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irfrw .DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1904. .ys M. f Aw . "COURTING PARLORS ff M A In Boston Have Solved Social Problem Tells About the Pitcher Who Was Stretched I HOME-RUN I HAGGERTY Boston, April 30. The very great ntccess which has attended the "court- ag parlors" of the Franklin House or Young Women has been hailed kith delight by sociologists, who seo them a solution of a baffling- Social froblem. ; Boston Is "full of lodging houses," Dr. Perln, pastor of tho Every say cnurcn, .declares, and It was to Iffset the dlsa Wantages of them that, irith the aid of several men of wealth, le secured tho great dormltarles of ie New England. Conservatory of luslc. The project was for tho benefit of lago-earnlng women, and good mor- character was the only quallflca- an. ' The home has proved self-support- Ig, ana mo gins aro provided with (sumptuous home at a nominal cost. Sin order to make tho homo attract- ie to tho 400 young women who live it, It was necessary to make It isemblo the ordinary family" doml- Ho as nearly as possible. So Dr. Erin, who Is above all endowed with liberal equipment of common sense, Included that it would bo wise to pvldo two dozen "courting parlors" a starter, and now it Is planned i'add as many more. Several happy krrlages havo already resulted. In inflexible rulo of the house 6m tho beginning was that no man ight enter any room occupied as a eeping room, under any pretext jatever. And as tho chief drawback mortality in lodging houses in gen ii is that tho girls must entertain tir callers in their tiny bedrooms (barrlers of vlrtuo aro not always. fielding. lieso courting parlors aro on the fllrst floor of the great building and all of them aro fitted alike. Thero Is nothing of the stiff, formal affair one might expect in such an institution, but thero Is tho warmth and glow of tho homo everywhere. Tho uso of the parlor may be ob tained by applying to the matron, and girls who havo "steadies," If not actually engaged, are given tho pref erences, and tho hours aro so an ranged that all havo equal rights. But, at 11 p. m., 15 minutes after a buzzer sounds throughout the build ing, guests must dopart, and five min utes later lights are out all through tho building. Thero aro-wlse, safe rules made; tho doors are sans locks and are fitted with portlores, but such is the faith In the girls that distasteful espionage Is unknown. Tho girls are permitted to bring their own Httlo ornaments or bric-a-brac intb tho courting rooms while thoy aro occupying them, thus allow ing one to manlfiest approval of a sweetheart's gift of a pretty clock by having it tick away tho minutes to 11 when HE calls. Dr. Perln is much gratified with tho results so far, and so are tho girls. Despite tlio fact that thero aro numerous homes in tho South End, where tho working girls congre gate, they havo never prospered to tho self-supporting degree, while at the Franklin square house there aro hundreds of applications on file, and an annex is contemplated. Dr. Van Necs, pastor of the Second church, Unitarian, has decided to havo tho church societies of which he is executive emulate Dr. Perln's courting parlor Idea, and has already planned such an annex to the Parker building. "I believe that tho courting parlor is tho happy, practical solution of tho grievous problem," he said, "and tho refinement which It lends en hances the girl's Ideals, makes her havo loftier ambitions and makes her better fitted for a housewife, while It certainly Improves a young man's morals to call upon a young woman In a cosy parlor amid domestic sur roundings. His mind easily sees a Httlo homo of his own, with this samo Httlo woman at tho helm, and tho very Idea appeals to his domostlclty, far more than a corner bedroom, and I bellovc that tho courting parlor pro motes respectable marriages." Tho girls also approvo the plan, immensely. Not ono girl has left the home to lodgo elsewhere since the founding, over a year ago. Some of tho bedrooms aro elabo rately fitted with pianos and expen sive furniture, whllo tho very cheap est ones are neatly carpeted, contain brass bedsteads and dressers. Tho cntlro homo Is- as dainty as clever philanthropy, wisely directed, can roako It. Girls In every branch of commerce and the professions Hvo In It, from shoo factory operatives to high-salaried lawyenj' clerks, models and trained nurses. Thero