The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1901, Page 6

HE MOSQUITO INVASION ca ieitineivicisnineieirint ibis} ; fol ininininielaloleinieleinie innit OF LONG By T. E. POWER * ® ie ISLAND. res: cirinitinicit-i-i-t VOL. 43... w York as Second-Class Mall Matter. Twenty years ago the New York City Directory contained 477 names. The Trow book just issued for 1901 lists 406,77! ON THE OTHER FOOT. - By F. M. HOWARTH. Se fa : wr THE SHOE IS [MAN'S IDEALS OF BEAUTY. And How They Are Formed. FELIX GREGORY, MILLIONAIRE : +} NAMES AND THE NEW DIRECTORY. T AUGUSTINE eat eat ontep Beeson pra 1s to sny, the exact correlation of by WILLIAM wenpuam. | Feel aihtisl one Soca eatioee this pnity of Ife, this universal har this exact correlation of all the mon: (Copyriadt. 1691, by pe on) Serna parts of the world, writes Eugene Mont se'THERE gore # Would persons as living in Manhattan and the Bronx. At the Government fort, lecturer in the College of Moderm T not you {ls hit shoes? l ratio of five and ieee family, th lation of Aesthetics, Paris, which makes us find Warihvare itons tf w¢| Tatio of five and one-tenth persons to a family, the population o 3] icadmirable tn ail Ite aspects, under all worth a cent Wail street shaky) 4 the two boroughs ns indicated by the now Directory is 2,074,450, (inmpbases: in {ta entirety and in tte every time he goes he market . 4 o f . To de ; hustapake 7a sonne to hia cor xe] which is about 2,000 more than was given by the census a year ago. j panton as th the avenue to pointing ¢ in a max the cold gra iter ites Under the letter “S” 45,189 names are entered, showing that the Smith family is still doing well. A Poocccccccceey ¢ SWHATIS IN Ab hering of 40,586 names under the index letter “M" suggests that the “Maes” are all there. The appearance of only The satyr In Hugo'a marvellous poem, says that the gods are dead, all Mfe, all soul ts on the earth, all tn sacred, all ts ‘divine. As human consciousness en- | larges we see more and more the cone nections which extst between all things jin the universe. Knowing these better, -t- rbteieltt iae there w nes AME MUCH . fees =: SEF 2 : WILLIE—Roo-hoo-hoo! Oh, my! Oh, oh, oh! I Pinched my 3) we the more completely understand the a seething ealdron DEPEND! eleven names beginning with “X” might in- finger in the door. Z| things ourselves and see mora perfectly ' F| the universal beauty. umn Docccccccecced he un! F May dicate a shortage of unknown quantities in FATHIR—Oh, you baby! Crying over a little thing Ike that! Be a soldier; be a man. Laugh over it. § penetrating observation wast Lotefect £] town were it not for the great number of John Does, who would ‘The perception of relations tn the SARS reisaay ¢ +] ronndation of the beautiful." Why |e aila criminal s, Gost help him! “ll of course come under other letters. + everything beautiful? Because every- had} repeated FS ; : fi A ftuing tn nature and tn Ilfe ts ! fect Bada n tah + Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and other famous names still se] retation withbathes things exis saarees had been forced upon him. Had Long Islanders only known that the bloodthirsty Jer- ¢ figure in the annual accounting, but. so inconspi to prompt GE] fect relation ts unsugportable. Imper no n for th redemptt young man. He hope, and he had ca: In the midst of Uons the carriage drew Inregenc was criminal bes him off se hitter retle sey skeeter would be after their gore, they might have used a few million yards of mosquito bar to some such advantage as this. the reflection that, while it takes all sorts of names to make a direc- tory, it takes a very particular brand of man to make a name. fect relations mean death; perfect retas tlons are indispensable to existence. Why have we pleasure in perceiving the beautiful? Tf think It is because wa Fhe we feel the fust relations with our own en eee Sef ourselves are a part of the world and palatial oMce building and Felix DON T BLAME TH of the universal beauty, and that tn the ory descended and walked tna B YCLE. exterior harmony wntch we discover he stepped in the door he ran dires : {nto a man and glanced half-recognit ut. Both paused other. Ag into th am of face of at John Treat, the old-time ) perhay Hulda Palmer, an apparently healthy girl of nineteen, fell from her bicycle while toiling up a steep Je stantly of heart disense. The girl was not known to be liable te such trouble. With moderate care in avoiding violent exercise she might have lived Y hill and died in- harmony, and in the perfect structure of the universe see a representation of ur own. Der! structur If beauty touches us tt In because at that moment we understand how we }are part of the world and our mys- terfous connection therewith