The evening world. Newspaper, October 18, 1922, Page 23

THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1922, “A FORD A DAY.” Special Additional Daily Prize for Contributions to This Page Until November 1. OPEN TO. ALL READERS | Name of Winner in To-Night’s Pictorial Edition. entnee teen EVENING WORLD PAGE OF BRIGHT, UNUSUAL HAPPENINGS REPORTED BY EVENING WORLD READERS y ee One Dollar is paid for every item printed; the srtuns ate te euiaitinn, Geis eet ts What Did Y ‘ou See?” Editor, Evening T THE HOUR of cock's crow my sleep was shivered by a genuine make this news feature even more entertai led Daily and Weekly. World, Post Office Box 185, City Hall Station. WRITE ABOUT HAPPENINGS IN YOUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD. rooster. indignant at this flagrant and noisy violation f the city ordinance prohibiting the keeping of poultry, I resolved to report the culprit. * * * I discovered the handsome rooster dwelling happily with his small family in a stable next to the blacksmithy at No. 28 West 67th Street. He behaved like a pet. When the blacksmith seated himself in an arm chair on the sidewalk, Chanticler hopped up on his knee and “told the worldle-doo.” * * * He was strutting about on the pavement when a policeman appeared. I waited to hear the officer reprimand the owner. What the officer did was to bend Gouble and put out one hand. The rooster extended a foot. They shook. The policeman sauntered on, Speechless, I let him go.-- Gertrnde Mathews Shelby. No. 1 West 67th Street. TELL YOUR STORY, IF POSSIBLE, IN NOT MORE THAN 125 WORDS STATE WHERE THE THING WRITTEN ABOUT 100K PLACE. WRITE YOUR OWN NAME AND ADDREsS CAREFULLY AND IN FULL. CHECKS MAILED DAILY For the best stories each day: SPECIAL PRIZE, A FORD CAR A DAY UNTIL NOVEMBER 1; FIRST CASH PRIZE, $25; SECOND CASH PRIZE, $10; THIRD CASH PRIZE, $5. TEN PRIZES of $2 each for next best stories 4000 and ask for the CITY EDITOR of The Evening World. Liberal awards for first big news. BE SURE OF YOUR FACTS. QUEENS, BRONX. “NOW, FOR THE DIRTY WORK."" I. BEDWINEK, U. S. A. W of the men across the way come out of his yard and hustle S Avenue, in the Borough of the Bronx, I had occasion to examine down the street to a house five doors distant. He wore a the citizenship papers of a great many naturalized citizens. I woman's long black skirt, a man’s white shirt and a baseball cap, The noted particularly the generally soiled and dilapidated condition of I saw him speak to a woman there and then hurry back to his own when one voter, Mr. I. Bedwinek of No. 949 Washington Avenue, proud- place. As soon as I could I went to the woman down the street to see ly exhibited his paper in a neat frame, the paper covered with glass. whafthe matter was, All he wanted from her, she said, was a wrench. There were screw-eyes on the back of the frame. “I keep it hanging If yqu witness a serious accident, the outbreak of what threatens to be a BIG fire, or know of any other BIG news story, telephone Beekman HILE standing out in front of the house this morning I saw one ERVING to-day as an election inspector at No. 945 Washington skirt was so long he had to hold it up in order to climb the stoop. many of these documents. Hence, I was most agreeably surprised He was fixing his furnace and wore the baseball cap to protect his on the wall at home,” Mr, Bedwinek explained, “so that all our friends WHILE YOU Wart. Through my window yesterday 1 saw a man jumping vivorousiy on a THIS SHOULD RE Goop FoR A RIDE. I was eating lunch several days ago pile of boards in a room across the |when my sister told me: “Em, Mr.| hair and the skirt to save his trousers, He certainly was all dolled may know that I am a citizen of the United States.”"