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ee 2S. re “The prairie is neighborly. You go fifteen miles to a dance, and every one who lives between ul too.” HOSTESS. ROBBED OF $90,000 GEMS BY SINGLE THUG Mrs. Robertson Brings Story of Deal Beach Hold-Up to Lloyd NO ‘CLUE IS .FOUND. Dinner Party Forced to Give Up Both Money and Jewels. Mrs. Sarah Lavan Miller Robert- son came to New York to-day from her home at Deal Beach, N. J., to consult with Lloyds regarding the insurance carried by them for the $50,000 worth of jewelry which was “City life is a lonely life, mov- ing pictures and dramas are only narcotic to make your lonely ia Ey “The how! of a coyote at twi- light sounds no more lonesome than the orchestra sounds to the hall abate ‘i “It_is the lonely woman who attends concerts, reads books and feathers the nest of isolation bat! the te of art.” “Too many women who thought the city flat an avenue of personal freedom find it a cemetery for dead souls.” “The prairie woman hasn't time to be lonely. She must work or perish, The ozonic Bree ites her the strength.” their door, In the city you chain your door mat. von don't know “The city is made up of lonely * millions, sitting behind the walls of their souls and living im bottled romance.” 5 _|MARY GARDEN HAS RECIPE FOR YOUTH ON 45TH BIRTHDAY May Seek Fortune Selling Pills, but Won't Add Husband to Other Troubles. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20. Mary Garden celebrated her forty-fifth birthday here to-day with the announcement that she was thinking of going into the patent medicine business. Answering the question: ‘How did you do it?’ by one of her flock of interviewers who noticed she seemed more youthful and was many pounds thinner than when she was last here, she sald jokingly: “It's just pills. I take one a day. I'm thinking of having them patented so I can make a lot of money.” “Are you thinking of getting married?” “My Lord, man! I have enough troubles without a husband! “Besides, I don't have to think of a husband for two years yet. A fortune teller in San Francisco told me I would get married in 1924," several men standing about the desk taken from her by a lone armed rob- | of the McAlpin Hotel when the Jewels ber while she was entertaining friends at dinner Saturday night. Mrs. Robertson, who went to Deal on Friday to make her home there until she has rented her five Deal the had as dinner guests her real estate agent, cottages for summer, David 8. Meyer, of Long Branch, bis | nisned to the Deal police is as follows: Edgar | seventeen-year-old nephew, M. Lazarus, and her neice and com- panion, Miss Olive Robertson. Mrs. Robertson was wearing a diamond the shoulder of her sunburst on gown, She had left three diamond rings on the kitchen sink while preparing din- ner—she is merely camping out in the cottage for the present, she told her| friends. The remainder of the jewel- ry, which she had taken on Friday from the safe at the McAlpin Hotel! and carried with her to Deal, was in a gold meshbag on the sideboard. E. Cc. to wait until dinner was over. A few minutes later she was again called to the front door. She was confronted by a tall man in @ long raincoat, with a soft hat pulled down over his eyes and a hand- kerchiet covering the lower half of his face. He pointed a revover at her and told her to put up her hands. TEARS DIAMOND SUNBURST , FROM HER SHOULDER. He grasped the diamond sunburst and tore it from her shoulder. Then he ordered her to walk backward into the dining room. \ As sho backed through the door the robber, who had a smooth, steady voice, called: ‘Everybody stay still or get hurt.” Young Mr. Lazarus jumped up at the first glimpse of the intruder and started for him, Miss Olive Robert- son jumped in front of him and begged him to go back and sit down lest she be shot. He did. The robber ordered all five to stand against the wall of the dining room, He stood beside a serving table and summoned each man to come to the table and lay on it everything he had in his pockets, Mr. Meyer went to the table and contributed $50 in money. Mr. Lazarus was walking to the table when Mrs, sideboard and tried to knock the mesh bag into an open drawer, The robber sprang at her, crying: “Drop that!’* When she clung to it he snatched | it from her hand. Without waiting for tribute from the others, he backed | ut of the room, warning Mrs, Rob- ertson and her guests that he “had @ man outside who would shoot if they tried anything.’’ After the door closed behind him, Mrs. Robertson thought she heard an automobile drive away. The others say they did not hear it. Mrs. Rob- ertson also told the police that before the robber followed her into the din- ing room he waved over his shouider, apparently as a signal to some one outside. Mrs. Robertson said she noticed were turned over to her on Friday afternoon. She checked the jewels at the counter and placed them in a Taber of Long Branch called | with samples of awfing material, and | she.invited him“into the dining room| Robertson darted to the! handbag. On the train, she said, she met an old friend, Miss Gladys Brown of Long Branch, and took the jewels out and showed them to her. Several persons in nearby seats of the car, seemed much interested, she recalls now. The list of the stolen jewelry fur- Large square diamond ring set in a circle of smaller stones. Diamond dinnér ring set with four large stones. Ruby and emerald ring. Sapphire ring, the stone “as large as a 3-cent piece."” A two and a half inch bar pin set with diamonds. Gild mesh bag with thirteen dia- monds set in the top of the frame. Diamond studded wrist-watch with thirty diamonds set in the gold und platinum clasp. Twenty-four inch strand of pearls with a diamond cross, There was also $300 in cash in the bag. eee GIVE DEFENDANT CHANCE JUROR SAID; MISTRIAL Must Anewer to Court macious Charge. After Gregory Emanuel of No. 2257 Seventh Avenue, on trial before Judge Mulqueen for assault had been severely cross-examined by Assistant District Attorney Edward Weil and the court was waiting for the next witness, the foreman of the jury, Charles M. Wyant, @ manufacturer at No. 234 Bast -24th Street spoke to Mr. Weil in @ tone audi- ble all over the court room. Why don't you give the defendant a Conte- chance,” he said. “Your testimony is all ng. en your wiagram is all wrong.” Mr. Weil asked Judge Mulqueen to declare a mistrial. Judge Mulqueen complied with the reqeust and notified Mr. Wyant to present himself before the court Wednesday accompanied by a lawyer to face a charge of contuma- ws cond: ——.__ MAN AND WOMAN HURT AS AUTO HITS HYDRANT jand Pair Taken te Hos- in Serious Condition, An automobile in which Joseph Roe ot No, 833 Post Avenue, Port Richmond, was taking Miss Agnes Cusick, a tel- ephone exchange operator, from her {home at No, 108 Bergher Street, West |New Brighton, skidded on Richmond ‘Staten rt ‘Turnpike this afternoon and struck a | fire hydrant, Both were thrown to the | street. The automobile was wrecked. Miss Cusick and Mr.,Roe were taken | to the Staten Island Hospital uncon- selous. Miss Cusick had concussion of the brain and internal injuries. Mr. | Roe's right arm was broken and his body covered with bruises. a RARE PAINTINGS ARRIVE HERE, Nicholas Seny!, an art collector of Budapest, arrived to-day on the Noor- dam, of the Holland-American Line, hoping to find an American purchaser, he said, for a collection of old paintings, including a Titian, formerly owned ae the late Primate Cardinal Scitovsk!. other passenger was J. Holub, riby or Budapest, who comes to study Ameri- can farming methods. | dreaming that Great Outdvors Lonely? Never! Says Writer, 10 Years Canadian Prairie Dweller Arthur Stringer, Back From Alberta, Has Only Pity for City Folk—Breaks Records for Vis- itors by Ignoring Prohibition in Hour and Half Interview. |of early summer; prunes them, sterns ly but tenc “ly, so that each vine shall bear but two fruits; puts plate glass mirrors under them to reflect the sunlight, on their under side turns them twice a week to keep their complexions evenly tinted—and sgme times, pernaps, hearing them mur- muring fretfully in the night, rises and goes out, he and his wife in their By Lindsay Denison. A notable man has just come to New York to live. So far as the experience of a rather active reporter moving around in this city of 6,000,- 000 or so residents and strangers af- fords a measure, he is the most no- table man who has come to town ; ‘ ; bathrobes, and turns flashlights on since Jan. 16, 1920. Arthur Stringer, | thom to make sure they are not alpen- novelist—who has found his charac-|ing with their urms back of their ters backstage and in the gutter and behind bars as well as in prairie shacks and fruit-ranch homes—can talk for an hour and a half without mentioning Prohibition. Not once. Let him be welcomed back to New York from the short-grass country of the Canadian Northwest with due ref- erence and humility. Have you a little blue devil of lone- liness in your hall bedroom or your studio apartment or your puffy cush- ioned Fifth Avenue boudoir, lady? Because, one reason Arthur Stringer never thinks to talk about things in| the prevailing terms of the alcoholic is because he can think of so many ways in which to tell you where to go if you wish never to see that blue devil again or hear him sniffing at your doorsill, And why is this true? That Mr. Stringer has just packed a freight car with his best liked books and pictures and rugs and his pet furniture and comes out of the near and far Northwest country to New York does not cloud his enthusiasm in the least, (At least, he thinks he has come to New Y¢ He has bought a home at Mountain