The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1904, Page 14

FEIRUARY 25, 1904. OLUME 44 The Evening World First. Number of colunns of advertising in The fvening World for 12 months, ending January 31, 1904. ‘ Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending January 31, 1903.. INCREASE... 12,231% This record of growth was not equalled by any newspaper. morning or evening, in the United States, OANGER FOR THE TENEMENTS. People of the tenements. When they gain a little ground ture of holding it ‘would not sacrifice them to the greed of landlords too Stupid to know that civilized dwellings are better worth owning than pigsties if a determined public sentiment ‘Were not incessantly on guard. This year a peculiarly audacious assault on the safe- Suards of the Tenement law Is on foot. Senator Hawkins “has introduced two bills designed to give the Tenement- “Honse Commissioner authority to relax the requirements 1 the statiites with regard to old buildings at his discre- Ucn, The proposition ts practically to abolish the laws © na institute the unchecked will of the Commissioner { Such scheme is an invitation to graft. It would uke the office of Tenement-House Commissioner a prize Mffering people of the tenements. It might not produce “Amagine its results if Mayor McClellan should be suc- egeded by a Van Wyck! ships sunk at Port Arthur were not battle-ships, but Mer- rimacs. The extent of the Russian “victory was the fallure of a Japanese attempt to Hobsonize the harbor. It may be remembered that the first despatches from Santiago announced a similar victory for Spain. “UP TO” THE MAYOR. it Mayor McClellan has asked the Corporation Counsel ' the Municipal Art Commission to interfere with the cenbe granted by Park Commissioner Pallas for the Mee of the Public Library ds a background for whiskey Phd medicinal advertisements, That is an unnecessarily circuitous way of reaching _ bp end that is easily attainable by direct methods. The layor is not obliged to treat his ridiculous Park Com- isstoner us a co-ordinate branch of the government. 4i1 he has to do Is to invite Mr. Pallas to n private in- Nerview and address him kindly but firmly in words “wmething like these: “My dear Pallas, when I gave you a Joh for which You admitted your total lack of qualifications your Proper cue was a modest willingness to learn, I knew you were incompetent, but I thought that for that very Yeason you would not make yourself obtrusively offen- Five. This administration can ‘stand for’ inefficiency, but not for aggressive indeceacy. If you can’t run the parks with some regard for the feelings of the people that own them | shall, have to find a man who can.” If the Mayor will give Mr, Pallas a friendly tip of Yais Kind the mural decoratious on the Bryant Park fence] will disappear within twenty-four hours. ‘The Kala on the Parks.—With only four negative votes the State Senato has passed the Dowling bill authorizing the sacrifice of the parks to temporary school-houses. In an astonishing burst of generosity the Senate allows us-to keep Central Park for its original purposes, but Morningside, Riverside, Madison Square, and all the Dréathing places of the east side may be plastered over With educational shacks, whore walls the avsthetle Pallas Will doubUess take pleasure in adorning with the choicest Bpeclnons of the sign-painter's art, CHILDREN OUT OF PLACE. The other day a couple of New Jersey children tramped through the bitter cold ten miles, Their pur- pose was to find a minister who would unite them in marriage. The boy had reached the age of sixteen and the girl owned to fourteen. All the available ministérs were sane, and the infants were disappointed to the werge of tears. They were not in quest of fatherly coun- 1. They were filled with the emotion of love, and knew what was the matter with them. Nothing but matri- wony would do, Upon the scene appeared the mother of the female youngster, and the latest minister tackled felt a burden of responsibility roll away. He supposed she would bang the heads of the silly children together, and possibly Jer thei brains into activity, But no! She gave her consent, and the babes went forth under the impression that they were man and woman, duly joined in wedlock, instead of a pair of obstreperous brats in need of a wal- loping. Of course, the mother had legal right to give con- sent; but it js possible that a mother may herself be in need of a guardian. From § clay Parsons + mission 1s doubtless election of Willlam Bar- of the Panama Canal Com- so0d thing for the canal, but it ew York, Do the Rapid-Transit to know where to may male trouble for happen Commissioners box of poisoned candy, with which to kill one yan, Dut really killing two. She was found guilty years axo wand sentenced to life imprisonment. another trial, apparently on the ground that the verdict Moes not please As an extra concession, she has pn allowed a pontponement, the fact appearing that vf the people who might give damaging testi- ss recently de- we Not Geod Kiska.