The evening world. Newspaper, April 21, 1904, Page 14

IN HATE ATER TURPIN x Company, No. 63 to @ New York. Entered at the Post-OmMce York as Second-Class Mail Matter. +-NO. 18,584. Park Row, at New — VOLUME 44.. | The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The ¥ Evening World in March, 1904...... 1,50134 Number of columns of advertising in The { Evening World in March, 1903...... 1,032 | INCREASE............ JOO’ No other six-day paper, morning or evening, in New | York EVER carried in regular editions in any one month | such a volume of display advertising as The Evening World carried in March, 1904. ee eee WwW. C. T. U. VS. SUNDAY BASEBALL. The Woman's Christian Temperance Unica is going to make a vigorous protest against Sunday baseball in New York. At the mere idea of such a profanation the W. C. T. U. quivers collectively with righteous indignation. To think that in the twentieth century, in a civilized metropolis, there should be a demand for a game which would actually allow people to enjoy themselves on Sunday! It is enough to strike horror to the soul of any W. C. T. U. member! * Of course there are some who, with the cunning of great wickedness, argue that Sunday baseball only Affects those sons of iniquity who consider the first day in the week as appropriate for pleasure as any of the other six; while it in no way interferes with those children of righteousness who consider Sunday set apart tor sad faces and utter gloom. f These special pleaders in the cause of sin go on to 3 point out that many hundreds who pass a healthy afternoon in the open air at a baseball game would otherwise spend it in the foul atmosphere of a Raines- law den, with drunkenness or worse as the result. All this, however, the W. C/T. U. scornfully waves aside as mere plausible sophistry. It wants to stick to the indisputable fact that to hit a sphere of rubber ‘ covered with horsehide with a long piece of wood on the first day in the week is sacrilege; to watch such a misdeed is mortal sin, and that the souls of would-be spectators must be saved despite themselves. The only trouble about the W. C. T. U. is that it looks as though it were forming a new trust—nothing less than a monopoly in salvation. ‘The “ethereal mildness” of gentle spring does not appear oF Jn the adjectives used to qualify this particular spring. A s — ee | THE FACTS ABOUT KNAK. & ‘The sternum, or breastbone, 1s one of the strongest in ae, the human body. The ribs, attached to it by yielding ve | cartilages, are very clastic. Yet, when on March 21 Lud- mig Knak was found dead in the hospital on Warc’s Tsland, with his breastbone and ribs smashed, !t was guggested that perhaps Knak might have fallen out cf Ded, poor fellow! Just one month ago to-day, and not even a “firm first etep” has been taken to find out what really did happen to Knak and to punish whoever was responsible. ‘There are considerably more than 126 hospitals, pub- Me and semi-public, in this city. It is one of the proud- est triumphs of civilization—a fine thing to boast of, if ou will—that the poorest man can get in them, free of harge, as good care and attention as the most luxurious home of wealth can possibly command. The 3,800,000 people of New York support the hospitals, and any one of those people who reads these lines may need thelr help to-morrow. It is bis right. Be, ‘Mr, Jerome has promised that the Knak case shall @ot-be considered as finished. Finished it {x not! ‘Zhe poor common soldier in the Czar’s army or the sailor “before the mast” cannot “resign” like Alexteff, 3 BANKS,” NEW JERSEY, GOV. ODELL. "Phe Federal Bank has failed, with considerable debts and assets"that cannot be found. The Globe Securities Company closed at the same time, with assets for about half of its million tn debts. Both concerns were managed by the same men. Botli took the money of the poor. The Globe Company, organized in New Jersey, lout money on chattel mortgages, sold the accompanying notes and, it {s charged, failed to turn over to the buy- ere the partial payments made by the borrowers, so that these poor people had to pay twice. ‘The bank, whose name of “Federal” was meant to deceive people into believing it a national bank, had a branch on Grand street, with an ex-Alderman as man- ager and poor people in the nefghborhood as depositors, y Inn’t organizing companies like the Globe pretty small : business for New Jersey? And if Gov. Odell’s other duties as Governor do uot keep him busy, why does he not stir up the State Bank- fing Department, instead of taking a job as campaign A Western raflroad has equipped