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

THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENIN LAURA JEAN LIBBEY) FUN FOR EVERYBODY. |MARRET HUBBARD AYERITHE DAY'S THE POINT OF VIEW. JOKE FROM ENGLISH COMIC} The Littlest Girl | wt LOVE STORY. : As a Beauty Secker,| HERE har veen perhaps too mvc lk about | new woinan, But I have something to say BY EITHER NAME, we ee reypng omer }|4 Joyous Childhood ppd 2 — ir ae the Happiest Part of Lite. (Copyright, 10, by the Prem Publiahing Company, Now Tork ~ Werlt) 1g he re fab ae Se lonely childhood, life has missed one of its My new woman is just three years of age. Bde has Ake it blebs te tha: Walibmes 4 herd choicest blessings, its brightest dreams—its turned the tables upon her mother tn such a ne: 24 | school tasrywwas otter ner coaster ca ae is ) fin-de-siecie manner that | ca story. Resides, it's just in lin rf the new Woman aged rmed habliue of an awfu! habit. Sh al) (humus Jong, ferociously and #! stantiy, and practically trom the hour of her birth, Asa result the tiny little digits were losing thelr natural shape and rapidiy shrinking o i) and acquiring a look of actual deformity. Besldrs TT pa tte ee teeth, a pai ited getetianaagieaag 4 “But, Alice, we are so much alike in some things— a forward net oalward | PESOS DO EG CAREER HEEE EE DEERE EOE The buby'* motier tried all th» Well-known and konerally Ineffective remedirs. She scolded the baby, | wt bitter aloes on the offending thumbs, she sanked ihe baby. | know that thle ts #9, for the baby, Whose name is Luulsians, (old me ro in ® of ;outhtal confidence. “nally at her whte’ end the young motier sald r infant one day: % . > ; rf what | shali do with you, Louisiana, | roa joking remerk that I had made. Thea me a mersage. Pretty soon the messages back and forth grew so numerous that Mary told Jace to write to me himself. He did so, and—well—I en- swered the letter “Do you think that he will know you when he sees sweetest of all memories. A child's memory is keen, and the impressions created upon it ai ting. The surroundings form & picture elther beautiful or weird, which will hang forever upon memory's wal! No mother {8 so poor that she cannot give her ehild the recollection of a genial smile tlluminat ‘ing her face instead of « frown of discontent For a smile coats nothing, nor is there a price’ jset upon gentle, loving words, and a caress in-§* stead of a reprimand. An untidy living room forms an impression on a childish mind that will never be forgotten. A newspaper for a table covering spread \pon the table to save the tablecloth at luncheon is pitiful economy. For It will be photographed for II time on the brain of the ehild who is made to it down to this unattractive board. A slovenly, disorderly home, where strife and contention rus rampant, sows seed in a child's Drenst that, mine times out of ten, enda in a h: vest of the bitterest woe. The child of the poor mother who must go out and toil for the dally bread of both must in after years make full allowances for that condition. leeper—Aha! Bo I've caught you poaching at last, You will grow up to be dreadful-looking child wit! thumbs all worn to points and teeth all standing in front. People will look at you and say: ‘What torrible-looking child! What ie the matter with her hands? Why. she'll never be able to play the piano with such thumbs. Oh, what wretched, ugly teeth, and what a mouth! Why, no one even can wish to What a pity!'—all because she will not Junner—Garn; I ain't poaching; only taking a short cut to the recrooting orfis in town,--Moonahine. A WISE PRECAUTION ° She furnished the scanty room as best she could “When E didn't suck my tum were 1 bewtitul child, | That its walls were bare and lonely was not her and would my tums play on the pia’o, musser, and | « fault. would I not be ugly, wretched avery day some more?" | ¢ Companions there may have been none; but 2 iB ee cenab with a rising Maoist $ childhood never feels the want of them with a toy And “murrer” explained and made the case clear ty) @ BEFORE KATE COULD STOP HIM SHE HAD 4, Louisiana fou. And the new®woman reed threr ree 2 RECBIVED A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE. % flected # moment and then said: ee ee ee “Muager, 1 will hold my tums so (turniag them boi or a little story book at hana, As we grow older we want companions to tell eros cies Ss oul » xt need: . Whe aiall a aeyeged dy in toward the thay palms and closing the Ihitle fingers We @re both blond and tall, we both have blue exes, wendere why be tc unpopular abroad. 