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a -r The Washington Times Home Page, Monday, May 2 2, 1911 Picnic At Great Falls This Afternoon Is Given in Honor of Miss Helen Taft FOR LITTLE FOLK JUST BEFORE BEDTIME THE DAILY SERIAL STORY.4 ONE WAY OUT Bv WILLIAM CARLETON Copyrighted, 1911. by Email, Maynortl Company. CHAPTER XVI (Continued). RUTH reported he had sold fifty papers and had returned more eager than ever. She said he wouldn't probably be home until after 7.

He wanted to catch the crowds on their way to the station. I suggested to Ruth flint vat- waft din ner ior mm and go on up town and watch him. She hesitated at this, fearing the boy wouldn't like it, and perhaps not overanxious herself to see him on such a Job. But, as I said. If the boy wasn't ashamed I didn't think we ouirht to be.

So she put on her things and we started. We found him by the entrance to one of the big buildings with his papers In a strap thrown over his shoulder. Ha had one naner In his hand, and was of fering It, perhaps a bit shyly, to each passer-by with a quiet, "Paper, sir?" we watched him a moment and Ruth kept a tight grip on my drm. "Well," I said, "what do you think of him?" "Billy." said, with a little tremble In her voice, "I'm proud of him." "He'll do," I said. Then I said: "Walt here a moment." I took a nickel from my pocket and hurried toward him as though I were one of the crowd hustling for the train.

I stopped in front of him and he handed me a paper without looking up. He began to make change, and It wasn't until he handed me back my three coppers that he saw who I was. Then he grinned. "Hello, dad," he said. Then he asked quickly: "Where's mother?" But Ruth couldn't wait any longer, and she came hurrying up and placed her hand underneath the papers to see If they were too heavy for him.

Dlcked earned $3 that first week, and he never fell below this during the summer. Sometimes he went as high as five, and when It came time for him to go to school again he had about seventy-five regular customers. He ha! been kept out of doors between six and fceven hours a day. The contact with a new type of boy and even the contact with the brisk business men who were his customers had sharpened up his wits all round. In the ten weeks he saved over forty dollars.

I wanted him to put this in tho bank, but he insisted on buying his own winter clothes with It, and on the whole I thought he'd feel better if 1 let him. Then he had another proposition. Ho wanted to keep his evening customers through the year. I thought It was going to be pretty hard for him to do this with his school work, but we finally agreed to let him try it for a while, anyway. After all, I didn't like to think he couldn't do what ether boys were doing.

CHAPTER XVIL The Second Year. NOW. as far as proving to us the truth of -my theory that an Intelligent, able-bodied American ought to succeed where millions of Ignorant, half-starved emigrants do right along, this first year had already innn it it had also Droved, to our own satisfaction, at least, that such success does not mean a return to a lower standard of living, but only a return to a simpler standard of living. With soap at five cents a cake, it Isn't poverty that breeds filth, but ignorance and laziness. When an able-bodied man can earn at the very bottom of the ladder a dollar and a half a day.

and a boy can earn from three to five dollars a week and still go to school, it isn't a lack of money that makes the bread line. It's a lack of horse sense. UTa fAnnH that ti'a fnulri maintain WC a higher standard of living down Here tnan we were auic iu ujii-tain in our old life: we could live more sanely, breathe in higher Ideals, and find time to accept more opportunities. The sheer, naked conditions were better for a higher life here than they were in the suburbs. I'm speaking always of the able-bodlsd man.

A sick man is a sick man whether he's worth a million or hasn't a cent. He's to be pitied. With the public pltals what they are today, you can't pay that the sick millionaire has any great advantage over the sick pauper. Money makes a bigger difference ot course to the sick man's family but at that you'll find for every widow O'Toolo a widow Bonnlngton, and for every widow Bonnlngton you'll find the heartbroken widow of some millionaire who doesn't consider her dollars any great consolation in such a crisis. Then, too, a man In hard luck Is a man in hard luck whether he has a bank account or whether he hasn't.

I pity them both. If a rich man's money prevents the necessity of his airing- hi3 grief in public, it doesn't help him much when he's alone in his castle. It seems to me that each class has its own peculiar misfortunes and th.it money breeds about as much trouble as It kills. To my mind once a man earns enough to buv himself a little food, put any sort of a roof over his head, and keep himself warm, he has everything for which money is absolutely essential. This much he can always get at the bottom.

And this much is ail the ammunition a man needs for as good fight as it's in him to put up It gives him a chance for an extra million over his $3 a week if he wants It But the point I learned down here is that the million Is extra It isn't es. eentlal. Its possession doesn't make a Paradise free from sickness and worty and hard luck, and the lack of It doesn't make a Hell's Kitchen where there Is nothing but tlckness and trouble and happiness cannot enter. As I cay, I consider this first year the big year because it taught me these things. In a sense the value of my diary ends here.

