THE SUNDAY OEEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JANUARY 4, 1914.1 Its Oalv &u oei 4 ervd Tlxt2 4x p o rv,s Ar&Sroaks, . a I 1 a a SoOrxlv lee IfivJs A re vVfcvi rvded . However Ladies At TkeCkpitaJ Are Hard ad TKjbii Little Conflict. U i s, 1:;U t V .s - - X-w- - : h-M '.-v V to- 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 , . Jr IM r ! tf- nil . . y 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 . i I 3K s. -AY viCVi t , . .(ii A..r 1, : ii V 5 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 voft zx.n 'HVi V't'T TUT" r mt w si?- 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.' London Times-