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The Detroit times., 1916-05-26
D a m and Smiling,
dentist Details Afro
ciOus Crimes
FINISHED PECK
BY SMOTHERING
Fed Germs to Wife's
Maiden Aunt, His
Best Friend

NEW YORK, May 26.--ln the face
)f DR.. Arthur Warren Waites own
lalri statement. IL am not crazy; 81
Inn not crazy; want to do what is
light in expiation OF my crimes, :"
he defense alienists this afternoon
ire seeking TO prove that DR.. Waite
was insane at the time he murdered
John +. Peck and insane 10 the point
where he could not distinguish right
from wrong.
The first of the two. and perhaps
Four, doctors who will so testify
look the stand shortly after noon.
He is DR.. Morris J. Karpas. an ex-
pert in mental and nervous ailments
He testified that Waite's life had
been but one element In II. and that
was self.
The last shred OF honor was strip
bed from Waite by the testimony
|of Karpas To Karpas Waite con-
lessed that he had stolen money
frpn the collection plate while at
tending church in Grand Rapids.
NEW YORK, May CO Calm ad-
mission that he had planned to kill
! his wife as we'll as her parents. Mr..
and Mrs. John e. Peck, of Grand
Rapids, Mich. and Miss Catherine
Peck, her aunt. was made on the
witness stand To-Day by Or. Arthur
Warren Waite, when he resumed
his amazing story of the arch-poison
plot through which he hoped 10 gain
the Peck millions.
Waite denied that he attempted
TO kill Mrs. Waite, but said that he
had considered II.
Asked the fat question, Are you
crazy" on cross-examination, Waite
replied:
81 think not"
Didn't you say at Bellevue you
we're ready to pay the penalty with
your life?" asked Assistant District
Attorney Brothers.
II did"
do you care now what becomes
OF your"
II want to do what is right"
why did you take the sulphonal
and trional for, on the day OF your
arrest?" .
Il wanted TO kill myself"
The greatest crowd that has
stormed the criminal courts build
ings since the opening Of the sensa-
tional trial was on hand today. Long
lines of men and women were wait
ing before the doors opened. A squad
OF police held the crowd in check.
but a scramble ensued Immediately
prospective spectators were permit
ted TO file In. Women were barred.
Mrs. Horton and the man from
Egypt" figured in Waite's testimony
when the cross-examination was TAX
en- up.
do you remember telling Detec-
tive Cunniff that you did not want
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The Detroit times., 1916-05-26

Hand Yourself a Treat
MONDAY lunch, 5oc. Hotel Griswold.
s-Adv.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20

nothing of the meeting or it's hap Ienings when I should see him.
 My mother-in-l Jaw, however,. or dained otherwise.
 Well, Margaret" she exclaimed, cheerily, as I entered her room. q hope you had a pleasant time Come ever her beside me and tell us all about it.
 She was ha1f-sitting, half-lying On her bed, her cushions piled costly around her. Dicky was sitting on the side of the bed. He rose as entered, with the little air of de- ferential courtesy which is one of the most fascinating things about him.
 Yes, do tell us all about it, he echoed, with an audacious mimicry Of his mothers tone. Were the dear old girls properly impressed ?"
 His easy banter relieved me. I had feared caustic criticism. I tried to answer him after his own fashion
 'They were simply paralyzed with ave-" I returned, laughingly.
 Let us hope awe is the right label" Dicky said, devoutly. "Aw- tul if some other brand f1oored em''.
  patiently, do be quiet. I want to ting back to work, Margaret? I should imagine you would"
 Something in her manner, covert eagerness, bade me hesitate before answering. I again heard my own query of the morning-why was my lnother-in-law so much in favor of fciI ,;,I, she knew her son disapproved?
 A prem onition of the answer swept over me as I responded to her Ques- tons. I had not long to wait be- for it was fulfilled.
 Do you know" she said. with an air of just having solved a difficult rroblem T believe it would be a very good thing for Margaret to go back to her teaching. I am sure she could get a very fine position" she charge of the house. I thoroughly enjoy every detail of running a house. While Margaret detests domesticity." :" l had no chance to answer her, even if l could have found words to do so, for Dickv sprang to his feet, white-lipped and furious
 "Of all the rot I ever listened to this is the limit,' he cried. Then a.: he caught my warning look, saw Miss Sonnot come noislessly forward with a lifted cautioning hand, he lowered his voice.
 >''I beg your pardon, mother, for speaking so roughly, but what you I.ropose is utterly impossible. Mar garet is my wife, and she nIust be the mistress of my house."
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
NOVELTY BILL NEXT
 WEEK AT LYCEUM

