The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1903, Page 12

e-Card Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered nt the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. —— VOLUME 44.........cceeeseeeeeeesNO. 15,463. GET TO WORK. ; “The movement to bring the Democratic Convention to | New York wili be good for us in more ways than one. It Will help to jolt us out of our complacent indifference—it 1 wilt serve to give us some notion of the meaning of pub- s Ue spirit. ; {The New York business man is enterprising in his ‘way, but that way lies usually in the direction of pro- ‘Moting his private ends. Of joint action with others for the good of his city he seldom thinks. That !s why New York is 40 often pushed aside by’ smaller towns whose fitizens know how to act together for the common } “| * benont. aay Does anybody suppose that if Chicago had not had a | © Rational Convention for thirty-six years her people would a have sat around and waited for a newspaper to tell them | to do about it? Her business men would have met | na acted so promptly that the newspapers would have ~ Bad nothing to do but report the proceedings. They | would have raised a fund with such velocity that a news-— Peper would have needed to exert itself to get in among the “also subscribed."” They would have opened head- quarters and would have had a guardian on the trall of every, member of the National Committee. And, although Chicago has had nine National Conven- tions to New York’s one and has just landed the tenth, \ her business men are working now for the eleventh as industriously as if {t were their first. They are hustling, ‘hile their New York competitors are just raising energy hough to talk. © Less than two weeks remain for everything we have te do. If we want to accomplish anything we must learn @esson in public spirit from the smaller cities that have _ Bean annexing al) the prizes while we have been asleep. AN ARMY ALWAYS MOBILIZED. Two more firemen have sacrificed their lives to their @uty, and if has been pointed out again, as often be- “foxe. that a fireman is really as much entitled to be galled a hero as a soldier, The truth is that the fireman’s risks so far surpass " ‘life soldier’s that there is no comparison between them. may advance to the rank of Major-General in army without ever having been under fire more than once or twice in his life. The fireman has the : equivalent of being under fire almost every day. He ? faces dangers compared with which the ordinary risks 4 of the soldier are mere pleasurable excitement. ri "The Imperial German army has been in existence : for nearly thirty-three years, and since the first year ; _ of its Ife it has never once been in a real war. Genera- 2 3 ur ton after generation of recruits has passed through its. ranks without ever hearing the hum of a hostile bullet. The New York fireman is a member of an army ima etate of perpetual war. Nor is that all. Even in war the soldier often has months between battles—in- deed, he may easily happen to belong to a regiment} that is never in action. Rut the fireman’s war is all battles and every company is on the firing line all the. time. . Have not the widows and orphans of the men Killed! fn this exacting service as good a claim upon the justice of the community as those left by military heroes? Is té not a public disgrace to allow them to come to want? Se eee - @& Leap-Frog Army.—“Most can raise the flowers now, for ‘all have got the seed," said Tennyson, A major and six _)eaptains are ready to jump over their superiors into origadier-generalships since Wood has shown them how. ad oes : IS THIS TRUE? » nm Mr Alexander's heart-to-heart talks by mail and ire with his legal and financial associates in the Ship- ilding promotion there is one statement that calls for @ definite statement of opinion on the part of reputable financiers in this city, © It appears that when the Trust Company of the Re- public cabled to Paris that the bond issue in New York Was a success the French underwriters took the state- ment to mean that all the bonds had been subscribed for. ently they were surprised and dismayed when aa that a “success” meant merely that some bonds had been taken, leaving them still under obliga- tion to put up the coin on their own subscriptions. ‘Then Mr. Alexander explained that “it was the general ¢astom in New York to declare all issues a success and peddle the bonds afterward.” Ie that true? Is it a fact that announcements made om the word of the leading financial houses of New York nothing? There seems to be a good opportunity here for one of the great men of Wall street to take the floor with an explanation. e 3 Es t { fi An Annoyance Stopped.—It appears from M er interesting letters published in yesterday's World that “the Viscomptesse Dandignen objected in parting with her ‘Union Iron Works stock in the Shipbuilding deal on the * growmd of the trouble to be expected in investing th {money she would receive. The present holders of Sh “building securities may congratulate themselves up their complete freedom from this embarrassment. Ft Heo ee am DON'T DISTURB SANTA CLAUS. 