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. rtess of his principles.
Found it upon the massiye
and eternal rock; you cannot make it
more enduring than his fame! Con
struct it of the peerless Parian mar
t)le ; you cannot make it purer than
Ilia life! Exhaust upon it the rules
and principles of ancient and modern
art ; you cannot make it more propor
tionate than his character." From the
speech of Robert C. Winthrop at the
laying of a the corner stone of the
Washington monument July 4, 1848.
L-the National Geographic Maga
zine three years ago William Howard
Taft wrote of the Washington monu
ment: 'Taken by itself, the Washing
ton monument stands not only as one
of the most stupendous works bf man,
hut also as one of the most beautiful
of all human creations. Indeed it is
at once so great and so simple that it
seems to be almost a work of nature.
Dominating the entire District of Co
lumbia, it has taken its place with the
capltol and the White House as the
three foremost national structures.
"With a new character for each new
hour, a different aspect for every
change of .light and shade, the Wash
ington monument seems to link heaven
anft earth In the darkness, to pierce
the sky in the light and to stand an
immovable mountain peak as the mists
of every storm go driving by. With a
height of 555 feet, a base of 55 feet
square, and walls tapering from 15
feet at the base to 18 Inches at the
top ; with Its interior lined with memo
rial stones from the several states,
from many famous organizations and
from a number of foreign countries;
with Its stately simplicity and the
high qualities of manhood it honors,
It is fitting that the aluminum tip that
caps it should bear the phrase 'Laus
Deo."
"Stately simplicity" is what makes
the Washington monument one of the
greatest in the world, observes the.
Kansas City Star.
Original Plan Changed.
The original plan of the -designer,
Robert Mills, was to have as the main
feature of the monument a large col
umned pantheon to be used as a mu
seum for war relics and statues of
jgreat men, and the obelisk was to
urise from its center and surmount
the whole.
The pantheon Idea was abandoned
later when the monument came to be
built, and everyone feels now that it
is a good thing it was so, because a
building of any kind at Its base would
only detract from Its sublimity and
grandeur. . :
Washlngton-himself selected the site
for the monument, but at that time
the Intention was to erect an eques
trian statue, which congress had voted
for in 1783. Nothing was done until
1833, when Chief Justice John Mar
shall headed a movement called the
"Washington Monument society," to
solicit funds to build It. It was then
the architect, Robert Mills, designed
an obelisk surmounting a colonnade of
Doric columns.
Some money was collected, but not
enough to build It as planned, so the
pantheon feature was abandoned and
work begun on -the obelisk. The cor
ner stone, weighing twelve tons, was
laid July 4, 1848, in the presence of
20,000 people. -
In 1855 the funds ran out and work
v8 stopped, and for twenty years the
partly constructed monument re
mained an ugly stub. But the centen
nial exposition of 1876 brought a re
vival of patriotism and there was a
nation-wide demand that the monu
ment be finished. Congress took hold
of it, funds were asked for from every
state, as well as contributions of stone
blocks with which to line the interior.
- In 1880 work on the monument was
resumed, but on altered plans. The
- foundations were enlarged and
strengthened and the shaft Increased
In height. In 1884 it was finished at
a total cost of $1,200,000.
Lower Walls 15 Feet Thick.
Following is a detailed description
of the monument taken from the
Rand-McNally Guide to Washington :
"The foundations are described as
constructed of a mass of solid blue
rock 146 feet square. .
The base of shaft Is 55 feet square
and the lower walls are 15 feet thick.
-At the 500-foot elevation, where the
.pyramid top begins the walls are only
18 inches thick and about 35 feet
square. . The inside of the walls, as
- far as they : were constructed before
. -the work was undertaken by the gov
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ernment In 1S7S 150 feet from the
base is of blue granite, not laid In
courses. From this point to within a
short distance of the beginning of the
top of the roof the inside of the walls
Is of regular courses of granite, corre
sponding with the courses of marble
on the outside. For the top marble la
entirely used. The work has been de
clared the best piece of masonry In
the world. By a plumb line suspended
from the top of the monument' Inside
not three-eighths of an inch deflection
has been . noticed. The keystone that
binds 1 the interior ribs of stone that
support the marble facing of the pyr
amid cap of the monument weighs
nearly five tons. It Is four feet six
inches high and three feet six inches
square at xthe top.
