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WHATS CUTEST
ThINc YOUR TOT
EVER HAS SAID7

Editor The Star: Here 10 one OF
che cute things one Of our children
oaId:
havs been always very careful
with matches, and always told my
children not to touch them.
One day my little girl, s years
old, came running up to me say
Ing: "Oh, mamma, | found two
live matches on the hoorl" (Mesn-
Ina they had not been burned.)
MRS. s. 8. O.
Say, we haven't heard what
YOUR family "cutest" was yet.
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CHOOSE DELEGATES TONIGHT

Six hundred delegates to the re-
publican convention at the Armory,
June 10, are 10 be chosen tonight by
republicans Of King county at the
various precinctA
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BIG SNAKE ATTACKS
FARMER WITH AXE

DARETOWN, NJ. j.. June S.
Gilbert 8. shute. q Salem coun-
~ farmer, declares . sIs-foot
snake attacked him with his
own AK while he was AZ work
on his farm. Shute was trim
ming out fence corners. 90 no
says. when he stirred . white
throated blscksnaks. The snake
showed fight and shute hurled
an Ak At Its head. The snake,
he says, oolled around the han
die Of the AK and iunoed At him,
az and all. Shute killed the
snake with q fence stake.
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AN OBLIGATION

AN OBLIGATION
| g 4
Ef&3l'l''
Il am going TO Europe next
month"
But you have been there 80
often, and the trip In 10 expen-
sivo"
Il know. But n I don't 20 this
year people will think can't af-
ford II"
FIsHiN
BY Jim Nance
with hook and line
And can OF bait.
For flshln'
Can hardly walt
I'll cast my worm
And trust TO fate.
One lonely bite
viii sure feel great.
r. s.-Go on. you couldn't
catch cold.
Tho Bachelors Reason
A lady was asking a we'll.
known novelist. who 10 a bach.
sior. az TO the reason for HE
state OF eellbsey. Are you a
bachelor from eholee7" she
querled.
"Yes," came the answer with
dlseonocrtinp promptnsss from
the famous author.
But liant that--er--rsther I'm
gracious and unasilant7" protest.
ed the fair inauisltor. The nov
eilyt smiled.
"You must ssk the ladies'" he
suggested gently; "lt was their
choice, not mine"
Once in a while you viii hear
OF n chorus girl who doesn't
think che is better than the
prima donna aud you may also
run into 4 clerk who doesn't I'm
agino that he knows more than
the bons.
An. What Thsnf
She was crossing tho ocean for
the first time. One morning. as
the captain was standing near
her. she said
Pardon my ignorance. but
how do you manage TO find your
way across the tracklesa ocean,
by means OF tho compass.
madam" replied. tho gallant cap
tain ~Tha neefia Invariably
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A STAR WANT AID will
sell it quickly.
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son OF the Lubin scenario editor.
His home Ia at Glenside. Pa. and
Lawrence Brooks McCloskey Ia his
full title.
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Own your own home. It's
easy. Read the offerings in
STAR WANT ADS - then
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MRS KNuosEN. a member OF the AnslReean league Il
LATE ham
tSon but we against Lafcs recall
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PUT THE city cars on Fourth sv.l
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Woody IS going to the ticket
m Mayor Woody Of 6otheI Hos out for commissioner
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however, Is increasing. In 1912 674,555,
male and only 351 .S05 female immigrants
came into this country. The following
six months ending June 80, 1918. the
difference was even greater Then 49,
215 men and 190234 women entered the
United States.
The number of foreign women who
come to this country has always been
less than the number OF men. and the
immigration reports show that Il is
steadily and rapidly decreasing In pro-
portion to the number Of all immigrants.
The fear that woman suffrage will dou-
BILE the Immigrant vote"'is not founded
on conditions as they exist. Not only
Will this vote not be doubled when
woman suffrage comes but Il will be
greatly decreased In proportion to the
increase OF the native born repre-
sentation.
The people Of the country do not
seem to share with the New York
state Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage Its fears and dstrust of the
illiterate immigrant. The Sixty-second
Congress passed bill seeking to re-
strict immigration and therefore fu-
ture citizenship by llteracy test. There
was such a popular outcry against this
act that President Taft felt justified
In vetoing 1t. An interesting fact in
this connection. is that OF the totally
illiterate immigrants who were ad-
mitted to this country IN the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1918. 1S5,s72 were men
and s4,118 were women.
Apart from the immigrant voter, H.
literate and unacquainted with condi-
tions In America, II is difficult to de-
termine what exactly Is the ignorant
and therefore undesirable vote. IL de-
ponds entirely upon the point OF view
OF the person discussing the question.
A college professor versed In the class
les and a workingman too familiar
perhaps with the realities OF life would
differ surely as to which was the bet
ter fitted to vote.
II would seem also that the grounds
for believing that woman suffrage would
double the undesirable vote, whatever
1t may turn out to be, are inadequate.
In view of the education which the
State insists upon for its women as we'll
az its men; in view OF the great num-
Der of women who in addition to school
education have the training of a work.
| ing or business career in their youth
before marriage; in view of the activi-
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and help their mothers with the house,
keeping duties and the care OF the
younger children until they marry and
become housekeepers and mothers
themselves.
They have been through an appren-
ticeship which prepares them for the
duties Of their own lives. They become
the purchasers Of the country. They
spend in the markets and shops as
wisely as they can the wages or sal
aries Of their husbands. OF certain as
poets Of politics such women cannot be
considered ignorant. In the cities they
are familiar with all the conditions
which affect their homes and the lives
Of their children, conditions which are
In the hands Of politicians elected by
popular vote.
They know whether the food they
buy in the markets Is properly pro-
tccted by laws or city regulations. They
know even better than their husbands
the sort OF school and hospital to which
their children must 20. The parks and
Fairgrounds are also OF more interest
to them than to the fathers. II the
children are unruly and get into trouble
who would be so interested as the
mother In children's courts and the
methods Of reformation or punishment?
Not only does almost every municipal
regulation and the conduct OF all the
municipal departments have a direct
effect upon the family life, but the
woman at the head OF a household must
be interested also in many State and
Federal laws. The age OF consent, child
labor leglsla lion and mother's pensiona
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Mrs. Norman de R. Whitehouse Analyses Ants Argument
! That Woman Suffrage Would Double the Undesirable
Vote.-The Compulsory Education Law

