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Foresighted Washingtonians Making Big Money WASHINGTON. These are boom days in Washington. The town is running under full pressure. Fortunes are being made. Every hotel is full and has been full for two months past. The club bedrooms are spoken for

weeks ahead. Apartment houses which a little while ago were only apartment houses are now "blossoming as hotels. Foresighted people who rented several flats in anticipation of the rush are getting rich on the transient trade. Prices have gone skaUyhootlng. The casual flnds the Washington bill of fare resembles that of New York in everything but variety. House rent is mounting. Taxi cab men forgot to turn

on the meter when you go taxicabbing. Walters bring the other man's orders to you, and a third man's bill, and do not stop to argue. They haven't time. Fifty thousand more clerks will be needed here before the summer is over. Sounds like an exaggeration? All right. Go out and try to locate a stenographer who can take a letter for you in any public place. A big manufacturer typed his own letter to the war department the qther day, after renting a typewriter on which to do it. He knew how, for he was once a private secretary. Others are not so fortunate. They stand and wait until the goddess of the machine can take their dictation. The government seized upon a great part of the available supply of stenographers when the rush began. The ' others are contented where they are or are entering business for themselves. Three months ago one of the government bureaus jogged along at Its own moderate pace with one clerk and one stenographer. The head of that bureau did not think that anything could, ever disturb his pacific routine. He knew there was a war In Europe, but he also knew that the United States would never get Into that war. Then he found his people pushed Into it. Nowadays he is the more or less perturbed manager of a force of 20 clerks and 40 stenographers, and his family is growing.

Diplomats Sticking Close to National Capital SUMMER resorts within automobile distance of Washington are having unusual prosperity this season because of the war which is keeping many diplomatists as well as officials in Washington. Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.;

embassy, which will be kept open all summer, the ambassador joining his family as often as he can leave his duties. The nearest neighbors at Monterey to the ambassador and Contessa dl Cellere will be Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Johnson of Washington. The two places adjoin and occupy the center of Monterey circle. The diplomatic colony there this summer will include the minister of Norway and Mme. Bryn, the minister of Uruguay, Mine, de Pena and the Misses de Pena. Miss Ethel Hundley, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John Mason Hundley of Baltimore, whose engagement to Mr. Hugo de Pena, first secretary of the legation of Uruguay and son of the minister, recently was an

nounced, has passed her summers at Monterey since she was a small girl, and

it was there that she met her fiance. The minister of Salvador and Senora de Zaldivar already have taken

possession of the cottage near the Monterey circle they have leased for the season, and Mrs. W. S. Carroll, accompanied by Miss Grace Carroll, have

moved to their cottage. Notable Summer for

WITH the president and Mrs. Wilson planning to remain in the White House all summer with no greater diversion for the former than a game

of golf after a seven-o'clock breakfast dinner, official society is making its plans to remain if not in town so close as to reach the executive offices, the capltol, or the White House by a short motor run. Scores of homes usually showing boarded front doors and drawn shades at this date are not only open, but in their summer furnishings are the scene of delightful hospitalities, even though everyone recognizes that a state of war exists.

The succession of distinguished visitors is in Itself a reason for breakfasts, dinners and receptions such as are rarely seen in Washington except in the height of the official season. The prince of Udlne, the head of the Italian war mission, scored a personal success only second to that of the great Marshal Joffre. Not only has this cousin of a king and a kinsman of that famous Italian visitor of nine years ago, the duke of Abruzzi, dined and breakfasted with the entire official circle, but he has danced with a number of maids and matrons of Washington's smart set, avuo will remember the war summer of 1917 just as their mothers and grandmothers remember the visit of the prince of Wales and the ball at the White House In the closing days of President Buchanan's administration. The entertaining of a prince of such social temperament naturally has brought out all that is best in personal adornment from the orders of the ambassadors, and uniforms of the officers of all nations, to the latest thing In bull gowns.

Admiral Peary Urges Department of Aeronautics REAR ADMIRAL ROBERT E. PEARY told a subcommittee of the senate military committee that the airplane was the cheapest and quickest answer to the submarine, and that if 1,000 airplanes were sent abroad they would do more to curb the submarine

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7v- place in the cabinet. The general opinion among experts, he said, is that the war will be decided In the air and that soon airplanes will be fighting in brigades of from 500 to 1,000 filers. Lieut. Col. L. W. B. Rees of the British Royal Flying corps said the machines used by the British flyers have always been superior to those used by the Grrnns, and now the personnel of the former also excels. He added .that the British casualties have also been less since they have introduced ,thelr new machines. Senator Brady asked if by the use of airplanes the Handing of a hostile army could be prevented. I "It could," Admiral Peary replied, "but it would mean the use of thousands instead of hundreds of planes."

