The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1904, Page 14

irk Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office ie at New ‘York as Second-Ciass Mall Matter. «NO, 16,487. ROOM FOR THE CHILDREN. “Mayor McCiellan says that he is “hot foot” after the nof school accommodation for the shut-out 90,000 houses, and he is looking for other suitable eites. Siven so much thought and labor. As the recreation Dulldings in the two parks named are already there, of Mr, Riis that their temporary diversion to such an abject would do more good to the residents of the neigh- feeme a pity that it should be necessary to make the parks ought not to be further reduced by the construc- tion of any other buildings. ‘Why would it not be quicker, cheaper and better in every way to rent sufficient temporary accommodations - down? If the times are as dull as people say, it ought mot to be very hard to find two thousand vacant rooms ia the city, each big enough to accommodate fifty pupils. Perhaps arrangements could be made with the churches “for the use of their lecture halls and Sunday-school fooms during the week. An@ Must Trelawney Diet—"Mr. Hanna {s a patriot,” says Governor Durbin, of Indiana, “and if the country de- manded his nomination he would respond if it killed him.” Let us hope that this tragedy may be averted. ‘The man who promotes the Hanna m, at the risk of causing the death of that self-sa icing statesman, is Funning up a heavy account with the Recording Angel. JERSEY CITY’S INCUBUS, ‘The sardonic humor of the genius who called the Jersey City trolley company the “Public Service Cor- poration” is appreciated by the suffering citizens who first freeze on the corner waiting for a chance to get car, and then freeze on the car waiting for a to off. Think of a mother with a child in ther arms waiting a solid hour for a car in a city of a miilion people! The privilege of carrying Jersey City is so valuable that plenty of would be glad to take a contract to do the @ civilized basis. If the Public Service Cor- or will not do that kind of work, it is to give up its franchises to some company can and will. the Rapid-Transit Track Clear.—To tie up the = Subway at this time by a strike would be an inexcusab! * outrage upon the millions of New Yorkers who have , been waiting longingly for the relief that has been ths. If an arbitration * IN GULLIVER’S FOOTSTEPS. *) Dr. William James Morton, of the Post-Graduate (Aeliical School, announces that he can cure cancer by “liquid sunshine”—“bathing the patient's interior with ‘Phe rays of the sun condensed into liquid form and lib- @tated by the action of radium.” ‘Thus is vindicated another of the profound ideas of those misunderstood philosophers, the Laputans, When visited the Academy of Sciences maintained by that ingenious people he found an inventor absorbed in @ process for extracting sunbeams from cucumbers, with @. view to bottling them in the summer for use in the ‘winter, The scheme seemed ridicujous to the sailor's unimaginative mind, but it was clearly based on sound principles, although the projector may have gone a lit- Ue astray in details. ’ This was not the only Laputan discovery that won- @erfully anticipated the revelations of modern science. The Laputans knew about the eatellites of Mars, with their distances and times of revolution, all of which ‘were reported by“Gulliver in approximate accordance ‘with the facts as rediscovered by Prof. Hall at Washing- _ ton a century and a half later. ‘ Modern science need not think it has a Standard O11 Monopoly of all the knowledge of the ages, THE PASSENGER’S MODEST PLEA, It may be all right to compel street-cars to stop on the near cide of the intersecting streets, but! it is all wrong to let them dump their passengers into gnow- Grifta, The passenger is the least important part of & transportation system; but, after all, even a worm hasrights. When the snow-ploughs of the car company throw the snow from the tracks and pile it in mounds om each side, the corporation cught to be required to make a sufficient opening through these mounds to en- ble its patrons to reach solid ground. That is the object. ‘reine World, Proposed to the Aldermen by The orld, 5 "t RuSle the Chef.