The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-11

! that because he meets a woman walk 1 ing alone after dark she must be de-
 sirous of making his acquaintance He
 knows that she is far more likely to
 be a telephone girl, a scrubwoman. a ] nurse, stenographer with extra night work, hundred other perfectly good i things And if the girl Is bothered,
 it's her own fault, in the great major
 man too intoxicated to make distinc- | tions attempts conversation, but | one has only to walk away from him.
 The great thing to remember, if | you're a woman and compelled to | come home from night work alone, is
 swiftly and keep your eyes straight be- | fore you. There's no real reason for stopping or sauntering; the shop | windows are all dark in the evening.
 You are simply out because you have | to get from one place to another, and. l if you choose. your entire bearing can show this.
 'The girls who are always telling terrifying tales about being ogled or l addressed '1* strange men are girls who 6r nos therselves maintain | proper attitude in public They are not bad, only thoughtless, not realizin g 1 that certain promiscuous scattering of smiles, self-conscious carriage, are obviously open to n1isunderstand- l ing"
 By his payment of s5oo.ooo for the | heretofore undiscovered painting of
 Philip " of Spain. painted by velas-
 quez at Fraga in 1e44. Henry c. Frick of Pittsburg and New York, now
 shares with Otto H. Kahn, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,, the bankers, the distinc- ton of having the most costly paint ing in the world. Kahn paid a simi- lar amount last spring for Franz
 Halls famous painting, "The Family Group. As far as known, these are the only two instances of record where the work of an artist has commanded
 such a high price. Mrs. Collis P Hun tington, widow of the Pacific
 Coast Railroad builder. paid the next by the same artist, of Olivares, Prime
 Minister to Philip ". Millet's "Ange- lus'' now owned by John Wanamak- CT of Philadelphia cost him. $125, 0O0
 P. A. B. Widener also of Philadelphia has a velasquez of Spanish States the light of these prices the $60.009 paid for Rosa Bonheur's famous paint ing of '.Tf1e Horse Fair" now in the Museum of Art, this city, is trifle considering the worldwide reputation it has enjoyed for years.
 Lincoln steffens, Josiah F1ynt and
  it of attributing to the dance halls
 on the lower East Side of New York responsibility for the crime and mis cry that exist in the underworld, are traducers of the poor says Gotham Commissioner of Licenses.
 .'The dance hall,'' he says, ''fur-
 nishes the East Side factory girl with
 about the same opportunities for sen
 timent that the rich girl takes on the moonlit lake of her fathers country place. I had read the muck-rake ar ticles about the daughters of the tene ments, and I thought there might be some truth in them, but I have fail ed to find any excuse for them at all I have become very much of an opti mist about the poor girls of New YorF and the rich girls, too, for that mat ter.
 "But you know the rich girl is more of an example. If a girl who has had every advantage of wealth and edu-
 cation drops out of sight mysteriously
 her disappearance becomes scandal
 to the whole country. The poor girl
 by similar performance, hurts only
 herself and her family. Publicity does
 not give her the force of bad exam
 pie all over the United States. There's nothing in these lurid stories, for in stance, about the underfed sweat-shop
 worker 1ured to a dance hall. The
 windows, we read, are never opened. and the dust and dancing produce a maddening thirst which the East Side Mephistopheles urges his reluctant Marguerite to quench with deadly
 glass of beer.
 There's nothing in them at all
 You'll find plenty of uncouth fun in
 the average dance halls, some rough talk perhaps, but it's as innocent as
 Fifth avenue hall.'
 TO PREVENT THE GRIP.