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vat : 7, 19 to ef PARK ROW, Bate rm Pe orm the Pest-Ofiice at New York as Secon !-Ciass Mol! Matter, | FHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1900. teeeeeesNO, 14,044 TONGUE IN A PULPIT. Rev. Len G. Broughton’s attack of last Sunday upon a great body of New York's wage-earning and self-respecting young women {s the most outrageous and un- called-for pulpit utterance on record in ely. Cc to account for his words, the revivalist with the unruly tongue stands by them, and adds NG Moley expression of his belief that the devil is & mighty hot roast for his newspaper It ts not inviting sinners to repent. It is "Bet furthering the cause of God, or that of salva- “Gen. Intolerance, insult and abuse have no place ‘9 pulpit devoted to charity, loving kindness and y. They never come from a sincere disciple } the truth. | Dr. Broughton must either curb his tongue or te assume that he is called when seekers of ‘Word ery their “Revive us again.” © BRIDGE RUSH, BAD MORALS. Sy TRIKING and not unreasonable is the claim be % Ya of Brooklyn pastors that the daily ecram- Die and struggle of coming and going! masses of people on the big bridge have a demoralizing effect on the characters of young men. It induces brutality, the min- gay, and after that a ge.eral lowering of the tone. ‘of us who have been caught in the bridge | ‘At its worst will quite agree that the effects | to are both possible and probable. And Qrgument which the complaining ministers ‘Now, this sort of utterance in not preaching the | THE MAKING | BILLIARD BALL. T requires skilled labor to turn out a billiard ball. you t the vith r r | One-half of tt is first turned, an instrument of the] ing nial her ak vhs) vente alan fed ee th finest steel being used for the work. Then the half-| jisene : van : turned ball is hung up in a net and is allowed to re- HARRIE | Vd seevaece — OF R ain (here for nearly a year to dry. Next half t# turned, iad then comen the polishing. W and water and a good deal of rubbing this, It Is neces the veriest fraction of a grain, be of a certain weight @f the situation, for the speedy realization ‘tyme! transit under the Kast River, is sound etroag. ‘This greater city finds iteelf, because of past fm the position of having outgrown all its arteries of local transit at once, It Rew facilities for carrying its people quickly ané from their homes in all directions. The bridge demonstration of overcrowdedness iy happens to be at « more conspicuous centre some other manifestations. But because its i @ mere matter of granting a tunnel permit "eb a waiting company, without expense to the city, Wi ie bard to understand why the desired action ts ¢ at the City Hall. ‘THE SWELLS OF ENGLAND. ey HB aristocracy of England is on its mettle. \| i] Several dukes and earls and a good lot! N@ of lords have gone to the war in Africa, mot to spenk of the regular army lord Lora Roberts, Lord Kitchener and Lord b Methuen. ‘We notice that up to this time no one of these persounges has covered himself with glory the battlefield—not even Methuen. | "We notice also that no one of the aristocratic | Mi t has enlisted in the ranks where! =“Tommy Atkins” fights—not even the Duke of | S Marlborough, who will fight with a private com- aiasariat. ‘As for the Boers, they haven't a duke, earl or D feed im their warlike and berolc army. rs BENEFITS OF DEARER BIBLES. HOBE who blame the Bible Trust for rais- ing the price of its wares aro blind to the possibilities of good In dearer Bibles, They | fall to see the panorama of prosperity which the suggestion of higher prices re- veals to the imagination of the enlightened, ‘These iNuminated ones, with their clearer in- fato the inner workings of trusts, discern employer, as his profits increase, raising Datlding safer workshops, endowing col- and scattering libraries o'er » smiling land. ese his employee, following the |Ilustrious helping out his butcher with an order for Beet every day and bis tallor with an order @ better coat, leaving cheap coats for the cheap ot other industries. The humbiest beneficiary the bounty gets a chicken in the pot for Sun- ‘and & more constant feeling of comfort about | waistband. Even the dog has a better bone, | ‘all is peace and plenty, so kindly is the stream that trickles from the magnate's box down to the lowest of his minions. . pleasing panorama. made possible by the oes wand of the beneficent trust, whieh piste enly to Go good and in theory dispels more fm a Gay than is dreamed of in the pros- of an anti-poverty society. —_——_—- thete New Year 46 our Chinese fellow- | 1 don't go so