The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1904, Page 12

oh Fi ‘Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-OMice ° at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 44. -NO. 16,631. POST-OFFICE FRAUD ORDERS, ‘The issue by the postal authorities within a week of ro frnud ordera,against New York. firms furnishes he Post-Office Department {n the suppression of Sthe protection of thg public against the consequences $68 its own guiljjbjlity the department's efMficiency has recently merited,the highest praise. concern last week money orders aggregating $30,000; ; the post-office and held. In the “discretionary pool,” which was the latest object of the department's ac- ‘tivity, was $18,000, which had been contributed by con- customers who had been promised dividends from 10 to 100 per cent. Brom this showing of cases which have been de- by the Secret-Service men it is possible to infer ) wide extent of the bunco finance which may have hed by the Press Publishing “Company, No, 63 to @ |’ evidence of the excellent work Accomplished by| | ‘Wéwindling enterprises of the “get-rich-quick” order. In} As an indication of how widespread the financial! Gredulity {s on whjch the swindler counts for his gains, | within two days after the seizure of the “trading” | }% victims in all parts of the country were stopped | errrmeaety The Elusive Microbe of Kissing. —_——- WISCONSIN By Nixola Greeley-Smith. | Board of A Health has ‘flegisiated against Kissing, the alles: tion made against -[the gentle practice being that it ‘There are persons 30 dulled to senfl- sf ment, so deadened ‘the unloving Emerson detined as our Lighest word and the synonym of God, fs a diseuse—and if this t. true the practice of kissing, by which love {s most frequently communicated. is un- doubdtedly a subject for grave considera- tion by pathologist But even {f the kisses unsanitary pos- sibilities be admitted and the right of yecaped their scrutiny. te ig.) OF. THE MOB SPIRIT. | rhe mob lawtessness at the World's Fair will serve “a Buropesn critics as a text for sarcastic remarks on euperior quality of American civilization. Goratch a Russian and you find @ Tartar, and, ex- Seoting to find him, do not ask for excuses or explana- tons. But to ruffle the feelings of an American audience 8f supposed respectability and to discover beneath its ‘Shin veneer of orderliness a mob spirit eager to wreck PAid burn to revenge itself for disappointment must provoke reflections not flattering 'to our eelf- a somplacency. a It does not suffice to say that the St. Louis outbreak he exceptional and unique. ‘It was rather a mani- ‘the crowd which stoned the Gotshall party and that which gathered menacingly about Inspector Schmitt- berger’s automobile on Sunday. In each case there lay Yatent under the surface the same inflammable reckless- ness, seemingly only waiting an incentive and a leader ,to commit an act of violence. The regrettable thing is the symptomatic indication of a streak of national hoodlumism which progress, culture and refinement seem not to have educated ow! Mf us, WOMEN AND “HATS OFFI" One of the latest concessions of the pulpit to the venience of churchgoers comes.from the Jersey City preacher who has invited the women of his congregs- ffon to attend his services bareheaded. The invitation is issued especially for the warm season. But it may easily occur that, having experienced for a Lttle time the comfort of sitting with uncovered heads in church, miany fair hearers of the Word will ava{l themselves ta! the “hats-off” privilege at other seasons as well. Vanity and hat-pins are ch{efly responsible for tha, wearing of head-coverings in the meeting-houses of ta- day. St. Paul has little enough to do with it. Indeed, it is well considered that a St. Paul of modern times ‘would never write any commands on the subject at all. & He would be more likely to rebuke the vanity which! és presumes to rank any “creatipn” in millingry above the crowning, natural beauty of woman's hair. Outside the theatres, where it 1s‘ well established, £ ‘and the churches, where it is evidently getting ready to { Teport progress, the “bats-off’ idea spreads en- - couragingly. Even in the