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ed by the Press Publishing Company, No. & to & Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofce at New Yark as Second-Class Mail Matter. — VOLUME 44.....2206 weeeeseeeeeees NO. 18,408, ——_—_—$—$——— _———. HIGHER HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES, Carpets are going to cost more. “Labor troubles in the Philadelphia mills” is the official explanation, and, in ‘-ddition, carpet wool is very scarce. So there will be an ¢ Ivance of from 3 to 5 cents a yard by the manufacturer, <,@ wholesaler will add a little to that, the retailer a little f-ore and the advance which the small consumer will be « .Hed on to pay will be very appreciable. Salmon because the pack will 1 Canned goods are up. ee tn 2,000,000 cases short of last ‘suse of late frosts, floods and unseasonabie weather. year's, and vegetables be- - * gmatoes, asparagus, string beans, corn and peas have +1 been scarce. As New York is said to consume more | re «immed goods per capita than other American cities the +sortage and the resultant higher prices will be more « sectly felt here, | a Apples will be dear, and this in spite of an unusual *‘old. The reason given is the demand in England for {> product of New York orchards, On the fruit stand “+ ples rank with oranges in price, a fact which the 1 smer boy of a former generation finds hard of explana- ‘) a. This year’s orange crop is very large. The state- "{ ont 1s made that the city will consume 20,000 carload With rents raised, the price of beef higher and all ¢ + >ple table articles costing more, with very few excep- y ‘ons, the outlook for the humble housekeeper is not y suring. Very likely the husband and father is earning + ore than last year. Secretary Job, of the Chicago Em- + oyers’ Associdtion, recently published a tabulation of | seresting figures to show that the workman's wages had 4 _{ =reased so much more in proportion than the price of id that his lot was to be envied. His wife would probably contend that his extra in- + me is likely to be consumed by the higher cost of run- t-ag the house. ms ey FREE ATHLETIC GROUNDS. '} To many observers the most interesting feature of the ‘i edicatory extéreises at Seward Park on Saturday was the/ {hibition of club swinging and other gymnastic work by ‘team from this park in contest with teams from Hamil- _?} n Fish Park, Tompkins Park and De Witt Clinton Park, * There was intense rivalry hetween the teams from the qfferent parks and the children became greatly excited.” > That is to say, these children of the tenements were > ‘sperlencing what girls and boys born to a better lot in} fte experience at the Polo Grounds at $2 a seat when Uplunbia is playing football with Pennsylvania, or at ‘*ott Haven or on some other private fleld or oval when 5 Souths in whom they are interested strive for athletic . «rpremacy. They were HeLa to know the thriil of a ‘slumph which comes when thelr favorite wins. They were beginning to lvok on life with different eyes and SLEPT ecto: of emotions that give a zest and in- tive previously unrealized, A free athletic park does not appeal by its landscape @eots, but its practical utility is very great, In actual 00d accomplished among those making use of {t it far exceeds the show-piace park. It gives sounder and robuster health to every hoy who plays there, and with that acquisition comes a gain in morals, « it is not too much to say that the institution of these | ~ free-athletic grounds and the dovelopment of gymnastic rivairy among the children frequenting them will do more for the building of character than many a mission. ‘Dhey accomplish missionary work of thp best sort. 2 A COLLEGE BOY’S VACATION. here was a time in the history of American colleges when the earning of money by a student during vacation | cs to help pay his tuition bills was so exceptional a pro- | voeding as to excite remark. The growth of the practice! if indicated by the. report of the secretary of the Colum- “War College Committee on Employment for Students, * from which it appears that Columbia students during the 4 past summer earned $31,401, an increase of $13,000 over ‘\pei~ total earnings for the long vacation of last year. The number of