- A monkes 4: carried a pehwy of $100,000. An ins that would take such a bet surely ‘the mortality tables of captive simians, fate te to die, ; & Cudlisued by Wie Press Publishing Cothpany, to @) x Park Row. New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mull Matter. .NO. 16,528. Eternal vigilance {s the price of health and life for the Jn the fight aguinst disease und misery they never can be There is never a legislature that be fought for by every corrupt politician in Tammany, | “ the price would be paid in disease and death by the) ‘ logical effects under the present administration, but! { & Fluke, Not a Disanter.—it turns out that the Japanese| look up the question of the legal right of himself or| ‘ Now she ts to have fare stil! ving. Courts may bu slow, but they are Tho Nkey caw be depended upon to do surely SOESOOESNDD OOD EES he HE LITTLE ls ee no HE EVENING | | York City. "wo SPOT'5 PORT! (f RED'S ye BUy A FUDGE ANO Ger A RED SM, LILOO) & The Great and The Most a 7] THIS TALK OF BEING HELD New, TORK IS jon! T Kno OF POOL ROOM LING RESORTS € OPEN RIGHT UND: G w s WHY I CAN TINFIELOS ING EVIOEN UDGE! > REVIEWED BY 1f|A KAISER Loa: Loos! THURS DAYS, AND SATURDAYS, PLAY A GAME oF! FUOCE eres Prize Peewee Headlines for to-day, $1 paid for each: No. 2—JOSEPH WHITE, care Prize‘ 6 # THE # EVENING # WORLD'S DOWN TIGHT ON A RANK DECEPT= Ww OF DOZENS RUNNING WIDE THE POLICE. FO Anyone CAN ENT WHO HAS MONEY GET INTO ONSTRATE THAT. THIS LIO BUSINESS |S ALL. a4 Only ee Mir. wn THe LID PEE-~VEE! Come Ri Boss — WE WANTS wir DE ANO GAM B— THE EYES, ce THEM TO PLAY= ER MR TINFIELD VERY wet! [I DESIRE TO ENTER AND PLUNGE A LITTLE! W. SHAKES. PEARE, the cele- | Brated short-stop of the Avon nine, Says’ In another Page of to-day’s with four hands as Against 0 This Editorial Is Not for Pinochie. Players. ] Four Wands T EVENING FUDGE that baseball Players seni rane vibe a far better game, fe thin t a cont bo even mere taste lest between centinedes would STOP AND THINK, HAVE YOU FOUR HANDS? u not, yee and draw setae are iMaking less than $15 a week, Why? STOP ‘AND THINK, AND VE AN THINK ON THE Heo THEN HAVE ANOTHER Because you have ONLY TWO HANDS, Please note that we KNOW you have only two hands, | Si 1 ) ' This shows eur vast information, re Ae vou Meee POUR HANDS free lunch and play tl same time, uk sal This rite Would exactly double your value to your em- DOES THIS MAKE YOU THINK? If not, then turn to OU! I. rece este IR FIRST PAGE and have a You could write letters, Ih Larmopica, all at the t No, 1—JAMES AUERBACH, No. 222 We of A. R. Naething, No. 436 Broome street, New York City. No. 3—F, R. ROB- Fudge’’ Editorial Gook, ‘‘Eating Is Simply a Fad.”’ SESE DPeewee. Important Little Man on Earth. Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Ebening World, Mr. Peewee’s Lid Is Off, if New York’s Is Not. Toa es REET A wots pat? OH, YASSIR, [SE DONE HEARN OB MISTA MAZUM Ud le Kesh pti) OPSETH DO 4 i 4 $ GHT IN, Guys; AY st Fifteenth street, New? (AYJOU have to be at tho office early Y to-morrow and ygu want a good night's sleep? Ah! Mr. Nagg, how many nights’ sleep have I lost on your account! How many nights have 1 lain awake tossing on my pillow and waiting for you! “As a result Iam a nervous wreck, suffering from Insomnia. But you have nothing to worry you; you can go to sleep. “I wonder, though, your conscience doesn't trouble you, But, then, you have no conscience, Mr, Nagg. “Me be aul Yes, that's right; whenever J, forgiving and forgetting, want to have a talk with you, you cut me off short with a harsh reminder that when 1 married you I surrendered all nelf-respect and became your ala “Why do you want to go to the office early? You never tell me anything about your business; you never confide in me and ask my advice, “Look at Mr, Terwiliger—all his busi- neas is in his wife's name, She signs all the checks, lay. their “The sheriff would come tn mW ould ¢ on him hands on the right man to lake his plice? r his debts if he didn't?’ Oh, that's rt she, j Tight—villify my friends! Bay e ie dis- Gallantry of the rin.—Perhaps the case of Cordelia| honest and be done with it! He has Botkin, of Kin Francisco, will be remembered. ‘Thia| that reputation? I knew it, I knew ie Ardent person ix supposed to have sent to Delaware n| Now, why don't you say he ts a mur. rer and be done with it? Why don't you say he lil-trates his wite? You can't do that, Mr. Naxx, ‘The only man hat I know who fil-treats his wife ts you “I do everything for your comfort; 1 try to be contented and happy when 1 am Sgnored by you in everything. I try to be patient and silent under treatment that a saint would not stand, and you know it! “Did you put out the cat? course you didn't. No, of I suppose you ex- pect me to get up and catch a fresh cold and put her out, “That's right, Commence to growl, simply because I asked you to put: the | Bike aa St aaa Mrs. Nagg and Mr.