The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1904, Page 6

4d by the Press Puslishing Company, No, @ to @ fie Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Ofice * At New York as Second-Class Mali Matter, UME 45. NO, 16,810 of columns of advertising in Evening World during the fst nine months 1904 , WW bee morths 1903 ..eeeees : THE Supreme Quality of Repose. By Nixola Greeley-Smith, fold and written in praive of what Is at ogee the fareat and most desirable © A racteriat of womankind —the supreme ality of re- a VCH has A SEVERITY FOR SHOPLIFTERS, a “In Magistrate Whitman's view shoplifting ig shop- Mifting, regardless of the social standing of the culprit “T cannot allow it to be sald of this court that there ‘ed one law for the rich and another for the poor,” sald ‘the Magistrate in denying an appeal for the discharge of ) “& confessed woman shoplifter because of her wealth and| ‘position. That opinion will be indorsed by all who have ‘Brown resentful of the too frequent interpretation of ‘what in the shabbily dressed is plain larceny as klepto- Mania when committed in a sealskia sacque. Rather Bhould the discrimination of judicial mergy, except on | le evidence of mental irresponsibility, be in om ‘favor of the poor victims of temptation. | Phe policy of substituting severity for leniency in| " @ealing with the shoplifter has been adopced by the! “ourts on the representation of store proprietors that their losses trom this source amount to $500,000 a year, ‘There is reason to believe that the new plan of harsher easy will serve better than the old to reduce the of the thievery. And it is probable that a tew | | @xamples made of those formerly shielded by their social | _ respectability will accomplish really more than the arrest | ‘Of prefessionals to discourage this form of peculation. That it should be checked is of hardly less importance “€0 the shopper than to the shopkeeper, if only because ‘rendering unnecessary the esplonage which top often : the innocent purchaser the object of an over- sealous store detective's suspicions, OTHE SIMPLE LIFE” IN AMERICA. ~ Tho apostle of “the simple tfc," returning to Rarts “after sixty-six days of America, is permitted to indulge r orting reflection that the entire nation gave his & respectful hearing and that his book was from the White House to the Bowery, That it was a about on the streets and engaged the attention * y sodial philosopher and the cartoonist alike was a tribute of popularity, In turning the thoughts of a ) “Wiloney-getting people temporarily away from material " to. those of the spirit Dr. Wagner appears to have) i a stronger influence within @ briefer time than | Shy Other distinguished visitor from abroad who wan} be recalled. ) Dr. Wagner's assurances that Americans come nearest | _ Of all peoples he knows to leading “the simple life” are | fo the national pride. By that is meant a life ‘igh aims and impulses with which riches and luxury not incompatible—a life of generosity and justice, of and warm-heartedness, of truth and sincerity and Our pursuit of weaith has not hurt our moral) char . In discovering that while becoming the world’s greatest commercial nation we have at the samo Decome its most conscientious and equitable nation | , Wagner gets somo return of profitable instruction * tor that which he has given us. THE HAPPY FARMER, From the particular instance of the profit of 100 per} cont, realized jast year on the farm conducted by the| Pty of Bast Orange and by the general showing of agri- @c.tural prosperity made by the Secretary of Agriculture| ‘the lot of the farmer would appear to be growing yearly | ® More enviable one, It staggers the imagination’ to| Vearn that American farms in two years produced more fwealth than all the gold mines of the world since Co- Jumbus. Not unlikely the American farmer with a fertile quar- ter section is better off than Horace on his select Sabine jfarm. He long since passed the piano and lace curtain| period of prosperity. There is now a matl-box at his| > door and a telephone convenient for neighborhood com- igen en A windmill supplies his bathtub, news-| t a { Pepers and periodicals reach him regularly and his touch! with city life grows yearly closer, The demand for his Produce becomes keener with the increase of city popu- lation, and his bank account attains Jarger proportions with every harvest. ~~ There are occasions when the flat-dweller is disposed | _ to envy him his independence and thrift while wonder- _ {ng why his sons prefer a hasard of new fortunes tn the city to a life of plenty and contentment on the old farm, ‘BOME WHO GO HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, Ss ‘The Christmas-time tide of steerage travel from the World to the Old has set in, On the Baltic Wednes- ot men and women sailed toward their former *, across the deep. In the week corresponding to One last year there were 9,000 such outgoing voy- agers. During all the holiday season the bi busy ‘every year with the returning hordes, Largely it is a sentimental journey which these many is take. The call of the old homes ts strongest Christmas draws near. There are fathers and mothers | yaee again, there are former friends to greet, there are ba cheer to distribute and good storied of this Weetern| tell to those who have never crossed the sea, it 1s @ period of emotions and of heart-swell-| to them that go away from here. And it with the jiving cargoes the best part ® in gold or its equivalent, | this Christmas journey {s purely sen-| Dack—or most of them will, This! ; im store for them. But @ who haye made here what will be shall see them no " ese | Wy is ships aro! ‘> = 5 re \ eal There are two varleties of r 1 Pose—one th inertia results aupidity; ther the of per- simple Nixola Greeley-Smith, "| fect balanre, the equilibrium that ra- suite from self pe They are often Gulsh one from t of this diffe the serene type fectly controlled poms lle other, and, beean & man who admires ften finds himself mut- ted toa woman when he thought per- eonified I!, only to discover that she has the stupld immobility that resulta from) 4 & mind too small for an Wea to turn around fn, But even t a probably to be pre- ferred In a life aeeociation to the unbal anced nerves that #9 often mark the more intelectual woman, For ehe ts apt to make a very emall extra allow ance of gray mattor the apology for every @hortcoming under the sun gnd to fee! that a smatter of Grete oF Lat! atones for the inability to make a bed or cook a beefsteak AWo are all moro or leas born to re- pose, There ! nothing more placit under the sun than a perfectly healthy contented baby, But few of later Ife able to fs are in| in even a trace of that serenity, deep and unmoved, at) 4 tlt» surface of a woodland pool on a mid-June afternoon There are some stoles who belleve that It ts the part of the hero to meet misfortune with a amile But thie savora mare or less of gho theatrical and seems rather to be overdoing It To greet it calmly. with the polse of well-balanced character that survey at once the extent of the diaaster ant the posstbit of remedy, seems the better part this only the quality of repose will enable us to do. Men have more repose than women Perhaps the sunerior endowment | not a natural Inheritance, t the re- sult of business training, and the sy tematic forethought of good and evi! fortune that It entalls, Women fret worry continual! where men haven't time to, And worr iw the death knell of repose, To the beauty culturist pining fe adiopse it should be mentioned that in repose lies the supreme flesh food, and that she who has taught herself {mmunity from trifling cares may be- come a veritable Hebe without the ald of gymnastics or special diet | It may be that to be just naturally | stupid ts halt th attle, But atupldity often the better part of feminine valor. any how, and it yet remains to | be demonstrated that !t is not as well her cholcest Inheritance, ee LETTERS, ) QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. —_>-— . Mra. Place, March 20, 1890, | 4 Euitor of The Evening World: | woman ever been put to death | jectric chair? If so, who and INQUIRER. an whent ‘Tuesday, To the Béltor of The Evening World On what day did Dec, 4, 188%, fall? Dd. 8 C. Is In a Territory, To the Editor of The Evening World: Is Washington, D. C,, @ Territory? A. MV. It te the Territory “District of Co-| ff lumbia.” New Name for United States, To the Editor of The Evening World Why should not the United States be) called “United States and United Terri- tories?” There are Territories as well aa Btates; so st ought to be called “United | States and United Territories.” I8IDOR. T “Progression” Problem, To the Editor of The Evening World Tn answer to the question asking how much money ono would have if he laid aside for one month the eum of one cent the first day, two cents the second day, four cents the third day, eight the fourth day, &o, I wish to} that at the end of a month of thirty days the person will have saved | the eum of $10,710,03.73 If the month contains thirty-one days, then ho will have saved the sum of $21,001,287.07, the difference of one day amounting to a difference of $10,751,743.84. Eg. Yes. To the Editor of The Evening World CAMPUS. Can a man born in the United States) run for President if his father is a for- eigner and not « citizen in this country? Ls to distin. ° Doesn't os 8 @ SG9O010040006 e NOW MEET ME AY ELEVEN SHARP - 2585 SUBWAY STATION! i) ‘AND I've WAITED AN HOUR AT 2a8? gr! HEARTLESS wReren! 