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Arthur Stringer, Novelist
You go flftecii tnjlcs to a danre.
und cTery one yrho lives betneen
goes, too."
OF
BY SINGLE THUG
Mrs. Robertson Brings Story
of Deal Beach Hold-Up
to Lloyd's.
NO CLUE IS -FOUND.
Dinner Party Forced to Give
Up Both Money and
Jewels.
Mrs. Sarah Lavan Miller Robert
son came to New York to-day from
her home at Deal Beach, N. J., to
consult with Lloyd3 regarding the
Insurance carried by them for the
$50,000 worth of jewelry which was
taken from her by a lone armed rob
ber while she was entertaining
friends at dinner Saturday night.
Mrs. Robertson, who went to Deal
on Friday to inako her home there
until sho has rented her five Deal
cottages for the summer, had as
dinnor guosts her real estate agent,
David S. Meyer, of Long Branch, his
scventecn-year-old nephew, Edgar
M. Lazarus, and her nelce and com
panion, Miss Olive Robertson. Mrs.
Robcrtsort was wearing a diamond
sunburst on the shoulder of her
gown.
She bad left three diamond lings on
tho kitchen sink wlillo preparing din
ner she is merely camping out in tho
cottago for tho present, she told her
friends. Tho remainder of the Jewel
ry, which sho had taken on Friday
from tho Bafo at tho McAlpin Hotel
nnd carried with her to Deal, was in
a gold mcshbag on the sideboard.
B. C. Tuber of Long Branch called
with samples of awfilng material, and
sho.Invltcd him'lnto tho dining room
to wait until dinner was over. A few
minutes later sho was again called to
tho front door.
Sho was confronted by a tall man
in a long raincoat, with a soft hat
pulled down over his eyes and a hand
kerchief covering tho lower half of
Ills face. Ho pointed a revover at her
and told her to put up her hands.
TEARS DIAMOND SUNBURST
, FROM HER SHOULDER.
He grasped tho diamond sunburst
nnd tore It from her shoulder. Then
ho ordered her to walk backward Into
tho dining room.
As sho backed through the door the
robber, who had a smooth, steady
voice, called: "Kvcrybody stay still or
get hurt."
Young Mr. Lazarus jumped up ut
tho first gllmp'so of tho Intruder and
started for him. Miss Olive Robert
son Jumped in front of him and
begged him to go back and sit down
lest eho bo shot. Ho did.
Tho robber ordered all flvo to stand
ngalnst tho wall of tho dining room.
Ho stood besido n serving tablo and
summoned each man to como to the
tablo and lay on It everything ho hail
in nis pockets.
Mr. Meyer went to tho tablo and
contributed 150 In money. Mr,
lizurus was walking to tho tablo
when Mrs. Robertson darted to the
sideboard and tried to knock tho mosh
iag inio an open drawer. Tho robbor
sprains at ncr, crying: "Drop that!"
When sho clung to It he snatched
It from her hand. Without waiting
jor inouio irom mo others, ho backed
out of tho room, warning Mrs. Rob.
crtson nnd her guests that he "had
n. man outside who would shoot If
they tried anything."
After tho door closed fcehlnd him.
Mis. Robertson thought she heard an
automobile drive away. The otheis
jjiy they did not hear It. Mrs. Rob
ertson also told tho police that before
tho robber followed hor into the din
ing room bo waved over his shoulder,
apparently as a signal to some one
outside.
Mrs. Robertson said she noticed
HOSTESS
ROBBED
50,000
GEMS
, EVENING WORLD
"City life Ir a lonely life, mov
ing pictures and dramas are
only narcotic to make your
lonely forget."
MARY GARDEN HAS
RECIPE FOR YOUTH
ON 45TH BIRTHDAY
May Seek Fortune Selling Pills, but
Won't Add Husband to
Other Troubles.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 20.
Mary Garden celebrated her
forty-llfth birthday here to-day
with tho announcement that she
was thinking of going Into tho
patent medicine business.
Answering tho question: "How
did you do It?" by one of her
flock of Interviewers who noticed
sho seemed moro youthful und
was many pounds thinner thun
when she was last here, she Bald
jokingly:
"It's just pills. I tako one
a day. I'm thinking of having
them patented so I can mako a
lot of money." ' .
