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2. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 2.--While President Wilson was speaking here to-day a pair of new fur-lined gloves was taken from the pocket of his overcoat, which he had hung in an ante-room. It is supposed that somebody wanted a souvenir of his visit to Kansas. Mr. Wilson missed the gloves when he started for his train.

3. Richmond, Va., Feb. 20.--Capt. W. M. Myers, delegate for Richmond in the general assembly, has introduced an amendment to the anti-nuisance, or "red light," measure, making it unlawful for any woman to wear a skirt the length of which is more than four inches from the ground, a bodice or shirt waist showing more than three inches of neck, or clothes of transparent texture. Delegate Myers said he wished to protect men.

4. Two Rivers, Wis., Feb. 19.--When the Bushey Business College basket-ball team scored the winning point in the last minute of play during their game with the Two Rivers team here last night, Anton Kopetsky was stricken with heart failure. He was taken to the basement of the building, where physicians started to work over him. In the meantime a dance was started in the hall where the game had been played. An hour later, with the dance on in full swing, Kopetsky died. The dance was stopped and the musicians sent home.

5. Centralia, Pa., Sept. 30.--Forty men are working night and day to rescue Thomas Tosheski, who has been entombed 96 hours in the Continental mine here. Food was given Tosheski in his prison to-day by means of a two-inch gas-pipe, forced through a hole made by a diamond drill.

6. On the north corner of Darling Street and Temple Alley a little old woman, white-haired and shrunken in frame, has guarded all day long a bag of clothes and a feather bed, her only possessions. She was thrown out of her room at 19-1/2 Temple Alley this morning and she has nowhere to go.

7. Harrisburg, Pa., Feb. 20.--Henry Blake of this city has been arrested by State Policeman Curtis A. Davies on charges of burglary. He confessed to a string of thefts covering months in the fashionable suburban districts of the state capital. In Blake's pocket was found a much used Bible. Circled with red ink was the quotation: "Seek and ye shall find."

8. New York, Feb. 19.--The sale of Peter the Great, 2:07-1/4, by W. E. D. Stokes of this city to Stoughton J. Fletcher, an Indianapolis banker, sets a new record for old horses. Not in any country, at any period, it is believed, has a horse of any breed brought so high a price at so great an age. Peter the Great is 21 years old and Stokes received $50,000 for him.

9. Boston, August 31.--Another world eating record is claimed by Charles W. Glidden, of Lawrence, who sat down at a local restaurant yesterday and devoured fifty-eight ears of corn in an hour and fifty-five minutes. The previous record is claimed by Ose Dugan, of New York, who ate fifty-one ears. Mr. Glidden is ready to meet all comers. He keeps in condition by eating sparingly of prunes, ice cream, and oranges.

10. Grand Rapids, Wis., Feb. 21.--Two miles north of the city a large grey fox fought for its life this morning, and lost. Conrad Wittman shot and wounded him a mile south of Hunter's Point. The fox was trailed by the dogs past Regele's creamery, when the trail came abruptly to an end. A search was begun, and a short time afterward the fox was found in a tree, dead. He had leaped to the lower branches as the dogs were overtaking him, and died from the gun-shot wound after reaching safety.

11. New York, Feb. 28.--After all negotiations, counter negotiations, champagne suppers, and "rushing," it seems that Charlie Chaplin with his justly celebrated walk and his frequently featured kick will hereafter be exclusively shown on Mutual films. Such announcement was made quietly but definitely yesterday. The contracts, it is asserted, were signed Saturday. They provide for a bonus of $100,000 to Chaplin, with or without his mustache; $10,000 a week salary, and a percentage in the business. The money is to be paid to-morrow. Chaplin is to have a special company organized for him by the Mutual, and his brother, Syd Chaplin, also an agile figure in motion pictures, is to be a member of it. What price was paid for the brother is not stated. The Mutual Company already has applied for an insurance of $250,000 on the new star.

12. Greencastle, Ind., Feb. 22.--Fifty De Pauw University students have been suspended for the present week because they violated the college rule against dancing. The students attended a ball given three weeks ago during the midyear recess.

13. St. Joseph, Mo., Oct. 16.--Until the other day a horse belonging to Elias Chute, 80 years old, of No. 2404 Faraon Street, had not been outside of a little barn in the rear of 1626 Frederick Avenue for more than a year. Through most of one winter, spring, summer, fall, and part of another winter the faithful old animal had stood tied in his stall. His hoofs had grown over his shoes and everything about him showed he had been neglected in everything but food and water.

_CHAPTER VIII_

_A._ Explain the faults in the organization of the following stories:

_WILSON SPEAKS TO DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION_

Washington, Oct. 11.--The Daughters of the American Revolution
applauded what they regarded as a gallant compliment to his
fiancee uttered by President Wilson in his speech on national
unity at Continental Hall this afternoon.

In that part of his speech in which he served notice that he
purposes to administer the discipline of public disapproval to
hyphenated Americans, the President remarked:

"I know of no body of persons comparable to a body of ladies for
creating an atmosphere of opinion."

Immediately afterward he said smilingly:

"I have myself in part yielded to the influence of that
atmosphere."

The official White House stenographer inserted a comma in his
transcript of the President's speech at the foregoing utterance,
but the members of the D. A. R. thought the President had come
to a chivalrous period. They looked over the President's
shoulders to one of the boxes where sat his fiancee, Mrs. Norman
Galt, with her mother, Mrs. Bolling, and they applauded
tumultuously.

Several seconds elapsed before the President, whose face had
flushed, could wedge in:
"for it took me a long time to observe how I was going to vote
in New Jersey."

The President's hearers just would not believe that he had had
the suffrage issue in mind when he began his sentence, and Mrs.
Galt herself blushed in recognition of the applause.

