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every hamlet and city In the province
Magdalona iletachnient, ready to take
ure espousing.
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impression of Americans on
Tour df Eternal City.
On Banks of River Tiber?Brief Resume
of the Historical Sights of
Ancient Capital Depicted in
Humorous Vein.
London.?Thero is a large place
down in Italy between Naples and
Florence that Is known as the Eternal
-City. You may have heard of It. It
"was the place, you know, whore Romulus
and Remus; Julius Caesar, the
-victim of the black hand plot; Nero,
.and some other famous persons used
to hang out, and which was once
aaved from soino one because a bunch
of geese cackled at the psychological
moment. Young Reinus and his brother
Romulus, It seems, started the
place and it has been eternal ever
alncc, although a number of lowbrows
^attacked it with armies and broke up
great quantities of its statues and
statutes and tried to swipe it oil the
map in other ways. Rut it bit its
thumb at all these agitators and still
manages to worry along on the lire
and centi6imi it can wheedle out of
ouri'vy* visitors. Hotel keepers have
hecome its principal citizens.
For many, many persons, who Just
love antique things, go to see Rome
- very year. Yes, that is the name of
the place, if you haven't already
guested it. If you want to do as the
Rumens do, you can call it Roma.
The julns are great stuff for those
ho like to investigate) the civilization
of the folks who lived at the time
that ITncle Reinus drew a circle on
the map and called it Rome, and when
- -Julius Caesnr flashed the news to an
eager world that all Gaul is divided
.Into three parts. You must remember
when he did that all the papers got
VUV CAIIUS.
Wo wero In Pompeii one day and a
soldier in the place that must have
%>een the corner grocery of the 1'ouipeiiaiia,
tor it still seems to be the
favorite hang-out for soldiers, guides
-and other unemployed persons, told
us that although these were pretty
fair little ruins, if we wanted to see
*ome ruins that wero ruins we should
run over to Home tor a few days. We
Tiad been out to the Blue Grotto the
xiay before, and as we were still feeling
rather blue frotn the experience,
we decided to take a look at thit
Rome place and see if we couldn't got
cheered up a bit.
So we caught a train that afternoon
thai happened to be going to the
Sternal City. We entered a flrstdasg
compartment. The man who
collects the tickets came around after
a while and asked to see our billetl.
Re looked at them a moment and informed
us in a grieved tone that they
were for the second class compartment
We assured him politely that
that was all right; that we should
Just as soon stay where wo were, as
we didn't like to change now that we
were all settled. And Just to show
him that we had no hard feelings toward
him we gave him a couple of
lire. He understood at once our aversion
to making a change and locked
the door of our compartment so that
we shouldn't be disturbed. Those conductors
are charming fellows.
We arrived in Home along about
nine o'clock and took a carriage to a
hotel. "In the Eternal City at last,"
we murmured. Every one else was
saying the same thing in rapturous
tones as he got into his carriage, so
we did likewise, thinking it was customary;
It seems to be a popular remark.
Just like every one pulls the
old one about seeing Naples and dying
when he lands the*-e.
Early tho next morning we started
out to see the Eternal City. We had
to admit that it was quite a place,
and that the two famous brothers
tarted something when >hey founded
the city.. We strolled around to look
a*, the Tiber. We couldr't discover
why any one should look ai the Tiber,
but it seemed to be a popular pastime,
ao we Joined tho rost of them. Red
Baedekers flashed In tho sunlight as
a. long line of sightseers leant' on
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OMEN
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; relgu of Huerta, which is slowly but s
of Sonora. Here the women are bandi
s tip the cause which their husbands, ft
(tat rome
the parapet of a bridge and read what
the book had to say about the Tiber.
AH we could recall about the stream
was that It used to be a favorite cemetery
among the Itomans. Whenever
a person became obnoxious he was
thrown into the river. We concluded \
that such an action was the height of I
insult. It was just like being thrown |
into an unpnved street on a rainy '
day.
"Isn't it lovely?" an enthusiastic
young girl exclaimed, turning to me. '
"Great." I replied. "Only it seems '
to have a bad case of jaundice just I
now. Perhaps this can be cured, how- .
ever, fo we can't hold it against the '
poor river."
SHE WOULDN'T PAY HER FINE
Pretty Motorcyclist Gets Novel Sentence
and a Dinner de
Luxe.