Once I was able to understand that had everything and more that the early pioneers had, and that all I needed to do today was to live as they did and fight as they did. I had all the inspiration a man needs In order to and In order to feel that he's living. In looking hack on the suburban Tifo at the end of this first twelve months, It seemed to me that the thing which made It so ghastly was just this lack of inspiration that comes with the blessed privilege of lighting. That other was a waiting game and no help for it. I was a shadow living in the land rf shadows with nothing to hit out at, nothing to feel the sting of my fist against.

The fight was going on above sne and below me and we in the middle only heard the din of It. It was as though we had climbed half way up a rope leading from a pit to the surface. We had climbed as far as we could and unless they hauled from above we "had to stay there. If we let go poor devils, we thought there was nothing Tout brimstone below us. So we couldn't do much but hold on and kick at nothing.

But down here if a man had any kick In him, he had somehtlng to kick Mint. Whm hi Rtnicir nnt -nHth hia feet they met something; when he shot a mow irom tne snoyiaer ne leu an Impact. If he didn't like one trade he could learn another. It took no capital. If he didn't like his house, he could move; he wasn't tearing up anything by the roots.

If he didn't like his foreman, he could work under another. It didn't mean the sacrifice of any past. If he found a chance to black boots sell papers, he could use it. His neighbors wouldn't exile him. He was as free as the winds, and what didn't like he could change.

I don't suppose there is any human being on earth so Independent as an able-bodied working man. The record of the next three years only traces a slow, steady strengthening or my position. Not one of us hart a eet-back through slck'ness because I considered our health as so much capital and guarded it as carefully as a banker does his money. I was afraid at first of thejclty water, but I found it was as pure1 as spring water. It was protected from Its very source and was stored In a carefully guarded reservoir.

It was frequently analyzed and there wasn't a case of typhoid In the ward which could be traced to the water. The milk was the great danger down here. At the small shops it was often carelessly stored and carelessly handled. From the beginning, 1 bought our milk up town though I had to pay a cent a quart more tor it. Kum picKea out all the fish and meat and of course nothing tainted in this line could be sold to her.

We ate few canned goods and then nothing but canned vegetables. Many of our neighbors used canned meats. I don't know whether any sickness resulted from this or not but I know that they often left the stuff for hours In an opened tin. Many of the tenements swarmed with flies In the summer although it was a small matter to keep them out of four rooms. So If the canned stuff didn't set infected it was a wonder.

The sanitary arrangements in the flat were good, though here again many families proceeded to make them bad about as fast as they could. These people didn't seem to mind dirt in any form. It was a perfectly simple and inexpensive matter to keep themselves and their surroundings clean if they cared to take the trouble. Then the roof contributed largely toward our good health. Ruth spent a great deal of time up there during the day and the boy slept there during the summer.

Our simple food and exercise also helped, while for me nothing could have been better than my dally plunge in the salt water. I kept this up as long as the bath house was open and in the winter took a cold sponge and rub-down every mgnt so. too, did the boy. For the rest, we all toolc sensible pre- cautions against exposure. We dressed warmly and kept our feet dry.

Here again our neghbors were Insanely foolish. They never changed their clothes until bed time, didn't keep them clean or fresh at any time, and they lived in a temperature of eighty-five with the air foul from many breaths and tobacco smoKe. Even the children had to breathe this. Then both men and women went out from this Into the cold air either over-dressed or under-dressed. The result of such foolishness very naturally was tuberculosis, pneumonia.

typhoid and about everything else that contributes to a high death rate. Not only this but one person suffer ing from any of these things infected a whole family. Such conditions were not due to a lack of money, but to a lack of education. The new generation was making some changes however Often a girl or boy in the public schools would come home and transform the three or four rooms though always under protest from the elders. Clean surroundings and fresh air troubled the old folks.

Ruth. too. was responsible for manv changes for the better In the lives of these people. Her very presence in a room was an Inspiration for cleanliness. Her clothes were no better than tneirs Dut sne stood out among them like, a vestal virgin.

She came Into their quarters and made the women ashamed that the rooms were not better fitted to receive so pure a being. You would scarcely have recognized Mlchele's rooms at the end of the first year. The windows were cleaned, the floors scrubbed, and even the bed linen was washed occasionally. The baby gained In weight and MI- chele, when he wanted to smoke either sat outside on the doorstep or by an open window. But Mlchele was an exception.

Ruth's efforts were not confined to our own building, either. Her Influence spread down the street and through the whole district. The district nurse was a frequent visitor and kept her informed of all her cases. Wherever Ruth could do anything she did It. Her first object was always to awaken the women to the value of cleanliness and after that she tried her best to teach them little ways of preparing their food more economically.

