The evening world. Newspaper, October 10, 1912, Page 3

SHOT HS WIFE " FOR A BURGLAR + NHARLEM FAT Van Pelt, Suddenly Wakened, Thought He Heard Intruder at Window. WAITED WITH REVOLVER Fired as" Wife Appeared in Doorway—She Will Recover, Doctors Say. ‘Mistaking her for a burglar, George F. Van Pelt, a salesman, living on the third floor at No. 308 West One Hun- Grea and Eleventh street, blazed away at his wife, Marle, early to-day, and one of the bullets struck her in the Mouth and passed through her nock Mra.’ Van Pelt was taken to Hood ‘Weight Hospital. The doctors say s! ‘will recover. Van Pelt was locked up at the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street @ation and Inter arraigned in Harlem He was nearly prostrated and the shooting was accidental About 2 o'clock Mrs. Van Pelt had oc- easton to rise from bed and she en- Geavored not to wake her husband. But as she was passing through the Damboo portieres betwen the bedroom and the sitting-room the beads rattled and Van Pelt awoke. Unaware that she hed roused her husband, Mrs. Van Pelt went on. Of late there have been several bur- @aries in the district which have not ‘been mentioned by the poliée and Van| Pelt had provided himself with a re-| At night he kept the weapon | volver, uader his pillow. “It Is Very Hard for al Pretty and Well Formed Girl to Make Good in the Business World,” Writes “One Who Know's,” and She Adds That Her Beauty Cost Her a Job in an Office. | “Have Ideals; Read Po- etry; Give Up Fudg Each Day Perform Some Duty of Importance; Look Forward toa Home of Your Own Construc- tion; Work, Work, Work, Saw Wood,’’ Ad- vises Sensible “Sally Work Forever.” *THE BOIS HIMSELF MAS SHOWN OSTCT SIGNS OF APFECTION® eon wae BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. We have discussed beauty as a possible asset to The Girl Who Makes Good in the business or pro- fessional world. To-day we encoun- ter a point of view which seems to be common among young women that, far from being an asset, beauty neg? | He fancied, he told the police, that the noise that woke him was made by @ burglar trying one of the windows, Td eeized his revolver and lay 11: wife crept oilently back. The it Van Pelt saw the form at the res he openc fire. Police he had besn sure Mrs. Van Peit was in bed and had mistaken the ro'l of fhe turned back bedclothes for her. At the first shot Mrs. Van Pelt creamed, and at the second, which fol- Jowed instantly, collapsed, Van Pelt sprang from bed and was horrified to find he had shot his wife, His shouts brought in neighbors, who, quest, went for the police man John Ryan sent for an ambulance. While Dr. Dickinson was working over her Mrs. Van Pelt came to for a few moments. She said she had had no quarrel with her husband and knew when she heard the first shot he had mistaken her for a burgl. —_ HETY GREENS CAR KNOCKED MAN OVER BUT DD NOT STO When Hetty Green took to riding to @nd from her business in an mobile 1t was close to a 100 per cent. cer- tainty that something was going beppen. It happened to-day, when Hetty Green's car ran down and in- dured James Miner, an agent of the Goolety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, while Miner was intent upon arresting Fred Schuman, @ huckster of No, 420 Columbia street, who was driv- ing a lame horse. Some combination that—Hetty Green, @ huckster, a lame horse and an agent of the 8. P. C. A, Broadway and Worth atreet the scene of the happening. Miner, walking south on Broadway, saw Schuman driving the lame horse north, The poor animal was having a hard time and Schuman was persuaving ft with a whip, Unmindful of the fact that he was a little north of the cross- ing of Worth street Miner stepped off the curb bound toward Schuman and the lame horse for the purpose of ar- resting the driver, Mrs, Hetty Green's car, driven by a chauffeur and conveying Mrs, Green and her son, Col. BE. H. R. Green, to their office, happer Jong, bound south, just as Miner steppe! into the gutter, The forward mudguard of the car struck Miner and knocked him down, He fell against the curd and when he had picked himsel! up the was across Worth street and on to downtown. Without taking his mind from the Jame horse and its driver Miner noted that number of the car was 13,091, | Vhen he started after Soauman and placed him und at Miner had suspee' At he was pret: | ty bad whe licema his | Limp “ » horse i made his we rmtinal Courts Bullding, where he a od Schuman In Cenae soe tt Court and him fined $s. With th ase of ecruetty t¢ animals elanos jescrip- whieh ant doctor. Armed with a complete wn an f 1 ineluded