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Show Racantly poolad with Ita om ao diamonda will undouh.dmn,Htlt, Our diamond euatomort hl thay had mada wiaa Invaiw! y Their Trip to Europe Gleanings of Gotham UNCLE By Vima Woods Life in the Great Metropolis Mirrored for Our, Readers 2, to $8,000 a.cE tham- -n 1507: Copyright: BY' by Byron Williams. (Copyright.) The fourth month they resolutely sat the back parlor of their pretty new turned their eyes from the attracand would cottage looking at their surroundings tions of the In Mr. and Mrs. Chester Reynolds show-window- SALT LAKE s not see the empty nooks and with qualified approval. "The carpets and the curtains and they had already filled In their GOTHAM POPULACE MOVING the furniture are all right, said the Imagination. It was a happy day for Sylvia when lady; "but we are deficient in pictures OUT INTO THE SUBURBS she had balanced her housekeeping acand brlca-brac.- " They had been married a month and counts and found a surplus of the had Just returned from their wedding amount they had agreed upon as the trip on the coast and settled down In monthly contribution to their EuroYOKK. New Yorks builders have same the started new home. Chester Reynolds pean fund. their during NEW supremacy is moving fast period less than 200 houses. They wil.1 was a bookkeeper on a salary which "I will take it to the bank this very luto the suburbs. Manhattan builders house less than 10,000 families. It Is hlght have, been larger; and he had day," she decided; "for If I dont, are providing new tomes for 50.000 estimated that the Manhattan flats be spent all of his capital on the build- burglar might take this Inopportune persons this year, although their out- gun during the first nine months ol ing and furnishing of his bouse. The time to rifle the house. 0 She told her husband of her deter put In recent years has been more the year will not house more than engagement, lnded; had been extendpersons. ed first to two and then to three years, mlnation at lunch, and when he came than twice that volume. But the reduced construction more that the young man might save home In the evening it was with the Renting agents In middle-clas- s disthan supplies the population needs of enough to make this start In married thought that she would meet him with tricts say that there is a tremendous Manhattan. There are more vacant life. Sylvia had at first Insisted upon the announcement that the European movement of flat dwellers away from flats in old centers than have been a wedding trip to Europe also; buthtr fund was Btarted. But she did not Manhattan, A large part of the fami- seen In a decade. lover had rebelled against further come Into the ball as he entered, and nearly lies are moving to new houses In Flat owuiers In many parts of Har- postponement of the marriage. He she was not In the parlors or the din Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey on lem, on Heights and In had compromised,' however, by prom- Ing room. He found her at last In the 5 chubby the lines of the underriver tunnels the BronxWashington bangs upon the In are offering free rents to ising the coveted trip In the second bedroom, sitting In a rocking-chai- r arms at mast which are to be openod this year. attract tenants. At the same time the year of their marriage, the money for an attitude of dejection. And In each dimpled hand ho holds an Brooklyn Is getting by far the largest Increased demand In "Good heavens, In spite the purpose to be saved from his salSylvia;" be ex apple fast. Brooklyn, share because transit facilities there of Its the matter? Is soma Ills face is brown and tanned, his hat has current "whats of was to claimed, huge construction be the ary. Sylvia financier, blown away; now are fairly good. ' flats. Is a basis for higher receiving the funds and expending the one at home sick or or dead?" day the birds and In all the new rapid transit suburbs rentals. offering had She Few families who move Into necessary amount on the housekeephead. her wife shook Ills him ut his play-Buwatched flat builders have begun work on 3,000 now the sun sinks low across the Brooklyn flats can get so much as a ing. reserving the balance for the trip. risen and stood drooping before him housos during the first s months rent free, even when they pay Now, however, as she looked about her hands clasped, her eyes down And western leathe here upon of the year. They will gate my "baby waits homes a cpntaln higher rental than has prevailed In the tastefully furnished rooms, she cast. for me! for over 30,000 families. Manhattan the same seemed more sensible of certain bare neighborhood. "Chester," she said, with unusual wave and shout ha sees mo places on walls and mantel and cabi- solemnity, "I have done something With Joyous walk: up the net than of the pretty furnishings that dreadful." Oh, daddy horseback ride!" I kneel had delighted her at the time of their The anxiety of his face relaxed; and prance and balk. and seating himself In the chair she And thus a charger wild champs gaily up purchase. INTERESTING AUDIENCES the road "If we could only get a few things," bad vacated, he drew her down on bis To where we greet the queen the mother knee. she "before we to save said, for begin of my load! IN THE DIVORCE COURTS "What terrible thing have you And then the horsey kneels upon the clov Europe, I think I should be satiser bed fied." done? 