The evening world. Newspaper, October 6, 1903, Page 14

f t ee t - Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to & Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofmoe at New York as Second-Class Mali Mutter. AE WOLUME 44......... ..s00:e00e02+sNO. 15,386. eee BENEFICENT SPECULATION At tne time the cotton “shorts” were settling with the master of the market, W. P. Brown, last week, Mr. Brown was saying to the public: “I have been accused of squeezing the spinners. This is false. teen taking cotton from the speculators and selling it ‘to the spinners. If the spinners and exporters had taken my advice they would be better off to-day.” In view of the fact that 3,000,000 spindles in New Bongland mills were idle during the prevalence of the Prohibitive prices brought about by the corner in cot- ton there were those who did not wholly appreciate the benevolent motives of the boss speculator. Nor is {t likeiy that they quite approve of them in Wngland. In the Lancashire cotton spinning district the distress due to lack of the raw material has exceeded that of the terrible depression caused by the war of the rebellion. I have only The Lancashire weaver !s poorly paid at best; his) ‘Week's wages in time of prosperity are $5.25. As a result of the Brown-Sully manipulation of prices ils wages have been forced down to the starvation! basis of $1.25 a week. His little rainy day hoard hgs been withdrawn from the bank; In one town penny ®avings deposits aggregating $650,000 have shrunk al- Most to nothing. He js procuring soup from soup Kitchens and accepting free-meal tickets. He has al- ready humbled his pride to take nearly $50,000 in alms. The Lancashire spinners seem to have been “squeezed” pretty badly in spite of Mr. Brown's well- Wmtentioued consideration for their interests. SEEING AMERICA. Pursuing his studies of American Hfe which he began @ith the chambermatd with the gold-rimmed glasses, M. Jules Huret, the Paris newspaper writer, has dis- @overed the Broadway chorus girl. He was especially interested in one whose bed curtain was composed of ebampagne corks popped in her honor at midnight Suppers, This Gallic child among us takin’ notes.ls apparently acquiring a wide range of entertaining information. Is there a rathskellar in town that he does not know, an underground restaurant or a beofsteak dungeon in which he has failed to find a “type” of the New Yorker? Post- midnight highballs in Pompelian dining-roome, the early; morning consumption of, chop-suey—in these and other! features of metropolitan life the dictinguished foreigner May discover other “types” If he desires. He seams to be seeing New York as various Ameri-| fans see Paris—from the point of view of the Moulin! Rouge, or the brasserie, or the students’ ball. He is] looking for Oteros and Yvette Guilberts and noting feminine eccentricity. The girl with the $10 bunch of; violets \{8' rate specimen for his collection, a prize orchid from Fifth avenue. Yet is this America? Is the feverish life of the Ten- derloin New York? M. Huret should go further beneath the surtace—into parlors and counting-rooms. He Should endeayer to see more of the substantial basis of society, and not rest content with the froth. In that case, however, his studies of “the States” might deteat their object, proving to be dull A BOY'S FUTURE. ‘When the University of New York opened its doors, for the fall term Chancellor MacCracken said: When a boy has learned from his father that it is manly fo drink, healtt.ul to smoke and picturesque to swear. the college lias a hard time to convince that youth that its i Ubrary is a more attractive place than a beer room. We Rotify mothers and fathers who send us spolled boys thot | We will (ry to make them decent men, but if twelve months’ time shows the spoiling process to be going on, we will send the article home, all charges prepaid. We would rather Braduate a freshman Into a place on his father's farm in Westchester or his father's shop downtown in Manhatian than to keep him three years longer and graduate him as @ dissipated scholar, however brilliant, What would this distinguished educator have done with Farragut as a freshman? At fifteen the future Bava! hero, as he afterward testified, “could swear like an old silt, diink as stiff a glass of grog as if he had doubled Cane iiorn, and smoke Iike a locomotive.” He Mso gambled. Farragut, indeed, by othor testimony, was a “bad b: of an unusually bad kind. To muintain a gexeral average of morality a college must necessar!ly weed out students of bad habits who may have 1, them the making of men of future useful- ness. But it is the exceptional youth whose