The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-28

| total of 8, 800, 600, 600 cigarettes sold last
| year in the United States fully 637 ,OOO,-
! 900 were consumed by women. Chicago,
| next to New York is the best custom
| er. In the widespread use of the ci-
| garette by women, it is said the Uni
| ted States is following the present day
| trend of not only France, but England
| Germany and Austria.
| The government lnI1nig grafton Off
| Gals on Ellis Island have been wrestl-
| ing this week with pathetic case
| Several months ago Joseph Winkel
returned to his home one day and
found that his wife had eloped with
| another man, leaving the father to
| care for their two little children. Re-
| Gently Winkel who was devoted to
/ his wife, learned that she had been
abandoned by her lover in Panama
and went there to reclaim her On
reaching the Canal Zone he learned
| that the wife was under suspicion OF
| the authorities there in connection
with certain offenses with which 1t
| subsequently developed she had moth
| ing to do. Winkel was arrested as a
| fellow conspirator and was locked up
| several days before he had an oppor-
! tunity of proving his innocence. With
| his contrite wife he started home last
week. When the ship reached the
pier the couples two children We're
waiting to greet them, but the imni-
grafton authorities on advices from
Panama that the woman was of bad
character, sent the couple to the deten-
ton pen ON Ellis Island. The hus-
band protested that he had forgiven
his wife for her indiscretion and she
had promised him that she would new
er run away again The authorities
were immovable. however, and ordered
husband and wife detained pending an
investigation.
Army and navy officials here are
highly enthusiastic over the new Sc
cret military photographic invention of
Patrick B. Delany, of which dem
onstration was given the other day
between this city and st. Louis under
the auspices of the New York World
and st. Louis Post dispatch. The
invention breaks up the dots and
dashes forming the letters of the tele-
graph code and required the use of
two circuits, traversing widely sepa-
rated territory. One part of the mes
sage went to ST. Louis by way of
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Columbus,
indianapolis and Terre Haute, and the
other by way of Albany, Buffalo.
Cleveland Toledo and Chicago. Ever
since biography became a potential
auxiliary of the modern army it has
been the most fruitful prey of the Sc
cret service agents Of the opposing
Sides By Delany's invention, govern
ment officials say it will be impos-
sible to extract anything from a Wire
that will be of any value to an enemy.
Two circuits operated by a single
Morse key. are used, each alternate
dot or dash going over one wire and
the other dots and dashes over the
second wire. The circuits traverse
widely separated routes, many hundred
miles apart and do not join each other
IL L, b. o. f1,0I
end of their journey. By tapping a
wire over which the government is
sending a, message but one section of
it, having no meaning without the
other would be secured. In view If
the disturbing conditions along the
Mexican frontier and the constant re-
iteration of future trouble with ia
pan, the army is taking a lively in
terest in the invention, which is the |
latest work of the inventor Of the
telepost automatic telegraph system, !
the mutiplex, the anti-page relay and
other important telegraph and cable |
inventions.
Avaunt and abas with those cyni-
cally constituted men who decry the /
harem skirt and otherwise seek to reg |
ulate the apparel of the women of |
the nation Ida Hustled Harper, BIZ |
ographer of the late Susan B. Anthony /
and militant suffragist, says they are !
nothing but poacherS aud second story |
men who stole the trousers from wom-
en- and gave her their discarded skirts |
and long hair.
"Man has been trying" she says, |
"to dictate woman's dress from the |
beginning of time The Bible, from COW
err to cover is filled with regulations |
concerning women's anklets, brace |
wells, and everything else that men |
could think Of
s'St Paul said women must remain |
covered in church, yet modern evange /
lists are trying to force us to take |
our hats Off Suppose woman should |
try to regulate mans costumes, what a |
hue and cry there would be!''
"Women first wore the trousers and |
men skirts and long hair. One has
only to look at the pictures of Bible
times to realize that. But when men
realized that skirts were hampering
to activity and that long hair was
troublesome and hard to be kept tidy
they imposed their discarded customs
and costumes with every other re-
striction they could think of upon
woman Perhaps woman is to be I
congratulated. Certainly she should |
think a long time before taking the
trousers back.
Its a. queer thing" Mrs. Harper
''that having put aside
both skirts and long hair man should
make them the symbols of femininity, Il
should, in fact, impose his old clothes
upon his supposed ideal. Even today,
when man refers to a "short-haired''
woman he uses the most opprobrious
epithet in his vocabulary