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ae eee SS a a ee ‘as WHEN HER PLANS 7 TOADPOOR FAL Baddened by Charity Work Here, “V. Sterling” Secks i Death in Rochester. (CAME FROM _ VIRGINIA. Sought Place in Metropolitan Hospital, but Sight of Suffer- ing Made Her Quit. ROCHESTER, Nov. 1.—A weil dressed ‘woman about twenty-five years of age @dliapsed in North street near Main @trect carly yesterday and was car- fied into @ drug store, where she told @ Week that eho hac vallowed two Sve Grain dichloride of mercury tablets. An ‘ emetic was given ber and an ambu- fence was called \ “Of course 1 knew the danger of the \@mblets 1 took. My reason for inking fom wes aimply that J wisted to die,” was ber reply when questioned by Patrolman Brots. ‘The woman wore t wide colored brosd- oth go trimmed with fur, and @ Dieck velvet hat. She bad three rings nm her left hand, one @ wedding ring. @e oaid that she had lived at the Hotel New York City. ‘1t was ascertained thet she had regis- tered at the Hotel Eggieston on Wednes- day as 'V. Bterling, N. Y.,” and left the Qollowing day. When pressed for an ac- @ount of ber actions after leaving the hote! she said she had been visiting friends. Ghe said at first that ebe was @arried and later that she was single ‘he refused to talk of her family. Came Here’'Frem Virginia to Werk for Poor. A young woman registered eas Vir- @inia Sterling lived at the Victoria Ho- el, Broadway and Twenty-seventh street, for two weeks and left there last Monday. Ghe received no callers, but ‘was known to several of the women Guests. One of them said this morning: “I ao not know where Mise Sterling Uved, but I think she came from Yir- ginia. She told me she had spent two months in New York and they had been months of ir Giecouragement. She @aid she received weekly remittances from her eieter. She had come here mith the Hea of doing whet eke called ‘zeal charity’ for the poor, and made ar- rangements to serve as @ nuree in the Metropolitan Hospital, Blackwell's Island. “She started there hopefully, ehe ea!4, ‘but at the end of five was forced to leave because, as she expressed it, ehe was simply unable to bear the of the suffering at the hospital. As she @poke of this experience she burat into teara and had to take to her bed. The authorities at the hospital, she deciared, ‘were very kind to her, but she was con- vinced they regatded her as @ poor, ‘weak, overwrought girl and that seem- @4 ¢0 distress her exceedingly. She felt ahe had nothing to live for and I am not Greatly surprised to hear what ehe hae At the Hote! Manhattan it was eald @at a Miss Sterling had lived there for two weeke this fall, but nothing wee &uown edout her. QUITE DIFF DRENT. a worth?” you asking about his efficiency, “Are , his financial condition?” Do You Pay for It Afterward? BM Yeu De, Just Carry a Little Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablet in Your Vest Pocket and a Big Meal Will Be Easily Laid Away. away from the foreboding that joy yourself heartily I. thet you will pay de i rt 3° enjoying et meal to the ut- you oan do a0 without 4: E if Ba Meal for 3 Tablet te nothii form of t stomach em food, And Stuart's merely step in whi tired or too THE EVENING WORLD, TAKES MERCURY What You Can See Any Day MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1918, Bitterly Contested Scraps and Strangely Assorted Fighters Can Be Found by a Visit to the Do- mestic Relations Court. (Sketches Drawn in Court by Ethel Watts Mumford.) ural German he told hia wrongs. utterance was thick, but he, too, had bande, She had robbed him, she had! Bhe'd imported a perfectly unnecessary sister for forty hard earned dollars—his He showed us that unscrupu- lous woman in the very act of abstract- ing those dollars from his trunk. of tin—he mai exactly like a tin trunk that again I was 1 shall never rest till I can make a noise like @ tin trunk, He continued to denounc duct ax outrageous; more Would the re bid her to be fresh? He had that word well in hand; he there would be a few practice bouts injand bis Left Paw Pauline were hold- The wife also seemed | ing @ levee on the corner. to be making dates for future encoun- pated sic tera with the opponition, Then they si "t resting, cat nd actin stepped up and seven fast rounds en- MAIL STRIKERS PLEAD. | ( Pat thertivee if “ty the near future. Tragedy of the Poor Woman Who Was Sent From Pillar to Post in Search of Aid to Recover Her Children. sued, By the time they were over each i had accused the other of having taken| Tare They Ave Not Guilty of the decalogue to the summit of a high Genbeereer aslonecaua: r and taken a long fall out| Nine officers and members of the Mail ‘They, particularly he, seemed in-| Chauffeurs’ Unton faced Judge Hand in| or has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, s clined to treat the Booze Championship | the United States District Court to-day | throat, full of cold, give a teaspoonful be{to answer ® blanket indictment charg- : contest- | ing them and nine others with conspiracy | few hours all the constipated poison, » admonished, ordered to re-|to obstruct the movement of United f »-|States mail All entered pleas of not| moves out of its little bowels without webe| guilty and ball was fixed at $1,500, The|griping, and immediately indictment alleges the stoning of matt | child again; filled with envy. referee was not hia wife's con- port in one month, and if any infra By Ethel Watts Mumford. ‘The wedding ring holds more excite- ment than the prize ring; also it resem- dies ft. I made a little Journey to the Court of Domestic Relations and was enthralled. Weep no more, ladies, that you are denied access to the fights on “oud nights." trouble would The bout was then declared a draw, and the combat- WERE IN WHOLESOME AWE OF|rivera and also attempts to burn some this harmless “fruit battering was strictly forbidden, ATTRACTION BROUGHT FORTH. ‘The gladiators were puxzled ‘Phere was protest. husbands and ‘rothera look at the padded fisticuffs; £0 you for the real thing. 00 more bitterly contested bouts, more strangely amorted fighters. They come ungraded heavyweights in furious en- counters with bantams, lightweights as- eaulting Gotlatns. looked at each other the forty dollar sister (for which that wife had certainly p n exhorbitant diet when she haled him to court. Ube wure, what would be lacking in alco- ic stimulation was about to be made toe As 1 eat me down before the little] » ebevated platform where the manly art of eelf-defense wan Mght massage, patting down threatened to omething else, and the trio lett the ring still waving exp ‘Then the next bout was called, had a glimpse of the contestants when they had come in and It looked like & I would have billed Mast Side Terror, the backers began to but that hardly ‘There wax a gleam of satisfac in her husband's eye that was in the highest degree irritating. Though the decision had grieved them, question of dis- ey accepted They in the dd be- soon to be dis: wave her of the eupreme Played, iittie I gues. for with the exception of the managers— I beg thetr pardona—the ovurt officials, there were no Americans present. looked lke @ foreign employment bur- re seemed to bi obedienge in their m ee, painful though left in friendly fashion, mutual anisery of thelr future ten the appalling ac: good figit to me. I thought J must have made a It was tho granu battefeld of the home—the Domestic Relations Court. ‘The referee ia a ktndly, benevolent tn- carnation of the idea of paternal gov- who admonishes the contest ante in torme unused by the sporti editor, Dut might easily de translated} in fine shape, and ¢ wasn't pulled off. asa me, but they got together 1 to des exchonged that ned to vad token n't blame them, Jt was then announced from the forum the sporting instinct to know a fight is fixed, y reach —it went aro: contestants clinch. Moastiy It | twice. ‘clinch, but serious com- plications arise, Even at the most critt- cal moments, however, 1 had no fear. Two gigantic an@ beaming attendants acted as neconds for the The way they calmed them filled me with admiration. to wonder how they Curiosity ie terrible. wo back and ask them interpreter tf worn thin by too seems caught in the whirl of huinan interest; le, interprets for humble pay, er inspiration ie indiwed by ne evident to ine, | chled THE OPENING BOUT OF THE |f er waist almost | they were already looking as sheepisi: look for disappointing ftoom and me too. TWO BOOZE FIGHTERS NEXT) APPEARED. eree gave them a bless-you-my= ilod for the next | ed to be quite an This Simple Recipe Quickly Banishes Hairs led in their own important event ing hairy growths Mix a stiff paste with tone and water and sp: he had | neck or Hon then That hypnotic suggentt passes very soon be 7 Care ercised to get the delatone ned | in an original package, otherwise it may he witness stand wax | had a strong her | pone were willing to attest knocked her ¢ and when and She was Polls what mattered Long before the yild state the case bad hypnotized ine : “Storm Hero” mbrellas wore people crowds, 1 exclaiming palms Have the B ‘The court attendant balm dispense began to cork the Vials of her wrath. Nevertheless, she was stil! able to paint &@ forceful ptoture of her woes—all hand- that amiable anu then tactfully wit In Rape Senin For sale at Ma lege! TI 14th m & Straus’ and s hundreds of other and a ctl A ce Rn ERNE EE pene nn that several scheduled fights were offi- ag STUDENTS CAUGHT POOR MOTHER WHO WANTED HER CHILDREN. At Battlefield of the Home 227: NNWUNWIE (led before those pleading eves, This playette was to ben tragedy. The tran- sition from the grotesque humor of the! - preceding cases was a reat mental| More