The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1904, Page 10

That Jilts Thee. Published by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to @ Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. By 1 EONS ERS eR eR SESE SS SSE SR SEE VOLUME 44........ 4... sereeeseeNO, 18,638. Nixola Greeley-Smith. THE GRADE CROSSING MUST GO. | ' -Durihg the year ending June 30, 1902, 824 persons were killed and 1,326 injured at railway crossings in} the United States. The addition of one or perhaps two 6 the currant year’s list of fatalities of this nature as a| has art out to teach young wom- en who jilt men a lesson, He has Cherish the Hand i YOUNG man of Plymouth, Pa., o tgsult of the Van Cortlandt accident does little to swell | ; ap brought putt The total. But this latest mangling occurred directly before the iity’s eyes. It. occurred in the shocked presence of bundreds of onlookers. It accentuates more strongly than general figures can possibly do the constant aienace to life and limb of the deadly grade crossing. In the railway reports the victims of these fatalities gre set down as mostly “trespassers and others.” Of the 824 slain in 1902 only three were passengers. In fact, it is the rallways which are the real trespassers. %m granting them franchises the State did not alienate the public’s right of safe passage across their lines. (Whether the immediate responsibility for the Van @ortlandt tragedy lay with the engineer or the chauffeur is not material in view of the fact that the fundamental cause of the blame was the policy of woonomy which continued a grade crossing at this frequented point. Alarm bells and flagmen are at best ameertain safeguards. New York has lagged behind the nearby Jersey titles in providing security against this form of danger ly abolishing thocause, The Pennsylvania and Lacka- fwanna lines are elevated through Newark. The Lacka- twanna’s tracks through the Oranges will be depressed within a year, and every vestige of risk to vehicle and. pedestrian eliminated. The Van Cortlandt tragedy should do for New York ‘what a more sagaclous public sentiment has done for ‘ew Jersey. Asa result of this new demonstration of its peril, the grade crossing must go! EXTRA BOSSES IN THE SCHOOLS. | against a girl who cancelled her en- §agement to marry him for $5,000 for breach of promise. Too many iris are free with the affections of men, he declared, ‘They become engnged in order to have a good time, and after they tire of the novelty they break the engagement. Meanwhile the men, sincere themselves and beHev- ing the girls sincere, nave made prepa- rations to be married. They can do nothing; they have no protectioh. Men are deterred from breaking en- gagements by the fear of breach of promine sults, There ts no reason why the girls should not be withheld from jilting men by the me reason. Theoretically, this seems like very # cellent reasoning, it must ber membered that while @ young woman, save In rare instances, suffers pecuniary age from the breaking of the en- fagement, the same breach confers a t corresponding degree of financial tm-| + munity on the young man. Therefore, whatever the injury to hia pride, the wrench to his heart strings, &c., Jilt- ing him ts a benefit rather than an In- jury to his pocket, and therefore does (not entitle him to pecuntary damages —which are ail that the law recognizes or ts able to confer, Tt {9 a peculiar fact about an en- gaged man that, while there may be many moments during his engagement which bring with them grave misgiv- ings as to the wisdom of his final choice, the doubts disappear at once ff the object of his vactilating devotion takes {t Into her head ¢o jit him, and she becomes the most desirable of earthty things However, few men have been jilted Since the world began who Aid not learn A few weeks ago the Department of Finance and the} in later life that they have more often Board of Education were engaged in a process which tight be described as that of making faces at each other. ‘The friction developed in that period of unpleagantnesa will very possibly be intensified by the report of Comptroller Grout’s expert examiner, Mra, Mathilde Coffin pore on the subject of special courses and their supervisors in the elementary schools. It will be un- tortunate for the public Interest if the renewed hard feeling shall go s0 far as to prevent on the part of tho city’s educational fathers a very Intelligent consideration of the points urged by Mrs. Ford. ‘It Is to be noted that the Comptroller's expert does not advocate the omission of the public school courses in vocal music, physical culture, or manual tra{ning.