The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1903, Page 14

by the Prese Publishing Company, No. 58 to © Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OfMfice it New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. NO. 15,449. MAKING A MODEL CITY. ‘The American Institute of Social Service has com- ‘® model town at the expense of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who has given $2,500,000 for the purpose. There are to ‘be a district set aside for a “City Beautiful;” a regional “Mitiseum, devoted to the industries of the neighborhood; gocial centre, a department of civics, flower gardens for girls and boys, playgrounds, outdoor gymnasia, he tours, pilgrimages to historic places, get- “Qogether clubs, and a systematic distribution of prizes. Life in Dunfermline is to be one unbroxen. Joy. New York is about 150 times as large as Dun- ‘fermiine. If we were to undertake to improve our Municipal conditious on the scale provided for by Mr. Carnegie in the Scotch town it would cost us about ,000, or, considering the higher prices here, prob- evly $500,000,000. By starting us on that road Mr. @arnegie could achieve his ambition of dying poor, ‘Tt is not likely that any multi-millionaire will ever “pay the cost of turning Now York into a model city, | ‘ although Mr. Rockefeller could do it If he chose; nor; do ‘we need to depend upon such help. New York is ‘able to transform herself, at her own expense; and just as fast as her people become educated to the importance of ) work it will be done. Help from millionaires will ‘not be despised. The city has wisely gone into ‘partnership with philanthropists, in many cases to the 2 i advantage. The Metropolitan Museum of Art been built and maintained chiefly at the public 4 whily it has been stocked and endowed pally by private benevolence. The Public Library : its branches owe their splendid growth to the joint Just beginning to take shape in the public mind, it is fully formed there will be developments $09$-06600000060400000000U 3 Who Wears a 3 Brown Derby. |; } \¢ By Nixola Greeley - Smith.|¢ OU can count on the fingers of one Y hand the men you know who wear brown derbies. For brown derbies are no longer fashionable, And when you have counted them, youe Will realize, if you have never done so before, that there is always something the matter with the man with the brown derby. That-is, unless that will make the world sit up and open its eyes. SPENCER AND HIS WORK. le spirit of Astor, Lonox, Tilden, Carnegie and the ers. The American Museum of Natural History, f Zoological Park and the Aquarium are public and partnership enterprises. But the conception of New York as a model city is “The despatches said that Herbert Spencer dled qeiterday It was a mistake. Herbert Spencer {is not When Providence permitted him to live until he had finished the Synthetic Philosophy it allowed him $6, live as long as his work should endure. For t's work was himself; it absorbed him utterly, ore life held nothing outside of it. There will never Spencer controversy, such as disturbs the bones ef the roaring, human, faulty Carlyle. _ No doubt Spencer’s philcsophy will be superseded fn'time. Part of it is passing away already. Based on Befentific knowledge that was changing every day, it not have the immortality of the Greek phil- @sophy, floating in pure thought. But ft can never be @eprived of the glory of having been one of the chief forces by which the human mind was shifted in the Aatter part of the nineteenth century from the con- eeption of a watchmaker’s universe to that of one @overned by uniform and universal law. THE UNPARDONABLE SIN. _ “There can be no crime more serious than bribery,” gays President Roosevelt in his message. The briber is “worse than the thief,” and “as wicked as the mur- derer, for the murderer may only take one life against the law, while the corrupt official and the man who _ corrupts the official alike alm at the assassination of the commonwealth itself. Government of the people, by the people, for the people, will perish from the faco of the earth if bribery is tolerated.” If the President feels that way about the common, retail briber, what must he think of the wholasale| )) yillain who tries to buy an entire State? It would not De) safe for Addicks or Quay to go within hailing dis- tance of the White House. In his uncontrcllable indignation, Mr. Roosevelt might hurl an inkstand through the window. As to an office on the demand of a corruptionist—well, who can imagine the President doing that v be described by Prof. Manley, of Harvard, as a Person with “bats in his belfry.” *STHE FLIGHT OF THE “BUZZARD.” ‘The indications are that some one of the unemployed j fill yoon havo a chance to secure a nice, refined job,} which, if it cannot be called permanent, will at least te Wkely to last