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Evening star., 1908-01-11

rant table. Thereby the manager got him.
self into more or less of mess Whereas
all hands among the female visitors We're
permitted to smoke on New Year eve,
some attempt at differentiation has been
made since New Year eye-and without
any spectacular success. it should be said.
How is the manager going to pick out
the lady and the person who is not
a lady" when both have cigarettes in
their hands? That task has, as I say,
been essayed with a most discouraging
lack of success during the past week or
so. and several rather violent scenes have
resulted. You see, if the person who does
not look altogether like a lady likes "a
cigarette with her coffee. it is wholly
and absolutely up to the management
Well. the thing has not worked. that's
all, and it doesn't seem as if 1t is going
to work. SO far as the really ho-tong res
taurantS are concerned In the meantime
women have been smoking for yahS and
yahS in 9th avenue. whereas the 'ther
restaurants are in 9Th avenue. You per-
ceive the difference? Tweedledum and
tweedledee?
No More Noise.
Several of the best restaurants in New
York, by the way, are now advertising, in
black-iace type, NO music, and thereby
getting many new and pleased patrons. 1t
looked ike a daring innovation, but the
people who started it were right. They
.iad plImbed the fact that the music
business in restaurants in this as well as
in most other American cities had come
to be z most barbarous and offensive
nuisance. 1t not so bad at first.
when fairly good music was provided for
the Ielectation of diners, and when the
musicians were placed at good proper
distance from the tables. But when the
tremendous demand for restaurant musi-
clans caused a corner in the muSic-thump-
ing market, and the ragtag and hobtail of
MISUNDERSTANDING incompetents began
to be fnisted upon people endeavoring to
eat their meals in peace at restaurants,
the thing degenerated into an intolers.ule
aff1iction. 1t has been complained abou
by the better class of restaurant guests
for some years. Now that a start has
been made, perhaps all of the tirst-rate
restaurants will follow suit. As ii is,
there isn't a chance on earth for any sort
of sane conversation between diners at
the average New York restaurant on ac
count of the almost constant clangor of
the slam-bang ragtime music. II it isn't
ragtime, it's worSe-sugary, saccharine
''wooze-music" fitted to the temperaments
Of the partially or wholly alcoholized and
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of making Mrs. Gittem believe that she
really had made the lemon pie-you see
the smell OF the lemon came down the
dumbwaiter Shaft. OF course she tried
to make it appear to Mrs. Gittem that her
sending down the pie was just bit of
neighborlness-she's always talking of
the neighborliness of the, folks out west
where she comes from-hut I suppose
maybe Mrs Gittem couldn't see through
all that.
''Tacky locking lot coming in here today
isn't it? Never saw such a common
looking crowd in all my born days. They
remind me Of folks that might have been
wearing pink sunbonnets and things like
that a few years ago. That's what Mrs
Citizen says about the people that at
tend Mrs. Pittiwink's funny at homes
that they all look as if they'd come into
town on a load of hay. That Mrs. Pitt
wink belongs to the Ohio or the Indiana
or the Iowa Society or something like
that-as if that meant anything! l came
Evening star., 1908-01-11

