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me Hyde by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 63 ~ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Mattor, NO. 16,614. } Leads All the Rest. - ‘| During January, February, March and ‘] April of this year The Evening World carried 5087 columns of paid dis- play advertising. Mo other New York paper equafled this showing. ‘The increase over The Evening World's own record the corresponding four months of 1903 was 1270% "olumms—more than twice the gain made by any ether paper. The Rude Conductor: William Carney got into a dispute with a street car - fell headlong. It is now feared that he has fractured his @kull and cannot recover. This incident will probably raise a fresh outory Mi-temper. And the conductors are undoubtedly some- times impatient of questions, brusque in answers, eburlish in demeanor. Bat they have their own point of view. In their ten hours or more of work they probably come In close con- §ny other workmen. Block after block, trip after trip, they see pagsengers ' ‘@amsed at each end of the car when by moving to the @entre they could have breathing space. ' + Block after block, trip after trip, they have some @ull passenger reiterating the same question as to whether the next street is his destination, when he has been repeatedly informed that his corner is still far away. Bhock after block, trip after trip, they go on wearily mrging women to get off the car factng forward, only to @ee them deliberately step off facing backward with the @bvious danger of a fall. ‘These are only three examples of the cuntinuonos per- formance of dtupidity which day after day grinds into a ‘gonductor’s nerves. «, No, there 1s much to be said on his aide. The Love of Cleanliness: ‘The opening of the new People’s Baths of the Mill- Bank Memorial yesterday wes an event of keenest in- terest in Hast Thirty-eighth street. . All day small boye hung sbont the door, peeping in at She beautiful fittings which make bathing » luxury to the @ye. There is no qnestion of the popularity of the undertaking. Cleanliness may be next to godliness, but the re- roach Of uncleanliness 1s lesvened when the means of| Pemedying it are absent. Bveryone prefers to be clean. Now York {s less than @ivilized in not giving every one the chance. Mhe old Romans were clean. The vast ruins of their @ublic baths are the wonder of tourists. Most of their ' aqueducts have perished, but even now Rome is better tie supplied with water than New York. ‘The modern Japanese are clean; they are all clean. {heir public baths are abundant. Even the emallest towns ‘have them. "Ought New York to be less civilized than old Rome er new Tokio? Ought public spirit to leave private _“peneficence to supply the lack of bath-houses? _ Mr. Black's Error: y Ex-Gov. Black day befpre yesterday said in Wash- $mgton that if a secret ballot could be taken on our antt- " iee and anti-gambling crusades there would be a prac- \@heally unanimous vote in favor of abolishing the 4 ‘crusades and not their objects. ‘ ‘The ex-Governor should speak for himself. @onsiderable number of us rogues, but the majority of aus ordinary, well-behaved, common-sense citizens, who meither hope to see vice eradicated nor desire to see It : pempant; who are willing to allow tt to exist un- a @trusively for those seeking it; who are unwilling to Miow it to thrust itself upon those evolding it; who be- Meve in societies, leagues, crusades, and reformers #0 tong as they strive temperately to regulate evil; who laugh at them when they attempt fanatically to ob- Mterate it. No, Mr. Black, we welcome any number of reformers and the virtue they seek. All we shy at are persecutors| and the bigotry they represent. rz,000 Men Out of Work: ‘The Pennsylvania Railroad is to “lay off” 11,000 men, br as nearly as possible that number. Other railroads have already decreased their forces. Whe steel companies have ‘‘slid” pert of their men and ‘eut wages besides, There has been rather a disagreeable amount of short-time work in cotton mills. ‘Wise men talk learnedly about the curious ebb and iow af prosperity, the price we all must pay for “in- fiation” of capital by the trust makers in 1901. And what dhoy eay is true and sensible. But