Few of them knew the value of oatmeal, for Instance, though, of course, their macaroni and spaghetti was a pretty good substitute. In fact. Ruth picked up many new dishes of this sort for herself from among them. Some families spent as much for beer as for milk. Ruth couldn't change that practice, but she did make them more careful where they bought their milk especially when there was a baby In the house.

Then, too, she shared all her secrets of where and how to buy cheaply. Sometimes advantage was taken of these hints, but more often not. They didn't pav much more for many articles than she did but they didn't get as good quality. However, as long as the food tasted gbod and satisfied their hunger you couldn't make them take an extra effort nnil eet stuff because It was more nu tritious or more healthful. They couldn't think ahead except In the matter of saving dollars and cents.

These people, of course, were of the lower class. There was another element of decidedly finer quality. Gulsep-pe, for example, was one of these, and there wee hundreds of others. It was among these that Ruth's influence counted for the most. Thev not only took advantage of her superior intelligence in conducting their households but they breathed In something of the sould of her.

When I saw them send for her In their grief and in their 'Joy, when I heard them ask her advice with almost the confidence with Hvhlch they prayed, when I heard them give her i i. na "Vtn tr a1 mnthpr such names as "the angel mother." "the American saint." I felt very proud and very humble. (Contlnnatiom of Thin Story Will Ot Found In Tomorrow' Issue of The Times.) Glass Shelves Ideal For Kitchen Closet Glass is an Ideal shelflng for a kitchen closet, as It can be kept clean so easll. If this is too costly paint the shelves white and give a coat of enamel. This is easily scrubbed, and docs away with the necessity of papers.

The kitchen cupboard should never be permitted to get untidy, and should, be scrubbed out at least every fortnight: the lower shelves oftener. The range and gas stove quickly show lack of attention. Polish once or twice a week, and in the Intervals wipe oft frequently with newspaper to absorb grease. A gas stove should have the nnrts removed and boiled every tew davs. and the burners should be kept clear with a fine wire or brush.

Here's Formula for An Excellent Whitening For plain white use one pound white glue, twenty pounds English whiting; dissolve glue by boiling about three pints of water, dissolve whiting with hot water, make the consistency of thick batter, then add glue and one cup soft soap. Dissolve a piece of alum the size of a hen's egg. add and mix thoroughly. Let it cool before using. If too thick to spread nicely add more water till it spreads easily.

For blue tints add 5 cents' worth of Prussian blue and a little Venetian red for lavender. For peach-blow use red in wWte only. The above quantity Is enough to cover four ceilings sixteen feet square wltn two coats, and will not rub off as the whitewash dqes made of lime. Lieut. Commander and Mrs.

Walter Gherardi Are Hosts. Lieut. Com. and Mrs. Walter R.

Gherardi, U. S. are giving a picnic at Great Falls this afternoon, In compliment to Miss Helen Tart. The party will go out to the falls in automobiles, returning in the cool of the evening, shortly after dark. Some of those In the party will be Miss Laura Merriam, Miss Dorothy Williams, Miss Jean Oliver, Miss Parker, Representative Catlln, Benjamin S.

Cable, Lieut. Com. Powers Symington, U. S. Dr.

Cary T. Grayson, NU. S. Lieutenant Leigh, U. S.

Ensign H. L. Spencer, U. S. Presley Taylor, Frederick Brooke, and Mr.

Huldekoper. A Cards Out for Tea At the British Embassy. The British. Ambassador and Mrs. Bryce havo sent out cards for a tea Wednesday afternoon from 4 to o'clock, at the embassy, in celebration of Empire Day.

The delegation from Canada to tho seal conference will be among the guests. The Bolivian Minister and Mine. Cal-deron and Miss Elena Calderon left Washington this morning for Lake Mo tions, r. wnere tney win spend a. i lev aay.

The Naval Attache of the Brazilian Embassy and Mme. de Azevedo will close their apartment in Stonelelgh Court early next month and go to Long Island for the summer. To Spend June Week on Houseboat Col. and Mrs. Robert M.

Thompson will take a party to Annapolis for June week on board their houseboat, the Everglades. Later they will go to their summer home, at Southampton, L. I. Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale has gone to Chicago for a visit to Mrs.

Emmons Blaine. and Mrs. Richard Wayne Parker will close their Washington residence early In June and will gu to Dublin, N. for the summer. Mrs.

J. Fairfield Carpenter has returned to the city from a brief stay from Cazenovla, K. Y. Mr. Justice and Mrs.

McKenna will leave shortly for -visits in New York and Boston. Society At Memorial Exercises. Official, diplomatic, and resident society was well represented at the L'En-fant memorial exercises this afternoon, despite the heat. Some of those attending were: Senator O. O.

Bacon, Senator Luke Lee, Representative Henry S. De Forest, Senator Francis G. Newlands and Mrs. Newlands, Representative Wyatt Aiken, SenatorrGeorge E. Chamberlain ana Mrs.

