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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-30
A LONGER LIFE,
INSTITUTES AIM
Organization Formed TO Coop
crate i'm All Movements for
Public Health.

An organization which purposes 10
make life longer was incorporated here
YESTERDAY 10 is called the Life Extension
Institute EX-PresIdeut Taft is the chair
man Of its board OF directors and Colonel
Gorgas viii be cousultaut in sanitation
and hygiene. The institute Will act not
only for life insurance companies. but for
individuals as we'll
Any person. whether a policyho.dor 10
concern subscribing 10 the service u
the institute. or an outside ind.vdu1'.
may have an expert examination made Of
his physical condition. \ Zee will be
charged. except In the case Of rolicyhold-
crs After the examination the applicant
will be sent to his family physician ~
there are any repairs or readjustmeuts
10 be- made iu the human machine.
1t must be confessed said one OF the
founders OF the institute. that We owe a
debt 10 the Chinese FOR the plan There
You know doctors are paid only while
their patients remain well and as soon as
illness occurs their fees are cut of.
Or. Eugene Lyman Fisk. who is TO be
medical director OF the institute has done
some work along similar lines FOR the
Provideut Savings and the Postal Life.
He is convinced that examination will
detect many slight impairments which
would not attract the attention OF the
average man but which would he calcU-
lated 10 develop into serious illnesses.
The institute plans to make arrange
ments with schools, industrial establish
ments and clubs and will CO. operate in
all movements for public health. 1t will
establish laboratories in all the larger
cities.
Persons who have furnished the capital
for The institute have agreed that two
thirds Of any profits which may be
earned above > per cent on the money
public usefulness.
A bulletin from Professor Irving Fisher
OF Yale University. states that the insti-
tute hopes 10 steer scientific course
between the Scylla OF foolish fads which
beguie the unwary and the Charybdis Of
conventional ways Of living which most
of ny accept blindly because others have
accepted them before us"
The central office OF the organiza Il on
will be at no. % West 18TH stheet
The directors Of the new institute are
eX-President Taft. Harold A. Ley, Pro
lessor Irving Fisher, f.. +. Rittenhouse.
Robert w. de Forest, Frank A. Wander
lip, Charles H. Sabin, Or. f.. X. l.. Gould,
Francis T.. Cooley and Henry II. Bow
man. The president OF the institute will
be r. r. Rittenhouse.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-30
DREAM CLEW FINDS GIRL
Mothers Vision Reveals the
Whereabouts of Daughter.

Elizabeth y J., Dec. 29-Mrs. Will
fam Tucker. 81 Johnson avenue. Gran
ford. dreamed on SATURDAY night that
hcr siXtccn-y daughter Violet,
who disappeared from home on Deem
her I. was working for family in
Caldwell. She told her husband. and he
went Yesterday 10 the address his wife
gave him. He found his daughter
here
Violet disappeared after attending a
musical at Westheld. She had been
orgauisi ~ a Newark church.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-30
Seeing the Town" Is Costly,

James Horton. a civil engineer Of Ss-
vpnnah, who has been Seeing the town
for the last three days. will be in court
this morning 20 answer 10 a charge Of in
ioxication lie was found unconscious al
the corner of Lexington avenue and 26th
street. There was bad cut in his scalp.
and he was minus SlS7 in cash and da
mond ring worth $3.50. He was locked up
for safe keeping after his wounds had
been treated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-30
BRIDAL PAIR NEAR DEATH
Speeding Auto Smashed After
Secret Wedding.

With the fling Of a marriage record in
West New York yesterday Il became
known that Frank Hirtler of No. p Yer
non Place. East Orange, had been mar
ried secretly last Tuesday TO Miss Dora
Wcnhant, OF Union Hill. and that the
wedding party narrowly escaped death in
an automobile accident.
The automobile containing the wedding
party was speeding toward the Fort ZEE
Ferry when IL crashed into a steam roller
The bride and bridegroom ESCAPED injury,
but Miss Frances Whitman. of Union HIll
y. j., bridesmaid. was badly injured.
Jacob GinsbeIg, OF Hoboken, the best
man, was cut about the head and hands
by flying glass. The automobile was
smashed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-30
Bookseller Is Fined.

