The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1903, Page 10

‘ INESDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1903. ey ash Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to Park Row, New York. Entered at the Frvst-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mali Matter. VOLUME 48.........0006 COLLEGE-BRED PHRASES. ‘There seemed, about fifteen years ago, to be a ten- dency away from the hifalutin in language. The “gen- tlemen” and “ladies” on ferry-cabin doors gave way to “men” and ‘‘women,” and in some cases “tonsorlal par- lors’’ became barber shops. A later Charles Dickens, writing new “American Notes,” much Jess of this flamboyant phraseology to satirize and ridicule, But recently there are signs of a revival that bids fair to surpass the old verbal euphemisms. becoming “emporiums” where the articles on sale are “yery special” or “very superior.” Auction rooms are art galleries, hotels are palatial hostelries, unions are amalgamations, and so on without end. As with George Eliot’s auctioneer wo no longer begin anything, we “commence or inaugurate it. verbal fashion the more polysyllable the phrase the * greater its pulchritude! : Here, for instance, comes the Superintendent of : Bellevue Hospital issuing an order changing the name + of the “Psychopathic Pavilion” would have been a somewhat more effective mouthful and beautifully alliterative as » well. Along the same line of improvement the Charities Commissioner has transformed “Almshouse” into “Home for the Aged and Infirm” and the ‘Outdoor Poor | Bureau” ‘into “Bureau for Dependent Adults.” a At this rate of progress we shall become elegantly * euphemistic in our designations of epades as agricultural * implements. “Jailed in the Tombs’—no, “incarcerated ‘in the chief municipal corrective institution.” “Sent to * the Island’—say, rather, “consigned to punitive re- ‘ -etraint for a brief period.” ‘Put in the Almshouse’— “placed in charge of the city’s eleemosynary institution “ih the East River.” Yet psychopathic for insane is mot illogical in a /phraseplogy which has given us “allienist’ for insanity ‘expert, “paranoia” for the mild form of dementia which vas once only crankiness, “‘neurologist”’ and “heurosis” , ‘for nervous weakness and “neurologist” for a specialist for nervour diseases, Disease and death have ever brought into being cireumlocutory phrases to gloss the} ,bare idea of something most distasteful to the mind. Even our cemetery, old as ancient Greece, means liter- -ally “sleeping place.” By the time the mind has trans- ated the big word into the little one the shock of the ‘idea conveyed ‘has lost much of its force. DEVERY, FOURTH OF JULY ORATOR, Devery is no.orator, as Cockran is or Grady was, but ‘there are many who will think that the people of Les- + ‘tershire, where the “ex-best" is to make the Fourth of July address, are to be congratulated. Of Devery's fluency of speech no tribute or encomium {s needed; fame has marked him for her own, But if credentials are desired for his patriotism and for his fitness to inculcate Independence Day principles to a rural audience, does not his record speak for him? * ‘Who was it that rose in revolt at the taxation of the “Ninth” without representation and trounced the tories of Tammauy? Who took command of that raw and undisciplined horde at the primaries, even as Washing- ton at Cambridge, and fought a Lexington’ and Concord and Bunker Hill all in one around the historic pump? ‘Who fired at Saratoga the shot heard through the State? Who evacuated the Fourteenth street fortifications be- fore Murphy. and went through a Valley Forge of trial and tribulation, undaunted and undepressed? Was not this hero Devery? If we desire a monument of his deeds, need we do more than look about us? In the red fire that is to be burnt at Lestershire and amid the bombs bursting in air there on the nation's natal day, what portrait more appropriate to peer forth from ‘the festoons of flame than that of Devery, the com- posite revolutionary personality, the Sam Adams, Ben #ranklin and George Washington of “the Ninth?” | “+ IDLENESS AND DIVORCE. “College presidents and othors who have been preach- { ‘dng commencement sermons to graduating classes find a ‘congenial theme this 'year in rebuking the idleness and luxury of high society and the laxity of morals and fre- Nguency, of divorce thereby fostered to the rupture of family ttes. ' Preaident Faunce, of Brown University, referred to | “the folly and degradation of luxury, the lives of ‘luxury | andvalimony’ which ow the seeds of social revolt.” \ _ President Angell, of the University of Michigan, ' geprobated the “growing practice in the higher social ' gircles of renouncing of the solemn marriage yow on slight pretexts, whereby the purity of domestic life and the very foundations of society are imperilled.” Dr.