The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1903, Page 10

by the Prese Publishing Company, No. 63 to 62 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office _ aut Néw York as Second-Class Mall Matter. UME 44.00.0006 u0 NO. 16,447. NATION AND CITY. All eyes to-day are turned to Washington, where the ns hth Congress {s to begin its first regular session. ‘that is right, for there is something uplifting in the of a mighty nation, and when all the world respectfully to a President's message we must give heed to It, too. ‘MIR. REEWEE---ISN'T HE A GREAT bITTLe MAN? He Roots for Another Peewee at Madison Square Garden and Slightly Mars the Bicycle Race. Now You HAVE THE LEAD. f - GET AWAY FROM THE BUNGH. STEALA LAP! RAH = But while we are giving to Congress and the President > assurance of our distinguished consideration let us! © | neglect matters of even more practical importance | Ourselves. From The World's dome one can look out clear day over the homes of more people than were) fn the whole United States when George Wash- fugton opéned the first ‘session of the First Congress . the Constitution. More votes were cast for) @ hon of New York last month than were cast for! « dent of the United States when John Quincy Adams ‘deat Jackson. This city’s budget of revenues and Ye@mpenditures is nearly twice as great as that of the ‘was when the Republican party began the lease ‘power it has held, with brief intervals, ever since. New Yorker pays to his city government on an three times as much as he pays to the Govern- at Washington. ‘And the financial side is the smallest part of our in this huge world-city of ours. When the that now live within fifteen miles of our City ‘Were scattered in \ danipaial paged time over elght d thousand square miles" it was possible for a! to live his own life in his own cabin without’ ng about his neighbors. But now we are crowded one vast family. We all help to fix the quality of| the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, ) houses we live in, the pavements we walk on, the! The Girl Who bikes “The Boys.” By Nixola Greeley-Smith. HERB ts the society woman, horsy, @langy, loud-mouthed, who, when ehe wishes to refer to the masculine half of creation, talks about “the men.” ‘There {s the more nedate middle-class person, who invariably says "the gen- tlemen."* ‘There ts the shop gitl, who discourses to her interested associates of “the fel- lers,"* and there ts the girl who talks of the plainest self-interest. The New Yorker about “the boys tries to ignore his duty to the community {s a fool. | Buppose we try a race with Congress, Let us see how] ‘we can do in the way of making this a better city | live in before our Representatives come home from tells the frients whom she meets on her afternoon shopping tour, or “A whole crowd of boys came in and wanted to make a ‘rabbit.’ On Sunday, tf she happens to teach POOR CANADA! Sunday-school, she discourses of the boys and the “rabbit” to her class, and Wt is annoying to hear these Canadians boasting about! the assembled urchins are only too giad to divert her from her half-hearted ques- t ents of their ridiculous little country. Do Bean Go He emany booeal diate are know that in the year 1901 there were only 322] in the Bible and what the word Bible “All the boys were up at my house] % and we hada,bully:time last night," ehe | « women in all Canada, against 1,059 in the| Comes from to the less exacting topic of her own popularity. State of Rhode Island the year before and 2,061 in ‘Who sent her the hage bunch ‘of vio- ‘this city? We could fill the Metropolitan Opera House lots at her corsage? a owith divorcees. In the whole province of Ontario, with Peas ly ma at which one of “the Over two million inhabitants, only forty-eight divorces) "> jiany of them send her flowers, have been granted in thirty years, and some years there| the silly things! And all violets—for, y mone. You can’t get a divorce there without an act| they now who doesn't care for! to compare herself] *"y other flows And when she goes home she rprinkles the United States, which had 114,965 divorced] ms rccous punche the first ohe has had and 84,903 divorced men in 1900, including 30} in a month, orobably—swathes # In tis- girls under fifteeen years old dnd 2,427 more|sue paper gn pute ft In the (oebox or out the window. For {f anv of the boys should by any chance drop in that evening the violets must be on duty, and perhaps recrutt A POLICY OBJECT LESSON. another bunch for the next day. Yesterday morning, when children were pouring from] “ihe gir) wto talks about “the boys" @heltered homes into Sunday-school, a shivering boy of | is a sad firt. She tells you 0. She tells “the boys” ® — RIT OY wa, 9D iA Stenographers’ Union Next? # 2 -&# % RM Here Are Some of the Demands They May Make Upon Employers. CHRISTHAS 29 ONLY THRER