The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1901, Page 8

Frarey AMBITIONS. e By FRANK PARKER. | ip LOOOQNLOOHHOO”OHHIOWOLOHO “VOL. 163 to & PARK ROW, s Mall Matter. EDITOR PEARSON, OF LONDON, ON THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD LUCK. shed by the Press Publishing Company ered at the Post-Oflce at New York as Second-Cl f London, has been promptly interviewed on Twenty-five years ago, when the art of inter- Editor Pear: “Tow to sneceed.” viewing was young, the distinguished English- man was no sooner landed than we interviewed | him on “What do youthink of America?” To- what he thinks of America, but if he has sue- itor Pearson has, we insist on Qeccccccccceet HOW DID HE bo day we do not eare big, as ceeded in doing ausistliin asking him how he Unconventional in journalism, Pearson is also Nuconeantional Instead of giving the regu- “T did it all by in his opinion on the secret of success. lation answer of the highly successful man, to wit, my own unaided talent and industry,” failed not because of their inefficiency but he . this original journalist from London says: ss Tam quite convinced that good luck is the prin- urse, necessary that its advent should be attended with sufficient snap and tntelligence to take full advantage of this gift of ‘the gods, and men of unusual genius must necessarily be excluded. My re- Intended! to apply to ordinarily successful men of businees, not who think they hav« cause of their il-lueh For success in bus I factor. Tt Is, of marks to Carnegies, Rockefellers, or Morgans. Observe that Pearson puts on one side, as in a elass by them- of that rarely gifted quality whom we agree to call prodigies of power in their particular line of endeavor. selves, geniuses It is doubtful, however, whether even in the lives of the greatest sninses the clement of good and ill Inek is excluded. Napoleon, himself a genius, thought not. He believed in his star—his destiny, his luck. He believed Waterloo was not Wellington’s victory, but the fore-fated outcome of a chain of unlucky events, over which he had not the slightest ON } VED OIN ¢ STAR Qeeccccccccece control. Read Vietor Hugo's chapter in “Tes Miserables” on the mean- ing of Waterloo and you will find Hugo agreeing with him abso- lutely on this point. The great French author declares flatly that but for the nod of a peasant’s head, the arrival of Blucher, the fail- ure of Grouchy to arrive—all ¢ leon’s control—Waterloo would have been a disaster to the British and their allies. urrences utterly beyond Napo- NO. 1—-THOMAS C. PLAT. next to some churehly Was the sum of my youthful ambiti But when bossing a chureh you Can't sidestep from virtue, ‘ So I'm just T. ©. Platt, politician. SOME SECRETS OF BEAUTY "igeP\dSsQ0"¥iex HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. benzole wate pint; violet ex-) it Mer Neck Is Diafgured. 1s ) one ack, & graing; oil Dear Aye ! " Am, oll of cassia, & drops Kind » do for my} nt et and wax over a slow neck. 1 wis! pweneck even: b the eastor oll acd, ing dress an ne ret Soler extract. Shake wll Glow af to cool and then add the other y. ‘blotches, causes wearing ahiga tight) Me mand for a collar, M. the hair as any other po- ou alas so | should not wear your rmove Freckles, Ayer choking collar is ruir sf some wash that am a youth » will ree the beauty of would ke to r " ORGE WINSTON tually injure Keep curly hatr down » a mety hash tremely rlously. ste Bathe your Lotion —Dichloride © powder, 1 ot ns; + rose GIVE you a formuly “ Anti-Iink sald en the hair |» rol | i aly Pou tke ou Formu castlle #01 in, 1 ow Vy) drams; dist! B milkelike mixtur i ‘As cream, but just between a cream milk. 5 Apply with a soft ing the face at ni Formula for Kee Dear Mra. Ayer: i Can you give me a formula for | ing short locks of in cur days? OU can ure for which 1 give Gum arabic stituency of mu ounce; glycerine, s dissolved. util morning, | us you know | perfectly! should te orant persons Tam to anoint bine Hs may do Nnti-Kink vances; Hat Ww Pomade wax, 1 OR HOME DRESSMAKERS. World's Hint. The Evening Fashion Daily dium siz Inches wi or 2 yards Tomade a mistake the day 1 Hugo puts Pearson’s opinion in a sentence when"he says of the great Bonaparte: ‘He had incurred the ill-will of events.” It is sheer vanity and nonsense to say, as so many successful men do—ineluding abgut all the men whose success is confined en- tirely to the making of “big money”—“Lauck never helped or hin- dered any man, There's no sueh thing as luek.” @ Tn the larger events of history every reading man ean reeall a wen instances of the controlling power of luek—good or bad. , To name one oyly, think of Oliver Cromwell, de- ; 3 termined to go to New England as a colonist, 3 $ and actually getting ready to leave England, i DENTS. i when Charles I. issued his royal proclamation Oeecccccorore® prohibiting emigration to America, Cromwell did not write, or sign, or influence