The evening world. Newspaper, March 18, 1905, Page 8

hed by the Press Publishing Company, No, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mali Matter. THE LITTLE PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE. V.—Man’s Part in Home- Making. "President Roosevelt's homilies on domestic subjects are not the least Anteresting of his public addresses, Though it be said to him, as Dr, | Holmes said “To an Insect” « ‘ Thou say'st an undisputed thing i In such a solemn way— Mts to be considered that even the proverbial wisdom of the world would ‘be forgotten but for its frequent repetition, _ Mr. Roosevelt's talk to the National Congress of Mothers at Wash- contained much that made up in sense and pungency what it} The primary duty of the husband {s to be the home-maker, the breadwinner ‘Per his wife and childreny and the primary duty of the woman !s to be the help- ry the housewife and mother. On the whole, | think the duty of the woman Q q@ore Important, the more difficult and ¢he more honorable of the two; on the I respect the woman who does her duty even more than | respect the man his, No ordinary work done by a man Is elther as hard or as respon- by arork of a woman who !s bringing up a family of small children, @oming from the father of six children, this must be accepted as 4m expert and a generous testimony. It suggests, however, a few her-reflections on man's part in home-making, * 8 8 De-certain matters man has been a shirk from the time of Adam—If identists have left us any Adam—down to this day, Men will fight Péhelrhomes, or make slaves of themselves to their business to main- only for Baxter and Allen, e Magistrate Ommen’s use of the sign language in fining a deaf-mute, the lin- gulatio honohs of the day may seem to be divided. to Subway track-walkers is that they The Evening World's Home Madazrine, Saturday Evening, March 18, ANew # {Comic Series 3 By Gene Carr. the Side. Biren. Judge recently decided that a restaurant patron ls undert ¢ no obligation to pay for a tough] & beefateak, Sult now begun against af & New York restaurant proprietor to re- cover damages for {IInes# alleged to have been caused by shad roe served to plaintife on defendant's premises, Ques- tlon raised as to whether a guarantee of quality must accompany every restau- rant portion will require considerable le~ gal acumen for its definite decision, Evi- dence of gastronomical experts probably necessary for its proper determination. eee Newest woman's organization calla It- welf ‘The Inter-Municipal Committee on Household Research.’ Necessary to leave its naine at home for lack of room when It investigates flat-house kitchens, . 8 6 “Give me the streets of Manhattan, give me Broadway,” sald Walt Whit- man, Good trolley road president ep- parently spolled in the making of the poet. More modest B, R. T, bard asks ery Robinson—It seems aa though women had a mania for spending money, Ratwlins—I know tt, Why, when- ever my wife 48 tuo sick to yo down- town shopping she sends for the doctor. —Judge ° e ° As between the President's Gaelic and e . e Extraordinary feature of the accident m, But, like the trusband “who would die for his wife, but never @ being up a scuttle of coal,” they evade the commonest and most inot know what they are studying at school, who their mates are, what know concerning his offspring, 48-80 sad a fact as to spoil the humorous satire when ft ts sald that @cquainted with his boys.” But {s it too much to say that a has no time to be a father to his children, with all that this.im- no to have any? Surely he wrongs them, robs himself, unfair responsibility upon the mother and neglects his hi bome, pre are so inany ways in which the father-may-contrityte to jomestic life that It seems strange the number of howsee-should y exces the number of real homes, It takes s0 little to make i happy that it is a wondrous pity so many are.miserebla, If for ter the evening meal the father should give himself to.his chil- O the mother wear out so fast, or the IHtle ones be so lawless, and uncomfortable? , i de from the children, and im homes where haply there ve amore direct part than many of them sre ready to bear dally life pleasant. It ought to go without saying that Set an example for the family in