The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1903, Page 8

et aren: ep en oe ee wee e se pee epee i HON reo Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 68 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office Bt New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. —— VOLUME 44.. THE CONVENTION FOR NEW YORK. - Two hundred and twenty-four delegates to the next Democratic National Convention—atout one-fourth of the whole membership—will come from this State and the States immediately adjoining. If the question be of the convenience of visitors the advantages of New York are still more decisive. There are more people living within fifteen miles »f Madison Square Garden than} within fifty miles of any other city in America. It is for us to impress these advantages upon the National Committees The Chicago hotel-keepers have helped ts by allowing it to be known that they intend | to raise their rates during the Republican Convention to $20 a day. If our hotel men will clinch that exhitd by making it clear that visitors to New York will not be robbed we may not merely get the Democratic Con- vention, but may even find the Republicans turning w THE » EVEN 0944249409444000% Billy Bowwow and Polly Pug 2529909500 2499H924G0850 ¥ oodle On) (SAY PoLty | [Tals 15 HER WHY DONT SANDY CLAWS! COME DOWN THE SPERKIN' TUBE? : Now COME C DEARS, LETS GO To BED AN GIVE OUR HOSIERY A CHANST TO { HI H Dont Move! ER TLL RECKERNISE], BACK UP) i THE BRICKS, this way as well. All we need now !s systematic work. We want: Men are eager to give. 2. A guarantee fund, which The E started with its subscription of $5,000. Sary pressure upon the National Committeemen. keepers. co-operation. . Now for a little Chicago energy, and the Conven- tion is ours. “THE BEST CHRISTMAS APPETIZER. There is still time to make a poor family happy to- morrow, but"his is the last chance. This is the one time im the year when it is equally blessed to give and to receive. “The bread of charity is bitter,” but Christmas giving is not charity. A Christmas dinner, given not ‘with condescension but with brotherly good-will, may be eaten without loss of self-respect. Clothes and toys and household necessaries may be freely accepted on Christ- mas hy people who would be insulted if they were of- fered on any other day. The beautiful privilege of giving is open now as it will not be after to-morrow for another year. It costs very little to fill a poor child’s stocking, and very little more to give a poor family a dinner. In doing that you will be providing the best possible appe- tizer for your own turkey. Disastrous Renevolence.—Here is a problem that beats the age of Ann, According to Dr. Harper, of the Unt- versity of Chicugo, it was agreed four years ago that $5,000,000 of endowment would prevent a deficit. Since then Mr. Rockefeller has contributed $3,000,000 to the fund, and now the amount required to make both en meet ts 36,000,000. Query: How many more millions would Mr. Rockefeller have to give to reduce the university to bankruptey? IS THIS STRICTLY ACCURATE ? “We are far above the mere manly plane,” said one of the oratresses at the dinner of the Pilgrim Mothers, “but we hore to lift men to our plane.” Certainly this remark illustrates the feminine virtue of modesty, but is the speaker sure that it is equally char- acterized by that other feminine grace of accuracy? Is {it not conceivable that even a creature on the low manly plane might have something to say for himself if he sould forget the restraints of gallantry? ‘ Of course, there are certain phases of morals with respect to which female superiority is generally admitted. But character is not to be judged from a single side—it must be taken in the round, If you should receive an anonymous letter secretly stabbing a friend, would you be more likely to charge it to a man or to a woman? If an issue of veracity arose between & man and‘a woman of equal standing, which would you be more likely to believe? If you were on ‘bad terms with a man and a woman, and you should drop an unsealed letter known to contain secrets whose dis- closure might be embarrassing to you, which of the two would you prefer to pick it up? If you told damaging things in confidence to two friends, a man and a woman, and the friendship were afterward broken, which of the two would you think more likely to use your confidence to your injury? To take even the case in which men have made the last, with fortunes changing hands on the lifting of a finger, without breaking up in a D. A. R. fight? LAMBS -ON THE RAMPAGE. the participants in the Shipbuilding deal were of this elass, Mr. Schwab, according to his cross bill, was the and Mr. Dresser, who told him how valuable the ship- yards of the Trust were, and showed him pretty Prospectuses to prove it. On the strength of these tation as an ‘easy mark” is world-wide. A states- mow resident at Wantage used to be annoyed | by some time, and now nobody seems to have it. Fininh.