The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1912, Page 3

TaLSOFRATIE TOSAVEGIL WA PLUNGEDTODEAT Friend of Miss Wood Describes | Thrilling Struggle at Win- dow to Prevent Suicide. FELL -SEVEN FLOORS. Still Conscious, Daughter of Military Man Moans, “Why Did I Do It?” ———,) ‘A monomanta that her Mfe had been Utter faflure because she had reached | the age of thirty-two, unmarried and ‘unimportant in the soctal and industrial acheme of things, was responsible for the sensational suicide of Miss Julia) Wood, daughter of Henry C, Wood, Chief of the val Academy Division of the Navy Department, who plunged to her death tast night from the seventh floor of the West Point apartments at No. 86 West Ninety-fifth street, ‘The tragedy and the pecullar form of Miss Wood's suicidal manta were, des- cribed to-day by Mra, Smith Thoripson of No. 6 West One Hundred and Fifty-firet street, one of the two women with whom Miss Wood fought In her apartment last night before she man- aged to get to the window and throw herself out, Mrs, ‘Thompson had been a dife-long friend of the Wood family 4 had gone to the young woman's apartment to assist the trained nurse, Miss LAllian Knecht, im taking care of hei ‘Miss Wood came to my home on Sunday,” satd Mrs. Thompson. had been viaiting at the home of Mra. Robert TH. Small, a daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Sigsbee, at Norwalk, Conn. I eaw the moment she arrived that she was in @ serious mental condi- tion. She talked incessantly of the fatl- ure of her life, of her unmarried state, and of her neglect to make use of her social advantages and her culture. At times she spoke with insane fervor, and I insisted she consult Dr. Ralph H. Ward of No. 1 West End avenue. WAS TO BE PUT IN SANITARIUM TO-DAY. “I went with her to Dr. Ward's office and he advised that Miss Wood be sent to Washington and put in a sanitarium until the period of extreme metancholia whe had fallen into passed. I tmme- dattely wrote to Mr. Wood in Wash- ington, and posted the letter spectal 4 ‘very. Then I accompanted Miss Ward to her flat, where the nurse had already been installed, “THE EUROPEAN \DEAL ($ THAT WOMANS NATURAL STATE ts DEPENDENCY “The ideal husband must rule his home. There must be no ustten | @ay with Miss Knecht, the nurse. We| questioned.” had to watch our charge every moment. She began to show symptoms of becom. Ing violent. We he again urged t ranged to do this to-day, “Last night Miss Knecht and I were | o1q, Joeked out on a courtyard, We noticed he was edging toward the window, and @s she reached the sill I went to her and sald she had better not alt so near; that it was dangerous and she might fall out. ‘Oh, I knew you'd catoh me,’ she sald, with an insane laugh, and then walked away from the window and sat jown on @ divan. She had hardly seat- ed herself when she sprang up and orted, ‘But I am going to jump out and you cannot stop me!’ As I fushed to her ehe turned upon me like a wild animal and flung all her weight on me, hurling me to the floor, “Before Mi: eo was beside the window aill. meni husband’ questioned’ Knecht could reach her | reactioi Bhe| gest a I imagine, BY NIXOLA GREELY-SMITH. of sessos a tremendous talent for tyranny benevolent tyranny, course. For after all what is this notion of benevolent turned and struck at Mies Knecht and| Roman days atarted to climb up on the window alll. Miss Knecht caught her nightgown with one band and her ankle with the other, out whe lurched forward and fell over the efll, The nightgown tore in the nurse'e grasp and she lost her grip on the paticnts’s ankle. “WHY DID | DO IT?” GIRL MOANS, “I was struggling to my feet just as Miss Knecht screamed, I had been @tunned by Miss Wood's attack on me and saw nothing of what happened until 1 heard Miss Knecht’s scream and Miss Wood's feet flash above the wi this DYING dow will, Then I fainted.’ he body the suicide first struck an awning on the sixth floor and ; fell through a net of clothes line, ‘Three floors abcve the stone-flagged court, a mattress, supported on clothes Aine, broke ithe girl's fall, but not suf- fielently to prevent mortal Injuries, Miss arms and legs were broken Injured internally. She was still conscious when picked up and her reason seemed to have returned to her, “Oh, why did T do it? Why do it?’ she moaned. She was removed to J. Hood Wright dia I after country form of authority. analyse it, measure it by the rule of reason and it falls apart. Let us read some of the letters from nary readers whose views ai certain regret for the good old the huspand was ly the lord of life and death in his household. Here is another communication from L, D. N., who advised American men that the {deal wife cannot be found in that the man who seeks her will have to prosecute the quest in Europe: FOREIGN GIRLS [MPROVE AFTER when and that one of the two associates in marriage should have dominion over the other save the ideal despotism, In- cldentally, let's agree that ‘the thority should be un- Y—mfor that’s the safest thing to say about almost any Question it, COMING TO AMERICA. Dear Madam: tribute pleases me, ¥| perhaps T am wrong in judging her and that perhaps I will like her bet- ter when I have prejudice. American woman's appearance critics notwithstanding, I think she nicer hatr, @ niver lothes than women to has nicer teeth, figure and niver anywhere have ever had before. these are superfelaliti girl from Europe will be her those respects she 18 a nice gir!) in less than a year In things mor able and enduring, wom landing. Ww. the v. American G's cordial woman Tt makes me think that (except shed my foreign As I have valid, 1 like the Mer But and a clevs equal hair, if the val and simplicity, good Hospital, where she died, © fow hours} joyaity, unselfistiness, Anish In « ater, ‘ : ene n0 eeudl The home of Miss Wood's famiiy Is| cation, general polish, agreeable at No. 2029 Dent place, Georgetown, or) ™an and lack of bumptiousnoes, West Washington. She had deen living | the n gir) of any country is in New York nearly a year and had) superior, You can’t interest me in a Pp hoped to take up literary work. Miss! yir| that tsn't a lady—I care Mitlo Wood's father is @ veteran of the war) your her sicheand that. is of the rebellion and has been promin-| S)00e lean ain talle You ently connected with the War Depa: aa Renken ety ws t for many years. don't hei en 01 eat side IE saying the equivaient of The Amori- VICE-PRESIDENT ILL. can woman is a born #! ankly T think that both women ter, Long Rest at Grove Reach Ordered | and children are allowed tyo much Mberty and independence here, and by Sherman's Phyote I seem to ree that the men are Wak- NEW HAVEN, Sept, 11—Vice-Presi-| Ing to the fact. One result of It you dent James $8 Sherman is at Grove! Beach, Conn, for an Indefinite rest, | He said to-day that the vacation had been prescribed by his phy sictan as the only means of prolonging his life, to couldn't tell Just how long he would bo! man goes In dres# would be equalled | AFTER MARRIAGE om of lun! under treatment. by her eccentricities in mind and | Deur Madam There ie @ auota- vain, “The Vice-President said that his wife! morals without man's r¢ s | ton which reads, “AM men are ila Tor t 5b ine had been made his custodian during ‘he hand. It fs noteworthy th | from the cradle to the erie, ae anit dived repeat “peat period,” and added that his phyale| oo | Roman y he boiler unt! Lites YOUR HATTER clan had charged her with the duty of ¥ = damit od hin. ‘The Patrol was simmoned aeeing that he took his medicine regu-/ Do Not Take the “Just as Goods,” | rect, are we net on be c pling hooks in the by a MBF, eet, en meme | Bed Crome + Cough Drope—the real thivg, oc, "9* | @s men are concerned? Why, then, ‘recover them their elders. siate is depend stronger and ab! grotesque absurdities see In the children's lack of respect Woman's natural ney; man is not made r for nothing, to The which wor years ’ WHAT IS THE IDEAL HUSBAND? Now Comes the Query As to His Status | In the Home in the Matter of Being Boss Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). a HUMBLY PETITION Nou SIRE FOR A new MAT! «Woman’s Natural State Is Dependency. Man Is Not Made Stronger for Nothing,’”’ Writes “‘L. D. N.”’