The evening world. Newspaper, December 29, 1903, Page 10

RDS 2 HOME # MAGAZINE prmcen GE sae PD26-2DDEF 2099904 00040OO0-DDOU992029 22990994490 OO9F92099OI2 DD 600-900OO4-00000000464 4 yeep ae THE wt EVENING lpuptisnea by the Press Publishing Company, } i Park Row, New York. Entered at the Po: } at New York as Second-Cinss Mall Matter. iA VOLUME 44.... _——$—$ we WORLD akes Polly Coasting. wf 4’ $404020004 veatsssssssesensNO, 18,469. Aw, DONT BE iL OH, BILLY | PULL ME iso SQUEERISH! PEEL +, a(S . Don you spose) |i Feeay | BACK, J ) wHoa! Sj I KNOW Hows” PoLLY- i BACK UP! BRIDGES AND CONNECTIONS. 1 THIS THIN i y Mr. Best, the new Bridge Commissioner, expresses } @0me progressive ideas in his statement in The Even- img World. He belioves that New York needa more ‘bridges, and that those already provided for should be put in the best possible relations with the trangit systems of Manhattan and Brooklyn. | t The latter work ic of much more {mmediate {m- portance than tho former. Undoubtedly we shall need more bridges some day, but our castruction of Prldges and tunnels has already run far ahead of our facilities for making the test use of them. They can [SAY U— Au REVOIR | But NOT, TRIES TO GooDByYE J} PLEASE ‘rou! carry several times as many people as can be con-) veniently deliverod at or taken away from their terminals. What js needed {s such a system of con- Rections and transfers that a passenger in any part ot} either borough shall be able to go quickly and easil | tO any part of the other by way of the nearest bridge ’ tunnel for a single fare. | ‘Nature has ha‘ to bear a good deal of unjust blame! the transit miseries of New Yorkers on account of lack of foresight jn making Manhattan Island long Ker, and narrow, and also for creating the commisstoners who eooot Iaid out the street plan of 1807 without suffictent ordi-| N ’ ew Year's | mary human intelligence to turn the blocks the right way.! But the topography of Manhattan Island, even as ax-| Resolutions @ravated by an !mbecile street plan, no longer rules) ue al New York's transit system. Manhattan, Brooklyn and for Cupid. Queens are hecoming a single area. The ditch we call a, the East River ts no longer a barrier that forces the des of travel to surgo northward and southward in a By aly narrow channel. We can bridge and tunnel it| Nixola Greeley-Smith. The Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man. 2% es ® aed * The Recent Snowfall Wasn’t Heavy, but There Was Enough of It to Bury Mr, Peewee Out of Sight. CGY ET RIL SSS yu 4 PEEWEE | WONT) GO A STEP Zs a 5 5 Dean OOS OME ge OF iy TooTSIE DEAR v GG ne: EARTH APPEARS, eACme | . & Se CLAD IN ITS DAZZLING WHITE MANTLE OF FURTHER? ) You'RE GOING NE WRONG The Annual COME ON TOOTSIE “where we will. We can send traffic radiating from the SNOW. IT REMINDS ME Ride on the 4 ‘ cas of Pe DONT BE AFRAID + Business centres to the residence quarters almost as 5 - na off ts /OF THAT CHOICE GEM OF Vs 2 P f : ? | NED great annual swenring-off ts) / ATUR A /S\NHEN PEEWEE 1S Water Wagon: well as in Washington, and better than tn Chicago,) ] upon us and New Years resolu YOUR LITER Ei SNow, Wit 0 Wik fe { "| Pe ifona are abroad in the hu SNOW, BEAUTIF SNow,| ITH YOU. | \ i Philadelphia or Boston, | Those we made and broke last The moet important thing for us to do now tm to, marshal themselves tn the memory to | be mended ike a Hine of poor patients de Himely precautions that the Plunder of) Anteh: | outside a free dispensary during an epl ing a bridge a year ahead of its connecting transit lines demic. And fresh Bar never be re fed: have brought about clamor nition | TWO WEEKS MORE. No matter what you tu, one 9 ago, you resolved that you would ne “In just two weeks from to-day the Democratic) do it ugalu. And generally speaking the | resolution was a very wise one National Committee will decide where the National) '"*?" PP eanalt tty CeAtORyD Convention of 1904 is to be held. Within that time) douvte ft And now you are) New York must offset the work that Chicago has been | '™ ‘ doing for months. the world must necessarily ¢ standstill for at least two weeks afte _ Phe theatrical men, the hotel-Keepers and the rafl.