what are the feelings of the man “laid off?” He eas a wife end family. He has not been able to save | muuch money. He drags his slow feet homeward at night, i , fearing to tell his wife. But she has read the Pepera! With a sinking heart she asks: “Are you laid off?” ‘Well, the men whose grasping greed made that false ity and this very real sorrow have much to for. bet ‘The Right to Spank: | “Mhere lives 2 man out in Detroit who is shaking is to its foundations, That man fs Judge Henry other day he ruled that a husband had a right to ‘is mother-in-law out of his house, even when that ‘was not his at all, but was his wife's. rultt the Judge gave a staggering blow to our | inatitution of Divorce-at-First-Sight, this intrepid man goes one step further. He has d that a husband has a right to spank sis ‘decision is not quickly reversed it will mean table destruction of wifely authority. will be no triumph of mind over matter een eases ze Ap | w EVENING . WORLD'S 54992066 80O49GO4489989O5492054045 9998 F929969O946054. 065968644808 580O0S4545O4 9908 960% =~ HOME, SWEET HOME. ~:~ } fonductor. The conductor kicked him off the car and he| our conductors—against their rudeness and their; egainst | interred from the dead past the family| & which she forthwith made|@ tact with more concentrated stupidity than do almost! h Here in New York we are, a very few of us, saints, a By this) ee TNT He ey Song eer ress rs — ACAZINE. Si, “Sweet Is Revenge, Especially to Women.” | By 'Nixola Greeley-Smith. HAT 18 undoubtediy 5s the most discreditable trait of feminine nature ts preveaied in the story telegraphed from hicago yea- terday of the cul- mination of a wom an's scheme of re- venge on another woman, which re- sulted in the discov- ery and publication of the fact that the husband had teen a convict j@nd the bringing of disbarment pro- | ceedings against him, after twenty years of miccensful practice at the law. Smerting under the knowledge thaé| she had been dented admission to the |Soctety of Daughters of the American | Revolution, of which the other was Re-| | gent, one of these women constituted j herself a detective and gradually dis- | skeleton, | public property. | | A very observant New Yorker once maid, apropos of the prevalence of| scandal in Chicago Mgh life, that though we all have family skeletons, it! is the custom of the rest of the world | to keep them in closets, while in Chi-| cago they hang them on the front door. But in this case the akeleton had been carefully conceafed from the public| @aze, and Mt will be 2 ead commentary! on human nature if the revelationa| made by the Chicago Nemesia do indedd rebound to the discredit of the poor family she sought to injure rather than! to her own. i In reading of this particularly fia- grant example of feminine mean the avera, man will be tempted t: claim: jow like a woman! Never- theless, there ha been too many tn- stances of masculine pursult of venge-| ance as relentless and havoc-making dn their results for it to be fair to con-' elude that the passion for revenge is not shared equally by both sexes, ‘The! | ola Testament doctrine of an eye for | an eye and a tooth for a tooth prevails in the hearts of mankind to-day. But the trouble with vengeunce-seeking women ts that they a not content with this prescribed exchange. ‘The in- Juries infltoted upon them are rarely adequate to the revenge they seek. They want and take when they can get {t an eye for a mere verbal pin scretch, a tooth for a chance jostle in a crowded room, A woman's view of any peraonal! wrerevesrerr rary tories same nize Wome: venge than men. They do not fight much in the open, for the very good reason that until recently they were not allowed in the open—to fight or to do anything elne. Their methods are aur- vivals of the old days of seclusion and restraint and inevitably consequent hypoeriay. For the credit of the sex be ft said, however, that there are few ‘women in the world who would, for a soctal elight, deliberately attempt to wreck @ woman's happiness, blight her husband's career, and shadow with shame the ives of her children. breast. But though tne average )it- patience and malignity the delivery of his enemy into his hands, he finds, when the long-dooked-for moment comes, that the better impulses of tenderness and compassion rise and stay the hand. ‘The sense of power suf- fices. And the Chicago Nemesia would wreaked far better vengeance, from her own point of view, if, having qatiefed her melignity by the accumulation of proofs against her enemy's husband, she had showed them to her and destroyed them. For she would have wan from her. an unwilling respect and admiration instead of the contemptuous superiority which all men and women feel for the perpetrator of a mean action, ,even though the action crushes and destroys them. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, ‘St. Louis, July 6. To the Waitor of The Evening World: Where ts the Democratic Nettonal Convention going to be held, and when? EM. W. mist! In Correct, ‘Te the EMiitor ‘The Brening World Which is correct, “accompaniiat or “accompantst?’ ANXIOVS, Setting Poems to Musto. To the Editor of The Bvening World: Is there any aw forbtdding putting poems {o music—such poems as written by Byron and Poo? JOB. F. Any poem that 1s not copyrighted, or whose copyrirht has expired, may be freely used for such a purpose, Table Etiqnette, ‘To the Fdltor of The Fvenine World: | When eating meate is it proper to Jent tho letture, water-cress or parsley |that garnishds the dish? When agpara- gus is served on toast, is not the toast |put there to absorb the molature? In j!t proper to eat the toast? L. 8, The lettuce, &., used for garnishing the dish may be eaten, though at for- mat dinners it is not. The toast on whioh asparagus 1s servetis intended ‘to be eaten | The Man Lower Down, | To the Kéltor of The Meening World We'll soon have another grafter for the papers to be after, if the franchise |of the subway gets the taint of gratt's lrenown, Whep the franchise*tian been granted, if some graft has been “Pa; tata’ed,” we will have to turn the im Mght on the man that's lower down. c. BE. FARR. Monday. ‘Te tha Waitor of The Evening World: On what day of the week did Jan. 2, wT, tal? THEODQRE. wryeevreereees injury to herself {s like a Chinese draw-| | ing in that it lacks in perspective and) shows everything as practically he| “ ¢ more underhanded tn thelr) man being may walt for years in im-| ; (By T, E. You Witu Fino My GETTING ON WITH HIS ATHLETICS / The! instinct for revenge dwells in every! « PRAI9O99S04 9996824 500000 SS S Mrs, Nagg HUSBAND ON THE Roor With the and Mr. Powers.) WRESTLING INSTRUCTOR By (Copyright, 1904, by the Press Publishtr; Company, The New York World) Despite the Way He Acts, She Still Continues to Scatter Sunshine. of Company He Keeps, but Would She Ever Conplain? Ah, She Never Will! (¢f. OLONPL Wikinson has come to C see you. [ know Lam only m the way, I know you don't want me around when you have anybody else to talk to, Let me aft in the corner somewhere upstairs and be forgotten and neglected. y Col. Wilkinson may pretend to invalM. He may have himself pushed around in a wheel chair by a myatertous negro who will not betray him, But I know that he and you ere scheming and planning to ‘lead «wiv: and hilarfour Me when I go ewag to 9 country. Don't be fqolish, you say? “Yes, I know I am foolish, I know you scorn me. 1 know you tsnk 1} am allly, Perhaps I deserve it for be- ing silent and letting you out wih your boon companions till all hours, Now lt is too late. “I know I shoufd not permit it. I know 1 have a right to complain, but it {© my nature to be patient and for- giving, and to be allent even when 1 am treated in the most shameful and outrageous manner! “Col, Wilkingon is coming to talk over a business mactéer with you, you say? “Yes, throw dust in my eyes. But my mother says she knew Col. Wilk- {neon when whe was a girl, forty years, ago. He was @ very disnipated young man, and used to shout at the college games till he would get a sore throat have to come home and go tw bed while the other young men were around town celebrating their victories, “That's the kind of a young man he was. A wild and reckless, terrible man! Mamma bas told me, for the Wilkinsons lMved near them, that he used to peas her house end wink at her in the moet wicked way. “What could you expect from such @ man, but what he would go to the vay end deliberately have his legs shot “Mr. Smig says war and fighting