The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1905, Page 3

$e | Man Not Useless After He Is Forty, Nor y .. Should He Be Chloroformed at Sixty, Say the Jury- RY women, | HEAP.SCORN UPON THE HEAD | OF THE BRITISH PROFESSOR { Mirs, Naething Says He Must Think He Is a Fossil, and Mrs, Donald McLean Believes ; He Is:Still Young Enough to Change His Mind. ‘When Dr, Osler, of Johns Hopkins University, declared that man’s usefulness ended at the age of forty, and that men should be chloroformed | ‘upon reaching sixty, he cooked himself a pretty kettle of fish. Not only are all our stalwart professional business men above the age of four decades | rising in indignant protest against the Insinuation that their day is over, but the ladies, God bless ’em, are up in arms for their dear husbands, | ‘They want to “just get hold of that man.” He never saw “my hus- band,” or “‘my husky Herbert,” or he would never have volced so foolish »a statement, . The Evening World instituted an inquiry among women Prominent fn business and social affairs and found them all of one mind—that Dr. Osler was in the wrong. A jury of twelve prominent women was can- J vassed, with the following results; WHO IS DR. OSLER ? | 7es2m wots 0, the ones who would ASKS MRS. NAETHING|"" "eS WITH SWEET SCORN.| NO CHLOROFORM “Dr. Osler's & brave man to make FOR THE OLD BOY, euch an assertion,” said Mra, Charlee S Nuathing, one of New zexe fre SAYS MRS. LYON. most clubwomen, “But he wel Mrs. Dore iste ak elon ; the matter pretty wert in his Hanae dent of the New York pie eaten, dual scales because he's going to she Federation of Women's anne ; the first steamer for Europe, before/ thinks the mexioal man. ts entire 4 he 's mobbed by our egieslapiaa eda wrong, iy | trymen,” and Mrs, Naething sm! th! A man may be i ) h Yer peculiarly eweet-natured and win tmovoore revista bist eid eu iu ee wey no longer able to wit ‘Who is Dr, Osler anyway? Has be/ ier ang Dibba, hoe rae peas aye just waked up at fifty-six, to fd /hairbeck on tus alan Wied play damselt alive and kicking?, He cer-| an sieven, if . has, ‘all any one has known h there were one; or te Me, i eretotore, te he made his}Make the world's record in putting ot Lore tsecnite forty, it wasn't! the stot, b fg ite of what] for vould otis wi oh He apite onreet, ‘But his intellect is at its mature the community has just become cog-/@Nd greatest activity in middle-age, Up to Atty, at least, his work ty con- , |atructive, ba Opstt ats Mauer tet eo fee valuanie besds-4 ten years after | MRS. HASTINGS Tesorved for counsel, We Could Mage WILL NOT DEPEND |fiier."tf of het tsitery. board of ON RAW YOUTH. thet mort “eontomen, Lea eons Wi diene Woked: amused." ytd, Mes. | Lavon e that the dear old vpn, Osler may think a man's pow-lit kindly themsclves, 0 WOuld take x ‘areatrophied after two-ecore yeara,| “My own husband would be old, ac tut T don't by any means,” says Mrs. cording to thie, doctor's standarda Harry Hastings, Secretary of the New ia quite “Andispensuble meriben te him ‘York State Federation of Women’s |ciety, I'm sure nelther of us should Clubs, President of the Little Mothers’ | ever wish to have him chloroformed * Club and a hand worker among work- —-+— ing-girls’ educational and trade work| MRS, DE RIVERA | | i Laie and experience both teach SAYS FACTS CALL us that the world’s best work has been HIM A BUNGLER, done by mature thinkers, Statistlos fre telling, and this 1s what they tell, Bo when this professor comes along! Mrs, Lyon's successcr as the Fedem- and talks through his hat he, oan. al President, Mrs, Belle de Rivera, back, back, bac! 5 aald: "The overwhelming evid A ve Mrs, 1B evidence of Pld not quoted verbatim from (ai AAT EE Gilani eae “Thote is an effort, @ movement in|for his little invention, Facts rise up our country to encourage the young|and call him a wretched bungler and man, He frequentiy holds positions vf| that's all there is to it, honor and trust, not 60 much becaure| “As for gotting the elderly men out her the best mar for the place a9] of the way 1 am unwilling, I like sv through a capacity for rustling, old friends and I find them s0_ nice, “But a ripe judgment {8 Infinitely | and as long as wo can I would fain more valuable to my mind than @ 81+! keop them with us, plus store of nervous energy. Dr, Oster can Give the wore, work «ho ; Ww yout e wants to and the . “ > World coneenta, but when 1 need, help onee S THEORY 18 Tl) ask for tt from mature @x: . 