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Vt Jon its merits, men ans, of the extm-fat peop! ould be glad of the en! y stitkes bring. polite New York New York men, don the ice and fell in “me up. That could n jd In Milwaukee, ‘The Letsarely AmbI AWant to say a worl abou ‘citizen who ambles y steps to take a local preventing hurried bway ateps train, e People’s Corner. ers from Evening World Readers “Good Anti-Fat Conditions. Egitor of The Bvening Work Ne of this forced ne- tos walking which the “L" and A. B,C, Men, Baltor of The Evening Wortd: to New York from Milwaukee va ago and 1 must say [ never thing to equal the impoliteness Dho other day I the pres- $f three men standing on a corner, dt laughed and did not offer to ever have iW ler, BAltor of Tho Evening World: it the lels- down the train not business hind him from catching the ex- there $s Ems bead of who causes are the admit of lowe | Orst part, and the third three-quarters jed by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York, Entered at the Post-Omice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. A FOREDOOMED STRIKE, The notice of the National Brotherhood of Engineers to the chief of Toral union to order the “'L" and Subway motormen to go back to 'work which they had no authority for quitting was the finishing blow strike which was already failing, and which was doomed to failure at ©. In strikes, as in other matters, it is always well to heed the advice of ivy Crockett: “Be sure you're right—then go ahead!” a leaders in this strike were not right when they required the mo- en to break a straight agreement with the company and to strike with- first getting the authority of the National Brotherhood or seeking ar- tion, as they were under obligations to do. They were not right in precipitating the strike on a few hours’ notice, fhe serious loss, inconvenience and peril of more than a million per- i the majority of them working people. ¥y’ were foolish in not considering that the relatively high wages y conditions of the “L”” and Subway men were such as to Invite Of Capaole and willing workers to take their places. y were blind in not seeing that they could not command public y under these circumstances and conditions, and that without Sympathy and support their strike was hopeless. “Arbitration, as The Evening World has said, is the right method of labor differences, But the time to arbitrate is before proceeding The strike is the remedy of last resort. GOOD FROM PUBLICITY. is grateful to note that following The Evening World's warfare ‘milk, the death-rate is diminishing on the East Side, according to report of the Board of Health, Notwithstanding the inclemency weather and the trying changes of temperature the agitation for i has driven the milk rectifiers and embalmers temporarily at lit Of business, and the result was speedily apparent, fact there are a very few men, six or seven in all, who are respon- for almost all the bad milk sold in New York. At the conference ers and the retailers the names of these men were freely spoken ‘was @ general consensus locating the blame. With Dr, Darling- the State Department of Agriculture, both of them, fully notified who these milk rectifiers are, there will be no excuse for permitting ‘renew their nefarious activities, + FOR A NEW ANTI-PISTOL LAW. ‘test made on the first case, the new anti-pistol ordinance has been service, It was set aside on a technicality of jurisdiction and his ordinance was greatly needed, The inferval employed in get- Successor into shape, with the error of the first draft corrected, ih amendment to the charter if necessary, should be as brief as d energy can make it. “pistol habit” is an evil to correct promptly by such pains and as shall put an end to it. EE GIRL WIVES THAT WERE SORRY, ‘of eighteen local divorce cases figured in yesterday's news, Suits the plaintiffs were wives still in their teens, ‘These girls had without their parents’ consent, one of them at the age of fifteen. for the annulment of their unhappy marriages. e instances are.not cited because of novelty, Unfortunately finess of youth has led to great multiplications of like cases. is pitiful thing when a girl rejects the counsel of a mother—only than when the mother has failed to obtain the confidences of ghter. It isa matter apt to be fraught with sad consequences when ernment takes the form of a tyranny which does not give rea- id of a control through loving care and wise counsel, WAS the homes of the nation grow richer in the mutual trust of chil- | and parents, and the old-fashioned virtue of obedience