The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1903, Page 14

by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. UME 44..... NO. 15,451, fe td one tet aaa IAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT MEANS. ‘There is nothing so important, nothing so fascinating, ? when they are read in the light of imagina- ‘What sensation of the day can compare in inter- with the cold figures of Health Commissioner Led- ‘@le’s just-pudlished report, which most people have bly skipped for an account of the latest matrimonial ghufle in nociety? In the two years from 1900 to 1902 the death rate in York declined from 20.57 to 18.75 per 1,000. What that mean? It means that the absolute number of ths in this city actually fell off in those two years by $,787—trom 70,872 to 88,085—notwithstanding an increase population of at least 200,000. It means, in the next that over 4,000 additional lives were saved as com- 4 with the number that would have been lost if the death rate had remained the same in 1902 as in 1900. the increased population of last year the old rate id have given nearly 7,000 more deaths than there lly were. i In other words, we have saved lives enough to balance entire mortality in a city the size of Buffalo, Of ten lives that would have been lost among us we saved onc. And even that is only the beginning. very death represents perhaps ten times as much dis- that is not Immediately fatal. If the number of ba- killed by Intestinal diseases has been reduced by 858 one year, as Dr. Lederle says it has, we may be sure hat the numter of sickly, wilting bables that just man- to keep alive has been reduced by thousands upon nds. And what a revealing stream of light is n upon the improved conditions of life in the tene- Ments by the pl tement that the number of deaths pm consumption has been cut down by 560 in a year! _. The advance in the public health is ascribed by Dr. i je to the measures taken by the Health Department t6 assure medical care and proper feeding to the chil- ren in the tenement districts, to the work of the Tens- fent-House Department in improving the dwellings ot ge part of the population, to the efficient care of the 1s by the Department of Street Cleaning, and to the #8 use of water from the city hydrants. There Is “wt much to do In all these directions, and there is spe- B Yeint need for a vigorous campaign against adulterated Upon the course of the new administration in these zm will depend ten or fifteen thousand lives in the next two years and the happiness or misery of scores of thousands of homes, Do we need any further Incentive = to keep our cyos upon our servants in the City Hall? CAN'T WE GAG OUR FIGHTERS? Gen. MacArthur denies that he made the sensational a irks attributed to him, calling upon the Hawaiian militia to be ready for an impending war with Germany, Wht his observations were reported In such detail that , it seems hardly possible that the whole account could ob been fictitious. He must have sald something to furnish a basis for tho story, like various othér dis: tinguished officers whose indiscretions have kept the ernment busy explaining, to meet the possible contingency of war, it is natu- eral that they should have that subject constantly in _ their minds, but if it, is impo " Bottled up it would seem desirable, in the Interest of relations with friendly powers, to warn them at not to use real names in speaking of supposititious mies. A reference te war with “Power X" would OUR MILLIONAIRE CROP. }). Senator Depew's' estimate that there are 100,000 mil- “Hlonaires in the United States seems to lean more toward | etic license than toward mathematical exactness. total wealth of the United States was estimated in “1600 at $94.000,000,000, If every willionaire had just a on dollars a hundred thousand of them would have ©, else. But one man ts supposed to have a thousand mil- "e: Ifons, another has over three hundred millions, and there tre scores of fortunes of from twenty millions upward. Tf the millionaires averaged only five millions apiece, 100,000 of them would have $500,000,090,000, which would very close to the total wealth of the civilized d. Mr. Depew may live to see his statistics come Re ) ~~ * Gerator Smoot, of Utah, is thinking of moving his “amily to New York. He has six children, but only cne it Lake the Smoot: may find New York something like ictionary which the man who tried to read it ou described as “interesting, but changing the sub- ect too often.” In the snctal circles in which a Senator ould naturally expect to move six children and the wife for nineteen yeurs would seem an oddity. isa little old-fashioned in this affair of matri- To be sure, there was formerly a certain liber- e In the matter of the sizo of a family, but even ‘would not have occurred to Brigham Young him- @ contract an engagement with another man’s wife, to the approval of a divorce court. # im the South.