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THI3 15 riT BU5t DAY Monterey and Buena Vista Springs have each a little colony of diplomatists and official folk. The Argentine ambassador and Mine. Eduardo Naon and the secretary of the treasury and Mrs. William GIbbs McAdoo will be neighbors at Buena Yista. The Italian ambassador and Contessa di.Cellere have leased the house of Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell Hardy of Norfolk, at Monterey, for the summer. So long as the Italian mission stays in Washington they will remain at the Washington's Smart Set and a motor ride after a seven-o'clock menace than anything else that could be done. "With the same concentration of effort as Ton Tirpitz exerted to develop the submarine in Germany, I think we will have an answer to the submarine and a oulck decision - - lne wnr," he declared, Admiral Pearv armearcd in sunport of a pending bill to establish a department of aeronautics, with a

Is Dainty Frock

The little frock shown in the sketch ;is made of beige-colored georgette, embroidered in silver braid to form a girjdle, and trimmed about the neck and bottom of the skirt with bands of navy faille ribbon. A wide girdle of ribbon 1s used. The frock buttons from neck to hem with small bullet-shaped navy buttons. To make the frock five and a quarter yards of material 36 inches wide will be required. Dresses made entirely of georgette, usually trimmed with metal, silk or bead embroidery, are very popular for Georgette Frock. dressy wear. The material even In light colors is serviceable, for it is easily laundered, and is dainty and cool looking, says a writer in the Washington Star. Lingerie frocks are also extremely popular, voiles, organdies, fine lawns and various linens being favored materials. Dainty trimmings, fine tucking, hemstitching and other handwork are largely featured In the selection of decorations. FOR RAINY DAY IN SUMMER Onc-Piece Dress of Dark Material Offers Solution to Problem Confronting Many Women. Everyone wishes to dress as comfortably cool as possible when the thermometer is doing its best to register as far above the nineties as possible. Light-weight clothes, light colors and sensible styles are necessary for summer comfort. There are days, however, when a light dress looks out of place, and yet the atmosphere is so full of humidity that one must have something cool. The one-piece dress of a dark color is the solution to this problem which confronts every woman, but Is more serious for the woman who goes to business every day. Dark blue is perhaps the color that will be most welcomed, although dark green is a close second. There should be at least one or two frocks of this color in every summer wardrobe. As for the materials of which to make them, there are many suggestions to give. Volle is a very wise selection. It is cool, it does not add bulk to the figure and it launders beautifully. Handkerchief linen is another delightful material, although the objection that is likely to be raised to this is the fact that it musses quickly. One business woman who is always the picture of neatness and coolness even on the hottest day upholds the advantages of having at least two dark silk dresses in the summer wardrobe. She is partial to crepe de chine and light-weight taffeta. Whichever she selects is combined with georgette crepe, for with sleeves of this material a frock cannot help but be cool. MANY NOVELTIES IN CAPES This Article of Apparel Seems to Be Becoming Smarter and Odder, But in Some Cases Impracticable. Capes get smarter and odder, although, in some cases, more impracticable. White pique for an under waistcoat, for instance, is not practical at nil, but is very good to see, combined with navy-blue tricotine. The cape ties with a black silk bow at the throat, just below the upstanding pique collar, and repeats this effect at the belt of black silk. It finishes in a point at the back. Navy blue serge with a lightweight white serge lining showing at the turning cuffs and collars is the material of another one. The back is a panel attaching to the front with buttons under the arm openings. Braid weaves in and out from the shoulders down to the waist, in and out of folds of the material. Braid also fastens the high collar. A little cape and waistcoat combination is in navy blue sevge for the cape, black and white flannel for the waistcoat, and white flannel for the collar.

The one ties with a black and white striped tie. It has regular sleeves in it, underneath, which are cuffed with wide white flannel. Extraordinarily smart, and somewhat different, is one of tete de negre bolivla cloth, light weight. This is full and straight, high-collared and broad-belted. It is a coat, except that the sleeves ate not sewed together underneath. Instead, they flow out and down into a long, full cape behind. The cape being joined to the coat part by the belt, however, gives somewhat the effect and the feeling of sleeves. Large black buttons finish this.