Chamberlain, Representative Edmund J. Stack, Senator George P. Wetmore, Senator Cummings and Mrs. Cummlngs, Representative L. C.

Dyer, Representative Synden Evans, Senator and Mrs. Thomas H. Carter, the Hon. E. W.

Townsend, Representative S. W. Smith, Gen. C. G.

Goodloe, Col. Spencer Cosby, Rear Admiral A. W. Weaver, Gen. Adolphus Greely and Mrs.

Greely, Rear Admiral Barker, Gen. Perry and Mrs. Perry, Gen. George W. Davis.

Dr. Norman T. McLean, Com. R. G.

Davenport, Henry G. Beyer, Rear Admiral G. W. Balrd, Rear Admiral John Lowe, Rear Admiral W. C.

Brownson, Brig. Gen. Richard S. Hoxle and Mrs. Hoxle, Rear Admiral Ghecn, Medical Director F.

Anderson, U. S. Surgeon Gen. R. M.

Rlxey and Mrs. Rlxey, Rear Admiral Silas Casey. Rear Admiral W. B. Bayley.

Chief Engineer Absalom Kirby, Rear Admiral Richard Walnwrlght and Mrs. Walnwright, Lieut. Col. Edward Burr and Mrs. Burr, Lieut.

L. G. Hoffman, Admiral George Dewey, Col. Joseph Garrard and Mrs. Garrard, Brig.

Gen. William Crozler, Rear Admiral B. P. Lamberton. Rear Admiral George Remey.

Rear Admiral J. N. Hemphill, Lieut. Gen. Samuel B.

M. Young and Mrs. Young, Lieut. J. E.

Dyer and Airs. Dyer, Rear Admiral Dunlap. Capt. Roy C. Smith, Major G.

A. Armes, Major W. D. Connor. Count Albert Ehrensvard, minister or Sweden; lit.

Hon. James- Brjce and Mrs. Bryce. Count Moltke, Mirza and Mme. All-Kull Kahn, Mr.

and Mme. de Lima Rilva, Mr. de Perettl de la Rocca and Mme. de la Rocca, Mr. Lefevre-Pontalls, Captain and Countess de Chambrun, Mr.

Denalnt, Dr. Belisarlos Porras, Senor Don Manuel do zama-enna, Senor and Senora Joaquin Ber nardo Ca'vo, delegation from France (four). Justtlce Stafford. C. S.

Bundy. Judge De Lacy, Judge Mullowny. Major W. D. Connor, Mrs.

Richard Potts, Mrs. Mary McLure Wysong, Lieut. Col. W. C.

Langfltt, W. J. Boardman, Dr. Frank Baker, Mrs. and Miss Baker, Mrs.

W. F. Morsell, Judge Stafford, Rev. Henry J. Shandelle.

of Georgetown University. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Thropp, Miss Amarylllus Glllctt.

Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, regent or Major L. Enfant cnapter, D. A. William Henry Dennis, of the Columbia Historical Society; Mrs.

Clemens, Col. W. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. D.

Carroll Dlgges, Forsyth Dlgges. Miss Mary E. Dlgges. Mr. and Mrs.

Short Adams Willis. Prof, and Mrs. Mitchell Carroll, Miss Mary Stevens Beall, Mr. and Mrs. James R.

Mann, Monsignor Shahan, of Catholic University; Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, president Daughters American Revolution; Mrs. G. M.

Brumbaugh, Gist Blair, of the Society of the Cincinnati; Dr. and Mrs. Richey, Mr. and Mrs. Gaff.

Mr. and Mrs. Stone Abert, Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kauff-mann, George Atwood Digges, Mrs.

William D. Charles D. Wal-cott, Mrs. K. Kearney Henry, Van der Zee Whepley, Miss Ruth Kern, Dr.

and Mrs. Benjamin, Miss Cora Merriam Howes, Mrs. Morehead, H. Randolph Webb, Mrs. Francois Berger Moran, Mrs.

John M. Hodglns, Mrs. M. B. Fullock, Miss Julia Macfarland, Miss Gertrude Lewis, Miss Ethel E.

Wrenn, J. William Henry, F. D. Millet. Mrs.

E. Rains Tupper, Mrs. K. Lyman, Mr. and Mrs.

Cuno Rudolph, Mrs. Van Mourick, Miss Norton, Miss Summers. Mrs. James Mosher, Dr. Theodore Edward Rldgeway, Mrs.

James Casey, Miss Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Brown, of Institute of Architects; Mr. and Mrs. John Joy Edson, Mrs.

Howard Hodgklns, H. B. F. Macfarland, Mr. and Mrs.

William W. Bosworth, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Dr. W.

P. Thlrkield. Mr. and Mrs. Theo W.

Noyes, Mr. and Mrs. McConihe. Dr. and Mrs.

