The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1900, Page 8

hs aaa age SAAR Ag i EN and women who have mads fa'- ¥ ures in life here tell their stories and | give reasons, as they see them, for b having missed the goal of success. These olters, thousands of which have been re- | ecived, were invited by The Evening World, whith will give $25 in prizes to the best our communications on the subject. Fiest prize ts $10 in gold. young life have falled {te enthr 5 y T have gathered whieh | can tn al! things. Sceond prize Is $5 in gold. cea ‘Third prize is $5 to gold. | Married Too Soon, Be Fousth prize is $5 in gold. | | | AM now working for = small eal ; Letters must not be over 309 words | Atlee ttess married, i : They should teil actual individual expers- | ahr mce coche Nive ADL: ences, and the names and addresses of the | and would have done so but for the fact writers—which will not be published | that 1 married while working fora should accompany them. }ary, when, tn fact, I 1 have w juntit 1 was fairly ed In busingss Address letters to Failure Com, tition, | Evening World, P.0, Box, 2,354, with a few thousand dollars behind me | But not deing guided by my better judg- | ment, | married when I was twenty three years of age, and the burdens of life have been continually growing heavier and heavier until now, when | am nearly forty yeara of age with « | to support, I see no pros- a continual struggle WILSON, City | Dressmaker’s Mistakes. WENTY-FI T started tn the dressmaking business—young healthy, hopefi) and ambitious—and ft was just commenc' ¢ money. Betng | of @ nervous and conscientious disposi | tion, I broke down from overwo! Jong hours | sat and worked, seen her since atl y loaned them, and me though they knc isfortune. Elven my law will not pay me IG he | owes me for over ten years, $85 of which | wore giver to him and his first wife to bury thelr first born, NEMO. A tried HY W To reach that happy mofl, Where netther rich nor poor I'd bide. | With a contented sou own | Bad Companions. T fifieen years I left Sunday-school, Al and hinking | knew it all Was working {na store. I got acquaint. | od, saved money, was happy. I learned bad habits, was persuaded that the best } maxim w Do others and see that they do not get the best of you.” I gave up my position and started out to fee the world | spent money to patiofy bot vassion, lived from hand to mouth, t fome and family tles and met with many ‘ong of Failure. ave | fatied? God knows I've Personally I look upon the Boer ques- tion from an Irish point of view. ‘We do not care whether the Boers are right or wrong; they a mies to our I've many thousands had and lost, > Though carefully doled out; Pa tuto, olin, . FINCH. “| enemy. That is enough. Which many bi tears have cost, ae Deny But, fortunately, they are right. Their And filled my soul with doubt, M N: cause fe just, It ie the cause of liberty ‘Was | predestined thus to be, Too uch = lapoleon, and the cause of humanity and civilisa A failure #y complete; HE attending physlclan at my birth, | ton, CUaee i broutht on detect T a man of Infinite tact and corre-| surely, the whole American pubile whispered encourag-| must be so well scquainted with the sponding fees, ik it oman K. . and, those dead beats of women who th fraud the working f emart to of her hard. ecatned pay. Brookiyn, N. ¥ Misapplied Ability. 8 a boy my ambition, my Inclination With a | the female relatives and friends who} pom, civilised the country; how the alled within the next month asserted, | gngiigh came and drove them out again? "A perfect iit mel. and he has @ A _a was to become a doctor. No Gift f G. , mother's Watingwass 1 was entered) h ke N When | was alt MAKING THEIR STAND. 