The evening world. Newspaper, December 22, 1902, Page 10

we aun No, & to @ 4 by the Press Publishing Company, No. New York. Entered at the Post-OMlce York as Gecond-Class Mail Matter. ‘OLUME 43 % CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. \ A World reporter making the rounds of the reta!l Ataren saw a $6,000 dinner set for sale, a $15,000 rug, a ‘2% umbrella and cigars at $100 a box. Ons is led to "wonder what the aggregate outlay in Christmas shop- ping must be where a demand exists for articles of this ‘Yalue. Just before Jan. 1, 1899, managers of some twenty stores in the so-called “shopping district’ est!- mated their holiday sales for two weeks at $13,700,000. ‘It is & warranted inference in the absence of statistics this year that the total proceeds of holliday shopping 4 be nearly if not quite double this great sum. New fork has never before seen holiday shopping comparable with that of this season in the number of buyers and the richness of the goods displayed. One reason is that the metropolis is more than ever the nation’s great shopping town. Money from all quar- ters is spent at Sixth and Fifth avenue counters— ‘money made in Pittsburg stcel mills, or the Boston India’ trade, what little of it survives, or the Kansas City packing-houses. It {s not unlikely that the $6,000 dinner, | get will adorn the antique mahogany china closet, pur- id _ there fs in Christmas shopping. hased on Fourth avenue, of an Omaha milllonaire’s ‘wife, and the hundred-dollar cigar box be opened after the coffee on the dinner table that a West Virginia ofl “well made possible. + Qne notices the variety and the elaborate nature of the “toys on sale. In one of Krank Norris's earlier novels the hero meets his future bride in a San Francisco fac- tory, where she is pasting ‘Mado in Austria” labels on toys. Many of the popular toys this year are indis- putably of a genuine foreign origin, It 1s pleasant In purchasing one to reflect how much Christmas charity Here, for instance, is a Sleverly constructed little automatic planist, “made in ) France.” is it not agreeable to think that some part of ESV Rettio Hall, aged eighteen, a farmer's daughter, the shopper's dollar which buys {t finds its way into s| ‘Mortmartre garret, where the young working girl lives who pasted on his fiuffv blond iocks and painted his ‘Paderewski fare? From the sale of these toys there are francs and shillings and marks to make a merrier Christ- mas for tollers thousands of miles across the sea. Few forme of sentiment are as prolific in good practical re- sults as gift giving at Christmas time. WOMEN NAMED KATE. Corréspondents of the Evening World advance the theory that ‘‘zirls by the name of Kato are apt to be - Rot-tempered,” and that they make careless and indiffer- ent, wives. Henry V. of England did not think so. His Cathe- rine of France, his “fair flower de luce, the prettiest Catherine in the world,” as he thought her in days of ourtship, “a very dear and divine goddess,” made him ® Rood wife. Two Kates made better wives than he deserved for Henry VIII.—his first, Catherine of Ara- gon, a woman of “sweetness of manner, good sense and superior endowments, who contrived to retain the fickle ‘and capricious monarch’s affections for twenty years.” His last, Catherine Parr, had only this great fault, that! she was too pious for the worldly Henry. Another Eng- Msh Queen Catherine, Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles I1., “long endured all the neglect and mistreat- ment his dissolute conduct was calculated to inflict on her.” * ‘We need not apologize for the cruel Catherine de Medici nor for the cruel and infamous Catherine of Russia—they weigh heavily on the debit side of famous Catherines. But Catherine of Siena and Catherine Bforza—one a saint, the other one of the greatest orna- ments of her sex in history—deserve a place on the eredit side. * It might be invidious to clte contemporary Kates or those of very recent times—a Kate Chase, a Kate Field, @ Kate Claxton, a Kate Greenaway. But it is interesting to note that of twenty-five divorce suits recorded in ‘The World within a brief period in 1902 only one Kate figured among various Fannies, Graces, Nellles, Annies, Myrtles, Josephines, Mabels and