—If you are dining in a Third ave- qcnye restaurant, and notice a bolled suspender in your : your wisest plan will be to accept the windfall Mnobtrusively. In any case avold carping remarks which May come to the ears of the chef, for Third avenue “© @hefs are sensitive, and one of them shot a waitress yes- _y terday for criticising his idea of garnishing cabbage with Guspenders. But perhaps your wisest course in such {elreumstances will be to’ confine your menu to boiled egg and sardines served in the can, POLITICS AND LIVELIHOOD. | President Hadley, of Yale, has told an audience of Harvard men that politics should not be adopted as a Ba Woeation except by the rich. He thinks that matters )(Miiould be so arranged that “it’a man disagrees with party he can retire without risking his bread and thonsand Harvard students who listened to this must have thought of that graduate of thelr ity who went Into politics before the ink on diploma was dry, and has stayed in politics ever advancing from post to post until now he can @ compliments with the German Emperor, cre- one, party bosses and put his doctor at the + Theodore Roosevelt was never rich. a whet meine ge Cae was not "Go Into polities with no other m= 1s of mele AS ly the dictate of common my a ‘children. By the advice of Mr. Jacob A. Rils he hes| . led the use of the recreation buildings in| 4 Mr. Riis would certainly not propose anything cal-| % ‘Whlated to injure the people, to whose needs ‘he has| 3 tiieir uss for school purposes would not cut down the| ¢ free park space, and it may'be assumed on the authority | @ Borhood than their maintenance for recreation, Still, it} ¢ @hoice, Certainly the already too contracted area of the} ¢ than to build makeshift schoolhouses merely to be torn |‘ iThe Great and Only Mr. P eewee. The Most Important Little Man on Earth, (Originally Drawn for The Evening World by Cartoonist Ed Flinn January 31, 1903.) Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World HE CALLS ON ROOSEVELT AND ASSURES HIM OF. THE NOMINATIO ae | « NoT SO STRENUOUS, THAVENT SHOT. PEEWEE DEAR! ge! |) fi i) ALONG TIME!) U, ! A. PEEWEER For) DORE! THIS d 15 THE PRovD~ fest momeENT!é Wor mY Lire! How, If Women Hada Some of the Troubles of Men, re 4 BEE.” eaid the Cigar Store Man, “that the women’s clubs are now discussing what meni would do if men had to wear coréets.” 3 “The club women,” remarked the Man Higher Up, “are a continuous performance in a comedy vein, bless ‘em! Women are the only people who asso- ciate with men who wear corsets. Oh! yes! there are men who wear corsets, but none of them can te the owner of a self-respecting dog. The dog always balks. “It must be strange to be the husband of a club ‘women and read in the papers how she has got up at @ meeting and rolled verbal buzz-saws at men in gen- eral. Nearly every woman who gets on the platform at @ meeting of a women’s club and roasts the opposite Sex ‘wis a husband digging for the kertish somewhere downtown. Generally the swell gown she wears, her French hat and her gig-lamps have been procured with >| the mazuma accumulated by the old man, “Nevertheless, the ciub woman's husband is gén- erally the captain, the first mate and bo’s'n of the home g |craft. I witnessed the return home of a club woman's short suit one night, after she had made an afternoon speech in which she told a gathering of female reform- ers how a husband should be managed. She had got home late for dinner and the family producer had put on his glad rags and gone out to feed his face at his club. j “The hands on the clock were well into the back } stretch when he hit the apartment-house that shel- i tered his furniture, and he was soused to the limit. A ‘ > |hall-boy unlocked the door for him and turned him j loose. He didn’t like the way things were arranged } and changed them with his feet. The neighbors came in and kept him from tearing the paper off the walls, After he was put to bed his wife crawled out from under the dining-room table. She still belongs to the club, 4 but she is always mother on the spot when the head of tho house makes a wishing noise. “Women are entitled to a lot of credit for what they | have ‘done in the world, but don’t forget poor, patient? old father, who spends the best years of his life trying/_ to keep his wife and chikiren out! of the selling-plater! % |Cclass and keeps on trying after he gets track-sore be-: > |cause he wouldn't know what to do around home if he; quit. Men are kinder to their wives than they used to} be. Women didn’t gather in clubs and knock the males” until well elong in the nineteenth century.” “There are many things that a woman hes to stand that a man misses,” protested the Cigar Store Man, “Sure!” agreed the Men Higher Up, “but women don’t have to get shaved.” fou ARE THE ed CHoice!) , I chose You | MYSELF FoR MY) % CANDIDATE | =) THE STRENUOUS NO ONE ELSE i Lire! AH! How WORTH CONSIDER: I) | EVEL INIT: Inc! — I stanoC| a \ OUs}) *¢ ©) ti U ) 1 ASIDE FOR nee eer (Gd THEEVENING Funge T worsHip YouR ISTRENUOSITY | Ui} Y) e ‘ The Best Novels. HE Back Bay Literary Circle of Boston recently T on what the members