The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1903, Page 12

Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter, VOLUME 48.. «NO, 16,187. “FAKE INVESTMENT LEGISLATION. ‘There is urgent need of Federal legislation to take @dgnizance of the fake investment company which in ‘ctually commit fraud in its dealings, but gives them Se beyond its ability to fulfil. _ Ola skyrocketing embarrasses the Government authori- tes and hampers them in their efforts to prosecute. The _ the elasticity of statement countenanced by the law, is _ founded on the sound principle of non-interference with " commercial customs. But where an intent to defraud 1s indicated by tho Manifest impossibility of a promoter redeeming his | extravagant promises of profit there should be some re- + course for the persons deceived. Because of the absence Of.such a law the Post-Office authorities at Washington are finding dimiculty in proceeding against the turf tn- yéstment companies. And the District-Attorney of St. Tiuis, where the first expose was made, is reported as that Missouri has no law for the protection of ers.” But it should have, and the nation should also, A _ Person without experience possessing capital, a widow or investor likely to be taken in by glittering gold- je or turf-investment prospectuses, deserves protec- tion against the sharper. "Acting Assistant Attorney-General Christiancy recom- ids an amendment to the existing Lottery law to em- ce turf-investment schemes. It is a good idea. The extension of the promoter's activity into lines of plain Diftico makes such a law necessary for the public welfare, th LET THE HAND-ORGAN STAY! “Banish the hand-organ from the streets of New York? the sweet strains which the son of sunny Italy i out to the delight of music-loving multitudes? "Never! We may not care who conducts our symphonies gr whether or not Mr. Damrosch leads the Philharmonic another season. But the question of the retention of ‘the street organ is vital. It must and shall be preserved. =QBo we agree with other Aldermen in thinking that “Kiderman Marks ought to be ashamed of himself for Miitroducing the resolution forbidding music In the streets ‘day and providing that at all other times it shal] be M led only by street bands. How can we be assured are, critical ears which are offended by even more pre- _tentious music. Where is the line to be drawn? “Undoubtedly it is better not to attempt to draw it. ~ Doubtless the infantile ears on Avenue A are ravished by ttieistrains of “Sweet Violets” to a degree impossible to | the veteran of a hundred Philarmonics by the Mozart Nd in G@ Minor, Are they not an integral part es i @ metropolis? In the words of Alderman Stewart, ‘4 “(What is sweeter than on a summer's evening to see a band of little girls dancing to the music of a street | Organ? Playful, happy, thought-free they move to the rhythm.” And is not even the least of these little ones entitled ithis enjoyment? Hear the testimony of the prima a Fritzi Scheff: “I have watched with delight the and felt glad that into their lives so much pleasure be gotten so easily.” Wi.rd is the Aldermanic heart that would deprive x Tyme it. : a TWO MORGAN PARTNERS. The Rey. Dr. Hillis’s interesting sermon on “Success” ig-the Sunday World was illustrated by the concrete ex- ample of George W. Perkins, perhaps the best-known of Ma. J. P. Morgan's partners and the one to whom the 1's more important ventures in high finance have been rusted for negotiation. it appears that Mr. Perkins began his business life as boy in Chicago, and it is profitable to compare Dis career with that of another Morgan partner, Mr. buat The events of their lives up to the timo of their lon with Mr. Morgan may be shown in parallel: Mr. PERKINS, Mr, BACON, reading eiementary Latin. At 17, taking his entrance ex- pA8, cashier, aminations for Harverd 122, insurance solicitor. | At 2), a sophomore, playing inspector of insurance | football and well started on in twenty Btates. | a soctety career, Third Vice-President |At 25, graduated and just ‘the New ‘York Life. started in business after a bf, Second Vice-Prenident.