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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

Said Miss Frances Ingram,
the Social Engineer at the
head of Neighborhood House,
the center of Louisville's phi
lanthropy, "You want to
know about Child Labor?
I'm on the committee; per-
haps | can tell you. And the
Children's Court? OIL
well, l suppose I'm chairman
of that committee; yes, and
of the Compulsory Education
board. And I'm a truant Of
fcer. You see, | have to do
all those things really to help
the people around Neighbour
hood House"
For these Social Engineers
have found that poverty must
be attacked through everyday
activities,-the schools, the
parks, the Common Council,
the Street Cleaning Depart
ment, and through the things
we buy and the things we eat
and drink, the prices they
cost. and the wages that pay
for them. They have found
that poverty must be legis-
lated out of existence, and
paupers prevented from be-
ing born.
This is far more difficult
work than the Charity Lady
ever did. 1t is no pastime
for gentlewomen, but requires
the concentration of a paid
profession. The motives of
the hundreds who enter it are
no more altruistic than those
of teachers or stenographers;
they have to earn a living, and
this new profession has plenty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-26

| was little girl, an old steel en-
craving of the kind of woman l
wanted to grow up to be used to
hang above my crib. She was a
beautiful young gentlewoman in
velvet gown: she wore great plumed
hat, and was gracefully guiding an
aged woman laden with bundle of
fagots across a broken bridge. The
picture was called Charity" and it
never occurred to my childish mind
that the CHARITY Lady," as l called
her.-a sweet creature with eyes
much larger than life, and delicate
pointed fingers which the engraver
had made the most of, could be ex-
pected to tuck up her velvet train,
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hang her feahered hat tree, and get busy mend
ing that bridge that the old woman might cross it
alone.
think most girls meet one like that Charity
Lady in life in fiction who tghtens up their emotions
to the vibrating point. DO l not remember how a
gentle voiced woman speaking in our college chapel
played the young synpathies of three hundred of
us as on vios and sackbuts! The emotional tide
swept back and forth at camp meeting revival,
until we chocolate fed steam heated daughters of the
help the miserable. And what told to do!
Dress dolls for poor children and make clothes for poor
babies.
Perhaps to featherstitch the under arm seams of
baby Jackets and make lace petcoas for dolls fostered
charity just far it is device for developing the
virtues of the prosperous. Nobody told that every
tuck and rutf1e those elaborate clothes dis
guised punishment the tired mothers who had to
wash them; for that before giving tested by
results while charity unskled labor and like dish
washing, to be done every day.
Now people looking for results in good
works. They asking the Charity Lady, Are the
poor better fed better clothed? Do fewer babies die
fewer girls go the streets. fewer old beg their
bread for all the work you have done and all the money
we have given
The Social Engineer
AND because the old fashioned Charity Lady cannot
these questions, the of the poor drop
ping out of her incompetent hands into those of
markable group. mostly women, who have created the
profession of the Social Eng The whole work
business basis with the idea of finishing it up The
vanguard of this profession has already passed through
the Social Settlement stagethe first step ahead of the
Charity Lady, which Jane Adams calls getting
quanted into active phase which has little to do
either with simple giving with the social uphft
work of neighborhood hospitality that lets its light
shine through artistic wall paper, Braun photographs
OF cathctlrals, and pots OF geranlrm
Holbrook argus., 1911-08-29
Georgia's Big Baby.

will eat three and four large biscuits, with bacon gravy, butter and great deal of syrup; two glasses of butter milk and if allowed will drink two cups of coffee. Between breakfast and dinner, he will eat two more biscuit with butter and syrup. For dinner he can eat large plate of greens or any kinds of vegetables with boiled bacon, corn bread, biscuit and a whole pie if he can get it, with two glasses of but termtlk. He eats again between din ner and supper, and his supper is in keeping with breakfast and dinner He consumes as much as any grown per son on the place and has sampled every kind of food served on the Cody menu.
 When James Adolph was six months old he showed remarkable tendency 10 become giant, and the family phy sician aIAanged diet for him to re- luce his flesh and curb his tendency to 1utgrow his baby clothes faster than his mother could make them. They tried everything they could think of but Adolph grew just the same. and finally his parents cut out the diet and et nature take it's course. They have the satisfaction of knowing that he is the healthiest yoGngster in Habersham county, in spite of his size, and his mental capacities, while not in keep ing, with his avoirdupois. are really equal to other children of his age
 Scientists have been consulted as  them make a gloomy prediction, others believe he will stop growing taller in a few years. his figure will develop to hat of man and he will be full grown at 10 or 12 years. But if he doesn't stop growing old P T Barnum may turn over in his grave to think what he had missed by living 20 years 100 snnn.
Holbrook argus., 1911-08-29
SHOES AND CLOTHES
 OF FATHERS SWIPED
GIRLS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THIEF WHO STOLE APPAREL
 SENTENCED FOR LIFE.

