The evening world. Newspaper, August 2, 1895, Page 4

She HH Miorid (rented 7 the Prose Pubtiartng Company, SS | FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1896. oA | BOBSCRIPTIONS TO THE EVENING WORLD Gncluding postage: PER MONTH. B00. 83.50 . No. 12,400 ——_—— " otchins Trent . Matered at the Post-Office at New York os second-class matter. gar BRANCH OFFICES: {WORLD UPTOWN OFFICE—Junction of Brosd- way and Aixth ave at 324 st WORLD HARLEM OFFICE—12th ot and Madl- oon ave. BROOKLYN—809 Washington st, PHILADELPHIA, PA.—Press Bullding, 102 Chest- aut at. WASHINGTON—T02 14th ot, ats 554,178 in JULY. THE WORLD'S | cincuarion | 904,178 IN JULY WAS | PER DRY. EXCERDS the COMBINED CIRCULATION of ton New York Rewrpspers, oF, 19 be more specie, fe OVER 100,000 more than the COMBINED CIRCULATION of the HERALD, the TELEGRAM, the Ne the VENING SUN, the GYatiea’ the TUTUN I, the EVEN ING POR!, the MAIL AND EX BESS, the COMMERCIAL AD. VERTISER aud the MOKNING JOURNAL (CIRCULATION FOR July, 1895 - 554,178 per day July, 1894 - 500,705 per day 4 July, 1891 - 841,040 per day July, 1888 - 87,469 per day | | | Per day. —- 63,473 | 213,138 | 516,709 | @ain in one year ... Gain in four year. Gain in twelve years. oi Bade @¢ ‘THE EVENING WORLD leaping the city for the het months should send tm Maly addresses and hows ‘THE EVENING WORLD' matied them regulary, Addresses changed an aften 0s desired, WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THE MAYOR! Mayor Strong has loft his gout at Richfield Springs, But he has brought back with him in its place something it will puzzle his friends to describe, While at the Springs he gave an indorsement of the Aldermanic grant to the People’s Rallway Company, cal- culated to induce Acting Mayor Jerolo- man to approve the resolution off-hand. Now he starts an inquiry into the mat- ter, and is said to contemplate putting his veto on the grant. While suffering gouty twinges Mayor Btrong was enthusiastic over Commis- wioner Waring’s street-cleaning meth- ods and ready to vote for any appropri- ation asked for to carry them out, Now he presents a resolution to the Beard of Apportionment revolutionizing the present system, advertising for bids for the collection and removal of gu bage and ashes, and, as the dainty Col. Waring alleges, practically nullifying his powers. Before Richfeld Mayor Strong was Uberal in his treatment of the Board of Héucation. Yesterday he took by the throat a request from Chairman Weh- rum, of the Finance Cominittee of the Board, for an appropriation of about thirty-nine thousand dollars for heat- ing the new school building on St. Nich- olas avenue and One Hundred and Nineteenth street, declar it to be exorbitant, What is it the Mayor has brought with him from Richteld Springs in place of the gout? 8 far as the eye could reports a British mer's mate to the Hydrographic Office, The monsters were seen July 6, in latitude 7 @, longitude 48.48, This caps all the fish stories of the season. THE GIANTS RETURN. ‘The Giants are home to-day, Their Wecord for the trip just conciuded has een such that they will be sure of a hhearty welcome. Yet it will be tinged with @ feeling of regret and of dissatis- faction. ‘The team does not stand on the League Mat in the position which @ team bear- fing New York's name and receiv g the generous support of the metropolis @hould occupy, It !8 only the most @anguine friends of the Giants who can @ee any possibility of their finishing the @eason with any such spurt and such honors as marked the close of campaign in 15%. It is not likely that New York will have any home interest f = this year in the Temple Cup series. It is not treating New York fairiy to ive poor baseball for a wealth of pat- former to have made Tammany ap- pointments? And as a Reformer ought he not to hall as a aign of reformation in Tammany the fact that the much- condemned organization will at last honestly prosecute an offender from whom it has received political favors? The ridiculous plea that the escaped criminals were in the custody of the United States Marshal and not of the Sheriff when the law expressly makes the Ludlow Btreet Jail their place of detention will not save the Sheriff. The question is whether the gross and scan- dalous carelessness shown in the man- agement of the prison and the evident |unttness of the Sheriff for the serious responsibilities