The evening world. Newspaper, January 21, 1905, Page 10

by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to G3 Park Row, New York, intered at the Post Cftice at New York as Second-C! UME 48........., The Evenin Malt Matter. | é | | - oe R, le M MURPHY {5 an opportunist, ready to break away from the traditions in which he has beon > tralned, but lacking the disposition to mart World's Mome On The Public’s Service. Magozine, The Evening World Will Print Here Every Day an Editorial on Pfatters of Popular Concern. £4 Enlightened Self-Interest. ovt a clear and MoClellan he we cept himself. mistakes, M He was Temperamentally ov betraying his York politics. C to being a target What an in New York | gentlemen hav Al 000,000 HOTEL at the Bat- ery is as bold a pioneer ven; ure as that of the first palacd Above Madison Square, Will tt f region whero there is no Mfe? A theatre at the Battery ‘be a foredoomed failure, A there atthe terminus of ferry, d and surface lines and with y station soon due may at- the patronage of a floating ton suficiently large to justify ight of its projectors. { see cotton planter burns his crop the supply. The mannfac- gambling parapherwalia re- he District-Attorney’s axe to |much for him, and the noise of ashing of roulette wheels and ita 1s music in his ears, The stimulation given this line 4n recent years must have fly’ remunerative, eo mith said his idea of to, Gat pate da fole gras of trumpets, Sidney ved in the later days gold restaurant, eo. e sometimes indulged a8 to the source of urkble in unlimited any one having the @ when lobsters have searcer, Does the But he does not think that the present bltuation requires any herole action, still ovér nine months off and the opposition will make tHe relies on that. AYOR M'CLELLAN has the caution of Fabius. Remsen bil! and he hag made up his mind to do nothing again until everybody else has finished, OMMISSIONER M'ADOO is beginning to realize that he has been veguiled and decefved, and he {s turning over in his mind some possible way to get even with those who have trifled with his confidence. His past office holdings have been in tho shadows of great leaders, Whitney and Cleveland, eoattails to hide him, And what an opportunity these three Don the Side; eee courageous course, To re-elect May wld sacrifice anything or anybody ex: The election is| trapped once when he approved the he can sit longer on a hot stove with+ omotions than any one else in New He {s not inured in the open with no overshadowing teresting situation there is in five-cent ee querade as the $7 diamond-back? A Philadelphia hotel hus set the doubts of its guests at rest by stocking its own private “terrapin pond” in {t4 wine cellar with 6,000 hesd of the aristocratic breed of turtle, . * . The gasoline motor having made the automobile practicable is now t7 be Installed on suburban railroads in Nebraska and Oregon. Perhaps wheu we get our perspective of the nineteenth century properly ad- justed wo shall regard the inventon of a new motor, the gas engine, as one of its grentest performances, * ° * Will the Contract Labor law balk at monkeys imported to pick prunes In California? Will the law wink at the importation by the Metropolitan Museum of Art of a new director from London to succeed Di Cesnola? Is there no native talent to fill that place? The Kaiser regards the Amer- {can professor as competent to lec- ture in German univeralties, ® ° * There were little jests about the New Yorker's pronunciation neariy halt a century ago. Thackeray, writ- ing in 1868 to the two children of a Mr, Baxter here, said: “Oh, you I!ttle absird birds! I wish I could hear you pronounce those two wuerds, ab- suord buerds, in your New York tone,” t 60 cents a head ever mas- Vanity HBSE apes beat wo- YT men for vm: Vanity of vanities,"’ sald @ keeper of the nonkey house at the Zoo yesterday ifter he had wit- }néesed a prolonged wrangle over halfa yard of cheese cloth }>otween an ape and & chimpanzee, both [aot the female per- nbialih *asion. He may be right, onsidering the subject of vanity ‘an animal, compared with and the peacock are Gaisy of the fleld or a politl- for office—that is, man ian ts the lesser man, and all her pions matched with mine tht unto eunlight and as ie aaito wine." aye been Ainging this opprobri- at At our helpless sex ever a By Nixola Greeley-Smith. of Vanities. since the most musical of poets wrote tt on a day when his breakfast didn't agree with him, And it may be true enough, Certainly It Is true of the sbrongeat and most universal of human passions—vanity, Tt may be that there is