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| 4 - 7 ¥ MAN HELPS F" MOTHER'S MAID TO SHAKE A HUBBY Lawrence Durant and Lawyer McConihe Donate Servants SOCIETY ACL ‘FREE GRATIS,’ TOO, ” Theo and Marion Had Same Spouse, but They Haven't ‘Got Him Any Longer. ‘Broag, grins overcast the features of ‘Theo. PAMlips Webb and Merton Jones ‘Wet, negre servant girls, when they were Weld to-day that they are again single, golely because Lawrence T. Du» remt, jumor cotilion leader and society pole player and the best turkey trotter at the winter dances at Sherry’s, took peteons] charge of their case, which wae the cage of Jonathan Ulysses Sam- con Webb, bigamict. Young Durant is a banker end heir to the estate jeft by hie late milMonaire tather, Thomas Durant, President of the Adirondack Railway. He was recently merriea to Ming Adelaide tAtvinprgered daughter of J. Lynch Prendergast, the financier, The young couple live on Mast Bighty-seoond street. Ig Justice Newburger’e part of the Supreme Court young Durant walked in hetween the two young colored girls. ‘Disectly 4 of the banker was War- rem MeConthe, lawyer, and @ clubmate o@ Durant. The two fashionadly a! tired young » woth fnown as so- clety and club fellows, with the timor ye colored girls caused much curtos- ‘@mong the hundred or more women and men who sought the aid of the court to have nuptial knots untied. WAS SERVED ON SLAND. ‘When the first case of Webb vs. Wedd waa called, Mr. MoConthe called Mr. Durant to the witness stand, The dank- er told of serving Jonathan Ulysses Sameon Webb, his former valet and but- ier, with papers in two actions, one to annul @ marriage and the other for a divorce, Durant executed service on Plackwell's Island, where Jonathan was sorving a :nonth for striking one of ia wives, Marion, ‘What you all want & me, Mister Lawrence?’ was the negro's greeting when Durant saw him, the banker testé- flea. “Oh, just some papers, Jonathan; look ‘em over carefully and anewer them," the banker replied, offering the ‘twe sete of documents to his erstwhile sot papers away,” the banker quoted Jon- athan as having answered. placed the papers ouldera, while two nturdy guards held the negro, thue completing service, and left the prison. ‘The first action was that of Theo, who had married Jonathan {n Phila- delpbia, four years ago. She wanted a divorce and named Jonathan's second wife, Marion, as co-respondent. Marion segtified she married Jonathan last year. The court awarded Theo a divorce. SINGLE BLESSEDNESS CHEAP FOR THE GIRLS. Then again young Durant wae called ain reveated how he had served ¢ in the action brought by jon to have her marriage to Jonatnan annulled because of the frst wife, When he Anished the young clety man sealed himeelf complacentiy Deside the two servant girls and chat- ted, While Lawyer McConihe testified to the regularity of the proceedings, Jus- Newourger aiso awarded Marion andied the cases gratis for Jonathan, Me got an or- der fron Jusuice Seaoury aligwing the girls to sue 4s poor persons, so that both ovtained their freedom from ihe marrying buder without cost, Both Mr. MeConihe and Mr. Durant spent an en- tire day in the courtroom, and later in the day Mrs, Thomas Durant, Du- rant’s mother, for whom Marion had been a mat, came to the court in her limousine and drove home with her son, ‘at's a bully day's work, Warren,” seid Durant to McConthe, Then he turned to the two bubbling colored “Congratulations,” ‘he said. “You wom your cases because your witness and Mis lawyer Knew their business,” —————— BOARD APPROVES PLAN EXTENDING 7TH AVENUE. Bat Lawyer Tells Mayor Gaynor at Hearing It Will Never Be Done, ‘The Board of Estimate to-day unani- ty approved the plan fur extending Jenth avenue from its Southern ter- amas at Greenwich street to West Broadway. To maxe it one continuous _thoreushtare from Greenwich street, ‘ property is to be taken and Varich street widened at an estimated cost of 740,000. Bor the purpose of raising the money the board, fixed an area of assessment as follows: Borough of Manhattan, 4 per cent.; Brooklyn, 11 per cent.; Bronx, ‘4 per property immediately fronting on Varick street, 2 per cent, and & fee ondary area of property di- benefitted, 33 per cent “ghe exte