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ee tomonvevewne gs THE wt EVENING .8& WORLD'S 2 HOME 2 MAGAZINE ©OO9-09O 0090S PDLDOLGDOLDOODGEDOVOHOHYD 00090000000 O99O0-09O% : @ * é ’ 9 ‘LITTLE DIXl€---Hte Takes His Pet Elephant “ Lijah’ NEVAH MIN’ WHERE I GoriT TrS MINE ALL RIGHT ~ AN! SAY, MAYBE You THINK I AINT_GOT_ DAT BUNCH OF 550 SKINNED LIKE A SAWSICH— DIS BEATS DE Poop.es! 7 ht at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, LIJAH! Does Yer HEAH ME TALKIN! Come, BACK TER PNOLUME 44,...0.000 weeeeseeeeeeesNO. 18,433, { THE OPERA SEASON. 6 | “It grows late.” says Prince Karl Heinz (Mr, Mans-| Mfeldy in “alt Heidelberg,” and immediately the village clock strikes midnight in full hearing of the audience. lAt the Metropolitan, where the new opera season begins fi iz to-night, still more thrilling devices of reatism have been Eavlisd with the new stage on which thousands of dol lars have boen spent. ; The thunder is said to be particularly fine. When jor smites the earth with his hammer peal upon peal ill resound, rumbling and roaring afar even to the re- jote recesses of the family circle. When Lohengrin is down the stream drawn by the swan, when the illowy Rhine maidens swim to and fro in the river's Wepths, when Klingsor hurls the sacred spear which re- a mains suspended over Parsifal, the act will gain an added strength because of its absolute fidelity to the real. . ; These are but details among the novelties which 4 Promise to make the operatic season memorable over ita| ” Dredecessors. A newly decorated auditorium and a more 3 elastic repertoire furnish the substantial innovations. - | In the boxes society is placed on a background of red, which will set forth, as in a frame, its beauty and fine Blothes, Tho brilliant double horseshoes will gleam with 200-00-000004 Bn even greater resplendence. Here the general public ee fs enabled to view at close range and under most favor- s able conditions the season's social celebrities and to The Girl GY {COME AWAY PRIZE, DIXIE? $ : <The Important Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. 2% w&. A Word fo Rejected Lovers. ve complete the critical scrutiny bi t the Horse Show. ><] De <<] Do He Proves His Heroism by Tackling Two Burglars, but Is Mistaken by Them for B i colt ; The appeal which personality makes to the tatehigent| Who Marries sn Gon Sd : : L Do Not Despair, but Propose Again, BY interest of thi bt is hi ified t tent AIRES WH —— fon of landed estates, the master of the financial market, een Sa wire eS So0 ——— UA G BY HELEN OLDFIELD. EVERYBODY HAS xz DEE RARE. : Wh Uf ; Wie a man asks a woman to marry him, and her amm ‘tho brains of the “conversion syndicate” which netted By MING: Ie bbperdailaltone th Guecnaae Ahe price of.a thousand opera boxes in perpetuity, 1s to be GONE OUT, AND WE Seca wii hae a io Nella: eat acoegt Bae decisic een as he is and examined with a point-blank stare else-| Nixola Greeley-Smith.|% | WERE So-FRiGHTENED Z ] an final. It Js by no means impossible that she herself would! \ ‘ where unpermissible. Y RE NIGU ae ROWLERG! prefer that lie did not do so, since, if, for any reason, eho One point of superiority of the opera over the ordinary Me. BURGLARS! ' 2 WHAT BRINGS = has not fully made up her mind on the subject, she !s mu: theatrical performance is this double return it makes of though It {8 undoubtedly the fashion, a Vy S more likely zo refuse him ¢han to accept him, holding @ nom! ; committal policy safest. stage spectacle and persons seen. to say so to hold up to the young Bangs J woman contemplating ® commercial A man of ordinary discernment can generally tell whether, his suit 1s hopeless, which, in truth, it rarely is. “Persever~ ‘THE TROLLEY PATRIOTS AGAIN marriage the inevitable misery that A must result from It. ance conquers ali things” is a prover which ‘has come dows to us from the days of Julius Caesar, and the obstacles) ‘The end of the week witnessed another skirmish in| tt al) depends which it will not overcome in the long run are #0 few as) the prolonged war of the trolley passenger against the| Some women are born to be wives morely to prove the rule, says Helen Oldfield in the Chicago, Utbitrary enforcement of the “car ahead” order. and others to look well at heads of the ‘Tribune. al table. In the first place what Cap, in “The Pathfinder,” woul mhe engagement occurred in Brooklyn and was particl-| “wascn aces not mean that « geod pronounce a “circumstance” is whether the rejected suit pated in by forty-five young women, mostly salesgirls|wite cannot be decorative nor that a bound for their places of employment in Manhattan.