"On the 6th day of December, 1884,
the capstone, which completed the
shaft, was set. The capstone is five
feet 2 inches in height, and its base
is somewhat more than three feet
square. At its cap, or peak, it Is five
inches in diameter. On the cap was
placed a tip or point of aluminum, a
composition metal which resembles
polished silver, and which was select
ed because of Its. lightness and free
dom from oxidation and because it
will always remain bright.
Staircase With 900 Steps.
"A staircase of 900 steps winds Its
way to the top, around fcn interior
shaft of iron pillars, in which the ele
vator runs ; few people walk up, but
many descend that way, In order to
examine more carefully the Inscribed
memorial blocks which are set into the
interior wall at various places. With
in the shaft formed by the interior
Iron framework runs an elevator, mak
ing a trip every, half hour and carry
ing, if need be, thirty persons. As
this elevator and its ropes are of un
usual strength and were severely test
ed by use in elevating the stone re
quired for the upper courses as the
structure progressed, Its safety need
not ber suspected. The elevator is
lighted by electricity and carries a tel
ephone. Seven minutes are required
for the ascent of 500 feet ; and one can
see as he passes all the Inscriptions
end carvings sufficiently well to satis
fy the curiosity of most persons, a?
none of these memorials has any ar
tistic excellence. An officer in charge
of the floor marshals visitors Into the
elevator and another cares for the ob
servatory floor at the top; but no fees
are expected. The surrounding grounds
form Washington park.
The view from the eight small win
dows, which open through the pyra
midon, or sloping summit of the obe
lisk, 517 feet from the ground, in
cludes a circle of level country hav
ing a radius of from fifteen to twenty
miles, and southwest extends still
farther, for In clear weather the Blue
Ridge is well defined In that direction.
The Potomac Is in sight from up near
Chain bridge, down to far below
Mount Vernofiynd the whole district
lies unrolledJKke a map. To climb the
Washington monument is, therefore,
an excellent method of beginning an
intelligent survey of the capital and
of 'getting one's bearing.
Eats a Thousand Bugs. ,
A cliff swallow will eat a thousand
flies,- mosquitoes, wheat-midgets or
beetles that injure fruit trees in a day
and therefore are to be encouraged,
says the American "Forestry associa
tion, of Washington, which Is con
ducting the nation-wide campaign
among school children for bird-house
building. This bird is also known, as
the cave swallow because it plasters
its nest on the outside of a barn or
other building up under the eaves.
Colonies of several thousand will build
their nests together on the side of a
cliff. These nests shaped like a flat
tened gourd or water-bottle are made
of bits of clay rolled Into pellets and
lined with straw or feathers. This bird
winters in the tropics. s
Spray Painting Corrugated Steel.:
The corrugated steel used for air
plane hangars In this country and over
seas was painted before shipment.
Owing to the large quantity of steel,
it was out of the question to do this
work by hand and machines could not
be used on account of the corrugations.
For this reason, a spray system of
painting was employed. First,- the
sheets were coated with red lead be
fore being corrugated, and after that
they received a coating of green on
one side and gray on the other side,
applied by means of a jet 14 Inches
I wide. Scientific American.
How Department of : Justice Wat
Handicapped in Its Proceedings
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Against Them During tne war ay
Pro-German Associations.
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington. Ther lessons that the
officials who believe in punitive meas
ures draw" from the attempted assas
sination of Attorney General A. Mitch
ell Palmer in Washington, and from
other entirely lawless proceedings else
where, is that the mollycoddling of
anarchists is more dangerous to the
public than hanging them. "
. It is promised now by the Wash-,
ington orticiuls that the attacks by
bomb throwers "will only Increase and
extend the activities l of v our crime
detecting forces. We are. determined
now as heretofore that organized crime
directed against organized government
in this country shall be stopped."
