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‘Women Blamed for Taking a Vacation and Leaving Their Husbands All Alone ‘ ‘ rt i PEE AVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, ATOUST 1, 181d the tender-heariedness and wag-ont- fering of the American husband. “Doesn't every man who can af- ford it send his family away in the summer? Isn't it cust fe husband to camp out in dismantied house or Does he mind eating meals and mopii all with no one to talk to? vant to cook for him and keep the house orderly, or whether he gets his meals out, he isn't really livin, “This custom of ‘goin a the summer’ Is one of our New York phenomena. It not restricted to any cinas, It je @ luxury indi in by persone of all incomes, blety set the fashion, and for twenty years it hag been permanently fixed. “To-day even the residents in the tenement districts begin te summer vacations. oan ill for IRISH VOLUNTEER FUND SWELLED AT MEETING United Irish League Reports Show $6,000 Locally Subscribed, $25,000 Expectea. Several hundred delegates from all parte of ity filled the headquarters of the Irish Volunteer Fi Madison avenue and ‘ian eo atreet, and Netened last it to encouraging re- ports from the district councils of the United Irish League and spedehes by Dr. John Grant Coyle and Dr. Gertrude B. Kelly. ‘The local fund, representing gifts of from $1 to $180, is more than 96,000, and |- reports from Eastern cities show the total subscriptions to date to be ¢46,000, exclustve of the $90,000 raised by the Ex- ecutive Committee at the Hotel Kaick- ANNUAL AUGUST SALE Blankets and Household Dry Goods BEGINS MONDAY, AUGUST 3d Mrs. Clarence Burns Doesn’t Reprove the Man Who . Has a Good Time While His Wife Is Lolling in a Resort Hotel Three Months in the Year. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Should “my wife go to the country” @very summer, while “my husband @tays in the city?” In real Ufe a vacation from matri- mony usually amounts to just that. The hus- band and wife have vacation from each other in many New York house holds. With th coming of the first warin days she fifts to the summer resort of her choice, and he arranges List for a wifeless existence in town. Is that an equitable state of affairs? “Both husbands and wives are the Retter for such an arrangement,” de- clared Dr. Mary Halton. “If a husband wishes to keep his CHARGES AGAINST PAT- ENT MEDICINES Most of the charges against patent medicines as a class have no foundation in fact and are manifestly unfair and un- just. ‘There are a large number of standard remedies like Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound used in thousands of American homes whi:h have saved hundreds of dollars to families who could not afford to consult a physician, and they have answered the purpose equally as well. will prevent the little illness of today from becoming the big sickness of tomorrow and after. For troubles of the digestive organs you can rely on BEECHAM’S PILLS Seld everywhere, In boxes, 10¢., 25¢, wife as a sweetheart, if she wishes always to ace in him the romantic lover of her earliest fancy, the two should take a vacation from each other for at least one month out of every twelve. A temporary vaca- tion from matrimony often averts a janent one—a divorce.” I think not. The modern wife, as ‘well as the husband, has an increas- ing number of outside Interests, In the morning the two go their separate ways, not to meet till dinner time. In the evening they «0 out, or friends | come to them—unless the husband Is too tired to talk to anybody, his wife included. It seems to me that the New York husband and wifs are more In need of a vacation for getting acquainted with each other than of an annual escape from each other’s compan- fonship. CONSIDERED A DISTINCT INJUS- | TICE, And the fact that this escape usually means that the wife makes holiday while the husband keeps on work! seems a distinct injustice to M: Clarence Burns. Mra. Burns is Presi- dent of the Little Mothers’ Ald Asso- ciation, and well known for her get erous spirit and her sterling common 2,” “I consider wives from Tho the summer exodui New husband the world o that con- sents to be turned into a