a greater num- ber of waln women than vain men, but surely the latter make up in quality a what they lack in number, “Vanity of vantities; all ts vanity’ alike to men and women, chimpanzees and apes. But, considering vanity In detail, take the mere question of age. Are men less likely to wish to appear young than women? Only the other day a man who prides himself upon the infinite superiority of his sex in general and himself in particular assured me that on his next birthday he would be thirty-two, forgetting that over three years ago he had shown me his Insuranze | ch papers as a proof of the wholly gratul- tous statement he then made that he was thirty-four years old, And the man who will tell the actual truth about his age 1s as rare as the woman who gives an exhibition of similar candor, As for personal vanity, is the | shop less thoroughly eaulpped with po-\ 4 mades, dyes and essences than the halr- dressers, and do they find a less ready | ‘i sale? No, indeed; and no woman su fers greater agony at the appearance of ‘i the first wrinkle nor pays out more! it money to ward it off than the man!‘ whose scalp begins to assume the polish! 3 only proper to patent-leather shoes and ¢ ballroom floors, is As a matter of fact, and the keeper, @t the Zoo to the con as much vainer than U more cfvilized, For clvilization g her just so many more ways of be! vain, But going a step higher, as we must surely to reach the sons of Adam, w horse cars there. fare, ISAY- THIS 1S WHY PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS COMPLAIN- ING ABouT CHILDRE Pb rileiielioleleileiolleleisielsislelatelafainfoiaiaintetelulatolotelalalotoleiaintotoleteiatalats slulololofel : Mary Jane Is Confided to Uncle Bill’s Care, And She and. Kickums Dispel His Illusions Concerning Innocent Childhood make more profits by the change. CaN So MUCH TROUBLE SURLE! STREET railroad is not an eleemosynary institution, No one |e uninecanions are there? ite . * : *, am H ul attributes a charitable motive to any of its acts. But somelihe imu a raniiEn. street railroads are managed with a more enlightened self. interest than others, The stupid railroad companies have a delusion that they can make more money by being mean, by harassing and irritating the public and by charging as much as they can for giving as poor service as they can, No shopkeeper or other intelligent business man would do this. The big department stores build up their trade by giving the public as much for its money as they can and treating their customers as nicely as possible, so the same customers will come back and buy more, Out in Cleveland, O., there is a railroad called the Cleveland Electric Railway. It recently asked a remarkable favor from the Cleveland Common Council; that it should be allowed to charge a three-cent instead of a How the Aldermen must have been surprised! pany’s request and the three.cent fare experiment will be tried. It was not unselfishness on the railway’s part; far from it. Part of its road lies through the industrial and the shopping) districts of Cleveland, There are many shop girls and boys and factory operatives and clerks who receive small wages, of the earnings of thousands of possible patrons, Ry reducing the fare to three cents for a short ride from the tenements to the stores and]. the factories the Cleveland Electric Railway expects to get thirty-six cents a week from thousands of people who now walk, it expects to make more frequent trips with its cars, and that the extra cost for power, conductors and motormen will be less than the increased receipts. Suppose some New York street railroad should do this. passengers on the crowded east side to warrant the running of electric cars instead of occasional Maybe the profits would increase. land Electric Railway have more intelligence than Mr. Winter or Mr. Belmont or Mr. Ryan? But they granted the com. The company expects to Five cents twice a day is sixty cents a week, or over 10 per cent, Maybe there would be enough Can it be that the managers of the Cleve. Heblelelebicieleleleieisteieieieieleietebiatelaf ~~ (Hun! Sala Ss) THAT NOW: i) LZ } Q Look OUT MARY JANE + find th his vanity has grown with his growth and |s as much greater than Woman's ag his stature is greater, his) skull larger, his endurance superior, to sh hers, — | A Warm Spot, | The hottest place on carth is in tho! vicinity of Massowah. When the north: thermometer has been known to go to man assigned 160, The men in the Italian garrison | qoosn’t Ike the there can sleep only by the gaslstance Mrs. Powers—('m araid weat wind blows from the desert