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Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-21
c. \ MINuTEs
Proceedings of the Board of Aldermen Of
the City OF Perth Amb0y, N. j..
November 9th, 1928.

Regular meeting of the Council of tha
City of Perth Amboy, N. j., held Novem-
Der 9Th. 1923. The membe present were
Aldermen Soheld, Waters. Pdtten, Clark,
Riedy and Aldeiman-at-Large Calvin. Mr..
Mcclure being absent.
The minutes of the regular meeting held
October 18th, were ordered approved ns
printed.
The Finance Committee recomm ended
that request of Water Board for renewal
of $50, 600 note, he approved. which recon-
mendation was upon motion of Mr.. Riedy
confirmed by the following vote: Yea
Soneld. Waters, Patten, Clark, Riedy, Gal
win. Nay-one.
The Comptroller having audited the fol-
lowing bills:
New Britain herald., 1923-11-23
HELP FOR ELDERLY . COUPLES IS SOUGHT
 Welfare Official Would Make It a Real Thanksgiving Day for Them

| # "Somewhere in New Britain" there l lives an elderly couple. The man i: l crippled and the woman is unable, be. | cause of her advanced age to do much l of anything to help keep the famil! larder replenished The line between bare sufficiency and hunger is a very thin one. almost inperceptibl, some times. The board of public charities helps
 10 keep the ,tra dtional wolf away and
 the New Britain Welfare association
 has helped also. so that Pollyanna-
 like the elderly coupl" are glad for
 their kind friends and for the fact
 that they ale permitted to remain on
 earth a little while longer and enjoy
 the rest and peace which comes at the
 end of hard life.
 But. there is Thanksgiving Day coming and the friends of this elderly
 couple have them in mind. Tn fact,
 there are d number of couples in
 similar circumstances in various sec
 tons Of the city The officials of t'e
 New Britain Welfare association
 would like to do something to give these elderly people reason for giving thanks for something more than tie hare necessities of life,
 T have solution" said Miss Helen Johnson assistant executive secretary to her chief Cora M Beale. Go ahead and try your plan, said Miss Beale. So Miss Johnson has asked the cooperation Of the Herald" to carry out her plan.
 You see, it is like this" she says, There are many people in the city who will furnish Thanksgiving din- ners. for families. ENeryman's Bible class will takr care of Co and between i cur association and thr different churches hundreds ol families wit be provided with dinners.
 But" she said. those who have ! offered to take care Of families have l all been assigned to families with | children and no one is left to look 1 after these cases where there is only i the husband and wife. here ,,...'i are . who would like to help but who can not provide an entire dinner for a 1 whole family. So my plan is to ask these peopl, to send us what they can 1 and We will make up the baskets"
 Thus Miss Johnson has worked out what she feels is the solution of the problem "Tell them," she says, "to send what. they can no matter how little. \ quart nf onions, few pounds of potatoes. some sugar. a loaf of bread, a bunch of celery, apples chicken or some other roast if possible, a dime or dollar anything they can afford. And don't forget 10 tell them that We can use lots and lots of iellies"
 Miss Johnson will hf at the head quarters Of the association at h2 Cen ter street Tuesday afternoon to TO cetHe contributions. "pleaso tell them" said Miss Johnson in parting, That they will have more cause for giving thanks themselves if they feel that they have done something. no matter how little, 10 help make some one else happy for day
New Britain herald., 1923-11-23
TRACING FORTUNE
 IN STOLEN JEWELS
Detectives Work With Grand Jury
 in Million Dollar Robbery

Chicago, Nov. 23.-While the grand jury hears what information the state has collected on the s1,000,e00 bond and jewel robbery of the Werner Brothers warehouse, detectives are tracing the origin of s50,000 worth of jewels and bonds found in safety de- posit boxes and a house owned by Dr. Spencer Brown, dentist, held in connection with the robbery.
 Four other houses. said by the au- thorities to belong to Brown, are to be searched, detectives say, and au- thority to open his safety deposit boxes in Antioch, H.. and Chicago banks will be applied for
 A pearl necklace said to be worth s25,000, was found in box of face powder in a safety deposit box rented by Brown at an Antioch, H., bank, according to detectives. Three pack ages of war savings stamps worth S6,100, found in mattress in his house at Antioch contained pencil markings: 70. K.." IN. G." Some can be cleaned to go," detectives say.
 Frank Miller, former business agent of an electricians union and said to be under indictment for violation of the prohibition laws, was taken into custody earlya today for questioning. The police have not disclosed what they hope to develop from the inter- rogation.
 Estimates of the total amount of the robbery have been increased by the publication of list of missing l jewels which places the losses close l to s2,000, 900.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-23
xtRsrs TO HAVE pAgrY

