The evening world. Newspaper, October 3, 1904, Page 14

‘by the Press Publishing Company, No, & to & iy al New York, Entered at the Post-Ofics at York as Second-Class Mail Matter, 45... seeerentesseeeeNO, 18,749, BE The Evening World Firs. qT colhmns ul pattern, many of them of ninety horse-power, ‘goat om Long Island public highways for a cup ‘by Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, They will make ten Gt top speed over a course thirty-two miles long, ) the Nassau County Supervisors have put at @iaposal of the facing chauffeurs trom five in till three In the afternoon. During that ‘Vehicle of any kind not entered for the contest ‘allowed upon the roads; all crossroad will be prevent passage, and a large detail of policemen | be supplied to see that these orders are enforced. s6 safety of the lives and property of those whose | have been thus arbitrarily pre-empted, the ot- | the Automobile Club, with a golicttuds which fronical comment, order that dogs and domes. Be Iccked up and children unattended kept out way. . sation the farmer and the villager will have ‘of what is designed to be the greatest auto- ever run in this country, one likely to be nota~ of the natural hazards on roads not adapted th Speed contemplated and because of the ad- ngers of two railroad grade crossings. The ! of a smash-up are exceptionally good. this automobile holiday provided gratis for an nt, those will seem to be captious critios the farmers, truck gardeners and all who com. n of access to city markets cut off and time and ney lost through the inconvenience of the enforced . They may question whether the county offl- not exceeded their authority in closing the pub- ways against ‘hem for the day's sport of « tow ts, The general public itself will ask what it to profit anybody concerned, the automobile scturer not excepted, to’demonstrate that under | conditions of recklessness and foolhardiness one ite losomotive can be driven along a country road 4 miore furfous rate of speed than another. WINTER IN THE SCHOOLS. the winter recreation centres in public open for study mixed with play—twenty- § and aot enough. The regular evening been in session a week. The free lectures way within another week. With the part- to a large extent relieved through the con- a of upper classes, New York will find {tselt | upon & much more comfortable and promising shoo! year than seemed probable a few weeks ago. Bening World miny be justified in a special word de over the free lectures—a system which Is the ¢ of Evening World thought and effort, but wh'ch ’ has outgrown even the sanguine imagina- rit originators. This winter there will be one ‘and forty lecture centres and, judging by the in- rr attendance through other years, something near iiiiion and a halt of hearers. The lecturers will in- Eliot, of Harvard, dean of University President Wilson, of Princeton, and President , ot the City College. f t the points established when a summing-up Is the city # owe study opportunities for its chil. nal 3 i NG # New York is beginning to také the educational 1 as a metropolis should; sat none of the “growing-up” with a mind to learn | be disappointed of an opportunity. ese are seen to be vitally important points when that the city’s developing boys and girls a few year's Jater, the new New York. COLLISIONS AS THEY MULTIPLY. it editorial commetits upon the increase in fatalities in the United States, ‘The Evening 4 Moted that of the thirty-oné greater casualties of rail fn 1903 twenty-one were in the form of ol- ‘and to be classed ordinarily as preventable. ry Mosely, of the Interstate Commerce Com. has gone more partécularly into the suggested iii. He finds that sixty-one passengers were killed p tm 1899; sixty-five in 1990; fifty-five in 1901; fn 1902; 123 in 1909. fuercese ir the number of ra!lway employees f in collisions in the same period was constant, jt from 187 in 1899 to 574 in 1903. ie 133 passengers who were victims of collisions In @re more than a third of the total number killed Of the others, 120 either fell from cars, or in Jumping on or off of moving trains. then, AB foads, And in these days of block signals, Switches, airbrakcs and other safety devices, fot multiply without reeponsihility in som: @uarter, In recent cases, such os the Midvale (N. J.) 5 horror of July 10, on the Eric, and the wreck at New- tharket, Tonh., September 24, \t was the human cloment _ that failed, There arc other such cases of record, and !t > te charged, in effect, that the very completeness of the D automatic signalling systems has led to a dopendence | thereon on the part of omployees which amounts In itself to negligence, — ‘This phase Secident question must be consid. Pie sought to lift something of the American railway journeying, is the pftime peril to travellers on} The Girl Who Reads Novels, peed we ste By Nixola Greeley-Smith, the majority of young wi else any reading is better than none they are benefited by i, ‘In old days the stern par- ent used to think it was Sweet sixteen and allow the young mind only such predigested food for thought as might be