The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1903, Page 9

“bell and attempted to Mrs. Bitman’s Treatment ae Scheme for Punishing the Googooing The bold, bad man, Tbe bold, bad man, See how he runs! See how he runs! “Be tried to mash Mr, Bitman's wit, But ehe cut off his ear with a carving knife. Did you ever see euch stars in your life, You bold, bad man? All nail to Mrs, Adelaite Bitman, wife et L. D. Bitman, a young business man ef this city! For has she not solved the gravest problem with which her sisters of New York City were ever called upon to face, that of the strect masher? On Tuesday last Mrs. Bitman met the masher, who followed her to her home y-eighth street. She but he rang her doo: ¢ an entrance into her apartments. Mrs, Bitinan, who Was ergaged tn the penceful household eecupation of cutting bread, anawered the doorbell, thinking that {t was her husband. But seeing the masher who ly annoyed her an hour | Ined at once upon sum- Swiftly she raised the: repulsed him, mary action. CATCH A MASHER AND DRILL HIS EARS. A NEW CURE FOR OLD NUISANCE of a Masher Suggests a and Xnnoying Tribe. Present evil such as ear-seshing was ever dhought of until the action of Mra, Bitman. Ear-alitting was not #0 long ago @ legal’ punishment for comparatively small of- or in the Tainy-day slirt ordinary Street wear, to go about to armed with e bread knife. An enterprising jeweller, to be sure, might evolve a very handsome orna- ment from the masher-exterminators by making them with wrought gold or fvory handles. For ordinary occasions, however, a punch such as that used by rallway conductors for punching tickets would be more to the point, Punch, my sisters, punch with care. Punch the ears of the bold mash—erl would be the cry! And no woman would venture out |without her ear-puncher. It could be ‘Pisin ged serviceable or ornate and TUNCH FOR RAINY DAY MASHER: TOR STRECT MASHER: for A CAR MASHER, rom 4 CLUB WINDOW T Maite FOR A SHOPPING MACHER: Tom A MATINeS, MASHER: . Seiad, A ld. ¥ eee HELEN BLEN Harvey was to spend her va- cation at her aunt's cottage in fhe- boygan,' where the wash of old) Michigan should take the place in her ears of the buzz of a department store. She was full of anticipation as she eat in the northbound train. Two whole ‘weeks to be out of doors and free, ana ‘Tom was coming up by Sunday, He was her Kind friend, but line many other ypung girls she otill watted for ‘the hero of her dreams, and etartea out on het Mttle obting with all kinds of delightful possibilities in her mind (Copyrighted, 1902, by Daily @tory Pub. Co.) | HARVEY’S HERO, The Rude Shattering of a Romantic Girl’s Dream. “Both,” he answered uneasily, “but] you must not ask me about myself. 1 am Lohengrin, Yonder ts my ewan- boat, and unless you welleve In me, 1 you alonéin the storm, and not prepare for you a luncheon of fish and berries, as I plan to dv.” Oh, that charming air of doferen hero would be, ‘I believe the rain tp stoppliix,” she sald at last. ‘I wish it might rain al- ways,” he murmured, lying lazily at her feet. This brought the warm color into her face, and looking up, she saw ‘hat ‘the sun was beginning to drop, It was just as @he ‘always knew the| SY MAU his lips. j | “IE want to thank you, ttle girl, ac} sald, “for teasting me as you have to-| | day, It 1 good for a man to bo trusted shall go away In the boat and leave! Think of me kindly sometimés, dit) scen poking about the bushes near the peak ta no one of me, and as a vivdge 1 ask for one of these.” He touched the roses In her belt, With trembling fingers she gave him one. Then, smiling sadly, he pointed down the road to the station, 'Gooa- by," he sald, “and God keep you.” ‘At Sheboygan ‘her aunt met her and bse her for being careless about the In her heart Helen wondeed tat she had Jost of gained, On Gunday Tom came tn holiday nt- DE FITCH. j thing, and died later from the effects, Meanwhile he got away. Last week thy Jotectives got trace of him i but jits only the Inst few days he's been track, and oarly yesterday moralyge he same Into town to post a lettes, They tracked him {nto the woods, where he'd been hiding, but he eluded thera and put out into the lake In a canos, A Uttle way out the boat etruck a sunken amar and sank, He knew how to @w'n, but ‘they think he was hurt by the spar, for after a few strokes he went down. They brought him back into the village dead, and there wnsn't a thing in his pockets but A withered rose. He had not