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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-05-27
Pennies Bring Riches
Brooklyn Woman Earns Wealth for
Children by Daily Sale of
Newspapers

If you were one of the persons who
pass along Park row, New York, in
the early rush hours of the morning
you must have seen Mrs. Rebecca
karp selling newspapers at her stand
within the shadow of Brooklyn Bridge
for she has sold papers there for a
score of years each morning from
midnight until o'clock except on Sat
urdays and Sundays.
Don't look at her pityingly and
humble something about the poor
old woman" for Mrs. Karp is not poor
and she is not old, even if she has Sc
years behind her. She lives at ST
Hall street, Brooklyn, in a comfort
able three story house, which she
owns and in which she houses all but
one of the seven children she has
brought up, and all but one of her
seven grandchildren. And what is
more, Mrs. Karp is completing ar
rangements to buy the house at IS
Hall street, adjoining her home. At
ter that she will still have money in
the bank.
Twenty-Five years ago she came to
New York with her husband, Samuel
and four children. Three more chill
dren were born there. The Karp
family took up humble lodgings in a
tenement at 112 Chrystie street and
Mrs. Karp went to work, for she had
always worked in Russia and didn't
think anything else was proper. Eight
years ago she and her children moved
to Brooklyn.
Since the first day she took up her
stand in Park row, which will be
twenty-five years next December. she
has made and saved money. She has
many customers of twenty years
standing and has outlived many
others. When her husband died SIX
teen years ago Mrs. Karp quit for a
time, for she had a two-weeks-old
baby to nurse. Her oldest daughter.
Sara, now 35 years old, took her moth
er's place and sold the newspapers
during the early rush hours of the
day until her mother resumed her
post
"All of the time / work." said Mrs.
Karp IN an effort to explain her
wealth. "All of the time-rain, snow
or anything. It's cold in winter and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-05-27
NEW TERRITORY WILL BE OPENED UP
BY ELECTRIC SHORT LINE RAIL WAY

Working as fast as men and horses
and steam shovels can move, the Elec-
trio Short Line contractors are rapidly
putting the right-of-way into shape
between Wayzata and Long Lake.
Western avenue has been closed over
the Great Northern tracks within the
city, that the $4,000 concrete viaduct
that is to carry the line may be put
up before June ends. Cedar Lake
road will be closed that concrete
bridge may be built, and all along the
right-of- way to Watertown, S. D., and
on the branch line surveys, interest
in the new line is increasing.
President Erie D. Luce. made the
statement yesterday that forty miles
of the road will be operating within
the next twelve months, thus adding
important information relative to time
of operation to the former statement
of w. L. Luce, made after H. F. Balch
& Co., took the contract for work near
Long Lake, that the line would be open
to Lake Minnetonka before the sum-
mer closes.
Many Towns Seek Connection
The country west of Minneapolis
through which the line will run has
been sending in representative men
for discussion with the officials of the
road of construction plans, and many
requests have been made that towns
and localities not included in the
straight-line survey be given an op-
portunity to share in the development
by the construction of branch lines
Not only have the towns that are due
west or slightly south or west Of the
straight line between Minneapolis and
the South Dakota boundary interested
themselves in the road, but commit
tees representing communities as fa1
as 100 and $50 miles off the main line
have asked to be included in the plan
Wright, Carver, Mcleod and Meekel
counties, fertile, populous, and dotteo
with good live towns, have shown
great interest, but Kandiyohi ano
Renville counties are no less interest
ed. Chippewa and Lac Qui Parle
counties, still further west, are awake
to the possibilities of the new line
and the interest in South Dakota i:
keen especially in Deuel. and Codding
ton counties, the first named coun
ty crossed in it's northern part by thu
main line, the second named count,
containing Watertown, the city O.
growth and enterprise in eastern
South Dakota.
Branches Awaken Interest
The branch from WATERFOWL, MINI.
to Glencoe and the survey from
Thorpe, in Kandiyohi county soutl
through Redwood county and over t,
Marshall in Lyon county, has aroused
enthusiasm, as has the survey W
from Hutchinson Junction to Itch
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-05-27

