The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-04

mer wife of Major James Hall of the British Army, for trying to smuggle | jewels and furs past the customs lines I this week declared the fair sex were responsible for most of the evasions | of the law.
 "Women make thieves of their hus- bands" said the District Attorney. II
 never prosecuted a man for snug gling but that I found out he had been fool enough to do it because his
 wife asked him to.
 l Women are almost wholly respon-
 sible for the present epidemic of un-
 dervaluation frauds" he said we have caught scores of merchants, big | and little, underwriting imports by l means of false consular invoices, in order to bring stuff into this country
 and sell it cheap enough to prevent the women from taking a trip abroad, gling it on their return. They say to | me, when we catch them: How can you expect us to be honest with the Government when society women can smuggle and obtain immunity, or, if not immunity, practically that? They smuggle ten times, are arrested once, and fined s1.000. Isn't there a profit in it for them in that? We can't
 compete with them unless we defraud the customs
 uSeo to De standing Joke at fashionable receptions that Mrs. So- and-So had beaten the Government
 on duties. The guilty ones actually boasted of it and displayed the jew els with pride.
 They had no respect for the laws, and very little more even after they had been arrested and fined. The only way to make them see that it was nothing more or less than steal ing was to put them in jail for awhile along with burglars, pickpockets and other common thieves.
 Many of these society women would turn with horror from any sug- gestion that they steal from a friend
 or a stranger. Theft? Heavens. no! But they don't mind robbing the Gov it." The immigration authorities would like to find an expert horse trader to help them determine the age of Chang Hong, a smiling Celestial who, years of age, seeks to land heresas a Chinese merchant. The officials at
 Ellis Island who have held him up
 say he is at least twenty-four years of age and is not eligible for admis- sion to the country. Hong protests blunder and demands permission to
 enter under the rights guaranteed him by the treaty betweel the gov- ernments at Washington and Pekin. In order to settle the question of age. upon which his right to come here is based, the immigration officers have evolved the unprecedented plan of having his bones subjected to X-rav examination. By this means they say his age can be determined with precision. Hong says he would pre- fer to have veterinarian examine his teeth. because he would be surer of T sQuarer deal. He has his misgiv-
 ings about the X-ray, which he re- yards as some sort of a strange treat
 ment not noted in the laws of Confu- cius and about which even the mighty Mohammed never knew. So if there
 are expert horsemen at liberty who can qualify for the job they had bet
 ter communicate with the Govern ment or John Chinaman at Ellis 1s1- and, New York Harbor.
 Mrs. John Hays Hammond, wife of the man who is reported to get a salary of $1,000,000 a year from the Guggenheims for his advice on the day her new duties involved in the chairmanship of the Welfare Depart ment of the National Civic Fedora tion. In expressing her reasons for undertaking this work, Mrs. Ham, mond said:
 sI do mot know any woman who has seen both sides of life as I have, and in each have always found hap piness and contentment. I doubt very much if T. would find it a hardship even now if circumstances took mo back into the mining camps to wash my husbands shirts as I have done. could do, and any woman ought to gladly do whatever task circumstan- ces set before her. In doing that she is fulfilling her destiny and get n O ment
 Poverty and wealth alike have their drawbacks. but human nature remains the same under every cir me interested in the National Civic Federation"
 Charles Robinson Lamb. President of the Municipal Art Society and one of the foremost architects of New York, threatens to solve for Gotham's sorely oppressed housewives the in- creasingly pressing servant girl prob lem. A few years ago 1t was possible to get a tolerably good house worker, SIP month. The minute they reach the Barge Office at the Battery to- day horde of relatives and friends get hold of them and make their heads swim with tales of American extravaganza. Although they may
 
 potatoes and may never have seen a beefsteak or roast in their life, they demand $20 a month as a minimum and $25 as a maximum salary to start with. MT. Lambs idea, if generally followed out, would end this abuse. He proposes to have a kitchen for each square, block, with one head chef and two or three assistants. The long open space in the back yards of the houses will be turned into huge cu- linary department, connected by tele- phone with each apartment and dwell ling in the block. The housewife can telephone there her orders for the various meals, the hour they are de- sired and the number to share Sin them. Each family will pay cost price for what they consume and contrib ute proportionately toward the cost of the cooking. MT. Lambs novel idea, if carried out, would do away with much of the abomina ble cooking to which New York is subjected at the hands of it's slaveys and promote a better state o fhealth. Hence its popularity.
 Among the vendors of society gos- sip the story is. going the rounds that Mrs. Alfred Werner ,wf1o as the daughter of Giovanni Morissini one time partner of the late Jay Gould, was reputed to be the best dressed woman in New York as we'll as one of it's most beautiful, has paid $90,000 fr lov h cto, ,,d' ho1