The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1903, Page 15

AA Wo 1908, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) RIP—dr-!-p—d-r-l-p! Slow, slower, peraistently, insistently! A young, white face, plerced two wide-stretched eyes, snowed -Waguely through the enveloping gloom. A secdhd white face confronted it. A Question was asked in a frightenea whisper and answered in a whi that assumed a vain show of “It is only the rain, Kitt (into the stone receiver at the corner o1 the house. It falls with dreadful pre- disfon, though.” "Wits milltary precision, Jt sounds Uke the marching of a squad.” ““phey will not march when they come,” replied Matt “They will @Kulk out o? the darkness by ones and tWob, SHame-facedly—like the thieves in the night that they are. Little glory ‘they ‘will galn by this expedition. Raid- fing*a sitk woman's room!” 5 Perhaps we making @ mounialn out of am . “4 ddn'¥ think are, It reads atraight aiong 2 threat!” In alow Monptone sulicd to the gloom of thelr eurroundi she read; “We are not going away from here | Without @ visit to that room, We do jot believe the tale of w sick womd (sion the only occupant of It, As sworn Iefenders of the union it {9 our duty {nvestigate. We will be on hand ipromptly sat 9 o'clock to-night. This \warning is a courtesy to the sex. No iweb need attempt to escape, for, betore } this reachow your ‘hands, we will have @ cordon ground your premises through Which mouse could not creep unde- > Ageted,'’ jThe two girls stole wack to their Posts in sil e and walied, A tall figure loomed ‘suddenly out of the’ lifting mist and, with regular beat @f heavy boots, passed beyond Matile’s waze, to be wwallowed up in the rose branches, -1t was followed by another, and wnother, and still’ancther, until— mechanically counting them in proces- Causes. iy The women of t O arrive at a It is always the Stored up in the nervous force. daily cares. and nostrums to Hof them are “wind fq But she is “in t eink. And { vantage, when all lives in a whirl of a better term, and Balls, receptions, mind. Her dress rid of Chance—By J. M. Walworth. An Act of War That Led to a Heart’s Surrender. sion—Mattie made out eight men clad in dark uniforms. They were revolving about the cottage with slow regularity. Would Kitty see them as plainly as she haa? In a choked yolce she sent a question out into the darkness: “In the name of mercy, who are you, . {f you are the brutes who have threatened to raid a sick woman's room, why don't y u do st and be done with voice uttered the one The tread of heavily silent. From out the shod darkness and the mist came a message feet fell of comfort to the trembling girl, ‘It 1s only & Yankee sergeant, young lady, and he Js doing what he came here to do. He is guarding this house against. some toughs the brignde whose threais have come to his ears, You can turn in and go to sleep, un- afraid.” “Do you moan—mean—that—you are here to protect us?" The sound of a n’s gobs rose above the “drip, " of the rain, 8 1 hope God will protest my dear ones in my absence, should danger come near them. One question, please, There js a sick woman in ut room, honest, true?” “an truly as the God whose name you have just invoked hears me. Come and seo for yourself, A friendly footfall will not break her slumber," “Perhaps that would be best. Then the fellows would take my word for it and not molest you. Yes, 1 will come.” Softly the door to the sick room was opened. Once inside Mattle turned to look at her friendly foe. She drew in her breath with a sigh of rellet. not afraid of you. You are a tleman,"* dark eyes twinkled more merrily, 1 have been accused of it before to- at." ie went on hurriedly, rebief in narra ke one who CHIbDREN ly One Wat | “Pay tor | Wo the Hanor of The Evening World wrenwntis who abject to children forget that they themselves pay for onlytene! flat and that they have no right to ob; Ject to what goes on in other fats. Jwirat business is tt of theira If there are gixty children in the’ otber flats jn the house? The “Mind Your Own Business Glub” seems to have fow members in New York. M. ¥. 0. B BARRED ‘FROM FbATS, And got my furniture on a yan, But when the van arrived at the place the landlord would not let me take posses- sion. Wien I asked the reason ho swered me, “He could not think of fetking @ family of eight into his rooms,” which left my family without al home in midwinter, No doubt there are} many cases similar to mine Mrs. J. J. KELLY Tenants Object to Children, an- Laudlord Barred Them Ont. To the fAltor of The Jivening World the Baitor of The Bvening Wor 1 have Cire small children. and have B, wish to kive my views In regard to had the awful experience of looxing e questi i } families, | for’ rooms, I lived in one house wyere am the mot n, and am/ the landlord came to mo and sald | happy in the fact, 1 have had more or, must. move, 1 was surprised, I asked [rouble 1n bringing them’ up so far,|the reason, He atmply aald: “Well I ble b the KTe cs 1 have expe-| cannot sod (which L consider ay outrago) js there are children in the house.’ fo difiiculty 1 securing decent apart-| What was I to do? eivdty to brite them up ino prover and; move in bitter woather, ho poses ae & great American Her pty piepered Ww mave Me Grins mons fanslorte 4A 40. sive rent my other rooms b Aue N compelled (ao And a Iw the mean, childless couples ee aie oh Hie 55} +i% as mid mh iae ks nerve while striving to reach it is very often a fatal thing and always a thing most harmful. various goals at the pace that inevitably kills. society woman, the business woman, the woman who is homekeeper and housekeeper, each one, little askance at the other, 1s going the self-same gait. In the economy of life this plays its part even more impoftantly than the blood. Yet women who swoon away at the sight of blood- drops oozing from a wound will recklessly waste the precious nerve-force over daily duties, daily pleasures, Women will spend hundreds of their dollars and whole ‘years of their allotted’ days in seeking remedies They count an hour misspent if taken to recuperate ex- yy hausted nerves and restore a wasted energy. They race through life at the pace that kills. In one week, during the social season, the average society woman squanders vitality enough to keep her system depleted all the year, yup isthe mystery. the social fishes swim in may be that they boost one another to mutual ad- Look for a moment at some of the causes which contribute to ‘break down a society woman's vitality Band leave her a nervous wreck. From the season’s beginning to the ‘season's end she bad for any woman. HM But the society woman whirls on through her round ‘and recks not of the consequences. Late dinners leave her without a digestion, ¢ocktails taken as a stimulant or corrective prove Fulnous. “tunctions” of all sorts, strain her energies to the utmost and put tax on both body and | from the stiff a —— a PORT TS TT TTT TRE REY The Society Woman, the Housewife and the) Business Woman Alike Break Down—Desire to Outvie Their Neighbors, Late Hours and the Increasingly Strenuous Life Are the Chief goal is a fine thing. To strain every his century are making, for their ‘vhe looking a pace that kills, human system Is a certain amount of keep thelr blood in geod condition. Many ed” before turning the first querter. How she manages to keep he swim,” and she does not dare to “schools,” It alike are floundering. excitement. Restlessness is perhaps both restlessness and excitement are Cocktails and Pink Teas Wear Down the Social Leader — Amusements and Hastily Eaten Meals Wreck the Business Girl—Struggles to Keep Up Appearances Undermine the House- Keeper's Health, Make !t possible for her to feel that the universe will Not overturn if the cook fails to turn up in time for an early breakfast. Let her know that her children need not naturally grow up victous because one of them fs inclined to dwadle and another exhibits girlish vanity, Let her once be convinced that some detail of her use- less and often foolish drudgery may be omitted to the gain in true dignity of her whole work. Then, by slow degrees, her nerves will relax and the dead weight drop from her duties, But if she persists in putting on the extra tuck or ruffe which will make her own child’s petticoat a bit finer than her neighbor's, if !n so doing she must tire her eyes and strain her nerves and fret herself inta irritability; then through these and thousands of similar tasks ehe, too, is wrecking her womanhood. In soclety, in business, in home life, the hurrying, worrying woman of to-day fs the physical wreck of e few years later. And whether bent on pleasure or “a career” or home happiness, each woman who gives her- self no rest is going at the pace that Kills, ee $990994O6O99O4-4O-0:0000940OO0O0OOSOHO5 NORTH AND SOUTH SIDEs. It {# the common bellef that the north aide of o street is the more desirable from a hygienic point of view, and for that reason if there is any difference in the vatue of prop- enty that side usually is favored, In the Medical Journal a paper by Dr. Alfred KE. Thayer ts printed, in which he gives the results of his investigations as to the mortality ooourring on the two aides of twenty streets (from Fourteenth street to Thirty-third street, inclusive) made in 18%, The total number of deaths tabulated was 3,973 qut of @ total popula- tion of 170,741, The deaths on the north side of the streets were 2,104, as