The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, January 04, 1914, SECTION SIX, Page 6, Image 70

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    THE SUNDAY OEEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 4, 1914.1
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PETTICOAT wars!
Every administration Is disturbed
by their rumble and roar.
The bang of the guns. of two such
Imbroglios has already shaken the
Capital City this Winter. No sooner
has the smoke of one battle cleared
"from officialdom's gilded salons than
the gauntlet Is now upon the frosted
ground again.
The first clash of arms was between
the wives of Representatives and the
wives of the Cabinet. The latter threw
up the white flag.
The second declaration of war has
been made by tho wives of Senators',
and again the women of the Cabinet
are the object of attack.
Cabinet Wives Chief Victim.
Indeed, our Cabinet matrons have
been the chief victims of Washington
petticoat wars during the last genera
tion. Socially, they have also been the
most overworked women In official life.
During each social season they keep
open house once a week-, when they re
ceive and serve refreshments to vast
assemblages of callers, some of them
"lunch-route fiends," who have no ac
quaintance with their hostesses.
The Cabinet wives also receive with
the President's wife at all of the many
formal "White House functions. On ac
count of these many social obligations
they have hitherto been excepted from
returning calls in person, except upon
persons of higher official rank. Usage
has permitted them to return other
calls by card only. In. other words. In
stead, of presenting themselves In the
drawing-rooms of callers of lower
social rank, they have sent, their
flunkies to the latters' doors to leave
their cards.
Unquestionably, the wives of the
House of Representatives rank below
the wives of the Cabinet In the "offi
cial order of precedence," according to
which a man's wife shares his official
rank. No one has disputed this social
superiority of Cabinet wives over Rep
resentatives' wives, nor have the latter
presumed to demand first calls of the
former. But It so befell that some
scribe, seeking a sensation, raked up
the old rule that Cabinet women should
not return calls, in person, upon their
social Inferiors, and by contorting .the
facts so aimed them at the women of
the House circle that the latter took
offense.
There- are more new women In the
House circle this Winter than within
many years. Few of the tried and
tested social leaders of the old House
circle remained in Washington. So
the liveliest petticoat war that Wash
ington has seen In a dozen years was
brewed. Social war correspondents
went from camp to camp, fanning the
flame. And finally Mrs. William Jen
nings Bryan who, by virtue of her
husband's premiership, leads the Cabi
net circle capitulated to the extent of
issuing a statement that the ladles of
that coterie "Intend, as far as possible,
to return such calls." - And, Inasmuch
as there are 425 Representatives, old
ttmers in Washington society are won
dering how the women of the Cabinet
will get a quarter way round this cir
cle within the short social season,
which lasts only from December to
Lent.
Senate and Cabinet Women War.
But the petticoat war between the
Senate and Cabinet had meantime
broken out. The wives of the staid
and self-satisfied Senate have borne
Beans Are Chief Ingredient and It
Is Palatable
AFTER devoting' his time and at
tention for several years to the
forces and materials that tend to
destroy man and the works of man,
Hudson Maxim has turned his best ef
forts to benefiting mankind in a more
active and direct way, and has invented
a food that will help Bustaln man and
lower the high cost of living.
Motorlte. maximlte and other explo
sives are the product of the hand and
brain of the famous inventor, and,
while useful in peace, are more known
for their use in war. His latest contri
bution to the wealth of the world in
the shape of the new food, which he
has called Max imf east, is a food for
peace that will also be used in war.
Maximfeast is a preparation, the se
cret of which rests with Mr. Maxim. It
has been tried out and has been shown
to be good. Army, experts are ready
and anxious to give it a trial in case
the United States decides to intervene
and send troops into Mexico. It will be
part of the rations served, and reports
on its qualities to sustain life and
health among the fighting men of
America will be made not only to the
United States Government, but also to
foreign governments, as the different
Continental nations are already con
sidering the matter of assigning mili
tary attaches to the Intervening force
of American soldiery that may go into
Mexico.
Foods of Various Ajmlea.