6YNOPSH court, watel Who hi ter. His love with Allthe oo Cc Wha He ed provieto ease al the pala lumm “Do he ral to the | Rudolph. Humpty have yc ————— RONOEAU OF BROWN Her gown is brown, her name ts, too; Her eyes are of the same warm hus Her halr js brown as brown can be The locks from hairpins struggle free As she comes down the avenue. The fad for wearing brown Is new; The fashion pleases pretty Pru Bhe dons the colors of the bee, Her gown ts brown. With joy the nut-brown maid we view; ‘Woe gladly join her retinue; ‘To her we bow and bend the knee— lea perfect aymphony! hey redlyrni Fon ney — A dark, Ata sparse, opening i] tte which ing words ALL Nort PREM THE | when ty a shit dullua's litte r*) mbine and over Little Biossom, nilasing parents, Tiostom belleves wore a magic ring. find the ring quin an searchers, and the rear was brought up by @ large number of servants with King’s cooks, under the supervision of Little Mary and prepart; keeh on the acent, Humpty Dumpt the rest In most desolate Jellydub, BEING SOMETHING rouse 1 a ed at ge tact ni * se THATS CHEAP!- WONDER WHAT, KEEPS Heal O> : Wy fl TT] | Weouubet on re cxear¢ i$ OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, you, and the Demon of Misrule shall f has been not harm yo o sie, Tam not afraid elther,” sald Lithé on the! Stary stoutly. ‘lL am a cook and will e this Demon ot Misrule!’* a crown.” And out of all tae party that had * the King’s |started out so bravely, Humpty Dump- Inadvertently knock own the ce¥-/ty. Pantaloon, Harlequin, Columbine ‘ Je Mata Gutipty and hi, Blossom, Prince Rudolph and Little Mary nt courage to plang aughier into the ead, Int rous, awe-inspiring lo Humpty Dumpty to | cality, in whose deep haunts lurk a pretty, girl wicked ogres, demons and {mps, come to court In @earch of #F | mauher wiih Doar untorunate mortal yaneet to beasts, binds and other by their evil spell end dificult was the way, #0 ntafoon, Harlequin and to bel charg nephy her, ew, Prinoe The King says his it Bl ledge her clatms. | of the ring atures Bo itt unt HAPTER IU. | t Happened in the art of the Enchant- Forest. RIGHT ag early the next morning the royal party, with Humpty Dumpty as a guide, set out to find the magic ring that would establish — Blos- som's identity as the lost princess. Pantaloon, Harle- i Columbine were among the ns, All the night before the had been busy roasting nd chickens, making meat ples sandwiches: word, and ike a hound led he direction of one of the per of the kingdom of and the further they got from the more alarmed King Bol Tew, ‘ou see where he ts taking ust” to Prince Rudoiph, "straight enchanted How do 1 what this trap laid for | my crown ie, nunky! ou Dumpty tel var’ because Finally Humpty Dumpty Fed H ffod with prickly vines and under growth that impeded their progtess an ed thelr seeing one another, tt te wonder that at last they all arn y pty Pemey. found him- self in a soecies of clearing, Where hy noticed —t @ was beaten and trampled dow: if byga myriad danc- ine He discovered, too, a“email Pot that was fillet with some uid. Evidently it was there for some purpose, g or and he began sprinkling the ground with it. Slowly a green hedge grew where h had eprink'ed the lquld until it wae a feast seven feet in helgnt. | As he looked up, eight Plerrote spra: | from the hedge which gradually san from sght, and began to danee around, Humpty joluing with them, PERSONS ARE WARNED }| Pantaloon, astonished, came sdpon the TO TRESPASS ON ‘THESH || HRt and was further my ‘hen {18E3 UNDER PBX. LTY OF || Me"Siouds in a ballooe, 4 TRANSFORMED INTO || took part in the. revels. DISAGREEABLE. rrived, and beat his DEMON OP MISRULE. replied Prince ave not heard 1 an untruth ye can't talk,” sald came without a rated in any of ney reports, was high noon, they arrived almost im) ‘able forest. apot where the trees were more and which might have been an to the forest, they beheld to the trunk of a gnarled onk red, weither-beaten sign, upon hey could decipher the follow. | ht enatest wonder wa: came with a small vali : Se m e ree i * BDODE EEE NGC OOD 44 4-14 466090 9-04000-0 4.090.098 509900008 HAVENT You Seen Him = cirrce Man, RATHER MILITARY LOOKING WITH GLAS” $0! THis 18 THe WAY YOU BUT me ANEW GOWN I= ee ee ee ee ee ee ee x Cid PTY DUMPTY. A STORY FOR Littie & Blo Fouws J) | | [7] CHRISTMA nis SPECTACLE finally they began to dance off, and they danced so fast that only Harle quin and Columbine could follow