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Publishea by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. NO. 16,442. ALEAN CHRISTMAS. The Evening World noted some time ago that the Jewelry salesmen were not “making” Fall River. The idleness of a million and more spindles due to the high prices of the cotton corner made the outlook for luxuries unpromising. The unearned wages meant un- purchased trinkets, and to that extent a curtailment of ‘mupply in the jewelry workshops. So readily can the stopping of spindles in Rhode Island stop lathes in * Maiden Lane. The idle cotton operatives are back at work, but with @ reduction of wages which by next Monday will affect 75,000 employees in Southern New England. They be- gin the winter with restricted household expenses which will necessitate an economy of which every local trades- man cannot but feel the pinch. The lot of these operatives might be far worse, It Might be entire deprivation of work, as has happened to 7,500 of the International Harvester employees, 1,200 of the Townsend-Downey shipyards men, 1,200 of the Southern Pacific's shop force, and other employees of the New York Central, Lake Shore and Union Pacific laid off for reasons of retrenchment. Six months ago general prosperity was irradiating the nation with its hopeful glow and the pessimists prophesying the woe to ‘which wage reductions and reduced working forces point ‘were few. Christmas bids fair to be equally lean for the stock- holder. The passing of its quarterly dividend by the Republic Iron and Steel Company involved little as cor- poration figures go, only $375,000. It was the time and the occasion that counted. The total of Christmas divi- dends is reduced by that amount by a concern which has paid regular dividends for fourteen years. The stockholders of the company, who have suffered a joss by the shrinkage of value of their securities amounting to $10,000,000 within a few months, are not likely to be filled with Christmas cheer. The vast host of emall stockholders in industrial companies everywhere, those who put their rainy-day funds in “Steel” and “Paper” and “Copper,” leaving the gafe harbor of the savings bank for the troublous open ‘waters of speculation, have not much incentive for holl- » day good feeling. The experience of cutting their eye teeth in the processes of high finance has been one of very painful nature, They are wiser than they were, and with that wis- fiom there has been generated in them an abiding resent- Ment of the financial methods of which they have been the confiding victims, The enlightenment thas given bérth to @ distrust of Wall strect magnates and a detestation .of their immoral financial manipulation which may never be eradicated. "tGOO-GOO EYES” ON THE 'L" The melee in an “I.” car growing out of what a passenger conceived to be an indecorous ogling of his Pretty wife by the man with the newspaper opposite I NOTE PE Billy Rowwow You WAIT FoR ME HERE WHILE eleieiriee iif bebe bint rt Some Men Love Two Women at By Helen Oldfield HERD be gome men, not e few who apparently find no diMculty infbeing in love with more than one yoman ata time, Not that they are de@ly in love with all. or any one of thea, but fairly fond of each, All that in necessary is that tip sev- eral objects of thelr divided affjotione shell reciprocate the attachmeft and dwell far enough apart not to with one another, All men object to sharing thg affac- ‘tions of the woman whom thy love with any other man, but all menpoarce- ly seem to hold that the rulejshould work both ways, or are faithffl unto death, in thought and act, as they de- mand that their wives shall be. It would appear that what such pen re- quire t# not #0 much love as pminine companionship and sympathy. and if the woman who holde the find mort- gage upon thelr hearts 1s ladting in these they deem it no harm ko seek them elsewhere, ‘Thero is tenable ground for thy change that the male of the human arfcies, in his natural state, is a polygfmist at heart. Christianity and civilization, marching hand in hand, inatt upon nonogomy, and marriage as a givil and brought all parties to the police station, but has so far settled nothing as to where the line is to be drawn be- tween the look proper and evincing respectful admira- tion in a man for one of the fair sex and the look las- Ciyious and insulting of the masher. If we could have ‘had Magistrate Cranc judge the case our doubts might be resolved. Magistrate Ommen left the question open. He Neglected the opportunity which his fellow-magistrate _ ‘would probably have availed himself by indulging in an extra-judicial dissertation on the ethics of “L” car ogling. ‘The public will regret the omission, The explanation of the offending person !s that he ‘was simply reading his peper and “happened to glance ft the lady in turning a page.” Whereupon followed the punch of the outraged husband which precipitated the fight. Of the exact nature of the glance in this cage the court proceeding: leave us still in ignorance, But sometimes that glance over the top of the column di- rected at a fair fellow-passenger is eloquent of many things. In it is