The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1904, Page 12

HE # , wes Su) adlished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to @& Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Oflce at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. NO. 16,610. —- NOLUME 44.. Leads All the Rest. Fine January, February, March and | April of this year The Evening World carried 5087 columns of paid cis flay 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% eolumns—more than twice the gain made by any other paper. : “PLAY CENTRES" MENACED. * Gov. Odell’s veto of the bill permitting the city to fncrease its special revenue bond issue from $1,000,000 $0 $2,000,000 puts the Board of Education “up against” bad dilemma. The Board of Estimate had prepared to issue ~ $381,000 of special revenue bonds. qway to keep the recreation centres open. did not dream that Gov. Odell, who began the session by talking bravely about “home rule,” the bill. “i Board of Estimate will to-morrow consider the Education is of the utmost value. centres open. And now Austria-Hun; by demanding a huge sum for naval purposes. Where will Austria float her navy when she gets {tt Pp JAPANESE CHRISTIANITY. ‘ermine whether Japan shall not become Christian in Feligion. The despatch continues: Leading men consider that the time has arrived to Adopt the elements approved by the majority of civilized nations. An edict establishing a national church 1s not ‘tmprobable. The Japanese have acquired a wide reputation for ythe extent of choosing a religion just because it hap- i Rympathy or bellef, and of arbitrarily “converting” | “themselves to it at one swoop. Gegree, but unintelligent and {llogical. @irect conflict with it. i For the most beautiful and vital ideals of Christi- ! enity—its humanity, self-sacrifice, submissiveness— \ \. “progress.” No, the Japanese have two religions between . _JWhich to choose—the religion of Christianity and the consistency. They cannot combine the two without ‘evolving Japanese Christian civilization—a hopeless Mouble paradox. ‘phe Marquis of Donegall, if | Countess of Ravensworth, at nearly sixty, has ‘married her conchman of half that age, British soclety is [mot muffering for lack of « subject for gossip. GIRLS AND THE ACTUAL. ‘A Western girl, a crack shot and skilled horse- i an, has been appointed rural mail carrier upon a jew Bedford route which two men have abandoned of its difficulties. Twenty-five girls of Rosemary Hall, a fashionable Ponnectiout school, are now taking their annual tramp. ey started in a pouring rain, and will rough ft along o highways, taking cooking utensils and provisions Ia a wagon. . Fifty years ago people use@ to say, and believe, What “the finest women, like the finest flowers, arc grown under glass.” What suffering, what {ll health, » Uhat saying caused! It belonged to the time when the heroine of the popular novel “fainted” at every tenth page, and whon ther waist could be “spanned” by her joined thumbs ‘and middle fingers—a circuit of some sixteen inches. “The finest women,” like the finest trees, are really grown in the open air, and happy are they whose fates permit them to live in it. Besides the physical effect of alr upon the health, consider the mental quickening of being among the actualities of life. The bicycle benefited women tm- mensely by taking them off the sidewalk and putting them in the road, ‘The girl who had shrieked at a mouse (lodged trucks and enjoyed it, and found that ehe no longer had “nerves.” Viceroy Alexieff knows how to sympathize with the an who loops the loop on roller skates, ie { “a ALL THE “IMPROVEMENTS.” A Texan prize-fighter who demeans a prond_pro- fession by acting also as a thief swallowed a stolen! diamond. In jail the gem was “located” by N-vay and removed by an operation—whether to cure the man or to get the diamond is not stated In the re- grettably brief despatch ja In New York a chemist predicts that all food {preservatives will soon be “put out" by “radio- tivity.” Watcr that has been exposed to radium Vill clean cans and bottles so energetically that the Jerome may X-ray Witness Lewisohn's mind for field teatimony. Gov. Odell may teach New Yorkers ibsorb water from the alr and need no aqueducts. Murphy may cradicate the germs of “Brooklyn y, catching” as they are, by political radio- Tl» belief of the editor of the Commoner