the | use your Influence to THE COOK'S FAVORITE. you'll have to this beat, B present one. t naw polis Mr, PowersAll right, and while I'm ot natives employed to go t@ and fro| about it I'll be careful to get one thac| she docen’t come? and aprinkle the bodies of the sleepers! }ikes his roast beef rare, I'm tired of WHY SHE BLUSHES, “IT wish they'd Invent a new expros: sion occasionally," sald Top as he pe- CHEAP AT THAT, Homer cabmant—Say, L want you to drive sluwn to the depot at noon and She—Don't you think a man ought to say what he thinks to his wife? call for my mother-in-law, Take her! tle-Generally, perhaps, but when Ij} raved tho account of a recent wodding. \ip to the house and Vil give you $1, thlok a young woman is partioularly| "It's always ‘the blushing bride,’ " Cabm Very well, sir, But suppose vactive [ find it better not to say so| “Well,” raplied Mra, Top, “when you | my wite, Why should I breed fle poling between two women?—Boston consider what sort of husbands Prost Homer—Oh, then I'll give you Rr girls have to marry you can’t wonder 4 Jad ihe The Peo Letters {rota Even No. White Watntdbont.: White ‘ta, To the Baltor of ‘Tho Rvening, World: AC an evening wedding should 1 wew with my evening dress and white gloves 4 Vleck Le ond blick walsteont? WK. T, Wanted, Panama tuitormatton, To the Editor of The Rvening World: My son hos taken an examination tn the civil service for a position on the have Hved In Panama inform me whut Th (hd Mdltor of The Evening Worll: I saw’ an account Jn The Byening | World of the ash diimps, Myself und o lot. of other prople pray that you keap ait the rascals until you make them take | thelr ash dumps. away trom where we | Mve, We would move ourtelves If we) could Afford It, but we can't. , There | has, been considerable sickness in this vicinity, I wonder, It Mr. Woodbury | would like an ash dumb undor his win- dow. I guess not, We, trust you will) not let tho matter drop, _ MRD | Horse and Saddle. To the Editor of The Evéning Wortd: | WIN readers solve the following prob- | lem, "If a horee and saddle cost $110, hd the horse cost $100 more than the waddle, what would be the coat of aich, ahd how Js this answer Sbtalned? | New Gridze-Walklag Record. Ty the Edltor of The Evening World: Having noticed the comment of some of your readors upon the time taken to! Pahama Canal, Will, your readera who} An Ath-Domp Colnplaint. | | Willa ple’s Corner. ing World Readers name a reoord one better, I belleve, than any so far offered, Last evening & crossed the bridge in minutes 38 866+ onds, which | belleve to be a Nttle bet. ter than the previous record, 1 believe that the usual time cun be beaten in | midwinter, as In the cold weather the }contraction of the bridge mikes the | bridge smaller than it 1s In summer, A.D, T, | At Any ¥. M,C. A, Gymna ae | To the Biltor of Ty) Evening Works Where can I fd what ts the bewt | and most effective exerche to reduce my welght; also what kind of .a diet to live up to during my period of training? Gt, One View of Mashers, ‘To thy Falltor of The Evening World; I have read accounts now and then of arrests belng demanded by young la» dies, accusing men of jirting with them, Ag ft usually happens, if the man ta question Is not to the girl's liking or js homely, she either jabs him with » hatpin or has him locked up, But should the young man smile at a lady ‘In @ car or on the street and be good-louke ing, would she do this! Let truthtul giris weatify frankly. Young Jadies ale Most aiways smile at me, OBSERVER, March 8, ‘ To the Editor of The Evening World: When does Lent begin this year? RK Historians Differ, To the Editor of The Evening World: Was there ever such @ person as Teil? If so, of what nations as he? Tell was a historical or legendary character, He {8 sup walk across the Williamsburg Bridge, 1 to have been a Swiss patriot, bap yHAT time “w will ve be home to dinner, Mr.) RNagg? The usual tlime, you say? Now, | how do you expect me to keep a ser- vant, the way meals are gotten !n this house? I do not! blame the girls. There 1s no reason | Roy L. McCardsi.in the world why we should not have meals at a regular time. Now, please, Mr, Nagg, don't start to quarrel with me, I am as nervous as a cat, and | simply can’t stand it, But that reminds me, Tread in the papers that a Mr. | Woodbury, a rich bachelor, offers to give a thousand dollara.to any married; man who Is happy in his home life and! would not be angle if He could. i “L want you to go rMght to his office; and get the money, Brother Willle says if he had a thousand dollars for a bank- roll, whatever