The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1904, Page 10

MONDAY EVENING, + MARCH 7, 1904 4 The Other Kind of Babblers. te ing Company, No, 8 to & Intered at the Post-Office By SOS meson Nixola Greeley-Smith. | Park Row, New York. at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 44.........4. ———— © you know the D babbling man? But of course The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The 4 Evening World for 12 months, ending | ee February 29, 1904... 12,5184 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World for 12 months, ending February 28, 1903.......2+e+e0+++- 8,257} 4 a of incREASE........ 4,261% fa This record of growth was not equalled by any i NewSpaper, morning or evening, In tho United States. ON Nee CR Geile ca SEES you do, For not- withstanding the much-vaunted rett- cence of the sterner sex the man who talks too miich tr quite as numerous and as indiscreet as the babbling woms an. Furthermore, he has not to excuse his garrulity, the time-honored tradition which makes of woman's tendency to | confide too much a natural and more or | less pardonable feminine attribute, ‘The man who talks too much—ana | « his name in legion—does more harm | (uan the woman of similar proclivity, tt only because the time and place of his nfidences fs not so well chosen, ‘There is all the difference in the world between the too voluble little woman who tells her best friend over a cup, of tea that she han quarretied with her husband because he did not get home| till — o'clock and the husband's humor- ous and perhaps alcoholic account ot the affair given next day to the bar: room ansociates who helped him cele- brate. Thut the husband doesn't do itt He doos If he ts of the babbling kind and really feels that he is making the humorous hit of his career by sharing his young wife's tears and perhaps too tragic reproaches with the men with whom he “cut loose’ the day befor and who. the moment bis back turned, will shrug thetr shoulders and comment in amused contempt on his indiscretion, But though the confiding husband ts undoubtedly the worst of the babbling ribe, the tendency to undue conversa- nn concerning his womenkind ts not uy. BOYS’ CLUBS AND THE CITY. State Senator Marshall's bill for municipal boys’ clubs in New York has gone as far as it should go by legislative express. It is a measure fit for side-tracking while the city interested takes a long Jook over, through and especially behind it. On its face the bill appears at least unnecessary. It might be styled impertinent with no great straining of the language. As it appropriates only $20,000 for pur- poses which in partial pursuit have cost the University Settlement $50,000 in a single year, it suggests some- _ thing of the ridiculous. i The soundest objection to the bill, however—pushing ‘aside for the moment obtruding whispers of a political ‘scheme behind it—is that it proposes to push beyond ~ gounds the idea of a fatherly municipality. «In estab- fishing recreation centres and playgrounds and in pro- viding for_the seven-days-per-week usefulness of its _ *schoolhouses, the city goes as far in social fostering as rs discretion and propriety permit. Boys’ clubs, by the strict name, though of great public utility, belong in here of private enterprise. as er ‘ek, the es tor, ‘boys are in the hands of | Settlement workers, parish organizations and the Edu- cational Alliance. They could not be in better hands. May their numbers multiply! THE CITIZEN WHO WANTS SOMETHING. -A gentlemanly forelgner who has taken up his res!- ". dence in Chicago desires to become a citizen of the Republic. He has taken out first papers. Whether or not he shall complete jn Cook County the procesres ot naturalization depends upon a condition. In a polite note to the Mayor he begs to state that necessity will ‘sompel. him. to. move clsewhera unless” clearly-lettered street signs are put at all the corners. If Chicago desires to be considered no mean city it will bumpr at once the wishes of this intelligent new resident. It is not alone that street signs will prove in themselves a most desirable acquisition. New York, disappointed of the fulfilment of Mr. Cantor's promises, knows how that is. But more {moortant still is it to encourage any citizen in the citizenly