The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1904, Page 7

The YOUN Vie ut of whe *s ] oe 16 Children— One Mother of Forty Qwas Them All and One Happy Brooklyn Home Holds Them. They Eat— KA Dinner of Sixteen Pounds of Roast Beef, 2| Chickens, 2 Gallons of 5 Heads of Cabbage, 2 Gallons of iee @ream and 1 Gallon of Coffee. | They Wear- In One Year, 92 Pairs of Shoes, 280 Pairs of Sioekings, G4 Girls’ 32 Hats, 80 Suits of Underwear, 8 Overcoats| and 8 Girly’ Goats, They Cost— For Christmas Present Expend Over $300 on Them. The Mother— Her Philosophy of Life Is: ‘Parry for Love and Love Will Make All Things Easy. Don’t Worry.’ HE Old Woman Who Lived tn ay 6 if Shoe may evacuate her pede tal, She was a wretched incom- | petent who did not know her business, | She has been palming off on a dozen or more confiding generations worries and bothers that have no exinence, ‘There is no such thing as having 80) many ebildren you don't know what! tw do. The more the merrier! Let them come along as fast as pos- gible on one another's heels, and each | succeeding olive branch will only| Mghten your cares. If you don't belleve it, ask Mra, Leudesdorft! She can give you all the data! Bhe ts the mother of sixteen, and just turned forty. And, with her philosophy | the prospeot of a long line of little Leu- @esdorfts seems entirely probable. She was eighteen when she married Emanuel Leudesdorf and she looks now scarcely older than her first-born Of twenty-three, And the science to which she has re-| Guced the art of jugsiing half a dozen babies, without exciting the jealousies| ot any, of clothing three charming | girla who ar) “coming on,” as well as frocking all the rest of the small fry, of both sexes, of housing a family that overlaps any ordinary dwelling place, of cooking for the entive establishment, of | carving for the tribe and waiting on) them at meals, of arousing them in the| morning and tucking them up at night, | of preserving order—of, in short, being the pivotal puint, the beginnirg and) the end, of sixteen young lives, would | be a Mberal education to any hotel man} or inatitution mairon, | But, Mra, Leudesdorff says it Is no} trouble, & Day with the Family, In order to thoroughly understand the contract which our friend of the Shoe go basely shirked and this cheerfyl Drooklyn matron so lightly assumes & reporter for The Evening World spent entire day in the Leudesdorff house- fina. at No, 44 McDonough street, and watched “the wheels go round.” To begin with No. 414 {s not an ordin- ary house. It is quite innocent In ap- pearance—brownstone front, three sto- ries and basement—but it Is only when you are on the inside that you real- ize its capacity. It is a two-family at- fair, The Leudesdorft clan requires eleven bedgooms, And, at that, 4 The Evening Fashion Patterns, Designed by May Manton, ‘ HIS kimono is ¥ made witha slightly open square neck, while the thoulders are trimmed with straps which give the fashionable broad Une, The material is pale - blue cashmere trimmed = with land second, slept and the door closed Jon olled hinges, lest the arousing of [tittle steter with her buttons and Soup, 1 Peck of Potatoes, 3 fies, 1 Big Poundcake, | Frocks, 40 Boys’ Suits, 5 Alone the Mother Must number of the rooms accommodate two beds. You see there is Theodore Roosevelt, the latest baby, who meas- ures his age by weeks, Incidentally Teddy's name has noth- ing to do with his mother’s politics, Bho is Democratio to the backbone, But Theodore was born a kicker, hence was named for his exalted prototype. Added to this Mrs. Leudesdorft shares the President's opinion that the family of continuous performance {s the ideal one. Well, Theodore sleeps, of course, be- side his mother, His advent relegated abelle, his fourteen-months-old prede- cessor, to the orlb, Isabelle did npt like it, but then all the Leudesdorft babies are philosophers. Thetr mother attributes this to the fact that she has never owned a cradle, Not one of them has ever been rocked, Consequently, when they are put to bed they give their personal attention | to going to sleep without the distraction | of perpetual motion. But to go back. Flossie, who is nettly two and a half, and Ignatius, who ls past three, sleep In an adjoining room. The bigger girls are on the top floor, the bigger boys on the first floor and so on through the entire house, They crop up everywhere. Mrs. Leudesdortt can tell them all off on her fingers at 4 moment's notice. They Get Out of Bed. At 6A. M. precisely the mother of this imposing array of progony issued from her room on tiptoe. The babies, first the household should penetrate the dreams of the youngsters not yet