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———$—=————— 'How to ioridB = Test a Row, New York, Entered aie sachin si Husband. UME 45.0... cceeceeeeessNO. 18,737 By Nixola Greeley-Smith ‘et New York as Second-Class Mall Matter, The Evening World First. T 1s a com- | ton among men and Women bo} Number of columns of advertising in who pride TH} The Evening World during the Ippo first nine months 1904 ........ 10,6521; dge ot the world that no woman knows & man’s true nature until she is married to him, It re- OThe Evening World. during the first nine months 1903 ,......._ 8,285 seers 2,867 , morning ot evening, in New York mained for & itions in nine consecutive months young woman to the . 4 statement by Nixola Greeley-Smith, !oventing & pre- matrimonial test for husbands. Having some doubts as to the wearing qualitte sho adopted the ingentous pl ing other men present when he called A POLICE PLAN OF TRIAL. to teat hia atlonee, cooking him bed | dinner to try his self-control and prov. Of record justify amply Commissioner Me-|ie"Nty ‘Constancy oy solng Atout mith Geolaration that now conditions are necessary another man. As all three tests tailed, trials of policemen accused of grave offenses, | *ie broke the engagement, and the dis- es carded lover ja now suing for the re Present process js something like this: turn of the betrothal etng and otber man ts accused, tried, convicted and romoved front jj Clever lawyers carry his o: up through the courts; after a long and cheerful vacation he Is Panam Bey. will be followed by the doubti follows y the doubting such a system fear of punishinent ceases to j.ooq wherever her story penetrates, from acts of offense; the taxpayers’ money most remarkable feature of the whole % fd in the pursuit of convictions; policamen lca) foe aa? ts Has rah unusual cou. 4 UI ns ave been develop: ya {feet Teapect for the powors that attempt to call them | gic of Chicago, where the system of o it and discipline receives a body blow, | matrimonial oredit and exchange has 8g ’s plan for reform is not yet distinct 1n reached such perfection that one would te Commissioner suggests something of the hordly expect a woman to apply a more hon ’ exhaustive test to the husband she was 4 Hal plan, with a Judge Advocate duly se) about to acquire than she would to an IN THREE YEARS THE EVENING WORLD HAS ; MOVED TO THE FIRST PLACE. her. Wise in her generation fs this young woman and her example !s one which ry . potion, to the Mayor. | ment store where she knew she could return it and get a credit oheck If. upon Would involve a greater measure of homo rulo fee ates t : hi ct jnapection, it didn't sult F Legislature hes as yet seen fit to grant to her. ™ York. It would ‘involve also the possible perils, Ner scheme, however, displays great . to the test is that no man on earth Wyck, with its “best Chief ever." could meet jt triumphantly. There are, ‘And even with the force constituted as it {s to-day | to be sure, masculine monuments to pa all the honesty of intention credited to Mayor | tence who would stand for the pres- en and Mr. McAd ere would needa be| 3° of other men when they called nt But they would almost igevitably get Selection to prevent the sitting of the rein-| less than the required % per cent, in the raduate courses in ay oat: accused. r Sa ser | HOUSES might swallow the mean dinner | =, seede considerations are not mentioned tn a @ptrit! jn dignity and slience, And all others, 4 of that beautiful but impractical Shak be as tt should be centred and make ef+! oogrinn sentiment that “love le not love which altors when it alteration finds, or seeks with the remover to remove,” But no man cen traverse all these ordenis successfully, If he could, he| might experience a good deal of dim-| culty In finding a wife, for women don't, caro any more for the “faultily fault- less" being than mem do, And if he could, he would demonstrate his utter | lack of the most essential and the rar-| Penalties for polica malfeasance. But the one to be welghed carefully and regarded y points of view. iy {t 18 an anomalous condition under which } State court can be used shrewdly, on tech- Points, to defeat actions taken purely for the of tho munictpal service, est quality in a husband—that ts, truth- WAR ON TICKET SPECULAIORS, i, Bor the man who would pre . et tuln | The, war on ticket speculators that marks the open| tend to enjoy the preaence of other men | Gvery now theatrical season has this year been! during @ visit to his fiancee would be p with unusual vigor. The interesting feature! untruthful, So would he who enthused of