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bs pirat cians Weil, ‘Mel Smith, he was first and foremost in the agitation and got the subscription affair going with the result that several hundred dollars were ap- prepriated. So next Wednesday a com- mittee comprising ‘Mel,’ Hf, R. B. _ Whittaker, the postmaster of Nesconset, and “Joe” Eschenbach, Chief of the Fagle Hook and Ladder Company of a "Gaetedeee and aldo Directs the Indefinite Postponement of Case. MENTS COMING. _. Wittman Directs Grand Jury's Return to Inquiry Into Al- © feged Bribing of Witnesses. e@xteeordinary Grané Jury re- to-day ite investigation into the and distribution of a fund was used as @ beibe to persuade A. Sipp and Thomas Dorian, the of Patrolman Bugene Fox, to Wwe the city. George A. Sipp and his Howard are among the witnesses subpoena. zene Fox, accused by the disorderly hotel aking “protection” money, be placed on trial Feb. 3. je date was set by Justice Goff t and a special panel of 150 tal was ordered for the Fox jury. is the hope of, the District-Attorney fhave at least six indictments on file Inst men charged with bribing wit- 3s against Iox before the trial of ed policeman begins. hese Indictments it will be Pecessary to have the testimony of Ea- ward J. Newell, for Sipp in the preliminary stages of the lawyer who acted flight. Newell 1s to ‘be called to Stpp’ plead to the misdemeanor Indictment standing against him on Monday. ‘The District-Attorney has not lost ell will offer himeelf as An indiotment arging bin ribing a witness the State, which is @ felony, has voted by the Grand Jury, but not ned. Since Newell was indjoted » Whitman has been looking up his with @ trial and possible disbarm At the request of the District-Attorney Police Commissioner Waldo directed to- day that the police trial of Patrolm Vox be suspended indefinitely. Fox was called up tor trial for the sixth time at Headquarters this morning. Previously Deputy Police Commis- @ioner Walsh ‘had consulted with As- sistant District-Attorney Grochl, who carsied a message from Mr. Whitman At the opening of the Fox trial the names of George A. Sipp, J. Howard Sipp and Thomas Dorlan, witn were called as a matter of form. of the men responded, although Sipps have beeh served with subpoena: at thelr home ‘Mr. Grant,” h, to counsel ald = Cominissioner for Fox, ‘the «/is: New York County has lice Commissioner to post- pene the departmental trial of your sMent until adver the trial of the indict- nent now pending against him, 1 am directed by the Commissioner to com- ply with this request and trial wil stand over without date. The indict rainet Charles E. Fi © returned to” olf a. s notified he is NESCONSET TO HONOR BAVNOR CAND N.Y.) WITH NEW SILK FLAG saad aeiaiie Neighboring Towns Brought Closer Together by Ex- Policeman Justice Gor Monday. | man ready and wii soon a8 his counsel ted, change of Emblems. ‘Mel’ Smith came from St, James, 1. 1, to-day to confer with \ or Gaynor about pigs and the American flag. The villagers know all about both subjects. Recently the Mayor lost a valuable shoat. John Ahearn and “Barber” Weisse told the Mayor that a resident of Hast Sotauket had been observed at midnight carrying a bag. There was something alive and animate in the bag. The Mayor let {t go at that, but he did get interested in the matter of the flag. It appears that the people of St. James, just a while ago, started @ eub- scription to buy a bee-ut-l-ful silk flag to present to His Monor the Mayor. St, James, will come down to New York and Geliver the flag to the Mayor. Ife a village secrey that the Mayor ksows all about ft and has promised to hang the flag over the City Hall, Cus- todian Ryan of the City Hali called up on the phone last night and wanted to know the dimensions of the flag and was told, so he is guing to have a sult able pole ready Phe presentation ts to tate pia se next Wednesday and the Mayor jas prom- ined to be ln ties Nesconset, ¥ postemaste, | Mayor chi ago when he told the villagers tha ought te jinve vsteoffles rier Mayor wrote (ot Postmaste and got ihe postmaster taker, and ther he raised and that's Uv ‘THE SODA FOUNTAIN Boy 1S WER IDEAL aT ig DIMPLES, NEWEST AD, SENDS PARIS SOCIETY TO BEAUTY DOCTORS. PARIS, Jan. 24.