The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1904, Page 10

est | She BaHWiorld ‘Wark Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Otfice at New York as Second-Class Mai] Matter. VOLUME 44 .NO. 18,638. ASPECTS OF CITY MORALS. Certain questions of a moral nature, differing in character, but all bearing on municipal virtue, have _ Suddenly come up for discussion in this city. They seem to have had their beginning in Signor - Biondi’s charge that we are worse than Puritanic— ~ hypocritical, in fact—in our view of the nude in art. The sculptor’s criticisms were provoked by the action ef the authorities of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in discreetly hiding from public sight in the museum's cellar his allegorical “Saturnalia,” on the apparent assumption that it was indecently suggestive. Next the question of the “moral peril of the Tecreation piers’ was brought up by two clergymen, one, Father Belford, reiterating yesterday his charge that the pier at Norih Second street is a resort for young men who prey on thoughtless girls; that many of its frequenters are loafers, and that the conduct of ' those there is “of all degrees from foolish to brazen Shamelessness,” Incidentally, the Elias case, the Young-Patterson tragedy and the undraped figures in thé pediment of the new Stock Exchange building have come in for moralizing and, in the latter instance, for expressions of prudery. The statuary in question is hardly likely to corrupt the city, and the moral dangers of the piers have yet to be demonstrated more clearly to convince those who see only good in them that these places of free resort for the tenement population exercise an evil influence in any way comparable with the benefit they confer. A “moral peril” more properly deserving the name and one more pressing because of the discredit it casts on the city is revealed in the numerous current cases of the abduction of young girls. This is a question of more vital interest than the academic discussion of the nude in art or the quality of recreation-pier flirta- tion, and one in which there can be no straining at gnats. The occurrence within a week of four cases of this mature, two of them under exceptionally painful circumstances, points to a tendency back to old red light conditions. The charges made hy Fanny Feinstein, Katie Gar- finkel and Sophie Musak go far to indicate a return of the infamous “cadet system,’ once thought to have been happily done away with. The allegation made at the time of the disappearance of Maria Basso of @ existence of a gang of young men in “Little Italy” ed in the regular abduction of girls for immoral Purposes must especially excite concern. These disclosures reflect most seriously on the City’s good name. They call for a renewed activity jon the part of the police to wipe out a repulsive form of predatory vice which has too long been a reproach, and which appears by this showing to be coming + back in all its former hideousness, The arrest of the i, persons charged with the abduction of Sophie Musak - isa good beginning of what should be a work of ) % fitter extermination. j OCEAN PARK PROSPECTS. , ©, The project for a seaside park of adequate extent, dong treated Ly the city authorities with an Indifference , Spproaching neglect, appears now to be engaging their active interest to as great a degree as that of the r wus civic bédies which are urging its e#tablish- t with a vigor promising success. There seem, , to be prospects that the present park-promoting “rivalry will develop dissensions as to site which may "give us two ocean parks where but one had been ~ asked for. The plan for a better and larger Coney Island park 1g advocated by the Association for Improving the Con- ition of the Poor. The Rockaway plan, which is sald to have the support ,of twenty-five charitable and city {mprovement organizations, contemplates a seaside park ‘of Central Park spaciousness, far surpassing in area it proposed for Coney Island, and more nearly com- mensurate with the demands of the Greater City, “The Rockaway project has much to commend It. But that may come later. Let us first have the Coney Island park, both because of its greater accessibility and greater immediate usefulness, It will be good to have both, but obviously better to carry through the original project, ‘as vitally needed, before engaging on a more ambitious venture. & franster Connection.