The evening world. Newspaper, November 16, 1903, Page 12

cata ae eel a MONDAY EVENTNG, . NOVEMBER 16, 1903, oe EVENING w WORLD'S HOME » MAGAZINE THE “Welishea by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to (3 Park Row, New Werk. Entered at the Post-Office u VOLUME FB. ccccee ecccereseeeeesNO. 18,427. ——$$_ es i TENEMENT-HOUSE BABIES, | Bpeaking before the Board of Estimate and Appor- ‘tonment against the project to raze “Lung Block” for e|park site, the Rev. Father James B. Curry said: ‘It ts true that the physicians make many a visit to this) Block, but be it to the everlasting credit and glory and honor our decent and respectable people, the doctors come to lver children, healthy, qountry-loving, new-born ckKizens for our great metropolis, not to tend to my lady's lgpdogs. It ts, indeed, to the everlasting credit of the east Gide that it keeps the doctors busier in this noble mis- elon than anywhere else in the city. The priest is not alone in his high appreciation of tenement-house baties. But the baby having come, is it not his right to have a better cradling offered him than “Lung Block” affords? 4® he given a fair chance in a house where there were {twenty-six cases of consumption within nine years? Is it just that he {s condemned to epend his babyhood in ‘ap environment of exceptionally great mortality? The Catharine street baby of to-day is better off by far than the baby of ten years ago, and largely because f the outside philanthropic efforts which are alleged to be unwelcome. Instead of tho streets for a playground has Sew or Hamilton Park to resort to, where, Bs he grows older, he will find himself with other doys of his neighborhood in athletic rivalry with the ehbildren from other parke. This rivalry in eport, which is to make him sounder of body and of mind, and which ig to give him the first taste of a joy until now denied the children of the poor, has been made possible by the ®Bame influences that are at work to secure a new park on the site of “Lung Block.” The establishment of such a park will mean a health- fer fe for those babies on the block whose presence there it is expected to prolong. THE COST OF LIVING. ‘The figures of the Chicago Employers’ Association ghowing an increase of living expenses within five years of 11.3 per cent. are now superseded by the more com- prehensive data of the Bureau of Labor covering the cost of living of 2,567 families in thirty-thres States. From these returns it is seen that the price of food ast year was 10.9 per cent. above tho average for tho ten tyeare from 1890-1899, and 16.1 per cent. above the prices ‘of 1896. As, according to the Bureau's figures, the outgo for food constitutes nearly 48 per cent. of the household ‘expenses for all purposes, some realization may be had ‘of the economies entailed on housewives of small in- ‘comes by the higher cost of food. ‘This average, moreover, {s for smaller cities where ‘meat and green groceries rule lower than in New York. for staple articles such as sugar and flour the tity housewife is paying more, and, in addition, she ts og her market bills larger this year than last. The higher scale applies to articles like fish, which have been put up in price out of sympathy, as it were, with meat had without the excuse of scarcity to justify the raise. _ By the bulletin of the Bureau the average income of the American workingman is $827 and his average ex- _ penditure $768. His food expenses are $326. An increase of 16 per cent. over what he spent in 1896, an Increase ‘which may be put at 20 per cent. for city dwellers, must have been offset by an appreciable raise in wages to make both ends meet !n the houschold accounts, THE MYTH OF OVERSTUDY. “There is no such thing as overstudy,” says Dr. Bhrady. Thet is to say, mental: work however hard, un- tomplicated by worry or habits of self-indulgence, causes hho deterioration of the brain tissue. Protracted study did not shorten the life of Macaulay, keeping himself awake with bowls of tea nigit after hight. It does not seem to have hurt Edison, who spent twenty hours n day over the phonograph in the months preceding its perfection. It did no harm to Heyne, the} (reat German philologist, who for six months shortened | his sleep allowance to two hours a night. It is not the; norma] strain imposed on the brain, however severe, that breaks it down. Dr. Shrady’s statement is made with reference to the becasional cases of nervous collapse in schoolgirls due! to hysteria arising from physical causes, Its eminent bammon sense