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COFFEE IN THE DESERT HOW A.N ARAB CHIEF DISPENSES HOSPITALITY. Making of the Beverage an Act of em Solemnity Guests Honored - and Made Comfortable Be ' " for Conversation. Ttit morning wa left tha main cara van, pat meant to rejoin it before night An boor after sunset howeTer, we were wandering about without a path. Hearing tha barking of dogs, wa rode toward tha aound and aoon aw tha Area of the encampment of an Arab chief who had been driven la from the desert by the drought . On one aide of an open aquare a large fire waa biasing at the man's end of the moat apacloua of the low black tenta. ,. Tha Intermittent blase, fed by dry weeda of the desert, lighted up a alab of llmeatone bearing the rudely acratched. Insignia of the tribe of .Benl Sakr. Wa dlamounted allently, as men do In a land where no ione knows whether those whom he' jmeeta are enemies or friends. The Arabs, grouped cross-legged or a-cquat around the blaze, said nothing, but the chief men rose and motioned to u to be .seated, while the othera moved to places of less honor,- A quilt waa brought to spread on the coarse woolen rugs, and another waa rolled up for me to rest my left elbow on. . - . ; It waa only after we were comfort' C-" that conversation slowly began, lie we talked a servant, on signal, brought out the coffee tonga two' spoons of Iron chained together and having handle 18 lncbe long. Green coffee beans were placed on the larger poon, which was about six inches In diameter, and were held over the Are to roast The other spoon, only an Inch in diameter, wa used to stir the beans and prevent burning. When the coffee waa roasted the slow process of grinding began. ,;, - The grinder evidently felt that hi work waa of great Importance and should be done artistically. Each stroke of the great wooden pestle waa accompanied by a double click on the side of the deep wooden mortar. Then the coffee was boiled, first In one blackened copper pot with a long straight handle, and then In another. Finally the grinder tasted it Then the cups, two iu number, began to circu late. Each man was served with only two or three swallows of the strong black fluid, but the cups were passed to the chief men several times. As they sip the black unsweetened coffee, the desert prince and his com panions talk not only of prices and of the doings of their great ones, but tried to make me understand how they and their people fought with the gov ernment not many years ago. The chiefs eyes were so fierce and his ges tures so violent that I began to think be was really getting angry. "Why does the government take taxes for even our coffee from poor Arabs who come from the desert In time of drought?" he asked. "Have not the Arabs the right to feed their flock wherever there Is grass? Some day; oon the soldiers will see what my people will do." From "Palestine and, Its Transformation," by Ellsworth Huntington. " - v Wear Yellow to Repel Mosquitoes Wear yellow this summer and you will escape mosquito bites, no matter how many of these Insects are buzzing round. The mosquito hatea yellow. On the other hand. If you wear dark blue you are sure that all the mos quitoes in the vicinity -will swarm to yon. If you talk much as you sit on the pores in the evening, mosqultoei will sting you, while the silent mem ber of your party will alt In peace, for the mosquito loves the sound of talking. Maw York World. , RADICAL CHANGES IN CHINA Republican Oevernment Doing Many Things, Among Other Breaking Through Hlcterl Wall. , Tht great wall which ha surround ed the city of Pektng tor many cen turies la undergoing . an unusual change. Peking is laid out In a sym metrical form, with nine gates lead ing through the great wall. Bach aide has two gates except the front, where an extra central gate the Chlen-men leads directly into the for bidden city, the central lncloaure of Peking. This Chlen-men, or front gate, I the one most seriously crowd ed with traffic; and yet tradition up to the present day has never permit ted It to be enlarged nor any other gate to be broken near It In order to relieve the congestion of rickshaws, carta, donkey, motor can, camels and heavy-laden human beasts of bur i den coolie. - The present republican government 1 by no mean so superstitious as the old exclusive Manchu regime, but YuanBhl-kai must take into considers tiou the superstitions of the people. The gate through which former em perors passed In and out of Peking wa opened immediately after the re publlo waa established; but only a few days after it had been thrown open to the publlo a mutiny of the troop took place in Peking, and much of the town