sufl- clently trained to “stay put." ‘The waking of Ignatius and Flossie was effected with a kiss, and, with @ caution to the tiny boy to “help bis things,” Mrs, Leudesdorff swept on her upward way. ‘Phe three girls above were up in a jiffy, Lingering is discouraged in this home, ‘Promptness,” says the mother, “makes you forget that you don't want to do a thing.” Eighteen-year-old Adolf, once up, pulled tds younger brothers out of bed, raised windows and set the place In @ pleasant commotion, He is his mother’s master of ceremonies and helps amazingly, And Mrs, Leudesdorft had loteure to get down to the stratum of the seven, ten and fidteen year old girls. “Musser!” called @ small yolee, with Motous delight. “My tockles gone, Tan't got dressed.” “Well, Ignatius must pretend he is a bear and go hunting under the bed for World G WOMAN That dam. Stella 4," and Mrs, Leudesdorf rounded up |drawer, son, Yes, I'll comb your hair,| The Instant the chalrs were shoved in the babies’ room to find a wofal | Minnie, back a scramble for school state of exlsting affair, The well-| Five minutes later Mere. Leudemtortt | flowery jhe ,motnens sttention, | Bhe meaning and resourceful Ignatius had | was prosiding over the breakfast table | and nine shining faces shorty presented worked & new combination for Flossie’a “buttons and thing and that young person was so mfely locked into her garments that it took the most patient research to find the clue and disentangle her. “Now, Ignatius, you shust learn how," sald the mother, drawing the little tad | as caim and unruffied as though she had not superintended ten tollets, set- tled several Incipient feuds, tested the! oatmeal, set the rolls to heat in the oven and given the finishing touch to! the coffee. years old,” she sald apologetically, to her side. ‘they can Always dress themselves. The | “But ‘they're only for girls,” oljected | family ts too big to pamper any of them. the boy, As they grow older they help each “But after you learn you can teach Flossie,” was the clinching argument, The Breakfast. Tho lesson had scarcely begun when ry came from the basement: “Mother, does it boll ten minutes or twenty?"—the girls were trying to help by getting breakfast, as the new baby, you know, might need mother, other. A 4 third of mitk, three dosen rolls and several pote of jam made up the breakfast bill of fare. Plenty, but wm- ple and wholesome, is the family watoh- | word, Mra. Leudesdorff, huge spoon in hand—a Tegenérated edition of the fta- mous Squecrs—ladied out supplies to & multitude of Qppsrently, ingatiable Oliver — Twts.s, ‘he mouthfuls she snatched between times were onl “I ay, mother, smashed my shoe. | 46 not Ince; got another?” floated from room|" “Whatever I do, I for them all. on the right, | There is no division of favors. And “I said ten minutes, and I'll be down | they all undorstand that whatever they there presently, Lower left hand, ihat‘hecve ht hind tren.” “By the time my children are three! lon of coffee, another of oatmenf, | themselves to be kissed. but we musi just look at the Teddy baby. Perhaps he's awake “He ts @ haa been for m thme Past, but ts far too wise th) make any reat demonstration over the matter, Te is a Leudesdorft and knows what is i him." his teeth?” one but en tus could be guilty of such 0% v amall | © aueE@t *, bi from seven-year-old Blanche with lofty scorn; “vhey’re inside ya" Ignatius te silenced but u | "Can we powder his face? “Will his nose grow any bigger?’ | “Ten't he Just Uke me, mother? Off to School. A deluge of questions which Mrs, Leudesdorft punctuates with a reply | here and there, She says their ques- | tons amuse her—and they are good | Aw tho scholars vanished the babies took the centre of the stage, Teddy | boy went through all the mysteries | of the bath and the rub and all the other etceteras before Isabelle came in for her share of coddlin, xt, This went forward with al word from the the house had to be set in order. was easy, and wor! only that occasic All the others are versed | | mother which showed that her hand/at Mrs, Leudesdorff's right was ever on the helm olgned, Then the week's wash was sorted Mother" letened to all th and counted under her watchful eye. Twelve hundred pieces were ready for the laundress Only an ordinary washing,” laughed Mrs, Leudesdorf!. “There are always | five big bollers of white clothes alone, Tt usually takes two daya for the| Washing and two for the ironing,” ‘ow for the marketing,” sald Mrs, | Teuas abort, with 0 Ant anes of ine sleeping babies, ‘That mothing 1! always eniov, 1 alwava take one of the | Of All sizes and lengths, in all stages of airls along #0 Get she my leaga wv i dissolution, was