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YALE SENIORS MAKE AN INTERESTING DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION IN THE SOCiAL LIFE OF THAT UNIVERSITY YALE'S NEW SOCIETY. "Etihu" Is Started on a Emm New at This University. April "What's that fcafldicg: a mausoleum or a reform echool?" asks unacquainted visitor who being piloted about the. Yale campus by a young student. building he indicate? 15 a solemn, structure of with two narrow slits on either side of the iron doorway for and stone posts in Jron? frinpeS with loop? of chain.

Between baa stone that flank the gateway, a single narrow furrow in tin stone walk to door shows where thousands of Yale feet have shuffled for a score of college The Yale undergraduate wljo is asked such a cuestion glances about him furtively to make certain no one Is -within hearing, lowers his voice. and says the one word. That epitomizes the whale attitude which most Tale undergraduates take, through the force of tradition. the three secret societies that make up most of the social life of the Yale senior year. To mention either one of them in the presence of a college man who is a member.

or who Is likely to be. or who has been. Is a jscrilege that no right minded Yale undergraduate win commit. For four years he goes through the life, takes part in all of the campus activities, finds his friends among the forty-five who make up the Quota from his class who receive elections to the three senior societies, t-nd never once, except when some inquisitive outsider, who does not understand sacredness of Tale traditions, asks the question, point blank. he mention ever, the name of the three institutions known as Skull and Bones, Wolf's Head cr.d Euan and Key.

which are the acme of underprr-duate social ambition. S'everthetoss. prominent members of the present Yale senior class have just announced the organization cf a Bear society, which Is totally at variance accepted traditions at the New- Haven cnlvertlty. and this announcement is just now challenging entire Yale undergraduate and graduate world to a thorough discussion of the present secret society" system, of the length to which it tea already gone in forming college social Idesls in New-Haven, and what it bids fair to attempt is to be made to a different spirit in the Yale social system. This Bear society, to be known as the Elihu, is the step ever taken at Yale to introduce the society system" of colleges.

The fact that it already received the pood wishes of many Yale men. both in college and out. is a good sign that the "reform." If such It can be called, Jons by many close students of Yale life. has about begun. It would not be at all surprising If in the course of a few years further steps would be taken to broaden the society Me at Yale along These new lines.

If that done, and it la understood that the movement is supported by many faculty members, the near future is likely to see a complete change in the Yale Society system, though without in any way impairing the strength which the old societies have In Yale undergraduate It has long been a snbmVt to students of other and in many Instances a source of caricature, that Yale, with Its large classes, made up of young fellows the large proportion cf. "whom rarly make their mark In the graduate world, has clung to Its secret societies. walled up In wlndowless meeting halls, and fenced about -with the most complete silence secret- to which admittance is denied except to a tars forty-five men out of every senior class of above three hundred. criticism has been heaped upon the extension of this system to the Junior class, in which four secret societies, taking Hi in all not over 130 man. and shrouded from public gaze by the same eecrecr.

comprise much of the social opportunities which th- college offers. Until a years the sophomore year had its societies also, e.ich hedged about with equal secrecy, to mention which In public was met by stony stares from the mem- Harvard, at Princeton, at dozen? of other this secrecy was dropped years ago. and societies and clubs substituted. At Yale there has never been any attempt until now to make this real reason why no attempt has been mace jjrtnfaiw to revise the Yale society system. has been lack of any organized sentiment that fl change.

There have been sporadic plenty of them; various youthful JeremUfcs have penned youthful diatribes in the the faculty has. in times past. the more harmful of the secret society. luch the famous suppression of the freshman Beetles a generation ago. the anniversary of irhich is still celebrated on the campus on Cteesa nMa CM night.

The first systematic effort to out succession of class societies came a 'ew rears ago. when a senior class in two succes- trained its non-society fire on the prefaffing evil of sophomore societies, with the result that thSe societies were completely wiped out. It said that Yale's social system is mad, it distinct parts-th- secret societies, which mSt to or.lv a few. and the fence, which is open to man A which has beeS able to continue t-U'olu time democracy, changed as it naturally been l-y changed character of the of campus social Shir 'his is true or not the fact remains that caflei- the ircvalent system at Yale only a chosen are Awarded with social body of rC r. and that a great body of men.

