The evening world. Newspaper, September 10, 1903, Page 14

SSRI PTET NRC TRLIEN NAS TR oe 228 ae Jublishea by the Press Publishing Company, No. & to & Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OfMflce at New York as Second-Class Mali Matter. seeeeNO. 15,360. A MUCH-NEEDED PARK. } In the 100 acres of tenement-house area bounded by the East River, the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge, the "New Bowery, East Broadway and Pike street live 45,000 people. Here packed within close confines is the population | of a thriving city. According to the stutistician of the | Charity Organization Society 1,000 babies are born In this b) region every year, and there 15,000 children are growing 2 up with only the streets fora place of recreation. Nota! ? ) park or a playground js available for them, It is doubt-| © od ‘ & ful if any other community of equal size elsewhere in| % * the nation is so handicapped in its fight against disease. | Is it to be wondered at that this district had in 1900 the} 3 highest genera) death rate in the city ahd also the high-| ¢ © est death rate for children under five years of age? | : Settlement and mission workers are seeking to remedy |S these disease-inviting conditions by inducing the olty au- thorities to make a park of the block bounded by Hamil- ton, Market. Catharine and Monroe streets. It is a fit Place for suth a breathing spot; directly opposite ts a Reighborhood notorious for its annual mortality from —____. MOLUME 44. A park placed here is as the opening of the window GRINDSTONE of @ sick-room to the fresh air. With this movement the workers at the Jacob A. _ Riis settlement and others at the Church of the Sea and ‘has the approvai of the Commissioner of Parks, and aj et ieanthade or OTIS, REA 2 C4LPDOROE®OL ROE RDORODED®ODIDIDDRON GOS Importance of Mr. Peewee. The ZN ATER! Bane me UBC 1M wooBebens BRAINS A FEW ORTOLANS, A DIAMOND - BAI TERRAPIN, TRUFFLES: e LINE OF FROGS LEGS ALA, RE "ig tuberculosis. THE NOSE AND Land, and members of the Nurses’ Settlement and tbe Conducted by 4 Outdoor Recreation League are jointly identified. It UNCLE PEANUTBRITTLE: 7 TEX Havers hearing of the plan is soon to be given by the Board of} (ROY L. M*CARDELL). Estimate and Apportionment. It is from every point of | —— © wishes {! tie success it deserve! ern methods in lexicography. F = FS gobueon called “fun” a hy © with originating half a hundred words; Trench found CT a Chaucer? do it with “telegrarher.” } matters, ‘dismissal from the service. " ylew a laudable undertaking and The Evening World “CHESTY.” Here is “‘chesty,” slang word, word of the streets, ex-| } pressive and useful, given a place in the newest diction- , afy. So the dictionary’s press agent informs us, point- _ Gng with pride to its presence there as evidence of mod- In Dr. Johnson's day the province of a dictionary- | maker was to keep out as many words as possible. r Tow called “clever” a “vulgar word" and advised his ' readers that it should “never make its way into books.” “low” word. Quantity, not qual- rR ity, is now the idea with tho dictionary editor, and it {s | the right idea. It is the people who make the words, not ‘™ all nations there has existed side by side with the "written Janguage a spoken one not countenanced by the ~ Miterary, but far more fruitful in word invention. said that for one “literary” word popular speech “gould provide a dozen of similar meaning. Th neg are just as likely to live as the blue-blooded, In ‘Rome in Cicero's day the nobles called a horse equus, from which we derive equine. ‘efilied it caballus, from which comes cavalier. There 1s @emocracy to language which makes light of the rules _ of speech laid down by purists. __“Chesty” is popularly regarded as a Devery invention, | It was merely “‘appropriatéd” by the ex-best, having been ‘te general use years before his time. to be new-born into publicity, like ‘‘chesty,” have had a slow maturing process. The poet Dryden was credited The common people Words that seem most of them in old English writers, many in Chaucer. Is not our so-called Americanism “I guess” also in , Asa matter of fact, it Is as difficult for an individual ( sake a word as to kill one, excepting always the men "ef