The evening world. Newspaper, August 6, 1912, Page 3

1 wee RESTORED CHILD HAPPY IN HOME AMID POVERTY Ma‘sel Conklin Who Was Sold for $5 Not Dazzled by Luxury. “NO MORE DAY-DAYS.” Once More the Chatter of the Baby Brightens Her Foster Parents’ Lives, Little Mabel Conktin, who will per- Maps have long forgotten when she is & Grown woman that she was once sold eutright to strangers for a $5 bill, G@troked the much-begrimed fur of a once-white teddy bear on the kitchen floor of her home to-day while her mother, silent and thoughtful, smiled between her tears as she realized tha her youngster had been restored to her from the unknown into which she had only @ wee. ago been thrust that she might not be @ burden to the poor household, The father, John Conklin, who was @earching for employment | days ago When his wite secretly advertised that poverty compeiic.. her to give her three- year-old daughter into @ nome where she would be cared for, puffed on an old pipe as he mused that fortune had emiled on him doubly, for he g~ back Is Old job only @ day or #0 ago, and Was rejoiced because the little family had been reunited. Somewhere in the suburbs are two women, mother and daughter, who al- though they agreed to provide little “fshel with @ good home and gave five D>, for possession of her, heeded of the despairing mother and the youngster without disclos- Ir identity. t child shall never leave me 4in, no matter what befalls us." sald Conklin as she fastened @ biue rib- to the Ilttle girl's golden brown “When she was only twelve days lopted her without knowing any- , of her parentage. I soon grew to and wanted to raise her as my ‘ when John was thrown out of 1 our money was all gone 1 ‘1 would be better off if I 4 400d home for het nd that d not be made to share ou and suffering. \tSsnO THE CHATTER OF THE bon hair. CHILD. When two strange women, who said phey lived in the country but would teil nothing more of themselves, came e me and asked me for the child on Sunday week, I was struck favorably by their appearance and agreed to let them have her. As they departed they threw 4 five-dollar bill on the table and prom- ised to bring Mabel to see me on Wednesday. “But they had hardly gone when I missed ld, for her incessant ter Was there Was sometimes to drive the worry from my mind, and i became i} and went to bed. Wednesday came and the child was not brought to me, so on Saturday I placed in The World this advertisement: "TO SAVE mother's life, bring ‘back baby. Conklin. 54 Wert 130th st. Yesterday The World printed the story of my parting with the child and used her picture, Hardly had I been handed the paper by @ neighbor this morning than the deor bell rang and the two strange women to whom J had given the ohild walked into the sitting room and handed her to me. “As soon as Mabel saw me she began to scream, and I collapsed. When 1 Way able to speak the women berated me because I had relented of my bar- gain, and sald they could put me in jail }for selling a child not my own, But they have gone, and Mabel is with me Feagain, and I shali never part with her, *PLITTLE GIRL FEARFUL OF BE- ING TAKEN AWAY AGAIN. If a Girl Goes Out to Dine With a Man THE EVENING WORLD, TUE a “A MAN MUST SPEND TWO THROES OP A WEERT EARNINGS WT OWE miony™ “Frank B. T.”’ Brings Out a New Point for Discus- Why Shouldn’t She Foot Half the Bill? WRITES "A FOREIGNER? sion--“‘A Foreigner”? Asks Why a Man Should Give Two-Thirds of Week’s Pay for Few Hours of Girl’s Society. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. * NiI*OL& GREELEY-SMITH If a girl likes to go to the theatre or to dinner with a young man and does not wish to be placed in a posi- tion of possible disadvantage, why should she not pay half the expenses of the treat? A young foreigner communicates this interesting suggestion as the solu- tion of the problems that confront “Discouraged Girls” and discouraged young men in New York. According to his theory, money is the root of all evil, even the twin evils of the female flasher and the male masher. It is the desire of our young men and women to shine fn the great national game of bluff that causes girls to talk of automobiles and millionaires, to wear loud clothes and speak with the tongues of megaphone men, and that prompts $25 a week young men to spend a week's girl they take out to dinner that they are Rockefellers or Morgi Tt will be interesting to hear what the New York girl has to say to the suggestion that she divide the dinner check and by that process make her- self tmmune from the suggestion of any other return. I Mid she will not greet the | reforn nthusiastically as it pere haps di YOUNG MAN'S SUGGESTION TO; ves, DISCOURAGED GIRLS. Here Is Dea if I reas wome rather do something else than to | give up a good job for the doubt- ful joy of getting married to @ young fellow with the ay come of $2 or $5 a week, It may be all right in story books—what they say about love at first sight and the making of a nice little home for oneself—but when it | J} comes to real living in the ttle | hole, doing all the housework with- out any assistance or to wear the same dress the whole year round, it looks rather lke a foolish idea, Young girls have more freedom in this country and are in better positions and better pald than in any country