or and of ability, have had to co tirough their Yale course unrealized as be Prominent as they really have been simp be- Sase of the physical Impossibility stretching tae Boctetj quota to receive them 3 a -'it the the iufeUe lias RSla ceive from his fe.lows. here that a junior TB von the campus ere JV, tf- chapel rchlWht -nlnutw! and its fi rJ move about the darK U-M arcfid rnce chanting their campus. -''a i gotwd and keeping SSMSBSBS2KS colored Irini beSn- The neophytes Tnfri tta- election the campus. in tbdr rooimi paru dormitory. The fin or six and dowu the pM lc vM ud the stairs.

i he MEMBERS OF AT.PHA DELTA THT FRATERNITY LEAVING THE HALL. IN HJLLHOrFE FOR THE TALB CAMPUB ON ELECTION SIGHT. Reproduced by courtesy of the publishers from Leslie's Weekly. them for the final ceremonies of entrance, and then comes the night when the neophytes are admitted. This, however, is not public nowadays, the faculty interfering with a street show of the initiations.

In the Elihu. the new "open senior society." the lirst attempt has how been marie toward broadening the scope of the Yale social system and bringing Into it more of the worthy men in each senior class. The will not be a "secret society," though admission the clubhouse to be restricted to the members. It will have none of the outward Insignia of the present three senior societies. Instead, it will be modelled on the more popular clubs of the other universities.

The system of ting members will be similar to that now in vogue in the three secret institutions, as the new members will be elected by their predecessors. There will be. however, no limit Bet to the membership from any one class, the only restriction being' that members of the other three established societies are not to be elected, except one from each as an honorary member. The annual elections will be given out after "Tap Bay." so that the more prominent of the Juniors who fail of election to the three senior institutions may be elected to the Elihu. NEW CLUB AT SKYN MAWS COLLEGE.

Bryn Mawr. April 4 A r.ew club of importance has been formed at Bryn Mawr College on new lines. No secret societies have ever existed there, nor any clubs to which student, elect from the student body. Democracy has been the ruling principle of all college organizations. The Philosophical Club, for example which has a very large membership and brings many well known lecturers to the college, Is open to all students who have had one year of college work in philosophy.

The De Rebus Club, which invites lecturers and speakers on subjects of general Interest, is open to every one. and is. Indeed, considered as being ip of the whole student body. The Graduate Club la. of course, for all graduate students, and the Economics Club is made up on the same principle.

Th- new club, however, though It will not depart in the least from the democratic principle, win be restricted in membership. It may never contain more than right member? or less than eight, if there are students enough are. of course, high. The candidate for membership must have taken or be taking the major course in English critics or one of the descriptive writing courses, and must have received in the English writing course she has taken either high credit in the work of one semester or credit in that of two. The club starts with a full membership, but when vacancies occur they ire to be filled, not by the members of the club, but by the English department, which will choose from among those eligible the students best fitted.

The dub will hold a formal meeting once each semester, with an address by some one from outside, and an informal meeting every two weeks, at which there be read and discussed papers written by the members of the dub. atecusskm and oTsuch a small body Mnwr Club and. through them, to every student of English at the college. HOW DID PURSE GET IN HIS POCKET Whenever any one tells a pickpocket story at the uTderkraM Club, in these 114 J. has a good one In return.

When he reached borne from business the other day he found, not that his billbook was missing, but in the outside pocket of his overcoat a neat ck leath-r and cardcase. He had never before, and investigation showed that it the cards of a business man with whom he 9 rot acquainted. "How did 1 get that cardcaseT" is the question he has been asking. pickpocket took it out of another man. locket began one of his friends, "ran through it Seediiy in search of money, and rut it into your cL having mistaken you for the man he had My pocketbU was -lifted- the other flay and I was quite worried over the loss of some notes there! It greeted me in the next morning.

mail however, and nothing was disturbed but money and postage stamps it contained. Ms a way pickpockets have, I am told-and a decent one saw the poeketl on the floor of the car. perhaps was the way another man began his answer. you dropped it. he played the trick of slipping it into your overcoat to whom Mr.

reldkamp SS. with' 'f into your pocket times, but wls stuSb0 rn. a'nTVnsistVon filing the wrong way. PISH HATCHING AT THE AQUARIUM. Last week part of the output the fish hatchery at the Aquarium was transported and there in the waters of that body of water under the direction of the Fish UpWards of fry of the whiteflsh were thus disposed of.