R. S. Hill. Mordcal T. Endicott, Mr.

and Mrs. George Hamilton, Dr. and Mrs. James Dudley Morgan, Mrs. John Hays, Michael I.

Wel-ler. Dr. and Mrs. Duncan McKlm, D. S.

Carll, Corcoran Thom, of Columbia Historical Society: Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam E. Curtis, Mr. and Mrs.

William Kearney Carr, Mr. Justice and Mrs. Lamar, Mr. Justice and Mrs. J.

M. rfsrlan, Mr. Chief Justice and Mrs. White, Mr. Justice and Mrs.

Day, Miss Fannie Daventower. Mr. and Mrs. Ira uennett. Mrs.

Goodfellow. Mr. and Mrs. Gallard Hunt. Miss C.

C. Everett and narty, Mrs. George s. Andrews, C. Clum.

the Misses Clum, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Means. Mrs.

Miss Marv Helen Molster, Miss Leila Mechlin, Dudley Digges Morgan. Miss Strieker Is Bride Of F. L. Harveycuttei Mr. and Mrs.

William O. Strieker announce the marriage of their daughter. Miss Martha Augusta Strieker, to Frederick Lake Harveycutter. The ceremony took place Saturday, May 20, in Philadelphia, at St. James' Episcopal Church, the rector, the Rev.

M. Richardson, officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Harveycutter will reside in Washington.

To Spend Summer In the Adirondacks. Mrs. David Stewart Hendrlck and the Misses Hendrlck will close their residence on Bancroft place shortly and will go to the Adlronaacks for the summer some time early in June. Miss Alice Vandergrift will go over to New York Thursday for a week, and after her return to Washington will accompany her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

S. If. Vandergrift. to French Lick SpringH, leaving here June 8. They have changed their plans and, will not go abroad this summer.

Mrs. John Cropper, who has been in St. Louis for a week, will return to Washington tomorrow, and will be here for a few days, closing her house for the summer, preparatory to sailing June 3, from New York, to spend the summer abroad. 4. Gen.

and Mrs. John W. Foster will close their Washington residence early In June and will go to their cottage in the Thousand Islands for the summer. iTake Cottage At Virginia Hot Springs. Mrs.

Titian J. Coffey and her granddaughter. Miss Evelyn Chew, will close their street residence early in June, and will so to the Virginia Hot Springs for the summer. Mr. and Mrs.

J. Upshur Moorhead, the latter another granddaughter of Mrs. Coffey, have taken a cottage at the springs for the season, and will also spend the summer there, going up about the same time. Former Senator and Mrs. John B.

Henderson are closing Boundary Castle, their Washington residence on upper Sixteenth street, and will leave the city next week for their summer home at Bar Harbor. A Major William D. Connor, U. S. and Mrs.

Connor will entertain at dinner this evening at the Washington Barracks in compliment to Miss Dorothy Langfltt. Mrs. Howry has returned to Washington from Baltimore, where she spent last week attending the Woman's Whist Congress, which met there during the week. On Wednesday Mrs. Whitehead and Miss Landon.

of Atlanta, who have spent the winter In New York, and Miss Elizabeth Howry, who been studying music in New York this season, will arrive in Washington to spend a week with Mrs. How-ry. They will make the trip by automobile. The Mllltarv Attache of the French Embassy and Countess de Chambrun entertained at dinner last evening at the Chevy Chase Club in compliment to Prince and Princess F. Croy.

of France, who were passing through Washington. They are making a tour of the United States. 4 The charge d'affaires of Persia. Mlrzn All Kulf Khan, left Washington this morning for Lake Mohonk. N.

where he will deliver an address at the Peace Conference He will return to Washington Saturday. Miss Lena Hitchcock will leave Washington June 10 for a week in Boston. She will then snend a fortnight visiting on Long then go to her home in Indiana, to spend tho rcmalndir oi m.m' vitn relatives. Early in June Pay Director John N. SP'el, U.

S. and Mrs. Speel will close their residence here, and Join Miss Hitchcock In Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs.

Simon Nye, have returned to the city after spending a few days in Baltimore with relatives. The marriage of Miss Flora Oten-hurg. of Brooklyn. N. and Ivan Herman, of this city, will take place.

Sunday, June 11, at the home of the bride's parents. 560 Quincy street, Brooklyn N. Y. in the presence of the immediate families of the contracting parties. Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Essie Eisenburg, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. S. Eisenburg. and Gilbert Lieberles. both of Baltimore, which will take place Thursday, June at the home of the bride's parents In Eutaw Place.

Miss Anita Herman, who has been the guest of Miss Flora Ottenburg for the past three weeks, has returned to her home in tnis city. Miss EmIIIe Hillman left town yesterday to spend the summer in Atlantic City. fr Mrs. S. Simon, who has been the guest of her daughter.

Mrs. Ernest Damman. of the Kenyon, has returned to her home. Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Bernhelmer. formerly of street are now located in their new home In Eleventh street southeast. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kaufman will sail the early part of June for Europe.