is horrid, Mr. Smig wouldn't shoot his legs off! And now here Col. Wilkin- fon, a wid bachelor, comes to my house to make you dissatisfied with your happy wedded ilfe, and you want to drive me out of the room #9 you can talk over your wicked plans, “Col. Wilkinson is a gallant, kindly gentleman, you say? “How do I know who an& what he is? He never comes to see us, ‘This ie the Qrat time he has ever sat foot iu thle house by being wheeled in. “I Rave only met him once, and there was something so artificial about mat was fie artificial legs, you » Mr, Nagg, how can you have the heart to make a joke about a friend's affliction? “You have @ crual, agifish disposi- Priced Poor Decause ‘wilyinore, fond of ‘ ad Col. to abuse him behind “his you try back. duccaoae Mula Si “You would make out he is a man that leads @ terrible life. Just a few moments ago you told me #0. Don't deny it! Don't you dare deny it! “Here ts Col. Wilkinson now, “How are you, Col. Wilkinson? Have your man wheel yor chair over here by the window. ‘Yes, 1 am looking good, but I feel terrible, Such pains up back. Powitices and plast me any good. I lay awake all night and suffer, and by day I work, work, work, till I know J am killing myself. “Of course I do not get any thanks for it, But'then 1 have the feeling that 1 do my duty. “I have suffered more than bodily pain. 1 could tell you things about my #ymytoms, but I prefor to be cheer- ful and not let any one know how I suffer, “But, col, Wilkinson, my doctor will tell you that I could never stand all the strain there is upon my system if {t wasn't for my wonderful constitu- thon, {[ have the most wonderful con- stitution in the United States. “What do you mean, Mr, Nagg? I did not say anything about the con- stitution of the United States? Your jokes are as bad as your taste! “But, as I was telling you, Cole Witk- inson, I suffer continually, and medicine doean't seem to do me any good. 1 take all the best remedies, but nothing can do me am any good now, because | ou run dows. Roy L. McCardell, Her Friends Know What Sort $-909O949659O03005% | By Martin Green. Why Physicians Like to Wear Facial Lambrequins. WONDER,” mused the Cigar Store Man, “why 90 many doctors wear whiskers.” : “From the looks of a lot of hajr portteres o@ | the faces of doctors,” said the Man Higher Up, > |“the medicine men use their whiskers for towels. The habit of wearing whiskers prevalent among the aaw- !pones—for it is a hebit—grafts itself on them while | they are very young in the business. “It is characteristic of human nature that when it comes to looking for relief from pain or sickness the people in general have no confidence in a man wholooks like he was a kid. The half-baked doctor works undera pull. Naturally he looks about for expedients to make him appear old, and hits on whiskers the first orade out of the box. “The fact that the average youth's face is as muph adapted to the cultivation of whiskers as a front yaré in a coal mining town is to the cultivation of hay drops no medicine with the young M. D. He sees the old pras- titioners with alfalfa trimmings driving their own buggies and automobiles, and he reasons—not without some basis—that the whiskers are the thing. “So he grows a bunch. Each individual whisker joes lonesome as a hired man at a husking bee, and the’en- semble is something fierce. Perseverance wins out in the end and you can't see his face finally through the microbe strainers. He gets his first case about the time he gets » | his first experience of wearing his whiskers on the ‘street without arousing raves, and as nearly every man is more or less superstitious he hangs onto them as mascots.” “I should .hink,” remarked the Cigar Store Men, “that the doctcrs would be afraid of accumulating contagion is their lambrequins.” “A man who is brave enough to wear whiskers,” re- plied the Man Higher Up, ‘is not afraid of anything.” 