-Van Dyke, before the Harvard seniors, praised “the sanctity of the family, the sacredness of the mar- riage vow” of which the old-fashioned family furnished jegainples not ‘found in the “unbridled self-indulgence (and‘aimless indolenco” of to-day. “© The evil exists and grows greater, and the text of the} college orators !s well chosen. But the corrective in-; Abence of commencement oratory, we fear, !s not likely} turn a time-limit resident of South Dakota or Rhode | {sland from her purpose. The Inspiring causes of much | of the looseness of mattimonial ties are undoubtedly to be found in “unbridled self-indulgence and aimless in- + dolence.” But is not an important additional cause to| be looked for in the growing indifference to public opinion? Mrs. Grundy is no longer the terror of the} expectant divorcee; her own “set” welcomes her with- out any elevation of the eyebrows, confirms her in the courage of her convictions, approves and makes a pet of her. What need she care for the criticism of com- lencement moralists? : PORK AND BEANS. It has remained for the Government to give baked beans a culinary certificate of character. Department of Agroiculture experiments show that the ordinary bean of ‘commerce 1s nearly four-fifths nutriment, of which one- fitth is in the form of muscle and energy producing ele- /ments and three-fifths heat. Beans are deficient in fat, which is supplied by pork. A man who sits down at heon to a plate of “ham and” js well equipped energy for his afternoon’s work—if his gastric are competent to effect the transmutation of into brawn and brain. seeeeeeeNO. 18,278, partment to prompt them when they put pot, where it was needed, but they they were about, possibly without under- how large a percentage of the savory ydrates and how much was clenee for proving a century would have found] Shops aro! ‘ And by the next test of! < 090OO0GO9O 9006000 O00O:9HOOD { Insane Pavilion” to the “Psychopathic Ward." | | papers for TOLD ABOUT NEW YORKERS. ————— IS ability to remember faces has ¢ abled Recorder Goff to make a man confess that thirteen years ago the Recorder, then an assistant Ddetrict-At- torney, tried the prisoner and had him sentenced to nine years In the peniten- | Wary, When brought before the Record- er, charged with burglary, the prisoner trouble with the police, The Recorder examined ithe features closely and re- called the former trial so accurately that the prisoner confessed. Ho was! again found guilty, oe The yacht dnwhich Mayor Low crutses the New York waters ts emall and not so luxurious ag many of the craft seen hereabouts, but the Mayor ts not fond of overmuoh luxury and does not care for speed. Borough President John Cas- aidy, of Queens, also owns a yacht, the Stanhope, which he ta having refitted. Presidents Cantor and Swanstrom aro Interested in the sport and may join the fleet, thus putting Gotham's “heads” temporarily in, the list of floating” population, Miss Rebecca Warren ts a personal friend of Justin H. McCarthy, Irish statesman, novelist and playwright. During the Inst international yacht races she was a guest, as was McCarthy, on the yacht of a New York friend, ‘Don't you hope the Shamrock will win?" she asked Mr, McCarthy. ‘'N-o,"" he drawled. “Why do you ask?" “Why! "8 an Irish boat!” she explained. hat makes you think 60?" he drawled Again, with a quizzical smile. “Wh: she exclaimed, with a puzzled look, but in a positive way. “Of course {t's Irish! It's called the Shamrock and it belong: to Lipton, and Lipton !s Irish, isn’t he? “Well,” said McCarthy in another con- templative drawl, “I don't know as he {3 Irish, He isn't a Nationalist, at all events.” A curiously acute commen- tary on what is frish and what lan't, from one potnt of view, at least, gnd yet the superstitious have not no- tlced one fact that they might claim accounted for everything dire," sald Bryan G. Hughes, a prominent mem- ber of the Thirteen Club, and a pract!- cal humorjst of wide fame. ‘Take the numerals 1, 9, 0, 3 jand add them, What's the result?) THIRTERN, of cours, anthroples to Philadelphia, where ateril- ized milk stations are to be estab- Mshed. There is a society there known as the Sterilized Milk, Ice and Coal Boclety, of which the Mayor is Presl- dent, and which has an annual deficit of about $2,600. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. Dante Gabriel Ronettt, ‘To the Editor ot Tae Evening World: What poet buried his manuscripts with his wife and afterward permitted them to be exhumed? L. SMITH, Bloomfield, N. J, A Query for Elderly Readers. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Will elderly readers kiadly let me know if the ten-year-old boy of to-day knows more than the ten-year-old boy of forty years ago? Allowing the boy of forty years ‘ago the same chance of schooling as the boy of to-day. 1 al- low that the world has advanced and the education of to-day is much better than forty years ago; but making an allowance for all that, I claim that the ten-year-old boy furty years ago was Just as smart as the ten-year-old boy of to-day. ALR. To Clvil-Seryice Commission, Post- OMce Building. To the Biitor of The Evening World Whom shall I ap the Civil Ser ton? JOHN &., Kast Seventy-fitth street, New York, | Another Problem, |To the Editor of The Evening World Here ts for your clever ple a pr readers to ponder over, I have four ms. ‘The first is twice the second, which divides the first by four, ‘The |third is to the fourth as the first ts to | the second, which divides the fourth na many times as it ts contained in Itself, |What are they? T. A. VON HOPE. No Papers Reaatred. To the Editor of The Eventing World Will @ young man born here and whose parents omigrated to this coun- fry require his papers to vote if his asserted he never before had been in| ‘ “This year has been full of disasters| ¢ Nathan Btraus is extending his phil-| > VB2O4O4LOOOOD OD I THINK | HAD BETTER HIDE.) aw Pfee HI AVILDING, TRY eg b4 Pc $$OOO0O0006 C4OOV0000000040O404 SIDESTEPPE ONCE “DR.” MORGAN'S HURRY CALL FROM THE OuT IN THE RAIN, IN THE WIND ver ero ABROAD OMETHING. y HAPPENS t. TL ULLAMTELE \R // THIS CASE From each battered nerve and organ came a Steel Trust yell for Morgan, 4 “OH! BUT IM fy be. (Ki way Wwenktheatly Witen And the good old doctor’s rushing to his little godson’s aid, And securities digestible will be it’s sole comestible Until it gets back pluck enough to chuckle “Who's afraid!” w THE # EVENING » WORLD'S # HOME & MAGAZINE | ® GLAD 3 You've come, t, doctor !! | / $3-9F-904$9OO-00¢ 606 x oe 09363200308 3 09909099000 60000-00054000O DELGHOHELOHOOGHHHOOHHHOOO TO MAKE A SQUARE KITE. t ay ' One of the easiest kites to make, pers} haps, Is the square kite. ‘Nhe frame Is composed of split bamboo, and should be covered with Ughtly stretched Seoten cambric. Although called ‘square,’ yet it Is not exactly 80, it being woout one- half longer ¢han ft ts broad, ‘The frame should be bent backward, both at the father is ‘already a citizen of the United Btates? wil Ge Ie Still Living, To the BAitor of The Brening World: Is Count Leo Tolato! of Russia still ving? W, 8. ¥ top and bottom. This is to make the kite bulge outward, a position. which should be maintained by means of twine stretched from the corners, both above attached in the usual man: completed kite abo ver instead CONUNDRUMS, Why should all people go to rest after tea? Because when ‘‘t" is gone night is nigh, v is a younger brother Ike a fair complexion? Because he {s injured oy the son (sun) and heir (air). What Ja enough for one, too much for two and nothing at all for three? A secret. Why ts a postage stamp like an obsti- nate donkey? Because the more you ck it the more It sticks. fi Why does opening a letter resemble a strango way of entering a room? Be- cause it 1s breaking through the cetl- Ing (sealing). Which constellation resembles an empty fireplace? The great bear (grate bare). Why must a fisherman be very ny? Because his ts all net proft. is gooseberry jam Ike counter- ney? Because it ts not currant felt m (current). Why 1s the letter P Ike a Roman em- 2 Because it's Nero (near 0), When is a woman not a woman? When she 1s a little cross, ——————— CAN YOU DO THIS? Can you draw this figure without lit. id auld the 1d havea two talis| ins your pencil from the paper anw Of one, one at each Lower oofner,| without going over the same line twice? THE “FOUR TRIANGLE” TRICK. Here 1s probably the most ingenious match trick ever invented and rinety- nine out of a hundred persons to whom you present it will give Jt up and pro- nounce the feat impossible when you present the following proposition: Take six matches, and without breaking them, form four triangles of equal dimen- sions, The illustration shows the solu- tion, which as you eee fills the bill per- fectly and introduces a brillant scheme mmhich the ordinary mortal would never dteam of, —___—_ SURPRISE PARTY HINTS. Persons plannzig surprise parties uszally meet at a house or some place conyentent for all, and proceed to the house together, Each contributes some- thing toward refreshments. Games are played, and if there js a plano and any ond to play the party usually winds up with singing; this ds also @ good way tp break the ioe, © HOME FUN FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.) 9° of the Best Jokes of the Day. REVERSED ORDER. If the order were reversed and we had bwo weeks of work and fifty weeks of vacation, would we look forward with pleasure to the work?—Chicago News, MAKING PA SEE, Daughter—I'm golng downtown to- Morrow on a sea trip. ‘Father—Why, how In the world are you golng to do that? ' Daughter—You're going to give me the C and I'll have a nice trip spend- ing 1t.