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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1913-10-23

TO become sentimental. And I'm not
sure that | like sentiment on the
river either. There is such an air
an odor of low license-you needn't
laugh, I've heard father use the
term in talking of licensed houses
where people drink too much, and it
seems to me just as appropriate for
those kind of people in punts who
kiss and cuddle and behave in a
manner, to quote Mrs. Camp, too
brazen for words 1t makes one
burn to the bone, and you never
know where to look, though they
don't mind what you see and, as
mother says, glory in their shame
But we must get back to our NUT
ton; and, Hughie, you've got to
muster all the wisdom and cupidity
you possess and leave sentiment en-
tirely out of the question"
"Well, for goodness sake let us
worry it now and get it over what
ever it is, and then we can enjoy our
tea"
well, firstly" Joan said, would
you mind Mr.. Tudor coming with
us?"
"Why, certainly I should mind.
And why in the name of everything
that's sensible should you want to
cart that ass down for to be getting
in everybody's way?"
"He's not an ass, Hughie, and I
assure you he can be quite giddy and
festive. And you see it's like this"-
with a little saintlike sigh of resig-
nation-EI may be engaged to him
by Sunday, and that's what I want
you to help me to decide about"
"Well, of all the acts of GOODNESS /
ever heard Of this takes the biscuit
to lure me here to advise you as
to marrying another man."
"But why this outburst, Hughie ?
[ thought you liked me-"
90, did you, indeed? Well, then,
you were mistaken, for I have no lik-
ing for you, and I should have moth
ing but hatred and contempt if you
were to marry that Brighter, or any
body else"
''But, Hughie, dear, you don't
want me to be an old maid, do you p
"No; | want you to marry me as
you gave me reason to suppose you
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GUARANTY.

Traveler-Will there be time to
get a drink, guard?
Guard-Yes, sir; plenty O. time,
sir.
Traveler-What guaranty have l
that the train won't go without me?
Guard (generously)-Well, sir,
I'll go an have one With you.-Syd-
ney Bulletin.
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would
ooh, Hughie, you must have been
dreaming, then, or / must have been
browsing or drinking or something,
for how could you support me and
dress me and amuse me? You have
only got enough for your own needs,
and I've got nothing, but heaps and
heaps of needs, and do so love
purple and fine linen Hughie,
dear, 1 am greedy, too, and love nice
out-of-season goodies and sparkling
wines and lollies and things. OF
course you know I would hundred
times rather marry you than Mr..
Tudor, but he is quite decent per-
son, and | am, in fact, quite fond OF
him. And just think, Hughie, of all
the lovely Paris frocks could have
and the scrummy things / could do
and the frantic envy | could arouse
in the breasts of my dearest foes,
and the way could strut and pat
ronize and snub people who had been
horrid to me, and I could be so nice
to my friends who gave me good adj
vice like you, Hughie. They could
come in their scores and scores to
borrow from me because | should get
father to see that Mr.. Tudor made
me huge allowance, even enough
for that, and, Hughie, you must see
surely that it would be simply
splendid match for me. But,
Hughie," so softly and cooingly,
what would you do with an extrav-
agant, ungodly wife like me if l
were to decline this brilliant alliance
and marry you instead?"
81 should love and cherish her and
sail away with her to some country
where I could labor and live for her,
and | would make her as happy as
the happiest woman in the whole
world.
"Oh, Hughie, what fun; and you
are darlingl And I may tell you
now that | was only piling on the
agony about my extravaganza and
greed and general odiousness just to
put things before you and eos it
seemed only fair to give Mr.. Tudor's
proposal every chance; but, honestly,
| don't believe I should mind a bit
being poor with you and, after all, it
is ones own affair chiefly who one
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marr1es, SO | Just VIII marry you,
Hughie," jumping into his out
stretched arms. "But, snakes alive !.
won't the announcement give rise to
occurrences when mother comes in !"
Exchange.
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THE USUAL WAY.

care you still keeping your good
resolutions ?"
"Yes; I'm keeping them quiet"
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03
THE WOMAN IN BUSINESS.

~ business Do believe self
II preservation? rather than
sink in the of li themselves but
diversion which
to relieve absolutely against it.
Business spois wifehood
crafness
the roles she booked
good for The folks
much the conditions
went into business
and had
to that extent thoroughly
business. When
hold of it until could
having q greater
sanity up against the
normal who consistently applies
be business something
And what has given
and think little ferrete strong
mascunty In wish dress
myself the ussy feminine
tc think Of their mother business
at the
There Of an evening
but systematically shut them Of
them will bring
personality which should fresh and
sympathetic for children with something abstract hard
and impersonaL
thing been in the exhaustnp
abstract business Of running personal
sitting chiI fspinr
recital of hers
attitude of "Spare
comfortable him
under his Have the
attitude toward his children
o supply their spiritual
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Hcf, hus-
bands
death
finds her
the boss.

