The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1905, Page 8

AB. iserresscoors fuilate such a fortune? numbed by the cold. , inist‘acbident liability. f. cti ina! m™ ‘Thé Evening World: mah's surname 18 ia, he sutname, Olgar Problem, of The Evening World: hould get $100 to buy 100 of them at $10 each, some some 50 cents each, how would you buy of each make vp 100 cigars, the amount more or less than MW. ‘not bel i ‘Hubway Smokers. jMAltor of The Evening World: ‘was a fihe edi the Subway.” This ly to ladies, ry Subway Skylights, Béltor of ‘The Evening Word: vel on it. ‘And this raises again the question: Has any man the right to ac- Putting aside the moral phase of the question, the answer must be ba man'has the right to acquire all the wealth that he can gain hanest- lawfully. But is not this the real question: Has the Govemn- & right to permit a man to gain and hold such a sum? Ought it 4 graduated income tax to prevent the heaping up of such enor- hd superfluous fortunes, which often become through selfish and Nig influence in politics and in government a menace to our in- return visit of the “old-fashioned” winter finds the surface-car nin his customary place on a wind-swept platform, blinded by it is; it finds him there in New York. In the Western cities, in in Jersey City, in all Massachusetts towns and on country here else he ts in a glass-inclosed vestibule protected from the ¢ gale. It has been left for the city: traction companies which ntly herd their passengers to include the motorman in their ‘indifference to everything but dividends, of encouraging the physical bréakdown of the man on iclency the safety of passengers depends is singularly short- ‘Massachusetts it has iaker) a law making vestibules compulsory ry officials that tle measure they used every effort to defeat uch fo their interest as to the motorman’s. They learned the ually. After several years of the law's operation, the same | fought its enactment testified to the protection it afforded his pays it is not; that nis t A. B f@ the last name; tho given, name {is the tirst, ame “John Jones," John tian or given name and ial on "Smo! often see men | elghteen to marry, ‘om Subway stations and then erowded care with lighted md not a word is sald by the fearful annoyancy, ¢s- Eg. B. ‘dally routine I pass over, as. j, of others, the Subway nd I have noticed that the wsed in tie vault-light con- fe of a very hard variety on quite @ polish with the! theee wo wi ‘j Press Publishing Company, No, 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter, vests wanresssssgereNQ, 18,873, ———— _ THE “RIGHT” TO $150,000,000. fiatles Lockhart, one of the “Standard Oil group,” recently died in rg, leaving an estate valued at $150,000,000. This is to be divided s five children, giving each $20,000,000—a fortune greater than by any American fifty yc + ago. name and existence of Mr. Lockhart were unknown to the aver- der of newspapers on the day of his death. “OF ihiulti-millionaires whose individual wealth is “beyond the} qneatrical managers report scarcity of Gf avarice” and, whose collective incomes exceed that of some of ) ling governments of the world, d , Lockhart’s income from Standard Oil stock alone was said to be 00,000 annually. This is equal to the annual income of 40,000 ners in this country, at the average rate He was one of a the last reported by ut i} humanity are not likely to move the Manhattan companies Step, Motives of self-interest may if backed by legislation. chusetts law should have a place in New York's statute-books piring Assemblyman should start the movement to put it there, THE BOWERY’S DICTIONARY. Owery 18 proud of its Senator, the Hon. Jim Fitzgerald, He has] ay one who spat in nip presence, He fing thé dictionary, and to convince the general public that the with words of many syllables and knows as much ik derivatives as the cultured Athenians he introduced a bill lien of kinesipathy. ‘ st oj this bill was evolved by the combined learning of the ¢ amazed the ed by scientific research into the largest aicnary, It pro- Bias "Medien! ‘Bocloy’ by Making. State board of kinesipathic examiners who shall regulate all b somnéopathy, Seismathrepy and mechano-neural therapy | the State of New York. ary English this is a bill to license Turkish-bath rubbers and ier to the glorious category of State commissions which already Barbers’ Commission, 4 Chiropodists’ Commission.and other pes for examinations and the granting of beautiful diplomas. saying of the Hon, Dry-Dollar Sullivan that Daniel Webster fitly reptesent the Bowery is correct, Noah Webster might— this dictionaty up to date and up to “de Ate,” e city’ can have whatever rellef it wants,” said Mr, Odell yester- talk with the Republican leaders. Very well, To begin with, Raines dictation and the Ramapo menace, ner says he paid $4 for a warm cell in Harlem. Hot water iceman who got the “graft.” People’s Corner. from Evening World Readers with by /the simple process of insert- ing between the glasses some projec- tions of Iron or stone. An attempt has been made at the Manhattan end of ‘the bridge to do this, where there are Inserted between the glasses what ap- Pear to he brass rings projecting above the surfice, BROOKLYNITE. In the World Almanac, To the Editor of The Evening World: Where can I find Ilst of the hours in which the Museum of Natural History and other museums of the sort are open to visitors? Also the days when there {s an entrance fea? ac Greek Catholic Church, To the Eilitor of The Evening World: What Is the standard church of the Russian Empire? ACG, R, | Marrfed at 17 and In Happy. | To the Hditor of The Evening World: ke | Belle Q, asks if she is too young at No, Belle, J do not think you are too young to many, I Speak from experience. But before going 1) settle Ima wn to your husband r since. We are children, and in I do not know what {t and to speak a croes word to me, I was only seventeen years and three days old when I married, If the women of to-day would pay more at- tention to thelr homes and children ld not be so many separations, In wet weather) Tirst of all, Belle, you must love the wis on them these vault-| man you ure to marry and sacrifice a slippery as ice, | everything for him, Make home happy ons 1 have seen} and you will have no trouble. Above Pasr'ng cver all things lay something away for a be done away rpiny day, Mra, The Evening World’ \past five years, Christian Scientists are| marryhg make up your mind you ara | | d March 1, 1880, and| thing In the proposed militarization of Said on the Side. Or. of 5,879 deaths of Muutal Life ANew #. # Comic Series By Gene Carr. Policy-holders last year, 488 were causéd by Bright's disense, and $87 were due to the related cause of @poplexy, That !s, more than 15 per cent, of the entire mortality was the fesult of “high lving’ In the better sonse, of a generous dietary, including & superabundance of meat and other nitrogenous food and, in many cases, alooholic beverages, The figures oon- cern policy-holders the nation over. But for a clty which consumes 2,000,000 NO OLD CHAP-| THE LITTLE ONES ARE WAITING material for a new “'Florodora sext: Aren't there any more at home? they all married off? Sald to be a rec: ord year for automobiles and diamonds. eee “Bohwad called to Russia's ald.” But ts a steel specialist just the man the Crar needs at present? e . ‘The Bowery's representative in the State Senate hes introduced a bill regu- fating “kinesipathy, mechano- neural therapy, eomneopathy, eelsmathrepy, vi- bration and vibrassage.” Do they say uch things and do such things on the Bowery? sen a Sho—What would you do, George, 4f you were left a widower? He—Oh, I suppose pretty much the same ae you would do tf you were left a widow, Bhe—Oh, you sorctch! And you always told me you could never love anybody else.—Pick Me Up. e . * The Introdpotion of pennies into South Africa Is noted. Probably preliminary to @ slot-machine invasion, oo 8 “New plan, to end bridge crush,” ‘There must be enovgh of them now to fill a Carnegie library. When Is the ounce of performance to come out of these pounds of plan? . . The law tn New York dragy a small boy out of a theatre gallery on the ground that he 1s too young to witness the performance, and the law in Illinois has doubts as to whether Von Vecsey, the eleven-yeir-old violinist, is not too young to play in public, Being a boy is not what It was in the good old days, eee Catskill hen holds the record with « nine-Inoh emg. Seems to be a great year for the hen. The $4,000,000 diamond and the ¥0,009-mile sun spot are emg-ehaped. e e ° Dietary specialist recommends nervous women (0 eat five or six meals a day and take an occasional glass of egg- hog. One merit of the new school of Medicine is the palatability of tts pre- soriptions, ihe “And,” concluded Mra, Peck, “I treated her with silent contempt.” “Silent contempt!” eaclalmed Henry Peck; ‘Maria, do you ea- pect mo to believe that?’