baseball grand-stands spec- ) _ tators do not hesitate to request the removal of monster > fheadpieces which bide the-field. And for the most part Tequests are amilingly granted. All this {s excellent—good for the people aud good ee for the hair. Hats are sometimes articles of necessity. ‘They are often works of art. Pride in their costliness and’ beauty should be indulged to the injury of the ot people near by who want to see something besides N millinery. : s See ree es . ATHLETICS AND HEALTH. i Vurther inquiry into the after life of Harvard oars “men, mate by Dr. Meylan, of Columbia, for the Harvard 3 Graduates’ Magazine, ehows that they are “above the @verage in longevity, in health and in those powers ‘which make for success in life.” To questions regard- fing the state of their health since leaving collec sixty-eight reported it “excellent,” thirty-six ‘‘good,” “pne “fair” and one “poor.” Among’ the conclusions tenched by Dr. Meylan are: ‘That college athletes do not die young of heart dis- fase of consumption, as is so often asserted; “What the Hard training and racing involved in row- ing do not dull the mind and exhaust the mental and _physical energy; Deca * Theat the health and vigor of the oarsman {s 80 far above the average that {f rowing has any effect on the “health.that effect cannot be other than beneficial. ‘The facts on which these conclusions are based wero collectei/ with extreme care from 152 members of »Harvard University crews. The verdict is important as edispelling an old delusion about the evils of athletic training, the ghost of which it {s good to have thus “authoritatively inid, THE,“GENTLEMANLY” BOY. ‘The boy who deserves the desjgnation of “a perfect gentleman” comes in for criticism trom President G, Stanley Hall, of Clark University, a high authority, | President Vel also echoes the sentiments of the “Joxcly ‘commissioner regarding the “effeminization” of the public school system, of which the type vf he holds up to reproach {s the product. ¥ ion in another form of the spirit which actuated | ,,, } the kiss by frequent and varied repe- soalps they cover even less than to the inconventence | @ Health Boards to legislate aguinst {t be conceded, their power to control a world-old and world-wide custom, may well be questioned, For the practice of labial salutation— synonyme—what crimes are committed in your name!—ds world wide. There be those who have written that the kiss Js unknown in Jgpan save wherever it has been introduced by the invading foreigners together with other improve- ments of civilization, and that certain Savage tribes are unfamilier with its pervading biieses. But it is easier to believe that these travellers were being pleasantly guyed by the gentle geishas who had never been kissed rather than to credit the statement that anywhere on eatth the kiss ts actually unknown to lovers. Like everything else, a kiss is valu- or valueless according to the mean- ing’it has for him who gives or she who takes ft—and vice-versa, It may mean everything or nothing; may meri @ paragrayh in the ves of those who exchange it or merely fil @ place in a Gesultory conversation on a moonlit Piagza in midsummer. As a rule kisses mean more to woman than to men. ‘The average man will kiss any pretty girl that will let him—dndeed she doesn’t have to be pretty—one may say, any Girl that wil! let himeso that gradually tion loses its first heaven-sent signi- jeanco until what it meane to the girl becomes his only standard of compar- ison. He should not be too much blamed! for it, of course, It {s doubtful even, whether he should be blamed at all, for he ts his own victim, and instead of wondering and often secretly laugh- ing at a woman's fresher enthusiasm, should envy i as the greatest of the rifts that fate and custom have com bined to bestow upon her. A kiss in Strelf means nothing, and kissing just for the sake of the kiss qwithout regard to the person ktesed must be a very mild form of amuse ment, There are some men, and, in deed, a few women, who delicht in the reputation of being airy butterfies “qituing from flower, ito flower.” But this pastime, though Interesting enough for @ while, perhaps, must ultimately, pall, It is @ well-known fact that pers sons who make a business of tasting wines, whiskeys, &c.. all sense of taste, And lkewle the airy conngjsseur in kisses must ultimately be deprived of all finer dis criminating sense. “Total abstinence is not temperance. It's total abstinence,” ran a much ap- plauded Hine in @ recent play, The trouble with most reforms, including that of Health Board enactments against kjssing, {9 that they are too sweeping, It 1s useless to try to abolish the kiss, But if leaflets were to be to every man or woman of who is not-telling Perils lurk In kies- se ni just what unsanitary ing and what methods should be fol- Towed to outwit the nimble little bacilli thas the soft contact of lips may con- vey, much might be done to alleviate the ‘evil, It is the tendency of the reformer to try to accomplish too much. In the present atate of civilization of this too Tnaterjal world he should recognigg that the kiss cannot be abolished arf® t all he can do {# to discourage the p) Hee by ¢xample, precept and tracts, SOME OF THE BEST JOKES NOTHING TO SPEAK OF. Miss Skrawney (elgsiing)—Mr. Kidder is such a flatterer, Miss Ascum—What has ke been say- ing to you? Miss Skrawney—Oh, tee hee! he's so gallant. He told me I had arms ike the Venus,de Milo.—Philadelphia Press. CURE FOR STAMMERING. Mother—My little boy seems to have recently acqujred the stammering habit, Doctor—Have him quit reading war news.—Cleveland Leader, HOW OLD 18 ANN? Boarder—I think this chicken must have been named Ann. Landlady—What makes you think so? Boarder—Its age is so uncertain,—Bal- timore Sun. BETWEEN FRIENDS. Swiggs—Say, that fellow Bilkins call- ed me an old soak, What would you advise me to do about it? Briggs—Nothing., Had he called you a new soak you might have brought sult ~far the predominance of “gentlemanly” traits effeminize the poesessor is dificult of exact D “Curled darlings” have fought valor- n Buyope’s battlefields; Wellington testified to ‘ting qualities, In our civil war the city as well as the farmer.boys, whom they @ to have surpassed in parlor deport- ao barbarians at play on the football no Jack of manliness, though they are not 1 pene eee te, over: “mamma's boy” kind : But it \ for defamation of character,—Chicago News, CLOSELY PACKED, “Was the jury packed?" "I guess it was, They were all fat men, and one ot must have wel ed fully 600,"—Cleveland Plain Dealer, AND MEANS, eald the lawyer, “we may still win this case. I haven't ex- hausted all the means"— frequentiv, 4 1980000000062620050000666 ODEBEOOGDO-9O9099%- . ee The H SS998OO9-9-98-840-0-9-09-0065969-90-5-3-0006-O9 09-966605-06. 56-90 = S A Few g ®OOLDLOODOLABD ODDS IDEDDEDD DOLD OLOODED 4346004: ardest Job Vet---“Doping” Out a Vacation. $0000O6008004 i i FOODHOHS-T9O9E F3-999-99-90 2OTDODSODED ; $ 9099964000 OFS 68480060 With endless assidulty and tireless tollsome zeal The worn-out clerk for restful nooks now seeks; And he spends a month in figuring upon the spot where he’ll Put in his quiet little old two weeks. Gentle Tortures for the “Is-It-Hot-Enough” Idiot. Give HIM THIS TREATMENT CALL A PLUMBER Boil him.in oleo! Bake him in glue! Serve him up raw in an asphalt stew! Fill him with radium and just let him splutter! No torture for him is too fiendishly utter! 2 THE # EVENING w WORLD'S w HOME w MAGAZINE. w os | gh ed The Recreation Piers and Parks Are Gotham’s ‘Cupid Bowers.’ b6 SED,” said The Cigar Store Man, “that Father I Curry says that there is too much spooning on the recreation plers in the evening.” “Father Curry is a fine man and he knows his people and his New York,” replied The Man Higher Up, “but he seems to overlook the fact that the young people of the tenements have no place to spoon in but the public places of resort. The sweethearts in the summer time hike to the recreation piers and the parks, and it has been a long time since anybody has made a kick about it “The gcod soggarth protests that rough young men invade the piers and that their conduct is demoralizing. The fat cops who doze their time away on the recreation pier details are to blame for this. It iv in their power to tincan the hoodlums or fan them into the river, and it is their duty to protect the people who go