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THE -SUN, BALTIMORE. SUNDAY MORNING, 31 ARCH 23, 1913. PART If MRS. WICKLIFFE WANTS HEAD CHILDREN'S 15 PREPARING FOR A OF SOCIAL EVENTS T0 LONDON BUREAU FLOOD KNOCKING GRAFT OUT OF RLLIGIQN AND CHARITY Chicago's Method Of Putting Out Of Business Undeserving Claimants Upon Public Less Than Half Pass Muster. THEY, are "expecting a jolly old season (r.

amiIaii anil folk nn this cMn nf th Istered a vow to spend every cent of it and return to the practice of law at piratlon of bis term without a franc in hH pocket that can be called profit of his public service. Why he is going to do this ha doesn't say, but be refuses to be advised by thrifty friends, one of whom said: "But your private means are not large. What will you do when your term of office is out?" "Do?" repeated Poincare. "Whr. France Gets Little From Canal Venus Astonishes Villagers Gossipy BitsFrom Europe.

Widow Of Congressman From Louisiana Thinks i A Mother Could Do Better There Than A Spinster Like Miss work, has been making a fearless investigation of nearly 300 alleged philanthropic agencies which solicit public support. The result of the investigation is "Chicago's first handbook for the guidance of citizens desiring standardization in the business management of privately supported charities." Two hundred and took a keen interest in her compatriot! and his ear was never closed to an American appeal for anything in his power to grant. The murder of Humbert left Glanottl inconsolable and almost unfit for social work, and so Humbert's son, the present King, made the former grand master of ceremonies the prefect of the royal house, so that afterward whoever met the King had to see the Count first. But his memory began to fail. He sat long hours thinking of olden glories.

He brooded and was unhappy, and when the American Ambassador requested audience for her with th King the request remained so long on his desk that it was lost and Mrs. Cleveland left Rome disappointed. So was Hand-gome Ce6are gradually retired, and now the world is full of those who niourn. How dye Is Passe. That banal greeting "How do you do?" is to be barred from polite society In Paris on the ground that it means nothing and is insipid.

The idea is that people who ask after your health are not really at all Interested In it What they really mean Is what the Roman meant when he said "Salve," which in French would be "Je vous (te) salute." The "HpIIo, Bill" of Elk-dom and "Howdye, Tap" of Moosery would be open to the objection of undue familiarity. Anyhow, Parl3 is all worked up about it. Poincare Is A Sport President Poincare of France gets a year salary, or about five times ns much as President Wilson, but be has rcg- f3 tion is- to go to the State capitals and CHICAGO is the first city to put into operation a courageous and systematic plan for eliminating the pious grafter from the community the man or, woman who maintains an alleged mission or home or other charity, which, whether or not, exists chiefly for the' support of the persons behind it. This sort of graft is a crying scandal to every large city. It is known by all church and charitable workers.

Yet so long as operations are kept within the limits of very lax civil laws it has been difficult to deal with them. Not all of these money-raising organizations are sheer and' Intentional frauds, although some are. A certain proportion are merely unfit. They are the well-meant efforts of incompetent and untrained persons to do good. They are commendable only for their impulse.

They have no system and there is no attempt to keep the carrying charges in anything like a proportionate ratio to the output. The problem which has confronted the religious community and the allied philanthropic workers is how to protect the public without seeming to attack religion or charity. How The Graft Works. Few givers ever investigate. Probably a' factor In much giving is the desire to get rid of the canvasser with as little inconvenience as possible.

To prey upon good people In the name of religion Is probably the easiest and most widely worked graft in the world. A notable example is that which is called the Christmas dinner graft, with public appeals for money on the street corners. There could in the nature of the case be no auditing of accounts, although criminal trials have developed that in at least one of these organizations 50 per cent, of the day's collection was paid to the collectors, and out of the remaining the administrative expenses had to come. Naturally only a few pennies out of every dollar given got beneath the belts of the poor in the form of food. Another similar fraud is the maintenance of "rescue missions" and homes.

It is easy to get a few well-meaning clergymen to lend their names, without the slightest investigation, to a project that professes to be pious. Thus authenticated, the managers are free to sail all seas In search of funds. No books are kept and no financial reports are made. These petty schemes are not all of the "pious graft" that exists In the land. There are certain national societies, whom It would be impious to call by the crass name of grafters, who have an expense budget out of all proportion to the work done.

Many of these have outlived their usefulness and are simply subsisting on the Income from fat endowments. They have unintentionally and Imperceptibly come to their present condition by the passage of-time. The Federal Council of Churches promised to deal with these, but It has not yet been able to do so. This Is The Chicago Way. That the task of restricting public ben eficences to really; deserving causes is no slight one may be seen from the simple statement that a committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce spent two years on the task and has Just issued its report of the investigation which it made.