to be bullt at the same time as 6 Seventh avenue sud- y, #0 a8 to gave tine, annoyance and Robert Flaherty, repre- ddress- ne cent of that he supposition is that Mr *Maherty i institute a taxpayers’ suit. coneccecsescccceccccccccsoccccece PORSEEEEEEDESE CEOEOOD SEDRODSO ROSE ES OES EEERENON ONES seecereeoccooee SHOULD THE WIFE BE THE BOSS? OCOPOELEDERE OEE DED EESEESESEDEDOS SOOREDOLEL EAEELEDESESDSIETED9SSSOOSS OFSSSOOTIII99909 S9ORONOREDONINS Many a Husband Who Thinks He Is Master Feels the Tug of Strings Held by Wife. | He Is Declared Sane by Court There Ie a Numerous Class of Women Who Actually Achieve the Captaincy of the Home by Seeming to Be the Second Mate and Sing- ing Out, ‘‘Aye, Aye, Sirl’? When the Skipper Blusters Hie Orders. The Masterful Man Is, of All Men, the Most Easily Mastered, and Every Woman and Every Man, Save One, Suspects How It Is Done—Home Rule Largely a Matter of Vivid Imagination. NIKOLA GREELEY-SMITH master theory? Ni BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. Must a wife be @ boss? According to Miss Mary Garden, the American Woman is an absolute autocrat in her own home. pendent of constitution and populace than the typical mother of an Amer- ~ those who are convinced that every THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JANUARY Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World), No Czar is more inde- fean family, if we are to bolieve this famous interpreter. of Thais. What do you think about it? There are family must have.a head—an abso- lute final arbiter of points in dispute. But they are unable to agree as to whether the court of last resort shall wear trousers or skirts. Needless to say, precedent and theology are both in favor of @ bifurcated boss of the household, and, according to Dis- raeli’s famous epig-am, a precedent embalms a principle. Still, when a precedent has been embalmed it's pretty nearly ready for the ceme- tery, and many persons believe that the notion of man as the overlord of WHEN JORNNIE YAWNS the household is about ready for the final obsequies. Are you with them, or do you still favor the lord and rly every man worth marrying cherishes in “the se- cretest chamber of the heart” # charming picture of himeelf as the family lawgiver. WHERE SUPREME GELF-MAS- TERY COMES IN. Gometimes his reason tells him that there is noching to justify this dcrire for dominion over another adult equ'pped with the customary outfit of brains, but his instinct remains insistent. When such a man does not undertake to boss his wife, his attitude repre- sents a supreme self-mastery. ‘Meantime, perhaps, his wife hee longs bea —* vind hanged women actually pAseratite a the home by ae to be the second mate ba Aap rod out “Aye, aye, sir” skipper blusters his poseny ms masterful man is of all men the most easily mastered. Every women and every man save one suspects how it is done, And even this one exception sometimes feels the gem- tle tugging of the strings that ma- nipulate the masterful marionette, Here ts a letter from a young we -1n Who has evidently golved the problom: NO DOUBT SHE THINKS SHE HAS HER OWN WAY. «¢ Dear Madam: I am a young wom- an, married seven years, and have two fine child nd up to the present have nad cause to re- gret_ my =m: When I first married, my husband had a salary of $0 a month and we got along nicoly on it for some time. He has $% @ week now and we get along beautl- fully, Hve In a nice nelghborhéod tn Rrookiyn and ean keep children, hus- band and myse y dressed, I do all my own work, darn socks, stock- ings and sew for myself and chil- dren, 1 buy nothing but the very best of plain food, milk, butter and ews and good meats. In conclu- sion, would I!ke to say I am very happy and comfortable and love my husband dearly. I know he loves me in return, He is such ® good man in every way no woman could help foving him. We are both foreign born, We find every happiness in our married life and we look on our two dear children as a blessing in | ‘our home, ALOR. Of course, this letter gives no direct to the question raised by Mary Is the wi in the Amer nd should be the as is blissful family But inasinuch helpmate assures us {hat she has never had occasion for a regret and adds that no Woman