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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
WOMEN IN MEDICINE.

The number of women in medicine
is decreasing, according to The Jour-
nal of the American Medical Associa-
ton, which recently. published a re-
port on medical education during the
past year. During that time there
were $50 women studying medicine. a
decrease of OPT below 1910. and de-
crease of 241 below 1909. The percen-
tage of all medical students was "a as
compared with AZ last year. There
were 159 women graduates this year.
Or 81 per cent. of all graduates. In
1910 there were GOT women students
and 157 graduates, while in 1909 there
were 921 women students and 1872
graduates. OF all the women matric-
ulants. 1874 or per cent? were in at
tendance at the two medical colleges
for women, as compared with 155 Q7.1
per cent? in 1910 1859 asa per cent in
1909 and 1856 (22.3 per cent? in 1908 The
SAG (80.3 per cent? were mat
REGULATED in coeducational colleges
From the two women's colleges, there
were Sc, or 22.6 per cent, of all wo-
men graduates, as compared with Al
(26.1 per cent? in 1910 and 33 (20.3 per
cent? in 1909. There were 1873 or 500
per cent, Of all women graduates who
secured their degrees from coeducation-
al colleges.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
Last Stock Play
Of Season Running
At Poll Theatre
Dollar Mark, Exposure of
High Finance, Is Splen-
didly Staged and
Acted

''The Dollar Mark the last stock
of the Poll season, brought good
house. last night, which was reward
ed with an excellent performance
The play is written by George Broad
hurst, author Of "The Man of the
Hour which is familiar to Bridge
port theatre goers. AS the latter is a
story of corruption in politics, big bus
mess in government, SO the present
drama is a story Of corruption in high
finance. The chief characters are a
great financier and a young mine own
er, who is also in bank, which 1t is
plotted to wreck, by causing a run,
quite after the fashion of doing that
sort of thing in real finance. A
charming love story runs through the
play. The leading role is played by
j. Ince His Is the part of Gresham, the
mine owner. which he presents fOrci-
bly,. The play is well staged. The
yacht scene is especially effective. The
whole is an interesting study in mod
ern financial manners and morals.
Tom Moore is cast IN something be-
sides small parts and gives a good
performance of Chandler, one of the
most important roles. A splendid
character portrayal is that by ]. j.
Owens, as president of the Consolidat-
ed, a strong part and excellently play
ed. Blanche Hall, sweet and winsome,
adds another excellent performance
as Alice Chandler and Gordon De-
maine. John German, Royal Byron,
Campbell Travers, Charles Randolph,
Charles r. Jewett and Misses Rochte,
Carpenter and Taggart fill important
roles splendidly.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
FOOTBALL MAN
LOST NERVE AT GOLF

Grartland Rice, the sporting expert
writing ON 'sNerve and the Game" in
the September American Magazine
tells the story of lone Of the nerviest
football backs that ever battered his
way through the opposing line. -
Watch him in a golf match. Says
Mr.. Rice:
please. And kindly stand back from
the green. Mr.. Smith is putting. The
ball is only two feet from the cup
an easy distance ordinarily for even
the ordinary golfer. But it isn't an
ordinary occasion for Smith by any
means He has come to the eighteenth
hole-aIl even-and upon the ultimate
destination of this one lone, miserable
little put swings the outcome Of the
entire match fought over a rangy,
rugged distance of 6,220 yards, through
near.y three hours Of nerve-racking
effort. And yet, If Mr. Smith were
but physically and mentally poised to
step up and take a normal tap at the
ball, this would be the easiest sftua-
ton he has faced through his round
in place of the hardest
"But it is plain to be seen that some
thing is wrong. A cog has slipped
somewhere. His stance is uncertain.
His eye shifts from ball to hole, and
back from hole to ball. His mind
finally made up by desperate effort,
the putter swings in against the ball
and the diabolical ball in turn trickles
up to the hole-an inch short and an
inch to the right of the cup. At the
last moment his guiding hand had fall
tered and shalen-his eye had shifted
again from ball and hole to a spot
halfway between. Too bad he didn't
have thu nerve"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
Bad Accident Is
Reported To One
Of BuIke|ey's Men

One of the men connected with the
string of race horses belonging to B.
A. Buckley of Southport, was serious
ly injured near Goshen, N. Y, accord
ing to a letter written to the Farmer
by Mr.. Buckley, who fails to mention
the victims name. Mr.. Buckley says:
while walking the track Of the
Erie road on Sunday night one Of my
men fell through a railroad trestle and
fell between 40 and so feet on rough
stones. He Is in the emergency hos
pital, with both legs paralyzed to his
waist. His spine is badly injured and
there is hardly a chance that he Will
ever have the use of his limbs again,
or his recovery from the shock. Lat
est report has it that he is threatened
with pneumonia"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
Mrs. Sinclair Still
Spouting Her Funny
Doctrines On Love
Especial from United Press.)

