The evening world. Newspaper, April 30, 1895, Page 4

oS Patilahed ty the Prom Publishing Company, ‘@ @ PARK ROW, New York. TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1895. =< ee ee Batered at the Post-Omice at New York os seond-class matter. » mm BRANCH OFFiORS: ‘WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Junction of Broad- p and Aixth ave. at 224 at. MARLEM OFFICE—126tn ot a0t Matty eon ave, “ BROOKLYN—009 Washington ot. PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Press Bi But ot WASMINGTON—Te3 14th ot, ing, 108 Chest A» VERTISEMENTS in the Evening Edi- tion of THE WORLD are taken spon the apecific Quarantee that the average bona fide paid circulation of THE EVENING WORLD is considerably larger than that of all the other Evening papers in New York COMBINED, to wit: the Evening Post, the Evening Sun, the Evening News, the Even- ing Telegram, the Com- mercial Advertiser and the Mail and Express. ‘THR SWRAT SHOP 18 A CRIME. ‘The stories told by the sweat-shop vic- ‘=. Sims before the Legisiative Committee @ensus for the population of New York to-day. are worse than the miseries ‘This is the total given by the police Accepting it as approximately correct, it means over two millions of souls resi- dents of the metropolis. Not « name is down on the list that wae not procured Meration, while correct as far as it goes, ot full and complete, Two million people, with no effort to increase the number; with tmproved fa- cilities through bridges and cheap rail- road commutation for draining off the Population tn every direction, and with a plous but not very politic effort to strip the metropolis of all the attractions of a @esmopolitan city! eppropriation think for a moment Would be if trains were @ Battery to the West- twenty minutes; if @ day of rest and ead of @ eeason of pains and tf homes for the poor localities were supplied in crowded tenement-houses in in- ricts? ickly would the outlying popu- legitimately ours, flock to the our two millions of population three millions, and probably to __—_———_. THEY PREY ON THE POoR. ‘The pawnbrokers' heartless manner ©f dealing with the people whom pov- erty drives into their snares has been thoroughly exposed by ‘The World." They have tricks of various ‘kinds for extending their profits trom the legalized rate of 90 per cent. to the Usurious extreme of 120 per cent. and more. These outrageous earnings are made by charging the unfortunate rtain Percentage of the loan value of the arti- cle for “storiag” It, by insisting on in- terest rates for a full dollar when th Joan is only a fraction of the probably not more than 2 or 30 cents. by demanding as much interest for one @ay or a few days as the law allows them for a month. On of these usurers has been brought to the bar by “The World.” If he is fot swiftly and sufficiently punighed for hls vampire methods of dealing with his despairing clientele, then caw is a mock- ery and humanity a flippant, meanin less term. The ous money-grabbers sume: 1m, Who prey on the destitute poor are as hideo.s a lot of ghouls as our ctvilation bes yet produced. WHEN WILL THE REMEDY COME! Beef is coming high because of the great “Combine” of the big dressed beet mMenopolists a Flour is going up to increase the price of bread consequence of big “deals” oman five miilions profit in a ire by the heavy operators, Milk ts going up through the intrigues few beief @ pool” without the consent of :he ‘ee ota eel stc ore . : em ing of the hungry Leather Trust. When will these attacks on the people cease? How much longer are the poor to be made the victims of greedy capitalists combined to rob them? What check can be piaced on the conspiracies of Trunts and monopolies against the public interests? Not before a corporation attorney goes out of the office of Attorney-Gen- eral of the United States; not till the President forces his Attorney-General to do his duty. DAVID B.--"NOT ON YOUR LIFB.’ ONE MAN CAN SAVE THE CHILDREN. Bome Brooklyn people have written to “The Evening World,” saying that they love their children, that they would like to, but cannot, save them from death by the trolley, They see their Uttle ones die or lose their limbs, as en-year-old Georgie Albertson lost his leg yesterday, They sit dewn, fold thelr hands, bear the body away to its Stave and Weep a few hours or day: and that fs all. No wonder the rest of the world thinks them heartless, Why don't they stop it? The law is in their hands. Is there no District-Attorney? Does he fail in his duty? Are there no Alder- men? Can they not be forced to do thelr duty? They can. Citizens of New York, for police reform, for magistracy reform, worth little in comparison with human life, have held mase-meetings within a few months and forced a hostile Legisiature, one hundred and forty miles away, to do as it was ordered last November. Yet Brooklyn men sit down and weep lke women, and say they have no power to stop the killing of their chil- dren. Ten men, nay, one man of force of character, one Parkhurst, can stop the Brooklyn terror, Fecape of the Last elor Democra ery of Living THE GLEANER’s BUDGET. Gooslp Here, a Hint There and True ‘Tal City Lit T watched Mayor Strong while he tity bonda the other day. ‘There w them—probably a thousand or more, ‘The Mayor Went at ft as if he tad @ Job hefore him which wan not to hin Hiking. He picket out @ pen with Particularly #1 alba trom a bunch of @ Goi oF mote on his desk, and appenred to derive a Grim ‘sort of satiataction tn making the pen Scratch as loudly aa possible. ond Clerk Alex- Ander nat at hie right, and removed he was going while I watched him it must have taken him several hours to get through the lot 4 & leading trustee there, and @ warm personal friend and admirer of Talmage, friends are putting two and clear figuring out that there for Talmage to be the aue- “Fighting Parson" Paxton in thie ‘W. B. ALLISON, ‘This js @ picture of the Iowa Senator whose moatiest boom for the Presidential Nomination on the Republican ticket is now undergoing its quadrennial revival Also, it was in Mr. Allison's bank at Dubuque that a teller yesterday shot a would-be robber in the neck. censor to church of Millionaires Sage, Rockefeller, Fi ‘The Boston Board of Aldermen have taken @ singular method of expressing their indignation at the disregard of what they believe to be their ‘rights’ and the slighting of what they suppose to be their “dignity” by the law-making Dower of the Stat A revised city charter has been passed by the Senate, in which, after the fash- ton of New York, the privilege of pass- ing on the Mayor's appointments is taken from the Aldermen and the power given and Ayde, eee flomebody connected with the new the Department of Publie Worl peculiar ‘reform’ among the ele the new Criminal Court Bullding. Last December men were put in new eniforme and upon each blue cloth cap was a band of gold braid, A short time ago all the men received orders to take off the gold braid and substitute aliver raid in tte place. Only the foreman of the @levator now sports gold braid on his cap, and he {a very proud of the distinetion. 1 noticed @ group of angry, aime in has started 0 tor men at hour. Thev claim that the slow rate of going makes them work longer hours, The trolley magnates seem to hold the whip hand whichever way legislation or public sentiment go: It te high time to give them an everlasting calling down, excited men in THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVEN: . Mayor tm not a rapid writer, and at the rate ‘ ( ANONG US WOMEN. ‘Tha corner-stone of the Woman's Building at the Atlanta Fair Grounds was Inid last week and the ceremony was conducted with Masonic Fite, Mr. Shannon, Master Mason, of Elderton, Qa., handed over the tools to Mra. Thompuon, President of the Georgia Board of Lady Managers, Femarking that it was the firat time their Rortety nad placed tools In hands of # woman for the purpose of laying @ corner-stone of for any other purpose, ee After the stome was Jaif in place there was a rence of opinion about location, and the rer Board of Managers concluded it would be ter to have the Woman's Ruilding on an em! fence, whereat the women chuckied not a lit ‘and took unction to their souls in the faot that sometimes the lords of creation did not know ellte their own mi T have this from Mre. Peters Diack, of Atlanta, a prominent memi the Board, who ts stopping in the city, ee Tt In sal@ to be only my sex that dose up club business in true pariiamentary style one day and thep undoes it all and oes it over the next day, The men did not move the corner- stone. The latent thing in Paria and London is the Washington fad. Paul Jones ts to be our next ted. eee They havea brand new baby,end as it {s the fret one they evar had, they