The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1903, Page 10

_ Publisned by the Press Publishing Company, No. &8 to a) & Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office ‘at New York os Second-Class Mail Matter. ne VOLUME 44.......06 wseeeseesereesNO. 15,468. —<—$—<—$<$<$<$$ —— $$ LET THE WEST COME HERE. New York's desire for the Democratic National Con- wention 13 not bounded by party or factional lines. Democrats in and out of Tammany are uniting eal Republicans in their expression of it. Senator Depew, | erdgnt Republican as he 1s, wants the convention for) the benefit of New York City and State, He sees In it, tio, a necessary means of bringing the East and the} ‘West together. In the latter respect it is really more fmportant to| ¢ the people of the West to send the convention here than it 1s to us to have it. We have been in the pos!-| Hon of Mr. Carnegie’s fortunate young man who has iad the advantage of being born poor. We have been compelled to look beyond our own vicinity, and the process has done us good. In the West, where most of Khe wonventions of the past generation have gone, the people have been able to stay at home and have their politics brought to them on silver salvers. Such a sit- . uation tends to promote provinclalism. Let our Western friends talte a week off and come} « to see New York. It will do them good, and our nu- merous visits deserve some return. OUR MOST NEEDED NEW PARK. ‘A week ago The Evening World sald editorially: @rmy sbould find some other headquarters than Gov- ernor’s Island, and leave that for a public park. Crim- fgals and paupers might cease to monopolize Black- well’s Island—the most perfect park site of this or any other American city.” ‘These suggestions may be nearer fulfilment than many people think. Mr. the new Commissioner of Corrections, announces that “the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, as the other institutions “there, will all be removed to Itiker's Island in the near future.” The work of filling in the flats at the latter spot, he says, “has progressed so well that we may ex- pect to see in a reasonably short time all the buildings cleared from Blackwell's Island and that delightful spot Lantry, as well ‘SASSY SUE - LAND SAKES/ IAIN? SLEPTA WINK o ® Every | Man His Own Romance, OR HOW TOBE A HERO By Nixola Greeley- Smith. HERS {s nothing the average man i likes better than to be thought the hero of a deep and mysterious love eonverted into a beatiful public park.” "The New Yorker who does not live to see that vision realized will have good cause to complain of fate. No other single tinprovement could add so much to the at- tractions of the city. Blackwell's Island seems to have ‘been created by nature expressly to mitigate the dis- “) comforts of the swarming population on both sides of the Bast River. When !{t !s turned Into a park and mate easily accessible life in those teeming regions will be distinctly brighter. ‘THE PASSENGER'S FAULT. osMr. Edgar Van Etten, Second Vice-President of the New York Central Railroad, has had an Inspiration. He ‘has discovered that the passengera are to blame for]or bookkeeper tn the delays of local trains because they do not move guickty enough in getting out. “The public,” he ob- werves, “can save thirty seconds at each stop if they win, and with a train making twenty stops this means ten minutes.” But just how 1s the delinquent passenger to step livelier? He already gets up ‘and crowds toward the door @8 soon as the train begins to slow down, al- though it has been judicially held that by so doing he releases the company from any claim for damages In case of accident. Ought he to begin jumping In the open country, . that the train could go past his station without even | “hesitating?” § ‘Yn Europe passengers do not usually rise until their ears-have come to a dead standstill, One of the most surprising things the forcign observer jots down in his notebook is the American hahit of crowding to the doors before a station is reached. But {t seems our Tailroad cfictals are «fill not satisfled He jumps off before the cars stop. 80 * SWEARING OFF" FROM DIVORCE. A Justice of the Peace in Cleveland has undertaken to repeal the divorce laws of forty-four States. “I thave made up my mind,” he says, “that this divorce (business is all wrong.” When a Justice of the Peace makes up his mind that a thing 1s wrong, and tho laws take a different view, so much the worse for the laws. They had a local option Jaw in New Hampshire and aj) Justice wiped it off the map by putting the name.of every man in his town on an alcoholic black list The Cleveland jurist has a plan equally simple and|* ingenious. He