The evening world. Newspaper, June 2, 1904, Page 14

THURSDAY uve. JUNE 2, 1904, Published by the Press Publishing Company, No. 3 to 6) Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 44........ -NO. 18,626. NO ROD IN NEW YORK SCHOOLS, When corporal punishment in the New York schools was abolished in 1869, that was progress. To restore! the system after thirty-five years would be to step back- ward. The principals who advocate this retrogression may be efficient in matters of school routine; their course inspires public doubt as to their equipment ir tactfulness and sympathy. It is significant that when the 6,000 teachers of) New York had their opinions sought on this question of bodily chastisement, only 1,200 responded, and these] in such a way as to denote little interest in the matter. The Rod’s in Pickle Again for Schoolboys That Need It. w ut w New York Teachers Favor the Restoration of Corporal Punishment —Both Sides Can Train for It During Vacation, What the Girl at Waterbury Said. = TAKE DiS) H K By i THE KID BAT, B DE TEACHER _ i Nixola Greeley-Smith.| | ALso a IDATT POLISH UP FoR in the news- THE ORDEAL [papers what the girl at Waterbury said. And we were| | shocked, deepiy| | shocked, and sym-| |j pathixed with man who, Ing it, exc Great snakes! and forthwith ora- ceeded to organizo an antl - profanity the Is it possible that the 575,000 pupils in the city have been so divided by chance that the unco. bad fall all to the worriment of certain school principals? “1 don’t want corporal punishment,” said one dis- senter at the principals’ hearing, ‘because I have a very bad temper.” So he voiced one of the most powerful arguments against the rod—laying aside questions of sentiment, parental prerogative and the right upbring- _ ing policy. A quick blow is the ready sequence of a quick temper. If the blow prove undeserved, what is to cure . the lasting smart of injustice, what is to restore that confidence of pupil in teacher which is essential to the success of both? It is better that a few mischievous go insufficiently punished, in the absence of good training at home ora tactful master at school, than that the rod fall wrongfully on a single boy or girl in the classroom, A DESERVED HONOR. Fifteen years ago a cultivated young society woman ‘who “liked Italians,” as she sald, went to live in a @eglected old mansion in the heart of the Chicago tene- ment-house district, and there, amid surroundings of @qualor, she began in a small way the philanthropic ‘work which was to expand into the famous Hull House Bettlement. ‘ Next week the University of Wisconsin will confer on this woman, Miss Jane Addams,, !n recognition of her eminent services in the uplifting of the poor with whom he cast her lot, the highly prized degree of Doctor of »|Lews. Considering the sex of the recipient and the feasons for its bestowal the honor {s probably untque fn colloge annnals. And it 1s deserved to an extent not in commencement favors. Social settlement work 16 an English idea, and in its Present development an Oxford idea. How {ft has thrived in New York during the nineteen years since its intro- Guction in a top-floor room !n an east side tenement- house mty be understood from the item in the newly- fesued report of the University Settlement society show- | ing its expenditure last year of $71,572. } The handsome fire-proof bullding !n Rivington street shar 1s now the society's home ts the centre of social missionary work of remarkable comprehenslveness and @cope under the direction of a headworker and a hundred associates, most of them college bred. - Their missionary effort has been of incalculable benefit to the congested region within Its influence. Miss Addams, in an address at Sherry’s, spoke of the “genius and rare talent burled in tenement-house I!fe.” A sample of the keeunoss of Intellect of the children who come within the range of this benevolent and educational work: was given !n the Memorial Day exercises at the Hebrew Educational Alliance, There “four hundred children of the stecrage who six months ago had never spoken a word of English” sang American songs and feelted speeches in accents entirely intelligible to their American audience. A Seerct That Would Ont.