The evening world. Newspaper, December 18, 1903, Page 16

“by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office @# Second-Ciass Mail Matter. einpitaajauanse-NO. 16,408. -THE- CONVENTION HERE. ratio National Convention of 1904 must ore.” New York wants it and has a right Pit. mE st thirty-six years after the Democratic party began ling conventions it met for’ the first time in this “Just “thirty-six more will have passed next year. @envention: in nine too many for the greatest city ‘Presidential elections since the civil war the thas teen decided by the finctuations of the vote k City. In till another it has been de- the: votes’ that go with New York's. Nobody Giit any posable winning combination for the iymext' year without New York. It would be y, therefore, for the Democratic Convention to ‘if-thiy’ were not, aside from politics, pre- @ best convention oity in the world. Stop! DonT movE A oincny! THATS JUST THE THING! ‘ é Notels<of Néw York are accustomed to caring for many, people. all the time that a few thousand more Would not disturb them, and they do not look influx.of an uhusual number of strangers as on for highway robbery. ‘Squere-Garden is an ideal convention hall. It PAY péopls as ought ever to be allowed to deliberations of. such an assembly, and it will ®chance to hear what is going on. attractions: in its neighborhood, especially in ef TE Has better telegraphic facilities, and, owing ice in time, all the newspapers in the world & More Gonytniéntly from it than from ‘first in its claims on the con- ‘and there {s no second. And there 1s good rea- elie that Af thie business men of the metropolis becoming Interest in the matter the Demo- Committee. will take this view. Dut Times.—This may ve a dull Christmas, as 6 are saying, but figures and facts have a n iy of denying it. Grumbling Wail street find, py, looking at thelr books that .they have idotnn, duty business this month than in the coras- time last, year or the yoar before, ind to-day An eiehteen-page number to accom: i Chfigtmas advertising. Evidently Evening Wor Glin tt dolng game shopping this year. 1E REEKING POSTAL SERVICE. Publication of the Bristow, Conrad and Bonaparte on the postal scandals leaves the Post-Office & moral wreck. Not only are the minor vérs, Machen and the rest—in the pillory, a Flirt Not By ‘!Nixola Greeley - Smith, | HEN {s 8 flirt not a flirt? The ques- W. tion sounds as if it needed a va’ deville answer. But it hasn't any. For the reason that, @ fiirt is always, Wien a woman 1s born with a leaning to eoquetry she firts from the cradle to ‘the grave, and nothing can etop her, And the samo thing {s true of men, There are girl babies of two and three yents who have all the instincts of the ficcomplished flirt of twenty-five or thir- ty. Wanen men are about these coquet- tish ttle cherubs smile ‘aud coo and hold out thelr baby hands in joy and friendliness. ‘And in respor se the favor- perfunctory, half-hearted chucks under the chin, But to an audience of delighted wo- men who fondle and rave over her as only women can over clothes and babies, the infant coquette turns away her face in indifferent boredom. When she grows up she learns to mask her feelings. She has grown wise enough ‘not to let the men know too well that they please her, nor the wo- men know at all that she does not en- elr society. late First. 4, 808 . ‘personal integrity,” and the late Postmaster-Gen- J, Charles Bmory Smith, 1s charged with gross negii- “at the feast. Hiven the present Postmaster-Gen- fr, Payne, ia in an embarrassing position, for the fully sustain the charges of Tulloch, con- whom Payne sald: |* qwould want t0 Have the man who made such maké*yood his ‘hot air. If he can’t do it, he tonke qubligly reqognized as a caiuminator, a blun- rd to Heath, Messrs. Conrad and Bonaparte ‘Jenét-a: strong prima facie case is presented Jiless disregard of obligations imposed dat ‘tinted of the United States;” that he ey add that he is “not now in the service that Hites, aud also that the statute of limitations pipt from criminal prosecution. But he ‘the statute Of limitations does not bar his ‘He cays that He is going to stay there and “let Staliow do the worrying.” The other day the it... Officially, therefore, Heath represents agtepted Henn Apparently Mr. Roosevelt adopts old union, that a walking delegate for; his place until he is actually Wr LAbpla;—Don't accuse anybody of wanting to atid Se cr Poanampente'a pirthplace. As Marie idballt, Gok proved, such an assertion is a libel for which mou may be compelled to pay half a cent damages. — ayon and drive people from the sidewalks \pursiiig their devious way at the risk "World has proposed, the street would @ dry, safe and comfortable Ait would attract foot-pas- Agaiatant Postmaster-Genoral, Perry |!