The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1903, Page 10

eon her whim, Xv aiblished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMmce at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. Ae ENCE a Ee VOLUME 48......0.:ceeseseeeeees NO. 16,149. — A fact of fully as grave importance as the question of the truth or falsity of the charge that the chief stock- holder of the Standard Ol] Trust has personally at-| « tempted to influence the action of Senators on trust | { legislation ts the credibility with which the report has | “ Deen received. ROCKEFELLER AND THE SENATE. $ ¢ ‘The only qualifying doubt was as to the discretion of | 3 In other respects {t was not regarded | Such an attempt. as improbable. To such a pass has the popular estimate of trust processes come. 3 It is profitable tu-inquire into the reasons that could | have led the public to attribute this arbitrary course of | action to Mr. Rockefeller. o This multi-millionaire is at the head of one of the great powers of the world of finance. It is not straining a metaphor to speak of the Standard Oil Company as the! « Russia of the commercial realm. Under its chief's auto- | cratic sway is a standing army of tens of thousands of | ‘ employees. Its revenues are greater than those of most Kingdoms. A little turn of the screw last fall by which | 3 the price of oil was raised one cent added to Its income a| % sum double that of the entire civil list of the Czar, the most extravagantly paid of European monarchs, to wit, $23,000,000. This great power has controlled railroads and city eouncils and legislatures. It has bought its way wherever | 6 > HERR TOUGHLUCK’S FAITHFUL DOG PROVES FALSE TO HIS TRUST. 1. Herr Toughluck—Dot’s a great echeme! ‘ @Toodles holds up der vindow, und /f I falls some fun. {t could not force it; it fully understands the purchasing | Yasleep he vill not let anypodies come In yet power of money and equally well understands the terror | 664464466060O6006-000000004¢ > aroused by its antagonism. It has its agents in every town and city of America and in many of Europe. Its “foreign offic requiring in its head the capacity of a Secretary of State, has its ministers in every capital, in- Auencing legislation in Italy, intriguing fn the Caucasus ‘and preparing a way for its invasion of Great Britain and Spain. It is one of the most remarkable as {t is the Most powerful of the commercial creations of legislation. THE OLD JOKES’ HOME, WARTED—An attendante in our Sanitarinm for Antiquated Gi a Jot of young, brisk and This being the case, ts dt to be wondered at that the |#d-natured Jokes to work around the place, head of this great power should finally come to regard himself as an autocrat and should lapse in a moment of , autocratic vainglory into an act of imprudence? In other words is it a matter of surprise that Mr. Rockefeller should momentarily get the big head? Apparently the public thinks not, and hence {ts ready belief of the story of Mr. Rockefeller’s telegrams to Senn- tors. The fact of its implicit credulity shows how com- pletely the country has come to accept the dominance of the trusts as a matter of course. cheer up the Inmaten and make themselves gen- erally usetul O14 Jokes’ Home, Evening World | "So many patients are now taking the rent cure at the Old Jokes’ Home that the present staff of doctors, nurses and oreriies has been found inadequate. It has been therafore deemed advisable to secure the services of at young and able-bodied jokes to act as amsistants and to cheer up the old fel- lows with thelr presence and cheerful conversation. Address Prot. Josh M. A. Long, least fifty Kindly notify us 4f your applicant ' comes as hired help or as an inmate. 