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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1923-06-08, Page 6Sj WOMEN SWINDLERS ARE USU. ALLY HOMELY /DOUC��T;Au `ssG td T i,.tl><lIME , THE FARMER'S FRIEND Relieves caked bag, gar - get, spider or infection of the teat, also thrush in horses' feet,- 'fistula, etc., Stops -bleeding at Once. Removes proud flesh, soreness and swell- ing. , peub�ysli oOud & Naftali:. CO» �. Delicious Dewe easily 'made e..r• ld'hr 1 «, VIIST s° Sdvetime, trouble and ;Junta mk to contents of package. Boil for a min- ute --and serve. Equally delicious. hot or cold. Puddings Chocolate, Cocodral, Tap ars dolor s Lnioiv," Fs Ula, Amwieot, Ns/wog, Atwood, Plods At all Groom. Me4411141'44NYU'4 IRLR Made by klatiallISS =term i In the past few days two women M New York have bean indicted for fraud, Both are elderly and lose all points for pulchritude. Yet they showed unusual ability to impose upon hard-headed business men. The fact causes a writer in the New York Times to point out that the most ncted of female swindlers have not been of the vamp type. The moat successful of them, like Mme. Hum- bert Dies De Bur, Cassie Chadwick and Ellen Peck, all of whom are home- ly to the verge of ugliness, the roust successful, Mme. Humbert, being pro- bably the hardest looking. All these women were well equipped with brains, and it may be that the very absence of good looks had a favorable psychological effect upon their elder- ly and middle. -aged victims, who pro- bably would have been upon their guard against women of the siren type. Mme. Humbert was probably the victim of illusions which she had inherited. Undoubtedly she was a criminal, but it seems that after a few years of telling her story she came to believe it, thus gaining the sell- er nfidence which enabled her to net her part perfectly in the critical d:.y s. Mile. Humbert's tether had talked for years about a mythical estate, piobably to impress the neighbors, but it is not known that he defrauded anyone. His daughter became a cheat ,early. She wrote to a dressmaker and got a trousseau without paying for it,though no husband was in sight. Later she had the good luck to be- come the wife of the son of a former Minister of Justice, a person of no little importance. Establishing them- selves in Paris, Mnie. Humbert let it 1 be known that she had two million- aire uncles named Crawford in Am- erica, who had given hoer a treasure, but had forbidden her to open the box containing it until after their death. In proof whereof, she display- ed a solid-looking safe, sealed and presenting all external evidences of containing something of vast im- portance. She brought suit in the courts for permission t oopen the box at once and secure the millions. She had other supposedly interested parties, mere dummies, oppose her suit. The matter raged through the courts, now Madame winning, and now the others. Nobody seemed to have the alightest doul}t that the casket contained an immense fortune;' nor did .anybody doubt that sooner or later Mine. ,Iiumbert would come into possession of it. In the meantime, Madame borrowed heavily upon her expectations. A. company was established to share in the proceeds after the court pro- ceedings should come to an end. The Humberts floated 700,000,000 fran'i't in notes, much of which went for -in terest and refunding, but it was esti-, mated that their net profits were 00,- 000,000. The Humberts were im- I portant people in the world of fin- ance; their careers had political com- plications almost comparable to those of the Dreyfus affair. One day the case suddenly shifted from the civil to the criminal courts, and the safe was opened by gendarmes. It was found to contain a pile of old news- papers and a bt>,tton. The swindlers fled to Spain, but were brought back. :They had a tremendous trial and in the end escaped with short sentences. To the last the adventuress stack to the story of the Crawfords, and found many to believe that she bad been more sinned against than sinning, that, indeed, the fortune had' been stolen froni her. Not the slightest evidence exists that there ever had been anyforttine, di that she had any relatives named Crawford. Ellen Peck was another successful swindler of great homeliness. For fifty years she was a devoted wife arid a woman held in the highest es- teem. But she went to jail three or four tiiiies. Her first exploit was to get $19,000 out of a soap menu - 11111111111010011111101111.1110011110.411111 This New Discovery! 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E, UMBACH, Druggist, Seaforth. far AS surrogrld4s ditiona 9! eat and'dr unsolved. p I Meatest.:iU the dark wit tors in the origin of I'm lint prodigies," and the appearartee of genius. Prodigies con- fine themselves chiefly to.the playing of musical4nstruments or the playing of chess. No one seems to know' why; nor do any of the known laws of he- redity acciUlt for such men of gerfus as Shakespeare, Dickens, Darwin or Pasteur. Many are the theories with regard to the causation of sleep, but so far none has proved entirely adequate to explain all the facts of the condition. Were we acquainted with all the fac- tors in the production of sleep we should be able to induce it by purely physiological means, as Nature does, without the introduction of drugs. The possession of muscular strength of unusual quality is another puzzling property of the few. It is not entire- ly a question of the developemept by exercise of muscles..of a certain bulk. Some men with well-developed mus- cles of comparatively small size are the. equals in ,trength of other men wt•ose muscles are bulkier. But even in connection with mus- cular developement there is muck that is mysterious. Some can develop their muscles to a certain point, and there thby stop, unable to increas.a further, while others of exactly the same build, and with no greater ex- penditure