—John Foster street, After a time he raised the |Edward A. Wilson won the Ford to-| up—Mrs. M. Waring, No. 65 47th Street, Corona, L. I. Nevius, No, 957 Cauldwell Avenue, Bronx. Doards, lifted up a pair of trousers, | day.” Mr. Wilson lives just across the inspected them, apparently found the Javenue from us. You could have BUSINESS AS USUAL. creases not to his liking, and began ‘knocked me over with a feather! To TOOK a suit around to the tailor’s to be pressed and when I got the operation all over again, Soon @ smal! boy appeared, and the two nat for five minutes on the boards. The trousers were taken out, brushed ‘and soon the man had put them on and was walking in the street, The creases were most sharp enough to think one of the Fords had been won <o near my own home! It certainly went to one proud daddy.—Emma Man- tuvano, No. 158 Ninth Avenue. | there found the shop had been turned over to the Board of Eles- tions for registration purposes. “What's become of the tailor I asked one of the clerks. “Oh,” said he, “he isn’t far away. You'll find him next door, tending to ‘business as usual.’” I stepped into the place next door and after I had walked through a sort of reception COVER UP BACH COUGH AND “SNE emetic Club. Non 'toea Brood, | The Clevator at No, 14 Wall Street room found my tailor. “Look where they got me!" he seid, and for wy Pied Naa ee da ACU oT Ae the first time taking note of my surroundings I found I was in an un: — ‘i mediately a man standing next to him BOOR! ASCE Ty Daa AN woe! dertaker’s shop, I didn't want to “register” there, and I hustled out 4 tartied na Tas cntering my {'Mipeed out his handkerchief, pressed] A four-year-old curly-headed, rome We were annoyed by the noise mace] without taking the time to leave any definite instructions about the was startied as I was enterin| it agains © and held. it -¢| per-ela | was holding her doll ‘or | by some boys at play under an electric a nome at xeeing m mun fy head overluntit tne car fenched the wiret her | ber“eiad irl wa ae ate oe H ra ; sult, I hope he has not sent it to the cleaners.—James T, McCusker, cea ene = the Inspection of a horse on 81st Street, | street lamp as we sat on our porch last * . hela through the front door of the next Iihere he biew his nos wigorouly aed ‘s : hea} No. 461 East 158th Street, Bronx. rouse. He held a valise tightly sripped | geparted.—dames M. Malone, No. gog]mear Avenue A, as T was passing this|evening. Then one of the boys smashe his right hand, Right after him|Kyst seth street, : morning. The horse must have had altho electric bulb with a well directed me in bares “4 paps which Mire mie eae lan i Bal erated shot from a bean shooter, and the sur- fell. I was informed that what T had 7 ae aN died wide. Maybe the child thought he|roundings were plunged tn darkness. witnessed was but an incident In board-| | as a puri ateecen Bebe pied meant to swallow the doll or herself, Jot course the boys immediately sought Ing house life, being one of the many | ree eee snish in a can beside [for she became frightened and ran Of fnew ficlds for their play, and we were Waysjof evicting a boarder.—Jullue Mie} ee ad lok a shoe from dt. He ua ther ‘little fat legs would) oneratulating ourselves upon enjoying ler, No. 820 Hast Sth Street. Pane? sathedd William Pless, No. 90 Hunt sat down and put 4 on. Then he | oeiect, mimhurat. the unagcustomed quiet and my sister POAC LING. got up and took a few steps, just _ in-law was happy In the thought that as one dors in a shoo store. Evi- mK L saw a gentleman fall a passing | dently satisfed with the ft, he took BRIGHTENING THE CORNER. tier steep would not be disturbed by tax, Hepa ater tae thal Re the mete from the rubbish and put 4 zh ne. on a Boor id the bright light shining Into her bed- ome ws or Bist between Manhattan and Eighth} ‘ 0%, depositing hte old shoes in the ie ie rae treew two ian ow room, But our dreams were shattered APTLY PUT OUT, SNATCHED FROM THE JA Avenues, Lut when the driver pulled | Ot 10 Me Fomeiben the face of an old building. ‘They [PY the appearance of un electrician. | y aim q conductor on the Fulton Street DEAT his machine to the curb the drivers of | *™ile of aatisfaction.