The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1904, Page 10

PPedlished by the Press Publishing Company, No, 8 © @ Park Row, New York. Entered at the Post-Oftice at Now York as Second: Class Mail Matter, 884 Number of commns of advertising in The Evening World during the first nine months 1904 Number of columns of advertising in The Evening World during the first nine months 1903 .,...+++_ 828534 No other six-day morning or evening, in New York EVER carned ed ea! ect tn oe oh wach a volune of display adves cared @.sring the first nine months 10,6524 IN THREE YEARS THE EVENING WORLD HAS } MOVED TO THE FIRST PLACE. THE ROD AND THE "CAT." 4, Two agitations now in progress for a return to the obsolete barbarity of corpora! punishment are of interest because of the public support given them. To-morrow the Board of Education will receive and! take action on the minority report of the Committee on ‘PElementary Schools favoring the restoration of the rod fn the public schools, from which it was banished In 1870. In the District of Columbia a movement 1s on foot to p ewtablish a whipping-post for wife-beaters, This move- ment had {ts Inspiration {n a recommendation of the President in the message which attained the unique dis- ¥ tinction among Presidential papers of taking cognizance '§ along with international affairs of questions ordinarily F in the province of Boards of Aldermen, It ig unlikely that the birch will return to New York's * schools, 4 the extent Incompetent schoolmusters used to fear it \. Would, If flogging can bave any possible justification, It + fs ao a fitting punishment for the wife-beater, Its Y purvives in Delaware and and jn England, ,-though there it [s by no means the instrument of justice 4 ft once was use Maryland The fact that those who advocate its use in § Washington include a Bishop and many clergymen Indi-, " § cates less a countenancing of the cruelty It Involves a detest to check, @ates back to the days when he was Governor; Judges and persons of humane approval of his views at the time. Certainly punishment of the wife-beater {a one of the most puzzling problems of Justice. If he is sent to jail, the victim of his brutality suffers doubly by the loss of his earnings has been done, is virtually to conde Yet to bare his back to the lash is to commit the State to the barbarous punitive practices of a ruder stage of civiliza- thon. talizing form of punishment is an awkward one than n of the acts of brutality it je to be relied on lash humerous The President's own advocacy of the natincts expressed their the proper To release him on parole, as ¢ his offense. The alternative of a mistaken «'emency or a bru- Escalator Stre © sugmeatl f esealator bridges to car # acrows t ngestion of vehl- oles at Br ty fo i» wn early attempt to deal with a traffle problea which will even- tually require radical measures for Its polution, ‘Nils cross. Ing t# bad enough now, With the Sixth avenue Subway terminal con iting to th wd thera, and the stations of the Pennsylvania tunnel and the Subway sdewalk adds ing to the congestior ans of relief will be needed for which it 1s not too ea » beqin to e pla THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. However it may have been at other thmes during the year, there has been no rarity of Christian charity this Christmas, Turkey dinners for “Ittle mothers’ (700), for “Jack ashore” (400), for Bellevue unfortunates (1,000), for Sal- gVation Army hosts (25,000, together with 10,000 basket 4 dinners), for newly arrived aliens at Ellis Island (4,700— © liberal foretasto of American hospitality), for the boys Of the Catholic Prote ) 4 And generally in hospitals and in correctional, cbarkabl 6 nd philanthropic institutions a like bounty of substan- 44 tial good cheer, including 600 Christmas boxes for Sing | Bing convicts, pardons for othera and a police court *denie: cy befitting Chicago computes her ( ents, gifts of money, t , charity at ¢ + York's 4,000,000 have put tory (2,000), for newsboys the day hristmas expenditure for pres- irkeys, greens and decorations and nto active circulation must be Pelt to conjectur The total footings of jewellers’ sales- books and department store accounts alone make a for Mildable aggregate. So insignificant an item as the ex } press charges on Christmas parcels must run into the millions. A fine feature of the hollday outlay {9 the wide dis- tribution of be it effects the world over, the money paid across a Broadway counters finding its eventual des- tination fn a Black Forest cabin or providing an extra « Dit of finery for It fa in ite remote end tar-rea quences of @ practical good that the Christmas gift-giving imy ! for indulgence. a Parisian grisette ts best excuse CITY AND COUNTRY LIFE, Figures prepared by the Cens ireau show that city dwellers liv per by @u average of thr and one-half years than country people Dr. J. H. Finley. former Pre x inl now Prealdent of Tae City Ce at ellet that the moral atmosphere of such “rior to the s much supe- moral atme average village East or West.” He thinks that the ¢ etter off Morally and physically t the connt This lean bil! of h for the city will