waa looted. The cause of the calamity wa laid to the credit of the newly opened gate, whereupon It waa immediately closed and has never since been swung upon Its hinge. Since the republlo has been well established a number of changes In the minor Inner walls have taken place, notably two new gate having been broken in one of these Inner walls; and as no calamity baa be fallen the city, the government la now making bold efforts to relieve the congestion at the Chlen-men by break ing two new gates through the great wall', - - . The wall la forty or fifty feet high and forty or fifty feet thick. The work Is a difficult task because the excellent mixture of cement of former day ha fastened the bricks like stone together with remarkable firm ness. It is expected that the sections of another smaller wall will be found within this large wall, the smaller one probably being that which Marco Polo described In the account of his visit to the famous capital of Kublal Khan; Woman's Part In War. "In Germany, where sobbing on the street is forbidden by law, women still sob for their loved ones who have died at the front, and where the wearing of mourning Is also the subject of regula tion women wear a badge of sorrow upon their hearts." These were among features brought out In relief in the picture of condi tions in Berlin painted in New York by Miss Evelyn Newman, delegate to the recent peace conference at The Hague. Miss Newman visited Berlin at the close of The Hague conference . She said that often soldiers could be seen marching through the streets In their bright uniforms, but it was the women who were seen everywhere. "There are women working in the streets, picking up refuse, and in the railroad stations, in the shops, and in the factories." she said. "I stopped at a club, the Deutsche Lyceum, that has been organized by women, furnished by women and operated by them. , "In the three days I was in Berlin 1 did not see a smile nor hear a sound of rejoicing except on the children's playground. Sorrow has descended upon the city. The government only allows women who have lost a bus band or a son in battle to wear heavy mourning in Berlin. Yet I saw many In deep mourning, and black and white, symbols of sorrow, are the pre vailing color In the city. I met one woman who bad lost eight of her men husband, brothers and sons. Hen wa a face burned out with sorrow." APEX OF WASHINQTON SHAFT Few People Knew Purpose of Parallel Iren Band That Bind Brew of , Monument - ,,' Few person who bare seen the Washington monument even those who have lived within sight of It all their live, have noticed that the apex of the monument la surrounded with parallel bands. Such I the tact how ever; and moreover, the band are ttudded with golden points. The band are mad of gold-plated Iron a foot wide and the points are spaced a foot from one another. For a few moments In each tunny day of the first week of the new year the golden fillet that binds the brow of the Washington monumont la via-: lble to human eyes. Then the angle of Incidence of the sun' ray is such that they are reflected downward to the windows of the building north and west of the monument and the cool, gray surface la seen to be marked with eleven shining lines of gold. Theoretically, a similar effect could be obtained from soma point of obser vation at each moment when the sun's ray are Intercepted by the sloping top of the monument, but only an airship could attain the necessary vantage point ' . . . According to the original plan of the monument It waa protected from lightning by an aluminum tip that was connected with the metal framework of the elevator. During the very first summer after the monument was com pleted, however, It was struck twice and a piece of atone was clipped from the top. - Experts from the sclentiflo depart ments of the government were called on to contrive a plan tor the better protection of the shaft, and they de cided that copper banda, studded with projecting points, would accomplish the purpose. Colonel Casey, who bad charge of the work, objected on the ground that copper would turn green and that the verdigris would "run" and spoil the appearance of the monu ment; he also doubted that the copper would have the necessary tensile strength. . i; So the men of science agreed on a number of Iron bands, heavily gal vanised and gold-plated to prevent rust ing. "The banda are connected with the aluminium point of the monument and the framework of the elevator, and at the base Iron cables lead the electricity into a deep well, where it harmlessly expends Its force. The pro tection has proved to be perfect Youth's Companion.' Errors of History. : William Tell was a myth. Corlolanus never allowed bis mother to Intercede for Rome., - The duke of Wellington never ut tered the famous words, "Up guards, nd at them I" - ' Alfred never allowed the cakes to burn nor ventured Into the Danish camp disguised as a minstrel. Fair Rosamund was not poisoned by Queen Eleanor, but died In the odor of sanctity In the convent of Godstow. Charles Kingsley gave up his chair of modern history at Oxford because be said he considered history "largely a He." ' -v.