—If that $24,000,000 assessment on the alt ‘Trust stockholders is to be a precedent no future ba able to fake the excuse after an ex- 1, An invitation from the city, which the new Alder- vening World has 8. A business men’s committee to bring the neces- 4. An azsurance of reasonable rates from our hotel- Old Maids. and Gay Old We might add a promise of low excursion rates on the railroads, but that goes without saying, and in fact the railroad men were among the firat to pledge their own choice and the old matd often from sheer lack of opportunity. a worthler member of the community generally lacks the subdued softness, the alr of comfortable resignation that Uncertain joys and certain s married life, she has acquired dn its] / stead the very commendable if sorme- what masculine qualities of self-con-| ‘ fidence and self-reliance. Not so the] ¢ old bachelor, who of the all clinging, querulous dependent creatures 4s the very worst. mentally and physically to resemble each other is a very general and prob- ably a very true one, and the gradual resemblance ia naturally attributed to) ° the many years of their being together. completeness, occasionally plays the woman. ready temper and a readier pen, don't rise wp in your wrath and smite. We were not thinking of a certain very well-known y York bachelor, a member of the 0! who was discovered some time coursing with tears in his eyes to a sympathetic old maid of vhe misiit of his new uniform, stock, @ fins regalia, and murmured querulously: solutely nothing. ‘The underarm seams are (90 short! ‘Nhe collar humps fn the back, and the parade Is to-mor- row!" hia distress would have been really pltt- ful if it had not been so funny. stock, which had crowned the veteran's sorrows by being too tight, in he and while skilfully moving the hooks | ¢ and eyes talked so eloquently of the unimportance of under arm seams and the all importance of the & within them that it was @ ve ful old bachelor who ten minutes: biter took his mended stock and his leave. her type, strong, kind, and the old bachelor, the extreme ot his type, helpless, petulant. Just an “old woman,” wants to marry E settle down comfortably to hear him complain most discreditable spectacle of themselves—Wall street | * speculation—how long would a female Stock Exchange |, Gust tw but a @ne woman. tle himaelf down, But if he marries at all {t will be that sweet little Kitue Jones, whose coming-out tea he at tended Jast week Wall street is’ infested in these days with bands of| reckless lambs parading the pavements and turbulently. inserting their woo! in the shears. It appears that all| fleeciest lamb of all. He was deceived by Mr. Nixon! milion @ question “Where did he get it?” In the Shipbuild- ase an equally disturbing question would seem to lere has it gone?” “It must have been in ex- Bachelors. By Nixola Greeley- Smith. HERE is even in these progres- I sive days a cértain opprobrium attached to the designation “old maid." Yet the corresponding term for Prolonged masculine celibacy, that of “old bachelor,” conveys none; a dis- crimination the more unfair because the old bachelor exists entirely by his As a matter of fact, the old maid 1s than the old bachel For though she marks the woman who has known the ows OF ‘Nhe idea that married couples grow But it Is also evident that the sexes take on the qualities of eagh other from ; being apart, that the old maid, perhaps from an unconscious Jack within ‘her xsumes the man, and the old If, : , from a similar sense of in- che! Now, please od Michelor, with « of at all, bu He held in bis hands a black satin evsary part of his colonial 0, No, no; nothing can be done—ai~ His voice broke, his old eyes watered, And the old maid? In five minutes she had the black aut oman cheer ‘The old maid was the very finest of f-rellant, cultivated, And yet, sro! the oll bachelor and about ‘misftting stocks and rm seama forever oid bachelor thinks she 1s an—A@ little old, to be sure ty years younger than he), Still, marry her? What do you take him for? He is a young man yet—too young to Nonsense! He ts in Too old? prime. 