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See Se SWSTALWART | a REFUSED. ~TOHELP ATR So Aged Man “Appealed to} Magistrate, Who Assessed ‘Each According -to, Means. 7 A. MONTH. tOne of the Boys Is Worth Thousands in. Cash and Fias Big Intefests. Se ‘ “ @ tottering, gray-hatred old man to- éay agpeared bofore Magistrate’ Geia- mar injthe Fifth Avenue Court, Brook lyn, as against’ aix| Netalwart, healthy looking Then, He wan} -debn Kronenbderger, and the arratghed | wren were hin sons, with /non-support the Bronx “amolinting Wag worth in another, through tion, had an inco The old fathe tyoara in tuis country, 1s &@ word of Engiian complainant whom he charged It was developed | haa fnteresta {nj to $300,000 | Ov id hablo to speak His story was told to the Court through an interpreter. He | | | Aid that @uring the last few years he! had ‘become so feeble that he had een | J unable to make his own living and was compelle!to-take up reaidence with hia| sons, From one home to another, he alleged, he drifted until three menths| ago found him In the hi of hig son/ George, at No, 372 Fifth avenue. ~ None Would Take Him In, George is married, and with a family to‘aupport found himself unable to take} care of hin aged father when he lost |< his position two wenks ago. Since then the father has appealed to all of his gona, he says, but no welcoming hand j @F home was offered him tn hin visit to| the various members of his family. H Fis appeal to the authortties reeuked | Qe-day in the appearance of the family | -in' dourt. In addition to the sons the/ femilies of each were well represented fn the benches reserved for spectazors, end many timos arguments waged 10 hot among the women that the Judce had to caution them to be quiet. ‘With Solomon-like wisdom Magistrate Geismar exiimined cach of the sons un- Wil he learned their Mabtlities and taxed each accordingly until 37 was made w. This amount wil! be contributed by the various sons each month How TheyjAre Assessed, Vecob, the first to be éxamined, who Heres at No, 7 Ritter place, the Bronx, told. the Magistrate that he was a real ‘estate owner and operator In the Bronx, worth 9,000, and had interests tn $200- 0 worth of real extate, The Magistrate | taxed Jacob to pay $12 toward the sup- port of his father, Phillip, of No. 104 Tinton avenues, Bronx, said he owned his own home and made about $1,40 a year from real eatin operations He sald, however, that business was very bad in the Bronx At present, and he didn't think he would do as well this year, Phillip was told to pay W = month © “Laweence only has to pay $3 a month, { as he told the’ Judge he was out of *@ position and that his wife and relu-| ives were his main support Ferdinand, of No, 807 Fifth ‘avenue, Brooklyn, who earns $11 a week selling Gre extinguishers, wag told to pay $1 ae fila share after he informed the} Magistrate that he supported his mother ~and; mother-in-law aa well as ‘Bdg wife. i John iand George were directed to} contribute $1 apiece each month tv-| ward the support of their father, and) Magistrate Gelamar’s labors were fin-| “ielied. All. of the brothers were al-| Jowed to leave the court afier the Magistrate had admonished them all ty make payments promptly. HER SHOES HAD NARROW ESCAPE =If Driver Had Not. Called * at the Moment Mr. Billings Would Have Been Robbed S Chmrtes McCabe, twenty-soven years 14, who says ‘he In a walter and gave his address as Manhattan avenue, ZGreenpoint, was arrested thin afternoon ccgberged with attempting to secure pos- beaston of 343,60 worth of fine ghoes. 2GMire, Frederick Billings, who ocouples alapertment of the third Noor of No, Sx" Dfadiaon avenue, purchased five Sipaire of hoes valued at #650 from a T2Broatway shoe store yesterday and had ¢hem sent home. She discovered { = thst the shoes nealed some alterations “and eent worn! to the shoe story people, A< Capper, well-dressed young man ealled at the apartment to-day and sald eeme for tho shoes, Wille she was ex- plaining to the young man the changes she wanted made the door-boll rang ‘and another young man appeared. He Was a uniformed driver from the store, ‘hoes. ~ ‘When they got to the parlor tha Arat eallor had disuppeured’ Then he dested out of a bedroom and ran downstairs, ‘The driver, William cracaes of No. Eirat avenue cornered him and im, 9m th “oor while Mra, Bi vir oa fea in Fatroneen Rou Jellia, Urtisth street ion, neko locked MeGabe Upreice wae +; Aakie 1 CAUSES HEADACHES? tat he was from the store and had| “who said that he had come for the} THE EVENING WORLD. “TUESDAY. DECEMBER 10, ‘American Men Marry for Love, but the Women Wed for Money, Says Le Petit Journal’s Editor M. Alexandre Ular, Finds We Have One Set of Morals | for Business and Another Set | for the FRENCH, IMMORAL ALL THE TIME, ARE BETTER PEOPLE, Our Women, Everyth the to Wear BY Nixola Greeley--~S mith. 7X0, POC] Te CES nL caweenen phatically. an air of ease, of leisure everywhere and works in Paris.’ But the work ls going on just the same.” MM. Vier fo a man of Teutonte tort |. ness, but he has one of the moet Gellic apirits that ever twinkle sardonioally fyom a pair of blue eyes or uttered trenchant epigrams from a mouth that looka as # ft had been cut by ome of these rapter phrases, New York Nolster and Dirtier Than Paris. “Mew York,” he continued, “4s noister than Paria; {tn streets are dirtler than | French streets. It ts far jess way than Paris. In fact, it je not gay at all. It hasnt time to be. It dosen't pay to be, aocording to the Amertoan point of view.” . n't itT" I asked, putting In a test | feeble word for what is to me the most exhilarating city In the world, “isn't it ayer than London?” "Oh, London—par example and M. Ula shrugged and sniffed and even faintly snorted hia derision. “London ta) lugubrious. London is a bore, Cer- tainly !t ls gayer than London.’ { “What do you think of Azmerioan hell menf’ I sprang the fatofiil, question of | American journalism suddenly. Mf. Ular met It squarely. *T have known many American wo- men im Paris. You are the first Ameri- can women I baye spoken to in this country, “But I noticed the wonen in the streets when walking this afternoon, They are very robust. They have fine figures. But they have not the same grace’ as Frenchwomen, and, in my opinion, not the seme charm ~ American Women Are Everything In Extremes. "T ‘haye seen American women. in Paria who had paid thousands of dol- lara for gowns, and they would not be nearly so pretty nor so we dreased ax nome poor Frenchwoman who knew how to wear her clothes, You know,’ confided M, Ular, ‘it ts mot the cost, not the gown, that mekes ® woman's appearance; It is the way be puts It oe iAmerioan women,” he continued, “are everything im extremes, When they are pretty they are very pretty. When they are not pretty they are quite exiraer~ Gndrily not 20. “[ admire anything extraordinary. I admire your Mr. Rockefeller, I read many things about him. He 1a se coloe- sal, There are murderers in Paris ef whom we read they have killed twenty- elght women. 1 admire them, toe,” “But surely not for the same reason,” I protested. “well,” replied MM. Ular, ae thoush reluctantly making @ cencession to my prejudices, ‘of course, the murderer dees far lees harm.” + 1 qasped. . A Thrust at Rookefelier, "Yes," pald M. Ular, “he only hulle twenty-eight women. The Reokefellor viotima are numbered by thousands and, tens of thousands. ‘Hero in America yeu sdmére: only miccess. You bow dows before the re- mult, however it Ja achieved." “And in France?’ I suggested. “Oh, yes; in France we admire the result too; but we are frank’ about it. We have not one\morality for business and another for private life.’ We are } immoral all ‘the time, «That is \whet makes us better then you ure” “You mean to imply that an Ames can changes his merale when be changes from his business to his even— ing clothes?” 1 taterjected. “Ne,” sald M. . than that, He changes his brain, too, Between 10 and & he knows ne morality, Between 5 and 10 the next morning he knows nothing else. . Grace and Charm of French Women, and Don’t: Know How “The stranger in Paris walks along the boulevards. He sees |—ena I don't fer a moment admit it | I said, “don't you think the mere pre- ‘He dees move |. Delightfully Cynical, Home. ing in Extremes, Lach Clothes. | “| have walked about New York: all day, my first day of observation —up Broadway from Union | Square, along Fifth avenue—ani everywhere saw written in the faces that passed me the mania for mon ey. Every face said plainly: | “1 am looking tor money, svork-} ing for .money, rushing madly! aiter money.” \, | It was M. Alexandre Utar who) spoke. He is newly arrived from Paris, and is the editor of that dizzy metropoliss most popular news- paper, Le Petit Journal, as well as of a graver financial journal. | “And is this different from Paris! |-asked. “Oh, yes,” replied M. Ular, em- he says to pet ‘Nobody } than an Americar dbeosues I pre- tend to nothing. The Immoralty of a Good Dinner. | ‘mverything worth while ts tmmord!," | he added. “I have just'hed @ xood din- | ner, Now, « geod dinner {s very im-| moral.” “WhyT? I asked, for I bad just had} a good dinner myself, with