refuses to marry will not sign a pledge Vantage of any legal rights of divorce they may im the future. The scheme has only one tiny flaw /Nobody will sign the pledge. The modern bride and ‘\ | Oridegroom are like passengers boarding a street car. ) Phey may not expect to change cars, but it Is 9 satis- faction to them to Imow that they can get transfers if} they. want then. any applicants who have _ Some things can be done as well as ‘othe 7) Bam Patch when he jumped over Niagara Falls, but |) Batch was a timid experimenter compared with Mr. @ Fletcher, the expert in food hygiene, who has| {testing the possthility of living at the Waldort- j@ %i a cosi of less than a dollar a day for meals, | Fletcher has proved that a man may go Into the Room at the Waldorf, obtain a seat at a table ice @ waiter to bring him something which, on ple of the Raines law sandwich, would be ju- a meal. But why should he want to @ more satisfactory for one bent affair. lover. successful, comings aml shortcomings are subject the nagionnl breakfast of scandal for ef ft were going to snow to-morrow, he binding them never to take ad-| + ‘A SCIENTIFIC TOUR DE FORCE. |! And if there ts just the least sugges- tion’ of wickedness about’ the mystery, he is nil the more pleased, A great many women,at some time in their Uves, Iie to be thought blighted beings, and go about with the wan and lackadaistoal air which they think proper to the role, But men do not care about figuring as blighted beings at all. No air of disappointed or disiNusioned love appeals to them. ‘They know that the only lover that tn- terests other men is the succtesful And therefore, at all cost to truth or | $ hazard to fortune, they strive to appear | © For this reason thetr conversation ts 3 largely about women. Tf there ts, per-,|; 2 haps, a fair looking girl stenographer the establishment wher they are employed her goings and’ to the keenest scrutiny and comment. A scrutiny nut always respectful and 9 comment that 1s seldom kind. If there is none, these self-made Lo- tharlus nod and wink over the boarding- house waitress, even while they ave try- ing to convey the impression that their frienttwitps with many well-known s0- ety women or prominent actreases would, i they became public, furnish months to come Novhing pleases this man better than to be seon taking frequently and allway earnesily with a pretty women. Tf he Is telling her nothing more than that ft 1s @ fine day, or that {t looks as irles to do t with an air of such deep and mystertous tmport as to leave little dovbt in the mindy of onlookers that they are arranging the final details of an elopement And the poor man ts really rather pit- lable in hie constant striving after the elusive romance, his incessant talking about the things that never were and never will be his. He has never realized that the man of many adventures does not talk about them, having learned that discretion, quite apart from being gentlemanly, ts the price—a very small price murely—of continued popularity with women. No one {s more circumspect in his manner and conversation with and about women than the man’ of many love affalrs. He does not belleve in the “every man his own rt * style of conversation, find ho does not inditlge in tt actual H eputation to deter nine At the motive fs a very small matter and the ceputt ta che Sent —— THE HEIGHT OF CLOUDS. Questions often arise about the helgit information n this sub- tiful nor very de atory af Metric measurements have e during a period of twenty awaths, and the results are reported he Indian Metéorologiont! Memoirs,” 4 has an elevated situation on a y is to jouds, the mean height above Simla, in forty-seven, Measurements, was found to be 3),(00 fect, or nearly #x miles, The maximum was 18,140 feet, Of the thicker cumulus clouds the mean was 7,30 fect—over a mile and one-third—and the maximum 14,318 fept. In the warmer climate of| ‘ Simla these figures are naturally iarger than would be given by average meas- urements of the altitude of aie | CLUES ty OOO209004- The Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man. He Has a Christmas Titf with Miss Sixfoot and Tries to Enlist for the Columbian War, THOUGHT YOV wouuD LOOK SO CUTE A LPTTLE cURL — ‘Lit tle D uv ObOO4 On Christmas Sue jumped out of bed; be «D'Il see what Santa brought,” “Tt {s not likely that Europe would invade us if the], she said. od WHY 1 2 Fone YoU GAVE ME FoR x’MAS. ~ SWALL NOT BE DESECRATED BY —— ES ONE Lit, SMACKEl °. N oEM RUBEN LIPS «Good Lands! my stocking’s fine an’ fat; Here’s ear-muffs—wristlets—and—what's that ? aed WITH IN YOUR MOUSTACHE! ne TS miss SIXFoOT | AM HERE TO RETURN TO YOU THESE CURLING TONGS ecnuitiNg 7 OFFICE. YOU HAVE GROSSLY INSULTED Myr MANHOOD, BY SENDING ME SUCH IMPLE MENTS OF EFFEMINACY. THE PERSONAL CHARMS WHICH NATURE HAS SO LAVISHLY BESTOWED UPON ME, SORRY ALL RIGHT, HEN SHE SEES ME BROUGHT BACK MECHANICAL ART \ Bid You FAREWeLt | SHALL AT ONCE ENLIST, AND GO Y FIGHT THE COLOMBIANS, \ SEEK | I\FEVER OR THE. BULLet ( CARE Not WHICH ! 