The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-26

year, mas cost aDOuI $o,VVV,VVV. AAS building will cover total area of 39,5O0 square feet and there will be 13,OOO,OO0 cubic feet in the structure: It will be of the highest freproof construction.
 Encouraged by the receipt of ca- ble from Pekin to the effect that the amputation of the queue is now rec ognized as quite the thing, China town has of late been keeping the local barbers busy removing the su- perfluous hirsutal appendage of its Oriental sons.
 And now the Jqueue-c1tting tong has good start in New York's Chi natown. Wun Lung fired the shot heard round the quarter. He hasn't established a precedent but he has sacrificed his queue and he will have to be introduced to his girl once more For years the quarter boast ed only one barber, and his operat- ing room was up in the House with the Five Entrances, which burned down the other day. It was one of the show places of the town. But there are a number of artists certi- fled and approved and they are the busy boys in Chinatown. Every Chi nese who has the price and queue is waiting the call of next to-day.
 Former Judge Ommen the other
 
 many domestic ills that oppress us, by advocating more stringent mar riage laws and less stringent divorce laws. Make marriage harder and dl- vorce easier, he said in talking to the Society of Medical ,Jurisprudence and there will be less trouble Tor the courts to adjudicate.
 He would have a uniform divorce law and in it he would incorporate a half dozen causes for dlvorce, drunkenness and criminality being among them.
 s"The most vile creature, the habit ually drunkard, the one afflicted with tuberculosis and the one who is men tally unbalanced, can freely enter 1n- to the married state," he said. "Pen- itentiaries, hospitals and asylums are crowded with persons who have 1n- herited many of the difficulties from which they suffer.
 "Our marriages laws are upside down." he went on. The State en- courages marriages, and 1t does this for the purpose of increasing popula. ton and the power of the State. But have we not reached the time when we should consider the quality of our rather than the quantity!
 ''The divorce laws of this State are a disgrace. No one would permit a wife beater to enter his home. yet this great State of New York refuses a divorce to the poor woman who has to put> up with such a brute. I som etimes think that if Jesus were in one of our court rooms to-day and a poor woman, who had been join ed to a wife beater or drunkard, begged to be released from the hell into which she has unwittingly en- tered, the Saviour would not be so as is the church"
 eff the man is the mighty affair he thinks he is, why should he be afraid of political comp petition by the women? If he's not such a mighty affair, then its time he stepped down and gave the ladies chance to show what they can do in politics.
 There you have Big Tim" Sullf- i vans opinion of women's suffrage. l Sullivan is Mayor of the Bowery and right arm of Tammany Hall, when ever there are votes to be delivered. 1 The famous Senator from the Bow cry, has announced his intention of the next women suffrage | bill. But the issue of votes for wo- men, however new 1t may be, is an i old story to Senator Sullivan.
 sThe anti-suffragists claim that wo- men decide things with their hearts, it was suggested to Mir. Sullivan.
 "You can give me the woman with the heart every time.' exclaimed the