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THE) WASHINGTON TIMES, THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1911.
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JULY CIRCULATION.
Dally.
The number of complete and perfect copIH
of The Washington limes printed dally dur
ing the month of July was as follows:
.. 2.401
..Sunday
.. 0.605
.. 4.452
.. MI.3S0
.. SO, 038
.. 0.108
.. E3.000
.Kunday
. 60.646
.. 60.140
12 E2.33S
13 1.262
14 61.485
15 62.749
16 Sunday
17 M.KK)
IB 50.427
19 0.631
20 1.742
il 53.706
22 E3.4S4
23 Sunday
24 50.S07
25 2.221
26 63.503
27 68.467
28.....". 3.2W
2 56.3S7
30 Sunday
31 62.602
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Total for month
.1,23.308
Daily average for month 2.050
The net total circulation of The Wash
ington Times (dailv) during the month of
Juh was 1,187.94$. all copies left over and
returred being eliminated. This number,
when flllded by 26. th -.umber of days of
Jublication, shows the net dally aerags for
lily to have been 45.690
Sunday.
Zhe number of complete and perfect copies
of The Washington Tlmts printed Sundajs
during the month of 'July ws as follows-
July 2 46.206 I July IS 47.317
July 9 46.10S July 80 47.285
July 16 46,198 I
Total for month 233,114
Sunday average for month 46,623
The net fotal circulation of The Washington
Times (Sunday) during the month of July
was 202.576. al! eople left over and returned
bj agents being eliminated This number,
when dilded by B, the number of Sundays
dtrlng July, shows the net Sunday aeraga
for July to hae been 40.615.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3. 1911.
It Is gratlfylns news that the street
car mall boxe3 are to be given a try
out Come what will in the matter of water
supply. Congress Heights Is to have a
new drinking fountain.
The market reports are quoting "but
ter firm." But not for long after you
take It out of the refrigerator.
Democratic weather reports indicate
a storm In Nebraska following high
winds at the National Capitol.
Some of the other suburbs besides
Olen Echo are In danger of a water
famine, and eery little shower has a
meaning of Its own.
The mere discussion of a Lincoln me
morial wtnild be hard to beat as a
meu"3 of keeping the memory of the
martyred President alive
In the race for fame. It must be con
ceded that "Buck" Becker at the ball
park had a little something on Leadnr
Underwood In the House yesterda.
The debris on the railroad rlsht of
wa occasionallv brings the fact to
mind that a day of reckoning comes
een for the most pugnacious auto
mobile And now one of our most thrilling kid
naping stories proves to be a work of
the imagination A lot of literary
genm;. Feems to be going to waste
around htre recently.
It )s not exactly certain whether It
will he hostilities or amusement that
wt 1 open at Glen Echo on Sunday, but
tVo lniicatlons are good tor a lively
timk oiif way or the other.
The baseball game between the Demo
crats and Republicans of the House
vL'I be pulled off next week, and spe
cs' arrangements for tlio protection of
th? umpires are now going forward.
The picture of President Taft's din
ner to Admiral Togo, which is being
put out by a syndicate service, makes
Taft Icok like Senator Lorimer and the
dinner look like a table d note.
f-et retary Meyer will inspect a nuni
bfr of important ni yards whll he is
In Europe L t hope that there will
be no (lflficulty on the grounds that he
is rr.iklng :4:etches for luture use.
On- of Mayor Witkowski's belliger
ent', at Glen Echo is going gunning lor
"Washington mashers. He Is a former
Western cowboy and his name is Darl
Int; Now, under these circumstance",
how can the girls object?
T lie Association of Oldest Inhabi'aTs
hej.l -ii. l'iformal littl.- nie.Mln last
nigl t Tl cir exchango of reminiscences
In always interesting, and it is one
organization for which more people are
QUdlfjing for membership all tho time.
Citizens of Washington district, Al
exandria county, are up and doing.
They have organized a Progressive
League and are already at work on
road Improvement and school assess
ment problems. They will elect Offi
cers next week.
