The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-07-05
CARNIVAL IN GOTHAM.
CITY OPENS ITS GATES
Continued From Page One.

ly engraved invitation to act as a
housewrecker.
Don't sing. A hotel is not con-
servatory. The man in the next
room may not appreciate the artis-
tic tenperment
"Don't hesitate to express your
wants. This is not a deaf and dumb
asylum.
Don't kick unless you have a
legitimate complaint. To err is hui
man."
And now the suffragists are going
to break into the movies Not
with bricks, but with a canvasback
make plain the reasons why the fe-
male sex should be given the bal
lot. The film will be shown all over
the country soon having been released
this week. The National Women's
Suffrage association staged the pic
ture and the characters in the play
include DR.. Anna Howard Shaw,
Miss Jane Adams of Hull House,
Chicago, and many other prominent
suffragiSts, both men and women.
The scene of the drammer is a
tenement house. A settlement work
er finds a bereaved father, with a
family of children, in an insanitary
apartment. He is sent to the SEN
ator owning the place, who refuses
to better conditions. We'll convert
his fiancee," say the suffragists-
of course, they don't say it in the
film, but that is explained. They are
successful, and the fiancee becomes
Interested in the insanitary home.
The senator is a hardhearted chap,
and refuses to listen to the pleas
of his betrothed, until she is strick-
en- with scarlet fever. 1t develops
that she caught the disease in the !
senator's tenement. Then the sena-
tor secs a great light, is converted |
to suffrage, joins Mems League for
Woman Suffrage, and cleans up his !
tenements. In the final scene Miss |
Adams and Dr. Shaw shake hands |
with the regenerated statesman in
the regenerated fiat, which is now
spick and span with lovely what
not in the parlor. Then comes the
suffrage parade, which is the real
article, and was photographed at
the time of the great demonstration
of suffragists in New York last !
week. The story is as thrilling as
melodrama and ought to get a hand
from the movies" audience. J
ooh, Lott, such cold | got!
/ felt quite ill, so l took a pill.
took some hot cordial and water
And now l feel much better; .
So | thought it best to write you
letter. ... ,....,. .'.-
suprCEe you think me poet
With Wit enough hardly to know it."
The" beautiful lines are attribu-
ted by Mrs. Charlotte F. Law, of
Brooklyn, to Samuel r. Meyers, eigh-
ty-three years old, owner of big
hotel and iron pier at Rockaway
Beach. Mrs. Law, who is sixty, is
suing Mr.. Meyers for 100000 for
breach CT promise, and the poetry"
quoted above and as much more
that is even more inspiring was in
troduced as Exhibit Al An uncut
wedding cake, nearly ten years old,
is "EZh lit b. in the legal proceed
ings, lille exhibits &c" and ed" are
a pet o7nary and a jet bridal gown.
Mrs. Law ayers that the aged CAPT ;
talist proposed to her first ten
years ago this month, and that he !
has frequently renewed his propos-
ais since ten. The canary and the !
wedding cake, she alleges, were
given to her as wedding gifts. Now f;
they and the bridal and gown and
the love letters are all Mrs. Shaw '
has to show for her romance, for {
Mr. Meyers married another woman. ,