could help loving such a good | granted that! has her own | man, we may tale it, for at ledst she thinks she way. In many successful households there | {# a recognized division of authority, The | husband has the final word in matters of general and public policy, the wife is arbiter of the small affairs of every day. And as there are so many more Uttle dally questions than big, vital problems, this leaves the balauce of Power in the hands of the wife Of one thing wo may be fairly certain—whether or not the Amert- can wife is an autocrat in her househald, her bome is the hap- | piest in the world. Yet if I were called upon to name the autocrat in one household I would have to sey that in the majority of cases it is neither husband nor wife, but the children, And I @m pot sure that the results obtained from intr: ing the rei of government to et | Among other things, that she had a O08 sunsinen OF OIghi ant fo0 veers ald stitien, @re very good for the mammere or the ethics of our nursery despots. In considering the question “Should the wife be tie boss?” we must re- member that there ie more tham one alternative, Napoleon abdicated his empire in favor of his @op, the little King of Rome Many Teabana and mailer eure many @ wife make render, Should the wife be the boss, should the husband be the boss, or shoulé the children continue their un- disputed [ool oss SCHOOLGIRL HAD KEY OF RIVERKEAD JAIL, SHE SWEARS TO JURY Fourteen - Year-Old Daughter of Turnkey Chum of Miss Harris, Who Walked Away. ‘The members of the Grand Jury that has been investigating conditions in the| Riverhead county Jail, especially in con- nection with the escape of Esther Har- ris, \ndicted for grand larceny, inspected | the Jail to-day and continued tis sexsion Helen Newton, four y old, | daughter of Harry J urnice: of the Jail, who Is the b in-law Sheriff Brush, was a wit to the women’s corridor in te jail and that sho often visited Esther Harris in the woman's cell. The girl was fond of Miss Harris, who helped her in school and plano lessons, | Martha Johnston, the cook at the Jail, isappeared last Saturday night or Sun-! day morning, after she heard that she was to de subpoenaed before the Grand Jury, It was expected that hte cook would give much information about do- ings in the jail. Esther Harris, an rule, had her méals sent in from a hotel, but sometimes Martha Johnston would prepare méals for the prisoner, who was Keneral favorite In the jai) Esther Harris was awaiting trial for! ha stolen property belonging to Helen Lowell, the actres whom she was employed. She waiked out carrying | two grips a typewriter, two days | before the trial was to have taken plece. Solves Tay ft Perplexing Be Editor and Publisher, The World Almanac for 1913 has| outdone its previous records for com- pleteness of information and ease| with which any desired fact or figure | may be found. It is more elaborate this year than ever before—-1,02¢ pages of matter—and is replete with new features of general and particu- , lar interest, This book continues to hold its place as an indispensable ready reference encyclopedia of necessary knowledge, compact, ban- dy and at all times the first and last resort for the solution of thousands of perplexing problems. No live newspaper or business office can af- ford to be without # copy of the 1913 ! QT GOES HS WOR BACK GOES LAE “Bing!” —It Is Dislocated; Then “Bing!’—and Burke Can Close Mouth Again. Joint again this morning. It did not go ack on him until after he had eaten a ‘vig deefsteak with generous trimmings; but thit was little consolation to Burke, who felt he was perishing for the mus of coffee stil] waiting to be drunk. Burke, who is twenty-two and lives et No, 2% Hull avenue, the Bronx, ts a clerk at the American Express Com- pany’s stables on Hast Forty-third Spee His jaw has picked up @ habit dropping out of joint. He never can aon but out goes his jaw. As he works nights and gets sleepy, he says this 19 beastly awkward, About 4.30 A, feur to get him Third avenue restaurant. An hour | or he was feeling 80 comfortable he for- got himself and yawned. And, of course, he dislocated that jaw. The other employees, seeing him darte- ing around, unable to speak, but try- the jaw will stp