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eeived a baby which belonged to- an
other motherT'
Much fiction has been written along
this line and this Exchange OF
babies" has even been known to oc-
cur in real life. Just at present, how
ever, there Ia . movement to have
ell hospitals take footprints OF the
babies 80 that Mrs. O'Brien will not
get Mrs. Polinsky's baby. and Mrs.
PolinSky will not get Mrs. Ferrarri's
baby through mistaken identity.
The Cincinnati Foundlings Asylum
has recently adopted Bertillon's foot
print system and It is expected that
in a short time all the leading hos
pitfalls will follow suit. In fact the
Manhattan Maternity Hospital and
Dispensary at No. s27 East 6Oth
Street has been using this system
for the past two years.
THE moment the baby arrives we
take its footprints" Miss Nancy e
Cadmus, the Superintendent Of. the
Hospital told me. I'VE believe this
to ne the surest and the safest way.
Then we also take the mothers
Sinserprints 50 that twenty or even
fifty years hence the mother OF child
can come back and their Identities
proved.
There are certain lines in the foot, I"
continued Miss Cadmus, which tney
say never cnange. The foot will grow
but those same little lines and curves
which are 30 individual at birth will
still remain.
Before we used this footprint sys-
tenn we used to tag the babies by
using adhesive plaster bracelets upon
Which were written their mothers 5
names. Even then we were afraid
that during the bath these little plas-
ter affairs might drop off, so we put
two tags on the baby; one on each
wrist, While that was all very well
an long as mother and baby were in
the hospital we decided that the foot
print system would be better in later
years. Now we have q complete record
on file both Of the baby and OF Its
mother"
At Bellevue Hospital It was said
that they do not use the footprint
system, but are planning TO do so In
the near future.
ut is an excellent plan," one OF the
head doctors told me, "a system which
solves the parenthOod relation for life
Az present. however, we have an eX-
cellent system and there isn't a ghost
OF a chance Of the baby going to any
one but its own mother. In all the
history OF Bellevue not one case Of a
."changeling" has occurred.
"As soonaas the baby arrives its
mothers name Is placed on adhesive
plaster and fastened around its wrist
A complete record OF the baby Is
made, including It's weight, shape Of
head, length of back, legs and arms
color Of hair az there Is any, eyes
&C, and placed on file. Their to in
sure further mistakes each baby Il
placed in crib by it's mothers side"
So with all this tagging" Anc
"fOotprintng" in the hospitals 7
looks as II prospective mothers will
have nothing 10 worry over anC
fiction writers win have TO think uI
other plots than "changeling' ones.
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XMAS POEM coNrEs1.

Ten awards OF one dollar each will
be given to the ten Kiddie Klub
members. aged from six 10 fifteen In
elusive, who write the best poems
about Christmas.
The poem must be original The
sender must have thought up the
idea. which may be Jolly. serious or
religious, Just as the author may
wish TO make IT,
Poems must not be copied nor writ
ten from memory, and the contestant
must not accept help from elders
4 note from the parent or teacher
Of the sender saying that the con-
tribution Is original must accompany
each poem.
Write NAME, AGE, Address
and CERTIFICATE NUMBER dis
tinctly.
Address y. Y. Evening World
Kiddie KluO, No. 90 Park Row, New
York Chy.
Contest closes Tuesday, Nov. 80.
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w spoil him"
Such was the climax OF
every piece of advice my married
women friends had attempted to give
me. Their harangues invariably came
to the same end.
Remember this, Alma-not one man
in a thousand Is able to appreciate an
unselhsh, devoted wife" declared Mary
Osborne. "Selhshness Is mans favor
ite vice, and you don't dare encourage
1t in him. Ever since we were mar
red l have made n point of keeping
Tom stepping pretty lively to my tune.
Believe me, he does all the fetching
and carrying in our family, and like
every we'll regulated husband, he
knows Just where he stands"
l had invited a dozen or 80 Of my
best friends, married and single, to
view my trousseau a fow days before
the wedding, and afterward to have a
cup Of tea, and II was on this occasion
that much Of this conversation took
place.
"A man values the woman ne mas
To make a lot Of sacrifices for" agreed
JAMIE Miller who was putting three
humps OF sugar in her tea. when
Rob and l were first married, 1 made
the terrible mistake Of waiting on him
and hulnoring him in all OF his foolish
whims ! was the angelic little wife
up every morning at 7.30 TO eat break
fast with him II was BObOie, by
your leave, and 'Bobble, 1t shall be as
your lordship wants it, until he was
not At 10 live with. ] am certainly
glad that | saw my mistake before il
became fatal. Take my advice and
begin right, Alma. Don't let Hugh
start any lord and master business
with you. II he does, nip 1t right in
the bud."
This interesting scene. which had
rather amused me at the time, and the
admonitions of my friends, came back
10 me as Hugh and l sat over our cof-
Zee that first evening in our own home
AS l arose from the table and struck
a match, which l held TO Hugh's ciga-
Tette, while I bent over and lightly
touched my lips 10 his forehead,
banished their words as the sordid
and sinister warnings of those who
had fallen short Ot their dreams Of
happiness.
In another moment Hugh had passeC
into the living room, had picked az
the evening paper and had settled
himself into the roOmiest aud HaGS
comfortable Of our chainS
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CONNIE o'PATRIcK AND THE
EAIRIE0

