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LACONIA DROPPED LIKE AN ELEVATOR SURIVOR ASSERTS A, T. Kirby, Here on Lapland, Says Second Shot Worked | Greatest Havoc. ‘The fret of the survivors of the aconta to reach New York with « @raphio story of her sinking under German torpedo fire is Arthur T Eirby, « lawyer of Bainbridge, N. Y. who arrived to-day on the White Mar Line steamship Lapland, safely fm from Liverpool. “T was in the lounge, looking for a record for the phonograph when all of us heard a noise like « distant Dinst,” Mr. Kirby said. “The Laconia tnstantty lMfted, quivered and then seemed to settle. And all of us in the lounge uttered practically the @ame exclamation: ‘They've got us!’ “All of us knew just what had hap- pened, and we hastened out to our materooms to prepare for escape or to the deoks for safety. I went to my stateroom and put on @ life jacket with a heavy overcoat on top over It| and then hastened to the port rail of | the upper deck, “There I met Major and Mrs. Har- ria, and sho was in a half hysterical state, refusing to get into a boat that was being made rendy. was a second shot. This must have made a big hole in the Laconia be-|in New York on the roof of the Edu-| make it until she has learned how With eee from grovions clog. cause she dropped down ten feet, just | cational Alliance, and that #b® WaS/ Ang yet sho will attempt to shape = olen Js the way an elevator drops, and then /for years in charge of large £TOUPS| tne most perfect, delicate, malleable Alle amee 3 of children at Speyer School nd) material in the world—a little child— | Am ty “Finally we got our boat londed| University Settlement, But this! without either advice or trainin | | Am 2 and then came to the last man, anjelender and really lovely young CAN'T MAKE sai Aum, * : q@ginesr with nothing but a cotton|/ woman, with the broad Slavio face BUT CAN AuLE Hi wk CHILD, | | i” ndershirt on the upper part of his|shadowed by dusky hair and lghted) P THE PARENT. | % vody, He eaid he wished he had a) by warm brown eyes, has two charm~- “I want to make it quite clear,” I 2a Yad warm coat Like mine #o I gave it to/ing and intelligent youngsters of her Mrs. Scott broke off, “that my work ’ | Armonree,, Hintor § i in.” own, ts not for abnormal children, that ~~ —- jae tink & We bs “As we rowed away from the #ink-| “you belleve, do you not, that there; others come to me because they Thaw, “Lassa tt & three officers, one of tham the wire- lees operator, standing on the for- ward deck, which was almost awash. “We started toward them but the officers mado a leap for {t. made it, but when the captain and the) « wireless man sprang from the deck they missed and had to be fished out | of the water by the other two. hours and then were picked up. the Tuesday before the Lapland sailed we survivors of the Laconia had a dinner at the Hotel Barclay tn Lon- don, and the chief musio played was | children. "Poor Butterfly,’ the tune that was on “To et. the talking machine when wo were torpedoed, I'm sure that tune will ring {n our hearts as long as they deat.” z ay “Listen to the Buy ‘Mother, me, with grave emphasis. mako or break the life that 1s entrusted to our care.” A TREMENDOUS WASTE AMERICAN CHILDHOOD. | I should like to say at this point) that Mrs, Scott 1s not one of those/in an utterly haphasard fashion, If whose /a woman wants @ beautiful hat sho doesn't try to trim it herself without If she wants a charming frock she doesn’t try to theoretical child. eulturista, While we|only experience is with other peo- were trying to persvade her, there|ple’s children. It is true that started tho first open-air playground ing vessel we saw the Captain and/is @ tremendous waste in American lmost every one of us must ad-| mit that we are only one-third or} jone-half of what ‘after that we rowed about for six heen,” she continued, On| jate to save that needless waste in | ourselves, but it is not too late to | prevent that needless waste in our children, to make the most of their powers, to help them to develop into compl men and women—that is the stu- Nas RI May W Eos Mtractions Are Prices— Vi Brin9 0/0 O/ OO LOLOL Pe -Quality—Service ‘) i Story of the Rug’’ Mrs. Miriam Finn Scott, Child Diagnostician, Un- covers Virtues and Faults of Little Ones and Furnishes Anxious Parents With Charts Showing Weaknesses and Good Points. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. It's a wise mother that knows her own child, That is what Miriam Finn Scott, child diagnostician, believes, That is why she has written for all mothers her book, “How to Know Your Child,” why she is constantly addressing mothers’ clubs, and why, in her home at No, 49 West Eighty- fifth Street, she conducts a child laboratory, where | the bad-tempered, shy, deceitful, fractious or other- aughty” youngster is analyzed for bis perturbed parent—who frequently comes under analysis, too. For Mrs, Scott—she is the wife of Leroy Scott, novelist | and dramatist—belleves not at all in the old doctrine | She considers that no child {s born ‘ that—with the exception of REE Adam—every one might echo the statesman’s tribute, “All that I am, my mother made me.” “Mothers are the most important persons in the world,” she told | “It is in our hands, in our own powers, to wise of original sin. either good or bad, INe Pendous task as well as the great privilege of mothers. she | taking expert advice, waves turned us aside, However, | words as if each were a bit of doll- | 249 taught me something about them. fast then we saw an empty boat cate porcelain—and she doesn't chip That something I try to give to the sweep toward them and two of the|the edges as the native New Yorker| others in simple, practical, usable They |ts too Mkely to do, | form. Th “labor Mrs. “It may be too should visit 1t and the equally strong | @gain, were reconciled to all the eight mo belief that to tear a youngster away | parents concerned, and finally were + % rom such a juvenile Elysium is clear tai cruelty. For each ttle bay orci | made guests of honor at a Waldorf +18 whose mother consults Mrs, Scott stays| Astoria banquet. iY + 3 in the “laboratory” only an hour or| Mr, Welton, who ts a Columbia un- iG so, From useful vided, from its methoas of play, the attitude of the onlooking m Mrs, Scott deduces tho virtue Individual case, the nosis r make dren?” the most of her chi most vicious fit of temper is will j sion, | PICKS THE PURE GOLD CHILD, “And they undertake {t, so often, want to understand clearly thelr nor- Scott showed me her atory”—the only one of its kind wo might have|! America. It is simply the most charming playroom I have ever seen, and I am divided between the convic- Won that every child in New York the playthings the child selects, out of the generous store pro- faults, the desirable training in eac’ speaking generally, how can any THE COUNTERFEIT FROM ' (asi Tost! Mes. MIRI FOURELOPERS WED, Two Pairs of Chums Reconcile | re 1 ohildhood?” I asked her. | mal boys and giris. I have no pana- Fight Parents by Repeatin | Piatt. Geet Be % “| believe just that,” she replied, °°* for making a perfect child. But 18 t e ‘f P ting | futoe’ & . t Hy tn her soft, exquisitely distinct voice, Sixteen yeara of close observation of Secret Ceremony. | ; + % Born tn Russia, ehe handles English |Cuildren, individually and in groups, bt a | Mr. and Mra, Walter F. Welton and |{:) Mr. and Mrs, Arthur B. Storm are|t spending a weok at The Birches, At lantto City, ‘They are of opinion they | Within a week they| eloped together, were married, were| all need the rest. disowned, were married over dergraduate, lives ot No, 288 West) Ninety-second Street; Mr. Storm) % lives at No. 147 West Seventy-seventh Street and is a graduate of the| No Massachusetts Institute of Tech-| her nology; both are members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, end have | been closo friends for years H rd | h later presents mother with a complete diag- 1 asked, white Mrs, Scott was} Mrs. Welton was Miss Lillian Gar- re showing me an endless nest of colored|net of Orange, and Mrs, Storm was am oa eggs and t fascinating Russian Eliza ‘orne! ” Mariant Ce tarbchinte 2 Elizabeth Cornell Ro! rat bel To make the moat af Gur ohile ter of Mr, and Mrs, Charles! % dren we must know them,” she | ltoselle of No. 603 West One Hundred | re | summed uy nie must lear to land Thirteenth 6trect, They too|j + 4B | understand their weakne: ; engage- + 34 their strengths, to teach the bese nave long deen chums. The engage ” | possible use of them, Behind the |ments had been announced, and the + Ny | + parents had planned a double wed- Power, originality, emotional en- | ding with elaborate trimmings in % ergy. d i June, i nervousn: inal ¥ mind, gi nitigtive ‘Tho young people said they felt it + struggling for . unwise to add to the high cost of @ long inner aj Hving, and, anyway, it w thme to wait, They met at d (OM FINN SCOTT in her CHILD'S LABORATOR’ bionk wales, THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MAROH 17, 1917. Know Your Child!’ Scene in Child Laboratory ; Urges Head of Laboratory | Png ag Fagg A 7 tea aad the last of the five brothers Protective Association, Evening World, Post Office Box 1354, For Analysis of the Young oy A a . 1917, night after several weeks’ iline: Mr. Studebaker was born near Gettys- ohtld the and city wi CLOSING QUOTATIONS. telel+ l++ SEE PER ERE F | J. M, STUDEBAKER, 83, DIES. | President of the Studebaker Corpora- burs, blacksmith. baker Corporation. | As part pay for the privilege of ac-| companying an expedition across the plains to California in 1863, Studebaker | gave the first wagon he ever made. This | party set out westward from South | Bend with young Studebaker driving! the wagon. | town, now Placerville, Cal, the young man’ Cut out this coupon, fill out and mail to the Housewives" Pe et Te TETa the non of af NAMC .sewreseceseeeversseweeeseenererwEneeerereree was one of thirteen ren. In hie youth he moved with Addrece ..ccccccccscccvcceccsocreecscvecsoves, famfly to Ashland County, Onto, later to South Rend, Ind., which I desire to enroll my name member of The Evening later became the seat of the Stude- World’s Housewives’ Protective Association. . —_— Inclose 2-cent stamp and membership token will be mailed. set about making wheelbarrows for| founded the firm af C. & J. M. Studes nan named Hines. He made them er. came to be called “Whe Mr. Studebaker married Mar hen the train landed him at Hang-|bartow' Studebaker. Me nnved $4,000,| Stall, daughter, of farmer living” Te this he aa a LJ South + a in| South Bend. a ag! ee Three da purchased he interest of Job St rb i ‘© capital consisted of Atty cents.| of his brothers In a wagon shop and | bo to them. ait: ‘WUjfiZ YH Peet TOT” Has Winter Left You Miserable ? RE you dull, tired, achy all over, bothered with a bad back? Do you feel all out of sorts? Do you lack the energy you need for the day’s work? Don’t worry so much about it! This is a common condition in March. So many of us neglect our exercise in winter, eat too heavily, indulge our desires’too much, and get slow, lazy, and half- efficient. Then, with the organs woiking badly, comes a chill, a cold or a grip attack and it weakens the kidneys. To get started right again, help the kidneys. Use Doan’s Kidney Pills, the remedy that has done so much for New York people. Be Guided By These Only the Rug Then she pointed out a truth ig-| week ago last night, made their plans nored—the counterfeit coin of "“good-| and w | ness" that too often circulates among the sine, They telephoned ahead to Jus- There is so much sentiment in mystic lure of the Orient, where the humble dark skinned weavers eke out their uncertain existence knotting many hued threads:— There is so much dreamy and poetic tempera- ment inspired by their patient weaving of symbolical roses, trees, geometric figures and Persian hieroglyphics:— There is so much adventure, hazard, bargain- ing and travel in quest of these Oriental Floor piece: That much of the sentiment, temperament and toil are written into the prices of Oriental rugs by most dealers and: added to the cost, to im- press people of the Occident with the wealth of the Orient. Not so at this store. Here we do not forget the infinite pains and studied efforts of the lowly weaver sitting in his Persian Rose Garden. But poetry, sentiment and temperament are not sold as parts of merchandise in this store. We have some fine Oriental Rugs marked as we mark all our merchandise, with a rea-~ sonable profit. The story of the rug becomes the property of the buyer, and we, as the seller, are content with the lower profit made, because all through this won- derful business is a daily con- tinued story of wonderful merchandise from the four corners of the globe, that tells its own story t rough reason- Barve —Vourth Floor, Centre, ae Sewn) SETANG YAC.YOTIYOCSTONSIONTTOEY Se | Roanoke ie ot Al la, West. Eine ; ; 1 ths trea tn OH ly TAO He of All Angela, Wet Mod Ave, |into the pain or ache, and by the RM] Prof. Vawter's three bondsmen tn- honda. | tine you count fifty the soreness and | n-law, C. P. Miles, pany ne lameness is | tous hitless parents: | virtues,” she observed shrewdly, “Wel with our} | good, our docile, our quiet child—who must not be too content never causes us any serious thought |That child may turn oxt the most| Inn. serious problem, That child may be| It was after midnight when the lacking in Initiative, originality, self-| piopers arrived at tho Inn, The Jus dependence,” }against which | guard?” I