The evening world. Newspaper, January 1, 1903, Page 8

d by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 63 Nir Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce 5) * @t New York as Second-Class Mati Matter. LUME 48.........cc0cceeeee NO. 18,108, Happy New Year! This without the slightest re- a ‘om the Iatest of the old ones. Old 1902 was a DW go and prosperous year, as is shown by that re- Dusiness barometer—the advertising columns of evening edition of The World. In 1902 this ‘eolumns more than during the year 1901, In the last six months of 1902—the active fall and winter seasons—The | Bvening World carried 3,871% columns of advertising, "more than it ever carried in any six months in its his- tory, and 739 columns more than it carried during the || corresponding six months of 1901. ary WITH THE PROPHETS. A fine thing adont the New Year prophesies is their | cheerful optimism. Not a croak {s heard, not a funeral From the Astrologer Haslerigg looking toward ‘the stars to Inventor Edison glancing only around his |) workroom, a comprehensive vision, there is no note of ' gloom or despondency, only reference to the great things done in science and the business worl, and eager an- tleipation of the greater to come. There is none of the old laudation of the past, “no reference to the good oli days that were so much _ better than ours—in perspective. On the contrary, just ) and merited praise for the superiority of the things that are over those that were. Tt now has come to be a truism that we are better housed, detter fed, better clad than our forefathers were; _ that we know more end that our morals are as good. | Perhaps our ideals are not as high. But the son of a $400-a-year Methodist minister in giving the Methodist > “Thank-Offering Fund” $400,000, a sum equal, as was | potted out, to the minister's earnings for one thousand “= years, made the practical fit well with the ideal. B. Mr. E@ison promises “a wonderful year.” With city ' improvements amounting to $109,000,000 to be provided, © und huge enterprises reaching $163,000,000 to be begun, > THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, J. {JOKES OF THE Bavl|f Of all the resolutions vain, é The hurdest one to keep will be: g “Not to write ‘Nineteen-Two' ngain | 4 Instead of writing ‘Nineteen-Three,’ “Yer, I've carried that decollete Waist all the way around the work.” “You certainly made a very little go @ long way." “IT Hike to meet Van Borrowe. A tall with him is like a morning cocktall."’ “Yes, I've always heard he was a magnificent ‘bracer.’" nid, $ “A woman," she nothing.”” "And she takes,” he replied, ‘all she can met.” Dut then, they had been married many years, and a millinery bill had Just come in.—Chicago Post. Caligula was exhibiting his golden villa a: Baeae to a party of friends. ‘very brick in it dm of solid gold,” he boasted. "Gre," sourmered = Marcus Superbus, “you muet have saved up every gold brick you ever bought.” Aft. fecting not to hear, the monarch or- dered the workmen to bulla a fence high enough to prevent the donkeys of the neighborhood from nibbling kerats off the aureate wats. “gives all or POD Tf women took a fanay strange To gamble on tho Street, Would members of the Stook Exchange Say: ‘Madam, take my seat?" Stranger—How @id this out-of-the-way Place ever get the reputation ef being a health resort? Native—Why, my dear air, at least three prominent men have diet here.— Chicago Dally News, “Do you keep late hours?” ‘Not on your iife! I get rid of them as fast as I can." it will deserve the term, for New York at least, even among the many we have had recently. His own _ aniommcement that he will give up practical invention © for experiment in the higher lines of electrical research _ is one of the best of auguries for a wonderful year, sur- | passing its predecessors for tho rest of the world. NEW YEAR'S DAY. oa New Year's was a day dear to the heart of old Gov. ! _ Petrus Stuyvesant, who drank toasts und encouraged his - subjects to do likewise. Tho encouragement was not | wholly necessary, for the drunkenness of the New Year > revels In New Amsterdam then and for nearly two cen- turles to come was a scandal to visitors from New Eng- > land. New York to them was a “vortex of folly and dis- sipation.” It was & bibulous era. Gentlemen prided themselves