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same time member of the Board of Education;
Judge Petit, of the Municipal Court, and Francis
u. Blair. State Superintendent of Public 1nstruc-
ton for Illinois. endeavoring to reform
the views of parents lovemaking. Judge
Petit says that Cupid should have a free rein,
nut that while his shafts stealing az way
into hearts the young people should he educat
ing themselves.
All the young people who contemplate
riage," said Judge Petit. should be compelled
by law to take a course on the question Of their
own legal rights and their obligations TO one
another. II this were done wife desertiOn and
child abandonment would be unheard Of
The Rev. DR. White takes the battle of the
young woman against the fiat building and fiat
life, but goes beyond the stage of lovenakng.
He declares that the small fat is "a grave men,
ace TO the civic welfare of the American ma
ton"
Most American citizenship adds Dr.. White,
is like the dictionary definition of a model
a small imitation of the real thing / am not
a pessinist. but | believe that is true in any
quarter where the ideal is compared with the
fact.
There are good many causes for this effect
But the one thing which. in my judgment is
doing more than any other single agency 10
the increasing number OF homeless men, home
less women ana homeless families
BY this | mean the increasing number of
people who do not own their own homes I
hold that it's a hard trick to live in another
fellows fat and be a good citizen. The family
that lives in one fat this year and in another
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BROOKLYN SOCIAL CHAT.
Continued from page six.

H Edward Dreier. Morris L. Ely. Emil Frank
1r Walter Hope. Robinson Leech. Claude Lieb-
man. David Stuart Charles Switzer and Her
bert Zellhoefer
Mr. and Mrs. James S. Burke of Pierre
pont street gave a dinner Thursday evening
for Miss Louise Mulls, who is visiting their
daughter. Miss Florence Calhoun Burke. The
other guests were Miss Kate Duryea Allin. Miss
Winifred Tate John Lowry jr.. Allen Cumming.
Carleton Pate and Arthur Hatch.
Mrs. George w Wingate also entertained at
dinner before the Little Italy" dance Her guests
were Miss Sanderson, of London. who has been
visiting Miss Louisa Wingate Mrs. John Brooks
Yale Miss Margaret L. Martin, Garside Hamil-
ton. Dr. John G. Underhill Clayton Rich and
Prentice Harrison.
The Countess Taverny was the guest of honor
at a dinner of ten covers given Wednesday
evening by Mr. and Mrs Robert Goeer at their
home No. 264 Hicks street The other guests
were DR.. and Mrs. Darwin Nagel. Mr.. and
Mrs Herbert Lloyd, Miss Brandt, Bella D. Eisier
and Alexander Campbell Mr.. and Mrs James
Guthrie Shaw were prevented attending by i'll
ness. Carnations We're effectively employed IN
the table decorations The countess wore black
net and pearls and her hostess gowned in
gray liberty satin embroidered with American
Beauties.
Receiving with Mr.. and Mrs. John Barber
Creighton, of No. 1909 Avenue II. Fiske Ter
race Monday evening, We're Mrs. George w.
Randall Mrs Palmer A. Paddock. Miss jose
phine Paddock and Miss Matte Burden The
reception was in the nature of a house warm
ing.
Miss Bertha Shuts, daughter of Mrs. Fred
erick C. Brown, of No. POI Columbia Heights,
was the hostess at a card party given Friday.
November %. The attendance was made up
mainly of the younger Heights set. 1t included
Miss Dorothy Bruff. Miss Jean Southwick. Miss
Ruth Latin Miss Doris Arnold Miss Mary La
Vie. Miss Jean Murray. Miss Marguerite Sim
mons Miss Isabelle Cooper, Miss Louise -'iske,
hai-, Edna Chapman, Miss Janet Buchanan,
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SITE or OLD FORT BULL.
NOnument NO7c Marks 1t Near CitY
Of Rome. =. \.

