The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1900, Page 6

Btetrtot-Atterney “ Who ean keep cool ender all circum- | the right hand is doing, but be able to do likewise. | te use ase hand as well as the other. | | jolce that our apprehensions were groundless. ‘Bamded one. We hear with both ears, see with ‘for work and against mutilating accidents when ) Patent OMe reports for 1899. In that year 25,527 { i amorio Company, 3 to @ ann sew | Pao a Hw To et wai, PRIDAY; FEBRUARY 28, 1900. |S LOVE HE round table consisted principally of ladies, | THE WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY RUARY 94, 1900. ° BY MAX NORDAU. Copyright, 1000, by PF. Tranpeom Neely, “Bul I understood no jesting on thin subject, and OR HATE THE STRONGER MOTIVE? to torment him any longer with my foolish obstinacy, and we were discussing which would probably | again, with the utmost earnestness, protested that i | but in heaven's name let him have his cigar. He had be the stronger, love or patriotiem “Oh,” @mcrmured a slender girl, the happy bride of & fortnight, ronger feeling than patriotism—nay, can equal it In might.” The most noticeable woman {n our cirele was Frau von @ “If you will allow me,’ she said, “I'll relate that no other 4 & little episode from my own life which will prove }| what I sald #0 seriously; ‘ {come accustomed ton im hab Gardiner ic « man IOI CN ——$———9 GAIN THE STORY OF SUCCESS. »| quaintance of Albert von G., .| my husband. that, under certain circumstances, patriotism can in- fuence even an Italian more powerfully than love: »| You know that 1 am a native of Milan, and did not leave my birthplace until ten years ago, when my husband's business summoned him here. I was a gtti of elghtven when the tnsurrection in Lombardy quelled. During this terrible period I made ihe ac- who afterward became We were very well acquainted and al- ready on familiar terms when one day--tie had been sitting ali the morning reading aloud to me—he sud- denly asked permission to Hight a cigar. iat,’ I exclaimed, almost terrified, smoker, Albert?” “You must know that at that time I had a great Aversion to men who smoked. Tho vehemence of my question confused him. "Yea, I emoke,’ he answered hesitatingly, what is there extraordinary about that? “ True,’ 1 cried, ‘unfortunately there is nothing ex traordinary about that, but I wit! tell you this, that I will never marry a man who takes ‘e cigar in his mouth, I cannot endure such a person; he is utterly detestable in my eyes.’ “Albert looked at me in surprise, but said nothing and merely slipped the cigar he had already taken out back into his pocket. Then he remained with me & short time in a depressed, tient mood, and soon took his leave, The next day he came again and tried to ameume a cheerful, unembarrassed manner, “Without any introduction he seized the first oppor- tunity to turn the conversatlon upon smoking and rid Jentingly that y 1y he aad been fairly fright. ened out of his wits: that probably I did not mean that he hoped I should be- ae, ‘are you “but Supreme Court Justice on the Future of the Nation. : atk forty-eight hours he had spent all but 965 Meaey and the excavation for the building Fifteen years later he was a mill- manager and theatre-owner, besides being of the oldest drug store in the city and fn various other enterprises. In poll- his pushing pollcy brought him a seat in Con- esa cetura. © The value of the qualities exhibited by Mr. Beer lise wot in the fact that they made him one the best known and most prosperous theatrical fa the country. It consists in the truth that game qualities will push to the front, in any calling, nine out of ten men who ex- ‘Grelee them persistently, even in the face of ad-| ‘Verse circumstances. It isn't the business, but the wv GOSPEL of use is interesting educational | circles. Its most conspicuous apostie of | the moment is Prof. J. L. Todd, director | of the Public Industrial Art School, of Philadelphia. His creed is that not only should a child's left hand know what Ta other words, that the child should have power | _ The idea is not new, but ic gathering new force. iB BAY sound proposition eventually must