The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1912, Page 3

é . « ait ~ SATO BURCLARS, “AND GET SHOT” Mrs. Williams Stood Inside the Door With Revolver Ready for Action. DESPOND” ROBBER QUICKLY FLED. wes Metuchen Matron Knows How to Use Guns, and Prepares ||” 1 for Intruders, | ‘There ts one burglar somewhere tn this! j world who is carrying around in his breast to-day a very wholesome fear of Mrs. George H. C, Williams of Me- #¢ tadhen, N. J. He'll never try to get tmto her house again, not if he knows P %. He tried it on Tuesday night and i Mra, Williams, with a ready revolver tn fer band calmly informed him through the door that he/would be a dead man the ‘instant he crossed tho threshold. Bo quick was he to realtze the deter- mination in her voice that when the Dofiée arrived in a motor oar, in re- sponse to her telephone message, he, wes at @ great distance from that door | and that plucky woman and that re: volver. “This, you know, is the beginning of the open season for thieves in this part af New Jersey, and I for one believe in being prepared at euch a time,” sald Mrs. “Williams to-day. ‘So when I ra heard a noise at one of the windows on our front porch I realized that our turn had come. I was practically alone in the house. My niece, Miss Anna Beek- man, who lives with us here, and one Of our maid-servants were in the kitchen with a Visiting maid-servant from one , 06 the neighbors’ houses. BURGLAR KNEW THE MEN WERE AT MEETING. ‘Mr. Willlams was out. He and most ‘of the men of Metuchen were attending & meeting of the School Board, where trustees were being elected, As there! had been notices of the meeting in the| papers I suppose my particular burglar | thought {t an excellent opportunity to | fet to'work. | “Our home on Middlesex avenue may be a tempting mark on account of its lecation; at any rate the burglar se- lected st, and when the place was all! quiet he began on the front porch win- | dow. “Just as soon as I heard him T got out a revolver—I have threo of them, by the way, and I'm a firm believer in their efficiency, too—and prepared to re- cetve him: The attempt to vpen the| window went on for some time. I told miy }ifece where’ the shotgun, was, and she stood ready to get tt. She knows how to use tt, you may be sure, “So we waited, with an eye on the windpw and quite ready, But the thief evidently found the window catch too | @Moult, or else something frightened him from the front of the house, be- cause he crept around to the back and trfed the rear door, which hay a wide storm-door about It. “Then I thought it time for me to enter the scene, So I went to the back door and waited a moment to see ‘. whether the noise would continue. I still heard it, so standing close to the Panel I said: “‘Bome one outside this door 1s try- ing ‘to get into this house. I don't t Know who it is. If it is any one who * “Has a right to get in let him speak up. “But if not, I shall kill whoever en- ‘0 mere.,.I am well armed and not in the least afraid.’ “after that the noise stopped. 1 THe Tee PILGRIM swoueH 4 Escaping | ‘the Slough; Of Despond THIRD A she ; too, Everygirl wh te ress is likely to NIXO) GREELEY* SMITH I am writing about @ real Priscilla |who met a real dragon, so I have to| report the combat as {t happened, how- ev + <Gatewood's and the W: ¢. where they got money. and sil- | su 4 Weeware. And the on before they] PRISCILLA LEARNS A LESSON | had entered a house direct!y opposite FROM THE DRAGON, ‘ ure ‘and stolen a lot of thin i 014 t ia feller tell you I run # bur- VeKENLON FIGHTS BRISK FIRE ea ssworea, what a burlesque show | see one?” the Dragon Do you kn is? Did you ever IN OLD PIANO FACTORY, ¢Prompt» Work Keeps Flames From Spreading to Inflammable Ma- terial on Either Side. * \ Fire. stirt!: ground floor by Joseph M, Cour ®, but I think 1 know | Ha replied, “Is a] sleal comedy, | | i piles of lumber on the | f the 7 | The Dragon who had been admiring | |his diamonds nd the equally brilliant polish on his nails looked up with sud: | inoadde ok af : “he bel me wicked flash of eyes and teeth that briek build {d $10,0) damage at] tis friend called a