The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1913, Page 15

AT 96, PENSIONER | ‘BECAUSE SHE TOOK ANDY” OVER KNEE Woman Who Spanked “Laird of Skibo” Gets $10 a Month for Castigation, STILL ABLE TO SPRINT. ‘> Mrs. ‘Nancy Harris Can Walk ¢ _ and Thread a Needle and, ‘ Maybe, Dance, ‘The woman who once spunied Andrew Carnegio and gets a pension for it will — her ninety-sixth beithday Fri- Ghe 19 Myre. Nenoy Harrie, and she makes her home with her daughter and @a-in-lew, Mr. and Mre. W. Heitman, Gt No. 17 Clift street, Jersey City, Of course, the Laird of Skibo was « Mttle chap when he got this particular qpenking, and bis offense was sliding Gown Mrs. Harris's banisters at Pitts- Dursh. The fact that he remembered $ indicates that it must have been a eal hard spanking, and the fact that he insisted on paying for it years after- ward might be accepted as acknowl- @dgment. that it was not unjustly be- stowed. Mra, Harrie was born in St. Louts, but many yeare ago went to Pittsburgh, Where she marricd while quite @ young Girl. She lived in a large, old-fashioned house—old fashioned for these days, but the usual kind of domiolle for the days before the war. Andrew Carnegie was a lively boy at| time, carrying messages in Pitts- | reh, preparatory to learning teleg- phy later on. Hig duties frequently | ried him to the Harris home, and | one of his coveted diversions in those days was surreptitiously sliding down | the wide mahogany banisters in the spact hallway. You Andy had to do it surrepti- tlously, because Mrs, Harris jealously &uarded them, partly to keep them from being scarred by the heavy shoes most small boys wore in those days, and ‘partly to keep some venturesome youngster from breaking his, leg or neck, But Andy was a catiny lad, and it ts admitted was an expert in negotiating the smooth, glossy toboggan either feet foremost or on his tummy. The worst of {t was Mrs, Harris never could catch WAM untl] one day she suddenly came jato the hallway just as he made an unusually swift slide He ran outside, but some one pointed him out to the mistress of the house. She selzed him by the oollar ana doubling him across her knee gave him the spanking. He must have been ten or twelve years old at the tt age didn’t figure in the eptsode. Years later, when Mrs, Harris told ome of her friends about the incident, they suggested that she write Mr. Car- negie and ask if he had forgotten. she 414 not expect one of the world's richest men would have time to read her let- ter, but within twenty-four hours re- ceived @ personal acknowledgment, say- ing he certainly remembered that spank- fmg and for her to be on the lookout for more substantial preot. GWE GETS A CHECK FOR $10 m EVERY MONTH. Ma ancther day or two the postman ht her another letter from the mill- demaire, asking her to accept « ltue re- minder of other days. It was a check fer $10, and since then there has been @ ebeck for a similar amount sent to hey every month, Mire. Harts has lived tn Jersey City fer about twenty years, and there are ether things beside: but his mewepapers and never uses glasses, Her eyesight 1s a8 good as it ever was and whe can hear perfectly. She is well in- formed on every subject, even to all the latest crazes, cults and etyles, and few topics can be brought up that she can- got discuss intelligently. @he is active and insists on doing mueh work about the house for the ex- ereiee it affords, She also takes lonx ‘walks when the weather is favorable, and during bad weather often Insists on i ing a few laps around the big yard fresh alr, Sho still sews skilfully and can thread @ needle as quickly as any young woman fn the neighborhood, Her health 1s good and she eats anything she pleases Mrs. Harris has four children, three of them in Pittsburgh, Her son-in-law has prepared an elaborate birthday party for her Friday night, and scores of her neighbors will gather to wish her many happy returns, Mrs, Harris has not promised to dance, but tt would not aur. rise her friends if she did take a few lurns about the parlor just to show that woman may still be young at ninety- ‘ il ee SCAFFOLD FALLS; TWO HURT. Injuries Suffered in Ironworkers’ Bronx. . Charles Pielgard of No. @& East One Hundred and Fitty-elghth struck on the head by a wirdgr which came down in and was taken to Lebanon Ii 4 with little hope for his recovery skull was crushed and he suffered in ternal injuries. John Pearson of No, 724 Ei Hundred and Fifty-eighth ot was working beside Piolgard ribe and a finger broken and was also | taken to Lebanon, Both men fell wit the scaffolding from the balcony lev of te theatre, twenty fect to the o: Omeatra tivor. ~. =o =o 0 0000 | ——— {.) ———{.) —__— Se Payments at Intervals may be arranged by joining O'Neill's Household Club. Join at once and get the benefit of greatly reduced prices. “TH That Will Positively Surprise You with Its Unprecedented Bargains Arts and Crafts 300 High-Grade Sample BRASS BEDS From The Knickerbocker Metallic Bed| Made by Co., of Bayonne, N. J. 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