William Cleary, clerk in the bookstore
OF Mitchell Kennerley at No. . East 29tf
street, VINO was convicted on December
IS OF selling improper literature. wa.
sentenced yesterday in Special Sessions
10 pay a fine Of $50 or serve ten days in
prison.
Cleary lives in Mamaroneck Anthony
'omstock was the complainant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-30
Watch Night in Old Church.

At the Old John Street Methodist
Church tomorrow night there will be a
OF an old-fashioned Meth
odist Watch Night service. The sermon
will be preached by DR.. $ Parkes Cad
man at 9 o'clock. Al later hour there
will be "A testimony and covenant ser' ice.
This will count as the l4sth Watch Night
service i'm this venerable church, and
Methodists from all parts Of New York
City will he present
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-30
Lieut.. Heffernon Discharged.

Police Lieutenant John " Heffernon,
Of the Canarsie station. who lives at No.
900 Crcston avenue, The Bronx. was cX-
amined ia jefferson Market Court by
Magistrate KTotel Yesterday afternoon on
charge Of assault preferred by John
Foran, OF No. 800 West broadway, and
was discharged for lack OF evidence Of
assault.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-30

Real Winter and the New
Year generally crank up to-
gether.
VIII yours be a regular
OvercOat or one of our fancier
models!
Makes no difference as far
as satisfaction goes, for your
money back backs every
thing we sell.
The fancier coats Of rough
Scotch fabrics are perhaps a
bit smarter. but the fact that
so many men stick to the more
staple coats with velvet col
lars, makes us take infinite
pains to have' them of the
most approved styles and
fabrics as well as in the least
expensive materials from
which good service can be
expected.
Winter ovcrcoats, $I8 to
$75.
ROGERS PEET COMPANY.
Three Broadway Stores
Warren St. 18th St. 34th ST.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-30
Morgan Aids Police Fund.

j. T.. Morgan sent a check for $1,000
Yesterday To Police Commissioner Waldo.
TO be applied TO tho Police Pension Fund.
The check was sent In recognition of the
splendid work done by the police at the
funeral OF Nj. Morgan father
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-09
20 5EZEoMoN9z zax5Ee MlD0llHGR B9oK 9HE2E AEA{{

he subsequently lived In England. There
Is much talk of world politics and inter
national diplomacy, and there Is also
display of British politics and the settle
ment of a labor trouble. Ali kisander
possesses singular quality of divina-
ton or mind reading. which stands him
In stead both i'm card games and In pol
itics. diverting parsonage Is Fatuma.
principal and favorite wife Of the Afri-
can sultan and foster mother of Ali. 1t
Is gratifying to know that at the close
of the story Fatuma has elected to make
her residence i'm Europe. further tale
about All as he develops into states
| man will be gratifying.
FOUR MOTHERS At CHAUTAUQUA.
BY Pansy. author of -Four Girls at
Chautauqua." etc. illustrated from
photographs. Boston: Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard Company.
long time ago Mrs. Alden. who is best
known as "Pansy.' wrote -Four Girls at
Chautauqua. Now, these girls have
grown up and become mothers with girls
of their own. and they go themselves to
Chautauqua, and in this volume Mrs
Alden tells of their experiences in pleas
antly storified form and with an ampli-
tude of true Chautauqua matter and some
illustrations that set forth the physical
attractions of the great religious-educa-
tional enterprise. Every reader OF the
Pansy books will welcome this new ad-
dtion to the library.
AUNT OLIVE IN BOHEMIA. BY Leslie
Moore, author of The Cloak of Con-
vention" etc. New York: George IL
Doran Company.
For many years Miss Olive Mason has
lived a life of repression as companion
to an elderly invalid of means in Eng
land and suddenly, at her relatives death.
she finds herself a woman of great
wealth In youth an aspirant for artistic
honors being the daughter of an artist,
she yearns now. in her advanced middle
age. for a studio and goes to London to
find one. BY good fortune she selects
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ganism and life will seem more worth
living.
Women are marvellous in their adapta-
bility to fashions edict.
If it is high heels and narrow toes, the
body proceeds to adjust itself in some
way, though usually at the sacrifice OF
conn ,rt, and, consciously or unconscious
ly, t. the injury of health and spirits.
In wearing high heels the body IS
thrown out of poise, and there must
be compensation--a reimbursement The
height of the heels has to be taken up
somewhere in the body. Often 1t Is IN
crooked knees sometimes in an enormous
muscle development on the front OF the
thighs-again in the sway back, or IN
high hips: or again. the compensation Is
in throwing the hips forward. thus TIP
ping the pelvis and throwing the pelvic
organs out of position and causing poor
circulation and congestion, which may be
manifested in backache and general dis-
comfort or irritabilty.
This position of the hips throws the
head forward and depresses the chest,
making it impossible to breathe deepiy
SO as to gain the oxygen. nerve strengtn.
freedom and power which come through
the proper use of the lungs. rms posi-
ton is a long step backward. retro
erosion in the evolution of the race.
Or fashions decree may be for narrow
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-09
WILD GRAPES. BY Marie Louise Van
Saanen. New York: Moffat. Yard &

