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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
WHY WOMEN ARE SAID TO BE INFERIOR TO MEN AC-.
 CORDING TO SCIENTISTS.

H. c. Wells, the famous English novelist, has story called Marriage" in The American Magazine. It is a wonderful tale of an extravagant wife and the complications that grow out of the difficulties in her home. In the February instalment of this story there is remarkable dialogue be- tween two or three men on the subject of women Following is an extINct:
 Women Dover said, are inferior and you can't get away from it. To begin with. they're several inches shorter, several pounds lighter; they've less physical Strength in foot-pounds.'
 More endurance,' said Buzard.
 Less sensitlveness merely. All those are demonstrable things-amen- able to figures and apparatus. Then they stand nervous tension worse, the breaking point comes sooner. They have weaker inhibitfons, and inhibition is the test of creature's position in the mental scale.'
 ''Buzard glanced at their moral quaI- ities. More moraI!' cried Dover, more seIf-restraint! Not a bit of it! Their than their controls; that's all. Weaken restraints and they show their quail ity. A drunken woman is far worse than drunken man. And as for their biological significance? They are the stem and we are the fruits. Surely it's better to exist than just transmit existence. And that's a wo- mans business, though we've fooled anu PCINCA AAAOSN OI CA0 4AIO IOTSGL- ting it.
 ''Buzard broke in with some senten- ces of reply. He alleged the lack of feminine opportunity, inferior educa- tion.
 Tt isn't a. matter Of education or Opportunity, or simply that they're of inferior capacity; it lies deeper than that. They're different They don't care for art or philosophy, or Iftera- ture or anything except the things that touch them directly. That's their peculiar difference. Hunger they un- derstand, and comfort, and personal vanity and desire, furs and choco- late and husbands, and the extreme importance conferred upon them by having babies at rare, infrequent in tervals. But philosophy or beauty for it's own sake, Or dreams! Lord! no.
 And the work? It's nothing to them. No woman ever painted for the love of painting, or sang for the sounds she made, or philosophical for the Sake of wisdom as men do-'
 'Buzard intervened with instances Dover would have none of them. Mad anne Curie,' clamored Buzard, Madame Curie.'
 There. was Curie,' said Dover. No woman alone has done such things. I don't say women aren't clever he in sisted. They're too clever Give them a mans track or a mans intention marked and defined, they'll ape him to the life"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
LEAP YEAR BRIDE
 WINS $500 IN GIFTS
PittsfeId Girl Signs Affidavit Telling
 How She Popped the Question:

Pittsfe1d. Mass, Feb. 1-signing an affidavit that she popped the ques- tion," Miss Nora Potter, twenty two years old, of 123 Plunkett avenue, appeared before the City Clerk yes terday, with Robert Francis Reece, also twenty-two, and asked for a marriage license.
 For the wedding, which is to take place in the Morningside Baptist church next Tuesday, the bride will receive $500 in gifts from Ptttsdeld merchants for the first leap year pro- posal in the city. Her affidavit fol- lows:
 q said, As we have been going to- gether for the last five years, think it is about time we were getting seri- ous, and as this is leap year I might as we'll take advantage of the leap year contest so now I'll ask you a question. will you be my husband" ?"
 E'He replied:
 {" Yes; most certainly and ernpnatl- cally.' g
 Afterward Miss Potter said that, while we have been lovers for five wears Bob never seemed to have gumption enough to propose
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
CHARGES MAY BE HEARD AGAINST
 SPECIAL OFFICER

Special Officer Charles 4. BuIkley may be called upon to explain before the commissioners his conduct one evening several months ago when he called at the apartment of Mrs. Char les A. Barnes, 26 Chapel street, looking for someone. His conduct was So officious that Mrs Barnes made a complaint. Superintendent Birming- ham investigated and made a report to the commissioners last night that will probably result in charges of conduct unbecoming an officer being preferred against the special police man. The matter was laid over un- til the next meeting
 A check for $50 from the Gas Light Company as a reward for the capture of gas meter thieves, was turned over to the police pension fund.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
IDA M. FARRELL COM-
 FARES GIRLS AND BOYS