°¥, “4 Ney of things that arouse “suspicion of }to.the most uninteresting ineligible man ; 4 in the world than to the most entertain- theless, she would rather. talk ing or instructive woman. For though, ashe would never admit it, perhaps it is clear to the seeing ance of a man, ho the glow of interest in cheeks and the fire of conquest in eyes that in an un- mixed company of women are wan jometimes frank enough to| \ is nothing she detests so contemptuously styles “hen parties.” And at afaernoon teas, Where there is sometimes one forlor: specimen trousers who reads or lec- tures or recites, it ts her delight to cap- ture him and carry him off triumphant: ly to a corner where, before the eyes of the disoomfted other women, she can have him all to ‘herself. When the flirt falls in love with a man she filrts all the harder with other men, to prove that she doesn't care a rap for him. And when she has proved it to his satisfaction and hi are married, she tells herself nevertheless. For a few mont! haps, she may confine her filrtatious in- stinote where, by the lawa of the family circle, they belong. But gradually, un- consciously, she widens the mhere of her coquetry until it nas come to in- clude once more every man that crosses her path, Usually she is as harmless as she is charming in her Uttle frivolities, and if she has a wise husband he does not take her to task for them. For he Knows the spirit of coquetry, subtl lntangible, but Indestructible, is in her and that it Is this very effervescence which makes her bewitchin the bubble: from the champagne gli hand the pt shine on others, And he knows, too, the women with- out that sparkle and does not envy their husbands, To be sure, these de- luded mortals have the tdea that their wives are dull and undelectable to the out to them, that in some way they have an effect on the otherwise sedate hous wives like that produced by the litt pellets which are advertised to make sparkling mineral water out of liquid brought from stagnant wells or ai gish creeks—and, after all, if they d Know the diffference, there isn't any. a !ONS AND ELECTRONS, If we must discard the atom, what lare we to accept in jus place? Two new There they battle with trucks |conceptions have been found necessary— the “fon as the unit of matter, as the unit of force, holds that matter and the a Flirt?) | (Granddaughter of Horace Greeley.) male or female, | ed creatures held then clumally and) meet their. baby advances with mere! 4 Oe ¢c \@ ® @ 429990009 $04536860606060009600000000 | ig 9SOS9SSS390H 9600 He would | 3 ler and charming and effervescent whe force are ifferent manifestations of the vime thing. Inert is the character- istic; indeed, the indispeneabie, property of both matter and electricity, What The | 3 $ : Hist! SHES Comin’! Ini Just SNEAK THESE BEADS UNDER my CoAT SO SHE WONT TUMBLE HASTE — Poy THROW THESE SPARKLZTS! tant Mr. Peewee, the Great Little Man. Pad a ae He Meets Santa Claus in the Shopping District and Santa Takes Aim In. : mpor s rd YES- TOOTSIE DEAR, HOW. IT WARMS ONES HEART, TO KNOW THAT THE SIMPLE CHILDLIME FAITH IN SANTA CLAUS Vy tl —_—— STILL EXISTS, AMIDST¢ g THE HEADLONG RUSH OF OUR MODERN SOvL IDESTROYIN: = SCIVILI ZATION, = \ enn 2amion} 7 [metieaesera é 1 YES~ THE JOYFUL ANTICIPATION OF THE $ COMING OF SANTA CLAUS. WAS ONE OF THE MOST HALL » THE StGHT OF. Such A © ALL THESE PRECOCLOUSNESS: ( EQILDREN, MAKE tp —— MY HEART LEAP, \ AND MAWES ME FEEL LiKE A BOY AGAIN. lene ree “THE EVENING NOVEL-READING NELLIE M’GEE. SABI ip LDRoP Me POCKER BOOK A. Geers woULd Billy Bowwow and Polly Pugdoodle, Billy Buys Polly a Diamond C HERES SOMETHING 3 $ Pg i | >» |‘‘but in trying to put a limit on the open hours they are ollar and Gets Collared. COME. TO THE CHAIL You Will the Saloons Be Open on Sunday? i | SEE,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that Jerome and Parkhurst and others of the Amalgamated Order of ‘Poor Man’s Friends and Orphan's Guides are framing up a game to have the open saloon play limited engagements on Sundays.” “Theis intentions are good,” said the Man Higher Up, in bad. They fail to get next to the fact that you can’t regulate’a thirst. Until such a time as the yen for a ball gets broken to give distress signals at specified periods all legislation cased out to regulate the trafie in thé demon Rum in a town of this size is going to be shine law and a breeder of trouble. “A booze-fighter never knows when his thirst is going to get busy. It t# generally up and ready at a minute's notice, and when it gets real active and hands out high signs it {s.the cue for the owner to hike to’a gin