This standard Of qualification would
exclude all those women Of great cul-
ture who have the leisure and perhaps
the desire to inform themselves on pub
lie matters--the very women who say
in a drawing room with such confidence
"Of course we educated women should
vote, but to double the ignorant votel"
BY This same standard, however. the
testimated) 5000. 900 or 100000 work.
ing women Of the country share with
men to the full that experience OF the
office. street, market, &C., which is con-
sidered so necessary for the training Of
the voter. As the entire female popu-
lation OF voting age in this country Is
about twenty-four and a half millions.
more than one-third OF them are already
qualified TO vote by the standard set by
those very people who are opposed to
all women voting.
II may be objected that a large num-
Der OF the workingwomen are under the
voting age: that they begin TO work
when they are IL or Is years old and
marry at about the age when they
would become voters. This Ia undoubt-
eddy true. But they have been pre-
ceded by women now OF voting age who
worked when they were minors and who
stopped only on marrying. They are
similarly succeeded by girls who will
work Ave or ten years and then retire
to a domestic life Of their own. All
this endless chain Of temporary work.
inFwomen, counting up In a generation
to many times nine millions. are having
the benefit OF that very training and
experience which alone, according TO
Mrs. Scott. can NJ the voter for the ex-
ercise OF his duty"
Miss Lucy J. Price. speaking against
woman suffrage at the Congressional
committee hearing in Washington. De-
cember. 1918, defined the ignorant vote.
which II Is so desirable not to double
as the vote that does not understand
what 1t IL voting about. The largest
OF all classes OF women Is the class who
neither go to college nor work. They
go to public school and perhaps to high
school. Afterward they live at home
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HISTORIC BANK TO MOVE.
Doatmen's Of 81. Louis Was Started
OF Years Ago without Capit.I.