character fs definitely formed in Lis schooldays. In the Webster ot | Exeter Academy there was no hint of the orator; he broke down in simple classroom declamation and showed none of the qualities of eloquence on which hip renowa ‘was to rest. The “dissipated scholar’ does not exist so numer- ously as in a former time. The man of learning, like the mar in business life, is on his good behavior, A temperance standard would have been fatal to the «reat Porson, a drunkard of the first water, THE ATHLETIC GIRL. The attire of the golfing girl is coming in for criti (fam in respect to its unloveliness, lor the dilettante fo gol: there may be freshly laundered pique ekirts and neat shirt waists. Wor the girl aspiring to champion mhip honors there must be old clothes and a conspicu- ous iack of any suggestion of the dressmaker, youth in a gymnagium is prouder of a toll-stained ®weater than a feminine champion of a skirt grown old im activity on the links. Add to this disregard of the conventions of dress a fondness for baring neck and forearm to the burning Mays of the sun and tho result of a season of golf is not beautifying. 3 ~The automodiling girl also suffers great doterioration Im good looks. The goggles she wears shame in homell- ness vf aspect any other known device for the preserva- Jago cf beanty. The dust that sifts in through the most drawn head shield dries and roughens her hair ‘the protracted vision ahead brings lines to the face p thelr time. letic girl lays up a store of health which her oh sine Bistey may envy her. There are for her hysterics is a word she knows not. Mot seem to preserve the grace that was ‘iroat\tn tor athietica." enh No|* $OOOO0O0000409OOO0O0O9G 0 OOOSOOH 80004 6 $ The Children Happy. Hints for a Homeless Home. ITs se:ret of a homeless home rests in the way children are brought up by thelr fathers, If Tommy Ella or John David are sudjected by mamma to ordinary regular training and the of school fe, you cannot expect your home to oe any more horrible than any one's else. But follow the ensuing hin «1 in less. \than three months it won't seem like the sime old home, In fact, it won't seem Ike anything that ever happened, ‘Taese instructions especially de- signed for fathers who have their chil dren's true happines# at heart First of all, extra apparatus ts necessary in order to umuse the dear lite ones, Don't waste on toys the money that should go toward paying clua dues and card debts, The smple uten- ails common to every home will (If used according (© these Instruct.ons) bring! the darlings far more pleasure. Take an} ordinary pair of scissors, for instance (but take them when mamma isn't dook- ing). Tench ttle Bobby to cut pretty multi-colored dolls out of the Khorassan rug. ‘Then he cin bo school (hat he his the most exp'nsive| toy of any boy there, ‘This will boom| your credit, {natract Maudie in the art of clippng the tweted pitterns out of the drawing-room porierss, She will) weream with doy. So will mammi— maybe. Though women are said to be shy on real humor. ‘The mucilage pot on your desk is a veritable river of innocent fun when rightly applied, Just before the sewing circle meets at your home let little Gladys paint the chair seats with a thick coating of this rich fluid. The Indies will all declare {t fs harder than ever before to leave your happy little home. Thus you will win a name for hospi- tality. Borrow mother's bottle of lquld black- ing and let the children cultivate their artistle Instinets by painting dainty de- signs on bay's face. Try to arrange this on the day mamma Is golng to have the little pet's pleture taken, The happy laughter of your progeny and the ht of the poor, hard-working pho- sher will well repay you for your ‘The possibilities of half a dozen long pins judiciously among the dining-room ¢ day set for a reunion of wife's Uves will keen the kids out of mischief for hours and will at once break up any constratut and formality on the part-of the guests >s carefully applied have been known to give the children the fan of a loyely home bonfire and to start papa in a nice new business on the insurance money. Should you wish, after thus saving so much by home toys, to buy the young: | sters a real present, nothing so adds to the bea and Interest of a home as ttriped Bengal tiger. There will be no| more dull, dreary hours in the nursery, | and even a stupid, rainy day wil replete with real ‘excitement over, If you are an up-to-date Fifth avedue householder, remember that the | presence of a full grown Uger with a| etite In tae nursery is the 1 ‘ast and strenucus (oe of the dreaded “large Family Perhaps thac is way Mr. Roosevelt and The Ti get on so badl oO gether. A. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. Passing Out of One's Turn Does Not Count, © Caa Open the Pot, To the Editor of th ning Worldé A, B,C and re playing poker, A tnchpot fs being de: A has the cards. Passes out of his turn before B speaks D passes, 100. C hi B has spoken and B then passes. C then declares he will open it. Has C a right to open It. having already sald he pasved? Mac A JERSE yMAN, ront In M vr of The Evening Werld: \ront manufactured or does tt row on trees GA. Black and White Are Not Colors, To the Editor of The Evening World Are black and white colars? A, 8, Black is the absence of color. Watte # a combination of all the colors. No License In Required, To the Kultor of The Evening World Does a resident of few York State outside of New York City have to get a lense to be married in the State? E. D. P, 12,000 | ¢ t at) § happy | ¢ the gift of a nice, prectily | 6 + solation. | + Mgetting too fu BOPDIOO es os et nny.” rw SATISFAC1.ON. Clown—Well, there’s one con- won't be fired for HORTENSE,) THINK THE BABY'S IN MISCHIERS mM WILL you % MOY Vi ———— es | Mother — You naughty boy, you've been playing with thoce her style. ‘ Boy—Oh, pr’aps 'tain’t so fatalé Sniff children again! ‘Tom—Same here. as that. Guess |’ll put him in the Well!ngton—No, | hain’'t, mal Jack—What! Did she refuse } ‘hospital an’ maybe he'll pull | Jus’ been fightin; 'em. you, too? through. HDDDDDHDOGHOHHOOHOD OE HFHHEOHHHHHOHE $0006 099009600 ® Stories Told About New Yorkers. Marshall P. Wilder re- friend called on him. UST after J turned from his honeymoon a bache- 1 you going to emu Join the joyful “I dont Know, ell," said the humorist, late ‘anks of Bene replied the caller. “I um still first person, singular, nomina- tive case.” “If you follow my footsteps," Wilder, “you'll develop into second per-) sald son, plural, possessive case,"” New Haven, Conn, 1800 Wan Lavt Leap Year. To the Wiltor of The Hvening World Was thera 2 leap year sin'e 1067 Carroll Brown, an artist whose atellor is in the Van Dyck Studios, was busy at work recently on @ rather large Jand- rjreas, who had just tle) PAused for a scape. An Irish | Lf, the week's moment to take a Mors Ow lance at the plo- in “when are| my example and ture on the easel. “Weil Bridget,” sald Mr. Brown, “what d» you think of it?" woman drew nearer the painting ked at it carefully, as if studying uous Suddenly she turned and a confidential whisper: sure. Mr. Brown, I don't think 4 cud do that" ‘An Cece) Despite the frequency with which thelr pictures appear in newspapers and mag- azines the most famous New Yorkers can walk the length of Broadway at any | hour without recosnition, Chauncey Depew, J. P, Morgan, Bob Fitasimmons and one or two actors will attract siares and nudges from passers-by, but Cornelius Vs it Jobn W. George Gould, John gacob Astor or a Score of equally important persons ges might parade arm in arm, without recognition from one person out of a hundred. a witness In a country town not long ago in a case which involved a bound. ary dispute. sarmer, walnut, was particularly Irritating and apparently most obtuse. After his pa- tlence was ulmost exhausted, the Colo- nel exclaimed: exactly how that road runs." The Misadventures of Archie—He Wafts a Wink to the Wrong Girl. ARCHIE MET A PRETTY GIRL —— Mrs. Waitaminnit--the Woman Who Is Always Late. There Hre Times When Delay Is Worse Than Dangerous, and This Is One of Them, HE‘S GOT THE. JAM - AWAY HIM. ATER MINT es — INUTE. (n Beaae TS Jack—Oh, Misr Cashlelgh's all right In her way, but | don't like hh \yv the streets for hours, litth . Col. Abe Gruber was cross-examining The witness, a small, thin with a face like an English trea “Now, sir, I want you to tell the jury The witness hesitated a moment el pit i dog what bit me. You gotter kill runs up, and when I'm goin’ home it runs down,” “That The proprietor of the theatre had died suddenly. “Of course, we must do something to show proper respect,” ‘Shall we close the theatre for a night or two?” “No-o, Business is too good. I gueas we'd ledges pur tights for about thitty day: Post. On PAPA — AND Hi TARE. IT] FROM BOE O99OSSSTISHIIEVIVTS 4 bs 4 8 ‘B00 - HOO, AS $O HANDS Now Tries Hazing., SEF that the students in a girls’ college out &“ West took some new arrivals and tossed them ts a blanket,” remarked the Cigar Store Man’ d “Yes,” sald the Man Higher Up; “it’s a case of girls will be boys. The way that women are butting fa gives them a license to do any old thing. The next you hear college girls will be going out and making roughe house around town. “I was talking to an ancient man the other day and he