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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
DECEMBER 9
Emma Abbott WethereI
By MARY MARSHALL.
DECEMBER 9
Abbott WethereII


BY MARY
One of the most brilliant of Ameri-
can singers, Emma Abbott Wetherell,
was born on December 8, probably in
the year 1850 She was born in Chi
cago and from her earliest girlhood
she was taught to sing to her own
accomplishments ON the guitar. Her
father was poor music teacher and
he and his promising daughter used
to go about through Illinois giving
parlor entertainments. After the per-
Torrance Emma would pass her faith
er's hat for contributions. It was at
one of these unpretentious musicals
that the great singer and patron of
music, Clara Louise Kellogg, heard
Miss Abbott sing and through her
influence she came to New York to
NIL the post of soprano singer in
large church. The congregation for
whom she sang raised the first money
$40, 000--with which she began her
musical education abroad.
One of the members Of the con-
gregation for whom Miss Abbott
sang, Eugene Wetherell was ap-
pointed to collect this purse for the
young singer He happened to know
her better than the rest, perhaps be
cause he CHANGED to live in the same
boarding house. Miss Abbott received
the gift with great gratitude and
went Immediately to Paris She en-
gagged the best instructors and pro-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The Romantic Story in Statistics

was superintendent of the census in
the decade following the Civil War.
Dry as 1t would appear to most per-
sons to be, yet the labor of collecting
statistics of the kind which the
Census Bureau under my first admin
lstratlon did collect was, for me, a
fascinating work
Almost everybody thinks of figures
ana statistics as something very dry.
Well, they may be dry or NAV be
made fascinating. When I was in
Europe I hunted up the report OF the
great speech delivered by Gladstone
when he explained his budget a <
chancellor Of the excheouer to par
Lament. / was then for the first time
impressed with the fact that figures
may contain romance. history and
even poetry.
nave been looking forward to the
census work with a great deal of in
lerest. have learned how to read
between the lines of statistics. I can
take batch of figures-for instance
those which tell of the growth Of
farm property in the United States
and can work out from those figures
a great deal of the story of our agri-
cultural development. 7 can see the
expansion of railways over uninhab-
tied prairies. | can picture to myself
the onward rush of the pioneers and
the heroism with which they pressed
ahead
II can read in the statistics much
OF the wonderful story of the re-
cuperation of the United States after
the enormous total losses caused by
the expense of the Civil War.
was expecting to find in the figures
of this eighth census the unfolding OF
some new or wonderful drama of our
American life. All that will be de-
MED me If | resign. want to say
| one thing, however. and that is that
! IL were in authority over the Amer
can education system and had ade-
quate financial support would make
the census reports of the United
States one of the leading text books
In the schools. For, with a compe-
tent teacher who possessed the gift
of imaging forth the wonderful story
that is in recent statistics the great
est and most valuable of object les
sons would be given to the young
men and women of America For il
would teach them of the growth of
this country and the reasons for it,
Copyright. 1918, by f. j. Edwards.
All rights reserved
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell of
General Logan's Four-Day Speech. .
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09