special! cars for quiet game.” The need of a travelling Id is at once POLICE QN “L” PLATFORMS. Fourteen special policemen have been placed on the of the elevated railroads to protect passengers | It 4s promised that twenty-five men will be detailed ) this service within a few days. There should be more twice as many. discomforts, the danger, too often the coarse in- which women and young girls who work for their ‘have had to endure in the “rush hours” on ele- are such as no one can conceive who eed them day after day, year after year. surface lines have the protec- lue at all the busiest have a right to Is Beauty, or the back of It, a Crime? \ By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ing to a story ]I in yesterday's paper, a movement on foot among wo- HERE !s,nccord- sonal beauty, which It is clatmed is now a large factor In |the fixing of salaries, Miss Elsle Diohl, the ohief organizer of the movement, was quoted as saying: “Take a girl of ruddy cheeks, ruby lips and pearly teeth. She goes to work in a big office downtown. P |instead of reporting at 8 or 9 o'clock morning and quitting at 6 or 6, i she comes down to her work at 10 or 11 and gocs away at 4 It’s the pearly teeth, the winsome smile. “But what happens to the anaemic girl? She works early and late and hard and gets small wages. We want to establish a uniform rate for a cer- tain olass of work, “When @ giN really receives a good salary now It Is becat she has charm- ing and winning ways, I know because I have had this expertence. I have gone many a time to an office In response to an advertisement and been refused work," All of which in undoubtedly true. But to the unprejudiced mind {t would seem that a far better remedy for the !n- equality would be not to lower the general wage soale to what mere man Is willing to pay for mere work, but to raise the average of personal pulchri- tude so that all may share in the re- ward of beauty. Possfbly such trifles as the pearly teeth and ruby lps specified in the ar- raignment of the pretty girl should not welgh against aterling merit, which, be Jt said nevertheless, 1s not always com- plicated with anaemia, but so long as the Immense majority of employers is of tho masculine gender they always And therefore !t behooves the sufferer from impoverished blood to take a tonic, tp walk and breathe properly, to array herself becomingly, to do her hair the right way, and, in- stead of wasting time worrying over the superior advantages of the pretty girl, to be a pretty girl herself. ‘They can do ft; for, to begin with, not one woman in @ hundred ts really pretty, This does, not mean merely that not one in @ hundred possesses a clas- slo regularity of features or of bodily proportions, It means that the average woman pronounced good looking !a al- most wholly lacking in the essential elements of beauty—save good health— the effect she produces to sartorial and other- within the reach of every one. Before pronouncing any woman beau- tiful one must look upon an untouched proof of her photograph. If ahe sur- vives that suprome ordeal of the cam- era vente herself could do no more, But while genuinely beautiful women are rare, We meet women who by taste in dress and hatr-dressing create the Miusion of tt every day. And the girl who finds that h of beauty in- terferes with her tonal advan; ment should st y giles about her and study herself that she may make the moat of her good points even as they do, Most women are made or marred_by the way they arri thelr hair, The pompadour has in the last ten’ years probably made more pretty women than were ever born. But it has also marred the appearance of many to whom it was not becoming, but who wore it because It was the fashion, If the anaomio girl in business will do her hair properly, walk and sleep enough and eat proper food, which does not moan expensive food, dress beoomingly and foreswear that’ most hideous of dressmakera’ inventions, the choker ool- lar, she will not have to worry over the greater consideration in which the pretty girl is held, for she will be a pretty girl herself, LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS e Barnum & Batley's, To the Pxlitor of The Evening 14. What clrous appeared at Madison Square Garden in the year 1903? C, M. Hints for Divers, | To the Editor of The Evening World | In this age of sciontific progress | diver ia subject to unnecessary danger and discomfort, not even laving a tele- phone tn the diving helmet,’ rellance being placed on a signal cord, A bulky. helmet 1s used where a lighter one could be employed, offering the necessary |Feaistance, the