The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1901, Page 6

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: : ERTL ILE ET YT TT E E oe eS TR TE ~ AILY LOVE STORY A WOMAN OF THE MODERNS. : By H. S. CANFIELD. |(LEARING THE WAY. WILL LAWLER i by Dally st tth W ACopyris! HE thing which fence for two facte: (1) She ke @) A vagrom wind blew It open window, whence | street, where it wan picked godless young man, who perures 1 ft with Interest and offered tt to other godless young men, Despite her frame, which ts big, and her level brows and rome Rounced chin, Edith Wharton + the mascullne type of won ‘When ehe sat in her pew ona j: perfectly gowned tn gray with sober): mien and thought intent upon the } : copal service, strange voice the new curate Dean of St. Mark's tn th < knew instantly what w : ea Hee. 2 rhe ver the wire doth remark 00 self-exp! - , - strange, aweet, . Say, Cap.t 1 1 house way antral Park was the indescribable * Now. 1 want no inter from fre ound the door has set up and torn down emptres ntl 2 Mage your wardman chase (he cop from Heat Pour ‘Leven Forty- swept the world with flame. $ g seh her responses mechanic: © ae could not have told what + the Ife of he: To the ordinary Uttle tn, or about, the Hey fomery to cause this heart in any one, muc! spinster with a mind of DESPERATE REMEDIES. observer there James Mont-[ wash or own, There ts no accounting for these and Mise Wharton was in kept her secret, but lost love no time meeting the curate, From love at a distance, Fdlth Whar, ton advanced to love close at hand to love t ving and und and the f the enthralling Tous to hero-worship that Ife without Ject weuld be a blank. Three extracts | + from the wind-blown diary may oerve| | to. show how matters proztes: 2 lune 18—I have met Mr. Montxom-| + ery. He hag a powerful mind. Ho will}? Prove w force in the church. Its Judg- ment of Mterature {x flawless, His u derstanding of the G Himes is profound. men. “July @J. OM. preached to-day® ‘Text: ‘What shall tt profit n tf eatin the whole world a it Buch originality! Buc @uch eloquence! Such delivery! suc mental, moral and phvsical beauty! i te guperb! “Aug. 1—Ofet Him at Mrs. T.'s lawn erty. He ts adorable! Yot what shall I Go? I tove him—I write tt without shame: I am proud of it. Ie loves me But he has the fault of all truly truly strong men-he ts) modest. does not know his worth, 1 belleve th: he really fears ME—ine who loves him eo, He will never speak. 1 am aure of ft, The happiness of two liven ix at| atake, yet convention holds me fast. ‘What shall I do?’ By the middle of September M! ‘Wharton had ascertained what she was to do, and she did {t. The occasion was | + @ return from visiting poor people in the factory part of the town; the scene wan @ long tono with rags and empty cann| = and bits of broken glass th the] = unsprinkled dust; the time was [Oa ie Mf. The Rev. James Montgomery was! + t Issue of the He ts a man among Cholly (aside)—I shall be more ice cream, And I match on the curtain! ruined. 1 ine haven't the price! she'll want Hat of will dr Me Guests—What's Fire! Fire! that smell?) Something {x burning! both pale and ured. He was carried but} Gement work. He did the next be thing: tye obeme!, A great reaplye ehone in her eycs as sho marched by Bim, swinging her paras “You look tired, Jam “E am tired, Edith.” ‘They wad ad- vanced to the use of Christian nomex! } dt gill be seen, . “Would you not ike an assistant ty | + take this work off rc “Surely, but two of in rural Amer: “What ff the assistant would work}? without salary?” absurd,” petulan She lata b me op a Firet SMe was a bray happy wife. If thin story it is or ‘ou do, have the close OR HOME DRESSMAKERS, | The Evening Fashion World's Hint. Daily + To cut this {nfant’s suck : “ material 27 inches wi Charlie! What Published by the © Press Publishing ‘Company, to @ PARK Row, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Secon!