brought out, And just | & rom! judge of meat and understand | here Mrs, Leudesdorft introduced the how to pick out nice vewetables. We 40344 iaportant precept of her Rol hold rute, Hor apectality seems to be the ove throw of time-honored proverbs, Her stories, In childish quarr not ocour within her however, she declined to take any pa: The Mending, When the house waa rid of her notsy brood again the mending was brougi to prepare | luncheon tn their absence. But the |romping school-children Aid not. ta thelr olaces until Mrs, Leudesdorft had made sure that all waa neht | dt some tempting cold ments, home- | made bread and the aa coffee | @reeted — thelr youthful _—_ appetites. the mood | “other.” an anal diavensed food thingy and “Father's” presence | a Be gabe Bry yey cheap stockings, out the circle . A howl from the upper regions re- hey are at all badl: every week. it saves the minded them that the doughty leapelie ton had grown tired of the company of het| children's fee uinemotional younger brothor, |And Nt no. more expensive ierthy aaat Mrs. Leudesdorf only smiled and de-| All the clothing is bought ready. made, spatched Malvina to bring her down. | but the garments of the elder halal Ten-year-old Minnie, who had Juat fin-/| are cut down for the younger; innumer: ished lunch, waa sent to keep Teddy| able patches have tobe put into sreefl |company and save for the Arumming of trousers, and the underwear kept to |@ spoon on the tray of the high-chalr | order. The girls, under Tmother's, direc: the beat Hlustration of how much rocks.” Another idea which “aiken In time.” don't believe in wasting mending,” el in ing mending,’ A Thrilling New York Romance of Love, Mystery and a Miser’s Gold. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. {@ penny; who took your earnings to pay Jared Hasking, an old miser and receiver ot Spr : wee for my food and lodging; who went in abet ie, le in t U di Rath- fine” dehom’ hie lying ominaay sent to| Page and boasted to you when I had prison) will, on hie release, kill bis false ac- | earned a dollar, Lam rich beyond your Cuser. He learns that Rethoose, i parsones. Haskina owns aa old house in Variok street, where he la waited on by Jane Slote the care: er. He has a daughter, Madeline, who thinks him & pauper. She ts engaged to Harold does wildest dreams. If I am dead when you read this, look for my murderer in that man, His name is one that I told you never to forget—James Rathbone. Re+ Fenton, a iawyer, One night Jared not return home from Varick street. Hi member, James Rathbone. The pol ce Hes “sae dattee Gates Peer Mateline | Know him well. Tell them {t is he who remembers that Jared hi sealed packet, with Inst should i Aleappear. CHAPTER III, (Continued.) A Mysterious Cipher and a Pledge of Vengeance —An Appeal to the Police — “There Is Death in the Room!’’, ven her to open it has killed. me and remind them of his threat t> murder me uttered in the court when he was convicted five years ago. w, remember also, that you will have ail 1 possess. Everything will be yours, everything—but on this condition, You must avenge my murder, Hunt down ¥ murderer rey hunt him down to death. I charge this upon you. He thinks to kill an old, helpless man without any friends to avenge him. It is your task, your work, your solemn duty to prove him mia- taken, to prove that I am not helpless nor without friends, but that you are for enough to bring him to jus- ee. igns upon my wealth, | ures to thwart the Just as you will prove that he is m taken in thinking he can murder n velope and read the inclosura, “Madelin: If you have obeyed my wishes, you have not opened this untli Sm down she tore open the an-| you have missed me, T have a strange With smpunity, so you will have the| Wealth he o : story to tell you—one that will move i joy ts lust oe tehes s him. Go to the manager of tho Twentieth National Bank, where YOU Went with me recently when I pre- tended to you that 1 would get you/ me typewriting work. Give pin the inclowed letter and he will explain all to you and give you certaia papers which L have Aenoeiied with him. papel that you will receive at the bank ar tay will, made in your favor, a list of all 1 possess fastened to the will, and you deeply, I have decelved you—have been constantly deceiving you for many years. I am writing this t let you know the truth In the event of that happening which I have ‘a presentment Ja going to happen very soon—my death, I have lived a double life, under a double name. To you I have always been wour father, Jared Bentley, poor, struggling. helpless and dependent, Others have known my real name— Jared Haskins, of No. 1883 Varick street, It ts