It is advisable for all those lovers one evening in the week to entertain ment of this kind, to reserve their seats at the Lyceum sometime on Monday, as next week promises to be the biggest event in the current sea son. The Alfred Cross Players are Worklng overtime to round out a pro- gram that will befit the occasion, a testimonial week to the popular lead Ing man or the organization. Society tolk of New Britain, cognizant of the lnnumerable benefits offered by the Stock company during the season about to close have banded together TOT the purpose of showing their ap- preclaton and will see to it that the coming week is the greatest in the atrical history hereabout
 The Little Millionaire" which is haVlng such an unprecedented suc- cess at the Lyceum, is partially the cause for a renewed interest in thea tergoing in New Britain At all per formances during the past week, with the exception of the opening night. the house has been crowded to the doors. Every seat has been taken and if this condition is to be main tained it would seem advisable to keep the company running all summer and give New Britain a series of up-to- date musical comedies. The show selected for next week is somewhat original, in that it has never been played on any stage in the exact man. ner it will be presented here. His Dream GirI' is primarily farce and has been played as such on Broad way. It admits, however, of the in trOductiOn of songs, and this will De carried out by the Cross Players It will have all the ear-marks of mu- slcal comedy, farce, and vaudeville for a number of clever interpolations have been devised and will be woven in between now and Monday night Pictures of one of the leading mem bers of the company will be given away on Tuesday night to all ladies who attend.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
STORY YOU BEGIN AT ANY TIME Her Side---and His How David Marital Problems
 
The Outcome

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  We shall She playing He kissed her take this the Wanda and David again.
  Wandas dressing
  VOWS David nwrdy unfortunate combination
  would re-enact themselves in her, Cora's life sincere
  
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New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
What Dicky Said When His Mother
 Suggested That Madge Take Up

Suggested That Madge Take Up
 Teaching Again.
 As Mrs. Helen Brainerd Smith, sec retary of the Lotus Study Club, faced me in the assembly room of the club and held out a check for s10 I stared at her in angry amaze ment.
 Because of the carelessness of the stupidity of the president of the club the women had taken up so much time with their business meeting that I had been given but few minutes to deliver the lecture for which I had been engaged. Mrs. Smith had thereupon informed me that, of course, I would expect only part of the s2O that she had promised me.
 I did not extend my hand for the check, and I suppose my face must have told the tale of my anger, for I saw the few women who had re- mained look curiously at me. As I debated with myself what I had better do, I saw one of the news paper women come back into the room as if in search of something she had left. I had an inspiration as I saw her
 Mrs Smith" My voice was abrupt it's tones as cold and determined as her own, and I raised it slightly that the presswoman might hear, "YO Ou engaged me to talk to this club at $2O lecture I accepted your terms l for this year only, for my price is | higher, because you said the club could not afford any more. I was l here today ready to fill my part of the contract It is nothing to me l that you club business took so much time as to compel me to cut my talk 1 If you wish to discontinue furthter lectures that is your privilege, but I must insist on being paid for this | afternoons tine."
 1 noticed the other women look at each other as I spoke of her plea that l the club was to poor too pay more | than $2O a lecture. From a remark I had heard before Mrs. Smith came 1 in. I had learned that the club had 1 authorized her to offer me S25 a lecture and that her own parsimony was responsible for the lowered price, The Joy of Earning She looked at the understanding faces of the other clubwomen, saw the newspaper woman's adroit slip ping toward the group as she scented a story and changed front in an instant.
 "1t really is not worth talking about" she said, loftly. If your tune is so va1uable,' with a covert s.eer, "of course we shall give you the full amount agreed upon. If you will be here next Wednesday at we will try to find some way of giv- ing you plenty of time for your talk"
 She stepped to her desk, sat down and drew another check. I had a
 whimsical notion that she would have
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
We Wonder Why