— Even at Slumber Time That Man Keeps Up His Constant Course of Cruelty Toward That Patient Woman, and the Poor Cat, Too! By Roy L. McCardell. YALL ia “There, You’ve Opened the Front Door aad Let Her in!” I « I hear her purring in te eat out. You ald put her out? you didn't, front room, “There, You've opened the front door and let her int! Why didn't you look and see if she was out? I did not say L heard her in the front roum. I said J hhought T heard her, ‘That's right, Be brutal to the poor y dumb animal! Kick her, Mr. Nexg.)0Ut? Then, why do you wake me up Only remember there is a Society for] Just whon I'm gettlug to sleep the first the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,| time in many nights to upset the furni- even 1f there 4s none for wives, ture and swear? “Only a man with a cruel heart would| “Of coufse, you won't put the cat out put a poor creature out into the cold a| Just because 1 asked you to, Do I or} night like this, Perhaps you think {t's don’t I want to have the cat put out? your wife you are turning out! Oh, pray, don't ask me, Mr. Nagg, It, “Ob, you're not going to put the cat| your house. 1 have no authority, Illustrated by GENE CARR. ow, she's out and won't come back in Again. She'll be lost; I know. she will! ‘That's what you are after. You see the poor dumb creature is attached to me, and, of course, you turn it out to die in the storm! Why don't you close the door, Mr. Nagg? Because the cat may come back in, you say? “Of course, of course! You hold the door open for a cat and Jeave your wife to die In an icy draught! Of course, you care moro for a mangy old cat than you do for your wife! Oh, I might have known it, My own mother told me she saw your cruelty and deceit. “Now you aro swearing. Oh, no, you Are,not swearing at the cat, Mr. Nagg, you are awearing at me! But I am used’ tto it, “Now you'll tell me why you rust be at the office early. Oh, please don't tell me, Mr. Nagg. Keep your confl- dences for others, “That's right, toss around and sweart You were not going to swear? Well, I'd sooner haye you swear than to groan and toss*that way! “Oh, I'll not get to sleep now, your cruelty to that poor cat and your cru- elty to me have me all upset. y “You oan't get to sleep either, you say? What difference does that make, you can take a nap to-morrow, but I can't, because it’s the hired girl's day out, and I'll be all alone dn the house, and when Tam all alone I am 80 afraid of burgiara, ‘fhat's right; don't answer a wora when Iam talking. Treat me with con- tempt, Mr. Nagg, just because I am cheerful and want to chat with you over the events of the day, There he's snoring! ‘That's how mueh he cares for me! Oh, how long will 1 be able to bear with such an une feeling man! And to think how ho awore at the poor cat, just Decatise fe Bumped his shins agatnat the rocking early, too, for ti i senate eee his treatment of mel” double the up Pay despite the m {be happy € wo HOME w MAGAZINE ws Dorothy Dix, | The Most Famous Woman Humorist in America. MARRYING A THING. - o © of the great- 0} est drawbacks to woman's real advancement Is the senseless horror she has of being an old maid. Disguise this as she will, bluff about being a girl bachelor and the Joys of a latch- key as she may, the fecling 1s still there that it Is a reftec- tion upon her at- tractiveness not to have a husband, and thousands of women annually of- fer themselves up as sacrifices to Hymen, just to prove that they can marry if they want to. Everybody will admit that a good husband is the best thing that can happen to a woman, but a bad one is s0 much the worst that one of the great problems of the world is how to save the woman from her, folly who is marrying not for love, but to prevent spinster from being engraved on her tombstone. Stran| enough, the China—the very land that these mi been calling hen,” and in which th porting missionaries by me flannel petticonts, and knitting fase zinrs, In China, a few weeks ago, a degree had the misfortune to Just before t could never be swer to this enigma comes from led old maids have y have been sup- : pincushions and ors for church ba- aiden of high ed by death jing that her heart > digaities and per- with great pomp noth {sites of a matror married to a red fiower v a There, in a nutshell, ye have the solution of the whole case of the woman who marries just to be married, Let lier marry a dead thing. Instead of @ live thing, Nor is the {dea so startling as it ppears on its face, Many # woman discovers after marriage that she wed a whiskey bottle ins of a man, and would be glad enough to swap it off for any Kind of a flower vase. There are men so full of conceit and vanity tho their wives might just as well have espoused a gas bag In the first pla There are cther men so stingy and so hard to get moncy out of that they might with advantage to their wives bo cash registers. The woman whose husband sits up like a graven Image all evening with the paper ¢! before his eyes would find & wooden Indian just as entertaining. A vinegar cruet migat be substituted for many a sour lord and master with- out his wife finding it out, while there are millions of men so absorbed in thelr business that they are no more com- pany for their wives than a double-entry ledger. On the other hand, the advantages of being married to a flower-vase husband are many and obvious. It would have no bad habits. it would nevertrow about bills, {t would never complain of ther cooking and it would never go out 91 ulghts, True, there would always be the danger that a re¢ flower-vase spouse, Ike a human husband, might get ful or go broke, but these are risks that a wife is bound tc take anyway. ‘ In a word, If the flower-vase fdea can be popularized It will give a woman all the privileges and none of the pen- altles of matrimony, and it is hereby commended to the consideration of the women's clubs. As a appy expedien for the missing man {t takes the wedding c: DOROTHY DIX, A Defense of Mrs. Nags. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. To the Editor of The Evening Worl. I HAVE noticed in your paper recently a series of articles relating to a friend and neighbor of mine, a most unfortunate and much-abused woman, ry My husband tells me that T refer to Mrs cles are Intended to bo funny, and that you lend your columns to Mrs, Nagg's alleged humorous efforts to make light of his domestic unhappiness for the amusement of your readers, 4 When you know the true facts in the ' case Lam sure you will not allo columns to be used for Mrs, torment and humiliation, The Naggs have lived in the same apartment-huuse ever since they were married, five or six years ago. When they first came they were the most de- voted couple I ever saw. The poor little woman was so fond of him that she parted from him every morning as if he were golng on a three months’ Journey, and all day wan- dered about the apartments straightenings things up and getting herself ready to greet him when he came back. She would begin to dress at 9 o'clock and would walk up and down and stare ont of the window for him, and somet{mes put on, her hat and walk over to the elevated station to muet him, because she couldn't wait any longer, I may as well say right here that Mr. Nagg is a drinking man. And often when I had passed him on the stairs, and knew from ‘ils breath when hesal d good evening that he had been drinking heavily, he would go upstairs and kiss that fresh young woman who had never touched anything stronger than fce-cream soda in her life, and nover think ant the stale whiskey and tobacco must be to ay, “She lked it, didn’t she?" Maybo But she would have lked it a great 6. these artl- bow unpleas her. Well, men will she did, poor thin: deal better without. : ‘Their first quarrel was about his drinking, No, she didn't tell me about it, I heard it, Everybody knows how sound | hose dimb-waiter shafts, and we live just over fy Woinaa promised to come down early and take her to the theatre. At 6 o'clock, when I came in from mailing a letter, 1 noticed her looking out the window for him, At 7 she came upstairs to ask me the time. She thought her watch must be fast. Later on, when the janitor whistled up for the garbage and I set mine on the duimb-waiter, 1 called down to her and she said Mr. Nags had not come in. She was dreadfully worried, and I went in to console her. He came in at 12.45—I heard him—and told her @ Jong story about having a friend that he hadn't seen for ten years come on from the West and their having dinner with a lot of other men, and the friend getting drunk and having $400 in his pocket, and his being afraid to leave him till he had taken bim to his hotel and put him to bed and deposited hts money with the cashler. Fishy? I should say so. But his wife swallowed it, and she dried her eyes and actually laughed a little at his description of the friend's drunkex actions, He repeated that performance a hundred thmet before she reproached him, Mr. Nagg gambles, Sometimes he loses a week's earn: ings at poker and comes home late Sunday afternoon with to cents and a grouch. It isn't a bit funny for Mrs. Nagg to have to stand off the butcher and the baker for a week because Mr. Nagg was unlucky at cards. But what does that matter to him? He 1s downtown daring the butcher's calling hours. What he says about the Sunshine and Kind Deeds Society ix just Ike him, Why shouldn't his wife spend her time in that or any other good work if it distracts her mind? There is no use ner waiting at home on the chance of his showing up for winner once or twice a week. He complains a lot about money, and he 4s 9s stingy as he-can be. He will take his wife ont occasionally, and\ then he spends money—as nearly every nian will-~for his own amusement. But he gives up every dollar for hor personal expenses as if he were having a tooth pulled, y Did you notice how he tried to meke trouble between hin wife and me by saying that #ho called me an “old frimp?”* J will send you my photograph if you like and you can print jt ‘o prove that Mrs. Nagg never could have sald it, and that her husband Is—I won't say what he is, for the by- luws of the Sunshine and Kind Deeds Soclety forbid th circulation of vil reports, however true they may be ‘Amt they are all true about Mr, Nagg, I can prove them. t M ra. GOSBAWAT,