The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-06
By Louis Ie Brun.)

| CBy Louis Le Brun.)
 New York, Dec. 6.-ElIis Parker But l Ter, who is as weary Of being intro
 duced at banquets as the author of
 Pigs Is Pigs'' as Ge1ett Burgess is of l being reminded of his authorship of 1 The Purple Cow" is now a, respected 1 and honored citizen of the rube-urb of | Flushing. where he is a. bank director
 as well as a nt'ry man. The famous
 hunnorlst is the leader in a new society
 Tor the suppression of poison ivy, and PWf1en he has succeeded in aboHshing | that crying evil he intends to take 8
 few sWats at the Ben Davis apple. The l auth celebrated his forty fourth birthday Friday, having been born on Dec. D. 1869, at Musca- tine, in the grand old State of I-o-way. l MT. Butler says he writes his stories very much as a cat has a fit. "A fe- 1 line" he remarks, seldom plans a fit 1 very carefully When it gots ready to | throw a fit, 1t goes ahead and does it l and gets 1t out of the system. Some times it is 8 perfectly good fit, ahd ometfmes it is an utter failure. On other occasions the cat thinks it is having the most glorious fit of its nine lives, but the fit critics call it a mighty
 poor imitation of a fit. Then again the cat is dissatisfied with it's fit, while
 the fit critics applaud 1t absolutely ! the best fit it has ever had. And that's the way it goes
 Bible Sunday will be celebrated to-
 morrow with a great meeting in Broad way Tabernacle, commenoratng the centenary of New York's first Bible so-
 ciety. The American Bible society, ] which was founded in 1916 and has it's offices in this city was the outgrowth of local Bible societies in New York and PhiEadelphia. Since it's organiza- ton the American society has distrib-
 srted nearly 100. .ooe, GOO volumes, printed
 in many languages and dialects.
 Marriage a Ia Broadway might be
 the title of a comed-or tragedy ?- based on the record of matrimonial in- fehcities and blasted romances brought to light by the recent Thompson ve. Thompson separation suit. Mrs Maude
 Thompson, the bride of a year, is the plaintiff. Her husband is Ralph '-Shor- ty'' Thompson, famous as Yale cox swain. He inherited fortune from his father a wealthy Syracuse man.
 ufacturer, and has long been promi- nent on Broadway as well as in New Haven The present Mrs. Thompson is No 3. Mrs "Shorty' No. 1 lived with her husband only a few weeks. Mrs Thompson No. had been a Mrs. woodruff, but at the time of her meet
 ing with MT. Thompson she was Mrs.
 Norman Selby No. 5. Mir. Selby is bet ter known as 'tKid Mccoy former middleweigat champion of the world and a Broadwayite of wide experience.
 He has visited the altar eight times, but that is another story. When the Yale coxSwain met Mrs. Mccoy No. 5, the boxer was away from home, and the pair decided to elope. They spent a year in Japan, and in the meantime
 MT. se1by, fearful that Nat Goodwin
 might beat his matrimonial record, se-
 cured a divorce and married again. The clipping pair were thus left free to wed but after a honeymoon in Europe
 Mrs Thompson secured g. divorce, and l married G. A. Wheelock, a retired
 booIznaaker residing in London MT Thompson then married his present wife, whom he met while she was Mrs. Seymour BI1et1er. MT Buet1er, a fla nous detective, had died, leaving his
 widow a comfortable fortune. The