haven't the least {dea what to do with it. The other night it be- haved so queer and mamma was frantic and sent apa after the doctor. Mamma sald it would die and papa believed he joctor only wald. “Put grease on Ite nose; wnutges."” Are done up in small parcels, and that the mys tery about them {a in an inverse ratio to the PRUDENCE SHAW. al Meare. LAST OF APRIL JOKES. Rhyme, Wit and Reason Catch; Put Together by Master Peni Oh, where, oh, where, ts Vanity Fair? I want to be seen with the someboties there, I've money and beauty and college-bred brains, ‘Though my ‘scutcheon's not spotiess, who'll mind 8 few stains, To caper 1 wish in the chorus of style, And wod an aristocrat after a while, Philadelphia Times, Anti-Fat. In order to reduce his weight He purchased him a wheel; Before ridden it a week He fell off @ good deal. —Cleveland Plaindealer, Time Versus Murrying Stranger (in 8qu time to catch the ? Languid Native— peed. ‘ket)—Ie there stranger, ye've got time absolutely to the Mayor. indignant at The Boston City Father: =— i Brooklyn's Board of Aldermen yea: terday resolved against consolidation, Brooklyn's people resolved the other way and would do it again to-morrow. this slight and perhaps incensed at th curtailment of their ‘opportunities,’ have voted to commit hari kari. At their meeting last night they petitioned the Legislature to abolish them alto- gether as @ branch of the City Govern- ment. Their platnt fs ead and touchin, ‘With Shylock, in his discomfture, they may: “May, take my life and all, pardon ‘mot that: “You take my house when you do take the prop “That doth sustain my house; you take my life “When you do take the means where- by I live,” It 1s not known what the response of the Legislature will be, But, oh, how the old Boards of New York Alder- men would have invited encroachments on their privileges if thelr resort had been hari kari, The Stanchfleld fool-measure regarding municipal oMfice-holders was rallroade: through the Assembly last night. It is ® fool measure because it was intro- duced and has been pushed so far merely as an intended instrument of annoyance to the New York City administration— an administration which has dared to Please itself and the people at the ex- Pense of intriguing bosses. The bill will fail of its purpose to annoy. But ft will not fail to add to the popular tm- patience over the pettiness and spite- fulness of a Legislature which was elected for better things than the aveng- ing of turned-down party dictators, Gov. Morton ts here in the interest of Republican harmony, but the party bi drummer and few of the horns are atill several laps ahead of the band. ‘The announcement that the McLaugh- in jurors are looking to an elaborate celebration of their first anniversary in the box is a trifle premature. It ts welcome news that the Mayor will probably hang out to-morrow a May basket containing @ whole new Police Board, Russia intimates rather plainly that she, for one, tan't fooling with Japan, Maybe she better not fool with her, Brookiyn Aldermen oppose consolida- tion Bo do all Brooklyn place-holders and public-treasury-fed politicians, It looks as though New York got a fair count thi: time. We're after Lon- don and Paris, sure enough. ‘Morton dines with Depew Pre- served peach would have been a neat feature of the dessert, New York as it 1s, 1,849,866. Greater New York, 3,051,888, London has got to hustle to stay ahead, Bome of New Brunswick's church] ‘The weather clerk made a mistake FOR HIS SPRING HOUSECLEANING. ~ people propose to gather about theatre doors to-night to shame would-be pur- chasers of tickets to an Ingersoll lec- ture. New Jersey is rapidly developing the Colonel's best advertising ground, Church people over this way have learned the wisdom of letting him alone, about the Washington arch; it's a dedi- cation, not a baptism, Thirty-elghth street, just w other morning, They were pro action of one of the inepectors of the Str tng Department, who had selzed a number of wagons which he had found standing in the street there, The Inspector and his asslaants pald but Mttle attention to the protests, but, hitching the wagons together in tandem fashion, drove off with them to the yant where all auch seizod vehi- cles are kept until their owners pay tho necessary Is Chauncey Depew trying to jolly Gov. Morton in the interest of T. C, Platt? The Milk Trust proposes to skim the cream of the business if it can be done, — All ts not peace and brotherly lov: among the dcomed Police Justices. EDITORIAL PITH AND POINT, | fines. That same day, late tn the evening, T Grady, P. J., protests that the im- Passed by the placo again and saw tho same c ‘ just as thoy eta toy ihenae ane 16 cin GRY | ‘The old-tasbioned party organ in the ne owners if he wasn't afrait of another raid he sgl nto nse | paper line in aa much of a curtonity as the old! anewered: “Oh, liahining Goean't. strike twice nificance when compared with that of Grady in presuming to pose as a P. J. atall. fashioned street car.