The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1901, Page 10

ORY’S TIMELY CARTOON. CONCERNING THE REPORT THAT CROKE GOING OUT OF POLITICS. a RIS ~~ KX RUMANIA RRA ARR RATER MEMRAM ARRAN NVA LAC RING SHCA ATC A eu news I’ve heard this century! Uo 2 inh a chances inlaid PEODPLOLLS HY OVA YE OOOO DOES | York has there been a performance: FATHER KNICKERBOCKER—Well, that’s either the best joke or the best THE IMPORTANCE OF OBSERVING LENT S Ash Wednesday arrives the #o- called Lenten curtain, allk woven and of violet color, is hung up tn the Notre Dame of Paris, in the Cathe drat of Trent and in the Lambert! QGhurch of Muenster—remnanta of unt versal custom during the Middie Ages The téme of Lent ta not wholly forgot- ten In our times and in our country. The two great Christian denominations, the Roman Catholic and the Episcopalian. urge their members from the pulpit ani by published Lenten regulations to the strict observance of this annual timo of fasting and abstinence, ‘The Egyptians, the people of India, the Greeks, the Romans, the Jews hat stated times of fasting. ‘The carly Christians were known aa strong adher ents to the laws of Lent; Justine and other contemporancous apologists men- tion them in their writings. The Mo- nophisites and the Arians, whiie not fully agreeing with the early Christian tenets, kept Lent. Mahomotism and Rar ‘are identical. A wise provision Indeed ts Lent. cure has its Lenten time, the snow-clad. Teating winter felds; and physicians all tana are without exception not only men and women of frugal habite, but they alno have stated days in which they par take of Itttle or no food, giving the dl- gestive organn that needed recupera which the and oft-pagtaken makes nec Steamship and rallrond transportation have brought the wheat and cornfelds and the cattle ranges within the en- vironment of our citles, and ft haa been truthfully xald by travellers. from yond the sea that the Amer! overfed people, The ob: eit, taken from a hyglente point of + te an excellent health regulator. verindulgence In food ta becoming wmarked characteristle both among th poorer and the wealthter classes of our elties. : Taken from the standpoint of the power of the mind over the body, mind over matter, the olservance of Lent ts yet valued ft should be. The prac- tice of reserve strength, the furtherance -]of will power, of self-command, of pa- fence, the dlatinctton between exc tnd moderation temperance and tru raver’ thei world sacknowledgo) the sbenc: are naturally fostered by Lent. ficlal results of fasting. Diet goes hand | lor the observance of Lent, as tho fn hand with medicine. Our centenar-|4feat Christian denomin: put it, BARGAINS FOR THE| tereerees--es 4 ARK. HE ark was ready to sail. Ham pulled in the gang-plank and Shem let go of the stern hawser. Just { QUERIES «x> ANSWERS | Gounod. Who waa the composer of the opera then an excited man rushed up. “Faust? ALR, Whitestone, 1. 1. “Hold!” he cried, “you have not seen my line yet.” M. In Right, No. ‘our line?” echhoed Noah. Mrapbetas thats. 7)3.8/7191 10.¢Jackyisg a ckintoshes and | *tralgbt. Is he right? Does nv flush veal a full house? FOU Thus we seo that even in the old “Knows the Man.’ days men could not avold the drummer. | To the Pttior of T rid — To see in the papers that the lish * going to try again to get that Ameri Cup, 1 know a man who 4 OLD BOOKS. helped to make the sails of the last boat THRBSHER prime ta Father at won the J. BE. SWE “ } When harvest loads his wain, 6 Heth He beats the hollow hunks aside rg tovet | mony aiid roctety. Naene-0 0-0-0000 --0-0--5) | consists not only tn fasting on certain ayy and abstaining from flesh meat.| Hut also in the aubjugation of the animal tits, which too often, when not Urbed, are fraught with danger to per- “He who can command f alone deserves the marnhal’s was a favorite aaying of Na- dim stat, poleon, The obmrvance of Tent a therefore more an ancient custom, And the words Ash Wedneatiy" and “Tne Ferty Daya’ i are not to be despised. Of course, times be the despicable r the outward show of 6 oth and ashes ts not al- way a certain sign of the bellef in itgher princinies and in the doing of coo! Hut the picture of millions bow: Ing to rules which regulate the antmal WI curh the paastone Ist the feasts of a ss which p: apy more eley ry all And, je way, festa and fasts are {liters tlons.