suddenly strikes us The emotion of beauty consists in feel- eiebeleeteiet + imleieleiei-l-! FATHER (trying to put down carpet and hits his thumb with h ‘ with whom ory had ever a tg i «he ro Ing the correspondences which exist he- been on terms of vo Itiwas evi Bocccccccccces ut her days in comfort and in health. Weak the tack-hammer)—O-u-c-h! Q tf t-p—! tween the exterfor world and ourselves. dent that Treat had not met with t WEAK HEARTS $ hearts well taken care of are more durable =! nt , The profound unity of the matter muccess In the world enjoyed by his old 1. CARED WILLIE Hal hale hal hat surrounds us. a great glow of love and time friend nasr a $ than strong ones abused. JULIE (cleetully) Healy ha! shai ha! of rratitude for Ife transports is, There “And how has the world used you, $0 urreriwe. = Don’t blame the bievele for the “hievele {2 no doubt that the sentiment of beauty John?” usked Gregory i. series wissen sai has been evalving In humanity, Chang= “Indifferentiy, indifferently, Ieix se The wheel is a blessing; 1ts moderate ing Itn object it has itself been trans- repied’ the other. ‘Wohas been a ny | make both ends yt know as Tha fohave mud Jren have deal of a strug meet. Still, 1d right to compli home and my well. Have you a famil, no," replied town and in a voice us any 1 sood Ustened 3 in a manly cheer ti tit m Vil tell you dinner what to dy, with us who was ine thought you @weet on her’ What! Mary “Bdldan't know married & After Treat had ¢ with tis tea promive to dine with him ing day Gregory went into a tong tev- om the f tale But the skeeters sent no brass band ahead ply planned the whole campaign In the Hackensack mendows, and when they got ready to swoop they swooped unheralded. the plan of campaign was a day school, in which the young mos- quitoes were taught that the very tenderest part of a Long Islander was Just abaft the lobe of his car, sou'sou'east or sou'sou'weet of his medulla oblongata; and that the next tenderest meat, unless ho was a cricketer wearing greaves, wax Just above his ankle. dite of them. They sim- Part of use a boon. It may do more for health than almost any other new agency that may be named. Here are some negative hints for yet: ting the most good out of it: Don't “scorch;" don’t crouch over the handle bars. Don't climb hard hills. Get off and walk. y Don't ride a high-geared wheel. caf Don't ride “centuries” (though long-distance riding at moderate speed 1s for the average rider less dangerous than sprinting). One can get “ -vard dashes or hy rowing a boat. Yet running, rowing and bieyeling arc ficial in moderation. What is “moderation?” Tt depends upon the individual. The family physician can best answer in each ease. A SHORT STUDY OF THE PENSION LIST. oA vievele heart” by running 22 1 bene- elcininivieiein! = hicivirivieieicicieieinicleleinieleleietei-} FATHER (boiling with anger)—You little {mp of Satan! h you to laugh when your father meets with an accident—L formed. With Plato there was purely a move- ment of moral admiration, and with the Kreat Greek artists, Judging from the works they have left us, we perceli that over life they saw the radiant Olympus, To-day it Is not an analogous sentiment, In considering the work of &contempo- rary painter or sculptor !f I'am asked what sort of delight they feel I must reply that I conceive it to be different from that which animated the Greeks. How the men of to-day are tormented, how thelr whole being 1s possemped! It in because they feel themselves in the presence of God and life. The leaf whioh is balanced upon the twik they connect with all the un! verne; thelr eye which looks upon » thelr nervous centres which recetve f impressions, and the leat which te be | fore them, all the linka and bonds de-| tween thom they fcel and unite. Ther they are penetrated with a love of th mt = unknown power of things, for the ne erle. Remember Mary Fuller, indeed! i cersities of existence, and the law She had been the ane sentinent ot nis The pension records for the fiseal year that ended with last which exact the perfect relation exist Mfe, It had cost him a territic atriuxele ) . i ing between things and the universe. to put her out of tis fe, In obedience to month show 40,292 new claims allowed, only 352 below the num- For them God, life, beauty are one his relentless determinstion to besome tich. “After all, he thought bltteriy \ These little lessons whetted the appetites of ihe rising genera- ber allowed in the fiscal year 1900, and 3.215 more than were : lowed in the fiseal year 1899. They lve, they look, they admire, the, worship. ——=_- borane Custy John ahas inet ael} tion, and you ought to seo them lay for own-your-own-homers on Over twenty years ago Gartiold