of the office will not convines Gov. Morton that Mr, Tamsen fe @ person whom It is incumbent upon him to remove under the duty imposed upon the Executive by the State Conati- tution, Rochester's Goenn't know much about the Sunday exci#e | situation In New York City, neverthe- less it has a sort of prophetic soul. Last Tuesday It printed the words and muste of a choice “Skating Bong.” And behold! the next day was the coldest | July 81 on record. THE TAMMANY PRIMARIES. ‘The Tammany primaries last night were lively. The conteats proved that the organization has @ living hope of a very early resurrection. It {s the same old Tammany. After defeat talk of re organization with outside Democrats 1s heard no longer, The mintakes of the reformers are the hopes of the machine politician: ‘The braves of the Wigwam should recognize one fact. Although there ta great dissatisfaction with the Reform- ers who won last year and a good chance for a Democratio victory, it cannot be achieved nave with candidates of character and capacity, If Tammany thinks to take advantage of the feeling againat ridiculous reform to bring back into power {ts old close corporation clique of selfish, unscrupulous and greedy politicians, it will be beaten again worse than it was beaten last year. There must be new life, new men, new principles in Tammany. Bo far as its list of district leaders woes, the reorganized Tammany bears 4 strong family likeness to the old Tam- many, BLUE LAWS AND KED LAWLESSNESE: Ths experience of Dr. Drury, of Brooklyn, who was enticed into an un- occupled house and robbed by two men after having been bound and gagged, is being improved on in this city It comes out that last Monday night |Dr. Lawrence CoMn, who resides in Brooklyn, and George Crater, of 65 West ‘Twenty-firat street, were enticed into a house in East Twenty-second Street, one after the other, and within half an hour of each other, and there |assaulted and robbed by two men, ‘The crimes were committed between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evenin, | Information was given at the East ‘Twenty-second atreet police station on the night of the robberies, but the matter was kept quiet until yesterda: wh two men were arrested on sus- picion and held in the Fitty-neventh Street Police Court on charges of grand larceny and highway robbery. Tt ly, Mr. Roosevelt, do you not think eriminals of the city are growing |bolder, and (hat there 1s something for |the police to do of more importance than peeping into saloon windows and through side-door keyholes? | If new men are wanted and get them, Public safety do not let the criminal Classes get the upper hand of the police, or blue laws and bloody lawlessness will 0 hand in hand in this great city. hurry up As to Tammany—The more ft reor- Ganizes, the more it is the same. MRS EVESSON'S RAGING BLOOMERS. The Evessons, of Hawthorne, N. J., Are out—not as Tamsen’s Ludlow Street Jail has been since July 4, but as Wil Carleton’s “Betsy and I were. They ure husband and wife, and the trouble is all about a pair of bloomers, Roth ride bikes. Mrs. finds gigot |treusers just the thing for bleyeling, land she wears them. Her husband has ho objection to the trousers as such, or to thelr gigotness, but the hue that Mrs, EF. affects makes his eyeballs Jingle and brings the blush of indigna- tion to his cheeks. ‘The bloomers are red, and they worry Mr. FE. as a flag of fiery flamboyance worrtes the pro- Verblal bull, Mrs. E, won't give up the red bloom- ers, #o she and Mr. E. are “out. Prob- ably if Mr. EK. would get golf stockings of exceedingly elaborate golfiness and a “Band Played On" sult of check, he and Mrs. E, might see thelr way to harmonizing things over the pictur- esqueness of their biking costum: Roosevelt can't hide detective lghts sea bushel. OMcer Carey, lifted | bodily from the Mulberry atreet bureau to do ordinary patrol duty In ‘Tremont, {up that Httle portion of the un) J has etirr ‘Trans-Harlem district. by capturing a | persistent and hitherto mysterious thief after the most approved tive fashion, He neither watched a alde r nor peeked through a transom, but made mother wit, marked coin and npened sawdust do thetr full duty The thief stepped tn the sawdust, took and there he was, the coin ) wonage. The men who play ball have mot been all to blame this year for the fi wnsatisfactory results, Nor do they