0 F'FARE WELL} RRY UP BEFORE CHANGE You! HEY MISS; Put HIM IN DE BOYS BRIGADE ! KID, DE SERVICE CALLS FER SPT. FINCHES YOUSE HAS TO GROW 257 SINCHES AFORE NOUSE CAN, ENLIST. t S Sans Fy 4 Nou TusT CAME ALONG \ (N TIME Toot SIE fo SAVE ME -/FROM AN AWFUL ee The Goon Kid & ar 2 He Meets a Chocolate-drob Affinity and Gets Seriously dollied, XIC 2 By-t dhe Choator of Sunny Jim”’ Se More Aout Her Xmas Gifts. i $ «Quick, bring a trap!’’ she roused the house, ’« That Santa fool brought me a mouse!’’ MINNY MAUD HANFF. Should Women Be Compelled to Pay Alimony? SBE,” sald the Cigar-Store Man, “that there is a case on in the courts in which a hus- band 1s suing ‘his wife for alimony.” “The time is about ripe,” remarked the Man Higher Up, “for the formation of @ Woman's Auxillary Alinion> Club. There is a woman's auxiliary Tto about every other organization in the country, from the Descendants of the Man who Shook the Hand of Washington down to the Knights of the Gilded Growler. Woman {s butting into everything else, and she might as well butt into the distribution of alimony. “Nearly every day we read of a meeting of women in which mere man is held up to scorn. He is de- nounced as a slob and verbal'thot wallops are thrown into him for trying to ‘hold up ‘his own end. Gradually we are being taught that woman is able to take care, of herself; and it 1s woman who is handing out:thes lesson. she! “The magazines are full of ‘pictures of women’ who are running hotels, livery stables, banks, senna clothing stores, office buildings, stationary engines, ber shops and steamships. Two young women out In Indiana or Ohio or some other similar literary centre in the nelghborhood of the Wabash are learning blacksmith’s trade. A Woman was sentenced to pri in this town the other day for running ® pool-room. Scores of New York women are making money by ca- tering to people with the drink habit. A woman over in Brooklyn runs a couple of drug stores. About the only male employees in shoe factories, hat factories, shirt factories and the like are the porters who sweep out. “Women are becoming the breadwinners. Why ' shouldn't they be producers? Man has been producing, ever since Adam began to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. The law makes bim produce to a woman who is his wife and then compels htm to keep on pro- ducing after she gets a divorce from him. The women are clamoring for equal rights and they ought: to be willing to take equal responsibilities. “Wouldn't it be a shame if some of the ‘wives of; society husbands should sue for divorce amd ask for{ alimony, The everage Hnglish or French nobleman: who marries an American heiress would have a tioket to jail for life if his wife got a divorce with an alimony tag. If women with money or a good trade marry men. they ought to be compelled to support them.” “T'd hate to have a woman paying-alimony to me,” asserted the Cigar-Store Man. ‘ “So would any clean-minded, able-bodied j|Amertoam citizen,” answered the Man Higher Up, “but wouldn't +® you hate to be paying alimony to a woman?” STALLNESS OF THINGS. LINY relates that Myrmecidos wrought out of ivory a char. fot with four wheels and four horses and a ehip with all p her tackling, both in so smal] a compass that a bee could | hide either with Its wings. Frank Schmidt, of Jersey City, recently made a teapot, about the size of a pea, with a capacity of two drops of War| ter, and an alcohol lamp smull enough to go under the pot.’ ‘The lamp boiled the water. In the time of Pope Paul V. there was exhibited in Rome @ tunnery cons'sting of 1,600 perfectly formed and carved dishés and the whole set being so small that ft could de easily Im closed Inv a case fabricated in a peppercorn of the ordinary size. An Egyptian carved from tvory an elephant so small ¢ias® it could be passed throug: the eye of a tambric neéde In the British Museum there in a Japanese needle of steal as thin As a splder's web, and yet thypugh ithe centre of tte length {s drilled a perfectly round hole, Nuts to Burn, The candlenvt {s a native of the Pacific tslands and name is derived fram the fact that the kernels are so of oll that when dried they are stuck on reeds and yset 4 candles, The people of Hawaii, after having roasted these nuts and removed the shells, reduce the kernels to @ paste,