in any way, the putting forth of that decree, But if it had not been put forth he would never have been Lord Proteetor of the Commonwealth, and Charles I. might not have lost his erown and head. Was that Cromwell's good luek or Charles's bnd luck. Its ultimate result. uredly not planned or foreseen by either of them. Do not, , rlook Editor Pear: limitation to the value of luck as He does not advise young men to fold their : hands and trust to luek, Not at all. He tells Dececscccccces) ‘lem they must watch for their opportunity— their good luck—and be equipped “with sufticient snap and intelli- gence to take full advantage of this gift of the gods.” Thus limited, Pearson's gospel of luck has been preached by “There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at nto akespeare. Byron inverts it were highly important ‘the principal factor” in success. how ove Qeccccccccoces Sper Lu As ‘ all the sages. its flood, leads for the warning of women, Opportunities are constantly ereated for men by circumstances that are not of their making. They don’t make the opportunity— there’s where pure Inck comes in—but they have to seize it instantly, ortune,”” says > or it might as well never have been theirs. 7 A famous sculptor chiseled Opportunity as a god with a hidden face and winged feet. “The face is hidden,” he explained, “be- cause men seldom know him when he comes to Cecccce- cccced $ ORs igs ¢ them, and his feet are winged because he ; : ‘ 0 ” 2 wannie con. ¢ passes swiftly and cannot be recalled. eoccccooeed Don’t think you by fortunate circumstances ! Don’t. despise good luck! that nothing can possibly come to Don't get the mistaken idea that you are in yourself so superior hat nothing outside of yourself can cither help or harm you! Lay Editor Pearson's remark well to heart, beeause it is true that luck Opportunity—is a prime factor in success. > Wateh for it, recog- Fnize it, grasp it, make the most of it! And don't be one of those ever-unready people of whom John B. Gongh wittily sai “They have three hands apiece—a right hand, a left hand and a little behindhand. If the heavens rained Juck on such people, and great opportunities eame in battalions, it would do them ne good, Marshail too, . Jimmy ming the het sun, roth {ving honorabl mmendations for t day when th the rte oti aN, ASL Shawls t | There 1 day wore an, nek poun's hand went up in the well- Alt, ‘The foremost m coke, the rear crowds had surrende: even to draw sabre @, with 12 yards of brald to trim present, no past, only a winter of regret.| Then came a short, Botiey to‘'Cashlor, The World, ‘Balls ork’ City." and forth, , sharp command outflank the works. So scarcely two months later he was from the Captain, a veteran of civil + # BY CHARLES W. LAMB. # # huddled, bes the left, the enemy's right flank, went f into a wells | Jimmy, and with a yell broke cover and Another order | mwept Intu the open end of the works, into fght- sending thetr bullets crashing enfilading and Indian wars, and draggivd mans tu ' ordered column of fours and the column was deploy ing Hine, a long thin line of enthualastic | into the Httle drown fellows, akirmishers ready and eager) for the! Four days afterward Jimmy, with « fight, Wet, Alscomfort were for-| few of the men of the company, waa ‘back in Manila with what was lett of line of earth the old Captain they had all loved so works barely discernible £0 yards ahead | well, and it fell to Jimmy's lot to tell of through the rain, there came volley |upon volley turning into a steady roar, that Captain's last moments and tragic death to his wife and daughter, justrated. came to the fatal question, It was] ing m, and all began tol Then ata weed from his ctef, Jimmy | But now, with his devoted Captain tern (No. 3,653, nizen 22 to 49)|aughingly, neartlessly, but, and to wipe the wet| led off to the teft with a dozen menj|lying !n his soldier's graye; with’ his | quarters listening to the patter and drip ent for 10 centr, vuatienlly, no. No nope, no future, om the loc! h thelr shirt sleeves.|and struck through the canebrake to| Captain's wife arf daughter left to his| of the everlasting rain. The dim lamps And now: the Kri care, the old tro | were singing @ merry song. Around to . ' with an added sneer at men; me faded out anil ne thought only of the friend that he bad ATE CAREW ABROAD. 1G LONDON, June 5. It Is Derby Day, and a cmail figure sallies forth from the Walsingham House Hotel, Piccadilly, Tod Sloan —for it is he—Is leading a life of quiet decorum, striving to regain the good opinion that he lost by his vagaries on the English turf. Even in his garb he {s a mirror of genteel propriety. Does the blood course sr ifter within his weazened frame when he sees the flelé galloping up the straight, to the roar of many voices? Probably; but you would only guess !t by watching his face closely and seeing the muscles twitch. No. 2.