The evening world. Newspaper, November 15, 1904, Page 12

by the Press Publishing Company, No. 8 to @ Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Office it New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. PY VOLUME 48.............. SRT The Evening World First. Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during the vening uring first nine 1903 . -_ 8,285% 16,792. 10,6524 YEARS THE EVENING WORLD HAS MOVED TO THE FIRST PLACE. CITY LIFE AND DIVORCE, ‘According to Lishop Greer, speaking at the mass- ‘Beeting of Episcopalians opposed to the remarriage of the divorced, 40,000 marriage bonds were dissolved by ae courts of the United States last year, Tt ts a humiliating showing of conjugal fickleness, It ¢ M6 an alarming exhibit as well of our growing national _ eontempt for the sacredness of the marriage tle. When fm the twenty years from 1867 to 1886 828,716 divorces Were granted in this country, as compared with 268,332 ‘In all Europe, it was supposed that we had reached high-water mark of divorce notoriety. Yet now in One year in this country more than ten times as many are granted as {n England in twenty years! 1867 and 1876 our annual average of divorces | @fanted was 330 for every 10,000 marriages, Between 1877 and 1886 tho ratio rose to 444, At the present rate ‘of increase the time seems near when it may be confi- dently predicted at the altar that one marriage in every ten will end in the divorce court, Meantime in Great Britain the ratio has declined from 18 to 16. Among the most suggestive of divorce statistics aro _ #those showing the great increase of marital incompat!- bility in citles. Thus, while in France the divorce ratio ‘Was 127, in Paris it was 250, While in sweden it was 73, "fm Stockholm it wae 281, In Rotterdam {t reached 197, &8 against 91 in Holland, In London tt was 40. In the J Moited states, by the cens +» divorced (n San Francisco was three times in excess of ">the nationa) average, and in St. Louls, Cleveland and jphis more than double. In New York it fell below, ods the explanation of that exception to be found tn the! greater respect of the allen population for the sanctity of the marriage bond? The notable tendency of the married city dweller to eeek court rolief from irksome ties is perhaps the most) @larming symptom of all, Is the closer relationship of focial life which the city offers to be held responsible for the lghter estimate of the marringe obligation? The Question is one of considerable interest. A COMMUTERS’ MILLENNIUM, Signs multiply of an approaching commuters’ millen-| niu The actual beginning of work on the Now Ha- Yen's six-track electric system from New Rochelle to ' Harlem River brings that large promise of suburban > Fapid transit definitely near roalization, The electrifi- ) eation of the Long Island Railroad is scheduled for next spring. The Lackawanna with the elevation of {ta} )tfacks through Newark completed and srade-croasings| @bdolished and a North River tunnel profected dropa) _ @hints of a fast electric service through the Oranges. The “rie is considering plans for installing electricity On its local lines. The Pennsylvania has plans of large yeoope. The New York Central electric locomotive draw- * dng a train of nine Pullmans at a speed of seventy miles an hour is an accomplished fact. The Brooklyn Rapid | ‘Transit last week discarded the last of {ts locomotives, | ‘The outlook is encouraging for a development of elec- | » trical traction within five years at furthest which will bring all suburban towns within a radius of thirty miles dato the closest possible touch with the elty. And whu each step in this phenomenal progress the day draws. 4 Bearer when the suburbanite may take at a downtown Babway station the train which is to bear him quickly and comfortably to Yonkers or Greenwich or Morris-| town. ES! ae | TWO TRAGEDIES OF SISTERS, In the city streets rain seems to drive more pitilessly, and drifted snow is harder to overcome. In the city a , life is more intense and the living are too often more 5: eruel. In the city one fails to love his neighbor as him- *¢ gelf because the quality of nelghborliness {s rare. Gossip ) @ sharpens its two-edged knives in the city on the flint of ~ welfishness. . And 50 in Brooklyn the sisters Ryan are in the mad- Douse, driven out of their little property and their men- fal balance by the evil work of scandalmongers, who were not less guilty because only careless, As for the two sisters who killed themselves in Fast Pifty-first street, Manhattan, on Saturday night, out of their destitution and despair, one cannot In their case accuse a neighbor. For no neighbor knew the sisters’ _ trouble or had reagon to suspect their purpose, Yet in this matier, teo, there is a “pity of it"—the pity of lone- Mness and of no one to