The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1904, Page 8

omnes THE w& EVENING # WORLD'S »# HOME w# MAGAZINE. #' | ©S0SO900 6455 H6640F44000O956600O96809O00640406O05 O4¢ | ® 90260600 coe & i _The Rapidtoodleum Has a Brush with an Automobile. 5900606000¢ 7ablished by the Press Pubifshing Company, No, 63 to @ { Patk Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Omee | at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 44.......0. sesesseeseeeesNO. 18,672. 8 IT . 50 You THINK CHEES! youka FAST EX? : Yom f You cL0s8 Your gust WATCH US PL TH AND TRAP OR ILL MAKE SBW BUTTONS ; ¢ IHIS FONT LOOK on var! zs Y i Are THE /1/00LE @ are , 4 ¢¥cLonwe! SUICIDE, ITS FIGURES AND FACTS. |< A child wife, rearried when she should be still in the grammar school, ends her life by swallowing acid in & Trenton. 4 A discouraged book agent tums on the gas and so dies in his room in Brooklyn. A young lawyer, crazed by a firé horror, blows out his brains in Long Island City. 7 Altogether, the local papers yesterday chronicled six. @ ‘iateaele efforts at self-murder and one attempt which 3% failed, | 19 1 It is a melancholy’ r . These.cases of voluntary 4 death are daily duplicated, and day by day we grow more hardened to the fact of their occurrence. They are “all in the lifetime’ of the news. Nevertheless it is still possible to make one pause by a contemplation of some aggregates in suicide. s . . * * ‘ ' t t 6 In 1891 there were recorded 3,531 cases of self- destruction in the United States. In 1903 the number increased to 8,597. 5 © Out of a population of eighty millions, eight and a half organi aeattered persons may be missed only in ‘ spots. One may reflect, however, that for such a F number of people to slay themselves is as though a whole town of the size of Annapolis, Md., or, almost, Long Branch, N. J., had by its own vote and will and act, all within a year, consigned itself to annihilation. That view of the matter is more Impressive, one may agres, *. ' i This Husband Not Worth A Wife’s Love. Ld tg bd be By fier Cob Lows WHERE OTHER PAPERS TEAO] In.the current number of the Independent, George] Nixola Greeley-Smith. - At Toorsie Yau P. Upton, a Chicago editorial writer, presents Many} near aise Praeieeed Dog! THis 1s AN interesting figures on suicide, both in America and] wha, Je your opinion.of shia kind of 7 3 chit, i road, Years old, nnd he Ja atiy yours ola He ome bd ¢ It is not to be assumed that the frightful increase in dave ne ike nia ha ter than’ & self-killings fs confined to this country, France shows| rica. woman" friend, thirty an increase in twenty-five years from a rate of 15.7] Rimumanente rocco anh “Gelinas ae per 100,000 of inhabitants to a rate of 22.4. Among] *lmant dally occurrences between, them foreign cities, rating by the 100,000, the Dresden latest | wite be justified In ica ing nim? sulci : metre are 51, el 42, Berlin-36, Vienna 28, ARICUB AES: Stockholm 27, London 23. Students of nations and conditions will draw their own inferences from the fact that it is Russta, the ped Ws eae country of oppression and depression, which shows no | {fs ise) coke "hopele ‘i increase in the suicide rate. 5 product of NewYork a * Py Cy ° ? ; life, the kind of Mr. Upton finds that in all countries suicides are ‘ Bouin soe aie more common among men than among wonten, ve Of 77,617 self-murderers recorded in this country in the thirteen years of which 1894 is the first, 57,317 ‘ Eslthe eftrantery to were men. But the increase in, suicide is greater among ¥ avow the sympathy women. Fifty years ago, five times as many men as| S¥a@rete with the principles, women killed themselves; twenty-five years ago the Cec rathery eek yet Mr. Peewee, Who Knows All About Dogs, Buys a ‘‘Purp”’ for Tootsie, ‘You EVIDENTLY DONT KNOW By Martin Gre«| 4 Re The One and Only