The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1912, Page 20

— ~CONKLING LETTERS OF MVSTERY HELD FEE DISPUTE Court Questions Lawyer on ' Separation of Ex-Assembly- man and His Wife. FIXED BAIL AT $4,000. Counsel Declares He Is Keep-| ing Epistles Under an Attor- / ney’s Lien. Mytterious letters, Fhich have not Piich are to be weed by Johnson Conkling in her akainst former Assonrly Conkiing, are az with by Roderteon Honey, West Po: uate apd former ASsistant Distnict-At- | the contents of been disclosed and | Mrs, Ethel | eparation sult torney, who was her first iawyer in the | suit against Mr. Conkling. Honey claims that Mrs. Conkil wes him a balance of $2,500 for legal ices, and says he fe holding the lettens under an attor- nhe;'s lien. ‘These facts were brous\t out before Supreme Court Justice Gerard to~ay When Max Steurer, present counsel for Mrs. Conkling, called up a motion to have himself substituted as the attorney of record in the separation sult Steurer charges that Honey demanded payment of his $50 claim on pain of| revealing, if he to for ihe fee, matters which would have been ex- tremely embarrassing to the Conklings. | In support of that accusation, Sieure Introduced @ letter which he said was written to him by Honey. “The letter speaks for itself,” was Justice Gerard's comment. “In effect fe te as though this lawyer sald, ‘Pay me what I ask or I will go on the wit- will woman who h I don't see how any evidence of rervices ered could change the wording of that letter.” LAWYER SAID HE ADVISED A SETTLEMENT. Honey, a tall, athletic man with a Military bearing and speaking with, Great precision, was the only witness examined. “Mra. Conkling came to my office with her mother,” ho said, “and laid her case before me. The Conklings are people of Tespectability and social position. I ad- vised a settlement, if one could be mae, to avold painful publictty, Mrs. Conk- ling agreed with me, “I then went to work to affect such a mettioment. 1 had frequent conferences with James F. Egan, at that time Mr. Conkling’s attorney. 1 nearly arranged for a settlement with him by the terms of which Mra. Conkling would have re- peived $5,000 a year from her husband. “Then Mr, Egan retired and Howard Conkling, a member of the bar and Wrother-In-law of my client, Informed | me that he was representing Mr. Conk- Img. I arranged a settlement with hiin | on the basis of Mra. Conkling resumnig ner place as head of her husband's household, of her being maintained the style to which she had been uc tomed and of her receiving $200 a month pin money. That settlement was put effect, I understand.” WE ADMITTED HE HAD RE- CEIVED $1,500 CHECK, Honey admitted that he had rece! $1,600 from Mrs, Conkling. The was paid by means of a check ‘6y Mrs. Conkling’s mother, he sa “What is your whole fo 1 asked. ‘Four thousand dolars,"' replied Honey. “"¥ou figure your legal services at! then?" interrupted — Justice is 4,000,"" ly. | Justice Gerard repeated the question | several times. Honey would not admit that he figured his services at $3,100. » that ques- ‘ton, said the Justice, “Now, tell me @t what you valued your services.” “Thirty-one hundred dollars," Mr, Mar- ard. “No, my bill was the said Money. ‘The Conklings have three children, ‘are heirs under the will of the late lar, Mr, Conk- 0 appealed to the an award of r the support of the children out of their inherit The @ppeal was denied and half the amount awarded, Justice Gerard is to hear further testimony gin to-morrow concerning Honey's COL. HALE OUT FOR TAFT. Eveving World.) pt. 19,-Col, Fred | erick Hale, son of enator Hale and) National Committceman from this State, | to-day came out 7 for Pre t Taft. In the spring primaries Hale w with the velt forces and the view fory of Roosevelt's cause in Maime at Anat. time was credited to him 7 statem.cnt Kiven out here to-day Cen his position Col. Hale waid 1 clearly return from woere I attended the Na- in a third party tI should support the Republi T have no reason since then to change my tind. Tam sorry to see the Republican party split up, but I be People of thin State, Progressives, will see that the common enemy is the Democratic party, and that eventually they will get together again. I consider myself as progressive @s the mem» new party. I Believed in the spring, when 1 supported Col. Reosevelt for the Republican - Bation for President, that the Republie ean party needed to be more prokrassive, and I believe so still; but I differ with many !n that I believe that this change ean best be wrought through the Ree Publican party Itself, In the Septem ber fight the United Republican party Mm this Siate showed what it could do, f did everything I could for wh ese @f the State ticket.” L ae onan SA A SEN He mE ene perenne foal % EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, WHAT IS THE IDEAL HUSBAND? ofe Serie Fifth Articie | ‘‘He Is an Unknown Quantity in Lite,’’ Declares Sayville, L. I., Married Woman THE DEAL HUSBANDS THE WELUSIVE BACHELORS” - Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publ hi BACHE tor ARE AMONG “If He Existed He Would Be a Monstrosity of Nature. We Don’t Want Ideal Husbands. The Only Men That Really Understand Women Are Bachelors,” She Says—‘‘Pay the Wife a Salary and Discharge Her if She Shirks Duty,”’ Says R. W. R. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. Ni*Oue GREELEY-SMITH declared to be most common to masculine humanity. The Sayville psychologist has named the very last group of men wherein I should expect to find an ideal of any sort. How lucky that some one sees him not without glamour. felt sorry for him, if only because he looks so untidy, and one may read a Bachelor women may lose their illusions, a rule, they keep their figures and they grow in neatness and pre- month's menus on his clothes. ‘but, cision with every year. But how is it possible to view an bachelor an unrealized ideal husband? Surely you can't model an ideal after the clay has become hard and Gry any more than you can create a statue from such un- promising material, or make over @ brick after it has been baked fifty years. Perhaps the admirer of the old bacné Jors means that the man who remains unmarried shows a certain fastidious- '® preciosity which disdains the real woman and seeks forever an elu- alve ideal. I wish she had gone more into detail as to the old bachelor's su- perb attractions, Here is her letter: CLASSES UNDESIRABLES. Dear Mad The “ideal hus- band” is, 1n the history of the world, an unknown quantity! husband may be free from the enumerated by the proud woman of Cincinnat!, and yet be far from per- ction, The fact Is, we do not want “Ideal husbands;" we would be sim- ply bored to the point of extinction by such monstrosities of nature. We would not willingly forego the Joy of our knowledge of thelr deflelencies, and of our own consummate sail in hiding tt them, attractive, intelligent amount of h she most dite y men that stand women and fear thety wonderful power are the eli ¢ cacholors. When we can et nate them we may (2) find “the ideal cult pro! reall husband” THE WIFE OF ONE MINU « § AVERAGE FAULT Mont of us will agree with the writer of this lotter that the ideal husband, if he existed, would be @ monstros.ty of nature, I have always thought the originator of that old phra fection” tim of P there is isagrecable than a medioore man swelling with the pride of superior righteousness, I have yet to encoun. ter it, IDEAL HUSBANDS AS But the woman who possesses a hus- band minus those ten average faults certainly to be congratulated, A ann What do you think of the tion that the ideal husband is never realizable because he can be found only among the ranks of confirmed old bachelors? “Eliminate the elusive bachelor, who alone knows the power of wo- man, and you may find your ideal,” says “A Wife,” of Sayville, L. 1, who adda, incidentally, that she pos “@ husband minus the ten ave: faults.” Jealousy, Infidelity, Selfish- ness, Intemperance, Cowardice, Im- morality, Deapotism, Bad Temper, Stupidity and Idleness are these de- fects, which a jury of French women! Poor old bachelor! T have always Who Is not selfish 1 as rare as a woman Who Is not pleased by flat Is there such a woman? Is there such a man? Another point to be questioned 1s the Ideal husband than with the one she has? WHEN HAPPINESS 18 NOT HAP- PINESS AT ALL. When happiness bec monotonous It ceases to be happin ticated her tde: mi las many women have suggested, a pret deadly affair, A certain amount of dis- whether a woman would be happler with) Mahing Co, (The New York World). ills incurred Jointly, or, in other words, the household expenses. Apy balance remaining in the hands of either at the end of each month could then be disposed of as they might elect individually, The %0 Per week stenographer is the excep- tion, For every woman earning $0 ber week there are 10,000 earning less than $7. If her husband gives her $20 per week for her services, we services are 50, must grant that his worth at least as much as hers if he takes a like amount for self, there remains but $ per week out of his $15 per for living expenses; and I would like to know how they ket along on so Hitle. Of course, no wife would be mean enough to ex- act one-half of her husband's pay and then expect him to pay all of the bills, It takes all I make to run our home, and we can only afford the piaines: Kind of living, and my salary la equal to $10 per week, If we are going to pay our wives regular salai then the wife should husband's ause it isa saving for her, providing, of course, she ts named as beneficiary, and when servants are hited to do the houses work, dressmakers for the wife's clothes, milliners to make her hats, &e., the wife should be docked accordingly or discharged, as her hus- band would be in case he neglected his work or was deficient in any way. It the wife spends her time re: ing and gossiping while the hus! is attending to his business a! and servants