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

ry) OW’D YOU LIKE TO BE CHARLIE? ' By T. E. POWERS. Vor. 41 pervetpresasnissee NOs M908 . Published by thé Pres Publishing Company, & to @ PARK HOW, Now York. | 144044000400406040006140006) 0¢4000S00bERtb00s-D0000UTOIIEIIOEDPLONESEEOEDD Entered at the Post-Office at New York,as Second-Class Mail Matter, | h i j “ | \ iid 6 ‘ : ‘jill HIS WAY. as al THE WORLD: THURSDAY BY FERDINAND G. LONG, x EPIGOEE EOE EEETIEE ELLE DEDEDE RHEE bee? DOPOD P EEE EPH EE DE CEL EEO e NEW YORK’S DARK SIDE; THE WAY TO LIGHT IT.! We have in New York City 178 tenement-houses whose flats do not compare favorably with the dens of many wild beasts, Yet they ure the homes of about 3,000 of our fellow: citizens, We have more thin a thousand tene- ments not one of which contains a flat com: parable in comfort, cleanness, ventilgtion or any other essential of life with the animal houses in the Central Park, We have in the better parts of the city apartmentehouses and | dwellings containing servants’ quarters that are bare, cheerless, squalid, repellent to sight and smell, We have a population of several hundred thousand—and “sev- Feral” means more than three—which spends its entire life in an Plenvironment of the most repulsive tncloanness, ~ OO ete ee Or NBW YORKERS THAT LIVE WOKSH THAN WILD HBANTS. eo SS S SS SS SS And have her buy presents for papa and memma and for Cousin Ferdinand up in Pompton, N. J., and for Unele Dottme up at Sing Bing, and for Aunt Dotty at Bloomingdale, and a hundred other people; and have your arms filled with an Btffel Tower of buadles and ) told to stay there while #he went to buy your present \ Mise Tootaey Wootney; and, after doing a lot of clever footwork In avoiding stepping on the automatic bugs on ¢ 4 t Over against these facts place this great fact: as Charlie was? ; , . , Ny i the sidewalk, be dragmed by her Into a red-hot depart+ q Wo have in New York City so little netual poverty—the ment store infested by bargain hintore-a» Charile was? a {| misery that goes hungry and naked for lack of opportunity to earn an) ' ' rat ‘ 4 V A food, clothing and shelter—that it makes a negligible fraction of |§ ‘ } our total population, { , { What is the meaning of this seeming contradiction? Why so ) F. + little poverty; why so much squalor? Why so few unable to live ‘ Q{decontly; why so many living worse than the beasts of the field | { De eeeeeeeee | Mr. Murphy, President of the Board of f Si} Wonoe oF Health, said to the Tenement-House Cou. qf Wapom rHom rir P| | , mn, MURTY, mission on Tuesday: 7 ain seat eai antacid If you will name five inepectors to go with ki five of the members of our Sanitary Police and whitewash ten of the worst , }|tonements from top to bottom, 1 will warrant that in a week thelr condition | 4 oY ‘ >} will be na bad as ever, } The only remedy te to edwente the tenants, » 9 : i There is the whole matter, gentlemen who spend so much] * time and thought and honest endeavor upon human betterment! | 2 ‘4 a = on ui , * | ow OS A - The ONLY remedy! , i : TENG, Not “reform.” Not improving appearances fur the moment, | > ( With so many taking shots at him something ought to land soon, ot whitewash. But EDUCATION, 2 " LAD PP LAER AAD ED ELLE D EDD PR DAD EDDM REE HE Edt BORE BO . f F 4 55 5 lll lll ail vi: ali as - atten counnanbianpaanaaetinnaiaeieneeuralarinceien Raiestne Squalor does not necessarily mean misery, Rags do not nec- t ‘. , c 4-And have him find you at last and drag you THE INIQUITY OF THE STAGE By Sir Henry Irving essarily ‘mean misery, Ramshackle tenements do not necessarily i Fey geht tea peed (dite 2 bi | Saline aue:bave tus piaaes Sepoat oi ran oe the D in a Recent London Addree®| neq inisery, Vice and crime do not necessarily mean misery, All] white ntice counter to the aut-rate cofMn department, and fal Tootaey's feet with the remark: "ty this If Te thie MB vicar of & DIACO NOt A HUN:) weeeemmnecemmenemooeemmen hazania that are good neither for the : A th civilized life, i fat last have hee appeal toaPfully to a big polleeman and — the Thing you mistald? I found it running Kbout with. dred mitea from Blackheath |e foul nor the pooltet, | have even heard these mean ignorance, unfitness to partion pate in civilized life, in- be looked for by the same~ne Charlie wast out an owner?