for little Mollie Alpiner had never died
down in his heart. Some slight prog
ress he had made, for he had invested
MS savings in tiny tobacco store
close to his humble dwelling. Still
the steady, faithful, honest plodder,
unknown and. but for the undying
fame in his heart, unromantic.
There are no records Of the reunion
Of the long sundered twain. The story
OF their belated coming together Is
their own secret. Not any of her busi-
ness associates or personal friends
knew aught either OF the long stifed
romance or OF the strange, new
thoughts that began to bloom In her
heart as she met again her old lover.
But she had done her duty to her hus-
bands sons. who are being trained to
take the burdens OF the business on
her shoulders. She had made more
than enough money to secure them
prosperous and comfortable lives should
all else fail. She was alone-per
bit tired Of 1t all-and she let the
old love have its way.
They we're welded early last month
in hotel in Portland, Ore.
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ther from Netcher's mind thai !tdl-
riage with an obscure salesgiri. dis
growing success entitled him, ne
doubtless thought, to a bride from
some higher sphere, one who would
bring him the social relations he had
not had time to cultivate, perhaps
even capital to increase his holdings
in the growing institution.
But to this man with but a single
thought the relation with eMollie Al
piner proved irresistible. So wise.
SO keen, so shrewd she was. she told
him hundred things about women's
wants that he had never guessed For
the very genius of business was in her
veins and her brain, and withal she
was SO sweet and SO deferential-and
so pretty Netcher found himself TAX
ing her advice, found himself seeking
it oftener as time went on. And one
day, doubtless after deliberate thought
for he was deliberate-he asked her
to marry him. And she said yes.
Doubtless as the girl had grown.
and as her interest in the problem of
the stores development increased, the
faithful service Of Solomon Neuberger
had become less interesting. For sire
was a star and he only plodder. and
like many another true and honest
soul, lacking speed and fire, he had
faded Into the background. What
chance with brilliant, ambitious girl,
even one with a 4rt OF ;sold, had a
paint salesman against sone of the
great city's rising business men, who,
moreover. had all the opportunities of
daily intercourse in common cause?
It was a happy marriage, one of the
very happy marriages, for Mollie
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"Your Worship, searched him and
he had no pipe" interrupted the detec-
tive.
II will remand you for seven days."
decided the Magistrate. In the mean
time the records will be searched and IL
1t can be shown that the defendant has
beer in trouble before he will receive
three months hard labor sentence.
During the two sessions of the court
which | attended there was only one
case where solicitor of1iciated. This
was when two young men were brought
into the dock charged with what at
home we call "roughhousing
The complainant was saloonkeeper.
These two prisoners Your wor-
ship, came into my place and asked
for two Magen Bitters. said to them,
says /: I won't.serve you!' Thereupon
they did something awful to me-
What did they do?" demanded the
Magistrate.
They spat in my face, Your Wor-
snip The tall one then said: I'll
punch your eye out, and with that he
made thrust at me with an umbrella.
Then the shorter one picked up the
glasses on the bar and threw them at
me. Again, Your Worship. I lodged
them, but they landed on the back of
the bar, smashing four dozen glasses
and my two very handsome chan
deliers.'"
Nov. complainant asked the solic-
itor in cross-examination, 'is it not
fact. Sir, that you refused to serve
these men In consequence of some
trouble you had with man named
Densy?"
1T is not" replied the witness.
whereupon the solicitor made an elo-
quent plea for mercy in behalf o. his
two clients.
Three pounds, one guinea costs
or one month hard labor" announced
the court, and the next case was
called
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but one idea in Netcher's mind-the
success of the store-and late and
early he slaved to achieve it. he
even slept there of nights, snatched
hasty meals, missing no chance to
hoard and gain.
You can see Netcher sitting in his
Office poring over the days sales-re-
ports, noting with infinite care the
totals of each of his employees He
would know to a cent the records OF
the least and the greatest of them.
AS day by day he scanned the figures
he began to see that No. 22-for IN
most big establishments the salesfolks
are designated by number rather
than name-had begun to creep ahead
of her fellows. And this was happen
ing In the department to which he
gave individual attention. What wen-
der that he inquired the identity of
No. %, had her pointed out to him by
the superintendent, saw pretty,
blooming, cunning little girl who, be-
cause of her new dignity, had braided
her pig-tails round her head and was
assuming young-ladylike airs!
This was still the era Of Solomon
Neuberger, now paint salesman
merely a persistent plodderss but a
faithful follower. q
Under the watchful eye of Charles
Netcher, Mollie Alpiner gained ad-
vancement. AS deeply interested in
her work even as he, her employer,
she steadily mounted until one day
she found herself head saleswoman
and entitled to consultation with her
chief.
At the beginning of these consulta-
tions there was probably nothing fur
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nance. It materializes the dreams of
innumerable girls working behind
the counters of innumeTable stores
throughout this broad land. How
many of them but lock forward in
imagination to attracting the attention
of the head of their department or OF
the proprietor himself; of being lifted
by dint II beauty or talent from the
obscurity of minor place and ele-
waited to distinction and prosperity at
his side? A hundred best sellers have
been made out OF this perennial dream.
In the. instance of Mollie Netcher it
actually happened.
In the first part of this story the
quiet, unambitious, unsuccessful, faith
full lover who is rewarded at the
climax is no more than name and a
fact. He was the first devoted follower
Of the little cash girl. At the festivi-
ties of their environment he was ever
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03
Vaccination Protection
Diminishes With Age.