—Who says there 1s no enter- the Gouth? New Orleans has just organized a steamship company to trade with the Orient by of the Panama Canal, which will certainly not be bored of six years, and perhaps not for ten, Ap- New people go on the theory that p Sam says ho will do a thing it is as 7004 a8 Sun thinks that no Issue ibly uriso between a ‘'mentleman,’ Boro Uke Gov. Odell. Never- As generals and admirals | ® ‘le to keep their thoughts | SRY; 1TS A WON- DAH SOME PEOPLE WouLpbNT HIRE A EXPRESS WAGON! NOW WOULDNT DAT HUMAN FREIGHT, CAR BUMP You! The Woman Who Can kove in Moderation By Helen Oldfield. T 1s not wise to love too well; to put all one’s eggs in one basket. saying goos. Exgs are fra few baskets over-strong; If there comes a crash, as well may hap, since the best Inld plans often miscarry, the un- lucky owner's hopes and happlaess are ehattered along with the eggs, and the mischief Is irremediable. ‘The human {s too frail a founda%on upon which to build for all time, much less for eternity. We cannot always reckon surely upon ourselves nor forer see what we may do under contrary and constraining circumstances; still leas can we be certain of othe Such people, who take the safe middle sentimental, who have no intense feel- ings of any kind, but who do all things in moderation, are beyond doubt true Philosophers, and their calm content ts enviable. If they never experience rap- ture, nelther do they agonize in despair; [it they are never caught up to the nov- enth heaven of bliss on the one hand, on tho other they recnain ignorant of what it means to be cast down to the lowest depths of woo, to le crushed and broken-hearted, ¢ursing fate and long- causeway of life, who are frankly un- | « Aw, COME ON, MISTAH MAN-JES LEMME How. ONE OB DEM THERES THAT COON, SOME BEG PAWDON, SAH! BuT YOUS GOT A TERRIBLE LOAD ON JES LEMME GIVE YOH AV 1 HELPIN’ HAS? The Important Mr, Peewee, the Great Little Man. aw wa wQ fie Wins a Prize, for Which He Was Not Exactly Competing, at a Baby Show. {Do You NOTICE TOOTSIE DEAR, HOW THE CHILDREN J ry i TAKE TO ME. | HAVE (Moat \ PER- 1 f, ge SON- SF > SJWHICH EVEN $6003} THEY, CANNOT, sae LRESIST. \s MY LITTLE MAN, WHEN YOU GRow UP, | .HOPE} Se YOU WILL BE ACREDIT S$ TO YOUR MAMA. OLLOW THE —— PRECEPTS DA-DA-j lw ing for the death which rarely comes quickly to those who covet It, says ‘They love, they fear, they hope, they pray, they fuifl all their duties to earth and to heaven on the broad principles of moral economy, and, having Hved income and soul Income—nor ever per- mitted themselves extravagance in cither, they entertain reasonable hopes of continued well being beyond the grave—hopes which no man can say are not Ikely to be realized, since yon nts, according to thelr lights. How- , these wise men and women who ovey the apostiv’s injunction of modera- tlon, even in their love affairs, are te be congratulated rather than lau The exercise of Judgment is a: |tfal in love as in any other life; more so when {t comes to marriage, ts by far the moat important ste: existence of a woman and gearce- sso in that of a man. For it wa partnership more lasting than any other can be formed, a union which the man and woman together in jation which {s elther the sweet- ext or toe most galling known to hu- manity. For good or evil, marriage akes its lasting mark on man and on the bond, the breaking must burt, and no power on earth can remove the scars jot the yoke; nether wife nor husband may ever be as though they had not been wed. Prudence and foresight are not to be confounded wjth cold blooded calcula- tlon, It may 90 safely asserted that no love can endu rooted in matual respect and good faith. Lo worth while to weigh the metal test, @moe they who barter all their heant's treasure for fool's gold are henceforth bankrupt. —— Some of the Best Jokes of the Day. USELESS WORK. "Bob seems to have shaken off his hay fever." “Yes, His employer couldn't spare him long enough to go away to ane of the | keep up the sneezing.”—Cleveland Plain | Dealer. i WELL NAMED. /@he In down on the bilis as the ‘Bur- Hesque Beaut: sald the first sov- | brette. “Well,” replied the other, “that word Just about dessrives the style of her beauty, sure enovgh.—Philadglphia Ledger. A BARGAIN. “{ wont to California,” said the dis- Ungalshed Western man, “as a forty- jn | “Dear me," rejoined the very annoying girl, “were you marked down from ffty?’'