m brutses ons er Ine and knees Miner went op after tt As T was Tying on the « turn around an) if even Mes. 6 on Broudway > her chau‘leur’ They Cure Cold in One Day. Bed Grom + Cough Drops, Se. par box, te? He told tho) | {a a distinct Nability to its possessor who seeks success in the downtown world. In fact, a girl writes to me that she has been compelled several times to give up her employment as a@ result of the undesirable atten- tions lavished upon her by her “boss” or her fellow employees. I wish that other young women would send me their views on this point. The writer of the letter expressed the conviction that she is only one of many girls whose personal pul- chyitude has hampered their success. I confess to having hanbored a certain scep‘icism as to conditions such | 48 this letter Indicates. I have known a number of young women who Tepresented themselves as possessed of a ruinous beauty, ! :t unfortunately in individual cases which have come under my observation the surprise, pain, grief, indignation, &., be‘rayed by these supposed victims of thelr own charms were about as plausible ag though a fisherman surveying the| squirming object on the end of his line—the reward of much patience, stout Hine, several hooks and a most attractive fly—-should exclaim: “Cur: on my fatal a:tractions! I wonder how that fish got out of the wate HOW TO REMAIN UNMOLESTED ae are many more who could 6 same AT MOR ONE WHO KNOWS. Tt has been my opinion that Venus} tere is a ieiter written directly to herselt would remain unmolested In 8 | stiey Woul orien erations New York office provided she wor? sut- | ficient and appropriate clothes, attended | twa wad T do not know where to her own business and let it be gen- erally understood that she was there to | work and not to philander, But 1 must be wrong, 1 insist, however, that what- ever happens in the way of unpleasant Dursull need not happen if @ girl un- dorstands herself thoroughly and under- stands men. For man is indeed a towering and timorous beastie when he is Going or trying to do wrong. ‘There is moral courage which we Rear a great deal of and 1 moral courage of which hear NIXOLA GREELEY* SMITH good, the working girl wii! find wiser counsel: GOOD RULES FOR BUSINESS GIRLS TO FOLLOW. To Miss Would-Make-Good: Dear Friend—You often chanted in your kiddie days—do you remember? war an’ spice an’ ev'rything nice, and that’s what ijittle girls are made of." And dovsn't it seem a poor heritage now that you need Strength and fortitude in filling @ man's position? With these resources every tiny baby girl launches her craft down the stream of life. What ten der THE BEAST. Dear Madam: In every office in witeh | have ben employed some gum. Yours, with best wishes, BALLY WORK-FOREVER, sail attache UNCLE MANUEL KISSED HER. young man or the hoes himself has shown ory distinct signe of sree ton On one oeravion the boas | An elghteen-year-old Costa Rican naufteur | bride arrived yesterday on the Pring ismund, with her husband, Leon Garcia, twenty-two years old, of Port such excessive attention ft sary to forfelt my por On another occasion the he was n thon. n ‘ bega »: endl: ows Limon, lL ae le Ma uw Ae Bomar ‘The bride, who was Dolores Ruiz, wuies he Pi AB » jand | ectheurt Hved on neighbor- which he found by looking up the record at the oMce. Then he raised my salary, AS I would in no way | encourage his attention, things went from bad to worse, until I wi | forced to leave that position, It ts ing plantations, Mer parents wished her to Wed @ cousin, but she, stealing from her home, woke up Leon one night | and they eloped. Her parents sent an uncie of the girl, Manuel Ruls, a fruit | merchant of New Orleans, to inter- capt her at New York, | The uncle reached the pier just as his niece and her husband came off the hip. Uncle Manuel tried to be very stern, but when the girl wept and the bridegroom pulled out a marriage cer- tifcate he just kissed the bride, and they went to lunch. very hard for @ pretty and well- formed girl to make good in the business world, I have @ father and mother and ve have a home of our own, go it isn't necessary for me to hold a po- | sition under unpleasant —elrcum= stances, but my sympathies are with the girl who h@s nobody to look at- the first de: ter ner or a home to go to, This is | goo” ny {Satins reaint | oly ome girl who writes you. Tam Jo, BeaMemn iow, Mee ‘ a7 -” YO SVECEED =" READ POETRY That Max D. Ste! ham Erlanger ao Edith 8. ¢ THE GIRL WHO MAKES GOOD Se aa aanaamaamamamanaaameand Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World.) Come ouT To LUNCH