| year in travel ®, @ Morgan partner, At 3, becoming known in ; Wall atreet | At 41, a Morgan partner “The resemblance in age, in rapidity of advancement for them to assume great financial responsibili- ‘tite without a breakdown, makes the parallel of their ives striking. It might seem at first thought that Mr. , turning from schoolbooks abruptly to an entire- ne of study, had accomplished the greater vic- 5 tnership, giving up @ guaranteed income of $300,- 1008, while we sec Mr. Perkins getting a firmer brip and the chief executive of the great magnate of because of the earlier beginning of bis business ? Was the office boy's success built on a firmer than tne college boy's? The fact of Mr. Per- omenal rise is interesting; in connection with Ye earlier quitting of the game {t is instructive, STREET COURTESY, pleape manners of New York Pedes- @re the subject of an article in The Eyen- Magazine, indicate both a elovenliness of the rule of the road as ap- ulte equally reprehensible, It is 9 10 walk straight away, with con. Ovly selfshness prompts the er. the cnfusion comes that im- “Publishea by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 © @uping its patrons remains carefully within the letter of 3 _ the law.’ That is to say, the company which does not % @-fraudulent aspect by promising its patrons returns far < The absence of a statute covering such cases of finan- ; the street bands will not play off the key? There! displayed by the little children dancing in the! Of Several hundred a day, Rabert Bacon, who went to college before he entered} the possession of sound physique, which made it! it we find the college boy resigning after two years! sameeren ttt Rt A A a A TT ST \ pery . THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1903. : la a . Se Ce, = HNING== AN FLATIRON RUBBERNECKS. & dO 89000 TRE OLD JOKES’ HOME, » $D99HOOOOHO5OG-HOH9HHOF $OHHO6H0HOHH0O00OOQ | WHAT ABOUT SECOND MARRIAGES? :| True Love Is Their Only Good Excuse é) By Roy L. McCardell. al BY HARRIET HUBBARD ATER, f 3 N Evening World reader has certainly set me a aimeuly . / task, , NCE ané for all, we desire to as She wants to know what I think about secon! sure our friends that the rumors | marriages, of cruelty and abi t the Old > Jokes’ Home are the work of disgrun- 2 &@ class by themselves. Love is the only excuse for marriage at all, in my opini and I do happen to know wedded lovers who have been mars} ried before and were anything but lovers wo thelr first mates. It depends altogether on the man or woman as to propriety of a second marriage. The widower or the widow who marries a second tt tled taskmasters of aged wheezes, who have been bereft of their faithful old i Jantt yr ehall ‘manner become servitors by the efficient efforts of Will-| “powr DELIVER NOTHIN eooe that aes between his ccaployer fam Hawkey and other vigilant of) IN THEM FLATS, THE 4 ficers of the Society for the Prevention | 2 NFR'S AGIN And.tasant, aad his orders shall come from his I confess I have never considered second marriages as ( lon, | of Cruelty to Humor. e Old Jokes are placed undor careful| @ but kindly restraint, Prof. Josh M. A. RULES TMPOSSIBIE! and frankly announces that the second unton 4s one of aff ; Long, the Superintendent of the Home, No janitor will be requested HE LawotoR /s wor tlon commands my respect. given hia personal attention to all com: We The man who excuses his quick evolution from hopeless! bereavement to the sunny satisfaction of the prospective benedict and volunteers the statement that he marries to) WILL Your MAJESTY ¥ provide a housekeeper for his home and a mother for KINDLY ALLOW THE ? children, {s a humbug. He usually «marries because he wanta| : to and he hasn't the courage to say 60. I never yet have) seen a widower who didn't marry more to please himeelf than to provide an excaptionally good mother for his) children, ‘The widow that marries for a home without the deep affection that ehould belong to wifehood is to be