The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-11
fHE FARMER: MARCH n. 1911

IL fAhNEh: MARCH IL, ]
 use of women who are fond of tn, weed. Encouraged by the bold posi- ! tion assumed by the sponsors of tn, hotel, which is run by a syndicate | that operates a string of fashionable places throughout Europe, some of 1 the richest dressed women in towr who have become addicted to the in. sidious habit make the Oak Room oi i the RitX-Carlton their daily rendez yous. Visitors to the latter any af ternoon between 3 and may see from | seventy-five to one hundred matrons whose names almost continually em- blazon the society columns of the daily papers, sitting at tables puffine cigarettes in evident enjoyment of the
 unusual privilege accorded them Heretofore cigarette smoking by wom-
 en in public has been strictly tabooed in every hotel in New York. In the past women who have essayed to at | tempt it have been told that they
 must either desist or get out. What ever smoking has been done by so- ciety women therefore has been done in the privacy of their own homes Now that hotel has made bold tc introduce the European practice ot allowing 1t in their public rooms, as bid for patronage. those who re- gard the practice as distinctly smart dIIeCL tO Ue TnucD 6ldC6Q. Jn Lle | other hand, those who look upon ii
 as an unpleasant usurpat ton of a perniciously bad habit of the strong CT sex condemn it as an abomination and threaten to invoke the aid of the Legislature to stop it.
 Tired of being used as "a ,aod thing by the public and made the ] goat when popular censure is arous- ed against the aristocracy of money
 and it's so-called abuse of corpora
 tion privilege, the syndicate of mill liOnaireS who have been financing the
 Madison Square Garden and other en-
 terprises for the entertainment of the public have announced their intention
 of getting from under. In the last two years the New Theatre, which they built at cost of S3,0O0,000 to
 give American authors and dramatists an opportunity to present their crea- tions without respect to their commer- cial possibilities, for arts sake, has lost S400,000. Amazed at the popu- lar aversion shown by the theat tre-go- ing public to the anemic, inert and often insipid productions presented there, its packers have given notice of | their plan to give up the use of the big playhouse and continue their ac- tfvities for the uplift of the drama elsewhere, upon less expensive scale. For the first time in years the Metro politan Opera House, also backed by
 the syndicate, has made money this season. Heretofore 1t has been a tremendous drain upon the bank
 rolls of it's directors. and more than
 once has threatened a revolt among
 those who have had to pay the enor-
 nous bills annually accumulated. Madison Square Garden has never paid. Of late yeaers it has come in- to a lot of unpleasant notoriety be- cause of it's association with the mur-
 der of Stanford White by Harry Thaw on it's summer roof garden. The building was designed by White and
 is considered one of his architectural
 masterpieces. In its tower Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the wife of the murder CT, testified, he had den in which he
 was in the habit of entertaining his
 chorus girl friends at suppers that savored of the licentious days of old. In the hope of saving the building from demolition, a committee of ed to raise funds sufficient to relieve it's present owners of the burden they have been carrying. If they suc- ceed, the building which has been the scene of many notable gathering will be turned over to the public as recreation center.
 In order to finish her memoirs be- fore she dies, Clara Morris, the ac- tress, who is Mrs. F. c. Harriott, in private life, is working night and day dictating them from bed in her Yonkers home. Clara Morris has been in bed since her breakdown of a year ago. She is almost blind, but takes keen delight in a photograph and is kept posted on current events by her husband.
 Her husband is keeping up a dairy in which she noted something every day in her life since girlhood.
 Dorothy Arnold, the missing heir ess, according to press dispatches has been found in every corner of the uni verse from Skaneateles, N. r., to Hong Kong, but is still being sought by her family, who affect to believe she is dead. Last week a manicurist in the financial district conceived the bright idea of putting out shingle signed Dorothy Arnold" and did a land office business among the bank CTS and brokers, of the neighborhood, who pestered her almost into hyster
 icS with curious questions of a more papers interviewed her and sent pho tographers to take her picture. In
 many respects she was not unlike the young woman whose disappearance has stirred two continents. While interest in her strong likeness lasted she rolled up a big bank roll How
 ever firm the Arnold family may be in denying any knowledge of their daughters present whereabouts, it is clearly established in the minds of most New Workers that they have had her under their care for more than a month now and know the cause and circumstances Of her leaving home so
 unceremoniously. The tremendous notoriety given to the family over the case has prostrated Mrs. Arnold and driven the family almost to despair. They have begged, implored and be- seeched the police and the newspa- pers to drop the search for the girl, but interest in her strange flight from her luxurious home has been so whet- ted that the appeals have been of no avail. So many unpleasant lnsinua- tions concerning the young woman have cpept into print since her father asked the newspapers to aid in find- ing her that it is most unlikely that other wealthy families similarly situ- ated will invite the assistance of the press for a long time to come.
 With caviar, lobster and frogs legs soaring continually higher, in the gastronomic emporiums along the Great White Way" and the bon bon vendors threatening to boost prices