The evening world. Newspaper, February 2, 1905, Page 14

by the Pross Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. “Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. MEANWHILE, MR. MAYOR? F ‘The Mayor of New York is the man “highest up.” He is primarily fesponsible for the 'inerticiency of the police force. He appointed Mr. Commissioner, He has the power of removal, Mr. McClellan admitted, in his letter'to the meeting at the Chamber ee “tration of 'the Police Department which demand “eradication.” If evi- showed that there were SEVENTY-FIVE CRIMES OF 'VIOLENCE Inthe city during January, against only nine in the same'month last year, > What are the Mayor and his Police Commissioner ‘doing to “eradi- “pate” the “serious evils” which! permit this carnival of crime? fia _ The Mayor sustains his Commissioner, and the Commissioner has ‘Constructed a wonderful and intricate plan for “reorganizing” the depart- nt. This plan the Mayor has sent to the Citizens’ Committee of Nine, left the responsibility for initiating reform with this voluntary body. This is adroit—and easy! But meanwhile, Mr, Mayor—while plans reorganization are in process of incubation—what are you going to for the better protection of the lives and property of citizens? Your ¢ Commissioner is calling for more power. Why do you not re- ¢ him to use the power he has? Hava you overlooked the fact that the Court of Appeals has just decided that the Commissioner of Police an dismiss from the force any of its members who is guilty of — Neglect of duly, violation of rules or neglect or disobecdence of orders, or without leave, or any conduct injurious to the public peace or welfare, or oral conduct or conduct unbecoming an officer, or any breach of discipline? "If your Police Commissioner either cannot or will not enforce disci- ¢ and safeguard the city with the ample power vested in him, is it high time that you found a Commissioner who can and will? The police situation, by. which your administration will stand or fall, ur fo you, Mr, Mayor, . ILL-FED SCHOOL CHILDREN, . There can be no doubt, however, that a great number have ftom poor and insufficient’ food, and that it is a mercy to feed {s another phase of the food question which the school authori- dtake up. In certain school buildings lunches are sold to the _In the neighborhood of neatly every school, at the noon hour, men and street lunch stands abound, Much of the sweet stuff h children pay their pennies is rankly unwholesome, if not pois- ‘Some of it is full of harmful coloring matter. Little of it is clean, ‘Ought to be some way by which this traffic can be stopped, and n can be assured wholesome food for their pennies. If tens of nds of pupils get too little to eat at home, many more thousands mitted to eat bad food at school. i aN |” WAGES AND THE WIFE, | the days ofthe forefathers, when the housewife not only did all ing, Washing, cleaning and mending, but also preserved and put food for the winter, spun the cloth for the family garments and ssmaker, seamstress and tailor, she undoubtedly earned as much ‘and it was cheaper for a man to live married than single, id of doing the household work herself, most modern married ‘Commerce, that there are “evils, and serious evils,” in the adminis- | e¢ were needed to prove this The World supplied it yesterday when | which {s not w it 3 of ¥e | It was not so in the days {ion Clib was at Twenty-fi | the d fork looked out | monument in Madison Sq) The ¢ | Jections of the old timers among the | Now York's members to being side tracked th Porty-tftu steeet are based on Inherited traditions of a club win dow's purposes eee Retween housemalds, butlers and Small bovs armed with pareytal ree volvers, the jot of the social high- Wayman is a happy one, Cec) Braft will find that much depends.on the man in the bex. see Possibility now of an Aldermanio hold-up for the New Jersey tunnel, If a sculptor is ever commissioned to execute a statue of an Alderman he will have no difficulty in determining his characteristic pose, eee Misa Ohumley—You waed to wish you were rich enough to keep @ servant girl, Mrs, Rising—Yes, and now 1 toish I was a0 rich I didn't have to, but vould live at- a hotel.— Philadelphia Press, 8 8 “The Henrietta” appears on the boards again, Has Bertle the Lamb cut this eye-teeth by now? Asa mine "The Henrietta’ must have become the Me- saba of dramas, . Chicago boasts that tt Is no moré smoky than the “great Eastern cities.” The New York smoke evil has come in for some hard raps but for nothing worse than this, 8 ‘The Western Mayor who wants to marry, but thinks he would set a bad official example because his bNde-to-be is consumptive, deserves a sympathy to which it would require a Gilbert to do justice, eee Shades of "Adirondack" Murray, 4 trollley line to Paul Smith's! Are trol- ley parties to trout pools to come next? The spoiling of the North Woods to make # park for the pot-hunter's week- end holiday 4s an act of profanation which makes a sportsman grieve, eee “Pa said he'd give mea good Wokin' /"" ‘Well, didn't he do it?” “Naw—he gave me the worst lickin’ I ever had!'