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New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

We came 10 America; but America, it seems,
has no work for us"
It was early in October that Frau and
Fraulein Habich landed in Hoboken. and
soon afterward they gathered up their
diplomas-diplomas showing that they had
gone some way in the study of medicine at
Heidelberg; diplomas from French. Span
ish. Italian and Norwegian schools show
ing that they could teach those languages
and they went hopefully 10 the Young
womens Christian Association and said
that they wanted work. And at first it
seemed that they would find us work, they
took so much trouble in looking at our di-
plomas, and spoke so pleasantly. That is
what ! cannot understand about America" "
said Fraulein Lii People promise you so
many things and nothing comes of IT. We
Germans, If we promise a thing, we will do
IT, But l think It was our religion that
made the Young Womens Christian Asso-
citation tell us there was no work for us.
| And I cannot understand that Are not
| Catholics Christians? And is not that as
! sociation for Chrstians?" asked Fraulein
/ Lii
Later the mother and daughter went to
/ several IbSpIldlS " WHICH lll'N hdu l'l-
ters. asking for work at nursing.
"And at each one we were told that we
must take the three years course-that
what we had done at Heidelberg would
count nothing. At Mount Sinai we were
! told that there were not enough places even
! for the Jewesses who wanted TO nurse. AT
the Presbyterian Hospital they said my
mother was too old to be Of use. And my
mother not yet fifty.' said Frauein Lii
/ Indignantly.
To various agencies Trey went TO look
J for work, with no better success.
"A little sum of money we still haf. but
| II is melting; besides. we wish TO get out
to work. TO learn America, said Fraulein
! Lii. Il go an hour each day 10 teach a
Young child but that does not take me out
! into life. Work we could get, perhaps, If
We would be separated, but did my mother
leave Mannheim TO go to school with me-
did We travel everywhere together to Be
separated at last? No. no.!
"Ach!' said the mother taking up a
sheaf Of letters written in a long, running
hand Here is the good Grand Duchess
of Baden writing us-she who always made
us come to see her when We were near her
castle-and she cannot understand why il
is so hard for instructed women to find
work But so II is
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
OFF DAY ON THE COURTS
Calhoun Cragin Defaults in Lawn
Tennis Tournament.

II was an off-day with the indoor lawn
tennis players OF the 7th Regiment yester-
day. as the overcast sky made the light
poor for fast contests. Only two results
we're recorded in the Class handicap
singles. Valentine Treat and William Gun
niugham being the winners. In the cham
pionship singles Calhoun Cragin, former
holder Of the title. retired. so that William
3 Cragin. jr, the winner Of 1910. is the
only old champion left
Both Of the Glass Il matches were IN the
second round. In the first Of these Treat
defeated Harry A. Parker, both having the
same mark Of minus half ~, by the score
Of 60 6-3 Treat was good at court COW
ering and played aggressively from start
20 finish. Cunningham at minus half 40
defeated w II. Wilson, minus Is, by the
score Of 81. 81.
BY the default chalked against Calhoun
Cragin. one Of the newer aspirants for
the regimental championship, r. w.
Kluepfel advanced TO the second round
II is expected that the tournament will
be brought down 10 the semi-fnals by the
playing on Saturday and New Years Day.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
THE FUTURE OF EATING
Henry T. Finck Sees No Hope for
Il Save in Education.

This here progress II do keep up" IN
pedagogy as in aviation so that the
schools having passed through various
| stages wherein they taught the gentle arts
of washing faces, cleaning teeth, making
bread and breathing through the nose IL
! Is high time for them TO advance step
! further and teach chewing. Certainly. Is
n sensible to teach children to cook II
| they don't know how to chew their food
| nroperlv? And why be so particular ABOUT
| the rows Of shining teeth II the children
haven't been taught what their little white
| pearls are forP
Henry T. Finck advances this theory IN
the current number Of The Century Mag
azine" the third Of a mournful series
wherein he bewails the gastronomi'
DEFICIENCIES of America and finds hope TOT
the future only in those children who are
now being taught cooking in the pubic
! schools.
But It is not enough that school girls
| and boys (yes, boys, for their wives may
be I'D should learn to cook
"They should also learn how to eat he
declares. Few learn this at home They
are usually taught to eat silently ana not
IN take soup off the end of a spoon or to
nut the knife into the mouth; but the
marc imnortant art of mastication is ig-
nored. II is a branch Of physiology anu
should be taught by experts In the
| schools
4 picture of a class OF boys with mate
rials for n nastication lesson lying on the
desks before them, waiting for the masu-
cation master to come for the monthly
| lesson. takes form in the irreverent mind
but vanishes before the vision OF the Gull
nary millennium drawn by the author.
Then every American will be an epicure,
| for he has learned to chew, and hence 10
| taste his food; he will demand fine fiavors
Away with the chemically denatured
| foods. the cold storage chicken, the with
| cred vegetables. the merely fresh eggs
and the leathery peaches. Then the Bur-
| banks and Fletchers and Wieys VIII be ex-
ated above baseball players and cooks
no, they will not look down on common
| mortals. for they do that now-but when
| the culinary millennium comes ordinary
mortals will look up to cooks, for the good
| cook is an artist who "can vary the flavor
of foods as a composer varies his orches-
! tral colors and harmonies. getting genuine
artistic. as we'll as gastronomic pleasure
therefrom." Tell this to Bridget) Then
dirty stoves will give place TO electric
ranges and freless cookers, so that cook
| ing will be come joy and attain the dig
nifty Of a learned profession. Then all
women will love IT and all heir husbands
will love them and divorce will vanish
| from the race Of man. Is anything more
needed for a happy home than wife
who feeds her husband we'll?
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