-H. Schreiber, ware masks, completely covering their] W20 replaced the shattered bulb with a] or tue mR. oT. Tonight at 0.24,] ‘THe house adjoining ours 1x vacant. “the waiting taxis insisted that he move| No 414 Christopher Street Cee aS ch Held & revolving ateel|{Rew one and the swift return of the]! : es Next to this house we keep some rab- on and that the gentlenan and lady use Leen a eae ay tan’ electric smotor, | boys.—-George F. Klages, No, 2A Han- [arriving at the Boyd Avenue station on} itt" “W iiswed one to-day and de- one of their ex The man sald he SEP CINGSUE: which removed the dirty crust and left|cock Street, Woodside, the w urd trip, a man placed a J he must have got Into this house guessed he could choose fort himaeif.| On my way to business this morning |r ee ery and clean looking Sar trunk on the train platform.|some way. I entered. Several cats But the driver suld the others had his fin the Third a4 i 5 sav LUNG ham Kronenberg, No. 113 Pierson LOST—ONE FORD. t a minute, please!” he cried, and|scampered away at my approach, In vat ner lose sing the appliances on the train to “ones ane one of the rooms c 5 Humber and he would rather los» the using t PRD Resse ony Eau! T see that George H. O'Brien won) oon returned with a smaller grip and] Ne Of the rooms T found more cate ana fare than suffer the damage they could |help himself tn a Ford by writing a story entitle salt on a bed of straw I saw our ral do him. The gentleman and Lady hailed | At Chatham Square } eSHIVRIOLAN GHAD aiavasouuny) || ipuniine Home by. Candlelight."{2 pillow, He put the pillow down in aline” cats were sitting there merely & passing bus und departed in-it.—-W. J, from the stra bot I saw a pretty. young flapper plenti-| More power to Mr. O'Brien. Mut Tsee]eorner of the car and tried to go toftooking at him und he seemed not penne, Ne Abate Aveués Mi Obata ae inert whieh Ttutty bespattered With mud to-day when | ileo, by that award, that Thad 1 p. Tho passengers giggled, I] in the loast disturbed by their presence r eee ene TD real tan automobile tuted {nto Sat Street] fn my very grasp and let it slip thr woke him at Park Row, but he begged] These cats, I concluded, had never lignocaine da Seung ON ah brushed Mt Trom Seventh Avenue, Ruefully she my fingers, for ever since last ap awoke nin ot Be eal Tog | tastest tubbit.—-RIl Seldel, No. 808 Hast An elsht-yeur-old boy waved a fins't] clothes, straightened hts hat and walled | OM aU oo oe ekirt, then she] neighbor hus been working Sundays, allowed to return to the end offigith strect, Hronx bed, white and blue button at moe this}out as if his actions were nothing fated up to a car parked beside the holldays and even by candlelight at! the tine, saying he had been evicted be- : Fok Morales tds | jayals—Glndssi H. Wis No. 876 LeX-| oy and communed earnestly for a mo- | nisht, som inane aa teks Be ae Ee, cause he could not pay his rent and oven: Gu she Hye ineton: Avenue ment with the chantfeur. He produced | t® butld home, hy soln MThad no place to go. I took him buck to Thie morning 1 had the opportu. ou Was printe eof AL Sm loth, dipped it deep in his gusolet neht on Ing thing, und sending: nae nity to ace myself as others sce me, abiced the was 80. sure WAIT a plett aipne ita toe eeeNe thom in in the hope that 1 may win al Lefferts Avenuo, where ut 11.08 2. M.] MiN [0 ace musrlt we otters tee tho Ma candidate will be lected and he” oy eye north wide of ddd Street, near | Nk