The evening world. Newspaper, October 7, 1903, Page 12

?ublished by the Press Publishing Company, No. & to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Matf Matter. ———__.. es VOLUME 44. NO. 16,387. ‘SUCCESS IN LIFE,” John D. Rockefeller says that religion is indispensa- ‘Die to “success in life.” Since Mr. Rockefeller himself Goes not add a definition of “success in Hfe” fools ‘would be stepping in where angels fear to tread were such a definition ventured here. But tt might be suggestive without being presump- tuous to turn back the pages of history and see what constituted success in the life of olden times. Then the Successful man was the robber baron who took foolish persons of the lower classes by surprise and, at the point of the sword, relieved them of their wallets. After having seized a very great number of wallets—so many that he could not possibly spend thelr contents no mat- ter how much he ate and drank—he became a successful man. Of course, for true success, the wallets had to be peized from vulgar burghers who could not very well afford to part with them. Robbing other barons was r proper as an amusement, bit not as a means es on. jen the baron had accumulated so many superfluous }that he could not find room in his donjon keep in to store them he generally began lavishing charity ‘whom he had impoverished, bestowing on yas alms the gold that he had seized from them as fy. This was the second step in his “success in ee Finally, the baron customarily got an addled stomach from -bis conscientious attempts to keep down by gastronomic means his store of superfluous wallets. He got old, too, and could no longer rob with any degree of comfort; yet having been absolutely absorbed in rob- Ding all his life, he had never had time to learn other _ @musements. So he generally grew sad, and began thinking a great deal about his soul (for in those days Tobbers still had souls). To insure its future comfort he gave an enormous number of his superfluous wallets ‘tp some monastery or some abbey, and frequently started om @ crusade. This was the acme of his success. ft Thus we see that religion undoubtedly was responsi- i ble for the last and highest success in life in the Mid- 4i@ Ages; and if present conditions and methods are | @imilar to mediacva! ones the correctness of Mr. Rocke- _ @4llss'z’ contention must be generally admitted. GOOD GANG MEDICINE. Magistrate Ommen has devised a more effective means of’ suppressing gang rowdyism than the infliction of a mominal penalty for carrying concealed weapons. In the case of the twenty-one young roughs arrested fan East Broadway pool-room he held each of the prisoners in bail to keep the peace for six months. That meant for some immediate confinement on “the Island” out of mischief's way. For those lucky enough to ob- tain bail it will mean the enforced good behavior which ‘the political friend furnishing the bat! will exact as part _ ofthe reward for. his favor. In all events, these twenty- |, @me toughs are impotent to do harm for the time being. Tt {s easy to believe that as they left the court-room ' they “muttered threats and curses against the police.’ To give up a “gun” and pay a $10 penalty therefor or to __. run:the gauntlet of a double line of clubbing policemen On the stairs is a form of punishment mild in the ex- ' § treme by comparison with this more effectual severity. © The imposition of such a sentence on every group of gang suspects brought before a magistrate would do much to squelch the gang spirit. COLLEGE AND BUSINESS LIFE. 4 President Harper, of the University of Chicago, thinks that for “the average young man scholarship is the best preparation for life;” he would “never advise a capable young man to leave his studies to embark in business,” President James, of Northwestern Univer- sity, thinks that “too much time can be spent by young 5 men in poring over books in college.” The opinions are and given an added interest by their disagreement. No one denies the advantage of a college education. But just how long should it be to produce the best re- sults? As between a Schwab, with his wonderful me- f chanfeal talqnt which it needed no university to foster, and th: ‘college prize man whose Ph. D. is earning him @ modest teacher's salary, what is the golden mean? Is it not true that the longer a youth remains under the wing of his alma mater the further removed he becomes from the practical affairs of life? It is not the » dean of the law school whose services are in request for _ the corporation law suit with mrillions at stake. It is * | not the professor in the scientific school whose exper!