The evening world. Newspaper, September 9, 1904, Page 12

37, 7 OT PT ERT LETS TEE “# THE w EVENING w Che Eh otionin by the Press Publishirg Company, No. & to @ Row, New York, Entesed at the Post-Ofice at New York as Becond-Ciass Mail Matter, WOLUME 48....0..:ccsssseerssesssNO. 18,728, The Evening World First Let, PADOD DE H99GODOF72OO1F1 000864009 ¢: 4 ne Has an Adventure with L rd rd HOM ittle Dixie. w She and Her Friend Kickums Run Foul of Two Lively Black Hands, Teaching the Husband His Place. viene By Nixola Greeley-Smith, Mary rd Ja BURGULARS! POLICE! By Martin Green. ’ Number of columns of advertising in Tie As to the Pikers’ Howls The Evening World during first six H olyoke, MONTHS, 1904. ....sessveeeseeeees 7,700 Against the Cost of the War Game.- Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during first six Mass, accord- Ing to a de-| spateh from SEE," said tho Cigar Store Man, “that there {a a lot of holler about the cost of the war ee ee ree months, 1903.. 6,019 sive town,|@ I game that the Government is conducting on have organised | ¢ the old battle-fleld of Bull Run.” INCREASE ..0.40000s0008 1,681 @ club, one of “In some ways,” commented The Man _— the main pur- poses of which is “to train! husbands to + know their ‘AC! places.” Aa Ssuredly, a LN 9 prasseworthy, “ Nixola Greeley-Smith Higher Up, “we are a nation of pikers. The mention of an expense of $2,000,000 for the purpose of giving sol- diers real experience in scrapping on the field squeezes * out a roar, but you never hear a kick about the way that grafters on the Government are macing the United States Treasury under cover of business methods all the year round. No other six-day paper, morning or evening, in New | ‘York EVER carried tn regular editions in six consecutive Months such a volume of display advertising as The Evening ‘World carried during the first six months, 1904, PASS-OG-3 COLOR VISION IN MOTORMEN, t, partios| i The prominence given the test for color blindness ularly when we are told by the club) 2 “I read sarcastic comments on the fact that+the off- ‘— a G2 one of the questions in dispute between the “L" em- Members that the husband's proper w cers engaged in the war game have cased out a plan to be | place Is In his own home, There ts dine every evening In full dress uniform. What do wa. 4 Ployees and the Interborough management {s likely to * be of considerable educative value, ‘The road's officials have stood out for what is known © ae the “standard rallway test” under which the can- Gidate 1s made to discriminate between the hues and @hades of sixteen strands of colored yarn. The men | nothing revolutionary about this theory, | which has been held by every wife since | @ }Eve. But the organized effort to ims press the wifely point of view upon hua- bands seems to lead the way to better | things, expect cur officers to do? Wear overalls and eat out of their hands? It is characteristic of the average well-to- do citizen of this country that when he starts out to do something for himsel! he does It up to the limit, but when he hears that the officers of the army or navy ara trying to Iive according to the rules that govern ordl- difficulties of keeping a husband have insisted on the “practical” test, which calls for |"t ! are + thoroughly under . t “ : nar: lite society he begins to scream about the few bs Ability simply to distinguish the colors of lantern and|*'2% PY & wife a0 long as she confines dolare t costs i : é Semaphore signals in actual railway use. The former, ag) 0°" “U'Y of the subiect to her own : c s 7,89) reside, For, of course, Mra. Brown “The International Peace Conference {s about to meet fnyolving a stricter and more thorough examination and knows tha beauty, wit and charm therefore better calculated to reveal any defect of color _ Bense, 1s apparently the one which should be required of trainmen having the lives of thousands of passengers Yet at the recent meeting of the British Association me" Lantern Test as the Oficial Test of Color Blindness” @xposed many defects in the wool test. He cited tho fool test successfully, were unable to distinguish be- tween lantern colors in the open—one first pronouncing _ Pure green “white” and then “blue,” and the other mis- ‘ faking red for green and green for white, “No tewer : 4, Than elght distinct varieties of color blindness tnight 7 escape detection by the official wool test,” sald Dr, Green, “and six of these varietios are dangerous in em- ployments from which this defect must be excluded.” The Color Vision Committee of the British Ophthalmological Boclety agreed with Dr, Green that some cases of de- fective vision are only to be detected by the use of the , dantern. « Are the men right, after all? These facts tend Plausibility to their contention and give their objections @ weight they were not supposed to have. What the » Public wants Is an absolute freedom trom color blindness a frend color confusion in “L" and subway motormen, If ~ the “prac’ cal” teat is the surer, the paesing of that tent! eefwhether it is applied alone or in connection with tho é (wool test, a Whe New Tra Privileges.