Mf Strong could have truthfully re escape all blame. ‘They have been Marked a long while before he became handicapped by managerial inexperi- Mayor that “the disposition of the ence. Taken for all in all, it has thus City’s refuse ts far from satisfactory far been, for the metropolis, a basebai] The KArbage-dumping process has been season without spirit The rest of the {OF Years @ nuisance which a progre campaign should be different, Arrange- *iVe metropolitan community should ments should be perfected go that all Dave refused to tolerate. And this en- Meet season shall be very different. tirely aside from any question as to a — ania whether the city was making or losing Police patrol w @ay at the Elizabetn Btreet stations. They had work. They will not attain their full “measure of usefulness, however, ull an WeMictent police signal system is in co- ration with them. appeared and ester- WILL TAMSEN ESCAPE! Bheriff Tamsen ts indicted for misde: Meesnor in having through carclessness nd neglect aided the escape of the three post-office robbers from Ludlow Btreet Jail. The Sheriff treats the matter very @avallerly and all his bitterness is re- Served for Tammany Hall, “Tammany Hall is to blame for this," “he told a “World” reporte: have | made Tammany appointments and now > 3 am indicted wit! id of 4 ‘Tammany Dist ought Sheri Tumsen as @ Re- vorced millionaire, And think of what money by it A Richmond Justice left to the ab woman in the ease the fixiue for nd arreste enness and wife-beath in ja as the prompt w w 2 hust * wa decision a real new an. usehold martyr would have { prisoner on spot, fallen kk and been taken home for beating. nary } given on his 0 another There ts nobody to dispute that striking tailors are away ahead comes from the two conditions of hay- ng @ good cause and strike without violence. the That 1s modern warfare in Newport What a flerce campaign is going on in society when all the swells are forced to do battle either for or againstia di- But for tho sake of the| This | conducting the THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1895. A SAD SEA CHANGE. A blouse of very novel style is shown | in this picture, It is of self-colored cloth or alpaca, may b> worn as a sep- arate blouse, a delightful gown skirt would be, “ut in the fluted edge, and the and stiffened for country wear. of course, 6 pli a n le, with the Trade that Should Be Hokey Pokey’s. BARON HARDEN-MICKHY—SAMES 1. This ts a picture of the King of Trint- | dad, who bought his crown and aceptre in New York and went into the King business at an expense of only about $760. {t means that the woman who got the divorce is now forcing the fight. In their best Inspirations the old comedy makers never equalled such a situation. How the Croton water must laugh ar {t leaps through the new aqueduct to hear O'Brien talk about something in- |iquitous in the Jerome Park reservoir contract award. ‘Those New York imitators of the | Brooklyn robbera of Dr. Drury were bold enough, but with a boldness that was indiscretion. They shouldn't have become repeater: Taking the applicants’ combined word for it, there Ix no lack of good men who would consent to serve twenty yeurs at good salaries for police pensions, Newspapers which, unlike World,” fail to hi spot, continue to report an Indian panic in Jackson's Hole, “The © reporters on the | Now that Cuban war news ts to be given out through Spanish censorship, we may expect daily reports of Spanish victorte ‘There {a no truth in the rumor that Roosevelt gets his Bunday-law advice from Wymps Gap. He ts strictly self- advised. It came to pass that though Sheriff Tamsen was fooled one day, the Grand Jury really wanted to see him at last. Only rash political guessers will jump hastily to the conclusion that Mayor Strong means to abolish Col. Waring, | In the matter of those Indian trou- bles, it is the Indians, apparently, who are most troubled. In place of being turned down in the Sixth, Tim Dry-Dollar Sullivan turns up quite smiling. Tamsen should be thankful that he was only doubly indicted for a triple escape. | Little training hard to win the title of town clown, Ex-Warden Raabe discovers much more than the jail was out that fateful July 4, Tammany's “primaries” appear | have been political high schools, to | That State printing [hence that Milholland smile. fective Law. Magistrates, evidently 1892 