The world is full of a number of things that most of us would like to have explained.
 Here are a few of them:
 Why a car window is built to open so that the frame is at just the right height to- obscure ones view and one must perforce choose between fresh air and a sight of the landscape.
 Whether. Mrs. Fat-and-forty owns a mirror, and if so whether she ever looks in it after she puts on that coy middy blouse.
 Never Both Cup and Wine.
 Why we never simultaneously have both the money and the time to en- joy ourselves.
 Why loW-heeled, common-sense shoes are seldom made in narrow sizes. Is there any reason why a per son with a marrow foot shouldn't want to wear 8 common sense shoe?
 How so many plain girls manage to marry the best looking men. Perhaps He Doesn't and Then Perhaps
 Whether the woman who says, My husband never says a, cross word to me-" thinks anyone will believe her.
 Why, in spite of all we know about ourselves and the mean things we can think and the ugly way we can feel
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
Pads and Fashion

Chinese and Mexican straws for hats continue in favor.
 A big Italian straw hat trimmed with a fringed scarf, is a pretty thing for country wear.
 White gloves are stitched with color and have pipings and wrist strap of colored leather.
 A very effective way to trim a frock is to bind it on all sides with ribbon of contrasting color.
 The sleeves of some evening dresses are puffs, while others are loose and hang like cape.
 Nothing is nicer for a young girl than the shepherdess straw hat, with ribbon streamers and flowers,
 There is a revival of rich, bright plaids and stripes for wrap Things, and the effect is very charming.
 The fur collarette is revived-the collarette having 8 ripple across the shoulders and a flat front finish.
 Some of the best street and motor coats are cut very large and loose, to cover the entire dress.
 Flesh color is often used to trim navy blue, with excellent effect.
 Smoking on the hips carries out the idea of fitness of the skirt
 Fashionable spring frocks are trimmed with coffee-coIored faces.
 Bands of cretonne make pretty trimmings for the little girls dress:
 Straw and lowered linen makes a pretty combination for a child's hat
 Mole fur is in favor for summer furs-partly on account of it's neutral color.
 up with brilliant blues, yeHows, reds and purples.
 Toilettes of lowered lace and silk gre trimmed with flowers and stream CTS of ribbon.
 A fawn-like brown paper is popu- lar shade for spring or summer dress.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
Menu for Tomorrow
Breakfast
7E.zr c

Breakfast
 Oranges
 Scrambled Eggs Graham Rolls Coffee
 Dinner
 Ox-tail Soup Roast Veal Jelly
 Delmonico Potatoes
 Lettuce Salad
 Rice and Apple Souffle
 Custard Sauce
 Coffee
 Supper
 Cheese Sandwiches Strawberries Cake Tea Rice and Apple Souffle-Wash one- half cupful rice, drop it into a kettle of rapidly boiling water and boil for ten minutes, drain and place in a double boiler with one pint warm milk and cook for half an hour. In the meantime pare and core six sour ap- ples. Place in a baking dish, add half pint water, cover and cook in d quick oven until tender but unbrok- en. Transfer to a serving dish. To the rice add four tablespoonfuIs Stu gar one teaspoonful vanilla and the stiffly beaten whites four eggs. Put carefully round the apples and set aside until very cold Sauce-Serve with a soft custard made with the egg yolks, one pint milk and three tablespoonfuls sugar.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20

and the selfish impulses that domin- ate us, we still have a better opinion of ourselves than anyone else does. Wouldn't NOu Think She'd Have Some
 Sympathy.
 Why the salesgirl who has to scrape along on seven or eight dollars a week is so disdainful and superior and unSympathetic when her customer asks to see something less eXpen- sive."
 Why the world should be so ar ranged that people who live in houses that would be perfectly comfortable and pleasant in the summer are able to shut them up and go to other houses, while the people who live in uncomfortable places have to stay in them the year round.
 Why, when there's some folks you just can't miss, and others you miss a whole pile, the folks you cant miss you see lots and the others just once in While.'
 How families with next to no wis., ible means of support manage to live, and not only live, but to have all the little extras, the music boxes and the theater tickets and the dancing les sons that we, with our steady though limited income, have to do without.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
REVELATIONSOF WIFE
By ADELE GARRISON