ardor, udmiration, soulful yearning which only an icy reserve can withstand. Sometimes it fs rather watery and fishlike, bespeaking an emotion which might justify the use of u husband's fist. It is the part of wisdom for the passenger to “keep Bis eyes in the boat” and refrain from promiscuous Ocular gallantry. It is the part of good manners as well, THE PEN’S PROFITS. Two interesting Illustrations of the productive power of pen, ink and a paper pad are furnished by the current hews. Mr. Robert W. Chambers has just bought a $55,000 dwelling in East Eighty-third street from the proceeds of his novels, and the play “Zaza,” it develops from the court testimony in the Belasco suit, has earned its owner $200,000 in profits. Mr. Chambers takes an episode of history, say of the “A Wranco-Prussian war or of American colonial days, In- | Yests a few historic personages with a fictional interest, Ri makes them act ond talk in a presumably characteristic way, imbues his pages with a little local color and presto! @ romance which the public reads and for which his pub: lishers pay him royalties soon reaching the portly sum which makes the purchase of a house Possible, Thus doth the mental demonstrate the material, But the successful play's the thing for producing cash returns. Word for word, its entire length equalling that (of only a few chapters of the novelist's work, a play ke “Zaza” shows an earning capacity exceeding that of all other forms of literary composition. he In accumulating this large total of net returns it has incidentally paid the enormous salary of $1,000 a week to the actress who has made the play famous, supported Ree mumerous company of players and liquidated all the expenses of infinite vari ol 0% ite ois “a ft ite variety which a theatrical | Such are the playwright’s rewards and such the incen- tive that animates him to strive for dramatic fame. Yet Season's crop of good plays is said to be unusually The promising young Sardous and Pineros are Tmeking go0K.” he municipal Michael Angelo who! ited the allegorical panel in the Aldermanic chamber iting New York as receiving the tribute of na- Hons has run afoul of the critical objections of Mayor How's art commission. They find that the waist of one! figure, that of Agriculture, is too slim, and that Worn by another female figure !s too red, for the Fequirements. They have held up the artist Ought we not to rejoice at the higher level ‘the Municipal Art Commission, As little consideration a» if it were a bill for a Sympathy may be extended to the artis:,! of all morality and religih; “the strength of @ nation Js in its tom But in savage and sembolvilized countries the number of wives which a man may take is regulated soljly by his worldly, wealth, says Helen Gidfield in the Chicago ‘Tribune. No woman need hope to befall in all to 8 man, as he may perhaps be to her; she cannot rule a man's soul, no woman ever did, All she can ask onexpect is ‘that she shall be for him the die woman of all the world, Masculine nature 1s many sided, and there are thes when the most devoted husbands weary of the “solitude of two," so qirecious to many women, They love no other woman, but beyond thelr daving for the companionship of other, men they have @ fondness for pintoaic attach- ments, to women which sometimes cause much distress, nay ivep actual suffering to wives who ars unable to eccept ithe situation philosophically. ‘Again, there are cases yhich go to prove that some men reafy love two women swith almost equal %rvor at one and the same time. Guch nin apparent- ly possess @ dual nature an@ one woman satisfies the “Ego,” while the other ap- penis to the “I.” ‘Their experiences are in fact modified examplestof the story of “Dr. Jekyll and Mr, Hjde"—without crime beyond that of bigarty. Once in a while it transrfres that some man of recognized soclay position has led a double life for yews, the seem- ingly affectionate hustan f of two wives, netther of whom suspected the existence of the other. It may be safely said ttt no man ever lovel two women equal unless the two dwelt apart and the was of the sort with whom out ape is out of a a a mind, to whom that whith ts nearest in hand suffices #0 long asft is pleasant tn feep and lasting Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. AN IDEALJLIFE. bial Roader—It must be@fine livin’ up in Alaska Mosie Long—It's tog cold. Itgelf; men to whom a. attachment {4 imposslb' Roader- think J of sleepin’ six months, an' when y’ frit up find all de Mew aaAY To work covered up wit’ ¢now.—Butte Inter youse ,15ay"an’ Mountain. witst Love ae TOUCHED HIS PRIDE. Fos eveny tare Mrs, Goodart—If I (ve you a nickel| 4 orn Nou_ a2 0 ise me igot to buy whiskey | am iv what ¥ Ste yor | stan? ATS WOT NOU SE Hobo Hank—Sure § will, ma’am. 1 ered or ain't sunk so low asfter drink five-cent vhiskey.—Philedeiph'p Press, STAGE-DOOR +JOHNNIES. Comedian—The sou'frette told ner phy- sician that she wasfvery fond of out- door sports. Sweet Singer—I egies that's right. She is always flirting with tho stege |door ‘Johnnies.""