—Cleveland Leader, es ¢ 8 The Ormond automobile races are attaining the unique distinction of smashing more records than machines. 7 . ried Newspaper accounts of the city's purchase of the Staten Island ferry service refer to the boats as a ‘‘fleet.'” Why not do the subjéct justice by calling them harbor greyhounds? ee Notice that it was a Vassar girl, ‘fastest sprinter in her class," who ran down a thief on Broadway, Yet here is a college president asking in the North American Review “Should Col- spire to wrestle with the servant problem, Other married women n freedom’ by going out to work, homic history shows that where the wife and the children work the husband the combined earnings of the whole family are in ger than were the earnings of the husband alone before cheap ‘depr the rate of wages. The only kind of productive work | wife can do without Inditectly competing with her husband and ftig: his wages is household work, which American women used to ba matter of course, but which now they seek to avold as the most ible of all employments, : WHAT NEXT IN ELECTRICITY? city's uses are widening, From wireless telegraphy it was only artificial lightning which will dispel fogs and bring on rain, Now f weray and the Finsen rays have been modified to produce electrical tlsh baths without a hot room or close atmosphere, The patient is and bathed in electric rays, which bring on a profuse perspiration, Phe chief claim to popularity of this form of bath is that it is more ly sobering than the old style of Turkish bath and that the effects of olism are speedily. removed. Maybe some other kind of electrical ray discovered which will give give exhilaration without the deleterious Of alcohol, Are the electrical cocktail and the Z-ray highball be- ken of our Edisons and Finsens? lobody has yet stepped forward to tell “at whose ‘expense and all the Tammany district leaders are “making comfortable for. through Mr. Murphy’s kindness, Fd ti puesbinieldestaialne snc nenase The Czar received a deputation of his “children,” the workingmen, day, and read to them a severe lecture on the “crime” of their thers whom his soldiers shot down on “bloody Sunday.” — If “soft pater No parsnips,” will hard words be accepted as a substitute ae he People’s Corner. etters from Evening World Readers vores and Intelligence. {faucet that fills the barrel in three nae of The Evening World: jhours fills 1-8 of It In one hour. ‘The estimable lady who made the | faucet that empties {i in 2 hours empties \V At that divorce shows that the 1-2 of it tn one hour, Hence 1-2 minus are becoming more Intelligent ac- | 1-3, or 1-6, 1s the loss each hour both Delloye so? And Js it likely that faucets are opened, consequently the lution of the “child labor” and barrel would be entirely drained in 6) m" problems lies in the restric. | hours, providing it was full at the ta rt of race propagation among the HH Let the principal benefictaries of BGA ayeiero, who may alec’ bel Plea for Croan Seats, of children under age, obey | 7 the Editor of The Evening win this latter iaareot ca ther 1 would Ike to reply’ to fit in many cases in the for-| "22 Complains that people NG the workinaman will bo hatter S20WAV tana in hopes of getiing cross ido cate for his family, |#oats, No alde seat for mine; with the PROLETARIAT, | 8°! 80 desp my fuet stick out straight; j and draughts down my back, No! Mr. | Growler, not If 1 can help it, and I Wenerally cat, Theso growlevs are usu- Ally mon who make @ spread eagle’ of | thonwolven over two seats, alt elde- | ways at an angle of 45 ees, He ed by eee el epahy saya there are seats for all, What's| yj eh Jong will tt take Frere the matter, then? Did he want a cross. Unde ie iil Meee feat, too? Pr mave them cutouts Bening World; to the Faucet . ‘A barrel te filled Mm @ faucet in three hours, and is \ owler," | In rush Into |} day feels it no disgrace to ‘come off’ sober,"” And Lord Charles Beresford notes that jack tars don't swear as they used to, eo 8 He--May 1 tender you some chicken? She—1 wish you would, I's too tough to eat the way it is,—Louis- ville Courier Journal sone Who wore the first pair of gloves? Redfern, tn ew Royal and Historic Gloves and Shoes," averlbes the distine- | ton to Jacob, on whose hands Rebecea, order to secure the birthright for At aking ao that ints father, Isaac, not ognize the young rom lege Students Study?’ Greek is not all in the higher education, f eo ee ‘Two distinguished guests conspicvous by their absence from the Hyde jete were Brer Terrapin and Mme, Canv,s- back. Is soclety going in for the simp” life or merely turning its back on «id favorites? eee 5 The Russian word for Senate is “Pra- viteletvuyushchy,’ Even the language seems opposed to popular government, oe 8 Patience—Did you ever get a kiss by telephone? Patrice—Oh, yea! It's Uke hav- ing @ dollar in your mind.— Yonkers Statesman, * 8 8 President Spencer, of the Southern Rallway, 1s entirely opposed to railroad rebates—''they are wrong and must be stopped,’ But as to special rates to get business—why that, of course, is dif- ferent! It is well to have the public dis-' abused of this misconception in the matter by a conscientious railway man, oe 8 Shall the blue pencil of the school book editor be permitted to tamper with ‘The Star-Spangled: Banner?” Its ravages among church hymns may be winked at, ut not the emasculation of 4 national anthem, eee “If we choose to be no more than clods of clay, then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on,” says Marte Corelli, The saying {a worth a second reading. o 8 6 “There was a day,” says the Pall Mall Gazette, ‘when a sailor who would neither get drunk nor #ham drunk when ashore was considered very bad form indeed, ‘The fashion has changed, and the satlor man of to- the elder of the sons Hen enthusiasts and egg specialists will not fall to note that the glgantic Premier dlamond has the true ovold shape. + 6 « Dr, Wiillam Henry tells the world that “nature encourages a taste for alcohol in all forms of animal life’ and that “fishes aro the only real teo- onthe Side i HB project of the New York Club | to move Into a side streat mirks | A paseing of the club window nterest. 18 The Nine who are to knock out police THESE’ L BE THE Keys. T a Obey the call of the esting, But one can’t to be called upon to Womanly Woman," wére created to live home, otherwise the Knew the call of the coukl make it, and conclude that there are nelther wise nor have thelr parallels woman really seems woman—indeed, tlie o Study yesterday Mrs, 8, M, Cory] never do, elted the Bernard Shaw play of "You | Never Can Tell" as vor, of the domestic jinstincts of woman, our protestations, Wj all our new woman- cola Gragieyamift, ism," she declared, now as in our grandmothers’ day. We All of which 1s more true than inter- of all people Bernard Shaw Is the last devotes the best chapter of his “Quint- essence of Isbenlam,” that on “The} clubdom, that chapter he tells us that it Js no more reasonable to assume that every woman {s happily domestic just because domesticity seems her inevitable des- tiny than it is to conclude that parrots call attention to “Pretty Polly" and “Pretty Polly's" need of a cracker just because we usually see them that way. Before “Polly” felt the call of the a jungle liberty wide as her wings parrot In whose little noddle the mem- ory of this vaster horizon may now and then obsoure the gilded glory, Of course, parrots of tnis description Every woman should, of course, culti- vate domesticity. For But the fact remains that there are a pale owe wv wd PAPAS | OFFICE By Nixola Greeley-Smith, A T a meeting of great ‘many women who have never ‘we are the same Nome.” to denying it. In in a gilt cage and gilded cage, she forest, the Joy of it 1s only fair to is an occasional happy, But they among women, the domestic to be the happlest nly happy woman. Little Willie . If I boro a de the banks, Washinten standing steps looking with a ’ Guide to New York. NO. V.—WALL STREET, Wanl styeat Is habltatted by peeple who malk money and by preple who looae mumny and by tommas lausen no- wether lausen malks or loozes munny tnalr, In daze of yoar peeple cod loore all the munny they edlon| streat and nobody minded but] man that loozos cals {t frenzied | boro {t of wants it bak and { tel him ad man got me to sine away my In-| tin it and then ! gly my kreddiver the laff and go to yurrup on the doler | ind he rites $t up that's frengid fnans| waul streat Is bownded on the west by | a chereh and on the eest by a rand! betweaa th is various shaidy littel ls wh fokex spend thair loosure'| owns fishin fer sukkers while thair| more humain nabers utillzes the poola| for watterIng thair poor thersty stok {t ts a silven seen and now and then! the fams may be soan frisking along ‘Thare {@ a fino statu of | nashul ettty bank, 4. P, TERHUND it is Jus) Her and the man t on the subtreshry paned face at tho Soleletelobtelelaollelolostellellsiaoliateisiatelelatelels ; Mary Jane and Pop’s Typewriter wo ‘ Looks at the Soclety| felt what Mrs, Cory referred to as the for Pollthial| call of the home, it marry; others who feel it strongly And unhappiness seems in both Instances the Inevitable result. Possibly the woman lacking In the home Instinct ouglit to be placed in the in argument In fa! freak class wity persons born with various physical pecullarities