The evening world. Newspaper, January 26, 1904, Page 12

| TUESDAY EVENING, by the Press Publishing Company, No. 83 to 6) Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office \4 at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. . VOLUME 44........- seseesNO. 15,498. ‘ BEAUTY AS AN ISSUE. 2 Mr. Waward M. Shepard has entered a plea for bring- jus thé question of beauty into municipal politics. For benefit of those who can appreciate nothing that not directly connected with dollars and cents, he ‘Paserts that the property for a mile about the eastern fond of the Brooklyn Bridge is worth $50,000,000 leas, { ‘than if the approaches to that structure had been made { f itiful, as they #0 easily might have been. 4 / There is such a direct connection between beauty (Qtid value that it is strange that so practical a people 4 Q4 the American could have ‘missed It. Imagine each of | ‘the bridges across the Hast River built with the ex- Quisite lines of the Brooklyn Bridge and leading at each end through a monumental entrance Into a stately| Plaza from which everything mean and squalid had Been excluded—would not the owners of property in the _Wicinity find a business advantage in the situation? And _ then suppose the docks made architecturally imposing ‘ind surmounted by a broad esplanade running the whole Yength of the water front; suppose the elevated rall- Foads rebuilt on graceful arcades,“blank walls cleared lisfiguring advertisements, smal! parks multiplied and jected, where possifle, by attractive parkways— “would not the growth of the assesement roll make good the cost? As Some day our whole elevated railway system will g . bs @ondemned and either torn down or rebuilt. Mean- we have opportunities every day to take some| “Step toward making the city beautiful or hideous. > O99-9-99990090-06 7 - PATRIOTISM ON A CASH BASIS. President Roosevelt is said to have surrendered to “the pressure of the pension attorneys, It is asserted ~ thet the service pension scheme is to be pushed through : Congress as an administration measure, and that to g “enable the Treasury to stand the drain all other appro- if Priations are to be cut to the bone. o The present laws give pensions to all who have ‘@arned them and to all who need them, whether they “Have earned them or not. The new proposition ts to| 3 “extend the bounty to those who neither earned nor! ¢ it. Any soldier of the civil war who ever got a scratch tm the line of duty, or who ever incurred a cold, rheu- ‘matism, indigestion, or any other ailment affecting his subsequept health is entitled to an invalid pension now. Any soldier who is in want {fs provided for by the De- pendent Pension act, even though he came out of the ‘war witb his health improved by camp life. It {s pro- _ posed now to rake the lists of Home Guard survivors _ for men for whom even the ingenuity of the pension attor- _ Meys has never been able to make out a plausible claim for relief—men in good health and good circumstances | | =and turn them into public charges. ‘The most modest &.. Of the advocates of this scheme of wholesale pauperiza- | » \\ tion estimate its cost at about $15,000,000 a year above; | \the present pension expenditures; but that is ridiculously ; ‘ | low. A more reasonable estimate is $50,000,000 or $70,-| 000,000, which would varry the annual pension bill up 4 to about $200,000,000. To find the money the Adminis- > ‘tration proposes to deprive the American people of | needed post-offices and harbor improvements, and in! i this policy it thinks it has found a popular campaign) 3 S y : ‘ a Legic.—A crowd in Madrid swarmed to the cireus| @ py automobile, and then, when the expected accident hap pened, the people began wrecking the place to punish the , Management for permitting tho feat to be performed ‘The managers may have been surprised, but if so it was| | only because they haf never studied the peculiar logic of | @ @ mob. ¢ WORK FOR MR. CRAIN. Tenement Commissioner Crain started on an explor- ng expedition yesterday to familiarize himself with the Sonditions with which he has to deal. He and his com- F panions thoughtfully provided themselves with pocket /* @lectric lamps, which enabled them to find their way * @hrough the absolutely dark and unventilited halls of some of the tenements they visited. The very exist- ence of such places is, of course, against the law, but there are plenty of them left, on the west side as well AP teetdpeat pee! As on the east. The Tenement-Houre Commission H Made a good teginning of the work of cleaning them » out under the late administration, and reformers look h hopefully to Mr. Crain to finish it. Real Statesmanship—Representative Thayer, oi Massa chusetts, has introduced by request a bill requiring the| J Government to give to each citizen eight acres of land, | 2 ‘in as nearly a square as possible.” Thanks. Please| consider an application filed for eight acres between| 2 Broadway and the East River, with Wall street in the| 4 | middie. If the tract 4s not exactly square the defect ¢ will be overlooked. 3 IN CASE OF A BOLT. 6 (Mr, Bryan ret ises to say whether he would boit the| * ohey kis orders, It is known that he did not the ticket in 1892, It would be curious if he enter the campaign of 1904 with a record of wing voted for a Democratic Presidential can- except himself within sixteen years. Would the Monopols.