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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16
Bedtime Stories
The Little Joke of Nimbleheels
BY Thornton w. Burgess
Some folks jump into trouble;
/ Jump the other avay.
To Jump a4nheeding, blimdly,
Wall gerry seldom pay.

OF course, Peter Rabbit couldn't pos
ssibly keep to himself the story of how
he had fooled Old Man Coyote. l am
afraid Peter boosted a little. | suspect
that he forgot that but for jerry
Muskrat he wouldn't have succeeded as
he did. 1t is one of the queer things
OF life that people do forget such
things. Anyway, late the next after
noon Peter ran over to the edge of the
Green Forest and with little group
of his friends about him he told the
story of his adventures and grew quite
pulled out with pride as his friends
admired him for his smartness. Peter
dearly loves to be admired, in which
matter he is not much different from
most folks.
Just as he ended his story something
landed on the ground right in the mid
die of that circle of little folks and
almost at Peters very feet. 1t was so
unexpected and startling that the re-
suit was very, very funny. Peter didn't
even look to see what it was; he bolted
Tor hollow log near by. Danny
meadow Mouse scurried under little
pile of dead leaves, Whitefoot the
wood Mouse darted in knothole in
the log on which he had been sitting.
Jumper the Hare lodged behind little
- NoA' OOHIlHy OnuCk packed
up against great tree-trunk ready to
tight. Only Happy Jack the Gray SOUR
rel and Chatterer the Red SQUIRREL.
who were sitting in tree, remained
where they were. You see, they felt
quite safe.
Then every one looked to see what
mad frightened them so. Perhaps Won
can guess how very, very foolish thew
feit when all they saw was a little
fellow about the size of Whitefoot the
wood Mouse, but with much longer
tan. 1t was Nimbleheels the Jumping
Mouse.
Johnny Chuck stopped swapping his
teeth IN the threatening way he has
and began to chuckle. The chuckle be-
came laugh and presently johnny was
laughing so that he had to hold his
tat sides. Now, as you know, laughter
is catching, and in minute or so
everybody was laughing, and no one
but Johnny Chuck knew what the Joke
was. AT last Peter Rabbit stopped
laughing long enough to ask JOHNNY
what he. was laughing at.
AT the idea of that little pinch-of-
nothing giving US all such fright"
replied Johnny. Then all laughed some
more.
1t was joke, for Nimbleheels is nat
urally such a timid little fellow that
he is the last one in all the Great
World who would think of trying to
brighten anybody. When the others
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16
For Girls

Many mothers are totally
at sea when it comes to pro-
viding reading matter for
young daughters.
The responsibility for de-
veloping an appreciation of
the fine in literature while
boys and girls are young
can easily be met by the
wealth which the artists of
the pen have given US. And
the fear of being high-brow
is indeeds~foolish when the
story interest is as great
as masters of their art
make it.
The love story naturally ap-
peals to the girl of fourteen or
older, and on the heels of the
old fairy tales, the medieval
legends and classical tales, the
following titles might be sug-
gestive:
"The Brushwood Boy" by
Rudyard Kipling, that most
beautiful story of dreams which
came true in the lives of boy
and a girl. Included in "The
Days Work." $1.T5 (cloth),
$3.50 (leather).
pride and Prejudice" by
Jane Austen; to the incompar-
able Jane we are even more
grateful for this intimacy with
the family in eighteenth CEN
fury England and the story of
the love affairs of Dorothy and
her sister; 81.
Monsieur Beaucaire,' by
Booth Harrington; this enthral-
ling story Of love and adventure
in eighteenth century England
contains all the romantic inter
est which thrills; 81.
"The Scarlet Letter." by Ma
thaniel Hawthorne, ST; "Cran-
ford" by Mrs. Gaskell, 81. And
a choice of Scott, Dickens,
Thackeray or George Eliot are
an introduction to great litera-
ture which cannot but stimulate
the desire for more. A set of
Scott, 80 vols, cloth, $45; of
Dickens, 80 vols, cloth, $25; of
Thackeray, Is vols, cloth,
$3.50; of Eliot, 10 vols, u
Morocco, $50.
Isabel Cartons Year" by
Margaret Ashmun; stories of
happy High School life, about
average people, told with
wealth of intimate details which
make them particularly popu-
lar; S1.60.
"a Cavalier Maid" by Emile
Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur
Knlpe; the servants of Charles
the First kidnap the charming
heroine of this tale, who finally
flies to America to escape the
tormentors who are after her
fortune. Written with the
same charm as "Polly Trotter,
Patriot" ga Maid Of '76," and
other stories of long ago by the
same authors; $3.50.
"Ten American Girls" by
Kate Dickson Sweetster; tales
of heroic American women, of
whom Pocahontas, Dorothy
Quincy, Clara Barton, Louisa
Alcott are suggestive; Sits.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16
For Boys