--The Figaro says that dimples are at present fashion’s dernter mot, and, of course, one must go to the face specialist and have the curve of her cheeks prettily punctuated. But the uncertain life of the fad advises a temporary beauty in- dentation, renewed from time to time. ro SEE SUBWAY LOVE. FEAST IN DINNER TOJUDGE O'BRIEN Comptroller Entertains Notable Workers for Contracts at Union League ‘Club. Comptroller Wiliam A. Prendergast, who was elected to office three years ago upon the Fusion ticket and who ts a Brooklyn Republican, gave a dinner last night at the Union League Club to former Justice of the Supreme Court Morgan J. O'Brien, one of the intimate advisors of Tammany leader Charles F, Murphy, and a lifelong Democrat. Chair- man William R, Willcox of the Publito Service Commission, whose term ex- pires Feb. 1, and who will automationity hold over indefinitely in the event the man named by Gov. Sulzer to succeed of confirmation by the Senate, was among those seated at the table with Mr. Prendergast and the guest of the evening, Judge O'Brien, The cight members of the Board of Estimate, all of whom, with the ex- ception of President John Purroy Mitchel of the Board of Aldermen, are expected to vote for the subway con- tracts Ww! they are nent over by the Public Service Commission, were pres- ent at the dinner given Judge O'Brien, Mayor Gaynor was @ jovial and highly Mluminating member of the party. Near him were ated President Samuel Rea of the Penn vania Railroad and Mr, Ri assis ant, A. J. County. Mr. Rea's activities a year ago were Inrgely responstble for the Interborough getting back into the subway situation. Judge O'Brien, Who 1s In private prac- tice, has been an open advocate of the proposed aubway contracts, He has ap- peared before the Board of Lestimate on many occasions upon various civic propo- sitions other than the subway matters, Yet throughout the financial district and in the corridors of the muntetpality the dinner was looked upon "gubway love feast." ‘The presence of President Mitchel of the Board of Aldermen was the only note of discord to the union of sentiment upon the subway but then, as there were no made and everything was of a and pleasant © r, the dint voted a big suc those in attend ance. $3,000 IN JEWELS VANISHES. Missed in Transit From Sew York to Cleveland, the naw postoltie son the villagers ave a return fhe For Tha: Sweet Note, | Clear Your great, Red Crom + Cough Drops, bs,—Adrt, Ang to give him Ss DR RIE TENGO 2 SOR TR WAR TA Bisa OMEN fan Gh Phe inyaterious | »pearanc valued at $000 | trans: by m Cleve tand Nev the pe neve today The package ts the property of Mrs. B. Foote of Cleve- ann, THE EVENING WORLD, Coprrigtt, 1918, by The Prew Publishing Oo, (The New York World), An Ideal Husband Should Be Thirty Years of Age and Should Have an Enable Him to Properly Care for a Wife. miration than by the eubtlest praise a woman could offer her, seem to indicate that the notion of “A Boy of Twenty Has No More Right to Go Out and Get Married Than He Has to Get Killed,” Writes “A Parent’? Who Asserts His Au- thority to Dictate to His Daughter. AT 20 THE ACTOR IS WER IDEAL Income That Would BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. Perhaps no woman has ever admitted at what early period of con- sclousness she first began to plan her ideal husband. \ girls of five who had completed all the wedding arrangements, even to the I have known little final detatl of the color of the bride groom's mustache, and I recall par ticularly two small children of five; and seven whose favorite game was the discusston of the gowns to be worn and the refreshments to be of- fered on the occasion of their nup- tials with the Prince of Wales. That the Prince was only one of a kind and already « grandfather did) not disturb their infant ideals. Neither did the seemingly obvious detail that one nuptial vision could not be realized without shattering the other. Such sordid considera- tions belong to later life. At five, for- tunately, there are no dreams that refuse to come true. I have never seen a baby girl so young that she did not «bviously prefer men to women and who was not much more flattered by the moet casual masculine ad- ‘This would matrimony antedates the acquisition of epecch, at least in girls—and since it enters the feminine consciousness years earlier than it suggests itself to th low moving minds of boys, it would appear that the ideal age for marriage must occur much earlier in women than in men; that if Prof. Sharpe of Boston is right in placing the age of the ideal husband at twenty-five, the ideal wife should not be older! than twenty. MAN OF TWENTY-FIVE NOT RIPE ENOUGH. Personally I do not believe that the average young man of twenty-five has stability and polee and experience enoumh to make an {deal huyband, For an ideal couple I should choose a man of at least thirty, @ woman not less than twenty-five. For o young girl's ideal te even more variable and capricious then she is herself, When she is sixteen rain, and his dark eyes Ger Uke Vesuvius with the lid on. It all depends on what novel she has read, what play she has been to gee oF what the boy at the corner Grug store looks like. Probably the worst fate that could happen to any man or woman is to marry the ideal worshipped at sixteen. ‘The stern parent has his uses, if ony to preserve us from our undeveloped selves. But when this e parent attempts to regulate the mature choire | of a son or daughter, to oppose the | disillusioned caution