The li le fish do not occurv a groat deal of space, so it 8 not to take them from their birthplace to their new home. A half dozen ten-gallon cam re rembttas milk cana St only hal fl inch wtle only haM an tach long and no larger around than a darning needle. The are £rfr most prominent feature. These look like two bead. of mercury fastened on he larger end Of the body.

They shine like, th, ZSL. must Any boy Pgg He mu9t once in the There 3 always then begin a some way. and there are food to be nl( as on their guard against fish flsh. soon be busy with the Th- hat on Fhad 8- These hatching of a g. fp require only a When hatched.

3 ta th Hudson the -HI Commteiion. R.ver by the batchad in alt Is ur rislnP ecfrs and the fish themselves a small place The veo the Ml. arriund one of Aquarium oe.uP«-J the tank, asf bled on lnl i wi been born aid rr hundred- of or fish. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE. SUNDAY.

AFRIL 5. 1003. A GERMAN WARSHIP IN PEACEFUL GUISE. KAISER WILHELM II SAID TO HAVE A COMPLETE SET OF ARMAMENT AWAITING HER HERE. The new steamer of the North German Lloyd Line, which will arrive here on her maiden voyage from Bremen on April 30.

the Kaiser Wilhelm 11.. according to an article written by a man said to have to special sources of Information and published in "The American Syren and Shipping" yesterday, is primarily intended to be an armored cruiser of the German navy in time of war. The leading: idea in her construction, according to the writer, has been that of her use as a war vessel. In the construction of her hull, her machinery, her superstructure, the first consideration was her possible use as a cruiser. She is supposed to be the embodiment of naval science, as understood by the German Emperor and h'? -stuff or naval experts.

In all that relates to the use of the vesee as an armored cruiser. Emperor William la? passed upon her plan? and equipment. From time to time as he heard of Improvements, he has ordered changes in the original plans of the ship. "As lately as six years ago," says the writer, "when the ship's engines were completed in accordance with the original specifications, the Emperor personal orders for radical ihanges In them in order to make an Important feature therein conform to ideas set forth in an essay written by Admiral George W. Melville, U.

P. N-, concerning the vibration of enpines." The change was made. The of the. double bottom of the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. is on lines suggested by a distinguished officer of the British navy tor protection against submarine torpedo boats of the Holland type.

Emperor William saw this idea set forth in The Broad Arrow," and had it adopted. From study of blue prints of the ship In the Navy Department at Washington the writer says that the engines of the steamer are taxed 250 horsepower for the double bottom alone. "All in all." he declares, "it is evident to the trained naval eye. the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. primarily a ship of war.

and that her adaptation to commercial purposes is a secondary matter. "Two sets of armor rind armament are said to be ready for imptacement one in this country and one in Germany. The slotways and embracement gearing for the ImpJacement of armor for the engine, and propellers are the same form as that designed for use in certain American steamship? now under construction, and in good time will be rated In the naval reserve list as armored cruisers. The most remarkable feature of the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. to the engineering mind, is her enormous coal bunkers, which were planned upon a computation by the engineers of the German navy for the consumption of coal from Kiel to Para.

Brazil, and return without replenishing. In commercial service only one-rthird the space devoted to coal storage will be filled with fueL The twin propellers. feet 10 Inches In diameter, are driven independent engines of 20.0U0 horsepower each, and aggregating 40,000 horsepower. Under normal conditions these rs will revolve eighty times minute. and push the ship across the Atlantic at the rate of knots an hour.

The steam pressure In the nineteen boilers will be kept at 213 pound. to the square Inch. The whole steam power plant, being designed with reference to use as a rulser, both boilers and engines, will an overload considerably in excess of the figures mentioned. A very important feature of the Kaiser Wilhelm 11., when considered as a war vessel, Is the battery of nineteen centrifugal steam pumps, which are capable of discharging 9,780 tons of water an hour. "With these pumps, and the comprehensive system of bulkhead partitions, double bottom, water tight compartments for the Independent engines and rudder protective apparatus, this ship could be kept above water in a tierce battle for a longer time than could safely be credited rtain types battleship, under the Mass of several nations.

The ship has an equipment of wireless telegraph apparatus of the German army type, and it is purposed to print the news In a daily newspaper. As the Kaiser Wilhelm 11. is designed to be of educative value to certain classes of officers and men in the German navy, most of the officer, and crew will be made up of the best types of men. who Ing trained to learn all I i about the art of navigating ships which ere long may he used as fighting machines. This insures that the ship will be navigated by a crack body of officers and men.