go to, It does not Invariably profit that a city is great and ) glittering and has, as a general consideration, Its chari- ‘fable hearts in the right places. Yor frequently the warm and saving heart fs absent from the place where the need {s vital. Sometimes we need more than libra- ries that helping grace of the real neighbor, WHERE TRANSFERS GO AND DON'T GO, whree kirde of trolley cars run both ways in upper Broadway—erstwhile the Western Boulevard, One is "the straight Broadway car, another takes to Seventh venue, the third sort rolls through parts of Ténth avenue and Forty-second street. _ Nickels from all these cars flow to the same eager Stfeasury, But there ls an absurd discrimination in ‘transfers. ‘The trip slip which goes all right with one ductor elicits from another only the order for the pas to pay & second fare or get off. he much extra money the New York City Rallway iy makes on this extra fare trick is a question but omly incidental. The point is that the cease very promptly and the transfer geod on all cars covering the t, J of 1880, the number of the| Jurally ts the more she ts able to do for | a The Duty of Self- Reliance. —_—_— ‘By Nixola Greeley-Smith Qualities O which the! modern woman is born to or painfully ace quires, that of self-reliance ta most to be de- aired Economists! may differ as to the right of | woman to In-| vade the indus | trial Meld and force her fee ble brother ¢o the wall, but the economio ndependence of 0 large class of women the world over been of incaloulable benefit to the present generation, and Ms results will bo felt forever. | There is even now something not al- |together unpleasing In the clinging, sweetly dependent type of woman that once monopolized the romance and the | drama, But her younger and more n- | | dependent sister, who 1s equally capable | | of crossing a street or a continent un-| nd who has the extremely new | @ whole duty of woman does it in being @ more or lees) decorative millstone, la much more to |be desired as a mother, sister, sweet- heart or wife. Women tn love, whether they are as old-fashioned a# one of Thackeray's heroines or as modern as the charm- ing, but amazing, ladies that sparkle | through the mazes of George Meredith, lare pitifully dependent, anyway, The [haughty scorn with which the Jantoe | Meredith and Virginia Carvels reward the devotion of even the men they love exists only between cloth and paste- board covers. Pride and love cannot dwell together in the same heart—at least, if it be @ woman's heart. And there is no more wonderful and touch: | jing spectacle than the often abject de- votion of a superior woman to the most ordinary man, But the fact that the self-reliant wo- man loves and knows herself to be be- does not seem to her a reason for laying all her worrles, amal! and great, upon his shoulders, Theoretically the man is the more Independent and self- reliant of the two, but, actually, wo- men have the greater capacity to en- dure sorrows and misfortune, and in times of stress they often carry a) double burden, and are glad to carry | it, There is no one so able to nd | good fortune as a man, but “when care and anguish wring the brow’ it jg more often upon the woman that the) task of consolation devolves. The more self-reliagt @ woman nat-' F all the Nixola Greeley-Smith, thowe she loves and the greater her usefulness to herself, Few women are born with enough self-reliance to carry them safely through the shoals of life, but it should | be the duty of all of us to cultivate the | supreme quality which renders us most helpful to ourselves and others. LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. —_——— “Nicholas Nick! by Charies| Dicke To the Editor of The Evening World: I recently read a description of an) “old-time school whipping’ In whieh the writer says his schoolmasier was “a counterpart of the tyrant of Dothe- | boys Hall." Where may I find a book describing this “tyrant?” PEDAGOGUE, Yes, To the Editor of The Evening World: Can a President of the United States be legally and constitutionally elected three times In succession to the office? FW. B Born Oct. &, 1828. To the Editor of The Evening World What is the of John Hay, Secre- tary of State? cus Mourning Period for Parent Is One Year, To the Editor of The Evening World Is \t proper or improper that a person | should stay in deep mouwming for a year for the death of a parent? | JAMES D. | Eye Strain on the Subway, To the Editor of The Evening World I read recently in the Bunday World's | 5 Magazine about the eye-strain when | riding in the Subway, and I think the oculist quoted is correct when he ex- Decta the Introduction of @ new eye! iisease, I think this could easily be averted by painting the tron columns! in different complementary colors, ar- ranged in & manner