at all a bad face, but It's queey what for return fare and extra expense were |, safe. The check had e#ilpped out of sight, and in searching for it she held the| bills between her fingers. The train turned @ sharp curve just then, and a strong ourrent of alr swept the car, Instantly the money fluttered from her fingers end out of the open window. Passengers and treinmen were kind and sympathetic, and the conductor gave her a stop over check at the next station, that she might walk back and look for the money and come on by @ later train, She remembered that {t was just at the curve, and the conductor paid It was about two miles back, so she had some hope of finding tt. But the tears would come as she thought of the precious money, 80 hard to earn and @o hari to eave, and of how she must write home for more. In spite of her trouble she was in- fluenced by pure air and beauty of the scene to stop to pick some wild rosea THE PROPOSED EAR-PUNCH FOR MASHERS. ad knife, and without a word of warning cut off a tiny piece of the! “sg ear. With a yell he vanished! into the darkness whence he came, antl pending the arrival cf her husvand on the scene Mrs. Bitman, even as ‘Wer- thers Charlotte, “like a well-conducted person went on rutting bread and but- ter.” With the routing of her insulter Mrs, Hitman regarded the incident as closed, if one may use the polite language of diplomacy in speaking of an affair so undiplomatic, Even now the good-look- ing Harlem matron does not reallae that by her prompt action she has probably done more to solve the masher probiem than ‘all the ills against filrt- ing could if they became laws, For Mrs. Bitman has armed her ex with a new weapon, She has exposed a vulnerable portion of tho hitherto in vulnerable masher's porson even as Paris slew the death-defying Achilles by plore- ing the tiny portion of his heel by. which his mother held him when she G@ipped him in the preserving brine, and as Brunhilde wrought the death of the Wagnerian hero Siegfried by discover- dng the little spot on his back where a ff had failen as he bathed in the dragons’ blood, so Mrs, Bltman with unerring instinct found the masher's weak spot and went for it with the bread sher, especially the Whose happy hunting ground !s from Twenty-third to Bory ty-second street bas long been de- ‘Rounced ® private nuisance and a public mena The majority of women whom he of- fends shrink from the notoriety which @ny outward manifestations of resent- mont would bring upon them. Occasion- @lly one bolder than the rest has re- pulsed an offender at the point of the pistol, and now and then some shrewd ay variet Woman, by pretending a civility she was far from feell has tured a mas yr into the avenging grasp of an temt father or brother But no drastic remedy for the omni- costly, as her purse or her fancy dio- tated The punch would reduce the punish- ment of mashers to a well-organized ays- tom. The use of the bread knife in un- exiled hands might sometimes tale off a masher’s entire aural appendage, thus leaving nothing for the next woman to wreak her vengeance upon, But the punch would nip the ear deft- ly, scientifically, giving it a twinge like the sharpest bite of Jack Frost, and at the same time not rendering the offender immune to future punishment This method would also have its ad- vantages from @ judiclal standpoint. Fines imposed by various New York Judges upon mashers heve ranged in the last ten years anywhere from $3 to These discriminations were purely ar- bitrary, however. With the punch sys- tem the Magistrate of the policeman making the arrest would @t onoe tell whether the prisoner at the bar was an ola and persistent criminal or merely a callow college youth enjoying his frat lark in the metropolis, Téke the ringe on the masher's age may be judg punctures Jn his ear, Those punctures, by the way, should vary in shape so that the nature of the offense can also be determined by in- spection of the criminal’ ear, Dies for each offense should be manufactured, and no woman of determination must think of using the punch for the street- car masher, whose dye should represent a diminutive car platform, or the matl- nee masher, for instance, for whom @ die representing a donkey's head should | be provided. Dies of tiny umbrellas for the ralny-dey masher, @ almple round j hole for the street masher, perhaps a cocktall ll for the club window masher, @ salesman behind s counter for the department-store masher should