—uffalo Commerctal. 1 don't de> Since then, in the same place on the same day. A Summer on the Halt Shell, Heve they will bother us again. oe — “ fe ti detote a however, moat of the wagons have been taken off sdlnwusndelbe abollahing the present | ihe atrest. They had vod there for months Mrs, Shorenski, of Attorney street, be- the street, They f Attorney street, be-| police magistrates in ‘ork seems to polnt | previous to the rald. THE GLEANER. came the mother of triplets yestentay. A few mre old-fashioned women of this kind who don't bother their heads about bloomers, bicycles or voting, and the census two years from now will show a glorious increase of population, to @ cold and clammy Summer for Mr. P. Divver and his tlk.—Boston Herald. Ah! But Peel Can't Run in American ex-Speakers may not be made envi- ous perhaps by ex-Speaker Peel's viscounty, but are Itkely to look upon hie annuity of Sustice ee THE 80NG OF THE SHIRT, (Four verses of Thomas Mood's graphic and Pathetic poem. Mighty Interesting reading Ju now, while the Reinhard Assembly Committee ts Ths heresy commission has not caught up with Rev, R, Heber Newton's Mberal| certain things are managed better abroad.—Prov- ideations, It is now Investigating a| idence Journal heresy of his two years old, and cannot “ — be bethered for the non with his new THEY MAKE THE SCHOOLS, explonation of the doctrine of the resur- rec'ion. invest! the New York swent-shop system.) rs weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread— Stitch! atiten! sttteh! In poverty, hunger and dirt And still with @ voive of She sang the “Song of thi 000 for the rest of bis lite with a feeling that us pitch Shire!" Out in Dubuque teller shot a fellow who trie and steal This may be taken as a st hint that the ¢ siders in the b be put down, a bank “Work! work! work! While the cock Is crowing aloott Ant work--work—work, Til the stars I's oh! to bea Along with the barbarous Tur Where woman has n mpetition of rank out. hk-robbing business ts to through the rooft hree of our warships have been or dered to Nicaragua. Hurrah! ey Uf thie Ae Christion workt Will Ko there and come back lke { ¥ Work work wor General that marched his men up th Till tay tania bogipe toda hil and marched them down again. | Wot—wecl—eokt Hurrah! eyen are heavy a taken somebody else's life as though it ie And sew them on in « dream! were 4 mere trifle should hold his own ‘ exceedingly dear as the moment of doon a. ee syinre Anant draws near, © men, mothers amd wives are to “come high” at the wa. Kiso On‘y nine McLaughlin jurors up to this But human er morning, and one of those ous Suitch—atiteh—stlteh, dropped. The Jury Ce In poverty, hunger, and dirt, wheel turns slowly, but it is expected Sewing at once with « double fo turn out exceedingly fine jury-box ‘A throws a6 well as a shi talent. PTT Tar re eee ans Probably the youngest cfaas in journaiiom in| Werorm Stl Sports a Die “R. If the insurgents in Cuba don't m Gls GE Ld CHASE TAN I conpmian fo. | With Roosevelt at the head of the Police Com: @ better showing against Spair =] Wiliam Sich ia. charg o clagse MASON, @ Kew and creditadie Het of Police Jus- ple at the ringside may Te ie taiitios Pulte thee an ant ‘Tammany man at he disgust and wart their mo: Aiveiiphincetine ad are Mead of the D Public Works and a from the box-otfice, |Our Own, the Courier Mayor at the the deparimeats who Wags Chronicle.” Aad they pay expenses, which is one of cajoled, Reterm, Brooklyn motor ha’ petitioned a reat deal more than some very much older Speiled wR & Dig R. seems to be having ie the Aldermen for an increase of the vate of specd from aix to eight miles an! puvi Jolrnalisty have succeeded im dung with weil York in spite of Piatt and toms, “ | Paieatipate