The evening world. Newspaper, March 31, 1915, Page 3

——— CHLO'SMOTHER Never Spank, Scold or Say ‘Don’t’ to Child, FES RPPER THREATS Demand of Money Made in New Letier Sent to Mrs Cohn WARNED ABOUT POLICE. | Skull and Crossbones Drawn on Message That Arrived | To-day. Another crank letter was received this morning wt No, 82 Third Avenue, the house in which little Leonore Cobp Was murdered twelve days ago. ‘as addressed to Mrs, Anna Cohn, the mother of the cbild, in « scrawly hend j » blew bin whistle at) © o'diock, and Kichard Eckert, Mra) Cohn's cousin, with whose family she) lives, went down and got the letter, Acting under instructions, he gave it fo Detective Brumerhoff, who was on uty tm the main hall, where he had| been posted all night to keep wateh on the suspect in the “Ripper” mya- tery. Mrs. Cohn ts not allowed to see the crank letters becagso they mako her hysterical. “{ know ali about the murder; I helped to plan it," is the way the jetter begins. “if the family want to #ét this mystery aulved they had bet- tor quit the police, If you will pay me $100 L will tell you all about it” , The writer directs that the n@ sy be paid to a man he names, ni a saloon he describes is West One Hun- dred and Thirty-tifth Street. The pay- ment may be made at any time. “Come up with the money,” he con- tinues, “and you will find him there. If he ts away, I will be there, and you can pa: . I'll give you all the informatio: Tho writer signed a name which the police refuse to make public, On the reverso of the single sheet on which the scrawl is written are rude drawings of a skull and crossbones, a black hand and a dripping dagger. “If,” is written beneath, “you don’t want to have anything to do with me, beware, or I may kill somebody.’ “' Phe’ post office inspectors are work- ang with the police in investigating the authorship of the letters, They hope to get the authors of some of them. The detectives and po- lice officials are still at the mur- der house, working hard as ever. The principal suspect is fretful now; for every time he shows bis through a ail and neighbors, Anovher crank letter addres group of detectives 1d to »Mre. Cohn was received early this efterngon. It was signed “H. B, Rich- mon: ov Jagk the Ripper,” like @ pre- etter received a few days ago, e flap ut t ck of the velope was writte: if not delivered & return to Ross”) The rame is partly inked over, ‘The let- ter it ) Cohn, Dear Madame: This 1s the second letter 1 have sent I know you must have got rat. It in no use keeping ragpicking detectives around y plaice, They are always Q Making rouble i ing to do innocent thing t Th case an) notse omething vat they are, for 1 onan innocent victim of ‘Rec . You are only time bothering with them . Tam going to do some- » them work, [am nimit one of the worat ever known in| New York, and then let us see whethe® they will find me out.” Let them try. HH. B, RICHMOND, Or Jack the Ripper, On the third page of the folded sheet is written: “Lam,constantly around your neigh- horhood and know just what is going on, Stop them pestering an innocent *<pariy or look ou ‘ IN THE WAKE. face outside bis door all talking] Phenomenon, that other obildren oan; do everything she has done if they! ceases and he is forced to walk}are taught properly. That is why t| Let Infant’s Questions Start Education Mervelious Things Winifred Stoner Jr. Has Done’ Beery Child Can Do, and Mother Insists Her Daughter Is No Phenomenon Has Ten Commandments for Parents Warning Them What Not to Do. By Merquerite Movers Marshall Bow the American mother ™ Thet te the question which | put to Mre Winifred Berkviile when | called op ber ot the Pisses 1 must begin yeerold Winifred ome peregraph is bere are a few books ip rhyme « She speaks eight e ThE TEN ANDMENTS 15 = bower And with it all is one of the healthiest, humanest, least self-con- scious little girl of twelve I haye ever had the pleasure of meeting. "Of course can ‘do all these wonder- ful things,” a sceptic admitted to me before I saw her, “but hasn't she lost all the nice, appealing, little-girt traite?” She has not—that is the most interesting thing about her. She is anything but a prig, and with her simple, @hort frock and ohildishly bobbed-up hair she seems younger than the over-dres: airy New York girl of @ dozen birthdays, IWINIFRED JR. NO PHENOMENON; | OTHERS THINK THE SAME. Her mother says Winifred isn't a sked Mra. Stoner to come down to! cases and tell the common or garden variety of American mother just how she may apply the remarkable sys- tem of “natural education,” of which Winifred ts such a shinin, lean aan tin ore geen an mother jo ie juca [oye led ehe hi * eat hed a : ining, or its equivalent, iether give Kerself the best