New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 11, 1915, Page 3

A . 0 Store[ ;NAL CLEARANCE SALE OF WHITTALL FEATHERS AND FEATHER PILLOWS BED PILLOWS, 18x26, covered with A. C. A. ing, filled with a good quality feathers, 5 Ibs. to the pair. Special, 75¢ Each tick- of 20x27 EXTRA LARGE 7 1bs to the pair, cove heavy fancy tick, $1.00 Each, AND HEAVY. red with good 20x27, FILLED WITII HIGHE GRADE FEATHER 6 1bs. to the pair. $1.50 Fach, FEATHERS AND DOWN Put up in 2, and 1b. ba, At T3¢ 1b. we can give you a good quality pure white feathers. At $1.00 lb. fin- est quality pure white feathers. At | $1.60 pure white goose down. BUNGALOW AND APRON i Big assortment of all the styles and shapes in gingham percale. Extra special Amoskeag gingham, cut long, and full. A 50c value. 39¢ Each. COVERALL latest and striped large SWEATERS. At reduced prices. Big assortment to choose from in ladies’, misses and children’s. * All the desired colors are Here. AGENTS FOR McCALL i PATTERNS, The best dressed women use McCall > Patterns. “If i stylish, its McCall's; " if it’s MoCall's it's stylish” has become & byword to those who create and follow fashions. WE ARE 10c¢ and 15¢ Each, \ McCall Magazine for March, 5¢. McCall Spring Book of Fashion, with 15¢ Pattern Free, 20c¢ copy PULLAR NIVEN A BUILDING NOTES. The following applications have Keen filed with Building Inspector Rutherford: Anton Pieschek, six tenement house on, Gol dstreet, $5,000. Michael O'Keefe, -veranda at Stanley street, $150. Mrs. Anna Peterson, Linden street, $25. | Albert Ronshettez, store on South street, $1,000. Alfred Johnsosn, Ftreet, $150. 4 shed at 49 barn on Vega MORS “MENTALLY UNWELIL" New York, Feb. 11.—Frederick Mors, who confessed to having. caused the deaths of eight aged inmates of the German Odd Fellows’ Iome at Yonkers, where he was employed as nurse, was today declared to be “mentally unwell” by alienists who examined him at Bellevue hospital, to which institution he was committed ten days ago for observation as to his sanity, ' Arrangements were at once made to hold a conference of the rep- resentatives of the three counties hav- ing authority in the case to deter- mine what further action should be taken. 33c ‘Native eges doz. Russell Bros. —advt. Tone Up Your System for Spring Days Nature demands that all things | shall take life the | "spring. The human body is no ex- ception to this rule. Y builder. on new in u need at this season an energy Our Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites will revitalize the nerve centers and overcome all forms of debility. It increases appetite, induces re- freshing sleep and builds up a new mental, nervous and muscular en- ergy. Take it today and you will feel better Price tomorrow. » Pint Bottle. Clark 8 Brainerd’) xall all BT o O RN A A T H O% AN OISO HoRo% < NG G076 ZS R T ST N/ O v 2 %0 $60 Anglo Persian, o OO $50 Arabic, 9x12, now i $29 Parlor Brussels, now - - $25.00 Our sale on other makes of Rugs and Furniture will continue through the month, but the early purchaser has a larger variety from which to select. RUGS The Factory Allows Us Only Two More Days in which to dispose of discontinued pat- terns of Celebrated Whittall Rugs. We have cut the prices way, way down. 9x12, now $42.50 $39.50 $45 R. Worcester, 9x12, now $27.00 $32.75 C. Brussells, 9x12, now 27.00 Other sizes at similar reductions ¢ SPECIAL STUDY MADE OF POVERTY'S CAUSE of Charity Organ Zation. In the study of the under causes of poverty in New Britain, which being made by the Charity Organization, special attention as been paid the elimination, as far ay possible, of quack medicines, loan ‘harks, and fortune tellers that have reaped harvests in this city in the past by fleecing the ignorant immi- grant population. An interesting re- port on the progress of thig work was made last night by Miss Elsie C. Os=- born, the agent, at the monthly meet- ing of the Charity Organization. Special recommendations regarding the treatment of chronic inebriates, wayward girls, and feeble minded per- sons are contained in the report. The number of office calls gives an idea of the growth of the organiza- tion from time to time. During Jan- 1913, there were only 142 office in all, and during the month passed there were 334 calls at the office, 132 from consultants and 202 from applicants. The telephone interviews in behalf of families cared for by the soclety have increased from sixty-nine in January two vears ago { to 271 during the month jus The problems of individual families have been tackled 9 times. The number of new cases secking employ- ment is sixty-four. The report fol- lows in part: Study Causes of Poverty. It is our business to deal with these individual families and after finding out promptly what the causes are for their dependence to do away with those causes of trouble if possible so that the family may be self-support- ing ana self-reliant. Our’s is deductive reasoning. If we find that many families are suf- fering for such and such reason, we ourselves what can be about Sometimes the reasons