Manager Savage's crusade 1s ite difference, in the tace| Oe? & mean dinner or bore with amiling | * J | unooncern the attempt of @ ailly girl to} from that begun by Mr. Conried whe make him jeaious, It te generally toet peifal” tickets were placed on sale, The direc- enough of the quality of a man's atteo: | of the Metropolitan by paying special attention to tion that it prompts him to assume the T moral and financial obligations of mar- mail orders to some extent protected its Hage, ahd 00 O68 00 Oh) Sean's ant | from imposition, The manager of the Garden stancy 1s concerned, tse of more strenuous methods, By repudiating {t na one does certain bought on the street he raises a question as to} entific truths that can't be absolutely wy hel be be- how tho passage through vanious hands of a ticket fre Se ear Serle eye yy oe Heved, ly purchased at the box-office can invalidate {t.| Thore {s really no teat of @ husband u, | ‘quite clear on what just grounds Messrs, Weber except m: day te wite say Meh Mlegfsld could refuse at the door tickets not tn-| mist be ae uncodtinene. ay antec | orles an H 4p @ riveted onvelope, Likewise the action of the {10h forecasts or the viclories and de-| ker management in limiting the validity of They Tony Da interesting, pus. ther ton ng, £0 cle tickets to immediate uso seems open to fie’ things invite that 0 have to prove 0 themselves, lem n't { orked out from the anawer, 24,8 onli speculators times does algebraic eq Rave woo first blood in the lower| someliniee tie Mee Key For the a written only in t answer which unftortu strate Mayo ruling that they “have tho! a: i tickets for any theatre in the city without Pate, of which untorts from theatrical managers or the police.”|ng.man may hold the key. | joean't meet the teat and U b bird of prey who thrives on extortion. He cannot who is afraid to test him, and she is apt the author of a recent novel, “ls noth- for the distinct service rendered of providing The curb and the worst of it la that, like every: | thing nk solely to corner and sell et exorbitant rates (tet, # tingle, payment A ime and sincere effort toward his abolition m for approval even from those who despair of QUESTIONS, By tite-application of the city to the Supreme Court There In No Edison Star, & o y 1 > y q Bridge terminal begin to assume a definiteness which “iT? ! 88 that It Is kept up by a kive ‘ Unele Sam's Debt to Italy, our dem to Italy? Italy gave us and t The comprehensive plans resolved besides the most prominent men in el | There is no use testini h of the litigation thus begun will be watched! the manner of the Chic ‘ fnderest. In popular estimation the speculator is} (OW ine will goon loving him just the same, If she loves him very mueh be classed with the hotel ticket broker, whose to forgive, bis deflctencles, whatever ' re, S "writes Moderate fees must be regarded as a fair com- he’, \i* tert etc pore Ing, but endleas, forgivenses on the in- stalment plan.” This ts y with a seat at any playhouse, Ning else on the inatalment pian, sho lacks this excuse for his existence. By pays for {t at usurious rat have It taken away from her, | | tekets for popular attractions he in effect bases i It in j-and-deli 2 on etand-and-deliver methods, LETTERS, «i Gl ANSWERS. } BRIDGE TERMINAL RELIEF, —_-—- F & commission to institute condemnation proceed- 1,5 the Editor of The Evening World the long-cherished plans for a now Brooklyn Hew te the Edison star kept up In the ani rey felend says it i# kept up dy a precited gourt opposition has denied them. The in- whee. H. W., Hempetead, LL | (pot the existing terminal was apparent ten ear B Every rush-hour crowd that has since To the Editor of The World r has brought an unanswerable argument to '"'t time we An ns recognized ; FF Proot of the urgent need of ite enlargement ie wortd the discoverer of our country, ® relief the delay of which has well nigh Utanches of human endeavor, while tn A scandal. electrical discoveries, from whith we derive so much wealth and prom- be hoped that with these plans May event- inence she has been and is yet tho . porated the project of the Municipal Art leader. Three of the greatest tri (for a subway loop to reach the North River, ‘las were Itatlans: Volta, Galvant and . rains. I have had the good fortune to gather and distribute the great volume of several years’ restdence in and trips to and from that pert of the elty south of to italy, in oMMclal -sd private mat patreet. Such a diversion of the Bridgewa d ters, nad berzing 148 asual exceptions, ita present single point of conver/ojc: Itvl'a'* Are am desirable © people