The evening world. Newspaper, September 30, 1904, Page 14

he Publishing Row, New York, Entered at the at New York es Becond-Class Mail Matter. {IWOLUME 4B....,...seeseeerserees NO, 15,746, "I The Evening World First q ‘Number of columns of advertising in | The Bvening World during first six months, 1904 Number of columns of advertising io The Evening World during first six INCREASB....00000 00005 1,681 7,700 seeeees 6,019 TRIAL DAY AND THE POLICE. | Bighty-three complaints were on the dgcket before | oner Lindsley, yesterday, on trial day at Police They formed a phenomenal list. The mer was stern and the penalties {imposed upon | members of the force were sufficiently prompt | heavy to be impressive, Most gf the complaints against patrolmen were for, Of post. They were a part of the fruit of recent World disclosures concerning the midnight service. It waa demonstrated that roundemen, ants and captains con look sharp when they are M4 to it, and that duty-shirking along the streets is K t sale while such urging is on, Bo long as the story of yesterday's trials ts fresh and memory of yesterday's penalties is keen, the activity | ef the “rounds” may continue and patrol service be Detter performed. \ But the pubdlic will not and the Mayor should not ba/ ‘4 tent to rest with auch results as these, The ides and > deal to which The Bvening World directs the attention | © of earnest citizens in and out of fufiuential office {s that |! & police force which shall do its duty constantly for take; not spasmodically, in fear of being found out punished. Discipline Hes more in holding men effectively together in keeping individuals “up to the scratch.” The head of @ police corps should accomplish more by “fe Hing & “spirit of the force” than by the standing fe Of fines and suspensions, fe When the New York patrolmen see “bigher up” an Pare single to department loyalty and efficiency, when the “system” in evidence ie that of discipline without | and diligence without the spur of fear, trial days | holidays for the docket-writers and the honor| ‘will grow apace. The spasmodic “yanking up,” Mr. Mayor, {s no substi- | for the firm hand always on the line, Will you not| for the city’s Interests and your administration's credit, toward the restoration to the police of effi- betency with self-respect? E THE PISTOL HABIT ABUSE, | Coroner Scholar complains that there are too many | {permite to carry revolvers in force, and thet this authori- bs of the hip-pocket habit has become responsible for 4 @ccidents. Commissioner Greene, in September + jflast, dustituted a reform of this abused privilege, with Feealt thet through the revocation and expiration of - | Heerinea the number of private citizens authorised to revolvers was reduced from 1,178 to about 100, ‘Commissioner Mr4doo admits that the list is now too ‘tong and needs revision. Its extension from the mini- ‘Mum to which it wes reduced was a mistake. But the main cause of the pistol habit, the increase of yahich the crop of August murders alarmingly revealed, "Hes back of police permits, in the leniency of the law. The - jatattite which Inakes of the offense only « misdpmeanor "punishable with a small fine virtually abets the illegal) fearing of aris. The proper penalty, in Judge Cowing’s| | Words, is “State's prison.” Following the fatal shooting | of Policeman Enright last March Assemblyman Wallace Entroduced at Albany a pill making it a felony for any other than a public official to carry a concealed weapon. ‘This excollent measure, which dealt drastically with a gerious menace to public safety by providing a punish- ment to fit, appears to have been lost in the labyrinth cof legislation. It is only by means of such a remedy,) going to the root of the evil, that the abuse of the plato! . habit can be effectively checked. OPPORTUNITY FOR USEFULNESS, ‘The mass-meeting of the Gen. Slocum survivors to pro- \e against the whitewashing report of the steamboat and to urge the punishment of the owners ‘officers of the ill-fated vessel has doubtless exerted ihe moral force which any organized expression of opin- earries with jt. But it is improbable that {ts resolu will send any one to jail or spur on the lagging of justice. [Wet the organization of survivors, if energetically di-| eted, should be able to accomplish good in other ways. fn agitate for a reform of the loose government regu-| Haas which wade the disaster possible. It can demand, ‘ to replace the defective laws now on the! | books By periodically ‘refreshing the nat‘on's| ‘Of the Bast River tragedy and hammering evay| is Gone It may some day make excursion Which will be better than putting direct- | celle. | of survivors has an opportunity to Bm public service which {t should not negiect. re fy Prosperity and Advertising. Want Ade brought riches to his door. fa thete six words finds veat:— re | | crafts, and latterly they have | such eminent fitness? enema eenenenen ene aes . - ccc ta ee me ny! | 99SO4000-0696100 1000098 DO0O00OF }. 3 | Should Boys Be Taught To Sew? —— ? By Nixola Greeley-Smith | ¢ one 12 ccorp.