is revived, indals and shame of the divorce courts will proportionately diminish, _ SECRET POLICE SIGNALS, ready the patrolmen have adopted a system of signals to notify another of the approach of an unknown roundsman, To Commis- f McAdoo’s move in ordering the roundsmen to wear civilian Pand to shift from district to district, the patrolmen reply by an detective and secret-signal system, ‘ ‘action on the part of the patrolmen is the grossest insubordina- and bad discipline, The whistles and sidewalk taps which are the f communication from post to post are known to half the street tion of New. York, ‘They can be heard any evening by any one to follow a shoo-fly roundsman on his patrol. is another plain case significant of what is going on in the Police What is Commissioner McAdoo going to do about it? ong the direful threats of the Subway strikers is “talk of tying ieabs and other means of transportation.” Fortunately the walking is [and there is good in walking, There can be no “sympathetic strike’” Bsr ie minutes in this way three or four times a week. J. A, WILLIAMS, The Between-Acts Fiend, To the Editor of Tho Evening World: Do you not think i an Injustice to people who pay for good theatre seats to he subjected to unthinking men Insint on golng out between ave and not coming in until after the o tain is up? 1 think theatre man ought to enforee a rule whereby may enter the auditorium unless he hae aisle seats, after the cuntain ts up MRS, ELMER MCULIUAL, What Are the Three Pariat To the Editor of The Evening World Divide §8 Into three parts such that the second shall be two-thirds of the who of the first, What are tho three parts? ALMA. The Rade Conductors, To the BAktor of The Evening World; I wish to remonstrate against the continued rudeness of street car con- ductors, Ladies on surtace cars are made the centre of attention by un- necessary loud remarks from conduct- ors, a4 “Here, there, don't get off that ear. Why don't you walt, &0?” Can Said on ‘notes with su from the ORRESPONDENT for cross-town subways of one through Elghty-sixth street from river to river. The reasons in its favor have Increased in urgency since The Evening World's orginal advocacy of this project. The stream of traffic between the cust and west sides above Fifty-ninth street has swollen to a polnt where Ht Ie very fnadequately handled by the trolley ime terminating at Highty-sixth street and Cen‘ral Park West. If the con- venience of passengers ‘8 not a sufil- qent consideration, the rush-hour oon- gestion at the park terminus and the) danger conditions in tho park viaduct In themselves demand the relief seked for, . . . “Car-ahead victima lose thetr seht: ‘There {8 a time for all things, and the present is not one for finding fault with the character of the vehicle, e e . Bhe sould not wed the dest of men, ‘Twas what she said at frst. Bhe proved her strength of purpose tohen Bhe wed about the worst, —Ohcago Journal, eee Angler at Sportsman's Show broke records by “casting” a rubber frog li feet, Real test of his skill will come when he eters into competitlon with @ barefoot boy with pin-hook and sp: ling rod. ae ° ‘Average time of divorce suit decistons reduced by Justice Truax to thinteen minutes from previous average of four- een, Bll behind the Kansas City ached le of “five minutes to allmony, . 8 8 Great archaeological controversy as to whether therg really was & Mbrary at Nippur, where Philadelphia solentist says he found one, An opportunity for ‘Mr, Carnegie if the charge is proved. ° oo. i Ae Perhaps it would be just as well the college boy stuck to his Yooks and his gymnasium sult and expended his youthful energy on other outlets than strike-breaking, Hes are that there are five weekly saved ar free distribution among theatre patrons. May happen some day that @ programme will 60 with every family cirele a i‘ ° “Don't you think dt 4 dlsgrace- ful to go to jaitr” “Dat depends,” said Plodding Pete, “on shat jail you ptok out. Bome jails de right Wwourtous.”