|(ecorative woman cannot be a good is quite sure that the woman who has said no~gently Their car bore a Brooklyn Bridge sign, but at Thirty-| ‘fe. regretfully, perhaps—is the one and only woman in all the. } world for himself. In such a case he is fully justified ini If a normal woman, a creature with a ixth street the conductor shouted out the obnoxfoua| q,. capacity for loving and being loved, refusing to accept his dismissal as more than temporary #@ long as she says “Yes to no other man. On the contrary, order and prepared to run back to Coney Island. The} marries for anything eave the fulfiment ‘af resisting passengers refused to vacate, remained in their|of her hest tmpulsca, whe is certainly 000000 Se f# not necessartly unhappy, 99099-9908 Oo oS. DEDP 909600096006. WW let him continue his attentions, taking care to render them as delicate and thoughtful as possible, giving all and exact) seats and stuck it out through the return trip. peal a eit: ing Beane ny eetuay joer ance i crt eoore Unt to, fi suppose she is born without those prevail when it is gently persuasive than when lusters: 5 Ttseems to have been a drawn battle. But its signi9-/wmpuises? Buppose the keenest Joy she ind obtrudes, True, there are women who llke to be won| 4 | a 4 eance in connection with the revolts of like kind which | cnows comes from dining at Sherry’s or vl et armis, but these are in the minority; the majority| i + , have preceded it will not be lost. Again in this engage-| listening to the silken rustle of her like the iron hand only when it ts thickly sheathed im the i 4 a ment. inedn the others) the willingness of women to eub- Rati orien traces the corridors ot aotiont of yelver alores: meee ore ay eat icy aaa : ss la ps who are not e won by unmistakable and persister . mit to the discomfort and the ordeal involved in such &! Shall she marry the man who can 2 vetion from any man who {s not, for some insuperable rea- { fight for principle is to be observed as a symptom of|m.ske these occasional Joys permanent?| © CZ Vor = ron, to be set down as “impo! ah 4 \ interest. Perhaps the contests will yet develop a munici- AM Brabelad i UNHAND ME VICK CN G Moreover, the gently spoken “No” is more than likely, | Joan of Arc who will lead an embattled sisterhood], 2" 40!ns 80 she ts not majsing a mis- ae , a to mean “Y Many a rejected lover has forgotten that a Peete rae caste. take, though perhapa he ta, : OR | WILL CRUSH YOUR 4 (DONT BE woman's negative {s sometimes an affirmative in disgulea | . Even that, however, 1s doubtful. 3: HEAD LIKE AN EGG-SHELL® JAFEARED and thus has accepted {t at Its face value not only to his last- { Of the material results accomplished by these protesta| For is he not looking for some one| g 3 a Zier NA) MV 7 ing regret but to hers. Truth and traditior declare that ‘we get an idea in the current official report of the State bevel saabie He to express the in- A we're nov \ 0 women have the privilege of second ¢hought, and no woman ‘ Railroad Commission. In August the number of transfer| ties and dancer peo scone Do ORY Tanne qvas overmuch offended with the man who pleaded for the aot se 4ccreased from Si5'to s8i-and fo i ANY TING Gis LUM Wherty to attempt to induce her to change her mind, 2 po! i r a given| unsatisfied? (é WALUABLE] 2”) SOME FREAK MUSEUM G ‘The man who really wishes to marry a woman will do od of this year the number of transfers issued showed| Does he not want some one to wear a } WILL PAY US WELL, FER by well to propose at least once more after being rejected; @l- 5 | an increase of 5,946,852 over the figures for 1902. the dlamonda with which, owing to the KG ae DIS ADDITION. , - Z lowing an Interval of a few weeks to elapse: between: his } It is largely to the efforts of the revolting trolley |" nr adorn himeeite ne (lee he fed Yan 1 Ih “ME: ‘ proposal during which sniiadl may think the matter overd i ? ere are some men who absolutely and obstinately re- f qassenger that these concessions were due. ‘Look at the women in New York who fuse to take “No” for an answer, however positive : ———- Wear most Jewels—think of those you plainly in earnest the “No” may be. Such men often | i NEW POLICE HEADQUARTERS. moore @ women of their cholce by dint of sheer persistencé,, Are they not all fine healthy bovine The new police headquarters, on the site of the Centre| creatures averaging 150 pounds? Market, at Grand and Baxter streets, will be less near| Surely they do not look unhappy with E the city’s crime centre than the old. haere verses Se ee ey ay y » The present building in Mulberry street, on its com- in Periacs Tons! tenders lmuinouing ‘at pletion forty years ago, was considered as far uptown as|them whether thelr exceeding plum) a the new