166 3| oe. 999939006920 Fables, Far, Far from Gay. No. 12—The Woman Who Did Not Adopt the ‘‘ Bend.”” HERE was once a Woman who got the Straight Tip that the Grecian Bend was the direct Line to get Square with the Whole Thing in the Fashion-Plate line, An¢ she couldn't be Happy till she got it. But, being perhaps « trifle inclined to Embonpoint, she was by Nature rather Erect than Willowy; and no one had ever even Insinuated that her Curves were any too Sinuous. So she summoned the Skill of a modest young Modiste to correct these trivial Aberrations. And her first Lesson was as follow: “Eef madame vill attend, I vill dry to impart ze feirst preenciples uff ze Eend. Movement number one: Bleeze to elevate madame’s shin—non, non!—perdon! Hef you bDieese, tt {s not gat stin, madame—non; nor ze oazer von, eezem It {s nees shin, here, on ze haid, by ze mouf. So! Bon! “Movement number two: Be bieeze to Incline ze shouldairs yorvairts from ze vaist. So! Tres bien! Good! | “Movement number tree: Let me Allow me, one mo- ment. Yea, I belief zat for ze thaird movement! vill be necessaire for madame to employ a leetle, just us sle—do you say? Vill madame observe—like giss! Vol “By the howly mother, come out o' that! Quit this house this instant, ye shameless, impertinent minx of # furren ballet-dancin’ contorshurfist or I'l! put yez out! Do like that, is 1t? Let me ask yez, ye chatterin’ pirouette, de yes take mre fer a double-jointed hippopotamus?—me that's a dactat woman wid a drop o' asilf-reshpec'-God knows. intinds ter kape it yit, bad luck ter yer. Here's yer pay! Go put yer “‘leetle buzzies' on a kangaroo!" And the Incident was Closed. aaacd o 2 d99e The Yankee Pessimist. The London Globe publishes the following versical lamené supposed to be made by a Yankee on learning that President Roosevelt is addicted to chewing gum: Our President's one whom I mostly admire, Gits right there, and makes everything hum; But the amber contains just one inseot's remains, For our President masticates gum. too high; he should sattsfled be, cooped the Republican plum; More dignified far, let him bite hig eigar And eschew the seductions of gum, The social canker from Madison road Extends to the Bowery ‘slum, So, in fear of the brand, I am off to a tand Whose President shudders at gum. Of Wall Street, the Pit, I'm doomed to be quit, (And the thought finds me glummer and glummer) Till I read in the Press at my foreign address LITTLE, girl in a dry goods And They'te Not Aoked in Rityme, store the other day, for Which Be Thankfuk “IT am all ran down, Mr, Nagg! You Copyret, 1904, by the Piaget Puls. Co. will Se wlad when I am called away, and you can be a gay widower. “But, Col. Wilkinson, as | was tell- Ing you, you are a man who can run around town and forget vour worries because you are hearty and robust. thet I ever complain, or, no! vhat, must you be going, Col. Wilk- ; Mr. Nagg, T have caught you nan untruth! You said Gol. Wilkinson was coming to talk over & business matter with you and he has never said a word about business all the time he has been here! ‘went up and asked ber what it was. She gave it-te and, turning around, RAN AWAY QUICKLY! over the paper carefully, we were astounded ‘to find it Drose pocm containing some-{ntensely interesting ques-.. tlons, as follows: ‘Who took me from my warm, warm cot? ‘Who began, How old is Aun? ‘Who surrendered at Barren Island? ‘Who was the man that made Dicycies tired? ‘When did Louis the 14th St reiga? Why is Russell Sage? Why didn’t Lee surrender in:1612? ‘Whe discovered ice in the Delaware? Friends of Mr. Nagg. To the Editor of The Bvening World: In return for favors to me through Who invented breakfast foods > your Narg articles, please accept tol- Why did not Napoleon die in 18399 lowing true story of my wife and my- self, She found some Heorice gum drops bated as welgs twice as much as- two: in my possession and said: “You buy| |4 Heorive um drops and you know | don't like them. ‘That is why you buy them, You never buy anything 1 like.” I-wish you would work this into one ‘ot your chapters. The truth of the matter is I buy her anything she wants in tre refreshment line FW Dear, kind, good Mr, McCardell ‘Vhank you ever ao much for to-day's treatment of poor Nagg. Not only did it muke me very happy to read what | Gid in today’s World, but my wife can no longer say ‘that I have been so low as to make you the confidant of my To-Day’s $5 Prize ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotortal. Was Written by Fohn E. Leonard, No. t Nassau ) Street, New York City. 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