The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1902, Page 12

[os lished by the Press Publlshing Company, No. 53 to © Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. ..NO. 18,093. i AT CANFIELD’S. | Ye not Mr. Jerome's curiosity ooncerning Mr. Can- 's guests to be regarded as impertinent and his ques- tions about their presence in his house insulting? Mr. ~) Panfield’s home in Forty-fourth street was well known tnd an abode of luxury and hospitality. It was very ‘widely known as a place where objects of art of rare ‘excellence had been gathered by a connoisséur of taste, und where a chef acknowledging few superiors prepared @ishes worthy of a Bechamel's approval. A peachblow vase, fit companion of the one that made _} ® Governor famous, paintings that had hung on the line at the Salon, priceless products of Oriental looms, on which fair Seraglio feet had trod—to view these treas- ures and to sample the dishes of a culinary artist deserv- ing to rank with Vatel was to encourage the higher education of the eye and the palate, an end justifying the Means. To men so engaged faro and roulette are of minor interest. Mf gentlemen pursuing this higher education of the Benses are to be rudely questioned in the witness box jabout their whereabouts, a lie, which Prof. W. H. Hud- on says is excusable in time of mental stress, 1s cer- - ‘tainly a venial one here. i oy PROPHETIC DREAMS. i _ Bome days before Mrs. Grant died sho appeared to her sister, Mrs. Cramer, in a dream and said: “Mary, I " Bave come to say good-by, because I am not going to be with you very much longer.” Mrs. Grant was at the time only slightly indisposed and no feara of a fatal ill- ‘ses were entertained. The prominence of the persons ‘ concerned {s likely to make this dream a permanent con- tribution to the world’s stock of dream lore, and incl- dentally to revive interest in death dreams, so called, ~ and other prophetic visions that come in sleep. A sect of Greek philosophers, the Stoics, held that as ORES OF THE DAY} ® td "Papa, why are the December days the shortest In the year?” “When you have to pay for the whole family’s Christmas presents you'll un- derstand. “The girl in the flat above has asked Santa Claus for a piano. What are you going to ask him for?" “A sound-proof celling.'* “T heard him kiss her."* “Well, it may have been on the hand." “No, That kiss was not made with hand the New Yorker, She gave him for Christmas a nice Turkish rug, Portferes and a dining-room set. ‘Then he gave her three pipes and a box | « of clears; And that happy home's now marked “To Let."* “That first wife of mine never could take a joke."” “But she took you once.”* “Don't get personal. When she got her divorce from Hetmoollt last week T sent her a message wishing her many happy returns of the day, and now she refuses to even rod when we meet.”— Chicago Record-Heratd. 29998883008 “So that poor, dear missionary was eaten by the cannibals! He was such a sweet man, too!” “Indeed he was. I s'pose they had him for dessert.’ “When I remember him he was @ struggiing young lawyer. Has wealth made much difference in him?" “Oh, yes. He lets his clients do the struggling now. P9OBED $0944 _ the gods were disposed to deal kindly with man {t was only natural that they should disclose their purposes to ‘him fn dreams; the Christian Church also, in its earlier " Gays, made the divine origin of dreams a matter of doc- trinal belief. What enlightened medical opinion thinks of “prophetic” dreams is expressed by Dr. William A. Hammond, who sald: “Prophetic dreams, like others, » have their origin either in impressions made upon some revious impressions. We are therefore obliged to dis- ‘miss, as without any foundation in fact, the notion that ‘reams have anything of the nature of true prophecy - @bout them.” Yet we are not to look down upon the popular belief fn them as the credulity of ignorance. The World's files for the last three years show perhaps twenty well- @uthenticated cases of dreams foretelling death. Is it wt natural that a supernatural origin should be credited to them? In some the coincidence, if It is to be called go, was very extraordinary. In many the exact moment of death was foretold. A striking instance of this ac- urate prophecy was revealed in the dream of Miss Anna Hennessy, of Ocean Grove, who on April 8 dreamed that KS she would die three months later. On July 8, almost | within an hour of the time limit, she died from an accl- S dent. Mrs. Julia French, of Boston, who had a vision that ehe would die in an elevator shaft, met death as the vision foretold. Mrs. Conkling, of Middletown, N. W¥., had three successive dreams pointing out the man- | Ber of her end, and events proved their prophetic nature. Pressure on the pneumogastric nerve was necessary to cause these dreams of death—just how much the stomach “was distended beyond its normal proportions at the time. fet in this as in some other lines of speculation he would @nd the popular mind disinclined to credit him. AMERICAN WOMEN. Authorities in feminine beauty advanced the theory ‘ome twenty years or so ago that of all the women in the world those in certain citiés of Ireland, preferably -(dmerick, were the most beautiful, with those