The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1903, Page 12

a ae _Mhelr enforced bachelorhood to the typewriter? How THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1908, w THE w& EVENING Che Sh eaiorio Published by the Prees Publishing Company, No. 8 to @ fark Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter. VOLUME 4a.eceeceee seeee «NO, 18,304, THE BIGELOW DIVORCE CASE. The proceedings in the Bigelow divorce suit have been conducted with such discretion that the public does not know the namo of the lady jn the case nor cven that | of the referce who took the testimony. The granting of | the decree shows that the defendant was found guilty on the statutory charge and the bonds are dissolved in the wife's favor. But who the co-respondent was, whether a society ‘woman or a chorus girl, how she looked, what she wore, what the circumstances were of Mr. Bigelow’s infatua- tion for her, we know not. Her age, condition and pre- vious conquests are sealed up in the court papers. If there were prurient details to be revealed they have Deen kept secret. If there was anything about the cave of a particularly scandalous nature we are denied the pleasure of rolling the sweet morsel on our tongues. Everybody except the scandalmongers will rejoice that it is so. The case wil! be forgotten next week, while it might have become, from the social standing of the parties to the suit, a cause celebre of historic memory. But if this case is heard in camera with really in- violable secrecy, why not others? It is within the Jus- tice's powers to order the papers sealed in all divorce suits. It is permitt®d him to suppress the salacious de- tails over which the court-room crowd gloats and which are poison to the youthful mind. By exercising this au- thority he would do much to remove odium from divorce trials while protecting the public from a flood of nasti- ness, And incidentally the general observance of such a Policy would remove the stigma of favoritism from the oecasional eecret hearings at the request of persons of social prominence, THE CANDY TRUST PROSECUTION. The prosecution by the District-Attorney of the Candy Trust, otherwise the New York Confectionery-Jobbers’ Protective Association, is certain to accomplish some good. The trust is now only a year old, but in that time, if the allegations made against it are true, it has raised the price of candy 23 per cent. in some cases, arbi- trarily cut off the credit of small dealers, inflicted fines, killed competition and made an effort to drive the small east side manufacturers out of business. Tihese are the charges. If they are false the opportunity is offered the trust of disproving them and convincing the public of its good character. \ Singularly enough there is no allegation in rebuttal of an attempt by the truat to improve the quality of its output, to make use of a better grade of sugar or to keep its wares fresh and preserve them from adulteration. The kind of confectionery protective association the pub- le would like to see is one that would assure the small consumer, the penny purchaser, a quality of candy guilt- Tess of glucose or harmful coloring matter and compar- able In purity, if not equal, with that sold at the high- class stores. * But the trust has never made a claim to benevolence of this sort It is not in business for the health of the childish consumer, VACATION ACTIVITIES. The growth and popularity of summer courses of in- Struction iz shown once again in the purchase by Har- vard College of land on Lake Champlain for the estab- Ushment of a great summer school. This university now gives vacation instruction to a thousand pupils, almost as many 9s composed its entire academic department only a few yenrs ago. Bearing in mind what other colleges are of- “ring in the way of opportunities and facilitie»for sum- ster schooling, and recalling the work done by tho great original of these movements, Chautauqua, the vacation time Is seen to be very profitably employed by a vast army of ambitious students. The students of the regular college terms also are acquiring a habit of mental or physical work during the long vacation. There is no mote loafing, if ever there was much. Impecunious college boys are earning their living as walters at seaside or mountain hotels, or as Sttendants on cattle steamers working their way across for a giimpee of Europe. Others are found in locomo- tive shops or electrical plants. Some ere motormen in Brooklyn and New York or “bands” in the