of time and exercise, be- come the Samsuns and Sandows of their day. Sea -sickness is a puzzle inasmuch as its immediate causes are concern- ed because Sto medical man can say definitely why one voyager of many in the same boat should be taken with the most violent sickness while an- otber is left unaffee'ted. focturer who had been robbed, and to whom she represented herself as a detective. Later a shrewd patent medicine mogul was her victim. Her specialty was the prumotion of vari- ous bunco schemes, and the late In- spector Byrnes, of New Yurk, esti- mated that in the course of her career she had received a million dollars. In 1909 she became New York's oldest convict for then at the age of 79 she secured a loan of, y2.000 from a real estate firm on a title that had been invalid for sixty years. To the end of her career she found marry people to believe in her, su convincing an identity had she built up as the faithful wife and mother, whose children had become highly reputable citizens. Diss De Bar was plump and plain, and is known in Canada because some of her swindles involved Cana- dians. Her mother was Kentuck- ian and her father a Gderman pro- fessor. Her specialty was the oc- cult, and she became perhaps the most notorious of alleged spiritist mediums. When she pitched her tent in New York in 1870 she an- nounced that she was the daughter of Lola Montez and Ludwig I. ofl Bavaria. Her most illustrious vice. tim was Luther Marsh, a million- aire lawyer, who had once been a. partner of Daniel Webster's. She convinced him that Adelaide Neilson was his spirit bride. How much she made in the course of her career is uncertain, but at one time she boasted that out of her various cults she received an annual income ,of $150,000. Several' times she was in prison and served sentences in more than one country, but jails seemed to agree with her, for it is on record that once she added fifty pounds to the two hundred she took in with her while serving her term. CERTAINLY NO WONDER HE DIDN'T LINGER When the train drew into the sta- tion- of a certain American town, all the windows open to catch a breath of air, an innocent -looking man ap- peared around the corner of the sta- tion, carrying a basket on his arm. Hurrying to the window of a smok- ing compartment, he exhibited a black quart bottle whish he had taken from the basket, and with a knowing wink said: "Any .gent like to buy a bottle of nice ice-cold tea?" He sold every bottle, but conclud- ed each sale with, "Better wait till the train. has pulled out before you take a drink, you know, for I don't want any trouble." The train polled out, and the man was making off when an observant bystander asked him why he had re- quested the purchasers to wait until the train had started before taking a drink. "Because," he said, with a sly wink, "them bottles all contained ice-cold tea."—Tit-Bits. are fiving'in the same rad under identical con - f the same stock and the same fare, is en em. estigators are still in regard to the 'real fac- roduction of sex, the WHY ARE EPIDEMICS AND "IN- FANT PRODIGIES" MYSTERIES WHICH DOCTORS HAVE NOT SOLVED Despite the great progress made in recent years by medical science, there are still many mystery disetses to whom origin and prevalence doc- tors have been unable to discover the slightest clue. Take the prevailing epidemic of "sleepy sickness," which has come from nobody knows 'where, and is likely to go nobody know:; when. A strange characteristic of this malady is its preference for Jews in a mixed population, in accordance with the well-known predisposition of the Jew- ish people to certain diseases of the nervous system. Why this should be so is one of the minor mysteries of medicine, as is *iso the fact that .Iews are less liable to tuberculosis than those among whom they dwell. It has never been explained how infectious epidemics make a start without any apparent cause in local- ities free from infection, and to which infection has not been conveyed from outside. We observe instances of this in outbreaks of disease on ships at sea. Again, one of the most inexplicable things about influenza is the regular recurrence of epidemics every thirty- three weeks; nor are we certain why it is that while so many people are bard hit by it, whole families being wiped nut in the worst epidemics, so Many more are left scathless. That one man's meat is another man's poison is an old story. But no doctor can explain satisfactorily why this should be so; why such apparent- ly innocuous foods as fresh eggs should bo rank poison to some, milk a lehal draught to others, fish or strawberries a scourge to large ec- tions of the community, the scent of roses, violets, or lily of the .valley a cause of nervous collapse to thous- ands and so on. Why cancer should develop in some people and not in others, and wile so ewe HAVE YOU CALCULATED POWER 'v OF YOUR JAW? Do you know th" power of your ,law? The hext time you sit down to a meal, the thought will e&tner make your •jaw ache with weariness, or you will be absorbed in mathematical calculations of the horse -power de- veloped by the occupants of your table. .. The president of the Chicago Den- tal University, Dr. C. E. Black, has invented an instrument of simple con- struction, but with a name that is guaranteed .to contort the strongest of jaws—namely, the gnathodyna- mometer. The jaws are built on the principle of a pair of tongs, and this instru- ment is used to determine their strength. Dr. Black has performed gnathody- namometrie tests on the jaws of a thousand people. The average power was 171 pounds for the molar teeth, but much less for the bicuspids and incisors. In addition to the gnathodynamom- eter, he has devised another instru- ment, the phagodynamometer, with which he tests the resistance of vari- ous foods to'chewing. /longue is found to be the tender- est of foods; the central part offers only a resistance