The evening world. Newspaper, November 13, 1900, Page 6

pf GAY N.d," oure,"” TRAINING FOR THE HORSE SHOW, THE FAIR ONE—Well, Willie, I see you are all hard at work getting ready for the Hore Show, “Horses are my hobby. “These riding trousers wore Slater Maty Anastasta's bloomers before they reformed,’ “Our boarding-house, keoper Is going to enter her flory steed, Prunes, for a prize or two,” T aoquired thie firm seat by riding in the smoker on my way from Pompton, NEW YORK. By T, E, POWERS. Bven hobby horses." “My favorite saddle ts a saddle of mutton, it with caper sauce, “T cant Jump five bara as easily as I once eould before [ took the Keeley ISRAEL ZANGWIL ION is tho highest form of truth, A wire man how said, “In fotion everything Is true except and dates; i hetory ply ta} except mares ail dates.” A nov il 4 merely tella & etory iz In ila) The greatemt creations | sbort! of humanity, Many pone who have had all the exper Pannot pase Ht on to others; if they _@0UI4, they would be novelists, In my crition! capacity 1 have some aid of a novel that it wan not! to life, and the author had replied Mit ie taken from life’ Mut in wht) ? In the sense that the vuthor had Made it doad, ‘There had beon » failure Mot to copy the model, but to copy t ieeral appearance and the moveme Ufo, That lifo-likeneas wow ail (hu! mrt required, Mephistopheles, Caliban and Kipling's fongio beasts are not falne, they Gn the dines of fife, and are as (rue to he laws of thelr own nature ay Ham Pet and Macbeth, Puck and Ariel may have exivted. HARRIET HUBBARD AYER 4" ooblataletefetatebelelatede A werainn Gare Girls the sity. Sire. Aver young lady and myself went out Bloyele riding with two young men Boming home one young man's toe-clip heoame loowene J he dismounted ix it, The ing man dit ted to help him. They told us to Fide on and they would overt ko is, We quite some distance ted and waited a long did not come we rode you Kindly advise us wha Tpinw? We are almost franti Uileertainty. Bo you think tl purpose? = MAYME AND 1) E ung mer yurke, t ow an t poring: Kinlt wt diegust and t eof things escrtty 1 do not think anything happened Ppling that wwe men p 1 grerers * 4 gues AND ANSWERS eee Bin Kiehe ee ed In 18 Now York « ent for Bry B bev that | w { ley. Which wine? \ } % A Wins A Bete that Moovern & FRBD SCHLESINGER vou hed WHAM Jennings Bryan ever a it J, FLTOHDR, in This Country, of the United States To “At the Horse Show the tan barks so loudly you can't hear the band play.” “Tho only gL my horve can learn to strike ta the four-harred gate.” “Wateh me kopje the Hoors’ manner of voorloeping Into the saddle." “My hore hae just algned the pledge. So he's sure of the Blue Ribbon.” “intoletototolstotololotebototeleletoiminiotetotolobototoh peewee weer wwcerweeec coos: ISRAEL ZANGWILL, true artint an anno’ Won Shakespeare a tiar when h Hamlet Jn truthteller Joalt with Prince Halt Ham lot Was fnvented by Ahakeapeare, but » UA more and Mote every year » life ‘There wae a hor hand Jent, One day futly told would Ai a Library, but, of courme, the artint HARRIET thie AvER.| . Imentary trle The Blow That Parted Them, if brea y in at Louiny) 18 bets that he fed t sae Whieh wins 4, ONYO 2) Phere te No Law suninwt 1, " Gait g President of the United statos |! Se nominated for a third worm after hay-| Mt Nas ‘We served two termat i Y yo ! OU should not allow your grief to make work! hing ho somethti vote If the| world iy wow te one ad blow wiviee me what to do in getting #o melancholy? BROKE you ‘hese are the panaceas for Make up your mind to nd to be of use in tne) polfish. ypinton of A ve been Thin y teh fell f proposed wed ls over now, ard from him, HEARTED, Occupation, make It caracole T eprinktec SAYS FICTION Is TRUTH; THE SHORTHAND OF HUMANITY. must select, and his work would be (rue If he nelocted the tnotdents that were trie to life, Such selection should be Jone, not aa with a pate of solasora, but ae with a diminishing lens, reducing everything in true proportion, Life cons densed Into a few chonen meno ok a little, “Distance spective’ to the view." Art is not nature, but itt gatural