others. A list of the ‘Women missionarles of the American Board of Foreign Missions of half a century ago—1853—shows out of 360 names mentioned, only eleven Catherines, as against twenty-five Elizabeths and twenty-three Sarahs. Where, by the way, are the good old-fashioned given mames of this missionary list—the Rebeccas, Esthers. Susans, Harricts Abigails, Floras, Hannahs, Dorothys, &c.? Curiously enough, not one of these names is to be found in the divoree case lst cited above. New times, new names. MODERN CREDULITY. They still believe in Bavaria that a very efficacious ®alve can be made from the flesh of a dead criminal, and druggists keep on hand what is called “poor sin- ner’s fat,” to meet demands, Lamentable credulity, no doubt; yet in the news of the day we have the ) Postponement of a double wedding at Santa Barbara because of the bride's father’s belief that it would be unlucky, the postponement of a midnight wedding at Springfield, Il, because bride and bridegroom simul- taneously made the horrifying discovery that it was still Friday, and the arrest of a man on the charge of a fortune-teller, Mrs, Emily Koniche, that he had stolen @ roll of bills from her amounting to $600. How many ‘well-educated young women seemingly sane contributed to Mrs. Koniche's roll of bills? Ot how great the fortune-teller’s influence is some|”. idea may be had from the instances here quoted: Mrs. ©. J. West, of Duluth, informed by « fortune-toller that ahe had only lrty days to live, died of fright before the appointed time, Debree Bellen, a retired baker of Brooklyn, warned that he was to lose bis fortune, committed suicide. Mes, Jennie Patrick, of Chelsea, Mass, Informed by a fortune-teller that the cards indicated her approaching sulcide, went home and killed ‘Derselt. f West Butler, N. Y., {mformed by a clairvoyant that ehe was destined to die within three daze, died of fright. “Bearing in mind that by an estimate made in May,/ , there were 1,200 fortune-tellers and clairvoyants in York, the wide extent of their influence may be . How profitable it !s was revealed in an mination of the cash books of Mrs. Mary Jones, of Bergen street, Brooklyn, after her arrest. Her for 1898 were found to be $2,239 and for 189 Mrs. Jones made a specialty of love potion: she was ignorant of ‘poor sinner’s fat.” f which is due to the teachings of the gypsies rossed over to England from the Continent in Ville time. Sorcery and witchcraft and as- *JOKES OF THE DAY} “I didn't know he'd been drinking when I asked him to dinner.” “Another case of ‘didn't know tt was loaded,’ eh?" On froning day the laundress struck, Indeed why should ehe not? She'd read the old advice—worse luck! “Strike while the tron {= hot.” “The villain raised his horse-pistol and “Raised it from a Cajt, I suppos: “Did you ever do anything you were iashamed of in your political life?" asked the solemn man. “Yea,” answered Senator Sorghum; “I ‘once took $50,000 and found out later might just as easily have had $100,000." —Washington Star. “How will you unprepared New York- ers feel when you hear the blast of Gabriel's trumpet?” ‘"Well, after the bunch of subway Diasts and wintry blasts and blasted hopes for cheap coal, I guess it won't jar ue much.” “Have you paid for all your Christmas presents?" “Not quite, wife buys me {sn't usually pre: till the firat of the year.” “Fine, bracing weather, isn't it?” “Ie you heard all the Christmas things my kids are asking me for, you'd think 60." Protessor—We are told that Napoleon always had a copy of Homer in his pocket. ‘The dill for the one my ed Student—Well, if he always had {t In his pocket, what good did it do him? Professor—There, there, young man, don't get stmart—Colimbus State Journal. “What do you think of the Venesuelan wart’ “Oh, it doesn't amount to anything. Not a single beef scandal and not even a row as to which General was respon- sible for the blocka: At Christmas tide in olden days there rose @ merry din ‘When, ‘mid the gladsome revellers, the boar's head was brought tn. But new we have cause for sorrow that those @ladsomo times are fled, wears his own head. “Papa, hoses are made of rubber, aren't they?" “gure."