New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1928, Page 11

e ————— b,Wfien and How the Millionaire Ho Bride Rebelle | Distressing Climax of the Unwashed ' Guests, Stale Bread and - Tearful Wife REBELLIOUS BRIDE. Mrs. James Eads How, ) Tried for Twe Years to “Reform” Her Hobe Husband, ! But Finally Gave Up. HEN the “King of the Hoboes” got married he thought his star of romance was more than ordi- narily bright. Because, in wedding his former eecretary, he looked forward to a mate who ‘“understood” him. Few other people did. Indeed, Mr. James Eads How, wealthy scion of a dis- tinguished family, isn’t a very easy problem for anyone to * solve, For years he has been more interested in the restless army of wandering unem- ployed—known to realists as tramps—than in anything else. “1 born a ‘bo’ at heart,” Ke has reiterated on many oc- easions. Mrs. How, before she ac- quired that name, even com- prehended that remark. Aren't all men something of the vag- abond at bottom? And when How attended hobo conven- tions, made speeches and donated funds to establish helpful agencies for the jobless, she was a loyal and enthusiastic aid. Then Mr. How and his secre- tary, so loyal, so sympathetic, were married. Which put a dif- ferent complexion upon things. In “‘You can imagine t i AND HOW—IN PERSON! the words of the groom: “We were going to reform the world together, help rebuild a de- caying economic structure. 1 found out all my wife wanted to reform was—me.” “If I did, T certainly didn’t suc- ceed,” countered the maritally dis- A Characteristic Camera Portrait of the Wealthy Self-Styled Tramp, Photographed on the White House Lawn Attempts to Get Favorable Legislation for the Wandering Ci uring One of His Freque: appointed Mrs. How after her di- vorce aggion had been instituted. She poceeded then to tell why their union had failed to “take.” A cup of coffee, a few slices of stale bread, cheese and a red ban- danna handkerchief formed the en- tering wedge in their happiness. Science’s Newest Baby Enigma CASE of absorbing interest A to students of child psychol- ogy is Baby YuVawn Shotts, of Birmingham, Ala., who actually began to talk at the age of three days. Moreover, skeptics haven't a leg to stand on in this amazing in- stance, because the family physi- cian was present and will vouch for the fect that YuVawn said dis- tinctly: “Hey, hey!” about eighty hours following her advent into | the world. Two days later she followed this up with “Eat] Eat!” and the next day she exclaimed “Daddy!” Finally, s whek after she was born, YuVawn cried, “Hey, Daddy, eat!” and after that, to the stupe- faction of her friends and parents, she added rapidly to her vocabu- lary. Now she is nearly eight months old and converses with the fluency of the average three-year- old ehfil. her parents report. A ecareful record of Baby Yu- Vawn'’s progress has been kept by her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Shotts, both of whom are college graduates. They are co-operating with science and child specialists to study and ex- lain their daughter's astounding linguistic precocity—ona of the cases on record. LINGUIST!C MARVEL. s Baby Yu Vawn Shotts, of Birmingham, Ala., Who Has Been Thi Talking Si She Was Three Days Old. Students of Infant Psychology Are Taking a Deep Interest in Yu Vawn's Precocious Vocabulary. Copyright, 1928, by 't much bett Mrs. How has no objection to any of these things individually and in their proper places. But when at the first meal of their honeymoon orsn railway diner the groom, she said, ordered the coffee and produced the other articles from his pocket it was too much. “Are you going to eat—that way?” demanded the amazed and humiliated bride, while the other occupants of the car stared open- mouthed at so bizarre a flaunting of convention. “Absolutely!” replied her newly- acquired husband. “Won’t you join me?” Mrs. How—rather frigidly—de- clined, choosing to order her breakfast from the menu. “And he sat there and scowled at me during the rest of the meal,” che said afterwards, “I had a simple breakfast without a single expensive dish, yet for days he could not forgive me for refusing his horrid cheese and bread.” That, according to Mrs. How, was only the beginning. Accord- ing to her, How’s remark about being a hobo at heart was no mere figure of speech. He in- sisted upon living the part in its full ramifications. “I knew that Mr. How had as- sociated with unfortunate men. I knew he had lived and