The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1902, Page 10

+z d by tho Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 6 | Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. hE 43.. .NO. 16,091. Bea _ WAIFS FROM THE SLUMS. ding to a despatch from Milwaukee, there is or objection in Wisconsin to the importation of lew York waifs, and a bill is to be introduced into the giving the Board of Control authority to i entrance to the objectionable cargoes of chil- ‘within the State's borders. Since its establishment been the custom of the Children’s Aid Society of ity to secure places for its charges in other States, @ up to 1900 it had so disposed of 22,121. These nted children were for the,most part sent to of the Micdle West, Kansas receiving Indiana 2,827, Illinois 2,606. the western counties, took care of 8,80. disposed of in Florida and Maryland is a new experiment to send 1. of them to Wis- but judging from their record elsewhere rather be welcomed than rejected there. statistics show that of all these children of the imaesbipped to the West and South only sixty had fer been put under arrest up to the time they reached page of eightcen, the age at which the society ce cern jiself directly with them. While of their two have become Governors of States, one a freesman, one a Sheriff, two District-Attorneys and members of Lexisiatures. In business life 26 Ive become bankers, 451 merchants, 17 physicians, 87 road men and 19 clergymen; 946 went into the army. development of these waifs into reputable mem- Tot society is a most interesting social evolution. Le Ases E is @ very fine fruit of organized charity. They are dingly raw material wnen they come into the ty’s care. How many of them have known 4 er? Of a company of forty that Agent Trott took At to colonize on Western farms only one could answer " to the auestion. lendless and forlorn, except for their public dardians, these children of the streets start out to make way in life, They have no advantages except the j@ encourezing boost the society gives them at the . But in each is a drop of blood from some un- nown ancestor of worth, a drop, perhaps, of Frank- or Caesar's or Michael Angelo’s, which may find its out in some manifestation of talent or ability. deredity has queer ways of transmitting characteristics. (mot the zebra's stripes show themsely intly strains of horseflesh after hundreds of generat ding? ns CONTAGION BY THE MOUTH. An epidemic of diphtheria in Passaic has been traced the practice of school children using pencils In com- and holding them in their mouths, Concerning we may quote Dr. Buchanan, who says n mouth is an excellent culture apparatus for dis- we germs, in which too frequently the hordes of ml-! enter. Thcre they find heat, moisture and nt fiuids naturally provided for their nourish- pand growth. The mouth js really the receptive Dy or through which all disease germs enter the ” om t ization has not yet educated all of us to an tion of the fine points of hygiene, and that Is By it is so often possible to see women in shops or pet cars using their mouths as temporary recepta- Bes_for dimes or nickels, One of the most tragle ths ever recorded was that of a race-track book- , Alexander Waitzfelder, from blood poisoning 0 eted by holding greenbacks in his mouth while king change, A trifling abrasion of the inner sur- ofthe lip furnished an entrance for the fetal germs, hojsuffered agonies before death relieved him. A dirty finger rubs an eye, a finger nail not ov picks a pimple, and the germ is transmitted ich moans trachoma or a fatal case of blood poison- " It is the penalty of neglecting the simple pre- of cleanliness. A trifling cut on the tongue m sealing a letter with the lips killed a rich Cincin- Gmatl merchant, James Hicks, at the Waldorf, and MHidlen Musgrave, of Shamokin, Pa., died from a similar Seause. It was the irony of fate in Miss Musgrave's case “the poisonous envelope contained a love missive. } There are mysteries about the communicability of Beptic germs that science has not yet fully explained, ef these is th: moisonous nv of bite tooth. It is not only the gummed" negro ee teeth have this peculiarity. personal experiences like that of Police llivan, of Brooklyn, who, bitten by a woman patien|, Arrowly escaped the loss of an arm, Or that of Dr. min, of Camden, who contracted a case of blood from the bite of a croupy child. is no doubt that more attert hhygiene than ever before. The ody are washed more frequently. Is th mouth for as it should be? There are persons stigma- ¢ranks who will not drink out of a glass used } Some of them have carried thelr antipathy this particular to the communion cup with the result , individual cups have been adopted in some It is a queer phase of this scrupulous guard- ° the lips against contagion that it is not extended he loving cup, the use of which 1s becoming gen- ‘Perhaps the assumption is that when it makes its Bde all the lips that have touched it are clean, as ing to friends. But the