18 IT THE GIRL'S FAULT ? There 1s still room for any old jokes According to President Pliot, of Harvard, college graduates marry later in life than they should and have fewer children than is best for society. The average matrimonial age of the young physician, lawyer, engineer or architect is twenty-nine where it used to be twenty- six. It would be better if it were twenty-five. ‘The longer marriage is deferred the greater the ten- @ency toward prolonged bachelorhood; with the young man who says “not yet" tt eventually becomes ‘not at all.” How much is the girl of his cholce at fault That he says “not yet?” Is it not largely on her account, whether her sultor ie college bred or not, that the wedding is postponed |* because of the greater demands she makes in the way of income? Does she not expect much more than her mother expected? Does she not want a better establishment and astronger assurance than the younger man can give that she will be supported by her husband in a style ap- Proaching that to which she has been accustomed in her father’s house? The American deughter, charming as she {s, is some- what spoiled. She is inclined to ease and she has the taste for luxury that accompanies good clothes and pretty hats and plenty of spending money for matines tickets} and bonbons, She would rather wait until there can be of way. of his being Ill, whereupon the former “When Columbus ocean he was in dire need of food. After much pondering he had the good luck to not as vet committed to the institution. ‘The prize of $5 awarded to the rescuer the oldest joke still holds. Here In a Banch of Old-Timers, Prof, Josh OM. A. Long Plea ing joke reserve a space for the follow- ‘Why don't a hen lay eggs at night?" “Because It's a rooster.’ you hear about the fire at the shoe store Iast night?” “Why, yes; one hundred soles lost." A man not feeling very well boarded car at Fourteenth street and Broad- He complained to the conductor shy: ‘Get off at Broadway ‘Because st won't do to fall out.” "Why are pugilists like ohickens?’ “Because they Iive on ‘scraps was cro: the ing ones.” low did he get them?’ “Why, he ordered the ship to Iny to."* (Two.) @ reasonable guarantee of a continuance of these forms| ‘Phe other day my little brother went of self-indulgence and the young man has to put up with|to a show. During the performance, From which ft would appear that if the man who “de- Uberately avoids marriage is in effect a criminal,” to use President Roosevelt's strong phrase, his sweetheart fs sometimes particeps criminis by her encouragement of ‘the delay which in the ond may mean no marriage. BROOKLYN'S FOUL TENEMENTS. Commissioner De Forest's personally conducted tour of Manhattan and Brooklyn tenement-houses, designed a8 an object lesson to lesislators on the evil effect on health and morals of the pending amendments to the ' Tenement-Houee law, may be presumed to have accom- Plished a good purpose. Tt revealed sinks in the old houses eo foul that the visitors gasped for breath and shuddered at the discom- down tn front, ait down in front.” Itttle fellow tried to alt down that wi and he has been slightly paralyzed ever aince, There was @ great fire the other day uptown, Elverything w: the plano, on It. which was very exciting, he stood up to et a better view, he baing in the front at. Some one tn the rear yelled: "Sit The saved except The firemen couldn't play WILLIAM H Other Friends of the Feeble. Thanks are due to the following mem- bers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Humor for bringing Into the hospital many deserving old jokes: L, Cullen, No. 49 Hast Sixty-fourth atreot; atreet; Mrs. 8, Sohwendemann, Buclld avenue, Brooklyn; E No. #69 Weet Sixteenth street; H. Look- Joueph Cohen, No. 198 Front No. 261 eo Koltz, fort and dirt and the conditions threatening disease. eee) Bed Monroe erat. a: M. MoK, no address; George M. Palmer, In the new houses and in those done over to conform Brooklyn: H. 3. BD, No 3 Weer Gov. to the law’s provisions it showed a gain of cleanliness and facilities for fresh air and Haht. And it brought out en interesting confession from a builder who had spent $2,000 on a new house rather than do over an old one at a cost of $800. He finds that his new apartments rent for enough more to pay all the cost of improvement and more than that they stay rented. ‘The tenants are disinclined to move. A very important lesson of the tour was the bad show- ing of the Brooklyn tenements, to geome of which the ‘worst in Manhattan were “palaces” by oompanison, In|? @ Hicks street building, in rooms the size of dog kennels, enty-second street, N nard, Bergenfield, N. J. Y.; Julius Bar- Nesoued fr Vaudeville, Wiret Brute—That chicken was thirty Years old, I could tell by the teeth Second Brute—A chicken hai First