—Tod Sloan on the Way to Epsom. and Pennsyl- George- milos every time we want to see a ball ‘To market, to market, to buy a fut ple, Home again, home again, Jiggety Jir. To-market, to market, to buy a fat hog, Home again, home again, Jiggcty Jon. (Find the other pig.) To we DAILY LOVE STORY. lost and the charge that was his, for! thought. were sad, but us he ieoked In| the Captain had placed his effairs In| the sag, tired face of the young girl alt- Marshall's nanda in the event of hs) ting there a9 near to him and saw the meeting a aoldiez te, ux Maranajl) \us.re of the dark hatr. the falrness of had plaved his In the Captain's, + [the aweet joung face und the sadness And ao jt came that after tho soldiers! yct the brightness In the large dur exer, Ne felt ail she past go from him! and hia strong manty tove go out to he whom he had watched grow Kk | ana the-family had paid their bast tetbe | ute to the dead, the Inst volley had been e} out fired over the grave, taps had fo: upon the warm, atill air and dle }and the evening hud closed dowit up jthe quaint old ety, Jimmy sa: in the Hag-draped Mtile parirr of the Lyons r or hia, and in lence ream, in. the silence Etre Met jooker! into’ her cyes—eyes In which the ja Nan uncertaln light over ihe room, | 20%. hor'an3, love burned through the the alr wes atl and heavy aud his “klisabeth’' (old his old cweet tale, Ee | in fon and thatiof ever hard etruggle of earning a living for themselves, employment. of women In stores, offloes ahd factorics. They should stay at home, doing house- hold work, and thelr children, th would give thelr opinion on the subjects RED E. To the of Tie Brening World: Two yerrs ag there vasa turtle qa Daytona Beach, n feet long ard, réven feet and fppers. THE EVENING WORLD'S BIG LETTER ka ubject to bad environments during bie To the Editor of The Evening Wo Rame, a horae race or any otier sport?| youth. Mut when a human belag »/ I write in order to bring to {ie notice It 4» a shame that ail our best amuse- | still youn, is looming | of farmers and those who deal in poul-| ments are so far off. Why not bulld | Orient | ie sinitorallow: try the crue! manner in which poultry | vast athletic grounds Ia the very cen of which Is the Per priates thee human are packed for shipment In coops Iike| tre of the clty? The receipts would | being's brain, AL sardines. They have not even standing soon pay for the expensive Investment. | Tow Few Ht room. Some are dying from thinet and SPORTBMAN. 79 «ny Eiitor of The Evening World: Saracens rene in the sun to be| pres Dime Nove! We have not enovgh holidays. Vrom akan tara: pans pare ehepanysbout 8% 9 the Rilter of The Evening World: | Washington's birthday to July 4: taere cruel treatment, this In as bad ax any-{ Dime novels should be ralded by the §s but one holld. SAGE Tesuld TEREST NSS Tae M-) otter instead of gambiing dens anv In case of rain that is no good, In ni Litewaaiatien nectarines | pool-rooma. Unless 1 nm much mis-| every country there are lotx more Sall- beh Mee tuken, these novels have done more day# than we have. Why not make vne . tert harm than any other evil. After a mua ‘ley eaoh mouth a lepal hollday? tnt me ae Ami me : his grown old and still does wrong PSs wou i ie Peeks oeinae fo the FAitor of The Evening Wo there In at least the excuse that be did (hin extrasday of rest would Rive. to Why must we New Yorkers travel! not receive the proper training or was’ warking folk MOE ly ———- “Let Mim Got” PICTURE PUZZLE. T) the Faltor of The Evening World: I xen Jerseyltes object to having Dr. Herron promulgate his freak ideas ite jthelr State. Let him go there! Let him Igo! If people have sense he can't queer pthem, Jf they haven't sense tt doesn’t imatter whether they ‘are queered oF ifs In any case, don't let the Jersey- or Pompzones flatter him by notice or denouncing him. This ls my opin- vane man, BERKELEY, Metuchi rene Why Men stay the FAltor of The Evening World: I see St stated that a barge portion of en remain single on account of the, Nod. The reason of this ja the too many girls and cooking, &c., for thanwelves Wasnen should <re at if there is/a‘smaller amount of ; or on the market, men would receive r wages And #0 be better able to the feeds of a family. It Is now so h the fault of women as employers, ire looking out for the almighty oar. 1 wish woinen wage-earners A Tertie gon wide across the shell I should judge it would Many wheel riders elgh #9) pounds, saw thin olggext uurcle ever seen on this coant. wh It Was a foot longer than el, Le inneel is six feet tong: a! bad Dayton Fle JENNIE 1 THE BROOK: SAW Jennle Graydon, ] Her boottes aff, wad'n— ‘There was nag a matden 5 S8ae winsome and awees. My heart it ts whirl'n, ‘ Like the water a-curlin’, A-leapin’ an’ awirlin’, Tae stop at her feet. Nae pales could ever, W's Be nearly :ae clever Or bonny tne me. Vl na care a finger, For cauld or for hinger, Inho let mo linger - Vth’ light of her —Gerald Ffrench in thy Tohemian,