in the world, but I 1 don't know any other country where the young girls are so crazy about getting married as in the United States, Und I don’t see any the uble, n in a good position—I would young young Intel special reason for man's tell yo girl—t nt 1 lette u frankly hat Is, a young ‘ause I con- jalary pretending to the who is @ true friend to her aud a #004 companion, Then she will be able to enjoy his society, of course, on the condition that she 1s willing to pay her share of the expenses as he does. Bee cause this only way for a girl to go everywhere she IMkes in company of @ man Without losing her free dom and her independence. At least as long as young girls are not al- lowed to go alone to certain amuse- ments, And belleve me, a young fellow who Is not oblige! to pay all the expenses for himself and for the girl will undoubtedly have more respect for her and will expect nothing else from her in response than to be a good friend and cone. panion, And I am sure of that. Whenever the circumstances may allow those two persons to marry and they find each other eligible they will make a better match than many other couples who are en- waged for yoars, There are scores of young girls here in New York, I suppose, who Would not think of giving up thelr geod positions in change for mar- ried life. And nobody can blame them, because there are many hus- bands who are everything else to their ‘respective wives But e008 friends and companions. I am honest enough to say that I like the type of the bachelor girl because she 1s more independent in her manners and consequently more is the to see everything and this sco! ary, leaving Mrs, Cummings to look | When the Ey en} ng World reggster tried (yor . The child became wlarmed at the sight] sider the conditions for @ bachelor | attractive than married women, gaof tears streaming down her mother’s! gir| in this country much better And I don't see any reason why the and rushed » her arms mutter-/ (han in others majority of people consider a “Is J gone away again, mudder?’ If a girl reasonable and wise bachelor girl inferior to a married Tt was all Mrs, Conlin could do to} she don't need to be very pretty | woman, My opinion is that. per- ease sobbing long enough to assure her) ang attractive because those girls haps many of them are too wise johijd that sie would never leave her! are yery seldom reasonal then and judicious to take the risk of a mother again, she keeps her eyes open to find @ | married life, Because, as a rule, ¢ The youngster held her arms tightly} good fellow who respects her, in | the more one sees about the life of about her mother's neck until the father, whom she can. have the gr eat married people, t more one comes almost overcome himself by his wife's} confidence and to whom she might | to the conclusion that the reality emotion, took Httle Mabel Into his lap| go in joy or sorrow, always ¢ {9 often far away from the {ilu- and told her thar she should never see) tain that he would understand her | sion. PRANK B, T. the two women again, Then he put] and be willing to help her when she After these disheartening admissions thy liti'e girl on the floor, gave her the} wag in trouble. In other words, \from a bachelor it 1s refreshing to turn © toys has had since she| — ae we nian is sa ows NB) A year 0 and motioned his wife ! PEE nec Tee out for them. They spent the day with|to lift the chill to his knee to question acne dream THe ay wits wowal kent |her she shrank away from him and fled au extreme when I lost my| HER ADVENTURES REMAIN A [xto her mother's room No more day-day, Mamma us tarter at the car barns and MYSTERY. Appearing for @ moment before she f- ‘ hat money we had,” sald Conk-| His wife out of the room, Conk!n) paily retired Mra. Conklin sald that ele tT coed! not bear to be hard|then tried to get the child to tell him eful to The World for caustug wae he broke down under the) something of her guardians-for-a-woek. ration of ner child, and adde ! that we would nev the | But the youngster’s mind was on her. that she knew st was The World's artl- “ ain, and lave not upbraided her | toys, and she would say but little cle that attracted the attenion of the ef rely “Where did you go with the two, two women, for they had the newspaper ‘1 had almost given up hope of see-| ladies, Mabel?" the father asked. ‘with them when they brought lit Mabel again when suddenly this; “Went day-day, to seo gramma,” re-| Mabel home. 0 " ¥ a. piled the youngster, as she reached for — morning my wife ran over to the barns PUP aon) Yonieee bine nua betiah keane la Pores with the youngster In her arms, shout- when her father pres her further} LONDON, Aug. @—Premier Aaquith rn Apa the strangers had brought our he sin y chuckled and asked for's, 1201) to a question in the House of tle one bac! 10% a | dramas Pore PERT eT got excused and hurried them back | Conklin was unable to tearn from the | Commons tovday stated th nf she: Hiritan home, but my wife's condition was such | child whathey ne hot she had: iden tn “as oe gy tort, that I took her and the child over to) train on trolley car and. bright ws Cy inte the atrocities reparted hy 8 the home of her mother, Mra. eu ee ea een eee im anything. tha, ower Casement to have occurred tn mir at No, 43 Kast One Hundred) happened during