—The trackage and <a transfer a ment by whch Boulevard passengers i } will be carried by the Clty Raflway's ines south of * Forty-second atreet is in effect the establishment of a ew through line north and south which will be of great convenience to residents of the upper it side, They have long desired this transfer pr! / and that tt le granted them now without controversy is gratifying. ‘This and other recent concessions made by the City Rall- > ‘way management to the road's patrons point to a new view of a public service corporation's implied obligations ‘ which {s in commendable contrast to the old one of @pposition and resistance, THE CHILD TOILERS, The report of the Census Bureau on child labor Ghows the employment in the Unite? States of 1,750,178 + @bildren under fifteeu, of whom 485,767 are girls, * It fs an army of child tollers of whom the nation 3 eannot be proud, nor can it learn without feelings of ~ 5 remorse and shame that the proportion of children thus > employed has grown from 24.4 per cent. in 1880 to 26.1 per cent. in 1900, while the proportion of childish ® female workers has risen from 9 per cent. to 10.2. It Is during these years that the best cfforts of philanthropy { and of organized interference have been exerted to pro- __ tect children from the inexorable demands of the “ ptruggle for existence which drive them to the mills and the fields at an age when they should be tn school, One redeeming item is the showing for Massachusetts ‘ in the matter of male children at work under twelve, It is only one-half of one per cent. as against 27.2 per cent. for Alabama. The great numbers of this infantile industrial army r “ . Bive an idea of the herculean work cut out for the National Child Labor Committee, which began in July % of this year the task of inquiring into the conditions under which children are employed with the object of @ecuring them justice and effecting the enactment of protective laws in thelr behalf. It is evident that the 4 cotton flelds are a dark continent industrially which sadly needs their intervention. ‘The Murder Wave-—Eight September days and elght murd Is another due to-day? The homie! tinues to take his dally toll of human life unche undeterred by fear of arrest. Whether or not mu epidemic In the city, as is both asserted and dented, the frequency of crimes of violence is as alarming as it te{ deplorable. FIVE HOURS TO BOSTON, Five hours to Boston means a sustained speed of i forty-seven miles an hour, exclusive of stops, The ex- } periment was tried long ago with success and is per- | fectly feasible with modern rolling stock on a heavily ballasted roadved, The interesting thing is that the de- mand exists for the lightning-express service between the New York and the New England metropolis which the three dally five-hour trains from this elty are equipped to supply. The seven-hour train of a few years ago is a railroad back number. >, nd reach home In time for the third act at the theatre puls the Boston vuyer in very close touch with the New % York merchant. pee A). If in renting rooms and apartments you avail ourself of the lowor rate by ordering a small ad, ted. in The World three or seven times in Dr. Edridge Groen in a paper on “The Necessity of a! eases of two naval lieutenants who, having passed the! Must be {nsisted on as preliminary to employment, |* To be able to Isave New York after business hours! 1 | combine vainly in her household to j keep un: ‘0 Mr Brown from| 4 pelitical and lodge meetings. It is only! 4 When she casts her critical eye at the Jones household across the ways that she ts able to get the faintest inkling tof the husband's side of the case, Then she Is apt to ask herself, not what rea son Jones has for staying away, but| 4 What he could possibly have for going home. I met the other day a young bride, rather pretty In a calm. bovine sort of way, who had already begun to talk of | what she would do to amy horrible | ¢ creature who ever tried to take her | husband away from her. Beyond a cer- tain evanescent prettiness and the alr of massive and dignified stupidity that some dull women have, there was ab- solutely nothing to her. And I couldn't Delp asking myself how I would like to spend even one evening a week in her soclety hrinking from the pleture of dreary sumenesa the idea presented. Another young woman, who, after three months of wedded woe, had been oblige: to seek solace in the divorce courts, seriously attributed her matrimonial failure to the fact that she was not of the somewhat Turkish type of beauty that she belleved the masculine Idea! 4 for, and mow squan her mea- limony on flesh food and com- plexion creams, in the hopé of becom: ing more pleasing, The real reason of her matrimonial shipwreck no one who knew her ten minutes could fail to fathom. In every word and gesture she was utterly easly artificial, And