The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1905, Page 10

N fo find fault with the city’s public school system. But the “fads” are not the whole thing. h are, ‘after all, older than reading, writing or arithmetic. you will encourage voluntary self-improvement, A Rapacious Trust, of the blizzard’ on Wednesday. Inited States and saw a chance to “pinch” the market, Syadoey ned Roosevelt. New Shopping Centre. jf ot class who individually spend more, wl p85 credit and consumes staple goods, Diet Fixed by Law. with her dinner, and coffee and milk, “1 Mow 014 I» Ann in 19067 Billtor of The Bvening World: Fou remember Ann, don't you? I het yesterday and hir sister, Mary, “Well, how old: te Ann now?" 1 ted her, "I was teen years old I saw you last," ehe said, “and HET then had’ been as old as I am now, T would have been twice as old as I Whe when I was nine vears, nine fmontha and nine days younger than I m now." Readers can probably help ‘out. BISON, A Theatre for the People, WAltor of The Evening World: furnishing free parks, recreatlon- &c,, municipalities have done BCH to provide for reut for tire” bodies, ttle hus been done to supply the of mental relaxation, entre so populous as Now York, d seom to be practicable to con- not for the State, would soon srow to vilal force in our civic which, is the best age for a woman? yore, many men married Now they marry later, was better, aud why? “Too much faddism,” is the cry of the new crop of crilics. the children,” they ask, “be taught light gymnastics, singing, sew- jeooking and drawing, instead of the good old ‘three R's?” The children are taught things in addition to the three R’s, and the schools are that much Interesting and useful to them because of these “new-fangled ideas,” Yong run this fs not’ the most profitable trade. The ‘been most successful and who have amassed the greatest for- not make their fortunes from the carriage trade or on Fifth ut from the purchases of the average New Yorker, who is better 4. Te Evectns World's. a Said ontheSide|: A by tho Prose Publishing Company, No, 6 (o 63 Park Now, Now York Entered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Class Mal Matter, ©. 16,808. ‘The trouble with these ‘people is that they do not stop to think that Wverage child of average parents is not destined to go through high and then through college, and then through some professional The pubsic school system is designed for average children, most of them require is as all-around an education as can be ded into their primary school years, After that they must learn by ation, experience and random reading. The main thing is to ex- ‘their interest in as'many subjects as possible, to widen their horizon. fe them only the three R’s and! you leave them in the ruts of dulness. igh fen the'drudgery of the schools for pupils by making them attractive > After all, it is not what a child learns by rote but'what sets his brains | fingers to work on their own account that 'benefits him most. nthe memory is not education, The ideal system “puts the whole 10 scliool.” It instructs his eye, his ear, his hand, his judgment, World showed on Saturday how the Beef Trust raised the le price of beef, and of all other meat, on “the very first day and Trust did this although there was no shortage in the supply and ¢ in the demand. In fact, the receipts of cattle, of hogs and of ed beef had been unusually liberal. It just raised the price be- it could—hecause it has a practical monopoly of the meat supply this is the Trust that was “enjoined” by the Federal courts a more ago. It isthe Trust whose illegal and oppressive operations the subject of no end of talk—talk—talk—in the courts and in of the President’s Commissioner. Is the talk ever to be fol- action? “Words are good only when backed by deeds,” once Claflin, Altman and Tiffany building new shops on Fifth ave- character of property on that part of Murray Hill will be estab-| man #95, Some New York police magie- years to come, It will be a shopping centre for the carriage the mass of people who taken collectively buy the most, but | subway. Breat department stores in New York lose tess on