as a means the p — = = | JUST A LITTLE, Je cot ine tithe bei ay thy fing, and a wont to may; @ Winterma little May 1108 spot, t cot each Ame a Ant @ beart content, content! In A song and sign as the years go by) A grave, perhapa, where the violew lle: Bu! a beaven on earth and @ Beaven on high— In life and death content! —Frauk Le Stanton, im Atlanta Constitution, Coroner Hoeber seems to be, day afternoon of this week. His head was down the bill, A curious crowd stood about him fon the walk, and people stopped on the “Lit atalra to look down at him. Ile was well dressed and proaperous-to and wore a} watch and chain, which might haye attrited | undesirabie attention wo oD’ Samaritans Analy lifted him to a atting posture, woh hie back against a railing, There he slumbered heay while the crowd kept up ite 1h ‘Tameen and hie troubles cate near the Criminal told me a goo night about @ month ago, Buddenly Tamsen exc! ought to have known better.’ THE GLEANER'S BUDGET. Gossip Here, a Hint There a: Tales of City Life. Quveral gentlemen were talking about Sheriff y or #0 ago in @ Courts Building, when one of them said: "A friend of mine—a (erman thing about Tamsen. My friend was one of @ party at a bowling club one Tamson was there, Tam a fool 1 What @o you asked one of the party. ‘Why,’ faj4 the Sheriff, ‘I could have got the nomliia- tion for Mayor Just ae easy at for Sheriff I didn't know enough at the time to Instat upon IL" Trae Imed, moan, Sherif? J. Dunbar Wright, the Standard O11 Company's Assistant purchasing agent, with Messrs, Giraud F. Thomeon, of the law firm of Foster & Thom- on, have just returned from a ten days’ fishing trip on Rideau Lake, Ontario, Bifted down to a baste of cold Agures, their stort ow that they caught over four hundred black bass, not count ing the many under one pound which they threw back. Their largest catch for one day was enty-fve, In addition to the bass they caught many lake trout aud pile, with which the lake ‘Alno abounds, Ta the cafe of an uptown hotel a few even- Ings ago stool a group of four or five young men, all of them somewhat under the {nf of Iquor. A young woman who looked to be cultured and refined atepped into the cate, and With @ worrled look upon her fa anced hur- rledly around the room. She spied the group at the bar, Without a word she atepped up to one of the men and placed her hand on his arm. | He turned about auddenly, and, seeing the wo: | ‘Then, with: | man by his aside, blushed crimson, out finishing his rink or saying @ wont to hij compantona, he left the cafe with the woman From the conversation of departure, 1 learned that the young man had | been married less than @ year, and that for months past he had been Grinking to exc! The woman was to the world lay at full length on the Warren atreot aide. walk, at Greenwich street, at about 430 Wednes DRAMATIC NEWS AND NOTES. alum Winking Clasy in Town, Charles Frohman has heen quoted as Saying regarding American dramas that he did not wish plays by American au- thers unless the authors were men of wide reputation. This is not true. Mr. Frohman never said any such thing. |He does nt American plays, no matter what their source, and all that are submitted to him will recetve the fullest consideration, What he did say was that he did not make contracts | for plays to be written except with well-known authors, whose ability had been tried and whose work was usually skilful and successful, Mr, Frohman is so enthusiastic and sincere in his |Search for good dramatic material on this side of the Atlantic that he has Jestablished a play-reading bureau at the Empire Theatre, which will be in charge of Alfred Klein, one of the au- | thors of “The District-Attorney." | Mr. Klein has written a libretto that has been accepted by De Wolf Hopper, and, fe a capable man for the position to which Mr. Frohman has assigned him. 1 have u play-reading staff, and | rk of the humblest mative author, if {t possesses any merit, will be given as careful attention, comparatively, as a play by Bronson’ Howard or Henry Guy Carleton. | That $50 play-title contest 1s over, Mr. Frohman has selected the name for his Americanization of the farce, “Hotel de Libre Exchange.” Through “The By Ing World's” announceraent of his de- sire for suggestions, Mr. Frohman. re- | ceived baxkeis of letters, and they are | still pouring in, ‘The lucky tide ft ‘The