ankles and serious trouble with their
knees. From wearing the modern cor
set they are fast changing the hip joints
from ball-and- socket to hinge joints, to
the serious injury and the weakening
not only of the muscles and ligaments
connected with these joints. but also of
the entire nervous and circulatory sys-
TENS.
All joints-even those of the toes-have
a large number Of nerve endings around
them which need to be stimulated by
using the muscles that carry the lymph
and the blood vessels that the nerves
control.
Every part of the body needs to be
used that it may be strong and free.
Some physicians have recently declared
that much nervousness and i'll health are
caused by the cramped. i'll shaped con-
dition. the little use and poor circulation
of the toes. The big toe especially should
be free-uncramped in any way-as it
controls walking and balance movements
more than any other part of the foot.
The arch of the foot should be used In
order to keep it strong and to give to the
foot the spring in movement which gives
joy and lightness to the whole body.
High heels prevent the proper use and
spring in the arch and ultimately weaken
it.
Neither should the feet be confined in
shoes with low heels and narrow toes,
for such shoes prevent the combined use
of big toe and arch, which gives strength
and ease in walking, and may cause the
arch to fall
A porous, flexible shoe, having a mod
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-09
SUGGESTIONS TO WOMEN AS TO THE PROPER WAY TO WALK

hips or none at ALL Immediately women
begin to adjust their bodies to the shape
decreed, at any sacrifice of time, money
or discomfort. They stretch and roll ana
pommel and squeeze and crush their hips
into straight, narrow corsets until the
graceful curves which make the lines OF
the feminine form beautiful and de-
light to the eyes are destroyed and we
have a woman conformed as nearly as
possible after the figure of man-with
broad shoulders and narrow hips, and no
possible suggestion of her wonderful and
queenly place in the creative plan of the
world as the mother of man.
The straight, narrow-hipped corset into
which the form is crushed gives little
room for deep. full breathing. There Is
too great pressure on the aorta, and the
circulation is seriously affected. so that
any exercise produces shortnesS OF
breath, rapid heart and often dizziness,
and there is no comfort ease in mind
or body. Such treatment in a mature
woman may result only in discomfort
and possibly great nervous disability. but
1t is to be indeed, g-avely considered and
deplored when applied to our young
women and growing girls.
The pelvis and its organs are imma-
ture, possibly are just developing, and to
subject them to the wearing of a narrow
hipped corset is to work mischief with
the race. Unless girls straighten their
chests up, throw their hips back slightly
and hold up their heads SO that they are
we'll poised and free in breathing and
motion, they will be little. ill shaped.
crooked, squatty old women by the time
they are forty-fve.
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supplies evidence of personality. not
isolated persons, but persons members or
one another. all urged by common I'M
pulse toward unit. the centripetai force
being that of love.
M1DSU MINER WOOING. BY Mary r..
Stone Bassett. author OF judith
Garden" etc. Illustrated by John
Goss, Boston, LothrOp, Lee q Shep-
ard Company
II there In n desire for something pleas
ant. something soothing. something that
makes no demand upon the intellect and
but little demand upon the sympathies.
here II In, n hammock book OF exceptional
attractiveness In Its cooling. summerlike.
green page borders and It's artistic color
illustrations. The thought of gardening
runs through this tale and every one
who loves plants as well as all who
love n lover will lind here delightful bit
OF fiction.
THE ROMANCE OF ALI. By Eleanor
Stuart New York: Harper & Bros.
A boy born of English parents is rear
cd in the court OF an African sultan and
ultimately brought under the tutelage,
together with the son OF the sultan. of
an English missionary teacher. Sudden
" comes a German nobleman, man of
highest official position and of great
prestige, and takes Ali Kisander."
which is the Swahili rendering of Alex
ander back to Europe. This is the story
of Ali Kisander'sS experiences as he re-
turns to the civilization of his mother
and father-an absorbing chronological
study, not especially diverting as ro
NANCE but interest-compelling to the last
degree in its disclosures of the difference
between the Moslem and the Christian
points of view, and particularly admira-
Bile in its presentation of two distinguish
ed diplomatic characters. The author has
drawn Graf Won Rodenburg. whom Ali
Kisander always called "Agraffa," and
Lord Stapleside, Ais cousin, with whom
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-09
No Golden Three Rs Age.
FROM the Chicago Record Herald.

