The evening world. Newspaper, March 28, 1904, Page 12

w THE # EVEN <p * Se aia oat ano ead SeayER RN ing Company, No. 63 to @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 44.... NO. 18,860. The Evening World First. | Number of columns of advértismg in The Evening World for 12 months, ending February 29, 1904.......csseeee++ 012,518 Number of columns of advertising in The : Evening World for 12 months, ending February 28, 1903....seccccccsesss &207: incREASE........ 4,261 This record of growth was not equalled by any Newspaper, morning or evening, in the United States. x a A GOOD GAS LAW YET POSSIBLE. Word comes from Albany that Ivew York can have a law to secure better and cheaper gas if the city authorities want it. Beyond a doubt the people who rave to use gas want the quality of the fluid to go up, the bills to stay reasonably down and assurance to be given that these conditions shall endure. The city authorities should be in touch with this desire. And since there is to be no home rule legislation under which New York might do its own regulating, by all means there should be a good State iaw on the subject. At the moment the Gas Trust is exhibiting some care with its product. Experience in past years lends no hope that the improvement will continue if the Legislature sha‘l adjourn without action. Surely the newly revealed opposition of the Consolidated Gas Company to subway pipe galleriés, which might en- courage competition, sows that the trust has lost nothing in impudence or monopolistic purpose. SAVAGERY NEAR THE SURFACE. ‘The world loves a “first-class fighting man” with the affection Kipling had for Fuzzy-Wuzzy. It does jot seem to care what he fights about. Its admiration Tests upon his ability to whip the other fellow or eccept defeat without a whine. _ Last week two’ pugilists met in San Francisco, ‘Thousands saw them batter each other gamely, and all over the country many thousands watched for bulletined information. Yet there wag no possible importance to be attached to determination of the superiorjty of one 130-pound athlete over another of the same weight. There were to be blows, and bruises, and blood, and so the enthusiasm was keen and widespread. * Considering the mvage instinct that remains, the “pugilist {8 not a surprising product. If he did not fight for the joy of battle or the glory of triumph, he would do it for gain. The winner of the San Francisco event Can Wives Bs Made to Obey? By Nixola Greeley- Smith. Dear Miss Gresley-Smith: Will you allow a constent reader to opinion 5 says: “All wives dospise thelr pn Dands, but they cansbo mada to obo: here's tho And doer not sign! point. Can they be mad does the rest signify? M, MOUNTJOY READ. Now, to obey? ,PHE rude cid maxim. quoted above ts a new World. — However, taking it for grant. ed that {tis a max- im hallowed by toay nak for n public expression of yonr| % that rude old maxim which} « nf when thts point Js secured the other { oné on ‘The Evening| 2 such for, the con: stant readers delec- ton, As to whether alt the testimony of a mere observer ts of any value, ‘There are times of doniestio storm, possibly, when all wives despise their husbands, just as there are other times when all women, whether wives or not, despise themselves tor some bit of gi'll- ness or malice dofe or contemplated, The most devoted husband generally discovers in his wife same trait, forelyn to Ys own nature, which only his love for ‘her enables him to regard with amused tolemnce, The most loving wife ‘6 lable to view certain wholly masculine characteristics of ber Ivrd with more or less affectionate commis- eration. But it {9 questionable whether one In a thousand of the numberless women who have obtained divorces from men they professed to despise really bave not in thelr hearts at the bitterest mgment of estrangement some remnant of.the love which first drew them to- gether, It is not possible for a woman to despise what whe hes once loved, uo matter how great a bluff se may mako at it. The attitude of the average ‘woman was well illustrated by a re- mark made the other day by a little otresa who had recently obtained a divorce from her husband who very Promptly married again, “I have a chance of going to London in two weeks,” he told the landlady of the dismal lodging-bouse where she