New-York tribune., 1915-12-28
Also, One Lacquer Threat
ems to Choke Another,
Who Says, TRY It,"
Mr.. HEATH'S WHISPERS
FIGURE IN TESTIMONY
TO Persuade Members
to Patch Up Differences
Meets Failure.


and freely expressed offer by an irate
woman TO strangle fellow housewife,
gratis, added piquancy TO the hearing
yesterday Of the troubles Of the
Housewives League and Mrs. Julian
Heath at 299 Broadway.
Everything went wrong with the en-
battled housewives yesterday. In the
first place. several big food manufact-
uring concerns refused to obey the
subpoena of Deputy Attorney General
julius Obermeyer. This upset the
schedule for the hearing, and caused an
adjournment last night until Tuesday
Of next week.
Then some unidentified Heath sym
pathizer spoke right out in court, and
in the middle of the testimony Of Anne
Scribner Hard, to call that lady liar
at the top of her lungs. Added to this
was the offer Of Mrs. Nellie Van Slim
gerand, a Heath adherent, to choke
Mrs. Chauncey NJ. Marsh, president Of
the Montclair branch Of the league, and
the sad tale of Mr. Heath, who could
find no place to shave in the home Of
the founder of the Housewives League.
In this drear comment on the state
of American husbands Mrs. Heath in
dorsed the testimony of Mrs. Marsh.
Mrs. Heath said" the latter an
nounced on the stand, that at the time
Of the founding of the league, her
house was so crowded that Mr.. Heath
had no room in which to shave"
THAT is true; that is true" Mrs.
Heath broke in, shaking her head
mournfully. "The place was SO crowd
ed with women that the poor dear man
actually couldn't find place TO shave
himself"
Whether Mr.. Heath still wears whis-
kers as a memorial of the leagues
birth is not known.
Mrs Hard was testifying to the re-
lations between Mrs. Heath and the
Beechnut Company when the shorter
and uglier word was thrown into the
court
Mrs. Heath, according to the witness,
had gone to the Beechnut company and
said that their products were being
packed by tuberculous employees. The
concern sent her physicians certificates
and statistics to disproye this, and
later advertised in the league magazine,
controlled by Mrs. Heath, and placed a
display in the headquarters. These
cost the firm, Mrs. Hard testified, $500
a month.
At this point some one shouted that
Mrs. Hard was liar, but the woman
only smiled and went on with her tes-
timony.
At the conclusion Of the days ses-
sion Mrs. Van Sllngerland bore down
upon Mrs. Marsh like a proud galleon
under full sail
81 should like" she pronounced hol-
lowly, making grisly motions with her
fingers, "to have the woman By the
throat who started all this"
Start with me, Mrs. Van Singer
land" Mrs. Marsh volunteered, never
flinching.
80 Mrs. Marsh Mrs. Van Singer
land said, passing suddenly from ter
rorism TO pathos, "how could you do
It? Why, you sat there and told lie
after lie after lie after lie"l---
Thank you so much, dear Mrs. Van
Slingerland," Mrs. Marsh interrupted,
smiling sweetly.
During the session Frank c. McKin- /
ney, attorney for the anti-Heath
housewives, made several efforts to get
Mrs. Heath to take the stand. This
she refused TO DO
After adjournment Martin Lippman,
Mrs. Heath's lawyer, addressed the in
surgents impassionedly, urging that
they meet on common ground and try
to reconstruct their society from with /.
in instead of making all their woes
public. But the women only smiled and
murmured that it was quite impossi- F.
bic. for Mrs. Heath wouldn't let them. /
Then every one went home regretfully. F.