The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1904, Page 6

Published by the Press Pudlishing Company, eetarld awe * Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter, VOLUME 45 Leta ROL 18,817 : Number of columns of advertising in ; a The Evening World during the first nine months 1904 +++ 10,6524 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during the , fist nine months 1903 ..+s0es_ 8,285 Iateinesssiecosseo Mb 367 ; No other six-day paper, morning or evening, in New York S 2 pln in regular editions in nine consecutive months wach a volume of display advert te Evening World " caried during the first nine months | \ |] IN THREE YEARS THE EVENING WORLD HAS y MOVED TO THE FIRST PLACE, AUTOMOBILE OMNIBUSES. ‘ ‘The establishment of an automobile omnibus Ine in Paris and the successful operation of a “trackless trolley” | Mine of electric omniiuses in Berlin furnish examples ot! + “fwansportation development which could ve profitably {m- | tated in New York. It 1s interesting to learn that the Paris Q@atomodile buses, which are propelled by steam. have effected « saving of 20 per cent. in operating expenses De over the horse-drawn buses they replaced, while provid- age more rapid service, se ‘Automodtie omnibuses in place of the antiquated horse " gare on the Fulton, Chambers street and other crosstown Maes in the lower city would unquestionably furnish a (aster and more satisfactory service. For one thing, they fwould make it impossible for a stalled truck to tle up the eatire line, and they would obviate the continuous inter- a ‘guptions which put a passenger bound from one ferry to at the mercy of a hit-or-miss schedule, It is fwholly tmpracticadle to Introduce the underground trol- fey, av has been proposed, {n the narrow streets through | which these lines run. | % ‘There should also be a future for the automobile bus 98 @ means of communication between the enst side and - the west above Fifty-ninth street, In view ofthe con- @nued opposition of Eighty-sixth street property-owners, he westward extenc'on through that street of the cross- © _— town line now terminating at Central Park West ts not to be hoped for. Why not a bus line as a substitute? Or,| ff not over that route, through the Ninety-seventh street park viaduct? At the time of the closing of the Eighty- gizth street ine pending improvements the Fifth avenue | eases, which were run through the Ninety-seventh street @ossroad, gave tempormry satisfaction, At present that part of the city wost of Central Park y f@ further removed from Madison avenue in point of time © fan from tho City Hall, It 1s entitled to the better % transportation which the automobile bus, successfully op- —— @rated abroad, would provide, 7 STREET DANGER TRAPS, yfirst shows the slightest Inclination to | The Merchants’ Association has now taken up the @Restion of street repairs for investigation and for “the “f pepsentation of facts to the municipal authorities." The | undertaking ts a laudable one in line with other good services performed by the association, q But why should it bo necessary to avvalt tho action of a @his unofficial body to bring about the much-needed re- form? is not the deplorable condition of the streets well known to the “municipal authorities?” Are they not equally well aware with other citizens of the dangerous ¥6t which 20,000 truck drivers complained; of the “Beslected openings for pipe connections; of the loose ac- @0untability of thoee who rip open the streets on per- mits and fill them with danger traps? | The association's activity is an excellent thing. But a| § Bittle of its zeal and public spirit on the part of the proper| i pflicials would be better. RIFLE PRACTICE AND SAFETY, “ During the time that football was claiming fifteen ‘ietims the deadly rifle of the hunter laid sixty-six tel-| low-sportsmen low. Comparisons are odious and un- | Profitable. But the startling mortality from mistakes of | Marksmanship in the woods may well inspire in other! Mates legislation such as that proposed in Minnesota! which makes the fatal outcome of an “error” of this ‘Kind murder. By an interesting coincidence these figures ara pub- Behed at the time of the introduction by Senator Proc- tor of & bill appropriating $1,000,000 annually for the lon of rifle practice, The bill is intended gener- to improve the standard of American marksman- @bip, and particularly “through the construction and ‘Mquipment of proper shooting-galleries and the malute- ‘Rance of national target ranges.” eg meatal ’ of aim fn the body of citizens from whom the militia is recruited. It will incidentally accom- ‘ Mt educates the pot-hunter and the amateur woods- ‘Man to greater caro in his target practice at human The renewal of pistol practice by tho city police, which “Commissioner McAdoo has made compulsory, will like- ‘wise eatise the exercise of greater discretion by members the force in making targets of fleeing suspects, THE LOTTERY OF LOVE, transient interest. ¢an level ranks, and therefore” in