— Washington Star, oe 3 ‘The Note to impatient passengers: policeman is not there V4 run traina, . Court Justice declares the Supreme new pistol ordinance Mlegal, Aldermen meant well, but forgot that they are not the whole tans bi law-making, . h with ‘Wife who bought a phonograp! sixty-nine records to keep her oan at home did all she could and dese! her decree, es Grand Jury has returned 0 yiyalst va against the standard Oll Company, Kansas, in her search for a ‘competent man" ¢o tackle the Beet Trust, might select one from the } regular panel. | , , Prize year for the discoverey of hid- den treasures. Old Macy mansion in the Bronx yielded $150,000 in gold, al ver’and bank notes. Old trunk bought by Max Hart for $4 revealed bonds worth $90,000, Romney portrait found in a 8! (Bngland) garret sold for $10,000, Silver-mounted cry:tl ewer Aiscovered among pantry rubbish at the Marquis ‘of Anglesey’a country sect sold at auction in London for $20,000, Latest instance, jewelry valued ‘at $30,000 found hidden in an old clock which a Hungarian studont bought for 6 cents in Flume, Austria. ary . “Ten't this a\bird of a bonnet?” asked she. “1¢ 4a°more than that," replicd the young man; “it 48 the bonnet of a bird.” After which the course of true love ran amoothly.—Houston Post. eee “Fresh' bread, 1,800 years old, was taken out of Pompelian ovens and wheat thas been found in Egyptian tombs of unknown antiquity, Record case of natural vod preservation, however, 16 thet of the mammoth dug up from tho frozen soll near a Siberian village, the flesh of which was eaten by native dogs when it was unearthed. Not much doubt that this is the most remarkable Instance of cold storage ever known, oe Another jiu-fiteu expert comes to grief, Might be well for Japan to call the professoi's in before the loss of national prestige extends further, eee London paper notes that “As bachelor apartments increase In number, #0 do we the restaurants flourish, for the ma- ® Rapid Transit Commission's plans} @ The Marrying Habit. | Xt? Tht Wey: [Little Willie’s ell taken, ‘the the Side}: Mary Jane Does a T quess THIS ‘ike The Evening World’s Home Magazine, wriday Evening, March 089EO99SH9O0OS0 00006406 60400-04940000000090HH00O $0000 0044H009000O00HH00HOHHOHH 10, 1905. 9.H59040000O909H Trick with Papa’s Hat ~: © eo) ERE, MARY JANE, ai RUN HOME QUICK AND GET MY OTHER. IT BETTER FoR US TO PLAY WITH: By Nixola Greeley-Smith. 8 a champion Of prodigious families President Roosevelt has a rival, He ie MiJudge Hagans, of Monongahela County West Vir- i] ginia, who, when Louls Stoneking had been refused a license himself nine wives without the for- maiity of one di- vorce, made this ruling: “The Clerk must give Louts Stone- King marriage wants them,” So the man with the marrying habit might have gone on merrily wedding whenever nis fancy Msted, If a kind faite had not interposed and killed him. His death was reported in this week's Papers, and must surely have attracted some attention from parsons hovering on the brink of matrimony. Everybody, of course, ought to marry once, if only to learn enough not to marry again, Up to three times, indeed, the offense may be deemed pardonable, But after that the only acceptable plea should be that of insanity, To be sure we have al] heard of the much-married widow who, when asked the reason for her many successive husbands, replied: “Well, I was bound to show the Jord I could get 'em as fost as he could take ‘em,’ But even this praiseworthy ambition does not furnish an adayuate excuse, “When we are dead," O'Rell, ‘we are dead a long time—but when we are married, we are married foreve that death 1s in this instance the bet- ter part of valor. “Most of the people who are cynical about marriage are old bachelors or old maids," sald a sweet young thing the other day, licenses whenever he sald point being obviously And sometimes it Is. And the point was Max) But the married people are afraid to be oynical, It wouldn't do them any good if théy were, “Man never 1s but always to be blest,” applies more to tmatrimony than to anything else, We know lots of sanguine people who expect to be happy, We know @ good many who have been happy. But fow Indeed are those of whom we can actually say that they are happy. Of course we must all marry some thme or other—that is, nearly all, But we should do so In a proper penitential spirit and not undertake it with unre- flecting exultation. “Expect something of matrimony," mid a woman of the world, ‘and you'll be disappointed. Expect nothing and you'll be agreeably surprised.” It ts not In the nature of man or woman to be able to live up to the average pre- matrimonial expectations of the partnar of thelr joys and sorrows, But if In the midst of one disappointment we realize that our other half has just as much cause for grievance we may ul- tmately adjust ourselves to our bond- age and even after a long while hear nwusic in the clanking of our chains, — Lost Language. A monument to @ lost language is to be found in the village of St. Paul, near Penzance, In Cornwall, and it Is believed to be the only monument In existence which marks the death of a vanished tongue. It commemorates the death of