the wind comes from all around Brook
lyn Bridge. But l must work and live
for my daughters; aren't they nice !?
| work very hard and will keep it up
until the girls grow up. | saved the
pennies and have many old custom
ers; some of them give me two, three
five dollars at Christmas time"
All the children went through pub
lie school. Charles went through high
school, and then was graduated from
Pratt Institute. Now he is an archi-
tect. Charles, Louis and Able work
now and are self-supporting, although
Mrs. Karp wouldn't care if they were
MT.
"Sit down and have a cup of tea,'
said Mrs. Karp, "and Lillian will play
the piano for you. Annie, my grand
daughter, will sing"
Obediently and willingly Lillian
went to the piano while her mother
asked to be excused for a moment.
Annie sang in a sweet childlike So
prano and then Mrs. Karp returned.
She had put on another gown and her
have destroyed all of her attractive
ness by any means. And not only did
Mrs. Karp have on a new gown-a
pretty red one-but she adorned her
self with diamond rings and earrings
which must have cost her a few hun
dreds of dollars.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-05-27
A WOMAN'S WORK

sometimes reduces her strength to the
depths of weakness-her devotion to
household cares prevents sufficient
rest and recreation. Thousands of
women in this condition find SCOTS
Emulsion exactly what they need; it
is predigested body-food so medically
perfected that every drop yields direct
returns in strengthening the organs
and tissues and in making healthy,
life-sustaining blood. SCOTS Emulsion
is devoid of alcohol or any harmful
drugs, and overcomes tiredness and
nervousness in a marvellous way.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-05-27

field.
Now comes the latest development
in the plan, in the awakening of the
country that lies in the northern part
of Kandiyohi county, where the cor
ners of Stearns, Kandiyohi, Swift and
Pope counties come close together.
Starbuck, on the Northern Pacific
road, midway between Glenwood and
Morris, wants more direct outlet
and is looking to the Electric Short
line to provide it.
This is country that is studded
with lakes. There are so many that
a traveller over the line from Itch
field to Starbuck, if it were surveyed
direct, would be rarely out of sight
of one. Green lake, Norway lake, Jo-
hanna lake and others are along the
route, but the Starbuck people have
their beautiful little city on the north
side and near the west end of Mime
waska, one of the most beautiful of
lakes and the largest in that part of
the state, rivaling Minnetonka at
Effectiveness. There is this difference,
that while Lake Minnetonka, because
of its proximity to Minneapolis, is
thickly settled about its shores, Lake
Minnewaska is as yet unspoiled by
artificial work of any kind, and lies
as it came from nature 1t is differ
ent also from Lake Minnetonka in
that it has great unbroken open
water space from end to end, and will
one day become great yachting lake,
the Starbuck people expect. It's banks
are wooded and high and it's scenery
! about its shores attractive to camping
parties. The lake abounds in fish.
President Luce said that the prog
ress of the work in Minneapolis and
beyond the city limits toward Lake
Minnetonka has been more than salts
factory and that the contractors are
pushing it rapidly.
1--WE are concentrating our con-
struction efforts at the eastern end
of the SYSTEM" President Luce said
because we are going to begin opera
tions in and out of our Minneapolis
passenger terminals this summer. But
in the meantime we are receiving sc
many applications for additional lines
and so many offers of aid from coun.
try towns that we are busy nearly
every day receiving men from the
country, or committees named by
commercial clubs, that come into Min
neapolis for conference.
''The line has received many offer.
of assistance and the people in the
country that we are going to e
through have awakened to realiza
ton of what it means to get quicl
communication. All along the lin,
there is splendid spirit of co-opera
ton. We are going to build grea
electric railway that will double tn,
trade"
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16

any such radiation as We meet with over land
on a hot day. should say that his difficulty
would not lie primarily with atmospheric cond
tons provided he had reasonably settled wealth
err but rather with the possible unsuroncsa OF
his acroplane. possible trouble with his motor
and the intricacies of navigation"
Given fair weather and a machine which VIII
make the speed he hopes. the actual physica!
demand upon GrahameWhite would not be 80
we're one. The control OF machine running III
steady currents would not be n trying one
Plain flying even at great speed does not call
for any very large amount of exerton.
On the other hand the nervous strain would DC
tremendous. IL IL hard to imagine the state OF
mind of man hurled into the unknown with only
n slender fabric OF metal. wood and cloth oe-
tween him and death. II Is equally ditiicuit 10
conceive OF what thirty hours or more OF cata'
putting across mile after mile OF ocean al ioc
miles an hour would mean. AT the least II wouid
necessitate tension the like OF which few men
have ever experienced.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16