Brute—But I have. Firat Brute—Do yo sleep well? Second Brute—Why? Firat Brute—You lie easy ‘These two fellows were sent to the utdoor Rellef Department of the Ola no teeth Jokes Home, bandaged and wrapped in cotton, They brought with them the fol- ‘the odors were stifling, In an Atlantic avenue house) owing iettes : tenants could not use a rear room “because of the drip | prog, ‘om the leaking toilet above.” Josh M.A, Long If you have the pity you say you have Xt is the Brooklyn tenements of this sort that the ob- jae: poor, overmorked Jokes, then please Jectionable bills will permit the preservation and increase on are ans fee one ane Leet ~ of, to the dissemination of disease and the degradation | reach you. Last night at a Fourteenth life, TWO MINUTES A PEEP, ‘ ‘One of the most important judicial rulings of the day | y © Mayo's regarding the time allowable a * line eye to observe a forbidden sight street theatre shot two human brutes {n the f comedians dragged two mis old jokes out on the stage, O1 titi 1 maltroat % wm, 1 od of mercy to have the ight there. Later in ‘the case of Julius Cewlo, arrested at the Flatiron two wrestle for watching the impertinent behavior of the wind |! th feminine skiris, the Magistrate sal moving next time; it’s all right to look for a couple mb but don't ‘rubber,’ Judge? How will the deacon honor you who|t him to compromise with his conscience and not in the illustrations of Sunday-schoo! litera-| the rural visitor in the Tenderloin will revere have had a judge of thie enlightened mind dinner proceedings or in the couchee- I fm times gone by at Coney Island judgment we know now that in ; It ts only the long-continued tention forgetful of time thet ‘We are glad to gata. ee or ee! aaa Ph ) har! yr gh i, for they are so frail and emacia they t it was a forlorn hope. 4 and your hospital for their rink aend these jokes weparutoly a Tait up thelr was afrald they would gt hom before they reached you rot, Jou OL A. Lone ‘Bend these to the home Jack-I hear that Jones fell into a Auk of whiskey and was drowned? ‘Tom—Yes died in good spirits bs it two fish yesterday, When ooo 60od 9040000 re cangh went home I had three, ‘Two porgies and one smelt. soves docs an old maid weer cotton ‘Because she has a0. Ho, ae Meee THE By ey IN $44684950090O9409ODOO98ODO4999 944020940 2492O2OVO®DRDDDDADD OD DOLD IOV OOOO OON 2, Swipes—Gee! Here's me chance fer 3. T'll git a sausage and do a little a farmer. fishin’, NO TIME, FOR DUELS,— e » ALL’ ABSORBED WITH POKAIRE. o NO MORE ARBITRATION= 4 GAME OF POKER WILL SETTLE ALL DISPUTES MBREAFTER BETWEEN UNCLE 3am 2 Dearth _¢ THEY VE “LEARNED THE GAME.- « NOW ONE LEG IS LONGER THAN IT REALLY QUGHT To BEL¥ In amazement academic and in righteous rage polemic O9OI9995.15-.69.9065.000O0949G80.8HS- 6. PODEHDS 08 8:9:0900004 Swipes—Dis'll make de cur jump or I'm 4. Herr Toughluck—Himmel land! AN “AMERICAN INVASION” HAS CAPTURED THE FRENCH ARMY, Gallic Cadets Spend All Their Spare Time at Poker. HAVE ONLY AN UNCLE 2! STAND PAT! EES 'T ONE IRISH GAMES 1s CANFIELD THERE OME HING THEI THE GAME ? UT I HAVE. Wve. MORE OF 1) PLAYING FOR A HIGH STAKE AN AMERICAN HEIRESS. Frange is glaring on the latest, flercest fad of her cadets; For their Gallic love for fight is merged just now in pokeritis, And the duel is neglected for glad plans for bluffs and bets. 02O99O900.944-OO$O6O0 und _vater- What was dot explosion alretty? Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. THE ROSE'S THORN. ‘Well, said the first valentine, “our day ds coming, Just think whit a bur- den we'll be to the matiis."* THE DANCING COIN. | VALENTINE PART’ valentine party I #tiould hay vitations written on hearts, Guests arrive give to each a valentine, “Yes.” replied the other, “but what 4 delight to the females."