science, who apply new words to new inventions. jus Von Helmont, who invented gas, gave it its name. " Amother word of his invention, blas, ” Similarly it is impossible to kill a word that the public Mikes, Johnson and the other lexicographers of his time ay ‘could not do it. Swift could not do it in the case of -~ “bus” for “omnibus.” Richard Grant White could not died untimely. Ifthe public wants the word it keeps it; fects it. Ite verdict is final in language as in all other UNBECOMING AN OFFICER. Very recently a young naval attache was charged be-| neat and cozy; fore a court of inquiry at Bar Harbor with conduct to-) make it warm for yom. Sy a systematic ward a lady unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. the army a young lieutenant. of good social connections | has been found guilty on like charges and sentenced to|or a patient and dgeareutecies hus- | band, The two cases are interesting from thelr points of re-| semblance, but they are especially so as showing the! jealous watchfulness Uncle Sam exercises over the man-| and she was angry. I also lost @ roll ners of the officers wearing his uniform. His standard The success of the Nose and Grind- stone Club Gas been such that Uncle Peanutbrittle has been overcome by the has recetved. If he has been silent for a few days after his first outburat in behalf of Downtrod- den Man {t {a be- cause he has been overcome. of New York sought him so finely that he was overcome. It was too much. overcame him. He felt glad and joyous and yet he staggered as If from weak- ness. But tt was NOT weakness. He waa too full for utterance. A mist swam before his eyes, He sank down unconscious, The ext day reaction sot in, He bad a severe headache and was feverish. But to-day he returns to his self-appointed task of rescuing men in bondage. He finds his desk snowed bers of the Nose and Grindstone Club. Dear Uncle Peanutbrittle: tion looking fine. She was in the Cats- kills at Tanneraville, where she got tanned. She was annoyed to find that I had washed the dishes with the gar- den hose during her absence. She now threatens to cut off my spending money I could not account for $21 did not send her, but kept out of my salary, and she profeases to believe I lead a double lif But I wish I led @ single one. Wha shall 1 do? BEN E. DICK Answer.—Be patient till the great day of emancipation comes, Meanwhile, be patient and cheerful. Profess not to seo Intentional slights, Always meet your wife at the door when she re- turns from shopping, tired and petulant, with a sunny smile and a neat costume cook someting for supper that will be |dainty and that you know your wife likes, No matter how long she has j deen at a social function, do not find her at the door and kiss | her, and make no comment If her breath fault, but mi smells of tea and macaroons. Do not troubles of his own. Keep the house In| Course of Kindness even the most un- thinking of wives can be brought to realize that they are taking advantage | Dear Uncle Peanutprittle: My wife went me to the baker's for | Some rusks. I same home with a bun and she was angrier sull. HENRY PECKHAM. commendations he} { The married men him out and treated NOTICE- — JF YOU RE SUDDENLY AWAKENED DUAING THE NIGHT, DONT | ZaINN, 175 aw EXPLOS- ‘~ IT someone BLOWING UP THE SPEAKING Tvee! (He was first stimu- lated and then made i, Uncle Peanut- ‘ould scarcely get home after] / the ovation he received. A dizzy feeling ES, PONT PRIVE NAILS under with letters from grateful mem- My wife has returned from her vaca- WELL, MADAM, L MIGHT GIVE You RENT FAGE- THE HOUSE 1% SUPPORTED ay uF OWN FOUNDATION LANDLORD- of some plain dark materlal. ‘Try to THEREFORE HE DOESNT NEED nag, and never, never threaten to go TNE r70oNey, | ome to your father. Your father has never have your wife THE EVENING # WORLD'S w HOME w MAGAZINE OOO ARAORMEDEDD O64 C4 44984 OB2ODBLADIRODDIDE EDAD? DIDDIRDEIGDED-OOOOD OO Fi = ate ~ J water pont FonGer yy THE “1840°OLD PORT. MIGHT BRING IN A OF CHATEAU YQUEN Too- CLARA WOULD You CARE FOR SOME CANVAS BACK? SINCE THAT TIME WHEN | DINED WITH KING EDWARD The Return of the Flat-}tunters. w The Approach of Fall Brings Out the Apartment-Seckers. Wo CATS, NO 00G NO PARROTS, NO BIRDS, NO CHILODREN-ALL You ae 