7 03 aD. at the Sehola Manculnensis, England, months old a beggar stopped my| The Boers went out into what is now on the street and sighed, “AR,] the Orange Free 8t and crossed the one of over #0 students, with this object hild will grow up to be an| Vaal River to the Transvaal. Here they in view. Be 1 had finished my studies there a severe blow came In the loss of nearly all our family property and poverty stared us in the {roe Col lege was now impossible and I entered into commerctal Iife to clerk, and clerk ing became the natural means of bread hafing | mother ady, that WAS brapght up in a New England village (now ® olty) and left schoo! with very little knowledge to work in & shoe shop at eleven years of age. | was always ready to give where it was needed, even to depriving myself. Bela & very bashful or rather timid boy | §reW more ro as & Man, Consequently, when I would be spoken to by my em P" ornament to sootety, he has a head like | have made thetr stand. Napoleon." ‘They say that never again shall they be driven out by the lnglieh, and they are keeping their vows. We in Ireland can so well appreciate the Boers’ struggle for liberty and against Engiand because we know what Bagiien rule means. fa have tor centuries been struggling He gota dollar, At the age ' THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1900. ~|WHY I CHAMPION THE BOERS’ CAUSE. BY MAUD GONNE. Dietated Ex:lusively to The Evening World, ‘ si ° THE BRIDE DID NOT PROMISE TO OBEY.'8, Attmant Ge. Rev. A. H. Grant, of Montclair, N. J., Omits the Oin tata he«at Ic "a Makes Other Innovations. ored in the breach than the obvervance, and she has “obeyed” her lege lord— y, nay! w Parson Grant's conscientious IN LADIES’ WAISTS or LIBERTY SATIN, PANNEVELVET, 20TH CENTURY MARRIAGE CEREMONY. }| !2% of thé Atners of things redelied| EMBROIDERED, MOUSSELINE, Against this state of things, and #0 ; when he united Walter Killott Lane-] GRANITE CREPE AND LUCERNE, Do you, Writer, declare before these {| gan, of Gloucester, to Miss Ludwig Me- assembled iitnesses that you have}! Iivain, of 3M Orange road, Montolair. —Alo— chosen this woman from all others to}| Sunday, before the whole congregation, SILK AND LACE and do you promise to}/he didn't pledge the fair Ludwig to “fove, honor and obey” Welter, but HAND MADE WAISTS, For Wednesday, February 7th. Taffeta Sifk Waists to various coloes, $4.90 U Taffeta Silk Waists, Hemstitch- clare that you take this man to be your husband, and promise to do and ‘be to him all that he has promised to ‘do and be to you—so long as you both shall live? saan, ‘ares te. rentnd you at te a a ‘vows yet have here plighted; and may colors, $7,25 those qualities of unity and eternity, ‘of which the cirele ts symbolle, be ex: Faacy Colored Waists of Taffeta emplified in the perfect union that shall exist between you. (Join hands.) And now by your own Silk, Hemstitched aad Lace teimmed, 9,50 nounced—in compliance with the re- quirements of civ] law—you are and will hereafter be regarded as husband And whom love hath joined together let no discord put agumier. Rev. A. H. GRANT'B revised version ‘of the marriage ceremony. The Rev. A. H. Grant, of the Unity Church, Montclair, N. J., reeognising that the old-fashioned marrtage service was making a perjurer out of every nded the ritual go as timid little thing from Ne fe. te tack best. Mailed to your edérens for only uy that rule, end thoug! luered our country she Il subdued the spirit of the a he direct result of English rule in ry ruil acts ol people PARASOLS. Aatidic and Exclusive Designs to against has Parliament rendered miserable by famine. 