The evening world. Newspaper, February 9, 1900, Page 6

Bidored 4 tbe Post-omce ot New York as Serond. cise Mal! Matter ——————————————— RY 9, 1909. ————————————— DAILY HINT TREATIES recat HAND BOER WAR cn" o he hasn't hie last con. how DO YOU USE YOUR VOICE? has been long since a New York court-room |” has echoed to such oratory as has marked the closing days of the Molineux trial, Be- ginning with last Tuesday, regardless of the P evidence in the case, the human volce has if been the predominating influence before the | fary—-and not before the jury alone, The oratory Of Weeks for the defense and of Osborne for the Prosecution was for larger audiences than those formed by twelve men in a box and the cur!ous > crowds filling the court-room. Through The Even- : fag World's faithful reports of these addresses and of the dramatic effects of verbal climaxes have sounded almost the very tones of the elo- Quent advocates. By It {s worth our while to think about the marvel-| lous possession which can almost defy the chilling effect of cold type. That is the human voice. ee 6 e What can you do with your voice? With his, Daniel Webster brought tears to the eyes of a learned Chief Justice when arguing merely against State interference with the rights ofa New Hampshire college. With his, the elder Booth would make the Lord's | Prayer Jike to a new message to the deepest hearts , OF men. * With hers, Jenny Lind would seem to raise the! sows of her hearers far beyond the confines of the 4“ Material. With his, William Jennings Bryan won a Prest- dential nomination, and stil! holds a thread of party leadership. Tt is not for everybody to do these things by ower of speech. But there ts not one man, woman ' @rchild who cannot, with a little care, make the Voice something of the tuneful, agreeable, influ- qmtial organ it is meant to be, and by eo much © afd tothe pleasMitnces of datiy associations. ¥ e e . _ Valees properly used turn their every utterance fate of varying effect—charming, soothing e Improperly used they become shrieky, , Tesping, guttural or otherwise so un- thet the sense of things said {s seriously im ‘Marred by the bad methods of saying them. | It ten’t necessary to take vocal lessons to correct the evils of a thisused voice. Thought, some effort QA a Iittle time will do wonders in self-training Megin by taking pains to speak softly and clearly ordinary converse. Don't shout. Don't whine. Goat try to speak too fast. There are very few of us who have the Phillips Brooks capacity $@ utter 190 to 215 words 2 minute and keep the @munciation perfectly clear. You know that Shakespeare declared a “voice @ver soft, gentle and low” to be “an excellent thing in woman.” A carefully modulated voice, found in volume, its tone emitted without strain, ig equally an excellent thing 12 man. o 8 e Lineola 414 not have an exquisite voice. His @peeehes were chiefly strong in good sense and q good stories. But he knew the value of vocal "a utterance at its best. One of his campaign orders, |) —s exhorting all hands to do their utmost, declared WBome can speak, some can sing and all can f 4 It fe true of men and women tn all walks of ifs! \-Bt they can seem to sing whenever they speak, nd tat even their power to “halloo” will be pleasantly developed under Intelligent efforts at Voice control. Buperb oratory is a gift to the few. But the orgaa through which it exhibits itself is a pos- session of the many. It {sas much a duty to make the most of this organ in small talk as it is in ag speechmaking, great acting and great wing- a PELL 1,000 FEET AND WAS NOT YURz. HE greatest height from which any one hy accidentally fallen without receiving beyond a sha nm living & and of Oghin, His fall mares of who fell over a @t that height #8 broken at the foot precipice by wee Vegetation, and he wits no more serious injury than = severe By the Freoch wrier, H. de Parvilie. Last year J end her mother fell on the Alps, near Zer- a Deght of over L290 feet. The first thirty perpen ticy. and (he res: was down a tre- Rely steep lope. The mother was kilied, but escaped with mere bruises and received r Pubtihed by the Prem Publishing Com any, $2 to 62 PARK ROW J New York | FRIDAY, FEBRU. ———— = VOL. 40..... Frusgs'esesse.0 MO. 14,088 FROM M'DOUGALL The authentictty of this fall was vouched * THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9 1900. DON'T FORGET WIFE'S BIRTHDAY. Werveeerere cee iern sores a ope | Prices would not do at all, for