0 shall say that could ha safer. ghtly over them), and I will not suck them any! @'though you say mine are darker. and we are exactly «| truer, more loyal companion than its best-loved} Her Fiance (of five years’ undisturbed tranquillity) more, for i shall not be ugly, wretched, and will; the pame age to a morth, I'll wager that dear little turtle betpin we saw the other day that he won't I have heard from Fred. He tells me he didn't get Ave (Hike (0 WAY On) Oy, Bean” —$— toy enough fighting. The enemy just have their fing and} !Tenpecke sband (to brigand who just robbed \ 2 4 just three, hae | KNOW which Is which unt!) he In told GET THE MEN WHO ARE BEHIND!| Make the home iif os attractive as possible to} rit so cover him>—Pieane give me at least » receipt for the thizas), An¢ pee he aa ssitabaotidaak “Done,” anid Allee. “Let's each of us pretend to be BHIND the tool, Miller, whose confession | ‘he iittle ones. Use much discarmmemt tn cor- @ (Just a little weary of eweetness 90 Jong drawn} sou have taken from me. Otherwise my wif) won'th Ty sseisiod at thie new woman's going to bed the other | (he other and see how jong it will take him to find us out.’ ve me and will give me o licking —Fiiegende aetter oe oe THE COMMUTER'S SURPRISE. Perhaps they don't approve of long energements, ning. After she had sald her baby “Now | lay me” and had been snugly sucked in her Herle wht+! orib, she gravely iurned her small refraciory thumbs toward the rony paims, folded her tiny fingers clos ly The Evening World printed yesterday, are| recting them. Be kind and patient with them. the big men of the Franklin Syndicate} Do not crush their dear little spirita by chiding scheme. them before the whole family. Speak to them “But Mary will tel) him” ‘No, rhe won't. She will come to meet us by herself, probab!y, and that will give us a good chance to tals Rebind the men indicted for itbelling) when you are all alone with them and point out over them and addressed them with severity thus: | !{ over with her, and rhe will enjoy the joke.” Brooklyn Rapid Transit are the chief manipula-|the wrong they have committed gently and sor- . ay where Louisiana put you or you'll be| 80 it was agreed that Kate Raymond was to pass for | Allee Strong as jong an she could, and that Alice was yO, what a an4 you can't ery one wil t offal tums Gers for whom there were millions in the libel. rowtully. Behind the men now prominent in the Third| Idsten kindly to the child's siée of the story (Avenue seanda! are the political and Wall street | ere you sit in judgment upon him. to play the role of Kate. At the door of her hospitable home Mre. Townsend | welcomed the gu who were introduced to her | under thelr med names ae well as their real ones. trebbie child and wi play on no piano.” And Louisiana Lou, aged three, having béeen spanked ‘4 @agnates who profited by the wreck Correcting a child constantly hardens hie and otherwise punished without effect. haa joined the | i “ ‘There must be no rest tll! all these “men be- | heart and arouses antagonism In his breast. This! beauty culturists and by an appesi (o her vanity hae | The Joke was explained to her and she on Bote in hind” are brought to the fore fatal error should be guarded against carefully. cured herself of a habit that Is rerarded « wellonagh | Mecrecy., bard ie sine. that ores oe ree Lat no investigator be afraid to follow the old) ‘The rich can fill every moment of their chil nnbreakab! po HARRIET HUBBARD ATER oe lee tt, t6e Jack laa leuked nen lanuinarahie’ eben? e tions about persons and things of which she knew Lexow hint and go “up higher.’ } dren‘ lives with pleasure. It {s the children o/ i ae nothing. Yet she managed to keep up her character. se | the poor whose childhood !s loneltest and darkest, To the conspirators’ astonishment and to Kate's dis- THAT WORD FOR PEACE. and to them my heart goes out in the deepest “It L see any trampe about here = ‘I shall have to give them 9 “My patent walking-etlek-piatol, BIRTHDAY LUCK may the cape 414 not come to an end for many 4 sympathy this afternoon— tnate of- thas all For March & if ory HE British are now the invades in South Jaeeremencs on ‘or days. Jack was almost equay attentive to eo % At 1 Ac Ry colitinal of troops ha in It is for this reason that I have tried to call the ceLVED. ; ren pray oe : | Raymond” and to “Mise Strong,” but the make-belleve Tiea, A 4 olu| of trooj