The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-28

tho sex and embarrass it's members
| Jeweled anklets and gem embellisheo
| garters may be all right in Chicago
| where the genus homo is tractable tt
| restraint, but in New York, where
| the bizarre and the risque are a tonic
| for the jaded, it would exercise a de-
| moralizing influence upon the com
munity. The suggestion emanating
| from Washington, D. c., where the
/ ciubwomen have prescribed that the
monthly dues for women's clubs shall
| in future be computed from the size
| Of the members feet, was likewise
put on the shutter and given early
| interment. It almost provoked a riot
| when the vice-president of one of the
| smart clubs, wearing a. No. shoe
proposed that a similar rule be made
| effective.
whats a wornan's feet got to dc
| with club Dues burst out a heavy
| heeled woman in the front row. at
would be just as logical to regulate
| the amount Of dues by the size OF
| q members waist line, her shoulders
or the length from the top OF her cor
| set to the bottom"
Here, here" shouted a medley of
| members in chorus.
Are all you ladies afraid of &C
| knowledging the generosity of nature
| in giving you large feet" retorted
| the officer with a sarcastic infection
of her voice. If the President had not
stepped in at this juncture there would
have been G. d. Q. call for the po-
lice.
Judge Rosalsky, the terror of New
Yorlk's evil doors, has evolved q plan
for the punishment of the confirmed
criminal that is attracting much at
tention from those interested in rails
ing the standard of American prison
life.
ST believe it would be better he
says, ''to sequestrate the criminal and
still keep him productive. Let him
earn money and if he has a wife and
children, devote a part of his earn
ings to their support. Let him not,
when he has completed his sentence.
face a cold hostile society empty
handed"
81 believe that the labor unions can
be persuaded to give way to the inter
ests of society in this matter. The
habitual criminal has a fierce hatred
of society. He knows that, because
of his record, not one person in a
thousand will give him work and so
he justifies himself in continuing to
steal.
Under the present system the only
thing for a Judge to do is to shut
up for as long a term as possible the
violent criminal who Is menace to
his fellow men-cage him as you
would a dangerous animal. That is
what we have to do until We get
better system of dealing with the
criminal Judge Rosalsky repeated.
To the Hon. Bobby Beresford, the
younger brother of Lord Decies, the
most amusing experience he has had
In this city since he came here several
months ago to attend the marriage
of his brother, is the persistence
shown by society writer's in engaging
him to first one rich and eligible miss
or matron and then another. Bobby"
is no chicken in the affairs of the
heart confessing to some fOrty-twO
summers and a few cold winters. He
vows he never will surrender his free
dom of action to any woman, If she has
gold reaching to the top of the pyra-
mids and the attractiveness Of
Diana But notwithstanding this his
name continues to be coupled with
various women, the impression SEEM
ing to be that, like Lord DecieS, who
was once held to be an irrecoucilable
bachelor, he will thaw out under the
melting influence of some bewitching
woman with a healthy bankroll This
week his name was linked with that
of Mrs. Burke Roche, whose father the
late Frank Work, a noted banker and
llorseman, died few weeks ago, leav-
ing her most his estate of $40 900, 000
Like Bobby her first husband, James
Boothby Burke Roche, brother of Lord
Fermoy was an Irishman. She d.
vorced him many years ago and start
led society later by secretly marrying
Aurel Batonyi, a professional whip
from whom she also secured a divorce
when her father threatened to disin-
herit her. Bobby" and the two time
grass widow both deny that there is
any match on between them, but So
ciety is not disposed to believe either
of them.
Those who pretend to know are OF
the opinion that the estimate furnish
ed the other day by one of the larg-
est cigarette manufacturing establish
ment in the country that $4,000 New
York women are addicted to the use
of the weed, is too conservative. OF
late years the habit has been growing
tremendously with not only the So
called smart women of the city but
those without society's golden gate.
The steady increase in the number of
women who go abroad yearly and Wis
it Paris and other continental cities
where cigarette smoking by women is
regarded as an Indispensable part of
the daily regime, is believed to be re-
sponsible for the popularity of the
"coffin naip' here. One woman who
has thus acquired the habit abroad
encourages others at home to believe
that there is nothing offensive in it.
While it has been generally conceded
that cigarette smoking by the fairer
of Gothams population is
enlisting new recruits every day, some
surprise was occasioned by the an
by the nanufacturfng
concerns in question that out OF the1