on their wine cellars. When Gov. Burnet. died he left, os per the inventory of his effects, “1,200 bottles of wine, a pipe of Madeira and a quarter cask of Fayal.” They prided themselves as much on their capacity. At an _ early meeting of the St. George's Soclety twenty-three toasts were drunk, the members departing for home “In _ excellent humor.” At Capt. MacDougal's celebrated din- ner in jail, when forty-five friends sat at the board with him, the forty-five pounds of beefsteak consumed ‘were Washed down with forty-five toasts! No man knows the origin of the New Year's observ- ances. Some ancient Babylonian cuneiform tile yet to be deciphered may contain references to them. The cus- | tom of calling and of showing hospitality to all vigitors > was for America a New York innovation derived from ' Holland. Most persons have supposed it to be of South- "ern origin, but Mrs. Lamb says that when Washington took up his residence here after his election to the Presidency the custom was a novelty to him. He fell in © with in and in 1790 the President, Vice-President, Gov- - emor, Senators and all the persons of consequence in the clty kept open house, ‘The abuse of the punch-bowl by guests and the | growth of tho city into a metropolis put an end to this Mberal extension of private hospitality. Some gastro- nomic features survive in hotels and clubs, where there | ae still hot joints to be had on the sideboards and per- | haps a mammorh salnion testifying to the chef's art by “the equal pleasure it gives to the eye and palate. But fall punch-bowls in residences except for the invited tew | are relics of the past. most interesting survival is the street mobs of New Year's Eve. Amd of this the marvellous thing is that so ‘yast & volume of noise and hilarity should be accom- © panied by #0 few evidences of disorder or indecency, It - 4s an indication of a higher standard of personal be- ‘havior than our ancestors knew, LUCK AT CARDS. Of all methods of livelihood or dissipation or amusement there $¢ nope about which so much untruth passes eurrent as about gambling.—Henry Watterson. It is at this time of year that reports reach us from the South of the high play at gambling centres there, =) They emanate mainly from Northern “sporta” in the | Bouth for the winter races or for their health. Within © & week these tales of gambling luck have been tele- @raphed to New York papers: ‘Ab Hot Springs, Ark., ‘Bet’? Masterson, | auitied winner by $10.00, it Mot Springs, Ark., D. J, Fatrohiid to play faro at the Ken- (Club at 10 P, Mi and at 4 A. M. quit loser by $20,000, (Mew Orleans ‘Sam'’ Hildreth, after winning $8,560) on the races, up Ris luck til! be wus $2,600 ahead at whist, $4,600 at taro and atter ve houre of taro, ‘but still not up to the record. Not up to the Wood, tn Morrissey's gumbiing-houm on Twenty-fourth street, $100,000 at taro at & single sitting: oF Ap an evening; or baking dice with fam A. Woode at Peiroleum Centre tor the flush times of 1868-69; or Of all the notable features of the old observance the | * Wolcott, at Phil Daly'e Gong Branch elub-rooms, winning | A young man who tried to be droll Sald: “Poets with richness of soll Once used to compare With gold, woman's hare; But now they compare it with ooll."' “Why does Suburves can that new] coek of his ‘Resolutions? "Because he knows they won't be able to keep her more than a week.” | SOMEBODIES, | BRYAN, W. J.-19 in Mexteo, drawn thither, perhaps, by the elastic possi- bilities of the Mexioan allver dollar. He 1s to interview Preskient Dias, HANDRLL, REV, H.—of Brooklyn, has recelved the newly made office of local Fire Ohaplain, his duties being to give apiritual ald to sick or injured fire laddiew, KAISER WILUELM-—Issued an edict against the uso of French champagner, which has, {¢ te aafd, le’ German oflicers to paste local labels on French champagne bottles, this evading the Jaw and even deceiving the war lord. MARGUERITTH, PAUL AND VICTOR —the two famous French novelists, have started a crusade to enable un- happy married persons to procure Jegal divorce by mutual consent, SMILPS, SAMUBL-—the author, Just reached his ninetleth year, rr TO INCREASE OXYGEN. A machine devised by M, Mazza, ai: 2 > 3 : 3 Gok bes Italian engineer, for fncreasing the amount of oxygen in the alr 1s described by Le Gente