in | Toothache Amitativeness—skilfully adapting to their needs the! eyed victims o vbest featuros of Western civilization. But {t {a scarcely | lay aside your persona! prejudices for a ‘credible that they should carry this imf{tativeness to] While. and remembering that thero ts + be getting @ religion which, far from representing the} toot), ppirit of that civilization which they so admire, {s in| worst one can have {t out and make a ‘are incompatible with the aggressiveness, emulation| ‘rhe hapless hero of Lo: and ambition which are the breath of Life of modern} writhing In his hopeless passion for the a Cure for Heartache. By \Nixola Greeley-Smith. M, Mass, May 1h —Fel| *, Robert Foss and H. and daughter of wealthy r this etty, ww able to . after walting two years for the opportunity to arrive | = ‘ HIS despatch from yester \ day's papers old how, after hav ng been separated for a weary length of years, two young lovers, fetgening simultaneous tooth- jJache, had at eluded tholr watch- pretext of the dentist, eloped to New York and were married. As an excuse for eloping, the simu- lated horror of a raging tooth ts cer- tainly new, Varted and multiple as the summer sands are the wiles of Cupid, It was the only|mumbertess the guises and dinguises he has worn for the bewltchment of The board) tovers and the beguiling of unaympa- thetic parents. to Wrentham, But it is safe to say s., belongs the honor would veto] of witnessing his frst appearance with the bound and swollen cheek and the wild, rolling eye of a victim to tooth- What is the city to do? A special meeting of the} ache. Of course, the toothache wan merely simulated—as the young couple made emergency. The summer work of the Board of] naste to assure their parents after the It must not be in- Irrevocable ceremony. And therein one cannot help thinking they made a mis- ted if there is any possible method of keeping} tare. For while @ real toothache, the opinion of cold, harsh, unresponsive even In ry grieves and pains tts people} Middle age, might seem like excuse enough for anything-—eyen elopement— the mere felgping of the deadly terror not only failf to excite sympathy In the parental breast, but leaves a lurk- ing sense of duplicity which the young A great meoting has been held in Tokio to de-| couple may find It hard to overcome. Concentrated Interest in this novel conjunction of two widely differing aches leads one Inevitably to the apecu- lation as to which ts, of heartache or toothache, the greater ache of the two. Pause a moment before you protest, indignant lovers. There ts something to be sald for the supertor suffering raging molar can {nfilet. And you, and- the drill and forceps, no dull narcotic to numb the anguish of an aching heart, no anaesthetic to ‘pens to be tho faith of the civilized nations, and not] render: vne unconscious of itn deadly “because it commands in Japan either widespread} ¥Tenchins. consider if tt be not the greater ovil of the two. The toothache is sharper, granted. But the heartache 4s so much longer. And—the idea en- Such a proceeding would be not only artificial to a| vors unpleasantly of carbolic and creo- They would] to sure—there are summary methods of dealing with an offending For !f the worst comes to the simultaneous end of tooth and anguish. But for a good, well-authenticated case of genuine heartache there is no relief to be had from goda or men, ey Hall, unworthy Amy, bonsta that he will pluck {t from his bosom though his heart be at the root. But such a passion has no root. Tt ts N Religion of “Civilization.” They can select either with| all pervading. It 1s not a part of us, we in our pride may make believe ‘ere rather a part of it. And when {t has once thoroughly annexed us we become temples dedicated to its wor- ship, and all our memortes and dreams, who at eighty married a) our thoughts and ambitions, mero cele- irl of twenty for her money, is dead, But as the | brants of its power. And as religions survive their found- ers, sO may a great love outlive its tn- spiration, and burn in @ saddened and deserted heart, like the lamp perpetual before Catholic altars, and be ex- tinguished only with the life it has absorbed, SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. NOT CONTAMINATED. Frances had been brought up tn a striot Presbyterian household, and in all her nine years had never attended service