are purely individual, but usually there are the larger underlying causes. Recognition of these causes leads us to be thankful that we may take an intreest in affairs, for our articles of incorporation state that the Charity st so a ask ik, German Army Rejects Ruptured. The fighting Buropeans need badly enough to admit one who is ruptured. Does not ruptured person is sadly men, but not Into the army this prove that deficient ? Wl Ee Presented to Each Galler at Beloin Hotel Also the privilege of witnessing a kable demonstration of what PAO-PADS do for apao-Pads ful treatment for the worst the hor without and at slight RUPTURE CURED BY STUART'S PLAPAO-PAI means that you can throw away the painful truss altogether, as they are made to cure rupture and not simply to hold it, but belng adhesive, and when aanering closely to body slipping is impessible, therefore, are also an important e rupture that cannot be 1 buckles or spring: tor Babecock, who is authority sining o the applic to any particalar Haoiel Beloin, IFriday, Hours 10 m. to pleased Rive to all who call, expert advice and trial self treatment. Do not fail to call on Mr. Babcock during his stay in your ‘u.\), as this is the chance of & lifetime, | most re- STUART' ple. TI new and won- rupture, curing as they in the privacy hindrance from work expense, forms, self the they on Pads the will a he will be to CHARGE, [nteresting Report Made at Meeling | t passed. | done | A FREE Treatment for Rupture ot ! of | WITHOUT | Organization shall work for the pre- | ganization stand strongly for this vention as well as the alleviation of | hill? poverty—the only logical way these lines our society 'has branc out tremendously of late. For instance the Charity Organiza- tion finds that some of its beneficiar- ies have much depleted purses be- cause of their reliance on quack med- jicines. It is then our duty to com- | municate with the State Medical so- i ciety, State Board of Health, Amer- ican Medical association and any {other sources of information that we may know of regarding that sub- ‘je‘m‘. We learn that many of our ac- quaintances ‘patponize the movies. 1t behooves us then to know what sort lof shows are conducted by the var- iious show-houses. i Learn About Loan Sharks. Again, we hear of instances where | exorbitant interest is demanded on loans, amounting to 100 per cent. or |over. If we really mean to live up |to our ideal of the prevention of : poverty will we not wish to support | the bill introduced this session by |our senator regarding the regulation |of loan office proceedings? Those offices doing a legitimate business will be upheld and others contemplating | New Britain as a flourishing fleld will decide to locate elsewhere. In the past, we have heard of many a victim fleeced by gypsy fortune tellers, who have been attracted to New Britain as a good berth because ‘of its large immigrant Ridiculous stories have come to 1 about burned greenbacks and $5 bills wrapped about an egg recommended as love charms. Oftentimes large sums of money have been magnetized out of the victim’s pocket before he | complained to the authorities and by that time the person complained | against has skipped town. During the winter we have become greatly interested in this subject fortune telling, and have widely for information. We have 1 received most courteous letters from | civic leagues, municipal libraries, chief | magistrates, etc.,, who are interested to know that the New Britain Char- ity Organization is awake on a sub- ject that is just beginning to ceive much needed attention. A dras- tic bill on this subject also is irg introduced by our senator. Chi- cago has been foremost in acting in this matter and after a splendid pub- lidity campaign in 1911—most sweep- ing city ordinances were adopted. be- Yarm for Incbriates. No one who has visited our local police court or who is acguainted with even a few of the many families dependent on charity becunse of the husband’s habitual intemrerance, can fail to advocate the passage of the bill creating a state farm for chronic inebriates. This bill aftcr both houses once before by the governor on the sround of economy for the state. Under the present system John Smith, the hab- itual drunkard, comes out of jail ready to celebrate emancipation and be- cause of his weakened fibie he cele- brates along the lines that habit dic- tates. When he ‘“comes tc'" finds himself in court with the judge sen- tencing him to thirty days perhaps— it’s the best the judge can do in the matter at present. Back goes John ‘mith to Seyms street, Hartford, and in walks Mrs. John Smitli upon the | Charity Organization society or Public Charities for support of her during that period. All this would be changed if chronic inebriates could be sent instead on in- determinate sentences to big farm where they would ha wholesome outdoor labor v da which would tend to build up their phys and moral well-being and send each man back to soclety strengthenec and not i weakened. This der would be (rue economy and if few dollars weekly frorr