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Evening journal., 1919-11-04
Peter
And the Boys Are Caught
BY TmE STORY LADY.

The boys had a surprise when they
all met the next day at the Robinson
house. For Mary Ellen and the twins
had on oyeralls. And their hair was
tucked out OF sight under boyish look
ing caps.
Peter didn't like Il one bit. But when
he found out that a made no differ
ence TO the girls whether he liked u
or not he decided that it was very
sensible thing 20 do. Mary Ellen looked
like a boy but it was a great comfort
TO Peter 10 know that she wasn't one.
The girls each had paint brush and
Il was also a surprise TO the boys to
see how well they could use them. The
boys spilled the paint on The ground
and on each other but the girls finished
their part Of the fence before the boys
did and went home 20 take OF their
overalls and shake out their skirts and
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smooth out their ribbons.
When the fence was cleaning white,
Corny went home and got the lawn
mower and-he and Hal moved the
lawn while Mr.. Henshawe and the rest
OF the boys carried sand over from the
Henshawe house and made a sandpile
for the three babies and put swing
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under the big apple tree. Then Mr.
llenshawe went home and the boys
stayed TO pick everything up. Just as
they started they heard heavy footsteps
and before they could get away the
man OF the house was glarlng down
at theml
HELEN CARPENTER MOORE,
Evening journal., 1919-11-04

Sailors OF the American navy have
supplied whole French hstricts with
homes. They worked from December.
1918, TO May 1919, on construction
lObs.
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Fong New York for BLOW Out They Crowd the Hotels Cafes Thea
and Shops Eager Buy Anything Providing the Price Is High
Enough and That Part of 1t Is Capable HandsDeaers D
Autos and Fu Reap Harvest Beyond Their Dreams

necks was an attractive prospect. II
would be pleasant, too, to go "hfty-
fifty" with any Rockefeller who fell
to our share. But to eat only what
we planted with our own hands and
then dug UP, to eat this harvest also
only by permission and according to
quantity laid down by an ignorant
and vicious Soviet gave us pause. II
this were Bolshevic liberty, we cried.
then give us death.
Perhaps by its deceitful promise to
deliver us from the humdrum. deadly
routine of a monotonous daily toll this
barbaric Russian scheme OF freedom
from any government half persuaded
us to experiment. We might have
accepted II as we are inclined to &C
cept thoughtlessly any scheme that
enlarges and colors existence and gives
1t wider and wagner horizon. But
the malignity of the new revolution
soon frightened us; we saw that for
all the innocents that accepted its
promises 1t was "heads I win and
tails you lose" We saw 1t as cum
brous and complicated cobweb full OF
dead flies, so sat back to go on with
the dismal old ways OF making a de-
cent living without any pleasurable
excitement in sight.
Mama From the wilderness.
Then to our Joy along came Nudge
of Arizona and his horde of spenders.
Broadway and Fifth avenue joyously
awoke from their enforced summer
somnolence and clapped' their hands
like the little hills in the Bible. Here
was richness, full, deep and unexpect-
ed. Mamma had fallen in the wfNser-
ness, and mama in Gotham spells
money.
The furriers, jewellers. yacht build
ers, period furniture men, the coutu-
riers, the confection makers dress
makers), goldsmiths, diamond mer-
chants. all Joined In the strong, sweet
song of welcome. Beautiful are we,
o spenders, and thine olntments are
richer than fine spices!"
Whatever mistakes the spenders
made in these unusual surroundings
were passed over in decorous silence.
One might lose a sale by an VI timed
smile, and the great decorators of up
per Fifth avenue pretended not to be
hurt when a Western customer baked
at the word decor and pronounced 1t
immoral.
I'VE sold to an agent of a rancher
at Bull Lick, Col, white elephant
of a satin wood sofa that we imported
from London five years ago and had
been using as a show piece. The price
passed was $4,000 and it was paid
without a murmur OF course the
piece historically is valued at that
great sum. but we are concerned as to
its surroundings in Bull Lick for fear
1t may disappoint the purchaser, as
we are DESTROYS of continuing the con-
nection."
A prolific spender trusted none of
his affairs to an agent. but went HIM
self last week to the best known pic
ture dealer in this country to ask for
some Raphaels. Unfortunately the
firm was just out of Raphaels. They
exhibited a magnificent Bronzino in
the impressive way-a room by itself,
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of shame and strangers to physical
and mental health, are kept alive by
the cocaine, morphine and heroin that
the health department authorities dole
out to them.
