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THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 8&8, 1907. Pretty Schoolma’ams Better Teachers Than The Homely Ones? No So Says Nixola Greeley= Smith, Challeng= ing the Assertion of the School Superintendent of St. Louts. BRAINS NOT INCOMPATIBLE «- WI1H BEAUTY, HOWEVER teachers in New York. “Pretty as a peach attractiveness in woman. among, school trustees and boards of DISAGREES W1iTH MR. women make the best teachers. A presented to him. done the brains of the pretty woman. for a woman to be.both pretty and without possessing some high quality recreates the most unlovely body. “color. A woman may possess all th She may possess none of them and But te tk entirely possible tor her to, one quality serving to enhance the o' Many yery charming women are, homely. Because of their lack of estly apply herself to her profession. should -bar it from the publid schools, Girls are admittedly much cleverer boy’s matural indifference be added anything at all n, how I love my teacher! dally lesson, and his girl competitors to take the prizes. the limited to St. Louis, —qreanded: ding tenderness for the pretty teacher, ~~ AB_yet no NewYork schoolma’ams have slic Bul New York chas prot “tf any of our pretty ‘and philanthropic teachers wai standard of Missouri, their enterprise and self-sa By Nixola Greeley-Sraith. AVE pretty women more brains than their homely sisters? ——This-question is the necessary corollary of another asked and answered in the affirma- tivesby J. Wittz Andrae, Superin=| tendent of the Public Schools of St. Louis. “Do children learn more from pretty teachers than from homely ones??? So convinced is Mr. Andrae that the beauty is most successfu) in training the yqung idea that he has decided the average of attractive- ness among St.. Louis teachers Is not high enough, and has issued a call for volunteers to the teachers of neirhboring States. All applica- H thons, he said, must be accompanied by photographs, and already hun- dreds -of applicants have volunteered. _New York has always been notid for {ts pretty school teachers, but | if many ornaments of our public schools decide to hear the call from St. | Louis Gov. Hughes will be sorry he vetoed the teachers’ equal salary bill, and will have to reconsider his astion im order to keep the pretty school * has long been descriptive of a marked degree of But if Supt. Andrea's views become general education, “pretty enough to teach” will have to supersede. the popular formula. ANDRAE.- Personally, J think Mr. Andrae wrong in his assumption that pretty child may be more immediately at- tracted to a teacher with fluffy hair and a primrose complexion, but to assume that he will learn from her more quickly than from a plain woman is about as sensible as to aseert_that he conld get his lessons more quickly from red-covered~ books, whtch-is-his invariable choles fm bindings, than from the more sombre boards in which they are generally But I am glad to see that somewhere at least Justice is at last being “Which do women prefer to possess, brains or beauty?” {fs a fre quent query, alike insulting to the pretty and the clever woman. ft assumes impertinently and quite unwarrantably that {t is not possible Por clever. Now, as a matter-of-fact, a woman cannot be supremely beantiful of mind. A rare soul beautifies and Beauty is _not-mere-Itne and form and ese attributes and not be beautiful. yet be a marvel of attractiveness, possess both in the highest degree, ther. eat 1p thé ordinary sense of tha word; physical comelinese they are com- pelled to cultivate the spiritual graces. They try harder to please, and by the same argument I should say the plain teacher would shore earn-| in this way: LOVE TEACHER, NOT TEACHING. There 1s one phase of this pretty. school teacher suggestion that It fs mantfeatly unfair to the boys in school than boys, and if to the the bewildering distraction of bud- it. is doubtful if he could Jearn id be the sum and substance would begin to feel it was x ane na disposition to take ty girls. toepare--and- nt to raise the beauty ~ SHOOTS GOVERNOR, BEHEADED ON SPOT. Assassination, FANKOW, China, July &—The Gov- @rnor of the province of Neanhwel was} mordered yesterday by a student, Ac-| Another Week of — World Want Wonders 24,274 “World Ads Last Week. 2,129 a | companied by the director of police, the Governorwax about to enter a school at Neanklng, capital of the Provinoe of Nexnhwel, when several ishots were fred xt him, three bullets inmteting mortal Injurtes. The director: of police selzeed the as- Sussin and decapitated him on the spot, z if No further disturbances have oc- Chinese Student Meets Quick!