her absence. Putamayo rubber district of F aad Thirty-third street. In returning the child the women See ae tank i the Gaver ent to “There Mrs. Cummings waited until spoke something about having bought) "aut emma ey AF he Out my wife had calmed down, and then| for her about twenty-five dollars’ worth Fee rested on ihe Brite aiesinre of apiled into her in an old-fashioned way a new mething. Shieh Shey Old not | the Sule, and gave her good lecturing for her | PEin& to Mra, Contin, however nice| Owing te the great success of last Sun foolhardin A good dinner helped to! 44." was all little Mabel recalled on|%#)'s Offer, another Woodrow Wi calm my wife, and I huried back to th ; |p ture coupon good for the splendid whol re will be printed in neat Sun’ to an unsol! married man old lent family had saved up. joys of matrimony of the question stantial bank roll is in hand. 1 married a girl from an excele me $160 per month, better my position. young riage I was informed were no longer required, and I was ‘SDKY, AUGUST 8, IvTy | girl cited testimonial to the contributed by @ who says: Dear Madam—I do not know !f you or the readers of your columns in The Evening World will be inter- ested in an expression from a youn® married man, but in justice to the fashioned manly young man permit me to en- lighten @ few of who might accept the statement of vc. B, J," that married life {s out unless a very sub- and the the inexperienced y of large means, but I nothing except a good repu- tation and a fair position which paid with very ttle Two months after mar- my services obliged to take up temporary em- ployment which pald me only $60 per month. Of course we had to economize, but I was fortunate in having a wife who knew the value of a dollar, a real helpmate, and we ed to get along nicely for seven months before I was able to We did not run in debt and did not borro a dollar, I simply wish to give this bit of exper to show what can be done if necessary and I am confident that the average young woman would be willing to economize and do her part toward the establishment of a home if the young man will do likewise. But in speaking of the a axe young woman I do not refer to the ones we about the s! and elsewhere in thetr outlandish get- ups, who for lack of brains put everything on thelr backs to attrac some well meaning young men, but I do refer to the WOMANLY YOUNG WOMAN whom we o contact with daily, the OLD IONED GIRL who gives amp dence that she knows the value of a dollar, and who would make an td wife. hc. HL A HOPEFUL STENOGRAPHER ANO A YOUNG MAN’S FROTEST. TWENTY NURSES FLEE ssion with a 1 young woman text from a young man who says it ts unfalr for Birls to expect men to exchange two- thirds of @ week's salary for a few hours of feminine society and conversa- on, What do the young women think | about this? Dear Midain: 1 am a4 stenog- rapher, and have seen a good bit of 8 lite—ow fellows and giris and spend to the very last of thelr weekly salaries and iN NIGHTIES FROM FIRE. | | | Small Blaze in Their Home Near East Side Hospital Causes Excitement. A midnight fre at No, 8 Eust Broad Way, occupied by e s of the Jews} ish Maternity tivs nen twenty young women scur thelr nigixt clothes A crowd collected and the hastt! disappeared. Then was discovered th next door 7, lived Aare aw Libby and Bh I murder, Almost through tie crowd that th gam rs had get fire the ” . effort t © lawyer, A ina tion showed that Mr Vy hud not been jin danger at all The biage, aside from giving tie potter reserves a little extra work, di damage, only 1 \ 's just * But a fellow who a girl just as he would nother fellow respeck his @wn sister or mother does not gen- erally select a girl who boasts that “I didn't give any of my pay to mother this week, for I nedeed it myself ‘for clothes and fun.” The decent, refined girl knows enough to ixnore the existence of the “corner loafers” and Johnnies; and would never cultivate the a quaintance of any one to whom she RY TO JUMP AS FIRE THREATENS Second Blaze in Maiden, Lane Arouses Suspicions of Bat- talion Chief Binns. Five hundred men and women, crowd- ed about the machines in the #x.atory cigar manufacturing establishment of John W. Merriam & Co; at Matden| lane and Water street, were thrown [into a panic at 10.8¢ o'clock tis morn- Ing when @ fire started in the five- story oil and grease store of W. R. Winn adjoining at No. 148 Maiden lane. John Carey, eighteen years old, a helper in the Winn establishment, had & narrow escape from death, following an explosion, He was severely burned about the hands and was removed to Bt. Gregory's Hospital, ‘The fire started on the top floor of the oll and grease ntore and spread so rap. idly that (he entire building was soon a mass of flame. Five engine and two truck companies were called, but the blaze was 80 stubborn the firemen were more than an hour getting it under con- trol. Many of the women tn the Merriam establishment, fearing a second explo- sion, were about/to jump from win- dows when hal.ed by the firemen. For half an hour there was Intense excite- ment, and thousands of persons dined the atreets in the vicinity. Carey was at work alone on the floor where the blaze started. He was un- able to explain what caused the explo- sion, All of a suddm, he sald, and without warning, there