The novellat ta a atudent of the fullemt form of fact and Nis aummarios of humanity are as \" jentiNe as tho formulae of the scien tlat ‘The ommence lien In the importance of emotion, In some forma of spiritual and moral truth emotion maker nearly the w truth; there are truth about wr which are motoretruth#, detve ne ue along. A truth ma: formu. lated, DUE It Is not (rue Unlewe it tm felt, A phonoaraph receives words but feels Ning. ‘The world Wa stabing, wine. iffering thing, A man who gives the filnees of life, with ike own emer thon, ta not only aiving us truth, ul ih higher! truth, IBRAWL ZANGWE stwens Questions ° f Perplexed Lowers, | women whom you pase every day and who aro bravely lewring heartaches and greater grief than you have every Known with dignity and swoetnews Try to find some one who requires not, You will not look far for such a Jeame and will forget your own troubles ‘in your destre to lift the burden from ithe shoulders of others, The compen walk for such unselfishne § mant fold Jinan system Fy of the reports made to it by its five ambassadors to the outer world, KJ cially alert. , NOVEMBER 13, VOL, eNO, 14,029, Published ty the Press Publishing Company, 69 to @ PARI ROW, New York. Entered at the Port-Otfice at New York as Becond-Class Mall Matter, THE TRAGEDY OF LITTLE MARY, ILL FROM “TOO MUCH STUDY.” Just now the newspapers contain almost every day one or more accounts of children made ill by “overstudy.” And loud are tho complaints from parents and physicians of Gere entr eee weed rie ory tthe courses in our schools, public and private, gelled gti It is charged that these schools are trying to SCHOO! } stuff too much knowledge into the little brains ae ee ae of the littl boys and girls; that the little boys and girls get montal indigestion and then nervous prostration, Saino of the stories bring tears to the eyes as one reads nd pictures tho unhappy ehild toiling away at Herculean tasks and slowly sue cnmbing Dut isn't there another side to thist In the first place, the brain ts the very toughost part of the hu- It works steadily day and night from the moment a child's eves open upon the world and lose while he vents his flret |howl! of disapproval to the last inoment of conseiousness, | By day the brain works at full speed every instant, By night, }when the fires are banked, it works moro slowly, but none the less steadily, And every second of this time it is engaged in one oeeu |pation—the digestion of knowledge, the reception and consideration the five senses, through the telopraphic system of the nerves, In the second place, in childhood and youth the brain is espe Its desire for work far outruns the capacity of its am GP HOt 008 0904 porn Just asa child’s body , OUR TOUGH AND VER + TRIOS BHA Ae teenee: hassadors to supply it, is incessantly in motion, so is its brain inces- santly in motion, These being the facts, why should any child with an ordinary brain break down from “overstudy (Why should the few simple courses in the currienlums of our schools have such an appalling effect upon studious children, those most in- terested in their work, most eager to learn and most capable of | of! learning? ' If it is possible to find any other explanation than “overatudy” is it not highly probable that that is the true explanation and not “overatudy” at all! What is the routine of life of these children who break down Here is the story of one child—a litte girl from “overstudy (” over in Brooklyn. She was bright, euger to lean, ambitious to he first in her clusses, She used to rive carly and eat a large brealefast, including at least one fried dish, As soon as she had ee ee aronn t ane, pip SEUDY ING, daeernececnonsceeenetoerd rushed through breakfast she sat down to her Then not very fresh hooks and worked until sehool-time she hurried to her seat in the air of the school-room. She spent the entire at work Hor nice, kind mamma believed that children onght to have plenty to eat, So this little girl always took with her to school a Inneheon composed of several sandwiches, often a piece of pic or two cream eelairs, come kind of frnit, And