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APRIL 14, 1904, Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @! . Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Omce | at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. —————$< $< $< $< < $< $ $< VOLUME 44........0 cceeeseeeesees NO. 18,874. | | “SELFISH? ADOPT A BABY.” ‘Are you unmarried and selfish? Adopt a baby. | The suggestion is from Miss Mary Vida Clark, who} has been addressing the Universalist Woman's Alliance, in town. If the remedy is good for you, it will almost, certainly be good for the baby. ‘Presumably the advice will be just the same if, in: less and selfish. Miss Clark had a friend whose girl friend married, When the first little one arrived in the bride's ‘home the | spinster adopted a child. for consolation.. When the young 4vife was twice a mother the single friend adopted a second baby. In the finality, the wife had -five children and the spinster an adopted family of seven. that the unmarried heroine founded her tareer on} » selfishness. It is urged that bachelors may adopt as well as spin-| sters. Miss Clark has no stories on this side of the matter. There have been some in books. * * * * * However, let us note that in various New York insti- tutions there are about 35,000 children being cared for 4 as foundlings. In the United States at large there are about 100,000. These children are not all of the very tender ages which make the strongest appeal for adoption. But there are thousands of babies in the number, and the mortality among these is very large—chiefly for want of “mothering.” / Nothing to make a jest of when we come to such ' facts. Little ones dying in groups because there is mone of the gentle coddling and “tucking in’ that comes to babes in homes. The public nursery provides ¢are; it cannot provide that missing something. Are you selfish? * : * * * * a * The bachelor can mislay his garments, or lose a ‘collar button, and swear a little, and, during the day, Forget it. A spinster, of course, mislays nothing and ‘forgets nothing. So the mother by adoption will have advantage over the father by adoption in the matter of fact that— ; The adopted baby cannot be mislaid and wil not be forgotten. Nevertheless, no seeker of the living cure for selfish- Ness will expect. to find the role of pseudo-parent free ~ from trouble. For compensation, there is the growing up of the child. There will be an unfolding worth fol- lowing, other things being equal. Says an authority in child culture: sdnysically, there is no question that in the case of very Young whildven the advantog: wholly on the aide ut theif cave in famiffes. Mentally, children under six or seven years of see learn largely by gmitation, Thetr development! in a family is much mo oriflat, rapid and all around, * The home is the child-blessing. It induces a sense of locality and belonging, provides a centre of dove and * yesponsibility, sets a standard of personal living. It is something to assist in these results. \ * * * * * “Too few babies,’ says Dr. Parkhurst. _ babies without “mothering” appears to be an equally +’ pertinent crv. So into the question of race suicide is "\ fitijected the issue of the child adopted and the child left ; ‘ io the tender, but not suiticient, mercies of the insti-| tution. we _ | ‘In France, in‘the year 1900, the deaths exceeded the! » births by 20,330. In Germany, the same year, the | “ pirths exceeded the deaths by 795,000. Moltke has been, quoted in connection with these figures: “In this ‘way Germany wins a big battle every year.” \ ~ New York's births, between 50,000 and 60,000 per year, now slightly exceed the deaths. Improved} we Bod ‘ rate, have gone their best for this condition, Shou'd! we witness a still further and marked imprayement if Miss Clark’s advice to the selfish, given at large, were to be followed in wholesale? The waifs would have their “mothering.” they live to be glad and to make gladness? ¥ A baby in the home it loves, good cheer to-day, Daby from the home that has loved it, good cit morrow. Are you selfish? Would “Bkyscrapers in Genoa.’ Shades of Columbus! A twentieth weniury explorer might sight a now world from the roof and never gv to sea at all, Graft and Grab are brothers in the family of Greed and, too remotely related, the Jail SOME ETHICS OF THE FUR, When is a luxury a necessity? When it is a Persian lamb coat which a wife buys gp her own account and a husband has to pay for out of bis account. Casv of Bonis, fur dealer, versus Lubotkin, gpealthy flour merchant, decided in City Court. * a principle of marital partnership seems to have fbeen equitably settled so far as the wife and the fur @ealer are concerned. But not all husbands are wealthy flour merchants, What's the grind. It is interesting to note the question raised in the *jatest meeting of the New York M. E, Conference: : How shall a sealskin wife be clothed on a muskrat ye PWhose hore thieves th upper New York are making the ‘of the days before the horscleas ag eereercrre a8 stead of being single, you happen to be married, child- | é This is a beautiful true story, but it is hard to believe | ¢ Too many | , methods and modern sanitation, reducing the mortality |of doing this ts to be D-DD Inhumanity |! 