The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1902, Page 6

OS Ruin VAR) by the Press Publishing Company, No, 6 to @ Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice "at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 43... +++.NO. 18,101. ——<$_<———$————— AN OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS. In weather conditions @ genuine old-fashioned Christ- ‘with a Ddlanket of snow several inches thick and trees miracles of beauty in their white adornment. day for golf or wheeling or other new-fangled “outdoor sporte, but one calculated to fill park and boulevard with sleighs and the hillsides with sleds, Apparently also a better than the old-fashioned ie is the wider prevalence of the Christmas | spirit of good will as manifested in the attempt to make others happy by gifts. Certainly a better one in the it “number of converted efforts to make the day ono of food cheer for the destitute. As items and evidences ‘The Evening World's thousand dinner baskets, with ebicken and plum pudding and candy for 6,000. Frank Tilford's dinner to the newsboys and his dinner end Christmas tree for the “Little Mothers.” ‘Phe Saivation Army's noble charity of basket dinners and ftw dinner for 2,500 at the Grand Central Palace. Dinners by “Tim” Sullivan and the Bowery Mission ant the Newboys’ Lodging-House ant by individual and publi. Gonors too numerous for record here. And with it all the observance of the day with greater temperance. Fewer wassail bowls and fewer yeeling persons in the streets, less egg-nog and fewer headaches, and these not least of the minor evidences of the improved behavior which is the best of all indi- eations of the increase and extension of the Christmas epirit “Christmas Trees.—Ho would be a rash statistician who would try to estimate the number of Christmas trees in New York homes to-day. The demand has beon much Jarger than on previous Christmas Days. The Rutland foal alone was reported two weeks ago to have whipped sixty-tive carloads to the city from Northern Vermont ‘and some coumties of Northeastern New York. The trees ‘are for the most part a stunted second-growth which can well be spared from the woods in return for the sentl- *-meantal good they do jn the olty. As an e®mple of the “appreciation of value they are Interesting. Thelr cost at _ thé rafiroad station in the woods ts about two and a half {JoKeS OF THE DAY} “What was the text of the Christmas sermon?" “T was too busy studying the texture of the Christmas dresses to notice.” “Why aid your wife give you a pocket- ready.” of one to empty for presents next year.” are a week apart.” “So am I. One has timo to get used to a broken bank account before the broken resolutions begin pling up.” “How df@ that poom of yours turn out?’ “Oh,” answered the author, “there wns the difference of opinion that us ually attends the production of a mus terploce. Tho postmaser insisted tha it was first-class matter and the editor insisted that !t was not.” —Washington Star. book for Christmas? You had one al-) “[ suppose so's I'd have two instead | “T'm glad Christmas and New Year's | ¢ “You're always seeking trouble," sald |? the % “You hunt for it instead of goins round 4t, “Quite true,” he answered, just to end her strife, “And when I sought you out, my dear, I found it." “That errand boy of mine used t move so fast when I first hired hin that he made the telegraph posts lool like teeth {n a comb as he went past.” “Doesn't he go as fast now?” “No; now he makes comb-teeth look like milestones."’ “Yes; ghe admits that she had implicit faith in him when she married him,” “well?” “Well, she insists now that marrisg: 4 a faith cure.”