—It seems that the District- Attorney knew Andrew H. Green to be innocent of any act of dishonor in connection with the Elias disclosures and that hs family and near friends knew. The public suspicion under which his name rented is now defintt quieted, But why not @ more authoritative assur- ance of his Innocence have been given at the time when ‘those who most highly respected him most desired 1t? The reticence which saved the reputation of the living at the expense of the dead appears in the Ight of the Present publicity to have been ill-advised. ELECTRIC RAILROADS The news of the hour throws light on the great progress made in electric traction. The ferty new olectric locomotives which are to be veed on the Centrals I!ne between the city terminal and North White Plains will have double the horse power of the lccomotives which haul the Empire State Eapress ‘They will be capable of a speed of seventy-five miles an hour. The New York, New Haven and Hartford ts about to install an electric line between Newport and Fall River to replace its steam road. A branch of the Boston and Maine system In Western Massachusetts has been forced to reduce fts fares to an unprofitable minimum to meet the competition of the trolley line paralleling it. There are now !n the nation pearly 18,000 miles of trolley lines, a jarge part of ther heavily ballasted and equipped with rolling stock of a superior kind. New York has a direct interest In the proposed “I” through trains from the Battery to Yonkers and in the extensions of the subway connecting lines through the .Bronx. By this latter route within a few years it will de posible to take a train at the City Hall which wil carry its passengers at high speed through the West- chester cities to the Connecticut line, ‘The suburban resident of 1910 ts promised transporta- tion facilities which the commuter of to-day must needs gnvy him. He will thon bo cnabled in the course of half} an hour to reach in comfort and cleanliness almost any guburb within a radius of fifteen miles. ‘\ FROM BASKETBALL TO SAFETY. At this late date a fresh story crops up of the Iroquois tre horror in Chicago. It is told by a correspondent ithe Critic and refers to the success of a young hostess @ box party who, at that fatal matinee, marshalled ill we geven schoolgirl guests to safety. “V brothér how she was able to do it,” says the Critle or, “ho satd, ‘Well, you see, she’s captain of her team and used to seeing and acting quickly.’ ” ‘weores again for the athletic girl; scores addi- 0 0 m which there {s helpful training not ining; adds anew to the and play centres where the hool, may be¢not only it while at their Be a yhen I asked! , society. That ts, we sympathized with everything except “Great enak Nothing could make New Yorkers take kindly to the bu- colo expletive anywhere except in :he| || b’gosh drama, where tt properly be jongs. At seems only fair, however, to retleve the awful isolation of the girl at Water- bury by stating that there are actually giria in New York who, doubtless unter extreme provocation, have said the same thing—not only in musical com-| |iilj \ p LL edy circles where picturesque exhorta-| |i! 4 Hels tion of disappearing hairpins and cur'-| |) Re WORSE) Ing trons or obstinate slippers ts too} || nN usual to excite comment, but tn the! narrower regions of the sewing circie and the matinee girl. What did the girl at Waterbury nay, naks the uninformed but perhaps curlou reader. What did you say the 1 time you stood on the corner of Four- feenth atreet and waved wildly at a car that wouldn't atop, and then chased St vainly for half a block and, pausing. heard the derisive laugh of some un. feeling pedestrian behind you? Or, per- hapa, you only thought it, But any way, that was It Jeating aside, however, the number of women who swear—reaily awear with no half-baked compromises euch. aa darn it or drum It, or any of the other mid substitutes for what the girl at Wagerbury epld—seema to be on the In- crease, And the fact ts most distressing to chrentole, In m Broadway car the other duy @ very quiet, well-dreaned seemingly well-bred young woman w nailed to the conductor to stop at na certain corner, and when the car jolted |i Gognedly pant her destination electritjed | |i her follow-travellera by saying in. the most matter-of-fact tone poasibie: | hy the — don't you atop?” Yee! |! that young woman, who had grown cal-| |||; lous enough to swear unrestrainedly in| |’ the prese:ce of strange men and wom-) |) en, cortainily shrank with horror from the first oath she ever heard, | Apart from any religious significance which most oaths originally had, but| —- _ which they have altogether lost so far itrawracas tee Uge Found at Last for the Trained College Athlete use that ts most distressing to the nen- Seventy-five Husky College Boys Have Been Hired to Suppress Rowdyism on B. R. T, Cars This Summer. | WY TV TTT TEN TUTE TRS ET TEACHER 15 GETTING READY FOR THE COMING ScHool SEASON A VERY APPROPRIATE METI of HOD LIMBERING up T TIMES LOOKS 2 i THIS ! war