|¢ A ING wa z despatch | 9 in yesterday's news, there is war between he principals and the boy pupils of the Wabash, Ina.,/ public schools | because the former have | sued an edict s-equiring every j upil to bring @ \ plecs of cloth and a needdiie| 2 I, and thread to) Nixola Gretley-Smithy gonoo th at | they may be Initiated into the mys-| teres of plain sewing. : Everybody will understand snd@ sym- Pathise with the boys’ objections. And | yet some men have been proclaiming | { that the duties of the two sexes are merely diverse and that they are “not equal nor unequal.” It Is hard to com- | prehend why the boys should kick at plain sewing when the girls would cers | tainly have been tickled to death at a| Similar opportunity to do boys’ work. Women have always shown a vivid eagerness to master the masculine loped | such capacity for doing men's work, that one would think the rising male Generation would ralish an opportunity | to get back at them by demonstrating thelr superiority i felling seams, hem-| @tHohing handkerctiets or making but- ten-holes. Ue te admitted that the world’s best | dresemakers are men, and that men, are the most accomplished cooks, Why, | therefore, should the sex shrink from) the tasks for which it has displayed | | 4 | Hi Bewides, it would be exceedingly use- ful to the modern young man to know how to sew, For to the modern girl, un- fortunately, sewing ts rapidly becoming @ lomt art, There are young women making from $6 @ week up who can't even make their own shirtwaists, or the simplest collar or tle, and Who spend thelr meagre earnings for cheap and in- | fertor ready-made clothes. When chey marry they ‘are as helpless as if they possessed ¢he income of miilions—Iindeed, more helpless, for the heiress is far less | apt to boast that she “can't even sew on @ button" than the factory girl. 1 once knew @ man of seventy who a rather pretty but hope- sa Southern women, and who! had not only dong his own sewing all his life, but had actually done all the! mending for thelr three boyy. And his) alater-in-law told me that she had re-) pegtedly seen him sewing buttons on) his wife's shoes. He did not seem to} be of the “sissy” order of man, elther, but had simply learned from sad expe- rience to do things for himself or do without them, Of course, it is much more creditable to the Indiana school- boys to have declined the “plain sew- lag" proposition, though tn later life they may algh for the instruction which they now atrike at receiving, ‘The school-reader Injunction to “teach the orphan boy to read, and teach the, orphan girl to sew," must now be read | the other way about. | ‘The superiority of feminine handling of man'p work yet remains to be dem- onstrated, But a fine opportunity !s| Afforded the Indiana youth to demon-| Strate thet they cannot only distance the girla in algebra and trigonometry, but that they can also beat them at their own game and turn out finer “samplers” and “drawn work" than the most accomplished Dorcas of the school, Ts LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. | ¢ _ oe O06 60-968000906900900000S56 0085050006 Weir, We CLEARED THIRTY THov’ ON Consors DATED Prunes Today, Apply to Your Congressman, To the Editor of the Evening World Kindly tel] me to whom to apply for) ¥ an appointment to West Point or An-| @ napoli, Are cadets and midshipmen | paid? If so, what are their salaries? oF R | Each Senator and Congressman can| appoint one cadet to West Point, There | are also forty yearly appointments at the President's disposal. The pay of a} cadet Is $400.50 a year; that of a mid- shipmen is $600. To Eradicate City Dust, ‘To the Editor of the Evening World Regarding the dust evil, I would sey that the street-car lines should be made | to sprinkle water between the tracks, having water cars built so that the water will not go in the trolley slot, | thus not interfering with the running | of the road. This Is done in some other | cities, MERCHANT. Do They? To Ss EAitor of the Evening World Mill some natural history student ong your readers please explain the! cavise of the following phenomenon: How is it that a horse while eating | on pasture walks backward, and a cow when browsing always walks forward? READER. A Freak Astronomical Pussies, To the Riltor of the B orld: Will amateur astronomers please puz- sie this out: If such @ thing were pos- sible and 1 wanted to take a trip to! the moon, 1 suppose I would have to get! ito @ balloon and rise. Now, jf a man| ¢ in the moon should want to visit the, 2 earth, would he have to drop? If 80.) @ how much longer would tt take me to! @ tise than It would take him to drop? GW. kk For Dird-Owner, ‘To the Editor of the Evening World: In answer to the owner of the para- iyaed mocking bird: I had 4 similar ¢ac| , EXAGGERATED CAUTION. perience and found out that the bird| “You are not going to have any torch- was overted. Feed him on rd bas a enanea tis. Sinica ~ ee es ood xed me . a mana- purt—-Ves; ihey ming to oper- fd plenty of fresh wate, aa hi pare |"2™ M4 cA take A chanag ‘i wa |ate uoon me for appends, bat they Se plea or res ey seems a ah age te $00000e> 2299552645098 6062696-30006300008 eeoe HIS ESCAPE, Harris—They tell me you have had a very narrow gscape from death. THE TWO CONS Make an Unusually But Gallantry Gets Them Into a Fix from Which They Can't Extricate Themselves with Mere Wealth of the Mind. THE w EVENING # WORLD'S’ HOME v “Seeing New York.” By T, E. Powers, ~ A SERIOUS DOUBT, “Do you think he loves yout’ said Maude. “I don't know,” answered Mamie, “He writes to you every day.” “Yea, But his letters sound suspi- choualy sano and ton Mar, Vi