Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-02-28
OF GENERAL INTEREST

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] Women who dress in tights and dance
oriental fashion for the amusement of
sailors ut the Philadelphia navy ward
i1rs HlHer the governments ban. So
are women who wear long skirts and
waltz with the sailors on SUNDAYS in the
yard assembly hall. In fact. Uncle Sam
has pressed the lid on all sorts of Sun.
9sN ainusements az the navy yards
! i,ese things were fully explained to a
aeiegation OF Philadelphia pastors who
caAed on Secretary MetcaH in Washing
l9il Tor the purpose of registering an EN-
| phatlc protest against "domgs" AT the
navy yard. They told him that they Wis
lted the navy assembly hall there a few
sundays ago lust Go see what was go
ing on. What they saw was Something
dreadful they said, especially on the
Lords day"
lndismayed 10y eight miles of snow
drifts, which kept even the rural mail
carriers indoors at Sterling. H.. Joseph
Beayer, farmer boy, set out To claim
his bride and married her seven hours
after the hour set for the ceremony.
liz had TO dig through drifts from 4 to
2 rect deep. The snow ruined his clothes.
ana he arrived at the brides home prae-
tieaily exhausted aud with both feet
frozen. 1t was necessary to 30 to the
home OF a pastor two miles away to have
the ceremony performed. as the wedding
guests would not come and the preacher
would not brave the drifts for the mar
riage fee
Unable to dress as she wished on her
husbands income of $40 Il week. Mrs
Abraham Greenbawm, wife of a restaur-
ant keeper in New York. turned beggar
taeF n n.
the theaters with her friends at night She
was arrested in Hohoken as mendi-
cant. and IN the recorders court was
sentenced to pay a fine of S25 or spend
siN months in the penitentiary When
told of her detention her husband ex-
pressed great satisfaction. declaring his
wife had SO Inundated him by her dou-
Bile personality that he had been COM
PEELED to move from place to place, The
woman, who is remarkably pretty. is
less than 30 years old, She was arrest
ed on complaint of Mrs, Elizabeth Ais
berg. president of the Charitable society
of Hohoken. for having accosted persons
ON Washington street and asking them
for money. Greenbaum said he did not
know whether he would go To his wife's
aid,
Under the head of ITO Whom Ii May
Concern in the Deposit and Hancock
y. Y. papers Mrs Bertha Crawford,
| residing near the former village says:
1. Bertha Ellis Crawford. hereby state
| that | have left Ford W. Cfawford's bed
tof rough hardwood hoardsl, also his board
(of dry potatoes and giDgersnapsl, with just
cause and provocaton.
When man will store his money away In
a trunk and lock II mp while his wife takes
care Of three cows and horses. with sum,
mer understanding on, rather than to take
some of his OH coins and buy her some
clothes, ask a wife then IL she has just
cause To leave her husband.
| He will alsc store his money rather than
| pay his bills without the force of law.
Mrs. BERTHA T.. CRAWFORD,
| Here are some of the answers made by
| Chicagoans who were examined recently
as to their eligibility for places on the
| Chicago police force:
| @. What would you do IL you saw an
| excavation In the street,
| A. Shoot the guy,
| @, What is a poicemanS duty in pulling
/ 4 patrol boxT
| a. Go into the box and walt for robbers
| and murderers.
| q. What is meant by city ordinances?
a. Keeping the city in order.
/ q. What Is a bail bond?
i A. One of his friends plunks down 500
and you let the fellow so.
ISSUE homicide" was the rock upon
! which good many of the embryo pos
licemen split. Some of the answers
were:
Homfcide-The man who is to be MUIR
| dered
! Homicide Conyicting man on circum-
| stantial evidence.
| Homlcide-A reckless automobile driver
| who kills people
| In the annual report of the bureau Of
! vital statistics prepared at Pierre, 5. H.,
| is made plain the reason why the state
does not want to give up the divorce
| business. The bureaus report shows
| that during the year 1907 a total of
552 divorces were granted in the state
of which 800 were to non-residents. and
| it was a dull year in the divorce mar
| ket, too. The average spent by seekers
/ for divorce during their six months
residence in South Dakota is not less
| than 5000 Il month and probably much
| higher. but estimating the average cost
of Dakota divorce. including the ex-
penses of setting up a residence. pay
ment of attorney and court costs mt
$500 the state of South Dakota last
| year took in $4,000 for granting the
go divorces to non-residents. While
1907 was decidedly bearish in the divorce
trade owing TO the agitation in the state
| for repeal Of the law, if the income
| for the last year is taken as an average.
South Dakota has realized $5,0O0,OOO
from her divorce mill in the last de-
| eade