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| waniapes vr tte Pres Publishing Comeuar, 63 t9 1 PARK ROW, _ Batored 24 the Pest-Ofes at New York as Sermnd-Claas Mall Matter, — = MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1900. gy Von. BO ssececrsvenesssee cevseeeNO, 14,069 DAILY HINT FROM M'DOUGALL ~~ Ae ~ IGNACE PADEREWSKL 0646 PDO bOK9 6-4-0 o6ed-o04 ohlid or id be oneidered an oF tin worth white for taught 1 ques: my opinion, every piano. 1 know that It Hon nowadays ax to whether IN | | i | | ebild to study must, unless 1 tude in that a fon. Jt fs not now unusual to find young Women in soclety totally ignorant of the plano: bur, te my mind, general culture demands that every civillaed person should be valnted with all the nly way to compre- As the manifestations of culture hend art is to have some knowledge of piano is the beat instrument to show all species of ny every child should study it As \o the length of time to be devoted to practi for (howe who treat music as an additional subject of general education hour end a half or two hours tally are usually sufficient. For children 1 should | recommend several periods ef praction a day, each of |about a half hour duration. Young students should never be allowed to practise over an hour at one time, ‘as the fatigue attending projonged exer of this kind i apt to counterbalance any good attained, The (two hours’ dally practice can easily be divided into two, three, or even four pertods, ‘Theve was a young man went out West Mectra Vice-fres't, But the boom! Aud the trip proved a frost, Vor Tim didn't wear his ‘warm!’ study of theory ag appealing letter to The Evening World| ‘The time at whieh a child may take Its firat “piece,” j Advanced students should devote at least three P. hours « day (0 practice _ STHE CASE OF A MISSING WIFE,| "Ti ‘ret thine to be tearned ie the elementary of & wife who has gone to her mother, tak-, P\bil* aptitude and roal, The teacher must be the beat judge of that ing all tho ready money of the household eye eas of attention should be given ta mem: (his two weeks’ wages) and leaving him With | weiing and it should be bemUn us Koon as possible two little children, ie declares himself an IGNACE PADEREWSKI ~ honest man, working every day and bringing In Harper's Bazar * home all that he earns. eae * “ps BEAUTY. « | BY HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. Face-Scrnbbing. A Use the camel's-hatr scrubbing brush ight Immerse the brush in warm water, rub ers soap oon it Ul you get a good lather, scrub the “way wpon the lines of good taste and good sense, | face for « moment or two, rinse thoroughly with clean * always bearing in mind ha the end 5 ican | warm water This should be done at nigh: furt be- Dot satisfy anybody's grudge, not to to any _ person's ilicfeeling, but to bring together again | Mustache-Grewer. “two lives once Joined together in the name of (od. | WF P Try this for the mustache-grower. Tel The fF. O. M." ie like that of too many |?" husband to use it every night, ‘The mustache she veda Roly alan sd should be thoroughly washed before apptying the ere— very often oman WhO | ointment “Must write a tale of desertion. Advice tendered | trod vaseline, t for this single instance may reach how far none | hal! ounce, of i Tt i a delicate matter to intrude the editorial |? pee ugon a acene of family dissension, A story [exe Of parting between husband and wife usually has two aides. When but one of these is presented and that only in the main circumstance, It would) |) + be a mash adviser indeed who would rush forward | gate Ws With an arbitrary judgment. He must feel his oe ler, oll of rosemary, the roots of the miu oe oo roy '| PADEREWSKION - | PIANO PLAYING. } nee ASHE SPESSESES SESE SOO 5-0 the | sows special aptt:| ) “P.O. M.” asks what be shall do in the case/as | if commonly called, depends entirely upon the} ‘ean tell, That ia why it is worth while to break . the “no-name-no-answer" rule and write at this ‘length. When “F. 0, M.” was first married, he says, he lived with his wife's mother for a year. His wife only remained with him twelve weeks after he Opened his own home. Very evidently the mother- in-law is a power in this family instance. She ts #0 in @ great many instances which are outside of tthe story books. It ix a matter of no dispute that very often she uses her influence not wisely but, too much to a selfish purpose. Yet, despite the! “+ readiness of jokers to see the sharper side of her Make-up, she usually turns out a human quantity amenable to appeal. Has ‘F. O. M." tried remon- | strance with her? Has he pointed out to her how “ber daughter's settiement and the souls’ welfare + of two little earth pilgrims, besides the peace of ‘mind of the man in the case, are dependent upon * her use of whatever centro! she may have over the appellant's wife? Even if the mother in not re- @ponaible for the separation, she may upon such * appeal do much for a rewnion. . Tt would be easy for The Evening World to { become righteously indignant on the side of °F <0. M.” and his children; to denounce Lis wife who «has left her home; to demand that she return to (her wifely duties. But we do not know her side @F'the affair, {t is bad that she has gone from her “Pome. It is worse that behind her are two help- Jess little ones, The story is pitiful—and yet so ¢€ommon!