far, but 1 We'll tatk about knock ki 1 am of the honest opin and crooked spines are, diMeult If not tmponatble tt where {t may be. and @ ofa how much tures necesmary the hang of her arms to of feminine beauty, The tight bodice and eel-tight i THE PRUPE PHYBICAL, oulturtat Unat nearly every woman was knock-elbowed ae well as knock-kneed., really beautiful pair of arma but rarely nowadays. often produced by bad habits, just es round shoulders Most women dress so that the movements of the arme are greaily restricted. Watch the fashionable mirl try to reach the back of her nead and see how Restraint ts fatel to physical perfection, ne matter Tight corsets, tight shoes, garters, even tight stocks All restrictions make unnatura! postures and gee- Watch a fashionably dressed woman an4 compare 1900, by the Prem Pui Werlt) (Capyrtgdt. ing Company, F course you ‘or, at time or other there wi rub of a baby in the family, and 1 THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY 1, 1900. NAMING THE BABY. New Yor) first time and A know what an important matter, toward thirty the name become: a it as in the neighborhood to make unpleasant jests upon \t ¢ diMcult task in the world to hit upon w sult. able name. Young mothers are apt to give their darlings (espe-|curtoualy by thelr fellows as to what thelr mother's | cially 1 they are girls) the sweetest, most poetionl given name is—'‘Her name is Buttercu way of getting to| names their romantic fancy can suggest. tle ones are toddlers. But they won't be toddlers al- .| babyhood, ways, God bless them! and you must remember, good mothers, they must carry the weight of the names|what a vigorous protest she would have made against | you give them, for weal or for woe, through life. How appropri The little girl has many « erying spell over her silly the second |name when her schoolmates, who were curistened 5 oe inore sensibly, make fun of it, as children are some- fOr! times wont todo. And she ts subject to quite as much Ty In the end that the ball shall, to| embarrassment in her maidenhood from the amused the name Buttercup sounded when Femarks of her companions when they hear it for the announced the other day modish corset. do admit that one sess a inees some other time. fon that crooked arma are told me five » obstruct: fo 80 long from the shoulder— those of the Greek models modern woman, with h sleeves, usually rests her ON THE QUEEN'S WRIST Every new grandchild of Queen Victoria has {ts ininlature painted as soon as possible. This miniature is set in a bracelet which the Queen wears and It re- re until another grandchild comes i of and thus royal distinction. Aft moval from the bracelet the miniature Queen's valuable collection In Windsor C WHY ENGLISH SPIES # —_ CARRY BIBLES. T in very necessary that all genuine spies should have about thefr persons some means of proving themselves really to be what they represent. For this purpose a coin of a certain date, a Bible of a cer- tain editio® a Testament with the ninth or twentieth ‘eaf torn out, are generally employed by English alficers. Ry this means a spy who was employed by an of- cer in a neutral State, making hie way to the head- quarters of the army in the fleld, could at once make himself known to the Intelligence Department th In some Instances it is considered that a password or sign should be employed, as tt fe lens compromising a ——— o—_——_ ‘THE PROFESSIONAL SHAKE. Mrs. Stubb—John, 1 do belleve that friend you brought up to dinner is a gambler. Mr. Stubh}Why so, Maria? Mrs. 8tub}—Becatisn we shook the pepper cruet like it had been a dice-box. BARE-ARMED WARRIORS. heave mercifully escaped the new century , Wt fs not always the heathen who suffer. MY FIRSTSWEETHEART. MUST have been stx when I met her, And she was a sweet miss of five; 1 stumbled across where they set her. To walt for her nurse to arrive. With modesty | thought unpleasant The lady could not be induced To deign to take note I was present Until T had been introduced But, one minute after, between us, Acquaintance had ripened so fast, That could you who read this have seen us You'd said we'd been friends for years past. And not alone friends, nay, but lovers My heart went at once to Bo-Peep; And half an hour after our " Discovered us, arms clasped, asleep! ‘Then age came, and with it new faces; As grown-ups we drifted apart; T found In new sweethearts new graces, She gave to another her heart. ‘The Bo-Peep of childhood ts wedded, Her children may now read this rhyme, But firm on my mind ts embedded Her picture—firet sweetheart of mine, | i eeeeeenanannnentnnne eae — FRIENDLY ADVICE. man. Grafl—Well, I'm sorry for