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AS SOE BCE " DRIVES. SCORES WHY IS IT A FAILURE? Noted Singer. TWO WOMEN ARE SAVED One Was Eugenie Boner, , Brought Here by Conried, \ but Who Is Now Poor. _ At & fire im which twenty tamiiies ‘Were in peril this morning, Miss Engente ‘Bonet, once @ famous prima donna, Brought to thie country by Heinrich ‘Conried, came near to being burned to Geath in her apartment at No. 5 East Fifteenth street. While reading in bed ey candle light she dropped a news- ‘Peper on the candle. ‘While the fire was raging and the oo- cupants of the five-story tenement house were shivering in the street, Where.they were driven in their night- clothes by the flames, several apart- \ mente were ransacked by thieves, Even “quarter” gas metres were mashed ‘open and robbed. pene hans “Women Wish to Own Men Body and Soul,” Writes «J. 8." Who Quotes the Sermon on the Mount to Describe the Kind of Man (Coeraag espe leg beeper atten Woman Would Create, If She of her poor neighbors, lives in = small Could Fashion Him. dhree-room flat in the rear on the third @oor, She has o “quarter” gas meter, ‘Dut it te not always convenient to find & quarter, so mostly she uses candies. While reading he sewapaper in bed she G@ezed and the paper fell within reach of the candle flame, In a moment the draperies of the bed Were on fire, In trying to put out the Diase Mise Boner was badly burned @bout the face, hands and legs. Hi “I Think That What Some Modern Wives Need Is a Really Bad Husband, Which Would No Doubt Be Instrumental in Making a Good One Appreciated,” Says a Heart-Broken Wife. Van kia eo N os kitchen, calling for help. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. acon’ street tation’ found nor eanty.| “Is there any wonder ¢hat there is so little marital happiness where janket,| Women wish to own man body and soul? ‘Happy’ married man, please “s vase speak up and confess! Be ® man and unburden your soul! You don't ol levue los- Swaed: Givers hae carne: eas toes have to sign your name, Let us know was taken care of dy friends what you’ Jonestly think; not what ~ you have to say when your wife is present!” by Hist! You oppressed married no 4 of tan Opera House, and] \ f bearer of the flery cross appears on the Irving Place Theatre. After singing . yt the hilltops! He signs his letter “J. «Saree lta hes : : 8.” and he calls upon you to cast ‘Failed her and she lost her position just i saide the base yoke of the oppres- hen ah about to reaeh fortune. o é sive Southron. In plain English—in y the words I have quoted and many other words—he declares that your wives rule you and that it is time for you to secede. “Souls for Husbands” {s his war cry. More power to it! When the plaint of nearly every unhappy wife is that her husband hasn't soul enough, why should women object seriously. However, there is no woman alive so ambitious that she seeks to be more than the captain of her self. I don’t think there will be many men to agree with “J. 8.” that wives always insist—to use his own phrase—that their “think” shall her widest vision woman sees sinners. Foolish men contend that wes treated by Dr. McRoberts of Belle- only he that knows best how to obey is the best fitted to command, but woman, being born perfect, has no need to obey and ie “naturally” born to command. We are assured by the high authority of @ cardinal His Former Wife, Who Was Prank that her intuitions are not due to “labored reasoning” (and so all men Work’s Daughter, Makes Appli- think), but to “inspiration” (and so cation to Justice Pendleton, Santen soeawnms ringes of all norma} ‘2 men don't think) If 90, they Barly in the marriages rmal} must be infallible, and al are catice Pendleton to-tay ey re [#24 intelligent persons the man and) woula cordially assent to this com Caune Fuetine Few if n that antagonism does Frances Work Burke-Roche Batonyl, t eee Ped many renee (let us daughter of the tate Frank Work, mill- ope) indorse the militant “cause,” foniaire banker, broker and turfman, for | but all women believe in the “be leave to dismiss three suits which she | Whom cause"—the ultima ratio or the ha@ drought against her former hus- alpha and the omega of woman's bamé, Aurel Batonyi, the Hungarian o- THE ARBITRATOR BE-| reason, or lack of reason, “labored” er det nee elutes Olsott's otto, TWEEN COUPLED. weenie ttees of the & > = ¢ | Som the wife offers the in Bo jermon on whe wan waste to explain to the Cours | rgaerifices inthe interests