edu- cation within her reach, le efould have sehools for mothers everywhere, but in thie day of Public libraries and free evening ache fo _woman need remain ignorant. The seco in natural of kn question about the stars his mother should give him his first lesson in astronomy. When they go out to walk and he inquires it the flowern he is ready for his fret lesson in botany. ia curious query as to why the bread r should be fol- lowed by a lesson chemistry, and his intefest in the habits of his pet kitten or puppy is reason enough for a lesson in soolomy. THE VALUE OF TEACHANG THE CHILD ESPERANTO. “In the matter of languages he will pick up English with wonderful rapidity tf he ts never hampered by meaningless kaby-talk. As soon as the’ knows how to talk English, teach him Esperanto. That should be not a universal, but an international “i: (From the Philadelphia Ledger.) » "9 follow the medical profession," re- #loom. will regulate your bowels and o Se, pemoomer rent i ire Latin, Spantsh, French, SL a a nee fat to Italian, German with remarkable cane. imiUndertaker,” he replied sententiqualy, “He howd never be taught more though gravely. At that, we conal janguage at a time, but {i js rejoinder & bit cryptic and shrouded | h in the natural way, by con. One Ten Cent Box of The Famous Chocolate Laxative Constipation If your stomach isn’t just right, if you have a bed taste in the mouth, _epated tongue, feel distressed after eating and have frequent headaches, just ‘tale Ex-Lax. This will tone up your stomach, aid digestion, promote bodily > }wigor and strengthen the nervous system. You will be eurprised to see how lan Having the roots of all the other tonguessin it, a small boy or girl who learns Hsperanto. will versation instead of dry relieve. you. of the miseries of ‘quickly your energy, ambition and appetite will come back to you. — Win aT we con 5 Ny B5e end $0 0 Rey alow Savon = Plomer todey As you pertepe know Mre @toner |s the wonderful mother of « wonderful deugh ter, who signe hererif “Winifred Stower Jr Meperento at the Carnegie five or eis musica! instruments, \ edge of most sciences, is an expert Chere player siready haw completed the equivalent of « full college TES BVYEHING WORLD. WE SAVS MOTHER OF GIRL. PRODIGY; ‘naturally educate” her hud? another paragraph (o secount twel¥e Jn '® acoompliet and even then too short to contain them all Hut eo ie the euthor of pubitabed | nd prose She bar taught « clare in| stitute in Pitteburgh. | languages, recites in eevent ‘ plays | 4 sorking know! | on ane a € Questiovs * 45 AS Posset Dour Taw BABY TAcm aes fan We Ten Commandments for Mothers Thou shalt not administer unto thy child physical punishment. Thou shalt net scold thy child, dut give rewards for good behavior. Thou shalt never say “Don't” to thy child. Thou shalt never say “Must” to thy child, Thou shalt not give thy child occasion to disrespect thee. Thou shalt never frighten thy child, Thou shalt not allow thy child to say, “I can't.” Thou shalt always answer thy child's questions. Thou shalt not tease thy child. Thow shalt make thy’home the most attractive place thy child can and if he learns young, when his mind is wax-like to retain impressions, he ought to be able to speak at least three or four languages by the time he is twelve. “Of course there are many moth who can talk nothing but English,” Mrs. Stoner quickly answered my thought. “But they should learn other tongues, that Is all. If I were Tabby as to the firat teacher Nature intended for the young. Babies, like kittens, should have their first lessons from their. mothers, Not merely do they learn more easily and pleasantly in the early years, now so often a period of empty boredom, but having established a firm foundation of knowledge they are ready for fresh, fine creative worth when the reason- ing faculty awakene at the age of twelve.” RETIRED LAWYER DIES IN EXCHANGE PLACE Benjamin W. Franklin Suddenly Expires on Street in Busi- ness District. Benjamin W. Franklin, sixty-three years old, a retired lawyer, living at No. 4 West Ninth Street, dropped dead of heart failure on Exchange Place near Broad Street this morn- ing. Mr. Franklin retired several years 4go upon the dissolution of the law firm of Vanderpoel, Cuming & Good- win, whigh had offices at No. 2 Wall Street, and of which he was a mem- ber, He was born in Penn Yan, N, Y., and was educated at Hobart Col- jon Will NOL) lege, He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity and took an active part in the affairs of the fra- ternity club in this city. He is sur- vived by his wife. fel is a SCORES RUSH FROM FIRE. one employer’ who knew lan, and pay at the washboard for my tuition,” Then the founder of “natural edu- cation”-—she