In the February American Magazine Ida M. Tarbell, writing an interesting article on women, has the following to say about young women and young men:
 'In the first two or three years af- will almost invariably appear superior to the men of her age, more grown up, more interested, surer of herself reader. Later you will find her on the whole less inclined to experiment with her gifts, to feel her wings to begins to look as if he were the ex- perimenter, she the conservative. And by the time she is a senior, look out! The chances are she will have less in terest from now on with mans busi- ness and more with her own! In any idly in his field from this point as he is doing
 He becomes assertive, confident, dominating; the male taking a males place He discovers that his intellec- tual processes are more scientific than heroes, therefore he concludes they are superior. He finds he can out-argue her, draw logical conclusions as she cannot. He can do anything with her but convince her, for she jumps the process, lands on her conclusion, and there she sits. Things are so because they are so. And the chances are she is right in spite of the irregu- lar way she got there. Something superior to reason enters into her op- erations-an intuition of truth akin to inspiration In early ages women un- usually endowed with this quality of perception were honored as seers. To- day they are recognized as counselors of prophetic wisdom. If I had taken my wifes advicei' How often one hears itI''
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
''MAN'' INCLUDES WOMEN.

Mrs. Ella F'lagg Young has invented new third person singular personal pronoun of common gender, ''his' 'er'' and "hin'er'' to take the place of the awkward "his or her. "him or her New York Tribune
 It won't work. By current usage "his' is used as a pronouRl of com mon gender to include 'her." There is no very lively prospect Of better ing our language in that particular It cannot be done by any arbitrary ex- ercise of authority. His" includes ''her'' (though less distinctly, as man, 'used for the human race, in- cludes women. When man" ceases to include women we shall cease to need a language, and won't care any more about pronouns There Is a better chance to bring about a better under standing of the sense of 'his,' when used to include her" than there fs to win acceptance of new pronouns.- Weekly.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
AMERICAS USE OF
 HABTT-FORNING DRUGS.

If any one thinks that our own country is not now primarily interested fin this matter, let him reflect that at present it stands, fog 50e, go pounds or of opium. it's derivatives and prepa- rations. From 50,000 to 7O,eoO pounds including opium derivatives ana prep arations, would suffice for all our med teal needs. As to cocaine, we have been importing, misunderstanding, and consuming nearly 200,009 ounces a year though 15,oo0. would supply every Ie- gitimate medical need.
 At it's present session Congress should pass further legislation in this matter. It should place under feder- manufacture and distribution of opium together with it's derivatives and prep arations. Moreover h should also place under such control other habit dian hemp. While Congress has al- ready been asked to place prohibi- tory duty on manufac c tured cocaine, its salts and derivatives, 1t should place the manufacture of and the in terstate traffic in all hablt-forming drugs under the supervision of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Only by some such supervision, 1t seems, would this country maintain it's seIf-respect.
 And if the interstate traffic must be controlled, so should the intras- tate traffic. Each State should pass effective laws against the use of hab- it-fornling drugs, and particularly with regard to any instruments, like the h-7S0dermic syringe, used - their 4n- lection: the avails bility of this syringe has doubtless been as large a factor. in the widespread abuSe of morphine and cocaine as the availa bility of the drugs themselves.-Fro9n 't'The Back The Hague" by Ebert Francis Bald win, in the American Review of Re views for February.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
WEST POINTERS OBJECT
To Too Much Being Taught to Private
 MiIitiamen

Washington, Feb. 1.-SpecuIation is rife at the War Department as to whether an order, recently presented to Major General Leonard Wood. in structing militia men to go to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. for four months course of instruction in what ever branch of the service they are engag ged, will meet with the approval Of the Chief of Staff.
 Much opposition is being made against the order by West Pointers who maintain that the outcome of such a course would be that the pri- yates would know more concerning their business than do their officers.
 The supporters of the bill retort- Then send the officers to the school, too.'
 General Wood declines to make any statement concerning the order at present. saying that he has not had sufficient time to consider its provis- ions and probable effect upon the ar my It is admitted by many, how ever, that it's passage would have the effect of increasing the inte IectuaI standing of the rank and file of the army, giving the men better in sight into the details of their work.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
INTERESTING FACTS
 ABOUT FRUIT

