The evening world. Newspaper, November 4, 1903, Page 14

ay WEDNESDAY EVENING, __NOVEMBER 4, 1903. w THE EVE Peiiished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to (3 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. MOLUME 44.....0000 esseesereerees NO. 15,415. THE EAST SIDE BOY'S READING, ‘At the opening of the East Broadway branch of the Carnegie library buildings Chairman Bostwick, of the Circulating Department of the New York Public Library, called attention to the fact that there is “less fiction and % twice as many scientific books drawn in the Chatham i Square library,” which is also in East Broadway, “than BS in any other circulating library in New York City.” ‘The patrons of this library are toilers and children of a toilets, to whom reading is a serious pursuit, not a pleasuré. They read for instruction, not for amusement, and the fanciful adventures of a fictional hero do not ap- f peal to them as do the discoveries of a Watt or the ex- periments of a Lavoisier. While the boy who is going to enter Yale is still interested in Indians and old sleuths the lad who hopes, if self-denial will accomplish it, to graduate from the city collecs, has passed on to higher courses of reading. culation. ment-hotise districts. weak heart, stances {s rare, death. He is @ longer life. ~ much? Is caution. from 1861. ae See er ee STs “* KILLED BY EMOTION. An owl fluttering about in a ward in Gouverneur Hos- pital frightened a patient to death. And on the same day in New York joy killed a young school teacher WhO| for she assured you between bites of had just entered on his new duties. excitement of realized ambition was too much for his| When you went > school together that 16 over-stim: COLLEGE GIRLS. ‘The moving of the Woman's University Club into new and commodigus quarters reveals the somewhat sur, ing fact that the club membership now exceeds 600. “The figures carry with them, as the showing of one wogeig tellers club in a single city, convincing evidence of ‘extraordinary development and extension of the “higher education” among women. ‘Vassar College is not yet half a century old, Wellesley, Smith and Radcliffe have existed only a quarter of a century. Bryn Mawr was begun in 1880. Yet together with Barnard in 1900 they had 3,378 @tudents, and the students of all the woman's colleges in that year numbered 15,000—just under one-third of the 50,000 students in the nation’s men’s colleges, some of which boast foundations more than two centuries old. ‘What becomes of this feminine college learning after graduation? Much of it is doubtless merged in matri- mony and permitted to languish along with boarding- school music and other girlhood accomplishménts. Some of it provides a better professional equipment for the possessor if she aspires to be a teacher or lawyer. It fits her for the specialized branchesyof learned investiga- ton in which she has been winning laurels once reserved for men. And it tends to establish higher standards of faste and culture generally among the sex. It is from such reading that the mind grows alert and gains strength where fiction enervates and induces emas- This east side type of jnquiring boy is seen in throngs in lecture halls where there are demonstrations of the properties of radium or talks on X-rays or wireless tele faphy. It is noted by the director of the Free Lecture Bureau that the demand for scientific topics is greater than for literary, and this demand is larger in the tene- It is an encouraging sign. It foreshadows the devel- opment of an Edison or a Bell or a Marconi from a tene- Mment-house and that probably not in the remote future. ulating That the emotions exercise a tremendous influence on| during the recital assumed a yearning the body is a truism. But so full and complete an illus tration of their power as fp given in these current in- But is »» half as-happy? Does he accomplish as loved as ‘sincerely 7” It fs difficult to steer a safe middle course with the emotions, But at least {1s possible to get a firmer com- mand over fear by the better exercise of the reason. The dangers of excessive joy are ratner too unusual to require dating BASEBALL EVANGELISM. @ust as Dowle is departing defeated word comes from pfilinois of the successful revival meetings of William |Bunday, ‘former baseball player, in which he has secured 530 converts, At Carthage the churches raised $2,100 as abe a & present testifying to their appreciation of his work. ag When Sunday went from right fleld into the pulpit certain gibes were levelled at him, but the net result of peveral years of