The evening world. Newspaper, October 5, 1914, Page 3

THIS WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL IN THE EVENING WORLD OO: THE EVENING WORLD, BURGLAR LAYS - GUARD IN THEATRE FINGER PRT UE Safe-Blower Escapes After Shooting and Stabbing $pecial Officer. 2,900 KILLED AS EARTHQUAKE ~ WRECKS TOWNS People in Asiatic Turkey Meet Death While They Sleep at Midnight. CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 6.—The Minister of the Interior was officially Informed to-day that 2,500 persons were killed and many injured in an earthquake which wrecked the towns of Isbarta and Burdur in the province of Konia, Asiatic Turkey at midnight Saturday night. Isbarta had a population of about %,000 and Burdur 12,000. The two towns were centres of the carpet industry. ee BATTLESHIP NEW YORK HERE Comes to Be Seraped Before Un- dergeing Trials. The battleship Now York, sti the Texes, and, with her, biggest in the American Navy, Brooklyn Navy Yard ti MURDERER IS WOUNDED Police Seek Owner of Stiletto With Blood Marks on It. 4 burglar who had concealed him- @elf in the engine room of the Jeffer- @on Theatre, No. 214 East Fourteenth treet, to get $2,800 in the safe, early to-day, murdered Harry F. Simonds, thirty-two years old, of No. 215 East Beventeenth street, a special officer fm the theatre. The slayer escaped, Dut left behind a number of clues, including a stiletto with blociy fip- @er prints. The Jefferson ts a combination Vaudeville and moving picture the- @tre near Third avenue. After it @loses for the night Simonds is re- Meved by Louis Blankenburg of No. 219 East Eleventh street, a combina- tien watchman and engineer. Last might Simonds changed from uniform to street clothes shortly after 1}, @olock, when Blankenburg arrived. ‘When he reached the atage he found @n act in rehearsal. Simonds lingered to watch the rehearsal and Blanken- Burg went to the cellar to make his G@rst round of the building. Shortly after midnight he came up and told Bimonds he had heard a suspicious Reise in the engine room, on Thir- teenth street side of the building. jonds turned « switch that put on cellar lights, picked up a hammer from the stage and went below, fol- lowed by Blankenburg. ‘When the latter got in the engine foom he saw Simonds and a short, fthick-set man struggling. The tn- truder had a long knife in his hand, ‘nd Blankenburg could see that Si- monds had been stabbed, He picked o shovel and began beating the burglar on the head, whereupon the man drew a revolver and fired four whots, Blankenburg ran upstairs for help. Irving Bruskin, the electrician, had heard the shots and tried to go to the cellar, but the young woman rehearsing had become panic-stricken and was clinging to him. Blanken- berg outside found Policeman Poff of the Fifth street station. | DID MY DUTY,” SLAIN MAN'S DYING WORDS. ‘When they reached Simonds he was @ying, but managed to gasp: “OfMicer, I did my duty.” They tried to get fem him a description of his assail- @mt and an account of what happened, “bet he was too far gone. When Dr. Robie of Bellevue Hospital arrived ke pronounced Simonds dead and found that he had been stabbed nine times, four times in the back, bis ferw bad been broken by a bullet and he had been shot in the left arm. Two @@ the shots wont wild. Tn t! ellar was found a bag con- @aizing a hack saw, drills, hatchet, brace and bits, wrenches, a pocket flashlight and other burglar tools. ‘There was also a soft black bat with the initial “D.” cut in the sweat band, ‘and.on the floor w pair of shoes and a plaid golf cap. The cap later proved to be tho property of one of Rodgers will tak: fhockland, Me., trial co ‘ter the occupation of ring she never under- eral Reserve Bank for the Fifth, or Richmond, District was organized to- Gay by the sqlection of George J. 8: as Governor.’ James A. Moncure was appointed Secretary. The with temporary quarters rented, is now ready to open for business at the order of the Federal Reserve Board. possible that ther. was only one, al- though more were to take yart in the glares plan was to creep up after everybody had left the theatre, over- Power the watchman and let in his confederates. He evidently paid his way into the theatre some time dur- ing th ing, 4..d from the wash- room stole into -he engine room. When the ste went out in the cellar he thought the way was clear and took off his shoes to creep up on the watchman. About ear ago Simonds discov- ered burglars trying to get in through window on ti Thirteenth street WK p DOODOOOAOO Ros re MONDAY, OOTOBER 5, 1914. By Author Girls in Scant Attire Are Playing a Game: ‘SINGING SOLDIERS. |: That Old-Fashioned One, ‘‘Boy-Catching’ So Declares Miss Henrietta Rodman, Bigh School Instructor, Who Has Led Many a Foolish, Fashion- Crazed Miss Away From Powder and Paint and Thin, Flimsy Garments. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Can the girl of to-day be induced to give up her fdmey, flashy clothes? Are there any arguments which really appeal to herf These are questions which must Her method of dealing with the “I have taught a number of my Birls to dress sensibly,” she confessed with quiet satisfaction, “although the forces of society are all against me. We can't approve of the way the mod- ern girl dreases, but instead of criti- cising her, as an individual, I think we ought to realize that she is largely @ product of her surréundings, “By her aping of foolish fash- lone the school girl of to- really trying to win sool roval. In the first place, she |i luded by that economle eon- epiracy ef men which makes ‘atyle’ consist in each woman's appearance of the costumes three er four times a ye: in the second place, the school girl wants to win favor with the boys she knows. WANT TO WIN APPROVAL OF THE Boys. “Girl after girt has told me, ‘But the boys don't like you unless you're dressed = atylish.’ blouses cut low in the neck, the open- work stockings, all the scanty, fimsy, revelatory clothes are simply an ap- pe: The transparent to sex. They are the legacy of reads that the high schools in Lynn, Mass., have been closed during a temporary weakness of the heating system “because the halfdressed girl students would catoh severe colds.” agement from observing the pupils in the girls’ high schools of New York. and sensibly clothed, but many are at once over-dressed and under<iressed. Is there a remedy for this truly deplorable state of affairs? And if so, what? I decided to consult Mise é Henrietta Rodman of the Wadleigh High School, whose work along the lines of vocational training for girls has undoubtedly Dlaced her among the foremost educators of the country. Rodman has proved herself an understanding friend to hundreds of girls between twelve and twenty, and her personal influence among them ts very strong. suggest themselves to any one who Nor can one derive much encqur- Some of the students are simply For years Miss clothes-crazy girl of to-iay deserves serious consideration from all who are interested in the problem. ways, forgets that as a girl ho probably did the very things which she cannot understand her daugh- ter'’s doing. I can remember wu ashamedly using rouge on my fac when I was a girl in order to mak myself attractive at dances and to keep being a wallfiower, And I can remember how shocked and dis- Circo my mother was when she found it out. “All my influence, such as it is, with the girls comes ffom the faot that I remember my own girthood,' added Miss Rodman with @ little smile. “You see, I kept a journal, and it didn't get lost like so many of such records, GAME OF BOY CATCHING I8 A VERY OLD ONE. “Because I have the proof of how life used to look to me, I can under- stand the impulses and instinots of the girls I know, and help nature, as the doctors say, inatead of trying to oppose it. “The young may see out wal a painted white, with a of pink in the middle of each cheek—are en- gaged in the old-fashioned game of boy-catching.” “But were tho girls of other gener- ations quite such aggressive players, eartorially speaking?” I asked. “Did you ever see a collection of Godey's Lady's Books?’ countered rH iris whom one roadsi to slow down. pital at Kie@ Victory in the Vosges. 