Mrs. Galt, with her mother and Miss Helen Woodrow Bones, had
been taken to Continental Hall in one of the White House
automobiles. The President walked over, accompanied by his
military aid, Col. Harte, and the secret-service men. Before he
left the White House he had stood for several minutes leaning
over the side of the automobile having a tete-a-tete with Mrs.
Galt.

Curious persons passing through the White House grounds thought
it a very interesting sight to observe the President of the
United States standing with one foot on the step of an
automobile talking with a member of the fair sex. They got the
impression from the animated character of the conversation that
Mrs. Galt was disappointed because the President was not going
to accompany her to Continental Hall, and that she was trying to
persuade him to abandon his plan of walking over.

Society people are as much interested as ever in the plans of
the couple, but little has been learned definitely as yet. No
disclosure was made to-day of the date of the wedding, and
similar secrecy has been maintained as to their honeymoon plans.

It is known that the Misses Smith of New Orleans, relatives of
the President, are urging that the honeymoon be enjoyed at Pass
Christian, Miss., where Mr. Wilson and his family spent the
Christmas holidays two years ago. It is believed the President
will not choose a place as far distant as Pass Christian. His
friends predict that if he takes any trip at all it will be on
the yacht Mayflower.

Congratulations of the United States Supreme Court on his
engagement were extended to the President this morning when the
Justices called formally to pay their respects on the occasion
of the convening of the court for the fall sittings. The
Justices were received in the Blue Room. They were in their
judicial robes and all members were present except Justice
Lamar, whose illness prevented.

President Wilson's impetuosity as a prospective bridegroom is
keeping the secret service on the jump nearly all the time. More
frequently than he ever has done in the past, the President
leaves the White House unattended and without giving warning to
his bodyguard.

He did this yesterday when he started for Mrs. Galt's residence,
where he was to be a dinner guest, and again this morning when
he walked down town to purchase a new travelling bag. The
purchase resulted in renewed speculation whether or not the date
for the wedding is imminent.

_LEO FRANK WORSE TO-DAY_

Milledgeville, Ga., July 19.--Physicians who examined Leo M.
Frank in the state prison early to-day said his condition was
much worse. The jagged cut in his throat, received at the hands
of a fellow prisoner, William Green, Saturday night, was swollen
and his temperature was 102 2-5.

Physicians have succeeded in stopping the flow of blood from a
jagged wound made with a butcher knife by William Green, also
serving a life term for murder. The blow was struck as Frank
slept in his bunk.

An investigation of the attack probably will be made by the
Georgia prison commission.

Frank's temperature was as low as 101 Monday noon, but ran up to
102 2-5 Monday night. The wound is an ugly, jagged one.

_BRYAN LOSES TEMPER_

Dallas, Texas, Oct. 2.--William J. Bryan, who formerly held a
government job, has temper.

He took said temper out for an airing here to-day. He was riding
from the railroad station to the hotel with a reception
committee, of which a reporter happened to be a member.

"Do you ever intend to be a candidate for public office?" asked
the reporter.

"I think, sir, if you had any sense you wouldn't have asked that
question," replied the exponent of peace.

"I meant no impertinence."

"Well, it was impertinent. You wouldn't want to answer that
question yourself, would you?"

"Sure I can answer it. I never intend to be a candidate for
anything."

"Well, I don't think any friend of mine would try to get me to
promise never to be a candidate again."

"I didn't ask you to promise."

"Well, that's all right," the ex-premier and the dove of peace
returned.

Bryan was almost kissed again to-day.

B. F. Pace, a peace enthusiast, with outstretched arms and
pursed-up lips, rushed upon the Nebraskan in the hotel lobby.
Bryan blushed coyly, clapped his hand over his mouth and dodged
behind a six-foot Texan.

"Not too fast there!" he warned.

Friends intervened.

Pace has bushy whiskers.

_GUEST AT PARTY ROBBER_

The police are searching for a man known as "Jack Wallace," who
is wanted for robbing W. G. Gaede, 444 West Grand Avenue, of
jewelry valued at $350 at the Auditorium Hotel.

Gaede, who was celebrating New Year's eve, met Wallace and took
him to the Auditorium. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning Wallace
suggested that Gaede retire.

Wallace took Gaede to his room and soon afterward departed. When
Gaede awoke his diamond stud, watch, chain, and charm were gone,
also $20 in currency.

Mrs. Agnes Ackerman of the Morrison Hotel was robbed of a purse
containing $50 while dining at the Hotel La Salle Saturday
night.

_B._ Put the following details in proper sequence for a suicide story:

Ira Hancock

Committed suicide (?) about 10 A.M., Monday.
Used to be wealthy.
Always gave waiters a good tip.
Never quit tipping even when he became poor.
Said tip was part of price of a meal.
Waiters always glad to see him.
Patronized cheap restaurants for the past three months.
Lived at 1919 Washington Avenue.
Age, 29.
Left room Monday morning with only a nickel and a bunch of keys.
Borrowed a quarter from Bob Cranston, downtown friend.
Went together for breakfast at Cozy Cafe, 18 Main Street.
Breakfast cost 25 cents each.
Hancock gave waiter five-cent tip.
Cranston called him a fool.
Hancock unmarried.
9:00 A.M., engaged a dressing room at Island Bathing house.
Bathing beach closed at midnight; Hancock's clothing still in
the dressing room.
Only a bunch of keys in the pockets.
Fired from job at Snyder's Malt house, Saturday night.
Taught girls' Sunday-school class, West Side Baptist church,
Sunday morning.
Body not found.
Lost money dealing in war stocks three months ago.