Adventure and hero
stories and books on me-
chanics are of particular in
terest to boys.
"The Book Of Bravery" by
Henry W. Lanier, is a collec-
ton Of stories of heroes of our
frontier (John Golfer, Kit Car
son, "Crizzly" Adams) of big
game hunters; of explorers; of
brave women; of patriots; So.
Leaders to Liberty" by
Mary H. Wade; short biogra-
phies of King Albert of Bel
GUM, Joffre, Pershing, Haig
and Foch; $1.35.
"Shasta of the Wolves" by
Olaf Baker: the life Of an In
dian boy who, lost in a forest,
grows up with some wolves and
other forest animals, living
their life; knowing only the
calls of the wild; 81.
"The Call of the Wild" by
Jack London; the great story
of our North and of a wonder
full dog; S1.00.
"The Ring-Necked Grizzly"
by Warren H. Miller; only big
game hunter of long expert
ence could relate the adven-
lures of these boys in the Rocky
Mountains and so wildly create
a feeling for the trail; $3.50.
"Curly of the Circle Bar" by
Joseph Bushnell Amos; a story
of ranching in the present day
on one of the great fenced
ranges of Texas. A fine cow
boy story; $3.50.
"Neptune's Son." by Rupert
S. Holland; a story of the sea
along the coast of South Amer
lea and around the Horn in pur-
suit of a ruby stolen from a
Hindu temple; $1.75.
Carpentry and Mechanics
for Boys" by A. Nicely Hall; an
explicit and well-illustrated
manual of directions for con-
struction of garden accessories,
household contrivances, play
ground and camp equipment as
we'll as electrical constructions
So.
"Harper's Every Day Elec-
tricity," by Don Cameron Sha-
fer; the working principles of
practical electrical appliances
from the simple battery to
small plant for the country
home are explained in this vol
ume; $1.35.
Either boys or girls would be
lost to the world while reading
these.
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The long summer vaca-
ton months provide time
for boys and girls to do
much reading which they
cannot do during the rush
of the school months. Too
there are many rainy
days to spend indoors which
can be made a pleasure if
there is something to read.
The Children's Book Cor
ner is we'll equipped to sup
ply books for every age and
every taste. Do not hest
tate to order by telephone
or mail. Books will prompt
ly be shipped to mountains
or shore.
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Of the Admiral begin to come aboard.
Double quartet Of Deputy Police Com
missioners appears. Refreshments are
carried aboard to the cheers of the
lords and ladies, who number at least
a hundred.)
Deputy Police Commissioners en-
long drawn harmony)7
Wen sail tho lower bay
On this our tug. seagong.
No matter what they say
We,ii dare the tempests blowing.
lRefre shments-"Clink! Clinkrc
Well dare tho stormy weather.
Wen laugh at what folks think,
We're little pale together.
CA tucket sounds; alarums and excur-
sions; enter the Lord High Admiral,
clad, from the bottom up, in white
shoes, white flannel trousers, yachting
coat Of blue, silk shirt, snappy tie and
collar, yachting cap.)
Lords and Ladies': "Avast Delay, yo-
ko! All hail his lordship!"
(They make low obeisance before the
Admiral as he pants up the gangplank.)
THE LORD ADMIRAL.
When was a cop my guileless stare
Put Enright right with our noble Mayor
Though people PANIED me. kept my smile
ana continued to register lack of guile
Though they knocked and they knocked
me Kept on smllin',
Ana now l am Admiral of the John f.
Hyan.
(The last of the refreshments follow
the Admiral aboard. The seagoing tug
blows her whistle and prepares to de-
part.)
CHORUS OF LORDS AND LADIES.
life on the ocean wave
Wen toast the Admiral's mug
lRefreshments-"Glug gug").
blowout we will have
Upon this useful tug
Why. tell us, should we care
Whether 1t is a yachtr
We're going to take the air
Whether it is or not.
(Admira takes his place on the
bridge, amid the cheers of crew and
guests. The John F. Hylan backs out
from the pier and heads down the bay.)
[CURTAIN1
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Humidity
8 a. m.... 93l1 p. M. 1918 p. m -.
General Weather Conditions