patience, cheerfulness, cour- nce and all the amiable moods and graces that are the sout tome happiness The ort of men who display all thelr suavity and feness on the street or af thelr business places and save for thelr itfons that they call by the convenient euphemism of “nerves” hould have remained bachelors! They da not deserve a tiome, does who will not do his part in making it, rights, let it be sald, do not include the right to afl the com: without any of the care or worry or self-sacrifice or! Phe money-simply makes a place for the home: to complete it the mnebput In HIMSELP—and the best part of himself at that, ‘ ° s ° Hertt Roosevelt ts right n-eaytng that the duty and work of the th home-making Is “the more important, the more difficult and p honorable of the two.” So essential ts her influence and her ‘that M may almost be sald, the woman {s the home. Without the yy the People’s Corner. * Solve This Riddle, Meh word “shamrock” 1s an ignorant Wiitor of The Wvening Wortd: misspelling and corruption of the Ingh | can solve the following riddlet| wora “sheamalroge," meaning literally Pwo: gentlemen journeying through &/@ “summer sprig.” Seamair in Irish Faveyard arrived at a solitary grave, uummer In English, and ts pro» Mm which one remarked: ‘Here in with an azpirate before the lies a wonder, a woman, weary | first vowel, and oge {5 Irish for sorig she 1s my mother, I am|or offspring, ‘he letter “0,” before 49 my lawful wedded | irish names, stands for “Oge," a de- \ TH, scendant or offspring of. “Mac” is a imirocks Grow in Brooklyn, | SUbstitution for Greek-Irish word Mac- the truth, 1 recelyed a smail| Overworked Deng Clerks, of shamrdck a year ago this |g my pyeor of me E pti from Ireland, and I have grown) Cannot something by since on American soll, It 18 the hours of ‘Breen and fresh as if on Irish soil, Pc, 480 North Fourth st. Brooklyn ‘The Origin of “Shamrock.” Wiitor of The Evening Wor tatement that the word “sham- eis taken from the Arabian word ack” ty incorrect and ridiculous, }@ 18 eufficiently co- to express tho idens drug clerks? It seems al- | most inhuman to ask a man to stand on his feet fifteen hours e day, the | Compensation being compa: jat that. My husband works from 8 A, |M, tl 1 P.M, with every thira Sunday off, also one day off during the week, which gives him five evenings in a/ whole month, Now I think something should be done #0 as to make druggists’ hours not more than ten ¢o twelve at the very most, as their work Is very con- fining, 9 a sv Bi ae i “were overtaken by trains,” ewe duties pertaining to home-making. They do not feel it Incum- jena not @ word about nines, foursomes on them either to instruct, discipline or amuse thelr children, They |" “*vencome-glove ‘a “little joke’ of bumping fearing of good or evil, nor hardly anything else that a father| the train ahead, "A eonae of tumor is & valuable possession Dut not @ neces- wary guatiewa se be Feohoemeny ‘way over tretnloads of business men. ought to kook very natty in brags but- tons and blue, but the wise crook will Storms and sulks and sourness and ali the evil brood of devilish| not venture on any flirtations with ; began by peddling stove polish and Chi- cago author, whose humorous work je pronounced ‘unmatched outside of "Huckleberry Finn’ and ‘The Pick- wiok Papers,'" began aa a workman at the benoh “Child 1s father to the nian,” but (t's sometimes diMcult to recognise his lineaments in his oft- spring, eee man temperament is well understood, Instances in point related by English writer, who ways: When I lived in the Riviera we used to have a lot of tennis, and I never found any difficulty unless the wind happened to be in the east, am then I couldn't play at al not only that I felt irritable because 1 san of her love, the warmth of her sympathies, the wisdom of her | couldn’: play, it lor LA icearan rt the charm of her touch and the atmosphere of her presence, sible reason the wind seemed to inter- fore with the play Itself. Every one can be no home, in the highest meaning of the word, But this does Dares mors, pn ivael X apoke to oth- ors {t they admitted foellng just discharge the man from the duty of doing bis part to lighten her bur-|th» sumo ne tata. ‘Thon Ive cots we ad to crown her efforts with success, infant. Ordinarily ehe is a very plactd child—one of the most placid of children —but when the wind {8 in the east she {fa @ ‘little cat!’ '” More Folk law. New Missour! statute 4 akes ace track bookmaking and ters from Evening World Readers | ),0" 07%" ‘ : “Her Maker would not recognize the woman of to-day,’ Ward How . {her form by Mrs, Baitor of The Bvening World: Fo: Junior, J.C, HOGA Howe's observation, however, has been 4 People state that shamrocks| N° Sl East One Hundred and Fomty-| onfined to Boston, where Miss White init be raised on American soli, Such| S*Venth street, City, has as yet done no missionary work Cn | {ngs Indicates bookkeeping economies of Assurance by the Interborough man- agement that all strikers’ places will be | filled by to-night leads to the hope that there will be an occasi train south from Ninety-sixth street | during the theatre rush hour, . Dearth of silver coins reported, but no doficlt of $1,000 bills, judging from the contents of pocketbooks dropped {n theatre boxes and rewards of tramps for finding jewelry, Article on “spring etyles in figures” “L" collision injuring eight, due to k in the drawbridgel § Btome bange father finds the Sundays and holidays too few to enable him ¢o at Nowarls holds up five miles of Lack: @wanna trains, Uncle @am, by his re- fusal to revise the antiquated rules off river traffic, is party to more ratiroad| ¢ hotd-ups around New York than an e e e Doe—Fes, he is a real post, But don't you think (¢ rather odd that De should eay Me heart was hungry hungry one way or the other, Novos. . e e @irike epidemic extending “higher up.” e ° ° He—It's impossible to please qorybody in thie world, ten't it? She—I don't know; I've never ted h—-OMoago Journal, ° . Copper millionaire who has just died Tafluence of the east wind on the hu- i it was eee BDDOHGHHTLD HHHHHHHHHHOHHIHHHHOHHHH POH 6000040009060 All the Comforts of Home. ag o ‘The Vaudeville Lure Has No Power Over Domestic Mr, Smith. Soooooorooooooson O0OOO% 6904600000900 Both or Neither. K. t Fathers in Fact and Fiction By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Judgment confirms his natural affection, But love In its most sublime form, whether between parent and child or between lovers, does nut judge, or at least, if it does, suspends sentenve, It seems strange that at the very time when the instinctive affection of a par- ent fs all we have left to sustain us In an hour of trial, however merited, the world, or at least that part of It that writes or reads cheap novels, should ex- ;pect dt to fall us. The Roman Consul Brutus, condemning his son to death, | Virginius stabbing his daughter; are jthe most frequently cited instances of | the parental senge of honor triumph- Ing to accepted melodrama, on the |!® Over the natural tle. But Brutus | stage and off, {t 1s the parental part j would have been a far better person if to open the door on a raging snow jhe had resigned his job rather than storm and tell the offending daughter 00m his son, and Virginius would |have appealed to a finer humanity if he From Lear to Hagel Kirke, though |'@4 packed himself and his daughter | for different causes, {t has ‘ever been | 4d hls household goods to another the same thing, and elsewhere novellst | and dramatist alike ‘have presented | the same stern pleture of parental tre, joause they aro good or bad, though we But apparently the human heart Is A in this instance better than It Is paint- ed, for father sitting at her side during her trial and the South River blacksmith) visiting Julia Bowne almost dally in the New Brunswick prigon, the wame jn each | case, seems to have bassed unnoticed— chat Js, ithe survival ot fatherly affection and assistance at a me when, accord- to begone, town and forgotten all about It, If we love people at all Is not be-| good and be very much grieved it they | my presents to you Immediately, are not, But the love that rests upon the same basis as the world's esteem is not love at all but mere pride—one of the innumerable emanations of the | great radiating love of self that ts gen- Now it seems to me that only in| erally our strongest passion, moments like these can the quality of parental or fillal attachment be tested, | for only then Js it’ thoroughly’ sep- arated from