New York, Aug. 29-"Of course
don't believe in marriage, to begin
with, but as long as the world insists
On maintaining this artificial and
wholly illogical institution I believe
divorce should be within the reach OF
anyone. A woman should be true to
love rather than a man. The vilest
act of infidelity, to my mind, is liv-
ing with a man one cannot love-"
This was the peroration of today
preachment by Mrs. Meta Fuller Sim
clair, central figure in the Upton Sim
clair divorce suit. whose views on
marriage and love have startled even
blase Gotham.
With the utmost frankness Mrs.
Sinclair discussed the course she has
pursued in quest of her soul-mate, a
search she says she will now continue
until success rewards her. She con-
sessed complete indifference to public
comment and declared that if she
finds Harry Kemp, the Kansas tramp
poet named by Sinclair in his di-
vorce petition, is her true affinity,
! she will wed him as she sees fit.
> Neither Mr.. Sinclair nor myself be-
lieved in marriage and we went
through the ceremony merely in defer
ence to the feelings of our friends
she said. THAT was eleven years ago
and since then 1 believe I have adj
vanced even further. I consider the
relations of men and women private
affairs and 1 don't think the state
has a right to interfere
women generally would rather be
beaten to death than seek relief in
divorce but I don't believe divorce
disgrace even when obtained on statu-
tory grounds. 1 fully realize Mr.. Sin
clairs suit is brought on those
grounds and in not contesting 1T
make neither denial nor admission. The
public can think as it chooses
Mrs Sinclair was quite sure wheth-
er she believes there is such a thing
as platonic love. "If intellects are in
tune" she said, "there is bound to
be physical harmony. The body is
Just as beautiful as any other quality.
1t is degraded today only because
some people think it evil, they being
incapable of using it beautifully. To
my mind the present attitude of So
ciety toward the body is wholly and
inexcusably impure"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
PROF. GUILTY DEFENDS
STEEPLECHASE DANCING

Editor Evening Farmer:
Sir-Kindly give me space in your
valuable paper to inform. the public
my patrons, that am about to oper
my dancing academy for the eleventh
season, at the Colonial ball room, IL
Fairfield avenue.
The Colonial needs no introduction
It was opened one year ago, and has
been duly recognized as the finest bal
room in New England. On Saturday
evening, Sept 2, I shall have the frs
of my Saturday socials. that have
proved so popular during past seasons
A continuance of past patronage is
earnestly solicited
Here, also, would I like to explain
my position in the Steeplechase af-
fair, that has been heralded in the
newspapers At no time did I con-
duct a dance at Steeplechase. I was
simply floor manager for about a
month, at the end of which / resigned
and have not been connected with the
Island in any capacity since. l have
been accused by the Pastors Associa-
ton of allowing fifteen year old girls
on the floor. This, in a measure, is
true, providing they were respectable
girls. I have, in fact, allowed chill
dren ten years old to dance there,
when accompanied by their parents
or guardians. I think that my years
in business and the kind or aIIalrS
conducted my me, are sufficient guar
antee of my powers of discretion
If some people. were better Informed
on the system of education in our pub
lie schools, they would know that
some of the principal cities through
out the country engage instructors in
dancing to teach the little ones the
terspchorian art.
Perhaps it would be we'll to state
here in this connection, that I had an
interview with some of the State po-
lice, and in answering a few direct
questions, they said that in their visits
to the different ball rooms at summer
throughout the country, they
had never seen a more respectable
class of people, or cleaner or more
uniform dancing than at Steeplechase
Island, and that they considered the
Island ball room, while
under my management, one of the
best managed ball rooms in the coun-
try. I would further state that the
position hold in the dancing world,
trustee, supervisor and vice president
Of the International Association, Mas
ters of Dancing, Of the United States
and Canada, would not countenance
nv being connected with anything i'm
proper.
Thanking you for your space, I am
Very truly.
n q OTITTyY
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
G. 0. P. LEADER
SAYS. TAFT HAS
NOT MADE GOOD
Especial from United Press.)