To TEACHER sitive mind and jarring to t! senaltive car, It in dintinctly a shock to the nner feminine sensibilities to hear an oath even as one som ea does from an angry carter or @ saloon loafer in the chance contact of the street. And the process of hardening through which ahe must pass before being able to use her self the expressions which she first heard with Instinctive shrinking must be great Indeed. Strangely enough, however, there seem to be women who, while per- mitting themselves to swear, would be outrageounly insulted tf they were sworn at. And what the girl at Water- bury said would probably have thrown her Into hysterica if tt had been said to her. Yet women who swese should not ex- pect cholcer language than they use themselves. And, of course, If they are willing to pay this price far the privi- lege of ripping out an expressive oath or two at a crucial moment it ts en- Unrely thelr own affair. RECEIVING DEGREE OF "B.R.T.B." (@R7, BOUNCER) BOUNCERS’ CLASS AT. COLUMBIA, BETTER THAN Ph.D. !! LZ, BATH BEACH, UM-PAH! CONEY, TRUM-PA’ BRIGHTON - ziIP-Kow! BAST NEW YorK = CHow CHOW! RAH! RAH! Ry ANYTHING Miers se WERE THE Bou ( cee rem you BEST JOKES Tist cause OF THE DAY. IN DER CAR! HELP WANTED, “Young man," sald the elderly gentle- man, aa he approached the soda counter, “T have a pecuillar affliction, The nerves re paralyzed," "rejoined the soda clerk, “you want to see the doctor, I Suppose.” “No, I want a giass of soda,” replied the elderly party, “and owing to the at. filction aforenald I take the liberey of asking you to kindly wink at yoursct? for me."—Chicago News, - CIVILITIES, The detective who had run do corridor of the Jail talking to the prisoner, “Well, my safetlower,* guess that name fits you. safe, anyhow,” “That's all right,” growled the pris. THE CO. DOES NOT AN "ARGUMENT * DESIRE ARRESTS. ON STATION PLATFORM. e) = FOOTBALL TACTICSS —-crait-T DROP YaNy — ss ON THE BRP D THE WEAR ANO TEAR ON CARS WILL BE FIERCE. he said, “1 T've got you oner, “You're a safo blower, because 7 can't get at you."—Chicago Tribune, CURIOSITY, “Professor,”’ said ) No " “what do you consider the most curing THE Webb Berec hing you ever saw?” ee “Woman, unquestio * here piled Philadelphia Ledger, ried WILLIE. Tallor—Do you want padded shoutders ERS, QUERIES AND ANSWERS. ¥ ¥ little man? . Willie W; pad de ante! Dat Large stores are cleaned tn the night, "Two-thirds of B's money equals threc- | Company and the Metropolitan Street where I need It most,—Chicago Ne. ip i Let the tolling thousands see something /fifths of C's, ‘Their combined capital] Railway Company? A.B, sf r sweet and wholesome after breakfast. |catials $4,250, How much has each? ‘The Interborough Company has leased ORIENTAL REPARTEE, soven pounes I BROOKLYNITE, NOBAM. | the Manhattan elevated roads for a Our = stand! a how much do 5 . +) a term of years. It does not control the anding army"—began the ha even pounds and hal Fy a Colon aeerss) Motropotftan ‘Street Railway Company, ri one brick would gy fou pounds. ee P erat . To the Editor of The Evening World: * ” Huh!" {nterrupted the 4} nk "| I am desirous of getting to West Yes. In 1886, & VORy Utter She Relatan, ta pounds Is the weight of one-half! pont and I wish to know what pro: | Af White and bluck colors and tur-| ro the Raitor of The Evening World: . le you won't have and the hait of a brick is tre | to! thermore, what are the colors of the] Ww, rt ident of any standin ’." ceedings I must go through to get an Was Theodore Roosevelt, Presiden Quit ie Arey weight of the other half; hence if one-| appointment, L, c, |*eectrum? JOSEPH F. CROTTY, the United States, ever nominated for © BO. be sit x “Philadelphia Press °° Your IMMUNE, “Young man." sald Rey, Goodman, some day you'll bring vour father To she Editor of The Evening World: rs in sorrow to the grave. * cae nu yoink ‘The Bridge terminal on tho Brookly: i | aide te@irty, very, very dirty. Could i: berms at dine R halt weighs seven pounds one would weigh 2 (mos 7, or 14 pounds. A SCHOOLBOY. A Bridge Terminal Complaint. Mayor of New York City? If so, on what date? HENRY H. Physicians Diger as to This. No, 68 Gansevoort street. Black and white are not colors. The seven colors of the spectrum are violet, fadigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red. The Interborough Company. — M army.” A Sal Problem. ‘To the Editoy of The Kvening World: A saves one-third of his salary, B saves one-fourth of his, A saves $5 more than B, B's galary is $220 more than A's, What's ghe salary of each? How i that fora, coy eat By Martin Green. Se Reggie Vanderbilt 3: 5 . Blasphemously Said: “Oh, Pifflel’’ 