- Chemists have proved that vinegar will not dissolve pearls or cleave rocks, in spite of the fabled exploit of Cleopatra and Hannibal. The (lege of Troy is largely a myth, even according to Homer' own ac count. Helen must have been sixty years old when Paris tell In love with her, : The number of Xerxes' army baa been grossly exaggerated and it waa not stopped at Thermopylae by 800 Spartan, but by 7,000, or even, as some author compute, 12,000. Philip VI, flying from the field of Crecy and challenged later before the gate of the castle of Elols, did not cry out: "It 1 tho fortune of France. What be really said was: "Open, open; It Is the unfortunate king of France." St Louis Post-Dispatch. THEIR SHOPS PALACES PARISIAN DRESSMAKERS IN PINI ESTABLISHMENT, ' 1 Maintained at Enormous Costs, but Pair Femininity Refuse t Be Satisfied With Anything Not of the Beet, - When a woman Is not praising her dressmaker ah la abusing him. Dither he Is a treasure, an artist a genluii or ha I Just the reverse; his prices are extortionate, he never keeps his word, hi material are bad and he has a hundred petty way of economis ing on then o that renovation Is im possible. We hear all this and mack more about the (in of the drees maker, even as we hear a great deal In hi praise. Out of all the praise and blame, one point stand out strongly, and that I his price. On tht everyone agrees; -they are very high, and the time has come to ask ourselves if they mutt remain so. "" For some unknown reason the Paris dreiimaker has sleeted to establish himself in princely mansions Instead of In shops, Hs now Inhabits th most luxurious apartments and hotels In the city. HI rent 1 stupendous, his train of attendants I enormou. and until th war came to put a atop to hi course, downward or upward, whichever we like to call it there eemed to be no limit to hi ambition. In th old days we read of ministers of state falling through ambition; to day, or rather yesterday, it was dress maker who an that risk. It la not surprising that women paid high for a gingham dress when that dress waa chosen, fitted and mad In a houae that was a palace of delight to rll who shared the taste for furniture which reminded you In a flash of "Sal ambo," the "Pesu de Chagrin and the "Empress Josephine." The chair In which you aat wa a chow piece, the mirror In which you saw your reflection bad once thrown back the Image of a queen, the hall through which you walked opened on a garden of such dignity and lovollnes that It trees seemed to Ugh In the wind with memories of past honor. To all thi you must add th Illustrious name of the dressmaker and the geniua of bis designers, cutter, maker and sales women. It is no wonder the ging ham dress cost so dear. In another palaoe the furniture la In the style of Versailles In the glorious eighteenth century. The bergeres, the colffeuses, 'the chaises longues, the cabinets filled with rare china or priceless lace, the engravings on the walls, the silk which covers the tabou retseverything Is quite splendid la Its way, and the manikin who float about in models of amazing taablon remind you of tropical birds, beauti ful but songleas. Is It to be marveled at that a dlnnar dress of silken splen dor costs 50? The very elevator In which you are carried from one floor to another la a gem of eighteenth cen tury design and decoration. There Is yet another reason for these high prices the wages of ths men and women who make tha dresses. After the dressmaker, who claims the 4rst profits, come the de signer, the cutter, the fitters, the mul titude of "little hand" who do th dull, Important sewing parti, th brodeuses, and a further crowd of attendants wh hover round that pre siding genius, th vendeuse. All these people have to be paid. When a dren costs 50 there should be no badly paid labr in It, otherwise It ralson d'etre cease to exlat Before the war I knew that some of th bead sales women msde good Incomes, and down to the "little hands" the pay was not bad. Ths designers were also fairly paid, but ths odd workers who were not employed In the bouse Itself did not benefit fairly by the big sum which were paid by the women whs dress in the Rue la de Palx. -