| Sandetlll for at tet ane eed roads are taking an active interest in the matter, but) the things which all mankind swears om: y not to do. the business community in general does not seem to Batowhen lt lacrememibered that for realize what a very short time a fortnight is. It is/eyery one renouncing particular form | barely long enough to send a letter to the Pacific Coast | Of Ixury or dissipation after a year of & y perience, there I4 probably another eee * reply. Some of the National Committee- aking up his mind that after all per men have already left their homes. Every one of them|} "ps there ts harm tn it it is worth giving a trial, It is not * ought to have been receiving pressing letters and tele- that the status quo Is preserved grams every dey for wecks past. There ought to have; OF the evening before Jan. 1. when the | last shrill whistle has sounded, the last been cross-firing from all points of the compass. It in| tin horn shreked its uproarious welcome | too late for most of that now, bi to the new year and everybody has gone ue that {a all the:mare| (Oe re ee tly recond of, broken | Yeason why nothing that can still be done should be! rasolutions aud sometimes more serious neglected. commissions and omissions rises before Where are two things of prime mportance—Arat tu|“imimente mun have Deen sete False a fund of $70,000, and secofd to exert ali the, iveinoin pine they shew 60 Ah Dressure we can upon the committeemen. A city ong-| But while, like naughty children, we twentieth the size of New York that could not do both arnt ate Nr ent wad imomlains | Within the next week would forfeit its reputation for| nev lo a0 ar enterprise. | most serious in all the ay } remains unre f his crimes, i ,ZAACLEAR A PATH FOR Yous Ze & BE pez E 66 BOUT all the talk I hear these times,” Tee “Gene marked the Cigar Store Man, “is talk about a cutting out the booze,” “This 1s the season of the year,” sald the > | Man Higher Up, “when the water wagon is crowded jUke an ‘L* train in the rush hours. In about a month 4 a {it will look like an open street car on a rainy day. The EET TLC ea jSwear-oft microbe is working in twelve-hour shifte— Vz ATHOU jUvelve hours before noon and twelve hours after. The |Soaks are doing the annual renounce. >| “Whenever you see a man waitiag for New Year to shake his thirst you can make up your mind that he ? |has been administering the old ‘bull con to himself. He has been rough-housing his own mind. In a long and painful acquaintance with rummies, ranking from the one who weeps into your ear and tells you how much he jloves his dear old mother to the athletic light-weight who tries to kick the apparel off cabmen, I have never /Seen one mount the water wagon on New Year's Day and complete the trip. =) pL, “Force of example is what steers so many consistent \T WOULD HAVE § JEST IN}! & |performers at the bar to side-atep the accursed habit BEEN ALL RIGHT 4 jon the first of January. Men who have been swearing Z| acct sle DEAR, , |0ff for so many years that they thave acquired the UT 4 habit get busy in the latter part af December wi STEPPED INTO A Me Se NE 2 oP 2) ‘CMe eS COH SOMIEON t save MY PEEWEES o a be wou DAT A CRY) OF DISTRESS? ~S ‘chearsals for their annual stunt and they gather new recruits. The old-timers know well that they are going |{nto the drink-famine thing with three diamonds and. two spades and that their chance of drawing a flush and playing the hand out {s as remote. as the capital 3 {of Thibet. But the broilers in the souse class think » |that maybe they can keep away from the man with the white jacket. “The first thing they know they see the seasoned old campaigner, whose example has forced them to get a Water-wagon transfer from the highball tank car, . hastened in his burl i ‘ HONEST OLD NEW YORK, | Dan my ng nes in as though he had never experienced pep rbpesy an intermission, Thereupon the broiler takes the ex- We heg to call the attention of the Democratic, miy in dla absolute con perienced campaigner to task, and the experienced tional Committee to the case of the uptown branen | tld he seems, laughs all our good s Re oan’ Toei Ptown branch | ha fe campaigner takes the broller by the hand and Invites ie Pri a Ni vhose wp {resolutions to scor i ye ee ee Serene Net oat Bank, whose front!" ae forming any himself, why him to have some rofreshment. If every plea ” i pen from 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon | 6. all the milliom years in which abstain from liquor made a loud nolse when it until 1 o'clock Monday morning without any injurious! he jas been making trouble has he Broken) youd think. thal New wore oe men consequences to its funds. New Yorkens are well known |thousht of such a RUE EY moment barded next month : 1 Why should he make New Year's reso- He Ga ate ce cee sreermted fo malo. UP iiutions? ‘ro break them? “There isn't so much swearing off as there used to their own accounts at quick-lunch restaurants and help| ttas he not already the privilege of be at that. Men drink less nowadays than they did a soon and themselves to newspapers at unattended News-stania, | breaking other people's, just Bee ithe inhabitante of less upright places may be sur-|*% Often aa Ne ons ele tty not ‘ And yet Cupld og pfaWwear'c prised to learn that they have no need to lock up thelr Ter, of courte, but Just enough banks. Plainly hotel-keepers in a town like this would t he is aware that he has i . K hime ther ridiculous never think of robbing thelr guests, and the delegates| Se a ele just, ine least to the convention can