The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1912, Page 3

PAY 25 FOR EGGS; | NONE ARE “FRESH.” Seem ALL ARE ARE STORAGE Thus Mrs. “Heath Summarizes New York’s Market, Which Is “Broken.” Ww ALE IN’T TRY STREET S. Philadelphia’s Campaign Not Needed Here—Price May Go Even Lower. ‘Where there ts already contention and iseatisfaction in Philadelphia, where several prominent members of the Housekeepers’ League have withdrawn down from the cheaper egg campaign on the| ground that the league was belng used | by dealers for mercenary ends, there ts no such trouble in the Teague in New York, and according * its, President, Mrs, Juilan Heath, ekg market is “broken” and will remain so all winter. When the Housew announced Sts fr from street corne’ break the high pric to re- in an effort charged by tallers, it was said the same state of | dissatisfaction would result. Houwise- wives questioned the motive of those whe wero ready to sell eggs to the women workers, and declared that some storage epeciiator would reap the profit “whieh lay between the price of ees going Into storage and the price charged by the league's saleswomen on the street, as was done in Philadelphia, To-day Mrs. Heath announced that there would be no need of selling eggs on the street in New York. ‘The threat) of Competition has brought the retailers | into line and an almost universal price | of 25 cents a dozen for eggs is the rule to day. NO SUCH THING AS A “FRESH EGG" NOW. market 1s ken,” Mre. Heath, “and will remain all winter. If not, the Housewives’ League Will sell storage cggs direct from the cold storage houses and keep the pric down, Under no circumstance the price of eggs be over thirty dozen. In April eggs are stored : through the summer months they go into storage at about twenty cents a dozen and the siorers expect two cents a dozen profit for keeping them. “When retailers sel! eggs at from thirtysflve to sixty cents a dozen under the plea that they are fresh egas, they are cheating. There are no fresh eges ai this season, Eggs are collected in the country, a few dozen at a time, and sent by the case into centres. They are then sold to the storage men wh» Put. them away. These cges are far aintable than the so-called fresh have not been in storage “The high said nts for want of protection. t takes two weeks at best to get gee into market channets, EXPECTS PRICE TO DROP BE- LOW 25 CENTS AFTER JAN. 1. I wes in PAiladelphia during the ese ign when women sold eggs from Wagons at street nave been ured by the storag made @ protit on thefr work, but tts thi as gout as those sold for t as mu y the retail vere distributed by the women for twenty-four cents a dozen. Whoever got ie profit, People gor the egKs at h e he retaliers by their wi a ne io terms have show ey Were taking an unjust profit, 1 not hay aged # campaign jans did, but mis. n first trials and in Philadelphia is dozen were selling sold eg opie Ney have a eu the marker to contro! the mar nding the retailers to-day “Tt will then be time for the Boant of Health to watch out rr spoiled eg: wirtgh can be thrown on the market w a view of injuring the gnod standing At storage exgs © people are 1m they have heen getting storage egys 4 along and paying fancy prices for Any housewife to-day asking for storage will get the same es vol to another woman for fresh are all al! Uhtful 1 per cent. which have not been put in storage | and are not #0 much fresh as unsto: last that The with the exceptton of t He Cancels En- and Stays Indoors, WASHINGTON, Deo, 16, cold President ‘Taft to-day appointments at the I Because cancelled n ecutive offices ang rem: at the White House, whe: e spent a few hou! on’ a mes. to send ¢ The President's indisposition ‘snot erlous, but the is taking no chances of it interfering with his trip to Panama. The President will leave Fri- day night. The death of Ambassador Rela will not int fore. with the plans, 1 would have each person contemplating saloon pat. ronage equip himself with credentials setting fort) his age and deser! other means of identifivation. peel cemecs Red Cross >< Cough Drops. Nethius better for sore throat, Be, per box,—Adr, | ‘If Convention Did Not | Housewives’ | ine | 8’ League here | fon of selling exes | ‘Contention Made That the Pretty Girls Are Crowding Out the Average Women Copyright, 192, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). Bind Young Women to | a Life of Waiting, but | Aliowed Them to Go a-Courting on Their Own Hook, Miss Beauty | Would Not Have Things | So Much Her Own Way,’ | Writes ‘‘M. Cliff N. | “I Don’t See Why the| Boys Go After the Girls, | | for if They'd Let ’Em| Alone the Girls Would | Come to Them,” a “Thomas V.”’—“Under | Some Circumstances It | Should Be Proper for| Women to Propose,” | Asserts “‘Agent.”’ | ITS 10 dcuocr, Joust BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. | ‘While the men are pursuing Miss Beauty, what becomes of the average girl? Nothing much! Yet if Convention did not bind young women to a life of watting, but allowed them to go a<ourting on their own hook, Mi 8 should pmendous | 1 anotier dew infil I be released on t e will gd 0 lower than Beauty would not have things so much her own way!” So a young man argues in favor of proposals by women. And yet if Miss Beauty were 60 all-powerful a this youth and many of his fellows imagine her, by this time there would be nothing but beauty left in the world, for if man’s heart and hand had always followed his eye,| natural selection must by this time have made us all into visions of loveliness. As a matter of fact, while the men are pursuing Miss Beauty the average girl is calmly looking them over and taking her pick. To begin with, perhaps one man in twenty knows a beautiful woman when he sees her. The others SL es NIXOLA GREELEY*SMITH are not sufficiently cold blooded to realize the difference between real beauty and physical attractiveness. | SEN _ Plenty of women with eyes like agate marbles, noses like those of wax dolls left before the fireplace, mouths made by can openers and an absence of Women chin that suggests a washout go through life with triumphant reputations for beauty simply because they happen to be highly magnetized. “Boot Tt is & mistake to assume that the pretty woman has jolute choice of husband and that the avernge girl gets the leftovers. Select in your own mind half a dozen glean the straggling grain woman has taken the lead in matrimony. Assured by her demeanor, man some- times may have taken an affirmative answer for granted and asked her to name the though the rule ts | WASHINGTON, Dec, 16.—With galler-| Maxwell issued to-day two cir ) ; d s o-day two circulars t Unmarried women of your acquaintance) for the woman to lead tn the whole | ies packed with leaders of the Women’s | principals, with {ustructions that ree who te years ago would. have) proceeding, 1 have been young and | Christian ‘Temperance Union and their lig read to the ceuchern and pupile. Th been called oid maids, Contrast them} now I am old and have done a: much | sipporters, the Senate to-day devoted larst of these clara aii any half dozen wives taken at| loving as the next man, but I never Water the cree its with asked a woman to marry me In my life, e Topsy, the thing “Just growed.’ Jom, and I think you will find the ge of beauty quite as high if not Sheppard ong the single women, Tt was not the grand old gantener, | Delegations seeking support for the | all those who profited by the equal pay COMPARING THE MARRIED AND/ but probably one of his successors | measure had spent the carly day In| act for women teachers. SINGLE GROUPS. eee ‘I don't eee why the bow | visits to their Senators urging its pas-| The superintendent's communication ‘The married groups will posseas, per-| KNOCK the apples, for if they'd let | sage, cails the attention of the pal to ps, @ certain quality of crude charm ne they'd fall off themselv Equally determined, others opposed tts] Subdivision 17 of Section 45 of the By- 1 don't see why the boys go to see The bi y under |1@WS Of the Board of Ed whieh: the <theres lack trot not having adoption, ‘The pill came up to-day under of Education, which the girls, for if they'd let ‘em alone the girls would come to them, I have known and loved many women, but 1 neve: knew one who did not re- cultivated It, I am afraid the young man who wants the, average girl to propose will have to4hink up a better hi Feason than that she won't be able| eal her inclination, pro or con, be- otherwise to take her choice of hus-{ ‘+ Was ready to declare my own, |) nao, pa nat THOMAS V. Watnre adores an average quite |MOCK RESTRAINT BETWEEN | riais both | SHALL WOMEN PROPOSE ta Soehieae W.C.T. U. WATCHES “WETS AND DRYS” Told in Debate on Bill. itself to of intoxicating Iquors into “ unanimous consent to give it immediate consideration. considered Sheppard's bill as it passed the House and now carries amendments proposed ‘An avalanche of petitions and memo- rs Articls of a Serie: (MARANA RG AIRRMNNDA TA GTI NAAT NN AMMAR WHEN WOMEN) PRO Pose SCHOOL HEAD 1S A “SPUG” REGARDING GIFT TO MISS STRACHAN Crowd Galleries as Sends ATE FIGHT OF Circular Monetary Appreciation From Teachers for Raises. Legging” Ways Are Superintendent of Schools William H consideration of the Kenyon- bill to prevent the shipment ‘dry States," widespread talk about the sug, to Miss Grace Stracha: r Intendent, of one month's increase from Jing the defendant, who In engaged in the | | sentative of ( | the court, Forbidding | “FENCING GIRL'S” SUITAGAINST AGED MILLIONAIRE LOST Court Dismisses $53,000 Ace | tion of Beatrice De Acosta | ] _ Because of Delays, ‘The sult brought by Beatetce Hrevaine Do Acosta, alx times @ bride and once a co-rempondent, and known to theatr koers as the “fencing gir," against Jo- eeph G. Butler Jr. seventy-two years old and a mifitimiMionatre friend of President Taft, was dismissed by Su- prethe Court Just! A sensational trial was look day after day curious er flocked to the rtroom where the | case was 6x ed to be heard. It was | up again last Friday, At that time Re 1 Asaistant District-Att Maynard, former mney, represent fron business: Youngstown, O., told | the Court he was tired of the delay, an that ff the plaintiff had a case at all b wanted it brought to trial, A repr es A, Winter, attorney | of record for the defendant, said tha «* torney. was engaged in another case. | Justice Davis finally consented to put tt off till to-day. When Mr, Winter's representative told this mornin that the At | torney was busy in another Mr. Maynard me plant be dismissed. In granting tho motion Justice Davie scoved the lawyer for the plainiiff, | “There have been so many delays In sald the Court, “that it @ pears the attorney for the plain trying to avold trial, Such conduct as this is reprehenstble.”” | In her of particulars the plain: | tiff stated Butler owed her $63,000 bo- 6 of his alleged promise to compen- 1910 for not pressing her sult ot her former husbands, @ wealthy lace tmpor- fencing. girl” ‘s afier he had $5,000, charging he had failed to ren for her certain ste a Buller agreed t pped the sult | nd mentioned these places where she jsays he declared hime f In the Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh and at ital James Allegahny, on 1910; in the ty-second stree Land April 20, 1 ‘aprit 28 1910, | phoned her from thin case, Mar. 3 . 