Newark. N. J.-If the dozen young women guests of the Sunrise Noun iain house at Pine Brook lay hands on he man who stole their shoes and stockings when they were in swim ming, New Jerseys meanest thief will yell for the police to save him. Think of having to tramp barefooted and bare legged over a quarter mile of stubble.
 Many of the young women guests bathe in the Passaic river and to get to the bath houses have to wade though water ankle deep. So they take off their shoes and stockings before stepping from the shore. Twelve young women went to the river before breakfast to take a dip and left their shoes and stockings be-
Holbrook argus., 1911-08-29

sert. Of course, if the rope supply runs out stray fish cord attached to the big toe and serenely fastened to the bed post ought to work well.
Holbrook argus., 1911-08-29

Mount Airy, Calf James Adolph Cody keeps on growing for the next 20 years as he has for the past 27 months, there won't be street in the country wide enough for his passage. He couldn't enter a railway train, couldn't pass under a bridge without crawling and would strain the aXles of the biggest auto truck in the country. He now weighs 11o pounds and is just three months over two years old. If anybody knows of bigger baby than that, George invites him to enter exhibit B. But James Adolph is unique.
 MT. and Mrs James Aleck Cody, who live on the mountain side not far from Mount Airy, don't know what to think of the enormous size of their offspring He wasn't their first baby and his predecessors were not unusually large nor are the parents above the av- craze.
 Young James Adolph was larger than the average when he entered this world, but not of appalling size by any means. But he began growing after his very first meal and hasn't done anything but grow since.
 The child has grown in proportion within the past six months with the record he made in his first baby days With the first indication of his ab- normal growth, his parents consulted a physician and James Adolph was put under his care for some length of time All efforts to keep the baby on a diet suitable for one of his age, proved as unsuccessful as the physicians treat ment to keep him normal in flesh growth and any tendency beyond the ordinary baby.
 He now weighs more than 100 pounds. He is 39 inches in height, barefoot. His measurements are as follows:
 Around, head 2415 inches; neck, IA inches; bust, B inches; waist. 36 inches; around arm above elbow, 12 inches; wrist, inches; across hand, above thumb, 624 inches; around first finger, near hand, 21s inches; around thigh, 26 inches; above knee, IA inches; below knee, 13 inches; ankle, g inches; around foot, 81s inches; length of foot, 61s inches; across shoul- der, 15 inches
 His appetite is more like a grown person than baby For breakfast he
Holbrook argus., 1911-08-29
Minus Her Clothes.

hind a fence. A half hour afterward cries of distress brought other hotel guests. Miss Kate Bernstein, the first to dress, waded ashore to the spot where she had left her shoes. Not a pair was in sight, nor stocking eith- CT. Shrilly she shouted the alarm and the other girls splashed to her. The hubbub actually drowned the buzz of of the young woman was stolen from the bathhouse.
Holbrook argus., 1911-08-29
TIE THEMSELVES TO THE BED
Epidemic of SomnambuIsm in the Town of Milan, O., Makes
 People Cautious.

Milan, O.-The village of Milan, all most as famous for it's numerous widows of wealth and attractiveness as for its notable men-Thomas A. Edison, inventor. and Hal Reid, play right, among others-isl threatened with an epidemic of somnambulism Already the sleep disease has claimed two victims.
 Milan hardware dealers report that the demand for rope among the viii lagers bids fair to exhaust the supply Asked what the rope was wanted for the customers said they wanted it so when they go to bed they tie one end of strand to leg or an arm and the other to a door knob or a bed post Some tie their doors shut, they as-
Holbrook argus., 1911-08-29

His appetite is more like a grown person than baby For breakfast he
Holbrook argus., 1911-08-29
Steps on Dynamite Cap.

Freeland, Pas-Stepping on dyna- mite cap on the street, Ida McClel- land, aged sixteen, sustained a badly shattered foot and other injuries along with the shock in the resulting explosion.
Holbrook argus., 1911-08-29
INFANT EATS MORE
 THAN A GROWN NAN
YOUTHFUL JOHN ADOLPH CODY CREATES FAMINE ON GEoR-
 CHA FARM.
CHILD WEIGHS no POUNDS

Two-Year-oId Seems a Man, Except in Stature-Is Under Doctors Care, Who Says "LittIe One" Is Perfect ly Healthy.
Holbrook argus., 1911-08-29
22 chiIdren in 2s Years.