there ts noth wearing in family relauon: clality, moat natural is to be moat pleasing to the majority of men, and Any woman who undertakes to put Into practice any Hed system of “wine $ S-$-2--9-6-06->~: re $ ning a man,” ing a husband's love, | ‘ “training him,” &, is in a fale) | way to make a nuisance of herself and altogether to defeat her object. ‘To be natural and sweet-tempered ané sensible and as pretty as you know how is the only way to train a hus- band, It doesn’t always work, of course, for there are husbands absolutely un- amenable to training of any kind. This does not imply that it ts neces. be a “doormat” wife, by any} but just simply that you must) realize that no amount of ceremontes on earth gives any human being any sovereignty over another's right to soli- tude or to soclety other than yours. Any one who has ever felt the awful feeling o£ oppression, the uareasoning | but intenge desire to get at sults from an enforced prolonged com- pantonship, will uni and the married man’s oceasional distate for even the | ‘ most congenial Areside. Even in the more firmly rooted rela- tons of ovrents and children, brothers 1nd sisters, there ate similar moments | , of Jonging to get away from the accus- tomed rut and all the persons und! things that appertain to It, a wanderlust baw no amount of training can eradicy And its occasional manites- tations in the best of husbands it wil tike more than the ablegt woman's club to quell, —— SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. ——— DIFFLRENT, “What are you making eyes at him} tor? 344-39-43-3-05-6' 264 $2424 PPDDDADDDO ODODE AOOQDOG4- To the Editor of The Evening World How many times did Corbett and Pita simmons fight, and where and when? E. L. and C. R, n't you tell me he had @ big I sald a great role. Ho's an r."'—Houston Post, ULTIMATE RESULT, sbs—T suppose that néw neighbor ing his lawn-mower dis morning? was feeding ‘ourth of July a national hel- J. J. M'DONOUGH, People who ero orth River the | ferries and are desirous of reading while waiting for thelr trains, are very much annoyed by the racket ors make calling off “Ticket Show your tickets!" T suggest that the rallroads supply thelr bright inspectors y, he doesn't keep chick. Backlota—No, but 10. Hoe was plant. ing some seeds.—Philadelphia Presa, JUSTIFIED, with a blacksmith’s anvil and eee if he “Didn't you tell me" said Mr. Com. | Sould not drown scme of the unneces- } rox, "that somo musician wrote a lot of | ftY nose, COMMUTER, words?” Yeu. red his daughter, “Men. | To the Editor of The Evening World: A young man walking with a young lady meets an acquaintance of the giri's 1, Judging by the average songs |who ts a stranger to him adays, I don’t blame him."~Wash. Is it proper Star. | for him to recognize the stranger's #1- IT USUALLY DOEs, lute by raising his hat? MR. ter pald me a compij.| ‘The Fat Woman on the Car, To the Editor of The Evening World 1 think I met the limit recently, and in the form of a woman weighing, maliness of my feet tow day. He~Yes, and It's thrown you all out ‘jon, . if a tonant is found on the first day, ie be cancelled and the balance will be without an exaggeration, 30 pounds, and perhapa . A gentleman on a Third avenue “L' train kindly gave “mg. & seat, A fat woman, just of pi ™ uw do you mean? 8 Hes gag mee * VICTIM OF THE DULL RAZOR—How much moah would you chahge to gib gas? we @ LETTERS, Once, Carson City, March 17, 1807. In at the doorway of the car, politely sits her full weight on me, who welgh seat, Miss D, L, | Kish and Arable and a mere strain of about 110 pounds, i insists on stay- “The Black Hand.” Ttallan blood. Italians from other parts ‘ng there; and to add Insult to injury | To the maitor of The Evening World: ot Italy feel keenly the disgrace claims L was very unladyltke not to Rive her my seat me . trying hard to sustain her equilib- rium, I would have willingly given up my seat to her, but as it was she did not give me the chance, and I had to| mesticated. street). She liked her seat #o well! 8! that when the train did get emptied | t to cake and jam. to the drug store and get me a bottle of sweet ol,” A Crisis in the History of the Colored Race, w SEDI IGIAGIGD G3 QUERIES AND ANSWERS 2 2 she would not get up and take another Tho societies of the “Black Hand” and “Mafla” are composed of men from the former kingdom of the two Sicilies, captured by Garibaldi at the head of 1,000 men, in 1861. The inhabitants were subjugated, but have never been do- Even the law of compul- If I had beheld my ulent friend standing in front of Itallans, The Northern Italian has and jst with her welght on me until she| sory education that prevails through-| the arts and literature, TOURIST. jgot off ut One Hundred and Fortleth | out the balance of Italy is not rigidly street (ail the way from Twenty-third | enforced in {ts southern provinces. The Between France Spain, To the Editor of The Evening World: Where are the Pyrenees Mountains # were originally race mongrels, wh whose