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The Detroit times., 1913-05-17
SOCIAL and
PERSONAL

ST. Mays hospital auxiliary will
meet Monday morning, May l9. In the
hospital, for an important business
meeting.
Detroit members OF the Thirty first
Michigan Volunteer infantry, Spanish
American war, will go 10 Monroe Sat.
urday morning, on special interur-
ban car to join In the annual reunion
OF the regiment.
Mrs. Walter Russell was the hostess
OF the informal tea, Friday afternoon
In the pretty rooms Of the Society OF
Art and Crafts.
The final monthly luncheon Of the
season will be given by the Associa
ton of University OF Michigan Wo
men In the ollege club. Saturday, May
II. from 1890 to 2 o'clock.
Lewis James, OF Yphilanti. has been
appointed tenor soloist In the Wood
ward-ave. Baptist church. He is Q
pupil OF Archibald c. Jackson
Miss Marjorie Stephens gave a de
| lightful dinner-dance, Thursday even
J luE, IOT tue meUueTs Vi the Dali
| Walker wedding party
| %
The engagement is announced Of
Miss Ruth Elliott. daughter OF Mr.
and Mrs. Charles j Woodall. No. 81
California-ave.. TO Harold n. Utley
first lieutenant in the United States
Marine corps.
Mrs. Wylie Carhartt, was the host
ess OF pretty luncheon. Wednesday
In the Country club.
Miss Harriet A. Broad, Of Chicago
Will arrive. Saturday, TO be the guest
OF the Detroit Y. W. c. A., for a few
days. Miss Broad will have charge OF
the Sunday afternoon vesper service.
in the association building, which will
be the annual service Of the education.
al department. Monday morning, Miss
Broad will take part In a board meet
ing and conference Of the local Sec
ietaries. The annual exhibition Of the
work of the educational classes held
since October. In the Y. w: c. A.. will
take place Wednesday and Thursday,
May Fl and 90
The Detroit times., 1913-05-17
BY MARY BOYLE o'REiLLv.

6v MANY 6OvGE ONGtGLV.
NEW YORK. May l6.-New York
has heard much discussion OF teach.
ers right to leave-of-absence that will
enable her TO bear a child.
What Of the sweatshop workers
right TO nurse the children who will
wall for her care?
Mrs. Maria Corett. who lives on the
NTH floor at 20S Grand-st.. in the TEEN
ing east side. sat up in bed rather
weakly and smiled down at the babies
beside her.
Isl Sonora, ona, two-a 'tree'a."
Her work-stifYened hand uncovered
tenderly three swaddled bundles. The
five-pound triplets. tidy as the pictur-
ed bambinos, squirmed their protest.
"Twa bows an ona girl, all wella,
strong. per'fec''" whispered the new
mother and sank back against the Pill.
lows. The big bed. covered with a
knitted counterpart. was immaculate
the one.room tenement under the
roof clean as tireless hands could
make II.
1t was large room. well-lighted
but crowded to full capacity. A dress.
er displayed brave showing Of china
! figures before a picture OF the Madon.
Ma and Child three tiny lights floated
! on oil. In one corner two quiet little
girls played house Importantly alone
the wall four bent women sat stitch
Ing with the swift, jerky haste oil
sweat-hsOp workers.
All, they are good. my neighbors.
sighed Mrs. Coretti. her pale. almost
gannt face smiling.
See how they sew for me to save
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Suez canal, the total was only 10000
900. The Empire OF the United States
within our contiguous continental
bounds Is. indeed, TO most OF us only
a vague conception, for big figures
mean nothing to most minds. The
bigness of the country and the i'm
portance Of Its domestic interrelation-
ship may be considered the cause why
our foreign export trade, large as II
Is, has not been pushed with more
persistent energy. The consciousness
of 1t In Congress has been one chief
cause why there has not been keen
er sense OF the Importance OF en-
couraging our maritime traffic on the
great deep which
Has ceased to be
The deep unplumbed. estrangins
sea"
OF Mathew Arnold's couplet But
In ceasing TO be barrier. II has not
yet overcome the irresistible trend OF
business which has kept more than
even age with the magnificent de-
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velopment OF the country. and ID In
deed the most notable index of 1t.
But the time Is near at hand when
the growth of population and the sub
jugation Of the ruder conditions In
every part OF the nation, however re-
mote. will turn thought irresistibiy to
the Alexandrian ambition, that of con-
quering the world In the peaceful war
OF trade rivalry and We shall have
mustered the best means Of doing t.
But whatever we may do In this great
aspiration. which Is yet in It's infancy
OF EFFORT, the Sault Ste. Marie canal
and what 1t connotes will probably
impress the imagination Of the econ
omic student more than all else, ~ .
measure OF natural greatnesS-New
York Commercial.
The Detroit times., 1913-05-17