-Class Mall Matter. "NOTICE HOW OUR POLICE OFFICIALS ARE TAKING THESE AWFUL ACCUSATIONS. ' : associates are now onee more under direct accu- them among the vilest of the are so terrible that the Devery and h sutions which, if proved, would plac These vile. newspapers cannot deseribe them in frank Jan- Dececcecsece ‘ Peay yor é worn s gnage. To do so would be to offend even the ‘ G CAE) te onpINAHY — ¢ 5 ‘4 2 wun ‘ These accusations are not mere . GUILT, r x a dinner. Geeceececeeees charges, but are put forward with spe we'll help ourselves. | tions and supported by legal evidence. What is the attitude of these men in this situation ? | Are they bowed with shume that any ono should dare even to | whisper such charges against them? Are they hastening to confront their acensers, to produce the proofs of their innocence? Are they king the publie to suspend judgment and give them a chance to be Are they denying with hot indignation ? Not at all. ‘They are either silent or are trying to laugh the matter off as a joke The Mayor is not in the least disturbed. heard ¢ a “midsummer sensation.” Carroll thinks the Murphy will do something “when |inutter not worth r rgding about. | Devery gets back.” And Devery and Glennon and the captains | seem utterly unconscious of the awfulness of the disgrace of such harg It does not require a very refined moral sense, it does not re- “Say. le with quire a very delicate sense of honor, to look ut this spec umazement and wonder what manner of men these are who ean thus conduct themselves with the public eyes upon them for sueh reasons. Few members of the criminal classes have such “ nerve.” DO ANIMALS THINK? : Scientists in Paris are entertaining themselves with experi- ments, as detailed in the Sunday World of yesterday, to determine | whether animals think. Their star achievement is the showing of a lion who raised the cover of a box, instead of smashing it, to get a piece of meat, and! who slyly dropped the cover and hid away’ on seeming to be caught at mischief. Many a despised cat, with no speeial training, will do this trick, s offhand. abundant evidence that ani-| And} and more, Dogs and horses perform greater wonde: | If one wishes to believe it, there i mals are both thinkers and mind-readers. Doccccccccccesy wi why not believe it? ‘ 3 On the other hand, last Friday twenty |: seccccccoed y sor} nt Geeoecee small street boys saw in succession, and each ata glance, no one having seen the othors, that an otherwise harm- less leak in n downtown water pipe could be used to throw a drench: ing stream on a Greek fruit peddler, The small street boy is very mueh of an untrained animal. who would accuse him of thinking? The main question remains open. ~ EVARTS, MONEY AND TRUE SUCCESS. William Evarts, long the lender of the New York Bar, left at his death a personal fortune of a little over $300,000, There are fifty obscure and unknown rich men in the country Geccccccccceess any one of whom could have “bought out,” as 3 the saying is, a hundred Evartses. The unthinking, might call these men But to do so would be at But}. om aching to mere money too much importanes, Mr. Evarts had a tine, cultivated intelleet; his life was upon a {high plane. | ven and kindly; he added to the common riches expressive words and phrases. more “suecessful.” His wit was | as when he drafted the) + vn from bankruj His talents brought lasting henetits, Nyrears da vlitieal robbers had brought | Not one of the world’ test men. birt eminently suecessful | ere abettor model for youth than any dull delyer in money heaps, no| matter how 4 “Where are you ladies goin “We arc ve Mrs, being tween der a plece of our minds and dawn, We ca She ts the stand hear use hor | 2 "t sprinkle tacks on the stairs he'd ¢ i hts brother wee the eTt was a sealak n cap. Chicago Record-Merald. Neo AN EVPLANATION, SJosiar,) sald Mrs. Corntosse hat ts these neglifay shirts I see advertised the bargain sales? Well, they ain't quite so prim an’ scratchy reglir hardb'led shirt. 