London, England.-A woman at Ac- ton police court stated that she had been married twenty-six years and had twenty-two children.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
PLAN PEACE CELEBRATION.
New York Will Invise King George to
Ono Hundrsdth Anniversary.

New York, Nov. o5. The national
committee on peace, which is arrang-
Ing a celebration OF the one hundredth
anniversary of undisturbed good will
among the English speaking people to
take place in 19141a15, had a meeting
In the Lawyers club and listened to
reports from various committees.
Canada will participate. Premier
Robert L. Borden recently wrote q
friend In New York that be would
deem 1t not only a duty, but n very
great pleasure. TO assist In the move
ment.
The subcomJnittce appointed to get
up a program for celebration In New
York city made its first report through
Chairman George +. Kuns.
sfr. Kuns suggested that an invita-
tion to come and see New York cele-
brate be extended to King George. MFR,
Kunz expressed the belief that In the
event of the king being unable TO ae-
cept he might send the present Prince
of Wales as bis representative.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25

Seems heavier when he has a weak
back and kidney trouble. Fred Deuh-
rem, mail carrier at Atchison, Kan
sas. says: II have been bothered
with kidney and bladder trouble and
had a severe pain across my back.
Whenever / carried a heavy load of
mail, my kidney trouble increased.
Some time agoo / started taking
Foley's Kidney Pills and since TAX
ing them | have gotten entirely rid
OF all my kidney trouble and am as
sound now as ever" Foley's Kidney
Pills are tonic In action, quick in
result. No matter at what stage
your kidney trouble may be, take
Foley's Kidney pills at once for quick
and permanent relief.
Lauer Drug Co.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
BUSINESS BLOCK AT
kEYPORT Is RUSHED
Special to the EvENfNe NEWS.

Keyport, NOV. 25:-Contractor
Frank johnson, of Highlands. has
nearly completed the one story bust
ness block at the corner of Broad
and Front streets for E. Goldsmith.
Mr.. Goldsmith, when seen yesterday,
said that the three stores in this
block had all been rented and that
the tenants would move in the first
of Decemmer. Child's grocery has
leased the store next to the Force
and Wyekon building; the middle
one has been leased by r. 8. White,
who will open a fish market and veg
etable store and run this in connec-
ton with his butcher shop that is
opposite the third store has been
leased by Frank Rapallo, who will
move his barber shop from his pres
ent location. The stores will all
have metal side walls and metal
ceilings and the front of the build
ing will be done In bronzed copper.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
CLUB HAS
JOLLY AFFAIR
Mrs. Harvey BedIe Entertains
at keyport.

Keyport, Nov. 25.-The afternoon
500 club was entertained yesterday
by Mrs. Harvey Bedle at her home
in Front street. Whist vas the
game enjoyed. Mrs. Laura Camp
bell won the first prize, a fancy hand
painted dish. Miss Ettye Wyckoff
captured the second prize, a sugar
and cream set. Mrs. II. Hartman
won the consolation prize, a puff box.
Following cards the hostess served
q dainty luncheon. Among thoee
present were: Misses Florence ARM
strong, Florence Wiesenauer, Annie
Tilten, Edythe Walling, Ella Arrow
smith, Viola Yerks, Ethel Clarendon,
Mrs. R. o. Walling, Mrs. Harry b.
Cation, Mrs. Norman Lockwood, Mrs.
Wharton, Mrs. Asbury Campbell,
Mrs. Harvey Bedle and Miss Wynne
Walling.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
KEYP0RT

Mr.. and Mrs. Phelps Cherry have
returned from a two weeks visit in
Philadelphia and WilIiamstown.
Garrett Post. of Second street,
is a New York visitor.
e. G. Powers, OF CliTwod. IS tin
guest Of his daughter, Mrs. Joseph
Curtis.
Members OF the Juntor Epworth
League, of the Calvary NJ. &. church
met at the home OF Mrs. !. s. Yerks
yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Harry . Cation. OF Alexan~
dria, Va, is the guest of friends in
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. L. Bedle and
daughter Dorothy were in New York
Thursday.
Mrs. II. A. Smith returned yes
terday from Jersey City, where she
has been the guest of friends the
past week.
Frank Kelley, OF New York. is the
guest of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. J..
Kelley, in First street.
Miss Eva Reynolds will entertain
the members of the Thought Club
at her home in Kearney street Mon
day afternoon.
Alfred Tracey has leased one-half
of the house recently remodeled
at the corner of Second and Allan
tic streets to Thomas Walling. 1t is
said the other half of this house has
been leased to the manager OF
Child's grocery, that Will open Dec.
/, in the 81, Goldsmith building.
Members of the Independent Dem
ocratic Club enjoyed a steamed
clam supper in the club rooms. last
night. Following the supper sew
eral speeches were made by mem
bers of the club.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
10000 | TO SEE
The BIG GAME.
Yale and Harvard Meet at
Cambridge Today.

