The Detroit times. [volume], February 11, 1910, FIRST EDITION, Page 3, Image 3

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BOSTOfi BALLAD
BOOSTS THE BEAN
New England Thinks Turck Diagno
sis of Diet Is Wrong—No Pie at
Breakfast Now.
BOSTON, Mans., Feb. fc —New Eng
land's cairn was little ruffled and Its
bill of fare not changed at all today
when it read the talk of Ur. Fenton
B. Turck of t’hirugo on how its diet
was deteriorating the human race. Dr.
Turck said the "Boston diet” hus made
a race of lank, lean, nasal speaking
dyspeptics.
Boston folks were inclined to treat
the criticism flippantly, few taking
other than a light view of it. Wilt
everybody here, no matter what their
form of expression, agreed that the
Chicago doctor was mistaken in ids
diagnosis.
Ur. (leorge Edmund Siackpole, a
Harvard graduate, and a successful
practitioner since 1870. gave a serious
reply to tite Chicagoan’s opinion. Ur.
Hiackpole defended the bean and the
biscuit, amt made sarcastic allusion
to I)r. Turck’s tit ness for his subject.
But most everybody else who said
anything about it. said it humorously.
One of the son of replies was given
by L. D. (i. Bentley,’ who versed bis
sentiments in a local newspaper in
the following, entitled "A Yankee's
Answer”:
"Well maybe Dr Turck Is rlsrlit,
And eastern folks all wrong;.
MV ma> consume too man> beans
That make us lank and long;
Perhaps We gorge outsell e* oil pie
Wlitii plainer food would do.
Eat doughnuts, winch we shouldn't, hut
I don’t mind telling you
If eating other kinds of food
Will change us folks throughout.
Tlifri 'h really no inducement
Ini what this man holds out.
I’d i| licit rather he a skinny.
Alfvays talking through my nose,
Mum hing tablets for dyspepsia.
Mixing any kind of dose.
If M'w England I may live In.
Where u •• have to si rutcti am! dig.
M’lilre we may lo* weak and scrawny,
Where we don’t grow very tug
No. I never would he happy, like
T.iose folks in ruMK the sea.
A peasant In ttulguria
It. don't sound good to me.
They don't eat pie for breakfast in
this region any more, according to
one statistician who sought to put Ur.
Turck right on the diet question
“Dr. Turck lias Just heard the tra
ditions which are a part of a vanished
and not too glorious past." he said.
“Mince pie for breakfast is a legend
of the black walnut furniture and
plush covered photograph allium
period; It never really obtained a
great hold in New Kngland, anyway,
and was mainly used as a symbol of
ignorance. When in a smad town if
was noticed that any citizen was get
ting rich, the form used by his neigh
bor* to express that disgraceful suspi
cion was to pasH around the rumor
that his family had mince pie for
breakfast.
"As to the rest of Ur. Turck'a state
ment. the Puritans were lankier, more
nasal, and less favorably comparable
to the Hulgar than their descendants
are—they were not so dyspeptic, be
cause they never went to Chicago, and
to were never forced to eat Chicago
cooking.”
"Well, of course." said the manager
of a hennery in Newspaper row. "It Is
true that beans are one of onr staple
dishes. W»* still sell more beans than
anything else. But doughnuts are our
staple wonder; we make seventy
dozen a day and often have to go to
press with a second edition in the
afternoon. Still. I don't see any de
terioration in our customers in the last
ten years.”
On** of tlif* salesladies in another
j restaurant said she hadn't noticed any
deterioration in her customers, either,
[though she hasJtoM more beans In the
lust fortnight than ever before in het
experience.
• Decline?” said she. “There's no
decline about it; my customers never
decline anything. What? Why, no.
they're not deteriorating; they're
nicer every day. They're eating fewer
beet nit sand more beans.”
“In the last ten years.” said a
jßeacon-st. doctor. “I haven’t had half
It he stomach trouble —among my pa
jtlents —that I had in ten years preced
ing. people are eating more sensibly;
the anaconda method among business
men is disappearing and folks are
Fletcherlzing more. As to beans,
[doughnuts, mince pie—they will never
!sap the manhood of* New England.”
“Who Is this Dr. Turck?" was the
■way Dr. Starhpole began. “These am
[bilious young physicians often get lost
‘ln academic Ideas aad begin talking
‘for publication with the result that
[they make themselves —but nobody
ieUe —believe they are originating
Isomething.”
I “Good wholesome food, and God
(knows that good beans, hot biscuits
and doughnuts are wholesome, never
! caused any New Rnglander to have
jdyspepsda. New Englanders are the
hardest worked people in the world,
and the dyspepsia they are kin to was
* born of overwork and loss of sleep."
