This feminine dress-reformer who in going into the fray determined win, has an interesting background of battles for her ideas. She has always been an outstanding figure in Washington society and by sheer force of personality and determina tion has won battles against great odds. Before the 18th, or so-called Prohibition Amendment was adopted, Mrs, Henderson, then the newly: made widow of Senator Henderson whose view on liquor had never coincided with hers, emptied the cellar of her beautiful home on 16th Street in Washington, of great quantities of fine liquors. The destruction of bottles, it was said, was made the occasion of a great cere-many. conducted by the Sons of Jonadab, a temperance organization.
'A year or so after this occurrence, when a city tree obstructed the view from her home, she out it down herself, wielding the exe with vigour and determination—and results. The tree was never replaced.
While Mrs. Henderson is a frequent entertainer her dinners are always without wines and meats. She is m strict vegetarian and attributes her good health, it is said, to ceaseless activity and carefully guarded diet.
Meanwhile, Washington debutantes, it may be remarked, are hitching their skirts a trifle higher, smoking a few more cigarettes than before the war started and are, in general, contemptuous of this further effort to regulate human beings and their actions.
A connesponDeNT of the "Naval and Military Gazette" pressing the opinion that gunnery of the Japanese Navy second to none in the world." It is an interesting fact to recall that in the days when our own battle practice returns were published, the China Station usually led the way with the highest number of points. The two German cruisers, Gneisnau shooting ships in the Kaiser's Fleet. The suggestion offered in explana ation is that atmospheric conditions in Eastern waters favour good marksmanship, but, as the paper remarks, anybody who knows the atmospheric conditions of Hongkong will smile at this, says the "China Faxpress and Telegraph."
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