difference in weight be- jing made up by lead weights which | need not necessarily be .a part of the |untform, as ts now the case, but could be dropped by a simple device, causing | the diver to come to the surface, where |he could obtain fresh alr by smashing the glass in his hotmet, If the latter |were not equipped with a device for such an emergenoy. It may also be |interesting to know that a tank of |compressed air will sink several feet | (demonstrated in torpedoes), and a diver could conveniently carry enough with him to matntain life for an hour or longer in the event that supply be interrupted, AMBIDEXTROUS, People's Chorus, Cooper Union, To the Baitor of The Evening World. Where can I cultivate my voice for a nominal sum? 4. R0. About 72 Beats to the Minu To the Editor of The Evening World: What is the averi beat of the heart of a young man eighteen y F his air old? The average rate of heart beats is about seventy-two to the minute, but there 1s much variation, some persons normal rate being eighty-four to the [zines while that of othersislittle over and stenographers to establish a union with a rerular fessional efficiert = Jnstead of on per~ Sone htot BREE DRLAAIAADLDODODDD DOO 4 ® 299449409099O6O4004O000%% 2OODOODDODDODOOOD The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. Mr, Peewee Discusses the Flirting of Typewriters. & YOU HEARD WE PSinGw WERE OTHER PAPERS LEAD Lor THe HEW TYBEY Warrens UNION? HE EVENING FuDcE y~ Lor > AG GES IDEA! ESPECIALLY THAT) OF DOING Awayy 4 \@ OF EVERY NI 14 Com poops LEER ITS .AN. OU, 4 oni 5 4 Or a8 DRIP OO CH AND GET _A RED SMUDGE HE EVENING DME 7 aAS ne Teach Your Baby to Walk on Four Legs, Copyrot, 1904, by the Planet Pub. Co, FEET! should WE limit our powers of 1 We would like to hear from ject. Mean time TRY to be like Teet, It Is the Natural Way to Walk. Wonderful? Not at all! Does not the MONKEY, Our antediluvian ancestor, walk on four feet? Why Did you ever notice that when a BABY £0 first begins to move It ¢ uses {ts HANDS as ¢ well as its feet? The. { editor has STUDIED + the baby question ¢ thoroughly and fearlessly, and the only CONCLUSION peu can arrive at for this remarkable circumstance Is that ¢ Nature Intended men and bables 70 WALK ON FOUR « ' locomotion to ONLY TWO feet when we can just as well use four? Is it not REASONABLE to suppose that IP 4 man cam walk a mile In fifteen minutes on two feet he will be able to walk two miles in the same time on four? our readers on this sub- a monkey and use four $ To-Day’s $5 Prise ‘‘Fudge’” Idiotoria $o—s $ OHN MULCAHY, No. 232 Park Avenue, Hoboken, N. J F9D9S999G9GHH0O6O0S$9F5909O8990G:0-0-00 Mrs. Nagg and Mr. — ( SHH-HISY MB TO EXILE IN BROOKLYN IN DISGUISE! VA WAIT TULL L00K INTHIS | Gl “The poor boy can't go out in the street!” “) ON'T stop ands gawk at every- them to the house-top that he could thing, Mr. Nagg! You don't see/hardly speak. They jumped off the me staring and gaping at storo|roof to get away from him, But that windows, 1s Just how people treat that high- “Where is your handkerchief? Why |strung child did you come out with the top button off your vest? “I suppose that was that people might think you were a martyr, I suppose you tell your crontes and boon com- panions that I neglect you? “And now they have the Impudence to swear out a warrant for him. He !s golng over to Brooklyn as soon as St is dark, and we may not see him for do you grin? Are you glad “Who are your friends? Why don’t y poor, little, {l-treated brother ashamed td © then eo? Is th ae le atmosphere of your fireside too quiet {M2 T know why. He is too gentle In and peaceful for your rowdy compan- |!% ways for you, You would encourage him to brawl, “Wyat are you lagging along for? Hurry up! Here, walt a moment. Are you going to pull my arm out of the socket? I want to look in tits window. “You do not take any interest in anything, But just because I have the simple, trustful nature that is easily amysed you do not want me to stop and see anything. “Mine is a happy, sunny disposition and you have me upset and in tears all the time, “Nothing could ever make me lose heart and interest in the little things in life, Nothing! And you see ft and you ere oo cranky, and cross that I jons? “If you know any nice, quiet young men, why don’t you bring them home and introduce them to my little brother Willie? He is so lonely. The poor boy’ is only twenty-six and no one under- stands him. He has no one to play with now, because he has to keep in the house. “LT suppdse you are glad that the poor boy can't go out in the street. Every- body was so hateful to him and perse- cuted him so that he has to keep hid indoors simply because in self-defense he hit two rowdles over the head with @club. | jo '9 wo sensitive and refined. He #2 gut ef breath after chasing | L 1 was written by B. Sci PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for To-Day, $1 Pald for Each—No.1—FRANK MERSCHROD, No. 28 Reade Street, “Are you trying to pull my arm out of the socket?" Awartz, C-21 Produce No. 3—JOHN BALDERSTON, No. 3909 Pine Street, Philadelphia, Pa. To-Morrow’s Prize ‘‘ Fudge’’ Idiotorial Gook, ‘‘The Utilization 209 OOS OSE of Our Wasted Time.”’ By Roy L. McCardell, (Copyright, 1901, by the Press Publishing Company, The New York World.) Exchange, New York City. New York City; No. don't care to do anything but mope. “I am always home. I never put my, nose out of the house. You never want to take me anywhere, You do not think T have anyMing to do. “But I have to go shopping, I have to call on my friends, and I have to go to the dressmakers and to the den- tist's almost every day, “I know you do not want mo to go to the dentist's, You do not want me to have my teeth fixed, You do not want me to have any pleasure or happiness in Ife, “You scowled this morning when I told you I was going to the dentist's. You saw I looked forward to the little things In my life that gave me peace and comfort, and you made your mind up that I should not go to the den- Ust’s “You didn't?’ Oh, yes, you aid! When I told I was so nervous and appre- hensive about going to the dentist's didn't you tell me to come and take a walk with you and forget it? “Yes, you did, You want me to for- get it. You told me to forget it, and then, when I say you don't want me to go to the dentist's, you deny ‘Oh, Mr. Nugg, I'do not feel 80 pained nypOC- tigen dune I do at your ‘and dup! ou know Thats Mra. Terw! Out for a Stroll on the Streets, Right in the Sight of Every Passer-By, He Makes a Show and Scorn of that Devoted Woman. Some Day, Mark You, She Will See It Is Useless to Smile and Suffer Silently! RINT SAID A aD IN & WEEK WITH M9Y¥ TA saw I was anxious to avold the horrid old thing you never offered to move away when I saw her coming, and you stood by grinning like a Chesshire cat when vou saw me Kiss her and ask her how she felt, “She has chronte dyspepsia and {s un- der the care of a specialist. I suppose {f T was under the care of a specialist You would object. You even object if T call in our doctor, when you know he is the most fashionable physician up- town, and dt looks so high-toned to have his electric automobile stand in front of the door for hours. “You would not let me have a spa clalist. You are happy because I am so well that I do not need a specialist. You are one of those husbands who take no interest in thelr wife's health, And here is that awful Mrs, ‘Terwilliger always bragging about how she has to pay Dr. Dilger $10 a visit. “If I had a high-priced and fashion- able physician I might get into better society, But you do not care whether I do ‘or not. You want me to be in horrid robust health all the time. You Those Chicago Women Who =e Are Reviving an Old Health Fad. 667 SEF.” said the Gigar Store Man, “that the women I of the Progressive Health Club in Chicago have adopted a resolution barring marriage licenses to all daring persons about to embark on the sea of matri- mony unless they can present a certificate from a repu- table pbysiclan that they are both !n good health.” “I'll bet my left ear against a step on the foot that the lady who introduced that resolution didn't spring any heulth certificate on the preacher when she changed her name,” commented The Man Higher Up. “The reso- lution isn't a debutante at that. I remember attending & meeting of a woman's club not long ago where a sim- ilar resolution was put over the plate, and I happened to have known the lady who put it over from the time she went to school. “She weighed about 200 pounds when she eprung the resolution, but at the time she got stuck on a clerk n@ bank and agreed to be his she wasn’t hefty enaugh to make a welghing machine spin the hand half way round. She had a complexion like the surface of a porcelain- lined bathtub, she had knobs on her wrists like door knobs, and {f she came at you sideways you would have to look twice to take a chance that she was there. “The young man she was engaged to hed a salary of $70 a month, and any undertaker meeting him on the street would have followed him home. He had @ voice like the G string on a fiddle, and the father of the girl used to call him Percy, although ‘his real name was John. Her parents balked when she