do, No} reason exists why there should be any! thing as a righi-handed person or a left-| ‘Both eyes, step equally well with either foot and partiality alone in our cioice of the working The human race will be better equipped ‘this condition of singie-handedness is abolished. NO END TO INVENTION. NVENT some little thing” is a piece of | advice often offered to seekers of quick | wealth, It in easy advice and sounds) well, bu® there is a discouraging idea in * Many minds that most of the little things have already been invented. Lat the faint-hearted take courage from the were issued, a record surpassed in m0 year since the bureau was established. It that the end of invention js quite as far @pever. This is especially true because ad- the use of air, electricity and other constantly opening new fields for the iy it is mot wise to give up a steady job occupation of trying to inveat it is comforting to know Mats are not yet so crowded as to shut off ad happy thoughts. its commuters how a railroad York Central management caiequacy of four tracks all fan, the ‘Pealise the brery body’, painfully easy for alinos: everybody to New York, except the great people | ety theoret!cally stone Kipting’s appeal, it contineee to be the A begeare who pay the staggering price N pittt time eres ee qonneues0eeeueueccusancetacs tee | man that makes a carcer. ce | FOR A REAL TWO-HANDED RACE, | j and that He ‘S $003, ose as ee REO O epneeneseon reree TS Ce eee or ead BELIDVE that a destiny awaits America such “Lam firmly convinced that love is a! sued not endure a man who smoked and never would accustom myself to the habit. On the contrary, 1 ex- pected that a man who loved me would make the sac- hikinnd of renouncing the unpleasant vice, My avowal | PETE OOEEEE DEERE RT eE EEE FORO EOROD OSES E SES FOREST EE 6-8: RECESS EES MAX NORDAU. daoeaas- ieee reer erirrrrr rr rrr threw Albert Into a state of melancholy, which would Jnow seem to me very comical but then grieved me (0 the heart “One"day my brother came to me and took me to task for my folly id no longer dared to visit me; 1 ought not HARLAN ON OUR DESTINY uals or by nations except through trials and sacrifices. Take courage In the bellef that the American people are pure In heart, have no desire or purpose other in the authority of this nation rein , and to preserve unimpaired to the Rencration the free institutions given them by the fathers. Taught by the experience of the past, we Will stand at our respective posts of duty in the firm conviction that the kind Providence that has alwac® Watched over thia people will preserve our heritage of constitytional liberty. We love the “rocks and fills,” the “woods and templed hills" of this beautiful land, and come what may, we will give to America the best servies of which about our country as aia William Tell for his beloved Jand, when being overtaken in the mountains of Swits- eriand by a furious storm, he in represented as say- nm: “1 thought of other lands whose storme Are Bummer flaws to thoes of mine, and just Have wished me there: the thought that mine was free Has checked that wish; and I have raised my head, And cried in thraldom to that furtous wind: ‘Blow on! this ts the land of Liberty!’ " — DEATH IN spe, A single shrapnel shell scatters “1 death-dealing pleces. A bomb weighing about seventy pounds exploles Into @ shower of.1,30 pieces, ——— —o—_- MAD RACK WITH TRAIN. A common sight in Cape Colony, South Africa, ts a herd of cetriches ucoompanying a railway train as it speeds on its way ddedtcigiilanatentecatalibeanees has never been vouchsafed te any people, an that to the working out of that destiny, under the leadings of Providence, humanity everywhere will be | lifted up, and power and tyranny compelled to recog: | nize the fact that “God Is no respecter of persons,” | “hath made of one blood all nations of men.” Let us have an abiding faith that our country will never depart from the fundamental principles of right and justice or prove recreant to the high trusts committed to it for the benefit not alone of the Ameri- can people, but of all men everywhere on all the earth. We have had our days of gloom and darkness, We have had