| Show WEEKLY STRANGERS WERE NOT WANTED too much commercial sm in churches of new york the charge that strangers are not made to feel at in some of the big churches in new york Is well founded according to the observation made by a pennsylvanian Pennsyl who has lived there for ten years A few eare ago I 1 rented a pew in one of tho big churches in fifth avenue anil kept it for a year my family was not numerically large enough to fill the pew and I 1 notified the usher that I 1 could usually accommodate from two to strangers I 1 learned indirect ly that the sexton who had the rent ing of the pews objected to too much liberty on my part lie said that it every in the church made the same sort of offer he could not come up to the expectation of the gov arning board of the church which ex pecked him to rent every pew the logic of this was that it strangers de sired to attend that particular church very often they would be expected to pa for their sittings to put it a lit tie plainer strangers were not wel come although a sign in the vestibule said they were STATUE OF GEN MEAGHER on completion will be placed in cap tol grounds at helena mont The Illustration depicts a statue 0 gen thomas francis gri which th thomas t rands meagher elation of montana purposes to erect in the captol grounds at helena many well know n persons aade con tributes tri buted to the borki but large sum Is still needed ahe president of the association Is james II 11 lynch ot butte gen meagher will be kemem bared as the chief of the irish brigade in the civil war and he also was famous as an orator j EXPENSES OF WEALTHY WOMEN new york leaders of fashion spend much money on dress mrs saflora barstow the new york woman who spends her entire time simply designing on paper new crea alon ID the garb of american woman hood was asked it the statement made in the dressmakers convention that some women spend as much as 25 on their clothes in a year was an exaggeration that Is merely a fair average she said from being distorted the figure named Is very conservative mrs john jacob astor I 1 think Is admitted to be the best dressed woman in new york I 1 am certain that she spends all of 50 a year on her dresses mrs cornelius Is a close second her dressmaking bill certainly runs over 40 while mrs stuyvesant fish and mrs joseph widener tor instance are in a big class that easily part their husbands upward ot 35 each year tor the benefit of the dress makers shoemakers glovers etc single men best soldiers it Is well known that lord kitchen er prefers single men in the army ho was twitted once on being a woman hater answered smilingly that he was just the reverse then be be came serious and said that expert ence had taught him that single men as a rule make better soldiers than married men the latter he declared are bound to keep in mind the welfare of their wives and children and on this account are apt to draw back from dangers that would not cause them an instant s hesitation it they had only themselves to think of therefore a wife though she may be very ambitious for her husband s sue cess impairs his efficiency as a sol dieron acteon dutch statesman in america kierr dudok de wit minister ot sports in the of holland has reached california ona tour of the world minister de wit who la 63 years old younger is an expert horseman golf player and oarsman Is also very fond of horse racing and ia the course of his official career has acted as judge or some of the most notable tracks in lie has visited every foreign country of note and now will spend about two months in the united states pertinent question although trains have been run in the new york underground rapid transit road the great engineering work Is not yet by any means finished john mcdonald the builder was ap preached a few days ago by dunn the tammany leader who asked when are you going to start up that tunnel game 0 yours john some time in september answered the contractor carelessly dunn looked as though he wanted to say a whole lot of things but he co anted himself by inquiring what year |
