The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1902, Page 10

Epes bot ull . m bi | TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2, 190z. sk a ae = EVENING= eee & WORLD by the Pross Publishing Company, No, 83 to © ye Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office York as Second-Class Mall Matter. BO) 16078. POO689006 280000004 34488096960 640000 9 0LODODEDOENEOSIECSLIOSESOSODESHESISIEOOOSODOSOIOSD h . h U "GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGES. : 3 ¢ T MM it BG csr Aseaod tus corner was our onty|$ Ghe Merry Mac Twins Have Fun with Pop. e Man signer Up jetropolitan Gretna Green, and the cessation of its fons as such will excite varying comment. Phila- hia has Camden; Chicago St. Joe, in Michigan; dence has Attleboro, Mass.; Louisville has Jeffer- | die, Ind., and Eastern Kentucky has Aberdeen, O. | York alone had a quick-marriage industry con- By those who Their Doings as Depicted by Artist Powers. U Tells President Cassatt How to Digia Tunnel, . é GT) © You think there's any boodle in this Pennsylvania tunnel: hold-up?™ 3 D asked the cigar store man. ‘ “Do I think there’s any boodle in it?” responded+the man higher, up. “Do I think there’s any water in the sea? Do I think -there’s any mle crobes in an ‘L' Road car? Do I think there's any gossip in a boardings house? Say, you fresco me with disgust. There's boodle in everything.” “Of course I'm not saying that any of the Aldermen got theirs or that 3 GWE ARE SALTY 5 PoPS BREAKFAST Pyentently situated within the city limits. rd with suspicion a marriage entered into on iin- Ppulse Dr. Houghton’s decision will be approved; his shurch was attractively near a region where short court- THIS 13 fips are the rule. By those who regard a marriage A HOT gece any of ‘em are passing the bet in the hope that they'll get theirs. But somo= id tied unconventionally as better than one not tied | OMELET PAS body has got it, or is going to get it, or wants to get it.” all the decision will be regretted. | EVER TACKLEO! (5) “What do you mean by ‘It’?” asked the cigar store man. Society, as refiected in the common law and in popu- “It, repeated the Man Higher Up; “why, the cush, the mazuma, the bright, crisp new. I'm no soothsayer or reader of the stars, but I'll bet I could go out with a hundred-dollar bill and a set of false whiskers a crawl into the flues of this rumor furnace about the Pennsylvania tunnel.” Jar custom, has always favored the making of a matri- onial union an easy matter. In Scotland at one time simple joining of hands, the “hand-fast" ceremony, as binding as vows at a cathedral altar, Among Hindoos and Romans the pledge of one's health in | wineglass was enough. Matrimony was originally a 5 vil contract; the Church has made it a matter of spe- Cial religious form. The point is whether the hasty kmot remains as firmly tied and as long as that tied in ithe regulation way. It we had statistics of the duration of marriages in| ‘ “Then you don’t think the Aldermen got it?” ventured the cigar store 9 mon. “Not yet,” replied The Man Higher Up. “From the looks of+things ‘ these Pennsylvania people forgot that there is a Board of Aldermen in this ‘ 5 |town until they were afraid to remember. By closing my eyes and thinking real hard I can hear whispers that they went about this like they go-about ) rt things down in Philadelphia. Tie “Ever been in Philad¢lphia? Of course not? Well! ‘ |the Pennsylvania Railroad treats that town like a pair of shoes. It ig th ? lonly large city in the United States where the trains stop only for Il Then never go. New York seems now to be without a dandy sinco pry Wall abdicated. He himself was the first of note Col. Jim Fisk eet the styles for tailors’ fashion K The soclety man just at present runs but little | ®artorial adornment of a conspicuous kind. His | es are expensively tailored and of fine material, but | HE KNEW. SAME THING. FAIR WARNING, ‘To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: Where can f find a list telling how long before election a man must become RB. a citizen In different States? Defends