CLEAN-UP SALE A_
FOR TEN DAYS ONLY (
Regular A a j- W *
Kid and Patent
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22 GRATIOT—BASEMENT
CHILDRENS CLUBS A CHECK
TO CRIME AMONG MINORS
Judge Bond of Massachusetts Urges
Their Establishment for That
Purpose.
CAMUmrXiK, Mass.. Feb. 10. —Judge
Daniel W. Bond of the superior court
deplores the gnut prevalence of crime
among children, and suggests the for
mat lon of a chain of children's clubs.
These oigunlzattons would enroll hoys
und girls bet ween the ageasof fourteen
and twenty and take the place of home
for those whose home influences ur«»
harmful.
"These clubs should not be too
large,'' said Judge Bond. ’’This I con
sidered one of the chief arguments
uy uinsi tiie Christian Kndeavorers and
the Y. Al. C A. Boys hesitate to en
ter a place where they are to he pes
tered on religious mutters. No ho,'
lll,es t«» be preached to. Many hoys
n« ver go . inside a church In this
they differ from tlie last generations.
There would he less crime if church
going was encouraged, Init I don’t
favor it us a compulsory measure.
"In advocating the club system t
am not blind to the work the schools,
the public libraries and college set
tlements are doing, but they do not
strike at the root of the evil. Practi
cal women amt men skilled In this
labor of love should carry out the*.*
ideas successfully.”
WHERE r
Dorothy Dent lived on the direct
road to the village of Concord, and
when Paul Revere rode by that morn
ing of April 19, 1775, calling upon all
tile villager* to hide their arms and
stores, for the British were coinltlg,
her little heart thrilled with fear and
excitement.
Her father and brothers were away
grandmother, mother and Dorothy
were ulone- and a pile of guns lay on
the back porch. They must be saved
from the enemy—but how?
"If there were only some safe hill
ing place. 1 would carry every gun
out of reach myself,” said Dorothy.
"Has thee sorted the feather* iti
the large feather bed of late?” asked
grandmother of Mrs. Dent. "It is
sunny and still on the back porch—
just the day for such a task." she con
tinued.
"The very thing,” shouted little
Dorothy, in great agitation.
When the soldier* marched up the
bill, and turned into the door yard of
the Dent house, they were met at the
door by Dorothy, who was all smiles.
"We have orders to search this
house for concealed arms,” said the
(-aplain with a bow.
"Certainly, sir.” Dorothy was polite,
hut her heart was beating hard with
fright.
Meanwhile grandmother and Mrs.
Dent were busy sorting feathers on
the back porch, listening anxiously to
the tramp of soldiers’ feet inside the
house. When the soldiers came out
on the porch, the feathers flew, deftly
helped along their way by grand
mother. and settled on a sleeve of the
captain’s new uniform.
"Plague take the feathers." cried he.
and they all hurried on to search the
stables and other outbuildings, not
even glancing again at the feathers.
The soldiers marched away without
discovering the arms, and brave
Dorothy watched them. gleefully
chuckling to think how they had been
fooled. .
When father and the boys catne
home that evening the guns were still
bidden under their downy cover.
Father was proud of hi.-, little girl,
ami be said, stroking her nalr tenderly.
"Blessings on the geese that shed
t their feathers for this glorious cause,
land on the little girl who played
hostess to her enemies so bravely and
discreetly."
| A statistician has figured out that
, last year’s broom corn crop was so
small that eac h American family can
j have tint one and one-seventh brooms
[this year, without allowing for bust
j ness houses, eorpotations or munio!-
I palities.
HE DETROIT TIMES: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ii, iqio.
818 MEN MIXED IN
CONTRACT RUMPUS
Judge Gary and Other Steel Trust
Magnates Ended Squabble Over
Pumping Machinery.
Since the Allis-Chalmers Cos. quit
Tuesday night in the fight for the
city contract tor the Park-Y’iewave,
sewage pumping machinery, there ha*
been much speculation about the city
hall as to tiie cause of the Milwaukee
l firm’s sudden backdown after It had
put up a Slu.ouu check to guarantee
u low bid If allowed to make u second
offer. The story has been iu circu
lation about the city hall that the
Allis-Chalmers Cos., made some sort
of compromise with R. D. Wood &
Cos., who got the contract.
it develop* that, there were negotia
tions and that the pressure which An
ally ended tiie fight came from a
source as powerful as the Steel Trust.
Judge Gary, who is chairman of the
executive board of the Steel Trust,
occupies the same position with re
sard to the Allis-Chalmers Cos.
Other directors of tiie Steel Trust
are heavily Interested in the Wis
consln Engine Cos., which was involv
ed with R. D. Wood & Cos., In the lat
ter's bid. After the fight over the
Detroit pumping machinery contract
had progressed to the stage where a
scandal seemed certain if it were con
tinued funner, the attention of these
big men was called to the matter.