the last woman who spoke in the Cornish language, and was erected by a Frenchman, It is @ granite obelisk about seven feet high and !s built into the church- yard wall, the front facing the high- way, where ft ls plainly discernible by all who pass that way. The upper part is in the form of a Maltese The inscription reade as fol- ‘Here leth interred Dorothy Pentreath, who died in 1777, sald to have been, the last person who con- versed in the anelent Cornish, the pecullar language of this county’ from the earliest records till It explred in the 18th century in this parish of St. Paul," jority of well-to-do single men dine at different cafes every night when they are not dining with triends, Moan- while, numbers of comfortable little houses in Kensington and elsewhere which shoukl be tenanted by young married couples, are vacant.” Same complaint In New York, but apparently no remedy in sight untll landlords] cease charging the benedict $1,00 for he bac . “My daughter wants a piano,” said the man, “Ah! gaid the dealer, “you want to buy one"— “No, 1 don't,” interrupted the man, hastily, “but it looks as if I'd have to."—Philudelphia Ledger, apartments helor gets for $00, Tho Baltimore Judge who has decided that a restaurant patron fa not Hed on to pay for a tough steak has estab- Mshed a revolutionary pr t “Women need not suppose,” says Mrs, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "that being | their own housekeopers is the best ohristiantty, When there Is a question of approbation between Mary and Mar- tha it Is Mary who wing {t, though ‘Bot the street car company insist upon fourteous treat from its employ- on? a8 Mm Martha is getting the supper while Uafary site around and ilstens,” hla hiltain A Cheap Remedy. Kind Lady—But how would a nickel help you to regain your aight? Beggtr—Dat's what dey charge fer er ‘eye opener.” No matter how dull business {s God- trey Fats never kicks and he doesn’t get cold feet. —s Put to Good Use. Ma—Say, Tommy, what did you do with tho pills the doctor left for you to take? Tommy—Oh, I used them in my pea- shooter, , Oren LOVE’S AWAKING, ‘The firet time that my lover sald my name It seemed as if the earth broke into flame And put on majesty; heart Grew music, when my lover sald my name, and In my The second time my lover said my name The earth seemed changed, but | atill I knew the same, The birds all sang for me, and every | flower |) Was mine, because my lover sald | my name. | 2The third time that my lover said | my name | A mudden silence on the earth there came, And, in the hush of ft, my Ustening heart Heard his heart beating as he said my name, Pall Mall Gazette, ye Guide to New York. COLUMBUS CIRCLE. when nu yoark was bilt the bilders sald Lets mark out a dig queer-shaiped Peece of ground ut the noarth of the sitty just to show how foolish we can ‘be when we try and thay di @o and the peece of ground had no shaipe at ‘ell but lookt Ike a commot that had a jag and becawse it had no shulpe thoy called {t @ surkle and named It after Kollumbus who diskuovored it. then by and by It stopt beeing the ferthest noarth point of sivviemshun and beoame part of the sitty and was|t Infessted by cams and ocaridges ond threeaters and rathskelers and stachus and ellecktrick Mites and boozarums land other pleezing inovations until Kollumbus himself woodent know !t. Kollumbus surkle is the gattway to harilm, evverything noarth of that {s hoames and the surkle is tho Inst oasis in the dezzert that harlimites pass on thare wey uptown, some of them reeallzo this and thay are so unwiling to leeve that last lingering outpoast of Joy that thay often stay thare till hoame no longer seams annything to dreided, if it wuzzent for K: bus surkle a whole lot of uptown t howme be! skelers, good lumbus surkle, A. P, TEREHUNE, a “The Beautiful Life,” HE muoh-talked-of Academy of Grunewald, outside Berlin, where Miss Isidora Duncan, the famous American dansouse, ‘9 to teach her puptls how to live beautifully, ts rap- idly drawing to completion and {s the subject of endless gossip in Berlin, The girls have to begin thelr training early—before they rench ‘the age of ten. They are to live thelr begutiful lives ohiefy in the open air and under the Watohful eye of the high priestess of Hellento art wil acquinesthe grace and Uguity of Greek goddesses. When Miss Duncan appears in public, at theatres or concerts, in her white Attle robe, crowned with myrtle and bearing @ Wy in her hand, she never falls to prosiuce a sensation, Mrs. Nagg and Mr,-— By Roy L. McCardell "0 be expect- ed, Mr. Nagg, al- though I don't seo why you