"Are you thinking ot getting
married?"
"My Lord, man I I have enough
troubles without a husband!
"Besides, I don't have to think
of a husband for two years yet.
A fortuno teller In San Francisco
told mo I would get married In
19:4."
several men standing about the desk
of the McAlpin Hotel when the Jewels
wcro turned over to her on Friday
afternoon. Sho checked the Jewels at
the counter and placed them In a
handbag. On tho train, sho said, sho '
met an old friend, Miss Gladys Brown '
of Long Branch, nnd took tho Jewels
out nnd showed them to her. Several
persons In nearby beats of the car
M'cmcd much interested, she recalls
now.
Tho list of the stolen jewelry fur
nished to the Deal police is as follows:
Largo square diamond ring set In a
circle of smaller stones.
Diamond dinne'r ring set with four
largo stones.
Ruby nnd emerald ring.
Sapphire ring-1, the stone "as large
as a 3-cent piece."
A two und a half inch bar pin set
with diamonds.
Gild mesh bag with thirteen dia
monds set in tho top of the frame.
Diamond studded wrist-watch with
thirty diamonds set in tho gold und
platinum clasp.
Twenty-four Inch strand of pearls
with a diamond cross.
There was also $300 In cash in the
bag.
GIVE DEFENDANT CHANCE
JUROR SAID; MISTRIAL
Must ,nTrer to Court on Contn
niacloa Charffr.
AJter Gregory Emanuel of No. 2137
Seventh Avenue, on trial fcefore Judge
Molqueen for assault had been severely
cross-examined by Assistant District
Attorney Edward Well and the court
was waiting for tho next witness, the
foreman of the jury, Charles M. Wyant,
a manufacturer at No. 234 Bast -2Uh
Street spoke to Mr. Well In a tone audi
ble all over the court room.
"Why don't you give the defendant a
chance," he said. "Your testimony Is
all wrong, wen your wiagram is all
wrong."
Mr. Well asked Judge Mulauecn to
declare a mistrial. Judge Mulqueen
complied with tho reqeust and notified
Mr. Wyant to present himself before
the court Wednesday accompanied by a
lawyer to face a charge of contuma
cious conduct.
MAN AND WOMAN HURT
AS AUTO HITS HYDRANT
'Stnten Inland Pnlr Tnken to IIo
pltal In Serlou Condition,
An automobile In which Joseph Roc
of No. 833 Post Avenue, Port Richmond,
was taking Miss Agnes Cuslck, a tel
ephone exchange operator, from her
home at No. 108 Bcrgher Street, West
Now Hrlghton, skidded on Richmond
Turnpike this afternoon and struck a
fire hydrant. Both were thrown to the
street. The automobile was wrecked,
Miss Cuslck and Mr.Roe were taken
t') the Stnten Island Hospital uncon
scious. Miss Cuslck had concussion of
the brain and Internal injuries. Mr.
Hoe's right ami was broken and his
body covered with bruises.
IIAIIE PAINTINGS AIUHVE ITERK.
Nicholas Senyl, an art collector of
Budapest, arrived to-day on the Noor
dam, of the Holland-American Line,
hoping to find an American purchaser,
he naid, for a collection of old paintings,
Including a Titian, formerly owned by
the late Primate Cardinal Scltovskl. An
other pasaenger was J. Holub, also of
Budupeat. who comes to study Ameri
can forming method.
THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY
of the Great
"The howl of n coyote at twN
light sounds no more lonesome
than the orchestra sounds to the
hall roomer."
Great Outdoors Lonely?
Never! Says Writer, 10 Years
Canadian Prairie Dweller
t-
Arthur Stringer, Back From Alberta, Has Only
Pity for City Folk Breaks Records for Vis
itors by Ignoring Prohibition in Hour and
Half Interview.
By Lindsay Denison.
