The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1912, Page 3

FUN WRITER FAILS TOSCOREIN COURT "eo AS IN VAUDEVILLE Vincent Bryan’s Petition - Against Alimony Doesn’t Make Hit With Wife. HE DOESN’T LIKE WORK. She Says That’s Why He Kicks at Paying $50 Week Alimony —Has Married Again. . Vincent Bryan, manufacturing come , “he should worry and get a wrine Vite former wife, Rachael, whe @ot & divorce in ten minutes one day lgat June, with $60 © week alimony, Wants him jatled in Bailiff Harburger'e matrimonial citadel in Ludlow street, because he owes her $920 in alimony, Harry Harry Bulger qd other Broadway stage lights, Swear they won't give “Vine” work bee ause it looks like he's going to jail. And last, Bryan married again on Dee, Zim the face of a decree forbidding tim to wed. He should worry! Bryan had his worries submitte¢ to Jastice Page to-day in his application t@ reduce tho $50 a week alimony the Gourt awarded Sirs, Bryan. Mra. Bry- gh, Mike Simon and Archibald Selwyn, brothers, and Al H. Woods, Ro! C. ue, Roscoe Gage and Max Silver made aMdavits for Mrs, Bryan fhe that if Vincent Bryad wants to ‘Work he can earn $25,000 a year. Then * % J. Mauraice, William Harris and Mayard Velller estimate Bryan's earn- ‘ge capacity, provided he wishes to ‘Gnduige his talent,” at $15,000 at least. We shouki work and get @ Wrinkle: GHE SAYS “VINC” DOESN'T| WANT TO WORK. Besides writing for Laura Gust Ipene Frank!'n, Montgomery ana 8toni Bisio Janis, the Harry Von Tilzer Mu- e Pudliching Company, the Shapiro & Remix Companies, and numerous tare, Mra, Byran deci wrote must everything Wells ever want or epoxe tn vaud everything the: Mabel Hite ever sang | soe vouteville, and wrote ex- | numerous others.” Aleo an, “that | surrender en insurance 'y, do the work myself and sell my becaure he refuses to work, | refuses te tmaty with che order of the Court.” | funny, man, Mra. Br: aye, avit falts flat. I her fourteen | DAweSs CAporing |.18 effort to get the all-| éowa Mv, Bryan saze that a t sum, he spends for uranta. erty Je absued,”* regenciled to aim.” BRYAN HAS HAD TO BORROW, | LAWYER SAYS. | on a in Hoboken! | marriage showing that Bryan and Mise Leofa Armitage of No 4444 Drexel Boulevard, | iloenee’ “nied CBteago, were married by the Rev. Jo- |! », smith, attorney for | Rryan, told the court to-day that since} dwly 1, 1912, Bryan has been obliged | to borrow vartous sums of money from | friends to pa essary living ©: Eryan's afitavit wtatee Archi- ‘od decisicn, —— CHIEF BULL MOOSER BACK FROM CONFERENCE. Col, Roosevelt Hurries to His Office and Refuses to Discuss Politics, ‘Theodore Moosevel: returned to-day to the Oubtooic, in hie desk at the office o' the United ashe ar even move 7 and the general enjoyment of wirried out of the Grand Cen- n. Theodore Douglas Reine ton, hin nephew. w 9 is the new ch re man of the Prog in thie te, had to stret to keep two dived Into a taxican, and row as who train shod T. Ry s positivenees that y time se Ae spouted wi would be to! contr Ail the real pro Ohleawo, Hibs Pontponed. MMness of A Robert prosecution of | ers accused of | United Owing to the Valted States Attorney son, in charge of ¢ Cumeron Spear and o wing the malls to efraud, ca Judge Hunt to-day ordered a | panem ebt of the 1 unt Monday | ening at 9.00 Le URN IN, ba c ot ert Bio. equ, ot E. OVR. Cures 0 | fee eit Cares Grid ta Ewe Dave. here | mainly THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DEOEMB | SHALL WOMEN PROPOSE? ‘:: BEL BIR IDET RIOR, tthe ahaa ae) An Argument for the Affirmative 1918 THREE BABIES DIE "IN FIRES STARTED BY LITTLE FRIENDS If We Are Ever to Have a Super Race “Woman, by Every Law of Nature, Ie Better Adapt- ed to Select Her Mate and the Father of Her Children Than Is Man,”’ Writes “Richard K. S.”’ “(Men Are Cowarde in a Way—Many Are Too Timorous to Arise in a Street Car and Give a Tired, Illy Clothed Woman a Seat. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. & super race women shall—nay, must—propose! If we are ever to hav Copyright, 1912, by The Thus, a young man reader of The Evening World, who argues in sup- Port of hia declaration that men are all cowards where women are con- NixoLa | GREELEY¢ SMITH foolish-—has had !ts efie to-day if our forefathors posedly plastis litle m!mice. effective? WOMAN TAKES WHAT SHE WANTS WHEN SHE WANTS IT. Victor Hugo said, wnen he was a iongs to ine ver I find at!" And the woman of uansnal charm or cr wit has very much the came ie:!ing. Once co2- Vinced that sho bas found the man she wishes to ma:ty, lJessly sets her seal upon him, But Propose to him? ow vulgar, how | euperfinous! Only the crude pro- pose. few mirriage by actual verbal oYers trom women. The formal p tel upon her on the ry love for the stage, ute for where {t te the ingenue to eonfes) her hero by hold ng saying: “Thi some Hil cons.eercd or b; e hae a friend that lover h puld but teach him how to tell his and that would woo her. Tho tly Rosalind proposed to Orlando, ut—do you know a living woman has followed thelr classic example? But— fro‘ my Intention evlants who wisa 9 from offerins thelr bands {1 And T agree with the youns | woo thinks this unusual procecd- ling might & bereficlal effect on terity, For he ie quite right In as- ming that man convenilo fex, that be wants wives acd mothers and daughtere to be of a pattern. It is moral cowardice that makes men Gress ao much alike as por sible, Let any maa w to depart from mula of drabne: two or t! gathered together and cat-calls, hoots and good-humored jeers will greet his appearance, A group of Mstabels matrons would not be so much affected by the spectacle of Ome of their number in @ Paris fown as men are hy tho sight of @n unnscal necktle or a gandy pair of socks. But the young mon who believes that! tie rolage ts walt- Stew; women should prope ing to be he He HE i8 WILLING TO HAVE THE | WOMEN PROPOSE. Dear Madam: Why should not @ an propose marriage? From th peyehological standpoint alone, may I ask who ortginally would have picked inan to perform this doug! ve man himself? Is it not angels fenr to tread? occur to you vhere docs it not man, nature, Is better adap her m nd the father of her « dren than ‘9 man? Has not Uy Biven her boundless {atutiton, such as no man possesses, for Purpose? Many conven are that rob life of its naturalness, but none that wis the world Bo up- all the choosing, And w done wi Are the records of divorver, increasingly pondercus year by year, any 1 & supe natural or God-given wisdom on his But how by the choice of the excep ional woman, who never has had and nev thave to resort to the crudity of proposing marriage 1 take what be-! posal survives | \ | i men or! | | | | cerned; that every man wants his wife, his mother and his sister to be just like every other man's wife, mother and sister—thus constituting himself a foe to feminine evolution and development. Incidentally, this reader has found a novel and inter- esting explanation of why so many men keep their seats in street cars while women stand. He says they are tvo timid, actually too cowardly, to stand up! Undoubtedly men do show a gen- eral and decided matrimonial prefer- | ence for the average or factory prods| uct In femininity. And undoubtedly | this instinct militates against the} tuper race. Doubtless the law which till very recently governed masculine selection—the survival of the most} | } | | we might all be prodigies of learning and wit dn't persisted in a misgulded preference for aup- | the super race to be developed save | yr owill i nee | to make her p rule, are puny where women are fn a rut, yet asa 1 door, 0 timorous to arise 1 a nd give acy clothed woman a seat ca y offering , inanly nt wo choosing future homes you unde tes of thelr thelr masi stand— I swear to you, madam, that this country in fifty years—nay, in a £ yeurs—would rise to ned of heigats of moral rect! +» and whien to-day ave the laugh! « of the na- tony, be. the beacon ligut of iniilions and the gulding star of pos. terity. RICHARD K, 3, TRUCK MAKES GAYNOR | WALK INTO STREET, $0 DRIVER Ks SUMMONES our 1 at Mayor’s Requesi, However, | DRAGGED WIFE TO SIDEWALK AND DISARMED HER, Deponent Saith Not. Solomon Price, an elderly | acked his furniture van over the curb at Flatbush avenue and Sehermerhorn | street W Way afternoon and blocked oxsing av that His Honor, W!! | within ‘4 #ummons to | court to ex Mayor of New York, to twenty feet out of his to get around tt, ved a letter from