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Columbus avenue is becoming a
great locality for the demopstraton OF
automobiles. The salesrooms along
this avenue are numerous, and the
dealers find that spin up or down the
asphalt has a great tendency TO make
an embryo auto enthusiast more desir-
Gus of owning a car. The long, low
down cars of rakish build seem TO be
the most popular with the younger
men who enjoy the sport.
"For months | have been riding in
town TO my place Of business in troll
ley cars that have started as if shot
from a cannon and stopped with the
suddenncss Of a cannon ball striking
target" said a gentleman the other
day. This morning | met with sur
prise. The car that | took into town
started easily and with no shock that
knocked the passengers off their feet
if they were standing up, or sent them
swaying from side TO side If they were
seated The stops were also all grad
uated. In wonderment / looked out
On the sleeve Of his coat were five
stripes indicating 25 years service for
the Company. why is il that some OF
these veterans cannot be detailed 10
instruct the newer employees how 10
start and stop their cars without shak-
ing the passengers nearly TO peces?'
Two OF the pupils of a modern Ia
gin" who has been schooling young
boys i'm New York in the most expert
methods of lifting" pocketbooks,
handbags and other valuables from
women in the coneested shopping dis
tricts, were rounded up on Washington
street the other afternoon, caught III
the act Of robbing a woman. Al
though they were in the city but four
or five hours they had three pocket
books on their persons.
One of the boys Is but II years DID,
while the other says he is IA; but their
clever. evasive answers 10 the ques-
lions OF the police seem to mark them
as well drilled offenders, and both
evidently were well acquainted with
New Yorls East side life.
A police inspector had been watch
ing the two youngsters during the af-
ternoon and he saw the two run
against a lady and cleverly remove her
pocketbook from a shopping bag. The
inspector grabbed both boys. third
person. who came 10 this city with the
two suspects, was seen in the vicinity
OF the arrest, but made his escape.
Masiyero Honda, professor OF Eng
lish in the Higher Normal College oil
Toxic. who is a member OF the educa-
tional department OF the Japanese gov
ernment arrived in Boston recently
TO study methods OF teaching modern
languages. He is making tour OF
the United States and Europe for that
purpose. He says that thus far, judg-
ing from his studies in New York, he
has found little TO assist him,
You Americans are not so far ad-
yanced as the European countries In
teaching modern languages" he said
German and French are taught by
YOU as mere book languages, for the
purpose of reading books of reference.
but with no attention paid TO the prac-
tcal side OF it,"
The Japanese, he says, are strug-
Cling with a great problem, In That
their language is largely made up OF
dialects. The spoken, the written, the
high and low class, the mems and the
womens, and so on, together with the
intermixture OF Chinese characters
and Japanese alphabet, have made
great confusion. The experts are now
trying TO straighten this out, and az
ter that they intend to take up the
matter of substituting Roman for Chi
nese and Japanese characters.
Six to 10 years each in state prison
was the sentence imposed by Judge
De Courcy on the two Dorchester fruit