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_chford s % Chick Mash V Eixamirie` I P110116 Jy .v Phonedyquxj .n_ev;vg, i1:_ex2jq_u,.\-1 :o_J.";`he lxamirie"l`."' '. ` . coon LEADER` W0RK~{ rortumw. - ' Frances E. Wlllagg _ _._.1 n1. -1`! .In the afternoon we viewed the Dub- _, lie buildings, parkz, statues and plac- |es of historical in erest. Among these were the Capitol, White Ho e. Lib-I rary. Lonfellow's Statue, ashlng- ; . ton's Monument ~whi `is an obelisk ;. 555 ft. 51,5 inches hi h, 55 ft. square ;' at the base and 34* ft. at the ton: tac-i ;` ing is of pure marbletrom Maryland,, ti walls are 15 ft. in thickness at the bot- - L tom and 18 inches at thetop, In the 3! walls are stones from Bra,ddock s ;| Field, ruins of ancient Carthage. Ve-l 9`; suvius. tomb of Napoleon at St. Helena. ii Greece sent"a block of marble from ;`the-"Parthenon. Switzerland a stone hfrogn the chapel of Wm. Tell. and t! many other foreign countries also sent; -[their contributions. - .| n-.4. r_....:... Ilnvnnulal I-mu :7`:-iizlngr` -` Wunlngtull uuu nun vuu: ;uuu........ l 2 Thetollowtng is an account otea trlpg taken by Miss M. Grace Bwitzer. Prim cip'ai*ot Beeton public school. who `Sq this `year President of the South West. Simcoe Teachers Association. - k * l A party`, `consist ing:mostly- of.'taach- ers ` under. the personal supervision of I ` Inspector and prominent educational-`u . t.` left. Toronto at seven o'clock Good; ._ riday morning: `others joined at I-lam- . ilton, St. Catharines, Niagara Falls a.nd:= V Suspension Bridge. making "a total of : 215. We travelled by` special train by ! 1 the Lehigh" Valley route" through .the ltruit district`-of New York State. along; -the shores of beautiful Lake Seneca for, forty-tour miles; into`~ Pennsylvania`: . following the Susquehanna river be-I V tween the towering summits of the Appalachian Mountains, `past the coal! district, along the shores of.the Lehigh; and Delaware river to Philadeluhiag ,through a splendid farming locality to" 1Boaltimore.A arriving in Washington-ntl D-m. > . . A ,, a J . A bus took us` to`the`nal8.tial May-- Dr. Jae. L. `Hughes. a` former '1`oronto_{' 10p.m.`r. '3 A bus took us` to'the`ual8.tial May-! ower hotel. located ne'er the exclusive! residential `section. On Saturday morn-e ing we went by street car to Mt.` Vex--j non. the home of George Washington. an hour's ride from`the'cit,v. Here we` viewed` the interior of the mansion` which` is preserved as nearly as pots-Z sible in the style of his time. the end: of. the eighteenth century. The group; of buildings consisting of the mansion , in the centre, on the left the-office. carpentershop and `green house, on the right the kitchen, hutler's house, smoke- ` house. laundry, coach house and steal bles are on an elevation sloping` to the; beautiful Potomac" river. A gravel walk` I on the right led to- the tomb of George 3 Washington and his wife Martha. ` 1.. AI... -14. nnnn an Iuvn vrlnnrn .hn nh-. _The Lincoln Memorial has] striking? architectural beauty. On the outside! is a row of 36 columns. one for each; State in the Union at the time of Lin-I `coin : death. `The colonnade is.j188 ft.. ` Ellen` l.:unu`Auuuunn. I long and 118 ft. wide. Epaftih-column`:is'~.` 7 ft. 4 inches in diameter at the base and 44 feet high. On reaching the top; of, the longfllght of steps we saw be-; fore us a colossal figure of Lincoln: seated in an curule chair. .In the north- hall lettered in the stone of the wall. lsnthe Second Inaugural Address: in; the south hall is inscribed the Gett.vs-| burg address. We saw the theatre where Lincoln was shot on Good Fri-} day. April 14. '1865,- and also the four- , storey red-brick building where he; died. The .Russian Embassy is now! unoccupied; the German Embassy has` heavily, barred `iron windows placedf there during the World War: the Bri- |. tish -Embassy is occupied at present by] I Ambassador Sir Esme Howard and his` wife, Lady Howard, who is an Italian. princess and a Scottish peeress. The; guide informed us there were 44 other` -embassies in the .city. Shenandoah Caverns : On Sunday morning we set out for] : Shenandoah Caverns situated in Vir-U I ginia._ 140 miles from Washington. Af- ter. descending-`I9 steps the guide led` . us along a gravel walk through pas-`E usages for 1% miles.` These caverns have been opened since May, 1922, and` are lighted.\by_ means of 14 miles of 1 leaden wire connecting 2500 electric lights, from 100 to 800, candle power. 4 Among the truly marvellous` and mag- . nificent natural rock formationsrwore ` `stalactites, stalagmites, and tartling resemblance of bacon._. blankets. 1n- 4 dian hunti g lodge, Ice King's palace. 