from ‘Wienna a close second. Dr. Lorenz, who knows the ‘Wienna type from intimate acquaintance, thinks it In- ferior to the American, to which he awards the prize. “The American girl has a rare combination of beauty, phealth and intellect,” he says. “The outdoor exercise she takes makes her a fine specimen physically. In my eountry women do not take outdoor exercise. They re- main at home doing polite needlework or else ride out 4m their carriages. In Austria higher education is not known.” _ A fine result of her exercise and education {s that by Mt the American woman has achieved the rare distinction 5) of being more beautiful to look upon at thirty than at )\ twenty, and of the women of no other natfion can this be > feaid. Good looks tarry but a brief while with Conti- ‘mental women; the Spanish or Italian or German beauty ot twenty is forced to fight to avoid the corpulency that is soon to make her figure too matronly for admiration, and she lacks the mental stimulus that in the case of She American of thirty reflects a cultivated mind in the gulrror of a handsome face. “Tm what does the great personal attractiveness of the | American woman consist? Dr. Lorenz does no! specity, ‘ut Mr. Harry Thurston Peck once gave us a summary ‘of her physical charms and Mr. Rafford Pyke of her Smmental, which may be cited here: PHYSICAL. MENTAL Weatares irregularly beautiful. Franknena, AD pale, preferably an ivory-tinted, | A mind alert and quick, but not too a nes, learned. Gray: ‘eves or dinck, Anclined to| A spirit of comradeship, A sympathetic Interest in masculine Sega ODOR Durnuite, Nad falightty parted, showing the | A manner neither shy nor forward, “teeth. An acquaintance with the topic of UA bose neitter large nor small. the day tn art, Iterature and ‘Dark par. politter, woice, gure, CATS AND HYDROPHOBIA, of death from the bite or scratch of a cat are but usually the death is due to blood poisoning t ® few days. The death of Theodore Rogers, alteso kitten scratched him, occurred after an ‘or incubation of eight weeks, and in this par- Dore resemblance to hydrophobia. Some few have been reported in recent years, namely ‘bitten in September, 1899, at Lancaster, of Markleysburg, Pa., bitten in August, "phe or more of the special senses or in recollections of | Where folks keeo a8 warm as they pllz- A doctor so disposed might estimate just how great a| BDWARD VII—has ping from the wound, the fatal issue occurring | “Did Biggs have any luck hunting lions in Africa “Yes. Great luck,” “How? “Didn't meet any lHons.”—Washington Star. - Said @ thin-blooded youth from Cadiz: “In chilly old Gotham I friz. Jack Frost and J. Pluvius Make me yearn for Vesuvius, “Did her father give you his bless ing?" “Not exactly, but he gave me eome- thing equally uplifting.” } SOMEBODIEsS, |} AGASSIZ, MRS.—widow of the great geologist, has just celebrated her elghtieth birthday, Bhe is president of Kadcliffe College. BAILEY, W. J.—®ansas's bachelor Governor, has been proposed to by one thousand women, Lieut-Gov. Hanna has received five hundred proposals. The offers came from all parts of the United States and Canada. CLOUGH, MRS. LUCY—the well-known Bostonian, baked fourteen ples for the celshration of her ninety-first birthday, last week, at which ratio she will prob- ably bake 156-18 ples for her centen- nial anntyerpary. entered three yachts for the forthooming Ban Remo regatta. LAING CHENG TANG—the new Chin- eso Mintster, was star pitcher of the Phillips Academy ball’ nine twenty years ago. MARTERLINCK, MAURICE—has just written two new plays, bearing the odd ames of “Pity” and “Fury.” i CRAZE FOR COPPER. Among the most artistic of the holiday novelties at the jeweller‘s are the artic! ip copper and ailver. ‘Royal copper, as it is called, is @ reigning fad of the season, and, with its rich and brillfant hue and lustrous finish, it catehes the eye at once, The body of the anticle is usually of copper, the trimmings being of tho ellver, eays tha Pittsburg De spatch, ‘All the requisites which the woman of dainty and refined taste likes to acatter over her dressing table, from comb, brush and mirror to the manicure pleces and the different brushes which serve a variety of purposes, come in the new royal copper, The essentials for corre- spondence also appear in copper. The appurtenances for the smoker come in copper and silver. Cigarette and match boxes in their latest guise are of copper. Card cases and pocketbooks of the fine ° leathers, such as seal, walrus, Uzard and morocco, are mounted with corner ple or bound narowly with copper. bags and chatelaine bags are also mounted with copper, LOOTHH9OHO® JEROME TOOK IT LITERALLY. “Say, teacher, didn’t you say S you'd be glad to help us kids up S life's hin?” Wrist] > “Yes, Indeed, Bobble.” “Then just yank this sled of Smine to the top like a good girl.” PIGHOSDIOHHOED «0 BYE 2) wire IN THE SMALL TOWN. “What makes you think so?” “Why, he has a bell that sounds like an automobile gong and every one looks out when he p: 3." a saint. $2900.00 SH 99H KEEPS HIMSELF IN T His Millionaire Parade Pictured by Artist Powers. © The District-Attorney is doing things again, and in the same old brass-band way. He is rounding up millionaire witnesses to give