been better pleased if she could have signed my death warrant. Blotting T., she rose and held it out toward ne with an air of bored indifference which l could not help but admire angry as I was.
 For I knew that she hated me most cordially. Even though the glow of righteous triumnb that uv.s mine as I took the check and walked away, l realized this She w.s proud woman, unaccustomed to re- buHs or rebukes. I had ca,,sad ber humiliation in her own stronobo,d l knew that she would never foroa+ if. Ao' e0'
 But my feet fairly danced with Joy as 1 hurried homeward Tho m pleasant incidents of the afternoon were wiped from my mind as if thev had never been, banished bv tbe touch of the check for $25, clutchad tightly in my hand. It was the first m oney l had earned since my mar riage. Only a woman who has once had her own income and then been dependant upon any one else, even her best beloved. can understand my feeling of delight at being once more 1n the ranks of the wage-earners.
 Dicky's Mothers Plan.
 True, I had been married and de- pendent but short time, and Dickv had been most generous with me. even turning over his tangled finan- cial affairs to my guidance. But it was generosity-there was the sting. i knew that Dicky, down deep in his heart as the children say had no conception of marriage as a glorified partnership such as I had dreamed of when I married him
 Dicky wished to be the giver of everything material, to make me the recipient. l knew that it galled him to feel that I was doing anything to earn money. If I could. I would have yielded to his wishes. But some thing deeper, stronger than even my love for him forbade me-
 The knowledge of his displeasure, however, dampened my enthusiasm as I neared home. I resolved to say
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
Vews for 7heater Goe1s and Women Readers
MRS. DONALD MCLEAN
 DIES IN BALTIMORE
Former President General of ID. \. I<. Successfully Prosecuted BUiid-
 ing of Continental Hail.

Baltimore May 2O.-Mrs. Emily Nelson Ritchie Mclean, 57, wife ok Donald Mclean of New York and past president-g general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, died 1t hospital late yesterday. She was born in Frederick, Md, and came of dis tinguished ancestry. Burial will be in Frederick Monday.
 Mrs. Mclean was taken to the hos pital on April 14 from Norfolk, Va, where she had been visiting her hroth- er-in-law, Rear-Admiral Me Lean commandant of the Norfolk navy yard. Besides being a charter jncm- Der of the national society of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion, Mrs. Mclean was member of the Colonial Danes of America and number of other organizations. Dur ing her presidency-g general from 1905 to 1909, she brought to practical con- cluson the building of Continental hall at Washington, built entirely by the efforts of women as a memorial to the heroes and heroines of tho American Revolution. A fund estab- lished for lectures on American his tory in Continental hall was named the Emily Nelson Ritchie Mclean fund
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20

Cray is a fashionagle color and it is often frightened with a bit of coral icWelry.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
Tested Ouer 60 Years

When product has been used faithl fully for more than 60 years-it must have real merit and it surely must do what people say it will Minard's 'L1niment was first prescribed by Drl 'Minard in his private practice for giv- ing instant relief to all sufferers from pain of every kind and for cuts and bruises. It is sold by all druggists.
 :, It has made thousands of friends who have used it and given it to others when suffering from sprains, bruises, sore hands and sore feet, rheumatism, lumbago, neuralgia and backache, It Is your protection too, if you keep it always in the home ready for in. stant use. It is an antiseptic with wonderful healing power. ]
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20
THE FLOORWALKER"
 IS NEW CHAPLIN HIT

With the first of the Mutual re- leases of the Charlie Chaplin films, ''The FloOrWalker," for a special fea- ture and some excellent photodramas the program for tonight at Keenev's should prove most attractive and iudg- ing from the drawing powers of the famo comedian IS exemplified dur ing the week, the IS. R. O." sign should be in evidence early this eve ming.
 "The Floorwalker' is a great com edy. Not that the piece in itself is anything so remarkable but because of the opportunities it affords Chap lin to display the mannerisms and laugh making eccentricities which made him so famous that competition among the film producers brought his salary up to $676,O0O a year. It is an ideal comedy for Charlie and he makes the best of the numerous amusing sit uatiOns.
 A capacity audience laughed itself 'almost sick watching the comedy last night. The Friday patrons were loud in their praise of the film today and they declared that it is the best Charlie Chaplin release they have ever seen.
 New Britain has been Chaplin mad all week Keeney's mas played to big and satisfied houses every day and the local success of the films gives indi- cation that the management made no mistake in contracting for the Mutual releases and agreeing to show the pie lures without any advance in the ad- mission price.
 Besides the Chaplin feature there will be a number of other good films and a first class program is promised.
 Three vaudeville acts will also be served to the patrons. They all have first class entertaining qualities and are we'll worth seeing.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20