aro no social distinctions, and tho utmost harmony prevails. In tho one courting parlor "BUI," with his hair slicked down with benr's grease, may bo "sparking" Mary Liz zie, from whoso town down la Maine ho has Jus come, while in tho next an erudite, Ibscn-braincd damsel, earning a big salary in Bomo banking house, may bo analyzing platonic friendship with a Van Dyked1 young doctor, Just beginning to fit Back Bay millionaires for tho hereafter. Tho courting parlor makes tho home its glorious success. The last that is iitst SeU Royal 'Blue Foot lot m Last is the most sensible shoe-shape eve po disced All feet ate not alike Some 9 people haven't even two alike. Btt the ootom Last fits a higge per centage of feet than any shape yw eve saw Tty yout ieet in a paifo Get them long enough. If yot do it'll he long enough heiote you need another pair Yottf shoe maa ought to be glad to supply yoti. He will make business by doing so. Yott'll advertise him. Let us know ii he wont. l!a II CHICAGO. Btf I I WsslMMsl Largest makers of good sfioes In the world Nature had inflicted on Chub Pudge ly of tho old HayvMes about two and a half hundred pounds, more or less, of flesh, bone and fat, mostly fat, and put It in a body about Arc feet tali and four wide. Ho was the limit for fatness of any ball player I over set eyos on. But nature had also endowed Chub with several pounds of grit, sixteen ounces to the pound, and a lantern Jaw. When ho raado up his mind to do a thing ho did It or they had to show him why not., And ono of his high resolves was that he'd bo a pitcher. Early In life Chub had learned to pitch curves. And such curves! He had a wide, sweep? out, a sneaky, jumping inshoot, a three-foot drop, a rise that'd lift your hair, and different combinations of the four rudimentary bends that made him appear to bo tho bright and morning star whon tho managers tried him out. He would havo been all that in fact but for two things his shortness and his fatness. His arms wero - so short he couldn't get his bends up to the pinto with any speed, nnd after he'd fooled n nine about two Innings, they'd wait nnd gauge tho slow bend ers and hnmmor the ball to "a paste. Ho was fast being recognized as a prlzo easy mark by tho other clubs In the Corndropper circuit, of which Hnyvlllo was a part, whon Peleg Rodney took charge of tho outfit. Peleg was a scientist In baseball, a scientist in billiards, a scientist at draw poker and stud, and a scientist in natural, every day life. As soon as he saw Chub Pudgely and his caso explained to him ho was right thero with scientific advice. "Can't get any speed on 'em. oh 7 Your nrms and legs are so short, my man that you don't get leverago In ovorythlng. A tall, thin man can run faster'n a short, fat man, 'cauao ho'fl got more lovorago In his legs. Ho can reach farther 'cause he's got more lovorago 'in his arms. Ho can't eat somuch, because tho short, fat man has got him on a stomach lovor ago. "Now, If you wero six feet tall, and your arms and legs- ln( proportion, you'd bo an Ideal speed merchant. Then you'd get tho swlftlclty Into thoso benders of yours that'd make those heavy hitters grope for tho ball llko a follow looking for baby's bottlo under tho bod at 2 a. m. And by thundor! I've nn Idea tho very cream of science! You shall havo It! All that speed, that gracoful, long armed swing, that fawn-llko. long legged ambling, shall be yours." "ny tho new stretching method," replied the scientific PeleB- "Thoy put you In a machlno and turn on tho clamps, and by gentlo force and so forth 'every bono nnd muBblo In your body Is strotehod to Its natural length, Instead of pulling ono leg thoy pull 'em both, and your nrms too. "Thafa a go! I'll sond you up to Chicago to tlw professor to-morrow, havo him put you through tholr courso of sprouts up there, havo tho fat boiled, baked, stowed nnd stretched out of you, nnd you'll come back horo a graceful, attenuated guy with a throw on you llko SI Soymour, and ready to go In tho box to win tho pon nnnt for us from the Alfalfas. I'll do It or my nama ain't Polog Ilodnoy." And do It ho did. Chub Pudgoly was put on a train for Chicago and duly tagged for the profajsor's placo where thoy stretch peoplo, and horo was whero his nervo came In. A man with Uss grit would havo thrown up his roeolvo to bo a pitcher at tho jdoa of having his bonos and llgamonts and spinal column wrenched but hub noyer turned a hair. He said