possibilities of contagion ne the less present. MILLIONAIRE WAGE-EARNERS. levelops that Street-Cleaning Commissioner Wooil- ure a Din € doctors can re- Surgeon n is paid to per- igreatly in excess of their salarles—D an, for example—but the difference wit Yt their fortunes were largely acquired or spend their time in Europe buying ol po strong to be resisted. It may take a nor ime with Woodbury or Cornelius Vanderbilt, o with Louis XVI. who labored at Joc! ‘governing the Roman Empire. If the case of the millionaire who. York department store, or in of St, Louis, who set out to; Mead the possessor : in| “The | 4 nds as well as}, as great as the amount the city pays him, been other city officials whose private in- very some who with a fortune of $3,000,000 with most very rich men the desire to doric, who devoted more time to rais- \JOKES OF THE DAY} “What {9 a synonym for ‘raining cats and doge?' “"Beastly’ weather," “LT hear he is gulag to Kill biz game.’ “T guess that's |an automoblite. | === Dr. Killem’s friends are erecting in his honor a mo: of his most famous patients carved 1 ‘Patient on a monument,’ eh?” He was always going to law, Were the pretext ever so slim; But las, week he rifled a safe— Now the Jaw is colng for him Dashaway Jed When are you going to got ma Hortense (confidentially)—No, but I ex- fo be-he has already proposed ‘Brooklyn Life. pest twiee! A sixty-wived Syrian Pasha Once wooed a fair maid of Circasha; Yothing doing! ong But she sald, Til lst to no w Rehearsed sixty tim you old masha! One day Perseus happened along “SUIL doing the hold-up act, are you?” ald Well," replied Atlas, "I don't think there has been any «reat drop tn real estate—if anybody should ask you.” Impreseed by his youthful devotion to duty Perseus at once turned him into a mountain and compelled the earth to |support Atlas thereafter. — Chicago ‘Tribune ‘What are you going to give me for| « Christmas?" “My heart.” | ‘But don't you know {t's bad form to jgive damaged, second-hand articles?’ |_."What do you mean by saying Santa {Claus won't come down our chimney?" ‘Cause the Janitor says all goods must be delivered at the basement door.” 9 } SOMEBODIES, ASIMIR-PERIER, M.—is the only lv- | ing ex-President of France. DIAZ, PRESIDENT—of Mexico, 1s try- ing to put his country on a par with this as far as public improvements go. His plan {s to arrange ratlway service to carry passengers from Chicago to the Clty of Mexico in four daya, KING CARLOS—of Portugal, the fattest of Buropean monarchs, smokes thirty- one large, strong Havana cigars a day. LONG, JOHN D,—ex-Secretary of the Navy, has Just Joined the Mayflower Descendants, being a lineal descendant of Mary Chilton, who first stepped on Plymouth Rock, LORIMER, CONGRESSMAN W. F.— has, In partnership with a photog! pher, secured tho photograph conces- sion at the St. Louls fair, This con- cession will, it is estimated, be worth $200,000 to the partners, WILKINS, MISS L., M.—Is probably the only iving woman who 1s a practical gold miner. She ts only thirty-four and has been a miner ever since she He's just bought] ¢ iment with the names} / srton—1 can't tell yet. I've been busy all the morning planning the de- talla qf the elopement with the girl's father.—The New Yorker. Young Wife—I wonder what sort of plates I ought to serve these bls-| « cults on? ‘ Husband—It they're your own alts armor-plates might he appro- priate Adrie—Tell _me—are you engaged to, « Chowge censed to be a minor, to SHE LIVES IN A TRUNK, Misa Celeste J Miller, a Chicago wom in, Who has done more travelling than uiy other woman who ever Itved, bas t started off on her fourth trip around the world, the fnst Amertean wom: tour of the gpeat Siberian rallway route alone, says the Pilacim, Miss Milley has penetrated to eve vok and corner of the known worl except 8 and the Boer coun- tty. She always travels alone; she in- Varlably cartes two trunks full of dainty nine apparel with her, and el a train or boat met with any serious . and never failed to enjoy ent in all -her many Journeys. 300 proposals now d to her credit, she has never sald sto any man. ne THE FIRST REVOLVER, It cannot justly be said that Joraph Shirk, of Lancaster, who died the other day, contributed very largely to the happiness of his fellow-men, but as he was the man who made the first re- volver, he doubtless performed a very useful service, as things go in this world, says Leslie's Weekly. While the revolver {8 not a very large weapon, It has probably snuffed more persons out of since {t came {nto being, virk’s handa, forty years many more formidable en- While its bark 1s not as cannon, iis bite is usually bad, and tt is a good deal ba existe ander Mr, “0, th of war. oud as a us handler for burglars and other bad men to arry around, ee EDITION DE LUXE, Prisciila is a poem aweet, As any may see, Of perfect Mnes and rhythmle feet And bound for fe—to me. A \ Her brow, a fro * Contains no smallest Ine, i ‘THE WORLD: —— 840% AROOOREDIAODDAD How Is Your COLD CHARLI “ALL THE WAY FRom WANTAGE! ery rows? ° $ 3 >< wanda Club reported last night him to evade pressure in favor of PARTLY QUALIFIED. 