a m.... e3l1 p. M. 1918 p. m... sc
General Weather Conditions
WASHINGTON July 15.--Pressure is
moderately low in New England and gem
orally although not decidedly above nor
NAL elsewhere.
There were showers in the upper Ohio
Valley, the Atlantic and eastern Gulf
states, along the western Gulf coast. and
also light local thunder showers in the
Rocky Mountain region. In the central
valleys, the lake regions the plains states
the Northwest and the Pacific states the
weather was generally fair.
Temperature changes were not OF i'm
portance.
Local thunder showers will continue
Friday and Saturday in the south Atlantic
and eastern Gulf states, while to the
northward and northeastward fair weather
Will prevail.
Temperatures will change but little.
District Forecasts-Eastern New York
and Southern New England-Fair Fridav
and Saturday; little change in tempera
ture.
Northern New England-Fair Friday
except showers in eastern Maine; Satur-
day tair. warmer on the coast
New Jersey. Delaware and Eastern perr
sylvania-Fair Friday and Saturday. littja
change in temperature. ''Ss'0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16
Rye Beach Drive Popular;
Shore Road i'm Bad Shape
Post Highway Also Closed From
White Plains to Near
Eastchester Creek
Motorists Light Lamps To-Day, p. m.
-. Saturday, July II, $50 p. m.
- Sunday, July 18, S.58 D. m.

Motorists Light Lamps To-Day, 9 p. m.
Saturday. July II, $50 p. m.
~ Sunday, July 10, S.5s p. m.
Many motorists from Manhattan are
driving out these warm evenings to
Rye Beach for swim or else to some
place along the Boston Post Road for
a meal. The usual Shore Road trip
to join the Boston Post Road at New
Rochelle isn't pleasant, because of the
cut7up condition of the Shore Road.
both north and south of the road
iading off to City STAND. Repair work
Is being done on this stretch on half
the road at time. This makes travel
SLOW. The unrepaired half still open
is very rough.
The. Post Road is closed from White
rams rams road to point about a mile
from Eastchester Creek Incidentally.
the bridge approach at the Greek IS
under repair. Work on the new bridge
to replace the old wooden structure
is under way. The closing of the post
Road means long detour THROUGH
Mount Vernon, so that trip to RYE
beach, for instance, ordinarily about
90 miles, now covers more than &c
miles. the Inconvenience of run
nlng couple of miles over poor sur
lace on the Shore Road is overlooked
out much loss of time or direction.
One way to avoid the conditions of
closed or rough roads is to continue on
the Grand Concourse Woodrow Wilson
Parkway through to Jerome Avenue
Turn right on Gun Hill Road and
follow it to Webster Avenue. Turn
left and follow past Woodlawn Gem
etery. AT 233rd Street, turn right
and cross the railroad tracks. Take
the first good road to the left and fol-
low it to Mount Vernon, New Rochelle,
ETC., and so on.
Although concrete work on the Lin
coin Highway at Saluvia, Pa, has been
completed, the road will not be opened
until August l, by which time the con-
crete will have cured A detour on
the Lincoln Highway now exists be-
tween. Pittsburgh and the Westmore-
land County line.
The Pennsylvania State Highway
Department announces detour lat
Hatboro on the route between Phila-
delphia and the New Jersey State line.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16
Chauffeur Strangely Shot
Unidentified Assailant Flees:
Victim Unconscious i'm Hospital