Gay Parisians.” ‘The play_will be pro- duced at Hoyt's Theatre t. 21, with W. J. Ferguson, Leo Dietrichstein, James ©. Barrows, Joseph Humphreys, | George Backus, Odette Tyler, Mrs, Phil: lips and Josephine Hall in’ the cast, There will also be a quartet of pretty girls, The winner of Mr. Frohman’s $50 Is Miss Grace Horton, of Stormvile, Duchees County, N. Y., who Bent in the title yesterday, eee Little Madge Ellis is going to intro- duce a new song at the American Root watching No policeman had appeared attor a walt ten boarded an express tralia and was bor Tin GL : —— A CURRENT HASE. Not what !t was cracked up to be.” — SOME OF THOSE JOKES, Garden Monday evening. It ts entitled |The Poys of New York Town,” and Is @ rollicking, jolly ditty with ‘a merry [chorus, in Wiilch she tela of the shy, wicked ways of the ayerace metropoli: jtan young man. It Is expe to make | Ja sensation, Miss Ellis is « young lady [with exectlent judgment, and she exer | elses the greatest care ii (he se Jof her songs. Her voice In sw inusieal, and she renders her son| a degree of expression and hun gether uncommon among vaudevil Phe fact that she is petite and graceful and that she ts also. very pretty. and extremely magnetic undoubtedly” adds Much to her success. Moreover & born actress, and extremely Her r the song htest (ings New York | render ne of th has krown in many a day.” Init she ts the picture of while in. her next John,” in which she is posits, she appears Mate ust from the country and greatly ex- | cited the things she on Bro. Her "A Litt is another plece of capital acting. Her Songs are all good—Iin fact, the liveliest heard in New York this’ season, and While ghe renders each ina distinetly different style, she never loses her individuality. ard charm of manner, a combination which has 1 Miss Ellis . favorite with the | the warmest Kind of public. contract—well, | | It ts the sweat-shop bosses who are >| now being made to sweat | Now, Mr Roosevelt, pick out your | | four hundre | Lie Discovered. Harde George Wash- tngton)—You fine game of billiards, Mington—Yeu, but 1 don't desta to play well aa I did five oF years ago Texas * Mutual Confession 1 told my love to Margery Tn worla T thought her heart would meity And then sho told her love to me The love for some one else she fel Relatives. Teacher—Tommy, rito e Tominy—1 guess relatives aad some what to you und ap when he saya thal At the Su Tre wots & 4 cones be Hie board b Her h It wh remain there forever Litte thought he what was to ba Little thought he until he got home and to romove her cheek from bis Are ammonia nd aicohol.—Detrolt Tribune, shoulder y cheek could tried with That very clever musical classic, "Die | Fledermaus.” or as it is best Known In | Ruglish, ‘Phe Bat.” receives: an en- tiraly adequate representation at ren, In the hands of the Con Tenezy company it loses none of | tts Nand apraghtiiness. ‘This or- | ganization hus won a creditable reputa | tion for Kil and deftuess in the | walar operettas, and last ance showed the en enest advantage. Fy | tenor, sang with | tod pverly, He yug Hout In ra- eof Miss Clara Engiaender w mmonly well ren= dered and received marked attention from the large. AS Pris Orlofsky, Miss Rave an eX- ra the part, and the was i this Die ever Gypsy evening The first play tem of this cou extent ts oS) rama, 1 phase of that has stag: Post-Oftice Reid, y_ moor last season, and Jombus Theatr August in which the postal sys- try ever fig to any | tal Delivery," a melo- | throws @ searchlight on @ Mfe in the great metropolis never beer el on. the | The interior of the New York | shown, also” Harlem ght ‘It mate money | Will open at the Co- towaras the end of and her handsome came up to, town ome Winker s cot. | Cissy is getting | eready for the coming sen ‘oundling,”” which starts in ptember, and among other en: | jsagements will git a month in Byston, | Cissy sister Lay Pitre Violet Dear from the wit nmouth Nis has his hands full ex giving almost his ontire atte rests of the| Sprican hange he is also busy bookin, | tent people for and his ewn play, “Bonnie Scotland,” which coped a success last season. | une QUESTIONS OF ETIQUETTE, The Rules o plain To the Biitor: ‘What te the proper thing in dress for a gentle ‘man towear a ta house wedding to be held on o September evening? Also, tn it correct to send an invitation to each member of « family? WORLD READER. 