8 christmas would not seem like Christmas if some lem person who was born grown up dil not deliver the annua] attack upon Santa Claus. This time the Subaflant is Bishop Luddin, of Syracuse, who says: ‘The habit people have of teaching children to run after a Myth like Santa Claus cannot be too vigorously con- ell, what is the real meaning of the day? Is it not on earth, good will to men?” And where wil you better evangelist of that gospel thar dear old ‘Claus, the common carrier of einshine, the friend jody, the universal harmonizer? Ganta Claus d to class jealousies and he ignores national common basis of his friendship the heppy memories twine » THE »« EVENING . WORLD'S a. @E4DDOOOOO9OG49O0OOO1HO-0OO" “Good land!” cried Sue, o 3 e 3 99LL9OO004O0000004OO6806-09 Some of the By Helen Oldfield. OUTH ts the period of enthustasm, Y and however oynical one may be. none can deny that there ts un- utberable sweetness In first love, when delirium and wonder. Yet first love is rarely of the fibre which endures; its very sweetness is in Itself an element of decay. The “dew of youth" cannot last, and under the full glare of noonday all things wear a different aspect from that when seen under the rosy light of early morn and absorbing, fervid no doubt, but Its staying power 1s not to be relied on Between it and the deep, true love of riper years there is much the same dif- ference as thut to be found between the quick, hot flare of a brush heap and the calm, steady glow of anthra cite coal at red heat. In the vast majority of cases first love between boy and girl tx not love at all; it {s simply the attraction felt by dawning womanhood and manhood for the other sex, and devel- oped more or less strongly in a certain direction by propinquity, by accident or suggestion, the real or fancied need of loving and being loved, which comes to most of us in the transition stage of early youth, ‘Intellect and taste, still loss reason or judgment, have little to do with the matter./ Indeed, at suc! callow period they have scarcely be- gun to assert themselves and cannot be expected to exert any control over the {magination. The ong and all-ab- sorbing desire of the youthful exis ence is to be happy, and the close ci pantonship of the object gf {ts a youn) Uonate admiration is regarded as‘ chief essential to that happiness, say: Helen Oldtlela, in the Chicago Tribune. A boy of eighteen or twenty often falls violently in love with a woman much senior, ‘The effect of such a passion, for good or evil, upon his fu- © depends wholly upon the kind of woman that sae is. Uf the fresh and beautiful first love of a boy's heart is poured out to a yain, unscrupulous woman, his ideals will all be lowerec his faith in womanly truth and good- fess shattered, and his own peace of 1 bartered for a fevered, restless {cation which leaves the dregs of ess behind {t. Woe to him if hi marries such a one: On the contrary a boy's sincere and earnest love for a sound-hearted, wholesomely minded wo- man may be the making of him, She will do him good and not evil, For on thing he will up to her, and as: piration ta always healthy, especially fn youth, {ne scofMfng rejection and heartless ule of young love may do inoalcu- ® harm, Despite its immaturity it ts . Many young ether otver sex, and the suffering, wit hs or sulks, by tem appears to them as to ¢ viir-and let some the steam heater, es ————$—$ THE WINTER GIRL. The winter son her w And will be with us ve always makes the sea. DRO Oh, pleasing burden of my lay T sing !t morning, night and noon The winter giel ts on her way. Upon a chilly, gloomy day The winter girl will be a boon She always makes the season gay If we have not a single ray Of sunshine, there is still the moon. The winter girl ts on her way And tn the cozy, narrow sleigh IN will be possible to spoon. She always makes the season gay The summer hay;; She raked it in along In Jone. The winter girl is on her way. girl has made her Drightengs choir young She alwi makes the season gay, Chicago Ne I thought there wasn’t none, oh Laws! : ‘The Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man. Dangers of 4% ’ os ss ae Beats on Gifts He Has silat Until One of Them Is Shown. 