The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1903, Page 7

| ~~ journeyman and his apprentices in his shop, t ' the fierce lords of the time suspended the fighting that | by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 . | Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clase Mall Matter. WOLUME 44. «NO. 16,46B. THE DAY OF MANKIND. » When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth they snubbed Christmas. It was a relic of idolatry not to be en- couraged by a good Puritan. So they made a point of working on Christmas Day, and Santa Claus was sept rigorously on the list of people one did not know. Now not only is Christmas celebrated with en- thusiasm in every Christian church, but its observance is spreading over the non-Christian world. And natur- ally, for no other festival of any religion has absorbed so much of the universal spirit—no other has become 80 well fitted to express the kinship of humanity. And never was some expression of that kinship so Necessary as now. In all ¢he nineteen centuries since Christ came upon earth there has never been a time in which the feeling of the brotherhood of man has been in greater danger. We are just at a critical period—one at which we are in reach of glorious pos- sibilities, but at which a false step might lead to dark perils. : In the blackest night of the Middle Ages, when the Heart Ideals of European Femininity. JCH we hear these days of won- By Delia Austrian. M derfully attractive, popular wo- men; the many nice qualities that are needed for the winning of the tite. We may not be aware of the fact, definite though different opinions as to what a man should be. This ts far truer in European countries than in our own; for in America girls show their own taste and judgment in forming their conceptions of what a man should be, but in foreign countries the govern- ment, public opinion, advice of friends and relatives oreate standards for them. A German friend sald to me mer: “Any gin in Germany who {s mar- ried to an officer counts herself for- tunate." There are no men anywhere that are more spoilt than the Austrian scidjars, especially the oulrmasiers. A women in the gay Austrian capital coneidera it & great privilege when she drives in tie Prada of an afternoon to be graced hy the presence of agme attractive of- ficer, She holds tt a greater privilege to'go with him to the Vinedrs, a sum- mor garden which is the rendezvous of ; the fashionable world, Though ofMfloers in England do not hold this exalted rank, stil! they are much esteemed. and no large social function is regarded as complete unless some young army men ate present. The Pngiieh women are much ca‘nd when they talk about ther friends ‘masses were most degraded and the lines of caste were} among men wro commmnded certain regiments in the late Beer war. While most sharply drawn, the relations between men Were} jn Southera France last year I had he still on a human basis. The master worked with his pleasure of meeting @ charming Eng: lsh girl; she declaned that she would and they} ive and aio a spinster unless she] \? could be married go an army man. often ate “at his table. The vassal came in person to! She was sure she was unsuited for a his lord and promised to be his man, and the lord in return gave him protection and was interested in his affairs. Now organization is taking the place of personal contact. Mr. Morgan, sitting in his Wall street office, combines the steel mills of eight States into a trust, “ with 150,000 workmen whom he never sees. As many coal miners form a union, whose leaders negotiate with capital in the fashion of diplomats discussing issues of peace and war, Everything is done on a wholesale basis. It is cf interest to Mr. Morgan or Mr. Mitchell business man, as they were so prosaic, but she cared equaily litue for a pro- fovsionad man. ‘They were so dreadfully earnest and allowgd their work In narrow groqves, But an army man was after her own heart. He possesses plenty of courage and bat- tlefelds teach him self-control and whizzing bullgss alertness The Swiss women do not lHonize thelr officers, as do the women in the ovher European countries. This is part- ly because the standing army of the country {s compagatively small and the rank is obtained through supertor abil ity rather than by prestige. ‘Though in France the army has much poltical power the women do not