|nR. w. HANNA. Assistant Medical
Officer of Health for the Port ot
Liverpool, has just published AN
analysis OF the records of 1,1O0
smallpox cases, especially in their
bearing on the duration of the pro-
tective effect of vaccination. The Lon
don Lancet remarks that DR.. Hanna
has rendered very valuable service
TO medicine and public health" because
owing to period of immunity from
smallpox epidemics, comparatively few
medical men obtain their knowledge
o. the disease from direct observation.
DR.. Hanna reports that the actual
mortality at all ages among the I'M
Vaccinated ranges from 25 to 40 mar
cent; among the well vaccinated II ia
ABOUT 3 per cent. OF the unvaccinated.
children under ten years and aged per-
sons suffer most. In the previously
vacclnated he has no case ar all IN
children under three years of age and
no deaths under twenty years. but as
age advances the protective power NJ
vaccination against death from small
FOX and Its power of modifying the Sc
verify OF the disease gradually dimin-
ish.
Wnen vaccination takes" the degree
OF the protection against an attack o,
smallpox is very high. Among those
vaccinated for the first time after erS
posure to smallpox infection the pro-
lection Is not absolute. Yet when the
disease does occur in such cases its
course is extremely mild. DR.. Hanna
IS inclined to believe that even if a pa
tient has never been vaccinated befor.
the actual onset of smallpox, vaccina-
ton then will modify the diease.
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Mo11ie is
promoted
to head
sales
woman.

OF Chicasos mercantile history. Under
her direction the business Of the es-
tablishment has quadrupled. To-day 1t
occupies half of one of that city's
large blocks. There are 5000 en-
ployees. And, moreover, she developed
another prescience, a power of judging
real estate. She is one of those who
have the rare gift OF knowing the
trend of population, and her invest
ments of the large profits of the busi-
ness have yielded new millions to her
accumulations. In the nine years that
have elapsed since the death OF her
beloved husband she had actually
trebled the fortune he left in her Gus
tody. And it is another of her inter-
esting distinctions that she is the most
heavily insured woman in the world.
for she carries policies on her life
amounting to $1.2OO,OOO.
Something of the struggle between
the business woman of genius and her
instructive wise motherliness is sug-
gested in her own accompanying story,
told to Chicago reporter in moment
OF confidence. In her care OF them,
In her attention to their wants she
has neglected nothing. for Mrs. Netcher
is no woman Of society. She is quite
devoid of all such aspirations.
And where was Solomon Neuherger
all these years? Still a paint sales
man-still unmarried the passion
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her STEADY" and even as she mounted
and ascended out Of his class his de-
votion never wavered. In Solomon
Neuberger is the metal of your true
lover. There is something rare as 1t
is beautiful in this late fruition of his
hopes.
The eldest daughter of quite humble
parents, little Mollie Alpiner had to
help support the family. The Boston
Store was then a small but enterpris-
ing establishment struggling far in the
rear of its big Chicago rivals. She
was given place as cash girl. There
are those who remember the smiling,
quick-eyed child darting hither and
thither at call of the salesfolk. She.
was too bright. too ambitious to stay
long on the floor. One day she was
put behind counter, and from that
day her rise began.
There are natural saleswomen as
statesmen The instinct of selling
throbbed in the little Alpiner's veins.
So keen, so willing. she knew in
tuitiyely what her customers desired,
and served them with the deftness and
certainty which are genius.
m the Boston Store at that time was
one Edward Netcher, born in about the
same circumstances as Mollie Alpiner.
and In business instinct and industry
her male prototype. He, too, had he
gun as "cash." and had SO worked and
saved that he was already a member
of the firm and in charge of the very
department. in which the little cash
girl had begun her career There was
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1S|ln a Dear OF Lon on
pennileSS Lover. win
$l2,000,000 Bride