found between the innocuous covers of “stories for «iris,” in whieh, having the measies at the critical moment before school ex- aminations formed the climax and get- ting over them In time to win the prise the happy ending I remember 4 venerable Southern woman of the ante-bellum period tell- ing me when I was scarcely more than little wirl that her father had always allowed her the widest latitude in her Teading. but that there was one book— & modern ciassic that everybody reads nowadays—which he would not permit her to have. She sald: “The idea of reading that book took Dossession of me till I could think of nothing else, and when I was married I took my husband out on the very first day of my honeymoon and made him buy It for me. When we «ot back to our hotel I sat down and read It through and it was verfectiv harmless.” Probably this was the usual effect of the greater supervision of those days, but the effects of the romantic novel are nevertheless more or less injurious to the young women of sentimental tastes tor whom they are, practically, written. When one has reached the age of twenty-five or thirty and has realised the very slight relation that exists between the average novel and real life, It can do no harm. But when it converts a healthy schoolgirl of slxteen, who ac- cepts its highly colored emotionalism as a glimpse of the world of romance she is scon fo know, into a mooning sentimentalist Hable to mistake the smiling youth at the soda fountain or the notion counter for her ideal, it is indeed to be feared, Even the most photographically real- istic novels exaggerate. They have to Produce their effects. A woman with the most vivid natural complexion looks like a ghost acroms the footlights unless jhe is artistically smeared with rouge ies power and black cosmetic, and the ters of the novel hero or heroine bave to be similarly “made up.” Young women who do not realize this often attempt to model themselves on some admired Janice or Dorothy ot fiction, though the effect they produce is exactly similar to that which might be wrought by an actress who would promenade Broadway in full make-up at neon. F ‘The novel-reading Angelina often suf. fers, too, from the fact that her every- | day Edwin, whom whe may know as | “meady,” “gentleman friend” or lancet | according to her point of view, does rot | remotely resemble the Sir Vincente and Sir Waldemars who slash and bluster |H to take her to the theatre—but a | short walt at the stage door after the Performance is usually enough to con- | vince her that Edwin compares very | favorably with the erstwhile stage hero, The novel hero, on the contrary, is se curely Intrenched behind the paste- board covers which he never has to leave for a chop at Brown's or sup, per at “The Lambs," and he is apt to | remain enthroned in her heart to the | great dotriment of the deserving Ed- win. | So as a general thing novels are like) | men, never altogether harmless and de- Nahtful until one has ceased believing | in them, | —— ‘LETTERS, | QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. _ | Markea with Maiden Name, | To the Editor of The Evening World | Mis» Jones and Mr, Brown are to oe| | married Should the silver presented) ¢ them by a mutual friend be engraved With the initials of the bride's malden| 4 | name or should it bear those of the) ABC. Universally Observed, tor of the Evening World bridegroom? ea? WwW. KL on ol 1 Bareau of Vital Statistios, To the Editor of the Evening World: Where can I find out whether a mar- | riage took piace here between 1908 and It ETHEL. To the FAltor of the Even! Where can I find a of the subd- | fects needed for entrance examination at West Point? A AR Feet One Inch, r of the Evening World 3 the height of J. J. Corbett? AEF miess Method, 4 World twenty-one years Tothe £ j We | There Ie No To the Editor of the Tam 4 young ma ol. Ih face. 1 8 twi is not enough, as it i any harmless ite growth? read nathing/ principle that) | through the pages of her favorite fe-| tion. To be sure, she suffers from the | | same pang every time Edwin gives up! & national hellday in the | | i Mary 34 I ovaur .To_ USE ONE > OF MYOwn, * s ow , TO RESUME We LEFT s s a s THE w EVENING » WORLD'S w HOME oe PA EI THE TWO CONS This Time Have Money to Burn. s: MAGAZINE. » Jane and Kickums Cool Off Their Dads. # w The Two Old Gentlemen Grow Too Hot in Discussing the Political Situation. +¢ e o * PES 28S0>8 orrheeeetereeeseeeeeseeaece But They Set Fire to the Wrong Money and Face an Unusual Case of Hard Luck, } PLO MY! SUCH Agent | 1 say House-H myself. ith ue past and childish, Agem—Or My hb vat 1 can't let you have the rooms.~ 4&8 R ‘Chicago Tribune, per will he time, but he's old | of ? I'm sorry, madam, | © ive | mor Yes. si es like aly (Laer, NO WHISTLERS WANTED. man! sald the busin was applying f i | couldn't wet tell me how It moe rt." aald the boy promptly, a’ this | take to ¢ midiig|emnly to obey me A MEAN ADVANTAGE, “Mr. ft lan, * less you promise go “I solemply promise,” replied the sick AND AFTER. ) periods ‘ POWER OF FLATTERY. e other after.