One vary warm evening in the
spring of 1881 | met General Francis
A. Walker on Fourteenth street, near
the corner of New York avenue. in
Washington. He was walking with
no leisurely pace. He seemed not to
mind the excessive heat of that early
ly clad, having on light
coat of "a quality which
gained great popularity thirty years
ago, and which was called seersucker,
He recognized me and stopped me.
He asked me where ] was going, and
when | had told him that / had fin
ished my evenings work and was on
my way to my hotel he said:
Come and have light supper
with me at Wormley's."
No urging was required, for in the
first place, Wormley's was esteemed
at that time as by far the best of
the caterers in Washington, and, COL
ored man though he was, Mr.. Worm
ley was the proprietor of a hotel
called by his name and patronized
by men and women of wealth who
wanted the best service and the best
table. Furthermore. | knew that
General Walker, while in no sense a
WIS d SOuIluSl Llc hiSW
what good cooking was, where to get
it, and what delicacies were in sea-
son.
He said to me: "'The reed-birds
are just now fat, very delicious and
of excellent flavor. Wormley knows
how to cook them to perfection. Come
with me and we will have a feast
fit for Lucullus."
In due time the reed birds OF a
size about equal to an English wal
nut were brought on. l knew the mo-
ment that General Walker tasted the
first of these delicate morse!s that he
was content.
He then confided to me a secret
He said
II shall probably be compelled to
resign my place as superintendent OF
the census. | have under considera
ton an offer which appeals to me
greatly and which viii give me a
life work at a handsome salary
Later this statement was confirmed
for it was announced that General
Walker had been offered and had ac-
cepted the presidency of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology
II will tell YOU" said General
Walker, why l hesitate somewhat
about a favorable consideration OF
the proposition which has been made
to me. You know. of course, that
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
THE GREAT QUESTION COST OF LIVING

THE ONE supreme dominating question of the day the
ceson of the high living Most of the great problems
vi the nation relate Trusts currency farmers credits con-
of the natural cooperation cold storage etc.
ali have to of life And that question is
the thought of the American people, for it belongs to
their daily embraces all of their domestic economy
And yet question all at sea- yet as we are
indeed great questions But beginning to
some light the American people coming
the fact that their best of deveance is an
organized cooperation The boycos in different cities one
plan cooperation by farmers is another And
agricultural Ireland supposed to be backward farmers are
we'll organized command the sale of their products
While the cooperative purchasing societies OF British
of the world for the magnitude of
their operations and their wonderful the example has been
upon who might readily
per purchase of their necessares by adopting the
simple organization that enrols multitude of the
British Isles.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
The Attack on Prof. Wiener
o the Editor OF the Evening star:

To the Editor of the Evening Star.
Sir-The beast" that Judge Ben
Lindsey is fighting in Denver has
poked It's snout into the editorial
columns of the Sunday Call of De-
cenber z.
Five long paragraphs placed in the
most important part of that paper
are devoted to yelled attack upon
Professor William Wiener, of the
Central High School. The motive
is hidden one, made farcicaI by the
point of attack, upon the veracity of
Professor Wiener's weather reports.
THE matter is of serious moment,
locally" the Sunday Call explains.
It is more than of serious moment.
II is of vital interest to the people 70
find out who is on the trail of Pro-
fessor Wiener, and who is hindering
him in his work.
1t is time for the people to realize
that Professor Wiener is at the head
of one of the most important institu-
tons of learning in this city, and
that instead of receiving the CO.
operation from the necessary quar-
tiers he is working with his hands
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
soIrrH IERsEY MOVING ON THE FISH TRUST.

SOUTH JERSEY shore communities have caught the no"
aroused spirit against fish trust domination OF e
Jersey seacoa fisheries organized move upon eno
~ he made this winter the necessary legislation Inc
r+s extending to Cape May have put out of employ
cnt manv hundreds handne fishermen and have done
injury TO the summer robbng the ocean front OF n
which had important attraction for guests from inc o
the same time the hotels and boardnghoueS
which could be supplied cheap prices fresh from the
sea are compelled pay prices and as rule take co
storage fish.
With interest in view North and ooutn Jersey Can
make winning fight Legislature TO destroy the foreign
ononov power taken possession OF the whole ocean
front placed heavy New Jersey fish for the consumer TO
nav and shut out and the native fishermen from
natural privileges that belong them by right Even in Mon
tb county where the people and where the
cmssaes have manipulated politics to keep the
trust secure legislative interference there is an awakening
that bodies i'll in that county
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
PUTTING IDEAL INTO PRACTISE

