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Show r J y rfrrr&try-- F V ' T-- ' '? r 4, y t K -- 4 I few the Gitnless t I . S toleforflisGirUVife Finger-Band-it PokeflMy Hand in' My. Pocket, Said Hands Up!- - And They Gaine.Right; Across! - f r V was working on a construction job and she wu a waitress in a cafe. She left ber home In East Boston because her mother, widowed when the girl was four years old, had . married a second .time, and Mar- , garet didnt want to lire with a , Welts is of a German- - stepfather. American fiftmly well known and respected in the German colony in - Wilmington, "Ohio. His parents had wanted him to ' ptudy for the ministry,-- but he bad v "rU V, . r e V n r - M"j-;sr-Yr- t N c jchiuwife. ; .Ud . a Herman, eyed, honest-lookin-g . . blue, sandy-haire- d, youth, t , was .not concerned for himself as ha j fat trembling In Us cell, but Was worried seer his wife. , . tv - s 5z Hk" smi.te.'Sr. v Medicine. . distress. He owned no weapon, but had simply held bn hand in his coat pocket, thrusting out his ss though it were the concealed barrel of a ptitoL In this manner he had conducted five hold-uwhich netted him s little more than e hi expected to become a mother and he had no gr money with which to buy her food or medicine, Herman Welti, twenty, went out and 190. In a shabby robbed Boston pedestrians, . girl-wif- -- at the point of his finger. bold, Forty detectives hunted the bandit who had dared to operate in Bostons famous Back Bay faction. It had been his practice to walk alongside a pedestrian, poke tha latter to the nba with what felt - like a gun held in a coat pocket, warn the victim to make no out-cry and force Urn to walk to a quiet spot where he would deliver r his money. He had been described to the poilco ss a cool and ealcu-- J polating desperado who yet was on lite to his victims, returning - man 10 with which to pay a hotel bilL But when the officers caught their quarry they found him to bo - only a boy with a pitiful story of T . ' BLUFF BANDIT." Police Officer, eed (Right) . A Prewutg of Hie Cenlett - of a "FINGER Welts Photographed with ps hall-roo- . Cam- - ld ft, -- - I - gone East to maip his in the world, and when he met Margaret Cecilia Musrsll, -- tha waitress, in tha New Hampshire town where he found employment, he fell in love with her and asked her to marry-- . He lost his job because be stayed away from work three days "Im afraid she won't be able to stand St, be muttered. Ive made it worse for her, that s all Ive done. I wea desperate when 1 robbed those folks in the office workers Which can work faster and better, a stenographer in a quiet sanctum or one who must pound on her typewriter with a bedlam of racket going on around hert Two psychology tests, one at Northwestern University, Chicago, and one at Colgate Univer- . sity, New York, were held for the purpose of snswering these questions. Northwestern voted test during which a for noise, after a two-hotypist reacted with improved and speedier work. Colgate, conducting a more exhaustive forty-hou- r experiment, eight hours a day for five days, voted for quiet because the subject of the test collapsed, A exhausted by noise. "Noise stimulates the person to work at a greater speed and turn out nearly twice as much work as under quieter conditions," concluded Prof. John B. Morgan, Northwesterns psychology expert. "In the effort to overcome the opposition of noise a typist will go at a foster rate of speed." The typist serving as Prof, Morgans subject at first was annoyed by the disturbance but worked border to overcome the resistance, though after riie became accustomed to the noise the tendency was to relax to a normal speed. A phonograph was played, bell were rung and an intense poundrecorded tense Instruments ing earned en. breathing by. the typist and a harder pounding of y test waa conducted by At Colgate tha Dr. D. A. Laird. The subject pf the test, Elsie Keller, sat at a typewriter in a special chamber and typed the same letter over and over. A machine five feet away from her produced a variety of raucous noisea which were echoed