_CHAPTER IX_

_A._ Correct such of the following leads as need correction. Where the age of the person, his place of residence, or similar details necessary to an effective lead are lacking, supply them (paragraphs =100-120=).

1. Adam Schenk fell off the runway at the Fernholz Lumber Yard
on Monday forenoon and landed on his back at a point near his
kidneys on a stake on the wagon, breaking the stake off.

2. Rather than to put the Tuttle Press Company to an unnecessary
expense of appropriating $1,000 that would do neither the city
nor any particular individual a cent's worth of material good,
and assuming also that the city, by virtue of the fact that the
company's original plant was erected on lines provided by the
city's engineer, is in a measure responsible for present
conditions, the city commissioners in conference with S. A.
Whedon of the Tuttle Press Company this morning decided not to
proceed further in the matter of ordering removed the walls of a
big addition to the plant now in process of construction.

3. Roaming hogs was the cause of the recent illness of Mr. T. N.
Davis. The hogs rooted under the wire fence surrounding his
residence and in his effort to get them out he exerted himself
beyond his endurance.

4. At an early hour Tuesday morning, as the beams of the rising
sun were struggling to dispel the uncertainties of a winter
night, the final summons came to Miss Ella O'Harrigan, our
beloved librarian, to join the innumerable caravan that moves to
the pale realms of shade.

5. Again the lure of Broadway, the craving to be among
expensively clad men and women, and a longing to seem of more
than actual importance, have resulted in a fall from a position
of responsibility and trust to one facing the possibility of a
long term of imprisonment.

This time it is a woman; good looking, possessing the knack of
dressing smartly, capable and efficient, and less than 40 years
old. For six years she had been head bookkeeper in Marbury Hall,
an apartment hotel of the best class, at 164 West Seventy-fourth
Street. For more than two years of that time, according to the
prosecuting officials, she has been putting cash belonging to
the hotel into her own diamond-studded purse, whence it was
transferred to the coffers of expensive dressmakers, theatres,
and restaurants, particularly those which maintained dance
floors.

Yesterday afternoon she was arrested, charged with grand
larceny. She raised her hand to her mouth as the detective
tapped her shoulder, and a few minutes later was taken to the
Polyclinic Hospital, to be later transferred to Bellevue. She
will recover from the poison and will have to face in court in
four or five days the charges which she attempted to avoid by
death....

6. Swept by a 33-mile gale, a fire which started in a
three-story frame Greek restaurant on Appomattox Street this
afternoon quickly spread to adjoining frame buildings in
Hopewell, the "Wonder City," at the gates of the Du Pont Powder
Company's plant, twenty miles from here, and at nightfall
practically every business house, hotel, and restaurant in the
mushroom powder town of 30,000 had been wiped out, the loss
amounting to $1,000,000 or more.

7. One man, a bank messenger, was shot mortally and his
assailant wounded, perhaps mortally, two other men narrowly
missed death by shooting, and thousands of persons were
terrorized by an attempted hold-up in the Fourteenth Street
subway station at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and by a chase
which skirted Union Square, continued through a theatre arcade
and ended blocks away.

8. As a result of an old quarrel between two citizens of Leroy,
the melting snow-drifts on the streets of that city ran red with
human blood, Wednesday. John M. Zellhoefer lay gasping his last
breath on the sidewalk, with a fatal bullet wound through the
midst of his body, while over him stood Francis Marion Dunkin,
with smoking revolver in hand.

9. Nothing had been learned by the police last night to
indicate that George de Brosa, who died early yesterday morning
in Bellevue hospital after fatally wounding Allan Gardner, a
bank messenger, and being shot by Walter F. Orleman, another
bank messenger, in an attempted holdup of the two in the
Fourteenth Street subway station Friday afternoon, had an
accomplice.

10. At All Saints Cathedral Sunday morning, Dean Seldon P.
Delany spoke on "Salvation through Self-Sacrifice," taking for
his text Mark viii, 35: "Whosoever will save his life shall lose
it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the
gospel's, the same shall save it."

11. Rachel Green, colored, suffered a dislocated and badly
sprained knee last night while she was attending religious
services at Main Street Colored Baptist church and another woman
began to shout and jumped into her lap.

12. James L. Crawley of Hastings is confined to his home with a
broken arm and lacerated ear. His injuries were received when he
stepped on the family cat and fell headlong down the cellar
steps. The cat was asleep on the top step.

13. John Radcliffe, 16 years old, of Moultrie, had never been
kissed, and in trying desperately to maintain this estate, while
pursued at a barn dance by Mrs. Winifred Trice, Monday night, he
fell out of a door twenty feet from the ground and was picked up
with one arm and three ribs fractured.

14. Charged with having tried to obtain $1,000 by forgery, a
handsomely gowned young woman, who gave her name as Irene
Minnerly, and said she was a telephone operator, and a man who
described himself as Webster Percy Simpson, thirty-six, living
at the Hotel Endicott, were arrested yesterday afternoon as they
were leaving the offices of Fernando W. Brenner, at No. 6 Church
Street.

15. Allen & Co., Ltd., the well-known London firm of publishers,
has been prosecuted for the publication of a novel called "The
Raindrop," written by D. H. Lawrence, on the ground that it is
obscene.

16. Interesting testimony was given before Justice Scudder in
the Supreme Court to-day in the hearing of the suit for divorce
brought by Harry H. Wiggins of Floral Park, a retired grocer.
Mr. Wiggins alleged undue fondness for John Burglond, a farm
hand formerly employed in Mrs. Wiggins' cabbage patch. Mrs.
Wiggins is 53 years old and Burglond 33.

17. S. H. Brannick of this city lost a fine cow last week, the
animal departing this life suddenly after the city had retired
for the evening.

