The evening world. Newspaper, February 13, 1901, Page 10

Ad SES 4H fiw Wt (Da Transit’s a iittl Than when When yout But the crowding’s the same; It's ram, jam, HE LITTLE OLD NEW YORKER. e rapider now Noah first moted the Ark; rans “Little Old New York.” smash and maim QUOTATIONS IN LITERATURE. Mterature apt quotation reveals the ] omnivorous reader as surely as the habit of dating letters by saints’ Gays reveals the ritualist. But the amnivorous does not always deal freely fn quotation; he may remember that jw compost of what other people have said {8 Intolerable unless the cementing medium Is original; my enatter In other people's manner may pass: no matter in other people's manner will not; It Is Mke Thackeray's picture of louls XIV.'s robes without louls. Furth the kind of quotation re- veals tho quoter’s bent of mind; he quotes for matter or for form. If 1 use the words about Shelley” 1 in algebraic symbol for the mod- ern tendency to reail criticism and not the thing criticised, to cultivate the poct and cut the poem. If 1 steal from Mill “the thoroughly polythelstie conception of a devil It is because the phrase embodies a whole argument against orthodox theolog: If 1 borrow Don Quixoto'a vile which still carry their hele about with them” It {¥ as a succinct exprension of a definite eschatology; and Tagehot's “inimds « trary flexture” stands for nw long desertption of the people with whom repulsion ts a more effectual mo tlve power than attraction All these are material quotations; nerve a difference between the san uty attaching to these and to those of the formal kind. Let one pervert the application of a nd tt ts falne coin nall It to the counter, und off y vin to he Kindred tn the elgnth efrele of the Inferno, within easy reach of the father matertal quy=asior THE NAMES OF FLOWERS. dich HE peculiarity of flowers in color, | form, or smell have « Irth to ¢ Poetical fancies abo are more remarkable for monotony of invention than for beauty of feeliy As a general rule, flowers spring tears If they are white, from blushes from blood If they are red. Lili valley are in France the Vir anemones jn Iion's ity! 4 of Venus for Adonis, and the whiten, according to Mitny. fo have aprung from the tears of He was probably a white fowe Delleve Catullus, the blushing for the wound jt the foot of Venur us she help Adonta, But tf Stepren Merrick right, who of all our old jets deain| TRUTHS. ym | r| tears lenturn, Tt tstened to SELF-EVIDENT “Taking steps in the right direction.” most 7 bets Worsted er thelr whit Ba t blushed and “fret This Is very Uke Ovid’ mulberry fruit taving became red. y far from the towne « the ide heath (or hetle) grew came to own as heatien (or helde).—Les- BRAIN DURATION, “RENCH investigator has come to the conclusion that the brains of military and naval men gly : Me states that out of K. profers are hope! Of the so-called like artists are the first to succumb to th brain strain, next the lawyers, follo tance by noand civil Moctors, rvenia, at some Mterary im ine an average of thts group, to each 10,000, Domestic borers are not far behind, jwith BY W. W. FOWLER, BRITISH ESSAYIST. of Hes and citer of scripture; but its precise words do not motter Formal! quotation, as we mean it, be- longs above all to the victims of invert- ed plagiarism, the writers who would lke to add a clause to the commination serv! for those who “have sald our The conviction to supply the thought and plagiarist had e, good things before us." that we were destined electric spark between speech, if the Inverted not prevented us, ix r, mostly de- ceptive, but sometimes true; leant there are some whose wits so run in the channels that others have cut that It ts near truth, Quotation misquotation, half-quota- tion and more riythm-echo have so sat- urated a style tke Lamb's that {t must be a bold man who Will undertake to say through a page—thls is Ela, and that ts not. Me has become he has Hved upon. ye with the writers A POPULAR ETON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13 , 901. Published by the Pr Ing Company, 63 to & PARK ROW, ? ‘at the Post-Office at New York an Second-Class Mall Matter. [A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF | OUR AMAZING CITY “GOVERNME The last annual report of the Chief of Pol that there were during the year The last anm of London shows hiteen homicides, report of the Chief of NEW YORK'S { Police of New York shows that there were GovE v Rea tiieiers Gh Fit} As THE PATRON} during the y 284 homic ide i or nomicipr. 