| She insists merely that these branches of study are over- supervised to the embarrassment of regular teachers and to the unnecessary coat—ahout $850,000 per year—of the city. In plain words, Mrs, Ford’s idea Is that too many extra bosses are marring the special course effects by trowding for results at the expense of ordinary work in “the three Ris." With essential initlatory instruction! from directors and competent principals, the regular teachers should be able to conduct the special work— particularly !{ the efforts shall cease to expand plain @ewing classes into schools of expert dressmaking and @pplied design. While the city vacation schools are moving along, Mey will be presently, the Board of Education m pursue, perhaps with profit, a course of study pre: as Mminary to neat year's teaching arrangements, with Mrs, Ford's report among the text-books. { BACCALAUREATE WISDOM. 1 "Phis year's output of advice to college graduating Glasses resembles that of previous years in the attention @iven to analysis of national characteristics President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton, like Dr. Willis a week ago, finds the age not so badly “de- pauched by wealth” as some have thought it. These ob- gervers each arrive at the conclusion that the present is @s good morally as the past and in many particulars Qwtter, which is gratifying and consoling. There has Jen an overproduction of pessimisin, and the declara- tion that we are going to the dogs too often made with too little cause. President Faunce, in bis baccalaureate sermon at jtrown, charged that we a nation of adapters rather than of originators; “in intellect agile rather than pro-| found.” Dr, Faune Adapt truth which others 1 books, hors, few with those of tection begins That is, we have Edisons now where once we had Pimersons, Howells where there were Hawthornes, and for a Jonathan Edwards ministers who dilute their theology to the iess exacting demands of their congrega- tions. But if there are less originality and fewer great thinkers, the loss may be regarded as offset in part by the inc of popular knowledge. At least in the pro. duction of men who sust fall short of great stature and men of s prolific than any ether known to history “CLIMBERS” STILL QUOTED LOw. In Magistrate Breen's court, yesterday, the offense of “wintow hing” wa grades paid $1 ¢ hurry on Sunday to Not even at a hun cents ‘dulgences in offensive rowdyism h “ The incre ‘or having been in too much of 2 nter bridge through the doo h, however, were to be barg: sol harvest of a second Sunday's earnest and the fact that the hur \ Two warnings should surely be enough. If the ocva- Nh arises next Sunday, a material rise in the Manhattan indow rushing will be the proper thing Magistrate Dooley. cause for gratitude to the woman who refuses than to her who accepts th To a woman an engagement—e though atripped of romantic illusto: ts legitimately enough a cause for re- Jotcing, for to her tt t# at once an emancipation and a guarantee of sup- port for lIta, And the breaking of an engagement is Just as properly a distinct financlai «rievance and one for which she ts en- titled to seek redreas in the courts, If | + le choose to do no and im bhat kind. Hut why mould engaged men rejoice? | 1t must be admitted that, carried away | by the surrpunding feminine en- Urnaieem, they naually do 40, But what ‘or? A captive trailing humbly after the triumphant oer of bis conqueror might just as reasonably be carried away by the band musio and halt the procession to execute a dance expressive of his put few! Keen delight in his subjugation. It ia conceWwable