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Political Views Divide Many Washington Famiiies W ASmNGTON. Meredith Nicholson, the author who was offered a post " in the diplomatic service by President Wilson, and his wife have agreed, to differ on a most important question. It is that of the candidacy of Mr.

Wilson for re-election. Mr. Nicholson is for him and Mrs. Nicholson is against him and for Mr. Hughes. A number of other equally wellknown families have divided within the last few, weeks over the presidential campaign. Among the couples which have agreed to differ as to presidential candidates are Representative William Kent of California and Mrs. Kent, Mr. and Mrs. Fremont Older of California, Mr. George Mid-

dleton and his wife, Fola La Pollette, daughter of Senator La Follette of Wisconsin; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. H. Hopkins of New Jersey, andtMr. and Mrs. Richard Lloyd Jones of Madison, Wis. i

The wives maintain that for them and for all women no issue is of more

lunuamental importance than that of national woman suffrage, which has been indorsed by Mr. Hughes and opposed by Mr. Wilson. For this reason

tney are out to acteat jjir. Wilson.

Rapid Work on the Beautiful Lincoln Memorial

ANOTHER step in the building of the Lincoln memorial in Potomac park has been taken that of letting contracts for construction of the terrace

walls of the beautiful monument and of the masonry approaches to the gigantic pile. An appropriation of

$300,500 is available for the building of these features of the memorial, which, according to specifications, are to be of the best granite obtainable. Indications are that the imposing monument to the martyred president of the sixties will be completed months ahead of the time stipulated in the contract. The contract time is March, 1918, but work is progressing at such a rate on the memorial that the more

optimistic of the officials in charge of the construction are hazarding the belief that the structure will be standing as a complete tribute to the immortal Lincoln by the end of 1917. Already the colonnade and the outside walls of the structure are completed. The interior, mostly of limestone, is almost installed, while the eight interior columns are now iu place. The ceiling beams of bronze are not vet In and the roof Is net yet on. Work on the granite terrace walls and the masonry approaches has been started, and grading of the mound on which the memorial stands is being pushed forward with all possible speed. Hundreds of workmen and scores of teams are engaged in the work of completing this mound, which necessitates extension of Potomac park in the vicinity of the memorial into the river more than 200 feet. Dredges are employed in the building up of the new ground, taking the earth from the river and piling it up behind the new seawall which is being constructed for the purpose. This work means that the park in the vicinity of Ü memorial, instead of foil

, ,. A UVH UUO tiliHg 111 w V.1 1 1 C ilj owed out 200 feet farther into the river. .Is in charge of the work said that landscaping and grading is one eggest tasks in the construction of the memorial, and explained that great part of this work has already been accomplished, it will he

before the ground in the locality of the monument will begin to assume appearance it is expected to take on according to the plans of the munorial Post Office Department Running a Big Laundry I T MAY not be generally known, but Uncle Sam is today running a laundry. By this means he is combating the high cost Of living. A couple of years ago, when the post office department asked for bids for the washing of towels

for the department in Washington, the prices seemed to be abnormally high for the great number to be laundered. Someone in the department suggested that it take over ther towelwashing business itself as an 'experiment. The suggestion sounded good to the officials, who purchased a small washing machine, and it was soon found that the towels were being washed at a rate much below that

quoted. The department has within the past few weeks, decided to go into the laundry business on an even larger scale. A new and larger washing machine has been purchased, and it now proposes not only to wash the towels of the post office department, but also those used at the Washington city post office. This will mean that the post office laundry will wash on an average of about 4,000 towels each day. The department has found that it can wash and iron these 4,000 towels at a cost of not over IS cents per 100 towels. It is said that the bids received by the department were in the neighborhood of 50 cents per 100. It can therefore be estimated that the department is saving approximately $500 a. year by doing its own laundry work, and not only has its towels "on hand at all times, but is sure that they are thoroughly washed.