1 London’s population is more than a mill- 9 terenenemenerene-e-en-ene- 5) jon of New York. startling exhibit is the worthy ion greater than the popul n that figure—2S4 homicide In that fi 28547] 1 we have of the reign of lawlessness of which Van Wye presiding genius. The overwhelming majority of New Yorkers are peaceful and orderly, But the turbulent, the criminal and semi-criminal minority rules. Evil-doers feel at home under [ee-Trust Van Wyek qnd Four- Corners Devery. They feel safe. They know that they will not le disturbed except with the greatest reluctance. There are fifteen principal departments in this Van Wyek adininistration. Of these no less than thirteen are under public condemmiation: The Depa A FEW ovuT- ‘ES OF GOV- NMPN'T OF, Fon AND ny PLUNDER, | | ent of Education hus developed a series of scandals, the greatest of which is. perhaps, the fact that close upon 75,000 children cannot get into our public schools. The Devartment of Fire is just now under fire, the Comptroller having exposed its methods of paying exorbitant prices for inferior articles because there is a “rake-off” for somebody. rtm Then there are the seandals as to promotions, which have gravely impaired the discipline of the force. The Department of Buildings is « department of pulls and plunder. Do you wish to violate the building laws? Tt ean be arranged.” Do you wish to put up an honest building without pay-| ing any “psotection?” That is more difficult. The Department of Taxes and Assessments.—W iy was {not the Standard Oil bank’s Custom-House property put upon the tax-rolls? Why the multitue and gross oppression? The Department of Charities.—You have been reading the Bellevue exposures, no doubt. The Department of Health.—What has become of its of instanees of gross favoritism HE BABY OR THE POODLE? By B. C. KILVERT. Is baly still t For Face Rouge. Dear Sra. Aver: Will you please give a recipe for mak- ing a face rouge? L. V. THOMPSON. AKE of pure carmine one-nalf | dram; French chalk, two ounces. Mix thoroughly, Moisten with gum arable. Dissolve in water until you have \ thick paste, so that !t will form intu a ball. ‘The chalk’ and carmine must both be sifted through fine silk bolting h. You really need a mortar and to mix the carmine and chalk as they should be for this, To Rantsh Freckles, Dear Mra Ayer: Could you tell me any process by means of which I may remove freckle*, blackmailing attack upon the Manhattan Elevated ¢ The Department of Docks.—You remember its “arrange- ments” with the Teo Trust to shut out all ice from New York except the high-priced trust article. | THIRTEEN OUT ae STE The Department of Parks.—lt, too, DEPARTMENTS was concerned in the Manhattan Railway BUSY AT AS- seat . sues ae me SAILING B blac Kans iling plot. And its permitting huek. CITIZEN, sters with “pulls” to use the publie parks, to build shops there and to shut out the people. The Department of Public Improvements,—Ive-Trust Kearney, Nagle the Giant Sloth, Ramapo Dalton and Holahan. The Department of Laty.—Whulen, who tried to prevent rapid transit, who tried to push through the Ramapo steal, The Department of Police.— for the Protection and En wement of Criminal Viee. The Municipal Assembly,—It spends its time in putting through what petty “jobs” it has power to control. It has been conspicuous only twiee—in the bond “hold-ups” and in the Manhat- tan blackmuiling. The Mayor,—W hs onte | [WOMEN ARE OF NO ACCOUNT IN CHINA. HEN @ gon fs born to a young ouple In China there is great re- y, rather, the Department 1 oftice a poor man; who fought rapid transit, aided in the Manhattan blackmualing plot, was at nspi head of the Tee Trust, is the stanch supporter of Devery, He confessed on the witness-stand that a vear after he took office he became owner of ST50.000 worth of stock, 10,000 of it in the Lee Trust, within a period of twentyedays. He is the tit and proper key stone of This arch of se evernment” whieh sustains robbery and jobl plunder and peculation, depravity and debauchery, assantt and battery and or, wis th a@nayp AND Chimn, 10-0 erenerenenerenene: « A fashionable gown exceuted dn pearl. broadcloth hax an Eton jacket the Paquin back and revers of ftel mahoginy broadcloth. The sleeve Ix finished with an undersleeve of