'he asked, smiling. I have spent the money!" she burst And throws hts rider bold tn triumph "I suppose It would not matter if hts head! oer divorce mill has begun to the audience, which has been typ- we postponed the time a month or out desperately. THE annual and In three parts of the ical. grind, two, replied her husband, if you "Spent the money?" he echoed. supreme court dally unhappy couples - "Yes, the she The summer days are gone and oer There was the fat and blonde lady, would feel better satisfied. European money, my heart Is laid are being freed of their shackles at a You to know was bank "I we it the In the whist replied. entertain taking In sorrow every word of the testi The sere of Autumn time. rate that would surprise folks not ac- drinking club I and to the had next Johnson where he played pass time," said Sylvia Bays, mony, and nudging the nippety little quainted with the rapidity with which woman who always accompanies her thoughtfully, "and really I would like you know; and they had the most ex I watt- - In vain and sob at night beside New York Judges can do this sort of to such his bed. feasts. There was the smirk for tbe house to look Its best. What qulsite Castelllna marbles in the No more we charge along the road My business. On a day when the calendar There were three Venuses and Ing clerk, getting as near to people In I would like for the parlors," she conboy Is dead! Is filled with uncontested cases somehigh life as he ever can, and the man tinued tranquilly, "would be a water-colo- r a Cupid and Psyche and a Gladiator But up above In realms where little boys times 60 or 70 will be decided. are glad, and the loveliest Apollo. They have of 40 and a family, who ought to be at copy of Guido Renls Aurora I know, my baby, tost on earth, Is waitBut It Is not the uncontested cases home. a never and had "Macarbon of kind here of the the European anything Then, too, were the women ing for his "dad! that draw the audiences which makes of all sorts and kinds, who either had donna of the Chair In the front room, before, yon know; and I could not rethis sort of court so picturesque. It Is Just received their cist going in to look at them. Then I Just for Instance. divorces or wert and Ilofmans Christ in the Temple the cases In which one side fights the waiting for them and Alas! Our crop of chestnuts Is wished to see and portraits of Raphael and Heine thought how lovely the Apollo would other to avoid the granting of a de- and hear how another woman came out here. Then," she added, "of course be In that empty corner in the front depleted," cries an eastern cree. Such a case has ben going on through the ordeal. I should want several Austrian vases parlor. And I kep looking at It until writer. It Is evident this pessimist and marble busts and statuettes scat- It seemed to me It was the one thing does not attend vaudeville. recently, and as the parties Interested And the students of sociology have been prominent socially the room which most of them couldn't I wanted to make me completely haptered around." A man can get ready to make spell, let was crowded at every session. This alone define Her husbac groaned. py. After a while a lady came in and trip around tbe world, stay two years with bated lingered case had all the interesting surround- breath and It would take two or three months said she wanted to select a piece and and lead an exploring expedition parted lips on every word ings the beautiful wife accused by they shouldnt hear. The she looked at the Apollo. Then I I without kicking up as much confa postponement of our trip to get those, supreme her husband, the tales of high jinks," court these he said. I had already decided to take it.1 sion as a woman does when she packs said days presents a scene the handsome Well, of course," said Sylvia, I After that the clerk asked me If I to go down to the next town to spend the angry which rivals every problem that ever mother, the savage husbaad all have flaunted Its strained relations across shouldn't think of buying them all at had a pedestal or a suitable table for a week with an old school friend. once. I was only saying what I want- it; and I knew I hadnt So I Hut the characters them- the footlights. figured. The reason there are so many nice got an Always