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Rat Proves Prediction on Fashions is Correct

T HE latest fashion note that skirts will be higher this season was more than

vindicated the other night, when a large rat, in his efforts to escape two

miuciogs, ran toward a crowd ot women who were watching the chase near the corner of Thirteenth street and Penn

sylvania avenue northwest. Through some mysterious agency of "ratdom" a huge rodent escaped sentries and meandered toward the white light of the avenue. As far as can be learned it was but a sightseeing trip, but Sir Rodent had not counted up the carnivorous capacity of other members of the animal kingdom. Two bulldogs simultaneously spied the tourist and both claimed

him for their own. Two sets of teeth closed upon Mr. Eat about the same time, and a guttural argument ensued as to rightful ownership. Becoming incensed at the futility of this argument, both dogs loosened their hold upon the rat, who scampered toward what looked to be a wall of protection, but which was really a flock of skirts whose owners had stopped on the corner to witness the struggle. Then it was that fashion came into ber own, for skirts certainly went Higher, and hastily departing visions of dainty ank but then, as Kipling would say, "that is another story." His Batship was captured.

MORE HORSES THAN EVER BEFORE. Nearly everyone believes that the horse is fast disappearing; but they are In error. Census statistics show that there are more horses in this country now than ever before, notwithstanding that 500,000 horses have been gathered up by France and Great Britain and sent to the war front. The motor car and the motor truck, while greatly increasing in numbers, have not caused a corresponding decrease in the use of horses. This is shown by figures gathered in Chicago, where in the last five years motor vehicles increased from 11,000 to 43,000, while horse-drawn vehicles only decreased from 53,000 to 49,000. Thus 32,000 motor cars came into use, but they displaced only 9,000 horse-drawn vehicles. From these figures it would seem that it will be -a long time before horses disappear from the streets.

ANYTHING BUT A HIGHBROW!

The Average Man Naturally Flinches

From the Reputation for Intellectuality.

No one really wants to be consid-.

ered a highbrow. The term itself, as

Van Wyck Brooks says, is derogatory.

Here and there a person may be so

superior as to be flattered by the derision of the herd. Undergraduates

like to think they are. But a man

has to be far gone in superiority be

fore he relishes the notion of being

avoided for its sake.

lou cannot imagine a man like Nietzsche trying to prove that he had

a heart any more than you can imagine him shooting the chutes at Ckmey Island. He is the kind of Olympian whose dignity seems to have been inherent.' You would just as soon rink beer out of porcelain as sla"P Ji Nietzsche on the back. But the Wlnary Olympian, certainly in America, is more anxious to show he is gregarious than to protect his reputation for superiority and intellect. You do not have to slap him on the back; he slaps you. If he is running for office, in particular, he wants.it to be known that blood, not ice water, flows through his veins. He yearns to indicate that he is a good fellow. He tells funny stories, has himself photographed playing pinochle, is .discovered by his interviewer sittrtit the organ singing, "Home, flbet Home." A man may have the temperament of a hermit crab in private life ; in public life he must smile cheerily when a boilermaker crushes his fingers and bellows: "Tommy, put it there." New Republic. s

MORGAN'S CIGARS COST ($1.2

The Kaiser, Who Is Supplied by'7ftnre

uuban Factory, Pays Ninety Cents Apiece.

They found among the effects left by Pierpont Morgan $S,000 worth of cigars. I held in my hand a few days ago two boxes of his favorite brands. His after-dinner smokes cost $1.2o each. A representative of the Cuban factory which makes them tells me that Morgan ordered usually 5,000 or 6,000 at a clip. "There are only two men in Cuba wTho can make that cigar, and nearly all of them are produced by one man," said this Cuban producer. "We pay him 40 cents to make each cigar and he can roll about 25 of them in one day." The king of Wall street smoked a bit better cigar than does Emperor William of Germany. The kaiser's cigar, made by the same factory in Cuba, is worth 90 cents. v The oldest brand of cigars was put out 112 years ago that is, the oldest

which is in existence today. I understand that, in face of the British battleships, tin kaiser is. still able tFet all the cigars he wants. Philadelphia Public Ledger.

The Difference in Women

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.

I hold it true, whate'er befall, I feel it when I sorrow most 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. It is not always smooth sailing for a widower to venture a second time into matrimony.