evidence? » against Art Collector Canfield, whose emporium of chance Mr. Jerome raided recently. If you mention Jerome's name on Wall street these days ® there is a wild scramble of millionaires for the ferries and the tall buildings, 2 42O9O6O06 HE “Time Is money, you know.” “Yes, but the fact that it takes three months to amount to a}change for a dollar and sald to tell’? quarter is enough to discourage} you she would give you the dollaré, 4 ODDS UBLIC EYE. : LUN y WG Qo 8999009000004 >DOS2LB936-99O0909900 > $96-06000. OO = 93400008 xOOS-2- MD) z ” 4 bo Cera BOBBHHDOOGHIHOF-IODIF99SH9990-00G0.906G-09 694000 204% 006 Grocer—Weill, little girl, what can) 1 do for you this morning? R Little Giel—Mother sent me to-g to morrow. e $9IDIDHHDHODHHOHOHOHOOSD —$——- A DOMESTIC DEVICE, Another domestic device which cer- tninly fills @ long-felt want, and for which we are indebted to a woman, Is called tho baby-Jumper. ‘The invention is a sort of frame tn which the child can be comfortably placed, either sitting or standing, and fixed beyond reach of harm with straps. It {s muepended to the ceiling by 4 rope and spiral wire spring, which when welght ia thrown upon It dances the baby automatically, —_ Love and Light of Morning, 1 A shelter rude and a crust of bread, Put your hand tn mine on the way I tread, And the red blooms over the roses dead, And Love, and the light of Morn- ing! It, . A Sorrow, thrilling the lonely years, Put your smile lke light in a rain of tears, And your sweet, firm faith and your whispered prayers, And Love, and the light of Morn- ing! Trt, And so we mingle, and so we meet, And shall—till the journey, at last complete, “Of Cleveland, O,, bitten {n February, 1899; ind was eauterized and after a lapse of from eight thas aes We rest with the beautiful Grams | knot. i } “Frank L. Stanton, in the Atlanta Constitution, Ught, the charming star of five a the differences in the HOW TO IMAKE A PAPER STAR. The five -pointed star, whicn ia ecen upon ithe uniforms ot military men {a called in geometry the regular pentagon star, Its construc- with the ald of the rule and compass, 18 long and — compi!- cated, 0 compli~ cated, in fact, that the description of the process would be use- less. But for those who wish to do geometry instantane ously there is a bet- ter way. ‘Take a simple band of paper, in which make a knot as indl- cated in the two- figures on the left of the design. At the top is seen the com- mencement of the at a little fingers ately cage. making although It in draw it, hold! band of paper very flat and fold It following the Ines A stead Cb. ceafeigid tate obtained iB a twinkling the ordinary regular pentagon ABCD £ If mow & be folded ap that the edge C F taxes the uirec- tion A B, and then the pentagon bb placed before. the window or in front; of & | How long shall you: points will appear in te transparency, owing to : to-Date G THE BIRD IN THE CAGE. : Draw on a sheet of paper a bird cage and distance a din. You can make the bird pass over and enter the Take an ordinary visit- ing card between two and place It edgewise perpendicular- Jy on the paper between the cage and the bird. Then place the end o! your nose on the upper edge of the card and look at the two objects. ‘The bird wiil Immedi- take Mighit and you will see it in the now cage. The figure on the right will save the trouble of the drawing, too sniall to got the best results. The line indicates the position of the card. Be cgretul that the card ts’so placed with reference to tho Nght that It does not cast a shadow on either side. ‘This simple experiment illustrates what is ealied binocular vision, UP TO uM, Bashful Lover—I leave to-morrew. OM, WHAT CHEE) chi ai Maude—Wiich would you rather, be,| The oldet plece of writ in Mig Fithel?|rich or handeome? . THE MAN HIGHER UP. PARTRIDGE AND THE OLD MEN, “ SEE Partridge has got his axe out for the old pollee- men,” said the Cigar Store Man. <¥ 68,17) replied The Man Higher Up: his motto that stirring war cry, ‘The Pappy Guys Must Go." He is going himself.” “Do you think he is sore because he has had to slough the job?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “Certainly not,” responded The Man Higher Up. “The fact tha: he is older than somo of the men he wants to retlre for senile disability and baldness and things has nothing in it. He wants the elderly cops to take a rest because he thinks they need it. Commissioner Partridge 1s one of those old men who thinks he is younger than anybody else of his age. When you come down to cases the hardest man on an old man {s an old man. “There ts something to attract attention about this old gentleman ‘at the head of the Police Department whose resignation has gone in because he says he {s too sick to attend to business forcing out a bunch of vet- erans who don’t want to quit and are as good as they ever were. Here 1s a man so weak that he can't attend to the duties of Police Commissioner after the’ scalp of Inspector Thompson. “Did you ever see Inspector Thompson in action? Ever see him at a French Bat! or ap Arion Ball or any other event at Madison Square Garden, When he got it under that little golf cap of his that it was up to him to get busy? Say, if Commisstoner Partridge could se@,@ Picture of Inspector Thompson in action he would tear up that order calling the Inspector to the scrutiny of the sawboues and eat the pieces, “I've seen a young man with a stew on at the Frenth Ball deliver ultimatums and gather a Congress of Na- uons around ‘him until he began to think he was the ball Instead of realizing that he was really the effect of the balls he had been imbibing. And I’ve seen Inspector Thompson at the other end of the hall get next to the * disturbance and give an imitation of an automobile with », a man with a wooden arm at the business end of the steering gear. a “Swirging his blackjack over his head like the spokes on a flywheel he would come charging down the arena smashing inoffensive bystanders over the hatracks until ho left a trail behind him like the aftermath of the battle of Bull Run. By the timo he reached the scene of the disturbance the guy with the stew on would always have evaporated, so the Inspector would jump in and arrest everybody he found unconscious. The idea df trying to retire a man like that! ds “This question of how old a man fs before he fs old is one of a whole lot of importance nowadays, outside the Police Department as well as in it. There are so many youths with dampness behind the ears going out and making good at the head of big enterprises that the ald boys who think more of having a clean inkstand and taking their regular meals than they do of giving an imitation of a brass band ,are being put on the caboose= end of the train of progress, “In what is known as legitimate business the man with gray hairs in his head is being pushed into the dis- card. In the sporting line it is different. A man never gets old In the saloon, gambling, bookmaking or other businesses that are considered outside the count by the people who are good until he gets to the stage where he can't take care of himself. They drink all they want, eat everything they can buy, stay up nights and carry dn terribly, but they never seem to die. Look at ths papers and you will find the same old bunch figuring as leaders in the sporting Ine that figured twenty years ago.” “Why is it?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “TI think,” responded The Man Higher Up, “that itis becauso the man who lives a sporting life never has to get up and go to the office in the morning. He wouldn't know an alarm clock from the address of the Bible House.” . «& WATER SOLD IN NEW YORK. “Pitty years ago," said an old Ninth Warder, “we people of this ward—it was then called Greenwich Village—got all our drinking water from wells and springs. At each corner of the house the people had a big tub or a barrel, and the rain they caught was used for washing and for oriinary household purposes. Those who drank water of course used the wells and springs. “People of course drank water fn those days, and even now you wili find their descendants who insist upon keeping up the custom. They had to have it,,and yet downtown, before the dlg aqueduct steals, water was scarcer than {t is to-day. ‘There were naturally several people who were thrifty in this respect, and they sold water to the downtown merchants just as the milkmen supply the city to-day with milk, ‘They got the water right here in the pretty little Greenwich Village, now desecrated by the name of the ‘Ninth Wand.’ I remem- her five or six big pumps not many blocks away from us now that did excellent service and brought to thelr owners a big profit. One of these wells was in Amos street, now Tenth street, between Greenwich lane and Factory street, now Waverley place, ‘There was another in Greenwich lane, new styled ‘avenue'—lane 1s much prettler—on the next conner, 4 There were also three springs in what 4s now called Four- teenth street. between Ninth and Tenth avenues, i “Byery morning ‘the dealers would fill their barrels amd would start downtown just as the anilkman does now, Bach cart had its regular lst of customers and there would be about five carts to each well. The customers were the down- town merchants and trades people, who paid three cents . to have a tin pail filled. v Ste “Boys,” and the old man's volce trembled, “I've ‘often thought backward and wondered why I didn't have traiig enough to go into the business and orm a trust. Money? Why, boys, there was nothing to stop it. Some people had to drink water, and they couldn't dip tt up from the Battery, could they? ‘They sold the water in little tin palls witm, was covers, and as the alr was kept away the water cool watil {t was conaumed. The next moming the vould come around and fill the tin pats egain, ana Gealats them made small fortunes out of st.” ome ui Incredible as it may seem, there are two men in Paris can play cards under water. The reservoir in which they play has 9 capacity of about 890 tons of water, and h; and electric machines are connected with # in such a that the entire space can be illuminated by means of descent lights. Es ‘@hree or even more persons can doa Toom in the reseryéte and they have no difficulty In remaining under water ‘top fully five minutes. Indeed, one of the men remained under. ater on one occasion for five minutes and twentymeveh soonds. eaters OLDEST PIECE OF WRITING, ie ons, toe wort 16 68 4 ae oN |