a picturesque ed to have in the course of time. Then onyx table; it had to be a nice one, little people is because when the selves were of little Interest to the scene, always different, but always the student of human nature compared same old picture. there Is the side-boarshe mused, you know, and and it took all the Lord saw what sweet material He was using, He finished the Job with money.? She looked at him anxiously, like a what He had mixed rather than take repentant culprit. For a moment he chances on being able to prepare an regarded her gravely, then he broke other batch as good. The reason big ROOSEVELT REFUSES URN Into a laugh. folks are so nice Is because the Lord Well," lie said, "I can stand it if saw what a triumph he was mak C CONTAINING CATS ASHES you can. Its only another month Ing and kept on adding a little more added to the time. to a good thing! Now, I hope you are Youre so good to take it that all satisfied. way," she said. "But this Is the last Some men manage tender, sympa PUBLIC Administrator William M. expected him as executor of the estate I shall buy; Frn determined on thetlc woman with about as thing much tact has disposed of the entire of Mrs. Glover to find a resting place that." as a hen would use If she got up on legacy, left by tbe late Mrs. Lulu B. for the ashes of the kitten. Mr. Hoes "But show me your acquisition, he a high perch to lay an egg. Glover, excepting the ashes of a cre- has offered the relic to several physaid; "Im burning with impatience to To be consistent, a firemans wife mated kitten. He has failed to get sicians. He has found that there Is no see It. should never wear drop-stltchose. rid of this Interesting relic. President general demand for the ashes of kitShe led the way Into, the parlor and It Is better to marry a woman with so tens, he has taken of the to charge It to whom Mrs. Glover, who Roosevelt, pointed tragically. The pure, false hair than one with a false urn himself and Is using it as a paper translucent marble was carved In a heart committed suicide In hor apartments figure of the most exquisite grace, I wonder who on Lexington avenue last December, weight. picks up all the drooto law the cremated kitSylvia sat down and sighed deeply. stitches? loft her estate, has firmly refused to tenAccording ped is the property of President Roose"Its lovely," she said: "but I cannot add the funeral urn which contains the velt and ho what chance does a may at any time he help feeling sorry that I got it." man who can write to ashes the feline pet to his stock of chooses claim the poetry stand with As time passed she could not throw a man who can residuary ashes. curiosities. wrltq checks? It used This, Mr. Hoes is sure, the president off the feeling, and the statuette be- to be that a sighing swain, gifted Although It is not within the prov- has no Intention of doing. Mr. Hoes came a kind of Moloch on whose altar from at drinking ince of the public administrator to says he will she sacrificed her desires. She had could inscribe a the Pierian spring, keep the ashes if he la undeal with the estates of those who able to persuade ditty to his lady love Intended making a little visit to her and win her anybody to accept with the beauty of his have made wills, Mr. IIocs, at the re- them. mother this month, but she gave it heart throbs but now, the boor quest or the president, took charge of with Mr. Hoes efforts to discover relaP- money sends her a necklace of the property loft by Mra. Glover. He tives of Mrs. Glover have He Found Her at Last. I cannot afford It," she pearls extended so beautiful that even the most mat-ter-explained said that he had found the estate over a period of several months, but glancing through the sliding doors to her husband, "because I got the fact girl sees In It a was valued at more than $6,000, and have been poem of fruitless. At this Indescribable love and merit. that President Roosevelt bad notified Is little more known about time there that opened Into the dining room; It Apollo." This la And the money for railroad fare the woman looks rather bare." him that he would give the money to than was known 0,I ,mtupkln on whlch we HvaThT! went Into the European fund. when she was found The first month they got an electric our being. P. 8. This a charitable institution. ' In her apartment after she bad tried She wanted a new hat and the latest in t a lamp and the "Aurora" and a Wedgmatter with me. Pve personal But tbe urn which contains the to kill herself. She died In the Har- wood milk pitcher. There was noth- thing In belts; but she looked at the been married so ashes of one of the many cats of which lem hospital, leaving a will which long I stand and Apollo the put gave ong saved for the European thought aside. where without hitching. Mrs. Glover was fond la too much like her estate fo President