The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1900, Page 4

| ellie,” j Seana br Ge Pree re Company, $1 to @ PARK ROW, pend tae Poe Ot at Hoe BI. 5 Matter, =— —> GRDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1900. -NO. sled \S much ef a light these days, bat It Wgthese the Governor's party friends. TAKE NO HEED FOR YOUR INCHES 1B Evening World has had occasion several | Boer pia Wy, we se WOULDN'T Be _& MAH FOR ANYTHING. p2ee Debheneeeend | rH ¢ 99-066-9O6-4-60 655 BS SSS SOEs SE 2 iy ‘peeseees- 108A OF ABBD4 9A DDDBG-DO-0 4 ‘This ie @ picture of EfMe Shannon, the actress, wh when asked by a reporter what she would do if , were & man, answered tersely and emphatically | wouldn’t be a man for anything! 80 there now! | Wo OLD MAIDS. | If THe TRANSYARL.| WOMAN who has lived in the Transvaal says | | at “old moide’’ do not exist in South Africa. A teach om fr a teacher for! han one term, for the admiration of the young ters In so great for a woran gifted enough to read and spell, and thrifty enough to earn money with her beatns, that some well-to-do-bachelor soon peteuades her'to marty ‘The demand for wives in South Africa is never equal to the supply, The Boer woman !s not beautiful. Her fone charm is a pink and white complexion, which she! tries hard to perserve. Her fondness for sweet cakes, | more times of late to refer to the letters of cor- Fespondents who wanted either to grow taller or to stop growing. Such letters continue to come to hand, and the ques-| tion of stature is thus made to appear as GR Soteverd lg aghataadlpren lh stpang It, be impossible to answer these letters sep- , and the replies would, in any event, be| To all inquirers The Brening World saye,| the Georees of nature and the admisatons | acience: | ‘Phere ts no way'to add to the stature of man or Growth tmthe very young may be stunted by the ¢ Grugs oF Liquors, or by unbealthful living; | ‘under ordinary safe, cane and sanitary meth-| @f Mite a person will cease growing only when or ber dentined inches have been attained. \ ee e Bt fo often a weakness of the rapidly growing fay ¢o feel conaitive about his increasing height. | Bete frequently tho cese that a cir! thinks herself | Pesemting too tall for “somebody's sister.” From @@ these and from others, chiefly boys, who, ‘Wearted lest they fall below the average stat: are, have come, undoubtedly, glRgrspebp tot tag letters (> The Brening Worki. We take it (Rat the majority of these writers will some day | femgh at their present anxiety and will accept with aif equanimity the inches with which nature has! endowed them, knowing full well that real stature| te mot measured with a yard-stick. ‘Waddington, whose birthday we celebrate to- Morrow, was & man of extraordinary height and peilé. He didn't out-general the British by send- fag them @ statement of his feet and inches. Na- ppoleen was so amal) that his valet couldn't do iach for him with false soles to his fighting boots. Wet Be was G00 dig a proposition for several armies of giomte ‘Tdasoin wes oo tall that it was a matter of won- Gevment when be came across a man who over-| popped him. But he didn’t eave the Union or free Whe dlaves by breaking records on a measuring Machine. Catherine of Russia was « large woman | pnd o great vuler, but Victoria, whose height is| te apeak of, will endure in history as a) of far longer and more wonderful reign. Wer need we look at the heads of nations to find | @emenstration that brains, not inches, are the meosures of men and women. Russell fo net a large man; Jay Gould was a emall ene, Col. Abo Gruber fs a Liliputian beside most) lose party workers, yet see how he maketh the fwtehed Platt to look askance and the voluble Qutgg to fear his poetry. Mes. Fiake is a little woman, but with her genius the con make ber audience see only her on a vast @tege. Maxime Elliott is taller than the average (af her ocx, yet no actress lends herself more grace- Bally to ecenes of girlish tenderness. eo 28 e@ Dest worry about the details of bodily growth. (Btve your mind a fair show, unhandicappet hy age ah too short or too tall. If you've et tay oe ce ee en you physically ever eo small, and it ium: Tha ties thst teunedy aun fo able to look over your head—trom ihe ‘That ight shaking of the earth. which you may (hewe eeticed, is communicated from France, trem- WHA suspense as an angry Casteliane draws ame ‘When Mr. Croker made some of bis