of| the Mount have always been ad- why Mrs, Batony! wished to drop her | the husband| mired as possible and even desirable rai & in & millennial state, but impossible Morris Cukor, counsel for Mr. Batonyl, to apply in our present imperfect opposed the discontinuance on the human governments, Women, how- ground that hie client had interposed | ever, thinks otherwise. counter claims. He asked for an ad- belleves that those req Journment of four weeks to give him a perfectly practicable—for chance to communicate with Mr. Ba: and that the nearer he appro: tony! Ag edsonrnant until May 2% contra-| them the surer he will be of Was granted, happiness, Outside the court room Mr, Cukor] gary wal! mode) wane said: ‘The first sult is for $1,600, and | a line person who she would be! have him, and let any woman dare Batonyt answers with @ counter claim | wiiing to concede is not wholly vile} ¢, that it is not what she for $17.40, In the second Mra. Batony! | ang the most rabid misogynist excepts) seauy expects; on let any man whe soaks $10,000, the value of certain horses | gyme woman from his sweeping con-| 1 Miy Ow nactieg deny thet thio which se says she turned over to Ba- | demnation of her kind. To prove that . what his wife expects from him: tony efter thelr marriage and of which |tnere ts one home at least in which iRadst hee Ge Le seein ho disposed, His answer is that the! man not so oppressed as “J. 9." Mani RS Nae 9) Ro oe 0 thee horses belonged to him, In the third | would nave us think, I have followed| - a er alan, Mrs. Jatony) asks for an accounting of | nig ietter with the pitiful communica-| If she take away thy coat, let her TAAiie crip. Mo intergonse a cobater | 00% o¢ Se Sananey. wie ois ean nice c hip. le int counter tiatun far 64,000 which he declares was| WOMAN'S REASON FOR twain, Give her whatever she ask- exptnded by “him out of his own funds THING 18 “BECAUS! eth thee; and if she would borrow On'her behalt,” Dear Madam: The unconscious or | {urn not thou away. Her people BE conecious assumption of profes- | Shalt be thy niop er god Actress to Wed Artist's Son, et cea shail be thy god, Announcement has been made of the coe iien snes This would be the kind of @ man @ngagement of Louise Seymour, who y that woman would create if she Plays the granddaughter in the pro-| combination of Venus, June tnd | could fashion him, and this ts the vee WOULD WITHDRAW SUITS AGAINST BATONYI. : ti “] Minerva, who is born panoplicd logue and epilogue of “Romance” at! weith an eye like Mars, to threat- | Only Kind of @ man she endeavors Maxine Eliiott'’s Theatre, to Jerome to recreate, Doubtless every wom- en and command” all w! Brush, son of George 40 Forest Brush, sist her mission to re ee world, Ghe herself is perfect and | thought,” but she would quality it unselfish, but man is the selfish and by insisting that her “think” comes YREE FOR THE COUFON, imperfect, needing only her guid- . is there any wonder that we beautiiel Fhetcuvovares, copies of] ance and her perfect knowl@ige to ts so little marital happiness we Pieturce are suitable for| 10d him to perfect bliss. If there | where women wish to own man, an would agree that true love means “two souls with but « single pen heavy art and | be any ideal man—which she thinks body and soul, and expect to give the “erigloals of seme! is an inadmissible hypothesle—she | nothing, or noxt to nothing, in re- the ixd| wit have none of him, for she came | turn? And what ts the exceeding . THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAY. WHY IS YOUR MARRIAGE A SUCCESS? | eteventh Articts + oh Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). _ IMOTHESTREET| afarital Misery Attributed to Cowardice yin apd On the Part of Henpecked Husbands) *“**""""™= SOCIBTY’S LATEST FAD 1S A FAMILY CREST ON ARED STOCKING OF MILADY. ot aSerlen — #/ ‘(5 DIVORCE EVIDENCE AFTER RAD BY WIFE Her Detectives Swear Little Wellman Called. “were 1S LITTLE MARITAL HAPPINESS BECAVIE women WANT TO OWN MAN Qoor ano SouL* A huge silly knee length, sleeveless garment of @ ceriae hue encasing the manly form of Walter D. Wellman, and a tiny ellk “nightie” of precisely the same shade draped over @ dainty Uttle orunctte, Agure largely in the suit for an absolute divorce begun by Mrs. Cora Gtockton Hummel! Wellmas fn the Supreme Court to-day. ‘Mr, Wellman, @ man of large wealth and commanding physique is New lock Light Com- well known to the patrons of art and the tragic drama as Cora Stockton Hummell. Two years