The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1902, Page 10

~ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office &t New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. .-NO. 18,099. CHRISTMAS MONEY. New York, as the Rev. Mr. Stires says, is a very ‘generous city. The spectacle of portly gentlemen de- gpatching their clerks to the Sub-Treasury for crisp G Rew $1,000 bills fof presents proves it. A thousand other tokens prove it, including the demand for dollar bills, Iikewise crisp and new, and for new-minted nickels and cent pieces, of which the Sub-Treasury supplied ‘twenty-seven kegs the other day for retail business houses. ‘The clean, new money goes with the clean Christmas sentiment. And it makes one regret that in this distri- bution of cash and gond will even a tattered dollar bill did not reach the V/.!Jiamsburg mother and daughter who died of starvation last week. CHILD MARRIAGES. * A boy married at fifteen is a proper subject commigeration; this is not to prophesy that the mar- Fiage of Lee Batting, of that age, to a wife only a year his senior will turn out unhappily. May the wing of the young couple's matrimonial felicity never moult a feather, as Dick Swiveller would say. But children of their years are in no sense fit to enter @ matrimonial partnership, nor is the wife fit for the maternal duties that should devolve upon her. “Calf love” is strong in a boy of Batting’s age, but usually it is. lavished on a girl of larger growth; such is nature's wise provision to avert the catastrophe of immature Marriage. Sensible remarks on this topic were made by Father Mullaney, of Hoboken, last spring when, speaking to his flock on the question of premature weil- Jock he said: Ht te positively ridiculous to hear a fifteen-year-old elip of w girl tell- fing ber friend that ehe and he are “steadien’’ If 1 were the father of those ‘‘steadion'’ 14 atminister a good sound thrashing to them. As a Fale, about 75 per cent. of those Atteen-year-old boys whu glory In the ‘Gilly Little compliments paid them by those as witless as they are cannot “gupport themselves, much lesa a wife. Imagine supported on $B or $5 & week. Young men don't be fools! least til] you have @ut your wistom teeth. = > » Advice eminently sound, and, from the marrying youth’s point of view, for adoption by every boy but “himeelf. Americans marry early and often; the census returns show that there are fewer single persons among us of “marriageable age than in any other nation, and fewer, ‘a& regard cities, in Brooklyn than elsewhere, Child- hood marriages, though reported in the news columns with frequency, make a small proportion of the total. The average age for New York, as shown by the Board of Health reports for 1891-1892, 1s 28.8 for bridegrooms and 24,6 for brides. The number of bridegrooms under twenty in those years was 265, and of brides 5,798. Most bridegrooms in those years were of the age of twenty-five, and most brides twenty-one. Plato sald that a thusband should be thirty and a bride twenty, and the statistics of to-day seem to bear out his view, According to Dr. Cyrus Edson ‘‘the healthiest offspring are born of mothers between twenty and thirty and ‘husbands between thirty and forty.” “Child marriage was long the curse of women in Indla. “Rs present prevalence !n the Orlent 1s shown by the efforts of the Russian Government in December of this “year to raise the ag@s of brides in Turkestan from ten ‘and twelve to fourteen. According to the reports of the * Russian officials in Turkestan 76 per cent. of these child wives die before they reach twenty. In Russia itself «the proportion of marriages under twenty is larger than elsewhere in Europe. The figures are 373 per thousand for men and 578 for women. THE YOUTH OF INVENTORS. That rare quality of the mind which enables a man , to be an inventor seems to show itself in youth in a ,More pronounced degree than in middle life. Marconi ‘fs now only thirty; he was but twenty-five when he gent Queen Victoria’s memorable message from ashore ‘Dy wireless telegraph to the Prince of Wales on his yacht. Edison was twenty-six when he devised the . quadruplex system of telegraph by which alone he would ‘have been entitled to remembrance; at thirty-four he had two salons of tho Paris electrical exhibition filled with his inventions and the hall entirely lighted by his incandescent lamps. Tesla was decorated at thirty by the King of Servia for his inventions. It might seem that these examples of youthful emi- mence among inventors should be put down to the hustling spirit of the so-called young man's era. But there were others before. Sir .Humphry Davy at twenty-three was professor in the British Royal Insti- tute. Elias Howe at twenty-seven had invented the sewing-machine. Eli Whitney had his cotton gin per- ‘fected at twenty-eight. Sir Henry Bessemer at twenty- five was one of the “Forty Immortals" of the French “Academy, an enviable honor. Arkwright, the Lanca- shire barber, had his cotton-spinning machine in work- Ing order at thirty-seven. Morse at forty-four had @wale) hia successful experiments with the telegraph. “It is a divine gift, the faculty of invention, of the