5 ® a iF OFFICE First bove. |: UE NROVed WITH x'MAS F WAS CASILY SATISFIED Wich 53 — SHOPPING,. ITS ME! A #10 GOLD PlECE, AND the heart awnkes to find Itself lost in| ? Boy and girl love may be passionate | { 424G224ADDDDYDIGO®ODOODDD FDDOOPOADEGD164 iw » Sassy Sue--By the Creator of “Sunny Jim’--She Meets Santa Claus. Is he alive? I'll pinch and see! What wonders in this town there be! “There’s Santa Claus! ese & NOT THAT THE EXPENSE WORRIES ME AT ALL, But THE PICKING OUT OF SUITABLE GIFTS FoR MY MANY - FRIENDS, FAGS me EXTREMELY. THE ELEVATOR MAN, WELt AS HE HAS A LARGE FAMILY TO SUPPORT, | THOUGHT A 30 POUND TURKEY WOULD BE \ Anv BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN OH! HERE You ARE, You —~— How 1 REMEMBERED —— LITTLE WRETCH: THE MY LANDLADY THIS \——~ IDEA OF SENDING 2 YOVR LANDLADY A 48¢ TIN-BACKED (BRUSH, AND A CeELL- (\ULOID COMB Aaron THAT! emte ERVER'. A miS- TAKE IN THE NEAR. TALK ABOUT A SWELL TOILET SET? THE FINE HAIR BRUSH * i ALL INLAID WITH EMBOSSED GOLD, THE INITIALS j ENGUAVED ON THE B.CK AND THE COMB — It was ltt! XIC@ e& The Goon Kid 2 we we 2 re He Takes His Canine Friends to Ride, but Politeness Causes a Tumble. SAY, NEVAH MIN’ How IT Gor EM IN HERE- OEYS MY FRENS AN.) DEY GOES WIF ME-SEE. | YIGGAH AN’ JES WHEN WE. s FELLO_ THERE man! ra BETCHER Boors, Wwe !S ROSS > Ae SS SS RON, WR Do TAKE OUR Sear! ® DLDHPPIOVOS9GGIHDHHGDS POGHHHGOG- GY 9HH9DG-YGHDGD-YYGHGYIG DOD GGDOVDWOGIPH PIG IGS + dOOO PDBVDID ©9-9O0S909-9009 008499990999 059090H:1:79-9:9:G5-G:99000G- 59-900 » | ‘never more. P5406 4449495 DEHIDOGADIGOES OB 65.0994 26 0920804504599 299449949449 599989949990001000 6066000000000 © J * How be ye sir? I'd like f;om you A nice young man for Sassy Sue!” MINNY MAUD HANFF, Exit the Poor Back-Number French Ball. SEB,” eafd the Olgar Store Man, “that the French Ball has been amputated from the list of the season’s amusements.” “It's a ead blow,” responded the Man Higher Up, —_ “to the men-about-town from Babylon, Peapack, New- © ark, Pompton (N. J.), Yonkers, Hartford and other hot towns; but it was a case of smother the French Ball or turn it over to the Undertakers’ Mutual Protective As- sociation. The wine-buyers have been cutting the ball out, and you can't run a ball in Madison Square Gardem for the entertainment of people whose dissipation in the way of strong drink comes in pails at 10 cents a throw. “It looks as though the day of the big public ball has been thrown into the discard. There was a time when the French Ball was an occasion worth staying up all night for. You could go to the Garden, meet people you knew, get a decorated souse and be glad of it It was like a big family party and nobody cared about what anybody else did. The female persons attendant in those days were bright and clever and knew their capacity. Except when Inspector Thompson was among those present the casualties were few. “Of late years it has been different. The branni- gans inseparable from @ more or less incessant flow of wine became soggy. It was not unusual at 2 o'clock in the morning to find a few dozen youths in evening dress agleep on the floor with their overcoats for pillows. About three out of five of the female persons engaged in conversation said ‘youse’ and ‘wolk,’ and they drank wine as though it was soda-water. Gentlemanly pick- pockets accumulated supers and leathera by, the bushel and strong-arm men in open-faced suits roamed from table to table looking for trouble. The cold, gray dawn generally lifted the curtain on a scene-fit to make even @ policeman shudder. “The people who made the French Ball cancelled their dates about two years ago and the bulk of the at- tendance has been made up of the shines who spend their lives making a National Bank front on a roll of tissue paper and Confederate money. “The real New York spender takes his amusement. different nowadays. He has been educated up to quiet and luxury, and when he wants to tear loose he refrains from going to a public hall and exhibiting himeelf to the populace. It is long green to vest-pocket change that the French Ball will. never be revived.” “Does the passing of the French Ball mean that ‘New York is becoming more moral?” asked the Cigan Storewet exactly,” replied the Man High moans that New York ts becoming less goollsh. >, Pointed Paragraphs. Self-confidence is the essence of heroism, ‘The more a man complains the leas other men think af him, : Love 1s the cement with which the hearts of humanity eng united. Many men work overtime trying to fix up achemes oe avoid work. A man begina to talk of his resignation after he gets dhe grand bounce. Most of the things you think you know your neighbors know you only think, Love is like a photographic plate when tt requires a dark room for its development. F essential to know whom you are talking to, It's impossible to Convince the young man who hes thres’ or four sisters that all women are angels, ‘ag A bald-headed man in Missourt {s suing for a divorce: cause his wife compelled him to sit on ‘the front wummer to keep the files out of the house. ax Animal Talk. Animals have a language made up of signa or in: sounds expressing Impressions, sensations, never idcas, So this language excludes conversation Imited to interjections or signs or trovements exp Joy, grief, fear, anger, all the passions of the senses, The 1903 ‘Failure’? Crop. During the past nine months there have Veen 8,170 in this country, 600 fewer than ‘in the eame period last AZINE Next to knowing what you are talking avout ttle most | |