2 GOTTER BE PCO: LOPM. AND BE SURE TER MUFFLE YER ALARM CLOCK AST LOVES TER SLEEP IN DE NoRNIN I! gant & #35 Wo 'sav! wet Tane sur THAT THE Fonz aTHeR HERE'S 4 a ee? 28 P0317 I “ eee Hark! the weary footsteps patter as the town-returning flatter Hunts the thirty-dollar mystery yclept a Gotham flat. ‘While of all men the most happy 1s the level-headed chappie Who already has a flat that suite and quietly stands pat. SHOE SOODHDHEGDHHGDHHOD HHOOGHHOOOH: GPHESELISCOEIOFSERS 9OOGE Haven’t You Seen Him? ~—— —— He Lunches a Fashionable Belle at the Waldor}-Astoria and Reaches _@ 30-Cent Finish. DID You HEAR abour _4 OVER 100 CovERs were LAID. THE VANASTORBILTS AND MANY OTHERS OF OUR Ser SV THERE. oF BUL ue a & y F GF Ge x Get new aed 200R Curt THRO’ WIFEY MANES A MIT WITH THE AGENTs . i : ; BACK FROM THE N28 DOr oO” THE woos 74057 OF BSE FLATS 45 OCC- SESSHOLOGS 90O-900G: 10492000290 LETTERS, QUESTIONS, tg high and rigid and its violation is harshly punished. infrequent, a discipline has been administered that is|0f tye? “for the good of the service” in particular and generally promises all this and in addition “to obey.” ‘Indications of a 1evolt on her part against the servile + word have not been lacking in recent years; they were |Iikeliho S/ Aiseerpible as long ago as the beginning of Woman’s| °° #itt ( Pause! But with three cases of individual protest within Sendy Another ty tram traffic, level that her every whim will be gratified to| ats fash hisiabliity? In default of which there ts |e "2": pte diyouce court for incompatjbility. IGNITE ON GLASS, it Nearly all the safety matches which The word “obey” ag it ©x-| ro wafe against friction on sandpaper, service is ly 8 form Of | ‘stone, wood or brick arm! and obsolete. | trom ‘a quick rub on glass. Jadios seem indeed to be making a ANSWERS. Answers.—Your wife Without an acquaintance with their merits it {8 presumed | gut you do not make yourself suMcient- that !n these conspicuous cases as in others, all happily|ly plain. Was the bun you had made isn't well bred. 5,376,000. Charle Eitor of The Bvening World What Is the population of Roumania and who ts her King? Dear Uncle Peanutbrittle: : The other evening (we live in a Har _ deneficia! as well to American manhood everywhere. tem ftat) I took the dog out for » walk, and in a misguided moment I got on a “TO LOVE, CHERISH AND OBEY." Columbus avenue car Jconductor saw it was a spitz dog and To the Faitor of The United States and where are th There are five mints, ated at Carson City, > . San Francisco and Denver. ne Versus Massacre, Piltor of The Evening World Lynchings show much more depravity and cold-blooded wickedness than di the Kishineff massacre. The latter, how- Was the result not only of religious fanaticism, but the frena: of the jenorant HARLEIMITE, In the marriage service of the Episcopal Church the) nad me arrested for violating the Board husband promises to take his bride “for better, for worse, | of Health ordinance about spite or the for richer, for poorer, in sickness and In health, to love | cars. In the confusion the dog was lost and to cherish till death us do part.” The bride Ce am afraid to go home. Answers,—Get dog ever horrible, ———— 8 week the revolt may be sald to be assuming the aspect NOVEL STREETS. revolution. The latest of the protestants, Miss Ethe]| In his evidence , of Rutland, Vt., lett the Episcopal Church and| Zrime Commission the other etd pied the Congregational ewhaiitute ceremony rather) Councit described three new types of make tho fateful promise. street to meet whet obligation is it that a woman incurs when] dilficulty, | Qne aft 9 to obey? Is it not to have through all her Berean reer ved for motor and other uick traffic, and the r ife the best her husband can provide for her—|faco trains ‘and. slov ‘as expensively as he can afford, to wear dia-|*U2way for single-decked trains. the authoritles On the other hand the other day have been punished, Ivnehings in States, where the victims are tortured before being killed, are | Darticivated in by people o: JUSTITL it was too Jate to get mad, and when Apply to Supreme Court, To the Eiiitor of The Evening World: How can I have my name changed? ners” of the incident the Speaker roared and called the debt off as a good one on himself. ning, Secretary of War Dan Lamont, er-General Charles he becomes prosperous, to ride at his side| double subway, French for «9 ‘To the Editor of The Bveaing World: A says the French word means milliner. oblle and perhaps some day tn his yacht?