A notable man has Just come to
New York to live. So far as the
experience ot a rather nctlve reporter
moving around lit this city of 6,000,
000 or so residents and strangers af
fords a measure, he is tho most no
table man who has come to town
slnco Jan. 10, 1920. Arthur Stringer,
novelist who has found his charac
ters backBtugo and In the gutter and
behind bars as well as In prairie
shacks and fruit-ranch homes can
talk for an hour and a half without
mentioning Prohibition. Not once.
Let him be welcomed back to New
York from the short-grass country of
tho Canadian Northwest with due ref
orenco nnd humility.
Have you a little blue devil of lone
liness in your hall bedroom or your
studio apartment or your puffy cush
ioned Klftli Avenue boudoir, lady?
Because, ono reason Arthur Stringer
never thinks to talk about things in
the prevailing terms of the alcoholic
is because he can think of so many
ways In which to tell you where to go
if you wish never to see that blue
devil again or hear him sniffing at
your doorsill. And why Is this true?
That Mr. Stringer has just packed
a freight car with his best liked books
and pictures and rugs and his pet
furniture nnd comes out of tho near
and far Northwest country to New
York docs not cloud his enthusiasm
In the least. (At least, he thinks he
has come to New York. He has
bought a home at Mountain Lukes,
over In New Jersey. Alberta Is so
far away, perhaps, that It looked llko
New York.) Iln-Jjas' come back to
give his two sons a chance for a
varied view of life which he believes
they might ns well have they are
four and five years old and' because
he feels It good business to live In tho
thick of the readers of his novels and
his publishers for awhile.
It does not make him t'he least bit
apologetic for his theory ot tho com
paratively unlonesomeness of the
ranch country that ho comes back
just as Bobbs-Merrill are about to
put on tho booksellers' shelves his
"The Prairie Call," completing a
trilogy with "The Pralrio Wife" and
"The Pralrio Mother." If ho had
only himself or Mrs. Stringer to con
sider to the end of his days, ho would
probably not have come back, ho la
very sure, except as a gallivanting
excursionist.
"It Is nearly always the way," says
Mr. Stringer, "that tho less a woman
knows of tho homely things of life,
tho hardships of fighting dirt nnd
hunger and cold tho more she has
been waited on, the more resource
fully she fits into th prairie life.
There is that other sort which 'comes
out from home'; the sort who have
always done their own cooking and
washing nnd sewing and sweeping.
They are not so cheerful In meeting
the change: they are frightful grouch
ers; but I'd never call them lonely."
Except for not mentioning Prohi
bition not so much us even telling a
bootlegger story Mr. Stringer talked
of a lot of things. There were remi
niscences of old friends in the days
when the Vlllago was a placo whe.-e
one lived becauso It v.aj cheap, never
dreaming that It was a place whoro
ono would go and nay and pay anc
pay because It pays to advertise and
wondering where this one was or that
Also he talked of g-owlng Montreal
melons the kind that bees sting to
get tho syrup from them. None who
has heard Mr. Stringer tell of the
nurture of the Montreal melon will
over doubt the sincerity of his all em
oruclng sensitive sympathy.
"Of course, you have tc pet them ;i
lot," he ."-aid. It is gr.-nted. Accord
ing to ilr Stringer hi staits them, in
pots under glass; pjts little glans
houses over tlipm i1 tht garden lo
protect them from the chill breezes
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Canadian Northwest, Talks on the Loneliness of City Dwellers;
"It Is the lonely woman vrho
attends concerts, rends books
and feathers the nest of Isolation
Tilth the consolation of art."
of early summer: prunes them, sterru
ly but tern" -ly, so that each vine
shall bear but two fiults; puts pUto
glass mirrors under them to reflect
the sunlight, on their under sides:
turns them .twice a wvek to keep their
complexions evenly tinted and syne
times, pertiaps, hearing them mur
muring fretfully In tho night, rises
and goes out, he and his wife In their
bathrobes, and turns flashlights on
them to mako sure tluy are not sleep
ing with their urm back of tlioir
heads or that the striped beetles ire
not annoying them.
But most of nil lie talked about the
fullacy of the city dweller's notion
that one out of sound of tho voices
of the huckster nnd iho newsboy and
the trolley gong and the subway-elo-vated
growl Is thereby cheerlessly Iso
lated from God and man. Here ;iro
scattered notes "Mr. Stringer n.is
"irought out of Alber'a for the lono
some cliff swallows In New York's
canyons of brick and mortar and icln
forccd cement.