Finee. toms do Bot go backward. —| + enough, I reckon; but I'm dead sure ye haln't ING, APRIL 30, 1895. “LA PERICHOLE.” I felt quite hurt about it. For a few moments It almost stunned me, Then I awoke to the amazing fact that Lillian Russell, loveiy, large and juminour, was trying to ateal the wink of my guileless, Innocent little friend, Cissy Fitegerald, Picture it if you can—Lillian struggling with acrobatic ophthalmoscopy, while the | Very creme of it=I might almost say | cream of it—is at Hoyt's Theatre. But she did it. She frisked her eyelits and ‘coquetted with her eyelashes, and the ignorant ones said that she was tmi- tating Theo and Judic. I know better; T am not an ignorant one—oh! no—and 'Tewear that ahe Was trying to steal my \Cisny'a copyrighted thunder. It quite | spotted the evening for me. I spoke to Mr. Hummel about It, but he said not a word, You see he represents not only Cissy, but also Lillian, so he was really in a delicate predicament. This piracy | of fMeas is getting to be horrible. Noth- ing is safe, But I can't help thinking that Lillian is old enough to know bet- ter, After all, #he has had a very vol- uminous day, Place aux jeunes, She revived “La Perichole” at Abbey's last night. (I'll try and forget the wink while I speak of the opera.) There was & disposition on the part of the audience to take Lilllan back to her little niche in the metropolitan bosom, to forgive her little sine cf omission and commis- sion. She was welcomed very kindly, nd no phantom of ‘The Queen of Bri:- Nants" arose to mar her work, Never in her life has she acted so well—I'm not referring to the wink; I despise her ior that—and shown such genuine dra- matic power. Her inebriated song in the first act was really beautifuily done. She has warbled ooaily before, but she was crude compared with her finished effort in “La Perichole.” It was as dainty and spirited a plece of work as I have seen on the comic opera stage this Season. Vocally, Miss Russell simmered Pleasantly. Her opening song was very bad, though, and distinctly flat, but she recovered herself, and sang an inter- polated waits song by L, Emil Bach, Enq., very neatly, indeed. Miss Russell has grown rather chubby. ‘The two poor wretches who had to sup- port her on their shoulders at the close of one of the tried hard to look as though they were enjoying themselves. It was @ vain effort. Lillian couldn't pcssibly have been cosy as a shoulder rest, and it w18 quite a relief when the curtain fell without collapse. What a misfortune it would have been had the poor young mea sunk perspiring to the ground, dropning 170 pounds of comic opera prima donna, with a sull and dick- ening thud. Lillian sang a little wad in French, too. She is very fond of French. It Isn't the French that Rejane speaks, Dut It is more intelligible in New York. It Is a sort o: “Le chapeau de mon pere est rond” affair—exquisitely Ollen- dorfian, Miss Russell tried to dally with Parisianism with a sort of Fougere non- chalance, and she wasn't half bad. Four other young women tried it also, and wound up a@ song with the refrain “Bien des compliments,” or, as they put {t, “Beeang des compleemongs.” Still, they did very well, and quite entered into the spirit of the meaning. “Perichole” is a pretty opera. The music is oldtime, but very pleasant. It {a in pleasing contrast to the vapid noth- ings of some of the comic operas of to- day. Nobody can afford to laugh at the old songs; the new ones are infinitely more worthy of derision. ‘a Perichole”’ should prove quite as valuable to Miss Russell as "The Grand Duchess.” The revival is a plece of luck, ‘The company was good. Richie Ling, the tenor, 1s the Dest Miss Russell has ever had, not ex- cepting Hayden Coffin, Mr. Ling is good looking and-—unlike most tenors—mant He sang the “Woman” song delightful and acted with much discretion, He didn't seem to be on good terms with himself, which, of course, gave the audi- ence a chance to be on good terms with him. | Audiences don't often get this chance, Fred Solomon was unhappy be- cause he couldn't get in many gags. But what was death to him was life to the audience. Fred Solomon, when happy, is & ghastly tragedy. May he always be miserable and ill at ease. Nobody else had much to do, ‘That is why the company Was so good. Willlam Blaisdell as the of Lima, and George Honey as C Panatellas, had no