Under the direction of the Association of Commerce a committee of experts, which had the assistance of an advisory council of 86 specialists In social and religious ROUND big damp spot between New York and Liverpool have something to look forward say wisest prophets in society. There is a tremendous demand for houses InMayfair and Belgravia, and landlords are putting coin in their purses. Dates for dances already arranged extend clear into the middle of June, and while none of the hostesses of estate has announced her plans, it is known that the Duchess of Devonshire will give a ball on Derby while the King will entertain the Jockey Club at the same time. In June the King and Queen of Denmark will look London over and attend the state ball at Buckingham. Two great flower shows are planned in Chelsea and Holland Park.

Caruso and Melba will be1 among the stars at Covent 'Garden. The naval and military tournament will be at Olym-pia, and an Imperial Forces Exhibit will be at Earl's Court. The King will attend every race, opening with Newmarket and Epsom, and in Ascot week he will have a party at Windsor. Hotels are being crowded with reservations. Knocking The Big Ditch.

Frenchmen are busy knocking the Panama Canals which they didn't think "so much of when they were trying to dig It. M. Quellennec; consulting engineer of the Sues Canal Company, addressed a federation of Parisian merchants, and But it wasn't so much a knock of the canal, either, as it was a sort of Bernard N. Baker slap at the French merchant marine. What he really said was that, while the ditch was a mighty good thing, France would get very little benefit because of the decay of this same merchant marine.

Not more than 5 per cent, of vessels using the canal, will fly the French flag. And the prospect is that there will be a continued decrease in the future. The French West Indies, he said, will get some benefit but in a limited way. Therefore, France doesn't have to worry about treating big-ports at Fort de France and Pointe a Pitre. Tahiti will be sufficient as a coaling station.

Handsome Cesare Lamented. Those who remember Handsome Cesare, Count Glanottl, are lamenting the breaking of an important link in the court chain of Italy. This man, not ouly handsome but daring and cultured in the last degree, was King Humbert's bosom friend, and there is an added interest in him because he married a Miss Kinney, of America, and not only was it a love match, but on her account Handsome Cesare always Last Sunday an Electric Park car was detained at Union Station by a lady just arrived by train seeking information about the city which the conductor could not supply. About to step off, the lady was heard to say: "Then you. cannot direct me to the Jesuit Church?" "Never heard of it," Said the man, Impatiently fingering the bell rope.

"This car will take you to the door; get inside and I will tell you where to get off," said a passenger on the rear platform. The conductor followed the lady inside, collected her fare, and when on the platform again he, asked the passenger where the church was, the lady wanted. "St. Ignatius', Calvert and Madison street," was the reply. "What? Well please tell me how many names that church has?" asked the conductor.

"I know it as St. Ignatius' Church, Loyola College Church, Loyola Church and College Church, but I never heard it called Jesuit Church In all my service on this line." This is a diatribe against the nickname. Fortune favored you at the baptismal font and you were christened with a beautiful name. It is Elizabeth, let us say. But this is too much for the family, and except on occasions of great severity, when the agony Is drawn out to "Lizzie," yon are dubbed plain "Liz." At first you do not mind It so much, being young and not given to Introspection, and so your nickname becomes firmly established.

Everyone who comes to the house calls yon "Liz" and you haven't foresight enough to offer protestations. But by and by, in the natural order of events, you grow up. and, next to your retrousse nose, nothing Is more abhorrent to you than your nickname. The devious attempts that you make to cover up the fact that you are called "Liz" are nothing short of pitiful. You have Elizabeth engraved on your visiting cards In the hope of deceiving your new acquaintances at least.

You plead with your family to speak of you by your right name it is so much more dignified, you tell them but habit Is too strong. The young man whom, of all others in the world, you are trying hardest to please, comes to your home, and your small brother, in an excess of enthusiasm, slips up and calls you "Liz." The work of months is undone. Tou had dreamed of the time when he would bespeak you in soft tones with "Elizabeth, will you be my wife?" All that is past now. You could never marry a man who might call you "Liz." But the climax is reached when, after having concealed "Liz's" identity at the office for six nerve-racking months, an old friend of the family calls up and, mistaking your employees voice for that of your own, asks blithely "Is that you, 'Liz' 7 You feel as though the end of the world had come and contemplate an immediate resignation. Cursed be he who first Invented the nickname The pet name, well, perhaps the nickname never "There are two things that simply can't be bought in Baltimore," remarked an irate woman to a friend as she plumped herself down on a seat beside, her in the shoe department of a large store.