Waites GREAD* to Pay Wife Hear of Scandal. or fore tract with Ir for $25, yearly instalm: the threat of exposing friendship for the actress at the moment when Mrs, Erlanger was returning from a trip abroad, by William 'T, Jerome to-day in an ad- to the jury in Justice Page's part was the charge EX- Actress Than Let 1 from Abas made FIFTH ARTICLE OF A SERIES Beauty Made Out to Be a Liability Instead of an Asset in Business |\i32% 8%" « nm | out BF VE UP FUDGE AND FIND THE RECIPE ROR SAULN= VORK-FOROVER® WRITES STEUER FORCED » ERLANGER TOSIGN, IEROME CLAIMS Promised $25,000 Rather jouer told him, he @atd, that r claimed he, nger, had F her, and ed hat he witness stand ts given e1 | ere in court. ‘The substance Nea cesettal wer be jot rsation, as read by Jerome, ‘opie “tn-as ioug as | feo i ‘But Mr. Steuer, Mt Er- langer is sickly, She is just returning afer a long trip abroad for her health. A suit against me by Mies St. Clair ; would do her great harm and hurt me. | What can it be settled for? Steuer-Mias St. Clair wants $100,000, I think that Jt can be settled y and pri 7 or » you figure? Probably 000, er—But what avsurance have I hasty scandal will not be aired and that Mrs, Erlanger will not hear ofthis? | Steuer—You can protect yourself this w Make t) ontract ement on. there t “It pro- vided for ach year, It was signed by the firm of Kiaw & Erlanger, ir, Steuer well knew that Mrs. ager was due home and fully realized that the moment was op- portune to hold the ty scandal,’ as he called tt, rlanger's head. Certainly he signed it!" Miss St. Clair will be called as the 7 t first witness Both members of the mothing at all perhaps because it have you added to your cargo? If of the Supre Court, , producing firm will be witnesses, in so rare—men never have ft— | YO fee your litle toat cossed abou: | Misa a sat with a group of | ea " cocasional woman sins in by the tide of time are you Kolng to | women friends In the rear of the court. | or Seamer With eeneege. | SHR? Ate rou going to drift? | room. Mr. Brlanger was at the counse) | DYNAMITE AT HIS DOOR. Don't, Every girl can be a Kreat | table across from Mr. Steuer, who en- | | elec So when you encounter a man trying} Woman in her own sp! ig she has | trusted the trial of the case to John | Grocer Finds Expl Ready tor to do wrong—and we certainly must; S"#Wered to the beckoning finger of | V, Bouzier jr. The trial, which prom- | use X an Opportunity, Opportunity has called | isex to be sensational, co.nes into cour 9, RORY ER SRO: place the employer described in the i * nations | letter xigned “One Who Kno in the| {9 YOU. Opportunity will ca!l to you. Jon Migs St. Clair’s efor, to enforee the| William Lutz, @ partner with John class of serious wrong-doers—you are| But not twice to tae same irl, And | contract. Erlanger admits inducing his Wellberger in & small grocery store at fan to face with a coward and can} 4° fot sit at home with folded hands | partner, Mare Klaw, to sign the instru, No. 981 Second avenue, found o atek of deal with him accordin awaiting her coming, She js like & J inent, put charges tha: he did it under dynamite With precussion cap and fuse A soft answer may tarm away man tn as much as she goes where | gteuer's coercion and in fear that Mr, | attached, when he opened his store to- rath, but there is nothing equal | %h° !s least expected. Work, work, | sieuer would bring a sult whic day, ‘The stick of explosive was lying Ptah pay Bor work, Take your mind off aweet- | Gaim that meretricioun. relations Gurolde the door and close to the wae oe Bese tengne ee fear hearts during businens hours, Some [ised vetween the producer amt of the at No attempt had been made of us grope our way to the top from Ito Hght the fuse death, Vet Ol men fone sisiente, the depth of a great sorrow. Do not | “\"e** i : | °policeman McKee of the Bast Fitty- to it, and to in 8 aay gt fact | Have ideals. Read poetry. Give up MARGE Aad Bk BELEN Gh ite thal | Wak one al stick tow pail of © te 16 tees Menem 900 ie fudge and find the recipe for light | view tha theatrical man vein, water in th Later It wan re- word, that proclaims we Paeid white bread, Each day perform some | "00" U0" SL Te Saliaw. h0) coved. to (th oe Cornhunethien In other words, weep, ani duty of importance, Logk forwara |'8w¥er come > sian the Both the partners declare » nly that lain—if there be such a thing— to a home of your own construction, | Clair contract. Mr. Jerome read from they have no ener Jove as you. Laugh and you are No, you need not buy the actual © eora: oll of particulars attested to : a e Knows” has to relate of her