their credits @ larger volume of business at less expense, except for rent, other city, The one price, free samples, unlmited exchange | che attt! small voice first heard between t New York stores has its counterpart nowhere else on such Alfred Rowe testified in the Harlem .Court that she had lived ir on'45 cents’ worth of food a day. Not only had she exw} Oct. 18 12. f that, but she also fed ther baby. When the child became two} athe making of new she’ applied to her husband for an additional allowance, which} A Third avenue drugeist ; Then she went to court, and the Magistrate ordered that oe be increased to 75 cents, and decided that a wife is} keeper. ‘meat twice a day, oysters or fish on Friday, two kinds of] «aan before everything ts a vain d hardly seem possible that'a woman and'a baby can livg| ornament, ‘Nothing is no necessary to a day, but Mrs. Rowe and her child showed /no signs of Without knowing much about sclentific diet, Mrs, Rowe |1ucuries are ornaments, ‘They give him d'out a fairly balanced dally ration of oatmeal, condensed bread and soup bone. The oatmeal, bread, milk four cents a day, The soup meat. cost over half the total, addition of fruit and fresh vegetables and fish ‘to this ‘diet it’ more healthful than the “course dinners” served ‘at any ‘expensive restaurant, Mrs, Rowe’s year's experience is most in. Staten Island Rapid Transit Company was notified two weeks uit the license of the ferry-boat Middletown did not permit its use 6 forms in the bay.” The Middletown is making. regular trips pharbor is full of ice, Has Secretary Metcalf no way of enforcing ) When one company can establish a telephone service from New to San Francisco it ought to be possible to treat Manhattan and Byen the burglars find the city so unsafe that they are going armed, rhe People’s Corner. tters from Evening World Readers broblem: {8 one for Individual initiative, By multiplying many-fold the patrons of the drama, the influence of the theatre would be- ecme much greater than It 1s now—it @ popoular ELMER H, YOUNGMAN, What's (Marringonble Aget” To the Editor of ‘The Evening World: Will readers discuss the ensuing topic, by the way, !8 not offered In | Joke, but in desire for knowledge; What Ifo permitting) for @ man to marry? In olden times, married ut fifteen or sixteen, girl of thirty 8 no longer an old matd nor out of the matrimonal market. twenty Which system Please discuss this, dear tvaders, and give reasons. “Why aie ih ane ONDITIO: of clty traction havo C been changed pretty radically when the tying up for three daya of 8o Important a trolley line as that on the Broadway Boulevard occasions only mirtaful remarks [natead of commiaints, The chante {9 nificant of the new of things which has come with the Subwuy, if the useful surface Hines which ren ind jg not entirely Kone, 1 has certainly been impaired to a polnt Whloh must make directors cogitate, oe It 1s well to have policemen shoot straight, But how avout a Lette more practice in sighting the footpads and buralarg they are to make targets of? el with going to war over it, .1t 4s improbable that st will become a crown jewel, for monarchs are chary of such spectacular {investments in the present temper of thelr subjects, Unless some oll or coal king buys tt, the diamond seems des- tined to a prosaic existence in the com: Pany's yaulsa, A question affecting its Gisposal is the right of the Transvaal Government to 60 per cent, of the profits of the Premier mine, in which it was found, . “Smith and Jones tcere both dis- appointed in love, ond by the same (ooman,”” “I know it; Jones married her and Smith didn't."