847,000,000 persons—half the world’s Paris, knits jerseys for the soldiers. If the cow’s head points ap it tion. As compared with wars of forty OOQDOHD George Randolph Chester Oddities in the War News “Our troops are now en route to Ralentir,” wrote the war correspond- ent of a London paper. He had obtained his information from one of the signs of the French Automobile Asociation—“Ralentir” meaning 4 Russian officer reports that one of his soldiers went out and brought back on horseback under the enemy's fire a comrade who subsequently was discovered to be a young woman. She was wounded and is now in hos- ‘The report having been spread in Marseilles that the favorite delicacy of the Indian troops is goats’ milk, the women of that clty have requisi- bars tioned every goat in the South of France. Joseph Felnesics, sixty-four, General Director of the Vienna Museum Art Industry, died at Reichenball from overjoy on hearing of a German Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, the French political economist, estimates that When King Albert of Beigium saw one of his soldiers writing a letter to his mother he volunteered to post it, and the soldier let him. Saying she was content to lose her leg for France, Denise Cartier, the thirteen-year-old girl struck by a bomb dropped by a German seroplane in German spies in the field use a crude picture of a black cow to impart 5 intelligence to their troops of what is ahead. The size of the cow and the direction of her head indicates the proportions of the enemy and its loca- When the Turcos are hard pressed during hand+o-hand fighting they climb trees like monkeys and hide in the leaves. in this one, surgeons estimating them at about ten out of 600 operations, ib anne: 133 At GOOGDOODDODOOODOHOOOVGOH GH. DOODH OOD IOOH VAIO 2) “TT BEGINS 1 TO-DAY of “GET-RICH-QUICK WALLINGFORD,” Etc. C Swansen Dock Sentries eral times jaht by | according to « telegram ere Js no official confirmation report. + WIN OUR BATTLES, ("== ERNMNSERARE p= Wounded and Maimed, Healthy and Strong, They All. Burst Into Song. ye 4 By Karl ff. von Wiegand. BERLIN, Sept. 19, by courier via Rotterdam to New York (United ‘As long an our soldiers sin: no fear for the Fatherland.’ ‘This was the statement of a German officer of high rank to me just after T had returned from the midst of the Kaiser's fighting men and found that they are distinctly ging soldiers. \rhe German soldier sings and fighte— and fights and sings. He sings be- fore the battle and he sings after the Dattle, He even sings on the operat- ing table while his wounds are being dressed. One of the most impressive things about the German army, aside from ite excellent equipment and spirit of fighting for the Fatherland, is its singing. The men break into song at every opportunity. It seems they must give vent to the music of their soul. The “singing «oldiers" first im- bundles in their hands, on their way to the barracks for uniforms and equipment, the soldiers uniformed and equipped, marching to the railroad etations, always and everywhere, einging. In the improvised hospital of an ancient cathedral in Maastricht, on the Dutch-Belgian frontier, I found the severely, wounded German soldiers constantly breaking into song. Travelling from Holland to Berlin,-1 boarded a train bearing wounded from Liege and Namur. They were singin, In the hospitals in Berlin news of victories is the signal for song that breaks forth from souls and quiver- ing lipe of men with shattered limbs id faces distorted with pain. Two care of soldiers moving to the front were immediately behind our car of the train on which I left Ber- linsfor @ short trip recently. They wero singing, There was seldom pause, ‘hen one car would rest the other would take up the refrain and at stations the two would join in a mighty chorus. Three long Red Cross trains of wounded coming from below Namur, Mons and Maubeuge passed. From many cars came song—weak, quaver- ing and trembling, it is true— but . . And this music—this signing of men about to £, into battle, or returning maimed, bleeding and suffering—has no “forlorn hope” note or melacholy sentiment. It fires the spirit. It is powerful and forceful rather than sweet and dreamy. The rhythm sets m everywhere in the German army. While the big sieg ins were smashing the Li forts fate heaps of ruins and sh screaming @ city. Gen. von Emmick had the regimental bands give encerts in the little park in the population—are affected by the war. js were over us win our bat- @ ranking officer told m day; “the love of our country that through song fires on rot to deeds. HORLICK’S|| Te moans tho Origing) and Geaninc ‘ ILK|; y means look out for aeroplanes, ars ago, there are few amputations MALTED M Rodman. “When I was twelve years old I had a large pile given me to make paper dolls, and I traced American fashions back through the