back into place of | We Give GHC Green Trading Stamps Women’s & Misses’ THE POWER BEtine THE THRONE . Burke sent a chaut- | A beefateak frum a! student, jenore yawning,” said Dr. Second Article %. of a Serie: own sweet will, cated tn Patrolman Maleay, who sent for an ambulanc: . Misher got Burke to the | io jower Hospital that ful jaw was | Saospnioe’e The it was In the operating room several Gen hard work to get the jaw ‘back into place on both aif always jumped back ou went In. “Just you try to yawn and try hard,” said Dr. Fisher. Burke loosened his supendesr, threw bees hed hands [og tried. Just as the ite dest, bing, in went . ine ‘ew on Toth siden, eviientiy. taken wares or misied. The surgeons at peered gtipped it and held it in place an- ti it could be put under the restraint of bandages, Then Burke, was sent home. “And you look here, don't you do any Fisher, (HE HIGH CUST OF LIVING AND HOW TO REDUCE IT. A practical and _interestin, eries of articles by MADISON PETERS on the best way to check soaring prices and to secure greater value for less outlay, will gin in Monday's Evening World, Jan. 13. Student K by Gas. ‘Fritz Stahl, thirty years old, a law who occupied @ room in the apartment of Mrs, Mary Hartinan, at No. 2 nth street, was found dead this i. lying fully dreased on ha bed, with an open law book bealde him, The room was full of ‘Numinating gas, and the jet had been turned on, ‘The police of the East ing to get into the position In which] Pighty-elght street station sald that s'the man's death was accidental. jor Their Suits.’” th Ave. Corner 1918. LAWRENCE PERIN, LOVEROF PRANKS, QUT OF ASYLUM After Three Years in Bloomingdale: SQUANDERED A MILLION Eloped With Beautiful Girl Who Committed Suicide After. Marriage. Lawrence Perin 1s out again. was eent to Bloomingdale in February, 1910, deciarea to be insane. Late yer- teray afternoon Supreme Court Justice mend declared him sane, and this morn- Ing the gates of Bloomingdale swung open for him. The exploite of Perin hai filled news. Paper columns for several years be- fore his inoarceration. Born with a ailver spoon in his mouth, he plunged into adventures at an carly fore he was sixteen his name wi nected with that of a beautiful Balti- more belle, He was gifted with the faculty of burning money, and was readily adinitted into Baltimore's “brass band” sot at a tender age, He was @ “man of the worki” before he wan out of his teen slopement at the ago of twenty- Hie father died and left him a million, and the pace he then set burned the erase like @ prairie fire, When ho was went to Bloomingdale, it was maid, that out of the million he had $10,000 tert Lawrenes Perin’s father, Nelson rin, was President of the United tric Railways of Baltimore, Through his father’s influence he was admitted to tho most exclusive clubs and while ati 4 boy became « protege of Harry Lehr before the latter's vogue in Newport clreles, He imitated Harry Lehr in many re- anects, and whfle ‘he lacked the ta and discretion of that paragon of ¢ fon he was t bore. was a manly chap and always inter ing. Soclety found dim original and re-| 3 freshing and no one knew what was going to happen with him next. WITH LILY LANGTRY HE DEFIES So BALTIMORE SOCIETY. He had not reached his majority when he was well known in Baltimore's ten- derioin, He was a stags door visitor and hia dinners and other entertain ments were lavish. to reach after that lady had terminated a astrous week's engagement in th city of Baltimore. Young Perin ¢ her thers private trolley out usive Baltimore Coun It was in epring and on the grassy lawn of the cub Baltimore's most beau- teous belles wero taking tea. Nearly everybody who was anybody was vn tho lawn that afternoon. young Perin's tablo next tu that of Freddy Gebhard and his wife, Mrs. Gebhard was the beautiful Lulu Morris of Baltimore, Afterward she divorced Gebhard and married Henry Clows WINS BEAUTIFUL WIFE, WHO 17" Street CLOSING OUT SALE Entire Stock Without Reserve Suits, Coats, Dresses COMMITS SUICIDE. Young Pertn pald court to inany a Q Sale of Smart Dresses $3.00 Value $10.00 9 Now Less Than Wholesale Cost To Effect a Sweeping and Immediate Clearance Choose from more than 1,500 Suits, Coats, Dresses at Choose fron more