this sensible mamma al ways gave her little danghter some money with whieh to buy candy morning or other eupplementary “refresments,” With hor breakfast still undigested, this little girl shovelled into her littl choked-up furnace a lot of trash that would make She ate very fast, as she was eager an ostrich pause and a goat shy, to get back to work, ‘The whole afternoon was spent in stndy, or perhaps an hour or go of the lite afternoon in sitting and sewing with mamma, Then she ate If she said sho was not hungry, mamma, feeling that children onght to eat and that not to eat was to get ready for illness, would urge her to stuff herself, She went to bed, a large dinner of he worn ont, soon after dinner, “Worn out with study,” But as a mat ter of faet she was worn out with trying to stagger along under a mamma used to say, Peermmeeeeenmt fiirden of unimecessary, unwholesome and in: why Wis Lite H ni nena? bh ” Le MANY 80 digested alleg (food. WORN OTT After five years the erash came, And prteorererrereecooree? in rose tho ory that little Mary was a vietin to the eruel slavery of the schools, Of course lithe Mary's brain was tired, Of course little Mary's nervous system was exhausted, Of course little Mary was pale and thin and without appetite and ina fair way to die, But the fault was not at all in the stoking of little Mary’s brain by little Mary and her teachers, but in the stoking of little Mary's stomach hy little Mary and her ma, Tt is excellent for parents to examine into the studies of their children, But they had better negleet that duty, important though fit is, rather than neglect examining into the dict of their children, It is oxtromely doubtful if there ever is a genuine case of brain oxhaustion caused by overworking the brain, But it is not at all doubtful that many and many « brain is ex- hausted or on the way to exhaustion through being supplied with poor or bad blood because of the amazing habits of eating which our imperfect civilization still encourages, It sounds well to say, “I am weary from too much thinking,” It does not sound so well to say, “Tam weary because Tam full of the noxious poisons of ptomaines got by bolting my food like a say- age and eating quantities of stuff that are bad for me.” But which is hearer the truth! bent erectemee ermemate | PAIN ENHEAUS> TION-THE |} NOMANCH & THE REALITY, Let toate Fe ten eaete MENTAL SLIP Pee eee Friend—Why, wha Bopeck—She may ete et me Por momeee THE USE OF FOOLS. °* 47° 4 acon Jnwe; a fool I alway {1 the target for universal stead, since he le in a way the lubrleator or of amilen to give the agant THESE BITS OF FUN TO LAUGHTER RUN, ——-040-— TABBY'S DREAM OF PARA BOE. ey ( \e va WORSE TO eee. Friend —Ie tt ine that your wife has left you, Enpeck Hnpeck—Yes, and that isn’t the A be worse ve PARADOX. Honds—Bee that bank cashier? o—Well, what of him Mh ITH the ase and the has been reviled site! out of by no #i i" nyt the wheels of life, a ¢ whould be carefully bre greatest porsiblo amount of Alversion, | due Ho whould be trained ike an aotor, Unt | #eerne hie best pointe thay be brought out; he should be pald a sal amuse (he pubile Home way it nen ncnnetal tn AAAI THE HALL OF | FAME. Brief Alogrephies of Men Whose Names Are First Chosen. 26-—JOHN ADAMS. ORN th Braine tr Maas, Oot 1746, raduated from Hare vard 11%, Admited to the bar 1768, In May, 1776, moved and carried, in Congress, the resolution that the Colonies become self-governing. Was one of committee of five to prepare a declaration ot Inde+ pendence. United States Minister to Rng- land, 118-68, Blected Vice-Pron- ident of the United States 178, Re-elected 170%. Blected President 179, succeeds ing Washington. Rap for Pres ident again in 1900, but was de- feated by Thomas Jefferson. Died July 4, 1808, Barnest patriot and aggressive staterman, Father of John Quincy Adams, who was aixth Prosident of the United States, . the aT NO NT gRFERENCE wornt crank the from Ume tine y or kept in Hvery without peed for conetdoring remunerative sobriety Bush prate of fools may woem extrave op MMowical, but if it te ao fe must vo, not because the