The French army" pins its faith on
light wine and a specially prepared
biscuit for its soldiers when in the field
and when engaged in practice maneuv
ers. The German soldier marches on
prepared chocolate that answers all
the needs for nourishment and keeps
him in trim to fight. The English sol
dier uses beef in a compressed form to
enable him to keep his eye true and
his hands steady when in an enemy's
country where the ordinary food can
not oe secured.
- The soldier of the United States ex
pects to live almost as well In the field
as the average householder lives at
home. His stomach is used to good
- food, and does not take kindly to the
many preparations and patent com
pressed foods. They have been tried
' out on him with varying success in
times of peace and on special marches,
but no one food has been made the
food of the Army.
Hudson Maxim, with his Maximfeast,
a chip upon their shoulders ever since
the passage of the law of succession,
which removed the Senate from the
line of succession to the presidency In
the event that the President should
die while there'was no Vice-President.
Formerly tho ranking member of the
Senate its president pro tempore
was in the line of succession to the
presidency, as was the Speaker ot the
House, but by the law of succession
Congress took Itself out of the line
of succession and put the Cabinet in
its place.
This has been the basis of the sub
sequent claim that the Cabinet out
ranks the Senate. However, the Cabi
net Itself has not forced these claims.
To this day it has required its wives
to pay first calls upon the wives of
Senators.
"Fear of Senatorial power over our
husbands has prevented our open re
volt," said a Cabinet wife, of several
administrations back, commenting on
this concession. "The demand by the
wives of Senators that we call upon
them first is a species of social black
mall to which we are compelled to
submit."
In AmaioDlaa Phalanx.
Why, then, do the matrons of the
Senate circle now declare social war
fare against the Cabinet circle? Not
on account of the first-call grievance,
but because, they claim, that at pub
lic appearances and official functions
Cabinet members and their wives have
been placed by the masters of cere
monies before Senators and their
spouses. So the Senate's wives, in
Amazonian phalanx, have just now
sent their general to whack her scimi
tar three times upon the tent of Mrs.
Bryan and demand precedence over
Cabinet women at all social functions
of an official nature.
The Senate women have - found " an
eager and zealous champion in the
person of the widowed Senator Bacon,
of Georgia, chairman of the committee
on foreign relations, which deals,
among other matters, with usages per
taining to our polite Intercourse with
foreign courts.
So the declaration of war has been
Indited by Senator Bacon. In it he
has' banished any fear which official
dom may have fostered that the United
States Senate thinks 111 of Itself and
is wont to hold its light under a
bushel. The Senator, In his declara
tion, first calls attention to the
"fundamental and controlling fact that
the Constitution of the United States
creates xu offices except that of the
Presidency and Vice-Presidency, . the
Supreme Court and the Congress, com
posed of the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives. All other offices of the
United , States, excepting only three
above mentioned, have been created by
act of Congress," wrote the Senator,
with the Cabinet especially in mind.
"It Is a plain proposition," he added,
"that the creature cannot be greater
than the creator." And he pointed out
that Congress can at any time abolish
any of these offices and create another
in its stead.
Supreme Court Fights Cabinet
The social rank of the Cabinet wlv.s
has been disputed not only by the
matrons of the Senate, but by those of
the Supreme Court, and so vexed has
its social status become that the White
House for some time has avoided the
issue by asking the Cabinet and Its
wives to receive with the President and
his wife, instead of assigning this
says he has not only solved the prob
lem of giving a good, compact food
that will be palatable for the soldier's
use, but with his new food has struck
a body blow at the high cost of living.
Maximfeast serves as a base for
foods. It can be used in every course
of a dinner, to the improvement of
that course. It seems strange to say
that a food can be used as a soup and
a relish and then be put in every course
of the dinner to ice cream and coffee,
but Mr. Maxim has tried this out on
epicures in his Brooklyn home, and
has succeeded in tickling all palates.
One of the main ingredients of Max
imfeast Is beans. It has long been
known that beans have as much nour
ishment In them, weight for weight
as the best meats. The trouble has al
ways been that they also contained
other substances that made them diffi
cult to digest, and unsuitable for the
food of the ordinary man who leads a
sendentary life.
The way they are prepared by Mr,
Maxim they are easily digested and
palatable, and any amount of them can
be consumed.