18. Miss Ellen Peterson, a former employee of Miss Josie
Griffin's millinery, 2318 Cottage Grove Avenue, was married
Tuesday by the Rev. Johnston Myers at Immanuel Baptist church.
The couple left immediately after the ceremony for a wedding
trip through the West.

19. Hilda is the daughter of one of the deftest colored janitors
who ever kept a dumb waiter just that. With her father and
mother she lives in a court apartment on the ground floor of No.
195 Main St., and last night she was slumbering blissfully,
wrapped in dreams of a chocolate-colored Santa Claus with
sweet-potato trimmings and persimmon whiskers, when she heard
the window of her room open.

_B._ Comment on the leads to the following stories, rewriting any that need correction (paragraphs =100-120=):

1. This story dates back eight months, when Mrs. Elizabeth
Hochberger became a patient at the county hospital in Chicago.
She was ill of typhoid fever and in her first night at the
hospital she became delirious. While in this condition she
seized a ten-inch table knife from a tray and in the absence of
anyone to restrain her poked it down her throat. Attendants
attracted by the woman's groans hurried to the bedside. Then an
interne appeared, made a hasty diagnosis, and attributed the
patient's action to the delirium. He administered an opiate.
Several days later Mrs. Hochberger, having passed the crisis of
the fever, began to recover. A week afterward she was discharged
as cured.

From the time she complained of internal pains and to relatives
she recounted a vague story of her delirium at the hospital. She
had a faint recollection of swallowing a knife, she said. To
swallow a knife and survive was improbable, she was told, but
she was advised to see a physician. The first doctor called in
recommended an immediate operation for a tumor. Another believed
she had an acute case of appendicitis.

"It was not until we made our discovery that Mrs. Hochberger
told us of her delirium," said the doctor. "Had I heard it
before making the X-ray examination I would have hardly given it
credence. I have heard of people swallowing coins and pencils,
but this is the first knife ever brought to my attention."

The knife was removed to-day by Dr. George C. Amerson at the
West Side Hospital.

2. If you want a man to love you,
Bear in mind this plan:
Always keep him doubtful of you;
Fool him all you can!

Never let him know you like him;
Never answer, "Yes,"
Till you have him broken-hearted.
Make him guess, guess, guess.

This is the chorus of one of the songs Pearl Palmer, pretty
opera singer, was to have sung when she made her first Broadway
appearance as one of the principals of the opera, "The Princess
Pat." Now she is dead because she carried this philosophy into
her own life, her friends say. Herbert Haeckler, who killed the
young singer and himself Sunday night, had been kept "guessing,"
they said, until his mind had given away.

Eva Fallon will sing the song Miss Palmer was to have sung when
the opera opens to-morrow night. It was postponed from last
night because of the tragedy.

3. A young man by the name of Tom Verbeck, 18 years old, living
in Freeport, who rides a motorcycle, was passing along the
Chicago road, Friday, when he met an automobile driver who was
in distress. The motorcycle man stopped, and when asked to lend
a hand gave freely of his time. He was unsuccessful, however,
and it was decided to have the motorcycle tow the auto into
Freeport. More complications presented themselves, as neither
the auto driver nor the motorcycle rider had a rope to tie the
two machines together. The automobile man solved this problem by
taking off his wool shirt and using it for a tow-rope. The owner
of the auto rode in the buzz wagon into town, and on account of
the darkness it was not noticed that he was shy a shirt. The
motorcyclist towed the machine to the residence of the driver by
way of back streets, and here he unloaded the machine. The shirt
used as a tow-rope was not dismembered by the operation.

_C._ Write the lead to the story the outline of which was given on page 290.

_D._ Write for Friday afternoon's paper an informal lead to the following story:

Characters: Anton Kurdiana and his wife, Rosa (nee Novak).
Anton's age, 24; Rosa's, 20. Married three months ago. Anton has
a cork leg. Leg cut off above the knee by a train a year ago.
Rosa Novak a nurse in the hospital to which he was taken. Rosa
preparing to get a divorce. Anton did not want a divorce. A
friend of Anton's told him if he would leave the state, Rosa
could not get the divorce. A friend of Rosa's told her Anton was
preparing to leave early this (Friday) morning.

Last night after he went to bed, Rosa hid his cork leg. He
called for help from his bedroom window this morning and the
police came. Bailiff also came and served notice of divorce
proceedings. They live at 2404 Faraon Street, this city.
Cause of divorce, cruelty and non-support.

_E._ Explain the different tones of the following leads and the writers' methods of gaining their effects (paragraph =119=):

1. "You have stolen my daughter! Take that!"

"That" was a short right jab to the face. Mrs. Anna la Violette
of 6632 South Wabash Avenue was the donor, and William Metcalf,
who had merely married her daughter Elsie, aged 18, owned the
face.

2. Twenty grains of cocaine and morphine a day, eighty times the
amount an average dope fiend uses, enough to kill forty men,
fifteen years at it too,--this is the record of Dopy Phil
Harris, the human dope marvel found to-day by the California
Board of Pharmacy in its combing of the San Francisco
underworld. If poison were taken away from Harris for
forty-eight hours, he would die within the next twenty-four.

3. The winds, whose treachery Archie Hoxsey so often defied and
conquered, killed the noted aviator to-day. As if jealous of his
intrepidity, they seized him and his fragile biplane, flung them
out of the sky, and crushed out his life on the field from which
he had risen a few minutes before with a laughing promise to
pierce the heavens and soar higher than any human being had ever
dared go before.

4. The champion lodge "jiner" is the title bestowed by Mrs.
Jennie Gehret, wife of John D. Gehret, of this city, on her
husband. It is not because she wants to be his wife. She is
suing for divorce, and John's feats as a jiner are the reasons
for her action.