—Chelsea Gazette. MEASURED, “Do you consider De Smythe able to manage large affairs?” “I don't know, All I know about him is that he lets his wife select his neck- tles and cigars,""—The Commoner. WHAT HE WAS THERE FOR, First Horse-Owner—Did you take any finst prizes at the late Baltimore Horse Show? fi Second Horse-Owner—No; I was there only for a few seconds.—Baltimore American. MORE SERIOUS. Ia Montt—Chauffmen looks ¢erribly wy worried, La Moyne—Yes; !t is a case of break- down, La Montt—His health? { 1a Moyne—Worse than that—his auto-| ‘posgt? ta worth « doren of them.) mobdile.—Chicago Dally News. JUST LIKE MILK, “Oty!” exclaimed the little fish that had been nidbling at the bait, “this worm taetes gour.’’ a “Well, my dear,” replied the mamm: fish, ‘the weather's, very warm, ani ‘the worm will turn,’ you know,’ Philadelphia, Press, 4 I pO STEEL TRUST. Fi bast fi i add Bt 40bD%0OO0O009 do ABLE D'HOTE. } 1'M VERY MUCH OBLIGED OLD CHAP, | HOPE WE MEET BOTHGATES’S BRIGHT IDEA. He Recommends the Modernization of the Weather Bureau «nm Novel Lines, OTHGATHS'S face was of the hue of a lobster when ready for the midn.ght banquet. Between stations he wiped his perspiring brow with a handkerchief that say have been clean in the morning, but was not immacu- late at 6 P. M. “Say, friend," he said explosively, ‘why don't your Unole €am get a little sense in his nut? I thought when he ‘hired ‘Teddy to run things they'd be run right, ‘cause I know that boy, and he’s a hustler. Least he was when he was hiking around old N’York bossing the police. But the Job must be too big for him or he don’t know 2s much as I thought he did “What's the matter? Well, here it is. We got @ lot of sharps studying the weather, ain't we? They’don't have ta clean the cars, or do any switching or run the train ot repair no track; all they’s got to do is just study and eptel 41 out what the weather's going to Le. ‘They's supposed to be high up in their trade and on to all {ts curves. Well, what do. they do? They sends out bulletins to warn eaflors that they’s going to be a storm, or they sends out bulletins to tell the farmers they's going to be a frost. They're mighty careful about the sallor and the farmer, but what J do they do for the folks that live in cities like civilized peo- ple ought to live? Well, I tell you: They writes a plece for the paper every day, and it says—'‘Cloudy, changing to shiney, with variable winds; cooler Wednesday if it ain't warmer.’ : c “Oh, yes, that's an old gag. ain't it? But it's ike ell the other old gags that keep gagging, {t's true. Why don’t they get a hunch on and get in line with the times, htre an auto- mobile or put Jn a third rail; do something that would make us contented when their wages is raised? “What would I do? Well, I'd make every landlord put in a wireless with connections In every flat and then I'a send out bulletins every morning like this: jer to-day coll enough for heavy underclothes, an umbrella with you to-day, for they's Ukely to be Rainy to-day; you'll need your mackintoeh. Cold, disagreeable, wet. newmony weather to-day: bundle wp tight, wear robbers end mackintosh, it atitch the police will Gultry to-day; akin down to the you. Hotter’n the other place to-day: wear @ pleasant emile, ‘Cold winds to-day; woar chest pada. “Now, if your Uncle Sam would make his weather men do their work like that they'd be earning their pay, and when the money car come round to them we'd have no Iktok. But what do they do? Did they tip us to get back to an- nel the other day when the thermometer dropped through {tself? Did they tip me this morning to get into my net shirt? Not! They just go on their old-style way Upping the farmer and warning the sailor, and how many votes you |” think eallors and farmers has? Why, they ain't got enough to make Teddy Mayor of Oyster Bay.’ 1 CONCERNING CANARIES, The story of the first introduction of canaries to Burope has been often told, but {t may still interest eome to know that the millions of captive canaries {n the world gre the descendants of a consignment In a ship wrecked 350 years ago off the Island of Elba, whero they multiplled until thelr marvellous singing powers caused thelr capture, til] mot a bird was left. In their natural state, as they still exist in the Canary and Maderla and other Atlantlo ‘slands, the birds ate of a grayish green or greenish brown color, and - are not remarkable for beauty, but they have been known to burst the membrane of their throats im pourbig forth thelr song. by ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAL, let - € a (Deputy Police Commissioner Woste!n, who returns trot of Berlin policemen with the announcement that any o an Inspection of Gotham'a Children! Upon our Pedestal ‘ At Major Wbstein stare: $ The man who says, without a doubt, \ That one of Gotham's p'licemen stout. Could put twelve German cops to rout. Oh, ain't he cute to ladle out