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PS { ¥ me PE EAE <See D on KWELL'S sblicttude for "60,000 breakfastless echoo! h of New York" appears for the reason that the comer do not exist, Senerally overdoing its in tts children? Is to assume parental tenes ache li at $9 dozen manutac- Company capitalized at ) are a far cry from the foather-stuffed balle with \e@ gamo began, “There's ) “millinery” at Madison len. What a bonanza the ile bearakin has been to the The touring-car tonneau, as it for the display of ‘taken its place with hox, . il: rub their eyes at of . $20,000 damaged politan Street Rail- foran injured spine, n life on the opposite he North River, In many has iiled by @ corporation ed jury-room value of $5,000. at “England, estimated the py actentiot with it fondness for fig- iB ures there are just 4% aMfinities in. tho fa Whole world, This BP incens that unless! You are one ‘among’ four millions, you will go through life without finding thi ry] fieart which amon, jal others beats wit yours in absolute ‘aocord, people in New York, ‘a circle of acquaint- people. Two hundred M0 gives a quotient of that -your, affinity your acquaintances therefore, that a ‘pachelor has offered ‘man in New York that he does not bachelor again and ‘existence of such a t his claim and ingly wroth over him, ss iba aMnities moet- ure, that there couple in New st 126 of these id, ahd as New ways there 4s just ating, it may be defined you can't get, If ‘the’ more fortunate of meet and marry one, Hlant beings that vem qualities of mind and bined make up your myp- of dreams, But amMnities wecee cen nce eene: upid---20,000 to 1. By Nixola, Greeley-Smith, © Prese Publishing Company, No, 63 to 6 Park Row, New York. at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mall Mattei No, 16; ate the Side. cash valuation of a professional man of thirty earning a moderate income at $28,500, fe Canfleld’s $2,000,000 profits in Reading go to show the superior ad- vantages of the “legitimate” game in ‘Wall street over that which goes on behind grilled doorways, In the Wall street game no axe ever smashes in or other interruption Occurs, * ¢@ ° Vice-President Lamb, of the Archi- tectural League, told his Cooper Union audience that he “could get as much ploadure out of a ten print as Mr, Morgan gets out of his $120,- 000 paintings.” The man who can do that has solved the problem: ot earthly happiness, ee ° The Crear of Russia and the Bm- peror of Germany might, if they| “3 please, dispute with each other as to which of the two owns the greater number of palaces, Each might sleep in a different house every night for ® month and not exhaust the number of ‘his various dwelling-places, The Czar {g said to own many country seate—which are kept up in every oetall, furnished and furbished, \and crowded with servante—into which he has never set foot, King Edward of England, while regularly occupy- ing but four, has a dozen or mo homes which are ready for him ‘all timoa, afer off luring you into purauing them, but once in the hand they are apt to close their wings and become dull, solemn creatures enough, He average married man or an does not seem to be seriously ‘urbed by the metamorphosis. They are content with themsolves and each ather as they actually are, provided one ex-aMpity sees that the dinner js fairly cooked and is are fairly punctually paid, Ma seems inevitably to conduce to materialism, The man who first told us Wo “eat, drink and be merry, for to-mor. Tow we die,'' must have been married, For that {s the abiding sentiment of matrimony, Love comes and goes. reared and shattered, temple to Hymen and then, like Saimp- son, pull it down upon ourselves, But so Jong as the price of beefsteak {s not made prohibit:ve and the land- lord consents to leave us nf enough “Ideals are We build a to get downtown, and the tre and the department store we Have always with us, what do these things mai And that th York?, f — A Queer Corner. NE of the queerest corners of the, O carth 1s Chatham Island, off the coast of Ecuador. ‘This |sland lies 600 milce west of Cluayaguil, and the equator runs directly throngh it, Capt. Reininan, who was sent to the Ghlapagos group of islands to inquire Into the proper grounding of a deep- fea cable, stopped at Chntham Island, And says tt abounds in cats; every one of which is black, Theac animals tive in the crevices of the lava foundation neur the coast, and subsist by catch- lug Meh and erabs instead of rats and mico, Other animals found on this island ate horses, cattle, dogs, yoats and chickens, all of which are perfectly ing buge—they shine from wild, -ovelsa ‘Says De Mau f 1 MAURICE FLEURY, a Fronch itlat and physician, has as- the medica) world of; jouncing that after several I i and analysis’ he has Bi that)love is 4 disease, and 3 women do literally die of lation