experience | f comfort, een acevo vous [opened the negotiations wiih the warn I don't see much of your alater these of beauty as a Mability. What do you) man who w d fg ing that Erlanger was @ married man days k about it? She writes husoand, something better and nobler | (6 nag since been In wife,| "No, she neither swims nor wears low. Shae at than a knowledge of unhealthy | 4 gejaide Erlanger) and a man of publi mecked gowns." BEAUTY FRIGHTENED HOME BY! books and @ passion for chewing AX The Chocolate Laxative Keeps Stomachs in Order LAX i sweet chocolate laxative which is re- cognized by many stomach specialists as the SAFEST et MOST HARMLESS REMEDY for CONSTIPA- TION in allitsforms. It is good for persons of all ages and condition: EX-LAX acts quickly; within 4 to 6 hours It causes no pain or griping, and does not irritate the kidneys like most other laxatives. EX-LAX does not taste like medicine; it is like a delicious chocolate, medicated with a pure, safe, tasteless substance. If suffering from ANY FORM of CONSTIPATION, y v of RX. to-day, bura}o Punt ky Drunaisis, 106 and 230 0 Bes, FOR WOMEN DIVORCE PART CAF. A. CLUB'S PLA TH Ufe-asa-Pine-Art Club an- nous? Madvisory committes, one of wi at dt first 814 © the wom: divoree. 8 Will be to give contemplating Member of our club is con- em PBUNE a divorce,” said aire Wo F. Of No, i Drive, the eo member of our mittee and bear. pour She may need our help, aM tympathy, and of course some we may de able through the committets efforts to patch up a tow marilal di@eulties.” Mrt Petite is now selecting her com- raltt@® S% having heen made ¢ yent Ing aft! Mra. Is Risky To Have Clogged Nostrils Yout néMfils catch the disease germs 8nd dirt that are in the air you breath, If your nostrils are closed thé germs of disease collect in Your NAMl passages and set up an irritation. This is called catarrh. The irritatlen produces a discharge. The discharge |s loaded with germs. Your nostrils being clogged up, you cannot DIOW out the discharge in the natural way, The annoyance of choked-up testrils causes you to free er mS a you can, You find a raw the discharge backward Isto your throat. This is called hawking, and is jagusting, unnatural a4 unsafe practice, and gives the breath a bad odor. Drawing diseay ys a pends altogether upos Into. team Nout’ nostra into your threat aba: you will, contpact In. one ly Rebee ied notes, she he in King ears, 1 vem, tn “another B gihen Trove, In ill others tuberuloats Most ¢ase of deafness end lung disease start trom a closed, dry or discharging toatril. Here is the rea- son. Your nostrils are supplied with perfect air filters, These structures strain all the dust and germs out of the air you take, If your nostrila are open and healthy the disease germs are caught and entangled in the natural secretions of the nose, as files are caught on sticky paper. Once caught in the nostrils, the germs are blown out. If your nostrils are dry and sre, the disease germs are not caught at all, but pass right on to your car and lungs. M; snlag ict Nn, Sac ot eet may to dn bone of the toes, fu ‘esting ie \important strectiing that were cred ie Ey frm out of the air, ty eveln i Nostrils Cured C JOU me what jou would do h Murphy lie now reports ‘breads all right theugh his nose , He now rats well at Mr, New ‘York . eewsity of r at tiibese which measure prove asa. are. balnful, ‘and curing the that “causes ‘deafness bre ofien fore it “H ‘im " sthod of it to will ow tm ny method of treatment te w by chown’ inthe cawet Mr, McKee hen Mrs, Baru Mckee first, consulted © aide] hae ty winter time, The col on ii a tou Then the cold HiMd wattle op my & ‘ald ‘have pains. ict my w abt log sorenees behind my bmstbone, 1 looking substi 1b cam failed and I soneum ptloo, car the ri wo my good 1 firs. had notes placing Mes, that the molee. readily hear « scren derstanding fiat he sda to ber sore throat fe poor, em, b) looker Sala. and ale. faves be Kee resides at M8 As 10 you satter froin gage! 0 trila OF are going dest # ba't dey hpoat ad Fou ah 4 Sno. aauld ima leased to f you nothing if you real 1 will send you me ta: plaining some thin, ‘The youthful, bovely complex fon that nature gave you Will be t ure gave by juste touch of CARMEN wil! not rub off Ie its delicate eT ASHOW Harnlese and IEN benefits the okt mit's dif take inde iteit'e di FOUR TINTS: white, Pink, Flesh bey or Department Store <Tilet S120 806 for bi irritates white Bowvetieky "rated eianew tet Jon Darel SenatSora or fi sortme! mat 20 Pile Plush & Velvet Combined Velours.......... 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