Let the Daughter Help. Do not try to make, a fine lady of a girl, or she win become puny, delicate, and listless. A girl of any station ought to make her own bed. There, is no better exercise to expand the figure than bed making. Let her tldv and dust her own room; let her use her hands and arms; let her wait upon herself.

There is nothing common about her being useful about the house. Teach her the value of time, the value of money, the value of articles of dally consumption, and that If she ever wishes to command others, she must herself learn to obey those In authority over her. It Wasn't Acting. Mrs. Gnaggs I'll never forget the night you proposed to me.

You acted a perfect fool. Mr. Gnaggs That wasn acting. Philadelphia Record. Don't Tire Easily On Grape -Nuts FOOD "There's a Reason it Miss Jane Sands Hostess at Informal Luncheon Today Miss Jane Sands was hostess at luncheon today, entertaining a small company Informally in honor of Miss Jessie Krogstad, whose, marriage to wuiiam Arthur Burton will take place June 17.

Last night Miss Krogstad and Mr. Burton were the principal guests at a dinner given by Miss Marguerite Barbour, daughter of Mrs. James F. Barbour. j.

Miss Sands will leave Washington tomorrow for New York, where she will Join her aunt, Mrs. Bergen, and will be the guest of Mrs. Bergen for several weeks at her country place on Long laiunu. Cancel All Social Engagements. The Assistant Secretary of War and Mrs.

Robert Shaw Oliver have canceled all their social engagements for the present, on account of the death yesterday of Mrs. Oliver's sister, Mrs Harry Shaw, of Boston. General and Mrs. Oliver nave gone to Boston. Miss Janet Richards and Miss Cornelia Crans sailed from New York Saturday on tne Lapland to spend the summer and early autumn in Europe.

Miss Rlrhards Is one of the twelve American delegates to the International Woman's Alliance, which convenes in Stockholm June 12. and for whicn a most attractive program has been prepared bv the leading citizens of Stockholm. From Sweden Miss Richards and Miss Crans expect to visit London, per- naps in time ror tne coronation, after which they will visit the Isle of Wight and the Channel Islands. Mrs. Richard Townsend will sail from New York Thursday on the Kalserln Auguste Victoria, to spend the summer abroad.

The Austrian Ambassador and Baroness Hengelmuller will close the embassy shortly and go to Bar Harbor, where they will establish the embassy for the summer. J.Mr, and Mrs. John T. BIddle will close their Washington residence early June and go to New York, from where they will sail on the 21th for Europe to spend the season, Mr. and Mrs.

William F. Dennis have closed their residence on Sixteenth street, and will go to New York tonight. They will sail Wednesday for Europe. 4 Miss Louise Hellen will go to Long Island the last of this month to visit her cousin, Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, for several weeks.

Mrs. Alexander Britton and the Misses Britton will leave Washington about the middle of next month for Southampton. where they have taken a cottage for the summer. Everybody's Question Box Answers to Queries Tlme Inquiry Department: To settle a dispute, will you please Inform me whether Rherslde Drive. New York, is situated on the banks of the East rler.

the North rler, or the Hudson river Also If there Is a street car or subway line along that thoroughfare. WASHINGTOMAN. Riverside Drive is situated on the Hudson river There is no trolley line, but the Fifth avenue motor busses (faro 10 cents)- run through Riverside Drive to 139th street. The drive Is paralleled by Broadway, beneath which the subway Is situated, and over which trolley cars are operated. Times Inquiry Department: Do you think that a sixteen-year-old girl should be allowed to keep company with men? Please tell me how to flirt; also the language of stamps.

A.S.N. The question of whether a girl of sixteen should be allowed to accept the attentions of men Is one that should be left entirely to her parents or guardian. Please excuse the editor of this department for not giving vou instructions for flirting, as it is a habit that is frowned upon by right-minded people. The postage stamp language will be sent you If you will send a stamped and addressed envelope to this department. Times Inquiry Department: Please tell me what Is the superstition regarding catching the bride's bouquet at a wedding.

Very truly, BRIDESMAID. The bridesmaid who catches the bride's bouquet as she turns her back. 'to show that there is no favoritism, and throws It to her grouped bridesmaids, will become a bride within a year, according to tradition. Times Inquiry Department: Please tell me what Is the correct dress for the bridegroom at a noon wedding. O.S.

Dark coat, light waistcoat, or one matching the coat, patent leather shoes, light trousers, white linen, gray suede gloves, and a pearl colored necktie. Times Inquiry Department: Is It possible to can asparagus without using some of the chemical preparations used to prevent fermentation? I am told It is not. If you have a good recipe will you please publish it In The Times? Very truly, MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Cut your asparagus in even lengths, and fit it neatly Into wide-mouthed glass Jars. Mix four quarts of cold water with two ounces of salt, fill the Jars to overflowing with this, and boil them In a canning kettle for twenty minutes.