ago Mra, Wellman won & decree of separation, with tiberai all- mony, at the hands of Justice Newbur- » @ince then she had Mr. Well- followed vy two private detectives. Thureday nit the detectives fool who strives to conform to her model? He becomes @ mere span- fel and ceases to be a man, and so far from gaining the “love” (7) of this suprege incarnation of selfieh- ness he gains only her contempt. “Happy” married man, please speak up and confess! Be # man and un burden your soul; you don't have to sign your name Let us know what you honestly think; not what you have to say when your wife 1s present, (If you really want th truth just print this just as writ ten, and you will have to issue a special edition of The Evening World to print all the letters from the henpecked Benedicts, whose cry will be, “We are governed too SOME WOMEN NEED A REALLY BAD HUSBAND. Dear Madam: I think that what gome of your correspondents need ie & really bad husband, which would, no doudt, be instrumental in making & good one be appreciated. I will cite my own case and I hope some of the women-folk who have written you will see it, and in conse- quence thank heaven for what they have, and not grumble any longer over trifles. 1 was married in my “teens” to what I believed was a good man, be- ing of @ good family, &c. I was con- Much adulation as as offers of marriage from the opposite sex. 1 educated, and a times, or, times, Before I met my husband I had a Proposal of marriage from a very eatimabdle young man, who was incl- dentally well educated and, well— Very well-to-do, His money could be counted in six figures. I thought more of him than any other I had known, and was seriously thinking of accepting him, when, oh, hateful day! I was made acquainted with the mi who afterward became my hust He (my husband) pursued me day, from morning till night, telling me of the love he bo! le (he had no money, only what he earned every week), called me all the pet names one could possibly tm: told me he would work his han jo the bone, &c.,, and that if I r ed him he would kill himself and later he another fellow if up in. order to ruin him (the other fellow). Had I been anything but a mere child, I would hav character in that last sentence, but he had won my love by time, or what I thought was love, besides I was so afraid he would carry out his threats that I accepted him. And what has my life been since? Oh, Merciful Fath What have I ever done to deserve such a living “Hell.” Yes, that is what I said, no other word would describe it, and almost from the very first. It would truly take a book, and a large one at that, to write all that has happened to me since, and | am still under thirty, But I will cite a few cases, just to show nome women what good husbands they them- selves have, and as a result stop Anding fault. We were living at ois mother's at firat—who, by tn Thought T ought to be very | for getting her son. When I was within a few months of becoming a mother, I Was cleaning out a bu- reau (at his mother's) when I dis- covered the photograph of a vad WAER De: B08. &) fe’ tine Eng s en oe - 4 and less garment. Huddled sagan vac: ss (% 1OOOCoats Reduced mee like Mtgle brunette of not more than Simon a nineteen yeare gleaming in the pink i members of smart society who ‘ave succeeded in adding to their treasures Hi front of the house, They crept eilent- ty to an apartment on an upper floor, | (ROW. No matter) e family crest. And Access was gained to an apartment | ‘hose who have been careless enough Fegistered in the neme of “Miss Bo- |‘? Reslect looking up pyssible armorial and-@o”—her name is being carefully ferign Ore mating pide drond renagige quardes—by calling out “Ico water.” | ih tnt naan e ary. The ‘The door was opened just a erack | [inn ut ‘le Gmovery. peng oon, and @ big, strong, mesouline arm was! which ig the embellishment of Ss thrust out to receive hoslery with lace copies of the crest. The originator of this latest fad is Countess Gisyoka, formerty Mise Blinor | etockt! Patterson of Chicago, who introduced it | the ankle. tf ehh ae webae P ae ee brunette cauaht To-morrow, Tuesday fear tan] | Simian Lona. Cont Solan & 6” the door and dared her to come ou: Ghe of the cerise “nightie” elected di Smart English Cutaways, cretion vs against valor, so Mrs, Well- man turned her attentions, both vocally $10, $12 and $15 Values, and physicaily, to her recreant hus- a @ | band. ‘The detectives caught her by High class and inimitably effective