George Harrington, twenty-one years
old, a chauffeur, of 1868 Madison Ave
nue., was taken to Harlem Hospital last
night in critical condition as a result
of being shot below the heart by an
unidentified man at the corner of Park
Avenue and 105th Street
The police believe the shooting was
the elimination of a quarrel. After
being shot Harrington sank to the side
walk unconscious. His assailant made
quick getaway. Harrington was car
ried into drugstore, where the last
rites were administered by Father
William Kearney, of St. Cecilia's Cath
Ollie Church.
Detectives of the East 104th Street
station went to the hospital to ques-
ton Harrington if he RECEIVERS con-
seriousness.
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The Seagoing Tug
A Nautical Drama i'm One Act
and a Prologue
Cast of Characters

Cast of Characters
John r. Hylan--A ruler who loves tho
., common people and hates an untruth
John #. Hylan"-A tug OF the Police
department formerly the U. S. s..
Richard Enright---Lord High Admiral of
Ills honors Navy.
Grover A. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IN waiting
to Hin Honor
Men nes,ns of the Board of Estimate. Deputy
foiice commissioners. Lord and
Ladies. the Common People.
Scenes
Prclogue-The Aidermanlc Chamber.
May Z. 1920.
Act Pier A. North River. July l5. 1890
the day of the first race between
Resoiute and Shamrock
PROLOGUE
(His Honor the Mayor is discovered
on the throne of state, flanked by mem
bers of the Board of Estimate and
armed guards to maintain order. En-
ter Whalen, bearing picture of the
j ohm r. Hylan. Flourish of trumpets.)
His Honor (sternly)-Is this pleas
ure yacht. or a seagoing tug?
Whalen (holding picture aloft)-It's
seagoing tug and here's picture
His Honor (more sternly)-show the
picture to the Board of Estimate.
Business of displaying picture to
S~AN NY III pSiS ., WHO sup guerrilla war
fare against each other TO look at it,
His Honor (most sternly)-I want
the people to know that this is not
pleasure yacht. ] just want to nail
few cheap lies. We don't have much
time for pleasure yachting. It's a sea-
going tug that can be used to take
garbage and ashes to sea in case of
emergency.
Common people cheer. His Honor
holds expression of righteousness as
curtain falls.)
ACT l.
(Pier A, where the John F. Hylan
is moored, swathed in bunting after
the fashion of seagoing tugs. Her crew
man the rail as the first of the lords
and ladies who are high in the graces
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16
Detective and Mystery
Stories

