New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-25
SCANDAL IS AVERTED!
Peter Protection Joins His Pop
uIar Wife, Mrs. Polly.
YOU CAN SEE THEM TO-DAY
He May Not Be a Mirror of
Fashion, but He Is a Gen.
uine American.

Well. it's all right. Peter Protection.
Mrs Polly Projections husband. has ar
rived Mrs Polly, as has been stated in
these columns is the lovely waXen lady
who receives daily at the Wage Dollar
Exhibit at No ~ Union Square, an
nouncing by means Of pIacards that under
| President Taft and the protective tariff
the beautiful costume she is wearing, in
Guiding hat. shoes, gloves and lingerie,
cost her husband the ridiculously small
sum OF S2J.
And now that Peter is here and will re-
ceive with Mrs Polly tomorrow at the
exhibit there is no harm IN admitting that
there has been a well-goEsIp be-
cause be wasn't here. II was all very
well. people said, FOR Mrs Protection TO
say that Peter was OF on a political tour,
making speeches for Taft and Sherman,
| but when a woman Haunted stylish clothes
/ like hers and talked about tho things her
/ husband bought her, they wanted 20 see
/ the husband, that was all
! Well tomorrow they can see him. TIc
struck the city yesterday morning but h.
was dreadfulv rusty after his Ions cam
| paign TIP. and he spent most OF yoster-
day at the outhtters
! 1t is hardly necessary TO state that as n
good Republican Peter will be careful 70
have nothing in his new toys that Is not
made on American soil
Won't Be Mirror Of Fashion.
/ He won't be mirror Of fashion-no-
| body need expect that, FOR Peter is a
I business man and wears business suits
! But everything VIII be OF the hest-that
/ goes with out saving. since everything Is
10 be Of American make. And II Is going
/ 10 cost even less than his wife's costume
Mrs Polly wOre-in addition 20 her pro-
| teCtive tariff clothes-a dcmure smile as
she received visitors at the exhibit yes
tcrday.
| She is glad Peter IS coming, but she
has no lack Of male admirers. Since she
has been staying there the place has been
| full OF men. and yesterday though a
meeting was arranged especially FOR
| women, the seats were filled with men.
! The meeting was announced FOR half
past o'clock in the afternoon 10 catch
working girls on their way home, as Miss
' Helen Varick Boswell and Miss Mary e.
Frances, Of the woman's department OF
noticed a good many girls drifting In at
that hour. and thought 1t would be good
thing 20 pour some good Republican doc
trne in their ears.
When the hour came Mrs. Nelson Her
rick Henry, Mrs. William Force Scott,
Miss a. Sheldon and woman who said
she was q Democrat and her name was
Mrs. Z. Mullica eat on the platform.
Miss Frances went UP and down say
ing: Gentlemen, | must trouble you 10
leave these seats, they are reserved for
ladies'" She let the men stay after
awhile, though. observing philosophically
that probably they all had sisters and
sweethearts and would go home and tell
them what they heard at the meeting.
To Attract Working Girls.
no wonder the girls didn't come In this
/ bad weather" she said. Besides, we
haven't advertised these meetings. We're
| going TO put cards in the shops and fac
/ tories around here. SO that the tired work
/ Ing girls, going home from their toll, will
| know that they can stop here and rest
| and amuse themselves looking at Peter
and Polly Protection and hear some good
Republican speeches to boot"
Mrs. Scott, the first speaker. asked the
men who heard her to take homo what
she said TO their wives and sweethearts.
| but maybe they weren't anxious to when
they heard It, for she told them that wom-
er we're the natural spenders OF what the
men earned.
Men are the bread winners" she said.
'Womans function is to spend the money
man earns. 1t Is important for US women,
| therefore, TO know how much money men
can earn for us TO spend"
The men looked detected at that, and
several shook their heads and murmured
that they didn't have TO come there 10
learn that women spent the money they
earned But they cheered up when Mrs.
Scott enlarged on womans extravaganza
and explained that it was woman's ex-
travagance that was largely responsible
for this era Of the high cost OF living
Mrs Scott talked til she was hoarse
and then Miss Mary Wood, Of the wom-
ans department, made a speech. There
won't be any womens meeting at the ex-
nibit to-day, because this is the day the
Democratic women hold forth at the |
Chamber Of Tariff Horrors. two doors or
so down the street. And Saturday being !
Moosette day, they won't try to compete /.
with them.
But every day next week there will be |.
meetings for women at No. ~ Union |
Square. at 80 O'Clock. And Peter and |
Polly Protection will receive.
PERFUME FRAUD ALLEGED.