be provided, and, furthermore, they should be used, | By all means, let us heave the ear pune And may the stupidity which prompts (he masher In the fiat place preserve him from wearlnge ear-protec- tors, ttler th from the ‘ Letters, Quer Born Jersey, England, @652. To the Haitor of The Evening World: Where when? war Mrs, Langtry bern and, JWNNID GRANT, (xtempornneous, Aiter of The Kveuing World: {y rocant by an éxtemporaneous ML ‘An extemporancous speech ts one not written down nor prepared beforehand, Dut improvised on the spur of the mo- ment, we Bt a Po lke Balter of The Evening Word, Kindly Advise # remedy, for @ pervon ies, Answers |uens. Bulld up th tem, Speak very |plowty and carefully ntl! the habit is ed with regular intervals between | every two words, Sweet Potatoes Grow Underground To the EAlter of The Brening World Does the sweet potato grow under- neath the ground or above the’ ground? HH, Xen. To tht ititor of The Evening Warld; Le $,000,000,000 & billion dollars? IGNORANT. “Eeguimaus” if Propouneed “(Len Mime." for her beit. But as whe neared the curve she be- came absorbed tn her search; so ab- sorbed, indeed, that she did not notice a gathering etorm until ft burst upon her. The only thing to do was to push) through the underbrush and seek} shelter In the dense woods. Among the| pines dt was almost dry, and her foot- steps were noiseless on the carpet of needies. A ttle way in she stopped, startled, for she had come upon a habitation, a! shelter made of boughs against a rock, @ emouldering fire, and standing beforo tt all, looking more startled than her- sett, man, young, tall, fair, athletic, They regarded each other in silence, ‘but the girl felt no fear, for she knew that she had mot her hero. The men spoke first, “Are you a wood nymph, or from whence come you? She told her story, sure of sympathy. “Too bed, indeed,” he sald kindly, “but will you not acept my rude hospitality? Please come be Sylvia for my woodland bower?” “It ts very beautiful here,” ghe said, “are you camping or fishing?” as she caught @ g@impse of a skiff drawn up) on the shore and almost concealed by boughs. ‘ | ‘Really 1 must go; the storm {fs quite! tire, and drove up after dinnor. He was A FOREST IDYL, ‘|the minds of children by scientific A MAN'S Red, White, Blue ROP. ELMER W. GATDS, of Wash. ington, D. C., known for his muc- cessful experiments in training means, now announces that he hne dis- covered that every thought of the humen brain has a color and that the nature of a man's thoughts can be told through his breathing into an apparatus he hae devised, which has a color al tachment. . It dah practical use the ap. to be an ald of 2 yy NO’ YOV CAN TELL ——_+4+ IF YOU ONLY KNOW THEIR COLOR, % Washington Professor's Wonderful Glass Jar, Which Thought ls Registered, and Turned Into THOVGHTS. | or Other Colors. and the other rune to @ glass containing purified air. When the Paratus is fitted over the mouth | Person and the breath passes» the Hquid and thence to the ceptacle the varying thoughts % “PLEASE COMBE TO BH SYLVIA FOR MY WOOD LAND BOWER.” Tale over,’ ehe eaid, rising, He rose too, and looked at her with grave sadness, sey- ing, “It will be lonely after you go, but if you will allow me I can take you al- most to the village in my canoe; you are not afraid “No,"" hesitatingly. But she went, itting quietly in the boat, while he stood In the stern and bent to the oar. Both felt the beauty of the scene, and with thet greatest proof of perfect sym- pathy, were silent. Dhe boat grated sharply on th: nd. Ho sprang out, and helping her, took her hand, holding {t for a moment to bent on proposing. She know she must refuse, Tom, being more nervous, talked more. “Funny thing at a little station down the road,” he began. ‘We stopped for water, and there was such a crowd that I got out to see what was up, They had just caught @ murderer, a man who killed his wife, He was a fine big fel- low, @ college man, they wald. It seeme she was much older than he and not his sort, but anyway, he'd married her, and shed uagged him ever since, and finally she said something ebout his mother, and he struck her—she fell unst some- @ man will do when he's roused, isn't itr But Helen wes eilent, and looking into her pale face Tom exclaimed in consicr- nation, “Why did I ¢ell you about the horridle thing. We have happler things to talk about, and'’— He drew her to him unresisting es he whispered, “You have nat forgotten, dear, that you are to give me my answer to-day? What is i?" Very tow it came, “Yes,” The next morning the postman brought Helen an envelope in which Were two rein-washed five-dollar bills, WOMAN'S ETON are soft full frills of lace that a singu! 