smile, an early ; The fac-| “No, my dear young lady. It ain't a| tory “ex: 1 ‘bit like a musical comedy—take tt from | structure muh!" he said, the fire ‘Then suddenly a dark suspicton shot structure. through his mind, Perhaps this gin | was “stringing” him, Perhaps she was not the guileless yap she looked, It Phe blaze wa man of the Weer red by a police. ‘Twent pet sta thon, Owing to the inth yable material * stn the place aud the close proximity of| might be all due to her simple make- Jumber yards, a second n was sent| up, and she'd have a good laugh on Jn as soon a» the first firomen arrived. | him with her friends afterwards, Aj } | This brought Chief Kenlon, who took| accidental glance at himself in. the charge. The blaze was put out after|showy mirror beside his desk seemed nearly an hour's work, to reassure him on this point, After || —_—— all, no woman would be such @ fool as to 1 ake an eftort to “string” Him, ‘Gay,” said the Dragon suddenly, “qin't Z handsome? All my girls think I'm handsome, I woulaa’s , Sunday World Wants Work Monday Morning Wonders. SLOUGH ons | / SIDE -STerp OF OesPowD Slaying the Monster Provetb an Easy Cask in Chis Veracious Chronicte OF Priscilla, Who Likewise Learneth 4 Lesson From Him Chat Standeth Ber in Good Stead. Teast Presto Dumplings ‘make this plain taste like a French dish re Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York aVorid), When Ker Purse Is Nigh Empty she Findeth Good Fortune and Cmploy-' ment, Also Qometh Face to Face With Cemptation in the Person of an Elderly Fellow Employee. RTICLE OF A SERIES BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITR. Now one of the things which Everygirl in search of a job is being told perpetually ts that she must be- ware of Man the Tempter, and when she goes from one; Place to another hunting employment she is usually 80 harnessed with warnings and armored with advice that 8 @ great many more dragons than she meets, Here and there on bis progress from the City of De- struction to the Celestial City the original Pilgrim met @ monster or so and slew him in deadly combat, and 0 undertakes the new Pilgrim's Prog: mptation at encounter the Dragon Te: one time or another on her pilgrimage. But she does not meet him at every street corner or when answering every “help wanted” advertisement, | Magician” was quite as much of a monster as Priscilla or Ever; | girl is likely to meet when she goes in search of a job, Perhaps “Milo ” have a girl in my company that didn’t. what do yon thini? |, Priscilla glanced at the little, y lacking in drama it may be. atiess ‘ou sure you want to go into the |CUrs of an ina, | With @ look of frank minatio: busin ald the Dragon to Prise!lla, | of frank examination, Priscilla was by no means as sure of her vocation for the drama as before |she had seen the posters in front of | |the theatre which displayed groups of | |sportively inclined young ladies to whom Nature had been as generous as! the dressmaker had been stingy. But the theatrical agent had her $, had told her she was bom to be an| actress and her newly made friends, Pliable and Talka.tve, had assured her stil waited, because I didn't. know | tat there was little else in the City of what might happen, and we were four| Destruction which whe was fitted to do, | {women there alone. In a reasonable “Why, yes,” she replied wonder- | \{ the I went upstairs and telephoned to] ingly to the Dragon. “Z want to | the police and also to Mr. Ambrose] be an actress, I like it. I always Mundy, Who lives next door, and to Mr. played the leading parts in the Arnett Smith, a nearby neighbor, And| ttle plays we put om at school jhea't sat Gown for further develop-| So0° oP conse 2 don't expect 00 POLICE ARRIVED IN AUTO AND| esin at the top. When Aitahaal | SEARCHED IN VAIN, Ladd, the agent, that as I ha i “In about ten minutes the police, two! 80 experience, J would be satisfied of them, came in a fast nt rand] @6 first to take s dmall part in» they made a careful search ¢ good company, he sald he knew of ‘They went through the stable just the thing for me, and he gave ther outbuildings, but there me that letter to