The evening world. Newspaper, May 16, 1904, Page 10

e ee erin ishing Company, No. 63 to @| Entered at the Post-Ofice Wublished by the Press Pu! Park Row, New York. at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 44......000 ccscsseseeeessNO. 18,609. | | | i r Leads All the Rest. During January, February, March and | April of this year The Evening World carried 5087 columns of paid dis- play advertising. No other New York paper equalled this showing. The increase over The Evening World's own record for the corresponding four months of 1903 was 1270% columns—more than twice the gain made by any other paper. “DEAR JIMMY"'—''M, K, J."" “On Saturday a man less innocent than his appear- nce attempted to enter a famous Broadway pool-| room. He handed the “lookout” a letter of introduc- tion to the proprietor which read: Dear Jimmy: This is a friend who wants to make a few bets on the races, He is all right. Take good care of M. Kk. J. im. s The initials are those of Mr. Morris IK. Girector of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which supplies this pool-room and cthers with the -ac- ing nows which is necessary to onable them to break the law. The man was not admitted. Of course the alleged signature of Mr. Jesup was a forgery, some ono’s silly idea of a “joke.” Yet if the Western Union Company does not, as its Executive Committee has promised, re- strict the selling of its racing news to purchasers who @esire it for “legitimate purposes” such a joke will have @ disagreeable excuse in the facts. If Mr. Jesup, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Sage, Mr. Gould, Mr. Hyde, Mr. Depew and the other Western Union directors are to continue the active managenient of the pool-room | business, with the felonious “Jimmies” and “Johnnies” as mere accomplices, why should not these gentlemen ‘Wot also as “‘steerers” for the greater profit of the “game” and consequent fatter dividends for the “widows and orphans?” Gov. Odell shows great regard for Ramapo. As for New 1, the popular up-country belief is that it does not tte sg Sisrrnlhe HEADS AND SKY-SCRAPERS. ‘A London doctor who has examined 100,000 children fm the British capital finds that the tendency !s toward smaller heads, a stigma of degoneration which ho at- _tributes to tall buildings. But London has no tall build- Sings; whereas New York and Chicago, which have many structures, produce countless children with abnor- ly develope heads, Eventually these children become office boys and elevator conductors, and actors and lapoleons of finance, and know everything. If the doctor will continue his investigations he will ly ascertain that his conclusions are diametrically 0 and that heads vary directly with the height of the buildings. Instead of the formula’s being “tall bulld- Angs, small heads,” it is more likely to be, “short bulld- fugs, mall heads. ‘We know from the investigations of anthropologists that physioal characteristics are largely the results of “food supply and environment. This rule {s generally ac- cepted, and so it would follow as a matter of course “that the bigger the environment the bigger the head. What London obviously needs is a few really tali bulld- ga to prevent the physical degeneration of her people. » There are thousands of New York men who have proved by experience that a single evening spent among the tall buildingr makes {t extremely difficult if not im- possible for them to wear their hats {n the morning. Jesup, a King Peter of Servia ts sald to be troubled by bad dreams, ‘Uneasy Mes the head that wears the crown obtained by the Wright divine’ of assassination. BOARD 16 CENTS A DAY. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Yost, of West St. Louls, Missouri, base their hopes of married happiness upon the expecta- tion that their daily bill for food is to average 30 egnts, Mr. Yost was once a dyspeptic. Wienerschnitzel’ and pancakes had done for his robust digestion; but he suc- ceeded in building it up by the following chaste and imple menu: Breakfast: An apple; a slice of bread. Uuncheon: Fruit; figs; nuts, Dinner; Two apples; bread; nuts, ‘Very well; but let it not be hastily assumed that all ran go and do likewise. Food has but two purposes in the human economy, to provide energy and to stoke against cold. A man taking little exercise and living in warm rooms needs little food. The average banker of middle age wovld probably be benefited by trying, at Teast fora time, a diet almost as meagre as Mr. Yost's, "On the other hand, Mr. Charles Booth finds in the Vendor. slums thousands of people who do not lve in ‘warm roonis and who do work hard, yet are literally Spall sterved—who never get enough to eat ~) If the rich man and the very poor man could exchange meals for a time, both