that a mean-spirited | mortal might sue @ women for dain- ages for becoming engaged to him, but never for ceasing to be, A mouse might just as well oherish A grievance against @ cat, because after playing with him and pretending she was xolng (0 swallow him for an agonizing interval, she lapsed into momentary forgetfulness of her pur- powe, and neglecting to break his bael, allowed him to get away, Or the would-be mulcite, standing on e railroad track fronting the red-eyed monster of destruction aa it beara down Upon him, me the engineer for damages because he became aware of the perl! nad halted it Just in time to eave his Or the condemned criminal, reprieved at the seaffold, have it In for the bearer of the mereiful message, ‘The Idea of sulng a girl for breach of promise is ridiculous. If she Jilts you ee mratecay ands more grateful and for- hom her nightiy in your prasera and Na name Js the laat on your tips as you po dawn for the i ‘ 3 —— SOME OF THE | BEST JOKES | OF THE DAY, NOT AN EASY MARK, “I thought Richley Skinner quite a popular etttzen of your towns” “Who told you thact’ “town ilful ex- | Mm A and ripen before} Nes, dollar-marks.’ — Philadelphia sble talent and capacity the nation ts more r again auoted at low rates for Manhattan, Abow fifty prisoaers of various sovial, !! nce with the climbers revealed both the police in good!" P tourists had not! yor for instance, like the $10 Brooklyn rate Just “Well, Dobbs told he had won ks of esteem from his feile izens."" ress. THE NEXT STEP, ow, #ald the beat man after they O rehearsed the wedding for the jSixth time, “there Is only one more thing to do." | “What's that?’ asked the mald of honor ‘Send for the lawyers to go through the motions of the divorce trial Chicago Record-Heralt AN ILLUSTHATION, tommy 1 tell vou Like out TOO LITTLE BY HALF. bur | TAKING NU CHANCES, wary Fy -Pretty Polly! W payment ~The Gateway, was] fe >_< =~ HOME, SWEET HOME. (By T, E. Powers. The Way Wifie Economizes. erican GOOR. He’s a kooloo! This Time He Takes a Hand in the Why-Men-Don’t-Go-to-Church Discussion.: ee of ‘The Great Am ENTLE MEN, THE WAY TO FILL YouR CHURCHES. ON SUN DAY You MUST PROVIDE ENTERTAINMENT FOR ‘YYouR CONGRE- GATION— TE) GENS E METHINKS | 11's THE Goo! THINS. You MUST HAVE A VAUDEVILLE SHOW T-OR A. 5 —_—— I’m GooK TO A FINIS FirlL. YOUR cHurRcH— I A BALLE GERMAN | ; : “#2 2 LETTERS, QUERIES AND ANSWBRS. ¥ ¥ | c Ix |t possible, | out for cigar-store back rooms, alnc for | | rooms hired in small hotels, where poor men gamble away thelr weekly pay, It | Would be much better. Uke Canfleld's but those who can well I have a husband who earns $18 to $22 a week, and I receive $5 ‘The rest of It he gambles away, A WIFE WHO SUFFERS, A Papll Complains of ‘Tests! ‘To the Editar of The Evening World: ‘Yhe graduation work of the boys of least side schools is severely haransed where are four ich must be passed; hree amb her 90, Parrot—Did you bake kt yoursel(? | each sell the eggs at the same pri and are supposnt to bring lack Superintendent's teacher's test, and the Principal's ex- It fs little wonder that the “e\ge pupil goes home with a head- ache, and the next day fails in his teat because his brain cannot work, tangled an he is. OVERWORKED PUPIL, 2,714,068—Cen: To the Editor of The Evening World: What's the population of the olty of Paris, France? Few go to places “| afford to lose. | To the Baitor of as a wife have suffcred because of a sband who gambles. if Mr, Jerome To the Editor of The Evening World: ikinds! of tests wh "What day a4 March 3, 1888, fall on? ei be age Nee 4 cum" THE » EVENING # WORLD'S w HOME. MAGAZINE. Man Higher By Martin Green. = ag “Jersey Justice’? Seems to Have Some Manhattan Failings. 