Members Of the training classes of nurses at the New Britain General Hospital whosarr not on duty will hold a poverty party in the now nurses' home Monday evening. The girls will discard their blue uaiforms for the time being and win wear the oldest clothing they batt.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-23
SUNSHINE SOCIETY NOTES

A regular meeting of the Sunshine Society was held Monday afternoon Nine bouquets of flowers were sent to sick and shut-ins, 59 oranges were sent to the hospital. The society has six wheel chairs not in use. four pairs of crutehes and three air cushions.
 The society will be very pleased to receive donations for the Thanksgiv- ing dinner. Anything to eat will be acceptable and can be left at the Y. NJ. C. A. Tuesday morning, Novem- Der 27. or call Mrs. Frank Woods, telephone 743-12.
 The society is planning Il birthday party to be held after the next meet ing, December 3, and every member is urged to be present, and each one is asked to give penny for each year, and they will all receive a gift in re- turn.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-23
MIN.My-CHrM CAMPAIGN

Tho Epworth league ot Inc Trinity Methodist church will hold Win My-Chum campaign during the week of November 25. The following pro gram has been arranged. Monday, supper with Dr. Bell as speaker: Tues day. social entertainment in charge of the Gospel team from Hartford Wednesday. musical program with Mrs Lawrence Southaid; Friday, talk bv Joseph Palmer Of Hartford; sat- urday. candle light service with Rev John l., Davis as speaker; Sunday, talk by Rev. John l.. Davis
New Britain herald., 1923-11-23
ROOMS SCARCE AT HOSPITAL.

Local physicians have been request cd by the management Of the New Britain General Hospital 10 arrange to have convaiescent patients removed from the institution as soon as they are able to go home, because Of the waiting list of patients Nho want rooms.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-23
George Holman of HartforI and \. l..
 DeLeeuw of New York Deliver Ad-

One of the largest gatherings which has been held by the New Britain chapter, American Society of Me- chanical Engineers, for some time was held last evening at the New York Dining Rooms on Main street. A chicken dinner was served at s o'clock and was followed by addresses by George |. Holman of Hartford and A. L.. DcLp"uw, consulting en- sineor of New York city, and d mem Ter of the :irm Of Goss. ncI.eeuw CO, of kensington, new concern which has put new chuck manufacturing machine on the market.
 Mir Holman spoke on What the engineer should know about factory management
 Mir. DeLeeuw spoke on the applica- ton of the most practical shop prin- ciplcs in every day work. He told Of improved methods of making, using and caring for metal cutting tools and illustrated his talk by drawing sketches showing where various types of tools are better adapted to certain kinds of work than others.
New Britain herald., 1923-11-23

Good ingredients are ne0bsary to make delicious desserts. Pure extracts are pure----made from tested fruit juices. You will never go wrong by using Bakers--adyt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
THE AMAZ0NS

When the Spaniards and Portugese discovered and settled the east coast of South America they encountered on every hand, from the Gulf of Mexi- co to Paraguay, an ndian legend of redoubtable tribe of female warriors who had their home somewhere along the banks of that river, the Amazon, which now bears their name no doubt given them by the Euro pean settlers, who were familiar < with the Amazons of ancient fable. A belief in their existence is said : still to exist among some of the Carib tribes.
 The Amazons arc best known to us from Grecian mythology. The ori- gin of the myth, however, Is said to antedate even the heroic age Of Grecian fable and to come from Asia Minor.
 Far back in antiquity these female warriors are said to have come from the shores of the Caspian sea and, conquering Asia Minor, to have built the cities of Ephesos, smyrna, Myrina and Kyme. The worship of their Iii stanic queen, a sort of queen bee" was carried on with barbaric cere- monies even to the time of authertic Greek history.
 Always known as Ma" this arch spriestess was said to be served by 6 900 minor priestesses and by eu- .nuchs without number.
 When Ephesos passed into Greek hands the Greeks took over the myth along with the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
EIDE DUDLEYS RHYMES
srLAs USED TO ACT