think their deep political) ® P thoughts without having their minds distracted by the] id necessity of keeping watch for the gold-brick men,|° t few years ago. The game for rent money and eating money has got to be so swift that competitors have to keep they legs steady end their brains clear. New 2 | Yorkers drink a whole lot, but wige men drink In NOVEL-READING NELLIE M’GEE ” _ ry 5 | moderation. To lap up booze Ike an Indian, with the wt She Finds that the Central Park Lake Is No Place for Romance. Idea of getting so well corned that the gutter looks like a feather bed, is no longer fashionable.” “It is a good thing to swear off, if only for a few green-goods artists and pickpockets who infest less ij i 17 CHAMES, TRY AN" LK) ° ” - virtuous communities, yo i/| 1 vy ART A Hero in DE Doe. ANY 2 care) asserted the Cigar Store Man. —__--—--- Ly Nati pepo ® 1 How’ Yous. SAVE ME Gee ‘Swearing off for a few days,” replied the Men This Mant Be the Imit West side man has a son ands Git in DERG? < , | Higher Up, “is like taking an umbrella out into a rain- meventeen years old w $s u driver and ne ron vetatng, fs gives all his wages to Mis father. ‘The affectio: discovered recently that the boy hud been } part of the money for w time tn the hope of saving enough to buy $15 sult of clothes and promptiy ha him arrested for petty larceny. Ty the compet the Meanest Man prize this remarkable fatn be an casy winner, storm and forgetting to open it.” WOMEN AND LONG LIFE. It is well-known that women live longer shan men, but ea far there 1s no satisfactory explanation of why this 1s 8, Out of a million people, 225 women and only elghty-two men reach the age of 100 years, Maybi It 1s because a woman gots more sleep than a man, for the longer a person sleeps the longer will life last. Nearly all long-lived people have been great sleepers. When M, De Lesseps was on the ocean he m6 OFF Someone tt} holding o} — ueht to -s, | Some of the Best |: AN OUTRAGE ON A STRANGER, | Baroness Bronsart von Schellendort has brought Jokes of the Day. ‘trom Africa a weird anima! with the face and tront! Ray! Ive Losr ME HALO! JES WATCH ME CUT AGOUT NINE 7 DIDOES! legs of a monkey, the hind legs of a kangaroo, and cars AT THE RAT KILLER. cst bane Seat creasing pectin bncseaaal ae behind it like wings. Tits treasure 3 : x : ara =r ~ ‘ as === aged twelve hours’ sl day. ‘oman who wo! Peat fold behind it ke wings. ‘Tits treasure ig to be) Mise «orsetta—Say, Claire, yn} j, a_i i C HIM MiE-Ee HAA v Wfcer Alone ro Gartee | earn to sleep eighteen hours a day might live 200 years, sexhibited in a lecture at Cleveland. What a pitiful »¢* | a curk 0) Ph (No COLO wt To DE REZCUE 2 wv Mwio DE CROoL WAVES- One of the secrets of logevity, therefore, Is to take plenty Waste of an unequalled opportunity! Is there no yuo NE fi le sete ' | Puce Lv DON'T LEMME yy] Ar. Gir SOME, ROMANCE] lof sleep, Other rules which the seeker after length of days fot Becuring the lied African stranger his rights”) 4-4 Siane wvatnlee one witon tunel IP ee STA 7 (Ad) O}\r" into DAT. KID Douen, should observe are these: Mw there not a vase for the Gerry society A 3 ELP It! = Af gilt 2 Has rer us q Sleep on the right side, : 7 jerry society when aly mo il velund Lea 3 ———— ST Aileen! ¢ I ine bedroom window open all night. ’ mgeroo-monkey, with ears that fold behind his hack ENOUGH TO SCARE HIM g iS) ~~ Don't take a cold tu’j in the morning, but a path the temp eompelled to submit to the degradation of appe. They vay that Tlenry wes awt perature of the, body. aring i) 4 e/a lecture quaience’in Cleveland instead of shing| R)tened wh reached Ui !) Don't allow any pets in the living room. > They may carry 1 guest g 2 exe 1 SHORE NON MSH A SOUL RE disease geims. as Ro. honored guest at the moat exclusive dinner! the Urile had her har drew . } | Take daily exercise In the open air, and live tn the countey, ine Newport? ' and Main Dealer 9 ® | if not all the year, at least for five or six months, Gi pee eo » 6 rge your occupation, ‘ yar,— BIRDS OF A FEATHER. 4 Qceasionally charge y ? ; cre. War sce ge ihe. ¢ ‘olombtans seem to te Ware i oF hei ay B : Take frequent and short holidays. . apoll ai fat NLRUaAltoat erie es are all full here.” said $ § : Se RS: t Bain alts: thay. oheuke eee ne mbere Clu a ther 'Slto the man whose breath sr 3 ‘ Watch the three D's——drinting water, dampness and u ye . 0 19 8er-| earthly thing P rains. ' Agbting unless we go after it, for the Colombians sad Shad : 3 Limit sour ambitions, OL Get very fur away from home, ner ell.” sald the man. atead . . weistiould not 1 me, and there tw nol eit against the celestial gat Keep your temper. Me alia oe een ay there and make Worry less, work more; ride lgas, walk more; drink lesa, 4 h —hic—ish ‘my plash. m—ni it of hate desires, Binand ashide,’ more; preach less, practice more ‘breathe more} Seb lesa, So | . wart