ST. LOUIS. May ao,--Announcement has
been made That the Boatmen's Bank will
occupy It's new quarters In the Boatmen's
Bank Building on the northeast corner of
Broadway and Olive street In the early
fall The lease Is for twenty years at an
annual rental OF SIS 900. The bank Offices
viii occupy the greater part OF the first
and mezzanine floors.
The Boatmen's Is tho Oldest bank in
Missouri. and was organized In 1877 on the
savings plan, without capital. under the
name OF the Boatmcn's Savings Institu-
ton, at time when the river traf1o wac at
its height. in order to furnish banking facili-
ties to the rivermen. The bank was re.
organized In 1850 with a capital OF $50, 900
In 1873 stock dividend of 81, 900, 900 was
declared out OF earnings. and the bank
was reorganiyed as the Bostmen's Saving rs
Bank, with a capital Of o., 900, 900. In ism
the name was changed 70 the pcstmen' :
Bank The present capital. surplus and
undivided profits are 81 soo, 600, al OF which
has been earned except ssoo.oo which was
This bank has never. consolidated with.
financial Institution.
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they read them sitting at home after
their days work with perhaps as much
interest and attention as the man who,
jostled in the subway or elevated, reads
on his way home.
Nor can the farmers wife be consid-
cred Ignorant Of all that Affects her In
terests. She lives In closer intimacy
with her husband, and shares to the
full his fears and hopes OF the crops.
She, too. knows the condition OF the
country roads, the schoolhouse and the
means provided for the marketing of
the farm produce. She, too. Is the
spender Of the family money.
In the long winter evenings she
doesn't sleep while her husband reads
the paper. magazine or book brought
to the door by the rural free delivery
or travelling library. Truly the vote Of
the great middle class mother and
housewife In city or country could not
be the vote that does not understand
what 1t is voting about" when matters
of this sort form 80 large and important
i part Of politics.
II Il Is not the educated woman, nor
the working woman. nor the housekeeper
OF the poorer classes. Il can then only BE-
the immigrant woman who seems &c
justify the anti-suffrag!sts in their de.
sire to exclude all American women from
the vote.
Mrs. william Forse Scott. In the
pamphlet above referred to, says: 1--WE
maintain that the foreign immigrant
vote has already passed the limit OF
assimilation. That to add to Il the
hundreds Of thousands Of votes Of lift.
crate and unintelligent women woult
show a criminal disregard for American
institutions" II the anti-suffragists are
sincerely alarmed about American insti.
tutions. and II they believe that the i'm.
migrant vote has passed the limit o.
assimilation; let them then work fof
woman suffrage. II Is the only way Of
cutting down at once the percentage o.
the foreign born representation.
The census OF 1910 gives the proper
ton Of 1892 foreign born males to 10t
foreign born females. The disparity
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This IL one Of Uncle Nero's stories Just
as he gave 1t to Miss williams:
Uncle Nero.
Old Uncle Nero prides himself on his
Scripture name.
One day asked. Uncle Nero, where
does your name occur in the Bible?"
His wrinkled old black face assumed
an expression Of much self importance
as he answered:
Hit somewhat dar. missy. I reckon
hits swotchnated some'ers twixt de
| front cen an de back o. de good Book.
/ doan perzackly knows Jes whar. but
amt you nebber hyeered bout Nero
my Gawd TO thee'?'
| Uncle Nero is a relic OF ante bellum
days. He always wears d suit OF clothes
much too large for his withered little
bent frame. This Is due to the fact that
his wardrobe Is provided from the cast
OF wearing apparel Of his "w'ite folks"
the family to whom he used to belong
10 de wah."
He believes in graveyard rabbits,
"goses" GHOSTS and "ha' nts."
While seated on the back steps Of our
kitchen door waiting for .Clndy. his
wife. to finish washing the supper
dishes, old Uncle Nero was in his usual
story telling mood.
In the dusk OF the Southern twilight.
as his faded eyes rested on the tall dark
pines beyond the cotton fields at the
rear of the house, his thoughts reverted
to "g'oses."
| Does l b'lieve In g'oses chile? Case
does. case. Use done seed a sho nun
ha'nt.
"One night long TO done morry
Cindy ] was walkin' by myself an
done got los In de woods. / had my
dawg wild me an all at onct sumpin
come runnin' by me lax pun o. steam
De dawgs eyes git big es plate an he
bristle all up and 20 'roo-r-r-r.'
Den TO Gawd. chile, seed RICH,
in front o. me n thing whut look lax q
man wild a wife sheet on an widout
no haid an a-standin' bout two foot
Off de groun'. Dat thing come a-rollin
down de road laughin' sorter creep,
LAX.
HE. he, he! He, he. he!'
II git down on my knees an pray, blu,
de prar nebber done me no good da
time.
II git up an lit out fer my home
but dat thing done outrunned me an
wus in de cabin time I git dar.
Hit wus a-rollin' an a-rollir' roun
de room an a-sayin': 'wednesda,
night! Thursday night. Friday nigh
mo rest fer mel
81 say to de thing eff dee wus any
thing in de house he want ef he nam
hit he could hab hit. Den he done tut
into a black cat wild eyes lax balls G
fer. He Quvil his tail up In de ar an
shine his eyes.
II had my gun an tuck 1t up o,
my shoul'er an shoot.
Den 70 dc Lawd, 'Whifr. whifY!' d
cat spit out de bullets.
MY hyar riz up on cen. Ny hyar'
nappy. but de maps dee riz. put dow
de gun an tuck to my heels. wen
out'n dat window. sash, pane an all, ar
my dawg went wild me-
II nebber wushed so bad in my lii
dat had wings. I ruined an runne
til I git to de wife folks house. ar
when i git dar I done fell In de bac
do, stretched out an tainted. Dis oil
niger sho b'lieves In g'oses, chile!"
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; vIRA BoARMAN wnITEHousE,
anti-suffragists say