Remove them and open each one a close quickly, then return them to the boiling water, and cook two and a half hours. Take the Jars oat, set them upside down on a dry cloth, see that they are airtight, and when they are cold, put them In a At Fountains Elsewhere Ask for "HORLIGK'S" Thi Original and Gtnuina MALTED MILK Tha Foad-drlnk for All Agas At restaurants, hotels, and fountains. Delicious, Invigorating and sustaining. Keep it on your sideboard at Home. Dont travel without it A quick lunch prepared in a minute.

Take bo imitation. Just say "HOHUCKT In no combine or trust The Sandman's Stories THE DISCONTENTED was Ji'st midnijrht. and the two I hands of the great clock stood I pointing at the figure 12. Great- Grandfather Thomas- had given the clock as a wedding sift, and from son to son the clock had come down through the family to be owned at last by farmer Thomas, in whose hall it oc cupied the place df. honor among the heirlooms of the family.

But the old clock was discontented. "Here I stand day after day," it said, "my hands a'lways going in the same direction, my. pendulum swinging to and fro, back and, forth without the east variation. It is true that Farmer Thomas winds me once a week on Saturday night, but that long ago ceased to be a novelty. I strike the same hours one after another, always the six after the live and always the eleven after the ten without any variation.

I am tired of it all and I am going to stop." And with that the pendulum ceased to swing back and forth, and the hands did not move a bit from their straight, uprisht position. It was the first time In lis whole life that theold clock had failed to perform Its duty. Farmer Thomas and his good wife were, of course, asleep and did not hear anything that the clock said, and so did not know that the one thing upon which they depended to get up by had 'failed to do Its duty, and when morning came they both overslept. Now, Farmer Thomas had an important matter to attend to in town that day, and the only train upon which he could go to town left at a very early hour, and when he awakened and found that the clock had stopped and there was no way to find out the time he hurried to dress and ran to the station without any breakfast, only to find that the train had already gone and that he could' not keep his appointment And Mrs. Thomas, being without any means of knowing the time, was late in getting the children readv for school and they got the first tardy marks for the whole year.

And the cows mooed because their breakfast was late and the chickens complained and the pigs grunted and alt over the farm there was a general dissatisfaction. When it was dinner time Mrs. Thomas did not know how long the vegetables had been cooking nor how long the meat had been roasting, and It was Just as bad at supper time, when the biscuits were done too brown and the tea wasn't steeped lone enough. Altogether the old clock had unset evertyhinsr there was In the whole Hhomas household, lust because it got discontented and sulked and didn't do Its duty. After sunner Farmer Thomas said to his wife.

"I suppose the old clock Is worn out. You remember it was mv great-grandfather who bought it, and after all these years I snnpose it Is worthless. Tomorrow I will take It up1 Canned in this manner, asparagus will taste the same as when fresh. So you see it is possible to can it without the aid of chemicals. Times Inquiry Department: WH1 you be so kind as to publish in your paper a recipe for elderberry wine, and oblige A SUBSCRIBER.

Remove the stems from twenty-five pounds of ripe elderberries, put the berries In a large kettle with fifty 'quarts of water, and add one ounce of whole allspice, two ounces of ginger root, and place all over the fire and boil one houV. Then strain the Juice through a cheesecloth or flannel bag, press out the berries, and pour the liquid In a large tub. Add forty-five pounds of sugar and four ounces of cream of tartar. Stir until the sugar is nearly all dissolved, cover with a cloth, and let It stand two days. Then fill a keg with this liquid.

leaving the bunghole open, but covering it with a small stone, keep the keg in a cellar, and stir It every other day, and allow It to remain so until fermentation has set in and has run its course, which will take several months. Then add one gallon of the best French brandy, bung up the keg, and four months later fill the wine in bottles, cork well, and lay them on their sides on the cellar floor. Times Inquiry Department: Will you kindly tell me the best means ot cleansing a straw hat. Will you also tell me the best way to dye cream and white ribbons, and what color will take bert. Very truly.

INQUIRER. A straw hat may be cleaned by cutting a lemon In half, covering the hat with powdered sulphur, and then rubbing It with the lemon. Dry the hat In ther sun untU perfectly dry, then brush off the sulphur. A solution of oxalic acid, rubbed on the hat with a tooth brush and rinsed off with cold water Is excellent. Buy any of the prepared dyes for silk, all of which are excellent, and dye your ribbons according to directions, which will be'found on the envelope containing the dye.

Almost any color but black will take if the ribbons are not stained or discolored, in which" case I should advise you to select a dark color. Times Inquiry Department: Kindly publish In your paper what a trousseau consists of, also the address of a good elocution teacher. What Is good for freckles and blackheads? R. M. M.