of from three to four pounds. Mutton chops require from thirty to forty pounds pressure and beef from forty to fifty. Beef steaks that are well done and some- what tough require a pressure of from sixty to eighty pounds. Meat that has been made tender by storage reduces these figures by about one. third. A butcher chose some very tough meat from the neck of an ancient ani- mal, and the amount of pressure re- quired before the meat was crushed, amounted to between severity and 90. pounds. ses before prices for real estate' lied' beopnae exees ive. ,in the abuse of ninety-eight $'ears, they must have rolled up a dozen fortunes for the, various proprietors of the restaur- ant. Delmonico's was not the expen- stve place that it was generally sup - poked to be by people who saw it for the first time. One could get a first class meal for less than $2. Of course, if it were a special occa- sion Delmonieo was prepared to present a banquet that would cost $800 " a plate. Such banquets, of course, would include vintage wines such as few American millionaires had in their cellars, and no doubt the chefs who personally interested themselves in these apucial occa- sions received salaries that were paid to no other chefs in the city or perhaps in the United States. Delmonico's was never what is known as a mere lobster palace. It did not cater to the sensational, though it did undoubtedly attract the illustrious. Yet it encouraged a man like Abe Hummel, the notorious divorce lawyer, who had a suite of rooms there, and at whose poker game on Saturday night thousands of dollars changed hands. But one like Abe did not offend the Belmonts, the ward McAllisters or the Fred Gebhards. The revelry was always well bred. Delmonico's was always respectable. It had a pleasant way of its own for dealing with patrons whose presence was not desired. When such a prospective dinner appeared he was permitted to take Ms seat, but the sign was flashed round and when a waiter took his order, he walked away, and did not reappear. Then if another waiter was given the order, he, too, vanished. By this time the fe�sgt had dawned upon the baffled diner that his presence was unsought, and usually he would walk away himself. The restaurant was always ready to give credit to a customer. He could let his ac- count run for a month, but was ex- pected to pay promptly when his account was rendered. If he did not pay he was not sued. He merely lest the privilege of having a meal in Delmonico's, and since it was the centre of fashion such a disability was sufficient punishment. Nor would the restaurant permit dining -rooms for two, and it is recorded that on this account Offenbach, the French composer, when hewent. to New York in the '80'a to conduct his works, left the restaurant in a rage because he was denied a privilege which he undersbood to be one of the inherent rights of man. Hardly a celebrity went to New York who did not dine at Delmon- ico's. Lincoln had Tdals there. The late King Edward when he visited the United States as Prince of Wales sipped the choice wines with every appearance of satisfaction. Dickens knew Delmonico's, and every Presi- dent of the United States from John- ston to Roosevelt was entertained at one or other of:" the Delmonico res- taurants. Richard Croker had al- ways a table reserved and so did Ward McAllister, leader or creator of the famous Four Hundred. It was DELMONICO'S SUCCUMBS TO VOLSTEAD ACT Delmonico's, the most famous res- taurant in the world, has closed its doors, following the example of the Knickerbocker, the Manhattan, Churchill's the Claridge, Murray's, Healey's and Roger's, all noted New York hotels and dining places. Pro- hibition is generally blamed, though some say, with regard to Delmonico's, that its last move ffom Broadway was a mistake because the old patrons did not follow. It seems likely that the hotels that survive in New York will be the sort of hotels that cater for visitors, while Child's will take care of the native population. Del- monico's was more than a restaur- ant; it was something like a club, something of a show place, a ren- dezvous where the gaping visitors might see the world of fashion moving before them. It had a fame that was world wide. Its name stood out like the name of Tiffany or Mar- shall Field, It was almost as cele- brated as Broadway itself, and it existed for almost a century. The first Delmonico was a Swiss chef, who arrived in New York in 1825 with $2 as capital and set up a little eating house. Apparently he was a good cook, for his place pros- pered. He sent back to Switzer- land for more of his family to come and help him, and as the city grew ant' the Delmonicos became more fashionable, more of the tribe emi- grated. Until the establishment at Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street closed it doors, Delmonico's was always in the hands of a member of the Delmonico family. Its first great boom carne shortly after the close of the American cieil war. It became the fashion to have tea or a meal at Delmonico's where a lux- ury- and gaiety never before seen in New York, had established them- selves. The restaurant shifted iti site more than half a dozen times, and always, with the possible ex- ception of the last move, to its great advantage. The owners seemed to have an instinctive knowledge as to flow the 'town was going to extend and managed to get their new prem - Vein a teapoit Cels Has$ Than we can tell you In a page of advertisement TRY IT TODAY at Delmonico'* that Morse, inventor of the telegraph, received the honors of the nation, In other words, Del- monico's was one of the moat cherish- ed institutions of New_ York city, cosmopolitan without being rowdy, brilliant and Bohemian without sen- sationalism, where the worlds of fashion, flanance, politics, sport and art mingled and exchanged polite sal- utations. 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