"They are such common and necessary articles, too, that you would think every store would sell them." "One is a yard stick. Did you ever try to buy a yard stick? tin't be done. I nave been all over this town asking for a common wooden yardstick. Oh, yes, I can get a footrule with brass Joints, that folds UP so that you can put it In your pocket or your cardcase, or I can get an Iron ribbon thing that curls up like some flat kind of snake, in the most impossible manner, or I can get a tape measure, or I can get any one of a dozen things that I don't want and can't use. "They told me at a hardware store to go to a grocery because grocers often used yard sticks as advertisements.

I went to: a grocers and inquired whether I could get a common wooden yardstick. They replied that they sometimes gave them away as advertisements, but that they happened to be out of them at the present moment They snggested that I go to a stove man, he sometimes gave them away- BX this time I feeling no better than a common mendicant. With every desire tfi bu one 1 i back to work like Mr. Toft. Why shouldn't And the United States' burning question has been: What 6ball we do with our ex-Presidents? A Royal Greeting.

"Hello, dad said the Prince of Wales, and extended his hand to the King of England "how are you, mother?" to the Queen. This all happened when the King and Queen, with Princess Mary, went to Oxford to see this young undergraduate of Magdalen College. And then, just like any other healthy hoy In a dark suit and. bowler hat, he proceeded bubble over with a lot of trifling things about what he was learning nd getting to eat. The party lunched together in the Trince'a room, and then "dad" and the boy's mother motored back home.

Ze Great Christopher Colombo! In Baltimore, where the first America statue to Columbus was erected, there will be interest in the effort of M. Henri Scboeu to prove that the great Christopher wa born in Corsica, at Calrl. This butts into historical conclusions that he was born In Genoa or Gallcia, and Spaniards and Italians have joined issue against Scboon'n the-ory. Seuoc-n puts up such arguments aMh frequent use by Columbus, in his writings, of the fishes called "tonlna," asserting that the word is neither Spanish nor Italian, but is in daily use among Corsica ficher-rnen. This the Spaniards dispute, lioldiuir that "tonina" i.s often used by Siuiniali fishermen to describe the tunny flh or dolphin.

Danes Passing The Hat Fearing that In the event of a great war Denmark would be crushed unlefs In position to enforce armed neutrality, nn1 despairing of adcqutie appropriation by the Goverumeut to build additional fortirt tion, the Danes ore raising a hugenatlonitl fund by private means. Artists are put-ling up pictures to be Fold for the fund. Schools are giving enlertiilumcnts and donating the proceeds. Business hous' are pcttiug aside a certain per tent, of their revenues. The King and Queen hend huge subscription list and other member of the royal finnily are iimong the movement's supporters.

Nothing like tills nn-tional movement lias been seen la the smaller kingdoms, and the present great unrest in Europe is responsible. Royal Farmer Coming If his plans hold out. Prince Krlek, eouslu of King George of England uui King Christian of Denmark, will shortly come to America to study agriculture. 11. has been farming on Flonia Inland, attending agricultural colleges between season, and during the enrly summer he will In-npect furms and farm methods in England, then to come on to the United Stntc3.

Prince Erlek is one of those modern, day Idealists who believe that the prot.perl.ty of every country depends upon its farmers. Haeckel Still Writes. Father Time has put aside his scythe and is usiag the pen. From Berlin comes word that the much-beloved Ernest llaerkel, al though beginning to show the weight of his 7ft years, is far from an old man. On the contrary, he writes upward of 40 letters every day, acknowledging congratulations that burled hi mln good will on the occasion of his recent birthday celebration.

This Is the way the world-famous scholar lives now, who recently said "When my eightieth birthday comes I may be looking down on the world from Jupiter with a mild smile." Venus Scares Em Up The other evening neveral eminently respectable citizens of West Hartlepool. In England, were holding a meeting of the Corporation Finance Committee when member went outside to get a breath of fresh air. Of a sudden a yell went up yell of excitement bordering on dlfinuy. He rushed back into the room, grabbed th other committeemen and pushed them out. He pointed upward, and there they all saw it a blaze In the heavens.

"An aeroplane with a searchlight: I ran see its outlines!" one gasped. "A German invasion! Heavens, does tbi King know this?" There was terrific apprebenkion, for rumors of Germany in the air had been afloat for weeks. Then someone sent for an astronomer with his telescope. He took look. "That's the planet Venui," be said, shortly.

The explanation was that West Hartlepool is a fog-blanketed centre, from which Venus is seen only once in a great many generations; and this happened to be the once. And German army officers are telling the story everywhere, clinking steins and roaring with mirth. Pa Jama Ball In Paris. One of the newest of all new things in gay and sometimes mad Parisian circles is the Fete Deshabille, which marked last week in the glided Bohe mia set. The invitation warned all persons that no guest would be admitted except in sight clothes.