should think this conundrum
luncheon would be Just what you
want For the centcrpiece have a
large interrogation point OF small
nowcrs--a tinsmith will make the
form. which may be filled with sand
and the flowers have the appearance
OF growing. Tho name cards should
also be question marks cut from
cardboard. Any color that you select
should be carried out In the place
cards and the covers OF the little book.
let's which contain the conundrums
For ornamentation draw the figure OF
an owl sitting on the branch of a tree
and large Interrogation point
Specimens OF the questions are Civ.
en- below. but. of course. you may
have others you wish to add:
When is IL easy to read In the
woods? When autumn turns the
leaves.
Why are the western prairies fat Z?
Because the sun sets on them every
night.
Which is the largest room in the
world? Room for Improvement.
When is a cup like cat? When
your teasin' Il.
Why is It dangerous to walk abroad
In the springtime? Because the grass
Is putting forth blades. every flower
has n pistil, the trees are shooting and
the bullrushes are out.
Why IL n washerwoman the great.
est traveller on record? Because she
crosses the line and goes from pole
to pole.
If you throw n stone that IA white
into the Red sea. what will II be-
come? Wet
What is the difference between a
duck that has one wing and one that
has two? Merely difference OF q
| pinion
Why Is schoolboy being fOgged
like your eye? Because he's a pupil
under the lash.
Why doesn't Sweden send her cat
tie abroad? Because she keeps hel
Stockholm
What Is the difference between {
clock and partnership? When ,
clock Is wound up It goes: when {
frm Ia wound up II stops.
What belongs to yourself and I,
used by your friends more than your
self? Your name.
What is the center OF gravity? tn,
'etter v.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16
Pretty Party Gown.

VIII you please suggest some mex.
pensive material for an evening dress.
something to wear to the concert. the
theater and such like? Would a fine
quality Of cotton crepe made up
daintily be all right? do not have
occasion very often to wear such a
dress, but when do need It..
Would II be asking too much to ask
you to suggest also some dainty way
OF making such a dress for n seven.
teen-year-old girl? will watch the
Sunday paper for your reply.-Nellie.
Instead OF the cotton crepe I would
suggest a marquisette of white over
a white or colored silk slip made after
any girlish pattern to be found in an
upto-date, reliable fashion magazine.
You will find this very serviceable.
Trim with lace and dainty sash. I
hope am not too late. It was impos.
sible to reply before.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16
A Natural Mistake.

What do you suppose the financial editor has
done?" ~
"Whatr
He has put the article called Stock Phras,s
under the head Of Market Quotations"
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16
Placing tho WeddIno RIno.

Upon which finger should the wed.
ding ring be placed?-Country Lass.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16

bL cross the Atlantic I'm thirty hours"
said Claude Grahame. White. the avia
tor. and named next summer as the
time when he would make good his
promise.
He might have said II will tempt
all the terrors of the unknown. will
accomplish what has never been tried.
will risk my skill against the ele.
ments and win. ! will take to myself
the swiftness OF the meteor and the
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16
A Conundrum Luncheon.

am anyioua to entertain for a
school teacher who is coming to the
city for n weeks vacation. Can you
suggest something to do ut the table
something like nuts to crack" only
Go not want to do the questions up
In walnut shells. Rowcna.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16
Acknowledging Reception Invitations.
Is an answer necessary when you
are invited to q reception?-F. 8.

The latest books on etiquette say
that a card sent to arrive on the day
Of the reception should act as re-
gret" and II you go no acceptance is
required beforehand. think. how
ever, that 1t does no harm to send an
acceptance or II you see the hostess
tell her you expect to be there.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16

The finger next to the little one on
the left hand Is the one from time
lmmemorial called the wedding ring
finger"
MADAME MERRI.
The Red Cloud chief., 1913-01-16
Watch the Department.