The applicants are registered as
they apply. The get gradually dimin-
ishing doses until they have reached
a minimum dosage. Then they are
ready for disqualification and cure.
Ninety-nine per cent. Of them crave
release from the habit. They cannot
be cured while wandering around the
street. There is but one chance. and
that chance should be given them A
hospital should be afforded them.
John ID. Rockefeller offered the city
the necessary hospital buildings, but
Mayor Hylan decided that he'd have
none of the favors of "the Rockefeller
crowd" 1t isn't at all clear what in
spired his scornful refusal, for he pre-
viously seemed quite in sympathy with
the acceptance.
But even DR.. Copeland's most ardent
opponents have not denied that an in
stitution for the care OF the miserable
drug slaves is necessary. And none
mas Deen 80 pTdNe as 10 declare tndl
the drug habit in New York is to be
cherished. 1t is not to be supposed
that there are any of us New Workers
proud OF the fact that heroin is a
New York inspiration and that its vic
tins are known to medicine as victims
OF the Manhattan disease.
The Commissioner of Charities, af-
ter DIR. Copeland began his efforts TO
Go something to eliminate the Manhat-
tan disease. decided that the dope
fends could not be the wards Of the
Department OF Health but should be
taken care of by the Department OF
Charities, And the Commissioner OF
Charities cried to the Corporation
Counsel that DR.. Copeland might be
! forced to mind his own business
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'nero eouiu oe ho epehoeis' "iSe
San ioi .hu. ea,l
VIC. WIN ,,appeh' eie ldiiins VII ~
pioouctioh Vi ac'uai heoeSsaiie', III.
uisappear aiice Vi THESE great SUITES
when gave d ha.iom sense OIL wealth.,
.ne oes'ruetion o, All our mansions ana
palaces winch tnoush they are empty
nine inonths Oh the year because tne
spenuers are somewhere eise, sun give
.he nnpecunious the comiortaoie ieei-
ing tnat III tremendous physlcai
crisis they couio De broken INTO anu
serve as shelters' the crop INTO hmpo
VI Dook ana music ana picture inc
ua"n' III "oro' OF Worlo Where
.here wouio De IN iact and not merely
IN hyhn put niue mere peio".
ouch an eartnly catastrophe might III
us people LOT heaven but II Is 10 doubt.
IL Is more hkely II would create new
race OF grumpiers ana grouchers' OF
whom there are plenty now. The COM
mon people would not be benehted
ana the uncommon people would be
martyred.
The redistribution OF wealth and not
us obstruction is the reason Tor the ex-
istence OF the spenders. when a tribe
or them spend themselves or sink 1n'o
hoaroers nature, aohorring a vacuum,
produces new set. Long LIE to the
spenders Wherever they are; may>their
SHADOW never grow less!
crest OF the spendthrift wave as
they are they did not set 1t In motion
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and arouses all TO the necessity for
action of some kind"
1t was but natural to expect that
a blow at such a remunerative traffic
as that the dope fiends keep alive
would meet with resistance. Some of
the opposition that DR.. Copeland is
facing is legitimate. He is opposed by
reputable physicians who believe that
the drug addict represents one Of the
most vicious practices that ever
threatened humanity. But they do not
agree with Dr. Copeland's method of
combating the New York city situa-
ton. Theirs is an opposition born of
conscientious difference of opinion.
But different is the dope doctor
and the immoral druggist who are
blinded to everything except the steady
flow of wealth their trade represents.
There is>evidence OF much collision
between such medical practitioners
and such> apothecaries. One of these
doctors agreed with a certain drug
gist to send all his dope clients to
that druggist. This druggist will sell
dope for as high as 9 and 10 cents a
grain and even more. The doctor is
not interested in that. But every week
! this druggist will rebate to the doc
tor one cent on every grain OF dope
he sells on that doctors prescription.
Last year one doctor made $4,000
in this manner Another doctor pre-
scribed for 5.550.O00 grains of various
narcotics-almost all Of 1t illegally.