Ro aie 9-3 FATHER KNICKERBOCKER—Women were fond enough of talk ia my early days, but they never Chose such perilous situations as this for their gabfests. Grand Play. NIENT, must enjoy | creases to forty-five degrees; wit. an ogg fourteen days old | does not think that an army officer h<S a right to be married, ‘ a The High-Heeled Shoe Is Pretty, 89 ;, How Can You Expect Women to Give It Up. / SME," said the Cigar Store Mna, “that a women $6 has died from a cancer on the foot caused by wearing high-heeled shoes.” “You won't sce the shoe dealers’ breaking their euspenders {n an effort to yank displays of high-heeled shoes out of their show windows, though,” replied The Man Higher Up, “The high heel is fashion- able and you can't get away from the fact that it adds to the appearance of a woman's foot. Which the same makes a combination that you couldn't beat with an axa, “Another thing about the high-heeled shoe thet makes a hit with women is the fact that it adds an’ inch or more to their height. An inch added to a petite female's stature is more than a foot onto the height of a police. man, By the time a emall woman elevates herself with | her high heels and adds about 6 inches to her circume ference by means of pads and cushions she makes @ front that satisfies herself. “Tt you will take notice you will seo that all the nobby, dressy women—the soft and man-drawing women—wear high heels, A woman with flat heels sort of sags down behind Ike a loaded truck and generally carries a map that would make a face changer despair. Seven out of ten women who wear common-sense shoes don’t wear corsets, In a majority of instances flat-heeled shoes om & woman are ascociated with a man’s overcoat and @. 4 derby hat. “High heels make a woman uncomfortable, but it 9 & Tare woman who won't suffer torture if she looks nice, Women try to look nice with a double purpose—to make themselves attractive to men and an object of jealousy to other women. Well-meaning health advocates haves ; harder game than the races when they go against this, As well advocate rubber boots and sun-bonnets for promenades as advocate anything in the way of a com- promise that will appeal {o the female sex as ugly.” “It's strange that men haven't fallen to the high heels,” renarked the Cigar Store Man. “Don't you give odds that they won't,” cautioned The Man Higher Up. “All they need is the right kind of a " \ ’ A Sure Test for Eggs. German produce dealers are interested in what they claim is an infallible method of testing eggs. It le based upon the fact that the alr chamber in the flat { end of the ege increasés with age. If the egg is placed ina saturated solution of common salt {t will show an Increasing inclination to float with the long axis vertical. A scale is at- | tached to the vessel conta!ning the salt solution, so that the inclination of the floating egg toward the horizontal can be meamured, In this way the age of the egg can be determined almoat to a day, says the Philadelphia North American, , A fresh egg lies in a horizontal position at thé bottom of the vessel; an egg from three to five days old shows an ele- vation of the flat end, so that its long axis forms an angle of twenty degrees. With an egg eight days old the angle in- to sixty degrees, and with one three weeks old to sventy-five degrees, while an egg a month old floats vertically upon the pointed end. i To Honor Zola. Efforts are being made in Paris to have some important | / street in the heart of the city named after Zola. It is also * purposed to celebrate the second anniversary of hie death on Oct. 1 with a meeting at the Place de la Republique and @ urand procession which many assoclations of workingmes + and others have been Invited to join. Army Celibacy. aos Lord Kitchener says that he is not a woman hater, bat as he will think of his wife when In places of danger and in- stinctively take precautions for her sake that a single man would not. : To Vote in Japan. A Japanese must be twenty-five and pay $7.80 a yearas die rect taxation before he can vote for members of the Japanese Diet. The tax shuts out a large part of those who would vote In another country. The “Fudge” Idiotorial,. PORT ARTHUR Port Arthur’s Lesson to the HASNOT YET 4 Common People, FALLEN. It A Few Fall Thoughts pal tan for Fudge Victims. (Copyret, 190% bs Ral Planet bs st ra er ( ———————— EARLY MORN- ING EDITIONS, but we have INVARIABLY raised it again in the 20th, 22d and 24th, Do you know WHY Port Arthur has uot yet fallen? THE EVENING FUDGE will'tell you WHY and will incidentally read a valuable lesson to ths COMMON PEOPLE: Port Arthur has not fallen because the Japs lacked sufficient PUSH to shove it over.» No man can suc ceed without PUSH. If the Japs pushed HARD ENOUGH Port Arthur would HAVE to fall, THE EVENING FUDGE FAIRLY BRISTLES WITH PUSH, and see how steadily and unswerving. ly OUR CIRCULATION falls! ; Another and even MORE COGENT REASON. why Port Arthur does not fall tx because thé Japs’ HAVE NOT SOUGHT CO-OPERATION, Co. operation is EVERYTHING. This paper co-operates |“ with its one reader to make his padded cell seein liks a ST. REGIS SUIT. If the Japs vould seek the CO-OPERATION of the RUSSIANS and if BOTH is nations would work ge f together, Port Arthur. ~ would soon be bound to other day, ie AT THE FALL OF OLD JERU: zn IDGE SHORT-CHANGED METHU- ©! ¥,