The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1903, Page 13

To & the < Right or Left < of < the ~< Moviné XZ ‘Maze \ of © Shoppers ; Why < the < New < York < Woman < Gets \¢g Bumped « and & Crushed= ead Ard & ApProachii One fneBan BE ret 7 ZGEF vSbs ALE Ke $e LSA Apparently Ignorant of the Rules of the Road, She Darts Here and There and Collisions Occur at Every Turn—‘‘Keep to the Right’”’ | =WORLD'S Sana er cu ntcbad heute THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1903. Se AES Serta 9 Saari? Cpt AS At 8 Wx. Froctta 72 4 2s, 7oe Shortest. giles B23 Fath HeEwi77 Be Obliged 72TE7Fow- Not Observed on Sixth Avenue and Twenty-third Street. F you are walking from Fifth to Sixth avenue, and @ person coming in the opposite direction springs in front of you, apparently from nowhere, which * way would you turn ? ‘ yf you are one of a stream of persons walking down i siteps of an Elevated station and come suddenly " to face with a man or woman going up, which way {Ud you turn? &f you round a corner rather briskly and there looms before you a stout person, male or JSemale, with ap- tently no more sense of direction than a runaway tor car, what would you do? Would you turn to the right? Would yeu turn to the left? Or would you keep straight ahead and take the con- quences? Bump! Bump! Bump! fogs from sharp elbows, shoves from shoulders, jars to p whole body, trampled skirts, crushed laces and hats. ind why? Because not one New York woman in ten knows rwhich side of the pavement to walk. wo thousand shoppers swarm over the sidewalk along yenty-third street between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Hach bs bumped, jostled, collided with about fifty times on at one short block. And every one of these mishaps might be avoided if every pman would keep to the right eide of the pavement. ‘A fact which has escaped general notice is that the New crowd does not as a body observe the rule of keeping the right when passing others on the sidewalk. joularly is this true of the New York woman whose hunting ground is in West Twenty-third etreet, or @eotion of Sixth avenue given over to the large dry- @eods stores. The feminine shopper seems to have abol- ited the rule of the road. She no longer turns to the right. either does she turn to the left. She does not even keep 0 the middle of the street in her devious jauntings about you doubt this, stand any day during the shopping botrs at the corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth ave- nue or on Fifth avenue, opposite the Flatiron Building, and ‘watch the crowds of eager, pushing women. ‘Wiat ts, tf you ere a man. If you are a woman, stop a minute after counting your packages and your change on your return home efter a shopping tour and ask. yourself ff you have observed the rule of turning to the night, In nine cases out of ten you will have to admit that you have followed the latest feminine freak of zig-zagging from one aide of the street to the other. You will, of course, recall very good reasons for dt, a @inty piece of muslin exposed In a particular shop window perhaps which caused you to dodge in among the shoppers keeping next to the bulldings, leaving your own proper place 1n the stream of humanity next the curbs; or a fower stand on the sidewalk'’s edge which lured you by its odoriferous bargains from the inner line. But you will have done it, nevertheless. If the most ordinary observer of New Yorle life will se- lect a particular woman starting to walk from Fifth to Sixth avenue in Twenty-third street, and will watch her serpentine progress for five minutes he will discover that the laws which govern her locomotion are as mysterious and unfathomable as those whfch regulate the movements of the comet, most scatterbrained of celestial bodies.” Now the Twenty-thint street and upper Sixth avenue crowds are almost wholly made up of women. And the con- fusion resulting from this feminine disregard of Taws gov- erning street traffic {s perfectly shown In the photographs taken during the shopping hours yesterday by The Evening World photographer. In the seotion of the city where men predominate, on lower Broadway and tn the Wall street district for inatance, the common law of pedestrianism is ¢airly well observed. Ons long Une of men jogs contentedly to the right going uptown, another takes its carefully regulated