°""*, Punishment After Street | CHEW GUM AND KEEP WELL. A Laxativn Chewing Gum—Geod to Chew and Good for You. The old-fashioned role nas to take a Durgative at regilar intervals to cleanse the aystem mid tono the blood. It wan learned by experience that purgatives id neither, but rather left the patient in @ weakened condition—reaoted on the bowels, causing constipation—and thetr frequent use caused Habitual constipa: tion that demanded continued pungini. Tae fallacy of that method Is now known, and the mild Inxatives are used with no bad after-effects, The easiest form in whioh to take the Dest of these ix in the form of Gum-Lax a laxative chewing gum, Tt is flavored as nicely ams any confection cum, and is An pleasant to chaw. ‘The aatot chew- Ing and the Increased flow of in its work, £ Tt Is a9 eany in ite offSdt as tt 1 sto take. The children gladly’ ob It, e every-day koops them Lnight x byery day ‘More than Sage Week Larst Year 6,605. Nore than The Herald. THE WORLD}! LEADS AND GROWS! \ and you wil never Rnowo the, troubles of ‘niigestion and headachen, your com plexion will be bright and clear and Your appetite h If you are billous or cross, \¢ your ap- petite Ix poor or your mania distrens| a closet. Then @ great red beard pro- You, chew noplese of GumeLax after] tuided linet, into” the room, followed hhomeal It retores natural habit, by the mamthoth proportions of Sam‘y Jo to the hole «ystems, At Ul druggtsts, or send 10° cents. to um-Lex (Manutacturing Company, %| , Sem. who \« far trom being a Laat Brosdway,.New York ity, ‘hay declares that Mirhige buried upon hi Wiis \ A % 3 z —bievewith er,and Sam did criflce are to be sem saliva ald} BF | sont the Intestinal tract and {a a{ nana-in-lrw, Syrian Girl-Bride and Husband Who LIGHTNING-PROOF, . Says She Is Held for $5,000 Ransom | Tres AD COSY Tir/1ge Kait—Allah Its, to-day—uttérly SAS PAIMLAN HOLOS HS BADE FR LG RANSOM "Syrian Youth Says Demand for $5,000 Keeps Girl tye Wife Prisoner, eile Cg Se a fy the nnades of his ancestors’ came, Samuel Kair-Allah te in great erouble! Ho sayn lis beautiful young wife is be- ing’ held prisoner by .het red-<whiskered. father in ransom fer %,000, Sam lives at No. 3% Henry street, Broekiyn with his talented mother, Dr__| Martha Kalr-Allah, who was @ pro-| tages of Lady Hicks. His uncle, A.} Aramonnie,-of- ~No.--47---Waahingtoa | ‘Street, Manhattan, ts a wealthy im= porter of Oriental art objects and rugs. _ The dewsendant of the Kat~Allaha is | sali only twenty-one yeurs old. He holds a responrible position in hia uncle's big {mperting house, His romance began ‘wo years ago Samuel Mirhige, whe) fw also a: wealthy Syrian importer, sought somebody to teach his daugnter stenography, Aneesy was o'ghteen years old and had jast been graduated from the Bt Paal's Chapel Sthool, on Vesey street. Young Kair-Allah took the job. It was an easy matter while guiding » comely young girl's fingera to fall in Outwkted Redbernd. loss, love found a way to circumvent the pihk-béarded tyrant, and gam and -nd his rage hook the neighvorhood. He was going to eat Sam allve without salt. | “But Sam's uncle had powerful friends, ‘among th . of whom jMirlige hep were lintercessitne and p.eadings, and he} y relented and gave Roally eo. plone. hie | Pissed “hie daughter a tay if they woald be hap; and! OK eih py ever alter, | i phen Aramosie Deed hse nepuie w | and sent nin to pita to tke Change of his business there, ‘The bride | jand' bridegroom continued thetr honey~ | moon ifthe Quaker Ct dal went | But must week returmed | well New York for a {to the house of Bam’ street, Nreokien, Girt Says Sh They had been h’a visit, yother, In oink Henry | Prisoner. a few days when Mirhixe euganot Xo. Conis and spend a week with hin. He and Ruseed ier «reatly and wanted hor by mn kor & brieg ’tay, She went ist Monday, and then iie trouble began, | Bam cajled on Tuesday and saw ner a few moments. Late that evening he got 4 letver from hie girléwife saylig } hat she wanted all her fine dressex and ‘Jewelry, as her futher was going to give 4 Dig @ntentalnment on the Pourch. sai ant them, but he got no invitation to wy. This worred hith. On Wri- e called to ace his wife and found } | ‘Tearfuily she revealed that she was |} a prixover, She gad that her . fat Lid ed_up_all-of her clothing in a ktemt chest and would not allow ner to j leave $5.10. the howwe until Sam pata aim "Ha," sald Sam boldly, “bue I wilt take you anyway. You ‘are iy wife and he can #ay naught against it. to, ho.” erfed ar ing volce from Dangled by an Bar.” completal NEW.C lowston the Judge's desk, F by the ear. Aneesy sprang from her couch and, wringing her hands, went | down on her knees to her parent, wall- ne him, eh, my father, spare; hi ‘ Then Mirhige laughed through his sanguinary beard «as Bluebeard was wont toh his-ceruttan whis- kers.