The discussion of wool. In the present
state of the thermometer, furnishes an
additional Incentive for that early ad-journr-cnt
of Congress which Is already
scheduled, and mid-August will niobably
J nd the MP teamen scattered like last
ear s thistledown.
The "Good roads train" operated by
the Southern railroad will be In Alex
andria Monday morning for the purpose
of making demonstrations of the most
approved methods of road building
These demonstrations are very valuable
and should be witnessed by a large
number of people.
To President Price and the other offi
cers of the Congress Heights Improve
ment Association, congratulations are
due Thev hae won a fight of two
years' standing to get a double-track
trolley service, and work on the much
needed Improvement will be startcJ at
orce.
Now It develops that only one Justice
of the peace In Montgomery county has
the right to commit to Jail, and that a
number of illegal commitments ha'e
been made. Persons arrested for tr.vial
offenses are not to be hustled oft to i
cell hereafter unless there Is a goc-d
reason for it.
Mrs. H. K. Harring's neighborhood
club, for the benefit of the children. Is
Indebted to her for a number of most
delightful outings, some of wiirh
take the form of the old-fashioned
"straw rides " A more delightful .p
cles of merriment may be possible, but
tl children agree that It has never yet
been found, and they are under the
deepest gratitude to Mrs. Haning.
THE LOAN SHARKS AND
THEIR METHODS.
The new Massachusetts law govern
ing the business of loan sharks could
well be studied by our District
guardians who seem unaccountably
slow getting some protective legislation
for this city.
Massachusetts' act takes effect this
week, and is the culmination of careful
consideration and considerable legisla
tive experience with this business. It
is the demonstration that legislation
on this subject is no wild experiment
in an unknown field. It is no foolish
interference with legitimate business.
It is simply the effort to make usury
laws efficient, to give the poor man a
decent chance, to stop one of the worst
kinds of oppression that is exercised in
our cities against the needy and- the
ignorant.
The business is falling rapidly into
control of "chains" of agencies in cities.
If a borrower moves from one town to
another the agency in his new town is
promptly on his trail. Interest rates
actually earned are found in some
agencies to have run to 300 per cent
a year. The heavy risks are found
much exaggerated; losses are really
very few.
Most of the loan companies extend
credit for amounts ranging from $5 to
$50. For a loan of $5 one pays in
several companies $1 per week for
seven weeks; for a $10 loan the pay
ments are $1 per week for fifteen
weeks, or $1.50 for ten weeks; for a
$15 loan $2 per week is exacted for ten
weeks, and for a $20 loan, $2.60 per
week for ten w eeks. The favored patron
whose credit is good for $25 pays $1.80
for twenty weeks, or $2 per week for
eighteen weeks. A $50 loan, which is
not often made, calls for three monthly
payments of $21.60.
The new Massachusetts law estab
lishes a supervisor of loan agencies, and
gives him plenary power. After careful
investigation it was found that the
rate of interest could not be fixed by
the law, so provision was made that
its maximum should be 3L per cent a
month, but the State supervisor has
authority to regulate it. No assign
ment of wages by a married man is
legal unless indorsed by his wife, and
in no case is an assignment good unless
accepted in writing by the employer of
the borrower.
A common practice among the Mas
sachusetts companies, it was discovered,
is to have the borrower make his note
for a larger sum than he actually gets.
Then the companies claim that they
are not technically loaning money, but
"buying notes!" This sort of pro
cedure is not to be countenanced. In
order to prevent it the supervisor is
given full power to investigate all
books, papers, and accounts of the
agencies whenever he wishes, so that
he may know whether such transac
tions are going on.
It is a standing reproach to the
government of Washington that our
legislative authority seems unable or
incapable of dealing intelligently with
these problems of the modern, complex
life of cities. Congress contains few
experts in municipal affairs. It ought
to make the best use of those it has.
It ought to seek the experience and
guidance of outside experts in city ad
ministration. These things it notor
iously does not do.
The Washington Times has vivid
recollection of a certain crisis of the
fight for cheaper gas in this city. The
Times hired one of the country's
greatest experts in gas business to
make a presentation of the people's
case for cheaper gas, nhd paid him
$100 a day.