pseudo- widower for one-quarter of every year. “Fancy an Englishman counten- ancing such desertion! White chil- dren are in danger of their lives if climate of India after @ certain age. wife considers her husband first. The children are sent back tp Great Britain and perhaps put in the care of strangers, while their mother stays in India, “As a matter of fact, I think a New York woman with small children needing fresh alr has a perfect right to take them into the country, even if she must leave her husband, He won't die, and the children might, it they were kept all summer in the city, Also, I suppose the mother of mar- they are allowed to remain in the| Even in such a dilemma the English | gent time in houses after afgntfat moved into the back, rooms for the wumi 5 "But don't you think are left alone in the vi jurants during the warm weath- er? I asked Mrs. Burns. Mr. Gayboy i legion,” “He writes elequently of his utter boredom and sadness, and incidentally has the time of his honestly, Ian't thie the sort of thing a ‘womaa must expect who deliberately her husban course, she admitted. Ife, him! riageable daughters is not to be cen- sured for rrying them off to the happy husband-hunting grounds at the summer resorts. But all other who wilfully desert are it not eine rocks gaily back and forth with the piazza hotel. Hi lad home and devoted attention. By a ‘home’ t most funereal in swathed ecaitares veiled chi ‘And yet the men are parties to this arrangement year after year," I observed. “Yes, it's accepted as the usual thing, and that's the worat of it” ex. claiméd Mra, Burns, “It exemplifies Che CGY Getorid. HOME SEEKERS’ CLU. WHAT Do You Want to Ki or Renting a Home? now About Buying, Building THOUSANDS of Busy New Yorkers Are Interested in the Same Problems. WRITE for Counsel or Advice to Real Estate Editor, Evening World. “Are my savings as safe in a bank as if invested in a home?” This is asked by Mrs. F. R, B. and practically the same question comes from W. 8. and G. . Of course there {s a maximum of safety for money deposited in the largest and most reliable savings banks, but financial institutions of the strongest reputation have been known to fail, while savings invested wisely in a home cannot be wiped out or jeo- paradized to any great extent. In ad- dition the home owner has the sole MOVING FORWARD THE BROOKLYN DAILY TIMES has MOVED FORWARD from the foot of Broadway to the centre of Brooklyn, Times Plaza, Flatbush, Fourth and Atlantic Avenues, opposite the Long Island Depot.¢ THE BROOKLYN TIMES’ circulation has MOVED FORWARD, the Times in June printing and selling 100,000 more copies than the corresponding month of a year ago, an average GAIN OF 4,000 A DAY. THE BROOKLYN TIMES PAID ADVERTISING RECORD has MOVED FORWARD with a gain for the first six months of this year over the corresponding six months of a year ago of 56,387 LINES. ® Move Forward by Reading and Advertising in tte Brooklyn Daily Times management of his own capital thus invested and is in a position to reap the benefits that may come from land ownershi| W- 8. asks: “Is the increase in New tidy land values, Particularly home sites, equal to the average savin, bank interest?" ” Real estate has’ its good and baa times, like all other securities, but ite movements in metropolitan sections taken over a long period of years show that its net increase averages much more than the usual savings bank interest. W. F. writes: “Now that war pani, have reduced the prices of Mocke and bonds, are they not bétter than homes or realty as investments?” It is recognized by the most reliable authorities that the home is the first and best place for savings. D. F, wants to know: “Where can I find a good suburban house that I ean buy the same as rent at $30 a month?” Read the real estate advertisements ‘fully, Do not expect to find a sfactory home in a day or a week, but pursue the search patiently and intelligently until the right place appears, Kh. C. says: "TL have saved $1,350 am sure of steady employment $20 a week, Would it be advis- able to put $1,000 of it into a $3,500 hou arrying the balance on mort- Yes, but you should continue to suve # little each week. J. Is. writes: “I