—AB HE DID CHARLIE? a quite sure that "the actor's yoru: with regret of Wesleyan mintatets being capacity to give and receive in return civilized benefits, LPP D44 44440 RO EDE- HO 0490944 14-6644624OOOO4-066 290004044 O4G490 0 tion 1s not according to the mind of landed In such a net. , i aa Tee ay TORRERRP TAPES, Get," Well, if this be true=whiteh What would become of the world It Do you want the east side slums to disappear! Then educate KNOWS IT ALL. ‘THe LADY WAS OBLIGING. leaven forbid—that Jertake no business of Lae) a hie: fi | may venture 0 a Daasors weil bo hed iret aawured nin-| the east side, educate it in the only way that humanity is ever bm worry to pay that some of ny triende elf that under no condition sould the " ‘ ing i i Be (who are also friends of all in the world faahe aiveermeisa, pREGOONLY. Srole WAN (pt eduvated-—-by tonching it to be eager to learn, to improve, to grow whe love light and leading, and who dent tor bimaelf, upset the moral bail upward, by teaching it to teach itself. 4 i v un J 6 bh h on 0 u n Td linge a tbvedtae ih od he Me citsiahgesat let! ba! It in no exouso for the owners of these den-like tenements that 4) come through Imagination) are left io endowed with @tabilty and sense’ that singular situation I fancy the world would put up tts shutters, many pulpite would be vacant, and (hd buainene of continuing the human race would euffer 4 dimetrous check, thein tenants are incapable of living in human habitations, A self- respecting man or woman would bé ashamed to own such places. No language is too strong to use in condemn- every Tam Inolined to (hink that these mia fortunes will be averted, and that even ing these ownbrs, They ought to be regarded Decent men and women ought THe RPAL PRON. , Firm Fly-<iee! the theatres will not close thetr doors, | 1M Om VICK with horror, Herbert Bookworm * drama i an Indispensable expres- AND SQUALOR. n ni ‘ acts proud! , 4 sion of the human aplelt. It te capable (fo, 5 peoemmocnnh shrink away from them just as from any} ge ia iyi rhe to. Hie been \ clear through a a rather awkward position, ‘The worthy vicar says that 4 play turns upon such alne as anger, theft, false witness, covetousness, > #0 forth, and that !t cannot b ht for | “any man calling himeelt Christian to ) live by personating and making it 4 are hie own eins, whieh God has dis- —— tinotly forbidden 1 Gentlemen, this |v a purely Uieologions bese, upon which I do not presume to | i delights RUMP oeinion, |\.tsan conor other foul thing that lives upon and dolight ferent not only for accors in foulness, But it is a snd mistake to think that by exposing and ie rand prosecuting the proprietors of hovels, of dives, of sinks of depravity, }you can wipe out the moral and social slums, As Mr, Murphy so of the greatem, helghte-tt ts capable of the trivi and unworthy, Tha ts that it broad mirror of human nature ——— READY FOR WINTER, “Do you suppose,” asked the Obser- vant Boarder, "t stoves will go up as a remult of the formation of the SIR HENRY IRVING. Pewee ween eee enwewooecwces ing the moods and pasvions and lems ) teman—or, rather, by hie sermon—an vf society in all ages, and Smmorial souls, you must be De lenterpriaing Wesleyan minister, who! ideals tha; afe uplifted or depr iti ! My i ints ( H lifted OF depressed 1 + . a bla stove corporation?” , Bonious as the players to what (hit argues that plnygoing to ba wate needa} the ambitions of which ine Are. the |Aensibly) points ont, the tenants create the hideous conditions no shy ity Be ccal hate” Popiled the Btn Gt iee Alcahion. Dnt chin te on | Occieene Ne#d, Abd thers are so many | Instruments matter Whore they live, ‘To remedy, you must educate, Cromm-Byed Boardor, "but 1 know some- v" ne Manly ote is BN) weak heade that ea) Chrletian | But (his wort of thing goes on and will fal bs 1 eed + thing eise that is about due to go up.” ’ ‘ bsg with gia the peor oriinary Isa Timuat abun the th {pot for his Jong as people aro willing to And it is a sad mistake to suppose that the only places in neod ev vnat ts that?’ ne a cannot pretend t Yad We MAY) own sake, for the ke of hie weaker w 0 mats) ' tonne ' « ” Soe! w iktte surprise at the confidence! hruibren though It may. seem wtrange YO famalonaliam or tT of education as to how to load a civilized life aro the slums, Inj "The stovepipe 7 » ban the nat th ie ta eo oernin, actor atid 4 eigeces RR es walling Tele Rhee AMT | some respects the slums are the least important centres of har- A PAMILY ARGUMENT. 