—First Catch Your Husband and Make Him Ideal After Marriage, Recommends “A Matter of Fact Man.” of his authority therein. No woman respects a man who can not make, }: “I remained in the flat all day yester-| her feel that he is her master, The author of this Pauline sentt-|, @ woman has most liberty home ties meaning a sentiment which sUg- nt for Dr. Ward and| geste St. Paul and having no refer we have Miss Wood] ence to any of the thousand and one transferred to a eanitarlum. We ar! paulines who read The Evening World about nineteen a time when one naturally wants aitting with our patient in @ room that] to be a despot and feels that one pos- this, and when they do the snarl Judge Keogh decided thar Mrs, Ganun and nip om the nose that follow Francesco Gennarino. alongshoreman, hal a Ke for $e with Inter | drives them slinking and mortifed | of No, 11% Mulborr ent down | 68! all to $6,200.09), and and unresisting away. Why? Be- = to his death to Itiver| that must hand t 7 ; cause the dog won't fight his mate, his effort to sa th si propert B W li I G Y So, according to "L. DN. navure| No, 192 Mott sire Pie court tat Mra 2 usy: e uess Yes! ade the male stronger for not H Paimirl was have her M. Tawe, a0 8s Thousands took the upon Saturday a % SEE Gi Be pre na S| cue men were on)! os atts i Hee MORE Ye came to my stores for their ney Fall hats. structed with 2 to mauikind. ‘Too! trat pler at foot walt non ho al (he tra And th ss rs vere mith 3 | many men practice it already. But I] ine for a Hout to be aetion, ani that M Love did not 2 feats ads more are taking the tip rere Plnet senile o'L, DN nd other ed in. Palmir « YOuik really lend Mra. Palmer $8,000, an eeping my stores busy, Never sol pale aie ie ie American home| fellow and much Vins, | YOU HOUND fo Ue PLE \stD 4 @ to one woe imma 820, a republic which Was 1 an] went yp, behind G whe ee piilew st We tmen grea aries gregation of domestic desy ingwa assliant iN LEAKING eg of domestic potiames |i Me me ; Lae ad be & Jokes that our Republic | srringph 87 STYLES ae Thalys i | | What is the ideal husband? There is one phase of this dis sion of the model mate which I ap proach with fear and trembling,| but which is thrust upon me by the number of readers who make it the is dependency," she must be an excep: tion to the laws and purpoi of Na. ture which make the female of all other species entirely independent of| RQUseHo!d must have ‘one uors, and | son of Supreme Court Justice Mills of | wn heartily on the shoulder and to- the mala when a woman begins to dictate to | mount Vernon as receiver in the ac-[]Mether they hu om the court, | “Man @ man as to what he must and must °M F, Ganun againat Mary | 0nd for the Ct verlain's office, | stronger for! not do, rather than admit she is tho | (on ary. F) Genus WILL NOT nothing,” is the terse dictum of the| boss he moves along in his regular | ©. Palmer as executrix of tho eatare GO BACK TO Hus. advocate of male supremacy. groove. We could not exist without |of Jane M, Sands, who recovered $2,c BAND IN VIRGINIA, | But in the jungle where there | {deals, but do not put ideals be: from the Sands estate, Tho proverty| the young «irl wie aaa been the| is no interference with the laws of ® man before marriage; he will a {a worth about $100,000, use of Nolan's difficultion seemed { Mature and where, generally speak- | Preciate them if held before Mra, Ganun, a widow, engaged 19) dazed by the sudden turn affaire had ing, the male shows, though in | /!m in an inoffensive way after