—Washington Star. TRANSFIGURED. Helen Oldfield tn the Chicago Tribune. h they have been good and faithful | % as many counterfelts, and it ls; « which glitters so brightly, to try the ° § gold in the fire, painful as may be the « resorts and so It was no use for Bod to | a MADAM ~\T AFFORDS ME GREAT. ON YOUR’ FINE CHILD. IT SHOULD PLEASURE TO AWARD HAVE THE BLVE RIBBON BY ALL MADAM= ALLOW ME TO CONGRATULATE yep} _—_—— prudently within their incomes—money 4 woman alke; though the law may break Goqrerenenentnenenanenantnenttntnte puta tnt tote bn tonne nnn inane beee tithe Peewee prize headline a.d went app ned toM tserererentnenenertnerentutrantac@ctntrontrtnt-OuntetuOutneutnd~gnO-tnOnOnentrerentnte Sno which is not securely |‘ = (Now, CHimMiIE .We'LE Have ARAVin’ LOVE ect RIGHT OUT i ei ore OBO ‘Now You SuT-uP | MESS A FRENZIED KES OW AE Ruoy ues! (Ke stil shia ) SOGSEITRISEIIGED d820? “Never did see a culled angel in de plotur’ books, did you?’ “Never did ‘hat do you reckon ts de reason?" yc would be «lad to} “Dey getw a0 skeered de devil\ will) the matter im | ketoh Sih x on de way dar Gat dey turns IN RUSSIA. “What is the matter, Michael Poblo- donoskaveskioft?"" SiS anes epede Blows, hbo, aad | grtend. y BOSTON BLUE, “Oh, dear.’ sighed tom slyde Park “IT fell awfully blue this morn NO FUN ANY MORE. they're “Sienton—A deat oye next \ MARGARET HUBBARD AYER. This {s the daughter of the late Harriet Hubbard Ayer, who will continue her mother’s work on The Evening World. Miss Ayer is a student along the same special lines as her motier and {s entirely competent to write with authority on all subjects of feminine beauty and; « behavior, as well as on all home topics. SEE,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that the spec tators at the sjx-day bicycle race are getting ° The Man Higher Up. ees Amenities of the SixeDay Race, A | so soused with excitement that they frequently paste each other in the puss.” “People who go to a six-day bicycle race,” answered the Man Higher Up, “carry a badge entitling them to do any old thing. If the race lasted a month the most of them would be getting out of cabs at the front- doors of multy mansions, You read a lot in the papers about the riders going daffy and being drenched with dope, but the riders are entitled to more wisdom diplomas than the bug spectators. “Hundreds of men and women hang onto the six-day: race like a sober, elderly person to a job, They ef in the Garden for hours and hours, kalsomine their Jungs with tho eruptions of bad cigars, bow! until their throats are sore, loce sleep and meals, and ere glad of it. For the other fifty-one weeks in the year they are normal citizens, “They don't infest the Garden because they Hke ta see men drill around the ring on bicycles. They go because it is the popular impression that the racers are suffering the keenest mental and physical agony. ‘There is enough of the barbarian stored away in the average New Yorker to make him interested in the slight of another person suffering, whether the suffering is phony or not. “And. there is always a chance of a rider falling oft his machine and breaking his neck. With a chance of a fatat accident and a certainty of seelng men pre- tend to be swimming in misery, there is enough to in- terest the morbid. ‘ “With the exception of riders with a yellow streak, you will find that all of the young men piugging around the Garden on the opening might are there for the final sprint. Every one of them weighs more at the finish than he did when he started in. After the race is over the riders put aboard a large cargo of food, inhabit a Turkish bath, sleep a few hours and get up feeling like men who have just been left money, “It is the way they suffer that draws the crowaa” The old-timers are great actors on the suffering gag. Waller used to play that he was nutty along about Wednesday night, and by Friday night he would be a ! howling mantac, if you believed what you saw; but at no stage of this alleged period of knobs on the brain was he in such shape that he couldn’t figure what his percentage would be on the net. There are some actors in the race this year who are as good ag Waller ever was. “This six-day réce is a big winner, but it could be made to look like a penny-matching contest by @ six- day Amputation Exhibition, Get a lot of guys to enter to have their hands cnt off the first day, an arm the second day, a noze the thjrd, a leg the fourth, nd at the end of the week andne cublect shy tho most of his pantoroee es nia ¢ all the police {2 town to turn the crowds away.’ lave you been to the Garden yet?” asked the Cigar Store Man. very uighg,” replied the Man Higher Up, pea ARO Dh se ea Co 6 Under the Bamboo Tree. For centuries tho Japanese and Chinese have raised th ‘pamboo as a practical crop. Tho aatives of tropical Indan Benton—-What mate the Johnwons 714 aiatay archipelago would Ve as niuch at a loss without and dumb family took It ae the American farmer without his white e pon It not only for thelr chief build 7 wys