Maximfeast is especially rich in the
elements necessary to make It a com
plete food to supply both brain and
bodily waste during severe and long
continued mental and bodily strain.
This makes it the food for peace as
well as one of the best preparations
for war.
Palatability is the absolute essential
test to a food that is to be a universal
ration. In foods, as in dress, man,
from earliest savage to the present
time, has been influenced in the choice
of bis foods more by the taste than by
any nutritive value of the food con
sumed. To get the balanced food for man. it
must contain both bread and meat. All
the essential nutritive elements of both
vegetables and meat must be present.
This, according to Mr. Maxim, was the
theory he worked on in evolving his
new food.
Maximfeast possesses the peculiar
quality of adding palatability to very
nearly every dish that comes to the
table. Added to a soup, it will im
prove it. Added to gravy, it will im
prove it. Added to warmed-up pota
toes, It improves them. As a shorten
ing for biscuit, it improves it.
The way will4 lower the cost of
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coterie a definite place in the line of
guests.
One Cabinet office to which the Sen
ate might, "as a proper courtesy,"
yield' precedence, Mr. Bacon concedes,
is that of Secretary of State, now filled
by William Jennings Bryan. This is
because the premier of the Cabinet is
the immediate representative of the
President in foreign relations, and be
cause his office existed under the con
federation before the adoption of the
Constitution and the creation of the
Presidency.
A new order pf precedence for home
Officials,- according to Mr. Bacon's no
tions, therefore, would be: President,
Vice-President, Supreme Court. Secre
tary of State, Senate, House of Repre
sentatives and Cabinet.
This innovation would place Mrs.
William Jennings Bryan upon the
social ladder above the wives of the
entire Congress, including Mrs. Champ
Clark, consort of the Speaker, a lady
so amiable that she will probably
make no remonstrance. At the same
time the other wives of the Cabinet
will be left 630 odd rungs of the lad
der below Mrs. Bryan.
The Senate, because of the unique
powers which it claims, has disputed
the social rank of every high func
tionary in Washington, except the
President and Vice-President, and upon
the basis of its claim that "the
creature cannot be greater than the
creator," it is to be wondered that it
did not claim precedence over Presi
dent John Qulncy Adams because he
was elected by Congress rather than
maxim;
living ana will allow people to glvel
real economy dinners, is shown by the
way soups and meals can be prepared
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by the people, not to mention Vice
President Richard Johnson, who came
to office by the same route.
A bitter petticoat war resulted some
years ago from claims of Senators that
they preceded the Chief Justice and the
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with the aid of Maximfeast. A small
can of the new food added to a quart
of milk, will make one of the most de
other members of the highest tribunal
of the land which can undo what
even the great Senate doe3. But -in
this encounter the Senate capitulated.
Then came another fued between tho
Senate matrons and those of the for
eign diplomatic corps resident In
Washington. Many old-timers remem
ber a scene made at a fashionable
function, when a prominent Senator's
wife raised a loud uproar' because her
bost escorted to the dining-room not
herself, but the wife of the ranking
foreign diplomat present.
One matron of the Senate circle who
is not taking the present squabble very
much to heart is Mrs. Robert M. La
Follette, wife of- the Republican Sena
tor from Wisconsin. She opines, like
Thomas Jefferson, that in a democracy
like ours there is no place for prece
dence. But Senator Bacon, although a
leader of the Jeffersonlan party, says
that for Senators to "forego all dis
tinctions of rank" is "impossible in the
official circles of Washington" where
they will "prefer not to be present at
any function, public or private, where
this proper rank is not recognized and
accorded to them."
A pretty fuss was brewed some years
ago by an official dinner host, who con
ferred the seat of honor upon the Brit
ish envoy, although the Spanish repre
sentative, who was dean of the diplo
matic corps, was present. The Span
iard protested forthwith, but our Secre
tary of State, who was luckily present,
restored the entente cordlale by Induc
ing his hostess to yield the honor
place to the dean always so-called
licious and satisfying- soups in the
world for half a dozen persons. This
soup will be so rich that it will con
stitute half of a meal, and can be pre
pared for about 3. cents a person.