dote much as in but it fs true that women have equally | “ minds to| ¢ srry ee NG & O446-92O 4942281898 OPPRORODO VDDD IADEROIROODREDDORIOIIDD 000464 The Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man. er the Mistletos, but His Rival Had fhe Longer Reach.? $ } 3 4 e ca 54 4 OM WHAT JOY! TOOTSIE UNDER JUST WAIT TILL I * FINISH THIS LETTER ‘COME, FOOTSIE! (M WAITING FOR YOUs 929098 999O840996-999G440-0 492 A> DTS merce OH! How you ; FRIGHTENED 1 ME PEEWEE: COME IN FRONT OF ME SO | CAN SEE YOU- EP RI2, Sana PRES, HatHa! mens ~ DEAR. I'VE Got You t You CAN GET AWAY ! BEND DOWN Now, AND PAY THE PENALTY! HOLD ON THERE! SAW _HER FIRST: a GBEEDEGOR ED er 3 Santa Claus No Friend of the Well-to-Do, ~~ AAT did Santa Claus leave in your stook~ “ ing?" asked the Cigar Store Man. “I didn't hang up my stooking,” replied the Man Higher Up, “but, in order to te in the Christmas play, I hung up my watch yesterday even- jing, and to-morrow I am going to hang up my landlord, I also got stood up by the janitor, the elevator man, the telephone boy and Talisman in the third race at New Orleans. If I wasn't on the water wagon I'd get lit up. “For me, joy because Christmas is among the also rans, The only, people it brought real, honest pleasure to were the diegracefully poor. The disgracefully rich and the well-to-do have worried themselves dizzy about pres- eitts, while all the poor had to do was wait for philan- thropy and charity to hand out good things. Such of the poor as felt shaky about Santa Claus giving them any of |! the best of it committed suicide. The poor win both ways in this town. “I'd rather be poverty-stricken in New York than have a good salary in 1 small place. In the summer time the poor have free playgrounds, free baths, free band con- certs, free trolley rides and chowder feeds at che seaside, free ice, free ice-cream and free medicine. In winter time they have free lectures, free coal, free food, free clothes and a chance to look in the show windows. At the Christmas period an army of investigators hustle out ang dig up deserving poor to shovel free dinners into, It i a shine unfortunate who cannot keep himself full of foad and his family comfortable in New York. “The poor devil who works hard every day and de- prives himself of the neccssaries of life in order to give ‘his family some of the luxuries has to drill along and do ®|the best he can. Nobody ever comes around to him at holiday time and asks him if a ten-dollar bill would make him faint away. He has to prop his own respectability front, make the season pleasant for his kids and wonder if the boss won't cut his pay on the first of January. “Everybody I have seen to-day has told me that the @| presents they gave outvalued about twenty to one the % | presents they received. I have found this condition to $ | prevail on every Christmas in my recollection, and I have spent lots of time trying to dope out where the balance of trade goes. If everybody lays out more for what he gives than what he gets is worth, it looks to me like Santa Claus had been taking lessons from the organizers of the Shipbuilding Trust.” POIHID®IS2°D9-VDHFDIGG9HGOI-9T9H9-H-09H On army mnen nearly es “You'll certainly get a good © ° ‘as dinner al q | 2] d ly. Fi ch y 5 dinner 1 or Mr. Gompers to know what ten thousand men are Benne Seaety Pea Ntae rushes right,” said the Cigar Store Man, » oa going to do, but not to know that Michael Solorowski, of Connellsville, will have to stay away from the coke furnace to-morrow because his baby has the croup. This tendency threatens to turn this free, mobile, democratic America of Surs—this land of big hearts, of ready sympathy and of unlimited opportunities— into a country divided into social compartments, each as foreign to the rest as one sountry used to be to another in the days when .. Znglishman’s first im- fers being married to a member of the Eeole des Beaux Arts or an instructor In the Sorbonne. For in France the army men vie for honor with scholars and painters. it is more than likely that wtth the importing of certain foreign political ideas, hats, frocks, &c., we shall soon aceept the idem that an officer Is an im- portant social factor. The American girls will then count as naught men who are interested in wheat, stocks law and medicine, ‘but instead the tall, sturdy, fearlesa army men will be the (dole of their hearts os Little Dixie, Billy Bowwow and Polly Pugdoodle. . w& vw: The Coon Kid Makes a Nice Christmas Box of Himself and Surprises His Canine Friends. § “Yes,” answered the Man Higher Up, “but turkey always gives me indigestion.” OPPOSITION FANS THF FLAME OF LOVE. By Helen Oldfield, ROVIDED two people have even a slight predilection for each other, no surer means can he taken to fan the spark into a flame than that of violent opposition — thereto. 