Kansas wheat fields. Some are cutting down a four years’ course to three for en earlier entrance to the professional schools. No more !dleness through the long summer loafin4 Spell, but activity and employment designed to be either | directly or remotely remunerative. The idea of rest and recreation no longer obtains to its former extent. We may take more holidays than our fathers took, but we seem to be making a more advantageous use of them. ‘We have learned the lesson that work of itself does not kill. THE DECLINE IN HUSBANDS. According to a report Issued by the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics only twelve in 100 of the women workers in the State are married. It is said that they “prefer freedom, work and an income of their own” to a Husband. Some, in fact many, are supporting themselves by euch unfeminine forms of employment as marble- cutting and bricklaying rather than bend their necks to the matrimonial yoke. Among those who in earlier years committed the error of marriage divorce is increasing. There is now one divorce to every eighteen marriages. The vine no longer seeks the support of the oak. It ines on its own trellis. | This is but added testimony to the increasing un- Popularity of marriage. Every year witnesses a further Mecline of husbands below par value. Anti-matrimonial mechanical inventions multiply. How many men owe to the telephone? The coy-“yes” grows more and TOLD ABOUT NEW YORKERS. ‘“UBYRON'S bathers and ooean-front iE dwellers were recently thrown Into @ state of excitement by a most Temarkable swimming feat. Miss Cora Mehrbach and Miss Alice Ma two young New Yorkers, who are spend- ing the summer at the Elberon, swam out to the fishing seines, a mile and a half from the beach, and back again, un- attended, an achievement waich has been considered difficult by many of tho best swimmers of the coast. It may make life more or less endura- ble to those whose nerves have been irritated by long seasons of “The Good Old Summer Time," ‘Under the Bamboo Tree” and “Hiawatha” to learn that Richard Harlow Is playing the “Daisy Queen of Spain” in a revived ‘14¥2," which ran three years in New York, toured two years and became comatose in or about 1867, St. Louls {s the scene of the resuscitation. Oo ac Twenty-one thousand, elght hundred and twenty-three citizens of Milladelphia say that they were born in New York; 40,702 were born in England, 71,319 {n Germany, and 98,427 In Ireland. Phila- delphia. has only 9,06 foreign-born mal who cannot speak English, while 3 York has ©,200. 8 Rev. Appleton W. Grannis, of Bt. Michael's, 1s a thorough bellever in the doctrine of “Muscular Christianity,” as 1s evinced by a story still told by Jer- sey rustics.§ When Mr. Grannis was younger ha was rector of the Hsnex Falls (N. J.) Church. The church scounds needed grading and some ma- sony work was also neosssary. No latorer could be found for the job. Mr. Grannis electrified his parishioners by taking off hix coat and doing the work himpelf. Before he was half through a dozen eager members of the churcn were tolling at his side, W. C, de Mille, the playwright, re- turned recently from a Furopean trip. Jersey hills he stopped at the hut of an old woman, who complained bitterly at the loneliness of the nsighbortiood. “The country arouad hore Is very beautiful," observed de Mille consolingly “It Is, eh?" she retorteg with scor: “Well, it may please a chap Iike you, who's never seen nothin’ better, but it ain't good enough fer me. 1 way to Paterson for two years,’ se Now that Prof. Thompson has figured out that every family in New York con- gumes an average of four eggs a day sca@e persons are wondering where all the egss come from, The farmers In Long Island, New Jersey and elsewhere in the viainity of the city say they n= not ralse enough eggs for thelr c| tomers at home, much less send them in appreciable quantities to the New York market, [t is understood that New York gets most of its eggs from Ohlo and Pennsylvania, 89 that perhaps the cost LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. “Von” In To the Editor of The A says the profix B says itis. Which ts right? March 28, Fr Y To the Talltor of The Evening Word Kindly let me know on what date Easter fell in the year 188, and on what day of the week June 27, 1884, felt TH, “Wife or Mother” Query Revived. To the Editor of The Evening World Wilt readers discuss: If a husband, wife an his mother were on a sinking boat, and the hussand could save but one person beside himself—his wife or his mother—which would be the more proper for him to save? 8. A. GOLD. Is Match, not Duteh. PAPER, School ip St. Mary's, Apply to Board of Education, To the Editor of The Evening World How could I put my boy on a schoo!