mill and hurl One in. “The opinion of the high-minded reformers, who thiuk that open saloons on Sunday will win electio1 is that trade in sangaree water and other irrigants should ve allowed on the Sabbath between the hours of 1 and 11 P. M. This gives a ten-hour stretch with open doors and license to lap up liquor without breaking the law. But what is going to become of the high-bail hustlers who develop an alcohol appetite before noon? Where does the poor laboring man who wants a pint of beer ywith his breakfast on the only day he can give toil the @ |lavgh come in? “They make a particular point of keeping the sajoons closed during the time the churches are open. This looks to me like leading from a snoak. Sunday lasts from midnight Saturday until midnight Sunday, and the religious law don’t cut the day into sections for ob- servance. If It is wrong to sell boooze. while the churches are doing busineds on Sunday, it is wrong ta sell it while the churches ere closed on Sunday. The people who’ go w ‘church don’t patronize the Sunday saloons. : “You can confine a man’s desire to work to ten hours a day, and you can confine a woman's desire to gos sip to five hours a day, but you can’t confine anybod,*. desire to drink to any number of hours a day. ‘There are people looking for red-eye every minute of every hour of the twenty-four, and, as long as the demand ig @|there and the cush 1s behind it, tere will be saloon keepers and bartenders to pass out the supply. “They- can't keep the saloons closed on Sunday now, when there is a law that don’t allow them to open at all. How are they going to keep the doorg closed on Sunday with a law allowing booze-sellers to do business ten hours in the afternoon und evening? Is a cop going She Puts Her Friend Jimmie’s Gentlemanly Instincts to a Disappointing Test.3 > | Up. OOOOO4D streets, and there would| would be simpler. than to assume that tho ultimate particles of each are one ow and busy. thorough-|4nd the same? Prof, Fleming has de- clarea that “we can no more have.any- of ite shop windows. thing which chn be’ called electricity *japart from ihe corpuscles than we cai mem. by iererne a uudertake Lo sor A atehiy mehange toi POLYGLOT BIBLES. RECIPROCITY. 3 sald the Mttle boy, “what ts ip rocity ?!* ‘Reciprocity, my son, is an ithe ave don't value very something that Btar. ? DRAMATIC AND LEGAL. THE BEGGAR'S EXCHANGE. ) Critle—I saw your show on the firat| Re<gir—Mister, I'm: starving. ‘The diversity of toni and 1 must say there wasn't| Mr, Ciose-\ never give something for | in one is often notion In it. nothing. _ | prise, Last 7 the Bible AStor—Hubt Jt muan't many nights | Bokgat We'l~er—wyuld tty mind te sok the) Borin Jater that pur creditors brought several, | busing tweniy. it meal de seeslaacibie Press. ; Of w drink eecocogo News, jon} right to lett. to refuse his bit for letting a man keep a side door on the chain after thy ten hours are over any more than hé does now, or is he going to refuse his bit for allowing the gin-mill keeper to open up before 11 o'clock?” “Something ought to be done,” asserted the Cigar Store Man. “The thing to be done is this,” replied the Man Higher ‘We ought to decide whether we are going to take our Sunday straight or, with whiskey on the side.” COLLEGE YELLS. ‘Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Amherstr* h-aye, yoh-yoh-yoh-Belolt! B-e-1-o-l-t! Rahs Brown University—"Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Rah! Raht Brown, Brown, Brown! Ki yl, ki yi, kl yl! Hickl, Hick, Hoo "9 e times.) ; Collie “Ray! Ray! Ray! C-o-l-u-m "0 rnell! I yell, yell, yell! Corneil! Harvard University—"Rah, Rah, Rah! Rah, Rati, Ratt Rah, Rah,» Rah! Harvard!” Yale University—Kab, Rah, Rah! Rah, Rah, Rah! Rah, Rah, Rah! Yale!" Lehigh University—"'Hoo-rah-ray! | Ray, Ray, Jenigh! Lehigh! Lehigh! Princeton University SAGAN Hooray! Hooray! Tiges! Byom! Ah! Princeton!" eentversity of Chicago—"Chicago! Chicago! Go It, Chicago it, Chiea—go il, Chica-go!”" University of Peunsylvania—"Hoo-rah! Hoo-rah! Hoo-rah} leat" ; x cheer ! quick and shar, Hoo-rah-ray! Ray, Chicago, got ong and deep, ¥ Why Boys Write Vertically. ro first written vertically or’ columnwise the Greeks, Hitt! tians wrote years ago. Test pele will be found to Incline the column to the left. deviation was regularized, and writing became herizontal, When the scribe got to the énd of the line, instead of turn. ing back to the right he began in the space below at thu sid¢ where te eft off. It ts almost the plowman’s way and the boy, Th sues’ to be folind| Greeks | nemed ‘@ matter of sur-|easy as the . One Mend of thy furrow was kept. From variant ob 1 Co sony Rese typed as the conventional direction orient,