And when he was thus hired and
ready to appear it was necessary to
beg and plead with the chairman of
the House District Committee then
the Hon. Samuel W. Smith, larc but
unlamented to get the privilege of
putting this witness on the stand!
This affair of the loan shark legis
lation has developed a very similar
situation. The Senate's debate the
other day showed how innocent of any
real, useful information are most of
the men whose votes psvill decide what
sort of a law on this loan question
Washington will get, or whether it will
get any.
This sort of government is bad for
the city and a discredit to the system
under which it is imposed.
HUNTING THE MOSQUITO
WITH EXPLOSIVES.
Breaking a butterfly on a wheel has
usually been regarded as an exaggerat
ed use of dynamic energy, but that ever
interesting Tarrytown, 2s. Y., has a
citizen who has adopted a measure for
slaying the pestilent mosquito which
seems scarcely less exaggerated. He
simply waits until the psycho that is,
until the proper moment has arrived,
and blows the aggregated covey of mos
quitoes into Kingdom Come.
There is presumptive evidence that
Tarrytown is not more free from mos
quitoes than any other community
within flying distance of the Jersey
bogs, and George Fox thought long and
deep while he was lying awake at night
chasing the pestilence that buzzes in
darkness. On a recent outing he-bought
for the children a juimber of those
little balloons so dear to the heart of
childhood. Incidentally it seems almost
incredible that a tender father could
devise so diabolical a scheme against
anything as he finally cooked up
against the mosquito. Directed by some
whim which he would have difficulty
in explaining, he filled one of the toy
balloons with citronella, blew it up, and
placed it on the pillow.
Then he blew out the light and
waited.
It was not for long that he had to
wait, for in a short timcyi attracted by
the citronella, the mosquitoes began to
gather like crows in a. corn field. With
all the zeal of their race' they began
boring into the inflated balloon, mar
veling in the meantime, no doubt at
the smoothness of the victim's coun
tenance. Suddenly, like the cataclysm
on board the Casabianca burning deck,
thero was an explosion which fairly
shook the room, and when the wreck
age was cleared away it was discovered
that the shock had killed every mos
quito in the neighborhood.
More modest himself, Mr. Fox ex
plains that those which escaped the
first impact probably died from ex
haustion in their efforts to get away.
At all events the story which is re
garded as quite as accurate as the av
erage of thoso emanating from Tarry
town goes on to relate that Mr. Fox
is preparing to place his invention on
the market, and feels confident that he
has at last solved the vejeed question
of eliminating the mosquito from our
summer lives. The cannonading would
get on the nerves of some people, of
course, but in desperate extremities
perhaps the effort would be worth
while.
ANOTHER POLITICAL FUNER
AL FOR MR. BRYAN.
It is now some fifteen years since
publicists and press of a certahi per
suasion began holding political funerals
for William Jennings Bryan on fre
quent occasions. Meanwhile Mr. Bryan
has flourished as the green bay tree and
been able to command the nomination
of a great politicalparty for President
whenever he wanted it. General ex
pectation is that 1012 will be his fallow
season, but that his word will be potent
enough to prevent the nomination of
any man he will not approve.
The Undorwood-Hryan controversy
has afforded another opportunity for
those platitudinous panegyrists of the
Uriah Heap t-chool to unburden them
selves of another set of funeral ora
tions. Let us urge ardent mourners not
unduly to hasten in buying tickets to
the Bryan obsequies. Mr. Bryan is
represented as "repudiated by the
Democratic House," and "rejected by
his party's leadership." Bosh! Mr.
Bryan made a mistake, which is one of
his specialties. He made a huge one
in 1890 and got more votes then, and
twice afterward, than any candidate
for President had ever polled before
1890!
The strength of Mr. Bryan does not
depend on the attitude of the Demo
cratic representation in Congress. It
never did, and never will. It is with
the plain people, not the party mana
gers. It is not based on any assump
tion of Mr. Bryan's infallibility, but on
a firm conviction of his honesty.
