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EW YORK CITY 100 YEARS AGO. : HE celty was light : dark of the whale-oll ante: 1 J and painted, (€) The average merchant lived ove ‘tore, Business besan wed at oP, M. iepts were swept hy th ¥ Saturday morning. 1 § general. teing achools were ni “on and minurt wer jyigades.” Etwere were _/sRO8 only one p treet. Io ith candles cows roame Ollo wite=in, Men wore mustaches Bmoking wis rosa i MiNKe wan brought A peddled from wo Was thirteen hours a) Buffalo four doys and by. A.day passed be- Vashington. Bit An: Bes . 1 ro yout | | grone-a-ont-e-ene-orasenons 6) The last time was the year 1000. The i es that the period for the end of time fi =a | a I! em teenth Century ina phrase, he would say that it wi init | electricity: to rae COMANCTERISDC Save atoms were dabelled king, ott when he was five ver tipon each of these i them a ¢ ness of the possibilities of ine £5 Tes ie wise Ska wave A PME SNE Cones, CO029900000005900200008 5 Our BABIES IN 2001 A. D. Ferdinand G. Long. puss felnivininielelet even then about to bee J ecenenenmnentntnpetnemees hed, LABORATORY PERAMBULATOR, REASSURED, I wonder why everybody keeps Do you see any reason Miss Katosh? She (after a giance at his counte- I can’t see why any the muster sai “Is the name of something which you lo'and “Pil-| can think of but not touch. Can youl gor qt, give me un example?” - red-hot, poker!" qwaw one bright! nance)—No, really, one should look twice, abstract huun, TUESDAY EVENING, VOL. 41. -NO. 14,378. Published by the Press Publishing Company, 63 to 63 PARK ROW. New York. Entered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Ciass Mall Matter. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY— THE AGE OF THE COMMON MAN. A new century—the new century! What does it mean to vou? Why do sou tpeeineeeeceees chcertilly, so hopefully ¢ wir py SEW CEN RY MBEAN that the millennium was to begin, During that entire year people of all classes and condities daily and hourly expeeted the appearance of the angel who would stand with one foot on the land and one foot ign of heaven upon earth, the reign of on the and herald the v peace and justic Nine centuries, and again the world that pri sses notes at numeral—the Twen Why ¢ Ki th Century—with expectation, answer we dust look back over the century that has just passed. Gl Istone once said that if he were asked to sum up the Nine- “UNHAND M That is, in the Nineteenth Century man, p © upon the earth, led with the chains of mental and physical tyranny wherewith ignorance and superstition had bound him, ke off # cereta-e-ene-e-e-enene- 3 GLADSTONE'S staggered to his feet and began to his shackles one by one. What is the meaning of all these ma- over land and sea, bearing comfort and enlighten- ment und aspiration into the remotest places, to the humblest per- sons Until this century instimtions ruled everywhere. The king vas no less the slave of these institutions than the peasant. The in idual man was nothing, an unidentitied atom. Some of these + prince, others burgher, others easant. But net one of them ever thonght Gocthe’s great thought sold and ran to his mother, “Mutter, Mutter, ieh bin cin Teh!” (Mother, Mother, Tam shouting: fan DS) All were regarded as, and regarded themselves as, part of “the > machine.” . Today, how ditt Ss nee has con Aud swift as the lightning she is stamping i uality, is breathing into each of us sciousness mportance, dignity—a cons ividual achievement, The Nineteenth Century has been paving the way to make of the Twentieth Century— The Age of the Common Man. t Not te ates, not to inatitutions, not to eastes and orders and ranks belongs the Twen- tieth Conturg. It belongs to the Common Man—to you, with your stout heart and your willing and capable hands, and your active, eager brain, and your sense of the equal rights of all men, What is the watchword of this new day? It is—YOU. i eternal” — Freedom and Democracy. could not see into the future, could not see how swift progress was ming friends: No matter how vigorously you bestir yourself, you will leave ed and as foolish as you found i How the Nineteenth Century has belied all the prophecies of pessimism. And hew the Twentieth Century will belie all the , prophecies of its pessimists. To realize this you must penetrate the dust and noise and clamor that constitute the surface of things. You must look deep Mat the reality, and at last make ou the lines of the Common Man— re ee | Tea EST a: WOMAN IN 2001 A. D. Xg ‘ OVELY By T. E. POWER_S. ute its dawn so Nine centuries have passed since the world that measures time from the birth of ten to New York in + terial wonders of the past century? What is} the deep-lying significance of steamship and| railway, telegraph and electric light, the harnessing of steam and Oo COCHCOEOE OOCCOGOCE EC CC COCCOCE LOD DOOR ORONC DOC000000, or worrled « saw a kinetos nbriiged Dt Roentgen He had ne taken a ride in an ele-|9¢ vator. | pants or anything else, he could wot dy did not Ravw ° wed ane Yov 00/98 OUT y arte # AAR? Tras ye on tne ® NTU mer vat Gyiase Marceons 1 H <1 eRe, WN) ey LIF€ A CENTURY AGO. Q)ur ANIMALS IN 2001 A. D. Qi hundred years ago a man could By B. Cory Kilvert. not take a rit yas He could, net go from V had ne Hid not send a teleg ldn't talk throug never heard of |} hy the tele shone MCS Wl 6 hello girl, lof UASLDE OR | g12€ sgrapher uld not ride a bleye donot eall ina a letter. He co: and diet Me had