an instructed woman who wishes 10 make
4 place for herself in this new land
There are two instructed women. blythe
bye. who entertain these sentiments about
America-Frau Maria Louise Habich and
her daughter Fraulein Lii TIahich, of
Mannheim, and later Of Heidelberg, Ger
many or. perhaps it is more correct TO
say. "of The world" for there are few cor
ners Of the civilized world at least, into
which these round faced, unassuming Ger
man women haven't penetrated I'm their m
satiable desire to see and to know.
Fancy a German gentlewoman who had
the courage to batter at the doors of the
University Of Heidelberg and ask admis-
sion not only for her daughter but herself;
to sit I'm the classes. never minding the
iibes OF those who couldn't understand
why a woman who had been married and
widowed should want 10 go TO school again.
All this ard more Frau Habich did, be-
cause. as she told the Tribune reporter
Yesterday at the Junior League House,
where the two are staying, they were de-
tormined that they never would be sepa-
rated. And they never were.
Together they studied medicine philoloGy
and many other things in Heidelberg; they
studied French in Paris Italian in Flor
ence. Swedish in Stockholm, Spanish in
Madrid; they travelled and lived and took
lessons and gave lessons in Russia. Fin
land. Norway. Austria; they spent year
in England; and now they are anxiously
looking about for work which will enable
them 20 live in America and learn Ameri-
can ways.
America was inhospitable to them at the
start They had barely landed at Hoboken
when the trunk containing all the notes
and records Of their vanderings fell into
the water Of the Hudson and was rescued
irremediably soaked They were feeling a
trife discouraged before that because. as
Fraulein Lii puts It, they We're $50 open
minded as TO come third class and like
Dickens's young Martin Chuzzlewit, they
had discovered that one couldn't do that
and be much respected.
Every mechanic on the snip thinks he
can be impertinent 10 you if you come
third class. and you must bear it, Frau
Iejn Lii told the reporter. "The beasts
can kick when they are i'll treated, but We
cannot. And then when we got to Ho-
boken and could not find our trunk, and al
last I'm a corner ] saw our dear old friend
that we had travelled everywhere with al
soaking wet. the papers in it with the ink
spread so that they could not be read
ach, it was discouraging"
They found a Catholic shelter-they are
Catholics-where the Sisters were kind to
them and let them dry out their trunk III
the cellar. But the Sisters were stronger
IN kindness than they were in the house
keeping arts, and Frau Habich and her
daughter soon went TO the Junior League
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
EXPLANATION of The New.YOrk Tribune's s
BO0kreaders' Contest.

Every day for Seventy-three C73) days there will
apnear in The New-York Tribune DAILY and Sundav
Editions) Two (2) Illustrations, Cartoons other
renresentations of the names Of books The TribIne
viii award ten hundred and sixty-seven prizes 10
Tribune readers sending in the nearest correct
answers to the entire series Of book illustra tons
The first two official illustrations appeared on Mon
day, December 4.
THE correct names Of books illustrated and N
serve as a basis of awards being selected by the
Contest Depar tment, and will be included in ths
New-York Tribunes Bookreaders' Contest Catalogue
which will be published guide and reference For
contestants use. The correct list Of names will be
paced under seal in the safety deposit department OF
the National Park Bank where 1t will remain until
e. &c called for the judges the of the con
test To compete for the prizes, contestants must
give the name Of the book exactly according TO ths
Wording spelling and punctuation published in
tho Tribune's Bookreaders' Contest Catalogues
Five (5) different persons Will furnish the ideas and
different cartoonsts Will draw the book illustrations
The cartoonsts will not even know the answers to
the puzzle pictures they draw.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