Said silas McGuggin, in Peewee- ple's store: The shows of today ain't as good as of yore. I saw one last week called The Cattleman's Bride and honest, I thought 1t was tu-rible snide. When I was a young ster I knew how to act. I always played heroes and 1t was fact that girls by the dozen were writing me notes. On heroes like I was, girl always dotes. Of course. I was in local oprys, you know. but often I could "a went out with & show. They none of 'em wanted to pay me my price, so I let the amateur opyrs suffice. Today I could act, if I had to-" said si, and maybe I will take a part by and by when some church or lodge has a charity play. Oh, I'd make & hit on the stage any day"
 'I seen you act, Silas." said Grand pa Melee. "'Twas in 8 sad play called The Home by the Sea- You would a been fine in the part, I sup pose, without that bad egg that you caught on yer nose" Old Silas arose and he left with sheer. Jed Pee weeple grinned; so did ev'ry one near. T wish," Jed said slowly, 'he'd try 1t a spell. I've got some old eggs that perhaps, I could sell"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
FOR WIVES 'BACKFIRES'
Statute Inspired By First Corey Di- yorce Works Two Ways

These latter-day progressive laws for women must be all right. But sometimes they work out queerly.
 Take the. community property law of California. This measure was largely inspired by the recently shat tered romance of William F. Corey, 'the steel millionaire, with Mabelle 'Gillman, the vivacious chorus girl who became his wife, and has now obtained a Paris divorce.
 It will be recalled the. first Mrs. Corey had stuck to her husband through the early hardships of life, when he was a coal miner. washing, his red flannel shirts and daily fill ing his tin bucket with grub only to be told to go to Reno and get her self a divorce when Corey fell for the footlights charmer.
 The whole country was aroused by the story of the cast-off wife. The legislators of California then framed and passed a law that husband and wife should have an equal claim upon all property. real and personal, com ing into their possession after mar riage. This measure was meant to be a protection to wives.
 But sometimes 1t isn't. This is proved by the interesting case of Dr. George F. Mohn, and his wife, just settled after much litigation.
 pr. Mohn and his wife were mem
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

5. I have letter from 8 man who declares that the race is being ruined and men driven to immortality by girls refusing to marry men without money Furthermore, he asserts that women in these days are not willing to marry poor young mon and work up with them as their mothers dld.
 To this my correspondent ascribes the late marriage and the ever-in- creasing crop of old bachelors. For, says my correspondent, by the time & man has gotten able to support the modern woman he has generally lost his taste for domesticity
 do not think that the facts in the case will bear out the gentle mans contention. Women are to blame for many things, but not for the decline and fall-off, as MT. Wegg would say, in wedding bells. The fe- male Barkis has always been willing. It Is men who are the matrimonial pikers, not women. Women have ever been willing to risk all for love. It is men who have gotten cold feet when it comes to taking the plunge into the holy estate when 1t was a case of shutting your eyes to future consequences and taking the fatal leap in the dark.
 The theory that all men are anxious to marry early and take  ! family, and that it Is only women who lack the courage to sacrifice them selves for love is utterly and entirely false.
 You have only to look about you and observe the reckless marriages : that girls make to see that women still consult their hearts instead of their heads when they decide the most important event in their lives. Girls who have been raised in the ! lap of luxury marry men who can not even guarantee them the mak- ings of the traditional bread and cheese and kisses menu of romance. Girls who have made good in busi- ness or professions, and who are getting fine salaries doing six or eight hours work day in ma hogany and plate glass office, give up their easy jobs to slave over COOK stoves and washtubs for nothing Tn a two by four flat for the sake of the men they love.
 No. When you see tho kind of men women marry 1t doesn't look as if they were not willing to take chance on matrimony. or that they refused any suitor who didn't rate in the millionaire class, or that tSey were willing to waste youth walt ing for the men they loved to get on Easy street before they tied up with them.
 As for girls not being able to marry poor but ambitious men and work up with them. that Is also tommy rot Ninety nine girls out of hun dred are simply dying to do that very thing. But the cold truth Is the men don't give them the opportunity to do 1t.
 For the ambitious man, the real go-getter, the man who has set him self a definite goal to reach, sub scribes heart and soul to Kiplings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