ni symmuntcation. ‘5 ed a typewritten hr He had never heard of the zerm theory baci and back looke! phan tb hheror has his peoure a phonosraph talk e turn out a prize-fgh never he ae through « Webster's Un. mary with the ald of a He ney imagined such a thi s machine or a tyr Ce INCRE DE MIS had never used anything but n ploash, He hat never seen his wife using 4 He oad on je couldn't take an anaesthe his log cut off without fe hil neve whieh w as a miracle of art Wit ret buy a paper und learn © never velf-bindIng hary wrecroseed an ir w eral things that) 1 things he Cows wit BF BRED ON ~ rlority aver & vip to lip, from land to land, from race to race flies the [oy aire, an old man, battling for fifty years for the rights of man, grew not disheartened but discouraged in his old age. He}" velopmen we. So he wrote in eynieal mood to one of stood for 4 ously formed, welghx more and lives |"), THE 20TH CENTURY WOMAN BY HARRIET HUBBARD AYER, ALL to the woman of the twe our sweet aneestors ‘alts eternity!— 4 t woman century se In hor highest expressions she h fin Mpunisivs takes her place in the ev for Kool sor her rightful y world, and her rightty aac century product of the . ax virtuous, the sheltered angels whe takes the place arne! for and nity of working out tae rigat for the full 4 exercise of all her the twentl- ellaus strides f the early t the typleal maiden the nineteenth century These of ue who have watched her de- ay In the twentl A her bright, reg air, her rad! yehind man, not as his inferior, king women in oc- more or less skill. army and navy. we h wslon and x 4 thousand thes more tand mote wholesome than the and sentimentality wmaniiness In her gr granddame to the oft repeated at- Taken phyalcally alone, the girl of to- _ HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. womnniinews of the sex lay Is iw goddess compared to her sister ‘ritleed. to her emancipation, Incaleulable dangers and made her a Mlaeal ot ou iad | mere pup Hay tothe first | lady who deal of ae e tran rh i i S nyo! J Ww . ty and no- She is taller, stronger, more harmonl-| thay yqunnt |! thet Jay: ¥ simeviesty tc ‘of woman hax brought the truest exampje, ager than her progenitor, who entered | young worm » toile: » sk . " my y the 5 present herselt « Jedged and revered put- puna the toile Fatt the desk and bene h and lever and hee start eamoe aie. a present het edged sandirevered Pats THE NEAL plough, his mind bent upon his work, his work | 0 eo ie three inches. Ht veel iin “choust {weath untold. ASUEY the improvement of his own condition and the | To-tay It fs five feet etx ine without edueath fds aye hundreds of PROCLAIMING i i 5 ; ‘A well-formed, symmetrical girl to-day ete ome ie ha : ‘ THE handing down of the heritage of life richer | «ij, weigh 1%5 pound, with not an our ce 1 race oivehind — th . Fi s 1 vusly nurs yt sr mens! a MILLENNIUM. and better in every way than he found it, | of surettiueus test on her harmontously ny’ yout in her men: | Under many skies und many flags this Com- mon Man is building a» silently, as surely as the coral insect, build- ing an enduring civilization whose foundations will be Knowledge, |! pounds was her aver ; : ra t} lustice and Freedom. Don’t worr Trust to that Common Man. Our ancestors of nino centuries ago watched for an angel from the skies. And lo! each was entertaining that angel in his own bosom tnawar ‘Trust the Common Man, Trust Yourself. And for the new cantury take a new motto: 5 Think and Work!” New Century! Right glad are we This New Year's morn to meet you ! Find may you bring some pleasant thing Co all the To whe greet you! developed body. vuigar if she had not the ap being extremely delicate book-mualin’ curls, a small rosebud mouth and an innocence .which stood rded as rance of nyateally, and weight. The mald of 1800 was re he twentleth-century girl is a crea- of splendid healt uperblslerand : HOW TO LIVE TO BE functions that devolve upon her sex. Look up your oll miniatures, your AB HUNDRED YEARS OLD, family portraits, your novels and dlar- fes of the beginning of the nineteenth century and agree with:me that beside z i tho fragile, half-Invalla, wholly depen|- + POSSIBLE FOR BABES OF TO-DAY TO BE ALIVE IN 2001. ¢ ent and angelic prettiness which his- © promote longevity purity of food must be assured and food toricilly revea' our forbears, the short- adulteration of all kinds prevented. Pure alr, pure water and skirted, seasibly-shod, —_ rosy-cheeked bodily exercire are invaluable alds. iM. W. WILEY, daughter of 191 Is altogether adorable | %¢ President of the Hundred ch, == | by, contrast {vol helcye of cel tabuider: OW, then, 4s the riddle to be solved? Cicero came very near to 4 ‘The herolnes uf Richardson's novels, when he sald, ‘In order to lve long It ts necestary to live slow} with thelr ringlets, heir fainting fits, Our own William Cullen Bryant expressed in the closing years of their megrims, their tears, their fallies his tong and splendid career something of the same truth: “It ts all and little tagedics we must assume summed up ina word,” said he, “and that word Ix moderation. were foundel on ‘something real in ¢ho DR, GARLETON SIMON, way of womankind at that period. Director of Vital Statistics, (ne Hundred Year Club, new material, Rest, in order to extract the nutriment, Abstention from all cooked foods, DR, JULIAN P.-TiYOMAS. Yonth was inevitably aseocinted with Eves to expel the used up materials, Replenishment with