-Suatehing Samuel-up byte neoky he dropped him down several fights of stairs and then went down after him to see that he had no trouble in get- ing out. The young Syrian said to-day that he did not remember whether he went through the front door or stopped to ‘open it: He—coutd—tea!_tho~hot—breatt breesing through his father-in-law's ruby whiskers as he went out and heard the challenge flung after him: “You may not coine back \ unless you bear with you 36,000." To-day the rou - an attorney, of No. drew up his affidavit of woe and presented {t to the Supreme ur. Mirhige declares that his daughter ts @ willlng visitor at his house and no! Isoner, He sniffs with terrific vo-{ jemence whenever his son-in-law's name ts mentioned. Bride Demands the Ransom ‘The marooned brida, when sen her partnt'e-home No- Sis -Htcke street, Brooklyn, to-day, dit not enurely bear CARINE MA. JAR TURNS LIKE WORM - Banished, Henpecked, His Off- “spring Nursed by Cat, - Pinkie Bit Cop. Pinkse, the Dalmatian, or freckled fire dog of Engine No. 88, in Bast One Hun- dred and Fourth street, was in low spir- ériy henpeckod._Revent— ented to engine As she also ly Flos his mate, — pina WIth the -xpparatie—and—enewered two alarma-on the day the pups came, He delegated the care of five of her offspring to a motherly black oat, while | poor old Pinkie, Sr, was utterly ban- [{shed, not belng allowed to come any- where near the ruilicking little Pinies, TQ » eevish-and has lately anapped Re cuilaren wiio guthered at the door to see the machine run oye When an alarm sounded this noon, licernan J. J. Delany ran in. from Tho Went, One. Fhindred and Fourta street station, next door, Pinkis. Jumped tuto him, bit him twice-on the right arm and twice on the leg. Dr. ot ¢ame from Harlem Hosptcal and cau- terized the wounds. He enunciated the following formula, uncomplimehtary fo Delany: “The dow should be ted up ‘weeks, and if it doesn't die in that Une “Delany tx all right. If the Go« es, the policeman had better seek the ey ft that engine-house thai ecuted at the end of two has at thé pound, where once‘ prominent wag of t Court bar, is preparing Pink’ SEA SWIMMING ER POPULAR ‘oran served notlca on the Pinkie wou! be. 5 ‘4 weeks. Ho Augustus Fricadel, ‘arlem "s appeal, gut her husband's statement. She is a swootly pratty ttle wolAn with dar! eyes anda skin tinted with dusky | rose color Urat ts considered a pecu-! Herly attractive Ortental charm, gh. as ‘1 am not a prisoner, but I will not return to my husband’ until he gives me $5,00 and puts ft In my name. That | is my father's advice and tt la wae. 1| wish The Evening World would eend| him this message: ‘If he thinks more of $5,000 than he of me and my love, why, then, tt wi {impossible for ma to ive with hin Sam declares he will not give up the | %.00 unleas the men ig _depos'tet Jonuy I, the name or himsel and wife. He will continue the tmbea= corpua proceedings, in spite of what his wife maya, Aa'ho is convinced rhe ts under her parent's dominion, COURT CLOSES FOR LACK OF TUDGE. Part + eds Then Shot Teh -thnit Governor Names Appoi | ey eet, Peekskill, June 27, 1%5,| Take the manoeuvre of that famous} were ded. When the tatier| army than marcied up the hil! and the: lagrned of the Marriage, tiey aay in ciel ia conta doy sain, Part IT, of the | Bytlan quarter, he Die the oft an | maroh a down une ive mt, of th Forlentat idol ahd danced about in grea | Court of Genes sions, put on th fury. He ‘9 a man of vast proporuons, | calendar two weeks ago, to open to-! expectation that Gov. raw law, owas thrown open and the: shut up tight to-day ‘A court officer opened the doors apd laid a marked copy of Law Journal Judge came. {van took @ r to Part Ji, After a wiitie Judg: Tecess in Part I, we gonvened aud 1 and atroda back to his own bench to burry through a long calendar of unimportant cases. | Part Il. was adjoyrned until next Monday. if the Governor docs not a’p-| point a Judge before then one of those nce ced to. cut nis} spell 4 ns to re-! congestion In pla Meve th in the _pea_swimming has become one of tne | walters fornied a line Ml, General Sessions, Con | recreation st slar of symmer pneeaine one of the greatest day wer known at Coney Island in the de> mana for-bathing accommodations, At