way down- town, and there is no danger of colliston. The regulation to keep to the right js, of course, which has risen from custom merely. aren In America vehicles and persons turn to the right, in England and most continental countries they turn to the Jefe. Amerigan divergence from ithe ovjstem of thelr Furopean forefathers Js said to have originated in thi desire of our Puritan ancestors to preserve as little as possible of the customs of the land persecution caused them to lea’ However it arose, the rule has been very generally ob- terved in America. But now the supretho arbiter of amort- ean custom, the American woman; as, {n2 New: orey at Jeast, seemingly determined to tgnofe tt. °) A Concerted action of the kind would, of coatie, “bs. sible, but certain ffs that the majority of Néw fork w. 6 en walk along the street, turning to the right of the loft with supreme uncon- cir zig-zag way. One does not notice so much of this slg-zag walking when the streets are jammed with people in a hurry. Then there nd nearly as the spirtt moves them and jostlin, cern the sister shéppers who cross th must be.e division of the tines coming and golng, everybody seema to keep to the right, It 1s when the crowds are not so large that it 1s specially noticeable. There are times when the women in Twenty- third street seem to weave in and out as in a cotillon or other square-dance figure—the ladies’ chain,” for instance —or to mix up Ike children at a frolic. Apparent- ly many persons do not know that {t {@ customary in thls country to turn to the right. Or if they do they ignore the rule with persistency worthy of a better cause, Some confusion may arise, of course, from the cos- ot New York crowds. It could scarce- Jy be expected t!u: Europeans accustomed from childhood to the left-handed turning should adopt at once the Amert- mopolitan chara van habit of going to the right without an occasional un- conscious reversion to the practice of their youth. But it is the shopping woman that more frequently than any other pedestrian violates the rule of the road. Has she any good reason for ft, or is it just another arbitrary asser- tion of feminine supremacy? ‘Be the Biltor of Tho Evening World: Two Dates. do readers think? ‘Mo the Editor of The Even! two weeks of December, 1808, What] ‘Which {5 the fates were those Saturdays? Dec. 1 and 8, 1866, fell on Saturday, ghould « World: “Somebody's Else” Is Preferabl I was born on a Saturday in the first | TW the Rattor of The Evening World: married? N, Something should be done about the|and am in love with a gentleman of earelessness of the conductors on cars.|twenty-one. I canot ive without him, The other night I was going home on | and he does not show any signs of lo @ eurface car when a woman got on (I| for me at all. 1 found out that he was thrown on, for she|siders me too young for him and also| He {i fad a0 more than got one foot on the| thinks that I am too wealthy for him, | father's naturalization papers QUERIES AND LETTERS FROM THE PEOPhE. “Charles and I’? Is Correct. step when the conductor pulled the bell-;as my folks are very well off. Will rope) and if she had not had a good|readere advise me what to do? I love Which 4s correct: ‘Charles and I send|hold on the brass bar she would have|him all the more when he does not fove,” or “Charles and me send love?" | been thrown off, I for one think such | *°¢m to notice me. LORN. MARY LESTER. | carelessness a downright shame, What| Miss Aleott Was a eta B. EB. H. | To the Bditor of The Bvening World: ‘Was Louie May Alcott, the author, better expression: Edison Is Not Blind, “Somebody's else hat,’’ or ‘Somebody | To the Editor of The Evening World: J. A.M. F, Jelse's hat?” THOS, A, SHERIDAN: Is Edison, the electrictan, blind? A Love-Lorn Lass, AR, G The Onreleys Comdnctor, To the Mor of The Wrening World: A Citizenship Query, Pe Set Relies ee Tha Brenlag: Word Tam a@ young lady, elghteen years old, | To the E4ior of The Evefing World: one year before he Is entitled to vote? J.B. A Birdskye VWrety OF A Scroep OF FeJdestPrians Ard ZgZag CoKssS wad THE OLD HOUSE’S SECRET. BY lL. HOLLAND,“ (Copyright, 1908, by Daily Story Pubitshing Co.) /cmotions, John untocked the box, to find among its contents a deed to him for myself, sundry securities, precious stones and gold coins, in Ane—for arith- metlo doesn’t elong in a