1 biHled shirt, Washing! b'fled shirt—that ts to say, a reckon a negiijay is what you might call a soft- nm Star, A Srobbian Pag sonable ep company What with am 1 to do? A « takes a isement, eo, My | quainted with the! |“! id speaks of him only In 1 the highest terina; yet he (my. father) | Yeo CANN follaw A man w your m times why he ts « comp: reason Is that the young man ts not well up in society.” Now I am not & posed to my keeping company? him if 1 PY GIRL, inderstand your father at k if L were in your place ers ads ots not ft for you to hot wish me to keep company with | MArry Is nog At to assoclate with you at . saying that he ts good enough to | “Il a good th ith but nothing Ask the Girl Fira J} have asked my father many | Dear srs. Ayer What is the proper procedure for a y with him, and he says his only | man who wants to become acquainted with a Indy with the desire to keep Should he go first and’ ask soclety iri, and I think my father’s | her parents’ consent, or should he show objections are without foundation and! dy bis actions drat that he desires to pay her attention, providing ahe ts, sayy aecing him. How could I meet him) never speaks to me. He ta very cold cover twent! again? VERONICA, \to me. I've known him for the lant five years the same way. My folke your memory. If you do not recol leet the gentlerran’s rame 1 do not nee how you can expect me to assist you In your dilemma, Do not be a foolish girl, and be very REALLY think you should cultivate | ke him very much, lady, and having received ner con- sent then it would be in very good form for the young gentleman to make his Intentions known to the parents. 1 understand by keoping company you mean to marry the gir! jater. A Most Forgetfal Maid Dear Mra Aver I met < gentleman one evening whose company I enjoyed very much, He told me his name, but I have forgotten tt. He also matie an nt for the next evening. I was called away in the mean Ume, which prevented | ‘THINK you should ask the young pany. he surely will, ho really is attracted by you, you will remember his name and no Will arot require you to hunt him up. Years! Chi other girl happens to be. no magic to employ in much ca I am nineteen years old and in love with a young man of twenty-three. I Will do #0 In the future. from nich! £0) may) £6).ea em otben | to Sat be sold-heaxted: Foun, Mate Hungry Hawkins—Say, Ragsey, here's the greatest cinch for You get on one side of him and I'll get on the other and it's like borrerin' money from your wife's folks!” The Waiter (pursuing his Journey)—I didn’t use to do the fancy Kickin’ at Barnum’s fer nothin’! rerire-ane PREPARING FOR DRY SPELL. O Monk—What's wrong th{s time? Jocko—Why, I asked old/Humps there to have a drink with me and ‘he swallowed enough to last him seven days! 39-5-5-08-99040-20G90G008-665468 LOVERS’ TROU BUDS Ga 6 eens HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. My mother says He also knows that [ like him, for my folks tokt him, Please advine me how to win his com- HEINE. ‘OU wiil have to make yourself certain that when the man appears, as, Y more attractive to him than any There ta should say, Incidentally, that I at ‘the; end of five years you have not made anrimpression it is scarcely Hkely you ‘There is.no reason, however, why you pee him every day and we never have |should not make an effort te thaw this 7 & ay ae MORE BOYS THAN GIRLS. But More Women than Men. i" 1s a remarkeble phenomenon thet |] although in the clvillzed parts of the world the women outnumber the men there are actually more boys born than girls, Carefully gathered statie- ties from different countries, compiled by German statisticlans, saya the Chi- cago Tribune, have established this be- yond dispute. As to normal and living children berm there are 106 boys born to every 100 gtrla, ‘That original numerical preponderance of the male children 1s rapidly decrensed, however. During the first year of fe it sinks from 6 to 1.6 per cent. During the following yenrs the per contage steadily but slowly declines un- Ul, between the Mfteenth and the twen- tleth years, there {s numerical equality betweet: the two sexes. After that the , | Proportion becomes gradually reversed in favor of the female sex. The numert- cal preponderance of the women cot tinues to increase in proportion to age, Neglect in the treatment of Infants, the enormous consumption of boys and men |} by hard and killing work, wars, emigra- tfon to unwholesome climates, the de crease In the number of marriages, abuse of alcohol and diseases are the principal reasons for the