vacation workers this year was nearly 10 per cent of the entire university attendance. The! Secupations engaged in ranged in yarlety from truck q driving to the operation of a printing office, and the} a dargest sum earned was $1,000 by a law student, This ‘growing disposition to make use of the three months of summer vacation for some practical end rather | ‘han to pass it in entire idleness as was the old student !aabit is likely to have its bearing on the debated ques- | ston of shortening the college course from four years to! ‘gree. The three long vacations of the present course ‘ogether amount to nearly a college year. If they are} assed regularly in some line of industry of a kind with} slat which the student designs to make his life work the “gmulative profit is likely to be considerable. At all events, this utilization of vacations points to a} redical change from the old theory that they were loafing (urlods, KING SOLOMON’S MINES. q A German archaeologist and explorer thinks he has >! umd indisputable proof of the sources from which King 1 avid and King Solomon drew the fabulous stores of gold ich were taken to Jerusalem, After trying in vain to ie German capitalists to a realization of the impor- Of his discovery he has at last been able to interest mn capital in the venture. With this capital he relop the mines. Phe season for such exploitation is somewhat un- Iv} even a Morgan would feel disinclined to under- flotation of this enterprise. 4¥-we were back in the halcyon summer of 1902 be- deluge came, what a field for the promoter's tal- , riting of this company would affopd! First ‘Donds in “King Solomon's Mines”—the mere d‘sell ‘them at par, What a stock prospectus written from the material furnished by Rider Brd; supplemented by legendary lore, and all Lon ‘@ basis of Biblical fact! It is not difficult to fred stock gelling at a premium, the com- 0 " ry exchange from Joppa and Jericho tact » anc noters’ bonuses making them rich,| mobile if the stock market goes right, A fend h Tt 1s humdrum fa ° 6: 9000000090000 | [iar A DAINTY LITTLE FOOT | Conversation of a Chorus Girl. Say, if <‘ou Know of Any Nice, Respectable Farnished Rooms, Let Her Know, for She’s Going to Give Up Her Flat—No, She Won't Board at the De Bra combes Auy More—And, Say, About Her! BY ROY L. M’CARDELL. (Author of “Conversations of a Chorus | Girl,” the humorous book hit of the year.) (QAY. do you know any nice, re- g S spectable furnished rooms: asked the Chorus Girl going to give up my flat. sive and 80 much trouble on your hands, and then a lot ble because th “rm Rohemlans “Of course, after the agent told me I'd have to get out, I wouldn't stay tf he was to beg me on his knees, For nobody can say that much about me, not that much! And the Chorus Girl tossed her head proudly as she snapped her fingers emphatically, they was raised, just because some of the Columbia boys got the janitor to let them In after 1 land they gave thelr col- lege cry on my landing. And the same people hollered ‘Stop that noise!’ down the airshaft when Dopey McKnight opened the plano and ragged ‘Be the ‘Trimmers did a buck and wing—you know Harry; his father’s awful rich and gives him an allowance? No? Well, he's just lovely. And I don't care how big a bun he has, always the gentleman, Dut me without a reference, and it Avas So respectable that it was against the rules of the house to bring In a can of beer unless it was tied up in a news- Paper, and the people on the third floor was so refined that they brought it in in a tin satchel that was painted to look like an alligator bag. the De Branscombes? Say, ain't you heard that Amy and me's fallen out? Why, yes. We don't speak no more, and when I tell you all I done for the was soft!’ “I hear Amy and her mother’s talk- ing about me terrible, but they better not, because I know all about Mamma Do Branscombe being accused of com- mitting kleptomania in Sixth avenue Stores. And only for a newspaper friend of mine, who hushed the matter up, we'd have been disgraced, for I Was living with them at the time, and & detective came and searched the flat. I thought I would have dled! “And where did my silk umbrella go? The one with the.gold handle that I found in Shanley's, when Mazie Mont- rose forgot {t; who was {t atole it from me? And my opal ring? Only I don't care, ‘cause opals 1s unlucky; and mx, souvenir spoons of Sandusky, O., and Anniston, Ala, and my Harvard Col- lege pin that Benny Lefgowits, who works in the big bargain’ bazaar, gave me the night I took it out af his lapel? Where did they go? “Sneak thieves? Huh! Do sneak thieves come back to the house again and hide the pawn tickets under the mattresses? © could tell you things about them. Amy's always talking about what an invalid her mother is, and that if she don’t have her siesta every day sho'd be prostrated. But you can't tell me a per- fect lady would make free with a ja Hor's family and set in their apartments ip the basement And send out for @ pint and get so famillar with them that when you go to call them down about any- thing they get impudent and holler awful things up the dumbwaiter shaft. “Not that I would say a word aguinst i the De Branscombes, although they did work me for a good thing, “I Just told Amy what I thought about her, too, because Irene, Amy's colored: maid, and, say, Irene ix more of a lady, even if she ts a dingy, than Amy 1s, told me how they knocked me behind my back. “And now, what do you think? They 80 around and say I held them up for board and my presence in the house injured Amy's social standing! “What do you think of that? Why, I never knew what peroxide was “till I saw Amy De Branscombe using it. They Just Talked Dreadful 4 IU's so expen-| ‘ { people is making trou-| « yy want everything quiet | \ after 1 o’elocl: and don't understand us “Some of the cheap poople upstairs! & hammered the floor, which shows how| ‘ Sunshine of My Heart,’ while Harry| Harry Trimmers is) & “I only moved intoethat flat because| § they said they wouldn't take anybody} & “Why don't I go back to board with| & De Branscombes you'll say, ‘Well, you| $ ® o © ~OF EXPLOSIVE Beware the Crime of bo a THE REAL DANGER —_ THE KisSATORIUM WOULD ABATE THE NUISANCE iT BROKE > ud Kissing! In Wisconsin, Noisy Osculation at School Now Means Arrest.: ‘WN NNN SO SY tit DOWN THE: THIS Cim12EN DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABouUT iT THE If you incline to strident smacks when lips meet lips so plastic, Be sure to sidestep kissing when within domains scholastic; For, think how sad 'twould be (when teacher's just begun to hug you) If some unsympathetic cop) drawn b; GENTLE HANDLING. “What sort of looking man is Tim- pins?” “He is very pli” “T have seen >: cartoons of him and they make hin look Ike a horse you see, he knows all the car- tints and they let him down easy."'—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “No, I'm too much of a lady to go around and tell them what I think about ‘them. But I know somebody who's go- ing to make me a present of an auto- and say, won't I go up and down in Saape. at sents cased ‘tat ‘4M! they choke ‘on gasolene eee - eats IN PHILADELPHIA, yh; yes; I've opened an office,” said the young lawyer; “you may remerober buying an alarm clock “Yeu,” replied his friend, “you have to ‘get up early these mornings, eh?” it's time Press. NO INSOMNIA THERE. ord-Hera}it, PHILOSOPHICAL, Jack—How do you like this weather? Ola Crusty—What difference does it It wouldn't be make how I like it? Y He snored so loud he woke up the whole congregation,""—Chicago Rec- to go home."—Philadelphia changed, no matter how much I ob- Jected te 1t,—Somerville Journal, A DISTINGTI N. “My idea of a wise mao," said the w things, y the noise, should jug you! %. $209 “A man who possesses the genuine brand of wisdom,” rejoined the vener able philosopher, “knows when not to begin.”—Chicago News. NATURAL INFERENCE, “I'm going to tell him what I-think " said the angry man, “What do you think of it, 2” “I think,” was the reply, ‘that he must be a smaller man than you are or else you think pretty well of him.” Chicago Post. A FOOD DEADLOCK. “This commercial struggle ts terribl said the man who takes everything he reads bet dred iat “This things The Misadventures of Archie---Edith Has a Pretty Foot, but Her Papa’s--- Freer OUT, YOU, RVBBERNECK GET ouT | { WEAR A NUMBER NINE.” = TZ es ef Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. Je: Je make everybody #0 healthy that there will be no one left for the patent medi- cine people to cure."’