.scsSea G s any and nus "I Or Hs
any being will not debar from
All answers must be held until the entire series OF
book illustrations nave been printed in Tho Tribune and
be arranged in numerical order securely together
f1f s @
sUnPiSa. NEw YORK cir7. within the time sDssiisd
The time for receiving answers Tn have no en.G, ;,
MENT Of THE TRIBUNE or bear postmak OF mailing OF
Prizes viii be awarded to the sonts:ta6t: in ora;,
's IN
.eDs1s the ass % c to S
.nssS s largest Hd ' o a
the prizes have been aTarded ,..o 70, - -.
the contestant sending Fl the largest - nqm6sE
no VII Be wne
S 9 % and m a e' Of
using the number OF coupons Will be- do
soss. Ra R amss : =; @
duplicate ccs saa Sn DuDle Ans u.
4 4 ...:::.:: isS iss 1ss l:s 20 20
the slh0ugh , he ss used sS0;i. 0ns q,
to H' s & he hess 'Gns ad G d Say sg
two CD or more per @e 81 same na@
for the entire series Of pictures together with
ted for dlyidsd equally among hSsf ),
The tribune from disinefested Citizens VINO viii
ssag OF tSe Min % eoe eef % the titles u
and given in The Tbunes Bookreaders Contest
Where a OF answers is securely fastened to-
sether the Will be permitted TO stamp with
rubber his or her name upon ths
space allotted for same and omit the full name ana
majority OF coupons PROVIDED
full full address are plainly written upon tns
coupons Of the set where space Tor sans WI"
be provided in due course. - -.
sending tho answers at the close OF the contest
n s Important that seal all packages con-
tanning sets OF and 10 II that postage thereon
,s fuv nrepaId OF two cents q cents) an
ounce or fraction Tell Postmaster that your
contains written Hlat'er anu must "
mailed at the first class rate
tons letters OF inquiry concernlnf
,b. addressed IN the CON-
TEST MANAGER NEW-YoRK TRIBUNE. lo4 Nassau
Street New York City
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
HOME ECONOMISTS TO TALK
Mayor Shank and Mrs. Bangs to Tell Of
Savings in Food.

Albany, Dec. 2.-Mayor Samuel r. Shank
Of indianapolis to-day informed Raymond
A. Pearson that he will be one OF the speak
ers at the annual meeting of the State
Agricultural Society in Albany January Is
TO 49, Mayor Shank has attracted much
attention by his efforts TO reduce the cost
Of living by bringing producers and con-
sumers closer together.
Another speaker will be Mrs. Blocker
Bangs. OF Brooklyn who has organized a
club Of neighbors to buy food supplies
through one person at lowest wholesale
prices. thus affecting large saving in each
household.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
CONDITIONS:

T. The Bookreaders' Contest is open to all reader,
OF the and Sunday Tribune excepting employees and
members OF their families
2 Contestants must write the names OF the rep
5y illustrations the coupon nrovids,
tberafor and which Will appear Page of Tb.
rrthune Sunday during the nsrtoS
OF The competition. Answers may be written with Den
pencil or be typewriter .
g. Eacn picture represents the name Of only one "a
hook and contestants will not required to give ~.
~ the author. only the title OF he honS
that will be required. Where
cartain or the will permitted to
ssnd ave 30 each book picture If tho cor
10 given incorrect answers VIII
against the contestant
Only two (2) may be written upon a slnrl.
,oupon: must be used for additional an.
saers all OF the number be ken,
,,as,hcr IN the Where wish
additional names to the book Illustration
,bey may 90 so without nlng tho entire coupon
Pictures may be submitted with the answers
60 desire but they will not count for them.
q Different members OF family may compete In the
Contest but only prize will be awarded to
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
BARS UP FOR ATHLETES
Colleges Join Hands for More
Uniform Eligibility Rules.