them. Discoursged and out of Humpty Dumpty and Pantaloon sat down to rest, and, while they wege dis- cussing in their mute language what was best to done, ferocious being with a short body and a head as big as twenty ordinary heads appeared from out of the tangled forest. “Maybe he will know where the ring {s." aligned Humpty Dumpty to Panta- n do know.” eaid this peculiar mon- ater, who with his one great tongie could speak in many tongues, and who im the German Waiter Himself, wi fectly familiar with the deaf Iain distaste Poeelien. A titte Vird told me. Stuff me with all I want | (0 eat and I will ooze information.” | chin and ie hin > to the improvised | "aN Ajnner-belt nner-| "he or- | dered. ringing the bell un- And he, staried te ringt t etar wy Ft ing af bell they handed him. A nf ‘apres sd | German waiter, with red sid kept tanning 2. C tt with i melee of beet, 1 edibles. all of which were ti ua whole tess colts terrible mouth, out the bo! keer un Ite violent ringing, When everything that could be eaten | was Kune, sionpey Dumpty and Panta- loor fed him t in walter, Po 9! that the Hare, Gishes and boar 1 of th . but still the bell watll they grew very much Dumpty im the s Pata ordi x OME . | who wa 5 4“ nO) bh, des whatever shall sald the poor ohild. to show me where to find is 1?" at that yo @ dozen feet Into the alr, MACAZIN 230 098 | * Love Her Any More, # # That's Apparen‘, for He Doesn't Thins 't Worth While (o Keep His Word to ‘Her. 1 dot “T've lost myself, lost Rudolph and lost Humpty Dumpty, ‘as ever such an unfortun: particular moment a demon all in red sprang from the earth such velocity that he shot fully BS FL POSH -PSOSOO SOHO O: - ~ 9 SE COTE D € $OSS0SGSSOS892 THA ‘) ;| e WgherUp &y MARTIN GREEN. ~ — The “Hrmine Craze’? Will Probably Boom the Pneumonia Market. - ‘ SEE,” said The Cigar Store Man, “that the latest style is an ermine stole, with one end thrown | over the shoulder.” : | “Many @ man Is stealing to buy a stole, too, | remarked The Man Higher Up. “The craze for etniine 3 | Cur has got every woman in town who doesn’t own @ set 4 | either praying for one or consulting a dream book. From the prices I note on the ermine I see displayed in the fur | store windows the animal this fur comes from must be | scarcer than thousand-dollar bills. Before the winter ta over I look for a tremendous decrease in the white cat population, with alleged.ermine selling all ever town at /wbout $1.49 a square yard, “Health Department statistics recently emitted by the | experts show that there was less pneumonia in New York last month than there was in the corresponding month a year ago. When the December returns are printed the average will be regained, all right. The ere laine craze is a pneumonia incubator, ‘ ® “A woman with a real ermine stole and muff {s proude $ | er than a boy with bis first pair of pants, If the consiste 3 ency of women can be depended on, many of them go to | bed with thelr ermine sets #vound their necks and om | ‘heir hands. 1 gather this from observations made ree cently at the theatres, : “A woman with a set of sable or dark fur will take off the skins in a theatre and be as comfortable as hen tight shoes and affectionate corset will allow, The dark furs don't shew, But a woman wearing ermine would no more think of taking it off during the performance than | she would of going to the playhouse dressed in a calico wrapper. Consequently, she takes a partial Turkish bath treatment for three hours, goes out into the cold, and the ermine {s of about as much use as a silk ki! Dy There will be many a fine set of ermine bequeathed im wills before the winter 1s over.” “The women wear their ermines in church, too,” ase serted The Cigar Store Man “The ermine woman does that,” said The Man Higher Up, “to create envy in the mind of the woman who ig wearing her last year’s latob's-wool jacket.” L. McCa maby 66 WIMII you would write to those people who sold Brothe I er Willle the set of books that weighed sixty pounds, In the first place they cheated Brother Willie; they were not full neight, I welghed them on the kitchen ‘ and they only weighed fifty-nine pounds and a half. 80 t cheated Brother Willle out of @ half a pound, ' “Anyway, he did not like them and sold them to the seo- ond-hand book store man around the corner. It was those book people's own fault; they distinotly said in thetr advere tisement they would send them on approva at their own risiy, “Jt was a Sclence Library, and, besides being short weighty Brother Willie looked in them for something on the Science of Self-Defense, and there wan't a word in any of the books on this tople, “Another thing, the publishers