s ine . e you were born o1 rch & no ther wha ” ‘ia ar) Vaded the Transvaal, Joubert Is fleeing | iemtion Of the mothers of ayich Iittle ones tof Peart—1 wonder who Kipling dedicated his “Lest Wef “Aug istus, why do you drink that strong liquor?” | tee woes aes, eva ge Hp Py bein ed Pie eet he Ithed to be with her more e z! this fact, that they may, as far as liew in their] forget” to? ‘Thrvngh pridence, Aunt Minerva, 1 suppose you th for you: "The climax ane the ay before their vieit ended. bet ‘ c Lm rere thing, before Roberts. power, ameliorate desolate surroundings Ruby—"The Abeent-Minded Beggar.” | suppose. the cherry on the of my wf dts an evil day. so be guarded in all matters | Kate was pitting alone in the parlor, a t for ‘There will be mischief when the long elleve «) Y re A neat habitation, no matter how poor it may : i Your anniversary 18 an unfavorable one and the giris were almost always together, when Jack en- 7 ted lines cross to Kruger's land, and yet be: a pleasant word, a happy smile, and a toy AND WHA it A HAN DI Ww i Turon oi . t i lo not ane with there will be much that will occur to cause tered. His face brightened when he saw that she was q @eadiier mischief before, while the Maxims and) ghould be the heritage of every child. a ie liquor as a safeguard auxiety as the year te parsing. Financtal alone and he came forward emgeriy. Before Kate 2 the Mausers speak. Heaps of dead and dying de-| Could they but have this there would be fewer Bae bbaccal Cn Nelgation, A bp bing could stop him she had received @ proposal of mar- " | os | y) = vith unfavorable changes. Seek the advice o: fenders on the one side of the line, heaps of dead| memories of lonely lives to look back upon CU LINARY DIPLOMACY A careful astrologer.—opyrighted by the | through the dim vista of years that have stretched be wand between LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. and dying assailants on the other. Aphinx Magazine, Boston. Bear by, British tears far away, Will you speak the word for peace, Mr. Me-| Laura Jean 1) f he Dom! Kinley? | ¢ ANEW LONDON Gown | T HIS is a! tifa) . costume and a sea sonable one. It con ij atte of a gown of gray 4 y writen for The Evening World by permission per “” URES: 5 ete “No, you don't. IT am Kate, not Alice. Oh, dear, T K ought not to have heard this. Walt; go 'way—you can LADY SMITH AT 16 AND 94.) nthe nen she comes down.” ¢ ot rentenomenenrnooenenee® | But it's you I want to see, not’ — | "Oh, no." interrupted Kate. “We were playing a Joke, each pretending to be the other. Oh. why did we ever do “Darling,” ealé Jack, calmly, “I saw through the game al! along. Don't you suppose that I knew Mise Mtrong the moment that I laid eyes on her? Or, at least, I 414 after two minutes’ talk with her. You may look alike, but yeur natures are as different as por- sible It fe the make-believe Alice Strong that I love— | : THIS IS NO DAY OF PENNIES. * ET us revise the foolish old proverbs of the penny. Let us bring them up to the financial language of the day. Thus | yy “A million saved is a million got,” for - the good gentlemen in steel rails or Stand- | | ++. cloth, ta atitehed: - @rd Oil, down plaite all about it, * “A waillion wise, millions foolish,” for the able and a lovely gulpure Ri coc did’ you leave your last pia the real Kate Raymond.” 3 @alculators who were taken in on the sugar mar- colar with a line of Mr. Snobbs- Miss Kitty, 1 afte viny heart and} Heldget Ver very inquletive, mum, T ntver axed yr “But whet will Alice say?’ tattered Kate. a bet ' hand—and just look at that band! why ver last cook left ‘fhe has been engaged for over a year te my college ¥g 4 mink tall about ite : chum, Walters. He told me, she didn't. Don't let's "4 “Millions for tribute, but not one million for talk about her. Do yon love me Kate? Will you curved outlines, and a broad belt and little sash of cream chene that has orange anil Wiack and mauve and eee ee ees tee eee ONE OF THE NEW HATS FOR EASTER. fe @ividends,” for the Third Avenue victims. Nave mor a “even or more half-million loaves for nothing i i ike a million,” for Franklin Syndicate Miller. bad million always returns a-plenty Led @ent.” for the Ramapo plotters. ! Poor old penny! It !s no longer a standard in| walue or in proverb. Give us millions or naught! BIG TREES AND THE PALISADES. Y Joint resolution in Congress the big trees in Calaveras County, Cal, are to be saved from the choppers. The Palisades of the Hudson are even better worth