The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-08

week of feminine feathers in CO.
than.
The courage of the Western scion
touched a sympathetic chord IN the
heart of every woman hater IN the
metropolis, and made those who nave
been deploring the frequent sugges-
ton for the passage Of laws designed
to make the stronger sex enter Weu-
lock under penalty of various ue-
grees, feel that the boot had at last
been put on the other foot, AT the
weekly meeting of several of the WI
mans clubs the idea was discussed as
a mean, contemplate attempt to add
to thesdiscomfiture of the sex and en-
courage hasty, ill-considered mar
riages. Miss Florence Guernsey, one
of the city's richest bachelor girls
summed up the situation thus:
IF woman wants to marry she
WILL If she doesn't she won't. ana
no man-made tax is going to nave
any effect on her decision" Then
she added: 80 woman VINO u,
married, but not happily, is a mucn
more fitting subject for taxation than
the happily unmarried spinster. Be
cause the miserable married woman
is a continual source Of disturbance
and menace to the community. Inc
great rea son and excuse for so many
dread of the marriage that ends IN
failure. The woman to-day weighs
her decisions very carefully. She is
no longer compelled for economic
reasons, to marry some one at any
cost. She can wait and choose the
person for whom she really cares.
Generally speaking, she does it. Or
course, it takes time-and that sug-
gestS another amusing feature of the
Wisconsin bill. The good man VINO
framed it apparently labored under
the delusion that at twenty-five a
Nf
changing her state That's such ut
ter nonsense! Hosts of modern wo-
men don't marry until after their
thirtieth birthday. Personally. L
think no girl should marry before
she is twenty-five. She should nave
her long, happy girlhoood, 1uil or
fun and Irritation; just because the
responsibilities of married life are SO
real and important they shoulo not
be assumed to oeafr~
Admirers of Luisa Tettrazini, the
grand opera diva. are wondering
what sort of an establishment she ran
in West End Avenue during her sea-
son last year at the Manhattan opera
House. The prima donna is accus-
ed of having destroyed $685. worth
of glassware in the house Whlch she
leased for the winter from wealthy
widow. In one of the lower courts
ger to recover damages for the bro
ken goods. During the three sea-
sons she was at the Manhattan, the
soprano entertained her countrymen
and women literally. Partly be-
cause of her marvellous voice ana
partly because she is the hrst Italian
soprano to reach the premiere rank
in grand opera here since PattIs
voice lost its old brilliancy, Tettra-.
zini has been worshipped by those or
her race in this country. she is nat
urally of a generous, apprec1atlve ma
ture, and it is suspected she alloweo
some of her emotional countrymen 10
upset the china closet in their post
prandial enthusiasm. Whatever the
cause. the owner of the house says
there is no question but that some
unusual incident in the dwelling was
responsible for the breakage Nine.
Tettrazini is silent on the question,
but is inclined to think that the cat
or some shy little mouse caused the
trouble.
Arthur E. Stillwell, president of the
Kansas City. Mexico and Orient Rail
road, in a statement yesterday made
a strong plea for support of Presi-
dent Taft's universal peace program
as sure way to bring back good
times and make them permanent:
''Dreadnoughts get out of date" he
SAID, true IOl
ever The dreadnought destroys,
friendship builds up. The money
now wasted in war would make pow
erty unknown. International law
can settle all disputes, just as ma
tion's laws settle all disputes within
the nation. Right is principle that
does not have to be fought for. Let
all nations declare peace for fifteen
years, building no dreadnoughts N
the meantime, nor increasing the ar
mics. This allows the change to be
made slowly. The world can adapt
itself year by year to the new con-
ditions. New territory would be
opened up. Money would be cheap
er, the cost of living reduced, with
more people producing and less idle
men to consume, and so we would
build up what war has pulled down.
1t would mean 100000 men made
bread winners. as well as bread u.s.
uselessly every year, saved to the
people"
Fear that he would squander his
patrimony and leave her stranded
some day on the rocks of bankruptcy.
this week, prompted Gertrude E.
Childs to impound a legacy of $780,
600 to be turned over to her young
husband, Irving W., the other day On
his twenty-fifth birthday.
ChlldS is the son OF the late VIII
liam Henry Harrison Childs, who
made a fortune with cleaning com
pound and a metal roofing patent.
He left two sons, Irving W., and his
elder brother. Eversley. 1t was di-
rected that the younger son, minor
at the time of his fathers death,
should be paid the interest on his
estate. which amounted to something
like $4,000 year. In 1907 the ell
der brother, as executor of the es-
tate, turned over to the younger man
$460,000 of accumulated interest and
profits.
The younger Childs became a IA
miliar figure along Broadway He
had automobiles, and one of his fan
cies led him to place a white Teddy
bear in front Of one of the machines
when it went whizzing through the
white light district. He married
Miss Gertrude E. Westfall, a mem
Der of a wealthy Brooklyn family,
and they had a little girl. Marjorie
for a separation and was granted
500 month alimony.
Childs paid the $500 a month as
directed by the court, but failed to
set aside the trust fund that was iii
rected to be created in order to in
sure the payment of the money. The
case was allowed to sleep until this
week, when it became known THAI
the twenty-fifth birthday of the heir
to the Childs' estate had arrived, and
that on this day he was to get the
money.
INFLAMMAToRY RHEUMATISM
CURED IN DAYS.