op- portunities at all to be nuisances, ‘Miss Russell and Mr. Ling carried the burden of the opera, and they bore it much more easily than the two tired pages, bore Miss Russell. ‘La Pert- chole’ was tastefully and not ostenta- tlously staged, and Lillian’s dresses were | wonders. Tf only she hadn't winked, It |was such a downright We hear a good deal of! “Trilby’ injunctions. I do hope that Palmer and his Work, oh Uller of the soll! Plough the land and sow the seed, Nature will repay thy toll— \ Smiling harvests be thy meed. Work! ‘Tis nature's Axed decree, Labor shall not be in vain, Work! And thy reward shall be Waving wheat and golden graint Mother arth has wealth untold On her children to bestow, kema and gold, Wealth from which alt blessings flow, But should heedless man reject Gifts her bounteous grace conce tes, Mark the price of his ni Barren flelds and noxious weeds Husbandman of human kind— You, whose mission Is to sew In the fertile soll of mind, Beds that into beauty gro Nave you paused to count the coat Of youths’ wasted harvest hours? Lives perverted-—talenta lost— Foulest weeds for fairest flowers? Oh, ye rulers of Affairs, Careful of the People's gold, Know ye not that sowing tar Coat® a nation wealth untold Woe to those who grudge the price f Education's haryoat time— Planting Ignorance and vie Reaping poverty and crim LEVIES EFFECT OF THE NEWS 1 Frohman will invoke the law, and pro- ect little Cissy’s own original evelids, tase itl ¥ ALAN DALE. << “HI! | WANT TO GET ONt* entloman Merely Wishes to atop a Broadway cable car, 1 BAXTER STREET, Pisce of cruelty, | Has the Merit of Ori ity. This gown has the merit of complete originality, It is arranged in a combt- Ration of white satin delaine, with pale green canvas, the latter embroidered with black s ‘The hat is of reseda straw with pale pink roses and green leaves. Hot Water Before Breakfant. A prominent physician has declared that hot water is woman's best friend. It will cure dyspepsia if taken before breakfast, and will ward off chills when she comes In from the cold. It will stop a cold if taken early in the stage. It will relieve a nervous headache and give instant rellef to tired and inflamed eyes. It is most efficactous for sprains and bruises, and will frequently stop the flow of blood from a wound. It is a sovereign remedy for sleeplessness, and, in conclusion, the doctor asserts, ‘“‘wrin- kles flee from it, and blackheads vanish before its constant use. Chestnut Ice Cr To make this delicious ice cream use two quarts of cream, a cupful and a half of sugar, the juice and rind of an crange, a cupful of water, a gill of wine and thirty French chestnuts, Shell and blanch the chestnuts, cover them with boiling water and cook for half an hour, Drain off the water, pound the chest- nuts in @ mortar and then rub them through a puree sieve. Put the suga grated orange rind and water in a stew pan and place on the fire. Boil for twenty minutes, add the chestnut puree and cook for five minutes longer, Take front the fire and add ths orange julce and wine, When colé add the cream and freeze. To Cleni le Bas Marble basins, when stained, may be cleaned with muriatic acid, applied upon @ small rag attached to a stick. The acid must not be allowed to drop upon the plumbing or to touch either hands or face. So much precaution is needed in its use that only those stains which defy the application of sandaoaps should be treated in this way. Chloride of lime in solution is an invaluable disinfectant and deodorizer, and is cheap enough to be used daily or weekly to flush waste pipes and sink drains. It may even be. ured in the cleaning of an tce-chest, especially if the latter has been shut up through the Winter. To Mensere for Paper. Measure the length and height of each wall in feet and multiply. Add together the number of square feet of each wall, Betting total number of square feet. Divide this total by thirty-six, whieh will give you the number of pieces res quired for the side walls. Allow one half plece of paper for each door and window. To allow for waste in matohe Ing, it ts safer to divide by thirty-three instead of thirty-six. To find the num ber of pleces required for ceiling, multl+ ply length by width, in feet, and divide by thirty-three, Suppose a room to be five yards long by four yards wide, which nets eighteena yards around the room. This is equal ( to thirty-six half-yards or breadths of? paper. For each door or window, allow two breadths. Our example room have ing two doors and one window, we allow six breadths, which brings us down to thirty breadths. The room hee ing nine feet hig! we divide by five, which gives us a result of six double oF twelve aingle pieces. For a room seven feet high, divide by six; a room eight OF nine feet high, divide by five; a rooms ten or eleven feet high, divide by four. Bandanna for Dust Cloths. At the towel counters in the large shops are now sold scrub cloths of loose. ly woven hemp, excellent for mattings and ollcloths. Cotton dust cloths of yel- low cotton flannel are also purchasable nowadays. These are better even than the much-valued chamois skin, which they considerably resemble, .An admire able dust cloth is one of the large gray squares of bandanna cloth, which @ few of the largest shops keep for occa- sional purchase by a dusky “aunty” of “marm" who still uses the plantation headdress, Breakfast Cakes. One and one-half pints Indian meal scalded; four eggs; one quart milk warmed with one-fourth pound butter; one-half teacupful sugar; one teaspoon. ful salt. ‘This cake should not be over inch thick when baked. Cut im Squares and serve hot tn a napkin, Flowers for Dreases. Floral garnitures are much used om evening gowns. Something very chic 1 made of lilacs arranged in braces over the shoulders and drooping bunches over the arms, which are caught with: upstanding bows of lilac satin ribbon, Berthas of roses are worn around the neck, and bretelles of flowers ate foun@ very useful to the women who afe over plump. f Batter Seotch. ‘Two cups of sugar. two tablespoonfuls, water, plece of butter the size of an sh) Boil without stirrine until it hardens om |& spoon, Pour on buttered plates te. {cool LETTERS, [7%ta column ia open to everybody w'o has a complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, in formation to give, a subject af general interest to dtecuss or a public service (0 acknowledge, and who tan piit the idea into less than 100 words, Long eters cannot be printed, | jurches Too Smi Are Our CI To the Billtor: What is the opinion of your readers an to our churches, the size and the number of them? I think we have too many email churches, Within ten minutes’ walk of my Rouse there are no ieee than 17 churches—5 Methodist, 4 Baptist, # Cop- gregational, 3 Catholic. 1 Eplecopal and 1 Re- formed Dutch and 1 Jewish; besides a Balva- tion Army and 2 missions, and we are not such | nad people, either. Now take, for instance, the five Methodist churches, These five churches have & total seating capacity of 2,050, and m five ministers, Why wouldn't one church and one minister answer the purpose equally as well? | It takes no longer to preach a sermon to 2,000 than it doen to twenty, neither would the cost of maintaining one large church with one ml be #0 erent an the maintaining of five churches and five ministers, and the money thus aaved would be far better expended on the poor of the church, rather than in the mainten- ‘ance of the other four ministers in the luxuriant atylo in which the minister of to-day expects the people to keep him, @ style which te certainty Rot in accord with the principles of their call- Ing. BESSIE LIDDON, Brooklyn, it It In Yet. Doesn't Know W To the Editor: What does thin single tax busi T to understand that these idiots want all taxes to be put on the land alone, #0 as to freeze us far- mera out entirely? 1 reckon about the time this happens the folks in the big citles will begin to a mean? Am Ret hungry. I wish you would get some man who knows all about th je tax to write it all out plain, 90 we could see exactly @hat they are driving at. J. W. MOORE, Stony Point, N. ¥. A Pretty Sort of Husband and Father. To the EAitor: Will some kind person give me rome idea what to do with my husband? He can't do without spending money, and he has five children to sup- Port and gots but very little wages, He can't go outside the door without pocket-money, and Is alwaya fighting for it. Now, what cam I dot Why. Tean’t let the little ones out to play for the want of clothes, AN ANXIOUS WIFE, Even with the OM Trust, Ge To the From what I read in your evening paper 1 cannot understand why the ON Trust should op- press the poor by raising the oll to such @ high price, 1 do not think they will gain much