than 1,000 Suits, Coats, Dresses at Choose from more thar 1,500 Suits, Coats, Dresses at 00 1 That 00 are worth up to $15.00; in the season's best styles, ave worth up lo 22,50; in hundreds of beautiful models. are worth up to $40.00; $ 00 te 00; in the swellest of fabrics and siyles, a cetereasATA BA ma “| Mercely than ever. We | . | bile. His first adventure print involved ily Langtry in Fate put! he ane, ec, Onna nal twos |{ | 10,000 Patre 10-inch Bost Silk Stockin, ‘ assoolated with that of Mre, Langtry H Re; botore hin marriage. Mrs, Gebhard was Black,only; all size aay, eakce for 85c Indignuat at the proainity of Mes. Langtry. Sho got up and lett and her saith husband followed, Pretty soon Mr. Pee ry idery; a 3° rin and his compacton had the lawn to Plain black and with colored embroi all themaelves. Tho governors sent word sizes. Regularly 58¢ patt. to him to depart. He mounted a ohatr and harangued the alr on the snovblsh- EE Proc dway & 19 hess of Taltimore wociety - ——_——— THE HIGH COST OF LIVING AND HOW TO REDUCE IT. A practical and _ interesting series of articles by MADISON C. PETERS on the best way to check soaring prices and to secure reater value for less outlay, will gin in Monday's Evening World, Jan. 13. DOCTOR AMAZED: AT SUBSTITUTION AMONG MEDICINES Public Warned that No. tthe Preparation Is “Just as Good as” Tona Vita. Baltimore belle. One day he astonished soctety down there by his elopement with the beautiful Miss Jane Cordon Sartoris, a sister of the then Mre. D. Murray Bohlen. Subsequently Mrs. | Bohlen got a divorce and married Julian Story, an artist. Pertn now imagined himaelf @ muiti- millionaire and burned up money more He waa confined tn ® private sanitarium in Rhode Island, but, outwiteing hie captors, sailed with bite wife for Burope. From abroad can new tales of the Perin splendor and magnificent manner tn which he ente: tained. Word came of eatrangement with his wife, and later he turned up and temtatered at the Waldorf-Astoria, tHe had not been here long when news came of the suicide of his young wife tn the conservatory of her sister's home on the outskirts of London. PEERS UNDER THE VEILS MOORISH MAIDENS. Perta next turned up at Romdo, Spain, after he nearly turned in in Morocco, Ho lifted the veils of nev- eral Moorish matdens and that means death. The American Consul got him out of this scrape and out of the country. He informed the Mayor of Rondo that he desired to buy a handsome alice of muntotpal @round on which to erect a memorial to Mra. Perin. A few days Aater he told the Mayor that he had un- earthed a treasure cave on the site of the memorial and he had the town turned upside dowa. Crowde went out | to nee the “Moorish Cantle’ he had un- earthed and he cried “April fool” to the crowd and skipped in his automno- GET WHAT YOU WANT People Are Warned -agathe Accepting Any Substitutes in Drug Stores. ¢ followin, & Jonn Be ie Webb of U Cn St. Ma aglow in Rae land, who hes charge of ted Vita, the new tonic, in New or as this splendid thing iA Pheer of can jut as Roi it in its power to rej up sufferers from nerve exh Labtca! aa iy energy, indigestion and the Met nervous debility feelin, Then the authorities got busy State Department at Washington was communicated with and Oliver, his brother, was notified that he had better wet Lawrence out of Spain if he wanted to keep him out of a Spanish dungeon, Perin was apprehended at Cairo and brought to thi country. William rf Hiapsdtt are ection Travers Jerome was his attorney in the effort to save him from the asylum and jt happens to be t oti place pour order. whieh be in a few hours, and then you are girl named Evelyn Francia turned. up be made for both] in the Bester with her child. She it was whom Pertn ‘The| patient even more raj inven ry th =i nothing else, he matter wed may be recom: et this tonic. rom his his whelesses was bitterly contents at otice. during the trial that a pretty | i dared wan hie cial wife.” Ht her and the child, enild, wan taken yi] and careful dict of a sanl mother. Min = s. Perin, Law Francis has not ai Department 18th St, Annex THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Women’s and Misses’ Hosiery. 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