New York.?Miss Lillian Huberts,
j seventeen, of Flatbush. was before
; Magistrate Gelsmar in the Flatbush
; court, charged with driving her motorcycle
at 30 miles an hour.
When a fine of $25 was imposed
upon her Miss Roberts, a suffragette.
| stamped her little feet and declared
; mat sno would not pay It. She was j
; given the alternative of a clay In Jail. '
She agreed to the latter, but the magistrate
grew tender-hearted and de- .
ckled that she could spend the time
; in the courtroom Instead of going to
j the Raymond Street Jail. Soon after
court closed a friend brought Miss
Roberts a dinner de luxe, which was
eaten on one of the benches.
WEALTHY MAN'S SON LABORS
Takes Place in Factory at Bottom of
Ladder to Learn the
Business.
New York ? Augustus Cordier, Jr..
twonty-three-year-old son cf the lute
: Augustus Cordier. who was president
of the l.alnnc< Crosjean Agate Ware
factory in Wood Haven, L. I? and was
a son-ln-Jaw of Florian Grosjean, who
founded the company, Is a workman in
the factory.
When the youth's father died tie left
his extensive interests to his widow,
who is worth several millions. Kach
morning he arises early and goes to
work in the factory to learn the but'ness,
with an idea of some day succeeding
his father in its management.
He is studying the work of every department
and dons overalls and works
as hard as any of the other employes.
CAN PUT PLANTS TO SLEEP
French Scientist Claims That They
Feel Pain?Makes Many Experiments.
ParlB.?Can flowers feel pain? This
is a question to which French physiologists
are giving much attention at
the present time.
M. L. Chassaigne believes that they
can, and do. His opinion is based on
interesting experiments. Taking a
mimosa plant, he exposed it to the
action of heat. The leaves writhed as
if In pain. A simple mechanical effect,
say the skeptics; a proof of sensibility,
snys M. Chassaigne, since it
does not take place if the mimosa be
anesthetized.
If the vnso containing the mimosa
! is placed in a glass globe with a piece
of cotton impregnated with cloroform
j or any other volatile anesthetic for
| half an hour, the foliage becomes
wilted and the plant has all the ap:
pearances of being in a deep sleep,
i If it be now subjected to the action of
! heat it remajns unaffected
M. Chassaigne has repeated the
same experiments with many different
kinds of plants, but always with the
same result. "It is maintained." he
says, "that plants do not suffer because
they have no nerves.
"Many physiologists hold that
nerves are but the extension of protoplasm,
modified and adapted to fulfill
i the required function. Hence the prot
toplasa of plants can perfectly well
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KILLS HER FOR SLUR ON GABY
New York Man Infatuated With Dancer
Stabs His Woman Com
panion for Remark.
Now York.?From tho first timo that
William Twist of the I Ironx saw Gaby
Deslys dance on the stage he was so
stuck with her beauty and grace that
he became infaunted with her Although
he was not personally acquainted
with the dancer. Twist so
revered her name that when Miss
Louise White made a disparaging remark
about the music hall performer
he drew a knife and stabbed Miss
White to death, inflicting twelve
wounds as he attacked the woman in
a hallway.
Then Twist gave himself up to Police
Sergeant John T. Meade, who
found the slayer standing near the
body in the hallway of the home of
Miss White.
"It was this way." said White "I
saw Gaby Deslys dancing and I was
Goby De&lys.
willing to marry her i loved her so
much and so. when 1 met 'his woman
on the street and took he? home and
she made some remarks about the
woman I loved, ! b? came so angry
that 1 took out my knife ai d stabbed
her. Now. that's about all 'here Is to
j it."
' act as a rudimentary nervous sys
tern."
MINISTER'S DOG RIDES IN CAB
Ex-Premier Clerrertceau Has to Pay
Fares for His Mastiff in French
Capital.
I Paris?M. Clenii'iiccnu. the French
j statesman, owns a large and (lore*
mastiff, whose lmbit it is from timeto
time to mak" long excursions into
I outlying part- of Paris.
When he is tired, the dog will puinr
into a horse cab arid si* then.' growl
Ing and showing his teeth M the cub
man attempts to remove htm.