Despite the fact that it is his business, and his alone, everyone who knows him and many whom he never heard of take a lively interest in watching for developments if he is seen in the company of an attractive, marriageable woman. Spinsters look on with keen relish, wives with fear. It is the subject which the

average confidential wife feels a delicacy about when she attempts to broach the subject to her husband. Yet she is intensely anxious to know what her heartmate thinks concerning second marriages. The average husband is usually truthfully blunt enough about the matter. The wife introduces the sub-

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ject at the dinner table when they are alone, skirmishing around like a careful general until she reaches the attacking point. "Guess whom I met today when I was out walking," she remarks as she pours his tea. As she has 400 dear bosom friends, he makes no attempt to stretch his. ingenuity at guessing. "It was Widower Smith across the way, andand there was a young woman with him," she addo slowly. "Well, what of that?" asks hubby, feeling that he is expected to make some kind of comment. "Do you forget that his wife is scarcely cold in her grave?" she queries severely. "Why, it's three years if it's a day!" ejaculates the husband. "Do you suppose he is thinking of marrying again?" questions the wife, in that slow, even, suppressed voice which always preceded a storm. "Why not?" asks hubby. "He was a good husband to the wife that was taken away. A man cannot live with the dead, you know, and as for that matter she's as dead now as she will ever be. A man must down his sorrow or it will down 111111." "The report is that he is to marry. He has just bought a fine new house, furnishing it from top to bottom, and an automobile. He did not do that

for the first one. She went to housekeeping in a tiny flat, did her own work, pinched and saved, went without clothes, having barely enough covering her to keep people from talking. It was by nor thrift that money enough was saved to start him in business, and now another woman is to enjoy, what she toiled for," exclaims the wifei "Is that right?" Hubby was too obtuse to see that he was making trouble for himself when he retorted quickly. "The first wife wanted to work and pinch and save, that was her pleasure. He was poor then; he's rich now and can afford to give this one comforts, even luxuries. This woman will find no occasion for toiling, seeing that he can keep her without. The first one loved him through poverty. Probably this one would not have married him at that stage of the game. There's a difference in women, you know." That conversation opened the wife's eyes to the fact that she should crowd as much happiness and sunshine as possible into each day of her life, and, while doing her duty to save for lior husband, she should not forget that; a little recreation from toil now and then was time and money well spent she being the gainer thereby in health and cheerfulness, and that although many husbands refuse to admit it, the average man appreciates the wife for whose outing pleasures he must plan and contribute. She must not be his toiling slave. She must be his Companion in his joys and an agreeable

one at that. A husband should see to it that the wife who toils hard in his interest should have all the comforts and pleasures which he can reasonably afford showered upon her while she Is able to enjoy them.

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We must express ourselves in order to gTow and in order to reach our destined goal; and we express ourselves properly only when we try to make things better both In ourselves and in our environment. Cream of Pea Soup. Drain . and wash a can of green

peas, place them with a sprig of mint

in a saucepan, add a teaspoonful of

onion juice, a pinch of sugar, a half

teaspoonful of salt and a dash of cayenne pepper ; cover with a pint of cold

water and cook until the peas are soft

enough to press through a sieve. Heturn to the fire and gradually stir in a

Oil Germ Destroyers. Certain essential oils have been

proved to be powerful germ destroy

ers and recent experiments have

shown that they may even give effec

tiveness to preventive vaccines. F. d'Herelli of the Pasteur institute has

investigated especially the subject of

rendering white mice immune to the

bacillus typhi muriuc, an organism of

the group producing paratyphoid. At

tempts have been made to prepare a

vaccine for the mice from a product

containing the dead bacilli, but failure

lias been the result. It was then sug

gested that some new method of kill

ing the bacilli might have effect. Trials

were made with essential oils, such

as those of cinnamon, garlic, thyme.

marjoram, cloves and mustard, and

the bacilli killed by these were found

to be immunizing under certain con

ditions. A white mouse, for instance,

is made proof against the livins: bacilli

by injections of a vaccine containing

from 500,000 to 10,000,000 corpses of

Dacnii slain by oil of mustard. But

the numbers must be verv carefully

maintained. With a dose of more than

10,000,000 dead bacilli, the immunity

is feeble or non-existent: but. on the

other hand, the dose must be not less

than half a million, no effect resultinc

from 150,000. It is concluded that the

oil of mustard gives a vaccine that is

very active in the right doses.