Ren- tieninee cream The skirt Is made over a gray taffeta ining, with the duated fan effects of tucks. Litte tassels and git brad can be added to enliven the gown If wished, JAkk’ SORTS Ono Wom Idea of Men. To the BAltor of The Evening World: I’ wish to state that a woman who. “posseuses.a goo) husband !s certainly to aK 66, while a woman who {s mar- man of a deceiving disposition | fiirt, which the majority are, tly to be pitied. Take the married to-day, Very few do not flirt they wee a nice looking girl. A '® place is at home evenings with jjwife and family, but it 1s a certain BA nerlove fact that very few men ‘do this, Why do we have so Bidivorce cases? Tecauxe men are Husbands. With a fow excep- B are too true to men, Wo th OF TORICS wealth, Each etate has a and a cadinet. Although, parliament velng Eng: ho |lish dependencles, they make thelr own! # must be approved by, representative before go-' these law hi effect. If George TII, had | granted theee concessions to the Amer!- can colonists the latter would cheer- fully have retired to thelr homes sing- Ing “God save the King!" However, what the English didn't know we Amesi- cans have taught them We have, in- deed, taught them this lesson: "Men are attracted by the power of love, but be toward = the AMERICAN, A Vien for Chenper Music, jing Into must pay from $1 to $3. Now, tf good muste ts cheap in Italy, why can't it be almost ax cheap here? Italy ts a land of song. New York ts a town of ollars, ut, just the same, why can't such of us as are wixe enough to love good muste get tt without mortgaging our houser to pay for ticketa? Let's hear from some more muste lovers on this subject. LINDA TORELLO. ‘The Card-Playing Commater. To the Ialltor of The Evening Wortd: 1 am a commuter and I want to protest against the amount of space taken up in the already too crowied smoking cara by card-players, Cilques of men tip the baggage-smasher or the % ‘To the Editor of The Evening World T have ved much of my life In Italy, In most cities there one can hear really rood opera (grartd operu by fine sing- ers) at from) 20'to @ ccate, Here one n Unt ew brakeman for cards and they hog about half the seats, If railroad compani would look into this matter with a view to reform our smoking cars would be leas like Chicago Dispens and better ft- homicide, AND THESE FACTS ARG MERE TENTS, MERE OUT CROPPINGS OF » CORRUPTION THAT ORISS-CROSS THROUGIL OUR ENTIRE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL FABRIC. Took about you. You are paying these men—46,000 of them year in salaries. For what purpose? Not to administer the public affairs, but to prevent proper administration. Not to help the city to progress, but to prevent progress. Not to protect life and property, but to protect the assailants of life and property. And those city employees who are trying to do their duty are hindered or prevented or punished by their idle and corrupt superiors, There is just one redeeming feature. This “government” was installed and is maintained by the people of New York. And the worst sufferers are those who did the most to put it into power. | ted for the occupancy of sano non-card-. waiting for five or ten minutes In they players. I realize that cards are about cold weather for a car, and by the time | as high an order of recreation as the one {s In sight the perann waiting ts al- average commuter's mind can grasp, | most frozen. IBAAC B. but give the others a chance Whee tGnnelites Good! wir. BLAUVELT V, BEAM, Pompton, N. J. ee iagenoee tee os To the Editor of The Evening World: The Crowded Car. 1am about to be married within a few To the FAttor of The Evening World months, and I am told Ly some of my Imagine, {f you will, on a cold morn-| folks that my disposition and stews ing a car containing twice as many pas- | Would not make me a very good wife; 30 sengers as there are seaty for; ladies | Can J ask some of your readers to glvo being pushed from one end of the car|Me their idea ax to what constitutes a to the other and men going to a hard| food wife? day's work squeezed in their seats. Why A Great Chi not compel those rich men who control] zo the Editor of The Rreaing World car compantes to run more gara during | While trying to board an elevated train the day? To have more. cara would|at City Hall atation between the hours mean more employment for soma of the} of 5 and 6 o'clock, I witnessed how