The evening world. Newspaper, January 7, 1905, Page 8

IME 4B... csesseeseesoee ne ‘Villette that Port Arthur ‘Fallen, What ll the Chefoo reamere Do? SHE,” sald the Ctgar Store Man, “that Port Arthur has really fallen.” “It’s an awful blow to tho fall at Chefoo,” replied the Man Up. “They are now out of a No longer able to string the levery other day with fake nows fall of Port Arthur the only open for them is to begin to the Russians capture {t again. bunch fn Chefoo and a select jont of Hara in Rome have ickers of the civilized world ths. Every time they woke up the effects of the hop, or what- ‘get habit on over there, tabled that Port Arthur had ‘opened to the Japs. far one of the chief lessons ‘by the Press Publishing Gompany, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York, ‘at the Post-Office at New York as Socond-Class Mail Matter. Man Higher Up. *¥ +--+ By Martin Green.... method of conveyance has‘been made the medium of half the fakes that have been strung under the Pacific Ocean, Every time the Ohefoo aggre- gation was put to @ straight declara- tion they laid the source of their in- formation to the captain of a Chinese junk which had just returned from Port Arthur after landing a cargo of ice cream or cigarettes. “gome people think that the fall of Port Arthur opena the way to uni- versal peace, But there will be other wars, Supposing all the nations in the world enter into an’ arbitration agreement and then two of them get The Evenin The LEVEN: Lditorial om some ING WORLD impor will pregt ned here every’ ‘ant popylar IVeed g World's Home Magazine, Saturday Evening, Jan. A Man To Watch and a Man to Match. EOPLE of all boroughs should be interested in the portrait of He is Anthony N. Brady, and he is quite the into an argument over a slice of ter- ritory; supposing they agree to arbi- tration and then one of them refuses to stand by the decision of the ref- eree? How are the other nations going to make it knuckle down?” “I know a man who bet his vermi- form appendix against a baby car- tiage that Port Arthur would never fall, and now he refuses to make good,” asserted the Cigar Store Man. “Why don’t you start a Japanese ‘war has been the mobility of Chinese junk, This useful, RICH man at) fA Colfax, Call- fornia,’ made his swife return a. When adipose tissue is pre-emt- ‘o of a Mind, The Meanest Man. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. surgeon after him?” asked the Man Higher Up, opportunities of displaying ft for the very amusement it affords them, For this varlety of man, meannoss to women {s #o usual as to appear alto- oft taste. i i. g 5 g s o i : ar ests’ fis He ¥ask E & degree of sociability or gluttony, ‘The oval chin announces « taste for ome form of art, ‘The square or bony chin suggests positive characteristics together with conectentiousness, order, Precision, me- chanical and solentific tastes and mora) courage. When constitutional vior {1s wanting the chin 1s either sharp or pointed or narrow and receding, Great constitu- tional vigor is indicated by the broad and square chin, which also denotes thoroughness, moral principle and re- Mability, ‘The positions of the chin also record Character, There are three, according to Btanton—vis,; the perpendicular, the Teceding and thé projecting. If the chin recedes greatly it denotes one form of weakness; if it projects great- ly {t announces another form of defi- lency, The receding chin lacks firm- hess and perseverance, the projecting {a persevering, but in one way only— saving money, The perpendicular ohin has been styled the normal type, A great majority of actors and actresses amd authora and orators have this man, York, at the State capital. took money out of the public safe without giving any return whatever. and very able. most important, if not the best known, person in Greater New His is the master hand in the great light and power com- bination which holds the city at its mercy, and he is the controlling spirit in the miserable Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. There is a good deal to read about both nowadays. It is well that citizens should know this man better, watch him more closely and try to suffer less at his hands, hunter who found out very early the value of public franchises— found it out before the public did