I am much interested in your COL
ann in the Sunday paper and am
coming to you for advice. Please
print as soon as possible some games
to be used at an evening party OF
young men and women. Are "char.
ades" popular? Thanking you In ad.
vance.-Kitten.
II you will send me self-addressed,
stamped envelope In care of this pa.
per I think ] can put you in line to
get some party amusement ideas.
Charades are always good fun, either
lmpromptu or planned beforehand.
Glad you enjoy the column.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-12
Some Day Babies Will Be
Born Wise

Continued From Column.
for short unexpectedly not than two three hun
dred thousand years.
Unlike the ants the wasps and the swallows he has not
had time yet to develop knowledge make thoroughly his
own, and TRANSMIT it.
But there every believe that in time to come
the baby will be born with all the practical knowledge that
requires just the young swallow and the young wasps
gin life thoroughly educated
When the time comes each individual will have highly
interesting careereach being born knowing everything that
generally known and each being able to devote the whole
of life to acquiring NEW knowledge and making original
research
The difference between the mudwasp and the human baby
that the wasp born knowing everything that 1t needs
to know-and learns anything more.
The baby of the human kind is born knowing nothing.
and learns good deal.
In days come when the baby born with knowledge
there will still be difference between it and the wasp the ant
and the swallow for born with the things that it know in
order live comfortably the human baby unlike its animal
associates the EARTH will start out ADDING human know
edgewhch in turn by slow that go within U.s.
will be handed down to the new generation,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-12
What Did She Expect?

Good story, wasn't it, and a
good slap at the narrow-mind-
ed little mother, who wouldn't
make friends with the woman who
had saved her baby's life?
We need few such slaps as
that, we women; and yet
wonder what the woman from
behind the tracks" expected
when she bought the pretty lit
tie house and the garden, and
went to live among decent peo-
pie?
Did she think they would get
out the band and meet and greet
her at the doorsteps, or what?
You choose your friends be-
cause you like them, and like
their kind-not because somebody
else thinks you ought to like
them.
If the woman from behind the
tracks" had come to the village
from somewhere else and no
body knew a thing about her do
you think the neighbor women
would have liked her anyhow?
don't.
She wasn't their kind: never
was, never could be. She be-
longed to a different world, and
every time she turned her over
blended head and every time she
opened her good -humored, too
easily pleased mouth. and every
time she laughed her rather
coarse laugh, she would have told
what she was, and no woman of
any fineness of perception could
have been mistaken in her for a
minute.
No, ] don't mean what she had
been. That isn't what would con-
Germ a kindly woman who was
trying to decide whether she
wanted her for a neighbor or not.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-12
Some Day Babies Will Be
Born Wise.
In Ages Come Human Beings Birth VIII Know More Than
Any Man Knows Now.
Copyright

The helpless and ignorant thing in the world
born human being
The independent and wise thing in the worldin
portion to its ability-s newborn mud wasp, newly
hedged sparrow.
That because the human being just the beginning of
its development whereas the mud wasp the ant and other
sec have reached the highest development of which they
capable.
The saddest thing the education of human beings the
fact that each child must begin at the beginning and learn
thing for itself.
Each little baby learns to walk learns to avoid the fire.
learns talk The mind starts its life blank page
everything must be written upon it, The child
learn by hearing from the father and mother of their
Each child must make its mistakes and taught only
by experience.
But will that last forever?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-12