Seeing the name and a. dress of M
Olemenceaii engraved on the dog's
brass collar, t'.ie cat-man finally drive,
the dog home In this way M C'h
menceau has had several long f- res
to pay
VA/ill M/v* rj--.- 4- r
nut r> <ft??v-'ie ciupcrs
St. t'lairsville, \V. Va Elopers wh<
lie about their ages in obtaining mar
riage licenses here need liav : ->o font
of the law Judge Nichols na.% annotincod
that no more prosecutions foi
I ago misrepresentation will be begun
Arrest Brothers for Fighting.
Yonkers. N. Y.?Frank. Andrew nnd
' Nicholas Holly, brothers, two of them
twins, were arrested for fighting in a
car. The trouble was caused by Andrew
and Prank not liking t'. a !mcei
I of Nicholas.
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PROVIDES FOR
UPBRINGING OF
FUTURE CITIZENS
Widows' Pension Act. in Opera
tion in New Jersey. Decinr:<*
lo Be Great Success.
KEEPS THE HOWE TOGETHER
Under the Law Widows Are Enabled
to Clothe, Feed ~:nd Educate Their
Children ? Will Co Away With Public
Institutions. V^' ; c It Cannot
Take the Place of the Mother?
New York Is Investigating With a
View to the Adopt cn of the System.
T\ *7 KWAKK, N .1 Sim stand-; in
t' .In >r of :1m sli.tnty - h> rails
!mnm on tlm outskirts of tlm
el'y. A child clings to each
hand and another dutches tightly to
the folds of her pink calico dress last
inside the door stands two new brass
cribs Across tlm gloomy aspect of
broken kitchen chairs and patched
table beyond arc hooks in the brick
chimney on which hang children's garments
with the bright stamp of newness
on them. There is coal in tlm
scuttle bv tlm range, with its craeke I
lids, and there is food a-cooking Dingy
and gloomy is the interior of the single
room, hut It is spotlessly clean.
This is the home of tlm tirst widow
In Jersey to be pensioned for being
what she is just a poverty-stricken
mother Thn ???.. !.?
clothes, tin1 food are results of. that
ilrst pension cheek
Homes Are Proof of Worth.
To the outside world perhaps the
Widow's Pension act passed in Jersey
last July Is a hazy reality, the real stg
niflcance of which Is hardly appreciated
It is only when one can peer Into
a home where the pension has come?
or perhaps, more aptly, has peered into
it before and after the coming?
that it dawns on one what this pensioning
of widowed women who have
children dependent upon them really
means.
Itriefly the widows' pension was the
dream of Isaac T. Nichols, senator
from Cumberland county, who plainly
stated that In his opinion a woman
who brought children into the world
was entitled to a pension for her work
when her husband, or support, was
taken from her by death That was
the beginning Senator Nichols was
tor pensioning every mother <>f a child
under sixteen years old Put there
were those who objected. Such a broad
act, they saiii. would allow unmarried
women with children, women with husbands
still living and others to share
in the reward Intended really for the
widowed mother. The hill was amend
ed, ami became a law on July I
First Pension on July 22.
Py Jul} 22 the lirst hearing to determine
the granting of pension had !> en
held, are the lirst pension was grant
ed It '< only a matter of time when
every state will have its pensioned
mothers, Senator Nichols said.
There are :Ut'? wid<w e,| mothers
drawing pension in New Jersey, and
the number is steadily increasing.
There ar*"- pensioned mothers i:i every
one t.f the state's '2 1 counties save one.
The illle i v?-eiiH.i*i frnm ...
?:m -st 'ins come is Oi'i'au county, in the
s<>urh< rn part of 11?stale. Why no
cry from :i needy mother has boon
lit ard irotn there is a mystery to the
state board of children's guardians
which his the supervision of the pen
sions and pensioners in hand
The process a widowed mother must
employ to gain a pension is simple.
First, she must write to the state
board of children's guardians for
application blanks. She will receive
three blanks, all identical. She must
fill in each, one for the state hoard,
one for the overseer of the poor in
her district and one for the Judge of
tho county court, where her case
eventually will be heard.
County Foots the Bilis.
On receipt of her application the
state hoard sends investigators to determine
her eondition. Then a date Is
set for her hearing and she goes into
court and tells her story. The investigation
of the state board is offered
in evidence, and the judge passes on
whether or not sh<? is eligible to a
pension If she becomes a pensioner
the checks are sent her out of the
funds of the county in which she lives.