might benefit. In the long run they would do better to divide. ‘The Tiger won't be happy till he gets that “Brooklyn od ABD lt AL "“ONE-EYED MIKE,"' HERO. ‘When “One-Eyed Mike” O'Brien appeared on the Jelge @ window at No. 2001 Third avenue, he didn’t look in least like a fireman in his sweater, with his un- meted red locks blazing aloft. But in the most picturesque and daring of a fireman's tiv , saving human life, “Mike” was quite at home, kK two bables and a little girl and a woman out burning building and passed them to the firemen autonomy. ihe hhoose or down a ladder. That was all, tter of course. FORSOOTH METHINKS I A_ THOUGHT Is a Girl Worth Only Half a Boy? By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Judge Frederick Adams tn the Essex | County Court, Ne has decided | that a girl's hfe is w ly hale waar of a boy's. ‘orth LREADY there great deal of Uscussion of this learned = Serney Judge's decision rendered last week, nd advanced wom-, n the country over are asking them-! selves ff in this, the woman's country, such things can be, A girl worth only, half a boy! they ex- claim — indignantly And, with lurking momortes of early mathematics in thelr minds, they add that the attempt to express girl tn terms of boy Js ridiculous and tmposst- ble, aince the two values are incommen- surablo. ‘ Of course, indignant dentin! ta not ar- gument, but there fs a great deal to be sald in protest against the contention that the modern girl {s worth financially loss to her parents than her brother. Of course, If she doesn't have to work for a living she ts worth nothing to them that gan be expressed in money But the moment the necessity for her earning money arises sho Is very Ikely to equal her brother's earnings and to oxcel him In willingness to apply these earnings to the needs of the common home. Even {f the earning capacity be less, sho ts very likely to be worth financially more to her parents, for she not only brings in o certain weekly or monthly amount, undiminished by expensive per- soral habits, euch as drinking, smoking and gambling, but actually renders do- meatic services during what her brother would regard as his hours of absolute leisure, which represent time and money. It 1s, of course, true, that the earning capacity of the average workingman Is. greater than that of the average work- Ingwoman at the present time, But how 1s a learned Justice to decide whether a girl who happens to be killed Jn a railroad accident will develop into merely the average workinkwoman or Into one of the exceptional women, fre- quent enough at the present day, whose earning capacity equals or exce tha of any of five hundred men they hap pen to know? There are many families here In New York where the money brought in by the daughtera exceeds tha riuted by the sons, Why, I know of one fam- ily where the son actually married on a meagre income of $50 a month, and the two daughters, utterly untrained to work, but made breadwinners by thot brother's defection, are now earning his inee has remained Exceptional case? Of <F0 ty a rallroud ace Justi the ty ng to her financtilly, as her er or who could main in comfort for Mfe. been Impossible to pr: Jury in the infancy of the th that One was worth more finan than another But a girl ma nothin "0 omupune= tor vin outting the family ein two by marrying, trying to support. two fimilles “and thereby diminishing his financial value to his “parents, [Soot Sooosssa] New York is a bustling business centre. Have you ever thought how all this ener could be paralyzed with two blows? First, the destruc- tion of the telephone system, and second, the stopping o advertising—especially “‘W vertising. The World alone in the small advertising brings over 100,000 people together weekly. More than 16,000 letters to box addresses in The World office are received, is. need of a man in an emergency the is pretty apt to appear, though the part,” [joe HAVE | | G w WORLD'S HOME w MAGAZINE. # ‘Jack, the Jester, Whose Merry Pranks Are SIR, THOURT WELCOME! Told in Four Words. os 2 2 The Great and Only Mr. Peewee. Mr. Peewee Plays a Game of Chess with Prof. Tschigookski. CASHIER TAKES A Lor OF Money ¢ | He Never Thinks of Her or Hers; He Only Thinks of Himself and His Relations! On. kk} me and make me feel small, TY should Brother Wille down a carpet? You Ik: see him on his knees But he is too proud-spirited nial work of that sort, Mr. N: be you, ak rather than inconvenience yoursel giving us a hand, “Does your aunt do anything to ta Ou, of epurse, would see me ac TALKING MATCH} BOOKMAKERS: ———— Now OBSERVE ME PLAY DN THE QUEENS GAMBIT- @, P.0.Q! [ DOoTE ON CHESS: I HAve BEATEN ALL THE OLD MASTERS! ; “2 : Chess! Chess! A GAME FoR KINGS! BY THE WAY; J NOTICE THAT THEY ARE GOING TO PuT RUBBER, tet ator THE EVENING. Ht GI~ HE MINDS ° THINK! President Eltot, C6 of Harvard Uni-, ™~ versity,announces { Beware of Prussic Acid Pie! President Eliot Sounds a Timely Wa Copyret. 