Mr. Bryan made a mistake that was
made by plenty of other people. He
observed Mr. Underwood's political
geography, and he noted the delay
about bringing forward a steel
schedule. Ergo, he assumed a casual
relation that did not exist. Mr. Un
derwood's explanation, backed by the
members of the Ways and Means Com
mittee, is complete and satisfying. It
is merely regrettable that this expla
nation was not given to the public
sooner.
But as to any serious, permanent im
pairment of Mr. Bryan's hold on public
confidence as a result of his fulmi
natjons on the steel schedule, it is non
sense. Mr. Bryan does not play the
sort of game for points that smaller
politicians play. He doesn't maneuver
to "get something on" his antagonist
and credit himself with a number of
points proportioned to the bigness of
the something or the skill of the
maneuver. He plays for the masses
of his party, and his hold on them is
what enables him to influence those
leaders who are always so ready to
claim the platform with funeral
elegiacs. Mr. Bryan has proved time
and again that he is stronger with any
other Democratic organization in the
nation than with the caucus of Demo
cratic Representatives in Congress. He
will prove it again.
"PUPPET PEERS"--THE NEW
BRITISH JOKE.
"Puppet peers" is what the Unionists
threaten to call the men whom Prime
Minister Asquith may induce the King
to raise to the peerage in order to carry
the reform program through parliament.
A nation which lately paid so feeling a
tribute to the memory of V. S. Gil
bert can afford at this critical juncture
to take a look over the present aggre
gation of peers and then have a hearty
laugh. "Puppet peers" is as amusing
as the cry of "American dollars" hurled
at Asquith and Redmond by men who
boast of the support of such dollar
endowed noblemen as the Duke of
Marlborough and the Duke pi Man
chester. The nearer the British standpatters
come to the inevitable curtailment of
their power, and the equally inevitable
establishment of home rule for Ire
land, the shorter becomes their temper
and the shallower their wit.
Xor can their feelings be comforted
by the fact that they have already
been soundly beaten twice at the polls
on this very issue of progressive reform.
44
Can She Make Good As Our Queen of Society ? "
New York Fashionables Ask of Astor s Fiancees
Eighteen-Year-Old Madeline
Force Has Difficult Task
Ahead.
MAY TAKE PLACE OF
HUSBAND'S MOTHER
Already Mrs. Ogden Mills Has Ac
cepted Beautiful Young
Woman.
Horsemanship, aviation, or any one of
a dozen out-of-door sports, at well aa
the art of social chatter and how to
sail triumphantly through a long soci
ety dinner, are allko open books to
Madeline Talmage Force.
The eighteen-year-old girl, daughter
nf thn aoninr member of a forwarding
firm, whose family, although admitted
to the best of Brooklyn sociwty, never
stepped through the sacred portals of
wealth and culture until ner meeting
with Colonel Astor, is loosed upon aa
well fitted for the position of social
arbiter, which may be liars through her
marriage with the multimillionaire
But "It's up to her," In tne words of
hr fnrtv-seven-vear-old fiancee, who.
while waiting with her for the launch
which was to take him and the girl
aboard his yacht yesterday evening for
Newport, declared that he was very
happy, and that there waa nothing left
to say.
Is Lifted From
Comparative Seclusion.
So. when her engagement to Colonel
Astor was announced, this eighteen-
year-old girl was llued from the com
naratlVA seclusion of the " ounger iet"
In New York society to the eminence of
a girl whose future as a. social leader Is
assured. In the full glare oi publicity
the women who now are tne arbiters or
New York society since tne death of
Colonel Astor's mother nave scrutinized
her, and one of them, at least Mrs.
Ogden Mills, leader of the Newport
colony has stood sponsor for her since
she stepped from the deck of Mr. As
ter's acht, the Noma, late yesterday.
Since her bow to so.iety she was
mud, a Christmas present to the ex-
ciuslves of New York on December 22,
1W she attracted but little attention,
moving as she did In the younger set.
The reason that she did not attract
more attention wai because she was
a perfectly finished product. She
danced well, conversed well, could take
baat and saddle with the rest of them.