There is a difference of opinion in
Washington as to whether or not the
government officials have been as ac
tive against law breakers of all : kinds
since the war began as they should
have been. The friends of the depart
ment of justice and of other depart
ments say that everything that could
be done has been done and that it
is a mistake to believe that leniency
with certain classes of disturbers has
been the rule and that as a result at
tempts at terrorism have increased.
It is necessary to go into an analysis
of war time conditions to show the
development of the anarchistic propa
ganda which has resulted In overt acts
against life and property in the United
States.
Hun Propaganda Aided Anarchist.
When the United States entered into
the war with Germany government of
ficials found there were in existence
in the United States all kinds of organ
izations, formed for purposes which
could not fail in their effect ' to helpr
the cause of the Huns. These organ
izations were not anarchistic In their
nature, but that they helped anarchy
no one can doubt. (
There were associations formed for
the purpose of keeping young Amer
icans out of the army through the ex
tending of aid to men who pretendec
that they were conscientious objectors.
There were organizations which
preached the doctrine of "lying down
and that the way to overcome the
German was to kiss him on both
cheeks and pat his back.
, Every one of these associations gave
It out that Its object was purely hu
manitarian and that its endeavor would
be to help only men who actually were
conscientious objectors by virtue of
membership : in some religious sect
whose creed made it a sin for men to
engage In warfare. The government
soon discovered that these organiza
tions were going way outside of their
advertised acts.
When the government began to, get
after these associations which, while
professedly loyal and professedly sim
ply human in their endeavors, in real
ity were helping the Germans, they dis
covered that It was an exceedingly dif
ficult thing to differentiate between this
society and that society. One organ
ization might well be within the law
while another was outside of the law,
but the difficulty which the govern
ment officials met was to define accu
rately the fields of legality and Ille
gality. The natural result followed.
Liberty Plea Shielded License.
Many lawbreakers who were helping
the Germans indirectly escaped - the
lash of the law. The plea of infringe
ment, of the right of free spvech was
used constantly to enable men to es
cape the penalties which they should
have suffered. It followed naturally
from the escape of men and organiza
tions of this type that men and or
ganizations of other types took courage
and believed that under the plea of the
right to talk as they wished in a free
country they could escape justice.
Anarchy . was emboldened. It mas
queraded under, all sorts of guises.. It
became difficult to tell just what was
an anarchistic society and just what
was some other kind of a society. The
result was that the government prose
cutions frequently did not reach their
goal. Leniency was charged against
the government officials when in truth
perhaps their only crime was their in
ability to get the required proof.
Whether the plea of the officials Is
justified that they did all that they
could In the way of prosecutions, It la
Impossible today to say. The fact re
mains, however, that many men went
unscathed x)f justice and their freedom
emboldened others to attempt to go to
worse extremes.
Anarchy recently luuTbeen active in
many cities" In the United States. Only
by the sheerest good fortune have the
lives of many officials of the United
States government been, saved. Good
luck, men here say, cannot be expected
to attend officials forever.
Today the government Is alive tn
the dangers which beset the people. It
seems to be the set d'etermi nation to
rout out anarchy and anarchists. Time
alone will tell how successful this new
and unquestionably holy crusade will
Enclosed in Wonderful Hedge Is Mrs;
Roosevelt's Old Fashioned Garden,
Which Is Now a Mass - of Ross
Blooms..-'
By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington. The White House for
some time has stood lonely and -aloof.
Seemingly the old place must miss the
hurly-burly which it ' has housed
through the. years, or at least which
one of Its wings has sheltered, for the
Westernmost part of the old mansion
has been the scene of cabinet meetings,
of the rabble of beseeching politicians,
of open and bf closed conferences, and
of general political arid legislative plaa
ning activities through the four admin-
istrabfeus during which this adjunct of
the White House has had Its builded
existence.
During all the time of the president's
absence in Europe, and during all the
time of the -actual warfare, the White
House proper, was closed to. visitors.
Today a few fortunate ones under prop
er guidance are. admitted to the low
er rooms, but for the main part, its
Isolation is complete.