c. Harold Powell, whose work and
 character are fully described in the
 February American Magazine,is teach
 ing the world how to save millions of
 Fruit Is a living organism with an all
 lotted span of existence. Harsh hand ling shortens its life and renders it
 valueless for food" An extract from
 the article follows:
 Two general conclusions have been reached by MT. Powell and his band Of plant specialists with regard to the keeping qualities of fruit in storage and in transportation. First, that rough mechanical handling increases greatly the liability of all fruit to dis ease; and, second, that cooling as quickly as possible after picking pro longs the life of fruit by retardtng the ripentng process, which in warm weather goes on more rapidly off than California, the losses from decay on oranges alone sometimes ran high as $1,500,000 in single year, and by preceding this loss has been practi- suit of the investigation is that fruit may be enhanced in flavor by longer hanging on the tree, and still be ship ped over much greater geographical areas than formerly.
 "Mr. Powell has punctured many popular fallacious theories among them, that apples and some other fruits keep better and are less liable to disease when picked green; and that fruit removed from storage de- cays more quickly than fruit that has been unstored but is equally ripe and held in the same temperature as the first after storage. In these mat ters the whole world was from Mis- souri, and has required to be shown by a series of the most elabOTately careful experiments. Then also, in peach-growing regions, in the land where the orange blooms, MT. Powell heard much talk among growers with a smattering of pomology about the influence Of stock, soil, water, fogs, gravity and psychic influence on the keeping qualities of fruit. They were shown conclusively that the difference lay In the efficiency of the labor, the equipment and sanitary conditions of the packing houses, and so on- True it is the little foxes that spoil the vines. The nail in the barrel or box, nearby piles of decayed fruit to scat ter disease, gravel or twigs in the bottom of a picking box, the use of pointed instead of blunt clippers, the stem of a neighboring fruit, the sharp finger nails of a pick CT, bruises from dropping, dirty, spore- infested water or a broken wire in a wash tank, protruding screw in a brueh, a bolt extending into a run
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

In honor of her cousin, Miss Irene Cody, an enjoyable party was held last evening at the home of Miss Monica Pendagast, 623 East Main street. The house was prettily dec orated for the occasion. Vocal solos were rendered by Patsy Roland and Jack Pendagast. William Peet was accompanist. A supper was served Tho SC present were the Misses Monica Penda gast, Irene Cody. Lulu Donnel- Iy. Ellen Tracey, Daisie Nelson, Viola Bell, Edith Leach, Lena Madden. An na Bouden, Catherine Kost, Emma Leopold, Dorothy Frances, Frances Crudgington, Rittie Keough, Elizabeth Tomlison, and Messrs. Vim. Cody, John N. Fitzpatrick, Raymond B. Donley, Patsy Roland, John Penda- gast, Charles Bel, Arlie Tenny, Ralph Davis, Tom Griffin, Dave Graten, Paul Baker, Joe Lawrence, Wm. Pelteir, Ernest Schulz, Louis West, Al Bishop, Wm. Peet, Wm. Handy
 MT. and Mrs William Digney will observe the anniversary of their mar riage, this evening, by giving recep- tion to their friends at their home, 102 Wood avenue. MT. Digney. who has been receiving congratulations today, is employed by T. J. Youngs of Fairfield avenue, and is well known in this city. He is prominent in frater- nal orders, being a member of the Elks Emmet Club, A. O. H., Knights of Columbus, and the Woodmen of the World.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
.eNnsrREss OF THE AIR,
Each of the sz Departments of France
 to Donate An AeropIane

Paris, Feb. Tt is probable that each of the 87 departments composing France will donate an aropIane to the army. the machines to bear the names of the departments presenting them.
 The scheme is the outcome of a too small appropriation for the air dfvis- ion made by the Chamber of Deputies There is a growing feeling here that Frances destiny will probably be fought out in the clouds and the fear is general that Germany might forge ahead in the matter of aircraft. The man in the street says England has the most powerful water force, Ger many the bigger standing army. so France ought to keep her lead as mis- tress of the air.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
McPADDEN-NroNIFE

Miss Katherine Mary McNiff, eldest daughter of Mrs. Sarah NcNiff of 497 Howard avenue, and James E. Me Padden were married yesterday morn ing at St. Peters church. Rev. T. J. Kelley sang the nuptial mass. The bride wore marquisette over white satin and carried a bouquet of white roses. Miss Helen ConnelIyR was bridesmaid. She wore crepe de chine and carried carnations. A reception and wedding breakfast at the home of the brides mother followed the cere- mony at the church. The couple were the recipients Of many gifts. After a honeymoon trip they will make their home in this city.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
MEETINGS OF A WOMEN'S CLUBS
 FOR THE WEEK
FRIDAY.