PARIS WOMEN WEAR BROGANS Scotch Shoes, With Overhanging Tongue, Come Into Fashion in French Metropolis. From Paris comes word that the low shoes, which well-dressed women of that city are wearing, are especially meant to go with the new length of skirt which the majority of the French couturiers have advocated. Many of the new shoe fashions have been taken from those worn by actresses in successful plays running during the winter at French theaters. Some of these include low-cut shoes tied with wide ribbons, the loops standing out in Louis XIII fashion. Others suggest the interlacing ankle strap for the low shoes. Then there are colonial pumps, which seem always to be in good style, particularly as the accompaniment of the tailored type of costume. The Scotch brogan with its overhanging tongue is said to be coming into fashion among some of the Parisian women who advocate distinction in their shoes. The perforated decorations of the Scotch brogan have been copied in some of the high shoes. POCKET IS IN VOGUE AGAIN After a Brief Lull It Makes Appearance on Evening Gowns as Well as on Sports Clothes. The majority of experts confidently predicted the end of pockets last winter, and for a while there was a noticeable absence of them. The dressmakers thought that there was nothing new to be found in these appendages, but the late spring season brought them out in full force again, and a good many new ideas seem to have been discovered for their summer vogue. They do not limit their appearance to sports clothes, but have become a smart . bit of trimming on evening gowns. In the latter capacity they are made of colored tulle heavily threaded with jewels, and on one especially good gown they are carried like small buckets by a long rope of brilliants that passes around the neck. There are pockets that droop and pockets that are squarely placed across the material in a military manner. There are pockets that are smocked, quilted, embroidered and soutached. On white wool jersey skirts there are large pockets trimmed in the peasant manner of applying a design in brightcolored cloth with a buttonhole stitch. FALL BONNET FOR KIDDIE The fall fashions for kiddies have made their appearance and they are the prettiest seen yet This is one of the most charming of them. It is of maroon velvet combined with satin of the same color and is a bonnet that will gladden the heart of any little girl. An Appealing Touch. What homemaker does not have to confront this problem? Arranging flowers every day for the dining and living rooms, hunting out original, effective flower holders for luncheon or dinner table is one of the pleasures of the day. Not yet too well known is the wicker central mound with compartment for a tiny canary, over which flowers and green can be so well arranged that if starling pipes up, his song comes as a complete surprise. An inexpensive possession of this type lends an appealing human touch at table that is sure to be irresistible. Petticoats to Match Each Frock. A petticoat to match each dress is a new and expensive, but pretty, wrinkle. It must be very limp and flimsy any crepe plisse and mounted on a smooth hip yoke.

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Youngster's Feet Set on Road to Fortune Or CHICAGO. On a street where daily more people pass than compose the population of a fair-sized city a small boy laden with newspapers was doing business. There was nothing unusual about the boy himself save that he was somewhat smaller than the

other boys who shouted their wares near by. His clothes were as shabby, his movements as brisk and his voice as shrill as those of his rivals. Unlike the other newsies, however, he stood not on the curb nor in the center of the sidewalk, but near the building line on a grating in the sidewalk. A man with a bag in one hand and a raincoat over the other, obviously in a hurry, paused for a moment before

the boy, crisply -named his paper and thrust a quarter into the outstretched palm. The quarter bounced like a live thing from the boy's hand and dropped through the grating into a pile of accumulated rubbish. "It's gone for keeps, mister," the boy said slowly. "I guess maybe that wuz my fault. I'll give you your change and you kin have the paper." "That's all right, boy," said the man, surprised at this munificence. "Probably it was my fault. Here, take this." Slipping another coin Into the boy's hand, which this time closed eagerly on the money, the man seized his paper and hurried away. Another newsboy who had been watching the transaction uttered an exclamation of disgust. "See that kid? Well, he's gonna land in a llmoosine or a jail one a' these days. Ho Stan's on that gratin' all day droppln' dimes and quarters out of his mit and pullin' that phony honesty stuff. Then every night him and a kid that works in that building sneaks down into that hole through the hasement window and divvies up'