Representatives Of colleges in New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which com
prises part Of the second district Of the
National collegiate Athletic Association.
met yesterday and decided to put into ef-
feet more stringent requirements regard
ing the eligibility Of college athletes. A
committee was appointed al the gathering
I'm the Hotel Astor 10 draft rules on the
subject The general expression was in
favor Of a rule providing for the exclu-
sion OF any athlete for one year from
team who had represented another college
or university on the varsity team within
one year.
The committee was named as follows:
DR.. r. Tait Mckenzie, University of Penn
sylvania: Professor Henry A. Peck. SYRIA
cuse University; +. II. Cam. physical di-
rector at New York University; Professor
Louis Bevier. Rutgers College. and Presi-
dent F. +. Craver. Dickinson College.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
W News Of ntgrgSt &,'
" to w 9mGn ~


House with which hotel for women they
are delighted.
"Ach! we haf nothing like this in Ger
many" said the mother, her blue eyes
sparkling. IF we could but find work 1t
would be so pleasant. In the evenings here
the young girls dance In the large parlor to
the music OF the piano, and all is so bright
and gay. In the cities OF Germany are
homes where women may stay. but so
many restrictions. But Germany makes
nothing for women; IT is mans state. In
the university the men are so rude to you,
banging the doors in your face TO show
that a woman is nothing TO them And the
laws are made for mem
Yes" interrupted Fraulein Lii, often
! haf been glad that ] am not married
when see what some of my friends suffer
from their husbands There are many
faithless husbands in Germany, and the
woman must sit still and bear IT, But the
worst of Germany is that a woman may
not work there. II a woman of society
works she is thought to be disgraced. a
woman who works in an office, she is no
more spoken to than a domestic. And so
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
HARD TO FIND WORK
Mother and Daughter Who
Won't Be Separated Say 1t Is.
THIS NO LAND OF LIBERTY
Want to See America, but Diplo-
mas from Universities in Many
Countries Avail Them Not.

"Nein! America is not the land Of lib
erty. You are told It is. you feel so en-
thusiastic when you see the Statue of LIB
erty; but when you haf entered the country
and try TO find work, the people object TO
your religion They object to your age,
and you find there Is no opportunity for
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
FILM IS COMBUSTION PROOF
Cinematograph Invention Lessons Dan
ger of Picture Show Panics.

Berlin. Dec. e7.-An incombustible cine
natograph film. which will lessen the pos
slbility Of panics in moving picture the
aires was demonstrated recently before the
pe,Iin Chemical Society, and is now re-
ported to be a complete success
The invention is greeted with enthusiasm
I'm Berlin, where several panics have oc-
Cured at film shows the latest OF which
happened yesterday. but passed OF without
loss OF life.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
The Holiday Season Is a Good Time
TO Start in the B0Okreaders' Contest
Tribune's Bookreaders' Catalogue
Great Aid to Contestants

The Official Bookreaders' Contest Catalogue
of The New-York Tribune, containing large
list of book titles, among which are included
all of the correct titles to be used IN the Illus
trations throughout the Bookreaders' Contest,
will be a great aid to contestants in arriving
at the correct names of the books and their
proper spelling. The price is rs cents at the
Office of The Tribune, or a copy will be mailed
to any address upon receipt of 80 cents IN
l-cent or 2-cent postage stamps II cata.
logues are ordered by mail, contestants should
address
THE CONTEST MANAGER,
Bookreaders' Contest Department,
New-York Tribune, New York City.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

Jabots In number Of pretty styles are
selling for 95 cents each. Many OF them
are double, each portion being trimmed
with Irish crochet between two and three
inches I'm width and edged at the sides
with Irish picot one OF the single jabots
is cut diagonally al the bottom ana mas
the wide lace on two edges and the pico'
on one side only As an additional orha-
ment two bits Of Irish insertion, with balls
attached, are fastened at the top. JaDot
at 81 45 is almost the same as this but mas
the wide lace on all the edges.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

An extremely practical automobile hood
is made Of a long straight wool scarf by
simply folding it across the centre ana
sewing the edges together at one side Tor
the necessary distance. The point thus
formed is finished with tassel. The hood
is lined with white japanese silk, and It's
outer edge can be turned back TO make
little revere Of the silk TO encircle the
face. For extra wrapping when needed
there still remain the long ends of the
scarf This combined hood and scarf comes
in tan or a dark blue and white stripe at
1915.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

There is one shop to which bead purses
or bags can be taken for repairs with en-
tire confidence as TO the results. since the
workers are accustomed to handling the
very finest products Of this Kind. In the
same place one can have braiding done on
costumes by hand from original designs.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

Borax and very not water, as hot as the
hand will bear makes an excellent cleanser
for PAINTED walls. II will take SCOT from
n grimy kitchen wall as If by magic. pro-
vided a goodly proportion of the borax is
used.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

Even the woman who does the smallest
amount of needlework sometimes wants a
bit OF embroidery silk In some unusual
shade. There is one shop where It is al
most sure TO be found, as 1t makes a
speciality Of things a needeworker is likely
10 want.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