own troubles <8 the Third Avenue Railway Company be sim. febuiged im o bit of benevolent assimilation. k emo enow experience, Commissioner Nagie | Iie Job eo “ple.” New York trusts that | Gypetite for pastry will not weaken Clmsh having emitted thet he put no tient on y, the Senste cannot do better than put one by —$<$$<$—$$_— wt ay the cost to chout 80 por tom. $00 uéent—I think & was in Big last one—Menere| Past were to become a here and make : Welt, fnahioandie\" yRamape job should die the more everiastingly Ld i coffee and armchairs causes her teeth to decay and her figure to lose its youthful slimness before is tn her prime, and many Boer women of forty are 90 | [fat and unwieldly that they can only waddle from one | wieh in ¥ chair to another. —— | WHEN | AM KING HEN | am king, When breaks the crimson day at last, When crowds bow low and church bells ring. Will things now dear be over passed When I am king? init When I am king The skies will seem « deeper dius, ‘The sunshine brighter, and the Spring Rewaken a! my songs to you, When 1 am king. When I am king The pomp will all seem poor and mean, Without the wealth your smile can bring My Gearest, will you be my queen, When I am king? —— Nce Use oF | POSTAGE STAMPS. ERTAIN monks at the Hospital of St. Jean de| Dieu, at Ghent, have in their leisure moments decorated the walls with gorgeous landscapes glowing tn color and full of life, which are formed entirely by means of the postage stamps of all the nations of the world. Palaces, forests, streams and mountains are represented, butterfiles filt about tn the air, birds of beautiful plumage perch on branches, snakes and Izards glide about and innumerable ant- here and there. The pictures are most artistic, in the style of Chinese landscape gardening, and already between nine and ten millions of stamps have been used. THE GROWTA OF THE HUMAN HAIR.) UTHORITIES differ as to the rate of growth of the human hair, and !t |s said to be very dissim. ar in different individuals The most usually jaccepted calculation gives six and one-half inches per |annum. A man's hair, allowed to grow to tte ex- |treme length, rarely exceeds twelve or fourteen Inches, while that of a woman wtll grow in rare instances to s6Veily or seventy-five inches, though the Average does not exceed twenty-five to (thirty Inches —e AIR HBALS WOUNDS. ‘The Zulus carry their wounded to the hile and ex- |pose their wounds to the alr, having found by experi- ence that that Is the quickest way of curing them. ‘There ts in London some sort of hospital for the treat- Ment of wounds by osone, founded upon this very | Zulu oractice STRA | the roof that covers their head by (heir own toll, {t t» ‘That Black cat bizness turned Ses Lm Ca i LAURA. JEAN WOMEN WHO LIVE M NOTONOYS EXISTENCES, |2 week at least with | © Dishing Company, s nophing more hard to endure, mo a monotonous extatence je same-thing day in and day out, week bh after month and year afier arintion in the treadmiti of is The w on loses heart who allows herself to brood over (his realization The only safe way is to ights of It vravely* from her and trust to Ny to work out Hix own plan of deliverance " ha tofl for thelr daily bread ¢ of employment tn the gray dawn hg, returning when the owe of t er {he land, are the ones who feel but too at is m@ant by the words “A Monoto- | ¢, vne cannot wonder at It. They tell them. | oe rer + selves that thelr lives would be adsome as ine | jay wan jong if thes could steal away from ‘heir | work for one brief hour now and then and walk out into God’s beautiful sunshine as other women do | Ah, dear Heaven! how they crave it, long for tt, in for it! ‘These are the women who have just cause for feel- ing that thelr lives are dull, gray and monotonous. But for the women to complain thus whose time \s thelr own, who do not have to earn thelr bread and | ertainly sh met! GEORGIE’'S PA TRIES A MAGIC CURE. ITTLE ALBERT oot the Hoopen coff somewhere Inst week And we been terrible worried About him. The dootor sed they was no use trying to Stop tecon tt hawt to run ite when paw Come home he say» “What siille things peeple do that beleave in sines. Thare's the presadent of our cumpny,” paw told maw, | ‘won't Ever start enny thing on Friday becozs he; thinks It's bad luck, and | gess if he would happen or ye |1o ee y Was thirteen at a table where he was eatin’ tt would be fatie, for he would get skared to Deth.”" “Oh