political storms that seemed to threaten the destruction of our institutions; and now and then we| may have been somewhat faint-hearted as to our des- tiny and doubted whether all was well for the great Republic. Hut those storms passed away, and we re- We may expect rtorme in the future; for nothing | worth preserving has ever been achieved by Individ- HER PICTURE OWN from above the mantel D Her ploture amiles at me, And she is young and ehe Is fair; Down from above the mantel! there T take ‘t, now and then, and stare Upon tr ee! Down fr ve the mantel there Her picture smiles at me. there | often wonder what shed say. Proud girl, if she knew all Another tossed the thing away; 1 often wonder what she'd say, If she could see it smile to-day On me from yonder wall! 1 oftap wonder what che'd ray, Proud girl, if she knew allt Eg a already made the attempt to give up amoking, but the habit was stronger than his My brother scolded and raged, but all was useless and [ clung 70 my re- sol hould weary you if 1 were to tell yeu all the de- tatls of thie quarrel. Suffice it to say that at last Albert came to me, begged me not to be crue} any longer, and as usually happens, I wept and said: ‘Very well, 1 will show you that my love ts stronger than yours. You would not: give up your habit ‘for my sake; I will for yours, to conquer my repugnance.’ “We had been wedded about six months when I Boticed one evening that Albert did not light a cigar se usual after supper. The next day there was the fame abstinence. When, on the third evening, it was repeated, | was extremely curious amd much excited, ‘What,’ I thought, ‘Is Albert voluntarily; malting the sacrifice for the wife which he would not yield te the entrertien of the betrothed bride?” My heart esulted h—the happiest of mortals, “1 could no longer help expressing my joy. ‘Albert,’ 1 natd one evening, ‘you are an angel; you would not only relinquish smoking for my sake, but yew ai 165 deileate to say @ Word about it, or to betray by the slightest stan what a p: ul effort it cost you.’ While ie 1 embraced and kissed him with want ustapen, “But to my great astonishment this outburst of tenderness embarrassed him. He escaped from my émbrace and lowered his eyes before my questioning gaze. After a sorrowful pause, he said, in a heaitat- ing, uncertain voice: ‘My sweet little wife, I might play the part of being gegerous and self-sabrificing. but I think it is:more'manty to confess the truth. So learn that T have not given up my cigar -for/your every patriot will give up smoking, lies in his power, to lessen the receipts of the tres ury word.” To TAN! A TRENCH, sake, but—for the sake of my native fand! You Mow !ttwe of. return to the outlines that the tobacco monopoly has been introduced by jof dreas. The capes on the the Austrian Government; we have now agree’ that than ‘he cupuchons, which for over ® year! now have Albert war stenting about like al the foe needle-pricks If we cannot attack them with colorings tor Spring wear, The military rule ts that five times the number ot} latter. Somefinic yew 4 eval nae cLORKs. PREC SO cee eee PURE EEES, this proof of love, and I considered myself—don't | * ab A BOLERO COAT VOSTUNE, A qulet suggestion for folke who don't care about ‘being tod previous: is offereg in the bolero ovet cos- tume shown in the accompanying sketch, .fn-which ‘a collar and waistcoat of the darned netted Ince are the adorning element: The long coat with little capes ts ome of the shapes. ferding #6 much favor just now te Parts. ware erat ,been so pronouncedly modish, and ‘indeed are -st!li | much In’ evidence in the long evening paletot. The ‘This may seem to you trivial, but we must de! |cloak vketched might be very picturesque In the pastel Gray, mastic and pastel blue are for the moment the that suggest them- puree cloth being, of course, and sutehings . A pleturesque Rat-tn soft felt, corre- hint color tothe coat an simply trimmed with e]an Intrenched enemy are required to dislodge thé /piumes afi ribbon velvet strings, would be ite har- monious accompaniment baura JEAN binBey. Husbands and Wives Who Weary of Each Other. (Copyright, 1900, by the Pree Miptinning Company, New