TINE anti-suffragists say tina,
women shouldn't vote because
the ignorant vote would thereby
be doubled.
This objection seems to mean mar y
things IN the minds OF the anti-suffra-
g.sts.
Undoubtedly there are people who
believe that women az "a class are less
educated than men and therefore un-
desirable as voters These people may
be reminded that the State makes edu-
cation compulsory for girls as we'll as
for boys up to the age Of IA. After the
end OF the common school, or the COM
pulsory education period. the State pro-
vides high schools for all who can and
will attend them. One-third more girls
than boys graduate from the high
schools Of the country. In New York
State. although the proportion is less
(about $4,000 girls to $1,000 boys), 1t is
still greatly in favor of the girls.
II is only fair to Judge OF the educa-
ton Of the future voters by their at
tendance at the public schools. as 80 per
cent Of the population is educated in
this way. When 1t comes, however. TO
colleges the women do not lag behind.
Forty-four per cent. OF the college de-
grees CA. b. were taken by women in
1910 and the proportion is constantly in
creaslng. They are also carrying off a
large percentage of college honors. As
far as scholastic education, through
school, high school and college, has a
value, the women Of this country are on
the whole even better fitted to vote than
the men.
In the opinion Of some anti-suffra-
gists, however. education In schools and
colleges Is not the sort OF experience
that makes of n man or woman the
right kind Of voter. Mrs. william Forse
Scott, In pamphlet issued by the New
York State Association Opposed to
Woman suffrage. says that only by
life in the office. street. market ana shop
does the voter get the training which
fits him in some degree for the exercise
OF his duty"
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TIME popularity Of the old Southern
darby tales and songs con-
,inues undated II one may
judge from the size and n'husi-
asm OF the audience that gathered In
the green room of the Waldorf-Astoria
recently to hear Miss Louise Alice Will
Jams of Atlanta. Ga, in series OF
plantation negro sketches.
Attired in an old fashioned. much be-
ruffied gown Of the hoop skirt period,
an heirloom once worn in her own
mothers young eirlhood. Miss Williams
was fitting medium To convey TO her
audience pictures of the South. She
touched the Imagination with the vision
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Young Woman From Georgia Amusing
Northerners With Folk Tales of the South

OF an old black face In the setting Of a
bright red kerchief. waited across the
senses the perfume OF magnolias and
recalled the tinklng of fiddle pulslng
through the stiffness of n hot Southern
night.
Miss Williams has twice entertained
Presidential families at the White
House che Taf,s and the wilsons) and
has obtained countrywide note in per-
petuating the memory OF the old black
nanny and the slow footed. tale tell
ing old uncles Of Dixie. Her first in
Productions 10 New York were through
the Nirginians and the Dixie Club. be-
fore each Of which organizations she
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recited her original cabin stories.
Among the patronesses Of her appear
ance at the Waldorf were the Princess
Pierre Troubetskoy. Mrs. Algernon sgd
ney sullivan, Mrs. Benjamin ~ Duke.
Mrs. ]. ID. Beale. Mrs. James Henry
Parker. president of the New York
Chapter OF w. ID. c.; Mrs Henry Pear
son. president Of the Dixie Club; Mrs.
\. NJ. Anderson. Mrs. Leroy Broun and
Mrs. Harvey Fisk.
Miss Williams contemplates soon
bringing out u collection of ghost sto-
ries. folklore tales and plantation
songs gathered from one old negro in
the South who Is called Uncle Nero
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XIII Big Game With Arrows

