The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1911, Page 3

| Pi iH LAUGHS HERSELF |?Tis a Man-Made World, Everything’s Wrong; | TODEATHABOUT | © Women Must Take HandifIt’sto Be Set Right THIF TO HOUSE | KES OF YOUTA Mrs. Sperber Expires in Midst of Friends After Amusing Reminiscences. SMILE ON HER DEAD LIPS. Pranks Played on School Teacher by Her and Chum Cause Fatal Laughter. While laughing heartily over jokes and stories recalling her girlhood days in the Fatherland, Mrs. Annie Sperber, ‘who had endeared herself to her friends by her ood humor and her foliity, eud- | flenly sat back In her chalr, gasped and Wted in the home of her old friend, Mra, Mary Phillips, at No, 346 Fast ‘Twentieth street. Death had come sud- denly into a merry family gathering While old friendsiips were being re- neWed, To-day two homes are in mourning—the Phillips apartment, Where Mrs. Sperber died and whence she will be buried. and another over the restaurant at 120 No, Pearl street, Whigh is conducted by Mrs. Sperbver's Auvvand, Carl Mrs, Sperber, who was fifty-two years! old, and Mrs, Philips had been girl to in @ little German village not far removed from Rer! They had came to America at the same ime, inarried and lived near each other, @nd their intimacy never waned. Roth Were of 9 jovial nature, When their Trlends found Mra. Phillips and Mra Sperber together they were sure of aolid amurement, Thia friendship went on through yoars, but after a while the families separated and the two saw less of each other. Mra Sperber’s husband went downtown ty open the Pearl street restaurant and! Mrs. Phillips went to live with her young daughter, Mrs. Damaco, on the! fifth Moor of the Hast Twentieth street) house. ‘Until Monday it had been months since the two old friends had seen each other. | ‘Then there came over Mrs, Sperber a Venging for a talk with her confidante. Se to the home of Mrs. Phillips she ‘went to receive a joyous welcome and to de told, when she complained of fee! Ying (il, that she must remain a week, “Tt eeoms now,” eaid Mrs. Phillips this morning, ‘as sf she came here to te with me." LAUGH6 AT CHILDHOOD BEFORE HER DEATH. 2 Cheered dy compantonship, Mrs. Sper- Her seemed to feel wel! again, There ‘were eo many things to talk of that she Seemed to forget her t!ness, Christmas Plane were gone over, and every eve- ting, when the members of the Uttle | family gathered, there was laughter a- plenty as the exchange of jokes went on, Lest aight Mrs. Sperter recalled the many pranke whe and her friend had played on their teacher in Germany. The memory of there brought t of laughter to the eves of both of them | end sent the younger folk into an up. roar, Mra, Sperber told how once ahe drew on her elate a picture of the teacti- ey in animated flirtation with the deli- | catessen man down the street; and Mis. | Phillips narrated how sne and her friend once brought severe punishment upon themselves by being caught in the act | of imitating the severe spinster* ine srructrese Following this Mre. Phillips recalled the old man at home who used to be the butt of tho village. ‘This man! wna full of the military spirit and con- | sidered himself @ genius. The women laughed again as they reminded each cher of the fantastic uniform in which tue General,” as they called him, | would garb himself, to the amusement of the villagers, One suggestion iwought on another, unt!! Mra, Sperber rolling in her chair with mirth, | Then a#he suddenly choked and fell} back. She was Mfelese tn her chair when) those around her rushed forwatd, Her} fice #till showed e@ smile, Hurriedly they went for @ policeman, who called aa ambulance, When Dr. Wearne ar- fived from Bellevue he #ald death had heen instantaneous. There was no it was due to heart ted by the fit of laugh- eioiadaagiahineieen WOMAN HEARD CARUSO AND FINISHED IN CELL. Caused Disorder in Street After Opera and Is Fined in Police Court. Arrayed in a low cut gown, generous. ly revealed by an open fur coat and aleo in a hat with a young forest of green ostrich plumes on tt, Mra. Violet Monroe of No. 64 West One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street, tearfully told Magistrate Corrigan to-day that all her jroubl were Caruso's fault. Mra. Monroe's husband, who is a travelling salesman, is away from home and @ ‘lend reileved her loneliness last night by talking her to the Metropolitan Op- era House to hear the “Girl of the Gol- aq West.” “TE just couldn't stand {{, The whole veg wi too highbrow for me,"" she wailed, nd I just made my friend tale me out to a restaurant across the xtreet. And after that I don't remem- ver anything until this officer (pointing to Policeman Hellwege, who wated her) caught me by tite ‘Third avenue and asked me very rudely what I was equawking about.’ Hellwege explained that the young roman was making s0 much noise on ‘Third avenue that several business nen led him to take her away, Mrs. Monroe paid hey fine of $2, but efused to leave court for quite a while because the Magistrate would not give hey @ summons for her friend of last evening. She sald that she hed just discovered on paying her fine taui she had leo paid all the expenses of last night's diversion, and sie felt she had ven Hideous Fashions, Sitly| Conventions, False Ideals of Beauty and) Family Life Charged to| Male by Mrs. Gilman.' Produce a Race of Lit-| tle, Fat, Short-Legged Women, and Rob the Child by Making Mother a Servant. Square Jaw of Bulldog or Alligator Make Up His Manly Beauty “‘Ideal,” Even if Cross-Eyed, Wide-Eared and Bandy- Legged. Female Should Select Her, Mate and Fix the Standards on Which Both Should Create a World for the Child. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. “Tis a man man, whose World, Man alone has inos! ture of the world, NIXOLA. GREELEY* SMITH “What man hi and pride. “See, for instance, the English wife staying with ber husband tn India| and sending the children homo to be brought up, because India is bad for | | | that feature of tho buildog and | dence; if the wife refuses to go with him to howsoever unfit @ place for| telly ciasaldnns Goin MINISTER SEEKING “The possession of that kind of jaw, children. See our common law that tdeal of female beauty. disproportionate emphasis on ser. the hideous fashions, man has created the silly con- ventions of Society. thing, and made it wrong. Then she takes family life as an instanc THE EVENTI THE FEMALE OF THIS SPECIE (5 More Love.y THAN THE MALE made world, my masters!” Such is the message of Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gtl- t recent volume, “The Man Made declares that: mace the ideal of family life, the Man in the urt and litera ae well ae in life itself, has laid a Man has made Man, in short, has made every- jas done to the family,” Mrs. Gilman | *ays, “is to change it from an institution for the best service of the child! to one modified to his own service, the vehicle of his comfort, power | the man decides the place of resi- her and for the littie ones, such refusal on her part constitutes ‘desertion’ and is ground for divorce.” tos leas from the nor- mal than the male, Mrs. Gilman ar- gues, therefore the female, not the male, should choose the mate, Woman ehould select her husband instead of | being selected by him. | Men like little women, also fat) women, according to Mrs, Gilinan, but} {tls not good for the race that women should be either little or fat. As the result of mi persistent preference for the “ultra-female type,"” woman hae become too little and too fat—also—ter- rible thougat! She has grown short- legged. | HAS LONG MADE A SERVANT OF | THE WOMAN. “In large generolization,” Mrs. Gil- | man says, hy omen of the world cook and wash, sweep and dust, and mend, for the men. “We are so accustomed to this rei tion, have held {t for so long to be the | ‘natural’ relation, that it is dimcult in eed to show tt to be distinctly ral and injurious. The father to be served by the daughter, a servi quite different from whet he expects! of the son, ‘This aivonce such forvice fs 1 , or even ¢ | fs euppored to be the | position of women, ws such, Hl ‘We have @ world,” adds Mrs. Gilman, “wherein men, industri- ally, live in the twentieth century, and women, irdustrially, ive in the first—and back of it, } ‘To the same source we trace the ao- | cial and educa 1 imitations set about women, ‘The dominant male, holding his women as property and fiercely Jealous of them, constdering | them always as his, not belonging to) themselves, thelr children or the world, has hedged them in with restricilons of ® thousand sorts; physical, as in the crippied Chinese lady or the imprisoned ) odalisque; moral, as in the oppressive dootrines of submission taugh: by all our androcentric religions; ment! in the enforced ignorance from which women are now ao swiftly emerging. “MAN-MADE FAMILY ROBS THE CHILD.” ‘his abnormal restriction of women has necessarily injured motherhood. man, fri in the world’s Growth, has mounted with the centur. 