2Od 04 The Rapidtoodleum Makes a New a THE w EVENING w WORLD'S 2 HOME # MAGAZINE. Woman's | The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. Mr. Peewee Accepts Miss Vida Clark’s Suggestion and Adopts a Baby. Pe QPORLD AD PHDDDDOELO RD 2 O40 PP PODI@®OAAIDD® at for Little Mabel. W GUNCN OF LETTUCE, m AOL 8? LOBSTER, M47: AVOn/niSE, SOE GREEN PEAS, Gown #/54 IND aaae oF way! to Woman. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. i YES. CHILOREN > ROM time to SALL LOVE F time various] & S How coute letters have reached The Even. World asking of the sourtesyand even in= humanity displayed by women in thelr! ¢ relations with each| { other be discussed and criticised, “Please write ssme- thing about the rudeness of women to other women In the street cars, in shops, and especially to women employed by them or under them,” 14 the cry, or: "Write about what saleswomen In the big stores have to put up with.” Apparently there Is a very general reaentment by girls working In the de- partment stores of the attitude of wom- en clistomers toward them, and one git! me the other day: don’t mind the men, for every one] 3 of them bas a soft apot in his nature td FOND O| AMISO FORD. S THEY Buy AFUDCE AND GET A_AED SUDGE “SIRLS, —a-FStLae WHERE OTHER PAPERS LEAS] ig 1OEA ADVANCED Miss CLARK THA yy, THE EVENING FUD6! Higher Up By Martin Green. — A: "1904 Legislature’s Saturnalia of Graft Is No Debut: of the Legislature in Albany is winding up in @ eaturnalia of graft.” “It always does,” answered the Man Higher Up. “This is no debut. For as many years as an olé man can remember the closing days of the Legislature have been sessions of boosting grabs and strangling bills’ antagonistic to the corporations that have been presented by the people with franchises worth billions of dollars. The newspapers explode headlines, editorial writers get dizzy with denunciation, mass-meetings are held in spots and charges of bribery bounce from one end of the State to the other. “Then comes the long summer season, and in the fall the free-born American voter, with his ballot in his hand, exercises the sacred right of siiffrage and elects the same ; | old gang to the Legislature again. Most of the states- “] SEB,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that the session and any girl with tact can find It and get on with him, But the women are nearly all hard and rude and overbear- tng.” ie ,, Personally, 1 have met a good many | + women on matters of business and have | ‘ found them much easier to deal with | than men, and almost without exception | courteous and obliging. But If they are notwithstanding gen- erally rude In their business déalings with other women, the explanation lies | it the very complaint. ‘This gil) took, and girls generally | ake, the trouble to find the soft spots} In a man's nature, as she They. show men that thoy .) please them, and con: do please them. Hut when two women | meet as buyer and se! the attitude the one Js “J must show her that I am better than she is," and of the! 3 other, “I'm quite as good she is and) Ui Jet her know it" 4 In other words, the attitude of each that of looking for trouble, and, quently, they generally find it Women only think tt necessary to define their social position to each other, A woman buying from a man} rrk doew not think {t necessary to snub or browbeat him into a due sens vf subordl on; nor does it occur te bu, “ man ng from a young girl that he must make her feel her supposed In ority He doesn't feel it himself The average soc! York Is so uncert often she ean on! hersolt of it y trying it on others, her hes she feels for the nonce that she is all . Where positions are fixed elety leader walks a wid stend of a ti! less to ¢ and the exalted pl prefer the che Burop remember, SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. NOT IMPRESSIVE. “A Justice court marriage doesn't seem marriage at all.” Bloomingdale Hospital, White Plains, N. Y.; No. 3—A, W. HARRINGTGN, No. 32 Vesey Street, New York City. i To-Morrow: ‘‘How Some of Our Readers Explain Our Circulation—85?,411,444 Per Minute.” What Is the Telephone Number? # #% # men in Albany have been there longer than the furniture in Garry Benson's ‘Tub.’ They are part of the scenery. “If an official of the city nicked the Treasury for a million plunks the chorus of taxpayers singing a demand that he be sent to jail for lite could be heard on tit banks of the Delaware River. Direct robbery would bit the people right where they live. But when the men they elect to look after their interests in the Legislature stand up In plain sight of the populace and give away franchises beside which a million of mazuma would look like the bank-roll of an organ grinder the silence of the public is so thick you could lose yourself in it. “The memory of the people is as short as a pollt!