4 large book store mas established a reg
Mar bargain department, which is always
s,ockod with the most varied assortment
of books. both grave and gay, at surpIlS-
ingly moderate prices. A catalogue IS
issued every two or three months, and VIII
be mailed 10 any ore desiring 1t.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
COMPLETE LIST OF PRIZES

I-s32OO Fiye-Passenger Stearns Automo-
bile. The r. Is. stesrns Company.
Broadway and 57th st.
e-S2,2OO White Touring Car. The white
Company, Broadway and SD st.
s-4-S2 100 BOecker Art PLAYER Pianos, $1,000
each. r. Boecker 90 West 3sth St.
5000 Francis Bacon Art Piano. Bacon
Piano Co. liS & Fast i5sth s,II St; .,d.,.
Piano Company. $40 Fulton ST.
Brooklyn
$3.50 Francis Bacon Player Piano.
s-s-si:goo. Two Wing Pianos, $500 each
Io-l1-Si 900. Two Boecker Art Pianos 5000
and s400, respectively.
Ie-SS5O Dining Room suite. Lennon 3
Company. l0i East 2Sd st.
$500 cash.
It-SiOO Solitaire Diamond Ring.
I5-i6-SI10 Cluster Diamond Princes Rings,
$50 and $50. respectively. l.. w. Sweet
4 Co. 100 Broadway.
1850 Cash
Is-is-S9O Cluster Diamond Princess Rings, SO
each. L. W. Sweet 4 Co.
eo-2g-SiOO Owen kodav Leather Beds, $40
each. 4. Owen Company 81 East
Esd
sn-3l-x50 cash s25 each.
Se-35-si0 cash, $40 each.
s6-65-SSOO Mems Ladies' Gold Watches
$40 each.
66-6I-SiO cash. SS each.
ss-l6T-S300 American Thermos 50 each.
American Ihermos Company 2is West
,cs-e67-SS0O Ladies' or GentIemen's silk I'm.
brellas, So each. VI. Steinschneider. 81
Maiden Lane.
s6s-567-S150. Watermans Ideal Fountain Pens
81 so each. l.. T.. Waterman Company
l73 Broadway
kes-tos7-si5O Twelve months subscription to
WV "Pearson's Magazine" 81 so a year. The
Pearson Publishing Company. ass East
2fth 81,
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

The names Of shops where articles mentioned
on this page were seen can be obtained by send
ing a stamped and addressed envelope 10 Seen
In the Shops New-York Tribune. To insure Il
prompt reply the date Of pHhLation should be
given.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

Coats of reversible cloth, with fancy Dut-
tons. can be had IN tan, gray and green az
$40. Useful coats in q rather light weight
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

Among some tailored costumes selling
for sl5 are smart models Of double faced
serge I'm two different shades Of dark blue
and black The reverse side, which is
striped with white, is used in moderate
quantities for trimming on both skir! and
coat The decorations also include a gem
erous number Of dark pearl buttons effec-
lively arranged. other suits at the same
price are of plain serge in winter weights.
with serge buttons in different sizes and
touches of velvet for trimming.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28

SUNDAYS NEW-YoRK TRIBUNE
Mailed anywhere in the United States
Ter $3.50 q year.
New-York tribune., 1911-12-28
There Are Entertainment and Bene-
ficial Recreation To Be Gained
for Every Member of
the Family.

XyOU could not conceive of better time to en-
Y ter The Tribunes Bookreaders contest
than during the holiday season. as it will
furnish amusement and intelligent recreation tor
father mother, sister and brother; in fact, every
member of family.
Don't get the idea that this competition is IN
anv way complicated On the contrary, it IS
pleasant mental entertainment and furnishes just
enough recreation for the mind to suit the holiday
languor
The contest has been developed along lines that
will interest people of all ages, and those who
live in the country will find it just as interesting
as those who live in the city.
New contestants are entering all the time, and
if you have not yet started you should do so
without further delay.
To begin now you need only to secure the back
numbers of the contest pictures which have been
published All back numbers to date may be had
at The Tribune Office or by mail, as stated at the
foot of this announcement.
The contest is fascinating, and once you begin
you will find that it grows you. The only re-
qurement is the supplying of the correct names
or titles of the books the pictures represent.
If you have never entered in a contest of this
kind before, you should study the explanations and
conditions. They have been drawn up along most
liberal lines, and offer equal opportunities to the
inexperienced as we'll as experienced contestants.
All have an equal chance to compete for the
prizes and the prizes are worth some thought.
There are ten hundred and sixty-seven Q,067) in
all Read the list of prizes and conditions of the
contest.
Begin to solve the pictures to-day and enter
with the determination to stand among the list
of successful contestants.