FROM Inc thlrago Record Herald.
Some time ago the head of the fed
erai bureau of education told us that
we were greatly mistaken as a people
il we INDUCED the fancy that our ele-
mentary educational system was eff
fcient and satisfactory. Now the same
bureau issues vigorous defense Of
that system against the complaints and
charges of some of the champions OF
the three Rs. who say or imply that
today less attention is paid i'm the pub
lie schools to fundamentals and essen
tials, because of the number of fads
and frills in the modern curriculum.
than was paid formerly. The bureau
categorIcally states that such charges
are wholly devoid of foundation. and
that there is no golden three RS age
behind us. The fundamentals are bet
ter taught today than ever before. and
the newer studies are all practical, inn
portant and semi-vocational.
We recall various articles and ad-
dresses in which ii was shown by
analyzing old examination papers and
similar documents that the teaching
of the essentials is better today than ft
was I'm the past. The golden age.
doubtless. is merely dream. But IL
assuredly does not follow that the
three RS are properly taught now, and
that no further improvement as to
BILE. The fact is. too many school grad
yates are very poor writers, poor SPELL
ers, poor readers and poor arithmati-
clans. Business men know this from
sad experience. Golden age or dark
age, the past is past. What Te need
and should have is better grounding in,
essentials here and now.
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WOMAN PRAISES
CHICKEN AND BISCUIT
Mothers Sphere Is Kitchen
and Not the Polling
Booth.
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
The wife of the Governor of Indiana
has proved herself a commendable
woman. born to cheer, to comfort and
command. She made hit in her speech
Saturday before the members of the
Indiana Democratic Editorial Associ-
alton, when she declared tina. ''womans
place is at home" by which she meant.
of course, nothing more revolutionary
than that women who have good homes
to care for need not bother about votes.
Essentials Of a good home, in Mrs. Raj
stons opinion. are good fried chicken.
nice hot biscuits and peach cobbler.'
In estimating the value of this idea
we must make allowances for the lady's
environment. The adjectives good"
and nice" when applied to fried chicken
and hot biscuits, are regarded as out
of place in some reasonably enlightened
neighbcrhOods. When we have been
told. as We often have been. that fried
have felt regret that there are so few
gods eXtant in these degenerate days
1t is not always, in all places. fit food
for mortal man. Similarly. hot bread
is the sure provocation Of many human
woes. But we must admit that beauty
has been nourished on fried chicken, and
intellect has risen superior to the evil
effects of hot biscuits; Mrs. Ralston
fiuence of good food, well cooked, on
the animal man.
The peach cobbler. however, unlike
the other elements of this temporarily
comforting but deplorable meal Of
victuals. eNcites curiosity. In the die
tionary the word '.cobbler'' stands for
various things, from a member of shoes
to a spineless fish. IL signifies also a
once highly favored DRINK. compounded
in part of sherry wine and sucked
through straw; which may still be re-
garded by ill-advised youth as one of
the mos agreeable allurements of satan.
But we are copfdent that peach cobbIer
is not drink. and that it is probably
a deep-dsh peach pie with no soggy
bottom crust. If peaches must be
cooked. there is no better way to cook
them. Even a person who prefers them
in their natural and unimprovable state
may find a certain satisfaction occa sion
ally in deep-dish pie made of ripe
peaches. The peach cobbler. therefore
escapes the just condemnation of fried
chicken and hot bread. but it. too, has
its dangers. Its appearance in associ-
alton with the bewildering woman uues-