The result was a rush of women in night dresses and kimonos and men in pajamas of all shades and colors, cling-fully ridiculous. After a feast some of the guests gave tableaux representing the progress of dishabille from the beginning of the world's history. Balfour, Landlord A. J. Balfour, former premier and until last year leader of the Unionist party, in one of the very wealthy men of Great Britain, his annual Income being placed at some half million dollar Most of thin comes from his Scottish estate.

Whllting. harae, Haddingtonshire, the chief products of which are potatoes and metal for roud making. Mr. Balfour does not himself grow potatoes or quarry road metal, but he draws hit Income in rents and royalties. The valleys of the estate are world-famed for the potatoes they produce, and the crop, nhica yields the highest prices, Is shipped to England and at times even to America.

The farmers, getting big prices In turn, pay big rents, and do so very gladly. The road metal is sold to a contractor, who pays Mr. Balfour a fortune in royalties for the privilege of quarrying at Whlttinghame. There Is a whole mountain of the metal, so that the former premier is assured of a steady income for many years from this sourca alona. MAKING READY RESORT JOYS TOR WELK-ENDLR ninety-one organizations sought the ap proval of the committee.

Of this number only 152 were able to pass muster, and of this latter number 51 had their accounts audited by a certified accountant for the first time. This simple statement throws a flood of light on the conditions existing in Chicago, and doubtless duplicated in other cities. Publicity And Purse Strings. Since the issuance of this list and the dissemination of the fact of its existence, it has become essential for any society or institution that hopes to live by public support to obtain this recognition. In some cases the committee intimates that it means to suppress certain organizations by legal means.

This will be necessary only in extreme cases. Not to be on the Association of Commerce's list of approved agencies is equivalent to being tabooed by every sensible giver. Now all new movements and organiza tions that make a public appeal for money must have their plans approved by this representative committee of experts, which stands between the hungry hands of the genuine and bogus helpers of mankind and the easy purse strings of the people. The Religious Side. The committee included within Its survey the various independent religious organizations, it exempted those which were under direct ecclesiastical control, but the publicity already secured will cause the denominational authorities to give stricter attention to the efficiency of the agencies which they support.

The co-operative council of missions of Chicago has co-operated actively in the work of investigation and tabulation. It Is within the field of religious organization that the greatest bitterness is shown by agencies which failed to secure recognition. The committee takes the firm ground that a well-meant activity is no substitute for an efficient, well-administered and necessary Institution or organization. The amount saved to the churches will total thousands of dollars every year. Standardizing Charity.

The committee has named six standards which it counts indispensable to every organization hoping to attain recognition. They are as follows Responsible local management with at least four administrative meetings a year a work commensurate in value with the money expended a disposition to co-operate with other charitable institutions a field not already occupied satisfactory methods of raising funds and an annual auditing of accounts by public accountants. Encouraged by Chicago's example and experience, it Is likely that the federated charities and the Inter-church federations of other cities will adopt the same plan. We have come to the day of efficiency In religion. Any church board, any benevolent institution, any philanthropic agency, no matter how venerable, that is not able to stand the full and rigid scrutiny of trained investigators would better begin to set its house in order.

The Religious Rambler. point along the bay. For those of smaller means there are even cheaper rates, by a dollar or so; and with some discount made for children and a little clipped off for numbers. It's really cheaper to take a va cation in Maryland than it is to keep house in town. The average rate is $10 a week, and from that up to 15, at country boarding houses along the water.

For this the vacationer gets plenty to eat, a good bed, Maryland hospitality, sweeping grounds to roll on, games and picnic parties, crabbing, swimming, boating and a world of health and peace of mind. There are so many of these places that one might leave the boat at almost any landing and find one or two, and the general standard of excellence is so good that there Is bo risk in trying any of them. At the more pretentious places the hotels and high-class boarding houses at principal resorts the rates run all the way from $10 to $23 a week. All along the river there are such resorts, identified by their more elaborate wharves, some fitted with ballrooms over the water, moving-picture parlors and other attractions, and by the groups of tin-type galleries, novelty shops and bath houses about the beach. At these points men are now dragging the sands, taking out shells, timber, rocks and the wash of heavy seas, to make the path of bathers more pleasant Itinerants of the week-end type rent bathing suits "from the houses, but as a rule bathers who really bathe, and who know what it is to enjoy the water, own their outfits and take them along.

One of the delights of a vacation in Maryland and along the water is the absolute freedom of everything. There Is no extra charge for the fresh air, none for bathing, none for sailing and rowing at the country homes where the landlord owns the boats. It looks like a fine day for fishing on the morrow. Someone, sitting around in the porch group, suggests trip. On the instant work is begun on tackle.