to the piers for rest and fresh air. “The public spooning in New York puts a crimp in strangers who come to tie city and see it for the first ume, but they get used to it. Would Father Curry have the swecthcarts of his congregation passing the conology of love to each other in a hot room in a tenement-house these summer nights? It is to be fearel that he would = + have few marriage ceremonies to perform under such circumstances, “Nobody pays any attention to the thousands of young people sitting in the parks on warm evenings with their arms around each other. The lovers are apparent- ly unconscious of the presence of anybody else on earth Thousands of propusals are made every summer in New York under the soft influence of the moonlight and the breezes and the music of the bands.” “Maybe it would be a good idea to have public Cupid's bowers, or places like that especially for spoomers,” sug- gested The Cigar Store Man. “Maybe it would,” agreed The Man Higher Up, “but nobody would go to them.” The Gook, Has the End of the World Come at Concy Island? A Scientific Reason for Bee Hleving So. (Copyret, 1004, by Ye Planet Put Ca) and You have 296 bones in your body, unless you are an unsesamoldal pig’s foot, whem you are Just one shy of the regular human allowance. ‘You have ten tocs on your fect, if 2 cable car carried one or two of them away. -If you’ don’t this statement count your toes, or the baby's tocs, see if we are not handing you gut the right sti way of a liberal Pudge-y education. H These facts, known opty to us, aad acqi by a; long and pensive course of study through Prof. Gookem- ' allve’s “Wonder Book for Gray-Bearded Children,” we | contained in the following verse, which is said to have been evolved by several members of the Lambs’ Club f after a late supper. ‘The six blank spaces represent as many words, which, when substituted for them, complete the sense of the verse. ‘The six words are formed of different combinations of the same six letters and are all words in general use, The object of the puzzle {s to find the words, whioh fill these conditions. A N interesting and somewhat difficult word puzzle is A —~ sat in his ray watching the of moon- beams play, And tl was the song he sang: Thou the weak, thou the strong; The of battle to thee belong. John Barleycorn! John Barleycorn’ : Scythes in Churches, At first sight the scythe ia a strange ornament for s ehureh, but there {s nothing incongruous in these curious agricultural implements as seen in the parish church of 6t Mary's at Horncastle, in Lincolnshire, Thirteen of these blades are nalled above the door in the north chapel. Atone time the blades numbered forty or fifty, but owing to rust and decay many of them have been lost. Each of the scythes is about a yard in length. ‘ ‘The general belief {s that these blades were placed in the church in commemoration of the seal of peasants who wielded them tn defense of their faith in the rebellion known as [he Pilgrimage of Grace," which had its rise at Louth in 1526, When the people saw the ruins of their ckurches and abbeys they rose in revolt, and, arming them- selves with the instruments of husbandry such as the soythes they went #-rth to encounter the enemy, They were beaten ‘and dispersed, but in the eyes of their countrymen they were heroes, ond the rude implements with which they fought ‘ were deemed worthy of an abiding place in the old chureh where the peusants had worshipped. Wives Must Work in Japan. As an example of the humble attitude of the Japanges wife Meg, Hugh Fraser relates this incident: A middle-aged man on the upper floor was suffering terribly from heat, and his ttle wife seemed greatly distressed about him, All tho screens had bacn opened, but it was a breathless day and no breeze came to ring the little glass bells on the hanging fern © veranda, ‘The man sat with his head tn:his while madame, kneeling on the mats Gehind him, fanned his back and from time to time rubbed him down with a blue towel, an expression of the’deepest reapest and sympathy on her face. When ho scemed a little better she busied herself with preparing tea, which he drank eager- ly course, made himself frightfully hot again. when Sen ae aaah SE