1 Difflcuity and danger in its acnuisition add immens ly to the value of any prize, The topmost fruit on the tree is always the fairest as seen from the graund,!and every schoolboy knows that a half-ripe watermelon stolen at dead of night, with the risk of a gun and dog to dare, is by far be 9 pulse on seeing a stranger way to “’eave ‘arf a brick aoc al more toothsome than the most luscious produce of the eame 1” ” . ‘ in “ field purchased in open market and eaten with all the at im.” Theoretically Mr. Morgan and Mr. Rocke-] LETTERS, BaeaItte ot niviligos ne feller are the brothers of ths men who roll stee} and QUESTIONS, Indeed, there are cases on record of how worldly wise hots y ‘ parents, wishing their offspring to make a certain alliance, pipe oil in Pennsylvania, b tt most of the time neither ANSWERS. have decrled the person whom they seoretly favored’ and side seems to get a very vital grip of the fact. “And here is the supreme virtue of Christmas. On this day we must drop the wholesale habit of mind for once. We must stop looking at our fellow beings as units in statistical tables and consider them as men and women, not forgetting the children. The rest of the year we may find a sufficient safety valve for our benevolent emotions in “organized charity,” but or- ganized charity won't do for Christmas. At that time we must uncover our own human hearts, If there is a single soft spot there the spirit of the day will search it out and make the most of it. In the Middle Ages there were certain days on which was their normal occupation and rested in a Truce of God. In the brighter, harder light of our time such Apply to Supreme Court. To the Editor of The Evening World: If a person changes his name what) { steps must be taken to changed name legal? make vhe PLC, He In Eligible to the Presidency. To the Editor of Tho Evening World Can a man be President of the United States if he ts born here, but if ais parents were born in Germany? L. KK. Yen, To the Kaltor of The Evening World Is a mam allowed to vote if he ts born in this country and if his father ts not a citizen? D. He A Sheep'Problem. To the Editor of The Evening World Readers, a man has three sons and has seventeen sheep, which he wants to divide equally among them. ‘To the frst so) he gives one-half, to the second son one-third and to the third gon one-ninta, Now, reader, how does he do this? ANXIOUS. “That Kind," Not “Those Kind,” Is oo Some of the Best SELLING FORFEITS. The forfeits consist of orders to 2OOCd openly praised others, with the effect of @ringing the de- sired result to pass. It 1s part and parcel of the proverbial perversity of human nature that unmitigated praise is much less likely to interest one person in another than is un- qualified blame. Conscious imperfection is apt to resent the perfection which {fe set upon a pedestal for admiration, and, ergo, to refuse the expected tribute. And since no human being Is ® | either wholly good or wholly bad, both virtues and vices BJ stand out tn full reliet against the overdrawn Uackground, © ¢ S| ve tt black or be it white. If once a man can persuade a 2] woman that she only of all the world understands him, 2] much more if he can make her believe that her influence ® | over him Is potent for good, he has thenseforth a hold pon © | her which nothing short of the absolute conviction that he has led will ever avail to shake. Women usually have. more or less sympathy for the under dog In a fight, especially if It be a pretty dog, unless, indeed, {t be their own pet dog which has the upper hand, when pride o’ermasters pity, says Helen Oldfeld in the Chicago Tribune, ‘ Every manoeuvring mamma knows how dangerous are the attractions of fascinating detrimentals, and could, 1f she ® | would. a tale unfold of how her darling Ethel ts prone to sit out in shadowy corners with young Sansous inetead of welcoming the attentions of Mr. Golerox, Opposition to marriage 1s, however, much more powerful In the