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a et the Post-Office at New York an Second-Ciass Mai! Matter, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1900, ha H Re | lar pa AY! PAY! PAY!” ‘This to the psychological moment ‘when the strenucnsity of citizenship in Great Republic gets it in the jagul FAINT HEARTS AND OTHERS. T is “Heart-Broken” who writes this note to the editor, but “Heart Failure,” it would @eem, would have been a signature more to the potnt: Tam @ young gentleman of twenty-stz and fave been calling occasionally on a young the past year or so. 1 seem to be in doubt any interest in me or not, ee ee oe her the old, olf question in the old, SHOULD A YOUNG LAWYER } Me fr he possesses that valuable gift seeeNO, 14,120| MAY bear fruit tn th He knows th tion by: If a dozen brigh Reed bul homel ears. sides, he gets the best of practice in the use nguage and In the art of con m age when he Nor is he wrong in The ® that ¢ against Ganger, debebate GO INTO POLITICS?} By Frederic R. little differen awyer Coudert, the young In nine ay of his eloquence thy and The nconce » advan with rts intes ‘Mlowing his bent in that dire In. young lawyer as gratify o. afier all, performing a du nation wheu he intere nadles him to fortity them tn warn lis fellow thetr loyalty, ¢ eucourage them in their patriotism, and by his de |nunctation of unworthy public servants to aro hem to the protection of their rights? If we elim | Young lawyers from politics we will have a very quie = time of {t—which may be an advantage in itself—b: the wholesome friction engendered by political discus sion and political battle will disappear In a sense we are all politicians, If we take any in cS oe ee) eee 5-POO9-9-6-6-6.5-4-45-25566666 FREDERIC R. COUDERT. charity bazaar? ee ee ee ee oe ! Wife—Do you mean how much or how many? oe eee. Brace up, tell the girl what you feel and ask | terest in the Institutions about which we talk so muc old way, | 294 In many cases care so Iit"6 “| We have become so much accustomed to live under s Bince she has endured your aimless visits for @) 66.40) jaws and to breathe the atmospliere of personal r S year or so with good grace you have eo muoh {iiperty that we forget what these treasures are worth If you lack the cour-| we must be reminded from time to time not only age now to do what the situation calls for you|that they are valuable but that they can only be pre served by vigilant and continuous effort upon which to build a hope. the young woman, THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL. 18, 1900. | AN APRIL SHO WHO WAS SCARED LAST WAS SCARED BEST. Ah, there's a rox | | | | | : | Fido—Weil, I'm off for the links this morning, all right TWO POINTS OF VIEW. Husband-What did you take In at your booth in \he ' AA DANGEROUS UNDERTAKING “HI What'd that for? THE FLING UNKIND. “Ll just give her a eeara. Hit Stop, you old fool! GOLF AGAIN Mabel (just engaged)—Geor he would never propose to any other girl. last on his Hst.—Judy UNTOLD TALES. A BALCONY CONVERSATION. you do od Her Dear Friend--Yes, I understand you were the WER OF FUN, | HEDAYS HEART... I ‘t wish te mut, @ are us, do YO result of two months Cyril Lawnsdale nab! Appear unrea think f constant study and stood at the back of tl Jeserted stage ant mopped his glowing forehead. “I never expected te play It with @ stage-siruck baby—a girl soarcely out of the school-room The electric bel! rang and ¢ in@ thoroughly Irritable sta ‘Tho first few lines wen then the scene appr n dreading T is asking too muoh of a cha “ want to } A CHANGE OF rehearsal?’ dim iit ren es oes H @ 3 . 5 rf ’ $ . . 3 PAOSTHOES-2 8 ps 18 TURNED HER FACE FROM THE AUDI- ENCE AND MURMURED THE FIRST WORDS OF HIS PART. ee oe as him, the young cellbate clergyman, he easily surmisea ‘The moment came for Cyril to speak. He leaned forward ready to begin. He took her hand, but the familiar, oft-practice’ words refusel to come, He made a mighty effort to recall them, but his mind was almost a blank. Hoe gave Mise Leigh an agonized look, and turning her face away from the audience aa \f part of the ‘business, she murmured the firs! words of his lines and he was able to go on, The curtain went down {n the midst of @ storm of ap plause, which continued until Mr. Lawnsdale and Miss Laigh appeared before the curtain. The little girlisd actress had won the hearts of the great audience. . . . . . . . ‘The weather became warm, and Margaret, who was unused to the fatiguing routine of stage life, bewan ook tagged. Cyril could not help feasting sorry fo her notwithstanding her constant ungraclousness. “Tou know well I am not worried about your ap pearance on the stage. I hate to see you