for life. In the nature of things there must be a vacancy in the position of aerunautic assistant )Prof. Langley before long. The Professor's flying ma- ‘Chine Buzzard has just turned another somersault, bury- @ the navigator under a pile of wreckage. By a mir- he escaped with life and limb, but it Is plainly out the question to expect such hick to continue much With heroic devotion to tho welfare of science Prof. a sternly represses his own desire to enjoy the of flight in his own machines, He realizes that life could be ill~spa ed by the world; #0 he leaves this iturous delight to assistants, who are cheap and replaced. As long; as the appropriation holds out ill continue * balid mechines which, if they do not at feast Jump. The advocates of ship subsidies congratulate themselves upon the fact that if the uf the soa is not subsidized, that of the air is, i “point with pride” to the results. —They are teaching the value at Harvard-now, ond President Roosevelt, as a rd map, naturally “stands in.’ cannot 9 let up tis this great work,” he exctilms in h's And again: “This great enterprise of building’ eanle canal cannot be held up." And Harvard Conese “That message is a peach with ets ‘=o a gang of counterfeiters reaily 1 than $10,000,000 out of the tn-; ing peper mon Appalling! a3 even a twon- ta of tho Steel Trust’ by. printh ‘rm berg be a alster to ie, your point of view Is such that vou r?- gard him as a “sport,” a thoroughbred, @ go>’ fellow, and yourself as another. % But tn that case probably you wear a @ brown derby, too. Sometimes, of course, the brown derby is merely the neces- sary complement of the faultlessly English appearance which many other- wise harmless New Yorkers think it; necessary to affect. H But as a rule it marks the well-bred sport, the man whose clothes are re- puted ‘etter than his morals; who ts! @ bachelor at thirty-five because he | 3 rewards life as a feast at which per- thavs a wife may come on with the cheese to help digest all the other | @ things, Sometimes, though, the man with the ‘brown derby {s married. In that case; ‘heaven—and possibly something more immediate—pity ‘this wife, He ioves the| dear little simpleton who gave ‘her life to him so confidingly—of course he does ¢ not a woman in New York j a finer set of furs than those $ he gave her last Christmas, That does | not prevent him, however, from telling the.girl sitting opposite him at Rector’s that #he Is deucedly handsome, and ask- inz her if she thinks that Just because | 4 a man is married he must deny himself the many beautiful friendstilys that may exist between men and women, “His wife?” euggests his companion, What hes that to do with it? thought she was beyond such petty con- ventions—that she was Indeed “one of us," whatever that may mean. to be, good evening and says very po- litely that he has enjoyed haying her dine with him very much and that 1 hopes to repeat the pleasure. And he , and the girl knows, that he wi ver ask her again; that the courteous of the brown derby Is probably the last ehe will ever see of It. When he replaces the brown derby it fs a little more on one side than ysual For the man with the brown derby always wears s hat on one alie, like his head, perhaps, and unlike his heart, which !s on every side. Then he goes home to his wife and grcets her quite as affectionately as though “important business at the of fico" had not compelled him to dine at Rector's with another woman. (nd of course he doesn’t love his wite any less, She would not object If she knew about {t and understood. But then—women never do understand these things. Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. ON THE SOUTH SIDE. Mr, Stubb—Yee, most of them have a squeaky phonor7aph.—Chicago News. HADN'T REACHED IT. “How do you like that new smoking tobacco mixture T am puttlag on the market, oid man?” “Well, 1 can't say just yet. You see, I am still picking out the stictcs, chunks of wood, pleces of gravel,'hair and cou- pons. When I reach the tobacco."i'll Answer your question." — Cincinnati ‘Times-Star. HIGHER THOUGHTS, “You look like a regular beor guzzler. Don't your thoughts ever rise above beer?” |,.*Yem mum: often t'ink of de is-cent drinks. But what's de use when a gent ain't got de price?’—Kansas City Jour- nal. THE RELATIONSHIP, Jack—Did_ 1 understand you to say \that De Jones was related to you by marriage? { Tom-Te: POS DOSE HOSSO099OH9G9EG4 14 FOG4EGOOEGEHEE he married a girl who Chicago Sasey Sue for Harlem bent Flapping madly from a strap, ae“ ee Ves TOOTSIE DEAR, THIS BRIDGE}- 27> = CRUSH (S DANGEROUS Se 7 A <\ TO BOTH LIFE AND(g, mm # LIMB, BUT my FERTILE BRAIN HAS DEVISED A SCHEME WHEREBY, THIS AWFUL JAM GET DIREGTLY BEHIND courts! STAND GIVE THE RARIES CHANCE: e Dixie « The Goon Kid Ais Experience with Christmas Sidewalk Merchants Terminates D'<astreu rod Cad Cd a OAS A YIM HONEY DOODLE BUG — EF HE AINT Gor No STINGER I JES GUESS Tix Buy im = SN le 35-9] SY" po On Bucs , Gy BRCCo7 MAY BE AVOIDED, 5 4 You SEE THAT FAT{ CR ze MAN! WE WILL ~ 6 RL Laden down wit bundles went Bouncing 'round from lap tc lap, The Man iThe Important Mr, Peewee, the Great Little Man. 2 Re Solves the Bridge Crush for Miss Sixfoot—but Only Theoretically. 