Early the next day the whole boarding population, excepting invalids and lovers, who abhor company, string down the path to the wharf and bundle themselves overboard Into the sailing boat or yawl. There is the greatest fuss about breaking up peelers and putting on bait and untangling lines, and who caught the most fish. And when the fishers return, having caught their own dinner, there is a great deal of bragging around the table, all of which Is totally unjustified by any tangible results. A feature of vacationing at home is the undying friendships that are made, so that as a rule you will see the same people at the same place every summer, greeting each other with the same effusion, and parting when the hour has come with a rousing sendoff to each, down to the last one. And all the winter through they who have tasted the simple delights of the home vacation look forward to next season with a keen and hungry interest that pales the enthusiasm of a globe-trotter.

Gentlemanly. Carr That fellow Motorton is a prettj decent sort, isn't he Cugley One in a thousand. Why, he never allows his victims to wait for an ambulance always utilizes his own car. Fuck. Washington, March 22.

THERE is a movement afoot to have Mr. Wilson remove Miss Julia Lathrop from office and substitute for her as head of the Children's Bureau Mrs. Wlekliffe. The President has not told anybody exactly what he thinks about the letters he receives on this subject. You know Mr.

Wilson Is not In the habit of expressing bis opinion recklessly. Mrs. Wickllffe Is the widow of Robert Wickllffe, the Louisiana Congressman who was killed last June. She wants to be the chief of the Children's Welfare Bureau of the Department of Labor during the Wilson administration and as long afterward as possible. After marshaling her own friends and those of her late husband -and there are thousands of them Mrs.

Wickllffe Is bringing her campaign to what she thinks is a successful close. Miss Julia Lathrop, the present head of the bureau, as hr title indicates, Is unmarried. Mrs. Wickllffe has borne three children, two of whom died In early Infancy. Her third child.

Brent, Is now a dear little girl 2 yoars old. The question most argued by the respective friends of Miss Lathrop and Mrs. Wlekliffe Is whether a eplnster or a mother should be allowed to take care of "Mr. Wilson's babies?" Shall the Government research work Into the care of Mttle children be directed by a woman who has known the Joys and Borrows of motherhood and Its tremendous responsibilities, or shall it be In the hands of a woman who has scientific knowledge of what Is best for babies and whose long years of experience with children has won her the name of the "Maiden Aunt" of Chicago? Mrs. Wickllffe, though, a young woman, has a record of Interesting accompllsh-- ments.

It was she who organised the Dolly Madison breakfast last May, when 500 of the most prominent Democratic women of the United States Joined in a "harmony It was also Mrs. Wickllffe who, when her successful ment had carried the celebration to a glorious financial close, refused to accept -the Tln that the Democratic women wished to present her. 'Seat The Money To Starving Babies Instead She asked that the money be sent instead to the little babies in Louisiana who were tarring during the spring floods. The committee offering the pin were so delighted with Mrs. Wickllffe's unselfishness that they each added $1 to Mrs.

Wick llffe's personal contribution of $50. The total was a trig sunt for the hungry babies. The children of Louisiana hare always beea Mrs. WlckllfXee special care and pride. If she does become the bureau chief she Is going to begin her campaign for the conservation of babies of the whole country as she did for those of her.

own parish by urging the use of nitrate of sil ver for the eyes of fcewborn Infants to prevent blindness. "And my next, step will te to advocate the performing of autopsies on tnfantswho have died from unknown causes, In order to help in the treatment of other sick babies," said Mrs, Wickllffe. "My second child died when she was 6 weeks old from some trouble the doctors could not fathom. would gladly have allowed an autopsy to be performed on my own baby so that other mothers might he spared the anguish I felt And that other babies might live. Mrs.

Wlckllffe'a voice Is fun and earnest and her manner is magnetic. Her per sonality is that of an enthusiast. She is tall and very slender, with dark hair and big brown eyes. Her features are clear cut and she has quick nervous movements. "I come of fighting stock," she told me laughingly, "and I am living up to the creeds of my ancestors.

I am fighting for this bureau, and I am going to keep on fighting till I get.lt And after it la mine, I shall continue to fight to keep the children well." She Comes Of Fighting Stock Mrs. Wickllffe's father, Dr. H. Brent Cooke, of Lexington, belonged to John Morgan's famous cavalry during the Civil War. Her great-great-grandfather, Gen.

Benjamin Logan, was one of the first settlers of Kentucky and a noted Indian fighter. Mrs. Wlekliffe Is also descended from Ellen Walworth, one of the founders of the Daughters of the Revolution. It may seem significant to put a Daugh- ter of the Revolution founder among a Iist of fighters, but Mrs. Wickllffe included the name of her ancestors among 'her pugnacious forebears, and far be it from me to change the opinion another woman has of her relatives.

Speaker Clark is really directing Mrs. "Wickllffe's fight, though in a perfectly unofficial manner, of course. He, like the Senators, Governors and Congressmen of all political faiths who want her to run 'the bureau, is firm in his opinion that "'Mrs. Wickllffe has as deep an acquaintance with medical matters as has Miss Lathrop. rTo begin with, Mrs.

