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w THE » EVENING # WORLD'S #2 HOME THE NOSE AND | GRINDSTONE CLUB. Publishea by the Press Publishing Company, No. & to © | ney Park Row, New York. Enfered at the Post-OMos | . at New York as ‘Mall Matter. Conducted by eae | UNCLE) PEANUTBRITILE MOLUME 44.......0. p00 NO. 16,3 Ravi WiCAR DELL! FERRY-BOAT FIRES. —e For the second timo Within sx montis « fire in the E are disheartened and discouraged. @argo of an Hast River ferry-boat while In mid-stream W Nobody cares for married men— hhas gained such headway as to create @ panic amon, Not even their wives. y 't, none of them, the cour- ths Yestosgers, In cach case through lack of adequate) ACT Onouse tor a mouse can scare fire apparatus it has been necessary to run the boat full | woman. steam ahead to her slip and summon outside assistance; They would come to the poets cl she Nose and Grindsione Club and talk big. ee sheen pace: Mond: the burnin; but let a feminine voice be heard tn the Vi ho tus) GN A RS TZ AD Ing | hall and they acuttled for the backstalra. toad of cakum which had caused such alarm and which | shoutng, “We're raided!” the crew had fought ineffectively with fire-buckets, waa) They pretended they , were nscale of not extinguished until the arrival of the department, | the police on account of the Exchange, but they were afraid of thelr wives Had @ high wind been blowing or had the boat become| he pele le Tracie Nannie unmanageable the chances would have been good for @| mere report that she Is in New has serious disaster. Another boat on this line on fire in/ terrorized the members of the Nose and midstream two years ago wes similarly lucky in escaping. | Grindstone Club to such an extent that }last night only four members attended In each of these three fires a line of hose could have|ang they were men who had been put LOODEE EL SOLELY HDOAPOESDGOHED EE IELO4E4DDHDEO4-O04 0596 50446-169E459O 9608600000060 90000000006006606040000 mportance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. What He Knows About New York Puts he Guide with the Megaphone on the Blink—for a While, YES GIRLS, THIS HOUSE OM OUR RIGHT, 1 rie s SS & NOW THIS MANSION ON THE SOUTH EAST Col ‘S WHERE MY OLD CHUM VANDERBILT Lives HE ADMIRED My DRAWING Room so MUCH, HAT HE HAD HIS, REMODELEDs———— AFTER Mine —— oe pile THe NEW PUB Evan FINISHED: HAT yammer of Bronson ‘Howard's society woean are getting to be fighters thas created quite @ stir,” the Ciger Store Man. j “I don’t know what Mr, \Howar@'al| opportunities are for a look-in at society,” replied the! } Man Higher Up, “but that women in New York ere going! J against the joy water harder now than they ever did ber! | fore is a cinch. Whether the women of the ‘400° ame! | hitting it harder than usual is a question on which will stand a frisk. It hasn't been very long since I ® woman whose name has been in the papers a deal and who recently pushed her husband off the rimonial works, butting away highballs as though thegf aT put out the blaze at its start and averted the alarm and! out of thelr homes ani told to go to confusion. Why is one not furnished for all ferries? To| Work or else find board in another di- | rection. Femain indifferent to the warning of these DaITOW eB) ny. resort that Crevin Natlon raided @apes and to continue lack of precaution 1s to show a|tho Nose and Gyindsice Club Is a most reprehensible disregard for the safety of passen-| canard. The rum she would raid gers. At the time of the burning of the Jersey Central's Coie uae son steindiess cnet end ye his hour of pert nele Peanut- boat, the Bound Brook, the fire-boat New Yorker fought |i rite was deserted and Lace ee la date the flames for three hours and was able to save only the/ at the hands of this ferocious person dull. who makes a practice of arsault!r The incident {s interesting as indicating the amount of | Persons who drink or smoke vl ry t out of lit reliance that can be placed on outside ald by a ferry- behold OE Wie iene re boat when once the flames have gained the mastery. homes, which are given over to tea and tattle, housework und henpeckery! THE ARMY OF BUYERS. So, we stirronder, FOR RENT--A commodious and comfortabl: It is said on good ‘rcantile authority that 50,000 coat! homelike, Dut, as Re sald, out-of-town buyers are now inthe city. They have never and Grindstone Club. Apply to Uncle before been so numerous nor has there before in any fall os season been testimony so uniform as is theirs to the| formic at whe owe ag eld farnitu Prevalence of prosperity. The good times extend from] aia ey cone Tie men coast to coast. It is somewhat rough on the