—fort Worth Record, To eee ‘With automobdiles climbing the Andes the glory of the man with the alpen- stock Is going, if not alneady gone. How soon shall we have a half-tone pic- ture of a touring-car perched on the Matterhorn? The three-hundredth anniversary of {n course of celebration, At the timo Cervantes wrote this master-work he Was “an unsuccessful hack writer of fifty-eight.” Defoe was fifty-elght when he wrote “Robinson Cy ‘thought Js consoling in super-abundance of youthful prodigies, Ceca Old-timer recalls that “a little moi than forty vears ago It took his fath one week in January to go from York to Albany; now the trip can marie in three hours." Some persons doubt whether it has profited the city to have the capital brought so near, oe Dress train from Chernjaevo to Tas! kent was requested’ by a fellow-passen- wer to put out his cigar, as the com- partment was mot for smokers, As he refused to do so the passenger, who robes, and, putting them on, fined the eee 11) JRC only married you to apite Tom Brown, Husbend—I'm glad to know it. 1 was under the impression it was beowuse you had a grudge against me—Detroit Tribune, 3 . se . Tt will soon be possible for those pos- sessing the price to telephone from Bos- ton to San Francleco, It has taken neighbos New England towns a tri- fle more than a quarter of a century to crpes the continent, The fitst practica- ble long-distance telephone line desery- ing the name was opened between New York and Philadelphia in 1885, The Chi- cago circult, 960 miles in distance, but traversing 1900 miles of wire, was opened . . records continues, fs proud of the fact that he has been ‘burglarized’ oftener than any other New York etore- animal,” says the London Satuniay w, ‘'He'loves show, decoration, him as luxuries; it is to get luxuries that he begins to work; and his pet consequence among his fellows and he loves to see his family arrayed in what everybody else covets because it adds to his importance,” ose ‘Tho Uiinols legislator who Wants the charge for sleeping car berths fixed per hundred miles seems to) have a Mills Hotel Pullman in mind, oe Crawford—Did your wife have a good time in the country? Crabshaw--No. The only thing that reconciled her was the thought that she stayed away two weeks longer than the tooman newt door, —Town Topics. ° . ° ‘An Indlana man regrets that he did not swap his %0 pony for ofl stook now worth $1,000, Chicago man whose $1,000,000 of mining stock 1s inventoried at $10 wishes he hadn't. eee “Primeval man spoke truth,” says have the wit to prevaricate, man recognizos that truth ts tale, deavor, with the mest ben motives, to disguise truth,” eee According to W. B, Curtis, writing In the Chicago Record-Herald, it 18 une of the current stories !n London and Co- ponhagen that if the Czaring had not hud an earache there no war with Japan, She, of ail the court, was most urgent in advocating an amicable settlement of the questions In controversy but about the time thoy (financlal conditloas reaching the crisis an abscess ts | fathered in ono of her eura, which was ’ } not omy Intensely painful, but made 4. Br8 | ovessary for her to go to bed and re- Now a| main under the doctor's care for wey- eral weeks. uncles and members of the Ministry uncles and members uf the ministry, refused (o notice Japan's ultimatum and thus precipitated hostilities, «8 8 ot one, as of the] 4 . A man who was travelling by an ex-] - was & judge, took from his bag his} p trate might earn the thanks of the com-| I munity by taking the Up for use in the} ji a British philosopher, "because he didn't He carod not forthe feelings of others, Clvilizeq an error o¢ Polite prople, with the polished manners of to-day, successfully en-| lent off uld have been In the mean time the Czar, Sebetelebtoleler tele! hWoman’s VERY the publication of “Don Quixote’ ts still | 4 toh | DON'T Frey SoME OF Docy SCHMEDDLER’S CURE febofealelahabaiotnia tober rato Fir GOOD, CEr ALLY ‘Rven ing, Janv 80, 19057 soletoletelieinivielel sioleitatets st Thought Is Man. vy Morning, Noon or Night—Whenever There is Trouble—She Gives Him the Biggest Share of It. Yi HURRY} WHAT MADE 9U SLEEP $0 LATE? ielotolelololoieletlelelelololemteeloteiolototolelototas eo Do Wome CHICAGO tel- A ephone girl, testifying In a sult which she brought against a fi man ¢or swearing at wor over the wire, made the re- markable statement last week that for strong and pictur> esque profanity the ] Chicago men are not in it with the qeclety ‘women of Kenwood, the fash- fonable suburb of the Windy City. ‘The telephone gir! certainly has gupe- rior advantages ‘of people, And in the matter of ewear- Ing ahe ougtt to know hat she is talk- ing