claimed the set was werth $73, and the second-hand book man would only give Wille #9 | for them. “Ah, this world ‘s full of dishonest people! Poor Willig sobbed when he told une he only got #4. “Ho will have to pay for them, you say? How can het He spent the money coming home from night school, He t@ #0 generous and free with his money, He is #0 fond of books too! He is going to send for a whole lot more that will be, t ‘ome with me, ir maiden.” N@) sent on approval. bag Oa on you shall have the bar fast “Heo shall not, you say? That ts right; when you see the beating heart. poor hoy has literary tastes step in like a tyrant and deny “You don't look Nke a dereoa, to, be | him books! id, With @ good dea! “He is so interested In great men. Just now hots all exw! ¢ {9 egainst| cited over ‘Battling Nelson.’ I looked in the encyclopacdia) back. And he di while Humpty Dumpty and Prince dolph rushed towar Blossom from different directions, “T've been so frightened,” sald 4 moment ago, and told me to walt til he came back. For out of ground, only @ t som a @ i demen bad there pop) a au fo ed-down witch, with sieam in her small, black eyes. “The ring!" 0, in w quavering tones, bes tra ay 2 fant jer ‘umpty Dumpty head violently, wan to lonacm's walat. and sald “Begone with you! You old \witch, and mean berm!” "Give wu larule, De ot emon that rt Yolce of the “Fools stich ft really was, are, even you.’ Prince Ri but with « ed. KM was she, who had put the witeh her eweet, silvery tones. “I am SP DEHeR you. Have you éoupd 0," maid poor Blossom, y Dumpty In phe most ore je anys Itttle where it ts." explal “Lf a little bird told sone one, pkin under hie | {) bird must know,” argued the ‘he matter can be easily et- another. I nd all a tions came fiyli sponse to the magic beat down the branches trees, and hy in igi And eit they kept som! li di jens, of every conocivable tint, shade, and wit! grace, wild. ow rainbow. Any” negara owing Sid ohe turned an ane a C7 * ‘Wait here till ived right through the earth, Just aa a swimmer does through water, the frightened Blos- som. “A wicked monster was here only Oh, dear! look there itttle a malicious * and Prince Rudolph piace his arm protectingly around re a wicked your search for the magic ing,” eald the old witch. in the angry if you do find it, you cannot Remamber what I have told with drawn sword, mocking ‘Terrified th Mire! Le ot," the Mirth, in ‘Fear not,” eaid Fairy Be begin to gesticulate told rome one Prince Rudetp). every possible hile the whole forest rang with eet melody, and seomed a living ite nes, tt ret Ae and found that Nelson was a great British Admiral, 80 you, seo, 1f we curb Brother Willje, he ‘may run off to sem because he js #0 enthuslastlo about ‘Battling Nelson.’ “He has been so interested In books ever since he has reading the advertisements that so many publishers will valuable sets of books on approval if you will send them name anf address. “And look how hard he wrote an essay on boxing for sporting paper that offered a prize of a set of boxing for the best 20-word story on boxing. “Brother Willie wrote a thousand words and on both of the paper, too, so’s not to confuse the editor, but he was) cheated out of the prize, and the editor never even wrote 4 letter thanking him, although Brother Willle wrote times as many words ag was asked for, “T never hold up my family and brag about them like y brag about yours, but there is Mterary ability in our M sin Panny made @ lot of money addr envelopes at % cunts a thousand for a distributing firm New York. only the firm failed and never pald her, or away or something. They owed her a dollar and a and she had paid § for printed directions; and there wag young man who boarded with my mamma in Brooklyn wrote for all the papers, but there was a conspiracy him and all bie beautiful writings were returned to him, “IT can never say a word to you byt what you stagt sneer and growl! I don't know why it ts, instead of lad that Brother Willi¢ 1 #0 fond of books you are to | there glowering at me as if you would like to bite my heaa “1 might as well give up. In spite of everything I do n ing neems to please you, he | “Oh, well; never mind. I am used to ét.” The “Fudge” Idiotorial, We Demand a Ru- yous! hi for you has surrendered to’ GAS the Gas Tmt, hy That Cannot Be ib & cowardly) Blown Optif™ Wo othe elty Copyrot, 1904, by the Planet Pub. Co. @ NEEDS LIGHT it trom S might TAP US, We are ALWAYS I!luminating. ea But (here Is MORE BEHIND THIS than money, We demand a gas that cannot be BLOWN OUTI ings’) Hundreds of our readert are killed every year by BLOWe! cle | The Gas Trust that will not go out fore a breath ne aT