The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1909-08-26
NOTES OF INTEREST.

NOTES OF INTEREST.
Mrs. Russell Sage, who is planning OK
tensivc colonies for working people on
Long Island, will doubtless be surprised
to learn that the thirty model houses the
Sage Foundation IS already erecting AT
CedarhurSt, y. j., are without hathtuhs.
That essential seems to have been over
looked in the plans for tye-room houses
that are being put UP TO rent for 81
apiece. An inspection of the eight 'teue-
mcntS' already built 10y the Foundation
at Fifth avenue and Clinton street Cc-
darhurst, showed that there is neither
light nor fresh air in the two bedrooms
of the iour-room apartments III the tcne-
mcutS There are two suites in each
house aud the houses are set SO closely
that there is no room for air shafts. Con
soquenty there are no windows in the
bedrooms and no light. The flats rent
for - Il month.
William Schcnck of Elwood place in
Cincinnati, q. offered a novel excuse for
slapping his wife when he faced Judge
Hoffman in the police court recently. He
claimed he was Il victim of postal car
domania,' aud charged his wife with
sending them. He presented several
cards TO the court. On one was written
AN III and down and out another
showed 4 handsome young woman with
ounStrctchcd arms. yawning. Underneath
the picture was printed the words, II do
not care if he never comes back An
other had written on it, Come in, the
water is fine The wife claimed that
Schneck had slapped and then punched
her in the face while he was talking with
her Sunday night Judge Hoffman placed
the ease on the open docket and told tho
wife not To send her husband any NOR"
postal cards
Both houses Of the Legislature in Con
nccticut have passed II bill repeating the
so-callcd blue laws relating to Sunday
observance which forbade most every
form of recreation aud secular activity.
The laws, when seldom have been en-
forced, are relics of cuactmcntS of the
law giving body Of lI22, one of the
laws specifically repealed is that when
provides for Il fine of 81 on each per
son who shall attend II concert or en-
tortainmcut on the Lords day. Ihc
Sunday bill is short. II defines Sunday
and prohibits all sports ana secular ac-
tiVitirS, except such rs are demanded 10y
necessity aud mercy aud such rs are Tor
the general welfare of the community.
Under the words general welfare of tn"
community" Sunday baseball Will prob
ably be permitted,
The old town clock which has tolIcd
time i'm the berkshire village ct Lee.
Conn, for htty-seYcn years, IS huShcd
Erwusr the hrzcn tones of its bell III
the SIN night broke the rest of city
people summcrlnE there. The summer
hoardorS waited upon the standing com
mlttoo of the congregational church, IN
The b~iry of which cdiicc the clock IS
located. and entered protest against
the sIoep breaker. james T.. Secord, the
town marshall. was ordered not To re.
wind the clock Tor the present.
,
diamond set III the nall OF his llttIo
finger IS displayed ny Alphonse Albert
lpupuis tailor. lolb Maple avenue.
Evanston. III. The stone is one-third
carat and was recently put on as the
result OF n wager between bupulS ana n
TREND, the tailor sad Yesterday Tn
ordinary occasions the tabor wears
thimhIe over the beJeWelcd hnEcr TO
prevent Inc man belhS broken ana the
diamond lost.
has often been asserted by students
making Speclally OF STUDYING the ma
lur" ana Pe'nllarlieS OF man pest
ifi'hh' mat h"ES possess nlEhIN d'-
N'I"p'd SlAtl sense. "Hirh enables ii'hl
10 nave pr'Nehi'hehi OF impending
I"uhlr' ir"Haic men ol science nave
I"hl'd the truth OF thlS assertion hut
ualIN attuheu poelS ana fomancers nave