story—onough riches to make easy all the days of ‘There was, too, a tiny which, when its epring was pressed, showed John the gentle, dark mother—younger, {t is true, than the mother he remembered, but his And In this same box was a letter, over the ‘hand of John Mere- wherein John read this simple story, The Secret: “I am an ok esallor. Why I became sugh you may guess. matter, 1 was one of the few to whom good fortune came in the matter of gathering worldly gear for which I have| bless you, my dear boy, and if it ever other use than this writing shows. ‘orty years ago I loved the girl whose face you see in this locket, and, God bless her! she loved me. andl stood just outslde the business portion on what, in that old time, was the most aristocratic street of the town. What I started to eny was this: I was like the other houses around me in all but one regard—I had a secret. ‘This secret was known only to vhe old lady in whose keeping I was, to the picture of the dluff old sailor which bung upon the wall in my second floor front and to myself; and we three never told it to any one, The old lady and the picture knew all about #t. I knew only that there was a secret, and kept my eyes und ears open until I found out that 1t was bout John; for 1 noticed that if a stranger gave his name to the old Iady as John So and Go, she would say, ‘Yes, to be sure, deury me; but not the right Joon." One midwinter day, the coldest I can remember, while It was snowing s0 heavily I could scarcely see my nelgh~ tor ucross the way, a oud Knook at the door called the old lady, my euard- fan, to admit a man and a woman look- Ing for lodgings. Iwas glad when this couple came up to my second floor front and estad- shed tthemselves with thelr modest belongings, for I loved them at once, and felt instinctively that there was something interesting about to happen, possibly in connection with The Gecret His look was one of weariness und ejection. ‘‘John"—again John—"John,” she aid, “don't give way to dark | ‘= built when the city was new, UTILIZED WIFE'S DELAYS. . de Gealla, In @ work on ‘Time,”" THE LEGEND OF THE SPIDER, now the spider that housewives Jays for cooking 1s not Ike the epider that crawis up tho walls,” was a housewife Holle and she was going eggs tor supper in a fat u, observing that his wif » came down to dinner, to lose 80 much time ‘an the composition Iga man born in the United States of @ work which phoa. hen In spider in citizen, ff his father takes out papers Punonea rtien ahelbany & 1AFER She called her husban it out of the pan; then th thoughts. We may be at the turn of 'the road.” “Never,” he replied. Noth- ing short of a miracle will put my fect again.” Then he added, Mary, you've made a home of this old room, watch reminds me of myself- seen fetter days." Just then came a tapping on the door, which Mary opened to aitmit my guard- fan, who said, “Beg pardon, ma'am, but the gentleman forgot to give his nami “My name," said the gentleman, ‘4g John Meredith Tall." ‘John Mere- ith Hall?’ answered my guardian; “The right John, at last; thank God!" she sald. Leaving my new tenants in a state of wonder as to what was com- ing next, my guardian left the room to return in a few moments bringing with her a metal box, bound with many clasps, which she placed in the hands of John, “This,” she sald, “with contents, 1s yours. It was left in my keeping for you by my master, John Meredith, the same old aailor whose picture you see on the wall. As for this casket, I know not what it may hold, for I have never turned its key, This house, I know, 1s yours. Dear old house! I know and love it, every nook and corner; {t has teen my home for ‘all the long years I have waited to turn {t over to you, The very night he ied, my master sald to me: ‘Janet, 1 had hoped, before reaching port, to place this tox, which contains the deed of my old home and some other trifes, in the hands of John Meredith Hatt, born at Brighton, @ngland, and named for me by a dear friend who long since crossed the bar, “God hes willed 4t otherwise, and I now place this house, with ail It con- taing, and this box in your keeping for him, and charge you to give them over to him whenever you may find him, ‘Take such means as aro possthle—the At thi book Ih three qua one sali ‘I'h ® citizen, trrespeotive of his _ And it has voen called spider mind; rarely make mistakes; best in generalization; should succeed as ao business or theatrical manager; will never stick to a bench or desk; must on broad ines; have original le a Ty ’ B. M. H., Eighty-sixth Street—Clear, R, W. 1, Brooklyn.