Also the unearthly, the
fantastic and wildly mag
NATIVE are contained in
such tales as "The Murders
in the Rue Morgue," "The
Gold Bug" by Edgar AL
Ian Poe, one of Americas
very early and surely one
of her best artists; 81 each;
3 vols.
"Sherlock Holiness" by Conan
Doyle; this master-detective has
no rival; "Memoirs and Adven-
tures,' S1.0O.
"The New Arabian Nights
and Island Nights Entertain
ments," by Robert Louis Ste
venson, are such mystery stories
as would quicken the dullest
Imagination; each, cloth, $3.50.
Adventure Stories
which carry one away to the
ends Of the earth are enthrall-
ing, and, if we must have
moral, they stimulate the mag
ination and the desire to know
something of the world we
live in.
"The Count Of Monte Cristo"
and "The Three Musketeers,"
by Alexandra Dumas, are per-
haps the best known of the vast
number Of volumes which Du-
mas turned out.
1t is said that Dumas is the
most popular Of the novelists
read by older boys. "Three
'Musketeers," ST; "Monte
Cristo," 2 vols, each, 81.
Robinson Crusoe," by Dan
iel De Foe-the first humanized
adventure story, written two
hundred years ago-has today
the greatest popularity because
of its truly adventurous spirit;
81; $3.50 (colored iIlustra-
tions).
Treasure Island" by Robert
Louis Stevenson. is such tale
of pirates, uncharted islands,
treasure and the high seas as
would quicken the heart even
Of an octogenarian; $3.50 and
81.
Books about boys which
prove interesting to read sue
cessively are:
tom Browns School DAYS"
by Thomas Hughes; the life of
an English boy at Rugby in the
1905; 81.
"Huckleberry Finn" by
Mark Twain-for Huck lived
on the Mississippi at about the
same time that Tom entered
Rugby; So; and
High Benton" by William
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16
Housekeeper Tells of Jewels

nOuSekeeper lcllS OF Jewels
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. July 15.-Mrs.
w. Mcdonald, housekeeper at the Mum
residence, denied emphatically to-day
that anyone in the household had fired
the bullet into the package addressed
to Mrs. Mum.
When the package was delivered, she
said, she signed for it and placed it in
drawer with other mail where it Law
for several days until Mr.. Mum and
his valet, John Deprez, came home on
July 2.
81 hadn't given it a thought" she
said, "but that night l happened to
remember it. l told John about it,
We got it out. Mr.. Mum wasn't at
home
"The package was sealed and I told
John he shouldn't open it, but he said
you couldn't tell what was in a package
these days, whether it was bombs or
something else. So he opened it,"
The housekeeper led the way into the
foot or so away from the table.
81 stood right there" she said.
There was a wooden box and some
packing. We found red box, either
leather or plush, and when we opened
it there was beautiful necklace of
diamonds.
"John gave cry and held out three
or four of them and piece of lead.
The diamonds were broken, and he said
the lead was a bullet. Then we no.
ticed the paper was chewed up as
though a mouse had~ nibbled it. There
was hole through the wooden box, but
/ couldn't tell whether there was a hole
in the casket. I didn't notice.
"I'm not sure whether Mr.. Mum
looked at the diamonds. He told me to
wrap them up, and took them with him
when he left on the 3d."
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1920. 1910

Highest, so degrees Cat 1870 p. m.); low
est. 60 degrees Cat a. M; average, "a
degrees; average same date last year, So
degrees; average same date for thirty
three years. IA degrees
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Weather Report

Sun rises. 4:5S I'm. Sun SETS. 7:25 pm
Moon rises. $40 am. Moon sets 7:4s pm
Note-The above figures are standard
time and not New York State time
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16
store Hours 9 to 5

Hegliger; the life of an Ameri-
can boy in a New Jersey high
school in 1919; is a sharp con-
trast with Toms life at Rugby
in the 1905 or Huck's life on
the Mississippi; S1.75.
"The Half Back" and "The
Crimson Sweater" by Ralph
Henry Barbour; athletic stories
of American boy life which are
most popular and well told:
each. 81 rs.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16

points out in substantiation of it's
theory, that last September a bomb
was actually sent to Mrs. Rodman
Wanamaker at her home in Tuxedo. AL
bert Gustave Kurth, butler who had
been discharged from the Wanamaker
household, was convicted of sending it
and is now in Sing Sing.
md, it is contended, looked like bomb
and thus deceived the Mum household.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16
Natural Wonders

have never been so we'll
handled for children as by
the great French naturalist
Henri Fabre. All children
have a very lively interest
in the universe and certain
ly no one is better fitted to
explain those wonders than
Fabre. His STORY Book Of
Science" and Our Humble
Helpers" are stories of the
insect world and of the lives
Of the domestic animals told
in so simple and interesting
a fashion that children who
have even a slight interest
in such subjects will want
more; each 50.
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official Record-Th