from Illinois myself. and Im proud OF u,
but. mercy on us. Although I've been
in Washington for years and years now.
don't so round joining farmers So
cieties and were not pretending to belong
to the diplomatic circle and all that sort
of foolishness! Anyhow, | never lived
in the country in Illinois. and my family
had two servants and butler out there.
although | wouldn't mention il for worlds
except that it just happened to come up.
My but the society pretensions of
some of these crazy women, Mrs. Gittem
says that Mrs Pittiwink spends all the
morning in making peanut butter sand
wiches and all that sort of Stuff-and
from what Mrs. Gittem says / guess the
crowd that visit her at her at homes only
go there to eat. But If | were"
And then the curtain went up. and a lot
OF folks sitting around the carroty- haired
commentator Missed 'Sh-Sh!" and she
glared around at them-and the show
went on.
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such like. You get into some interesting
topic with your yis-a-vis at a coy little
dinner and-whoopee! the band whangs
into I'm Afraid To Come Home i'm the
Dark. or Gimme Dat Cuttn' Tool" and
over you've forgotten all about what you
wanted To hear or say. Thinking rp
something else. you venture somewhat
worried and furtive beginning when-oh
Syliabub.--the Hungarian fiddler with the
hair mopes into long-drawn. Whitney i'm
depreciation of .'The Palms." and there
You are dished and removed from the
picture all over again.
The mo Music" advertisement looked
good to many a tortured restaurant diner
in this town when it appeared. Most of
them. it should be added are enthu-
SiaStS over music.
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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making a hit with the men. Tries to
look Greekish and all that.
We'll, now, my dear, don't you ever
breathe a word of it, but do you know
that that Pittiwink creature actually i'm
agines that Mr.. Gittem is crazy over her?
Yes. ndeedy. You've met THESE ingra-
tiating women, haven't you that are al
ways pretending to be SO fond of women.
when. in reality, they actually hate all
womankind and haven't an eye In their
heads except for the men folks? Well.
she's one of that sort. Mrs. Gittem said
that the other evening she sent down
to them-the GittemS-a lemon pie that
she pretended to have made herself. She
just did it to make hit with Mr.. Gittem
of course, for she'd heard him say how
crazy he was over lemon pie. She bought
it at some swell caterers, of course-Mrs.
Gittem said that. And the foxiness of
her! Mrs. Gittem sad that she must
have stewed the inside of a lemon up
in her fiat that afternoon, for the purpose
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spec,a, Correspondence of The Star.

special correspondence VI Inc Stni.
NEW YORK. January IL. 1908
TN one of the tragedies on New fork's
list for last week there was another
curious exemplification of the fact
that, in a great city you may pass for
whom and what you elect to be II you
are sufficiently artistic and audacious
about it.
The mistress of a sumptuous apartment
on Riverside drive had taken poison Is
with suicidal intent, as every sign ihdi-
ca,ed She was a very beautiful woman
of tbirty-ave or so, and lived quite alone
in her luxurious apartment with hef
servants. The physicians who were sum
moned to the bedside where she lay un-
conscious Of course reported the clrcum-
stances of the case TO the police. ana
that brought the reporters swarming TO
the Riverside drive apartment house
Under flaring headlines it was given out
that the woman lying at the door OF oeath
was "a well-known New York society
woman" and. for proof of this, her list
ing in New York's Social Register was
given In the Social Register, puolica-
ton. of course. which is supposed to COM
prise only the names OF persons VINO are
of the most undeniable social standing.
the womans name was given as Mrs.
John Van Ness Roberts katherine Stuy-
yesanD." Therein, also 1t was set forth
that she had a town address number
piyen) on Riverside drive, and country
place called CLOUD Rift near fonkers.
So here was a big sensation-the at
tempted suicide of beautiful woman of
society, as every one of the New York
papers stated Some of them went fur
ther and said that the woman was a
close relative of Stuyvesant Fish. The
sensation lasted for nearly forty-eight
hours. and then Stuyvesant Fish came out
with a statement that he had never even
heard OF the woman. In the meantime
she had died of the sen-administered
poison.
IL was not until full day after her
death that the fact came out that the
beautiful woman who. finding herself at
the end of her resources. had killed her
self. was A noted adventures who fig
nred extensively IN the courts OF New
York about a dozen years ago. 1t was
discovered that she was none other than
Evening star., 1908-01-11

~ HE carroty-haired, hatchet-faced
woman with the greenish eyes
who'd arrived at the yode-veel
matinee with her woman companion half
AN hour before the beginning of the show
was sizing the other women up as they
came down the various aisles. And this is
what she said:
There comes that Pittiwink creature,
with her hair all fused up. Did you
hear that she has her day at home now?
Yes indeedy! Laughable, isn't it? The
idea of woman living IN S4O-a-month
fiat having her day. Why. we pay 500 a
month for our fiat. and / guess folks
don't find me putting on an old frazzled-
out waist that's been cleaned thousand
times and having a day at home for that
reason, do they? You know, my friend
Evening star., 1908-01-11