so that they, by) the moving of the train, would melt together and form a harmontous and pleasing whole for the eyes. I am 9 this could be brought tmto effect In the| Subway. It is almost impossible to| force passengers to gage on their news-| papers or on other passengers when | they are used to looking out through | the windows. Your tip is all right sed EPESTOT SIS L SSE SHOTS HSS © FF FHTTIHFFP SESEST FOL SELEGSOSSHSSSOE » 3 @ » 4 ° 2 @ @ $ +4 ® 3 we WORL Willie Wise uw Gene Carr’s Kid and the Election Freak w The Erainy Youth Should Have Known It Was a Brilliant Man Paying an Election Bet, 800-HO0] B0-HOd!! e * ® ° oe WELL LOOK AT THAT BIG OVER- i GROWN KID gq CRYING, I'LL GWE rll HIMA KICK \N ss Willie Smudge, the ‘‘Evening Fudge’’ Wonder, wg Even the Small Amenities of Life Cannot Escape His Eagle Eye and Big-Type Brain, On! THANK You $2 much, MR OFFicaR > AND THE DAY 4 9 EI CADESE GEOR ODLOLEHLG TOI F £94-6-06-64-06-01-006600006000 3 Mrs. Nagg and Mr. — By Roy L. McCardell. | well worth following, OBSERVER. NEVER interfere in your con-|h# has a selfish nature, If you were! tertain me in’ the parlor while she) lavishly on Riverside Drive, I - | Brooklyn Dridge Mobs. ae cerns, Mr, Nags, but 1 can't help ®" outeast would these friends cling to| has her dinner and after she has eaten os ee & Parewa oe A] To the Edvior of The Evening World: but ask you what you see In Col, YU? Oh. I know they would not! to| te comes in end talks with me while | tne Impudence to say, ‘I beg your par- t have aoied with duagust tue onttae | Wilkiae’ T have always coade it @ pent 10) the daughter slips ov, and eats They Gon. you have the Advantage. of me! of the rush howr mob at Rrooklyn| “If you must have friends, why don't | Carefully choose my friends. never hint that dinner le being served | © {PUN Maye rede more money #0 bridge. 1 am not @ resident of New| You make frien ith Mr. Smig? Mr. | here's Mra, Terwiliger, the beet! in the dining room. bat you oan't £00! we could move away from here aot York, but am here often on business Smia alwave d | me as to what is going on. with nicer Fecple, would never i trips, end as an American Tam deeply|f##hion and he knows funniest | Man that ever lived. She looks tke a) “I know that Bre, Plyppe hates the | to any of these women. I hate them interested in America’s greatest city, Not only {# it revolting to any Jecent Aran to see people jortied as they are in these rushes, but this “crowd-m: neces” bryfes Ill for the character of o people, It is un-American. It ts this rational, lawless, uncontrotied spirit that feads lynching parties, that defies law that riote and mobs and ts a) nenace to our dvilizalon, HARTMAN, Yoo; in 1886, “at Bi ea Rooaev: for Wager of How Tore Cty’ i om masa r j a0 funny io At Mra. Terwilleer's pink tea| freak and she is always making trou- | sight of me; he said the drotlest things. I member what they were, but t All Mr. Smia’s fol perhaps she has heard t re-| ble by carrying tales, but she means| what I think cf her, for I make no were | well | bones abate it. ¢ re) “You oan't say that Mra, Gradtey is) “I hate the whole lot of them, I fined and can be told anywhere. De | not refined, She never talks of any-| think we ought to move to some tash- sides, Mr Smile was the Prospect Park | thing but soolety, and she le #0 stupid | ionabie suburb and go ta the swell pig a chacag Pig heresy * ne that she bores one to death, but her /church. Of course, we will Le snubbed is so fond of hie wife. She has a house | Character ts above reproach, I don't| for a while, but if we only bo patient full of boarders now, and Mr, Dubb told | KAOW Which ts the stingisst, Mra. Ter-/and pul up with It it will not be long me the way she had to work nearly | Willger or Mra. Gradiey, If you will before the best soclety of ast Ma- breaks his heart notice they always drop in here shout iaris, or Pompton, .. J, or Kanned “That is the kind of friends to have, | meal times, and, of course, I have ta|Termaters take up, Col. Wilkins loo! ask them to ie, but they would) “That is never think of mo it T had a | inte mouth on me. As for Mra Gradiey, it 1 cadl there she bee her daughter en- are you going now? Down ‘ou always go mtown or Up like to drag me some: dnt have any friends, and where I would be snubbed, put tha: {a just like @ man! What is the use of Of course he isn't acy maa who doemi't merry shows that BEE POOGOPLO POOL HO PSY DEBE BROEGOPOO GIG II TEES TL PLS HH HDS SEIS IS POG GHD DED FE, EOS FOGOOOHSHOO-H9-GO-0GOGO6-L0GOGSLSODGHGIE-OF HHO HOL-F OSHS OOE-OOG6-999-9O6-9-5-0-9-8-5-2 9S 2 9950-99 9S95SE-99689962d. ds and I appreciate SY MARTIN GREEN, ¥ seem { t A The Aged Breach ot Prome ise Defendant Is in Luck. , ‘6 | SEE.” said the Cigar Store Man, “that another | bappy guy 1s having ridicule heaped om him } with a shovel as dofendant in a $25,000 breach | of promise suit. i “It don’t stir him any,” asserted Man Higher | Up. “He's préud of it. You can write your own ticket: + and cash on the proposition that he has been sitting up, all night reading the evening papers and sending for’ the morning papers so vehemently that they have kidnapped from the press. He finds that being in the limelight in New York, even as a breach of promise sult defendant, is more exciting and more productive of press notices than running a county fair out in Pennsylvania where everybody calls him Hen. “The patriarchs who get sued for breach of promise and have to go into court and stand for a legal josh don't look upon themselves as reciplents of the butt end of it, On the other hand they think they are all the cheese, Sitting up on the witness chair with his false teeth tapping against the roof of his mouth and his bum lamps conveying to his brain a faint impression of 4 grinning mob out In the court-room, he thinks to him: self, ‘Ain't I the reg’lar old cut up?" “That's what he thinks, It is planted away in the resemblance to @ frozen apple that cons him into the belef that he has a brain that the audience. at the pro- ceedings looks upon him as a wonder for having won the love and regard of the beauteous creature who wants $25,000 for her booted affections. He feels like @ Lotharlo, and to the day of his death, even if the jury puts @ mortgage on his farm, he will tell people thatt his fatal gift of beauty was always a source of great | sorrow to him, because of the awful effect it has hed on " ot leone to me I'd compromise rather than have they whole United States laughing at me in court,” remarked, the Cigar Store Man, “Suro,” agreed The Man Higher Up, “but the aged defendant {n a broach of promise sult don't think the laugh 1s on him; he thinks the laugh !s on the girl.” Some Sort of Family Tree Is Necessary in New York, i | \# # By Alice Rohe. gy gi EER OU make me tired with all this pedi talk,” # snapped the Pessimiat. a H “Why, the Gotham olvic anthem ts, ‘If H haven't @ pedigree you needn't come ‘round.'” Soft ‘Well, interposed the Amateur Philosopher, “You ought | to have @ pedigree. No home should be without one,"* 1 "You talk like a street-car ad," said the Peasimiat. “But | + this pedigree business fatigues me, The only thing that's | ; Necessary if you want to land quick and easy is to have @ | beautiful family tree, with some lovely ancestor who hes | | bad the luck or brains to do something. | “It's the beet free ticket into all kinds of soft snaps and | | delicious deals I know. And it's & good exit ticket, too, when you're in trouble. All a young sport has to do when he gets mixed up in a carousal that would send an honest fon of toll to jail 1s to spring he family history and tt's; |) ‘Oh, we musn’t proseoute him, he's old Jan Rotterdam's!! @randson,’ “ Sh—Hush tt up for grandpop's sake.’ "* “Ob, cheer up!" wald the Amateur Philosopher, “Remem- ery rose has its thorn and every family tree has {te rotten branch, “Yea, but real merit don’t have a chance when you have to buck up against this everlasting pedigree,” complained ' | the Peasimist, “Meaning then that you are not a New Yorker and you haven't a'—~ “Bxactly," enaried the Pessimist, “I'm from Kansas, ; > where you only mention anorstors at your peril. Out there | it Isn't good form in polite soctety to suddenly question any- | body about thelr progenitors, You're lucky in Kanses if nd Ma can be fixed up and led in for inspection, It's | ‘eat land for the rising generation.” “When I ran up against the pedigree game here in New York I thought it was me for the prairies again, but I saw‘ * | #0 many successful Westerners in the seats of the mighty ‘ that I got encouraged.” : “How did they do it without pedigrees?” asked the Ama- teur Philosopher, “Oh, they #ide-stepped that game as much as they could and got so busy with new ideas that they landed before the New Yorkers woke up. “Do you know what I've done to help out this pedigree game?" said the Pessimist, “What?” asked the Philosopher interestedly. “Well, when I saw that it was necessary to have some One in the home circle with a family tree I bought a bull- dog with @ pedigree that would ma! Stuyvesant Van Cuyler look like a yellow mongrel in a prise dog show at the Waldorf, It works great. Now all I have to do Is to talk abowt the Colonel's great-grandfather and the family portraits and they all fall for tt.” “Then there is some way out of the diMculty?” asked the Philosopher, “Only this,” sald the Pessimist, “if you haven't got @ pedigree of your own get one quick, even ff It is a bulk dog's.” Who Is He? A well-known English periodical printe this as ploture of an eminent citizen of thie Republic, Gan you tell whe he la? Drop a line