by it T wee that “C. han greatly reduced the on. sumption of bls oll, and I have retuced mine from alx gallons per week to one gallon, and I presume we are only @ sample of many others, BB. re Langunge for You, Here's Some To the EAitor: Since L entertain apprehension of « of my rem experiencing charac he emtrxdiment of ambiguity to observe inatohl expressing my opinion, of thelr bein, nit elegance and Imprimia, and to by 49 unapproacaably luminous apotheosis American dramatic author who constru in much a Way an tom Ampeacha demonstrate the emanatt Grama that will purgation, a Grama embracing @ striking exem- Pilfication of the intellectual grandeur of its bu@iciency bas bees reached. Drama- author. I will endeavor xplicitness tn the matter of which I sincerely hope Will now be confronted by statements, of general regnated with respectful eplgrammatio, @ It consplouous for un- = tiaations are aggravations, abominations beyeag one's endurance. They ere agglomerations of Ronsensicalities of clever and elaborate ‘coagiomen Ation. The sconer they are discontinued the babs) ter, Why the usurpation of @ Uterary gem Gap! dramatic treatment such as profoundly magnifieess Mterature ts subjected to to-day? Instances of fuck are too numerous for enumeration. Ape they expectorations of personal ‘they represent the concentration of destructive Dropensities 1m gratification of malignity engen~ dered by the practice of intolerable teeta Gesslin To the Raiter: From lime to time letters have appeared te your columns on the subject of “drink.” ‘My husband, my brother, my lover drinks, How can he be cured?’ There ts only one answer, ‘He can't be cured.” If it te nature to drink, you'll never reform him. You can't reform ne- ture, but you can Givert it with the hope that the tributary will never flow into the maim channel again; but don't mak miati ture Ie there, and if nature, as It does in @ great many yaa mikn shall drink, drink All these vaunted cures are no good. I tried one of them myself as a& experiment, not for drunkenness, but for ‘tip Diing,"" and 1 found after golng through the most Indescribable though it ai@ for * time atop my Intermediate glasses, yet ‘ithout will power, which I could, or should '@ exercised without this remedy, it was ab- solutely uncles. And, what about his Gluttony, common among women than men, but it ts just as great @ fault a@ rink, though not so much condemned, Fenulta are not 90 terrible, are hundreds ‘of women in this city who are cimply because they are ruining thelr digestion by albe bling between meal Tt is just as hard to cure # drink, and T am not at all sure I woulda’ seo & man occasionally half seas over than @ woman continually satiating herself with ce cream and candy, et hoc genus omne! CAPTIOUS CRITIC, The To the Editor: Permit me to express my sympathy with “Ale Pha” and welcome him to that scattered and yet closely bound fraternity of those who dare to reject the humble pie of dogma as food toe thelr souls, and let the divine right of reasoe and individual opipion assert itself. We are not among those who cast @ alu upon the “ear penter's son of Judea," but we do hold thet with the Divine Jesus we can clase Gautama Buddha and all those other great souls, whe, through the sacrifice of thelr lower geives the higher, for the make of humanity, come saviours of the worlds, We do not hold up the Bible to scorn, but we recognise beneath ite aurface, as well as beneath the surface af the Upanishads, the Rig-Vedes and the bibles of all nations, the spirit of the truth, OMEGA, irit of the Trath, To Clothe His Motherless Babe. To the Editor: Could you address of & ‘sowing circle” or from which I could purchase cheaply a Sumi outft for my poor motherless baby? Since Aeath, last Dect has gon only enough for a bare living, so I cannot to pay the regular retail prices asked by Mores. She is nearly two years old. 1 have 8 to whom T can tum ai 4 seam to be afraid of me any, Joker May Get Into Jail, To the Editor: Kindly inform me if there ts any law for pl ing a joke on a chum of mine, who cam wi Afford to lose « couple of dollare, He want buy @ plano, but It ts to close to invest even in ons My Joke ts to put an ‘a in the advertising « piano for $30, 85 down order and 25 cents « week till paid, but in of sending him « large pian: end Dims toy piano, with o ame printed on La Ve Imoalty? De \ be > 2s aT