3 THIS TRAIN FOR \ SHEEPSHEAD BAY,| ¢ BAWtH BEACH AND \_ WCONEY ISLAND. /—~ Sportal ~ B00-H00! SOMEBODY STOP THE MOUTHFUL ALONG Sine SAY, DAS A CLGRLOELODVOVE VHGHHD ©9$HOOF4O0HO0O00000000000: -- By the Creator of “Sunny Jim.” « .2 SHE GOES. TO da le : All the men sat still; at last Sue Cried: STEP Sr COME ON TOOTSIE - FALL IN- DONT BE AFRAID. JUST HOLD GooD BYE PEEWEE TRY IT WILL MAKE re ral ‘We havo got to be swifter. “AiN’t you got homes, dod gast you?" & & ot) The 1903 Crop ot Christmas Shoplifters. ‘ SEE,” sald the Cignr Store Man, “that the Police are harvesting the usual crop of re-. spectable Christmas shoplifters.” “It's a bum harvest, compared with the % |CPop,” replied the Man Higher Up, “If every woman of respectable home influences who nicks the department stores were pinched at Christmas time the courts would have to work nights. I was talking to a store detective the other day. He told me that to spot everybody who la stealing in a crowded store is like telling the num- bers on bills in a man’s pocket at a mass-meeting. They can get next to the professionals, but the woman who — has a visage like an afiidavit can float serenely from’ one counter to another and swipe so softly that a: clairvoyant wouldn't be one, two, three in getting next.. “What causes it? Example. There was a time when‘ Stealing at stores was codfined almost entirely to! crooks who stole for a living. In those days the stores were not so big, and opportunity didn’t step out and shake hands with the customers at every turn, Publica and private honesty was at par, and to steal was td Take an advance payment on a round-trip ticket to the jlsland or to Sing Sing. The methods of high finance have spread into all classes, Men who hava jbeen publicly branded as thieves circulate in the best ~ |Soclety and lead reform movements for honest govern- ~» |ment because they have been steered in such a way as to evade the law. You may not think that the com- munity in gencral pays any attention to all this, but you can bet your Franklin Syndicate stock against a: shipbuilding plant in the Rocky Mountains that the community in gencral keeps closer tab on the big handlers cf money than the officers of the law do, “Continual exposures of graft undermine the sens9’ of public honesty; and this, in connection with the, high price of provisions and other necessities, increased. rents, exorbitant gas bills and annoying transit facill- tiea, gives people a grouch. It is more or less dis- heartening for a woman whose hugband makes a moderate salary to see the cost of living going up all the time and the same figures on the pay envelope that were there three or four years ago. “Coming on Christmas, when there are Presents to be bought by the bale, and only assets enough in sight, to buy presents enough to fill a paper tag, many women’ get desperate, They go into the great emporiums and see things spread out, apparently as free as the dirt on the strect. That the end justifies the means, is a principle grounded in a woman's nature, and, while most of them keep it strangled, there is no telling when it 1s going to come to life. A quick grab, a slip under {he cloak, and something coveted is stacked away.” “Do you believe in kleptomenia?”’ asked the Cigar Store Man. “Sure,” answered the Man Higher Up. ‘We are ali Isleptomaniacs, but only a few of us have the nerve ta work at it.” , Where Women Tell Age. ‘Usually only cruel necesalty woul’ compel an unmarried Woman to acknowedge herself oventieaety In the face of a large public meeting. But Miss Vide ‘Goldsteip; a female candidate for the Commonwealth Setate in Victoria, did not shrink from the ordoal, for thirty Us the minimum statutory ~ age for an Australian Senator. ‘In the opening speech of her campaign, delivered in Portland, her birthplace, she contra~ dicted the report that she was ouly twenty-five and boldly proclaj:ned herself thirty-two, oa i A Drink Record, ° cs Archdencon Sinclair at a recent temperance meeting tn England quoted’ the following from tne diary of, #.Mooteh, ®iepherd: “Sunday—Up jn the morning at ¢~-— dram, Went out to Bee'the siidm—a dram, Came home $e, orpektqatrest.), dram, | Loafedarouh( the houte—a dram. » Weahed andorg dressed for ‘ohurth—a ram, ‘Took.a, brandy. befor. soing!#oote kirk, lont I show ‘emell of whiskey in the.’ Of tho 11 Lord." Ane 2 * Pee allyer weddings on the same day last week. a nD, inuaresting fact thatodwhile these 'preintes bave tsa \