The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1904, Page 14

WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1904. | Published by the Press Publishing Compi Park Row, New York. Bmtered ‘at the~ Post‘Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. pS = OLUME 44........- The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The | Evening World for 12 months, endin, { February 29, 1904................-12.51814 Number of columns of advertising in The ‘Evening World for 12 months, eading February 28, 1903,..... +» 8.25734 INCREASE........ 4,261% _ ‘This record of growth was not equalled by any Newspaper. morning or evening, In the United Statos. v 1S NEW YORK RICH ENOUGH FOR THIS? A Plea for the Bachelor Girl. By Nixola Greeley:S mith. T {* only when | catechized by a particularly matchmaking wom- an that the con- fi chelor has to justify. his exis- terice. When a man has lived to be thir- ty * or thirty-five ears old without taking unto himself 1 mate society ac- septs iis bachelor- and doss not hood to explain or to defend it, It is not #0 with the bachelor gir, whol, after she has reached the age of twen ty-five, must remaln single at the per'l yf being considered aither an anomalous If all the millionaires of Greater New York had to live in a single street, that thoroughfare—so a maga- zine writer estimates—would have to be more than twenty miles tong. Amd it might be forty. The aggregate income of the social clubs of New “York is estimated at something near to $25,000,000 a year. ° _ In the single theatrical season of 1901-2, according ~ to the managers’ figures, New York paid $15,000,000 for its stage and concert entertainment. This was more than half the sum paid into the theatre box- " dtfices by the whole country. * These statements are impressive. Not less so is the fact that for lack of a $25,000 increase in its in- come the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary is possibly to close a department in which from 350 to 400 lives are saved yearly. The hospital has been going beyond its means in its departments. One pavilion is already out of com- mission. There wére 50,344 patients who came to the “hospital last year. Thousands of them were of the very poor. It is the very poor who. will suffer if the May closing must be. As the opening paragraphs indicate, above, New ) York is a ‘city more than passing rich, Is it rich ‘enough to afford the sacrifice of even one among its Tinest “human interest” institutions? i - With one. THE PUNCH IN THE TRANSFER SLIP, ‘Transfers between all the surface car lines that meet at the Circle and at Sixty-fifth street and Columbus ave- nue, Gcod promise, Mr. Root! ‘Transfers from Manhattan surface cars to cars that frayel into the Bronx, The Harlem River no longer a Hquid boundary line where the old fares run out and - new ones are collectable. A good demand, Mr, Mayor, on behalf of the riding public! ‘The punch in the transfer slip records the order of ‘Progress in local transit, The wider the distribution of punches, the greater the progress. There is another order in store. It will bring the commutation ticket by means of which New York schooi ehildren will ride to school and back again at special rates. This matter will be spoken of again. “Raines defends his law.” his own Indefensibie, ‘AGE DOES NOT RIPEN THE FIRE ALARM. New York hath its horse cars as no country township hath. Tt has a fire-alarm system which has grown old with the horse cars, which sends in now and then a wrong call and may at any moment refuse to send in any call at all. Time will yet put out the horse car. It will be well to take Time by the forelock in putting in the new fire- ,flarm system. Fire does not walt on the antiquate. signal box. Itself, {t is always up to date. Better gas last month by 12 per, cent. Tmprovement still possible, Light up, Mr. Trust! ‘ FOR THE MASHER, THE SMASHER. Masher: (slang) One who impertinently seeks to impress or win the admiration of the other sex; a sentimenta! fop; dude. Smasher; One or that which smashes, Police Commissioner McAdoo is urged earnestly to the devising of'means by which the subject of the second definition may be brought into intimate bearing upon the aubject of the first. In a setter to Nhe Evening World yesterday, “Shopper” suggested Twenty-third