The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1903, Page 14

af Me wih ee) , THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 29, 1903. Published by the Preas Pyblishing Company, No. & to & Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office ‘at New Yerk\as Second-Cinss Mail Matter. VOLUME 44... 4.00200 weeer--seeeee-NO. 18,409. GAMBLING AND EMBEZZLEMENT. It seems that of 114\embczzlements which have come to public notice in Chicago’ since Jan. 1 last, 103 were due to gambling and a large\percentage of these to play ing tne races, In these figures is contained one of the strongest pos: sible indictments of the pool-itooms. The theory of their corrupting influence has been well established. It has ‘Deen well understood that much of the money lost there and in the ring at the track Has been money improperly used for betting—funds abstracted from cash drawers or “borrowed” surreptitiously overnight with the expecta- tion of repaying the loan with winnings that fail to ma- terlalize. The circumstantial evidence of the pool-room's evil work was sufficientiy ample as \it was. But here are the facts themselvem for full corrobora- They furnish painful revelations of a dishonesty is all the more regrettable by reason of the causes Wading up to it. The youth who plays the races knows well enough Mhat when he deals with licensed: bookmakers the chances | 0¢-92000000000 z | © e888 ‘are largely in their favor, while in the\pool-room the _ Odds are dead against him. ‘He is well aware of thesenormous expense to which the bookmakers are put before:any profit is in sight, ex- pense which they count on clearing with a single book. He knows that the winnings of the ‘Pittsburg Phils” are ‘made good in the end by the losses of the hetting pub- Me. But with fatuous confidence in, his luck he “bor- ows” and bets until the borrowing! becomes embéSZle- $ ‘ment and public dishonor. There is a growing practice among: business houses ‘of having clerks watched and of discharging them when detected in the act of betting. The espionage seems ob- " Gectionable, but in the light of the Chicago experience excusable, While entailing injustice on’ many it pro- ‘acta the employer against robbery. THE HEALTH ALARMIST. ‘We have had our fears wrought’ upon by. tales of the Dacteria in “‘L” car straps, and microbes in household ‘dust, and now the tuberculosis germs in sleeping car blankets are held up before our harrowed. sensibilities. A member of the Kentucky State Board of Health tells the Public through the Health Asvociation at Washing- ton that sleeping car blankets are cleaned only once in six months and that the cars themselves are “a potent factor in.the transmission of consumption.” “X\ riot would follow the introduction of a leper into @ railway car,” he says, yet no precautions are taken against “the disease which kills a thousand where leprosy ~ kills one.” The hygienic alarmist has cried “wolf” so often that | when the animal comes down upon the fold it is probab! that his real warning will pass unheeded. His <‘don' are so comprehensive that there is hardly an article of food which is not within the category of forbidden things, and hardly an object that can be touched without risk of contamination, No surroundings in which man finds himself are whajly sanitary. Disease lurks there only awaiting the alarmist’s comring to point it out and frighten with needless fears. "But what an unsatisfactory place of residence the world without microbes would be! There would be no taste in cheese, no bouquet to wine, and an absolutely ‘pure water would be a beverage to avold. Those who desire to anticipate such a state of things by seeking ‘to lead an antiseptic existence borrow needless trouble. ‘With them credulity becomes father to fears that make Ufe hardly worth living. It is better not to be than to be so afrald. INVALID AMERICAN GIRLS. One of the addresses at the seventh annual convention of the New York State Assembly of Mothers on Tuesday was made by Dr. Mara Pratt Chadwick, who declared that “America is a country full of invalids.” One might have thought that between patent medi- eines