Young Diplomats in Washington A Foreign Colony of Children
A portrait of Washington's diplomatic community through its young residents. Children of ministers from Cuba Paraguay Brazil Costa Rica Haiti and other nations mingle in American schools and social life while adapting to local customs and languages. The piece highlights Chinese and Latin families, multiethnic households, and the variety of cultures represented by embassies and legations in the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Our Republic
Uncle Sam
United States
Senor Quesada
Republic of Cuba
Havana
Cuba
Frau Matilda Bussche
Baron Bussche
Miss Bussche
Senor Baez
Paraguay
Senora Casasas
Hector
Evangelina
Horace
Margarita
Mario
Leon
Jorge
Costa Rica
Haiti
Republic of
Panama
Brazil
America
Don Joaquin Walther-Martinez
Chil
South
Central America
West Indies
Rourke
Leger
Moonlight Swim in the Gulf Stream With Shark Dramas
A commercial traveler recalls night moonlight swimming in the Gulf Stream near Jamaica where phosphorescent water and sharks created terror. He and a companion faced a large three foot longer shark, fought it off, then helped each other back to safety amid nervous laughter and lingering fear.
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New York
United States
Gulf
Tropics
Jamaica
A Lapland Birthday Gift of Reindeer Herds
The custom grants a newborn Lapp child a reindeer, and as the animal’s descendants grow, the child inherits the entire herd. By adulthood the individual owns a large herd, a blessing deemed more valuable than costly silver gifts from relatives.
Great Culebra Cut dwarfs all prior giant excavations
The Panama Canal Culebra divide project is described as the largest earthwork ever by human effort. The Nochistongo cut near Mexico City, begun in 1610 and completed in 1789, is compared for scale, depth, and volume, noting its 12.5 miles length, 197 feet depth, and 361 feet width, built without machinery by Indigenous labor.
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Panama Canal
Culebra Divide
Engineering News
Panama Cut
Culebra
North Sea Canal
Manchester Canal
Snez Canal
Cuellera Divide
Noe‘stongo
Valley
Mexico
City of
Nochistongo Cut
Wallace
Panama Divide
Nochistongo
Egypt
Recourses of the South: Land Cheap Prospects for Rural Homes
William F. Smythe argues that the United States must organize systematic rural settlement to provide home ownership and sustain growing population. He warns Malthusian risks, highlights the South as a vast, underutilized region with potential for private and public efforts to expand domestic settlement and land use.
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United States
William FE. Smythe
The
Republic
Malthus
What Governs Price of Dogs In Shows and Field Trials
The price of dogs hinges on buyer sentiment more than animal value, with show dogs drawing higher sums. At a Birmingham sale a two dozen pointers and setters totalled 3025, Coronation fetched 325, Ightfield Bang 185. American buyers would pay far more. Bull terrier Woodcote Wonder sold for 5000 in New Haven, Rodney Stone 3000, St. Bernard 5000. Some kennel-show prices seem inflated and unnecessary.
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Birmingham
England
Coronation
Ightfield Bang
Woodcote Wonder
New Haven
San Francisco
Richard Croker, Jr
Rodney Stone
Frank Good
St. Bernard
Highest salaried woman Miss Kate Holliday Claghorn registrar
Miss Kate Holliday Claghorn of Brooklyn has been named registrar of the tenement house department in New York City and is the highest paid woman in New York State civil service at $3,000 a year. The only other passer in the competitive exam was George Hale, a veteran, whose average trailed the successful rival slightly.
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Kate Holliday Clashorn
Brooklyn
Civil Service
New York State
George Hale
Claghors
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the Nations Mpital
China
Celestial Empire
Chentung Liang-Cheng
Yung Kwai
Legation
Springfield
Mass
Miss Liang
Liang
Miss Lions
Children OF
Ouly
Starling
Republic of Bolivia
Elena Calderon
Senor Calvo
Sen
West Pointer
Calvo
West Point
Elizabeth Rosen
Josephine Durand
Roosevelt
Chekib Bey
Matilda Bussche
Lapland
Mason and Dixon
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi River
New England
Pacific Coast
Union
Far West
Cleveland
Rockefellers
Carnegies
F Patel
Bypivesz
Angle Manufacturing CO
Surray ST
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