wage-| pramniiitic. earner and salaried man, because good times mean good | ,,,\°ply to prices and his income does not go so far as when there is} WANTE! depression. PERSONAL—A handsome, mid The amount of money that will be epent by this great | iment’ kentie ‘and. obedtent @rmy of buyers is prodigious. The sum they will leave meu’ lie {o,marry matron of means, | One Dehind in purchases out of the strict line of business is in ing-house, preferred, Addrens Uncle Peanut- ftself a very large item in New York's retail trade.) rouND<Y have found that married Their expenditure for hotel bills, theatre tickets, gifts | aer°‘women ‘steer to” warty eine of jewelry or furs or bric-a-brac for the family left be-| 1Gar- anh at Reiilie @ hind, and all the incidental outlay of a lavish week's} ;)f,the Nowe and Grindstone ¢ tay in which personal expense ie not stinted, is a wel- Cece egntatalt come addition to the receipts of local industries. Even lg Nose ang Grindstone club he oF the will ryt d obedient. Will not And DEATH “yiawaTea Sav wite Yous! Mow DOES THIS STRUCTURE OM OUR RIGHT STRIKE You fom & c.uB-HoOUSE-I'VE BEEN A MEMBER THERE, SINCE MILLIONAIRES ARE ENTITLED To MEMBERSHIP, houses and hotels. > tle and ‘ and will be grateful for amail favors; | @ wn DISASTER A SHINES wirn the “sample room” feels its influence. ATTENTION To called 10 the” that Tt ‘The rest of the country ds now in closer touch with| ried ‘men. “they ne They what they « nothing. New York styles thgn ever before in the nation’s his-|U°"Feanuibrittle, . It used to take a Fifth avenue hat a year to reach | ATRENTION. LADIES Y have a Tot of In- Chicago and another yoar to cross “the divide.” Now a| dhtaphe “Uidsing out opie, Nove and. Grin: month's interval sees the Denver belle a replica of her | "one, “lub, A. spat weclt for vargains, stylish Murray Hill cousin, and fash{onable dress goods| Ornietone Club. have hardly left Broadway or Sixth avenue counters be- fore they appear in Omaha. LETTERS, It is largely to the buyer that this close aesociation of West and South and Hast in styles must be attributed. QUESTIONS, ‘The actress becomes a fashion plate to which the country ANSWERS. towz looks for hints, and the drummer carries mascu- ‘Une styles to remote regions. The successful buyer an- Milk Adulteration. i ticipates them and by the time they have left the town | To the milior of The Evening World: customers find the new goods displayed at the local| 1 have read of your efforts at intro- store. ducing the Pasteurizing system of milk On the buyer's judgment more than on any other/in the various cities and have won- feature depends the nature of the merchant's balance] dered why a plant could not be estab- sheet. shed in small towns as well. It may < not always be inferred that the milk THE MODERN SCHOOLBOY, systom of a town is puro because It ts |. I kn - ‘The new school-house at Houston and Lewis streets| “AJ 1 know enough about the mat covers an acre of ground and will seat 5,000 pupils. Not] go on in small places. Even some much sugsestion in that of the “little red school-houge.” farmers phate Seared some of these i up-to-date trick’ in adulteration of School-houses have grown like department stores and dairy products. EH. A. JOHNSON, @re now what a press agent might call vast emporiums Raleigh, Of elementary education. In this Houston street school |- oot, 14 18 Not a Legal Holiday. eighty-seven teachers will teach the young idea how to] to the mattor of The Evening World shoot. There {s a roof-garden playground, a gymna-| !s Oct. 14, the anniversary of tho dis- sium, a workroom and a cooking department. There! covery of America, a legal holiday? Sre lockers and closets. There are shower baths, thirty- moe five of them. Going to school here must be something] ., .,, Piece Se ean like going to the club; the small boya are tobe enyled.| Kindly translate the following Latin} “ )They can't, of course, have a game of “rounders” after | phrase for me: “Sic volo, sic jubeo, st hours with the master as umpire. They don’t come Le Lpataa Wa cacove ras tir {nto that intimate personal relationship with him, which| ;y wish stand aa n reas (oc excuent: ‘Was one of the good things about the little red school- Abraham Lincoin. house aforesaid. In spite of all efforts to prevent 1t] 10 me xaitor of The Bvening World their instruction is of the machine-made order; the sen-| Please state who originated the follow- timental element {s gone. But that is a lack for which | /P& “A nation of the people, dy the pe there is abundant compensation in other particulars. on SES ie oe people SAE: Just as the little cast elde boys were starting tol cy we mae