4 ee ie i sai bal : y \ yer divine with e ‘igh and revered A i irtv “Clara, you know I'm right. Willle Wontwork—Madam, I'm er wanderer on de face er ea) a 0 be on are we ne *, whilet J ne i ¥ , mre cae | aR eae a fie weak heads, 1 fear, whieh dabble calling uncharitableness and ungra barism, All the bad housekeepers do not live in the dirty teno-| ClArh Nie wie Titty what! shelter mei and ould I stay hore all night? Hiiecentine . monts, All the wasteful and prodigal do not live in little downs) makes me get #0 mad.” Lady Wr de House--Cortninly; atay right where you are, : LAURA JEAN LIBBEY There Is Nothing Like Mother's Love, of tt a [town’'tlats, All the people who are unaware of the duties and priv- R FT KUBBARD AYER Two. Néw Baths de Luxe; a ‘8 a Heaven Holds No Sweeter Baten. |jleges of lived life and of what it really means to be a civilized HAR | ‘ " Ootmeal and Marshmallows os Beautifiers, A F all the loves which the worl | 4 t-e-t-eseee see eeeeemed storme may dash hie bark about on the A iy te ight” distri! OW years ago we were Fortunately {t does not com a quesn’e : () holds thero i» mone whieh equals | t a f life, the mother's heart to the | tuman being do not live in “red light” districts, iafte i4 ne rel vibes Ene ap ce oohe at NOT the love of the mother 1 steadtant rock (9 which he can anchor Dirt acoumulating in the private quarters of the house while the marvellous beauty of & Any woman who chooses to take the ‘The wife of one's torom may find | Nie craft and eseape shipwreek, Who 1 I li lidly .. | Young actrera, who, we were informed, | time and trouble to prepare the vege ‘ polace in another love after a re | | praye for the waneering boy as does the the show rooms shine is more dangerous than dirt eandidly every- ageribed the avtiny quality of her lovely and filing, Be Fewmth of time spent in widow's weels | > dear old mother? Who grieves over hia nro. ate , ite kin to a morning bath in warmed milk. Mix one pound of marabmallow flow- i The chii one hea cherivhed And! § InMafOFtUnos And FeJoleOd aver hin Joye | Pome-eesenerenn-enends where, Viee masked as a polite Anuisement Evening World readers wrote me more ors, one-half pound of hyasop herb and recompenre in the love of a heartina \} fe doen she? 1} enow nyPoc- is mor dangerous than the frank depravity | questions concerning the milk bash then oleht pounds of bran thoroughly te ¢ laters and brothers are pron { | If God called for a life and the mothor | nny A . the div A Fifth ave Coal 'T four able-bodie! woven with lehtning wether, po soon; tho father shuty could give her own to ave that of Nor | | war apso wa SHENG, of the es, A RI avenne Coal TIst) aonographor ans; ants, could have an- Mako open bage of cheesecloth, They Frwohitely guint memory » boy, how gladly would (he aacrifee DOOR Late conjposed of the eminently respectable is more | *wered working #mteen hours a day, DERAIE baphaut Seht/iiapme rome: aed he door which he would fain mate! y A Meanwhile the actress who was caus: | OVe wide, closed, blew her LAURA JeaW LIBDEY Auch in the wonderful, unselfieh do. |? DRMIVER Us. dangerous than a league of Bowery thugs. | ing atl this odmmo | PU the bags shout @ quarter full Ja faithful to her Tove for her ot a Oe eee eaten cnn comma J votednens of mother-lave peremmememethh 1. ay lie’ aa’ Wale terprise [2% ipatrwete with the mixture and sew up the opem Lieeted close In the hour of death u Heaven can rend Us no sweeter balm Iehoneaty PArACIng AS DUAINCRS CNCTPEISC | oye dnd semntstectinieal commeioutions tn Mie lon’ Pe) wil things of this world earthly In Upholding that whieh should be cons] for the worst of tile than the love of ired as “smartness” is more dangerous than burglary and| the prpes anept the virtues and the) ‘nens you leave plenty of room for Though the sine of her child be many demnet, and perchance abandoned wenle mother, who i the morning of a land admired ih . B ‘ Hone be d negaiive even detrimental, effects of the) the bran and herbs to swell the bag and his virtues few the mother's hear ner the ohlid ‘ fe our exlatenio> and the evening mar ee{eneak-thievery. Hypocrites are more dangerous than the wreteled | mik bath. wil de I'kely to burst, finds pardon for his tranagrossions even f 1 of promine’ piven to her by the} ite, pointing th ped y Ay ; At te same time | was informed by | Put one of the bags in the tub and BPAY Ths fase. 6f, jimtonnect, 3 le re:| inivine hand fremh tHe Garten of Para-liifete day Wetting eee ‘*! vicious and erininal of the slums. Rite aa” Fina io cade draw water as for an ordinary bath, a deeming tralte are magnified in her dive Prine hor dearly while she is with By all means let us educate, And let us begin by throwin, | -_ ‘The oat meal bath ts more expensive vision Until he seem ona of the novlent matter how, the thorna.which