5. And tragedy blurs out their joy again.

Five-year-old Norman Porter of Wadsworth, Ill., wanted a toy
horse on wheels for Christmas, and his nine-year-old brother,
Leroy, wrote Santa for an automobile that would "run by itself."

The wooden horse, its head broken off, lay last night in the
snow at Kedzie Avenue and Sixteenth Street. A few feet away some
children picked up the tin automobile bent almost beyond
recognition. The toys were knocked from the arms of Mrs. James
R. Porter, the boy's mother, when she was struck by an
automobile and the same wheels which crushed out her life had
passed over them.

6. A fair-haired boy in knickerbockers, who chewed gum with
reckless insouciance and indulged in cool satirical comment on
his companion's amateur efforts, yesterday directed a daring
holdup of the Chicago Art and Silver Shop at 438 Lincoln
Parkway, from which silverware and jewelry valued at $600 was
carried off.

7. He is colored, forty-three years old, a laborer, and lives at
No. 440 West Forty-fifth Street, and when he was brought before
Lieut. Fogarty at Police Headquarters yesterday charged with
having done some fancy carving with a razor on the countenance
of Ira Robinson of No. 2004 Clinton Street, he gave his name as
General Beauregard Bivins.

_CHAPTER X_

_A._ Criticize the following stories from the standpoint of accuracy of presentation. Rewrite the second. (Paragraphs =122-126=.)

_FUTURE WIVES WARNED_

Not since the days of the cave men has masculine assurance dared
issue such an ultimatum to femininity as that just sent by an
organization of students of Tulane University known as "Our
Future Wives" club. The club has as its purpose the dictation of
the dress selection of every woman. It is an organization of
young men who have developed the stern purpose of correcting
female faults and of widening the scope of choice that they may
have in the choosing of wives who will be sensible.

The fifteen students who are members have pledged themselves to
taboo socially every young woman who does not literally adhere
to the list of regulations which the organization has prescribed
as dress limitations. Young women who refuse to be guided by the
ukase of the club will find that none of its members will ever
extend any invitations to them; they will discover, it is
promised, that they have been sadly and most completely "cut."

At its initial meeting the club drew up and adopted a
"proclamation." This document was mailed in copy to every young
woman student of Newcomb College. The young women recipients
read the following:

"1. We will look upon no young woman with favor who spends more
than $15 a year for hats. Only one hat should be worn throughout
the year. We think it possible that hats may be trimmed over and
worn for several years.

"2. No cosmetics should be used. Powder might be used in the
case of a sallow girl.

"3. Perfumes are absolutely under the ban as a needless and
disagreeable expense.

"4. Additional hair should not be bought. It is an extravagance
and is contrary to the purpose of nature.

"5. Not more than $40 a year should be expended for dresses and
suits.

"6. Jewelry, with the exception of a wedding ring, is no
adornment, to our way of thinking. Off with diamonds, rubies,
and pearls, and the like.

"7. Silk stockings are the one extravagance allowed. Scientists
say that silk stockings prevent the wearer from being struck by
lightning.

"8. Five dollars a year is the amount necessary for shoes.

"9. Laces of all descriptions making for an appearance of
frivolity should not be used in dress.

"10. All other necessaries of dress should not cost more than
$25 a year."

_EIGHT COIN-BOX ROBBERS CAUGHT_

In the arrest last night of five men and three women as they
were wrapping piles of five-cent pieces into one-dollar rolls in
an elaborately furnished apartment near Audubon Avenue and 172d
Street, the police have found the thieves who have been
concerned in all the telephone slot-box robberies during the
past three years and have robbed the New York Telephone Company
of thousands of dollars.

The men and women under arrest have used a powerful automobile
in going about the city, robbing the slot boxes with skeleton
keys and files. The men arrested gave the following names and
ages:--Tom Morrison, 21; Nic Marino, 26; Adam Neeley, 25;
William O. Cohen, 30; and Charles Guise, 25. The women were
Della Thomas, 25; Dorothy Price, 25; and Dollie Lewis, 25.

For more than two years the New York Telephone Company has
endeavored unsuccessfully to trap these thieves in their
robberies of the pay stations. Buzzers were affixed so that an
attempt to open them would sound a warning, but, despite that,
the thefts continued. Acting Captain Jones, of the Third Branch,
and Acting Captain Cooper, of the Fourth Branch Detective
Bureaus, who directed the arrests, declare that the women did
the telephoning and opened the coin boxes, and that one of the
men, coming to the booth from the telephone as if to call,
reached in a hand or a small bag and took the coins.

_BREEZE AND RAIN PRODUCER DISCOVERED_

Prof. Marblenut, Dopetown's imminent (correct) scientist, has
arranged to furnish this city with a perpetual cool breeze and
two showers a week, all next summer. The breeze is to be made by
a gigantic electric fan operated by current generated in a plant
on the banks of Little Muddy, at Pigankle Falls. This monster
fan will be made of steel. The showers will be made by an
apparatus built on the same principle as a Chinese laundryman's
face when he takes a mouthful of water and sprays the wash. The
water will come from the river and will be filtered, then
sprayed over the city from the face of a colossal Chinese figure
standing on the left bank of the river above the power house.
Prof. Marblenut is the same man who attempted suicide with a
bakery doughnut when his wife left him last year. A friend took
the deadly thing from him and saved his life.

_BOB LA FOLLETTE STILL INCONSISTENT_

Senator Robert M. La Follette faced an audience of about 300 men
in the armory on Tuesday night. He arrived rather late as if to
so sharpen the appetite of curiosity that his unsavory
oratorical courses might be bolted without inspection and
denunciation of the chef. The Senator was conducted to the stage
and introduced by Assemblyman Ballard. His arrival was greeted
with only an inkling of applause from one corner of the gallery
occupied by a few college students. Near the stage rested Peter
Tubbs and Senator Culbertson, sphinx-like in the desert of
progressivism meditating on the grandeur of past political glory
abused and lost. To the men an occasional political riddle was
proposed by the speaker for solution.