upset some tong @herished delusions But of its correctness there fs abundant evidence Many causes contribute to the city man’s jor ri the fewer physical hardest is called on tu fhe lessened exposure to ex »s of weather, the Mer safegu rds ¢ health the city provides, even to the fe wate t which replace ih ponkl but germ. m old sti bucket. more reves which relieve monotony ‘4 ever something new which yf @Rd bis (nterest aroused helps. The business and social irse which He blo Mae tel Wrercise into old age of his faculties rads ite share 7 He can't rust, and he is forced out of the (rola which means premature decrepitude. |. Me good fortune of the city boy is that companionship #8 community of social interest in legitimate pleas- activities keep him moral. He is too busy to is not subject to the loneliness which means degeneration, Tegular round ot helps to a longer lif eps his mind awake Sparing the rod has not spoiled the child to * How much Christmas cash New , The Highest Form of Courage By Nixola Greeley-Smith T" e mas fon 1 reegxmst for a good Aw!! Poor oueny, J ; . GOT Tre Grip Him bed Bh eiiee This rime " co.o!! Sunel! — at thts t yonr wenenally that en, hitherto slanchest ponents of a at with t frugal in stincta, are now the astom #0 artance Nixola Greeley-Smith, Yes, ano 47 GRAINS OF QUININE! WHERE'S Thay | Bortiy op rye? Tue Take « nor) Paptdly auccumbing to It ile it must be admitted that] lower forms of courage, such as are required by par’ ation in bloody | battles o hand-to-hand en anters wit wild anteals or mice or aches have an undoubted pre-eminence sublime exhibition f temerity ata in being able to look a in the eye wi it anoint nat the sume time belongs er and less generous half of yekr men The intimation that we are losing this feminine accomplishment Is a. distinet and must het t anges which W tn the shock, enized aa one amen un'a new & business wor fation with man tit! pome hor wover, that tht to typing may be checked. t the new tendency fa HONEY. T--Em tipa A AFRAID THe Borri 9 agour) { emery it (Isr @oon) AND Not —_ swt angtvnee?) 1) ee ment a ~~ predile jority tanger t the Inet he world ft grave Jeration by women them selves. Surely, we of this capable n a woma mervat bulwark beiween the rest generation whatever PROTDDEE CELE OEDDOCLE DO DORE DEI OCR C008 has dune before, and If our mothers and grandmothers could cheerfully give an expectant walter the exact change and watch him slouch co . temptuously away from them while they adfusted thelr own wraps, we, thelr descendants, can do no leas . And » he sure, we can doit. Hutthe *& knows ¢ ale f money ' Cp ¢ hae Hate tam 3 Larry Reaps the Rewards of Courtesy w we ow: Fate oiien Was wari 410° 00| But He Finds that the Path of Gentlemantiness Is Not Always Strewn with Roses $15 a week give themselves leat cot wn others w nver petly econorale recieve double these amounts as @ per lowance 4d among vbit of not tipping ma sonal nies t ned first know that th ' able, ae ma r things ————ee Jeplorabl ut tt is , May 1 HAVE 2 —— ie 8 Fant, 8 am ECE : THE PLEASURE CERTAINLY} 8 willing to be an i : YING a tone fford to ino Your GRIP * If sho Is «rowing leas in we whose hearts admire jer eF ur i hands render unto a restaurant Caesar | which [& not his, ca grieve | 4 over the fact that weak examy has had weight t« the Maat bul wark betw LETTERS, QUESTIONS, ANSWERS. —_— A Civil Service Complaint. the | ¢ The Rvening ‘ ged_bne one yeaa #3 BE AGENTLEMAN ' o per « “ ma HERES A Dime NN ' : , ‘ —~ __. a TABLE None Lniversally Observed, i ty | | taal Ald Soctety, ‘ ) Thanns!) i J c | My son wo brought me to this ‘e pid days, but as cas ald a will do r ! am a poor old man eighty fan as it ta very hard p wg my son all the time. and now also let t Awver who d F ; « and who may ‘ . for me WE M ; Where Is Living Cheapest? : ed dollar Tam ans ‘ in wha I cant ‘ Ww vders Ww . suviect which will Interest 1 : STUDEN ‘ Yriss OTHER H k NJ é {- , = - t { COILs, wick You F ; TAKE THarl to + rcp ( ¢ wt 37 “STENOGRAPHERS WANTED” | | te | Help \ anted WORLD, As Many or More READ THEM, AWFUL co.0!} OW TLL KNoeK IT OUT, ave Rignt! NOw RUN AND Ger THE Borrie! (leant ano wont L_ [STAND SUCH Language - Ler WAVE OFEN \ THe ) LIKE A BONER {To The Ferry J 0 The erry J TS LARRY! ‘You are \ AYE PULLY Kino! al AND A Goon MOT FOOT-BaTH! junann Tat}| bob GasTEeD puck enon | \ LAND SHE {ano swe smo l IT PAtp ‘TeR BE AGENTLE MANS) wart bee “He Does Not Love Her Any More. QD oa @ o li He Lid, He Wouldn’t Allow the Absence of the Lanes Spirits to Wreck His Own. MY MEAD FEELS | Smopitt wa THE RY EVENING ss WORLD'S ea HOME, ut MAGAZINE + sg The | Kerry “Gi : HigherUp BY MARTIN GREEN, 1) Everybody Gave Christi “that the stores nis this year than 1 the Cigar Christ vse \ Presents but a Lot of People Didn't Get Any. “sy : ‘Whoever bought my Christmas presents SEE,” eal sold more must have been run over n automobile with the pre: + in his arms, ned The Man Higher Up. ‘When I looked in my sock yday morning all | could see was a bili for room rent. it was a fine Christmas from what I understand from people who were visited by Santa On my way home from chureh yesterday I met