that dif- ferentiate them from thelr kind, Like “Underlying 11) them, she deserves our pity. But there 1a no use In denying her existence, She {s certainly with us, and her tribe seems to be Increasing every day. Philosophers and social economists may consider her case without knowing what to make of It, there are ambitlous authors of papers help thinking that) written with one eye on the encyclo- pedia and the other on a new bonnet, prove it, since he} the problem she involves ean be solved weekly to the satisfaction of feminine Sanna Bird Language. She and Kickums See [t and Invent a Home=Made Article of Their Own. THIS 1S} How ir [ WORKS: he Woman of Destiny.,|Mrs. Nagg and Mr ot [Orn MMT fee ne «oe. By Roy L, McCardell..., E might as/ how she quffered and how doctors aid} “bout be} her no good, Some who never feel But so long as young gorilla!’ “W Mr, Nageg, as we go through this That la the reason Tam always happy and gay, day, foel like as if some one over my grave, "Oh, 4 is all very well for you to aay Roy L. McCardell xonsenso!’ att tell you there is always something in sighs and omens, If you will remember my Aunt Emma, who suffered eo long from asthma that you could hear her for a block the way ehe wheesed, and she always used to insist on going everywhere, hecaude she liked the com- pany of young people especially, and whenever you used to come to see me, don't you remember Aunt Emma used to coma and sit in the parlor and com- plain aheerfully by the hour, to make you nervous wheeze, but sho rather liked you, and she always used to say after you had wone: ‘That young man looks like @ Oh, yes, Aunt Emma was the eoul of frankness, She always used to say, just as I am telling you: ‘That young man looks Uke a gorilla, but he ts not 60 bad, only he hasn't any sense,’ And yet you never liked Aunt Emma, and you used to get 80 angry when whe would come In the parlor and sit by the hour and tell ws nude truth, her mouth shut. blow hia own horn, partner that talks, ting down now." | what he wanted, Pointed Paragraphs. Poorly dressed lies are as bad as the No woman ever starved from keeping ‘The man who wants {t well done must It Is perhaps the money of the silent | Many a girl who ts proud of her big hat Is ashamed of her big shoes. | At the marriage altar a man imagines oy [he Js getting what he wante, but later + how is the weather up there?” | je js apt to discover he didn't know Lucky for Franklin. Willie—Say, grandpa, did Franklin write an autoblography? Grandpa~No, Willie, there were no autos ip his day, cai Alle UUM Panos Mai le wat he aA AAA dala. ial MIE dice Bb gli PO es iy Asa Womep PPRFIDIOUS modiete hee jumt revealed the aeoret of Maxine Ble Hott's young back—thut ‘and bendable back which preserves ite unimpeachable waist line in the face of COME ON, KICKUMS, LETS insinuating avolrdupols with an air of persistent youth, ‘The true Inwardness of the marvel 1s the absence of lacing up the spine, The corset fite like # Jacket in the back, 1s long over the hips and Inces on etther side in front, The result is the smooth and uncorrugeced t outline, which retains the away with the stny, so to speak, The young bavk is verily a possession greater than | riches, fi oe 8 .| Mrs, Lillie Devereux Blake, writer, |speaker and worker in the cause of |woman's rights for whirty-odd years; Jacks one essential for the, ballot, She is no judge of human nature, Worse, she cannot tell a well-established ‘jag’ when sie sees one, This war exeme plified when Mrs, Blake, Ungering in Stuyvesant Park one day recently, wae approached by a shabbily dressed man, ‘who made a profound bow and en- trented her in moving accents to take compassion on a fellow-creature * direst ‘need, He represented himself as) @ viotim of untold misfortune, his fame ily starving, and, leaning heavily upon @ bench—overcome, as hia sympathetie’ lstenor believed, with grief—rounded out his pathetic tale with artistic detail, Mrs, Blake opened her pocketbook and, greatly touched, pressed @ gener ous contribution into his hand, ‘The “victim,” now grown Iachrymore, made i the “kind lady" another profound bom, / and in seeking to recover himeelt would have fallen into the gutter had not @ nearby policeman caught the wavering figure, clubbed it into uprightness and made off with # down the walk. “He was quite drunk," sald the astounded Mrs, Blake; “and I only thought bir emotional|"" i ee Does a ghost persist after the bufla ing which it tenanted has by another? ae ‘This te the question which ts interests Ing not only those interested in pey- chical researoh, but the greater ma+ jority who hug imaginative terrors to their soul and covet the deliclousty agonizing thrills that travel up ang down the spine, For this is a ghost that has manifested itself to many with an engaging charm, that has wos to it