5, filing an ever wider range of woria activities, “The woman, bound, has not « grown, and tho child is born to Progressive fatherhood and a sta- tionary motherhood, Thus the maz- | made family reacts unfavorably upon the child. We rob our chil- Grom of half their social heredity by Keeping the mother in an ic- | ferior position; however legalizea, hal:.wed or, ossifed by time, the position of domestic servant is in- fertor, Now we coune to “man made teauty. whieh Mrs, Gilman says {s not rea! Deauty at all, but gross over ment of certain pointe which him as a male. So far as Ican discover {t has been at least ten years since man, singly and vely, lost his dovelop- | appeal to ing plumpness. Heves that “ex regarded as asa! & desirable feminine ate Mis. Gilman ss onsidered | in Wo in reagity an | * weaky He! yYand i) health, ne vr Vely small ot woaien, doliderately preferred, stead | desuy chosen, and gi Bulls into tbe race, | {80 perfectly to th | traditiona! decor is largely rma}, | slonate absorption in d tion pnovmal, ave nev looked, from « frankly human stand {a & blow at rea! human peogrese in every particular. In our upward jour. Rey we should and do grow lurger, leav. ing far behind us our dwarfish progent. tor: |MAN PREFEPS WOMEN SMALLER THAN HIMSELF. “Yet the maic, in his unnatural po- sition as selector, preferring for reasone both practical and sentimental to have, ‘hls woman’ smaller than himself, has deliberately striven to lower the stand- ard of size in the race, We used to read in the ion, ‘He was a magni of man- hood'—‘Her golten head reached scarce. ly to his shoulder'-She was a fairy creature—the tinlest of er sex.’ we havo mated, vet expected that by some hocus pocus the boys would ail ‘take after their father’ ond the girls their mother, in his efforts to improve the breed of other animals man has never tried to detit tely cross the large and small and cx ect to keep up the standard of size, “As @ malo he is appesled to by the ultra-feminine, and has given small thought to effects ou the race. He wns not designed to do the selecting. Under his fostering care we have bred a race of women who are physically weak enough to be handed about like invalids or mentally weak enongh to pre- tend they are—and to like it. “We have made women who respond force which made them that they att beauty to thore characteristics whic attract men; soir es humanly ugly without even knowing tt, ONE RESULT 18 WOMEN WITH SHORT LEGS. “For thetance, our long restriction to house limits, the heavy limitations of our clothing, anc the heavier ones of m, have made women short-legged, ‘his is lignified and injurious bred in women end tne en, Most seen among those 1 keep thelr women most disproportiona Jeulari, ist. races whi closely “Yet when oue woman escapes the tendency and appears with a morinal length of MF aud tibia, a normal betg: and should she is criticised and called ‘awk- ward’ by her squatty sisters.” Mrs. Gilman le Attention to well-known fact only female ¢ burden of sex 0: “Alone among af female things, she cays, “do women decorat proen themselves aud exhibit their borrowed plumege (literally!) to attract male. “Won:en wear heautifnl garments when they happen tc be the fash- fo ugly garmeute when they are the fashion, and show xo signs of knowing the difference, “Phey show no added pride in the beautiful, no hint of mortification In the hideous, and are not even a itive the under eriticlym, or open to @ny pe suasion or argument, Why should they be? |MAN WRONG EVEN IN IDEALS OF “MANLY BEAUTY,” “Thelr condition, physical and mented, point, at thelr positio: tles, until the present Even mai's ideal of wrong, Mra. Gilman "MOMS edout aay ‘Rene’ zen and Its beauty ‘Thus | hall thelr idea of) ra WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1911, y's | GIRL PURSUES WIFE BACK WITH GIFTS BUT HUSBAND IS PEEVISH. Points to Scars of Wounds She Made With a Razor and Causes Her Arrest. All Splendorino Restiputo did to her wife vt tragically. ratgnment tn the police court the young tried to speak to her husband. Ag: » Dointing to livid scars on his fact turned Ma back and folded ‘cnntsintpcinascte BRIDE OF 16 YEARS AND HUSBAND ARRESTED. Mra. Bitzabth M. Donovan of Ne 6 It took Agatino a) before Magistrate O'Connor in the Cen ed | ne | young husband Agatino at thelr home " i] No. 14 Central avenue, Brooklyn, last) Greenwich street, sixteen years ol, ¢ | ' Avgust was to cut sections out of hte| bride of lew