street, between Broadway and Sixth avenue, as a centre of operations. as law-and-orderful as possible. But, above all, it should be effective. Oblo should forward an anti-lynch-law hurry call for ins Governor of Missixsipp!. WOMEN IN REAL POLITicsS ‘A woman's political club in this city is distressed uy scanual, The characters of members have been attacked, and A club officer is charged with having purchased her position. The accusations are contained in an Anonymous letter which closes with ct Is more to come.” ome. _ ‘The women are dismayed. They do not wi More to.come. They think too.much has come irene The trouble in this case {s that whereas the ladies of the club formerly supposed they were in Politics, now really are and don’t know it. Lit —— e “Thm machine Lexislatuge there ts the tnevitabl 5 1 le connie: between the genvs homo and the genus home rule tt the endeavor to live up to the increasing demands on ‘di Rome sat easily on seven hills, Murphy hax hia troubles!” The Impossible returneth to| UP. Of course the clash of smash and mash should bel” or a blighted being, and who finds her Jetached condition challenged = and ritloised at every turn. ‘Though she does not usually regard spinsterhood as requiring either ex- phination or apology, she is constantly velng called upon to render both. And, singularly enough, the ‘challenge romes, not from other women, but from men. The man,who ta merely curious and perliaps a trifle ill bred asks: her why she doesn't marry. It-is only the man who Is, designedly (mpertinent who goes into detailed inquiries as i whether she does not feel the desire to be loved and shielded by a man's strong arm,, &c.. and dwells upon the necessity of having a masculine buffer between her and the cold world. And the man who Is neither impertinent nor curious shakes his head sadly and wonders—os they all wonder--about her bachelor. hood. ‘There ts nothing te wonder about nothing to make the masculine philos- opher ponder and fear that marricge |: Jese popular with women than in the days of his grandfather, and that higher ation and the desire for a carcer 1e have dwarfed all the finer instincts of |; womanhood. To be 1 , that philosopher frequently has the idea that marriage in Itself Is necessary to a woman's happiness and that she had better take anything that comes her way matrimonially rather thin be left blooming alone, There was a time when women very generally shared this bellef, but fortunately the time has passed. ‘The number of women who marry for a home or to escape being old maids ts ning every year, For they have o realize that marriage on those fs not an easy way of making @ pations now ‘open to them with greater independence and self-respect. A hundred, or even fifty yeurs ago, tf was a very small compliment to a man for a woman to marry him, for her attitude towar him might fre y have been expressed by the “F jorodora’’ couplet— It must be some one, It might ws well be you Nowadays, when she marries him there 1s @ chance that, she does so be- cause she really thinks that he is the one)man of all others destined to make heF happy. Women, generally have a sentimental belt In this “one man’ theory, Some of them actually think that in all the world there i» just this one, And !f they have not met him they are con- tent to remain unmarried unul he turns | Sometimes, to be sure, He never turns up, ‘Again, sometimes, \he turns up for some one else. But even the woman who waits for him never call upon him either | { O444-1-4-04643¢4O7 00 The Great and Only Mr. Peewee, ‘ THE MOST IMPORTANT LITTLE MAN ON EARTH. . A Lesign Copyrighted, 1903, by The Evening World. Mr. Peewee Thinks the Man Higher Up Needs Advice. BOOOO LED LES UO OE BDH & GE THE] LirtLe Ss HA! T Quire expect. ED To FinD YOU Two TALKING MACHINES HERE! DARESAY I INTERRUPTED ‘You In THE MIOST OF ONE OF YouR MAN HIGHER UP TALKS- AND t's Maes L i . AaQur Time’ you REALIZED THAT MY OPINION 15, WORTH SOMETHING IN THESE, TIMELY DISCOURSES" Now I THINK THE EVENING Ube =~ SE! (©) DENIES REPORT HE 1s TO JOIN en Fo ON BROOK aN 2 “street, New York City; No. 2, CHARLES HERR, No. SAM BLACK, No. 376 Wythe avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. ‘ To-Morrow’s Prize “Fudge'’ Editorial, “Why Are Women Not Baldheaded?" rd men eRY M E | OH Ee! regrets