unemployed, and I firmly believe that] three men were crowding ang pushing the people are indignant and’ demand aj} tho people, and at the sania time I comfortable seat at least for thelr five| think robbing them. There {s a poor cents. Not! only this, but picture one} light at the end of the j ; i ahi ( | | | | out of the reach of ignorant persons and ring in the family, writes traveller, Congratulations are heard on all wides, presents of cakes and aweet- admiring crowd of relatives and friends, and how to employ it? I have a very sensitive skin, A. B,C. HIS Is an excellent remedy for freckles and one which our readers have used with great success Bichloride of mercury in coarse pow- der, twelve grains; extract of witch hazel, two ounces: rose water, ouncet, Agitate until the mercury 1s dissolved, Mop over the face night and morning. Bichloride of mercury Is, as you know, a dangerous polson, and should be kept ehildren, 1 fear Mr. ie Falling After Fever. Ayer: two} o rule our hearts And be our love and care? Or will doggie, d'you think, put our babes on the blink, As the Puddefoots now declare? HARRIET HUBBARD AYER “Sees TH HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. case of scarlet fever and since then have lost about one-half of a very heavy jhead of ha What shall What remains, to insure a good growth of the new hair? LADY JANE. KNOW of nothing you can do to make the hair come In curly, but you can very much Improve the condl- tlon of the huir and stimulate a good growth by taking a course of scalp mas- sage. ‘The circulation of the skin of the caip is impaired, and only friction will restore it. I give you a formula for a About two months ago I had a severe! halr lotion which ts most excellent, but meats arrive in shoals, and the proud father exhivits hy new-born ron to an He has now a male descendent tw per. petuate the family name, to offer DAINTY HOUSE GOWN 1 do with’ IE QUESTIONS OF BEAUTY SEEKEF The formul you need friction also, as follows: Cologne, elght ounces; sptrits of | phor, two ounces, and tincture of tharides, two ounces, ‘To Whiten the Skin. ¢ Der Mra. Ayer: Tease give a rfmedy for whitentch akin; also for reducing freckles. 4 ADELAIL Tas Naquid whitener, properly uw: is absolutely imperceptible. I; uu the formula for it. One qu: water (previously boiled and strained), alcohol, thirty drops; oxide of zine, one ounce; bichloride of mercury, elght grains; glycerine, twenty drops. Take four ounces of the water and heat ‘t to (solve the bichloride of mer- eury In this hot water and add the alco- hol. Mix the zine and glycerine together In a bowl; pour the larger portion of the quart of water in; ntir. then add all the diluted bichloride of mercury and alco- hol. Bottle and shake always before use ini y the Nquid with a sinall, soft | velvet eponge. the freckle lotion: Bichloride of ie coarme powder, tw tract of witch hazel, two wuneces; roxe Water, two ounces.” Agi- until the mercury ts dissolved. Mop night and morn’ng. — Bi- yon, and while use as directed, it of the reach of ize t persons and children. Hd use this lotion at night. It the freckles away gradually, t always successful, but in many, cases it makes a wonderful improve. ment. cense at the ancestral shrine and to be the support and comfort of his deciin- ing years. The advent of a daughter 1s, on the contrary, looked upon rather as a m:s- fortune than a blessing. The poor young mother is considered to have, In measure, disgraced herscif—ui all svously disappointed her hus- nd and kinsfolk. “It is only a girl," says everybody, and because It does not happen to be a vov the Iittle newcomer ts not wante or welcomed by any one. She {ts not considered worth educating; the pos- session of a soul {s even dented her, and An exquisitely dainty house gown can be made from blue veiling, using as a trimming the popular gold embroldery and wide black velvet ribbons. leaves it almost In darkn It was there I witnessed these men and their actions, I noticed these fellows would push the people's hats down over their | faces from the back, which would cause the people to ralse thelr hands up to thelr hats and give these fellows a good chance to get to the pockéts of people for either watches or money. There ought to be detectives on the station during rush hours, ADDIE SMITH. Solemn and Ser! Girlettes. e Editor of The Kvening World: I an a Brooklynite. The other