The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1913, Page 3

MAGISTRATE GLAD THAT HE EVICTED SOGIAL SLUMMERS Declares the Women’s Night Court Was Becoming After- Theatre Resort for Society. SIGHT-SEERS GO THERE. Guides Make It Regular Stop : in “Seeing New York by Night” Trips. City Magistrate Daniel F. Murphy was Rot at all repentant this morning for his action in clearing the Women's Night Court at Jefferson Market last night of many well dressed men and women who had gathered to hear the trials of the many unfortunate women arrested aur- ing the evening. While woman after woman was being brought before him on charges either of @isorderly conduct or “loitering on the streets,” Magistrate Murphy command- @d Capt. Mfulvaney, head of the court squad, to clear the court-room of all ‘Dut those who were directly interested in cases on the docket. Men and women in evening dress were hurried out, despite their protests. Many were under the direction of guides leading out-of-town visitors through the “slum sights of New York.” These guides were especially vigorous in their Drotestation: the Women's Night Court has alw: ‘deen one of their most Interesting exhibits, but the Magistrate would not hear them. “This is not the first time that I have had the courtroom cleared,” said Magi- strate Murphy this morning at his home, No. 81 East Forty-ninth street. “Nor will {t be the Inst. I have no desire to hol ‘star chamber’ sessions, and all Persons who have some direct interest in the court are welcome there, but I do wish to express my disapproval of the court being used as a sight-seeing @tation for the curious, or « ‘scandal eatistier for the viciously morbid minds of some men and women who should know better. WOMEN GO THERE TO HEAR SALACIOUS TESTIMONY. “I know that many of the women who sit in spectators’ benches each night are from charitable institutiona or are studying sociology toward some good end, but I also know that many are there simply because they wish to estisfy minds craving for salacious detatla, “The Night Court is necessarily full of incidents which are too revolting to relate, yet these people apparently enjoy them. It seems to me that many wealthy persons, after visiting a show om Broadway and taking supper after- ward, consider it the proper thing to ‘take in' the Women’s Night Court fitting end to an exciting evening, ‘That 1s not the purpose of the Night Court, and I don't intend allowing it to become @ sort of moral degenerate exhibition. “I am told that there are many ‘regu- Jars’ who attend the court night after night, apparently deriving their amuse- ment from the tales of the unfortunat: I know that there is constant whisper ing and laughing among the spectators each night, and much of this comes from the element attired in evening clothes, jewelled necklaces and furs MAGISTRATES THINK CROWDS SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY. Magistrates McQuade and Herbert, who preceded Magistrate Murphy at the Night Court, each sitting @ full term of two weeks, are not Inclined to @uch drastic measures as that taken by Murphy last night, though both think that something should be dono to curb the insatiable curiosity of ap- parently refined people, Neither wished to express any opinion on Magistrate Murphy's action until after talking with him this afternon. ‘According to policemen who have been etationed at the night court for years, there are many persons, aparently cul- tured, who have become habitues of the late sessions of court, after midnight. It fg at this time that the rush of hear- ings is greatest and that the saddest stories are told and the spectators seom to approve that most of all. Stories are even told that some of the ‘regular make bets on the Magistrate's decisions in cases, and are proportionately happy ‘as their bets are won or lost. Magistrate Murphy would not say to-day whether or not he intended mak. ing it a practice to clear the court: room each night, but his expressions of disapproval indicate that the sight~ seers of the town will receive scant welcome, while it is possible that guides will be directed to lead thelr charges elsewhere in search of sensa- tions, Bi v ter, Banker Truitt Talbert, Vice-President of the National City Bank, who is at the Garden City Hotel, whence he was taken after being stricken by paralysis on the Garden City Golf Club, ts im- proving. Many inquiries as to his con- dition are being made and the reply to- day was that Mr. Talbert had passed ‘a comfortable night. SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES se, the antiseptic pow- selieves painful, smarting, nervous feet, and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight 8 feel easy. It is @ certain relict for sweating, callous, swollen, tired, aching feet. 