makes it deserving of wider application. “Overstudy” is the bugaboo of the weak-willed and the lazy. It never frightens the youth of real talent. It has no terrors for the boy who is sitting up late to learn thoroughly the task set him and to absorb the little more than the required stint of knowledge in which Hes Success, The men who build bridges and make subways an engineering reality at which the world marvels, great architects, great sculptors, the lawyer who is equipping himself to win a case of national importance, the famous taptains of finance—these know that the brafn will re- Spond to any strain put upon It. They know that when subjected to the severest strain it yields its best returns of ideas that bring fame and fortune. CITY NOISES. ‘The insanity of Mrs. Nessie Vasiman is said to be Mirectly traceable to the noise of Second avenue trains, Before the approach of the violent manifestations of un- balanced mind which make it necessary to send her to Bellevue, her actions showed the disturbing influence of the noise on her nerves. When trains passed she stuffed up her ears and imitated the rumble of the cars. So far as can be recalled the case is unique. Does not the infrequency of nervous breakdown from similar tauses afford an excellent testimonial to the general ourdiness of the nervous systems of New Yorkers? Ears ‘exposed to the roar and rattle of “L” trains, the din of Street-car gongs and all the harsh discord of oppressive Rounds by which the city dweller is afflicted undergo a prostrating ordeal. On the four lines of the “I” alone to estimate the Mamber of tympanums assailed day after day by the waves of yound is to wonder *-- how many Specialist’s fees the endless noise 1; sponsible. to the open bedroom windows the sound waves rush it, mingled with those arising from the street, and in one territying whole with the internal noises .or viollp they banish sleep and beget an irrita- odes no good. breakdown which they provoke is for pound constitutions, ee ear 7 © Mo at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. : Aw-SAY- AINT IA Hey 2 FEET-BALL JOHNNIES Sut CANT RESIST ME NOW $ 4 Do Women Propose? Oh, No! Oh, Yes! By Nixola Greeley-Smith. 4¢]\O WOKEN proposet™ “How perfectly absurd;* ex- claims the bride of a year, and sometimes if she be of a very coy nature she adds. “How very disgusting!” But—ask the man! And choose a discreet time for the question. For in the presence of the residing genius of his hearth he oan, of course, merely «mile ecstatic con- firmation, while she tells you how many different times she refused him. If, however, the query is put to him Just after he has confided to you how his Florida vacation was spoiled last winter by an officious New York matron, who, whenever she saw him with a pretty girl, inquired sweetly about his absent wife, he will stare helplessly for A moment and tell you the truth. “I don't know, Maybe she can tell you. It—Just happened,” he will say lamely. And sometimes he really doesn't know that she proposed to him. For {t's ten to one she did Not baldly, pechaps, as a man does whenever some unusually bashful maiden makes & necessary, but neveruheless successfully. Perhaps she mentioned another charm- ing woman with the suggestion that you marry her, and then when you modestly said that you were eure she wouldn't have you, exclaimed ingenuously: “On, yes, she would. No woman would refuse you." But, of course, that was not propos- ing to you. Perhaps she dreamed—oh, such an ab- sur, impossible dream which she will never, never tell you. And yet eh. might as well tell it to you realty, be- catise it 1s 80 ridiculous! And she does tell you. And then you tell her your dream. And in the process you become engaged. And surely noth- Ing could have been further from a proposal than that! Or she has another suitor who she confides proposed to her last night. And she asks your advice about accepting him. You ere such an old friend, and she places such confidence in your judg- ment that he will do exactly as you say. Does she love him? You willy man, what has with it in New York? Does she love you? Oh, you idlot! Don't you know that crepe de Chine is the very mussiest fabric imaginable? What makes you 80 clumsy? But (t whows you haven't had much practise, doesn't It? And--yes, of course she does. And of course the little fluttering en- @aged thing in your arms did not pro- pose to you. Ghe would faint at the mere sug- kestion of such @ thing, Sho leaves that to new women, who stalk around in funny clothes and say that the mothers of the race should be allowed to exercise a more direct chotce in the selection of the fathers. And other perfectly horrid things, Ami—Oh, Jack, did you think she never, never waa going to say yes? oe Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. THE REACTION. Mistress of the House—Your hands look M you never washed them. on Jogalong—I don't ma'am, Ten o 6 best years o' my life T worked in A soap factory.