own a good build. ing plot, free and clear near Jamaica, I. I, Could I get some one to build me a moderate-cost house which 1 ay for In instalments?” » brokers or builders tn ality could give the imost information regarding hat could be done there. rs. G. M. writes from Brooklyn: “Where would be a Kood place in New Jersey to go in for poultry, not more than seventeen miles out, 80 my | husband could come to New York to} business? Would a one or two story house be the best?" | Many good plares are advertised | in The World. ‘The locality and type | of house should conform t 0 "per. | sonal preference of the bu: assesa- | ments highe ter City than | ty suburban home sections outside the | elty limits?" Yes, but in return city resident in apartment houses to get a month's rent free each year?” It {s not customary, but many land- month lords give from two weeks to a. Seo 10 tow tananta tere unices seme te the country for a Lg have to eee that dential quarters of @ social st! been mem! hollda: ly am exceed householders in the resi-.| consider it some- to be caught igma, home all summer. I have ob- served any sumber of houses t the stealthily in ‘of But, Domestic men inine society and are away tl women only too Sher consider it confirmed selfishness on the part of the American woman that she can bring herself to desert her faithful spouse each recurring immer season. A man marries for ome in nine cases out of ten. is not fair for a wife to break it up in the summertime. pastures new every hot month she eventually do the same thin, ite -shetnesei neck anda nother toa n tron picket fence, ami bout fifty mates of t! and out The family had op tee WAY 10 I don’t blame De his Rad de- a atre used to tom. ‘ing. If their are of b with ecse ilar itching ski: SUGGESTS EASY HEAL SKIN HUMORS A doctor writes: “It isa pity to see so many people, especially babies, suffering ringworm, rashes, and sim- ruptions when there are several excellent ways to get rid of them. While no one of these also very simple “Atany relia! resinol ointmen' soap. These will It If she seeks crusteand the skin nol banda, years old hanged him- |! if to the fence between the Botanical . Ifyou ods cam be ex- very case, per- om to do the w ps the following is the most reliable. It id inexpensive. druggist's get id a cake of resino! coat a bit morethan seventy-fivecents. With the resinol soap and warm water bathe the affected parts thoroughly, until the are free trom ltened. Dry very ntly, spread on a thin layer of the res- fr vestry and cover with a light tect the cloth- nt to try resinol tesinol soap free, you can . &R, fate Bore A Specimen of the Values Now Being Offered in the August Price .. . $17.25 Mahogany worketable (Adam period). Solid mahogany, drop sides. AUGUST SALE oF FURNITURE (ORIGINAL) Monday, August 3rd JOHN WANAMAKER Broadway at Ninth Street, New York COASTWISE STEAMSHIPS _ ath P.M, India Wharf, EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINES ALL-THE-WAY-BY-WATER to BOSTON THE Way to Travel in Summer The Great White Stee! Steamships MASSACHUSETTS ond BUNKER HILL Leave Pier 18, N. M., foot of Murray Strect, Week Days end Sundaye, dee Boston 8 A. M.; same Service retarning from Nerth Side Tick te and all information at the Piers; also City Ticket Office, 290 Broadway, and City Tourist and N.Y. . Teanafer Co, offiow. Eastern Steamship Corporation SALE MERCHANDISE INCLUDES:— Musltne Linens Curtains, Rugs Sheets Giverware f White Goods Towelings Cutlery, Soaps PARTICULARS IN SUNDAY'’S WORLD, AMERICAN, RBBALD, TIMES, ETC. wiankets Fd Pillows Those Who Bay at August Sale Prices Make Fine Investments! Spend Sunday, Aug. 2d in the Mountains ‘* | Gpectal Tete Leevtes Bow Vern Wecrwaure Sas ee Soren Oy (cores > eon City Tieket Omtcent + Broadway, 160, 1908, om, 0g -/ FALL RIVER LINE MANAGEMENT STEAMER CITY OF LOWELL BLOCK ISLAND EVERY SUNDAY PATTEN LIN! Siewsig” te bends A Delightful Sail—120 LONG ISLAND SOUND Br, M13 tet wt, Bt. | Wa, Bridgeport 6 P. Mt Wiowie fateh Res 4 gH i | COASTWISE STEAMBHIPQ, | [EASTERN STEAMSHIP LINES mile sea trip of 22 hours af: of the vacation itself. Be ee een ee aM *Vacationists bound for Maine will find this $9 soninating Loli eee: