The evening world. Newspaper, January 27, 1905, Page 12

As Th by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. Bntered at the Post-Omce at New York as Second-Clase Mall Matter: ME 45.. ssesseeee NO, 18,868, ersonal Liberty Without Graft. New York has one member of Congress who understands the throbbings of the pulse of public opinion better perhaps than any membedt of the municipal government, He is the Hon, Timothy Dry Dollar Sullivan, who, on his election to Congress from the Bowery district, truthfully stated that Daniel Webster could not be as good a representative of his constituents, He was right. Daniel Webster was a great man, a great states- man, a great orator, a great expounder of his theory of the Constitution, but he never voiced more ac- curately the wishes of his constituency than gid the Hon, Mr. Sullivan when he told the reporter of The id: “The people want a reasonable amount of pefsonal liberty, but don't want to see it accompanied with graft.” here could be no more sententious and sensible expression of the ‘The people are not opposed to personal liberty, They favor teme Not abstinenos; moderation, not excess; home rule instead of legislation made at Albany. What the people oppose In the $ law hotels is not the quiet sale of beer on Sunday, but their h perfect, but they do demand that no member of any department city government shall use his official position to profit by the ‘of women or the crimes of men. i ie Choice should not be only between “personal liberty accom- liberty {s their personal perquisite, and:that the favor of tI’ ‘favorable trade asset to be recognized as such and ‘duly and ++———— - Lending a Hand, g the horse drawing a delivery wagon slipped and fell on Central West. The piercing wind and the driving snow seemed to makd when the motto of the street would be» “Everybody for him- no—the driver of a milk wagon jumped down and went to Fof his brother in distress; a policeman came out from the snug sentry box and lent a hand; a passing boy, blue’ with cold, mn relief. the afternoon, when the storm was at its worst, a “pretty n, stylishly attired,” finding a little Harlem newsboy weep- essed from maltreatment by his bigger and bullying competi- and sold his papers for him, getting, by virtue of her pretti- Kindness, about five prices for them. ound on Long Island, Mr. Payne Whitney, the son of a father test happiness consisted in making others happy, finding that ‘Mot use two boxes which he had secured at a theatre, sent word graph company to permit some of its messenger boys to enjoy Which a dozen of them did, are many incidents in the daily news|lustrating the preva- man selfishness and thoughtlessness, But, on the other hand, | of kindness there is in the world! How many people there "end’a hand” to those who are in trouble! Even a blizzard it its compensations, " ‘iam iy to A Need of New York, ‘happening which increases the transient population of New York the inadequacy of the present hotel accommodations. Some ters were unavoidably kept from their homes by the snow- sday and had to seek lodgings in the city. The ordinary uld not accommodate them and even the Raines law hotels for all the legitimate business they could handle, ‘millionaires have ample accommodation and the cheap lodging. S Supply the demands upon them, but there is a woful lack of ifortable, American hotels, where a clean room can be had for mr two and meals can be bought at a reasonable price, Every has such hotels, but New York City has fewer of them in pro- to its population than any other American city, There are not good livtel accommodations in downtown New York that there correspondent of the London ‘Telegraph at St. Petersburg says t before signing the ukase appointing the murderous Trepoff t-General, “His Majesty was whistling a lively air in his ‘apart. \ | eccentric preacher was once asked to deliver a sermon in aid of a for the suffering poor. He made it the shortest on record, Announc- is xt: “He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord,” he said: ke this security, down with the dust!” The collection was large; bitter weather there is abundant opportunity to lend on the same fhe People’s Corner. ters from Evening World Readers ‘for Boys, Pink for Girls, he Mdltor of The Evening World: are the colors tor baby boys T A.W. eral years about the abominable ven- tlation, or absolute lack of ventilation, in the cabins of the Barclay street ferr; boats, But the company doesn't seem to care, Meanwhile Lackawanna com- muters travel back and forth In the jIl- ventilated ferry-boats, Not only is there Inadequate ventilation in the upper cabins, but the doors on the stars are | sometimes kept open, and the result is | that all the bad air from down stairs Is carried into the upper cabin, with no escape-duct, Let the company at least close these doors, even If 1t can't otherwise ventilata the cabins, D. W. P, A Faucet Problem, To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘WH mathematical readers discuss the followng problem? A barrel is filled from a faucet in three hours, and is 1s | emptied by another faucet in two hours, i #90] Ansuming the barrel to be fled and| ib Police Brutality, typ Ealtor of The Rvening World; Gomething be done to cause | police of New York City to cease the poor drunkards they arrest? reading lately of how a poor Was roughiy handled and jn- f by a policeman, and I met a ‘man not long ago who had been | While being (aken away In a fol Stagon drunk, yd have been tne red “that some policemen make al- bat & practice of beating drunkards, AN, Ferry-Bonts, Ventila PAlltor of ‘The to kick about that 4 et lowt in the For] tale the second faucet to empty the Dewcelt Sead ce Evening “Worla’s Said onthe Side); ONDON telephone girls are now for the first time permitted to wear colored combs in thelr halr and and skirt, Hithorio they have been Aned bf they violated those office rules. They can't be expected to belleve that thelr New York olsters were sent to hotela on the night of the biizzand and treated with every consileratton for thelr comfort at the management's ex-' Dense. It's too much Wk) a falry story, one compete with home vawieville talent, eee The Russian revoutionary movemen| may be short on machine guns but dt is tong on poote, which is in ite favor, Exploslye sonnets @ometimes revenber- @te until they shake down a dynnaty, 8 8 A “awell"” ball witli no cotillion, no favors and no fancy supper! Is the simple life making ‘ts insidious way Into soctlety? . im- Symptoms of this Influence in "Babes ty and vice, The people do not expect mankind and womankind] {2 fovisnd,” and tn the inoreaged popu- with graft” or no personal liberty at all, The public grievance |theatre “top lofts” the New York gal- J The Tennessee Legislature is thinking of making it a felovy to play football, ‘They need a ‘college widow" at Nash: vitle to convince thi Legislature of the @rwoy of thelr ways, sue Asoonding to Briiish oritics children are at present exirting the strongest influence on the diama, The play of the year in London, “Peter Pan," wes a Child's play, Now York detected Jarty of the modernized pantomime, eo . 3 More “American ideas” in England | the abolition of “first-class” cans on the @lectrio trains of the Northeastern Rail- way and tho reservation of scats in theatre ‘‘gaiieries,” In the matter of lery god of the last generation js moved fo wonder at the dollar seats in the ‘family glroles’ of the present day, oe Perhaps the trolley road managers strings of beads around thar necks iff they wish, and to appear tor duty in ¢ something besides a black shirt walst Possible Lady Teazle iad no desire to) 3A Ne o Comic Series éBy Gene Carr. g $ wave up the attempt to run cars on} ¢ Wednesday out of consideration for the motormen on the wind-swept plat- forms, Some day a rudimentary sense of hi ity may move the car corpora-| th 0 nd a few dollars for glass] @ lal velocity!” on, wredn reo Lindi , emplo; from freeaing, eee Gov, Folk ts full of surprises, He is closing the dives of St. Louis just be- Cause he promised to do #o before elec- thon, SMITH WITH ALL THE COMFORTS OF, WHAT HAVE The Wolk plan of keeping a dive] @ closed is to follow up the rald with a} % Fevyucation of the Iivense, It is @ plan that would work well with Raines Jaw hotels, e ee Now it is the Society for Political] ®Btudy which wants to restrict race vropagabion, One sure way would be endow prospective fathers with a milll-) fon or pay theie reat in an apuniment| hotel, eee TrafMfo haa been revolutionized in Lon- don by the general use of motor omni- buses. When ta the autonublle bus to replace the antique and outgrown horse cars of downtown New York? Modern lines of motor buses offer the pnly solution of the problem of trans- porting peasengers (rom, ferry to ferry below Fourteenth street, Plea for O Simultaneous “revivals” in Wales, in Londoniand in Denver and Schenectady hamed cities to attend prayersmectings indicate @ popular religious wave of un-| usual extent and force, The leaders of the awakening in England, Dra, Reuben Torrey and Charles M, Alexander, are Americans, ‘rey was born in H boken and Alexander in Tennesseo, An Interesting Might Is thrown on the p manence of good preaching by the port from London of the saje of 100,000, 90) coplés of Spurgeon's sermons, Even with allowance made for a few ciphers added 1H transmission, the figures are caleylated to shock the self-complacency of the “popular” novellat, * 6 8 As the result of the careful observation] of several thousand hosplal patient. Dr, Shrubsall, of the Brompton Hospita. for Consumpion, finds that, wenerally Speaking. brunettes are Bironger than blondes are beter qualified_to tight dis+ aso, In the earlier years of child lite blondes ire about as numerous as bru-| heties, but Dr, Shrubsall shows that (tease during childhood falls unduly heavily on the bloades. ‘Throughout lite blond neople are more prone to fall Victims to disease than brunettes, eo 8 6 Andzow Long points man's Magazine that " Says nothing about not Sabbath Day, ‘The command not to play {8 a Protestant Injunction, ‘a hhing of human invention,’ and there- ‘ore, logically ‘Idolatrous,’” o 8 6 out in Long. the Decalogiy A square inch of human skin, pup: Posed to bu part of the outlo’e of a Danish pirate king, was sold in a Co- vent Garden austion room recently for three gulneas ($15). The pirate, having been eaught in the act of despolling an Essex church, the pricsts efocuted und flayed’ dm and, following a custom then in vogue, nailed the skin to the church door a3 a warning to the sacrilegious, Durlug the removal of a hinge from tho door in 1858 the piece of akin dropped cut, — Blizzardettes, OY doparts from the hearty Of the sad Flatbushrangers, Who must go through the snow And brave other weird dangers In reaching thelr dugouts, Or getting to town, It 1s flerce on “swhbubs’’ Gince the snow came down! With the trains stalled on plains Of the wild Jersey flats, Where snow drifts, likewise sitts Into cars on folks’ bats, ‘Tey must lunch upon snowballs At noon get to biz (It they're lucky—that 1s) Gince the blzzard hag bilzz! ‘The Harlemite all the night Makes loud his moan, ‘While freezing and sneezing, Chilled through to the bone, In chill Arotlo flat Grlot ts fria in hla cup, 00d | both faucets opened, how long ‘Will it As he watches In vain team comes up, ‘Til the » x WALTER A. GINGKATR. with business suspended in the last}, playing on the] Dear Mise Greetey-Smith; ices don't you let the old bachelor alone’ Tie 1: he supports the the ; he helps fem: thises the vited to dinner b; used as a targot for cutting remar! Intended for one another, and as a ref. ree in, family: quarr he listens, and LAs te with th ambition, Do please let him alone, AN OLD BACHELOR, | married couples, HIS }8 certain: ai ly a novel plea for the old bachelor: "Do please let him fi alone.” With pieas- ure, but not with- out the feminine privilege of the } last word to say that every claim The Evening World eader makes for him 4s entirely jus- Ufied, But then, nobody denies his nsefulness to other people, The question is, whether or not he Is ueetul to himself. Is he happy? Is he comfortable? Is he ? Wise ani comfortable he undoubtedly but happy he unquestionably 1s not, ish people never are, and the od All Around the World, “On the whole, Spain ie wonderfully peaceful and miraculously loyal,” says a writer, “Any native returning to his ccuntry after, say, twenty years’ ab- gence would scarcely know it, While Victoria was reigning over England Spain saw elx sovereigns of various kinds, and none very good; one re- public, several civil wars and a whole waste-paper-basketful of constitutions,” A traveller says that the Japanese servant is ® person of soolal impor- tance, In the absence of the mistress callers are entertained at tea by the housemasd, whose knowledge of the et!- quette of tea drinking and whose grace and charm are often the equal of those of her employer, ways which run underground !n London to traverse elxty miles underground by electric traction without running twice over the same piece of linc, ————__— Ite a Mistake To give to boys In thelr teens the llcense of men of middle age, ‘Yo permit your daughter to use the slang of the street. To encourage children to be preco- clous In company. ‘Yo chide # child in the aresence of strangers, ‘To let your wife feel that you have no confidence in her, judgment ‘To be too exacting In your demands as to Where your husband goes, ‘Yo tell your wifo foolish stories about your business shrewdness, ‘to frequently uae the word "my" In connection with household belongings, No try to be witty at the expense of jacmaona'e £ 4 By Nixola Greeley-Smith, 1 who has an) When the electrification of fhe rall-| {s completed the trayelier will be able | O04 mforts of The Man Higher Up, By Martin Green, Home. TOOK HERE > IO GIVE W100 tg 'F V HAD YouR WILL PowER SEE,” rald the Cigar Store Man, “that a wise clubwome an holds that tho Increasing frequency of divorce does’ not but that it fs growing more Intelll- gent.” “There are theorles ty the bale to account for the increasing frequency Up. “Every preacher, moralist, tee former and married man takes a fall out of the question at one time or another, and every argument creates Q new idea, A feature of tha (ee cussion that gets to me js the tag that few divorced people ongage in it, “After thinking about tho matter for a few minutes I have come to the conclusion that tho ;eayon there are more divorces now than there used to be fe because there are more mare ried people than there used to be, The percentage of false-alarm mare riages to the total number remains ebout the same, A bigher grade of general intelligence in men and women dvean't make them any det~ ter choosers when it comes to going into matrimony, which {s @ movo- ment of impulse in nine cases out of ten, 5| ‘Wome people say that divorce is caused by the custom of marrying total strangers. I knew a couple who were married after an engagement of eleven years, and the husband wos stung for a retainer by a divorce lawyer before the honeymoon was well on the road. The husband dis- ? | covered that the beauteous being who peed > |had been holding hands with him Sh a % | tox so long had @ hair-trigger temper 2 |and an ability to hit the bull’s-eye with articles of kitchen furniture Gene (ARR sof THEAR THE BABY CRYING) VOHN, | WONDER WHAT THE BOYS ARE outs!de of a bag of potatoes,” “The trouble is,” declared the Cigar Store Man, ‘that divorce is too easy to obtain.” 4 “It won't do any good to make it harder to obtain,” sald The Man Higher Up, “as long oa it 1s 80 easy to get married.” ——eeE DIPLOMAGY, eo Mrs. Nagg and Mr. e+... By Roy L. McCardell.... jam.''—Boston Transoript, Can't Fool Willie, ld Bachelors. ! bachelor is the personfication of selfish- ness. To be sure, we see him in large 66 KNOW I am friends come in and out emoking up numbers at the theatres and the fash- I foolish to ex-| the place and making my house a con- lonable restaurants, and it must be ade pect such a|Venience, When a man marries he should give up all that sort of thing, You can be cheerful enough when you are with that sort of people, butin your own house you are a different sort of person, Why can't you be of a jovial disposition, One of mamma's friends is |Mr. Grinett, the undertaker, and he has always some pleasant joke in a quiet way even at @ funeral, and the langer and more expensive a funeral It is the dJollier he 1s in a quiet and gentee] way, “Mr, Grinett is #o sympathetic, He wants his money in advance, and I have seen him hold up a funeral for hours ‘until he got it, He did that with poor papa, but he was so sympathetic, be+ cause he knew papa #o well and as he said to mamma, ‘Ad, tt is a pleasure to bury'a man lke that, I would do it for nothing If I could efford tt. It is only for business reasona I am com- |pelled to take tals stand, but my | Leart la with you in this trying hour’ And when you advanced the money he smiled again so gently and so sweetly that {t was a@ real comfort to know that Mr, Grinett felt for us, “But you never zeel for any one, You do not love uny one; you have no sym pathy, You do not want me to go to ted he adorns them tn vicarious shion, for he is alvays accompanied by a pretty girl, This is a part of his selfishness. For no matter how old and shrivelled and battered his own face {g, the one opposite him must be of a | primrose freshness and delicacy, But does he take the pretty girl for her own. amusement? Not at all. It |!s imply for the pleasure he derives |In sitting opposlte her and watching the changing beauty of her pleased eyes, the quick up-curling of her emiling mouth, Even when she {s telling him ‘her troubles or her ambitions, he listens not so much with the idea of allaying or alding them as because tho lilt of her voice 1s @ distinct enjoyment to’ |him, Of course he listens to the marned man's troubles. He even seeks oppor- tunities for hearing them, if he ts wise, for only then can he delude himselt (nto the {dea that he is himself happy, If he serves as target for tho gibes of | husband and wife, it ls only a part of | his deliberately chosen function in life— that of filling the odd seat at dinner, It is only by making himeelf useful that he can make hihself acceptable, and there {a no doubt that by acting as thing, Mr. Nese, but I would like to go % Bermuda, I ‘now you do not realize it, but I am ail run down and my nerves are in a Greatful state, I know I look well, but It Js only my Roy L, McCardell strength of charac- ter keeping me up. “Men have it easy in this world, No care or trowble, They leave the women to do all the worrying. Don't deny it. Yeaterday when I was feeling so mis- erable I looked out the window and saw you coming up the street with Col, Wil- Idnson and you were laughing and jok- ing. “How different trom my ead lot! 1 wasn't laughing and joking, You never laugh and joke with me, When your friends come in this house they sit around like a lot of undertakers. That 1s why I don't put myeelt out for them. They know I have no use for them, and I know they do not Hke me ‘because I am not one of those women that turns over her house to @ lot of WILLIE—And pa says I couldn't shoot bears in New York City, His Idea of Heaven. father confessor to his friends he ren- oard-playing, ¢lgar-amoking men like Bermuda, ders them a great service, Particularly Mrs, Dilger does, Much thanks she| ‘ can 60 to—wherever I like, you ig his true {f he allows women to tell gets for it! Her husband is always way? him their troubles, for by so doing he diverts the current of their confidence from other women and @o saves them from inevitable disaster, iu Other people should bless the old bachelor every day, They couldn't, as a| wuz a angel, Teddy? Leia errnt GOREN an HO Tir, Teldy—Naw; It'd be too much onl je is that he 40 ‘ \ " Aispense with himself, ES ME Naa) MEME “I don't Uke the way you eay it, Mx Nagg; 1 do not like the way you may it. There is some hidden meaning fn your wonls, and I know It. I won't go any- where, Yon can't get rid of me #o evatly,”" stuck in the howse and she can never get tofany place In consequence, “No, I made up my mind when I mar- ried not to allow such things, I said to myself, ‘I will have a happy home and I will not allow any of my husband's The ‘‘Fudge” Idiotorial Miss Crissy Sunshine writes us from Scalp Corners, Texas, to know the titles of THE TEN BEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD “for one to know down tn Texas,” | The cry of the Knowledge Hunter is ALWAYS dear to us, We will tell the child ONE MINUTE after we note the location of Scalp Corners on the map. Here they are; 1—"Hoyle’s Book of Games ;" 2—"Lobo the Wolf.” by Ernest Thompson Seton; 3—"Bulls and Bears,” by Henry Clews; 4—"Frenzied Finance,” by Thomas W. Lawson; Miss Cliy Ginl-Why have you got that plg ted to your finger? 5—"How to Skin Suckers,” by Charles M, Schwab and George W. Prive tire ee Hime peel Oh, yes that's to remind me to be sure) Perkins; 6—"Lives of Twelve Bad Men,” by Thomas Seccombe} ie ey ee ——. |7—"Morgan, the Buccaneer,” by J. S. G. Abbott; 8—"'The Four- The Best Jokes of the Day. { teenth Street Ollgarchy,” by George B, McClellan; 9—"'Schenck's th |Handbook of Draw Poker;” 10—"Poems of Passion," by Ella Trampling Tom—Don't yez wisht yes A Rural Memory System. The Ten Best Books. | Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co. GRAAL ETT | “If your Dorcas Soolety really wants ay ypened to Rollignan?” | to accomplish a good ee of his ny Ile a | Wheeler Wilcox, "t buy a sowing machine?’ he) “An ¢¢ » swim?! . - se Koeole oe dee oer ne ware! Some of these PRECIOUS VOLUMES are out of print and “Why?” she asked In surprise, [Union mun,” —Yonkers Statesman, others are NOT YET PRINTED, But this will not lessen their "Because one machine could do 8) “Do you think Banks over fooled his mich as half a dozen women, at least! wite successfully?” “Nonsense! A sewing machine oan't) vt know it, He married her,"—Detrott My, Pree. ecania.’Phiiadeiohia Press, value In Texas! We are GLAD to give Miss Sunshine this RAY OF WISDOM. of divorce,” replied Tho Man Higher _ that kept hia head feeling like tho |Prove that mankind {8 growing worse, »