ATcHIsoN. Kan. May 80 When I'd Jack'
son and j, NJ. Challiss. lawyers. OF TINS
city, go hunting they do not equip them
and vel! stocked au!yers. They bring
home the game too. On a recent trip 10
the Northwest these archers killed iarse
and the bows are 30 strong they would
drive an arrow into the body OF buffalo
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Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Robert Silk, who
recently returned from trip through
Canada. sail tomorrow for Europe, where
they will spend the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs Lincoln Rae Peabody and
their daughter. Miss Constance Endicott
Peabody. OF 333 West End avenue, left
yesterday for Europe They will spend
June in London. and in July and August
they will motor through England. Scot
land and Wales. The month OF Septem-
Der they will spend at st. Moritz. They
spent the greater part OF May at their
country place in Beverly. Mass. which
they have rented for the summer to for
mer President Taft.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Parker have
closed their house. "a East Sixty-second
street. and gone 10 their country place at
Hollywood, n. j. for the summer.
Mrs. Frederic william, Waller of West
Eighty-fourth street saileS 60 Saturday
FOR Europe TO spend the summer Mr..
and Mrs. Darwin Walter Truss gave a
good by party for her on Thursday at their
home. col West il5th street. The guests
were entertained at auction bridge.
Mr. and Mrs George Harold Wood and
their daughter Miss Charlotte Wood. will
close their apartment at ego West 10th
street about the middle OF June and 90
to their country home on Staten Island.
They will 20 TO the mountains in August.
Mrs. James d. Mortimer has returned
from trip to French Lick Springs to her
apartment at the Apthorp.
Mr.. and Mrs. William GratE Of <ol West
End avenue left last week for Europe 10
spend the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs Andrew Dougherty OF 10
West Fifty-fifth street left yesterday for
Europe. They expect to he away four
months and will spend most of that time
In France and Germany.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Robinson Simons
have closed their apartment at s75 Park
| avenue, and are established for the sum
| mer at Wyndemoor, their place at Say
vile. l.. !,
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Friedman Of
2SS0 Broadway. accompanied by Mr. and
Mrs. j. Friedman OF $50 West Eighty
| eighth street, have gone abroad for Q
motor trip on the Continent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis J. p. Somerville will
open their cottage at Arverne this week
| 'hNy feHiain tHere until III tho
| autumn.
Mr., and Mrs. S. Henry Phillips OF i27
| West Eightieth street have opened their
cottage at Far Rockaway, l.. J., for the
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry L. Haas and Mrs
Louis Haas are settled for the season at
their cottage at West End, N. J.
|
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Fletcher Hollen-
der OF 226 West l29th street, Who are at
their place at North Asbury Park. enter.
tained a party OF friends from New York
on Decoration Day with bridge.
Mrs. Floyd Stewart CorbIn Is spending
a few weeks at Lake George and saranac
Lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Meyers and their
daughter Miss Bessie Meyers, OF ISL RiV'
erside Drive, were among those sailing
last week for Europe, They will remain
abroad until late In the fall.
Mr.. and Mrs. stephen Farrelly OF lNs
West Fifty-eiFhth street sailed last week
for Europe. They were accompanied o
their daughters, the Misses Farrelly
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MoSTGoMRRy. Ala. May so.-Althoush
he has appealed 10 the Supreme Court
for new trial. Lewis johnson, negro
under sentence for the murder OF W H.
Underwood. Montgomery county plaWs,'
Is preparing for death, johnson IL
preacher and was arrested while bap-
ti2ing lot OF negroes. His baptism was
not sufficient to meet the demands OF ms
conscience and he was baptized again
by a negro preacher.
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Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Friedman Of
2sS0 Broadway. accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. Friedman OF $50 West Eighty
eighth street, have gone abroad for Q
motor trip on the Continent.
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Mr. and Mrs. S. Henry Phillips OF i27
West Eightieth street have opened their
cottage at Far Rockaway. L. J., for the
summer.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Louis J. =. Somerville will
| open their cottage at Arverne this week
They will remain there until late In the
autumn.
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Mr.. and Mrs. William Robinson Simons
have closed their apartment at 375 Park
avenue, and are established for the sum
mer at Wyndemoor, their place at Say
willie, l.. ].
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Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Fletcher Hollen-
der OF 226 West l29th street, Who are at
their place at North Asbury Park. enter
tained a party OF friends from New York
on Decoration Day with bridge,
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Mr.. and Mrs. Harry L. Haas and Mrs
Louis Haas are settled for the season al
their cottage at West End, N. J,