well, maw says, “every one has ther queer foshuns, | spose” ‘Of course.” paw sed After he was thinkin’ a while, | ‘I don't beleave in enny of that 1 of foolishness they was one of the men in the Store to-day told me he new of @ gure cure for the Hoopen coff.” “What is 1t? maw ast. “Well,” paw says, ‘the fawther of the child pulls a ar e| |Been a dawg comin | ainst sines. But jo = WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING; FEBRUARY $1, LIBBEY, se for to ever afterward When I hear sugh a jonotonous any nate oundings, t she leads a y extend her my pity. one of tear i le Some women he house and brood over the fact that (hey cannot dress as well as thelr neighbors; some because they cannot get {nto society; hosts of | others brood over the fact that Heaven has not sent | § Women will tell you mournfully that they notonous Iife, that Unelr and ature has not one ray cf They are sure of It h women make their own dikedntent women | wou say: ‘Do your be ge! the cause you have for that hopeless fer Try festhink only bright thoughts. Talk only people who look on the happler site of life, Rea sky | we 1 earne: 0-6-8 0bbaPO eet etetenOnee only books or papers that will bring a smile to your lips instead of a sigh And as for a lover—wait patiently until it ts time for the right one to come along, which he will do, all in good time, my dears. If the useful bread-winners would fill their leteure moments with humorous thoughts, and the {die women bY snneue cem on -, ‘® THRERD OF coLD, Pee ewe ee dnd vetoes sees SOPEBOE LEG? ANOS TE LAA IEAPOETE TE CEOOEREE 99600006 O:0- Mae Oe bOH Nearly all the smart women of society have taken to wearing a single large gem suspended about the throat by a hair-like chain of gold, Mrs George Gould wears a single pear-shaped emerald on a thread of gold; Mra. David Thompson and Mrs. Jordan 1. Mott each wear a large pear-shaped pearl on a chain of gold and Miss Lila Sloan wears a single huge white diamond on a gold chain, It is said that Lady Mary Sackville introduced this fancy to New York women with a little useful employment, our hearts would not be touched so often and so deeply with the saa plaints that come to us of lonely, monotonous lives. Laure ney eritee exclusively for The Rvening World, periwions Famliy Story Paper, i = tellin’ Little Albert to be a good bey and he would get him Sumthing nice for nis birthday, When the trouble was over paw told maw to get him a bieket and he would see if they was ennything in ft, just for fun “Course,” paw says, “I don't Beleave in suoh things he thie, but theres no use beln go stubborn you won't | try them when they mite help.” So maw got the Bisket and paw put the hares tn it and started and | went Along to find out what was goin’ to happen We went around the | corner and After while we) It was a black dawg with a collar on and paw Got nis bisket out and sed Hore degate, doggie, nice old fello, come and have mn Little Albert." The dawe joked at paw kind of suspishus and paw leaned down and patied himself on the laig and held out his bisket. After while-the dawg come up wiggelun kind of FRIDAY Not il UNLUCKY DAY. wn by somecurrent # ved, A careful Investigation, largely through many, and @ result it Is found that of 9.968 weekly accidents and disasters, such as are commonly at- on Tuesday, 1.681 on Wednesday, 1,547 on Thursday, 1,638 on 1,638 on Saturday, and 28 on Sunday. from their vindication of Friday, is the uniformity of distribution of mishaps among the six secular days ot least “unlucky” days being less than one-tenth, The _ | day of most disasters is Monday x» ro Wounded Hearts. ro WOUNGE Teld Her Teo Much of Hic Past. of. She knows | love her, as I have told her. andl also told her I gave up another gir! for her. Now phe told her I would like to kn: how I can approach and let her know that what I sald | mean. ‘— ——— HE iil-repute of Friday as an unlucky day {6 offical channels, has been made of the matter in Ger- tribute! to bad luck, 1,674 occurred on Monday, 1,06! ‘The most noteworthy feature of these figures, apart the week, the difference between the most and the —— | ‘There 18 a young lady whom I have grown very fond does not believe what I say, and as it Is true what I BLEEDING HEART. From your own account of your past history the | young lsdy Is Justified in doubting your constancy. A man who gives up one woman for another and then ts foolish enough to acquaint