than a week, was brough’ \ — on | Regina's Basketball Training Helps in Chase After Man | With Money, | HAD $900 IN A BUNDLE | Neighborhood Joins in Pursuit | She Starts When It !s Snatched From Her. Willian Porceoals, twenty-two years old, of No. 46 Hast Dorty-elghth street, di@ the haniest day'e work in his promising career thie morning after ho {had snatched a bundle of money trom | Regina Rosenberg, twenty years old, who works as cashier for her father, Solomon, a wholesale fruit merchant, at No. 1 Attorney street, William is panting yet as a result of the pursuit that followed his attempt to possess. money without work. Regina left her home, No. 18 Avenue ©, at 9 o'elock with $900 in smal) change qousen | and Otis wrapped tn paper under hee Hain arm, Two young men suddenly ran Againgt her and one selaed the unite Pat, | and sped swiftly down the street, Now we PAT, SHORT) Regina was once the champion basket- ball player of Pabditc School No, 174, and she sped even more swiftly tn pursult No gridiron champion ever t tler than ehe, and uy noney and Koegina rolled on the stde- THE “MAW:MADE HOME” 19, THE watk *VEMICLE OF HIS COMFORT, POWER Willlam arose, selzed tie 1 AND PRIDE” seata sped. » AM Regina, es reached. the side door of a lease,” she advises, “or study the | oducts of the illustrator, | ote the broad shoulders, the rug- Ged features, the strong, square, | Getermined jaw. That jaw is in anathe: Himbed over the ©» 2a preparl and he quickly evidence if everything else falls. to the tire and clambered to the! | Me may be cross-eyed, wide-enred, ground, Regina did not thick-mocked, bandy-leggea — whi Aw Willfam was frantt j but he must have @ — a fence in the rear of No prognathous jaw. | " ‘ treet, Kina was franticn “Meanwhile ary anthropologist | nberneaes an for help. It came in the form off men, wil show you that the line of hu- women, children and barking dogs man development is away from { Witlany got over the fer (oughly fied with toe from ya, mounted the fre eae i | the five wry tenement at No. t \: et When Wilham reaen t may enable male to conquer inale, but p ho was larry Brankel of does not make him of any more service a leo soctety; any better heaith or So Nigher beauty. 0 Mrs. Gilman's remedy for the evils of Man inade world’ i the “hum world," a world in which women ary acknowledged to be the equais of mer In this “human world’ Love, as me be the gover: otu Me ground floor e longing to get Mold af wags worse, he maw Regia Wiillam started’ for the Mt and he reae Hien: in the ¥ h erbwa TOO uch ORUG understand it, “will not be t d, rushed outelde and Into the ing necessity of parentacod. Mother- ras of a dozen oxine followers. jhood will be the dominant factor of |... > ay: ol of paneer. aa uid w Things jehoice, and men and women together | The Rev. David V. Gwilym of of,Policemen, as sid Ww J pain | will create a new world for the child. | men Stitz and if nm street panting In other words, the inan made world} Long Island Expires in Hol- will give place to a world made by man | RAE NOR Sie the eailé, | lander’s Hotel, Harlem, | CAPT. EZRA J. MERRITT ous res DIES FROM AN OPERATION. Petice Ination of the death of, atic aise Rev, De. David V. Gwilym, a retire: m had dropp {Aged Marine Hero Was Head of |@?!seopsiian minister, in Hollander's during crows the root of No. Great Wrecki 1 Sal |Hotel, No. 149 West One Hundred and. 1 Pitt street, was recovered Intact Jreat Wrecking and Sal- |Twenty-ffth street, indicates that th vage Company. erdose of jclergyman succumbed to Merritt, principal owner |# drug known as verona en to tne of the Merritt Chapman Wrecking Com- | duce sleep. His wife says he has been | pany, dicd to-day in his eighty-third| using it for many years. An empty year at Dr. John B. Walker's Hospital| bottle that had contained veronal was found on a table in the room with tis body. | Mrs, Gwilym told Acting Capt. Faulk- ner of the, West One Hundrod and! Twenty-Afth street station that she saw her husband alive the last time on 1 t d ] ft rer,usiand aie oe at tive Only ten days le said he was going out to get shaved. She heard no more of lim until the news in Which to make your reached her 5 vening that he purchase of aVictrola In Thirty-third street. He was operated upon on Tuesday for an ab- dominal abscOss and was so feeble be- cause of his advanced age that he could net survive. His home was at White- stone, L. 1, where up to last week he kept a careful eye on the plant of the | wrecking