veins courses the hot, OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABEs. “Who discovered America?” asked the tencher of the juvenite class, “Adam and Eve,” promptly replied the bey at the foot, In Italy? W. R. Historical Quertes, To the Editor of The Evening World: a Caesar Augustus, Mother—Dobby, this Is tho third time I have caught you helping yourself I'm geiting tired of It. Bobby—Well, why don’t you quit hanging around the pantry, then? see Rome? Caesar Augustus Rome at that time. nephew and helr of Julius Caesar an: was the first Emperor of Rom H. B.C. Tommy=Did you ever have water on the brain, Wnele John? Unele John (who is quite vaid)—No, Tommy; but why do you ask? Tommy—Oh, I thought you did, 1 ut hair fell in and got drowned, . . tu Augustus, On Side Nearest C ‘To the Milter of The Evening We “Nettle,” said a mothor to her five-year-old daughter, “here's a dime; go Nettle started down the street, but soon returned to ask: “About how sweet do you want It} marimar’ atreat? othe Fe ferocious mixture of the Greek, Tur- brought upon the Italian name by Bici- lian emigrants, and fairly wince when they hear Americans refer to Sicilians as| |~] strong strain of Saxon In his blood Proud of his country and the immortal men It has given to sctence, Are they between France and Spain or Who was Emperor of Rome at the time of the birth of Christ? Was there and = Tiberius Caesar? If a0, were they Emperors of was Emperor of Augustus was Tiber- the stepson and successor of On what side should « gentleman walk in escorting two iadies on the in St, Louls with the object of promoting universal peare. Promoting universal peace is like promoting an ice plant {n Greenland. A nation is made up of its ta- dividual! residents, The man who won't fight to hold what ho has or to get what he wants drops to the rear and the rule will never change. So long as the people are prepared to fight for thelr individual rights they wili fight in unison when thelr national rights ‘are in danger. < “We train mechanics, professional men and artists tn the school of experience, even though they have a tech- nical trainiug tc begin with. Our soldiers must be trained the saine way, No matter how brave a man 1a ho can't win battles unless he knows how to fight, and ‘this applies to an army.” “So you think this shooting blank cartridges at each other is going to make soldiers out of the men engaged in it?” inquired the Cigar Store Man. “When the tline comes,” asserted The Man Highet Up, “for these soldiers to be shooting loaded cartridged at an enemy you can bet a case of typhold fever against a sprained ankle that the bullets won't be counted among the lost or strayed.” s PPSSPCDE-GS-S-9S 6S 3 9--2-5-3 $-59-99-966900-00900069.9066- oo In the Supreme Court. As the hands of the clock polnt to 12 the erler of the * Supreme Court of the United States raps with his gay murmur of conversation ceases and attorneys, court o1 and visitors rise while the crier slowly announces, “The Honorable Chief Justice and the Associate Justices of tho Supreme Court of the United States.” Robed in black silk gowns, they walk with slow and dignified steps toward tho bench and as the Chief Justice appears at the entrance at the rear they slowly proceed to their seats. At this the crter, erles: “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons Ing business before the Honorable Chief Justice and the Associated Justices of the Supreme Court of the UAited States are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court Is now sitting. God save the Government of the United States and this Honorable Court." No man entering that domelike court-room at Washington may wear his overcoat, Such ts the dignity and impressiveness of that tribunal that some men to whom embarrassment has long been a stranger evi dence the renewal of thelr acquaintance with It by a stam-« mering speech, a quickened breath, a nervous manner when addressing the Court, * . Pointed Paragraphs. Liberal-minded women can't keep secrets, ‘Truth Is stranger than fiction—to the chronic Mar, Money {s always a eatisfactory travelling companion, A blooming Idiot isn’t necessarily the flower of the family, # The man who thinks twice before speaking seldom says anything, There are more cases of Indifference at first sight thao there are of love. A hobo dentist is touring Ohlo, His specialty Is Inserting teeth In ples. i If there is one thing thinner than water It {8 the blood of your rich relatives,—Chicago News, ri Sifting the Pearls, Some years ago the Sultan of Sulu learned that the pearl fishermen were reaping big profits, He supplies his revenue collectors with sieves and ordered that all pearls found neas Sulu must be tested in these sieves, Those that dropped through were to be retained by the fisherm those that remained in the sieves were to belong to the Sultan fof taxes. It nearly ruined the pear! fisheries, Fe Good Long Look. ? at are you lookin Mi a pars for? rubbernecks al] bawl.,|’ UI | look’ t sew