—Chicago Trifune, A PERTINENT Query, Teacher—Now, Johnny, I think shown you how wicked tt cee that to do Johnny—How big is the r, teache: —Truth Seeker. ee Af DESCRIBED, What do you think of these mod Gretna Greens?" bai “Well, T don't ‘now. I suppose might dercribe them as places whore people prepare to repeat at leisure." Chicago Post. BOTH BENEFITED. Skids—Dia_ your friend, Chestertus MoBenter, the tragedian, enjoy his va- cation? | Scads—I can't eay as to whether he enjoyed it or not, but the public did— GOO OO9O090 000 0404-60O96009000O90- $94-36-04-0606-0400666046056860 $ “9 ® AL 0B-S0O2060000-90006- y o@ oo € ZA Alfred—HowJer git de black eye SBertie? 1 tought youse was great boxer oncet. 2 Alb b defense when | wa too much like work ter put up yer guard fur every cove that takes a BLUE RIBBON FOR OURS TOOTSIE DEAR. WE'RE MAKING THE BALL= AN i The Importance of Mr. Peewee, th ‘< He Goes to the Horse Show with Miss Sixfoot and Surprises the Proud Steeds by His Lack of Horse Sense, 8 A HIT L RIGHT. Tom—Why did you break off your engagement with Miss Net- tleton? Jack—Because ehe's too con ceited. remarked one evening that she was too good for me and You SEE, POLLY, ITS Is WAY — THEY , Pig Get 'N A BUNCH Somepopy SNAPS THEY ALL FLOP ALL) OVER THEMSELVES EN R\ ahah ce é \S Back To THE PADDOCK a FoR YOURS! Ernle—Jack and Helen must be very fond of birds. Cholly—Why so? Ernie—They a one they got maried for a lark. e Great Little Man. D 9899569500 964OO0O0-500O000000-56909090009009000000O4O $00000000 ?Billy Bowwow Takes Polly Pugdoodle to the Football Game---He Makes a Touch in, | ] ] RAW; RAW: RAW: J sss! BUM! 212244 AINT ITGREAT Pory 7 ® NOTHING LIKE A Q GOOD DRIVER FO, BRING OUT ALL THE f) STRONG POINT: “80 de man give yer a camel's hair undershirt?” “Yer pair of elephant-ekin pants an’ feel like a circus.” 4 Ie “Only @ Slood-Pamping Muscle.” To the Editor of The Evening World: Has the physital: heart anything to do with love? A says it has, while B gays the heart 1s only @ blood-pumping muscle, Which !> right? T. C. Z, Yes. "Po the Editor af The Evening World: Can a President legally be elected for three successive tenms? AL Why Children Are Run Over. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World, In an editorial you state that 638 per- Boston Journal. , ons were killed in New York by vohi- cles as against 188 in London. The real reason of this areat difference may be found in the fact that Hnglish children never play in the streets, They keep in thelr own backyards, parks gr school grounds, I have visited many coun- tries in my time, but nowhere have I seen traffic so impeded as here by chil- dren racing about in the streets. Burely this is a land of (perilous) Uberty to the young ones, ENGLISHWOMAN, Can Serve ai )tten To the Editor of The A says the President of the United States cau’ only hoki offico for two con- LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS. vlapse before he can be elected again. R mays the President oan hold office any number of terms consecutively, as there fa no clause in the Constttution which bars him ¢rom holding office three or more terms, Which {s right? A. B. Twice. ‘To the Kéttor of The Hvening World: How many ¢imes did William J. Bryan run for President? M. 0, 0. “Ringed” Is Correct. To the Editor of The Evening World: In my place of business It is cus- tomary for ue when we cannot fll an “< secutive terms, after which a term mut | omer to put a cing around the item, In thet cuse which term 1s correct, “The order was ringed" or ‘The order was rung?” Cc, 8. 