trip, but One evening her husband asked Roosevelt, they spent much time In the a white elephant to appeal to the presi- many photographs of whom evenings her If she would like to were admiring their new go to the Touching. dent. lie notified Mr. Hoes that he among her belongings. . possessions, which I womli-- If, had been noticed by several members opera the next night. anmtwhere. aflork "Do Or think we you had chunlng better?" eho There live of tbe whist club. all alone said and breathc-"But we really must save some- the seriously. "You know we have That I may luu-- ewll a 0ny cock Apollo." thing the next time, said Sylvia; and "That Is so," he replied; "we will The winter aeaeon now NEW SOCIETY TO OFFER Chester assented. unbend add the money to the fund." My money, I have anent . But at the end of the next month a uf Tbe months Rdn,lrln friend vnU' slipped by, each one BONUS FOR EACH BABY cousin of Chesters sent word that he marked by a deposit for "the fund." tend that "Turk" Thanksgiving and his wife would be passing through could never quite forgive her-sel- f Sylvia the city and would spend a day or.two for her one extravagance; Snake Story. she with thorn. would not read the advertisements of with a head for figures, Austrian baa no children, but she Will and I were old play fellows SOMEBODY says " bankrupt sales. Whenever she was len of been trying by statistics she has seen enough of, the anukea. Af!(r tl.v hI,i 7',M a misery and school chums." said Chester, "and tempted to to account for "raco sulcldo," has of others to In s Indulge picture or help those who have be has done pretty well In the world. vase she n pllVfthev remembered the Apollo. computed that It costa $20,000 to bring babies under adverse conditions. I would like to make as good an apup ln When the marble statuette had been rat.lvennk,. up a child. Muny people .will consld-n- r Charles E. George, founder and vice pearance as possible." ,r. two In the house a year that an overestimate when the president of the association, says that they found that Rnuk.-- Hth.-il " KMl ,Uy f"r "We will need a Ilavlland salad In average child Is under consideration, there Is an alarming Increase In race set," said Sylvia, and some mo amount U' klllimj y ,l,l''rftt- .111 oyster for their trip. Their but fow will deny that children are suicide statistics. According to his forks." iN.b) Mmi, preparations were M'ii soon and they stood one expenslvo luxuries. figures, marriage la this country day Again the European trip was set on themade, 8nakt Story. dork of a steamer, Now comes the "North American shows the appallingly small birth forward a month In the future. ' rate shore line fade In the watching the Parents Benevolent Association," with of about 26 per cent. distance The third month there was a bank- while far and away stretched the etuli il i hut no a plan whereby children are to be The Initiation fee to the far nil. .. 8,'u,rJay- - Bo is rupt sale of Austrian cut glass, and less expensive. On the front of the five dollars, with one dollar society limitless expause of the bit. 5 simki-sseemingly i"1!? i111"'1 will hi one "J, decided it would never do to let lowy ocean. per month they - TIuV wro WM neat little pink circular which the duos for the first year. This "r amount such an opportunity pass. "nd n,orinln - , only uno "I can hardly realise," said association Issues la the legend: "Join Increases with time, but Is never exWe might never have another ,',!,Tk Mr Chester, lutiurr i the North American Parents Benevo- pected to go beyond three dollars. chance to musingly, "that we are actually on ou ,T 'n,'r"'10" these get so things cheap, lent association and reup Ita benefits, Then there Is an anuual hl,rlK. It does not seem true assessment they said; and we will not be satisfied that before which are as certain as death." of two dollnrs. Arithmetical Threat. long we shall see the without them." And they tried to put things of which we have Mrs. Bernard 8. Austrian is presiMr. George says his field of read and ' work Is from their minds the thought of the dreamed ao long." dent of the new society, which pur- a promising one. as ho lias flawed out ,llb postponed trip, as they looked proudly 'Mu , And to think," ahe cried poses to give to every baby born to a tliHt there aro between 12, quo, ooo n, at their new treasures Joyfully and saw what "ws f.iOO would In never member gold. Twins and trip- 15,000,000 married rntq los In have mod tj)e an air of elegance they gave to the money In the lets are considered as pn child. Mra. cuuutrv. world If It had n beej roomq, for the Castelllna Apollo," wall-space- s 35,-00- three-quarter- ifl&s CITYffi m rebuked' the Amarlcan Was Not Awed Poet Laureate. bv lildurina flesh, c i ft when GH)Uch ie ijssagfii A writer In Harpers to light an interesting anecd!' which well lllustr!? singular