- t ence"is'producing phonographs and automobiles or plan-! ning subways. The former train boy of the Grand ‘Trunk road who gave us the electric ght might have > accomplished more with a college education, but if he hed prolonged that education to the polnt where a pro- fessorship was offered him should we now regard him as “the wizard of Menlo Park?” * President James says that he “very often advises a college student as yqung as eighteen to drop his studies and go to work.” It seems a wise paternalism. A boy ofeighteen nowadays has acquired a substantial basis of education, and it he shows no especial aptitude for scholarship or original scientific investigation it is doubt- legs’ better to cast him adrift to become a bank president a street-car magnate. ‘The world is pretty well stocked with young men in | tiletr twenties whose college diplomas show all-round sttainments which have a small marketable value. FREAK GOLF. The royal and ancient game of golf has existed in nd and Scotland from time immemorial as one of Most serious and self-respecting of sports. A player the round of the links has always shown a appreciation of the dignity of the occupation. iis demeanor has evolved an etiquette which is the ad- iiyation of the unenlightened. It has remained for a club to give the soptr a freak aspect by the in- ‘of hippodrome features, of the Glen Echo Club e tournament ts ir high'silk hats and appear in long frock coats. rt »players thus arrayed are to take part in the The More Parents in Gach Family, the Merrier. 13 % Sonth Dakota Has Happily Pat| g Them Within the Reach of 4 All Children. @ N former times small families of pa- | rents were to be found everywhere. | Two waa the customary number. | Now, Now York has reformed in that | respect, South Dakota and other six-| month resorts have made “parent-aul-| olds” « thing of the past. Many a child can boast that his mother's elgat di- vorced husbands are all living and that of his father's four divorced wives only one has died. Imagine that happy tam!- ly circle! Nine living fathers and step- fathers and four living mothers and stepmothers! What a sweet picture as they and the one child cluster about the hospitablé board! And Mr. Roowe- velt looking on! Formerly, too, It was posible for a woman to reply when questioned as to © number of her children: teer nave woven; four by my second hus- wife and three by my first cond wife.” Now, ‘happily, the conditions are re- versed, and the single obild oan proudly boast: “f've five parents; ¢wo by nature and three by South Dakota.” ‘The banner block for parents in New York City is on Fifth avenue, of course; between Nos, 1,900,000 and 2,202,002. That one block alone contains 7.446 parents ‘and two children. In horrible contrast may de cited those less fashtonable blocks where three or even four chil- Gren to the house can claim but two parenta among them. The lot of these poor, insuMolently parentaged young- sters is too pitifu: for mere words. How they muat shrink with mortification as they trudge along beside their two pal- try parents and watch Johnate Van Blip~ knot riding past with an escort of no fewer than fourteen mothers and step- mothers! In olden times, when the marriage knot was superatitiously regarded as uncuttable, there may have been some excuse for this paucity of parents. But now that prosperity has placed divorce within the reach of even the happiest, there can be no just reagon for not raising a large family of parents. If motives of patriotiem do not appeal to children or if they fear they may not be able to find flats which are will- Ing to accommodate #0 lange a family. let them remember that a judfolous of divorce makes flats an unneces- P29000G9O FOO 998999090 990S59-000996095-9-900% LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. Reveries of a Bachelor. To the Ealtor of The Drening World: In my baohelor rev while reading my newspaper and smoking my pipe at home I very often sollloquize and think of my empty and desolate life. I have no one to love me, no little prattlers to meet me at the garden gate. There are a few young ladies I could love, but they do not seem to favor my sult, I suppose both sides are bashful and It needs a third party to push the suit along. I love my home and am never away from it, yet I am a bachelor. Can wiso readers explain to me the reason for this? A. H. Dragon Flies Are Harmle To the Pdltor of The Evening World: Will you kindly let us know whether a dragon fly, or ‘‘darning needle” ean sting and injure a person? Cc. P. and J, MeN. The “darning needle" or dragon fly, & 1s not only absolutely harmless to hu- man beings, but {s thelr friend Inasmuch as he destroys great numbers of mos- | { quitoes, He has no sting. 