The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1917, Page 6

; —and Judge! Music critics and music lovers have called Music’s Re-Creation a new art. Mr. Edison alone Every Woman Should Hav A Little Knowledge of Law, (THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUARY fe, 1917. € ina ner reper °° WQULD STRENGTHEN MANN Says a New York Portia She Should Know Her Property and Marital Rights and Be Able to Protect Herself and Children Against Troubles That Too Often Come With the Unexpected Death of a Husband. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. If, out of her household allowance, Mrs. Jones saves enough money to buy a plano— -It is Mr, Jones who is the plano's legal owner. If Reggie Millions gets a Reno dl- vorco while Mrs, Millions, emulating Brer Rabbit, les low and says nuf- fin'— Reggie will return to New York to find that his ex-wife (in No~ vada) still retains her full interest In all his New York property. If Delia of the Kitchen, at the weary fag-end of Tuesday, drops out of the Window @ flatiron which mashes the pate or the parcel bf a passerby—it ts Delia's mistress who pays dame These are parts of the “law ev woman should know,” Jean Nelson Penfield, and I am eure every woman agrees with More- over, she ts @ecinning w © every has dared the searching test of comparison with the living tone. Can you ignore these facts? Can you afford to decide before hear- ing The New Edison? Concert Tomorrow Hear this & Saget! concert at th ison Shop Recital Hall. An interesting pro- gram of grand opera, instrumental and opular music. Well nown stars and per- formers will beheard in re-creation. Close youreyesasyoulisten and judgeif yourears are not decei y the reality of Music's Re- if yp No charge for seats. Easy Monthly Terms Arranged to Suit No Needles to Change Now Edison con made to play all makes of records, The EDISON SHOP The Phonograph Corporation of Manhattan, Prope. 473 Fifth Avenue vr ONLY, > AUM Opposite bile Li BRONX STORE, ANNS 14-9 Steer’ @iSed Mid Be YourOwn Salesman in Plain Figures CASH OR CREDIT 4-Piece William and Mary Period Dining Room Suite in Jacobean Oak at $65 -00 ROOMS §4™7.50 OPEN EVERY | [ Bem 47 EVENING ENTRANCE, All Goods Marke ur Terms Will Suit You in. long, with mirror; CHINA CLOSET 46 in. wide; SERVING TABLE 40in. wide: DINING TABLE 48 in. top, 6 foot extension. ROOMS $ 50 Completel: Rursianes” i7 every lagr STREET 14 g= = Sté 3° Ay E EVENING IT MAKES LITTLE DIFFERENCE WHAT YOU NEED— A WORLD “WANT” AD. WILL GO AND GET IT t uplifter ought to begin—at the top, In the impeccable purlieus of the Colony Club she has just etarted a course of lectures to teach womén how not to be legally cheated out of their husbands, thelr homes or their children, Formerly a leader of the Woman Suffrage Party, Mrs, Penfield has boen practising law for several years with her husband, Judge William Warren Penfield. Recently she set up her own office, But it was tn her apartment, No, 360 East One Hun- ‘Round Trip. Trip BALTIMORE ‘The Donumentel Cy WASHINGTON The Coptel of the Nettow SUNDAYS Mappers 2. Frid ih: Maron ane Yet oie: svivania Stat M. "Rawarn- tee leases Mialng ra ie ‘Tichen on oly presstind tach covers, Penn Ivania R. says Mrs. EB. |rance of legal rights. | which are given for the benefit of the ——_—_+eoe _E. EAN NELSON PENFIELD dived and Ninety-fifth Street, that I talked with her last evening. “I do not think that every woman should be her own lawyer, any more than I think that every woman should be her own physician,” she explained easily at the outset. She has the et- fective beauty that might be called “Colontal;" a tat, youthfully slen- der figure, big, brown, smiling eyes and a crown of powder-white hair. Also she possesses that rarest of qual- itles In the American woman—poise, KNOWLEDGE OF LAW USEFUL TO ALL WOMEN. “But the intelligent woman is expected to know the general laws of hygiéne eo that she may juard her health and that of y," ehe continued. “It is important that she know “The records of our crowded with pitiful los: sary expenditures and sad exper!