infinitely), pitied. Life ts not easy to the woman who declines the home which is bought at such a cost and prefers to earn her own way, however difficult that may be rather than be a hypo-, oritical dependent all her days, but it 1s Elysium compared to the existence of the woman who marries for a home, no matter how good a husband she may secure along with her. food and shelter. { To live one's own life, striving always for thigh ideatm to dare to be just what one believes right—to hold one’s\ heart beyond the count of somid money—such an | 1s the independent, honorable state every soul should strive for and once possessing should glory in. It 1s the only en- , vironment for a soul to expand in. ! When It comes to the old man who marries a young wife —well, usually he buys a plaything and he frequently peye | n high price for a pretty toy. The girl pays a dearer penaltyy | 4 \ plaints made by inmates and search- ingly investigates the same. Tt must be understood that many of the old Jokes are querulous and fault- |Anding, with that chronic pesalmism that 1s one of the attendants of old age and extrenie debility. The food ts good; In fact, the jokes are fed by male nurses who have had experience In feeding old gags for years, being previously employed as grand vizlers to comic opera kings in Broad- way productions. Plana are now being considered to en- large the Old Jokes’ Home by adding wings, 80 that we may fly to the rescue of all the ancient quips that atill tag superfluous in public Iife. The scope of the Socety for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Humor will be | widened. Due notice will be given and friends of our institution who desire tol 3 become officers of the 8. P. C. H. will be given badges upon application. ‘These | badges will empower them to take all old jokes who have outiived their use- fulness into custody and send them to the Home. © Mo janitor will be expected to do work woh We are receiving inmates at tho rate] wit} eonflict with othor (rades. but unt! we cou abies batteries Wve livmakioerl trent ME oe nae uman e . We than! < 5 for thelr assistance, Let the good work *" Xo janitor shall be requestod to remove Hitter Bo on! @ faused by other workmon, or wash woodwork or | Address ail communications to Prof.| > ‘windows in flats, whother #0 loft by the preceding ‘tenants or decorators. HEAT AWD THE 171) ARE IN SYM barHy an DHPG-HIFI9-9OG-9 9-0-0 > ® BS SOSE-99OOH9OS9-9-99 Ib STOP DE Leak, Ber © CANy conFiicr Wip Cf sLuUMBaRS' UNION, MA'AM! DPISHOOD GOO for she sells her youth, her beauty—Iiterally her life—for money. The man who begins life afresh, or pretends to by: marrying a girl who might be his granddaughter. is usually{ a vain old person, and really belleves he 1s making a love match, but no one else shares his opinion. ‘That sort of a marriage is a travesty. It cannot mean, the union of two hearts. Age and youth are dnconcelvable asa basis for a love match, and It is well such {s the case, What can be more lamentable than a life union which at the’ most can only Inst a few years. As for the old ladies who marry youthful husbands, ¥ . really think they present the most pitiful of all y SOMEBOEYS &| wrectacies. P e ee RELA Ah | A happy marriage ie « question of temperament rather wib mew 2 than of age up to a certain point. j I Tn any buikling whers RULE gamer toleptons eal tn fmapnth extra, Josh M. A. Long, in care of The Old] ‘2 Jokes’ Home. 4 In emergency cases OMcer William Hankey, 8. P. C. H., will be sent with the ambulance, When the improvements are completed we shall pubiish a pleture of the Old | Jokes’ Home. Meanwhile we again request our friends and officers of the 8. P. C. H. |‘ to keep thelr commitment papers short. To those who insist upon writing on| both sides of the paper we require them. to write on the edges also, or their com- munications will not be considered. A Note of Discord, Prot Joan M. A. Long I write to protest in behalf of myself and of a long suffering public, against} the gold-brick deal you are giving us T get @ pain (its not due to pleurisy) whenever I read of the candidates pro- posed as Inmates of the “Old Jokes! 