Wickllffe was raised in a "medical atmosphere." Dr. John Cooke, her grandfather, was a prominent physician and one of the found ers of the University of Kentucky Medical School, in Louisville. He practiced medicine in Lexington and was at one time professor of theology in the Transylvania University, In Lexington. Mrs. Wick-t.

liffe's grandfather, Dr. John S. Wilson, twas a well-known practioner and a warm of Henry Clay. After making her debut in Louisville, Mrs. Wlekliffe confesses that she "did noth-i lng for five years but go to parties." She has friends all over the South and has al-.

ways been intensely popular. After her marriage in 1903 she went with her husband to St. Francisville, La. husband was the third successive son '-'of the family to be elected to Congress. His father was Governor of Louisiana and his A-grandfather was Governor of Kentucky.

"But don't let me speak of my hus- band and my daughter," protested Mrs. Wickllffe. "I can never leave the subject "But I must tell you this much, that down Tln Louisiana the people loved him so they rti called him 'Our t- How She Began Work With Children How she happened to begin her work with children was brought out by my next question to Mrs. Wickllffe. "Wfcen my second child died from this Mrs.

Robert C. Wickliffe. mysterious illness, I was miserably unhappy," she began. "I felt that I would lose my mind if I did not get some re lief. My greatest struggle came when I was riding home to Louisiana after I had burled my baby In Kentucky.

It happened that a child cried out in pain on the car In which I was traveling. Instinc tively I hurried to aid the mother. After the incident was over I realized how much pleasure I had taken in ministering to the suffering baby. I decided at once to make the welfare of children my life work. "When I reached St.

Francisville I started almost immediately on my crusade. My first step was to visit all the women in the parish who were about to become mothers. I told them how to influence the lives of their unborn children, by right thinking, eating and exercising. I cautioned them especially to see that the eyes of their babies were washed out immediately after birth with nitrate of silver. "I talked with the mothers of young children and advised them how best to take care of their babies, and consulted with the doctors in the parish as to the health of their young patients.

Meanwhile, I studied every reliable authority I could find on the health of children. "Have you any plans for the bureau work here if you succeed in becoming Its head?" I asked, though the question did seem to take a big Jump into the future. Mrs. Wickliffe said that she hesitated to express her opinions on the management of the bureau while Miss Lathrop was in office, but she did have some reforms besides those she had spoken of that were very near her heart Will Keep In Touch With All Doctors In Country "In the first place, by consulting the lists that all Congressmen have of the physicians in their districts, I would, keep in touch with every doctor in the would be a big undertaking, but I "would send them letters from time to time on matters I wished to call their attention to. And another vital reform I would try to bring about It Is to compel every nurse attending a baby to.

have a certificate of good h.ealth from some reputable physician. Most of these reforms I have mentioned will have to be brought about by legislation, and the only way to secure legisla- This column is edited by Miss Mary Bartlett Dixon, 1303 North Calvert street, to whom contributions for it should be sent) Among the events of the week are the following: Monday, March 24. Office hours Just Government League petition secretary, 12 to 1 P. M. Tuesday, March 25.

Petitions commit tee meeting at Just Government League headquarters at 8 P. M. Parade commit tee at Just Government League head quarters at 8 P. M. Suffrage "at home" at Just Government League headquarters at 4 P.

M. Mrs. Stanley D. Tagg hostess. Wednesday, March 26.

Meeting of the district chairmen and ward chairmen at Just Government League headquarters at 3 P. M. Just Government League executive committee meeting at headquarters at 4 P. M. Meeting at Chestertown at 8 P.

M. Mrs. D. R. Hooker, speaker.

Thursday, March 27. Decorations committee meeting at Just Government League headquarters at 3 P. M. Friday, March 28. Floats committee meeting at Just Government League headquarters at 11 A.

M. Headquarters committee meeting at Just Government League headquarters at 12 M. Parade committee meeting at Just Government League headquarters at 3 P. M. Open meeting at Just Government League headquarters at 8 P.

M. Sunday, March 30. Mrs. Chapman Catt will speak at the Academy of Music at 3 P. M.

The meeting is open to the public. Massmeetlng at Cumberland at 3 P. M. Mrs. D.

R. Hooker, Senator Moses B. Clapp and Rev. J. G.

Mythen, speakers. Meeting at Bohemian Gymnastic Hall, Gay and Preston streets, of the Bohemian Circle at 3 P. M. Mrs. John G.

Wilson, speaker. A most successful meeting was held in Hyattsvllle, Prince George's county, on March 15. The speakers, Mr. Martin Williams, of Riverdale; Miss Edith Hamilton, of Bryn Mawr School, and Rev. J.