CAROGEo NGENo ND ANGEICA CRY But MA

IL IL ira v ked Wise Say. Pat
c a Its o
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my work. Since two days they come,
one q woman. then another. say.
Good wishes" sit down. finish me
three. four pair de pants.
III do not call for my bundle, you
see. the boss he give 1t away 70 some
odder woman
Now he never know-so | keepa
my work.
Three cents a pair he pay for I'm
Ism de pants, forty-fve cents q day II
work long time. Not mooch money
no! But we cannot live without!
my Tony, he no like l work. My
Tony good man, hard work. no drinka
He has one push-cart for sella dc Dish
He make one dolla' day. Friday one
dolla an a half. maybe. DIS room II
fifth story, yes, but clean air. sun
shine. you see. after walk up. That
cost S22 a month. An. Madonna mia
We have seven children, seven.
MY Tony, he no take charity Sc
| gotta finish de pants, 46 cents
day"
A stalwart lad, entering. quietly
| dropped a huge sweaters bundle Il
from his shoulder and went Il
the bedside. With tender curiosity hi
picked up baby-brother. Grading
him with practiced ease In carefully
crooked arm.
Welcome home, Carlogeo." he said
softly.
| The mother smiled reproach from
her pillow. 'Vincenzio" she correct
ed. This Is Carlos beside me! Ant
there Angelica-your sister.
"Ah, Madonna, when tink Of 1t
! Treea all at once. Yes. they are vel
The Detroit times., 1913-05-17
cBult Classic Dancer
UhAppear in Everywhere"

n 1A1riss Dorothy B. Conger, Detroit
mhams for her own an accomplished
NJ charming classic and interpreta
I've dancer, whose art will be fea'
nno OF the pageant Everywhere" TO
- Given In the Garrick theater all
1T week. beginning Tuesday even
- My 20, for the benefit Of the
Urx Of the animal welfare committee
Oe ~ Twentieth Century club. Miss
jObuesr n q daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
Norman b. Conger. No. 1879 Taylor
I'VE. Mr.. Oonger Is the well-known
Ghie& OF the Detroit weather bureau
md tie man upon whom all blame is
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an very glad to see the hat come
10 fashion that ties under the chin.
Aoco 10 something 80 fascinating
ut q bit OF ribbon crossed under
~ ooft OWL OF a pretty girls face.
IVY wonder some enraptured lover
80, tying her bonnet under her
-, she tied my heart within"
E.zAoro 70 nothing daintier than a
- lingerie hat with either one or
- Blbbon strings with which to tie
1D1cn strings are lovely for the
Y 1abo. The cap pulled down and
VIII it, big pink bow makes the
Uoglke face within look sweeter
W1udmOther's dear countenancc
y = air Of contented comfort when
lDUoEo cat over = big bow that soft
~ WS1ukled face.
~ ~ the women who come be-
90 - Oonths and so q ribbon-tied
bonnet II = bit OF coquetry
ovosy one should try on the
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come, No one must hurt their little
feelings But tree-a' tree-a, How
can ! maka de time 10 hold them In
my arms? I must finish fifteen pants
10 maka 40 cents a day"
Helpless in limbo Of pain and
poverty Mrs. Corettis brave smile
was wistful.
Grandmother Veronica. age-worn
and wrinkled but resolute, moaned as
she sat sewing with the kindly neigh
bcrs.
"Patienxa, patienza." she admon-
ished the younger woman. who
knows what may be. This country ia
not Italia, no. But It 10 a rich coun.
try. an big, YER big. Every country
nseda mooch people. There can be no
men an no women without mothers
without babies. Soma day II will be
law IN this country to give poor moth
era enough money to care up those
babies. Then those mothers can
nurse their bambini to grow up big
en- strong. An those babies will not
die. no!
Madonna mia, tbs hard. hard. that
q mother has no time to hold her own
bambini In her arms in this rici.
country. II 10 like selling those little
cnes to maka forty-hve cents day"
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kespino Faith.