declared his belief that the| ETTE RS failimy toon emer ie a the Brighton Beach and Flatbush roads each evening. pension list had reached its fullest point and that our annnal pen-| b L And have hail none of the\joya or lites” Dececccccoeses, sion expenditures must thereafter steadily FROM pshae clay Pu neat day Waa a re $ oon {) decline) “Wel wero then carrying less than | THE PEOPLE Meaitlcayinnd Genie ane ek tele ROPUEOY. } 250,000 names on the list and paying out} " lowship warmed hin. He became a Goceceoerrroo Jo.s than $40,000,000 ayear. To-day, with isttor Nem niidesth int ee PVERY, 7) y - aan o Wi STEED Ut the new ones added within the past year, over 1,000,000 names are EVERYBODY'S COLUMN daughter of i . }on the list and our total pension disbursements are about $140,- who had joked with F 1 his boyhood, That Not the slightest awe first and constantly jabved thromgh yo nts 000,000 a year. Remarkable in itself, and not readily reconcilable with the For “L" Blectric Fans, To the Editor of The Evening World: I think ft no more than right that , there should be electric fans on the crust of di common belief that wars shorten the lives of all who participate in “Lot Without them the “Li is un One day ; . bearabls, It makes a man feel awry. rented vainrore x] them, is the longevity shown by the veterans of all our wars. It Electric fans do not comt much. Lack the family weuld a month. thinking, Treat ho: Gr nd that nfght He Neoreeccccccceny was not until April 5, 1869, that the Iast survivor of the war of | the Revolution died, and four widows of the | of fans 1s as bad an the presence of the chairs Mr. Clausen lutely forced on um Even on a cool day fans should be run- t v THY AC ; - . : 1 on the “I.” Perr eey $ i Lae e ere men aw ho fought with Washington agninst MILE LOUIS A. KERPEN, parlor. ¢ axp winows, {°° Cornwallis are still on the pension list. One Enat-Side F Little Robbie—Grandma, I know why you talk so much, cccccccce: ow A " of The Rvening World: ees: 9 veteran and 1,742 widows of veterans of the Grandma—Well, why fe It, dear? t Pima ta Ligeia and’ have occasion Prenat tn war of 1812 are among our pension¢ 2 veterans and S131 Little Robbie Caureyoulnal Rous double chin, $l to visit the alums) often, 1h 8 {preter ror ‘ : onal capnctty. ‘The alht- For before that tine t : Committees of Wa veterans’ widows of the war with Mex aie ‘ mistress inh ul Gregory, which lost its gloom statel state OR HOME some more or less complete armor for Long Islan mosquito {Invasion lasts. rs and Means are now Sey Rats to devise ers while the These are suggestions, : 667,025 veterans and 14 widows of the civil war; while of the Spanish war veterans and 697 veterans’ widows are already on the rolls The disbursements for pensions during the forty fiscal years from 1861 to 1901 inclusive aggregate in round figures $2,703,- WHY THE PARROT WAS SOLD, Instead of our reformers try- terrible: dellcatessen ing to close up pool-rooms, stores, grocery stores, &c., let them go down Riyington, Willett, Pitt, Ridge, ‘Attorney, Sheriff, Stanton and Hous- ton streets, and drive out all the unut- terable vice that exists In these streets. Where are our Gerry society agente? i eccccccccecey = (0,000, and the Pension Oftice re hey asteep? And our vice-cru- DRESSMAKERS. ber StS Sete an ore re ILL aa B. tH roixorse : the possi uty that in the year 2002 widows Plea for New Park. The Evening World's Daily $ ma rors ¢ of civil war veterans may be still drawing To the EAltor of The Evening World: Fashion Hint. To cut this basque medium size wt (mohes wits o- 1% yards & inchen wt will be require? The pattern (No. Mosquito-bar dominoes are now !n use at certain points, but last only long enouzh for a m train, the tented. Itelisfetleleletetefeleiniefelmtei-ted-t-! A Sheepshead Bay Incident of thin sort ts here [lus cu n to sprint from his home to | | | P “ - S j tury and a half hence, widows of the men who stormed San Juan | Hill with Roosevelt are likely to be benoficiaries of the nation’s | on a cake of soap when she had no paper hand: Gecccccccccesd pensions, and that in the year 2050, a cen- bounty. Is it quite certain that war shortens the lives of its sur- viving soldiers / epee EMERGENCY IN 91 “Women have no originality--no Invenitve gentus. “Nonsense! I've seen my atenographer make a memorandum with a hat-pin —Chicago Record-Herald. BOY TO WIS Grandfather—You can't keep money, pocket. RAND Po you, Jimmie? [t seems to burn your Phebe he bisteinteinbicininleiniefettete Jimmle—Yes, gran'pap, that's why I blow it.