looking {Il T do wish you would let me be your friend." ‘The tears sprang Into her eyes. For an instant hy scarcely deserve to win ‘The young inwyer plays the part of q sentinel, and thought she wee going to break throuyh lier reserve eS aks } if Mis trompet js @ little shrill at times and the notes It “Heart-Broken” feels thet he cannot epen! nally discordant, he nevertheless performs a the words of proposal, let him write them, Sir| "Useful function. a In time he will learn to be wise and selfish. He will Richard Steele won « wife in a month by letters, ik more of himself and his cliente than of cormip- ay | end his why lady then erased the dates on the /eion in high places and of battle with official wrong x ia: bea ke fender epistles to conceal the suddenness of the | dving; but, as the annual production of young and { eoreee rear vai Bee heen eaniew complaim®} ine? How dif you know what 1 sala? Surely conquest. earnest advocates continues to Increase rather than} wow, gentiemen, It is our duty to take our friend) He—Realiy, you seem t : 1—Very likely, ma'am! But I'm more con-} Marv wouldn't repeat our conversation.” And delay is not good. Sir Waker Scott lost iesngde td oagdietd bene gt a pesk pet Pip Guzzler home (o his wife, Who ts wiling to volun: fday. 1 shouldn't be eurpri don't run to you always and tell you the Win tae Caan tak the ae _— pi efter six years of courtship the girl whom he | cvantians vet Ha of births one of these days wiodidhiscantis Ddlguaibedi Acs after that rehearsal, and as I came back to find « first approached by offering her the shelter of} -- —-- ———+ ———-—— ——— ——— —— — glove I had dropped I heard my name mentioned his umbrella. He made her the heroine of two Hoping in my trustful tgnorance te hear something i 4 Who can tell but that he might have ber Lady Scott by being bold in time? Grote; the historian, courte. Miss Harriet Lewin fer two years by giving her historical themes to ‘write, But at last he impulsively married her) Defore breakfast without her father's consent. Charles Lever not only had the courage to do) hie own proposine, but he popped the question to tHe little girl, Kate Baker, whom he had known from childhood in the face of his father’s desire that he ghould wed an halves, His marriage wae! 8 fan ideal one and should show to “Heart-Broken” | the pousibility and desirabi! .y of a lover know- fag bis own mind. - | a) | As to whether a woman should tell her love! fret—a point barely touched upon in the note “Heart-Broken"—opinions differ endlessly @mong different people. | The wife of Shelley's youth proposed an elope- ment as a means of escape from a persecuting| father. But {t does not follow that a woman in ordinary circumstances can throw herself into a/% Man's arms. And it turned out undappily for, Mra. Shelley in the end, for her poet-husband | Fan eway with another woman. The Princess Hanski proposed to Balzac, the §rest French novelist, that he should succeed her! @itled and deceased husband, and Balzac, who had) Jong esteemed the lady, accepted with happy radical was the step taken by Mar- | , Who married the great artist Gaines- The painter had finished Miss Burr's In expressing her delight over the ple-| you for that,” said Blake, y co abound in pretty love match. e Diograph ° there is « temptation to keep on fell- ® Indefinitely. But enough bas been lover in like straits of About ten years ago a daring woman attempted to and with the courage of her convictions she ap the least possible hint that the| peared for some weeks each day in Central Park wearing a divided skirt fecent a which she ceded that crose-saddie riding was too mannish to be ‘woman of eome trials of his profession. | adopted by In some of our best-known families, ft | quence of side-sadtle riding, and every was the rejoinder, which | ary haif a dozen accitents to chronicle, due to a indy rider being shot from her precarious and {l)-balanced THE CROSS SARDLE BEST FOR WOMEN RIDERS Says Harriet ONE OF THE DA SADDLE with half af the body on feeling of much security POSITION phon ctag.: SADDLE. CONSTRAINED ON THE SIDE not “good form. When AM gind to see that the Pnglish physical cultur- | wit countenance {t ists are declaring publicly for rational dress for women who ride horseback Allow me (0 say, as a each the sensible doctrine of cross-saddie riding,| is Nine women out of She presented a decidedly Attractive appearance, notwithstanding umd no followers—4t being generally con- each side, so that the wide to the ot deney to ut ¢ women.” will be ree tragic deaths have occurred tn conee- year there emberet, Stier e e ee TWO ROYAL AUTOGRAPHS. veroh or falling and being dragged by her habit. It fs evident