THE stout. middIc-aged man with
the roly-poly cigar looked rumina-
= tive.
Il wonder he inquired, as if to HIM
self, after bit, IF there are any boys
left nowadays who banker to be minstrel
men? 1 suppose not. If there are l don't t
see 'em around. I don't. for example.
see any boys rafting meat bones any
more All the boys of my day that
yearned to be burnt-cork artists used TO
fix themselves up a couple of pairs OF
meat bones to rattle.
Il fell to thinking about this last even
ing at dinner. We had a rib roast at
home and when we'd pretty well cleaned
the meat from the bones, why, l fell to
looking at those bones, and. all of sud-
den. it came back to me that. If I'D have
been a youngster. I'd have had my eye
on those beef bones. sure enough.
I'D have watched them carefully after
their removal from the table and prob
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bought 'em at sale for about So. and
he looks as if he'd believe that or any
thing else-you've seen him. haven't you?
Why, she told her husband-Mrs. Gittem
told nle-that she'd got hat for 81 at a
sale. and Mrs. Gttem said that that hat
couldn't even have been smelt at for less
than $50. And the poor silly of a man, 1
hear. swallowed the yarn whole, the
noody-naddy!
"Oh yes. l know some people call her
good looking, but do you? 1 know, of
course. she's big and tail and willowy
and all that-but she's all pad. Mrs
Gittem was upstairs one day when she
was dressing for the matinee. She tried
to get Mrs. Citizen out SO that she could
get her harness without anybody see
ing her put it on, but Mrs. Gittem was
just determined to see just what she put
OH to make her figure so swell, and,
my dear Mrs. Gittem said that she had
the most actressy set of pads that she
ever saw in her born days. Oh, OF
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course her own figure has its points, If
you like these tall. long-striding women
that are always trying to give out the
impression by their movements that
they're treadng on air and that they
spurn the ground but-Oh, her skin.
Well now. what about her skin? Well,
guess any body could have a fine. smooth.
white skin if they took arsenic all the
time! Oh, I know what l know, and
Mrs Gittem knows what she knows. too.
Mrs. Gittem lives in the same apart
ment house with her, and l suppose Mrs.
Citizen hasn't pair of eyes or ears?
"Oh, l know that the Pittiwink crea-
ture pretends to be in rugged health, but
all of these women that use drugs for
their compilations pretend that, you know,
and it won't be long before she'll be
breaking down and going all to pieces.
She hasn't got a bit of style. with all of
her Whitley skin and her lank English
tigure-she goes in for those simple effects
in dress, you know. just for the sake of
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Il regret that you have come to me for
talk" said William Loeb, jr.. slowly.
Talking is a sorry business
Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-01-09
NORWAY POPLAR'S VALUE.
Excellent For Fuel, Lumber and Wind
breaks.

Excellent For Fuel, Lumber and Wind
breaks.
Tree planters throughout the north
had brought to their attention lately
the extraordinary value of the Norway
poplar, a near relative of the common
cottonwood, which possesses fine quail
tiles that bid fair to raise the prestige
Of the whole cottonwood family
This cottonwood is shrouded in mys-
terry SO far as its origin is concerned.
1t bears no cotton and is reproduced
entirely from cuttings. The tree grows
straight and lean, and it is said that
the bark never scalds or cracks. The
wood is straight grained and suitable
for lumber. 1t splits easily, seasons
quickly and makes excellent fuel
The Norway poplar grows very rap
idly. In Minnesota it has been known
to grow fifty feet high with a diameter
of seventeen inches in fourteen years.
1t makes a good shade tree, retaining
its leaves until late in the autumn, and
on account of it's rapid growth should
prove very desirable for windbreaks
and shelter belts. So far as is known
at present, this tree is perfectly hardy
and will grow under variety of soil
and moisture conditions. 1t seems,
however, to respond quickly by In
creased growth to cultivation and care.
The advantage which the Norway
holds over the Carolina nonJar ono of
the most popular of cottonwoods, is
chiefly in its great hardness and better
form, and the seemingly superior quail
1ty of its wood is shown in preliminary
studies made by the United States for
est service. 1t will be some time be-
fore the Norway poplar will be avail
able for widespread planting, since cut
tings of the true variety are at present
very scarce and hard to obtain.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-01-09
The Eoy's Notion,

A Memphis paper tells Of married
couple who are in the habit occasional
ly of going out to entertainments and
social affairs, and at such times they
make themselves solid with their little
boy by saying they are going out to
see a sick man. One week these social
affairs came pretty frequently. On
Monday night the parents went to the
theater and told the lad they had to sit
up with the sick man. Tuesday night
they went out to visit a neighbor and
explained that they were going to give
some medicine to the man that was
sick. On Wednesday night they pro-
posed to attend an entertainment and
apologized to the young chap by say
Ing they had to put plaster on the
sick mans back to draw out the pain.
Papa" said the youth, 'is the sick
man in much painw
every much, my son."
"And he is pretty near dead?"
Eyes; he's in bad shape"
The lad thought deeply for awhile
and then remarked, well, papa, he
can't die any too soon to suit me-"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-01-09
PIPES AND CIGARS.
Smoking Said to Serve as an Index to
Character,

