The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1904, Page 12

Se ga s My Murphy has come down @ by the Press Publishing Company, No. 33% @ Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Cluss Mall Matter. LUME 44.. Mbnteeeierceress NO. 16,44 TAMMANY IN LINE, Not only will ne Oppose New York's desire for the Democratic Ni 3! tional Convention, but he will go to Washington him- Belt to urge the National Committee to send it here. The Democratic Club has appointed a committee to ‘work for the same object. Tammany is in line with the business men of the city. “This belated support is better than direct opposition, but New Yorkers cannot forget that while the citizens ‘Were organizing, working and raising money for the common benefit, Tammany gave them no help, that its teader discouraged the movement and tried to stop it ‘wien it was on the very verge of success, and that his half-hearted co-operation at the eleventh hour has been forced by a public opinion that he has not dared toj resist. ae LDS boeee BBYH4 rs & 4-DOODEDODDO4 Pugdoodle & Billy if DOGGONE] (HIM, } | THAT —— poscone, \ yy } 2, DoG! Hes 4 < SAY |GoT HYDRO= ADACIO) A Neos coee ESENT = Alien 1 Acain! J Blur. DO k sicuy! EOD VAG ain | “0 BEDE) Tia “A be | bade 2) REAL i \VocneR! PEGDISGD BORGES EAT PTH DH REGS “However, thoway is apen now, (Chicago ‘has appointed her committee, and it isactraixht pull between the two cities. If the arguments New York can present are not stronger than those that can be offered by any other piece we shall cheerfully give up the prize. But if the ecision {s based upon the merits of the arguments tt te hard to see how we can possibly lose. Fortunately the strength of our case is not affected by the zeal or the apathy of the Wigwam. DON'T ROB THE CHILDREN. The crime against the children threatened in the order of the Board of Education abolishing play- Grounds, recreaticn centres, vacation schools and free lectures can be prevented. That fact has been made @lear by the discussion Yetween Comptroller Grout and Chairman Lummis, of the Finance Committee of the Board. And since the outrage can be prevented, it must be. There is still some haggling over methods. Tha Comptroller proposes to transfer $250,000 from the spe- cial to the general school fund, and to issue special Tevenue bonds to the amount of $50,000. The Board of Baducation is anxious to get a bil) through the Legis- first authurizing at least $1,000,000 of city bonds ‘for repairs. Probably this issue {s necessary, and if both parties agree to it there is no reason why, it should Rot be secured. But provision for the recreation cen- tres is independent of that and should not be mixed up with it. We need ten times as many of these as we have, The cost of keeping up the pitifully inadequate mumber.we are now maintaining is utterly trivial, and, whether the Board of Education be economical or ex- travagant, there is elasticity enough in its budget to @llow that little expenditure to be worked in some- ‘where. And it is becoming evident that the board ap- Preciates that fact. It appears now that the ridiculous Sum of $44,000 will keep things moving for the pres- ent, Jeaving subsequent needs to be provided for later. Of course it is out of the question to stick on th qe PUTY AND DISTRACTION, | ‘Thie Wife of.the stage manager of the “Mr. Blue Beard” ‘edmpany, indignantly. defends -him.-against Eddie Foy's Jog deserting his post of duty ‘at the time of the Troquiig. ‘disaster. Pointing to their fifteen-year-old Caughter, whom he saved, sho asks: “What does he (Foy) suppose Mr. Carleton was doing when he carried out this child?” Of course, every allowance must be made for’a father's feelings. But if the lives of six or seven hundred peo- ple, depend upon one man’s presence, with a clear head, it a particular spot, it seems as if that responsibility dught to be intrusted to one free from any anxieties that would distract his mind from it. It is not likely that the Roman soldier who stayed at the gate at Pompeli had a child calling for help in the burning ashes. B'Story in vn Cartoon -pletely elucidated yesterday in M Mrawn exclusively for The E ing World, Columna of Sdesoription could add nothing to the story told by the two figures of Russia and Japan, greeting each other with “effusive politeness, with their unsheathed knives behind al backs. he Eastern situation was com- Davenport's cartoon, OUR HELPLESS RAILROADS. What does the Trans-Siberian Railroad do when the wéather turns cold, as it {s understood it sometimes does in that region? How do they manage to run fms on the Canadian Pacific {in winter? These questions ought to be of interest to the roads running into New York, for a drop of twenty degrees in the temperature is enough to paralyze our whole suburban ‘transportation system. Perhaps the situation may be partly explained by the fact that the New York com- Muter is the meekest and most patient antmal known ‘to-natural history. If a herder should attempt to han- file a flock of sheep as passengers are daily handled at-the Grand Central Station he would have to protect aimeelf with football armor. WHERE MILLIONAIRES ARE SCARCE. The income tax statintics show that Berlin, with a “population as