Solution of the Servant-Girl Pre‘ SmAce FISHES qT] Ck SHE,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that M / Crane says servant girls have just three~ HK ry do little work, make a lot of trouble, / CHANNEL: 1$ IN. Y high wages.” { Lah Ledley fl ) f “What 1s the good man reaching for?” a | Man Higher Up. ‘Does he expect the servant ¢ | different from anybody else? The man who is | 3 itor work at low wages don't belong out in th) > | His place is in @h institution where the inma their brains au gratin. There is no resson why ti, age woman who has to work for a living sh] any different from the average men. | “The servent-girl question has existed eve the first of our prehistoric ancestors secured the § of & hired girl, and it will be a question to be m upon, latgely by people who don’t know anythin. The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. . "EVERY MORNING AND RETURN IN THE exh EVENING — ‘ : } them, professed the Latter. q ‘ proportion was three to one; now it is two and a half| sents enioh ne undoubtealy foci” | > It, long after the headstones over our grave are to one. The question which she oaks is at crumbled up and blown away. The sole reasc © It is also noted sadly that children are becoming, in ghee ee oldest and the ni in servant girls are execrated as @ class by emplo} | Pea swelling numbers, conspicuous in the lists of those who | Yor}—being old as the daze of Ive and employers as @ tlaes are in the two-spot divis: / Hise take thelr own lives. ; aiveros: pcan servant girls, 1s because the employers of serv) | ee te ‘A slight from a playmate, a reprimand at home, a] ‘There ts no doubt whatever that the(% | (qa 7m/TAFE WVERY TAIN G77 " are nearly ei] women. | } rebuke fae a teacher, envy at the success of a com- anxictia author of the letter has every | ® : r TDIOTORIAL PAGE 0 NG Fupe “You seldom hear of trouble with the femal ies Pacticahene are aiion the epremnetal oy 6 pe! takable manifestations of Mormonts axed oe) Ourexpertstave CO, a Gobel, restauradt or apertment-house run by « : A B lead boys) whether she should teave tim or notis,|@ | [Ej The Brooklyn Bridge Must Run f fouud that 100,302 yy ts the woman with one or two servants whote | | * and girls to seek solace in self-inflicted death. however, another matter. If it were not $ TI persons cross fhe ! =n of anguish resound in the public ear. Nine wi! | Do they also indicate the need for a little more |for the child she mentions ane need only ; Through a Tunnel, bridge BVBRY |! 6f oft ten have @ sub-cellar impression that the ser, intimate counsel and confidence as safeguards in the |C°m#wt her own tnolination in solving opyret, 1904, by the Planet Pri Oo AY. Outot these {4 is a sister of the ox, and nine servant girls 6 | homes? the problem. Dut on account of thin 2 Poaaer hh in | are treated accordingly. 4 ° : ° : © [renters the home which te uecoubredly DANGER of etng drowned—elther bythe briace treats | fof hay wena Sohteosing. that s woman she pe Shay undoubtedly ‘ woman t In the thirteen-year period just defined there have | threatened. Ing down or by these persons taking aft and Jumping off, | j ® |to ca do week around che Noss ab it foal i been among self-slayers in the United States 535 apes her husband realize what he ts ‘The ONLY WAY to remedy this evil is to.make the | / © |dome women are philosophical and finally pri:| physicians, 98 ministers and 61 attorneys—only those |Cnam at ang rete ang nome a pe Lata HR ag lear trie } $ Cokie Uke? Lonepa csNruni ty; ees loonie : of such prominence in their communities as to appear son, @ friend to both husband and mite z cans aldstelar berry bog roy AS et Was: ® | any eee Be See eed ne i in the general news being taken into account. should shave a wertous tlic with him and consequently there would be no chance for abridge | 4 “Probably half the women in New York wh;! | Causes of suicide, in numbers noted by Mr. Upton, | bit know that not only his wife but CRU! t > ? |servant gifls havé done their own housework son’ | : i : everybody knows about his friendship) @ SH like we have at present, i) © { até as follows: Insanity, 5,748 cases; ill health, 4,206; | for. the otner woman and that lt may THINK how many lives would be saved if we hada another—because they had to. You would th, domestic infelicity, 4,365; liquor, 3,459; disappoint. | oiumately reek hls home, lose tim his tunnel for the bridge to run through? \ those women would Kttow how to handle ser ~~ ments in love, 3,008; busin LE aaRO PPOMNt- | child and bring upon him the scorn, of et dee) | % |the contrary they are the very hardest taskm / é, 3,008; business losses, 1,389. gonwervative humanity, he might realize RBADERS, 0b, Fudge FAMILY of Readers! On next > \They ate the women wh 4) yp * hi iis way, 1 en who expect their kitchen | j eta Shere i self-destruction, 61,933 out of] The \chanee, thou @ slim one, ts geared we coma you LOMO begs | lto work fourteen hours a day, sleep on the tui), 47 victims in the years 1894-1903 inclusiv ju lose—as Wwe know you = kitehen at night, bring back a diagram of hi used elther poison or the pistol. Before 1894 nclye Ife tov sonelier in arhecner at SOMETHING BLSB to voto for. th |ments on hér afternoon off and chent a hymn °| was most in favor. Since then poison has headed tne {ide nats banter to (rake aA Our policy 1s merely td make our readers THINK i @ | when she gets her little old §4 a week.” : Li ed the) tran ‘fy to others that ahe knows. not| ‘ and DO THINGS, If thelr brains explode in thelr efforts “Whot ie the remedy?” queried the Cigar S¥ | i fatal lIst. The Evening World has heretofore called | of. Te je not Detter for hernelf and fo it does not worry us, @ |, “here ts no remedy,” answered the Man Hi | ‘ the attention of the law-making authorities, not without | 2" child t9 remain with her, husband ‘ “the Brooklya $ | “If the mén of the house would be allowed to ' | , Of course she need not consider him in You ask WHAT has'that:to:do with'the s reason, it may be observed, to the ease with which| ¢ Bridge? AP raat antl TLR lice setg) Vee tepid Gober | carole acd may be obtained in the city drugstores. ‘whi Nothing! Absofutely: NOTHING: Any more than Se euRL et ne ee i Me Upton oints We ceportimlty of the chemists to} fiat Thenwould nich he these {dlotorials have to do with unfrizzicd brains, i : “| discover some antiseptic of equal efficiency and fue We Nine ud ae cla the Forgot His Own Tongue. jeapness. actual attempt to do so is another A recent traveller in arctic Siberia, Mr. Vanderiip, Of those persons who shunned pistol and polson,| “fer home, her statua es a married ee ee ore actin cb: iad) Camus ee ety tise 2,976 hanged themselves, 6,091 took to drowning, | soman.,!#,@ protection to her trom the found that half @ doxen of thé oMfcers and mén of the 4447 the knife, 809 jumped in front of Was MH aummor Of Ait mankind oa va one, Th - © ler we ey Calne) had sent for me had come t | ¥ ial , ¢ a ° 5. i y ‘ , : . mé up. The captain jounted and I tried to addr: | motives, 795, ea ed fon ee and windows, 294 in val ® To-Day’s $5 Prise ‘‘ Fudge ’” Idiotorial Was Written by William Klein, No. 272 Cherry Street, New York City. | in Rueman, wut he atid: "Fou forget that I pak | so f ami rere ol In the individual pathg to the hosting Gymamiite and'237 found | Raking eine Al tie aside trom | PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for today—#1 paid for each. No, 1=M. L. NUSSA, No. 194 Prospact Pisce, Arookiyn: No. ¢—JOHN DUNN S bey ae eed aeakoe parr ened ddd ia Bets. i ou i . . an more disngreentbte thing No, 418 Bast 16th Street, N. Y. City; No. 8—WILLIAM A. CALDWELL, No. 511) Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn. @ | nim in my native tongue. I had not used a word lek ‘ a Monin aan : ne made | § conversation for months, and my low physical condi ‘ Such are some of the facts and figures of suicide, | ine husband In thin ense will elener| © Monday’s Prize Fudge Idiotorial Gook, ‘‘Why Our Citenlation Exceeds 80,000,000 Copies Daily.” | ng on my nerves, confused my mind and I apoke a i Their importance for serious study can scarce be denied, pant the other woman or she will tire Seas * of Kngllsh, Russian and Korak. It was a week & : OSSOOEHHLOSOSS: $404O$0460606090O96OO $$060666 600604000004 ‘ 6666 could talk geod, straight English again.” { be [ CHORD; ” the Baffling Mystery of the 4 Wonderful Detective Stoi A a haley J arnegie Ha urder. é oe ie ie thet @ warrant's only good fer the) his life a : ‘ B Alb State tt's made out in. I bellev * 6 been in danger; but Hever orice| hts keenest fueulties of eelf preserva-|enatch the bogus warrant from the| Rushing just ahead of his pursuers ine ‘Move’ on, now," threatened’ ¥s ert P =e - leve you're had @ méré pélicaman overmatched | ton, policeman and thrust it into his owa|to the dhed and ‘petwedtt two | liceman, cholerically, “before 1° : y ayson Terhune. | Sour gamers we than Tam. What's) hin, He felt for the moment almost] The policeman and hts double convey! pocket. Buit the delay was wellnigh | otrs, be made for one ‘of tha tow doors |in, too" ; oe | As he spoke he threw back the In- whbes Wiki ae tak SrASty tatertoe the aie fen er a the Baliarot | cael cos Bial pies of coneaken YF ie "Shearer FES ee NES tate } . s immeasurably 16 long fight of steps. if it t eee ee ge) Seen ublist Ing Co, (New York World) Leas el ararneats coat to his own. ‘Whatever was to be done by The tee saa teprene on Sle py west sig of his fofemest pursurar he shot the f sus Move on. I want to get this man to} wnot ey hought,”" he exciaimed,| “It is my own folly,” he thought| BngMehman must be done at once. Quick as he was, The Engilshmen | belt. 8 | the station house," rela er @ baden 1 Gon't khow just| wrathfully, “But for my eoncett in| The policeman was walking between| was quicken A left-hander in the mouth| Barely tive seovnts before the Fy i For ansiver, the policeman pocket-| then ycun aaa Is, Qut It'll take you to| wanting to erow over Beckwith and|the €wo, The Inglishman being on bis| sent the pollceman back against the|Sommbined shoulars of the two pollés-| the policeman treated his ru} | Big |e@ the warrant. bah satisd oad Lod right, An@ this|Gresham, I'd have told them this plan| H@ht, As the latter had shown no| wall, Ho reooveréd himself at onoe, but | Men Rad ofmahed the Gost th. 0 @ disgusted glare ff j {the Bulobey i of, “Give that back to me," commanded| wieneay ¢ bluftin’ ll go along as, of mine and_they’d have explained this; signs of fight the biuecoat was not ex-,not before The Englishman had dashed; But that brtet interval waa Ligh § G wire the funny man at + } with, two. detectives, are disc The Englishman sharply, “What on} “"** warrant bushess to me. fn Bhgland a| peoting trouble. through the (dle cfowd that hud begun|@wftlotewt, For, seateh a they vil o onbeen OF mo ghey re Joined by a ta f; th Is the matter?” he wondered un.