erder of genius that enabled Alexander and Napoleon to be great at thirty and Byron at twenty-seven. But with it in all the cases cited above was united a capacity for hard work—the kind that kept Edison at his desk for sixty hours at 2 stretch. Genius without persistence lm invention does not progress far. TWO NEW YORK CLOCKS. ‘Whe fact that the clock in Trinity's steeple told the time inaccurately for two days of last week was deemed ® matter of importance in Wall street. A hundred thousand timepieces might err or stop altogether and for nothing come of it; Trinity's clock has been a model of | _ ehronological rectitude for so long that a lapse on its part is lke the fall from grace of a churchwarden. _ The belfry old and brown th, watched over Bruges fever performed sentinel duty hz: so interesting as that _ by Trinity. In the good old days of pedestrianism Triu- clock told the end of the day for the banker as he into Broadway for a walk up to Madison Square, st as the clock in the corridor of the Unton Club, sold F auction yesterday, told him the end of the evening. {JOKES OF THE DAY} “When he used to go shooting every- body made game of him.” “That's how he died. Another hunter mistook tim for q deer and made game of him."" “Borrowe makes a lot of friends, but ean he keep them?” “He doesn't try to. let them keep him.” ‘He is content to “Miss Sereleat says shee had only eighteen birthdays.” I didn't know she was born on “Jane has found such @ cheap tallor and he has the lovelfest taste!” “I suppose Jane will do her best to monopolize him?" “Of course she will.’ She tried that before and fatled.”” ‘She'll succeed this time. She's going to marry him."—Cleveland Piain Dealer, When « purse-proud young man from Mesquite Heard Christmas woum be Incomplite Without mistletoe, He repited, “Say you soe? Then we'll buy both tus ‘oe’ and tt fite.” “Fashion notes say that undressed Kid ts to be popular this year for slip- pers.’ “I'l bet alippers won't be popular with the undressed kid.” “He's near and dear to me!” the bride exclaimed. The man was stingy; and within a year She changed her mind, for, to her pained surprise, She found that he was far more ‘near than dear, “I can enfely say that no man ever attempted to bribe me, gentlemen." Voice in the Crowd—Dan’t be down- hearted, old chap; your luck may change.—Tid-Bits, “The whole faculty broke out laughing the college president made that faculty." “A Greek philospher said no man need be poor.” “Well, Christmas presents vented in the old Greek day weren't {n- } SOMEBODIEsS. } DELAREY, GPN.—Spells his name De La Rey, and puts the accent on the final syllable. EDWARD VII.—Is a wondenful linguist, speaking Hindustani with especial the papers said he had a ‘happy | 5 64040486096646-0455040 6 0O50O6600006OO0%- CHRISTMAS PRESEN 006494 06990061 89269096000OO6 R A FEW GROWN-UPS How Artist Powers Would Dress a Tree Were He Santa Claus. MANAGERS fluency, During the coronation he ad- dressed the native envoys in their own language, EMPEROR OF CHINA—Ie also high Priest of his subjects’ religion; and, in that capacity must offer forty-six sacrifices a year, GILLES, DUNCAN~—Is the first Bcotch- man to occupy the ‘Speaker's Chalr NHOOESD ESRDIVS in the Australian parliament. He en- tered that parMament forty-four years ego at the age of twenty-five, and has persistently refused a Knighthood. HOVESIEF, MISS ANNA—The editor ‘of the largest newspaper in Norway, fa in this country studying American methods of editing, MOORE, W. H.—The New York mill- fonalre intends to bud a church at Richford, N. ¥., for the use of the parish where his great-grandfather lived, —————__—— GENEROSITY REWARDED, During the distress among the Copen- hagen workmen on account of a lockout in 1887 the public was appealed to for contributions, says the London Express. An old couple in Jutland, having no money, sent in thelr wedding rings as thelr humble contribution for the relief of the starving people. ‘The organiza- tion kept the rings as a memento of this kind act. Recently the old couple celebrated thelr golden wedding under very distressing circumstnces. They were actually starving. This came to the knowledge of the Copenhagen work- men. A collection was taken up and in &@ few days the old couple received $400 in cash and two new wedding rings, with @ grateful acknowledgment of their kindn during the tme of trouble. > <a MAME’S CHRISTMAS By H. H, Memeyer. Jimmy an' me's got a ewell Christ- mas tree Staked an’ hid outen de way. Jimmy's me pup, but gamble h “To de game an‘ in on de pla: U's sure got de rocks right down in me socks, And de ting will be done up in style, We'll give little Mame—dat's me ais- ter’s name— De best Christmas she's had fer a while. De kid ain't so peart since de day she got hurt, But she's game an’ don’t never cry. Dat's why tne mazoo's planted safe in me shoes | Ant not spent fer no sinkers nor e. Just bet dat I'll blow every cent of me dough On de purtiest tings dat I see, An’ no avenoo kid will come tn for a bid Or a pike at me Mame's Christmas tree. Her stockin’ at all To hang by the chimbly dat night, is small an’ won't do 7 Union Club clock was a junior Trinity in re- ity and steadiness of behavior. The lengthy on of good fellows who went home by it could rly be duplicated elsewhere in the qualities that pe the clubman. It had long occupied its post. it which he was not to ascend again, and is sons themselves grow gray and florid of good deal of sentiment at- clock with a It. d many a fine figure of a man descend the! But dere’s one of me mudder's dat skins all de udders An’ filled up will look out er sight. |] De mudder onct sald—‘corse afore she ' was dead, Dat rhe'd look down on Mamie an’ me, An’ I hopes from her place she kiti see Mamie's face When de kid gets a sight at dat eo “lL see by the paper that silver @ dollars are only worth forty-three nts. “Well, the next time you go » shopping suppose you buy a few “at that price.’ OOOH AVL 27 9 “Did the doctor say there was a foreign ance in your eyes? “No, 8 is nothing foreign about it. Just a plece of cigar that was made right here In New York. “Dis sled’s slower’n m'l “Sell It to the “L” fer a cat 809% 3 : ? 4 »j porting business, , jeverybody, and nine out of ten who give presents expeo} % | realize a dividend on what they get in return. Qj) 2 of the balance of trade in this exchange of question that has me stung to a fret. » |shine, THE MAN HIGHER OP.. ON THE MERRY CHRISTMAS GIFT: Store Man. “C “Surest thing you know,” responded The May Higher Up. “If Santa Claus had a horn on his automo bile you could hear it blowing. The old Christmas thing 1s coming along like a doped race-horse; the papers art full of pictures of children without clothes enough on t wipe a flute standing out in front of candy stores; tht storekeepers are wishing that the days were divided inte three sections, each twenty-four hours long, and 80 pet -cent. of the men in town are wondering if it wouldn't bt better, after all, to go out on the centre span of tht Brooklyn Bridge and see how it feels to get to the watey by the shortest route. The Yuletide is upon us, and cons templation of it has forced many a man to accumula a Yule tide that has put him in jail.” “You must have been buying presents,” said The Cigar-Store Man. “You must have quit smoking your own cizars,” re torted The Man Higher Up. “Your quickness of percep tion has got the Empire State Express skinned a eity block. I have been buying presents. After I haye bees sandbagged out of what I have left by people who havé been paid for what they have done for me under protes} during the past year I think it will be up to me to but! Into the bankruptey court. “Christmas {ts a joyous season for childven with wealthy relatives and chorus girls with friends in the im It {s the annual exchange time fos HRISTMAS approaches fast,” remarked The Cigan these nine out of ten are disappointed. What becomet presents if “ANT know avout ft is thet I never heard anybody buf children and the aforesald chorus girls, who don’t have to give any Christmas presents but smiles and expres sions of delight, admit that what they got for Christmag wasn't a Baxter street layout compared to the expensive articles they passed out. “For a man with an tncome that allows him to pike algng and be afraid to think about what is going to hap Pen to his family when he dies, Christmas is becoming a feance of horror. With such a man it Is a case of all going out and nothing coming in. Generally he has te £0 into debt to hold up his end at Christmas time and keep his children from thinking that Santa Claus is a His income keeps level from year to year, but . > |the prices of everything get higher and higher and the lyears ago. “I do hope you and Miss de‘ Blank will marry. 1 like her so h.” she's all the time gig- g: ‘Oh, she'll soon get over that after she is marrie BDDDHHHHHHDLHHHSHHHHOOHHHHHGHHS AN OPTICAL PUZZLE. tate nal eee A c Which of the lines B or C ts the con- tinuation of A? a THEY COUNT THE SAME, Tako thirteen pennies or counters and |4erange them in the form of @ cross as shown tn the diagram. The upright con- sists of nine pennies, There are also nine In each arm and the upright below, ‘Take away three pennies and still count nine in these three ways. ‘ THE NEW APOLLO. Among the most curious of recant finds at Delphi is an Apollo, date 6,000 yeara B. C., with long, Beyptian-like curls, ‘There is also a very curious bronze statue of the winner in a chariot rage same date, beshles many torsos and fragments of ra mairkable etrength, show- Ing much anatomical truth. A stall native tomplo has been excavated in almost @ perfect condition, . FISHING WITH ELECTRICAL BAIT. ‘This 1g @ very amusing game, expecially for tho little ones, Let us first prepare ir outfit. fir ake @ atick of wood about twelve Inches long, to serve ap a pole, a piece of thread {s the Hine end ‘the hook tx made of a pin, as shown in the i)lustration. On the head of the j4u a round plece of sealing wax is used ap bait, # Cut amail fish out of thin paper and draw mouth, gills, &c., with the help of a colored pencil: Place the fish on the tahle and start to fish. Bach one has his own hook and une, He who gets the most fish gets a priae, Rub balt with woollen cloth to win, CHRISTMAS TREE PUZZLE. You can have some fun with this Christmas tree, Twelve letters are hung on it. Can