he'd go through anything to bo a pitcher, so he took tho treatmont. He was away about three weeks, and wa thought he'd gone with a dlmo museum. Ho surprised the natives ono day by coming out on the field to pltoh against us at Hayvllle, and we rubbed our eyes. Was that tho fat and beefy Chub Pudgely who so recently had' oxclted our mirth at his efforts to' i cans set up for tho boys to throw at, land tho placo where thcy'ro tied to Ho gyrated and convoluted and con- gether Is right under tho second bttbr 1 tortloned and stretched and wound ton of his shirt. You hit that re goo& himself up, and then we'd hear tho ball hit tho catcher's mlt. Wo didn't get a hit or a run, and sclontlflc Poleg Rodney sat on tho bench nnd chuc kled. "That's Poleg's whlto-halrcd boy!" ho'd say, as Chub would fan ono of us. "Can't fool old Grnn'thor Poleg. Ho knows a pitcher wo'n ho sees ono, cvon It ho Is cased up in fat. Science Is the thing that wins." welt and what will happen? Tho muscles will bo rolaxcd, release.!, thes tension of that radial center will snap and his extremities will again rcgalm their normal proportions, 'and then Res can't pitch." "Thero you aro again," said L "It you talk plain ball Instead o' throwing; in your Greek nnd Latin I could get wise. I think I bco what you mean But what's tho matter with goUta tm Tho sum total of my efforts against . a scrap with him and handing Mm Chub that day was four Httlo fouls, I good ono with your fist? Thni'd dr and some o tho bunch didn't do no. tho trick.'- well as that. Formerly wo had lifted his slow ones out of tho lot right along. But now thoro was no slow ones, and we saw right away that somo batting averages In that league 'ltd look as lean as Chub did it wo wern't careful. Wo were glad when tho Hayvllles left us that time and wont swinging around tho circle, giving tho other clubs tho samo doso they had' glvon U3. Tho result was that whon thoy got back to Alfalfa again they were hot on our trail. Chub pitched ovory other day, was tho leading pltchor In tho league, and thoy wero two games behind us for tho pennant, with this tho deciding series. Chub pitched the first gamo of tho threo and shut us out "Yes, but It'd bo too brutal, too cold-blooded. Y6u'ro Just tho vltllam that'd do It. But I want, It to seen accidental. Thoroforo you got to gives him a hot liner thoro. Bo scientific- above all things. When, you'ro play ing ball don't mix; up In pugilism.' Thnt's Pinch all over. Ho'b got to do things artistic. Bo I said I'd: try,' and Peto Brown, who's good nfc placing 'em, was put on nnd ho said: ho'd try. And wo entered tho game with a ray of hopo poshing through; tho dark clouds whero thoro had boon nono before In tho first Inning I put ono over his shoulder that mado him gasp, but: tho second baseman got It. Poto hit him on tho shins nnd was thrqwn out Thn Rornml at first. Pinch fouled OUt. gamo wo lost in tho tonth inning on Tho second time tho threo of us a scratch homo run by ono of tholr, cnrao "P I battoil ono down that men, and when tho night beforo tho Knocked his cap off and got first on last gamo hovo around, with Chub,'. Poto flow out to center, getting slated to pitch, things looked hluo nls.too high. Pinch, who bats ahead'. for ub. It seemed ours to loso tho,i " nou grounuou 10 snore championship and tho extra suits of clotho and tho prlzo monoy wo had bet, and go to hoveling coal for tho winter or eating snow balls. But thero was Pinch Hobbs. If I had tho oloquonco of a Garry Horr-J man, tho factlo pen of a Murnano, or tho rounded periods of a Ban Johnson I could fittingly dcscrlbo how that steady-going Httlo tarrier pulled us out of tho mud. But as I haven't, I'll Just havo to tell it as it really happened on that fair day in tho early fall, whoa Tho third tlmo Pinch struck out, I filed to short and Poto hit htm on tho shoulder. They had scored ono run: on us up to tho ninth, and in that In ning wo blanked 'om aftor they'd filled tho bags, on a rattling donblo play by Jimmy Harrison and Brown. Whon Pinch went up to tho bat lm tho ninth I could seo ho duly recog nlzpd tho fact that It was our last chanco. "Ono strlko!" A beauty wont ovor" tho pan and ho never moved. Josh wo played tho Hayvllles for that last , Hn'BOod snmtcd. I n8od Peto and ball. Pinch Hobbs rolled over in bed tho morning of tho big gamo and said: "If you can do It, Hag, wo can win!" "Win what?" says I, half asloep. I don't mind saying 