—-Ohjo State Journal. Heitielicteieick ich icici ici blieiieleleifel-ii He—Oh, Annabel, when we are seated thus, with my arms around you, I um tho happlest of mortals. The Parrot—Oh, thero are others! OF Suen LOVERS’ TROUBLES CAREFULLY, CONSIDERED HA Scuff Aro Dreams Maile. + had almost died. What did all this have never been introduced to her. | months, RRIET HUBBARD AYER. It is high time for the city to improve the Innd 1t bough: situated at Edge- comb ant! Bradhurst avenues, from One Hundred and Forty-fifth to One Hun- dred and Fifty-fifth street, for the pur. pose of a pubjic park. It is really an outrage that there should not be some improvements made by this time, even If It were only stairs, so the public and "| residents could cut through to the lead- ing avenues and streets Instead of climb. ing up or down that miserable hill or go three and five blocks out of thete way to reach their destination, RESIDENT. The Plague of Mos To the Eéltor of Tue Eventing World: yr} in all the sixty-two years I've ltved in New York and ita vicinity I never once saw so many mosquitoes before as we have thix season, Who can explain 1? Mowquitoca in New York City (ev In the centre of Manhattan) in July ' ' } i drink, I do not belleve the missionary|@ere things unheard of until this sea- effort of an angel would reform him, | #00. Also they are worse in Jersey and Pein cers mean? A READER, Would {t be proper for me to Introduce He declared he loved me inj an I wanted to spenk to him, only ina return and hoped some day he would be| friendly way, In regard to his reckless- | ? eare 4 , a T to 1 had a very dear gentleman friend | PTHINK you were probably steeping | myself? 1am deeply in love with her. | abie to make me hin wife, From hia| ness. He failed to make hla appearance.! Of course, you took the initiative when a rate tte nd than I have Srinaee é : : | om your back, or had eaten some- 3.8. own words and actions I found him to| Did I lose my pride or self-respect, of | you sent tor him. IBRRELGR OR who a shor: tine ago moved away, thus thing for your inner that tsa "Mt will not be proper for you to! be a very proud, concelted critic and a| did I take the Initini!ve by nending for| It la impossible for me to say whether Mi ms Putting Decween us a great muny miles. | erred with you. That would be my read. Introduce yourselt, Get some onelenronic him? He ts row out of employment and ‘The Whistling Nuleance, you have lost your pride and self-reapect or nat. You must decide that point, If you take my advico you will not go to this young man to console him in his unhappiness, which {8 merely the result ank, also a household tyrant, Ing of your dream. Seriously, my dear, |‘ to perform the oiflce for you. Tey through which my love turned to indif-1 Very unhappy, if all 1 hear tw true. | xin, T can divine no meaning for the| You are really in earnest you will bel ference. Sind finally” we! parted.) 1’ met GD. L. jrambiIng etory and [ would advise you | able to And a friend who wil! properly| nim at & party several months ago! | DO not believe in platonic friendships Atm but tween. t nis now tters were very recuiar, they come few and far be- Laat night I had @ dream which If you could oxplain 1 would be vary To the Editor of The Evening World: A man of my acquaintance always sing whistles or hums—espeoially whistles—all the time, This annoys reg PRAYER. (\ WING to an Indion Mistaking the word interpreter allow" for to forget It us soon as possible. j introduce you to this fascinating mald.| under the influence of lquor, and could | between a man and a woman who bits, Obviously he She Always Siniles, A Case of Unhealthy sentiment. | nee he was going down hill. It aroused} 4 have been loverm, In fact, 1 do not| of, Nia own bad ha an f| horribly. I want some one to tell me ‘Talloo,"" many yeurs 2x0, the|«ratetul. I thought I was @ schoolgirl | my aympathy, and I rt tol y i Mates Hal hasrdone nothine te sob een | wiiathdscan’ dor tor eure him, or t ta eds ee neil Scaint gales te ol Upenventeing Dear Mra Aye: Dear Mrs. Ayer: my sympathy, 14 not speak to} very much belleve in them at ail, atate. Ho has done nothing to command ia . OF to at There is a young lady who passes the Tama your respect or To condole lon. least abate the nuteance while in my him in his i e Ja. putting a Dremlum on dissipation “and “unmaniie| presence. Wao will give mes hint? fat : f MARRARRATNA young lady twenty years old, | him, but sent a message telling him to f with a young |atop drinking, which he did. It pleased| critical, _@, househola..tyrant! and), = man and kept company with him fer eix' me #0 I wrote @ note asking him to call, chronic crank, besides being addlated to! 4 3 , concetted, thie day, "Our Father, Who| the school yard his eldest sister ran up If the young man 1s proud, conceited, aven,"hallooed be Thy name. | 10 me and sald my friend was very ill, iteadsto J in. bh