—The strect car transfer station ‘Vat the junction of Park Row and Broadway, south of the Post-Oftice, wil! greatly aid communication be- © ‘tween lower Broadway and the east side, It will be of distinct advantage to short-trip passengers from Broad- ~way to points on Park Row from the Post-Ofice to the bridge entrance. This 1s a concession by the City Rail- ‘way management which will be widely appreciated, ‘ANOTHER SAD TALE OF THE RICH. It ts often a sad thing to be a Little Brother of the Rich. . When it isn’t getting one’s Bible class confidences Into the papers, like Mr. John D. Rockefeller, jr., and when itisn't being forced into exile or disguise by Mr. Jerome's be something else, as is the case with Mr. Howard Gould The story of Mr. Gould's adventure has been told in > tween wiles and gulles, no millionaire, be his years few () 9F many, can be reckoned safe till one knows the facts, No axes were used in Mr. Gould's case, however, and 1s B® yery busy hunt for two weeks a small army of servers. f ‘The point that confidence {5 better than a breach-of- 1 et suit between a castle bullder and his architect ized needlessly in the Gould instance. What ir really amounts to is additional evidence that try is finding out just what to do with its very Poblished by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 | Selefelefeleleteteletelefelefetefell-teblebelebeleleteteleteietetet Does dealousy Ever Kill Love ?): . By BLESS ™ (NOW THE THING TO Nixola Greeley- Smith. FOI AINT DO IN A TRAGEDY eS LIKE THAT IS TO Q0KS —7F HE GOOK: absolutely dead would m out of And the aneciote was fol-| lowed with this warning to wives “Tf your husband comas in at 2 o'clock n the morning do not ask him where re has been. And husbands who have the habit hour do not au f snuntering in at ti tion your wifes if they oc- alm the same privilege” ‘hia doctrine of absolute conjugal con- fidence is theoretically all very well. But if men and women want to pursue thelr separate lives after they have Joined them, Jurt exactly as if no such Joining had taken place, what do the: marry for? ‘To wander tn and out at all hours !s the bachelor’s privilege. If he wants to cling to 1t, he should remain a bachelor It {s the most netural thing in the PA, HEN SIETA world for a woman who hae spent the THEN SIFT ALL THISY greater part Wf twelve hours looking INFORMATION CARE) ‘forward to ther husband's return, to] + \ FULLY, AND You’L. show anxlety when he falls to appear until the small hours, and a pardonab) ‘i KNOW) WW AAT eine curiosity as to the reasons of the delay when he does appear. There nre many women tn the world, no doubt, who are too jealous and too exacting, but there are just as many Who are not Jealous and not exactin enough, If the price of retaining @ husband's Jove ts to ask no questions under any circumstances there are not many women self-restrained enough to pay Nor would it frequent! be worth the price. ‘The return priv of staying out herself without being catechized, even If practicable, would be a hollow pletths, like Mr. “Reggie” Vanderbilt, it is very likely to| } the news. It is a tale appropriate to a season when, be-| ‘ ‘the additional satisfaction of knowing that he kept} mockery, for no woman would care to avail herself of it. 4 Women want to be asked questions. They like their husbands to be just a little dit Jealous, as an occasio: emptory inquiry as to thelr wher Indicates them to be. Carried to u extreme, jealousy is no doubt very wearing In the matrimonial relation, but In moderate quantities it is 80 Ke neralty regarded as @ compliment that both men and women often affect it when they do not actually feel {t, simply fron tho desire to please. ‘The extent to which jealousy is pleas Ing to women ts indicated by a proverh quoted among the’ Russlan peasants by women who pride themselvas