about. It may be assumed therefore that theme is at least some slight foun- laation for her statement, which suggeste the inquiry as to whether or not East- em women are with thelr Chicago sia- ters in thelr assumption of the last mas- cutine prerogative of profanity, Candor compels the admission that they are, and {t must be granted further ‘that they have not the name excuse, since they do not live in Chicago; or, to put it mone diplomatically, since they do live in New York, If a modern Lot were to arise in New York amd declare that the city’s salva- tion depended on the discovery of ten women under forty who had not at some time or other conjugated the verb which ooneigns everything one dislikes torolbly to. more or less unpleasant eternity—at Jeast in one of ite minor forma—he might have to take the first ferry to Hoboken and leave us to our doom, Of course, in the majority of cases our Pathos to Order, ORD BRAMPTON tells how once, L while he was plain John Haw- Joins, he defended a man for wife murder, The "s two children, dressed in black and sobbing violently, were in oourt, and thelr grief and tho lawyer's eloquent peech combined to acquit the detendant, That evening at dinner he met an old Inhabitant of the neighborhood, who complimented him upon his speech, ‘However,’ the old inhabitant added, "1 think thet If you had seen what I did when driving the prisoner's cottage laet week would not have painted the home in such glowing colora, The Uttle chil- dren who sobbed po violently in court this morning and to whom you made suoh pathetic reference were playing on an ash heap near Fas cone Oe had a poor cat with a string aa {te neck, swinging It backwar and forward, As they did #o they san “This ts the way poor daddy will ry r daddy will go This to the Wawkins, was. thelr “ox. foit hearing the worst) shou n Swear? By Nixola Greeley-Smith. anathemas are merely muttered. But they count just the same, Nevertheless, putting aside all ques- ‘lon of swearing, considered as the more or lesa vulgar non-necessity which it un-| doubtedly is, there are other reasons, wholly aesthetic, why women should re- frain from it save tn exceptional cases, They haven't the phywical force to make an oath carry, . There are perhaps masculine feelings to which only the swearing of a good vound oath may give adequate expres- sion. But these require a good round delivery to give them dignity, for noth- Lady urtbed less respect than a feeble oath, Of course, women ought not to swear; profitable direction, = bod He Found the Mrs. Nagg and Mr.» «.e. By Roy L. McCardell.... “ss KNOW what I I say doesn't interest you, Mr, Nagg, and that is the reason I alt agent and @exiom speak, I know it would be better for ne if I were one of those women who are a thorn In thelr husband's side, and who are always ia Roy L. McCardell scolding and finding fault, But, no, un- happy as my tot 1s, I cannot change my sunny, optimistic disposition, and would not if I could, That !s the rea~ son you Impose on me, Mr, Nagg. You can say to yourself, ‘Well, no matter what I do or how I act, my wife will bear with it in silence.’ Sliding Place. “Ah, here dt is!!!" allding pond T'll spoil tt for them!" Wise Don'ts for N save themselves from being fined or broke and will earn ewift and ng and obeying the ensuing ‘Don’ts'': DON'T imagine your captain te in “arvest all violators of the Liquor ‘Tax law," less you are anxious for a change for the worse in your beat, cal pull, DUN'T be surprised if (in cage you falsely accused by your roundemen and {f the Commissloner fines you without DON'T try to close up saloons on Sun- day nor to arrest thelr proprietora—un- “Blame those boys, If I find their EWLY appointed patrolmen will steady promotion by rigorously learn: earnest when he orders the squad to DON'T obey the foregoing order, un- DON'T arrest a man who has @ po- have made such an arrest) you aro letting you prove your innocence, less you get a tp from the wardman, New Policemen. DON'T make a written report of any gambling place ov other disorderly re- sorts on your beat. The captain knows about them, Your report will get him into troubie, and