Civil, Paris, According to this account of it the apparatus In| ‘ essentially a centrifugal sepositor, On ing Alr into it the oxygen mol 4 es, Solng heavier than the nitrogen ones, have @ tendency to concentrate at the periphery of the machine, Conse- quently when alr is drawn from this surface It is found to be Fisher in oxy- gen than normal alr—in fact, It Is claimed that the oxygen content can be brought up to 26 per cent., common alr contalting 23.2 pasts by weight of oxy- gon. The machine, however, acts at the same time as a blowing fan by which the oxygenated air Is delivered under a Silgit pressure, while the {mpoverished 1s drawn off continuously from near its centre, It requi a two-horse power engine to operate a machine that Will deliver 18,00 cuble feet of enriched alr per hour. eg a DISCONNECTED. "Say, Mame,’ said the hello girl, dure ing a lull in the calls, to her intimate 4OOD84DO4OMBAADDADIDDD416.9489-4O49O464O90OOOOD94OD $440460000044. ELECTRICAL LUXURIES BRING INCREASE 0 phore are responsible’ for the increase in crime, insanity, sulcide Lise Fother forms of abnormality, according to a remarkable report made to $congresa by Dr. Arthur MacDonald, Criminologist of the United States |Special Despatch to The World. 6 TH &. A ray ye x De HOPOob O44 How It Happens, Explained by Artist Kahles. WASHINGTON, Dee. 29.—Antomobiles, electric cars and the tele-| Bureau of Education. Dr. MacDonald argues these inventions cause peo: ple to exercise less and think more. This, he says, puts an abnormal? strain on the nervous system as compared with the muscular system.—< NO, THIS 1S NOT NAPOLEON AT MOSCOW —1T 13 MERELY THE GENTLEMAN WHO GOT “BUMPED IN THE OTHER Pic: TURE,LAYING FOR THE FIRST AUTO THAT AUTOS INFLAME HARMLESS SOULS TO MURDEROUS DESIRE? AREN'T OUR TROLLEY CARS ENOUGH TO MAKE ANYBODY JUMP OFF A Dock? on, nec !! YOUFINALLY GET AFTER MAKING A DESPERATE EFFORT TO i L GET YOUR NUMBER AND LISTENING TOALL KINDS OP INTERRUPTIONS 1 THE WRONCNUMBER WOULDN'T OUR TELEPHONES DRIVE ANY ORDINARY SANE MAN — THE MILLENNIUM, GENTLE REPARTEE. BRIBERY. Old Lady—Now, my good man, what will you do with this nickel if | give it to you? Roaming Willie—Make it ten cents, lady, and I'll tell yer. pig.” t use? Every- be mistakin’ mo fer you, Every one ‘Well, except a few, and they'll 9OO9O99O 198000 DHOBHVHHHSOOOGOOO friend who occupled the next chair, " it true that you have broken off your engagement? “Sure thing,” answered Mame, as sac chewed her gum with renewe) "Oh, Mame, did you, really “Well, I guess’ “Oh, Mame, what was the matter?” “He heard about my going down the river with a strange young man.’ "Oh, Mame, did he really?” "Yep, ‘Then he had the nerve to call me up over the ‘phone and read the riot act to me! Said if 1 was goin to carry on Wke that he didn't want me o be wearing his ring.” "Oh, Mame, what did you say?" “Ring off! ——_- T TWILIGHT, ‘The sweetest hour, Sweetheart, to me Is when the wind at twilight sighs And shadows stea! from every treo To soothe the earth's day-woary eyes, And Memory eets her gates ajar, And Fancy leads my thoughts afar, ‘The honeysuckle and the rose Merritt, at Gt, Simon's Island, Ga, with four queen Bolton's straight fush with $45,000 in the pot were large rolls at the tables in those days. Inck still remains (he most mysterious prob- e doctrine of chances. At Monte Carlo in 1892 period of forty-eight days, as officially nctod, wheel was spun $1,374 Umes, with the re- won 15,202 times and red 16,283, Not for # system. Yet on one occasion two test was made an Italian beginning (: 96) won $10,000 within a few + bas © had come to the gam- calling $y) ™ Back to another garden's And other blossoms glad my wight, I am not here, but there, to-night, Not here but there, and not alon As if 4 flower a bud became, The wings of Time are backward flown, And lights of hope with joy re- flame; Yes, Life is new, and faith uterus, And 1 walk there with love—ana you! ~Bemuel Minturn Peck in Bostes (Copyright, 1998, by Dally Slory Pub. Co.) MERE was no # and many times did he have to come back and repeat the refrain of his late- eat song before the audience mit the next act to be put on, Ah, lnughter-convulsed crowd have stepped into Glacomo's place an hour after the performance geen & very different side of the picture, Giacomo history) was a smart