- ship? He is incorrigible and I domt want to put him in @ reform achod. Would you please let me know whi I would have to gee and the name ol the ship? AR, Rear-Admiral A. 8. Barker. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Kindly let me know the name of the present Commandant of the Navy-Yard, JH. On Aug. 20. To the Editor of The Evening World When do the international yacht races begin? H. L. 8. Baneball Abbreviations. To the Editor of The Evening World: What 1s the meaning of the following abbreviations used in the baseball of- ficial records: “'r," ‘*b,'" “po,"" “‘a,' 0?" GH. c. Runs," “base hits," “put outs,’ “as- sists," "errors." Snee m Dates from St. Peter. To the Editor of The Evening World Who was the first Pope? A saays St Peter. B saays not. AR. Salln Were White. To the Editor of The Brening World A says the Shamrock II, had green- shaded sails. B says her sails were white. Which Is right? AM 12 Lb., 55 Ft. 2 In.) 16 Lb,, 47 Ft, To the Biltor of The Evening World What are the records for the twelve and sixteen-pound shot p H. L, 8. Wants to W To the Diltor of The Evening Wor For the sake of health and comfort during the hot summer season we should wear sandals, as the people did in anclent times. Tt would besides give the fancy stocking man a chance to dis- it of damage has been done to matrimonial aspira- . this summer by the fell work of the mas- two weeks at least not a hammock has been of this lack, of opportunity? play the article to great advantage and would afford the lady with a classic (7) ‘Statistician of the curious should figure out what| foot an opportunity to adorn it with pretty bows, buckles, rings and brace- lets (or “pediets'’) to her heart's desire, By discarding for three or four months those instruments of torture called ‘&ny lawn because of the attacks of the insect| shoes, our corns, bunions, &c., would many instances ‘has the important question | ¥* entirely obliterated. of the smart set start Let some one the fashion. ¥, DEEKMAN. ¢ In the course of a ramble through the| “ of transportation accounts for their unl. | formly high price. | nent YOU ARE ANY AMOUNT i ; Io a © \3 if} wore i 7 UY wont : aveny , yes $ Mos! |e lo You Horrid Old Thing: OMMLULLLL LTT MLALS A dk o~ SHES heat PRovoKeD, ) “He -HE It! HEHEHE ) letter, S.with vexation, aaa EXPLANATION. CUNY, ll ec Reelton—Juggins hours fishing one day last week ¥ and never got a bite. How do you @ account for that? Sinkers—Oh, 1 suppose he th Instead of his POPLOOHOHOHOHHOO LETTERS FROM [ZZ gnasty things about you having to live and money don’t grow on trees, os bad enough to have to be always thinking about the cost of things, but tobe told I can't have ‘the things I want at all is terrible. Are you always > I just cried all night over your letter. £1 you don't know how to speculate. {husband owns wagons to haul dirt and she dresses twice as good as I do y and wears a diamond worth more than all my jewelry. “get some wagons and haul dirt? I'm afrald you are doing just what all > —74 ay HER 108A OF WALE ST. I just think you are mean as mean can be to It WIFE OF THE MAN WHO OWNS THE DIRT WAGONS. You must get some extra work Why, there's a woman here whose Why don't you —_—— GOSH DARN /T Aue, BY SHE BREAKS HER PARASOL HER COMMENT. “Here's an account of a woman who committed suicide becai her husband had died. What do you think of that?” “I think that she married t¢ one man in about 1,000,000,000.” PPOCOODDHOGEHHHGOHOHE TO WRITE WELL, DOO000028 2 COOLED + CHEE (@asyenccemDy Cums Much may be done to improve bad penmanship by practising a few simple exercises given above, says London An- swers. Get a pen that is not too thick, and go through each exercise in turn two or three times a day for ten min- utes at a time. You will be surprised at the improvement in a week or two, | sure he is pointing In the right direc- [HOME FUN FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS. | THE BULL'S EYE. Tals is more of a trick than a gam and is played with two confederate: who work in one room, while the com- Pany stays In the other. A rough target Is drawn and pinned | at a convenient height upon the wail, | ard one of the company s called in. He is placed about five feet from th target, and is told to alm with his for finger for the bull's eye. When he is tlon he ts blindfolded by one confeder- ate, while the other stands close to the target. He is told to walk towards It and see éf with his outstretched fore- finger he can touch the bull's eye. The confederate by the target slight- ly opens his mouth and follows the direstion of the pointing finger until the biindfoléed victim finds It caught firm- ly, Dut not roughly, between two rows of teeth. Then, ‘as he is “initiated,” he stays with the confederates while one\ by one the other victims walk into the trap. It is great fun, at the feast. df there is good ae mon JY poo ¥ 77 A SELFISH WIFE TO HER HUSBAND.