ex ‘ore than any other remedy to relieve thy “ ; 8 vane ous congestion. reat cd ES day, —_—_——____. fo the Falitor of T ening Wort M INTEREGT ALL THE TIME, “os wnat day aii apsi sine duit you have long laid by F. and K good interest yearly, iy Fou can now escry best interests clearly, Meénts safe, wll-paying, too, “Ad.” will bring to view, At End of His Twenty-arat Year, When {9 a young man years old, or (aa the say ia) of age? At the end of his twentieth year, or at Pov end of the twenty-first year? twenty-one presents which he bad lavished upon | trial findings to go to the Commissioner and, article she had purchased in a depart: | Some administration Hike to or worse than that of M#enwlty, Indeed, the only drawback | OF of the district leader, upon the cases of the other two tests, Others who ico etd ; oarding= Ot hopeless opposition. In the court-martial plan may| when they met Mary Jano walking with | $ ym | the germ of a system which shall centre po-| “Another,” might demonstrate the Mead ¢ ¢ | water tn Ro] PPS PSSST LSOESE SRE OPS SEE LESS OSTON TE | o i i Jungle Jingles # w At cs o A Hippo one day chanced Bald he, “It looks bum, THE w EVENING # WORLD'S 2” Ma y Jane, Kickums and Little Dixie ~ © Ry) W The First Two Give the Snowball the Time of His Life, and It’s All on the House, Come On, DIXIE, ° |AND WE'LL GIVE | You A RIDE ON OUR SEE-SAW — to go To attend an art studio show. “While the stuff may be some,” Hippo-critical? Pray say not so!” SEDASISCHDHDIOHDSIGGEHIDIGS IPOD HIOEGOS4 ® SEE SSOSOE SOE PHP VDDD 2 SF PP THHGDT-7DDS DY SE GLOHHOGHGHE FOO O06 ° ° ; ™ SS) > > > the ‘‘Zoo’’ Vaudeville © » > a ® ® one day, A Rhino, while chauffing one morn, “| could War in a sorcer play Remarked he was glad he was born. Like an actress, guess yes! “It filla me with glee In my ‘coming-out dre: To go scorching,” said he, 'd come out very decollette.” And honked on his little nose horn. BEE E9EDGHOEHEODOOOOOOE 04-06 09006-61-06-600000 Mrs. Nagg and Mr. “ee HY do you find me in tears? W Oh, Mr. Nags, tt 4 easy enough for you to ask, But You have no heart, you @ not care! ‘Den't ask me, my grief 46 nothing to you! Iwill bear with my sorrows In ctlence, leave me aly “Ah, you turn away! I knew you did bot cure, I knew your perfunctory in- quiry wae simply to hide your own cold you say “wi spared me? You are always finding fault about what you call my extravagance, ant the rest is 1 have sutfered 4 nervous sock to-day from which I may ever recover, “IT went shopping to-day. Tiring my- self out by going around to ail the bargain counters in the hope of saving ® few peurdes here and there. T saw a aale of sponges and bovght half a dosen, a%4 then T left my purse and umbrel'e aoe plate and hat to alk home While 1 was walking home a rain ctorm came up and I was drenched. Yes, Mr, Nagg, drenched’ I ruined my new hat and the colors ran from some of ita trimming and ruined my new dress. The sponges got soaked wit) they weighed about fifty ts, and when I arrived home ex havsted mother was here and started to quarrel with me because she had been wulting for me, aa sho wanted t borrow $10. 1 had no money to give her and so she ts waiting fo see you “Ht is all your fault. If you were « man with any consideration you wo: Y INQUIBITIVYE Lpeve bought me ons of those » why should I weep unless tt | wore for something that you might have! ‘Never mind | that wi samples that were lost; it wasn't your | “I was hurrying home with the umbrella! “You did not ruin a new hat; you did not apoll a new dre | a sk umbrella! | “I do not worry over misfortune; Jt your Indifference to me, and By Roy L. McCardell. Hussian levther hand bags, and I would) your cruel glee when anything ocours| for supper, and mamma is madder than not have lost that old shabby purse of to mar my happiness makes me weep! m 1 do not like to be a beggar and| fs why I never asked you to get me a Russian leather hand-bag, btu rou that | wanted to ehow Mrs. Terwilliger. “Oh, It ts all very well for you to say, !s only | nd bought me one, you see, by 1 getting ma new hand lest my purse with {27 In it and 9 lot lndifference, Mut you do want to know, of samples Mamina—You don’t mean to say you took @ second plece of vie when you wore viniting, do you? at boare, ape ‘Ue cimer—Then T s'pese hit kids are czardines, ain't they, papy? Marry Papa—Ye Harry raiga live? r, Jobnay,” “Yes, ma'am,” replied Johnny, “It's people ‘fore they get into society.” ever, “Now, don't frown! You say you had no dundh to-day and aro very hungry? “I was so happy to-day In thinking | Of course you are. You only think of how pleased