G. Mythen, were introduced by Mr. R. Whltely. Mr.

Whitely was a member of the last Legislature and spoke and voted in favor of the woman's suffrage bill. A massmeetlng called by Mr. W. Hart, president of the Men's League of Anne Arundel County, is scheduled for April Colonial Theatre, Annapolis. Mm tm Vhat The Suffragists stay there until your law Is passed." "Oh I know it sounds Impossible to you," laughed Mrs.

Wickcliffe, as she saw my uncomprehending expression, but I feel sure it can be done. And oh, yes, she called me back, "if anybody wants to know about my best indorsement that I am fitted for the bureau chief Just send them to see my daughter Brent. She could get me the position all by herself." Wilson Qlrts Sure To Be Quiet We are so anxious to see the President's daughters see them face to face and form our own impressions of the three young women of the, White House! Not many of us have had this chance. however, for the Misses Wilson have lived pretty quietly since March 4. They have given a few little informal teas, to which the friends they had made before coming to Washington were invited.

They have gone to the theatres several times, but they have shown slight inclination to take, their place in society, whether resident or official. Stories that filter out about these three girls forecast rather a straight-laced administration fcf? the; younger set. The daughters of the White House have always directed the activities of the young unmarried, girls in If the President's daughters do emerge from their Intellectual seclusion long enough to go to a real party or two, it Is pretty certain that they will pick out a perfectly proper and ladylike entertainment where syncopated music and tea-table talk give way to symphonies and discussions of social betterment. "I'm afraid the Misses Wilson are going to be mighty staid," a Senator's wife told me the other day. "They are quiet unassuming girls, and they will consider it unmaidenly to be truly original.

I believe in their own hearts they disapprove strongly of what most young girls thrive on pretty clothes, flirtations and gaye-tles." "Tour remember Alice Roosevelt of course. Well, let me tell you a secret. The President's daughters are determined to show Washington that they can be interesting in their own way without being as daring as the present Mrs. Longworth was. Ah, but Alice Roosevelt was so amusing I She certainly kept the White House and Washington wide awake.

I almost wish but no, It were better left unsaid 1" The meeting Is to be on the. lines of the one held recently In the Academy of Music In Baltimore, and the question of woman's suffrage in relation to morality will be discussed. Congressman Hobson, Sen ator Thomas, Mrs. Kent, Dr. Kelly and Rev.

J. G. Mythen will speak. Rev. Mr.

McComas, rector of St. Anne's Church, Annapolis, will open the meeting with prayer. Next week Cecil county will begin to hear votes for women from every township. The caravan trip will start. Meet ings will be 'planned for every possible "corner and crossroad" of the county.

Some people argue that women's votes are blank cartridges, ns women lack' the physical force of men. This argument may be refuted with facts based on the recent action of the Senators and Congressmen from equal suffrage States. The pressure brought to bear upon these gentlemen is resulting in unprecedented activity in the woman suffrage committee of the Senate and has brought this committee out of the list of inactive minority committees into an active majority committee, with a Democrat as Its chairman. The State Legislatures of 1912-1913 which have passed constitutional amend ments referring woman's suffrage to the voters for decision are Michigan, Nevada, Montana, North Dakota and South Da kota. The amendments passed by the New York, New Jersey and Iowa Legislatures must pass another Legislature before they go to the voters for decision.

The amendment in West Virginia re ceived a majority of votes in both houses, but two-thirds was required to carry the amendment. Mrs. L. L. Yost, State presi dent of the Women's Christian Temper ance Union, was among the women who worked hard for the amendment.

Among the people who spoke In favor of the amendment in Massachusetts, which is still pending, were Louis Brandeis, "at torney for the people," and Josephine Pres ton Peabody Marks, the famous authoress, Mrs. Marks said: "It is asserted that equal suffrage will be a menace to moth iliuuu. i uorn a sunragisc. mar ried a suffragist and I want equal suffrage in my children's day. But It was motherhood, most of all, that opened my eyes and ears to the needs of all other mothers and the preclousness of their chil dren." ABOUT TOWN was obliged to go begging from door to door.

"Well, the stove man was out of yardsticks too, but he promised to send me one when they came in, with a pitying look in his eye. Perhaps he will do it, and perhaps he won't. I had to rest content with his promise. "The next thing that I needed was a common wire button hook. I have a large silver one at home, but I wanted a small wire one to carry about with me in my bag.

"First I went to a 10-cent store. The natural place, of course, to go for a thing like that. Well, I went to every 10-cent store in town and, would you believe It, not one sold a buttonhook of any kind. "Next I tried a department store. They had no small buttonhooks at all.

Their stock was composed of huge ones with Parisian ivory handles or handles of cbon-Ized wood. I tried every department store in town with no better result. "Then I went to a jeweler's. They had nothing whatever but heavy gold and silver ones. They told me to go to a shoe store and beg for one.

