The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-08
Show Girls Who Discover That
Fame Is Fleeing Thing.
MRS. L. SUTTON'S COMPLAINT
Claims She Cannot Live On $3.50
Per Month; Gotham
Gossip.
Especial to the Free Press

New York, March 2.-The high
cost of living enters into a damage
suit just filed by Louis Meyer, a
Jersey City man, against a local
traction company. Meyer alleges
that he used to be able to live on
corn beef ana cabbage and such
grub, but that since he was knock.
ed down by a Sixth avenue car he
can consume only the choicest of
foods, by order Of the doctor. Ten
derloin steaks, salads, chicken and
such articles Of millionaire's diet
he eats regularly, and he puts a
bill for the added cost of living in
his claim for $4,000 damages.
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Margaret Brill, Yonkers young
woman has her heart on the right
side, which is the wrong side. She
is now a patient at the Yonkers
tuberculosis hospital, where doc
tors in attendance discovered the
phenomenon. The displacement is
sometimes caused by disease, but
in this case the young woman was
side. Such instances are extremely
rare.
Reports of the New York public
library show that children, are the
greatest patrons of that institution,
and that foreign children read
more books than the offspring OF
American parents, in proportion to
numbers. Ten million books are
given out annually by the circula-
ting department, and about two
thirds go to the youngsters. In
the lower East Side, supposedly the
abode of darkest ignorance, a num-
Der OF branches give out an average
of a thousand volumes a day to
kids" Among the Jewish young
sters Bible stories and Shakespeare
are in the lead. Works dealing with
civic questions and the govern
ment of the United States are also
popular. with the Juveniles In adj
dition, each library branch has Il
youngsters who can't read, and
these rooms are always crowded
during the yarn-spinning hours.
Mary and Phil, the only llamas
in the Central Park zoo, are now
the proud parents of a baby, which
has been named Martha. The woody
haired Peruvian infant is the sec.
ond of it's species ever born in
this country. Every precaution has
been taken to prevent the little
creature from being over fondled
by its evidently delighted parents.
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Fame is a fleeting thing, as
Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad,
"the shooting show girls" have
found to their sorrow. Before their
trial for the shooting of w. E.
Stokes the young women were fea-
tured at local vaudeville houses,
lost interest in them and they were
unable to get engagements. Later
| they joined road burlesque COM
pany, but when they appeared at
a Cleveland theatre they we're his.
sed by the audience. Both left the
company and returned east. Seems
as if there is nothing left for the
poor girls to do but shoot some
body else.
"Off with the corsets," is now
the slogan of New York suffra-
gists. Among the leaders in the
anti-stays movement are Miss Fola
La Toilette, daughter of the Wis.
consin senator; Miss Inoz Milhol-
land, Miss Caroline LeXow, Mrs. Lee
De Forrest, Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Batch, and others prominent in the
"votes for women" crusade. Suf-
frage, it is explained means not
only political emancipation, but al
so emancipation in the matter of
the anti-corset crusaders declare,
have no right to criticise Chinese
women for pinching their feet. The
latter practice is less damaging to
| the general health and the welfare
of posterity than the corset habit,
lit is asserted. Besides, Chinese
women have about abandoned the
foot-binding process
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Can a woman exc out a bare eX-
istence on $3.50 month? No, she
can't, if we are to believe Mrs.
Louise S. Sutton, of Brooklyn, who
has asked the court for an increase
In her alimony from $3.50 to $574
a month, alleging that she is in
destitute circumstances" This is a
schedule of what it costs a woman
to live modestly in the metropolis
as compiled by Mrs. Sutton: Grocer
| les, meat and fish, SIP per month !;
milk and ceram, SIS; coffee and tea,
Isl; servants hire, $50; newspapers.
l$2: clothing, $3.50; dental work,
l$25; music lessons, SIS. and carfare,