~Phladelphia @ oman heart or a Press. knot on tt. Have every two valentines allke, and ; HE WAS. ae be sure to give one to a boy and the ‘What's the matter, Bil? You took other to a girl. This is the way the kind o' weatherbeaten this morning guests are to discover thelr partners “That's exactly what Iam, 1 bet (5 for the evening, W woul rain yesterday, and {t didn’t.” For games nothing would affora more nicago ‘Tribune, amusement than @ walentine contest, The guests are provided with drawing WRITTEN TO ORDER. paper, pens, ink and pencils, each be- ‘John, dear," eatd the poet's wife, "l ing allowed to make his own wish yc threo pounds of beef, @ sonnet for ham, an ofe for a sack of flour, « Iyrio for lard and a quatrain water colors, Fifteen minutes ere allowed of penctis, or pen and ink design, or | HOMB FUN FOR WINTBR EVENINGS. | Y. A SPOONFUL OF FUN, When sending out Invitations for a ve the in- As your lections d for this Ae ed restr: There a work, then each guest writes his or her Hove that's el) tig morning.’=-A tanta Initials on the back, and the valentines t F 7 are collected and carried a to some Constitution —o To do this trick you need a long fine| “urtisie’ to decide iapon. "Pisaee are black ilk thread with a very emall| awarded for the most comical design, A SURE SIGN, Plece of beeswax on the end of it, After] {he best and most carefully worked, Young Twombly-—1 am sorry to hear, rest, e You pass the coin around among the| te most orlginel @ad the po ? u shoul ion, Bor ear boy, th fdn't aucoves. You! audience you press the end of the allk have ‘something wlmple ahd must ‘© read @ refumal in her face. thread that carries the beeswax against ty. Young Twimbly id, Bhe “nit her}the coin so hard that it will stick. aE — uate brows. Ahdladelphia (Press. Phen throw the coin into a glass and ORCHESTRA GAME, step away, and at your command it willl Form a ring, each guest saated excapt- WAYS Ur FATE, - ; = dance about and up and down, as you please, Tho thread passes over the edge of the glass and through a number of thor mouths, Very small eyelet holes sewed fast to Hogan—Awa they hoy @o few children, black tablecloth and elsewhere, th Rave 0). Rev Sotion, cam 0 Sete Ben Riel write Ui ie 8 nee. Voen 208 As born iver epoohe sie may make It dance wet.--Cbtoago News, Giving little jerks to the thread, a Maioole—Lt ts th’ rich whose children re alwaye bom wid wilyer epoons in inetrument aad goes through ANT ing tho leader, who stands In centre and bewts time, Each player represents one the centre, with a | arg wand, ‘The other play round in time to music etill, while the the movi ments o! 5 the wame UIP ey i a a ‘The players form a circle, the blind: folded player taking up his place in for @ tide, dance Immediately the musto stops they gil stand pentectly indfolded player wropes his way to the edge of the circle SS SSS PD SSS = 6. Toodles—Well, I got the sausage! D 9€DOO6OOOO6O9O69605005555060056000000O0 THE ACTOR OR HIS ACTING? A New Idea of Stagecraft, By Grace George. T {# a not unnatural falacy among laymen that the secret of success for an actor is good acting. This probably is not a mistaken idea if one ts willing to accept Webster's explanation that acting is “the art of performing,” but,” choosing rather to believe that, in the theatrical sense, to act {8 to impersonate, to represent some historical or imaginary person, nothing could be further from the truth, says Grace George in the Chicago Tribune, ‘The euccessful “star? of to-day ie not the man or woman who successfully conveys an understanding of the character suggested by the author,| but the man or woman who can thrust upon audiences Pleasing individuality of his or ter own. The number of | Players before the public who can or will do this ts ex- tremely limited; so limited that the “profession” pute them in a class and conglomerately designates them ‘character actors.” Most of the prominent histrions are content to be, themselves, or, at best, to adapt their salient points to the! roles allotted them. Generally dramatists meet them at least halfway; the roles are adapted to their sallent points, Plays are written around personalities oftener than personalities are altered to fit plays. John Jones, who shall stand tem- porarily for the generality of performers, appears this season as Sergius in “‘Arms and the Man," and next season as David Garrick. In nine cases out of ten Mr. Jones's Garrick simply 1s Sergius in satin breeches—and his audiences lke him bet~ | ter for the fact. Not only do they Mike him better, but, what fs more im- portant, they remember him longer. He {s infinitely more sure of an engagement while play-goers come from hie per- formance saying, “Joules was good," than when they