—the more pitiful because it is common We make here, in the hope that it will meot the Fight eyes, the appeal which we have advised the Busband to make: . To the mother of this unhappy wife: You know Q8 Bo Outsider can know, the whole of this tragedy |) Whieh threatens not one life but four lives. We you to consider the affair with the same care you exercised for your daughter when she ) Ro older than the children she has left, Think ew great r motive it would have taken to induce 40 desert her. Has she a reason as great ax We rest the case here upon mother-thougnt ind mother-love. It should be safe there the New York Port-Office needs many chings jo truer than that New York City greatly needs | Madison Square Garden just as it is Ai be an unhappy occasion for a number of men Mfe qt Albany if the Ramapo flood shal! yet ever the legislative dam. a Congress sees ft to abdicate again |t Is to be mood that Mayor Van Wyck’s declaration of war BH Burope doven't gv. Ending to Mies Marie Corelli, Mr, Kipling appears than “A Mighty Atom.” fs safe, Now save the Palisades, (CCBAB BED. between Wawa! and Call. rope each) Appl ache night “T ba tt remain until the following morning For Blackheads. ANXIOUS HiGBB—The only real cure | know of for | Blackheads i* the use of the camel’s-hair face-scrub- bing brush with warm water and a pure hygienle | soap. Immerse the brosh In warm water. rub the soap | on until you get a good lather, scrub the face for a Moment or two, rinse thoroughly with clear warm er, then apply good cold cream or skin food A. FP. D.—No, the tea prepared from henna leave: is not a bleach; thé result of applying henna ts to give the halr a reddish tinge. ut “This cannot mused Bugene Harum-8carum, as, having carefnily put his hat and stick to bed, he sat down to moralise, “This “lock -in-the-morning business must be stopped, [| must turn over a new leaf. IT must sign the pledge BORROWED ALL BUT THAT. | | | | ' 1h { | | or gitle moy be taken to new homes The Evening i | World advises tis correspondent to try one of these bebe boyd of instruments they tench at Cooper, institutions. If the trial results in providing a happy | ' 70". 8 | am a poor girl and cannot afford to pay | a wonderful Jof a few lines of epace Tv the Balitor of The Brewing World and joonducced by Mr jaddressed for information as to which class to join ‘There is no place for the free special cultivation of an individes! voice vi LAURA # JEAN & LIBBE THE TR Je IAkS OF JEALOUSY. | Comrriant, iow, oy the Prem ru meer, New York Jealousy unflinchingly upon the threshold of their bs | hearts and beat it back ere it has gained a ‘oc- HAT ousy is a disease, who among us! hold, | will deny, that It is the cruelest disease Fortunate, indeed, is the woman who can so that attacks the human heart we cannot] successfully beat back her emotions as to hid: nd the doctor who could find a} them from the world's eyes—even from him wh a benefactor of the; has sown the thorn that rankles in her tende | heart. help but admi balm for it would indeed by j; human race That jealousy is a proof of love, as some writers | assert, | will not believe | martyrs who have carved their names on the roll Affection which is not free from its contam- | of fame by accomplishing some wonderful deed inating effect is to be commiserated. For those! for love's sake--aye' and because of jealousy’s who suffer thus have much need of the tenderest| keen smart. Hut there are heroines among us sympathy [wee smile and make no moan, who live on, with Jealousy is the one bitter drop that can turn tol a heart that is dead in their bosoms—slain by the | | ' cruel dagger of jealousy | One of the noblest of heroines is she who can | thrust so great a sorrow from the world’s sight and from her own. The gravest mistake a gall all the honey in the cup of life's happiness }and adds a thousandfold more woe to the aching {heart than any other pain A breatin or 3 look will often call it into flery | | being, but it takes a lifetime to extinguish it | And even then it is an ember which smoulders| Make & and