little Itallan poa- sessed of indefatigable persistence and a wife who could cook with that di- vine touch which is given only now and then to the daughters of Eve, Well, on the night of which we spoke in opentn, porformanc one strolling into Giacomo's might have seen nearly the entire party of actors And Actresses who bad entertained them ‘so hilariously, eating and drinking and quarreling and gomstping before ¢ And apart from ail, tle table in a corner, the troupe who had inspired the great- it laughter and displayed the great- t abandon-Billy Pepsin. heavy with gloom and the expressive eyes which had flashed so significantly and eo wickedly at the audience were dull en sai HELLO, CENTRAL! GIVE ME H— SDOLODDO99OOHO9S CRIME. | a aoe \'M LOOKING FOR “THAT CHAFFEUR AND THAT CHAF- PODS SIG OOOH ID @ o> S0OSOOOH: ®OODDOOHO or eX FORO Farmer—No, | can't say that | approve of your match with that city young man. Daughter—But, paw. he has such a fine genealogical tree. Farmer—What good is that? If it was pine or hicxery it might burn and be some ui BOSS96/9 9002090006690. $300 By ELMER BERNARD. many months—menths which had now Brown Into ye as was recalled by Alphonse Gini . who id the wonder- ful acrobatic act, and who had been associated with Billy for many years off and on “Too bad, ain't It," eald he, tossing a finger toward the solitary figure, 4 like to see a woman who could do it to me, He never has emiled off the stage since Bally left him, I'll bet the drinks. Anyway, I never saw him.” “What's the story?’ inguired a stranger in dress sult who was doing the town and had drifted into Gla- como's place with his party, as he order- ed drinks for all at the bar Alphonse, feeling the importance of the situation, sipped his wine thought- fully and replied: "Well, I guess there's no harm in it; everybody knows—and there ain't much to it, anyway, Billy Pepsin, the fun- niet man im the biz, got dead stuek on & little soubrette, Bally Waters, and married her, She was a pretty little piece and frewh from the country. Weil, sir, you never saw such jolly-gagging as happened for a year or two. Billy was cloan daft, and when the little girl came we all thought he would go bug- hou They fixed up @ little fat and Billy refuged a) offera to go out of town~preferrea to take half as much py the waye of SS ss a sok wr RED cee where whe was playing. That's all there is to it only that Billy :as never been known to smile since, He's got the kid in an expensive school and is- saving every cent he lays hold of—so she won't have to be an actress, he says, Sald he reckoned Sally knew best what she wanted, Too bad—spolling of the best fellow that ever happened. My, but how it would surprise the guy's who laugh at lim every night to get a glimpse of that mug off the stage.” The giamses rattled and jingled and the conversation passed to pleasanter themes, While the jollity was at ite height the door opened and a sip of 4@ woman gidied in, She was scantily lad and shivering from the dampness of the drizzling rain outside, Unnotlced she glances about and timidly made her way across the room to the corner where Bity At his elbow she reached out a shak- ing hand and touched the actor on the shoulder, @ and dance man udeville stage who set so wild as Billy Pepsin, on the the peop) ld per- could that wildly cheering and closed they would have (ast name forever lost to this sketch an hour after the 6 cloned at the Lyceum, any bar she said aoftly, her yolce the unclothed tal At the sound of the yolce the man leaped to hts feet as though shocked with a battery, Before he could speak she resumed; “Please, Billy, don't hurt me; I am so coM and weak. I won't bother you much. I don't ask for forgiveness. Oniy 1 wo @m% once more before duet bed on hs ned t an obscure It- t the one of all His face was . ee THE GLARE OF THE FOOTLIGHTS. Billy, please, please, 1 want to see little Sally once more. Take me to her, I won't speak to her. Just let me look at her In her sleep—and Kies her. Sho needn't know, I—I am so cold and lone- some and I’ve suffered so much—and I'm going out there into the blackness— all alone and I'm afraid—it seems to me it would be easier if I could see her and 1f you could tell me that you for- give me, Bully. I know I don't deserve it, but" She got no further, The man who had been