15 ST RIDICULOUS, perienced man of affairs,” | YOUNG ENOUGH TO CHANGE HIS MIND, | %**. Theotore But sata: "I never Knew anything so ridiculous accomplished anything worth while ’ “E Alsagree with Dr, Osler,’ sald] #ince he was forty, but that's no rea- Mrs, Donald McLean, Regent of the} son why he should way all older mon New York City chapter of the D. A. R.,| are of no use,” amt candidate for the national presl- parr dency of the soclety, “and 1 have an ldo that it'won't take very long tor] MENTALITY, NOT Dr Osler to disagree with himself, ms) J iy ¥ “Ho's sufficiently young still to hold AGE, is THE THING, this view, but when he gets to be SAYS MRS. BURNS, ‘ twenty years older he'll protably feel still too youthful; he won't talk wo cheerfully of being chloroformed Itke a vick pup. “I agree with him in part—about a large part of the constructive work of the world being dene by men under forty, But there are top many ex- amples of great men who have accom- plished thelr great work after forty, | joo an a Line thon wp on a seesaw with the vee hak Way bee shane taee a heavy imental welghty who have /ind un old chap 4s foolish wane pene aohleved things before they were two | 1s mentality and personality that tel foure on one side of the sawbuck ang | Nb & Man's age, the ald fellows who have made thelr ——>—— i ——— | PASSION, DECLARE MRS, J. A. COZZENO, 2h fled aa ht a Mrs, Clarence Burns thinks that age and utility are a matter of personality, and that some persons of thirty-tive ate as old as they will evor be, years ive no criterion of youth she said, “Some persons ot eighty can do better work then men (In the so-called prime of life, I, Mrs, J, Augustine zen, President of the Eeleetio Clu says that she wouldn't part with her husband if he Were one hundred and fifty years old, Ho matter how many De, Oslers de- manded his death by chloroform, “Ad long as & man keeps body and Stands for “Further"— The distance a man gets From the source of true pleasure When he whines and frets, Prosperity forsakes him, soul together | guess there ta some | He returns to old haunts, Hace for hin in the world, no matter Dissipation will end hin— how old he is," she asserted with em- Moral: Read World Help Wants, J] Passis: rod kein, 4 thm Di, Oeics I at of confirmed pessimist, Ho's There is some love affair that he knows can never be consummated, and the foallaauon oO) inset doesn't make his outlook bright and sunny. “When T read his addross at Johns Hepkiua I trembled for us, Why, tharo. Through To-morrow's Surday World's Want Directry, foolish as a eth: a@ Met of should-be defuncts? I should The | The i Wi) fons great sorrow, 1/4 at < ean see that clearly, ite Beet "TL have Very strong susplelons that ANCE T]he ts the victim of the great passion, THE; WORT 1, SATURDAY. EVENING, FEBRUARY 25,1905, DR. OSLER AND THE JURY OF WOMEN WHICH DISAGREES WITH HIM. VIRS: AM PaCcMer: | ‘A JURY OF TWELVE PROMINENT WOMEN FIND A VERDICT. | CONDEMNING PROF. OSLER'S THEORY OF HUMAN LIFE. aren't one to sixtern of our leading men that are under forty-five, What a Jot of old fogies we are anyway!" ONLY FOOLING, HEAD OF WOMEN’S POLITICAL CLUB, Mrs. Le Roy Sunderland Smith, Preal- dent of the Political Study Club, thinks Dr, Osler is only fooling, “This-man's statements are so absurd he must be playing a great bis joke,” she declired, “I'd like him to tell my husband his time for retiring to the book row of the orchestra has come. I'm afrald my spouse wouldn't take it very kindly, He says ‘he never felt better in his life than now, and that he's good for twenty-five years more; and he's consid- erably over forty, “Neither of us belleve in growing old, For us the world gets younger