Her ease and poise were remarkable,
and because the did as well as any
body else, there was no cause for the
critical society dames to comment upon
her.
But, in the two days which have
passed since the announcement that
some time In the early fall, Madeline
T-"-f.rt hrt nmf snr is elcrhteen and
--, .. .. -.-
others say is twenty, would become the
mistress of the Astor millions, society
folk have been busy remembering things
about dainty Miss Madeline.
Astor and Girl Much
In Each Other's Company.
Ever since her birth, some society
folk who have taken up clairvoyance
as a fad say, the horoscope of Misr
Madeline must have been linked with
the Astor fortunes, for in the same
var that Colonel Astor married pretty
Alva Willing, Madeline Force was born.
They recall, too, that shortly alter
hn nnd Colonel Astor met at Bar Har
bor, about a year ago, the was seen
What's on the Program in
Washington Today
Concert by the Fifteenth Cavalry- Band,
Montross Park, 7.30 p. m.
Concert b) the United States Engineer
Band, Washington Barracks. 8pm
The following I O O F organizations
will meet tonight. Lodges Columbia,
No 10, third degree; Salem, No. ."J.
regular business Rebekab Degree
Ruth. No 2. and Martha Washington,
No. 3, degree woik.
The following Knights of Pythias lodges
will meet tonight. Franklin, No. 2,
and Harmony. No. 21. regular busl-
Meetlng of Camp No. 4, Patriotic Order
Sons of America, C3 Louisiana avenuo
northwest, tonight.
Meeting of Logan Tribe, o. S. I. O. R.
t winronsln avenue and N street
! northwest, tonight.
26. Jr O U. A M . Seventh and D
Af lin-nat in I rVl t
Meeting of Columbia Council, No. S2.
Jr. O. U. A. il., ow J- W'Jiiueui bucuv
noriiiweai. ivu't"
Meeting of Constellation Council, No.
39 Jr. O. J. A. .., ia icwu aircti
Lawn fete for the benefit of the Chapel
OI tne XilcEatru cauiuiiicim v.i.j
Meeting of National Circle, No. 621 Pro
tectee noma iiic, nujai iuiiuii
Hall, Third street and Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, 8 p. m.
Amusements.
Columbia Columbia Plajers In "When
Knighthood Was in Flower," 2:15 and
8:15 p. m.
Cosmos Continuous vaudeville, 1 to 11
p. m.
Chevy Chase Lake Dancing and music
by section of Marine Band.
Glen Echo Park Dancing and music by
section of Soldiers' Home Band.
Luna Park Midway and attractions.
Arcade Motion pictures, bowling, and
pool.
River View Dancing and other amuse
ments; boat leaves Seventh street
w harf 10 a. m. and 2 and 7 p. m.
Colonial Beach Boardwalk, bathing,
and other "amusements; steamers leave
Seventh street, wharf daily except
Monday, 9 a. m. Saturday, 2:Z0 p. m.
Marshall Hall Steamer Charles Macal
ester leaves Seventh street wharf 10
a. m., 2:30 and 6:45 p. m. dally. Stops
made at Mt. Vernon.
Steamer St. Johns leaves Seventh street
wharf for forty-mile trip on the Po
tomac. 7 p. m.
Take The Times On Your
Vacation
SO CEXT3 A MONTH.
(Dally and Sunday.)
Call The Time Circulation Dept.
Main B260.
MISS MADELINE
Who Is to Be Bride of
frequently at out of door events. Often
she was in an enthusiastic clique of
society people who go in for aviation,
and who were in almost constant at
tendance at the Belmont Park aviation
meet And although Colonel Astor was
Invariably her attendant. It is said that
it was not the colonel's wish that tool:
her to the park, but her own spirit of
enjoyment in every phase of aviation
Miss Force has been especially noted
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WANTS A REFORM
IN FEMININE CLOTHES
To the Editor of THE TIMES:
"Justice," whose remarks appeared In
your Issue of today, and those who are
making the same censure are the ones
responsible for all conditions similar to
the case at Richmond.