ton. however. is we'll worth noting.
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one in a group of studio quarters where
she is entirely surrounded by real arus's.
and here she proceeds to play the part
of the fairy godmother. Strengthening out
personal tangles. facilitating rofnahees
and altogether doing an immense amount
of good with her fortune and her wealth.
of boundiess sympathy ana love. ms
may be story that reads IKE something
that never happened. but 1t IS. neserthe-
less the best sort of reading. and every
one of the people who come upon inc
stage of this Bohemian romance Is as
sured of a welcome.
THE HAPPY FAMILY. BY Frank
Swinnerton, author of The Case
ment." etc New York: George ii.
Doran Company.
This is satiric title. for the ANDERSON
family of which ii treats is far removed
from happiness. Indeed. the author has
chosen the phrase deliberately to suggest
one of those so-called happy families
of the circuses and ZOOS. strange collec-
lions of unsympathic creatures huddied
together in forced companionship and
kept in order through fear of the keepers
The Anderson family is perhaps not un-
common There are many households
where every member is individual
INIT and where there is no real family
life. In this particular family there was
one worthy soul possibly apart from the
ha working father. who finally sue
cumbed to the weight of his responsible
ties. The story as a story deals with the
romance of this one, Mary the youngest
daughter, the little drudge of the family,
the one who always understood, the only
one who showed sympathy for an errlng
sister and il is good to find at last the
reward that is in some measure COM
mensurate with her merits. incidentally.
a view is given of the inside workings OF
the London publishing trade. Mr.. Swim
merton writes with quiet humor that
invests even this distasteful theme with
a Measurable quality. a strong and i'm
pressiye work
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pensatory wife. The author makes a
very fine fellow OF David and quite
believable woman OF Lucia. David,
much in love. remains blind long time.
Lucia, not at all in love, Is wholly en-
crossed in the gentle practice OF bleed
ing David This Is very bald state
ment of the case. Miss Van Saanen
works cautiously. with restraint and con-
sistency, in the development Of this
drama reminding one in her methods
of realism and somewhat in her per
sonal manner. too. of David Graham
Phillips in his dealing with similar
themes.
PERSONALITY. BY F. B. Jevons Lift.
D.. professor of philosophy in the
University of Durham, author OF
"Comparative Religions" etc. New
York: G. +. Putnam's Sons
In the summer Of 1912 the four lectures
making this volume were given at oxford
in the vacation term for Biblical study 1t
is a deeply philosophic study having to
do with the problem Of personality me
question put up is: Is there such thing
as separate personality? Does one IN
reality exist at all? No person doubts it.
Yet. in search of proof. neither physlcal
science. SO far in it's development nor
psychology. so far. makes any counting
of this separate personality. Some psy-
biologists, on the contrary. go so far as
to deny, fatty. the reality of personal
identity To follow up these lines of ne
CATION leads one to doubt not only his
own personality, but 1t may lead him
to doubt as we'll the existence and per
sonality OF God. This study seeks the
meaning of the term. seeks to determine
whether or not 1t designates any reality
at all. and what this reality may be- The
first lecture points out that physical
science and psychology do their work
without assuming anything in relation to
a personal existence. The second one ex-
amines the arguments of psychology that
deny existence, that assume personality
to be a mistaken inference. The third
reviews the discussion of M. Bergson s
philosophy on this point. The last one