1, If the wedding takes place later than 6 P. M., he should wear regulation even- ing dress, 2, Y Best Behavior Ex- te Ing . ‘What 1s the proper way of introducing an imti- mate friend of mine (I being en and she eighteen) to my two brothers of eighteen and twenty-three? As Miss Uiack, or a Jeasie Black? GRACE B, B. As “Miss Black." ° In It proper for « gentleman to take bis Iedy's arm while out walking? No; it 3 in the worst possible form, ee 1, Can @ gentleman at an informal Summer! ance wear russet shoes with evening dress? % May they ever be worn with @ frock coat? oP Ww. Russet shoes should never be worn | with @ frock coat or with evening dress. | ee e 1. In going out of @ room should « lady always Precede @ gentieman? 2. Showld the gentleman, | in standing by for her to pass out, aay, “‘After yout’ What should he may? 8 R. 1, The lady should always pass out (0 remark 1s necessary. At @ dinner party I attended I notced that no ves were put by the plates when aalad was erved. As t was lettuce, I coulda’t cut it up, and had to leave it on my plate, Was it an oversight not to have knives there, or is it a “new wrinkle?” R. 8. Salad should never be touched with knife. This is not a “new wrinkle, but has always been the custom. ee Te {t proper to discuss ‘*Trilb; @'Urbervilies* with @ young man? I aid, mother said it wasn't proper. Which ts right? CORA F., Wantagh, L. 1 You should use your own discretion in discussing the books. It ts, however, always well in such cases to remember the maxim, ‘To the pure all things are Bere’ ee Please let me know if proper tor a lady to ree- ognim the gentleman first or gentleman the lady frat L. M. R., Tallmang, N.Y. The lady should bow first, es 8 Would tt or would it not be proper for # young jady tw accept am invitation from a commercial man to take dinner with him at his hotel without & chaperone—the man being a stranger tn the city, but am oi friend; the lady being an old resident? W. B. B, Albany, N.Y, It would be In better form if they were accompanied by a chaperone. Seedy etiam OLD WORDS AND THEIR MBA ‘The word “tomboy,” now applied to @ rude young woman, formerly meant # rude young man or boy. Furlong was at first a furrow long, or the Aistance that @ pair of oxen would plow in halt an hour. Shrewd once signified evil or wicked. Thomas Fuller used the expression ‘‘a shrewd fellow,’ meaning @ wicked man, The word “hoyden, or ‘Tess of the ‘G. now applied exclusively to | a noisy young woman, formerly denoted @ person of like character but of elther sex. ation, a word now applied te any evi once understood to mean the calling diverse things by the same name, Peck at first meant a baaket or receptacle for rain or other aubatanc ‘The expression at frat had no reference to aize, Starve was once to die any manner of death Wycliffe's sermons tell bow ‘Christ starved on the croas for the redemption of men Acre once meant any field It tm still used with this significance by the Germana who speak of “God's acre,”’ alluding to the cametery, Bombast once signified the cotton that was em- ployed to stuff garmenta, particularly the enor ‘mous trunk hose worn in the fourteenth and @f- th centuries Termagant was formerly a quarrelsome person ot either sex, and only the lack of gallantry of the men has limiied the word to Ite present sig nificance, cackingesenib ime A SUNDAY HINT, 4 my | sleeves and yoke aro of fancy plaid silk. | A dove-colored or reseda alpaca 1s | charming with a bright plaid in which green and red or blue and rose are con- spicuous, but there are bold plaids in| neutral tints, slightly relieved with | color, which are elegunt, and not at all, showy. This blouse 1s exceedingly simple in make, and the method of cutting it is shown in the diagram. The top of the Uning is faced with the plaid to repre- sent the yoke, and this is accurately ranged, and the lower edge stitched firmly through to the lining. The bosom darts are then sewn and fitted with platinum or whalebone, and the next process {s the putting on of the ma- terial. : A Man's Hints to Brea The temperature at which bread t@ both raised and baked is of the greatest importance in producing the perfect loaf, Lr, Woods, of the Connecticut Expert+ ment Station, places the proper raising temperature at from 80 to 8& degrees Fahrenheit, and the baking temperature at about 450 degrees. In a late