mar- | dressmaking at Brewater, N. Y., Int Aer Wi Wek UE Cte lesser degree, the superiority of | "E* | ae - nam County, in November, 1809, made WCE th ee ee size and strength which prevails | A MATTER OF FACT MAN, | a written anreement with her elterly| ang smiled eontutentic. reyes in the humaa rece, nobody sits GLAD TO PAY THE COST OF AN j first cousin, Jane M. Sands No, 1 will never Ko &t night worrying about masculine | OUTING WITH A GIRL. | chester, to care for Miss Sands 4UrIN€ | ong in Newport News," a) 4 me dominion, feminine dependence, | Dear Madam: Any husband Is an | her iife, ant Mise Sands agreed to . F sald, ke, because they don't exist. {deal husband to-day, for marriage |teaye Mrs, Ganun $20,000 at her death do not Ie Tt has been remarked that man is| ‘8 becoming more and more a tux lund to pay $1 a month for runMMK] iy wiry nin wae the only male that will under any) Uf¥ of the well-to-do. T think most | cxconmes, She also agreed to give Mrs Mtcien ie provocation exert his superior strength | jit ay thelr forefitners did, be. | Gaiun her wearing apparel and Wed 9 main Witter all thie trons against the female. In other words! cause the cost of living is higher | tne ‘ords, “In fact, everything In the} My brother aye he will, but he in a the male of the lower animals was! than in the good old days and wages |! referring to the contents of alatern mate ‘made stronger for nothing,” accord-| are at a standstili, The youth who, | sina rtment in Brooklyn, where the No, | do not care for Mr Nolan ing to L, D. N.'a philosophy. | with all the recklessness of inexpert- | twe ladles bud gone to 116, either, All that in passed. He ADVISED TO STUDY THE WAVYS| en . pernnedss $orn wentle pn In May, 1900, Mies Sands, bh tt all, 1 1 - pak-minded girl to share with him [wens to Poughkeepsie to Mrs 6 OF THE DOG. two rooms and $10 a week a not only [Went '@ Rouwhkeepale (0 Mrs. \den ut before he makes up his mind| to be piti@d for his folly but con- : ut i revocably as to the natural depend-| demned. for his Wiokedness, But [that the words “Everything in the nce, Wholesome fear, &c., of the fe heaven knows ft doesn't cost much |house" would be taken to mean "Every- male, let me suggest that he study] to go out occasionally, and if a |thing’ and that Mrs. Ganun would toke the ways and customs of man's best| pretty girl In kind-hearted enough to |away her whole estate at death friend—the dog. Let him observe the ake herself pleasant to a man for |Miss Sands continued with Mrs. Palmer female of that species who, If she evening so that for a eat at Poughkee and late a oun takes a fancy to the dinner of he ant he oan forget hie troubles, | Vernon until her death, Aug 14, 1%, mate, will nose him contemptuouriy | *uFely no man would regret one red | when it was found had given to "| cent he had spent for theatre tek | 4000 fmm Ole i re way from the plate and eat every) ots, flowers, sodas, cartare or candy, | MP Valmer all her pr © her morsel before his glowering but help-| | Know I wouldn't for one ath, and left a will giving to Mes leas SMITH OF NEW YORK" “undisposed of property.” Let him study also what happens -_ - sued Mra. Pabner, claims Under any circum- fare. Only fool doge try 2 up of many on republics, each an American home, Din uri one Here i# @ communication from other man, Who says the ideal hush «nould be the "boss," and another ter from a young man who rays that “any husband {* an idea) husband” MAKE A HUSBAND TO SUIT YOU erled sist THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER DIPLOMAT, FREED |LURED FROM STORE, LITTLE GIRL HELD PRISONER BY MAN Four-Year-Old Annie Gold, Missing Twenty-four Hours, Is Returned merely fall in love? many cases of where & woman has reformed a man? No, because each |GIVES UP HIS OWN LIFE | IN VAIN EFFORT AT RESCUE, | Mr tisnun 17, 1912. Third Articie of a Series. OF STEALING GIRL, | (5 SOUGHT AGAIN _——_> — H. C. Nolan of