which may be instantly fanned into life and) nurse tt fiercest flame by the slightest breeze ‘There is but one avenue of escape from jealousy, Jealousy bas more to answer for than any other] and that is by the path which leads the heart and passion that finds lodgment in the human breast; | brain into some busy fleld, where there is no time it can make a home change from an earthly para-! for thought or brooding dine to a veritable hades, transform the sweet} This is the best doctor for sick thoughts; for bird of love that sings in the human heart to the| surely no thoughts are more cruelly diseased than most venomous of serpents, whose trail is over all] those tainted with the deadly fungus of acute things Jealousy. Happy are those who expect not too much Of] Lise sean Linder aries for The Kvesing World by permic- human love--those who are brave enough to meet dom of tie Mamily Story Paper CHIEF DEVERY ASKS FOR MORE MEN. By WILLIAM S. DEVERY, Chief of the New York Police Force. woman can make !s to to i and carefully for jealousy lee OOO EO OE 66 obese LeOEH OO DEHO HEH llAMIto4ls, and Ko forth. In May, 18M, when the read- A : "se |justment of the force to cover the entire city of 3 y {Greater New York was made, there was a total force bs J lof 74) men. At the present time there are 7,355 men . *la de se of rly one hundred men. ; ; A om arts of figures show that in proportion é. # [to the pe pulation New York City Is not as well, po- rT + lHeed as other large cities of America or of Europe 3 ? London jas one polteeman to every 30 population, and é + |Parte bas one to every Counting the population * ‘lof Greater New York at 4.000.000, we have only one! 4 af of our population. t Since « the population of the city, the 4 + [number of buildings and the amount of property have 4 * all enormovsly increased, while the number of the + ; ce lus steadily decreased. This |*« the more nificant in view of the fact that even at the outset © |there were not enough police to properly ¢ |New York. In the Simmer continual drains are made on the police force for men to cover the watering places in 'Brooklyn, Queens and Richmond. We have to send men ‘o Howery Bay, North Reach, South Beach, Mid- Beach, Coney Island, Rockaway Beach and other Bummer resorts in the suburbs. There ts in the Sum- mer seison an increased demand for men in Manha OHIEF DEVERY. | $O00606-46- 1640844694 4a0n eee eHE | LAN 10 Cover recreation plers, public baths, evening leoncerts In the py excursions, and so forth BW YORK’S most pressing need iy an increase of | [t musi not be supposed that a larger police force ¢. When Coney were annexed ce foree of Brooklyn waa at least 1,000 men to tis police Teland, Gravesend and Flatby to Brooklyn. in 18%, the po 8 required because there has ti of criminals, nur because the amount looming 1 abnormal eh any sudden influx ny sense ‘The city In this re- 209 men short, and it was still further weakened by |spect has not been for some time in as good condition sending men to cover t nnexed portions, The las at ; resent 18 men sent from Brooklyn for this service made a) The sim nd very evident fact Is that the police total deficiency of 40 men in the Brooklyn f force, in order to effectually protest Ife and property, which has never been male up, and which has steadily [must be allowed ty Increase in proportion to the de- become larger In consequence of deaths. resignations. lmand«made upon tt by a rapidly growing vt THE AWFUL REFORM DREAM OF EUGENE HARUM. ~ vty he A Ly pa lal And they flied him with tea and cake and soda water, and fhe lovely houris smiled sweetly upon him and would fain make love to the new convert, while the jovial brethren told him waggish and rollicking teetotal tales— LITTLE TALKS WIT Who Have Asked Evening World Advice. 0 And he immediately fell asteep and dreamed that he signed the pledge anid the rapturous plaudits of temperance houris and the fervid thanksgty lovely ings of a cholce nelection of kindred convivial spirita UT of the hundreds of letters which come dally in The Evening World's mail, {1 Is possible to choose but few for individual answers. Recent here but without success In what way can these produc- | ‘ions be brought to the attention of the proper peo- ple? CONSTANT READER. | ‘Dre ditfieuliy lee tn the fact that so many people | have written so many plays and all are insisting upon eters of rather more than ordinary Interest are given Wanted—\ Daughter. Baiior of The ng Wort both weary Y and wary. Yet few dramatic compositions Where cant get val Sree ait frets tw Me to fi eeatly wortiy of attention remain permanently neg- ren years of age, who would assist me with house- s, , ‘ ectel, The Evening World doesn’t wis add