nineteenth century, Young girls and even children used to be decked out in the most absurd and elaborate clothes! I don't think the simply and sensibly dressed girl has ever existed, in any conceivable numbers. Why, I can remember when mere young- sters had to wear pointed toe shons and picture hats.” “What sort, of dress do you recom. mend for the modern girl? I ques ‘FL SIMONDS the days when women had nothing else to live for. And that's one of the things I tell my girls, that just #o far as they over-emphasize and challenge sex, so far are they being traitors to the highest ideal of modern woman- hood. "1 tell them that It will not be pos- sible for them to attain thelr aupreme development as individuals if they are continualyl trying to make themselves look as they imagine others want the stage bands and was eliminated ‘as @ clue, but the shoes and hat be- Jonged to the murderer. Later Detec- tive Bulger found in front of No. 243 East Thirteenth street a stiletto with @ six-inch blade stained with t'o0d. It was turned over to Inspector Faurot, who will try to photograph the finger prints on It, The police thought at first that more than one man was tn the cellar A Paris pushcart woman found a potato of peculfarly ugly formation, and on neming it for the Kaiser immediately got more business than she could attend to. side and drove them away. He had been employed in the theatre for more than a year, Last night he wanted his wife, Elizabeth, to go to the show, but she had seen it early | the week and decided to remain at home. When told of his death she sobbed that if she had gone with him his 5 might have been spared, as he would have #aved from precoci: ntimentality, Precocious craving for admiration, the | Yene ee eubetitute Ach fer NOMICHTS motive for the crime of sensational dress te gone, sensations! HORLICK'’S Contains Pure Muh cellent. For a school girl one couldn't ask @ more modest and sensible frock. With it corsets are unnecessary. when they go to the gymnasium tl iris have to wear @ similar dress,” she explained. “And a@ number have discovered its advan- re - “On the Sere ta when surprised 1y Simondc, but de-| hurried home with her instead of tages for every day in the week. Did elded after obtaining all the facts watching the rehearsal, them to look. I try to show them that Song, ‘a you know that many private schools, to be themselves is the most import- nd to do away with the evil of absurd The Solace of the Busy Mind GOOD CIGARS attributes, and extravagant clothes, require their girls to wear a uniform? But we rather pride ourselves on freeing education from all that savors of the ball and chain, | Tortures of Indigestion Miseries of Constipation Evils of Impure Blood| Quickly and Safely Removed by EX-LAX The Chocolate Laxative > Ex-Lax Saves Pain and Suffering; makes people healthy and is safe for infants and grown-ups. ant thing In the world, And after all they are almost pathetically easy to Influence—one way or the other,” Mias Rodman half sighed, MOTHERS APPROVE, THEM TO ATTRACT. “But why ie it,” I asked, “that so many modern mothers seem unable to contro! their daughters in this mat- ter of unsuitable dress?” “Because almost every mother above all things that her a sn ae '8 ph; being, nor palth one’s occupation, and it is desirable that they should please the eye. OUTDOOR LIFE FORCED USE OF SENSIBLE COSTUME. “Now, my brother and I had a ocot- tage in Maine for years. As I tramped and climbed over rocks with him I found myself constantly hampered by my clothes. So I began to dress sen- sibly for the summer months. Then, WANT These are PARK & TILFORD’S now famous MI FAVORITA All made in Bond Key Westt@ififana Cigars In all sizes from $4.50 to $17 for 100 hall be popular with when I went back to work and put d therefore in line for | On'corsetm and conventional shoes, T y felt a letting down of my whole self. So now I wear what you ace me wear- ing the year around, and my girls have adopted a tume.” Mins Rodman's dress consisted of & rather loose blouse or tunio, out pear. may cise her daughter's methods of attraction, but she feele far worse if the girl faile altogether to at- tract. “In their wives men donot care for on the lines of a middy blouse, but of brown serge, with a moderately wide skirt of the same material. 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