- clan's conscience. The newspapers do all they can to keep the voters posted about the grafters in the Legis- lature, but it is Ilke teaching elocution to a class of deat mutes, The corporations have lawyers and lobbyist: keeping tab on the Legislature, but the only case keep ers the people have are the reporters, and they have te work under the double wrap that comes from the con sclousness that the people don't give a loud exclama- tion how the game goes.” “May be the Governor won't sign the grab bills,” sug- s gested the Cigar Store Man. “You ought to be happy,” replied the Man Higber Up “with such a sunny, optimistic nature,” GOSPLEIS @ Rivne | By the Passercty. Many thousands ( of our enormous Family of Readers | askus dally: “ ( Is your circulation | GREATER than the Population of the { , United States?” We are surprised that these readers do not THINK more, It fs BECAUSE while we are sitting up waiting for: the other papers whose best features we STEAL or | IMITATE, we get out our DREAM BOOK and that docs the rest. It ts easler to tmitate than to originate, and we bes tes in TAKING THINGS easy. It's a Pudge-y way we ve. The DRUGGIST who offers you something “Just as good" as you ask for fs a crook,.BUT, In journalism, it's different, fi A circulation of aver 80,000,000—DON’T wake us up I—covers a multitude of SKIN GAMES. i The Evening Fadge will give a truckload of red trading stamps to the person who gets to this office Tastee a new, successful newspaper feature to Why Our Circulation Exceeds 80,000,000 Copits Daily. “Copyrot. 1904, by the Planet Pub. Co. cting with eae persons bet hohe t . > eee renee aa aan Headies PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for To-Day, $1 Paid for Each: No. 1—WILLIAM BINNIE, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; No. 2~PHILIP REILLY, © Introductory. AGE READER: Leave awhile the gooks tu prose, Which fragrant extras strew beneath your nose, Forget the head-line polyglot of war, Carbolic spasms and the gaseous snore Where one by swallowing, one by, breathing. dies “And fips his eoul to (Hades or) the skies; Forget the splutter of our frowsy courts, ‘The ladies’ pool-rooms and their tawdry sports; f Forget the daily scramble, whoop and crush From start to finish In the race for “cush,” Nor yet by politics be led askew, But with Jerome do as Jerome-uns do; And deign a space to mumble in your eye The rhythmic Gosplets of the Passer-by. Coe His be the plensant privilege each day At once your nose and nosiness to stay, ‘ ( “With quips and cranks” your “wreathed smiles” to win, Nor, carping, censure chestiness as sin. Rut still with flattery flavor your cigar Or Ice the high-ball better than the bar. ‘Ah! rest assured, should he not always flatter His business ta, like wily Cohn’s, the hatter, Chiefly the favoring angle to reflect, 99S 9990090900992 | No; it’s Just Vike a law sult, and you : ‘And, if he smirks, to make it seem respect; [have the feeling ail the time that an Ifthe condemns, to comment on the price, cppeal lies to a higher court whet ‘And make a trade at last, by truth or Les, uv & you beeomo dissatisfied with the v Met.'—Chieago Post Now: Guess This Yourself. ‘To-morrow, then, turn to the Passer-by | PROPOSALS, 666 06s6ees Your luminous nose—beg pardon, sir—your eye! “A man feels, tke a fool he. ts - _ 2 et “ xe = “ proposing to a girl,” said the contding i 5 ra ” 2 LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWBRS. ¥ # coving es Yes," answered Mins Cayeme, “ands v . A Copenhagen despatch toile a @ Dano who has inventes, and " 4 ton felt. ; some of the ut feol that way fact, she js the only one Tgeem to think | between me and thee when we are ab-) mothers are there who continually tell] ® new serllitary, 4 Seen the casein Sire may e niany vears after whe han acceptealT of, ant 1 think if T do not get some] sent one from another.” their children to use only the right| be some new me eas Dus: felt tents him."—Washington Star from renders I will be a ft aca Gun’& maliey! hand? Why ; My gre not a new device. They played thelr part in Eastern | z'8. nd? Why? Simply because the left Maca gumalentig) tare: toi hers i PLENTY OF POOR STUFF. ¢ Bloomingdale Aaytum be- | 5 146 maior af The Evening Warld hand’ seems to be the natural one to| history nt a date Wik Mily ee oe imvanscaspia, eels “But do. you think,” asked the visitor pore te Readers’ kindest and best! What clrous was playing. here last| use. Why. when meting a dear friend, | recollection. The FA yatl bil DAN ose cog A tn the local option thet Auivt this matter would be greatly| year, Porepaugh & Svils's or Barnum | qo we shake Nght hands? Would it not] seok further, have used tents of felt for ages. The use of tn ‘the local option town, "that pro- lao the Biltok of The bvenine World appreciated, M, R. ley's? €. 8. |e more proper to shake the left hand,| them had a curious effect upon a Russian expedition thirty \ Mixvell" Teplled. the. native, “1 See ameroie ig honese Meanings et «(Misp' More “Left-Handed” Testimony. | ay that Is nearer the heart, the place| five years ago. Gen. Lomakin assailed the stronghold’ of thy | Paucanw: tran peuinecthel te Streamer aveho Je, Ignorant of my| ro the ldltor ut The Evening World To (he BAitor of The Evening World. fom which affection springs? Right-|‘Tekkes and fired In terrific volleys of grape and shell among —{ * vents a Aa tung the bast tion, She e¥.dontl. mes from aj what the translation of the word What fs all this talk about left-| handedness ts simply custom, tht the tents of felt. But no serious damage seems to have bee, of whiskey. but Jt doesn’t prevent the good fasnily. Tam only @ yousg! “migpah” when, for example, thacribed [banded people being awkward? Was| ry i does not show @ superior in-| Gone, and when the troops attempted the storming of 11, whiskey from getting the.best of him."'| business man, This young woman s/o a gift? J.B, Kk. | Adam right or left-handed? Who HARMON, ¢ i a ei telleol ‘Fa. | felt encampment they were repulsed and fled in wild panic, ‘hiladelphia Press. [ms my mind from morn until night. In! “\tispah’ signifies “The Lord watch'knowst How wany fathers and’ loomaburg, Fax | A 3 ; / 4 j oat 3 ¥ bet 1