pold duti Iw treat chis girl in all respects pod gh argh Mabel d hg the buctens of the players, but if “Constant Reader” an a daughter, and would M\ her for a bright useful | roy feels that his pen has really dripped theatric gems his | in the city ry is» list of New York orphan body of the stage In looking at them. | asylumn, of which arrangements prevail Comper Union sebects. yy watch, © giving Of references and with pro- z : * j 1 for reports us to the children’s welfara boys | ™ "ht Miter of The Bvening World ! am a girl of twelve years, and would like to ask | for my edu on Bn ‘The Evening World does not know of any lessons ™ musical instruments at Cooper Union, There ar ¢ art classes, a school of stenography and type writing and school# of mechanical arts, Weald-te African Fighters. ‘The Evening World receives many letters from men and women to South Africa nome for one little it, thie good work has bee consider that | went by the ure ' After Free Singing Lessons, | Where cant | | ake singing lessons free of charge? ¥. fT. Plain ringing lessons are free in the public schools ractionily so in the People’s Chorus classes, Frank Damrosch, who should be The pages of the world’s history tell us of the) THE SON OF “BOBS” ' LIES IN THIS GRAVE. Lieutenant the Hon, F. 8. Roberts, only son of Lord Roberts, Commander-In-Chief of the British forces in ‘South Africa, lost his life in the vain though plucky or to save the guns that were lost at the battle ‘olenso. He was buried at Chieveley, The illus- | tration is from a photograph of the grave a eee a ro Wounded Hearts. Doesn't Lave Him: Won't Suy Why. I am # young fellow, twenty years old, and I am in love with a young lady of eighteen. T have been going with her sinee last July ‘The other night | asked her [If she loved me, and she told me she did not, but that FIRST Then T asked her why she didn't love me, and she wouldn't tell me. She said that I might meet some other girl that J would like better, tur 1 told ‘her I would not. When she me that she didn’t love me f pretty nearly cried, and then she kissed me, and when | left she axked me if [ wouldn't call to-morrow night, and I said “Yes.” Will you please telt me how 1 can win her love, or does she love me and doesn't want to tell me? She told me to walt two years and then see how things were. H.C, The girl apparently does not quite know her own mind. I suppose you will have to accept her view of the situation, and walt two years, as she de- mands. If she is worth caring for at all she should be worth waiting for a much longer time. a husband is a very serious business. It means happiness or misery for the rest of one's life, The wirl certainly likes you, and if you are clever and the right sort and in @ position to marry it will be your own fault {f you do not win her. You should respect her for her truthfulness. He Loves Every One in St 1 love a man who Is fery fickle, He loves me when Tam with him, but a# #00n as | Ko away he loves de- votedly every new girl he meets. 1 simply adore him. What can [do to make him love me always? ANXIOUS SOPHIE. You will have to be more charming than the entire aggregation of outside talent, 1 have never yer read of & guaranteed specttic for fickleness. ‘The best thing that could happen to the young man would be for all the girlx (o let him soundly alone, | i ae eRe Lo Coo ko. ere SYDNEY SMITH'S SALAD. HE following is the celebrated wit Sydney Smith's famour recipe for salad dresaing: Two large potatoes passed through kitchen sieve Smoothness and softness to the salad give. Of mordant mustard add a single spoon. Distrust the condiment that bites too soon But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault To add a double quantity of sali; : $ ¢ she liked me better than any feliow she ever knew. | Choosing i | The Dav’s ove Story, A LUCKY DOG. see ee STEARNS had many pleosant acquaiat ces in New York, but so far only one friend | 4 pure bred pointer named Clover One sloppy April day Clover disappeared. Four months later as Stearns neared the house B® | started suddenly, for on the steps sat a brown an@ white dog, wistfully at him. Gaining bis he took the great dog bodily in his arms and hugge® her tight, and they rolled and frolicked together @@- the “usty carpet. As they were thus occupied there came a shasp knock, and then entered a policeman and a girl “There he is," cried the girl, and to Elmer's ume bounded astonishment she rushed into the room as@ beman to lavish caresses on Clover “There ix some mistake here,” he remarked quietly “May Task why you manifest so much interest in my MER y," pleaded the woman. the man said quietly ood with her tall and ears drooping, The woman Was nearer. In passing her