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In time she. must| experiment as well, ‘Thus the lessons will become Mttle experiments. T child learns what collective order is and gradually develops through the disciplinary training until he begins naturally to distinguish good from evil. lesson ig the principal thing. lesson should not be insistently re- peated, neither should the child be made to feel that he is making mis- takes or that he is not understand- tude will be brought about.” ‘Now, Dr. Montessori," I suggested, ‘won't you give moe an outline of a typical day in @ case del bambint? From such a description American mothers may learn in detail your ideas for training childre We usually open the school at 9 o'clock in the morning,” she itemized, ‘and we close about 4 o'clock—that 1s, in winter time. Of course there are oppor- tunitios in the eummer time to lengthen the hours, and we generally do ao, “After the entrance of the children and the morning’s greetings the teachers make inspection as to personal cleanti- ness, Then come some of the exercises which we call the exercises of practical life, These are such ttle things as hav- ing the children help one another to take off Outer wraps and to put on aprons. ‘The practical life exercises Include go- ing about the room to see that every- s 1s in order and thoroughly dusted, tional period. The children are asked to ive accounts of the day before, The little stories which each one tells helps to develop the memory, the powers of observation and, better perhaps than anything else, helps the little one to ex- himself clearly, The custom de- story telling, which ts fast be- coming a lost art among all peoples of the earth. RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT 8TRONG IN CHILDREN. “We then have the religious ex- ercises, for as I have said to you be- fore, the religious sentiment ts strong in man, It 1s very strong in ehildren, | and anything which tends to bring it out is a good thing for the child, for the man or woman whom maturity will bring, and so for the race of the tu- ture, ABTICLE V.—TRAINING, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. “The child, like the race as @ whole, has an instinctive love of knowl- How often have I seen children leave a game which serves nothing but the purpose of pastime, or is without the elements which stimulate * thought, to take hold of a small problem which makes has to do with something else besides “a-b, ab.” Montessori dealt with the how and the what of this learning. | good. The history of the human rai THE EVENING WO They do so almost through Instinct. They are eager for knowledge. And the placing of slight obstacles in their way toward that object will only stimulate them.” did Dr. Maria Montessori sum up training of small children, the theory base of her famous “Method,” and which, in my opinion, most clearly differentiates it from the conventional kindergarten. “Gs—-ansauact mother is pinned about the kindergarten, she will say: If the average down to giving her honest opinion “It keeps Bobbie happy and out of mischief—but of course he doesn't learn anything!” It a House of Child- learn things—even if his first lesson My final talk with Dr. religiou itude in ‘y normal child are often suppressed, with the mis- taken idea that it is for the chil in tr race when it first came out of that dim Past of whioh we have no history, the child, when he begins to reason, shows is repeated over and over again the short life of every child. Li a tendency to religious sentiment. looks about him for something to wor- ship. And he ts going to worship those things which are more prominently Put before him—the things that make for the moulding of his character. “Given the proper stimulus, he ‘will remain steadfast to his early ideas and grow into a man full of § love for his fellow men and @oa, which really makes for ‘Dest in the individual, the best ean hope for at this perioa in Gevelopment. And, even with my ‘visit as my only basis for so , XZ think XZ may safely pre- that America is the country ere such men and women may be from the fraditions of centuries which are the environ- ment of the older lands of the ” grees i ? H After @ momentary pause the Dot- toressa again returned to the elabora- tion of her daily schedule, “We are now at 10 o'clock in the morning,” she said. “At that time we start what we call the intellectual ex- ercises, There aro objective lessons Interpolated with short periods of rest. ‘These exercises also include lessons in nomgpelature and what we call the sens® exercises, a title which explains itself and covers @ wide variety of subjects, The education of the senses {s too complicated and lengthy for me to speak about now—I merely mention it because these various sense exer- cises, I have found, are best intro- duced at thia hour in the day. EVERYDAY WORK AND CONVER- SATION PART OF SYSTEM. “From 11 o'clock to 11,39 we have simple gymnastics, such as ordinary movements which the children are taught to make gracefully, These in- clude the normal position of the body in walking, marching and other simple functions. Also salutations, activity about the room and the placing of ob- jects wherd they belong with grace and poise, The luncheon comes at 11,30, and following that {s a short prayer, We do not wish to force the religious sentiment in the child, but to let it wrow naturally through the child's observation of what older folks do, “Free games, which I explained to you in my talk the other day, are the programme of the hour between 12 and 1 o'clock, Then from 1 to 2 we have the directed games, which I also ex- plain, “During this hour the older chil- dren go through the exerci: practical life, such as cleaning the