York World AAT shador will gather at times over the sunniest of big! skies is quite true, my dears; and one the surest ways of bringing them there Is for the husband and wife to be thrown too much into each other's. society, to depend too much on each other for companionship. ‘That is all very well during the honeymoon; but honeymoons do not last forever, Ere they have quite ended, the best of husbands pick up the newspaper | evening long. If your wives at last, in sheer despsir, take to join- Ing clubs, visiting around the peighborhood, or going . (FRE: Day's: a ‘# ‘bove STORY: ' [AN UNSOPHISTICATED GIRL. HE was beautiful; charming, the orphaned vy iter of a Chicago manufacturer, vosseseed 000 inter own right, and she wee wun thio Yolaiatsaaes Bhg ought not to have bee. t Cape May unchaperoned and atténded only by her’ ras wilfyl; and Since com- ‘pease’. unfair. he sand together at ebout 3 . an hour when the beach is Up to Murses and thelr charges, for of the world Ie taking its dal'y nap. & sald he, “we are pretty well acquainted, Maud paid nothiie. “We know ebcl ottier better than we should had we met tniordinary wage in town for three Whole years, rand I like you better than ang gir) that Lever koew. im fact,” continued Willoughh: Wil you be my eife?" eves must give mea little tithes think,” ania: Mien mond siow'y, “Go away and-lears me now. I Will answer sou to-morrow, before you.go.. You take ‘the? ojclock train, don’t you? Bo do 1." me ' eh ose ® . As Mr. and Mre, Charles Willoughby they left Cage out alone to nee the shop windows at night, to pass the | time away, you must not wonder at it, In the days when you were courting your good wife you took her about freely, wherever ner fancy dic- tated. She had every reason to belleve you 4 be an considerate of her pleasure after marria before. And when she realizes how neglectful you are, of her happiness, can you wonder ot her dissatis- in the very midst of your prattie and lose themselves | faction? in tts columns, quite oblivious to your genial pres- and that ts the beginning of the wife's content. When the husband once comateness this evening paper perusing the wife, thus thrown upon her own resources for entertainment, soon finds the evenings becoming unbearable to her, from sheer loneliness. ‘There ts nothing a wife delights In so much as & little chat with her husband. This repays her for ell the long hours of loneliness that ehe has put in within thore four walls since early morning. The considerate husband realizes that she rees but Nttle of the outside world, compared to himself; and has the wisdom to take her out somewhere at least | many one oF two evenings of the week for needed recreation. | ‘The more golden and sunny her dreams of, what Gine | wedded Ife with you would be, the darker will seem ‘the shadows your neglect of he ‘Sad it may and we: For a hope and fall; Yet to grasp the thing we long for, and with sorrow sick end dresry Then to find how st can fall us, te tte saddest fate of alt,” Let me hope that this litte warning ig cautw’ the isbands whose eyes may chance to fall upgh it to make the resolve and to act upon it of seeing that . be to be longing with a patience faint Seferred—and nadder stilt to see it fade These are the kind of husbands who know how to their wives have more happy evenings: that there may keep their wives happy, healthy and cheery. A certain evening et the theatre each week is a de- light for a wife (o contemplate » week in advance You might almost as well be out of the house al- together, good husbands, as to sit as Immovable as 9 sphinx behind the columns of a newspaper the whol> | be no possthitity of thelr wearying of ench other by passing too many lonely hours together at @ dull Gree side. Jaura Jeon Libber writes fer The Brening. World by permts- thon of the Pamily Story Paper. v A LITTLE LAUGHTER FOR EVENING WORLD READERS. wt CAUSE FOR DEJECTION. “What's the matter, old chap? “Just been round to the pawnbroker’s to pop an um- breila and met Smith there.” | Well, what about itt “Nothing—only the gamp was Smith's""—The Cigar- } ote, La kinds of weather, spread the mix- days, and you have a modern ts the best