The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-25


 If we would not See our children become criminals or dullards we must give them a chance to play she said. NOT must such a vitally important duty be cleft any longer to individual initiative. The State the municipality must make it their business to give the young the joy that youth demands.
 "Give them chance to exercise their imaginations freely and health fly and joyously. Give them a place where they can play, other than the street corner which, indeed, is leg ally barred against them.
 II think every large city should have it's department of recreation, to serve the desire of the young to live their lives in power and joy. The wis est and ablest people in the commun- ity should be in charge of such a de- partment.
 we should have model dance halls. under municipal control. We should have good and cheap metres, where the best in dramatic literature could be seen at prices within the reach of everyone. We should make our fin- est pictures and music accessible to all, instead of virtually shutting them away, as We so often do. in the tacit assumption that only tI- few can ap- preciate them.''
 Returning from a six years study of the ruins of Palestine and Egypt the other day. Professor George A. Reisher,- of the Department of Egyp- tology of Harvard, brought back
 with him what he believes are the oldest Hebrew writings in existence. He found them in the ruins of the palace of some of the Israelite Kings who reigned about the time the Bi- all in Hebrew and represent receipts for taxes paid by the original hold CTS thereof to the King. Pure car bon, mixed with water, was used for
 making the inscriptions on the pieces of pottery which served the place of paper in those times.
 During the six years the, professor, who was accompanied by c. s. Fish CT and O. Bates, dug up nine pieces of statuary of the fourth Egyption dynasty. One of the statues was of King Myarnias, and was remarkably ed out of block of alabaster and black slate.
 With the filing of the will of John Lahey truck gardener, on the city's s outskirts, New York discovered this
 week another of it's army of unlisted | mfllionafres who, because they avoid | the glitter of Fifth Avenue, pass un- | noticed in the swirling tide of a big city. Lahey came Here in, 1868 from l Ireland and until his death could | neither read nor write. Investing his savings in real estate in the path | of the city's natural growth, he saw
 it grow daily in value and lay for l him the foundation of his big fortune. 1 For the past fifteen years he had a farm adjoining the estate of William
 J. Vandervilt. Jr.. at Lakeville, L. I.
 and sold its produce to the big ho- | tels, and restaurants of the city. AL | oh hpI n nv r1f his neighbors suspected that he was worth as much as an inventory of his
 estate disclosed after his death. l Scat. Ye yeoman of the guard Mrs l Harriette Jof1nstone Wood, a lawyer, | who practices her profession with her l husband, likewise a disciple of Black | stone, says the customs laws of the l country are an abomination of man and should be evaded by every wom- | an of the land until the sect immor- tai is given voice in the conduct | of government. The lphillipic was provoked by the conviction of Mrs. Robert A. Hill, a wealthy young wo- man, who was caught the other day trying to sn1ugg1e $S,000 worth of furs | and jewelry past the customs lines I and sent to the Tombs for three days 1 to repent of her folly. Mrs. Hill,
 who has married and divorced three | | is first woman to be imprisoned for l smuggling, and her summary pun ishment has got on the nerves of the Suffragettes, who have been using it to strengthen their argument that taxation without representation is il- legal. n
 I've resent it, says Mrs Wood.
 because women. having no part in the government, no voice in the laws, are taxed without representation and the men themselves have defined. taxa tion without representation to be tyr amy.
 They have also defined that the just powers of government are by the consent of the governed, and the wo-
 men of this country have never been
 allowed to express an opinion wheth-
 CT they favor high tariff, low tariff or
 no tariff at all
 1T contend that women have a right
 to smuggle; that the woman who
 smuggles into this country violates none of her country's laws. She is
 not a law-breaker, but a patriot. She
 is the leader of great cause
 ''The women never have been the
 great smugglers. A woman snug gles a few bits of lace, or trinkets
 for her relatives or friends, of paltry value, while men almost openly and
 de1antly smuggle sugar, treasures o1
 art, priceless gems, etc.,, and the man | SmuggleS TOT sale TOT gam, ana tne
 woman smuggles to give happiness tc
 her friends, but it was of woman
 the authorities made the first example . The men are stupid As sop tG
 us, a college professor has advised women to dance and forget their rest. i lessness. We have a better plan; wt , will make the men dance before WI l get through with them.
 Appalled, by the increasing number ' of wife-beaters haled to court for nal . treating their better halves, City Mag , istrate Appleton this week publicl. } advocated the restoration of tn, } whipping post" as the most effectiv, 7 means of stopping the abuse of wo 2 men.
 Maybe if some of the men who ar, brought before me for beating thei } little. frail, hard-working wives wer, given a dose of their own medicine , he said yesterday, 'it would do then 3 good. AS it is now, in the major ity of cases when the judge impose : sentence upon a wife beater, he real
 ly punishes the wife more than tn . guilty husband.
 l When a magistrate imposes sen } tence upon man, sends him to tn ] workhouse for from one day to si, t months, or fines him, he usually take s the bread out of the mouth of tn
 mans wife and family by deprivin V them of the profits of the husband ! and fathers labor. If the magis . trate suspends sentence, the man us k ually walks straight out of court an
 | beats his wife for having him hale