—Pine all-around Jostcal,” mechanical, comprehensive | memory; Versatile talents; alentitic, | phos and dreamy ey: literary and artistic tastes; not aggres alve; depend on intelligence rather than foree; can succeed in many Mines; need to concentrate; should have fewer irons | brows shows weakness of pbservation In the fire; are polite and dgreeable;{4nd want of clearness in thought jc rarely antagonize people, still are not @hould ideas in construction; an excellent de- | #hrewd in reading character; are better | to shalyae! elgner or superintendent in artistic man-|in Judging mechanioas matters; showld |of ; affec ufacturing; haye such @ passion for | succeed in electriowl ‘engineering, law, | {edi rire Very tender and © beauty, you must deal in fine goods; | Journalism, or ¢ome of the fine arts; a | hugya ¥ AD, Ake and sol) planos, books, aces, | weli-balapesd chansoter; can choose| poodle; shoud ‘be educated chiefly ot ec,} very ambitious; aust be Promioent, aapeng many pureuils; peed thorouga |plerany and educasion, Srey Say Miss M. F. Butler. y more attention td a |study the’ natural eclences, and must also learn the al; ne are exquisitely natant f love; must ©¢ careful in choosing ari lines, but ‘nee party f itary, logic’ au ¥BA pe ihe saccilaeanry 2 arn rents of this house will supply the money needed—for your searc ‘At last, curiosity overcoming all other Mkely to succeed in; and will also give @ reading of the character and advise as to matters of the heart may send Dr. N. J.—Wide tem- reveal idealism, Harlom.—Arohed Brooklyn—Ambition ss and display; n sense of mot practioal mind; not easily pulled gentiment, imagination, a confiding na- ture, poetic taste, and aversion to prac- tloal matters; depression between cye mouth denotes refined affections; should have bad a fine education tn boyhood; | will now do best In @ government ap- pointment or in @ large vorporation; , poseibly an actor: ound and color; 4 nd; are inclined to err in judging | shine as & society girl, but can suc | 45 a bread winner in either the com mercial or art worldj ehouid be edu outed ia the higher bran: @ good talker; al to be more thorough ud FITNESS FOR VARIOUS LINES OF BUSINESS AS READ IN FACIAL TRAITS. Dr. Beal the famous phrenologioal reader over ten years of age as to what together with a hair and the principal nationality of expert, will adviso any Evening World business pursuit he or she will be most the color of eyes and ancestors, P. K., Jersey Ctty—Very narrow head between the ears means a mild temp and forgiving disposition; when angry are content to swear by mice and moon eine; lack force in Dusiness and have litte inetin to trade; a poor bargain- driv i to 4 shows great generosity would make an excellent hoapital at fondant or an officer in the & P. C. A. should be where your humane Foolinet wil be appreciated, Mary and John. gold locket face of } mother still. GRAND ATLAN Tc, Lvana & St Tilaod & Hicbings, Richer Bros. Lanola * an TH'S vit (pra aes KEI ary NEW YORK 2 te il We N Lex. Ave, @ 1070) @. MAT. BAT. a IN OLD KENTOOKY, Ww Next Week —tiight Before Christmas. EDEN | Yor, Max. “NeW GROUPS, No “So when, one April day, I kissed tem food-by to go upon a voyage as mate of my ship, it was with hen iso that upon my return alvout ‘Christmas time she would become day ite. ; ’ “It was seven long years—why 2 long it matters little to tell came back a rich man, only to Gnd tale she hal married another, and gone away from her old home to ano¥aei land, “it was the old story-sa poor GomeAE rich lover, and the belief that ner sweat | heart lay dead under the eea. [Hoh : matters not, but I i flerward, ‘that when” sweetheart’s only child was born named him John Meredtth comes to 3 that fife and Into possession of this old house, times think of him who writes lines and 1s goon to cast anchor Sp. snug harbor whero storms ilipe are never wrocked.* THE MOST NUTRITIOUS, An admirable food, with all its natural qualities intact, | fitted to build up and maintain Gives Strength and Vigour. COCOA robust health, and to resist winter's extreme cold. 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