now lives alone, “but I saw in the paper the other day that Jack has signed for New Zealand for next season and !f 1 go I may nover see him again. Another woman, not on the stage, but who was the wife of a well-known secured $11,700 and the loser has $7,200 with which to * Dahdage his hurts, For a fow weeks of training and a few moments of violent exercise the pugilist gets more than a college president earns in a year, more than he himself could earn in another fleld in @ period of years. He is practical, and he fights. Civilization is savage, and applauds. The police captains are to wear now “ids" on parade— and with chin-straps! Is it a hint for Jess chinning? Poe WOMAN AND THE WARRIORS, “Conquer me all Norway,” said Gyda the Beautiful to’ darold Fairhair, centuries ago, Harold did as he was id, and the hand of the beautiful one was his reward. The Japsnese princesses whose pictures The World Presented yesterday in its Sunday Magazine have not, perhaps, bidden thelr sword-bearing husbands to con- quer all Russia. But each of them expects her particular prince to do his whole duty in the battle front, and she will look upon him with very different eyes should he fail. If he happen to die in doing, why & will be for Japan and the Mikado, and therefore a glorious end. The women of our land have felt much the same way in our days of war. With their love and devotion have been mingled more tears than are shed in the East. It {s not a Japanese way, even among children, to weep. But, tears or no tears, the mothers and elsters of our land, like all mothers and sisters the world has known, have found courage when there has been need. It is not a grateful thing when woman advocates war. But it is inspiring when she urges men to their noblest in a war Inevitable, for the land. Doubtless the normal woman prefers always that her voice, rather thap tp -promptings to battle, shall be heard as Explorer Wal- Jace, saved from Labrador terrors, has just testified that it seemed to come to him in his delirium, giving com- fort and good counsel. A two-year term for Assemblymen fs proposed at Al- bany. All right—If the biennial session comes, too. HOSPITAL MONEY IS SLOW. New York does a great many things without stopping to think. -It is taking a very long time over the comple- tion of that $400,000 new endowment for Roosevelt Hospljal—a matter which should require no thought whatever. Those twenty-eight beds are still out of commisston. Tt is posgible that further retrenchments even may be necessary. Meanwhile any person who {s neglecting to do his little or much toward restoring the fall hospital service may be the very persan to arrive in an ambulance just after the last place in the active wards {s taken. In a public hospital, it {6 the unexpected which {s expected. The 1,452 emergency patients of January and February last at Roosevelt did not send cards ahead. The next 1,400 cannot announce themselves in advance. If ‘Public generosity ts slow, pubivc selfishness should de d to see that the home of “first ald” and further ep is always ready and ALJ, ready. Champion Jumper--Gen, Wood, assisted judictously ‘by the man considerably higher up, jumped over the heads f more than four hundred superiors. That he made a I 9 heads aché as be passed was an incident, the reapnd as champion jumper agems likely to im, {or Col, Mills 4a now bracing him- } to carry him over more than eight the Le ettempe matinee idol until his flagrant devotion to @ pretty actress forced her to eek @ divoros, still visits the theatre when he ts playing with the persistence of a stage-struck girl and actually hange about the atage door for a chance to see him come out, = * Women never despise their husbands, and, indeed, moat of them keep on lov- {ng them long ofter their self-respect should have killed every atom of the 14 affeation, “Can wives be made to abey—and tf 80, does the rest signify? “Evidently the constant reader fs not a married man Six weeks of wedded bliss with the meéekest of wives would have convinced him that women cannot be made to do anything—that 1s, unless they be- jong to the rapidly decreasing class who really enjoy being bullied, But, grasting that they could be made to obey, would the rest signify? ‘There wouldn't be eny rest. Any woman who can be forced to do any- thing