shoulé ask, You don't carc jhow I feel; you never ask, You al- ways ask, you say? Well, 1f you do it {Is In the tone of ono who takes no inter- est in what he Is eaying, You take Roy L, MoCardell, an Interest, you say? Ah, how can I believe that? Men are such decelvers these days, One never knows when to |trust them. But I have trusted you, | Lionel Nage. although {t is very little thanks I get for it. Yet when I became your bride and left my happy home in Brooklyn after that terrible quarrel I thnd with mamma—out then a saint could not get wlong with her—although I trusted you, I was prepared for the rst. ‘Yes, {f you Insist on knowing, I am not feeling very good. Oh, yes, I sup. pose I am well enough, but simply bee cause a woman fs well js mo reason she should be happy. And yet Iam always happy, So why should it oocasion #0. much comment i I for once grow sad and pensive over my unhappy fate? “verybody has a pleasant time fn this world but me, Oh, well, never mind, I am used to it. I will go along just as cheerfully with the tears of un thought sorrow, as Mrs. Heavytopp says, in my soul, “What can you do for me, you ask? You can be a little kind and considerate to me, Mr. Nagg, You must realize that a woman who Is always kind and une complatning Ike I am feels at times that there are things to yearn for, “No, I won't cheer up! How would you feel if you had been asked the auestiun Twas in front of a lot of catty wompn by Mrs. Heavytopp to-day in her Ideal Hour of Soul and Song? “Her topic was ‘Let Us Have No Thought of Self and Banish Sordid Things.’ And then, after she had cole lected $10 from every person present, we ‘went into silence’ for two minutes and @ couple of rude reporters giggled and one said audibly: ‘This beats Mrs, Pep- pers graft!’ “After we bud come out of the silence Mrs. Heavytopp asked ethic questions, Why she should have yoked me out to embarrass me after all the luncheons I have beught her and all the good money she hus gotten from me I do not know, but ehe stood right up In front of every body and sald; 'Mre. Nagg, what method do you take of expressing your individ uality in your home life? “I felt like @ fool, What could I say? If I had told her that I only sought te be helpful and kind all the other women would have sneered at ma, because in the scope of witer endeavor for womes must have {deals to live up to above ich paltry considerations, lammered eomething about ‘etide endeavor end Mra Heavytopp morok fully let me alone. “But all the rest of the Ideal Hour ¢f Soul and Song I was #0 miserable I could have cried. But one who ie acquiring ‘poise’ and ‘ethic rest’ must not speak or give way to anything save cheerful emotions, ‘ “Then Mrs. Heavytopp discoursed on the ‘payohic eye.’ “She said one could attain the psychic eye by Introspection! Byerybody had a psychic eye, she sald, and we could obtain their psychic eye! “One could obtain Tolstol's psychi eye, she sald, by reading hls works in the nal Ruasian, And then I knew: I could never attain the psychic eye. “Brother Willle attained a psychic oye one of the affairs of the Jolly Palle bearers, you say “What do you mean, Mr, Nagg? You auow that poor boy was assaulted by a bri ruffian. You always have som nagty sneer at that dear child, You At because you know it wounds me, All you think of is to try and wound me! “That ie how I am repaid when I try to tell you of the little happinasses thu come into my life! No, I wilt not for ve youl shall never forgive yo: jon't Speak to me! Never epeak to mo again! What time ts it?” —— Won by a Head, H, I feel as well as can the Rus Professor—Do you think slans will come out ahond? Pupll-Oh, yes; a man's head always wets there first when he runs, Let Thine Enemy Do It. (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub. Co.) MURA AER TR PRINT it! There would be little objecti were not for this trouble, Of course, It Is not NECESS printed, MANY book reviewers of the cover an’ pasting It up, public. they feel badly and want to rest BETTER write a play. It d {t will NEVER be produced! idl tla ON abe oe ae 24 '0a sicehlg ined is) The ‘‘Fudge”’ Idiotorial A young man from Buffalo writes us to know WHY he should not WRITE A BOOK, If he has no friend brave enough to tell him, WE will an- swer the question. He should NOT write a book because some one might on to the writing of books If it ARY to read a book because It {s get along by cutting a piece out This will do for the compositor and often DOES FOR the The point Is that TOO MANY people write books just because their minds, oes not HAVE to be printed and waits S