The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1910-05-20


Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont, the society
woman who is finding amusement in
playing the part of a woman suffrage
leader, is evidently taking herself SER
iously. The other day she was invited
to preside over a press club meeting
of suffragettes and anti-suffragists,
but she declined the honor in a letter
which has furnished considerable amuse
ment to the anti-suffragists. With a
lack of tact and judgment rather sur
prising in a society woman supposed
to be well bred, she explained in her
letter that she declined the honor of
presiding at the meeting because it has
always been her policy in life to cen
deavOr to meet only her equals or SUI
periOrs," She stated that she consider
ed all antisuffragists her interiors,
and although she would be willing to
introduce a HOttentot woman to an
audience, she utterly refused to coun-
tenance ignorance and mental Inferior
ity by introducing an anti-suffragette
The suffragettes, of course, applaud
the sentiments expressed in Mrs. Bel
mont's letter, but the rational majority
of the suffrage advocates deplore the
writer's lack Of tact and fear that such
laundering intolerance will hurt their
cause
Surely it must take an army of hens
to supply Ney York city with eggs.
During the month of April $4,000 cases
Of eggs, each containing thirty dozen,
were received in the city This makes
a total Of 648,OOO,OOO eggs for sin
gle month. If all the eggs brought to
the New York market were used for
| local consumption, it would mean that
every man, woman and child in New
York city consumed about five eggs a
| lay. But there are many thousands of
families who cannot afford to buy eggs
at the present high prices oftener than
| once a week or even once a month,
| it would follow that there must be a
| e eat many people in this city who
consume more than their pro rata share
| Of hen fruit. That is undoubtedly true,
| ut it must be taken into consideration
that considerable part of the eggs
received in New York go from here
to other markets and are not consum-
! ed in the city.
Ever since the board of health Issued
the order prohibiting automobiles in
| any New York street after July l. hun
| dreds of suggestions have been sent to
| the board how best to stop the smoke
nuisance. One correspondent with IL
beral share Of humor suggested to com
| pei all makers and owners of auto
mobiles to so arrange the exhaust pipes
| Of their ears that the smoke and stencil
elected from the pipes should be blown
right into the faces of the occupants
OF the ear. The plan seems feasible
and would undoubtedly put a prompt
stop to the smoke nuisance.
According to an announcement inst
ade there seems to be some prospect
nat the public library building on
18TH avenue and Forty-second street,
New York's big white elephant, NAV be
completed some time early next wear
The building of the library which was
to cost $2,500,00O, was authorized bv
the legislature in 1897, and the work
vas begun in November of that wear,
Since then nearly thirteen years have
elapsed and the building, which will
lost more than $40 100000, is not vet
ompleted. The new library building
IS a fine example of the lax and unbus-
nessllke manner in which public work
IS executed. Stupid regulations, end
less red tape, occasional lack of funds
and labor troubles were the principal
causes of the delay, But after all. al
hough the building is an architectural
monster and cost a large sum of money,
he citizens are inclined to be rather
proud, not of the preposterous architec-
ture of the building, but of the fact
that there has not been even the sus-
picion of grating in the expenditure
of the ten millions.
PARENTS AND CHILDREN.