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“R, SUNE 13, 1904. Px EVENING » WORLD'S w HOME » MAGAZINE. i Wark Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. Perera ae VOLUME 44 . 15,637. * A NATION'S DAY OFF. To look back thirty years and contrast the conditions df ontdoor sports of that day with their wide and general ‘popularity at present is to gain an illuminating under “Satanding of the more profitable uses to which the nation te its fragmentary leisure, its regular day off. ~ In those times before the half holiday came a Sunday | meant idleness pure and simple, “reat” in the form of loafing, except where it was relieved by a picnic excur- fon or an informal outing which yielded a vague and certain return of either pleasure or health. Yesterday and on Saturday after business hours thou bra ‘3 ‘nd the adjoining links variegated with ten thousand layers Tennis matches innumerable were in progress, pall games too numerous for record were in full blast, ‘wie #achting races, rowing contests, track athletics—from {port to San Francisco the entire nation was out of doors enjoying itself with the most rational of pleasures, those which increase the fund of health and the reserve supply of vitality. It is a wonderful development, one {n a way not {n- terior im the direct beneiits Cerlved to any that has been made in art or science or education. For it means the improvement of the physical well being, which I» the foundation of the mental and the moral. | Crosstown Tunnels. The extension of the Christopher street tunnel under Ninth street to a loop around the Bible Wouse will bring the Jersey suburbs into close and quick communication with the heart of Manhattan, Its further extension through the east side, elther to a ferry connection or under the river to Brooklyn, may be a development of the not remote future, It seems to be the manifest destiny of crosstown tunnel transit to connect Long Island with New Jersey by various subway routes paralleling that through Thirty-fourth _ street. hed by the Press Publishing Company, No. 53 to 63° wands of country-club plazzas were gay with throngs, 4 folslelelebeteleletetcieieteinintetnietete ae a aS (olateiabolefniateteiateindotniofeleinielelobet-telebaleinfelebinieieteleiet -lofefeta} The Great American GOOK. Isn’t He 4 Bird? * « ow « e o This Time He Sympathizes with the Poor Women Who Are Rudely Made to Stand in Street-Cars—but He Doesn’t Lose His Seat. | GA lntefet: a Now. GENTLEMEN, THE PROPER THING To DO IN A CASE LIKE mH Syeis— YYouR SEATS— MAKE sa Low Bow- SMILE {[s OH, MY }’_PoL! TELY AND A ; a How ASK THE LADIE (ig Seer] CPS sit DowNIy i ‘ ath pints, Cl ie | (bbb biciicebirieiielebeieieteteletint Kisses at 20 Cents Apigce. WONT You SIT ON THE coucn ? —. GIRL'S BUT A GIRL FOR A’ THaT. | Blushingly, but unashamed, twenty of the year's vaduate girls at Vassar admit that they are already | megaged to be married. Of the hundred and fifty others,| yphirty-four are going into society, four into social settle- Ments, and seventy-three will become teachers. There {s nothing anti-matrimonial about the plans of the _ tBraduates unbdetrothed. Indeed, as indicating the chances, _ Sef the seventy-three, it may be recalled that school ae eacher famines have been reported of late in Pennsy! yania and other sections because of the altar's successful Competition with ihe spelling-book At Wellesley, the “College Beautiful,” there are also One hundred ad seventy girl graduates. All are pre- pared to work; many will be obliged to work. But to § 480 interviewer one of them sald: Fee ot H28't believe there tn one of ux who doesn't think that S marriage Is the and the highest state that “#) any woman can re: 1 don't think that is an in- oo Mispensable factor. either, in our murringe views. We'd be Willing to start in modestly; but, of course, we don't intend to have no visible means of support or means that you can! node lscover with a compound mlscroacope, | " ly this fair spokeswoman of Wellesley, the Idea {s © eouted that conditions and the higher education have OF Produced any change in the modern girl's feelings. “I O9.lon't Delieve,” she says, “we graduates have a very) Aifferent point of view from that of any nice, well-| educated, rensible American girl. We believe in looking; at things as they are, but believing they can be made} ton't that the real American spirit, after all?” | ~ There is just a suggestion here that the college girl) imeans to dispose for herself of that vexed question of -efucation which has just peen disturbing the soul! sep et Dr, Smith, of Toronto. oil FOOD AND THE IMAGINATION, Dri Wiley’s experiments to prove the deleterious effect of food adulterated by “preservative” acids appear to have been entirely successful. The health of the twelve| Foung men