3 I know a great many happy marriages where the husband »| 4s the wife's junior by a good many years—love marriages deyond a doubt. But whenever yon see a woman with a lot of money and a lot of years to her credit the wife of a young man, !me @| povertshed and unable to earn lis living, you are in the ,| Presence of a poor old lady who is being what we call in our delightful vernacular “done.” By which, please understand me. T do not wish to suggest n old woman may not be delightfully compantonable= v tovable. the man who loves best his wife is the man who has! loved her longest—who has had occasion to thank God many times in all humility for the priceless treasure of her come panionsh{p of many years, Beloved wives never grow olf to their husbands—observe Kk hat I say beloved wives Home.” To speak plainly, its down- that right miserable of vou to seek to put 4 But I wander trom your question. What do T think of seo- all our ancients into the Home before]? i @|ond marriages? I think very well indeed, of them when in the basement, do repairing for tenants, nor (unless paid $10 per g tbe part s ipianen marriages are desniy, in love. oth oN, x Ver: |. Indeed, em either is making a convenience of ; month extra) answer telephone calls.—News Item a relationship which 1s only sacred—only moral when @ip« f © | interested. Siving us thelr equivalent in new ones. You have not proposed any new ones you're like the general who burned his bridges behind him. I would not mind so much $f you left but one ancient to roam at will; Talk about the trusts and the ourbing of Mberty! What about yours Why Jokes of the Day. don't you let that poor hen cross the errent jf tt wants to? What about the new generation com MISLED HIM. If Mississippi! wore Missouri's New The janitor, whose power was supposed to be already supreme, has ‘urther increased his sway by forming @ union in Chicago. By this Chicago union's decree janitors shali not remove litter, trim or put coal PPD PDDGDDPIIIDDPOODGQO DDG GG, 2D DPLLDGLHDDOL9H6090.0-0.000.9O9.04 18> 2-09.0-6-.9.08.0..0.8.000 It ts astonishing what an amount of interest has elwaym atiached to the human nose. Eyes have, it is true, inepired —————— EES HOME FUN FOR WINTER EVENINGS. | sane Mian, "Bven hm ne Mimirauion, dimpled chins and smooth, white brows MAKE CORKS FLOAT UPRIGHT, CONUNDRUMS, FILL A GLASS ALREADY FULL.| teariy teeth and shali-like eors and luxuriant hagr have ana THE UNLUCKY NOSE, {requentiy been the subject of the glowing descriptive pae« ing up? Has it no way Insthese matters? Poet Riem yen ae ar Jersey, what would Delaware? Alaska. sages of the novelist; but when all has been said and done, Surely {ll let that hen cross that! ; i Old Mant 4e/etill the party (ll ask her). . in @ general way, it Is the nose thet Isahe really interesting | street. If you don’t tet those ancients| | : oe: party Why are men lke facts? Because and influential feature of the face, says the London Globa, \ Out of your home there'll be a scene-| “cna. replied the worker who was they are stubborn things It does not very readily lend iteelf to descriptive writings such @8 happened at the storming of/ wi) waiting for @ promised political Why 1s @ lazy dog Uke @ hill? Be and hence it 1s probable that all the varietion of 4 have been, the Bastile e vo, “he's the party misleader.’—Phila- a Ne deg tie oe for conventence of reference, reduced to a few stmple types. ’ chtatens T question YOUR comprteney | ern Press ause he is a slow pup (slope up). When ft has been stated that a nose belongs to one or en Be Why so? You wonder at my nerve Who is the greatest chicken thief other of these types there 1s not much to be said about fi ! Well, you're not the only pebble an. the NEEDED THE REST. spoken of in Shakespeare? Macbeth; in the way of description. In depicting the beauty of en | |peneni ie gare VOU LO BUC URAL AN YOUP] aire Necgene tim go glad you've con- cause he did murder most foul or a Up, a hand