that means, he could go Into bookmaking, Brother Willie always was lterary, Now, you ste! You al- ways sneered at him and sald he was worthless and {die and gambled and Played the races, and he wants to be a bookmaker, The young literary man he wants to go In business with has made books in New Orleans, at Sara- toga,and right here {New York, He Is an experienced young man, and guar- | antees that he and Brother Willle will| make a fortune bookmaking, “Bo here is an easy chance to get the money to put him tn the bookmaking busiriess, They have already secured a writer, one of the most noted in the} country, they told me so themselves. | All these young men belong to the Jolly} Palibearera, So you see iow much you! know of them. You diways said the! meanest things of the Jolly Pallbearers, and now you see they are in the book- making bustness, writers and al) that sort of literary thing, “AIL you need to say to that Mr. Woodbury ts ‘I am Mr. Nagg," and he will hand the money right dver to you if he 49 an honest man, “Don't let him put. you off, You can} Don't hore others for the purpose of getting even, | The wise parent !sn't above apologiz- Ing to hie children, Tt ie difficult for thé avetage woman | to say what she means, The ‘leba advice a man hands out the more Isteners He will have. Any actress without ‘a history can easily obtain one at a book store, Many a young mati's ' to his wisdom tn selectin There would be more wisdom in the world if fathers knew as much as their sons think they know, | No man who ts unable to eat spaghetti | gracefully should attempt to compile a | book on table etiquette, —Chicago News, We Oblige A Lady. (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.)| for drafts upon the FUTURE ? BUTTONS? 3—Would orange and blue | cow's ears. 2—Because they dre not wo 3—It depends: upon the cow, be worn by a purple cow, or blue and yellow would make the COW GREEN. Incldentally we may remar' PASTURE, There must be SOME CON he cow will be LOST, A LOST cow fs of no USE Somn an ‘ontn Mee ton rs. Nagg and Mr. «... By Roy L. McCardell..., bring proof that you have been married all these years and have the happlest Ufe In the world. Lét him ask anyone, Everybody knows me, I have suffered, Mr, Nagg, but I have never told any one. I have never complained, My mare ried Ife has not been happy, perhaps, Yours has. You have never had any worrles or cures, Your wife has been a home-loving, tactful, kindly, loving, tilent, smiling woman, Go, get the money, O\uers may claim It, but I am sure Susan Terwilliger or Mrs, Dubb or memma or any neighbor will bear you out that your married life has been one Grand sweet song—- What do you mean by saying ‘and dance’? “IT wish I hadn't asked you to get the money for Brother Willle, Now you won't ask for it. “That ts alwaya the way. Here a man offers © thousand dollars for'a happy married man, and you will not take the j Money! “I will never apeak to you again If you do not go right this Instant and claim the money, Mr, Terwilliger, I know, Intends to claim it, but he and Mrs, Terwilliger had some difference this morning, and he has another attack of erysipelas, Huh, erysipelas! If Susan Terwilliger hadn't such sharp finger nails and wasn't always so anxious to use them on pbor Mr, Terwilliger I could believe that story caster, “Maybe Mr, Dubb will claim !t, so you must hurry. I know Mr, Dubb will rush down to Mr, Woodbury's and get It as a contented, happily married man, But Mrs, Dubb hag locked him out of the house, and he can't get In to get his shoes and coat, and Is staying in the coal-bin of the cellar next door and sending in pitiful messages by the sere vants and tradesmen, “So hero is your chance, Mr, Nage Tush right to Mr. Woodbury and get that thousand dollars, For if you are not happily married, then no ving man ever was!" —_— Little Wizzie Wisdom, “Ma, why does Uncle Harry eat his luncheon at a dairy counter? When we were out last night he took us to a swell hotel and he gave the walter @ dollar tip.” “Yhavs why, Wizzle,” The ‘‘Fudge’”’ Idiotorial Miss Bobinette Berlops, who, we assume, lives in Mt, Vernon, sends us three Interesting in- quirles ; I—Is the Insufficlency of the PRESENT ample Justification 2—Why are not TABLECLOTHS trimmed with BRASS rlbbons be BECOMING for my We will answer the dear girl In serles; 1—We think so IF you can get the DRAFT past the cashier, rm by the POLICE, Oranye ribbons SHOULD NOT ribbons by a yellow one. Blue Kk that nobody would want a GREEN COW! It would be TOO HARD to find the cow In the TRAST with the landspape—or 0 anybody. ‘