108 Wert Manhattan, on April) and in Pittsburgh on she said Butler tel oungstown. a principal, or teacher, or superinten- dent or other achool officer, The circular | ¢urther states that the collection of any sum of money from a pupil for any pur+ | Nose in not allowed except by a permit from the Board of Education, ‘The principals are still further in- atructed to Inform the teachera and | pupils that the making of any such mitt j by teachers, principals or pupils is | strictly forbidden and will be regarded, if made, as an act of insubordination. ‘The acceptance of any such gift, the olr- cular sets forth, will also be regarded an act of insubordination the second clrroular, addrevaed to the principals, deals with the conducting of graduating exercises or other exercises, Such exercises, it Is stated, should be itnvlted to one and a half hours in the elementary actiools and to two hora in the high Anything tending to cause adverse jam because of dif- forence in religious faitha must also be ool: provides that no teacher or pupil shall contribute to any gift or testimonial t ‘The measure, as the Sen- it, 1s Representative ” Kenyon. for and against the bill were as much as she abhors vacuuz— MEN AND WOMEN. received by the Senate. ‘ that woman is most thoroughly 7 pomstances iso be ite Brper States in the exercise of thelr own equipped for the conventional suo- i : ex: [rights over the Hquor traffic. G | s of femininity who possesse: lating conditions forbid it. Suppose | pig pill, 1¢ It should become law, at attles @ girl keeps company with a young would not an a — appearance and an man for some time, she becomes | monly kno’ average brain. anzio: to know th ite of his | tor Sanders, I forget who sald: Wives of great men all remind us ould leave thelr wiv qmind and must ask him frankly or resort to subterfuges. I can't under- ea h stand why, frankly speaking, the truth of the paraphrase illus-/ truth ghould be #0 hampered Ly em- point, ‘To the av fe woman} varrassment. Shouldn't it be much gs the exceptional man, and to wet) more honorable for her to ask his constitutes her Such | mind tnan to try artitices, or to sek @nother friend more matrimonially Inclined without explanation? ‘The mock restraint between men and women is hypocritical. If each were to act free and natural there would liquor without tn imrpossible tion him man wants a wife that can be shotkea | until called for in the anteroom of | Heaven and who will be found patiently! waiting after the Day of Judgment with a pleasant amtle and the solicitous re- wark: “Was poor tired boy Jumps o be jess sin and the world would be trian ce again? Never min happier. A young man and a yoimg been down to the kitch woman might sit opposite each other e keeping the ambrosia hot| #! 4 restaurant table, and just be- { auto-truc wing to the Fleisch i thought! Maybe they! ©2Use they are strangers our idiotic [mann Company of il Washington) osia save in Olymplan| ¢Ustom code says that each must | street to leave the centre of the street hatever they have ) {ATATS te mings as s Minus quan- {in front of No. palavatia Atreet tor citer of : | tity. je looks at her she is sup- {day and suddenly leap the ourb onto catag, ater of the Young man who advor| posed to believe he has evil designs, | the sidewalk, Benjamin Wasserinan of f ma ry ch I! Jf she looks at him he thinks her a | No. #31 Kast Sixth street was run over have referred is followed by an inter-| firt. How much more pleasant it Jand his pelvis was fractured. Louis esting communteation from an older) would be if strangers could converse | Pappert of No. 126 Washington avent ‘and perhaps wiser student of woman,| freely without stirring up this un- |the Bronx, was thrown down Who says that she has always taken| wholesome atmosph Happin aciinal UIE Bor SOrIGIRY. Wanner | the lead in courtship. The letters fol-! follows hard upon the heels of tru wae taken to St cent's Lospt | tow: Rosh truth ekyward and hap) s Willlam Lulley, the chauffeur, was hy will follow, INSURANCE AGE Vameless and released. !ON THE PRINCIPLE THAT LOVE | CAN BE TAUGHT. Dear Madam: From what I've seen of Iife, a pretty as no dearth of admirers, Out of this raft of ad- which is composed of ri men, and poor, handsoine and home- y, she is able to accept but one, And what becomes of the average girl while the men are pursulng Aliss On, nothing much! But if tion did not bind the young woman to a life of waiting, and al- lowed her to go ing on her own “nook,” wi iss Beauty would not have thin all her own way, ¥ the principle that | love the ave! | girl ndsome man to Way i love her, J sent her more Its pleasant action is not limited to fortunate love a Call- | for infants and big folks alike. ban M. 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