There was a great deal of long dis
tance telephone talk between Phila
delphia, Chicago and Milwaukee, and
the minseqiieitce was that the local
representatives of the Allis-Chalmers
Cos., found support withdrawn.
There are rumors that there may
be after-effects in the way of changes
in the contract department of the Al
lls-Chalmers Cos. Experts say that
the price of $107,500 offered by the
Allis-Chalmers representatives, taken
with the conditions of the contract,
meant that the concern would either
have to install the machinery at a
loss or else skimp the work in a way
which would hHve rendered the plant
an Inferior one.
"You can deny absolutely that there
Is any c.rmpromlse by which we will
use a cent's worth of Allis-''halmers
machinery," states Henry Crowther.
agent for R. [). Wood & Cos. I'hls
job is to be a monument ani) one to
which we wish to refer in making
bids for contracts In other cities. It
Is because of this city being located
so conveniently for engineers from
other cities to reach that we arc bid
ding as low as we can. We shall use
our own machinery und the best of
everything in the way of valves, pip
ing. etc."
LOTHROP-AVE. FOLK PROTEST.
Don’t Want Street Closed for Erection
of New Hospital.
A prolonged and lively fight is ex
pected to come up in the oonunoiC
council over the proposed closing of
Lothrop-ave. west of Hamilton boule
vuad on account of the erection of the
new Detroit General hospital. The
hospital plans call for the closing of
Lothrop-ave.. but residents in the
neighborhood object most strenuous
ly to any such plan.
At the present time lothrop-ave. is
open, but there are no houses on that
highway between Hamilton boulevard
and Twelfth st. This is because the
Thiru ave. and Trumbull ave. car line*
have not vet been extended north of
the railroad tiacks which are just
south of the Grand Boulevard.
It will be urged that, since the De
troit General hospital is to be built
on the pavilion plan, it will cause no
gtcal Inconvenience to have a street
running through the hospital grounds,
since there will not be any heavy
travel on such a street. The noise
would not be as great. It Is asserted,
as that on the streets adjoining Har
per and Grace hospitals. It Is also
pointed out that a service street is
required north of the Grand boule
vard.
LOOK OUT~FOR THIS MAN.
Fake Census Enumerator Gaining Ad
mission to Homes.
The second instance within the past
few days of persons obtaining admis
sion to residencet; on the pretense
that they were c.ensus enumerators
occurred Wednesday night, when a
man about 30 years old went to the
home of a family named Merrill, No
760 Twenty flfth-st., ami frightened
Mrs. Merrill.
The mall was received in the hou3e
by Mrs. Merrill. Before lie had beer,
there very long his actions aroused
the woman's suspicions. Asa ruse
to frighten him away, Mrs. Merrill
told him ner nephew was upstairs and
would come down and talk to him.
The man hurried away at this an
nouncement. He is described as
about 5 feet 11 inches tali and weigh
ing 100 pounds.
senatoFburrows here
Meets Political Friends in Pontchar
train; Goes To Kalamazoo Friday.
1 nlted States Senator Julius C. Hur
i*ows urrived in Detroit Thursday
noon from Flint, where he spoke Wed
nesday evening, and received a nmn
| ber of pcditlcal callers at the Hotel
Pontchnitrain during the early after
noon. The senator is looking well and
has a series of speaking engagements
which will take htm to all portions of
the slate. He goes to Knlttmntoo Fri
da) for a short stay in his home city
'anil will make one address while there.
CLOCK lIELD CUPID BACK.
Wedding Deferred Eight Hours to
Comply With the Law.
CHIPPEWA FALLS. Wls., Feb. .I.
Miss Emma <\ Mimin and Benjamin
C. Wilmarth both of Holcombe, were
to have been married at 8 p. m. Wed
nesday, hut at the last minute it was
found that the five days required by
law to wait after the issuance of the
license would not be tin until Thurs
day.
The bridal party waited until the
clocks struck midnight and then pro
ceeded with the ceremony.
PRICK CVTTINT,
! is the only way we <an dispose of our
i remnants Stills and Overcoats to or*-
| tier. SO.T.V
SIMJKH'S, as Xnnrnr-five,
Cf!»lldr9n Cry
F3R FLETCHER’S
i CASTCTom
STANEET PABBLEB
ON WIFE’S PLEA
Former Sunday-School Worker, Who
Eloped With "Affinity,” Prom
ises To Care For Family.
His wife's love and her willingness
to forgive and forget saved Arthur
Manley, former minister and Sunday
school worker, from a term in prison,
Thursday.
Stanley was recently brought but .%
from Philadelphia, whither he hud
fled with his stenographer ami "af-
I Unity” Miss Edith Markham, to ta> o
a charge of abandoning ills wife and
family. Since he has been in jail i:o
has had time to reflect and it wuu
with a very sober fat e that lie stepped
into the prisoner s dock. Thursday
noon, when Judge Connolly sent iov
him.