of middle age to the infallibility of young love, he—or she—1s an encumbrance upon the earth. Fortunately most American parents have the Intelligence to realize their perfluousness in such matters after their ohildren are grown up and self- supporting, ONE DAUGHTER GETS MONEY AND HUSBAND, TOO, on the earth tian that of the A can father who opposes his daughter's mar- | riage on the ground of @ ® ppomed dit. ference lu ‘social positio: Fate's ness of this sort is contained tm the well-known story of a self-made fonalre of New York who disini ! dauxiter having eloped with man and “left gil ht millions who promptly wedded an her ¢¢ to anothe: ex-policeman, Whenever the daughter of a rieh mau |no entail, marries her chauffeur or elopes with her ri@ing master, her foolish parents Strive frantically and often success- fully to break up the marriage on the plea of social inequality. How absurd! The millonatre's grandfather and the chauffeur’y grandmother may have gono to eohool together. In @ country of sudden fortunes and sudden reversals individuals may be unequal; but groups of Individuals, never! ‘This or that man or woman may be the superior of others, but this or that famtly holds No patent of nobility, whether It claims merely of money. king-makipg or Genius, whether for brick-making, When the dau self-made man wants to m clams trom which her father sprang she is simply finding her natural mate. The husband she chooses ts the equal of her minus the father's genius, and that confers a personal, not @ beredi- tary, distinction, m ony men snd women will always find their natural level | 20 matter what social dame are wullt to hold them back. tooracy they have manuged to achieve. dictate his daughter's choice of a hus- band. He says: THING, Dear Madam: Our daughters ai In theve a more ridiculous spectacie | must superd commentary on snobbish: | | wnmanageadlé enough already. Y. surely can't mean to pretend that every pinheaded gtrl of twenty knows better what !# good for her than her father and mother, | spent thirty years working for my home and family, I have amassed @ small fortune and in the natural course of events my money will go to our only: | child, a daughter, now seventeen. [ do not feel that I want the money [ | have given a lifetime to aceum | ing to be spent by some young man who can wear fancy neckties, sing tener ang look soulful, and whose FRIDAY, | an aristocracy of talent, of birth or carries There are persons of course who be- Hove firmly in whatever form of aris- Here for instance is @ letter from a father who thinks he has the right to POWER TO EARN 16 THE MAIN |E Third Article of a Series. - SIP SINS AWN| Average Men of 25 Lack the Stability, Poise and Experience a Husband Needs sw: teaser, ricues of | Writing Objectionable Letters, | Adopted Novel Course. HER CASE CONTINUED. Miss Streamer Continues to) Teach Classes Despite Charge | Pending Against Her, Court, writing unwélcome letters to D. H. al Goodwin of New Brighton, had vs. ing at New Brighton to-day. W. Kenny represented her as counsel, ‘sad & hia request he wes allowed until BUT AT 2g HER | CHOICE Is 4 “PROVIDER” maximum earning capacity is per- haps $10 a week. If my girl picks @ husband satisfactory to me and her mother I am perfeotly willing to leave her all the money I have worked hard for, But I have told her that I won't accept as a son- in-law anybody her mother do indoree. Her mother is a good judge of men. The ideal age for a girl to of her choice of a husband. The ideal age for @ young man to marry fe when he can show the girl's pay nts he can support a wife and otherwise earn their approval. I married when I was twenty-one and my wife was eighteen, but ours was an exceptional case. rally there fe far too Mttle interference with ro- mantic children by parents in tle JANUARY 24, 1918. ‘TQ G0 10 COURT, 50 marry is when her mother approves | SHE DID NOT WANT MAILED JUDGE FINE t Thureday afternoon to faimiliar- ise himself with the ase. Dr. KE. L. Pritchard, an allenist, who has examined Miss Streamer at tho re- quest of Magistrate Marsh, was prea- ent. He said he had formed a very | detinite opinion as to the condition of Misa Streamer, but his testimony was aerarrea for the next hearing. District- Attorney tangs ©, Fach, who was shot, last sum by @ woman client, who had written letters to him not unlike those written to Dr. Goodwin by Miss Streamer, made no objection to the ad Magistrate Marsh said to-day that jafter the first arraignment of Mies Streamer, he had a letter from | which was apparently mailed before hie was peremptorily ordered to obey & summons and attend court. In thts letter she said she noticed that the summons, which she inclosed, had In it @ warning of a $26 penalty for court, and therefore tnelosed a oheck for $36 to pay the fine. Since her last hearing, which Mins Streamer attended only after a threat