men’s earnings could be handed over to their wives the economy would be two-fold. Do you wonder that the Charity Or- passing was vetoed he family a evel Y we for the state, the co population. | of | written | re. | Along | | | | | | | i ‘ L | | | | Wayward Girls 2 Problem. hedy Again, under present conditions we have no state institution to care for wayward girls over sixteen years. The Middletown School for Girls receives them up to that age and between six- teen and twenty-one years the courts must commit to limited piivate in- stitutions—the House of the Good Shepherd or the Florence Cittenden Home; for girls over twenty-one only the jail remains. | At this session the commission ap- pointed to study the situation, headed by our good friend, Professor Wm, Bailey of New Haven, is asking for a modest appropriation of $20,000 with which to buy a tract of land and erect ! a few unpretentious Wuildings on the | cottage plan, possibly using labor to grade and prepare grounds. To this institution all girls between sixteen to Thirty years of age could be committed on indeter- minate sentences, with possible parole, to learn household arts, and to do wholesome work, much it out of doors. Most of offender in this clz return to jail again and again, but un- der new plan withindeterminate sen- tences, each girl's owa conduct would prison i define the length of her story and her indicate moral im- anxious to dismissal would provement. We this plan put in effect, knowing Connecticut will profit by it as other tates like Pennsylvania have already profited. Care of Feebleminded. which are Another question the care and segregation of feebleminded. Special stress is laid on the present deplorable lack of ac- commodations in Connecticut’s in- stitution for the feebleminded at Lake- ville. . It was estimated last that Hartford, Bridgeport or New Haven alone could furnish the 300 cendidates sufficient to fill the school. Feeblemindedness is the outward visible sign of degeneracy of race, and acts both as cause and conse- quence of all the social ills of immor+ ality, intemperance, pauperism and s on that the Charity Organization ciety combats. With so large a field it is rnecessary to focus on one point in the beginning and all authorities on the subject are agreed that first of all we must give attention to feebleminded women of child-bearing age as a mu- tual protection to society at large and to women themselves. A mentally de- ficient girl living unprotected is a menace to society. Your agent has been making a special study of this problem during the past six months and has been asked by the Lakeville trustees to appear at the capitol hearings in favor) of the bill to provide an appropriation for the work in this state, involving a possible change of Iccation and the erection of inexpen- sive buildings on the cottage plan, adequate erlarged accommodations and stricter | segregation, These are a few ent channels of interest *orRani ions reach into. that So it s that having the basic facts | *through our dealings with the in- dlviduals we pass from recognition of | the individual needs to the needs of the community, state needs until at last we very problems of the nation collective then on face the Ham and eggs for breakfast. Buy your ham where you will. but get the eggs at Russell Bros.—advt. P2 and GOING G elevator Daniel Mec- the for an to $50 increased 245 Charles Higby Keown, in city building, men petitioned in- $45 were $40 to have creuse from raonth, salary Their wages about a year ago from The City hall commission will deal With the matter when it meets to make up its estimates for the coming Year. in per | the , see | that | demands | | serious thought in our state is that of the | spring of the many differ- | charity | to | B. C. PORTER SONS MANSFIELD OFFERED HALF 0 BESS RYAN Would Share tis Wealh if She Woud Get Out, Boston, Feb. 11.—Irene Catherine Griffin, a professional nurse, testified | vesterday at the $50,000 breach of promise trial of Elizabeth Ryan against Harry K. Mansfleld, that she heard the latter order the former out of his establishment, at Middletown, in 1913, split his fortune “fifty-fifty” would leave. ing Miss Ryan, who wag ill, when she says she heard Mansfield say: “When agreeing to if she Ferncroft Inn, | Miss Grifin was attend- | { you are better, get out of here and I'll | NewDress® Fresh and Lovél J"ashion authorities predict the greatést known. You will want to secure several dress wvtul new goods we show Get in line for Spring. stock are headquarters says is far superi| We having a that everyone town. Of cour season’s M Effects——wh green, millf purple, as white effec Price 39¢, MESSIDOR war-ridden strewn with Width VOILE ar- rived from filmy fabrics, flowerets, rich in color. Price b60c. just Alsace tiny 27 inches. alry white there are certain voiles, Then embroldered grounds with figures that have the finest tones of blue, green, helitrope and the sweet pea Lacey stripes black are § favor. Wid| 50c, 6be in shaaes. There is abundant opportun- with prices ity to please