* “Then when the Christmas tree {6 cov- ered with hose does it become a rubber plant?" {"Somepopies. | KIPLING, RUDYARD—Iintends to spend the rest of the winter In the Transvaal, the Venezuelan row apparently being too Insignificant. ¢o demand his pr ence—and poetry. LEWIS, REV. T. Hig probably the only man on earth who ia the president of two colleges, He in president of the Adrian (of Adrian, Mioh.) and the Western Maryland. LANDIS, FREDERICK, K.—the Con- gtessman-elect from the Eleventh In- Mana District, will be the youngest Reprosentative in the House. SIRONI, EMMA—the American minin- ture painter, has received from the 3 Gita now helpless patrons. Boaro OF HEALTH! NEEDS A RAPIOROOLEUM For now at Yuletide revela the bore! ; Queen of England an order to paint the portralts @f Her Majesty's arand- children, the children of the Duche: of Fite, SCHROEDER, MTSS—tauehter of the Governor of Guam, 49 a great-grand- daughter of Benjamin Franklin, She ie a lebutante In Washington society. ZAUN. REV. J. A.—the famous author ‘of Catholo educational books, declares he never reads his own books, NEW ARITHEMIC. Draw three lines on a tabje with a plece of chalk, and then see if you can make nine out of them without using the chalk or dividing the lines. You can- not? Still, tt can easily be done. First strike the three lines hard with the open palm of your hand. Now look'at your palm and you will find the three lines Alstinctly marked on St. That makes six Ines, and the remaining three you can obtain by striking the palm contain- Ing the three lines against the sleeve of your dark coat, for an exart copy of the three lines on the phim vill naturally appear on the sleeve. ‘Thus you have accomplished the ap- parently Impossible task of making nine chalk Ines out of thre —<—<——__— TACTFUL GREVY. Grevy, when President of France, re- lates the Argonaut, on one occasion extricated himself from a predicament with wonderful presence of mind, Ho was belAg conducted around the Salon by an eminent artist when he saw a painting which displeased him. “What a daub!" he exclaimed. “Whose Is it?” “That picture, M. le President" aid is clcerone, “it 1s my own work.” "Ah," sald the President, without any sign of embarrassment at his awkward mis- take, ‘in our country, when we par- ticularly wish to purchase a thin always begin by running It down, true to is part, he purchased the of- fending painting there and then. se LOVE'S RESURRECTION. When he withdrew hia smile I dug a little grave and placed therein |] Some memorles, and covered them i with care, Lest e rude stranger, passing unawa My little gra’ within, )Jnd then I walted patiently awhile, ‘Until he, meeting, met me with a might spy and pry } sh a smile and such a look he ¢ quite forgotten where I dug that grave! —D, 8., in the Pittsburg Gazette. BOS PSOSIOOSEDOTEGI-GE 9900 HE OGOGG-DGE SGD 7-099 5994996609694 69696996 S-2HHDIOTOHHHGON ODDLDDF2ODLIGPOOIBIVODF 3609000060000 1BDO0DD-DSGIDIDODPGHOIGIOOM She—I would prefer a quiet > home wedding, but father Is op- posed to It, He—I! wonder why, $ _ She—Oh, he's awfully deaf, you @ know. ¢ > “THE PUBLIC BE JAMME Artist Powers Thinks that Some Day It Will Come to This. You will probably laugh at thio ploture and think it very funny. Softlelgh—Don't | look out of sight In my new tailor-made ulster? Biffkins—Yes, and all the rest D” 1S THE But there is a tremendous lot of truth in it. The “L’s” present method. of ramming and slamming and jamming Its patrons into the cars is only a step toward some euch wholesale way as The Evening World artist here depicts of accomplishing the same result which may be employed by the company in the near future unless legislation comes to the aid of: Yo pmsl YY ite Me OS 4 Myer—!I wonder where the manufacturera get all the tol they use In making cheap cigars? Gyer—They probably cabbage a lot of It In Connecticut. ‘Water and wine won't mix If the water in put in Mrst and a plece of white paper Atted over. Pour the wine in and re- Moye the paper with @ knitting needle, Should the wine be put in first this can not be done, as the wine is lighter than water, SIBERIAN TRAVEL. Foreigners will not be permitted to travel over the Siberian railway with- out special Russian authorization. Thig| feet 9 inches long, 4 1-2 feet in girth,|a range of 7,00 yards. The whole Rus-| tion to cost ts corn