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4 mw ©) CHARMING THE WRONG SNAKE, Ss _ “Cee poreuit of the street-walker. » gve@PDaaors, | © ets ee 0 a Her Tort Sot ol sn Dettates br ine Prem Pubiiening Cremer, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1900, se THE WAR AND THE NEWS. ‘T to the first and pre-eminent mission of The Bvening World to print the news and to print it before any other paper does. This mission it fulfils to the satisfaction of mill- fons of readers. The Evening World does not make news. Con- its tidings as to the changing complex- of events in a vacillating tide of war like that Africa cannot be always pleasing to al! One day there is British success at Spion Bext day the Boers have retrieved their Bo the news goos—and we print it first. 1 Hi ? @arilest and most reliable news from both what a senseless war it is! The Evening still believes that the brave Boers were into a cruel and unnecessary war by hed, of British greed. It still belleves that of the Queen's bravest is being shed! the interests of the Queen's most grasp-| bloody, needless war for gold is being) ‘waged under the name of a struggle for civiliza- iiril 2 i i Lat 5 | One man at Washington had an opportunity, be-| fore blood was shed, to intervene, with strong] hope of preventing this war. It is not too late! Bow for him to offer mediation to the end of shut- ting off the multiplication of battle horrors. Thousands upon thousands of petitioners have spoken ‘to you through The World and elsewhere, dar, McKinley. The eyes of the world still turh to you. Will you continue to do nothing and let ithe streams of blood flow on? SEXAMPLE TO M’KINLEY. OU" PAYN Is beate Publicity did {t. Roosevelt has landed his fist on the solar plexus of the besmirched official. The funeral will be private. Gov. Roosevelt has presented to the President a splendid example of courage. Mr. McKinley should try the solar-plexus blow on STATE TRUST'S RASH LOGIC, RESIDENT JOHNSTON, of the State Trust Company, objects to further criticism of his concern because the money in that|~ $2,000,000 loan has been paid, the company has profited greatly by it and he would like more loans of the same kind ~his is the logic of the man who, having dodged the engine once, would be pleased to run across the track a few more times and objects to being @alled reckless, Sach business -von't do. Neither will the Bank Bxaminer who indorses it. Ie Kilburn’s name on the slate with Payn’s, Gov. Roosevelt? NO EVIDENCE, NO ARREST. |AIN, it appears, in a spasm: of reformatory teal the police are devoting themselves 60 earnestly to finding the woman on New York streets that they neglect to find the evidence. Magistrate Brann has bad to tell some of the bluecoats that this won't @. Public sentiment echoes the Magistrate's ‘words. Nothing is more delicate to deal with than a Woman's reputation. A policeman's belief that it i bad one Is not sufficient to secure the right- @eus conviction of a prisoner, even in a police @ourt. Moreover, it is an assured fact that the = caring of a uniform and a crdge does not pre- Vent a man making mistakes or having a streak of vindictiveness in his disposition. Bwvidence or nothing myst be the rule, even in Mg. Bryan is stili referred to, occasionally, as the G@Palor. Dut it is the very otf boy that fe in his | Sliver oratory. | the Castellane messages didn’t eet hot to melt the transatlantic line into wireless Tat tmieplaced deliberation at Albany that delays =) Cf the drug clerks’ Mil for shore Cay POLL 40 .0.000 seeveesesees svceseee NO, 14,088 Evening World's arrangements for securing | fe better than that of any other news-) | all her future success depends. IRL’S.’. MADE INEXPENSIVELY. Occasion. pense of an elaborate entertainment. For such young women there is a degree of quiet ele- gance which lp as impressive as expenditure and @ certain dignity which takes the place of music, @ ca- torer and a florist. For the most informal introduction of a girl of, my, eighteen years of age an afternoon at home is the most approved. The mother takes her own calling card and writes the name of her daughter underneath | Across the botiom of the card she writes “At home Monday from 2 until 5." | On that afternoon the mother dresses in a pretty re- ception dreas—not a loose one, for calling or receiving call es in white, or in gomething of the pas- tel colors, those pale shades which suggest the dain- teat of the paintings of the French school, Tulle, mull, taffeta, chiffon and crepe de chine are favorites. her corsage. Her ribbons were pink. Although the occasion is informal the mother stands near the door, and as the guests arrive she