2 “Vd like ter be a judge,” sald ¢the chronic loafer. “They ain't “got nuthin ter do but set on the » bench all day an’ look wise.” “Well,” said the grocer, “you * could do the settin’ on the bench, all right.” ClO MAN'S H&AD> Boys and girls lke to reproduc fantastl they ha Hut eyes speuk volumes, and declare ‘The whole edition «ine, r\ About her mouth a winsome smile Of rapture givce a hint; Sweetheart, I'd travel many a mile For one unpublished print. | 4 But test I lose my treanure trove, Desired, though undorerved, Tl mark you "Copyright," my love, by twisting wall, expert. But instead of using the wall they the cellar and fiadvan whould rummage tt old olothesh Btreteh a over. 1) half THE A iHAS kGADER MURRAY How Artist Powers Diagnoses It Through a Tunnel, ey Tolt “'Charlie’ Murphy, the Tammany leader, !s confined to his house, No, 307 Fast Seventeenth street, by a severe cold. So his friends in the Ana- and deceptive shadows which seen or had pictured to them thelr fingers into curious shapes and throwing the shadow on the If the boys and girls, instead of trying the designs for themselves, will use the modela given below they will be able to accomplish some very clever feats. and with but little practice become MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 190%: ee — sf VeN ENG NEVER MINO CHARLIE row ABOUT Tit TEWw You WHew YouRE THE TUNNEL FRANCHISE ? Prez, / | 0008 POPIIISI9GR They thought it would not prove seriouc. Some even hinted that his fliness might be a diplomatic one to help the Pennsylvania tunnel franchise.—News Item, SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT. THE BRUTE, SCHEME THAT FAILED. a i Enpeck—My dear, do you think» I'm too old to take up the study : of astronomy? si Mrs. E.—John, | think you ares an old fool if you imagine that’ “What did he do?” will serve as an excuse for re-; “He went over and kicked it,” maining out all night. ‘ PPDHOPPOORSOHOS 9999 9$2OF-95-09F0OGHHOOHFOHVOGO® “Why are you crying, dear?” Nell—Would you marry a man just because he happened to be rich? Bess—Of course not. But then 1 would try awfully hard to get him to marr: “Oh, mother; last night | showed Henry the hammock that we first courted in.” t ae BUNNY: AN ELEPHANT > THE PARROT: be careful to keep the arms back of the side of the screen. Bo careful in making an, elephant. Raise the thumb of the right hand w to keep the mouth high up and give additional length to the trunk. The eye) should be very small, The trunk may ‘be waved backward and forward and curled up to the mouth. The fingers forming the trunk should pick up a oar- rot (formed of cardboard) and place It in the’ mouth, é expressive. slose the mouth, move the ¢ara and listen for some one in the audience to make persi Answer the ce- marks by a “He: ‘The dog shadow 4s an dnteresting one, ‘Vo show the eyeball raise the ioft little finger slightly. It may’ be “moved, It you bring the right thumb sharply back- ward aml forward the dog may be given a snapping effect, With a Kttle prac- tse thie dog may be taught to bark, Next comes tho comedy old man. By it forms three sides of a square, place it ainst the wall whieh should make the fourth side, The operator ghould sit In the middle with a candle on a tabi nd his chair between the candle and screen, Then having seated his audience outside he is ready for work, It will be necessary for him to have prepared in advance a few hots, boots, &c., but they may be easily cut out of stiff brown paper, ‘The bird Ia easy to make, Show the figure first on the side of the soreer ard by moving the fingers make It ap: |» sk is ne of of} pear to fly da THE MAN HIGHER OP. AS TO THE NE W COMMISSIONER. “I see there's some talk of making James B. Reynolds, the Mayor's secretary, Commissioner of Police,” said the cigar-store man. “I wouldn’t have to get a doctor to treat me for shock if {t was true,” replied The Man Higher Up. “If it is true I'd like to make a future book on the whole ticket of administration at the head of the Police Depart- ment. I'd chalk them up like this: 4 “‘Commissioner, James B. Reynolds.” “First Deputy Commissioner, Joshing Jacobs, the Rubber-Faced Detective.’ “‘Second Deputy Commissioner, Apple Mai “Fine for the llies—Reynolds to keep tabs on the morais of the force, Jacobs to tell the cops how to as- J sume disguises and speak with different accents, and Apple Mary to conduct the trials, When there were no trials on the books Apple Mary could instruct the cops in sewing buttons on their clothes.” “The Mayor wouldn't do anything so foolish,” an- nounced the cigar-store man. « “Certainly he wouldn't,” agreed The Man Higher Up, “if he had his own way. But if you'll consult the sheet of past performances of Seth Low you'll find that he’s not a consistent performer. When he is in condition and trained to the minute he can be backed with a chance of making another trip to the ring with the ticket; but when he goes on the track full of reform* dope his supporters find out that he’s running for the end book. “If you've taken the trouble to get letter perfect on this Partridge development you'll find that the letter the old man sent the Mayor was nothing but a stail In this letter he said he needed a rest and he couldn’t get it in Mulberry street, which was no lie. But wher he got to shedding language on the outside he put the proposition right over the plate. “He said he was doing all right and he gave out the ** charts to show that under him the police made more pinches than they did last year. He had no holler com- ing to himself, because he was doing the best he knew how. But, says the old man, there were knockers in the City Hall. “There was a bunclk he says, that goes down to the Mayor and tells him that John N. Partridge is track sore; that there are others who could go into the Police Department and make the grafters run around and write postal cards asking for the number of the dead-house. Che knockers didn’t have anything else to do, most of them only working on Sundays, and they finally got the Mayor to a point where he didn’t know whether he (& was wearing a mortar board or a fresh hair-cut. “Don't you ever think for a minute that the com pany of hammer-throwers that got Partridge out won’t plug to get their own man in, As long as the Mayor has let them tip him off on the Partridge thing it’s close to a cinch that he'll buy thelr guaranteed specia] for the Police Commissioner Stakes and play their entry across * the board. “It would be good politics at that. He'd be in a post- tion to say that they wouldn't stand for his man, an@ it their entry blew up on the back-stretch it would be up to them to make a few excuses to the public. “I don’t see why this Reynolds-Jacobs-Apple Mary combination wouldn't be as good as any they could frame up. Anybody they put in is bound to be a loser unless he is strong enough to go to the floor with the burliest cop on the force with anything from fists to abuse and pull out the long end of the purse. If we are going to have a shirt-waist, pink-tea police force we might as well crack our whip and get busy.” “What do the police think about it all?” asked the f cizar-store man. “They think It is to laugh,” replied The Man Higher ‘ ” AWAKE IN DREAMS. John Korllner, who, by his own confession, recelvyed more taxes for New Rochelle than he accounted for to the city, told the officials that he had “slept but two hours in one month and could stand it no jonger.”” Koellner Is probably sincere in the bellef that he went that long without sleep, but he would have a hard time make ing a physiologist belleve it. Physicians say that this delue sion of indefinite sleepless periods is common to sufferers from insomnia, ‘There are men who have told, in all earnestness, even more incredible tales than Koellner's concerning thelr long vigile by sick beas or their protracted sleeplessness from worry, but even the layman who has carefully observed his own insomnia cannot bring himself to believe such stories, ‘The truth is that a man will seem to lie awake the whole | A) night, when he may have slept two or three hours. It ¢@ ~ mere travesty of sleep and it does not refresh him, but it does give the brain its needed rest and keeps him from going cr During these brief hours of unconsciousness the usual functions of sleep are performed, but eo lght is the veil which covers consciousness that the sleeper is almost Uterally “sleeping with one eye open.’ ‘And in the dreams that come to him between eleeping and waking—as all dreams are supposed to come—his dream mind tells him that he is awake and has been awake all the time. It {s a distinction which some sufferers from insomnia may deride, but that ls an amiable peculiarity of the man whe js prone to exaggerate hig axperience, AN ARTIFICIAL IAN, ‘An English surgeon, who had to mend from head to feet more than one soldier mutilated in the late Boer War, has amused himeelf by calculating what an entirely artificial man would cost, says the Pittsburg Dispatch, Here ts the result, which is really interesting > ‘A pair of arms cost $90 and with artificial hands §18, Artificial lega come to #140 and @ false nose to about $100, For $130 one can get two ears with tympanums and drums, A . windpip® with a palate in platinum costs from $40 to $90, and the eyes $90. é Briefly, 10 expenses which wou the restoration | of a veteran, so wounded evi theoretically, he would still live, would amount to about $890, ‘This is really very little, and It Js seen that things have greatly diminished since the time of Captain Castagnette of imperishable mem- ory, but that noted soldier went beyond the let of the Png~ Ish doctor by having a whole face from the sil 6 It is well known that one of the most celebrated rd Generals has worn for many years an abdomen of ollver ey replace the one which an unfriendly bullet carried off. a2 \ ay, [THE “NEW” CHILD OF MISFORTUNE tn the sicet, T’d greet.