was @ burst of flame about him, and he had to run for the stairway for his life, When he reached the street he was exhausted A policeman helped hiin to the hospital Adjoining the Winn store ts the oil and grease store of A. C. Relden & Com- pany, which also caught fire, ‘The dam- age to both eatabliahments was estimated at $10,000, SUSPICIONS AROUSED BY MYS8- TERIOUS SECOND FIRE. After the firemen had extinguished the blaze in the buildings at 143 and 146, and were about to leave the acene, @ brisk fire was diacovered on the fourth floor of the five-story oulld- ing adjoining at No, 141. The discovery of the second fire followed the disap- pearance of a man whore peculiar ac- tions tn running In and out of the bullding attracted the attention of the firemen. This second blaze shot through the top two stories of the building, entirely destroying a quanity of leaf tobacco the John W. Merriam Company had tn storage there. The first and second stories of the bullding were occupted had not been properly introduced. |ay a tobacco warehouse by Morris As to flirting, A girl who flirts | Rosenberg & Co, These suffered dam- “Just for fun" generally is a girl |age by water. The total lows of the who likes “a good time" at some | second fire was approximated at $2,000, ‘one else's expense, but a girl with Chief Binns, after making an Inves- sense generally thinks It over and | tigation and determining that because then does not do it, Cheer up, girls, we can all be good if we care to be, and we do care. STENOGRAPHER. Dear Madam: As far as my ex- perience reaches—and I have stud- fed nearly haif @ dozen nations—the trouble with New York girls is that | they are too extravagant and selfish, They wa ‘a good time,” and whenever thoy are convinced a man will spend lots of money on them they are ready to be taken out, whether this man has th ym pathy or not. There ts a large per- centage of uirls who belong to this class and who only enjoy the com- any, according to the amount of money spent. Such gay girls cai not be entertained by an educating talk oF discussion on instructive mattere—they want some “fun,” and it 1# In such elreumstances that the man bold and perhaps of- fensive, 1 would not call this un- natural. If you want to take a girl out for a@ healthy walk and @ healthy talk, you cannot do so, Just the other day @ girl said to me, “I don't think you could take a girl out and spend $2." Is it a reasonable and decent expectation chat @ man should pay two. is of a week's earnings for a@ few hours of @ girl's soc! econ The Business Man who sits at his desk all day working under artificial light | is peculiarly subject to ey | strain and other eye discom- | forts. | If desk work causes you eye discomfort, have one of our | Oculists (registered — physi- ) examine your eyes and 1u Whether or not a pair ting glasses, for use only at your desk, will relieve the strain you put upon your eyes, The examination incurs no obligation to buy or to pay Harris Glasses $2.00 or more a pair. st Stonhis i Ld Be 64 East 24rd St., near Fourth Ave, 27 West 54th St., bet. 6th and 6th Aves, 64 West 125th St., near Lenox Ave, 442 Columbus Ave., 81st and 82nd Sta, 10 Nassau St., near John Ste | 1009 Broadway, near Willo’by, Rklyn 489 Fulton St., opp. A. & 8., Uklya 007 Broad St, negy Hahne's, Newark cian of the ntervention of a heavy fire wall, the fire in the eecond building coui not have been communicated from the first conflagration, notified the Fire Marshal that he believed the second blaze was of suspicious origin. eels a Medicine Killed Twe, (Special to The Eventng World.) 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Jonn | Fari ton, a local blacksmith, who knew Tobin, sat down at his table while | To! the policeman was eating his meal. him Tobin talked in @ despondent vein, | as he had done several times recently, anent the police scandal over the Rosen- thal killing, “A an might as well be dead as be a ‘Tobin sig! When you are on the force everybody ts always watching you to get something on you; they're al- ways laying to report you for some- thing. Then if you get off the force everybody hounds you, anyway. “uey think that you were fired off for crook- edness re still crodked.” Farrington tried to cheer Tobin, but the policeman became more and more dejected. Though he did not refer dl- rectly to the Rosenthal murder and the Yesultant suspicion directed against cer- tain ones in the Police Department, Far. rington believed that these matters welghing on the mind, It was just after Tobin made the remark that “everybody belleved a cop to be a crook” that he pulled out his re- volver and sent @ bullet through his brain, Dr. A. 8. Ambler, thy Coroner, whore home Is near the scene of the suicl was hurriedly summoned and an ambu- lance from Fius'ing Hospital arrived bearing Dr. Krauss. When the uncon- aclous policeman was removed to the hospital his wife was notified at the Tobin home, No. 122 Seventeenth street. She hurried to the hospital, remaining by her husband's side until his death, Tobin, who joined the force Oct. 16, 1906, was thirty-five years old. He served with the Traffic Squad continual- ly in Manhattan unt! October of Inst year, when he was transferred to Col loge Point. 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