the Mayor on the | he sald to-day, learn that Bergen — strer t to follow so am 7 wa Gay ay pecel yjort, he Polleeman | ation much 2 as come Noye of the mak hat the Mayor's homeward walks a Noye served him with ear In Butler s#tree Noye flied an affidavit against Py in which state? Price, by hacking ais truel on the sluewalk, forced pedes alk and take to ual lost man failed to state whethe at asked hh "serve @ summons on the Wuck driver, > Price has not yet} — Tir 2, —TShngone, Presse Publishing Co. (The New York World). "QUEENS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES PROPOSE Wny NOT THE AMERICAN QUEENS" JEALOUS WIFE TRIES 10 SHOOT As soon as Mra, vles Dexter or of several fashionable DASHING WIDOW: The Two Battle All Over Har-| beson’s Store in Colum- bus Avenue. ot ig estab! jumbus avenue. she youn, When Mrs. Harbeson was told his wife had appeared at the Columbus avenue shop and tried to shoot Mra, Renn and nearly caused a riot, he di Mrs. gs widow. iishments, Mrs, n ‘atherine Harbeson, with which she was suffer- Harbeson, darted back through the crowd into the shop and telephoned to the Went Sixty-elghth street police sta- tlon. “There 1s a woman here trying to shoot me," she said, Policeman Gallagher found Mrs. Har- deaon trying to kick in the shop door, and Mrs. Rennor, in great excitement bling inside. ‘Get me an automodile—I won't walk,’* Mrs. Harbeson to the policeman, who called a patrol wagon. At the re- quest of Mrs. Rennor Gallagher also took along Peter J. Thompson of No, 126 West Elghty-fourth street. She sald he had tried to return ihe pistol to Mrs, Harbeson after it had been taken from her, At the pol.ce station Thompson was released. Mr. Harbeson appeured at the shop about the (me his wite was being taken off in the wagon. He declared he had been callei away by @ (telephone mea- sage. arbeson, pro-| HARBESON THINKS HIS PHONE women's CALL SUSPICIOUS. recovers from) “y think It odd," vail, “that - should have been suinu od away by telephone Just at the time Harbeson's conduct and Mrs. le wrted aud en or ca ise | sary disturbance,” m aken to Bellevue by the po- Harbeson admits ts exceedingly jealous of the blond ‘an unneces. Harbeson, @ petite brunette, ed the shop. The vis- d directly up to Mrs. Ren- her, Wao was stooping to fasten the} conv customer's gown, and jerked a revolver from her | husband, will you \ . but Whether His tte Was | go bi asd ate was } her. | ates stronger drag: negro, | the door, ewalk and her, established Mr Renner ani clic mutt, ‘ou The customer fled. ged 3 A man, u was 18 wrested the pistol from wi ev combatants, Harbeson steadily towart At last she gor hi his Identity having took the pistol from handed it to who got into the tax! and hu Renner, au IM ateal my he cried, and there e revolver did no tenner grappied with idently for she out to th das not beer Mra urried away the he chauffeur, rmed Mra, wite was will be arraigned on a charge | Planning this unnecessary arb. f attempting to kill Mra, Holen Renner,| Mré. Harteson, whoie knees ae Wissae ts en years old, and| Pulsed, and Who Was veozing On ner- lan fairohe qisshas y Vous collapse, was taken to Bellevue | Stra Reat viewed “ jufver she had slapped Mrs, Renner and Of Mr Harberon's shops at sa BID Ce | pulled her hair at the police station, Mrs, Harbevon sone montos ago filed for a separation. She asked for bat a monta alimony, but was awarded {4) a month, . Hasbeson is a @on of Mrs. Wo bee of No. #1 West Sixt. street. His mother wealthy, sana MORE DUTY ON HIGH HATS. Mrs, Renter was fitting a gown on a twint woman ‘omer last evening when a| Wool in the Under Brim, So ¢he| true vut the inert lo what drives you se: {yellow taxicnb stopped before the shop t Rate Is Ha WASHIGNTON, Dec. 12.High hate Probably will be higher. The Treas- ury Department has ruled that the ntional sk het must pay tho because contain duty of “goods in part of wool" ho under-brim: an dthe ! woollen material, The duty, consequent ly will be 44 cents per pourd dnd 60 per ent. ad Valorem Inatead of onty 00 per ent. ad valorem which many ports imve naseaned under the all schedule. Col- letor Loeb at New York raised the ques- tion. cera #500 for Dog's Care. GLOUCESTER, Maas, Dee. as been