com- mence to say, “Weren't you interested in Sergius?” After, they have had the Jones tndividuallty three hours a nightt once every year for three years they begin to carry Mr. Jones about in their mindr@-iot so if they have the Sengius: individuality one year, the ‘Garrick individuality the next) and some other individuality the year following. Beginning; to enjoy the Jones individuality aforesald, they even prefer! {t to such characteristlos as he mtght lend his parts. Who! cares whether Sir Henry Irving's Robesplerre 1s ‘the Robes- pierre of Carlyle, of Bailly, of Mirabeau; whether ‘his Napo-| leon is the Napoleon of Shreve or Motlure? Roth are Sin Henry Irving, who 18 @ great deal more interesting to the average auditor. | Examples of this statement are not wanting; ae @ matter: ot verity, it would be difficult to find exceptions to the rule. The successful “stars"—think carefully at each name—ere; William Gillette, John Drew, Nat Goodwin, Joseph Jefferson, , Richard Mansfeld, Mrs, Fiske, Julla Marlowe, Annle Russell, Mrs. Carter. Have you ever found it hard to recognize any! of them upon his or her appearance, after he or she has, spoken a couple of Ines? Does not each name bring to you} well-developed mental portrait of the personality and in-, divldually of a man or woman you have come to know int!- mately through frequent visiting? Wilton Lackaye, R Fax, Theodore Roberts—all ‘character actors," used to eink- ing themselves in their parts—you recall distinctly, Usually, in the nature of things, the “character actor’ {s the best actor, He has playetl ‘‘juvenfles,” or young m: “leads” and all the gamut of parts before he reaches th © at which, being fit for nothing else, he 4s assigned to, “characters.” As a result he has had an amount of ex-/ wnerlence impossible to the leading man, who must be youth-| ful in appearance and manner. Nevertheless, I do not mean! to say that the actor whose roles are fitted to him 4s. in-, fertor to the actor who fits himself to his roles. The matter simply {8 one of supply and demand; the demand ie for actors whose Individualty 1s sufficiently dominant to be, recollected, and they are supplied. ‘This has always een true, and it 4s particularly true now that the “sterring’ eys- tem’ 1s in vogue. Under the clroumstances the people whose, names draw large audiences to the thoatres are not so muh players as performers. {HOCKEY FOR ATHLETIC GIRLS.| ‘Two generations ago the solemn dally walk, in double file,, represented the whole of the outdoor exercise permitted the pupils of the fushfonable ‘seminary for young ladies, says the Inter-Ocean. ‘The very utmost to which a lr} could aspire then, when she came “out,” was archeny, But all that has been changed. Lawn tennis, gulf, bq cycling and hockey have successfully inalnuated into the young woman's curriculum, with effects which ard strikingly apparent in the stature, complexion and neryoug * stability of the rising generation of girla, ‘The last game to be admitted within the pale bas hookey, This is in many waye @ great edvance upon an: previous coi , empecially from the pdint of view Influence upon character. Tennis, golf and cycling are purer) ly individual amusements, in which the girl primarily hee conser her own interests. In hockey she {# no longer aN! individual with endividual intereste, but a member of « ele! to whieh m1 indfvidualism must be subordinated and saerle! ficed. , ( PRIMA DONNA’S HIGH HEELS, ‘The prime donne who always favors inch-high heels on stage ellppers may be sald to take her life in her hand, and’ whatever saves her from coming a cropper is just plain des. tiny, says the Public Ledger. Mme, Sembrich tripped th other night in ‘Les Huguenots” while she wus descending from the t.rone hes had an ‘attack of the nerves” eye-| since. It was auch a shock to the other singers that th performance almost came to a standstill then and there, ‘The wonder is that catastrophes of this awkward nature do not oftener occur on the lyric @lage. Mme, Patti used ty toddie, beg pardon, trip along On the point of her toes, bal-, anced om heels that were veritable pedal skyscrapers, ie Mme, Nordica, who is by no means tall, gives the Laapopmion, ot Relat AY Wed 66 Torna daria Shak. Nets jb0. Bank, ‘Pevs!.