you—" ee of Mr, Burwtar, And th “Humph!" sald thé Dragon, taking @ second glance at the letter of introduce * all thoto 1s to the sto ray 2 ges eee and then flipping it across his desk showy gesture that thieves broke into thr Brett ais tie of his yellow diamonds and the -soll of his finger nails Some persons might consider handsome,” she replied primly, |don't. I lke blondes, anyway,” added. “Have you got a feller?” asked Dragon suddenly, “No,” Priscilla answered, and she told the truth, ; DRAGON TURNS INTO AN ANGEL OF TRUTH. “Well,” said the Dragon, picking Priscilla’s letter of introduction tearing It slowly into small pieces, * Set a ‘feller’ and get married to him And don't go travelling a such fellers as you this He's a crook, He's the penitentiany nd to for doing thelr money. crooR as him I'd sign you up tor show at $18 a week ment after you've tried It ® out of you, didn't he? might sit on t steps of his oflice fi now till Bernhardt quits giving f Well tours and you wouldn't get It But I can collect it from him, So, Just step out to the box office and Ladd And at this sudden box offic ceived a % and with a curt nod walked awa: Priscill. was not in the where he asked for and Naturally, aid not con- sider him in the 1 dragon, she told tive and ‘yeirl or any pom- + pockmarked face, surnounted by olly black, and met its leer er tro erved two years 'y | Just such |) Poor, simple Uttle girls as you out of | | asktnsg for work to a And it I was as big «| lskine for work to nd Jet you find | out how you lke my kind of entertain- » who was veny much down-, unaccountable blighting of her dramatic hopes, pose! meekly and followed the Dragon to tho | } Which he handed to her, | to him, in fact she thought ery horrid, vulgar Uttle a mature that evening she compared Milo the ere e e , t r LS CM | 4 Ate ’ JJ WARNING ic TH Puering PRISCILLA Magician m: : unfavorably with the charming, well-dressed, wel! bread person v had taken her $5 —and the 85 of thousands of other frolish little girls, Even the next week, when Talkatly read from the evening papers to. her And Piiable that “Milo the Magician’ had been arrested on the stage for the Objectionable character of his entertain. ment, Priscilla thought It served bin Just right. As it undoubtedly did. Bu she had no resentment at all for tiv suave person who had sent her to app for work at such a place, Girls are not very much cleverer than birds in this matter, A harmless scare- crow may keep them away, but they don't know a@ rea! dragon until he's swallowed them, I suppose Jonah had only an academic knowledge of whales until he had move: [into one, and his subsequent knowledge would not have been much good to him Mf the whale had had a good di jon. Dragons have much better digestions than whal Of o he adventure with “Milo the Magician" was by far the most in- teresting that occ 1 to Prise! that is likely to occur to Everygiri |search of a job. |SHE GETS A POSITION WHEN SHE HAS NINE CENTS LEFT. For ten days Priscilla answered ad- vertisements for secretaries, for agents, for young ladies to read aloud to ine valids, or to take dogs for a walk, In variably she found that the position had been filled before her arrival, And then when she owed a week's board at ) St. Sebastian's Home for Respec Girls and possessed exactly nine }ghe wot a job, by a “pull, ;Ment who aration the| you is she n the nts She got tt on a fluke o Sverygirt fin had any for making 4 si she bad written Id friend sed in the pub- t when she anything » do mother's, who wa lshing business, had despaired of fi lin the Celestt 69 l trom him 2 a could have roi! Job in his office at $12 a week, and that Vher business woul:t nd ti [clippings from newspapers, ‘| Prtwellia accepted the position UN) gna the 819 without any fdoa tant Set) 4 was much more than | worth, and in the publishing office my | re- of employment, y receiving the tentions of the men !n the oilice. When Mr. Brown, awed fifty, the fi reader and a man who had published books himecelf, awke to dinner and told her that {t right to dine with him, but that it his duty as her friend to warn hor {against the other men in the