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COQUETTE FROM FINLAND.
UK RANKS of America's real new
woman are gaining recruits at a
lively rate. Two hundred and ten
thousand and seventy-seven were
added last year. Of this num-
ber.
Auslrla-Hungary furnished 56,2o7.
Italy sent the next highest, 40,63."; Russia
was third with 33.M3, and Germany's quota
was 16,366.
Sufficient women to make fifteen regi
ment of 1,000 members eaeli arrived from
Ireland, whence came the largest ereent
age of women, the total numbers of immi
grants from the "auld sod" being 27,9 2,
or 2,W)8 more women than men, "the only
Instance where the men were fewer. ' On
the other hand, Greece Rent the smallest
relativo percentage 108 out of more than
11.00.
From elsewhere the country's real new
woman came In numbers as follows.
Rclgium, 1,388; Denmark, 2.320; England,
,3!IS; France, 3,835; Netherlands, 1.761; Nor
way, 6,137; Portugal, 411; Roumania, 3,325;
Servla, 74; Spain. 275; Sweden, 9,61)5;
Switzerland, 1,679; Turkey In Europe, 112;
Turkey In Asia, 1,306; Scotland, Z.Z28;
Vales, 526; West Indies, 1,285.
While the great majority of these wo
men came with broods of children, in num
ber all the way from two to fourteen, and
with all the old world traditions clinging
tenaciously to them, yet they also arrived
at Ellis Island with some brand new ideas,
of the new world sort, In their heads.
"Letters home are responsible for tho
new notions," said the chief of the staff
of the thirteen matrons who take charge
of the women while they are on tho Island.
"These letters, from friends who have
preceded the women here by a year or
two, are a curious commingling of . Eu--ropean
and American thought, but they,
are clear enough concerning the new moJo
of life to cause the recipients to be' in
fluenced by them In their coming. Tho
men generally give ono "reason for their
Immigrating work; but the women have
a variety of answers, although work is
rot Infrequently the reply of the Italian
woman. ." . " " ", ' ..
"Still, even she has her own new world
Roundup of the Gang
(Continued from Pago Two.)
the great movement for the liberation of
Bhifty Shift. 1 ,i . '. . ,. .'.
Suddenly a man outside shoved back cne
of the bolts. Shifty threw back the door of
Ms own cell. "Now!" he exclaimed to his
followers In a low, clear voice.
Then with a cocked revolver In hi left'
hand and an lion bar in bU right, Slilfty
stepped forward and his men stepped in
behind him. In a swift, s'llid phalanx
they approached the outside door.
The door grated on Its hinges, and swung
partially open. Shifty Shift put his foot
against it and shouted to tho man outa.de.
"Clear the way!" he yelled, "hands up!"
And then he laughed. There was only
one man outside, and he bore with him a
pail of water, evidently for the prisoners.
"Come on, boys," yelled Bhifty, "now for
a rush." ,
There was no rush. For suddenly, from
behind the gang there was a mighty si out,
and a flash of nre, and a bullet hit tho
brick wall just over Shlfty's head.
"Halt!" cried a stentorian voice. "We've
got the drop." The voice came from the
rear. Shifty turned and looked behind him.
And then he dropped his revolver like a
Hash and held up his hands. For if th- ra
was anything 8hifty treasured it was his
personal security.
The gang followed suit with Shifty. V r
all had turned and looked. What 011 the
aee? Nothing, save the seven drunkaids
of the evening, each with a bu'ldog re
volver In his hand. And the foremost of
them was a big, muscular chap, who re
America's Real
(FROM SUNNY ITALY.I
A YIDDISH TYPE.
Idea, which she secretly nourishes.
"A girl who had lived In Naples was held
for deportation. She was exceedingly down
cast, and I went over to her and tried
to cheer her. Rut she would not be con
soled, and between her sobs kept repeat
ing again and again.
" 'Oh oh oh-and I can't ever be my
own boss no never!'
"It turned out that a friend had written
her that the American women have equal
freedom with the men, and that they carry
a latch key as well, or something to that
effect. . So the girl started over, but she
had . no relatives here, and no one who
was responsible offered to take'eare of her,
if she was permitted to land. She was r?
turned. "Hers was an unusual new world Idea;
but one that Is general among the women
Is the American. Idea of educating "the
children. I firmly believe that the women
sembled no one quite so much as he did the
chief of police of the little town of Mon
roe. -
"Tryln' to break Jsil. eh" said the ch'et
with a smile. "Shouldn't wonder," he ad
ded, sorrowfully, ""if it was the greatest
mistake of your life." "
Subsequently Shlfty's lawyer entered tho
arena of events. "Oh, Shifty, Shifty!" he
exclaimed, with poignant regret, "why did
you ever go for to do It?"
"X was in," said Shifty, "and I wanted
to get out."
"You was In," returned his lawyer with
withering sarcacm. "The way to get out
o' jail f'r a man like you Is for to go an'
ask the jury on y .ur trial for to let you
go."
"They wot'ld have convicted me on the
charge of assault," said Shifty, "you know
they would."
The lawyer hild tip his hands. "I know."
he said, "thai they couldn't. Why didn't
you send for me In the first price. Oh,
foolish, foolish Shifty Shift." '-
Later Shifty was tried on the assault
charge And he was acquitted. There was
too much doubt -
"Now," said Shifty, "now they got to let
me go. If I'm innocent of the assa'.ilt, then
they had no right 'to jail me. If tliey had
no right to jail me, then I hud a right to
get out. That's law and that's common
sense."
hut It wasn't liw and It wasn't common
sense. And the Monroe county juries un
derstood it thoroughly. And besides, they
did not purpo .c vo allow a gang of crooks
come into their couity town and lip up the
county ) til. Shifty and his gang bad been
lodged in jail pursuant to complaints prop
trly !gned and under the sanction of tna
New Woman
FROM ARABIA.