room, dusting every nook and cor- Ber and putting all of the mate- Following is an- rials in order. other general ini Uness, Then we riod of conversation. This iu an essential part of ¢ system, It } important that the child should learn to think quickly and clearly, and there is no better way to de- “I have found," the Dottoressa | branched off @ bit, “that the love of | the beautiful, the tendency toward Yelop such @ faculty than lessons im the art of conversation. ‘Manual work {8 in order between 2 | tue sentimentality and the inberent and 3 o'clock. This may ipelude various|of coming generations.” INSPECTION OF HIS PERSONAL CLEANLINESS > “THEY HELP ONE ANOTHER TO Take OFF WRAPS” Uttle activities, which will depend largely on the character of the sur- roundings. Clay modelling and other Phases of design are of much benefit, but they are not compulsory. There are hundred things which may be substl- tuted and which the ingenious mother will provide. “Collective gymnastics and songs in the open alr, if possible, things with which to follow t Work. .They are begun at 8 o'clock and continued for about fifteen minutes. |The singing with these gymnastics ts moat eficial and helps greatly in keeping some of the children interested who might not otherwise take to the) collective work as they do to individual! work, There follow exercises to de- velop forethought, the details of which Will readily suggest themselves to the mother or the teacher. ANIMALS AND PLANTS ALWAYS APPEAL TO THE CHILD. “Our last bit of activity for the day} le visiting and caring for whatever ani- | mals or plants there are in the home or school. This t# important, There should be something of the sort in which the child should take an interest. I have seen a little one shower almost unbelievable love on a small, fll-nour- ished plant. Sho tended it with utmost care, and its blossoma were miracles to her little mind, The flowers arouse the undivided attention of children when they are permitted to yo to Mbther | Nature and sit at her fect unfettered | by the contaminating influence of older prejudices, They soon learn how to know the truth without the traditional knowledge of ignorant elders being} thrust upon them. just now. We cannct put too much time and thought into the question, It has been my ambition to solve the prob- lem, I have worked at it for seven- teen years and feel somewhat quali- fied to speak abont it, but I have not learned it ell, I have :nuch yet to learn, I have learned much since I have been im your country, where I find that care of the obil- Gren is the uppermost thought ia ‘the average household, “The New Year will find me back | in Rome, and with iny children agetn, | but I know that 1 have left something of an impression, 1 have made many |new friends in the United States wno | will be my ehampions when I have | gone home. Mr. S. $. MoClure is to continue the work, I understand, and no one is better qualified to speak of the Montessori method than he, He has studied it from every angle avd {nas spent so much time in the achool to Rome that he can speak from first- hand knowledge. The ents will do ing children which we out in the case del bambint, |_ “I am to with in @ day or two, and I would like to give a last mexsake to the American mother through your | paper,” Lr. Montessor! concluded, earn. estly fell her to keep up her pres- ent trend toward the perfection of loffepring. Tell her not to lowe @ight of the light which she evidently sees. Let all who will, call her tdeas false and fancies, She may he secure in toe wedge t ing her in Amerion the re—the | ra which wil rule the} villzed world, Th was never tn] the history of the world such an op-| portunity aa presents ftself to the American mother of this generation. I glory to think what opportunit! will develop for the American mothers {Jump from # ninth RLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1918 Here’s a Typical Day in a Montessori School (Pt (f As Told by the Noted Teacher of Children * THe FIRST THaIG 1s THE “AND WAVE GYMNASTICS, “AND CLAY MODELLING * Dr. Maria Montessori FEARING BLINDNESS, GIRL LEAPS 10 DEATH FROM HGH WADOM Strikes on Shed in Courtyard of Apartment House in Fall From Ninth Story. Fear of going blind caused Annto Schaefer, twenty-two years old, muld to floor window of Park View 2 West Elghty-|the German Minister to China at Peking. sixth street at daylight this morning,|The cost of the two undertakin; She struck on a shed on the Eighty- sixth street aide of the courtyard and fn the family of Joseph Skonly, Central No. tha fashionable Apartments at was Inatantly killed, Mr. Skonly 1s a manufacturer at No. 96 Broadway and with him live s brother and two sisters, the Misses Alice The mald shared a room with Mra, Josephine Romer, an- and Rosa Skonly. other servant, adjoining the kitcl the Skonly apartment. For several weeks Annie Schaefer had complained of her eyes and expressed the belief that she was losing her sight. Her frienda in the big apartment house, hor relatives in the Bronx, but she did not as well a tried to sure her, seam to improve. Several specialist in West Fifty-elghth stré encouraging. to Mra. on othei crazy she replied: “Yes, I believe I am crazy. frantic." Nobody in thought @! Kfe. the apartment, had