unfavorable shifting of the numerical proportion be- tween males and females. ‘To restore the normal proportion between the eexes it la necessiry to counteract afl of these unfavorable influences mentioned. It Is the duty of the State to amact wise and suitable laws for the improves ment of the existing relations between ‘he sexen. Marriage should be made the duty ef every individual, and those refusing te conform with the compulsory marriage laws should be severely taxed and pun- ished. Commissions for the suppression 5.8 0 A Silent Giver, Dear Mra. Ayer: me inree or four nights a week, I think a good deal of him, He gave me a email! Ting’ to wear, but did not say anything to me when he put tt on my finger. Kindly let me know what I should do to find out If he loves me. F. 8. AIT.\my'dear young friend. That ts W the only thing a clever and self. respecting girl can do, When thi time comes, If the man cares for you he will certainly tell you. Meanwhile don't ‘accept more expensive gifts from him pte aE ae sua A young man calls at my house to sce | of alcoholiem should be appointed and given ample power to enforce the laws, These suggestions may seem Utopian and impracticable, but no one acquatnt> ed with the existing conditions can deny that rigorous measures must be taken to remedy the present numerical tn- equality between the etmscnstbeltwal sexes sexes, LETTERS THE PEOPLE. EVERYBODY’S COLUMN ‘The Fate of One Shirt-Waist iam To the Editor of The Evening World: Your correspondent, “I. Waltfertm,” wants to know what has become of the shirt-walst man, He is dead. The res- tnurant ahd cafe man killed him af one swat. Tam a victim. In an ongeeiat A few weeks ago, upon coming k (after a fow months’ free- A cont, enjoyed in the South and West, as well as in the northern tof the State), I started down Broad- y coatless. As noontime approached, ntered into an old-time restaurant, where for ye past I had been ac- customed to sutisfy the inner man. At. ter wafting a reavonable ume, and not being merved, 1 whereupon he polit it “was against the rules to serve gentle- men without coats.’ And I will never go there any more! At two other equally well-known places was I alm!- larly served. Then I borrowed a coat is Is the reason the shirt-walst man Is a fallure in New York. Elsewhere, 1am happy to relate, the shirt-wales man 1s most comfortable and well fad. WA A Plucky Dinecoat. To the Kdltor of The ¥: is World: On Monday last, when driving throug® Prospect Park, I observed a runaway with two women seated In the buggy. They were certainly in great danger. Then I noticed an officer running at breakneck speed. He Jumped to the oree's head, and was dragged fully thirty feet before the horse came to a standstill. He risked hla Ife and waved theso two women, I certainly think he deserves Krowt credit for auch an act of bravery. IAG Aske Prayers for Recove: eof The Evening Work: eMicted with an tinees which fn ment doex not improve, I a Chrtatian rea rine int the good Lore To the Paltor of The Evening T have an {dea Don't you think ft would be better to call those wardmen wadmen?' They (the wardmen) £0 around and collect the wad (money) for the captains of the wards or precincts. “Wardman” fe a minnomer. It ought to be “wadman. ‘The Evolution of the oe To the Editor of The Evening Work: Lam glad to see the striking innowa- tons avid variations In masculine head- kear this summer, notably the many colored Panama Fedora, May {t lead ua in time to become discontented with the hideous derby and high hat and to replace them with some! nEO more be coming! ‘ORMER. BLOPEMENT TO DATB 3 HE coatless man pute @ careless arm Round the wast of hee : less girl, As over the dustiess and mute @ lens roads In a horseless carriage they whirl, Like a leadiess bullet from a hammerlens gun, By smokeless powder driven, They fly to taste the speechless Joy By endleas union given. Though the only lunch his cotn- leas ‘purse Affords to them the means Ie a tasteless meal of boneless “aide” of stringteas beans, He puffs a tobaccoless cigarette, And laughs a mirthless laugh When papa tries to coax hem

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