A beef shank costing SO cents stewed
and thickened with a pound can of
Maximfeast. with 5 cents' worth of
crackers or a few crusts of bread,
makes a most delicious stew, some
what resembling terrapin in taste. This
will furnish a full meal for 12 hearty
men. And the cost will be about 6
cents per person.
, A calf's liver boiled and mashed with
a can, of Maximfeast. with butter added,
makes so delightful and tasty a pate
de fols gras that it requires much self
control not to overeat.
Improves Most Other Foods.
"This food," said Mr. Maxim, "can be
used to improve salads and as salad
dressings. It can be used to flavor ice
cream and make it more palatable.
Wherever any other seasoning is re
quired it can be used to the improve
ment of the food.
"It would be particularly good for
an army ration, because it could be
easily Carried, and would lend Itself to
the Improvement of whatever food
might be prepared in camp for the sol
diers." Mr. Maxim is an interesting person
ality. In addition to being a famous
Inventor he is a good cook. He super
vises the operations in his kitchen Just
the same as he does in his laboratory.
No process is beneath his attention, be
cause he figures that brains directed
to the preparation of such an essential
thing as food can greatly improve the
quality of It.
His life has been an eventful one.
He has Invented several kinds of high
explosives, new torpedoes and torpedo
guns, ordinary guns, and now has
found time to devote his time to im
proving food. He has written verse
that stamps him as a poet of no mean
ability, and has written a book on the
technique of verse that shows he knows
the master minds that have shaped the
language.
Definition of Golf.
London Pelican.
I traveled back from Sunningdale
the other day with a party of enthu
siastic golfers. The conversation turned
on the best description of the royal
and ancient game. The best definition
evolved was, I think, "A game in which
the ball usually lies badly, and the
player well,"
because he is the foreign representative
of longest service in Washington.
A row between -the Cabinet and diplo
matic corps broke out during the so
cially chaotic regime of Jackson, one
of whose Cabinet members outraged the
delicate sensibilities of the French Min
ister. Count SerrurieK by disputing his
place in a state dinner procession. And
the upshot of it all was that the Count
sulked without while "Old Hickory's"
viands were being enjoyed by the less
elect.
The Vice-President's rank was dis
puted by the dean of the diplomatic
corps, Sir Julian Pauncefote, during the
Cleveland Administration, and the
P.resident yielded to the British Ambas
sador, but Mr. McKlnley, one of our
few Presidents who had not suspected
his Vice-President,, reversed the rul
ing on the ground that the offices of
President and Vice-President were in
separable, and that our Vice-President
bears the same relative rank as the
heir apparent to a foreign throne.
Whether the Vice-president ranks
the Chief Justice is a question still de
bated in some drawing-rooms of the
capital, and cautious hosts do not in
vite these two officials to the same
dinner, for fear of a dispute, which
can never be arbitrated. Others also
hesitate to dine together the Chief Jus
tice and Secretary of State.
Of course, It goes without saying
that the wife of each high official
shares his social rank, according to
this patchwork precedence code.
Ranks of Various Women.
Now how do the wives of, our high
est officials stand on the social lad
terT '
The first lady in the land is indis
putably Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
The second lady in the land is MrB.
Thomas R. Marshall, wife of the Vlce
PreBldent. The third lady in the land is Mme.
THE WOLF IN
CONTINUED
there is a revulsion against Wall street I
or against speculation generally. It
says speculation Is necessary to every
thing. Life is a gamble. Every branch
of trade is speculative. It illustrates
that a man manufactures something
with the hope and expectation of sell
ing it at a profit. The merchants buy
goods speculatively. If he sells to ad
vantage he gains. If not, he loses. The
man on salary speculates as to whether
his money is paid to him or not. Nine
thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine
times out of 10,000 he wins. The odd
time he loses. What then is morally
wrong about a Wall-street transactfon?
Wall street asks. If you put up the
money to complete a stock exchange
transaction the stock -will be delivered
to you. If you do not, it is as if a mer
chant released a bill of goods at a
"SUTTEE"
JUSTICE TUDBALL and Justice Ryves,
in the Allahabad iligh Court, have
upheld on appeal the conviction of five
Brahmins on a charge of abetment of
suicide at Taraule, a village In the Cain
puri district. The sentence of one and
one-half years rigorous imprisonment
passed on three of the aocused was up
held, while that of two years passed
on the two persons most prominent in
the affair was increased to four years
each.