company, whtch had the head- quarters of its towing and salvage bus- iness there, ay nder’s Hotel, Capt. Merritt was born in New York | was where City. He followed tl from his | he wn, Where he spent A teunilaiiosh: Ladbat he Heche the} Tuesday night has not been learned for Christmas | /ament of the Marine Underwriters, Out] the police or his wife, The demand onus for Vie! las of experionce gained in working forthe] ‘Che clergyman entered the hotel yes- this year we SAH anh One t underwriters lie formed the idea of the|'terday morning at 7 and was shown to, Ul!S y as never great. wrecking company, which he afterward | a room, Nothing was seen of hin dur-! There's bound to be a shortage. | directed to success and prosperity, The} ing the day, and last night Victor . No wonder! What more ap- the door to his room, Dr. Gwilym lay Preciated gift can there be than on the bed in his-underclothing |a Victor-Victrola! Think of the Dr, Gwilym, sixty-one years old, ilved| pleastre it gives to young and . 580 West One Hun-| old, Pretsler, manager of the hotel, exploit of which he was proudest was ed | the saving of the French liner L'Amer- |lque from the rocky shoals off Sea- | bright, N. J., after ninety days of un- ceasing work in the early spring of 1877, Capt. Merritt's strongly ined, | dred and Seventy-ninth street, and had ; 5 | merry, kindly personality furnisied tne| been a lecturer and mixsionary for sev-| At Landay’s two Fifth Ave. [ngptvation for many writers of aeq | @ral Years. | He wax born in Wales, | stores and their 34th St. store 1eH, | where he studied for the ininistry. Lite et cou: i ¥ ARE eRe, | firat clerical charge was in Nova S | you get courteous, intelligent Later he came to New York and | S¢¥Vice, lowest prices and the of Holy Trinity C No, | most liberal terms. shty-clghth street. Then | VICTROLAS—$15,.00 up | ta was pas jLILA RHODES TO MARRY | CHARLES KING, ACTOR. | * =4* Bethrothal of George M. Cohan’s Cousin, a Dancer, Reveals a Stage Romance. Miss Lila Ihodes, whose du iT? |e feature of “The Little Millionair ‘ | nd who is a cousin of George M. Cobh the Washin announced her engagement to] qroteits ifvapltal from contus on how on the road tn “The | ytaneys went to Bayside, L. 1. he re- mained until he bi cturer, "| Authorized Victor Factory Distributors |27 W. 34th St., bet. sth & 6th Aves. | itine| 400 Fifth Ave., at 37th St. 563 Fifth Ave., cor. 46th St. uto Victim Dies. Archibald Minster, thirty old, of No, 220 West One Hun Fourth street, who was run ¢ utomobile at One Hundred and Inth stroet and Broadwa t ‘| day, died to-day in The date of the wedding has not been | aneenmees j persis aceon fixed definitely, but it will be about | ws Fine Watches IGAN Miss Rhodes, her three sisters and) | | brother have been brought up by Mr.| ene eT Ci FURNITURE CO were children ner family name {| 7) | Costtgan. \Rich Gold Jewelry FS Free Furniture’ Miss Rhodes :nade her stage debut + Special attention iy called to uur CelebratedCollar Button “THE BEN at ’- g vith Your Purchase tgh-Grade Furniture She was fifteen tn “Little J "Tt was during this engag EDICT ou after George at Conan | Liberal Credit Terms “in in Ne y sakes END VIEW Zz Down tid va ae “sccerrAbLe Fe SiN: ote tt One the Waldort, FOR SALE ONLY B ant tempera age teremmonal Som BENEDICT BROTHERS 2174-3" AVE |noon at 2 o'clock in the Myrtle ant| Broadway and Liberty Street, S!OE View Bast rooms gt jue Weidors-Aataria, | Barmanans Location, May aaah R'pay @ Fallon a | BETIISZII9™ST Uitle wife. But not Agatino, arrested on On | anos with a razor. month to recover. wite disappeared. She returned to-day, coat and with her mas presents for Agatino. Agatino would take her back and make a char arms full of Christ In the meantime his! tre Street Police Court to-day charges with being an incorrigible child, sie lad tn a long fur! Was aecompanied by her husband, Jor seph Donovan, twen She thought Dec, 6 and ing her ‘ | Chapel, where they were a fuss over her and welcome her as his! Frances Veratraten ot | etre ead he had her | complaint of felonious as-| Donovan w: LET YOUR Christmas Cigars United Stores Select a brand having reputation for Quality and let the price govern Quantity. Palma de Cuba Hrices range Benefactor heal i de Murias icoro Stachelberg $ 25 Orlando A Box | Sed fo pe of egensburg ‘Twenty Five Principe de Gales ies Gato $ 00 Optimo Havana-American Mi Favorita Por Hundred is, Quality above question... . 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