Rome. y. Y Dec Out of compliment to
Fort Stanwix Chapter Daughters of the Amerl-
Revolution, Of this city. Mrs ". ]. P.
Kingsley who lives here. has Just erected a
monument on the site Of old Fort Bull. 1t con-
sists of 7ve-ton bowlder set upon two large
granite slabs and a concrete foundation fou-
feet deep. The outlines OF this fort of the
French and Indian war still plainly visible.
and the monument stands In the centre of the
site. The site is on the 1.0UD-acre farm owned
by George Dunhan. There is no legal protec
ton for what remains OF the old fort. and It
has been suggested that the state Oneida
County should purchase the site for the pur-
pose of its preservation.
Fort Bull was named after the officer who
commanded 1t. 1t stood on Wood Greek about
two miles northwest of Fort Stanwix. had
garrison of sixty men and was equipped with
considerable quantity OF munitions of war ANA
provisions. The fort somewhat Tesembled a star
in shape and was constructed of heavy pickets
- 10 1S feet above the ground, with a second
row inside the height Of Il man. 1t contained no
cannon, but there were a number of greuades
which Colonel Johnson had sent when he heard
of the intended approach OF the hostile forces,
II the intention of the French to seize
the guards of the fort and enter without firing
a shot. but the approach of the enemy was OBJ
served by the English, and the guards rushed
into the fort and closed the gates. The English
commander was summoned to surrender with
the promise of quarter. He replied with 4
round of musketry and a shower of grenades.
The French obtained possession of the portfolios
and fired through them at such of the English
as they could The gate cut down
within the hour and the Frensh rushes in and
put the sword every they could lay their
hands upon One woman and few soldiers
escaped. The French were about to throw the
store OF gunpowder into the river when of
the magazines caught fire and exploded. Two
of the invaders killed. The remaining
supplies. including fifteen bateaus, were then
DESTROYED.
Besides Fort StanwiX and Fort Bull there
were several other forts in the neigh borhood,
hut all traces of the others have been oblit-
Grated Fort Bull was never repaired after its
capture.
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legs of a telescope. from which the trolley arm
is slung 1t has a large placard suspended round
its neck like a IOcket which bears the most awful
warning 10 those who tempted 10 cling TO II
when they feel their balance insecure. and both
INV waking and sleeping hours were haunted with
the conviction that time before We left GaS-
cow / should yield 20 panic and seize it. Prov-
dence saved me from that dreadful fate, however,
so I am still in doubt TO whether you are
heavily fined thrown into prison, or whether
Won meet a deserved and instantaneous punishment
bv sizzling on a live wire. / wish knew which
IN was Some one must have done IL, else why
the warning?
Dreadful things do happen in those tram some
times A girl told me she once saw woman
carving q baby, who. she started tc so down
the stairs lost her balance from the swinging or
the tram and the poor baby's head was dashed
against the side OF the post and dreadfuliy IN
iured IL used to frighten me to see old men and
women with little children essay that peTlious pas
sage. They managed wonderfully well. much better
man did so 1 suppose practice counts for some
thing in tramway travel well as in other forms OF
exercise but noticed that they moved very slowly
and cautiously. and L wondered what would happen
ie This system were introduced in our hurrying
land where every moment is OF importance ana
vre are impatient of the delay in getting en- our
cars with their single level
=. great deal is said about the low fares and
tho oossibiIitv of riding two or three blocks ror
a haIfpenny That is very nice and IN Glasgow
r.bora the population is almost entirely within
,bs hounds of it's own walls. IL has, I suppose,
+,e+irrt advantage; but to US, who use the troll
~ in the great majority OF for long dis
,.rca riding the advantages lie in quite the oppo-
site direction
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LESSONS IN COURTING.