Character.
A person who smokes a cigar with
the label band on Is always vulga-
rian; person who displays two inches
of ash adhering to cigar is generally
ostentatious; person who selects a
cigar because it is sprinkled with light
spots is an ignoramus who credits any
popular report, and person who
chews up the end of cigar or ciga-
rette is more often than not Of an
irascible or peevish nature. So says
the London Tribune, which adds:
Smoking is also great test Of natu-
raj courtesy in any individual. One
can trace selfshness, boorishness, self
assertiveness, timidity or good temper
in a smokers demeanor in any mixed
company. Judging upon the example
Of Mr.. Kipling, it has been asserted
that the man who knocks his pipe
ashes out behind the parlor couch is
usually a genius. But this is a some
what empty assertion, and at any rate
it comprises a belief that is in nowise
shared by housewives and landladies.
AS concluding rule for diagnosing
character by tobacco habits, it may be
accepted that the best men smoke
quietly and without ostentation, offer
you good cigar without prepara
tory Grafton on its cost and merits and
smoke their pipes and cigars out to
the end. When a man is concerned be.
cause his friends are not smoking with
him, he Is person to be cultivated.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-01-09
WORKED THE COLLECTOR.
How Art Values Were Established by
One Paris Dealer.

How Art Values Were Established by
One Paris Dealer.
R., the picture dealer. believed he
had found in N, the rich manufac-
turer, an easy dupe. He planned to
sell him a number of art products OF
Van Gogh of Gauguin and Cezanne.
In order to accomplish this he man
aged to bring influences to bear upon
certain friends of N. These sounded
the praises Of these artists, the worst
of impressionists.
slow is it." the friends would say
"you, who have so much taste, do not
possess a single example of Gauguin
nor of Cezanne? What are you think
ing about"
In the end he bought pictures of R.
amounting to 100000 francs. n, proud
of his acquisitions, showed them. The
critics pronounced them hideous.
The collector, enlightened, made aft
er the picture dealer. "Take back your
pictures" he said, "and return my
money"
"The sale was regularly made" said
the dealer. 80 much the worse if the
pictures have ceased to please"
"But this is a swindle."
''Monsieurv'
'These pictures never had value Of
100000 francs"
"Perhaps," said the dealer, "they are
worth more"
"Take them back at that price," said
the rich buyer.
The dealer well understood that in
refusing to rebuy he would admit that
they were worth nothing.
II will take them back at 100000
francs"
Agreed" said N.
Son. lost 100000 francs.
But the most wonderful part Of this
adventure is that the dealer inscribed
on a page Of his catalogues, Purchase
Of an important collection from Mon
sieur n"
And since then when amateurs ap-
pear this dealer says: 81 have some
very beautiful Van Gogs, some admi
rable Gauguins and some very fine
Cezannes. But l am obliged to sell
them at high price, for 1 myself paid
dearly for them. Here, look at my
books. I paid Monsieur N. 100000
francs for them. Paris Cri.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-01-09
MAKING A COAT.
Thirty nine Distinct Varieties Of Work
by as Many Men.

Thirty-nine Distinct Varieties Of Work
by as Many Men.
According to the United States bu-
reau of labor, the old saw at takes
nine tailors to make man" is filed
with misinformation, for in reality,
the bureau finds, it takes thirty-nine
men of different trades just to make a
coat under the present system Of shop
manufacture, for the day when one
tailor measured the customer, cut out
the cloth and, with his apprentices,
shaped it into finished and pressed
garment has practically passed. To
day all one tailor may do through his
entire life is to mark the place where
buttons are to be sewed on. Another
man never marks places for buttons
His speciality is to mark buttonholes.
A third man spends the long day in
sewing on buttons, fourth In max
ing. .buttonholes. Men who sew sleeves
do not make armholes. The armhole
men give place to shoulder shapers,
and these last do not touch collars,
which are distinct speciality. Even
>AS AASh WV lileA1Puldtc luc IdllOl
goose are divided into pressers of
seams, edges, Innings, sleeves and coat
pressers. The basters stick to one dis
tinct speciality of basting, and sep
arate functionary, the basting puller,
undoes their work. Even the coat
strap is separate province. So that
when the coat is finished 1t represents
thirty-nine distinct varieties of work
by as many men. And when a man
finally puts on the coat he is wearing
the product Of 312 fingers and seventy
eight thumbs, not counting the digits
of those who sheared the sheep, wove
the cloth, dyed 1t, finished it, shipped
1t and cut 1t nor the ink stained clerical
hands which kept book record Of all
the processes. Probably from sheep
to wearer the coat was handled by at
least 5000 fingers.-New York Tribune.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-01-09
SLAP AT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
President Wilson Declares Methods OF
Last Two Decades Worthless.