act of wanting something for the public good, and making strenuous effort to get it.” If nobody asks for anything, {t 1s taken for granted that everything is lovely and the municipal goose hangs properly high. No city is on record as going out of its way to see what a voiceless ‘people may desire. To be by Any means confined to him, There {s the babbling father, the bab- bling flance and even the babbling brother—though the Inst named is very Tare for the reason that men do not consider sisters an interesting subject of conversation, ‘The babbling flance {8 quite capable yectour excuse t “what she meant” words or actions that really had no moaning at all, enlighten him he seeks counsel of a socond and p third, till, if they are worth repeating crets are town property: Of course women do these thini most women—indewd, practically women. too. all cation and shriek at @ particularly ob- noxious spider nnd become hysterical at the appearance of a mouse, A man might as well do any of these foolish feminine things as babble. And yet many of them do ft nevertheless. How Many Cats Did the Dogs Kill? ——-—_ How-Old-Is-Ann-sters Please Answer This. sure, New York asked for street signs, and didn’t get a full line But that should not be a permanent discour- agemen’ Let us still have citizens who speak up! You who read these lines, what would you ask toward 4 New York as much finer as it 1s greater? _The Fire Dri ing Uttlity.—The 2.000 children 0! Lal School No. 2, Brooklyn, who responded so calmly to Fri Way's fire-drill call when there was a fire are being trained up in the way they should go. When they are older they will not depart from it to promote the fatal panic in a theatre fire. WHERE THE KING IS A LOW CARD. Concettina Metale came to this country for the pur- pose of marrying Joseph Millazzo. She got’ a good look at her lover and balked. Now Joseph says that he will appeal to King Victor, and that Concettina will be given over according to contract. “Suspicion arises that the lady will have her denying way, “She js in « free country now, at liberty to snap her dainty fingers at her old guardian back in Italy, and to remind the King that ‘his jurisdiction stops consid- erably short of Ellis Island. ‘The rejected eultor also talks about a writ of habeas corpus. But against the feminine affections no legal writ will He. They constitute a law unto themselves. Possibly Joseph is out a trifie of passage money. Then he might as well acknowledge having been played by his Concettina, and let the music stop at that. Where the Quicksand Lics.—There is a slight confusion in the newoat Hotel Darlington theory of disaster. Not the ateel-framed building but the technicality-framed tn- spection law rested on a quicksand, The bill introduced ‘by Senator Dowling will furnish a better foundation ‘tA GOOD TIME.” In the days of the primitive Teutons a wedding was *@ high time.” It was celebrated accordingly, with much noisy merriment and feasting. Social evolution of a sort has produced the “high old time.” This need not be a wedding. Asa rule, it is noisy, “A good time” is something different still, \ There are not definitions enough in all the universe to describe it. “An association of rest and carousal,” says M. Jules Huret, expressing what he ‘believes to be the American fdva. “Doing good to others,” says Dr. Parkhurst. Jn the Sunday Magazine of The World yesterday an = ghopgirl declared for the pleasures of a dinner amid “life, ‘eolor and movement,” tut also for a preferred ‘ congenial an Croning at the theatre. ‘these people were interesting, but all noted the ‘ “hk good time” is personal. i faile with enotber. The only thi Ww truly be “a good tim “artist foresaw “a good time” in a coming trip to Italy; a ‘good " at the opera; a pugilist spoke of a trip abroad and a doctor dwelt upon @ jurist particular- nions, an afternoon at the If Johnny Jones has seven dogs And every vog 1s white, And fourteen cats came chasing round, Each one as black as night, |JAna each two cats have eighteen lives Less three destroyed by rats, How many lives must three dogs take Before they kill eight cats? ——— Says the Answer Is 43. Yo the Editor of The Evening World As each cat has nine lives and three of those were destroyed by rats, each | “ cat has only six