you. but keep it dark and don't worry, and perhaps you'll get along all right. ploys @ gir. of thirteen to superintend the do- ings of between forty and fifty capable hands, ‘end It ts claimed that this girl hae the most perfect «ye for color of all persons employed in any similar establishment on the Continent. She has absolute authority over the seamstresses under her, an@ no Irena design comes into (he establishment but what she decides the exact colors of the matertal of which the costume is to be made, and for all this she re celves @ salary such as the majority of men and women would assuredly envy. R tee. firm of Parisian dressmakers em- VEN EANCE, The Bachelor—It ts sald that @ man rarely mar- ries his first love, The Widow—True, but jhe usually gets revenge by constantly holding her fal up as hie Sdeal to the woman be does marry. | | HE DIDN'T MIND, T HUBBARD AYER w elbows on the artificial waist line created by the Rarely if ever does the woman of the smart world stand with her arms falling naturally at the side. One of the best-known teachers of physical grace re ago, when the balloon sleeves were landecape far and near, that she ‘hadn't @ pupil of all the scores she was teaching wh: could hold her arms out straight {n front of her wit the oalme of the hasids turned upward and not form the lester X at the same time. Crooled arms may be corrected by suitable exercines and growing girls may evolé them, but so long as a woman |# uncomfortable, in her own mind at least, unless she haa something in her hand— she conalders stupld to dress so that her arma are free and to allow them to hang as nature! Intended they should—freely and without restraint Just so long may we wager and never lose that 7% per cent. of us, my dear sisters, will, on inspection, prove to be knock-elbowed. Nature didn’t intend i ao, but we are quite equal to Mature in more ways than one, Am 1 not Biuf—1'd have you know, oir, that I'm a self-made| This te Elisa Babbitt, aged ninety- GHILDREN IN RESPONSIBLE PLACES. PUMINISR INTUITION. panttive George loves me and wants me comment upon It. After she has passed (wenty-flve and is verging on palling to her if sie For there are quite enough wns is still unwedded And if she is wedded and has children, how very | annoying to obifge them to make answer if questioned or Pinky.’ If she lives to be a Gear old lady, a grandma, per- Pinky and Pearly, Buttercup and Daisy, Fairy and|haps, the height of absurdity has been reached jn Ruby are very delightful, I grant you, when the ift-| bearing a name which should never have outlived her If she could have had her way at the christening | the giving of a foolleh, nay, heathenish, name to a child who was so vitally Interested In the matter and | who would have to bear it the rest of her life. | My dear parents, you owe {t to your chil them names that she or he will not be 4 and have to go through life spelling for people, thus } making a martyr of your offspring | Let sense and good judgment reign in giving the poor Uttle baby a name. Mise Lithey writes for The iRventng World by arrangement with the 7 Story Paper DISCUSSES OMEN’S ARMS. THE DAY’S # # wt LOVE STORY. THE GIRDLE OF RUBIES. it | concealed in the partition of my old writing | desk,” so read Lawyer Hale. Col, Dare had been dead just a year when, according Jirections, the lawyer had requested the immediate relatives to assemble at Rainsforth Hall for the open- ing of the Colonel « will There was 4 biank look on the faces of all present. No one had ever heard of the ruby girdie, and it seemed preposterous (hat the Colonel should not have made ample provision for his favorite child. Lawyer Hale could throw no light on the matter GIVE, devise and bequeath to my daughter, Mar- jorle Dare. the sum of $5,000 and the ruby girdie except that the Colonel had sa enough, for T shall leave her the Maharajah's gi As soon an Marjorte recovered from her surprise she begged the lawyer to look for the girdie. He was sitting beste the old desk, and opening it he searched thoroughly tn every part, but nething was to be seen of the Jewels, Marjorie turned to her brother and sald: ‘TWell, Don, you have a penniless sister on y: hands. Putung his arm around her Don raid: “My father THE KNOCK -nLBOW ARM THE OLDEST SHAKER. knew that you would always be my firet thought, dear, and | shall take care to merit his confidence. in a whisper for her ear alone he said mi sohievousty: “T hall not have you long ‘on my hands,’ | wm afraid.” A blush rose to Marjorie's brow as she thought of the handsome fellow to whom she had recently plight- e@ her troth. . . ‘The year of mourning for the Colonel