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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
BRIGHT OUTLOOK
 FOR OUR SINGERS

Madam Frances Aida, the gifted soprano, who will be heard at the Casino, Thursday, Jan. 23rd, is in pri- vate life the wife of -Gasazza, manager of the Metropolitan Opera Co.,.
 When Madame Aida speaks of the future of American singers, she does so with more than ordinary author ity. In a recent interview she is uuot- ed as saying:
 The future looks very bright for native singers in this country, because they have very good voices to start with and both the pluck and deter mination to cultivate their natural gifts. The great drawback is the lack of experience and drill which are, owing to present conditions here, difficult to obtain.
 Strictly speaking there is but one opera, house for the entire country; to gain footing at the Metropolitan is the aim of every young singer who longs and hopes to do something in opera The prize appears so enticing, so glittering, that the singer quite overlooks the years and years of study, labor, effort and struggle those of us who are there have gone through in order to reach this goal. Ameri- can girls are gifted, studious and ambitious: but one thing they must realize-they cannot all sing at the Metropolitan: the sooner they learn this the better.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
SNAPPY PROGRAM
 FOR BR00KLAWN

The February program of the Brooklawn Country club will be very interesting and entertaining. The holidays will be observed with special features and the moving pictures chosen for this month are very good.
 Miss Henrietta Bishop will be the hostess for the first. Saturday tea, fol- lowed by a dinner dance at o'clock with music by Woodhull's orchestra. The second Saturday tea, with Mrs. Frank c. Hunt as hostess, will be fol- lowed by a moving picture at S:30 o'clock, featuring Elsie Ferguson and Eugene O'Brien in Under the Greenwood Tree Lincoln's birth day, February 12, will be celebrated with a bridge party at o'clock for which Mrs. N. ". Bishop has offered the prizes.
 The Valentine dinner on February 1 1 will take place at o'clock and there will be music by SpeidePs or chestra. Mrs. Norman Leeds will be hostess for the tea on February 15, with a dinner at o'clock followed by the moving picture Little Miss Hoover" featuring Marguerite Clark and Eugene O'Brien.
 Washington's birthday tea with Mrs. Erwin Nj. Jennings as hostess, will have music from 4:30 to s fur nished by Miss Washburne's Singing and Dancing Orchestra. The nov ing picture will be Lafayette, We Come"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
DUTCH WINTERS

"In winter, when their canals are frozen, every house is forsaken and all people are on the ice; sleds drawn by horses and skating are at that time the reigning amusements." Gold smith wrote of the Dutch: They have boats here that slide on the ice and are driven by the winds. When they spread all their sails they go more than a mile and a half a minute. and their motion is so rapid the eye can scarcely accompany them. Their or dinary manner of travelling is very cheap and very convenient; they sail in covered boats drawn by horses; and in these you are sure to meet people of all nations. Here the Dutch slum- ber the French chatter and the Eng fish play cards. Any man who likes company may have them to his last. For my part I generally detached myself from all society and was wholly taken up in observing the face of the country. Nothing can equal its beauty, wherever I turn my eye the fine houses elegant gardens, statues, grottos. vistas presented themselves; but when you enter their towns you are charmed beyond de- scription."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
WINTER SPORTS CLOTHES.

Sports clothes, which, a few years ago, were the exclusive possession of the summer wardrobe, now claim in terested attention throughout the year. Nor does a woman need to Win ter in Florida or California, both to want and to wear them.
 The English sNNeeds and homespuns, which have been so pouplar for coun- try clothes, are now being used by many Well-dressed women for town wear as well. Where this is done, the suits are necessarily more tailored in the line and somewhat sUbdued in color; and, undoubtedly, the chief dis tinction between sports clothes for town and those for the country lies in this very matter of the use of color, says the Christian Science Monitor.
 If a woman is planning a general utility suit, which must serve for morning or business wear in town and for her week ends in the coun- try, she could do no better than select a. homespun in one of the soft neutral shades of purplish gray or greenish blue. which he found in this cloth. Hand-woven wools are lovely of course, and a wonderfully pleasing variety of color is to be had in them, but they are expensive and must be made to order at one Of the hand loom shops found in the larger cities. Although a suit for winter sports may take the form of a coat dress, a sweater suit or merely a coat and skirt. it must be planned for warmth and for freedom in walking or skat- ing. A cap, scarf. and huff set of wool, a pair of heavy boots. and fur or fieece-lined gloves are the only necessary accessories to this outfit. although a slipper blouse of jersey is most desirable, if a separate skirt IS worn.
 l The lines of the costume may be 1 both informal and picturesque, if the wearer is slender, and the waistline l is nearly always a movable affair by reason of a sash or loose belt. Only i a hat which is small and snug is real | ly appropriate for a sports suit. It may be a urban or a cap, butt it must 1 have no tendency to leave it's wear CTS head during moments of stren- uous sport.
 The woman who wishes to indulge her love for the distinctive in dress
 will find a most satisfying opportu- nifty for originality in planning a cos tune of this sort. The white back ground of the winter landscape af- fords her great freedom for a venture in ":poster" colors, but, if she chooses to be daring, she must determine to avoid the merely conspicuous.
 An attractive skating set includes a turban, scarf and huff of knitted wool, in a lovely shade of raspberry. Narrow bands of black wool are ef- 1 Actively used at intervals. Both the
 lining of the huff and the soft crown
 of the turban are of black velvet
 With this costume, a swe-ter blouse
 of black wool jersey cloth is worn
 over a chemise dress of raspberry duvetyn. The blouse slips over the
 head and buttons at either shoulder
 with large button of black bone 4
 patent leather belt gives the neces-
 sary trimness at the waist.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
REPETITION OF ST. MARY'S PLAY
 ON FEBRUARY 8
Entertainment Excelle d Anything Ever Present
 ed in the City.