the F to mante | Ford before tt is too lute,—Willam | he got off the train, looking aad Ralph eaiTwin VUste GATE ate eee seplted, “My daddy s >and T Just prowdway here a cigar store as aligns kratited, ale rewarded him with | Pees, No. 90 Hunt Strect, | luihurat, — [Glein, No. 481 East 17 , carriage, The oldest, about etoht Wyalirod, and he s peor ant Athagein tha eater kiana aeoR ear 1 AN eral pete on her Wa) (ABERTY EVIAGHTENING TH | THis 18 A TINK HOUSE! SOME pale Mec ce Ud aqvonesa lintel the 1 lat hal aR ER PDE BE a anes Wile seater fein (hinting. for 1 naw his apply. the aah DAY YOU'LE HAVE ARR ASE corstage, She was putting on ters [eee of coal and e the pavement. He was well dressed, | OMN USTMIUE Wr ig own coat. rubbing | Our neighbor had built a new stoop ON VEWE ANI rible “airs,” and [remarked to her. Bee mennied si 8 a MTP sober and midis agel Carefully Wei e cialy. Mrs, A. Henderson, Chain- (and had taken the worn ters down, Dut] pm a letter enrrtor, Just ae t un must think vou are son rts Building picked up matel by mateh and put them | PiKOroUsIy Mire A was overtaken by darkness before the] apout to enter a house this morning al lady, showing off like that, i I Paci ARES: Beans ben Ta ten one Foe — new stoop was dn place. ‘That mesot) man rushed past me. Suddenly a win no!’ she replied promptly, adding, eee RO} att PR OuE YER: LC 18 SASL a aly ee 7 7 he had to do the work at night, so his] dow on the ground floor Was opened I'm just making believe I’m you.” lat Fifth Avenue and 122d Street cy were too wet, They sputtered and re RICHMOND. wife held aloft an electric light, pluge and a woman's voice called, “Charlle!"* M. Wiiliamson, No, 4085 Gunther Peg emo 6 oe ent sa wth BAgety tateine dea ANAM the Gunlis Gs THE BEAUTY PUDDE trp cup Ronse: wile he worked, Pres The man turned and glared at th cting traffic in connection with Bate OnE AUN tater SENS A pena a here as ently a fine husky shower started and] dow. And as he stood there the won feck. Many. curlous persons stood] cigar store lighter burned brightly be] After the last rain ere was a 00d 1 provided her with an umbrella, a rain-| jet fly a doughnut, quickly followed by| THE 1 VANS. ting to seo what would happen to the] hind nim —James §. nes, No. S63 | deat of mud and water in tho middle of [cout ‘w chalr and a rubber pad to atand| «sagan ones Hoth scored hits and she| Nethaland Chapter, .O oat ere wel dere a my window T saw a boy and girl, 8, er ligh OLIN SW. a window. voor Cl le 2 i deat ee ar ‘3 ena Pwatcned her. She had the| A FRIGND OF DUMB ANIMALS. [nbout threo years old, having. the time JOSE Gaul Ue sannenraabel'e. conoete| cloak “itera dueccuniets poe thar pen mameee aer Sullivan of No. 496 1B. ‘i chistle brought even taxis anc and 34th Street. The time, this} the 1 girl was trying to swim in aJOf | laug) ne i aia | yowen ee eld an dpi bE. of aes (a a halt,—Ema!l Ny-| morning between § and 9 when throngs} muddy hole full of water, and when r]stuck to her oF her eine Ai “ ue LAS ley an i akin, Mey Sullivan took seve No. were hurrying along to. th work.] remonstrated with her, she looked up é a . i . eral chances, She le nfo nan, N Many of the passers-by were young) brightly and said: “I am taking a mud Mmore Avenue, Coron, Bronx. ch were drawn and asked me to To CURE women, ali dressed up and lo is|tath to improve my heauty."