The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-04-11
New York City Praises Self For
Don atoms to Sufferers
SORROW ON GREAT WHITE WAY
One Society Has For Object Gaining
Hearing That May Give Quiet"
Plays Chance.
Especial to The Free rress.I

New York, April Whatever un
savory reputation New York city
may have gained throughout the
country as result Of the police
scandals, certainly the great metrop-
oils has commended itself to the
world at large by its warm hearted
response to the appeals for aid from
the stricken cities of the west and
middle west. Although the unfortu
nate cities have begun their plans Of
rehabilitation relief committees were
today working as hard to raise funds
as they did when the appeals were
first received in New York. One re-
markable feature of the work done
by the committees on relief in New
York has been the care exercised in
sending articles of wearing apparel
The citizens of New York, in answer
TO special requests, have sent only
clean clothing and this has been
made thoroughly sanitary before be-
ing shipped to the flood victims, to
avoid any possible spread of disease.
The Great White Way" is in sack
tlOiu duu dSuCS vi oiuCi
TO put the lid on "guzzling" went in
to effect Tuesday evening, and al
though few restaurants are trying
to find ways to evade the new order,
they are tame and lifeless. Every
one who ever had a vrab ravigote or
Long Island rarebit or a lobster
Newberg, or some eggs imperiale,
after gazing upon a musical comedy,
sob-show or a grand opera, is won.
dering just what will happen to the
Great White Way. The order to
close all places where drinks were
served at one o'clock was bad enough,
but how, Oh, how, could his Honor
say that folks who frequented such
places after midnight were, as a rule,
not decent and guzzlers? All, it is
too much!
For the purpose of Cunning a hear
ing for quiet" plays which often
fail before the public has learned of
their unobtrusive merits, the Drama
society has been incorporated in New
York by a number of prominent So
ciety women and persons of literary
distinction. The directors are per-
sons who have had some experience
as actors. playwrights, critics or di-
rectors of welfare clubs. They will
enlist an initial membership of about
500 who will pledge themselves TO
attend plays recommended by the
society and TO boost" them to their
friends if you please. The incorpora-
tors are Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs.
Il. II. Hewitt, Mrs. Philip Lydig, Mrs.
Frederick Il. Plat, Mrs. w. X. Van.
derbit. Mrs. Egerton l.. Winthrop,
Jr., Mrs. George T. Haven, Jr., John
Corbin, Walter p. Eaton, Archer NJ.
Huntington. Thomas W. Lamont and
Robert Perkins.
The newest thing next to the
School of Mother Craft is the baby
garden. The idea is still in it's swad-
ding clothes, but it is expected to
grow and develop under the careful
guidance of Mrs. Alvia Levitas, a
graduate of Teachers College. The
baby garden is intended for the baby
of the professional woman who must
go to business every day, and who
has no one to leave her children with
except a nurse girl. 1t is to come
between the day nursery and the nur-
cry of the rich who can employ
trained nurse. Mrs. Alvia Levitas,
is a graduate of Teachers college, and
she lives in the model Vanderbilt
apartments at Seventy-eiShth street
and East River. She says that her
idea solves long-felt want among
business women, for when woman
must go to business, whether she is
doctor, lawyer, actress, teacher,
journalist or private secretary and
stenOgrapher. if she has children to