intro- MOTHER AND DAUGHTER K®CEIVING. duces them mally to her daughter, who shakes hands with the guest, and from that moment the social life of the gin has bexun. Upon the impression she creates at her coming out It tg a trying moment | for the girl. Tact and grace and, what ts best of all, | food nature and good breeding show at this instant. | The matter of a debut is so séfnple a thing that tt 19| &@ pity that it is ever omitted, for the girl will remem- | .. DEBUT An Afternoon at Home a Good, | MONG @ season's debutantes are always many, young women who are not able to go to the @x- | ‘A very pretty debutante with fatr hair re-| \celved in m gown of turquoise blue chiffon over a lin-| ing of shei! pink. ‘There were roses in her hair and tn | THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1900. Wort.) this in a letter, gotng on to say, with all @ young firt's characteristic en- 4 thusiasm: I am invited to my first ball, and | am in @ fever | te above all, if it walts with the young man who is to ta ? HA girl friend taught me make any mistake that would be noticeable. P. B.—I forgot to. say that quite a number of my irl friends are going, and will probably be intro- duced to ever #0 ma young men, If they ask mo to walta, what shall 1 do? Shall I say 1 am just learning, of get up and try it? It is a public ball. ‘There is little use in at- tempting to dissuade this little maiden from going to a publle ball, when she has set her heart upon tt, for, ten chances to one, she wal go anyhow, #o I had beat tell her what (o wear and how to deport herself while ‘here. LAURA JOAN LIBBEY. belt and neck Is always pretty and suitable and most becoming to a girl of sweet sixteen. As to the dances—I would not was if I were you, my dear. L e that to the older and more world- inured belles of the ballroom. I cannot with true candor say that there ts anything wrong with the round dances. Indeed to frown them down seems prudish and crue! in the extreme. I may | stand all alone, my dear, in my old-fashioned notion He Was BEATING T° crRY ABOUT. Little Boy—My fa-father has bin beat-beating me. Lady—Well, don't ery. little boys at times. Little Boy (yelling still more voclferously)—-But my father isn't Uke other fa-fathers, He's in a brass All fathers have to beat their ber it ad) her life. THE ROAD= WRINKLES. By Vareres Wabbard Ayer. HBARD a woman say the other day that If she | didn't find the right shade of blue to match some trimming for a new gown she should go cragy And she looked as though #he really were confront- ing a life-and-death ptoposition. Her face was drawn and set with deep lines fur- rowed In her brow, and her mouth bore an expression BHOPPING PACE SOCIETY PACK. rim determination worthy of some immense re- ve The same day I saw a woman lose her temper com-| pletely and fly into a thousand pleces because, to use| her own expre . “everything had gone wrong since | she got up,” and as a climax to her long list of griev-| ances she had stepped upon the ruffle of her silk petti-| coat and torn off a yard or more of the flounce. ! Both of these women did more dama: heir looks in one day of trritabiiity tha xpert could undo tn th The mt sensitive. When they h emotions as anger, | ne feeling the reverse of ple je they deve ording! Tho passions that work the severest ravages upon| MODERN SERVANTS. “Why were you discharged from your last place?” “@rangers took me too often for the lady of the house." —Meggeniorfer Biaetter. oo never touch the keys of @ typewriter aga: last three years smiled at her in a kindly way. sald one. must let me know. at New York or San Francisco.” ba-band and bea-beats the big drums. the face are anger, fear, grief and hatred. On the ther hand, love, charity, temperance and industry the facial muscles in such a way as to produce utifying result in the lines and contour of the face. Whatever a woman thinks, whatever she fs, carves Itself upon her face. WORRY PACE, NAPPY FACE. So true 1s this fact that a student of phystognomy can always distinguish the woman who labors with her hands from her who works with her brain, He knows almost unmistakably, also, after a little study, the vocation of the women we moet by chance upon the street, ‘The society woman has the typical expresaton char- cteristic of her cation, The artist, the journalist, coper or the actress also. It ts them. mpers, my dear girls, if you wish to ithful looks, if you wish to avold the that are so unbecoming and so hart to dispose The worry lines fn a woman's face are really a pitiful acknowledgment of a weak will and poor, frazzled nerves One result of the Castellane-Figaro tow A young girt aske me) A white tulle dress