and has become very rich. He was once a bartender in the old Delavan House in Al- bany, in the glad, happy days when it was Tweed’s headquarters Tweed stole directly from the community, He is a money Mr, Brady and his associates are very careful to acquire their wealth by perfectly lawful means. If no law exists permitting what they want to do they go to Albany and get one. The last time they went they did not get the law, but they are very patient, very persistent You of the public are not patient, not persistent and are careless of your priceless prop. erty. Why not learn something from Mr. Brady? We do not present him as an enemy but as an object lesson. os Spr at For the Stok Poor, ‘To the Editor of The Hventng World: ‘The hospitais' pressing needs {fs a subject that should be given more than a passing thought. The writer would a SSS eee Generous, & dimple in the ohin which hag always ‘Of fish)+| Deen associated with an artistic tem. " -perament, However, it does not follow dear; there are too many up to got marri 194 koa ¥o\ ‘suggest that each theatre in the city give & hospital benefit performance one night in each month during the season, the proceeds to be given toward @ hos- pital endowment fund, CHAS, H. T, The Car Plokpooket, To the Editor of The Evening Worla: I was riding on a crowded Sixth ave- nue “Li train ono night laat week. I notlced etanding opposite to each other, the one very busy reading a newspaper as best he could on @ crowded car, and every bit the man with the newspaper | would accidentally shove the edges of lls paper under the opposite man’s chin, innocently enough, Now, after the man with the paper had left the car at the Elghty-first street station, the man who | stood opposite the man who read the paper discovered he had lost a valualys diamond pin, which the other man had worked out with the edges of his paper and dropped into the other hand that was not working, Those who have lost ping so mysteriously on crowded cars may be interested In this, BK Resents the “Flag” Query, To tho Editor of The Evening World: \our Mayor 1s not a German inty Makes a Sidewalk Slide #- And It Gets Him Into One of the Slipperiest Places He Was Ever in.< wegian flag, in Irish waters, of an Prglish father and a German mother. An Italian ship cannot fly the Norwe- glan flag any more than a German ship the Ohinese flag or the Japanese or Chillan flag, Furthermore, Irish weters ‘are contained in Great Britain, But, eliminating all of this, @ ohild born abroad, or on board of a vessel, imma terial a& to vessel's nationality, par two very well-dressed men | takes of his father’s nationality, pro- viding, of course, that his father regis- tera the birth at his country’s nearest consulate, Otherwise the child may time the car would slacken up ®/adopt the land of its birth, or the flag under which it was born, as the case may be. To instance @ cage in point, because he wae born in Dresden, Wi. That Nationality Pussle, To the Editor of The Eventing World: In anawer to the query concerning the nationality of the child born in an Ital- \lan steamer fying a Norwegian flag, in Irish waters, the father being English and the mother German, [ think the fact of the child belng born in Irish waters does not affect the question; nor does the fact of Italian ownership of the vessel affect the question, The child being botn under the Norwegjan ‘A correspondent propounds a tools | Native fo's child's nationality 1 think becomes @ Norwegian, un- less. the father registers the child's SZinigans $0090. ‘g “& Letters from the People X< in the first port of call, In which case the oh!ld would be recognized as a Brit- {Ish subject, The woman adopts the nationality of the husband upon mar- riage. “IMPULSIVH HOBO." Business, = “How much have you got, Billy?” “Frourpence,”’ ‘ put it to tot avppanoe: + 1908. The By Albert Payson Terhune. HE threadbare "Servant Prob- i lem" had secured a double-Nel- son hold on the domestic peace of the MeIntyre Flat and was rapidly choking life's grand sweet song of “Home Sweet Home" into a gurgled rendition of “A Hotel Life for Mine!" A motherly dame, built for endur- Qnee rather than for speed, had con- ducted the Genenal Housework Depart- Ment of the Mcintyre Flat ever since that Institution started, But at length & homebreaking