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 25.-Yale and
Harvard are playing for football hon
ors here this afternoon. The field Is
muddy after a steady rain, although
a deep covering of straw was used to
prevent a soggy turf. In the stadium
are about 10000 partisans OF the two
universities.
The Yale team came over from Au
burndale to Cambridge this morning.
The Harvard team held its last prac
tice in the rain. The varsity mer
slipped and stumbled about for three
quarters of an hour. About the time
the varsity had finished its work OF
signals more than 800 undergraduates
and 200 Harvard alumni came march
ing down TO the. field. behind a band
All expected to see their team and te
cheer 1t before the departure for the
country, wheren the team spent last
night. The team however, had re
turned to the locker building, but rath
er than d~isappoint the big crowd Coacf
Haughton sent his players out on tc
the field again, and they ran the
length Of the playing field and back
then returning TO the dressing room.
There are more than 10000 people In
the Stadium this afternoon regardless
of the weather.
Both teams are In good condition.
according to the trainers and coaches
Harvard Is planning teebegif the game
with a rush, The. lineup is.
Haryard-Smith. left end; Hitchcock
left tackles Leslie, righte guard; Par
menter, centeEa, Fislaar. right guard
Storer, right tackle: FELTON,, right end.
Potter, quarterback; Campbell, left
~haifbaek; Wendell. right balfback;
Huntington, fullDacks ss4s
Yale-Avery, left end; scully. left
tackle; Francis, left guard; Ketcham.
c%enters McDesitt. right guard. Paul,
right tackle: Bomeisler. right end;
Howe. quarterback; Camp. left half
back; s~palding, right halfback; Dunn,
fullback. ST. ~ II
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
PIRATES DRIVEN
FROM WUCH0W
Sea Rovers Fail in Attack
on Chinese City.

HoEgkong. Nov. 25.-The treaty port
OF Wschow was the scene of one of
the boldest attacks by pirates heard
of IN recent years. They were driven
of leaving many OF their number dead
in the streets.
Five small steamers, one of which
was a torpedo boat. entered The har-
Dor flying the rebel Gag and the men
nrofessed to be reyolutionists. After
landing they demanded that the on
Gals hand over the money in the treas
ury and the arms and ammunition
They also called upon the troops to
surrender. While the officers and a
number of leading citizens were hold
ing a hasty consultation on the sub
ject the pirates apparently lost pa
tienee and fred a volley at the sol
diers who We're under arms. The lat
fer replied and a fierce battle at close
quarters followed. The pirates were
completely routed, more than 100 of
their number being killed. Seventy
five others who were captured were
immediately beheaded. The torpedo
boat succeeded In getting away, al.
though it was seen that she was on
fire. The other four vessels also
caught fire during the fighting and all
were captured or sunk.
The soldiers also suffered severely.
Many OF them were killed md the hos
pitfalls are full IF wounded.
Piracy Is rampant and numbers of
craft of all types hav been looted.
While robbers are numbering and pill
laying ashore. The inhabitants are
helpless and panic and anarchy pre-
walls. All this is ascribed here to the
action of the new government In en-
rolling released criminals as policemen.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
STILL FIGHTING AT HANKoW
Premier Yuan Hopes TO Stop War In
National Conferences.

HationaI OonTerenCe.
Picking, Nov. 25.-The statement
made by Tang Shao II that the gov
eminent had agreed on a change of
plan and would not carry ou the orig
inal program OF crushing the reyolu-
tionists at all costs is Theoretically
confirmed by Premier Yuan Shih Kai.
He told some of the foreign ministers
that he intended to stop the fighting.
He had, he said. a plan whereby he
hoped to end the relp ii.
Count Won Rex, the German minis.
ter, asked Yuan to e"xi.ai;l what the
plan was. The premier replied that
he could not do this as vet. as he did
not know whether 1t would be success
full. 1t is generally assumed that he
referred to Tang Shao Yrs scheme for
d conference between the government
and representatives of the revolution
lists, with the object of reaching a
compromise and bringing about peace
Yuan's repression of llostilities. how
ever. has not begun as yet. for not
only is the fighting still fierce at Han
kow, but tiAa government has sent two
siege guns there TO help the imperial
troops. The latter seem to be on top
again and have nee more driven the
re~volutionists out Of Hankow and oc-
cnpied Totorise hill fort. The rebels re
tired to Hanyang.
The general situation in China has
not improved in the last few DAYS
The diplomats here haze decided that
the position is such that it is advisable
the legation guards should be strength
ened. They viii therefore ask their
governments for re~inforcements.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
WI FAvoRs REPUBLIC.
Rebel Diplomat Ready to Trest Witt
New Premier.