The Senator's speech lasted nearly three hours, two of which
were devoted to ancient history, and one to sharp criticisms of
the Philipp administration. From the beginning of things in
Wisconsin, the Senator traced the growth of democratic
institutions on the one hand and that of corporations on the
other. The alleged incessant struggle for mastery between them
was described with stage sincerity. It appeared, from his
account, that the people were losing ground up to the time of
his birth a half century or more back. And there was a dearth of
honest men and patriotic statesmen in the state until the
Senator was old enough to hold public office....

_CLAUDE OLDS DIES FROM COASTING INJURIES_

Claude Olds, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Olds, Wilson
Street, died at 3:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon at St.
Elizabeth Hospital as a result of injuries sustained in a
coasting accident, related briefly in these columns yesterday.
The lad sustained a broken neck and internal injuries.

Dr. Alvin Scott of the Bowman park commission, who was
instrumental in providing safe toboggan slides for the children
in the city park, has decided since yesterday's fatal accident
to ask the city commission for an appropriation sufficient to
establish a number more of toboggan slides for the accommodation
of children in various parts of the city. He is proceeding on
the very safe assumption that if there had been a toboggan slide
in the Third Ward the fatality of yesterday would not have
happened, for there would then have been no occasion for
children coasting on the hill where the accident occurred.

The unfortunate lad, with his brother, Ernest Olds, and Chester
Graves and Bessie Lamb, were on a delivery sled owned by the
Barnes and Scholtz Grocery Company, sliding down a hill that
extends into the ravine just north of Second Street and east of
Mason. When about halfway down the bob capsized and the little
Olds boy was buried under it. Coasting on hills not especially
prepared for it is dangerous to life and limb. The authorities
should put a stop to it in Bowman, but at the same time the city
should make safe provision for such sport by erecting toboggan
slides similar to the ones in the city park.

_MRS. DOWS SEEKING ADVENTURE_

Mrs. Andrews Dows, whose photograph is reproduced above, says
she believes she is the most adventuresome of New York's society
women, but is tired of the humdrum existence of Mother Earth in
general and New York in particular. She says she thinks she has
run the entire gamut of worldly thrills, but is still on the
lookout for something new. Mrs. Dows declares she has ridden the
most fiery of steeds and taken them over the most dangerous
jumps. She has driven auto racing cars at blinding speed. Once
she captured a burglar single-handed. She has piloted all manner
of water speed craft. Now she declares she is tired of flitting
through the clouds in an aeroplane and is impatiently waiting to
hear of some sort of dangerous adventure that she has not
already experienced.

_B._ What criticism may be made of the following?

An even one hundred reservations have been made for the New
Year's Eve dinner to be served at 11 o'clock in the Venetian
room at the Carman House, and thirty have been made for service
in the cafe. No more can be accommodated in the Venetian room,
but the management will be able to take care of a few more in
the cafe and French room. Those who have reserved places are
planning to make this the biggest New Year's jollification ever
held in Avondale. The management of the Carman also says that
patrons will be given the very best of service.

_C._ Examine the following story for its excellence in keeping the time relation entirely clear. Show how the writer obtains this clearness and how he avoids the possibility of libel. (Paragraphs =124-131=.)

_DEATH NOTE BEARS AUTHOR'S TRAGEDY IN LOVE_

Four years ago the love story of Myrtle Reed, the author, who
had immortalized her husband, James Sydney McCullough, in prose
and verse, came to a tragic end when she committed suicide in
"Paradise Flat," her Kenmore Avenue apartment. During the five
years of her married life her "model husband," as she called
McCullough, was believed to have furnished the inspiration for
"Lavender and Old Lace," "The Master's Violin," and other love
stories from her pen.

Mystery shrouded her death and an effort was made to hush up the
suggestion that she was convinced that her husband no longer
loved her. A note addressed to her aged mother was never made
public.

Yesterday in Circuit Judge Windes's court her father, Hiram V.
Reed, sought to have McCullough deposed as trustee of her estate
of about $91,000. Negligence and misapplication of funds were
charged. Mr. Reed's attorney planned to show that Mrs.
McCullough expected to change her will before she committed
suicide.

What purported to be the mysterious note was offered in
evidence. It was typewritten and only two words of script
appeared in it. Judge Windes ruled that it was not sufficiently
identified and rejected it as evidence. The offered note reads
in part:

"Dearest Mother: After five years of torment I have set
myself free. I suppose you'll think it's cowardly, but I
cannot help it. I cannot bear it any longer. Last night
was the twelfth anniversary of our meeting. He was to
come home early and bring me some flowers, and instead of
that he came home at half past one so drunk he couldn't
stand up.

"Last year my birthday and the anniversary of our
engagement were the same way. This morning he went out of
town without even waking me up to say goodby to me or
telling me where he was going or when he would be back.
All I asked of him was that he should come home sober at
half past six as other men do, but he refuses to give me
even this. I am crushed, overwhelmed, drowned.

"I enclose two bank savings books. This is for you and
father and for nobody else under any circumstances
whatever, aside from the provision I have made for you in
my will. I've tried my best, mother. I've tried to bear
it bravely and to rise above it and not to worry, but I
cannot. I loved my husband so until he made me despise
him. I should have done this five years ago, only you and
father needed me.

"You've been the dearest father and mother that anybody
ever had and my being dead won't make any difference in
my loving you. My will is in Mr. Fowler's vault. Oh,
mother, I've loved so much, I've tried so hard, I've
worked so hard, and I've failed, failed, failed, failed.
Forgive me, please. With love always,
"Myrtle."