—Nev, George D. Heldmann, Ie tor St. Paut'a Catholle Churoh, Chicago. IN DAYS OF OLD. and on our Thanksgiving Day ex And hoants the golden grain. siieeaiaac lees | ‘A winnower is Father Time; goulend I" or it was ae, for voua d| The chaff he blows away; : i ; a, dr. ‘The awectest seed he treasures up To the FAlttor of The Kvening Worht For many a year and day, Is tt proper to wear a Tuexedo coat tu Oh, very wise Is Father Time! a theatre party M. His flail In/tried and true. New York, 5 I love the garnered pile of books ee He's winnowed through and Kissing in Britain, through. More than 10) tons of anistletoe wore —Seima Ware Paine. | i f recel ey ports during hotlday @ Gin Aeuvoken! y pounds? wore Fe oniy mi Ape weven hundred and re to the coun. @| respectable vou and in manner than this of which all New York is talking to-day, E disregard this kind of advice and marry “society women”; and | | trol of his destiny to pass in part to another. NSP put THE WORLD: TUESDAY: EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, | ee VOL «eNO. 16.427, Published by the Press Publishing Company, 63 to @ PARK ROW, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofiice at New York as Second-Class Mat) Matter. THAT RAID UPON THE VAN WYCK ADMINISTRATION, AND OTHER MATTERS. Among the criminal classes the pool-room business is set down as the most degraded of all the businesses that are “beyond the pale.” These experts say that every pool- i { room is a recruiting station for the forces of } crime; that it reeruits upon a seale so large that the work of other dives and dens is trifling by comparison; that it reeruit grteneneneneeene ee + WHAT THE together from the young, from the One clerk in an establis pool-room.” tment has the habit of running to.the Presently a dozen will be ge wz. and within a year that body of industrious young men will have contributed several of its members to the criminal classes. The pool-room makes pil Tt invites in the voung fellow v srers, thieves, forgers, embezzlers. ha dollar or so to bet und it seduces » losing his position and rushing headlong down that highway upon which there is no turning back. Of course the business is profitable, So profitable that one of the first ucts of our present City Administration was to concentrate itand put it ona “tirs him into betraying his employ | | -class paying basis. ‘The head “pool-man” is a's councils, was a delegate to the State Democratic vention last full, is the bosom friend of “the best Chief of Police my York ever hid. rin ¢ A “pool-inan” pays from $100 ts for “protect 200 a month to Police Head- on”’—at least that was the rate a few months ago. ‘Then high police officials and prominent members of the Croker Club are partners in the business. Altogether a revenue of more $2,000,000 a year must have been flow- ing in for division among protectors and part- ENT-PAYING DUSTIUES OF THE VAN WYOK ADMINISTIUA- ‘TION. stereo eee eee eet than § ners. j To lay a stayin juess as this is cnough to put every worthy member of the city ad- ministration, from Tee-Trust Van Wyek and Ramapo Whalen down, beside himself with rage and horror. hand upon such a busi- Also every decent man and though himself a scoundrel, has no desire to see the youth of the city debauched, ought to be filled with delight by the action of Nixon, Philbin and Jerome. Not in all the history of attempts at publie decency in New more impressive both in matter every man, whe & It is an all-around demonstration of the rottenness of the Van Wye au . It is a mortal blow at the most shameful and the most lucrative of the many forms of vice and crime flour der the patronage of Van Wyck, York and Devery. ninistratic hing un- What was going on in that pool-room, Holahan ? “Ramapo” Holahan—so conspicuous in the city government, profits of last week really being divided ? Let us hope so. For then Holahan the pure, Holahan the ‘Ramapo patriot” will be able to help out Messrs. Nixon and Philbin, | And we shall hear all about “it.” Holahan will be eager to tell. ‘ 3v the way, Holahan, how did you happen to be there 4 What PEATEAN DOING THENKE stores eee eee were vou doing 4 What was your business in that den? While Roosevelt was hunting lions and scrambling among and with his dogs for the honor of “ripping open the brutes,” Lyman J. Gage went bear-hunting. He took a toy pistol and stood afar off and snapped it at the big Russian bear and said: “There, you bad bear! How dare you fret ny friend, the Sugar t Trust?” And the bear sniffed contemptuous- 1 ly, and with a careless sweep of its big paw— t well, Lyman J. Gage wishes he had not gone *f bear-hunting. He ranks bear-hunting with presenting Government buildings to campaign contributors for “What was done in the canvass last year.”” eee eee enenees A FOOLISH IMITATOR OF rHppY THE se-erenerenenenenenen ene 9) A Chicago preacher, Prof. Robinson, urges the young man to He says that she is “worldly” and “selfish” and “looks to her own enjoyment” with the result that “there is a cheerless and, perhaps, a broken home.” Young men have been known to follow advice of this kind and to