doing the house- work, then usband fs entitled to tension seems to be necessary to keeping up & Woman's Interest. She can never be sure that she has ceased to love a man until] she discovers that he no longer has the power to make her angry. An uneventful marriage—say, the union of the ideal husband with the ideal wife—would be @ sort of hiberna- tion of love. Poor old Cupid sentenced forever to @ state of well-fed torpor, of somnolent ce it! How dreadful! Let us turn from the contemplation of this harrowing possibility to the man in Hot Springs, Ark., that wives should be paid He says: PAY A WIFE WAGES AND HAVE POWER TO DISCHARGE HER, Dear Madam: I agree that the {deal husband should pay hie wife a salary, but he should have the same power over his wife as his employer has over bim so far as discharges, are ¢ 1. My plan would ‘or the husband to give his wit haif of his salary or then each should pay one-half of all salaries. Tt: INFANTS are peculiarly smallest wth of the cells which of | only then if unavoidable, ‘The administration of Anod other | decried, and the hould not parat.ons, all of which are narcot joy lcee , if continued, these opiates cause ae ‘tal perversion, hyo an ment ch as intractable VOUS dosing with opiates or narcotics to keep children qui The rule pil ce ee is that children should “ smallest dosce narcotios to children by any but a ph; iL) two-thirds of the earnings, while the wife should get but one-third, but she att) be compelled to defray one-half of the household expenses, having earned nothing herself. R. W. R. Hot Springs, Ark, la philosopher of Pompton Lak who believes in early mar writes: | HORROR OF EXPENSE DETERS MEN WHO WOULD MARRY. Dear Madam: hore are inany men who might marry, who do not, for the reason, they claim, that they cannot afford it yet they van af ford to go out with the boys, play pool, pinochle and ths ponies, ank thelr cronies to drink or smoke, end in this way speud more money than {t would cost to run tho ordinary laboring man's household, 1 am not certain but the Indies off who do not marry this kind oj man (and he Is legion) than :hose who do, a8 he ususlly neglects his family if he marries. Then th The Effects of Opiates. ible to ia well likely to become never day at a time, and Cordi Soothing Syrups and to it, Children who are for more than a be ». py eee physician, and ia ‘nothing less than a crime to dose them willfully wi | contains of Chas, H. Fletcher, pareotics, Castoria no narcotics if it bears the dignature xq Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of The last of to-day’s contributors ts ) He | é dames McCreery & Co. 23d Street FURS. Advance models of Coats, Neckpieces and Muffs for the coming se being shown. Furs include Ermine, Mole, Hudson Seal, Mink, Caracu MEN’S FURNISHINGS. SPECIAL On Friday and Saturday. 200 dozen Pure Silk Knitted Four- in-hands in crochet and accordion weaves, plain and cross stripes. 150 dozen Pajamas,— low cut end military collars in regular and extra sizes. Made of English Madras and Mercerized Materials in white and colors. 250 English Raincoats in various colors, weights and Raincoats of single texture Canton Cloth in Blue or Tan. value 35.00, » MEN’S UNDERWEAR. 19132. ts the useless, vain wor marries a man and @ dress her in the latest and finest style, keep servants to wait upon | her and let her spend the money bunting “bargains.” Young ladies must not expect to live on ice cream and in the theatre when they aro married, for married life is not, + fome seem to think, one long, gala period, but a stern, self-denying | and necessity-facing condition. | With this idea in mind, men and women have made home the hap- piest spot on earth. I believe in early marriage any time after elghteen for the young lady, and twenty-two for the young man. TWIC? A BENEDICT, Pompton Lakes, N. J. — FUGITIVE SURRENDERS, BUT NO ONE WANTS HIM. A young man who described himself an John McKeen, nineteen yeai a newsboy, no home, walked into th East One Hundred and Twenty-sixt street station early the Lieutei justice, ha Island three years ago by swimming ‘o the Long Island shore in company with another boy. According to McKeen's story, he was Jcommitted to the Catholle Protectory, but was transferred to Randall's Island on account of ji!ness. He said he had been unable to procure steady em: loy- ment and was despondent. ‘The Lieutenant communicated with Ja\'s Island and found that the \ story told by McKeen was true, but was Informed that owing to the present age of McKeen was not wanted back there. At the Catholic Protectory, accerding to the police, the response was the same, Upon his own request McKeen was detained at the station He will be arraigned tn uurt to-day for disposition of the c Actually Cures Kidneys Special Introductory Offer That Makes Remedy Cost Almost Nothing. ly remarkable disco tof kidney disease haw been made The result is a Mould remedy not contain any alcohol or harm. which Is quickly absorbed in immediate. oO pure that be ti oat delicate. without harm, \Uenal power, {Urinary weak [tinm and all polsonin ly, f. For Introductotly puri to every one without cos fment will ston backache atmos: aiding pains, weakne! dney troubles in. twe gxin. to cure from th casen of kidney die- fo prove all this the 166. Aintributtor any Kidney ‘and paing tal iter and get re for a few 34th Street sop are now 1, Broadtail, ete. In Both Stores, VALUES. 