—I’ ey > » » » ta Inquirer m y well, Now, first of all, ive me| It ls almost as easy bo persua sir : id the business man | your check in full for my last Dill."—| she can sing as it ls to make her be- zen Seeeee een? eee nia Praas, | lieve she is handsome.—Chieago News, : a} >| PEP OSEEIES2-9-900-9000-2-6 | long as the supply of fish stories holds out, |~Chicngo News, » \of Thibet the British forces in Lhassa distributed silver coing » And it teaches a GRAVE MORAL LESSON to Evens >to MICROBES, If long skirts collect these microbe , a| PLE, tay By Martin Green The Lamentable Fact that the B orium Is Ace-High at Election Time. SEER,” said the Cigar-Store Man, “that the liquor dealers are said to be supporting Odell.” “It's the old question of the booze vote,” re plied the Man Higher Up. “Lamentable as the fact may be, the fact will stand the acid test that the boozorium has more influence in an election than the ‘church. The rumeeller has a stronger drag with the | voter than the preachor has. | “The whole thing is in the game of human nature, The dispenser of booze hands out what men shoulda’t bave, but want The celestial chauffeur dispenses what ment don't want, but should have, Hence the poten? and growing Influence of the man behind the saloon, “It L were running for office with the intention of | accomplishing a moral comeback !n any community I'd | rather havo the promise of support of one rumeeller of ten ministers of the Gospel. The rumsellers would deliver the goods, The class they draw votes from is loyal to the booze influence. But unless s preacher goes to deliver votes on a souse-pusher’s schedule—deliver back for whal you get—he makes a brief showing om election day, “The saloon-keeper is an instrument of evil, but he’s always 0} the works. If you happen to get pinched late at night ‘or taking Broadway for an audience you | wouldn't send for the pastor of your church, Nine times out of ten he wouldn't know his way to the station. house, You'd end up for Mike, the abstemfous publican on the corner, knowing that his appearance with a roll showing jaundice on the outside {3 a cinch, He don’t | ask you anything for it, You feel like you ought to make good The only way you can make good is by helping him get rid of the stuff he has on band—and | the Job is agreeable, Should it happen that the preacher | turns you loose the only way you can make good to him is a visit to his church, From the fact that every con- clave of preachers goes deeply into the question of why men don’t attend church services it appears to me that as against the purveyor of poison at 15 cents a drink | he 1s outclassed for influence. The men who control the | yotes are the men behind the Government in this coune | try.” 7 | “You don’t mean to say,” ejaculated the Cigar-Store | Man, “that Bishop Potter has less influence than » man | in the Hquor business?” “Certainly uot,” responded the Man Higher Up. “Bad why did the Bishop go into it?” . Pointed Paragraphs. Even a slow man Is often fast—asleep, Many a young man loves an heiress for Qimself along, Man probably sprang trom a monkey and woman from @ mouse. A man seldom gets It In the neck from keeping his miouth shut, | If @ woman doesn't own a mirror she has lost all interest in life. The expected happens often enough to allow the weathe man to hold his Job, When Cupid visits a summer resort he swaps his bow and arrows for a machine gun. A man will always be able to get something for nothing ag A calico dress can now be bought for a few cents—yeq there are men who persist in remaining in the bachelor class, Rich Beggars. in thelr efforts to secure cordial relations with the people ° oor of that city. It js a striking testimony to the of the country that a number of the recipients red with Jewels, while one drove up on get his share of the shillings. The Tibetans expr grajitude for the dole py putting out the tongu up “he fingers, whether to the nose or not is not stated The “Fudge” Idiotorial, A REFORMED BUTCHER, wha now seeks to eam an honest living | as a BARBER, remarked to the EDITOR OF THE EVENING * FUDGE to-dayw while making | some local repairs on the latter’s openwork jaw: \ Lovely Women Must NOT Walk Like a Wall-Eyed Cow! Leave that to the Common People Who Read The Evening Fudge. (Copyrot, 1001, by the Planet Pub, Co) § SHAVING JUST THE SAME, Bay rum or cate bolic, sir?” This was a wise speech, even for a reformed butcher, ing Fudge readers, Thirty-foot skirts and high heels are UTTER ABOMINATIONS, ladies dear. The voluminous kirt is THE ENEMY OF THIS PAPER, for it u ENING FUDGE'S job of MICROBE COLe OR. Microbes are our CHIEF READERS, | When we claim that 369,432,183 readers daily DBs VOUR The Evening Fudge, we NATURALLY refeg ™, there will soon be NONE left for US. The high heel raises people just that much highea , above OUR SPHERE OF INFLUENCE, besides make i Ih eyed cows, magniloquent kane Cod oysters, bottle-nosed t-ridden COMMON PEOs * garoos, blind Peruvian ost Read The Evening Fud were EVER IN THE DAYS OF GEN'RAL SHAFTER FUDGE EVOKED DERISIVE LAUGHTER— THEN AND AFTER, ze and try to FORGET you