compared with 1,869 on the south side, and In the case of each age the northern deaths exceed the southern except in the group of sixty-five years and over, in which the southern deaths exceed the northern by twenty, The great- eat excess Is among children under five years, the northern deaths exceeding the southern by nearly one hundred. The males also exceed the females, and this {s also more marked on tho north. Out of the total 2,10 deaths on'itite hort ges) 1 1,185 were due to (a) constitutional diseases, chiefly tuberou- losis; (b) respiratory, chiefly pneumonia; (oc) symotic, chiefly diphtheria; (d) renal, chiefly chronio nephritis, in the order named. The death rate for 'the north was 24.38 in a popula- tion of 86,482 On the south side out of a total of 1,369, those. due to the four clasees of diseases named above was 1,034 the total death rate being 22.18 in @ population of 84,259. ‘The south side had more deaths (sixteen tn all) from zymotic, ner- vous, generative and pregnancy diseases, The explanation— . some, while every habit of her daily thought is along lines which produce great mental excitement and provide no loopholes for required mental rest, The coasts of society are strewn thick with social wrecks. wreck was started forth as a fair woman. In business careers women wreck themselves even more hopelessly, for there is usually for them no salvage. The business woman hurries and worries and bustles till her carfvity and herself are both exhausted, She bolts her food and selects !t inju- diciously; she disdains fresh air and exercise, and restrains ‘her vital or- gans by tight lacing. She takes nothing quletly, but files all to pieces over everything, and literally works herself to death in her harness: Her tired nerves rebel and utter their protest in unreasonable and frequent irritation. Their protest, unheeded, grows more and more clamor- ous By and by there is constant warfare between nerves that know they ought to rest and a tired woman who thinks she must keep on defying them. If the nerves grow ailent, after long, vain attempts to gain their rights, the woman is also a silenced, worn-out creature, depleted of all natural vitality and vigor, unfitted for business or dragging along in it listlessly, a failure instead of a success. The overworked housewife who makes her own burden, largely, is the saddest of all this long, sad line of wrecked and wasted womanhood. Tt is an acknowledged fact that household system is a tyrant who Yet each s unhygienic, her diet is unwhole- “They would not believe us, those rude, rough men, We told them that she was very ill. We believe she 1s slipping away from us and from her troubles, Our so beautiful, went North to stay with wood and fell in Jaye up there. Aunt Cather- tttude his duty to that of a man paipitating with vivid interest ‘In the narrative so ing poured into his ears. ith whom, did you say, "To young lad “Aunt Gatherwood, papa's sister, in Paltimore. You are not to think I’ am telling you this Just for idle gossip. but jDecause I believe you can help us to carry out a very dear wish of hers, She is our cousin, but as dear as a sister. She has us promize, If she dies, to gel a piciage conveyed to the man who has bro! her heart. At least he hasn't, but he ts inthe Northern army, course, Nell could not turn her own couiltry, And now, th are we to comply with her @ are bottled up here be- ung and Now. Orleans, er ng Ohe stopper and Grant the othor? We might as well all be Sealed vy in our tombs. Maybe you might find him for us when you and your horrid brigade move north.” Not titerly Impossible. i¢ you would Joyous May trembled for the ain on the bed, @he peered anxiously around the tall ecreen, Sitting bolt: tipright in bed, with eager hands stretched toward tho. soreen, awakened. OM was the beautiful sleeper Martié! Did T dreamt? Did it, dear? T thought I heard Jocelyn's voice and it brought back the hunger to live eweet and etrong,’ Before the words lad died upon her ps Jocelyn Logan was kneeling by her wae & folding her fast in his arms: Ne} To run away from me with noth ting but that crue! itue note, If the lord had not led me here direct sou. might. have alipped beyond my hol forever and forever.’ “And there are imbeciles," eald Mat- tle, In a low yoice, o call this a world of chance! I must go and tell Kitty | oor Uttle Nell, so young. | and so happy ‘before she The man before ther passed at a bound! »f a soldier doing! How could you treat me |, rules the house-mistress arbitrarily. Not unt!] woman rises in her woman- ly right against this petty tyranny will she be queen of the home, in- stead of @ bound slave, chained to a daily domestic routine. PRETTY AFTERNOON GOWN, {n brief—of tits phenomenon is that people lving on the worth aide of streets spond most of thelr time in the back rooms of their houses, which are seldom visited long by sun- Ught. It ts largely @ question of sunlight and ventilation. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, Are Compelled by Law to Do So. To the Mattor of The Svening Wor! A says that every child of suitable age in Now York is compelled by law to go to school. B says that only those who began must continue, Which is right? ANNTE HAUSER. Write to Secretary of the Society. ‘To the |Mtor ot The Eventng World: Can I get particulars rize of fered by’ Oe arene eet ae Ch nad for adapted to. Wmith's hymn * Amusements. titi a 577 TROPOLITAN OPERA lovaR. a Season 190 LA TRAVIATA WEBBR PIANOS UsED. Madison Sq, Garden, he Feb, 21 to March 7, He CIRCLE as. Ps oth St. & Biway Dolly Mas, D Wes |§ ACADENY ny OF or, FUGRODORA, Tae es a Roy aa GARRICK Tf, Je 3th ator. Hocker Hosen ey latte Diviout v8 ry oc oh ae GRAND i A usin Werk, FIDDLE. DEE. ae i ‘Em DAYS Absolutely Pure NEW SAVOY THEA., 7 <7 The Gir! with the. Green TO-DAY AT 3—THE GARDEN THEATRE, 21h & S004! Bvenings, 8 Mate, Saterday & a SOTHERN | 7° 2,883" NEXT. HANLET MATUNER, TUBS. rere CRITERION THES TRE, Wrevings, 8. Matiiees Wed., a, Wad & gat. LAST WEEK, Boy, igh Amusements. WEBER & PIBLDS' 391° \Qirnt"e Extra Matinee Montay (Washington's Di THe Musica TWIRLY-WHIRLY THE SMART BET with sp Moat ee pas JAMES T. 5 T. POWERS «iy fae BROADWAY 2 area tnt a”. ae PASTOR Ss wk if igiur a N SQUARE THEA THRA. ae at pF.) re palit dat., UAL. WaaniNaroN's BINTHDAY, Rint SPECIAL MAT. WAS! is UNS TO, RAR. ie i OF oi, Xtra Ma Next Montay, are all these people with children to do? [Ean ree | Cae = Silver Slipper. Z GILUAMAN & Mt With Bilsahole ‘tzret_¢ Bleep on the aiteet? The geople wo SOUT NIN |= ONPYU. | METROPOLIS. Re Matt obfect were children themselves once boxer. aaa 1424 at 2d ave. int ‘ anger upon @ But I hope and. trust Hum Fe ites ate Bie steer New se anda Gelveaal Production there avila a lew ae tb peartt Degisily Stock co Waxtra Marlee Washingto: OALY'Si ws: 2 a law gdverning this of- M oa shington Day Math, Wed, Sara tale Then I beileve there would he a Afternoon gowns of soft, pliable wools are greatly In vogue and always are A G D A MAJESTIC ie THE MERRY MUBICAL PLAY. | JE change Mra. R, |oharming. ‘This stylieh model ts of elitng, In soft tan color, with trim- The Other side, mig of heavy ecru linen worked in cross atitch with silks In pastel shades of BIJOU, Fact Aaa CAHILL WARD. OF 07. BILLIONAIRE S$YKE:! To the BAiior of Tie Evening World green, blue and pink and drop ornaments, The blouse gives the long #houldered werser® iin Nancy B Biko: ' 43d ST, AND 1 lived in a fet a few months ago | effect and Includes the faehtonable princess closing Ww tag W'thdey IP ENANCY & TOWN Manhattan’ ak i ATIERICAN rae P where a tenant above me had two chi}. Te quantity of material required for the medium elxe in, for waint 5% yards] yan MABEL | Last Mat, Dally. | dren, aged avout seven and etght, and ,2): #4 Yards £7 oF 24 yards 44 inches wide; for skirt 1 yards 21, 8 yards 27 or| Op Hour. | Mit THO RS. § E is is itt cae any morning after 6 o'clock they would {#4 Yards 44 inches wide. RV RMY bun AY amore won begin to rave up and down the flat,| Blouse pattorn 4817 in elaes for a 82. 84, 8, 98 and 40 inoh bust mailed for tc, | (ERK |Juula Marlow * ave. ade's Witirmoat nuscesa pull the furniture ait over the houre, | Skirt pattern 444 In alzes for a 32, 24, 8, 2, 9 83, Mand 99 Inch waist mailed| - Bre bb Nate Si Th in make aap trom ian na en | fo i yale, Goan anette: BELASCO-THEATRE' i OF SUL, s pamaible, One would think President | end money to "Cashier, The World, Pulitzer Bullding, New York City.” | DAVID BELABCO peesscts TUB DARLING pam Roosevell waa on hand with a reginece| — MLANCHN naTHS ”''* oF THE gobs" Dewey | Matinee To-Day, of oldiers, tad to move, If the) PATIENCE REWARDED. LETTING HER DOWN, SE ee eS at Ramer rit |Sam Devere’s Own Co, pea Amerlean mothers would teach thelr ehil-| _fmlin-l hear Bhort, the. cout man] Mas Kreonhel overheard fis. Adagio RESURRECTION |; Ay tagiT_-GRAND CONG. B5e-g0e, peti or HA Drea IA Pima ey sts homes, matiers Would not he ome into @ large fortune remark that I had an extraordinary ot Mon, 80 un ¥ observation they | al av CB Ike | oft u trouble b between landlord ‘and shal but from m allow them to ane 6 Well, he's entitled to It volee., Bway e By B s. wir fenith—Oh, he is, eb? Mise Pepprey—Xou, he did say extra NEW YOR Bat Naahngton Jonos—Yes. He's been lying in weight] ordinary, and he asked me afterward if| 7 for it ® goed many “Ch “exe” dida't mean the same ae “em: EDEN rene idle elias, Weems, AueeE. ey aes