the second one of his con- | duct must expect her to argue after this fashion: “As “Bleeding Heart’ treated my, predecessor so I may eon- fidently expect he will treat me, therefore 1 will not when the time comes 1 shail not suffer very much.” I |should sey you, 4ad rather a large undertaking before you, and that you will have to prove your constancy by time and devotion before the girl will credit you with sincertty. He Is Ri She Loves Mim. A young man calls on me constantly, The other night he asked me to be his wife. He is quite rich, and I love him dearly, but am only eighteen years old and consider myself to young to marry, so I refused. He said I hed broken his heart and that he would go to New York and live, so he left the next day. Since then I have found out I made a mistake. I love Can you advise me? TROUBLED F. A. J. Eighteen is young, but many women have made happy marriages et this age. I think you would be justified in writing to the young msn telling him th truth. If he really cares for you he will be omly too happy to hear such good news. —— ‘oav's [OV Hfory, ON THE UPPER DECK. lcd OU never know,” sald Dick where a tragedy Is going to | Tragedy?” repeated the glance over the peace of the river and you see one lurking here?” reflectively, “Behind that clump of oaks.” sald Dick, pointing, ‘there's a coay little home, where a man murdered his sweetheart,” clous! Would it be exhausting to get round to the, beginning * “He found her smuggling a letter out of his stents ft was in a masculine hand and be demanded \t." “Laee. Unforgivable th ald; then “He left (he houre, he ol and Killed here self.” girl's hee the blackness ames, st steamer and curved “supper he letier really wae one had enc nother man to write-on couldn't show hi “Well? Of course there are such women." “You would despise her?” “What ei “But, Dick pose that in a peniten mood f should suddenly confess to you tha am such @ woman?" “Nonsense! I have an abiding faith in sou. my lady, and it aa part of me not best disturbed “But T have letters” He lighted @ eigar. Actress the flare 1 TAL nk gpa of the match he looked at her, amd started in amaze- ment. She was pale, her eyes were full, her lips quivered and in the flash of his glance across the flame she hid h face in her hands. “Bhow o little mercy,” be sa:d at leet, in whisper you know wha¢ you are doing’ I know,” and she reised her head. “I have taken (ei \ obaking allow mynelf to be very deeply concerned, eo that | away the ideal of your faith, and in its stead eet only ~myseif, Perhaps you will call me a coward. At fret 1 was only mistakes, you know,” wistfully. “I thought I loved him, and I told him so." “An! said Dick, and turned from the light. “And then—I met you.” “I see. Then you thought you loved m “Don't,” said the girl gently. “It isn't like you.” “Oh, you poor mistaken child! Do you think T want to hurt you? Say the rest quickly. You are to marry this man?” ‘Oh, no; I told you that was a mistake. And he you mean?” “Why, that ‘6 what was so cowardly, don't you see? I kept putting off telling him about you; I was a traitor to him” “And thi Dick, running his hand all?’ aia ortunately,” sbe sald, “he too, had fafien in love with another gtrl, and deferred telling me. When et three Hares out of ite hed and puts them in @ bisket ;#ide ways, and Took {t in hie mouth, and then the and takes the bisket and goes out and gives it to the|first thing we New they wae @ large man with a frat Dawg he sees, and if the dawg eats the bisket |neevil eye stod there and ast paw what he was te last I confessed, he confessed, too, in the funniest, most radiant way, and later sent me his cards!" “And that’s all?” sald Diek agaim, catching he mR HOSPITAL the Hoopen coff ts gone.” Maw kept workiag away on the tidy she was mak- ing an4 didn’t say ennything For a long ttme, so Pretty soon paw says: “Ain't that about the folighest idea You ever herd about?’ “Yee,” maw told him, “that's about the worst yet.” “TL no It,” paw saya, “But after a! ie 's easy to do, And if it fales they are no harm don Pritty son paw wen in the room where Little Al- bert was takin a knap and the firet thing we new we herd him give @ yell and begin to coff Maw and me run in and paw Had three hares pulled ont and was to that dows. “T just give him @ Biaket,” saw says. “Yes, and you tride to poison him,” the man sed. | “That tappened wunst before and I Been lookin fer | the person that done it ever sinat.” ‘Then he struck at paw, but paw wasn'e there. I don't no How long he was passen a Given point, but not Long. When’! got home paw was gettin’ in the Hall Dreathin’ hard. After while he looked at mer king of Sad and says “Now I hope you're satisfied ‘and won't ever go R cHICcKCS Birds. HICAGO has « bird hospital, the only one of its kind, it is maid, im the world where sick and wounded birds ere received and cared for. Such country, for thousands of jumble pets are lost through their owners being unable to treat them when ill, —— MUST BAVR BOG A COMMUTER. An inventor has devised a mist or fog ball, with Beelevin in such foolishness enny more’ GEORGIB) in Chicago-Times Herald me to envelop an antagonist in impenetrable dark- THE EVENING WORLD'S CORNER FOR COMEDY. WOMAN'S WAY, Her love proved false unto his vows, And, while her heart wi Ore, The maiden vowed that she would drese In simple sackcloth evermore. j | But she married a rich banker soon, Her wounded heart did quickly neal; Is a very handsome sacque of seal. — PAST CURENG. when they had been sweethearts, At inst he said: “Ah, Jennie, an | hae no loved anybody since you. I hae never forgotten you.” ‘John, replied, with @ Uttle motstening of |the eyes, “you're just as big @ leear as ever, an’ 1 | believe ye jist the same.” QUITE POSSIBLE. Profeasor—In which of his battles was Guetavus per | killed? ‘The sackcloth that she's wearing now | Two old Beotch friends met and spoke of the days | NOT ENOUGH DRESS. SUPERFLUOUS. Algio—1 understand her husband allows her 93.600 per num for dress. ‘Teddie—Imieed! Judging from the extent of the cos- tume I consider the amount entirely Inadequate.—Judy. — oe A FRARFUL POREROMNG. “Are you & Boer sympathizer?” “No,” answered Willie Wishington, “I am not. Just think what 2 terrible calamity It would be if Qom “Why, you know, ma, that it eleays pleates me!"— Polichinetie. A BORK DIPLOMAT. He—Miss Smyth—Clara, I love you. Will you be my wite? She—Really, Mr. Brown, this is 80 sudden. have time to~— He (interrupting)—As you please, This solitaire dia- mond ring will keep until— She (interrupting him)—As I was saying when you interrupted me, I must have time to at least try on the ring before giving you the answer you wish. & BOPRLESS CASE. sd Gon't believe Miss Howells will ever learn to she—Wel thet wouldn't matter so much if she t attempt It. He trod on the corn of the belle of the bail, And then—so the other girls tall— Slumbering echoes were aroused in the hall Because of the baw! of the beile, _A MATTER OF BUSINESS an Institution ought to be a great success in this! hands But the letters—”" “Hang the letters" sald you would despise—" ordered Dick, “I didn’t.” And the moon having settled tts present business disappeared before the fog.—Chicago Times-Heraié. ——o— TO THE E LETTERS even: wan CPOFOS0O0O0000000000000000000008 Forty-five, To the Raitor of The Bening World How many States in the Union and how many stare In the flag. to deeide a controversy in which lawyers, doctors, merchants and others are mized up. T.H. G A Car Ride. To the Rétter of The Brewing World: Wht) riding in a car the other day I hear@ ene passenger say to enother: “I hear Deadbroke paid you yesterday.” “Yer.” “You're glad of it, 1 sup- peer Nope.” “Ah, I see. Didn't pay allt’ “Nope,” bed. Pald half?" “Nope” “Quarter?” News “Then what dia he pay you? He must have paid you something, for you said he pea you" “Tes, A visit for another loan.” Here the car reache@ the depot, and as the register called for five fares and there were six passengers in the car, I got off just to oblige the conductor, C.F. FARR . Feiday. 1. the Kéitar of The Bvening World On what day of the week 4i@ June 26, 1008, fall? EBDR Three Talking Girlie Bother Him. To the Réttor af Tee Bening World: Please let me kmow what your readers think of three girts that €o nothing at! day but talk, leugh and criticise everything that is said or done? I am em- ployed in an office and am compeiled to work in the fame room in which they are. If I am not helped soon 1 will be foreed to commit suicide. Opinions from other girls not solicited, SUPPERER. Tebacce im Any Form In Bad fer a Growing Boy, ‘Fo the tdluor of The Wrening World: Your paper said that a young man growing shoud not smoke cigarettes. By this do you mean all-tobacee cagaretion or just the paper ones? Is a pipe bad to R. “|G | | } - t ~ @