4 ‘there is fist a proper difference in| their ages. —— GOOD INVESTMENT. “Yew, he sont her $4 worth of violets “Rut can be afford it \ “On, 1 guess so, She's worth half a Cleveland Plain-Dealer —— TACT. I went to a party with Janet, And met with an awful mishap, For | awkwandly emptied @ cupful Of chocolate into her thy. But Janet was cool—though it waan't— For none ts so tactful as she, And smiling with perfect composure, Baid sweetly, “The drinks are on me.” Harvard Lampoon, > | $000000¢00¢ i he Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man w& 2 wo: He Impersonates Santa Claus and Narrowly Escapes Spending Xmas Behind. Bars, ¢ TeylcNe at chu 1S ASLEEP. IN AND Put TOOT: PRESENT ON THE 2 TREE, AND THEY WILL THINK SANTAY HAS BEEN HERE ‘» D IN g GOVERNOR, WONT SHE BE SURPRISED WHEN SHE GETS THIS: EVEN SIGN my NAME, BUT SHE witt KNOW THAT ONLY ONE PERSON WORLD WoULD SEND! HER A BOX OF $ yf ;of Hon. Willlam Sulzer, Esq., the Tammany Congr © | who are competent to make the English language tu| |handsprings with the odds against their chances so-Ho! You LITTLE RASCAL - =) STEALING PRESENTS FROM THE X’*MAS aes QS a ~ js W’WHAT 3 yy We WANT! t = oc » | lawyer and makes good by putting the oratorical kibos Ww ° Demosthenes front he is all to the good with his con- of fate, the old maid | KICK ABo UT DAT STUFF @ 1DODDOLD2-D OOOO9-H2 oo | ly published the results of observation on nearly 200 ‘| six thmes its own length, while fish can see only about baal , length away, while others are limited to one-fifth perbo BP EROTIC | Us. would help them. Werner thinks this due to some PDDL 2 69890490894 0008O8 9948 930$999S000S0-0804O0880-00008800 60090060000008 Ily Plays Santa Claus, but Gets the Wrong Chimney? i SHooT Hotes | o> FULL OF You-! You THIEF Oratory Cuts No Figure in New York, pele \6 ‘I SEW,” sald the Cigar Store Man, ‘that Tam- | many Hall is ready to send Bourke Cockran to Congress in place of George McClellan.” “Tammany needs orators in Congress,” said the Mi Higher Up. “About the only time you read of a N. York Representative saying anything you see it in { Washington Day by Day’ column. With the excep’ {nen never utter a peep on the floor of the House. N| |York might as well have a delegation from a deaf {dumb asylum. | “You can't blame the Congressmen, at that. Orat j don’t clip any coupons in this town. You can find |the next meal. The guys who pull off the best of it New York are the guys who keep a clamp on their Bans of expression, “Our national orators come from the country ¢ munities. The Congressmen who make the most 1m on the floor of the House hail from villages that express trains run through. In the off season they de have anything to do but think, and when they get Washington they are so full of thoughts that they ha to blow off language or explode. “In rural communities the route of a statesman. | Success is as plain as,a trolley road. He starts in as on juries. Along comes a political campaign and he {1 called upon to hike arraind through the county and spilll words. He cun out-talk any other man of his age, weight and size, and they send him to the State Legis- lature. “Next thing he is hiking around the State spilling ~ ‘ords agatn, and at last they elect him to go to Congress. He may not have sense enough to pour water out of aU bee and his thought-works may be shy of everything but pulleys and belts, but as long as he can keep up his we stituents. “New York Congressmen are picked for what they do in the way of close-herding votes and branding voters with the party brand. Usually their natural inclination 3 to shoot off their mouths has been Strangled early ‘tn their political careers, and they are never able to brin it to life again. A man like Bourke Cockran, who ae ¥ cree Mae with argument and eloquence, is a rarity in “So you think the art of oratory is dyin ra the Cigar Store Man, anlar “Sure, Mike,” responded the Man Hi » igher Up, « shouldn’t it? Nothing talks now but mahal ae An Equine Joke. At 2 o'clock one morning, when the fo, you could not see the name of the str lamp posts, a telegram was received newspaper office from an Interior tow: ficial had been killed while hunting. “The negromunent ss brokeA to he family,vand the man doing the late wage? Pe told to jump into @ carriage and get some “dopern, Ya4 depeased, pedi He grabbed the first four-wheeler in si notice that the driver had been imbi ‘address and settled back to get a fernnan ppd ny ed awakened by the carriage coming to a standstill. yee ee '® Was so thick that 4 ets printed on the. at & San Francisco ight and aid not’ and as he glanced around he was surprised Gale stones and monuments on every side. Ho looked vip’ and found “cabby" fast asleep. in an instant prec: 6 the situation: ‘The driver had fallen asleep 3 ine been the horses, believing they were going to a funersy’ ane leisurely trotted to the burying ground, ss Snake-Sense. The best sense that reptiles have ts that of aight, accord: ing toa Yiewnese naturalist named Werner, whore reoent- lizards, frogs, &c, But even this sense is very dull, crocodile carmot see a man who Is distant from {t more i“ | their own length. | Snakes are still worse off. Some can see a quarter of thett eighth. Frogs are much keener sighted, ‘They can tell ‘8 going on at a distance of 15 or-20 times thelr own Jengtihy Most replies are nearly or quite deaf, but In compensmtiog’ | all, according to Werner, yeem to have a marvellous of the direction In which water Hes, ‘They wit make @ tee line for st, even when so far away that no sense known $9; of attraction akin to chemical action, but he cannot bow oF why tt takes place—ducceas, Hil 2