—Washington Star. WELL DEFINED. “Pa, what's the leading woman?’ “Any married woman, my gon,"}-De- trolt Free Press, QUITE 38a 2EO0O0O00009O0000 New Possibilities of the College. Vell. 4 CSOs: SEE that one of those funny Chicago professors has advocated something on the order of a col-* lege yell for prayer mectings,” observed the Cigar Store Man, “There have been a great many complaints from min- isters about the increasing apathy of attendants at prayer meetings,” said the Man Higher Up, “and this hunch of the professor's may be all to the good, but the ‘rah, rah’ boy from Columbia who tried to play the yell hand at the Dowie performance the other night stacked up against the ace of clubs In the person of a cop, and was hurried to the booby hatch. Nevertheless the suggestion of the professor opens up a prospect of the adoption of college yells for all classes of endeavor. “Tt 1s a psychological and hideous fact that on the foote, ball fleld many @ team has been staggering for the ropes and yearning for a sight of the upthrown sponge when’ the yell of the classmates on the benches has turned th> tide of battle. If there is so much invigoration in a col-- lege yell on the football field, why can't the employers of” labor get together and employ plain-clothes men to in-' stall yells among the unions? PoE “The fact that yocal noise is an incentive to toil hasy ‘been taken advantage of for years. Sailors on ships work ‘better when they have a yohee-yoho person leading them | in more or less melodious song, and roustabouts on Mis- Ssisipp! River steamboats won't work at all unless they | are singing or the mate is slinging cuss words at them.¢ ‘Here is a chance to increase the efficiency of the great American workingman. : “Take a day on a skyscraper job when the members ofr the Housesmiths and Bridgemen’s Unton are soldicring.: What's the matter with having the ironworkers’ yell’ sung out by a select corps of leather lungs with a leader, wielding a sledge hammer for a baton? Here's a yell that o $6 oo o9® F-99099 990 99¢ would make them all hustle: . “Bing, bang, bung; bung, bang, ding! Old Sam Parks didn't do a thing! Ah-h-h-h fiddle! : “Sometimes things get dull in a big department store along in the afternoon, The clerks get dopey, the cash * girls get to shooting craps and all the floorwalkers stand in front of mirrors and adjust their collars, Then is the time for the boss to send out his yell expert and start it up: “Cash, cash, c-a-s-h! Don't do anything ra-a-a-sh! Ob, how we love our jobs! Blobs, slobs. siobs, slabs! “The possibilities are limitless, The ‘L’ road can hire a gang of experienced college yellers to stand on the ‘busy stations and yoll the crowds in; theatres can eni- ploy men with iron voices instead of iron hands to boost the show. In these days when so many college graduates, are out of employment there is a chance for a new field: in which to get them busy.” ne “The college yell is a great thing,” said the Cigar Store Man. “It is indeed,” agreed the Man Higher Up. “From the® way some of the graduates and students spring it they don’t learn anything else,” “ —_—_. THE MASTERPIECE, HIS world ts mighty purty When old Autumn spreads 'er paint Over trees 'n hills 'n bushes, But after all ther’ ain‘t No specimens of beauty Yet found, so I've hearn tell, Can begin to hold er candle To a downright harnsum gal. This world was put together, Then the things that on It creep, 'N then Adam was create, But it didn't seem complete, * For nothin’ was quite perfect Or contented, strange to tell, For the untverse had never scen A downright harnsum gal, By experience made perfect An’ avoidin’ past mistakes, They drafts another pattern, ies 4 Their masterpiece of purtiaess All others to excel, + ‘N I guess the records prove that Rve Was a master-handsome gal. + CORA M. W. GREWNLMAR, changes the complexion of remarked the facetious drug clerk ag he picked up @ box of face powder.—Philadelphia Record. y HCW DID HE KNOW? wars aunt).onid | O70, 6. the maith hi 129 peat casmerest Nine Times a King. . of his titles as count, a In addition, as ing of - TU)! eral | DOME Brancis Joseph of Austria ts nine { Emperor oa be pdfs & 90 forth,