self-love, A father ts naturally proud of a brill- lantly successful son or daughter. His Guide to New York, CORTLANDT STREET. if a strainger was to be set down In Koartland street at anny tlme betwean 8 A. m and ten a. M. or betwean 4 and which alters when 8 As true of a par. Imental relation, and the modern fathers, such as the old Washington clerk with his Dundreary whiskers, or John Bowne pleadin side his daughter's cell, are far examples of It than any antique hero, {t alteration find ental as of a se! should drop In but oo. Belle—It must he an atoful thing never to have had a chance to marry. Miss Passay—Yes, but not nearly 80 bad as to have had a chance and let (t slip. ays Mrs. Julla d has become eo8 larger profits tn the (0,000 4 BrOK® earn high order al subway oe oda A a a iA ch se a aa ah dae six P. m the ferst thing he wood say 1s Whare {8 the fire that the krowd is for at thoase hours Koart- jand streat ts fild from kurb to kurb with a josiing and wild-eyed mob all with thare arms loded | With weerd lookin bundels aing from jurazy or halst- | ening back thare. the rest of the day | you can wateh the gmss blaldes grow- Ing In Koartland streat and {t looks as | {f It had eskaipt from Mladelfla, Koart- the ferst thing a juray- man sees when he lands in nu yoark Nast thurrofalr that nu ba The New Decla Yj The ‘‘Fudge” Idiotorial | Why Do Women Marry Men? (Copyrot, 1905, Planet Pub, Co.) th sweet and sad ago- tlations for eyveryboddy, land streat gets to brodway !t bekomes jthat It blossoms forth on the a julery districkt rm, If It wuazent for Koartland streat lots of juraymen wood nevver have eskalpt, good oald Koart- Jall Its silven che — UNCONGENIAL TOPIC, “That man talks about nothing but “Yes,” answered the man with the “he's always trying She—Did he tell your sister he would love her till death? make himself disagroeable,"-Washing- “Why don't the men propose, mamnia? He-Yes, Ho said he'd love hor till Dr. Osler took him, Why don't the men propose?” ‘ Notes on Art and Others, By Henry Tyrrell. EE FAIRCHILD, the santonie pooet-humorist, finds the Myrtle Room of the Waldorf-Astoria @ more congenial environment for tée fest-splele than suburban New Ro- chelle, The latter place being populated chiefly with jokesmiths, cartoonists comico dramatists, the community % |wbouts has become hardened and bless, ® |and makes pretty tough material for en entertainer to entertain against. When Lee Fairchild atruck New Rochelle with tla facetious heart-to-heart talk he met bis landlady's little girl tripping &|down the village street, dragging @ large yellow dog by a bit of clothes line, “Where are you golng, little one? asked the poet, “Tm going to sell my doggie so’s to get money and buy a ticket for your show," the child replied, “Oh, don't do that, Here is @ come plimentary pass for you, Come freely ; and enjoy yourself.” ‘The little girl was among those prove ent at the entertainment, and when {t wag ali over the funny man asked ber how she had liked It. “Oh, Mr, Fairchild,” gald the Nttle womun, I am so glad I didn't soll my, og! . . e T Maobeth's there ig a strong D® A of palnung, labelled “A Child of the Slums," by George By Luks, It deplots a ragged little giel whose face is her misfortune, Ob, * oh! what @ tough front. Luks muse have patnted it with a saw and hame mer, and there never could have beem 4 single Iving model with such a gare goyle physiognomy, such a concens trated Image of crime, The supposte jen Is that the artist made @ compose {te of all the worst types In some jus 3 | venlle reformatory institution, Anye way, when It was first hung In Mn Macbeth's litle coay-corner gallery, facing whe clock, that hitherto sober jand steudy Umeplece began to aot jaueerly, and then stepped altogether, Winding und regulating did no good</ the vlock simply wouldn't go, The arty, dealer was puzzled, until finally he suspeciod that Luks's picture had something (o do with the trouble, The |Meat time the artist oame in, Mr, Mao~ beth proposed placing hls canvas in some other amd remote position on the walls—no, it would never do to put it in the show window, for fear Mr, Els bridge Gerry might see it and have .¢ him urresied for cruelty to children, Luks sald, “What's the matter with moving the clock and leaving the plo- ture where ft is, until somebody buys i?" This suggestion was acted upon, | Macbeth not wishing his clock to be | permanently deranged. It immediately started ticking again and has gone right ever since, But the picture hag | not changed for the better—of course it couldn’; for the worse, oe THE WIDOW'S MITE, A caller stopped at the house of Jom: | Brice and asked If he was at home, "'Deed, an’ he's not.” “Can you tell me where he is?” “I could not.” "When did you see him last?!’ “At his funeral," “And who may vou be?" ‘I'm the remains," sald the widow, pnd she closed the door.—Boston Trave eler. Mrs: Nagg and Mr. +e «+-By Roy L. McCardell.... i. WAS over to when he was Intoxleated and deman@ see mamma to- | the money they had borrowed from him, day in Brook. |and one day they had to call the polos, lyn, Mr, Nagg, and) "What has that to do with {t? To de of course we had a| with what? What are you talking quarrel, | about? Isn't that just lke you, ais, Even ff she Is my | Nage? ywn mother I must} “If I do say it, Loulsa Higginbothams ay that I just sim. | ls tho worst gosalp I ever knew! ply can't get along} "There she sat just gabbling away 1 never | about everybody, and mamma told het trouble | all the latest happenings in the Rel@he)| ne borhood she knew of, and Loulsa IMge my nature is kind /ginbotham talked terribly about ¢™ Roy L. McCardell ing torbenring, but 9 bus j tight away she commences to find fault’ Wien Dilger, or rather Simpkins, ¢ with me because I didn't do this or be-|marrying Adam Hyler, The Hykerd) cause 1 did do that! "Iam the most patient person !n| Hyker drank awfully hard, the world, but, even if she is my own! "I remenrber when poor dear pal mother I wouldn't let her say one) Who haa now passed away, used to word to me, and just as soon as she started I told her plainly that I wasnt/and then say it was papa’s fault thas A, | under her thumb and if she wanted | he, spent all his money, to quarrel I was ready for it! “Of course, Mr, Nagg, you don't Iike| Rien Dilger has three, or rather’ ¥ my poor mamma and you could never/ Simpkins, although her name now get along with her,, but that’s no rea-|Hyker, And her fret hueband was son why I should neglect her, matter whut she says or doea I remem- her she 1s my mother, but at the same], “Well, what about it? What time she can't carp and criticte at I won't stand It! “She docen't see why you are not more cordial with her, talked to you harshly it ts for your own good, and you should be patient. ie Baring Pouran seal ta “While T was over at mamma's who! ni} imight have known that fF aired Louisa Higgin-|t) ‘say a word of what ts gol oR 4 ’ boly and that's how we found out abows | were very oheap people, and Adamy” in the saloons to get him to come home and he would keep papa there for hour “T never liked those Hykers, and, anye ( way, he hus four young ohildren, oN the Simplcins that had the flery red hair No, n0/and they used to quarrel something tere nble, | his children and her children will quase rel with thelr children, {f they have | any of thelr own, and It will bef es | | it, Mr. Nagg? Why, don't you see | | ble; for half-brothera and hi never get a3 together, And if children and his children quarrel wi | thelr ohildren won't It be awful? You remember the Higgin-|the world you would Insult me: i othams that had an uncle who drovo|am 1, Mr. News, @ slave? Am Ta vase / a hack and they never recognized him, althougia he used to come to the house ert? i SN te gay a word to me! I will never speak to you again! The Etern 1 Matrimontalf Now again comes the querys | WHY DO WOMEN MARRYMEN? i We have the reply ready, It Is partly because they WANT TO | and partly because they DO NOT . KNOW MUCH ABOUT THEM, and perhaps because there Is no ‘ ONE ELSE. If women knew more about men there would be FEWER marriages, Yet the dear things rush madly on. Still, there are exceptions, A female lady once remarked to Mr. Artemus Ward; “Us poor wimin folks would git along a grate if | deal better If there was no men,” “Excoose me,” sald Artemus, “It wouldn't be regler.”” Tha’ Is the REAL root of the Trouble, It Would NOT be x regular, So there ts nothingto do but KEEP RIGHT ON and make the worst of It, The girls will continue to echo the Poet's * ] w