—Mrs. FE be sure to bring the skin to her be= f saw o dig truck anlondit {f in the afternoon they wotld be non-|Byowne, No. 25 Ludwig Street, West cause she wanted to enlarge the ones fay nt No. 73 West 108th halantly tou at the Ritz rather] Brighton, Staten Island | she had. Sure enough, she won tt and he ie tom that RE han pouriding a typewriter, In the — had the pleasure again of carrying erect tapas ae st of all this appenred a Uttle gray CUSTARD. Waninue te arc ta, Canin made an fort to see this now r midst of al! thi r & f t ! ( fight. They were standing on the side- haired woman who smiled as she worked] 1 @us riding on my bicycle this after- aines, No. 495 Kast 138th Street, wilks, on stoops and leaning from win-|her way throush the crowd to the curb:| noon when 1 saw a be ree from A Brone Hows. Janitors leaned on their broom=| Arrived there, she began to rub and carrying a pie, and mount hi. = Hows, Janitors leaned or He ee ERE THE HOR OLA Vora, Then One pros He sped ahead of mo, holding A CITIZEN HESSE 1s and. met ee epectucle, Sand. blastecs| duced a couple of lumps of sugar from his hand as an experienced OPINION. DP Maes West 10sth Strest anepended [her ha nd fed them to the grate- es a dish tray in a restau The tooat tram pulled into the 96th Bee ee ee eee eat hercaa {fal horse 1 felt nse of pride at] rant, ‘Then ne tried riding with neithe Street station, — The passengers ‘a ‘div and ents ran wildly white the {Sieht of a woman who was not ashamed| hand on the handlebars, His whee Rind Ws Gad cut The doar eave xe a y fe zur Mil No. 71 West ]or too busy to perform a real human] struck a rock, he went sprawling, and closing when suddenly a man rushed ai ptecet i a act in this ble city where moat every-| the pie was wrecked In a lot of mud.— up and caught a door in both hands. sth Street one is “too busy to bother.”—Miss F.] Howard Herbert, BlUngville Shore ; A eo But st was not one of the new tupe FOOLISH QUESTION: ©. Ryder, No, 220 Madison Avenue Staten Island Yesterday s Special Prizes of dnore which open when touched. pas orn, but with the man's A man and his wife were imme- lang CASE WILL BE ATTENDED T0.| now THE CHILDREN ARE GUT. Tt was atubib Ls but with benane diately ahead of me Saturday morn- The children were playing a game they PING ALON Rani t to rerusets. Ie nd aeoiees ing when I went in to register at | invented, called subway guard, when 1] 1 saw the fucea of pupila tn the third ; . Ford Car , gnanped shut behind him. Then he the bouth at Broadway and 44th entered ‘my home lust evening. The|aoy tcurth grades of Public School No. PAUL NOLAN, No. $51 Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn TOgenad: ANie Danae Mins Thats Ae Street, | The wife was questioned “¢ Teuard at the door slammed tt tn my fac State und, glow with Interest and (Winners of Ford Prise report immediately to City dneade Gat het mie out? he: U d explained sh idhiaad OE aca td te aM ER 1 demanded his number and he gave one. |i opines to-day when about a dozen ning World, for identification.) . shouted bo the guard Let me Pena ot the house?” asked. the | Snd When I told him T intended to report | ciners responded to an invitation to First Cash Prize, $25 Out! I don't want thie, J want a Merk, Ol, yes,’ she inatantly roe ae ieee oie T wae Koln anf visit the classrooms and hear the chil- MRS, FRANK KALKHOF, No. 1373 Washington Avenue, Bronx Broadway train.’ But the train flied, in so decided and firma tone | RY Ach and 108 were aed Te euid {aren recite. Hands waved wildly in th ‘Second Cash Prize, $10 had started. Then he leaned ayatmat neat nih 4 ae apn sae fepsrpay a. ¥ evel questio: by the teacher, 7 he “ ~~ ¥0 and complained to that avery one avithin = hearing 11 could go as far aa I liked in reporting |B 8 Ore eaten te enea were SIMON P, PORTEUS, No. 1431 Taylor Avenue, Clason Point, Whelibentnal fall and scompioinad 48 meuokes Me No. eer Wert sank | ctlhey Ress dino pratahied wien dant hen’ they had anawerd Third Cash Prize, $5 vou! Hore they almost kilt a man eient i Naty Bemoer aw, too, that the m JAMES J, BADGER, No. 262 Bowery. shovin’? him into a train without fi : pad tor the time given up from Hones Ten Cash Prizes of $2: Each goth Gain ssihere Be alin go! ( comme