much that they become unsanitary,
and often found to lack expected
merit and quality without reduction
in price.
Shop early and have comfort in
travelling from and to your home by
securing a car seat, and while in the
stores and on the streets the pleasure
of the freedom found in the absence
of the surging crowd.
You. will avoid the foul congested
air wherever you go. conserve your
health and energy, create satisfied
mind force, to give better attention
to your purchases, secure q more
careful delivery and mako of your
Christmas shopping labor of joy
You will go home fully contented,
that so far as you have been able to
shop before December 20 you have put
into practise the ideal of doing unto
others as you would wish that they
should do unto you.-Providence
OR. ID Tribune.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
EDITORIALS BY THE PEOPI E

tied behind him. It is absolutely
necessary that free hand be given
MIN IN the work that he is doing: but
there are people actuated either from
pure jealousy, or from other personal
motives who are hindering him in his
work
Professor Wiener has practically
stood alone in the upbuilding of his
school. Whenever 1t was necessary
for him to get anything new for his
school he has had to fight for it. To-
day Central High School ranks
among the leading high schools of
this country and 1t is not due to the
Board of Education. either.
1t Is up to the people to see that
Professor Wiener Is given the full
support that he needs, and that he
is not hindered by any jealous per-
sons or mud-slinging papers. 1t is
UP to the people to see that politics
and personal prejudices are kept out
of the administration of their public
schools. 1t is up to the people to
recognize the beast" even when il
appears in the dignified dtorial col
umns of the Sunday Call under a
veil of hypocrisy. Respectfully yours,
SAMUEL GOLDBERG,
81 Charlton street.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09

The burdens of shopping fall heavi-
est on women housekeepers and fe-
male wage-labor, and upon women
depends the solution of the problem
of such Immediate interest as early
Christmas shopping"
Female wage-labor without organi-
cation is helpless, but with sympathy
and cooperation of their sisters, their
hardships can be lightened and their
rights fastened.
Mothers do not like to see their
children or sisters overworked, their
physical efficiency impaired, or dumb
driven animals exhausted, yet they
are the contributory cause for the
long evening hours of store labor,
under a strain humanely unjust.
economically unsound by not shop
ping early.
Early shopping means larger and
cleaner assortment of goods. a more
satisfactory purchase, with the avoid
ance of securing articles handled so
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crossed rapidly until one day she
woke to find her voice had left her.
In despair she went to the Baroness
Rothschild and so moved that gen.
erous lady with her tale that she gave
her thousand dollars to spend on
needed medical treatment for her
voice Then Miss Abbott cabled to Mr..
Wetherell and asked him to come to
Paris IL he still cared for her. Need
less to say MI. Wetherell, though he
was deep In business when the cable
gram came, lost no time in coming
to the aid of the distressed singer.
Within few months after he reached
Paris he and Miss Abbott We're Sc
cretly married.
Mrs Wetherell's voice soon returned
and her success from that time was
as brilliant as any ambitious singer
could desire. One of the first operas
chosen by her managers for her to
sing was La Traviata" and much to
everyone's surprise she refused to fill
the part on the ground that it was
immoral. This information was i'm
mediately flashed across the Atlantic
and greatly gratified the church
people who had started her on her
career. Her success, both financially
and unsteady, was complete. She is
said to have had the largest roper
toir of any singer singing opera In
English. She died in the prime of her
life when she was but forty-one.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09

Not long ago four man-eating hons
were caught by flypaper at the VII
lage of Gwalior India.
1t happened that the head man OF
The village was able to shut the four
lions up in hut into which they mad
ventured in search of prey. He kept
them thus barricaded for nearly two
weeks, no one being Wiling 10 at
tempt to capture them Finally ne
thought of scheme that proved as
successful as it was original.
He had thousands OF sheets of n.y.
paper spread on the ground before the
entrance to the hut. Then suddenly
the barricades were lifted and the
four lions came bounding out-into the
flypaper. OF course it stuck to their
paws, and. of course, when they tried
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
THE PERIL OF MOTORCAR TRAVEL.