IT would be possible to go on al
great length setting forth specific
cases OF professional exploitation OF
this most mephitic of our social evils
But you have only to go down &c
Lafayette and Worth streets and SET
the miserable dope line that coils IL.
self around the Board of Health's drug
clinic. There, every day. scores Of
derelicts, long since immure - pangi
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they buy at all the other great shops
which, like Sandow, have a reputa-
ton in the West and South gained no
one knows how. Many Of the new
millionaires, but not all of them, are
proportionately larger than that fol-
lowing the Civil War, as our armies in
the conflict recently closed exceeded
those of Grant and Lee.
They come from the middle West
and the far West, from the South and
the Northwest; they have made their
money in wheat by growing 1t and by
stock manipulating It; there are corn
fed millionaires and hundreds who owe
their uneasy possessions to the exploit
tation of recently opened Oil fields.
Along with new men from Texas come
strangers from Mexico. for in spite Of
the almost insuperable obstacles to
money making In the last few years In
try big fortunes have, 1t Is said, been
accumulated there since 1914.
What do they want in New York
Not to get into society; that may be
expected to come later when the pos
session of money which they are not
able to count becomes more natural.
Really, they come as the cowboy goes
to the settlement nearest the ranch
TO shoot 1t up" in one glorious, gor-
geous, gaudy carouse In what they ad-
init at first sight to be Gods country,
A miner from a little known town of
Gogebic or northwestern Michigan.
uhn siCuad hia mama with q painftil
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total darkness, then a glow Of electric
light.
The spender looked at 1t for a few
minutes in silence. Then said he;
We'll, j guess the picture is all right,
it looks good to me. but 1 promised
the folks back home some Raphaels
and ] don't want to go back home
without 'em. / amt going back till
fall. When do you expect your Ra-
phaels?"
Like the Goths who went for the
first few days Of their invasion about
Pompeii and Rome with hides and
pelts of animals they had killed in the
woods to hide their nakedness, but
who after>a little disdain at the scent
ed and silken Romans took pattern
after them and shaved and scented
themselves and bought togas (the
most expensive Variety. SO will
Nudge and his brethren in a week or
so transform themselves outwardly 10
resemble real NEWCOMERS. Tailors will
buLd them business suits for $l25
and for $500, II they can accept the in
uovation, put them in swallowtails
But dress as they may. they are al.
ways to be detected by the money
they drip from every pocket. from
every pore.
II want a refractory table," said the
wife of a spender, herself something
of spender too. 81 stopped off II
Chicago from Tucson, and my cousin
Jen has a refractory table she pait
1900 for. Got one?"
I'VE have two excellent examples,
replied the suave salesman, but a
the price you mention your. cousins
table must have been a reproduction
Ours are veritable antiques, and tn,
price is 81 600"
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by hard experience the wisdom or
foresight. This wisdom seems to
have been entirely denied to the work.
ing classes and 1t is they who in pro-,
portion are the greatest spendthrlfts.
The woman who has had a hard strug-
gle to bring up Aer brood. buy them
shoes, feed them on a wage brought
home by her husband of SIS or $40
a week, lost her head Immediately
when the pay envelope swelled to $50,
SIS or even 500 a week. 1t made no
difference to her that all supplies had
gone up 100 and in cases 200 per cent,
that chuck steak was now selling at
the former price Of porterhouse, that
she had to pay IS and $40 for a pair
of shoes which had formerly cost her
$3.50. She had 800 In her hand at
once and off she went to the depart
ment store.
Hands That Don't Tighten.
1.-THE deluge of these buyers began
before America had even considered
the possibility of getting into the
war. With the activity in munitions
and every sort of supply ordered by
foreign governments the price of la
DOT went up ana has bOdItu, dS every
body knows. to a height unprece-
denied in any previous wartime. This
put money in the hands of the work
people and l regret to say that these
are hands that don't tighten on
money"
A department store general man.
ager said this. He added: I'VE did
what we could to direct their pur-
chases in a wise way but we accom-
pllshed very little. The vision Of a
mahogany set for dining room. a real
bureau for the bedroom were now re-
alities. But it was in the goods these
poor women bought for their children
that they showed least inclination TO
take our advice. What they hankered
after were SNOWY dresses silk under
clothing, all sorts Of frippery. Tho
marked down sales which used to at
tract them did SO no longer but any
| garment trimmed with a profusion OF
lace whether for inside or outside
wear got their money every time.
When the tide turns, as 1t must, be-
lieve it will result in palmer fashions
| all round"
These people are tho spenders who
can i'll afford to spend and whose in
diligence in the mania will prove a
source of danger. The other class
whose fortunes suddenly reached six
| figures through no fault OF their own
are economically needed. They haze
to spend and they will do no harm.
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By WILLIS STEEL.

ESS than a fortnight before that
fatal July / New Yorker
stood one evening in the centre
OF Where to Dine Well. He was in
the first rapture Of summer bachelor
hood and his spirit was blithe enough
to enjoy the spectacle of two friends
being piloted across the street by a
tall westerner who had them firmly
interlaced.
Come on, Bill" shouted the pair
as they swayed on to the curb. Here's
Mr.. Nudge from Arizona going to blow
us to an eat. You're invitedi"
Right" cried the stranger. Get
in line, boy. Glad to have you. 1 got
money to spend and 1 don't care a
damn who spend IL on"
He wore a veritable sombrero with
a silver wire band. his clothes Of fine
black broadcloth had been cut by the
small town tailor, his reddish beard
fioated in the breeze. He was type
and he didn't care who knew it.
In the grill Of a famous hotel the
quartet seated themselves amid the
Mr.. Nudge from Arizona grabbed the
menu and waving away the obsequious
waiter who had bowed them into seats
he swung his great red hand in the
direction of the maitre d'hotel.
He Calls for the Best.N
"Here, youi" he shouted, 81 guess
you amt none too good to look after
this party. Now you throw your eyes
on this bill and tell me what's the
biggest thing you got to start on.
Never mind what the tariff is; I'll
take care Of thatl"
The head waiter somewhat obviously
suggested terrapin la Maryland, and
the Westerner acquiesced, saying:
Five dollars q throw? 1t ought to
be pretty good, and say, you, run
along a couple bots Of fizz wine and
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dollar gained by his own labor as 1t
lay quietly In his hand? Money is even
beautiful in itself; pile of lovely gold
coins is as aesthetic as a fine statue
and gives to the majority more artistic
pleasure. Crisp, new twenty dollar
bills. with their intricate tracing and
careful engraving, likewise awaken a
feeling of pleasure that need not be
sordid. Some of us get 1t even when
the twenties are a trifie soiled.
Yes, the individuals VINO profess to
despise money in their celestial as
pirations after the True, the Good and
the Beautiful forget that they like to
eat three times day, and require food,
warmth and shelter to hatch out their
sublime ideas. The people who pour
lofty scorn on others who cannot for
get that man Is being with body
have generally a small annuity that
brings them what they must~have to
keep alive. II you take their food
and drink away from them you will
hear some clamoring. Only by the
withdrawal OF physical necessaries will
they come TO realize the impossibility
OF the worship of truth on an empty
stomach.
World Needs the spenders.
The world needs the spenders as 1t
needs luxuries. Bread and cheese
make an agreeable smack" but a con-
I tinued diet of them soon sours the
stomach. They tell the story Of a
Long Islander who subsisted for a
year on clabber (sour milky; at the end
of six months his wife left him. While
few individuals care or are able to buy
great works of human genius for their
private edification II there were not a
few in every generation who did care
to and could afford TO, the worlds
supply of art commodities, which is
now inconsumable as we'll as infinitely
Invisible, would promptly cease.
Writers of books would go after
soft shell crabs or bluefish, or
IL these are Injuries beyond the
reach of any but the spenders
they would fish for the lowly founder
and even the humble skate; painters
would apply their brushes to barns and
sculptors plaster their clay on cement
houses. Why should any set of men
think beauty and devote their lives to
express 1t II it should be worth moth
ing thereafter In terms of money? ?
That men would do so must be I'M
thinkable in the widest socialistic
dream.
If 1t be a Socialists dream that the
world could return to the Golden age
of legend when as there was no money
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Fish Heads for Poultry
SIMPLE and inexpensive subs

A SIMPLE and inexpensive substi-
~ tute for meat scraps. which
often are hard to obtain at the
average butcher shop, Is to utilize
fish heads in the poultry ration. Ar
rangements usually can be made with
local fish dealers to save these heads,
particularly If the poultryman win
furnish buckets in which the refuse
may be kept until he calls for them.
As they come from the dealers shop
the fish heads are tough and covered
with heavy scales and gristle. How
ever, underneath is fine tender meat
which the hens relish keenly.
The poultryman can soften the coarse
outer shell by boiling the fish heads
in water for FIVE to ten minutes and
then pouring off the water and throw
ing the fish heads In among the chick
ems. In many instances the dealers
are glad TO get rid Of the fish heads.
and on the basis OF food value the
poultry keeper can afford to pay four
or five cents for a quart of fish heads
which provide a satisfactory protein
containing food for his flock.
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1.-THE hotel has never had a summer
like this one," said Oscar. I'm fact, its
extraordinary prosperity began over a
year ago, and never has there been a
let down At first we were surprised
because of the kilograms arriving from
utter strangers demanding suites for
the entire summer. Names we had
never heard from places we did not
know were on the map. and all de-
handing the best accommodation the
house could provide. Convention days,
for which we are prepared, are far
outdone. In fact, the house IL as full
now as IL possibly could be in our most
crowded season. More delightful guests
could not be collected in any hotel;
they appreciate whatever IL done to
make them comfortable, and they tell
us SO In a genial way. AS to their
being millionaires, cannot say. They
certainly display no lack of financial
resource" Etg
At the Hotel Pennsylvania there is
no doubt about the new corners rank
ing in the million class; from its chain
of houses information has reached the
hotel that their guests from various
points Of the compass are well able
to pay for every modern luxury. The
Pennsylvania assistant manager,
Alvah Wilson, smiled cherubically
when he said:
1--WE could fill another house as
large as the Pennsylvania with our
overflow. The house has been a sue
cess since It opened its doors and
beginning the summer season we have
been deluged with requests for reser-
vations from men well able to choose
the most luxurious quarters for their
sojourn in the metropolis. II they are
our new crop Of millionaires as you
define them, and 1 guess they are,
they are jolly lot whom It is a pleas
ure to meet.
II am a Pennsylvania myself and
old enough to remember the crop of
Pittsburg millionaires. These new men
keep up the tradition in excellent
STYLE"
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It would be monotonous to go the
rounds of the city's hotels on the
trail of the spenders. They are every
where; the Commodore groans with
them. the Majestic and smaller houses
each has its quota Of these welcome
guests, and as has been said above
they make a large proportion of the
audiences at places of entertainment.
While New York Grins.
Meanwhile, New York lies back and
grins; 1t has not forgotten the era
Of prosperity introduced by the titanic
race OF spendsrs who descended on 1t
In the middle eighties and it is ready
with added experience TO encourage
the new crop. More power to 'em.
For this pactolian stream emptied
On the dry sands of the city so lavishly
must moisten to its remotest suburbs.
Money spent here widens into vast
circulation and IL there was ever
danger of the dread roots of Bolshe-
vism drying up the sacred soil It will
be averted by the free flow of gold.
There did exist such danger, we are
told, and besides our sensibility of the
presence of unrest long ago warned
economists. Before that evil had re-
vealed its demoniac nature by whole
sale murder and destruction 1t seemed
to our ignorance to OFFER some points
OF interest and novelty Of idea In Its
own contradictoriness. 1t appeared to
be superior or at least more exciting
than the sickly and half hearted So
cialism preached to us for so many
years in so many different forms. We
liked some things about n. The shed
ding OF The starched collar led these f;
to shipper around town In a yard or
so OF blue or pink ribbons about cur
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make it cold as hell and dry as Ari-
zony."
The terrapin a la Maryland smoking
in a silver casserole tickled the long
horns palate. Without consulting his
guests he shouted:
Two more of that samel"
"Monsieur?" questioned the aston
ished waiter.
1.-TWO more of that terrapin; I'm
iuiced n 1 ever ct anything better;
run along now. What you waiting
for? Think l can't pay for 1t? /
could buy the hull fish and not feel
III"
This scene must not absorb the
wtc'e first act and II is sufficient to
a,.l TO its color that a third double
casserole of rich and cloying food was
washed down with copious draughts OF
champagne before the Westerner
wiped his beard with the table c,cth
and remarked:
"yebatTI il ss next. boys? Some
stew?"
New York appetites were not equal
20 anything besides but black coffee
and the Arizonian curbed his to suit
his guests.
Many of His Type.
Mr.. Nudge is but one Of horde OF
nouveauS riches who have come to
New York this summer TO have one
good blow out" In the attainment OF
which they are eager to drip money
from every pocket and almost from
every pore. They swarm the hotels
they crowd the theatres and cafes
they collect In such numbers around
rfffany's glass cases that the plac'
takes tho aspect OF a department store
on the occasion OF marked down sale