habits of the greaM Tennyson 01 ,tp !i h Now-a-day- r vrti-ket- a r - ri? ted "I:.' ."jv, , r I . Z ; tumu-r-fitlklnli- ghoul' beseimpc hllint!r.c.0U:se v!th The poet was not bTuVuj rough but he was doming J is ' ouble jjekidnej ibit as " Women 3 exacting, and most other lie with afraid of him. both i But an AZ?n schoolmaster who for many Ike mihl maintained a great intimacy irdrugRi1 had no fear In his heart, and ami smoked on an equality with LJ ,t,.e bottle elgn singer by Farrlngford flZ' iVC 3 "One evening," says r mail i "when the two were thus togeS aniphlet Tennyson said that he would deS sduding jonial le from his custom and narrate sonal experience; but he had sufC red. 1 jnghamt a good deal from repetitions of hi! bis tales by those to whom he had toM ict pape reme' them, and he would be obliged to a v )r. Kilnu his friend never to repeat what Bi h. was about to hear. The American ottle. smoked on for a few seconds while Tennyson waited for the promise and 3TILL then he said: .My lord, in my cm. try a gentleman would never make medlai J that request of another gentleman.' said the poet, and looked out of eyes that wondered If the Willie quiet smoker opposite knew how much Irrepi hed said. Then he told the story" itorming 2 T JS 2 2 CLEVER SCHEME THAT Old year: the m Tbe co justness :en , win-dow- . it FAILED. Salesmans Advice Left Worse Off Than Before. ! Firm tertain lust t befi Henry Clews Is telling a new story tight, Cc which he says he got straight from tain "pe the Canal street district, says the ace. New York Times. A young Jobbing IIowi firm, the tale tells, overbought for mother the fall trade! - Their heaviest mlstakt Well,1 had been In the line of overcosti, ime ou which it looked they would hare to iresslvel carry over a season. Efforts to get irity, ol cash for the stock were fruitless, Harpe at ruinous rates. At last tbs Urn r went to an In the trad for Nut Gr advice. Well," said the man of eNut xperience, youve got a pretty good iw ind list of customers. Just divide the id Gull coats up Into lots of thirteen each. relop In Send a batch apiece to some of your n that sharpest customers, hut make out irosperc the bills for twelve. Theyll be m nost po tickled to get one coat for nothing popularl that theyll take em all." The schema relopme had been tried before the men met sradlng r waited for hli :hinery again. The " praise. "Well, didnt they keep the jower. ' returned coats?", he asked. "Yes, rating the jobber, sadly. One each. The one lor use. that wasnt billed. The tr than Ate Heart of Assassin. ire now A correspondent of the North China nut rail Dally News describes what followed rommoi the execution of an assassin; Then !00 pou the heart of Hsu Hsi-llwas cut out most o! of his body and had been laid before rents a the remains of his victim as a sacr- much 11 ifice to the late governors manee, rchard members of his bodyguard, to signify ions ai their teal and hatred of the assasiln, seized Hsu's still warm heart and Do y cutting It up Into mince meat boiled hat dish It and served the grewsoms yoi among themselves to be eaten. This dea," seems a poor way of revenging the ialgner death of one patron, especially slscs of the it was due to the very Ineptitude and they al subsequent panic of this very bran bodyguard that enabled Hsu to fire so many shots, without a af kind of hindrance, at the late El Min." House Eleven Hundred Ytart Old. St Albans possesses the oldest Inhabited house In the country. This distinction Is said to belong to the old Round house, now the Fighting Cocks Inn, which stands close to the River Ver. R Is a curious structure of oroctagonal shape of early Saxon boathouse igin, having been built as a to the ancient monastery founded it SL Albans by King Offs about tbs year 795, and Is thus over 1,10 yrt old. A subterranean passage, no blocked up, runs from the basement to the mins of tha monastery, a dl tancs of about 200 yards. There Is shed at the back of the house, when It Is said Oliver Cromwell stabled bis horse, himself once sleeping under It roof during the civil war. Collecting old-time- old-time- I n Hsl-ll- Information from Abroad. Ws learn from the Paris FIem that a clergymens union ha bf, formed In New York which Is demanding higher salaries. The movement seems to be Bpreading, for reJ further: "While waiting for Jb American government to take proper steps, 40 pastors have alreadf renounced their charges In the it1 t Pittsburg." "That Many Side. t0' the way the thing to me, but of course, there's more than one side to a story, course, there are always sides to a story as there are peep' blame." Better Than Gifts of FortuneThe gifts of fortune are often t away as speedily as they care! n strength of mind and personal th are possessions which survive tornal circumstances of Hf it lato grander plau.-lIal,bu- rt - ' |