Bull Furnishes Thrill for Blase New Yorkers NEW YORK. A bull, seeking to go back to nature, momentarily agitated Fifth avenue. The bull, described as wild, was cribbed, cabined and confined in Stern Brothers' vivisection parlors, Eleventh avenue and Fortieth

Eighth avenue and Forty-eighth street occurred the very newest thing in bullfighting new even to New York. At that corner stood William Artus, known in underworld slang as a "bull." He Is a patrolman of the West Forty-seventh street station. Artus dodged the bull, corralled an auto and gave chase to the Texan product, which, crossing the avenues like a chauffeur on a joy ride, turned north on Fifth avenue. As everyone knows, it was a lovely day. Most persons who usually are on Fifth avenue were out of town. At sight of the bull those who were oik Fifth Avenue got out of sight, save, of course, the always increasing throng of banderillos, who goaded the bull with shouts and chance sticks and stonfes. So on to the plaza at Fifty-ninth street. There the bull, to maintain the Hispano-American illusion, converted the plaza Into a plaza del toros, charged everything In his red-eyed vision and tried to jump into a subway excavation. But Matador Artus and others roped him, and he was carted away ignominiously, just as are others of his kind, better bred, where blooming senoritffe reward toreadors with bewitching glances, half-hidden by their fans.

Occupation for the Man Past Prime of Life DETROIT. Old men are being withdrawn from the shelves to which they were relegated by a misanthropic world and sifted back into the tide of the city's industrial activity. No more will the smooth-shaven face and

dyed hair be necessary for the man past the half century mark who Is out of a job. No more are business men looking askance at the men who have "crow's feet" about their eyes and thinning hair. If he is willing to accept menial labor and is sober and industrious, a place is being found for the man who shows the results of his battle with Time. Several old men are being em

ployed by the telegraph companies as "messenger boys." That doesn't sound like much of a job, but as explained by the men and their employers, it is not so bad. "We have about 30 old men working as 'messenger boys,' " said B. B. Crane, chief delivery clerk for the Western Union Telegraph company. "There are several reasons why they are very satisfactory. We first began employing them several months ago, because we could not get boys. We find them very apt at the work and much more reliable than boys. "The pay is 25 cents an hour, and some of them work 12 hours a day. That is optional with them. We give them long deliveries out to the suburbs, and the work is not at all hard. We have several telegraphers who were unable to stand the Indoor work who have become messengers, and they are making more than they did at the key." The Postal company also employs old men, and for the same reasons scarcity of boys and the greater reliability of the older men. The manager of a large office building said: "There are quite a number of old men employed as errand 'boys' In this building, and from what I hear they are more satisfactory than the younger men or boys. They appreciate the job, they are reliable, and are becoming more and more popular with employers."

Liquor Law Makes Trouble for Railroad Man MINNEAPOLIS. If the sun, which was high in tha heavens and shining into his office window, had suddenly dropped with a loud bang below the horizon .and the silvery moon had jumped up Into the sky, Edmund Pennington, president of the Soo line, might

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been engaged in the nefarious and ilbgal business of selling liquor in violation of statute in the city of Minot, state of North Dakota? In short, when did I become a bootlegger?" All the legal luminaries - were surprised. Mr. Pennington then showed them that he Is named in legal procedure growing out of the Minot war between the wet and dry forces. North Dakota is bone dry under the federal law July 1. Many boxes of "dry goods," "gents1 furnishing goods," "medicine" and "glassware for hotel use, handle with care," shipped by the liquor firms, have been hauled out of Minneapolis by the railroads entering that state, it is reported, since the law was passed, in anticipation of the impending drought. "Every Soo line station agent has definite, printed Instructions regarding the law," Mr. Pennington said. "It is possible a liquor shipment in disguise may have gone through without our men detecting it. If that makes th railroad amenable under the law, I suppose that is how I am in the case,

t $ t t ;U M ' street, from Texas; he yearned to go home, and having jumped a stockade or some such obstacle, headed away to the east, which is not the way to Texas. As the bull progressed he grew wilder, and everyone who saw him and heard him, his head down and bellowing, grew wild. The way was cleared for him ; aviators could inform themselves from the manner in which persons in the vicinage flew up. At have been surprised, but not more so than when a long telegram was handed him saying that the sheriff of Ward county, North Dakota, wanted him In Minot on a charge of selling liquor in violation of the law. When he recovered he pressed a button and the entire legal department trooped in. "How long," as Mr. Pennington, reading from the telegram, "have I

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