Last Two Decades Worthless.
DR.. Woodrow Wilson. president of
Princeton, made a speech the other
night in which he condemned the sys-
tenn of education that has been follow
ed for the last two decades as almost
worthless and made a plea for an ed
ucational system laid upon scientific
basis, saws the New York World. He
made his address before the convena
on OF the Association of Colleges and
Preparatory Schools, held in the Town
.znd Harris hall of the University of
;he City of New York.
President Wilson said we have just
asssed through period when in edu-
9tionsl matters men di9 not hold
Themselves to plan, but opened wide
iae gates: "a PERIOD" he said, when
, the wide domain of knowledge has
Deen added subject after subject until
the domain itself had to be widened
to take them in; period of the so
called elective system of studies when
the student himself selected the
studies which he thought most worth
while to him; period of dispersion, Of
dissolution, of standards, abounding il
pedagogic theories, making expert
ments put forth out of educational
curiosity rather than deep conviction.
1--WE all know that the children in
the last two decades in our schools
have not been educated. With all our
training we have trained nobody.
With all our instruction we have in
structed nobody. 1t is not necessary
for me to tell this audience that in
formation is not education. But we
are on the eve of a period Of recon-
struction. We are throwing away the
aimless and standardless methods of
the past and coming down to the fun
damental truths which are at the basis
of all real education.
Education in this modern age
stands in need Of two things. The
first Is technical training. The major
ity of our young men must be made
mechanics not merely Of the hands,
but also of the mind. There is no limit
to the physical and intellectual me-
chanics needed. The great majority of
our youths should be given an exact
and thorough technical training.
Second, we need that kind Of edu-
cation which for many ages has
borne among US the name of liberal
education If ever an age needed
those who can see beyond the horizon
it is this age. If ever an age needed
craftsmanship of mind, Of men lifted
a little above their fellow men who
can see beyond the horizon. it is this
age. If we have this great army of
mechanics with no one to see visions,
no one to overlook the field, no one to
organize ethe forces, we shall stumble
upon immediate disaster. There is so
much to coordinate in our thinking
that We are sadly in need of thinkers.
DR.. Wilson said there should be few
er subjects taught and suggested that
it was better that student should be
we'll taught in one or two branches
than to have a smattering Of several.
AS now conducted. he said, the student
is among miscellany Of studies and
master of none.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1908-01-09
A PROPER EPITHET.
Easy Way In Which Domestic Rup-
ture Was Averted.


ture Was Averted.
The troubles which are brought to
parish priest for solution are almost
infinite In their variety. In certain
Prusian village, says Friedrich August
Dressler In "Moltke In His Home
an old woman came to her spiritual
adviser and proposed a separation
from her husband.
eff he would beat me-" she said,
'that would be all right; that would
show that he was really my man. But
he calls me worse names; he calls me
q 'subjectv I will not stand for that!"
$50, Subject eh?'' said the priest.
Eyes, that is bad. 1t is bad word. l
did not think he would say that. But
are you sure you understood? Did ne
say subject or 'objectT"
The old woman shook her head. She
was not certain. The priest smiled Sc
renely.
"Ah, l thought So" he said. "Now,
am sure that is what he called you.
Subject would have been very bad.
1t would be hard to forgive that, but
object pooh, it Is nothing. If at all,
it fatters one"
The woman laughed happily. "And,
then, l need not leave him? can still
keep him for my manT she asked
eagerly.
Certainly" said her mentor, "and
rejoice. Object that is very fine
very! l was sure he did not say sub
jectr"
She went away entirely satisfied,
and the priest heard of no more dis
agreements between the couple.