against her will deserves no bet- ter treatment. And generally she gets what she deserves, The oply way to govern a woman wanthy of the name is by love, Be- fore the right word, the right look. the right touch of affection, the nor- mal an's most impn resolution fades into the alr and she becomes more tractable than the moekest child. Possibly the constant reader did not have his rude old maxim Intend to taken seriously. But let him be warned On the subject of wifely” Qbedience: Wives cannot be made to obe; “the rest” la everything. — SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. yy and HIS ARGUMENT, “So you are an advocate of vegetar- janism?” “For what reason?” “If I can persuade everybody else to ve on vegetables perhaps eggs and becf will become cheap cnaygh for mo to have all I want of thom.”—Wash- ington Star, THE BAD OLD MAN. “My! hpt the old reasonable grower! “You think so? “I know it. Why, he'a growlin' from mornin’ till night, an’ all on earth he has to do {s to pay all the bills for the family!""—Atlanta Constitution, COULDN'T LOSE HER. Ruth—Whither thou goest I will go, Naomi (aside)—Thie te the hardest woman to shake I ever saw.—Comfort, SWEET ECONOMY. ““Wetve got to coonomize,"” he sajd. "Do you mean that Iterally?’ she asked. “Ot course,” he replied. “Well, I'm glad of that.” she sald, “for you ysually mgan that I've got to oggo Pont. SOUNDS LIKE IT. “Has your father a bad colat* man's a most un- “No, Indeed, He ts merely roading Ruaslan-Japanese war news aloud.” feahinatan Rhee: Fray wives despise their] { husbands or not, it 1s doubtful whether| « ©05.06O60400540GO0-5F506-049-1400000O05OOODdOOO44OF5OH OF & o usa and frequent! @ BUT A at AND See repetition, it aball| iis GRANO AUD ba considered 4 ENCE DISAPPOINTED: BE! Nor PEEWER OOSS, DE $OOCO$O0 629920906: >» To-day’s $5 Prize ‘‘Fudge’’ » Idiotorial was written by Mrs. >Minna Desborough, 2460 Seventh avenue, New York City. To-morrow’s Prize ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial Gook, ‘‘The Gas Trust Must Raise the Price of Gas.’’ ? PESDOPERGS DOF T3 OS HSH09-9G9-HH 9 Bnd 3999603693088 The Great and Only THE MOST IMPORTANT LITTLE MAN ON EARTH. LADIES ANO Gents! IN THE THROAT, SIGNOR| JUST LISTEN To, TNAT | ANOTHER 1SH IMPOSITION iat PuBLiC: 7 1 NO, /T SHALL NOT! Mr. Peewee. Mr. Peewee Loops the Gap at the Circus. DE7-9-99-9O9099 09090 4 ANCLLOTT! 1S UNABLE «Vj TO Po His FAMOUS > lA \ Z LOOP THE GARING ¢ 4 ‘ GAP $ 29009009 MAGNELIUS vos A VONDE! L vos PROUVOT WHILE Lives} D $400> ao ee The Use of Mice in War. Save the Men! End the Confitet!| Copyrot. 190%, by the Ptanet Pub. Co PONDER — potats + 3 jou the economic advantages of what we short-sighted | @ call NUISANCES, +> 9200 Have you REFLECTED how MICE might be used to + i “stop WARS ? $ ] WE will tell you. MEN are economically WAST! Pa f] In wars. They can be better med in holding down é f] POLITICAL JOBS at home. But WOMEN, belng out of é ' Let women, therefore, be substitated for men tn the | =z Dresent Russo-Japanese war. Then let all the mice tn % Japan aud Russia be caught ALIVE and put tn bags: $ This will save much cheese and bacon. Let the bags be g brought between the two armies, and suddenly OPEN: The mice will SCATTER {0 all directions, So Bs hever come back. Thus the war will END. We THOUGHT this out ourselves, Read Glumdalkin, aud get thoughts of YOUR OWN. > PRIZE PEEWEE HEAD-® LINES for to-day, $1 paid foi each: No. 1, J. WILSON, 70 S. Third avenue, Mount Vernon, N. ¥.; No. 2, H. Lie THOMPSON, No. 15 West} Fourth street, New York City 3 Women as “‘Idiotorial Gook” Producers. To the Editor of The Evening World: Beeing that several other women have obtained prizes for ‘‘Idiotorial Gooks’’ I submit one. * © © Mrs. A. B, POTE, No, 32% Fay avenue, South Elizabeth, N. J. It would take nearly sixteen pages of The Evening World set In agate type to print the names of all the women of Greater New York and within 10 miles of it who have written clever editorial gooks for the Evening Iudge. Women have won almost one-half the $5 prizes. They find it easy to write gooks, and good gooks, too. No. 3, R. RUTLEDGE, No. 458 Broadway, New York? } City. $ COOOEHDOLIOIGHY $09036498O0G00O6 ‘Drawing Draw four circles, elther free hand or with a compass, ovals to indicate the eyes and a small circle to indicate