- choes of women, due largely to Igno- My lectures, urts are unneces. National Child Labor Committee, deal with the laws of constant application to the dally life of every woman, laws B. Altman & Co. A Sale of Seasonable Hats FOR WOMEN AND MISSES will take place to-morrow in the Millinery Department on the First Floor, ' It will present an interesting selection of Satin and Satin-withestraw Hats, smartly trimmed with fancy feathers or ornaments, specially priced at $5.75, $8.50 Final Price ranging in general reduced to . . reduced to . . little children, 34th and 35th Streets Little Children’s Coats (sizes incomplete, & 512.00 Reductions have been made in Little Children’s Coats and Hats affording an unusual purchasing opportunity at these low prices: but from 2 to 5 years) $2.25 & 4.75 Little Children's Hats 95c., $1.75 & 2.65 Decided reductions have also been mado in the prices of Higher-cost Coats and Hats for (Second Floor) Fifth Avene. Madtaon Aveme New York “You believe that the woman who | 1s well-to-do and protected should know something of the law as well as the business woman?” I ques- tioned. “Why not?” ehe replied. “How many women are suddenly left alono, women who have been most shel- tered! with the law. know that if they choose an agent to manage their property they aro ro- ‘Whe most natural thing for @ sud- her, thing and he may go and do another. , Still she will be responsible. Doesn't | i¢ the average woman run to a man about y little legal paper or duty? lenged Mra. Penfleld. Guiltily 1 hung my head. Guiluty 1| recalled my own procedure with the first income tax paper—certificate—- | (1 don't know what to call the thing) | —which I had to fill out. But before | I could bring myself to confess my! @hame, Mrs, Penfield was sounding | another warning. IGNORANCE OF CONTRACTS OFTEN IS COSTLY. | “Women do not understand | about contracts,” she declared. “1 heard of a case just recently which illustrates what | mean. A friend of mine took an apart- ment by the month. When she moved she stayed at the old apartment one or two days into the next month. She was furious | because her landlord charged her a full month's rent. Yet he was within his rights, and if she had only known them she would have moved two days Author of White Slave Law Knows Perhaps they have small chil- dren dependent on them, If they have had no business training they are all |the more helpless in their dealings How many women author of the measure, replied: | Sponatble for tho actions of that agent? ,denly bereft woman to do is to ask ‘some man to manage her affairs for She may tell him to do one wanted to strengthen the ty. Yn non-commerciah cases." Doctor Tells How to Strengthen Eyesight 50 Per Cent in One Week’s Time in Many Instances ACT RATHER THAN CURB IT of No Plan in Congress to Amend It. A Prescription You Can Have Fitted and | f¢'tin Exe scgupies ot *eaea WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Asked to- Use ot Meme, yh if ” day if there would be any éffort to Hts amend the Mann White Slave Law so as to exclude ndh-commercial cases following yesterday's Supreme, f, Court decision Representative Mann, “Not on my part. I have never| r heard any talk in Congress about changing the law, although there has been talk on the outside of amending {t. The Department of Justice has ther people want pn WO ithe other people wanted to weaken it 1 oy Maa, 1 rere fs tlhe: “ Hesoman sorts, Rallae! a, aa Stern Ratha: rs West 42nd Street — Between 5th and 6th Aves. | West 43rd Street you can call it that—by excluding | eble tim able to a Women’s Advance Spring Blouses Are being shown ina splendid assortment of charming models, expressing the new vogue decreed by Paris, in materials, trimmings and colorings. Excellent Values for Wednesday’s Selling: Novelty Striped Blouses, French Voile Blouses, “Does every woman who keeps a servant know that she is liable for the torte—wrongs—of that servant | committed in the due process of ber | work? If she drops a flatiron out of the window while she is ironing and somebody smething is damaged, it is the ess who has to pay. ‘Then, too, y women are cheated | by their se nts because contracts with the Jatter are made without wit- nes In acquiring real property a must never commit herself in| until she finds out all she wants to know about the property in question, A scrap of writing will bind | her, “Another way in which women fet | themselves into trouble is through | their readiness to go on notes as a er of obligation. Many a wife | on her husband's note, ac | his assurance that it was ‘all | rig! only to find that his debt must be paid with her property. “Do-you consider that the laws of ly unfavorable 1 aid frankly. | “re very 00 yt : | child and [ have not is a life interest in ail My dower right is But I can ail my ay from my nd and snot touch my dower right, LEFT POOR THROUGH LEGAL IGNORANCE. | “Nevertheless, there is sone in- justice in the laws of inheri- tance. A man and his wife whom I knew never had any children and saved together for years to buy a farm. She worked and acrimped as much as he did, and finally they bought a nice little farm in the country near ours, They planted fruit trees and vines and were getting along beautifully when he died almost instantly. To whom did that roperty belong? To the man's and the poor wife had third sie inter known the Inw, she this disaster, for oted to her, and | co will in her Seyor| father, of the inw | divorce in he replic » for only Aesult--he frequently goes 1 and brings sult, Some Ne- vada attorney writes the wife, say- Ing he has noticed she has just been ina divorce sult and asking | he would not like to have him | terests, If she re- ily, appearing in submitting herself . and she loses all > husband's property » brings her. But yw received such a ew York lawyer she should do, ‘Do So when the with his decree od in New York ‘over, he couldn't do In the real | ia Nevada-di- real property. every woman reful when right,” 2 wom signing that she altogether, . by the way, should be exceedin y eho olens a an wh after her husband's | death “In Important and complicated mat- tera a woman, of course, should con- suit her lawyer. But even then she should know enough law to know what he talks about. And there are so many dangerous little legal rocks in the stream of everyday life which @ woman can avold if she secs. them, T'm trying to hane a few ‘don'ts’ on them, that is all." S. |ERIE COMMUTERS COMPLAIN. Delays By Bri Late for Work, They Say, Commuters using tho Northern Ratl- road of New Jersey, the northern branch of the Firte, which runs between Nyack and Jersey City, are complaining loudly of what they charge te most ineMcient gervice on that Iino, Last Saturday a tratn leaving Nyack at 6.87 A, M. was delayed forty minutes at Demarest when the ong Ino broke sewn, 4 morta the same locamotive broke do al lorsemere from the same hg owas cra tay ert. rive. ie Pommnute: ‘Tak une Bitasth de ool lowns Make Them Tailored model, also pompadour and Superior quality, embroidered ~and two tone dot effects, i trimmed with filet lace; large convertible collars, pointed collar and deep cuffs. at $2.95 at $3.95 Crepe de Chine Blouses, effectively embroidered and tailored models, in the new Spring colors, gold, bisque, flesh and white, $5.00 Artistic Needlework, Novelties Attractively priced on the Main Floor, To-morrow. Cotton Filet Pillows at 85c each One style trimmed with cotton Cluny; another all Filet; over pink and blue forms, floss filled Lace-trimmed Scarfs | assorted laces and styles, 50c, 75c & 1.00 Round Shirred Pillows | Lingerie Pillow Slips Floss filled, in blue, rose and gold, at $1.85 each of plain and em- broidered lawn, | 50c, 1.00 & 1.25 Women’s Sweaters, Vests and Skating Sets Unusually Interesting Prices for To-morrow: Shetland Wool Sweaters, plain colors; also striped effects; regly. up to $6.00 $3.95 Fibre Silk Sweaters with collar and belt; good var- yA iety of colors; reg. $9.00“ 6.95 Reefer Sets, consisting of Cap and Scarf in Angora brushed wool;. .special at Japanese Silk Quilted $1.65 Vests in black ; sleeve- special at $ 1.75 $2.50 Japanese Silk Quilted Vests, in white, pink and sky, sleeveless, embroidered in contrasting colors, spec inl Clearance of Children’s Dresses Wednesday, on the Second Floor, at Substantial Reductions. Lawn and Batiste Dresses, - at 98c, $1.85 and 2.95 in various styles; sizes 2 and 3 years; formerly sold at $1.95 to 4.95 Colored Gingham Dresses Bloomer and Empire models; French Handmade Dresses of nainsook, hand-embroidered | sizes 6 months to 2 years, | sizes 2 to 5 years, $1.65 | $1.00 Children’s English Merino Underwear, 50c, 69c and 1. 00 Consisting of Vests, Pantalets and Drawers, in various weights; sizes not complete; formerly sold. at 75c, $1.00 and 1.75 Special at Special at Under New York Photographs A page of pictures of the unknown ac- ' tivities of hundreds of workmen beneath the streets of the metropolis. Vitally interesting pictures of work under water, of dynamiting, of drilling—all to pro- vide subways for usto ridein : : : 4 =|Gravure Section Next Sunday World :