—A lobby ts sald to be after a fran- the new barge ca vit y by enuip Be canal with a system of Mitehell, Both Should Be ‘Capitalized. To the Editor of The Evening World: Is ft proper to ¢i ter of word for private profit. No doubt electric tow- ° but after the State has spent nal {t will hardly consent to have its neutralized by a corporate mo- | BEAOF0OG66344409949449609H0O49O80 9005S b he Great and The Most Important Little Man on Earth. tartoonist Ed Flinn January 31, (Originally Drawn for The Evening World by 4 OOOFOOOSe 26 Lesian Copyrighted, 1903, by The Ebening World. 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WELCH, 106 Pennington Street, You say I got an enemy? before I'm throug LGBT phrase?—""Will you kindly instruct the) wives are not very truthful, If she ex Kemtes You may ve sure she Is false @slvens “to attend this matter at once other t Never let her To the Ealtor of The ment ring b At be a fact—that he supported the ticket in| s#me one after enough to justify him in saying “I am a Demo-| Corbett Wan Cha is Democratic regularity subject to the statute | 1° ihe Balter of The on of World, of the world, and, If xo, from w° he win the title? om did} unless the girl is younger i: SASSY SUE-By the Creator of “Sunny Jim.” -Atthe Fortune-Teller's gusT KNEW LER'D A femalz woman, too! What? Some one wants to win my love! She's dark? Well, she'll be dark-r (drat te minx) lawkes! Who can it be? ! Must be that feller in the car who stared an’ grinned at me! A $10 prize for the best free; translation of these headlines, 2 which appeared in yesterday’s original Evening Fudge. No. 1—.iss MAY CLARKE, Street, New York Cit No WONDER THAT AUMAN Lirklce Company’ (the full name: COB. | te yous b Drastic Advice on Matrimony, Whe tits To the Editor of The Evening Worl 1 give this advice to young v 4 er with the kindest af- Was James J. Corbett ever champion! ave desicous of marry! not m. What vou have to spare over your own! a needs put in the banks in your own name United States Cavalry. Whe =never in your wife’ J \ F For the cavalry the height must be et four and five feet ten, ; the welght not more than 165 nd ithe chest measure satisfac- minitnum age. rcher particulars apply al recruiting offices, | ain examinations @ private may |feeeive a commission A St, Louls Ma |To the Eqitor of The Evening World: Tip, tip, tipping once again to your wife In cher presence one who 1s not sy hetic| Must rule or there will be no peace. dz When n r T, &, 0. successively defeating Sullivan and) Kindly. Never give 7 Cavalry Queries, money exceot for household exper To the Editor of The Evening World and for what Is apsolutely requi am a young man twenty years of} ‘8 name. Prove your|learn of the qualifications regardiug|tem. Please, Mr. St, Louistan, whe; in. the following iwite’s truthfulness before marriage: ! height, welsht, &o.? trom ESGIPE CUT OFF! 299D99F-999O2H9G3-9299-3995-090009-96 090-0 23433000> What's that? My husband’s left me—say, that ain't worth no pay! i r I ain't catched no husband never! So how could - he get away TERS, # QUBRIES « AND » ANSWERS. ~ fg there to advance from the rank: you struck dear old St. Louis, elty of my birth? Was it from ‘Way Down Bast, or that part of the country where those crusty old gentlemen come from with knobs on their pates? Do just lve your life to sult yourself, spend or keep your money In your own sweet way. Let others do as they will with that which is thelr’ own, Pray’ don't arumble, but remember ‘'God loveth cheerful giver” and you are in the Pisce the Thasority from, St, Louis ‘an 5 hire liberal, neighboriy and he College. ii of The Bvening World: 4 "Wan the present Columbia, University OS99-90-D9979990909D The Dignity of Congress ia Is Threatened. 166 SEE.” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that an- other United States Senator has teen indicted for sidestepping from the straight and nar- | row path of official rectitude.” “Tt isn't exactly an indictment,” replied the Man | Higher Up. “It is a wanton and fiendish assault upon an innocent gentleman from Kansas who took $2,500 to | oblige a friend. This friend had been taking frog-skins |from confiding suckers out in Missouri, and when he was sloughed he wanted to give some of the profits away. He gave them to Senator Burton, of Kansas, and this has led a lutt-in Grand Jury to take a fall out of the dignity of the United States Senate. . “The Senator from Kansas, having agreed to take the money from his Missouri friend, was ‘willing to do a favor. All the favor consisted of was a visit to the Post-Office Department to find out something. To get from the Senator's residence in Washington to the Post-Office Department required the use of a cab, and cabs cost money. “You notice that Senator Burton courts the fullest and most rigid investigation. He wants the courts to go Into the case with hooks and drag out everything for the public to take a flash at. Littauer also yammered for a full and rigid investigation. So did Senator Diedrich, of Nebraska, but when his case got into court he had his lawyer elide him out on a technicality be- fore the evidence could get to the jury. Congressman Driggs got a full and free investigation of the charges against him and the Court touched him for a $10,000 fine. Driggs