The evening world. Newspaper, April 4, 1913, Page 3

WANT ALIMONY? NO! SHE ONLY ASKS TO QUIT PAYING IT Mrs. Thorpe Tells of Support- $ng Husband 12 Years on Department Store Salary. HER PLEA IS GRANTED. Court Promises a Decree of Separation Barring Thorpe | From Demanding Money. “Allmony from htm? Heavens, no, Judge! I want to be legally separated from him so he can’t get alimony fom me!” This plea made on the witness stand by & smartly gownel young woman would arouse general interest, but com- ing from a department store girl who | Bad supported a ehiftiess husband on Ber meagre eamnings for twelve years evoked gasps of astonishment in Jus- flce Greenbaum’s part of the Supreme Court to-day. Mre. May B. Thorpe of No, 317 West Ninety-fifth street, who had worked up from a cash girl to the head of a de- partment since she married Albert L ‘Thorpe twelve years ago, was the! epeaker. Thorpe did not defend the suit. | Mrs. Thorpe's appearance indicated that she was well able to provide for herself Her gown was of soft blue Material set off strikingly with rows of large white buttons, Over her blonde hair was a picture hat and she wore Jong white gloves and white-topped hoes adorned with black buttons. Mra, ‘Thorpe is on the happy side cf thirty, years and was an attractive witness. | SAID SHE DIDN'T WANT TO FIND | HUSBAND. Mrs. Thorpe told the Court that Thorpe had abandoned her at No. 210 ‘West Ono Hunéred and Tenth street on July 4, 1918. She made no efforts to learn of hie whereabouts, ‘Do you mean that you had no curt emity to hear from your husbandt” | questioned the Court. “Of course not; why should I? I have been giving him money for twelve yeara and his absence didn't annoy me at all,” returned the witness. “Are you employed?” asked the Court. “Yes, sir; I have been an employee ef a department store for twelve years. “Ad you mean to say that you hi een supporting a husband on these! @arnings for twelve years?” “Certainly. He has not contributed | @me cent to my support.” “What is your husband's business?" | “He selling horses, I think, when 2 married him.” “A gentleman of leisure, ls that it?) observed the Justice. Thorpe had been away two months| ‘when Mrs. Thorpe encountered him on She bade him the time of day. She said he od her for money ‘The Court was curious to hear what Mrs. Thorpe would say on the question of alimony. Usually, he sald, wives who seek separations do so with # view of| obtaining permanent alimony. WANT® A SPECIAL DECREE! AGAINST DEMANDS FOR MONEY | Mrs, Thorpe unhesitatingly informed the Court of her views on that par- ticular item. She asserted she would be iighly pleased if there was a way by which the Court would incorporate a clause making it impossible for Thorpe to demand money from her, ‘He could never pay me alimony,” ehe aaid, “and I want to be sure I don't avs to pay him alimony. I have car- ried the burden as long as I care ¢»." Justice Greenbaum sald he would hear | Mo further testimony. He accepted the remarkable young wife's story In full and announced that he would give her| &@ decree which legally prohibited! Thorpe from further annoying his wage| earning wife. | Those who listened to M amazing story had minder of the fact t partment store gi herself but also her husband out of her an impressive re- at least one de-| with CN, FEW drops of CN tn the toilet bow! de- stroys every danger from Infection, CN is a power- ful cleanser and five times as effective as carbolic acid, yet safer to use, « 106, 25¢, 50¢, $1 rhe yellow rhe vetiow 5 Beckaoe | | | \ ‘ trom him, has been remarked that only seal | not natural, | purposes of nature. To say that woman THE EVENIN rd ——— dotlobetei-ininlninloininininintol-t- Copyright, 114, by The Press Publishing Co, (rhe New York Worid). ‘*Women’s Wages Have Never Been Higher, G@ WORLD, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1918. Heese icisieeinieleleisitteieioinint THEGIRL WHO WORKS AND WIN is Helolninintolatat aleinintulntelntetninietelatebleteletelntetatet Twentieth Article Morals Have Never Been Lower, Than Now’’ APTERNOONE 1 pend,” Writes ‘F.C.”’—*‘Keep Busy and You'll Keep Out of Trouble,”’ Says «‘M. J.” in this series, Five other prizes of $10 each. $100—IN PRIZES FOR LETTERS BY REAL WORKING GIRLS—$100 Cash prizes amounting to $100 will be given for the most help- ful letters from REAL WORKING GIRLS on the subject dealt with The money will be divided as follows: Two prizes of $25 each. The seven letters which, in Nixola Greeley-Smith’s judgment, are best and most helpful will receive these awards. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. “Woman hi arrogantly encroached too far on the channel of man’s Mfe and is ncw simply reaping the results. Conditions permitting woman to be employed outside her normal sphere form the basis of her present preservation that bids them work rather than starve to death, As for how may we find it or define it? sphere !s normal in which she is able to compete successfully and to remain. The position of dependence which woman has occupied toward man for so many centuries is not natural. Woman is practically the only dependent female to be found in nature, woman's normal sphere, ‘The most militant suffragettes of all are to be found among the sup- posedly lower animals, Among them the female is self-supporting, self-sustaining. She finds her ows food, and woe be to the male that tries to take it sway from her, Also, che has o summary way of Gisposing of unwelcome masculine attentions. Every dog owner knows that the sub- Joction of the male to the female ts ositively pathetic. The male dog will et his mate nose him away from his own breakfast and eat it Defore his eyos, while his mouth waters with help- less envy. 83 away If he annoye her in any way she curls her lip back over her glisten- ing teeth and nips his sensitive nose. ONLY SEALS AND MEN ATTACK FEMALES, For a male to hold the female in wojection is not natural. In fact, it men will attack the female under any circumstances, Practically there is no submerged sex in nature save among nen and women, A submerged sex is but contrary to all the as she emerges from tutelage is en- croaching upon man's life {s about as reasonable as to hint that a chicken when {t pecks its way out of the shell in taking leave of its natural sphere, Yet I suppose that is what a great many old hens must have sald the first time @ baby pullet threw her bill out into the world, In my opinion, a woman's natural sphere is wherever she can get and stay. I do not agree with The Evening World reader who says that the years a girl spends in typewriting or in some other gainful occupation unfit her for marriage or constitute, as she says, “an absolute waste and a disturbing factor in her new life,’ “The business of making « living teaches a girl what she is worth as @ human being in dollars and cents. Later, if she elects to specialize ae ® Woman in marriage and mater- uity, she has ® definite conception of what she is worth to her home. Bhe keeps her independence, since she does not have to consider the unworthy sacrifices which se many Women make bessuse marriage miserable lot.” A young woman who tells us that she is a suffragist and a socialist adds the comment I have quoted to the admission that wages have little to do with morality. She offers also the highly pertinent remark that the; wages of women have never. been | higher and morals have never been| lower than they are now. I can’t agree with the statement that) “woman has arrogantly encroached | too far on the channel of man’s life.” It would be just as fair to say that a person thrown over- board at sea and told to sink or swim had encroached too far on the ocean and was simply reaping the result of his temerity. Women are driven into so-called masculine channels of endeavor by the same force that takes men there—the instinct of self-) Surely any means their only means of livell- | hood, The letter of this interesting but re actionary suffragist follow: SHE SAVY8 WOMEN ENCROACH ON MAN'S PRESERVES. Dear Madam: I started to earn my Way in life nearly twenty years ago. At sixteen I was a kitchen or cook's helper, then a waitress, later I be- came a saleagirl, clerk, bookkeeper and finally a of the wa by the woman worker is not a primary factor or standard on which her morals de- pend, and it is regrettable that the question of low wages has been #0 widely, eminently and wrongly pleaded,”as the cause and justificas tion of loose morals, because it sup- ports the stock ex of those who fall by the wayside and but adds to temptation, The waxes of women workers have never been higher than they are now and morals have never deen lower, so, while I admit being liberal minded, I will not argue for a higher arbitrary wage. What 1s the cause of increasing {mmorality? Simply a process of nature, the same as !ife and prop- erty are belng widely devastated throughout the several States at present by floods, Man has taken @ chance and daringly encroached too far on the channels of the various rivers and has lost his life and property accordingly, Woman has arrogantly encroached too far on the channel of man’s life and 19 now simply reaping the results, Conditions, permitting women be employed outside thelr norma! sphere, form the basis of her pres- ent miserable lot. The life of the woman stenographer fllustrates this. | This young woman works and studies until she \s twenty-five years of age, or thoroughly efficient, at 4 wage barely averaging her keep from the time of beginning until she reaches a state of proficiency, At twenty-five years of age she, nor- mally, expects to marry, When marnNed her years of training and worth as a wage earner are not only an absolute waste but a dis- turbing factor in her new life, As she begins work at an early and {m- pressionable age amid surroundings which tend toward the utter de- beak of home making qualities, rp Md TE CCUM S TANC rr trem COWES WEL TODe MARAIS WOMEN en we sees Pacmgnngus Nea “The Size of the Salaries of Girls Is Not a Primary Factor or Standard on Which Their Morals De- we Paommity 08 & GAY PRETTY woman AT THE ORG AER WIPES or ce @ccomplishm: it and Instinct ly unhappy, if not a complete fail- Ure, and she returns to her type- machine or elects tho loose iife or doth, If not married at th ty-five her lonely and depresses and