Superintendent Blair is assisting the crusade
in behalf of Cupid by advising the school teach
ers of Illinois, both city and country, TO teach
courtship scientificaly-not only TO teach II, but
10 nut it into practice among the pupils He
saws that courtship should he made a part OF
the instruction III English Explaining his plan
at recent meeting Of the Chicago Engils n
Club an organization of teachers of English In
the public schools of Chicago, Mr. Blair SAID
this:
81 believe and believe il thoroughly, that
courtship and marriage should be made subjects
of instruction in Illinois schools Just as
much as arithmetic spelling why 30 we
spend wears and millions with our chlidrtn IN
structinC them in theoretical studies, and turn
away entirely from the things that are closest
to the life the child will live after school days
Il have seen courtship taught IN the country
schools II can be done, feaSlbly ana Deautl :
frlIlv / have seen children taking the roles OIL
Priscilla Miles Standish and John Alden ana
going through the courtship without trace OF
embarrassment or laughter. ,
After the courtship the teacher asked the
children which was the better Wooer, the petleI
sweetheart and made them tell her when was
the better The boy who does that VIII know
how TO go about il when ne wants glri 10
marry him / think he'll get her. TOO.
Parents don't equip their children Tor me
unless tbev prepare them for life at as many
noints as possible In most cases the parents
wont do it. and teachers don't do 1t. Ihis state
is full of teachers whose minds are as poverty
stricken on literature as can well be llhaS Siie"-
Arithmetic spelling. the routine-that Is All tlley
know Once In a while you f1nd leacller WIN
knows how to teach English, and such a teacner,
Kvhet her consciously unconSciously, iedCheS
the high art Of cOurtship. developing hopie M
pulses and lofty sentiments. A.,
BY all means introduce courtshlp in.o tre
schoolroom with the masterpieces OF Ehghsh
literature your textbooks
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RIDE ON STREETCAR TOP
american U0man Sees Sights of
GlasgO1c an NOUeI Fashion,

The last stragglers Of the army Of vacation tour
lists returning from abroad now, laden with the
usual assortment OF experiences aui impressions
In the cargoes CT ideas brought home every year
by these transatlantic voyagers there is mostly
much Of a sameness'. but here and there among
the homecomers is observer who has seen some
OF the old sights from a point of view. Such
a one is young woman who stepped ashore the
other day. after month in Scotland. where. being
Bostonian. she found special interest in Glasgow
the Scottish city with which Boston Is compared so
frequently and in many ways
OF all things Glasgowegian-thatS what things
pertaining 10 Glasgow are called by some freak of
derivation-the most famous perhaps in this coun-
try is the streetcar system The Glasgow tram
has been held up example TO the world,
though James Dalrympie who operates the mu-
ncipal tram system. returned the compliment by
nominating Bostons local transportation service as
the nearly ideal when he came over here
couple OF years ago as expert adviser to Mayor
Dunno of Chicago. American trolley riders-whlch
nowadays means every American. of cOurse-may
interested in the impressions made the young
woman by the story trans popular, ap-
parentIy, In the British Isles
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Foreign Resorts.

Miss Althea Gibb. Miss Helen Hinman. Miss
Doris Webster, Miss Gertrude Jennings, Miss
Eliza Hedges, Miss Agnes Bigelow. Miss Cath
crime Van Wyck and Miss Isabel Shuts
Mrs. Grace E. Cave. of No GA Washington
avenue, will give dance for her daughter. Miss
Irene Dunbar Cave at the Heights Casino. Fri
day, December "a
The Rev. DR.. and Mrs. Walter de Forest john
son will give a reception to the parishioners OF
Christ Church. Clinton street, in the parish
house next Wednesday evening.
The list of patronesses for the concert of the
Yale Glee, Banjo, Mandolin and Guitar Clup
and the dance following at the Heights CASINO
Wednesday, December IS. has been completed
1t includes Mrs. Camden Crosby Dixie. Mrs. John
Hill Morgan. Mrs. William Satterlee Packer
Mrs. H. Edward Dreier. Mrs. Edward H Litch-
field. Mrs. A Augustus Low, Mrs Almet +
Jenks Mrs. James Lancaster Morgan. Mrs
Daniel Chauncey. Mrs Henry Sanger SNOW
Mrs. John Eadie Leech. Mrs. Glenworth Reeve
Butler Mrs Frederic b. Pratt. Mrs. Edward LIE
Grand Beers Mrs. Edmund W. Corlies. Mrs W.