dictum that "he travels the fastest who travels alone"
 He has no idea whatever of handi- capping himself with a wife and children at the beginning of the race. They are luxuries he looks forward to having after he has at- ta!ned success.
 He sidesteps love just as carefully as he would the bubonic plague, or the flu germ. and he has no more de- sire to marry early than he has to commit suicide.
 The men who make early mar riages in these hard-boiled times are the amiable, affectionate, easy going chaps, without any ambition or any especial desire to get anywhere. Just the jog g-along sort.
 The ambitious man doesn't marry young, because he knows that no port a family and save up anything to grubstake opportunity when it knocks at his door.
 He has seen too many young chaps of promise have their hopes, their energy, their enthusiasm buried un- der a mountain of bills that were the bare necessities of living for a family.
 The man of ambition does not marry early because hes wants to keep himself free to go where for tune beckons.
 meal ticket. He cannot jeopardize a steady job for the chance of a bet ter one. He cannot go off on long trlps for his firm, or to foreign countries, without the burden of dragging along his wife and children.
 The ambitious man does not marry early because the unattached man has many chances of making valu- able social connections that the mar ried man has not.
 The bachelor is welcomed in cir cles where very often his wife would women push the fortunes of the agreeable unmarried man. but they never bother themselves to help the married man.
 Besides these reasons for staying single, the ambitious man has still another reason for not marrying. He Is selfish and he wants to spend his money upon himself.
 The salary that enables 8 single man to dress well, belong to a good club, live in a good location, and en- Joy most of the luxuries of life, will doom him to shabby clothes, ugly surroundings and sordid flat full it is easy to see why domesticity has no charms for him, and why no woman is vamp enough to get him.
 But 1t isn't fair to blame the women for men not marrying young, nor claim that girls are not willing to marry poor men and work up with them. They don't get the chance to do it.
 In all sober truth, it Is the men who have the least to offer girls who oftenest propose. And the girls take them. Does that look as if women weren't ready to take any risk for love? DOROTHY DIX.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

bers of tho colony of the Universal Brotherhood and Theosophic Society at beautiful Point Loma.
 Mrs. Mohn suddenly left the colony and then surprised the world with suit against Mrs. Katherine Tingiey. head of the cult, for alienation Of her husbands affections. The case came to trial and Mrs. Mohn was awarded a verdict of $100.000.
 Some weeks ago the amount, with s1S,256 interest, was paid over to the sheriff, James c. 2Byers.
 pr. Mohn immediately filed suit under the community property law. demanding the judgment in favor of his wife be turned over to him as head of the community of himself- and his wife.
 Under a settlement that has been approved by the court, the details of which have not been permitted to be- come public, the judgment money has been divided between Dr. Mohn and his wife.
 It probably wac not contemplated by the framers of the law it would permit the husband to profit from damages awarded a wife in an alien ation suit, but that was the way it worked out in this case.-Los AnEs- les Times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

became dry and fell out in handfuls.
 The trouble lasted for five years. q read an advertisement for Cu- ticura Soap and Ointment and sent for e free sample. I purchased more and after using three cakes of Cuticura Soap and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment I was com- pletely healed" (signed) Mrs. Ksila Houser. R. ? Benhams, Virginia. Use Cuticura for everyday toilet purposes. Bathe with Soap, soothe
 with Ointment, dust with Talcum. s.m,lss Ere. ey Nsil. Address: "outevra LAssr- storiss, Dept. h, Maiden 4s. Nass." Sold svery- vhsre. Soap 95c Ointment $ and 6ee. Taleum 26e
 l Cutieura Soap shavss without mug.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
THE FIRST CENSOR