dress doesn't change the beat of
a woman's heart; a garden hoe
doesn't turn her from a coarse,
easy-going, blunt hearted per-
son to a gentle, delicate, lovely
woman. does it? I don't believe
It.
A Lesson From Home.
Once l had a MAZDA strange,
silent, stubborn girl with blue
eyes. so hard that they were like
a flint. She had a strange, meas
ured walk and a strange, con-
trolled voice, and she always act
ed as if she thought some one was
watching her.
One day 1 saw her in a blue
print dress, of peculiar cut and
shade, and I knew-she was
reformatory girl I'd seen her
before, at the reformatory.
didn't say a word. I treated
her exactly as l had always treat
ed her, but one day she was gone
and she left a letter for me. In
it she said many things. One
of them was this: You know
me; don't you? I believe you
do. ] thought I could be differ
ent, but l can't. You've been good
to me but I amt happy here.
I amt comfortable. so I'm going"
and gone she was. back to the
people with whom she was com
Portable" poor thing. Back to
the people who were like her and
who had her ways and her point
Of view. I was sorry. but I didn't
go after her or try in any way
to reach her.
Perhaps I should have-Tve
often wondered-and yet there
were the children. Would It have
been exactly safe?"
Selfish-protecting my children
at the expense of a poor thing
VINO was trying to make herself
over.
Perhaps; but those children are
mine. They are my business. 1t
is my affair to Keep them safe
as long as l can. My own door
step I must keep clean, and then
If I have time and strength I
may help my neighbor about
hers. That's the way it looks
to me. wonder if I am right or
wrong?
What You Really Are.
The poor thing from behind
the tracks" didn't belong in the
neat little street uptown. She
was no more in place there with
her loud laugh and her bleached
hair than the timid little woman
who lived beside her would be
In place in the ranks Of march
ing army. I don't blame the
neighbor women for looking the
other way Honestly, now, l don't.
And the high-heeled, expensive
slippers and the open worked
stockings and the gorgeous hats
and the flashing rings-she had
had all these things while little
neighbor turned her blue CASH
mere and trimmed it with black
velvet one year and with cream
colored lace the next, trying to
make herself look pretty to the
one man she loved. How could
the poor thing from behind the
tracks" think she would never
have to pay for all that?
After all, though, it isn't what
you used to be that counts. II
isn't what you would like to be,
either; but what you really are.
and no change in dress or in
housing or anything else will
change that. / wish it would.
How pitifully wish 1t would.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-12
By WINIFRED BLACK.

7 READ a brilliant story by a
brilliant writer the other day,
Did you happen to read it, too?
1t was about a woman who
lived down behind the tracks,
in a country town. She was a
woman who Haunted the streets
in a gorgeous hat and expensive
gowns. She wore bangle brace
lets that jingled and rings that
sparkled, and high-heeled slippers
and "open-worked" stockings,
and the men grinned sheepishly
when she passed, and nudged
each other and the women looked
the other way and pretended they
didn't even see her.
One day the woman from be
hind the tracks" bought a house
uptown and moved into it-a
neat. pretty little house with
garden and trees, and she dug in
the flower beds and Vatered the
lawn and put out hanging bas-
kets, and she went to market in a
little checked .gingham, and she
looked wistfully over the fence
when the neighbors went-by but
nobody ever spoke to her at all.
One night a baby was taken
sick in the neighborhood and the
woman from behind the tracks
saved its life. The next day she
stood out on her porch and wait
ed to see the baby's mother go by.
And the baby's mother went by
and did not see the woman from
behind the tracks" at all. and
the woman from behind the
tracks" went and sold her
little new house and the
garden and all, and went
back behind the tracks" to live
and all the people in the village
pursed their lips and said, shes
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-12
WINIFRED BLACK
Writes on
A Woman Next Door

You Choose Your Friends, She Says,
Because You Like Them, and Like
Their Kind, Not Because Somebody
Else Thinks You Ought to Like
Them.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
MAKES A CHASTITY FIND.
Skipper Discovers Box With Hunaa
Ashes Afloat.

ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 20.-Dis-
covering what he thought was a
treasure box bobbing OIL the waves
beside his wacht. Capt. Horace
Smith had the surprise of his lif"
wlcn he hauled the box aboard and
opened it. Instead Of jewels he
found the ashes OF human being.
There were two cards inside, one
of which stated that the remains
we're those Of Irene Haffa, who died
at the age of ~ IN Philadelphia on
October G, 1908. The other card
gives the find u touch Of mystery,
for It showed that the body had not
been incincratcd until October IA.
1913, at the Philadelphia creMato'
yium of the Chelton Hills cemetery
company. Acting County Physician
Leonard has taken charge Of the
box and has communicated with the
Philadelphia authorities for tNror"
nation.