case of a woman than In that of a man. It may in- 40] cine her heart toward the suitor against whom are lifted ODO 99999008 S- 0666085000069: 004 certain absurd or ludicrous things, and] the voices of all her friends; but when it comes to the pinoh -{ sentimental observances have mostly withered and disappeared, But it would still be a shock to the moral consciousness of the world if two powers, Christian or not, should begin a war on Christmas Day. To that extent the message of the angels to the shepherds has pervaded the world, New Year's Day is commonly understood to be the date for good resolutions, but Christmas would seem to be more appropriate; for then the spirit that makes Jokes of the Day. HIS “WN ENDS. “That man Brown has just bought a fur cap and a pair of skates.” “What for?" “To serve his own ends, I suppose."— Princeton Tiger. “Father,” sald little Willle, “what ts @ pessimist?” these orders should by prepared in ad-/ she Is apt to beet at STIS in we bid eh ries opposition, Mere disapproval she may valiarttly trave, but eee ee ier ot paper: ana| When it 1s a question of choosing nally between her family the slips put into envelopes, which] and the man whom she loves she is*likely to hold back, and are then sealed and numbered, from! her love must not only be deep and strong, she herself must one up. No one mwat ace the forfeits, be self-willed and self-reliant to a degree to cut Herself oft, or orders but the who writes! from all her old associations for the sake of x lover. Far them; this work would naturally fall to) Always there are voices crying in her ears. “Suppose they the leader. should be right, only supose.” So she shillyshallya and "The players take seats in a circle, or a] temporizes, content, ax a woman will, to be engaged, but semi-circle, and the leader stands in the} balking at matrimony, until, in all probatililty, the man centre, with tne envelopes in his hand.| grows weary or indignant and seeks consolation elsewhere. Correct. To the Editor of The Evening World Is it proper.to say “Those tsind of chings,”’ or ‘That kind of things?" J. 8. Apply to the Supreme Cuart, To the Editor of;The Evening World Kindly inform me where I can get my name changed. GB. Often as lected. jor of The Evening World: Can a President serve three terms? if SIS not, Kindly state how long he can be w i ay! Nor ig she to blame, her risk 1s infinite, and not infre- resolutions worth while is at its best. Almost every-| Prendent and. what would be the out “A fea ae ne an who ee To eee ee eecanlas ot arnt quently whatever heartaché her indecision may cost her,, body contrives to keep that spirit alive for one day—] come 1 he were elected three terms IM! 1. Content with the trouble thar in value, — {t proves her salyation from the misery of an unhappy mer riage, than which there {s none greater. A man, on the contrary, champlong’the woman of his choice against all the world if need be. The more she is abused the more he foels himself called upon to defend her, ‘and grows only the more devoted to his persecuted end alam dered angel. succession? Hach player 4s supposed to have $100 at his command for buying, and as the leader offers the envelopes, one at & time, they bld against each other for . owed to buy more than one envelope. - PHIL We |coming to him, but insists en hunting lets, No. 239] more.""—Washington Star, away. To the Editor of The Bvening World THE AUTOCRATS. Nodd—Your baby and your cook are T met with an accident, sued and won the case, but I did not receive any}both away, are they? somie preserve it for as much as a week. What a transformed world this would be if it could be main- tained through the whole year! And why not? _ Would not a Christmas year of fraternity, peace and good will be better worth having than a year of strikes, outs, stock raids, wars, boycotts and “nothing to te?” steps to take? Botth money. Can you kindly advise me what ¥1.05. Cork, 5 Cents ‘To the Editor of The Evening ‘Todd—Yes, Nobody but my wife and myself are left to run the house.—De- triot Free Press, T. K, yorid ‘All the envelopes are kept sealed until the last one hap been sold, and then are opened, when the reading of the forfeits will be sure to make a good deal of ‘The pity of {t all is that the better worth while a man is, the nobler, the more chivalrous, the greater in the danger that he may fall « prey to the wiles of some designing wom- an who knowsi how to make use of hia finest feelings to lure NOT Esp i fe those. 