and hap- pier year by year," NOTORIETY IS HIS OBJECT, INSISTS MRS. J. H. JUDGE. Mrs, John H, Judge, President-elect of the Politic! Study Club, thinks that Dr, Osler is doing a little advertising . % on his own account, SAYS MRS. SUTRO, “Mat man is looking for notoriety, nothing more, He's practically an un- known physician,” she sak, and thinks | that by voteing such ‘theories he can | SAYS MRS. M’LEAN, |os br. Osier's views. Maybo he hasn't |acuulre @ certain sort of fame and in Increased practice as well, “Or course I think he 1s quite wrong it you want me to take him seriously, Why, all the really successful men I khow have passed forty years of age, “Men don't acquire wealth und posi- jon while mere striplin, Wdn't as tar as T cn “But bt would be hard that this man means w WOULD DR. OSLER TAKE FIRST DOSE? ASKS MRS. PALMER convince me he says.” “| prefer a man of sixty to a boy of inirty,” says Mrs, A. M, Palmer. “This ‘nan Osier wouldn't find many advo- cates for his chloroforming scheme, 1 imagine. I wonder if he would consent to take the first dose if some one got up recommend that he head the column of played-out gentlemen.” oe SOROSIS PRESIDENT SAYS MEN OVER 40 ACT AS BALLAST, “Most men hope to die in harness and dread the thought of belng lald on the shelf, Jeremiah and Dr, Osler may y think It is well for a man that he bear | tal the yoke in his youth. iny reason why he #! later years, The yoke bee natural way of Ife, and he doesn't relin- auish it without experienciig a severe shock. Let a man work just so long as helo able and wants to. 18 18 What Mrs, Charlotte Wilbour, dent of sorosis, hi Lo st Usier and his rest-loret Weary a for disposing of men a Axty Are mea over forty useless drags on| the bu h rr Well, 1 hardly think go, ‘They act ay ballagt In the shi beid yount bucks from running us all and let them live, Chloroform mi all right for the victims of the 5 , Ay, but we need our grand old mi ih iil aa al a Li HR a cA Aa Nl WOMEN CAN 00 WORK OF MEN Mrs. Essa Irene Gaffney, Secre- tary-Treasurer of the New York Contracting and Truck- ing Company, Gives Her Views A very pretty woman Is Mrs, Gaffney, | wife of Alderman James B. Gaffney, who, with John J, Murphy, controls the interests of the New York Contracting and Trucking Company. Moreover, Mrs, Gaffney 18 a most re- markable woman, suc business position of great responsibility and trust, such as few men are con- sidesed competent to fill, and at the same time presiding over her beautiful | Hitle home at No, 231 Hast Nineteenth | atroet, attending to the domestic and social duties consequent to her position, he affairs of the New York Con- tracting and Trucking Company have f Ine groutly Interested the genenal sfilly filling a | {ronson may be unde large contrets made within the few years of Its oxistence giving the com- | pany a record seldom equalled, It Is now brougut to mind that in the pany's officers 0: ag the secretary treasurer ck jae organization, and that someunng bss vhan a ye I, Gaffney figur wide KnUWn Mii Is none other Caftney, wite of ie tormer President o. vgs. Dr, Osler} e, Ud that the po- Gattney Is by no nal one, but that much of the success of the company bas been due w her business action and cle’ Her Interest in securing the Pennsylvania Ra niwnifesied by her frequent trips to t West Thirty-second sireet diaunetwh she made her own estimates and me cmises previous t Hurthernore, it was su. sition held by Mrs, the filng of Wie Shuns Notoriety, In private life Mrs, Gaffney Is of an extremely inodest and reuring disposi- shunning potoriet | while a man her charming od informally con. ) ) World, and eon cerning women's work In the business is quiet, dig-| pondered over tnat glint af aumyr in miied and gracious, r voice is low AY of gmcettl t but I don't see! brilliant complexion and Ir ist it off in! black—xood black, ba It pe UBT made, simple of design and of sof jv Whore she received her gue 80 showed evidences of ref! t the wlollity to mratity: about | } 0 ise don't ask ome anything sald Mrs, Gaffney | imur of contracis from r. Gaffney is the one to xo to in regurd ‘to anything that con- off on Wild tangents, They give stabil-| cerns the compa ity to the community, Let them work p and Keep the “Ldlslike notoriety of any kind,’ att . the qulet reply, “I don't lke to see my Audie Jn the papers.” “But the Inevitable consequence of un- Py jand important work, you know, is “I am content to live my own Iife, business and dumestic, unheralded, un- ‘snown,” “Now, the public.’ pursued the vis: {tor, “Is very much interested in ‘and thinks It has a right to know about any unusual thing, event or occupal of work, you know, Why, few men have the braing and Intellect to fill such a position,'' At last a spark was struck. A gleam of interest showed In the blue-gray eyes, “Don't you think that women can) Posseas an equal amount of gray. mat> ter?” was the quict reply. ‘‘Oppor- tunity Is what women lack—many of them, Given the chance they ucquit themselves as creditably, 1 foink, as men,” your work? You ‘don't neglect your home, evidently.” “T trust not," sald Mra, Gaftney, smil. should, of course, come n's life, But more can yutside duties may be Jed systom Jn. the '§ time Is practised, domestic ditte firat In a we necumplishe rhaken, pro management ot 8 1 believe tt is by taking care o minutes that anything much Ix a¢com-|is a married man, front platform and whispered to the driver, and the car started at @ fast » At Twenty-third street the con- beckoned Policeman Galvin, of Hust Twenty-second street station, vlished In this world. Ono must live by sohelule; then almost anything within en, fe some time to ly, Igo out very "And vou must de social duties, of cour: y4 T Hye very qui Is Tactful. cof Mrs, Gaffney's success fa a m wom ag a born Dolitiolan I Atte," ni attributed to her graceful and socio) talents. * observed the visitor, “But you discriminate between social duties and real pleasure? Mrs, Gaffney looked as though she | cheers, would like to say yes, but this was @n/ new arrival be named “Bellevue” Gil- len, and this name was cheered as the rolled away and the car admission, 80 she continued to smile In an entire non-committal fashion, you mast be a general in command: | ambulance ing. your time, You have children, | gturted off. Mrs, Gillon refused to go to the hos- all events. | pital and went to her home, too?’ “One, a Iitle girl—almost a young lady now, In appearance, he js as tall as Iam, Outdoor athletic ie Hoa ope, mush omaed aot! ANOTHER REASON WHY PHYSICIANS PRESCRIBE to amavis work most imnoeant! Caswell, Massey & Co.'s EMULSION lente af ne comes hot wi! Of COD LIVER OIL — began the visitor with FEPSIN Qa QUININE, "1 do not now recall any pationt who was and that she Js sometimes compotent | unable to take tt, as 18 xo often the ene with Yer uwn, | other Emulsions," , Asst. Prof, of Practice, Univ'y C. young womanhood i ou Bee," soliton the visitor, “here Is a woman who attends of her own home—an_ e: woman's ine Inst a nan's} h “Quite so—that even tellect, may pitted to fill a man's position ang e counts the minutos," sitor, golng down the steps, the I FOUR PLY “LION BRAND” Currs 2Go. 4 Pain, DEALERS Vins Bent! Re STORK VISITS A STREET CAR Few If any women are doing your wind And Departs After Leaving Be- hind a Fine Eight-Pound Girl Baby, Who May Be Named Bellevue Gillen. Mrs. Henry Gillen, forty-eleht years 832 Hast Twenty-fourth “But how do you find time for all|gtreet, became a mother on a north> bound First avenue horse ear, which waa raced up that Ine, “Yam Very fond of. my home and! never bofore in the hope of reaching a | point near Bellevue Hospital before the stork made Its visit. old, f the | called the conductor, Janes Brady, who Brady ran to the the At Twenty-sixth street Galvin jumped from the car and ran to Bellevue Hos- pital, He 0; se) WR A Rosca bee B A erin with Dr, Cramp and The phyasiclan entered the car and was “But you must have some recreatlon | insiag gor several minutes, while the 8." observed sfiney'a oyes| Policeman and the conductor kept a ) ,, [curlous crowd at bay. 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