A Brahmin who died at Taraule, June
27 last, left a young widow, who an
nounced her intention to commit suttee,
and would not listen to efforts to dis
suade her from the determination. One
of the village watchmen was sent off to
the police station, eight miles away, but
when he. returned with the police in the
afternoon the act of self-immolation on
the funeral pyre of the dead man had
been committed, in the presence of a
crowd of spectators roughly estimated
to number from 1500 to 2000, drawn
from the neighboring villages.
The accused persons assisted to build
the funeral pyre, and one of them is
Jusserand, the wife of the French Am
bassador and dean of the diplomatio
corns. This is the view of the Depart
ment of State, which. Senator Bacon
admits, adjusts such matters. But ac
cording to the Congressional view
this rank should be given to Mrs. Ed
ward Douglass White, wife of the Chief
Justice, which lady the State Depart
ment ranks after the Ambassadors'
wives.
Next comes Mrs. William Jennings
Bryan and after her In the State De
partment's view the other -ladies of
the Cabinet, but according to the Sen
ate's view, the wives of Senators.
The first lady of the Senate circle
Is Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge, wife of
the senior Senator possessed of a wife
living. (This honor would go to the
wife of the president pro tempore.
Senator Clarke of Arkansas, had he a
wife.)
The first lady of the House of Repre
sentatives circle is Mrs. Champ Clark,
wife of the Speaker.
New Tear's day Is always a day of
social Judgment in Washington. It is
then that the President's master of
ceremonies lines up officialdom and
gives each his rank in the order of pre
cedence. Perhaps it was dread of this
ordeal that prompted the President to
abandon his New Tear levee this year.
But he was only postponing tho Inevi
table. If he is as courageous as be seems
he will either abolish precedence alto
gether or establish a new order, set
tling these vexed problems for all time.
This he could readily do by referring
the matter to a commission represent
ing the various branches of govern
ment and composed of the Chief Jus
tice, the president pro tempore of the
Senate, the Speaker of the House, the
dean of the diplomatic corps and the
Secretary of State.
(Copyright, 1914, by J. E. Watklns.)
WALL STREET
FROM PAGE S
profit or a loss, as the case may be,
without the delivery.
All this serves for argument, but It
has little merit. The trouble with
Wall street Is that it would have little
business even in its days of compara- .
tlve activity were Its trades confined
to outright purchases and sales. Ap
proximately 95 per cent of its transac
tions have been not for actual delivery,
but purely on a gambling basis. The
man who plays stocks on margins has a
greater percentage against him than
he who tempts fate at faro or roulette,
and Wall street does not defend those
gambling games.
But Wall street is less concerned re
garding ethics or morals than with
concrete facts. The baldest fact it
faces is its poverty. Expenses have
been reduced to a minimum, but month
after month brokers who have hoped
against hope for a turn for the better
have had to meet deficit upon deficit.
IS STILL PRACTICED
alleged to have poured ghi (clarified
butter) over her. The sympathies of
witnesses were with the accused, and
there was a conspiracy of silence, s&id
Justice Tudball, in giving Judgment as
to who actually fired the pyre. In fact,
the witnesses Joined the accused in
declaring that It was miraculously fired
by the widow herself, when she was
told that if there was any virtue in her
act flames would burst forth.
Justice Tudball held that though the
accused might in the beginning have
sincerely remonstrated with the widow,
they finally gave way to her determina
tion and intentionally aided in the do
ing of the deed. With respect to the
enhancement of sentences, he observed
that any relaxation of the severity of
the law in such a matter would result
In the recurrence of an evil which it
had taken many years to reduce to a
minimum. The feellngB and beliefs
which prompted suttee still existed.
It may be recalled that the practice
of suttee was rendered illegal in spit
of fierce opposition, by a regulation of
Lord William Bentinok's government In
1829 declaring that all who abetted sut
tee were "guilty of culpable homicide.'
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