ONE OF the serious of all the problems that
dons of life have brought upon the community the
and Secretary of State May of New York prompted by the National
Highway Protective Society urging Governor Gynn make it
subject of emergency message Legislature AS Mr. May
truly this of local interest The whole
State the ultimate guardian of public safety Better laws and
srcer enforcement demanded The increasing toll of death
will keep increasing multiply and the death record
appalling contemplate In legislation the subject the
of from should be subordinate
of the safety of human life.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
A WAR ON LYING BUSINESS METHODS.

MISUNDERSTANDING GOODS sale is only one form of
lying This vice of such general practise that it sappng
and it injury sorekeepers who
business principles and honesty their dealings The
of dealers who dishonest bats for trade
known, they exhibited business streets in
of bankrupt fire loss stock prices in
marked down from impossible former prices preposeous
goods below the value of the minimum figures and
other devices to misead the unwary
This nothing less than advertised swindng and
the criminal The Newark Advertising Mems
Club for the protection of legitimate business proposes
end in this city and has procured AS this
many there should be whole brigade of bust
hailed before the charges the practise
Of windng the public does disappear from business
Streets
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
ODDITIES IN TODAY'S NEWS
Falls, Collisions and Wreck All Fail
to XIII Man.

Falls, Collisions and Wreck All Fail
to XIII Man.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 81. e..
Trout is known among his friends as
"the man who cannot be killed" He
has had another narrow escape from
serious injury in his third mishap
within five years. His motorcycle
buggy ran into curbstone and was
reduced to scraps from which the
owner was extracted unhurt.
A few years ago Trout fell 40 feet
from the top of an office building upon
which he was working, crashed
through a sl<ylight and landed on his
feet. His injuries consisted of few
bruises and sprained ankle. His
second accident. happening about a
year ago, resulted in a broken arm.
Trout was somersaulted over a fence
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
Sea FOOD Ought 10 BE Cheap
ON the Portland Telegram.

From the Portland Telegram.
Fish, oysters and all the variety OF
crustaceans are more expensive to the
consumer in this market than they
ought to be. The supply of all OF
these is practically without limit. 1t
is truthfully said of more than one
community along the Oregon coast
that when the tide is out the table
is set" and that neat little epigram
describes the real condition as to the
availability of sea food IL there were
old-fashioned competition in the bust
ness of providing it, or at least of
getting 1t to market and putting it
before the city consumer.
To cultivate the oyster is not a diff
fieult nor an expensive business, and
the same is true of fishing, of clam
digging and crab-catch 1t is only
matter of the absorption of enor-
nous profits between the sea and the
consumer. There apparently is no OPP
portunity for the small man to break
into the business and deal directly
with tho consumer, without giving the
market man big .rake-off-so big,
in fact, that the price of oysters is
prohibitive except for the rich, and
shelfish and salmon and other va
rieties of the f1nny tribe are alto
gether higher than they ought to be.
Here again is where a properly con-
Quoted public market might offer the
chance for cheaper distribution. The
fish and oyster stalls in the public
markets at New Orleans and other
cities along the gulf coast are among
the best patronized in those markets,
because the sea food, owing ~ its
abundance, is cheap, and the market
dealers themselves handle the product
from the sea to the buyer. There is
no reason why similar products on
this coast should bring three or four
prices instead of one
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
dictionaries.

From the Philadelphia Press.
The dictionary is ceasing gradually
but surely To be an oracle. It's posi-
ton as such was never quite secure.
Even when Samuel Johnson first es-
sayed to set the standard of English
usage he had to encounter both SCOT
fers and Scotchmen; the scoffers or
ganized, the Scotchmen triumphed.
So that step by step, pushed forward
by the omnivorous industry of Ger
man scholarship and lured onward
by commercial competition, the die
tionary, unlike the proyerbial rolling
stone, has gathered much moss by
rolling-down hill. To cite from the
dictionary is now proof, not of the
correctness of a word or idiom or
pronunciation, but merely of it's eX-
istence.
A century of encyclopedias has ac-
complished this. When Diderot be-
gan his work his aim was 10 sys-
tematize knowledge parallel with n
given philosophy of things; today tNe
encyclopedia takes, with Bacon. ''all
knowledge for his province" The die
tionary has followed closely behind.
The gain, after all is ours. Stand
ards are now set and disputed in a
separate place assigned to them,
the dictionary gives us the whole
wealth of words from which to draw
at will. 1t would seem that the prin-
ciple of inclusiveness could scarcely
be carried beyond the position reached
today, unless to include the necessary
popular formations that must con-
tinue as long as the language lives.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
AND HOW ABOUT CHRISTMAS TREE PRICES?