no qualms of conscience whatever. ~ * “A good dinner,” the oracie answered. “ts tmmoral s0 long as there are men and women alive who have no dinner at all.” ‘Wrenkty, M. Ular, you think any people, the Engilsh’ or the Americana, for instance, who preterm to a diferent code of meralityfrom the French. are amply hypocrites?” ‘Why?’ was the frank reply. ‘The ‘nslish bave wedttons; they reatly be- lieve in some things The American creed can be expressed in. two wordat Money—Svocens, Buccess—Money, ‘Money—Success’ is the tcbtece of American Mie." “MEven tf we only oretend to be mood tense makes us better than you? Your own erch-cynic, La Rochefoucault, sald: *Hypocriey 1s the homage Vice pays to Virtue. ‘Wow, Tl give yeu a concrete stance of American superiority. A xirl oan go anywhere unattended in New York—tndeed, all. over Amorica—and escape insult. Yet ae I came throush Ninth street this evening to the Hote! Lafayette I heard a. Frenchman all out in broken Engtish as he passed an) American girl: ‘It's a nesty night out,! Init Tt. Amerioana) don't do [that American Men Marry for! ‘Women for Money. ‘I regret. that incident,” sald M.| Ular, “but J must say that an Ameri- can would not do It, would not notice the woman at all, because he would be thinking about ‘money—about his af- fairs.” Think of #1 A‘woll-Informea French journalist who imagines the American man '@ too busy for women! Oh, la, fal as they say in France. ‘In my country,” eaid-M. Uler, ‘mar riage {a generally a bostness propoal- tion. Among the Americana I have known it ts ajways one” “You are mistaken. The American mam, above all others, merries fer love,” I eontradboted. " earmit ft," was the reply, “bat the! American woman, above all others. | mmarttes for money. If she is poor, wor- rled and does not know where to, turn, / she joes abowt for ¢ man to work for her, and she finds him.” ‘Sané-tn France?’ I asked again. Oh, no; tt ts not the same tn France. | ‘The, woman brings the money in the French marriage, you know,” “And you aeenal that Tr The Only Ideal Marriage. sro, o& ‘no! The enly ideal mar rtage ie between two very poor, very young persona, whe love each other very much—a couple who have to solve the dally preblems of lofigtng and bread and butter. The rith have no Love; | Fully cooked’ and full of the material that makes energy — Grape-Nuts Try it for Junch, with cream, ‘ Fron Ox coast a Nay ld are te moet aubo o Ty re oper cause, “THERE'S A RBASON,”’ ‘| completely happ: “They ALL ALEXANDRE ULAR an ara ——— interests in life. They “are of no ac- Interest “MORE BODIES RECOVERED. ‘They Have leisure to cultivate the Sc, arts,” I sald “Literature, music.) MONONGAH, W. Va. Deo, 10—At patnting.” ‘ noon to-day 141 bodies had been brought M. Ular shru ged the arts with one|to the surface from Mines Nos. 6 and § hunch of his-exorewaive shoulders Into] Of the Fairmont Coal Company here. uh heap. “What are the arta in conjugal life? Avwife never sings or plays the plano tl her hushand bores her.” “But they can't sit around and pay tach other compliments afl the time,” T exclaimed. “Certainly not. The paying of com- pliments ts fatal. The understanding in a happy marriage is too complete foc compliments,” was M. Ular'a reply. “And ‘those are the only marriages there ought.to be.” ‘But under those condftions wouldn't be fifteen marriages world!’ I protested. * Some Happy Marrlages—in China. “Oh, yoa,"” said Ular, “there would be at least thirty Then he added: “I know of happy marriages tn ina, where a man had three or four wives. The wives were there in the were women Interrupted, lving in. polygamy are . indeed! sald Sf. Ullaas thou d. ‘And the women of Thibe eo three or four, husban’ , what are they they re yee: T laughed. Ular inughed: too, your polnt of view," he. sald. wot “oourme neither, American” nor women would be. In| iycamy But,” he added. “that oesn't make it wrone for the Chinese?" | ‘And with this admission I had to. he | satisfied and let him zo back ta the coffee at the ent of the “immoral” Ainner be had left to ree ma”, in-| = Thd work of rescue is progressing ap rapidly as the neorasary precautions for. the safety of the workmen will permit, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. CONTINUATION O: Taffeta Sil Offering of largo and extra larg: BLACK ONLY, COLORS. Regular sizes.” Value BLACK JERSEY TOP PETTICOATS, all wool with Taffeta siix . Values $7.50 to $8. Ruffits, “Women’s 2,000 PAIRS REAL FRENCH GLACE KIDS, 2 olasp, newest shades, also Diack and whito, Regularly $1.50 pr. 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