ne rn orate School in this palatial building yesterday a boy on his| Listen girls, and I'll tell you what way to the private school at Groton, Mass., was ar-|40 with these persistent. undes rested at One Hundred and Eightieth atreet and Wash-| Mrs: if you wear a bracelet, just a G = take it off your arm and grasp !t firmly ington avenue. Groton is nearly 200 miles away. but the] tn your hand. then when the old abel lad expected to reach there to-day in hts sixteen-horse| elled-up specimen of humanity speaks power automobile, and his arrest was due to his alleged | '° 904 Just let him have it full tree on violation of the speed limit. the bridge of his nose, so he can go In the evolution of the schoolboy here 1s something | H/me and explain to his wife (for mont mew, The precocious youth has outgrown the Pullmau | bbe aay eS) ttowiihe: got its “sar; he has his own private locomotive to carry him at| ®¢’¢ tried this method and it works Ike sailway speed to his destination. He is a type of tn | * S28, 80 take care, old mashers, and - sophisticated echoolboy at whom his elders look with an|!f SoU see @ young gitl who ts evidently pdmiration not unmixed with awe, desirous of minding her own busin we mind yours. LM, “ ” Wrote It, Did Not Act in It. STEEL AT SEVENTEEN. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World At the time when the common shares of the United] A says George Ade played the part of Btates Stee! Corporation dropped to 21 there was re-| the Sultan in the “Sultan of Sulu." B Ported a great withdrawal of small accounts from say-| hi sayy nit’ Which fy eautercte, Oo8 jnge banks. From Wall street a few days later came JOUN J. 8. word of an Snroad of new investors making their Child In Amertan. To the Fai F : a 7 ot The Evening World: Maiden ventures in the market. Hundred-share cer- “A" says that a child born in the tifleales were broken into odd lots for their conven-| United Siates of German parents who tea iPNRY 8. eholders on thelr books reached an unprecedented — ee ure. Among these new investors by the testimony of Wall Miveet clerks were policemen, elevator boys, domestic qeervants and nursemaide, It was a fair inference that b i ney they were using to buy “Steel” was the same ud m from the savings banks. With the stock points below their purchase price we may Again on the risk they took in leaving the old Ht-a-year moorings and embarking on a sea Hiation, lyred on by the prospect of 4 per cent, man on & par value which they could buy tn the WHEN LOVE COMES DANCING, Fe stood with outstretched hand And bade liim come and stand With her immortals, Wealth’s allocution told "a Of all the shining gold Within her portals, But one came tripping nea Who whispered In hte ear A phrage joy scentet 1MS=Y have a Tot of Tn: | « ‘Mrs. Waitaminnit--the Woman Who Is Always Late. « # There’s Many a Slip Twixt the Wall and the Paste Bucket When One Waits on a Woman. > NO GETTING AROUND ye THAN ARTRESTE! Just WATCH ME SLAP NOW LOOK AT THAT BLOOMING Paste. || HORTENSE My A THE WALL — ter to know that milk adulterations do | t This Clock Strikes Thirteen. | : The Bridgewater Trust, England, bas uniaue posseasiem) ina clock at Worsley which strikes thftteen. The Duke, who i built the canals and founded the trust, maintained a per! [| sonal oversight over the works and ‘his employees, much Irritated by the unpunctuality with which the men’ }, came back to work after the midday dinner hour. The mem “\ pleaded In excuse that they did not hear the clock strike one i —the signal for their return. Thereupon the Duke had @ constructed to strike thirteen at 1 o'clock, thus cutting away the possibility of excuse, vs" LU TRY TO GET (T MYSELF. HERE HORTENSE, “fence. The staff of clerks at the Steel Company's Nevaj not Saker obt eS eit cleans es transfer office was overworked; the number of, small| thai the child is A 4 ? a ol el a Geo Waser nen, mae Delighted, Nelson, old comrade, To meet you I surely am charmed. So glad that I might go a quart or a pint t And open a can of embalmed, 3 i i i for2i—a net return of noariy 20 per cent.