"In service as an army transport the Kaiser Wilhelm II could carry a of three thousand men with equipments and stores. Classing the double bottom of this ship a. a ground floor, she may be said to be seven stories, or seven', decks, high, measuring exactly feet and 7 inches high from keelson to the roof of the smoking room. What is commonly termed 'top hamper' by naval that is to say. structures on the up.ier deck, drawing room, smoking room, library and "Wiener all that sort of construction on the Kaiser Wilhelm II is so bolted, socketed end dovetail as to be easy for dismantlement when th ship is required for naval purposes.

In the safety vault are blue prints and the fullest instructions relative to dismantlement, and on the ship are men especially instructed in taking down 'top In twelve hours everything on this ship which not required for use on an armored cruiser can be taken down. From the time her keel was laid until this time she has been watched day by day by competent naval mechanicians in the pay of the United States, Great Britain. France and Russia, and men of that Important branch of the naval service of all countries will be on board out and back on the first round trip of the Kaiser Wilhelm II." In time of war she la to be known as the Rossbach, in commemoration of the great victory of Frederick the Great with a comparatively small army over a superior French force in 1751 at Rossbach, says "Syren and Snipping." A NEW ROYAL TOMB AT THEBES. The great event of Eg from archaeological point of view baa been the discovery of tii" tomb of i of the PI the Eighteenth Dynasty, Thothmes IV For the last two rears Mr. Theodore Unerican gentleman who is well known in Egypt, has hen excavatlng steadily and systematically In the Valley Tombs of the Kings at Ti away inch by Inch, ana so laying bare the bedrock.

He has been rewarded this spring by th. discovery of a previously I toaab. The mummy of Tnothmes i is In the Cairo Museum, having been found in the tomb of Ajb mhotep li, to which if had been conveyed by the Egyptian priest, for purposes of concealment, it) the of fie Twenty-first Dynasty, but the sepulchre of the Pharaoh had never Wn discovered, though it was tain that it the -kindeu nMFBOHi omnnmruAr at nationai, abis cum. was hidden somewhere under debris in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. The tomb Itself, like other royal tombs In same valley, consists of a gallery out Into the heart of mountain.

After sloping downward for a considerable distance it Is Interrupted by a deep, square wen. on of the walls of which Is a band of paintings. On further of well the turns back upon Itself, and finally opens, into a chamber, at" the extreme end which is a magnificent sarcophagus of covered with texts from Book cf Dead. OB either side smaller floor of of which was covered with loins of beef, legs of mutton and trussed duties and offerings made to the dead klne between and four thousand years ago. Clay avals with name THE DISPUTE discussed rmou nut rTowr or riF.ir— utGExr seed or a sbttli mkxt.

Our attempts to secure fair treatment In thmatter of the Alaska-Canada boundary, although extremely persistent, have been singularly unsuccessful, says F. Wade, in "The Review." The discovery of the famous placers of Bonanza Creek in the Klondike precipitated rush of 1537-'9S. The news first reached Forty Mile. Circle City and Fort Yukon in th. Interior, and Juneau.

Wrangel and Sitka on th. coast. Next it was flashed to Baattle, Tacoma. Portland and San Francisco. All except Forty Mil" were United States cities or towns, and It had been organized an Alaskan p-ttlement.

Many thousands of United States ritizeps essay-fj crazs and passes at aaatfjwaji and Dyaa In September. 1597. over three thousand horses and animals lay dead on the and In spring following this numher bad increased thousan almost a sufficient number, lyinsr head and tail, to stretch from Skasway to Bennett. The trail from Dyea to the Scales at the foot of Chiikoot Pass was strewn with ntnilar evidences of dealt out ln the rush for Th- White Pas. had what the appearance of Waterloo after tha battle as described by Victor Hugo.