Local Official Forecast.-Fair to-day and
tomorrow; little change in temperature:
gentle west and northwest winds
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local Official Kec0rd.-The following Of
fetal record from the Weather Bureau
shows temperatures during the last TWEEN
tyfour hours IN comparison with the cor
responding date OF last year:
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For the Wee Tots

painting and cutting-out are
always great fun. An Indian
Wigwam, which must be
set up, and its Indian
family cut-out and clothes,
and their life planned as it
was lived long ago-would
please a small boy; soc.
The Lettie Lane paper
family for sister has end
less possibilities beyond the
initial fun of cutting out.
The rise and fall of the Let
tie Lane family can be
changed every time it is
played-a bride, a brother,
baby, sister, doll, grand
mother and Lettie Lane are
sufficient characters for
the most exciting plots
which could be Matched in
a youthful brain; 6Oc.
A stencil set with paints
($1.25) and a set of weav-
ing materials (65c) are
other games.
Fairy Tales
are the first love of many
children aside from having
an immense value in stimu-
latlng imagination and con-
tanning (probably) the his
tory of the race.
Many delightful collections of
national folk and fairy tales have
recently been compiled. Nowadays,
more than ever before, because of
our development internationally, it
is important that children become
acquainted with the methods of
thought and traditions of other
peoples.
"Czechoslovak Fairy Tales" COM
piled by Parker Fillmore, are a
charming introduction to these
people, who have recently figured
so prominently in world affairs; So.
Irish Folk and Fairy Tales" by
W. b. Yeats, have all the piquant
charm and the pathos that one
expects of this lovable, turbulent
race. The ways Of the little people
of Erin are altogether wonderful
FOR children. Modern library edi-
ton; Soc.
Fables and Folk Stories,". by
Horace E. Scudder; collection Of
those tales which have been the
inheritance of the race for hun
dreds of years-which invariably
appeal to children-and written in
SO simple form that the begin
ner can read them; 6Oc
"Andersen's Fairy Tales illus
trated by Dueald Steward Walker;
the Nightingale, the Snow Queen,
the Marsh Kings Daughter, and
many moro of the glorious old IA
vorites which have always delight
ed children have been beautifully
illustrated with true fairy insight.
81.
Household and Fairy Tales"
by the Brothers Grimm; these
stories, which were transmitted
by word Of mouth for countless
generations, were first written
down in 1912 and 1914 by the
Grimms: Rapunzel, the Golden
Goose, the Frog Prince, the
Twelve Dancing Princesses,
Hansel and Gretel will suggest
the wealth contained in these
So tales which have been chosen
from the best TRANSACTIONS. H.
Illustrated in color; Sl.5O.
king Arthur and His Court"
by Howard Pyle; this beautiful
old Anglo-Saxon story is the
rightful heritage of every child.
1t has been fully illustrated by
Pyle, who was one of our most
influential illustrators-and it
is written after Malory's rich
style; $3.50.
"The Wonderful Adventures
of Mis-" by Selma Lagerlof;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-16
Poetry

"The Cambridge Book OF
Poetry for Children,' by Ken
meth Graham; poetry which is
particularly well adapted to the
understanding and limitations
of childhood and inspiring 10
further acquaintance with
poetry has been compiled with
singular success; S1.75.
Poems of Childhood" by
Eugene Field, illustrated by
Maxtield Parrish; the dreams
and things which are most I'M
portant in childhood have been
sung by Field, to be delight
fully illustrated by Parrish; 50:
Poems Children Love"
chosen by Penrhyn W. Cous,
sens; poems which have stood
the test of popular opinion are
included in this volume; S1.5U.