1804, by the the startling sct- on Cay lat PRUSSIC pea ie he i bree quantities, has a dis- fect : Hactiy sD pen the “THINKING | ~ THINK of the myriads of happy homes which tnis:! morbid craving for prussic acid ple has ruthlessly broken y up! COGITATE! Do you want your own thinking powers fe pees retaane opelessin by your slavish devotion | pie you put a ple in your mout! STEAL AWAY your thought tank? i: Ay If not, then Shun pic as you would shun an EVEN. ING FUDGE SEA FIGHT! DO NOT YIELD TO THE TEMPTATION OF MIXING PIE WITH YOUR PRUSSIC ACID. Ple will slowly but surely undermine your intel=, Iigence until some day you will find yourself belleving the EVENING FUDGE'S HOME-MADE WAR NEWS and CIRCULATION DREAMS. Immoderate use of PIE made EMERSON a prema. turely old man at EIGHTY. RED SMUDGES taken with every edition keeps the Editor of the Evening Fudge so young that some of bis utterances are universally re- Sarded as CHILDISH, e to for to cy te f by hel» lus, except to Invest some of her money in your business? No? “Look at cher conduct ta aiding Abetting you in the way vou are ca Ing that ts simply breaking heart. “My mother ts of a different di sition, She tells you of your fw She gives you good advice as to business, your alone, Mk old aunt de “Of course, for your rake, T am ar scheming, to her, hor because she is al costly presents of Jewelry and dre: ac Kood~ inky old aunt, who pretends t jatured just because she doesn't 1 am under no obligations and my spo. ult, how interfering Ina to s making me 868. ‘My house 1s upset to make room for 10 be has monoy, and only gives me money and Greases and other gifts to embarrass, ets and be thankful = Hed die! Tittas NatOe PRIZE PEEWEE HEADLINES for to-day, $1 paid for each: No. 1—JOSEPH WHITE, No. 438 Broome stret NELSON, No. 222 East Elghty-second street. New York City. Mrs. Nagg and Mr. — By Roy L. McCardeil. (Copyright, 1904, by the Press Publish When Her Spirit Is B as if she fn a patronizing manner take thess trin am so kind to you! | ‘She never says anything of the kind, | you say? “An! there fe where the cunning of your family comes tr, Mr. Nag You do not say such things ut what is in your mind, Mr, Ni) At in in your mind? “Your aunt went out for a walk to-| day and took that puffy, fat old pug- | were saying ‘Hore, poor creaturs k- | dog with her. Ugh! the waddiing cren ture gives me the horrors to look at It Now, when 1 told you her room | should be did you ask Ww to help you ask mamma to help you? Did verthier Willis to help you? ) not f course, ther Wille Is too genteel to work, The only position he Will accept will be ono where he will get a large salary and only be around a few minutes every day to order com- mon working people about. “You could not expect Brother Wille to tack down carpets. “But, see; the > unselfish boy Is here-to give you He ts 20 No. 2—A, No, 3—JOHN DUNN, No. 409 West Twenty-fourth street, New York City. To-Morrow’s Prize ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial Gook, ‘‘Talking Is Unnecessary.” New York City. By Martin Green. The Roulette Ballof Time Has Affected the Western Union. ' ELL,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “T see that 79 the pool-roome are still runying and that the Western Union wires are still running into them.” “The ronlette ball of time," remarked the Man Higher Up, “falls into many compartments. To-day w' have the Western Union lined up with the pool-rooms against the Police Department, with the race-track# playing the part of innocent bystanders. Only a few years ago conditions were reversed. “Then the Western Union and the race-tracks werd trying to down the pool-rooms, The game wasn't so good. ‘There were not 60 many peopie in New York willing te congh up $2 at the gate for the privilege of going insida the fence and betting on the races, The track owner. hungered for those $2 admissions, and the Western Union sat in with them in a game to treeze the pool-rooms out “You rememoer how it used to keep the Pinkerton men hustling those days to hold the news of the race from the pool-rooms. Not a day passed that thera wasn't a pinch. Everybody carrying a bundle into tha inclosure was made to stand a frisk. Wigwag men waved signals from the fences, flash-light signals were shot out from pocket-glasses to pool-room scouts on the roofs of houses near the track. I remember that one man was sloughed with a heliograph outfit in his plug hat whiéh had a door in front. The Western Union was a warm foe of the pool-rooms at that time. “But the game js good now, The sporting population of