meal; ha» deen officially anmounced by the | welghed 462 pounds and was sold for $53 | sian artillery is now being armed with| having greatest cost in Russian Consul at Of contrifuxal forees, the one in which 4 glass of water {s used 18 a good one. The trick is simple and very easily learned. It consists in giving a glass full of water a complete circle. The secret !les mainly in the manner of hold- Ing the glass. Instead of grasping it as if you were about to drink take it with the palm outward and upward (as shown in the diagram at the upper corner), Swing the arm boldly around and de- scribe a circle without a pauge, but without excessive haste, in the direction shown by the arrows in the {llustration. The glass will be found when ft bas completed the circle to be held in the hand fn the manner represented by the remaining figure of the cut. This 's the position in which It is to be replaced on the table. By inning wit the glass half filled with water and in- creasing the to perform the experiment easily, it in desirable to make the first attempts in | ROYAL, INDEED. A royal sturgeon Iqnded by a trawler at Boston, Lincolnshire, England, was 9 antity as akill improves! the open air. An important point to le after a little practice! serve is that there should ob- @ no hesl- tation or unevenness in the circular motion. BIG GUNS. Austria is perfecting a new type of lege cannon. Italy's new field gun has 8 WANE at PSOOO OLICY. SEIDUYIOD $4995 99HHHH9GHO 59G.9.H0G9OO995- 999 969OF-0055-0590909OOOO 20 93494 6OOO293OOd THE MAN HIGHER UP. ON GETTING RICH IN A HURRY.- “J SEE they got that Humbert gang of Paris swim dlers,” remarked The Cigar-Store Man. “That goes to show,’ sald The Man Higher Up, “that the French detectives know their business as well as the sleuths on this side. The reports in the papers say that when they got the Humbert bunch the Humberts didn’t have anything on them but a pair of dlamon¢ earrings and a bank-roll that would discourage a tramp, As long as they had money the detectives couldn’t put. them on the pan. As soon as the mazuma ran out the detectives went in and made good. What surprises me . is that they let them keep the earrings.” , “That must have been a star bunch of suckers that went against that Humbert game in Paris,” ventured | The Cigar-Store Man. “Nothing to it,” responded The Man Higher Up. “You can’t xo anywhere and not find the sucker crop in a flourishing condition. Rain, wind and snow don’t put the approach of a crease in it. The only difference between a French sucker and an American sucker is that the French sucker produces francs and the Amer- {ean sucker produces dollars. The system of cultivat= ing the crop ts the snme here as it is in Paris except that over there the game hasn't gone far enough to al- low the cultivators to advertise in the newspapers, “The agriculturist in the field of finance who has the nerve to go after the boodle production has a hard farm to work on in New York these days at that, un- less he gees in on a wholesale scale. They have no use here for the small dollar picker any more than they have in France for the small franc picker. I suppose you've read about the big wheat fields in Dakota? “Out there the farmer Is a man who has a stretoh of land that you can’t see across with a telescope. He goes into the business like Charlie Schwab and J. Pler- pont Morgan went into the stecl business. And he gets the soft money, the same as Schwab and Morgan do, But they are in the legit. “The men who go into the cultivation of suckers in 9FOOO 20969980 00-34 $4-04:9009GOHH5 BRIDGE THE DITCH. Ditch: oye A fort has a ditch ten feet wide, Near {it are two planks elght fect long, How can they be used to briuge the ditch? CORNMEALY. ‘The article in common use as food which has the greatest value in propor- articles proportion te tty food value ip the’ oyster, |. New York have studied the methods of the big farmers ~ in Dakota and the captains of industry in Wall street, The best of them come to the top. It is the same in the business of ontgeneralling a guy that thinks he’s wise, The real hustlers rake up the bank-rolls; and we have instances of It every day. “There are acres of swell offices down in the Wall street section pepulated by smooth