9 People’s Chorus, Cooper Union, | ° To the Editor of The Brening World: 3 How may I obtain singing lessons for | 4 a very small sum of money? o VIRGINIA K. | $ Yeu To the Editor of The Evening World: ooo Was "Under Two Flags” ever played| © at the Garden Theatre? AM |3 Wants Oure for Bashfulness, 2 To the Fdltor of The Evening World: 3 Will readers please suggest to me a remedy for a man twenty-nine yeara of age who has not got nerve enough to fo and ca‘l on a lady friend? M. M. C., Potnt Pleasant, N. J. In the World Almanac ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘Where can IJ obtain a list of the pub- le and high schools in New York City? AR, Winety-third Street and Amster- dam Avenue. To the Eéitor of The Evening World: ‘Which would be the nearest evening high school for me to attend? I live at No, 68 Hast Ninety-third street. EDWIN N. He Should Walk on Side Nearest Curb. ‘To the Eéitor of The Evening World: Ip !t proper for a on the side nearest thi two ladies, or should he walk between them? 38 05000-25950 000004O-0H0 044) 0 $059908456-0-94-656065404 — MORNING. (We saw her baby eyes grow dim, As fell the eummer night, And knew that all the things of earth ‘Were tading from her sight. Her baby hands put out to tough ‘The faces that she knew— Bo day went out, and all edout The shatows Geeper grew. We held these feeble-hands-to guide Her up the narrow steep, And felt the throbbing fever tide— Our hearts too gull to weep. But with cate eek peas et ter, :The Import Mrs. Waitaminnit--the Woman Who Is Always Late. # 3 Shels Slow About Meeting an Emergency in Which Hubby, the Babe and a Tack Hammer Figure. : Stories Told About New Yorkers. SoM PMY CATTLE MAN, ALL THe Seats ARE SoD SEE THE SIDEWALK SRECKLATOR, AND. He miaun ert tov UF XES DARLING LITTLE Toorsie .WE WILL HAVE THE THE HOUSE That MONEY CAN Buy. MAY HEART 15 YOURS, why GHOULDINT M¥ POCKET BOOK BE AT YOUR DISPOSAL HERE Y'ARE GBNT!| BESr SEATS IN THE HOUSE = $te OR YouSe CAN Cras Ail Ly | MANICURE My, OTHER. FINGER. Nev HE RBV. ORANNTS In| Beene? 00. well. Ee, vobee Bat ON? | memaintal sppets, ta) te sure oareeey credited parishioner with “ (SL ow where the. studen' rete cine He and slit “Dut! Sign mannere gay setisty his longing a essented Mi fant Mi the, pews. to leave his oburch on gecount ofjthe other evening,” said Chris Haw-| take his | eared, St ena, Se r. Peewee, the Great Little Man. #& ws #3 He Is Made to Appear Even Smaller than He Is by a Little Theatre-Ticket Incident, $ Le Do the Rich Eat Too Much? SEE that Dr. Shrady says the rich eat too much,” ! said the Cigar Store Man. ‘ “The doc. ought to know,” answered the Man Higher Up. “His skill and knowledge in t practising on the rich have netted him a large and juicy bank roll. If anybody ought to be wise to the causes of sickness in the ‘400’ it is Dr. Shrady. “Tt seems to me that it is not the amount the rich eat that founders them and makes them eligible for the obese stakes, but the quality of the stuff. There are a great many rich people in this town, hundreds and thousands of them, and many are as fit as any hod carrier or longshoreman on the eating proposition, be- cause they stick to plain food. “Take a man who eats ham and eggs for breakfast, beefeteak and fried potatoes for lunch and roast beef for dinner every day in the year and he has got a di- gestion up among the pictures. Let him get steered be against goose livers and truffles and sauces designed to disguise the stuff they are put on and his digestion will , take a sudden and explicit departure. } “John D. Rockefeller is the richest man in the United States. He dines sumptuously on crackers and milk. A good meal of corned beet and cabbage would make ¥ him feel like he had swallowed a bag of loaded re- 4 volvers. Nobody ever accused John D. of spreading f his dough out with a shovel when he went to eat, even in his young days. His assimilating apparatus went ‘ on the r@zmataz because {t was wrong to