maaan canna SiR Sarena pageant sememins. W LOT perforce have ne JOHN T. NOONAN, No. 141 West Tenth Street ratty rotten, £18 tell the wo 7 1 noon, a Heaxty C, d Nt. 2 a vere SoA ch, No, 847 tx Point PAY NO MONEY! SEND NO MONEY! Alene in Me Pah Harry 0 THOMAS F KINS, No. 681 Lexington Avenuc re Aggie No, 847 Hunts Fo ' ‘ Auilers age « F. W. SWARTZ, No. 171 South Ninth Street, Newark, N. J , os There Is no caarge of any kind for taking part in The Evening MRS. POSITIVE GUY E, RUTHERFORD, No, 896 Jackson Avenue, Jersey City, “ASHAMED OF HISSELF." World's “What Did You See To-day?" competition, Send no money two of the Staten Island registration N. J Outside a deleatessen store on the f th 2 cRMAN 3. Veterans' Hospital Ne 5 On with your letters. Pay no money to any one under any circum. a divided by Osgood Avenue d At REOTERMAN; U. 8. Veterans’ Host a, 4 Concourse dust below Kor ut mi Road >ERSONAL F 7 : " bo! w Haven, Co this evening 1 saw a xirl about twelve stances, PERSONAL calls are made on Ford winners ONLY. If Se ING Tanne ODT Te nt desks, EDNA ABELS, No. 1427 Topping Avenue, Bronx years of age give a fox terrier dox u your contribution is adjudged worthy of the automobile the re- of course, Friday evening Mrs. Positive JAMES W. HOBBIF jr, Lafayette Avenue, R ule, Le I paper bag to carry. The Uttle dog porter who calls upon you will carry Evening World credentials. herself beside one of desks MRS, F, BE. CHABOT, No, 8489 th Street, Richmond Ju)! dropped the b LAMA Use ONAL ene © proper one ; Jo. 1559 42d Stre A ‘ olled from dh, Ask to seo them. In case of doubt, telephone to the City Editor sisted “thet HRS BrOpOr oF IDA ¢ AUS, No. 1559 42d Street, Brooklyn abel ne < like that,’ te rookive. Wes RECAURD, "ONY PATRICK J. MeNAUGHTO 690 Fitth Avenue, Brooklyn knew: you'd 5 scmneshing like thas of The Evening World. husbend told walk to the sid: Ant ‘. 4 luimed the child in a scolding votce Mreryetanqs;made tovprint the more: meritorious: conttiba: is Feene caenetion ge Read to-day’s stories. Pick the ones you think best do raiuaee (He Mekawen inte Exe. an tions. Write on matters likely to be of general interest. “Locate” Arte toe nee chat sia Winners will be announced in this evening's Night Pic then when the little girl stooped to do the Incident, Tell WHERE the thing Sappened. And “keep on the “right chureh but the wrong pew." torial (Green Sheet) edition and in other editions to- o herself he stood with his head bow ing.” John J. O'Conners, No. 87 Hamilton morrow. —Mra, Frank T, Ke , No. 2420 € SriDe: Street, Stapleton, &. I. ton Avenue, Bronx “A FORD A DAY” GIVEN AWAY FREE UNTIL NOVEMBE WEEKLY PRIZES. Regular CAPITAL PRIZES for the Best Stories of the Week to Be Distributed Among DAILY Prize Winners Other Than Those to Whom the Ford Cars are Awarded: $100; SECOND, $50; THIRD, $25; FOURTH, $10. FIRST, BROOKLYN GOOD-BYE. SAW the mother of seven children, living across the way from me, taken away to the hospital in an ambulance. all in their windows when the ambulance arrived and an officer I and the driver went in and broug children is a few weel Seeing the interest that everybody old and the eldest about sixteen years. The neighbors were ht her out. The youngest of the see was taking in her (most of the women were crying in sympathy) the sick woman lifted one hand from under the blanket and waved a good-bye. from her own eves.—Mrs. J. McKenna, No. 11] Firat Place, Brooklyn, THE BIG sHOW, Tuesday ts payday at the B. R. 7. station at Jamaica and Alabama Avenues, Hast New York, and ven- ders of every description show their wares there on that day. But laet Tuesday they didn’t have a chance, for aorosa the street was a tall Ne- gro selling medicine and with sev- eral large snakes around Ais neck. He did a land office business.