he will not fall to re~ turn the courtesy by getting you into Worse troubie. DON'T expect the clevorest man to get the fat plain-clothes job, The man with the pull wants ft. WON'T fall to Join the eight politicar club, DON'T kick when the club "shakes you down" for the periodical "assess- ment,” DON'T forget to look the other way when you pass the vpen doors of places on your beat that the law ought to close, DON'T feel degraded and lacking in |nelf-respect when you find that you |nave become a part of a system that Hives off crime and that breaks ts oath by refusing to suppress vice, Little Innocents, theatre that should be Iiteraily' I uin a girl of vightaen, 0 ‘ : “ng theatre, where the prices young to Arey E ath, intendet ie The new member of the Stock Bx-Huy dot dog for n bird dog, Dot dog ? , twenty; but he makes $27 a week, ao[change who began in a broker's office tis unly a trick dog, Every time 1 raise no higher than fifty conts ly the iy ; owmt0. 440 eile, The way SS ‘stands in our} “washing” ink wells started in at the BLL Mays place to learn whe rppem dot «un ty shoot he jumps over dot barrel, y “gay, Dmmle, If yer had et codfish Dotcor—Yes, tg) dey bat yer malas Aton me ibid’! A Sure Cure, Jones—Can you tell me how I can get nd of that pain In my chest and that awful tired feeling? Caine, ba Wane QQ eIsN.pob00 Have your wife take a “Why don't you go to some of the afternoon affairs’ with me? Why don't you be A Modern Mother? Mr. Smig and Mr, Ladyfinger are both honorary Mod- em Mothers, It is so nice to see men take an Interest in higher {deals, Of course, I can't attend every meeting Uke the rest of the Modern Mothers do, because I have children and they haven't, But it {6 @0 pleasant to go there and hear discussions as to how 1 the may be made happy and the | family tle strengthened by love and for- | Dearance, “And the way these women eling elurs at each other! It is something awful, Of course, I always epeak well of every one, but Iam not golng to take any of thelr digs, and I give them as good as they send, “Mr, Smig and Mr, Ladyfinger are ‘that jealous of each other, too. Yes- terday Mr. Smig brushed against Mr. Ladyfinger and crushed his violets, Me, Ladyfinger was furious, and he picked "Up Mrs. Terwiliger's squirrel-skin mult and tried to braln Mr, Smig with tt. |Mr. Smig got behind Mrs, Stryver, (but he was as bold as a lion and wo ull wem sure he was going to slap Mr. |Ladyfinger. Oh, it was terrible, and they looked real grand and herolc, and some of the ladies screamed and sey- eral of them fainted, but no one paid j*ny attention to them, “Now there {s |A dreadful feud between them, and T would like you to come to the next ineeting to reason with them if they Grow violent, If you would come a lot of times you might be made an hon- orary Modern Mother, too. You won't? “Tt all brings me back to what I was gcing to say that everybody 1s happy in this world but me, Look at all the money tho Dilgera’ have and none of the Dilger boya will do a stroke of work, and all they think of ts having a good tmoe, “It Brother Willie was lke that you might have some occasion to find fault, but the poor boy ts always looking for work, There !s something wrong with his eyes, That's the reason he Is stlll looking for work. His friends {n the Jolly Patlbearers are the nicest sort of young men, “Wihy do you dislike the Joly Pall- bearers so? Some of them were here the night before we missed your watch and gold cuff buttons, and they admired them very much, Brother Willie thinks thay may have been carried out in the ashes by mistake, If you had only sifted the ashes you might have found them; so, ff they are gone, it Is all your fault. Wihy do you look at me like that? Can't we ever have a pleas- ant chat together but what you display your eavage disposition?” | Why Home Is Dull. (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) ‘hls days. We THINK we KNOW WHY nim what we THINK. It Is dull.in his housshold COME HOME FROM HER CLUB, She Is away reading a paper entitled “WHY BABY CRIES 4“ SEB,” said the Cigar Store | | Man, “that Dave Buokiia and ‘Honest John’ Kelly i trim the suckers, but