I know not the, gested by me. It in very good and clever for the little wife In to his heart, AAO ab OE | by the Prose Puitianing World) HIS ts, in substance, what two correspond-| Te ask me; one a man the other a woman. I shall do my best to make this reply answer| both While a husband should not feel that he ts in) duty bound to give a wife a birthday gift, it ean. | not be denied that it is a vety graceful attention, | which shows delicately and sweetly his remem- | |brance of that happy event, and ts a tacit ac-| knowledgment that > has grown one year nearer | | and dearer to his heart | It may not be a costly gift; indeed, a true wife! | will look more at the intent than the cost mark A little trifle—and something useful—is always) appreciated, especially if the husband's purse is! not over-full Usually these Rood, well-meaning husbends are all at sea in the art of buying Just what would be appropriate, and to euch | a nice, Company, New Yor | (opyrintt 1300, would say can best afford, with the maniike remark: “Take! little hearts! |this, my dear, and buy what you lke with it,"! will be sure to be appreciated by any feminine| seems to me. | heart | ‘To suegest a Het of articles and attach thetr! viding they do not want too much. LOQUENT WITH THEIR FANS) WOUbU YOU TAKE HIM FOR A PRINCE e| This l@ a photograph of Prince Christtan Victor, | taken in the British camp at Chieveley, in South Africa, a@ ie sat on a bench against the wall of a building with Gen, Hildyard and the correspondent of the London Dally Telegraph. The Prince Is the son of Princess Christian of Bchleswig-Holstein and a | srandson of Queen Victoria. You wouldn't think on see- ing him in this picture that the young man had royul blood bounding through his hesrt, and that he was up in the Princes’ class of European nobility His undress is very democratic, and he looks tore Uke a, seotion hand on an Hilnols ratiroad resting after @ hearty dit a In dinner-pat!, than he does like a nephew of the Prince of Wales | ~~ om ON DRINKING TEA ON COFFEE, An eminent doctor says that no person should be permitted to drink tea or coffee until he or she has attained the age of eighteen years, In the young those e the nervous system, and have an injurious effect upon the digestive organs | | ORTO RICAN woman of the wealthier classes are not allowed to receive masculine visttors except | | attended by a duenna, social oiiquette jn their! |couritry being that of old Spain. Nevertheless, they | lare able to convey their sentiments to those of the opponite sex by means of thelr fans, being adepts in this Kind of flirtation | The vocabulary of the | though one ts fain ¢ t the Porto Rican belle does with her fan when she designs it merely for use- | ful purposes and not for Mrtation | Open and shut—"You are eruel Open wide means “Walt for me” coming out of church Closing. "I wish to epeak to you Shut—"You have changed.’ | Handle to Iips—""Kise me.” | Dropping “We will be friends | Carrying in right hand—"Pollow 1 Carrying In loft hand—"E wish to be acd Twirled In right hand—“I love another Twirled tn Jett hand‘! wish to get rid of you.” Resting on clett cheek Yeu | Heating on left cheek—“'No” t# catalogued as fo'lowy This applies to} vated.” PRIN | I$ OPOIOADIHOIOHOHOHOHO!HOHOHO croms forehead —"We are watched." > im sorry 0 * T love you" * THE SECRET. > Se 9 IGHTINGALES warble about tt 6 All night under blossom ang star; Y ODD, EFFECTIVE HAT 12 [Nerne we swan te dying wimneurte: 84 ° | And the eagle eryeth afar; 4 ceTs THE Sec ND LOOK. 9 ‘The sun he doth mount but to find tt, 0) E have known double-faced people; now we 9 Searching the green earth o'er 4 hy seen a double fe att But more doth a man's heart mind it- (e) th rom the fare thi white as $ © more, more, more! $ the driven snow. From the back Lt was black as night, 3 It was pompadour am to shape, and rode milady's oe ee ra ppg vee 0 ovens ~ Wavy tresses ax gallantly as the tautest of craft $ Me rareen Gils Geakbria onbtlon i} How was It manage? gi 3 wera A ‘ ing they know not intone; Why, very smpty. ‘The brim was faced in witn] G —tmething they Know not intone g folds of white chiffon, and the fre If of the um-| ¥ A million Jampe in the blue % | mense tulle rosette of white, The back half war! 4 Rul a teves Weetalitek, : of black, so very black as to be part and parcel of the| + Thehe peaee tale te tut. 9) black velvet pompadour > G. B Woodbury. 