and reechoed by the walla of the room. During tee first low days Miss Keller seemed disturbed only by the screeching of an automobile, siren. She stood it five dayf and then collapsed. Shown with Drawn - reformatory. . t. Fortune for the Picking Upt Millions and Ease for tho Rost of Ufa I It Is Evary Man's Draafll, at tho End of tha Rainbow. This Man Found It Ho Thought Ho Diad la tho vjwn or IV. Wo An Want Monay. Hew Many, in tha Pursuit of Money, Find, ha Feotv Gold! tea End, They Have Boon Chasing "Fools Gold? and follow the route biased , tends of the desert was throws Death Valley. Cali- - Desert teams of former about a small boulder of mica eon- by tee fornia, whfere tho spring iron pyrites, "Fool's Gold. which hauled tlje bora out , days are poisonous, the moun- ' of Death Valley. They do so at taming scrap of paper was and their peril, for an automobile " found on which the luelcleee tain are liver-coloroff the traveled track pector had teribbled, "Died rich! the sunsets a ghastly green, many watch and A ruity, men have died of neat, of thirst msy cost teem their lives. a miners pick lay nearby. This remarkable photograph was and of horror. At least he had died in the feverMotorists sometimes venture off taken by tounsta. One am of tee the shifting ish illusion of a lucky strike. the main trail acrose the Mojave a skeleton found--I- n five-da- Nolre-Makar- I, wn ed f km - Analysed by ANNE JORDAN. , COMES the doleful ofClarenceG. for tee rest of my sweet young -life. Now if Mary knew that ahe4 have to stick by John for the rest - of her life to get to delve In hie ducats, shed hesitate a long time before she signed on tee dotted line. If she were very young. . professor of eociology at New York Uni- varsity, test one out of erv eight during 1927 will haw ' - tnarriagee failure. In aa article appearlngTn tee , Dittmers, So to end alimony.groftlng.. . Mary looks at John and says, "Hes dumb, but rich. Ill take him, . him, and Ill have enough to tread aa 18-car-at money path of a rocker. But on tho other hand, there are a great many easea where Id tax the big boy to the limit So often a good, strong, woman denies herself, scrimps and eaves, and helps the old man to lay up a tidy sum. And by the time he gets nch enough to stop and look around, he finds tee face . "JUG" FOR DELINQUENTS Ludlow Street Jail, Now Yorks Famous "Alimony Club Hwshaads Are lacarcaretad Who Refuse to Pay ' '' What the Court Decro. " Whore es opposite him Is weather-beate- n from lack of luxuries. The muscles tog. cheap cute of ibatgrounipp meat for his supper, and toted his children, have flabbed on her, and instead of seeing the "silver threads among tea gold," ho steps un, A-- s w a or Tat sum ton i' dipped in goldwash. - Instead of saying, "Ms, honey, - go get your face lifted, were goon this time tag to have a good : money WEVE msde, he steps abroad and buys an apartment all upholstered In pale pink ftlk, and . spends hit time pleasing a sister with a heart like stone. And the lonely old heart at homo is left to memories, and the tired old oyes close over unshed tears, and the wishes shed never urged Mm to take teat chance that waa so risky what with two children and pH the money they had in the world but It was that risk that made hie fortune! Oh, yea If I were a judge, Id give tee old girl half of whet he got, and Id giv her a shot of advice along with Id say, Go on, old lady. Hava a good time. Get out and sea the world. If hes going to floss around with fresh you should young ' worry, shed the wrinkle and tee long alpaca skirt, and step out and dance a bit If you cant find a regular fellow to trot your pace, hire you a gigolo !" J But unfortunately for some and fortunately for others, Im NQT a A 0 n p ( IA , H 2 v . gold-digge- ' judge. F R E FER . RI fi . Sara Reid, Alimoay Martyr, Who He Speat Twa Years la e California Jail and Vow a Ha'U Stay Tborq AQ Hie Ufa, a Paany. OnaNovwa, Rather Than Fay His ' Ex-Wi- Im . ft. 1' r A it hard-worki- it md shake .. At tsrri forth to hunt a head that's been fresh and, romantic, and he were , dufi, old and HEALTHY, shed " give