filed by Adeline igainat the estate of Mrs, Elizabeth stuart Phelps Ward, authoress, asking $600 as recompense for the tender care which she gave to “Fi "a pet dog of he deceaged, wince Jan. & last. Clear Head, Bright Eyes, Good Digestion, Hearty Appetite all come from using work properly, flows throug The Choc late Sienieal ya Ex-Lax acts quietly on the entire system, so that the! etomach iz kept in order, the liver and constipation is i: “all the body. family, young and old. 10c at any druggist’s proves ite great value, Try it. owels are mede to) noved, and clean, pure blood | It iv a fine remedy for the whole 13,—Bult | Hawkes | | One Small Girl Gives Her Life in Effort to Save Her Brother. | | Gussie Tennar, one year old, died early to-day in Gouverneur Hospital from burns received at the home of her parents, No. % Broome street, when the cradle was accidentally set afire, Dora Wehsxier, three years old, was Playing with matches near the cradle ‘was sleeping, while Tennar was out of the room. The nt'e clothing caught fire and she mortally burned re Mre. Tet- nar could put out the biase. The Wehszler girl was not burned. Anna Benada, three years old, lost | her life in @ heroic effort to eave her baby brother at No. %% East Seventy- second street last night, Mre Mary Benada had left the children playing in the kitchen jo she went out for something for supper. Charles, who is eighteen months ol@, crawled over near the range and a live coal dropped on hia clothing. Anna tried to extinguish the flames and her own clothing caught fire. They were doth screaming in agony when other tenants rushed in and put them on the bed, The mattress had caught fire when | Policeman Neville arrived and smoth- lered the blaze. The children |to the City Hospital on Island, where Anna died « short time i | | later, her last words being, “How's Drother?” The boy te not expected to live, Becky Gioker, eleven months old, in Gouverneur Hospit f-ol4 brother on the floor of ‘the kttohen of her home at No. 116 Ridge atrect, reached the skirts of her dross. The little Soy had bullt the fire with an idea of putting it in the stove {to help his mother while @he was out | getting things for dinner, He was 80 terrified when {t began to apread that |e ran tnto the next room and hid under the bed, ‘The firemen found him there unhurt after they had drenched the kitchen. Bocky, who had been tied into her chair with « towel, had no chance for eacal — ‘GOOD, OLD NIGHTSTICK’ EULOGIZED BY A JUDGE. Says It Should Have Been Used on Gangster Who Fought Policeman. A eulogy of the good, old-fashioned nightstick came from Justice Steinert to-day when eighteen-year-old Robert Gleason pleaded guilty to the charge that he fad assaulted Policeman Melvor of the West One Hundreth street sta- tlon on the night of Nov. 2. “If police officers,” sald the Court, “were only allowed to use thelr clubs on gangeters of your sort, you probably would not be In court today, Tris court Is going to co-operate with the | Pollee Department in every way to clear the parks of ruMana and keep thom clear,” Gleason, who lives at No, 7 Gt. Ann's avenue, turned over to @ probation officer pending investigation of his case. The police say hi leader of the “Pearl Button Gang’ and that sev- eral of his followers were with him when he kicked Melyor, who had or- dered the band to move away from thelr rendezvous at One Hundred and Sixteenth street and Riverside Drive, |Why Rheuma ism, Sciatica or Neuritis Drives People to the Limit of Endurance You jave been told that doctors do not und rand rhoumatiom~that aothing Fevo.ution in the t pains and permanently ree om ninaty-uing cases nu hundred. 1D Upon request. $1 Teeman, Drug Btores ON’ CRED CHRISTMAS PRESENTS Diamonds, Watches GOLv JEWELRY Comtenienee rronnane seer Cortiaads, CAN WA TCHADAMOND nea (ABLE CREDIT JEW G MAIDEN LANE str oa Lig sales, Bigger cach week Why? Take oneand see 15 doses 10¢ and 45 doses 25¢ Tg EN @ Oy eg | Saturday Xmas Sale Winter Coats at January Price Unlimited Selections. Former Values, $15, $18 and $20 ~1Q™ capbute' sn: lon! aie cones stunning coats to- pe vi eat mathe or ees pet New Yas $15 and $20 coats this season. 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