that riding astride means perfect balance, moreover, the grip with the knees, which gives a) Of the objections to cross-maddle ridin: the oon- one need not be dealt with. ORs TIO RESS. more comfortable and better tm every way, but it ts| CROSS-BADDLE RIDING IN RATIONAL D ‘ is, when a fow society ladies take to it, Mrs. Grundy | sructive to ‘The opinton of an eminent physician is emphatic. enced horseman, how much superior the crose-saddie from childhood. Medical men are well acquainted | gteurdity and discomfort of the posttion niet with the fact jthat many little giria who ride grow |the contiaued tiisoncy-tous tal 6 Aiea hd “4 crooked, ro that ft Ie @ custom to put small riders On lis counteracted by the pressure of the & stde-saddle made with two pommels alike, one 08! geninet the leaping- in order to counteract this ten- | ¢ metrical growth. ae Naess: through carelessness of servants and the liking the Lerbock man’! ehtld has to rife on the near side, bs pelle gee le an change to the off side ts seldom made.” Charlie MacCartle. A ; “EVE died as ye lived, Chartie MacCartie, And It's not me to say ye nay to-day. For, Chartle, ye tumbled straight When the bullet nit ye nate. Bedad, ye rode, bedad, ye had an aim; A twist in both your eyes for maid or game What matter now your soul's at rest?— Yo've played your part among the best. When I°4 bungled and heard ye mutter “Blast!” I've seen you drop the stag that bounded past; Charite, I see you there, Perhaps ‘twas cwenty years or mair. Horse, man and gun, you went together one, In forest, camp and course ye had your fun; ‘Tiger, bear and erephant I've seen you track and plant. Coolest shot, ané surest, too; bedad, it's true! And more's tho pity that they had you, shure, Away there In the veldt, Your pension in your belt. Bedad, I've shot and ridden by your side; Bedad, I know you to die was pride; ‘The iife Ould Ireland gave She joys to know was brave. ° Pall Mali Garette Hubbard Ayer. RS OF THE SIDE AND SKIRT. exch side, and thet there is, It safer and 1 form,” that | OOCOSBSOSOOCOSOOOCOOSOSOSGNSSNCO. hear Lady Middleton, while advocating it becomes “s medical man and an expert ‘The ploture here, which showy a side-eaddle rider without the skirt, gives a splendid iMustration of the ten who ride have done so head. As the body rises tider may change from om@| trot, it ts held on only by the strained clutch who fe Unfortunately, | ‘The flustration of the rational rider, this sanitary | wilt show how neat and well eudh a HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. GOOD PRUNE RECIPES. IN most families the one and only way of serving prunes is stewed, but they may be made imo number of palatable deaserts. Prune made by lining an ordinary baking the dish with the prunes, cover over with a1 layer of brown bread and butter, Beat two without semmrating, add to them one pint of ) at Trinity College, of the royal visit im encouraging, or even @ helpful eriticiem, I for I was anxious to do my part well.” One moonlight night after the piay. She wae to sult her pace. Tan swiftly up the steps and the bell, when, to her horror, Dound up dehind her, “Well, what are you doing here, door of my doarding-house? Did you want some one? I have a latchkey.” T wns s0 nervous and silly I came up here to get away from you.” Margaret tried to speak lightly, but the | tears would come. He gently tucked her arm through his and led down the steps. ‘Yes, dear |ittle girl, you certa_sy need @ protector, and I most respectfully appty for ¢ life appointment tn the place. Will you marry me, for I love you, Margaret?’ “How can you, Cyril, when I've always been st horrid?” He leane@ down in the shafow of a greet building and kissed her,—Chicago Tribune, y FOOLS LLDDOELDOS940499 5-94-24 9D4-H9 QUERIES. x ANSWERS tat EVENING WORLD READERS, POOFSOSLSOOH 904-9 1949 090900900006 St. Lente, 1871. India, 1847. Iretand, 1849, - ‘Where ené when were Della Fox, Maurice Barry more and James O'Neil born? THESPIa. Wednerday. On what day of the week did Dec. £7, 1889, fall? ANXIOUR She Is Not, Ig Miss Oiga Nethersole married? JULIUS ROBBING, At Cooper Unton. ‘Where can I Jearn typewriting and stenography free of charge? Ds Jan. 1, 1898, What was the date of the consolidation of New York and Brooklyn? MANHATTAN. Sunday; Wednesday. What day of the week dia Sept. 1, 1872, and Aug. 1876, fall on? ME Gen, Brugere. ‘Who is Military Governor of Paris (France) @uring. Exposition yeer? J, HARNED. GAT Miles. ‘What {s the distance by rail from Kymberiey, South Africa, to Cape Town? ANGLO, 240,272 (Census of 1800), About how many Indisns remain extant In the United States? MN. 128,033,173. ‘What is the population of the Russian