n TOW, as everyone knows, ireland
IN Is the land of fairies and most
everyone there believes IN
them. but / am going TO tell you
OF one that did not believe IN them
and what befell him. Connie O'Pat-
rick had never believed in fairies,
even when his good mother told him
storieB about them when he was a
child. He laughed and said there
were no such things.
When Connie grew up he estab-
lished a ferry across the shannon
and very prosperous was he. One
night when he was In bed he heard
a knock at his door. Getting up he
opened the door and what sight
met his eyesl Hundreds OF fairies
about his door all talking at once 30
loudly that he did not know what II
was all about until one OF the fairies
came up and asked him II he would
row him and his companions across
the river. Connie at first said no,
but the fairies promised to give him
gold piece each 80 at last he con
sented to row them across.
They all filed into the boat, each
one dropping a gold piece into the
cup that Connie held out On the
way across the fairies rocked the
boat 10 hard that Connie was afraid
that they would all be thrown into
the water, When the boat reached
the other side Of the river, Connie
turned around 10 tell the fairies TO
get out. When he looked around
there was not fairy TO be seen.
He was 80 nstonished that he could
hardly move but he at last turned
his head and saw the last OF the
fairies crossing the meadows He
got home as quickly as he could but
when he looked into the cup In which
he had collected the fares another
sight met his eyes Every gold piece
had turned into a withered leas!
Now Connie kept all his money In
a box In the bottom OF his boat and
ne had gotten this out 10 put in the
gold pieces he had expected TO fnd
in the cup We'll" said ne. "I'have
been cheated by the fairies, but
win look into my box OF money and
maybe the sight OF II viii strengthen
me-" He opened the box expecting
10 gee silver coin but In the box wan
only pile OF wIthered leaves
Ever since then Connie O'Patrich
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My Prize