day In Central Park, New York, I rat on a bench where numbers of chi'dren passed. Every Inst one of them seemed to have something of weight on her mind (they ‘were nearly all giria who passed). None 1 ‘was miore than fourteen and/ most were}: So. looked ree eS excep! a. younger. © All’ without, erie is ton though she Is taught some domentic duties, and the art of making her tiny sand covering them and her ybriaht-hued slik or cottun garments wiht embroidery, her mind ix lett uneultivated, She can seldom elther reat oor write, her Intelligence beln; nearly ae cramped ax her poor it feet. and if an among the higher classes, rhe has no menial labor with which (o occupy her time, she spends it calefly before her mirror, daubing face with glaring red and white paint, or dressinz her halr in wonderful fash- jons and adorning it with artificial Now- ere or gold or silver ornaments. Sometimes she learns to play on a kind of mandolin, but she must suffer PITCH PINE PRODUCTS. CORD of pitch pine under distilla- tion gives the following substances: Charcoal, @- bushels; Mluminating gas, about 1,000 cuble feet; Mluminating ol! and tar, 50 gallons; pitch or reain, 1% barrels; pyroligneous acid, 100 gal- lons; spirits of turpentine, 2 gallons: ‘tar, one barrel; wood spirits, five gal: Jons, as If they were not enjoying life. In Brooklyn and other places one would sce children of that age with bright, happy faces, looking as If they enjoye! cvery minute of tife, as they actually do. Richard W, writes that ‘smiles is the bongeat word in our language because there is a ‘mile’ between first and last letter.” I refute his statement, {nas much as the word “beleaguered” con- tains a whole league in it. \ Another word longer than his is “dictionary,” for {t contatrs all the words put together. IRVING GOLDMAN, New. Bedfof®, M Why Net Trolley Sweepers? To the Féltor of Thx Rvening World: muich | dirt blows Into the trolley ‘when they stop suddenly that it, outs muca from ennui, and one can hardly be surprised @ she sometines seeks to |wolace herself with the fumes of the oplum pipe. She hax no healthy our door pursuits, as a young jady in China $s only allowed to take antalring In a curtained sedan chalr or in a covered cart with a dny When she reaches « marri the ks disposed of Ike ab: A professional "go-betwee: | je of goods. * Is requisi- toned by 4 this person engages to find a sul! for the ‘haplera damael, though sometimes her parents upon her future huaband when she Is stil quite a child. and sho does not tor, at all events, ts not sup- posed tod a xlinpse of him until the wedding day. ENCE OF COLOR ef reome, ft ts Litmed by a recent writer, often Inge the thoughts of the occu pants, An author who desires to follow out solid theories and generally severe Mnes of thought has been known to nay that he cannot possibly do it in a room that {s papered and painted in amber and white. The surroundiugs are too exhilarating and load him off to lighter themes. On the other hand, a severely Puritan. fc divine, whose eloquence ts all thun- dezbolts, and who preaches the terrors of the law unrelleved by ‘the Hght of hope and love, Is said to write and study In a room floored, celled and pane elled with the darkest of dark onk, with an indigo-blue paper in the small spaces left vacant on the walls. Doctors and nurses frequently find that trritabie and nervous patients are soothed if removed to rooms in which the prevall- ing colors are pale green or biue. INF LU I jorines DISCUSSED BY THE MANY bLETTER-WRITERS OF. THE EVENING WORED. would seem to be to the interest of the | Feads to run a sweeping car over their tracks dally to take up the dirt. In fact, weuld It not be the proper thing to compel the roads to run sweepers over jhe roadway which they control? A wt ted to sprinkle and sweep up tne aire In the roadway could in a few minutes do the work of an army. ol even If only between tracks, Advice to the Unemployed. To the Editor of The Evening World: I want to give a bit of advice to any one who chooses to take it. When you have a steady Job, wear any old sort of costume you choose. -But the minute You get out of a Job put on your fnext clothes, shave every diy, and look as Prosperous na you can, In this way you stand ten mes ax good a chance of getting a job ai ican. hine ‘an hin Try it when you ff sweeper: pv ad ti wo! nem! ar ork got i ee paring. poet saat |