saving, and the opportunity 4 @o rescue them from the biasters is to be pre- - @ented at Washington. Kindly remember, gentlemen of Congress, that @onsistency is also a jewel in national legislation. —_——-— all sorts of nice ideas n ite coloring. LETTERS evewne wor. § tee hte wore f Tn reply to "Phyllis," who if anxious to become populer among the boys, T will give her a few good Never let the boys say anything fresh or rude iP presence. Then they will respect you. Never show a fellow that you like him, even though you war- ship him. Let him declare his liking for you first. He'll have a nobler opinion of you. DIANA MAE H. It in a London crea on, and ite elem and chie quance recom. mend to local de it | | Heese are two portraits of Lady Smith, in whose Sheeld Marvtage Preeede Kissteg? honor the Natal town just relieved by Gen. Builer | Te the Peltor of The Rrenieg World: war named. The upper picture shows her as abe) Should a girl aliow her betrothed to kiee her, ané looked at sixteen years of age; the other as she looks | should she kigg him in return? My mother says not. now, at the age of ninety-four, Harrismith, in the /#he sere no girl should kiss a man until she is married | a \ Ke AS TO THE BABY'S CARRIAGE. | 4 0 VS “gp "e MATTER for the mothers of the land | PN on ‘eg . | Orange Free State, was named for her husband, Bir/to him. 1H@ may kise her hand, she says, but never | Harry Smith. her lips, until they two are man and wife. What say Doctors generally are crusading against | —_ — readers to this? It meana much to me, as the gentie- | —— H man I am to marry urges me often to Kies him. the use of the wheel chairs which have so!» largely superseded the old baby carringes Spey aaaag Sweet Sandwiches: MARY L. D. Ag RANGE @ pricot marmalade make delicious ‘They say that the straight hard back . Mere Garryicg r ign ‘0 = The new grape fruit marmatede is keeps the child in a strained upward po- | Oe ee ee sap Pipes | & favorite of the moment. Jams of various One Opinion of Spiritealion. iP be more fitted for the responsibilities of maret- | ee be 4 s ith Children under two years, if taken out in _ thony at twenty-five than others are at thirty peel i 5 alate Peden og reel it there be any individual ‘setts, why Gon't they become crooked limbed and weakly, besides | ‘ve If marriage be postponed until after this last | feeds mand a ae io very [communicate with bad tempered trom want of proper sleep, | gre # MAN Is Likely to get Into what may be called | delicious wh ( : <4 : grape jelly. yy can no one any The have to ly inter ide .| rclhvagn oe ee as from other bad | Apple butter was the combination with which @ /Course with them? How any Gmediem” can impose ‘ethetere of any particular form of baby carriage pias thane. 2 | Pittsburg woman scored a hit. Piquant, spley, aro | 0" the credulity of « byeatys cad Pigeon bomed cee 4 Pet all of us have great interest in the forms and Sa | Lone tae ea i tibet 234 NICK ODEMUS —e Senet. | WIVES REMEMBER ly and grow healthfully. T: HAT Adam was made firs A WOMAN. We amile and laugh when aching heart That “he pays the freigh: That “blessed are the meck MeKiniey wanis it understood, even now, that } ‘That nine men in ten detest gossiy Se owe to Porto Rico We entirely distinc: ll angels are not of your « ‘ it B-per-cent affair. Moral of there horveless-corr : purcherer should take care io get an auto- akes two to pr “warranted kind.” ‘That (he least raid i# the With every thro® prociaims = smart; We pass the carciess, jesting word, . aye, If only could be heard liavecho true, @ ery ‘twould be Of wild despair and kery. We dance and seem to quite forget ‘That burning tears our pillows wer. | ce like home ‘That with all hie fauits you love ‘The throng know not; to! If they knew, F Cleveland fishes in the Routh ‘That husbands have troubles of their own, won saAeaase-night Gtr Canaan That he's “ail right” when you know him That woman's best weapon ip her weakness, | ee eee ' —_—_ — Home-Made Scrap-Books. | A mother has discovered that old window shades are roe = admirable for making scrap-books for children. Cut With sympathy and kindness (rough. | | the country does not cease to breathe |} That you should have no secrets from him. | | —— THE: WISNER OF “SUCCIER” PRInK. ‘Te the Haliw of The Evening Werte With inuch pleasure | acknowledge ihe receipt of Of ebifien and opreye of pla. f Your check for $9 a9 prise in the let 5 en Bacco” “GAMUSI. T. VARIAI be Business section furnish costly Len- | aay