—Chicago Pout. “In every great movement don't you 48900002442) MR. HOTFOOT COMMUTER I$ ON TI But Alas! as Artist Kahies Shows, His Effort Is Wasted. O'CLOCK 1S AN UN= BROR-R-R- FOUR GODLY HOUR To GET INGS, BUT I'M DETER= MINED TO GET TO ts THESE COLD MORN> THE OFFICE EARLY JUMPIN’ JIMMINY, BUT ITS, “COLD! WISH THAT BLOOMIN TRAIN WOULD SHOW UP} ® | G000 MoRN-) 7% SING CARRIES Lt ZEPHYR AVENDE V THIS 1S NOT AVERY, DIGNIFIED WAY TO ME, THE MAN HIGHER UP. AS TO THE MAN WITH WHISKERS 6 Jf SEE there was a man with long whiskers om the Laura Biggar jury,” remarked the cigar-store man. “Ah-h-h,” said The Man Higher Up, “the mam with the long whiskers! What would we do without the man with the long whiskers? He is the meal-ticket of the grafter, the acquitter of the female on trial, He is the furze from which we spin the long green that makes the mare go and buys the lobster a la Newburg. The mint of the man who lives without working and the woman who lives by making a bluff at working is the man with the long whiskers. “Far be it from me to say,” continued The Man Higher Up, in an explanatory manner, “that I ¢elassity every man with long whiskers among the soft marks. I have seen them produce when they had a bare éace, but it is a strange thing that the man with the long whiskers js the genius that answers the marriage adver- tisements, is the wise guy that buys the phoney stocks, is the complainant {n the polics courts agpinst people who have a constitutional aversion to physical effort when such effort might produce sweat of the brow, “Speaking of whiskers, it has always occurred to me that a man who wears a portlere on his face is a eom- bination of a hero and a baby’s bank, Whether rightly ®|or not, it has come to be a conviction of people who make a specialty of separating people from their bank- rolls by the exercise of hot-air pressure that the man with the long whiskers is a synonym for easy money, “I have friends who wear foliage on their features and are as proud of the follage as a gardener is of a well-trimmed lawn, One of them has a uirsute decopa- tion that makes him look like a cross between @ sea~ lion and a Christmas tree. He says he wears it to pro- tect his throat, You will find, if you investigate, that the average man who wears whiskers has an exouse for i» NdOe wearing them. “Why a man should make a field out of his visage was a mystery to me until I began to study the ple- * conta each. wish to be in the van?" SOME PHASES OF FEAR, “Depends on who drives the van." Dr. Lorenz, at his Iast public clinie in New York a S28 geferred to his cure of an imaginary caso of hip disease Said a sick man from old 8. 1, 4n Galt Lake City ns his only miracle. A girl of sixteen who had.fallen downstairs used crutches for two years fn the belief that her hip was out of joint. Dr. Lorenz's examination showed that there was not the allghtest trace of injury, and he ordered the crutches thrown way. S; t fear can do in causing disease is an old story. An illustrative incident in an old school reader told of two Siberian copvicts who contracted cholera and died of it from sleeping in a bed In which cholera patients, as they were lec to believe, had slept before them. As a matter of fact, the bed had not been occupied by any sick person. Montaigne tells gf a French gentleman who by way of a joke informed his dinner guests of a few days before that they had eaten baked cat at his table. One of the women who had been present dled of the shock to her sensibilities, . Fear is also a curative agent. On Aug. 12 last it re- stored the use of his lege to Cornelius Westeryelt, a crippled Hoboken fireman. The sight of a toppling wall about to fall on him gave him strength to run away from danger. It restored his voice to Albert Van War- ren, a mute. While he was crossing the river at Sus- quehanna, Pa., on Jan. 4 last he felt the ice giving way under him and screamed out in fright. ‘These examples of the effects of fear gain an addi- tional interest when read in connection with Prof, Mac- Donald’s studies of children in Washington. He finde that a child's fears are not of natural origin, but are created by parents and servants. Children are mainly “Richmond Borough will not long be misiand, For chills and miasma, Malaria and asthma ‘Will waft me, full soon, to the skisland,"’ “Why are you spending Christmas Day riding on the “L' instead of stay- ing at home? “For the unique sensation of getting a seat for the first time in alx months,’ a }SOMEROpIEs, | Massilion mines which yleld, yearly, 70,000 tons of coal, yet he cannot now et coal for his Washington home, CARNEGIE, ANDREW—has offered $50,000, according to Walter Damroseh for the purpose of perpetuating the Philharmonic Orchestra, on condition others subscrido cnough to make a total fund of $1,000,000, HIGGINSON, COL, T. W,-the famous historlan, bas Just celebrated his elghtleth birthday at his Cambridge (Mass.) home, KING OF SIAM—has given thirty-nine volumes of the Tripitka (the Buddhist Bible) to the United States Conk: sional Libr Statesman, Is now over seventy-two years old, and has turned from fiction to history writing. SMITH, REY. G. W.—a_ well-known clergyman of Culver, Ind., has given up the ministry and become a police- afraid of lightning, thunder, reptites, strangers and the dark. These discoveries bear out those made by Prof. ‘G, Stanley Hall in 1896, when he submitted questions about their fears to 2,000 persons. Thunder and light- ming, he found, were the main causes of fear in grown persons as well. Lightning used to drive the Emperor ‘Augustus into the inner chambers of his palace. The great authority on fear ts Prof. Mosso, of Turin, who wrote a book about it in which he recorded his own stage fright on addressing his first audience—his clammy hands, palpitating heart and ringing ears. ‘Mosso says fear can be cured, but he advises beginning in the cradle. His message to American mothers through the Sunday World was: “Stop frightening chil- dren with bugaboos. The world has been doing it in every age. The Greeks did it, the Romans did it. Every people has done it. It must be stopped if we are to cultivate courage.” AN OLD BOWERY BOY. ‘The death !s announced of Michael Maddigan, who, fifty years ago, was the Bowery’s Beau Brummell. Twice @ year for twenty years Maddigan visited London and Paris for a new wardrobe, and it is sald that in all America there was no greater dandy. In later life he ‘was a janitor. To have been a prominent figure in New York in Mad- digan’s youth was an experience in life hard to dupll- ate for its variety and color. Was he present at tho Prince of Wales's ball in the old Academy, and the even “more elegant ball in honor of the Embassy from Japan, ‘with whom we were cementing our first bond of friend- *) ? We can fancy him drinking at the Metropolitan's , the finest in town, going to the theatre at Niblo’s, oman. —————__— O OPPOSITION. S2OGO4 BEIDLER, CONGRESSMAN — owne | ‘ M'CARTHY, JUSTIN—novelint and] ‘They were holding a oounty Conven- tion when I reached Davisburg, and after dinner I went over to the hall to hear the speaking, says a writer In the Commercial Tribune. It didn’t amoun to much und] Sam Walker rose up an sald: “I hain’t bin sayin’ much around yere to-day, but the thme has cum fur mc to smot off my volce, The ole womer 1s ag’in me, and my son Bill is ag'in me but I want to go to the Legislachur from this deestrict. The ole woman |i ag'in me ‘cause I can't write, What do I want to write fur? Thar'll be nut who kin without me, My son BUI I ag’in me ‘cause I can't read. What do I want to read fur? Can't I sot thar and h’ar others read? “Yes; I want to go to the Legislachur, and I hereby nominate myself. That nomination, feller citizens, 1s carried In favor as slick as coon grease, and I've wot jist a word mo’, I shall be right yere on "leckshun day, and the varmint who polls a vote ag'in S| Walker won't be residin’ in this yere cold world five minits later.” A SILLY FAD, Ve ng of tnitlals or rama, which has beod manta irls, a man says: “I think # the silliest fad 1 ever knew. Whenever I seo a girl with an ‘M" stuck on her shoulder ered, 1 suppose you ca with an almost trreslat!bt say, ‘Hello Mamte.! And when a girl comes along with a 'C.' sprawled over | Rearing Jenny Lind in Castle Garden, attending the first| the ends of her etock J wonder !f I dare t it at Booth’: Just around