preaching by the ex-ball player forms an exhibit in practical missionary work of which he may well feel proud, We have no information as to the char- acter or quality of his sermons. Yet we may infer that he has lined out hymns as he was wont to line out two- bbaggers, caught error on the fly as of old the ball in right field, andi knocked Satan out of the box. The public does not look on the diamond as a divinity \school, Yet in the education of this minister the athletic experience seems to have been a sufficiently good prepar- ation for the’ pulpit. fault of administration. AN OFF SEASON, ‘The promoter of a $900,000,000 corporation has been 4eld in bail for the payment of a $480 hotel bill. The trouble seems to have been occasioned by too} would let me ehow you @ new way for mall a provision of working capjtal. Regularly incor-| doing up your back hair.” porated companies have come to grief through the same In this cage all the formalities of flotation had been gone through with. The certificate of incorporation had bec ffied, a safety deposit vault had| >ratin’ th’ day. béeh engaged co ‘nold the assets, arrangements had been for a long directors’ table, and, it is alleged, treas- orders were issued to pay bills, It was this latter| with a dixainess whin about to take a ng, thoroughly regular though it was in theory, | {7k and dhropped the giass,—Kansas to theypolice court, The treasury was empty. ‘unfortunate-promoter may console himself with on that 4b4s ah off season for the flotation of * At @ more auspicious time at least enough bees realized trom,the sale of treasury stock | my dear. © 3 ® 2 ; 4 | AH-HERES $ WHERE BILLY 3 MAKES A HIT- 2 SHE CANT 4 RESIST ME THIS TIME The Girl with the Loose And you know this to be true, cobiies during the afternoon recears aie was wnalterabdly doomed to be dis- in Jove. Her ‘arge Diack eyes expression which might have been tor the impending tragedy or more cookies. You put st down to the tragedy at the ‘thme and forgave her the cooky crumbs It js the part of wisdom to hold the emotions in re-| in the corners of her mouth, though you} 4 straint. But precept is easer than practice. The indif- ferent man, whose heart action does not accelerate a beat at times when the intenser nature gives the heart a trip- hammer rapiiiity ‘of movement, runs less risk of sudden ical'of his emotions and profits by wished you might, be as unconscious ot ‘milk then was all,of love and ahe wrote eentimental poetry, though @he was only twelve. If you were among the number to whom were revealed the precisus con- ‘tents of her note book upon your prom- tse not to breathe 4t to a Uving soul you may recollect her heroines described luridly as marble etatues steeped in blood with pyramis of jet black hadr, and you probably don't eemember what followed it, for ahe had the habit, when she tad once roused your interest, of Mhrusting @ fat and not partioularly clean tand over the rest of the page, with he remark that ahe really cov.dn't let you see the rest. Several years ago @ ttle irl of this description electrified a Now York con- vent by telling @ prosatc and too literal fellow-pupll that when she grew up she intended to believe in the Turkish idea of heaven, the chief ingredient of which she explained to the wide-eyed listener were wine and beattiful women, Later in the ecme day the shocked but impreosed admirer was summoned to the pardor to be asked by the peet’s mother, in her quality as best friend, to please see that Julletto'’s face was clean next Bunday, as she intended to bring other callers with her. The other day two ‘schoolmates of the poetess met. “How is Julle Blank?’ Arked one who had not been in New York for years. “Oh, she is just the eamo old Juile Blank," was the reply. "he is still wearing spring heels and talking eboat love, and her back fair is always com- ing down.” y Later the returned native ‘sought the {grown-up pootess and found that it was with her even as her unsympathetic schoolmate had said. For though, or perhaps because, she Aiscoursed of Ibsen's dramas and of Chopin's music, tastes that singularly enough seemed to travel together, and though sentimentally she was more thoroughly a blighted being than ever, her friend eaw that the front breadth of her tea gown was hopelessly spotted and that the crumbs In the corners of her mouth had merely changed for the time being from those of cookies ¢o those of marron places. she described the thrills, the lan- guors of a great passion as only those who shave not felt them dare. And the burden of the tale was: How can I make him love