is really a mal- if rea, “It has well-defined ‘And tp susceptible to treat- other disease know to Wo kinds of love, acocrd- the “nealthy & viver thief, yer Honor,” Malady, rice Fleury, love," which {s as beneficial to the one it overtakes as the other kind of love, Infatuation, Is harmful! ‘Dhe latter he ranks as.a strong in- toxicant and one that fe to be handied with just as much care and just as Judlclously as alcohol, : In bis investigations of people suffer- ing \from the love malady he has found well defined evidences of physica) Meprension and ce.ungement of the nervous system similar to the condi- tions found tn’ the putient puftering from alcoho) or drugs. His researches have made evident that in each case Where the patient was’ in the advanced sluges of bhe ‘maiady” there was a previous failing of the bodily health and spirits and that love infatuation finds (he majority of Its victims among those who are not gified with great powers of resistance, “Tho strong are the ones in whom the healthy love occurs, But it 1s che easy victim to influenza, or any kin Of wevere cold, of Jusomnia, or the pe fon whose health ‘and spirits suff with weather depressions, who becomes @ ready victim to Jove infatuation, The man or woman whose health is always In good condition and whose vitailty is malntained at a jig point has little | to fear frem tt.” In regard to’ treatment, Dr. Fleury gays; "The vietlin of love malady should be treated fn the same way as vay would treat a dipsomaniae or mor phoma tac Mhe ‘polaon’ should be gradually suopressed and the bodily energy bullt wp until the patient has reguined the accustomed Wgor, With | (hg patient In a perfectly healthsut condition, here is absolute assurance of a cure and Mitle Wkellhoud of a ree currence of the disease,"' | ‘Die ‘love malady," “love infatua- ion," or whatever name the medical profession may sce fit to Klve the newly expluied divease, will thus be seen to be vaused principally by low spirits or mel — fow physical sundition, and @ general tonle whpuld be administer w to the town? There is a cut down the poles. ciency and neglect, fare still rich and get-attab \y Pu pany, which owns the wire conduits so prettily and p It should go further! Corrupt corporations have preferred to give millions to political 1. taxes and every other suggestion of return to the municipality.. Even at this price, the goods at|have gone for a song, and we now have before us the exhausted finances of the Metropolitan Street Railway and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company to curse the community with ineffi- le, VN® THIS way. THE CAVALRY WAS & LITLE iN ATVANCE © Aa Ww : Sa FUSS, awa) iW lolalelolntalebulefolaleininteleinteboleleieleleielelelalelelaleteieialeletelolelelmteleinfalelebelotetels blic Out the Major Chatterbox Recalls Brave Deeds w # # # But a Slight Accident Shows That He Hasn’t the Courage He Loves to Brag About, TRUSsHEn The Evening World Will Print Here Every Day an Editorial on Matters of Popular Concern. , Why Not Shake HE Brooklyn Daily Eagle announces a probable settlement of the suit brought by former Alderman and Senator Michael J. Cof- fey against the estate of the late Hugh McLaughlin for a bigger share, of the Nassau Railroad rake-off. The parties at interest, it observes, do not desire publicity, We Should think not! But if the community had a bold and able custodian of its interests in its Law Department there could be a good deal of very startling publicity. Ought there not to be some process of law whereby the property of the people could be restoted to them? ‘Ought it not be possible to wring from: the Crokers, Coffeys, McCarrens, Shevlins and McLaugh. lins the securities in the various New York and Brooklyn street rail- way and lighting companies, and, let us add, of the Empire City Subway, which were given them in return for franchises that belonged movement to get something back from the Empire City Subway Com- romptly filled by Mayor Grant when he rvice. “Graft?” ; gangs while fighting ‘More than ten millions in par value securities were paid for the privileges named, It is no consolation to know that many of the rogues have become poor. The men who corrupted them SHELLS PLOVGWER , SCREAM ANT "BURST 4.4 4) mys THAT BALL Gave THE MATOR AM AwFuk SCARE out A Duchess’s Hobbies. HE young Duchess of Marlbor-| ough {s an expert billiard player. So fond is she of the game that Jt would surprise none of her} friends $f she were to include a per- fectly appointed ladies billard-room among the projected improvements at) Riandford Houge, for she has often au- | nounced her Intention of doing so, An- other of her hobbles ts the collecting | of stiange animals, and In her garden at Blenhelm she has quite a menagerie | of creatures which she brought Home He Mistoo celibacy persisted long after the prac- tice