yow spell fifteen articles from them that would be Itivyy to be upon a Christmas tree? Each lette: may be used as many times as need be, vst each letter must bo used at least once. PLANTS AS TRAVELLERS, Plants travel to astonishing distances. The seeds atick to this or that article and are carried by ships and by those ‘that go down to the sea in ships from ‘one end of the world to the other, saya the Chicazo Newa, relates a striking instance of this seed- rrying, which tg perpetually going on. “On one occasion,” he says, “landing on a small uninhabited island nearly at the antipodes, the first evidence I met with of Its having been previously visited by man was the English chickweed, and this I traced to a mound that marked the grave of @ British sallor, and that ‘was covered with the plant, doubi the offspring of seed that had adh to the space or mattock with which grave had been dug’ oon. 6 wee , | box of handkerchiefs, » | Srowing display of the rich farces him into getting pres ents for his own that he wouldnn’'t have thought of flye “Patient, plodding papa buys Christmas presents for the family and then gives the family money with which to buy presents for each other, When he digs down into his sock on Christmas morning he finds g a delirious neclstie and a box of sterilized cigars. In the jubilation of looking dver the Presents on the part of the rest of the famlly he fs en- Urely overlooked and often goes out to the corne® salogn and puts aboard a real vivid eouse. i “This is a fine Christmas for those who don’t need it. John D. Rockefeller would like to get a bottle of hain restorer that would restore. Instead of that he gets a little bunch of $20,000,000 in dividends on his ofl stock, J. Plarpont Morgan would like to have somebody giya him an old master, but all he will get is money. Pres+ ident Roosevelt would I!ke to have the assurance of the nomination for the Presidency in 1904, but the best he” Sir Joseph Hookey | gets is a collection of turkeys from turkey-growers who Want to get their names in the papers. Millionalres' get” nothing but money, poor people get nothing but advica to be joyful.” “To you think they ought to abolish Christmas?™ asked. The Cigar-Store Man. “Nay, nay,” said The Man Higher Up. “Christmas t¢ the most satisfactory holiday we have, because when it is over everybody is glad of it.” © DESERT LIZARDS. There ts no place Ike the desertifor lizards. As a rides through the white sands or over the black rclapal mountains in Arizona or Southeastern Californla and seos th¢ flash and scurry of these brilliant and graceful creatures thé suggestion of death and solitude Is broken, and, beholding #4 much life, he Is brought to wonder ff the country is really’a desert or only a land to which a man Is not adapted, says thé London Express. For here are animals which never drink, yet frisk aboul through thorns and cactus and fatten on the bitter plants Many a desert prospector has Iain down with his burros tq die, and seen on the rocks about him the black heads of thd Chuck-walla Itzards outlined against the brazen sky. The Chuck-wallas were happy and corpulent with good tating. It was thelr country. For thousands of generations their ancestors had never thirsted for water, and plants whiol the starving burros passed by furnished both food and drind for the scaly natives of the rocks, A NEW BERRY. Newest thing in small fruits ts the “Arctio” berry, « parts of the West enterprising agents have been going abo among the farmers exhibiting attractlve-looking berries. pret served In alcohol. They are about three times the sizo strawberry and with the color of an orange, OP: “Very delicious," says the agent, who claims that it faca* brand-new frult of extraordinary merit. He explains thal it was obtained by crowsing the strawberry and the wild cherry, the huckleborry and various other berries, In Yes ponse to orders he {s willing to deliver a limited nuehentat plants, : 3 Naturally, orders in plenty ‘have been forthcoming, But # turns out on Investigation that the neW and wonderful berry is nothing more nor leas than the white mulberry, long ¢as millar and not greatly esteemed. In other words, the whole business is a fraud, and the exasperation of the victim i rendered more intense by the fact that all the planta, whi? they had set s"t #0 carefully, are killed by the first frost. HOW TO DRAW AN OVAL, ‘Yake two stout pins and etick them firmly into the table through the sheet of paper on which you wish to draw tht ‘about two Inches apart. Then tie together the ends 61 of string about elght inches long, 80 as to form's I \eaving two loose ends, each about an inch tong, When have done this tle the loose ends into a emaller loop, whick |need not be larger than suMcient to admit the point of & penell. . Now place the larger loop over the two pins, and, putting: the point of your pencil through the smaller loop, stretch tht tring as far as it will go and circle all around the pink You will find that in moving from one pin to the other th tring forms an ever-varying triangle, ard that the fur jescribed Im passing all around the pins is as perfee\-an oval ae the moat gelleate, instrument can produce, . ela) 3