The wedding trosseau admits of much latitude. If a girl has wealthy parents her trousseau may be most elaborate, but If she belongs to the vast army of working girls, or If her parents are In ifK pan flSffijifcl7 nS Wft It occopied THS resH PLBce of honor. THIS ELASTIC BENCH 4-ft $3.75 5 ft $4.50 6 ft $5.00 For Garden or Porch A TJmig of Grace Comfort W. B. MOSES and Eleventh Sts.

in the garret and we will get a new clock that will keep the correct time." So by and by when it seemed as If it was late.enough all the family went to bed and left the old clock all by itself again. And when It was all alone It began tu think over the day and what had happened since it stopped the night before. It remembered how everything had gono wrong, and the more it thought the more it was sorry. Really, a good deal depends on me," it said to itself, "ami though I do not get very much attention I am, nevertheless, a pretty important thing in the household, and suppose that other people get tired of doing the same thing over and over Just as 1 do, but I am the only one that has willfully failed to do my duty and 1 expect that I ought to be ashamed of myself." Just then the moon peeped in the window, as he had done thousands of times, and, seeing the hands of the old clock point at 12, said: "What-is the matter with you. Mister Clock, It Is not near midnight and your hands an: pointing Just at 12.

I thought you prided yourself on always being correct." Now the clock had seen the moon peep In. at the same window foe years and years, and It was rather ashamed to caught In the wrong, but It told the, moon the truth about how it had got-discontented the night before and' stopped. "Rlscontented," said the moon. "Whyj should you be discontented? Here am who has been goingaround in the same track since long before clocks were ever thought of. but I never had an idea oC stopping and upsetting everything that, depends on me.

What do you think the-world would do if everything and everybody was like you?" "Well, I suppose It was a foolish thing to do, and I believe that if I had any "pICTRBIW HBP ALREflPY GQrfB way of finding out when It was 12 o'clock I would start again." "I can see hundreds of clocks," said the moon, "and when it Is midnight Til let you know." So the old clock waited and about 5 minutes of 12 the moon said, "You had better get ready," and from that time on he told the clock as the minutes passed, "four minutes, three minutes now, two minutes now, one minute now. Get ready! Start!" And Just as the moon said "Start!" the old clock swung its pendulum and began to keep time Just as it had been accustomed to do. In the morning it awakened Tanner Thomas at Just the right time, breakfast was ready as usual, the farm animals were fed, the children were prompt at school and the whole household went smoothly. "How foolish, I was," said the clock, to upset things so. Just to grant a petty little discontent of my own and how selfish it was." Tomorrow's story: "Nella's Wish." moderate circumstances, it ma.y be small, and yet in perfect taste.

With the present changing styles it would be foolish to provide one's self with. garments that it might take a dozen" years to wear out. A neat tailor-mad gown for travelling, a silk dress for afternoon and calling, a light evening dress, together with the wedding dress would do for best. Then would come several house dresses, a few pretty-ginghams or percales, if the bride intends to do her own housework; separate coat of some light woolen material, or pongee, and three full sets daintily trimmed lingerie, with an addl" tlonal set somewhat handsomer, to worn with the wedding gown. Akbnonor bathrobe, low shoes, evening walking shoes, house slippers, with stockings to match, gloves for each costume, a dress hat, a walking hat, and one to wear with tailor-made gown should prove sufficient- Of the Uttle accessories, such as gloves, neckwear, handkerchiefs, bags, and belts, the brlde-toi6e should provide herself with as many of these as her purse will permit.

An excellent blackhead and freckle; remedy, and a simple one Is peroxide, of hydrogen, or dtoxygen, applied to the-face diluted, two or three times dallyJ It must not be used too strong, or it will tend to make the skin yellow. Send a stamped addressed envelope for address of an elocution teacher. Times Inquiry Department: Will you please tell me where I can obtain the poem. "Casey at the Bat." I have, seen It In print, but neglected to make a. copy of It.

You would oblige me very much' if ou would print the piece In your columns. Truly. CURIOUS. The poem is too long to be printed Int these columns, I regret to say. By applying at the reference desk of the, Washington Public Library, they wllL deliver the book of selected poems, containing that Immortal baseball classic Times Inquiry Department: Please publish In your valuable paper how I can remove spots from a navy blue woolens suit.

I have tried gasolene, but this leaves a ring. Very truly, M. E. H. Try sponging the goods with luke-i warm water and Ivory soap, to which a few drops of ammonia have been added.

If you had put a soft pad of cloth beneath the goods when uslngt tho gasoline, for the purpose of soak-f ing up the superfluous liquid, the ring would not have formed. Another way to avoid this In the future is to put a chalk mark around the spot, to prevent it from spreading when the gasoline' Is applied. If the spots are greasej-spots. sponging them with alcohol or chloroform will remove them. SONS Founded 1S61 s3?.