is THERE combination in control of the supply of Christ
If there isn't sngulary exempt
conditions that make the people pay artificial prices for nearly
everything they supply
for New York city that large held the
and if sold destroyed the prices the market being
tanned figures for the loss This would indicate
combination And buyers told in the
complaint prices supply short
and trees are scarce.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
ORIGIN OF "CARMANIA"

took the place. and, raging at the
escape of his defeated rival with
three followers. ordered 10000 eyes of
the inhabitants to be brought to him.
He counted them with his dagger
point. and said to his minister. .If
one had been wanting. l would have
made up the number with your own
ewes :"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
Catching Lions with Flypaper

to lick it off it became stuck fast to
their faces and heads. The lions
forgot all about human be-
ings, and in their wild endeavors to
get rid of the flypapers, rolled over
and over on the ground. roaring and
fighting for breath. Then the head
man and his followers rushed forward
with long ropes, lassoed the plunging
lions and tied them up--hypaper and
all.-Dundee Advertiser.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09

Where did the great passenger
steamship Carmania get its name?
Well. kirman is a Persian province.
Its chief town, Kirman. also known
as Carmania, was the scene in 1896 of
one of the most terrible events even
in the history of Asia.
Agha Mohammed, founder OF >the
kajar dynasty. then besieged and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
CONsTITUnONALIsTs IN CHIHUAHUA.

WITH THE occupation of the city of Chihuahua by the
sutonass and the taking of capture
military with valuable urta brought step
the inevitable With unpaid army mostly
forced full discomfort sediton the
capital and with his Golfers empty the dictator will
face the victorious egons of Villa the of with
every prospect of final overthrow
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
.ReaI Men Wear NIustachcs."


From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Probably the Kaiser never said it,
but Berlin magazine which retails
society gossip says he said it, and
active American newspaper corre-
spondents have promptly cabled over
that the said magazine says he said
lit, wherefore the historic precedents
and possible implications and compli-
cations of the alleged saying become
proper subject for editorial COM
ment.
"a real man wears a mustache," is
the imperially attributed quotation
The implication is that with these
words the Kaiser indicated his dis
pleasure with those of his officers who
"Americanize" their faces.
How fashions changei Peter the
Great gave his officers the choice be-
tween beardless heads or no heads at
all. Bearded men were taboo. Pos
sibly Peter the Great anticipated the
modern germ theory which is per-
suading our physicians to abandon
the boards which were at once the or
nament and symbol of their profess
sion.
The Kaiser is on the wrong side of
the current tendency. And since
rulers no longer WELD the despotic
authority which changed the face of
all Russia while Peters whim held,
German officers will continue to shave
both lips while it pleases them to
do so.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09
into cabbage patch when his motor
cycle collided with a cat.

Wife Seeks Divorce Because Hubby
T1cklcs and Pinches Her.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 9.--rhat
her husband, Howard Macklin,
wealthy oil operator, was in the habit
of daily pipching and tickling her
until she was in state of exhaustion
were among the reasons advanced by
Anna K. Macklin for seeking a di-
vorce yesterday
In her bill Of complaint Mrs Mack
lin declares that her husband drank
to excess and that on many occasions
he had threatened to kill her because
she refused to submit to his pinch
ing and tickling, which she described
as his favorite way of "caressing'
her