Just before Mrs Stanley, tiie pa
tient, forgiving wife, had called to
see the Judge to plead for her lint
band's release. He had realized his
mistake, fdie represented, and was
willing to make amends If given tho
chance. In return she promised to
overlook his past conduct aud star;,
life with him anew.
“1 see now that I made a bad mis
take.” admitted Stanley, as he stood
in the box. "If your honor will give
tne the opportunity 1 will endeavor
to rectify It.”
Judge Connolly took Stanley ut
word and paroled him for a year, with
the understanding mat he would do
right by his family in tiie future.
While tills war. going on, Mrs.
Stanley, simply bu. neatly dad in a
brown suit, sat ii> tiie rear of tiie
court room, an interested spectator,
though no one outside of the court
and one or two newspaper men knew
her identity or why she wus there.
After court had adjourned and the
spectators had gradually thinned out
she moved quietly to the table where
her hustuiMd sat with bowed head,
waiting for his hol d to he made Gut,
end touched him on the arm. Stanley
l< oked up to see tears glistening in
her eyes as she stood there before
him. He hesitated only a moment,
then quickly rose to his feet ami
threw his arms about the faithful
helpmate to whom he owed his de
liverance. For several seconds they
teniained locked in each other's em
brace and in that interval the differ
ences of the past apparently were*
obliterated.
Established IXSO.
Inventory
Time
Impresses upon us
the fact that we must
Reduce Stock
At once In all departments.
Price Reductions
Will make u visit especially advan
tageous to you.
DIAMONDS. WATCHES, JEWEL
RY, SILVERWARE, STEALING SIL
VER. NOVELTIES, SILVER MESH
BAGS, OPERA GLASSES, RICH
CUT GLASS, CLOCKS. 18-K TIFFANY
WEDDING RINGS, CLOCKS. ETC.,
INCLUDED IN THE STOCK REDUC
TIONS.
TRAUB BROS.
118 MOOI)WAItD-AVE.
TRAUB BROS. & CO.
208 WOODWARD-AVE.
SPECIAL
L'S ■ WATCHES
Warranted 20 years; Elgin
or Waltham
movements — I § t
choice tPIU
Regular sls values.
Watches. Jewelry, 27 Monroe.
CASH OR CREDIT
Red Tag
Sale
Closing Out Winter
Clothing at Greatly
Reduced Prices
Bargain values for
Men, Women and
Children.
Open a Charge
Account —and test
the immense advan
tage of buying at this
store.
You’ll Be Convinced.
Menter &
RoseuujOomCo.
59 Monroe Ave.
$9.50 Bro This $9 50
BED. SPRING anil MATTRESS
Here is without doubt one of the greatest bed outfits
ever offered in Detroit. The price quoted includes a
well manufactured iron bed and we have it in various
shades of enamel, including the popular Vernis Martin
shade, which looks like real brass. The mattress has a
soft top, is full weight, and a good woven wire spring.
We wish to impress upon you the bod is
exactly like cut.
The usual selling price of this outfit complete is
Exactly Like fPV" 'fS*
Cut ivJL/J'UL/.j
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WF Credit Terms Arranged To Suit
Fitzsimons’ /J Rugs
Blue Pencil // Stoves
Reduction // Curtains
Sale! 1/ Furniture
1521 to 352 Cuts in Prices |
We Have Cut* the Price on Everything
A hundred or more sample pieces of the finest Furniture manufactured are included in this
sale, which will supply your needs from Parlor to Kitchen. The Pencil” prices come once
a year, and MANY WHO ARE JUST STARTING IN HOUSEKEEPING have been waiting
for this sale to supply their entire outfit—and easily so, for at no time in married life is saving so
essential as at the start.
We are pleased
to open accounts
if you prefer.
.— THE ENCCASS SYSTEM——
Diamonds Watches
ON CREDIT =====
YOU can own a beautiful Diamond or a high-grade Watch
and pay for it in such little sums that you will not miss the
money—you wear the diamond or watch while you are pay
ing for it.
ELGIN AND WALTHAM
Gold-Filled Watches.
Guaranteed 20 Years.
$11.75
SI.OO DOWN. $1 00 WEEK.
Otheis up to
SIOO each.
Adolph Enggass Jewelry Cos.
DIRECT IMPORTERS OF JEWELRY
\\ Htnli Inipnrtnr* f<»r lll** VVftt.iNli <*•».
22 Gratiot Ave.
38 40 Michigan Ave.
DIAMOND RINGS $29
Krniniilirr, n diamond la h kuuil
In* raliiipml, roiialNnll} liii'rraiiliiii
In inltii*.
$15.00. We have
about forty of these
beds and you
may have one to
morrow complete
with spring and
mattress at our
special price of
*9.50
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