lives left, so that elght such cats would equal six times eight, forty-eight ves destroyed by dogs, Two of the dogs would kill three cats each, or eighteen lives, and the other dog would kill two cats, or twelve lives, JAMES BALLANCE, No. 1752 Amsterdam avenue, A Girl's Anawer, To the Editor of The Evening World: My answer to ths’ is 60 lives DOROTHY KAY, No, M6 East Seventleth street, City, No. 682 Newark avenue, Jersey City. ‘Take 72 Liven, To the Editor of The Evening World: The dogs take seventY-two liv JAMES RICKARD, 13 years ol4, No, 8% Fast Fifty-seventh atrest Says 144 Lives Will Be Lost. To the BAltor of The Evening World My anawer in: Three dogs must take M4 Mves; Because: If every two cats have eighteen lvex, one must have nine lives minus three destroyed by rats (six lives each). Therefore eight cats have forty-eight lives, so before three dogs kiN elght cats they have to taka 144 lives EMIL %., KEPKER, No. 108 East Third street, N. ¥, Fifteen Lives to Every Two Ca! To the Editor of The Evening World If 2 cate have 18 lives less 8 lives destroyed by rats, 2 cats have 16 lives left; 4 cats will @ 90 lives, 6 cate will have 45 lives and 8 cats will have @ lives. Therefore 2 dogs must take @ lives before they kill 8 cats Mins A. I. LUTRINGER, No, % Third street, Carlstadt. N, Not Any. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World The answer to the Johnny Jones prob. lem is none, or not any, SIBBALD WIN‘TERBOTTOM, Age 11 years, No. 70 West 107th street. Weeding Out Words, Colors, ae. To the Ealtor of Evening World a ve leas throe lives destroyed by rate—fifteen lives for two cats, equals sixty lives for elght cats; thus the answer is sixty JEAN KERNAU, of telling another man all the most inti-| { mate details of his courtship with the| 4 he wants to know} « by a dozen little} { his meat romantic se-| But so do women ery at slight provo-| 4 three | ‘ Leaving aside all words, colors and figures necessary for completing the @, the problem is reduced to the following: Two cats at elghteen lives PAODEUDLOL HOG O04 06 0044 FOOSO4 The Great and O DS w HOME hi a THE MOST IMPORTANT LITTLE MAN ON EARTH. Design Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. Mr. Peewee Opens the Baseball Season with a Lesson in Pitching. in aa et NOW, WILLIE, IF You WATCH ME CLOSELY “YOU WiLL BE ABLE TO ) SURPRISE YOUR Boy ~ cpRete A THIS COMING, BASEBALL SEASON | BY PITCHING AN IN-SHOOT! I-useo To BE PITCHER ON ONE OF THE CRACK Irs VERY CURVE WHEN You Know How! And if that man can't] « wy dy 2 a wt Apply to Supreme Court. To the Editor of The Evening Wortd I wish to change my name, legal form, if any, 1s necessary? i ee To-Day’s $5 Prise ‘‘Evening Fudge’ No. 2— ‘Sara a YN ES GIRL FRONG | WITH YSN Mrs. E. 4, Vose, Morris Park, L h Strongar a POELLESLGDE DISLODGE AODNE OO-0GS4HODOIGOOOOHGGHOHOID 04494004044 O06 rood EW, HIS HAID AIR = PINS EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE EVENING UGE Why Have Pink-Eyed Rabbits) ., Have you ever More Brains than Dark-Eyed Rabbits? (Cooyret, 1804, by the Planet Pub Ce.) stopped to think of this? Ifnot, pause wow and give the . Murphy and David B. Hill pump ice-water. How Gill and Murphy Play the Game. SEE," said the Cigar Store Man, “that Charlfe (Murphy went up against the butt end of the axe at the meeting of the State Committee at Albany.” | “Tt looks that way on the signs,” explained the Man Higher up, “but in this case the butt end was cushioned, He didn't come back to New York with the axe sticking in his head, like a lot of Tammany leaders have come back after getting the Kibosh from the up-State people, He still has the privilege of drawing cards in the game of State politics, and it won't come to a case of show- down until.the Convention meets in Albany on April 18. Hill has the best hand showing, but nobody but Murphy knows! what is buried in the Murphy hand. “When it comes down to politics, the hearts of Charlie Mr. Hill has been placed on the top section of the toboggan and ‘ pushed off so many times that the trip is getting to be anything but the sweetest story ever told, He would like to fill his lungs with the breath of success, and he knows that If he wants to do it Tammany Hall will have to lend a hand at the business end of the bellows. “As for Murphy, he