a z on table in a hotel in comp “Nevertheless, ean Claus. young woman who was waitin E)mira ne went on the She showed mea | of diamonds and a thousand-dollar bill that she had dug out of her hosiery when she got up. A littl in to buy his further along I met a man who had chipped boss a watch for Christmas, and got bis suspenders cut on ( “A friend of mine had set his heart on a smoking | set and had pushed vague hints about it to his wife, She gave himt rise of his Hfe yesterday by presenting thim with e lopedias to fill a truck, All she had to pay down and bind herself to cough up 31 rest of her life, Another mon 1) ed to his wife that he ought to hive @ real watch chain to hold his gunmetal super on his person was rewarded with a pair of lemon-colored gloves, A young lady stenographer in an office of which I have knowledg as certain that she was going to get a set of furs from the boss, and he gave her two tiekets for a matinee at a theatre in the borough of the Bronx.” “My kids and grandkids pooled their pennies and blew me to a necktie,” confessed the Cigar Store Man, “If that's the necktie you're wearing,” asserted The Man H or Up, “it looks Ifke the sins of the father being visited upon him by his own children, even to the | second generation.” Know About Yourself, w Il, | Hygiene of the Skin. See By G, fh, Fox, M, D, (Condensed from “Personal Hygiene,” by Charles @ Stockton, M.D, Copyright, 1904, by W. B. Saunders & Co.) tas Eve, for a we k for know who had siggest the cuticle or epidermis, and a deep layer, known as the a acutis or “true skin," r functions of the epidermis are to protect the true skin and to keep it from drying or hardening, ‘The epidermis 2 Ts skin is made up of two layers—a thin layer called 18 little or no sensibility. New cells are constantly formed In {t to replace those which are as constantly pushed to the surface and shed by the ekin, The friction In bathing and in the contact of clothes with the body alds In the shedding of this superficial skin. This desquamation (or shedding) takes in particles or scales too tiny to be observed. The derma, or true skin, Is an organ of sensation, the erve-vnds that cover t giving rise to sensation of touch, pain, temperature, &c. There are two &lands In the skin, the persplratory and the subaceous (oll-producing), The perspiratory glands (or poras, as they are usually called), if placed end to would cover a distance of twenty-eight ‘niles, Their purpose ts to carry quid and other waste pro» duet from the system, These same glands regulate the teme erature of the body, dietary and systematio Judivious exercise are necessary » the well-being of the skin, Bathing Is one of the most important factors of dermic health, The cold bath acts as s stimulant, while the warm bath {s a sedative, The cold bath should be taken before breakfast. It contracts the vutancous vessels and drives the blood to the Internal or gans, On leaving the bath and “rubbing down’ with a rough towel a sensation of warmth should follow, If this glow does not follow the effects of the cold bath are not good for the especial individual. The warm bath dilates the tiny arteries of the skin, Induces perspiration, raises the temper ature and soothes the nerves, Tt should be taken just before going to bed, Abath above §% ds be taken except by dootorst | strong effect, save for meal or (hree hour: than twice a day. ( pose Wool ts the best material for cold weather wear, as itds woven {nto a cloth loose In texture and porous, not drawing e heat from the skin and serving as a molstureadeorber, k is the next best molsture-absorber, while Mnen and cotton are far down the Ilst, Flannel under lothing does not allow the moisture it absorbs to evaporate and js therefore valuable in temperate or clitnates. For cold weather heavy woollen under. vr ia best. Cotton, silk and n should be worn In hot light colors absorb the fewest sun-rays and ate best for summer wear, ees Fabrenhett should not orders, The tepid bath has no cleansing purposes, Bathe just before later, Wash the face not less often ld water should be used for this:pur- Kly, ngerdle 0 aN nates, “Ginger Jags.” or says the taking of ginger in the form ng tincture {9 a growing form of inebriety and and America, It is the result of “weary brains and a disordered stomach.” It completely ruins the stomach and gives no relict to the brain, | The “Fudge” Idiotorial, iF One of Pascal’ if Noses Are "Thoughts" was that Longer Men Will Bf i! Cleopatra's Nose Be Stronger, had been shorter it would have changed (Copyret, 1004 Planet Pub. Co Hi the ACE of the | weld, | This is not an argument in favor of SHORT noses, | NO! The LONG nose is ALL RIGHT, but it should be MADE LONGER, | Then it can better serve its TRUE FUNCTION! The nose has improved by evolution: The old-fashioned idea that the nose was the organ of smell has been PASSED UP. The TRUE FUNCTION of the nose is to BLOW and to stick into other people's affairs, The LONGER the nose the BETTER it does Its new work | Therefore, CULTIVATE your nose. YOU will grow STRONGER as your NOSE grows LONGER | But REMEMBER ONE THING: The successful nose »| MUST NOT be RED! .@