Croker, To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘To the Editor of The Sventng World: Kindly print the answer to this query»: 4 A says an ace can be used in a straight, > with 2, 8, 4 and 6 of different kinds, By says an ace can only be used in & straight with a king, queen, jack ten spot. Which és right? ~ the Greok Church, which has the most elaborate and prolonged of all marriage rituals, and could compare hem with those performed by the various marrying |Philadelphians have been getting massaged with clubs by the Pennsy, ad 0S and justices of the peace at the numerow Goopness they call it over there, so long that they are beginning to like tna Greens, the conclusions drawn would be of great GRACIOUS... “If the Pennsylvania wanted to run four tracks through the Philadel@ “Poclological value. In the absence of such data we have Im On FIRE 8 phia City Hall the first the people would know about it would-be when they} Heome general statistics to guide us GSEND.FOR THE 72, were dodging the engines. And the railroad people wouldn'tshave.seen th We know, for example, that of the 4,076 couples » FIRE DEPARTMENT Aldermen about it, either. \ "1 Massie Beasley has united within a period of q “They've got it down toa system there. When the railroad wapte anyd teen or more years at Aberdeen, Ohio's Gretna thing it sends for a certain party and tells him what it wants. This certalm G ‘® large proportion either came to see him at the > |party goes out and puts something in the bank. That's all there 1s to it, Aime of his colebrated reunion some years ago, or wrote The newspapers come out and tell what a good thing it is'for the town, and q m of their connubial happiness. We know also that each of the Aldermen gets a good cigar. r the 1,800 eloping Chicago couples married at St. “When the Pennsylvania comes over here to tunnel clear across the | foe in 1900 the percentage of divorces at the end of a town, the men in charge of the deal thought they were in Philadelphia, ‘Was not greater than the normal. Such at least was the way it looks to me. The guy that came on ahead to square the authors the allegation made in a press letter from that thriving ities hunted up a certain party and the certain party hasn't been able ta . monial mart last year. From Keigwin, at Jeffer- deliver the goods.” \ onville, we have no report. We have also in the par- “Who do you think the certain party is?” asked the cigar store man. % a jar instances of the family of John Robinson, the) * “Wouldn't whisper it if I knew,” sald The Man Higher Up, “and I don’ 3 ginal circus man, in Ohio, and the Dominick Brown know. He may be one of the men that runs a cab from the Cortlan ly, at Port Jervis, proof that elopements are not a} Street Ferry; he may be a butcher in Washington Market; he may be a 4 fail Robinson and his five sons all eloped; the first barber in a ten-cent shop down on the west side. It’s hard to tell who he jome wedding in the family, celebrated in February, | is, but it's a cinch that he don’t know many Aldermen.” 3 » 901, was that of a daughter. In the Brown famlly a “Do you think the tunnel will go through?” queried theycigar stor@ Sbrot¥i:y and two sisters eloped and lived happily. | man, ‘So our inference must be, in the absence of definite a + “gure!” responded The Man Higher Up. “Do you think the Pennsyl< Statistics to the contrary, that marriage by elopement 1s TSPoweny $ vania framed up that deal to pass it up? 2 1 s failure. . %| “Is it your idea that the Pennsylvania projected that $5%%98¥0,000 hole 1m LITERATURE ANDICLOTHES While the cook is asleep the Merry Mac Twins prepare a breakfast for Pop which he does not enjoy nearly so much as they do. 3 lene ground because the bosses of the road like to see steambsapvels taking An ipteresti ifamipettanlsitomtNet ices! 2 {dirt out of the mattress of the river? n interesting news item by cable from Naples gives | + © “Sa: bd: finger nails to Jersey City, . “a| y, suppose you was hanging on by your finge: Pus a minute and particular inventory of D'Annunzio's | What Is It Worth? ® lana had a chance to get to New York if somebody would help you along © wardrobe, which is composed of these articles: ie would you balk at a gentle touch? Maybe you would, but I doubt t.” Renee Cme ie (relve/ docu) pilts sot isocka: of }\¢ “phen you think the Aldermen will get theirs?” asked the cigar stord ious kinds and twenty-four dozen pairs of quiet-| - man, re Beaeaie ovening /auits, amoxing coats and ainoking|| “y ain't thinking,” announced The Man Higher Up. “I'nt stmply saying Sjiekets innumerable; forty-eight pairs of gloves for that the only way to bury a tunnel is to dig up the money. ! “walkihg and twenty-four pairs for evening wear; three | q ei (silk mufflers, twelve walking sticks, eight umbrellas of | { Ba | violet hue, ten green parasols, twenty dozen handker- ’ : ‘chiefs, 150 cravats of resplendent and varied hues, ten waistcoats, fourteen pairs of walking shoes, two pairs | ¢ etters, ueries, nswers he of slippers and two pairs of very fine cambric; three |} 6 » Fevolvors, a dagger, a box of perfumes and one lapdog. k tr Here is apparently the chief literary dandy of the era. ° : ba © Broadway still remembers Mr. Richard Harding Davis's | 2 Many Questions on All Sorts of Subjects An- ae Ee Waistcoats, but no contemporary American writer, and, : swered for Evening World Readers by Experts. od ) so far as can be recalled, none o:ser in Europe is s0| + + Plentifully supplied with clothes. \We once had stories | { c » 4 Maartens's -|% The Tardy “L” Express, and I have reason to think they are, Lot essen 36 fine raiment, but nothing ap- |‘? Lies Arse I cca because twins and triplets are quite free pppechiog = be HIS morning I boarded a Ninth |quent accessions in Ireland—I woul® yg Literary men and men of action also have been among i Neonue “Let express. train that| suggest calling the ttle ones Orange — “ | the world’s most noted beau Brummels. Bulwer dressed | should have left Eighty-first street at lSechees’ resins 6 aid fight It ones ) extravagantly; Macaulay says of him that his clothes |? ‘clock. This should have landed me | with these names they cou! ) cost more than those of any other five members of Par-| At my oles Sefore 9 o'clock, but the | Teste, wen ont ee eee Mament. He mad ft ° ale train reached Elghty-firet atreet over six |tan Bay by submarine express. i 2 lo most of his heroes dress well. | minutes late, It was so jammed that BILL BUTTS. | Samuel Richardson wrote his novels while attired in | : »|many would not board it and many “Kate” and Bad Temper. t : s(that did so had to ride on the eld ‘To the Editor ores arecen i ( “his writing-room legantl. mishe a : platform all the way. It did not rea N answer to Arthur Brown, Jr.'e, let~ ee a a eB Cortlandt street till 9.04 o'clock. Theny | ter saying that girls by the name : ea similar liking for an environment of | ? there was sucH a jam on the narrow|+ of Kate are hot tempered, I wish ta, costly furniture. A favorite picture showed him at \¢ stairs that It took us three minutes (o/say I agree with him. How about the, \work at an antique table of great artistic beauty. | & get from thé platform to the street. Is|giris named Tessie? I think they ave ell 4c, It mi call by Ree OSS this rapld transit? Is tt even tolerable] gentle, Everybody I ever have known! i cin, ies weit a . i y Sore ents | : i comfort to which farepayers are en-|by the name of Harry or Tilly wer Ig at a pine table in a garret on an allow-| ¢ "ae titled? TALBOT Y. FREEN. |very jolly. Let us hear from others of eight sous a day for food. Charles James Fox, | + TN ‘The Term “Author” In Better, |@bout this. MABEL TURNER, *! e and man of fashion, as well as statesman and |: Gs SiN > | ro the Raltor of The Evening World: Reception Cards, fauthor, was celebrated for his tailor. Mozart composed | Y im IN @| Which ts the better term for a female] To the Biltor of The Evening World: ‘ * in a velvet coat with lace ruftles. 