The amount of the pension, which
is really intended for ?he support of
her children, i- fixed by law. It is S'.t
a month i< r one child, #11 n month
for two children and #1S a month for
three ehililri-:. runt tor nn?ti , i.ti.i
thereafter $1 a month The stair
board's investigators havo supervisory
charge of the dispensation <>t the pension
anil of the conduct of ttn* mother.
At the arrival of a ch'ld at the am* of
sixteen, er before, at the discretion of
the board, the pension tor ilint eiiilil
can tie diseontinued 'Ii;is, liriefly, is
what New Jersey has done for its
widowed mothers How has the plan
worked out .'
The woman with the three children
in a shanty on the dge of Newark
I smiled when she was asked It was n
! tired smile, but there was no trace ol
: unhuppincss in It
"How does It work?" she answered
l and her voice was full with emotion
j "Fine!"
She >*.iaed to smooth with u th.v
hand ;lu< lmlr of a live-yoar-old boy J
who clung to Iter dross. The other
children, a girl of eight and a boy of
seven, looked up at her as children
only can look at those they trust.
"It pays the rent." she went on. "and 1
it buys the coal and it gives me a I
chance to clothe them as they ought 1
to he clothed. He fore the tirst check
from the k ountv came we didn't have
any elothes thnt you might call
clothes. 1 didn't mind for myself. but
the little ones were without warm j
things except what 1 could make for
them between the days' work, and j
even in July the winter isn't fnr off.
for the poor at least, and this house 1
is cold. 1 hated to look ahead and
think of them shivering all day, and
the coal most gone, and then it was aj
puzzle as to whether to spend our lone
dollar for food or warmth for them.
"Hut now," she smiled again, "It's
different. It pays the rent, and it buys
the coal, and we can eat three times
every day."
New York Investigating.
New York is fighting for the very
law New Jersey now has. The foremost
charity and philanthropic stuI
dents in New York city ardently In!
dorse it Kvery club In the City FedI
oration ami all these throughout the
.date have given it their unqualified
approval. The state of New York has
taken a step in the direction of widowed
mothers' pensions, l.ast year
the governor appointed a commission
to investigate the workings of the law
in several states, including New Jer-j
sey. This committee will report upon !
the advisability of enacting similar re
lief legislation One of the members
of the commission Is Mrs William Fin
1 stein, president of the Widowed Moth- ;
! ers' Fund, who for many years has
been the In art and soul of the now
great movement According to her.
there really is hut one side to the
I nest ion.
"Tln re is not a bit of doubt," she
.declared." that the state owes the
i duty to the children. 1 speak ad
viscilty (if thf iliililrrii instead of the
mothers However ditlicult and path.tie
may ho the condition of a widowed
mother, who B unable to support .
hor children and who must bring them
I i
up in a state ol pitiful sordiness or re!in(|ii!sl!
tin 111 to the state, the condl!
lion of i he children is worse.
Eighteen States Give Relief.
"The inl'iiences of their early years
I are the inliuem'es of a lifetime, and I
; I hey make or mar them And certainly
| it is obligatory upon the administra1
tion to see that all possible be done to :
i make those inlluencos of tlie best, j
i Mother love and home surroundings i
I are of Inestimable value, and since the ,
i state can preserve those to the chil j
dren It should do so.
"Since 1 have been interested In this
problem. 18 states have adopted a sysi
tern of relief for w idowed mothers, and
1 in every one of them it Is working j
j beautifully, it can't help hut be a last '
ing success The argument that the
state will be spending too much money
is not worth consideration. The only
dilTen nee is that the money will go di
rectly into the needy homes instead
of into institutions. It will do Infinitely
more good in those homes
than in institutions.
"And, what is just as important, we
wish to do away entirely with private
charity That accomplishes very little
It is only a temporary relief and
doesn't for a moment get at the big
principle of th<> situation "
Mr ilruere, the head of the Bureau
j of Municipal Research, believes in
| tich relief, hut he declares the pres!
ent scheme does not go far enough or
quite .rasp t ii underlying principle ot
j Ihl- question.
Would Go Even Further.