take unto themselves wives from places where there was no “so- ” marry, but to beware of the “society woman.” And those wives have been known to develop a mania for gadding and for extrava- gance that landed their husbands in ruin. On the othar hand, young men have been known cie Brere-en-e-e-enenenenenenee ADVICE TO TIE those women have been known to settle down, saying that they had had cnough of gadding about and longed for peace and quict. There isn’t any rule about marriage to which there are not more exceptions-thin confirmations, | Tt is a very serious matter for-a young man to permit the con- bETTERS FROM EVEN Household Vets Not Dangerous, @ the Piltor of The Evening World: I ne, f yUpoen he prope: as T left my cneth lass ath “The baby for the house, the cow for | 1 woul er nome cream, Wb the barn and the dog for the keeper's | Which ie MM for. ir way he Rate" Is an old saying, GUN, it ts quite | offered to peur tor teh Te true that American families are not so) change % A duarter Me repiied he large a® they used to bi not think that househol though I » cook my pets are causes | a and th Ss of this, but merely consequences, Is {t| cents he retained puld for my soda and “)) not hard to say a childless couple shall | Pothe hope he kept my Hy have no pet, a dog or a cat or a parrot, | quarter as a pocket pece and tt rit ‘on which to layinh some of that affection | him continuous Anothe P< which Providence hus ordained they | JOUN shall not havo the opportunity of giving 4 LONE WOMAN. A Plea for Tired Men, To the EAltor of The Evening World: Tn answer to Frank Reynard, who ad- Vocates giving up seats to ladies In cars, I wish to say that If he had to sling a asledge-hammer twelve hours a day he'd not be #0 anxious to give up his seat to any lady tinlesa she was old. <A poor, tired workman receives too Mule 6D 1, and.) snee NG WORLD READERS ON MANY TOPICS. hink That It would be by A ladles from e workman clothes, ad to foot, Is not mes m sue they TRUE AMERICAN, When Time Makes Men Foolish, To the Haltor of The Evening World In reply to Mark EL A.'s Inqul | whether early oath unmade tot other | when only five) never to drink white his | mother lives, should ind him, I should nay: He had more sense at the of five years than he has at thirty. It is not a wily thing to swear never to in- dulge In a pernicious habit such us drinking, A man who looks for the death of his mother #0 as to be free to indulge in bad habita fa not a truc man and sore- ly needs the advice of such a friend. Better de a “'milksop," as you call {t, and Kinley’s determination to wear nothing but American fabric for the Prestent's inauguration, If some of our would-be patriotic Americans would try to induce « Kentleman, and let your “friends” par- take freely of the Gita wine, without | you, Remember it ts ruin and disgrace; | for the tnebriant, but prosperity and es- | teem for the lover of their wives to follow the example of thie A most estimable and thoroughly Ameri- | tm, Five Centas Straps, Three, |can woman there would be less use for charitable instituttons. so? A Menace te Childre: To the Elitor of The Evening World In the lower primary cinsses of tho pubile schools in Brooklyn a great many of the children ure allowed to sit four or five hours yn stormy days with wot overshoes on, thereby endangering their health. Some mothers instruct the chil- dren to take them off when they get to achool. If they take thom off It is often beyond their power to put them on again. Why cannot the comfort of doa tather than go leecthie gvonte oe me ie Diag i, -2., rookiya. Don’t you think AMERICAN, Health. ; To the Kaitor of The Evening Worki: ‘A Dill has been, or ts to be, introduced in the Lewinlature whian provides that streot-car companies can only col.ect [three cents fare from parsengera who ‘are compelled to stand. Those having [seats may be charged five cents. It is bolleved that such a law would force the compantes to run more cars during the {rush hours. I hope your estimable paper will help ali it can such a needed re- form. OND FOR ALL, ‘To Patronize Home Industri ‘To the Wiltor of The Kvestag World: & pead with aémiration of Mrs, Mo- ' so intimate in the high councils of Crokerisin. sete eeeenentne | vaults A 7 AND WHAT Was it really “dividend day?” Were the WAS “naMmapo” ORACE THE HOG HAS THREE SISTERS. By FERDINAND G. LONG. EMBARARA TNR RANA SARRRN ARIK TEAST: If you see a new speci the Human P:rker w! oY ANON MOSINY OMT O PATON NN arming sisters walking abreast and pushing everybody else off Fascinating pork- You have often met Horace's three c the pavement. They secm to think the sidewalk was made for nobody else but them. erines, aren't the: F De iaceatadadebets beta tthe kaa as cats HARRIET HUB