| Th@ Englishman, seoing that he haa| Warant made out at Scotland Yard ts] Suddenly, on the fourth atep trom the} to collect, and passéd through tie én- no wigh of The Dngiwwmnan Gould troy Cheb: place?” he sneered, "Chase itd aad 9 mado too grave ai error to permit nig| offective in every corer ct the Britiah| Bottom, The Hhglishman's foot éppat-| trance out into Montgomery street find. Pen tiFen re: 90m! WHIP 90 Be tone "Thi warrant’—hoxan the polteeman, | CtInance of the role of Central Omee| Iles. How Was I to know that these) éntly slipped, he plunged awkwardly] 11h ptirmuet was staredly a yard be- A lars crowa Aad by hid Utte gett. Thateda, of tellowing this ad: 3 Well,” Interrupted The Bngilahman,| @&? trled a new tack Yankees restriot the power of a war-| forward and, owing th the grasp Of hind him, and a second policeman jolfi- ered in front of the caf stables, and] ola countryman slouchtd norosa th | nl tvs romular And correct famt ites | “Look here, officer,” ne wihsporea, {Pant to the mere State in which It/the officer on tits letearm, wins sterply ed in the chase as Gid # halt doseh the battled offiderd were treated t6 & mats evOgnt 8 Ubkee to Ni “AN rog'lat ah’ erect,” assented the| “thla {= Just n joke of mina. Help me| hapnens to be issued? But what a/ to the lett, . bystanders, Good amount 6f guyits. ereeant went one tetas? policeman, “The only thing the matter| Ot on it and it's $10 in your"— godsend the North River ferties must! ‘The aharp tug had pulled both Bat-|” : “Where's your other * tne | Bt oat. a with It t# that it's a New York w: “Cut tt ov dered the poll be to New York eriginals! In Eng-|Ierd and the policeman furvver, and) A¢tos# Montgomery street, dodgin&} quired an old countryman. “the Aise- art ‘Was a pretty close fll | ; rant and youre weevin’ We in Jeraeye| tersely. “The Capt'n at our atationta and Wee bei & law In a hurry that} owing to the direction ‘The Hngivehinan's |! aye el cir ua tes ie caer t en yay eth “4 a Bie cept fe seat | “Well,’ said The B o juld shut off #uoh & splendid an jersey ‘oth te rt to e ras fy order that echoed the bluccoat, " “t pahecage, that ‘How| ud to him. gligeman whe | tong have you bean on the force not| Catching The Hnglishman and Royco| “Vt cone éroolk who crovess to New! in front of ts t¥o companions, against | Tt wae Ne Ares vial to tersey Sie, ON) Th aie dtevcd het Newtnan started angity, | BEMIANG CArTI¢N Wo cacr\aiy fh ai { nsoy as to get a London refuges whol tis berrier they stumbled before elther| a strange land he wad tying to eseaps| Th the put¥ult of ThA Bugllebman and) The ext thal eit | A ‘o ued, capturs, he fika quite forietten Royce - to ki vy that No Yi y ‘ana’ brent he” ihe: ora dee a ee paver each by an arm, he started es to Franee But unless r aoloould fecsvet from the forwafa im-| from tien whowe home-ground it was.| the hopes of protidtion for bo eldvér a Mou'ed Witsoe abet Gh HOS" dint Gece otter ee eae eeOrY | a ing quickly my hopes of dis-| gets which The Bigdhman's sudden | Another fugitive would have fied aim- ri i . you?| street. Tho Englishman walked meckl:) goverlng the Ballard mutdéter ete at] misstep had caused. lessly, WOWld hive tried to double and| Ballard. The latter tid takén e@vah-| . . Music, this forgettuifiess, 10 Sa he added susptet ; Engithtuan Reddenes Pals arate sth bakit offering no resistence or remon-| an ond, end my name will become the] ‘The (#6 fell in @ profane, Awkward| would most infallibly beve boda catgtit| tage of ioe ¥ vats tot for the caroling 'f tHe knowledge of the error be had| Never bat (laughing. stock of two continenta” — | tangled heap at thé foot of the stairs,| tn short order. away unobserved and board @ Cortlandt! Of song birds, light and ¢) ~| tnde, “hehe attt & ood or a decent’ eas fore in all his varied ex-| Like most geniuses The Englixiiman ‘he Hinglighman Seing uppermost was oh the contrary, ran| street boat ¥ 16¥6 the cackle of the her/ fort tiee| in tstth Whtae OOMIREG ceed Cat Gabe! Coen ce tae ee With n was particularly sensitive to ridicule, |inrst to extricate himself. car stables Giagonally| “Guess the pait of ‘um wan too Hior's io the Anevt tay. =| i : Gilémma Ue this, Many a tima hed’ Mbis latter ceom therefore, emakened sa dalaved only long enouh to , |” "ee gimp- aint” jeaved the elé-countsymen, —Washingte: a ‘ 2 a - \ v 1 k f peace » 3 3 2 el } Ce ESA ey tet ae oe By