office, she accepted the Invitation and the warning wt | ‘fen casserole.” | Mix lightly two cups Presto Self-Raising Flour and | fey soll onestalt uch fk tat te | amall rounds, Have ready a boiling stew, well-seasoned, | and thickened, made from cubes of meat, sliced carrots andonion, Add Presto dumplings and bake 1$ minutes | incovered dish, Light work—Sure results, Finest Floar—highest-srade leavening— salt to taste—that's Presto Self-Reising Flour, Recipes in every package one-half cup of mil The H-O Company, Buffalo, stew Try It. New York THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1912." “COME IN” SHE |New Pilgrim’s Progress---Everygirl Meets. A Harmless Dragon and Finally Gets a Job ITF ALL Riaur ‘FOR YOU Yo GO OUT To DiNNER With ME, LITTLE GIRL, <P BUT BEWARE OF Grow! — pare | om —— \ ENCOUNTERS TEMPTATION (Hom oUF Pa meade eimitar offers of ona uttered similar warnings against com- trades with whom they seemd to be on Pretty good she did not question thet disin: ness nor thelr eoan- 4 were girls, too, who told t f their escape from various Villains who seemed to Prisollla harm- lens, necessary ol gentiomen. And Priscilla believed them all and snubbed tho villain unmercifully till she went out to lunch with Miss Worldly Wise Woman, But what Mies Worldly Wise Woman said to Priscilla is another story, eenscenstiffiiseamamase 950,000 for a 1a CAMBRIDGH, Masa, Cont Go eur] with Jones ry larch setts Institute of Technology, ts the re- ciplent of money from an anonymous giver, who ix @ wealthy Boston man, His name is not divulged. given $50,000 for a high tension elec. trical laboratory which will outrank anything of its kind in this country, a will be erected on Jarvis Field. 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At our inimitably low prices this sale includes the most strikingly beautiful models that for style and grace are equalled only by the high priced Fifth Avenue shops. a ee Mixtures Novelties. Allsizesfor women and misses, in- ) cluding ex- e ‘rasizesup (o 54 bust. The above group shows a few of the leading styles featured in this sale. The braid-bound mannish cutaway, the fancy shawl rever model and the overlaid peaked lapel coat lined with peau de cygne, finished with silk shields—in every instance the skirts are designed in perfect harmony with the coats. Women’s Satin Slippers The largest stock and greatest assortment in New York—colors tomatch the prevail- ing shades used for bridal and other func- tions, Buckles and slides of Silver, Rhinestone, and Steel with trim- mingsof Chiffon, Lace and Satin. Sixth Avenue Fifth Avenue at Nineteenth Street above Fortyefifth St. Harvard College, like the Massachu- | Ho has | ROS, dd. 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Cloak, Suit & Fur Co. and Hand Tailored Suits Every Detail Special Social $4498) Forty stylish models, including smart, masterly tailored suits and others handsomely trimmed with materials which form a pleasing and effective contrast, at the above reduced price tomorrow; one illustrated here. Carefully tailored by hand; only im- rted fabrics specially se- lected for their wearing quali- ties are incorporated into these garments. Alterations Free Suit shown here is of fine diagonal serge in black, navy, cadet, tan or ‘own, art cutaway coat fastens with two large pearl buttons; has new shaped collar and broad revers of iri- descent whipcord. ding of revers, deep cuffs and trimming on back of 7 When tested it’s the tea that always proves its superiority News and Courier.) No library is complete without The | World Almanac. No citizen who pre- tends to keep up with what goes on jin the world can get along witheut it, Every year it gets bigger and better, and the edition for 1929 ts rien) i Now York Good reliable wort at lower prices than chargedatdep’t stores Send tor , | no exception to what long ago became Catalog 593 3d Av, the rule, An admirable sketeh of - The World’s founder, Mr, J joaeph Pulitzer, tho great journalist of Bie day, whose service to the Ameriean newspaper wae of incalculable value, {e published im the preface, Sunday World Wants Work Monday Morning Wonders.