8 yards 27 inches wide, 2% yards 32 Inche be required, with ¥ yards of insertion, trated. Ae HELPS FOR HOME DRESSMAKERS. MAY MANTON'S HINTS AND PATTERNS, HOUSE JACKET. ‘Tasteful house jackets make most satisfactory garments for morning wear, This niodel te of white Habutat oilk, with frills and insertion of cream laos, while % can be washed with perfect suc trows, cashmere, French Mannel and ell the pretty lawns, dimities and the like, | 0688; but the same allk in colors, alba- larly effeotive. Yo cut this Jacket In the medium size, $4 yards of material $1 Inches wide, os wide, or 1% yids 44 Inches wide, will and 73 yards of lace to trim, aa illus o pattern, 414, cut in sizes for a 82, Hi, 3, 88 and # Inch bust measure. D; Will be malied for 10 coma, end money (o curdior, Nhe World, Pulltarr Fork Clive A CONSIDERATE HOST. At Nyltra, in Hungary, there ts «a hotel keeper whose solicitude for the susceptibilities of guests not accuse tomed to local manners i» probably unique, aye the Vienna Free Press, Recelving from this guests many oom- plaints that the strains of his gypsy band wes prolonged to hours incom- patilde with aleep, the proprietor one | day had placed in every bedroom a neat parcel containing a itttle cotton | with directions | wool and @ night cap, that on the wool belng inserted in the ears and the night cap pulled well over them sleep might then be confidently reed upon, —————— “KNOCKING” FISH. The mountaineers of Georgia oatoh trout with a sledge hammer. Thelr prac. uce ié to thump a@ rock under which a trout seeks refuge with a hamme the concussion los, CASTORIA For Infants and Children, Tho Kind You Have Always Bought Beare the are vo Amusements TO-DAY VST PROC TOR'S 2it oh 5 ( Quasverland "61, Willem Dramwett {lI Rt Reais ae par a 4 ewalke of Now York, OMAOH, ADELAIDE fowler, Pei Osis Tari sr PASTOR’ ao A hts MAVEN TRIO, Lin HANKINS HORDE ab ans 1D, LAMAR é GABRIEL THUAN, Ais od Ba BROADWAY. Wat! Weds Oat TINE ‘a: MonRow THE ‘SILVER ‘SLIPPER, ar lous|iee 8. yuse (Morrow Mat ‘opriate, with trimming of wash lace or embroidery, ¥ qe DAY. NIGHT SA he jacket is cut after the manner of an Eton, and i» fitted by means of | Nwt.w'k, Weedoo Gross ith, The Night of ¢ and under-arm-seains. At the neck is a big, round collar, and the EDEN |WO8d) IN New Groupe . ‘Gi eMATOGRAPH, Gathered into bands, are in elbow length. Finishing all ite edges | Wj USEE| pe x-.n ie Witard to-night at 9 | wana: m | Bye at. Baturday at 2 we "HANSPIRLDIs esti BN, Wwayaavd Ke Evan 880 wi) Thar, & Bal, My Avbrey I t seared an, iudpabiad clamp i Hesse) org. ¥o aera GASIAG cM acuta mower! Us r and! ders the fish sense- | EYE TROUBLE| N CHILDREN {s acquired or developed dur ing schoo! days. Thirty per cent. of all school children suffer from defective vision, They fall behind in their classes and are called stupld—through ignorance of the caus: The time to stop eye trouble is in childhood, My careful, scientific exam- {nation may save your chila years of discomfort, Glasses | worn in time may prevent their need in years to come, make a specialty of examining and fitting the delicate eyes of children, Eyeglasses, $1,00 up, Opticat aK: Specialist 348 Cth Ave, (bet. 21st and 22d Sts.) Amusemenis Mas re oils! 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He has been work- ing on the discovery for many years, and only now perfected the apparatus which 1s to'make the theory capable of demonetration. The apparatus. which {s simple in the extreme, so far as its mechanical attributes are concerned, has been tested time and again of Iatv, and has invariably given successful re- suits, ‘The apparatus consists of a tall glass jar, half filled with a colorless #olu- tion, and to which are attached two glass tubes which pass through an opening in {ts top. One of the tubes has an appliance which fits over the mouth Amusements. shades of that color as seen in the must be reproductions ‘of varying tensitles or different phases of the mood, For instance, it is believed that complete knowledge and contro} of working of the ‘wonder bottle has obtained it will be possible to dift tlate the "suicide shade" from the gel eral color which 1s known to melancholia. 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