The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1904, Page 12

ie eg THE w EVENING w WORLDS »# HOME # MAGAZINE w ‘At What Age Should ‘Mary Jane and Her Tabby “Improve” the Piano. # wt! Mio now wer Tork, Eaune a tee Pavones Girls Marry?|3s +» » » # But Some How or Other the New Attachment Doesn’t Please.} “at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME 44... -NO. 18,648. Nixola Greeley-Smith. TROLLEY CAR FIRE TRAPS. By Martin Green. ‘The explosion of a motor box in a Bronx trolley car on Sunday set fire to the car at each end, caused a panic| Dear Miss Greeley-Bmith: in which five of the women and children passengers| oth “tnd haves very” food trade bros q ‘were injured, and created a general disturbance of traffic ere Oy of shy ohoioe, bat Roosevelt’s Stirring Drama: ‘‘Copping the Nomination.”’ which it required the efforts of police reserves to control nariog Ka ae Sive me as I bet es J “ i. y, $b SEB,” said the Cigar Store Man, “that the Repub. " and disentangle. HB inquiry of, , y 5 = | £ lican National Convention meets to-day im The news of this accident is read new episode of | this reader 5 / E = Chicago,” suggests the Ume - honored dia- cusston of the age which gfris an old story and will be forgotten to-morrow. But while} it is fresh in mind let it be recalled that ever since the installation of the trolley lines, and in yearly increasing number, there has been a continuous series of such: perilous situations following the “blowing out” of a fuse; “Your powers of-observation are all:to the good, Swered the Man Higher Up. “Not many people see it. ‘The general opinion seems to be that it is a performance: that has been well rehearsed. If the convention had a or the explosion of a motor box. Hardly a week passes which does not add at least one to the large annual total of such “accidents” endangering Ufe. Within a year several cars thus set on fire have, burned to their trucks. Is this !mminent peril to street-car passengers to be borne with patiently until an accident more serious in ‘its consequences calls imperatively for a drastic remedy? Is electrical inventiveness powerless to devise satis. factory safeguards? Recent developments point to the trolley car tinder box as an existing menace to safety less only in degree than that of tinder box tenements and tinder box ex- gursion boats. EYES AGAIN ON CENTRAL PARK, Once more there is a proposal to divert Central Park grounds from strict devotion to the greatest good of the greatest number. The suggestion this time Is that turf tracks shall be Jaid out and staked off for the use of the Public Schools Athletic League. It is urged that this ean be dono without expense to the Park Department and without hurting the appearance of the grounds. This scheme is not one which invites public favor, Nthough there is no doubt of the general disposition to moourage the League and to believe in its usefulness. Central Park hes no room to spare for purposes in cny way restrictive. Its mid-city location has brought into active and constant demand, for ordinary park purposes, ; avery inch of ground which can be thrown open to the public. Indeed, the plea 1s frequently urged that still more of its lawns and groves shall be turned over to beekere of fresh air, sunshine and rest. Advocates of Central Park tracks for the Schools League point to the special flelds assigned to tenirin Players and ball players. It is to be remembered that these sections are open to all, not to any particnlar club or association, Hesides, the ordinary games played there do not attract an overrunning crowd such as might work dire mischief to the park on a League field-day. The schoolboy athletes could appeal perhaps with effect to Park Commissioner Scirmitt, of the Bronx, who ts moving to tmpart a new usefulness to the Pelham Bay reservations, Their need furnishes another good argu- ment, too, for the plan previously urged by The Evening / World of transforming Blackwell's Island into a great fiver playground. ar Beet and Good Times.—With beef at a price which ia said to be higher than any since war times all meat * eaters ought, by Secretary Shaw's reasoning, to be growing daily richer. “It js measurably unimportant,” said the Secretary, “what price we pay for food so long, O+as we pay it to ourselves." The consumer pays the * butcher, the butcher the packer, the packer the = SS man, and the stockman hands {t back to the consumer J. as a dealer in barb wire, or planos, or lace curtains. * Theoretically the chain Is complete. The broken link In it 4s the fact that the packer pockets more than his share by putting the price up for the consumer while kveping It down for the stockman, The consumer will be excused for preferring that “period of cheap living expenses" from which the Secretary asked “the good Lord to deliver us." JASSING OF THE COUNTY DETECTIVE. © The county detectives who contributed so largely to “fhe gayety of the metropolis have been divested of their peculiar powers and prerogatives and restricted to the monotony of process serving. With their reduction to ‘the ranks much that made life In a large city most j™man or’ woman most beloved, But it] 4 bine to make it whatever her age may be. A rather cynical woman of the world once said to a prospective bride in iscussing her future happiness: “Ex pect something and you'N be disap- pointed; expect nothing and you'll be agreeably survrised,” Now, the girl who marries at elghteen or twenty expects a great deal of her husband And ff this dic- tum of disillusion 1s to be belleved, she Will be apt to be very much disappoint- ed. It frequently happens, ‘however. that a girl's oxtravangant ideals really benefit her, inasmuch as a man may try ty live up to them rather than disullu- sion her. After twenty-five, a girl does not ex- pect so much of her future husband, and, it may be, for that very reason she won't get it. Yet, ff you ask any married woman you know at what age a girl should marry, it's ten to one she'll answer “twenty-five."’ Yet a hundred years ago a girl who remained unmarried at twenty-five was regarded as an vid maid. There is a problem, familiar to all children fond of sweetmeats, which is usually expressed thus: “If you had a bad plece of candy and a good piece of candy which would you eat first?” ‘The answer to the conundrum vartes according to the nature of the child. ‘There are those inclined to greediness who reply unthinkingly that they would of course eat the ood one first; and others, wiser, who answer that they would save the good piece till the last so as to take the taste of the bad one from their mouths, When they grow up the same prob- Jem presents itself in different guise, for the delights of candy the less tangible sweets of but the conundrum I the same. Certainly the greatest earthly happi- ness is to he found in marriage to the we take this happiness at elghteen it in very apt to be a mere memory at thirty, and if we postpone taking it until that more mature age there is a suMclently weary interval between, as with the candy problem, #0 that the| answer to it depends largely on whether we are gluttons or philosophers. Ho’ the inquiry of The Evening World reader 1s simply whether a girl who has consented to marry him should make him wait two years for the fulfil- ment of her promise, ‘The answer to this depends largely on the of the girl. If she is under twenty—yes. If she is over that age and 1s postponing her marriage merely to have a good time, she seems hardly worth while, In reading about the noble fidelity of Jacob, who served fourteen years for Rachel, one ts tempted to wonder what Rachel looked like at the end of his long servitude, and to realize that there are few modern men capable of such long- drawn out devotion. And A. R. with cautioned not to be o1 LETTERS, QUESTIONS, O3-40 spectacularly interesting will be relegated to the limbo of the past. Who will now wield the axe and the battering ram on the close-barred doors of “gentlemen's clubs” in the Tenderloin or of private residences elsewhere? Who henceforth will clamber nimbly to attic chambers, or peer through transoms, or follow an incognito chief on sleuthing expeditions by night? With the abolition of the County Detective Bureau most of the vaudeville features will be eliminated from the execution of the law. It with their going the axe-entering period of police activity passes Into desuetude the gain for the city’s self. respect will be considerable, It is not by the sound and tury of door-smasiing methods that crime {!s most effectively kept in check, The experience will be re- garded as not wholly profitless if it proves to have ‘aught that lesson. THE FIRECRACKER'’S MISUSES. The firecracker has begun to assume new and more ‘gbjecttonable functions. It has become a missile for throwing ut street cars and passing vehicles generally, preferably automobiles. In the hands of the small boy expert of aim with an automobile as his target the Wighted firecracker is as dangerous as stones or brick- pats, On Sunday a cracker thrown into an open ea: at One Hundred and Sixteenth street set a woman passenger's dress on fire. Anotner, exploded in the air pbove an automobile, ignited the veil of one of the ‘women in the party. ‘This is a new phase of hoodlumism which calls for vigorous and immediate prosecution for Its suppression. “Phe firecracker on village greens as a symbol of boyish ‘patriotism is one thing. Its perverted use in crowded ‘city streets endangers life and increases the risk of fire. The police cannot tvo soon put it under the ban. PUNISHMENTS THAT DO NOT FIT. | Bridge car “window climbers” caught in a third suc- jive Sunday raid found their offenses appraised at $2 ch in Manhattan Magistrate's Court yesterday. Police Captain Murtha says he js determined to break the window-climbing practice. He deserves the help sh $2 fines do not give. ANSWERS. + 22 Oe From Librarian of Congress. To the Pxittor of The Bventng World: From whom are copyrights secured? ALM. A Question of Etiquette. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Is Kt proper for a gitl to attend a boy's confirmation when he visits her, and a boy to attend @ girl's confirma- tion at her request? A. B. Tt 19 proper, but not customary. A it pay the window hogs to remember, Messrs. |7°. confirmation is not a social functton, but a solemn religious ceremony. Rela- tives or close friends are sometimes In- vited to witness i, but it ts not an|¢ event for which generu! invitations are issued. Gen, Katusoft. To the Editor of The Evening World: Who commanded’ the Russian army]: at Moscow when Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia? iu Gen, Barclay, an Englishman, com- manded the Russian army at the begin- ning of the invasion, put was supersed- ed by Kutusoft before Napoleon reached Moscow. An Apple Trick. To the Biitor of The Evening World: A man who has been caught stealing apples and to whom the farmer has siven a last chance of saying his ap- ples by saying something witty or dotng | ‘ something clever said that he oan go to each of the three gates in the ficld in turn, At the fret he can leave half of all his apples plus half an apple; | ¢ at tho second he can leave the remain- der plis half an apple, and at the third he can leave half of whet he has left plus haif an apple, How many apples has he and how does he do bis trick | « without eating an apple? YANKEE, Neither Comes from Canada, To the Bdltor of The Evening World: A claims that both James J. Cor6ett| ¢ and Jim Jeffries were born in Canada. B says both were born In the United States, Which ta right? ALR. Jeffries was born in Carroll, 0, Cor- bett in @an Francisco, Cal, Monday. the BAiter of The Evening World: On what day of the week did Dea, 1971, taal? 7 MaY & i ‘ESOT Byas AR woriD, i good press agent he would frame up his newspaper ad~ vertising something Like this: THEODORE ROOSEVELT presents ‘Copping the Nominatton.’ Written and staged under the persona! direction of THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Words and music by THEODORE ROOSEVELT. ‘ Scenery, effects, costumes and disturbances by THEODORE ROOSEVELT. “If ever the free and enlightened Republican voters the United States had a chance handed ont to them pick the man they want to run for President this ts time. For months past they have been marching up an down the streets of cities, towns, villages and hamlet and along rural delivery routes shouting the-magic nam of Roosevelt. Nobody saw them but Rocsevelt; nobod: heard them but Roosevelt. However, so long as hd heard them and saw them:the will of the Prestfent mui be done. Hasn't he arranged a burlesque on a slow ro) race between men who-ere trying to lose the Vice-Prea¢ coe nomination? We ought to be satisfed with Couli you suggest any tmprovements on the convent tion?” asked the Cigar Store Man sarcastically, “I certainly could,” replied the Man Higher Up. “Tq keep the atmosphere of the production perfect I would hang a big sign up across the front of the Coliseum im Chicago, reading ‘Camp Stools to Let. Pinking Deng Here.’" Cats Under Fire. A lady who was in Port Arthur during the bombardmen| by Admiral ‘Togo's fleet has described the curious vetoaal produced on cats by the cannonade, “I was at my window! during each bombardment,” she relates, “but only through: the day, because at night I aid not dare stir out of bed. In’ front of me there was a little roof on which five or six cats of the neighborhood collected, Hach ttme there was a bom- bardment the cats duly arrived, and, having observed them, I on the second occasion proceeded to watch them. With my family we passed the hours looking at them. At each gunshot the cats arched thelr backs and stiffened thelr legal and seemed both terrified and furious. Then when a hissing| shell arrived it gave the signal for a frightful battle. They! + jumped at each otner, raging like tigers, and seemed to hola| each other responsible for what was taking place. The ef fect was so comical that we could not help laughing, ale though the oceasion did not inspire gayety. After having, fought, the cats retired for awhile, as though bewildered, but as soon as the bombardment began again they went through the same business. Each time it was always the same.” First Paper. Sven Heding, the explorer, has just made a rsport which shows conclusively that the Chinese invented the process of! making paper. On his last journey to the interior of China ne found; evidence that paper of a very fatr quality was in by 1p Chinese in about 275 A. D, There is a mill still standing 1 the Province of Chi Li! Tung where paper was made in ww A. D,, and in the village of Langtikiang. In @ suburb of Canton, the ancient town of Kwangtsu, Mr. Heding discovered a hand mill where paper was made from tree leaves several hundred years before Christ. But that process was very expensive, and the product wae used only by the very wealthy. He secured one anctent document writs ten on paper made In this hand mfll. The date of the docu« ment Is $46 B, C., figuring on the time of the Chinese catonaar Ages of Europe’s Monarchs. ‘the appended table gives an interesting oomparisep of the ages of the leading rulers of Europe: Sovereign. Ago.| Sovereign, Age. King of Denmark «ses. 86 King Of Greece....ece ++... 8f King of Sweden . [German Emperor euruen.. 4d Emperor of Austris 73|King of Portugal. ores King of the Belgians. |The Czar .....se. 30 King of Roumania. 65| King of Italy’ we. 35 King Edward VII... ++ 62]Queen of the @etherlands. 24 Sultan of Turkey.. Gi/King of Spain,, n ‘the King of Spain, who comes last in th\“tIst, has been @ king since the day be was born. The “Fudge” Idiotorial. Bat Your Cake and Have It Too! You Can Do This by Getting Our Coupon Chewing Gum. (Cepyrot, 1904, by the Pianet Pub, Co) i. GOSAURIAN PRO-{ H TEIGLYPPICCI of the Panbandilthic Age, NEVER lost | Hi tieir twelfth set of bi teeth be ' [pouflesy cuspid teeth before the age ay The COMMON PEOPLE of to-day bicerly complain | that they can't eat their cake and have ft to, Buthey CAN, This paper will see that they de. If it is a cake |