The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-28
that he was a builder.

Much sympathy has been shown by
 all classes for Lieutenant Carl Won
 Metz Meyer, a young officer of the
 NorWeglan Army, on leave of ab-
 sence, the son of a prominent bank CT of Chr1stiana, who was given the unusual alternative the other day of
 leaving the United States forever or
 gong to prison for five years. He promptly elected to leave the Ameri- 1 can shore with the understanding that
 II he ever returns he will have to serve out his prison sentence The young man who is of fine appearance l and highly educated was convicted of robbing the homes of wealthy resi-
 dents in the Columbia Heights section l of the city. His excuse when cs.p-
 tured by the police that he was starv- l ing and was prompted to his life of l crime by the bangs of hunger has. been borne out by the investigation of the 1 authorities
 Made desperate by an enforced fast of two days he broke into a house and stole only sufficient to provide him. self with food. although he might
 worth of silverware and jewels The pathetic story of the young soldier brought to his aid a large number of prominent men and women, including Vice President Lowell M. Palmer of | the Standard Oil Co., whose home was
 
 their direction he will undertake to- reform himself and enter the Congo l service of the Belgian Army. However much they may personally | deplore the circumstance, New York's | women find so1ace in the statement of the principal purveyors of supplies | to society that larger fee, larger waist lines, larger hands and smaller heads are becoming more and more characteristic of the feminine sex in this city. Only few years ago. the suggestion that a fashionable woman's feet, hands or waist were large would be certain to incur her displeasure and make one her enemy for life Small waists, feet and hands were considered refined and encouraged women who were too generously en- every device and artif1ce that the re- sourceful corsetierre boot and glove maker could improvise to simulate the effect of smallness. Thus we had the pitiable striving of fat women for slender waist lines, the cruel pinch ing of big feet in dainty French shoes and similar 'abominations that stran- gled the arteries, interfered with cir r culation and fostered organic and oth- t CT interior troubles. t
 The present day development of the ' hands, feet and waist line is ascrib- (
 
 by New Y ork women in athletics. par 2 ticularly golf They no longer try s to crowd their fingers into skin fitting r French gloves say the Fifth Avenue e but are quite willing to a wear the roomy English gloves. fash onable on the. other side. The an- II 1ouncement that the head of the New s York woman is growing smaller is 5 ess easy to explain by the shopkeep- Y ITS but is not to be interpreted, they II idd assuringly, to any lowering of r he mentality. This last is the say r ng grace of a rather odd situation ~ lnd soothes if it does not altogether d atisfy the suffragettes who persist . n their claims that the intellectual f, ty of the average woman is equal to 1T hat of the average man. Thus a a- rave contingency in the physical ev- ir lution of the New York woman is e, ure to be disposed of with peace and S' ignity fl For the thousandth time within the x ast few years, B. H. Sothern, the ac- bi pr and Julia Marlowe, his co-star in bl productions, were press us for an answer to the report that co 1ey are engaged, as they were leav- Ia lg the other day for a rest in Eu- su ope. Usually they go off in sepa- pc ate directions on their annual sum- Ter vacation but this year decided to aVel together, giving rise to a re- val of the old story that they in- p. nd to get married. Both denied the do port and averred that their only req Al m for going abroad in each others va was to facilitate the prepa- m, tion of their plans for next season an Despite their denial of their en- ou lgement it is the conviction of their ha tends that they will soon cement VI cir pleasant professional relations Pi the still closer relation of mar wa age. Both have already been mar trc ed and divorced, the actor to Virginia de- armed and the actress to Robert Ia an r. E Lf the claims of the militant suffra- n ties are fulfilled, the fashiona ble " staurants, roof gardens, ice cream lpor1ums and confectioners can put locH on their doors and go into turning during the week commencine |" lgust 18th. During the seven days Io1 lowing, the apostles of the right for Bri men to vote propose to abstain from the these luxuries and apply the mon the thus saved to the fund for the prop zen it1on of their movement day 5etWeen pow and the date for the knc ugurat1on of the fast they will try or enlist all of the women of the wer y in their novel sacrifice, to the end ing It the money thus husbanded will init suf1c1ent to enable the movement deli be carried on this fall with greater Ma, rgy than ever before.W Although spe; ny of the sympathizers of the cause was . 0ut Of town now, 1t iS-belieyed the I'm