Mir. and Mrs. s. 2, Poll have kindly donated the use of the Plaza theatre for the repetition of the big enter tainment that was staged at St. Mary's hall in December, and the charity or Eanizations of the city are completing the plans for It's production on Sun day afternoon, February g. The pro- ceeds will go to the poor of the city through the charitable organizations and the parishes.
 So huge was the success of the first appearance of the elaborate three-part entertainment, that it's re- production has been requested, and the announcement that ft will again be staged in the Plaza theatre has been greeted with great enthusiasm and interest by those who are to take part and those who are looking for ard to witnessing it again. Some new features have been added and 1t is expected that it will be a greater success than before.
 Miss Dorothy French will assume the role of the blue bird that had been written especially for her, and Miss Dorothy Gates, another well known young juvenile will also ap- pear at the performance at the Plaza. Both children were ill at the time the production was staged in St Mary's hall, and so were unable to appear.
 It Is expected MT. and Mrs. Poli will occupy a box on the day of the performance and reservations have also been asked for by a number ot out of town people
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
BY ANNIE G. PORITT.
Press Chairman, of The Connecticut
 Branch National Woman's Party.

The ratification of the prohibit tion amendment has been greeted with intense satisfaction by Sui fragists generally. The satisfaction is not all due to the fact that most Suffragists are personally in favor of prohibition, though this has long been undoubtedly true It is due largely to the clearing of the situ- ation as regard Woman Suffrage which must take place now that prohibition has become the settled national policy of the United States. Again and again in State campaigns the greatest foes that the Suffra gists have had to encounter have been the liquor interests. Every saloon was center of opposition to the Suf- fragists when State campaign for the ratification of a constitutional amendment was on foot. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been poured into campaigns against Wo- man Suffrage by men whose chief in terest was in the manufacture CT sale of liquor, and whose reason for op- posing Woman Suffrage amendments was that if the women were given the right 10 vote they would use their votes against liquor
 Onslaught in New Jersey.
 In New Jersey in 1915 there was tremendous onslaught on Woman Suffrage by certain machine poli- ticians headed by Jim Nugent and supported almost entirely by the saloon interests. New Jersey it may be noted, is the one state which the prohibitionists do not expect to ratify the prohibition amendment. It Is thought prob- able that the amendments will be ratified by all the other 47 States even including New York and Con- necticut, but New Jersey will re- main out of the fold and will have to submit to prohibition perforce because one wet spot cannot be en- dured in a country whose whole policy is dry.
 Defeat in Ohio.
 Tn Ohio in 1912 and again in 1914 the defeat of the Suffrage con- stitutional amendment was attri- buted almost entirely to the activity of the liquor interests. In those years the liquor trade newspapers and journals made no secret of their opposition to Woman Suffrage. When campaign was on they printed articles and cartoons
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
.RAYBESTOS HAS
 PROMOTION CLUB