fool fy not helpful | I and stimulating In society, after all he Is not so eastly identified ax one might suppose but because a? y 4 ‘iN a, » Nt) oT ay apa CR eo oo oe * STILL WITH US. They talk of old romantic days when, +through the shining dew, the milkmaid) #ay she wasn’ here’ { sped across the mead, Well, home muk made, too. | ee ee i oe FALL label often wiser not to call a man’ a fool all, but to all | perhaps, loarn somebiing me | most dinigreeable tratt of fools; Pell abe dt n, Whee appears nwense Ix but the conslater lit of a clever and. ortgity novelty alone exettes Amun fool Uhum cheats us of ov yment by being in the right onoat of a fool to Instruct; the mark, and outeide hi | ment in Veatite and Weaknewsos carioatured spotla tt Jauwh that should | Atte eh Obed etedet oon eee {LETTERS Rt" PEOPLE, FO 00 OOO: OO Od O Intent enone beran'e Lae To the Paitor of The Rvening M4 MoKinley |e our President. I suppone he'll take the chatr; Hut if it was my dolls You would not see him there. I have no faith in McKiniey— He got In by cheat, T only wieh ft war dear Bryan ‘That was going to take the seat. T have faith in Bryan Tam no man, T know; \s And I will tell the Republicans go, ETHEL BOWNE, aged ten *, Keyport, N. J, What To the Balter of Rvening World: w to know how much | gain by buying a lot for eit for 1,00, He will ga s found by subtracting: Bi froi He galne 2 per cent., Bi. by making a fraction of the gain and the cost 8%, of 4, of 14 of I p cent, which Is % per cent LOUIS A. KERPEN, Answers (Haay One! ‘To the Bitter of The Rvening World: In le from the Peop.e’ { noth a little eaay one from P, MeVelgh anawer (0 which seems very obvious, B does four paria of the work and 3, or @ days, B could do the work In divided by 4, or 2 daya, FREDERICK DRIBCOLL, “Do Htonem Growt” ask him why he does it, ane That ts th oft tontify to the folly Hat | would not turn from a Democrat, aa ie found the) three parts In one day, together they do SM parte in 12 days and finish the work, A could Gniah it alone in St divided, by n Poor reer erro | jRETORT i DTU ‘Tho Servant—The missus told me te home. 4) Tho Caller—Very well, Just go beat and tell her T said J didn’t call, eee nemener STYLES, Viret Campaten Cigar-Well, old man; tte time for us to put on our new em-renonts ones n0tn 810 914 Fnbrtntnte® 8 OrentnrOre oe Mevayss i in Season, Says Gelett Burgess. M {It ie but a stop from that to delng @ 1, | fool one'# self! he | cannot n, rank who either, that the muses us by hin eoorntete eure \Daurdities may not eventially cheat yp nt oof the final vietory by proving to be but wt new am jo which je. \ must perforce in time ur Kn it is Into Hine with him far unt oUF prenent atth= fashioned. Lat um, we may, for your proper sphere, and yet even Confucius con who changes les Jearned polltenoss frm | oojv foot, What tor the impolite, To see one's own faults hows nay) tosinorrow Ne | be good horas Benne to watch tools ¢ them, lomt the ap | You yourself be | fool take your losopher, » wherefore It is wlae avefully when you find poll over night and ridiculous and the 6 as the amused phie OPLETT DURGESS, mi More Names than Lives. ‘The cat is 1 kat In Dantit and Dutoh, katt in ivh, chat In Frenoh, Katit or Katze fn German, catus In Latin, watto tn tw euto In Portuguese and Spanish, kot in Polish, kote in Tuenian, cath in Welsh, kath tn Cornish, catia in Basque and gas or kate in Ate mentan, . en Where They Started, Colored globes in the windows of t, Johemtate’ # were fiat displayed by the Moorish drugatets of Arabla and Apatn, AVE you anything to do? Go and do it Time will never walt for you ‘hough you sue tt, Bhirks, ike drones, will never thrive; Get there, ns a . ° inj m er , and look alive! "Din @ good and betpful plan, Only try it, Then, like ® courageous man, Sapare life by It Do the nex! thing ow, nor m “To-morrow ts another day," ce 1 A ‘Thore's that letter, lowe delayed, Go and write it, That bad temper you've dixplayed, ‘Try to fhe tt ‘Take back that unkind remark; Bab no enemy in the dark, You'll not pass this way again To undo it; Cut your swath of ripened grain , mre i }