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x . 2 with destitution in bulk its methods become mechant- _ ITUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1904. ' ee AFF Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 68 to 6 Park Row, New York. at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. | NOLUME 44. PREACHING OR SOCIAL SERVICE? ' The Rev. Robert L. Paddock hopes that the time will come when the churches will give up instituttonal| work and devote themselves to the spiritual welfare| « of the people, ‘The Rev. Frank Gunsaulus, of Chicago, | who lost a nephew in the Iroquois Theatre fire, takes! @ strikingly different view. = Our pulpitse—mine with the rest—have had too much to about the New Jerusalem and not ing the vital needs of Chi 1h duty. I have seen abuses, lawlessness unrebuked—negligence, incompetency ar public Ife, and have not Hited my v Hereafter, with God's help, 1 will do my ¢ Of these contrasting conceptions of the duty of the e@hurches, which is to prevail? The tendencies of the) @imes are all against Mr. Paddc that devote the Beglecting the civic activities that affect the welfare ef men in this world, are withering, while those that show their people how to live as well as how to div He says: enough concern tom cading an releneneas Hinwt the | as a eltizen 3 idea, ‘The churches themselves to theory of religion Bre full of vigorous health. There are nearly twelve hundred churches tn this} » eity—about one to every three thousind of oor popula tion. What wonders might if they tematically pulled together for one thing, they Peverty, When organized they work sys- For misery of civic: betterment! could utterly banish the charity undertakes to deal eal, harsh and repellent. lis “investigation” becomes @n inquisition, which @hrink, and they hide away starve rather than strip off their rags of pride before wnsympathetic strangers, If each of the twelve hun- @red churches looked after sits own poor and a certain from the self-respecting poor in corners to freeze and @greed proportion of the tnattached, every destitute family would be personally known, work would be found for the unemployed, and we should no longer be horrified by tales of women and starvation and eaposure in this rich and generous city, children dying of The churches could be made eivie centres, in which i purer @ healthy neighborhood life would develop, to be m: fested liter in a new public conscience and a government. into A community like this cannot be preached righteousness—its moral growbl — must cone through the daily example of right living Ro Resignation a discount in the BR Heath won't restan National Mit}ee and President Roosevelt Ie not resigied to seein him keep the place R publican Seere yout the THE NEW RULE MUST Go. The ordinance requiring cars to stop on the alde of the crossing was well meant, but it won't work, Theoretically, the new scheme ought to promote safety, | « Decause it prevents a car from ploughing through al‘ eross-curreat of vehicles and humanity at full speed; but the little practical disadvantage of a forty-foot walk through snow or slush is enough to kill all the popularity of what otherwise might be a de- sirable reform. If 000,00) passengers plod out of their way twice forty feet apiece we shall have in the course of a year some eight million miles of un-| { necessary walking, about equally divided among snow, fee, mud and dust. near It 1s alleged, on British authority, that the American marines at Seoul are drunk, dixor- + derly and’ spoiling for a fight. ‘The last count in the indictment sounds probable enough, for combatlveness is @ falling of the mem who go down to the sea in American warships. But if the honorable record of the Marine Corps has been marred by imperfect discipline it must be because, in the reqent great expansion of the corps in numbers, the recrulting officers have taken in some unruly elements that have not yet had time to become assimilated. ‘The same thing has happened in the army. SUNDAY-NIGHT COURTSHIP. Judge Harrison's ruling in Newark that an engage- ment of marriage entered into on Sunday is vold is a blow at courtship of the kind which keeps its weather @ye on the breach-of-promise courts. But it is not likely to impede the progress of that true love which runs its most even course on the Sabbath Day. If the question were not to be popped in the par- Jor on WAM, Might, after seeing Nellie home from evening service, there might be a decline of the mar- riage rate which would excite very real apprehension about race suicide. Partinilarly in rural communities, with only husking he: and sleigh-rides left as favor. able opportunities, the shrinkage might prove serious in the extreme. A of Sunday-night-made matches would show their great week-day engagem Happily, Cupld has little to do with legal precedents, But us this decision will serve to lend encouragement .to youths inclined to trifle with young affections, girls census preponderance over ate, in Jersey should take warning A Practical Dewonatratt A contributor to ‘The Even ing World recently discussed the question whether a woman could love two men at once. and decided that the thing could not be done. Mrs. James G, Newman of Poughkeepsie, whose husband shot Willlam Van Tas. sel for sharing his wife's affections, is confident that it can, MORE EXPANSION. A movement {5 on foot across the Westchester ling have the row of suburbs from the