In keeping with its former bene- fcial, social, industrial and educa- tional activities the Raybestos Com pany through its employees have form ed new club known as the Reybes- tos Promotion Club.
 The aim of this newly founded club is to broaden the minds, cement the Friendship and expand the earning capacity of each Raybestos employees. Monday night has been decided upon as the regular meeting night, and on last Monday the attendance was about S5 members, however, it Is expected that the nor ,ershbp will reach the 70 mark betore it closes
 Organization was in order on last Monday and as a result the following officers and committees were elected:
 President, F. Pike; vice pro sident. G. Hudson; secretary and treasurer, J. E. McKenna.
 The-committee on bylaws is as fol- lows: E. Brobson. A. Brown, F. Crook, F. Pike, J. F. McKenna-
 The committee on arrangements is as follows: R. S. Foster, W. Crew, R. H. Da TiA
 During the meeting several talks of interest were enjoyed. Robert Davis, salesman for the company, spoke very forcibly on salesmanship, and MT. Ryan of the packing department, addressed the body on the funda- mentals of better business.
 The regular study will commence immediately after the meeting On next Monday night. The committee se- lected for It's topic at the next meet ing Costs and Its Relation to My Job" Each member will be called upon to express his individual views on the effects of costs on his particu- lar job.
 Sumner Simpson, president of the Raybestos Company, has very gener- o1isiy offered his support both person ally and financially to further the success of the organization
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
MEN
 PROTEST BIC TAX
O'Connor of Park and Saunders of Polls Be
 lieve It Unfair.

Bridgeport is now the center of a storm of protest, as a result of the governments announcement of a 20 per cent. tax on all theatre tickets Protest cards to be signed by theatre patrons have already been circulated throughout the audiences at both the Plaza and Polls and in connection with similar action taken in many other cities, the internal revenue bu- read at Washington will have q big task placating the various interests in the country
 Frank O'Connor. manager of the Park theatre, said today that the in- creased tax would hurt the theatrical business in general and be a hardship on the patrons, especially the poorer classes who were more in need of recreation than the others Mr. O'Connor said that the present tax was enough and he did not believe it should be increased. He even went as far as to advocate the lifting Ce the 10 per cent. war tax, as soon es the peace negotiations had been con- cluded.
 Matt Saunders, manager of PoHs, James Mccarthy of the Plaza, and George Arvine of the Lyric, are all set against the increased tax. Along with Mir. O'Connor they believe that it will certainly hurt che theatrical business and think that the govern. ment in placing this revenue is a trifle unfair in view of the admirable work done by theatrical interests and actors during the war
 While the main fight against the 20 per cent. tax will be conducted by men from New York, Chicago, Phila- delphia, Boston and other large cities, every protest from smaller places throughout the country will be filed with the government officials.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22

Miss Edna Mohr, of Tom Thumb z reet, entertained the members of tAe Opeche club on Monday evening at her home. Refreshments were served and a general good time was enjoyed by all.
 Private Harold D. Marshall, a mem Der of the 325th Infantry, has returned to this country and was the guest of his mother, Mrs. Clara R. Marshall, of 12O Henry street, during his 24-hour furlough.
 Private Clarence R. Ackerly, of 935 Broad street, is i'll in a hospital in France, according to telegram re- ceivcd by his relatives a few days ago.
 The parish of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament will give a min strel show at the Lincoln school hall in the near future. Rev. E. J. Shaug- messy will direct the entertainment, and Professor M. J. Grafton, organist of the church, will provide an or chestra.
 Miss Margaret Hughes of Washing ton avenue will be hostess at a meet l ing of the Opportunity club at her home tomorrow evening, at s o'clock. Mrs. George Hugo, of 153 Harral avenue, will entertain the members of the Thursday Pinochle club tomor row at her home.
 Robert Nichols. the well known English poet, will address the mem- bers of the Contemporary club at their fourth meeting of the season, at the home of MT. and Mrs. David s. Day, of 625 Clinton avenue, tomorro w evening. His subject will be ''1! , 1 War Poets of England
 l The women who had relatives in the 56th Regiment, Connecticut Coast Artillery, are planning to organize in this city league, which will welcome the boys home, and a meeting has i been arranged to take place at the Armory on Wednesday, January 29, at 7:30 o'clock in the evening. Mrs. F. S. Gray originated the idea and Mrs. Louis O'NeiI, Mrs. Louis Prague, Mrs. Philip Bronson, Mrs. A c. Ben nett and Mrs. Fred Palmer have stat ed their intentions of becoming mem bers. An invitation is extended to all mothers, wives, and sweetheartS of soldiers in the 56th to join the organ ization. At the meeting on Wednes- day, Mayor Clifford B. Wilson will be
 present to address the women.
 From in the morning until ( o'clock in the evening, a committed of the Comfort club will station them-
 selves at the railroad station where
 they meet every incoming train and
 greet all soldiers and sailors that may be on such a train. Yesterday the
 committee gave out more than $25
 worth of cigarettes and candy to Uncle Sans boys and, the members Iof the committee composed of Mrs
 Charles H. Sprague, president, Mrs
 John R. Woodruff, Mrs Charles Crosby, Mrs. Bernard Stratton, Mrs
 Stanley Beach, Mrs. Charles Bits, re-
 ported that the work is very interest
 ing and they feel that they are doing
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
PHOTOGRAPHY OF HEAVENS SHOWN
 BY BAUMCARDT
Art League Secures Noted Lecturer to Give Interest ing Talk on Developments of This Line of Photo graphy, Wonder of the Universe Will Be Dis closed.