—Mrs. A. Schoneberger, No. 108 Linwood Street, Brookiyn, ALLEGED JOKE, “Hot Dog—5 Cents" was the sign I saw hanging In front of No. 63% Bt. John's Place. and curiosity led me to ring the bell and ask for a hot dog when the door was opened by a Woman who later told me It 1s a nice looking house her name was Lynch. Apparently she thought me out of my mind. I showed her the sign, Some one had taken down her ‘Furnia! put the “Hot Dog’ Lillian Walker, No, 11 McDonough Street, Brooklyn. Then sho wiped the teara WHO CAN EXPLAIN THIS MYSTERY OF THE TUNNEL? The sky was overcast but the side- walks were dry when 1 left home for business Monday morning. On the way through the tunnel tn a subway train the Windows became wet as though It were raining in the tunnel, The pas- Gengers, most of whom wore raincoats or carried umbrellas, were prepared for wet weather, but when we reached thd street it was dry. Where the water came from I do not know,—Prank de Leon, No. 8685 17th Avenue, Brooklyn, BRFORE MR. BRYAN'S FINST CAMs PAIGN. While working in the house nes to one in whtoh I was born, I moved some old lincleum from the vestibule and found under it some old newspapers dated 189}, the year of my dirth.—Mra, U. M, Bartow, No, 287 Halsey Street, Hrooklyn. OUT OF TOWN. BUSY, HAPPY AND CONTENT. town, I happened upon a yo side of a brook, No electric T 0-DAY while walking through a sparcely settled section of our ung woman washing clothes by the washing machine or latest improve- ment for her; she had spread an article on a flat rock and was patting it with her hands in the way I have heard my grandmot! used to do in the old country. r say they When she considered the article clean enough the young woman rinsed it in the brook and spread it on the grass to dry. She repeated this process until the washing was done. She didn't seem to mind my intrusion, so I stayed and amused her baby. which was sitting in the clothes basket. little home, consisting of one big The mother showed me their room. It was scrupulously clean. Her husband {s a carpenter and this house js temporary. When they have saved enough, a bigger and better house will take its place. Mean- while, she is busy, happy and perfectly content.—Helen McCormick, North Palisade Avenue, Bergenfield, N? J. A SLIET. At Mr. Toucalat's corner in our wilage to-day 1 saw a small girt and her smaller brother part com- pany. The small boy with his small wheelbarrow had assisted his small ster and a very large bundle down the steep and rough road called Ash Street, and when they reached the good level concrete sidewalk he evidently had left her to carry the bundle alone. “I'll tell Daddy,” ehe indignantly called after him. But the little fellow without looking vackward drove his wheelbarrow up the Ail with as much importance im his manner ax if he were driving a twin siz automobile.—anna 8. Moro, Piermont, N. Y. STYLE. For years I have been purchasing stamped envelopes, size No. 13, of the sub-Post OMce at Central Avenue and Hutton Street, Jersey City. The pre- war price was 21 cents for ten. They went as high as 28 cents for ten during the war, but lately have been 22 cents for ten. Yesterday I bought ten and was charged 23 cents. why they had advanced and the sald: “We are all out of low , the Kind you have been getting, gave you high backs, which cost more per ten." It was a new one one me, Style in everything even in Uncle Sam's envelopes — costs more money.—Henry B, Russell, No, 109 Leonard Street, Jersey City. BALKY, On my way to work this morning I saw our fee man hitching his horse to 4 cart in his stableyard, Then the ice man and two helpers tried to lead the horse to the street, He refused to go and they pulled, pushed and cnjoled, but still he refused to budge. Then they unhitehed him, pulled the wagon to the street and leading the horse there, hitched him up again, Then with a mere “giddap" from the driver the horse started.