The fleet of boats and scows, hastily from spruce, I Bennett. Marsh and Paige with the continuity of a pontoon bridge. The sails of myriads of craft, of every shape and destan were almost as numerous as the white crests of the waves. Bennett, near coast, and the sate to tho gold fields. became preat United States towns on Canadian vast settlements of aliens ln British territory, to be subjected to the requirements of British law and order.

in a country with a disputed territory, some of which misht belong to th- United States as a matter of fact, and all of which would belong to Alaska if the wishes of the poverned could have availed anything at the time. The difficulties of customs collection, of police control, of administering the criminal law. of legislative "action, of thousand things, of the practical side of an International boundary dispute under the most exciting and dangerous conditions, once became evident and have been emphasized every year since. "Soapy" Smith and his gang of bandits couM never, have terrorized a town of several thousand people had been within Canadian Jurisdiction, nor could they have carried on their Infamous work so successfully In the Unlte.l States had It not baa. for the proximity of foreign BOIL Th" tearing of the British flic from the Canadian Custom House at Skagway with the year.

and the occurrences of last winter, when a futile attempt was made to organize a conspiracy, the formation or "The Order of the Midnight Sun." to obtain possession by fnrce of the Yukon torrllory, should be sufficient to show sides to the dispute that In postponing its settlement the danger point has already been more than once reached. If it were important that this question should have bet-n settled before, it is doubly important to-lay. We are no longer concerned with an evanescent placer camp, a vanishing industry that soon abandon a vast territory to the boW ids from. which it was awakened only yesterday. If the Yukon w.ere nothing more than thi.s there would be few practical inconveniences a boundary dispute.

But the territory Is -ojuare miles hi extent 70,000 milt" larger than England. Ireland, Scotland and Wales. It is watered by T.0i.0 miles of streams, many of which are gold bearing, and all may contain cold in their s-amls and It crammed with natural White Horse and on the White with copper, on the Pally 1 1 Fingers, at Creek, at Cliff Creek, at White Horse and elsewhere with coal. There were only small boats the Upper Yukon hi but a fleet of steamships valued at tUMOJMi is there to-day. The combined Beets of the upper and lower river are worth ply on the Stewart.

Pelly. Salmon and Tahkeena rivers as well a. OB the Lewis. The Pass Railway has been constructed from Skagway to White Horse, to take the place of the. mountain the canyons and the The Creeks Railway hi now- in course of construction from Dawson City over the Dominion Pome eighty to Indian River mining country.

Thirty-six thousand tons of freight were carried into the Territory last year, as against 1.000 tons for MM Pawson City, a collection of tents in ISS4, was a and Horse. Grand Forks and other mining town, have shown equal progress. Cities with regular streets, great warehouses, immense department stores, extensive government build- Ines. pavements. good roads, telegraph, phone and messenger services, ele.

trie lighting and power. magnificent shops and hotels, churches and hospitals, theatres and newspapers, banks and clubs. Vl.l. if.S" "I Mi.IMMMi M. HOW THE (1.1 HRATED T'lli: IDI'EST OF .1 PARTY.

April first was observed by members of the National Arts Club with an All Fools" Night party at clubrooms. and Waal which proved one of most of had been to doors rtf chambers, and It Is to Egyptians of Dynasty had tr, extent anticipated indention of printing portions of harms with blue Ink IWore being Hpoa the clay. and find. bsaa) that of actual chariot whfc-h for Pharaoh and In which ar body of it hut In i condition. fr.im» first i with papier mai-M.

from anil this again with stucco. has bntff Lie out. I til from th- fr.u*ht hy Pharaoh in Syria. of order. detail rxiuii'lt'Mv ftnlshwl Syrians b-tng TTralts) taken from TheN-s.

chariot tn fact, of of art that doa-n to from have taken the places sf clusters of four years years the country has of gold md takmjm worth of railways. public buildlnzs and permanent climate has proved suitable to asrtr.ultur*. aha of CMOOO armind Dawson City last year. arM next th- Territory will be In Btrley. oats and Maaaahy are easily produt-d.

farms soM to the pettier: th- families miners arc- rapidly follnwtns to their n-w homes, and and all th- institutions of a permanent ar to seen. In trade, although Sfcaswar. Djea and Hiir-'s Mission, according la contention, ar-s well within Canadian territory, they bbss United Baal p'srts of entry, and wo prevented from entertr.s: "ur terrttory. except by rompljlr.g with trnstrd customs regulations. Canadian fmtn.