and health foods we were keepipg rather well, bet- ter, indeed, than our grandfathers, but !t seems not. But ‘apparently it is the fair sex Dr. Chadwick had in mind in making the observation, for she further declared that “the real splendid healthy woman is almost extinct.” Men who take habitual notice of the eternal feminine and study her various phases have become aware of this Gegeneration of her physique. They have observed it among the girls who tramp over sodden golf links in the rain, playing a game many men cannot match, They have observed it in the girls who go in for walking. or driving, or riding to hounds, and in the tall, straight, athletic-looking women seen on Fifth avenue of an afternoon. They detect it in the auto- mobile girl behind her goggles as she puts on the fourth speed and dashes along the country road with a firm hand on the lever and never a suggestion of “nervet ‘They see it in the alert and quick-stepping troop of girls on their way to store and shop in the morning, It confirms them in the belief that the American girl as she exists to-day is an exhibit of fine physique of which we may be proud. THE CITY’S GROWTH. A prisoner released from twenty-nine years of con- finement in Sing Sing and back in New York once more gonfessea himself a babe in the wilderness of stone and Gteel that has grown up in his absence. He went away before the skyscrapers came and he returns at a t!me when they spring up like mushrooms. Indeed, if Gill were returning only from two years on the “Island’” he would be justified in thinking he saw ® new New York before him. If on leaving the train at the Centrul station he walked west to Broadway and Jooked about he would see two massive and beautiful new hotels approaching completion, types uf hotel of which in mrehitectural elaboration there was until recently no “example. * He would see within a stone’s throw four new thea- “tres Kurpassing .in richness of decoration anything the ‘has known. Further uptown on lots wher, the goats ed he would find tall apariment-houses, Parisian in pointments and in price. In West Thirty-second street could contemplate several acres of demolished houses, ® 23589050359 $990009000S0S00008 The Man You Don’t Want To Love. By | Nixola Greeley-Smith. F you are twenty-five, you have prob- ably met your “fate two or three times, and for weeks or months, as the case may be, bave lived in the prim- rose world that the Qrat finding of one's fate reveals, And then your ‘fate’ has bored wou, or yo have bored him—Iit doesn't much matter which—and you have decided that he is not your “fate” —not an affinity even—but just a very common-place young man, Your ‘fate’ js not necessarily a dan- ferous person, To de eligible to the title he must be young, romantic in ap- pearance, must ‘have a suffictency of the world’s goods to make it unnec- essary for you to hesitate before pro- nouncing him after a half week's ac- quaintance the one man of all others destined to make you happy. When you have met such a man It {s natural for you to want to love hilm, {f only becauso| $ of his eminent suitability, ural for you not to be ablé to do to tunn from his patent unfitness other of obvious ineligibility: You Don't Want to Love. ‘There are usually so many reasons why you don’t want to love him—rea- song as indisputable and as unanswer- able as the fact that you do. Perhaps he ts poor,! You have always known that even with one's "fate It would be altozether horrible to be poor. Stil the man you don't want to love makes such a pleasing Jest of his poverty that you feel sure you would share tt with them and stil] see Its humor. But, of course, you will never find out about that. For he is the Man You Don't Want to Love. Or there are other reasons. Perhaps the Man You Don't Want to Love has It ts also nat- but an- A past—not of the neutral, unobtrusive shade permissible In a gentleman's past or tle or waistcoat, but something lurtd, flamboyant as Joseph's coat of many colors. You would not have permitted your “fate” to have such a thing. But in this particular case you think with more worldliness than wisdom that it Is hetter