"As. :i step in the right direction,"
he said, "I am in favor of the present
, movement. In considering it 1 have
' | none through many phases. And while
1 am theoretically in thorough agreei
ment with it, 1 cannot help thinking
that it stops .? little short,
i "I prefer a general social Insurance
that will lay b?ss stress on relief as a
i | necessity and more on ?h" payment as
a right For unquestionably there is
i an in luhitnblo right that these moth
r ers and children should have relief.
"The danger in th?; present scheme,
. j it st .mis to me, is that th'? mother has
no absolute surety she will be pa'd,
! end iiat there is no inc ntivo for a
. ! hush.i d and father to provide for his
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family. However, the widowed mothers'
relief plan is excellent. It indl- |
eaten a wholesome interest in preventive
work, it shows a splendid development
of public thinking." * N
Of the clubwomen of New York
city, 80,000 in all. and the clubwomen , ;
of New York state, 200,000 of them,
there is not one who is not an enthusiastic
advocate of the idea Florence
Guernsey, president of the Federation
of Women's Clubs, expressed herself
forcibly.
"State Owes It to Mothers."
"J am very much In favor of It." she
declared. "I think It Is a line, a wonderful
thing. Only those who know of
the tragedies of a home In which the
bread winner Is gone can appreciate
what such a thing will mean. The
state owes something to the mothers.
and it is its duty to accept Its ebliga- . 4
tion. i think it is the mother who
should look after the children, take
cure of them, and no one else, and the
mother should be given the opportunity
U> do so. ^
"All of the clubs of the city federation.
as well as of the state, have Indorsed
the work being done to bring
about such u state of affairs, and If
there Is any one thing women demand
wnoienenrieaiy tt is reiter lor widowed
mothers."
Mrs. A. M. Palmer, president of the
Itniny I>uy club, was even more emphatic.
' It would make better men and
women," sho declared. ' There is no
influence that can compare with that
of a mother and with that of a home,
and a child deprived of these is handicapped
for life, it has not the advantage
of those Influences that mako for
fine manhood and womanhood.
"Love, affection, care?these are the
accessary things. Nothing ia so Important.
No state institution can give
them, and a child in such a place is
Inevitably hardened, and its finer instincts
never expand and develop as
they would in an atmosphere of love
and home. The chance of muternal fulflllment
ia a duty owed by the state
both to the mother and the child."
Mrs. Brown a Supporter. ( ?
Mrs. William Clrant Brown, a leading v
clubwoman, who but recently returned
from a trip abroad, where she went as
a delegate to several conventions,
speaks in similar fashion.
"I am so much interested in tha
movement," site said, "that 1 have
given lip a considerable amount of my
time to the work. All those who know
the conditions In the homes of the
poor agree that relief for widowed
mothers is a much needed bit of legislation,
and almost nil charity workers
favor relief directly In the home.
"Ii will be not only an economic saving
In the long run, and perhaps even
in the short run, but it also will be a
blessing so great that It is hardly conceivable.
Only the mother, who will
he able to retain h?r Hivt born, and
iho little girl who need no longer ferr
the strange faces of some state institution
can truly appreciate all It means "
Miss Frances Day is general ;-;ej t
of the New Jersey sttite board. She ia
a woman of broad comprehension and
human sympathy. Many of the cases
she has investigated herself, and she
knows what the.granting of these pensions
mean to many a poor mother.
400 Applicants So Far.
The greatest number of applications.
she says, have come .rom Hudson
and Kssex counties, the two most
thickly populated in the state, the
former Including Jersey City Itself.
There have been lt)0 applications from
each, with Mercer county and Burlington
county not far behind.
"Muscular Christianity."
The new year in England is to see
launched a church paper run on the
liru-M r?f "iniiften 1h r f'h rl>?t Inn If v * .
W hleh reminds one to ask, who was
the inventor of that particular
phrase? For Kingsley repudiated it.
To a clergyman who, in a review,
had culled him "u muscular Christian,"
the rector of Eversley wrote,
'You have used that, to ine, painful,
if not offensive, term 'muscular ChrisI
Canity.' My dear sir, 1 know of no
Christianity save one " And
in one of his "David" sermons at
Cambridge Kingsley spoke of "muscular
Christianity?a clever phrase invented
by I know not whom." Now,
if It wasn't Kingsley set it afloat, who
, was it??London Chronicle.