designs will be pre- feta hie ‘aatbor's amma, ana | oe.crat ‘Goss one nometet, co etre. sented in tomorrow's sale, in this captivating collection of i * - ‘beingin nervous health I destroyed | which so angered her that ehe indulged °, . ft, When he discovered this be in |in a fit of hysterics, the crown gems of the season's coat creations. There is turn tore my own photo in halves. ‘Thie outburst attracted the elevator every choice among these beautiful ‘When I was oo fll that I had dim- | man, the owner of the building and culty in ofimbing the staira, he | 2¥merous tenants, who finally induced woul urge me on by saying, very | @&re. Wellman to lea FORMER MAGISTRATE IS PUT IN JAN. WHEN HE siboreescey maces | IGNORES COURT ORDER} my own clothes, do all my housework, except washing; but “He sald that he married me out ot | Higginbotham Tells Judge He of hls mother, after ‘we were marries, | Was Drunk on Day He te. My bows Bae ovine te’ Failed to A Jealous elder sister, who in turn ta- DAP Ee, * i zi A Confessing he had been drunk on the that le the reason he says the above. ‘The fact that I could have married | 16% last week, on which he was or- 80 much better, &c., does not seem | ‘ered to,appear in court on @ charge to occur to Aim. of non-support brought by his wife, He has told me time and again he | former Magistrate E. Gaston Higgin- wished he were rid of me, but no |botham was locked wp in Raymond such blessing would befall him. | Street Jail to~<lay by Magistrate Millor, And oh, dear madam, I would giad- latter he had been surrendered by his iy own | bondsman. In the Domestic Relations Court this morning Higginbotham, who had been could easily pertorm the duties arrested by & private detective in a secretary or some euch work, saloon Fourth avenue and Warren but knew where to apply—or was | street, Brooklyn, as @ fugitive from jus- | given a chance, tice, protested vigorously against being When I say how heartbroken I |sent behind bars. When reminded by am, he laughs the most mocking | yagistrate Miller that he had failed to | laughter and taunts me all the more, |appear in court on more than a helt it gives him such joy and satisfac- | dozen occasions upon which he was or- tion because I have no place to turn | dered to answer hi ‘e Charges, Hig- to, nowhere to go for protection. I | ginnotham sali: have shrunk more or less from “I have always kept my appointments making friends, because he takes | with this Court with the exception of A d M d D such delight in making a fool of me | the one Inst Thureday. The reason | n (o] ern ress in front of others, or insulting others | 44 not appear then was because I was when I invite them. drunk, Any man has ty 14 drag 7 ili mer etnies | Faas fr, ci eats The srevaling adh of Sp ons eas sion, the pity of tt am such |'1 want to be paroled. I have no money fashionable women throws great responsi- @ coward, .I shrink so from having in my pockets right now, but my wife AR bility on the maker of shoes. others gu even at my unhap- | has money, in spite of the fact that Diness that I have acquired a sort | she says I don’t support her, I am a Any defect of shape or fit in a pair of Ledley Aes gp hal acl shoes is at once apparent and the finishing Of second nature, because when I and @ lawyer and I belong am with others I act very jolly; me as I am; they think they know |}, bond, If he cared to become me, that is all. ae hasta iteean. touch so necessary to style in dress is Fe 1 both look and pass for @ happy, | ployed the private detectiv lacking. Jolly woman. 1 force myself to do so, | ed Higginbotham, sald all he . although I would often much rather hands of thi go to my:room and shed tears, SOROSIS SHOES designed for .:yle and styush't look, L'almost laughed our. | xed at 61.000 comfort with a mode of dress which placed little that I Lge be ashamed to say himole hands, and Ica mane things absolute necessity to-day for women who look as stylish as I please; it costs nothing, except @ little effort, And now, Fr xou have part of the story of @ faithful wife, or | fool, whilchever you prefer to call ma, the actions of |. one who boast descent, and when I r some foreign “fool” saying, or 1 adopt the fashionable mode, Constipation SOROSIS SHOES can be bought in well located department stores or in our own stores in every large city in the world, rather “bra, ing” about the goodness of American husbands, I think of mine, and—If {t weren't so utterly + done me good, | heart a little just a