the nose, in two slanting lines from the small circle to indicate the cheeks. the top of circle draw one continuous line curling at both ends to indicate curly Lessons for Young Gartoonists. No. 3—How to Draw a Comic Head. In hair. Draw line under nose from left check line to right cheek line for mouth, In figure 4 for the ears make two curved lines os In Illustration, Draw two small lines over eyes for eyebrows, Put some heavy dots In lower corners of the eyes and you have completed your comle head, LESSON NO. 4 will show the beginner how to draw.a cat, figure 1 add two In figure 2 draw In figure 3, over | KISSING--lts Vague Definitions. and Polysyllabic Perils. | 66 TO the average healthy citizen the practice of kissing includes infection. When the mucocutaneous in- ‘bestment of the lips presents one or more breaches of continuity, the danger 3, of course, indefinitely increased. But to such dangers there is super- added, in the case of the necropath, that of a shock highly injurious to the nervous system.”” Now, what do you think of that? When you Kissed or were kirsed, as the case may be, dear reader, had you the slight- est idea in the world that you were taking polysyllable chances of this sort? And yet pou were, for the New York Medtea) Journal, from which the above opening paragraph was taken, says s0 in Just so many words. Remember this whon next you kisy or are kissed. Tt has long been known to ethnologista that among many primitive tribes and caces the practice of klesing was un- wn. Among.the Lapps and Maoris rubbing of nose cooupted its place, The danger of insid:ous bacterial havo endeavored to explain all that un- deriies it have written bulky volumes sufficient in themselves to fill the shelf of @ fair-sized Mbrary. And still plenty ®& woman against her will she is i entitled to bite his nose if she pleases,” This ruling stands. and so those who yet learned that Kissing fs no joke had better be wary of thelr noses. A dictionary has defined a kiss as “A Treasure of the mouth against the But this és spiritless, even if aceural te. Tt would be Just.as satisfactory to define a picture as “a pressure of paint "It lenves untouched shole Indefinable plensure of Kles- the fact that it ts Indefinable being perhaps, its best excuse, The Romana had three kinds of Kisses which they termed oscuia, d ntacrn oar y, won WISE PERPUTS The practice of ip to Np salutation ) mended, Whenever you come you are was especially characteristic of English | received with a kiss by all; when you social life in Tudor times. Its unlversal| take your leave you are dismissed with employment was one of the things no-) Kisses; you return, kisses are repeated. | furious ticed by Erasmus during hie sojourn in| ‘They come to visit you, kisses again;| the food of adm nted on in| they leave you, you kiss them all m the ‘Here are) round. Should they meet you rhore, Kites in Rae beta | to the police, and has Fw: ane ETRE 7 RET RST a ING » WORLD'S # HOME # MAGAZINE. The Governor’s Chair versus The Machine. —_— ce SEE,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that Gov. Odell will probably resign late in the summer.” “If he takes charge of the machine to run it during the campaign he certainly ought to put his statesman cue in the rack,” replied the Man Higher Up. “If he does quit in order that he mey take the machine in hand openly, as he has done before un- der cover, it should be an object lesson to the people ot New York concerning the obligations a professional poli- ticlan feels toward the people who elect him to office. “Next to the Presidency, the office of Governor of New York is the most {mportant tn the United States The main squeeze of the Empire State is regarded by the people generally as a man of great power and ability, It {8 a job that carries with it whole bales of authority, and we have had Governors who considered it an honor to keep tab at Albany for nearly eight million people— almost as many as there were in the whole United States when George Washington was elected President. “That a man sbould deliberately resign the highest office In the gift of the people of the State of New York for the purpose of taking personal charge of a political 2 | machine shows the consideration he has for his job. It Goes to show that In his opinion there are