—Chicago News. oe RD ILUCK, Young man," sai§ the girl's father, ‘do you reallse what you are under- I Mthink 60," stam- PLATFORM REPARTEE. port a tamily?" i! Havegyou lost your Joby’ solemn man with oy Important Mr, Peewee, the Great Little Man. # He Explores the Subway and Comes Out on a Blast, Much Quicker Than He Went In, Now THIS RAIL HERE] IS THE DEADLY + SRP RAIL. TO - N TOUCH THAT {S (NSTANT DEATH. UT AT PRESENT IT CAN BE HANDLED wiTH IMPUNITY, AS te: Crs saxe) DEATH DEAL CURRENT HAS'N BEEN TURNED ON i YES GIRLS, THIS IS THE SUBWAY. fhe Same Time. WONDERFUL PIECE OF WORK INDEED. \T COMBINES ALL THE. BEST FEATURES OF THE LONDON AND PARIS direct institution les at the fqundation Zz Z NOW THIS SECTION IS COMPLETED YET, So YOU CAN GET AN IDEA 0 How NOVEL-READING NELLIE. i 2 She Tries in Vain to Infuse Some Romance Into Her Friend “*Chimmie, Dents Coimmig 3! my 17 ON Him. EASILY EXPLA! Pca ar gf oyse: sap a chimnsy aweee why nth eee : a ‘enln PLD PN MES Fe eT HPT a SB heard @ college yoll.'’—| awe op THE w HVENING # WORLD'S # HOME w MAGAZINE 2 DoRament ORWARD, Wt Aa ten SPEAK To! ME: wets es FF a ws mt out oF is TH TEUIN' YER | diMoulty,in avoiding the posters.” A Job for the \ Municipal k Art Experts 66 SHE,” afd the Cigar Store-Man, “that the Munk cipal Art Commission has put the kibosh on @ Dainting an artist made for the pelling of tha Toom occupied by the Board of Aldermen.at tha City, Hall.’” “It's an awful slap at the artist,” replied the Mag Higher Up. “For mine, if I was going to get ang Painting done for the Aldermanic room in the City Hall, I'd hire the performers who put a picture of a-mea making a highbail on the side of a sixteen-story built ng in a working day of eight hours. The Aldermes would pass out a vote of thanks, “The Municipal Art Commission is wrong. Instead ‘~ of editing works of art intended for the gratification of the lamps of Aldermen who wouldn't know a Murill¢ from a landscape sawed out of the side of a moving van, they ought to get busy with the advertising posters the bill-stickers slam onto anything that hasn't got windows In it. These posters dre enough to give # mam the willies after a glass of buttermiik, “I don’t know qwhere the artists who manufacture Dosters get their models, buteI hava ® suspicion thet some people on Huber’s payroll are working overtime, I have to match pennies with myself evéry time I try ‘to case out whether the meh who have the posters made are trying to, get people to buy their goods or are trying to scare customers away. Most of the ade, with figures in ‘them remind me of the signa.you see- along fences up-State in county fair time, ' “The average illustrated ad. calling attention. clothing is enough to make a man wish he was Indian and could wear a blanket, rather than look the pictures. A poster artist has e passion for making men in such proportion that they could scratch theiy ankles without stooping, if they were alive. And neas ly all of the women they draw iook lfke working-oimh members of tho Blacksmiths’ Union. “The Municipal Art Commission might-do sliding @ painting off the ceiling of the City Hall cause the dress of the figure representing New is of too vivid a red. The red-light campaign te- The Aldermen would have no objection. to the boy taj the picture if he was twice as well developed tn legs as he is shown, and the kick of the Art Commission against the male Mgure in thé forex ground because the waist is too slim appeals only te such Aldermen as have to slide into thelr chatrs side.’ ‘weys. ‘ “What the Municipal Art Commisston ought-to-dots -> ‘hire about = thousand men ‘with axes and ocrepers, to put all the advertising signboards jn town out of business, Not one citizen in 100,000 will ever see the painting in the City Hall, but even a blind man has 7 “Are the members of the Municipal jArt Commisstosy eminent artists?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “Certainly not,” answered the Man Higher Ups “They are.representative cktizens. If they were artists the city would never get a picture hung nor accept a statue, and the meetings of the commission woul’ soon be advertised as hammer-throwing contests’ A Comic-Opera Prince. Prince Nicholas of Montenegro, the comic-opera culer off the Black Mountain principality, which has a population less than that of Rhode Island, was a great athlete in his young- r days and is still a good horseman, a capable shot and a t plendia swordsman. To his other attainments the Prince adds that of belng a “poet arid prose writer of no small talent, his ‘best-known work being a tragedy, "The Empress: of the Balkans.” His civil list, only $16,000 « year, 1s ample for his simple tastes, which never call for great expenditure, Plarriage,Age, ‘The average marriage age for men does not differ max terially in those countries where they keep accurate mar years. Among women it is also highest in @weden, twentw eight years, andj lowest in Russia, twenty-two years. A Town of Graybeards. ‘The town of Greenland, N. H,, with a population b; } last census of 008, can boast of having 10 per cent. population. past the- scriptural limit of life. ‘Two srg rt years, six Vetween eighty and eighty-five, and Taree: Genres seventy and eighty, Nearly all of ‘these enjoying the best of health. lice A Unique Church.