there that you must seek tidings Them® learn theme mtudy thea untif rag of me when you miss me There ts 4 them. voy alone, perhaps only one man tn the world who knows iF be able to yrs mt vou ar ber that you always have yot that I am not poor, as you have thought me; who knows that years ago writer to rely upon. Remem! was, You have been a good, I was what many people would call the deeds Ch the house in Variok streat | in and that Twenty-seventh stre for, are oy Now, bear this in mi 1 not sel ation or stone of ait! house until yea bare read all the papers rich, ‘That man is my deadly enemy. Seuvnier Pro Tests you ah 1 poesets Five years ago he attempted to murder on (ris one condition Look for my} me and was punished for his crime by murderer fn Ja: athbone, being sentenced to State prison for “PRED Waa INS, | “Known to you ag Jered Bentley,” twenty years, Then ho took an cath — The "est ‘othce of this letter od | that he would kill me if I was allve Madeline was nd trl » | of me and desire of my riches. Do you \ that hten | when he came out of prison. Ho ts al. S04 dintress her be AL ready free and is likely at any moment irét she could scarcely to kill me. His motives are two—hatred ing. % ‘ull tick . i tbe | ove they ory del io ra inate a " ‘ : pa es Sede st Then she became aware that sume one was following her. Bhe stopped, undecided what to do, and crossed the rotd and stood in the lee of one of the houses. But she *as seen and shadowed by a man be hind her and by two In front. Suddenly the men turned and ran She had not to look for the reason. Two policemen stood at the corner, She went up to them at once, and asked to be taken to the nearest police sta: tion, At the station house Capt. Hunter ls- ened to her story, and then went out of the room for a minute, and when ne | reurned ke was accompanied by @ red- haired, clean-shaven man, not in unl- form, and rather shabtily dressed, This was Detective Sergeant Merrill, who, as the eaptain said, would take | the matter in hand, Capt. Hunter told the detective all that Madeline had said Metter go a) once, alr.” he sald. chi Ing, Girectly the captain had finished, ant go along. Shalt ba ask any questions as I take some one with me “Yes; take Adams with you. Let me briped atonce if you make any imporiant discover They walked quickly in the direction of Vartck # As they e ing a whfare near street, Madeline stopped and gave a ‘it- tion of surprise she cried, as they ome a corner of larokl, is that you?’ “Madeline ined Harold Fenton, & tone of astonishment. “What on @ you doing here? Who are in earth these?’ Madeline told her story, and the four started on, Harold expressing great surprise and consternation at the girl's {dea that Haskina might he dead “Whom do you suspect? he asked tn terror, Then he seemed to recover Dinyselt, to be detained “I thought you were at the office, Harold?’ "T was, but—but [ got away eariler than I hoped.” They reached 183 Varick street, unr you any keys? asked Mer- " "None." Ne 3 robably be able to get in more easily from the back,” he sald, and certainly without causing so much notice. Are you afraid to walt here while I go round to the b I think es 9 ‘” anawered Une, not very cont denily. de long. shall your’ “No, not more than a few minutes.” Madeline and Harold stood ciose tw- ther, well under the shadow of the ouse, and scarcely spoke during. the time of the deteotive’s abrenc ney heard more than one window put up: and volees, speaking in gruff whispers, to come to them (through the iiat. Some footsteps sounded on the vement, but they aw no o: Inside Madi pervously, bs we heat tialieg Salle "You won't | ter, do the lighter work, but anything i Toquiree much thought she looks ‘Now it ls time to see about dinner,” 3 = said Mrs. Leudesdorf! when little frock was neatly folded and Inf way, Many things had been discard Det Sigars with the practical int ot more then it ve gtited?”” ghe said with @ smile, “Why, no. You see it is not half so much work a8 you would think to look after « big family, It ls so it almost looks after Itsel easily take an afternoon naj about it’—but where she could hat contrived to sandwich this Indulgence between her Juties is a purale it ta! 4 Mrs, Leudesdorft to solve, At Dinner Time. The children poured tn from school bens, remember we have each other.” only to distribute themselves in play. But for that, dear I never could | watching Teddy or tending Isabelle was rit ti | Fenton stooped and the girl, |does not delleve In making any one leold and damp. child @ slave to a baby brother or | Some one was creeping cautiously pleasure, not a hardship. jand it was opened almost nolselessly, Merrill signed to them both 1 cater, Dinner was the event of the Gay as and into the houses while the man|it was just an ordi br end ee a n | n ordinary menu, but @ je Goor behind them imme |rise of the provisions with the amount ble,” he whis: of the cost of providing food for Then to Madeline he put a trap ques-| tls family, him she might readily have| * ght 7 NAV! ¢ 46 pounds of roast beef, |} 2 chickens, 2 gallons of soup, 1 peck of potatoes, 1 peck of beans, 5 heads of cabbage. 