A thousand thanks from me 10 thee,
For The dollar prize you sent 10 me,
on Columbus Day to my great sur
Prise.
The mailman brought my wonderful
prize.
Dear Cousin Eleanor;
Just think OF ~ Two months Of
school have gone by already. II
doesn't seem possible that the
beautiful summer Is all over This
has been the most wonderful summer
| have ever known, especially the
last four weeks before school opened
My Aunt ana Uncle took M sister
ana / in their automobile 10 Boston
by way OF Providence, and We
travelled around in Massachusetts,
for while, and then came home
through New Hampshlre and Yer
mont We saw Bunker Hill and lots
Of historical sights. ana stayed in
Bome big hoIels, and al some little
lima sometimes. shall never forget
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"a AIhe NV NoIA evening .Nofiul
soul She refuses to recognize de-
feat Before her marriage she had
been a Stenographer, and when her
husband threw the care OF the family
on her she went 10 work with q will
at her former occupation.
She found she was able TO make
enough 10 pay for some one TO care
for the children while she Is away
during the day. II is not easy, how
ever In fact. II Is very difficult TO
make ends meet But she smiles with
It all.
mo one knows what a woman has
to go through" she said TO me one
day. mo one knows what women
are called upon to do before they die.
Little did l realize, when as u young
girl ! was wooed and won by this
man, who promised everything and
held nothing sacred.
But thank heaven. the children
will soon be able to help a little, and
then my great difficulties will be over
thank God | have the children. l
would have been miserable without
them"
What this woman needs Is not a
monument, but a little gift now and
then from some good friend or neigh
Dor.
know another woman whose hus-
band has become wealthy but who Is
the worst kind Of a mlser.
For years she toiled and sacrificed
her own personal needs in order that
no might save and accumulate some
thing for that rainy day" She was
the one who urged the saving, and
did without in order that they might
avoid later hArdships.
And now she suffers more than she
ever dreamed.
They have children too, but he de-
nies the family aB well as the wife
She has to use strategy and prac-
tically steal what Is truly coming to
them In the way OF creature com
forts 70 say nothing of pie asures.
The spirit OF this woman ander
such circumstances Is martyr like, to
say the least. She not only does, her
own work, but does a little extra
sowing for other people in order that
her children might have some youth
ful pleasures.
This woman does not need a n1onu
ment, but a part OF the money she
helped to make. There ought to be
some way by which she could get II
besides the manner In which she is
now forced to appeal for II.
And so l could go on aud cite many
instances like this. Women infh Il
parts OF the world are daily giving the
best that Is In them unheralded and
unknown. All men might well
take little time to effect on this. II
they did many woman's efforts
would be appreciated and her burdens
allevated,
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11EHRR
Copyright 1920 BY The Presa Publishing Co
lThe Now YORK ETen!na Morldl
81 ROY L L.r4ecAPDELL


SCN n RS. STRYVER'S niece, Mil
N dred, Is learning stenog-
raphy and l promised that
you would try to get her a position
when she is competent" remarked
Mrs. Jarr the other evening.
But why should Mrs, Stryvers
niece go to work, when the Stryver's
have lots Of money!" asked Mr.. Jarr.
Because she wants to be indepen-
dent that's why" replied Mrs. Jarr.
] know lots Of girls who are well to do
or whose parents are, and yet they are
studying for art or the profe essions."
1t would be much better il some OF
them would learn housekeeping" ven
tured Mr.. Jarr.
That's all some men think women
should knowI" retorted Mrs. Jarr
'The men are getting afraid Of the
modern woman taking their places in
business and professional life. If men
are so interested in housekeeping, WHY
don't they keep house themselves?"
I'm afraid it will come to that" re-
piled Mr.. Jarr But you know as
well as / do that domestic science Is
being neglected by your sex"
Yes, and I'm glad OF it," said Mrs.
Jarr. THE women have had to do
household drudgery for years, but now
thoy are taking up broader vocations,
When | was a girl, the aim and aspir-
alton of q woman's life was to get
married to the first man who asked
her Now woman has opportunities
to support herself out in the business
world The day is passing when she
Is simply an unpaid houseworker!"
well, dearie. there's no use of get
ting hutfy about It," replied Mr.. Jarr.
"If YOU are satisfied with feminine
emancipation from the dreadful fate
Of matrimony, / am. Let the Eood
work 60 on Let there be lady boiler
makers, and lady telegraph linemen,
and lady plumbers, and lady steve
dores. Let the women do all the hard
work. l should worry!"
1T isn't what women want to do,
it's what they have to do" said Mrs.
Jarr
But that brings us back TO what I
was saying" replied Mr. JAM Here's
Mrs StryVer's niece who does not have
to be stenographer, and yet she ls
studying TO be one"
But she wants TO be useful" ex-
plained Mrs, Jarr, she really does
not expect 90 go 10 work, as she Us
engaged TO be married"
Then why doesn't she study house
keeplng?" asked Mr.. Jarr.
'She does not expect to keen house, u
was the reply. She expects 10 live in
hotel, and then She and her hus-
band do not agree, she can always
support herself at her stenography
That Is, II she has to: though OF
course her aunt, Mrs. Stryver, has
lots Of money, and Mildred will never
have TO worry"
"Oh, all right, all right" said Mr
Jarr. But I don't see why Mrs
Stryvers niece, Mildred, should be
looking for job when she hasn't fin
ished her stenography and Is engaged
to be married anyway"
But she is" cried Mrs Jarr. she
wants 10 be Independent because the
young man she is engaged to is 81
very Jealous"
jealous Of a job?" asked Mr.. Jarr
"Of course" was the reply. "HeI
one of that kind that, II Mlllret
looked at another fellow, would bre1l
Off the engagement, So she has tC
make him Jealous OF her work Al
you need to do Is to promise to ge
her a position. You will, won't yog ?
And Mr. Jarr promised he wouEd.
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Dear Cousin Eleanor:
You are the dearest, dearest Birl
Ever | did know.
saw you u few weeks ago
Twas at "The Wishing Ring"
show.
looked and looked all over
For one just half as sweet,
But never in my lifetime
Did / your equal meet
Now, dear Cousin, listen
l suppose II must he told,
I'm little boy, Dear.
Just seven years old.
But were l a big man
| know what | would do
I'd go and meet you,
And Tess my love for you.
Suppose you are married!
But | guess II isn't true.
I'll Just keep on a-lovin'
A-lOvin' Ioviu' you.
SEYMOUR ASTOR GOLDBERG,
aged eight
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SCIENCE NOTES.