Sound to the idson annexed to New York New Rochelle. Pel. Sim, Mount Vernon and Yonkers had 95.450 é 0 people Be 1900, and they have at least 100,000 now. In the _ tee years detween the last two censuses they grew Bt ithe rate of nearly o3 per cent. against 37 per cent tor this city. Very few boom towns jn the West had j.tapid an advance as theirs. They are essentially : »of New York now, and their relations with Breater city will be growing closer every year, The ' ‘question is whether the time bas now come for political union that 1s sure to come sooner or later. org ‘the many indications that it has perhaps the al government +-NO. 16,491. | 4 ® B4OOOtDIOHH ETDS ter might, but with the air of half- pushing deprecation with which he telis ni ested woman. for a better transportation syst ystem than can| ° There Under any but’a single municip down in their hearts an abiding belief ad Pad The Most Important Little Man on Earth. Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. Mr. Peewee Becomes a “ Prince of Jerusalem.” ENOUGH! -WHAT. wor [! THE PEEWEES = MAVE NEVER TURNED Back |] HAVE DaciDEc To BECOME \ A MASTER OF THE = CRAFT - WHEN AJ PEEWEE MAKES UP nis MIND=} [ov PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES FOR TO-DAY, $1 for each:—No. 1, W. Conway, 422 Central Park West, New York City; No. 2, -lulian® $Marcellas, 335 East 15th street, New York City; No. 3, Peter W Gross, 11 East 16th street, New York City; No. 4, Frederica Brewiter, #35 Garden street, New Rochelle, N. Y. AHA! ‘BROTHER PEEWEE! SHALL WE Go ON, TO_THE Nex T CEREMONY?) > THEL ST welataa CAE JE THOUGHT YOU HAD ENOUGH! ER-BI2Z- 2-2-2-2002E- PRINCE*A- 2 | ARENT You A MASON ( wan ar 1g PROVE 7 15 MAP O TOI INE Seid Sassy Sue: “I come to see If you folks can improve on me!" Saas Said Doctor Phiz: “We'll trim*your nose, Transplant your ears and mouth, 1 e'pose.” Soe Eb OT POEHOOHS POPHHEGS-D4.HF- HOS HAT 1s he like, the man every girl wants to marry? What are the qualities and attri- Of course, not loudly, as some barroom very latest adventure to an Inter- aC and seemingly sympathetic few men who have not deep power to fascinate women, handsome, thinks he ts the man every girl wants Voor little girl She, thinks le marry, as he adjusts his ready-made t know she is there, and. tic before his hall bedroom mirror; others K spill the tlusion, are richer, and still others of sprightlier | Ask the fa and vivacious deity who mien and conversation, but when It ides over the cash register in lis comes to girls 8 a winner quick h place down town, Ask her, all want to marry him. Why? yor wateh how inevitably her fingers forbids that he answer you touch his as he shoves his meal check Ask golden-haired Flossie, why smiled over the irresponsive counter, at him so significantly when hast night | Ask the wifining little telephone cen at parting he pressed her hand Ask the daughter of the boarding. | mc many calls on house, whose brown eyes through |she has on her keyboard, and yet know the parlor curtains each evening be-|and responds to his volce from whatever eon -A-end &—watching. for him, of] quarter of the ar bad calls ber ups in his office building, who has al- The Man Every Girl Wanis to Marry---By Nixola W putes that make bim the all-conquering hero he proclaims himself to be? w THE .« EVENING # WORLD'S . HOME $4499D9999D00 L999 OOD4L9DDD 64444499048O99-994 095000000908 F4 DOOESOERDEOHODROG ODD ‘The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. Entered at the Post-Office \@ (Originally Drawn for The Evening World by Cartoonist Ed Flinn January 31) 1903.) , & MAGAZINE & + “What! spoil the beauty of my face?” Cried Sue. “By gum, I'll bust the place!” $06 49984 9$9H9OO4669989GHOO. Ast the ress whom he met at the reception—the really ¢ girl who, from the crowd of cag tune-hunters that surged about b tuitively singled him out as a man who would love her for herself alone. What a nice girl she was, with such— not pretty exactly—but small daintily xhod feet, If only he would think it h his while to fall at them and de- ¢ his passion, how sure he would be affections as jof being told to rise, her knight forever, And meantime golden-hajred Flossie is probably giving her dearest friend an imitation of bisdnnthe fas. of the every girl want, dashing @manger Greeley-Smith. ter of the boarding-house is dreaming who gives across the street and smiles over at ner windows every evening on his way home, the lunch-counter girl 1s flirting with the nice old gentleman who for- gots his change, the telephone central is telling the man who takes her out to luncheon what she ate with the man who takes her out to dinner, and the heiress has already forgotten there 1s ch & man in the world. But the man to marry knows that they all want to marry him, neyertho- a D9D2OO January Thaw’s Effects on the Married Woman, is bigamy, elopement, wife-beating, de- ceived husbands and wives, divorce and general rough-house caused by woman,” complained the Cigar Store Man. g “They always break out that way after a cold spell,” 2 said the Man Higher Up. “When the thermometer is | below zero sweethearts and husbands ard wives eat and sleep and think frozen thoughts. Yon never hear of any divorces or elopements or things like that in Iceland. “Ag soon as a thaw comes the feminine gender, gets in the limelight and the trouble processton begins to 3 move. In the spring, as the poet says, the young man’s @|fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love, and the stung husband's fancy turns to thoughts of murder. Tha 6eé A BOUT all you can see in the papers to-day. $ $ $ 3 $ 3 3 ® couldn't blame him for getting excited. His wife seema to be a woman able to stand on both sides of the street at the same time when it comes to a love affair. “The trouble with him was that he didn’t understand his wife. He thought all he had to do was to give her all the money he made and ask no questions, It turna out that she wanted a man-who could tell her funny % | stories. The guy whose name she bore was a solemn toller, whereas the tempter had ail the latest jokes, and Jthe happy little home exploded. Instead of releasing the contents of his revolver in the direction of the man he found with his wife, the Poughkeepsie husband should have taken a course of funny-story telling from a corre- spondence school. “Husbands don’t study their wives with enough thor- oughness. What {s one wife's candy is another wife’e dynamite. A school for the instruction of husbands, with members of the Alimony Club as instructors, ought to be a hit.” . “My wife has been talking about buying a set of furs because she can get them cheap,” said the Cigar Store Man. uh “Humor her,” advised the Man Higher Up. “Jolly her along. Take her out and walk ‘her around until you meet a fat woman with a sealskin sacque on and then throw a con that you are stuck on the fat woman's looks. Your wife will begin studying up the advanced styles In peekaboo waists the next day.” Trades for Clergymen. One cannot question .the practical good sense of the ade Vice given to candidates for the ministry by a Philadelphia clergyman in urging them to learn s ither before or after their dination. He has examined the statistics of the various Protestant denominations, and has been appalled by the number of ministers who are with- out a charge, He thinks*that a trade would be a good thing to fall back on in such cases, besides standing the preacher In good stead in many ways while still in the pul- pit. ‘The advice is upplicable to men entering almost any o! the learned professtons, but particularly #0 to clergymen, who run greater risks apparently than any other class of professionals of being “laid off" from ‘their regular Mne of work. Most of the large denominations have a fund to pro= vide for their superannuated clergy, but the stipends award- are usually too meagre to do more than pay for the hurest necessities of Ife.—Lesile’s Weekly, > 2 > 4 Women vs. Men. Amanda Carolyn Northrop, says the independent, finds that one woman has attained distinction to twelve men; » | that 61 per cent. of these are married, 69 per cent. refused to give their ages or their reasons for not giving them: y 16.6 per cent. had a college education, and that of educational colleges furnished more than the wom- olleges. We dislike the use of the word “successful” sense as applied to women, or men either for that a have not come suifictently before the public: to be applauded, hissed or “Who-Whoed.”” Pointed Paragraphs. Chinese laundry ticket Is but a mark of irony. Every husband doesn’t know a lot of things his wife sus- pects, An economical wife Is a gyeat blessing—to a bargain-store owner. When a woman knows she is homely she isn't ashamed | to boust of her ability as a cook. © The woman who poses as a professional beauty must lead a strenuous life in order to hold her job. Sometimes it is the absence of smiles at home that causes @ man to seek them at the corner saloon.—Chicago News. Trolley Disinfectants. @| An Italian scientist claims to have established (hut eleo- | tric tramways are great mediums in the disinfection of : towns. He points out that the electric spark, which is s0 frequent un occurrence to the overhead trolley, and the emission of light from the the rail ts used @ | for the return current tra ygeen of the alr into | ozone, which has a purifying and disinfecting influence. ®| he high discharges, he says, are frequent enough to influ- 4 ence greatly the atmospheric constituents, especially where $ | the line passes through narrow thoroughfa They be- ® | come antiseptic agents, ‘ : “Hoot Mon’ Health. When the Fraser Highlanders landed in North America in 1767 It was proposed to change the dress on account of 2 | the cold winters and hot summers. The officers successfully opposed this, and were ultimately justified by the High- 2 landers being the healthiest soldiers in the army. In the @| campaign in Holland in 1794 some regiments lost as many $3] as 300 from disease, but the Black Watch, which had 300 $ recruits in Its ranks, had only twenty-five casualties, in- 3 cluding the kifed In battle. . Race Track Ccurage. horses painfully contend o nth race track for the vice >] tory out of thelr own native courage and am'ion—not | under puriishment, for, as a rule, the courageous. hor: will “stop” or “shut up,” as the technical phrase 4s, when whipped or spurred at the finish of a race, In Calitorni some years ago, a rurging horse broke one of the bones a foreleg near the close of a heat, perhaps seventy yar from the wire. He faltered for a moment and then recov- ering himself by a mighty effort, struggled on and won the heat, practically on three legs. Watch This Space for News of The Girl in Pink The Next Prize Story IN THE EVENING WORLD husband up in Poughkeepsie rushed the season, but you - he great majority of the most "successful women” * RG ( |