countless admirers, and gone out into emptiness leaving an atmosphere of tragedy in its wake. It was the Particular attachment of the old-fash- foned apartment-housé, which etood immediately back of the Villard house on Hast Fifteenth street, That apart, ment ‘house, No, 43, and the others be side it, are now being replaced by . dwelling houses, and whether or not ; the gentle little ghost hae been lad or will return to dree its weird on the site of its former habitation is the point on which experts differ, The ghost is nothing more nor lees "| than @ little gray cat, scarcely beyond kittemhood—a creature all grace and | It had no stated times of MAKE A TYPE-WRITER~ T_sAw one! where people were reading or resting (always when there was no nolse), fit quietly and when some one Stooped to touch it would run to the "You are just the same this day, No| S@curely fastened door or a panel in matter how I tell you what misery 1| the woodwork and fade-literally tage undergo, and how the medicine 1 am | {fom sight, t taking is drying up my blood, you never| The little ghost's stamping-ground seem to feel one bit of pity for me, and| WA9 @ dining-room on the thint floon yet when you were sick with the grip| Every tenant in turn complainefl of last week I eat up for hours making | this strange, uncanny apparition thas mustard plasters tor you, and you only | 80 gullclessly invited affection and dis~ fought like a demon against keeping | appeared the instant it was offered. ‘them on and complained that they took | One of its most curious encounters wae the ekin off your chest, If you only| with a dog searcely beyond his puppy, suffered like I suffer with euch a teeri-| days, The little cat, as usual, etrayed (le feeling I can't desortbe it, but it {sin and the pup, with @ bound, sprang terrible, and eince I was a child I have| toward it. Up went the @ray fur, the had a horror of lockjaw, and when IJ tail swelled and the feline ghost gave ab my hand aed a Gal of ear dlins all the signs of material wrath, But you never expressed one of sorrow, | when the dog gave chase the cat dashed Pat eee Miko a savage brute because | across the room to the closed door and aad used your ragor, I don’t eee Why | raded, leaving a bewildered and uncom you should act go, bat you do, When I rehending dog howling his Crib The sy You that I might get lockjaw, you hota, was sourced $0 ho aval said: ‘I wish you had it now, and 1| % i a8 sloop. ish your mother had It, too!’ Ob, Mr, | 4,Gf the Gining-room was « small el Nagg, I wit never forgive you for those | that room testified to strange 1 stranger feelings. None was able hours Thlessrtt gree ool cai bne ge tO rent well, and at least one woman tt she hed constantly thi and yet all you sald to me was that I! gansation of being choked chroughout insisted that should go to bed. ‘That's all you cared, | the night ahe spent there, “ Many a sleepless night I have passed on —— a, ‘ your account, You are out until all Urgent, hours, and I am expected to put up with {t, You come ‘home late to your meaty, You storm end rage because your Jaun- dry Is not back, Is tt my fault that it stonmed and the laundry didn’t bring your things? And, anyway, I was out when the man called for them end they ‘were not sent, and that's how It goes! “If I was a Russtan ert I could not be treated worse, Take @ revolver and stab me, if your mind és made up to do {t, out do not groan at me, Mr, Nage! "In my happy ¢irihood home tn Brook lyn I was never groaned at, My poor papa, who has gone to his reward, never groaned, except when he had headaches In the morning and was feverish and drank large quantities of fee water, He was kept out late because he was in politics and he used to groan in the mornings, But you only groan when I epeak, You haven't groaned, you say?| Tab—Whither bound, Thomas? Well, T would tike to see you! You just| Tommy—Oh, I have an dare to groan at me, Mr, Nagg! You| with Widow Jones's new camarg Just dare do it!" door, ‘ The ‘‘Fudge” Idiotorial Let Us All A Battle Creek food enthustasty Insists that the only way to live Eat [ore Pie. ff to be older than you are fs tos || (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) EAT FRAPPED SAWDUST, Cold sawdust, he declares, will satisfy when NOTHING else-cané be had, | This Is probably TRUE, But cold sawdust provides no FOOD» for the MIND! It may do very well for STUFFING a/FIGURE! What the MIND wants Is PIE! ; _ Ple has been the food of the common people ever since tt-wagy \Invented by Henry VIII. | Ple ils COMPARATIVELY MODERN therefore. Emerson ATE | PIE FOR BREAKFAST. Edgar Allan Poe had It with him tn his. > | |DREAMS. Ple kept Thomas Carlyle awake; It bred the BEST’! | THOUGHTS in Thoreau. If MORE people ate ple thelr INTELLECTS would become pied tl If Russia had Ple she would soon be a FREB NATION