of medicine had pa to lay | so hands. For two or three ce doctors protested, but in yi » The mate} 1 N uries the | the e've got our church choir » as not to be seen from tl polr Invisible, eh? jutts—A ter was finally laid before the Pops, Nords , but not Inaudible, You and toward the end of the fifteenth can still hear ‘em quarrelling,—Houst century the vow was abolished “hroniole, kK His Man. with her from Egypt, including gazelles, vultures, pelloans and snakes, oo | |o Celibate Doctors, | - ee, DIP—A ewell gent with a gold chain} SWELI, GANT—You have handeutts | There was once a time when doctors | ing “turnip.” ‘Thet fer mine. Kot Instead of got watch, 1 am dot were doomed to cellbucy, It was at the Sherlft of Germantown. conclusion of the medineval period, ee salle NIL) A when medicine was in the hands of : the monks, In France the habit of SOMETHING LACKING, TERMS, “Now, me good man," said the pom- pous Atranger, who had signed “Vis- count castle, London,” the on register, “what are your terms here?’ o In udvanoe,"' replied the shrewd hotel clerk, promptly,—Dea Moines News Sticks to Cradle, | HERG 1s a man of seventy In igh Paris, named Wallace Super, | neau, who still sleeps in the cradle he was rocked in when a baby, and he has never slept one night of ‘nis long ife on any other bed. The youngest of a family of boys, Wallace |retelned his place in the cradle as ho |wrew older, He soon bocame too tall |to le in it full length, but he overcame | this diMoulty by drawing his knees up- ward, Bach night to this day he rests his feot squarely on tha bottom of the | ceaile, aways his knees to and fro, and vooks himself to sleep as he did when a I} boy, The habit was formed In Nabyhood ard never broken, ———— -—- A Novel “Ad.” A Drench firm {8 about to place on | | the market a novelty In postal cards ‘Yo an ordinary pletorlal vard 1s aMixed a very thin transparent ‘gelatine dive on which 19 Impressed a gramophone musical record. A hole Is p.erced through the centre of the disc, and the postcard can be placed on an ordinary “(alking-machine’ and played in the math way! A witli pa ae OOS me A Hat Query, ‘To the EAltor of The Evening World: Which hat {s proper to wear to @ wedding—silk or opera? WAITING, If the wedding ocouns before 6 P, M. wear a silk hat. It alter ¢ P, M, wear fn opera hat, Blow Bay Ridge Cars, To the Editor of The Evening Wortdt Permit me to write of the outrageous system by which the Bay Ridge-Ulmer Park cars run, On many occasions I am kept) waiting from twenty to twenty-five minutes én the bitter cold on the Third avenue and Ajxty-fitth street station, ) I presume this ls but one of the many complaints made by the passengers, I for one heartily thank The Evening World for ft» un- ceasing efforts in trying to convince the B. R, T, officials that the public wishes to be decently treated. 8,8. M, Thomas Jonat' Jackson, To the Wakor of The Rvening Worldt What was the full name of the Con- federate General known ae ‘Stonewall Jackson? @ 0, K A Banking Problem, To the Bditor of The Evening World: Would readers figure out this prob- lem: What amount would a person have in the bank if he or she saved 2% cents a day for thirteen years at 4 per cent., adding interest to principal every year? a@ A Yorn Optimist, ‘Tu the Editor of ‘The Evening World? Though neatly three months of win- ter are still ahead of us, there is one grand cause for joy. This is the season when most of us can, if we wish, re- plenish our crippled bank aocounts, From Ootober to January we are saving up for Christmas and the holideys, and Letters from Evening World: Readera New Year's Day finds us pitiably broke, From May 1 till midsummer we are save ing up for our vacations, and Beptem- ber finds us penniléas, So this ls the ‘one time of the year when we oan eave for the traditional rainy day (unless, of course, dootors’ bills break us), Therer fore let us brace up and be glad that the only normal draft on our bank ad cotunts for the next few months is the price of Easter presents, OPTIMIST, Housekeepers Please Tentify, To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘Will practical housekeepers with @x+ Perlence please tell me how oan two Deople live comfortably in Now York City on an income of $18 per week?