Too Caprice ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS = # & OF PERPLEXED LOVE? Tam sorry] acquaintance of the most modest y:{+ a hy Par. rately, [do not love him. tosey it be impo; Dear Stra, Aver dle for me to do tady T have ever met. I have seen(’! T Was acduainted with a young girl a| My parents have forced me to become! eaca morning for three montha, >: year ago. After some time s iy es to lim, What ought 1 do?) she never notices any one, although}? not to call any more. Twe months aso | Please advise me, as Tam afraid we | is watched by women as well nt she sent me a letter asking me to call * unhappy ALMA. |men Tam linotya! boy who joes: cwiaveningwugo il) OU should not consent to marry a| know his mind, but a man of twe' cee reiariane mifew ove early (cat you do net love, and you! four, GER DEVOTED ADMIRF\ told her | had better not but) should not permit your parents AM afrala I cannot solve what | to force you to do I rarely advise a she wanted me to call th 1 called again, but she wi you. The only way for a ma are pleased to call your puzzle}’ Hid to disregard the Please adviro me what to x wishes of a parent, but the cate you! form the acquaintance of such # THINK the girl ts too capricious to de-] jeseribe is an exception, and any 6! s the one you describe ts to be proy ] serve the chought of a sensible man. lig justified tn poritively declining to] ly presented by a common friend. { T certainly should not call again. marry a man for whom she has no real} When a man positively makes us 1 SS Rey Ore KER fiche CRE mind to know a woman and Iya ley) Peron ats ‘The Right Sort of Girl. Mate acquaintance for that woman Tam engaged toa young man twenty [Dear Mra Ayer hei tals mlog accra anaintrediction five; Iam nineteen, He loves me -| Kindly advise me how I can make the| "er It Is through his own Iack of tac Lang enterprise. A Let the Man Ask Permiasion, { Dear Mra. Aver: 4 | Uknow a young man. If he meq's mS t he alanys escorts me tome, 1K inen he ts with, But ¢ [he never crakes an engagement with me, He told a friond of mine he iiked me, and T really love him, but n't ke to make any advances. Please te:l me what you vhink of him, as he is nut bashful and te FOR HOME DRESSMAKERS. The Evening World's Daily Fashion Hint. Foulard tn all soft] | not engaged to any young lady. G. M. > ra is a favorite OU mus: let the man take the for spring wear, Y Athatt Wi The blouse The proper thing for him to do made? Is to ark permiasion to call If he wishes tw follow up the acquaintance. If you have really made an impresston upon him he wii! be certain to seek you out. You are quite right in not wishing to make the advances yourself. with tucks and the skirt finished with SMASH ANYWAY. ti the officers of the law gusrame tee protection to my home and my dear ones I shall smash and smash an@ smash, and If necessary I shall die,"=— ' Mre, Nation In Chicago, IN OTHER WORDS: Smash, sisters, smash, Smash and dare, Smash with a hatchet, Smash everywhere. A hatchet smash For an old bar glass, A smash on the nose For the man with “sass” Smash, alsters, smash, Smash and dare, Smash right and ieft, Don't miss a hair. OR THIS: Smash till the !aet old mirror gue * Smash til] we rout the rummy foes$ Smash the jiggera on ev'ry hand, Smash for the firestdes of your land OR AS: FOLLOWS: Smash, smash, amash On the mirrors of the bar, And I wish I could smash ‘em all ruMea lend them- selves to ita noft folds with singular success, The smart costume illustrated in a pastel biue, with figures of white touched here and there with black, trimmed with ; . stitched bands black panno, and F makes an admirable model for all Mmht- F A weight ollke and wo With the gown aro worn @ * : narrow belt of black. , : s panne hed by a gold gloves and a hat of gtraw trimmed with tulle and soft biue flowers, To cut the waist of this costume for size will require 4 yards of material 21 Inches wide; 35-5 yards, 2% inches wide; 23-4 yerds, 32 Inches wide, or shows the material clasp, white pique a woman of medium yards, 44 Inches wide, To cut t : skirt, yards, 21 At one smash, near and tar, Inches wide; 63-4 a. B, yards, 33 inches wide; 53-4 yards, 44 inches wide, or 61-4 yards, % inches wide, DUGHT TO GET 6 MONTHS, | FOR an alleged offer of $1,000 for the dest rhyme for Michigan an Liinols \ editom offers the following: {I-knew a young lady from Michigams | To meet her I never should wichigan. She'd cat.of ice cream TIN with pain she would scream, | And she'd order another big dichigan. a WORLD'S CHRISTIANS. To-day the Christian religion is ae cepted by practically [00,000,000 people. —————_ MANUAL IN KANSAS, to 40) will be sent ferns skirt, pattern Fi 10 conta. “Both pat= if Room 12, Buliding, City." a ew Tork =