up tier Idea of ready cash, ' and . go and wash dishes jfor that boy shes In love with. - If I were a Judge In a divorea,. the first thing Id find out about a woman dragging an alimony victim into eourt would be, what did she here before she married him, and what did she give up to go to him? If eho bad a job. Id give ber what her Job. was paying her, J If she wee merely a burden to her Dad, Id help Dad out by allowing her what she got from Dad. No more. It would put a stop to making a 1 BUSINESS of marriage, whereby any woman can make money out New York University publication. Professor Dittmers makes this startling announcement, basing his prophecy on lowered respect for the easy -- the "double stands rd. acceptance of divorce, and tee mancipation of women. Emancipation of women there then .hasnt been anythin funnier died! ihat Since tho last dinosaur like about to talk Women might it, might like to try it, but women will never be emancipated until They being women! they stop be freed by courts and laws, night but they will never be free from their own conscience end other i women. ' They might Just aa well crawl neck on the pedestal they found too narrow for their gym ehoae. As for tee divorce peril. In my opinion, tee quickest way to end ' Tor Riches The Ghastly End of? a Race i." " . ' 3 Back J d. didnt get the job. ISor an aid I, ' ' . him. a nuisance to s I Office-Worke- rs noise Elsie Kafiar, Typists Whe Collapsad After 8 Days of "Notre Teat, s Ured. . IBostretione f the s. , COMPLAINANT. . Mrs. Hffltilt Mo Morrill, of Back Bey, Bottoa, Who Reported to PolttO She Wes Robbed by en "Unarmed and Courteous Bpadifc I aaw remembered bnee If "I If onlyagain, movie where the man just jabbed only rit wouldnt f his finger in his coat like It was a hurt her. " was walking Up Common-- I before gun. The day went- - out to steal ' I ' wealth Avenue and cams up behind tried to borrow a little a fellow walking with a gin. I was cared stiff, but I poked my finger from my wife stepfellows ribs and made him father in East Boston. in teat money. He didnt say I needed it to pay for give me his He Just handed me tee some prescription the, anything. doctor gave my wife, money. It was sixty dollars and he told me ih was a stranger, in bob Mr. Dagle refused be : to let me have it, and town and it was all the money him back ten dolit alfoost made me had. toSo I gave lars pay his hotel bill with. crasy-maHis wife mother took her back "The next night I had been to her home In East Boston. Herwalking the street three hours, from opr boarding house to a man got off light on a charge which calls for long servitude. Be garage, where I thought maybe I was sentenced to eight yean in q wld get a job-- any kind of work, j Held-e- p bridge boarding house the police Method, the wife for found the snctoen-year-oHead ia Hie whoso sake Welts said ha had turned thief. She eras hungry and . Coat Pocket Simula tiag a bad only ton cents left of the Pistol. money her husband had stolen he told her he had "borrowed" for most of it bad gone to pay overcoat all through the Winter, - "I was their back board bill. A kindly hungry and he didnt want to sea me suffer. Wedidn t" policeman gave ber 5 of his own have a cent We owed for our money. board for several weeks back, and "1 didnt know he was stealing, she told tha police. "He said ho Herman tried and tried, to get s had borrowed the money, but it work, but couldnt. "I am going to stand by him and-made me eo uneasy when ho went help him in every way I can. put at night like that, , "Ho did it for me be did It to , ' The young wife, a slender, delisave my life. He didnt spend a cately pretty brunette, said she penny of the money on himself.. fort met Welts a, year ago hi The poor boy didnt even have an Keene, New Hampshire, where he New Tests on What Noise Does to V- t . J) tECAUSB .Boston. ; tO K r,w ' to nurse Us wift when aha was sick. That was against the rules, and he was discharged. They had drifted about looking for work she could not .taka a job any . longer because of ber condition and presently they had coma to- - ; K r a , |