4 Queen Victoria. cow's tall with burs. banana stalks, kewpie climbing the ` 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 stage with actresses. soldiers on the march; elephants. large` andsmall. By means of different coloured lights the formations of the diamond, cascades. -dome-of capitol` and Rainbow lake were pictured in such beauty that words fail to describe them. We climbed steps for`med.~from the rock to stand and view in awe above. us a remark- able ' likeness _of Napoleon standing out prominently on the edge of a steep < a cliff in -thefamlliar attitude of arms , lockedbehind. At this place the roof was 104.feet high. in other places it * was only'the he ght of an average in- 1 dividual. Near the entrance by means of a red light Dante's.Inferno was pow` Hwall, baked apples. _teeth on a ledge. I trayed` with fearso e vividness. In contrast` to this 9. another place on hanglngpoints of rock musical sounds were produced by striking the points. with a stick and thetguide informed us,_ that onone` occasion a pianist -who had established `a record of playing 60 hours on a piano without intermission! I had startled themembers of his group . I-my ln-vla with his fingers on the . more` rhythm and harmony and less had startled the memoers or ms groupl. by `- playing with his fingers on the} *` rock the -familiar `strains of Nearer . My God to Thee." At` this jimcture the guide told us~.tha.t the best music which they got over the radio in Virginia was from Toronto `orchestras because-it had Jaiaz; The guide turned off the light in - order that. we might` r`ealize the vel- vety darkness of the caverns at a spot where `an adveni:t's`roits bride and i- groom were'.entombed 86 hours with- out food. light for water before `being ' rescued by distracted friends who dis- covered their whereabouts from the iin. enterini the have hung inside the . c `factthat `HE rope used-at that` time| f shaft. _ `Rank '11:: `Washington ' $z`4F:: $45 A`. -REE sm nu: cmcgs F,riday%- Saturday TAILORED. TO - FROM ` suit with Extra Pants tai1onq, to yogr` measure, at The most outstanding Wrlues. in the country of choice-fabe rics are featured `for Spring, cL6THiNc SPECIAL OFFER SUITSV will he our stqre n TAILORING .1`)revent's . white _ 1 diarrhoea, L bowel trouble, f leg A weakness. You'll nd hundreds of new Spring materials to select from and your suit will be tailored -to` your own measure in `any "style you piefer. \_ h A positive guarantee of completefsatisfaction or your money back. Take advantage of this opportunity-it will not be repeabe:l ihis OI J\l$I \IV_VIl IIIIJIVIKIIZI Illlllll VVIIII ` EXTRA PANTS FREE! This is at great special that thrifty nien will be quick to take advantage of . Clethes of- _Quality are known fro'm\coast to coast for their beautiful fabric, ne, htyle and A superb EXTRA PANTS FREE WITH EVERY surr ORDERED MAY 7 AND 3. Ruise txzvo hiclT\'vhere one way. raised before._ FOR GRARFEED use .Blatchford s Bar-Nun A"EiEi<"cRATcH - oamsa TODAY r-`Rpm BROWN &co. I` see it. she conunuecmmany peopie are ',dissatisi',ied with their lot `and wish ' they ere something else. .The- shop `girl . ould be`. an actress, the butler` would be master, the farmer, a. menu fscturer. The farm. `boy looks with longing eye's to,wards'the city. thinking. that fortune lies yonder, While the city youth tires of brick walls and paved; streets and wants to get into the coun_-. try. She advised against dreaming of the ,!arawa.y*'e.`nd urged. on the con-- trary. her hearers to iookwhere they were. There is in opportunity. she said; 1 just what one sees and the greatest op- portunity is often found in aulimited sphere. Edison found -his opportunity while a newsboy` on e..tra.in; John`Bun- yen conceived t e finest ailegory in the English language while in '-jail and wrote itron paper which had been used to wrap bottles of milk. Opportunity. sh ? concluded. comes to no one on .9, n or hvnv .`ll`.vm-vnnn ham: to make his! lab concluded. comes to no one on .31 st or tray. Everyone has to mgke hip lawn opportunity. Frances E. Willa. V Frances E. Willard J . .~ \ The name and elite/of Frances Willard will always be `connected! with the women's movement. stated.',! Miss I-Iurlburt. About the time Miss` Willard began her works in the in- terests of temperence, drunkenness in. the United States was almost univers-l * al. Miss `Willard was` born. nearA_Ro*- cheater; N.Y..` and after attending` \col- lege and teaching. she was for anam- . ber of years principal o .a women's. college at Evanston. eeling that teaching was not her lite, work. she left! and in_ 1874 she b_ecame president of the Chicago branch of the W.C.'1`.U. `A few years later she organized. the` world W.C.'l`.U.. of which she lw-asl president. till her death in 1898. She: was prominent as a ,lecturer and in` 1 two ve years she spoke in all the cities` 1 `in he United States before 4.000| audiences. She was always an ardent! women. supporter of equal rights for both sex- r es and was one of the first on this con- tinent to try tosecurer the `ballot for .`._y ~