structure is down. It was remote, as distances|ness {s the cause or the result of (7 then went, from Five Points, In course of time the PVeny oper Subs eres) hea sevens region of resorts of which Harry Hill's was the| >it, ue Knows they Are serenely Please! nucleus grew toward it. The scenes of the Bleecker] Why should they not be? Street bank robbery and the Bond street murder were| Perhaps John or James or Thomas almost around the corner. A riot call for a Bowery boys"|@es not seem to be as much In love as in the days when he bought that first melee could be answered with expedition. magnificent two-carat solitaire, » Now Five Points is purified, the Bowery is as safe by] What does that matter? night as Broadway, than which it is better lighted, and} ‘Nhe solitaire sparkles as of old. Per- skyscraping business houses have ousted the former Ten-|2?% he does not come home to dinner more than one evening in the week now. derloin. The east side red-light region alone remains not the emerald and diamond tlara within easy access. snugly reposing In Its plush case? oe The old “headquarters of the metropolitan police” has} Perhaps he takes a great many busl- 4 Jong been cramped for room; it needed years ago the|°%* ‘Ps and goes on many vacations | When they win their hearts also afl is well; but when @ woman capitulatee from mere weariness and marries a | to be rid of his importunities, the marriage 1s not Ukely prove a success There are many {dea} marriages where the husband hi proposed to the wife more than once, or ¢wice either, befot he won her But this was when he was assured of his o7 deep affection for her, and fully believed her to he the o7 woman of all the world for him, without whom life wor lack its eavor. Moreover, he also felt assured that, gi time and opportunity, he could win her heart and insure happiness; otherwise he had been wiser to accept his aif missal as final and seek fresn fields and pastures new. sin to marry the wrong woman fs a ‘mistake which entails Iffe- * long disappointment, If not misery, G Odd Belgian Custom. Belgian post-oifice authorities have hit upon a singular Idea. Every postage stamp has a slip attached to it which may or may not be used at the option of the person who | posts the letter. This slip {s worded to tho effect that the! communication to which {t ts attached 1s not to be delivered $ on Sunday. On all stamps of every denomination this notf= : fication 1s to be found, and the consequence is that there ts/ ! growing up in Belgium a new tendency in,the direction of delivering no letters or newspapers—for ' newspapers are’ most delivered by post—on Sunday. re - alone. building which is still only in prospect. The plans call] The more the merrier! for an expenditure of $750,000, making possible both a| Does he not always bring her a new : Jewel on his return? Yarger and an architecturally satisfactory structure prom. Wa lei nal Binéraon whol saldithat ths ising to be an adequate headquarters for half a century] consciousness of being well-dressed out- to come, weighs all the consolations of religion? ~ In that time the city will need to produce an extraor-| And surely love 1s less Important than : @nary variety of interesting criminals to equal the rec-|'*!s!0™ Bt Ord of the old building it supersedes. gome of the Best PRISON-CELL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, ‘Again an instance is reported of a convict making Jokes of the Day. Profitable use of his prison term. A. J. Stephani, a life Prisoner at Dannemora, by maintaining business rela- tions with Wall street brokers 1s sald to have made al wp, HE STRUCK tritune tn stock speculation, Though legally dead to tie! mage UA Be | world, he is still taking an active part in it from his| “if you please, Your Honor, he came ell. to me suddenly and said, ‘How old ts 4 Ant The despatches recently told of a Tventen prisoner “Well, what hurt did that do?” who left his cell the richer by many thousanus for an} Win ju see, Your Honor, Ann is invention he had t! ought out while in prison, In addi: | my wi Clevelans Plain Dealer. | r { Inventor has given it the name of pollardite, As a thin ve-| neer placed on tron, wood, stone or brick it 1s ald to offen } protection against fire, water, acids or rust, resisting the ef-| fects of extremes of high and low temperatures. It te com, ‘goed ohiefly of waste paper, pulped and molded into form, | and presents the appearance of stone in color and conslatengy. } A “Pousse Cafe’’ Lake. { In the centre of Kildine, an island in the North : perhaps the most curious lake in the world. The surfscs faa’ bi Stone [lade of Paper. Waste paper {a used as tho basis of a new which is said to be