you would be when TI) yourself; mamma only thinks of herself brought home those sponges. They were! nobody thinks of me! only 6 cents, marked down from %| “How do you know but what I have cents, and as T bought balf © dozen,| not had anything to eat thie day? 1 Tee ses 5 onved 9 sents, would not have had any luncheon either “Brother Wille looked at them and|i¢ 1 pad not met Mrs. ‘Terwiliger, who sald they were carriage sponges, and 99 |guggemted we have lobster salad, char- Mt we ever move to the country and get |totte raese and milk. I had to pay for sponger in| jt, too, because Mrs. Terwiliger never plenty to wash the carriage with, pays for anything. “You pretend you care, but I can see it Is only pretense! had some consideretion, at your atingtness tn ag, L have of some new dress goods It wasn't your money it wasn't your dress end no one thinks of @aying @ kind be gcolig eds nas a ‘place to @at aud wei so the beet 1 oan and 1 ean do no 1 simply can't etand your anus. “ il go Rian with my mother another word. i |e vunhavent mld @ word, you say? ‘why dow't you speak up iike a sponges, because there was nothing to eat in the house, and after getting drenched and losing my pocketbook and having mamma scold me, I had no appetite to eat anything, and go I t send out and get any chops you did not lose Out of the Mouths of Babes. Well hi | of} alway come in the y F |mant WHY, 0? germ as Mt you thought Yes, mamma. I wanted to show ‘em I was used to having plenty |) ed {> niame simply because It ralued to-day, a a new overcoat, “Brother, Witte none ot have some JAvte Eimer—lan't thy Emperor of Russia called the Czar, papa? mamma says she met T havent 4 Yes, ty boy. money, tes 1 lost dei oes T had to the lace collar, Moray never try (0 save @ cent, No- | nody tries to economize but me, You will be throwing it up to me now from thie on because I lost my pocketbook, “Tam not as tactful as you are; when you spend or kee your mony you hever say anv thing. le iiiie was with me, and I | ae the crowd, and then I anise. ed my et book. pear boy ts not home yet. big t are Cag shaking head at? it, fim? "Be not deny it You do tnink’ bol Tapa, this paper says they don't use natls in Japan, I guess that's a fact That's funny, What do they use when they want to nail cam. raid the teacher of the Juvenile class, “can you tell me wre ! Chicago News, it is accel OS ia ot AE aw tt Bas i SLOPES LDP DSV DERE HIOST SH TE DO TT DEDDDSORRER SS. | “And go I come home wringing wet |The “Tested” Chicago Swain Mis- played His Hand and Lost. SEE,” eatd the Cigar Store Man, “that « girl out In Chicago tested her sweetheart for par tence, self-control and constancy and he tolased his cues," “Yos," replied The Man Higher Up, “she told him to beat it and now he's trying to work a come-back on the diamond engagement ring by law. She didn't want to marry him, anyhow, Whenever you see a wom- 4n putting the acid test to the homelike qualities of het sweetheart before marriage it's a olnch she wants bim to take {t on the run, “It don't look as though he was dead crushed-in o@ the girl at that, She first tested his pattence by have ing another man present when he called. He didn't stay long enough to let his hat get cold. If he really cared for the girl and contemplated buying furniture for her he would have framed up an endurance contest with the butter-in or else handed him a glap 9a the jaw. In elther case he would have made a hit. “Then she tried him out on a bad meal to test his self- control. If he was considering sitting across the dining+ room table from her for the rest of his life he would have smacked his lips over the bum chow and told her that she had the cooking his mother used to do skinned raw. When a man fs In love all cooking tastes alike to him, There is time enough to holler above % attar the honeymoon is among the played dates. “The final proof .hat he didn't care for the girl came | out when she tested his constancy by going out with another man. Instead of keeping away from the house and trying to put a hard finish on his eorrow with ale eohol he should have given her a heert-to-heart spiel, something with a reverse English on it, The chances are that she would have fallen on his neck, dampened his cravat with her tears and confessed that she only | did {t for a joke. Her experiment doesn’t show any+ | thing.” | “A woman ought to know eometh!ng about a man bes fore she marries him,” suggested the Cigar Store Man, | “If you think she doesn't know all she wants ta know,” said the Man Higher Up, “you've got your matri« | morial dope wrong.” The Soda Clerk % 