considered the best novels. eed received the majority of votes: f Best sensational novel—“Woman in White," Collins, Best historical novel—“Kenilworth,” Scott. ‘Red Rover," a Best country life novel—“Lorna Doche," Blackmore Best military novel—“Charles O'Malley,” Lever. Best political novel—' Best novel written for a purpose—“Unole Tom's Cabtm," Stowe. Best imaginative novel—Marble Faun,” Hawthorne. Best humorous novel—“Pickwick Papers,” Dickens. dam Bede,” Elfot. Best American novel—'‘Scarlet Letter,” Hawthorne. Best nove! in all—Henry Esmond,” Thackeray. The Death Penalty. N Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan and Wisconsin the death. penalty 1s forbidden by law. In Iowa It was abolished in 1872 and restored in 1878! ng the Mississipp! River. been abolished in Colorade | agitation which followed | the burning of a negro at the stake in Kansas, fen Kansas had abolished the death penalty but restored it { egro was burned at the stake for an outrage on | «) , children of Thomas Barclay, No. 396 Clinton avenue, Newark. }» EVERETT, Westfield. N, J.; No. 4.4. CADETT, Kings County Hospita’ Brooklyn. N. Y. The [lyth of Unrequited Love. By Nixola Greeley-Smith “M"s have died from time to time In Louisiana the death penalty is inflicted for assault with intent to kill, arson, burglary and administering poison, In Delaware and North Carolina arson and burglary are capital crimes, In Missouri seven crimes are punishable with death, among which are murder, train robbery, arson, perjury in q capital case and mayhem. The Connecticut law prescribes the death penkity for plae ing obstructions on a railroad track. and worms have eaten them, but not for love.” Bo the cynic voiced his opinion of the tender passion and its lmitations. And though sentimontaliats may mur- mur and assert that many a lovelorn man or woman has died from the ef- focts of unrequited affection statistics do not bear them out. To be sure, many men love women| % who do not care for them, and an equal | ¢ number of women love or fancy they love persons whose hearts are centred elsewhere. But generally the man did not begin to love without receiving or| 2 fancying he received some encourage- ment, nor the woman feel the first im- pulse of tenderness without hoping that | she inspired a similar sentiment. Love is not an air plant—not even a “hot-air plant—though the average man seems to think so, and @ great passion must have something to feed upon. Hope, anxiety, imagination serve as fuel for a time, but ultimately the greatest love ever kindled must go out unless it fills two hearts instead of one, and leave only the still white flanies of self-love, that burns always | ‘ in the human heart, like the light per- petual before church altars, ‘There ig no such thing as unrequiteu love. It 1» a dream, a myth, a phan- tasm of the disordered brains who fancy | 4 they are its victims. Many a woman mistakes the feeling horn of a chi moment of sympathy for love and thus is often led to soothe and dream herself into a serious nas- sion for a man whoso first sentimental thought of her was also his last. But, her fidelity to what is at best a crea. ture of fancy ts due more to Inck of opportunity than to a fixed purpose of constancy. As for men, they sometimes seem to continue loving beyond the reasonable mit women who do not care for them. But thelr persistence is more due to the stubbornness that comes of a brain too small for an idea to turn around in than to genuine passion, i “Good Form” Saved Him, i George Davis, » member of one of Baltimore's olf fam ies, has recently been visiting in Denver. He was return- ing to his hotel from a dinner party when he was held up by footpads. They went through his pockets and were much disappointed at the resut—thirty-five cents. “Where fs your watch?" demanded one of the robbers, gruffly. “My, watch!'' exclaimed Davis, with his highly culttvated Hng- Ysh. ‘My good fellow, don't you know it is beastly bad form to wear n watch with evening clothes.” ‘Well, I be rms ling down the street.” Mr. Davis travelled, doubtless pleased to get away from the company of such ill-bred fel lows. ; ie tl - Fue Oe re 1 The Oldest Marriage Proposal, ‘The oldest marriage proposal of which there is defintte record is 3,4% years old, This remarkable ancient record, which ts in the Oriental department of the British Mi fe a small clay tal measuring eight inches by Inches, aid contains about ninety-eight lines of very fine cuneiform writing. It {s made of Nile mud, and bears upon It the m proposal of a Pharaoh for the hand of the daughter of the King of Babylon, It ts a a te af & leter written about 1530 v WATCH THIS SPACE © FOR NEWS OF THE