Netcher had all the genius for wife
and motherhood Of her race. Boys and
girls were born to them In rapid suc-
cession. but even her maternal duties
were not allowed to sap the young
woman's interest in the growing busi-
ness.
And how it grew! The Boston Store
no longer struggled in the rear Of its
competitors. 1t was nosing to the
fore. Its aisles were thronged with
customers; adjoining buildings were
purchased and new space added. and
the day came when Charles Netcher.
having bought out the men who had
reluctantly yielded him an interest.
found himself sole proprietor of one
Of Chicago's biggest department stores.
And he never failed to yield to his
wife her due for the great success
that had come to him.
A happy father and husband, a
wealthy merchant, he was taken away
before he had entered into the enjoy
ment Of his prosperity. When the will
was read the sorrowful widow found
herself the owner and executor Of an
estate valued at several million dol
lars, including the great establishment
which she had entered as cash girl
In another part of this page Mrs
Netcher, or, as she now is. Mrs. Neu'
berger, explains why she undertook the
management Of the Boston Store. II
was inevitable. perhaps. At least NO
one knew the great business half 50
well. And how she succeeded is part
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03
This Clock Needs No
Winding.

Two Austrian watchmakers have
Duiit clock which receives its motive
power from current OF air blowina
upon a turbine-shaped wheel. The
clock is SO simply built that the cur
rent of air produced by a stove :.
kitchen range is sufficient to make !,
go. The air is brought to the clocr -
pipe fixed upon the wall. A very
strong current is reduced by a certain
clever contrivance which regulates ~.
speed of the works.
The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03


TsHIs is the story of the most
j successful business woman u
America, who has just married the
obscure lover of her early youth.
She is called the most successful
business woman in America because
only the career of one other woman
may be compared with hers. Let it
be remembered, though, that Hetty
Green started with inherited millions,
whereas Mrs. Nellie Netcher began life
as cash girl in the great department
store of which she is now the head.
In the career of this extraordinary
woman, in it's most delicious culmina-
ton, there is the very essence OF ro-
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Mrs. Mollie Netcher, in Her
Way a Real Captain OF
Industry, the Bride Of an
Obscure Man Who for
Years Sold Paint from
Behind a Counter, Just as
He Did When He First
Wooed the Salesgirl Who
Became a Mercha Mt
Princess.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-05
GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME.

GIVE dog bad and be he good or bad, he is an
That principle has been worked in politics since
the dawn of civilization against every good
reform and friend of humanity Labor
kept ages because of the trick of giving
leaders Good bad, they always dema
gogues ncendares When seek get control of
always with resort to the old trick
of fixing bad upon those whom they would suppan
reproach the boss invented who after
pocns leadership shoes Public have been
adopted with other logic than that those who
posed proposed them had selfish motives BOSSES
other in the argument against reeren
DUN jury bill has not appeared in print or IN any OF the
delivered And the mpudent claim has
that the protest against constitutional convention
the voters should be dsregarded because
bosses had taken the of the fourhs and didn't
that kind popular convention But the old trick OF
giving dog bad name is getting outworn.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-05
BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS


what MURDER"
THE murder of the unknown
woman, of course"
IT don't know that there was any
murder"
"Oh, well, the death Of the unknown
woman. them
Il don't know that there was any
unknown woman
Quit it, From Whal you 10 hiio ~ /,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-05

L ROSTRUM
Songs of the Children.

Songs of the Children.
To the Editor of the Newark STAR
The able letter under the heading
parents to Blame" which appeared
in your issue of May 1, from the pen
of Mr. Alexander F. Cashin. sug-
gests some further remarks. Permit
me through the columns of your val
liable paper a few lines on the above
motto.
Last week I saw a number of little
girls ranging from to IA and be-
longing to a public school, playing,
as is usual with their sex, to the ac-
compartment of a song. OF this the
following lines formed part:
"All she wants is gold and silver;
All she wants is nice young man."
Now, sir. what cant it is to pirate
of ethical and moral teaching in
schools, and the promotion of culture
and high ideals. when such sordid
and sensual sentiments as these are
learned by heart and sung hundreds
of times by the children? Indeed,
these and vulgar music store snatches
are about all that one ever hears
them sing. Is there no poet with
sufficient love of the little ones to
compose simple, pretty and yet in
structive songs for them instead Of
such insane trash? No wonder white
slavers find such abundance OF VIC
timg when they promise them gold
and silver and a nice, young man.
THOMAS Al TIMMoNs.
Harrieon NJ H.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-05
JERSEY CITY IS AN OBJECT LESSON.

TWENTY-FIVE CANDIDATES for the five $1,000 com.
issonershp Jersey City will the primary ticket in the
election on Nav highest in the poll will be candi
dates in second election the having the highest
will be the There several combinations
among representing partisan organizations the
Wttpenn oiceholders with the of the present official
machinery aid of the police having the advantage If
combination succeeds Jersey City will get the existing po
cal regime years with enlarged powes and
opportnnities the only large city in the East
adopted commission form of government If it
ceeds in that any large city would be encouraged to
try the experiment just well wait and