The White House itself Is a beauti
ful structure, but its beauty Is as noth
ing to the colorful glow of Its environ
ment. The . few fortunate ones who
today are allowed to enter the mansion
occasionally are led thither from the
office wing through the wonderful gar
den planted and tended through three
seasons by Mrs. Woodrflfw" Wilson. This
garden Is a hedged-in place, hedged in
by the most wonderful "hedge product"
ever seen even in this country of
hedges. The green wall which encloses
three sides of this garden spot of the
great White House grounds is six feet
high and three feet in depth. It flour
ishes literally like the green bay tree.
Its only rival In the Potomac country
Is the fine box hedge planted at Mount
Vernon by the hands of George Wash
ington.
Garden Planted by Mrs. Roosevelt.
This White House garden, - which
forms of course only a small part of
the White House grounds, has been an
institution of three administrations.
When Mrs. Roosevelt lived In the
White House she planned an old-fashioned
garden, and she put her plan in
to effect. From the windows of the
White House one looked down on a
garden In which bloomed geraniums,
pansies, nasturtiums, hollyhocks, for
getmenots, Toses, bachelor buttons,
fuchsias, sweet Williams, and all the
rest of the old time favorites.
It was Mrs. Roosevelt's custom to
Invite her intimate friends to afternoon
tea In the old-fashioned garden. There
In the late afternoon the garden lay
under the shadows of the great trees
which have stood as sentinels in the
White House grounds for many years.
The place was quaint, old-fashioned
and fragrant and the elders of Wash
ington life renewed the days of their
youth before the -plain flowers had
been supplanted by the exotics which
modern gardeners Insist must have the
.place of prominence la sun and in
shade.
Mrs. Taft continued the old-fashioned
garden, and so did the first Mrs.
Wilson. The present mistress of the
White House loves roses. The garden
of today Is a mass of rose blooms and
the air all about Is surcharged with
the fragrance of these wonderful flow
ers. In Washington the roses bloom
from early May until well on toward
Thanksgiving, and so the beauty of the
rose garden Is assured for many
months to come.
Wonderful Gobelin Tapestry.
The few visitors who are admitted
to the White House today have a
chance to view the wonderful piece
of Gobelin tapestry which the French
presented to President and Mrs. Wil
son some time ago. It covers a part
of the east wall of the East Room, and
Is pendent from ceiling to floor. It is
a costly piece of .tapestry and it Is said
by those who are presumed to know
that it is of rare beauty. It represents
'the marriage of Psyche.
As most people probably know, "the
front of the White House is the back."
It was intended originally that the
south side of the building should be
the main entrance, but the necessities
of the case have "turned the thing
around," and now the accepted main
entrance Is the one which faces the
grounds on Pennsylvania ': avenue.
While the grounds on the avenue side
are spacious, they are only about one
third the size of those which extend
from . the south veranda down to the
fence which separates the White House
domain from the roadway between it
and the Mall. -:
r Some years ago a terrific storm
swept over Washington and felled
some ten or twelve of the finest trees
in the Whltet House grounds. Most of
those sacrificed were on the Pennsyl
vania avenue side. The trees In the
grounds n the south side are nothing
short of wonderful. They represent
some twenty-five or. thirty species and
they are thrifty, and so are maintained
by the watchfulness of the tree cul
ture man employed by the government
In the shade of these trees are a score
or so of sheep and perhaps half as
many lambs.
Rain water Is "soft" because con
tains no mineral matter
ToMend - an Ugly Tear.
' Sometimes you - jure unfortunate
enough to make an . ugly tear in a
handsome new gown; It may be mend
ed very successfully, and If in an In
conspicuous place it will not show " at
all. Lay the tear edge to edge, and
baste across it, being careful that
while the '. edges meet, they do not
overlap. Cut a piece of rubber tissue,
which may be obtained at any tailor
ing shop, to amply cover the tear. Lay
the garment on the Ironing board right
side down, place, the rubber over the
rent, and over ? the rubber lay a
piece of goods of the same material as
that of the. garment to be mended.
Keep both rubber and goods perfectly
smooth, and press out with a hot Iron
for, several minutes. Now cut out the
basting threads on the right side, and
shave off any rough edges remaining.
When there is no material of the dress
on hand, a piece. of lightweight woolen
goods of the same color will answer.