harder than many kinds of waters {s quite fresh and supports fresh-water creatures, deep down it 19 as salt as the greatest depths of the s salt-water fish live in it - Bobby—Mamma, is it In the Hungry Clergymen, tion-to a lump sum of cash and a block of stock In a INDIGNANT, Mifkins—t : " . > 8 your friend De yeast that makes the bread rise so “It Isn't the real troubles of a Sandy—Gee! Dat wi new company formed to manufacture his {nvention he| First Canadian—Did you hear about! @Roques a self-made man? high? woman that worry her,” he said. vhen de brakeman threw me off! ett Uc pa erate 7. dU was made the company’s secretary. Willle MacPhoogle? ©, Bifkins—Not on your high ball. Mamma—Yes, Bobby. “Then what is it?” she asked. Cinders—Dat's nuthin’, Wait fothed in second-hand garments aent to a chartable arta Biatiiaredcterria cansoreliensiveness cantor neice at ,feoone Canadian—No; what about sive owes oversthing he has to his eee ennew do they ralse atte eee, Srounlonnate gets up A, begin to throw hobos off He ‘many of them have no fuel by means of which they ki oF x s ; 4 er. ? about,” he rep! % Je the books written in prison cells. A lst of Inventions| First Canadian—Why, Willle Is so in-| €O¢00000000000004 O48$9O80 95906 OOOOOOOOGOFFOO20O-2O30OOO900G00 | thomsclves warm oncelved there, from Gallleo's down to the Trenton pris-| @ nt over the Alaska boundary de-| ————————— BU psninicct of conver recta sea cote overs tne the sila ape hie rasta] NG LETTERS, QUBRIGES AND ANSWERS. xg ee : in London.—Syracuse Herald, Can’t Speak Own Tongue. +: In Wales there are 60,000 people who cannat speak beg a) i _ Meade by the Prison Association in its Fifteenth street NOWICKI COMING “1 Am She” In Correct. tember, and the winter months October, | Ishod at the total absonce of any pro- |come a citizen of the United Gtates of] lish: in Ireland there aro 00.00 wito aneak only Trish, and, liding excite wonder at the skill and ingenuity dis- “The rank | rh tl ft th fi To the Editor of The Evening World: ,,| November and December. Is he right? |V.slon having been made for supplying | America. Is this true? K. G. J. | Scotland there are 40,000 who spr only ic. the prison worker. 4 spats ee OF pneithing, | Which sentence ts correct, “I am she’ EMIL B, {a drink of water In your streets. I have — red by the pi Bild the centipede, “makes me sick, |or “I am her"? ABE M. | No. ‘ho spring months are March,|thought over the matter seriously, but|S#owld Be Taken from Bide of The Best Marks. ae Seclusion for a few years from temptation to| Here I am with a hundred feet ARuinkeal wean Onn e recat || -Aorliand The summer months|! cannot find a better solution than to Spoon, . 4 gan do to stimulate the convict's ingenuity gives) “22 1 cant use one for a kick MOIR AGERE ree eeea OAT TE FL ounoL a August. The autumn|have strect fountains, As a citizen In | To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: Red uniforms present the best marks for the enemy's shots, p-for a surmise as to what the criminal might —Chicago Tribune. How can U gain admission to West] month October and No-|/embryo, I appeal to you for enlighten-] A says soup should be taken from the] rifie-gr: cymes next, brown third, while Austrian lutehee! omyplished in a life d a TRY IT ON THE Dog, Point? WwW. yembey " r months December,/ment. You have hot weather here In |side of the spoon. B saya it should be| gray ts found to be east fatal. wD) Rae fe devoted entirely to honorable| Arter much’ labor and SAI eh helenae ipennent 7) January and ary the, summer, and & hot Bay invariably taken from the end, M. P, “i dipus Your Seasons. mates me ; pos ; fits, Along with the misapplied cleverness of the| experiments the eminent entomologist | 7 c e Evening World: Advocntes Move Drinking Foun-|all alike in that respect, Where ig one |«petween You and Mo” In Correct, Scientific Suicide. and the forger and the mechanical ability | "!d succeeded {n evolving a new species saya that the spring montha are’ tains. to. get a drink, except ti @ saloon? Ins aha Seal fon 62 oa eat IAT iuaae ae. Urglar it accentuates the regret felt for the | °*,2°* Tuary and March, the sums! To the Editor of The Evfiing World: Cannot Peramain cae * |" A nays “Between he and’ I’ is correct; he went committing. suicide ts thas ircer, joe “Now. he said. “1 must find a dog|mer months Apri, May and June,| As u comparative wanger within your sat oka mating War B says “Bett him and me," © nurse in @ French hospital, who swallowed) smm\ ‘ to tw pn." “cCutcago ‘Telbune, [outumn months July, August and fep-| eaten, 1 have bean and still am aston-| a that a Chinamen cannot be me Share, 5 ee ret basing, «< ve Allan a Lidia rm