BELLE FROM THE SOUTH OF
AUSTRIA.
Immigrants are largely responsible for the
great number of foreign children in tho
schools of New York and other cities with
a large foreign population.
"Ask the men If they have uny ambition
for th ilr children in the new lard, and
likely as not they'll say, Yes Work.' Put
the same question to the women and usu
ally the answer will be along these lines:
" 'I had a sister come over two years
ago. She wrote back much. Haying how
Tony was a bright lioy, because he was
going to school. She said he did not hnvu
to work hard nil day to make a living.
She said my children would be as bright
as Tony, too. If I would bring them over,
and they wouldn't have to start to work
until they were old enough, cither. So I
nm here!" ' .- -
"On the whole, the immigrant mother
has the American idea of being deeply
law. Whether they were Innocent or guilty
of tho charge under which they were in
carcerated had nothing to do with the
case.' ,
And on the trial of Shifty and his gmg
for this offense, the Jury refused absolutely
to retire to consider Its verdict. The fore
man simply rose, and without consulting
his fellows, nodded to the clerk.
"Guilt," said the foreman.
Down In New York old Uoneset Smith
heard about It. "I don't believe It," he
said. "I won't believe that Shifty Shift
has been convicted until I see It with my
own eyes."
He concluded he would make sure. In a
week or so he boarded a train and alighted,
not at Monroe, but at Trenton.
He wended his way to the state's prison.
"Say," he said to the warden, "you've got
a chap of the name of Shifty Shift down
here?" He said it tentatively.
"Sure," answered the warden, "what
of it?" .
"I want to see him," answered lSoiieset
Smith.
Tho warden shook his head. "Who are
you?" he asked.
' The New York man pulled out his cre
dentials. "I guevs you've heard of me,"
lie remarked. He had, and accordingly hu
produced 8hift Shift. The New York
man shook his list at Shifty.
"I told you. Shifty," he s.ild. "that you'd
be brought up with a round turn."
"Huh," grunted Shifty, "that's all right,
too, but It took somebody besides you to
do it. See?"
Domset blushed. Shifty had hlrn there.
After Shifty had been relumed to tliu place
from whence h caino Uonuiet Smith
1'1'HK SLAVIC TY 113.
concerned In the future welfare of her
offspring. Stories of immigrant boys ami
Kills who have made their way In tint
new world have somehow reached even
to remote coiners of Europe; hence tint
umhition that net a few ol' the mothers
hold for tilt Ir children -'My boy, ol, he
will be a big man some day after hi' has
left school: and my daughter oh, she will
marry a big iniin some day and have a
lot to say."
"So you see, tho American Idea of wo
man's Independence is not altogether un
known among Europe's peasantry.
"Of course, 1 am not saying that every
woman who arrives here has an American
idea In her head. Thousands haven't but
they do before Uny get off the Island, and
tho various ways in which the different
nationalities take their llrst lessons In
Americanism tire interesting.
"The women always land carrying the
baggage and with their children tugging
at their skirts. The men are empty
handed. It Is the reverse when they leave.
Wo take the baggage away from tha
women and hand It to the men, with In
structions for them to carry It. The wo
man looks on In dumb amazement for an
instant; then, If she Is sn Italian, she
makes a dive for the family bundles; sin
doesn't seem to want to burden her hus
band, or else Is afraid to entrust the be
longings to him. And when we prevent
her from securing the baggage and tell
her that men carry the burdens In Amer
ica, and start them toward the pier, sh
follows her liege lord with an air which
seems to say: Well, that's your way,
I know my husband, and you don't, ami
I'm going to keep a sharp eye on tXaJ
bundle.'
"On the other hand, the woman from
northern Europe seems to grasp the idea
at once. At any rate, I've seen many a
German or Scandinavian mother srntlj
gratefully when she was relieved of lice
bundles and beheld them placed in th
hands of her hulking and dazed husband.
And from the new light In her eye I
verily believe that her emancipation. Lc
gari at that moment."
hopped on a train and hopped of nt Mon
roe. He sought the chief of police.
"Shake," he commanded, "you did wKxt
we tried our best to do in little old New
York."
"What's that?" asked the chief, uncon
cernedly. "lly George," said Roneset Smith, ad
miringly, "you jugged Shifty Shift and lila
shifty gang."
The chief slightly yawned. "Is that all."
he said. "I most forgot nbout It. Ba3"
he added, "next time give me something
really hard to do."
IJttle old New York Is uneventful now.
And It will be until the expiration of tho
term of Shifty Shift and his terrible nlronj
urm gang.
The Picture Hat
"I witnessed an amusing Incident at or
of the local theaters the other evening,
remarked the theater-goer. "A woman,
wearing a large picture hat, whs seated)
directly in front of an elderly man. who
was straining his neck In an endeavor to
see what was happening on the stage and,
of course, it was only possible for Mm to
see but one-third of the performance.
"The second act had begun, and I could
plainly fcce that his anger was increasing.
At last, when he could stand It no longer,
he lightly tapped the woman on the shoul
der and, in as gentle tones as he possibly
could muster, sild:
" 'Madajn, pardon me, but I paid f for
this seat, tuid your hat'
" 'My hat cost S, slr-r-r!' came the
haughty reply.
"Tlie conversation wait at au eud." phll
adelphlu, I'leta.