if she ts true to her best welt | and, consequently, to him, i ‘There 1s a bachelor girl living In New | York whose beauty suggests to the) average man the Inevitable query as to why she doesn’t marry, who on | very near taking their advice, though she knew perfectly well that so fer as the man she persisted in reg as the right one was concerned sc yi existed; and that the other—the gvod, carnest, prosperous young man she could marry was—well, that was all he war. She came very near It, but one day the other one-and this explains why he was only the other oner-remurke f confidence that no mat e woman he m have comm r ense ¢ who would have pleased him as much had he happened to meet them, | And kK for the other dozen, AM deahe in doubtless happier for hav-| ing done #0, ’ CHANGE ABOUT. Miss Gally--Mr, Lumberound seems to bo lighter on his feet than he was when he first began to danc Miss Prettygirl-Yes—and heavier on his partner's! -Cineinnat! Times-Star, 8 Atieast «dozen other women in the world & the bachelor girl told him to go. « BAROE-8GN5490646-044.6-6 TRENGTH — 1'M (A REGULAR HusKy) WER CULES !5o—— AS PELE DIORODACODED DOE No. 1, GEORGE F. BYRNES. No. 230 East Thirty-fifth 415 f{ ast Eighty-fourth street, New York City; No. 3,3 rs Ps (DAVID B. HILL [AS HAVE A SMoKe ON US ‘YOU LITTLE SAWED OFF TWo- FER-A cent! DENOUNCED hid fm EDITORIAL PAGE of THE EVENING FUDGE: Nature abhors a vacnum. BABY’S ROUTH isa VACUUM. N that It must be fiited either with mle, yes ie ‘onl TOO MUCH MILK goes to 100 MANY YELLS annoy ae mga THE THUMB ts a peaceful plug. DO NOT PULL IT ouT unless you Rave milk for Otherwise tt wit! yen, We are too old Es vacuum with yen,” UK OF thumbs, so we i our HEAR US HOLLERII) Drop In and : IEW! See OUR MORTGAGE. 1 ts BRIGHT Why Docs Baby Suck Its Thumb? 1904, by tho Pianmt Put. Co, & rs 2 CA Ruways: TAKE) ON dite THE SRAM] tA, Wawa ts" ity. LEP EDDEDIOLTIOPIHIID HHS BDDEMDDDNELDOE ODD 640O09099O00040O044 ¢ Letters—Questions—Answers. Same Old Wife and Mother Problem ‘To the Editor of Tha Evening World: Supposing a married man, having two enild aboard a sinking ship and he had the opportunity of saving one person, whom should he save, his wife| or his mother? I ask the readers to) answer this question. M, B. Lewal To the Editor of The Evening World "A says that Washini was a legal holiday. B says it was not and also says that there's no legal holi- day in the United States, Please decide F. G. D. Washington's Birthday # # legal holi day in all States except Mississipp! and 1s also a legal holiday in Oklahoma, Arona and@ the District, of Columbia ‘There Js no national legal holiday in the United States, In other weérds, there Is no legal holiday observed In ali States and ‘Territories. “Girl in| Pink”) Prine Winners Were Announced Feb. 24. aabands Intervene.—Just as a Chicago husba horkaee his wife enjoined trom betting, a Ea ins $10,000, Just as a New York’ man incites Hd on the room where his wife “follows the 12 women in New Orleans almost put the OB of business, Perhaps the Chicago man ®et the injunction modified so, as simply to ‘ York man—well, a ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Have ‘you publisted the lst of prixe winners in the “Girl in Pink” story? AR Mr. Conway Says ‘Here ‘To the Baltor of The; Evening. World: ~ Please convey my sincere, thanks to ORE, ae it who Kindly re- members my feeble communic The Evening World, Please t am still in the ring a to pac ina word for the righ JO) ‘ Heretofore automobiling| as theen a veritable courge to dogs. Innu- erable have been the| inine victims of these ‘The Crowded Station. To, the Editor of ‘The Evening Wirld In no other elty but few York would such conditions be tolerated ay thos: | which exist on the downtown stato | 1 dealing | engines: }e of the Third Avenue “Lat Housty Sas fete baile street, and I don't see why a seco SPAR EOS stairway should not be construct. | F8e, lovers as ina. Not only have While it frequently takes about fo or five minutes for passongers alight: from trains tg reach the street, it almost impossible for passengers 1 reach tho platform from the str clogged as this solitary stairway | with descending humanity. On 0 sions when these passengers In despers tion force thelr way up against this th the stairway becomes npletel blocked