-No.5. Z) this cheap hotel. Yourk the men do when their wives ga away for the summer, giving suppers to. chorus girls and dissipating. If I find out you have been spending your: money that way I'll get a divorce, It would be disgraceful, but I will not stand extravagance. I just haven't had a bit of pleasure to-day thinking of your horrid | water. It has been a day of accidents, and all because you won't let me I went out in my auto and ran into a tree because I was crying have money enough to be comfortable. When Charley Summerer came for me to go boating II feel {ll now and I just don't love you. {was so agitated I broke my parasol and Jost my hat while we were on the | P. S.—Telegraph the money. COULDN'T TRUST HIMSELF, Bleeker—But If you and your wife are not congenial why don't you get a divorce? Meeker—Because I'm afraid. Bleeker—W' are you afraid of? Meeker—I’m afrald | might be fool enough to marry again. Oot FUCHSIAS IN PAPER. 21G.2. ‘Take a small pad of wool and cover the paper. Fasten to stem by twisting up- Per end of the stem around it. Then slip Fig. 2 over it and fasten with glue. Then add the petals like Fig. 1. This is @ hard flower to make, Dut very pretty when finished. \ a bsx7 going to be so poor? Why don’t you make some money in Wall street? | py saying you can’t afford to spend $12 for a tennis racquet and all those |Aren’t you smart enough? Charley Summerer made a yacht in Wall street S | in two days, and you can’t make enough to keep me in decent comfort at es? w WORLD'S w HOME w# MAGAZINE w - DOODOCE ED o i + OOOO SOS e $ rDdDOdOHS4 OF ooo * $ @ $ cs $ INTO ATREE. => | 3] It you don't send me $300 I'll be 111 MAYSIE. THEN HE WENT. b | “WII you think of me when I'm. gone?” * “Sure. That ls, If you ever give me the opportunity.” Some of the Best jokes of the Day. GENERAL REBUKE, “How old are you, my lttle man?” asked the olky yisitor, and the doy srumpily replied: “Old enough not to like to have people call me ‘my little man,’ "Somerville Journal. ' re you the kind of man to embrace opportunity?" “Well, I might embrace an oppor- tunity, but I prefer a girl.""—Chicago Post, ) OUTCLASSED, Miss Millions—It’s getting harder every day for an heiress to marry a man with money. He prefers a poor girl. ‘Miss Billions—Yes, these days if an heiress wants to marry a wealthy man the best thing she can do is to become @ gove7ness or a nurse, or a manicure, | or an actress, or a stenographer, or 2 clerk, ot a tglephone gil. We're simply | outclossed,—Baltimore American, - nD GR sy KING PETER’S ROM A ‘Swashbuckling Tale’’ of His Rescue of a Maiden in Distress. in well known, the new King of Servia married Princess Zorka, the eldest daughter of the Prince of Montenegro, am! his supporters in Germany are now spreading @ story of his marriage which !s sald to be more romartic than exact. Petor Karageorgevitch served es a volunteer with th Montenegrins during the Turkish war, and toward the end of the struggle the Turks captured Prince Wichotus's camo and carried off hic daughter Peter at once got together his followers and started in pursuft Coming up with the Turks he attacked them with the greatest fury. aud with Is own bund sew tte @ol- diers who were ¢ ing off the Princess. The Prince of Montenegro, delighted at the rescte of his daughter, asked the gallant Peter how he could reward him, Wut Zorka, throwing herself into her father's arms,, exclaimed: “Father, let me be his reward!"’ Princess Zorka had before that known Pets Karageorgevitch, but his desperate had made nae fall viplently In love with him, like a Princess in a fairy tale, The story is such a pretty one that it {s a great pity It ages being this year's birthdays. There are no other rulers im thelr twenties. Five are in the thirtles-the thirty-two, the Emperor of (hina at the same age, the King of Italy at thirty-four, the Czar at thirty-five and the Sultan of Oman, whose sultanate is not very safe just now, at thirty-nine, says the Philadeiphta North American, The Kalser is one of the four rulers who are in their forties, the others belng Dom Carlo of Portugal, who is forty this year; Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who 1s forty- two, and the Prince of the queer little principality of Leiche tenstein, who is this year forty-five. Only one reigning sovereign is fifty—the Shah of Persia— but he has two companions in the same decade, the peror of Japan, who {s fifty-one, and King George of Greece, who Is fifty-eight. Six monarchs are in the sixties. They are, in order of age. the Emperor Menelik of Awyssli 4 the Sultan of Turkey, sixty-one; the Prince of Montenegro, sixty-two; Edward VII, sixty-two; King Charles of Rou- manta, sixty-four, and the King of Belgium, sixty-eight. Ameer of Afghanistan at Over seventy there are four reigning monarchs, two of them octogenarlans. They are peror Francis Joseph of Austria, who is seventy-three; King Oscar of Sweden, who 4 seventy-four; King Christlan of Denmark, who Is e! five, and the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, who is eighty-six. Presidents are younger than kings. Colombia has an old man of seventy-six at the head of its affairs, but he has long since left behind the age at which Presidents are gen- erally chosen to rule, President Loubet, who ranks among the oldest rulers of republics, is sixty-flve, and the President of the Argentine Republic is sixty-one; but most other heads of republics are much younger. POINTERS ON THE FEET. EOPLE with short. broad feet should never wear high- heeled shoes (though they almost invariably seem to do 80), as these force the weight of the foot forward upon the ball of the toe, thereby causing it to spread even wider than usual. They should be careful to choose as narrow @ make of shoes as 1s comfortable—one cut on long ilnes and having nothing in the way of ornamentation. that does not give narrowness, but not too pointed an effect, or the toe of the shoe will assume an undestrable triangular appearance. People whose fect are too long should be careful to avoid a lengthy vamp. and should, ff possible, wear Louls XVI. heels (which need not necessarily be high ones), thereby as- suring a raised instep and avolding the unbroken line of sole set flat upon the pavement. A great difference in the, apparent length can be made by having the buckle, or pom- pon, or whatever ornament finishes off the shoe, set as low down the toe as possible, and certainly a strapped shoe is must becoming. KISSING IN A TUNNEL. A distinguished French novelist, whose works are ex- tremely popular with the fair sex, recently found himself travelling in a railway carriage with two very talkative women, Having recognized him from his published portraits they both opened fire upon him in regard to his novels, which they praised in a manner that was unendurable to the sensitive author. Fortunately the train entered a tunnel, and in the dark- ness the novelist, who understood women, lifted the tack of his hand to his lps and kissed {t soundingly. When light returned he found the two women regarding each other tn Icy silence, and, addressing them with great suavity, he sald: “Ah! mesdames, the regret of my life will hereafter be that I shall never know which one of you it was that kissed mea ON THE EVENING WORLD PEDESTAR, (Thomas C. Platt. who bas just celebrated his seventith Sirthday and who declines to say ‘whether any of the bouquets he recelved was from Hozaevest,) Children! Platt’s on our Pedestal, For birthday greetings ready, When, to observe his natal day, His friends sent in a brave array Of flower-basket and bouquet, He coyly lisped: “No, I shan't say Which one is labelled ‘Teddy.'” } £4) sae Ai PRA aa bral all seems to have so very smell a foundation In fact. ROOSEVELT IS NOT SO YOUN Though we are accustomed to loo upon President Roose- | velt as one of the youngest men now in executive control of nations, a glance at the figu will show that there are other rulers just as youthful and some comparatively boyish, ‘The youngest ruler jn the world Js the King of Spain, who Is seventeen, the oldest is the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who is elghty-s x. ‘The only woman on a throne comes sec- ond in the list, the Queen of Holland being twenty-three. The Sultan of Morocco is twenty-four, the King of Servia twenty-seven and the Khedive of Mgypt twenty-nine—all the