Panama Lega- tion, Said to Have Passed Forged Check at Oyster Ba Five the young member minutes after Harry BE. of the dtpl Nolan, atic corps appointed to the lemation at Pan- ama out of the Tombs Court|t of the charge of atxtuct- n MeVickar Foster, the pretty fe, from Newport News, De- tective John Thompson of Oyster Bay dashed Into the court with a warrant charging Nolan with forgery. Finding that the dapper young man from Washington had gone, the Oyster Bay hawkshaw hurried down to the City Chamberlain's office, hoping to tn- tercept him when he went to colect the $1,000 ball which pe put up at the time of his arrest on the abduction char The new warrant, tenued by Judge; Franklin of Oyster Bay, charges that Nolen parsed two worthless checks, gregating $85, upon @ saloon keeper in Oyater Bay several weeks ago. The name aligned to them Ie “H.C. Dotan.” Nolan accompanied by a young woman answering the description of Marion McVickar Foster when he ts al- leged to have pasned the bad checks FAIL TO ARREST DIPLOMAT walked havetion he had a once she ‘There the rural peace officer Krew 4 disheartened when he discovers the saloon keoper complainant, he had told to stick around \ te | tha: | whom td could be found, had vanished she wa After walting for the complaining! last. nigh witness to put in ana ance I meee tive Thompson decided that he had | Mferent LDN Save e his full duty and he waen't gotng | Over to th THE AMERICAN, vase Nolan any my Anyway, he | Midnieht. WOMEN WANT 1, the warrant called for the ar- | Meant THE EARTH ings in the court charke against was dismissed Aw me udding her Do we have nae the diplomat clapped his| Supreme Court Justice Keogh to-da: ‘filed an order appointing Leroy N. Mill that estate Mra, P. Knowing of the accepted the contract with ing ‘Which is Correct / £3.00 Quality rv came up laughing and The Only 2, tia ores All Over » water from lis hair rat or way de ty hite-faced and desperate ant cay fy I that he could not swim, The as The only “ea Is ant went to hie aid an “ LIPTON’S Four-year-old from her home for more than twenty. four hours, was In her mot ay, frightened and suffering from ex. and lured away from store where her ping left her to watch her bab In a carriage at Second avenue and One Hondredth atreet and taken out into the country by a man of whom she coud only give the vaguest deacription, ‘The little girl was not lancey street car by Pol of the Delancey street station; sho wa: sitting beside a heavy set man with « stubby beard, who wae dremved shabbtly, | The man saw the policeman look'ng at the child and si ‘ “L found this baby on the street ory+ 1 don't know what ‘Tho policeman volunteered to the station, to the matron made the policeman wish Frente According to Annie, who talked freely the man who had been with her on the car had walked up to her when she stood beside Redecea’s baby nen se CON® TIME. Walling for her mother, showed her ave| fp smokers. Then the Oyster Hay detective fatlet | centa and asked her to come and got Ww to find Nolan at the City Chamber-|some candy, They walked a long way, You'll like it! Jain's office or at the office of his uttor-| for the candy, she sald, and the man| yon ney he hurried back to the Tombs| told her he would show her how to get In an inexpensive Court to twke counsel with Detective | home. ‘They walked and walked until pac Mangan, who had been concerned inj here feet were so sore ho c not walk kage. : the abduction charge against Nolan, | ny more, Then the man carried her 20 for 15c until they reached a street where the cars were drawn by horses and there was a steep hill, @ house In which there was no furniture, | and 1, when are with him and they rode ¢ Hines until whe was) turn He policeman, It was then after ne Mra, ¢ Anna's mother H.C. Dolan,” and without tho] PNG been nearly distracted. | Whar ahe centre of gravity of their arguments. salam nected etal 1s (a dans Che dlundien’ ania. rere * ouldr t . 