great as that of the borough of Man- Qattan, has only one person with an income of $700,000 a year—atout the sum Mr, Rockefeller draws in a week. Two Berliners heve incomes of over $500,000 each, and there are only sixty-nine persons in the whole elty \ whose annual revenues exceed $25,000 Arhese figures give some (dea of the enormous dis- crepancy between the weulth of Berlin and that of New Xbkek, There are vast apartent-houses in Manhattan Mm which no tenant with an {Income of less than $25,000 ‘year could live. ences on Fifth avenue and other #treets whose occu- ‘Peats must average much more than that amount. e@ are hundreds of family suits at the great hotels Which could not possibly be occupied by people in re- less than $25.000 a year, Probably there are iion-doliar incomes on Manhattan Island than re $25,000 incomes in Berlin. ‘yet rich New York is sloppy, unkempt and down- , While Berlin in its public aspects has an air , finish and dignified opulence, Why is it? agi va: There are hundreds of private resi-| When Cupid The Important Mr. Pewee, the Great Little Man. Tackles the s w He Thinks He Can Telt the Commissioner of Street Cleaning How to Shovel Snow. Sti y Woman } Desron Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. Ing BE CAREFUL Ee DEAR: Aw, SAY, UIST ty [VERY WELL FLEA BITE! GIVE US A CHARST To SHOW Him How! GIVE THE MIDGET A SHOVEL By Nixola Greeley-Smith. HEN Cupid tackles the stingy W woman he has the task of his Mfe upon tim hands Ard—in fear and trembling be It written—the woman whose horizon is as thickly studded with dollar marks an ore the familiar newspaper carica- tures of Mark Hanna ts by no means | a mincrity of her sex. Probably from the fact that the aver- Age woman rarely has any money of] © her own, but only such varying sums a4 a more or less generous husband or father places at her disposal, she ts fn her normal moods a most calculating and penny-wise tndividual But when love opens the stingy wom- an's heart he is very apt to attempt to loosen her purse atrings also, And Mt she Is young enough he succeeds But avarice, which Byron called the old gentlemanly vice, Ilkewise finds « very comfortable lodging in the breasts of many otherwise estimable old ladies, and once it has been made to feel thor- oughly at home there, neither love nor any other passion has power to dis- posvens it, \¢ Particularly is this true of the widow, | middle-aged or one who has inherited a | fortune from her first husband and who| urffer the influence of love for a man! { younger than herself struggles between, the desire to enrich him and the strong passion for money loveless years have| 3 developed In her. There have been frequent instances in the news of elderly women who marry nder their fortunes upon eelt- seeking young men, But theirs must| 4 have been elderly hearts into which | ‘ avarice had not entered. A striking Instance of the triumph of the latter passion over love never chron- 4 icled in the news, but known to many persons in New York, occurred several years ago when a woman miser posness- ik Va Gor'tune! of over.a million dollara féll" iri love with a very handsome and much younger man known to be looking | ¢ for a rich wife, Under the influence of the tender pas- sion the miser who had for years lived on boiled potatoes and cold ham, bought a slice at a time from a delicatesnen store, which she prepared Herself, en Baged a housekeeper and blossomod out into a giver of Iittle ‘dinners to which the fascinating fortune-hunter was in- vited, During the meal when the young man, sthnulated by the prospect of a great fortune, made himself as agreeable as only one of his type can, love reignec triumphant and at its concluston the old Indy would sail happily out of the dining-room on the beloved atm. But before they reached the parior she would excuse herself from him =| ‘WELL-MY LITTLE MITE dy $100 for Headlines for Mr. Peewee’s “Evening Fuige.” The Evening World Will Pay $1 for Each Headline Used, Winners Named Every Day, Beginning Monday, Jan. 11. 100 Headlines, 51,00. some pretext and go back, her expres sion of affectionate capture changed to one of the most anguished suspense (NEVER, LORD MARBLEHEAD!" d to be paramount in the woman's breast and sometimes the other, She would have been willing to marry at any time, but the young man insisted] = coolly on a “settlement, “The woman who gives me herself and withholds her paltry fortune shows that she values her money more than her womanhood,” he sald, grandilo-| % auently. 4 And for a little while it seemed that the argument would prevail But when it came to a final test her avarice won, “Iam the equal of any! j man without my means,’ was her ulti- matum. And when her vouthful suitor declined her terms she closed her heart against him, discharged her housekeeper and went back to boiling her own po LORD MARBLEHEAD, AS SIMPLY AN’ SWIF'LY | BEAT IT UP DE ALLEY) E Garo HAS BEEN AN’ Sat Bene ACROSS DEL, GONE AN’ DONE DIS AT £1" QG-0-0! HOMELESS CHILDREN. SXTEMPLEL"=~ Q0-0" t 2 five ¢hevsand homeless children h 1 sent to Canada from Great Hritatn and put in good homes during the past thirty-five years. Last year for every chill that was sent there were five applications on Gie with the sucleties en- the waits Consequentis British philanthropists, who know how carefully the children are looked after In thelr new homes, think that the number sent from the over- have crowded British cities to the spactous colonies could be increased with profit to the empire as well as ¢o the children. It 3 a good way to save men and make a nation.