Firing Gun From AeroDlane.

How a machine gun is fired through

a revolving propeller is told in a re

cent issue of Aeronautics, in an article describing the more important features

oi two German Fokkers brought down behind the British lines in France. On

theee monoplanes, according to the de

scription, the machine gun is fired

through the propeller by means of a small lever actuating a Bowden wire. Provision is further made to throw the inachinc gun mechanism momentarily out of gear as each whirling propeller

made comes into line with the muzzle.

This is done very simply by means of

a double cam fixed on the engine shaft

and acting on a system of levers. The

French Morane, after which the Fok-

ker type has been modeled, also fires its machine gun through the tractor

screw.

Would You Be Strong and Healthy? Then Just Walk

Walking is one of the best exercises a person can possibly take, physicians say. To walk properly it is necessary to keep the head erect, the shoulders back, and the abdominal muscles tense, so that the abdominal viscera are not allowed to dangle in space or left to drop into the pelvis. Energy and life must be thrown into the exercise and elasticity into the step in order for it to be of benefit. Deep abdominal breathing must also be practiced. Of course, care must be taken not to overdo at first. A short, energetic walk of 15 minutes is of greater value, mentally and physically, than a listless, spiritless walk of five hours.

"Instead of raw March winds and

cold drafts in other words, outside

air of low temperature being the

cause of colds and catarrhal affec

tions," says Dr. Felix L. Oswald, "it

is the warm, vitiated, indoor air that is the cause while outdoor air is the

best remedy. The combination of exercise, abstinence and fresh air will

cure the most obstinate cold.

"Air is both food and drink to the

lungs. It is more like water to the body it washes them clean. One great

advantage the persistent walker has is

in getting used to all kinds of weather.

Exposure to cold and damp will do him

no harm, although it might be fatal to others.

"Walking, if resolutely and judi

ciously followed, is a perfect exercise, which taxes the entire system. Wnen

you walk properly every member and

muscle, every nerve and fiber has

something to do. The lungs grow strong and sound; the chest enlarges,

the Limbs are rounded out, the tendons swell and toughen, the figure rises in

height and dignity and is clothed with grace and suppleness. Not merely the body, but the whole individual is developed."

pint of cream and a cupful of milk adding just at the last a tablespoonfu! of butter blended with one of flour Serve with pulled bread.

Salsify Soup. Scrape twelve good sized roots of oyster plant, throwing them at once into cold water, then cut in thin slices and cbver with milk and water, cook until tender, remove from the fire and press through a puree strainer. IteIieat, add a pint of milk and a half a pint of cream ; stir in when boiling hot, two tablespoonfuls of butter, season with salt, pepper and powdered mace. Pour at once into the tureen and serve with small oyster crackers. Dates and Cream. Cut dates in quarters and spread on a platter, sprinkle with lemon juice and let stand an hour. Whip two cupfuls of cream, sweeten and flavor, fold in the whites of two eggs stiffly beaten and mix with the dates. Serve in sherbet cups. Good Things for the Table. There are new ways being discovered daily of using old friends in new

ways, for example scrambled eggs with red pepper. Beat six eggs slightly,

Paper Clothes for Soldiers.

Both Japanese and Russian soldiers

are wearing paper clothes. "Kaniiko

as paper clothing is called in Janan

made of the real Japanese paper man-

uiactured from mulberrv bark. The

paper has little"slze" in it and. thou

soft and warm, a thin layer of silk

wadding is placed between two sheets

of paper and the whole is quilted. It; only drawback is that it is not wash

able.

Wealth Handicap to Student,

Says University President Wealth is a handicap to the college

student, and the poor boy has the advantage, according to Dr. Rav Lvman

Wilbur, president of Leland Stanford,

Jr., university.

Doctor Wilbur decrees that begin

ning this year automobiles mav not be

owned by students; that too frequent dances, the purchase of expensive flowers for co-eds and similar luxuries will be banned.

He has sent a circular letter to stu

dents' parents saying students with

too much money are not desired at the

school, if they are inclined to spend

their time in the pursuit of pleasure. The letter urges parents to refrain

from too liberal allowances and warns them that as the number of entrants

this year is limited, those students

who fail to show they are doing honest work will not be permitted to remain.

