said The Star on November 2, 1896,
"has just been un-
A Moki packed" It represented
Collection selected artifacts from a.
Moki village in Arizona,
brought back to Washington by Dr.. j.
Walter Fewkes and DR.. Walter Hough,
eminent ethnologists. Pottery and
household utensils as well as articles
of personal adornment" were included
in the relics. Their date was "prehis-
toric"-that is, prior to 1540" The
Mokis, according to the explorers of
the ruins of their homes, were quiet,
peaceable, agricultural people,. who
would rather run than fight and who
probably were driven into these desert
regions by the more warlike plains In
dians." They we're cliff dwellers of
sort, living in pueblos from which
they could make their way to the val
leys below to till the soil and to which
theyscould retreat In case of danger
from beyond the horizon. DR.. Fewkes
and DR.. Hough believed that the Moki
were related to the zuni, but were "less
modified by outside influences"
The bound volume OF The Star for
the autumn OF 1896 preserved in the
Office of The Star
Midniqht Election shows that at least
Extros TWO extra eoi'iolis
WClC plAleS0 ae SAAS
last hour of November 3, that year.
These emergency issues told Washing
ton that william Jennings Bryan, candi-
date OF the Democratic Party and the
independent radicals, had been defeated
by his Republican rival. Headlines
stressed Honest Money" and Voters
Against Free Coinage" In New York.
the journal gave up the fight; In CHI