the corner from his favorite promenade d the Burdell murder; did he know Mrs. Cun-! m? Was he on hand when the Dead Rabbits of| 1@ Points joined issue with the Bowery Boys in Bayard street? From behind barricades of trucks and are; the rival gangs fought with paving stones, clubs if Knives, and when the militia had cleared the strects our were dead and one hundred wounded, Was he on @ at the Astor Place riot when the Forrest and ly factions came together and the Seventh Lafayette place? a tl earlier Gays of Maddigan’s dandihood the ot Cooper Union was laid, the Tombs ‘9 say, ‘Good morning, Carrie,” or ‘Cissy wink.’ '" | A CHRISTMAS SONG, Sing a song of Christmas Joys, Mistletoe and holly, Candy, oranges and toys, Laughing girls and shouting boys, Aunts and uncles jolly, Sing a song of Christmus trees Many strange fruits bearing; Costly gifts from over seas; Simple, home-wrought gifts chat ense, Fraught with love unsparing. first plotting of Central Park under- Bing @ song of Christmas thought ‘Atself was ene of the city’s beaut!- For the poor and dreary, Gilad surprise to sad ones brought, and Second avenue es rival of Fitth| | No poor little one forgot~ ‘This makes Christmas cheery, —Ruth Sprague, in the Philadelphia (Hurray! \.sTREMUe | WHo RESAIER RETALER 1GoT HERE /S MINUTES AHEAD OF TIME! WONT THE 8038S BE TICKLED To. SEE MECOME === In EARLY, THOUGNS EMPLoYecs ENTRANCE Mrs, Shapeleigh—1 am looking for something that will enable may \ to keep my skirts out of the mud. $ Floorwalker—Yes, ma'am. You ® will find the fancy hosiery In the » basement. Softleigh (to the girl's brother)—I say, Bobble, what are you—aw—golng to be when you grow up to be a man? Bobby—Oh, | don't know. What are you going to be? band spend his evenings at his THE BOSS IS Qut OF Town \) AND HE NEVER AND WONT BE || SAW ME COME, iN EARty! TWO OF A KIND. ke Hiram Hayrix—Did stand yew ter say thet th’ soll Ins th’ section yew visited wuz kind uv pore? hells Medder; Mrs. Homer—Does your hus- 1 don't know, I'm y at mine until e comes for me. > HO.H9ODLOHIO419G0OSH9SOOH OOO HHHHEOEOHH Ot, HEAVENS! rags—Reckon yow » hy, it’s so all-tired > thet th’ hogs won't take ro) Wind a strong cord several tim around the forled end of the wivhbone and tle the ends of the cords together. Into tha loop of cord thus forme! tn- sert a matoh and turn It around a nine ber of times so am to twist the cord Ughtly and to draw the ends of the wishbone inward, Draw out the mately AN EASY WA A good enough balance for ordinary purposes 1s made by suspending two equal pleces of thin board, tin or card- board, from points six inches to right and left of a knot in the middie of a yarddong cord, the ends of which are tled to two nalls two feet apart, A white card with @ mark ts tacked up behind the knot. ‘The knot moves to the left when an object tg put in the right scale pan. The weights that must be put in the left pan to bring the knot back to the mark give the welght of the object. a = FUMBLE PING-PONG. An ordinary ping-pong outfit and the @ining-room table (rolled into the eaxtor for the occagton) greeted tho arriving guest at @ resent ping-pong fumble + But the geme was very far from being the ordinary one. ‘The difgrenco lay In the manner of Hone ead, Just reaches the vlore? ERa of the wishbone and holt It there with your finger, DECIDEDLY BQUIVOCAL. “I would Uke to ask you if you ber Neve the plaintiff to be in the habit of speaking the truth?” playing. Hach person was obliged to manipulate bis racquet with his left, 1 stead of the right hand. The meant “Muss I answer the question, Judge?” | th “Yen, “Weil, I don't ee how I gives 4irect answer, 1'Noten't ‘spoken with the % wees Y TO WEIGH, tures in the papers illustrating the complainants and defendants in cases involving the violent separation money from the possessors thereof. Look them over yourself. “On the other nand, as the comedian says when bol cbanges his cuff, you will observe that the mam with the long whiskers is somewhat of a figure in affairs, Look at