Show baw 1 IGHT HIGH PRICES women of washington in war on the food trust MRS HENDERSON A LEADER she la Is a vegetarian and total abstainer question of sunday en er tortal ning Is again being doing ola dis cured cussed in national capital by GEORGE CLINTON the campaign which la Is being waged in against the high coat cost of living baa bas been in 26 orbed hero here by most of the women a clubs which include in their member hip ship many women high la in official and life the woman a anti b 1 inist 1 I rust league baa has mrs J U B hender eon on wife of former senator hender eon on of missouri as a president among other reforms the members ot of the society pledged themselves to abstain from purchasing meat ahia I 1 his will be no hardship for lira headerson on who for year years baa has been a vegetarian and an ado advocate cate of simple ity 1139 her ifer dinners are among the smartest affairs in washington but neither meat nor wine Is I 1 served the henderson enderson ll home Is always spoken of as boundary castle aa as it U la is jutt just beyond florida avenue the former boundary line of the city and it la Is perched on top of sixteenth street hill mr sir nd mrs lira henderson have builta built a dozen handsome band somo bomea homes near them some of which are occupied by representatives of foreign powers as lega legations tiona and embi seles one of the largest housea houses Is the residence of secretary mac macveagh bagh poured her wines into gutters two or three years ago mrs hen lien derson invited to her residence a tent of the order of Recha bites of which ba she Is a member the gue guests to poured into the gutters of sixteenth street the priceless wines from her cellars since which timo time ebe she has stood tor for total abstinence as well as vegetarian ism mrs henderson enderson ll lias has convictions and the courage that should go 0 with them and in making her the prest dent of the anti food trust league success for tho the movement was prom teed mra mrs henderson enderson ll several years ago put her ideas into a book which a she he called tho the aristocracy of lle health alth the book hag has been translated into chinese through the influence pt tor for mer mor minister wu ting tang who Is to a great admirer of mrs hendersons views on simple living mrs hire delva belva lockwood who at one time was a candidate tor for the presidency of the united states ta to also a member of the organization as la Is also mrs hire mary S 8 lockwood who Is prominent la lia L D A R circles sunday entertaining discussed the question of sunday entertain kalning la Is being discussed again in washington the wid wide open pon sun day came to the capital with the tor for eign element and baa has steadily spread until the americans who give din den ners breakfasts and parties on the fart day ot of the week outnumber the aliens there was one notable objector tp ili the diplomatic a art ait it to tha the continental sunday and wat was the wife or ot the former norwegian minister mme guile who established in the norwegian legation a strict observance ot of the sabbath day she neither accept 0 ed d nor extended invitation invitations to ties on sunday it Is I 1 well known that mr mrs raft deplore deplores the increasing tendency toward sunday merry making she attends regularly either SL john johns church on lafayette square or all souls tartan church where the president worships to honor lundys lane lame hero senator jacob jacot II 11 ct of new waa was born in can ada where his mother and father were born before him the fact did oot cot prevent mr gallinger from introducing a bill in congress con grai for the erection tree of the tile status to the memory of den gen james miller the hero bare of lundys lane in pretty nearly every school of the united states I 1 Is told the atory of gen miller stiller a charge on a bat tery and his capture thereof if it mem ory cry serves miller at that timi jim was a captain but the chances are that most americans remember neither bli his title nor bli his first name but know him only ai as III try sir miller when I 1 miller stiffer waa was asked if it he be could charge and take the battery bin answer wasi was try tir air and the answer has stood him as a front name ever since it may be that some of senator oal cal linger a immediate alcest ancestry ry fought on the british side against scott and miller sillier and the rest at lu lundy nde a lane but back of the immediate ancestors he the senator had bad other ancestors who fought on the Amer american icam side in the revolutionary war lie ile gets his atner amer Ica nisai from an original pure font taft boldn didn t care about wolves binco since william ito buntard vard taft has been president of tie the united states there have been no articles on natural history written in the white house in the he days when mr taft and mr R erelt were close friends and hen the legislative policies of one ere be ellered to be absolutely the legislative policies of the tb ether other the great fauna faunal attempted to interest mr taft ars then secretary of war la ift the subject of natural history I 1 isa I 1 to be supposed that there Is guy barm harm in repeating a conversation which bieh took between mr noose roost volt and his secretary of war after high noon one day tn in tie tile r room of the white house mr 1 I taft to came ame in to say may ft a few words to mr if poosevelt Rooe too evelt sevelt about some legi legislation station pending before a committee of the tile