3 pita pice in 1, ving to your gorrespondent whol ot undonat Fe eee op le £ ave, Judging trom | Smusement: 1 HP £6 aye Se Te ke secant Gey tenes PRP Ea dc aa a Aa undensiand your husband is of a|_ ‘This ts an exact fao-stmile of the bill of sale for a negro slave. Judaing from|"Ac'me end of the oalo the forfelte are 'to prevent {t. The story of Circe, lke moat of dhe fablen of i ANOTHER CRIME. of bottle and cork (combined cost of re a Rada er A 1she ACHR and punctuation, education could scarcely have been compulsory In! «4 yp pald.an the order of the numbers] iq, has its moral, which he who runs may zi ata oe o'es, sually not before 3 those days ‘ne. envelopes. ————. While such an accident as that which had such es . ey and ce (Mifference IM} ag Houston Chronicle: It isa far ery back to 1881, the date of the necompanying bill of sale. By that tre are & few suggestions for for" CH STATISTICS, fildeous results on the Baltimore ane Ohio might not| Cost 1 8): Me is avident (hat the pottie ie a human being was transferred from one owner to another. Dr. It Rt. Mo-' gj | CHUR s e “happen vince in a dozen years, the public will not accept| tees thau 10 ecnta bh fe cork sore NOR GUARD TALK, or, of Covington, . owns (his document, The negro, Mose Yawn until you make some one cleo HE American Bible Saclety has distributed since 1816 over: the cheerful theory of thy general superintendent of the] cents to } livided a i iG | EO ar a bs angys veka hs AU LRA Mean ane ea Hee oct atl want i iT 71,09 Sapien ot kre Or i , i s z : pelea yr AN fading New York." and mado many purcha Louls and St, Louls County sivas your image in the looking glass, ‘The American Tract Soclety has distributed over 48+ oad that nobody was to blame. ‘There was manifest| Pottle and cora; thereore wollte co¥ist” uy wonder if that {Roludes the one Dr, McGregor states that A man named Barry acted as agent for his fatiior li pecke one stanza of "Mary Had 2! eyo -eligious tracts In more than one hundred languages, ness in the loading of the fatal car of timbers,|#:% epcken by the quick-linch waiters?" | 184 and 1M In St. Louls, buying up negroes In great numbers. Little Lamb" backward, In tho United States there are 82 Roman Catholie bisheps, h Cleveland Plain Dealer In “The Crist a purchill tells of selling negroes at auction from the ——EE rehbishops and one cardinal, the truth comes out it.will probably be found| Wee ©a™ F sist Dill felts of sett he} Wa ps and dinal. 2 To the Editor of The Evening World: steps of the St. Lovls Court-House. Private sale, however, was much nore ad- A PAST OPENING. ‘The Protestant-Epiacopal Church in this country hes 0 © trouble was due to a niggardly attempt to run} { have in my possession a v. SOPORIFIC. vantagcous to elles, and thousands of negroes were transferred 4a that way, mto—Ain't It funny dat wen yer | pishops. . d with an insufficient force. Almost every mer-|and tnlaue solld copper powder flask. | Playrite-T heard ov: | ills of sale be: ven with them Just as with other chattels, ane want a ting dat yer useter want; In this country there are 10,803,628 Sunday-schoot pitts. UE charts (8 gen le undermanned, apd Amert- tate oeeiner Hae tava CRUSE ER eet ARS ss atk kin have It all ter yerself? Greece has only 108 and Blam 809. 4 - ugie on either side and this Insc: At comp at it was ao | vhen } 7 ‘ } who visit Germany laugh at the absurd| “Public Property.” Can any reader. Crittick—Yes? “So you think Mrs. Van Plump's zeal | Tommy—Pop, wheat Is obsourity? now? for cjarity will not last long? Why, she | ‘Toth: Pop—Obscurity, my son, is| Jimmie—I pamed de baseball park ter- | 26, says is the very breath of life to her.” |best exemplified by the husband of a| day an’ deve wus’ dat, hole.in de fence ib fot the civil war? Perhaps he overslept | kuow, but Mrs, Van Plump is quite | succeestul woman.—Philadelphia Reo. ' w'at we all ard Jest gum: | ery wreck. Mra J.-W. We Warsaw, 0... Pree, abort winded,"—Kanass (ity Journal. ‘ead, ’ (Pee nek 7 ‘ on the State roads there, but one| «ive me information as to whether it is| P: od while in Germany without seeing|%,"ll° of the Revolutionary perlod or | yer yrite—Yes re 10 15. Crittick—H'm! And tho final curtain fels 22,540,398 Christian Sunday-echoor praia tee Neate ‘Hucuber -aarty’ elt are” te ty ene eRe EF tre