from the court of forcible arrest, Mr. Fach and Magistrate Marsh have re- ceived many long letters from Miss Streamer. According to the princtpal of the school, her work with the chil- Gren of her classes bas been going on ae usual and natisfactorily NEW YORK LADY | HAS STARTED A NEW FASHION | Has Improved Her Health by United States, If there were more we might have fewer divorces. A boy | of twenty has no more right to get married than he has to go out and get killed. Parents should as- sort thelr authority and save their children from future unvappiness. A PARENT WHO KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT. —_—>——_ SHE ASKS $150,000 FOR THE LOSS OF HER HANDS. | Were So Burned They Had $150,000 and hi neotiout Light the Southern New Company to recover that amount. ued the Northern Con- In attempting to turn on an electric light in her parents’ home on the night of Dec, 2 last sho received a shock hands were so badly burned that they had to which almost killed her. Both de cut off, The defendanta run their wires on the poles in BuMeld, and before and the accident to Miss Garity several va been shocked in turning on the electric Ights. It ts alleged by Mins Garity that the power company has wires which oarry a voltage of and others san win: persons 2,200 for power purposes which carry @ voltage of 110 for lights. ‘The complaint charges negligence and) defective onstruction and defective in- | “Jumpy hat ‘run-down’ sulation which the companies should | feeling ure ary symp. have known of and remedied. All of | toms of nervous del aa John the property rights and franchises of | Beazley Webb, lon expert, the Northern Connectiout Light and who is assisti intcaurine! ‘ona | Power Company have been attached Vita. Directly these symptoms are who have age mits st both companies, largest asked ! an action ever brought EEE fine’ Claud Scott was his own dog last fast in a wire fenc trying to extricate very badly Wednesday. wi The dog go! him when some oe to Dite his master in the hands, making some ugly wounds. by Ughtning the other night. CEYLON TEA EERE LEE EE LEED E DEE LELE White Rose Coffee, Only 35c.a Pound Turning On Electric Ligat They | to Be Cut Off. |, A statement that should be particu- larly interesting to women was made WINSTED, Conn, Jan, % — Miss) + i ton Ce eeee ect” domuiter oF Join | the other day by Mins Alice Healy, after Garity of SuMeld, valued her hands at nd Power Company end England Telephone Tt 1s said in SuMeld that other citizens shocked will bring dam- The damages sought by Miss Garity are the tn Buperior Court for Hartford County, in the County. m the Rural Retreat (Va,) Times) of memory and will ate” Lester Davis cut one of his! holy and lack of ambi | ‘erely bitten by and Mr. Scott was other canines interfered, causing the Goorge Bheets had a fine mute killed | manent. | the Use of the Great New Tonic. ‘ADVOCATES TONA VITA ; Claims that It Is Excellent for | All Women Who Feel Run Down, she had taken a course of the new tonic, Tona Vita. Miss Healy, who lives at $94 East 88d St., New York, states “For some time I have been both- ered with what I should call an ‘all- run-down’ condition. I tired much more easily than I used to, and did not have the energy to do the things that formerly were u pleasure to me. My nerves troubled me greatly, If I heard an unexpected noise behind me I would ump as though I had been shot. ditevel tens tkklon Ceenavlia Likave | experienced great relief from my trouble. | It has toned me up as only a long stay in the country or # sea trip w t have | done. It is extremely pleasant to take |and it brings relief very quickly. I }am only too glad to. be, able to endorse | it as an excellent tonic.” —-SUSU SEA! Last Day of the if FIRE SALE! felt the aubject should take the matter! n hand before they become a thorough nervous wreck. Nervous debility can| ¢ injure the health in several ways. It | such disorders as nervous | sleeplessness, gnawing and uncomfortable sensations in the and many other uch « powerful | cessfully relieve | ‘tion, loss of appet dis ders Tona that the condit: t quicker relief will come and the shorter | time it will take for the relief to be per- | “Druggiate in New York report that | |the calls’ for Tona’ Vite ere growing | | more numerous every di PERRI-WALLA TEA ROASTED COFFEE STRAWBERRY JAM CANNED CORN » (AN Weer COMPA pr bn ag haa igre will be assed to secure ese =Very tly Damag Bedell Goods at the Sacrifice Prices which we have been offering this week. Last Week’s Fire slight as it was, occurred in the midst of our Great January Clearance, when prices had already been reduced to the lowest level. These Fire Reductions are from the Low Clearance Prices Al in Force Slight! ed by smoke only, pag my - “Tucebe dee ments of from tremendous assort- FASHIONABLE TAILORED SUITS, . 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