Lakes, | over in New Jersey. Alberta is s0| far away, perbaps, that it looked like New York.) Ho-jas come back to give his two sons a chance for a varied view of life which he believes | = they might as well have—they are four and five years old—and’ because he feels it good business to live in the thick of the readers of his novels and his publishers for awhile heads—or that the striped not annoying them. beetles tre But most of all he tulhed about the jfallacy of the city cweller's notion that one out of sounil of the voices of the huckster and the newsboy and the trolley gong and ihe subway-els- ed growl is thereby cheerlessly iso- ated from God and man. Here are seattered notes Mr. Stringer sas Wrought out of Alberta for the lone- some cliff swallows in New York's canyons of brick and mortar and rein- forced cement. “If a woman looks at the prairie she sees God in His infinite goodness. If she looks that way at a Yorker he suggests a quiet little place where he can take her out to supper." “The howl of a coyote green rind of twilight can sound pretty lonesome. But it’s not half as lonesome as the sound of an orchestra to a hall-roomer when the Other Peo- ple are so busy dancing. (And the roar of Broadway through a hall-room window can be quite as desolate as the evening song of katydids across a} Vestern coulee.) across a 's the secretly lonely woman who listens to your Carnegie Hall music It does not make him the least bit apologetic for his theory of the com- paratively unlonesomeness of the ranch country that he comes back just as Bobbs-Merrill are about to put on the booksellers’ shelves his “The Prairie Call," completing a trilogy with “The Prairie Wife’ and “The Prairie Mother.’ If he had only himself or Mrs. Stringer to con- sider to the end of his days, he would probably not have come back, he is very sure, except as a gallivanting excursionist. nS “It is nearly always the way,” says Mr. Stringer, “that the less a woman knows of the homely things of life, the hardships of fighting dirt and hunger and cold the more she has been waited on, the more resource- fully she f prairie life There is that other sort which ‘comes out from home’; the sort who have always done their own cooking and washing and sewing and sweeping. They are not so cheerful in meeting the change; they are frightful grouch- ers; but I'd never call them lonely.” Except for not mentioning Prohi- bition—not so much us even telling a bootlegger story—Mr. Stringer talked of a lot of things. ‘There were remi- niscences of old friends in the days when the Village was u place whe one lived because it was cheap, never it was a place where smokes othe one would go and »4y and pay anc money. pay because it pays to advertise—and wondering where DUE gue was or thac Try it. Also he talked of gvowing Montreal melons—the kind that bees sting to get the syrup from them. None who has heard Mr. Stringer tell of the | nurture of the Montreal melon will | ever doubt the sincerity of his all em- | pracing sensitive sympathy i =whi “Of course, you huve te pet them « i lot," he said, It is grented. Accord SALIS ing to Mr. Stringer he starts them.in you ca pots under gl pats little glass houses over them 1% the den 4 Protect them from the chill breeze a New} and reads your books and feathers the nest of her isolation with the consola- tions of art." “Too many of those women who re- garded the city flat as an avenue to Personal freedom have found it merely @ cemetery for dead souls. It's a double-edged loneliness, that loneli- ness which comes of finding oneself alone in the very midst of one’s fel- low beings.” “City life must be lonely life be- cause so many medicines have been concocted to drug the evil away. Our moving pictures and dramas, after all, are only narcotics to make people forget the emptiness of life. The older I grow the more I realize that this world 1s made up of lonely mill- ions sitting behind the walls of their souls and living on bottled romance.” “Loneliness is the absence of some- thing you wished for, the loss of something you loved. Most of us, I imagine, can recall the abysmal deso- lation of being a child and losing our pet dog." “It's racial for woman to wish to partake of the bounty of nature, The only way the city woman 2an do this is to shoulder in at the Monday bar- gain counter, ‘getting something for next to nothing.” The ruri gathers eggs and blueberr and churns and puts up preserves and never complains of loaeliness,” “As for the city, you don't know your neighbors. They don’t know you, We have the classic story cf the jan- itor who didn't know a thing about the family in the fifth floor north: ‘I don't know what business he is in or who her friends ave, but Tl tell the world they certainly send down some swell garbage.’ "* “The prairie woman hasn't time to be lonely, She must work or per- ish. When one gets right down to the essentials—read Stefansson's ‘The Friendly Arctic'—and you must real- ize the Eskimo woman in her igloo has many things to make her happy and keep her interested and make her think as has the woman who lives at the Waldorf or the Ritz. The prairie gives you the physical strength to meet the demands of the labor, ‘There is something ozonic in it, something that keeps you on your so? Common sense. And if he smokes Turkish cigarettes, he LorD SALISBURY Turkish Cigarettes Why? Common sense. LORD SALISBURY is the only high-grade Turkish cigarette in the world that sells for so little yY © v » means that if you don't like LORD ORY get your money back fro the dealer toes and gives you a pulse a good ten beats faster to the minute. a Who is the Biggest Builder in this town? What made him DOCTOR ' WHO | GIVES CREDIT TO WINE FOR HIS 99 YEARS Doctor at 99 Credits Wine For Long Life Followed Advice of Brother Physician to Use Beverage; Overcame Early Ailment. Dr. Stephen Smith, founder of the New York State and National Boards of Health and probably one of the most influential of medical men who have established the fact that pro- tection of the public health is a vital matter of government, celebrated his ninty-ninth birthday yesterday. He was at the home of the Rev. Walter Nason at Montour Falls. N. Y. Dr. Smith, according to his sister, Mrs. James Pratt, 1s hale and hearty. He was in New York a couple of weeks ago, whea he was the honor guest at a dinner given by the Amer- ican Public Health Association to celebrate the golden jubllee of his membership. The secret of longevity, according to Dr. Smith, is sufficient proper food. Said he: | “In my earlier years I suffered from dyspepsia and it forced me to a mea- Bre diet of simple foods. As a rpsult I saved my stomach and have the use of it now. I took care of my stomach during the first fifty years of my life and now it is taking care of me, It was during a visit to Paris as delegate to the International Sanitary Confer- | : ence that I learned to drink wine, with) OR STEPHEN the result that I have been well ever | @D Kaysrone Via since. At a banquet I sat next to a| famous French physician whom I told — about my unfortunate handicap Ho | food I had eaten. advised me to drink wine between the courses, saying it would digest s ATT I followed his ad- vice and did not experience any fur- the ther discomfort.”* 42nd St. (Between 5th and 6th Avenues) FIRST WIFE’S GHOST... ‘ HARRIES NO. 2 TILE: CHASED ) BY PASTOR: Worried Hubby Gets Clergyman” to Exorcise Spook After It MERIDEN, Conn., Feb. 20. After months of torment by the " spook of her husband's first wife, , which became so bold lest week as “to choke her and knock a flatiron out of her hand,” Mrs, Reinhold’ Kirsehstein of No. 123 Lewis Aves | nue ts happy to-day in the belief that the pastor of her church has exorcistd the evil epirit. But women neighbors are not so sure that the ghost has been banished and there is much subdued excite» ment over the strange happenings” reported since Kirschstein, a wid- ower with two children, took unio himself a second wife last July following the death in January of the first Mrs, Kitschstein. Since November Mrs. Kirsch- stein has been frequently visited. by the spook, and last Thursday it attacked her, she says, and when her husband returned from work the worried man summoned the clergyman, who ts credited . with casting out the apparition for good. " a CHURCH ®EDERATION WELL ap JOBLESS. At @ recént meeting of the Board Ps Directors of the New York Federation of Churches it was decided to organise’ an Unemployment Bureau to be cons! ducted by the combined Protestant churches of the city. An office will be established in a central location im Manhattan, but applications for may be made at nearly any Protest! church. It is planned to co-operate with 4 employers and organizations closely r@ lated to the churches. tern Brothers West 43rd St. Important Reduction Sale Tuesday of Women’s and Misses’ SILK or WOOL SWEATERS A Special Group of desirable Sweaters taken from tegular stack and Greatly Lowered in $15.00 Price ‘to Tuxedo and slipron styles in Fibre or pure Silk, Crepe Knit, Iceland Wool or Novelty weaves. A choice of the prevailing colors. Main Floor. O New Models in Women’s and Misses’ TURKISH Cte ARFTTES SILK BREAKFAST COATS of TWO/TONE SATIN or GROS de LONDRE Special at, $1 1.50 Fhese BREAKFAST COATS of beautiful quality Silks and daintily trimmed, impart #6 mtich the “ House-Dress” appearance that they are not confined exclusively to the Boudoir. They can appear with propriety as porch or informal “at Home” Dresses, Ruchings, silk rosebuds, large pockets and self sashes, add attractive finishing touches, Light and dark colors are included in the color range. SECOND FLOOR. “Chokes” Successor. ¥: Cee A epee nme wlth ey a re