1 tyad tried to drown my sorrows tho night beforo, and hadn't tried to do It with any spongo bnth. says! "He's waltln for tho right ono. Watch him." Peto nodded. Wo both, knew Pinch. "Strlko two!" Another beauty. Tho Hayvjllo part of 1ho audlenco was whooping It up for fair. Chub Pudgoly gyratod and convo luted. Straight as an arrow tho third "Win tho gamo today. Wo can do bn" cn,mo "P- nn(l rBht m Wo It, I say, If you can hit tho second button on Chub Pudgdly'a shirt with a hot liner." "Hot" I was going to say some thing mildly profano, but checked myself. "What's tho uso of talking hot liners to mo when I haven't made a hit off him In tho Inst two ganm or since ho got Btrotchod. That's hot air." "This Is tho Rchomo," said Pinch calmly, sitting up and reaching for saw Pinch rnlso his shoulders, dig dasp with his splkos, nnd thon ho swung. Thoro was nn awful oraih as tho ball hit tho bat, a white streak ns It shot straight hack to tho pltchor, and then a smashing holsc, a crack ling sound and a Httlo snap. Pinch was speeding or first. Tho ball was rolling around near tho box. Chub Pudgoly was unstrotchodl There, In tho twinkling of an oyo, where ho had been long and lanky his socks. "Now, Polog nodnoyla"'nonn'howaa8nnl,l,ea,,Iloktnla pass curve fast enough to keep us from battering tho fences down? Was that tall, graceful form that galloped after bunts and scooped up grounders, and did other contortions, tho old farm nf fTViitVi Thwlcnlv xvhtrh had never dd a contort In his life? Thero was certainly Chub's lantern jaw, and bis straw-colored hair, and his mild! blue eyes; but wo bad to bo told about the rest- Well, to mako things short, Chub mado us look like a lot o' tomato thinks ho's just the sclontlflcost gossoon that over trudged down tho plko. But 1'vo got him skinned a mllo. I'vo looked up this stretching business. I know haw thoy do It, I know how to beat It- I tell you that It you hit Chub a hot llnor on the second button of his shirt we'll win, Does that go?" "If you say so it Roes, I' I noli," said I, sooln' ho was In earnest. "Any thing you iny goo. If I kill him with a liner I'll bo up for manslaughter or something." "No, no," says Pinch, "you'ro In wrong. I dont want you to hurt him. I just want you to hit him hard enough thore the cantor of tho radial extromlty of his muscular mechanic- ism, to release tho tension tho stretch ing professor put on him whon ho laid him out and pulled him apart. Aro you on?" "In a minute," says I, my oyos bulgln' out. "Just as soon as I sond down and get that guldo book of prop er langwldgo tat Poto Drown has." er langwldgo that Peto Brown has." senre'll tell you. Bay, did you ovor see ono of thoto articulated dolls?" "Tho kind that talk? Y." "No, not that kind. The kind" "Well, that'A what tutlculato means," "Back up. I mean tho kind that hayo a hollow body and wires running to their arms and legs and heads, and tied together Inside, Now, that's tho case with Chub. He's Articulated, Them musclos end bones of his that wero stretched out aro articulated. old pudgy self. Tho fat thnt had boon strotehod out on thoso long" at tenuated limbs, had rolled up. Ills pants hung most to hs liools, his sleeves down ovor his hands. His belt had burst and his stocking wero so tight they'd llko to burst, too. But thoro was tho samo fat lollypop pitcher with tho short arms and cho rus girl logs wo had all known eo well. Pinch was on second by tho tlmo Chub had picked up tlio bdll. Tho Hnyvlllos started to run In, but ho wavod 'om back. Thoy could soo tho ehango, but ho couldn't. Ho tied up his belt, raised tho ball over his head, tried to gyrato, and onded It by put ting up an airy little Iloator that I Just firmly planted ngaliiBt tho right field fenco, and Pinch and I sailed In and won tho game, tho pennnnt and ovorythlng else. That ended Chub, .Sclontlfio Poleg Rodnoy said ho wouldn't hava him stretched again If ho was going to bo bo careless" as to lot a bowloj?gd shortstop with pink hair uns(re(ch him, and ho gava hlnr his papers. So ho et tho snowballs that wlntor, and not tho alfalfas, GEORGE! WILLIAM DALHY, Sure Cure for Piles, Itching Piles produce molsturo and causo Itching;, this form, as well as Bllns;, Bleeding or Protrudlns; Piles aro curod by Dr. Ilo-san-ko'a Pile Remedy. Stops Itching and bleeding. Absorbs tumors. 50o a jar At dni& gists, or sent by tnalL Trestle free. Writs mo about your case. Dr. Do eanko, I'hlla., Pa, J