upon the occasional personal chastisement ad-| +; ministered by thelr huabands: “There !s Bp love." they declare, “without jeul-| {| ousy and no Jealousy without beating.” It ls doubtful whether the most ro- mantic American woman would carry her delight in her husband's jealousy so far, but it ts @ eatisfaction to her, nevertheless, As a matter of fact, Jealousy is the moat foolish of all tho foolish feelings that abide in the human breast. It 1s one of the many forms—and perhaps the most tormenting of all—that our selflove takes. For {t 1s undoubtedly a\ product of love for self, rather thin for another. uld be avoided and combated, ‘Trem Houses xy hurts ourselves. For, unless it becomes exasperating or ridiculous, | the object of ft is apt to find it rather pleasant than otherwise. To other peo: ple, it may degencrate ito a nuisance, but to ourselves it is a raging torment, | 2 & gnawing anguish, a daily increasing | 4 misery that grows by what It feeds on Therefore, for our own sakes, we should shun {t as we would the plague, the book agent and the reformer, LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. ESIGNAL “How 1s ClAuba Ths MORNING 2" ner of Left Hand, of The Evening World On which hai should an engagement and be worn? Arizona Is a Terri To the Editor of The Evening World Is Arizona a State or a Territory? TAKING MEDICING” “A . Ho BOARD Monday. le To the Editor of The Evening World Ay 2 On what day did Noy. 1si6, fan? | JAS. R. For Automobilints, To the Editor of The Evening World Your recent editorial on the attacks made by east side toughs on Mrs. e in the minds of all govc assailant and all his ac IN THE — 2 ees ae Pate ot SE gett FoR THose _—sS To the Eaitor of im Ward ¢ THER OwN yAcnTs ee In ait + aning? I 4 coms to me nk uNel ---Have You Met Him? vs! wm me we He Scatters Knowle’ge as He Goes, and He Knows Everything That's Worth Knowing. The Great American GOO sre Ri eR EE TEE TEE EEE EEE EE EEE EEE EEEEEE » The Gook Visits District-Attorney Jerome and Tells Him Gooky Things. 'The Yacht Cure Is a Nice Remedial buxury. 2 w& rd ws If You Haven't Got a Yacht a Ferry-Boat or Yawi Will Do Just as Well, THE DocTORS To THe PooR-HOUSE_ SIGNAL Hy “uch serrer THANK you," & LONGSHOREMANS Tes crise id be discovered and x FLaTause he law, while suc 7 g MERROWS My) SreRIFFS ‘LOCK ON ALL THe Artist Flinn’s cartoon is based on a news item printed yesterday that James D, Smith, banker and broker, and formerly commodore of k Yacht Club, who is ill at Stamford, has dispensed with all medical attention and is now on board his yacht curing himself : Phiicbhitkititititities ek bith bbibicbibiiitbktrbrb kb bi rrr reer rer rrr er to use it on the ament, where It s rsod, though tt niay no block y Th tae is e largely HIS X. | EXCELLENT REASONS. fairly well on e second generation. It can always employ ones to keep busy the sleuths, process- others of such jlk, who might otherwise be her less deserving men. au davemtbing $9 kha public eye A.W . 1 write this e in the: days it behooves every mon to his eye open and help in the opening Re has a beautiful tenor Jayson—Then TH bet y yellow kioodle that Philedelphla Telegrapl. (You, TERM OF OFFICE. THEN AND NOW. Reporter—Have you ever held any >ub-| The old-time patriot did not preach. Ho feced dis task and did not shirk. Citizen (being Interviowed)—Well, I} ‘The modern statesman makes a apeech |i was @ pall-bearer at a faneral once,— Somerville (Mass) Journal Grayem—They s.y het man Smith) Minister—You seem to be glad to havé’ p , air. Whenever rowed It.—| you come we have a bully dinner.- And compliments him for his. By Martin Green. Jerome Hangs Up His Cue After Tearing Holes in the Cloth, | SEE,” satd the Cigar Store Man, “that the Dis- trict-Attorney has hung up his cue and washed the chocolate-colored chalk off his hands in the Hannah Elias case.’ “The game-keeper ruled him out,” replied the Man || Higher Up. ‘He was shooting with the butt end of the cue and making holes in the cloth. Every time the om ball went into the pocket he hollered ‘Fifteen!’ The may : | who was stung hardest on the proposition was Magistrate Ommen, and it will probably ba a day when they have snow ploughs on the trolley cars before he will go. into a man’s house late at night and stand for sandbagging » criminal complaint out of a citizen who {fs not only an octogenarian bnt color blind. “Undoubtedly it was represented to Magistrate Ommen by one of Mr. Jerome's busy young men that there was a case of extortion and blackmail against Hannah Elias. Otherwise he would never have thought of moving his courtroom /nto the private house of a tax- payer. This may prove a lesson to Magistrates who are paid by the city to decide upon the strength of cases and show them that the District-Attorney’s office should not be allowed to run the courts. “It wouldn't surprise me to find the extens{on-chinned James Osborne trying to get Jerome indicted if there is finally a case of blackmail made against Hannah Elias as an, accessory before and during the fact. Mr. Jerome knew for months that John R. Platt was the man from whom Hannah Elias was copping the dough at the rate of $5,000 or more a clip. He knew that there was a stain on the memory of Andrew H. Green and he knew that the death of Mr. Green didn’t stop the transfer of the cush from Mr. Platt to the alleged octoroon. If it was blackmail for Hannah Ellas to shred Mr. Platt’s bank- roll before Andrew H. Green was killed by mistake, why wasn't it blackmail for her to continue to play the hand after the District-Attorney knew all about it?” “Maybe he thought that she would drop oid mar Platt,” suggested the Cigar Store Man. “It he did,” answered the Man Higher Up, “he ought to resign his job and turn {t over to some theological student.” The “Fudge” Idiotorial. The Evening Fudge Digs Up thell often Lost Art of Longevity, (Copyret, 1004, by the Planet Pub. Ce.) DO YOU WANT YOURBABY TO LIVE 1,000 YEARS? | He can doit by following the rules we here reset if The SECRET of longevity is: Life in accordance to’na: | ture. Sclence has discovered that it 1s Baby's NATURE } to squall, to creep, to butt Papa in the eye, to rub cat. meal Into his hair and to refuse to talk, DO NOT Dis- { COURAGE BABY IN ANY OF THESE PURSUITS! Teach + him NONE of the effete laws of civilization such as walk- {ng, talking, reading or manners, Let him live as na- tore mace him i ¢ result will be that WITHIN A FEW MONTHS YOUR BABY WILL LIVE TO BE 1,000 YEARS OLD, Think with what pride you can exhibit your THOUSAND- YEAR-OLD BABY to the admiring nelghbors! THINK i plahpality pias Ges age of eee without ever cute cree! ‘squal washiog his face with the soup! eee To stimulate this reform the EDITOR OF THE BVEN- ING FUDGE promises to stand as GODFATHER to the | FIRST Baby who aire 3 celebrate his 1,000th birthday, ° Se. 3 a Like Conic Operaville. Both in Mostar, the capital of Hosnia, and in Sa. i | the capital of Herzegovina, the attention of the traveller is arrested at every turn by the varied costumes of the natives —velled Mahometan women with henna-stained nails; men in red fezes, enormous blue trousers and zouave jackets; young girls in almost transparent white garments, beneath which voluminous trousers droop over flat-soled, peak-toed shoes of deer hide, profusely decorated with red leather, and yet other women whose headgear is a cross betwoen @ coal- acuttle bonnet and a chimney cowl, horrible to look upon and suggestive of suffocation and unapproachable prudery: ‘Though these countries are ruled by Austria the people atv essentially Oriental. , ( % Home-Made Perfume. Many ladies are amusing themselves by distilling soent- _n Mexpenslve enough method of obtaining perfume, provid: ed one has @ large supply of scent-producing flowers. Law ender, roses, nd the leaves of geranlums exhaus the Ist of flowers that are ordinarily used, but it should by remembered that It requires an enormous number of roses ta make a few drops of scent. To make lavender scent the blos. soms are rubbed off the s nd pi in the still, which lw quite a small affair, heal spirit lanjp or gas burner, Boiling water 1s poured ¢ condenser, and finally the scent comes out at the tap at thy bottom of the condense: , What Proverb Is This?