8) we can quite appreciate the situar Hon of the Boers. I know that the Boers are in the right; but if they were cen times wronk we would sustain them—agalnst England! FALSE PRETENSIONS. the blushing bride to vow she will “love, I fear, alas, when at Its ebb, ingly to my mother, “He is the most] story of the English oppression of the| England's false ten bow! aha fate cipind. tas’ wate’ ® web, erful child 1 ever saw; he has ®| Dutch solontets on. pes that any-|to arto nelp the. Titlendtes if, Salat honor and obey" the man who pays th FRINGE, ETC. Which tas success defied 4 tke N on.” The nurse rushed | thing T aight say on the subject would|wnderstoad in Drelaed. | |) /parson. Mince Adam en Bre every wite ‘ i a Cop ee ee deed ey Sereeay father in the hall-] be but a retelling of what they already | Iri wrk has considered the last vow more hon- Natscae ciak snd soon WRCAP aden batt & omens Bee i . ri Se she cried, “and he! know; how the English drove the col ig Reeve Res | a|. ge ieee —_ Abo 0 laege sslection of pn ae Dont relatives and trying to help | MY Muse alts p my door, | a head like Napoleon.” My father, ® | onists from the Cape, wherg they had |prosperiy or such liberty as that which ie ieee enon I was'not biey atmy | Periding my defeat seif-mate and uniettered man, at Once hut the town, Into Natal, and again, |they enjoyed in ¢ Transvaal, PLAIN AND PANCY COACHINGS, [fe inated Sh oe ie og Rutherford, N. J 4 | swore he would kil! Napoleon, but grace-| when the Duteh farmers—the Boers— ms.) is opie franchise ecome to MOURNING PARASCLS, thinking 90 much of my | rully subsided when he learned ‘hat Na-| aq colonised Natal, conquered tt from| out to make money and (Reena is inte work polon was nol s nenr neagbber. Allis caune teen ban CAWHE)| made Nereare ahout the franchiest| ff @| PARASOLETTES AND SUN ery: directly a: Th Irishmen tell me they had ev exe thing don fee, libraries In these South African e education for children is much jer than in Ireland, where tt te lematiges: pationalize the if ible. For the At ‘must w Irish ehildren are not jearn the Gaeke language of ¢) history. rieh for their comfort. ve Continuation of ANNUAL SALE OF Cut Glass, China, H The Event of Greater New York. to ir nat land nor to atudy 1 Fare Tt ts easier ft lor the people te sym- airiee ate the Boers. 1s, thele trpasie ‘or against Engite! freed \ pire because heir cause . just” from every point of view. tee 7 yiy, | 4 and at last | ; | sustified the 2 WAS necessary to push me forward, che | thirteen years with gift of the gab. 1 am very well thought | for want of sufficient of by all for whom I ha r worked: | start had to be made Then I determined also by my fellow employe but still f half hour | $0 make entirely new break from existence, whereas, | gifted with | 0! 4 monotony, and leaving all the f putting into words the | scones of mix e and drudgery, « better of, eaptial and a new BND OF REVERE HOUSE, | It Is Part af the Eetate, in One) about the Ployea | know | would be Was on Wrong Tack. ¥ taf Monroe Died. The old Revere House, at the south- corner of y and Houston | ne ex-| | the upw ‘ thy Wee | middle o d the pleasures in-|am walkin vut for the future le ' ‘ sea I wea tabsaen ait | MN ar ago, whee I was t en ew | OA ee Jof two a pertpatetic phrenologist tapped jote of ime to look over e \' w « cranium iightiy with hie see where 1 made a fallure of 4 said; “Aiea Betta: isle im | A Minister’s AUBES of my fatlu r name wil thundering ite few EDW’D Housekeepers cannot afford to miss this to choose |from mammoth assortments in absolutely reliable qualities at am aver- age saving of 50 Bel ? iow Prevailing Prices. ? 125th Street West, between Lenox and Seventh Avenues. L street. and the Charles H. Contolt estate on Broadway, wil! be among the prop- erties put up for sale at auction to-day sal 1900 World Almanac. J home Catholle dignitarte: jral was moved u ago, I started ath toward su 7 sae head like N Li ih be hs ne of my Orth to the ‘ime of my mar. ia Bat piny ature wil not worry ma been ates iy fries nbd relailvenoeeeaee : ae k eC ~ aad TH. | should have been the sent’ oecray felt be 0 Hut unfor- 4 HAVE galled because Ualways used my | °° y tha oles : , thy ces i wo wag iy one | ould have been im ‘He use na hy id el ‘oaks poe trea sy silt! GREATEST HOUSE FURNISHING SALE We bo nt ven sarbing tat des ct arpa Simo it wouldn't be tn vain, ;abandoned « life purpose dea instinct, 4 es ee revert Saal anger egos omar On Earth. Third Week! yout econoanical ’ geri Bays Ct) First Weak Wes Good! Seonad Tee aeeel THE FOLLOWING BARGAINS MERIT YOUR CLOSE ¢ to the puiptt. 