Boston a rich Ree has married a shoemaker's daughter and a y Harvard student espoused the daughter of an ex- B, While 4 Boston helress has yiven her hand to clerk. burg citizen of eighty-one to a clerk tn his ‘Whirty-one, and in the marriage of F. W. this city, seventy-seven, to his nurse, area mith the eyes but with the mind.” tas it in Love” brought her a soldier wooer, ere | and hand. | ried. Tt has obvious merits as conducing to encourage ac- th good results if by making the handling of flrearms ry - fome Of Dan Cupid's recent activities possess a more ‘ wand December” have come together in the mar- | ‘Has not Balzac put woman's most dangerous! ne why young Mr. Miller's campaign speech York heiress and why Miss Sawyer’s diary there need be no despondent| oa passing of romance, More inter | tases their way are thee alms tala) St of international matches, - fe happily ever after! While such entries ia tad ae : Honsak toa netening 3 € OE O44GAAA4 SAGAN GSA, Here Is the Model | Wife. _—— By Nixola Greeley-Smith scacmenemmemned | ANY and are the charactertatics of the model Wife—numerous and = differen: indeed, ag the men who have) « outlined them, But aurely| among all man- Kind there can be but one] opinion about thacase of; Mrs Harold Mackway, who, when she heard that her hus- band wished to | $ ‘He Doesn’t Love Her Any More & 2 ¥)) rd od ad s * wt Recall Nixola Greeley-Smith, elope with a friend and neighbor, val packed the @loping couple's tru kissed her rival good-by and 4i4 every- thing possible to conceal thelr Might from the latter's husband. Undoubtedly | we have here the perfection of patient meekness, and ineklantally of wifely polley, For in matrimony, more than in anything else, tt behooves the wise woman to welcome the coming, speod the parting guest. When love firet calla upon us to be sure, commou decency re- quires that we grevt him cordially, re. leve him of hie hat and quiver and | ; ask him to stay a while, But when he| leave we should Ly no means aeek to | cross him in his intent, but amikngly | @ wateh him take up his buniens. wih | hin g dspeed, and by no means make/| ra the mistake of following him to the| @ | door or of looking out the window after 4 him. \é But while we all realize the truth of this theory, few of ua are strong enough to put it to the test in our own lives, It) « {s only the occasional Spartan of the| type of the Chicago wife who actually tries {t on, There can be no question that her! view of the matter is that dictated by common genee, But because of thia very fact it Is the one least likely to be favored by the in general, Love and common sense are at opposite poles, | 4nd there is no necromancy by which| they may be brought together, And though whon « husband wants to cut the matrimontal bond the only thing to do 1s to hand him the scissors, tew In- | deed are the wives with the strength to do it, The average wifely attitude under elrcumstances of this kind ia pre- cisely what she would assume if an- | other woman should cast covetous eyes | Upon her best party frock and proceed to annex It, The husband, like the frock, 1s hers, She has bought him and bald for him in the coin of her heart Both, in the eyes of the law, | belong to her, and she is as much enti- ted to fight for one as for the other All of which ts undoubtedly true, th nly question being whether the hus-/| LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. a Both, Former In Better Engltah, To the Biitor of The Evening World Are both the following forms correct? T Nghted the gas” and “I lit the gas.” Which ts preferable? H. Pw band of peripatetio tendency Is as! Ye County, much worth contending for as the sta-| To the ne World tlonary frock that has no voice th Waa Cleveland ever Sheriff of any matter, but must go wherever It is ¢ punty in New York? AR Legal Ald Society, 289 Broadway, But there ts mo question that even In! To the Editor of The Evening World T of a contested garment true| Js there any place a servent girl y would rest with her wholcan apply to for help in getting hee ould be adle to say: “Yes, tt was a/ money? G8 fine gown, and I'm ao glad you Ike It, | Frock me people have a prejudice against| T the Fxtttor of The F World: ing old clothes, but If you reatly| ‘Ait ts the proper g 1 for a bride. want It Tll be most happy to give It/ 40m at @ morning wedding at home? to you." WwW. M. And #9 {n the matter of husbands also ees he te “Sho-far” But, alas! for the feminine nature that Are. the cirtoct lations fs weak and fond and has the unfor-| of the words “Grosvenor” and “chaut- tunate habit of loving more and more | fur?” A.D. HL Instead of less and less, Few of us aro} equal to the supreme Insolence of this fenunclation It is all very well to say that true 1 absolutely unselfish and seeks only good of the ““s HY are you home so early then 4 this evening, Mr. Nagg? 1] never interfere with your | business affairs, as you know, but many ly pleas-| and many a time I have had to, speak @ MOre) to you about coming home so