Clover stopped an@ allowed her to stroke her and even ticked the gitte cheek. But her eyes were on Elmer, and as soon @® possible she broke away and came to him. “You see," cried the girl, ‘she came to me first, youp own proof is against you. Let us go, omecer, Comm Lucky.” And placing her hand on Clover's collar she led hep | | | out of the room and down the stairs. Two weeks went by, when John Locke invited higg [to spend the evening at his home. He met fifteen pleasant young people and amon them Miss Esther Daly, He recognized her Instantly as the young lady who had claimed his dog, but she showed no sign of recognition. Elmer Stedrns received an invitation from the nex® hostess, and was thus installed a member of the | “Informal Club.” At the weekiy meetings he met | Bather and soon they wete on excellent At list st was her turn to entertain ¢ there he met Clover. The plainly showed her pleasure That night Clover strained at Jedge cut her neck, but it Analy and she was free Elmer was awakened by a seraten on the front doew jand ran downstairs, without walting for clothes, | Clover slipped in @pstairs in her old way, and 200m Clover slipped upstairs in her old way, and soon He telephoned Esther in the morning tha: he ha@ {found Lucky and would bring her back that evening. Clover's tall hung lower and lower as she found here self near her former prison, for home it had never bee come to her, but Elmer urged her on ‘How strange that she should come to your rooms,”* came over her head of crime ts be- | H READERS! & hearing that managers and actors hate become! ( maid Exther, “and last night she seemed to be glad |to nee you. Have you some mysterious power over dogs? or.” and then came the gles of recognition ‘Hamer had always feared, “yes,” she sald, breathlessly, you are the man. | He answered by calling Clover to him and putting: Sher through many clever tricks. Then he told her * frankly all about Clover. ‘The girl's cheeks burned hot at the close of the | recital. “Unele Harry gave her (o me on the date you loag ther, my twentieth birthday. I suppored he bough® lher, but he must have picked her up on the stree®s ®| Whatever shall I do to make it up to yout sled tel eel “There is one way that would more than make apy Four times the spoon with off of Lucca drown, And twice with vinegar procured from ‘town;' True flavor needs it, and your poet begs The pounded yellow of two well-bolled exes. Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce suspected, animate the whole; And, jastly, in the flavored compound tose A magic spoonful of Anchovy sauce. Oh! great and glorious and herbaceous treat Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat Back to the world he'd plunge his weary sual And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl!” | | ererererrr rr TT 6 be aus oe = 'denr,” be said. SCARUM 4 ut “TH try," she whispered, “and you shall take Cloves ° & home with you till—then, and,"’ she added, with 1a ving eyes, “Clover shall go on the wedding trip.” clr aatt Timen-Star, 4 —s——— TO THE LETTERS evens wor There Are Others, To the falltor of The Brening World ‘A young man complaing that he ds | | educate his aleter, My advice to him is to rest come | tented. 1 am only earning $1 a weer ind I am supe | porting my father and mother, which to me is a please ure. My only atm is to eee them happ; Until, saturated with the maddening delight of such | I am content. an existence, he awoke, and with agonizing screams | rushed frantically for the electric button, and toll the boy to get him two or three coc! could.—Ally Sloper. rn ne $s a weem, and with the same has to rupport his aged father an@ Neley Girle Anney Him. tails as fast a8 he | to ihe Riitor of The Evening World A very discontented bookkeeper writes for advice, ag he is constantly annoyed by three noisy. giggling young ladies in his office. It Is a similar case with ma, and I vill be pleased to have your readers help mp out of my dilemma. aw POOR JOHNNY. Johnny found a shilling; Johnny Said: “I'll have some fun!” Johnny went downtown and with it a= [/ Jonnny loaded up his gun with Costume Wanted. ‘To che Miiiar af The Evening World: W4; some one please suggest some costume repre» | senting something a little out of the ordinary to be worn at @ masquerade? Something that will cost @ moderate sum. It is foralady. MASQUERADE, Washington, X. 3, | Ament Matrimony. To ihe Réitor of The Evening World: What Is the earllest advisable age for young men to marry? I mean, supposing them to have enough m= to do so. This ts @ question of interest to al) H is told, “You are too young to marry.” Ike readers’ opinions end the reasons for them on (hia. M. R. NEWELL, Springfield, Masa JOHNNY a o¢