in a church of another de- nomination. While on a visit with her mother to a part of the country far from her own, home she entered the parlor one Satur. dlay afternoon and eagerly asked “Oh, mamma, may I go to the 'Pisco- pal chureh with Gertle to-morrow? I'll promise not to believe a sing minister «a word the —Lippaneott’s: Magazine es KNEW THE WAYS. They were on the way to India, anit as they were crossing the restless Bay of Biyeay one innocent young lady, speaking to another, said “Why do the stewards come In and open or shut the portholes at odd times during the day and night? Second and better Informed lady My dear, they shut or open them when the tide rises or falls."—Sporting Times, ———— EXACT. Knicker—Was your new gown i Lovet Jack's bank ac cents left.-Smart Dear Madan Ask him to count the number of Worlds and the number of all other norning papers he sees on the “L" cars on his way downtown, Wh reports to you that he found more morning Worlds in the hands of the business men than all other morning papers combined he will set- tle a doubt in your mind, and when you next want to advertise for a responsible boarder or tenant you eatness of {he candidate of Disaster may be will do It In the paper that is read by that class of men and women, A Guta lnst| @ ful parents and on} visiting) SHES 000 EW \> Y, 2 SS — » HOOO$-064. Ie « WAITRESS | @ thi Give ner |% are | (By T. E. Powers.) I Have ONLY BO CENTS, j The Lonesome Unprotected Dollar Bill. 94.80090O0099O0O9896000O9O8 $064 SOO$660OO64 vf EVENING WORLD'S # HOME w& MAGAZINE. # EOE SOCUOSOOS os PSDP9995-099-9-966409-9-9 DOI GOOSIST DIOR Oo re ’ : BO8-G9G9S959-9-900900660 o o> Pray Don’t Miss the Peewee “ Fudge” Idiotorial Gook in the Next Column. The Hoodoo Jockey and His ‘Sure Thing” Mount #« & vt vt Unlucky Larry Rides “Flying Dutchman,”’ Who Loses His Stride When He Scents a Hot Frankfurter. TNS AINT AG 5 STEEPLE CHASE YoU. SKATE Near pe ne To the Rultor of The On what day did J r LETT fall? READER ducation Vayt ninw World 1 that readers who have had real experionce would discuss for my benoft the following old problem a college education financially ben ficial in after life?” My parents ha given me my choice whether to enter | Does a Conexe To the B The F al A a hs ak AR cl i WT SMELLS BETTER THAN NEW MOWN HAY, college 1 do not all or to go to work the: do to be a professional So T ask if [ will be richer if 1) ndon all ideas of college and buckle} down to work now, or 1f 1 go to col- lege, spend four years there and try! man now offers me $4.50 Sturt in his 1eccory man ‘To the Edttor of The Evening World Why complain of the high price of| To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: land when, by the spending of a 3 a) there would also be an a crease In the visible supp! mosquitoes, Think t over. By Geometry. ERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS. ¥ # reciable de- fy of Jersey millionaires! COMMUTER. few) How can I find the length of the hy- it the end of that Ume to start tn to] thousand dollars, any philanthropist! potheneuse of a right-angled triangie make a living. This means so much to} could drain the Jersey ms and| when the length of the other two sdes me that I've deotded to 1 ive the poor thousands of acres of|in given? IGNORANT, Paes evel, rich, healthful land whereon to) The square ofthe a for your readers to decid build? The new tunnel will these] right-angled triangle 1 to the jars me? My parents offer to pay| meadows within fifteen minutes of New cum of he squares other two al) my expenses through college, but a! York City. mecdows drained By Martin Green. 2." Jesse Lewisohn’s Penalty For Merely Refusing to ‘‘Squeal.’”’ 66 SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that Jesse Lewisohn is being put over the hurdles by the District-Attorney again.” Jesse ought to be track-sore by this time,” Tre piled the Man Higher Up; “but he {s running game, It looks a whole lot like the District-Attorney was putting the kibosh on Lewisohn. Hundreds of other mep bought checks in Canfleld's, and Mr. Jerome must know their real names, but nobody but Lewisohn —who took all the worst of {t in the first proceed- ing for the District-Attorney—will do except Reggie Vanderbilt, and Reggie is down on the farm. “The hypocrisy of our treatment of the gambling question was never put in the spot-light so strongly as It is in this