standing as in @ trance had gath- ered her in his arms, “And you're coming back to us, Bally— of your own free will—th it Sally?" And he held his breath he awaited her answer, "Oh, Billy, I want to; oh, how I want to, Billy, and I'll try to make up so far as? can.” ‘The lanky figure straightened up and there was a emile on hie face. such as it is seldom given mortals to see. He held her close to him regardiess of the stares of the onlookers, “We'll Ko back to the flat. it all these year you'd come back, wend for the Kid: of 0 w 1 have kept just as it was, I knew And to-morrow we'll nd, by Jove, to-night Ore hig eoite you used we ll Nave o1 re servant cloak, threw down # 100-franc have mado & era LOVESICKNESS IS REAL. Tt is a dreadful thing to be lovesick, says the Philadelphia Press. Tha‘ is what an authoriy on the eubject says: “T Know T used ty think that suoh a thing was only the reeult of ar cverworked imagination on the part of our fiction and love stor, writers, but I saw one last summer. “The fellow was handsome and sensible, but {t went hart with him. Ho was madly infatuated with a young girl, end sho was equnily daffy over him. Parental consent could not be secured, but all the arrangements were made for an elopement. “The hour exme, but the bride-to-be came not. Soon a note came from the girl. She loved the fellow, and all that, would surely marry him, but could not elope. Bhe could not 80 disobey and aluse her parents, who had always been good to her “Well, tho fellow grew pale, staggered across the room and fell. A doctor was called in, and the diagnosis was ‘love- sickness’ in {ts most malignant form. ‘The man hal a fino position, but for two weeks he could not go to the office. He had dizzy spells; he was unable to sleep; he ate nothing; just sat around and moped, and looked —well, he lookeG flerce. He had a doctor regularly, and may still have one, for all I know, as it got so bad I decided to get out of the town for fear it might become contagious. “‘A mighty weak fellow, no force of character or will power,’ you say. The doctor doesn’t agree with you. He 8 guch cases happen frequently—a susceptible constitution smething of that sort. But, at any rate, don't get love- THE LITTLE TOE GOING. The latest discovery of medical science finds expression Mm the assertion of an eminent authority that the small toe of the human foot will be crowded out of existence by the end of the present century. Such {fs the view of chiropodists generally, and of physicians who have given the matter more than passing consideration, says the Philadelphia Press. Just as, according to Darwin, the tail was crowded out of the human bony skeleton many ages back because tt had no useful functions to perform; just as the vermiform ap- pendix, the only apparent function of which is to necessttate @angerous and expensive operetions, will eventually find no place in human anatomy, so, according to present tnitioa- tions, the little toe must ultimately disappear altogether, Whether or not the big toc 1s all that ds needed tn walking and runping is a question which has not yet been satisfao- sorily answered, but the fact remains that athletlo instruc- tors and coaches have universally striven to develop the big toe at the expense of the others in the training of fast run- ners and football players, and to that end the shoes have been made so narrow that any possibility of using the iittle toe has been precluded. Between the modern method of walking and the wearing of Ught-fitting shoes, the lttle toe is doome} to an early end. HOW TO INHALE, During the winter months throat and chest troubles ere abundant, and the victim is more often than not ordered to inhale, says the Public Ledger. inhalers are expensive things to buy, and so the ordinary Substitute 1s a jug filled with fairly mot water. Over this the patient sits, head and. face enveloped in a towel, gasping and choking, getting a mouthful of steam, and then raising the head in order to exhale, taking in during the process several mouthfuls of air, This method does more harm than good, causes violent coughing fits, which Inritate the throat and chest, and makes the patient more susceptible to cold. if, therefore, instead of using the jug, @ common bedroom hot water can is taken, well warmed, and carefully filled one-third full with