A faWn-llke brown paper is popu lar shade for a spring or summer dress.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20

Toilettes of lowered lace and silk gre trimmed With flowers and stream CTS of ribbon.
New Britain herald., 1916-05-20

Rather rough novelty straw, kings blue, high banded with two toned ribbon, blue and white, and topped with pink velvet rose, gives this mOdlsh hat. StreamerS falling from this cluster down the back mark it distinctly for youth.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-20
CHURCH WILL PRAY
FOR ARMY AND NAVY
continued from First Pa.

'N'''' iIoih FlISt IasC.)
over the prayer book in an attcmnt IN
revise and enrich il 10 meet the de-
mandS for a greater freedom in The
service.
Discussion of The enrichment by tho
ADDITION OF new prayers was on the
calendar to-day. the fourth day on
which the house mot as Il committee
of the whole I" consider the report or
the commission on the prayer book
The proposed changes arc. technical
Some deputies fear any scheme OF re-
vision might involve doctrinal changes
II - expected recommendations OF
the commission to correct mistransla
tons OF Holy Scripture will he dis
cusscd. One proposal is to change
the word 'dannation" in several col
lects to 'condcmnation''
Another step toward the simplifco
ton of church service was taken when
appointment OF Il committee to draft 81
simple manual Of church service for
use in parishes in which there are
members of uulcttcrcd and foreign
born persons. was announced in tho
house "i deputies. The Rev. Irving
t. Johnson. Of faribauit. Mimi. was
chosen chairman.
The upper body has before ii a
proposal TO prohibit remarriagc i'm tho
church of divorced persons. which was
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-20

,neorH; the house delighted IN his too
nrief piano numbers. and with rood
'"uSe. IN the List 'Unsarische Fan
'aS'a. played with orchestra; he wns
somewhat handicapped by Nrircum-
s.nhccs. though the number WAS de-
w"cuiN interesting as II was. hut even
!" ms IL was evident that the same
quality that goes to make the prenta.,
"r1lsts is Il part OF his equipment, tho
hahc quality that so enhances Miss
hrasiauS charm--sympathy. And this
was more fully demonstrated in the
"octurnc Of Chopin. which he gave for
encore. unaccompanicd. AS 4 mere
Niftuoso, he might be II pianist To od
nnire' US an artist. who expresses some
thihS TAR beyond tcchnic. who stresses
melody. however ornamental no
arouseS Il deeper emotion than admira-
ton.
me Richmond Philharmonic Society
mas done much. And the, best Of n
Is: II thinks it has only Just begun
wherefore much more lies before IL.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-20

rejected last week by the house Of
deputies The Rev. Samuel Hart, sccre-
tnry of the house OF bishops. said that
shouid the upper house approve the
proposition. it would again go before
the lower house.
The Joint commission on textbooks
of English and American history re-
ported to the house Of deputies to-day
that 1t had conferred with authors, and
hau achieved some success in it's effort
to induce them to eliminate the state
meht that the Church of England. IT,.
parent of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. was founded by Henry VIII.
Some of these authors promised to
eliminate this statement in book re-
visions.
Protestant Episcopal historians claim
the Church Of England traces bnck its
episcopacy To apostolic times.
HINT or SEtTIONALISM
CREf:PS INTO DEBATE,
For the first time i'm the convention
Ihint Of Scctionalism crept into tho
debate to-day. when ii proposal of the
commission on the prayer book to add
IL prayer for Memorial Day" was sub
mitted. Immediately seveNll Southern
delegates opposed the resolution. as
sorting that Memorial Day Is particu-
larry Northern institution. and that
TO include Il prayer for il would open
UP old wounds Rev. Il. l.. Goodwin.
of Ashland. Va. opposed the prayer
'bccause ii touches a matter close TO
the hearts of the South"
Rev T.. w. Gamble. of Selma. Ala,
who said he spoke for the younger
generation expressed the contrary
opinion that the PRAYER would not