~ sYeo-we got two good loads OF sill
Dor-but look-it's the Captains
pass we've robbed"
n sWell-we kin leave his half OF the
lot light here instead OF havin' 10
FpDlit with him at Moneys. From
The Detroit times., 1913-05-17

r$F.s.~ Peculiarly
b Popularity consists mainly OF allow
jnG yourself to be bored once In a
1lle.-I
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
Human Hand Mun1n1fied BY
Magnetism of a Physician

ION the 30th day the result was so in
teresting that we thought it useless TO
operate more than once a day for five
minutes each, which reduced the total
daily treatment to 10 minutes.
But with my clients / even completely
neglected the object of the experiment for
"A hours, and it did mo harm. The eff
feet had already been produced. It re-
suited, / believe. from the energy we had
exerted in those first days.
THE hand was not surrounded with any
special precautions; 1t merely remained
uncovered day and night on the laboratory
table for the first nine days. On the 10th
day I put over 1t between treatments a
metallic cage to keep off the flies. The
hand was never put into the laboratory
cupboard; access to the room was forbid
den to my patients and servants by sim-
ply locking the door.
Several times the hand was handled
more roughly than it should have been.
When 1t was photographed a string was
tied to 1t to hang 1t up by; once, even.
1t was exposed TO the rain, but It did not
suffer at ALL"
And at the end of two months the hand
was quite mummihed
The photographs of the hand, taken on
March IS, the 18th day of the treatment
and of DR.. Durville magnetizing" it, were
given by DR. Durville to the Paris CORE
spondent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

At the Congress OF Experimental Psy-
chology, which met In Paris in March,
says the New York World, DR.. CASTOR
Durville exhibited a human hand which
he said he had mummified by the simple
process of 'magnetizing' 1t with passes
of his own hands. The hand two months
after being cut off showed not one sign Of
decay, but had seemingly dried up. No
preservatives had been used-nothing but
magnetism" exerted by DIR. Durville and
two assistants.
II this extraordinary procedure should
be verified by rigid scientific investiga-
tion 1t would mean that by the mere
laying on of hands, wounds could be
preserved from infection. meats and other
foods could be kept without the use of
any preservatives, bodies could be en-
balmed without embalming fluid.
The Annales des Sciences Psychiques
for August and October 1912. gave details
of similar experiments with plants and
small animals that had been made by
certain Mime. X, at Bordeaux, and veri.
fed by three reputable physicians. 1t was
as a result of these that DR.. Durville tried
lne process upon a. nuHldH manu-.
In his address to the congress DR.. Dur
VILE said the hand was brought to him
on January % by a fellow practitioner,
who told him 1t was that of a man who
had died OF asphyxiation by gas and it
had been lying for three weeks in a re-
frigerator. 1t is known that the bodies
of the aspilyxiated decay very rapidly
and that the sudden removal of. a piece
of flesh from a freezing to a normal tenn
perature is followed by swift decay. These
conditions made the test an exceptionally
difficult one. Besides 1t was a very
feshy hand, Weighing 41ots grains.
But DIR. Durville was not dismayed He
put the hand on piece of paper on his
laboratory table and persuaded two of
his assistants in psychic work to help
him. His description OF the treatment is
as follows:
During the first few days, whenever
one of us had a moment Of liberty, he
went to the laboratory and magnetized
the object To do this he extended his
hands over it at about six inches dis
tance-what magnetizers call an 1mposi-
tion-making slow passes from the sew
cred wrist to the tips of the fingers.
The operator concentrated his attention
and his will upon the end to be attained.
Did will power help the operation? l do
not know. Subsequent experiments will
clear up this mystery.
Each of US, as I have said, during the
first few days. came to influence the hand
as soon as he had a free moment. Thus
for six days each Of us devoted about
three quarters of an hour daily TO it,
"Reginning with the seventh day, hav-
ing made certain thae the hand was still
without the least odor. we began less to
fear the final result and TO operate for
shorter periods. After the tenth day we
each gave the hand two treatments Of
about 10 minutes. making in ali about one
hour a day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