with white satin ribbon at the! DY (to little boy)—What are you crying for, my | litte man? 4 vi used to promiscuous I do not say it is quite as natural for leap joye Do not speak to. not necessarily make him | another one until you ai of going to these publ! Mins Libbey writes these Velustvely, by arrangement wt | Our Insurance Superintendent iinds Albany banefal, But Roosevelt replies that it’s merely too Paynful, Tam a youn, of eighteen. She is very be a point of b thelr relath with he be he knew that | him since, vise me how I'll You have trea in of | n his friendsht, GLAND'S Tommy Atkins Is now the | moat popular doll with | Our cablemen w with timidity; Lest the insults and challenges telegraphed now Cause the cable to melt with torridity. RAE BROWN’S DEBUT with decision into Its cage. “That's the inst time,” sald she “1 shall . T hope” ‘The men for whom she had been working for the “T wish you the best fortune possible, Miss Brown," “When you make your debut as a star you I'll come to hear you, whether it's 8) © oe ce 6 . Bix months later a young girl with a bagrard face left the stage door of a third-rate theatre and ran/ alone through the city streets to her lodgings—an ai the English little people It Is calla’ “The Absent- Minded Beggar” doll. DON'T WALTZ WITH HIM. ything ai ‘Thinks He Could Cat Out Friem man and am in love many admirers, ghe |s in love © attempt to Interfere In th oh but it seemsd didn’t have any love didn't care for htm, for 1 u can do will be to make an attempt win him back, No one can do this for you. NEW DOLL. | 4 This miniature eMay of! IS IT WRONG ® WALTZ? By Louvre Jean Libbey. (Cuprright, 1900, by Ce Prem Punishing Company, Mew Terk | 01 T think @ young girl loses much of the freshness and sweetness of modesty’s delightful bloom who becom arms about her in the wal @ girl in all truth a gentleman, Go home early from the public ball and do not go to For the habit balls ts apt to grow upon you, much olde! the Family Story Paper. pretty right way How should 1 BROK RY. There is no “right way" when such a condition ex- ists as you describe, If the girl has been going with vnother man, and that man is your friend, tt Should | '@ that thing until you know the A BC's. The great uM not to attempt to disturb eI can give you ts not matter, Wants Discarded Lover Back. years old and was keep- nieman twenty-one years ought & great deal of me, for h T unin ven't seen ‘al young gentlemen since rnee now and I'd rather Til have to acknowh It that I lost irr eatin, win him back. a. “1 Ue young man badly, and you! ski, don't you think? he result of your behavior, When you meet him, and ortuntty to do so, let ur past conduct and try to HE ts a wins This dear Bhe \s a winsome She She The warstle and succeeded in finishing it | you manage It? The Day's Love Story "D typewriting machine writer's fob. She looked for it all that day and many her funds were exheusted, and che was stid without AB DROWN: Meow tet 79 ™ days after, but she was out of practice and had done, work. © ° ¢ An evening flee for The Evening World ea- She is a handsome wee thing, She 's a lo'esome wee thing, I never saw a fairer, T never lo'ed a dearer; And nelst my heart I'll wear her, For fear my jewel tine. handsome wee thing, a lo'esome wee thing, This dear wee wife o' mine. The world's wrack we share o't, Wr her I'll biythely bear it, And think my lot divine. AN BXPLANATION, Hixon—You are the only man I ever heard cf who started out to bulld a house for 84,000 and actually Dixon—Oh, that was am easy matter, | had my architect draw up plans for a @uw house, See? # ON SINGINC. They Are in Too Big a Hurry to Be Great. HERE are two big faults with the American @iz! who would sing. One fault is her tempera- ment and the other fault is her hurry. She is a ry proper girl and very nice gir, but she has not the tomperament that makes the great singer—the soul of t all. may have the technique and the ability to study and the mage of voice to take the high notes, but she lacks the temperament of the Italian, the French, the Polish, the Russian. She does not get ex- cited because she is too cold; and ebe bas not the temperament. Art is excitement and fervor sad the great, glorious enthusiasm back of jt. The American) wtrl is of the Angio-Saxon, and she is cold. Another fault of the American gir! who wants sing is her hurry. She does not take time to lea {thoroughly the A B C's, but she wants to read a jonce, “I want to sing Marguerite in six months," she say to the teacher, “hurry up, piedae, hurry up.” And low Dinorah—quick, 1 must learn Di- norah in three months." Now this Is ail wrong. There should he system, sys- tom, system. It