Lovers of the stars and the mystery of the heavens will be delighted Thursday afternoon when they attend the lecture to be given by B. R. Baumgardt, under the auspices of the Bridgeport Art League, at The Strat- field ball room. The purpose of this lecture is to bring into relief the re- cent achievements in celestial pho tography, and in a popular and un- derstandable way interpret their bearing on some of the greatest problems that have yet engaged the attention of thinking men.
 In disclosing the triumphs of the celestial photography of the starry universe the subject becomes sub- lime. Suns and worlds are weighed in the balance. Giant nebulae, Co., lossal clouds of incandescent matter without form and void" situated on the confines of the universe, will dis close to the eye the very processes of creation. It will be a vision of in- f1nity, in the midst of which will stand forth, the supremacy of law in the universe.
 MT. Baumgardt has most won derful collection of such photographs which he will throw on the screen and describe each one carefully in his interesting talk on the subject, "The Glories and the Romance of ths Heavens" He has a most wonderful collection of extraordinary photo graphs of the Milky Way, where the stars are so numerous that they blend their light into luminous haze. Copernicus, one of the large orators on the moon, which has a cluster of peaks in the center, and is about 75 miles in diameter which can be brought to the observer within so miles with a modern telescope, will be shown on one of the beautiful pho tographs.
 Membei. ,..p tickets will admit to the lecture and tickets will also be sold at the door. The lecture will be- gin promptly at 3:45 tomorrow after noon.
 Through an error the name of the lecture appeared in local newspapers as the Romance of Human Pro- gress."
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
GOOD THING FOR SUFFRAGE
 PROHIBITION QUESTION OVER

against Woman Suffrage; sometimes reprinting long articles by woman anti-suffra gists which were not in tended for the pages of a liquor trade organ. but which were used as convenient matter to serve the trade in its fight against Woman Suffrage. In these papers all the old tlattery of woman as an angel too pure for politics, found its place and the stuff about the sacredness of the home and the home as the place of the woman was repeated ad nauseam. One would think that a saloon paper would be the last to have anything 10 say about the home, when it's particular trade was the one trade which resulted in the breaking up of homes and in the reduction to poverty and misery of so many of these angel women who were to be safely caged in the home. The only care of the writers and editors of these papers was to keep women powerless to touch their trade, powerless to defend their homes and safely immured where they could do no harm to the saloon or the liquor interests.
 Interest Kept Secret.
 In more recent years the liquor interests have not been so ready to show their hand in opposing wo- man Suffrage. They learned that their opposition was something of a boomerang which recoiled on their own heads. But they did not there fore cease to oppose Woman Suf- frage. They only preferred to do it more quietly and to hide them selves more carefully behind the skirts of the innocent and ignorant women who formed themselves into : anti-suffrage organizations thus affording a beautiful and respect able screen for the more sinister forces which were the real enemies of Woman Suffrage.
 It is in every way a good thing 1 for Woman Suffrage that the ques- 1 ton of prohibition has been set l tied, and that the liquor interests
 have nothing to fear from the votes
 of the women, because they are all ready faced with almost immediate extinction. The question of Woman | Suffrage can now be considered on 1 its own merits without this con 1 tinual complication of the question l of prohibition, and it's enemies now | consist only of the very few Bour- bon Tories who can learn nothing and who are incapable of progress. It is something of a disappoint- ment, of course, that the prohibit 1 ton amendment has got the prece- ] dent.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-01-22
ROBBER SHOT IN
 BOLD HOL DUP

As he was about to close his store for the night, Frederick E. Bassett, jeweller of 394 Main street, was con- fronted by two men who had entered the store.
 Throw up your hands, and be quick about it." said one of the men. show ing e revolver into Bassetts face. And hand over all of your good jew elry too" said the other.
 In reply Bassett reached under the counter drew his revolver and shot one of the robbers through the arm Both of them then ran out of the store, the man who was hit crying out to his pal that he had been shot. The other tried to quiet him. telling him that if he didn't shut up both would be arrested.
 Bassett was alone at the time of the attempted holdup. He told the police in reporting the matter that the two entered and asked to be shown some good watches. He went to his safe and took out q tray of his most valuable timepieces. He also took out tray of diamond rings. and laid them on the counter.
 Becoming suspicious of his custom CTS because of a whispered conver- saton which was going on between the two all of this time, Bassett took the tray of watches from the coun- ter and laid 1t on a small stool beside him. telling the men that he didn't think he could sell them anything. He then took his keys and started to go toward the door. when he was com manded to throw. up his hands.
 The robbers ran in the direction of the railroad yards and have not been arrested.