has already put it into thirty schools in this country and Europe—gave her ten command- ‘or moth “If a mother shows her child how to use the typewriter and encourages him to copy off beautiful passa prose or verse, lessons in lite! and in spelling are thus given,” M: Stoner reverted to the fleld of educ; tion, “Historieal, geographical a: scientific facta more readily re- membered if they are put in the form of jingles. And one of the best ways of fixing in the child’s mind what he learns is to encourage him to impart it to others. “The busy mother of several, chil- dren, if she begina by giving proper instruction to the older ones, will find that she has helpful little assistants in dealing with the younger members of ber brood. Winifred has taught many children.” THF DANGER OF TYING THE CHILD'S BRAIN. “And this early inst injure the child's health “The emailest chil and thi shouldn't e: tie his hands and stretch only his fi Why tie his brain and permit only his bedy to grow? No wonder srileren sonenl, Van teu ed! xen Biase in Woodworking Shop Starts systematically ouraged from Small Pante. acquiring knowledge. “Another trouble with the average|, A spark from a motor running a actool is that the little scholars are | umber-cutting machine at No. 195 forced to learn things in which they | Stanton Street started a fire at 11 are not interested at the moment. That ia a point which the mother should consider always. She cannot possibly injure her child if ahe does net force him to acquire knowledge lock to-day which filled the nelgh- borhood with panicky crowds, ‘The shop belongs to L. Abraham, who waa observing the Passover, but some one inet his will,” And of course, too,| W8# at dork there, Within a few moments there was a rush of tenants she should give him a physical ae} for the street. from. thy six-story yeu us Le jer sidareeetnaat! f double-decker at No. 191 Stanton Street would buy some boards, build an|” People in the two upper stories artifical tree, put it in one corner of| ran screaming to the roof, while those the room, surrounded by-mattresses|on the lower floors dashed to the Somebody pulled the fire- and pillows, and allow the child to walk, climb over it to his heart's content. Ay Ste nox four blocks away Climbing 1s-one of his frat instincts | So Miaing tar on the roof of the and its & splendid thing: for’ the! second hand lumber shop set the muscular development. : window frames of the overhanging . “We cam ali learn - trem -Mother at ablese, * ¥ ) | MUST SHOW HER OLD BUT RESPONSIBLE, 2 oss ee ' " tern ae a ~~ ne eee wer ¥ ° 4 tom * . ; n Nyack at tie ' Distriet at time Jenkins tole orney, as he took | Nie WIFE OF MILLIONAIRE Pox not boy and to Ludwig and whieh back to me the KUN paased DIVE INTO RIVER FOUND that an innocent un} Wife of Henry Ward Beecher’s Son id be spirited ay and it ; pan kept in Fowa pocket" ™ | Among Prominent Seattle Persons Q Had you any doubt as to} Killed When Car Ran Off Bridge. N IN Cleary’s sanity? A. Never had and i ' have not now . He was drunk. He| SEATTLE, Wash, March 31,— smelled of beer and had a hang-over.| Bodies of the four persons drowned | —_—>— “i | . ; eee .. bind awe led ve knew! the Duwamiah River last aight, when |They Will Be Photographed as : a pe ioblidens doing. 1 saw no need for piling up] ®? automobile ran off a bridge ten Evidence in Walter Annul- witnesses that point, 1 would | miles south of this city, were brought ment Suit. came any coneet we npt have hesitated to convict him if] here to-day for burial. had been a juror ( Why didn't y tra, Cleary bi Mra. Beecher was the wite of Capt. ‘ore the Grand Jury? | Herbert F. Beecher, son of the tate auso I knew my Grand Jury.| "Henry Ward Beecher, the Brooklyn Mra, Anna Kuthe Walter, who mar: |) iiin't want any sympathetic friend| clergyman, She was fifty-five yeare ried Herman W. Walter, millionaire |of the Clearys to dosertbe the un-| old. carpet man, after she had been his|hadpy, painful state of that house. Heal Dr. Schultze Those drowned were Mr. and Mra. houswkeeper for rs, must produce ann ‘i , Thomas W. Prosch, Mian Margaret L. wale yea : ‘ ever occur to you that an| Denny and Mra. Harriet F. Beecher. in court one hundred love letters. | insanity defense would be pressed se- Mr, Prosch? who wan sixty-five brown and brittle with age, written to her twenty-two years ago by him, The order directing her to turn the missives over to the County Clerk wan signed to-day Court Justice New Special for To-morrow— Thorsday, Apail Ist Easter Suits Supreme Best*Values in New York Toggery Serges before, come (B-morrow and acquaint your- vellous values embodied in ou: $20 Suits, 1,500 Now Ready! 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