"Now I have an aversion for begging, and having spent all morning begging for a yardstick, the thought of fpendlng all afternoon begging for a buttonhook was re volting. Besides I had decided by that time that I wanted two. But having no alternative here I am. The worst of It is that I never buy my shoes twice at the same place, so I don't feci that I have any right to go anywhere and request two buttonhooks." A clerk stood before her. "Can I buy a buttonhook?" the irate woman inquired of her politely.

"We don't sell them, but I shall be glad to give you one," the clerk replied. "I should much prefer to buy a buttonhook, in fact I should like to buy two," she persisted. "I shall be glad to give you two," the clerk answered. "You see how it is," the irate woman continued, turning again to her friend, "if you want a common yardstick or a buttonhook you are forced either to beg or steal. Next time I am going to take the latter alternative." This is the story of a woman in whose family deafness was hereditary.

This fact hung as a cloud over her whole life and darkened all her days. To be deaf! One might as well be entombed alive. "My fate will overtake me sooner or later," she would moan, ever and anon. And it was even as she had spoken. One day a pain seized her in her left ear and she hied her to an aurlst.

"My grandmother is deaf, my aunt is deaf, my cousin is deaf, and now I am becoming deaf, too," she Informed him, without waiting for an examination. "Can nothing be done about it?" And the auriest after examining her ear confirmed her blackest suspicions. "It is too true," he told her. "The bones of your ear is slowly closing. In two years you will be stone deaf.

Learn the ip language immediately." And the woman departed despair her heart. In a few days the pain left her ear and she could hear as well as ever, but the thought of those slowly closing uones was a wormwood in her cup. "I shall learn the lip language," she decided, and she was as good as her word. Not only did she attend a school for prospective deaf people, but when her friends came to see her she could scarce listen to them intelligently, so intent was she on watching their lips. Finally she became so letter perfect that hr cars were In danger of atrophy from disuse.

And then she sat down to await her deafness. That was 10 years ago. She is still waiting. Last week on embarking for Europe she was heard to remark that she would like to give one good lip language In exchange for the French or the German. And the moral of the tale is that you should "never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you." Thinking.

Mother Willie, have you eaten all that candy without even thinking of your little sister? Willie Oh, no, ma I was thinking about her the whole time, afraid she'd come before I had finished. Boa ton Advertiser. JJOW Is the time of year when the paint er ana carpenter gei uuojr uu cymy- ment of resorts, when every man who owns a shore Is running down to overhaul it and find out what's left from last summer. During the long idle season, weather and tramps have upset things In every direction, and it's somebody's business to straighten out. There are benches to repair, shacks to hammer nails into, everything to paint.

There are merry-go-rounds, roller coasters and dips to be put Into shape and tested before the children swarm to the amuse ment parks. There are lawns to roll they are now being leveled and some of them have been seeded down and rolled and are now showing a velvety surface, Inviting and hopeful. All down the river at River. View, Thompson's," Bay Shore things are being made ready for the rush. In the other direction, at such places as Electric Park and Gwynn Oak, the various amusement devices are ready for overhauling, and almost any day now you will see serious-minded men going around with pencil and pad, making notes of what's to be done.

They will notice a track loose on a hurry-up device, alleys to be polished for bowlers and balls and pins to be replaced, signs to be painted, slot machines to be put in order. At the river resorts the wharves always need fixing, perhaps only a plank or part of the railing, or maybe a rotted pile to be braced or pulled out. Down the river and bay, at all the resorts where summer boarders and weekenders make merry, there are hotels and boarding houses to paint, dancing floors to smooth down and put in order, dining rooms to arrange. And the excursion boats are receiving a general overhauling and painting all for the comfort and convenience of the thousands who will presently Jam themselves Into Light street and form lines for the round-trip tickets. In the country places everybody knows what a Joy is a Maryland country place on the water! they are fixing up the tennis courts, counting the croquet balls, mallets and wickets, here and there going over golf links.

And the dear little children of the country family, who have bad several months of welcome relief from the hard task of making new friends every two weeks, are preparing to dress In their prettiest for the season's opening. And coincidentally with all this preparation folks who live in the city are figuring on their vacations. As a rule, the citylte's vacation is a two-week affair, and while plenty of them spend it at Atlantic City or go to Jamaica or Bermuda, or run down to the coast of Florida by one of the many steamers plying the coast waters, a vast majority stay at home. There are several reasons, two of which are (a) practical economy and (b) the superiority of a vacation In Maryland. To many people a vacation at home Is like a prophet at home, but the fact is that of those who stay near home and those who are lured by distance, by far the greater solid pleasure and rest Is with the first class.

Board Reasonable At Some Bay Resorts For $7 a week each a family may obtain good board, too at almost any.