WEEKS ofr oe The Free § and Unlimited Coinage of Slang.” ev —_ 447 SDH,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, “that Frederick Manley, of Harvard University, made a speech to the Essex County (N.J.) Teachers’ Association plugging tor the free and unlimited coinage of slang. “What is commonly regarded as slang by people who cannot stand for language unless it has the kosher seal on St,” said the Man Higher Up, “is simply a short cut to perfection of expression. The father of the Eng- lish language was a committee. It is a hash of words, derived, dragged, exploded, blasted, yanked, pulled, hauled, pushed, boosted, slid, rolled, jerked, kidnapped, swiped, dug, lifted and otherwise extracted from all other $ |languages, living and dead—mostly dead. What is i known as slang is the embalmer of English that is de- would remember it. Expressions that were branded joss, Ministers use slang in their pulpits, not because more reform spelling and expression stunts framed ceased and is not wise to the fact. 3 with the slang brand ten years ago are as thick in the they want to, but becauso they can’t get away from It. up every week than there are patents taken out on air NUNS THREE TIMES ENC @ WEAK IN SEASON, ov . Marae ware? ae SY& SHALL B Wind eons Lunty - OF -To cvusromers geo! (N OECENMBER— TUSK SEFORE CHRISTMAS. “There is slang in the original’ English version of the Bible; Shakespeare was the George Ade of his time, $ and our own early authors didn’t brush by when they found a way to say something so that their readers’ is dictionaries to-day as bones in a shad, $ “To use slang—as it is understood—nowadays is-no ilonger considered assault and battery on good taste ex- @ cept by those who have grown to consider usage as a The people find it so much easier to talk simply and to the point that their example spreads to the preachers. “The wise scholars are getting search warrants every r day for defects in the Hnglish language, and there aro O/RECTLY OVER,.AER DESK sate SHALL 88 PLACED ON ORY, PLEASANT DAYS, —~10#I1, ON WET DAYS, eleven ‘was arraigned in the Jefferson Market Court. He fhad been caught in a raid on a policy shop. His Mother had forcel him to walk seven or eight miles ‘their home in the Bronx to the joint on East h street to risk the ¢amily's last 25-cent piece on > the game that made Al Adams rich and thousands beg- ‘gars. Just allow that picture to soak into your mind then try to measure the quality of the “good fel- 34 in politics who license the policy robbers to prey ocean poor for a share of the dirty receipts. ARMED TO THE TEETH. “The frenzied race of armaments goes on without cens- ing. Submarines. battleships, Krupp armor and high- ‘powered guns tumble in mad profusion from the treasu- of the nations. And now the British Government | taken advantage of the public absorption in the eontfoversy to Jaunch upon a new and momentous} undertaking. “By direction of the Admiralty,” the London Times, ‘every boy on board the Ing ships at Portsmouth has been supplied with a! jh. But before we throw stones at this British extrava- gance let us be sure that we are not living in a glass! house ourselves. Over ten years ago it was discovered on the floor of the House of Representatives that a! Pending appropriation bill contained an item providing for soap for the cadets at West Point. If memory do mot betray us, the statesman who exposed that job is ‘still in-Congress. Who can be sure that soap and even #0. Do vou think Tam a fiirt?’ juires archly of every new pre- mted to her, and before the somewhat @azed person has time to frame a pro- ver reply. “The boys say Taman awful flirt! Do you think so?" And, of course, the new man gallantly thinks #0, What else fe there left for him to do? To her girl friends she 1s even more startling “Don't sit on that sofa." she says to| ‘ the astonished caller, “I would rather you wouldn't,” and having thus called attention to the very urromantio plece of mohair furniture, she adds. ‘'T sat there yesterday with, some one I know and I had much a good time." MInquiry as to the nature of the good time throws the vouns woman into reminiscent reverie, from which # ens to say with vague ten- —just spooning—with one For even in the discussion of her affairs she clings to the tmpre: plural. Such Is her love for numb that, conversationally at least, a! talks, she flirts, she sfoons with the magnificent generality “the boys.” Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. METHODICAL. “You fy you never eat your Thanks- giving dinner until after sunse’ NOVEL - READING ad $ 2 OUT o ME way Tu. E Give Si CHAMES CULLEN A Tum in of ger’! interference of the Soclety for the Prevention of ity to Animals to prevent the chase of a tame deer Lakewood is resented by the “hunters,” who assert ‘they have no intention of hurting their pet, No! they are sincere, but as a guarantee of good faith} d it not be well for them to pull the teeth of the before they start? Of course, in that case there dbo the danger that the ferocious deer might turn rend his pursuers. The fate of the hunter who was “with his own gun by a rabbit that jumped out of upon the barrel ought to be a warning to city, le who venture upon these perilous enterprises, Sweatshop»,—Cardinal Gibbons urges us all to ‘the sweatshops by refusing to buy their products, plan if we can distinguish sweatshop prod- < | other kinds. Perhaps a “fair treatment” Ia- plan of the union label, awarded by a com commanding public confidence to those operated under civilized conditions, migat Pin tho Court of Appeals decision es- it, a8 the limit for loans on salaries ‘agencies may feel that their line thritt, for it whl be hard “Never,” replied Mr. Biiggins. ‘‘T was wait till the football game ta over, and then, if Josh hasn't any bones broke, we go ahead with the ceremony.’ Wamhington Star. A BAD FAULT. She—She's really too young to go shopping alone. He—Yes, e@e in rather tmpreastongble, She—How do you méan? He—She'a liable to get excited and buy soniething.—-Philadelphia Pres. LOVE IN LIMERICKS. There was a young fellow named Leicester q In love with a damsel named Helcester. @he was a coquette, And when he called her “Puet She giggled: "You're only a felce At this; the young fellow named Tat- ctster | itighs Tke @ raging nor’ wet- ister. ‘They melted her heart, And with movements Delsarte Bhe yielded, and Leicestor caretcenter. —Chicago ‘Tribune. EASILY BELIEVED, “Many have sald that {f Longfellow were U¥ing to-day he could not sell his poems,” temarked the girl with the Peay: sure of {t,"" replied the amateur poet.""Why, I haven't deen able to sell mine.""-—Philadelpila Record. AMIRROR~ ships. Many of the guys with the biliboard foreheads ' run to phonetic spelling, and a column of the‘stuff they’ write looks like type set with a pitchfork. We don’t need any spelling reforms or any other kind of reforms.; All we need is a licehse to say what we have to say ina way easily understood and the language will reform itself. 4 “The effectiveness of what is considered slang by the’ Phrists is best tested in conversation with a foreigner} who is trying to get next to the curves of English, If you don’t like his conversation and tell him that unless, he ceases his remarks you will caress his visage wit” the extreme end of your right arm, the chances are: that he will take off ‘his hat and attempt to shake hands! with you. But if you tell him that if he don’t choke yow'll break his face he'll either put up his guard or. make a play for a stiletto.” * “Do you think the use of slang will become uni- versal?” asked the Gigar Store Man. : “Hardly,” responded the Man Higher Up. “The dig percentage of people who think it eminently respectable to play tradition straight, place and show, will never! be eliminated.” Lace That Grews; ‘The lace bark tree (Lagetta lintearga,/one of the Daph« nads) mpy perhaps be called an éccentyfclty of nature, {nner bark, when stretched laterally, resembles Ince so} nearly ‘that it can be, and is, put to the ordinary uses of} lace. In Jamaica, where this lofty tree grows in abundance, | the bark is made into ruffles, collars, purses, caps, doili &c, The negroes also make durable clothing ¢rom it, whilw the white Inhabitants use dt for ropes and cables, 7 4 A whip made from this tree was brought recently. trem, Jamaica. The handle, ends in a rosette, which is fathed| merely) by a, loosening of the inner bark, But much tion {s necessary to persuade most persons that this is the case, and that @ rosette of ordinary lace has not ten af-| fixed to the wood. The whip ‘one piece" throughout, the! re being plaited to form the long, strong lash, © A Governor of Jameica is said to°-heve presented: Chartes! 11, #kh = cravat, frill and ruffles made of this natural Inee.! : -~¢ A Record Flight. A remarkable story of ‘the filght of @ carrier pigeon; comes from Galt Lake City. A pigeon recently fell exhausted! on the steps of a house there, and on its leg wes a tiny Vand) bearing the inscription, “J. H. K., Jr, H. M. 6, Aliana’) The Alliance Asiatic station, and as the bint caked ‘ith ‘sattitt ts mippowed'to fave fown across the ic. > & THE 8033 MUST. NOT CATECT To COMPANY PVRIN BvVSING ou 7 NELLIE M’GEE. 2 # 2 # & w& OW, GEE! Look AT OM tL IAT O&M O00 FER _. AFreak Fire. , After pidticking under a ha: @ party of hofl makers near Mantauban, France, left an empty ginger’ bottle standing up on the ground. The stin's rays bec focused through the glass and set the eteck‘alight. It Vurned to the ground. Fi iB ate An Earl-linister; Rev. John Sinclair, the eighteenth ari of Caithness, haa| Just been pastor of ‘the First Presbyterian Chureh; installed of Brookline, Mass, The Warl, as long as he lives,’ mill