plenty of men qualified to hold down the Governor's chair, but that he is the only man who can conduct the campaign for the Republican party, thus showing the people of the State that when they figured him to be the real goods for the Gubernatorial Stakes they were bum pickers out. “Of course President Roosevelt won't know anything about it. He is the man who talks Political purity and high {deals through megaphone; he is the most pro- nounced advocate of the principle of honor in politics and respect for the will of the people. It will be an unclubdby trick for Gov. Odell to throw down the Pres{- dent's {deals that way, and no doubt the President will ‘be real indignant, but he is so busy with affairs of state that ho has no time to pay attention to such trifling mat- ters as the spectacle of the Governor of New York sliding himself out of his office to take charge of the Roosevelt campaign.” “Is Odell such @ wondorful campaign manager as to make it necessary to the Republicans that he should handle the campaign?” asked the Cigar Store Man. “Well,” answered the Man Higher Up, “he ran his own campaign the last time he ran for tho office, and it it hadn't been that some Democratic leaders up-State were throwing knives on Election Day the name of the Governor would have been Coler.” MARTIN GREEN, A Lucky Find. An out-of-work clerk naméd F&ix Colbac picked up a newspaper from the floor of the post-office in the Rue de Grammont, Paris. On reaching home he found it contained banknotes worth $7,600 In an envelope. He took the money recetved $100 from the owner"und $2 from the police for his honesty. Wolves Ate Children. A report from Madrid states that at the village of Tore gano, in the Province of Segovia, four wolves came down from the mountains, and getting into the school premises, killed and devoured five children, besides wounding seven others very seriously. The villagers succeeded in killing only two of the wolves, The Size of Colombia, Colombia, exclusive of Panama, is os large as the twe States of California and Texas combined. Three high moun tain ranges cross the republic from north to south, making high tablelands between where the days the year round are scarcely hotter than those of a temperate zone. Her Weight in Silver. For a dowry Herr Duckatscheck, of Dusseldorf, gave his daughter a present of her weight in ellver.” At her wedding she was solemnly weighed in presence of the company. She was found to turn the scales at 140 pounds, and to be worth $2,800, A Diamond Trust. +,egotiations are proceeding between the Améterdam and Antwerp diamond merchants for the formation of a com- bination which will enable them to fight the De Beers mine, which controls the world’s output, and the London trust, which practically rules the trade. A Brave Deacon. At Georgetown, Demerara, a Methodist minister saw alarm in the eyes of his congregation. He paused in his sermon to find @ large tarantula on the ledge of the pulpit. Nobody dared move until a courageous deacon crept up be- [und the deadly insect and Killed It. Tricks with Dominoes. with domin: Here's a jolly trick you can girls, Place twelve of them in a circle and tell one of the players that you can point out any domino he thinks of. ‘This ts the way ta do it: Tell him you ‘will count around the circle, touching vari- ous dominoes, eash touch counting one. He must count your touches and when the number of touches plus the number of spots on the domino which he has thought of equals twenty he must say “stop.” Thé é domino last touched ARRANGE THE DOMINOES THIS WAY. 1s sure to be the one he had in mind. Hare is an example: Suppose ho selects the double-two. You begin touching various dominoes with your finger, silent- ly counting 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, as you go, When you come to § be sure to touch the dou%le-six démino, and then count to the right without skipping a single domino, The six-five domino will be * you vaderstand; the dou- 0," the five-four "11." and so on until you reach wo, There you will be told to xop, for the number ‘o| times) plus the numbor of spots on the dcuble-two domino (four spots) equals twenty, you see. ‘Now all you have to do fs to say: “This (the Gnidle-two) will say “You're right,” and he will wonder how you aa tf you ) nor even to look: