Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-31
MAYOR-ELECT MOoRE'S
LETTER
Japanese Government Puts an End to
Picturesque Proceedings at Pacific
Ports-No More Picture Brides
THE announcement that the japanese

their most picturesque proceedings In cities
like Seattle the picture BRIDE is better un-
derstood than she is in ports like Philadel-
phia and New York, where she seldom ap
pears. The ''picture BRIDE is a japanese
girl whose parents have arranged by cor
rcspondencc with prospective husband in
the United States for her marriage on ar
rival. Neither bride nor groom has ever
seen each other. The marital negotiations
90 have been conducted by correspondence, the
parents of the girl usually desiring TO know
whether the prospective husband has means
enough to keep her. and the latter making
inquiry as to the age, height and accom-
pliShmcnts of the prospective bride. When
the brides appear in a western port the
grooms who have negotiated for them also
appear from all parts of the country, com
pctc the marriage at the port, and then pro-
cced to the hame the husband has provided.
The only means of identification, apart from
the certificates required by the immigration
and shipping officials, are the photographs
that have been exchanged. Hence the pic
turc brides.'
DROF. LEWIS NJ. HAUPT, of Cynwyd,
l. is helping out on the redemption of the
point at Barnegat City, where it il proposed
to build a couple of jettes or bulkheads to
stop the cutting away of the beach nearby the
at this business. having assisted at other
points along the coast where cbbing and
flowing of the tides has shifted the sauds
even to the point of moving villages. The
professor spends Il good deal of his time at
Belmar. where he has fine opportunity 10
study this situation. Professor Haupt does
not always agree with the army engineers on
such ietty work as has been done in the
Delaware river, for instance, and some years
n IL 4.
spect to Arkansas Pass, Texas. 1t was a part
of the old fight between the army engineers
and civilians.
TIME Rev. c. II. Woolston, u. D., is
l. still at it. There is no Christmas time
that does not find him gathering funds or
other resources to enable him to make
successful Christmas for the children around
about the East Baptist Church, of which he
is pastor Doctor WoolstOn is one of those
preachers who helps to hold his congregation
together not only by sermonizing but by in
Producing certain special features, as illus
tratcd lectures. which always help to attract
and hold the attention of the young.
COLONEL AND MRS. JOHN s. MUCKLE
" keep up their habit of entertaining prom
inent visitors from abroad During the last
three or four years an interpreter or two
might not have been amiss in the Muckle
household, nor would it have been altogether
inappropriate if the worlds "Who's Who"
had been readily available. The entertaining
habit is characteristic of Philadelphia and
there are indications that it will be sys
tematcally organized during the next ad-
ministration During the war, of course,
many notable foreigners were temporarily
guests of the city and of many of our promi
nent citizens. The thought of Mrs. Cor
nelius Stevenson and others versed in the
pleasing practice of receiving visitors in ac-
cordance with established custom is that
something of this kind may be worked out
through the fundamentally of the Mayor.
| OUR PHILADELPHIA bows continue to spread
" ou+ Tboso who go into tho oruv ond
,o,,r aro board from occa sioraiIv ganorallv
III ono,,it poho.i ID n WnCmIionnh r'ont
~ WoSt po;nt from Tho northeast soction
o,,d d,,lr ouoIifoJ Drr;no tbo ,vor bo did
| H., hit onJ now, odvoncod to tho rorl of
,;a ,as hoon ,1,1t in oon,,nond - ~
as,oD,, - afioor,, troi,ir, oorns ot Iit,,o ponl.
! CnIleso Arkansas The me- ior came home
received the usual welcome from the home
| folks.
| TIME Poor Richard Club, which believes i'll
| l. advertising PHILADELPHIA might make
profitable contract with Receiver of Taxes w
| Frceland Kcndrick. No one in recent months
has been making Philadelphia more talked
| about than Mr.. Keudrick His duties as the
| bead of the Mystic Sbriners have carried him
| from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from
| Canada to Mexico, and he has returned to the
citv with more testimonials of esteem from
| fraternal bodies than can be comfortably
| housed in a good size safe. EVERYWHERE lie
has gone the lax receiver has been hailed by
| crowds. in which have appeared former yisi
TORS 10 philadelphia, who were pleased to talk
| Of tho men tbey met here and the entertain
| ment tbev cnioyed Two other PhiladoI
nhians who do much in advertising the citv
by travel and speech making are the
tnrc Acres of Diamonds. ~ has been