disevurages bexin to vanish and are sub- ed with “what's the use," 80 her Iife {8 a living hell from either view. The typemachine, as a wom- an's means of support, calls to mind the predicament of the drunkard supporting himself by holding to a lamp post: “If I stick here I will and if I let go T x » we have the busi- ness man and his home to consid QT as she secms to imag- ine she does, As a trained nurse I have seen more than one wife and mother go down from prostration on account of the office stenographer. Indiscretions are not nec Produce this result. Simply pany and continued proximity to a young and pretty woman will some- times cause a husband to develop an aversion toward his middle-aged wife and hate her presence, and cause him to commit other didos, An individual here and there re- pulsing a drummer or her employer and showing her womanly dignity will never get us anywnere or her- self either. Our main promises of relief are: a limited socialism, votes for women, the destruction of the saloon as now instituted, and unt- versal education. ‘The limited socialism will soon be the capitalists’ only protection. Votes for women will force a practical education on women, This will Be more important than the simple act of voting, The saloon is tenacious of life, but it must Ko. The heavy endowments of the vartous institu- tions of learning will insure a gen- eral education of the masses. DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO GET INTO TROUBLE. Dear Madam: Twelve years ago, at the age of #ixteen, I started out to earn my own living I recelved $3.0 per week and the average pay of the girls in that place was $3. We all managed to exist and many had no other source of inve I have tter girls, We ise ourselves and better our eenditiocal iat we didn’t ““mope” very much over what we didn't have, It was usually what we intended to have; another thing that helped was that we kept Caw RS & wUIBAND 7%O ObVELOPE AN AVERSION TO nid “DDE - Dusy during our spare time, having little opportunity to get into trouble. For two years 1 attended evening 1, where I took up and ed shorthand. You see T was only eighteen at the end of this perloa and my earning capleity had erably. 1 am now re- celving 20 er week and the girls £ first worked with have, In general, done well. But in golng up in the business world I began to meet the kind of girl who falls, There was usually one in our midst earning plenty to get along on honestly, too, ‘These girls, however, have always been in a class by themselves, and I think, no matter what thelr circumstances in Mfe had been, they would have been the same, just as countiess of the well-to-do married women we see | afternoons in our fashionable hotels and restaurants, ‘They are filrting with some worthless scamp who hasn't an alm in life that is decent, and who, in the majority of cases, hasn't enough grit tn him to support a wife of his own. ‘The husbands of these women are usually good, hard- working men, Well, for just the rea- son they are ding dishonest lives, that type of working git! is dotng it. The real danger of low wages, have found it, is that one's ph strength is apt to suffer before you can better your condition, with so Uttle opportunity of building it up. I think the girl who Js obliged to go to work before being properly fitted to earn a fair Mving for hi self should sacrifice one or two years and take up some helpful study. 1 cannot speak too highly of the eves ning schools, and the environment fe usually the best—girls who are in- telligent and have enough ‘spunk’ to | get on, In a very Mttle while you will be to have some pretty clothes and be in a position to finance your own amusements until you do meet a man who will ap- | preciate you. At any rate, @ man cannot help but respect a girl who can take care of herself, MJ. Sion! Seca Roy Killed by Auto, Clarence M, Cook, ten years old, of No, #8 Warburton Yonkers, died this morning in St b's Hospital |from a fracture of the skull sustained yesterday afternoon when he was run over by an automobile owned and driven by Edward McDermott of teeksidll The boy jumped off a trolley car almost directly in front of MoDermott's auto mobile, McDermott was charged with reckless driving. IMPURE BLOOD is a direct result of CONSTIPATION and may be avoided by the timely use of EX-LAX The Ideal Chocolate Laxative Ex-Lax will regulate your bowels, relieve dation and restore your energy, ambition an ou of onset. appetite. Good for young and old. TRY A BOX TO-DAY, At all Drug Stores. 1Qe, 25c and 50c. ‘ | eee nares. SCHOOL ATHLETICS FOR DEATH OF BOY James Casey, Who Became Ill Yesterday, Never Re- gained Consciousness. CAUSE WAS A MYSTERY. Coroner's Physician Says He} Was Probably Injured Months Ago in Jumping. Athletics, such as school regulations Prescribe for pupils tn their firet y: high school, probably caused the of fifteen-year-old James € ¥, of No, 113 Parrott place, Fort Hamilton, who died early to-day in St, John's Hoapttal, Brooklyn, according to Coroner's Phy- siclan Charles Wuest. The doctor, after an autopsy, sald that the boy's spinal column had been Atslocated between the firat and second vertebrae, and that while the distoca- tion was of short duration—probably being only a snapping out and back Into place of the bones—it had been suMictent to cause a slight rupture of @ blood vessel from which blood oozed slowly over the whole brain. Dr, Wuest said he believed the dts- had location and subsequent ruptur been caused by jumping. He wan tain that a sudden backward jerk of the head had thrown the bones out of place and recalled from his own athletic experiences that this was @ common motion of the head in Jumping. Young Casey was a first year student In the Commercial High School tn Brooklyn, The regulations prescribe standing and broad jumps and jumps over hurdles and hora part of the athletlo training of first year students. MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED MONTHS AGO. The physician said that there was no way of telling how long ago the din- location might have taken place, It might have been three months and !t might have been six, It certainly was not of recent occurrence, else the blood would not have had time to permeate jthe brain ax it had. Recently the boy had complained of heaviness in the eyes and diMcuity in reading print, He had headachen also. th thene, cording to Dr, Wuest, are aypmtoma of the condition such as he found the boy to have been tn The doctor said that tn hia fifteen or more years as a Coroner's physician he had encountered only one similar case— that of a man who fell on the midewalk, striking on his chin #0 that hia head was pitched back sharply. The dislo- cation, hemorrhage and death followed aw they had In the boy's case. Young Casey was tn his class at the Commercial High School in Brooklyn when he waa taken 111 about noon yes- terday. He quickly became uncon- scious and his teacher sent for an am- bulance. At the hospital the case was iagnoned as acute Indigestion, A stomach pump was used, The boy did not regain consctousness, however, and expired about 2 o'clock im the morning. ge BL OAPs FORGER ESCAPES IN A BOX. HARTFORD, Conn, April 4 —The escape of a convict from the Wethers- field State prison last Sunday night— the first that ever took place there-' Dewey, serving seven years for forgery, got away then in ingenious fashion. It ts believed fellow prisoners nailed him in @ packing case which was ready for shipment from the prison factory. When the packing case was aboard a freight car at the Wethersfield station he burat off the loosely nailed boards and was free. O NOT BE DECEIVED by the lure of the unreasonably low . The cheaper pianos are necemsarily of the cheap sonar: tion and materials, and neither tone nor durability—only superficial finish. mith the tone you can't forget,” has a mason! quality that cannot pred by wrice, Durability, ne the name-plate os built in Behnings every working day for over 51 years, Seotiettim wsauast 425 FUCTH AVENUE FOR MEN, | ia a No Money $ Down Week new sting and rne are Rave ever shown, and our lower than You are accustomed WEST ANE @ 316 West 125th St, nr. 8th Av. 2858 3d Av., near 149th St. Dpen Evenings. World Wants Work Wonders. ace} CHARGED TO SON-IN-LAW. Revolver That Killed Wealthy Her- bert Quick Gives Clue That Causes Souder’s Arrest. (Spectal to The Evening World.) FLEMINGTON, N. J., April 4.—Coron- or Lowe held an Inquest to-day into the death of Herbert Quick, widely known as “The Poet of Bunn Valley,” who was found dead DOCTOR BLAMES sun VALLEY POET'S’ DEATH in his home Easter Sunday, March 2. Quick owned two valuable farms, He lived at one. ighbors had missed Quick for two days, Sylvanus Souders, his son-in- law, discovered the body of Quick, who had been dead two days. There was @ bullet hole in his teft side. A revolver llay beneath his body and some news Papers, partly burned, near him, As- sistant Prosecutor Dunham ordered an Inquest and issued a warrant for So ders, who lives at Bound Brook, chi ing him with the shooting. Souders {s In the County Jail here. Mr. Dunham says the revolver found beneath Quick's body waa ~*Men from 4 Bound Brook man, who has {dentl- fled it. | — |PERCY L. DAVIS APPEAL LOST. ‘The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, Justice Dowling writing the opin. jon In which all concur, to-day affirmed the conviction in the Supreme Court of Percy L, Davis, an Alderman, of the crime of extortion. 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All hands were hauling on @ sounding line when the boat swung around, was caught by a high roller and overturned. All the men wore rubber boots and heavy clothing, Capt. Smith and one of the laborers soon sank. Hennessey and the other two managed to ket hok@ of an oar and kept themselves up, The overturned boat floated awa; Jamen Hennessey and &@ dozen fishermen on shore saw the accident. They had no boat handy, so they shed thelr outer clothing and swam out to meet the Imperitied men, who were be- ing swept shoreward by the tide. It fell to the lot of James Hennessey to catch hold of his brother, who wan about unconscious, and pull him to safety. Search is being made for the bodies of the two who lost thelr lives, _——— Austin 1, Sands in Hospital. 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