ESPECIAL ITOm OullSQ OSS'I
washington, Aug. 2s-Medill McCor-
mick. until recently publisher of the
Chicago Tribune, today accepted the
challenge to the Republican progress
sives made by President Taft in has
Hamilton speech, and prepared the fol
lowing statement for the United
Press:
By Medill Mccormick
Copyrighted 1911 by the United Press
AssOciat1OnS.)
1t is plain from the President
speech at Hamilton last Saturday that
ton OF last November. First noml-
mated by Roosevelt, then dominated
by Aldrich, he now would be the CEN
sor of Republicanism. He would pro-
scribe everyone who differs with him.
No wonder that, from new year I'M
til adjournment, the overwhelming
majority Of the two houses of Con-
standpat or progressive, has been of
ne opinion that lie Taft were renom-
mated, he could not be reelected
They remembered that his eulogy Of
Aldrfch and his defense of the Payne
tariff law was followed by the land
slide Of 1910, when over eighty stand
pat Congressman lost their seats, and
the p4OST0SSlV6S T11c 1OuSe QOuDlGu
their numbers. If Taft had been
running In that campaign he would
have polled as few electoral votes as
Bryan did in 1908.
Neither has anybody forgotten the
Norton letter, which confessed that
the President had tried to intimidate
and coerce the progressives by taking
patronage from them. He failed to
drive them out once-and now he pro-
poses to Try again. He Is going to
invade the progressive west to explain
away his tariff Inconsistencies, his
haste to put through reciprocity, which
effects farmers products, while he
blocks the reduction Of the schedules
affecting manufactured products, to
defend his Alaskan attitude, and his
lack Of antitrust program
His swing around the circle two
years ago discovered his weakness.
then his second trip will measure it's
decree.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
Max Schulz Held
As Spy By The
German Government
Especial from United Press }

Especial from United Press.)
Plymouth Eng, Aug. 29-That Max
Schultz held here by the military
authorities, is spy commissioned
directly by the German government
to ascertain England's preparedness
for war, was asserted today by
Public Prosecutor S. H. Emanuel. to
the United Press. The prosecutor
declared that he had the most positive
documentary proof of his assertion.
Sshultz's declaration that he was a
representative for German news
agency was pronounced by the
authorities to be a transparent SUBJ
terfuge.
Schultz was formally remanded for
trial at the September assizes and a
request that he be admitted to bail
was refused
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
THE WEDDING RING FINGER.

The symbols adopted by man to ex-
press his deeper ymtiHents and emo
tions sometim2sg a+s ! srouAdsd more
deeply in nature than appears on the
surface. Mythologists have shown
how many fairy stories, which are
common in substance to many differ
ent nations are often allegories Of ma
s tqeei SO sa3 sJ4m sass1'
The wedding-ring is a. pretty symbol
and it's significance is well understood.
But how many people know why the
third finger Is the ring finger? An
anatomist has given this explanation
1t is the only finger where two prin-
cipa1 nerves belong to two distinct
trunks: the thumb -is supplied with
it's principal nerves from the radical
as are also the forefnger, the middle
finger, and the thumb side of the ring
finger. while the ulnar nerve furnishes
the little finger and the. other, side, Of
the ring finger at the pont Or iexfrsrx-
ity of which a real union takes place;
it seems as if it were intended by ma
ture to be the matrimonial finger.
That the side of the ring finger next
to the little finger Is supplied by the
ulnar nerve Is frequently proved by q
common accident, that Of striking tbs
elbow against the edge. of a chair, q
door. or any narrow, hard substance
if the nlnar nerve IL struck a thrilling
sensation is felt in the little finger
and on the same side of the ring fin
ger, but not on the other side Of IL.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
Elks Will Repeat
Great Entertainment

Needing a, demand for another Elk
affair of the same elaborate character
which was given in connection with
the Elks' clambake and field day at
Steeplechase Island, last Thursday,
and which rain prevented thousands
from enjoying, the entertainment COM
mittee of the local lodge have 0ar-
ranged to repeat the event at the
,ocal summer resort next Thursday,
for the evening only. The island is
temporarily closed for this week, but
Captain Boyton has agreed to reopen
it for this. occasion only.
While the entire program is by no
means completed, a partial list of the
scheduled events include a band con-
cert. a vaudeville bill of a classy cali
bre, brilliant display of fireworks,
and many other features.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
THE CALL OF THE wrLDwoops.