2 Perfectly simple; yet so odd Black from the back.) © % white from the front, and ‘aif and ‘aif from the sides De Ors Or OH OF OH OH OH OH OF OH OVC Harriet Hubbard Ny ”, Cucumber Milk for the Skin. UCUMBERS have been used for centuries prob- y as adjuncts to skin preparations As far back as one can find a record of the uctimber at all Ite properties are noted In connection with cosmetics Next otir in two ounces of extract of cucumber and | i, last of all one teaspoonful of simple tincture of ben- toin, which must be added drop by drop, stirring constantly meanwhile This formula will make a delicious emulsion if| - | Cucumbers by many women are supposed to contain | carefully prepared. and ts especially useful where al: K properties, but this is not really the| very gentle astringent is required. } ——_<__ ! ‘Laura Jean Libbey particular fancy of the little wife who is to be which to hang their hopes of get thus pleasingly remembered, nor what she already from their father, when perhaps he can {ily afford » was in the line that would most naturally be sug-\to purchase Just then what they desire $0, $ earnestly. i question to own up to having birthdays each year; an expreskion of joy from the parent that the | > bright, shining gold piece of the denomination you! there are so many who will not, bless their clever! child has been brought into existence. Such truthfulness should always be rewarded, {t the As to remembering the birthdays 800 | of the children, that is quite as commendabie, pro- ly, until he becomes suspictous as to whether or no each of them has not had two or three birta- *HRISTIAN VICTOR IN A BRITISH CAMP IN SOUTH AFRICA ‘Georcie's PA TaLKs oF MIcRoBEs. eritty take | pritty glad for the chance, for Neerly everything now. microbes and + crobes and mump microbes,”’ JUST FOR LOVE. should not be made a pretty Pe& OD) 4.49.40444.8-4.424.6.2644460460000606 000 8 or that) ¥ + ne this or (Bat Dae may not be m costly gift $ Birthda:; true wife will look more than the coat mark. A Ii something usefal—ie always 7 if the husham » Make the children realize that a birthday gift is|@ Pret eros neer Secor or ee | aye in the course of the year. Teach the children to remember their father's circumstances in the matter of expressing their desires as to what they wish, and that It would be more to their credit to let him conclude for him- self whether he can afford to give them anything or not. The father who {s providing for his family by working ward for their maintenance should not be expected to give anything further than a bless- ing or a kiss to his children on each return of their natal day. Indeed, these are priceless gifts in themselves. Right here let me say: It is a cruel lesson to teach a man’s offapring to get all that they can out of their father! Instead of expecting birthday gifts from parents children should be taught the valuable lesson that it is they who should give presents to their | @e0- ; fF was the lovell atric wit vo |THE DAY'S # | w LOVE STORY NELL’S ‘LiTTUE COmeDy, ie twenty-four, the meeting of sun and moogrise; the lapsing tide still glowed and ¢ sted with the rose and violet tints, while the young moon, like a drawn selmitar, gleamed right abeve the shimmering sea, Mrs. Wine thrup sat on the balcony of her summer willa and chain of Mghts kindling along the darke and then turned with a sigh to her girlish hour of wateled ened companion “Dear madam, what troubles you “Lucle, T was thinking of Robert, my son; when will ho come back to me again? Two months he bas been sailing about in his yacht, with never a word or sign; 1 in anger, but 1 will not permit the boy to we par wreck his life while any show of authority Is left me “Strange, cb: 1 have given my confidence © me this summer; but my heart 1 are sympathetic beyond any one I this ma@ since first you ea} parents, that they might rejoice in their pres- ence—be it only some trifling work of their own Never let him feel the exasperating sentiment hands in fashioning. he wishes that they had never been born, for! y one of them is having a birthday continual- be in looking forward to the children’s birthdays. Mine Libhey W efor The Evening World by arrangement with the Family Story Paper. SHAK ESPRARE'S NAME. The name of Bhakespeare can be vpelled 4.0% differ- ent ways, The poet himself spelled It twenty-two ways —— war LIONS OF VICTIMA, het in the century just n have been kiled An army officer estimate Closing no fewes than 2),00,0m tn war in clvillzed countri -— — SPRING SHIRT WAISTS, | Dainty