tramped with them, that he had built ‘hobo’ hotels and often dressed and Thwarting RANL'M poisoning, onec of the most dreaded of industrial menaces, recently alarmed the country by injuring, apparent- ly for life, five women employed in painting luminous watch dials for the U. S. Radium Corporation of Newark, N. J. The quintet got a judgment of $50,000 against the firm and annuities of $600 apiece. Whereupon scientists got to work to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy. Experiments were conducted to fnd some means of insuring em- ployes against the invisible rays, which penetrate the bones and marrow and cause a disease for which there is no known cure. After months of experiment the solution was partially artived at. Captain H. R. Zimmer, famed engineer and technician for the Radium Products Company of Los Angeles, has devised a delicate ap- paratus for discovering whether a worker is suffering ill effects. ir table manpers, though | must say, Mr. How's Such guests!"” (18] talked like the wandering popula- tion in order to better understand them. “But there is a limit at which such a thing ought to stop. T didn’t know that he would insist on carrying that sort of life into his_home after marriage.” The bride’s first shock came on the dining ear, when How ordered coffee to go with the meal he car- ried in his pocket. They were on their way to California, and be- fore the trip was over Mrs. How began to see that the eccentricities for which How was noted were by no means affected merely for the purpose of furthering philan- thropic projects. He took them all in- deadly earnest, He did want to be a hobo. The second shock, perhaps even more severe than the first, came soon after they had settled down on the West Coast. It consisted in a breach-of-promise suit for $100,000 filed by Mrs. Cora Vic- toria Harvey, of St. Louis, against How, in which she alleged she had been his fiancee for fourteen years. She was waiting for him to come and consummate their long engagement with marriage when he went off and married another woman—such was her complaint. “She told me she’'d make it hot for me if I ever married,” was the only comment How offered in con- Pgison ith t i POISON TESTS. UNTAMED s Eads How, ously Called the King of Hoboes” and “The Prince of Tramps,” Whose Bride Accused Hi of Turning Th nection with the suit. When the couple were settled in their California home trou- bles began and multi- phied. How immedi- ately declared that his money was her ]thcy o I have luxuries boys of the open none?”” he demanded. He made, though, one conces- sion. Their home was a modern, comfortable dwelling. “Every time I tried to fix things up he objected,” she complained. “I'd work and pl getting a nice dinner read: come home he’ came at all. He'd tell me that he'd been down in the ‘jungles’ along the Los Angeles River, hav- ing a grand time with his pals.” Ny This Scene Is to Be a Routine One with a Radium Afpliance Company of Los Angeles. One Employve Is Being Treated for Evidence of the Dread Malady. While Another Takes Netes, with Captain H. R. Zimmer, the Inveater, Supervising. - New York Bventng Journal, Isc. But soon the worst indignity of all, in the opinion of Mrs. How, was to be forced upon her. The “Millionaire Hobo” began to bring guests home with him in the evening. “And such guests!” she exclaimed to her lawyer. “You can imagine their table manners, though I must say Mr. How’s weren’t much better. They used to come to our house in droves, and I suspect many of them hadn’t had a bath in a year.” “I couldn’t stand it any longer. 1 simply had to rebel and get away. Good gracious, what a man! But no more of it for me!” - he “Breathometer” HOW IT'S DONE. This Photo Shews Miss Bernlee McGalliard Taking the Radium Poisoning Test by Submitting Her Breath to the Delicate Instrument. Inventor Zimmer ls Shewing Her How to Get Accurate Results. The influence of radium upea the organs of the body is insidious, and may not become evident for months or even years. By means of the new device, just installed om the Pacific Coast, the suspected victim’s breath is captured and tested for traces of radium peison- ing. Thus at the first sign of trouble the worker can be removed from danger and allowed to recuperate before the rays have wreaked per- manent havoe. Captain Zimmer belioves that where the new instrument is used in plants that make radium pred- uets, all possibility of the Newark tragedy’s repetition esa bo avoided.