Sterling Peters, Mrs. Howard Whitney Maxwell
Mrs William z. Carhart Mrs. Hiram Roswel
Steele. Mrs William Jenkins Bruff. Mrs John
Van Nostrand Mrs. John Van Buren, Thayer
Mrs. George H. Southard Mrs. Harold Latham
Fish Mrs Henry T Richardson, Mrs Francis
H. Page. Mrs. Samuel W. Seaman. Mrs Jona-
than TrUmbull Lanman, MIS- L sherwood COi-
fin, Mrs. Walter Shaw Brewster, Mrs Carl H.
de Silver, Mrs Donald Grant Geddes. Mrs Eben
J. Knowlton, Mrs. Donald S L. Lee. Mrs
George Notman. Mrs. Frank Day Tuttie, Mrs
Edward Hinman. Mrs. Elijah Robinson Ken
nady. Mrs. Sidney Robinson kennady. Mrs
Hersey Brown, Mrs. Henry Rogers Mallory,
Mrs William H Thurston. Mrs Charles j. Pea
body, Mrs Lewis w. Francis. Mrs Horatio
Mortier Adams, Mrs. George S. Frank. Mrs
Frederick A. Dwight, Mrs. Josiah Post Howell
Mrs Edwin Packard Mrs r. NJ. Stuart, Mrs
Thomas : Moore. Samuel T..
Mrs Thomas B. Hewitt. Mrs. Charles B. Hewitt
Mrs. Frederick A. Neergaard, Mrs William L.
Van Sinderen, Mrs. Andrew Dougherty, Mrs
William B. Davenport Mrs. Nathaniel H
Clement, Mrs. Joseph A. Burr Mrs Frederick
p Re1amy, Mrs. George A Price Mrs. Charles
NJ Howard and Mrs William Mason
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HIGH COST OF LYING.
Prospect of The Cheapening OF 1Hony
Commodities Soon.

That almost every necessary OF HE mas risen
in price until il is higher than any since the
civil war was asserted, on the basis OF re-
Gently issued government statistics, by mer-
chants and rnarketmen in this city yesterday
Rread butter. eggs, beef, milk, coal. piahhels'
UNDERWEAR and other staples of food ana ciotillhs
have risen steadily from per cent TO 10 per
cant Stree 1885 according to the latest hgures
&c the Tinted States Bureau. of Labor only
.,o.a.oas of ALI the foodstuffs have dropped in
,,.,o,asaie price g per cent in the period of this
a.;ro+ion while returns from fifteen OF
,he largest cities of the country show gradual
raauction of 81 per cent in the average price OF
.as Although these tables show wages to be
AZ nresent almost 23 per cent higher on an
- as.or,ua nan between 1890 and 1899. it is be-
l;evea nv the supply men that ruling condi-
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berry and big trees. There are flower gardens and
an arbor covered with vines
In the summer. when Miss Rizer was heart
whole and fancy free" there was a swing in
the garden Louise was often seen swinging
gently and reading. Friends congratulated her
on her idyllc life
Miss Rizer a member OF the Calvary
English Lutheran Church. of Irving Park AL
fred Arneson was member of the same church.
The two had been acquainted a long time, but
met only formally. Occasionally Miss Rizer
invited bevy Of young people TO her house
after the Sunday services. On these occasions
Arneson was sometimes one of her guests. not
because there was any especial liking between
him and his handsome hostess, but because he,
like the others, was companionable. The young
folks studied the flowers, promenaded the
lawns. chatted in the arbor and once in while
took turns in the swing.
One day after an afternoon of this kind there
appeared in the weekly newspaper published IN
the suburb the following poem:
LoUIsES SWING.
