The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-02-03
GOTHAM GOSSIP

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| (By Francis Phillips, Copyright, 1910.
| by the National News Service. N. z.
! Benjamin c. Marsh, secretary of the
| Commission on Congestion and Popu-
| lation of New York, has a remedy for
the national extravaganza to which
James J. Hill and other students
| claim Americans are tending.
EVERY American CHI Id. rich or poor,
he says, should be taught the value Of
! money, how to earn a dollar. save a
| dollar, spend dollar. There is no
| other way Of curing our country of
! the great national vice of extrava-
! GRANGE
Rich and poor, we are nation
! Of MASTERS. Extravaganza is not mere
| ly spending too much money, 1t Is
spending money unwisely.
| 'The woman who sends her little
| girl out to buy cents worth of po-
| tatoes instead of getting a large bag
of thenn,' is beng extravagant-
| little girl is taught to realize it, how
ever. she'll buy the bag of potatoes
| when she grows up and marries.
| How much work 1t takes to earn
| a dollar. how much self denial to
save it. how much discretion to spend
should learn from personal experience.
whenever poss BILE, he should have
an allowance, even If it must be a
| small one. He should be required to
keep strict account of the ways in
| which he employs it.
"Also a child should be encouraged
i to earn q certain amount of money.
do not mean that he should sell
papers on the street, or that he should
| make artificial flowers in the factory.
It Is, indeed, a bit difficult to suggest
work for city children, except ass ST
ance which they can give in the house.
In the country, though. there are
| plenty Of things q child can be paid
| for doing which won't injure him in
| the least There is gardening of all
sorts. berry-picking, snow shoveling.
Another good reason for living in the
country" Mr.. Marsh added, in paren-
thesis.
/ Though her former multi-millionaire
j husband. John Wright Hunt, died the
18th of last December. Mrs. Bessie
H. Hunt, who startled .Par's a year
ago by running off, it is claimed, with
a Russian count, is still trying to
! open the decree Of tdivorce he obtain
ed against her. Supreme Court JUS
/ tice Kapper has signed an order va
| eating a stay obtained by Mr.. Hunt
before his death that prevented his
wife from going on with her case.
Hunt was known to two continents
Of the fortune he made through the
sale Of turpentine and other ships
stores. He also opened string Of
hotels in the west The defendant
is the daughter Of Adelbert. Babcock
of Detroit. At the time of the mar
ty years Of age, while Hunt was near
ly sixty.
| In her af11davits, submitted to JUS
| tice Kapper, Mrs. Hunt says that she
is ANXIOUS to clear her name of tine
stain cast on it by the ruling of for
mer Supreme Court Justice Dickey,
who was appointed as referee to hear
the divorce suit. HS reported in fa-
vor of the plaintiff. finding that Alex
| ander de Tcherntadieff, a Russian
count, was responsible for Mrs. Hunts
/ fall. According to the papers, the two
met in Pars in the summer Of 1909.
and Mrs. Hunt eloped with the Rus
sian WHO was supposed to be rela-
ton of the Gear.
Statisticians claim that $4,000, 600 are
wasted every month in this city
on foodstuffs that are thrown out by
careless servants. Recalling this
waste, a pathetic case Of dest,tution
was brought to the attention of the
| authorities this week when two half
starved children were found cooking
potatoes in a vault in a deserted GEM
| etery. The children were Sophia
and Margaret Green. aged twelve and
they could scarcely walk. Later, the
police found their mother, Mrs. Mary
Green so nearly famished she had to
be taken to a hospital. The children
were sent to a charitable institution.
Mrs. Green, the mother, left desti-
| tute by the death of her husband in
mine in Shenandoah Pa. went with
her girls to Paterson in the hope of
| finding work in the mills. All her
savings went for railway fares. She
and the little ones slept one night in
the park, two nights under a stoop
They had moth ng to eat except what
| they could beg. The children pick
ed up the potatoes in the street. after
having gone without food for three
| days. Mrs. Green had two slices of
bread, which, despite her own hunger
she was saving for the girls.
Judge, Your Honor. if you had to
listen to the continuous grumbling
and fault finding of your mothers in
law for eighteen years what would
you do? reckon you would have
blame me? Why. Judge, when my
son Charles was three years old my
mothef-in-law slapped his face be-
cause he was so much like me. She
is Seventy-twO years old, but she
owns my family and me. Her word
is law in the house and I won't stand
for it any longer" said Willis Curren
yesterday in the Flatbush Court
where he had been taken on a sum-
mons obtained by his wife charging
him with intoxication and threaten
ing 70 kill her.
Judge" he continued, 1--WE were
married eighteen years ago and since
that time I have not had a day of rest
or a night of half an hours sleep MY
mother-in-law came to my house EIGHT
days after we were MARI 3D. The
first week / did not mind, but as the
weeks heightened into months and
months into years I objected When
demonstrated, my mother-m-law
said: "Why you little shrimp, do you
think you are master here?"