in which he had engaged. afamriov had
been borrower from the bank The
banker called on aamriov to pay up.
Mamriov could not. but Mamriov could
lend to him money of the people who
were depositors in Mamriov's bank on Sc
curity that WAS worth about / cent on
the dollar Mamriov did So Then sone-
thing happened in Wall street. Stocks be-
gan to tumble and when they tumbled a
lot some one began TO hint that certain
banks were not as sound as they ought
to be.
The big banker down town had to get
more money from Mamriovs bank and
Mamriov had to borrow some more from
the big mans bank It was ridiculous.
Each man was weakening the other in
mad effort to strengthen himself. Mean-
while. they prayed for the Wall street
storm to abate.
Disturbances in Wall street have far
reaching effects. The contracts for build
ing that subway are put off several years
as a consequence. Mamriov, who had
worked up the public to having an appe-
tite for that Bronx land. suddenly found
there was desire for it. Most of his
money was in that enterprise. He had
borrowed freely to carry on the various
other things in which he was engaged.
The notes were nearing maturity. Near
ly everything he was connected with
would work out all right If he only could
hold on until the financial situation was
normal again. But how could he get
money? Banks were protecting only their
old friends.
He went about sounding cautiously for
money. Some of the bankers he ap-
preached were sympathetic and would
help II they could. Some held out hope
and then cautiously spread the word along
the bank line that he was In deep water.
One banker who had q real friendship for
Mamriov suggested that he go to Barzo.
president of the Hungarian-American
Finance and Trust company. He is one
of the klndestmen In the world said he.
Mr.. Barzo read the note of introduce
ton Mr.. Mamriov presented and listened
attentively while the visitor talked. Mann
riov hid nothing, but when he finished
Barzo shook his head Mamriov thought
the security he offered was not sufficient,
and said he was willing to give up any
thing or everything he had if Barzo would
come to his rescue.
Me no want" Barzo replied.
Something in the words and the man.
ner of Barzo made Mamriov vince.
Without realizing it he asked Barzo what
1t was he had said.
Me no want" Barzo repeated.
Mamriov's memory was stirring. He
reached for his hat. tHave l ever met
you before, Mr.. Barzo?" he inquired.
"once-at Ellis Island" replied Barzo.
IT was interpreter there"
"oh. said Mamriov. in a low voice.
IF it's any interest to you" said Bar
20, that girl didn't go back. She is Mrs.
Barzo now"
And that Is one of the reasons Mann
riov's banks did not open their doors the
next morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

With his wealth growing daily Mamriov
sought to enjoy the good things of life.
He had felt that his wife might consider
her fathers money played some part in
making him suitor for. her hand, so he
went to some pains to live so well and
surround her with such luxuries that she
would have reason to look back upon her
former condition as ordinary in compar-
ison. She was pleasure loving, light
hearted creature and was happy in get
ting all the joy out of life that money
could buy.
The more money some men make the
more they want TO make. It was SO with
Mamriov. When he was SO he was rated
as millionaire. The active man who
has a million dollars and wide credit on
the reputation of having that amount
can turn over lot of money in the
course of a year. Mamriov was ready
for anything good that promised profit
His name was worth something to an en-
terprise. To keep track of hts affairs he
had TO have a private office that took
up half the floor of a big skyscraper and
he had as many clerks as usually are em-
side of his friends no one could get au-
dience with him except by appointment.
After a while Mamriov tired of ordinary
deals. An idea had been developing in his
mind for months and he determined to act
on it. Quietly--so quietly and cleverly
that no one discovered his purpose until
he was ready to disclose 1.-THE set to
work to get possession of the biggest
tract of undeveloped land obtainable In
the Bronx on the line of a proposed sub
way. He had early knowledge of the
route the commissioners would approve.
He made sure of that. He was not Of
the type to rush in blindly in such mat
ters. When his purchase was announced
and the insiders learned the price at
which he had obtained the land they were
astonished He had a bargain-a great
one-they all agreed to that. 1t was in
evitable that there would be a great ap-
probation In value with the coming of
rapid transit.
Like prudent man, Mamriov prepared
to put his property into condition to get
the most out of 1t when contracts for the
digging of the subway were let He had
to borrow freely to buy the land. He
had to spread considerable money too,
on a preliminary advertising campaign,
for he wanted to get some money In while
the work of development was under way.
This development was very costly Streets
had to be cut through and brought to
grade, sewers laid, sidewalks, curbs and
cutters built and multitude of other
things done. He had 1t all figured out
and proceeded according to his pro-
gramms. He could see a profit Of from
sS.Oo0,0OO to s6,Ooo,OOo in the whole transac-
tion. Nothing could be safer than New
York real estate, Mamriov never was
more serene, never more powerful.
1t is odd how thinGa suddenly go wrong
for a man all at once. One OF the big
bankers down town who had smiled on
Mamriov had been Juggling with the
banks money in some wild speculation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

KNOWS social conditions in this country
If any man does Sims showed and had
the testimony of innumerable high con-
stables to prove that women of the poorer
classes with babies in their arms. spent
practically the whole day in the public
house, and kept their infants quiet, mean
time by drugging them with gin. Chill
dren, too, were the favorite messengers
when drink was required, but the pas
sage of the act has made it illegal to use
kiddies' in this way.
That the children's charter, as it has
been named. makes for the public well
fare all round there is not the smallest
question" added Thomson, "but it made
the brewers intensely angry, and they
have been fighting tooth and nail, to get
1t repealed even since. In fact, one of
their best questions for parliamentary
candidate who seek the support of the
trade Is, Will you oppose legislation in
tended to restrict trade rights? this re-
ferring to the children's act and nothing
else. The arguments they put forth
against 1t, however, are weak enough
They maintain for instance that it is
great hardship that father who is out
for walk and wants a drink, should
have to leave his children outside the
public house. instead of taking them into
the bar with him, as he was able to be-
fore"
Generally speaking, what progress is
temperance making in Great Britain?'
was then asked
Great Britain is growing more temper
ate slowly, but surely was the reply,
though, of late, it must be confessed,
the decrease in the consumption of spirits
has to be attributed rather to the in
creased duties that have been placed on
spirits than to any general tendency to-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06
BY. HAYDEN CHURCH

ward abstemiousness. To realize the
ward temperance, one must go back 80
Years, say to 1874 In that year the con-
sumption per head of the population, re-
duced to gallons in regard to beef and
pints in regard to spirits was, beer 1884
gallons, spirits 1000 pints and wines 4.24
pints, whereas last year the figures were
been 27.S6 gallons, spirits 5.44 pints, wine
2 pints. The average expenditure per
head for liquor In 1872 was s17.5O, and per
family of five $3.50, which is an improve
ment on the preceding year when the ex-
penditure was SIS per head and roughly,
$50 per family.
"Our drink bill remains an appalling
thing continued Thomson" amounting
last year to sS07. 1861 500 as compared with
yours in the United States of, roughly,
s45o, 100000. This sum, which is half as
large again as the receipts of British
railways and quarter as large again
as the annual value of all the private
dwellings in Great Britain and which
makes the sums that the United King
dom spends on its army and navy seem
insignificant, represents a decrease of
s6,2l9,45o as compared with 1911 and l wish
we could claim this as a result of the
work that we and others have done in
the cause of temperance. AS matter of
fact, however, the credit for this decrease
belongs mainly to the present chancellor
of the exchequer, MIR. Lloyd-George, who,
in his famous budget of 1909, made a
heavy increase in the licensing duties in
this country, which. however, even now
do not compare with those levied in the
United States.
ut is an astonishing fact Thomson
added. that the gigantic monopoly
valued at sl5o,ooo,ooo, formerly contrib
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-07-06

uted only e2,OOO,00O and even now contrib
utes only f4,OOO,OOO to the revenue. In the
budget of 1909 Mr.. Lloyd-George placed an
additional tax of shillings and nine
pence, or roughly, 80 cents, on the gallon
of whisky, and this additional taxation
which, of course, had led to a correspond
ing increase in the price of spirits. has re-
suited in a decrease in consumption, in
the last four years amounting to about
Is, 100000 gallons The records show, too,
that the national sobriety has been great
ly increased by this increased duty, the
convictions for drunkenness in England
showing a decrease of over per cent, and
in Scotland a diminution in cities of 20
per cent and in country districts of 10 per
cent.
The price of beer has not been in
creased as result of the enhanced du-
ties observed the speaker, sententiously,
''the brewers having discovered means not
only of making Che consumer pay the
whole Of the tax, but a huge sum in ad-
dition They have done this by ffie simple
expedient of charging money for water.
In other words, they have lowered the
gravity to the extent of 16 barrels of wa
ter to every 1000 barrels of beer. thus en-
abling them to produce, free of duty in
England and Wales, over 100000 more
barrels of beer than they could have pro-
duced out OF the same materials had the
previous gravity been maintained, and
the retail price obtained from the public
for this quantity was well over 100000 900.
The additional beer duty and brewer S
license duty, on the other hand, did nes
exceed e19,oOo,Ooo, leaving large balance
to the credit of additional taxation ac-
count In the books of the licensed trade.
Although the drink bill of the United
States is only lightly over half as large