New York has increased 500 per cent. The race-trackd play to capacity every day. The pool-rooms don’t bothe the gate receipts, and we find the eminent gentlemen who fought the pool-rooms from their offices as members of the Jockey Club now selling them information througiy the Western Union.” “Will they ever close the pool-rooms?" asked the Cigar Store Man, “Sure Mike," replied the Man Higher Up, “and when they do we will have a summer ice-boat service between the Battery and Staten Island.” Fables, Far, Far irom Gay. I - oe \ No. 8—The Woman Who Reformed Her Husbands HERE was once a Woman who believed that Marriages vould be made Heavenly by the Use of the Proper Prin- T ciples, According to her, Average Men could take Care of them- selves, the Feature of Matrimony being the Great Influence exerted by an Ideal Wife ugon Mere Men of Halting Habits, She spread this Theory ‘among less Progressive Sisters and In Person set about Realizing such a Reclamation, irs Company, The New York World.) roken He'll Be Satisfied. smart he knows how everything should) would not swear in © done ladtes! Welgt her Words, but during his absence the Weights somei “He ts Just ke his poor, dear papa,} “Run, Prother Wie! Mr. Nagg '8/how got Shifted, ard his Galt on his Return called forth a who used to take the clocks apart, just | oIng to assault you. Oh! why has|Comment which sounded, he thought, like “Lobster!” He to show he could do tt, He would never put them together again. But, then, poor papa was so eccentric! “Of course, you will not answer a word when we speak to you, We bave all come upstairs here to your aunt's Mr. Nagg such a terrible temper?" os MIRAGE, Once prayed I to forget your face, ‘That pride might make mo deat and blind, room, ready to sacrifice our lelsure to tell you how to fix the room. Youn|f And blunt the passion of the mind know It Js the girl'y day out, and |} To memory of your acornful grace. everything is in a mess downstairs, Yet did I dream of you one night, which drives me nearly crazy, because |f And all tho bitter days betweon i will have my house looking neat and || Wore fled, as fleos a forest scene clean, oven if I have to search all day |] irom one who steps into the light, } for & woman to come in and make it nent Out in the sun T saw you move, “Phere! You have smashed your|} 4 passed to fall before your finger! How awkward! Now, tt ts heats bleeding. Don't let Brother Wille}} The smile upon your mouth was see It; he 1s so sensitive! You know sweets ‘As on the very lips of love. Now that I would, I dream no more, Now that I would not, I forget; The forest is about me yet \t makes me nervous to see you' hurt yourself, and that Is why you did it, “Don't tell me you. did not, You hit your finger with the hammer on pur- pose, just to upset me. © “You are an unfeeling man! If you had any instingte of a gentleman, you, But Let Him Go the presence of By Suificlent Search she discovered a Knock-Kneed, Indo lent Alcoholist who professed to be Pining for Perfectifica- Uon, and she Heralded the Fact to the Tune of “Watch Me Make a Man of Him!" At first he was dutifully Docile and refused Nothing, tilt he had become Husky and Sleek from the Effects of a Rights cous Regimen, In fact, he Felt so Fine that he Lauded everything whe did, from the Larder to the Laundry, But when his Encomtums began to Include the Hxcel- lences of her Maid his Admiration lost dts Flattery; and when finally in his Enthusiasm he drained a Bumper to thd Governess, sho decided to put the Kibosh on the Compliment} When she had put her Case liko a Portia he went out td flushed very Red et this and has been Crabbed ever sinoa , And now she Js Ustracised by Mrs. Mary Baker G, Wddy'é Amendment because she has returned to Recrimination in. One-Sex Club and Abandoned Co-educational Reform in the Home. A “Submarine’’ Fight. A writer in a British periodical describes an encounter ‘he saw in a large aquarium at Brighton. He was watching some young herring swimming about close to the bottom of the tank, when the claw of a hermi® crab suddenly shot out and caught one. ‘The expture had, however, been seed, by another hermit crab, which at ones claimed a share, and A most amusing chase began, Unable alope to achteve wie object No, Yowent off but presently returned with a friend, with whowe help he succeeded in effecting a capture. But the chase had aroused the Interest of the hermit-crab colony, ‘and presyilly from fifteen to twenty of them were engaged. in a furlous battlg for the herring, Then occurred the most. amusing epfsode Or all. Out of the struggling mass there crawled n hermit crab, dragging the body, somewhat dilapl~ dated by now, of the herring, with which It quietly retirea’ aight of ite and mnie A Jeet wate alte otvere