Hark, tbs the call Of the wiIdvoods.
From distant lands afar,
That's bringing sweet dreams OF child
hoods
Happy days, with naught to mar,
Where in the Summer, thro its shade,
I loved to stroll alone,
Thro its winding paths, never afraid,
Tho e'er SO far from home.
Within it's shelter, I found no sorrow,
But life was just sweet bliss,
While voices spake, of the distant
morrow,
Thro' trees that seemed to Miss
As. oft in sweet repost, I'd lay
Beneath those whispering trees,
My thoughts would stray, in idle
Dreams
To lands far DER the seas.
The years have gone, as with them
days,
And I am old and gray,
Tho eyes are dim, yet thro' the misty
haze,
Will thoughts n'er cease to stray.
In sweet visions, that memory brings
to me,
Of fondest days in childhood's
Paradise, andswith them now seems
to haSzzzzzzz-zs<zszzsszzzss<s<-
The call sofstlfe~ wffdwoodss
HOWARD PECK GREEN.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
Probing Wreck
On Valley Road
Diversity of Opinion AS to
Whether Spikes Were
Pulled Up
Especial to The Farmer.)


Mlddletown, Aug. 29-Wfth the roads
offer of $4,000 reward still standing
today, the coroner began his inves-
t1gatlon into the fatal Sunday wreck
near here said to have been caused by
some one maliciously pulling out the
rall-spikes. This explanation Of the
cause does not meet with popular ar-
prevail, the man on the street favoring
the broken rail theory,
Chief of Police Inglis and Sheriff
Thompson, expecting to be called at
the coroner's inquest, refused today
to discuss the results of their private
search for clues. Both men have been
secretly quoted to be on the popular
side of the discussion of the wrecks
cause
The work of clearing the scene of
the accident was finished last mid
night. The baggage car and smoker
were fired by the wrecking crews, the
two coaches having been reduced to
kindling wood by the crash.
Four of the eight injured in the To-
cal hospital left the city for their
homes yesterday. The remaining in
day.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
SIX TORPEDO
BOATS BLOWN
into STORM
Especial from United Press

Washington, Aug. 29-The Navy De-
partment to-day received a telegram
from the Navy Yard at Charleston,
S. c., saying six torpedoboats had
been, blown ashore and greatly dam
aged by the storm. The despatch was
signed by the commandant of the
navy yard and asked for a $4,000
emergency relief fund in order to re-
pair damages to the yard and gov
eminent vessels.
He reported that the city was part
ly Inundated, that the sea wall had
been partially demolished, and that
the city itself was devastated. Tele-
graphic communication with Charles
ton is still only intermittent.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
PORT JEFFERSON
STEAMBOAT co.

There is $4,000 in unpaid capital
stock in the Bridgeport & Port JEFF
ferson Steamboat Co. which returned
it's annual report to the town clerk
to-day. The officers of the company
are David w. Thompson, president
John w. Brown of Port Jefferson.
vice president; Charles E. Tooker Of
Port Jefferson. treasurer and w. A.
H. Hatfield, secretary The officers
with the following making up the
board of directors-George M. Took
err of Port Jefferson, Samuel w. Bald
win, Henry G. Fairchild and F. H
Tuthill of Rocky Point, N. Y
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
E. II. DILLON e. co.
Cyclone Sweeps
Over New Milford
Uproots 200 Trees, Levels
Fences and Takes Roofs
Off from Many Houses
Especial from United Press. }

Especial from United Press.)
New Milford, Aug. 29-Work was
started today to clear away the evil
dences Of yesterday afternoons cy-
clone that swept over path about
three miles long and a quarter of a
mile wide, uprooting over 200 trees,
ievelling fences unroofing houses,
and moving several sheds off their
foundations. That no live stock or
human being was hurt Is considered
miraculous today. The oldest resident
could not recall such a high wind.
The wind was accompanied by no
great darkness and no particularly
ugly looking cloud. Rain fell in heavy
showers before and after but not dur
ing the tornado.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.

Marriage licenses were issued to-
day to Louis H. Rabb, rs carpenter
so nof Philip and Pauline Rabb t.
wed Louise Meyer, daughter OF
Charles and Mary Meyer; to Harold
Baldwin, %, of 104 Highland avenue
a teamster to marry Sallie Thompson
aged 10; and to William Hutton, a case
maker of SO Burrough street to weJ
Sarah Stones. daughter of John and
Elizabeth Stones.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
PROBING CLUE INTO ann,
MURDER MYSTERY IL
NEW HAVEN TODAY

New Haven, Aug. 29-The police
are investigating murder clues in the
death of Samka Moryn, a laborer
whose body was found in a public
playground today with a harness belt
around his neck. The coroners office
believes it is a case Of suicide There
were signs of struggle around the
place where the mans body was found
and on his clothing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
PERSONAL MENTION.