They refuse to shoulder the responsi
bility, but they alone are to blame for
the conditions which make such things
possible. They dress their daughters in
a' manner that appeals only to the
worst In any man, whether he be bad
or good Tney never hold up to girls of
all ages, or even any age, the advan
tages of associating only with decent
men that are known to be such, but
they do most constantly uphold every
disreputable man who has money, posi
tion, education, or anything else which
will enable him to take advantage of
the unwary.
If women want to improve condi
tions, especially the conditions of wom
en, they will endeavor to uphold the
respect their sons and brothers have
for decent women, and intensify their
dislike for Indecent ones. They will
originate and maintain some decent
stjles in dress, instead of simply tak
ing and holding to the styles which
have been the most effective for the
purposes of the women of the so-called
"under world." They will lengthen their
skirts until they are much nearer the
ground than the so-called "smart"
styles, and instead of only bringing the
neck-band up the 'inch." which "Lo
retta" suggested yeste:day, would bring
them within the line of modesty, they
will at least keep them above the col
lar bone. They will raise woman's
standard of manhood far above man's
present very"vlow standard of woman
hood, and equalize conditions by an
Improved standard for both. At pres
ent every change In cut, material, or
any other characteristic of women's
clothing or adornment Is made with
TALMAGE FORCE,
Col. John Jacob Astor.
as a graceful horsewoman. She has
ridden some of the hardest mouthed
Jumpers that have eer "topped timber"
on the purses of the Riding and Driv
ing and the Hamilton clubs of Brook
lyn, of which her father is a member.
And In her father's craft at the New
York Yacht Club the dainty Miss Made
line has often gone out intj weather
than made supposedly stouter hearts
than hers remain on the flat and Join
the rocklng-chalr commodores.
the sole purpose and effect of appealing
successfully to man's baser nature. If
their intention is not in accord with
these facts, they had better "right
about face" and demand the standard
of manhood which they should have and
can easily get on demand.
"DECENCY."
August 1, 1911.
LET ARIZONA
COME INTO UNION
To the Editor oT THE TIMES:
While reciprocity and the tariff have
occup!ed''the attention of a great man
people, there is' yet another question
that interests people hers from the
West. The statehood Issue tor New
Mexico and Arizona is to be voted on
in the Senate next Monday. It appears
that the principal objection to Immedi
ate statehood comes from Democrats.
I think this an Inopportune time for
Democrats to balk on the question. No
matter what Is done next Monday, New
Mexico will come In as a State !n June,
1912. It seems assured that New Mexico
will send two Republican Senators to
Washington, and will also participate
In the Presidential election. If the Nel
son resolution Is defeated next Monday,
It means that Arizona will be kept out
for a long time perhaps ror two or
three years. Arizona, being naturally
Democratic, would send two Democratic
Senators. If immediate statehood "t, de
nied her, she will be without represen
tation In the Senate, while New Mexico
will have two Republicans at the De
cember session, 1912. It would look ilke
good politics for the Democrats to make
a small concession to the President
that of resubmitting the recall feature
of the Arizona constitution and let Ari
zona come Into the Union. It would
seem, too, that the insurgents would
welcome two Democratic Senators from
Arizona to offset the two standpatters
who are most likely to come from New
Mexico. Business and social con
ditions call for statehood In ths two
Territories. If the President Is willing
to let the people out there decide their
political Issues at a ruture election, It
would appear that Congress ought to
be latuifled, .WESTERN HAN.
Charming Girl Who Will Be
Mistress Of Millions ,
Fond Of Sports.
v
EQUALLY AT HOME
f)N HORSE OR YACHT
Announcement Of Engagement
Lifts Her From Compara
tive Obscurity.
All of these accomplishments which
look better on a bacKground of turf
or sea may make It appear that the
eighteen-year-old girl has been some
thing of a hoyden, but those who tell
about her out-of-door accomplishments
Just haven't gotten around to the cul
tured Miss Madeline the one who Is
looked upon now as a great social pos
sibility If she can swing a knej over saddle
leather Just a bit better than most men
are suppoed to be aole to do, she alio
has gained for herself, a reputation for
being mentally alert and a dangerous
opponent with the sugar-coated barb
of drawing-room repartee.
