The Washington herald., 1914-07-30
ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY.
BY q. o. MCINTYRE.

! Special corespondsnt Of The washinSton Herald.
! New York. July 29.-Rsuben Marquard
the weIl-known parent and pitcher. ID
met every day after the game at the
Polo round entrance by his wife, the for
mer Blossom Seeley. Mrs Marquard is
quite keen herself at the parlor game Of
repartee. The other day Rube sauntered
out to meet her after he had been given
a particularly good trimming which re-
suited in him being driven from the
mound.
Wei. my dear" ssid his wife. as a
pitcher I am firmly convinced that you
are the best father our young hopeful
has"
Fishing at the Waldorf is one OF tbs
lighter sports these humid days. Will
lam Evans. with a bamboo cane and a
Wad Of chewing gum for a hook. cana
near resulting in a successful catch Of
s., 900 speckled and iridescent dollars the
! other day. What It did finally result in.
however. was William being collared by
painting patrolman and thrown into
one of our cute little dungeons. William
was silk-shirted. smartly straw-hatted.
and said he just came In from Boston
and was not at all sensitive about II.
Incidentally, he was out Of work. HA
saw the money and devised the scheme
and tried TO put II over when the lobby
was crowded with fashionably dressed
men and women. Just as he reached
through with the gummed cane and slap
ped it down on the roll Cashier Williams
saw him and gave a veil like a caliope
tuning up. Evans started To- sprint, but
he didn't get far. and perhaps II was
Just as well, as the day was warm and
they would have caught him In the end.
Anything can happen on Broadway.
Not that anybody cares, but II is a fact
nevertheless. The other day a deer was
found dead in the early morning hours
at Broadway and Thirty fourth street.
1t had been hit amidship by an unfeeling
autoist- No one knows exactly what the
deer was doing on the Great White Way,
tut IT is presumed it wandered over from
the Zoo Garden in the Bronx. Some
thing ought TO be done to make the park
Keep their deers home, as II is they are
liable to clutter up the streets with their
carcases.
Physicians are beginning to believe
that fear is the governing factor in the
majority Of ills. according TO DR.. ]. Tyke
Salisbury. of England. who arrived the
ONHeI ud9 10 STUDY american ways ana
methods. The doctor tells of a young
factory worker in Manchester. his home
city. coming to him with all the symp-
toms of ivy poisoning. The lad told OF
companion striking him with a twig Of
leaves and declaring that the leaves were
deadly poison. An investigation showed
that it was nothing but an apple tree
branch, but the boys intense fear had
evidently brought about the symptoms
DR.. Salisbury will visit the Temple of
Health in Kansas City. Mo-, where fear
has long been recognized as a strong
factor in disease. The institution begins |
the moment the patient enters the door
to quiet his fears and place him in a |
receptive state of mind so essential for |
recovery.
Bellevue Hospital in New York has also |
made some interesting experiments in re-
moving the fear of patients and record |
ing cures more quickly than in the ordi- |
nary way of treatment
Mrs. Mary Filing is the widow OF a !
former alderman and high up Tammany |
leader. Her fortune Is estimated to be |
large and substantial. yet the other day
her beautiful home on East Fifty-seventh |
street was raided by the police and a |
crowd OF en1aciated cocaine fiends were
sitting about in a stupor. Information |
had come to the police that Mrs Filing
was distributing the drug on a large
scale by a hend who, his nerves gone
from lack of drugs, told the whole story.
Mrs. Filing II the police are to be be-
lieved is the Queen OF Coke Sellers"