Sir Robert EEstrange was the first Englishman of letters of any distinc
 tion to take up journalism as pro- fession. Incidentally, he may be. said to be the first man to fill an office not at all popular with journalists that of censor. He was an inde- fatigable pamphleteer on the royalist and court side during the epoch of the Restoration. In 1902 LEstrange
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

out In blisters which developed into large, soreeruptions. The skin
 was red and inHamed. and itched and burned so badly that l could not sleep. My face was dis figured, and my hair
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
THE CHI D2EN WONANS SPHEPE $ THE HOAAl

was made Surveyor of the press '' the censor of all books and pamph- lets, and the editor of monop- oIistic newspaper, "The Intelligencer.' printed only such news as suited the government, and labored vainly to suppress his illegal and un- licensed competitors, who surrepti- tiously printed and circulated news letters" containing real news.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29

when we think. correctly we will of ten, is the result of selfishness. What is correct thinking?
 St. Paul says: whatsoever things are honorable |. just =. pure {. lovely and of good report think on these things .. these things do." Yours truly,
 ALFALFA SMITH,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
ALFALFA SMITH

Dear Reader: If every one in the world thought correctly, we would have no Jails or other public institu- tions.
 We complain about the taxes and never seem to look at the enormous cost of our penitentiaries, jails and insane asylums.
 It is all matter of thinking, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
SAME FLAPPER IN 1904
A Newspaper Editorial Of That Period
 Might Have Been Written Today

Do the flappers of 1923 cause our editors to shake their heads and won der to what end the race is coming? Listen to the editor of the Boston Repertory, September 5, 1894, when he delivers lengthy opinion on wom- ems fashions and especially that Of appearing "clad in transparent muslin when clad at all"
 with regard to dancing vulgarity has proved equally successful. The Scotch step, the Irish shuffle, and the partridge waddle, have triumphed over the graceful minuet and elegant cotillion A strange rage for initiating low life seems the epidemic malady of the age, a compliment which democ- cracy has extorted from us, or else 1t must be one of those unaccountapie freaks which fashion sometimes plays. New Republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
SOCIAL CAL. E,NT0AP

The Jefferson Davis chapter. U. D. C., are giving a Christmas tree to the Confederate Veterans Saturday aft ernoon at o'clock at the Elks Home or Eighth avenue. A program will be rendered and refreshments served
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
PERFECTLY AGREEABLE

Would-be Gallant-Pardon me, Miss. but is that man making up to you?
 Flapper-I suppose you might call it that.
 Would-be Gallant-Shall I have him arrested?
 Flapper-Why? I rather like it. He's my fiance.-New York Sun and Globe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
EGYPTIAN STAMPS PUZZLE
latest Issue Shows Value Only In
 Arabic Characters

latest Issue Shows Value Only In
 Arabic Characters
 A new issue of stamps is in circu- lation in Egpt, but these stamps only show their value In Arabic charac- ters. This Is a great inconvenience to many people. Three quarters of the foreigners in Egypt do not know how to read Arabic, and thousands of tourists who cannot decipher Arabic characters yearly visit Egypt
 An immense service would be rem dered to all these people If the new stamps showed a translation of their value In a European language.
 Perhaps 1t will be urged that Egypt, like other countries, should have it's stamps printed only in the national language. but the cosmopol- itan character of the Egyptian ,popu- lation seems to give good reason for departing, in this particular, from the practice of other nations.-Chris- tian Science Monitor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
| Mrs. Kella Houser Tells How Cuticura| | Healed Eruptions

My trouble began with itching and later my face and scalp broke
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-29
Says Men, Not W omen, Are Matrimonial
 Pikers
Who Is to Blame for the Decline in Marriages? :?
Dorothy Die

Girls Always Have Been Willing To Risk All For Love And Still Are-But The Ambitious Young Men Of To- day Simply Don't Propose-FamiHes Are a Drawback To Business Success
, 1923-03-29

Several out-of-town visitors at
'ended the business meeting Of the
star hold last rnurxday
In the Masonic Temple.
among them being Mrs. Anna Davis
Green River. 6hssbet and cake
served after the session and Q
pleasant social hour was snjoyed.