clina'| cop God enn give you Dubepe woth” Le gin) 8! DAINTY GOWNINGRAY |f wanaiee muppamp AYER. {| 204 als> impirts a delicate. whiteness aa and beat of God's creatures to it may wound he clasps it close LAURA JAN Linney, |away whitewash, and velvety softness to the alia, Sho will forgive his crimes though the) to her bosom aod cherishes It with a " as Aree ee corae SSR SERIE > et] i Pr heenec! whole world be against bim, and reach | love like no other love. ‘ 1 ikb Garsmien wen ppg) phd d Dut her hand to him and atrugeie with| if the blown falte into deoay and) NEW EVENING WRAP, |DR. BELLINZAGHI THANKS THE EVENING WORLD, © iMtle Bipd vhat. knew a good MeO) with this mixture: Ont. geal Ave Kim through the bitterest of advers!-| withers ere jt» prime, for her no other To the Déiter of The rebing Word (mune them ihe Geibe. ware. of 6 About the actress that her Iadyeh® HAM.) onda: pulverized forentine orrlay thee, though she jose the friendship of | Wlossom can take \ts pace. “4 a8 a matter of fact, been quite content Ad th both ; ri I wish to express to you my @incere | most interesting, satisfactory and con: t bluttons one and one-half pounds; almond meal, the whole world through that loyalty No matter how crueily the world’s and grateful for the kind manner| vinoing nature, antistying th every par- 0 ure perfumed water for her ablution®) one pound; powdered white eoap, one Until an enthusiastic prom agent nad wet the milk story going, whef It became Dowitl: Heoermary for Ker to make good, as the paying 1% and ee woe obliged to purchase eoveral gations of milk dally and bathe In it in onter not to undo much beneficent advéritaing, ‘The result was what aff hmktng woman might have prophesied ‘The mille bath proved a momentary in whieh your uable paper referred | Uoular the medical profeasion, at the to me on vot. 5 last tn the treatment of | same time sustatning {n every sense ali yellow fover and the tmmuniaing of| that I claim for my serum, persons. Hoping dhav | may be able In some My recent experiments in both the way to repay your valuable newspaper treating of patients suffering from the for the kind favors, 1 am Very grate yollow Cover as well aw rendering others fully yours, Dr, A, BELALINZAGHL half pound, aaa et F # LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. ws eee Children Demolinh Ach-Cans, DF the Waiter of THe Kvening Wort IP LIP WERE ALL PLAY. ary old world, Beall ita We And we call it @ dreary old world; te ae eettt: and 1 wskad her if she would support me in case I ever got out of PHRASES. POPULAR } tng be done to prevent chile Work. and whe said, "Yes, | would work ee bicning ied oat “1 The ee for you until T dls 1 thought to my luxury and left the skin delighttuliy But what if, some day, May & very well-dressed \ittle girl watko | Mei “You are too wiking, 1 guess E smooth and soft, | We were wafied away 4 4 ies, and neelng my bratd-new ash-pail ¥ y you.’ And I didn't Yeu in the course of two oF three To Verhs or Mare, i hicked a large hole in it, 1 yelles \. M, New Rocheie, N.Y ours after the milk ablutions the Or to other high atare bather became aware of & moat wn- wer mueh wie Whore work waa un Rane the begun lo nay much wicked What Sort of Booket pleasant odor of a slightly sour and ite was all ayl stall hs that I was competied to sefd rather olly mature, two little boys for fear they 7 Raitor ot Toe ne World ; re be fannot we have this oute| What» yoks would your wise It by chance you havé ever caught! { We would wearlly nigh to come stopped? | readers advise me to read? 1 am fairly Kd at ot hal(sboaree 0 may | wh back, r, | well o ted, out cannot exp now it was not an perfume | ‘e would stubbornly try to come ANNA BRADLEY, Brooklyn, | 81)! slics ann ba ty'd Li for @ dainty tittle woman to keep com- back, pany with, ‘Thus tt happened that the milk bath was a shortlived caprice and haw had , |:ne permanent vogue, a “ Other bathe do lyse have properly au- Sra 0, ory pecans etn tot sem SSNs j ca Girlie Bower to Marry? | ‘Where pleasures are won of The Bevan id to the young man who ts mak- week and whore mottier thinks sayn there were 18,090,00 more peo- to maintain a wife and| ple employed during MoKiniey’s admins 4 him to move tol letration than there were during Cleves) Thle wrap of embro‘dered heavy -ailkt he can get any) land's term, B says not.eo many. Will|has a high collar andveape effect of er- to marey Om, | some statsuclan among your readers mine; the rosettes at 1 _ Wisk Agure thie out for wet aM, How Many Men Bmp! To the fal The Rrening Worl?