walet of pink striped batiste with white batiste yoke edged with embroidery, The collar, soft cuffs and strip down the front are adged with the white embroidery The yoke effect 9 used in the back also; the waist itself has 4 n! ok, | Then how much more pleased the parents woutd| | THE BAD'S COMPANION, infatuation? I know well that opposition {s a perilous clement in a love affair, but I could not countenance a mistake of that sort, An actress'—tin accents of horror —“concelve it, my dear, never @ Winthrop so tar descended In the social scale. Bence reigned for a few moments, then burrying footsteps came up the stairs on to the balcony, Mra, Winthrop sprang up, crying: ‘My son!" Lucie slipped from the hammock with a startled air, and for s apace the stripes meeting and forming inverted V points. The second watet is of white percale with heliotrope stripes, The seam ie directly on the | shoulder and the sleeves cut in dress phape, There is [no yoke in the b old Her, “If you would keep posted AW was Looking at the 1 pe paper t she got paw to Hold the Haby \ {ttle while, Like Ido you wouldn't sit there with a Disgusted look Land Every few minutes be Would haft to fix it on Your fais and Say You didn't Beleave what the O¥er agnin becon feat would come out, and people that Discover things are Dolng (o make men soon she says Happy What's all this about microbes? A purson Can't 1 don't see how it'll Make @ man bappy to Find Out wd of microbes that mebby nties and Bilding Lots nd his Whiskers for he tx nothing But at Have him Divided up {nto with his Nose for a Courthou: They find sum- nny more but wha microbes hold this Child Here paw says Like if be was THE LOVE MICRORE DRIVES ALY. THE OTHER MICRORES DOWN FROM HIS SPION KOP. nd Til tell you. Microbes 9 park. maw sed. one of the new Discoveries The; e robes | # ner" Prick gvioed “Of corse you don't,” paw says, “That's besos you cole microbes and coneeiaptibn ial>| Don't understand the Grete principle and Can't look |ahed. It takes 9 man to Bee these things. As fast ay jas Every different Kind of microbe is Discuvered maw aed, “that they AFe ODDY | ance goes to Work to find Out how to Ralte Blooded 1) microbes and What'll Kill the Bad ones without hurt- ing the Other microbes that are Trying to Lead a 1 don’t Releave,” in such a Theeory.” That only shows you Don't no Ennything Abou The cucumber contains « certain percentage of | jnatural arsenic and this gives the whitening power, Just as for example the lactic acid tn buttermilk | makes that commodity a natural tf not very powerfu skin bleach. | ‘The arsenic tn the cucumber and the tactic acid in |the buttermilk have a tendency to render the skin fatr and are natural end harmless beautifiers If you wish a really good preparation you would best | use cucumber extract n making up your formulas. | J can make cucumber essence or extract If you t, but it ts rarety at when prepared amateurs, To make @ cucumber milk for cos- alice three green cucumbers of ordinary sire, leave the green ek’ om, and put them tn the oner receptacle of the custard boller, add a Mttle! | water, Just enough to cook them to 9 soft pulp. mbers are of themselves watery, so sou will |r not more pure water than wil! cover the bot- he Inner custard botier | hey are soft and pulpy take them off the 4 strain them. You now have your fresh eu- | cumber juice. Take of this Juice elght ounces and one | | quarter of an ov f pulveriaed white castiic soap a ean buy th'® soap In powder form). Mix until has melted In the cucumber Jutce ald gradually two ow of oO of sweet al- y metic use | } . | SOT QUITE REALIZED. | Stubb—It is a well-known fact that the people of Chicago want the earth, Pena—Tes; but all they get to the med, for, Sylvie? NOT ON THE MAP. (Prom Punch.) that whea the Boers Greé on tbe white fag, ‘Lord Methuen took Umbrage,’ amd 1 can't : Hiameless Ife. After that's Done the hewmun race Wil be Grate people. Everything a man dors is On Account of his Microbes. If he rites poetry it's Becos be has more poetry microbes tn him than Enny other kind. If he Gets in Love it shows the love microbes drove all the Other microbes Down from his Spion Kop. That's where it'll come in handy when syunce he microbe Bizness all fixed up like ft will be Sum day.” 7 "1 happen then?’ maw ast. “Why,” paw told her, “insted of Keeping medasuns the stores will have microbes to Sell. mal ! Worth of Love microbes and put them in her Cara- | muiz and the first thing you no Bhe will think he is a | Nappetie Helvy Dearie with close on. | "Then they will have microbes to make men | eenerais and Statesmun, and if they find Out what Kind of Microbes Carniggy and Rockeyfello and J Plerpont Morgan are full of they can raise that Brand and Pot them within reach of All, and nobuddy won't haft to work Eany more.” “My, oh my.” maw Says, “it's perfickly wonderfull what Syunce keeps doing, and This ts a Bewtiful theeory, but they'll never get it thru.” “Why ott’ paw ast. “Becos,” Maw says, “If peep.e Could all be made happy by Using the rite Kind of microbes they wouldn't Ever haft to drink stuff to Get cheered up, and that would Interfear with the Saloon Bisness. ‘They Are no use Ever trying to get Ennaything ¢) against all was confusion. At the earliest opportunity Lucte passe@ into the house, leaving mother and son alone. But later o1 when Mrs. Winthrop had retired for the night, she stepped out for a moment in search of a missing shawl, caught the glow of a cigar in the dusk, hesi- tated, and then yielded to the situation, “Nell, what comedy is this you are playing here in my house? What does it all mean?” “Rob, Rob," and she put out an imploring hané, “Promise me that y¢ |] keep silence for a time, £ had @ motive tn coming; don't ruin all and place me in the light of an tmpostor.” . . . . . . . . One evening Lucie sits at the plano singing, while mother and son listen from the little balcony. Mrs, Winthrop ts much moved, ‘ “What a rare gift of song,” she murmured. “Rebd- ert, my son, could this be your chotee, ft would make my heart glad; you might search the world over, an@ fall to find a lovelier nature.” At that moment Nell stepped out on the balcony, ‘Nell, he cried, with a joyous ring In his votes, “Mother has given the consent I dared not ask.” “Ah, Robert, you have learned to love her then?” “Yes, mother, I have loved her long and deeply.” But an she leaned forward to kiss the epeechiess gtri, Nell recotled from her embrace. In vain Robert laid @ protesting hand on her arm, imploring her with bis glance. “I will speak, I willy if 1 forfeit all by my confession. Dear madam, hear me; I am not the modest, lowly companion whom you © known and loved all summer. I am an im postor. I—I am Nelile Ward—the actress your sea honored with his lo Mrs. Winthrop hardened to sternness, “Never will I believe in truth or innocenee agai.” rhe begain, but the girl detected the waver in ber % caught her hand to her lips an@ kissed it. Go away"—weakly. “Ah, child, how I have loved you, what hopes I have cherished this summer,” an@ then, yielding to impulse, she put her arme about the Kneeling figure, and burst in tears. “I do believe in you, child,” she sobbed, “ané I fame give the deception that has taught me a much-nesdes lesson.” And the lovers clasped hands in the darkness, wit hearts too full to speak.—Boston Budget. — ——S— DPADD4DDDDEID ED I4429D9->AODOLOOOD QUERIES > ANSWERS tt EVENING WORLD READERS, PPSSPOd 1 How far above sea | Park? el (about) ts Morningside HARLEMITE. “What Will Be Will Be."—Italian, Of what meaning and in what tongue are the words “Che Sara Sara,” which appears on an old ring of mine? Mre. K. FRANCIS, Germantown, Pa. There Was Ne Feb. 29 That Year. On what day 414 Feb, % fall in 1873? BC. LUMMIS, No. Can Congress estabtish legally er prohibit any exere else of religion in America which does not tend te ric8 and sedition? ABZ Yes. Dié the Third Avenue Railroad Company put in sow rails when {t made the improvements? MYRON SHERWOOD, Van Nest, Westchester Ca. 1888, 1978. When were Maggie Mitchell and Maude Adams, the actresses, born? » RIALTO, Deetéedly Not. In {t proper for men to go in the ladies’ cabia em ferry-boats and take thelr sests whiie the ladies have to stand? ANXIOUS. April 18, 1900—Settmated Coot, 980,000,008, When does the Paris Exposition open? What ts the cost of the Expositon? HUGH M. SH@RWOOD, Mansfeld, Fa. “Time Pites"—tatte. ‘What is the meaning of “tempus fugit?” In wha ianguage? Bae B79 1-6 Millions of Miles. How far awny is the planet Neptune from the cun@ PAULINE “Rewpendes fll Vous Bepty/2 What Is the meaning of the letters, "R. &. V. PL which are sometimes put on Invitations? BTIQUETTR ‘Tea Yeare—98,.000 a Year. For how long a term are the Muntelgal Court tines elected to serve, and at what salary? A.C Wedneotay. On what day 414 June 9, 1908, fall? } s WILLIAM D. BARR, Teceday. - On what day of the work 414 Jas, 2, 190, MNT f ase D on. he MW