McCullough was out of the city at the time of his wife's death.
Upon his return he said that she had probably taken her life
while mentally unbalanced.

"Have you any comment to make on the letter written by your wife
to her mother?" he was asked yesterday.

"Oh, I could tell you a long story if I wanted to," said he,
carelessly. "There's nothing to it at all. I could show you
worse letters than that. I doubt if she ever wrote it anyway.
There is no proof. To understand this matter you must know that
my wife's father and her brother have been fighting to get
control over her estate. They didn't get enough to satisfy them
under the will."

Although Judge Windes refused to depose McCullough as
administrator, he ordered him to make a definite report, setting
forth the condition of the property, with a list of all
disbursements. Further, he directed that McCullough should
report from time to time as the court might direct and ordered
him to give a permanent bond of $50,000. The court said that the
trustee's conduct had been improper.[52]

[52] _Chicago Tribune_, July 15, 1915.

_D._ Indicate and correct the faults in the following stories (paragraphs =131-134=):

1. While Mrs. Stanley Barnes was making fruit salad at the
Baptist parsonage Thursday she lost her wedding ring in it.
Clark Webster was sick Friday morning, and for a time it was
thought that he had eaten it in the salad, but a calmness was
restored in these parts when it was learned that she had failed
to put it on when leaving home in the morning.

2. Hereafter it shall be written by way of simile: "As fair as a
Hinsdale blonde." Rainwater is the answer. Rainwater! Rainwater,
such as used to seep off the kitchen roof into the eave trough
and into the barrel at the corner.

But the Hinsdale water barrel, that has just been completed and
now is in operation, is no mere castoff sauerkraut hogshead. It
cost $30,000, and it gives forth rainwater at a rate of a
million gallons a day. And the dingiest brunette will soon
blossom out in the full glory of the spun-gold blonde. The
chemist person who installed the $30,000 rain barrel says so,
and he claims to know.

It was cited to the women of Hinsdale that the women of the
British Isles are fair, very fair, indeed. What makes them so
fair? The fog. And what is fog? It is rainwater in the vapor.
Hence rainwater will make women fair. Let us, therefore, have
rainwater.

The water in Hinsdale heretofore has been hard. It crinkled the
hair and put the complexion on the bum. It cost more money for
cosmetics to set these complexions right than a couple of
$30,000 rain barrels. But now the seediest lady in the land has
only to make a pilgrimage to Hinsdale and return ready to make
faces at the inventor of peroxide.

3. Last week Tuesday night the henhouse of Mr. Rosenblot, on the
Standard farm, was broken open and 14 hens taken. Also at the
same time five bags of grain and two bags of cattle salt were
stolen. Thursday night his chicken coops were visited and about
40 little chicks taken. Mr. Rosenblot expects his wife and her
mother from Russia next week.

4. The feature of the evening was the dance. Miss Semple's grace
and ease in executing the many intricate steps of the Argentine
tango, hesitation waltz, and other modern dances elicited great
applause from the onlookers. Miss Sheppard of the District
Nurses' Association gave a lecture on first aid to the injured.

5. "Lemme see something nifty in shirts--something with a classy
green stripe," said Dan McKee of Soho Street, as he cruised into
the men's furnishing store of Emil de Santis, in Webster Avenue.
The lone clerk evidently did not notice all the specifications
of McKee's order, and listlessly drew out at random the first
box of shirts his hand touched. Picking the top shirt out, he
laid it before McKee.

"There's something nice," he began.

"Oh, is it?" yelled McKee.

"McKee," said Magistrate Sweeney at the hearing, "what on earth
made you try to wreck that store?"

"I asked for a green striped shirt, judge."

"Well?"

"And that fellow handed me a bright orange one."

"I see," said Sweeney. "But I'll have to make it thirty days."

_E._ The following stories, along with other faults, are lacking in tone. Correct them in any way necessary. (Paragraphs =136-137=.)

1. The wedding bells peeled joyfully at the home of Mr. H. R.
Drake last Tuesday, when their highly accomplished and beautiful
daughter, Melva, became the blushing bride of that sterling
young farmer, Henry Eastman. The bride's brother, Charlie,
played Mendelssohn's wedding march on his cornet, and
considering the fact he has only had it about 9 months it
sounded good. Rev. Osgood, who has been working through harvest
and picking up a little on the side, performed the nuptials. The
bride's costume was a sort of light gauzy affair and white
slippers and stockings to match. Of course she wore heavier
clothes when they went on their wedding trip. Quite a merry
crowd assembled to see them off, and as they didn't have any
rice some of them got to throwing roasting ears. Henry was
struck under the eye by a large ear and blacked it pretty bad.
They drove right to Larned and stayed all night at the hotel,
and then took their wedding trip to Kinsley and Dodge City. They
have rented the old home place and will be at home next Tuesday.
Melva expects to take charge of Cooper & Jones' cook shack the
rest of the season.

2. The old must die, the young sometimes do. When a young child,
sweet and gentle in temperament, lovable and full of promise, is
cut down in the very hey time of youth, it is unutterably sad.
There is said to be a time for all things and this would seem to
be a time for mourning.

Sunday morning at 4:30 o'clock the Death Angel summoned John O.
Beck, Jr., and bade him leave his playthings and many friends
and come away. It must have been with a sigh of relief that his
spirit took flight from the frail body which had been tortured
for twenty-two long days with the torture of spinal meningitis.

John O. Beck, Jr., youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. John O. Beck,
was born on the twenty-fifth day of July, 1903, in Boswell. He
was the youngest of four children--William, Leona, and La Baron
survive him. His was a most beautiful nature, he loved company,
and the childish circles in which he moved were always brighter
and happier for his presence. As a member of the Christian
Sunday School he was always in his place. The little boy will be
missed, not only in the home, but among his playmates and also
amongst the older people of the city.