|[ tie smiled, ané mmiling 8 profit. With loye went up life's h: ght the stock outright the lesson may nob Fully contented, than experience usuaily is, KONNET? F. LOCK Woop, H44449$994HIOSO9S 94968-59908 OE GS 999 OOSEODD > JOHNNY'S KNOWLEDGE, Jonny, 1 theught you te x Oh, come to my bosom, Theodore, “For you really are dear to me. Why, when cannons roar, behind or before, MONOTONOUS, free show the pow- the grand Visler re- replied the commander of the the letters nor the way they.come; bul ‘bul moving: pict when I ago the alphabet all together cas High i euough,—Boston Tran- fa { “It ts qilte a fi T know jy taat “i rie ers avo giving ui marked to the Sultan, ‘Teaoher—Why, ete to be 0 reland| | at the Water Wa bi Hi mee “In a tour of the Broadway and Harlem lobster eng! }’ fizs palaces any night you will find that 90 per cent. the women are drinking. They play right along the men, too. There isn’t eo much public sopping up «@ liquid refreshments in the Fifth avenue food saries, but don’t you imagine for a minute that there anything around to remind you of a desert. “At that, it is very seldom that you see a women! with a brannigan in this town. They seem to when to stop, or else fheir carrying capacity is than that of the men. One Sunday {ast summer Manhattan Beach I saw a woman weighing about 100) / pounds take on e cargo of four cocktails and her 1 out of two bottles of wine in a party of three and doa | getaway with no more of a weave than if she { been eating ice cream. | “I put this booze fighting among women up to tag // fact that.New York men are making so much moneyy There never was a time when the pazaz was so easy td get; there never was a time when so many peop! families, I might eay—are ‘living in swell apartms The women have nothing to do look out of the windows or read or go shopping or call-! They dine out a great deal, they see other women! drinking and they are up against the habit before they! “However, I don’t think there {s anything to @ spasm about in the situation. When a man geta started along the bottle route he can keep up Ris gaff for a long time before it begins to tell on him. With a woman it {s different. “Booze puts fat on a woman, wrinkles her face, puffy cout her neck and spoils her eyes. It puts crimps in hed ‘complexion that no message artist can take out. In fact lies the salvation of the women who have got inte the way of bitting it up. As soon as & common-sense woman gets wise that she is spoiling her looks by drints| ing she «cts on the water wagon so quick and hard she jars the springs. and can't stop—well, their finish fs not pleasant to ¢hinks| As for the women who get “] don't think the men are drinking as much es used to,” observed the Cigar Store Man. “It's a long time since I saw you blow yourself,” torted the Man Higher Up, “and I haven't heard | they have taken away the license of the place next No Servian Crown. “It 1s no wonder,” said a man who knows Servi, “thal | / King Peter finds it hard to discover a model for his Since ls no ruler of Gervia has worn one, from 1574 to no Bervian bore the title of king. There is a tradition that] a Servian ruler named Michael received the crown and from the Pope so far back as 1078, but the personage, who is| | styled ‘the first crowned’ in Servian history, was Stepbem'| Nemuusha I., who was crowned by a papal legate in’ 121% and in order to pacify his orthodox subjects, recrowne’ by, his brother, St. Sava, Archbishop of Servia, in 1222. On thelt/ occasion the crown was provided by the Byzantine Em Weather and Cigars. ‘The majority of smokers seem to be unaware of the «> ‘traordinary receptiveness of cigars to the weather,” said a well-known tobacconist. ‘‘During a heavy rainfall or fossy weather it 1s almost impossitile to keep a stock of cigars dry enough, or in prime condition for smoking. In such a con- dition they do not burn freely and smoke evenly. Then, too, 4 radical change takes place in the flavor of the cigar. Une der ordinary conditions cigars that have a delightful arome become strong and decidedly disagreoable to the taste, and frequently bite the tongue before they are smoked to the tip.” ‘Fake’? Mummies, The recent disoovery by the French police of a mummy! factory at Montrouge, near Paris, has caused no little come sternation among owners of these somewhat gruesome gurt= osities. First a skeleton is procured, and, after being ime mersei for a short period in sulphate of ammonia, ts swathed in bandages steeped in a preparation of Burgundy, fu pitch and resin, with dry spices and dust, The parcel ta then sent to Pgypt to be “naturalized” and “authenticated, and after an interval is returned in a “‘sarcophagus,” whidlt ‘though covered with archaic hicroglyphics, is also bogus, | Wedding Flowers, Among the novelties for wedding bouquets are the Paristax floral baskets, made of flowers and tulle; they represent » basket without being ono, and bridesmaids find them light and convenient to hold; they also like crooks with a bunch of flowers on them, but better still, and far prettier, are wands with a shower of flowers, with long stréimers of greenery attached to the top of the staff, with a small bow of wide ribbon. fo ein Gamma eee hance Greetings.—III.