paper on breadmaking he cautions the house- wife against cooling the loaves of bread too rapidly after taking them from the oven. “Much of the souring of bread,” he adds, “Is doubtless due to the lack of care during cooling. Owing to the high- water contents, and the large amounts of nitrogenous substances and sugat which bread contains, {t is, especially while warm, a good soll for the develop- ment of various kinds of moulds and bacteria. A loaf of hot bread taken inte @ poorly ventilated room crowded with. beople, will become sour in the course of two or three hour: Sweet Rusk, One pint of warm milk, one-half cup of butter, one cup of sugar, two eggs, one teaspoonful of salt, two-thirds of a cake of compressed yeast. Make @ sponge with the milk, yeast and flour enough for a thin batter. Let this rise over night; in the morning add the butter, eggs, sugar (well beaten together), then salt, and flour enough to make a soft dough; mould with the hands into balls and let them rise very light, then bake. & Pointer About Worsted. Besides the bother in winding worsted, for fancy work, off in the balls, it is not good for the worsted itself. It stretches it and removes something of the light surface, making It stringy. It ts better to unwind @ skein into a very loose round, like @ bottomless nest in shape, and, holding this on the lap, use from it in working. Photo Holder. An oblong photo-holder made of an ordinary split bamboo splasher, lined with cambric, sateen or china silk and edged with silk fringe, is very odd and pretty. This should be decorated with narcissus blossoms and leaves and green taffeta ribbun bows, the loop being of green silk cord. Ice Water Without Ice. To get ice-cold water in places where there is no Ice, wrap a jug of common earthenware in wet flannel, leaving no Place exposed to the air; place it, Milled with water, in an open window exposed to all the air there is, Keep the flann wet; in an hour the contents of that jug will be almost as cool as if they had been iced. Silver Polish. A fine silver polish is made of two- thirds of a pint of alcohol, one-thiré of a pint of ammonia and @ tablespoomful of whitening, shaken thoroughly, Wet @ small sponge in the mixture and rub the silver or brass quickly, and rub off with a dry soft flannel before it has @ chance to dry on the 1 LETTERS. [7Wts coleman te open to everybody who haa @ complaint to make, a grievance to ventilate, im formation to give, a subject of general interest to discuss or a public aervice to acknow' dge, and who can put the idea into tere than 190 worda, Long letters cannot be printed. | The Geometric Unit System. nd the Metric To the Ealtor: | Ina letter to "The World’? of July 24 ‘Arith- | metic’® timely calls attention to a move backward [by Government oMclals willing to force upon the | people the French metric aystem of welgbt, thme and space measurement. A far more important spect than that presented by ‘Arithmetic’ in| rguing against such a scheme In the fact that | |Great Britain and the United States opponed the ' | nyatein years ago because 1t 1x unaclentific tn prin- | ciple ani te terminology 18 periphrastical, Scien | tisis know that no fed measure Is obtainable tn tho fleld of phyaicn alone, but they also know if @ futte linear unit can be found In geometry, which unit can be proven true by a solar time meat ure rationally related to the geometric unit, auch @ phenomenal relation of space and time naturally Involves the sought-for untversal principle on Which to found a untversal metric ayatem. a3 this univerea! principle has been discovered on American soi! and is awaiting recognition by other Rations as well an Great Britain ond the United . It seems ridiculous to think of adopting ench system in this country unless the | move in instigated by @ trust concern ready to supply the people with measures they don’t want, A more becoming taak could hardly be imposed on the leading paper of the Western Hemisphere than to use ita wie and potent tnfluence in oppo- | sitton to the projected move and to further the |tntroduction of the American metric system, should it be found on investigation that the | mtatementa made in this letter are susceptible of | proot, GEOMETER, Who Are the Me: |To the BAitor: | Who are the men who @o firmly smoke Till all the women begin to choke? Who are the men who think this is « joket Are they