13 a writer, ‘author’ or “authoress?” In sending cards to a tady that gtv ih Our native statesmen and asters also have not been | } = $ D= C; pee sete era ary to, send as ifferent to the attractions of clothes, John tMan-| ° @|No Marriage License Ia Reautred | vin o7 Mr. We. | cock} according to a contemporary account, had a most | = : oor cpap sae Carde should be sent. orhy to she pore ‘ ll ee Ji Js S| To the Raltor of The Evening World e ose clamnes [elaborate indoor costume—a blue damask gown lined | 5 SP wiere are martina, licensed issued, tailor teveuaen. lenpee) Cole lease, with sill, a white silk embroidered waistcoat, black |? |New Jersey and what t¢ the cost of| myo More Towns Heard From. / satin smallclothes, or knickerbockers, white silk stock. |= [samo for an Episcopal Church cere)», 10) gator of the Mrening Work: ; Pings and rea morocco slippers. A gorgeous costume. | 2 @|mony? Who Issues the certificate of) | -tcur thas been said about goods P Aaron Burr's fastid tls marriage and does It cost extra, or does a 6 fastidiousness in clothes is historic; it| 3 the minister who marries you give it? looking girls in Brooklyn, Long _ Was part of his equipment as a ladies’ man, Surpris-| What Is the wedding fee? Island and other parte ‘of the, ip ingly enough, Gen. Sam Houston was a dandy. So was |. IGNORANCE, |oUuntry, #0 I would Ilke to eay thea, | Gen, Winfield Scott, trom wt C -18 Marriage lcenses are not necessary |Pretty girls can be found all over, eepes| % . hom, as General Command- | i in New Jersey, ‘The clergyman usually |¢laily from Tea Neck and Orangeburg, © Mg tho Army, Gen. Miles muy be said to have legitt- | furnishes the certificate, without cost.|The young ladies trom these towns mately derived his fondness for fine clothes. As with | ° ‘There is no minimum wedding ‘fee, It]are Joly, good-looking and very ene, m1 other cases of heredity, it skipped a generation. Gen, | 2 depends on the means and generosity of}tertalning: in fact, they are almosy | Grantiwas proverbially careless of his attire, | | thelbrldesrcgr, anaes te a : In the World Almanac, A Question of “Straight.” « )waistooats are modest, and velvet adornments and ‘Wnttons he eschews, ) f HIGHER PRICES. er cost of living estimated by President Cas- 2 Eat. 25 per cent. is seen in nearly every article that| | Anto @ wage-earner’s home, whether by the front)” the dumbwaiter. And in its progress trom the| > F to retailer the added cost increases by arith- | % : ogression: The manufacturer's addition of two) At made four by the wholesaler and eight by the i Whom the small consumer buys. Your tailor Mankly,that he has added $6 a suit to his prices| ¢ him more, but he is generous to him-| ® 40n, It is the same with your 3 th repemsblance extends to beefatesk ; sion in the Croker case, which The World's editorial #0 scathingly con- demned, A vile conspiracy apparently was hatched to remove Croker. Why? ‘The question seems to need no further answer than the pungent criticism of Mr. Delaney. Apply to Supreme Court, To the Editor of The ®vening World: 1 am desirous of changing my name. Where should I apply? AUGUSTUS M, LUCAS. Island Twins. ot The Evening World: | WISH to speak of the shameful deci- Ale oat Salvation Woman—My good man, do you know what you are coming to? Drumkard — Yesh—<hic)—ma’am—C(hic)— the nexsh shaloon—(hic)—if I ever—hic) —siteh there, 1 "You can't get blood out of a turnip,” sald Slowpay to the persistent collector. “Perhaps not,” replied the colleotor, "wut Lhave frequently extracted gore {rom a beat, 4 City Chap (on a visit to the country)— Are there any prize-fighters out here, uncle? Uncle Steve—Nope, bub, nothin’ put wind-milla. : Easiest thing I ever knew. ‘ list I just rattled off; Southfield ‘and South Beach; Coal jeedle- Allustration of the at every turn. EDWARD BE. A is right. She Should Not Thank Him, To the Edttor of The Evening World: Need a lady thank a gentleman for calling on her? GERTRUDE. Argues with President Wilsom, To the Editor of The Evening World: R, WILSON, of Princeton, declarey “that good nature and ability to bear hard knocks are developed) by football battles.” ‘This Idea that men, should be constituted to stand hard! knocks seems to me Idiotic, It takes us back to the Middle A, A man of ° refinement, a useful, brainy, actenti: x ia not a mule to'mtve-and take hace} Intellectual men are not catch- rough-and-tumble, thard-| ;