That the bottoms of men's trousers
are held together In this way is a
good sign that the method Is practical
and successful.
To Pad Embroidery.
In padding embroidery use the chain
stitch. This is an especially good hint
for making scalloped edges.
In making patch work, if you; cut
your pattern in table oil cloth instead
of paper, you will find the work much
more satisfactory. The oil-cloth pat
tern will - not slip when cutting and
there , is np danger of snipping off a
portion with the scissors.
A Dress Protector.
When the yoke of a nightdress be
comes worn," cut off the nightdress
skfrt, J take out the sleeves and sew It
together : across the top, leaving a
Summer. mA
No one Is prepared for 'midsummer
unless she has ready for warm weath
er a sport suit, or a sport coat that
may be worn with skirts of the same
character, supplemented by a swea ter
of sweater-coat. The sport suit has
made a place for itself that nothing
else can fill. . It is not an extravagance
even for the woman who believes In
reducing her expenditure on clothes
to necessities, for the sport suit re
places dressier and less generally
wearable clothes. It Is smart enough
to take the place of afternoon frocks
and It remains informal, whatever It
is made of. "Suit" is a term that
covers the combination of a sport skirt
and a sport coat that do not match, as
well as skirt and coat of the same ma
terial .
A handsome example of the . first
combination -appears in the suit on the
left of the two models, shown in the
picture. In this the skirt is of white
satin and is, made of one of those
new weaves that appear to be better
suited to sport skirts than to anything
else. It; is strong and brilliant. On
the overlapped seam at the left side,
five large, flat pearl buttons are set
near the bottom. Nothing could be
done more to emphasize the charac
ter of the skirt.
The coat is in the same class as the
Small nnpnlnir 1, .
of a suit hanr ulcnthe
nun ?h ,vi..
use It to protect a nicedf
In the closet. Washod bu?!S
will last a long time. LmS
more convenient Ulnn a ha! f
so mucn easier to insm u
without crushing. the
Use for Old Leather
One should always save the",
w u a"W5 or e gauntlets nf v '
riding gloves or nthor 01 K
Thev sir o-enoii 1
-'riu us an
for iron holders.
Do not make the holder ton
as It is Clumsv trt k.j,
which are oval in shnna lM
able. Cut "the covering and if?
lininsr th snmo nei
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all the thlrknppc pe'
hind with n tono .... wm'h
lU4;g ui niece nf
binding. 1
Pongee Again.
As sure as the coming of
pvusct: in auiue iorni appears, ft I
".v,.v. iC iwcivv pongee parasoil
ouiuc me luounieu on brown
and sticks, with no other tr
than brown cords on the handles w
brown tassels on the ends. Annd
shows lovely blue butterflies J
oroiuerea an over the inside of 3,1
parasol, with blue cord and blJ
enus io me sticks.
A Footwear Fad.
The few who wish to follow f
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xuu a wiiiHi m luuiwear can wear, tin
summer, white oxfords with bias
shoe laces and black stockings. Hal
combination Is sanctioned by xJ
York's latest decree. Of course tbi I
generality of women will use thecoJ
servative all white.
Sport Suits
skirt, and Is made of bright green
fftrklA-A nrfh collnr rnlflr and
of ; self-colored embroidery about t
bottom. A satin vest worn with
has small pearl buttons, set c,ose
gether, down the front. Bright grw
taffeta coats with machine stitch
of white silk, and coats crocheted
the green silk in lace designs are
worthy " among the novelties to
TCnm wti-fi tr-hlto sntin or Silk SP
skirts. All the coats have dw
.ito a
sashes.
The suit at the right is made of j
heavy ribbed silkskirt and coat
the same, material. There are seve
patterns In these sport silks, some
them in two colors, others in fij
designs of one color. ngora clot
a favorite for , embellishing
placed In bands about the skirt
coat and as cuffs and collars,
many of these suits are untrininieo.
the fanciful fabric makes va
enough. Even In sport suits tne
has. made a place for Itself, and
pears in this model with cuff a
bottom having six little ttons
along the center. But there are 1
sport coats that ignore the vog
Vests.
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