ao:oO-EngIish Literary club, Mrs. J.
 P. OmanS. 2:oo-wonan's Guild, Christ Church s:oo-GuiId. 1diG. Trinity Church. St.
 Mary's. e:3e-King' Messengers. First Bap-
 tist Church. S:oo-W. c. T. U., 2s9 Gilbert street. 4:00-Authors club. S:OO-W ednesday Workers, Mrs. w.
 B. Lashar, 697 Clinton Ave. B:OO-Round Table, Miss Ada Wood
 ruff. s:OO-Friday Evening Book Club,
 Mrs. G. D. Egbert, 71 Elm
 wood avenue.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
WILLIAMS KIDNEY PuIs

Have you overWorked your nervous sys- tenn and caused trouble with your kid neys and bladder? Have you pains in loins, side, back and bladder? Have you a f1abby appearance of the face and 1In- der the eyes? A frequent desire to pass urine? If so, Williams Kidney Pills win cure you-Druggist, Price 50c-
 WILLIAMS MFG. CO., PFops.s Clsyeland. ohie
 For sale by Jennie Hamilton Plaar= macy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
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REAL ESTATE SIGNS
HAVE written before of the off

I'M HAVE written before Of the Otfen- ! NF 3I RG sve advertising along railroad lines lMlx7/. aI which makes looking out of the window = l@ss1l in traveling,a constant annoyance; instead kXN@/J of getting rest and joy in the passing ENAMkagySA scenes, eyes affrOnted and ~@CN thoughts distracted by succession of monstrous hideous signs
 In similar ways real estate advertising detracts from the pleasure of viewing cities and towns Here in Washington property along beautiful streets and nues conspcuously and multarousy advertised to give stranger the impression of general exodus
 You count from to eleven big real estate boards set ss at various degrees of incline almost any piece of property in the market One hbitions in block would not be irritating but when
 great number displayed in this way the visitor must get the impression that the whole town For Sale For Rent.
 This crude system of advertising real estate must work harm to the business it is intended to promote It certainly suggests that the business overdone if it not with the sadder thought of how much comfort able shelter going to waste when many suffering for it. It must be that the real estate business would gain in general good will by adopting system of small, in conspicuous directories placed where those who inter- ested might read but not in way to force the passing public to obseve how long and nsstent property has stood the market Such plan would iscredit neighborhood What change it would create in the appearance of cy What relief to tired eyes tired minds trying to escape the advertiser!
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
THF PRETTIEST FACE

ans 4$ie -saost beautiful hands are off, ten disfigured by an unsightiy wart It can easily be removed in a few days without pain by using Cyrus War Remover, for sale only at The Cyrus Pharmacy, 253 Fairfield avenue and 1S6 Cannon St.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
POLICE ON STRIKE

Budapest, Feb. 1-The entire police force of SomyIo, Hungary, has gone on strike for more pay. At present it's members receive S10 a month
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01

New York-UnabIe to get her trunk into the regulation cabin on the liner Cincinnati, Mrs. Julia Alderman, of St. JosephS, Mo, took a $1,O00 deck suite, with larger rooms
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
CLEANEASY, THE BEST HAND
 SOAP.

Guaranteed not to injure the skin. Instantly removes Stove Polish, Rust Grease, Ink, Paint and Dirt. For the hand or clothing. Large can 10 cents. Manufactured by Vim. R. Winn, PA Stratford Ave.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01

way, excessive speed Of machinery; all these little things have power to wound and are the material causes that give opening to decay in storage or transit and may transform a fine. beautiful fruit into a diseased moldy wreck
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01

YOU CAN TAKE YOUR FAMILY
 TO DINE AT THE HOTEL ATLAS GRILL AND HEAR
 THE BEST SINGERS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01

GET IN LINE AND SPEND AN EVENING CARBARETTNG AT THE
 HOTEL ATLAS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
Why not inquire nto the methods and
 equipment of The SOUTHLAND SCHOOL,

before placing your children else where? Visitors welcome. Second Half Year Begins Feb. 1. AIS use
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01

No matter vvI1aE yOu want RT the %RFr1eR Want Column
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-02-01
A Csat Ssl ut Crsauy Tone

Cream is now more fash ionable than white and many women are dipping last years coat-sets in tea to give them the proper biscuit shade. This coat-set is of cream batiste and lace.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-11-08
Delicate Scales.