asked, “She must be honest in all hor dealings with her child, take hie oye and troubles ‘seriously, ring adventure and variety into his life, remember that he is con- stantly changing and developing, and not expect the unreasonable from him. the mother “The first six years of tho ohild's and life are the most {mportant precious,” concluded Mrs. Scott, “H education should begin the day he born, and when hi r facultle ey HONOR OF HOME SACRED, r of the 2 Pol where Vawter In @ statement at his attorneys sald must sce through children’s|tice of the Peace Arthur Merritt of “And what are some of the things must ‘0e8 to school he should be able to adapt to it at once without waste hts mother-trained | | SAY VAWTER’S LAWYERS Declare Jury Will Free Professor! warrant, sworn out by Deupty Sheriff Camper, after the death of young Heth Portchester and asked him to rout out the town clerk with @ blank license | and meet them at the Portchester |} ‘own Cl ik Derby waiting tice had perth promised not to tell, | When Mra, Storm arrived at the! home of her parents at 6 o'clock in| the morning, there was much eed to her as to the proprieties and many questions, She stubbornly refused alll explanations, until in a burst of weep ing she put her hands over her eyes 4 1 exposed a brand new wedding 2] ring. When she did own up she was told the marriage was not to be rece ghe wasn't really married t and she couldn't speak to her hus band until ehe had been married in a church, She refused to aocede and remained in her room for five days | while none of the family would talk to her, | Mrs, Welton's reception in Orange was no less temporarily tragic. kept her sceret until Mrs, Stor afte) after Wednesday was agreed upon. Mr. and Storm were remarried at the married per pa Iti Ho married them and both officials |wern | the finger tips. small trial bottle of old honest “St. Jacob's Oil” at any drug store, pour a little in your hand and rub it right dD s Was Dynamiter. arch 17.—The mystery sion at the Court Hor have been disminsed CAN'T FIND DANDRUFF Every bit of dandruff disappears Dan- derine rubbed well into the scalp with Get a 25-cent bottle of Danderine at any drug store and save your hair, tions you can't find a particle of dan- druff or any falling hair, and the scalp will never itch.—Advt. STOPS BACKACHE IN FEW MINUTES r one or two applications o After a few Accuse phoned her that, {n the language | Accused of Killing Guest— oung lady from Kansas bac ‘ tate ae | Released on Bail he beans w ta. then Rub lumbago, pain, soreness, ed ail, | ssed to the wedding and Ww itnnae ut 4 CHRISTIANSBURG Va,, March 17 also visited with the paternal an stiffness right out with DA | Prof, Charles B, Vawter of Blacksbur aternal Wrath, The young me "St. Jacob’s Oil.” who Se CHAread Wii being ines nen but little better than their ‘atally wounded Stoc fe | brides, ' | fatally wounded Stockton Heth, & viat- | "iiut' in the conferences of the par-| When your back is sore and lame | eects een paling ae tito eee Renta over “what ought to be done! or lumbago, sciatica or neuritis has | nine was wed on y bail to. bout it,” @ plan for the Waldorf re-| you stiffened up, de suffer! Geta | day, following his arrest on @ second inion church weddings last |% applica 2% | WHS! Meh do da ny 4 nt to Westchester In a Enos BOSTON BOMB A MYSTERY. New York Cases Police Believe One of Court House ot W. 115th Street Mra. M. J. Levy, 1'1 W. One Hundred and Fifteenth St., says “There ts nothing I can say too 00d for Doan's Kidney The Sunnyside Ave. (Brooklyn) Anna Kraft, 238 Sannyside Ave., Brooklyn, says: "I wae in bed stok trouble, I eouldn’t pain in my uddenly and T had been W. 150th Street from kidney turn ever owing to th It came on me y & cold. took col ‘idneye. It hurt me auch times, and when I Jown my back was achy and I Mrs. Ave. #8 a work or the effects of eolde ae on my kidn backache or remular in Kigney receive prompt relief, I can have the worst kind of pain across my pbaok and be tn all kinds of misery, but >t Doan'e Kidney | & Pilla quickly stops tt 114 Cypress netimes from over teker thar short wi en DOAN’S Kidney Pills ¢ will disclose be . : . graye lendehip and eantidence, Tho f bd dr cel pare vw eae ae Se At All Druggists, 50c a Box, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., Mfrs. Virginia home is no longer sacred, and TUNn Clerk | Dorby and lame back misery so promptly and Jy|__ hth MN UEN i iToyeeae st tne hands of @ Sur la promise to keop gue | qeoret of jeurcly, Ib never diseppolntslAdrt,