The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-18
From Another
Point of VieW

The London newspapers in editori'
comment upon the Smelling OF q
cast towns. are impressed by the Lao
If terror ON the part OF the peopl
iowever, We prefer 10 wait and rea
What the Scarborough Gazette has
,ay about il.
ST. Paul exjects 10 lay II miles
pavement next year. This automa'
ALLY compels Minneapolis 10, lay is.
Add marine news: There are
saloons in WATERFOWL, Wis.
THE MAN ON THE LADDER.
II may be that your home has
never been visited by burglars
Then you cannot have an idea
OF the mental torture that is suf-
fered upon occasions by those
who have been through the eK-
perience, especially women.
On a windy, winter night, when
.he shutters rattle, when fence
gates are slsmming and mop
handles on back porches are fall
inc or door up stairs bangs shut
a woman at home alone is in a
state Of terror, and as she waits
for the husband who may be
down town, the minutes seem like
hours.
What would you have done, may
we ask, had you been in the place
OF Mrs. Henry Brown?
The Brown home upon one occa-
sion had been visited by burglars.
They were in Mrs. Browns
room, ransackine her buread
drawers, when she awakened.
Her husband, a travelling man,
was away on his trip and Mrs.
Brown was alone.
Under her pillow she kept .
revolver always
Quietly slipping her hand under
the pillow. Mrs. Brown grlpped
the revolver and fired shot into
the ceiling.
The burglar fled forthwith,
skipping down the stairs and out
the front way.
Mrs. Brown pursued as far as
the open door, where she scream
ed and swooned.
Neighbors attracted by her
screams were soon on the scene
and when Mrs. Brown had been
revived. two women spent the
rest Of the night with her, COM
forting her.
II was a year later as Mrs.
Brown. again alone and going 10
the window Of her bedroom. saw
two ren standing in front Of the
Jones residence across the street.
They carried a ladder which to-
gether they placed at the side Of
the house, near a window.
Mrs. Brown saw one Of the men
start carefully up the ladder.
Now, right there, may we ask
you, what would you have done,
or what do you think you would
have done, If upon one occasion,
like Mrs. Brown, you had awak-
ened and found burglars in your
room?
Let US state here that Mrs.
Brown was perfectly calm, cool
and collected.
Would you have shouted, to
arouse the reighborhood?
Would you have hurried 10 the
phone and notified the police?
Or would you, IL under the Oil
low of your bed you had re-
voIver. slipped over to the led,
gripped the revolver, raised the
window poiselessly, taken DELHI
crate aim and fired at the man,
now we'll up the ladder. and near
the window Of the Jones home, to
kill?
Would you have done this had
you been in Mrs. Browns place?
n you had, and your shot went
straight, you would have killed
ore of the two men who had come
to paint the Jones home.
Unemployed persons are warned
leep away from Chicago. Pretty ne
everybody now has been warned.
"For the Order or the Cam" writ
;. L. g., "Msy suggest the young a
Who monopolizes the public telephol
a lot Of driVeI TO a girl on Il
,ther end Of the line who hasn't sen
enough TO hang up the phone on hi
waited 10 minutes In a Woodwar
I'VE. drug store for one of his XII
Wednesday"
Describing the escape of six DC
lions in New York theate
he report says:
Suddenly one OF the lions walk
nto the wings and peered at the qua
,et
Then the report goes on from be
o say that "the singing ceased"
England advertised the fact
She had the North sea mined:
Now Germany has proved 20 us
She did IL for a blind.
And by the fact It's plainly show
And, too, are we advised.
That mines are always hard TO fin
When they are advertised.
Texas man won a bride IN Ca
on, O., by mail To be secure.
would seem. ii isn't safe for q ma
o have even "a postage stamp.
Gray horses are the longest live
md cream colOred ones he most q
ected b. temperature changes.