6 SEE,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that the New | Jersey authorities appear ta be determmed tt break the neck of Mrs. Valentina, the murderess, at the end of n rope.” “Jersey justice is a queer quality,” commented the Man Higher Up. “No doubt this Valentina woman is a murderess, but if ever thore was an excuse for a murder she had it, She is an ignorant woman, and her know} edge of tho English language and American custome it small It didn’t take the jury long to soak her for the Mmit, and the Boam of Pardons appears to think that she should die a disgraceful death on the gallows. “It was different in the case of the influential young men who killed Jennie Boschteter in Paterson, only a few miles from the scene of the Valentina woman's crime There was a horrible tragedy, but the refined thugs who committed !t aro making little ones out of big ones.in the dump at Trenton, with a fair chance of being pardoned one of these days. Their crime was without excuse, The Valentina woman had every license to kill the woman who had stolen from her not only the man = she loved but the property she had helped him acouw mulate. = “Tf Mrs. Valentina had been young and handsome and could have made goo goo eyes at a jury and had picked out this city as the theatre for her crime exhibition, she would have beea as safe as a small boy stealing lead pencils from a blind peddler. The only woman who has been found guilty of murder in the first degree and given the death penalty in this town for years was Mrs. Place, She was a gaunt, unattractive woman, with scared eyes, and she killed her daughter without apparent cause. It didn’t take very long to slide Mis. Place to the electria (| chair, while fascinating murderesses and murderers with a pull and clever lawyers either get short sentences or 80 confuse the situation that it seems as though they are due to die of old age in the death cell in Sing Sing Prison before a decision is reached.” “If we must have capital punishment {t ought to be administered without regard for sex,” asserted the Cigar Store Man. “So long as nature gives one woman slayer a complex- fon like flowers, eyes that can speak, |!ps that pout and a smile to ravish, and hands another woman slayer a com- plexion like a Khaki jacket and a set of features like those of a rocking-borse, there can be no equality: o&% justice ia jury trials,” replied tho Man Higher Up. The “Fudge” Idiotorial. IDIOTORIAL. PAGE OF THE EVENING FUDGE THBY HAVE NO EYES IN THEIR BACKS, xq st ' (Copyret, 1904, Pus Co) 0 This striking picture from next month's EVENING ( FUDGE may well te entitl<d “* WHERE COULD IT AND WHICH?” It Is because THEY HAVE NO EYES IN ( THEIR BACKS. They have cye tceth, hooks and eyes ( in thelr bodices, eye-rony In their speech, but NO cyes in thelr BACKS, Perhaps it is as well. For if they haa ( then people who backbite them would probably BITE OUT AN EYE by mistake. ' If any one tries to put an eye In your back, write a letter to thts paper explaining your grievance, But at [the same time BE VERY CAREFUL that you yourself are mot EYEING ANYBODY ELSE'S back. If you had a It would perhaps be a better thing for the COMMON PEOPLE if the TRUSTS had at least ore cye in their eye. Those on whose backs you plant your heavy eye would not then be crushed. An illustrated GOOKBOOK (cq ‘will be given to any one who has the SLIGHTEST No- TION what all this Is about, The Soap Tree. An enterprise in Algeria is to manufacture natural goa on a large scale from a tree known as “‘sapindus utilis,” ‘This plant, which has long been knows. !n Japan, China and India, bears a fruit of about the size of a horse chestnut, smooth and round. The enlor varies from a yellowish-green to brown, The inner partis of a dark color and has an oily kernel. The tree bears fruit in its sixth year and yields from 55 to 220 pounds of fruit, which can easily be harvested, Lord’s Prayer in Burmese. ‘ B {cord g corr 220ghdo8 1BScooSdisr0c00Sa072 Ieooeens[G Ger Rol cocorauSEEconS oo 002 UIc0 corm sacBeooSavgS cor 2Eseno9§ (F809 reels Greely qe gueconchenr2 098 sangiSEcBas veg aur0ng-21600S eTiiqp ood lraapSaangis Bpreonal antral D Bi avlegi SS Rah Sqjor age GS cogrccor’ op oc¥ 2 en rbscar2 999 Saep gco 208 go5 oooh golu 228 8E coroa0 96 38 298s 008 81 405 Hi satsag Sa _so508" ‘This is how they say the Lord's Prayer in Burmah; or, rather, how they write it. When they say it, it sounder much the same as it looks here, The letters look like hooks and vyes and may be upside down for all most people know about them. ~ Aa é ya} 5