Shanghai, Nov. 25.-Wu Ting Fang,
who is acting as the head of the for
eign board Of the revolutionists, says
that the insurgent leaders are willing
TO discuss with delegates appointed by
Premier Yuan Shih kai the question
of the establishment of a limited mon
archy or q republic for China. They
would be willing also to meet at some
neutral place, but could not so to
Pekilg, where the surroundings were
at present ulcongenial.
Ninety per cen Of the Chinese, DIR.
Wu said, were ~irreyocably opposed to
the retention of the least semblance OF
Manehu power. He added: IF Yuan
is able to nominate anybody TO the
throne who is really entitled to repre-
sent the Chinese we are willing to
consider such a man, but we are con
WINGED that there is nobody upon
whom all can agree, and hence the
formation Of a republic is the only
alternative to perpetual strife"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
PUBLIC LIBRARY PROVES
SUCCESS AT kEYPORT
Special to the EVENING VIEWS.

- y ~ ~
Keyport, Nov. 25:-The Keyport
public library is proving to be a.
great success and is ~patronized
largely by the citizens OF the bor-
ough. The library is open to the
public every Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday afternoon. Upwards or
loo books are exchanged each day
the library is open, this being con-
sidered very good for the short
length Of time Report has enjoyed
an institution Of this kind.
Those in charge Of the financial
matters say that donations are al
most daily received for the benefit
of the institution. 1t is the inten-
ton of the management to soon
add several hundred new books to
their shelves.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
UNCLE SANS TEAMS MEET.
Army-Navy Game, at Philadelphia on
This Afternoon.

Army-Navy Game at Philadelphia on
This Afternoon.
Philadelphia. Nov. 25.-The Army
and Navy football players are await,
ing the signal fol. their. game on the
Franklin field gridiron tomorrow.
The rival warriors arrived In the
rain, and 1t continued to rain for hours
after their arrival. Forecaster Bliss
has promised q clear. cold, sunshiny
sky for the game. Franklin Field was
covered with oanvss sand straw to as
sure q dry, hard. ground.
The Navy squad. tlfirty-five strong,
anne to PlslsltH 1la In three special
cars. With them came the celebrated
Navy goat. the same white bewhisk-
cred BILLY. which has created CON
sternation Int fFaffadelphia before.
Head CoaeAs~Ha@aHa~rafased to be
quoted to the effect that his team
would win. but he declared 1t would
be a great battIesfftf II Navy wasn't
victorious. Saassq4msez~as
The Army contingent does not APP
pear to be In a jubiIant mood. The
eleven ard substitutes appear to be
In splendid sform. but nsisher the
coaches, Captain Hyatt, nor Trainer
Iuthill VIII venture a prediction that
the Army wtff&swin~TutsliIl declares
every Army mantsSataThe absence
OF Dean, the great defensive haIfback
Of the Army. Who IS I'll at the post
hospital, serveet deaden 5ubilation
that might otherwise have been felt
in the prospects Of a possible victory.
The EVENING NEW has the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-25
STOPS TRAIN WITH PISTOL.
Elizabeth Man HeId.it Up In Order MOI
to Miss II.

Elizabeth Man HeId.it Up In Order Not
to Miss II.
Elizabeth, MI, Nov. %. A fast
train on the Jersey Central railroad
made al unexpected stop at FL Mora
station, midway between Reselle and
Elizabeth because of the wild vest
method Of James Surge OF this town.
Thomas Davis of New York had
been his guest overnight. They went
to the station just as the train was
nearing the station. Surge had a
pistol and fired q shot. The engine
driver, believing it a torpedo signal,
promptly applied the air brakes. Then
a couple Of bullets whizzed through
the cab.
"It's all right, old man." said Surge.
II merely wanted to stop the train"
Tell it to the poliee,n answered the
engine driver. The village policeman,
James Reeves. after hearing Ell Mora
was a flag stop for that particular
train, put Sturge and his friend aboard
and regarded the incident as closed.