73 SHE," said The Cigar Store Man, “that when Reggie Vanderbilt didn’t get the blue ribbon at the Philadelphia Horse Show he said, ‘Oh, Piffle!' and drove his pair right out of the ring. “Ain't it a shame!” remarked The Man Higher Up. “But it happens In every horse show. The Vanderbilta havo been getting the oofty gooft not only in Philadel. phia, but right here in New York. I saw Reggie's brother one day at the Madisor Square Garden show get so Irritated when they gave him the gate that I ex- pected ‘him to throw his hat right out on the tan bark. “Which goes to show tbat the Vanderbilt youths are not true sports. They have the munyano for anything they want, from horses to hiatuses in Newport, but the chances are that Reggie Vanderbilt doesn’t know any more about the fine points of a horse than he does about the points in a game of stuss. The millionaire who thinks he ought to win blue ribbons because he can buy horses like an ancient business man buying houses and lots for a bogus Spanish renorita is dated out for a jar at fre quent if regular Intervals. “Some of the offspring of the New York rich know more about horses than men who sleep with horses da They buy their own nags and drive them and trade them, and they do it because they love horses. Unless a mau has a natural Icve for a good horse he won't take the interest in horses to make him a competent judge, and the professional horse traders give him a preferred po- sition on the sucker list. When the professional dealers get a rich man on the string whose knowledge of horsey is superficial the game of the spider and the fly is philan« thropy by comparison. Let us hope that after a few more rehearsals against the worst of it in the show ring Reggie will get a strangle hold on bis petulance. A hard loser in one of our first families has a tendency to make us fear that we shall have to continue to get our thoroughbreds ‘by way of the naturalization courts.” “He is certainly game the way he {is standing by Cam field.” asserted The Cigar Store Man. “Maybe he's game,” agreed The Man Higher Up, “and maybe he js afraid that Jerome will make him tell how much Canfield stung him for Will Women Be Giants? A woman's periodical published {n London 1s worried af the size of the modern woman. “Whereas,” It says, "@ déo ade since the average size in women’s shoes was 8, 5 being accounted specially large, 7 and 8 are now commonly asked for, while the average size has become 5, The little glove hag llkewise grown into 9 good-sized hand shoe, My lady's hov elery has become bigger at the same time—in short, thé avery age girl of 1904 could not wear any article of apparel thal fitted the girl of 1874, And where, one now tremblingly asky is this to old?" Policemen’s College, There is a policemen’s college in St, Petersburg to train applicants for the force. In a museum connected with school the pupils make themselves familiar with the tools eriminals—jimmies, drills, chisels and contrivances for rob bing collection boxes. The Russian passport system is atud jed in detail. ‘he duties of the dvorniks, a sort of assistant police, are taught. They keep watch on the residences, ree port on tho habits of the tenants and their visitors, examine the papers uf newcomers and direct them to report ther selves at the police station. The Gook,. Prof, Von Geter’ bric, N.G., D.U. Bs) of the EVENING: FUDGE'S EGYPT-' OLOGIST SUR-| VEY. Was made the! Ptolemy, of Egypt, Wrote the First Gook. He Carved It on the Park Obeli>k— Here Ia the Transtation. Ceayrat, 190% Ly the Planet ud. Co. }) found on the obelisks and temple gates of Luxor and: j}] Thebes ‘were nothing more or less than prehistoric’ GOOKS! ' PTOLEMY I. was thus the FIRST GOOKOLOGIZER. ' The Egyptian word for gook was Ptgook! The GOOK on the + (- PARK OBELISK has been translated ty Prof. Von Geld. | dric from Ptolemy's own hilcroglyphics. Its first sentence reads (in the original Egyptian) : “PTYOU PTCAN PTFOOL PTSOME OF THE PTPEO- PLE PTALL PTTHE PTTIME,” It fs difficult to translate this into modern English, but Prof. Von Geldbric has deciphered enough of it to CONVINCE him of th: AMAZING FACT that Ptolemy the Great unconsclously carved on that-obelisk the VERY. WORDS which were later destined to become the EVEN- ING FUDGE'S FAVSRITE motio and life-precept. A handsome GOOK00 CLOCK, with 4 GOOKA pinned on {ts startoard cornér, will be prescnted by this paper to the FIRST READER who CORRECTLY translates the above Inscription {ato English and who accompanies his i] reply with a photo of the $500 man who DIDN'T kill Gerry Pink, a THE # EVENING # WORLD'S # HOME w MAGAZINE. # - A hs 4 A