demon, cleverly dis- fitlscd as @ youthful plumber’s assist- ant, had lured her to the altar, leav- tng the Molntyres cooklesa, Then set in the Fra of Misrule, A buxom lass, whose only outward fault wos that her various features showed a lack of team work, took up the relns of cookship, For a week she was @ treasure, Then one fatal night thero re-echoed a sound as of four strong men moving @ piano, The “treas- ure” was discovered climbing upstairs on all fours, backward, warbling a tearful @nd gin-laden exhortation to a certain mythical ‘Jennie’ to “walt till the clouds roll by.” Next morning she wes allowed to depart, weeping, from the fifth-floor garden of Eden known to the initiated as the MoIntyre Flat, A second cook had a@ proclivity for feeding the hungry (among her rel- Atives) and charging it to Mclntyre's account at the butcher's and grocec‘s, ‘When gently chided for this charitable custom she left, A third cook demand. od three afternoons a week off, refused to work withow. a bonus when guests were expected end had a cheerful gift at repartee with the janitor, which she displayed by pouring kettlefuls of woalding water down the dumb-watter on his devoted head. She resigned when urged to curb her gay spirits. A fourth—e eable damesl, Flora by name—looked like @ winner until she announced one day that she would re- quire the dining and drawing rooms ‘that evening for ‘e Nl fnfo'mal swar- > | were a guild or an organisation.” % |tho first act and we were all comfort- > | blame, but that isn't the polrtt, ‘© | necessitates everybody standing up > land making an impenetrable wall in ray I’se gwine ter tendeh to a few of mah gemmen fren's.” When the Mo- Intyres broke the news to har thet the —>— They Discover the Lost Art of Indu ing a Cook to Stay Forever. Aolree must not ring to-night she lett, By this time the MoIntyres began daily to count the gray hairs that had acote mulated overnight. Home was a How ror, ' A fifth cook—a large, pleasant-faosd soul with a nauticn! roll to her galte came next day, She wasa winner; but Past experiences mado the MoIntyres hyatenical every time she looked toward the outer door, Late one night McIntyre went into tye Kitchen before retiring, The cook had long since gone to bed, On the stations © ary tubs he saw a weird object, It was @ wooden leg. This explained the cook's rolling walk, An idea telegraphed itself throughout ‘fis brain, Half an hour later he tp. © toed out of ithe kitchen with an air of Joyous guilt, “What have you been doing all this time?” queried Mra, McIntyre when be appeared before her, perspiring but trie umphant, ‘ "I've been trying to save the 00% trouble by splitting kindling wood for the moraing Gre,” he replied carelessly, ° “How thoughtful of you!" exolaimed big admiring wife. “But—but the oook told me to-day we were all out of kind> ling wood. Whera did you find any te apt?’ “Oh,” he answered in a laboriously easy tone, “I—I found some out In the kitohen, And"—he added after an em barrassed pause—“though I'm not muok © of @ prophet I think I oan hasand & forecast that this newest cook of ours will never, NEVER leave us, War lesa"*— “Unless whet?” “Unless,” he murmured, dreamily, “unless she acquires the acrobatic are of walking on her hands,” The Pessimist’s Growl By Alice Rohe. 64 ENT to the theatre laat night,” said the Pessimist eourly, “That's nice,” replied the Amateur Philosopher, “Did you enjoy yourself?” “Didn'¢ have time," enapped the Pessimist, ‘Too busy trying to side- step theatre bores. [ tell you, some thing ought to be done, Here I went to the theatre in the expectation of a pleasant evening of freedom from worrles—and what did I get? “Why, I waa driven crasy by these theatre pests,’ ‘What are they? You talk like they “Well, they certainly are @ part of every theatre I've ever been in, and I think they ought to be exterminated. “Just es the curtain had gone up on eibly settled, here comes in the chronio fate bore, Of couree, the women's a front of the whole house unfortunate enough to be eeated back of the late- % |coming bores that cut out a lovely bunoh of ‘plot just in a vital develop- 2 iment of the piece, Oh, It was fine, ‘Then when they had been seated 1 found that the woman in front of me had a head-dress on that wold make a North Amerfoan Indian war chief