AS any armchair-old or ft
For poets song memorys tear.
Louise. your swing is just as dear.
love its pendulum-like swing,
Its lazy drifting in the air;
To drive fellows thoughts from care.
There was no signature to the poem: nothing
TO indicate who was its author The editor
merely called attention to the fact that it was
q original production by resident of Irving
Park
The next week another poem was published
in the same column. II also original
inspiration. and ran as follows:
COME AND SWING.
BY LOUISE.
Ny friend. you're always welcome here
To nv lawn swing you hold dear:
Come. bring (ahem1. know quite Well
on whom your thoughts delight to dwell;
And ]. too like her company,
So bring her oft 10 visit
But IL, perchance, she stay at home,
I'm sure you're welcome all alone:
or with your sister. your friend,
] know a happy hour we'd spend;
So DO hesitate
Within the limits OF my home
New-York tribune., 1907-12-08
YOUNG MEN WELCOMED.

AT the party. the young men asked many ques-
fions All they could learn OF the objects OF the
cIub was that il was organized with view 10
getting acquainted" Each Of the young men
knew only one or two OF the hostesses wheh no
reached the scene of the party, but ne kne"
them all as soon introductions could De iiiale
and the evening passed with sons On, adIu
etorfes and an occasional kissing game = ne
yoI,tbs were told TO spread the news among tleii
scouaintances that the club was medium ol
in,roduction': that henceforth the nleetlhss
,vould he open any young man or Houii7
woman of the suburb who could qllahiE.
From This il developed that the ciuD nad dP-
pojnted a qualification committee "hehesei
anv Young man or young woman VINO Is hot a
rnember expresses a wish 10 join the cIup oi 60
ACQUAINTED with any one il is the dulY OF tii!s
committee TO look up the record OF tfe apl.ii-
cant. If the record is clear the applicant "iSii
is granted. -
nv thus bringing together many young per
sons who otherwise might never know OF tue
existence of one another the ciup becomes
clearing house for Cupid Since the orsaniza-
ton was effected, less than month ago Miss
Buese has received many inquiries IRON, all
parts of Chicago relative to the CLUBS piahs-
Arrangements are being made 10 form similar
climbs in other portions of the city, and then
To have interclub parties. This programme VIII
make cupid's clearing house complete.
B,If while the young women are thus creating
opportunities for Cupid the Pev- r. A Whlte,
one of Chicago's foremost preachers aho al tiie
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tions must soon force considerably lower the
general high run of cost of living
The prospect of retail reduction in the price or
beef, which was recently lowered by the whole
salers is now considered bright in New York.
in the light of the 10 per cent which the govern
ment tables show its wholesale price has been
raised in the last six years. That eggs have in
creased in price "a per cent, coal 81 per cent
blankets 23 per cent. milk II per cent. butter
Is per cent and bread II per cent within this
brief period is also regarded as a fair basis
for hope of the general cheapening of these
commodities.
In retail prices the rise since 1896 is set down
in the governments figures even more sub
Stantial Bacon has increased in price - per
cent. pork ~ per cent. lard 3S per cent, and
chickens 33 per cent. Potatoes from the small
dealers raised 4S per cent while their
wholesale price dropping 81 per cent, and
prices for electric light were reduced more than
30 per cent.
To meet the growing prices of food and cloth
ing. the figures of the government statisticianS
show. the average emplOye earns almost 20
per cent more than he did between 1890 and
1900 His hours Of labor are some I per cent
shorter and he Is represented by a total num-
her OF wage earners about ~ per cent greater
These figures were, Of course. compiled before
present conditions thinned the labor ranks
New-York tribune., 1907-12-08
LIKE MOUNTING a CAMEL.

THE thing that most impressed US in Glasgow
she says was the agility and lofty indifference to
danger OF its inhabitants. especially the women
who must be-as old guide in Verona said of
the much contorted daughter of Herodias
of the church doors-'very acrobatish to intrust
themselves TO the top Of those loIoping trans Up
10 the time my husband and l. two wayfaring
Americans landed on Scottish soil. the top of
tram had seemed 10 us peculiarly desirable spot
Fresh air all the breezes that blow. an uninter-
rupted view of the scenery, cry of Move up
forward. please no fat women squeezing into
places 100 small for them. one stumbling over
toes and knocking hats over eyes-in snort, none
of the trials of our native land, but serene dig
nifed progress through the air. giving the de-
lghtful sensation of riding very tall and very
amenabIe horse.
How we do survive our dsappointments! 1t
was no horse but a camel mounted that morn
ing on Sauchiehau street-lcave out all the middle
consonants and choke between each syllable and
you will be able pronounce this quite nicely
and a camel of particularly vicious and unac-
countable temper.
Spying a tempting looking green tram
waved our umbrellas commandingly The con-
ductor very superior person in an equally su-
perior Uniform of dark blue and silver. blew 4
blast childs whistle. and with rattling and
a jar suggestive of a steamer coming into dock
the whole lofty structure stopped.
Outside of course I said.
oh. OF course my faithful companion re-
piled; and with light and assured step we began
TO ascend.
The third step was barely reached when a con-
vulson of nature appeared to take place The
tram mad started-started quite oblivious of the
fact that we were dangling on n spiral precioice
with nothing between and destruction but a
slender brass rail gasped and tried to look over
my shoulder for advice
GO on. an asftated voice called: keep going
on; and since 1 should be obliged TO tumble nv
poor husband into the street If didn't perforce.
did as l was told; but with the shock of unex
pectedness added to natural difficulties of the posi
ton, L have often wondered since how did II
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q WEDDING FOLLOWS

Alfred Arneson'e heart went a-thumpng and
a-jumping when he read the lines by Louise.
Nobody knew it, but he was. the author OF the
first attempt at original poetry that was printed
in The Jeffersonian" Of Irving Park. He hatI
q special object in view when he asked the
editor to publish il. After week Of trepida-
ton lest IL fail Of its purpose he saw that the
Cupid in his lines had hit the target. The poem
by Louise was an answer 10 his.
Arneson did not wait until Sunday for a verbal
Invitation TO have a swing Louise Rizer's
lawn He went over to her house that night.
It was an evening when the full moon shone
bright on the numerous church spires of the
suburb OF Irving Park. Alfred and Louise sat
together in the swing and counted the steeples.
The young woman chatteG increasingly. and the
man knew that he was thrice welcome because
he had come all alone"
Within a month from that evening the Rizer
house brilliantly lighted from basement to
Farret Chinese lanterns made the RlZer lawn
resemble an Oriental garden. Carriages drove
I'D TO the house and young men ana women
alighted; other guests came by troeE car anu
Church was there. Then Alfred Arfleson
led Miss RiZer to altar set up beneath huse
floral swing and the Rev William LentZ. pastor
Of the church read the service that united the
poetic sWeetnearts in Wedlock
1--WE all know the story OF Louise, SAID the
president Of the Cupid's Club of Oak Park when
the young woman who had mentioned the ro-
nance ceased speaking And how lovely IL
was. too: but we don't seem to ne any nearer 10 10
a preamble 20 our constitution. which we haven't
vet thought of drafting. than we were When
We started. Are there any other remarks
This meeting is like Chcago's love making,
spoke up Vice President Ware. It's altogether
too formal / move we adjourn and talk IL
over"
The motion was carried Then the young
women got together in knots and all talked at
once The outcome was that the club decided
10 send invitations TO forty young men to at
tend the clubs first party Each young man
was requested to be prepared TO sing q song or
tell a story. and each was Informed that the
"a affair was to be informal
Recent Of the invitations was the first mixing
the Young men had of the fact that Cupid
club was in existence. The name aroused their
ci1rjositv There was not a single declinatlon