botiing water, to which, say @ teagpoonfal of eucalyptus ofl, or whatever the doctor has oriered, has deen added, a capital inhaler has been made. Make a tube of stiffest note paper, place over the spout of the can to serve as a mouthpiece, raise the Hd of the oat the least little bit, and, placing the mouth to the spout, the steam escapes as it is breathed out through the Md. It is most important not to fill the can above the opening of the spout, or a mouthful of the boiling water will be sucked In, with most disastrous results. Ayold going into @ cold rvom after inhaling. THE SEA HARD ON HAIR AND TEETH, Why Je it that a sea voyage, even eo short a one as 4 ten days’ Journey, should be eo hard upon the hair and the teeth of twentleth-century Americans? Immediately on re turning from Europe madomoiselle has her hair carefully, shampooed, not indeed as the monthly or fortnightly habit requires, but aa something espectal to counteract the effect of falling hair, Just why the ealt air and damp ea mists Bhould loosen the roots of the hair we do not know; but some ‘hair tonic or espetta) scalp massage seems hecessary at this time, when every combing loosens & pert of we crowning glory of & woman's beauty, It Is well to make an engagement with your dentist on rev turning from an ocean crossing. The dentists tell you that a pea voyage 1s apt to start up any little trouble that may be dormant with your teeth, and in the case of those who take the Mediterranean trip of from thirteen to Afteen dags oF longer on the blue water the painful abscess in the tooth Ie not unusual, So it 1s well to have your teeth put in order before going abroad and on retum, to avold present end future trouble, . THROWING AN OLD SHOE, ‘The origin of the curious custom of throwing an old shoe after a newly married palr for luck has been traced back to @ French peasant origin by a young man interested tn folklore and quaint customs. In Southern France, after the wedding ceremony, the girl ts escorted to her new home by her girl friends and left alone; the young husband, also in the hands of his friends, 1s next led to a point @ couple of hundred yards away from the dwelling, where a halt 1s made, ‘Then the girl's rejected suitor, if there be such @ one, arma himself with an old sabot, or wooden shoe, while the bride. groom, ducking his head, makes a dash for the house, The Gisgruntied suitor throws as hard and ae true as possible, and the crowd cheers or derides, according to the success of theshot. A wooden shoe Is a formidable missile in the hands of an angry swain, and the bridegroom fs justHMed tn haying some misgivings as he secs his defeated rival practising. {n anticipation of the wedding day. Just think, saye the searcher Into folklore, how great a relief It wouid be, even in this country, to take @ crack at the fellow who had done ydu out of your best girl, without having the police step tm Over in France the custom has a wider meaning, It signifies that the last ill-feeling {s thus thrown away, and it ts the ‘pth of disgrace for the man who has thrown the shoe te harbor any further malice against the young couple, STRANGE USES FOR MIRRORS, The celebrated Beau Brummel, during tho drat years of hie exile, while yet his fame as a dandy was pre-ominent, hed the ceiling of his bedroom covered with mirrors, so that even while at rest he could study elegance and assume @ graceful pose. For such ® purpose a glass coiling Is, howe ever, not unique, and the notorious Duchess of Cleveland ba@ such another constructed to gratify her vanity. For a far different reason a certain Yorkshire gentle man of the Iast century had his ceiling panelled with mit. rors, Ardently devoted to the sp t sock fighting, iw cone tinued to the last to enjoy his £ © pasticas, ad even when on his deathbed his room was the ecene of many an exciting fight, which, lying on his Yack, ho saw rellected In the glass overhead, DUMAS'S HATE OF AVARICE, In his blogvaphy of Alexandre Dumas Harry A. Spurr says that the inprevident French author, who hated avarice, w: once waiting in line for his cloak at a reception, when saw a miiiicnaiie give & Up ef 8 centimes (10 cents) to the ho handed out his paletot. Dumas, getting his te ($20), “Pardon, @ir, you mistake, T think,” said the man, offering to ate. “No, no, friend,” answered '