look like # rank {!mitation.” “But why didn't you ask the usher to have It removed?” ‘ “Couldn't, it wae her own hair with feather trimmings. You can't kick om that, it's exempt from the hat ord nance, “But the thing that drives me daffy is the bore that’s #een the play and the iste on anticipating all of the situations for you and making your Nfe a burden by telling you bow he saw the onginal cast and héw much better Tottie Mon- tresser wae in the role of the Ingenue than the present incumbent, I bed hina with me at the theatre last night. “In between times, while he was talk ing, the fellow back of me kept hum- ming all the opera tunes and beating time on the back of my chajr with his foot, Right in front of me, next to the lody with the headdress, sat a chattere ing young creature with blondine hair, who carried on a perpetual string of conversation with a fellow with a bead Uke the Neanderthal skull, “Well, the first act was spoiled, but the mental agony 1 went Anahttey was vnly part of the torture, for I think the whole row got up and walked over my feet, and I had on new patent leathers a to mention cnifblal luring the seco: act an SINT BePe explaining all the rr , and & smartee Next to him with a shallow-puled sat Kept knocking the performance eo loud chat I knew in a minute he was a dead. head. If you'll notice, it's always the people who got in through the courtesy of the house who spoil the performance for others in the audience by knocking the show’ at the top of their lungs, “Of all places that bores ought to be suppressed it’s in the theatre, If you're golng to be bored to death, let it be ‘the performance, It isn’t fair to let these theatre pests enter into come petition with the aotord.’” About El > § Fir ot cm in the swanrp coun- try of Central Africa,’ writes a traveller, “are different in thoir habits from those which inhabit the forests, In the marshes they stand throughout the day immersed in water ® | up to thelr bellies and with thelr bauks almost hidden by the high growth of ® | reeds, Here they can always be traced by the white egrets which invariably accompany them, and which feed upon the ticks and other inseots with which their hides are infested. A herd of ele- phants moving through dense «rags can be kept tn sight, even though they themselves are invisible, by the flutter- ing up and down of these white birds, “Wherever elephants have been much hunted they are always apt to be bad tempered, and to charge at a shot, or at sight, Some sad incidents have oc- curred in the Soudan and in Uganda and % | most officers serving in those countries © | who have hunted elephants can recount extremely narrow escapes. Cow ble- %|phants are far more dangerous than ® | bulls, and many instances could be ro- lated of a herd of female elephants charging a traveller aa soon as they got his wind and forcing him to run for his life, “Nowhere else have Y seen elephants jn euch numbers and so fearless of man avin the Dinka country, I have watch- The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotori ephants; ed them passing to the leeward of @ group of Dinkas without taking the slightest notice of them and without @ single trunk being raised in protest, Even when the steamer in which we are travelling came upon them suddenly, when feeding in the reeds, they rarely showed any alarm, and merely retreat» ed quietly and without hurry. The ele~ phanjs in this region have not bee hunted or disturbed for many years, = SSS eg The Wise Boy. “My eon, wine, woman and song will be your ruin,” . “Then I'll Ive to elve up my elng» ing lessons," al More Is Always Better Than Enough! (Copyrot, 1904, Planet Pub, Co.) John Stuart Mill always held that a SNAP was as ‘good as a GRAFT, This view was shared IN PART by Herbert Spencer and Adam Smith WE go farther than EITHER of these great men! WE belleve that MORE Ic ALWAYS better than ENCHGH! “The More the Better:’’ is a famillar saying with THE WISE, WE AGREE WITH THE WISE, People who stop with ENOUGH are in the way! “*Let Us Have MORE,” should be our unsatisfied cry, Then we will NEVER get ENOUGH! ° This will keep us from GETTING IN THE WAY OF PROGRESS}! If you get In the way of progress you DO NOT move! If you do not MOVE you STAND VW you stand still your PE] will become COLD. STILL! McIntyre Flat. 4