late. ht than n u pl © oninary, movie | “AR, you amile! But 1 tell you it tsn’t tho bitter waters of re-| necessary to work so hard, A woman ¢ sweeter than nectar ba would know better. Look at Mrs, Chal- wick, Did she slave and toll in a d'ngy old office for a few dollars? No. She 4 simply signed something, and got other bieke spay rare hrs jot a ot | peo ale to sign other things, and she had rees and enough money to spend on the things shrubs, Among the remarkable vari. she needed. jettles are thin rainproof paper used ine | 1a) 7 unt Jane's husband bought stock In |atend of kiase for windows, the lled | ine Bure ‘Thing ‘Bilver sine. at: two papers serving for waterproot coverings | cunts ‘a share, and the shares were and clothing, and the oiled tissue for beautifully printed tn the prettiest wrapping delicate articles, The bark Paper employed for meal ‘and grain vo peg a yoelaesatagae he ae ss ma “PAPER WINDOWS OF WOOD, | ok ips | eet hare and be bo BOOS SOO9SI OES ES OS4O890908 SLOSOSDDODOSOSIOOOOOSOD doee Mrs. Nagg and Mr. of ® lot of men digging silver out of) the mines, and its par value was a those proyie every year prot yt oe Mars Bop Kea HARRY, You'ky, BE LATE To Nuit OBAR WIFE WHY DION'T You WAKE Ma UP P= CANT WAIT FoR OREAKFAST- Too Lara. If He Had the Tiniest Spark of Affection He Would Not Treat a Loving Wife in This Way. I'm GOING FoR A PINT OF MicK!> DPE EDEONOIOODLE RN 44 iWhat Would Home Be Without Papa—at Christmas Time? 2 & eorge McManus, Jr., Creator of ‘Panhandle Pete,” Depicts Champion Victim of Santa Claus “Graft” and the Hard Game H> Is “Up Against” —ONLY Once a Ye e TYPOS IOSSOS- Trerel!-T TUST KNEW HE HAD NO La [He Won’t Have to Walk, ir) Rumor has it Gen, Hawley at Wa PRESIDENT C! Is that you, Mellen? LLEN—Hello! gton, D, C. Who is this? PI Hawl S. place in the Senate? MELLEN—Why—er—there was some talk among my commuters to that effect, but you know how difficult it would be for me to leave the wheat field, PRES, C.—Oh, Pish! Tush! Don’t be foolish! you one of our engines to get you to Washington O. K. you, old man! “The man who sold Uncle William the stock had the nicest manners and the | shintest silk hat you ever mw. He had a hirge diamond tn hie crzyat, and he told us that he had made thousands out of the Sure Thing Mining Company, “You were not home, and of cosrse I had no moeny, or J would have bought @ lot of the stock, because It looked #0 benutiful that [ am sure It must have been valuable, “I saw your sister have some Govern- ment bonds in a tin box in her safe onee, and her bonds did not look one bit better, and all they pald her was 4 per cent., and yet the man who sold Uncle William the Sure Thing Mining Com. pany stock auld if they ever struck sil- ver these bonds would pay a hundred per cent. “Uncle William "Kote @ letter from him to home so early to-day, you straigtht in the face! (old he ran Saree at tae to Cour conte « “Bat what Iw # There Are Other Engines Besides His. | t the New Haven’s President desires to ecinsy\ SATT of the Penn, RR, (at telephone) —Hello! | Take it. I congratulate was that I want to know why you are “Have you failed in business? “When Susan Terwiliger’s first hus- band failed in business he came home =t two o'clock In the afternoon and hid In the cellar under the coal and &@ lot of owople were looking for him and the reporters rang the bell and would not go away and only laughed when Susan Terwiliger threatened to send for a policeman and toll her a Policeman would be there looking for Rrownaon, which was her first hus band's name, and he never could look | “And then he went to Kansas City and Susan Terwiliger never hoard of him again excent that she afterward was selling sewing machines un | wz SOME OF THE BEST JOKES OF THE DAY. -_—s A BIG PILL, “What ts it, my pet?’ “Oh, Mum—Mummy—I dreamt I'd swallowed myself, Have I?’—Punch. OUTLIVING A POLICY, T aln’t no politician, T isn’t built dat way; § swine fishin’ election day. Washington Star, | THE HANDICAP, Wife—You'll miss balf the fun If you On ne: C.—This is Cassatt. \Say, is it true you are going to take! aon't take me with you Husband (preparing for a little trip to Parla)-Perhaps; but I'll miss the other half if f do.—London Tatler, CONTINUOUS, “what conclusion does that campalgn I'll loan orator reach in his argument?’ “He never arrives at a conclusion, He! merely stops now and then to take | breath,"—Washington Stor, By Roy L. McCardell. Jess habits and gets to, neglecting his business and coming home carly, “Look at that Mr. Staggers with the) blond whiskers, who lived near us in Brooklyn, He got to investing in Wall) street and lost all his money and had| to assign for the benefit of his creditors | and Jost his lovely brush factory cn Warren street, Just when it wos aimos! paying expenses, “T used to see him come home early ani go to-the races because his men were on @ strike and there was noth- ing going on at his ory. and dav he picked five winners, for he showed | us their names in the newspaper, only he had no’ money to bet on them. “So you see now it is. My Babe, | You ae wrong at, thet aed fe there? fol al ou Baye. ek embesaied thousa seneenedsenene renee simeee THREE CHEERS MURRATTHURRAM! WORRAM?!! WELL, WHAT ILL WE Give PAPA FOR CHRITMAS? i 2 ‘ x The Supersensitive Alderman and pr Press Martyrdom. 