me? ‘The friend looked up sympathetically, but try as she would ahe could not help thinking that the one fact of Importance and the one of which the poctess seemed altogether unconscious was that her back hair resembled the matted contents of a carpet-sweeper on Satuniay morning, and that it was coming down, ®he was asked for advice and she wanted to give i, to suggest well-ftting coraots instead of Ibsep, a hair-dresser in leu of in, a new dressmaker jn- stead of ‘the cycle of love son- nets which the forlorn young woman had just completed, But decause whe was occasionally wiser than her impulses she listened to the reading of the eonnets with grave admi- ration, and only after @ decent interval claimed: “Oh, Jullette, I wish you — SAD ACCIDENT. Hogan—O'Toole lost four fingera cell- Dugan—Indade, Did th’ powther tx- plode too scon? ‘Hogan—It did not, He was seized City Journal, ——————_— THE BETTER COURSE, Gertrude—Unole, what would you ad- vise me to do to find a husband? Uncle Gayboy—Let the husband alone, Go for a single man,—Goston Globe, Billy Bowwow Me i c them as sha was apparently. Her| ¢ ‘The postess was in love, ehe said, and] ‘ 0400-0 GIVE ME A HALF DOZEN. AMERICAN BEAUTIES, A FEW ORCHIDS, z A COUPLE BUNCHES OF VIOLETS, AND YOU MIGHT SNIP ME OFF a Two OR THREE HRYSANTHEMUM — Bug.” “But since I've known you, deat ny @ become a water bug. WELL MY LITTLE MAN)Z WHAT CAN‘ DO FOR You? HOW LONG-OH- HOw LONG~ HAvE I WAITED — (¢ ais LET ME GET. oa A BLOOMIN’® JAB .AT *IM.. 7) 7E DONE me H’0UT OF A FARE ONCT. lgug Explorer—Eurekal At last 1 pave aiscovered the North Pole! tS THIS ALL You aot! WHY THOSE CUT FLOWERS ARE, WORTH # 12-00. NECKLACE PRESENT. NOW W Nip Boo-Hoo!! | WAS: e’s Love. MY MAN, You MAY SEND* AROUND THE BOXES To MISS SIXFOQOT’S bah lee WIT as Ame ‘OMPLIMENT <a> ~w# -MR.PEEWEE WH NEVER MINDY HERE STONE! THIS PAYMENT FOR THE EEWEE YOU BETTEF ——_ ‘MAGAZINE = iy He Ao Pampered Pups. ok “4) JUST came over from the Dog Show,” re- | marked the Cigar Store Man. , “What's the matter?” asked The Man Higher Up. "Did they refuse you? Now don’t get angry, Clarence. I was only joshing, and be- sides I'd rather be rejected at the Dog Show than at the Morgue. , “T can stand for a horse show or a game chicken show” of even a fish show, but I can’t see a dog show. If they © | were all bulldogs or just common or garden dogs I might S| consent to be an audience. I balk so hard it jars my > | teeth when I am asked to look at French poodles, toy’ | spamels, Mexican thairless dogs, dachshunds and other, freaks in the canine line. " ' “The first time I ever went to the Dog Show ft hap- penea that I had some business down on the middle east Side, On my way ecross to the Garden I passed a bunch of kids playing in the street. It was good and plenty ‘cold and there was a soggy moisture In the air that >; made breathing remind ono of eating ice-cream with . © | the lungs, md “These kids didn’t have'on enough clothes to wipe a’ flute, when the weather was considered. Their shoes” were so full of feet that the feet stuck out all over. Two. of them were little girls.’ They had no hats on. The stocking of one of the boys thad fallen down over his shoe, exposing this bare leg. You could ‘hardly tell where. the bareness of the leg ended and the goods of the trousers began. The trousers were black at that. “All of the kids were soaking wet. It appeared that their game consisted in half the crowd standing on the street and the other half on the sidewalk and then all hands giving an imitation of a railroad collision, They laughed, but the laughs didn’t haye any ring of joy in them. The last I saw of them they were running into each other and rolling around as they fell on the wet, iH shiny street. @ “Wien I got over to the Dog Show and saw little muta NG all done up in satin ribbons and warm blankets, combed and washed and perfumed, resting luxuriously in clean,” cages with dog biscuit on every hand, I thought like a flash of those kids I had seen playing in the street a few Blocks away. The more I saw of the dogs the more I thought of the kids. Every time I saw a woman lean over and put her warm red lips against the clammy nose of a terrier or any other kind of a' dog I thought of the unkissed little ones on the east side knocking the tar out of each other to keep warm, . “‘For mine,’ I said, ‘Farewoll to the bow-wow show,! If ever I lose my conscience and Providence is as good" to me as It has been to John D. Rockefeller I’m going to. hire the Garden and givg them a child show—not a baby, show, but a show of helpless kids without shoes or clothes—the children of the poor.” > “Did you ever get back tht Scotch terrier you lost?