issued a yammer about the growing tendency of womem to lose their womanliness. He said that when he was shy young thing about the only occupations women hel@ , down were teaching school, making dresses or clerking im dry-goods emporiums. Now we have them doing everye thing from running an elevator to embezzling from their employers and gotting arrested for it. > “This azed person said that the new condition makes all to the bad for the female sex and digs up the prospect of women holding down all the jobs In the course of time , and the men being unable to get work to do, The more women go to work, he said, at jobs that have been held by men. the more men are thrown out to hustle for Joby and the field is narrowing all the time. The thing {¢ getting so framed up, according to my informant, wha carries weight for age; thot it is time for the men with high foreheads to get busy with some thoughts aboutat, “I remember the time myself when the cars coming down town in the morning were full of men. Nowaflayt half the occupants of the cars are women, and 99% per + cent. of them are on their way to work. Stand in lowes 9939999HHH9HHOOHOG, © o® : $3492900 066 _—s Dopey Dawkins—Say, dat's des im, sce? iit. 4 , when I’m coming to town it will be about all,’ je lawyer with a bi $e — “HOW TO Do IT, sald the remarked the surer, ‘ertainiy,” returned the manager, tho chorus in black Chicago at Broadway cr Park Row some morning at 8 o'clock, and more women will pass by than men or their way to the stores and offices. Stand on the Bowery, at Grand street, and watch the great mob hustling over from the east side to the stores and offices along Broadway and on the weak side. There are three women to every man, " “Anybody who don't think that this condition cases out to cause trouble has got his chips mixed. Womeh et work at fair wages don’t want to marry; young men don’@ want to marry them. This puts a strangle hold om matrimony, and when matrimony js on the reboun@ morality is going to loom up small in the returns. “Another point in this thing that ought to have the limelight turned on it fs the fact that the constanf association of women with men in colleges, stores, officey and workshops has a tendency to destroy the respect m intuitively have for women. My friend, the afores relic, says that when he was young about the only way, men met women was socially, and women were treated ag+ they should be treated. Now, he says, when a man $s hustling for his room rent and feed money with a woman in competition with him, it is no wonder that he forgeta to take off his hat in an elevator when women are ig, the car.” . “T hear you fired that young guy that was doing yous stenography work,” sald the Cigar Store Man, irrel- evantly. i “You heard right,” replied the Man Higher Up. “He was beginning to show a highball voice and his lamps were growing multy from studying the dope sheets in the daily papers. I hired a sketch in his place; and, say, she's a beaut,” Healthful Cold Rub. Referring to a paragraph which recently appeared to the. effect that a dry rub was a fair substitute for a cold sponge in the morning, an authority writes: “By ‘dry rub’ you magt mean what I mean, but I rarely find anyone who has thought of any mean between a bath (cold or tepid) and dry towel friction. You would be safe in recommending a person wae could not take a cold plunge of @ morning to rub himself all over and hard with a sponge almost wrung out, and them use towel friction, preferably with a:rough towel, ‘The only difference betwen this and u bath js the absonc: of shoale arising from sudden Immersion," A Squirrel’s Revenge. A little Conecticut boy had grown very skilful in thpowe ing sling shots. He was so true of aim that he was times tempted to use his power unworthily, Ono day he discovered a small squirrel perched on the limb of a tog end without stopping to realize the consequences off his act he let fly his stone, It went stralgit to the mark, and the poor little creature received his death-blow. With an. 1 4 herole effort he twitched himself into a position right ever)” lis thoughtless murderer, and, letting go his dying upon the mb, fell upon the hand that had talren his life, Burying his teeth In the palm, be bit clean through to’ the les back and then dropped to the groune ‘ Dolls Once a Year. In most countries a girl considers her dolls and toys. hem dwn possessions, to appropriate at any and all times, Is not so with the Japanese girl. To play with her dolls is an event; a joy which comes to her but dics a year, «! certain day one room in the Japanese home is so arranged, that all dolls and toys may be displayed to advanta;