the Brighton Beach baths aa early as 9 o'clock yosteTday morning the Line | med, and long be ad begun to be formed, e ha tide was low) fore noon, alttiough and the temperature of the der 70 degrees, mera OLY aod. rooms whe flied and the ‘ sk two blocks. in 400 lensth, One ‘of the ne! from the a the second. will tween Uiese foars, Bet wespored 10 hold a series ming ras nals, floats about feet noon be) ras profess! KING EDWARD OFF TO Alexandra wlarted this afternoon es the second visit since thelr; the way they will spend | Bangor und jay the a fof Ireland, accession. On -metrow at zi toa, t The, noyar ont Is awaiting the Royal Holynead, and will convey party i née Kingstown, where t them oneen wilt arrive next. Wednesday. morning ‘Ong of King's present the cial objecta of thi Nt trip js to'vislt the Dub- —<———_ FAPRBANKS TO PUT-IN-BAY,. PUTAN-BAY, 0., July 8 —Vice-Presi- gent Fairbanks haa accepted an invita- to deliver an address at the un- thon ory Monument. commem batile of Lake, Erle, here Mi. An eluborate pro- ram x planned for the occ fon. Many notable visitory have sixni fet thetr intention of belne present COLLARS WAVE JUBT THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF TOP AND THE BANO FOR TH 200 OTYLEB IN QUARTER BI CLUETT, PEABODY @ CO., SPACE AETWEEN THE E ORAVAT TO SLIDE EASILY. EES; 19. KACH; # FON Bac, mance ater ccit-| every one faa Dron pisced ine ‘S for umateurs end “PON bON- Hy -S—Kine Edwant_and i} (fopiidalion stone of the University of; thé Hing « K lin exnibition | } TWICE. FLED, HS PANTS’ ARE TORN | Jerseyman Dudley Also Loses} One of His Socks in Dou- ble Bolt Jolt. | eclal to The Evening World) | HOLLY, N. J, July §—Chea- . of this” place, took, the count! c “MOU ter Dudi kdowns by Mghtning here, | the ring. and good as In two and is sill ir lever, : | > Dudley, with Ellsworth Brammin, was talking Inst night, suddenly dame up. a4{anding on a co when a flerce storm Before they had a chance to get to cover, a bolt pf Hxhtning struck near them and stnt Pulley spinnicz, The shock was only vufticient to Kive him | a severe jolt, and he scrambied to his feet Juat as another bolt:canye thunder ing from the sky, igema This ox men_and_proved a complete kno for Braiunin Was laid ou Unconscious | But Dudley, being a true Jerseyman | born and bred, {any otherwise. bolt see newhe: on the jaw, catch te teat, twist him around and stand him on his nead in the roadway When he realized that he wan stil! live he lay a{ill while the holt backed | Gb and then arose and carefwtiy felt | himaelt ali oVer Bo far aa Dudley could make out he was sound in lind and his wind all there, but his pants, his new Sunday pants, suffered horribly, The left leg Had been ripped completely off and humg by a shred from the w Asal one of his embrol thread" socks wan missing, ‘Dhe light- Ring Rg Seed One OT Hig tors Budley's lef: shoe, got a good grip on the sock and yanked it clean out, Some Atrreade were left to prove that the Jer- seyman had not been sockless, but that was all, Dudley looked around for Rrammin and found btm lying unconscious near ® tree. A doctor wad called an1 soon revived the ean and wit hhis friend Dud- ley he declared to-day he felt no ill @: fects of the shook. A (trolley while going along West | Washington street was struck by the! bolt that hit the two men and a: sheets of fre ran-around the car—Tie_yalhiole— was crowded at the time, but none was injured. All the passengers, bowove made a hasty exit and had to seek sh: ter in nearby doorways, : No J., July §—MMuch by lightning during « teriific electrical storm which centred ‘about Flemington iaat evening. George C) Higgins, dwelling at Rowland's Mills, Was struck and badly injured, while! Horace Higgins, his son, was seriously shocked and thrown into conyulalona, but will recover.. Joho Hain, another gon, got a slight jolt and glass from Aiattered window Jacerated his ts proof idnd of lightning, Jersey hb it tin 0 The barns and outbuildings on the| farms of Henry Leigh and Willam Koepbart, near Allerton, wére struck! by Lshtning burned with the con-| tents, the Ii t vck being rescued, Samuol Wilson's dxelling, nearby, was badly damaxed, but the family escaped injury, Luther King’s dwelling Cherryville, was also ~siruck nid t were ality ot affected by the Spire of the Lock- Dwar knocked fi ped off many ner” bOArAS, eW. John- # outbuildings were struck A amg on Inisay—was—torn—off fumil: the porch, electrical ‘tu town a ELLED, HIS. who | Quick Repairing Any glass matched EXACTLY without the prescription. 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