le the only way to earn many things —the only way to learn music. All the great singers of the past learned that way—all the great singers of st the lancters. Indeed, feet to dance as it ie for flowers to bloom, the sun to shine, or the brook to along tts mossy bed, « to be introduced to every young and handsome man whom your partner may know and A public ball 1s apt .o be made up of men drawn from many classes of society. dress sult, with a white rove in his button-hole, does ‘This coat, which has such a dashy effect, te of Dive-gray cloth with vest, sleeves and applied design (n white Persian lamb. Blue cloth skirt. TO THE Weakness or Overstudyt ‘To the Béttor of The Kveaing World Tam & student in one of the high schools of Greater New York. I find that my studics have made me very nervous, | would like to competent readers if this nervousness Is due to ph: #! weakness or to the Humber of studies I am taxed each day, I take seven studies altogether and below is a schedule for the week: Monday, study peri toric, history, Greek, geometry, physics; Tuesd: tudy period, geometry, eeay, Caerar, Greek; Wednesday, Caesar, study pe tod, drawing, geometry, physics; Thursday, physics, physical training, history, Greek, Caesar, study period; Friday, conference, geometry, literature, study period, Caesar, Greek. M4 Te Remove Lemonade Stains. ‘To the Batitor of The Evening World Will readers kindly inform me what will take lemon. ade stains out of a brown cashmere dress? ANXIOUB Hae a “Fine Mother-in-Law.’ To the Editor of The Rvening World: ene _ I don't believe in any young couple living with the parents of either. As to the girl's hating their hus the future must do so. It ts not right to fly from this Samia tether, I Ge pt. batie re are any git. who would not (if met half way) learn to think of | thelr husband's mother as their own, The trouble ts with the son's mother, She thinks there is no girl good enough for her boy. I have a fine mother-in-law | painter cannot make his firat picture a masterpiece. | And so with the great artist, There can be no hurry and no big star rele at once. Learn right and learn long ts the advice I give the American girl. Do not hurry so! | Why, when 1 was four years oid, my father, who | Was only & poor peasant, started me playing on @ | plano which he himself had made. At six years I was at the violin, and when I was t @ years old | was both learning and teaching. At nineteen I had made my debut, but I nad studied for fifteen of my nineteen |years, My mother's maiden name was Sembrich and jmy father's name was Kockanski. 80 I took Sem- brich && my stage name. It is prettier than Kockan- MARCELLA SEMBRICH. and am proud to call her “ Now Buller |s hopping about in delight, Bince Krueger has failed once in flooring him; And ne hopes by the ninety-ninth round of the fight That the Boer may at last cease from Boering him, Don't ki Fb at full teana cr your Hurlemward wi Or long for a car where one can ait; ‘Twill be ‘o* «. ft a trip to sit down on the day When at last we have found Rapid Transit. > . MDCCCC, MCM. OR OME inquiries have been made as to 45 the manner in which the present year 1900 shall be figured in Roman notation, and the consensus of opinion in this country seems to be in favor of the form MCM. It should be no teed, however, that as a result of similar inquiries in France the Medals and Inscriptions Committee of the Academy has pro- nounced im favor ef the form MDCCCC.,, which some wee thing, in wee wife o' mine. Tramp—Pleare, can't you let me have @ pair of old trousers of the doctor's? wee thing, the care o't, eg ers —Burns. le. te oor wt ETIQUETTE NOT MADE UP Whose Duty? Whose duty is it t to have an engagoment FOR THE PART, |nouncement announced in the paper? EL. First Victim—Wahat 18] 1 jg customary for the parents of the bride to pay Von Stopakiok singing? | an expenses antecedent to the actudl wedding cere Second Ditto—"My Face! mony. te My Fortune, Sir, She Bald.’ am le within the limit. How did Fare Net Velvet, are Mack ture sod velvet oRowed ter mourning? Lt necessary io use rnin ? bas IN DOUBT. Biack furs ere worn with mourning, but biack vel- Vet is not considered mourning. It is customary to usp mourning paper while the person is wearing black. Return it. i a ana eek ‘3 DAILY READER. It ts an unwritten law that engagement rings, love letters and all costly gifts are to be returned to the sender when the engagement is broken. A TYPEWRITER’S ‘What gagement ? i I | | if i iit came 10 ote for “1 am angry with you. “Tou not. You are jan gied ap | am to see you. I te go home with me, Ree, as staad. you shall have what tell Bo ene what o brave it I i i ils i 1