| powed to ran. whe trams in t vel. “All Included the usual B says, it means dress- Which is correct? A SUBSCRIBER. 1 tite originally Pra S/ to de milliaer, but custom has al: ressmaker: ignite readily Told About New Yorkers. MAYOR GILROY, scudding swift-;over the dead past?" sald an old ac- into the bank in Harlem of/quaintance who met him on the Row which he Is President, attracted] yesterday, the attention of an old-timer, who| “Oh, no," replied the Senator, ‘‘I sleep remembered the exciting days during) better now, eat my meals with more the 70's when things were at fever heat/ relish, and feel happler now than I ever at Albany during the legislative ses-| aia pefore in my Ilfe."" | ‘And how de you account for it?” he sion, Gilroy, then a very young man, used to go up there frequently, the OlU=| was asked. timer says, and was extremely popular! «yj ++ with the “boys,” as he was always ready to give a lift when any of his as I used to, acquaintances were dead broke. here's» phiiosspher, for vou, One day a man came up to him ana) BN at! sald: “Gil, I'd lke to run to Troy, but) Denny ‘Burns, famous in his day in I haven't a dollar.” the Albany Legislature as the ‘‘member to Speaker Hitchman,” satu Gil-| from Sligo, who was busy talking toa friend. Shortly afterward the man returned. | passing the Battery yesterday, “Its all right, Gt ott!” exclaimed Gilroy, | paper man, That boa who, I believe, 18 a mill that you wanted to run up to Troy ana| Albany. He was correspondent hadn't a dollar.” for one of the big dailies of this town. Gilroy nearly collapsed. But he saw| “Why, during the time I was up there there were three reporters at Al- bany who afterward became Cabinet vit officers at “Washington. ‘They were fer Sam, Lasso Bill drawed fu'st.—Balti- Secretary of the Treasury Daniel Man- he told Hitchman about the true “in- Py ST and’ Postmasi Smith. A fellow member of mi spite the fact that his frst term in the |” be Senate was thirty-four years ago, He was a millionaire five years ago. He Y not @ tillionaire now, [ator bd Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. LACK OF EXPERIENCE. Harry—I can't understand why a mgy- ried man should ever think of such a thing as going on an arctic voyage of Dick—Naturally, You never were mar- ried, you know.—Boston Transcript. said he with a merry twinkle q cat don't have to go to the IF WE ONLY HAD. Lives of great men all remind us We could make our lives sublime, It we only nad the money, Praline enough, and lots of time. hia district, however, belng the Second Assembly of this 1 him that and say 1 sent you.” |—saw the steamboat Howard Carr BARGAIN INSTINCT, The new woman had appHed for a murriage license, he remarked,} “I think," sald Denny, “if\I could be-] “How much?" ehe asked in a business- hman gave me $19. gin Hfe over again I'd begin as a news-| like way, 's called after a » ween't he? What did you|now prominent business man in this city, say to him? “I told him what you told me to say—|I knew some years ago when I was at, rf replied she clerk. HAD THE DROP. Red Gulch Joe—Did you say that thar fight between Scarfaced Sam and Lasso Bill wuz a draw? Brimstone Tke—Y + an’, unforchinitly HIS QNLY A “I am sorry to hear your unfortunate ,| nephew has been closed out by the ue) sheriff,’ said the friend of the family. | "Have you any Idea what his liabilities Willfam Cauldwell, former State Sen- | is7l was a newspaper man by prote ator, is now lively as a cricket in the| He, afterward becam: vernor pudlishing business on Park Row, de-| this. o'bavig and Se States Benat "5 Mable to ogi! on| Posse! me tur help about/: fe Be lid PD seve aaa « oat | \ Rese! The Evening World’s School | of Real Lessons from Life. III.