to marry a man with a past than one with a future, ‘That ts, it would be better, For, of course, you could never think of marrying the Man You Don't. Want to Love To be sure, he has put his past reso- lately you, Place for a past to be. But {t does not seem to your friends and his, a goodly number of persons who keep constantly before you the failings of the Man You Don't Wam to Love and the many reasons why you don't want to love him, behind me—and that seems tell vou of the man’s many stumblings ly the wayside, They warn you of your danger frequently, and you assure them that their warnings are quite un- necessary. Later you assure yourself of the same thing. And you smile frank- ly at the humer of marrying him, wiat- fully at the utter Impossibility of It, ten- erly at the lingering thou of it, And when the smile ends y What can a girl tik : of your mind, your beauty, your social position=sce In him, they wonder? And vomotimes, lel by the subtle lore, you too wonder. And for that moment you cre tranged fwm the Man You Don't Want to Love. But in the end all these things are swept away, as the devert sand bete the hurricane, as drifting wreckage be fore a freshening sea. Wor in the mids: of dull gray days of fvowty twillghtx end of pallid dawna the heavens open, ‘The flowers ot of weason like 4 Christians rose. "Fo Wis, Man You Don't Want to Love has | Afty in all, making room foy a colossal railway ty he multiplied this area by ten he +would get: ation and the bewil- {a not surprising. 0 the Man in your inexperience, the logical Those of your friends who are foolish | « w THE # EVENING .» WORLD'S » HOME BDDOEDEOG9OG-59GO09GOOOO2OOFOOO0SO TI WONDAH EF DAT AM OF \) C ULLAD SUPLMNT |: The Importance of Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. ut i 4 o 284 399099OOSG-90000990999500000: oor ECONOMY. Fitz Hamme—! $ save their money. itheir eggs and vegetable P@@OOHDG vw ot & & o He Takes Miss Sixfoot for a Nice High-Toned, Exclusive Ride in a Fifth Avenue Stage OTHERED=3 ON'oNns ae ‘i thought ‘{Dinkville theatrical circuit was no good; the people out that way all De Beller—Yes, but they save 9090008000 00000000- & He Meets Santa Claus in a Street Car. PEEK Y~ Boo- HELLO SANTY CLAW- SANTY CLAW YES TOOTSIE DEAR, | ALWAYS Dp LIKE TO TRAVEL ON THESE 5 AVE. STAGES. EMINDS ME OF THE DEAR OLD LONDON Busses Y'KNOW. AND. THE CLASS OF PATRONS eee ARE So MUCH MORE SELECT - ONLY WE_OF r g THE LEISURE PATRONIZING THIS LINE. > | AND SvUCH A REFINED GooD LAWD! wHo AM ATMOSPHERE, 50 DIFFERENT G MAKIN’ ALL DAT NOIS rae ‘ CE FROM THE — i aN CROWDED AHI A tora} : STREET ECLIPSE CAR,WHERE] | — EVERYBODY TOSTLES DOMESTIC AFFAIR. re MAGAZINE ie] > | billed like a circus, ne @ oe GAG DOSS 9298-95559 ©9999-0499965095994F 5H9998955G0040 04-1 9DOOOM The Spectacular Campaign of 1903, HAVEN'T seen a hotter campaign in a long time,” remarked the Cigar Store Man. “It isn't so hot,” safd the Man Higher Up, “but the appurtenances and scenery carried by the office-seekers make it spectacular. It is getting to a stage in New York where a candidate will not be acceptable unless he can double in brass, do a handstand with his overcoat on, and give exhibi- tions in ventriloquism and parlor magic. I look tor , | the time when a candidate will be billed about ¢: fol- lows: Nee a ree yA For Mayor! HERMAN LUIGI ABRAHAM O'3RIEN !! Under the Personal Direction of Charles Frohman !! Spectacular Effects by David Belasco !!!! Spotlights and Other Lights by Edison! Costumes by All the Big Stores, Wigs by Hepner !!!1!! / !!! Music Arranged by Victor Herbert and John Philip Sousa !!! Chorus of 300 Under the Personal Direction of Julian Mitchell and Ben Teal !!! ! crnareiteas tal mer Gheta ken ic ae “There was a time when a man running for of- fice considered it his play to act down to the level of a common slob. When he entered the hall he hia his half-smoked butt behind a plece of scenery, Iis- tened to a selection by a band that would have tw Prove an alibi if it was accused of being a sawmill, and then sailed in to capture the populace by elo- quence. In those days a candidate who did his bill- ing in three colors was considered ‘a second edition 4 of P. T. Barnum. “Take a peek at us to-day and look at the change. Instead of the old-time banner with the ticket painted on it by a man who needed the money more than he did the artistic effect we have enlarged cartoons by new masters, with calclums trained on them at night. Instead of signs in show wincows reading ‘Vote for ‘ George Washington Perkins, the Poor Man's Friend and the Orphans’ Guide!’ we have posters designed by the man who designed the Dewey arch. \ “In the old days candidates used to skip around town in cabs and street cars; now they cover fifty miles a night in red automobiles, and carry their supporting companics with them. Everything 1s If Seth Low wasn't a millionaire and former President of Columbia College his man- agers would insist that he make his entrance on a flying trapeze and throw a back somersault in the alr before landing on the stage. “George B. McClellan is making speeches fn four the “How did you come to call the baby Wiluam?” Short—! say, old chap, can you “What was your greatest trial, let me have a five apct till pay. Judge?’ Uetting my ceven daughters off.” 2 HPSHPHHSIDOO DONG ~ THAT'S DIFFERENT. Shopper—But lin't 5 a good deal for a i of the extent of year's demolition of | chair tke that. 1 have never paid more | than $4.00. eceaiParneer But this was marked down Shopper—Oh. well, 1 rue —Bogton Tran ay sucess I'l) take it, “Ave You Single Through Chotcet”| the same thing. Let bachslor girls an-had occasion during the past ten years girls, Jn largest quantities, too, are 1a To the Kaltor of ening World |swer me truthfully | to visit nearly every large city In Amer-| San’ Franclaco, 1 wish alt unmarried women would put Nov, 3, T find that the Gotham girl—the! CHAGLNS | WERTOVER, ‘Jr, vanity aside and answer this question | ‘ro the maltor of The Evening World: girl of my own home-city—is the home- A fled truthfully: “Are you single through} What was the date of the Thurrday | llest of all. Where In Baltimore, Wash- Ki hed naleahye Lia Bapaiie Werks: choice?" Would you not have msrried| prior to Election Day in the year! ington, Boston, Philadelphia or San the vee tite ete tee SO WARY? had the (right maa proposed? 1 claim | 1882? Frangisco. 1 ten beautiful giris. I} et : that you would, and that no woman de- FE joarcely see five here. ‘The prettle: Sires the title of “old maid" or even of] To the girls at hiimmer resorts are not mean traveller and have bachelor girl," which bas come LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS. De languages. Bill Devery is making speeches in no language at all. William Travers Jerome is expected to give a comic monologue to every audience he goes against—and he comes close to doing it, at thay Bourke Cockran does verbal ground and‘ lofty tumbling until not only his opponents but his hearers have to figure it all out with diagrams, “Young Mr. Mack, who js running for the As~ sembly in the Twenty-fifth, makes his star play with an autograph letter commending his candidacy from Grover Cleveland, James Stetson Metcalf, Esq., up in the Nineteenth, has invented a two-story automobile with signs on it that makes a noise like a steam cali- ope and building an iron bridge combined. We may see Grout and Fornes doing a brother act in cpstume before election day.” “It all must cost a lot of money,” sald the Cigar/, Store Man. “Yes,” agreeed thu Man Higher Up. “Ifit goes much further yotera attending a political meeting will have to pay admission.” True Lover a Bluriderer. ‘rhe man who 4s really {n love never knows when, how or where to propose, This, young lady, you can take as a sure sign of the genuineness of love, The man will ‘stutter and stammer, he will blush, he will appear uneasy, he will pay lame compliments, and he will be painfully conscious of the fact that they are lame. All this perturbation a man cannot, assume; a girl with any sense can always tell, A man gen- York girls, Why 49 sa? fhe ulnely In love cannot. pia the abject of his passion as a fisherman plays @ trout, A man genuinely in love will ( : things, and Plunder about Ike a be tndiscrest and tactleas,