or a face, the writer hes color as wa Tf you can answer th» following ques-| Vinced my husband he needs to take a Why does a minister always aay form to deal with tons I wilt humbly apologize, and never! rest at Palm Beach “Dearly beloved brethren” and not re: In describing a nose he és confined to form only. To eliude Peetateney: Tene GoUbIa As ko SOUF] Dy, Shruder¥ lar taitha Sitapat) Gacntion din ene to the color of a nose im to banish all idea of beauty wnd ta Questions Mrs. Nagger-Yos, because I do so embrace the sisters. incur the risk of rendering the featyre ridiculous, if not rex Ba Why Js the elbow called the funny| want to go to Palm Beach When did George Washington first pulsive, Hence it ts that comparatively so Uttle can be eald dae? i nen dt < cestor w | Dr, Shrade—Good, You may go whe sii about At 4 ed grat dere HP Sino gnksy.' ne comes back, That will be HPS take a carriage? When he took s hack, But though ell th riptive honors ere usually gtven : Zoo? r vest for him—Philadelphia Press. ut the chesry tree, other features of the face the nose 1s really predominazt, 4 Define the terme: 1. Joke; 3, pun:| — nema Way Is life the greatest of all conun- that, too, whether, a# in the case of Ovid, it (s #o large end Both: wersiaeh 8° Your Noncr “hop to NO ENEMIES druma? Because we must ai! give tt up conspicuous as ¢o give Its owner @ special name, or lve the SUPPRIOR HOMOLOGUE, No, sir,’ anid the cowboy; ‘Cactus Why are dudes no longer imported to nose of the hermit spoken of in the "Chronicles of Glovers Anaw. al ain't got an enemy in the world." this country from England? Because a honk,” a litle protrusion Uke & muiroom steeped #8 mins y hire! ¢] “I should int oul Yankee dude'll do (Yankee doodle doo) Jand too smail to sneeae through. the features of the lala Gace me est bal SE ea eek Re mould) [When a cork ts thrown on the water!” why in madroan Uke two men? permet Barauanly diy. rinse Gi On ee are more or less dominated by the naga) projection, philanthropy we have only to say that] ‘Sure, but as soon as he makes one |‘! Se not Moat in an upright position | He is one beside hirosel right up to the brim, Pour water in| which they aro placed, and wile and cannot be made to do so itself, You we are providing a home for worn-out humor and will not de detracied fix Why dots a brunette's face resemble @ wet day? It ts not fair, he gits his gun Inter play an’ unmakes all quite Insignifican as you would pour out wine; that is to ean, however, float a number of corks sai f eae. rm Prot. Mason tells us that the only awkwaniness of Cun pursoaas We Maven't time tenuate | enh Fr Sree, ana the rent canny ghtand one) What river fe {t that runs between two rab renege into the centre | such @. men as Davenant for laureate was that he vidi um < new humor while, providing for old A MYSTERIOUS PHRASE, with y 4 grasp thom all togetner | Peas? me Thames, which fows be-) be wetted, as should this happen the pase 8 | Nan da teen enna \ 1 The funny bose 1s so called because |, “Chariey, dear." said young Mrs. Tor-|ana plunge tham into a basin of water | {™ee8 Coart ~ 7 AN trick Is spolied, not beew, the loss of his nose would have cost % vy the humerous (Libris Ninevah, agg | kins. hat do people mean when they |and hold them under in position for a}, WDY 18 A ike @ honeysuckle? A bee| Now take four or five pins and trip|had ureatcsidp. On the other hand, toWever, the ay they are going to stand pat?” When sou brine th follows tt, them smartly into the glass, ts | laurent . monkey, Our tattedpondent bay Lesion ‘My dear,” said her mpouse earnestly, ihe surface, the cork s being ound to-| Upon till there ts @ enill, Sy thie mit downward, You may continue until} Dick Terbslow, the ro Paap yd : looking up his own family tree, |""voX have stuinbied upon one of the [gether by @ force known as ceptiary | there 4s @ walk, under this walk there ts neve oat to ‘ Lieeuane,® Humorous sii: | great rmysieries of life. It haw cost attraction, will remain aa you have|® ker, Milesken, . the ne | Hi whatetitest <= FF wl, xf