A LITTLE OF EVERYTHING Nearly half of the population of France was engaged in farming before the war. Rubber nails for places where metal ones would corrode are a novelty from Germany. Deposits of coal have been discovered in Iceland and efforts will be made to develop them.

Rust will disappear from steel if soaked in sweet oil for a day, followed with a rubbing with fresh lime. A miniature automobile horn blown by pressing an electric button has been invented to replace door bells. The thumb print as a means of identification is used in a new English time recording machine for workmen.

xncr uuiuiuKe is a variety or tne thistle and grows spontaneously all along the African shore of the Mediterranean. y Because of the scarcity of wood in Switzerland about TO per cent of the ties on the government railroads are

metal. A Jacksonville (Fla.) newspaper digs up the firm name of Shearer & Hare as suitable for a barber shop, and, in fact, used by one. The larger part of Mexico consists of an elevated plateau, with mountains on the east and west. - This plateau is of volcanic origin. New apparatus for filling automobile tires with air automatically cuts off the supply when the overinflation danger point is reached.

.'Russian engineers soon will begin experiments that will cover three years to ascertain if sugar beets can

be raised profitably in Siberia. Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the bureau of entomology at Washington, D. C, says there is no such thing known to science as a. .silent mosquito. A submarine tender built for .the Brazilian navy can admit an underwater boat into its hull and carry it or subject it to extreme water pressure to test it. To carry smaller boats within large craft a Dutch inventor has patented a vessel with hinged doors at one end of the hull, through which boats can be floated. Around the cemetery in Bowdoin, Me., is an iron fence which was put up 47 years ago and is still in perfect alignment, the frost, which usually throws fences out of line, not having disturbed this one in the least.

add salt and pepper and pour into a sizzling hot frying pan well greased with butter, add two tablespoonfuls of cream and two tablespoonfuls ot chopped red pepper. Serve on toast. Almond and Celery Soup. Cut in small pieces a bunch of celery, using he leaves and root, add six pepper corns, two bay leaves, a tablespoonPul of onion juice, a thin slice of lemon, a teaspoonful of salt, and a stick of cinnamon, cover with a quart of water and cook one hour, strain and again heat, stirring in a cupful of cream, a tablespoonful each of butter and flour cooked together and a quarter of a cupful of blanched and pounded almonds. Allow it to boil two minutes after the nuts are added. Serve hot with cheese crackers. An Excess of Sugar When sugar is taken in excess it undergoes fermentation in the alimentary canal, where it is converted into alcohol, carbonic acid and acetic acids. This fermentation and its products impede the work of the liver and make the system run with friction, prevent the elimination of effete products, and often long-continued use cripples all the processes of

life. Cane snir:n osnnfinii,. .

solution, is an irritant to the stomach. When no sugar is taken in the food tlie liver makes all the sugar that is needed in the s;. stem. In addition to this, all the starch that is taken as food is converted into sugar in the body.

Housewives Will Welcome This.

Many a housewife has sustained a bad burn by lifting the hot lid of the kettle she was attempting to refill. A teakettle lid has been invented which will render this impossible. The lid has an automatic valve in the center

winch opens as the flow of water is turned upon it and closes when the water is shut off. This valve is at the bottom of a depression in the lid, and the concave thus formed is a convenient place to set a cup or other small vessel containing butter to be melted or other ingredients requiring gentle heat. The lid is of aluminum, thoroughly sanitary and indorsed by the cooking experts who have seen it. What Women Are Doing. London has now women blacksmiths and horseshoers. Women are shoveling malt in the malthouses in England. Girl students at Bryn Mawr colle-e have a military corps. One out of every four women in this country is a wage-earner

Woman linotype operators in this country number over 15,000. Female clerks employed bv the British government receive SG.25 a week In Silesia, East Prussia, women actually dominate the building industry Woman cooks emploved by the British army are paid $100 a vear and their board. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt has given a $20,000 station for the wounded in. France. An effort is being made in England to induce women to become ministers' of the Gospel. Women employed as conductors on the Prussian railways must wear dark gray trousers. Private employers of female labop' in Great BrUain pay them from WI to .$5 per week.