1,” sald the Cigar Store Man, “that Aidege $6 = McCall says that he has made up hia mind not to pay any attention to what the rie bald press says about him.” “If he wasn't an Alderman,” replied The Man Higher Up, “he could look for-his name in the pas pers until his lamps were like the lamps of a deceased codfish and never see {t unless he should happen to get pinched or run over by @ street car. Maybe if he'd die from some strange disease and wasn’t an Alderman hig family might have a chance to see how his name looked in print, “The trouble with some men when they get ‘elected to public office by a lot of poeple who don't know them from a cord of wood js that they think the newspapers pay attention to them because of their personalities, A man with a personality is ple for a newspaper at that, but few Aldermen have any personality. The average Alderman {s as nimble witted as a trained seal, “It 18 not because Mr. McCall is Mr, McCall that he has a chance to read comments upon his conduct in the newspapers, but because he is a servant of the people The people haven't time to keep tab on their public ser vants, They are too busy trying to maxe money to pay, the salaries and allowances that the public servants | exact, Consequently the people look to the newapasti,_ to make sure that their Aldermen and other hired ic: stay on the works. “The newspapers are more than kind to some Aldere men. I have in mind a couple who haven’e attended @ meeting of the board for months, Do they hesitate to take down their checks from the Finance Department? +. Not to a noticeable degree, Do they dock thelr em- % ployees when the employees fall to report tor toll? Surest thing you know, The Alderman who attends ta business and works for his constituents never finds hime self lined up for a newspaper roast. No man worries about what {s said of him in the public prints unless hé knows that he has done something to justify the publie cation.” x * “I never could understand why Aldermen should b@ 80 senaltive,” complained the Cigar Store Man, “Did you ever see a timid, srinking nature that wasn’@ sensitive?” queried The Man Higher Up. Ghe Newest Horror Is the Mottled Veil. By Alice Rohe. ‘“ HERP will women atop tn their crasy fade o@ W fashion?’ demanded the Pessimist disguatedly, “I don't know,” replied the Amateur Philoso+ pher. “What's the matter now?” ‘Well, I sat down tn a Broadway car to-day next to @ woman who looked like Camille three weeks after the cum tain falls on the last act,” “T don't know what you mean,” Interrupted the Philoso pher. “EL mean that the newest horrots in the way of feminine fancies that these crazy women have taken up are mottled veils that make the wearer look like an unclaimed morgue candidate taking a little vacation on our busy thoroughfare, This young woman had on a chiffon vell that was green mottled with blue and purplish spots. She wore it over @ small het, and the effect was enough to start a sensitives faced \lttle Lord Fauntleroy of a boy with pallid curlg clutching his mother’s hand and sobbing In terror.’* “Why do they do It? They certainly don’t think It Is bee coming. do they?” queried the Philosopher, “Lye come to the conclusion that they don't think at all, I don’t belleve they can think. If they could they would certainly realize that even a woman with a face like an ‘ad? for a cold-cream beautifier can't stand for these abominable. disfigurations of all the laws of nature, Schopenhauer ts right In calling women the undesthetic sex.” “Now why should a woman want to make her face lool lke the odor of Camembert ch ‘The answer ts that heen hypnotized into thinking swagger and very ‘smart? ‘Ten to one some one told her that the Duchess of Blank om the Raroness de Bernstein wore a mottled vell while motors ing one morning and that {t must be de rigeur, Asa mate ter of fact, these Idiotic crazes staft through some tutte atherer running across one of the hereditary of monetary anstocrats when they're caught In a thunder shower the color has run out of their vells. Then the faddists he it's the newest Parisian fashion, All that's necessary for) our independent, Iberty-loving and ‘every-: nae)! | Americans {s to haye a Parisian stamp or a seal of | put on a fashion and they'll break their necks to follow | “But even that wouldn't counteract the effect of in the mirror,” sald the Philosophe* “Oh, yes It would, too,” paid the Pessimist. sense of beauty a woman has la the one she gets | tashtor magazines, wo until you can stop them | | we oe is a fright.” t you think something out to be the 5 eateetion of the Gesthetio sense the Philosopher. “There is nothing to be wasn't mortified veils It we organige a N@ifonal Nemes Fashion Fancies comes along—eo yeas