is a Democrat, but that don't count against him so much as the fact that he wasn’t in Congress when he was fighting his case. “If the Grand Juries keep on getting gay this way the first thing we know the people will begin to think that their Representatives and Senators in Congress are not honest. Should this impression become general it would be an awful swipe at the peace and good will of the nation. The {dea that there {s graft.for mem- bers of Congress {s likely to make every votet of the required age anxious to become a Representative or a Senator and cause endless confusion should it become widely scattered. “Our President's stand must be admired in conneo- tion with this momentous question. He telieves in indicting and roasting all the grafters, even if they are from States that are already solid for Roosevelt in the next convention, or even if they are friends of Mark Henna.” “Speaking of the President,” remarked the Cigar Store Man, “I see that his sparring partner at Harvard says that when Mr, Roosevelt was a student there -he always boxed with bis glasses on.” “The law in all civilized communities,” said The Man Higher Up, “‘pecifies that it is a prison offense tr hit a man while he is.wearing glasses.” The Fascination of Wife-Beafers, By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Consider the wife-beater, how he charms, not only the tearful victim of his ungentle manfa—for nothing 1s more marked than the devotion.of women to husbands who occastonally lay thelr hands upon them other than In the way of kindness—but also every one of the intimate friends privileged to ejaculate over his cruelty and exhort the hapless victim to divorce, Judges denounce him from the bench, clubwomen grow hysterical in public scorn of him, plain, everyday citizens shake their heads in wondering amaze- ment at his depravity, and there are grave physicians who declare wige- beating to be a form of insanity. And vet does not his wife cling to him and love him? Does she not, like Sweet Allee, Ben Bolt, laugh with delight when he gives her a smile and tremble with fear at his frown— and often not know really which of the two sensations she prefers? Sentimentalists marvel and exclaim over the fidelity of woman as exemplified dally in the police court records of wives who plead pitifully for the release of husbands who have beaten them, What a great, a wonderful thing {s this love! they say, “since It continues despite neglect and per- sonal abuse."" And it does not seem to occur to them that it may endure because of these things Zangwill, in his story, “The Wife-Beater,” one of his most successful satirical analyses of female character, tells how a young man, falling in love with a beautiful young woman at a ball, who accounted for the black and blue spots on her arms by a harrowing tale of her husband's cruelty, was kept the lensth of these same arms, though the lady had confessed her love for him, until the brute's death, when In a passion of Aespairing grief she sent him away alto- gether. Returning a year later she took him on a pligrimage to the dear departed’s grave, and he only succeeded in tracting her from -her grief by an exhibition of physical roughness almost rivalling his predecessor's. Mr. Zangwill's idea that women are not averse to m@oular brutality ts shared by many men, philosophers and otherwise, “The average normal. healthy woman.” sald one of these amazing persons, “likes being beaten, She positively enjoys it, Do T beat my wife? Certainly not. She wouldn't stand for It. She's one of the nervous, hysterical kind that would stick knife into a man if he’ fried it. But a perfectly healthy woman wouldn't object."’ Meusured by this novel sanitary standard, there might not he found ten perfectly healthy women in New. York. But the fact remains that even to the disqualified ‘nervous, hysterical kind,” a man’s reputation for wife-beating insplr fa mingled horror and Interest not inimical to the gradual de- velopment of a more romantic f.eling. For this reason men should not make the mistake of try= ing to queer each other as they sometimes do by carelessly applying the wife-beating stigma, a Men are so much alike, and a cholce between them so diMoult. under ‘ordinary circumstances that often the ap- pellations of “villain,” “woman-hater.” ‘wife-beater" merely serve to lend piquancy to an otherwise commonplace tndi- vidual and fix a girl's attention, so that from looking him over critically and wondering if he can really be such a brute, she goes through all the gradual stages of tolertion ti she finally realizes “what an awful woman his wife must have been to inake him behave so." An Alum Mountain. German papers report that an ‘‘alum mountain" exists in China, which is not only noted as a natural phenomenon, but {s also a source of wealth for the people of its vicinity, ‘as they annually take many ons of alumsfrom it. ‘The. mountain Is said to have a circumference at the basa of not less than ten miles, and is nearly 1,900 feet high. ‘The alum is quarried in immense blocks, is then heated in lariso ovens, and afterward dissolved in boiling water. From this Nquld the alum crystallizes in layers of about half a’ foot thickness; which are cut up in blocks of ten pounds cach ‘The Chineso use it matnly for purifying water.—Dally Cory ign eanemaesee