"If a woman looks at tho piaulo
she sees God in His tnlinitc goodness.
If she looks that way nt a New
Yorker ho suggests a quiet little place
where ho can take her out to supper."
"Tho howl of a coyote across u
green rind of twilight can sound
pretty lonesome. But It's not half as
lonesome as tho sound of an orchestra
to a hall-roomer when tho Other Peo-
plo are so busy dancing. (And the
roar of Broadway through a hall-room
window can be quite ns desolate as
the evening song ot katydids across a
Western coulee.)
"It's the secretly lonely woman who
listens to your Carnegie Hall music
Vrfao is the
Biggest Builder
in this town?
What made him
" .so? Common sense. And if he
smokes Turkish cigarettes, he
smokes
Lord Salisbury
Turkish Cigarettes
Why ? Common sense.
LORD SALISBURY is the only
high-grade Turkish cigarette in
the world that sells for so little
money.
Try il.
TEN-SECOND
Too 'mapy Trm 1 yj"
thought the city flat an aTcnne
oj personal freedom find It a.
cemetery for dead souls."
and reads your books and feathers tho
nest of her isolation with the consola
tions of art."
"Too many of those womc n who re
garded tho city flat as an avenue to
personal freedom have found It merely
a cemetery for dead souls. It's a
doublo-cdged loneliness, that loneli
ness which comes of finding oneself
alono In tho very midst of one's fel
low beings."
"City llfo must bo lonely life be
cause so many medicines have been
concocted to drug tho etll away. Our
moving pictures and dramas, after
all, are only narcotics to mako people
forget the emptiness of llfo. Tho
older I grow the more I rcalizo that
this world is made up of lonely mill
Ions sitting behind the walls of their
souls und living on bottled romanco."
"Loneliness is tho nbsenco of some
thing you wished for, tho loss of
something you loved. Most of us, I
Imagine, can recall the abysmal deso
lation of lclng a child and losing our
pet dog."
"It's racial for woman to wish to
partake of tho bounty of nature. The
only way tho city woman :an do this
Is to shoulder In at the Slondny bar
gain counter, 'getting something for
next to nothing.' The rural woman
gathers eggs and blueberries, bakes
nnd churns and puts up preserves
and never complains of loneliness."
"As for tho city, you don't know
your neighbors. They don't know you.
We have the classic story of the Jan
itor who didn't know a th'ng about
tho family In the fifth floor north: 'I
don't know what business ho Is in or
who her friends me, but I'll tell tho
world they certainly send down some
swell garbage.' "
"The prulrie woman hasn't time to
be lonely. Sho must work or per
ish. When one gets right down to
tho essentials read Stcfansson's Tho
Friendly Arctic' and you must rcal
izo the Ksktmo woman In her Igloo
has as many things to make her
happy and keep her Interested nnd
mako her think ns has the woman
who lives at the Waldorf or tho Rltz.
The prairie nlves you the physical
strength to meet tho demands of the
labor. There is something ozonic In
It, homethlng t'at keeps you on your
toes and gives you a pulse a good ten
beats faster to the minute." .
-which means that il ynu don't like LORD
SAI.ISIHIIY Tl'RMSII rircUIFTTIS
you cun ct )our money bad. from the dealer
20, 1922.
NEWS MOVIES
"The prnlrlo woman hasn't
time to bo lonely. She must
nork or perish.
prairie gives her the strength."
Doctor at 99
Credits Wine
For Long Life
Followed Advice of Brother
Physician to Use Beverage;
Overcame Early Ailment.
Dr. Stephen Smith, founder of tho
New York Stato and National Boards
of Health and probably ono of tho
most Influential ot medical men who
have established the fact that pro
tection of tho public health Is a vital
matter of government, celebrated his
nlnty-nlnth birthday yesterday. Ho
was at tho homo of tho Rov. Walter
Nason at Montour Falls. N. Y.
Dr. Smith, according to his sister,
Mrs. James Pratt, Is halo and hearty.