New Yorkers? New Yorkers, true? ‘Who are the men who s0 calmly ait, And poor tobacco chew, smoke and eptt— ‘Who are the men who thus manage it? | Are they Now Yorkers? New Yorkers, true? | Who are the men who on an ‘“L* train, Selfiahly hold seats with might and mata? the men who thus women pain? ‘Are they New Yorkers? New Yorkers true? Who are the men who ride at their ease (Women all standing with trembling knees)? ‘Who are (he man who escape the aque Are they New Yorkers? New Yorkers, trus SAL. ATTICUM, Brooklyn, N.Y, The Boy To the Rdtto ‘What are the boys of New York City going to do at aight after working hours? We have po- icemen here of our post that chase everybody off the Thirty-fourth atreet dock about ® o'clock, If, then, one oF two of us should stand on any corner in the neighborhood, # few minutes, @ certain policeman comes along with thin ex- pression: "O.t off this corner or I'll club the heada off you.’ Are the boys tn this Beigndorhood going to ait in house with their thumbs in their mouths? WORKING BOY, T The Music in Ratge Te the Editor ‘A few words to the party who @isitkes the music played by the band in Rutgers Square every Monday evening I happen to live ai in front of the platform where the band and do not see bow anybody can dislike the munic. Why, sometimes they play pieces thar Just hit the vail om the head. 1 mean they play Just the pieces that the eastelders want to hear, endiisometimes they are compelled to play the hts. 1 ds fot aR SO saga ew only thing that no doubt « great many easteiders would Ike to see is to have them play at loam twice weekly, as we enjoy tt heartily, M. te. Worren Don’t Seem to Be To the Eaitor: It {t be true that women fs man's equal, es the fair sex no readily aver, why is {t that hie tory cites so few instances of female genius im comparison with man's record? Few women have contributed anything to philosophy, sclenee, to astronomy, since the world has m had female Plato, Socrates, Descartes, Paseal, jewion, Voltaire or Bacon. Then take oratery or law, have we ever had a female Cato, Cicer, Demosthenes, Burke, Curran, Webster, Clay, Disrael!, Gladstone or Blaine? As a novelist, where {8 the woman that can be truly compared with Dickens, Thackeray, Hugo, Scott, Bulwer, Collins, Reade, &c.? Or as a poet can equal Homer, Virgil, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, Tasse, Schiller, Dryden, Pope, Longfellow, Tennysom, &c.? Or as e painter stand with Titles, Aa- gelo, Rubens, Rembrandt, Messonter, Dore or Carreggto? Or in music (in which if nnaythiag she should surpass man) bi ever had @ female Wagner, Beethoven, Han Hayda, Mozart, Verdi, Lisst, Donlsett!, Rowsint op Strauss? TP. JAMES A Spanker Breaks Inte Song, |; To the Editor: . o'er you have @ naughty wey, Who likes not to obey, Lay him straight aoress your knee _ Spank him every dey. ‘Whene'er you see your daughter tate On the comer every night, Spank her till be murder criea= Hit with all your might. Spank ber when she goes to bed Spank her when she wakes, Spank her with « shingle beré ‘Till the shingle breake i Had Teddy Roosevelt's mother dear Spanked him in this way \ We now would have our lagenbeer On the Sabbath day, P kiss?” There ve two lips in it; there te & liquid glue in it, and that is why people get stuck with {t so often. There is « tramp cand fn it for the game of matrimonial simpletones there {e @ dude in it, and also other poodle éege There is an electrical current im tt which pre roal biles and gives lovers @ feeling internal, external, outward, all-overishacen, “Chanry'’ when you mest your bewitching fairy, say Wr oe I ne'er on your lips for # moment have gase@ But @ thousand temptations beset me; And I've thought, aa the dear little rubt raised, How delicious ‘twould be if you' me A BEENTHERE BACHELO®, , Soul So: al verve To the Editor: © Soul, I cherigh theet For, at death's hour, Thy glow I take with To Heaven's bowel Why horde man’s sordid gold— death it ways ‘Within another's fold— Far from my waya, © Soul, I Jove alone To be thy friend; At death, my gold hath gom Thou b Why Not Disproportionabi ity, Toot To the Editor In prying into the English langu acroas the word disproportionableness, which te. reputed to be the longest word in ead language, the object of my writing t* to Inquire if thie word could he enlarged @ve letters, makiog 1 Aisappropoy ionabilitiness, )