Oom Paul Kruger. He has a bunch of excelsior that would put an exploded mattress to shame. But he made good. I find that whiskers will insist upon spread- ing upon the faces of men who have ideas one way on the other—putting it in or taking it out.” “Do you think all men ought to shave clean?” asked the cigar-store man. “If you passed a law iike that,” replHed The Man Higher Up, “the man with the long whiskers would find some other way to identify himself.” BORNEO'S WILD MEN, Two men of sclence are exploring the island adjacent to Borneo, bent on proving the pea ree ereation of the county fair and the ‘'side show,” the wild man of Borneo. Dr, Paul and Dr. Serasin eee ses Dr. Frits are the , They learned that the wild men, or "wood mem,” ware confined to a certain district and were subject to a rajah. They proceeded to this district bearing gifts to the potentata, Under the influence of a wise distribution of presents the ex. plocers s0 worked on tho rajah that he agreed to show scientists, who decided at a glance that t! primitive race of man. ‘These specimens, pow ae tamed and had been In captivity so long that they had many of the characteristics of their race, The rajeh that the real wild men lived in the mountains, Protected by nature to a large extent, they Mye im the fashion of men of the stone age, without many of the @c- complishmente of gentlemen of that period. They defend themselves with stones, not even having learned the art of making the stone hatohet, which indicates that they are) considerably behind the state of civilization in which our en+ cestors of the stone age lived. They are crave dwellers, not having learned to build ghel= ters and probably not caring to. They are monogamous, Culture fs at such a low ebb with them that they cannot eyen count, and they do not know how to tell a Ue. They are ia such a prtnitive state that they have to tell the truth. Pose sibly their vocabulary 1s not sufMfclently developed, These stories of the rajah hive Interestel the and they are now In the mountains trying to find the real “wild man of Borneo." MEN OF TALENT LIVE LONG. It is a very common but erroneous bellef that train work is destructive of physical strength, says the Chicago Chron- Jele. The fact Js that men of thought and mental forge hava always been distinguished for thelr age. Colon, Sophocles, Pindar, Aneoreon and Xenophon were ootogenarians, Kant, Buffon, Goethe, Fontenelle and Newton were over eighty. Michael Angelo and Titan were elghty-nine and respectively. Harvey, the discoverer of the ciroulation of the lood, Nved to be eighty. Many men have done excellent work after they have passed elghty years. Lander wrote hig ‘Imaginary Conversations" when eighty-five; Isaak Welton wielded a ready pen at ninety, Hahnemann marpied pt ci@hty and wag still working at ninety-one. Michael 4 was still painting his glant canvases at elghty-nine Titian at ninety worked with the vigor of his early years. FonteneHo was as light-hearted at ninetyveight as at Sortall and Newton at elghty-three worked as hard ag he @id | middle Ife, Cornaro was in far better health at nin than at thirty and was as happy as a sandboy. At Hanoy Dr. Du Bolsy was still practising ag a physteolan jp going his dally rounds at the age of 10. William mR Salmon, M. R. C. 8., of Conbdridge, Glamorganshire, die® March 11, 1807, at the age of 108. At the time of his wus the oldest known Indlyldual of indleputably cated age, the oldest phystotan, the oldest member Royal College of Surgeons, England, and the oldest mason In the world. SHADOW PANTOMIMES. ‘This amusement makes lots of fun for the @ white eheet soress Cae room, or, what ts better, ing doors, and place a lamp behind it on the floor, eompany before the sorcen, without lights, says burg Gazette. The actors dance and act behind on which thelr magnified shadows are cast by Occasionally they jump over the lamp, and thus te the epecteters tn front as If they had Jumped. Scme amusing scenes may ingenuity—chedrs and tables 528 p3 nae oii