—Hous-’ ton Post, i } oo @ Bubway spitters are reminded that Herodotus tells of @ king who beheaded {ved too soon to attain his greatest use- fulness, e . . Chicago preacher says that he knows of women who eat candles to improve thelr complexion, . e e/} The Tyran wpeech before them, Speaking of tongues, the prize lingual member of | ff modern times seems to have belonged tc & German girl told of by the Berlin Medlziniache Wochenschrift, All her Mmbs being paralyzed, but her tonguc Temaining flexthie, she trained it until she could write and embroider with it. With scissors fastened in her mouth ahe out out dolls’ dresses and, sticking o needle into the table in front of her, could thread {t, Her embroidery war quite wonderful, done exclusively with the lips and tongue and in various col- crs, In the course of time her tongue, while retaining its usual breadth, In- creased in length, @o that she could easily touch the tip of her nose with its point, AB there “Wy ever a ruling class in the world,” demanded the Rev, Antoinette Brown Blackwell | meeting of the New York Legisla- tive League apro- pos of the tyranny of man, “that did not take advantage Mi of the rule? Look F at Russia!" Bcores of timor- ous clubwomen momentarily released from the domination of their lords, looked, metaphorically speaking, at Russia and perceived the marked re- semblance between thelr lot and that of the’ downtrodden sents, It 1s doubtful if the Roman ma- trons who woke every @morning to the Pleasureable consciousness that the day might be the last if they chanced Little Willie’s Guide to New York. No. Vii. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM. eee The “beautiful Atlantic City girl who has spurned the allurements of society to become a trained nurse’ may have matrimonial intentions, / eee Mr. Cutting Hintzs—There ts one thing that always struck me ag be- ing very strange. Mra. Outting © Hinte—What's that? Mr, Outting Hinte—That all the women who havo distinguished themselves by a display of brains look 80 much like men.—Philadel- phia Bulletin, * 9 6 A member of the Australian Parlla- ment having brought his dog with him Into the legislative chamber, the Speaker ruled that "the House was for bipeds, not quadrupeds,"" "What is a monkey?” inquired the owner of the dog, "I will look at the honorable mem- ber,” said the annoyed legislator, “and tell him Jater on,” The quality of this repartee 1s almost up to American legislative standards, o ee It appears that the death rate among) practicing physiclans in Canada and the United States lust year was higher| than the average death rate for the pop-| ulation of New York State during the Muzeems are plaises whare peeple go to eee the 2 hedded boy leed a dubble life or glmpethise with the hard lines of the ozsyfide man but that lzzent the soart of & museem the mettropolliten muszeem of art is, the mettropolliten Is a plaise whare peeple go to improov thare minds and to meet pecple thave maid a dailt with throo the pursenel collums, when the muzeem of art was cloased by law on sundaze the peeple clammered to be let In so they cood studdy art but poppa sals most of thoase people got so Into the habbit of studdying art on the wauls of kaf- fays while the mugzeem was shut on fundaze that now thay have fergoten the adres of the muzeem. the mettro- politan muzeem of art was bilt for the ammerikan peeple, that 1s why It was bilt in inglsh arkitexure and was stokked with frentch, 1jaman, greal and ditch pictchers and status and wags bossed by a ftalllan generl amer- rika for the amerikans ‘8 its matto, lots of peeple start for the muzcem every sunday to !mprooy thare minds but moast of them dont get anny neer- er than the mennajery if thare was an cexsize fine for all peeple caut in tha mettropollitan muzeem on sundase thade have to bild an adition to hold them au) and art wood go up to par Just as it did when the muzcem was cloased on sundaze, nu Yoarkors are grate peeple and thay love art for arts sake until they can get It, b 4, P, TERHUND requested to refrain from comment. eo 8 e@ “Sentry shoots thief." May be some- the police, after all, e 8 8 “Slow old Boston,” says a contem- porary, But Boston has recently put her motormen in glass vestibules, while New York Is only talking about doing 50, eo 8 8 A physician warns mothers who send thelr children out in thelr socks and bare legs in all sorts of weather that “this Is part of the hardening method that ‘dens many children into their graves.’ Will New York mother please take special notice? By Nixola Greeley-Smith. at the! | All the Comforts of Home. ¥ Nothing Can Lure Smith from His Little Loved Ones—Not Even a ‘Stag.’ AN’ COME ‘TO THE STAG WITH US TONIGHT | WONDER WHAT THE i ¢ ny of Man. 1 to rouse the ire of their husbands overmuch, since they were granted do- j\minion over life and death in their jouscholds, ever gave a thought to mascullne tyranny. It 1s only in mod- ern Now York where the law gives a woman the right to cohvey property | without her husband's signature while denying him the same privilege, ‘and where she may commit every crime In the calendar with no fvorse penalty than that of a theatrical engagement at $1,000 a week, that she has the in- clination and the lelsure to discuss her wrongs, In fact it is only then that she has any. Whatever woman's political status— or the lack of it—which gives the suf- fragists so much concern, It 1s her posi | tion and sway in the average house- hold rather than her husband's that Inchines one to look at Rissa, Follow-| ing the Injunction to look at Russia, however, one sees a pitiful figurehead swayed hither and thither by the ma- nipulations of wire-pulling Ministers, And dt Is not seldom that we behold a similar control by feminine hands of tho so-called czar of the household, For one masculine tyrant there are & hundred women deserving the appella- tion, Scanning the lists of our married acquaintances and deciding as we sum- mon each couple on review which Js the ruling spirit of thelr lives, tt is) surprising how few men are among the number. We notice the masouline tyrant be- vause he fs the exception, The feminine tyrant, from our familiarity with the type, we are apt to take for granted. Men certainly do take her for granted, Otherwise they might’ vary the monot- ony of uninteresting public questions by disoussing her, even as the Woman't Legislative League deviated into the consideration of woman's wrongs, And they, too, might find a certain analogy ‘to their own condition !f they looked at Russia. “You've been riding him all morning, and you sald I could have him when you were tired!’* "Yes, but I don't seem to be able to Bet tired to-day,” pe Rey They Lathered Him, + | “Why dla they bar Soap from the| alub?” “Oh, they sald he was too soft,” A Matter of Capacity, — a) “Oh, Genevieve, don't you wisht that Tabby wuz a hippopotamus or a ele- phant?"’ “why?” “Why. than we could éat un the whole dinner and blame it on har!" iS) 4 acta ot eto diab ae LL this talk + A about 80 clety makes me sick, Mr, Nagg. I don't care how much money people have, it 1s blood that counts, Thank goodne: some of the best blood in Brooklyn flows in my veins! \ Stryver pre- tends she was In- Roy L. MoCardell vite to afr, Hyde's Louls XVI, ball at Sherry's. I had to laugh when she said she had such a Cold she couldn't attend. The cold she had was the cold shoulder, But what I do say is that we shoul have been Invited; yes, we should! And If you had the spirit of a mouse we would have been, You aro insured in Mr, Hyde's insurance company, are you not? I nover mentioned this to you until now, although Mr, Hyde's affalr 48 some days old. I was waiting to seo {f you had the spirit of a man, “Of course, T could not have gone anyway, because I have not a thing to wear, Maybe Mr, Hyde knew that. Everybody else doos, I am ashamed to go anywhere, Why, if I do venture to go to the Kind Words Club er the Modern Mothers or our Simple Life So- clety I can hear all the women sneer at my poor duds the moment I enter the door, That's the reason I could not have gone, even tf I had been In- vited, I need a new hat, I wish you The Man... Higher Up. By Martin Green, SER,” sald The Cigar Store Man, “that the Committee of fh Nine {s in action,” “Here's hoping that the Committe. of Nine will make good,” ahswered Tho Man Higher Up, “It is a non-par- tlsan movement, even if there fen’t a man on the committee that can say, he is a Democrat, minus a sore head, with one exception, That exception {a Mr. Milburn, recently of Buffalo, who