home house and la to which the ram iniestra ion tion was interested the president told the secretary that the legislation was of importance al most vital importance and that be had been giving II 11 thought tor for a good part of the morning but just now be said I 1 have another subject of deep interest in hand a matter of nati natural rall history dy by the way you ought to study natural history will get into it and you won t let it drop mr air tat taft looked a little at his ch chief lefand and said 0 1 III I 11 have to tell you right now that ou cant convert roe me by tending sending me any scientific treatises on wolves to read I 1 went through the pamphlet you sent me the other day as la in eart of duty bound but I 1 tell you squarely that I 1 dont don t care a rap whether bet her the dog wolves go skirmishing to find food tor for the she wolves w when hen there are young in the den or no not t dog wolves and she be wolves for all sit of me can r ft their food in any ani way sy that suits then them best mr roosevelt had been greatly in la terea te rested ted in a controversy which bad had been waging touching the question as to whether or not the dog wolves olves look ed after the care of the females of 0 the pack when there were young to be fed or r whether bether the she wolves bad bud to go foraging tor for their own proven der he bad his own views on the subject and thinking doubtless that a 86 matter of so much interest to him amigh interest the secretary dfwar of war be he bad had sent mr taft a il pamphlet on the subject he ile probably never sent any more wolf volt treatises to the war ar of flee nice stir over conventions politicians and newspaper corre spon denta are raining in telegrams to hotel proprietors in chicago and in baltimore asking for reserva alons of rooms for the two to big pirty conventions of next june in washington present interest in legislation la Is frequently shadowed by inter est cat in the coming conventions it Is not fitting here to write of who Is likely to be nominated or who will suffer buffer the pangs of disappointment but the leaders of both parties seem to 10 be confident confide nL hope Is to the prime possession of politicians and while they may not always feel it they are ot at pains always to pretend to eel feet it next june juno the democrats Demo crata and the republicans in their respective conventions vent ions will as usual view wita with alarm the past doings of their opponents 11 ent 8 national conventions are appealing affair affairs not only from the political point of view but from that ot of human interest the speeches made in conventions ordinarily count top for comparatively little in the campaign proper unless some overzealous over zealous speak er commits the blunder which Is worse than a crime and says some thing to arouse creed or racial bat mostly planks la in party count for much for or they are pledge pledges that certain work ie Is to be done and it if people dont like the work that Is planned they will show it by toting for the other man cautious about religion it la Is noteworthy bow how careful thu tho delegates to a convention ire are to keep out ot of the proceedings anything that might even by forced interpretation excite prejudice more than this in the matter of prayers it in 1 the ordinary custom to have tho the day 9 sea ilone alone one after the other opened by a petition to the almighty offered la in turn by a protestant a jewish and a roman catholic clergyman the jew 0 lib tab clergyman Is not always included but he be la in it if the thought comes and opportunity offers these things are supposed suppo ted to have their effect on the voters such reasoning of ot effect however argues a weakness of mentality on the part of those to whom the appeal Is made there are few think at men nien for instance who will vote tor for a republican simply and only because a minister of their own religion happened to pray on the day of the republican nomination at one republican con ve veillon an episcopal clergyman who always hae has been a democrat offered loitered one of the prayers this was one way of trying to show that in lous ious matters the republican party was above political prejudices in a general way a national convention la to conducted so far as the order of proceedings goes after this man ner nor when the delegates are chosen 0 they assemble at the call of the na lional committee which has charge at 0 the organization of the convention prior to the assembling embling asi of the conven tion the credentials of the delegates are submitted to the committee organizing the convention the u Is called to order by the national 8 chairman A ampo ort or Is effected by the election of a 0 temporary chairman and secretary each state selects one member of the committees committee q on rejoin eions credentials lats and permanent oga niza tion the duty of 0 the commit ee on resolutions Is to write the plat lat form that on permanent Is to make recommendations tor for per moment officers of the convention it Is the duty of the committee on ere cre to take testimony I 1 he differences existing between con testing delegations and to declare to the toiv antion the names of the adelo aites vibo bo it thinks are entitled to seats in the convent convention lon after the report from the committee on credentials has been received and approved the permanent troa committee turns in Us its report and the th convention proceeds to elect if its pr per manent officer the platform later |