™ asked the Cigar Store Man. “No,” replied The Man Higher Up, “and if I ever get hold of the common swine that stole him I'll make him , look like bale of shredded codfish, I wouldn’t take $500 for that dog.” MR. - DISCOVERED. Pointed Paragraphs. It 4@ never too late to learn ynless you think you knew tt all. Many a man is compelled to keep ‘his word because no one _ will take it, iy Moses wasn’t necessarily a wicked man because he broke. all the commandments, 2 A woman never picks up @ bargain at en euction until the ‘ ‘e LETTERS, QUERIE Two Years, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: How long is a widow supposed to wear) full mourning for a husband? MIRS. F. Yes; Apply to Your Congressam: To the Editor of The Evening World: Does the Department of Agriculture at Washington send out free seeds? How may I obtain them? INQUIRER, AY Transfer Complaint. To the Editor of The Evening World: 1 have read of the insults and humitl- ation inflicted on passengers on the cars, I got on an Elghth avenue car with my daughter, asked for two transfers for Twenty-elghth street, and asked if they) would transfer down Sixth avenue, The conductor sald ‘'Yes."" We waited at Twenty-eighth street and got on a cross-| town car. The conductor came for IND $100 HIDDEN IN ROMANCE TO BEGIN IN fare, and of course I held out my tickets and told him we wanted to go dowr Sixth avenue, He very abruptly replied “You can't use these down Sixth ave. nue,” whereupon I told him the con- ductor that gave mo the transfers had said they were good on Sixth avenue. He said, “How do I know he told yout" woman and started to annoy her. When: we reached the tunnel he put his arm back of this woman, She stared at him, He continued his mashing until Twenty- third street, when he got off. The poor, woman then smiled and blushed. If that Woman had been my sister that masher then rang the bell for the car to stop) and made us get off the car, MRS. J. BL Thursday. To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘On what day did June 29, 1882, fall? Fs Another Scene with a Masher, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Yesterday atternoon as I was on @ Madison avenue car a young and pretty woman got on the car, A man then got on the car and took a seat next to this woman. ~The masher turned to this) Marshal MacDonald Died 1840, ‘To the BAttor of The Evertng World: Can you tell me the date of the death of Marshal MacDonald, the hero of Wagram, of Napoleon's army? J. B. M'DONALD. Newark N, J. " Wants to Stop Growing. ‘To the Bdltor of The Evening World: {am a young man seventeen years old, | and I am almost six feot tall. Is there any way to keep me from growing any taller? Also, could you give me some’ auctioneer knocks it down, ‘A grasshopper and a grass widow are reasonably-sure to! jump at the first opportunity, < ‘There is mothing sadder than the an who has loved and very good appetite, % lost—unless it 1s the man who has loved and won, “ There is no harmless rule to check the) When a man lends unything to some of his neighbors be, growth. Avoid any drugs, treatment,| can get it back only by golng around and stealing tt— &c,, devised for that purpose, To gain} Chicago News, 7 flesh eat heartily of fat-producing foods, f Nana cereals, rice, potatoes, &c., and drink A ” milk or buttermilk with meals, Sleep The Angry Tree. from nine to ten hours out of the Did you know that a tree can bo going to bed by 9 P. M,) xind of Acacia in Nevada that not only is as “touchy” outdoor exercise. sersitive plant, but, as bwctogsngy fe i, “goes very It is @bout eight feet is @ very 3¢ Is an Impertinent Question, |. tho sun sets it 1a ready to go to sleep, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: leaves) together and coils the ends of its Is it proper to ask any one it ho or NUON "TP" any one pulls that tall—well, the sels veligiousy, ANXIOUS. |" vcucal, but it flutters and-moves unéhally and To ask a casual acquaintance a ques- Gcenly agitated. ; 5 tion s0 closely connected with all that is’ i¢ ut is ever disturbed by @ shock, such as usually held most sacred is as Imperti- ing, the leaves stand out in all ‘directions and quiver nent as to ask him how much salary he jently. Strangest of all, they send’ otft a pungent, eirns. Between dear friends, engaged cogor that is most unpleasant,, % persons, &c,, the question ts of course, fe takes this bad-tempered tree win hour or two 4 @dvice on how to get fat? 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