who constituted his “poison squad" declined | Visibly on the diet of “doctored” food, as was expected, Its influence ranging. according to the oficial report, from “mildiy injurious” to “deadly,” though no fatal @ issue is reported. os It would be interesting to know what part the imagination played in the result of the experiments. *''Yhe soundest stomach may Incline to grow squeamish at the knowledge that it {s consuming food belleved to be © poisonous. Montaigne knew of a jocose host who In- formed hid guests lone after the processes of digestion had been achieved that they had dined on baked | with the result that some became violently ill. cat; | Our | *“Iove apple.” would doubtless have detected dangerous | symptoms immediately after eating it The effect of .. Btrawberries in the gouty varies in direct proportion ta “Their ignorance of or acquaintance with their acid ‘ThQualities. ae] The ignorance which is bliss probably safeguards the ordinary digestion through salleylic acid perils, the recognized presence of which in a particular brand of eypf000 migh: cause very serions qualms na Detter, and that we are the ones to make them so. And), grandfathers, to whom the tomato was the poisonous |, By Nixola Greeley-Smith. =A Vonn., suit By Martin Green. 4 | YOUNG wo- man pf New| +} Britain, haa brought for slander ci —" Jerome Overlooks a Bet im Not “ Axeing” Vanderbilt’s Door. | jPagainst a young] ‘ : 7 man to whom she 66 FEE" Maid the Clear-Store Man, “that Peel “y oy Attorney Jerome's private detectives tried to! Tat ae G butt Into the residence of Mrs. Neilson and presence of a cond young man Who had superseded hém in her affec: ons he remarked that “the price of Kisses had gone serve a subpoena on Reggie Vanderbilt.” “Tt {s surprising,” replied the Man Higher Up, “that, the District-Attorney didn't send his men on a hook andi ladder truck with life nets and picks and shovels. If he overlooks many bets like that people will begin to teua) confidence in him as a performer. ‘The arrest of a few; reporters isn't much of a spectacular feature In @ pros duction such as the District-Attorney is accustomed Moon down since he paid twenty cents aplec for them’--a comment which had th effect of making the second suitor break his engagement Here In a young woman deserving of great sympathy and commiseration, for she is one of the victims of th jack of system prevailing in the kiss market. The law does nut fix the value of a kiss, and the Jaw is wise, for, lke ever other commodity this mutable world, tho Kisses’ value varies with the \ put lon. “Of course the District-Attorney is all to the good im chasing young Vanderbilt. The young man has come mitted a crime that reeks ‘with infamy. He has done what he pleased with his own money. Jaw of supply and demand. But any “Tf {t had been somebody else's money the District ohaervant reader of tho news will re: Attorney wouldn't pay any more attention to him than Se Se ee apie he would to a fire in a corn-crib at Pompton, N. J, over the Jone of a rif_ed | Criminals like Reggie Vanderbilt and Jesse Lewissohn{ AotstHen case topinn te Los Agana who have more cush than they know what to do with makes dec ae the poeuel ey Pe are hounded because they dared to go into Canfleld’s called -4t—and that ahow such | varylng values attached to the kiss by the complainants as to make the es tablishment of some general standard imperative; but a fixed scale of course. for this would be obviously unfair, Wh could attach the same significance to these gambling-house and take a chance. ‘ “If Reggie and Jesse had gone to the race-track and gambled the District-Attorney wouldn't have known any. thing about it. He don’t know anything about the hun- dreds of poor devils who are losing money that belongy to their wives and children at the tracks every day. Thy | thi 1, yielded fi Kiss of the : Se urnane vashfal fi ert and the man who can't afford to lose money may blow it like an widow of fifty? But ft should be a intoxicated seaman against games in which all the pers f agian crane centage is for Sweeney. The millionaire who don't feel y of the diffrent grade his losses gets on Jerome's list*for getting the worst of! it against roulette or faro bank.” “Wouldn’t the District-Attorney be after Vanderbflq’ just the same if he were a poor man?” asked the Cigan. Store Man. “Say,” retorted the Man Higher Up, “don’t you giv@ Jerome s press agent the credit of having any sense af all? Aren’t you wise to the new piece the District-At Kisses, of the widely values are due to a great 6 lack of union among wor am they remain a great mutually antagonistic mass ean be done. ‘They will hi that the are over course unor TWO LOVERS WHO ARE VERY THIN. WILL GET SO VERY THICK. delebelelelelelefeleteleietricteeleleleiefeledeielelnteleteleleledelei-feteivieteieleinteleeee