—Youth’s Companion. 4 »y b ‘ JAMMERING Ipiot} The “Eternal Feminine”’ in Cola Weather IDN'T get much sleep last night,” said the Cigar Store Man. “My wife has got @ bad cold and her cough is a continuous performance. BWvery time I fell into o doze I thought I was being chased by an automobile.” "It 1s very seldom,” said The Man Higher Up, “that you see a woman look at a thermometer. She don’t ‘want to know how cold ft is; she wants to think it is as warm as !t ought to be the way ehe is dressed. That is why physicians who are wise enough to make women stand for them are accumulating money to buy Steel Common with. “Whenever a good cold spell happens afong you'll find that three women out of five who are good-looking and glad of it euffer from bad colds, The female whose appearance suggests a battle-axe never has a cold. she dresses to sult the weather. “Of course, no man understands women. If all men understood “women there wouldn’t be any marriages. You nor I don't understand women. That is why you and I and every other man puts his {dea-machine on the fritz’ trying to figure out why 9 woman wears a sixteen-pound tur coat, open-work silk stockings and low shoes when she goes out in a blizzard. “It certainly does look incongruous to see a woman sacrifice the looks of her shape to the extent of wear- ing two or three petticoats and then expose her ankles ‘to the cold and snow. Why does a woman smother her hands in a muff as big as a bale of hay and give herself no protection for the head or ears? “A woman will put on a silk shirt watst with a peek- a~boo front and cover it up with a jacket that would {keep a motorman warm. Then she buttons the jacket at the bottom and leaves her chest and throat pro- tected only by the peek-a-boo silk, Why? “A woman will go into a crowded store with a heavy wrap on, wear it while she does two or three hours’ shopping and wonder why she gets a chill when she ®lreaches the outer air, When she gets a bad cold ehe will proclaim to everybody who will listen how care- ful she is, and will blame the cook because her nose !s red. Is it any wonder ‘that they are turning out doctors so fast that men are getting rich painting signe for them?" “Maybe they think .they are warm, no matter how cold it is,” suggested the Cigar Store Man. “Maybe,” agreed The Man Higher Up. “I saw a woman at a theatre In evening dress the other night, jand all of her that was exposed, which was good and plenty, was goose-flesh, The place was like a cold- loGu~ storage warehouse. Her escort suggested that ‘she place her wrap over. her shoulders. ‘Oh, no, thank |you,’ she said. ‘I am quite comfortable. I was just wondering why they didn’t give us some fresh air | These theatres are so close, you know!'” as she sald In a stage whisper to the . : Pointed Paragraph tnuieter bite "at at we TNOVEL:-READING NELLIE M’GEE # o ’ Fe Bl aaure selreter pine ORE Touactcen eer 2"? Fi > He el upala belwean love And) avarion ot ot tt tts She Brooks No Interruption. Even from a Banana Peel, but Goes Right On, ¢ Ce Fe, went on for months and was watched . : Siaseerenin tate wenaktek ed aD CLUE eT ! daily ine s y ‘ SEUalararCelenaaie Bometinee onaisizealon FOILED ONCT MORE SED Te Avusunlly'the/allly Wweman who ‘succeed’ Ini duping the wise man, Any wise wife inows It is policy to let hubby think ‘he ts the boss. It’s the love of the other fellow for your money that ts the root of all evil. One trouble with poople who have excuses 1s that they can't always think of them. If a man tx broke a woman seldom wastes her time twiate ing him around her tinger. With the advent of his first baby the $7 a week clerk In promoted to the position of floorwalker.—Chicago News Dirt-Eaters, Consumption of earth as food is said to be.common not only in China, New Caledonia, in certain districts of the $ | Southern United States and New Gutnea, but in the Malay archipelago as well. The testimony of many travellers in the Orient 1s that the yellow races are especially addicted te the practice. In Jaya and Sumatra the clay used undergoes a preliminary preparation, being mixed with water, reduced ‘0 a paste and the sand and other hard substances removed. |The clay is then formed Into small caken or tablets about a ® | thick as a lead pencil and baked in an fron saucepan. When > | the tablet emérges from this process {t resembles a. piece of dried pork, The Javanese frequently eat small figures roughly modelled from clay which resemble animals or little men turned out In pastry shops. “Lo” Is Maligned. The often printed statement that educated Indians soon latter leaving school relapse to the “blanket” state ts re- futed by the report of the Hampton Institute. That school has graduated &§ Indian boys and girls, 678 of whom are now living. The report shows the work of these alumni to be excellent in 141 cases, good in 383, fair in 149, poor im 44 bad in &.7 /