and the mass sways back ing forth, nefther ascending nor descending, Probably not until a is acciden irs from this Intolerable crowding tho company Js sued for heavy A anything be done toward this ey EMANUE! W. HARRIS, He Should Wear a Dress Suit. | honions. To the Editor of The Evening World. But to-day all this haa What is the proper dress for a gentie- man atteiding a musicale in the oven. | Neen changed, and the equipment 4 - HG. Mareivon, N. yey been run over by motor cars, but whe vken to ride in ther ive subsequently per hed from éold brought n by the exposure and] yom diseases of the eye \used by whielin, For a long time curs, while protecting themselves from the dis comforts of the road by’ masks, goggles and largeBa cloaks, neglected to fur-| nish similar covering to} their four-footed com-}4 Mages remedying ing? | New Styles for Dog Moiorists. | eT TEEnemnn aneninenieeeemeeneeneeneel OLD JAPANESE CUSTOMS. Japanese ladies have been known to do without stockings to maintain the harmony between beautiful French slip- pers and magnificent French, evening dresses, 1 have been served by a Japan- | ese hoster who did without everything he did not supply bimself—he had a | Shirt, a collar, a te, Janda scarf pin and | studs, but no trousers, And the effect of their absence was heightened by his wearing braces, beciuse he sold them. The Japanese do hot kiss—if a Japan- ese girl knows how to kiss it shows the: work of a foreign jnstructor; she doce it as an accomplishment, not us an en- Jeyment. The Japanese have no pens and ink, but they fhake a very good shift with a paint brush, The Japanese! houses liave no chimneys, and you are | never warm enough until the house catohes fire. ‘The Japanese have beet | And no mutton; the Chinese have. mut- ton and no beei Japanese bells, like Japanese bell | have no tungues, Japanese snakes ha no poison; Japanese musto ha: mony, ‘THe Japanese alphabet | alphabet, but-n selection of seventy ful deograms to dispense with the in ordinary use by the Chinese, Biante Shabani ta MISAPPLIED ZEAL. | use 90,000 Ae clea ete ot “The Dressmakers’ Protective Association?” queried “Oh, you mean the shape school. You know they don’t teach dressmakers to make dresses » |'NY more, It used to be that a woman with @ good form got a dress made to fit her, and a woman wth a poor form got the same kind of a deal, consequently only | women with natural forms made any kind of a front. | Nowadays the modistes can take a woman with a shape like the back of a hack, put clothes on her and make | ber @ second edition of Lillian Russell, “Instead of teaching dressmakers to construct dresses nowadays they teach them to be sculptors. ‘They form an ideal shape and build a woman up or squeeze her the Man Higher Up. “W Brookiyn to sec my moth wound me! these steps are crowded! No, I ca womaa with the baby took. Of course 7 forgot It have everything on my ‘shoulders, body i get have Deen treating me! “You home ts “There he goes! Vaon't nothin earn enough for nyse of a Mr. Nage. “Jf ‘ome. folks,” sald’ Uncle Eben, | et/un der pressure Sellulpse, ; Women Fitted ‘sonic Temple.” | Mrs Nagg and Mr | nnn By Roy L. McCardell, They Take a Quiet Excursion to Brookiyn Even that Awful Man Does Not Restrain His * Over the B. R. T. in the Rain, a: Amid Cheerful Scenes Like T) Continual Fault-Finding. me? Are you not glad that we ~ Don't interrupt me! Ruffahs! “t make reom for you. My, how it Js raining! M Why did T trust you with that umbrella? HY are you not cheerful, Mr. Nagg? W! beginning the day by sneering and I left it in your oMce? Oh, how can you say I wouldn't let Bhe has advised ma, To Gowns, Not Gowns to Women. SEE,” said the Clger Store Man, “that the Dregs- makers’ Protective Association Convention has been doing great stunts with models over at Ma- > bg |down to it. There's many a svelte female in her street 3 | clothes who looks like a bundle of bedclothes hanging on a fire-eseape when she gets her moulds off and puts on a dressing gown to take dinner with her husband The female form divine never was what it seemed to be after the dressmakers got through with {t, but at the present writing there is more deception-under every square ‘yard of made-np dress . . | bulated before. “In addition to learning how to compress and ex- pand the moder dressmaker spends many hours in doping, out schemes to make the unaided dressing of a Woman resemble a star stunt in contortion. Ihave a friend whose wife used to make him button’ up her gowns in the back because her arms were not built on the swivel plan and she couldn't reach the buttons her- self. Finally he framed up a proposition to make her wear dresses buttoned in front. holes and buttons mixed one night when they were going to the theatre, and the back of. her waist looked like a panoramic exhibit of white goods sam: they got home he put her wise to it.” “How did it come out?