1.10 values 1.50, 2.00, 2.50 1.35 value 2.00 models, 9.75 values 15.00, 18.00 English make. 22.50 White Lisle Union Suits, short and long sleeves, medium weight. 1.35 value 1.75 White Sea Island Cotton Underwear, —shirts with long regular and stout sizes. sleeves; drawers in 75c value 1.00 Fall weight, Gray Merino Underwear. Shirts with long sleeves; drawers in regular and stout sizes, 23d Street 65c each value 1.00 34th Street Fair Notice! The World’s Greatest Piano Sale will open Monday morning, September 23, in the Piano Salons of the John Wanamaker Store. The values to be offered are such as will justify the put- ting off until then of any contemplated purchase of used instruments Many Women Are Buying a Year’s Supply of the R. @ T. Silks —tealizing that they will not have the opportunity again. a Every day new customers are coming in—hearing the talk of the great sale from their friends. Fourth floor, Old Building. To Settle the Millinery Question Another Collection of denias or roses at the same Plumed Hats at $10 special prices. mi All are fresh from our own to $15 Tomorrow, milliners for the occasion and Friday possess a very beautiful in- iace arrangements have dividuality. m made to duplicate last |; week’s very successful variety Untrimmed Velvet Hats of plumed hats which were sold $3.25, regularly $5 within a few hours. Exceptional opportunity at These for tomorrow will be the opening of the season be- all different and we think you cause of a trade happening will say even better. without public interest except Black velvet hats, bound that it saves $1.75 to women with silk braid, have been who trim their own hats. chosen in the most generally Twenty different shapes. becoming shapes. On them Every hat of rich silk velvet. are placed one, two or three bound with silk. All black. Plumes in different colors, Nearby are fancy feathers curled or uncurled, occasion- which will immediately sug ally relieved by a flower or gest a hundred clever styles o! tibbon. trimming. Majority are $10 and $12. New Untrimmed Millinery Salons, Other new hats shave gar- First floor, O'd Buildin. Lady Betty Shoes, $1.90 Pair For 15 years we have sold plicates of the-new regula: Lady Betty Shoes for women stock. So we straighten stock at $2.50 pair. Tomorrow we Po marieng tee i Le ba ft y mi ng them—for the first cai sell 1,164 pairs at $1.90 time—$1.90 pair. Thi Black kid, button and lace. ie same good shoes—that Dull caif, button and lace. compare favorably with the Patent leather, button and usual $3 shoe. But a change tece, of makers leaves us with 1,164 3 W Tan calfskin, button. pairs that are practically du- Friday, Subway floor, Old Building. pho 3h 4 4h F'5h 6'62 7 74 8 | | | i 1 a [7915 18 1 29 27 28 4 é +7. [12|23|27!34 52 40 57 54 30 C S13 |16 | 33) 28/42/4424 27 9229, Olialia | Siar ool jis is 28. € | Sizes be lisiF7 is New Era of Women’s Moderate- Priced Dress In the Store on the Subway Floor This store is an ideal exposi- A particularly good-looking tion of how tohave very pretty serge dress — excellent serge clothes for a very smallsum. too—has eponge collar, little No wonder women smile touches of black braid orna- here for they find uncommonly ments and buttons with eponge fine silks, and pretty styles, centers, long sleeves and a and genuinely good woollen short belt in the back. materials in these dresses and blue and brown. aT eos ap at way Raserate Briere: But there is no end tothe new silk dress at isin sibilities of i H black, blue and the soft taupe Lstasy ere ta Te color, has inset sleeves and Another serge dress for the little lace vest, white satin col- morning has a Robespierre lar and buttons of imitation collar, lace vest, silk collar and ivory. Everything about it is pipings of contrasting silk new and the silk is good. $7.50; even at $6.75, neat and Silk dres: in light colors pretty dresses with touches of are of crepe meteor or char- contrasting color and satin mute, in Tigh Dine, copen- trimmed collar. agen and white. with daint ppp lace frills at collar and cafe 100 Special Raincoats, and eons ave embroidered $3.75 sashes. 50, A wonderfull: (ood y. One of the best silk dresses ‘This is not the "tie fehl by any means— they hurry out so far this season is of crepe meteor with long sleeves and just as fast as we can get them here. Robespierre Souar usually of contrasting silks—white with Rubberized canton black, gray with blue, black made like the finer eh with blue or cerise, blue with with air vents. Subway floor, Old Building, white, $12. Hu Fourth Avenue, Eighth to Tenth Street