3 pies, 1 big poundcake, 2 gallons of ice cream. 1 gallon of coffee. ve kept t all And’ we wit’ boar te together® “76 ** | considered « treat, Mrs. Leudesdorft She noticed MMs beardless lips were sister, so that what all share is a along the passage to the front door, and they passed quickly up the steps far as the children were concerned. diately nieage make 24 little noise as ponsl-|hecctsary, of each, will sve 8 faint ispere ¢ tion, ao naturally that had she been di was your father's room?’ ho don’t Know,” she whiapered In re- y “Thin one the same addat atly confused, it answered Harold Fenton, i in breath. s ould think, so—that is, it is the mu | ikely fe . answered Morrill, seeming | more notice of the anawer. | line strained her eyes in the! the direction of her lover, be could possibly have u know that norm How dil yo she whisp ered, and the de ‘There were no second calls to dinner, tw 9 her for gening Ail were in, ready for the evening meal, didn't know { nd very After it was over the guesse be bis room, y one for an of: reply Merrill having asked t would probabl he most likel this for rmall children were ready to sip off to bed. When the last little person had been tucked fn, Mra. Leudesdor® sat down to enjoy an evening paper. By 9.8 the Leudersdorf? house te quiet and all the members of the family in c Ai to be aware that ‘I think you had better not come the room at first, Miss Bentley Merrill, with more consideration | Madeline's feelings than he had | ms and I will make | afrald, thank you, id Madeline, bravel ather go on with. mu. | “Just as you ase, Adams, lyour lantern her The man flashed @ bull's-eve lantern on to the door and examined the fas tenings. It was locked from the out de and the key still remained in the ok | For Acid Burns. Dear Mise Ayer H* ean L remove the scars of car- show bolic acid, lately accidentally ‘ap- piled to my facot A.M. M The detective turned {t, and taking the) Go to a Sufgeon who understands lantern fre m th our me of ned the ing the effect of carbolie acid Maddie ones nine ae y this formuta, which may » C0) he tosta. hag | help you: Landline, 2 drama; ointment rill w Mnntten (ef biniodide of mereury, 1 diam, Rub and ‘drew back "\ in well once a day. Mies Bentley, you must prepare your-| ' self for the worst,” he sald quietly ana, Cure for Pimples. respectfully. "There ts death in thel : Adama, £0 At Once for a doctor > | roa | and then tun to the station and tell M Wy | * sipe: Lanoling & grams; sweet }atmond oi], § grams; sulphur predipl- tate, 5 grams; oxide of sine, £13 eran; Ae of violet, 10 drops, Ap \m captain te flashed the Re for a moment on j aie face an if by aceldent. It was w and drawn and terror-stricken, (To Be Continued) ia@e Pars TW Ye ee in at Scere cut, A mountainous array of stockings action in the matter of the cradle is belief she has in the power of “the hand that she finds Wholly tmpracticable Ia that about the eauty Hints. see w ut By Margaret Hubbard Ayety To cure pimples try the} 4 wilt absolutely destroy it. cream for which I give you re-| keep hay a usual, \The Cost of It Ai, | To give an idea of it y provide for this old-| ? |The Plother’s Philosoy Mra. Leudesdorft’s philosophy | ts simple, “Bmanuel didn't have mach {didn’t have much. We aid fot for money. We married for | “It you marty for love and husband you will build the home conlance with his Seals, Leve wi | make all things eaay. In these two statements Mra dorff gave the key to marital from her viewpoint, and if | woman coukl speak with having experience, she can. “Of course I cut owt much that Wall fostip, for one thing. I baw | Pgoclety? 1 have | auilea and I have cough ef no ee to bed iy. | ae? “4 tsseat i ? They the winter 1 go to th “ e Saturday eftyrnoon. In spend one afternoon hod beach. I lea all the childs when on A a ween wt ie. abe teats Sane a Shoe” can make defense, now is her chance’ H x had Pi ply a very little of the orem te pimple; walt until the pimples cured before using the fee which might teritate them, Peroxide for Hair, | Dear Mise Ayer: | ULE, peroxide in the W wash the balr with Be | than ammonia to lighten ‘Ammonia used contingalty #i tie bair too much, Used with a ip home, ligt tution of and ris 5