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “She set him back for the salary of-a maid,” repliod the Man Higher Up. goods than.ever peram- He got the button- ples. When hy are you scowling at are golng ver, or are you afraid she will read your gullty secret and intultively grasp our unhappy domen- tle reiations owing to your continual sn; arling, sneering, You were going to ‘intere You were going to say some cruel, bitter thing to “Why don't you keer in front of me? Why are alPthese people going to Brooklyn? Why do they all go there at one time? Why don't they wait till the rush is over? Oh, how Keep off my feet, you brute! had a husband who was a man he would thrash you for not stepping aside for me! ‘Is this the Fulton trect elevated? 1s crowding! rt Look how everybody Why don’t you push your way jn, Mr. Nagg? Why do vou let me be trampled on? Why don't you clear the way for nie? ~ “Thank gvodness, we are In the train! ‘down? How can I see the river if you stand in front of me? It you had had any energy you would have taken that seat across the way that that But no; you helped her to it If it was me you would sce me fall at your feet exhausted before you would try to get me a seat “Why don't you say something? I now because yo outing! Why don't you ait uppose you are ‘angry ee Tam happy and am enjoying my little Why do they let people on board the cars and crowd them up in this way for? “Where is the umbrella? not: { gave it to you! you carry It for fear T would mislay it? take it! If you had taken it I wouldn't have forgotten tt. poor head Is in aueh a whirl. T ala begged you to It You take no responsibil- Yes, you roughly pulled it ont of my hands. If I had kept it T would have st now. And see how it rain: \ “You knew I had on my new hat, and you deliberately threw ayvay the umbrella so ft would be ruined, “What are you gawking there for? Don't you see every~ cut of the car? You are ashamed to go to my mother's and look her in the face after the way you You should be ashamed of yourself, Everybody is out of the car but us, and here I have bees begging you to take me out, and you stand and scowl, re scowling just because I Jost an umbrella 1 woukin't say a word or find fault if you lost a hundred ume .brellas, and gootness knows you do lose one every time I let you have It, and puy no attention to me when I venture to eax n word when you come home without ft. “AN! T shall tell my mother. ways open to me. I have one friend in the worl to whom I may speak, to whom T whom I may tly when even my patient, happy nature can no dJonger stand your cruel treatment. = “That's right, swear! You were not going to swear? Fla I'd like to nee you try It! Ah, my poor mother! Little doe she know what T suffer, but I shall tell her! He has run away and left me—teft me in the rain, just because I tried to be cheerful and happy!" y tell my troubles, to Mrs. Nagg’s Side of the Case, To the Fdltor of The Bvening World: ‘T would like to put in a word in defense of Mrs, Nagg. From my own long experience and what I have acen 1 am confident that in ninety-nine ca fs Mr. Nagg. But let the brute smoke, chew, expectorate all over the floor, get drunk as often as sults his pleasures sk him for money; take what. he gives and say be sure and have change for him when he {fs out of funds, and he js yoursstruly. I never get a dollar but there {s war and “What the — do you do with it?" As Tam a smart sewer and first-class Inundress I will try to and three children to be dndependent A DISCOURAGED WIFE, Sawdust Alcohol, ‘A Norwegian chemist has discovered a new and cheap process, for making alcohol from sawdust. Sawdust is treat- with diluted gulphurfe acid, by which the out of every hundred tt