, In the personal laboratory Of Sir
William Ramsay, at University col.
lege. London. Is a new pair Of scales
20 delicately adjusted that they will
weigh seven-millionth part of an
ounce. The room is in semi-darkness.
30 delicate are these wonderful scales
that their balance Is disturbed by the
alteration Of temperature caused BY
the turning on of an electric light al
the other end Of the room. The oper-
ator has to leave them for an hour
In darkness-after he has tip-toed
from the room 80 that his football
should not set up any vibration--and
then read them swiftly before any
change in the temperature has had
time to affect them. The scales, only
. few inches long, appears q mere cob.
web Of glass with its frail supports.
It is not made Of glass. however, ex-
plains Sir William, but Of silica, which
expands and contracts under the e.
feet Of heat far less than glass.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-11-08
SLEDS USED IN THE YUKON
Not Constructed Along Lines of Beau.
ty but for Hard Work They
Are Perfection.

The Yukon sled. while not thing
Of beauty. is built to stand all kinds
OF hard wear, or, as the Irishman
said, ut will last forever, and after
that can be used for flrewood." The
sled is about eight feet long, is made
OF any kind of hard wood, lies close
to the ground, costs from $40 to $14,
and makes a trail sixteen inches In
width. Another pattern is known az
the basket sleigh, and 1t is to the
Yukon sleigh what three-masted
schooner Is to coal barge. In length
It is from eight to fifteen feet, is made
of birch, oak or hickory, cuts a TRAN
twenty-five inches in width, costs from
$40 to 5000, Is raised foot or more
from the runners, and, In the best ex-
amples, Is dashed together with raw
hide. The basket sleigh, as its name
implies, Is fitted with basket, into
which the load Is placed, and from
the back Of the basket a pair Of
handles project, to be used in guiding
the sled on the trail. It often hap
pens that Yukon sled will be fitted
with homemade basket, in Imitation
Of Its more aristocratic brother. In
very cold weather wooden runners are
best. but in ordinary circumstances
steel or brass runners are used
Wide World Magazine.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-11-08
"GALLERY GOD" SPOILED II
Why Maurice Barrymore Conceived
Dislike for His "Heart Of Mary.
land" Part.

All the good stories which the late
Maurice Barrymore, father of Ethel,
Lionel and John Barrymore, told on
himself never have been published and
probably never will be. Barrymore was
in Kansas City just prior to his final
collapse and here is story he told:
Barrymore was Mrs. Leslie Carter's
leading support when that celebrated
actress appeared in Belasco's produc
ton Of THE Heart of Maryland" In
the big third act Barrymore, the hero,
was In the hands of the designing vii.
lain, who had caught him off guard.
Two rockies bound Barrymore's hands
and the villain, left alone with his
prey, tainted the hero. It was
Barrymore's business" to squirm and
to wall
"Oh, If my hands were Free" he
would repeat several times, as he
tried vainly to break the rope which
held him fast. The villain would ap
proach and snap his fingers right ;un-
der Barrymore's nose.
Loosen my hands, you DEVIL"
Barrymore would exclaim.
One night at this great, and exciting
moment in the scene Barrymore had
just finished his dare to the villain to
loosen his hands when the traditional
gallery god yelled out in sharp, clear
voice:
why don't you kick him In the
shins, Barry; your feet amt tied"
Barrymore cursed the part from that
moment until his dying day.
The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1912-11-08
First 70 u,. chIsroforn,.

Chloroform an as anaesthetic wa
nrst used on tho 3oth Of September.
1916, by DR.. w. T. q. Morton, q den
list, Of Boston, in a case of tooth ex-
traction, and thereafter BY him In
many difficult operations. Tho news
Of the discovery reached England In
December, 1e4e, ana British dentists
Immediately began to use It Sir
James Simpson, q Scotch physician
(1s11-1s70) was the nrst to use It In
hospital practice and this he did In
1sI7. His discovery was considered
independent Of that By the Boston
dentist and in 1866 he was knighted.
He had q public funeral when he did
and . statue Of him in bronze stands
b Edinburgh.