eek 4 What Is the Telephone Number? # #& #& & w torney is starring in entitled ‘Save the Mazuma of Out 4 Millionaires’ The “Fudge” Idioforial. (Shibring 7s Aas oy Eis fa dozer Why New Yorkers Get Things, Whether They Want 'Em or Not. THE BURGLAR WHO LAUGHS. * Louis B. Matieny, expert burglar and pc Der, would be worth many pages of excellent phil ta. to Teufelsdroeckh, | +) daughs on eve OA emile ato same time ‘ipreliended by detectives at the ra “his dimpling countenance put to Lanes of ~ the trained sleuhs. In the jail at Newark he has to read| " Ahe magazines to save the his uerriment. this man sa man who heartily and whol! He cracks a safe When he was ap e occasion and the nt strack the other ut the seri 8 from rattling out with] be wholly and irredeemably bad? nd, hk! The basic goodness in Matheny may ripen in confine ‘Ment, Buc even if it docs not, his example will remind io Jess mirthful men about him, within walls, that it is easary to be wicked and grumpy at the same time, rinciple, open to criticism, {t must be confessed, in ‘it is better to haye used even the electric dark- and safe-drill with a smile than never to have day | Be Neyer, with that langh, the Carlyle tailor re-tailored Will insist. And yet, pending the revelation of some ching good which shall reach further than the prisoner pee merry ha-hat” tt is perhaps just as weil chat the polio i @ have tubelled Mr. Matheny as dangey hat they! Propose to keep him for quite an extended period {1 a practice which may well have been ‘Nha bride goes to the scene of the! the basis of cannibalism," leeway ders of the world!’ ARCHIBALD C, [the correct retort. ceremony with her pagent, Bit no two people| half. For instance, at the end of the The Pyramids, Babylon's Hanging ‘agree. 1, therefore, ask readera to h, Fa firat 100 feet travelled by. the-rapbit the A Purely Scientific tdiotoriat, : (Copyret, 1904, by the Planet Pub. Co.) (i ‘ P ' f ' Hiessly PURSUES wrong-docrs and Choo-chooers ‘ it doesn’t really want to put into jail or drag to t ! scaffold, but whom it likes to scare {nto fits, for purposes £ IM of public WEAL and all that sort of GOOKY thing, you | (i know. ' ‘i he ma iI This POLICY on the part of the FUDGE brings good * \ iV weather for Sundays and half-holldays and KEBPS the ah sum, moon and stars LMencnd Dbpeae business regu- Y HAN 3 i larly, besides unmasking cri spreading mere 3 [es a i 1—8—6—A—Broad (One Ate Six Abroad. Now Guess What This Is? \ ary OS EFICENCE where i will Go mest good. han nuh Seen a J Pye as SSS site = Just ROW we callattento tthe. Nem, Tare ' Hit atone tral’s big new electrical engines, which ia i 4° LETTGRS, QUERIES AND ANSWBRS. # >#)fechoucinises mau a = It ts Pronou Sire fers? the % ) of Mausoleus, the) tell me what the above expression | dog in but fifty feet behind, How far| | hour. The FUDGE ma Central & CORONATION CUSTOM iy \ «Wor Susu Temple of | means, how it started and what T should | must both travel before the dog catches ‘and we WANT you to believe that NO OTHER At | i by Phideas! Teply when thus addressed? rabbit? Puazle this out, dear read- en carth could have brought about its ; : " R. J. BARHAM Get busy with M. Worry it. Givel|/H Cota: the heartless corporation tl it bought” | As Se | Dow and Rabbit Problem, wer, if you can, ‘This is a good engine. So please thank us first! 1 i w vo te Evenine World? ) ening World old English puzzle, What clever ‘Amer- irraakes NO DIFFERENCE that this class of nin load f and | ridge visible trom any] HanglsUbi® fom [IAG Core e At RITISH ISLES, had not been perfected until just now and COULDN’ Wath Keer 1 nthe part of High street, Newark . Simple as it ae hive bought before. The j the dead 4 pra \ DISE je of ten of the A Wanaina. Gases) pes have Hota Oac an FURGE em ” oo a ti 0 is no “catch” s ‘ thing. Se pray ok tes pe eam eca et eagle ta Shatin the: Goats WORN in tt. Listen: A dog pursuen a rabbit, [7° the Béltor of The Evening World: hen you are counting an ASL ORs buena Vn La LT pet | ough vour ‘country 1] At the moment the chase atarts the| At an evening wedding does the bride B idlotoriam. Reni prgi im icdlad dan Wate Oat letec ute h ecawted by the salu-| FADbIt Is 100Mfeet In advance of the dog. |Jeave her home for the place of the made into mediciie and adminietercy {Te Seven Wenders of the World, the good word?” ‘This| At every hundred feet travelled by the | Ceremony accompanied by her parents {othe young men to make them Dramas | Tote, Bator oF ent Worl | Sine. I have asked|tabbit the dog cuts down the distance’| or with her intended 3... | tice hake Hem brave-- 1 What wore the original Seven Won: lothers its meaning, derivation, &c., and| between himself and the rabbit by one- | sath Daas J Perea: See aA eh ct Gey tia ea