Education Gained
At Exclusive Schools.
Her training, which will stand her M
good stead should the rest of New York
society follow Mrs. Ogden Mills' ex
ample, has been thorough. All that two
exclusive finishing scnools. Miss Ely's
In Greenwich and Miss Spence's in New
York, could give her has bten hers.
Then there were trips to Europe and
studies under foreign tutors.
She was counted an especially bril
liant pupil In Miss Spencer's school,
and when she made her bow to New
York social life, she was Immediately
taken up by the "Junior League," as a
clique of then debutantes Is knowm.
She then became active in amateur
theatricals, and won quite a following
when she appeared In several of New
York's society plays.
And this li the sprt of girl, who at
the time of her approaching marriage
with Col. John Jacob Astor, finds her
self fating an opportunity to rise
to social pre-eminence, but who is also
confronted with the social record left
by Colonel Astors mother, at whoso
nod social aspirants were admitted or
denied, and by the question which Is
being asked everywhere, "Will she
make good?"
The society of Newport and New York
will Judge Miss Force along strict stan
dards it It said, and the record estab
lished by the mother of her future hus
band will be one of the last obstacles
she must overcome So the question
is not so much, will she make good,
as "Can she become Mrs. Astor the
second-""
Has Much to Do
As a Social Queen.
Those who know what the routine
life of a society queen can be declare
ih.i .ho iminir elrl. even fitted as she
is by finishing course and education.
' grace of mind and body, and quickness
of wit, will have mucn to ao.
She must see that the vast estates
of her husband are kept in order Mr.
Astor himself Is a sort of crank on
svstematlzlng things
"And first there Is the 2.000-acre estate
of Ferncllffe Manor, on the Hudson,
which will commend Itself to her es
pecial care. The mansion stands on a
plateau overlooking a broad stretch of
the river.
There is eerything there that could
possibly be needed, and the establish
ment has been planned on lines which
demand the presence of a vast retlnua
of servants to .keep things going.
ThTB cVnl
Fo ce's" ghtnPyerarys ofeducatlon and
"APndener" husband-to-be. when asked
whn,herhethehyoung girl
crrsmried'.'Thal will be
up to her.
Concerts Today
By the U. S. Marine Band, at
Marine Barracks, at 4:30 p M-
WILLIAM H. SANTELMANN.
Leader.
PROGRAM.
Overture. "Festival" Lassea
Barcarole "Hoffman s Lveoffenbacn
Co?neoio-'Le"RyeVAmour;;iani
(Musician Arthur SWUcmb.)
Excerpts from The Wa,Kur-aKner
Waltz. "The Bachelors"..Santelmann
Reminiscences of the PliBgam.
March, "Italian Rlflemen"..Ellenberg
"The Star-Spangled Banner."
By the U. S. Engineer Band, at
Washington Barracks at 8 p. a
JULIUS HAMPER. Leader.
PROGRAM.
March "The Midnight Flyer"..Hager
Overture. "Rakeczy" Keler Bola.
Intermezzo. "Peplta" Tobanl
Fantasle. "Creme de la Creme"
Tobanl
Waltz, "Barcarole" Roberts
"The Death of Custer" Johnson
A Grand American and Indian Fan
tasle. "The Star-Spangled Banner."
By the Fifteenth Cavalry Band, a
Montrose Park, at 7:30 P- m
GEORGE F. TYRRELL. Director.
PROGRAM.
March, "Chicken Charlie" Ballou
Overture. "Remlck's Hits No. 8,"
Lampe
Excerpts from "The Yankee
Prince" Cohan
(a) Trombone Solo, "Romance,"
Bennet
(b) Louisiana Buck Dance. ..Brooks
Selection, "The Merry Widow."
Lehar
Waltz "The Skaters' ..Waldteufel
Indian War Dance Bellstedt
Finale, "The Hoosler Slide,"
Vandercoolc
"The Star-Spangled Banner."