Vancouver to be by a certified Invoice anil co; of bill of lading consigned to Pacific an.i Arctic Railway k.nd Navigation Company, to tt ho I for twice value vf the by the I'nlted States Government th" ran be leaded on cars. cost of bond a.rvi chartre for preparing r.ecssary papfrs Is pail by shipper. Should th- r-aiiirM copy o.f invoice and bill of lading r-Tthk-rmins. the are by Cnitcd States pending their arrival. Should shipment left over In Vancouver and ward on a fteHowtns g' tn OH -r at until another Invoice bill of laxllr.sr Is Shouli a shipper in taking fri-m Vancouver to Dawson have ten bales of h.iy trn bao at feed on his arrival at Skajpray, which had not ors the trip, will rot br-n-l It into Canadian territory, on srour.il tha: it doos nol appear upon tbm TesacTa triward repnrt.

He la made to pay duty. On the contrary. aViultl trn bales of hay and ten of ca. trip, he ir.ust piy duty, on the ground that It was used ln United States waters. ShouM a in goods they may fallen off tho ship or 'anadian shipper must pay th- duty.

If rt'es In trarsit full duty paid, and added the loss of the shipper. I-et me a uper Iflr; Instances of UnltM customs law a.i It has been recently rv.Tnrcft In Skagway. rotators to Kefhikan 'i ttm Skasway mistake. It been much cheaper to carry thrm arrt return thorn to Ketchikan on than disturb cargo. Permission vai refused, nnd the w.t.« with In a shipment of oats fmm Victoria there was an excess of f-lr.

s.ick.«. wfcicfi proposed to sell on account of rharses. sacks had B. landed and pay duty. ramer any part of the world to survey the extent of damage before to go forward.

This hai iwrn rcfuaed Skicwiy. Kvcn a cow valve while eti the ahlpper mast pay wm In tho of criminal law. instance! afforded of th- nf Alaska-Tokon boundary dispute. Sotnettzncs It that after i rrlm? to the- pmviin-es sepks refu?" In Tnkon tcrrirory. He Is arrcsfrd thrre.

bur has to be brought out for trial, and legaj means of acfumpllshlnz Th- course, wnui.l although ally it may not happrn often. In r.f a crtm- ommitted in the Yukon, where offender In another p-irt of in tlJt of an nnVnre cornmitfed In Yukon territory It la necessary upon the- trial to residing in one of the The provuifs n'tnplftp for th" aftrnrta 1 of a witness in and would do wera not lnre venliis territory, vhlcb affords nnlr' way of Canadian wouM not and ts tl.ally no way of er.forcinr attendance witness. Althouarh Canadian nj with assistant- of th- mounferj pursued for nearly two for murder of tkrrr- L'nlJed the Yukon trail, element has been persistent in exm tions dlre.te.l asrainst forre. ar" move their uiitfr-rms when passiru over strip. For of transshipment an forwurrtlnic nf arA ceneral Informatioa fir the police and to from th- territory a member the forr- tioneil at SkaKway.

ikeri. In plitre. to thin man iranrj nn'fnrm. Then objection whs to W. placed ny the door nt the jig Skaeway purytmem, and hid to Klnallv nhKvfinn m.ii!* an officer or any member of the at all.

affairs in of Every rBJVMsI and costumes and still bttxshable to keep company in an upr'vir throughout evening. "Kinder Symphony Orchestra" had "billed" as feature of and It fully Justified all that had been expected it. From the moment with a "whoop" clatter of orchestra down among them aIMMi laughter. Julian Saiaen Sotisa from very bednnlnaj. and each member worked at his Instrument wltJi an ardor bordering on anguish.

Alexander Rlci McKim made- dents in a and J. Thorpe- had a triangle near beaten intn square before the close of Hal programme popgun became a source of much melody in thf skilful hands of John J. Boyle. G. Harrj Squires handled the castanets and J.

Champney worked the sleish bell 3 with a realists that made in audience tun up their collars and hunt for their wraps. E. Hacaman Hall succeeded in gettlns moisture inn for an undersized April shower, along with a little music, out of the trumpet, and Charles I.op*s and Louis L. Calvert respectively nightingale and cuckoo, played with an abandon that at times was truly frightful. Each member of the infant orchestra attired in ruffled hood, bib and tucker, especially washed and Ironed for the occasion.

Miss Watson Clark, the elder sister of "babies." saw to it that each of her charges toed out and held his head up. Miss Laura Sedgewick Collins, as accompanist, cave all the encouragement that gotten out a piano on such occasions. Some of songs sung war. full of hits appreciated by members of the club, and each brought forth a fresh round of the "babies" were upstairs courts for their first members et the American School of Opera sang extract from "The Mikado." A social of laughable programme served to convince members of the club that the affair was one of the best la tiis history the organization. 3.