5,871,816, To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘What 1s the population of the Domin- fon of Canada? coef “Nutmeg State.” To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘What {8 the nickname of the Btate of Conneoticut? ¥ Rr No, Corbett Lost On a Foul. To the Editor of The Evening World: Did Tom Sharkey knock out J, J. Cor- ett? 1 @ When the Lid Is Lifted Off = New York, SEB,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, “thas @6 WF vr. Parkhurst says New York will be the bad place with the lid off for two years after January first.” “Dr. Parkhurst,” said the Man Higher Up, “is the man who said before election that Devery would get @ big vote. The intimate knowledge of New York that Dr, Parkhurst possesses is equalled only by his willingness to distribute it. “You know he Mves here all the time? .Oh, yes—ex cept in the summer. It gets so hot and uncomfortable here in summer that he goes to Switzerland, where they, don't have to make artificial ice, You and I and about 8,000,000 others stay here in summer and sweat and hustle and think oursolves lucky if we get a chance to 0 to’ Manhattan Beach or Coney Island once a week. Along in the middle of summer we get two weeks off and go for rest to where the files come from. The best ‘we get is some Rube hotel or boarding-house keeper performing am operation for appendicitis on our bank- roll, “Of course we don’t know anything about New Yor‘k, We don't get up in the dark, hurl a catch-os-catch-can breakfast into ourselves, do a squeeze into an “L” train that smells like a fire in a cold-storage warehouse, and stand up all the way downtown; we don’t knock off at noon for half an hour, eat a celluloid lunch and dig back to the works again; we don’t go to the downtown | “L" station after working all day, squeeze into a train ; that smells worse than it did in the morning, and ride home to find that the pipes in the bath-room have burst, the gas man has got our bill mixed up with that of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and the landlord has raised the rent; we don’t perform this stunt fifty weeks out of fifty-two and consider ourselves lucky to be alive. “We don’t get around the east side and the west side and get next to the people, and go into galoons and bar- ber shops and groceries and theatres, and talk to Bill and Jim and George and Joe and find out what they |know. Not on your natural! We just lay dead and enough to shake hands with. That's the reason that Dr. Parkhurst's prediction of Hades in New York under Tammany Hall makes us leery, “That's what! The gambling-houses are going to move to the street level and operate with the front doors open and ballyhoo men on the outside. The Liquor ‘Dealers’ Association is going to march in a body, out on the Brooklyn Bridge, and at a given signal every member is going to throw the key of his saloon into the East River. There will be so many red lights that strangers approaching the city by way of the Hacken~ sack Meadows will be terrified by the gory glare in the sky. Our mothers and wives and daughters and sistera will be unable to go out after dark because of the wild gangs of toughs and de-bau-cheeses in the streets, “We know all this, you and I and the other 3,000,000 or 80 of us who love our town so well that we are willing to put up with inconveniences so that we may live in it. We know it so well that on the Ist of January we are all going to flee from the accursed place.” “If men who know so much about New York don® like the place, why don’t they build a city of their own along their own lines?” asked the Cigar Store Man, “If they did,” replied the Man Higher Up, “they wouldn't live In it.” Pointed Paragraphs, Rest has spoiled many « man who was willing to wont, What the dew is to the flower kind words are to the heart, Lambs rush into Wall street where the old sheep fear te tread, ‘Thought travels fast, but some people's thoughts never travel far. ‘A time table, Cordelia, is any old table purchased on the inetalment plan. A girl never thinks a young man's heart ts in the righ¢ place unless she possesses ft, Tt sometimes happens that the woman Who Is disappolnted in love isn't disappointed in marriage. i Whet « happy world thts would be {f people coutan' borrow troutle without putting up collateral security, 3 ‘A man egidom marries a girl on account of her but he sometimes remains a bactielor on account thereof— Chicago News. ‘ The Mikado of Japan. Mutsuhito, the Mikado of Japan, has he proud distinction ef being the ifist Emperor of Japan. On his accession he tok oath before the assembled court nobles and daimtos that he would establish the foundation of the empire according %@ » the five principles tald odwn. . 1. Government based on public opinion. 2, Social and political economy to-be made tha study of al’ classes, 8 Mutual assistance among all for general good. 4, Reason, not tradition, to be the gulde of action, af 5, Wisdom and ability to be sought after in all quarters af the world. = are eee read books and know about 260 people in town well’