start with. If he had remained healthy all hia life he woukin’t have so much of the cush. “The bealthiest men I know are tugboat hands, and | to see those guys eat is a real joy. I have seen five ot; them clean up a cake of soggy Boston brown bread as i big as a tub, about a gallon of baked beans with | molasses on them, five steaks that you couldn’t dent \ with an axe, about six pounds of greasy potatoes, two pies and enough coffee to swim a Newfoundland dog in, at one sitting. Just after they got through two of them went to bed and slept like babies for six hours, while the tug turned somersaults in a raging sea. “For breakfast they went against hot biscuits, pan- cakes, fat pork, fried eggs and coffee, and they seemed to end @' memblership.’of 1,800,000, 48: theological seminaries, enjoy it. The captain told me that this was their ‘ repertoire the year round, except when they were on shore and convenient to rum, amd that never a man ot’ the Crew had had a sick day. “Go into 2 swell restaurant and you will find a lat of people sitting around who look dopey. They are Dat eating all sorts of combinations in the food line or piling stuff away in courses and washing it down with wine or beer. Go out Into the kitchen at meal times ! and see the waiters, and cooks, and dishwashers, and other hired hands eat. They are on a plain diet, and’ every one of them is hurling in food like it was a time ‘ Job, and every one of them 1s healthy.” “If I was as rich as Rockefeller,” said the Cigar Store Man, “I'd live on the fat of the Iand.” “Well,” remarked the Man Higher Up, “if he don’t Hive on the fat of the land he lives on the ofl of the land and the whole world is his salad.” Odd Street Names. In Clerkenwell, England, there is a street called “Pickled Eee walk.” It takes its name from Pickled Ege tavern, which formerly stood there and made a spectalty of serving pickled eggs. An interesting London thoroughfare ts “Hang- ing Sword alley,” which is mentioned in Dickens's “Tale of ‘Two Cities.” London has also “Piokleherring street.” In ‘Letcester 1s. street called “The Holy Bones" and another c called “Gallows Treo Gat Hull has a street with the ex- treortinary' name, “The Land of Green Ginger." Corydon: bas a strect named “Pump Pall” and there some years ago lived Peter Pottle, a dealer in furniture. The most daring | of farce writers might well have hesitated to invent a com- Wnation of name and address so improbable as that which really belonged to Peter Pottle, of Pump Pail. Fishes’ Eyesight. In the water fishes ses only at very olose range—about ‘half their own Jength. This will seem, perhaps, unltkely to 4 anglers, although some of them can cite instances showing: that fishes cannot see far. Snakes seem to have a very \ mediocre sense of sight. The tioa, for instance, does not wee at more than a quarter or a third of its own length. Different species are limited to one-fifth or one-eighth of their length. Frogs are better off; they see at fifteen oF ‘twenty times their length. Uncle Sam’s Exports. : Products of agriculture have always formed the latgest/ share of our exports. In 1880 they formed 8 per cent. of the, total exports, and manufactures formed but 12 per cent. of| the total.’ In 1900 agricultural products formed but 61 per} cent. of the total, while manufactures had so increased {Mey formed 81 per cent. of the total. The exportation agrtoultural products bas increased less than 40 per cent aince 1880, while that of manufactures has increased 200 cent. in ‘that time, ——____w Health and Sneezing, “When @ man sneezes heartily he may know himself to healttiy. No,person in poor health ever sneeses," says t eminent, doctor, Sir Jonathan Hutchinson. Th& statem: will ‘be challenged by those familiar with the plague, wi i know that hearty sneezing ts its fret symptom. Every on knows’ that @ series ‘of sneees comes in the first stage catching cold and that the hay-fever victim sneezes to hi: great discomfort. Animal Language. Axtnyais have « language, made up of signs or inartict sounds expressing impressions, sensations, passions, Umtted to, tmterjections or signs or movements | Joy, grief, ¢ear, anger, ell the passions of the senses, Lutherans Lead, \ The -Intheren Chorch ranks first among Protestant ‘norfpetions in the United Gtates, having 1,200 colleges, 6 academies, 10 young Jadtes’ seminaries; ‘eis, 88.orphan asylums, 20 homes for the aged and 8 conebs houses. Japanese Tobacco,