TNHE life Of worn carbon pa
per can be heightened by
placing the sheets to-
gether. face TO face, covering
them with paper and ironing
with a warm natiron.
A Russian inventor claims to
have perfected motor that can
safely utilize electricity drawn
from storm clouds.
The Swiss Government is plan
ming to erect a powerful radio
station at Geneva.
Mounted on the back OF re-
Gently patented dressing chair
for women is triple mirror.
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II, and wish that all my Klub
Cousins could have gone, too.
Your loving Cousin,
ARLDTST'A KNuCKE1RIBOCKER,
New York CHty.
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LETTERS FROM kIoDIEs.

Dear Cousin Eleanor:
One morning when I went down
stairs the postman handed me a
letter. II wos my check for winning
the contest. You don't know how
glad / was. jumped for Joy. !
thank you very much.
Your loyal Cousin,
MIARCAAIlF1T ROCHE, Brooklyn, MY.
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The Evening Worlds
Kiddie K1ub Korner
Conducted By Eleanor Schorer -

has believed in fairies and has had
much better luck for II.
Retold by ETHEL BROPHY, aged
eleven years.
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A buoy 10 made to warn ssamen Of
shallow water.
~ PHILIP GoLDsTBIN. New
Y0fk City.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ii, 1920
No More "Mixed-Up" Babies
Plan to Haze AU Hospitals
Take "FOOtprints" at Birth
Also Mothers Fingerprints as
Future Proof Of Relationship
By Fay Stevenson.

1870 By PrusP Co Nev Tor
r. 10 a hospital
babes alike
mother while
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HOUSEWIVES DESERVE
MONUMENTS

DT - opT1I I W ltStTNG LOG0.
Copyright b.
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OCTOBER CONTEST WINNER.
Ten-Year- Old Class,

A-4-'s-&-s- & ~"TA -
g. *'ES-oe-s""lLo-
L9I c:O
TX Ess1
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CGNV IHATEvER you do, don't had rather expec
w spol him" first meal Hugh "
w c. ,a ,no oIi,,o,, NJ voted husband by
Ii
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FEAR MOB RULE
British Authorities Fearful of
Invasion by Sim Fein.
Extra Guards Are Placed Where
Demonstrations Are Expected.

London. Sept. 29.-Apprehension
that violence may result here from the
Irish situation was keener today with
the reported Illustration of a plot to
destroy office buildings in Whitehall.
The Irish office, Brixton prison,
where Terence MacSwiney is starving
himself; Downing street and all other
places where demonstrations might be
expected were given additional guards.
Sir Hamar Greenwood, home secre-
tary for Ireland. and Maj. Gen. Mac
Ready were reported to be cautious in
their public appearances. Cabinet
members also took extra precauti ons.
1t was reported that hundreds Of
well known Sim Fein sympathizers
had been arrested and hundreds
more were under surveillance.
Men designated as gun men by the
police were known to be in London
and police charged that they were
awaiting the death of MacSwiney as
the opportunity to begin a bloody
campaign.
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REDS WANT NEUTRAL ZONE
Soviet Peace Delegates Make Every
Effort to End Polish War.