1 ’ ts This phase deals with the question ‘hal tho arrest If) street station, ‘Two men we plan should come in and plead to be of headship in the home. The con- taken in custody, Sener entle and Seika oo mdaculing ‘Gplnion HeeiA So the diswuated Ovater Hay arm ot | N@* asmured that missing chitdren al: || During This Yearly Cle : ; 4 take: pattce. | ’ to be that the ideal husband ib a the law departed for a village made saan with ase eres ane cues | Sale of “1912 models queer combination of czar and|"——"' ms ———— tell by aeroclation with a wreat) At dark Jast night the mother, with Sewing Machine: a cherub—a figure not without patri-| do women hold such high {deais for - : the baby and sandwiches and milk r+) U R archal sternness to be obeed ‘haw,| tet hustand to be? Can and Goes be GIRL WAS EIGHTEEN, 80 YOUNG | seitied herself on the stops of the ata |] emo not diwilusionige his wite snorty DIPLOMAT GOES FREE, tion and announced that ahe meant to| | eee 184 czar but cherished and coddled like! ufter marriage? Why, then, not dv | When Nolan was arratened stay there until she had word " = ie a cherub. without the ideal, and after getting | nai i SAPSTENGE OF SHO ODY Ta he Waneye thom tha Chile the man create her ideal from ine | SHEER, ROALSD: DASOES LRRURLEALG SPH y in early morning clay which has fallen to her lot? phy, Assistant District- Attorney Reyn-| hours and she herried downtown and Tt mot better fee her to work on olds recommended hie discharge wi byline that which : * hte the de th e Li ried the little girt home In her arms, The husband's authority should be un-| she‘cannot evtain beesuse of. thee ait Whee Molen NN MG ORME a a ad omet on th ideals? How many of us have fallen steamer Jefferson, en route from New ; 20 love with an angel (2) only to ’ port New York, and had t ft &re weaker, divorce 1s commoner, find after the awakening we wor- aia Abidhe Mitel Kater Wook? hele ; Hs about fourteen more dissolute, though LL aed an Mee not @ reality? Can was eligh ; 1. Willian even ore tie hi Do: D: ds, $20.00 ; everything to tose by these | We Rot use a little business sense 7 ; ; at Allain o pat undred mestic Dropheads, bad Ther and examine closely as to the t- | Woman Who Died Had Made kar of 4 brother} and T jh wteet ; ’ ia, ee Operate ame ness of beings before we lose our y [Of the girl was in co ithing on the Lody, Which ty betlever | White's Dropheads, - - $25.00, Tt tw a type that T detest, | hae paid, “Love is bitnd amd lovers a Contract With Cousin © | Marton wan elghteon, to be that of a boy who was drowned || Singer Dropheads,- - - $25.00, and It {8 @ perpetual wonder to me | do not seo the pretty follles tiey Suen Young Nolan's father, who Ia a welt t rr Went “one. Hundred ana || Dept Store 4 drawers) 4 that the American man tolerates it. | themselves commit.” Is this not ap- to Care for Her. known business: man in Chi ; fOne Mundred and)] ruit’ site dropheads and { be LDN | Plicable to that class who “look and lating by Nieor cwinencee waco, wan! 7 ol attachmente 4s Of course, if “woman's natural s ate] Hee not “hear and listen not,” but nen STANDARD for Brooklyn, x i Annte Gold, mi « arma hunger, She had been! spot In front of a ther who was shop: ed on a De- seman Staubite “Quality blend” — More money is paid over the counter for Fatimas than forany other cigarette. A quality that suits the great majority of do with her. take Annte The atory she told there ed the man. | over her fright, was that carriage | | | ‘The man took her to} kept her there until late | he took her to the $1.00 PER WEEK quarantee with each Machine truction to purchasers d Main Office of Domestic Sewing Machine Co, 3 WEST {4th STREET Tsigphene, blushing, (get lena compen’ Carmen malnta ine i her powers: Carmi yoakin thatend of injuring Mee Waice,, Plesk Pia Polat ise, 08 canta say Panis Weight Derbles, ee | SUNDAY WORLD WANTS ina . WORK MONDAY WONDERS,