4a ie oe and His Fizzy Fountain Talks ’ | He Isa True Bohemian and Induces | a Brunette to Become One, “ I‘ & Bohemian," announced the Soda Clerk, unplase $4 tering his hain into what he deemed a poetic dige order, “I'm a regular member of that devil-maye } care, eccentric, brillant, unconventional guild, There's tem | of us that dine at Rampanti's every Saturday night, and & | tell you we have wild revels there, “Never heard of Rampantl's? Gee! I guess you only come to town on clrcus day, Rampanti's js the famous restaurant that's the headquarters of the upper Bohemlan set in New York, You'll sve the creme de la creme of them there every Saturday--Montmorencl Spilker, the famous actor, who is to have a speaking part next season; Trask Quilby, the great | author ‘9 so Tohewmiun that he never lets @ line of his stutt be published); M@rcdoun Thiswique, the eminent floors walker at Byem & Sellum's; Song#vy, the wonderful musia clerk, and some of the wildest, dashingest dry-goods assiste ants in ajl New York. Oh, we're an awful exclusl tat Rampantt's, None but the best class of Bohemtans ade mitted, and— “What's that, ma'am? ‘Been waiting ten minutes for me | to let you mee the directory?’ There it 1s, ma'am, on the | top shelf behind the preecription counter. You can see it quite plainly from here. Look as long as you like. “There! That's just a sample of the wit we spring at Rampantt’s, I've heard even cleverer ones than that when we're feeling pretty fit. Last Saturday an old chap with Di came in and asked where he could find work, Millle Kasehboy—the brilliant reparteciat who presides over the notion counter at Rybbenn & Co.'s, you know—answered quick asa flash: ‘In a workbastet!’ How was that? We all simply roared. ’ “No, sit, tho proprietor ts not in. ‘You see him behind the partition,’ you say? Well, is it any fault of mine it you've mot $9 you see things that ain't there? Better let @ you a bromo-seltzer, ‘ou know that little Brunette I go with lately? There now, quit yer kiddin’! It ain't for me to say, Well, I took her to Rampanti’s last Saturday, More fun! She acted real | soclable and hadn't been there more’n an hour before she was 80 mich at home she got to callin’ the walter a lobster, She's got lots of cute expressiong like that, Well, when it came tune to pay, I found I'd left my money In my other clothes and the bill was % cents, You see, we'd had double portions of spaghett! and several bottles of Chianti didn't have a cent with me, So I says to the Brunette: ‘You sit right here and I'll show you one famous Bohemian cuss tom you've never seen,’ Bo I went up to Rampanti and | whispered ¢o him: ‘I'm broke and’— I didn’t get any ture ther, Just as I'd known I wouldn't, He opened the front door and the walter run me out with @ bungstarter. I | haven't seen tht Brunette since, Any one but a true Bos hemian would a’ been embarrassed, but not me, It's fine to have the real poetic temperament, ain't K? lt— “ ‘Heartburn, you say, miss, and ‘what had you better | take for It” Why not swallow a nice foamy glass of fired extinguisher? (My, but we Bohemians do sling hot red | partee!)”* A. P, TERHUNE, | Fortunes in Licorice, Pretty nearly $2,000,000 worth of licorice is used , o | Country every year. It all comes from the lands bordering. |oa the Mediterranean, ' | Most people think that Heortce comes from the wooden | twigs and branches of a tree, But in reality the Ucoriea, | wood Is the root part of a very pretty, dainty plant, whici has beautifully shaped leaves that are colored bright grees | 09 one side and a pale silvery green on the other, The licorice plant Is a perennial, and in England, where. they are trying to make an industry of ralulng {t, the exe | pertmenters plant It In rows between cabbages and Do» | tatoes. In the Mediterranean and Orlental counteles great, plantations are given up to It altogether. The licorice plant throws owt immense fleshy roots, full | of Juice when they are fresh, They spread and burrow far’ | In the earth. and a, good bia hola has ta he dum to get themy all out. Magic Typewriter. A Danish electrician named Paulsen is credited with haw Ing successfully attempted a curious feat It ts said that he has been able to operate the keyboard of a typewriter at & disance without any visible connection between ht and the Instrument at hand. It {s added that he hae also dis- covered a new kind of “electric wave," whose existence has been suspected, but which has fever until how been re. vealed, According to a Copenhagén despatch the man made this mysterious agency ¢0 produce the reported reguit, ‘ u > ee