having passed Eric Churchill an@ Marjorie were to be married short- ly, and one evening soon after the reading of the will the two lovers were sitting in the window-seat in the library. Marjorie sald wistfully: “I wish, Bric, that 1 were not a portionless girl—even a ruby belt would have been something. What do you suppose has be- come of jt?" “T do not know, my darling, and care less, only that It would please you to have it. Did your father never mention it In his letters to you from India?” “No, Tam sure he did not, but I have all his letters, and we will read them over and see." Marjorie reread a portion of the last one, It ran thus: “My Dear Ones: I shall always cherish this old desk for the memories of the loving words I hat written to you on tt"’— With a bound Marjorie sprang to her feet, scattering is the oldest Shaker in the world. She lives at Har- vara, a Shaker colony, forty miles west of ‘The Shaker mode of Itving, it is eald, te conducive longevity. BOY of twelve, though he looks older, in Chicago, who ts named George Stern, {s foreman of a huge workshop in a manufactory, and has contrel over some eighty men and boys, none of whom seems to resent the youth of their responsible foreman. indeed, {t says much for Stern that he js greatly spected by the emall army of workers under thet Ris empioyers are perfectly satisfied with somewhat daring experiment of placing so youn lad above ro many fully grown ten. There ts one bey in his workshop who is his junior. TO GIVE YOUR CAT A KAISER MUSTACHE. Bila—Has he tort you eo? Hattio—Ne; but Be has taken ouc® © strong disiibe letters and case on the floor, “Oh, Eric! You den't suppose papa meant this old desk? He had it with him tn India." “T cannot say, my dear, but we can soon tell,” satd Eric, almost as much excited as Marjorie. Taking his penknife he gently pried the cover apart, and there, on « lining of white velvet, lay a superb belt of rubles. On the quaint gold clasp was engraved: “For my little Marjorie on her wedding day.” Erio sald now, my lady, for if I am any judge of stones that girdle is worth a king's ransom.'’—Boston Post, —— HORSES KILLED IN BULA-91000TS. ‘The average number of herves killed tn Spanish fight bulls are sacrificed. A PEEP INTO THE FUTURE. They are painted white and re@, the red tooth worth about twenty times as much as the white, VOGUE OF THE ETON | | Fashion autecrats are unanimous about the great vogue the Eton will have for Spring, averring mest confidently !t will have first piace. One of the latest models has a long pointed front. It to of gray extra quality broadcloth, with pipings of Taffeta and fancy buttons, ‘The other ts stylish and becoming in the extreme, This te of castOP broadcloth and ts accompanied by @ perfectly plain skirt. The Eton has its revers made of pale blue panne and then covered with heavy tvery we lace, The smart cravat and tie are of chiffon and lace. —— eee AIDED EL TERED POOH '$ QUERIES .% ANSWERS $98 ¢ ¢ EVENING WORLD READERS, 3 POOLE EDD 66: 04-F2-0-0 0 1-100069-9044-000O0 A Smash at Superstition, Tip there any record where (e in 0 front! record where two has proved to have been a bad comn 3 P. if Presumably reference is here made to the oid super- atition regarding the wedding of two daughters on the same day. Of course it ts the rankest sort of footish- ness. There is always the prospect of double happi- ness more than doubled in such « case by the inter- change of alsterly felicttations. Would Stop Growing, To ihe Matter of The Bresing World: ‘Will you tell me how to st atame boy sixteen years ol@ and over 6 foot 8 ani No, We won't tell you how to step growing. We couldn't. ‘Then, again, we don’t want you te stop. By the time yeu can vote you ought te be several inches taller and glad of it. enough sleep and not too much unnecessary ewees stuff to oat. Also, don’t smoke cigarettes, A Mania for Checkers. bird Biter ot Tho Bveaing Wert: ae am a you in of twenty-t mmers, Jate T have rot my mind fixed on checker bad that I dream of the game and often marks in my age Mey kings. I am afraid affect my brain. can I do to get the my mind? i Put away your checkers and take te skates, or walking, or play golf, or ride your wheel. was 4 game worth turning anybody's brain while thie world may be a fleeting shew, than @ checker-board. Now it's your movet mour # ETIQUETTE. Quite Appropriate. I was intreéyoed to a young + me home. pon me have answered tim? eee oe 4 : ‘Thank you’ would have been entively appropriate, ‘Would e freck coat tt e be tm; Witegrenn, wear et an evening church weadine? © “s lag g ry ii i fi 3 els . n “You cannot call yourself portionless | dress.