all scor here. And Hartferd, Cenn. GOLD INI PAPERNAP 5¢ per do Ask to See The Adkins Printing G give you half of what I've got.” Miss Griffin said she never noticed | any misbehaviour on Miss Ryan's part | She testified to hearing | Miss | at Ferncroft. quarrels between Mansfield and Ryan frequently. Didn't Miss a Day. “How often did these tween Mr. Mansfield of which you have place?” There was a quarrel every day while 1 was at Ferncroft.” “Do you remember Mis# Ryan v ing anything to you about her auto being sent away?" “I wasn’t there to talk about autos I was her nurse, Mr. Sullivan.” ; “Didn’'t she say anything about the auto being sent away?" “T think she said something the car being sent off to monogram put on it.” “What did she say to you?" “I don’t remember exactly—it w something about a monogram. She was peeved. T told her not to be both- ering about autos until she got [ o and Miss Ryan spoken have “You say Miss Ryan was a little an- | gry?” “Perhaps she was a little pouty.” Heard the Word “Half.” that Mr. Mansfield said he would give half of what he had to Miss Ryan if she would get out?” “Anything said about autos?” “Anything besides what was said?” “No, only you say Mans- you get and I'll what I said Mr field said: ‘All right, when better you get out of here give you half of what I've got. “Then you talked with Miss about it?"” “Yes, immediately.” Miss Griffin stated the talk wa about the time Miss Ryan went {0 bed, between 8 and 9 p No Pajama Pu Miss Rachel Hall testified under cross-examination that she worked for Artist Knoedler of New York in his apartment of seven rooms and a bath She said that did all the cooking for seven vears. Mr. Knoedler employed a man servant named Flood who is now dead. She ated that after she had washed the dishes and performed other household duties she still responsible had around and how things were. “Well, when you were in that bed- chamber (refe ng to her room, which she sald was one of the seven constituting the apartment,) ihe guests could put on t mas and you would not know anything about she was asked. Ryan m ies she was and to zo s0¢ Miss Hall admitted that there wa drinking in the apartment, that casino was played, and that the ludies s at one dinner party, but that nobody became intoxicated. The gentlemen, she said, showed no affection toward the ladies, or vice versa. As for the holding of hands, she had moked quarrels be- | take | about | her | bet- | ure you heard the word half— | it >+ | Sunshine elocutionist and Mrs I | desiring t of that. She said that wine had been served in Knoedler's apartments, but that she had never seen any cocktails about ““Were other drinks servec “Yes a dozen different wine_ including champagne, wine, gin and beer.” N “Did the number of ladies agree | with the nunber of men present?” “No, not always.” never seen any LE Rt APPREN Texan Pionct Made Anoual z | pioneer kinds of Rhine a Native doz. Russell Bros advt nae BKdwa who ol his 44 Middle home g D O B #3 ghown? it on Kinan years, was a Pass *Twas n for you alone. Pass it Let it avel the vears, | Let it wipe residents ! other's tears, | M Till in EHeaven the deed appears n it on. Ly-six yeun 1 N | {to Bri | ter iaking He partic 2 on up { south 14 | Britain LN Kenney ss in Chur wiich i his K. Bow late PParter Th friends i friondi 1 I here la wer e~ serving Motto d cheer. Flower-—Coreops!s Colors—Gold and | tienr; the | and white | { vlar | up the hions | pore. We at vwhee chairs, pairs crutches and Tel. 1105 The Dramatics to be given ner hall Feb. 19 bid fair to be a g succes No effort has been spared {0 insure satisfactory returns and the program is an attractive one. Follov the play will be dancing by Lynch's orchestra, rofresh ments will be on sale and home-made wiil be a delightful feature may be purchased mem- at the door have prese not in use made cences in Tur- 1849 at mic, heing the and counte by lernment, in While in Text with General 11 known lived in 1N of less & only had one a Northerner, when # pressed Texas however, that der a gun a | was finally put] partment After the and continued engaged in m | share of his Iif ing there music the state candy t] Tickets 4 bers or of Of the later eventsto follow an af- is planned but no dei been named ney whist has as yet ternoon inate date lage welcome 1 New members are always Come to the next meeting to be on Feb, 16 and bring friend held | south was He a nd A cordial invitation has been extend- ed to our local branch of Sunshine 1o attend the Hartford International cel- ebration to be held at Jewel hall, Y. M. C. A. building, Feb. 15 at eight o'clock. Tt will consist of vocal and jnstrumental music. Ned Webster, the | Alden as speclal guests. During the evening mn\ling plctures of the work of the | cOtton mill at Blind Babies home will be given and a | 4% the corn imost enjoyable time is planned. Those | Plock from attend will leave for Ha town of Crom! the 7 married. a ford on Ham and eggs for breakfast. Buy your ham where you will, but get the eggs at Russell Bros.—advt, Ham and your ham eggs at R