sends his sons to Oxford Univers sity,'In England, for an education, “This 1s a great town for commit- tees, We have had the Committee of One Hundred, and the Committee of Vifteen, and the Lexow Committee, and the Mazet Committee, What jcold streets In winter. could see all the hats Marle Lovewell We Advise a Lover. (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) ABLE THAN MARRIAGE, \the GIRL'S MOTHER holds out! SHIP of FIFTEEN YEARS. case COURTSHIP was a success SUCCEED. Most mothers object to long spent in the house, but they will they will an AFFLICTION. these committees did is a matter of public record. Committees have be- come a part of our machinery of gov- ernment. The trouble seems to be that the same men, or men affiliated with them, serve on all the commit- tees, “The only committee that has any real say is the Committee of the Whole that assembles at the polly every two years on the first Tuesday after the first Mcnday in November, John Smith, Dennis O'Brien, Isaag Levy, Herman Schmaltz and Dom- {nico Vincenzio predominate (n this committee, They live in New York the year around, raise their families! here, and take an honest interest in the welfare of the city, They don’t swear off their taxes, they fall to ex- orbitant rents and hectic provision prices, they sweat in the hot streets in summer and they shiver in the They know what they are getting from any city administration, and {f they don’t get what they think is coming to them {t 1s the cue for that administration to skiddoo, The fact that 200 representative citizens meet at the Chamber of Com- merce and appoint a Committee of Nine to oil up the city machinery may give a hunch to people outside of New York that the town is on the blink, But that little old Committee of the Whole, comprising close to 700,000 voters, is getting wise to things just as they are, The chances are that half of them don't know, and rover will know, anything about the Committee of Nine.” “The Committee of Nine has a lot of influence,” warned The Cigar Store Man, “The Committee of Nine,” agreed The Man Higher Up, “has the lot of influence that goes with nine votas on election day—Iif all the members are in town and can show that they have registered.” '|Mrs: Nagg and Mr.——» «.e- By Roy L. McCardell...,. has, She has sixty hats and she getting four more! Good hat and it'is out of style, “Why do you stir around in that une easy way? You make me so nervous, Mr, Nagg, that I could shriek out! When » man has a nice quiet home and @ wife that Is foolish enough to be fond of him, he doesn't appreciate it 1 know I made a great mistake by belng always silentand kind, But that is my isposition, and if you choose to ims Pose on me and take advantage of it? you may do 80, “I do not care for anything but my home and my husband and my children, and if I do go out occasionally it te simply to get the fresh air, but you might try to show me a good time, “You think that taking me to the theatre once or twice a week or out to supper once in a while will pay for your constant neglect, Oh, well, I never complain, and I never will, Do s you like, Mr. Nagg, but some day when I am gone, you will think of how you worrled me and perhaps you will be sorry, “Here you have been in the house an hour and you have hardly spoken to me except to ask me how I felt and if I would like to go and see somo theatrical performance, Can a theatri- cal performance soothe a broken heart? “Cheer up, you say? How can | cheer up? What Is the use to cheer up, when you are go silent and peeviah? “You come home and sit around grinning like a chessy cat, because you have nothing to Worry you, And that’s all @ man cares for ois home, anyway!” eee The ‘‘Fudge” Idiotorial A nice young man from Mont- clair wishes us to tell him HOW LONG a courtship should be conducted In order to be SUC- CESSFUL, Here Is the old, old story, FAINT HEART NE’ER FOOLED FAIR LADY! Experienc; teaches us that COURTSHIP IS MORE AGREE- It should therefore be prolonged as long as the PATIENCE of We once knew ayoung man who had a DELIGHTFUL COURT- THEN he MARRIED, In three months they PARTED, In this and MARRIAGE a fallure | He tried for flfteen vears to understand the girl and DID NOT courtships If too MUCH timets SUPPORT a HOPE longer than GOURTSHIP is PLEASURE; MARRIAGE Is BUSINESS, \ welMeintudil' ia elit Dk aa SR Mt I have only one | ’