case. Lewisohn puts on a plain but neat business sult every business morning, goes down into Wall street and gambles in copper and other, stocks. He is considered to be tn right on this, and nobody molests him. “In the afternoon he puts on his racing rags and goes out to the truck. Every bookmaker in Ine knows him. He can bet a roll that would choke a boa conetrictor on the nod. When Sleuth Reardon nailed him with the subpoena Friday he was in the betting ring, gambling on the way the horses would run in the nekt race. He was all to the good there, “But some months ago he put on his soup-to-nuts apparel one night, fed his face at Del's and wan- dered into Canfleld’s to gamble at faro bank, whioh is a game that has stock betting and playing the ponies looxing Ike the skyline of lower New York when it comes to being on the level. And for this he is sloughed and has to pay lawyers and neglect his Stock Exchange transactions and have his pice ture in the papers and hear judges call him down and figure as an all-around assassin of the law, simply because he refuses to act the part of a squealer.” “A man deserves all that he gets for gambling,” asserted the Cigar Store Man. “That's what they tell the boys {n Sunday-school,” replied the Man Higher Up. “And then the boys, responding to the instincts of human nature, go out behind the church and shoot craps.” Fables, Far, Far from Gay. No. 9—The Man Who Refused to Conform HERE. was once a Man who looked upon the Wine when T {t was Red and declared that it ought to be Green and the Firm which made it Prosecuted; who looked upon Laws when they were Imperfect and cried out that they must be Repealed; who looked upon Woman when she was Fair ani thundered that she was a Sham and a Pretense and ought not to be tolerated till she had been Remade by a Beauty Cure. No matter what was presented to him he Re- fused to Conform. The World was his Oyster and he would Open it. So he hired a Hall, borrowed the Properties of the Great and Only Mr. Peewee and Proceeded to tell the Populace what he Thought About {t, But all the while he Talked they Hissed him, and when he was Done they Evicted him with cries of ‘To the Crank House for youse!"’ ‘Then he Appealed to the Pollce with Long Lists of Impos- albles Places and Improper People, commanding them to take Action, But he was shown Records from the Year One, At tedating his Disclosures by Decades, and Referred to the Refuge tor Restless Ranters. Next he invited the Clergy to listen to his Learned Denun- clations of a Trust-Truckling Theology. But again he was Ignored and Told of the Antediluvian Heresies of Adam, Still Contldent that his Panacea would be Productive of Improvoment, and Announcing that, in spite of all, the Crow- bar of the New Creed would Prod the Great Oyster past endurance, he threw a Final Fit and married, Now ho ts Congratulating himself every day and ts ready —nay, eager—to admit that Wine and Beauty and even a Harmless Illegality have a Place in the Great Plan, Bi sides, his Wife is Seeing to all that now: even Churches are Comfortable after a Week of Domestic Disputation, if only a Fellow could Help Snoring. Wanted: A ‘Verb. Popular verbs are wanted for several operations tntro- duced by modern acience. The X-Rays, the Finsen treat- ment for lupus, the operation of radium for cancer—what are the words for these? A man 1s gulllotined or hanged, ‘his leg Ix amputated, he {s trepanned; what {s ITe when he X-rayed, Finsened, radiumed? The world still wants a wire- less word, Marconigram, which was suggested, seems to have dicd a natural death. What {s the synonym for phone when one aks over the Instrument to which a phonograph is attached? Nor has the public finally agreed upon a verb for travel by automobile. The Gook. {LOlOTORIAL PAGE OF THE EVENING Fue We Forbia Everybody to Talk Untess They Talk About Us, Capyret, 1904, by the Planet Pub. Co, and he finds that they DO, 78,379,645: of the population of thit street talk. How DARE these people talk. Did we give them PERMISSION to exercise thelr faces? NO, we did NOT. We will MAKE everybody in 14th street read our 6.30 A. M, Gook, and thus AVERT. the catastrophe having a talkative nation, To-day’s $5 Prise ‘’ Fudge’” Idtotortal Written by Ed. Smithson, Produce Exc ep New York City. To-morrow’s Prise ‘* Fudge’’ Idiotortal Gook, ‘a If You Like Poetry You Won't Like This. 4