any idea of wirl ran bathroom the Mrs. Romer into at the window. the chair and leaped out, and Dr. De Passe came from Polyciinic days ago she consulted a ty and what she learned evidently was not Last night whe remarked Romer that she should have killed herself long ago, as it was an awful thing to be lind and dependent When jokingly told she was The thought of going blind has driven me however, king her Farly to-day she and Mra, Romer arose at the usual hour and when Mra. Romer returned to their room from the had disappeared. the kitchen, switched on a light and found @ chair ‘The girl had climbed on Mra. Romer could see the body on the shed Hos- pital and said death had been tnstan- SHEETS SAVES FAINTING WOMAN AT FRE Rescuers at Cedarhurst Save Themselves by Jumping | After Lowering Her. ——— a, Smoke wan pouring Into their bed- rooms and flames were crackling below when James Keen and Thomas Hanlon were awakened at 8 o'dlock this morn- ing ty the cries of Mrs. Mary Keen, the sixty-year-old mother of James Keen and the sister of Thomas Hanlon. The whole lower floor of the Keen cottage on the Rockaway turnpike at Smith's Corners, Cedarhure, L. L, eeomed to be in flames. The two men took Mrs. Keen between them and tried to help her downstaira, but Reavy volumes of emoke and a sudden burst of flame drove them back to the second floor. Mre. Keen fainted and her rescuers then carried her to her room and put her on her bed whi they tore sheets from other beds, ripped them into long etrips and fashioned « rope. ‘Thay made tt fast beneath Mra. Keen's armpits and then lowered her gently from a window, It was a twenty-five foot drop to the ground and the men were fearful that their flimay rope would give It held, however, and flames which now buret from almos ah the lower windowe showed Mrs. Keen lying senseless clone to the house. The men above saw that she must be moved quickly or the fire would reach her where she lay. “We'll have to Jump for it, It's the only chance,” one said, and the other agrocd. They dared not une their rope, for If tt broke Mre. Keen, lying still on the ground, would be crushed by their weight. They awung from the window and let go. They landed with « shock, but It did not ineapacttate them end quickly they carried Mra. Keen to the home of John Knowles, edjotning, ‘Then Hanlon eet off on a mile and o half run to rouge the Fire Department of Lawrence-Cedarhuret. Before t! firemen arrived the flames had apread to the Knowles home and Knowles, his widowed sister, her three children and Mra. Keen had to be assisted to an- other neighbor's, ‘The firemen checked the blase in the Knowles house, but the Keen house was destroyed. Chief Thomas A. Mo- Whinney carried the survivors to the home of his stat Mrs, Florence Mackay, who hag ap--tments in the Lennox Building in Cedarhurst. Mre Koen, it 1a believed, will have no ill effects from her experience. What caused the fire is not kuvwn, ——— Railroads ta Chi. 4. BERLIN, Dec. 23.--An agreement for the construction of two railroads in China by German engineers who are to utilize purely German materials, the pital for which ts to be by German financiers, waa wignet to-day by the Chinese Foreign Minister and Germ \s estimated at from $17,600,000 to $20,000,000, BOMBLIKE PACKAGE NEAR BOTTLING WORKS, Arrival of Crude Contrivance, Fol. lowing Killing of Stenographer, Arouses Suspicion. What appears to be @ crude infernal machine was delivered to-day to Patrick ColMan, employed in the bisokemith shop of Michaal J, Leonard, at No. @8 Went Thirty-sighth atrest, which is two doors away from the 0. K. Bottling Works, where Ida Anusewits, @ ste nographer, was killed by @ bomb sent dy exprems two weeks ago Colllan, uapicious, would not open the package, but turned it over to @ policeman. | ‘The poltce investigation dit not estab | lish whether the contraption was a real) infernal madhine or somabody was try- ing t play a joke on Collian. Owen Egan the Fre Dopartment expert on explosives was summoned. Callian te married and has four chil- Gren. He lives at No. 715 Tenth avenue and i a eteady, quiet workman with no enemies that he knows about. A postman found the package on ‘window aill right inside the door as entered and had brought it along be, cause it had stamps on it. But he ex- Dressed the opinion that the three, stampa had been cancelled before they were onsted on the package. The “bomb” was enclosed in @ clgar box. Inside the box was « shallow can famened to the bottom with the opep end of the can down, In the aide of the! can wea @ holo which appeared to have been punched with a nail and depend- ing from the hole was @ quantity of hemp. Fastened to the top of the box fn an tenprovised clutch were three Matches, ‘The can wea Nelf fled with @ome black eubstance resembling pow- der. Eqan, the expert, was indignant on his arrival to learn that the package had been soaked ia water. “There was a considerable quantity of black pawder in the can,” said Egan. on of the workmanship indicate that somebody who had access to @ blacksmith shop made the machine, It looks to m though somebody had tried to play @ joke on the recipient of the box, but It was @ mighty sertous Joke.” eaecileeetls REV. E. D. 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