wanted to marry him, but they dug out and eloped and started! housekeeping in two rooms with a hired set of dishes. “I didn’t see them for about a year. The wife haa a red-headed baby in her arms and looked like a mem- ber of the Vassar basketball team. Hubby had spread out so that he had given his old dress suit to the jan- itor. He had been promoted to be paying teller of the bank, and was making more money than his father-in- law. “As the years went on he accumulated the appear- ance of a financier, joined some swell clubs and talked like the béss notes on an organ, while his wife raised w family that made everybody else in the meighbor- hood look lke exponents of the theory of race suicide. ‘Then the next thing I knew about her she was mak-) ing speeches to women's clubs advocating Government’ supervision of marriage and the home.” “Why do you suppose she did it?” asked the Cigar Store Man. ’ “Because she was a woman,” replied The Maw Higher Up, “and every woman wants other people te! do things she wouldn't do herself.” rer, GOSPLETS &@ Rive. By the Passer=by. Fresh-_Air Sundays. ATRIOTS, rise! This praise deserve of Fame: “They kept their Sabbath with the national game” P Though T. U.'s phalanx, twenty thousand strong, Brand fresh-air Sundays as a heinous wrong; ‘Though up-State graybeards quake lest empty pews Some preacher's P, M. dignity abuse; ‘Though hot-house stunts lift outraged eyes in ain, And, shivering, the end of all declare; Ye joyous sons of sunshine and clear sktes, Proclaim an earthly, outdoor paradise! ‘What! Does ft lend a cleaner, graver set To morals tf, with constant cigarette, The City Youth lounge round the lazy oorners To ogie girls and stare at funeral mourners, Or maybe turn the page of flashy crime, Which cheats colleotions of a recreant “dime?” Or does it make the “child of Adam meek, To snooze and snore it out one day each week? Shocked Public, would you feel a different shook It, with the “fans,” you saw the game you “knogk?” A breezy heaven, a level field of green; ‘Tho grandstand, packed, intent upon the scene; Tho moment strikes, the umpire cries hts call, And thirty thousand eyes transfix the ball, do not like it if I am pale and inter- esting. “But my doctor can tell you that 4 am very delicate, He knows my consti- tution, But you are so unsympathetic, “You seeméd to be happy when you saw poor mimma suffering with an ulcerated tooth and had to have her in| witches all the chaps. ‘The Two hours of pounding pulses, full-filled lungs And mirthful musio of exultant tongues, Well, If it's wrong, then all delight ts stn, And who should care a darn which side may wit But wait till McAdoo can think some thinks, Vouchsafe « kindly answer, Honored Sphinx! | Wherefore Art Thou, O Spring! | LASH not the cymbals! Muffle the drum! For spring, C coy spring, is yet to come! Chilled is the muse, Spring poets sit by dytng fires ienighed by untimely lyres, the hostess for her rent in- quires, and the coal man, oh, leary one, says he'll net tek inother ton; he's not in business just for fun. It beats the leuco. ‘Tis morn, a chilly populace maices a hideous, sour grimace as It buckles on {ts cold-day face. Upon men's faces every- where there is a disappointed stare, Truckmen's cufses fill the air, as horses slip on the cy glare, and Woodbury’s an- | gels forward go to harvest their 'steenth crop of snow; mean. / while the mercury hugs zero, On a chilly, sombre day we sit within a warm cafe gnd at mystertoug pinochle play, while between the drinks there's; sausage links, rye bread with caraway, b’jinks, and a hunk of Iimburger cheese that stinks. Then the oldest man gets up to say: \ yas just the same in Forty-elght, when I was living then Merry Spring was Just as late, but now the weather man should have more sense than to keep the eo quite so intense and make my coal bill so tmmenae. I hope he gets just recompense when his old soul has departed hence.” ‘The plumber man fs on a grin, his "phone keeps up an awful din, recording orders coming in; the cold has burgted pipes worn thin, It Is so cold the boys flon't rally to play at in4rbles in the alley, instead they tease and snowball Sally, Blooms not the rose. The hot-dog man refills hia stock and dodges cops around the block, while we cousider which “spark” to hook to get more winter clothes, Beat not the drum, for many moons must yet elapse ere the summer girl in bath sult trim displays a neat, entioing limb as she strolls the beach and does not swim, and be- lecturer" of Coney Isle will not belch forth In quite a while to dasal with his smile). 7 fa. yotto come ie? mt | ) (|