policy has nothing ABOUT THE Sze OF IT. When into life's mysteries you delve The chances are y dincover ‘That the little faults you have Ate the big ones you see in an — —— UNDOUBTEDLY, Milee—-Man, according to Darwin, the monkey Giles—And the monkey, & tree descended from 1 suppose, descended from 7 WASTED OPPORTUNITING. Slowboy—Then you regard me only in the light of a friend? Miss Swift—Well, it isn't my fault 1f you don't know enough to jurn the light down, — A FRIENDLY TIP. Hicke—Mub! I don't see anything very hard about learning to skate. Wicks—Suppose you try it once You may not see {t, but you'll probably feel {t, -— TRE PROPER DEFINITION. Little Willite—Say, pa, what's the difference between ‘en optimist and a pessimist? Pa—An optimist enjoys a thing he can't like, and a pessimist likes a thing he can't enjoy, —— THE OLD, OLD stony, Now that the new year's with us, We hear the same oid ery, Of the man who foots the bills For the things he ¢ dida’t buy, THE UsU tt. REPERIMEVOH, Lives of great men all remind us we in make our lives subiime; But days roll off behind un We get lazier all the time, — —o-_— - — ABOUT THE SIRE OF IT. “Tt'e no troubl 1 to wet married,” remarked girl with the new engagement ring. “No,” replied her married sister with a sigh. “The trouble deesn't begin untl! shortly after the ceremony.” Ree Se @RTTING AT THR FACTS. “Ie that your’ offepring, madam?" asked the Mis- replied the elderly female, “‘he'e me oldest young ‘um” the —e———— NINGHBORLY TIES. “The telephone is @ great secial factor.” “That's so. We wouldn't have called on those people next door at all if we hadn't wanted to ube their telephone.” OUMRBAN SPORTS. ONE FOR HIM wit “How much pleasanter to shovel snow than to ran the lewn mower!” and be different te “Tes; It te too cold for our wives to sit on the porch | groom, y'know!” and bose us." oo me NorTrTe, As he jingles the cash In hit pockets, ‘The bunco man carols this lay: “Oh, I never put off till to-morrow _Aty one that T can do to-day.” A STORY WITHOUT WORDS. CHAPTER it. going no further than to quatat ol Cape May Court-House, where they spent « detig! fully, happy honeymoon of a week. The day that th as | wero to return to the world, an they rat at Breakfast together, the husband sald with much feeling: “My darling, | shall never forget the trust that you have reposed in ine. You took me for myrelt, .know- ing absol y nothing about me. I might have bern after vour money—a scoundrel, an unprincl> pied adven jurer, MY unsophisticated Uttle wife, he “Charles,” replied Mre. Wiltoughby, “yeu @o me tn- Justice, Am I not my father's daughter? 1 will con- fepa, even If you love me leas for it-and you ought not to, The afternoon that you proposed I tele. graphed to my lawyer—Mr. Porkins happened te'be in ap marrage had halons out about pot How could the ‘of aa 0 Madelphia famity, the money f=! DEAT LARMOIS LAL DE PDD IROL DORLOSDOD E LETTERS everne w EVENING WORLD, = CDW PEOTPOLODI DAD PSE IOP DEP SLOOIOD , A Mekel Problem, To the retire of The Eventng World: How many five-cent pieces would it take, readers, to fil! a box @% Inches-long, 24% tnches wide and 29 inches high, If a nickel be thirteen-sixteenths of am inch in diameter and one‘sixtcenth of an inch ie J. Saye Progressive Euchre le Gambling, To the RAltor of The Evening World: + ‘A correspondent asks if “playing progressive euchre at % cents a corner; wi ich sum was expended in th purchere of a prine for the witirer,” was bear 4 There are three conditions ta mcomplete act of bling, namely: First, a stake; second, an element of hance; third, some. one getting more than his (prp rata) share, at the expense of another, or In other words ‘‘a prise.” Im the case under, consideration @ll three conditions are present. This species of dinsipa- ‘fon ls dentieal With the raMes for turkeys, whieh are so common on Thankagtving and Christmas eves, and which I have no di@iculty in designating ame ROCKAWAY | Tn TimTnBun. HID 'eimefabia’ appears 8 the Otaw of Maps coy ee aatey eee “ne BLACK VALURY RAILROAD. Mtanéard Gauge. Internationa! Line, Charternd Ua- der the Laws of All States. SRP Hore Ome. No Return Teeiae. s “I love you, Maud, :