The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock from
the family home. Dr. Frank Talmage, pastor of the Christian
Church, will officiate. Interment will be made in South Park.

3. After the ceremony the guests repaired to the dining-room,
where a wedding dinner was served, replete with the most
luscious viands conceivable by the human imagination. The
turkey, which had been roasted under the personal supervision of
the bride, possessed delectability of flavor impossible of
description. It was the unanimous verdict of the numerous
assemblage of appreciative guests that never before in the
annals of human history had a turkey more delicious, more
savory, more ambrosial, been the object of human consumption.
Both the business office and the editorial rooms of the
_Standard_ were largely and brilliantly represented, and the
collation was interspersed with highly intelligent affabilities.
Constant streams of sparkling repartee rippled across the table,
jocund anecdotes and refined civilities of every variety
abounded, the festivities in every way being characterized by
vivacity, suavity, chivalry, and irreproachable respectability.

4. R. S. George had a narrow escape from sudden death yesterday
morning. George was working on top of an electric pole on Water
St. and Ninth Ave. He was strapped to the pole. He was removing
the bolts that held the cross-bars. The pole was rotten and
George's weight at the top caused it to break. In falling the
pole hit the supply wagon that was standing below, breaking the
fall. Other men working on the job rushed to his aid. Dr.
Mitchell was called. George was taken to the Sacred Heart
Hospital. Mr. George was badly shaken up but not seriously
injured. He is employed by the Wisconsin-Minnesota Light & Power
Co.

5. Bud Lanham, the Corner's miser, who has buried his money for
the last six years near the big ash tree back of Cary's gin,
lost half of it last week. The guilty person has not been
apprehended. Tim Snyder went to Jonesville yesterday and bought
himself a fine suit of clothes and a Ford.

6. Mrs. A. I. Epstein, the soprano soloist from St. Louis, will
sing a symphony known as the "Surprise Symphony" at the concert
by the University Orchestra in the auditorium to-morrow night.
The piece was written by Haydn. The symphony was so named by the
composer on account of the startling effects produced. The solo
part is very unusual, the long pauses and unusual loud chords
make it unlike other music. It has a pleasing effect on the
audience, probably due to its individuality. Mrs. Epstein has
the reputation of being able to sing this kind of a solo. The
foremost critics of the largest musical world pronounce Mrs.
Epstein as an ideal in oratorical singing.

7. Some jealous rascal threw a stone at a buggy in which a
certain young man of Florala and a young lady of Lockhart were
riding last Saturday night. The stone struck the young lady
squarely in the back, and at the same time bruised the left arm
of the young man very badly.

8. Mrs. O. N. Daw is confined to her bed on account of the
recent injury she sustained when she fell from a chair to the
floor. Mrs. Daw was attempting to swat a fly at hand and stood
upon the chair to reach the intended victim. He was further away
than at first anticipated and in an endeavor to reach him she
fell as a result of becoming overbalanced. We trust her injury
will soon give her no further trouble and will soon become well.
She certainly is to be commended for her efforts to swat the
fly, for if more of us did this we would find less disease in
the world and conditions more healthful in general. Besides the
flies are a bothersome pest anyway.

9. One of the most superb affairs that the citizens of Lexington
have witnessed for quite a long while, was brought to bear by
the uniting in holy wedlock of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Stewart and
Mr. Louis Monroe Ford. At the beginning, the day was one of
gloom, but late in the morning the clouds became scattered, and
at the noon hour the sun peeped out and streamed through the
windows of the old historic church, adding cheer and enthusiasm
to the superb occasion. Each individual of the bridal party
performed his or her part as perfectly as if guided by a
guardian angel, and the entire performance was one of rare
beauty, portraying all of the accuracy of a piece of well-oiled
machinery.

_F._ The following stories are good and bad. Rewrite any that need correction. Show why the others are good.

_ACCIDENT NARROWLY AVERTED_

Last Thursday evening the people of the beautiful little village
of Hartford were astounded when they heard the moan and groan of
one of their neighbors, Dr. William Waters, who had the misfortune
of being capsized beneath a small building in the mad waters of
Pigeon River.

While Dr. Waters was out for an evening walk enjoying the cool
breezes on the banks of this beautiful stream he had occasion to
enter a small building which had been erected years ago. Owing
to his enormous heavy weight, and without a moment's warning,
the building toppled over in the river, leaving the doctor in
quite an embarrassing position. The moans and groans from
beneath the little building could be heard from most every home
in Hartford. Had it not been for the never-tiring efforts of
Lewis Johnson and Andy Valentine in moving the building off the
Doctor, rescuing him from the grasp of death, which had clutched
him beneath the building in the mad waters of the river, crepe
would now be dangling from the door-knob of a Doctor's office in
Hartford.

_TIGHT SHOES BALK PAY-DAY LARK_

Mrs. Mary Bogden, 50 West 119th Street, is nearly five feet tall
and weighs 200 pounds. Yesterday she refused to go out with her
husband, Joe, to celebrate his pay day, because her shoes were
too tight. Joe went out alone. When he came home he found his
wife had been arrested for drinking too much. To-day her hat is
too tight.

_KILLS GIRL WHO SPURNED HIM_

Miss Evelyn Helm got her position as cloak model because of the
trimness of her waist, because of her lithe young figure, and
because of her loveliness and vivacity. When she wore a gown for
a buyer, he generally said, "Some skirt!" Therefore she received
a fair salary and was independent. The same qualities that
earned her money, however, attracted the attentions of a man she
did not like--and invoked a tragedy.