—Louts J. Carissimi, No. 415 Baldwin Avenue, Jer- sey City, N. J. RAPID TRANSIT IN NORT! In our village we have three PORT. trolley cars, One is used to make connections with the trains, This morning when the car left the barn at 6.45 ¢’clock the trolley p immediately stipped from the wire, It continued to silp every time It reached a crossarm, Of course each time the current was #ut off the car stopped and the conductor would have to replace It. Then he stood on the rear platform holding the trolley rope He could not collect the fares until a passenger volunteered to relieve him. Finally we reached the station Just in time for the train.- W. Fowler, Northport, L, I TRY THIS ON YOUR BOOTLEGGER. I saw a@ Mttle girl enter a grocery store In which I was to-day. She car an empty hich once evi y cont r When the ork asked her what she wanted she sald: “Give me five cents’ worth of— amell-the-bottle."—M,-L.— Breurs’ , Conn ALL YOU NEED 18 24 HOURS A DAY T saw a friend of mine to-day beating the high price of coal for the winter. He sat on the floor sure rounded by newspapers, In front of him was a pan of water into which had been mized some flour to form @ paste. Into thia he was dipping the newspapers. Then he would roit them up into smalt balls, Later he put them in the sun to dry, and after that he had fuel which he sata burned almost as well ae coal and at no cost except a iittle tme.—A. J, Mack, No. 245 Springfeld Avenue, Newark, N. J. COME TO MONMOUTH! Monmouth County, N, J., according to Government reports, is one of the rich- est agriculture! counties in the United State Harvest Home Week has just been celebrated in Red Bank and the merchants have on display in thelr win- dows a large variety of products from Monmouth County farms, Corn on stalks fourteen feet tall, the ears measuring ten to fourteen inches, are in these win~ dows, I saw one pumpkin which welghed more than sixty pounds. I saw potatoes which welghed almost two pounds each, I saw apples more than twelve inches in circumference. Broad Street, the main thoroughfare of the town, re- sembles a country fair. The merchants made reductions in prices for Harvest Home Week and every one seemed to be doing a rushing business.—C. D, Me- Lean, Red Bank, N. J. THE MIDGR. I saw to-day at the Milford, Conn., Yacht Club a model of a yacht which is perfect in every detail. She is called Midge. She is 5 feet 3 inches over all, 5 feet 11 inches in height and h fin keel, with a sloop rig. She draws thir- teen inches of water. She is equipped with electricity, has hand made pul- leys, Ife preservers, tiny silk cushiona in the cabin and landing steps. Midge was built in odd hours by Benjamin Rockwell of Milford of cedar more than 250 years old.—Helen Y, Putney, No, 55 Broad Street, Milford, Conn, POLICE! The cream had disappeared from the Bottles of milk one morning a fortnight ago, the paper covers of the bottles apparently having removed with a knife blade, 8 days later the thing happened again, and later two mornings in succession, This morning I was up early, and looking through @ ndow I saw a » police dog lapping cream from one of the bottles, Amazed, I spoke to the milkman about it He sald the dog had been getting fat by stealing the cream from milk botties all over the nightborhoed for some thme past and probably lived In a nearby woods. I have a covered box for the recelpt of my milk now.—Mrs, W. 8, Hammett Jr, No, 10 Reld Avenue, Port Washington, L. 1. HANG UP THE COAL-HOD, Christmas is coming! In to-day’s mail t our drug store | saw two holly-be- decked envelopes containing advertises ments and order blanks for Christmas novelties. Arthur C. Emelin, Mamaree neck, N. ¥. 1...SPECIAL PRIZE : s 4