Than 100 Pay $10 Each shock * nei, Nivatecl Poor soul! her children had been ki4-| in Washington After Virginia- napped, The husband who had left her . ten years before had spirited them Georgetown Game. away, she had no idea where. He had complied with the law fn that he had supported her. Through his brother he] wagutnaTon had sent her funds weekly. ‘But 1 do not want money.” she Nov, 17, — Students! from Georgetown University and the| University of Virginia and some of their | t s * ed do Ker checks: “not imonesciny chiideent| eMthusiaatio friends know to-day fust ahtidvent" what the Jones-Worke Excise law | 6 Judge looked at her with eympa- | Means, | thy and shook his head, His ¢ ‘There was a football game at George- not power to he her, Ie suggested the| town Saturday between the Georgetown Legal Ald & ty, She had been there) and Virginia teams. Georgetown won and they had eent her here. by @ score of 8 to 7, but both sides cele- “The Supreme Court,” he told het] brated at “that Is the only place ¢or teeth i hours, Despair settied down upon her; the pleading light in her weary eyes waa| Before the Jones-Worke law went into quenched. The Supreme Court, how|@ffect a person was not arrested in could she reach it, and where? It | Washington for being intoxicated unless might be years. T shall never forget her| h@ was so far gone that it was dan- stricken face. What can @he do, this| €erous for him to be on the et-eete. If helpless woman? She is gent from glace| 4® dropped in an out of the way cor- to place, hoping for help, and is passed | N¢r and went to sleep, he was left alone. along. The gap between her and But @ great change has come abqut. stolen children widens. Now that ahe| It !# now the duty of policemen to ar- tias spent the best years of her life in| Fest any person on the streets in an rearing them, the parent who has been | intoxicated condition. must pay & no father to them has robbed her, and| fine of $10 for an ordinary drunk, or be nobody seema to know what she can do, | tried and sent to the Workhouse for tte nobody's Dusltens, thirty days, The fines go to the pension WOMAN LAWYER SAYS MANY] £¥A4 of the firemen and policemen. That CASES DESERVE HELP. fund ts $1,200 larger to~<tay than it was li before the Georgetown-Virginia game She went her way in dazed and hope-| yesterday, most of it being collected fens sorrow, A few hours later I hap-| trom students and their friends. pened to meet Miss Mulholiand—I bex| wien the bars closed at - her pardon, Mra, Boosevain. I spoke of| geturday it required all of {Agree this woman's altuation, Gael Whbeds Ub Banale the GORE Wes tieanate the eaddest part of law prac: | reit victims to the Jones-Works law. that deserve inve More than one hundred boys wearing diate allowed 45 ehrysanthemums were run fn. In one sea of human sorro: party were an girls, Red insisted Undoubtedly that is true, ‘put It seems blo a oe eee to me that some one of our many leagues and Aocletion might decide to] sovday anid ouch @ guare was worth the keep a representative at the Court of| extra money. Domestic Relations, empowered to 1- | eens vestigate individual cases and render i ae competent assistance #hen necessary. | Luckily for the adjustment of my ner- vous system, this was the Jast case on ‘ the calendar for the morning. I think It Thad been suddenly faced with com- IS COSTE BILIOUS edy again my features would have re- mained in a permanent tangle that Jrould but dimly have aemonstrated my! Tf tongue is coated, breath night into the wee emell back into the As I reached the aldewaik in front o:| bad, stomach sour, don’t the big buliding on Fifty-ninth street 1 it: te ! 1 came face to face with that most hesitate + sought after climax of the playwright— ” A Happy Finding, The East Side Terror tup of Figs” at often saves other! see if tongue @ sure sign that its clogged with waste. When c1 | table, feverish, stomach s« Syrup of Figs,” and ina ested food and sour bile gently you have w well, playful trucks during the recent atrike of the! | Mothers can rest easy after giving jaxative,” because of the trucks, The punishment is two | it never fails to cleanse the little one's years im prison and # fine of $10,000, liver and bowels and sweeten the The decision was} ‘The dgfendants to-day were Patrick | stomach, and they dearly love its pleas- not to the taste of the belligerent par-| Johnson, President of the union, which | ant taste, Full dire tood in wholesome awe|® Sffillated with the International | children of all ages and for grown-ups ‘tions for babies, Brotherhood of Chauffeurs, Stablemen | printed on each bottle. ‘On the whole, I was Inclined to sive] Kennedy, William J. Simpson, Louis|. Beware of counterfeit figsyrups. Ask that bout to the husband. The wife had| ‘Terry, Wiliam D. 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