grafters who have their names in the business directory. They have been in the game for years. Nobody ever reads about them in the police court reports. They never get pinched. They have got the system down to a scientific basis, and they are getting to be almost as strong in their graft as the Stock Exchange, because they know the lines, “They also know each other like the members of the Farmers’ Alliance. As soon as a new agriculturist shows up and begins to spread his fertilizer in the ad- vertising columns of the newspapers they get together. They don’t want any competition. v" “The next is a large juicy item in the papers tell- ing about the arrest of John Jones and William Smith and George Jenkins, charged with running a get-1 in-a-hurry scheme. There is always a disappointed sucker with a come-back, and the newcomer in the field ossifies his brain trying to case out how he got the oofty gooft. The old-timers in the graft could tell him. They are the people that put up the squealers and shove the recent additions out of business. “This Humbert crew ran in Paris for years, The * trouble with them was that they used the courts of law as tools. The New York concerns don't use anything but a gift of language and knowledge of the ambition of every guy that has made his pile by the sweat of his brow to double it without working. If the bunch he | hind this man Miller who cleaned them up in Brooklyn with his 520 per cent. scheme had been wise enough to get next to the real monopolists in the field of graft It would have been running yet.” “Do you believe there is a sucker born every min- ute?” asked The Cigar-Store Man, ; “No,” responded The Man Higher Up; “I believe there's the makings of a wise man born once every day, All the other births are the foundations for suckers.” A CLOSE-FISTED ROMAN. Booker T, Washington is credited with telling of @ confab he had yith the sexton of a negro church in which @e had interested himeelf to the extent of starting a subscription ist for a nsw meeting place, says the Philadelphia Times, The sexton, who knew intimately every member of the con- gregation, ran down the list of names with Mr. Washington, commenting as he went alog: ‘Smif—he's good for @ dollar; Mr, Perkins—he's good for % at least; Mr, Leedom— very religious, M: Washington, but poor.” Mr, Washing- ton made notes went along. Finally the sexton read: ‘Mr, ——. He am rich enough, but stingy as Caesar stingy as Caesar!" “Why do you think Caesar was stingy?" asked (Mir. Washington. “ ‘Cage, Massa Washington, when the Pharisees gave our, Lord a penny he asked them: ‘Whose subscription ts this? and they answered, ‘Caesar's.’ "” AN EMPEROR’S KINDNESS, Whatever'his faults, tt cannot be denied that Emperod? Francis Joseph of Austria has a kind heart. Not long aines the widow of a certain Colonel, being by rules of the service unentitled to a pension, had an audience of the Emperor-King to beg him to grant her one as an act of grace, says the Philadelphia Press. His Majesty granted ‘her requett and graciously dismissed her, Then some candid friend in the ante-room turned the smiles of the happy widow to the wan- ness of despair by gratuitously informing her that, aa the © Sovereign had not attached his signed manual to her petition, | this was as good as dismissal. She thereupon burst into | such a paroxysm of weeping that Iils Majesty came from the ” audience chamber to see what was wrong. When he dis- covered how matters stood he ordered a thousand gulden to be ‘aren to the widow from his privy purse, and ¢or the benefit of the candid friend and others like him, gave (after the manner of the eatern caliph) utterance to whet may pass into the language as a proverb: ‘An Emperors — word needs not the confirmation of tis ‘signature," ‘ ABOUT A BOY’S KNIFE. A gurious case is reported as having been recently decided ino ch law court. A boy of elght had received a knife de a birthday gift, and in playing—or quarrelling—with @, tle visitor, a girl of eight, #0 injured one of her eyes, the entirely lost sight of it. The judge awarded $2,000 damr ages against the boy's parents and governess, holding. the responsibility of the injury rested with all threa, parents having given the knife and the savernese Geiag a . ie " ‘