—GEOGRAPHY. BODY of land surrounded fay by swamps is an {dedi home site in a real er tate advertisement, Manhattan Island was solé once for $24, Lut the street raik ways got it for nothing. No matter what time you start from Harlem to Brookiy# always takes till half-past 9 to get there. A hill fs an elevation of land in a race track that loses 9 great many bets. Nobody lives in Brooklyn unless there is something thé matter, The Atlantic Ocean Is alvidea between J. Plerpont Monge and the Cunard Company. A pond is a small body of water surrounded by tand, unless in or mear a city, when it's a lake. Chicago 1s a large city in Illinois noted for tts fine farms in Mts outlying wards. ‘The government of New York State dapends on who pay# the most for it, The State of Pennsylvania was purchased from the In 8 by William Penn, but has since been given by the im 4. | habitants to M. S. Quay, = ara Questions. i Tell briefly what are New York City's chief productd under a Tammany administration. What {s the shortest route between New York and Albany! when an {mportant bill is to be passed? Whet palms musd be crossed? 7 A man in the Waldorf-Astoria cafe wears a cavalry het, talks with a draw! and drinks whiskey Uefore Breakfast: From what State does he come? How far {s a suburban home In Now Jersey from Broad way on a foggy night? WILLIAM JOHNSTON, WORLD'S WHEAT SUPPLY, American farmers will be gratified to know that the Huns garian Minister of Agriculture figures out a deficiency of ber! | tween 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 bushels in the world's wheat sup | ply. ‘This {s not much of a shorigae; the sweepings of the } 5 we pac SBS eae dus world's bins would amount to as much as that. But it is @ good den} better than a surplus when we have a crop above the average. We have been extremely fortunate on several | { occasions (notably in 1891 and 1897) in having a good croft when the rest of the world was short of wheat, but there hag been a little apprehension of an over-supply this year. Are gentina and India have more wheat to spare than usual, but Australia is importing wheat; the Hungarian crop ts @ good deal under that of last year, and several European countries will not have large, though they may have fal: » good, crops, Besides, the European workingmen have go’, used to eating wheat instead of rye. ) THE GORILLA AT HOME. Pau) du Chaillu, the explorer, whose deatn occurred tatety | | in Russia, Introduced the gorilla to the western world. Ne One believed his first account of the finding of this ferocious creature, His Viooks on the subject were ridiculed, and file ) lectures unattended, Now everybody knows about the gorias, The small boy who longs to be @ mighty huntes dreams delightedly of them along with llons and Gorillas are not carnivorous, though they ai less dangerous on that account. Few beasts have an uglies disposition, Their habit of advancing upon their foes roar ing and beating upon thelr hatry chests with re\ lke a drum js well known, but the story of thelr hfaing in tree tops until some un: native passes beneath, lowering « dreadful hind leg and clutching him around the neck with sinewy finier-like toes, they draw him up to by devoured, Is a litle overdrawn, \ A FISH STORY, Sir Herbert Maxwell contributes to tlie Monthly Review an attractive article on the debatable subject of “Animal Intelligence. Some remarkatle experiments were made about thiety | years ago by Mr. Amtsberg, of Stralsund, A large pike tn aquarium was so destructive to other fish in the tank was separated from them by a sbeet of plate glass, The sight of its accustomed prey tempted the pike te make’ the usual dash, only to repelve @ smart blow on the nose, After about three months of t! perience it found this te’ be such a losing business that {t gave up trying, and so armly convinced was ét that these fishes were past-masters’ im the! art of self-defenve that when the glass was removed et the Yet when other fish were introduced they were not spare | AS SHE SEES IT. A man ought not to expect all the comforts of a hame on @ wash day, It is the gray day and the hard road that test the real; (| } of our hea! ( ‘A pessimistic philosopher defined man as “the animal thaé! bargains'—but {t's woman that does the bargain hunting, says the Philadelphia North America Happiness {s increased by development of the powers of appreciation and Saeeic shy more than by increase of earthly sions. It Ja, sala. Mirman all great men have had good imothers, but all g