Mr.. and Mrs. william f. HYDE of
241 Lewis street, left Monday morn
ing on a two weeks vacation to AL
bany, N. z, and oyster Bay, L l.
Miss Ella Frances Ganley and Miss
Mary l. Halpin have just returned
from a two weeks vacation in the
Green Mountains. They visited at
Burlington, Lake Champlain, Montreal,
Quebec, and Montpelier.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29

Goshen. n. Y.-George Brown of AL
bany, purchased a lot in the cemetery
here, had four marble pillars erected
and then killed himself, leaving a note
directing his burial in the plot.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29

San Bernardino, Col.-Kicking q
stone on top os Mount Grayback, W.
L. Brown started an avalanche which
carried him and his son 1000 feet down
the mountain. They were unhurt
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29

South Orange, N. J.-Wm. F. Wig
gins, whose home is on the dividing
line between South Orange and New
ark, has asked the authorities to de-
termine in which place he may vote
and pay taxes.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29

New York-By a rare and delicate
operation Jacob Mehlman, paralyzed
by fractured spinal column, will re-
cover. The spinal cord was exposed
and fragments of bone removed from
it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29

Donaldsonville, La-Leaving a note
saying, I'm so fat even my wife no
longer loves me-" Wilson Arnoldt
jumped into the Mississippi He was
so fat he wouldn't sink and was res
cued.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29
OBITUARY

Margaret McMullen. widow of
Charles E. Speer died yesterday at
her home in Toilsome Hill, Fairfield,
aged 70 years. She was a native of
Scotland and had made her residence
in Fairfield for many years.
WANT ADS. CENT A WORD
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29

Adrian, Mich.-W. H. Toms, a clam
digger, found 912 pearls in a raisin
river clans One hundred were of mar
ketable size, fifty are beauties for
which he expects fortune.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29

New York-Joseph Kyd, 8, marched
into Jefferson Court where his moth
er was arraigned for disorderlY con-
duct and offered the magistrate his
ala dime-to pay her fine. The
court released her.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-29

The call NUfstl1eH wffdwoods -" =
HOWARD PECK GREEN.
Black Rock.
The herald., 1911-03-23
Her B.idqe Prize.

A decided coldness between two wo-
men who had been friends for many
years is the result Of a mistake made
by the maid Of one Of them who had
had a four table bridge party one
afternoon recently. In keeping with
the custom, she had provided prize
for each table, to be brought to the
card room just before tea was served
and placed on the tables which bore
the corresponding numbers. 1t was a
lovely party" in every respect, with
never a hitch until the woman at No.
8 opened the parcel which was sup
posed to contain her trophy of victory
over her three competitors, but which
really contained a piece of perfumed
soap. Unfortunately, the hostess was
not in the group when the package
was opened, and much had been said
before she discovered that the wrong
bundle had been brought downstairs
New York Tribune.
The herald., 1911-03-23
The Seals Marvellous Instinct.

The instinct of the seal is marvellous.
1t will leave its young on the ice in
the morning and, going down through
a hole, remain away all day swim
ming in search of food. Returning in
the evening, it will locate its offspring
in the same patch" among hundreds
of thousands of other baby seals not
withstanding that the ice may have
wheeled or drifted fifty or sixty miles
during the day from wind and tide
and Notwithstanding that the patch
may extend thirty or forty miles from
one end to the other. Whether this
instinct is of the class that enables
the bird without any mark or chart in
a forest with millions Of trees alike to
find its way back with ease and preci-
sion to its nest I do not know, but ii
is one Of those wonders in nature
before which human knowledge is
brought to a full stop.-Sir Edward
Morris in Wide World Magazine.
The herald., 1911-03-23
The JekyII and HYDE Idea.

81 was in Stevenson's company" says
Charles Brookfield in Random Remi-
niscences," "at the moment that he
conceived the germ Of the idea of 'Dr.
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde He was in
Weighing against a man with whom he
had done business and with whom he
was dissatisfied. The mans name was
Samuel Creggan. or something like it.
Hes a man who trades on the Sam
uel' Stevenson declared. He receives
you with Samuers smile on his face,
with the gesture of Samuel he invites
you into a chair, with Samuel's eyes
cast down in self depreciation he tells
you how well satisfied his clients have
always been with his dealings, but
every now and again you catch a
glimpse Of the Creggan peeping out
like white ferret. Creggan's the real
man; Samuel's only superficial