Riga, Sept. 2e.-Russian BoIshevik
representatives at the pence confer
ence here have submitted to Polish
delegates suggestions for the boundary
line between Poland and states ad-
joining to the east
At many points it is some distance
east of the line fixed ford Poland's
eastern frontier at the Versailles con-
ference, and touches the latter line
for but a short distance in the neigh
borhood of Brest-Litovsk, so that she
might have direct railway communi-
cation along her eastern frontier.
Soviet delegates propose that hos
tilities cease within As hours after the
preliminary treaty of peace is signed
and that Polish troops withdraw about
fifteen miles westward of the de-
markation line. They undertake to
agree that the Russians will withdraw
the same distance. maintaining the
rate of twelve miles in the first "a
hours. This strip of territory would
be a neutral zone during the final
peace ARRANGEMENTS
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Chicago, Sept 29.-The third con-
fession by White Sox players indicted
for alleged throwing of the 1919 world
series to Cincinnati was announced by
authorities today.
Lefty Williams, pitcher. told of
his part of the alleged conspiracy,
Assistant States Attorney Hartley
Replogle. in charge of the investiga-
ton. announced.
williams was named by "Shoeless
Joe" Jackson as the man who gave
him his $4,000.
Williams named all of the gamblers
who were involved in the deal. Rep
logic announced.
Shortly after noon Williams was
taken into Judge McDopald's office
and it was expected he would go be-
fore the grand jury. Indictment of
the gamblers was expected soon after
the grand jury goes into session on the
baseball investigation, ReploGle an
nounced.
A Chicago newspaper appeared this
afternoon with what was purported
to be a confession by happy Felsch.
The paper quoted Felsch as saying he
got his 5000 but that the eight play
ers were double crossed out of an
even split of 100000"
Officials had no knowledge of the
reported confession and Felsch could
not D6 4pNaAttA-
Fred Mcmillan, one of the White
Sox players, indicted yesterday. has
made a statement to Alfred S. Aus
trian, attorney for the Chicago Ameri-
can league club. it was announced
early this afternoon.
Judge Mcdonald announced VII
liams made a complete confession
Immediately after telling his story
to the judge. the player was taken be
fore the grand jury.
Williams involved the same eight
players as Cicotte and Jackson in theiI
story, the judge said.
Need No More Evidence.
I'VE now have all the evidence nee
essary TO go ahead and prosecute every
one Interested in the conspiracy
players and gamblers alike" the judge
said. We do not need any more evi-
dence.''
/ Williams said he got $4,000. Ht
! said jackson and he were given Sl0,'
600 which they split between them.
In his testimony. Williams men
toned ''Spor;" Sullivan of Boston and
4 man by the name OF Brown of New
York who. he said. were gamblers.
/ Wi;liams's Story.
Williams said he was first ap
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-09-29
NO SUB FOR LEAGUE.
Gov. Cox Declares Harding's
Plan Already Doomed.
Declares G.. O. P. Would Return
to Conditions of 1914.

st. Joseph, Mo, Sept. Ex-senator
Harding has presented no substitute
for League of Nations because his
only alternative is a return TO the in
ternational normal conditions of 1914,
with autocratic monarchies, sudden
ultimatum, secret diplomacy and bur-
densome armaments," Governor Cox
said here today in his first speech in
Missouri.
Again attacking Harding's state
ment that he had nothing construc-
tive in character" to offer regarding
a new association of nations. Cox de-
clared that the Republican candidate
would not dare to suggest to mothers
of America return to pre-war inter-
national relations.
1.-THE reason Harding has no sub
stitute for the league is because ev-
erything else has been tried and
failed" Cox continued. Spirits of ten
million men who fought and died,
many millions who must hObble thru
life on crutches or go with pinned up
sleeves, the thousands who are Sight
less, the widows and children who
have been starved and made home
less. all these haven't been dreams of
statesmen who in this critical hour
have nothing better to suggest but go
back to it all over again.
I'VE must choose either to retrace
our steps over the broad road of in
ternational anarchy. which leads only
to destruction. or We must choose to
advance and travel along the straight
and narrow path to international JUS
tice. patrolled by moral might of civil
lied nations of the world"
Prohibition Question.
En- Route With Governor Cox,
Omaha. Sept 29.-After yesterday s
tour of South Dakota. where he gave
the first pronouncement of his attitude
toward the Volstead prohibition en-
forcement act. Governor Cox. Demo-
travelled to Missouri and Kansas.
where the prohibition question has
been one of the vital issues for years.