1 followed hte lead and |) beads suhe in utes Ni BUTS, THIRD WEEK WILL BE BEST !!! ATTENTION AND WILL DOUBLY REPAY. ANY TIME hag So btinee. preseee balled —_——— Because in addition to all bargains advertised before we quote the greatest values in new Houss * continually over t i ay feet Not a Sticker, and Kitchen Furnishings received since beginning of the sales, We do not ask you to take into con- YOU MAY SPEND WITHUS. \ Hove. Study of ov WAS night telegraph operator in sideration the advance of cost in raw materials and labor; simply look at the goods and nots the re pnare roundhouse, and se afi |small peices. How we can do it does not interest you as much as the cold fact that you cas bey CORSETS. CLOTHING. work uy for a ponition on the Erte Rail-|Seasonable, useful, firet-quality staple House Furnishings at a saving from 25 to 50 per cent. tors Genuine Sheepskin - STEP LADDERS. Juss 300 pairs Bargain Corset, Another in of ¥ wait T hare onsale? Gas Radia Leather Valises, 3 f0ot, ‘toot, foot, _—_‘they are mach better ‘has, the Suess Big Men's Winter Sutta ‘ jets f mars 800 Four pipe Bronse top (shout 300), muslin lined, steel = >a Soe ae aera cod varios Srehades and Crash, and Overcoats. t yy APs a Eco- frame, nickel catches, taa or black, 280. 360, 480. sires PSS lier ietvsresses 3 c All-Woo! Black T' ' menett Gg aim and tack” Toor Gf): athe Pin 1” i bn) 20 ve na, Uitgnes eres pay sed Six Pipes: Coffee Flasks, Milk Pans, Wash Basins, each Bayer free doohy, amon " andies, . Plated on Copper Tea A Victim of Others. —— + Monday, 1877, T beenn as an a butlder for i a was fifteen years old. ‘Two years later | averaged $15 per week, Working tn the office during day-time Bnd holdime another position during (ne hight. 1 worked eight years unit! he I was getting § ) ad di aid. If 1 ba House Neiel and Most Miserabic Women in the World. 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Y) b. stor gowe Ln ork here tn 25¢ Pots Married irts than two woman i ever loved, came my home was Aurned out e in- the ry b Galvanteed bron Wash Tubs jo, No. 7 Wash Boller Curtain Stretchers +790 Willow Clothes Baskets. Pe ag <3 Meat aa calta Tron Mail Box, with siide. © French Wire Rat Traps. Foot OB. all 4,75° ry tald, Twas re - S02 ” First quality Table Ot! Cioth, i Japanned Chamber Pail. Chopper ... sees bod faltare cams For Sake of Son. 1% yard wide, yard...... Nie Oe Moa ie Corn “406 COIS UIT ca at ll Wood Fibre Palls.......... 4 inch, black ja- Dandy tat. Glass fool Kersey, ip Don't go there. ments my th ne Tin Jacket ‘oad Blue, Raw { woul be a wealthy | “a ‘ Over Twenty Thousand Pieces Gray panned . tap Ot Can 15¢ Tallon lined ees HF aie alin Ptah te it Raamelled Kitchen Utensils and Ciel, Hots Recetas tnd ilk vor for my dais bread oh Perm, Agate Ware (Seconds). gga 19¢ Gogy eons bing rot . Meriden Conn. Dippers, Ladies, Funnels, Pie cei fa condtet ——— Plates, Cupa, Skimmers, each, baying Dish Weter Pell, Ree Bol. Ruraishiage ; Leather 10 metai Rim Coal sieve, 11212 (M4 Family Clothes Wringers, NONE OF THESE GOODS ONLY PAID MAIL ORDERS 309, sil, Silk TO 821 GRAN inch, 7¢., 18x15-inch, 10-imeh rubber mel rolls. 20. cake. Enamelied Ware. cop. Potash or Lge fee and Tea Lay) 1 Nlibelteeedhiess oi Bo, can. 8 So. ieewwead foak tog, Card Tablen, hiathly potished. . Food Bplce Cabinet, "a come pgp root ob MR comme oe high a0 91.90 ‘sgen 41016 a , Folding Ironing Table, § foot... 71¢ P Rod Balt Box Lydion’ Foyging, Cutting i“ eae” 5g Sah bn Wola ee Coffee Mill ... Ladies’ chance in becca: ec 10, eet GEESE S00 D stTREET, NEW YORK CITY. g a