Ho was In New York a couplo of
weeks ago, when ho was tho honor
guest at a dinner given by the Amer
ican Public Health Association to
celebrate tho golden Jubllco of his
membership.
Tho secret of longevity, according
to Dr. Smith, Is sufficient proper food.
Said ho:
"In my earlier years I suffered from
dyspepsia ind It forced me to a mca
gro diet of simple foods. As a result
I saved my stomach and havo tho uso
of It now. I took euro of my stomach
during tho first fifty years of my llfo
nnd now It is taking care of mo. It
was during a visit to Paris as delegate
to the International Sunltnry Confer
ence that I learned to drink wine, with
tho result that 1 have been well ever
since. At a banquet I sat next to a
famous French physician whom I told
about my unfortunate- handicap. Ho
advised mo to drink wine between tho
courses, saying It would digest tho
West 42txd St.
Important Eduction Sale Tuesday of
Women's and Misses'
SILK or WOOL SWEATERS
A Special Group of desirable Sweaters taken from
regular stock and Gready Lowered in Price to
$15.00
Tuxedo and slijwm styles in Fibre or pure Silk, Crepe Knit, Iceland Woal or
tovclry iveaves. A choice of the prevailing colors. . . Main Floor.
O O
'New Models in Women's and Misses
SILK BREAKFAST COATS
of TWO-TONE SATIN or GROS de LONDRE
Special at,
$11.50
These BREAKFAST COATS of beautiful quality Silks and daintily trimmed, impart 6
' nrtich the " House-Dress " appearance that they are not confined exdusively to the
Boudoir. They can appear with propriety as porch or informal " at Home " Dresses
Ruchings, silk rosebuds, large pockets and self sashes, add attractive finishing touches.
Light and dark colors are included in the color range.
SECOND FLOOR.
rrnlrlo dwellers jyjPTIgjff Tlie city Iw made op of loyly 1
their door. In the city yon clinln millions, witting behind the walla
The ozonle jour uoor mnt. Yon don't know of their snnln nnd llvlnar la
your ''ncjirtitiora" bottled i ronance." "
zjh -
DOCTOR WHO GIVES
CREDIT TO WINE
FOR HIS 99 YEARS
OR Stephen Sxni-rr
ViJ KRY3TOMK. VIH.WV,
food I hod eaten. I followed his ad
vico nnd did not experienco any fur
ther discomfort."
Stem Brothers
(Between 5th and 6th AvcnUes)
cx5 II
FIRST WIFE'S GHOST
HARRIES NO. 2 TILtl
o:
CHASED BY PASTOR
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Worried Hubby Gets ClergymHl
to Exorcise Spook After It
"Chokes" Successor.
MERIDEN, Conn., Feb. 20. '
After months of torment by th
spook of her husband's first wif,
whlrh became so bold lest week as t
"to choko her and knock a flaUroa"
out of her hand," Mrs. RelnhoJd'im
,.i . . . . a . .
jvireuiiBiviu ul io. Aia iewis yvvs
nuo Is happy to-day In the belief
that tho pastor of her church bu
exorcised tho evil rplrlt. But
women neighbors are not bo sure
that tho ghost has been banished,'
and there is much subdued excite
mcnt over the strange happenings
reported since Klrschsteln, a wid
ower with two children, took unto,
himself a second wife last July
following tho death In January of
tho first Mrs. Klrschsteln.
Since November Mrs. Klrsch
steln has lccn frequently visited
by tho spook, and last Thursday,
It attacked her, sho says, and'
when her husband returned from
work the worried man summoned'
the clergyman, who ts credited,
with casting out the apparition tor,
good.
ailUROU (PDOBrtATION WZIX AtS
joni.Bss.
At a recent meeting of tho Board et
Directors of the New York Federation
of Churches it was decided to orranlie'
an Unemployment Bureau to be con '
ducted by tho combined Frotestnntj
churches of the city. An office will' bf
established In a central location In ,
Manhattan, but applications for jobs,
may bo made at nearly any Protestant
church. It Is planned to co-operate with
employers and organizations closely.
lated to the churches.
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