aspires to linger in the spot-light’s } | 66 » glare in the centre of the stage of national politics, and [nobody has a license to throw rocks at him for his ambi- tion. Unless New York City piles up a tremendous ; majority for the Democratic ticket, the State is likely to go the other way, although the showing Roosevelt made when he ran for Governor in his war uniform don't indicate that he has got any mortgage on the | Voters, i . “Murphy knows, and Hill knows, that. if they expect |to draw down anything they will have to do brother act In this State, and they will have to have a harmio- nious supporting company. Hill couldn’t stand to have ’ Editorial Was Written by W. Stevenson, Care of Gough, No. 201 Eas Twenty-eighth Street, New York City. Prize Peewee Headlines for To-Day, $1 Paid for Each: No. 1—William Lutz 14 First Avenue, New York Cit «. No. 3—A.M. Jones, No. 27 East Ninety-ninth Street, N- Y-C To-Morrow’s Prize Editorial Gook, “Why Do Babies Offer Biscuit to Their Feet?’’ m, the beap Vear-Girl. She Takes One Last Desperate Chance and Almost Lands It. Murphy, who is hardly a yearling in State polities, hand him out any hot wallops in the overture, and he went after the Tammany leader with all the enthusiasm ofa j man running to a bank to get a check cashed. When Murphy got wise that Hill had the hayseed end strong enough to pull things the hayseed way, he passed.” “Where does McCarren come in?” ; sae oe ur °" asked the Cigar “Well,” replied the Man Higher Up, to see any bulbous, clammy chunks flo the air in this vicinity, you may thinklets, Do you know that all the real ' the eee peer aay had PINK EYES? aes y ask: How about the California RABBITS? The Jack rabbit is a feat PHYSICAL tion, but his BRAIN eV ELOPRENT has ever deen less Some readers of the EVENING FUDGE will contend that Wales itks SEYED hie Swerve fame, Tus ts On tre eee AIT RABBIT en ee Is noted for tocope with his JACK crea- “If you happen. ating around in: know that they are Dis cunning, Keep you awake at night in your clon undigested arguments; but the W sections of McCarren’ rabbit has never le Welsh % tren’s exploded ambition’ to be Chair ever, he wil frre phn THINKER. How- mas of the Democratic National Committee.” THINK, especially in thi lonely watches of rH : chan mate the night, if you will stady him, often rap a pound of Edam cheese Evening Fudge, put in a chafl » Ing-dish with tw water, boll three hours and make A PINK-EYED WELSH. + dt will make you dream WAR NEWS like ours. | in the first page of the Mrs. Nagg and Mr. —_ Se eEOe By Roy L. McCardell, eter aile That Man’s Inhumanit Woman Is Beyond All Endura: ? ince; Des; Her Cheerfulness of Character, She pected that Her Patience Is About E. Paraital? You don'é xhausted, “W can T take part in any conve) I have not been to ‘Parsifal!” “You know I wanted to go to ‘Par, sifal;’ begeed you to take me to ‘Parsifal;’ that my mind Cnt t Parsifal;’ that {t would have made me happy te eo te Pan Yes, that's the reason. It would have made m4 'y to That Patient HY didn’t you take me to + ee Me our whole object in life ts to break my sunny nature, to spoil my happy would like to see me bickering, quarrel: Just like you are. And that's why you “Parsifal! Y . “You offered to take me, but T said was too much, and I bought a shirt wat “Taunt me now about the three new 4 Yes, T AM getting three new dresses! getting THREE new dresses? “You are glad to hear it? Oh, Mr, y crite! When the bills come in you weed ete ape say your bank account 1» overdrawn, But I hadn't » thin to wear. Positively I was in rags! You didn't care; ae never care. But if I spend a cent dn myself you go bE ip with a scowl on your face and murder in your mind. Yee murder in your mind, for your aetions are just killing mot “You don't ever smile at me! You say you do? Oh, My Nags. Are you smiling now? Why don't you smile? never speak @ cross word to you; I never find any fault, i never sare & row. I go around trying to keep up a light heart. rs. Gassaway says my wan smi! thetic that they haunt her. stale “Why didn't you take me to ‘Parsifal?’ You will take me now. you say? Ah, how kind you are; tt 1s too latd now. ‘There will be no more ‘Parsifal,’ {t 1s all over. Safd enough you knew you were when you offered to take ma I wouldn't have your bitter, sarcastic disposition for any thing in the world. You wait till ‘Parsifal’ is over and then you invite me to go. I had forgotten all about tha thing, but you.keep harping on it and repeating It, ‘Paral fal!’ ‘Parsifal!’ ‘Parsifal!’ because you know ft.is all oved now and it won't be played any more. “What, it will be played again, at @ benefit for Manages Conried, and you'll take me? 0 . + “Yes, there you are again! Wasting your money. Dd you think I would spend $20 just to see an opera. If yow have $% to throw away give it to me! “You only have $15 with you? I knew you were de celving me! And then you boast you never tell mé an un/ truth! “Oh, Mr. Nagg, run out of the house! But I knew the time when you started to quarrel with me because said I didn't care to discuss ‘Parsifal’ you had @ hidden mo tive. ‘ “There he goes, and into a saloon! Oh, why will maf! prefer a rumshop to a happy home and a cheerful, lovir wife? if my spirit, to cloud temperament. You some and peevish, wouldn't take me to $2 for two ticketd ist with the money4 resses I'am getting! There now! I am oo4 6d 9 8-FOS-9S0-9-599O00036-O ¥: A Royal Innkeeper. eee : #@ # LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS. ¥ ¥ respect to her husband's memory, What. Period of mourning may be shortened. A Frult-Tree Puzzle. J, SMITH, |, ‘ To the Editor of The Rvening World: does not desire to show that degree of | the mosqui the | mal: The King of Wurttemburg {s the only hotelsKeeper whol a king. When Peter the Great was travelling ticoghlte through Europe he refused to stay anywhere but at‘an inn! To circumvent this whim the King of Wurtem! : tavern sign outside one of the royal palaces, and, as an innkeeper, himself welcomed the Czar. ‘That mona arch's descendants have been in “the trade” ever since; ang the present king owns two large hotels, from which he dpa rives about $50,000 a year, a toes and also its neighbor, holders are individually limited in thelt ria? The Now York Btate death Habllity for the company’s debts to the | penalty is electrocution, ‘Perhaps you | WTOUnt of ry nae only “what “they, {do not care for the ideas of a ntry | patd for thelr stocks, wood buteher as to city improvement A Hint f se Ce Ay &e,, but Ta like to have sclentiste dl baht cat d R 4 mn A To the Editor of The Evening World = The Period of Mourn: Will readers kindly solve the follow!®| cuss my plan, JONAS EB, MORE, , ~ 4 aly ” To the EAltor of The problem or Iet'me kovow win’ Kt cannot| "" Wardon Delaware County, 3X. | ,VMMe the 8... for? Are thes! A «GeteRich=Quick” Scheme,. > Being a widow, should 1 shut myscit| 0¢ solved: “Three-quarters of the oe Definition of “Limited. of the suffering animats that daily run| If one could save a cent the first day of the month; ve | Nan orchard are os, one-eighth = 7 away from gentlemen friends and live| !" 49 orchard are pear tre: pe tb To the Editor of The Evening Wort the streets? Something should be done| cents the next day, 4 cents the next, and so on, dowbling in retirement months A widow. ing and avi for ew Or would it be right to receive the at-| tentions of an admirer within twel: of my ;? Would it be correct for me to appear| orchard in public or at any place of amus¢mont with this admirer? for any stipulated time?| of the trees there are peach tree tweaty numbe ple tree: husband's deceasi To Electrocute Mosquitoes, CONSUBLO....| ‘r the Editor of The Bvening World: * dminecy se atic fune- is ox da or > drop} a o ara, I, ahe}a horse a BA x . bx me-elghth of the total in this orchard are ap-| How many trees are in this! THOMAS H, wire aceldentally water would i | in A says that the term “limited” is used. in place of one term “Incorporated” in business, B says it simply means that the stockholders are only responsible for the stock they hold, Which 1s cor- rect? aC. ‘Limited’ amount each day, he would have nearly three million’ dolla®, at the end of the month—providing the month tad" thirty” ‘one days.and his salary could stand the pressure; a Cruel Joke. .— in regard to the dreadful glassy footing for the poor, patient horse after tee storms, It seems a shame to cart the aghes to the dump dally instead of stro them on theatre heneAt of the horses, x ‘ ‘are-exempt “perso P n tay 3 Abe law, 4 oyay £ bs ae *p t