| 1 Would like to pee the detailed statement of some housekoeper who has bad ee perience, Co In The World Almanac, Page hh ‘To the Editor of The Evening World! T am @ mother of thirteen children. end having #0 many it ls very hard te. remember on just what days of the week each was born. I know the dates of thelr birthdays (day of month and year) but not the day of the week on which each was born, Where oan I find the days of the week on which those dates fellt Mn J. One Happy Married Man, ‘Te the Biitor of The Bventng World: I wish to inform Mr. Woodbury that there is one happy married man, only otub, -1 want no evenings less my wife can go with me 1 have been meried thirty-seven years and have not had our first quarrel yet, Write’s alm is to live for me mine Hee BE acne ‘cigtth street, Mrs. +... By Roy L. HERE ® that wtocke ing full of combings, Mr. \ Nege? You didn’t 66 stocking full of combings hanging Dehind the mirror of my bureau and mew Roy L. MoCardell i, ce Teas have @ thing of my own. No one re spects me in this house, or my things Woukl not be touched. I have been aay ing thore combings for six months to make a ‘rat,’ for if there ls one thing I om partoular about # is my hatr, I zan't wear those horrid ‘rats’ they sell at the etores, and am for wearing any one else's hair, that I would never do if I weg bald as a billiard ball, If you had a heart in your bosom, if you cared anything for me, you would see how my hale is coming out, A woman as young as I am, too! Oh, Mr. Nagg, !t ig nothing but worry and trouble that does it. Yes, I know you are getting Dald, but not from worry, because you Dever worry about emything. Resides you could have saved your combings and have a nice toupee made. Mr, Amig as a toupee and you can hardly notloe it at all, You should be ashamed of yourself when you eee the way my hair {s coming out, but you don't care, and now you've thrown out my etooking full of combings! Ah! Here they arein this top drawer, Who put chem there? Why do people disturb my things? I never touch anything belonging to any ‘one, end yet my bureau and ehiffonier look as ié burglars had bean through It, Brother Wille was ransacking, you say! Mr. Nags, may I agk why you always have something disparaging to say about my brother? He always speaks woll of you. He has plenty of cause to may otherwiee; but, then, he has the kindly, generous disposition of my family, and, no matter how you treat him, he is never late to his meals. You will be acousing him of stealing next. But he te like me; he would die before he touched a thing belonging to any one alse. You miss money out of yourepocket, you say? Oh, Mr, Nags, send for a polceman and have me dragged off to jail! I took a few dol- lara out of your pooket to pay some Dills. You were aaleep and I did not want to wake you, All that Ihave you are freely welcome to, and surely a wifo may have a little money once fn & while. I trave to mest the bills; you do not, You grow! at tho expense, but, It 1s not my fault. You {nelst on having & good table, and the price of every- thing has gone up. And you fly tato a rage because I need a little money, Did 1 say a word when you came in this room and hid my combings? I would not touch your combings, You didn’t touch them? Oh, very well! I will not quarrel with you about it, I can kee you nre trying to quarrel, but I am like my, own doar papa, who hated scenes and simply would not quarrel, and {f any one sald a cross word to him he would grow almost murderous, be- causo he hated quarrelling so. Ho Nagg and Mr.— McCardell.... E i ij 253 Bye rT E 3 i i 32 ge i i rg iff Fy Fede @erous; Davy the Toad told me eo hi eet, Buch @ quesr nickname; but, then, he too hardworking boy and you should, pot censure him. “Mesnma will be herw to-day, and I want to get some theatre tlokets and take her to a matines “It cheers her up #0 to eve @ good play. I do not care to go. 1 am always disappointed. Plays on the stage always end happily, Look how cruelly you "Yea, I know you wanted me to take the children to eee ‘Babes in Toyland.’ but after my experience with ‘A Doll's House’ I would not be misled again, ‘The chikiren got cross and ugly, but you did not have the trouble of taking ft them. That is the way every- Dody teats me, And when I told you about it you laughed! “A day will oome, Mr, Nags, when you will be sorry!" ae Bright Boy, Uttle vr, this penny has 9 dn itt” ‘Well, so has yor doughnuts,” The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial Advice About Bathing. (Copyrot, 1906, Planet Pub. Co.) A resident of Greenwich, Conn., who has Just acquired his first bathroom, write swith some excitement to ask HOW OFTEN he shall use the tub, It Is a difficult question to deal with. The Mahometans have a schism 1,000 years old as to whether It !s better to WASH BEFORE or AFTER EATING, The Arabs clean themselves with SAND, and the Ru3stans steam themselves once a year with SPLENDID RESULTS, It Is doubtful If the Greenwich Water Company will let our Ingulring friend use his tub more than ONCE a week, He had better consult WILLIAM ROCKEFELLER and not The Fudge, Nearly all the water the Greenwich Water Company has Is fn Its stock, It has little to spare for bathing. If there Is much MUD In the tub after the bath do not be alarmed, YOU will not be to blame. It ls A PRESENT from the water company. Be glad that it does not send youEELS and MUD TURTLES! suit, eon Rill i eee sana 4