they are always The Man 3 Higher Up. By Martin Green. al went into the Montreal “@ Boston laundry game and got bounced good and plenty.” f “They ought to be ashamed of themselves,” asserted The Man Highe | er Up. “For a respectable Tender- loin gambler, on speaking terms with the District-Attorney, to go into Wall — street Js like Richard Mansfield golug into voadveel and doing his three. @ day. “When Kelly and Bucklin ram gambling-houses they gave thelr suckers a run for thelr money, Their customers were not afraid of getting whipsawed. All they wanted was their percentage, which was contine uous and voluminous, “In Wall street it is different. The outelder hasn't a Chinamen’s chanes, Not only do the manipulators seek to framing up svhemes to do each other. Bucklin and Kelly were supposed to be wise, but in the hands of the bunch that handled the Montreal & Boston game their names were Reus ben and Hiram respectively, "They were played for come-ons, Ag members of the underwriting syndi- cate they were assessed twice, and their experience in high finance now stands them 4,000 bucks epiece. The other mombers of the syndicate were set back for one assessment apleca, Consequently the wise Tenderloin © gamblers were singled out as soft ! marks. “Buch occurrences as this are likely to have a deteriorating effect in our most select gambling circles, It is possible that when our Tendertoin gamblers discover how easy it is to get away with a sure thing, they will disvard their policy of giving a man a slight chance to win against a big chance to loge and pass up the wine ning chance altogether. It will be a ead day when the corrupting influ- ence of Wall street penetrates above the dead line and transforma our honest and gentlemanly faro dealers, lookouts, roulette spinners and banke ers into big mitt men.” “But gamblers are oatracised, while our leading social and financial lights operate {n Wall street,” protested the Cigar Store Man, “Bure,” answered The Man High er Up. “A gambler {9 @ man who conducts or plays in a game cf chance, This definition doesn’t epply within sound of the bells of Triniy Cherch,” Little Willie’s Guide to New York. 11.—Broadway. RODWAY Js cald the gret wite B way but our minnister gals tt te offen the way of the transgresser and It is a plaice lined with sepperating masheens that sepperalt a man from his pay Poppa sed po, Brodway is bownded on the noarth by 8 P, M. on the sowth by @ good ¢hme on the eest by dawn and on the west by the moarning after and it ofere manny pleczing temptayshuns to thoase whoo have the strength to yeeld graise- fuly to them, And our minnister says once a man who nevver saw hia oan itty of Nu Yoark by daiiite dide and when he opend his Jes in the uthher wurlk the verry firet thing he wed was Hevin isn't so verry difrnt from Brod- way and the Ingell sed youv etruck © the rong platce this is I wont say whalr the alngel sod it was for boys whoe use thons words go thar, Mater cannfeeld and uthher kind Jens tlemen try to mask Brodway and tts naberhood poppuler with the yung pee- ple and when Mister cannfeeld stopt living neer Brodway one yung man was so sad he wudnt etay in Nu yoark a all but he went to live in nupoart, and Poppa says manny men wuddent ever go hoam from thair offisses at all if {t wuazent that Brodway lies in that direxion sometimes Poppa leevs hf offis at for p M and dusgent get home tH 4 A m bocaws ft talks him all thet | time to find his way out of Brodway, Home Is siveet but moast men outgro thalr talst for sweets by the time thay are oald enuff to exploar Brodway, A. P, TERHUN®. The ‘‘Fudge”’ Idiotorial Brooklyn parent walting patiently beside hls baby carrlage for 'SOMETHING TO HAPPEN that will shine up the dulness of “Papa” writes us from a Brook- lyn address which we KINDLY CONCEAL to ask how he can BRIGHTEN UP HIS HOME, It ls ALWAYS DULL, he says, We sympathize with this lonely he finds It dull, We will TELL BECAUSE MAMMA HAS NOT FOR ME" at the weekly meeting of the Happy Hens, SION she Is TRYING to make, She Is not REALLY thinking of Baby, but of the IMPRES- POOR PAPA! No wonder he finds tt dull! Te ee - Um MMS LS iad)